Disaster For the Country · Return Journey

Chapter 21 – Go To No.

The footsteps finally approached from far away.

Qiu Jiang and Yi Fei looked at each other and cheered up. Qiu Jiang squeezed the fire folder in her hand again, and when she was about to light the firewood, she realized that something was wrong.

Someone who knows martial arts!

Yi Fei moved his position and subconsciously stood in front of her.

At this moment, the door was kicked open heavily: “Is anyone there? Give me something to eat…” Before finishing a sentence, he met the two people in the room, and the voice stopped abruptly.

The visitor was less than three feet tall, with ragged clothes and filthy hair. He looked very embarrassed, but his eyes were big and bright, and he had a striking beauty. It was none other than Hongyu.

Yifei’s heart sank: It’s over. Before they sank the Jiuxian, Hongyu also fell into the sea together. For some reason, he was not caught by Yundi’s boat, but came here alone. Although she was embarrassed, she walked briskly, so it was obvious that she was not injured. But he and Qiu Jiang are at the end of their battle…

The worst thing is that Ding Sansan’s disguise has been soaked in the water for too long, and now he is his own face.

Hongyu sized him up, without stopping, and glanced behind him.

Yi Fei pressed Qiu Jiang’s head into his arms, and said sharply, “Who are you? Why did you break into my house?”

“Your house?” Hongyu glanced around with her **** eyes and sneered, “Can people who live in this kind of shabby house afford your shoes?”

Although the clothes Yi Fei was wearing were torn and dirty, his shoes were in good condition. The shoes made of top-quality calfskin, dry out of water, are really out of place with this dilapidated hut.

“You two…elope?” Hongyu guessed casually, but her mind was not on the two of them, so she went to search in the back room. After Jingling rang and thought about it, she came out very displeased: “Why is there nothing to eat?”

“There.” Yi Fei looked at a string of salted fish hanging outside the window.

Hongyu frowned, she was really hungry, so she went to the window and picked one, chewed it in her mouth, and then spit it out: “It’s smelly and salty, it’s so unpalatable!”

Yi Fei replied: “There is nothing else, we are also hungry.”

Hongyu had no choice but to sit down, bite the bullet, stared at Yi Fei and the weak Qiu Jiang in his arms while eating: “What’s wrong with your woman? Why is there so much blood?”

“We eloped by boat, and the boat sank, and we drifted here. We thought we could find someone to ask for help, but they beat us up like this, and went out to find someone, saying they were going to sell us…”

“On the side of Lianyan City, there are only Zhou Xian and the red lady. Zhou Xian will not want you at your age. Let me see your woman’s face, maybe the red lady will accept it.”

Yi Fei immediately hugged Qiu Jiang tighter nervously.

Hongyu burst out laughing: “Little white faces like you seem to be deeply affectionate, but in fact you don’t have the slightest bit of ability. Why don’t you let her go through hardships with you in the end?”

Yifei thought to himself, is this alluding to the dead Wu’er?

Hongyu kicked his leg: “Little white face, do you want to live?”

“think!”

“Okay, I’ll give you two choices: or, if you commit suicide, I’ll take her away and give her some money so that she can live the rest of her life in peace; or, kill her, and I’ll take you out of here, and give you money.” Prosperity and wealth.” Hongyu laughed, and her palm-sized face became more and more cute, but the words she said were so vicious.

You are worthy of being a member of Ruyimen. Yi Fei thought, for a real elopement couple, facing this kind of test, life would be worse than death.

“We don’t choose!” Yifei replied bluntly on purpose.

Hongyu said: “Then let’s die together!” Then he got up and walked in front of the two of them, raising his hand.

“Wait! Let me think again!” Yi Fei began to hesitate.

Hongyu had been waiting for this kind of reaction from him, so she stopped immediately and looked at it with a smile. The more frightened and struggling they were, the happier she was. She had tortured many lovers in this way over the years.

Most people can’t stand the test and choose to sacrifice women. When they killed a woman, she would mercilessly castrate him first, and then slowly mollify him, letting them die in despair and regret.

Occasionally, there are people who are willing to die with women after being tested, so she finds a group of people to **** women in front of him, and then lets them go. All the people who have experienced it collapsed, crazy crazy, suicidal suicide, without a single exception.

And how will the pair of lovers in front of them choose?

Hongyu was daydreaming and anticipating, the whole person was very excited.

