Peace Order-Chapter 121 - 77: I Have Undergone Body Casting

The young man’s fingers stopped strumming the zither, yet the zither sound seemed to linger in people’s ears, echoing throughout the tea house. Even the sound of the rain outside became distant. The young man’s zither playing was dashing. As people came to their senses, they saw him already seated, sipping tea.

He lifted the tea towards her, the brew somewhat light, offering the young lady fig dry fruits with the tea—fruits abundant in the Western Regions, dried under the sun and fierce wind yet still very sweet. The crude tea from Jiangnan just perfectly diluted the taste.

"How about that, tastes good now, right?"

"A pinch of salt with sweetness, a combination that never goes wrong."

With a proud arch of his brow, the young man, dressed in a black outfit with white trimmings on the sleeves which were otherwise too simple, had his temperament immediately enlivened by a flower tucked beside his temples. He sat there explaining to the young lady how to enjoy the snacks.

At the adjacent tea table, a young woman timidly bowed her head.

The young lady over there savored the verse in her mouth, thinking it truly demonstrated a crossing of talents and mused that this fellow must’ve met some great talent who recited this verse during his ten years of fleeing calamity; yet as she recognized the excellence of the verse, her face suddenly blushed.

Her eyes widened as if she just realized something; she murmured a line from the verse a few times.

Her fair, jade-like face visibly reddened.

Unable to help herself, she kicked Li Guanyi lightly with her leg.

With a blushing face, she stammered,

"You, you, you!"

"Huh? What’s wrong with me?"

The young lady’s face all flushed, whispered, "Why would you write such verse and then sing it aloud?"

Li Guanyi smiled and said, "I didn’t write it. I met a great talent named Liu Sanbian on the road while fleeing. He recited it once beside a well, and I have a good memory, so I remembered it."

Xue Shuangtao angrily said, "Then why did you write my name into it?"

"What do you mean?"

"Fierce waves sweep the frosty snow!"

Li Guanyi was taken aback, engrossed in playing the zither passionately. He hadn’t realized that within this line, the implication "Shuangtao like Jiangnan snow" existed. At that moment, seeing the young lady’s flushed face, with the blush seeming to seep into her eyes, and yet feeling mortified.

It was difficult for snow to settle in Jiangnan; thus, snow like this was a rare sight in the world.

Considering himself sharp with words, Li Guanyi found it hard to speak at that moment,

"I... I..."

People around burst into laughter, the young lady stomped her foot and ran out.

Suddenly something flew towards him; Li Guanyi raised his hand to catch it—it was a piece of silver. Like applauding a storyteller or singer in the tea house, the young man, devoid of the pretensions of the learned class, accepted the silver and nodded with a slight smile of thanks.

Then, grabbing an umbrella, he dashed into the curtain of rain.

The person who had thrown the silver sat on the second floor of the tea house where some rain splashed in. Most people wouldn’t sit here as the second floor required additional payment. Those sheltering from the rain were mostly children and vendors nearby who would rather get drenched than spend ten more coins to go up and enjoy the view.

The person wearing a hat murmured as the silver was thrown:

"Fierce waves sweep the frosty snow, endless chasms, such a fine tune."

"The style of Great Chen is different from that of Ying Country, and Jiangnan indeed has such talented youths."

The speaker was a woman by the sound of her voice, wearing a mask, her gaze was serene. The man opposite her said, "I never expected the Luzhou Sword Immortal to take such an interest in a mere verse."

The woman replied indifferently, "Poetry does not benefit me."

"It’s just his zither playing reminded me of an old friend from my youth."

"It has been a long time since I last heard her zither sound."

The man, sensing the high-ranking person from the Martial World didn’t wish to speak more, smiled faintly and said, "Previously, thanks to the Sword Immortal’s intervention, together with our Great Chen’s National Guardian General, Xiao Wuliang, they defeated Yue Qianfeng. That man was also a fierce general; it was the Sword Immortal’s Body-breaking Sword Qi that broke his aura revealing his traces."

"Luzhou Sword Immortal, truly as reputed."

"This is a token of gratitude."

The man took a box out from his sleeve robe, placed it on the table and gently pushed it forward; the box was made of golden phoebe wood, hard to come by in a thousand years, not to mention its contents would be incredibly costly.

The woman, referred to as the Luzhou Sword Immortal, did not look at it but said rather flatly,

"There’s no need for many words."

"I merely agreed to Tantai—to act on his behalf three times."

"After three times, all past favors and grudges will be gone."

"That previous time was already the second."

The man chuckled softly and said, "Sword Immortal is still a person of the Martial World, bound by her word. This third time, inviting Sword Immortal to Jiangzhou City, is actually about the same matter—today the world is greatly changed; Tuyuhun is fish meat, all nations are the cutting board, Great Chen’s grand ceremony is this great scene."

"Though it appears flourishing, it is in fact like oil on a blazing fire."

"Within the nation, there’s Yue Pengwu’s matter, new and old dignitaries and the two recently appointed Silver and Green Guanglu Doctors, then there’s Xiao Wuliang and Yue Qianfeng; globally, there are Turkic, Dangxiang, Ying Country, all coming, such a big matter, if Yue Qianfeng, that brute, acts recklessly, wouldn’t Great Chen lose face in front of the whole world?"

"Please, Sword Immortal, to balance this villain."

The Luzhou Sword Immortal said, "... Yue Qianfeng is very strong."

The man nodded and praised, "Thirty-fourth on the Divine General List, naturally strong, but Sword Immortal you traverse the Martial World, unmatched in sword Qi, stopping him should not be difficult."

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