Du Heng hugged Qu Nianqing and returned to the sweet date.

The mountains were barren, thousands of years of work had been burned, and all that was left was a few charred stumps and a pile of bricks and rubble. Weeds are overgrown in the ruins, and all the spirit animals that used to play and cry are gone.

Du Heng took Qu Nianqing's hand and stood in the scorched earth in the enchanted forest, looking at the mountain gate of Ganzao Mountain, and did not speak for a long time.

Since the day he fled in a hurry, he has not returned home for more than 100 years. He imagined countless times that he would return home with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command to rebuild his homeland. But in the end, he lost his relatives and best friends one after another, and finally left only a lonely family, with a child who was not related to him at all.

The two of them stood under the warm sun for a stick of incense, and finally walked into the mountain gate. The white marble school yard has long been blackened and shattered by the fire, and the stone lamps are crooked. The main hall at the end of the school grounds had also collapsed, and a few broken pillars were lonely in the ruins.

"Uncle, is this your home?" Qu Nianqing raised his head and asked cautiously.

Du Heng's body shook twice, he let go of Qu Nianqing's little hand and slowly walked to the school field, helping the stone lamps up one by one.

Qu Nianqing looked at Du Heng's lonely back, and sighed unconsciously, looking a little young and old. Then I also ran to the stone lamp.

When he reached the last stone lamp, Du Heng suddenly stopped. He saw that under the ashes on the surface of the stone lamp, sword marks were deep into the lampshade.

It was the trace of Su Hua, the trace left by Du Ruo when he was competing with Xisu.

Du Heng suddenly couldn't cry.

It's all my fault, it's all because of me, Ah Ruo couldn't go home with me, and he couldn't even return to his roots. I'm waste, I'm waste......

Qu Nianqing silently walked behind Du Heng and hugged Du Heng's thigh.

"Uncle, don't cry, you still have me."

Du Heng lowered his head, looked at Qu Nianqing's worried little eyes, and said with a smile: "What can you do?" Don't you want me to protect you? ”

Qu Nianqing pursed his lips and said dejectedly: "Alas, it's all my aunt's fault, she never taught me the fairy law, or I can help my uncle fight the bad guys." ”

Du Heng suddenly remembered Shen Jiao's last words and asked, "Little grasshopper, do you know why your aunt didn't teach you the fairy method?" ”

Qu Nianqing shook her head and said, "I don't know, and not only does she not teach me the immortal method, but she also takes me to live in another place every few years, so that I don't even have a friend......

Du Heng said: "She doesn't want you to be involved in the struggle of the immortal clan like your parents. However, if you are an immortal for one day and an immortal for life, if you are an immortal, how can you hope to live a mortal life. ”

Qu Nianqing looked at Du Heng's complicated expression, a little confused.

Du Heng smiled, took out the small stick from his arms, and stuffed it into Qu Nianqing's hand.

Qu Nianqing pinched the small stick and raised it in front of him, and said curiously: "What is this?" Toothpicks? ”

Du Heng said: "This is your father's salty pond gun, which your aunt gave me before she died." ”

"Guns? How can there be such a small gun? ”

As soon as the words fell, the salty pond suddenly elongated and became larger, but it was not the original length, but just commensurate with Qu Nianqing's short figure.

"Wow!"

Qu Nianqing swung the body of the gun twice, and a stream of energy poured into Qu Nianqing's hand like a trickle, spreading all over his limbs. He closed his eyes, his feet off the ground, and floated into the air.

Du Heng looked up at Qu Nianqing, who was as light as a feather, and was shocked in his heart.

This is, what seal has been lifted?

Qu Nianqing opened his eyes and found that he had actually flown up, and he couldn't help but be startled. As a result, the mana supporting the body suddenly withdrew, and Qu Nianqing fell to the ground hard.

"Less...... Young Master......"

Du Heng looked up and found a small group of people and horses trembling in front of the mountain gate.

Isn't this the group of people who came to snatch the grasshoppers that day?

Qu Nianqing spit out a mouthful of sand, raised his head and said in surprise: "Huh? Why are you here? ”

Several people looked at each other, and a man led by him said, "My aunt is dead, and we have nowhere to go, so I followed you all the way......"

At the mention of Shen Jiao, Qu Nianqing lowered his head sadly.

The man hugged his fist at Du Heng and said: "Du Jun, we didn't know Taishan that day, we didn't know your noble status, and I wanted to forgive you." ”

Du Heng waved his hand.

The man added: "Although we are the Qu family, we have not participated in the battle of the wildfire, and we have no part in the encirclement and pursuit. Not only that, but we also go around saying nice things to people so that they don't kill you......"

Hearing this, Du Heng couldn't help but lower his head and laugh.

It is estimated that Qu Laoer's people have followed Qu Laoer to travel all over the world, and it is possible that they did not participate in the battle of wildfires. But this statement of saying good things to others everywhere is inevitably too deliberate.

"We are all a group of nobodies who obey people's orders, my aunt is gone, we are homeless," the man swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at Qu Nianqing who was sitting on the ground, "I hope you can give us a chance to stay by your side and serve you and the young master well." ”

Du Heng looked at the gray-faced disciples of the Qu family and felt a little pitiful. He was about to speak, but he didn't expect to be preempted by Qu Nianqing.

