He went out of the city and ran out of more than ten miles. There were also small groups of bandits outside the city, each with five or six people, which should be scouts released by the bandits in the city. Li Bochen met two unknown branches to stop him, and he cleaned them up.

When he saw no one again, and the roads on both sides of the road had become large fields and jungles, he slowed down. This white horse has excellent physical strength, but after all, it carried two people, and it also sweated all over, and his wheezing became heavier.

Li Bochen inserted the magic knife back into his back and let out a sigh of relief-he was not a person who liked to kill, but the vicious fight just now did make him feel vigorous and energetic, even if he didn't sleep all night, he didn't feel sleepy.

At this time, the tense spirit relaxed, and he suddenly realized that Lin Qiao, who was held in front of him, seemed to have been silent. He was startled and hurriedly asked, "Miss Lin, are you okay?"

Lin Qiao didn't speak.

His heart sank, and he hurriedly stopped his horse, and carefully looked at her sideways—he saw that her face was pale, her lips were slightly open, and she had fainted in her arms.

Li Bochen secretly screamed that something was wrong, and hurriedly put his hand into the big to probe her pulse, and accidentally touched her chest. Lin Qiao's clothes were very light and thin, and now she touched a warm fragrant nephrite - if you want to say that her body is made of copper and iron, her body is really kneaded with glutinous rice balls. But at this time, how could I think of anything else, touching her arm all the way and taking the pulse.

- It shouldn't be a big deal, it's just a fainting. Maybe it's caused by shock, cold, tiredness, and injury.

He blamed himself for a while, thinking, I'm fucking dizzy.

When I rushed to kill for a while just now, I only cared about my own happiness, and I was afraid that I would be surrounded by bandits, so I didn't pay attention to Lin Qiao at all. In fact, he knew that he was not such a careless person, and when he was a ten general and a soldier in Wuliang City, he could also take good care of his subordinates.

But after all, I have never walked with a woman for so many years, and all I thought about for a while was how rough men would be, and now that it is a state of qi cultivation, my physical condition is very different from that of ordinary people, and many details that should be thought of when I am an ordinary person are now all left behind.

He looked left and right, but he didn't see any houses. Now the sun has risen, but it is still very cold. He knew that this was not the way to go, and he had to find a shelter and warmth as soon as possible. He held Da Yu and Lin Qiao in one hand, and rode his horse forward slowly.

After walking two or three miles, I saw a stream in the distance. So he went down the highway and walked along the stream, and passed through a forest, and saw what appeared to be a small village on the north. With joy in my heart, I quickly passed. But when I got closer, I saw that the village seemed to have been abandoned long ago, which should have been caused by the war more than ten years ago.

There are more than a dozen houses in the village, most of which have collapsed, and the grass is overgrown. But it's better than the wilderness - at least it's decaying, so the bandits don't come.

He rode his horse into the village, found a building that was only half collapsed, carefully turned over and dismounted, and hugged Lin Qiao again.

Kicked open the wooden door and walked in, entering the still intact East House. There was only one earthen kang in the east house, and a layer of dust had accumulated on the kang. Fortunately, the snatched big was big enough, so Lin Qiao was wrapped and put on it.

The windows of this dilapidated house are long gone, and the wind is blowing in. Li Bochen went to the outer area to look for it, and only found a gap in the sea-breaking bowl and a rotten crockpot. He turned them all out of the mud and looked at the stove again—there was no pot, and it had collapsed.

So he went out with a clay pot and a bowl, and first tied the horse and told it to eat the grass at the gate of the yard. He walked to the collapsed house on the other side, removed a half-rotten door panel from his house, and took it back to block the window.

Then he stood in the courtyard and thought about it, and shouted in his heart: "Come out!"

The Yin Soldier appeared. The twenty Yin soldiers, except for Xu Cheng, were all muddy. He then instructed Xu Cheng to lead them to be on duty in the courtyard, and if there was any movement, he would immediately report to him.

Then he took the bowl and the clay pot and walked to the stream at the back of the village. I soaked them all in the water, took them back to the courtyard, picked up stones to build a stove, and put the clay pot on it to boil water.

