Chapter Seventy-Four, Asking for Food in the Mountains
Li Qi, Yiqing, and Murong Yan each held a roasted gray finch in their hands, and when they were nibbling on the fragrance, they suddenly heard the voice of a middle-aged man in front of them. The women followed the prestige, but saw an unkempt and sloppy beggar walking towards them.
"A few girls...... You can't eat all this bird meat...... Can...... Can you give a few to this hero to taste?" said the scruffy "beggar" who stretched out a dirty hand to the girls, and said cheekily.
The three women saw the "beggar" staggering when he walked, and at this time they could hear the "beggar's" voice intermittently, and then looked at his demeanor, knowing that he must have drunk a lot of strong wine, and must have been drunk in a mess. Seeing this, Yiqing smiled and ignored it. Murong Yan plucked a roasted gray finch from the long branch and was about to hand it over to the beggar, but she heard Li Qi scold:
"Where did a beggar come from, he actually came here to ask for food!"
The middle-aged "beggar" was still drunken and said, "I'm not a beggar...... I'm here...... You're going to be careful...... There's a ...... hidden here. A cat demon!"
When the three women heard this, they immediately laughed together.
The four of them originally came to catch the demon, but they never thought that before the demon was caught, the rabbits and birds hit the ground. Now, there will be a beggar running on this Jinding Mountain, not only stretching out his hand to beg for food, but also claiming to be a demon catcher, where in the world can there be such a coincidence and absurdity!
"You're here to catch demons, so what are we here for?" asked Li Qi with a smile.
"You ...... Naturally, you're here to hunt game, and you've beaten so many rabbit spirits and grey finches...... These monsters...... You will not be clean...... As...... Why don't you help you...... Uh...... "The middle-aged "beggar" said drunkenly, and had a hiccup at the end.
Murong Yan saw that the "drunken beggar" didn't look like a bad person in his words, and he still had a lot of cooked finch meat here anyway, so he walked over and handed the fragrant gray finch in his hand to the dirty hands of the "drunken beggar".
The "drunken beggar" smelled the smell of roasted sparrows, and was immediately moved, he brushed the messy hair all over his face, and then put all the roasted sparrows into his mouth......
"Brother Junxian!" Murong Huan, who had been sitting far away by the stream and eating meat, couldn't help but exhale at him when he saw the half face of the "drunk beggar".
Hearing the second brother's call, Murong Yan also immediately looked at the face of the "drunken beggar", and after she could see it clearly, she hurriedly followed:
"General Lee!"
Naturally, this sloppy and unkempt "drunken beggar" is none other than the former Zuo Wuwei general Li Junxian.
At the beginning, Murong Huan was sitting on a big rock by the stream, with his back to the three women, and Li Junxian did not pay attention to Murong Huan. After Murong Huan recognized Li Junxian, he immediately turned around and walked towards him,
When Li Junxian saw that the person who came was Murong Huan, his face suddenly changed, he hurriedly put away his drunken appearance, bowed to Murong Huan, and said:
"It turned out to be Murong Shaoxia!"
Murong Huan walked up to Li Junxian and looked at the other party carefully for a moment before asking:
"Jun Xian, why did you make yourself look like this?"
Li Junxian no longer had the cynical tone he had before, he looked up to the sky and sighed, and said abruptly:
"Ahem...... The world is like a floating cloud and a dog, if you don't hide it from Murong Shaoxia, Jun Xian himself doesn't know why he has become such a person!"
Murong Huan said:
"I've also heard something about you before, isn't it just that you've lost an official, what's the big deal! If you don't dislike it, why don't you come to my Tianbao Pavilion?"
At this time, if he is a bystander, no matter how good his martial arts are, no matter how high his status in the rivers and lakes is, and how high his reputation is, he can't help but be excited. It's just because of this whole world that there are very few people who can make the second son of Tianbao Pavilion take the initiative to send out an invitation. Moreover, with Murong Huan's status in the Tianbao Pavilion, the people he took the initiative to recruit, once he entered the Tianbao Pavilion, he would definitely be used to resist the Ding. Therefore, at this moment, Murong Huan's invitation is really not light. Worry-free Literature Network
Li Junxian leaned over and bowed to the end, and thanked him earnestly: "Thank you Murong Shaoxia for your kindness, it's just that Junxian has always been idle, and it is really useless!
Seeing this, Murong Huan didn't think it was wrong, he took a few more pieces of roasted rabbit meat from the wooden rack, as well as several roasted gray sparrows, and sent them to Li Junxian's arms, nodded at him and said:
"Okay! Everyone has their own aspirations, how can they be strong with each other? But I hope you can cheer up some in the future!"
Li Junxian saluted Murong Huan again and again, he felt and admired it in his heart, and his eyes couldn't help but moisten slightly. He hurriedly picked up a roasted sparrow, put it in his mouth, and swallowed it without waiting to chew it.
He choked up a little and said:
"The young man is so concerned, Jun Xian is ashamed!"
After saying that, Li Junxian turned around and hurried down the mountain.
Murong Huan asked again:
"Brother Junxian, did you really come to this Jinding Mountain to catch demons?"
"Murong Shaoxia, my senior brother said that the cat demon is hiding here, and I came to investigate......" Li Junxian's long and deep voice floated from afar, but the others were already dozens of feet away......
After Li Junxian left, Li Qi said curiously: "It turns out that this person is the famous General Li! I thought he was a beggar!"
Murong Huan sighed: "This person was also a powerful general in the army, how did he know that he would be wrongfully imprisoned for drunken gaffes, and he was demoted to a civilian by the Son of Heaven." It's just that I didn't expect him to be so depressed now!"
Murong Yan said: "Second brother, I think that General Li's current life is not bad, look at him...... Isn't it much better than those who stay in the public all day long, free and unrestrained, go wherever they want, and eat whatever they want?"
Yiqing also smiled and said: "Sister Xiaoyan, you are right! Although this General Li looks sloppy at this time, I look at his complexion, he is not a person who has lived at the bottom of the well for a long time, and I expect him to have great achievements in the future!"
Li Qi said thoughtfully: "Why did my father take General Li from his post and put him in prison, and demote him to a civilian? This is too unfair to General Li, no, after returning to the palace, I will go to my father and ask my father to reinstate General Li as an officer!"
Murong Huan glanced at Li Qi and said disapprerovingly: "I advise you to find less guilt for yourself! You should be a playhouse, how you want to play, your father will let you play how you want!"
Li Qi saw that Murong Huan's face sank, and there was a look of pride on his face, and he was immediately so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything more.
It was still Murong Yan who spoke in time: "Second brother, General Li said that the cat demon is close here, it seems that the disease-free brother is right, otherwise, after we have eaten, we will look for it carefully?"
"Hmm......" Murong Huan nodded and said, "Since Li Chunfeng said that the cat demon is hiding here, it must not be bad!"
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After the four of them had roasted and eaten all the remaining rabbit meat and finch meat, they doused the flames with water and climbed to the top of the mountain again.
Unexpectedly, the four of them climbed to the top of the mountain, and then walked from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, and so on twice until the sun set, and the sun was about to disappear from the west, and still did not find the slightest trace of the cat demon.
In a blink of an eye, it was almost unitary, and among the four people, Murong Yan had the weakest physical strength, and she was already out of breath under the joint support of Yiqing and Li Qi. Seeing this, Murong Huan had no choice but to wave his hand, take the three women, and go home.
The four returned to their original dismounts, mounted their horses, and galloped north.
The sunset behind them was like a twilight old man, although he was reluctant to give up on the beauty of the world, but in the end he could only sigh helplessly and slowly fall......