Chapter 224 (1/2)
Upon hearing these words, the female Talisman Master bowed her head and looked at the white dress on her lap. It seemed that the lace was very beautiful. But in fact, there was nothing on that plain white dress.
The horse carriage was still moving and the wind on the Wilderness lifted the carriage curtains away. Morning suns.h.i.+ne sprinkled in and reflected on the black and white interior decorations inside of the carriage, falling on her black hair and white face so as to be separated into several rays of light. A calm and certain voice was uttered slowly from her lips. ”I think I already have someone that I like.”
The morning suns.h.i.+ne also fell on Ning Que's body. He did not expect that his habitual way of speaking would make her misunderstand him. He had an embarra.s.sed smile, which looked very mild in the morning light. ”I like a lot of people. I often use 'like' to express my goodwill. I hope it didn't make you feel too brusque.”
The Wilderness land was blown dry and hard by a cold wind. The wheels running above the land were shaken upwards from time to time. The horse carriage was not big and two people sat opposite at a close distance. With the ups and downs of the carriage, their knees were about to touch together.
Ning Que moved backward and leaned against a cotton pad beside the window. His sore body finally found a supportive point so that he could not help making a pleasant sigh. He looked at the girl's beautiful face that was close to him and said, ”This world just runs like this. You don't need to be unhappy about those disgusting things.”
Yesterday, he put on makeup for Mo Shanshan and tied her waterfall-like black hair behind her head. When she woke up this morning, she still retained the hairstyle, you could not tell if she was not concerned about these things or if she felt Ning Que's craft was really good. So, she went to touch her bangs as usual, only to find that her slender fingers touched nothing.
She seriously asked, ”Liking and hating are both emotions. How can we suppress them?”
Ning Que leaned against the window and slightly squinted for the morning light sprinkling from a curtain's edge. After a short moment of silence, he said, ”I didn't mean to suppress this mood, but we should not be affected by this emotion. Getting angry is to use others' mistakes to punish ourselves. It is not worthwhile.”
Mo Shanshan slowly furrowed her eyebrows as black as ink and persistently said, ”But I'm just angry.”
Ning Que looked at her eyebrows and suddenly wanted to use his finger to touch them. But he retracted his hand back to his sleeves and said, ”Since you're angry, of course you should use the fastest speed to vent it. So I support you to go to the palace. But have you ever wondered what you will do once you have met the cavalrymen of Divine Hall or the n.o.ble in the palace?”
Mo Shanshan blankly shook her head. Her intuition told her that she should go to the palace and find those cavalrymen of Divine Hall and those people on the meadow, seeking justice for those dead sisters and brothers as well as the soldiers and common people of Yan Kingdom.
Ning Que seemed to guess her thought. So he looked at her and seriously said, ”Justice has never existed. Even if your strength and ident.i.ty are strong enough, sometimes you're not necessarily able to seek justice. So a thing like venting has nothing to do with justice, but with fairness. What's fairness? When others. .h.i.t us, we hit them. When others scold us, we beat them. When others try to kill us, we kill them first.”
Mo Shanshan looked at him with her eyes open. It seemed that she did not expect that a lot of things coming from his mouth could become so simple and presumptuous. She wrinkled her brows and asked, ”You... the Tangs all view things like this?”
”Most of us.” Ning Que laughed and said, ”We were educated like this from the moment we were born.”
Mo Shanshan stretched out her hand to lift up the curtain of the window beside her. She watched the wild desolate view of the Wilderness that was gradually moving backward and a few lonely birds in the faraway sky. She thought of the person in the horse carriage on the meadow yesterday and said after a short silent moment, ”What if I reach the palace and can't kill those people?”
The cavalrymen of Divine Hall and the n.o.ble they protected naturally could not be killed easily, even if the killer was a world-known Calligraphy Addict. Ning Que looked at her blank facial expression, vaguely guessing that the status of those people on the meadow might be very high.
”Who were those people on the meadow yesterday?”
Mo Shanshan turned to look at him and whispered, ”Revelation Inst.i.tute students and White Tower Temple monks. If you want to ask about the person in the horse carriage, she is the Princess of Yuelun Kingdom as well as the favored one in the Revelation Inst.i.tute.”
Ning Que's frowning brows gradually stretched out. The change of his facial expression did not mean that he had relaxed, but showed that he was a bit surprised. Then he said, ”Flower Addict Lu Chenjia? What did this legendary person come to do in the Wilderness?”
Mo Shanshan looked at him and suddenly laughed. Her somewhat stiff expression suddenly became vivid with this rare smile. Especially her indifferent cold eyes, which actually instantly became a little lovely.
”You don't know that Mo Shanshan is a Calligraphy Addict, but do know the name of Flower Addict.”
Ning Que smiled and thought that if this person was that Flower Addict, then it was really wishful thinking for them to go to the palace to seek justice. His smile gradually converged and he looked at Mo Shanshan to say, ”You can not kill, but want to vent. Maybe I can offer you some ideas. For Flower Addict Lu Chenjia, what does she like the best or value the most?”
”She's a Flower Addict. Of course she likes flowers the best.”
Mo Shanshan confusedly looked at Ning Que's face as if seeing an idiot. She said, ”In addition, people all know she crazily fell in love with Prince Long Qing. In fact, she is a very lofty person.”
After a moment of thought, Ning Que said, ”Venting is nothing more than bullying people. If you want to go to the palace for venting, you'd better start with two things—flowers and loftiness.”
Then he began to seriously make plans for Mo Shanshan. Once they met Lu Chenjia in the palace, they should use any kind of way to vent the anger of the Black Ink Garden disciples and not cause a too big sensation.
