"Has Madame been sent back to the Xiao Mansion?" Hu Li was lying on Xiao Qiao's lap, holding a chicken leg in his hand and gnawing it fragrantly, the oil stains on his hands accidentally rubbed Xiao Qiao's body, he stuck out his tongue and pretended not to see it.

Xiao Qiao rubbed his hair funny, put the chicken bones in his hand aside, wiped his hands with a wet handkerchief, and patted him on the back.

"What do you do when you eat like this?" Xiao Qiao picked up Hu Li, let him lie on his chest, and pinched his nose, "Mother suddenly fell ill, so she was naturally sent back to Xiao Mansion for diagnosis and treatment." ”

"Is Tai healing good?" Hu Li still remembers what Xiao Qiao said before that Mrs. Xiao was seriously ill and died.

"It doesn't matter if it's cured well or not." Xiao Qiao said indifferently, lifted the curtain of the car window, and looked at Xiao Hongyong, who was riding a horse outside, "The weather is good today, do you want to go out for horseback riding?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Hu Li nodded, and sat up all of a sudden, "Let's go, let's call Shang Hongyong and the Eighth Prince together." ”

"Go and ask His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince if he wants to come out and ride a horse?"

"Yes, young master." Shuzhu got out of the carriage and ran quickly to the carriage in front of him to ask.

Xiao Qiao lifted the curtain of the carriage and followed the guards walking outside and ordered: "Go find two horses, this official must ride a horse." ”

"Yes, sir." The guard nodded, clamped the horse's belly, turned the horse's head and went to the back, Xiao Qiao took out two sets of close-fitting suits from the cupboard on the wall of the carriage, "Come, change your clothes and go again." ”

Hu Li nodded, took the clothes, he and Brother Xiao are now wearing beautiful and extravagant wide-sleeved robes, if you ride a horse, it is not as comfortable as a close-fitting suit.

After changing their clothes, the guards outside also led the horses over, and the two of them did not get out of the carriage, but jumped directly from the carriage to the horses.

"Let's go, Brother Xiao, let's call the Eighth Prince." Hu Li grabbed the horse's belly and ran out first, Xiao Qiao shook his head and followed him unhurriedly.

Most of the guards who had been accompanying Xiao Qiao's carriage had their eyes lit up, they had always thought that Xiao Yuanwailang was a weak scholar, but they didn't expect that his skills were not bad. Although it was just a simple jump on the horse, it could be seen from his relaxed movements that he was also a practitioner.

Xiao Qiao didn't expect that just such a move on the horse would make the soldiers accompanying him have a much better impression of him, and it would be much easier for him to do things in the northwest later, and the soldiers would execute his orders quickly.

"Eighth Prince, come out and ride a horse." Hu Li ran to Qin Yuyi's carriage, knocked on the wall of the carriage, and laughed loudly.

The eighth prince lifted the curtains of the car, looked at Hu Li and smiled, "Brother Hu Li, you wait for me, I'll come after I change my clothes." ”

"Okay." Hu Li nodded, Qin Yuyi put down the curtain of the carriage, quickly put on his shoes, got off the carriage and jumped on the horse.

"Let's compete, and whoever gets to the bottom of the hill in front of us first wins." Hu Li pointed to the small mountain bag in front of him, Qin Yuyi nodded, "Okay." ”

In the past, most of the meetings between the two of them were in the palace, and only when Qin Yuyi could go out of the palace to learn the art of war with General Weng, they could meet outside the palace, and they still had to avoid meeting people. Qin Yuyi was afraid that one would bring trouble to Xiao Qiao and Hu Li if he was not careful, so it was even more impossible to ride a horse like this.

Xiao Qiao watched the two of them discuss how to run by themselves, and didn't mean to ask him at all.

"Brother Xiao, come on." Hu Li turned his head with a happy smile on his face, this time he will definitely be able to win against Brother Xiao and the Eighth Prince.

Xiao Qiao shook his head, pointed at Xiao Hongyong and said, "You and Your Highness go down, I want to say a few words to Hongyong, be careful when you run, don't get hurt." ”

Hu Li wrinkled his nose, looked at Xiao Hongyong, who had already arrived next to Xiao Qiao, and nodded, "Okay, let's go first." ”

Xiao Qiao watched the two of them shout to the guards next to them, then rode out together, and shook his head with a smile: "Children have a temperament! ”

"Big brother."

"How is it in the military?" Xiao Qiao restrained his smile slightly, but he still seemed to be in a good mood, "Grandmother, father, and Aunt Liu are all thinking about you." ”

Xiao Hongyong nodded, "Very good, thanks to the ...... that the eldest brother gave me before." That book. ”

Xiao Qiao glanced at him with a smile, but he could talk about the scene.

"I intend to let you go to the Eighth Prince's account to train, are you willing?" Xiao Qiao looked at Hu Li and Qin Yuyi who ran away, if he wanted to hold power in the future, he had to let Xiao Hongyong follow Qin Yuyi early.

Xiao Hongyong was silent and did not speak, although the Eighth Prince was no longer the same as before, it was not much better. Even if he followed General Weng to learn the art of war, no one thought that General Weng would be on his side, after all, the Weng family is a well-known royalist, never standing in line and never forming a gang, which is also the reason why the emperors trust the Weng family and dare to put the military power of the army in the Weng family. For the Weng family, no matter who becomes the emperor, it has no impact on them, and they will not support the eighth prince.

