Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Storm Is Coming
The atmosphere was a little awkward, and Jian Ning was finally convinced that he had indeed forgotten something.
He walked over and habitually kicked Shan Ren and scolded with a smile: "Look at your aggrieved appearance, haven't I forgotten!" Are you really angry? ”
Shan Ren turned his back and didn't want to pay attention to him, and it just so happened that his stomach was rumbling at this time. Shan Ren blushed a little embarrassed, why can't he get along with his stomach.
"Shall we eat? I haven't eaten a decent full meal for several days" Shan Ren touched his stomach, nostalgic for the stewed shopkeeper and the shopkeeper in Yunzhou Mansion.
Zheng Ning is indeed a little hungry, he is actually a little groggy until now, as for why this is happening, Ji Ning, who has always been bold and rough-hearted, put it in the back of his mind.
He thought for a while and said, "There should still be some sweet potatoes in the cellar, let's make do with a meal first." When I think about it, I always feel that there are some things that I don't understand," he scratched his head, rather distressed.
Shan Ren was taken aback, and he asked in surprise, "Are you still going to go?" Don't want to die? When he said this, he obviously regretted it. Because due to some circumstances, it is not appropriate for Zaining to know what happened last night. Or rather, everything is actually arranged by some people. Shan Ren, who knew that he was speechless, fled.
Jian Ning seemed to remember something in a trance, which made him too late to ask Shan Ren. Then Shan Ren slipped away.
Repeated questioning to no avail, Jian Ning was a little depressed. Shan Ren went to the cellar with a weak heart and brought up two round sweet potatoes, which are indeed rare in this icy and snowy Xiaohuang Village.
It's still Shan Ren who burns the fire, and he's very busy. Ji Ning was also hungry, so he reluctantly went to the cellar to dig out some soil and wrap the sweet potatoes with the mud. Shan Ren leaned over and asked, "How do you use mud?" How can you eat this? ”
He ignored him, why I'll tell you!
The crackling sound of the dead branches was particularly crisp in the small courtyard, and after a while, snowflakes floated again, and Jian Ning looked up at the snowflakes falling in a daze.
For some reason, Zaining is always a little sentimental!
When the last dead branch burned out, the small courtyard was already filled with the aroma of sweet potato skin being roasted.
Shan Ren couldn't wait to ask Zai Ning: "Brother Zai! Okay, no? ”
To be honest, roasting sweet potatoes is actually really a patient job, it needs to be heated a little bit, the fire is not too big, not too small, and the smoke cannot be very heavy. There is no knowledge here, and seven or eight years of experience in digging sweet potatoes and roasting sweet potatoes in the wasteland is not at all. Do you remember the big brother who gave orders every time he roasted sweet potatoes? It's all technical work.
Ji Ning looked at Shan Ren with disdain, you know what a fart! After the sweet potato is roasted, it must be stuffy for a while, so that there will be no lumps and astringent taste!
Finally, when Zheng Ning turned over the remaining flames on the ground, Shan Ren was really about to cry with his head in his arms, but he starved to death!
When one person was holding a large clod of earth and moving, what they didn't know was a simple carriage slowly coming from the entrance of the village.
Xiang Xiaomo lifted the curtain, looked at the scenery outside the car and sighed: "It's only been a long time to go around, and I'm back again."
He looked into the inside of the carriage, where two neat bamboo lunch boxes were placed.
Compared with Shan Ren's big head, in fact, the sweet potatoes he carefully selected are really not small.
Both of them were already hungry, Shan Ren snatched the bigger protector in his arms, and regardless of the ashes, he looked at Jian Ning vigilantly and said, "I'll go get it!" The big ones are mine! He leaned out, away from Zaining.
At this time, after being busy for a while, he was not angry that Shan Ren would not tell him the truth, and gently knocked down the crusted mud on the outer layer, broke half of it and put it on top of the hot green brick, he said with a smile: "As long as you can finish eating, this half is also yours" He smiled and pushed half of the sweet potato to Shan Ren, full of warmth.
Shan Ren looked at Jian Ning in disbelief, why is it different, in the past, if he didn't beat himself, it would be magnanimous. He humbly said in his mouth not to don't, but his hand immediately touched the sweet potato and took a bite of it. Stop! The look of jumping and shouting hot is really cute.
While eating the golden sweet potato, he was thinking about something, and he looked at Shan Ren, who was out of tune, and it was like this. It won't be against you, will it?
The snow dances in the sky, the dragon moves, the dragon scales are sparsely scattered, and everything is silent.
Jian Ning didn't even eat half of it, and in the end, almost all of it was cheaper, this kid really has a big appetite.
