As the closest city to Kyoto, Taiwei City is the second largest city in terms of the prosperity of the capital, and the streets are full of traffic and the liveliness is not far behind. Because it is very close to Kyoto, there is no difference in customs and folk customs, and Yan Qisan and the three of them did not plan to visit more, so they went directly to find a hotel to open a room after driving into the city.

Wuzhi drove the car, walked through the streets and alleys, and did not go to the luxurious restaurant, but walked around and around to the quiet residential area. The three people in the car didn't care about him, just busy packing up important things, Yan Qi specially asked the sewing room of Yanfu to make three big mountaineering bags with thick and strong oilcloth, and also asked the craftsmen in Cui Xi's craft shop to make a zipper with brass according to the drawings she provided and sew them on the mountaineering bag, there are several layers of storage bags in the bag, the most hidden bag contains the most important things such as road guides, silver tickets, and various identity certificates, and the other bags are divided into changes of clothes and grooming materials to be used when staying in the hotel. Daily necessities and other things, when you need to stay in the hotel, you only need to take this backpack off the car, other things can only be left in the carriage, the hotel management is also very advanced, the hotel has a special parking lot and guards the security personnel of the customer's carriage, after the customer parks the car properly, there will be a special person to record the things in the car with paper and pen, each side holds a copy in each hand, so as to avoid the loss of the incident, then the customer can claim from the hotel according to the list.

In addition to the backpack, Yan Qi also put his bow and some arrows on his back, and when he packed up, the carriage gradually stopped, and then he remembered to look outside to see where he was, but he saw a small bluestone square below, a snow-white wall in front of him, and a plaque hanging on the black lacquer gate, with the words "Wuling Ji" written on it.

"Miss, young master, young master Cui, it's time to get there. Wuzhi said respectfully outside the carriage door, "This is the place where the lord has arranged, and the lord said that this place is quiet and can avoid the noise of other residents." ”

"Okay, this place is nice to look at. Yan Qitou got out of the carriage one by one, jumped out of the carriage and turned around and stretched out his hand to help Yan Jiusama, and then Cui Xida.

Wu Lingji's men had already seen the guests coming to the door inside the door, and hurriedly ran out of two, one led Yan Qisan to the door, and the other took Wuzhi to the parking lot to store the car.

Entering the door of the black lacquer moon cave, there is a green lacquer shadow wall in front of you, the wall is hooked with a thin white line to repair the bamboo, and a sentence is written at will next to it: the edge of the stream, forget the distance of the road.

Bypassing the shadow wall, I saw a clear stream meandering inward, and on both sides of the stream, there were nearly 100 first-blooming peach blossom clip roads, which made people almost immediately pick up the following sentence in their hearts: suddenly meet the peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps between the banks, there are no miscellaneous trees in it, the fragrant grass is delicious, and the falling flowers are colorful.

In such a bustling city, there is such a place close to nature, which makes people feel relaxed and happy, although this "nature" is also carved and decorated.

Walking by the river, you will see the peach forest in the east and a house in the west, the white wall and gray tiles, under the sunset of dusk, it becomes platinum and black gold, reflecting the pink and gold peach blossoms, there is a kind of strange and dreamlike beauty.

"These are all small houses for guests to stay," the guy introduced to Yan Qi and the three of them with some pride, "Xiao Ji has a single house, a single courtyard, and a cross-courtyard and a double-storey small building for many people to stay, and the three guest officers can choose at will." ”

"That's good, let's have a separate courtyard, quieter. "Yan Qidao.

"Okay, you three here, please!" the guy enthusiastically led the way, and sure enough, the three of them were brought to a delicate courtyard surrounded by peach blossoms, the small courtyard is a quadruple type, because the wall is full of peach blossoms, there are no flowers and plants in the courtyard, only a fish tank is placed in the middle of the yard, the weather is still cold, there are no fish in it, only a tank of water and rain stones, and there is a well in the southwest corner.

There are beds and cabinets, kang and tables, and the furniture is complete, just like an ordinary people's home, even if you live here for a long time, it is not a problem, as long as you can afford the room.

Yan Qi lived in the main house in the north, Young Master Yan Jiu and Cui Xi lived separately in the east and west, and Wuzhi came in afterwards and picked the one in the south side of the inverted room next to the courtyard gate in the southeast corner.

