Chapter 44 Chapter 44 Mysterious Palace of the Five Elements

Baoyu laughed and said, "Isn't it good to ask you?" The little princess smiled and said, "Are you trying to please me? You..." Before she finished speaking, she suddenly straightened her face again, and said coldly: "In front of me, sometimes you try to dominate and overwhelm me in every way, and sometimes you pretend to be an idiot, as if you don't understand anything... you Why is that? When I was a child?" Baoyu stared at her blankly, then sighed softly: "It's a pity that you are no longer the child who likes to arrange flowers... If you were still a child, how wonderful... how wonderful..."

The little princess's bright eyes suddenly flashed, her slender fingertips trembled suddenly, and her bud-like cherry lips moved several times, as if she wanted to say something. But she just gritted her teeth and rushed forward. Sang, the harvest has passed. Baoyu and the little princess flew among the branches of the mulberry forest without making any sound, and Li Mingsheng, who was lying on the ground, didn't realize that someone had come behind him. Even if there were voices from the little princess and Baoyu, he would not have heard them, because he was currently listening intently to the voices coming from behind the hillside ahead.

As the wind blew past, there were vague sounds of sword clashes and swearing from behind the hillside, and the strangest thing was mixed with girls' charming laughter and applause. These several kinds of sounds should never have been made at the same time, but now they are made at the same time. The mixture of several sounds seems indescribably strange and mysterious. The little princess and Baoyu looked at each other, really unable to guess what happened behind the hillside.Although the murderous look in that voice had been diluted by the charming smile, it was even more curious. Li Mingsheng was obviously also confused, and he stretched out his hand to scratch his head from time to time, but finally his curiosity overcame his fear, and he crawled forward quietly.

Hillsides, miscellaneous forests, there are naturally no shortage of hiding places. When Li Mingsheng hid himself, the little princess and Baoyu also hid. The hills stretch out strangely.There is an open space behind the hillside, which seems to be a recreational place for mulberry picking girls to pick fruits. Therefore, this land is full of girls' innocence and dreams - there is a small pavilion on the east side of this place, with red painted railings and green pillars. To the west of this place is a small stage—there may be the same number of people singing and watching the opera, so there is not much space left in front of the stage for others to watch the opera.Their plays seem to be played for themselves.

To the south of here are several stone benches and two stone tables, one stone table seems to be engraved with a chessboard, while the other stone table is full of fruits. What about the north? To the north is the Great Wall—a Great Wall apparently built by some children with sand, mud, pebbles, and broken bricks. It also has delicate battlements, movable gates, and clay sculptures of horses and camels. There are several generals in red clothes and soldiers in green clothes. Here, it should be full of innocent joy and innocent fantasy. However, at this moment, there are sword lights and murderous aura flying here.

The little princess and Baoyu looked over secretly, both surprised and amused. I saw 13 or 14 girls dressed as village girls sitting on the stone benches in the thatched pavilion or even on the stage, with a dozen pairs of big eyes constantly turning around. In the open space in between, there are two people fighting viciously, both of them are not weak in martial arts, they can be regarded as first-class masters in martial arts. One of the two wields the twin swords of mandarin ducks, the light of the swords is flying, swift and fierce, even Fang Baoyu, who is still several feet away, can feel the compelling sword aura.

The other person is using a long staff, the staff is like a wandering dragon, the sky is unpredictable, and the sharp twin swords don't seem to take advantage of it. Although the swift shadow of the sword, light and staff almost completely engulfed the figures of the two, Baoyu and the little princess could still distinguish their figures. The little princess' eyes widened immediately, and she whispered in surprise, "So it was her." Baoyu said: "I haven't seen you for seven years. I don't want her to appear here." The little princess said: "Who said we won't see each other in seven years, I still see her on Mount Tai."

