Chapter 15: Hu Hai
The three of them turned their heads almost at the same time and looked behind them vigilantly, only to find that Xu Chenxi, who was wearing a professional uniform, was covering his mouth and looking at the three of them with an embarrassed expression.
Wei Ziqi frowned lightly and glanced at Xu Chenxi deeply, but did not speak.
Hu Shouyu also found out that this was the woman who had just confronted Su Jianxia in the coffee shop, and breathed a sigh of relief. But when his eyes saw the woman's face, he was suddenly stunned.
"Why are you everywhere, you can still follow you when you come to the mountains." Su Jianxia crossed his hands on his hips and walked up to Xu Chenxi and said dissatisfied.
Xu Chenxi looked at Wei Ziqi with a little weakness, and when she saw Su Jianxia coming over to accuse herself, she immediately straightened her waist.
"I'm just here to relax, why do you say I'm here with you?"
"Who has nothing to do with the distraction of this wilderness, I see that you obviously squatted in the store and couldn't find anyone, and followed me all the way." Su Jianxia glared and said.
"Good little girl, how can you be like a shrew scolding the street." Xu Chenxi looked disgusted, "What if I follow you?" β
When Su Jianxia heard this, he was even more angry, and just as he was about to drive this woman away louder, he saw her bypass him and walk in front of Wei Ziqi.
"Mr. Wei, I said that I would give you a chance to understand, why do you keep avoiding me, does this seem like what a man should do?"
Wei Ziqi changed the crampedness of seeing Xu Chenxi on weekdays, but said softly: "I didn't expect Miss Xu to be so obsessed and so interested in me. β
"It's not an obsession, it's too heavy, after all, we've only known each other for a short time." Xu Chenxi looked at the mountain road behind Wei Ziqi, "But I didn't expect Mr. Wei to be an ordinary person, no wonder he wasn't interested in me at all." β
"Miss Xu seems to be very confident, men should be very interested in you?"
"As a woman, and a beautiful woman, I still have that confidence."
Wei Ziqi stared at Xu Chenxi's eyes for a long time before nodding and saying, "Since Miss Xu has already come over, let's come in and have a look." β
"Uncle, this person is here to make trouble, and it has nothing to do with this matter, so why should she come with her?" Before Xu Chenxi could speak, Su Jianxia rushed up and inserted between the two.
Xu Chenxi didn't pay attention to Su Jianxia, but looked directly at Wei Ziqi, "Is this appropriate, tell me your secret so easily." β
Wei Ziqi turned around and walked towards the mountain road, "It's not a secret, and Miss Xu should be quite interested, so let's take a look." β
With Wei Ziqi's permission, Xu Chenxi glanced at Su Jianxia defiantly, then walked around Su Jianxia with his head up, and followed behind Wei Ziqi.
Su saw Xia angrily stomping his feet on the spot, and glanced at Hu Shouyu, who was staring at Xu Chenxi intently, and there was a burst of anger, "Hey, hey, what do you look at, it's so good-looking?" The wife and children at home are hot on the kang, and they are still staring at the beauties here when they come out, and sure enough, the men are all the same. β
The sudden anger startled Hu Shouyu, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I just think I seem to have seen her somewhere, but I can't remember it." β
"Didn't you just see her an hour ago, of course you're familiar." Su Jianxia said angrily.
Hu Shouyu shook his head and said: "No, it's not a meeting in the morning, it should have been seen a long time ago, in a specific scene, I didn't look at her carefully in the morning, I just glanced at it and had a deep sense of familiarity, but I can't remember it now." β
"Isn't this the common language you men use when they see beautiful women?" Su Jianxia was skeptical.
"Absolutely not, in my eyes, there is no woman who is half as beautiful as Lianzhi, and I can't be attracted to other women." Hu Shouyu hurriedly raised his watch to be loyal.
"That's a nice thing to say." Su Jianxia muttered, "Let's go, if you don't go for a while, you won't be able to keep up with them." β
Only then did Hu Shouyu notice that Wei Ziqi and Xu Chenxi in front of him had already walked a short way up the mountain, and hurriedly answered and followed.
This mountain road looks very long, but the gusts of mountain wind between the trees gently blow on a few people, and the leaves of the plane trees block the blazing sun tightly, and a few people do not feel hot and tired when they walk, and it seems that it did not take long to reach the halfway point of the mountain.