The latest novelty of this small courtyard is that there is actually a kitchen in this row of upside-down rooms, when the guests want to eat, the food is not uniformly prepared from the large kitchen of Wuling Ji, but before the meal, the store sent a cook over, and now it is made in the room of this small courtyard, so that the meal can be served as soon as it is done, and there is no need to bring it from the large kitchen far away to avoid letting it cool.

The guy who led the way saw that the guests had settled down, so he smiled and asked if he needed to make dinner, Yan Qi nodded, and then asked him, "Do you have any specialty dishes in your store?" Since you are out to travel the world, of course, you have to eat a special food everywhere you go.

Before the guy could speak, Wuzhi was already next to him and replied with a smile: "The master said that the peach blossom salmon in Wulingji is the most delicious, and there are also hot pot of duck with green onion and pepper, shredded pheasant sauerkraut, assorted tofu, winter bamboo shoots and stuffed yam, and a chestnut keel soup, all of which can be tasted." ”

"That's it. "Yan Qidao.

Young Master Yan Jiu glanced at Wuzhi with a smile, can these kinds of food be said casually? This is clearly arranged, six dishes and one soup, three meat and three vegetables, chicken, duck and fish, mountain and home-style, from health to taste, all aspects, everything is meticulous, this is no one who cares about it, and he has to take care of three meals when he goes out across the mountains and rivers.

The guy should go, said immediately to call the cook to come over with the ingredients to do, Yan Qi and a few people went back to their respective rooms, first washed the dust on their faces, evacuated the muscles and bones that had been in the car for a day, and then Yan Qi began to make the bed, although the bedding and pillow in this place look very clean, but after all, it can't compare to the disinfection technology of that life, Yan Qi can be hard when it should be hard, and you will never be polite when you can pay attention to it, take out the sheets from the backpack, cover the mattress and pillows together, and people can sleep on it, and then take out a quilt cover, put the quilt provided by the store into it, and you can cover it。

After cleaning up his bed, his younger brother Yanqi went to the wing room to clean up for her brother, and then knocked on Cui Xi's door, and helped him to cover it up, and finally won Cui Xi's reward - a small peach blossom crown.

Wearing a small flower crown to the main room for dinner, Yan Zike's recommended dishes are indeed first-class, four people and six dishes, actually ate a fine bottom, five branches in the end even the soup is round, the cook is also responsible for entering the house to clean up the tableware, and finally wipe the table, make tea, go to the room to boil the bath water, after the boiling, he said hello to everyone and left.

Wuzhi locked the courtyard door, checked around, everyone took a hot bath before going to bed, and the others didn't know whether they recognized the bed Yan Qi didn't know, anyway, she fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow.

Sleep until you wake up naturally, but the sky outside the peach blossom paper window has not yet dawned, Yan Qi was lying on the bed and heard the five branches outside opening the courtyard door, it was yesterday that the cook came to make breakfast with ingredients, the well in the corner of the courtyard sounded the sound of drawing water, and the sparrows on the trees were crying.

What a strange morning.

Yan Qi didn't rush to get up, first did a few sets of sit-ups and push-ups on the bed, and then did pull-ups on the upper bed rail, until the outside gradually lit up, then went to the clean room to freshen up, still dressed as men, and didn't have to comb a very cumbersome hairstyle, which greatly shortened the dressing time.

Open the door and come out, the peach blossoms outside the wall reflect the morning mist and the golden color of the morning sun decorate the entire courtyard colorful and dazzling, take a deep breath, the cool air is wrapped with the fragrance of breakfast and immediately soak the heart, this fresh world really makes Yan Qi not get tired of tasting it.

Breakfast is also arranged with five branches, cloud sliced tofu, Suyou eggplant, sauced king melon, braised shrimp oil, bamboo small steamed buns, hemp kernel chestnut cake, japonica rice and bean porridge and pheasant soup. The chef also praised Wuzhi: "You must be a frequent customer of our place, yesterday's dinner and today's breakfast, ordering the dishes that have the longest heritage of the small shop and can withstand repeated chewing." ”

Wuzhi doesn't care about what inheritance, the master lets him do what he does, anyway, a few young masters and young ladies can't eat in the end all of them are in his stomach, this trip is really good, no wonder Sizhi cried and shouted and wanted to come out with him - all the way is to eat and drink all kinds of food, and it's strange that Sizhi's foodie is not angry.

After breakfast, Yan Qi, the eldest girl, put away the sheets and quilts in the three-person room, and Wuzhi checked the things on the carriage with the shopkeeper, replenished the water and daily necessities to be used on the road, and the group was remembered by Wuling and re-embarked on the road.

