[The third day of the first month of the tenth year of Daqian Jingyi, Mao Shi, Xu Mansion in Chang'an City]

Xu Ke, Hu Yiyi and others had just settled in the Xu Mansion in Liquanfang, and the next morning, a guard captain with more than a dozen soldiers came to visit. Hu Yiyi saw that Xu Kewu was lazy and refused to get up, so he and Yao Zibei went to the front yard to receive him. The captain of the guard said that he had been ordered by the general to subdue demons and sent them some supplies.

Under the command of the captain of the guard, the soldiers carried their shoulders from outside the door and carried dozens of large bags. Hu Yiyi saw that most of those pockets contained some marinated meat, and he didn't know which monsters had cut off the dried meat and internal organs. In addition to food, there were some clothes, cloths, bedding, fur and other winter things, and the most rare thing was that the captain of the guard also personally presented a bag of medicinal materials to heal the wounds. In today's demonic world, Hu Yiyi knows that these things are extremely difficult to find. At that moment, she couldn't stop thanking the captain repeatedly. The captain didn't say much, and when all the things had been moved in, he arched his hand and led the soldiers out.

Xu Kezhi didn't get up until midnight, and Yao Zibei brought him breakfast. After Xu Ke had eaten and drunk enough, Hu Yiyi cleaned his wounds again, put the powder that had already been mashed on him, and helped him bandage him again.

Xu Ke asked where the rest of the people were, and Hu Yiyi replied that Yiqing went to the Valley of Forgotten Worries, saying that he wanted to pick some more mushrooms and wild fruits and come back. Dongshan, Beiling, Xichuan, and Nanyuan insisted on leaving this morning, and they were determined to go north to Yanzhou City to find Murong Huan's whereabouts. Murong Yan had no choice but to agree, but she had to give them a ride in person......

"Yan'er is out alone...... That's too dangerous!No, I have to find her!" Xu Ke heard that Murong Yan was sending people out of the city alone today, and there would be no one around him to protect him at this time, so he couldn't rest assured, and hurriedly limped out of the door.

"Sister Xiaoyan just sent Dongshan and them to the north gate, and they should be back soon!" Yao Zibei persuaded.

Xu Ke was still not at ease, and stubbornly walked outside the door, Hu Yiyi shook his head, and had to help him go out together.

The two walked out of the gate of Xu's house, looked left and right, and walked in the northeast direction. Just a few steps away, I heard a light and graceful voice behind me from a distance: "Sister Yiyi, what are you ...... You want to go out?"

Xu Ke turned around and saw a graceful figure standing there, it was Murong Yan who went out in the morning. After bidding farewell to Dongshan and the others, she also walked around Liquanfang, but turned around from the south.

Hu Yiyi hurriedly replied: "Xiao Yan is back, we are about to go out to find you......"

"Looking for me?" Murong Yan said.

When Murong Yan approached, Hu Yiyi pointed at Xu Keyan and said: "He, I heard that you went out of the city to see them off for Dongshan, I am afraid that there will be no one to escort you when you come back, so he is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and he is clamoring to come out to find you! If you come a little later, he is afraid that he will carry his sword to the top of Bashan......

"Really?" Murong Yan looked at Xu Ke with a smile......

The three of them went back into the house together, and Xu Ke asked with concern: "Yan'er, Brother Dongshan, they still have injuries on their bodies, why do they have to go out in such a hurry?"

Murong Yan said: "Brother Wuxi, their injuries are not serious, you don't have to worry." The four eldest brothers of Dongshan and Beiling, they have followed my second brother for many years, and when they heard the news of the second brother yesterday, they were very happy, and they were naturally anxious to meet my second brother......"

"Oh...... That's it!" Xu Ke recalled that although he had no deep friendship with Dongshan and Beiling, he also knew that they were all bold and upright people. They left Chang'an and went to Yanzhou at this time, on the one hand, they were anxious to find their old master, and on the other hand, they must have entrusted Murong Yan to their own care.

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There was nothing to do on this day, so Xu Ke stayed in the backyard to rest and recuperate. Hu Yiyi and Murong Yan each cleaned up the house. Yao Zibei was responsible for tidying up the stove and lighting a fire for cooking. By the time Shen arrived in the evening, Yiqing had also returned from Sanssouci Valley, and she had a good harvest this time, in addition to picking a large bag of fresh and fatty red mushrooms, she also specially collected four bouquets of flowers.

Everyone was overjoyed to see that Yiqing had only been back and forth for one day, and had already come to Sanssouci Valley to bring so many rare ingredients to everyone. Murong Yan and Yao Zibei were holding flowers in their hands, and they were even more overjoyed. The two of them found four porcelain vases, filled them with water, filled them with flowers, and placed them in the rooms of the four women.

