Chapter 54: A slap in the face
Li Amu had a cold face, didn't say a word, and silently led the way in front, while Zhou Hanbei looked around curiously, and gradually walked in front of a stockade.
As far as the eye can see, a patchwork of stilted buildings sits here. Surrounded by green hills, reflected in the mirror-like lake, walking in the old-fashioned path in the village, all the blue floor tiles, the curved and secluded, a towering ancient tree, growing on the hill by the lake to guard this ancient village.
From the outside to the inside, Zhou Hanbei counted about it, and there were almost 1,000 stilted buildings, with a gray-black tile roof and wooden walls and window columns, which had become gray-black after a long time. Under the warm winter sun, the pale blue cooking smoke is like clouds.
"It's beautiful!"
Zhou Hanbei's eyes showed a look of yearning, and he couldn't help sighing.
At this time, there were more and more people who could be seen on the road, everyone greeted Li Amu, and he responded one by one, and at the same time, they all looked at Zhou Hanbei curiously, wondering how they could bring an outsider in, where did Zhou Hanbei care so much, and nodded hello to everyone with a smile.
A few bold children kept circling around Zhou Hanbei, they had never seen him dressed like this, chattering on the side.
"You little cubs, play with ......"
"Slightly ......"
A few children grimaced at Li Amu and ran back, thinking that they also knew Li Amu's character.
"Hey...... Be careful that I sue your grandma! ”
Li Amu scared a few children with a smile on his face, and when he disappeared, he saw Zhou Hanbei angry, and immediately walked towards the stilted building not far away.
Zhou Hanbei sniffed, smiled and followed.
"Come in!"
When I got to the door, I heard a very vicissitudes of sound coming, and after entering, a strong smell of medicine came to my nose, and I saw that the black medicine jar was bubbling and bubbling, and bursts of green smoke were floating in the air.
"Uncle, I brought people in......
"Well, just sit down, Amu, you go back first!"
"But ......"
Before Li Amu finished speaking, he was interrupted by the person who called him uncle, so he could only give up, glared at Zhou Hanbei and left silently.
The old man was lying on his body, holding a fan in his hand and gently fanning the fire, adding something to it from time to time, the old man's hands were very rough, his face was old but very ruddy, his eyes were bright and bright, and he looked very energetic. From those eyes, I saw a trace of Li Xinlan's shadow.
Zhou Hanbei had a little guess in his heart, but he didn't bother the old man at this time, and waited quietly on the side, the old man took out some insects and put them in the jar, and Zhou Hanbei's scalp was numb.
"This is a medicinal diet unique to my Jiuli tribe...... It has a healing effect! As if he knew the question in Zhou Hanbei's heart, the old man explained as if no one was around.
"Got it, kid!"
Zhou Hanbei humbly accepted the lesson and bowed.
Slowly putting down the pu fan in his hand, the old man took out a bowl from the side, poured out the medicine that had been boiled, pointed to the bowl of strangely colored medicine and said to Zhou Hanbei, "Drink it, you were also injured a lot just now, it's good for you." With that, the old man walked over with his hands behind his back and sat down.
"Uh...... Thank you, seniors. ”
Zhou Hanbei was not hypocritical, he picked it up and pinched his nose and drank it, he was not afraid that the old man would harm him, this is the Jiuli clan, there are many ways to kill him, there is no need to be so troublesome, and the sound was transmitted so far before, so that Zhou Hanbei knew that this must be a master.
It's just that this smell does make him very uncomfortable, not to mention the bitterness, the key is that the smell smells disgusting, that is, the smell that only comes after adding insects, and it will not be able to dissipate for a while. I drank it in one gulp.
"Thank you seniors for the medicine......"
Zhou Hanbei, who drank the medicine, thanked the old man again, although the taste was not good, but this would feel a sense of coolness in the body, and the injured place before was not so painful.
These performances were seen by the old man, stroking his beard and nodding his head, expressing his appreciation, and the attitude of the non-obsessive and unrestrained who did not show in front of him was neither humble nor arrogant.
"Sit down, don't stand...... Your name is Zhou Hanbei? ”
After Zhou Hanbei sat down, he nodded.
"Oh, you're the one who broke my stupid granddaughter's heartbreak?"
Zhou Hanbei didn't know how to answer when he heard the words for a while, and he picked his head in embarrassment.
"You are Li Xinlan's grandfather, that is, my grandfather."
"Hehe, you kid will go down the pole, old man Li Haichuan, if you like to call grandpa, call grandpa." Li Haichuan said to Zhou Hanbei with a smile on his face.
Zhou Hanbei immediately smiled when he heard this, and the chick kept nodding like pecking rice, and suddenly remembered something, and asked with a concerned face, "Grandpa, how is Xinlan?" ”
"She's fine, it's fine!"
"Nothing? Then at the beginning, I listened to Brother Amu say something, pity my sister Xinlan or something? Zhou Hanbei was stunned when he heard this, and continued to ask.
"Don't listen to that stinky boy's nonsense, Xinlan is fine!"
After getting Li Haichuan's assurance, Zhou Hanbei put down Xinlan and continued to chat with the old man. I want to know why Li Xinlan came back suddenly, why did she leave, where did she go and what to do? These are all things that Zhou Hanbei wants to know, so that he can find her as soon as possible.