Walking slowly on the street, through the car window, you can see the people's livelihood in Taiwei City, some people are busy and some people are leisurely, and a city is a different world.

Out of Taiwei City, the carriage re-drove onto the official road, and ran in the same direction with the other travelers, and a large group of carriages meandered forward on the official road between the fields and the paths, like a high-spirited train, happily rushing to the place where the sun rose. Occasionally, there was a fork in the road, some of the carriages turned in the other direction, and some of the carriages joined the procession from the other direction, and the train was sometimes cleared, sometimes grown, and never stopped.

Yan Qi, who had been on the train, didn't feel anything about this situation, but Young Master Yan Jiu and Cui Xi were quite surprised by this, sitting by the window and looking out, from time to time someone overtook the car, or lined up with the car of the three for a while, and there were also people looking at the window of the car, if the man took a glance at most and withdrew his gaze, if it was a woman opposite, when he saw Cui Xi or Young Master Yan Jiu's face, he would either continue to look at it blindly, or hide in the dark and take a peek instead.

"You two don't make trouble," Yan Qidao said, "I can't protect you if you invite robbery." ”

Young Master Yan Jiu glanced at her, his gaze fell back on the book in his hand, Cui Xi smiled and pulled the curtain on the window, the soft cicada wing yarn did not block the light at all, but it could cover the situation in the car.

"I didn't expect this line to be so lively. Cui Xi leaned on the pillow, stretched out his long legs, and stretched his shallow waist.

Yan Qi sat at his feet, casually dragging a small blanket to cover his legs and feet, and was still using Cui Xi's knife to pry the walnuts in his hands, saying that it was prying, but in fact it was cutting at all, this small knife was so sharp that it could be broken by blowing, and it was almost effortless to make all the two halves of such a hard walnut shell.

"For the sake of time, as soon as spring begins, all industries are ready to be developed, and the business travel from the south to the north is about to start to be busy. Yan Qi peeled out the walnut kernels, put half of each of the two plates in front of him, and then went to cut another one.

"It's a pity that we didn't have time to get rubber tires," Cui said, "otherwise our car would have been faster." ”

"How can it be so easy," Yan Qidao, "A really usable rubber tire is mixed with many other things in addition to rubber, as far as I know, there seems to be carbon black, sulfur, talcum powder, etc., the proportion of these materials needs countless tests, and I am afraid that I will not be able to do it in a few years." ”

"I have a lot of time on me. Cui Xi smiled.

"Quick, take some time to get rid of these. Yan Qi put the plate containing walnuts in his hand, and the other plate was placed on the small table on Young Master Yan Jiu's couch.

Between Taiwei City and the next city, the road is a bit long, it takes about two days and one night, and there are some scattered small hotels on the way for travelers to stay at the tip. The sanitary environment of this kind of small hotel is really not complimentary, Yan Qisan and the three decided to spend the night in the RV, fortunately, there are bacon and puff pastry snacks that are not afraid of a long time, and buying some dry food when passing by the hotel is enough to deal with these two days and one night.

When they arrived in the next city, they were still led by Wuzhi to find a place to stay, and a few people spent two days in the city, shopping, experiencing the folk customs, and taking a bath and washing bedspreads and sheets - large inns have laundry workers who specialize in washing guests, throw away dirty clothes, pay some money, and get washed and dried clothes and sheets the next day.

Before leaving, Yan Qi did not forget to send a letter to Yan Zike, which was nothing more than what he saw and heard on the road and explained the situation of his sister and brother outside.

When we set off to the east, there were not many travelers on the road, and the scenery on the road had also changed in a new way, no longer the same farmland or wilderness, the terrain gradually rose and fell, and the mountains were in sight when looking into the distance.

"Fuyan Mountain, day and night stop, need to walk for three days and two nights. Young Master Yan Jiu slowly put away a copy of the eastern map from Yan Zike.

Fortunately, all the drinking water, charcoal and daily necessities had already been replenished at the previous stop, and the carriage continued unhurriedly.

When approaching Fuyan Mountain, there were no travelers in the area before and after the official road, after all, this is not a popular place, and it is commendable that although this official road began to become tortuous and winding according to the mountain, the road was still spacious and flat, and Yan Qi's RV drove as usual without pressure.

The dusk in the mountains seems to come earlier than elsewhere, the branches of the trees that have not yet sprouted new shoots are intertwined in the gray sky, and the towering rocks on both sides of the official road are overhead, giving people a sense of breathlessness.