Yiqing saw that the front yard was full of supplies, and couldn't help but be curious, and after asking, he knew that it was Shen Huan who sent someone to send it. She couldn't help but praise Xu Ke "tsk": "I can't see that your sick wood is still a little useful, but you can let General Shen send so many good goods!"

Half an hour later, Yao Zibei and Murong Yan cooked a large pot of "Red Mushroom Soup" for everyone. It's just that the ingredients selected for today's big broth are high-quality bear leg meat, plus many seasonings sent by Shen Huan. The taste of this large pot of broth is even more delicious than before......

Xu Ke and the four women, still sitting around Wenyu Pavilion** for dinner. While drinking the soup, Yiqing praised Murong Yan and Yao Zibei's cooking skills. Murong Yan and Yao Zibei ignored Yiqing's praise, and Gu Zi took good meat and sandwiched red mushrooms to feast. Although Hu Yiyi was a little more elegant in eating, she gradually ignored it when she ate better......

The four girls ate around the stone table, and Xu Ke was drinking the water in the bowl while eating bear meat mixed with the fragrance of mushrooms, but a trace of regret suddenly appeared in his heart: "It would be great if there was a pot of Fenyang drunk on the table right now!"

For Xu Ke at this time, it is still a pity to have a stunning beauty to accompany him, to have a superb delicious entrance, but only to lack a fine wine......

All the people in the world seem to be like this, the ** in the heart is like spring grass, when it meets water, it is born, endless, and there is no exception.

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Let's have dinner

, everyone went back to their rooms to rest, and Xu Ke still stayed in Hu Yiyi's Hazelnut Residence.

The night passed in a hurry, and when he woke up the next morning, Xu Ke could hear shouting in the backyard. He hurriedly got up, got dressed and walked outside the house, but saw that Yiqing had packed some clothes and seemed to be leaving, and the other three were struggling to stay.

Yao Zibei saw Xu Ke and hurriedly shouted: "Brother Xu, come quickly! Sister Yiqing is leaving!"

Xu Ke asked, "Where is she leaving?"

Yao Zibei said: "She said she wanted to go back to her own 'Mei Xuezhai'!"

Xu Ke hurriedly limped forward, snatched the burden from Yiqing's hand, and said, "Miss Yiqing, you can't go!"

"You sick wood, what are you doing robbing me of my baggage!" Yiqing said angrily.

Xu Ke asked, "You just brought us here, why do you want to leave by yourself?"

Yiqing said: "This is your home, your dignified Lord Xu's mansion, and not where I live!"

Xu Ke said: "What 'yours and mine'? Chang'an City is in ruins, and this is no one's mansion for a long time! Right now, this place is you, me, Yan'er, Xiaobei and Yiyi, the home of all of us! You ...... Don't go!"

Yi Qing paused and said, "You stupid stinky wooden pile, why are you so unreasonable? I was entrusted by someone to bring you here." Now that my mission is complete, I naturally want to leave this place...... Go to my own home!"

Xu Ke asked, "Where is your own home?"

Yiqing raised his head and pointed to the guide, and said, "It's Meixuezhai in the south of the city, you've been to that place too! I've been living there for the past ten years!"

Xu Ke said: "Okay! If you want to go there, we will all go with you!"

Yi Qing immediately said: "My Mei Xuezhai is not as good as your Xu Mansion, I have two small tiled houses there, how can I accommodate many of you!"

Xu Ke twisted his neck and said, "I don't care so much! Anyway...... Wherever you go, we'll follow!"

"You...... Aren't you a scoundrel!" Yiqing seemed to be very angry, as soon as she stretched out her hand, she was about to snatch the burden in Xu Ke's hand, and while scrambling, she said: "Is there such an unreasonable person as you?

Xu Ke tightened the gray cloth package of Yiqing, and while dodging, he responded: "If I don't pay it back, I just won't pay it back! Is there such a person as untrustworthy as you? Now you are sick and injured here, but you have to take care of yourself and walk away!"

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Murong Yan and the others next to him couldn't help but smile when they saw this scene. They all said with their hearts, it turns out that Xiao Wuxian (Brother Xu) still has this kind of routine! It seems that we don't have to worry about Yiqing leaving today......

Sure enough, after a short while, Yiqing finally stopped arguing with Xu Ke, and suddenly changed his tone to a soft tone, and said quietly: "Sick wood, how can it be so serious as you say......! You're just suffering a leg injury, didn't Sister Yiyi cure you soon?Besides, this Chang'an City has towering walls on all sides, and there are thousands of soldiers in the city, so no demonic beast can sneak in......"

