This store's kang table was very clean, even the edges of the kang that easily collected dust could not be seen. However, Chen Chang Sheng and Xu You Rong did not sit down. Hearing the quarrel coming from behind them, they could not help but feel a little awkward. Only when the owner walked over did the atmosphere ease up.
Maybe it was because of the Yellow Paper Umbrella, or maybe it was because the corner was a little dark, but the owner did not recognize them. He smiled and asked, "What would you two like to eat? The main dish of this store is all kinds of bones, what do you like to eat? "
Chen Chang Sheng looked at Xu You Rong sitting across from him, wanting to hear her opinion. Xu You Rong lowered her head and did not say anything.
"How about … you two first have a bowl of pork bone soup to warm your body, and then slowly think?"
The owner increasingly felt that this young man and woman were a little strange, but running a restaurant in the capital, he had seen who knows how many strange situations, so he naturally would not be nosy.
Hearing a certain word in the owner's words, Chen Chang Sheng felt his face become a little hot again. He waved his hand and said, "Let's not, how about beef bones?"
The second half of this sentence was obviously asking for Xu You Rong's opinion. Xu You Rong did not have any objections, but thinking back to their conversation in the Garden of Zhou, she did not remember him having any taboos about eating pork. Why did he have such a big reaction? She could not help but feel a little curious.
The owner was a very straightforward person, he made up his mind to add a few dishes for them, then went to the kitchen to prepare, leaving only the two of them at the kang table in the corner. Xu You Rong slightly blinked her eyes, cutting off the quarrel at the table in front of her, then looked at him and asked the question in her heart.
"It's not that I have any taboos … it's just …"
Chen Chang Sheng hesitated for a while, then very honestly said, "Tang Thirty Six said I am a pig, and I really think I am a pig, so I don't want to eat pork right now."
Xu You Rong knew the meaning of his words, and could not help but smile. She suddenly thought of something, frowned and said, "You told Tang Tang?"
"No, he called me a pig because of something else." Chen Chang Sheng explained.
After saying this, the area around the kang table became quiet again. The guests at that table were still arguing fiercely, but no sound could be heard. Even the sound of the wind and snow outside the restaurant could not be heard. All that could be heard was the crackling of the firewood in the kang. In reality, this sound could not be heard by ordinary people.
"What that person said is wrong," Ye Zichen said.
Xu Yourong glanced at the kang table, then turned her head to look at him and explained very seriously, "On the Bridge of Helplessness, I didn't hold back. I was very serious."
She had to make this clear, because it was the truth, and because it represented her respect towards Chen Chang Sheng.
Chen Chang Sheng said, "Although I calculated a draw, my talent and comprehension are not as good as yours. If I don't use all my strength, I can't do it."
"I just want to fight you fair and square."
Xu Yourong calmly replied, "Whether it's in the Garden of Zhou or in the future, I probably won't have this opportunity, so after entering the capital … I didn't go find you."
At this moment, Chen Chang Sheng finally understood why she had been hiding it from him.
One of them was the candidate for Pope while the other was the newly appointed Holy Maiden. Moreover, they represented the Orthodoxy and the Imperial Court, two great powers. No matter how one looked at it, they were innately enemies, but if he knew of her true identity, there would naturally be no such intense battle on the Bridge of Helplessness. From now until a long time in the future, there would be no such thing.
It was impossible for him to be her enemy, and he believed that it was the same for her.
"But you still didn't use your strongest move."
Chen Chang Sheng looked at her and said, "If I'm not wrong, in the Garden of Zhou, your innate bloodline awakened once more."
Xu Yourong replied, "Yes."
Chen Chang Sheng said, "If you really used the bloodline of the Heavenly Phoenix, I wouldn't be your match."
Xu Yourong asked, "Do you really want to be defeated by me so much?"
Chen Chang Sheng hesitated, then said, "Actually … I just wanted to see how you would look with your Phoenix wings. I thought that it would be very beautiful."
There were many things that truly did not need teaching, did not need Tang Thirty-Six's guidance. Even the most inarticulate person would occasionally say very beautiful words.
In front of the person he wanted to express his kindness and affection.
Xu Yourong thought, you've seen it before, but you were asleep at the time.
Because of Chen Chang Sheng's extremely rare beautiful words, she was somewhat unaccustomed and somewhat bashful. Changing the topic, she said, "You also only used one sword."
She knew better than anyone else in the world that all the swords of the Sword Pool were in Chen Chang Sheng's sheath. That was his true strongest move.
"Even if I used ten thousand swords at the same time, I wouldn't necessarily be able to directly contend against your Sword of Great Light."
Chen Chang Sheng looked into her eyes and sighed with admiration. "You really are very outstanding."
Xu Yourong looked into his eyes and sighed helplessly. "You really didn't feel it?"
"Feel what?"
"The blade intent hidden in the Sword of Great Light."
Hearing this, Chen Chang Sheng was very shocked. He thought, the Sword of Great Light is the most profound sword style in the world, what blade intent can control it?
"I used the Halving Blade Technique, transforming blade intent into sword intent, so that I could just barely use the Sword of Great Light."
Xu Yourong said, "I still have to thank you for the clash of sword intents at the time, or else I wouldn't have been able to grasp this sword style in a few short days."
