Chapter 46: Acquaintance
The way back was quite far, Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu padded half a piece of cake on their stomachs, drank a few sips of cattle by the stream, washed their faces, and tied up their messy hair, but they were all muddy and yellow, and walked with Jingchen in white clothes, which was still unsightly.
There are only the footsteps of three people in the quiet forest, Yu Shu looked at Jingchen's back, she had been fascinated by Jin Yong Gulong, and when she was young, she also had a yearning for the martial arts heroes in the book.
"Daxia, are you a Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain?"
Last night, she heard him report to his home, saying that what Longhu Mountain taught her, and she knew that Longhu Mountain was the place where the famous Zhang Tianshi of the Eastern Han Dynasty opened the mountain and established a faction.
Yu Shu is a layman, and he doesn't know that as one of the seventy-two blessed lands in the world, there is not only one open source in Longhu Mountain, and her question is actually too general.
Jingchen led the way in front, and when he heard her question, he didn't correct it, but only replied: "I am from Longhu Mountain." ”
"Is Longhu Mountain far away from Yiyang City?" Yu Shu listened to his willingness to answer, and did not put on a stand, so he was happy in his heart, so he went up the pole, pulled Yu Xiaoxiu a few steps faster, and hung behind him.
Da'an Dynasty is after the destruction of the Song Dynasty, replaced the Yuan and Ming dynasties, which lasted for three hundred years, she only knew that Yiyang City was in the south, but she didn't know anything else, it was rare to meet a foreign Taoist priest, of course, you have to have a good chat, long insight.
"Ten days away."
"Is Dragon Tiger Mountain in the east or west?"
"To the southeast of Yiyang."
"Is the hero coming out alone, and no one is with him?"
"I'm going down the mountain alone."
"Didn't the hero ride a horse, so you walked out on foot?"
"No horseback, no walking."
"Wow, you can really go."
"Hmm."
Yu Shudong asked, Xi asked, Jing Chen gradually felt that the young man had more words, but he did not show impatience, out of politeness, there was still a sentence to answer, but not half a sentence.
Yu Xiaoxiu rarely walked around in the suburbs, curiously looking at the surrounding trees and flowers, occasionally turning his head sideways to listen to them, without interjecting a word, as a native of the Da'an Dynasty, he was taught to respect cultivators since he was a child, and when he saw Yu Shu talking to a Taoist priest so boldly, he couldn't help but admire his sister a little more.
Yu Shu only thinks that this person is good-tempered, knows martial arts, and is a decent family, but he is not very arrogant, and he is willing to chat with her, the "wild boy" who was rescued halfway, and he has the idea of making friends, it is said that the people who teach are proficient in easy arts, if Yu Xiaoxiu can give him some advice, he will definitely benefit a lot, and then turn around and teach her, hehe.
She wanted to get closer, so she opened her mouth and said:
"Oh, I forgot to introduce it for a long time, hero, my name is Yu Shu, this is my younger brother Yu Xiaoxiu, dare to ask your name?"
"My name is Jingchen."
"It turned out to be a Jingchen hero." Yu Shu thought to himself, there are not many people with the surname Jing, this should be a road number.
The person in front suddenly turned around, Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu stopped, and looked at Jingchen in puzzlement, the sun rose, and the morning light shone his slightly frowning eyebrows very dazzlingly, and the sister and brother who looked at him were dazzled for a while, and listened to him:
"You don't have to call me a hero anymore, I haven't acted righteously, I haven't seen righteousness and courage, and I can't afford these two words."
He was clearly not modest, but seriously correcting the title, Yu Xiaoxiu secretly pulled Yu Shu, a little nervous, for fear that his sister would make this elder angry, but Yu Shu didn't care, and said:
"I don't think you're right about what you say, isn't it a hero to act righteously and courageously? Who stipulates this, this hero is I calling, in my opinion, you stopped the bad guys, and let us survive, this is a chivalrous act, why do you need to assess, why do I call a hero, why is it wrong, a hundred people and a hundred eyes, I think it's right. ”
Jing Chen's face was confused, what he inherited in his teacher since he was a child was orthodox morality, and he had already generalized about the merits, and now listening to this young man's words, he felt that it was right and biased, but he couldn't say what was wrong.
Yu Shu saw that he was silent, and when he was too full of words just now, he cleared his throat and asked carefully:
"Jingchen Daxia, did I call you like this, did it make you unhappy?"
Jingchen shook his head, he just felt that it was wrong for her to shout like that, and he was not unhappy.
Yu Shu grinned, revealing his tiger teeth, "That's it, I'll call me, since you're not unhappy, then I'll call it." ”
Jing Chen glanced at her, turned around and continued to walk forward.
"Whatever you want."
"Yes, hero."
Yu Shu squeezed his eyes at Yu Xiaoxiu, pulled him to follow, and continued to talk, Yu Xiaoxiu felt strange in his heart, always feeling that the Taoist in front of him was fooled by his sister?
The three of them walked all the way back to Yiyang City, the city gate was checking passers-by, I don't know what happened, they could only enter but not out, the unclean sisters and brothers were also stopped as beggars from other places, if it weren't for Jingchen, a Taoist priest, it would be the same thing to not enter the city.
Many people were blocked in the city gate, Jing Chen was wearing a conspicuous robe, where he walked by, naturally someone gave way, he looked handsome, and he was inevitably looked at a few more times by some big girls and little women, and he was ashamed to cover his face with his handkerchief sleeves and secretly looked, but no one dared to stretch out his hand to point.
