Chapter 173 That's my senior brother, of course I care.
“Me?” Nian Qiuyan stopped writing and looked up at her. “Now that you’ve gotten the things back, this matter is over for me.”
"Passed?" Yu Sui seemed not to understand.
Nian Qiuyan smiled and said, "Your Highness, you don't know this. People like us just follow orders. If there are no instructions from above, we naturally won't do anything."
He addressed Yu Sui as Princess, as if he were discussing official business with her.
Yu Sui stared intently at him and bluntly stated, "Given Senior Brother's temperament, he wouldn't tolerate that you're actually a member of the Lan Shi organization. Even if Senior Brother's ambiguous nature allows him to tolerate it, Zhong Lishan and the others won't."
Zhongli's family often led troops on expeditions, and sometimes they encountered some insidious methods, such as using orchid poison to control their soldiers.
The goal is not to make them addicted in a short time, but to destroy their five elements with the orchid poison. After being poisoned by the orchid poison, they will experience hallucinations, which will then lure them into killing each other.
Even if they survive by sheer luck, after the brief burst of power, their inner strength will be extremely weak, and they will still face certain death.
Zhong Lishan would never accept that his good brother was a corpse who manufactured and sold Orchid Poison.
The Lan Shi is a symbol of evil, and those with a righteous heart will not tolerate it.
Yu Sui believes that Xing Chun, Kong Yiyi, and others are not the type to get along well with Lan Shi.
If Nian Qiuyan claims she has her own reasons and is lying or hiding something, then it's hard to say.
If Nian Qiuyan were willing, he would know how to soften these people's hearts.
Yu Sui asked directly, "Do you want to completely break with them?"
Nian Qiuyan said, "If we can't hide it any longer, then this is the only way."
Yu Sui frowned, her expression hesitant and puzzled: "Will my senior brothers accept it?"
Seeing the worry in her eyes, Nian Qiuyan couldn't help but smile and ask, "What does the young princess want me to do?"
The word "little princess" instantly reminded Yu Sui of Zhang Xiangyun.
At this time, Nian Qiuyan's attitude towards Yu Sui was based on his connection to Xuan Kui, rather than that of a disciple of Taiyi Academy.
Before Yu Sui could answer, Nian Qiuyan spoke up: "Continue to lie to them? Meimei is not easy to fool. He won't believe me a second time after the first time. Even if he tells me, he doesn't believe me in his heart anymore."
“I don’t need to keep lying anymore. This day was bound to come sooner or later.” Nian Qiuyan sighed softly, her dark eyes fixed on Yu Sui. “Little Princess, you need to understand one thing: I am Xuan Kui’s person, not their friend.”
Yu Sui countered, "Isn't that right?"
Nian Qiuyan said calmly, "Yes, that's true these past few years."
At least so far, he has never harmed Mei Liangyu or the others. Nian Qiuyan's relationship with Mei Liangyu and the others gradually became more and more familiar, starting with polite greetings, then coincidentally being grouped together in the academy trials, and often wandering around the outer city, getting into trouble together, and dealing with things together. Later, they even went through life and death together, and at that time, no one abandoned the other.
Putting aside Xuan Kui's identity, they did indeed share a pure friendship, a tacit understanding and affection that went with their hearts and was difficult to put into words.
This wasn't the first time Nian Qiuyan had done something like this.
For many years, he would periodically shed his identity as Xuan Kuilan's corpse and make new friends under a completely new and clean identity.
At that time, he was wholehearted, sincere, and passionate.
But it never lasts long; after three to five months, Nian Qiuyan gets tired of it.
Not only will you get tired of it, but you'll also feel uncomfortable.
After leaving Lan Du's world, Nian Qiuyan always felt a sense of unreality; everything seemed ephemeral and fragile, making it difficult to maintain a sense of reality.
When one of his friends went mad and killed indiscriminately because he couldn't buy orchid poison, Nian Qiuyan realized that he could never escape the world of orchid poison.
Some friends, upon learning of his identity as a corpse, angrily berated him and even drew swords at him.
really.
He doesn't deserve to have friends who don't belong to the world of Lan Du.
He's not good enough for those people.
Rats in the sewers should associate with sewage and rotting flesh, and should not dream of the sunshine under the blazing sun.
Once the autumn geese recognize reality, they can decisively detach themselves from their emotions.
"After so many years of relationship, you can just give up like that?" Yu Sui looked at him in disbelief.
Nian Qiuyan said, "I spent more time in Xuankui."
