On the way back, Ah Qing drove the sheep briskly, singing "Brave Sheep" taught to her by Duan Yu over and over again, and occasionally asked Duan Yu questions, such as whether good friends want to meet every day, whether they want to invite good friends to live at home......

Duan Yu patiently answered Ah Qing's childlike questions one by one, until he entered Huiji City, Ah Qing was still humming a song in his mouth.

Ah Qing's home is in the east of Huiji City, so she sometimes walks through the city and goes to the west of Huiji City to graze sheep.

The two walked all the way east along the long street, out of the east gate of Huiji City, and then walked two or three miles east, and came to a small village with more than a dozen families.

Ah Qing's home is the two westernmost huts in the village, and the huts are surrounded by a fence.

"Ah Qing, is there no one at home?"

As soon as Duan Yu sensed it, he knew that there was no one in the house.

Ah Qing ran into the house to take a look, ran out again, and said, "My mother may have gone to work in the fields, you come into the house." ”

Duan Yu was also polite, and followed Ah Qing into the hut.

The room was quite basic, with a bed, a table, two chairs, and some odd and miscellaneous utensils, but they were neatly tied.

Duan Yu hadn't heard Ah Qing mention her father, so after thinking about it, he asked, "Ah Qing, where is your father?" ”

Ah Qing frowned slightly and said, "Dad used to be a soldier outside, and then once he came home and said that he was going to war, at that time my mother just cried and didn't let him go, but Dad he still went." I haven't been back. Every time I asked my mom why he didn't come back, my mom would shed tears, and then I stopped asking. ”

Although Ah Qing is simple, after all, she has grown up and is sensible, and she must have understood that her father had died on the battlefield.

Yue Guo has only fought with Wu Guo in the past few years, and her father should have died in the Battle of Wu Yue a few years ago.

Duan Yu didn't know how to comfort Ah Qing. Perhaps because of Ah Qing's optimistic nature, Duan Yu didn't feel too much sadness in Ah Qing.

"Shall we go herd the sheep together tomorrow?" Ah Qing looked at Duan Yu with expectant eyes.

Duan Yu smiled gently and said, "Okay, I'll tell you a story tomorrow." ”

Hearing this, the corners of Ah Qing's mouth curled......

Duan Yu had planned to follow Ah Qing to herd sheep in the past few days, and if he was lucky, he might be able to meet the white ape.

……

Back at the camp of the brigade army, Duan Yu lay on the bed and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, but in his mind he was recalling the picture of the battle with Ah Qing and experiencing the mystery of Ah Qing's swordsmanship.

In the evening, Duan Yu came to Youlaiju near the north gate of Huiji City again.

On the door frame of a room on the second floor, Duan Yu really found the engraved word "Li".

Knocking on the door, the thin monkey saw that it was Duan Yu, and hurriedly welcomed Duan Yu into the house respectfully.

Duan Yu didn't drag his feet and said, "Help me prepare paper and pen." ”

The thin monkey asked for a pen and paper from a friend who came to live, so Duan Yu buried himself in writing a letter, writing down the situation in Yue Guo and his plan that he had learned in the past two days.

In the letter, Duan Yu suggested that Emperor Baoding should not negotiate with Yue Guo in the name of the imperial court for the time being, and temporarily pretend not to know about Yue Guo's illegal mining of Dali mines. In this way, you can sit and watch Wu and Yue fight, and Dali can wait for the opportunity to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Drying the letter and handing it to the thin monkey, Duan Yu said: "You rush back to Xiushan County early tomorrow morning, give this letter to Li Xiu, and ask him to send someone to Dali urgently." ”

There are actually some risks in putting the thin monkey in charge of delivering information, although the thin monkey seems shrewd, after all, it is not a professional intelligence talent.

But there was no one available under Duan Yu's hands, so he had to use the thin monkey to deal with it first.

The thin monkey respectfully responded, and Duan Yu left Youlaiju and came to the palace to be on duty.

Duan Yu didn't go to Lanting Garden again, he wandered around the palace for half the night, there was nothing useful to discover, and the second half of the night was spent in the trees.

After handing over to Zhao Xiong's people, Duan Yu found a tavern for breakfast, and asked the store to fry two side dishes, one meat, one vegetarian, cut a pound of beef and two packs of dim sum, and came directly to A Qing's house.

Ah Qing was very happy to see Duan Yu coming to her early in the morning, and when she saw Duan Yu bringing her vegetables and snacks, she was even more happy.

Duan Yu also met Ah Qing's mother, a very ordinary peasant woman in her fifties.

Ah Qing's mother was worried that Ah Qing would be deceived, after all, Ah Qing was too simple, but seeing that Duan Yu treated her very respectfully, and brought food very intimately, and heard Ah Qing say that yesterday's ten gold was given by Duan Yu, she felt pleasing to the eye when she looked at Duan Yu again.

After all, in her concept, how can anyone be willing to spend ten gold to deceive a country girl.

Ah Qing and her mother originally didn't eat breakfast, and ancient civilians generally had two meals a day. But Duan Yu brought something to eat, and the two of them had a luxurious breakfast.

After the meal, Duan Yu and Ah Qing drove the sheep into Huiji City, Duan Yu bought a few fruits at a roadside stall, and then the two of them went all the way through Huiji City to the valley in the west of the city.

