Chapter 31: Departure
It's not a temporary decision to leave, a few months is enough time to find a suitable buyer to sell Yaqu, but Qingyin has never considered changing it, although it is impossible for them to come back if they leave, but after all, there are many good memories here, and it is good to leave it to Ye Qian to think about. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
has lived in Jimo City for ten years, and now that he is leaving, Ye Qian packed up for a long time, and finally only packed a small package, but there was nothing to take away. Leaving Jimo City, she wants to find the next piece of debris, although the sea of people is vast, she doesn't know where to look, and she doesn't know where the next destination is, but she knows that as long as there is Qingyin and Chenghuang, there will be a home.
On the eve of leaving, Ye Qian put the packed baggage on the lacquer table, sat sideways on the edge of the couch, held his face with both hands, and leisurely looked at Cheng Huang, who was engrossed in roasting chestnuts next to the stove, and suddenly asked on a whim: "Rhubarb, you said that your home is in the country of the white people, will you miss home?" ”
After a pause with the fluffy paws of the chestnut, Chenghuang pursed his lips disdainfully, and replied nonchalantly: "If the god is not you, children will not be able to leave home!" ”
"That's it......" Ye Qian just asked casually, so he didn't care too much about Cheng Huang's answer.
The round, short-legged cat squatted by the stove on the rattan pier, its ears facing forward, its pupils slightly widened, and its beard drooped slightly, looking preoccupied. The charcoal in the furnace burned red, and the whole room was warm, Ye Qian looked at the yellow in front of the fire, a little drowsy.
The room was quiet, and after a while, there was a sigh that was so low that it was almost undetectable, "There is nothing to ......be nostalgic for."
Although Chenghuang is loved and admired by the people in the country of the white people, it is only because he has the divine power to make them immortal. Later, in the two thousand years since he was swallowed by gluttony and lost his original power, Chenghuang has been living a very nervous life, disguising himself with babbling, for fear that the people will find out the truth, so he will no longer treat him in every way. It's not that I like to be flattered, but the loneliness that no one cares about is terrible.
The room was full of the aroma of chestnuts, which was mouth-watering, and occasionally a few crisp sounds of chestnut shells being roasted and exploded woke up Ye Qian, and the "rhubarb ......" looked at the lonely appearance of Chenghuang pulling her ears, and she suddenly realized that her unintentional words seemed to poke at Chenghuang's sore spot. Even the seemingly carefree Chenghuang actually has sad things that he doesn't want to talk about with others! Before the words of comfort could be spoken, the next moment she was really startled by Hua Yuejin who suddenly appeared in the ground, "Sister Fox, why are you here?!" ”
After Hua Yuejin appeared, he took a chestnut that Chenghuang had just roasted and put in the gourd scoop, which made Chenghuang dissatisfied. Hua Yuejin didn't care, while opening the chestnuts and eating them with relish, the taste was not bad, and I had to get it again. Chenghuang reacted quickly, and hurriedly dragged the gourd scoop over with one paw, carefully covering it with his paws in front of him, and his round eyes stared straight at Hua Yuejin.
Seeing that his hand was empty, Hua Yuejin pursed her lips and pursed her red lips slightly, "You are really stingy!" He threw the chestnut shell casually and smashed it on Chenghuang's head, which provoked Chenghuang to be fried again.
Glancing at Cheng Huang's angry appearance, Hua Yuejin shrugged his shoulders fearlessly, turned his head to look at Ye Qian, and blurted out without thinking: "I'm coming to see your teacher...... Oh no, of course my sister came to see you. As he spoke, he twisted his waist and walked towards Ye Qian with a smile, patted the chestnut crumbs on his hand, and said lightly: "Recently, things have been busy, and Xuanhu Ran is making trouble, and now he is fleeing from the human world, and I have to chase after Grandma Fox, so my sister doesn't have time to come to see you." Hua Yuejin said innocently, her already charming and beautiful face became more and more pitiful, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she sat next to Ye Qian: "But this time my sister came in a hurry, I didn't bring you anything, how about bringing you some grapes next time?" ”
Ye Qian smiled slightly, and shook his head again and again: "It's okay, sister doesn't have to bring things every time, I don't have anything for you, I won't be happy to accept my sister's things." ”
"You're kind to me?" Hua Yuejin patted Ye Qian's shoulder quite proudly, and sighed lightly: "Little sister, how long does your master plan to avoid me?" ”
"Master is avoiding you?" Ye Qian was puzzled and blinked, "Why is Master hiding from you?" ”
"Uh...... This ......" Hua Yuejin's face was slightly embarrassed, she didn't go directly to Ye Qian's place when she came, but was about to sneak into Qingyin's room, but she was hit by the enchantment outside the door, and now that she thinks about it, she is still full of depression, gritting her silver teeth and hating: "He set up an enchantment outside the door!" "How can I say that she Hua Yuejin is also a flower in the demon world, and there are countless suitors, she surrendered her identity and took the initiative to send it to the door, but she met Qingyin, a master who does not enter the oil and salt.