After doing this, I went into the house and looked at Lin Qiao, probed her forehead, and only felt a little hot. He remembered that she had rolled down from the third floor last night, and her face was bruised, and he didn't know if it was a cold or an internal organ injury that triggered the inflammation.

He tried to call her, but didn't wake up. He pulled one of her hands out of the big groom, pinched her veins and probed her qi and blood.

There doesn't seem to be any blockage in the meridians, so it shouldn't be an internal injury. But he found that Lin Qiao's internal meridians were wider than ordinary people, and there was even spiritual power circulation. He was stunned, and said in his heart, is she still a cultivator?

Her cultivation should not be high, and she looks like she is about to enter the spiritual enlightenment realm. Such a cultivator does look no different from ordinary people, and his physique is only slightly stronger.

Li Bochen frowned, sat on the side of the kang for a while, and said that if she really wants to know how to practice, it should be nothing big. With such an identity and life experience, she should be very unwilling. Trying to practice is also one of the ways to change your fate. It's just that when she wakes up, she still has to ask.

He got up again and walked into the courtyard and looked around—there was a long hill on the west side of the village, and the forest was very dense, and on the hill he could see birds flying like black spots, so he raised his feet and walked up the mountain.

After going up the mountain, he used Yao Hou to cut him fiercely in the palm of his left hand, and blood immediately flowed out. He wiped the blood from the trunk of the tree as he went, and when he reached the top of the hill, he found a grass nest and sat down, and picked up some stones and held them in his hands.

Only then can I finally take a break. The wind howled in the forest, the dead leaves fell, and the cool air slowly crept into the cracks, and I felt that my body was getting cooler. He sat and waited for a while, then looked at the small village at the bottom of the mountain from the forest, and suddenly realized that he didn't seem to know what to do with Lin Qiao.

I took her away to save her life, but what about the future? I still have to investigate the affairs of the Chang family, and I have to face another enemy. If things like today happen a few times or toss a few times, Lin Qiao shouldn't be able to stand it.

But before he could come up with a clue, he heard the sound of rustling in the wild grass in the woods. He sat downwind and smelled a fishy smell. But he waited a little longer, and then suddenly he raised his right hand, and the stone flew out.

There was a bang, no screams, and then something fell. He stood up and walked over, and found that it was a lone wolf with a flowery face—his head had been blown in half by the stone he had struck.

That's not bad. He was a little happy - wolf meat was more delicate than bear meat and tiger meat, and the smell was not so strong, but similar to dog meat. So he cut one of his hind legs with his knife, and carried him down the hill to the stream, where he skinned and washed it.

When he returned to the courtyard, the water in the half clay pot had been boiled, so he took out a few sticks of firewood and warmed them, set up another fire in the outhouse, cut a few meat skewers, took some pepper and ginger powder and coarse salt from the horse pack and rubbed them evenly, and set them on the fire and roasted them slowly.

The room was silent, except for the crackling of the firewood. A few strips of meat slowly turn yellow, giving off the aroma, and the fat drips off little by little. He took Yaohou and cut a few more cuts, smeared pepper and ginger powder and salt again, and when he saw that the meat strips were slightly browned, he also planted them beside the fire and warmed them.

Then he poured hot water into the sea bowl and walked into the back room.

Lin Qiao hadn't woken up yet, and he knew that it was not a way to go on like this. He put the bowl on the kang, gently patted her face with his hand, and called, "Miss Lin?"

After calling a few times, Lin Qiao frowned and muttered something, coughed a few more times, and opened his eyes.

Li Bochen was confused for a while after seeing her open her eyes, as if he had forgotten what had happened for a while. Her eyes were very large, and her lips and face were pale at the moment, and she looked like a kitten, which made him feel a little distressed.

Then he blinked, sat up suddenly, and said, "Brother Li—"

Li Bochen hurriedly picked up the big coat and put it on her, then stood up and said, "Miss Lin, I'm really sorry. I didn't expect you to be so weak last night, how do you feel now?"