Duan Yu was lying on the grass and telling Ah Qing about what happened on the Qingqing grassland, while Ah Qing was eating peaches comfortably, and from time to time he would peel a banana and hand it to Duan Yu.

Suddenly, there was a "whoosh" cry, which was small at first, but soon resounded through the valley.

Ah Qing's face was overjoyed, and he said, "Father-in-law Bai is here!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a white shadow came to the two of them at a gallop, it was a white ape.

Duan Yu didn't expect to be so lucky, and he would be able to meet the white ape the day after he got acquainted with Ah Qing.

I saw that this white ape was taller than Duan Yu, but it was not clumsy at all, and he stopped and stopped while running, and his movements were fast and dexterous.

Seeing Duan Yu and Ah Qing standing side by side, the white ape's eyes froze, and suddenly slapped Duan Yu with a claw.

Duan Yu didn't expect the white ape to suddenly make a move on him, but his reaction was not slow at all, and he was lucky enough to block the white ape's claws with his arm.

The hands and claws touched, Duan Yu just didn't move, but the white ape let out a strange cry of "wow", as if he had hit a boulder, and jumped up in pain.

Duan Yu didn't know the depth of the white ape, and he was also afraid of hurting the white ape this time, so he was only defending his arm and did not spit out internal force. Rao is like this, the white ape is still a few steps backwards when he is hit by the force of the shock.

The bamboo stick in Ah Qing's hand poked the white ape, and said angrily: "Father-in-law Bai, why did you beat people just here?" If you want to fight, I'll fight you! ”

Ah Qing knew that he couldn't hurt Duan Yu, so he didn't think that the white ape could hurt Duan Yu, so he didn't stop the white ape in the first place.

The white ape turned around and ran away, and immediately picked up a branch and ran back, staring at Duan Yu with a rather humane look, and "Bangbang" hammered the majestic muscles in his chest a few times, obviously wanting to fight Duan Yu again.

Duan Yu smiled slightly, picked up the branch he used yesterday, and took two steps forward and said, "Since Father-in-law Bai is interested in making a move, I will accompany you in the next step." ”

The white ape is quite human, and seems to understand Duan Yu's words, and with a branch in his paws, he stabs Duan Yu in the chest, and his technique is the same as that of Ah Qing.

Duan Yu crossed the branch and swept away the white ape's thorn with a horizontal piercing thorn, and the branch turned around again, stabbing at the white ape's chest, using the white ape's moves to deal with the white ape.

The white ape was very familiar with this move, and he dodged this blow with a turn of his body, and then quickly fought around Duan Yuyou.

With the experience of trying tricks with Ah Qing, Duan Yu seems to be at ease with the white ape, although he will occasionally be hit by the white ape, but the power of the white ape's moves is much worse than that of Ah Qing, Duan Yu only feels that it is not painful.

Half an hour later, Duan Yu had figured out the path of the white ape, and the moves made by the white ape were all made by Ah Qing, but although this white ape had a bit of human understanding, after all, it was not as smart as a human being, and the same swordsmanship of the white ape had many fewer flexibility than Ah Qing, and its power was greatly reduced.

But this is compared to Ah Qing, if it is placed on the rivers and lakes, the white ape's swordsmanship should also be able to enter the house.

Duan Yu didn't want to fight with the white ape anymore, but he saw his figure move, and suddenly he reached the side of the white ape, and the index finger of his right hand was on the wrist of the white ape holding the branch.

This time he used two points and one yang finger force, the white ape was in pain, jumped away with a scream, and the branches also fell to the ground, looking at Duan Yu with frightened eyes.

Duan Yu arched his hand at the white ape and said with a smile: "Brother Ape's swordsmanship is brilliant, I admire it." Let's not fight now, lest we hurt the peace. ”

Ah Qing stepped forward and took a bamboo stick and pointed at the white ape and said, "Even I am not Duan Yu's opponent, but you came up to fight by yourself." ”

The white ape probably understood what the two of them said, and walked to the flock of sheep in a huff, stretched out his arm around the neck of a sheep, and touched the head of the sheep with his paws a few times.

Ah Qing snorted at the white ape and said, "Duan Yu, don't be angry with Grandpa Bai, he knows that he can't beat you, and he won't easily provoke you in the future." ”

Duan Yu not only didn't get angry, but instead took two bananas from the ground and walked towards the white ape.

When the white ape saw Duan Yu coming, he was a little scared, but when he saw the banana that Duan Yu handed in front of him, he pointed at the banana with his paw and pointed at himself with some uncertainty, meaning to ask Duan Yu if the banana was given to him. Seeing Duan Yu nodding, the white ape happily took the banana, skillfully peeled off the skin and ate it.

Ah Qing followed, and said curiously: "Father-in-law Bai, it turns out that you like to eat bananas?" ”

Ah Qing rarely ate fruit before, and he didn't have the money to buy fruit for the white ape to eat.

The white ape nodded again and again, the two bananas had been devoured by him, and raised his head to look at Duan Yu.

Duan Yu laughed and said, "If Brother Ape has an appetite, come here to eat!" ”

Duan Yu led the white ape back to the grass where he was lying before, picked up the paper bag wrapped in a banana and handed it to the white ape.

The white ape grinned and took the banana, and the eyes that looked at Duan Yu were obviously no longer hostile, but had a somewhat flattering meaning.