The ascent of the mountain road also ended here, and when he looked further, the scene in front of him suddenly stunned everyone, and even the well-informed Wei Ziqi showed a fleeting look of surprise on his face.
The mountain's peaks looked as if they had been cut off from the mountainside, leaving a huge flat clearing.
At this time, there was a river flowing from nowhere, and at the end of the river was a huge lake with a radius of about fifty meters.
The water in the lake is crystal clear and appears to be free of impurities, while above the lake are several large waterwheels that slowly rotate, carrying the water from the lake through dozens of wooden pipes of varying lengths to water the farmland around the lake. The golden wheat in the fields is swaying from side to side with the breeze, and even if it's not the wheat season, the wheat here looks like every plant is thriving.
The Hidden Mountain does not look like a very large mountain from the bottom of the mountain, but in a territory like the south, there are a few small hills that can be regarded as mountains.
But at this time, the area of farmland and lakes in front of everyone has far exceeded the area of the hidden mountain that they actually see, and even the foot of the mountain with the widest plane is not as large as what they see in front of them.
"Is this place still in the agricultural era?" Xu Chenxi first recovered from the shock and couldn't help but sigh.
"With such a large area of wheat field, how many people can cultivate it?" Hu Shouyu squatted down and looked at the wheat in the field, "It's still far from the wheat harvest season, but the wheat here is about to ripen, which is completely out of line with the laws of nature." β
"Hey, who are you and how did you get in?"
Just as a few people were curiously looking at everything around them, a young child's voice suddenly came.
Following the voice, a little boy about twelve or thirteen years old with his arms crossed over his chest was looking at his group with a serious face.
"Are you, Xiao Che?" Wei Ziqi looked at the little boy in front of him and said with some uncertainty.
The boy was stunned for a moment, as if he was a little surprised that the person in front of him knew him, took a few steps forward, and looked up and down with wide eyes, "Uncle Ziqi?" β
Wei Ziqi nodded, "I didn't expect you to be so old, the last time I saw you, I was still a five or six-year-old child." β
"It's really you, Uncle Ziqi!" The boy was pleasantly surprised and trotted in front of Wei Ziqi, "I should have thought that there would be anyone else but you who knows how to get in." β
Wei Ziqi rubbed the boy's head, "Where's your father?" β
"It's in there." The boy stretched out his hand and pointed in one direction of the farmland, "During this time, I came to the field to watch, and my father said that the wheat was almost ripe again, and it was only half past this year, and it was ripe for the third time, and the family couldn't eat enough rice." β
"I've been farming since I knew him, and I haven't planted enough after 2,000 years." Wei Ziqi remembered the figure of a man in the field with his back to the loess, and a rare smile appeared on his face.
"By the way, Uncle Ziqi, who are they?" The boy suddenly remembered the three people who were still following him, and asked curiously.
Su Jianxia didn't wait for the other two to reply, so he took a step forward and rubbed the boy's head, "Little friend, my sister's name is Su Jianxia, and she is the fiancΓ©e of your Uncle Ziqi." β
After finishing speaking, he raised his chin and glanced at Xu Chenxi, and snorted coldly to indicate his victory.
The little boy stretched out his hand and removed Su Jianxia's hand on his head, "What sister, I am two hundred and twelve years old this year." β
The three of them were stunned for a moment, looking at this little boy whose face was as immature as his voice, and they all felt a little incredible.
"My name is Ying Che, for the sake of you being Uncle Ziqi's fiancΓ©e, round it up and neutralize it, it's not impossible to call you a sister."
"You're pretty good at rounding." Su Jianxia couldn't laugh or cry.
"The two of them are my friends, and one of them came to ask your father for help." Wei Ziqi explained.
"Help?" Ying Che looked back at the two people behind him, and finally locked his eyes on the backpack that Hu Shouyu was holding.
"It's been delayed until this time, you can bear it." Ying Che shook his head, "Dad went to look for that thing before, but it seems to have been poached, but I didn't expect it to be in your hands."
I guess I've gotten a lot of benefits from it over the years, and it's just karma to come back now. β
Hu Shouyu lowered his head and sighed, hesitated for a moment but asked carefully, "What about .....it?" Mr. Win, do I still have a chance to break the contract with this jade statue? β
Calling a boy about the same size as his son Mr., Hu Shouyu felt a little awkward.
