The mountain road was steep and difficult to walk, and Ye Boyu and Zi Yan didn't dare to perform light skills, but they followed behind Zhao San without hurry. Zhao San went up the mountain every day to collect firewood, and this mountain road could go down with his eyes closed, and the three of them walked like flying, and the Wuli Mountain Road quickly walked down.

"This is the entrance of our Xiangshui Village. Zhao San pointed to a large open space in front of him and said. Ye Boyu looked up, only to see that the open space at the foot of the mountain is enough to have more than a dozen zhang square, in front of it is an old-style wooden archway, the paint of the archway is peeling off, dilapidated, a few big characters on the wind and rain, it has long been impossible to identify what the word is, it is estimated that it is "Xiangshui Village" three big characters. Behind the archway along the foot of the mountain, there are more than a dozen houses scattered horizontally, all of which are wooden houses, most of the lights have been turned off, and it seems that people have rested.

Below the archway is a small stream that is a long and wide, gurgling and sparkling, and the bank is full of pebbles. There were green trees on both sides, and someone came in, and there were a few faint sounds of dogs barking.

Listening to the sound of gurgling water and looking at this quiet rural family, if he hadn't been vigilant, Ye Boyu would have thought that he had come to a paradise for a while.

Zi Yan has long forgotten the purpose of this trip, the unhappiness of the past ten days has long been swept away, look here for a while, look at that there for a while, and follow Ye Boyu up and down.

Walking a few hundred meters along the mountain stream, Zhao San stretched out his hand to push open the firewood door, which was a fence courtyard wall, and three grass houses in the middle. Zhao San shouted: "Mother, Hongru, I'm back." As he spoke, he unloaded the firewood stack on his shoulder, and threw the firewood knife in his hand onto a large pile of firewood in the corner of the courtyard.

At this moment, the wooden door in the middle opened, and the lights in the room were immediately turned on, and a middle-aged woman in her forties walked out of the door quickly, saying as she walked: "I heard, why are you so loud? Suddenly, when I looked up and saw Ye Boyu and Zi Yan, I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Zhao San laughed a few times, and said to Ye Boyu and Zi Yan: "Two, this is my cheap Hongru, who has been with me for more than 20 years, like this every day." He turned around again and said to Hongru: "Wife, these are two friends I just met, who got lost in the mountains, and I took them to our house for a while." "

Hongru nodded, smiled at Ye Boyu and Zi Yan, and said, "This big night, in the barren mountains and mountains, it's not fun to get lost, let's go into the house quickly." As he spoke, he stepped out of the way and made a gesture of please.

Zhao San also hurriedly said, "Two, hurry up and enter the house." "

Ye Boyu and Zi Yan said again and again: "I'm sorry." Then he walked into the hut.

There are almost no furnishings in the thatched hut, and there are a few large urns under the corner of the wall in the middle, which are thought to be rice urns and noodles, and a large water tank in the middle. There was nothing else in the house except for these large urns and water tanks, and there was a wing room on each side.

"San'er, who did you bring here?" said an old voice from the east wing.

"It's two new friends that the child just met, they got lost, and they came to spend the night. Zhao San said loudly, turned back and whispered to Ye Boyu and Zi Yan: "This is my mother, who has been blind for more than ten years. Alas. "

Zi Yan said in a low voice: "Third Brother Zhao, it's really nice to disturb her old man's rest!"

Zhao San smiled and said: "It's okay, I come back from collecting firewood so late every day, and the old lady has long been used to it." He raised his voice again and said, "Hongru, are you ready for supper? We're all hungry." "

Hongru from the west wing replied, "It's ready, come and eat." "

Zhao San opened the door curtain, let Ye Boyu and Zi Yan enter the west wing first, followed behind by himself, and also entered the house. The west wing room is also surrounded by four walls, by the south side is the window, under the window is a simple stove and a dining table, the north side is a bamboo bed, on both sides of the bamboo bed are placed a few wooden boxes and wooden cabinets, and there is nothing else.

The dining table was actually a large willow table, on which there were already four pairs of bamboo chopsticks and two large plates, one large plate was filled with cut air-dried bacon, and the other large plate was indeed a plate of vegetarian dishes such as gluten and fungus, and there was a wine glass around the table, and a wine jug in the middle.

Zhao San himself sat in the main seat, let Ye Boyu and Zi Yan sit on the upper seat, and Hongru himself accompanied him in the next fight. Zhao San said with a smile: "It's all some wild meat from the mountain village, and there are no good things in the village to entertain the two, so the two of them will eat some." "

Ye Boyu and Zi Yan have not beaten their teeth from the afternoon to now, they have long been hungry, and when they saw the game in front of them, they had already had a great appetite, and after a few polite words, they began to chew on the table, Hongru watched them eat with a smile on the side, but she didn't move her chopsticks.

The three of them devoured and ate for a while, Zhao San reached out and picked up the wine jug in front of him, looked at Ye Boyu and Zi Yan and asked, "Two of you, do you want to have a drink, warm your body, and sleep until dawn." "

Ye Boyu didn't have the slightest interest in wine, and sometimes he made trouble with Wang Baiqin, that is, he drank a little bit. Today is in a good mood, in order to accompany Zhao San, he raised his glass and said, "Okay." Although the younger brother is not strong enough to drink, he also has to accompany Zhao Sange to have a few drinks today. "

Zhao San smiled: "Okay, good." Reaching out to fill Ye Boyu's wine glass, he turned to Zi Yan and asked, "Sister Zi Yan, do you want to have a drink?" Ye Boyu was about to excuse Zi Yan, but Zi Yan said, "Of course." Zi Yan was about to have a few drinks with Third Brother Zhao and Sister-in-law Hongru. As he spoke, he handed over the wine glass in his hand.