Yifei struggled in frustration for a long time, seeing that Hongyu was about to get impatient, so he made a choice and said painfully: “Okay, let’s kill her!”

Another bitch! Hongyu snorted coldly in her heart, and before she could make a move, Qiu Jiang in Yifei’s arms screamed, and pinched Yifei’s neck with both hands.

Hongyu immediately opened her eyes wide excitedly, waiting for a good show.

Yi Fei said angrily: “Didn’t you say you love me so much that you are willing to die for me? Now go and prove it!” Then he pushed Qiu Jiang hard. Qiu Jiang’s head hit the stove all of a sudden, and she moaned and stopped moving.

Hongyu tut-tsk: “See clearly? This is the man you chose.”

“Her vision is not very good, but you are not very good either.” Yi Fei, who was still in pain a moment ago, smiled at this moment.

“What’s the meaning?”

“I heard that Wu’er was a flirtatious woman during her lifetime, and besides you, she had seventeen or eighteen other lovers.”

Hongyu was furious, and immediately stepped forward and slapped him hard: “Say it again!”

“He told me that he can’t stand short people like you the most, so his other seventeen or eighteen lovers are all tall, plump, **** and mature…”

Hongyu looked like an immature girl and couldn’t grow up, which was the biggest pain in her heart, now being teased by Yi Fei, her eyes turned red immediately, and she slapped Yi Fei more than a dozen times.

Behind her, something seemed to be on fire, but she didn’t care, she just asked Yi Fei, “How do you know Wu’er? Who are you?!”

Yi Fei grinned: “Guess? I not only know Wu’er, I also know you. I know you have always wanted to be an agate, but you can’t compare to Qi’er…”

Hongyu shuddered, suddenly understood, and turned to look at the woman lying beside the stove: “Qi’er?!”

The man raised his head, and there was an unremarkable face in the messy blood-stained hair.

Hongyu suddenly fell into an ice cellar, and only then did she recognize that the weak and dirty woman on the ground was actually Qiu Jiang. And once she was Qi’er, everything started to go wrong.

She immediately realized that the fire in the stove had started at some point, and the flames licked the straw, crackling like a magic sound urging her to death.

“Qi’er!” Hongyu immediately pulled out the dagger from her waist and rushed towards her. But as soon as he rushed forward, his vision suddenly went black. She quickly bit her tongue and woke up.

Qi’er is full of scheming, and her body is full of traps and poisons, she must have added something to the fire. Damn, I was attracted by that **** man just now, and I didn’t realize that she was Qi’er due to carelessness…

Hongyu bit herself hard again, grabbed the dagger and pierced Qiu Jiang’s heart with blood in her mouth.

Yi Fei tried to stop him, but she kicked him into the air, hit the firewood pile hard, and the dry firewood rolled all over the place. Yifei took the opportunity to throw firewood at Hongyu.

Hongyu’s dagger suddenly lost its aim, and stuck to Qiu Jiang’s waist on the ground. Hongyu gritted her teeth and pulled out, stabbing Qiu Jiang again.

Seeing that Qiu Jiang was about to be stabbed in the center by the dagger, a white light suddenly flew from outside and hit Hongyu’s wrist. Hongyu’s hand immediately let go, and Qiu Jiang snatched the dagger away.

Yifei shouted in surprise: “Master Zhu!”

A burly man walked in quickly from the door. The red dragon on the left eyebrow was more beautiful than any pattern in the world in Yi Fei’s eyes. It was none other than Zhu Long, Xue Cai’s personal attendant.

And he was carrying Old Sun on his shoulders and Old Tian on his hands, both of them were unconscious.

Zhu Long threw the two on the ground, reached out and grabbed Hongyu like an eagle catching a chicken. Just as Hongyu was about to struggle, her hands and feet tightened, and she was **** by him. Hongyu immediately cursed, and just after she cursed a word, he stuffed a cloth ball on her mouth.

After Zhu Long finished all this, he stepped forward to check Yi Fei’s pulse, and Yi Fei hurriedly said, “Save Qiu Jiang first!”

Zhu Long pondered for a while, turned around to check on Qiu Jiang, frowned and said, “His poison is easy to cure, but your injury is hard to cure.”

Qiu Jiang stared at Zhu Long, blood flowed from his eyes again, with tears in his eyes, and wanted to say something, but he didn’t say a word.

Yi Fei said: “Get out of here first.”

Zhu Long nodded.

