Chapter 14: Shin Tao Village
The afterglow of the setting sun spreads across the sky, and the intoxicating sunset on both sides of the cheeks of a young girl in the flower season is even more charming. Tomorrow is another clear blue sky that has traveled thousands of miles.
"Brother Aqing is back!" A few children ran into a smoke-filled village with kites in their hands, their little faces flushed with excitement, and they didn't know if it was because they were running too happily while shouting, or because of the red cheeks that had been frozen out of winter.
I don't know whose dog is the first bark resonated with his companions, and suddenly the barking of the dog resounded in this small village at sunset.
When the villagers heard the noise, more than a dozen women and men walked all the way to the entrance of the village, and when they encountered the village dog running while barking, they kicked it from time to time.
"Isn't this Aqing?"
"Are you all adults?"
"That's not it, it's been two years, you can see that this son is growing really fast, and it's not as thin as before. β
"The eyes are still so beautiful, as bright as the big eyes of a little girl. β
"Look at the girl next to Aqing, it's really good-looking, this must be the daughter of a big family in the city!"
"It shouldn't be bad! Isn't this golden hair color rich! And the bracelet on the wrist, at first glance, it is real gold, so beautiful. β
"Look, I'll just say that Ah Qing, this stinky boy, is rich and noble at first glance, you look at what he wears, it must be worth a few dollars. β
"It's a pity that Sister Liu's daughter, that stupid girl has always been a little interesting to Aqing. β
"Alas, be quiet, Sister Liu will have to give you a hurry in a while. β
"Look at the boy next to Ah Qing, he looks really pretty!"
"Yo, sister, it's not the way the old cow eats tender grass, but your man has a lot of strength to plough the fields. β
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More and more people gathered at the entrance of the village, old people, men, women, and many children with bowls with wide eyes, not daring to confirm that the young man in front of them was Brother Aqing, who used to accompany him to catch crickets.
Ah Qing's face was flushed, but his bright eyes were flashing with joy.
I haven't come back for two years, Xintao Village is still the same Xintao Village, and uncles and aunts are still like that, whenever outsiders come or pass by, they will go to the village gate to have a look. The ordinary and simple life of the villagers is also one of the funs.
Ah Qing smiled happily, greeted everyone, and told everyone about his life in the past two years, studying in the academy, and eating and fun in Longhu City. He also took out the candy wrapped in exquisite candy paper from his pocket and gave it to the children, touched their heads, the children's eyes were full of admiration and happiness, and they stared at the brother who had changed greatly in the past two years, and his own adults hurriedly reprimanded: "Thank you Brother Aqing." β
Ah Qing smiled and touched the children's heads and shook his head, introducing the two around him with the women and men.
One is Senior Sister Gao Yangyue, the golden-haired girl hasn't grown much in the past two years, but her figure has become more and more mature, and she also exudes an inexplicable temperament, like dignity, but like the sun shining on the earth.
The girl smiled with a touching face: "Hello uncles and aunts. The women's eyes were full of jealousy, and the men were dumbfounded, until a familiar pain came from their waists. The group said, "Hello, hello. Looking at Ah Qing's eyes, he was strange.
Ah Qing was stunned for a moment, his face turned red again, and he hurriedly introduced another person.
Someone said that the young man who said "pretty brother" is naturally Yuan Huanhuan. Yuan Huanhuan's appearance is really popular among women, and when he went down the mountain to return to the village, he ate tofu flowers in the city, and the proprietress gave an extra bowl, saying: "The Yuan family kid looks like a rare recruit, if the aunt is twenty years younger, she will definitely be fascinated." β
Brother Huan is indeed very famous in Longhu City, and it is said that the daughter of the city lord secretly agrees to him. When Gao Yangyue said this, Yuan Xianhuan coughed non-stop, and his eyes kept signaling the eldest sister to let him go.
The lonely girl with the sword who sent the three of them on the trip was expressionless, slowly spooning the tender white tofu flower in the bowl, and her movements were gentle. Seeing that Yuan Huanhuan was shocked, his eyelids jumped, why is this spoon as sharp as a sword......
The handsome young man's face was filled with a natural smile: "Hello uncles and aunts!" The woman looked at the handsome young man and was dumbfounded, and the man's eyes were full of disdain, how could he work in the fields with this body. Everyone responded, "Hello, hello." β
Gao Yangyue watched Ah Qing, who had grown to the same height as herself in the past two years, shushing everyone in the crowd and greeting everyone, with a gentle smile. The little junior brother doesn't talk so much on weekdays, after all, he is going home.
When everyone asked Ah Qing if he had found his father, Ah Qing smiled happily and replied that he had found it, but they had gone far away and had not seen him yet, and they would come back in the future.
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When the three of them returned to Aqing's residence, the moon was already hanging in the sky, and the wind was blowing slightly cool on the early spring night. Pushing open the courtyard door, the dust flying was clearly visible under the light of the flame burning in the palm of his hand.
