Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 368 Picking Flowers
"Seems to have been left out in the cold."

In a thatched cottage in Linyuan, scholars gathered here, dignitaries and dignitaries gathered here, just like a flourishing literary world.

The scholars made friends and discussed poetry and songs, which was very lively.

But Li Xiuyuan can only be in a corner, not to be seen by others.

No other scholar would come to greet him, and they would avoid him intentionally or unintentionally when passing by.

"This Li Xiuyuan is not good at being a man. Although he is talented, he should not ridicule Mr. Fu. Mr. Fu, the servant of the Ministry of War, came here to relieve the disaster with the emperor's order. If Li Xiuyuan offends Mr. Fu, his official career will be in danger in the future."

"Hehe, since ancient times, talented scholars have always been proud of their talents, and they don't pay attention to dignitaries. They don't know that this move seems to be free and easy, but in fact it is asking for trouble. Li Bai is talented, and he is not allowed to be reused because of his idle official position. , the reason is just like Li Xiuyuan's."

"I heard that several other adults in the city also have a bad impression of Li Xiuyuan."

Li Xiuyuan has sharp ears and eyes, and heard a lot of voices talking about him.

Just now in the gazebo, he made an unreasonable move and counterattacked Fu Tianchou, which made Fu Tianchou very unhappy.

If Fu Tianchou is not happy, the people below will naturally act according to their faces, and start to alienate him and cut off contact with him.

"Hehe, this Li Xiuyuan is smart but was misunderstood by his cleverness. He doesn't know how to deal with people, and he doesn't know how to flatter him. This time he stumbled." In another place, Zhu Erdan couldn't help sneering when he saw Li Xiuyuan being ignored, I feel very happy.

After this essay meeting, even if Li Xiuyuan's fame spread, no one would make friends with him.

This name became notorious, lest I avoid it.

Li Xiuyuan's ability to bear in his heart is not that bad, since no one pays attention to him, he wants to be quiet and go out for a walk, so he won't stay here.

"Brother Li, where are you going?" Zhu Yu asked seeing this.

"Go for a walk, the filth is too strong here, it's not suitable for me." Li Xiuyuan said.

Wang Ping, who was next to him, said: "Brother Li's talent is something that I admire, and his good deeds in governing the victims are beyond my reach. It's just that next spring will be the rural examination, and these scholars present here will be preparing for entering the officialdom in the future. Look at them. They are all trying to curry favor with those officials, especially Li Hou and Mr. Fu, brother Li can't stand these things."

"It's true, but seeing how Brother Li is being left out and neglected, I'm also very angry. It doesn't matter if you don't participate in this essay meeting, let's go, let's find Brother Li and go to the Qinhuai River for a drink."

"Let him treat you?" Wang Ping said with a smile.

Zhu Yuli said bluntly: "Of course, we risk our lives to accompany the gentleman, shouldn't Brother Li treat us to a drink?"

"Hey, where is Ning Caichen? Where has he gone?" Suddenly, Wang Ping looked around in confusion.

"He was still here before, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye. Ning Caichen is introverted and not good at speaking. The scene of this literary meeting is not suitable for him. I don't know where he will go. Let's look for it. Don't be fooled by others." I was bullied." Zhu Yu said.

At this moment, Ning Caichen happened to be stunned at the literary meeting, and saw a very familiar figure in disbelief.

Nie Xiaoqian~!

Yes, Ning Caichen couldn't even dream that he would see Nie Xiaoqian again one day, but he was not sure, so he looked around on his feet, and then followed the crowd to find it.

Li Xiuyuan is wandering in the forest garden at the moment, but he is quiet and at ease.

It's not that he doesn't know how to flatter and flatter, it's just because of his personality, after all, he has been a person in two lifetimes, and his personality is fixed and cannot be changed.

If he was asked to flatter and curry favor with a group of ancients, he couldn't do it no matter what.

"Ok?"

Just when Li Xiuyuan came to a flower garden, he saw that all kinds of flowers that were in bloom before suddenly disappeared at this moment.

Yes, all of them disappeared, as if they were picked by someone.

He looked at the ground but didn't see any petals falling on the ground, which made Li Xiuyuan look weird.

"Hurry up, hurry up, those flowers must be picked away, and none of them can be kept." At this time, a pleasant female voice came from nearby.

Li Xiuyuan looked curiously, but saw several beautiful and graceful women in the garden. These women were about twenty-eight years old, wearing colorful skirts, purple, red, green, and white. , just like the blooming flowers in the flower garden, besides, these women all carry flower baskets, walk around in the flower garden, stretch out their hands, and a piece of flowers fly out and fall into the flower baskets.