Zhu Long came with a carriage, he carried Yifei into the carriage, and when he came back to pick up Qiu Jiang, Qiu Jiang pointed to Hongyu and said, “Take her with you too.”

Hongyu whimpered angrily.

Zhu Long looked at the two old men on the ground: “Where are they?”

Qiu Jiang said lightly: “I won’t kill the untouchables. Let them go.”

Zhu Long didn’t know what to think of, he curled up his lips, first threw Hongyu into the car, and then put Qiu Jiang beside Yi Fei. The carriage slowly left the fishing village.

The wheels turned, the carriage bumped, and Qiu Jiang saw the hut getting farther and farther through the crack of the curtain, with complicated eyes.

Yi Fei raised his eyebrows: “Want to take revenge?”

Qiu Jiang said in a low voice: “Look at this place, it’s just an ordinary fishing village. These people are just ordinary villagers who fish for a living. When encountering a stranger in distress, the first reaction is not to save them, but to kill and sell them… How many years did this kind of atmosphere develop? And in the future, how many years will it take you to dispel it?”

Yi Fei was silent for a long time, before he said: “What you said… I must be a wise gentleman.”

“It’s not for sure, but it must be.” Qiu Jiang’s expression was extremely serious, restrained and dignified, “Why has the law for thousands of years required scribes to praise the people and call for a wise king? Because if you are not a wise king, the country will die!”

She still didn’t say a word, but Yi Fei picked it up in her heart – “And Cheng Guo is already on the way to death.”

There is only one big land, and the four countries are separated. King Yan is vigorous and vigorous, and King Yi is elegant and interesting. Even in the country of Bi, there is a queen who has a lack of political opinion but is kind and fair. Only Cheng Guo, like a huge and greedy giant snake entrenched on the island, ruthlessly devoured everything that could be eaten. After eating it, he swallowed his own tail and turned into a snake ring. If you don’t untie it in time, you will undoubtedly die.

The two of them had their own concerns, and their expressions were very dignified.

Hongyu at the side looked at her and then at Yifei, and suddenly chirped to express that she had something to say. Yi Fei then took out the cloth ball from her mouth: “Speak.”

Hongyu said: “Did she lie to you that she could help you kill Yishu and help you become emperor? She is dying, if you kill her, I will help you! I…”

Before he finished speaking, Yi Fei stuffed the cloth ball back for her.

Hongyu stared anxiously, Qiu Jiang couldn’t help but smile. The originally preoccupied atmosphere disappeared because of this smile.

In any case, it’s man-made.

Just like the appearance of Zhu Long.

Although there are many twists and turns along the way, at critical moments, they can always survive from desperation.

Because they have the most reliable companions in the world for each other, they help each other through wind and rain, and have a tacit understanding of life and death.

***

The carriage drove into a “Zhu’s shop” selling incense powder, and stopped in the backyard.

Yi Fei explained to Qiu Jiang: “I made an appointment with Little Fox, and sent Master Zhu to come here to meet us at any time. I was worried that Master Zhu would arrive later than us, but fortunately he caught up.”

Qiu Jiang stared at the shop, but frowned slightly.

Hongyu on the side let out a few vague sneers.

Yifei glanced at her: “Why don’t you kill her when she’s so noisy?”

Ruby immediately fell silent.

Qiu Jiang said lightly: “The katydid mountain has fallen, and Madam’s whereabouts will start with her.”

Hongyu lowered her face and stared at her sullenly.

Qiu Jiang said again: “But it’s really annoying to look at, so let’s knock him out first.”

Just as Hong Yu was about to resist, she was hit by a hand knife on the back of her neck, and suddenly her eyes darkened and she passed out.

Zhu Long carried her out of the car, locked her in the woodshed, and carried Yi Fei and Qiu Jiang directly to the second floor. “Speaking of luck, I just learned that Marquis Dongbi is in Feng County, twenty miles away, and I have already sent someone to invite him.”

Yi Fei was overjoyed, and said to Qiu Jiang: “Great, then your injury will be cured!”

“Dong Bihou?”

Just as Yi Fei wanted to explain, Zhu Long said, “It’s Jiang Huai’s incompetent son.”

Qiu Jiang showed an expression of remembering: “Yu Guan.”

Yi Fei snorted, “You recognize him?”

“Well, I know a little bit. But I don’t know that he is a Marquis.” Qiu Jiang coughed and coughed up a pile of blood foam.

