Chapter 1 The first snow in Handan Mountain
Ping'an Town, a border town north of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
A snowfall in early winter gave the streets a new coat, and a horse-drawn carriage drove slowly on the largest street in town.
"Crunch-crunch", the guards on both sides of the carriage made the only sound here as they stepped on the snow. The quiet streets are empty but not desolate, and in winter, the shops close early. What time was it in the afternoon? Dinner time was just after dinner, and it was almost closed.
In an open inn, the shopkeeper was wrapped in a thick animal skin and leaned against the door. "Crunch-" Suddenly startled by the sound of crunching snow, Shopkeeper He picked up his eyes from the snow on the ground and looked at something that disturbed his thoughts—a carriage driving in the snow.
"Landlord Wei's family is going hunting again?" Lao He was puzzled in his heart, "Didn't the county guard just hold a hunting tournament when he came a few days ago?"
"Shopkeeper, does this carriage belong to the Wei family?" Suddenly, a small head poked out of the inn, with small eyes and a big nose, and his lips were purple from the cold, this was a teenager, who seemed to be no more than fifteen or sixteen years old.
"Go, go, do your job, in such a big place as Ping'an Town, who else can afford to hire guards when they go out?" shopkeeper He slapped that on the head.
"Oh~" The boy touched his head, twitched the tip of his frozen red nose, and retracted his head back into the room.
"It's strange, when did the Wei family go out instead of three or five carriages and one hundred and eighty guards, why did only one person go out this time?"
Lao He watched the carriage pass by, and slowly walked away, no longer pondering, and turned into the house.
Behind the carriage, in front of six guards dressed in coarse linen clothes, walked an emaciated young man, whose face was unusually pale, as if reflecting the snowy sky in the distance.
The boy was about sixteen years old, half a head shorter than the guards around him, and his large, green eyes were fixed on the snow on the ground, and he walked in unison.
If you look closely, the left breast of the teenager is slightly bulging, but the thick winter coat covers the more obvious traces.
"Xiao Qi, come in, don't let these bears find out!"
Suddenly, a fiery red head emerged from the collar, with a tuft of black hair on the top, which seemed to be some kind of demon beast, or a small demonic beast.
"It's okay, how could these stupid big guys find out? I'm a very smart mouse Xiaoqi!" a very proud voice sounded in the young man's head.
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"Miss, I'm at home. One of the guards in front of the carriage bowed and said.
The young man looked at the huge door of the mansion in front of him, and his divergent eyes regrouped, "Wei Mansion?".
"What are you doing standing! Come with me. Before the boy could come back to his senses, he was slapped in the face.
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"Little boy, you really want to stay here, it's so boring! You're just a guard here, you don't have a chance, hehe. ”
"Shut up. The boy patted his left chest lightly, "Don't worry, this is just my first stop." A little domineering responded to another voice in his head. It's just that when he "speaks", he still has confused eyes, and he doesn't seem to have focus.
In the early morning of the next day, next to the verandah of the Wei family's outer mansion, a young man in Tsing Yi sat on a railing, leaning against a thick pillar, his eyes were empty, and his thoughts drifted away.
"What's your name?" said a young girl, coldly.
"Name?" the delicate-faced young man repeated blankly, as if unconsciously.
"Hey, what do you think!
"Uh-huh, I don't have a name. The young man looked at the so-called young lady in the maid's mouth, with cold eyes, willow eyebrows, and skin like snow falling from the sky. Further down, the pale cyan veil obscured everything, making it difficult for others to get a glimpse of the face.
"Miss, look at this man, he must be lying to you, how can anyone have no name......!
"Okay, Ling'er. The girl whispered, "You don't have a name?" The two good-looking brows furrowed rarely.
The boy looked at her, slightly distracted. "Hmm......" wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.
"Miss!" he ......," the girl named Ling'er said hurriedly, but was stopped by the girl raising her hand.
"You said you don't have a name, but what about your parents? What about your family? Where do you live? Why are you in the forest? It's the territory of monsters. Also, you ......" The girl asked one after another as if she had discovered a new world, but she hurriedly stopped. Ling'er looked at her young lady with a strange expression, as if asking, "Miss, why are you so out of shape?"