Looking at Shan Ren's panting appearance, Ji Ning asked, "Do you want to drink some water?" The sweet potatoes are so sticky."
In the end, Shan Ren, who was even filled with seams, walked to the bedroom with a big belly. He got up too early today and needed to catch up on his sleep.
Jian Ning had no choice but to clean up the battlefield alone, in fact, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and it should not be long before the traces were covered.
"Huh..." The sound of a carriage stopping outside the courtyard gate actually reached the courtyard, and Ji Ning raised his head curiously.
Sure enough, after a while, there was a knock on the door. Ji Ning wondered who would come to visit the door at this time, not to mention that everyone in the village knew that Ji Feng had left, even if he came to fight farm tools, he would not be looking for himself.
He opened the door of the courtyard in confusion, and when he saw the visitor, the memory of Yunzhou Academy instantly flooded into his heart. Especially the helplessness and frustration when studying "Etiquette".
"Why are you here!" Ji Ning asked helplessly, is it really not very enthusiastic.
Shan Ren ran out of the house, and when he saw it, he didn't sleep at all, it turned out that he was just lazy and unwilling to clean up the meal. But the angry Qiang Ning was about to kick him.
Shan Ren hid behind Xiang Xiaomo and said sweetly: "Master? How did you get here? It's snowing in the yard, so let's go back to the house and talk. "It's very old-fashioned, especially for a beautiful man.
Xiang Xiaomo walked away in disgust, neither paying attention to Ji Ning's coldness nor accepting Shan Ren's enthusiasm. He walked to the hall and sat down.
The coachman helped bring the food box over, but he didn't say anything, he nodded with Xiang Xiaomo, and left by himself.
Xiang Xiaomo lifted the food box with his hand, and a strong smell of food filled the cottage built on the mountainside.
He looked up and asked, "Have you eaten it?" Let's go together" is very host's style.
Shan Renha's chin flowed, he just wanted to take a step, but he hiccuped at an inopportune time! He touched his round belly and looked at Shen Ning with resentment.
But Ji Ning sat down without realizing it, took the chopsticks handed over by Xiang Xiaomo, and smiled and picked up a piece of beef and put it in his mouth. I hummed vigorously, and I was able to do it very.
Xiang Xiaomo glanced at Jian Ning with disgust, and then at Shan Ren, who was paying attention, shook his head and thought about how the etiquette was learned, and it was still so out of tune. Far worse than his brother! It's stupid to think about it.
One meal, a few joys and a few sorrows! Zheng Ning, who really couldn't help it, secretly handed Shan Ren a pork knuckle and chatted for comfort.
Several people sat around the stove to roast the fire, and Xiang Xiaomo slowly said meaningfully: "Do you remember the mysterious person I told you about who entered the mass grave without permission?" He recently appeared"
Ji Ning asked in surprise, "Oh? What's going on? ”
"He appeared in the black market of Lixia Pavilion, and put up a high reward at the big treasurer, he wants to find the Shuluo Pan!"
"What!" "What!" Ji Ning and Shan Ren exclaimed at the same time.
"My master also learned about this situation after a lot of twists and turns, to be honest, in fact, he also attaches great importance to the cultivation compass, after all, everyone in the world knows that the robbery seal can kill the gods with the cultivation compass!" She said this solemnly and yearningly. What a hero!
Ji Ning was silent for a moment and said, "I'm going to find him!" Can you help me? ”
Xiang Xiaomo nodded naturally and said: "This is also the purpose of my visit, I need you to help me check the authenticity of the compass, after all, a lot of compass has suddenly appeared on the black market recently." But strangely, the mysterious man ignored it, and seemed to have already decided that it was a fake. You're the only one who's actually seen the Shuluo and used it. Let's work together to catch this guy! ”
Shan Ren said: "If Mr. Master said this, it would actually be safer to meet him as a business party."
Xiang Xiaomo said helplessly: "I tried it, but he saw through it."
"We asked the Mo family's master of the Organ Dao to counterfeit an almost realistic repair compass, but he asked for the goods to be inspected first. And just like that, the guy disappeared again. But the big shopkeeper didn't embarrass us."
"Who are you talking about? Listening to what you mean, it seems that even the National Teacher will do things according to his rules? Ji Ning asked seriously.
"He is the Emperor of the Underground Black Market and has an agreement with the Dragon Emperor. It is said that ninety percent of the grain and grass in the Wujiang Battle were provided by him! ”
Shan Ren was surprised and said, "This is very good!" ”
"Have you heard about the rumors of mass graves?" Legend has it that this is the place where the souls of the dead of the Wujiang Battle resided! Xiang Xiaomo doesn't know how much you know? ”
Xiang Xiaomo glared and said: "One day as a teacher, one life as a father!" How can you call it by its first name? ”
Ji Ning was helpless, he was really convinced.