Zhu Long hurriedly helped her to lie down: “Go to sleep for a while.”

“This place may not be safe.”

“The more dangerous the place, the safer. Don’t worry.”

Yi Fei was dissatisfied: “What are you talking about?”

Zhu Longdao: “This place was originally the stronghold of Ruyimen, and Zhu Xiaozhao, the owner of the incense powder shop, is a disciple of Polimen.”

Yi Fei was surprised: “Then why did you choose this?”

“He went to Yiguo to practice with the master of incense making, Ajiupo, and he hasn’t come back for nearly a year. This place is currently occupied by us, and the staff are all from Baize, so it’s very safe.”

Yi Fei leaned on the couch by the window and saw that the street downstairs was full of people, and it was very lively. His eyes were filled with the prosperity of Luwan. Beauty Township. Such a glittering city full of luxury and money, singing and dancing.”

It was still dark, and the street lights were already on the road, and the red lights reflected each other. You can clearly see the gambling houses and brothels, and the business is in an endless stream.

In stark contrast, there is no light on the other side of the street. The huts are densely piled up like pigeon coops. The narrow path is full of sewage. Many children are running around with bare feet and even topless. The rough and bold men walked in groups of three or four, kicking children and dogs when they saw them, and flying like dogs wherever they went.

Zhu’s shop is like a door, separating the two worlds.

Yifei, leaning against the window, watched these two worlds quietly, his body was hot and cold one after another, like being on a stove, wrapped in ice and snow and stewed together.

Occasionally looking back at Qiu Jiang on the couch, Qiu Jiang was already asleep.

Her words echoed in her ears again: “How many years did this kind of atmosphere develop? And how many years will it take you to dispel it in the future?”

he does not know.

Even before this return trip, he hadn’t thought about it. It’s just that along the way, what he saw and felt made him unknowingly have some other thoughts.

A little idea is very difficult to do. However, because of the existence of a person, it seems that no matter how many years it takes, it can be tolerated.

—As long as you are with me.

When Yifei thought of this, he fell asleep unknowingly.

He had a dream.

I dreamed that my mother was at sea, but she still refused to return to land. So he stood by the shore and said to her: “I will fill this dirty place with snow, and when the spring returns, the vegetation will revive, and I will take you back with green trees and red flowers as the way.”

Then, goose feathers and snow fell one after another.

The heavy snow covered everything, and the world was extremely cold. Walking in it, he felt cold and tired, and when he looked around, his eyes were full of confusion, and he could not find the way or the direction to go.

Just then, he saw Qiu Jiang.

Qiu Jiang was dressed in white, and should have blended in with the snow scene, but her hair and eyes were so black, they appeared so clearly in his eyes.

So he was overjoyed and waved to her: “Qiu Jiang—Qiu Jiang—”

Qiu Jiang didn’t respond, and walked in a hurry, walking very fast.

He remembered, by the way, her name is not Qiu Jiang.

So he shouted again: “Qi’er—Qi’er—”

But she still didn’t respond. Seeing her black hair go further and further away, he turned from joy to panic, and quickly chased after her: “Agate? Onyx? Xie Liu? Xie Liu? Aqiu? Aqiu? Jiangjiang? Jiangjiang—”

However, no matter how he shouted, Qiu Jiang didn’t respond, and after that, she completely disappeared in the snowstorm.

Snow water seeped in from the soles of the shoes, wet his feet, and the cold air kept climbing up, wrapping him layer after layer like vines.

It dawned on him—he didn’t know who she was.

Yi Fei opened his eyes all of a sudden and broke free from the dream.

“Are you awake?” A voice sounded from the side, Yifei turned his head, and saw a pair of hands baking needles on the orange candle.

The silver needles are slender, and the hands are white and dexterous with well-defined joints.

Yi Fei couldn’t help laughing, and greeted familiarly: “We meet again.”

The person who was giving her acupuncture beside Qiu Jiang’s couch was none other than Dongbi Hou Jiang Wanyi. Last year, as an envoy of Bi Kingdom, he came to celebrate his father’s birthday, but Yishu was greedy for his beauty and asked him for a private meeting in the middle of the night, but he flatly refused. Yishu was furious, and accused him of having an affair with Luo Zi, his father’s favorite concubine, causing quite a commotion. I don’t know if it was because of that trip to Cheng country that made him very conflicted, he resigned from his official post shortly after returning to Bi country, stayed away from the court, and continued to travel around to see doctors and save lives.