Baoyu said: "You are talking about Mrs. Wan, but I am talking about another one." The little princess said: "The other one? Who is the other one? Do you recognize it too?" Baoyu said: "There is a long story about this person's origin. I can only tell you that her name is Aunt Wang, and she is the wife of Wang Banxia. Let's talk about other things slowly!" The little princess opened her eyes even wider, and murmured: "Wang Banxia?...Aunt Wang...how could she fight with Mrs. Wan again...Why hasn't Mrs. Wan returned to the White Water Palace?"

Baoyu was surprised this time, and said in surprise, "Madam Wan? White Water Palace?" The little princess said: "Old Mrs. Wan has probably been... bought by your mother-in-law." Baoyu was silent for a while, then said: "That's right, Mrs. Wan is already a subordinate of Baishui Palace, and she doesn't want me to go to Baishui Palace. The person who met Li Mingsheng here must be her." The little princess said: "That's right...huh! Why did you suddenly become smart again?" Baoyu laughed and said, "I'm not stupid at all." The little princess gritted her teeth and said, "You..."

The voices of the two of them were naturally extremely soft, and when they spoke softly, the distance between the two of them was naturally extremely close.The little princess said these two words, and suddenly found that Baoyu's ear was next to her lips. She felt her teeth itch and couldn't help but bite down. The bite was really hard, and Baoyu was so painful that he broke out in a cold sweat, but here, he could neither shout nor move, he could only hold back. Although the bite was heavy, Baoyu didn't feel angry in his heart, because he already felt that the bite was hate, but also love.