Hongru said with a smile on the side: "Sister Ziyan, your third brother Zhao just likes to drink, if you don't like to drink, don't drink it." "

Ye Boyu also persuaded on the side: "Yes, Ziyan, you have never drunk alcohol." "

Zi Yan turned her head and glanced at Ye Boyu, ignored him, and said to Hongru: "Sister-in-law, it's okay." "

Zhao San smiled, picked up the wine jug in his hand and poured it for Zi Yan and himself, raised the wine glass in his hand, and said loudly: "Come, we have this glass." As he spoke, he drank it all first, picked up two large pieces of meat and ate them, laughing.

Ye Boyu looked down at the wine in the wine glass, which was very green and fragrant, and raised his head and asked, "Third Brother Zhao, what kind of wine is this?"

Before Zhao San could speak, Zi Yan raised her head, drank it all, turned around and said, "Drink if you want, you can't stop asking." "

"This is our own wine made in our village, called green bamboo wine, and everyone in the village can make it. Zhao San looked at Ye Boyu with an embarrassed look on his face and said loudly.

Ye Boyu also raised his head and drank it all, only to feel that this wine was sweet and mellow, and when he tasted it carefully, the aftertaste was thick and long, and it should be a good wine that had been cellared for at least ten years, so he shouted loudly.

Zhao San and Hongru looked at each other and smiled, and Zi Yan snorted softly.

A few people drank wine and ate meat, and after more than an hour, they drank to their heart's content, Zhao San and Hongru insisted on letting Ye Boyu and Zi Yan live in the west wing, and the two of them went to live with the old lady in the east wing, and they would stay for one night. Ye Boyu and Zi Yan couldn't refuse, so they lived in the West Wing according to Zhao San's wishes. Zhao San and Hongru packed up their things and went to the east wing without mentioning it.

Zi Yan drank a few more glasses, her cheeks flushed, and she looked delicate in the candlelight.

Ye Boyu looked at it for a while, stretched out his hand and pulled out the long sword from the burden, when this long sword was in Yizhou, Ye Boyu used a few gems from Wang Baiqin, and found someone to refine it again, but the tin and copper were separated, and it was only a sharp sword, and it was still far from the sword.

Zi Yan looked at Ye Boyu as if she was thinking, and said faintly: "Brother Boyu, what are you thinking?"

Ye Boyu stroked the long sword in his hand and sighed: "Zi Yan, what kind of heroic spirit was Lord Xin when he was drunk and picked up the lamp to look at the sword, and dreamed of blowing the horn and camping back to the camp, but it is a pity that he was jealous of traitors all his life, and it was difficult to achieve revenge in his chest, so what kind of heroic shortness of breath should he be!"

Zi Yan listened leisurely, held her cheeks with both hands, and said in a low voice: "Brother Boyu, Lord Naxin has been serving the country and the people all his life, standing up to the sky and the earth. But the emperor of the Zhao family was greedy for comfort and did not listen to Lord Xin's advice, so that he missed the great opportunity to recover the rivers and mountains. But Master Xin still never gave up and insisted on his ideals. Until the last moment of life and death, he is still thinking about the great cause of recovering the country, but he is really a heroic man with an iron and blood heart!"

Ye Boyu stroked the long sword in his hand, nodded and said, "Zi Yan, Lord Xin has been fighting all his life, worrying about the country and the people. It's a pity that he was born at the wrong time, was calculated by the villain, and finally died at the hands of Xiaoxiao. It can be seen that ambition alone is not enough. "

Zi Yan shook her head, but she was no longer interested in this topic, and said in a low voice: "Bo Yu, now that the Qing Shenzi Patriarch has been killed by those so-called decent villains, what will the two of us do after rescuing the Qing Yingzi Patriarch?"

Ye Boyu didn't expect Zi Yan to ask such a question, scratched his head and said: "Zi Yan, the cultivation of the two of us is far from enough, if we want to rescue the Patriarch of the Qing Yingzi, I think it will be at least until the late stage of the transformation of the gods, and have the ability to move mountains and moons or tear apart the void." At that time......"

Zi Yan shook her head again, and said softly: "Bo Yu, I'm asking you, what are your plans after rescuing the Patriarch of the Qing Ying Zi?"

Ye Boyu saw that the candles were bright, and Zi Yan's pretty face was looking at him with a pair of apricot eyes, her eyes were like silk, and she was tender in her heart, and said in a low voice: Zi Yan, when you and I have a big deal, let's find a secluded place where no one is around, sing together, and live that fairy-like life, okay?"

Zi Yanqiao's face turned red, and she whispered: "It's beautiful! Who goes with you to a secluded and uninhabited place? "

Ye Boyu saw Zi Yan's shallow anger and indescribable cuteness, and really wanted to take her in his arms, but he couldn't help himself, and just whispered: "Zi Yan, Zi Yan." ”

Zi Yanfang's heart is cocoa, after listening to Ye Boyu's confession, she felt indescribably sweet in her heart, sitting alone on the bamboo bed, seeing that Ye Boyu did not come up, she was slightly disappointed in her heart, but she was in a hurry every day for more than ten days, and her body was extremely sleepy, and after a while, she slowly fell asleep by the head of the bed, and Ye Boyu also fell asleep on the table.

The red candle burned quietly, and the entire village in the mountains was immersed in sleep, and at this moment, a fast and incoherent black shadow secretly flashed out of the village, and disappeared in the depths of the dense forest in the distance.

Readers are invited to watch the next chapter, "Ancient Temples - Part I"