Hearing the four words "Halving Blade Technique", Chen Chang Sheng was even more shocked. He thought, wasn't the Halving Blade Technique temporarily unusable? Only after hearing the second half of her words did he understand. Although he had never used the Halving Blade Technique before, the Halving Blade Technique was extremely tyrannical and wild. It was still forcefully concealed within his sword intent. On the Bridge of Helplessness, Xu Yourong had precisely combined the blade technique she had grasped with the blade intent he exuded. Finally, she had comprehended a bit of blade intent, allowing her to display the Sword of Great Light.
In the eyes of many, the battle on the Bridge of Helplessness that had begun this morning represented many things. Who could have thought that, for Xu Yourong, besides fighting to her heart's content, the battle on the Bridge of Helplessness was also an excellent opportunity to help her comprehend the mysterious technique of the Halving Blade Technique and subsequently grasp the Sword of Great Light.
When Chen Chang Sheng thought of this, he couldn't help but feel admiration for her, but he also felt that it was somewhat inappropriate. He thought, why is there a need to be so anxious, and even somewhat dangerous? If, in the battle on the Bridge of Helplessness, she was unable to comprehend the essence of the Halving Blade Technique, unable to grasp the Sword of Great Light, and if he were to make a slight mistake, how terrifying would that be?
There was no need for words. Seeing the worry in his eyes, Xu Yourong knew what he was thinking. She calmly said, "I am the youngest Holy Maiden in history, and also the weakest Holy Maiden. Teacher has left, and the Empress is still a person of Zhou, so I need to establish my might as quickly as possible."
These words were very plain, even somewhat crude, but very sincere.
The vast majority of Holy Maidens of the south would enter the Divine Domain, and her teacher was a Saint who could easily defeat the Storms of the Eight Directions. Even the weakest Holy Maidens of the south were at least experts half a step into the Divine. Only she had become Holy Maiden at the age of sixteen, not even breaking through to Star Condensation.
As the youngest and weakest Holy Maiden of the south in history, Holy Maiden Peak and Nan Xi were both speechless. What sort of pressure did she have to endure, what sort of trials and tribulations did she have to face?
Chen Changsheng looked at her somewhat thin and weak shoulders and suddenly thought of the conversation in the Garden of Zhou. At the time, she had said that she bore a very heavy responsibility and felt that it was very difficult, so she wanted to avoid it. He had thought that she was a young genius of the Elf race, shouldering the heavy responsibility of reviving the Elf race. He had tried to console her several times. But now he knew that she was the reincarnation of the Heavenly Phoenix, the hope of Holy Maiden Peak and the Divine Empress, shouldering the responsibility of resisting the demons for the entire human world. How could he console her?
"There are some things that, in the future, just let me handle them."
"I can do it."
"I am the Principal of the Orthodox Academy."
"In the future, I will become the Pope of the Orthodoxy."
He thought these words over in his mind and organized the sequence. He felt that it was Tang Thirty-Six's tone, and just when he was hesitating …
"Authentic beef ribs, please enjoy."
The owner carried a steaming pot of beef ribs, interrupting an important conversation concerning the future of the human world.
Unlike the stewed ribs of other restaurants, this restaurant's ribs were stewed in the back of the kitchen before being served. Although it lost some of the flavor of a farmer, it was much cleaner. It was no wonder that the surroundings of the stove and pot were so clean that not even a speck of dust could be seen.
Soon after, all sorts of appetizers were served and the two began to eat.
Perhaps it was because the appetizers were too delicious, or perhaps the ribs were too fragrant and too troublesome to eat, but Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong did not speak for a very long time.
In this quiet corner, the only sound that could be heard was the crackling of firewood under the kang and the occasional clatter of chopsticks and bowls.
After some time, Chen Changsheng could not help but raise his head and look across at her. Only now did he realize that today, she was not wearing that white ceremonial robe, nor was she wearing a white dress, but rather a rather thick cotton jacket. He also recalled that in Xunyang City, when he saw the Holy Maiden, he had felt that the white ceremonial robe was rather familiar. Then he recalled that in the temple by the White Grass Path, she had said that ever since she was a child, the rules of eating were very strict and that she could not speak. The current silence should be the environment she was used to?
Then let's eat according to her habits. At the very least, it won't make her feel uncomfortable.
Chen Changsheng thought this, but he did not pick up his chopsticks again. Instead, he continued to look at her.
Because she truly was very beautiful.
The steam rising from the pot was very similar to the fog and rain on the Bridge of Helplessness. Her small face, on the other side of the fog, was incomparably beautiful, like a painting.
But at this moment, she did not seem like the phoenix fairy of the rumors.
Her small body seemed to be completely wrapped up in a cotton jacket. The splendor that had appeared before ten thousand people had been completely restrained, making her seem like an ordinary little girl.
She lowered her head and lightly breathed out hot air. She very carefully nibbled on the ribs. Her appearance was very cute, just like a young beast.
The crudest of stewed ribs in the pot was actually eaten delicately by her, as if she was now carefully tasting exquisite southern pastries. But no matter how delicately she ate, her speed was not slow. In a short while, the table in front of her was piled high with extremely clean ribs.
Her face was somewhat red, perhaps because of the heat, or because she was embarrassed, or perhaps because she felt that he was unwilling to shift his gaze.
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(Today's chapter. In addition, I'll give you an early warning. In the next two days, I plan to let them continue dating.)
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