Chapter 4: Fire Spirit Rabbit
"Lord Wang, you can be regarded as back."
In King Jing's Mansion, a person dressed as a guard was relieved to see the person who fell into the courtyard.
"Xiaotan, you are looking for me in the middle of the night, what is the matter?"
Jing Yuan asked lightly.
Xiao Tan said: "It's not me looking for you, it's the one looking for you!"
Jing Yuan's dark color moved slightly, and he walked towards the palace.
Xiao Tan stayed in the courtyard and didn't follow up, touched his nose, and sneezed, when did the prince change the incense, why did he smell of peach blossoms on his body today?
Jing Yuan walked into his bedroom in the palace, but instead of resting, he pulled down a book from the shelf. There is a mechanism attached to the book, and as soon as the book is drawn, the entire bookshelf is reversed by half a turn, revealing a secret room.
Jing Yuan walked into the secret room, and the bookshelf automatically flipped back. Jing Yuan put the book back on the shelf, only to hear a voice behind him: "We are running out of time."
Jing Yuan turned his head and saw a person dressed in black and wearing a silver mask sitting on a chair in the secret room. It's this person who is talking.
Jing Yuan nodded, raised his hand, and a spiritual power rushed towards the man in black, the spiritual power was majestic, and there was a faint overwhelming momentum.
The man in black took this attack and said with some surprise, "You are already a sixth-level cultivator." Jing Yuan was silent and acquiesced.
"This kind of cultivation, square-eyed Kyushu, you also deserve to be the first!" The man in black said loudly, quite relieved and happy, "Everyone in the world says that King Jing is too weak to cultivate, and who knows that you are an unborn genius, hahaha!" β
"No," Jing Yuan suddenly spoke, interrupting the laughter of the man in black.
The man in black was puzzled and asked, "Where did you come from?"
"I'm still a little short." Jing Yuan replied lightly.
"Huh? What's worse? The man in black was puzzled.
"It's worse than a person."
Jing Yuan bypassed the man in black, walked into the depths of the secret room, sat down on a white jade bed, and began to cultivate.
The man in black thought for a while, as if he didn't understand who could make this seventeen-year-old genius who had cultivated at the sixth level say the words "still a little worse".
After being isolated for a while, the man in black suddenly sneezed and said sullenly: "Where did this smell of peach blossoms come from?"
On the second day, Chu Xia deliberately went to the laundry room to pull out Erhua, and the two were busy all day, and finally brewed a few jars of peach blossom wine, buried the wine jar under the peach tree, and waited for next year to take it out.
Seeing that it was getting dark, both of them were exhausted.
In the past, the General's Mansion would be quiet after dusk, but today for some reason, it was so late, and it was still very noisy.
However, the noise did not spread to Chu Xia's hut, and it was still very quiet.
At this time, a sudden grunt suddenly remembered in the silent room, and Erhua rubbed his stomach awkwardly: "I'm a little hungry......"
Chu Xia stood up: "Let's go find something to eat."
Er Hua hurriedly said: "No, no, no, the kitchen is empty at this hour, and I'm not very hungry, it doesn't matter."
Chu Xia was not good at talking nonsense and politeness, so he directly pulled up the painting and walked out of the door.
As soon as I went out, I saw that the general's mansion was very lively, and even the eldest lady Chu Han, who had been cultivating behind closed doors, came out, and was talking intimately with the third lady Chu Wei in the courtyard while walking out.
Erhua clapped his hands: "Oh! I remember! Today is the day when the night market is open every month, the streets are very lively, there are many vendors selling delicious and fun things will set up stalls along the street, I have been there once, and the taste of that meatball will never be forgotten! β
As if his saliva was about to flow out, Chu Xia paused as he walked towards the kitchen, and turned to the back wall.
Before Er Hua could react to why the two of them came to the back wall in the middle of the night, Chu Xia took Er Hua to rise in the air, climbed over the wall, and came to the back street.
"This, this, this!" Erhua was not lightly frightened, Chu Xia smiled lightly, pulled Erhua, and said softly: "Run."
The two ran from the dark back streets to the brightly lit streets. The streets are bustling with people, the smell of food and the shouts of hawkers along the streets arouse people's appetites, and there are many new things for sale.
Chu Xia has a cold temperament since he was a child, and he has devoted himself to cultivation, but when he thinks about it, he has never rushed to this night market. She also knew that the night market in Chenguo was lively, but it was the first time she had seen it with her own eyes.
It's so lively...... It's a little noisy.
Chu Xia was a little uncomfortable, and Erhua on the side suddenly pointed to a stall selling balls in front of him excitedly: "Look! That's it! The balls are delicious! β
All right......
In addition to the noise, there are also some ...... Warm.
Chu Xia and Er Hua asked for a small pack of balls, and Chu Xia poked a small ball with a bamboo skewer and put it in his mouth. The taste that I have never tasted before hits the tip of the tongue, and the strangeness makes people feel extra warm. The two of them walked while eating, every time they saw something fresh, Er Hua excitedly pulled Chu Xia over, and the two walked around the street for a while, and they never stopped eating.