As soon as Hua Yuejin's words fell, Chenghuang sneered, and then laughed, almost falling from the round pier to the ground, laughing and teasing: "Be content!" It's good that the old immortal didn't send you back to the demon realm directly. ”
Ye Qian echoed and laughed twice, although Hua Yuejin didn't have any bad intentions, her temperament was really enthusiastic, and she was a little overwhelmed, not to mention the master. "Sister, we're leaving here tomorrow." Ye Qian thought about it, but still chose to tell Hua Yuejin, lest she pounce on her next time, and the strange dream last time had already been forgotten by her after a few months.
"What? Where are you going? ”
Shaking his head, "I don't know, maybe I will go to Chu State first." ”
"That's it......" Hua Yuejin thought for a moment, suddenly pursed the corners of her lips and smiled slightly, and gently patted Ye Qian's shoulder, "It seems that it will not be easy for my sister to see you in the future." He let out a long sigh, his face was depressed, he lowered his head and pretended to cry and wipe his tears, but there was a slight sly light in his eyes. It was not easy for her to find Qingyin, if they left, where would she go to find it in the vast sea of people, secretly urging her mana, and secretly placed a demon realm tracking secret technique on Ye Qian's body so that she could always grasp their whereabouts.
"Sister, you don't have to be sad, you'll see you again if you have fate."
Hua Yuejin smiled, "Yes, we will meet by fate." "But this fate also has to be fought for by yourself." Little sister, my sister still has something, you can't delay it for too long, just leave first, take care of yourself! ”
"yes, okay."
As soon as Ye Qian's voice fell, Hua Yuejin disappeared, as elusive as when she came. "It's good to know how to spell!" Ye Qian's face was tilted, his eyes flashed, staring at the direction where Hua Yuejin disappeared, envious.
"Wow, what's the big deal!" Cheng Huang picked up the roasted chestnuts from the stove, scalded his tongue out again and again, and then said angrily: "Little Yezi, didn't you say that you won't be so close to the fox?" How disobedient! He even told her we were leaving! ”
"Huh?" Ye Qian came back to her senses and looked at Chenghuang with a smile, "Sister Fox doesn't have any bad intentions, not to mention that the master saved her back then, she just ......" suddenly stopped, and didn't continue, she just didn't come up with a suitable word, but Hua Yuejin's mind Ye Qian thought that she might be able to understand a little.
At about the second hour, the carriage stopped at the door of Yaqu, and the coachman paced back and forth in the snow with his hands in his cuffs to keep warm, and the tall horse pulling the carriage was boringly digging snow on the ground with his hooves. Because the road is slippery in snowy weather, you can't walk far in the day, so you have to start early.
Seeing that the carriage was coming, he excitedly got into the carriage and found a comfortable place to sit, waiting for Qingyin and Ye Qian. After living in Jimo City for ten years, he can finally go to other places to see, he knows that the blood duck and fish cakes of the Chu Kingdom taste very good, but he has never tasted them, so he can't wait to feast on them at the moment.
When Qingyin saw Ye Qian, he noticed it, and secretly eliminated the almost imperceptible smell of incense left by Hua Yuejin on Ye Qian's body. He saved her back then, and he didn't need her to repay him, and he didn't want to be entangled too much. At this time, he walked side by side with Ye Qian, and his slender jade-like fingers were slightly bent to hook a copper lock, no matter what, he still had to do it to hide people's eyes.
