"You're still laughing!" Xue Yao protested sternly, "Your Highness just said you don't want to see me, so why are you still chasing me?"
"Just now is just now, now I want to see." Lu Qian had the roguish look of a prodigal son of the jungle.
Xue Yao was choked for a moment, not realizing that the rebel pup had actually learned to weasel!
But this sophistry hides Lu Qian's show of weakness, more than ten years together, let Xue Yao know clearly when he can be bullying and arrogant tail, such as the little fat cubs show weakness.
Once upon a time, there were obvious signs of weakness, such as when he switched his title from "master" to "son".
Once upon a time, let the little fat kid more than once the calligraphy, he will certainly make conditions, said "master again eat a cake", to the time when the meal is not full, he will say "I'm still hungry", very good to recognize the mood.
Now that the child had grown up, he wasn't the chubby little paperweight he once was, but Xue Yao could still sense his emotions in his words and tone.
Lu Qian's every move and every look had melted into his life, beating together with his pulse and connecting with his heartbeat.
That's why Xue Yao's answer about "not wanting to see" just now made her heart flutter, and she didn't let Lu Qian's show of weakness go easily, fiercely saying, "I'm not something that Your Highness can see just because you want to see me! If Your Highness says you don't want to see me, I'll disappear immediately!"
Lu Qian frankly reminded, "At your speed, Master can still see you for a while."
"I can run fast too!" Xue Yao issued a threat with little credibility.
"Master is faster." Lu Qian averted his eyes from the little companion's face and looked toward the far end of the alley.
"From here," Lu Qian raised his hand, pointing to the end of the alley, his long sleeve brought up a strong wind, "to the Renxiang Gate, you count to ten, master can run through." He looked back at Xue Yao, his gaze was provocative: "Believe it or not?"
Xue Yao realized that the little fat cub's aura had become somewhat similar to the Ning King in the original story.
I wonder if the force level is similar to the original as well.
So Xue Yao asked expectantly, "Dozens of strokes and you can run that far?"
Lu Qian hooked the corner of his lips with a small smug look, "This is the one year or so to practice this body of lightweight skills."
The little fat kid is actually learning to be humble?
Never before has there been a high end way of communicating!
Xue Yao picked up in surprise, "How could you only learn lightness? I've heard it all from King Rui, Your Highness was at the Temple of Heaven that day and smashed a hidden arrow with a snap of your fingers, as if you could shoot stone cannonballs from your hands!"
"That arrow was indeed broken by a stone." Lu Qian pulled out a two-inch long copper tube from his sleeve and handed it to Xue Yao to see.
Xue Yao took the copper pipe suddenly handed by the little fat cub, thought it was some kind of mini flute xiao or other musical instruments, fumbled for a while, found that the end seemed to be able to move, so he tried to press it ......
Lu Qian on the opposite side instantly gripped his wrist and flung it to the side.
"With a thud, the stone cannonball that had almost struck Lu Qian's body was knocked into the palace wall to the side.
Xue Yao's face went white with fear as he looked at the little fat cub with his mouth open, "This is a concealed weapon? Why did Your Highness suddenly bring me a concealed weapon?"
"That's what broke the arrow." Lu Qian explained.
This copper pipe, a unique concealed weapon of the Green Dragon Sect, had a launching mechanism at the back end and could hold three stone bullets inside.
The power of the concealed weapon is not bad, and if the distance is close, it can penetrate leather armor, but not iron armor.
"Then at least make it clear before you give it to me!" Xue Yao had just almost hurt his own cub!
So, Lu Qian gave him an explanation of the concealed weapon construction.
Xue Yao frowned in confusion, he thought that Little Fatty Pup didn't need a concealed weapon to injure someone now, but instead used his internal energy to condense into sword qi like in the original, killing people invisibly!
Could it be that ...... the little fat cub was not being modest when he just said that he had practiced lightness in just over a year?