"This is what she really looks like, not ......," the boy thought to himself. "I'm lost, me, my father and mother...... I was looking for a job in a bigger town. ”
"Oh~ That's it......" The girl looked at him thoughtfully, her cold eyes suddenly became lively and smart, as if she wanted to see through all of him.
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"Since you don't have a name and you need a job, follow me. The girl thought about it, and said in a tone of not quite sure that she was abducting an ignorant teenager.
"From now on, you will call, call, well, Wei Jiu! Old Five, take him. ”
"Yes, miss. One of the guards responded.
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The boy's thoughts gradually returned, as if he had made a decision on what he was considering, and seemed to leave yesterday behind, and his dark eyes gradually gathered light.
"Wei Jiu?" the corners of the young man's mouth hooked slightly, "Then call it Wei Jiu." ”
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In the inner courtyard of the Wei Mansion, the small building where the head of the family, Wei Shengtian, lives, is on the third floor.
"Dad~ Why did you get my guards away. Wei Shengtian put down the book in his hand and looked at his baby daughter helplessly and pityingly. At this time, the girl with cold eyes and a veil was tugging at her father's arm, and put the book on the table behind her as if threateningly.
"Yun'er, don't make trouble!"
"Where did I make trouble! Obviously, your old man snatched the guard I had so hard to recruit!" This girl named Yun'er was pestering her father to be coquettish at this time, looking like "If I don't satisfy me, I'm going to make trouble".
Wei Shengtian, the head of the Wei family at the peak of the Dan Realm, was frowning at this time, and he was helpless. If any of the martial artists in Ping'an Town saw it, I'm afraid their jaws would drop in shock. No one could have imagined that this "Wei Wudi" in Ping'an Town would be pinched to death by a young girl!
"Oh, our little princess will recruit guards?" Wei Shengtian looked at his baby daughter helplessly, and the two thick eyebrows on Guozi's face were rarely wrinkled together.
"Hmph, that is, it doesn't matter whose daughter I am, I'm Ping'an Town...... "The girl rubbed her head and glared at her father in disgust. The head of the Wei family and the number one master of Ping'an Town didn't dare to lose his temper.
"Okay, I'll keep him this time, but not for example. The head of the Wei family had a solemn face, and he wore a navy blue robe, revealing the majesty of the head of the family, giving people a sense of not being angry and arrogant, and he also had no way to do anything about this eccentric daughter. "Okay Dad!" Wei Yun happily ran to the door, opened the door and turned her head as if she suddenly remembered something, "Dad, your old man is busy first, don't bother the little one, say goodbye!" The girl made a gesture with her hands in fists, her pretty face was serious, and then she laughed and amused herself, and walked out of the room with a smile.
"How old is this girl, and she is still so childish. Hey~" Wei Shengtian reluctantly picked up the book and continued to figure it out.
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"What do you want, boy?" a voice in his head interrupted his thoughts.
"Nothing. Wei Jiu shook his head, "Xiao Qi, do you think we need to show our hands? It's better to be a guard than to raise horses!"
"I said, what do you kid think!Okay, it turns out that you want to marry into the Wei Mansion and become a son-in-law!" The voice sounded in his head again, and a fiery little red head poked out of his collar.
"Crooked~ crooked, don't talk nonsense, okay, who is going to be a son-in-law? Wei Jiu explained helplessly. "Wait for some entanglement and go on the road, otherwise the road is so far away, will we starve to death on the road without entanglement?"
"Do you want to earn gold coins? That's not easy? Let the rat master go to this mansion and take a walk around the warehouse, what's not?" the voice said arrogantly.
"I know you're good, okay. Wei Jiu replied in his head as he poured buckets of forage for the horse.
He knew that as long as he concentrated his consciousness to sense the fluctuation of another wisp of soul breath in his mind, what he thought could be directly imprinted into that wisp of soul, and the owner of that wisp of soul would receive the message.
This is one of the gains he has made in the seven years of the Dark Forest with Rat Xiaoqi.
No one knew that they could communicate like this, and no one would know, because this method of soul communication was unique to the legendary sixth-level demon beasts and some powerful people of the human race, and no one would think that the red squirrel with a cluster of black on its head could be a sixth-level demon beast, a peak demon beast equivalent to the powerhouse of the Terran Shattered Realm!
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