Ye Qian was wrapped in a thick white fox, and her waist-length hair hanging down the back of her head was blown by the cold wind, and occasionally blocked her eyes, so she reached out behind her ear, carrying a heavy small burden on her arm, and there was an extra bag of roasted chestnuts stuffed in by Chenghuang in the baggage, I don't know what method Chenghuang used, the chestnuts roasted last night were still steaming at this time. After going out, Qingyin closed Yaqu's door smoothly and turned around to lock the door, but Ye Qian stood aside and did not move, frowning, "Master, let me lock the door!" ”
Qingyin naturally understood the reluctance in her heart, bowed slightly, took the burden from Ye Qian's hand, and handed her the copper lock. "It's cold, don't stand outside for too long."
The copper lock tentacles were cold, Ye Qian couldn't help but shiver, pursed the corners of his mouth and nodded with a smile. Watching Qingyin get into the carriage, she turned around and locked Yaqu's door, and then stood in front of the door and was stunned for a while, the home she cleaned and cleaned up every day will be abandoned forever, and her heart is sour.
Cheng Huang poked his head out from behind the curtain of the carriage, the cold wind blew the hair on his neck, blowing several flowers, and he was so frozen that he shouted at Ye Qian's thin little body against the white snow: "Little Yezi, go!" Don't grind! ”
"Alright, here we go!"
The carriage drove on the small road outside Jimo City, there was thick snow along the road, Chenghuang was originally sitting between Ye Qian and Qingyin eating roasted chestnuts with a comfortable expression, but after a while, his face and beard were full of crumbs, and then Qingyin couldn't bear it, and he pulled the fur on the back of Chenghuang's neck with a look of disgust and threw him to the other side of Ye Qian.
Chenghuang glared at Qingyin several times, but he was too busy stuffing chestnuts into his mouth and was in no mood to care. A full look, sticking out his little pink tongue and licking his paws. Suddenly there was a neigh, and somehow the carriage stopped suddenly, Ye Qianyi was unprepared and almost rushed forward, but fortunately, Qingyin pulled her back in time, and Cheng Huang almost bit his tongue, and ran out of the carriage to find out.
didn't give Chenghuang a chance to go out, but the coachman lifted the curtain first and looked in, his honest face was full of guilt, "Sir, are you okay?" I couldn't help it, but a flying squirrel suddenly came and startled the horse. The coachman lifted the curtain and carried a stunned gray-white flying squirrel cub upside down.
Qingyin glanced at the things in the coachman's hand lightly, and did not see the slightest panic, Yun replied lightly: "It's okay, continue to hurry." ”
"Flying squirrel? Is it a flying mouse? Ye Qian came back to his senses from the frightened scene and asked curiously.
The coachman nodded, and handed the flying squirrel in his hand upside down to Ye Qian, "That's it!" ”
"Can you give it to me?"
The coachman handed it over without saying a word, and before Ye Qian could take it, he was intercepted halfway by Cheng Huang, and then saw that he quickly threw the stunned flying squirrel directly out of the car window, and with a disgusted expression, "Stinky mouse, what's so good!" ”
"Rhubarb, you ......"
The coachman was also stunned, staring at Chenghuang with round eyes, unable to speak for a long time. After living for so many years, he has never seen such a humane cat, this is ...... This is to become a refinement!
Qingyin frowned slightly, coughed lightly, and the coachman came back to his senses, smiled embarrassedly, lowered the curtain, and continued to drive the carriage off. The wagon clung against the soft snow, and there was a heavy creaking.
"Rhubarb, you're going too far!" Ye Qian's hand lifted the curtain and looked out, and he was a little worried when he didn't see the shadow of the little flying squirrel, "Master, if we leave it alone, will it freeze to death?" ”
Chenghuang threw a sentence indifferently: "It has grown a whole body of hair, and it can't freeze to death." ”
"But you're also hairy, aren't you also afraid of the cold?"