Li Haichuan didn't answer him this, just when he was hesitating.
"Boom ......" There was a heavy knock on the door, followed by several hurried footsteps, and before the person arrived, he heard the angry voice of a man......
"Where is Zhou Hanbei's rabbit cub?"
"Don't be impulsive, be quiet......"
Another woman's voice persuaded on the side.
Zhou Hanbei was stunned when he heard this, who was looking for me, it seemed that he was looking for trouble, and I didn't cause trouble.
I saw a burly man with an angry face walking in, and a dignified woman standing next to him with a delicate and attractive face, the two came in and glanced around, and saw Zhou Hanbei.
The middle-aged man didn't think much about it, and his anger slashed his head and face, and Zhou Han was shocked, where is this war witch who is out of the mirror.
"Hmph, stop......"
An even more powerful force appeared in front of Zhou Hanbei and blocked the blow.
"Daddy! What are you doing? ”
"Qinghua, do you want Xinlan to hate you for the rest of your life?"
After hearing what the woman said, the man called Qinghua slowly lowered his palm, and the two people who came were Li Xinlan's parents, Li Qinghua and Li Biyuan, and the entire Jiuli clan was surnamed Li, and they all intermarried within the clan, and there were also those who married outside, but those people rarely came back.
"What kind of system is this, in front of outsiders?"
"Daddy, but Xinlan ...... her"
"Shut up, it's Xinlan's choice no matter what......"
The father and son kept arguing for their daughter and granddaughter, Li Biyuan persuaded on the side, and Zhou Hanbei stood aside at a loss, as if everyone's hostility towards him was related to Xinlan.
"Uncle, aunt, I don't know what makes you so angry, if it's my fault, I'm willing to apologize!" Zhou Hanbei said sincerely to Li Qinghua and his wife.
It's okay if he didn't open his mouth, as soon as he opened his mouth, several people stopped arguing, and a loud slap of "......" hit Zhou Hanbei in the face, and this time Zhou Hanbei was blinded.
"Bi Kite, you...... Ay! ”
Li Haichuan pointed at Li Biyuan with a regretful face, he didn't think that his daughter-in-law, who usually treats people amiably and has never been angry, actually has such a side.
"Your apology is worthless to us." Li Biyuan trembled, her eyes moist, "If something happens to Xinlan, I want you to pay for your life." ”
Li Biyuan held back, afraid that she would not be able to control her emotions and kill Zhou Hanbei, and turned around to leave.
"Wait, auntie, what happened, what's wrong with Xinlan, didn't grandpa say she's okay?"
"Hey...... Let me tell you! ”
Seeing that she couldn't hide it, after appeasing several people, Li Haichuan slowly spoke, it turned out that because there was no news of Zhou Hanbei, Li Xinlan was heartbroken, she wanted to die, but then remembered that Zhou Hanbei still had revenge and did not take revenge.
She wanted to fulfill this wish, so she came back alone to accept the baptism of the clan in advance, but the family began to know what she was doing when she came back, and secretly opened the Valley of Ten Thousand Insects at night while there was no one, and the realm was not enough to accept the heart of ten thousand insects, and it was difficult to escape death.
By the time Li Haichuan and the others found out, it was too late to stop it, Li Xinlan was lying there dying, and there was only one belief that made her hold on, and that was to avenge Zhou Hanbei.
When she heard this, Li Biyuan couldn't cry anymore, "You still have the face to come here, you don't know how painful that inhuman torture is." ”
Zhou Hanbei was also two lines of tears slowly sliding down his face at this moment, his heart was in pain, he kept blaming himself in his heart, his clenched fists made a clenched sound, and he didn't know that his nails were embedded in the flesh.
"I ......"
Before Zhou Hanbei could speak, Li Haichuan continued, and at that time, Xinlan was in a coma and began to talk nonsense, why should she be with Brother Hanbei. If it weren't for the fact that her Yin Yang Silkworm evolved into a Yin Yang Golden Horn Silkworm and had been struggling to protect her, otherwise, she might really not survive this time.
Do you know how long she has persevered, a full month, and finally arrived at Tianwu without danger, but the realm is unstable, once something happens, no one dares to think, after waking up, Xinlan cultivated for a few days, and then set off north, saying that she would go to the Great Wilderness to help you take revenge.
No matter how much persuasion worked, we said that we wanted to be together, but she refused, saying that she couldn't cause a war between the entire Jiuli and the Great Wilderness because of her, not to mention that there was Xijiang behind them.
"I wonder what attracted my daughter to you?"
Li Haichuan said such a thing, which made Zhou Hanbei blame himself even more, did it not happen if he hadn't seen it at the beginning, and shook his head.
"Uncle, aunt, two people like each other together, and they are very comfortable, so nothing can stop them." Zhou Hanbei looked at the two of them firmly, and continued the insistence in his heart, only those who love the right people will be willing to pay for each other.
Presumably Zhou Hanbei saved her without hesitation at that time, this is true love. He did not say this, lest people mistakenly think that he was trying to repay the favor.
"Uncle, aunt, I promise you that I will definitely bring Xinlan back unharmed......"
Several people looked at Zhou Hanbei's solemn attitude and remained silent for a long time......