"Whew~"

Ye Feng closed his eyes and exhaled deeply.

He slowly opened his eyes, looked up at the starry sky, and muttered: " My home is in the Great Song Kingdom, a place called Qingxi Town, when I was twelve years old, for some reason, my relatives were arrested, only I was rescued by a swordsman, he said to me before leaving, my family will not have to worry about their lives in ten years, and let me take advantage of this ten years to work hard to improve my strength, and then rescue my family myself, now two years have passed, but I am still in the foundation realm, I don't know when I can step into Xuanzhao, I don't know when I can have the strength to protect my family..."

The boy didn't finish the rest of the sentence.

In fact, he still wanted to say that even if he stepped into the Xuanzhao Realm, even if he had enough strength, would his family still be alive at that time?

In the past two years, Ye Feng has woken up from his sleep countless times, dreamed countless times that his parents were killed and abandoned in the wilderness, and dreamed countless times that the row of corpses hanging on the beams of the Ye family in Qingxi Town, as well as the appearance of Wang Mang and Qin Qiao having their hearts gouged out.

It's just that the boy never mentioned these things to anyone, and he was afraid that it would be unlucky for him to say it.

Su Qinghua listened to Ye Feng's life experience, and did not say anything to comfort her, the girl was silent for a moment, while lowering her head and fiddling with the tassels on Luo's skirt, she whispered to Ye Feng and asked, "Do you have an opinion about the tiger mother not treating my sister?"

Ye Feng turned his head to look at Su Qinghua, noncommittal.

"Ugh..."

The girl in Tsing Yi sighed faintly, and suddenly talked about her life experience: "I left home when I was eight years old, and when I was nine years old, I met the tiger mother in Jinguo, and eight years have passed in the blink of an eye. In the beginning, the tiger mother and her man ran a troupe, and the tiger mother was very beautiful and talented at that time, and she also taught me and my sister the rhythm..."

A smile appeared on the girl's face, as if she remembered the happy time of learning art in the theater troupe.

After a pause, her tone sank, "Later, there was an elder of a sect in the city where we lived for his birthday, and he sent someone to call the tiger mother and the tiger mother's man to sing and cheer up, my sister and I waited at home, and waited until the next day, the tiger mother still did not come back, I wanted to go out with my sister to look for it, but the tiger mother instructed us before leaving, not to let us go out casually, my sister and I could only stay at home and continue to wait." ”

Ye Feng nodded, without commenting.

Because he knew that since Su Qinghua had said it here, he would definitely finish the matter, but the memories behind him should be a little miserable.

Su Qinghua quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, took a deep breath, and plucked up her courage to say: "Later, the tiger mother came back alone... The gang leader of the gang fell in love with the tiger mother at that time, and after getting drunk, he asked his subordinates to kill the tiger mother's man, and put the tiger mother... Put the tiger mother..."

Su Qinghua's tone was choked, and she was finally reluctant to say those words.

She calmed down and continued: "Later, everyone else in the troupe left, and the gang leader of that sect sent someone to forcibly occupy our home and property, and the tiger mother took us out of there. When the road was the hardest, the tiger mother did all the work in order for my sister and me to have something to eat, and even... or even to sell themselves..."

Speaking of this, Su Qinghua couldn't cry anymore.

Ye Feng quietly looked at the girl in Tsing Yi with pear blossoms and rain, and the impression of the tiger mother in his heart also changed.

He couldn't imagine how the penniless and non-martial arts tiger mother led the two little girls to roam in this treacherous world.

"Later, we went to the Thousand Caves City, and met the current Meilan Zhuju in the city, and then we pooled money together to open the Spring Building. Slowly saved some savings, we spent a lot of money to invite the master to teach us martial arts, my sister and I have a very good talent for practicing qi, it took four years to reach the eight realms of the foundation, but the tiger mother's qualifications are not very good, the master said that she is only suitable for physical training, and after practicing martial arts, the tiger mother has somehow changed, and she is no longer the young and beautiful Hua Dan..."

After a pause, Su Qinghua looked at Ye Feng's eyes and added: "Actually, the tiger mother has been dragging on not treating my sister for the sake of us, she wants to take advantage of the recent more guests, and plans to make some more money to sell the Chunyi Building, and then distribute all the money to everyone, let us change to do some small business, don't want us to continue to do that business with laughter, she is afraid that we will be looked down upon..."

Ye Feng suddenly realized, and couldn't help but blame himself a little for being ignorant, and he casually made a conclusion to others without understanding the cause of the matter.

The boy sighed, "What about then? Did you go back to take revenge?"

Su Qinghua smiled bitterly, nodded, and said abruptly: "Go back, Brother Lu Yi went back with us, but unfortunately that sect is no longer there, we inquired, it turned out that the elder of that sect offended a high-ranking official in the court, and the entire sect was surrounded and suppressed by the official army..."