Not seeing each other for seven years, Aunt Wang has improved a lot in martial arts. What she used to use was a pair of crutches in the past, but now the essence of crutches is mixed in the two swords of mandarin ducks, pointing, chopping, twisting, cutting, spicy, swift and vicious. Gradually, the whirling sword light surrounded the long staff. Mrs. Wan didn't even have the time to pick out plums to eat, so she must scold people. She is used to scolding men, but she can't swear at women for a while. Those young girls kept clapping and laughing coquettishly, cheering for Aunt Wang, and some kept throwing fruit stones and peels at Mrs. Wan. Some people simply sang: "Yuanyou is a rolling ball, roll here to make a fool of yourself, even if you have three hands, you will have to leave when you see my aunt." Laughing, singing, cursing, and throwing the peel—although the peel could not be thrown on Mrs. Wan, it was enough to drive her mad with anger. Baoyu is secretly funny. This time Mrs. Wan has met the top guy. I saw Mrs. Wan hitting more and more urgently, the more urgent her moves became, the more chaotic she was, and she finally yelled: "Smelly woman, stinky cripple, I didn't kill your father, and I didn't rob you of your husband. What kind of hatred do you have with me? Really! It's like trying to fight my wife." Aunt Wang said coldly: "Whoever fights with you, I just want your life." Mrs. Wan said: "Do you know who my old lady is?" Aunt Wang said: "If I don't know who you are, I don't want your life." Mrs. Wan said: "You know me, what hatred do you have with me?" Aunt Wang chattered and said, "Guess what?" Both of her legs are crippled. In the past, when the mother and child were crutches, they used crutches as legs and took turns doing postures. The mandarin duck twin swords she is using at this moment are not known to be much lighter than the two crutches, and the lightness and strangeness of her movement at this moment are not known to be much stronger than those in previous years. Mrs. Wan wanted to distract her from what she was saying, so that she could take the opportunity to win, or at least escape, but she didn't know that other people's hearts were not disturbed, but she herself was confused first, and shouted loudly: "I can't guess...guess no." The little princess said: "Do you know what hatred Aunt Wang has with Mrs. Wan?" She seemed to be apologetic to Baoyu, and when she saw that Baoyu stopped talking, she asked something. Baoyu was smiling in his heart, and murmured in his mouth, "I'm afraid it's because of Wan Daxia." The little princess said: "Look at this Aunt Wang's martial arts, she has been able to put Mrs. Wan to death several times, but she hasn't done it for a long time. This...why is this?" Baoyu said: "The intention is to capture alive, not to take life." The little princess said: "By the way, she captured Mrs. Wan alive, so she can lure Wan Ziliang here, but..." Suddenly hearing Mrs. Wan's exclamation, her left shoulder was cut with blood. A stream of fresh blood flowed out, and her shoulders were immediately stained red, but this was only because she was full of blood, so she bled more. Anyone can see that this wound is by no means fatal. Unexpectedly, when Mrs. Wan saw the blood, her face immediately showed horror and her body seemed to go limp. With a sound of "dang", the long staff also fell to the ground. This came as a big surprise to everyone, but they didn't know that Mrs. Wan bullied the weak and feared evil all her life, and when she met someone stronger than her, she seldom made a move. Even if she used her hands, she could still get out of the body with old and cunning means, so although her hands were stained with other people's blood, she had never seen her own blood. She fainted from the shock of her own blood. Baoyu looked at it and felt angry and funny. The little princess sighed: "If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, I'm afraid no one can compare to her." I saw that Mrs. Wang seemed to be startled for a while, but she still didn't stop at all, the tip of the sword trembled, and hit three acupoints on the back of Mrs. Wan's shoulder one after another. Mrs. Wan cursed: "Smelly and disabled!" Before he finished cursing this sentence, he turned over and fell. But after she fell down, she scolded even more fiercely, she really scolded everything.When it comes to the ability to curse people, very few people can match her. Aunt Wang turned over in the air and landed lightly on a soft bag. A girl immediately fetched a blanket and covered her legs. The two girls raised their soft pockets and said, "But you want to kill that meat ball?" Aunt Wang said: "No busy, take it back first." Suddenly a person came out with a smile, it was Li Mingsheng. This time Baoyu was even more surprised: "He didn't make an appointment with Mrs. Wan." Seeing that Mrs. Wan was also obviously taken aback, she lost her voice and said, "You...your grandson turned out to be in the same party as this stinky woman." Li Mingsheng said with a smile: "Don't worry about