Er Hua was satisfied and stuffed the last small fishskin dumpling into his mouth, his mouth was stuffed, and he said vaguely: "I have never eaten so happily in the night market...... "After ......, she suddenly remembered that the reason why she couldn't eat so many delicacies in the night market before was because she didn't have money, but today......
Erhua looked at Chu Xia - all the money was paid by Chu Xia......
Chu Xia bit the bun, saw Er Hua staring at him with a strange expression, blinked, and handed Er Hua the oiled paper bag with two buns left in his hand: "Do you want it?"
Erhua shook his head, and said incoherently: "Chu Xia, that ...... Today you broke the bank, I forgot everything when I saw the delicious food, that ...... How much I have spent today...... I'll pay you back! β
Chu Xia was stunned for a moment, and then realized that she was talking about what she had paid, and shook her head with a smile: "I have enough money, don't worry, I don't have to pay it back."
"Then what's going on, I'm not going to take advantage of people for nothing." Er said. She thought, Chu Xia was in such a situation a few days ago, so miserable, how much money can he use in his hand? I'm afraid it's even worse than her, and she won't take advantage of Chu Xia.
Chu Xia saw what Er Hua was thinking, but he didn't explain. When she was still the pride of the Chu family, the wealth on her body was comparable to that of ordinary young ladies of the family. Although most of them have been looted away by Chu Wei and others now, there is still a little bit of private money left, which is still a huge amount of money in the eyes of these servants.
Explaining these is troublesome, useless, and has some show-off nature, which is easy to make the two of them dislike, Chu Xia is also a person who doesn't like to explain by nature, so he simply doesn't talk to Erhua.
"If you don't have any money, get out of here, don't get in the way of Lao Tzu doing business!"
At this time, a person fell hard at the feet of Chu Xia and the others with a shout, and Erhua hurriedly helped the person up, only to see that his head hit a stone on the side of the road, which had broken and was bleeding.
"How can you be like this, can't you say anything well?" Seeing the blood on the man's head and face, he hurriedly took out a handkerchief and questioned the stall owner while helping him deal with it.
In front of the stall owner were a dozen or so special metal cages, all of which contained various small animals. It seems that the stall owner is a spirit beast dealer.
When the stall owner heard Erhua's words, he sneered and said, "Cut, this kind of poor ghost, he still comes to see high-level spirit beasts, and he can't pay, I told him to get out, and he still pesters me." It's shameless. β
The man took Erhua's hand and said weakly, "That fire spirit rabbit is about to die, please save it......"
The two of them looked at the call, and saw a little rabbit with snow-white fur and blood-red hooves locked in one of the cages, lying on its stomach in the cage with a pair of wet eyes, staring closely at the man who fell to the ground, as if knowing that the man was beaten for it.
Chu Xia suddenly said in a loud voice: "That Fire Spirit Rabbit, I'll buy it."
"You?" The stall owner glanced at Chu Xia suspiciously: "My Fire Spirit Rabbit is worth a lot of money, you are a little girl, can you afford it?" Get out of here, don't bother me with my business. β
Before Chu Xia could refute, a gorgeously dressed girl came to the stall, and the girl glanced at the cage on the stall arrogantly, seemed to sneer, and raised her hand to point to a cage at random: "This ink white fox, I want it."
The stall owner hurriedly responded, waved his hand to the side of Chu Xia and the others, and handed over the cage of the black white fox respectfully: "Miss, please take a look." The girl carried the cage casually, the little black white fox shrank in the corner of the cage and trembled, the girl stretched out a finger into the cage, and the well-groomed nails poked the soft fur of the black white fox, the black white fox trembled even more, and the girl smiled: "I want it."
Next to him, a good-looking person with a somewhat obscene smile paid and said, "If Xiaoqing wants anything, I'll buy it for you."
The girl laughed coquettishly: "The prince is really considerate."
Yes, the lewd man who paid was the prince of Dingnan who was engaged to Chu Xia.
When Shizi and Xiaoqing wanted to leave, they saw Chu Xia, who was squeezed aside and watched silently.
Chu Xia was dressed in red, standing in the bright lights on the street, gorgeous and enchanting, but not very clear, as if it would disappear in the next moment.
"Chu Xia? How did you end up here? The prince was amazed, he was stunned at the time, and when he came back to his senses, he frowned and asked.
"This night market is so bustling, the little girl also wants to come and join in the fun." Chu Xia seemed to smile and said politely.
"A woman to be married should not go out of the door of the house, how can she come out and wander around!" The prince is quite dissatisfied, he doesn't like women who are too assertive, a good girl should be obedient, submissive, and serve her parents and husband at home all day long, and should not go to the streets at will.
Chu Xia's eyes lit up slightly, he really thought that he was her Chu Xia's husband? What are you willing to do, and it is his turn to judge and give orders here? Are you kidding.
Xiaoqing chuckled: "Shizi, don't you introduce me, who is this?"
Shizi smiled at Xiao Qing and said, "This is Chu Xia, the second lady of the Chu family, the general who protects the country. Chu Xia, this is the Muqing Fairy of the Immortal Stay Palace, and she is my fiancΓ©e. β