With Qiu Chulin fighting against the turbulent river for a long time, the lime was already exhausted, and he collapsed on the shore when he got to the shore, Qiu Chulin's physical strength was not wasted at all, and he had already gotten up to observe the environment everywhere.

When Lime regained some strength and struggled to get up, Qiu Chulin had already returned to the shore, he was holding two hares in his left hand and holding a dead branch in his right hand. ”

Lime took out the fire fold he carried with him from his bosom, but found that it had been soaked in water and could not make a fire, so he looked at the pile of dead branches helplessly, and Lime felt powerless, "Childe, the fire fold is wet." ”

"Drill wood for fire." Qiu Chulin carried the two rabbits to the river, and said without looking back.

"Childe, Lime won't." Once again, Lime felt powerless, and had already started to play lazy.

Qiu Chulin didn't get up, picked up the bloody rabbit in his hand, and said seriously, "Or, you come and skin these two and cramp, and I'll go over and make a fire?" ”

"Childe, try Lime." Lime hesitated for a long time, but considering that his strength had not yet recovered, he solemnly chose to light a fire.

When Qiu Chulin returned to Lime with the two rabbits that had been cleaned up, he consciously took the carefully selected branch in Lime's hand, and then threw it aside with disgust, and said helplessly, "That's it, I'll come." ”

"Childe, we're leaving, what should we do with the mission?" Lime asked, helping.

"Siyan will take care of it." Qiu Chulin was making a fire, and at this moment, wisps of smoke had risen in the center of the hay.

"Why did Childe hide away?" Lime asked cautiously, as if she were afraid of startling the flames.

"Hongxia Yike is Shuochu's envoy, and I can't kill him until an armistice is reached. But he couldn't kill me, and I was so annoyed that I was going to go. Qiu Chulin finally lit a fire, he gathered the branches, put the game on the fire, and suddenly asked, "Ning'er, on August 20 of the year before last, have you been to Suyan's Tongcheng?" ”

Lime lowered her head and recalled for a moment, and her heart suddenly understood, and she replied, "The year before last, Xiao Guogong was newly mourned, and August 20 had not yet been buried in the ground. ”

Qiu Chulin did not show disappointment, as if he already knew Lime's answer, he hooked the corners of his lips, "It's okay, let's leave today, we will go to Tongcheng." ”

When Lime and Qiu Chulin arrived in Tongcheng, it was the busiest time of the day in Tongcheng.

Entering Tongcheng from the east city gate, a lively scene as soon as you enter the city, the flow of people is like a tide, the carriage and horse are difficult to travel, the two people watch this grand occasion, they have to abandon the horse on foot, shuttle in the downtown area.

"Two guest officers, do you want to see the spider box?" A stall owner stopped the two limes and enthusiastically recommended their goods, "My spider box here is absolutely top-quality, you can take a closer look, this is a high-quality wood carefully made......"

"This eldest brother, my son-in-law and I first arrived in Tongcheng, I don't know what festival it is, Tongcheng is so lively?" Lime asked.

"The girl is afraid that she is tired of traveling and caring, forgetting the time, tomorrow is the Qixi Qiqiao Festival, and every family comes to this Qiqiao City to buy begging things, and prepare for tomorrow's Qixi Festival!" The vendor replied, "Girl, do you want this spider box?" ”

"No need, thank you big brother." Lime thanked.

"Have you forgotten the time?" Qiu Chulin couldn't help laughing.

"Indeed, I forgot." Lime kept up with Qiu Chulin's pace and complained, "But since Childe remembers, why didn't he tell me, he made me ugly." ”

"I'm to blame." Qiu Chulin laughed and said, "The custom of the begging festival of 'Joy Spider Yingqiao' is also a household name in Suyan, why don't you even recognize the spider box?" ”

"So Childe is making fun of Lime again." Lime dissatisfied.

Qiu Chulin looked at her angry appearance and smiled, and did not answer again.

Passing through the crowded city of Qiqiao, there is a teahouse not far ahead.

"Two guest officers, sit here!" The shopkeeper enthusiastically led the two limes to the empty table in the store and introduced the special teas in the store.

"Nope." Qiu Chulin interrupted the shopkeeper, pointed to the table beside him that had not yet been cleaned up, and said, "We're sitting here, tired." ”

"Oh, okay, wait a minute, the little ones will be cleaned up immediately." The shopkeeper was slightly stunned, and immediately understood, his movements in his hands were clean and neat, and he didn't forget to entertain the guests, "What kind of tea do the two guest officers drink?" ”

"Two cups of tea." Qiu Chulin took out a few pieces of broken silver and handed them to the shopkeeper.

"Guest officer, our store has a small business, and I can't find it!" The shopkeeper did not take the broken silver, which was difficult.

"You don't have to look for it, if you have a chance in the future, I will come to visit often." Qiu Chulin said.

"Thank you, guest officer, wait a minute." The shopkeeper held the broken silver and thanked him again and again.

After a while, the shopkeeper personally delivered two cups of tea and thanked him again.

The lime brushed the tea surface, felt the steaming heat, the tea fragrance into the nose, fresh and good, although not a good product, but also excellent.

"The same store, the same location, August 20 of the previous year, you and I met here for the first time. The only difference is that that time you covered your face with a thin veil and did not show your true face. The slender jade hand on the tea surface paused slightly, and Qiu Chulin then turned his gaze to Lime's face, "Ning'er, in a few days, it will be Xiao Guogong's death, after you worship, go back to the Yuan Valley." ”

"Childe ......" Lime was surprised, and he couldn't figure out the intention of Qiu Chulin's words for a while, he intended to test it, but he still had insight into her intentions.