The bamboo flower basket is like a bottomless pit, no matter how you fill it, it won't be enough.

"That peony flower blooms so brilliantly, I'll pick it." A woman in purple suddenly fell in love with a peony flower blooming on a rockery. Passed over and picked the particularly bright peony flower.

"Sure enough, it's not the family members of the Hou's Mansion, it's a fairy." Li Xiuyuan's expression froze when he saw this scene.

He couldn't see the real bodies of these women, that is to say, they were not demons. Of course, there was another possibility, that is, their realm was too high and they had lost their demon bodies. As for mortals, it was impossible. How could mortals fly?

Even his martial arts master couldn't float in the air.

And it is impossible for these seven or eight women to shed their demon bodies and become human.

How can there be so many thousand-year-old monsters gathered together.

"Since I saw it, I went over to ask and say hello." Curious, Li Xiuyuan walked over.

As soon as he approached, he was immediately noticed by a fairy in red.

"Shh, it looks like someone is coming."

The fairy in red hissed and said to the other fairies.

"How could anyone come here? We have cast a spell here. Even if we see us, we only see a few bees collecting honey, and they won't see us."

The woman in purple giggled, but her eyes moved, and she saw Li Xiuyuan walking along the path.

"Hehe, handsome son, is there such a man in this world? If it wasn't for the urgent matter this time, I really want to stay with him for a few days."

"Look at what you said, don't feel ashamed."

Several other women joked with each other, and there was a melodious sound like silver bells among the flower beds, and they didn't forget to pick flowers while they were fighting.

"Looks like he's very pleasing to the eye. I'll play tricks on him, pull out one of his hairs, and drive him away along the way, so don't disturb our flower picking." The fairy in purple suddenly became playful, and suddenly flew towards Li Xiuyuan.

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The corners of Li Xiuyuan's mouth twitched slightly when he heard this, he didn't offend you, did he, is there anything wrong with being good-looking?
The fairy in red suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said: "Come back soon, I remembered, this young man is not an ordinary young man, don't go and play tricks on him, he can see us."

"What?" The purple-clothed fairy was startled when she heard this, and almost fell from the air in fright.

"Miss, you have to be careful, don't fall." Li Xiuyuan stretched out his hand as a gesture of support.

The purple-clothed woman's face was flushed with embarrassment at this moment, and she hurriedly flew back and hid behind another fairy.

The fairy in red came over hurriedly, and said apologetically, "Little sister, she was a bit playful and almost ran into a saint in the world, and I ask the saint in the world to forgive me."

A saint on earth?

The other fairies were shocked when they heard the words, especially the woman in purple was even more shocked and ashamed.

Is he the most famous human saint in the Heavenly Palace?

"It's not a collision. I won't take it to heart. It's just that when I saw the flower garden, it disappeared in an instant. I was curious, so Xun Sheng saw it. I didn't expect a few fairies to pick flowers here." Li Xiuyuan smiled. Said: "I disturbed a few of you."

"Thank you saint for your generosity." The fairy in red saluted, and then said: "Sisters, what are you still doing there, and you haven't come to pay homage to the saint in the world."

Hearing the words, the other fairies walked over with light footsteps, smiled and saluted respectfully: "I have seen a saint in the world."

Li Xiuyuan said: "Are you fairies in the Heavenly Palace?"

"Yes, we are all fairies in the sky. This time we came down to pick flowers. The flowers in the fairy palace are used up. Let's gather some." The red-clothed fairy said.

"Since it's picking flowers, why don't you pick them at night, but at this time?" Li Xiuyuan asked curiously.

The red-clothed fairy said: "Don't dare to hide the truth from the saints in the world. These flowers will not be usable at night, and they will be polluted, so we have to pick them during the day."

"What kind of filth is it?" Li Xiuyuan said

The purple-clothed fairy said, "It's blood. These words are about to be stained with human blood. How can the blood-stained words be used to decorate the Heavenly Palace?"

The fairy in red glared at her, as if warning her to talk too much.

The purple-clothed fairy immediately lowered her head in fear.

"You mean there will be a murder case here soon?" Li Xiuyuan frowned.

"Yes, so this time we have to pick all the flowers, and we shouldn't come here again in the future, and there will be no more flowers blooming here in the future. Oops, the time has come, saints in the world, I'm really sorry for us We're leaving, and if the saint goes to the fairy palace next time, we will apologize to the saint." The red fairy's face changed at this moment, she saluted hurriedly, and then quickly left with the other fairies.

