Chapter 393 Why is your face so red?
Shu shyly bid farewell and left, and Lu Qiantang, who was driving, was also sent out to look for game. The side yard where the carriage stopped became quiet, and only Zhou Ji was "retreating" in the carriage, thinking about what to copy from the night world in his dream. It can help both Jiang Ni and Xu Fengnian.
Quietly, there were rustling footsteps coming from far and near, the young fish wei furtively grabbed Jiang Ni's wrist, dragged her from the door to the carriage, glanced left and right, and took out a treasure from behind. A knot of twigs.
"What?" Seeing Yu Youwei's mysterious appearance, Jiang Ni looked at it curiously, but didn't see anything special about the short stick.
"Smash people~" Yu Youwei made a knocking motion, and said seriously, "Feng Ziying is not here, tonight is the best opportunity, isn't that Lu Qiantang a scholar before? He looks average, we can take him As a breakthrough, when it is his turn to watch at night, we can knock him unconscious and take the opportunity to escape."
Jiang Ni couldn't laugh or cry, and said perfunctorily: "There is nowhere to go."
"It doesn't matter, let's run away first." Yu Youwei looked at Jiang Ni distressedly, and said bitterly, "You know that Xu Xiao wants to harm you, and you still plan to stay here to die."
"No need." Jiang Ni knew that Yu Youwei was concerned about herself. Although her thoughts were too simple, she still felt a little warm in her heart. She shook her head and explained, "Beiliang is not far from here. If I really run A carrier pigeon can carry the message back."
"You have to try it!" Yu Youwei looked anxious, not giving Jiang Ni a chance to refuse, "We agreed to spread~"
Yu Youwei clenched the branch tightly as she spoke, as if practicing in advance, she tried to swing it a few times, but she always felt that something was missing.
"Your one is too light, like a rolling pin, how can you hit people? Why don't you try this?"
A man's voice suddenly came from beside her. Before the young fish could react, Jiang Ni froze on the spot, her pupils dilated as she watched a mallet with a dark golden matte stick out from the car window and handed it to the fish. In Youwei's hand, there is a mallet about half the height of a person. One end is thick and the other end is thin. The thick end is close to the size of the car window and the thin end is just suitable for holding with one hand.
Yu Youwei saw the 'longing' and 'hope' in Jiang Ni's eyes, thinking that she agreed to the proposal to escape, so she casually took the golden mallet handed to her, and leaned her whole body to the side.
Bang ~ sound.
A mallet the size of a car window hit the ground and sank into the soil half a finger deep. The young fish Wei realized something was wrong the moment she received the mallet, but the mallet made of pure gold weighed a thousand pounds. The world was spinning around, she was so frightened that she quickly closed her eyes, her hands and feet fluttered for a while, but she never felt like falling to the ground.
All this happened so suddenly, Jiang Ni saw the mallet made of pure gold and was still thinking about how much it was worth. In a blink of an eye, she saw that the young fish Wei was like a koi fish flopping away from the water, covered by a light blue real Wrapped in air, lifted in mid-air.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?"
Yuyouwei's heart was pounding, one eye was closed tightly, and the other eye was quietly opened. Seeing that she hadn't landed on the ground, it seemed that an invisible force slowly straightened her body until her feet hit the ground, stepping on the ground. On the soft but solid soil, he felt relieved, stroked his chest, and looked at the big stick sunk into the soil with lingering fear.
Yu Youwei shook her head, said softly that she was fine, then turned to look at Zhou Ji who came down from the carriage, her eyes were full of resentment.
Zhou Ji's heart tightened, and he hurried forward to apologize. He just overheard the conversation between the two and wanted to make a joke. He didn't really want to make Yuyouwei cry.
Jiang Ni stood in front of Zhou Ji, opened her arms to protect the young fish and the half-human tall golden stick behind her, and said angrily: "What's the use of just apologizing? Do you know how dangerous it was just now? What if you hurt your muscles?"
Yu Youwei dared not speak out when she was angry, seeing Jiang Ni stand up for her, her face was full of emotion.
Zhou Ji saw the glint in Jiang Ni's eyes, vaguely guessed her little thoughts, and continued to speak: "Then what do you think should be done?"
Jiang Ni swallowed her saliva, glanced at the big mallet next to her out of the corner of her eye, held her head high, and said with a straight face: "I have to lose money~"
After Yuyouwei lived in the palace, she has always lived in secluded places, and she has little contact with Zhou Ji on weekdays, and her impression of him is still in the horror memory of holding herself in place with one finger. When she noticed Jiang Ni's sneaky glances at the stick from time to time, she immediately understood Her little money-crazed princess is getting sick again.