Yu Sui thought to herself, "You finally said what I wanted to hear." She deliberately asked, "Is your relationship with your senior brothers over the past few years not as strong as your relationship with Zhang Xiangyun?"
Nian Qiuyan smiled and said, "I have indeed known Zhang Xiangyun for much longer."
Yu Sui's eyes widened slightly: "You've known each other since you were little?"
Nian Qiuyan nodded: "You could say that."
Zhang Xiangyun, Luo Fu, and Nian Qiuyan, and perhaps, Qing Kui should be added as well.
Yu Sui had been thinking about this question ever since she learned that Nian Qiuyan knew Cao Yan, and she had some guesses in her mind. Now she finally got the answer from Nian Qiuyan.
Yu Sui also knew the meaning of "Autumn Goose".
If Mei Liangyu and the others didn't know his identity as Lan Shi, then they were friends.
They were no longer friends once they found out what Nian Qiuyan was doing.
They might even become enemies.
When Yu Sui showed a troubled expression, Nian Qiuyan said, "You seem to care a lot about Meimei's thoughts."
Yu Sui said, "That's my senior brother, of course I care."
“Having such thoughts is not good for you.” Nian Qiuyan put down her ink brush. “You should be more concerned about how to deal with Meimei after she finds out about the orchid poison. If Meimei ruins Xuan Kui’s business in Taiyi, how will you explain it to the Prince?”
Yu Sui bit her lip and lowered her head dejectedly, saying, "My father wouldn't just kill me in a fit of anger."
“I might not kill you, but I will definitely kill Meimei, and your position as heir will be unstable.” Nian Qiuyan stared at Yu Sui and said, “Without the position of heir, you have no value in living.”
"Do you know my father so well?" Yu Sui looked up at him.
Nian Qiuyan reached out and tapped the paper: "It's past midnight. I'll give you the first divination of the day to predict whether there will be a future for you and Meimei."
He smiled slightly, like a gentle breeze, making it impossible to guess his thoughts and intentions.
A night breeze rustled through the trees and flowers outside, carrying a faint fragrance. Yu Sui raised her hand to press down the strands of hair that had been blown by the wind: "What will become of my relationship with my senior brother?"
“Didn’t you say that Meimei likes you a lot?” Nian Qiuyan squinted her eyes slightly. “But it’s no use if one person tries their best in this kind of thing. If the two of you are destined to have no future, it’s better to break it off early to avoid trouble.”
Yu Sui lowered her eyes and looked at the divination array on the paper for a while. She also saw the divine wooden divination stick that Nian Qiuyan had placed on the table. She nodded thoughtfully and said, "I see."
Nian Qiuyan thought she had agreed to the divination, but then she saw Yu Sui smile slightly at her and say, "Although you are very skilled in divination, I don't believe in it."
This answer sounded familiar.
In the autumn of that year, Yan couldn't help but think of Mei Liangyu.
Yu Suichai stretched out her hand to Nian Qiuyan through the window, a copper coin resting on the back of her fair hand. She said, "However, since you are a disciple of the Fangji family, you should believe in divination. I have also recently learned a little about divination. Why don't I cast a divination for you, Nian?"
Nian Qiuyan: "..."
Is the recent hobby of these two fellow disciples to perform divination for practitioners of divination techniques?
He couldn't help but laugh: "What are you going to give me?"
Yu Sui raised her head slightly and said with a smile, "It's about life and death."
Nian Qiuyan's smile faded slightly, and she followed up with, "How do we divine?"
“It’s very simple.” Yu Sui gently raised her hand, and the copper coin flew into the air and flipped between her fingers. She said very seriously, “Will you die at the hands of Xuan Kui’s people, or at the hands of someone outside of Xuan Kui?”
As soon as she finished speaking, the copper coin that had been flipped from her index finger to her little finger was lifted into the air again by the force, flipping and falling from top to bottom. Nian Qiuyan's eyes were unconsciously drawn to it, and she saw Yu Sui standing outside the window through the square hole of the flipped copper coin.
Through the rapidly spinning hole of the copper coin, Nian Qiuyan glimpsed Yu Sui looking at him. Yu Sui's eyes were as black as lacquer, and his gaze was calm. This gave Nian Qiuyan a feeling of being seen through, and his heart raced. He felt a surge of anger and broke out in a cold sweat.
But only for a moment.
Nian Qiuyan snatched the copper coin before it fell and held it in her hand.
Yu Sui's divination array was extinguished as soon as it was set up.
Nian Qiuyan suppressed her gentleness, quietly looked at Yu Sui, and whispered, "You were there the day Meimei killed Wei Kun in the outer city, weren't you?"