Immediately, several rays of light flashed across the sky, like a rainbow passing by, and these fairies flew away and disappeared into the sky.

Looking at the flower garden again, there is no flower in full bloom, and it is bare.

"According to what this fairy means, someone will die today, and blood will splash on the flower garden?" Li Xiuyuan wondered.

How can a good essay kill people? It's just using pen and ink, not using a knife.

"Let's go back and have a look. The fairy's words are definitely not aimless, there must be a reason."

With this in mind, he immediately turned around and went back, planning to visit the thatched cottage where the Wenhui was held.

However, when he was walking on the road, he suddenly saw groups of soldiers rushing into the forest from all directions.

A general in the lead shouted loudly in armor: "Did you hear what the young master said? Guard all the exits, and don't let one person escape. The others will come with this general."

Then the general led a group of soldiers, and rushed towards the thatched cottage with a murderous look.

"What happened? Even the soldiers in the army have been dispatched." Li Xiuyuan was stunned.

But before he could think about it, suddenly, there was a sound of piercing through the air, and an arrow flew out of the general's hand, heading straight for him.

"What?" Li Xiuyuan was shocked.

What surprised him was not the flying arrow, but the fact that the general raised his bow and shot an arrow at him without any hesitation or overthinking.

You must know that you are a scholar. In this dynasty, the culture is noble and the military is cheap. The crime of killing a scholar is very serious.

At this moment, Li Xiuyuan easily dodged the arrow with one side of his body.

"Ok?"

General Ji frowned, stared at Li Xiuyuan for a while, he didn't continue to shoot arrows, but continued to drink: "Come here, kill that scholar, and the rest will follow this general to kill Fu Tianchou."

"It's the general."

Several soldiers responded, and rushed towards Li Xiuyuan with their knives in hand.

"Is the Li family crazy?"

Li Xiuyuan's heart skipped a beat when he heard that the general was going to lead troops to kill Fu Tianchou.

This is Marquis Li's mansion, this general must be inseparable from Marquis Li, could it be that Marquis Li wants to send troops to kill Fu Tianchou?

But even if you want to kill, you shouldn't choose to get it at this time.

There were so many doubts that Li Xiuyuan himself couldn't figure out what was going on, but at this moment he saw five soldiers running towards him with their swords in hand.

"Speak slowly if you have anything to say, why bother to use swords and guns." Li Xiuyuan said, "I am a scholar in the city, and you must be responsible for killing me."

"Hey, you are not a scholar, you are a Maitreya believer." A soldier shouted, raised his knife without hesitation and chopped down.

Li Xiuyuan took a few steps back, avoiding the knife: "Maitreya believer? Where did you say that? If you want to kill me, you have to let me know the reason. It's better than being a fool."

He tried to get some news out.

"You scholar know martial arts? Brothers, don't keep your hands, beware of being run away by him." The soldier shouted, but ignored Li Xiuyuan's words,
Several other soldiers also rushed forward, raising their knives and slashing at Li Xiuyuan.

"It's really a scholar who meets a soldier. It's hard to explain why. Since you want to kill me, you and I are welcome. Whether you live or die depends on your fate."

Li Xiuyuan's eyes flashed, since he couldn't find out why, he couldn't waste his time here.

He moved his feet, avoided a few knives, and stretched out his hand to grab it. A soldier's knife was taken back abruptly by him, and then he raised his hand and cut it. Several soldiers in front of him covered their chests one after another. He fell back in fear.

"How is it possible, it was obviously not hit." A soldier said in disbelief.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Fortunately, you are also soldiers in the army. Don't you know that after mastering martial arts, you can generate energy. This energy is carried on the knife, and a short knife can split a cow."

"This is the technique of a martial arts master. Only generals in the army have this ability." These soldiers were shocked.

"Forget it, I won't tell you too much, you are also people who obey orders. I hurt you with a knife just as a warning. If you still attack me, I will cut off your heads with the next knife." Li Xiuyuan said, then He took out a painting from the ghost king's bag.

A ray of white light swept out of the picture scroll, and landed on the ground and turned into a dragon horse.

He rode the dragon horse towards the thatched cottage.

"Ah~!" Immediately, screams came from the thatched cottage.

"The fairy's words are right, blood is really going to splash the flower garden here today, can the gods really predict the blessings and misfortunes in advance?" Li Xiuyuan's face changed slightly, and he was a little shocked.

　One chapter today, I will make it up tomorrow, which counts as two chapters, and I still owed one chapter last time.
　　
　
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