Lin Qiao only showed a pale face, looked around, and said softly: "It's not in the way, I'm just ...... Brother Li, where is this?"

Li Bochen handed her the water: "Disperse the city for more than ten miles." Rest assured, they can't find here. Warm up with some water—are you hungry?"

Lin Qiao reached out and took the bowl, and was stunned when he found that it was hot. He lowered his head and took a sip, then raised his face and nodded. Li Bochen was also stunned for a while before realizing that she was saying that she was hungry, so she hurriedly went outside to pull out a piece of meat.

The meat was so hot that he shook it a few times when he entered the room, and when it was a little cold, he handed it to her.

Lin Qiao put down the bowl and took it, and stared at the meat strip for a while. Li Bochen secretly said that she usually has fine clothes and food, and she should not be used to eating these things, so she smiled: "The wolf meat I just beat." I didn't have time to prepare dry food last night, that's all there is to it. You eat a little bit, and the fever is very exhausting. ”

Lin Qiao said softly: "Brother Li, you ...... Did you just make it up?"

Li Bochen smiled: "It's a convenient thing." ”

Lin Qiao said: "What about you?"

"Oh, there's one out there. Only then did he feel that his stomach was also churning with hunger, so he went out and plucked two more in, and said, "Let's fill our stomachs first, and when you are well, we will talk about the rest of the matter." ”

Lin Qiao nodded.

Li Bochen sat on the other side of the kang, blew it, and bit it down. In the past, when he was in Wuliang City, he often went to the back mountains to hunt, and he was quite comfortable with his skills in cooking barbecue. Today, the meat is also well roasted, and there is a clicking sound when I bite into the slightly charred layer of meat skin outside, and the aroma of pepper ginger and meat fills my mouth at once.

Wolf meat is fine and tender, not as coarse as pig and beef, and has a similar taste to mutton. When the stomach worm was hooked, he shook off his cheeks and munched on it. The two sticks of meat are about half a catty, and they are eaten in a short time, and their hands are full of oil.

He looked at Lin Qiao sideways, and when he saw her looking at him in a daze, he tore open the meat and ate it in small bites.

After staring at each other for a moment, Lin Qiao sneered and laughed. Li Bochen smiled and said: "Don't laugh at me for being indecent, I wasn't like this before." But after staying in the army for a long time, the cauldron was stirred, chewed and swallowed slowly, and it was gone, and it has not changed until now. ”

Lin Qiao pursed his lips and said, "Brother Li, this is heroic and heroic. ”

Li Bochen smiled again, but he didn't know what to say for a while, so he only said, "Where, where." ”

The cut in the palm of his left hand had now healed, so he grabbed a handful of dust on the kang, slowly rubbed the oil on his hands, and could still listen to the "click" sound when Lin Qiao ate meat. The room was quiet again, and he sat there not knowing what to say—he wasn't a man of words. It's just that the backgrounds and living environments of the two are too different, and there doesn't seem to be much to talk about.

After sitting for a while, he slowly felt a layer of fine sweat on his back, and glanced at Lin Qiao. Seeing her sitting by the wall wrapped in a big curl, she ate with relish. I don't know if I'm really hungry, or if my craft is really good.

He thought about it again and again, and finally spoke: "Miss Lin, you ...... What are your plans for the future?"

Lin Qiao lowered his head and was silent for a moment, and said, "I don't know either." ”

"So, what about before? Did you think about what you were going to do in the past?"

"Before...... I used to think that after I redeemed myself, I would find a quiet and beautiful place to buy a small village. ”

"Little Zhuangzi?"

"Hmm...... A small village, hundreds of acres of land. In the future, I will live a quiet life by renting the land. ”

Li Bochen was stunned, and calculated in his heart how much this "little Zhuangzi" would cost. The land price varies from country to country, and Li's should be the cheapest. But in the past, I heard my comrades in the army say that even if it is the cheapest, it costs about 2,000 yuan for one acre of Zhongtian. Hundreds of acres of land...... If it's 500 acres of midfield......

