Chapter 046 Chapter 46

"Of course, as long as you are willing, guests attending the banquet can bring companions."

Jinse smiled and nodded.

"That's great. There will be a lot of people at the banquet. Maybe I can find the person I want to find at the banquet. Then I don't have to bother you in the future."

Li Qingshan said with a smile.

"No trouble, I have no objection to how long you stay here."

Jinse shook his head, not looking at the smile on that face, and sighed in his heart: the poor child doesn't know that the person he is looking for is dead. When he knows, he won't be able to laugh.

After a while, they left the apricot forest and returned to their residence.

When Jinse was in the study, his subordinates came to report new news.

"The demon king has decided to hold a formal banquet at the end of this month."

The subordinate said.

"If we slow down on the road, pack up this week and arrive next week, we can stay there for a while to get familiar with the environment and attend the banquet."

Jinse thought about it and nodded.

"Yes."

The subordinate nodded.

"Then you go and prepare. There is no time to waste. I hope that when I leave tomorrow, you will have prepared everything you need."

Jinse said.

The subordinate nodded and prepared to leave.

Jinse suddenly remembered something and stopped him and asked: "Before His Majesty the Demon King appeared, most people thought he was in the northwest, right?"

"Yes, it's not easy to ask directly about this kind of thing, but everyone has their own guesses, and in the end they all think that His Majesty the Demon King came from the northwest.

Because only there are few people, it is located in a remote and vast place, and there is no news."

The subordinate nodded.

"You go now."

Jinse waved.

After the subordinates left, Jinse found Li Qingshan.

"Pack your things today and leave tomorrow. I want to go too. Isn't it a bit too hasty?"

Li Qingshan panicked. He didn't pack his things either. Today was almost over. It might be too late to pack now.

"Don't worry. There will be servants to help pack. You just need to follow me. Don't get lost."

Jinse shook his head.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Li Qingshan nodded.

After all, he was just a guest.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, where are you from?"

Jinse probed.

"Ah?"

Li Qingshan was stunned. He didn't expect the topic to turn to this point. He didn't think of what to say for a while.

Jinse asked again: "Are you from the northwest?"

"Yes, I am from the northwest."

Li Qingshan was worried that he could not find the answer for a while, and when he heard him say this, he immediately nodded in agreement.

Jinse nodded thoughtfully: "Is the person you are looking for also from the northwest?"

"I don't know, but he should not be."

Li Qingshan said.

He said he was from the northwest because he was talking nonsense.

Taylor couldn't also talk nonsense to others and say that he was from the northwest.

This kind of low-probability event is unlikely to happen.

Say it's not first.

If this is true, it will be time to change it when we meet, and Taylor will probably cooperate with him.

Li Qingshan nodded slightly.

Jinse thought: This makes sense. Li Qingshan met the demon king in the northwest. After the demon king left, Li Qingshan also left.

Maybe he was driven away because he lost his shelter, or maybe he wanted to leave the sad place.

In short, after Li Qingshan left his original residence, he met a person. This person was the person he asked me to find. They were originally together, but they were separated by accident, so they had to find each other.

There were more strange things.

Jinse was confused, like a cat who was playing a game with its tail and a ball of yarn but accidentally tied a knot with its hair and yarn and buried itself.

The next day, after packing up and checking everything, they got on the carriage together.

Jinse sat in the carriage and said to Li Qingshan who was also sitting in the carriage: "I don't know how you used to travel? But I always use a carriage when I go out. I hope you can get used to it."

Li Qingshan thought about it.

In the past, when he was in a hurry, he either walked, or used some strange methods, or took a car.

But he couldn't say it directly, because he couldn't use those strange methods now, and there were no modern cars to take.

So he could only say that he usually walked to get around.

"I used to walk when I was in a hurry, it was more economical."

Li Qingshan smiled and said to Jinse.

Even if Jinse wanted to send someone to ask, he would appear in front of others on foot instead of in a car.

There should be nothing wrong with this.

Jinse nodded, and in order to avoid the long and boring journey, he casually found a topic to ask: "Is there anything you want to play? We set off early and have a lot of time on the road."

"There's nothing special I want to play."

Li Qingshan was not interested in those things, shook his head, and said calmly.

"Okay. What do you want to eat?"

Jinse asked again.

"I'm not hungry yet, thank you."

Li Qingshan shook his head again.

"What do you plan to eat after that? We can't go a day without food. It would be too boring if we only eat the dry food we brought with us. Dry food is not as delicious as fresh food."

Jinse smiled and said.