Goeda parked the carriage on a relatively flat and spacious rock on the side of the road, and it was difficult to walk again after dark, so it was necessary to find a place to stay before it was completely dark.

Yan Qi jumped out of the car first, carried the simple toilet and ran to a distance for convenience, and when he came back, it was the turn of the men, and then moved the stove out to make a fire to cook rice, Wuzhi was responsible for burning the fire, Yan Qi was responsible for washing rice, Cui Xi helped to peel the bamboo shoots and cut bacon, and Young Master Yan Jiu was responsible for holding his hands and watching from the side. Yan Qi spread the ingredients into the pot, a layer of rice and a layer of bacon, and then a layer of rice and a layer of bamboo shoots, covered the pot, and the wood burning under the fire crackled, red and bright, and it was particularly warm and conspicuous in the dark and cold mountains.

After a while, the aroma of meat, bamboo shoots and rice in the pot gradually overflowed, and suddenly it was full of mountains and valleys with the mountain wind. Yan Qi and the three of them retracted into the carriage with the bowl to eat, Wuzhi insisted on eating outside, and wrapped the rest of the pot, Yan Qi discovered a rare thing: the thin Wuzhi is a big stomach, along the way, no matter how much is left in each meal, this person can give you all the essence!

- I can't see it! I look so quiet and beautiful!

After eating, taking a break, drinking a cup of hot tea to warm up, putting away the stove, pots and bowls, everyone was nested in the car, Wuzhi fed the horses and mules with bean cake and forage, turned around, and also lay back to his "coffin", the coffin lid was exposed, in order to hear the sound of the outside more clearly.

The time was still a little early, and Young Master Yan Jiu didn't plan to spend any more oil and wax, the three of them were lying on their respective couches in the dark or crookedly and gossiping, and gradually they were all sleepy, moved to lie down, and fell asleep before and after a while.

The night in the mountains is really cold, not much better than in the middle of winter, although Yan Qi has reminded him to cover the quilt before going to bed, but Young Master Yan Jiu still feels chills, but in the depths of his dream, he can't wake up no matter how cold he is, and he is not happy, and he suddenly heard his sister's voice in his ears coming into his head in a low voice: "Xiao Jiu, get up, get dressed, and go into the closet." ”

Young Master Yan Jiu opened his eyes, the faint moonlight shining through the car window was on the side of the couch, his sister had already turned around to call Cui Xi, and the bowstring behind him flashed a silver glow in the moonlight.

Young Master Yan Jiu's movements have never been so fast, getting up and getting dressed and getting into the wardrobe, almost in the blink of an eye, but Cui Xi didn't have such a speed, he just put on his coat, and the glass window next to him suddenly shattered, and a stone the size of a wine jar roared in, smashing on the couch of Young Master Yan Jiu opposite, if there was really a person lying there, this was enough to smash his head to pieces!

And at the moment when the glass window shattered, Yan Qi had quickly pulled Cui Xi away from the couch near the window, and then his figure shook in front of Cui Xi, the bow and arrow had been copied in his hand for some time, and the aiming posture was not out of the string without the arrow, and after coming out of the window, there was a sound of "poof" a sharp weapon into the flesh!

"Go into the closet, don't make a sound. Yan Qi whispered to Cui Xi.

Yan Qi heard the sound of gold and iron ringing outside the car, and Wuzhi's voice sounded clearly: "There is an enemy attack!" There was no title or instructions on what to do, this was for fear that the other party would know the people and the situation in the car.

Yan Qi wound the arrow again, and then quickly fell down the iron sash on the outermost part of the window on both sides, bolted in the car, it was difficult to open or destroy the sash from the outside after being closed from the inside of the car, and then Yan Qi went straight out of the car door with a bow, and turned over directly to the roof of the car after closing the door, and saw that in the dark night, seven or eight black shadows held weapons to surround their carriage, two or three of them were fighting with five branches, and the rest of the people seemed to be afraid of the arrow that Yan Qi had just released from the carriage, and they didn't dare to approach easily for a while, and there was a person lying on the ground closest to the carriage, and he was directly pierced through the chest by Yan Qi's arrow。

At first glance, seeing Yan Qi on the roof of the car, the black shadows were stunned at first, and then immediately pounced on them, some went straight to Yan Qi, and some went straight to the carriage door, Yan Qi drew arrows in his hand, and shot out one after another like flowing water, and then heard a series of "pop" sounds, followed by a series of "clanging" weapons landing sounds, but there was no human voice in all these sounds, Wuzhi looked at the opponent in front of him in surprise and fell down without saying a word, only to find that everyone at the scene was directly pierced through the throat by an arrow!