Get a million dollars.

plus a "small Zhuangzi", I'm afraid it won't cost 1.5 million yuan. And that's not even counting the money for hiring servants.

He suddenly realized that he had overlooked one thing.

He didn't know much about the happy women in this world, but he heard similar stories everywhere he came. For example, the woman in the Qinglou fell in love with a poor scholar, and voluntarily redeemed herself and went home with him to live a happy life, even if she was a concubine. There is also a certain top brand looking hard, just to find a person who can be entrusted for life, so as to get out of the sea of suffering.

With these things in mind, he naturally thought that the kind of happy place in Jinghui Building must be like a purgatory in the sea of fire, and if he wanted to take Lin Qiao away, of course she would be happy.

But at this time, looking at the low earthen house and the flying ashes on the ground, and listening to her original plan, she came to her senses. I brought her out, how can I settle her? Could it be that I could find a place to stuff her into a peasant woman? She was originally a million-dollar family and planned to buy a "little Zhuangzi"!

In fact, when I think about it at this time, it is still because I have been wandering for a long time, and I have forgotten what ordinary people think.

He didn't know what to say for a while, and he didn't have any worries in his heart, so he could only temporarily divert the topic and said, "Miss Lin, apart from Ye Lu, have you seen another person?"

But as soon as he asked this, he regretted it. Lin Qiao suddenly changed last night, and now he is sick again, he doesn't want to remember those things, he is too anxious.

Then he hurriedly said: "Forget it, don't be in a hurry to talk about this first." ”

Lin Qiao seemed to be able to see what he was thinking, pursed his lips and smiled: "It's okay, Brother Li, your affairs are important." That man...... I've only seen his side face, and it looks like an old man. The voice was a little weird, as if it had been hurt in the throat. ”

Li Bochen frowned and thought about it, he didn't have a clue. And again, "Yes." Miss Lin, do you know where the Chang family is now?"

Lin Qiao shook his head: "I don't know this very well. But - I just heard it - most of the former ministers fled to Fengzhou after the country was broken. Fengzhou, north is Linxi. ”

Then we still have to continue north. Li Bochen sighed in his heart, he had planned to bite the man tightly. But now that I have this girl with me, I guess I can't do what I planned. But that one had been gone a few days early, and even if he was on the road alone, what should have happened when he caught him should have happened. Thinking about it this way, there is really no need to rush.

He patted the dirt on his hand, stood up, and said, "Do you want me to heat your meat again?"

Actually, it's just a casual question - I really don't know what to say. But unexpectedly, Lin Qiaowei smiled and really handed him the half-torn meat: "Okay." ”

She slowly eased up at this time, and became more down-and-out again, and seemed to be glad that she could ask such a question. Li Bochen also felt that the atmosphere was a little more relaxed, so he took the wooden stick.

Lin Qiao looked up at him slightly, tightened the big coat tightly, wrapped himself tighter, and said, "Brother Li, I didn't expect you to be so careful." It's the first time in all these years that someone has been so nice to me. ”

Li Bochen's face was slightly red by what she said, but he was very useful in his heart, so he said with a smile as he walked out: "Didn't your two little maids also take good care of you? When I sneaked in last night, I was listening to them talking about your illness, and I was afraid that you would wake up at night and not see anyone. ”

Lin Qiao said across the wall: "They are them, and it is appropriate for my daughter's family to be careful." But Brother Li, you are a hero, this is called being bold and careful. I didn't expect you to serve me like this. ”

Li Bochen was a little fluttering by her, squatting by the fire and roasting the half of the meat slowly, and said: "Speaking of which, I also burdened you, and it is appropriate to make amends and serve." Fortunately, you are not seriously ill, and you have also practiced, so you should get better soon-Miss Lin, you are also cultivating the heart method of the Beichen lineage?"

He asked, turned the meat around again, and took some pepper and ginger powder from the cloth pocket around his waist and sprinkled it. When he saw that the white meat inside was also slightly yellowed, he realized that Lin Qiao didn't reply to his words.

His heart tightened, afraid that she would faint again, so he hurriedly walked into the house with half a piece of meat.

