On the Shanhai Continent, the cool weather is just a matter of autumn wind.

As the weather gets cooler day by day, a lot of changes have also taken place in Nanchu Danyang City. Some are good changes, and some changes are not known to be good or bad.

"I didn't expect it to be a month since the end of the Beginner Ceremony."

Ji Jiashu sat in the Qing'an courtyard and drank chrysanthemum wine opposite Ji Qingyuan, put down the wine glass in his hand and looked around at the somewhat bleak courtyard, and said with some emotion.

"It's true that it's gone by very quickly," Ji Qingyuan said, "Many cultivators in the north have already left Southern Chu. ”

Soochow is located in the southeast of the Shanhai Continent, and it is about a month's drive from the Southern Chu, the former Qin, the Middle and Tang Kingdoms. Later, Liao and Northern Wei were far away, and the cultivators of these two countries basically no longer returned to their home countries, whether they wanted to participate in the mid-level ceremony or wanted to watch the battle, but went directly from Southern Chu.

"I heard that the date for the mid-level ceremony has been set," Ji Qingyuan looked at his younger brother across the table and asked casually.

He was not qualified to participate, let alone had access to these messages.

"It's settled," Ji Jiashu said as he looked at his brother opposite, "The opening ceremony is scheduled for the tenth day of November. ”

Today is the ninth day of October.

Ji Qingyuan shook his hand holding the wine glass when he heard this, "Then has the date of your departure been set?" ”

"Well," Ji Jiashu nodded, "just tomorrow." ”

"No wonder you came to me for a drink today," Ji Qingyuan raised his wine glass to his lips when he heard this, which stopped in mid-air for a while.

"Haven't I been here a lot these days?" Ji Jiashu smiled when he heard this, and after speaking, he looked around the courtyard around him, and there were still some blood stains on the ground under the tree in the corner of the west courtyard.

It was left by the woman that day when she was operating on the man in the hospital.

After that, a lot of things happened in Qing'an Courtyard, and it was because of this that he felt that this month had passed so quickly.

Smelling the aroma of chrysanthemums in the wine glass, Ji Jiashu took a deep breath,

Compared with other cultivators who were recuperating in Danyang City, the people of Qing'an Monastery were still having a thrilling month, and he had developed a new habit because of this.

Ji Jiashu quietly looked at the opposite brother who was holding a scroll in one hand and a wine glass in the other.

The biggest change that has happened to him these days is that he has started visiting Cheong'an Yuan every day. His brother also began to allow him to enter the door.

Thinking of this, Ji Jiashu's expression was a little complicated.

I don't know if this change is good or bad for him.

But they began to get along like a normal pair of brothers. At first, they were still a little restrained, but after facing a certain situation and habits at the same time, the two suddenly had a tacit understanding, even if they sat opposite each other, they could do their own things.

"You come often," Ji Qingyuan's gaze moved away from the scroll, and looked at his younger brother who was holding a wine glass in one hand and twisting the sword trick in the other, "But you didn't come to see me." ”

It's just that the person he wants to find is not there, and this kid has only been working in the yard with him for more than 20 days.

Hearing his brother's words, Ji Jiashu smiled, and looked through the east courtyard to a closed wing room in the west courtyard, "She ran away again, right?" ”

"yes, I was still looking at the map in the morning, but just a quarter of an hour before you came, the breath disappeared."

Looking at the sunset that was sinking inch by inch in the sky, the light in the courtyard dimmed, Ji Qingyuan closed the scroll, looked at Ji Jiashu and spoke helplessly.

"Map ......" Ji Jiashu's eyes lit up slightly when he heard this, he looked at Ji Qingyuan and asked, "Big brother, those pictures of yours ...... Has she read it all? ”

Ji Qingyuan nodded when he heard this, "Not only did I finish reading it, but I also drew more than 20 pictures." ”

The young man couldn't hide his shock when he heard this, after all, he still remembered that day Ji Qingyuan held her that day There were twelve volumes of maps and geography, ordinary people couldn't read them even for three months, but she actually finished reading them all?

Ji Jiashu still remembers that just more than 20 days ago, on the day when Lou Xiaolou woke up for the first time after being seriously injured, Qing'an Courtyard received the big news that the former Queen of Qin was pregnant. He was still worried about how Ying Baoyue would face this news that was of great significance to the former Qin royal family, but he didn't expect that the girl would walk out of the room, and the first thing she did was to borrow something from Ji Qingyuan.