me being one party and two parties. Anyway, what you want me to do, I actually do it for you. What else can you complain about?" Baoyu was speechless, and he was also confused. The girls smiled coquettishly and hugged her. Some of them carried Mrs. Wan with all their might, while others lifted Li Mingsheng's shoulders, as if they knew him very well. Only a girl laughed and said, "Have you seen Fang Baoyu?" Li Mingsheng smiled and said, "Of course I saw it." Then someone laughed again: "Is he really handsome? Is his martial arts really high?" Li Mingsheng smiled and said, "What are you asking? If you ask again, people won't be interested in you. Tell you, there are no good things for little boys, it's better to be older." The girls laughed and scolded: "It's still good, isn't it? Shame or shame, you old coquettish." A group of people actually flirted and went away with a charming smile. Fang Baoyu stood there in a daze, completely stunned. It turned out that Li Mingsheng had been with Aunt Wang all these years, seeing these young girls and his indecent appearance, their relationship must be unclear. But how could these girls know me! "What tricks are Li Mingsheng and Aunt Wang playing? If they intended to harm me, how could they let me go so easily?" "If they have no intention of harming me, why are they trying so hard to lie to me?" The little princess sneered and said, "Fang Baoyu, I didn't expect you to be famous not only for your martial arts, but also for your handsome looks. If people inquire about you like this, it must be because they like you. Are you happy?" Baoyu was absent-minded, and said casually, "Yes!" The little princess said: "Huh, what? Talk!" Baoyu didn't hear what she said, so he stood up suddenly and said, "Go!" The little princess said: "Go? Where are you going? Go after them?" Baoyu said: "Yes, chase them and save Mrs. Wan." The little princess said: "Save her? Why do you want to save her?" Baoyu said: "One is Wan Daxia, and the other is to find out the truth." Before the words were finished, the person flew out. The little princess naturally followed.The goal of that group of people was really too big, they could easily catch up, but Baoyu just followed far behind. The little princess said: "Why don't you catch up?" Baoyu said, "Let's see where they are going first." In the hills, among the dense forests, there is actually a trail. The secret at the end of this path is extremely secret, if someone who doesn't know the way, even if they search for three to five months, they will never be able to find it, so a group of people walked in from this path. After walking for about half a cup of tea, the sight suddenly opened up—there was a strange cave inside, a beautiful basin surrounded by low hills. Looking around, I can see many kinds of unknown flowers blooming all around. At this moment, it is autumn and the flowers have faded, but the flowers here are not desolate at all. Reflected by the starry night, the flowers seem like Covered in smoke, it is even more graceful. There is a stream among the flowers, and there are small and exquisite thatched huts beside the stream. A group of people walked into the hut lively and happily, only the endless night shrouded the flowers in the smoke and the silver creek. But Baoyu was still hesitating in the dense forest. He was amazed by the beauty of the scenery here, and even more amazed by the fact that Wang Da Niang has not only made a comeback in the past few years, but also seems to be better than before. This woman seems to be not to be underestimated. Since it should not be underestimated, he would not dare to act rashly, he would inevitably hesitate and consider it. The little princess went straight out. Baoyu hurriedly said, "Wait a minute." The little princess didn't even look back, she said, "Now that you're here, what are you waiting for?" Baoyu said: "This..." The little princess said: "Since you want to rescue Mrs. Wan and find out the truth, sooner or later you will have to face her face to face. Why don't you just go in openly at this moment." Baoyu pondered for a while, then sighed, "This is also reasonable." The words were reasonable, and naturally followed the little princess out. The two walked through the flowers, and suddenly heard a soft call from the flowers: "The guest is here." Baoyu was taken aback again, but saw a parrot flying out from among the flowers, spreading its emerald green wings and flying towards the hut, still calling incessantly: "The guest is here... The guest is here." The little princess giggled and said, "I don't want a bird to almost scare Fang Daxia." Baoyu could only smile wryly, but seeing three young girls running out of the thatched hut across the winding red bridge, he said with a coquettish smile, "Where are the guests?" Before finishing a sentence, when they saw Fang Baoyu, the three of them stopped, the smiles on their faces disappeared, and their six eyes stared at Baoyu. Baoyu coughed dryly and said, "Miss, please." A girl with a round face said loudly, "Who are you? What are