"Really?" Yu Sui frowned in distress. "I can't quite remember."
Nian Qiuyan stared at her and continued, "Not only were you there, but you also intervened in their fight."
After hearing this, Yu Sui simply blinked and tilted her head slightly in acknowledgment, and then what?
She knew that all of this was just speculation by Nian Qiuyan after she cast a divination for Mei Liangyu, without any actual evidence, so she wasn't worried at all.
Nian Qiuyan sized up the seemingly weak and harmless girl in front of her, and heard her laugh: "Back then, I had just started cultivating. Was it possible for me to intervene in the battle between my senior brother and Wei Kun?"
“If it’s done through unseen means, it can certainly be done,” Nian Qiuyan said.
Yu Sui, with an inquisitive look, asked, "Unknown methods, for example?"
Nian Qiuyan calmly said, "For example, the Divine Mechanism Technique."
Yu Sui lowered her eyes and smiled. When she looked up at Nian Qiuyan again, she was still smiling and said in a gentle tone, "There is one thing I agree with you about. Some secrets can be kept secret from others, but once they are known, it is difficult to get along peacefully."
"Oh?" Nian Qiuyan laughed. "Did I guess right?"
Nian Qiuyan gently rubbed the copper coin between her fingers with her hand at her side, staring at Yu Sui, who showed no flaws, and thought to herself that the people in the Prince's Mansion had really misjudged her.
Not only people from the Qingyang Prince's Mansion, but also people from Taiyi.
A princess of the royal family, who has been practicing martial arts for eighteen years and is of mediocre talent, is simple and harmless.
That's a joke.
Yu Sui shook his head. The hand that had thrown the copper coin earlier rested on the windowsill, and he lightly tapped the wooden windowsill with his finger, making a low sound.
She spoke softly, with a hint of playfulness in her voice: "Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu almost died at the bottom of the Spirit Bird ship. If those water arrows had been aimed at you, Senior Brother Nian, you would have been the one to die."
Upon hearing this, Nian Qiuyan's eyelids twitched, and her hand, which was stroking the copper coin, froze.
Could it be...you?
Under his slightly strange and wary gaze, Yu Sui simply knocked heavily on the windowsill. The Five Elements Light Core attached to Nian Qiuyan's back shattered, and the masterless energy transformed into a Master Water Arrow that suddenly attacked, pressing against his back chest. Nian Qiuyan's body stiffened, and his protective energy ignited the moment the water arrow materialized.
What kind of low-class technique is this?
No, these are famous sayings, but how could she know them?
At such close range, why didn't I detect the slightest movement of the Five Elements Qi?
Nian Qiuyan broke out in a cold sweat, her eyes fixed on Yu Sui with a serious expression.
If Yu Sui truly intended to kill, and the water arrow hadn't stopped, he would have been seriously injured even if he hadn't died.
Meeting Nian Qiuyan's solemn gaze, Yu Sui reached out his hand, gesturing for him to return the copper coin he had stolen, and smiled with slightly narrowed eyes, "Senior Brother Nian, let's get along peacefully."
The water arrow had pierced his clothes and clung to his skin, chilling him to the bone. Upon hearing Yu Sui's words, Nian Qiuyan's forehead twitched violently. He took a deep breath and was about to reach out to return the copper coins to her when he noticed that someone else had jumped over the wall and entered.
The two looked at the person who had climbed over the wall at the same time. Mei Liangyu brushed the thin bamboo leaves off his clothes and looked up to see Yu Sui leaning against Nian Qiuyan's window. He squinted and said in an ambiguous tone, "I didn't expect to have to come here to find you."
"Senior brother." Yu Sui turned around and stood up obediently. "I'm here to see you next year, Senior Brother."
Seeing her expression change instantly, and the water arrow pressed against her back disappearing in an instant, Nian Qiuyan felt a mix of emotions, but she breathed a sigh of relief without showing any emotion. She lightly licked her sharp teeth with the tip of her tongue, never expecting that she would one day be defeated by Nangong Sui.
Nian Qiuyan spoke with a rare hint of irritability: "Hurry up and take your junior sister back. You and your fellow disciples can do divination for each other. You don't need to keep trying to do it for me. Don't try to be clever with my half-baked divination skills."
He tossed the copper coin at Mei Liangyu and closed the doors and windows at the same time.
Mei Liangyu reached out and steadily caught the copper coin, raised an eyebrow at Yu Sui, and silently asked what was going on.
[Author's Note]
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