Xiang Xiaomo thought for a while and said: "In fact, all the historical records about that battle were destroyed by the Dragon Emperor, that is, several gentlemen of the academy who participated in the compilation of the chronicle were implicated and imprisoned in the merit forest. So it's harder to understand that history than to climb to the sky."
Ji Ning glanced at Shan Ren and said, "Go and make a repair compass again, let's go to the black market and meet this guy for a while."
Xiang Xiaomo was curious about what way Ji Ning could fool him through, but Shan Ren understood it.
That night, the groom drove over, and he didn't know how Xiang Xiaomo contacted him.
It turned out that this person was a master of the Mo family's organs, which made Jian Ning, who learned of this person's identity, very disgusted. But for the sake of big things, he cooperated with the coachman to imitate the repair compass. Until the final finish, he kicked everyone out of the door. Behind closed doors!
After a while, Ji Ning walked out, and he carried the compass and put it in the wooden box. The smell is truly unusual.
When Ji Ning was about to go out, Shan Ren asked faintly, "Just leave like this?" Aren't you afraid of being recognized? Since Brother Feng killed the plague god, you two brothers, if you know the situation, you two will remember your portrait by heart, right? It's called self-defeating! ”
Xiang Xiaomo looked at this little adult-like Shan Ren funny, but nodded and said, "I have a way to do this!" ”
She took out a lot of rouge gouache and some bottles and cans from her cuffs like a trick, and she said to Shan Ren: "Just watch" seems to be very sure.
Ji Ning took two steps back in resistance, and refused: "Manly man, what kind of body does it become to draw eyebrows and eyes." I don't want it! "It's very resentful.
Why sacrifice me!
Xiang Xiaomo asked Shan Rendao: "Do you know the leather painter?" ”
Shan Ren thought about it for a while, but replied cooperatively: "You mean that one of the branches of the Yi family in the biography can change the life of mortals?" ”
Xiang Xiaomo nodded in surprise and said, "You have a little knowledge."
Ji Ning asked curiously, "What is a life grid?" Does the tanners you are talking about have anything to do with the present? ”
Xiang Xiaomo explained seriously: "There is no accident in this world, only necessity, no matter how small the encounter is, it will definitely affect the fate of the future, and the fate will not disappear." The world seems to be very big, but in fact, it is very small, limited to what you can see and touch. Therefore, according to some external causes and conditions, a certain law will be formed, that is to say, in fact, a person's life has been firmly engraved in the long river of destiny since birth. And this rule is called a proposition. ”
"As for the tanner, that's," she was about to explain, when she saw Shan Ren's rapid eyes and gestures, and closed her mouth sensibly.
Shan Ren said: "Brother robbery, I know a little. People often say that "it is difficult to draw a dragon and a tiger, and it is difficult to draw bones, and it is difficult to know the face but not the heart", in fact, one is a miscommunication, the original text should be "to draw the dragon and the tiger is easy to draw the bones, and to know the face and the good heart" is to say that the leather maker is the painter! But don't underestimate this hundred branches and leaves with only a few people! ”
Ji Ning is speechless, I'll look at a fart! I don't even know where they are.
Under Xiang Xiaomo's operation, Bao Ning's original immature appearance has changed a lot, faintly similar to Bao Feng, Xiang Xiao Mo doesn't know how to forcibly improve Bao Ning's figure and height From a distance, he looks like a thin and weak son! This made Shan Ren envious, shouting "I want it too"
Wait until the end, everything is dusty. Ji Ning was very pleased with his appearance. Children, in the end, hope that they will grow up earlier.
When Shan Ren looked at this white-faced boy with a facelifted face jealously, he asked Bao Ning sourly: "Brother Bao! Do you know what this cobbler does? ”
Ji Ning was curious, and Xiang Xiaomo didn't stop it.
"What is it?" he asked. ”
Shan Ren stayed away from the two of them, and said to Ji Ning with a smile: "Painting cobbler! The royal craftsmen of the Han Dynasty, only for the people who were buried by the nobles of the heavens, it is said that some princes and princes who died miserably can put on a harmonious and serene smiling face after death! Brother robbery, what a blessing! ”
Ji Ning was stunned and turned his head to look at Xiang Xiaomo, who was a head shorter than him, and said in a low voice: "Master! Excessive, right? ”
Shan Ren had already disappeared in the courtyard, Xiang Xiaomo was smiling, and his posture was moving!