Emperor Phoenix

Chapter 125

"I slipped through the secret way, but I told Yu Hai in Longzhang Palace that I was in poor health and never saw anyone." Xiao Jue smiled and said, "It's also thanks to your secret way is extremely secretive. Up to now, every time I Slip out, and the Hidden Guards won't be able to find it."

"How can my housekeeping skills be discovered by irrelevant people." Qin Changge smiled proudly, "By the way, where is that zombie-like guard? I haven't seen him appear by your side for a long time."

"You mean Qing Sha?" Xiao Jue said helplessly, "You are a vengeful man. That old man's sword pierced through his lute bone, and he lost most of his martial arts. I asked him to take care of him, but he said he was a A useless person is not worthy of staying by my side, if one day he can practice martial arts again, he may come back again, and then he left."

"Hmm..." Qin Changge thought slowly, "What is his background? I don't think I've seen him before."

"In the early years of Qianyuan, I patrolled the frontier and was assassinated in Youzhou. He rescued me." Xiao Jue looked a little weird, and said simply: "This man was originally a chivalrous man who worshiped under the sect of Fang Yi, a great man in Youzhou, but because of his personality, he saved me." He is withdrawn, indifferent, and not sociable, he is not liked by Fang Yi, and he refuses to do some things that make money but make money, so that his life is very poor, his wife and children have nothing to eat and wear, and they are hungry and cry in the middle of the night. Hearing the hunger and cold of his family members, he quietly got up and went to the slop bucket behind the restaurant to find food—the end of the hero’s end, and this embarrassment is really sad.”

"Now he has lost his martial arts," Qin Changge spoke slowly, as if he was thinking about something, "wouldn't life be more difficult?"

"I asked the local officials in Youzhou to pay attention to whether he has returned to his hometown, and to report back at any time, and asked them to take care of the young and old of the Fang family," Xiao Jue said, "It doesn't matter if you think about it."

"It's hard to say—" Qin Changge suddenly smiled sarcastically, but immediately changed the subject, "You were assassinated? How could you be assassinated? Who assassinated you?"

"Ah...this...it's nothing..." Xiao Jue's eyes immediately started to dodge, looking left and right, "Probably a spy from the Northern Wei Dynasty, anyway, it's over..."

Grinning and staring at Xiao Jue, Qin Changge stopped asking, trying to cover up?Just cover it up, be careful I will tear off your fig leaf in the end.

"Then let's go lodge, go to the old man's house," Qin Changge looked at the cottage, pointed to the yards of the best houses with blue bricks and large tile houses, and said, "That's the house, by the way, Do you have any money?"

His Majesty the Emperor innocently showed her his sleeves and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not in the habit of carrying money."

Sighing plaintively, Qin Changge slowly took out a few silver coins from his sleeve, picked the smallest one, and murmured: "If you can't come out with this person next time, you're just a softie." ..."

Xiao Jue who had already started walking ahead immediately turned around and asked, "What is eating soft rice?"

"Oh, it's the kind of man who doesn't do anything about production, just sits there all day, devotes his "energy" occasionally, and then waits for others to send food, gold and silver, and lives on other people's money. Simply put, your emperor is this job."

"It sounds similar," Xiao Jue said thoughtfully, "but why do I always feel that there is something wrong with your words..."

He took out his silver and told the family who were having dinner that his brother accidentally got lost when he went out for an outing and missed returning to the city. Qin Changge, who was seeking a night's accommodation, received warm and simple hospitality from the old man's family.

This seems to be a well-to-do farming family with a large population of seven or eight people. Grandpa Shi and several sons, the eldest son has married a wife and had children, but they have never separated.

Facing the wooden table covered with plaster full of all kinds of wild vegetable dishes, and looking at the son and daughter-in-law of Grandpa Shi's family who are diligent in persuading the dishes, Xiao Jue asked Qin Changge suspiciously, "Do we think of others like you?" so bad?"

"Maybe we think too much about others," Qin Changge picked up a chopsticks and piled it on his bowl, "but this is green food without Mongolian sweat medicine, you can't eat it in the palace, come on, come on Eat some."

Grandpa Shi of the Shi family kept watching them eat with a smile, and shouted to his grandson while smoking his pipe, "Liu, remember to leave food for your fifth uncle!"

The simple-faced child agreed, and went to the kitchen to prepare meals. Qin Changge looked at his back, with a piece of rice in his mouth, and asked mutteringly, "Grandpa, it's late and there are still guests."

"That's right," Grandpa Shi's family answered with a bit of pride: "My five boys are working in the city, and I sent a message that they will go home tonight and bring an official family back. "

"Official family?"

"Yeah," the old man raised his beard and was very proud, "I heard that he is working in the yamen, he is very handsome, somehow he fell in love with my fifth boy, said he is smart, and introduced him to the office worker in the yamen. There are not many things to do, and a lot of money, he is really a good person!"

Ah Liu came over with a rice cooker, and smiled honestly, "Guests use more rice... In fact, everyone in the village has made a small fortune recently, and it's hard to say who earns more."