You can see Lin Qiao sitting against the wall, his face pale. Seeing him walk in, a look of panic crossed his face. Li Bochen realized that she deliberately didn't answer herself, or rather, she didn't think about how to answer.

He was alarmed in his heart - he thought that it was not a big deal for her to have cultivation in her body, so he asked casually. But now looking at Lin Qiao's expression, it seems that things are not as simple as he thought.

What is she panicking about!?

A sense of foreboding swept over me. Li Bochen frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Miss Lin, is there anything unspeakable about your cultivation?"

Lin Qiao opened his mouth, and his face suddenly flushed with a slight redness, and he only said, "I ......"

A few thoughts quickly changed in Li Bochen's mind. He realized that this might have something to do with Ye Lu and another person—could it be that this Lin Qiaoben was also part of Ye Lu's scheme, deliberately asking himself to save her and let her monitor her!?

When he dug up the wooden tire that Ye Lu had turned into last night, Lin Qiao really didn't come to see it!

Thinking of this, Li Bochen let go of his hand and threw down the half of the meat, and slowly pressed forward and said, "Miss Lin, if someone is really a villain, there is no taboo not to kill women in my place!"

Thinking that he had fallen for the trick, anger arose in his heart. When he spoke, his tone was extremely harsh, and he touched his right hand to Yaohou on his waist.

But Lin Qiao bit his lip tightly, looked at him as if he was frightened, and didn't say anything.

Li Bochen sneered in his heart, do you want to do this trick to me!?

The next moment, she suddenly shed two strings of tears and cried: "Brother Li, no, I'm ...... I ......"

After saying this, he buried his face in the big cloud: "I...... What do you call me to say......"

Li Bochen didn't mean to pity the jade at this time, but said: "Tell the truth!"

Lin Qiao raised his head suddenly, bit his lip and stared at him: "Brother Li, you don't believe me...... Then I'll go!"

He closed his eyes again: "Or you can kill me!"

Li Bochen raised his hand and was about to pull Yao Hou out, but just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly realized that Lin Qiao's reaction was very strange.

Seem...... It's not a reaction to being hit by yourself with a conspiracy, but it's more like a shame!

He was stunned, stood still, and after a while, said, "Miss Lin......"

And again: "You are ......"

Lin Qiao slowly turned his face away, was silent for a moment, stopped his tears, gritted his teeth and said, "I don't want to practice." But among the guests, there will be cultivators. ”

Li Bochen was just about to ask, "What does this mean?" when a thought suddenly crossed his mind, causing him to be stunned as if he had been struck by lightning. Cultivators are physically strong. When it comes to the time when it is difficult to control itself, ordinary people are afraid that they will not be able to ......

He took two steps back, only to feel his head buzz and blood gushing to his face. Why am I so stupid...... So stupid...... He cursed in his heart. I also know that I can't blame myself for turning my face too quickly - I have been in danger since I left Infinite City, and I must be on guard against open guns and hidden arrows all the time, and I must pay attention to every abnormality. It's been so tense for a long time that it's hard to think about ordinary things for ordinary reasons.

But even so, she forced this hard-working girl to explain everything - who would want to practice just to cater to the "guests"?! She naturally couldn't say anything, especially in front of herself, the "big brother Li" who had been accused of marrying!

Just thinking about it at this time, he could know how ashamed Lin Qiao was in his heart!

Li Bochen was stunned for a while, then bowed to the ground and said, "Miss Lin, I'm a bastard and reckless. ”

He didn't move, and after listening for a while, Lin Qiao slowly exhaled: "Brother Li, I don't blame you. I don't know what kind of mind I'm cultivating. Maybe it's Beichen. ”

When she had said this, she said no more. Li Bochen slowly straightened his waist, and saw her burying her face in her knees, caged in the big curtain and motionless.

He swung his fist hard and slammed his face a few times, then stood helplessly for a while, then slowly walked over and picked up the bowl where the water had cooled, and quietly withdrew from the room.

There were still three sticks of meat hot by the fire in the outhouse, but he had no appetite at all.

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