"You want to stay? Yes! Qu Nianqing stood up and patted the dust on his buttocks, "You clean up this place, and then repair all the houses on this mountain, and I will let my uncle keep you here." ”

Du Heng smiled dumbly.

This kid actually started to make decisions for me, and he really didn't treat himself as an outsider.

When a few people heard that they could stay, they were so happy that they almost cried, and they said hello to Du Heng and went down the mountain to buy a guy. After a while, the group pushed the cart, held various tools, and called a bunch of helpers, and they were busy with their work.

The Qu family is really a bit nimble, and it only took a month of work to repair the entire Ganzao Mountain, but the grass and trees in the mountains could not be resurrected.

The phoenix fire burned the sweet dates to the ground, and even the roots of the plants and trees were scorched. Du Heng often went to the mountain stream to water the land, but he never saw a bud.

Ganzao Mountain has no grass and trees, and its name does not live up to its name, it is more like a mountain of houses covered with neat courtyards.

Du Heng often stood at the door of the main hall, looking at the stone lamps on the white marble school yard in a daze. When those people were cleaning up, he specially instructed them not to lose these stone lamps, even if they couldn't be cleaned.

The stone lamp was repaired and still stood in place, which was the only trace that Du Ruo left in the sweet date.

Qu Nianqing quickly became familiar in Boshan. With Du Heng's support, he soon became the street bully in Boshan Town. After learning the immortal law every day, he went to the town to be the child king. The children in the town love and fear Qu Nianqing, what they love is that he often uses immortal methods to bring many new things to children, and they are afraid that if any child violates his authority, he will use immortal methods to punish others.

However, after all, Qu Nianqing has a child's heart, although he is a fairy fetus, he still doesn't know the severity of his hand, so there are often townspeople in Boshan Town who pull their children and find sweet dates to find Du Heng's theory. Looking at the crying children, with bruises and purple on their arms, Du Heng had no choice but to apologize and send things and money. When he sent those people away and turned around to settle accounts with Qu Nianqing, he always rummaged through every brick and tile and couldn't find half a figure. And when the anger subsides, Qu Nianqing will stick up coquettishly again, making Du Heng angry.

Du Heng felt very helpless about this ghostly boy.

"Uncle, I didn't mean to throw Ah Luo off the tree, in fact, he had to go up to pick loquats, and secretly hid the big ones......" Qu Nianqing deliberately pretended to be milky, pulled Du Heng's belt and fiddled with it in his hand.

"He won't give you the big one, so you're going to clean him up?" Du Heng pulled his belt back.

"Nope...... I saw that he was standing unsteadily, and I wanted to help him ......" Qu Nianqing arched into Du Heng's arms, sniffing the Lan Zhi breath on his body, "I didn't hold it, he still fell down......"

Du Heng shook his head helplessly and rubbed Qu Nianqing's hair into a mess.

"You little ghost, can you save me some snacks?"

"Dim Sum? What dim sum? Qu Nianqing poked his head out of Du Heng's arms, "Is there anything delicious?" ”

Du Heng held his forehead and said, "You know how to eat ......."

Qu Nianqing snorted lightly and said, "I don't just know how to eat, I also know a lot of things." I heard Luo say today that there are many mythical beasts in this world, including Qiqi, Hanqi, gluttony, and Kunpeng. He said that Qiqi had always been taken care of by his uncle's family, and then he was released by the bad guys and ate a lot of people, and in the end, his uncle surrendered. Uncle is amazing! ”

"Bad guy ......" Du Heng smiled bitterly.

Silly boy, this bad guy is your mother, do you know it?

"He also said that Kunpeng was also in the care of his uncle, but I haven't seen it for so long, did it not listen to my uncle and ran away?"

"Kunpeng ......"

Du Heng fell into deep thought. He and Kunpeng hadn't seen each other since the eve of the Wildfire War. He wanted to go to Beizhu countless times to look for Kunpeng's traces, but he was always delayed by a pile of. Although it is temporarily peaceful, there is a demon king of the mixed world at hand, and he is always not at ease when he leaves this kid alone at home, with that group of Qu family disciples who are submissive.

"Uncle! What do you want? Qu Nianqing stretched out his hand and gently patted Du Heng's face.

Du Heng came back to his senses and said, "Kunpeng is not under my care, he is my friend." ”

"And where is he now?"

Du Heng sighed and said, "He ...... now I guess it's still in that place, I don't know. ”

"Do you know where he is?" Qu Nianqing came to the spiritual head, "Then let's go find him, shall we?" ”

Du Heng shook his head and smiled: "That place is not for children. ”

"Why can't you go? Are there ghosts? I'm not afraid, I have my uncle to protect me! My uncle is so powerful, who dares to bully me? ”

"That place...... Not suitable for children. Du Heng smiled and covered Qu Nianqing's eyes.

"What 'aunt'?" Qu Nianqing took Du Heng's hand away and said suspiciously, and then thought thoughtfully, "But uncle, you left Kunpeng alone in that 'aunt' place, aren't you afraid that he likes those 'aunts' and doesn't like you?" ”

Du Heng was stunned, and he didn't know how to answer this question.

The last time Kunpeng escaped from Beizhu by himself, it only took a few months, and this time, there has been no news for more than a hundred years, and Kunpeng may really be in trouble.