No one has set foot in the courtyard for the past two years, and when he left, Aqing handed over the key to the village chief, and just had dinner at the village chief's house. The three of them drank a lot, and their faces were flushed significantly at this time. Yuan Xianhuan and Gao Yangyue were holding two sets of quilts, which were sent by the village chief for fear that the three of them would get cold when they slept at night. After all, it's still spring, and the nights are getting cooler. And quilts, every household in the countryside village, have several sets of spare parts.
Under the soft moonlight, the peach blossom tree in the courtyard is full of peach blossoms, and the faint fragrance of peach blossoms comes with the wind.
Yuan Xianhuan's slightly drunken ruddy face yawned under the flame light of Ah Qing's palm.
"Ah Qing, the peach blossom wine of the village chief's house is really good, much better than what you brewed in the academy. β
Gao Yangyue rolled her eyes, and slapped Yuan Huanhuan on the head who was holding two sets of quilts, Yuan Huanhuan's neck shrunk and smiled.
"Just count your kid who drinks the most and is the most energetic, and drills into the little junior brother's room every day, do you really think we don't know what you want to do?"
Ah Qing smiled lightly: "Brother Huan is not wrong, it is indeed not as good as Aunt Liu's brewing, I used to learn from Aunt Liu, but I was too stupid, I only learned seven or eight points." β
Yuan Huanhuan put the quilt on his head, squatted under the peach blossom tree, looked at the land and said excitedly: "Ah Qing, the three altars below were promised to give me one altar!"
That year, when Ah Qing entered the city and went up the mountain, he promised to send him one of the three jars of peach blossom brew buried under the peach blossom tree in his own courtyard in Xintao Village.
Gao Yangyue's beautiful eyes rolled, Ah Qing smiled and nodded, and the flames in her palms flickered.
Xintao Village is the place where he has lived for 12 years, and Ah Qing is full of thoughts about this family. This trip down the mountain to go home, on the one hand, because of his own reasons, and on the other hand, because of the mission. And this task has something to do with Xintao Village.
The Five Academies were jointly established by the eight major families after the war between the demons and demons in ancient times, distributed in the six major dynasties, and the high-level personnel of the academies were all the core figures of the eight families.
The meaning of the existence of the academy is not only to give guidance to the cultivation of the human race who can become spiritual: these people who are taken care of by the aura of heaven and earth become spiritual, they do not know, and someone needs to discover them, and the students in the backyard of the academy are the people of this kind of excavation after they become spiritual, this is also the daily task, that is, the so-called walking the rivers and lakes, bringing them back to the academy, of course, there are similar organizations within the eight major families, absorbing folk spirituality and strengthening the strength of the family, because the students who enter the academy, in addition to joining the eight major families, can also enter the dynasty, or walk in the spiritual world, travel to the three clans, and no one in the academy can be forcedγ
There is also in order to maintain the stability within the human realm, among which there is the spiritual cultivation of the demon clan and the demon race, and now the situation of the three clans is in the ancient period after the division of the territory, on the surface it is peaceful, but there are still demon clans and demons in the guise of entering the human realm, except for the same spirituality, otherwise the common people can not find any difference. Walking in the spiritual world, since there are human races going to the demon land, the demon land, there are naturally demon races, and the demon race comes to the human land. And the students of the academy found these alien spiritual cultivators, and if they did something to the world, they would immediately kill them, which was extremely decisive. If you just walk around, keep an eye on it in case something happens, and when these aliens return to their own realm, the mission will be over.
However, there is a special kind of race within the alien race, that is, the spirit race that was returned to the demon race in the ancient period of 5,000 years ago and has since disappeared. The spirit race was born in response to the luck of heaven and earth, born in all things in heaven and earth, and absorbed the aura of heaven and earth, such as the earth cow, which is a member of the spirit race. The appearance of the spirit race is a product of heaven and earth, and there will also be a spirit race in the human realm, and the academy is also responsible for surveying the spirit race and sending the newborn spirit race to the border of the demon race, and the future is no longer a matter of the human race.
The task of Ah Qing's three trips is for the vice president to investigate whether there are spiritual power fluctuations that do not belong to the human race spiritual cultivation in the direction of Xintao Village, and they are not sure whether it is a demon or a demon race, and the spiritual power cultivation should be at the Xuan Level, so they sent the three of them to investigate all the way in this direction.
Gao Yangyue, the highest cultivation of the three of them, has already broken through the Xuan Rank and is already a third-grade spiritual rank. In the past two years, Gao Yangyue's cultivation has to be said to have advanced by leaps and bounds, and within two years, he has reached the spiritual level from the second rank of the Xuan Rank to the spiritual level, which is extremely rapid in the entire spiritual cultivation world, and it is not surprising that he is a spiritual genius who occurs once in a thousand years. The Vice Dean praised Gao Yangyue's cultivation talent, which was even comparable to his ancestor of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in the Ancient Period three thousand years ago.
The three of them explored all the way to Xintao Village, and Yun Ting, who was originally stalked by Ah Qing and walked together, really said goodbye to the three of them after eating the bowl of tofu flowers...... In this regard, Yuan Huanhuan has complained about the eldest sister a lot in the past few days, and of course the only response is the white eyes with a little golden pupils.