Is it really still a straight pup?
"Your Highness really ...... only practiced lightness?" Xue Yao asked in astonishment.
"And the introductory kung fu of the Sword Sect and the Green Dragon Sect." Lu Qian replied.
"Is Your Highness being lazy?" Xue Yao narrowed his eyes in question.
Lu Qian slanted him a glance, "Master almost died of exhaustion."
Xue Yao didn't believe that the original King Ning's one year of martial arts progress was definitely more than just lightness, "That day on the boat, the Sword Saint said that Your Highness would be able to practice at least superior lightness and a set of swordsmanships within a year, and Your Highness has now been practicing for a year and five months."
Lu Qian gave a tired look.
For the first two months of this year or so, Lu Qian unsuccessfully searched for the King of Khitan.
After a month, secretly back to the capital, noticed that the nine door governor changed, so did not return to the palace, from the northern townships to find out the situation in the dynasty is critical, and then out of the capital to return to the white line mountain.
During this period, he secretly sneaked back into the palace six times one after another.
Afterwards, he ran around in five places in Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei and Henan, lobbying the feudal lords.
Lu Qian's lightweight skills were practiced in the midst of this mass of cobwebby action, taking time out of the day just to be able to secretly enter and leave the palace in a relatively safe manner.
In fact, a year ago did not find the king of the Khitan, Lu Qian was planning to return to the palace after sulking for a few days beside his master, only because the situation in the palace was unfavorable to his elder brother, which reminded Lu Qian of his own encounters under house arrest in the barracks by his third brother, so he returned to White Row Mountain to think long and hard.
At that time, His Highness was so proud that he asked the two masters how long they had practiced their sword skills to be able to take the head of Sango's dog from a thousand soldiers.
The Sword Saint said, "With your qualifications it's easy, eight years will be enough.
Eight years is too long, said His Highness immediately, so let's first learn a kung fu that won't let a thousand armies catch up with His Lordship.
So choose the light power.
Over the past year, in addition to learning an out-of-this-world lightweight skill, Lu Qian also learned things that were not taught in the Sage's book, or rather, found that the truths written in the book about how to deal with the world simply did not work when dealing with things.
When there was no imperial status, no endless silver to spend, and no absolute force, those military generals and civil ministers who had once claimed to be loyal to the king and serve the country, and even blood relatives of the feudal lords, did not talk to His Highness about the rules of etiquette and righteousness.
Most of them only talk about interests, and will be dressed in a variety of grandiose disguise, the reasoning in the book of the sages, have become their camouflage of their own coat, so that Lu Qian almost wasted half of the time to bump into each other everywhere, bumped through the head, only to bump off the human heart outside the layer of gorgeous thick shell, saw the ugly inside.
During this period, Lu Qian has also contacted the big brother as a clean and unblemished true gentleman, these people eat the king's salary and loyal to the king's affairs, because of Lu Qian's orthodox status of the Crown Prince, at all costs to raise money to the army, but ultimately became a short-lived ghost.
The ones who survived instead were the hypocrites.
Children who grew up under the protection of Xue Yao were not fit to face such a dirty reality head on, especially those who had just experienced the loss of their father.
Yao Yao and his brothers will leave anytime suddenly like their father, because only the hypocrites can "win", which makes Lu Qian feel meaningless.
Lu Qian's indifferent eyes made Xue Yao wonder what the little fat cub had done in the past year or so.
There's no reason why you can lose weight successfully if you're lazy in martial arts practice, right?
Could it be that bad old man Sword Saint didn't feed his pups enough?
Damn ......
Old Five and Old Six also ran over, asking Xue Yao's seventh brother with their eyes what kind of evil he had been hit by, and how he had become so fierce after coming back from learning kung fu for a year.
Xue Yao was just about to ease the atmosphere between the three brothers when he saw the rebellious pup in front of him suddenly dodge and scurry behind him.