When Yi Fei saw him last year, he felt that this man was like cotton, soft and soft, white and flawless. It seems that it can be kneaded at will, but it does not change its quality.

Goodbye at this moment, although he is much haggard, his face is weathered, but his expression is firm, like cotton being kneaded into small balls, with a dense outline.

He has seen countless wonderful people in his life. Others, including himself, are all mortals, but this person is extraordinary and refined, like a banished fairy.

Yi Fei turned his eyes to Qiu Jiang who was on the couch, the sense of anxiety and urgency in the dream seemed to still remain in his heart, and the flickering candle shadow made Qiu Jiang’s face look unreal.

Who is she?

“How is her injury?”

“fine.”

“How good is it?”

“Although the injury is serious, she has a good foundation and a strong will. She will recover after half a year of rest.” Jiang Wanyi said, putting away the silver needle and getting up to clean her hands.

Zhu Long on the side looked at Yi Fei: “We don’t have half a year to delay.” There is only half a month left until the ninth day of September.

Yi Fei stared at Qiu Jiang under the candlelight, pondered for a moment and said, “Then let her recuperate here, and we will go to Luwan by ourselves.”

“Can you rest assured?” Zhu Long was a little skeptical, “She lost her memory before, that’s all. Now, you say she has recovered her memory, so you shouldn’t let her out of sight…”

“what are you worried about?”

Zhu Long looked at the unconscious Qiu Jiang, and said seriously: “After all, she is from the Ruyimen, she has no integrity, and is cunning and changeable.”

Yi Fei laughed lightly: “I know that the little fox is always suspicious and never trusts others easily. But he trusts me, just like I trust her now. If you really want to guard against her, you might as well guard against me.”

Zhu Long frowned, staring at him intently.

Yifei looked back at him with a smile, not letting go.

The atmosphere between the two was a little tense, Jiang Wanyi rubbed the center of his brows and said, “I’ll go grab the medicine first.” After speaking, he turned around and left, unwilling to stay any longer.

Zhu Long sighed softly: “The Prime Minister told me before leaving that if Qiu Jiang loses his memory all the time, forget it. Once the memory is restored…”

“How?” Yifei’s heart sank slightly.

“Keep an eye on her until he comes in person.”

Yi Fei was very surprised, he didn’t expect Xue Cai to attach so much importance to Qiu Jiang. Why? Even if Qiu Jiang is Qi’er, the heir of the former Mrs. Ruyi. But after all, she has lost her memory for many years, and many things have happened at Ruyimen, and Mrs. Ruyi cannot protect herself. It stands to reason that the current Ruyi Gate is falling apart, even if there is no external force, the inside is still a mass of scattered sand, which is difficult to achieve. Why is Xue Cai so worried about Qiu Jiang? Afraid that she would regain her memory?

It has been several days since Qiu Jiang recovered her memory, and apart from her more dull and decisive personality, there is not much difference. What is Xue Cai worried about?

If it is someone else, it may be unfounded worry. But Xue Cai is definitely not that kind of person.

That said, his concerns must be warranted.

What could it be?

This series of thoughts danced in Yi Fei’s mind, and he finally suppressed them all. “Then you inform him to come. We set off for Luwan on the fifth day of September. I hope he can come in time.”

“What if it’s too late?”

“If it’s too late. You stay here and watch her. I’ll go north by myself.”

After weighing it up, Zhu Long felt that Qiu Jiang was more important, so he nodded and accepted the arrangement.

Yi Fei felt a little strength in his hands and feet, so he got up from the bed and staggered to Qiu Jiang.

He stared at her for a long time, and finally helped her cover the quilt silently, and blew out the candle beside her.

sleep.

No matter what, heal your wounds first.

This is the most important thing right now.

In the darkness, Yifei groped his way back to bed and went to sleep. But Qiu Jiang, who had been sleeping all this time, gently opened his eyes.

The cold moonlight shone on the wall through the window sills, the light and shadow intertwined, the boundaries were blurred, and black and white could not be distinguished.

She stared at the wall in front of her, as if she had thought a lot, but she didn’t seem to think about anything.

***

For the next half month, Qiu Jiang and Yi Fei stayed at Zhu’s shop to recuperate honestly. Yi Fei’s poison was quickly cleared and he regained his vitality. Qiu Jiang kept coughing, her hands and feet were cold, and she had to sit next to a brazier to keep warm in the scorching heat, so her recovery was slower than expected. But she didn’t seem to be in a hurry at all, and she wanted to eat new dishes in different ways.