Wuzhi turned his head to look at the little master on the roof of the car with wide eyes—he knew that she was good at archery, but he didn't expect it to be so cruel, and in an instant! Seven or eight lives were gone in such a crunch! This, this, this, and that—it was simply a little evil star!

Before Wuzhi could come back to his senses, he saw a black shadow suddenly flying in the air behind Yan Qi with a cold sword light, slashing down the back of Yan Qi's head from top to bottom! This speed was so fast that Wuzhi didn't even have time to make a sound, and he was so shocked that there was only one thought left in his mind: It's over.

And it was too late to say that it was too fast, at the moment when the knife was about to touch the top of Yan Qi's head, the black shadow's hand suddenly flicked off, and the knife in his hand flew out to the side, and then another black shadow flew in, and the long whip in his hand was rolled and twitched, and the black shadow before was thrown to the ground!

"Stay alive!" shouted Goeda.

But the shadow fell to the ground and never got up.

The whip crouched down and looked at it, stood up and said, "I bite my tongue." ”

Wuzhi was a little frightened, such a decisive self-determination, could it be a dead soldier? How determined is it to use a dead soldier to kill them?!

Yan Qi got off the roof of the car and stood in front of the person who made the whip: "Are you a human or a ghost?"

“……”

"You'd better give a reasonable explanation, or I'll be afraid. Yan Qi continued.

...... "Are you afraid?" If you say this to the ghosts, the ghosts won't believe it.

"I ......" the one hesitated, but still couldn't make up any excuses, so he had to tell the truth, "I'll give you a ride." ”

Yan Qi: "......"

Wuzhi: "......"

…… Is this called a "stretch of road"? This has been walking for a few days and nights, okay? Is there such a giveaway?!

"You won't be running all the time behind, will you?" Yan Qi covered his heart.

…… How is it possible, no matter how perverted you are, you can't do it to this extent. "I was riding a horse, and the horse stopped over there. ”

"When did you start following us?"

“…… I...... Knowing that you had already gone far when you left for the eighteenth and rushed out of the city, I tried to chase you all the way east along the official road, waited at the gate of Taiwei City for a night, and saw you go out of the city in the morning, and have been following behind since then. ”

"Hey, why didn't you know about us?"

“…… I don't mean to alarm you. ”

…… So do you just want to silently accompany "a section" and then go back to Beijing alone without a sound? Wuzhi blinked and sniffed out a few hints of gossip.

"It's so capricious. Yan Qidao, "Does Lord Xiao know?"

"I left him a note. ”

"......" dare to love or cut first and then play, "Let's not talk about these first, Xiao Si Xiaojiu is still stuffy in the cabinet, I will call them out." ”

Yan Qi returned to the carriage, let the two people out, lit two wind lanterns, and came outside again to look at the people on the ground.

Young Master Yan Jiu saw that Xiao Chen was also there at first glance, his eyebrows couldn't help but raise, and he looked at his sister with a smile, Cui Xi was helping Yan Qi carry the wind lantern to shine on those people on the ground, everyone looked at it, and saw that they were all young and strong men, and there was nothing on them that could prove their identity, and even the kung fu routine Wuzhi was said to be an ordinary trick, which made it difficult to guess the motives of these people.

"Robbers?" Yan Qi guessed.

"When did you find out that they were following us?" Young Master Yan Jiu asked Xiao Chen slowly.

"From the time they left Taiwei City," Xiao Chen said, "at first they were dressed as civilians and drove the carriage, I thought they were also traveling, but before entering the mountain, they suddenly abandoned the carriage and rode instead, and wrapped the horse's hooves with cotton cloth to reduce the sound, but because it was far away from your carriage, I did not act rashly." ”

"Taiwei City ......" Young Master Yan Jiu lowered his eyes and thought about it, but he couldn't figure out why these people wanted to hunt down and kill the three of them, if they wanted to make money, there were many big merchants in those trips who were not much richer than them?

He was thinking about it here, and Yan Qizheng was talking to Xiao Chen over there: "Ming'er, you go back, how can you give people away like this, we are going all the way to the east, and the place where we go is far away, when are you going to send it to the end?"

"I'm ......" Xiao Chen looked at Yan Qi, and the moon suddenly hung on the top of the mountain.

Young and impulsive, youthful and ignorant, this green and sweet hazy taste is really a little envious, Wuzhi thought to himself next to him. 166 Reading Network