This usually happens when His Highness encounters a danger that he can't cope with, such as meeting Sango when he was young, or being caught by Princess Shio when stealing pastries ......
Xue Yao turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw Princess Shi Shi walking over with a gloomy face.
As Shiofei approached, Xue Yao was lifted up as a shield by the rebel pups on the ground behind him, and set upright, facing directly in Shiofei's direction.
"Since Your Highness has rebuffed this palace's summons, this palace has no choice but to pay a visit in person." Consort Shi coolly turned on death warning mode to the unfilial pup behind Xue Yao.
Ungrateful pups pretending to be dead.
Xue Yao was forced to intercept Consort Shi's anger and laughed, "Recently, the Tong family's rebellion was first pacified, and the Emperor and King Rui have many matters that Your Highness needs to assist in agreeing on, and Your Highness has only just returned to the Southern Three."
"Is that so?" Consort Shi gritted her teeth and stepped forward, yanking her son out from behind Xue Yao as she questioned, "I want to ask more than just what Your Highness has been busy with these past few days, but also what Your Highness has been so busy with for more than a year that you're so busy that you're forgetting about this palace, aren't you?"
"Seventh brother is going to White Walking Mountain to learn martial arts from a high ranking person!" Although Old Six was saddened by the indifference of Seventh Brother, at the critical moment, he still instinctively stood up to defend his younger brother, "The Sword Sage, whom no one in the jianghu world knows about, is Seventh Brother's master, and if he hadn't learnt the Sword Sage's kung fu, Seventh Brother wouldn't have been able to make such a great achievement, breaking through the obstacles of the Tong Family's rebels, and rescuing Older Brother and Second Brother from tens of thousands of forbidden troops!"
Princess Shio froze and asked Lu Qian in surprise, "Did you break down the city gates?"
Lu Qian looked at the sixth brother who was bragging blindly, and then looked at the murderous aura in his mother consort's eyes, hesitated for a split second, but still pretended to nod his head.
"Effortless!" Old Five also left no stone unturned in praising his brother.
Xue Yao, who already understood the strength of the little fat cub, waved his hand straight at the five cubs, telling him not to blow it!
Princess Shio would be skeptical, narrowing her eyes and asking her son, "What sword skills has the Sword Saint handed you? How powerful is it?"
Lu Qian thought about it, and bragged in order to save his life, "White Tiger Nine Swords, the first sword can accurately pierce a falling leaf, the second sword can pierce an apple, the third sword ...... pumpkin or something, that s it, it s getting more and more powerful."
When she heard that her son had spent a year learning how to stab pumpkins, Princess Shio's amiable look on her face was about to be strained, and a murderous aura began to spread.
"Hahahahahahahaha!" The Fifth Prince suddenly laughed out loud, "Old Seven is getting more and more amusing, Your Highness don't be annoyed, he's joking with you!"
The Sixth Prince also chimed in, "The martial arts of the Sword Saint is enough to sweep through thousands of troops, if Seventh Brother were to sweep through with one sword, no one would survive within three feet! Without practicing such a good skill, how can he dare to return to the capital to deal with the Tong family traitors!"
Xue Yao lowered his head and closed his eyes in despair.
Princess Shio was shocked and asked her son with wide eyes, "Really?"
Lu Qian's brows furrowed as he nodded with difficulty.
Concubine Shio drew in a breath of cold air, practically worshipping a bit, "So it's like this, I thought you've been playing wild outside this year, it's mother consort who misunderstood you!"
Lu Qian lowered his head and waved his hand, prevaricating in a deep voice, "It's fine, in the future, ask less about sword practice."
Concubine Shi looked at her promising son happily, "I see, then you compare a few moves, let mother consort see."
"No way." His Highness categorically refused.
"It's too dangerous." Xue Yao covered for Lu Qian, "The sword qi is too sufficient, the Empress will be injured, it's not convenient to gather around."
Princess Shio: "I can stand away from you."