Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Chapter 23 Selling a Girl for Dan?

Qianjian Lake.

A young girl tugged at Jiang Qingyu's arm, smiling playfully, not caring about her image as a famous lady.

Not far from the side, several young handsome men who were in love with the girl were not angry when they saw this scene. Instead, they all clasped their fists to salute Jiang Qingyu and showed friendly smiles.

"I've seen the fourth son."

Jiang Qingyu had no choice but to smile apologetically at a few people, and then patted the girl on the head lovingly:
"Qing Meng, didn't you go to the south of the Yangtze River with your master who claimed to be the second heroine in the world?"

"When did you come back?"

The girl named Qingmeng is the Sixth Miss of the Wangfu and Jiang Qingyu's half-sister.

King Rejecting the North had six children.

On the day of each child's full moon, a lottery will be arranged, and they will be named after the objects caught.

At that time, the eldest son grasped a book, so it was named Qingshu, and the second son grasped a sword, so it was named Qingjian.

The third daughter, Jiang Qingzhu, grabbed a pair of bamboo chopsticks.

The fourth son, Jiang Qingyu, grabbed an official seal made of jade.

The fifth daughter, Jiang Qingyin, grabbed a lyre.

When it was the sixth daughter's turn, she was not interested in anything, and instead grabbed Jiang Qingyu who was drowsy beside her, so she named it Qingmeng.

Unlike Jiang Qingyu who sleeps in the Ziyan courtyard all day long, Jiang Qingmeng has practiced martial arts diligently since she was a child. When she was five years old, she joined a female hero who was born in the second-rank Haoyue realm. Since she was eight years old, she has been with her master everywhere. Traveling, only returning to the palace at the end of the year.

But now there is a full month and a half before the end of the new year, logically speaking, she shouldn't have come back so early?

"Fourth brother, I came back five days ago!"

Jiang Qingmeng shook Jiang Qingyu's arm, aggrieved:

"It's just that when I came here, my mother took me to the Buddha statue to eat fast and recite scriptures, saying that I was going to get rid of the murder on my body. My mother kept staring at me and didn't allow me to sneak out or touch the sword. It's so annoying. Already!"

"Fortunately, my father ordered the whole family to go to the north gate to pick up my second brother yesterday, so I was relieved."

Jiang Qingyu nodded slightly.

Jiang Qingmeng's biological mother is the fourth wife of the royal family, Mrs. Jin, who usually lives in a simple way, devotes herself to Buddha, and has no sense of existence.

Jin stubbornly believed that the reason why King Jubei’s condition worsened year by year was that too many murders were caused in the early years, so she made a wish in front of the Buddha, willing to serve the Buddha for the rest of her life, eating fast and chanting Buddha every day, in exchange for King Jubei’s sick body get well.

But obviously, her persistence for more than ten years did not impress the Buddha.

"Are these friends you made outside?"

"Why don't you introduce me?"

Jiang Qingyu looked at several handsome young men.

Among the brothers and sisters, apart from the eldest brother Jiang Qingshu, only the younger sister Jiang Qingmeng has a relatively close relationship with him, so he is also willing to make friends with the younger sister's friends.

"Ah, them?"

"They come from several hermit sects, and they were invited to participate in the winter hunting in half a month."

Jiang Qingmeng didn't seem to want to make more introductions, but put on a gesture of chasing them away:

"Hey, you guys go first, I want to catch up with my fourth brother!"

The young people were very knowledgeable and didn't bother much, they clasped their fists to salute Jiang Qingyu and left Qianjian Lake.

After the few people had left, Jiang Qingmeng couldn't help but snorted and complained:

"These people were all invited by Erniang, and it was Erniang who wrote to tell me that my father is seriously ill, so I will come back a month early."

"But after I came back, I realized that I had been calculated by someone. My father's condition was under control, and I could even get out of bed, put on my armor and ride a horse to blow the cold wind outside the north gate for several hours, but Erniang insisted that my father Not long after the king's order, he also appointed me to entertain the disciples of those hermit sects, and there was a vague meaning in his words to force me to marry."