"Why?"

Xiao Qiao didn't look at Xiao Hongyong, but pointed to Hu Li and Qin Yuyi, who were only two little figures left, "How about a run?" ”

"Yes." Xiao Hongyong nodded, and galloped with Xiao Qiao.

"Even if the Eighth Prince doesn't become an emperor in the future, he will still be a general," Xiao Qiao smiled at the corner of his mouth, "Now that he is in good health, he wants to do so much." ”

Xiao Hongyong was stunned for a moment, but he didn't let go lightly. Who knows who will be the emperor in the future, if the prince who sits on the throne of God can't accommodate the eighth prince, he will have no way back.

Xiao Qiao chuckled, barely audible in the rush.

"What if you enter the account of the Eighth Prince, and then enter the account of General Weng?"

Xiao Hongyong's eyes suddenly lit up, if he could enter General Weng's account, no matter who ascended the throne in the future, it would have nothing to do with him.

"Really?" Xiao Hongyong was stunned for a moment when he looked at Xiao Qi's galloping horse, he never knew that his eldest brother had also practiced some.

"Yes, let's try it." Xiao Qiao clamped the horse's belly again, and the horse ran out violently, leaving only a sentence scattered in the wind, "There is still time." ”

To reach the northwest, it will take more than half a month on the road, and when he walked to Jinhai Mansion in the north, Xiao Qiao took Hu Li and separated from the army, leaving two disguised stand-ins in the carriage.

From here, they walked eastward for about seven days to arrive at the small county town where Li Huai had come.

"The people here are just like the villagers down the mountain, they're so tall!" Hu Li looked at a man in an animal skin coat pushing a cart over, and said with envy and emotion.

"Let's go," Xiao Qiao led Hu Li, and Li Huai, who had already joined them on the road, followed behind them with the people of Hanshan Pavilion.

"Master, from here to the east, it will take about half a day to reach that valley, do you want to rest before leaving?" Li Huai pointed to the east gate of the small county town, from which he could see a mountain range outside the city.

"Go now." They didn't come out without scruples, "What's going on there?" ”

"I've already sent people to deal with the poisonous insects there, and I've already transported a batch of them." When Li Huai said this, he remembered that when they had cleaned up the poisonous insects and opened the last door there, what they saw was full of gold and silver treasures, as if they had dazzled people's eyes.

When they left the county seat, they got on their horses, and they were much faster.

When they arrived, they saw another shipment of gold and silver being brought out of the grotto, and large boxes after large boxes were loaded onto the wagons that hauled the goods, and covered with straw and canvas.

"After transporting it back, I will melt all the marked ones and make them into gold bars," Xiao Qiao took out a coral string from a box, put it in Hu Li's hand and played with him, and led him to continue walking into the grotto.

The outside of the grotto is a funnel-like shape, with eight passages at the bottom, and only one leads to the final treasure spot.

Li Huai led the way in front, holding an oil lamp in his hand, "At the beginning, Xia Liu, who was still good at arranging formations, took some time to find out that this was a formation, if he made a mistake, in addition to good luck, he would go out and walk into the mechanism set up early." In order to prevent accidents, this formation did not move, Xia Liu just calculated how to enter the formation. ”

"Xia Liu is amazing!" Hu Li's eyes were shining, when his grandfather asked him to learn the formations, he always couldn't remember the laws of those big formations.

"It's not that Xia Liu is powerful, Xia Liu said that he used to be obsessed with the ancient books of various formations in his hands, and he had seen this formation, and the ancient books were marked with how to solve the formation." Li Huai illuminated the road ahead and reminded, "Go this way." ”

"Oh!" Hu Li nodded, squeezed Xiao Qiao's hand and looked around happily, "Huh? ”

"What's wrong?" Xiao Qiao followed Hu Li's gaze and saw a small blue grass growing on the side of the passage.

Hu Li leaned over and took a closer look, "Brother Xiao, this is a water spirit grass, and the fruit it bears can be eaten directly to increase spiritual power." ”

"He's not fruitful yet." Xiao Qiao pulled up Hu Li, who was about to lie on the water spirit grass, Hu Li puffed out his face, "Brother Xiao, you forgot that your grandfather gave you a test, saying that you are a water spirit root, and this thing is just right for you." And, it's almost fruitful. ”

Xiao Qiao took a closer look again, it would take at least more than ten years for this water spirit grass to bear fruit, that is, Hu Li, the little fox demon with a long lifespan, felt that the time was short.

"Alright, let's go, and we'll come back when he bears fruit." Xiao Qiao led Hu Li and continued to walk forward, Li Huai, who was following them, looked confused, why do I understand every word that the master and the little boy say, but I don't understand it when they are connected!

Walking through the intricate passages, Xiao Qiao and Hu Li finally saw the place where the previous dynasty had hidden the treasure, a huge hollowed-out cave filled with chests and some jewels that had not been packed into the box were scattered on the ground.

"That's a lot!" Hu has never seen the world, and his mouth is wide open, looking at this full of gold and silver treasures in a daze, even if he is a fairy, he will drool, how many chickens do you have to buy!

"Remember to leave a corner and don't take it away," Xiao Qiao looked around and instructed, "Finally, I will eliminate all the traces of our visit here, and I will use the gold and silver left behind." ”

"Yes, master!"