you here for?" Although her voice was loud, she pretended to be delicate on purpose. Although there was surprise in her eyes, there was also a hint of a smile. Because of such a beautiful boy, they are still very rare. On the contrary, Baoyu felt a little embarrassed by them, clasped his fists and said with a smile: "My servant..." The little princess suddenly said coldly: "Are you here for a blind date, or are you looking for trouble?" Baoyu blushed, and the girl said, "What trouble are you looking for?" When she spoke to the little princess, her voice became louder, and her arms were crossed. The little princess said: "He is Fang Baoyu, who came to ask for someone from you." The three girls exclaimed in unison, "Fang Baoyu." The three of them twisted their waists and ran back together, but while running, they still couldn't forget to look back, and everyone couldn't help but look at Fang Baoyu more. Then, a series of shouts and exclamations were heard from the hut. The little princess pushed Baoyu and said, "Why are you still in a daze, go inside!" Baoyu had no choice but to stride over. Although it looks beautiful from the outside, the thatched hut must be full of ambushes and murderous intentions, Baoyu is on guard all over, so how dare she be careless in the slightest.But the little princess was doing nothing, she didn't seem to have seen this Mrs. Wang who should not be underestimated at all, and her whole body was unguarded. The hut was originally dimly lit. But at this moment, the lights in the windows of each thatched hut suddenly brightened, reflecting the sparkling stream, and Baoyu walked on the bridge, as if walking in a river of stars. At this time, Mrs. Wang's voice also came from the hut. She said with a smile: "The honored guest is here, forgive me for being disabled and unable to welcome you from afar, please come in quickly, and let this concubine have tea." Baoyu said in a deep voice, "Baoyu obeys." The more Mrs. Wang spoke, the more polite she became, the more wary he became in his heart - he had already tasted the taste of hiding a knife in a smile, how could he be fooled. The door of the thatched hut was wide open, and beside the door, the girls were poking their heads and peeping—what kind of powerful hidden weapons were hidden in their hands? Baoyu suddenly swept in like a light smoke. At this moment, he has spread his true energy to all directions.He is confident that no matter how powerful the conspiracy in the hut is, it will be difficult to hurt him. But how can there be any conspiracy in the hut? In this surprisingly delicate hut, there is a warm and sweet atmosphere everywhere, which is intoxicating, and there is no murderous intention. Under the bright light, Aunt Wang was leaning on the brocade couch with a smile on her face. Although the girl was holding something in her hand, she only bitten half of the melon and fruit instead of a hidden weapon. Fang Baoyu, who was facing a great enemy, saw this scene, but felt a little embarrassed, coughed dryly, clasped his fists and smiled and said, "Does Aunt Wang still recognize Fang Baoyu?" Aunt Wang smiled coquettishly, "How could I not recognize you? Apart from Fang Baoyu, where else in the world is there another young man who is so handsome and cute?" When the master praised him so much, the girls giggled and smelt sweet fragrance... This actually stunned Fang Baoyu, who came with bad intentions, and didn't know what to do. Only one person behind him said: "Aunt Wang, how are you?" Aunt Wang smiled and said: "Oh! Little princess, I haven't seen you for a long time. You are getting more and more beautiful. If Fang Shaoxia didn't come here today, I'm afraid I won't be able to invite you again." The little princess said coquettishly, "Tell me again...who knew you lived here!" Aunt Wang smiled coquettishly: "Don't you know? I don't believe it. Didn't Fire Palace Master tell you?" The little princess smiled and said: "No one told me, as if your place is more mysterious than anything else, I really don't understand, what is the mystery here?" Baoyu was even more shocked, and said, "You... you know her." The little princess said: "When did I say I didn't recognize her?" Baoyu was startled, and sighed with a wry smile, "That's right, you never said that." At this moment, he has already guessed that Aunt Wang must be engaged in a mysterious activity these years, and the Fire Demon God is alone in the world, so he hooked up with her. Therefore, although the Fire Demon God has not been in the Jianghu for many years, he is very familiar with everything in the Jianghu. I am afraid that Mrs. Wang told him about these things. But what exactly has Mrs. Wang been doing these past few years? The little princess is laughing, Mrs. Wang is laughing, and the girls are laughing too... Fang Baoyu fell into deep thought. Suddenly heard the little princess say: "Hey! Mrs. Wan has come out." Baoyu woke up from his contemplation.Mrs. Wan was sitting beside her with her head down, and Li Mingsheng was also standing there, smiling awkwardly. Baoyu