"Hmph, I want to be the number one heroine in the world, so I don't want to get married!"

"..."

Jiang Qingyu frowned slightly.

Marrying with a hermit sect?
Wouldn't it be for the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir?

But how could he be reduced to the point of selling his daughter for alchemy by rejecting the status and power of King Bei under Chu State alone?

and……

Didn't the father's condition suddenly deteriorate this morning? Why did Erniang call Qingmeng back five or six days ago?

"You met your father outside the north gate yesterday. How is he doing?"

Jiang Qingmeng thought about it:
"Father looks very energetic. Wearing heavy armor and riding a strong horse, he looks tall and straight in the cold wind. He doesn't look seriously ill at all. In addition, at yesterday's banquet, the second brother asked father to help the Prince Beidi cut off the iron chains that bound his hands and feet, and I saw my father draw his sword out of its sheath and swing it four times, and the iron chains snapped!"

"By the way, fourth brother, you didn't go to the banquet yesterday, father didn't blame you, did you?"

Jiang Qingyu shook her head.

At the same time, the mood sank to the bottom.

With the martial arts cultivation of the third rank of the Xiantian King of the North, it would not take a second sword to cut off a few iron chains.

It seems that the father is really seriously ill.

Yesterday, I struggled to get up and went to the north gate to show my face in public, just to appease people's hearts.

"Qing Meng, when the disciples of the hidden world sect communicated with you, did they mention any words like 'Nine Turns Golden Pill'?"

"Fourth brother..."

Jiang Qingmeng lowered her head with tears in her eyes:

"You also think it's worth exchanging me for a pill, don't you?"

Before Jiang Qingyu could speak, she continued:
"Actually, it's not that I don't understand anything. My father loves me so much on weekdays, but yesterday when Erniang asked me to entertain some young guests in front of him, he didn't stop me at all."

"From that moment on, I understood that my father might really not be able to last for too long."

"He needs a golden pill to continue his life, and the palace also needs a golden pill to continue to be the master of the three northern states."

"I know that the children of powerful families cannot decide their own marriages at birth. Even the daughters of the emperor of Chu state can't escape the fate of marriage."

"But I really don't want to marry a man I don't like."

Jiang Qingyu sighed, patted the little girl on the shoulder, and comforted her:

"You're only 17 years old, and you have two older sisters, so it's not your turn to get married."

"Besides, Fourth Brother won't let you marry into the Hidden World Sect. I'm not familiar with the place where I lived, and I didn't even have time to bring tens of thousands of cavalry to vent your anger on you when Qing Meng was bullied!"

"Pfft-"

When Jiang Qingmeng heard this, he immediately laughed.

She held Jiang Qingyu's arm without letting go, and said with her mouth crooked:

"It would be great if the fourth brother could be the next King of Rejecting the North, then I can walk sideways in the rivers and lakes, and bring back to the palace to raise any little boy I like, and come back and ask you to borrow tens of thousands of elite soldiers to find him if I am bullied." Back to the scene."

Jiang Qingyu joked:

"Little girl is not very old, but she is not too bold!"

Jiang Qingmeng pouted, unwilling to be convinced, but did not refute.

The two brothers and sisters stood by the lake, and no one spoke for a moment.

Suddenly, there are sparse snowflakes falling from the top of the head.

"Fourth brother, it's snowing."

Jiang Qingmeng suddenly said sadly:

"Fourth brother, just last year, my master who claimed to be the second heroine in the world took me to the capital, and it was also on such a snowy day that she fell in love with a powerless scholar." .”

"In the spring of this year, she rented a simple house in the capital, buried the famous sword in the ground, picked up a kitchen knife and learned to cook."

"She said she doesn't want to be the second heroine in the world anymore, she just wants to be a scholar's wife."

"I didn't understand it at first."

"But I saw that she had a happy smile on her face after seeing the scholar every day, and I thought of her expression of bitterness and hatred when she met everyone in the past, but I also felt that there was nothing wrong with being a scholar's wife. "

"Fourth brother, before coming back this time, the master has already severed the master-student relationship with me."

"after……"

"Only you can protect me."

(End of this chapter)