Ye Feng nodded slightly, not knowing what to say.

Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimp, dried shrimp eat aquatic plants, strong bully weak, weak bully bears.

This is an eternal cycle, and it is also the way of the world, but also the rivers and lakes.

After a period of silence, Ye Feng's eyes suddenly glanced at the back basket not far away, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, and said secretly: "Why are ingots so honest? The aroma of barbecue jerky didn't hook out this toad!"

He stood up and walked to the back basket, lifted the sackcloth covering the back basket and looked inside, and suddenly "clicked" in his heart.

The short stick that grandpa gave him, the clothes and money bag that the little proprietress prepared for herself, the padded jacket sewn by grandma with a horn... All the family resources are neatly placed in the back basket, except for the fat toad ingots!

Su Qinghua saw Ye Feng's abnormality, turned her head sideways and asked the young man, "What's wrong?"

Ye Feng stared at the various objects in the back basket, and replied without looking back: "The toad I raised is gone." ”

He walked to the bonfire, picked up Xuanjiao and was about to turn around and leave, after thinking about it, he turned back to Su Qinghua and instructed, "You stay here, I'll go look in the forest." ”

With that, the boy turned his head to look into the depths of the dark bushes, his brow furrowing more and more.

Although Yuan Bao has a stubborn temperament, he has always listened to Ye Feng's words, even if he sometimes runs out of play, he will come back in an hour or two at most, but this time he has been running out for so long, and it is still in this desert where danger is lurking everywhere, combined with the strangeness of the oasis under his feet, the more Ye Feng thinks about it, the more worried he becomes.

"I'll go with you..."

Su Qinghua stood up, walked to Ye Feng's side, lowered her head and tidied up her skirt, raised her head to look at the young man's eyes, and her expression could not be refused.

"Hmm..."

Ye Feng nodded, turned around and walked in front.

Tonight's long talk made Ye Feng change his previous opinion of Su Qinghua, he had always felt that Su Qinghua was a little fickle and hypocritical, but until today he didn't know that she, like himself, also had a bleak experience that could not be looked back, and she was also a sentimental person.

The previous hypocrisy and fickleness were just daring to love and hate.

The two of them walked a stick of incense, perhaps because the sky was too dark, and the two did not find traces of ingots along the way.

"Wimpy kid..."

Su Qinghua followed closely behind Ye Feng and pulled down the sleeve of the young man's shirt.

While looking around cautiously, she whispered to Ye Feng, "Little brat, do you think the atmosphere here is a little weird?"

Ye Feng stopped and looked around, and also felt that the atmosphere around him was a little unspeakably strange, but what was wrong was not for a while, but he couldn't say it for a while.

Glancing at a sand date tree beside him, Ye Feng suddenly realized!

It's so quiet here.

The road, or the entire oasis, is so quiet that you can't even hear a single insect chirping!

Not only that, Ye Feng seriously thought about it, since his group stepped into the oasis, they hadn't seen any kind of living creature at all, not even the most common sand snake in the desert oasis.

Retracting his thoughts, Ye Feng untied the black cloth wrapped around Xuanjiao, put his right hand on the hilt of the sword, turned around and nodded to Su Qinghua, and said softly: "Well, it's a little weird, it's too quiet here, and there is not even the sound of a living thing." ”

Su Qinghua hesitated for a moment, and then understood the meaning of the girl's words.

She looked at the branches and weeds around her that were shrouded in night, and some legends of mountain spirits and ghosts uncontrollably uncontrollably came to mind.

It just so happened that a cool breeze was blowing at this time, and Su Qinghua's whole body was suddenly frightened and stuck to Ye Feng's back, and her voice trembled and asked, "That... So what do we do? There can't be ghosts here, can you?"

Although the girl's temperament is a little pungent, but being afraid of ghosts is a girl's natural weakness after all.

Ye Feng was originally blushing a little from the softness coming from his back, but after listening to Su Qinghua's words, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

The young man tried his best to pretend that nothing had happened and regained the distance from the girl, turned to Su Qinghua and smiled: "Where are there ghosts in this world, don't scare yourself, besides, no matter how scary the ghosts are, no one is afraid." ”

"Cut~"

Su Qinghua glanced at Ye Feng, took a deep breath, adjusted her mood, and tried her best to restrain herself from thinking about those terrifying ghost legends.

She raised her chin, looked at Ye Feng, who was half a head shorter than herself, with the corner of her eye, pinched her waist with one hand, and pretended to be cold and said loudly: "Then what should we do?

Ye Feng thought about it and shook his head, "Don't look for it, maybe it will go back by itself after a while, let's go back first, and wait until dawn tomorrow!"

Su Qinghua quietly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but she still pretended to be calm and raised her chin, then turned around and walked back first along the mark left when she came.

The girl's posture was straight, and her steps were also very large, for fear that Ye Feng would find out that she was actually still afraid.