"I'm not familiar with this place, you choose."

Li Qingshan said.

"Okay."

Jinse nodded.

After a while of resting his eyes, Jinse suddenly saw a bookstore not far away and immediately called a car to stop.

"There is a bookstore over there, come with me to take a look, pick a book to take with you on the road, it will also help to kill time."

Jinse said to Li Qingshan happily.

"Okay."

Li Qingshan nodded and got out of the car slowly.

Jinse helped him and then pulled him into the bookstore.

"Don't walk around, otherwise if you get lost accidentally, it will be difficult to find you."

Jinse grabbed Li Qingshan's wrist and told him.

Li Qingshan nodded and had no objection.

The two of them walked around the bookstore.

Li Qingshan picked up a fairy tale.

Jinse was a little curious and asked, "I didn't expect you to be interested in fairy tales. Is there any reason for that?"

There was no reason.

But it seemed too perfunctory to say that.

Li Qingshan hesitated, unable to think of what to say, so

he just gave up and said, "I am quite interested in fairy tales." Jinse nodded, and seeing that he seemed a little embarrassed, he didn't ask any more questions.

Li Qingshan breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Jinse also picked up a book with a thick brown cover. It looked like a diary at first glance. The name was something like "The Monster King's Daily Diary".

He flipped through it twice and seemed interested. He paid for the two books and took Li Qingshan back to the carriage, and the carriage continued to move forward.

Li Qingshan opened the fairy tale in his hand, glanced at it casually, and put what happened just now behind him.

Jinse opened the book in his hand:

As you can see, I am a monster, but I am not an animal. I am very rare, a monster transformed from a pen.

I still remember the winter of the year when I first met the monster king.

The snow was heavy, the sky was white, the eaves were white, the ground was white, and I was wrapped in an airtight white on all sides, making it hard for me to breathe and unable to straighten my back.

It felt like all the monsters were buried by the heavy white cotton flying all over the sky, and I couldn't even raise my head.

I was abandoned by a human scholar and fell into the snow. The flying snowflakes quickly buried me. I waited from day to night, but no one picked me up.

The sky gradually darkened, and the snow on my head became more and more. Finally, I couldn't see any light at all. I thought I could only rot and break under the thick snow that gradually turned into ice.

There was a rumbling sound in the sky, and it started to rain heavily. The ice layer became thicker. I thought that I would never get out of this situation, and that dying early might be a kind of relief.

But the demon king found me at this time.

He held a dusk-colored oil-paper umbrella to block the wind and rain at the top, brushed away the snowflakes in front of him, broke the ice layer that trapped me, and picked me up from a layer of fine ice crystals.

I have never seen such a gentle person or demon.

I thought that I would follow him for the rest of my life.

He fulfilled my small wish.

I gave him 100% loyalty.

But there was always a trace of indissoluble melancholy between his eyebrows. I asked him why, and he shook his head without answering.

That was the look of recalling a person, and I would not mistake it.

I think, maybe a long time ago, he was also weak and helpless, wandering in the darkness, and in the sudden dazzling light, he saw the existence that saved him.

But that existence is not by his side now, and he is sad about it.

Jinse couldn't help but look up at Li Qingshan across from him.

Li Qingshan was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Jinse smiled and shook his head.

Li Qingshan lowered his head and continued to read the fairy tale.

Jinse thought: This thing has no name, it can't be him. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Look back.

He flipped through a lot of pages and thought: There should be absolutely nothing in the back that looks like it's related to Li Qingshan.

Then he saw: His Majesty the Demon King likes to go to bookstores, especially the fairy tales in bookstores.

I often follow him.

The people in the bookstore asked me, "Does your Majesty the Demon King like fairy tales so much?"

I said, "Yes."

The people in the bookstore asked, "Why?

" I didn't know.

So I went to ask your Majesty.

Your Majesty smiled and said to me, "Haven't you heard that when humans were young, someone would read fairy tales to them by their bedside?"

I am sure I saw a flash of melancholy in your Majesty's eyes.

Perhaps it is because someone once treated your Majesty so gently that your Majesty is so obsessed with it.

I didn't want to make him sad, so I didn't ask again.

He noticed it, smiled at me, and said, "When you have children in the future, I will allow you to borrow my fairy tale books to read stories."

I smiled and said, "I want to be with your Majesty for the rest of my life."

Your Majesty shook his head and said nothing.

I looked at him and felt that he had a fatherly heart. He was very tolerant of me, as if he would forgive me no matter what I did.

He made me feel like he once had a child.