"What do you know!" The old man stared, "They are short-lived guests, but they will leave in a few days. Although there is a lot of money, it is only for a while. How can your fifth uncle work in the yamen, with a steady flow of water and a decent appearance?" It's beautiful again!"

Ah Liu smiled, not arguing with the old man, but Qin Changge said with a smile: "There are foreigners living in the village? Our brothers didn't see it just now."

"Let's not talk about you, my old man hasn't seen it a few times, it's mysterious," the old man took a deep puff on his cigarette, squinted his eyes comfortably and said, "Men and women, they all cover their faces, walking erratically, and Don't talk, look at people's eyes, and get hairy!"

"Grandpa, don't scare the guests," Ah Liu said suddenly, "Not all of them are like this. Last time I was drawing water, I saw the pair of female guests who lived in the second aunt Liu's house in the west of the village. One of them seemed to be sick. The wind blows away her veil..."

He stopped suddenly, his dark face flushed slightly, he rubbed his hands and lowered his head.

Qin Changge and Xiao Jue looked at each other, and a name flashed in their eyes at the same time.

"Yun Hua!"

Mysterious whereabouts, peculiar gait, sick (injured?) and beautiful woman... No matter how she sounds, she looks like a member of the Color Gu sect.

I've been hunting them down recently, and I don't want them to hide here.

After taking a bite of the rice, Qin Changge continued to ask casually: "There are so many people in the village, except for Grandpa's house, every family lives in a lot of guests. It seems that they have a lot of income."

The deliberate "except Grandpa's house" immediately stimulated the old man's vain and aggressive nerves. He slapped his thigh and said in a hey voice: "Where is there! There are only ten houses in the west and east of the village, and there are only one or two people in each house." , how can there be so many!"

Twenty families, each with one or two people, about three to forty people.

The two looked at each other again, with a slight worry in their eyes.

Putting down his chopsticks, Qin Changge smiled and said, "Grandpa, you are a wise man. Those people will leave after a few days. How can they stay in the yamen for a long time...It's night, and our brothers have been driving for a day. Please arrange a haystack, as long as you can rest."

"How can I neglect the guests so much without being laughed at as an old man who doesn't know how to be polite?" Grandpa Shi's eyes narrowed with a smile, "Liu, make arrangements for the two guests."

Going to see Xiao Jue again, he stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Little brother, you brother, you really don't talk much."

"He," Qin Changge quietly bowed his head to the old man, and pointed to his own head, "He broke his brain when he was a child, and he hasn't seen the world. You're laughing at me."

"Oh--"

Xiao Jue pinched Qin Changge's palm angrily and amusedly. He wanted to warn her, but he didn't want the touch to be soft and slippery. His mind swayed and he wanted to say something, but he forgot.

Following Ah Liu out, the young man wanted to take them to sleep in his own small room, but Qin Changge stopped him, pointed to the firewood room in the courtyard, and said with a smile: "This is good, don't worry about it, brother."

She insisted on her tone, the young man glanced at it, and thought that his small bed was not enough for two men to squeeze, so he silently piled up a big pile of grass in the firewood room, spread it neatly, and lived in a small and quiet room. In the space, the sunshine and the fragrance of the grass itself are exuded.

Ah Liu went out, Qin Changge sat down on the grass bunk, raised his head and smiled and said, "It's been a long time, do you want to experience it too?"

Xiao Jue smiled, and sat down beside her. The grass was warm and lubricated, and he sank into it as soon as he sat down. The two of them squeezed tightly together in an extremely intimate posture.

But this is no longer the time for intimacy.

The moonlight shines in through a small window on the board wall, the small lonely village is silent, and the lone wolf howls on the barren hills in the distance. It sounded like a sound, like a drum before a war was about to start.

On the snow-white ground outlined by the moonlight under the board wall, two figures, head to head, were reflected, approaching...gradually approaching...after a while...then slowly separated.

In fact, it was just two people lowering their voices and talking nervously.

"Three or forty people, we must not do anything."

"Then leave now?"

"No—there are strangers in the village, they must be paying attention, we should have been targeted, if we leave at this time, the two of us will face forty elite figures of the Color Gu Sect, and there may be half-faced strongmen among them, that is A dead end."

"... Changge, in case something happens, remember to run away by yourself."

"I will remember to collect your body."

"...Forget it, I know that what I said is in vain. You chose this firewood house, but because this location is right between the three main houses and close to the courtyard wall, it is convenient for observation and escape?"

"Yes, and Xiao Jue, I think it's very strange for the five boys in this family to work. Why did the person who introduced him to work fall in love with a boy from a remote country? Also, what's the matter with going home with him in the middle of the night? What's going on?"

"I also don't think it's that simple, maybe I'm with Cai Gu."

"It's hard to say, I'd rather be, if other forces intervene, we'll be finished—in short, tonight will definitely not be peaceful, let's wait and see what happens, no matter what, life-saving is the priority."

(End of this chapter)