Ying Che thought for a while and said truthfully: "I don't know very well, but this jade statue is made by my father himself, and it shouldn't be completely hopeless, let's go and see what he has to say." β
"That's so thankful, it's really a hassle." Hu Shouyu breathed a sigh of relief, although this boy named Ying Che could not guarantee that it would be solved, but at least it did not say that there was no hope at all.
Ying Che waved his hand, glanced at Xu Chenxi, who was curiously looking at the surrounding environment, and quickly looked away and glanced at Wei Ziqi.
It's just that everyone is thinking about their own things, and no one pays attention to the small actions between the two.
Although the wheat field looks very large, it is inevitable that several people will have some mood and physical relaxation in this environment, and they don't even feel the passage of time, and it didn't take long to pass through the wheat field.
Behind the wheat field, there is an elegant Chinese garden, the garden is full of peach blossoms, and there are many peach blossom petals scattered on the ground, which makes the whole garden a little pink.
The buildings in the garden look very quaint, different from the modern garden shape in the south of the Yangtze River, and here more retains the original flavor of the ancient garden.
Just as everyone was curiously observing the architectural style of the garden, a young woman holding a basin of clothes came out of the circular arch in front, although the woman was wearing a simple solid color long skirt, but her delicate figure and stunning face were rare beauties even if they were placed outside, even Xu Chenxi was a little ashamed of herself.
The woman looked at a few people curiously while munching on melon seeds, as if she had never seen the novelty of an outsider.
"Sanniang, it's time for you to wash your clothes again today." Ying Che stretched out his hand and greeted the woman with a smile.
The woman sighed, "No, I have the worst luck playing mahjong with your second mother, fourth mother and sixth mother today, and this job will fall on me again." β
"It's not that I said Sanniang, you and Erniang's skills are really not at the same level, you lose every day, wash clothes every day, but you still play mahjong with them every day."
The woman stepped forward and stretched out her hand to tap Ying Che's forehead, "What do children know, Sanniang, I call it repeated defeats, repeated defeats, and one day will win, this kind of perseverance You don't learn to say cool things here." β
Ying Che pursed his lips, "Sanniang is right. β
"Got in trouble?" The woman turned her gaze to look at the few people behind Wei Ziqi.
Wei Ziqi nodded, "It's a little bit, the jade statue he made back then, the current owner is entangled." β
The woman thought for a while, and nodded thoughtfully, "There is such a thing, I remember that the girl is quite pitiful, and the family surnamed Hu is really evil."
I heard that the girl's evil spirit was not killed by the Hu family, and a boy escaped, and later established another Hu family elsewhere, which is a pity. β
"Hey, that jade statue is in your bag, right?" The woman suddenly looked at the backpack Hu Shouyu was holding in her arms.
Hu Shouyu nodded a little nervously.
The woman tilted her head and stared at Hu Shouyu for a while, and couldn't help asking, "What's your name?" β
"I ...... My name is Hu ...... Hu Shouyu. For the first time, Hu Shouyu felt that his name was so difficult to say.
"Huh? Oh. The woman couldn't help but look at Hu Shouyu twice more and shook her head.
"There is a debtor and a debtor, you directly brought the initiator here." The woman pulled Wei Ziqi aside and whispered.
"This matter always has to be solved, who knows if she will find someone else after she finishes the Hu family." Wei Ziqi was a little helpless, "Evil spirits will not disappear after revenge." β
The woman sighed, "That's right, this matter has to be decided, although the woman is also pitiful, but more than a thousand years have passed, and the revenge has been avenged for two rounds, and the third round is still looking, which is indeed a bit inauthentic." β
"But how did you bring the two masters here, and they could still coexist peacefully."
Wei Ziqi shook his head, "I don't know what she thinks, I should be able to guess who the people living in this place are, and it's really a bit unexpected to dare to come along." But Hu Shouyu definitely didn't know her identity. β
"Interesting." The woman glanced at the three people behind her, and then locked her gaze on Su Jianxia, who was looking this way, "Your little girlfriend?" β
"What little girlfriend? It's just a little girl who was adopted a few years ago. Wei Ziqi hurriedly denied it.