"......" Chenghuang rolled his eyes, "God doesn't care, anyway, if you want to take in a mouse, no!" ”
Ye Qian was stunned, glanced at Qingyin's expression and couldn't help laughing, and then said: "Hehe, rhubarb, you won't be worried about leaving Xiao Ash and your pet status will not be guaranteed, right?" ”
"Pets?" Cheng Huang almost choked on his own saliva when he heard it, "You are the pet!" "Still, what is Ash? His name was 'Rhubarb', and the stinky mouse was called 'Little Gray', and the dignified beast was reduced to the same level as the mouse. "Little leaf, you...... Do you choose a name just by color? "He also thought that his name was 'Chenghuang', so Ye Qian called him 'Rhubarb', but he never expected it to be like this!
"yes, or not?"
Cheng Huang looked disdainful, and turned his head to look at the silent Qingyin on the side, "Old immortal, don't you feel ashamed to teach such an apprentice?" ”
Qingyin's face was slightly unnatural, and she coughed lightly twice in embarrassment. Cheng Huang didn't know why, but Ye Qian laughed and quipped: "Master's name is not necessarily much better!" ”
Ye Qian and Chenghuang talked about the reason why Qingyin gave her a name, and as a result, the master and apprentice were ridiculed by Chenghuang together. Cheng Huang laughed while constantly patting the inner wall of the carriage with his paws, "Hahaha...... According to this line of thought, Yaqu means ......" After thinking about it, his face suddenly changed, and he looked a little lively: "Old immortal, you don't think it's a kind of 'Yafun' to pick up a child and raise it, right?" ”
Seeing that Qingyin didn't refute or agree, it was estimated that Chenghuang had guessed correctly, Ye Qian pulled the corners of his mouth and couldn't laugh, but he heard Qingyin say unhurriedly: "It's not." ”
Ye Qian's eyes suddenly brightened, and she turned her head to look at Qingyin pitifully, but the heart she had just raised fell heavily back into her chest, because she heard Qingyin's spring-like voice and added: "I also want to have a pet." ”
This time, Ye Qian and Chenghuang were speechless at the same time.
After a short silence in the carriage, Ye Qian smiled slightly and concluded: "No matter what, if you open a teahouse in the future, you will have to call it 'Yaqu' because ......" hesitated slightly, and chuckled: "Because Master gave Yaqu to me as a dowry, I can't regret this!" ”
"Hey, sure enough, it was taken by a fox, and the girl's family doesn't know how to be reserved at all."
When Chenghuang said this, Ye Qian's face suddenly turned red, and he grabbed a chestnut next to him and knocked it on his head, "Why am I not reserved!" ”
Cheng Huang dodged away, pointed at Ye Qian with his front paws, and looked at Qingyin and squeezed his eyes, "Hahaha, I'm angry!" ”
Hearing Chenghuang mention Hua Yuejin, Qingyin frowned slightly, his eyes slightly raised to look at Ye Qian, who had a ruddy face, and also felt that it was not good for Ye Qian to have too much contact with Hua Yuejin, so he instructed: "Qianqian, don't have anything to do with that fox demon in the future, after all, shemales have different paths." ”
"Master, but ......" Ye Qian pursed his lips, and as soon as he raised his head and came into contact with the eyes of Qingyin and deep as if he could see through people's hearts, he silently lowered his head, swallowed back the words he was about to ask, and nodded. Suddenly felt a sadness in his heart, no matter how obsessively Hua Yuejin liked the master, she was just a fox demon in his heart? If she hadn't been able to sense the existence of the soul fragments, maybe when the ten-year period came, Master would have left whether she wanted to marry or not!
The carriage drove by, leaving two clear rows of rutted marks on the snow. But the road ahead is vast, and they don't know where it will lead or how long it will take.
The world is changing, and the powerful Qi State will eventually come to the end of decay. In the fourth year after Qingyin and his party left Jimo City, King Yan united all the countries to attack the Qi State, and that huge revenge battle finally began. The Qi army was overwhelmed by the combined forces of Yan, Zhao, Chu, Han and Wei, and retreated in defeat and retreat, and was captured more than 70 cities, and finally only kept the two cities of Jucheng and Jimo. At this point, the hatred that had existed between the two generations of Qi and Yan for more than 50 years finally came to an end, and that battle also became the prelude to the future destruction of Chu by the Qin State.