"When you gave me the wound medicine in the Qiusaipo confrontation, I recognized you, because I have only seen the wound medicine and utensils in the deep valley." Qiu Chulin said, "The year before last, you told me the location of Yuangu, which is a favor to me. I let Fang Jinyue go that day just to repay you for this favor. ”

"It turns out that Childe knows everything." Lime hung her head, looking a little lacking in confidence.

The bottle of wound medicine was a flaw she deliberately left behind, so that he could realize her identity as a ghost doctor and stay by his side smoothly.

"You know, only one person between me and Hongxia Yike can go back alive, so the return journey must be dangerous, you go back to the Abyss Valley first, so as not to distract me." Qiu Chulin said, "If I can return to Shuochu alive, I will send someone to pick you up." ”

"Childe said that, is it not a good chance of winning?" Lime asked.

"Hongxia Yike's life is related to the situation of the Shuochu Dynasty, and the emperor must have made all preparations for his trip, including getting rid of me. The best time to get rid of me is on the way here, so there must be a well-planned hunt on the east bank of North Lok. But Hongxia Yike couldn't bear it, and made a move on me in advance, thinking that he had bought off the people in my house and got some news. Qiu Chulin said.

"So Childe will plan and escape from the mission by falling into the water and avoid the killing machine." Lime Road.

"The killing machine can only be avoided for a while, and what should come will always come. I left the mission to see you off. Qiu Chulin said.

"Childe's worries, Lime understands." Lime pondered for a moment and responded, "After worshipping Xiao Guogong, Lime will immediately set off back to the Abyss Valley, and I hope that Gongzi will be careful in everything." ”

Qiu Chulin nodded, his gaze had already looked beyond the lime to the teahouse, and after a moment, he withdrew his gaze as if nothing had happened.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, where did you get such a lovely beauty." A flirtatious and provocative voice reached Lime's ear.

Lime followed the sound and looked over, the man was richly dressed, wearing a jade crown, his demeanor was graceful, the ornaments on his body were extraordinary, and his gestures were full of wealth, "Don't send it away, can you give it to me?" ”

"I'm here to ask you for help, not to ask you to rob people." Qiu Chulin didn't even look back, only glanced at the man and said, "You're late." ”

"You still know that you came to ask me for help, and that's how you entertained me? Not even a cup of tea! The man sat down grumbling, and when he saw that the tea in Qiu Chulin's cup had not moved, he picked it up and poured it into his mouth, and then immediately spit it on the ground with a bitter face, "What is this?" Is it for people to drink? ”

"If you don't like it, you don't drink it, what are you doing with it?" Qiu Chulin frowned slightly, looking very displeased.

As soon as the man heard the word "waste", as if he had been touched by the scales, his eyes immediately widened, his face instantly turned red, and his green muscles burst out, and he was extremely angry.

Seeing Qiu Chulin's words for the first time, although he doubted Qiu Chulin's abnormal performance, he still rushed to the scene before the man opened his mouth to refute, "The ordinary tea leaves in the market teahouse naturally can't enter Shen Gongzi's eyes. It's just that my son-in-law has a lot of inconvenience when he goes out, and he shouldn't be too ostentatious, so there is a place where the hospitality is not good, and I hope that Shen Gongzi Haihan. ”

"Beauty persuasion, this son doesn't care about you." The man seemed to remember something, instantly put away his anger, changed his attitude, and his tone was calm but not lacking in sarcasm, "But when you come to the market teahouse to taste tea, General Qiu's taste is really flattering." ”

"You also know that I am a general, and I am used to marching and fighting, and I never know what 'taste' is. Unlike Shen Dagongzi, all day long, the delicacies of the mountains and seas, sweet springs and jade dew, how many times have I crawled out of the pile of dead people, and I have even drunk the blood of the dead in order to survive. Therefore, the coarse tea that Shen Dagongzi disdained was already the sweetest and sweetest thing to me. Qiu Chulin seemed to be deliberately against him, sarcastic everywhere.

"You're mocking me!" This son surnamed Shen was finally set on fire by Qiu Chulin, and the case was slapped with a "bang".

"You've lost." Qiu Chulin's face did not change, and the corners of his lips had quietly raised.

"Hmph." Gongzi surnamed Shen realized that he had been provoked, he snorted coldly and turned his gaze to Lime, "Beauty, how do you know that my surname is Shen?" ”

"Who among the four countries doesn't know the Shen family, the richest man in the country, and Shen Jiangli, the head of the Shen family, who has been in the midst of thousands of flowers and does not touch a single leaf?" Lime replied with a smile.

Shen Jiangli sat down again, stared at the lime for a long time with scrutinizing eyes, and said with great interest, "You really make me curious, beauty." Not many people have actually seen me, how did you recognize me? ”

"There are still many things that can make Shen Gongzi curious, does Shen Gongzi want to ask them one by one?" Lime smiled and didn't answer the rhetorical question.

Shen Jiangli was speechless for a while, and he was speechless, seeing that Qiu Chulin on the side was smiling and enduring it very hard, his heart was also relieved, he sighed lightly and said, "In the past, it was just you and me who fought each other, but today you brought a helper, and it is very disgraceful to win!" ”

"If it weren't for the lime who persuaded you, why would I need two sentences, one sentence would be enough to provoke you." Qiu Chulin said with a smile, "If you lose, you lose, what do you do with so many excuses, do you want to repay the debt?" ”

"The one who gets provoked first loses." Lime finally understood why Qiu Chulin was unusually aggressive today, it turned out to be for this gamble, "Your gamble is very interesting, can you tell me what this bet is?" ”

"There is no bet, the loser is the east." Shen Jiangli got up with his sleeves and said very generously, "Let's go, Yuqiong Pavilion will hold a banquet and wash the dust for the two of you." ”