Yu Youwei covered Jiang Ni's mouth and nose with her hands, preventing her from asking for extravagant prices, "There is no need to lose money, and please turn a blind eye, my lord, and don't tell others about our conspiracy."
"Uh~uh~~" Jiang Ni struggled to get out of control.
However, Yuyouwei has practiced sword dancing after all, and it is easy to pick up a long sword that weighs five or six catties. If you want to dance well, you still have some requirements for arm strength and physical fitness.
Zhou Ji smiled and said, "It's only natural, just."
"But what?" Yu Youwei looked wary, thinking that Zhou Ji wanted to raise some conditions.
Zhou Ji pointed to Jiang Ni, who was struggling less and less, and said with a strange expression, "But if you cover it for a while, you might run away with her ashes."
"Bah bah bah~"
Jiang Ni pushed away Yu Youwei's palm, took a few mouthfuls, wiped her lips with the back of her hand, and looked at Yu Youwei with resentment.
At this time, Xu Fengnian and the others heard the movement just now and walked out of the house, approached the carriage, glanced suspiciously at the big stick stuck in the mud, looked at Jiang Ni and said, "Why are you blushing?"
"Is there?" Of course, Jiang Ni couldn't tell Xu Fengnian about the "conspiracy" of the young fish to escape, and said perfunctorily with her flushed and hot cheeks, "Maybe it's too hot? Yes, it's too hot outside. Let’s talk, I’ll go to the house to cool off~”
Jiang Ni didn't give Xu Fengnian a chance to stay, and left in a hurry.
Seeing that Jiang Ni was gone, Yu Youwei showed a perfunctory smirk, and said, "It's quite hot~", passing between Zhou Ji and Xu Fengnian, seeing Jiang Ni running away, only the back was left, and quickly chased after her. Going up, he said anxiously: "Don't go so fast, wait for me~~"
"What's going on with them?"
Xu Fengnian glanced over from the corner of his eye, and happened to see Zhou Ji reach out and pull out a mallet, stuffing it into his cuff.
A mallet about the size of a car window was stuffed into the sleeve. Even though Xu Fengnian knew that the guy in front of him was full of mystery, when he witnessed this scene with his own eyes, he was still on the spot, blankly watching Zhou Ji take it from his sleeve. With his right hand out, his loose left sleeve hangs empty, swinging back and forth with the breeze.
"It's nothing, the two of them are just kidding around."
Zhou Ji smiled, but didn't tell Xu Fengnian Yuyouwei's plan to take Jiang Ni away.
On the other side, Shu Hui and Lu Qiantang, who were sent to hunt, led the team back, and both of them gained a lot.
The sun sets and night falls.
The long-abandoned Taoist temple was rekindled, and the smoke curled up, and the rich fragrance soon filled the entire lobby.
Everyone sat around the bonfire. Li Chungang crossed his legs while holding a pen in his mouth, as if he was studying what to write to stabilize Zhou Ji's head.
"Shizi."
Qingniao squatted and knelt beside Xu Fengnian, bringing the roasted pheasant to him.
Xu Fengnian motioned for Qingniao to go back and sit down, looked at the roast chicken on the plate, and said with a smile: "You have found the ginkgo chicken in Qingcheng Mountain, now you are lucky."
Shu shyly sitting at the bottom nodded and said: "As long as the son likes it."
Shu shyly explained: "He is outside, and he said he wants to guard the carriage, so don't pay attention to him."
Yu Youwei's eyes lit up when she heard this, she quietly glanced at Zhou Ji next to her, and moved slightly towards the door.
Li Chungang saw from the corner of his eye that everyone was ready to eat, he immediately put down his pen and ink, got up and said, "It's already baked? Save the chicken legs for me, I want to eat chicken legs~!"
Li Chungang looked at the freshly roasted pheasant in Zhou Ji's hand as he spoke, and walked a few steps behind Shu Shuo to grab the one in his hand.
tusk~
It seems that this sword **** 'senior' was really offended, and he wanted to compete with each other.
Zhou Ji couldn't help feeling helpless, but fortunately Jiang Ni stood up to block Li Chungang, took a chicken leg from Xu Fengnian's bowl, and handed it to Li Chungang.
"Here~ eat this."
Li Chungang looked at Jiang Ni's uncompromising eyes, and stretched out his hand resentfully, halfway out, he suddenly thought of something, wiped his clothes before reaching out again, took the chicken leg and sat on the other side.
Xu Fengnian looked back at Li Chungang eating chicken legs, and couldn't help laughing: "Old Huang also likes to eat chicken legs."
"Jian Jiuhuang?"
Li Chungang glanced at him, Xu Fengnian smiled, showing nostalgia: "I only know his name is Lao Huang. He is delicious and lazy, and roasted sweet potatoes are the best."
