Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Clouded Leopard
When Ji Hongxiang appeared with red and swollen eyes the next morning, even Mu An, who had never paid attention to others, raised his eyes and looked.
Ji Hongxiang yawned, and her thoughts were still filled with the chaos of awakening. She originally thought that there was nothing important, maybe she could sleep back, but when she received the notice to leave for Zong's house immediately, she was completely stunned. In desperation, she had no choice but to pack her luggage with sleepy eyes, follow the other maids into the carriage, lean against the corner of the carriage, close her eyes to make up for sleep, and her head was still little by little.
On this day in early May, a total of five carriages drove out of Yucheng, and the rattling carriages rolled through the long bluestone slab street in the city, and slowly drove towards Yecheng, the central city of the northern sect.
Mu Yinxi rode a bare-hoof spirit horse and walked in the front, behind him was the carriage of the Mu family, in front of him were three carriages of mahogany brocade, the coachman drove three bare-hoof spirit horses from Yecheng, Mu Chongyun and the elders in the car were talking highly, with high interest, several people were like human spirits, picking up topics and chatting with each other without a trace, and after a while, they gradually got better;
Then the two carriages ridden by several favored children led by Mu Qingyuan, closely following the carriage in front, and several children sat down around her like stars and moons, more or less complimenting the most favored eldest lady, so that the proud girl let out a silver bell-like laugh from time to time, and her face was full of pride and excitement;
As soon as he sat down, he leaned against the side wall, holding a book that others couldn't understand out of nowhere, shrunk his shoulders, and looked at the book without distraction from the light of the window, while the rest of them, lower than Mu An's status, looked at each other awkwardly, and were all embarrassed and silent;
The two carriages that fell behind were obviously inferior to the three carriages in front of them, I don't know how many grades: each only an ordinary lean spirit horse pulled the body slowly (compared to Mu Yinxi at the front), and the material was also very ordinary, there was no carved decoration, no light gauze curtain, only a simple dark cotton cloth roughly covered the scene in the carriage, but unfortunately it couldn't cover the chattering sound inside - because there were ten servants and maids in the entourage, so there was a cart for the maids and a cart for the male servants.
Poor Ji Hongxiang is in the midst of such a group of girls who are chattering like sparrows, struggling and trying to maintain her sleep.
"I don't know what happened to the Ruyan sisters and Chunxi, they suddenly said that they would return to their hometown, Chunxi was even more surprised, I heard that her parents came to redeem her, and in the future, there is no need to be a maid like us!"
"I don't think that's necessarily a good thing! If you want me to say, when we join the sect family in the future, then we will have a better future than going back and becoming ordinary mortals! If I can be favored by any Immortal Elder, it will be—"
"Humph! Daydreaming! ”
"You, you! How do you speak! Xia Lian, don't think that you will have a lot of dignity if you become the personal maid of the eldest lady! It's not like we're a subordinate! ”
The one who was called "Xia Lian" was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, she had a proud face, and she had always thought that she was not the same as these inferior maids, listening to these ignorant little girls in front of her to have a beautiful dream of soaring, she couldn't help but snort coldly, but she didn't expect to be ironic immediately, and she was angry in her heart at the moment, and was about to teach the other party a lesson, when suddenly there was a tingling pain on her forehead, as if she had been hit by something, hotly, so scared that she couldn't care about teaching anyone anymore, Hurriedly took out the bronze mirror and looked left and right to make sure that he was not broken.
Ji Hongxiang's eyelids moved, and she quietly withdrew her hand under her sleeve.
Speaking of which, this Xia Lian used to bully people and caused her a lot of trouble.
Because of the absence of the Ruyan sisters and Chunxi, three newcomers were added in the end, and Ji Hongxiang was not very familiar with them, but he roughly knew everyone's temperament, basically except for Xia Lian, the personality was not very strong.
After Xia Lian quieted down, the others didn't continue to speak, only the rustle of wheels rubbing against the ground echoed in her ears, and with this very rhythmic sound, Ji Hong's head sank a little......
……
"Boom"!
The carriage stumbled suddenly!
Ji Hongxiang woke up suddenly, realizing that it was just running over the gravel, she squinted for a while, then sighed, stretched her waist, and faced the cool breeze blowing into the carriage, and suddenly sobered up a lot.
At this time, the speed of the carriage was much faster than at the beginning, and the curtain was constantly stirred by the wind, making a "poof" and "poof" sound.
The sweat and blood of the horse, traveling thousands of miles a day, can be described as the emperor of the horse, faster than the ordinary spirit horse. Lingma is generally stronger than ordinary horses, and if they travel day and night, they can also reach a speed of 800 miles a day. The distance between Yucheng and Yecheng is not too far, when Mu Yinxi came to Yucheng, the group drove the barehoof spirit horse, and it only took two days to rest and reorganize on the road.
However, the return journey is bound to be longer. Ji Hongxiang faintly heard people mention that it will take about seven or eight days to reach Yecheng. Of course, if it is a spirit weapon flying, I am afraid that it will arrive in half a day, but it is a pity that such a distance, it will continue to consume a large amount of spiritual energy, and only Mu Chongyun, who is currently in the late stage of foundation building, can barely do it, and it will also end up exhausting.
In the middle of the day, the carriage had already entered Muzi Town, where it stopped to rest.
The terrain of Minchuan is peculiar, surrounded by mountains, all are rugged, wild beasts gather, the traffic is inconvenient, only near Muzi Town, the terrain is gradually flattened, and Muzi Town is the only way to enter the center of Minchuan Yecheng, most of the people who enter Minchuan, all choose Muzi Town as a transit station. The superior geographical location of Muzi Town has brought prosperity here, with all kinds of shops lined up, and even the small street vendors on the roadside are all smiling.
After Ji Hong got out of the car, she followed Mu An to the inn's room to tidy up for a while, knowing Mu An's Xijing personality, she didn't open her mouth to invite, and couldn't wait to go out shopping alone.
Interestingly, when she came out, she also saw Mu Qingyuan and others who were also going out, a group of girls were talking and laughing, and there was even a girl in a green dress holding hands with Mu Qingyuan, like a close friend in the boudoir.
In the final analysis, being keen on shopping is the same no matter what age or age girls are.
Ji Hong's makeup shuttled between the vendors with great interest, sometimes picking up a string of obsidian bracelets, sometimes picking up a cold jade hairpin, the most interesting thing is a small puppet on a stall, as long as you enter a small piece of spiritual power, the puppet will dance a stumbling dance, as well as selling transmission rune paper, birds and beasts of various styles, as long as you pay an extra spirit stone, you can also tailor-made!
Ji Hong spent two low-grade spirit stones, bought ten five-mile transmission notes and five ten-mile transmission notes, and just put away the talismans, he heard a high cheer from the front.
"Good!"
"Wonderful!"
……
Ji Hong relied on her small person, pulled the crowd, and drilled into it as if she had a needle, a pair of small hands just opened the last two to see the light again, a black shadow swooped into her arms, and immediately fell down, she subconsciously held it, and touched a piece of soft and warm fur.
Looking down, a little leopard with black stripes on a white background was desperately drilling into her arms, and her little head arched to the ground, making her a little itchy, and her heart was also itchy, she touched its furry head, the little guy paused, raised his head, and looked at her with big black and white eyes watery.
"Huh?"
The soft cry made her heart crispy.
At this moment, a scolding voice sounded.
"Good little brute! Look where you're running away this time! ”