Chapter 20: Retreat
The young man in Mai obviously took a fancy to Ding Xing's identity and wanted to impersonate him.
As for what to do after impersonation, Ding Xing couldn't guess, in short, it wouldn't be a good thing.
This also made Ding Xing have an uneasy premonition, the young man in Mai was able to draw a portrait of himself, which means that this person has seen his appearance, or this person's accomplices have seen it, and secretly provided the portrait, as well as the news of his return home.
If this is the case, then this matter will not be over, and when Ding Xing returns to Jinlu Winery, he should still meet the accomplices of the young man in Mai.
He had to be very careful.
With that in mind, he took off his mask.
This pile of painted leather masks included men, women, and children, and he tried a female face, and after the fusion, he found that his appearance had changed greatly, and looking at his head alone, it was like the immature face of a pure girl.
However, the voice, expressions, and some subtle feminine features cannot be disguised, which requires a comprehensive study of 'skin painting' in order to confuse the real with the fake.
The Mai youth has this kind of spell in his collection, and if Ding Xing is willing to practice it, he can master it all.
But now he just wanted to get away from the snow forest as soon as possible, and after a cursory glance at the mask, he stopped paying attention.
Later, he collected the black corpse of the Mai youth and the remains of the golden snake demon, all of which were physical evidence of the Mai youth's murder of him.
When he returned to the winery, if Wu Shiqing asked about it, Ding Xing needed to explain the reason for Qingfeng's injury, and physical evidence was the key.
After all this, Ding Xing finally picked up the short axe.
This axe is extremely powerful, Qingfeng is a demon beast, originally known for defense, but was broken by an axe to break the demon body, if this is split on a person, I am afraid it will be the end of an axe and two breaks.
Ding Xing lost the Ice Spirit Flying Knife and urgently needed a new magic weapon to defend himself, so he tried to drive the short axe, who knew that he consumed most of his mana, and he didn't see the axe body move, he suspected that all the mana in his body could not meet the needs of the sacrificial axe.
"The axe is a good axe, but it is not useful!"
Ding Xing's cultivation was not deep enough to drive this axe, so he soon lost interest, put it in Chu Bao's sleeve, and turned back to the carriage.
Qingfeng was seriously injured, but it was mainly a traumatic injury, and it could be treated quickly as long as the right medicine was prescribed.
Ding Xing carried the spirit wine with the medicinal effect of Jinchuang, but the quality was not high enough, and he gave it to Qingfeng to drink, which could only temporarily stop the bleeding.
However, the young man in Mai is an outlaw, just now Ding Xing checked his treasure, and found that half of it was used to rob the house, and half was basically used to heal injuries.
Ding Xing took out all the medicine bottles of the young man in Mai, each bottle contained a different number of elixirs, and unfortunately there was no label on the outside of the bottle, which made Ding Xing unable to identify the medicinal effects of these elixirs.
Ding Xing didn't try the pill hastily, he sat down next to Qingfeng and helped Qingfeng wake up.
Then he opened all the mouths of the medicine bottles, "There should be an elixir for healing trauma here, you smell it and see which one it is!"
Qingfeng has been a mount for a long time, and often goes to Zhuangwai on errands, and injuries are inevitable, and it must have a certain degree of recognition of the elixir.
Sure enough, Qingfeng raised his head weakly, sniffed at the mouth of the bottle one by one, and suddenly bit a medicine bottle, raised his neck, and sucked all the blood-red elixirs in the bottle into his mouth.
Let's chirp!
As if eating grass, it chewed very intoxicated.
After taking the pill, it was only half an hour later, and Qingfeng had already recovered his strength, jumped up from the ground, and began to jump around.
Ding Xing took a closer look and saw that the two wounds on its back and neck had scabbed, and the recovery speed was amazing.
He couldn't help but sigh, the wounded elixir of the young man in Mai must be of the highest quality, at this healing speed, when he arrived at the winery, maybe Qingfeng would return to his original state, and there would be no signs of injury again.
In order to prevent the wound from bursting, Ding Xing gave up the car box, did not let Qingfeng continue to pull the car, and left the snow forest on foot.
On the way, Ding Xing was thinking about a question repeatedly, and when he returned to the winery, how to explain Qingfeng's injury to his uncle Wu Shiqing, he must not be able to tell the truth, otherwise the secret of the 'Requiem' will be exposed, and the charge of the white hoof devouring the lord will also be pressed on his head.