Mo Shanshan listened to these almost childish tricks, but felt that they were really some insidious ideas after careful thought. She slightly furrowed her brows and looked at Ning Que's smile under the morning light. She watched his fresh little dimples, suddenly feeling that his smile was so evil as well as so cute.
Bullying people was Ning Que's favorite thing. He even liked bullying the strong by being weak more than he liked having s.e.x. He secretly thought he had bullied Prince Long Qing in advance one time and did not know how Flower Addict thought of him after she knew this. When he was just excitedly imagining this scene, he suddenly found Mo Shanshan was intently looking at him. It was not until then did he find that he had overacted, so he could not help but awkwardly smile.
Ning Que asked, ”Are you familiar with Flower Addict?”
At this time Mo Shanshan was grinding an inkstone and stretching some paper. In order to keep a distance from Ning Que, she tried her best to make her waist and b.u.t.tocks that pressed against her calves lean against the window. She replied, ”A few years ago she had been to Mogan Mountain, I spent dozens of days with her.”
Ning Que leaned against the carriage board and looked up at the net decorations inside the carriage. He slightly tilted his brows and asked, ”What kind of person is Flower Addict? Beautiful? Does she love flowers like a legendary flower addict?”
Mo Shanshan suddenly stopped her right hand holding the brush and looked back at him. She asked, ”Are you very interested in her?”
Ning Que said smilingly, ”I am really curious what Prince Long Qing's fiancee looks like because I have always wondered, is there a woman in this world who won't feel inferior when she sees Prince Long Qing's perfect face?”
Mo Shanshan gently put the brush on a shelf and turned around by touching the board with her hand. She slightly tilted her head to look at him and asked, ”Have you seen Prince Long Qing?”
”Even if I have not seen him before, I have heard of him. Everybody knows that His Highness is the most beautiful man in the world.”
After finis.h.i.+ng this sentence, Ning Que found that the young girl was still staring at him. He knew that she did not believe this. So he had no other choice but to raise his hands and said smilingly, ”Well, I admit that I did see him.”
Mo Shanshan quietly looked at him and secretly thought of something. Her eyesight, which had been quiet like a rippling lake in autumn, suddenly became bright. She slightly moved her lips and wanted to ask, but finally did not do it. She seemed to be a little uneasy.
Perhaps in order to hide her uneasiness in the previous moment, she slightly bowed and slightly blinked her eyelashes. Then she put her hands on her lap to sit back and spoke about another thing. ”You have a.n.a.lyzed that the target of that Horse Gang wasn't forage, but me. In fact, their goal should have been you.”
She looked up at Ning Que as if looking at the Wilderness view outside of the window behind him and seriously said, ”I very clearly saw the picture behind the fire wall. They have prepared to kill you.”
She still did not ask the question that she had wanted to ask. But Ning Que knew she had long been suspicious of his ident.i.ty. It made him feel a little grateful when she did not directly ask this question. However, at this time he still hesitated when to tell those Great River Kingdom girls about his true ident.i.ty. So he did not know how to answer her.
When they mentioned the fire block in the battle yesterday, he remembered that horrifying hollow that the Half Divine Talisman had stricken on the fire wall. He said, ”At that time I thought it was the last burning Fire Talisman you could display and later you would be too exhausted to display the simplest Talisman Taoism. I never expected you had hidden your last magical attack.”
Mo Shanshan suddenly leaned her body forward and very seriously bowed to him. Then she whispered, ”Thanks to Senior Brother for your fighting advice the day before yesterday. Shanshan appreciated it very much.”
Ning Que was startled and remembered a few days ago that he had very severely reprimanded her by saying that she was a woman who did not understand fighting and did not know about leaving the most powerful forces for the most crucial moment. At that time, he had not completely guessed her ident.i.ty. At this moment, when he thought he was actually teaching a Calligraphy Addict how to fight, he could not help feeling somewhat proud.
”Anyway, thanks to your Half Divine Talisman, we could survive.”
At that time, he had been in a critical situation and had not had a clear feeling about that earth-shattering Divine Talisman. However, he thought deeply and thoughtfully last night, and he found this female Talisman Master opposite him to be more and more amazing.
It was not a remarkable thing to cultivate in five states and cross states to challenge others. As Chen Pipi had said, based on his cultivation qualification, even if he entered the Knowing Destiny State, he was also the weakest one in the Knowing Destiny State in history. If there were no other tricks, any strong man in the Seethrough State could try to cross the state to challenge or even kill him.
However, the state was the state. Mo Shanshan actually still stayed in the state of Seethrough. At that time, however, she was actually able to display Infinitive Talisman that only a Divine Talisman Master could exert. This fact made Ning Que deeply shocked and extremely puzzled.
Master Yan Se judged that he was the world's most hard-fought Talisman Taoism genius. But when Ning Que looked at this white-clothed girl in front of him, who was quietly kneeling with her hands on her knees as well as her beautiful calm cheeks, he unexpectedly had an unconfident mentality.
”Master, didn't you choose me for knowing that the world's most talented Talisman Taoism successor was taken away by the Master of Calligrapher? What you have done only makes your disciple shameful.”
Of course, Mo Shanshan could not guess Ning Que's psychological activity at this time and even did not know that he was complaining about one of the most respected Divine Talisman Masters and bemoaning his own fate. She held her hands together to bow and conscientiously asked, ”Senior Brother Zhong...”
Ning Que woke up and carefully corrected her. ”I said you could call me Thirteen.”
Mo Shanshan was startled and thought this name sounded somewhat awkward. After a moment of hesitation, she shyly said, ”Senior Brother... Thirteen, I want to ask you something.”
Ning Que saw her serious and conscientious facial expression. He did not know what she was about to ask, but he set his mind and greeted her with a bow with hands folded in front. He said, ”Go ahead, please.”