Hua Manlou and Hua Rutai soon said goodbye.
This was not the Hua family.
It was better to be careful.
Hua Rutai and Ye Pingqian soon left the restaurant.
Hua Manlou was not in a hurry to enter his godfather's room.
Instead, he listened until the footsteps of the two disappeared down the stairs.
Then, he pushed the door open with a smile.
As soon as he entered the room,
He saw Xie Lige with his back to him. His white hair fell behind him.
Silver ornaments were wrapped around his back.
His eyes were closed.
"Qi Tong?" A puzzled voice was heard.
Hua Manlou smiled and answered, "Godfather."
"What's wrong?" Xie Lige continued to close his eyes, but his mind was focused on the conversation with Hua Manlou.
Hua Manlou explained, "I heard the voices here in the room.
I couldn't help but come over to take a look. "
After all, he knew his godfather's personality. He didn't like crowds. In order to prevent some people from mistakenly entering Hua Manlou, he decided to come over to take a look himself.
Xie Lige nodded.
"Got it."
He was about to persuade Hua Manlou to go back to his room to rest.
His eyes had just been cured. He needed to pay more attention.
Otherwise, the veins around his eyes would grow very slowly.
His words were interrupted by the sound of the window.
"Who is it?" Xie Lige opened his eyes and looked at the window.
His hand involuntarily touched the jade pen in his sleeve. He raised his qi to summon, but he let go when he saw the figure nimbly enter through the window.
Xie Lige frowned and looked at Lu Xiaofeng, who was leaning against the windowsill. "Why didn't you go through the front door?"
There was a door, but you had to jump through the window. In his previous life, Chu Liuxiang was also like this.
He just didn't want to go through the front door.
In this life, Lu Xiaofeng was the same.
He saw the latter jump through walls, windows, and even climb trees. It was rare to see him enter through the front door safely.
Lu Xiaofeng heard Xie Lige's dissatisfied voice. He touched his head and changed the topic. "Guess where I came from. People in this world always like to come to me with trouble."
Xie Lige was meditating. Hearing this, he snorted, "I'm afraid it's the biggest trouble you've ever encountered."
Lu Xiaofeng looked out the window and didn't find anything unusual. Then, he sat down next to Hua Manlou and stopped Xie Lige's ridicule. He couldn't help but sigh..
"That's right. I'll never encounter such a big problem in my life."
Who would have thought that the Emperor would take the initiative to look for him? Moreover, it was because of something that offended him.
Recalling the great encounter he had just had in the Imperial Palace, Lu Xiaofeng took out a satin belt from his bosom. It was a very beautiful satin belt, the entire belt was suffused with a faint luster, some were pink, some were purple, the glittering powder was scattered all around the belt. What was even more special was that as Lu Xiaofeng walked, there was a difference in the light, the halo on the satin belt was also different.
This was obviously something from the palace.
Xie Lige looked at the ribbon in Lu Xiaofeng's hand and sighed. However, he wasn't surprised. After all, for a modern person like him, it was at most a piece of cloth that could change color.
Lu Xiaofeng handed one of the ribbons to Xie Lige. In the air, the ribbon was suffused with a faint glow.
Xie Lige frowned and accepted it. "What is this?"
"A pass to enter the palace."
Lu Xiaofeng smiled craftily. Although he said that he was dissatisfied with this task, it had to be said that the Emperor was very accurate. He was beginning to like this task.
He saw that Xie Lige seemed to be unwilling, so he quickly continued to explain the origin of the ribbon.
"This ribbon comes from Persia and is a treasure of the Inner Palace. It will change color under the moonlight and is very difficult to imitate on the market. Naturally, there are many rules in the forbidden area of the Inner Palace. The Emperor definitely wouldn't be at ease leaving his safety in the hands of a group of jianghu people. Thus, he told me to give the ribbon to the person I trusted. No one else is allowed to enter."
Xie Lige picked up the ribbon and turned it up and down for a while. He found that the ribbon would emit a different kind of light as the moonlight shone through the window.
Hearing Lu Xiaofeng's words, he nodded and said, "You want me to watch the fight between these two people in the palace."
Lu Xiaofeng's thoughts were directly exposed. Even if his skin was as thick as a wall, he still felt a little embarrassed. He could only scratch his head and laugh.
"Haha, this is something I specially left for you."
Lu Xiaofeng would definitely not say that when he received this ribbon from Wei Zi Yun, he immediately rushed to this inn and gave it to Xie Lige.
Xie Lige silently looked at Lu Xiaofeng, who was staring at him. After a while, he silently kept the ribbon and said dryly, "I understand."
Lu Xiaofeng immediately laughed.