"Isn't it right? Didn't you eat the sweet potatoes he roasted?" Zhou Ji swiped his fingertips, divided the roast chicken into three parts, and handed them to Yu Youwei and Wei Shuyang.
It’s okay not to say, but Xu Fengnian was full of anger when he said, “I didn’t eat it. We stole sweet potatoes together, but he saw the farmer running away and I was stuck on the horse’s back by the old farmer. I apologized and apologized. In the end, I even lost my luggage and horses, and I found Lao Huang, who ate all the sweet potatoes he stole. He didn’t even leave me a piece of skin.”
Complaining to the end, Xu Fengnian couldn't help laughing himself.
Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at Yu Youwei, and suddenly found that she was still holding a stick in her hand, and asked in surprise, "What are you doing with a stick in your hand?"
For a moment, except for Zhou Ji and Li Chungang, everyone else looked at her in unison.
‘Why are you still carrying this thing? '
Jiang Ni was full of helplessness, Yu Youwei's expression was stiff, and she didn't know how to explain it for a while. When the atmosphere was almost condensed, she quietly noticed that Zhou Ji glanced at the fire indifferently. Yu Youwei's eyes lit up, and she threw the stick Entering the bonfire, laughing: "Add a fire."
Such a hesitant answer must have been concealed. Just when Yu Youwei was worried that everyone would ask questions, Zhou Ji changed the subject and said: "You said you and Lao Huang came here three years ago, and you must have stayed here for a long time, right?"
Referring to Lao Huang, Xu Fengnian smiled again, and said reminiscingly: "It's been a while."
The stagnant air began to circulate again, Yu Youwei knew that this was Zhou Ji's compensation for joking during the day, so she still gave him a grateful look.
Zhou Ji seemed to ignore it, and asked curiously, "I left it on purpose?"
"I didn't stay there on purpose, I was caught by bandits." Xu Fengnian smiled and talked about the group of stupid bandits.
There are old and young, not so much bandits, but more like refugees. Seeing that Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang are pitiful, they even gave them half a roast chicken.
"We became friends later, and when we left Qingcheng, they gave me a lot of food."
Wei Shuyang said with emotion: "Revisiting the old place, do you want to meet the old people again?"
Xu Fengnian smiled, and said with some anticipation in his nostalgia: "I really want to see them. If I see the firelight, maybe they will appear."
Maybe the world is different, maybe the background is different, maybe the environment is different, but at this moment, Xu Fengnian in front of him is inexplicably overlapped with the Fan Xian that Zhou Ji once knew.
Zhou Ji also had a smile on the corner of his mouth, looked up at the dilapidated wooden door, and said softly: "They are here."
"???" Xu Fengnian didn't understand for a while, looked at Zhou Ji suspiciously, saw him nodding slightly towards him, Xu Fengnian seemed to realize something, stood up, and said in surprise: "You mean them?"
Zhou Ji smiled without saying a word, showing an inscrutable smile.
Immediately afterwards, a burst of hurried footsteps came from the door, and the dilapidated wooden door was kicked open.
A group of strong men carrying knives broke into the Taoist temple and surrounded everyone.
"There are not many people?"
The headed man was tall and strong. He glanced around and saw two young men, two old men and four female relatives, and said mockingly.
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After all, it is the "bandit friend" that Shizi was talking about just now. Although Wei Shuyang and the others looked at each other, they couldn't say much. Said: "This is the stupid bandit?"
Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at Zhou Ji, and said in a daze, "Is this what you said 'they are here'?"
"What are you muttering about! And you, who told you to stand up! Squat down for me!" The bandit leader raised his knife and pointed at Xu Fengnian, his tone full of impatience.
"It's not them." Xu Fengnian frowned slightly, showing doubts.
"Maybe it's because the team has grown?" Zhou Ji wanted to make amends after failing to pretend, and got up and said, "Everyone, we are friends of old Mengtou, your Boss Meng."
"What old Mengtou, I've never heard of it. I'm the boss at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain! No matter how much nonsense I talk, I'll kill you." The bandit leader spat and sneered.
Zhou Jing's face was as sinking as water, and he stretched out his hand to grab it. The dilapidated doors and windows were shattered, and the wind howled, pouring into the hall from all directions. The bandits squeezed in.
Bones are broken and broken one after another. Under the strong wind pressure, even crying out in pain is an extravagant hope.
Jiang Ni and Yu Youwei couldn't bear it, and said in a shy voice: "My son, I often walk in the rivers and lakes. There are only two possibilities for the bandits who occupy the mountains to be kings. One is to be seized and driven away."
Xu Fengnian turned to look at Shu Shame.
Shu shyly said: "The second is to be driven out by new forces."
(end of this chapter)