Yi Fei lamented: “I can’t cook! I can only eat!”

“I know you won’t. But someone will.”

“Who?” Yi Fei cast his guessing eyes on Jiang Wanyi who was making medicine at the side. Jiang Wanyi was stunned, and said, “I only know how to cook porridge.”

Finally, Zhu Long, who was sitting in the corner sharpening his sword, got up silently and walked out.

Yi Fei was surprised: “Master Zhu is good at cooking?”

The conclusion is: Zhu Long is really good at cooking!

No matter what Qiu Jiang ordered, he could cook it, and it tasted pretty good.

Yi Fei ate a few mouthfuls and praised: “Master Zhu is talented.”

“I haven’t cooked in years.”

So Yifei praised again: “A treasured sword never grows old.”

Jiang Wanyi beside him couldn’t stop laughing, while Qiu Jiang ate quietly, with a kind of trance on his pale face, as if he was reminiscing about something.

Yifei endured and endured, but still couldn’t help it, and asked her, “What are you thinking?”

“I miss Si’er and father-in-law.”

“What happened to them?”

“They are all good at cooking.” Qiu Jiang looked at Zhu Long after saying this, “They are all dead.”

Jiang Wanyi immediately choked on a mouthful of food, and quickly drank several mouthfuls of tea before stopping, then looked at Zhu Long who was “indirectly cursed”, and Zhu Long stared at Qiu Jiang displeasedly: “I’m really sorry I’m not dead yet.”

“Tomorrow I want to eat dried bamboo shoots and duck in old soup.” Qiu Jiang put down her chopsticks and left with a cold and proud expression.

Zhu Long was about to throw the bowl, but Yi Fei hurriedly stopped him: “Don’t worry about the patient, Mr. Zhu, please take care of me. I’ll go buy ducks, I’m the best at picking ducks.”

Jiang Wanyi asked curiously, “The third prince still knows this?”

“I used to live with ducks for a while.” Yi Fei couldn’t explain what happened at that time.

Hongyu was locked in the woodshed all this time, Yifei went to interrogate her, she opened her eyes wide and said, “Why didn’t Qi’er come? Tell her to come! If she doesn’t come, I won’t say a word!”

Qiu Jiang just left her alone, and just didn’t go to see her.

Hongyu suppressed the anger all day long, and there were several big fireballs on her mouth. Jiang Wanyi accidentally saw it, so she made some medicine and rubbed it on her.

Hongyu recognized him, was very surprised, and then said disdainfully: “Why are you everywhere?”

“Have you seen me?” Jiang Wanyi didn’t mind her rudeness, and the movements of applying the medicine were still gentle.

Hongyu immediately denied it: “No.” After a while, she said, “I heard that you seek medical treatment when you see someone, no matter who they are, good or bad. It seems that’s true.”

Jiang Wanyi smiled: “Do you want to know why?”

“Because you’re stupid.”

“Walking around, you will inevitably encounter all kinds of troubles. If I only cure good people and not bad people, then the bad people will not show mercy when they see me. But I am a doctor who treats you as long as you are sick, and the bad people will think about the future. Maybe you will use me, and you will have some scruples.”

Hongyu was taken aback.

After applying the medicine, Jiang Wanyi packed up the medicine box and got up, “Relax your mind, eat and rest on time, and you’ll be fine in three days.”

Hongyu stared at him, seeing that he was about to step over the threshold, couldn’t help but said: “Even if you heal me this time, I will not show mercy when it falls into my hands in the future!”

Jiang Wanyi didn’t look back, just waved her hands casually, and drifted away.

Hongyu watched his back gradually disappear around the corner, and then, was replaced by another enlarged smiling face.

Hongyu was startled, and moved back subconsciously—I saw Yifei entered the firewood room at some point, and was hanging upside down from the beam at the moment, looking at her with a smile.

“You want…” Before she finished speaking, Yi Fei stuffed the cloth ball back into her mouth: “Did you hear that? Relax, talk less and sleep more.”

Hongyu, whose hands and feet were still tied and her mouth gagged, was so angry that her nose was crooked.

The days passed day by day. Although there were bumps and bumps from time to time, compared with the crisis before, the plainness at this moment presents a rare peace.