sighed and said, "I see." The little princess said: "What do you know?" Baoyu said: "The hut in the mulberry forest must be lived by Aunt Wang's subordinates, so the Fire Demon God invited me here...Is it?" Aunt Wang smiled and said, "That's right, not only the house is mine, but the mulberry forest is also mine... You know, girls have nothing to do, so they just want to raise some silkworm babies." Baoyu said: "So what Li Mingsheng said about Lao Chen is all false. He didn't see anything at all." Li Mingsheng smiled wryly, "It's not that I lied to you intentionally, but Wang..." Aunt Wang cut her mouth and said, "I didn't know about the tragic changes in Sanglin. I think those people must have moved quickly. I didn't see them until you came. I knew you must not know where to go, so I let Li Mingsheng go. Let me inform you, because when the Lord of the Fire Palace came down to borrow the house, I saw that the next stop was the Daming Mansion." Li Mingsheng suddenly said: "But what we said is not all false, because although I didn't see them doing it, Tie Jin Dao did." Baoyu said, "Could it be that he told you?" Li Mingsheng said: "He took a sneak peek to understand, so he hurriedly retreated, but he didn't want to happen to meet me, so he knew from his own mouth that you would definitely come." Baoyu said, "Are you really his friend?" Li Mingsheng smiled and said: "Not only are we friends, but we also studied in the same discipline in the past, and we are also his senior brother. It's just... oh! I always lose my energy for practicing martial arts, so...so..." So what, he didn't tell anyone else. Baoyu sighed: "The world is really wonderful. If I didn't want to, I would have guessed wrong." Li Mingsheng said: "There are many coincidences in the world. When you reach my age, you will know about it. Otherwise, how could I meet Mrs. Wan as soon as I came out?" Baoyu said: "Of course Mrs. Wan knows you. She doesn't want me to go to Baishui Palace in order to make you come to lie to me, but she doesn't know that you are already Mrs. Wang's... friend." Without waiting for others to answer, he looked directly at the little princess and said, "And you already know all these things, but you just pretended to play tricks on me and made me a big fool." The little princess was silent for a long while, and said word by word: "Yes, I already know everything, I am totally teasing you on purpose, treating you as an idiot." She suddenly turned her head and ran to the door, her shoulders seemed to be trembling slightly . Baoyu laughed and said, "Since you have lied to me, why bother..." Aunt Wang interrupted: "She didn't lie to you, you wronged her." Baoyu was taken aback for a moment, and said, "How could I wrong her?" Aunt Wang said: "She didn't know all these things, and she really didn't know that I lived here, and she didn't know that Li Mingsheng had followed me, and she didn't know whether Li Mingsheng's words were true or not." Baoyu said blankly: "I... Am I wrong?" Mrs. Wan suddenly said loudly: "You are wrong, you are completely wrong, you not only wronged her, but also wronged my old man. You little idiot, you think you know everything, you know everything, but you don't know that there are some things in the world. You'll never guess, you're just always trying to be smart." Baoyu said, "What have I wronged you for?" Mrs. Wan said: "Do you know how my old man came here? Is it a coincidence? How can there be so many coincidences in the world? I followed people all the way." Baoyu said, "Who? With whom?" Mrs. Wan said: "You also recognize those people. I followed them all the way from Mount Tai to this place. Nothing they did along the way can escape my eyes." Baoyu moved and said, "Who are these people?" Mrs. Wan sighed, and said: "I'm old, old and greedy, I don't have anything good to eat, I can't even speak." Baoyu smiled bitterly and said, "This..." Aunt Wang smiled and said, "It's easy, you can do whatever you want here." Without waiting for her to finish speaking, Baoyu sent all the melons and fruits on the table to Mrs. Wan. Mrs. Wan said: "I'm thirsty too." Baoyu had to pour another bowl of tea, and the girls giggled again. Aunt Wang also smiled and said, "You are very lucky to have Fang Shaoxia serve you." Mrs. Wan said: "He can hear what my old man said, and he is very lucky." Baoyu smiled bitterly and said, "Can you talk now, old man?" Mrs. Wan ate some fruit, drank a sip of tea, and said slowly, "I came with Tieran and Ruyi." When these words came out, not only Baoyu was surprised, but Aunt Wang turned pale, even the little princess couldn't help turning her head suddenly, and said in a broken voice: "So it's them." Mrs. Wan said: "After the Taishan meeting ended, my old man also sneaked into Wanzhu Villa, but you had already left at that time. I felt a little disappointed at first, but who knew..." Baoyu said, "How..." Mrs. Wan said: "I found out that Tieran and Ruyi are secretly mobilizing disciples, and I don't know what kind of sneaky deeds they are doing." Baoyu said, "And then?"