The people in the courtyard looked at her menacing appearance, and thought that she was going to borrow something, but they didn't expect Ying Baoyue to look at Ji Qingyuan and say seriously.

"Qingyuan, I want to borrow all the maps and geographical records near the three realms of Qin, Chu and Wu that you have."

On the Shanhai Continent, the former Qin, Southern Chu, Eastern Wu and the Three Kingdoms border. The topography of the three countries itself is not complicated, but the terrain of the place where the three countries meet, is very complicated.

Desperate situations such as the Yunmengze Lancang Sea Cloud Mist Forest are all located at the junction of these three countries.

Ji Jiashu could probably guess what Ying Baoyue wanted these maps for, but if ordinary cultivators wanted to check the way to Soochow, they could directly check the official road map. After Emperor Taizu of Qin established the Qin Empire, he implemented the system of the same track and the same text, built a large number of official roads, and drew them into books.

This governance can be described as the descendants of Heze, even if the Qin Empire is no longer there, those official roads are still preserved, and the official road maps are even more available to every family, and it is very convenient to travel and query.

But what Ying Baoyue asked for was not an official road map, but all the maps and geographical records of the border area of the Three Kingdoms.

Ji Jiashu's first reaction when he heard it was...... Will she be able to see it all?

You must know that there is not much in Ji Qingyuan's yard, that is, there are many books.

Although their father did not allow Ji Qingyuan and Ji Ange to go out since they were children, they were not harsh in terms of food and clothing, as long as they wanted something, as long as they spoke, someone would buy it for them and send it to Qing'an Hospital.

And Ji Jiashu has known since he was a child that his eldest brother does not like luxury, and his biggest hobby is buying books. And because he couldn't go out to pick it out in person, Ji Qingyuan basically let the servants buy books one by one. How much is new to the bookstore, how much Ji Er will bring him back.

Because he was not allowed to practice, Ji Qingyuan has been immersed in books since he was a child. And I don't know if there are few opportunities to go out, among the books that the servants brought back for him, Ji Qingyuan loves to collect maps and geographical chronicles the most, and it can be said that he traveled all over the rivers and mountains of the Shanhai Continent in the books.

When Ji Jiashu was a child, he saw the maps and geographical records of his eldest brother, which filled eighteen large bookcases, which was breathtaking. Although Ying Baoyue only wants the border area of the three kingdoms, he believes that the amount will not be less.

Sure enough, Ji Qingyuan was stunned when he heard Ying Baoyue's words, but he still obediently took the scholar to his study, and took out a large box in a quarter of an hour, which contained twelve volumes.

What made Ji Jiashu even more unexpected was that Ying Baoyue was not frightened by the amount of books, but accepted all the albums as they were. After instructing Guili Guichen to take care of Lou Xiaolou, he carried the bookcase into Ji Ange's study, and then did not come out of it for three days and three nights.

Ji Jiashu was worried that she would be damaged and faint in the study when she looked at the map, so she came to Qing'an Courtyard every day to report, and sat in the courtyard while drinking tea and practicing swordsmanship.

Of course, he is not alone, he still has a few tea friends.

But he soon discovered that the girl had done more than just look at the map in the house.

That thing started on the fourth day.

That day, I looked at Ji Jiashu and suddenly found ...... The girl in the house was gone.

"Anyway, it's getting dark again today," Ji Jiashu looked at Ji San and Ji Ange's maids who were busy lighting lights around in the courtyard after the sun set, and sighed slightly, "Zhaohua should have been caught, right?" ”

"It should be almost, I found it in time, and Zhao Huajun's footsteps are fast," Ji Qingyuan looked at a map spread out on the table with the help of a lit lantern. On a barren ridge to the west, a small red flower was drawn with a cinnabar pen.

This unique brushwork shows who drew it at a glance.

"Today is only the last road left in Xihe, and she is almost dead," Ji Qingyuan sighed as he looked at the little red flower.

"Dead hearted?" Hearing this, Ji Jiashu looked at the last quarter moon rising in the sky.

In a sense, the girl was the cultivator he had ever seen who had nothing to do with the word.

……

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At this time, thirty miles west of Danyang City, under a mountain range called Xihe, there are also people looking up at the rising moon.

The moonlight was beautiful, but the girl slowly moved her gaze down, only to see the moonlight hitting a bronze mask, emitting a faint light.

Ying Baoyue retracted her gaze and looked at the man in Tsing Yi who was blocking her way.

"Done exploring?"

Li Ji stood in front, his dark eyes in the mask looked at her quietly and said lightly, "Go back." ”