Since Xin Zi had already moved out of the jade whistle, that is, she had taken Zuo Qiyang to press her, and Takemoto naturally didn't dare to say anything.

But she still couldn't help but worry.

Even if it wasn't for the safety of Xin Zi and Li Yuan, she herself didn't want to stay in this creepy forest for a moment.

I am distressed.

Li Yuan suddenly came to Takemoto silently, turned his back to her, and squatted down.

"Come on, I'll carry you."

Li Yuan said a simple sentence without changing his face, but when Takemoto heard this, he stared at him with a pair of round eyes, and was even a little suffocated in shock.

But Li Yuan looked like he didn't care, as if at that moment the male and female defense had disappeared from him.

"Do you want to leave the woods sooner?"

Seeing that Takemoto was stunned, Li Yuan pursed his lips a little impatiently, and turned his head to ask her. Takemoto could only nod his head.

"What are you doing then? You also heard Ah Zi's words just now, you are not allowed to walk at will now, you don't want to spend the night here, and now Yuchen is gone, do you think there is any other better way? Li Yuan's words were unhurried, but to Takemoto's ears, it was more difficult for her to refuse than Xin Zi's jade whistle.

Bamboo looked at Xin Zi with some embarrassment, and saw that Xin Zi had a faint smile on his face, and after his eyes met him, he deliberately avoided it, as if he wanted to give himself more space. Takemoto felt a burst of gratitude in his heart, and knew that if he hesitated again, he would inevitably seem too ignorant of lifting, so he had to grit his teeth and lie on Li Yuan's back.

Li Yuan's body bones are much thinner than those of ordinary martial arts practitioners, but after all, it is a man's skeleton, and his shoulders are still much wider than that of women. Takemoto leaned there, and felt a warm breath pass through his back to his chest, startling her face with a burst of crimson, and her heart fluttered with it.

Xin Zi followed to the side and looked at the slightly cramped and jerky appearance of the two, and felt indescribable warmth, only tilted his head, but smiled silently, and only watched a good show of talented and beautiful women along the way.

To the south of the river clam forest, in the Willow Wind Inn, the blind shopkeeper was the same as usual for more than 300 days and nights a year, guarding a two-story building alone, from sunrise to sunset, with the only remaining ability to distinguish the light, it was estimated that it was night, and he got up from the rattan chair under the pergola, supported his knees with both hands, and stood up with some difficulty, and there was a gurgling sound of the decayed joints on his body in his ears, as if to remind him that his body bones were not as good as day by day, and it was not far from stepping into the coffin.

The blind shopkeeper shook his head, turned his back to his hand, and thought to himself: "It's still early, it's still early, it's better to die than to live." ”

He turned his head to the north and "looked" at it, then turned around, reached out and groped his way into the small building, slowly closing the wooden doors on both sides that were as old as himself.

The dim light in the small building was gradually closed and cut off from the wilderness outside the building, and at last only a thin light shone through the only remaining gap between the two doors, like a very fine tulle spread in the air.

The sound of hurried footsteps reached the ears of the blind shopkeeper.

It's a beast!

This small building is opened between the river clam forest and the Longji mountain range, and it is funny to say that among the living creatures that the blind shopkeeper deals with all year round, there are more four-legged beasts than two-legged people. So when he heard the sound just now, he heard it from afar, and he immediately knew that it was not a guest staying at the hotel.

The blind shopkeeper was old, but his mind was very clear, and he was not ambiguous at the moment, calmly closed the door, locked it, and was about to check whether the window was bolted, when he heard a roar outside.

It's a tiger roaring.

Obviously different from the howl of the group of orcs on Dragonspine Mountain.

The blind shopkeeper tilted his head slightly, and put his hand on the door with some puzzlement, as if he wanted to feel through the wooden door whether it was friend or foe outside.

As if sensing the blind shopkeeper's intentions, the white tiger stopped shouting, approached the door tamely, and rubbed his huge head against the door.

The smile on the blind shopkeeper's face bloomed little by little, and the scars on his face were also squeezed together.

"Jade dust?"

He asked in a low voice, his surprise in his tone.

Yuchen heard the voice of the blind shopkeeper and rubbed the door affectionately.

The door creaked and reopened, and the shopkeeper lit the lamp and came out, confused: "Only you?" What about the girl? Still in the woods? ”

Yuchen didn't say anything, took two steps closer to the shopkeeper, spun around at his feet, and finally curled up and lay down, as tame as a kitten.

The shopkeeper shook his head, simply hung the lamp in his hand on the door frame, and sat back on the rattan chair just now, letting Yuchen lie at his feet, and he took out a dry tobacco pouch and lit it.

The smoke flickered and brightened, like fireflies in the night.

Yuchen rested his head on his forelimbs and looked up in the direction of the river mussel forest.

"That girl brought humans over again? I couldn't get around it after so long in that forest, I'm afraid I'm trapped by the illusion inside, right? The shopkeeper followed Yuchen to the direction of the forest to "look" at the past, I don't know if he was talking to himself, or chatting with the white tiger to send loneliness, with a smile in his eyes, he shook his head: "It's really carved out of the same mold as her mother, and she can't leave humans for a moment, but she is not close to her own people at all." ”

The white tiger suddenly snorted, adjusted a comfortable position and lay down again.

The blind shopkeeper snorted from his nose and said, "Don't be unconvinced, this little girl, from the first time I met it, I knew that it must be in the same vein as our red clothes, and it has nothing to do with that group of cold-blooded white clothes." With her pure-hearted energy, it is impossible to be a person with her grandmother. ”

The white tiger looked at the blind shopkeeper, only listening to him talking to himself, and he didn't know whether he understood the meaning of his words.

In this way, one person and one tiger sat outside the inn and chatted for most of the night, and the blind shopkeeper seemed to suddenly have hope, and the conversation was very good, and even the restlessness of the beast clan on the Dragon's Back Mountain Range, which was usually the most worried, was left behind.

Seeing that the moon had set and entered the darkest period before dawn, several figures in the distance approached, the blind shopkeeper looked in the direction of the footsteps, and Yuchen had already rushed up to meet it.

Xin Zi was suddenly pounced by the white tiger who stood up much taller than herself, and almost fell backwards, but her face was full of smiles, rubbing the fluff on the white tiger's head and shouting "Jade Dust".

The three of them came to the blind shopkeeper.

Li Yuan and Takemoto came to the Willow Wind Inn for the first time, and the two of them were shocked when they saw the shopkeeper, and they were a little speechless for a while. Li Yuan stared at the extremely dazzling circular scar on the neck of the blind shopkeeper for a long time.

Xin Zi walked to the blind shopkeeper as if she saw a close relative, leaned over and whispered in his ear: "The shopkeeper, stay in the store." (To be continued.) )