"Oh? I look at the little girl very good-looking, I seem to like you a lot, I've been alone for so many years, and I didn't think about starting a family? β
"It's because I've been alone for too long, so I'm used to it."
"I really don't understand you people." The woman waved her hand, "I won't talk to you, I'm going to wash my clothes, he's inside, just go in." β
"Sanniang, don't let the river wash away your clothes again today." Ying Che thought of something and hurriedly shouted.
The woman waved her fist without looking back.
"Everyone, come with me, the road in the garden is very complicated, and if you lose it, you won't be able to find the way." Ying Che turned around and admonished as he walked to the gate.
After entering the garden, everyone understood what it meant to have complicated road conditions.
Just one main road, all branched out of more than a dozen paths in different directions, extending to the front, branching more, each path was blocked by peach blossom trees at the end, and there was no way to see where the end of the road led.
"With such a complicated road, can you all tell where each road leads?" Su Jianxia couldn't help but ask.
Ying Che nodded, "I've lived here for hundreds of years, and my father and mother have lived here for thousands of years, so I'm already familiar with the layout here." β
"Are these roads leading to where you live?"
"Only three or four of them are, and the rest are all dead ends."
"Can't get through?"
"It's a dead end in the literal sense of the word, and the end of the road may be some phantom array that can trap people to death, or a brutal monster, and what you will encounter if you go the wrong way depends on your own luck."
Su Jianxia was a little puzzled, "Do you still have these things in your own home?" β
"It seems that it was because a long time ago, a group of people broke into this place, which almost caused very serious consequences, and since then, Dad has laid all kinds of formations and wild beasts on and off this mountain to protect this place." Ying Che explained.
"It looks like your dad is also a terrible character, and he can let people break in." Su Jianxia was surprised.
Ying Che shook his head, "I wasn't born when it happened, but I mentioned it when I was a child when I heard Erniang and Sanniang chatting. I don't know exactly who they were or what their purpose was. β
"Uncle Ziqi should know, right? I heard that you were the only ones who drove the group away. Ying Che looked at Wei Ziqi, also a little curious.
Wei Ziqi hesitated for a moment, and after thinking about it, he said, "It was your father's who came at that time...... Enemies, your father probably didn't expect that they would still be able to find this place after almost 2,000 years.
In that group, there was a scholar who was proficient in deduction calculations, and he deduced the exact location of your father step by step, and then led the others up to the mountain, bypassing all obstacles. β
"Are those people strong? Even my dad couldn't resist it. β
"Your father's era ended with those hands." Wei Ziqi recalled: "Those people who can leave a strong mark in history are indeed not simple. I also have to admit that each of them is a figure who can amaze an era, let alone these people gathered together. β
"Then what about later, were all those people killed by Uncle Ziqi?" Ying Che hurriedly asked, and even Su Jianxia and the others behind him got closer curiously.
Wei Ziqi shook his head, "The cause and effect of killing them is too heavy, although I can also catch this cause and effect, but your father is not willing to let the two sides fall into endless entanglement." So in the end, the two sides reached an agreement to maintain the peace for the time being. β
"So, wouldn't they be back at any time?"
"I don't know about this, if those people want to hide their whereabouts, I won't be able to see it for a while, but if they come up again, your father won't be completely unprepared like last time."
After listening to this, Ying Che nodded slightly reassuringly.
While talking, under the leadership of Ying Che, several people came to a Chinese-style courtyard located in the peach blossom forest, the courtyard looks very calm and atmospheric from the outside, and the courtyard wall alone is almost ten meters high, but it still can't block the peach blossom tree inside poking its head out.
Several people crossed the half-meter-high threshold, once again shocked by the sight in front of them.
In the center of the courtyard stood an ancient palace, about hundreds of meters long and forty or fifty meters high.
"The master here wouldn't be a member of the royal family in ancient times." Hu Shouyu sighed, "I have never seen a palace building of this scale even in the tombs of those princes and nobles for so many years." β
"Any cat and dog palace can be taken out to talk about things, my father was a serious emperor back then, and the dynasties of later generations are nothing more than a little afterglow." Ying Che said disdainfully.
"Wait a minute, your surname wins? Then your family is ......" Su Jianxia suddenly looked at Ying Che and reacted a little.
Ying Che pointed to the palace, "The name of this palace is Wangyi Palace, and my father is the second emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty, Hu Hai. β