It’s just that everyone knows that when Xue Cai comes, this peace will be broken. But no one knows what awaits them after the break.

***

On the last day of August, a hurricane made landfall in Brilliant City.

The government made a reminder with beating gongs and drums. The whole city was under martial law, and every household shut their doors. Looking out from the window on the second floor of Zhu’s shop, the front and back of the building fell into the same silence that was rare.

Yi Fei bought two big baskets of vegetables to store before the wind came. As soon as he entered the house, it started to rain. The big raindrops soon smashed the window paper, and everyone had to find a lot of animal skins and nail them on the window. superior.

Zhu Long looked out through the gap in the animal skin, and it was dark all of a sudden.

He is from the country of Bi and has lived in the imperial capital of the country all year round. This is the first time he has encountered such a hurricane. He immediately frowned and said, “How long will this last? Will it affect the sea?”

Jiang Wanyi looked at it carefully, and replied, “It will take one to two days to see the situation, and it comes from the Northeast Sea.”

Yi Fei showed a gloating smile: “It seems that the little fox’s luck is not very good.” Xue Cai should be floating in the Northeast Sea at this moment.

Zhu Long said incredulously: “Master Xiang is your backer, and he is also your half master. If something happened to him, what can you enjoy?”

Yi Fei shook his head and said, “There is no one in this world who can be my master. But you, I know that you belong to Bai Ze and were once Ji Ying’s confidant. But where did you come from? How can you be willing if you are capable?” How about being a slave?”

Zhu Long was taken aback for a moment, a lot of strange looks flashed across his face, and finally turned into dejection.

Yi Fei took out two jugs of wine from the vegetable basket, lit a lamp, patted the couch and said, “Come, come, talk about your life in the sound of the hurricane, drink and talk?”

Zhu Long frowned and said, “I don’t drink alcohol.” Even though he said that, he went over and sat down.

Jiang Wanyi also took her seat and said, “I don’t drink very well, so let’s take it as companionship.”

Yi Fei turned to look at Qiu Jiang who was standing by the window watching the scenery: “Are you coming?”

Before Qiu Jiang could answer, Jiang Wanyi said, “She can’t drink alcohol.”

Qiu Jiang raised her eyebrows, and Yifei stopped calling her, poured wine for Jiang Wanyi and Zhu Long, and said, “It’s really a memorable hurricane. I’ll drink a glass myself, and you can do whatever you want.” Drank the wine in one gulp.

Jiang Wanyi toasted and drank together. Zhu Long stared at the amber liquor, then at the dark window. A hut in the wind and rain always gives people an inexplicable sense of security, and this sense of security makes people relax a lot unconsciously. Zhu Long thought for a while, and finally picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

Yi Fei stared at the wine in the glass and explained: “The name of this wine is ‘Shiwu’, ‘Only Wine is Wu’, which means that only wine is fun. You can’t hear the thunder, you can’t see Mount Tai, you don’t feel the cold and heat, and you forget about it. Desire for profit. All the miscellaneous things in this world are just duckweed floating on the big river.”

“Good wine.” Jiang Wanyi praised.

Zhu Long didn’t say anything, but silently took another sip.

Yi Fei asked, “Did Ji Ying drink alcohol during her lifetime?”

Zhu Long thought for a while and replied, “My lord drinks occasionally.”

“Drunk?”

“Drunk only once.”

“Then he is really a poor man. What do you fear most when drinking? What you fear the most is not being drunk. If you are not drunk, is it not good to drink water and soup? What kind of wine do you want to drink?”

Zhu Long lowered his head, suffocated the wine in his glass, and said in a low voice, “He dare not get drunk.”

“That’s why I say he’s a poor man.”

Qiu Jiang had been leaning against the window, watching the wind and rain outside with his hands on his chin, and finally couldn’t help but look back at the three people drinking around the lamp, his eyes finally stopped on Zhu Long’s face.

Zhu Long picked up the jug and filled it up for himself, then laughed suddenly: “Poor? No, no, you don’t understand him. You don’t think you are pitiful, let alone others. Especially for a person like you, you don’t deserve to pity him.” .”

Zhu Long was sent by Xue Cai to meet Yi Fei. When they were in Bi Kingdom before, the two had dealt with each other several times, except for carrying out orders, they rarely showed their emotions. Therefore, until now, Yifei didn’t know that he actually looked down on him, but he was not angry, he just raised his eyebrows with a smile and said: “Oh? Why am I not worthy?”