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Ah Qing opened the door, choked on the dust, fanned his sleeves, entered the house to find the oil lamp from memory, and waited for the three oil lamps to light up the room, Ah Qing put away his spiritual power. Now that he is already a mortal-level third-grade, his cultivation speed surprised Yuan Huanhuan, who has only broken through the first grade to the second rank of the Xuan rank in the past two years, because the matter of cultivation has not been preached by the vice president. Yun Ting is already a product of the Xuan Rank, as for when to break through to the Spirit Level, it is difficult to break through to the Great Pass, such as crossing the river with a reed, and the spiritual power is turbulent, and there are very few people who successfully reach the other side. For example, Yun Rou's pure fire spiritual power attribute stayed for seven years in the first grade of the spirit level to break through the bottleneck of the holy level.
The three of them began to clean the house, Yuan Huanhuan manipulated the spiritual wind around his fingers to gently blow the dust on the beams, Gao Yangyue carefully cleaned the three rooms with a broom, and placed the messy books in the west room that was originally Ah Qing's study, and Ah Qing fetched water in the courtyard, wiped the tables and chairs with rags, and wiped the wooden beds of the two rooms to be spotless.
After it was cleaned, the house under the warm butter lamp was in a new place. Gao Yangyue laid out the two quilts sent by the village chief and went to help Ah Qing and the two of them spread the quilts, Yuan Huanhuan shouted and shouted that he dared to let Her Royal Highness the princess do such a thing, of course, the response was the eldest sister's big eyes.
After the three of them cleaned up, they chatted for a while, mostly about things in the village, such as the girl from the village chief's family who kept looking at Ah Qing during dinner, Ah Qing's face was flushed when she was troubled, and Gao Yangyue continued to joke with a smile. Soon after, they rested, Ah Qing and Yuan Huanhuan slept in the west house, and Gao Yangyue slept in the east house.
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On the night of spring, the night is getting cooler, the crescent moon hangs high in the night sky, emitting a faint and mild light, and the village of Xintao is very quiet, with the occasional dog barking.
Ah Qing moved a wooden bench and sat under the peach tree in the courtyard, looked up at the night sky, and looked at the moon through the clusters of peach blossoms reflecting the crimson and light red.
In the past, Ah Qing behaved like this every time the flowers bloomed, quietly in a daze, thinking about his father.
He now knows another news about his father, which is related to the "hidden spirit", and he learned from his grandmother that his father and mother had fought with the "hidden spirit" back then.
After the sun rose out of the lake, the three of them told the vice president everything that happened, and when Ah Qing mentioned the "hidden spirit", she obviously felt the fluctuation of the vice president's spiritual power, but she didn't mention too much, just said that Ah Qing's father and mother had a deep holiday with it. This organization, which still exists from ancient times, has unimaginable power. Between the three clans, do something that is not on the table.
Ah Qing thought about it for a long time but still didn't figure out why his father and mother had a deep holiday with the "hidden spirit".
The hidden door creaked open, and Gao Yangyue walked out wearing a college coat, her head full of blonde hair and shawl, and her slender thighs looming in the nightdress.
Gao Yangyue walked to Ah Qing's side, looked up at the moon along Ah Qing's line of sight, and said curiously, "What is the little junior brother doing!"
Ah Qing looked at the senior sister who leaned over to him and was looking at the silver moon through the spring peach, and suddenly blushed, and hurriedly stood up and said, "It's nothing, why did the senior sister wake up." β
Gao Yangyue's eyes blinked and confused, looked at his chest, understood in his heart, and said with a smile: "Senior sister doesn't sleep well." Then he sat on the wooden stool that Ah Qing had just gotten up, stretched his legs forward, raised his head and said, "Does the little junior brother feel it?"
Ah Qing, who was standing, was cramped and uneasy, his eyes did not squint, and he didn't dare to look at the eldest sister sitting beside him and said, "I feel a little bit, it's from the peach blossom forest in the north of the village." β
Gao Yangyue's beautiful eyes looked at the north of the village and nodded: "It should be the spirit clan, the peach blossom forest has produced spiritual objects, and it should become a spirit in response to the aura of heaven and earth." Maybe the peach blossom fairy you talked about before is it. β
In two years, Ah Qing has thoroughly understood the spiritual world, and naturally understands what it means to be a spirit race. came into being, and it turned out to be the peach blossom forest in the north of the village. When I was a child, I often went to talk to myself under the peach tree, thinking that I would meet the peach blossom fairy and ask it if I knew where my father and mother were. I didn't expect that the spirit race was born there.
Did it hear what it had said before?
Gao Yangyue stood up, stood shoulder to shoulder with Ah Qing, and said, "Go back to sleep, let's talk about it tomorrow, this spirit clan has no malicious intentions." β
Ah Qing nodded, the two entered the house together, Gao Yangyue returned to his room, Ah Qing looked at Brother Huan's "big" sleeping posture in the West House, and his head was ......