Yu Shu dragged Yu Xiaoxiu to walk behind, and some people gave way, of course, they were disgusted with dirt and smell, so they took the initiative to avoid it, so Yu Shu originally wanted to ask passers-by about what happened, but there was no way to catch people.
Finally squeezed through the crowd, and when he arrived at a place under the city wall where there were few people, Jingchen stopped and said to the two of them:
"We're in the city, so we're going to say goodbye."
After speaking, without waiting for the two sisters and brothers to answer, they turned around and wanted to leave, how could Yu Shu just let him go, in a hurry, he reached out and grabbed his sleeve:
"Hero, where did you settle down in Yiyang City? Leave a place to go, so that when our brothers come home, we can come to the door to thank you. ”
Jingchen turned his head and saw Yu Shu's face full of sincerity, shook his head and said, "No, I'm sleeping outside and have no fixed place." ”
"Huh?" What should I do now, won't I find anyone again when I leave, where can I let him guide Yu Xiaoxiu?
Yu Shu was so stunned, Jingchen had already pulled her sleeve back from her hand, and she was about to leave, but Yu Guang glanced at a black handprint on the corner of her sleeve, her heart moved, she hesitated, and she had no choice but to say to the two;
"If anything, you can go to Merlin in the east of the city to find me."
After that, there was no more stranding, turned around and walked away, submerging into the crowd.
"Eh, big-" Yu Shu stretched out his hand and wanted to shout, but he fell back after screaming, and turned his head to ask Yu Xiaoxiu:
"Merlin in the east of the city? Where is it? ”
Yu Xiaoxiu scratched his hair, "There are several places." ”
"Alas, forget it, go home first, Aunt Liu must be in a hurry to death."
Everyone is gone, Yu Shu is no longer in the mood to worry, and pulls Yu Xiaoxiu to run home, but she doesn't know that Aunt Liu is not the only one waiting for her at home.
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Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu both walked south of the city for the first time, didn't know the road, turned around, and ran several more streets before they found the Ji family's mansion.
When I went back from the back door, as soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Aunt Liu sitting under the tree, and Uncle Saturday was also squatting aside.
"Aunt Liu, we're back!"
Aunt Liu turned her head and saw the two mud babies, and immediately ran forward to hug the two of them, crying:
"Where is Miss Young Master, why did you come back at this time, you scared me to death, it really scared me!"
If it weren't for the difference between master and servant, Aunt Liu would probably reach out and beat them twice to suppress the shock.
Yu Shu was okay, he laughed twice heartlessly, Yu Xiaoxiu was the closest to Aunt Liu on weekdays, and when she came home and was hugged by her, she almost cried again, Aunt Liu's voice was too loud, and the other two households in the yard ran out to see.
Uncle Saturday got up and followed, looking at the sister and brother who were covered in mud: "Where did this go, did it like this?" ”
Yu Shu had all planned on the road, and was about to make up nonsense, when he heard a servant woman on the side say:
"Since the person is back, let's take it to see the third master."
Yu Shu didn't think that with the identities of the two of them, getting lost for one night would alarm the third master, so he went to ask Aunt Liu:
"Aunt Liu, what's going on?"
Uncle Saturday explained beside him:
"Alas, the cousin of the Liu family was also lost last night, and he hasn't come back yet, they all said that the old man in Yiyang City has lost his children recently, and it just so happened that the two of you didn't come back last night, so I thought that you were also taken captive by human traffickers, in order to find the young master of the Liu family, the third master sent a message, asking you to come back and go over to respond."
Yu Xiaoxiu looked at Yu Shu, Yu Shu was worried in his heart, the two of them hid from the rain all night, and got lost again, and they were sent back by Jingchen after the last day, the rain was so heavy last night, and the others must have been trapped in the forest and lost their way.
So Chong Yu Xiaoxiu glanced at him and said to the people around:
"Then let's go into the house to wash and change our clothes, it's disrespectful to go to the third master like this."
Aunt Liu hurriedly said: "Okay, you go back to the house first, I'll go and bring you water, there are still steamed buns in the kitchen, eat two cushions, and when you come back from the third master, Aunt Liu will make food for you." ”
Yu Shu nodded, pulled Yu Xiaoxiu into the house, and as soon as he closed the door, Yu Xiaoxiu couldn't hold it back, and said nervously:
"Sister, what should we do?"
Yu Shu knew what he was afraid of, the two of them left Xue Wenzhe and ran away by themselves last night, this is not a big deal, where can he take care of others when he ran for his life, but if the Liu family knows that the two of them were arrested with Xue Wenzhe last night, and ran back first, it must be unhappy, if this Xue Wenzhe is safe and sound, if there is a three-long and two-short, wouldn't he be angry with the two of them?
But if they hide it, the Liu family can't find Xue Wenzhe, and if he has any accident in that forest alone, wouldn't he have killed a person?
Yu Shu thought about it, his eyes lit up, and he hooked Yu Xiaoxiu's neck and said in his ear:
"We'll talk about it later"
The more Yu Xiaoxiu listened, the more strange his face became, and he hesitated after the most reluctance: "Is this good, like this?" ”
"What's wrong, if it weren't for him, we might not have gone on an adventure, if it weren't for us, he might be a human or a ghost now, half of his life was saved by Jingchen Daxia, and half of it was saved by us."
Yu Shu patted him on the shoulder and turned to change his clothes.