But if he doesn't tell the truth, how can he lie?
The Mai youth only used two tricks to beat Qingfeng down, Wu Shiqing must have doubts, what ability does Ding Xing have to kill the Mai youth?
In fact, it is better not to mention it at all.
But there are no impermeable walls in the world.
Ding Xing also thought about giving Qingfeng a 'Requiem' and directly releasing the deer into the wild, in this way, the secret can definitely be kept, but after thinking about it, he still feels that it is not wise to do so.
He can't just cover up a lie and get the whole thing out of control.
Qingfeng's injuries recovered very quickly, Wu Shiqing couldn't see the injuries on its body, so he wouldn't ask about its experience outside, after all, it was kept in captivity in the Spirit Beast Hall all day long, who would know the life of a demon beast in detail?
As long as Ding Xing doesn't mention it, this is a trivial matter.
But if Ding Xing releases Qingfeng, it will be a big disaster, and Wu Shiqing will not spare it to investigate to the end!
It was precisely because of this consideration that Ding Xing decided to honestly return to the village with Qingfeng.
Taking 10,000 steps back, even if Wu Shiqing found out that Qingfeng had been injured, Qingfeng had never seen the process of releasing the snake slave from the 'Requiem', and Qingfeng was seriously injured and unconscious at that time.
The final explanation for this incident lies in Ding Xing.
No matter how he explained, he was a young man after all, and Wu Shiqing would not be too difficult for him.
Seven days later, Ding Xing led Qingfeng back to Jinlu Winery.
In the past few days, Ding Xing has made sufficient preparations for the murder incident in the snow forest, who knows that when he came to the Spirit Beast Palace, he found that these preparations did not come in handy at all.
Ding Xing handed over the jade plate to a deacon of the Spirit Beast Palace, and when the deacon saw the jade plate, he immediately said: "You wait a while! After the year, Shiqing Ancestor announced the retreat, and he handed over the errand of taking care of Qingfeng to his grandson Wu Lianchen, according to his seniority, Lian Chen is your cousin, I ask him to come out and hand over to you!"
These words made Ding Xing breathe a long sigh of relief, his uncle was actually in retreat?
"You are the awake cousin of the Ding family!"
Wu Lianchen is in his early twenties, and like Ding Xing, he does not like to wear Taoist robes, and always dresses as scholars, which may be related to the fact that they read poetry and books in their childhood.
Wu Lianchen's temperament is also quite gentle, and he does not have the arrogance and coldness of his grandfather Wu Shiqing.
When he arrived at Ding Xing, he held Ding Xing's arm and said with a smile: "This time you have returned home, you have lived for a long time! My grandfather specifically mentioned you before the retreat, saying that you are greedy for your hometown, and I am afraid that it will take three or five months to return, which is not false at all! However, my grandfather also said that since you have entered the cultivation court, you will be able to cultivate your deeds, and if you want to go back next year, he will not lend you Qingfeng again!"
These words should be said to Ding Xing in the form of a warning, which is Wu Shiqing's request.
But Wu Lianchen saw that Ding Xing was so young, and it was understandable to be homesick, which was also the normal state of people, so he went against his grandfather's wishes and did not criticize Ding Xing.
Ding Xing listened, first thanked him, and then asked, "Cousin Lian Chen, why did my uncle suddenly retreat?"
Wu Lianchen explained to him: "In two more years, the Golden Dew Cellar will be opened! In the three hundred years since the establishment of the village, the Golden Dew Cellar has only been opened three times, and each time it is a grand event, and at the same time, there is also a hidden crisis, and those ill-intentioned poisonous cultivators outside the village are used to join hands on the eve of opening the cellar and come to make trouble! In order to protect the spiritual wine in the cellar from being lost, the five predecessors of the Xuanti period and more than 30 ancestors who have lived past Jiazi on the village have all been in retreat in the cellar!"
It is said to be a retreat, but in fact it is to guard the Golden Dew Cellar.
When Wu Lianchen told Wu Shiqing about the reason for his retreat, Ding Xing's earlier joy suddenly vanished.
He seemed to have understood the reason why the young man in Mai was pretending to be him.