After giving the ribbon, Lu Xiaofeng did not want to stay any longer. He hurriedly rushed to the window and jumped down. He turned around and waved at Xie Lige and Hua Manlou.
Xie Lige looked at the footprints on the windowsill and frowned. This Lu Xiaofeng stepped on the window again.
After a while, he said, "Qi Tong, when you go back, seal the window on the second floor with steel nails."
Why is this guy always climbing through the window?
Hua Manlou heard his foster father's vengeful words and helplessly replied, "Yes." In his heart, he silently mourned for Lu Xiaofeng.
Xie Lige raised his head and looked at the sky. At this moment, the moon was already in the middle of the sky. Under the moonlight, it was already late at night. Xie Lige was also somewhat surprised. He did not expect time to pass so quickly.
"Qi Tong, quickly go back."
"Yes, foster father." Hua Manlou replied with a smile. He turned around and opened the door, walking towards his room.
After Hua Manlou left, Xie Lige did not do anything else. He returned to his original meditation position.
The moonlight shone through the window and shone on his body. He did not look like a mortal. His eyes were tightly shut, and his eyelashes cast a shadow on his pale skin.
After an unknown amount of time, the rustling sound of claws fiddling with the wooden door came from the door. Then, with a creak, the door was pushed open a small crack. A furry figure came in through the door.
It was fat and stared at the two books. Its furry face was serious. It moved its four limbs and came to Xie Lige's side. It first observed the terrain, then climbed onto the bed with great difficulty. Then, it moved its body and lay in Xie Lige's arms.
Xie Lige opened his eyes, picked up the fat squirrel, and put it in his arms.
"You're back."
"Squeak!"
"Was the journey safe?"
There was a moment of hesitation in the fat squirrel's voice. "… Squeak!"
"It was a little unsafe, but did you beat it out?" Xie Lige asked smoothly.
The fat squirrel immediately wagged its big tail happily. "Squeak!"
…
The man and the squirrel asked and answered. The scene was very beautiful.
After Lu Xiaofeng left, he did not appear in the inn again. Xie Lige did not care, because every day when he was upstairs, he would hear the people on the first floor talking about Lu Xiaofeng, about the duel between the two great swordsmen, and about the series of disturbances caused by those precious ribbons.
There was no one who did not want to see the duel between two peerless swordsmen, even if the location of the duel was in the palace. Naturally, the demand for ribbons increased. Everyone wanted them, but unfortunately, there were only a few ribbons.
Those who had crooked thoughts were ready to rob.
Just by listening to the waves of people downstairs, Xie Lige knew that Lu Xiaofeng's days were very exciting.
This made his mood much better.
Therefore, the aura around him was not as terrifying as it was at the beginning. Instead, it was gentler. The people downstairs were lucky. They felt their bodies become lighter. They looked at each other and looked up to see the purple and black corners of the clothes on the second floor. They immediately understood that this was because the Pen Demon was in a good mood.
They thought about the topic they were talking about and immediately guessed that the Pen Demon wanted to know about Lu Xiaofeng. They all expressed that this was good. They usually liked to gossip the most, not to mention that the gossip about Lu Xiaofeng was worthless. Everyone in the world knew about it.
Therefore, they, who wanted to make friends with a peerless expert, immediately gathered more information about Lu Xiaofeng and made all kinds of exaggerated reports downstairs. When Xie Lige, who was on the second floor, heard this, he was in a very good mood. Those people felt that their auras had become much lighter.
It was as if they had received encouragement.
They talked more and more enthusiastically.
Until one day, when Lu Xiaofeng stepped through the door of the inn, their impassioned voices came to an abrupt end. Some of the jianghu people who had already stepped onto the table to give their speeches were pulled to the ground by their companions. The first floor of the inn immediately returned to normal.
When Lu Xiaofeng saw this scene, he thought about how all kinds of embarrassing things about him had been circulating in the jianghu for some reason recently. He guessed that this was the source of all this.
As for why these people wanted to do this, Lu Xiaofeng already had an eighty or ninety percent guess.
It was most likely that the ancestor on the second floor who had started this.
Lu Xiaofeng knew that he was in the wrong. He stroked his beard and ignored the people who were talking behind his back. He very seriously walked up the stairs to the door of the room on the second floor.
Knock, knock!
"Come in." A cold voice came from behind the door.
Lu Xiaofeng pushed open the door and entered. He found that Hua Manlou and Xie Lige were sitting on opposite sides of the room. The white-haired man, who was facing him, glanced at him, then lowered his head and continued stroking the fat squirrel in his arms.
"Uncle, long time no see."
Xie Lige did not directly answer. Instead, he asked another question, "Did you go through the front door today?"
Xie Lige's expression stiffened for a moment when he remembered that he had deliberately set a trap at the window. Then, he quickly returned to normal.