“You like Jiang Chenyu, don’t you?”

Yi Fei’s smile froze immediately, and he looked at Qiu Jiang in a panic for some reason. Qiu Jiang was looking at Zhu Long, but he also seemed to be startled when he heard this sentence, and turned to look at him.

The eyes of the two met, and each was speechless.

On the other hand, Jiang Wanyi let out a surprised sound.

Yi Fei immediately denied: “Nothing!”

Zhu Long said with a chuckle: “You all like her, but she only likes the young master! So, what right do you have to pity the young master?”

Jiang Wanyi’s eyes flickered, and he didn’t know what to think of, and said in a low voice: “Indeed, ‘she’ only likes Brother Ji.” As he spoke, he also drank the wine in his glass.

Yi Fei looked at Qiu Jiang and said, “I really don’t! It’s just that when I wanted to win over the Jiang family, the counselors suggested marriage, but it didn’t work out. Besides, it’s all in the past!”

Qiu Jiang was surprised and said, “The empress of Bi Kingdom likes Ji Ying? Does Zhao Yin know?”

Why is she focusing on that? For a moment, Yi Fei didn’t know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or feel disappointed.

“Of course Zhao Yin knew, that’s why he forcibly ordered Jiang Chenyu to be brought into the palace, just like Mrs. Xihe was forced to do so!” Zhu Long said angrily, holding the wine glass to ring.

Jiang Wanyi quickly tapped his hand and said, “Calm down, calm down. It’s all in the past.”

Qiu Jiang was surprised again: “What’s the matter with Mrs. Xihe? Does she also like Ji Ying?”

Zhu Long’s eyes turned red for some reason, and he said angrily: “She is the young master’s lover! If it wasn’t for Zhao Yin, if it wasn’t for him…” After hearing a click, the cup was finally crushed by Zhu Long, and the pieces were pierced He alone. Jiang Wanyi sighed helplessly, got up and took the medicine box to treat his wound.

Yi Fei Fu forehead. In the country of Bi before, others were under the eaves and were bound everywhere, so they didn’t get much practical and useful information. It is rare to have such a good opportunity at this moment. I wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of Zhu Long and investigate the origin and origin of Bai Ze’s organization. Let’s see what kind of cards Xue Cai is holding. As a result, Zhu Long, who has always been calm and introverted, gets emotional when he drinks, and talks about love and love…

I didn’t expect you to be such a Zhu Ye…

But compared to Zhu Long, what surprised him even more was that Qiu Jiang seemed to be very interested in Ji Ying’s emotional entanglements during his lifetime, and kept asking questions.

There was no drunkenness on Zhu Long’s face, but he changed his usual calm and self-possession, and answered Qiu Jiang’s every question. He explained all the things about Ji Ying, Mrs. Xihe and Jiang Chenyu before he was alive, and finally looked at Yi with red eyes. Fei said: “You asked me why I am willing to be a slave, and I will answer you – because! It is worth it! To be able to follow the young master first, and then Xiang Xue, my dog’s life is worth it!”

“A dog?” Jiang Wanyi was surprised.

Zhu Long was taken aback, but Yi Fei immediately reacted and smiled.

Zhu Long snorted, took the cup and walked to the window, bowed three times in the direction of the sky, and said, “Master, you gave me the name of Zhu Long, entrusted me with the ambition of Lingyun, I will never forget it in this life! Yongan!”

Yi Fei smiled, stopped laughing, and said in a low voice: “There are slaves who are loyal, little foxes inherit, and the queen misses you…I really have no right to pity you, Ji Ying.”

The wind whimpered, as if responding to him, but also as if mocking him.

Just then they heard a knock on the door, coming from the front door of the store.

The four of them suddenly looked serious—such a hurricane, there are still visitors?

Zhu Long immediately drew his sword and was about to open the door, but was stopped by Jiang Wanyi: “I’ll go.” Among the four, Qiu Jiang was sick, Zhu Long was drunk, and Yi Fei was the wanted man. Indeed, he was the most suitable to appear in front of outsiders. .

Jiang Wanyi went downstairs with a lantern and an umbrella, and walked across the yard to open the shop. Qiu Jiang watched his back, and for some reason, her expression became a little dignified.

Jiang Wanyi entered the shop and didn’t come back for a long time.

Yi Fei and Zhu Long realized something was wrong and looked at each other.

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