"That's not going to work!" Xu Ke said stubbornly: "Although Chang'an City is safe, we still have to go to the city to eat, don't we? Without your Imperial Sword Shuangfei, we are not the opponents of those monsters!"

Yiqing said: "Didn't General Shen send you so much food?"

"Eaten up?" Xu Ke said.

"You...... When have you become so unreasonable!" Yiqing stomped his foot and said aggrievedly.

"Didn't you say that I was a 'sick wood'? When have you ever seen a 'sick wood' and can still reason with you?" Xu Ke said disapprovingly.

When Yiqing heard this, she finally couldn't help but laugh out loud. The women behind her saw that the time was almost there, so they all caught up.

Murong Yan stepped forward, grabbed Yiqing's left arm, and begged: "Sister Yiqing, my good sister, don't go, okay? Without you, Xiao Yan will die alone......

Yao Zibei also reached out and grabbed Yiqing's right arm, and begged softly: "Sister Yiqing, you can stay! Xiaobei still wants to learn from you how to fly with the sword? Without your protection, what if we are bullied by 'sick wood' next time?"

Yiqing couldn't help laughing and said, "......Okay! It's really okay to take you!"

Hu Yiyi stepped forward and said: "Sister Yiqing, if you don't dislike it, the four of us will become sisters with different surnames, and we will be like a family in the future, never leave and stay together forever, okay?"

"Well, Sister Yiyi, that's a good idea!" Yiqing stroked his palms and smiled: "Let's also learn from those stinky men, let's have a four-beauty wedding today, and from then on we will be like sisters and never separate!"

"Okay!" Murong Yan and Yao Zibei on the side all cheered.

In the end, the four women all went straight to the "Honghu Ju" in the east hand in hand. Xu Ke was left alone, standing alone in the wind, but he was still holding Yiqing's package in his hand.

"Like...... What's wrong with me?" Xu Ke scratched his head, and couldn't help but be stunned.

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It turned out that early this morning, after Yiqing got up, he suddenly had to say goodbye to Murong Yan, saying that since he had sent them to Chang'an safely, he could be regarded as completing the trust of his old friend. Now, I still have important things to do, and I will go out for a hike in the near future. As she spoke, she packed up her clothes and planned to say goodbye to everyone and go back to her own Meixue Zhai to live first.

Murong Yan and Yiqing were already sisters at this time, how could she bear to be separated from Yiqing? In a hurry, she called Hu Yiyi and Yao Zibei, and the three of them worked hard to keep them, and they were unwilling to part with Yiqing. Unexpectedly, at this time, Yiqing had already made up his mind, and no matter how the three persuaded each other, they insisted on leaving......

In fact, Yiqing was originally extremely not

May it be separated from the multitude. There is only one scruple in her heart, you Xu Wuxian is better now, you live in your own Xu Mansion, there are three beauties around you, Murong Yan is your new wife, Hu Yiyi has long been your wife, and Yao Zibei is also your person sooner or later...... One by one, they have become your pillow people. So what's the matter with me staying here?

She was a woman with a strong heart and an impatient temperament, and when she thought of this, she didn't want to stay in this "Xu Mansion" for a moment, so she suddenly packed up her things early in the morning and was about to leave......

Unexpectedly, today's Xu Ke had just woken up, and he changed his dull appearance in the past, and suddenly gave her a hand of "playing scoundrel". was so messed up by him, and the determination he had just made had to end hastily, and there was no follow-up from then on.

In fact, everyone knows it very well. In today's demonic world, there is not a single human being left. If you can't live with the person you like, and you can't find any happiness and hope in your life, how can you face this dark and muddy world?

Speaking of which, in the past ten years, Yiqing has lived alone most of the time. Although she has the best swordsmanship and has never met an opponent among the demons, the loneliness and melancholy in her heart have never stopped. In the last few days, she has lived with Murong Yan, Yao Zibei, and Hu Yiyi, drinking soup, eating meat, and talking and laughing loudly...... Those sporadic joys were enough to sustain her in the face of boundless darkness and the tide of demonic beasts. She actually ...... More than anyone else, I want to leave, and I crave that kind of family-like warmth more than anyone else.

When the world has changed beyond recognition, when life is the greatest hope for people, that kind of home warmth is exactly the most inseparable feeling in everyone's heart......

After the four women entered the Honghu Residence, they moved a long table against the wall, which was regarded as an incense case. At this time, there was no incense burner, so Murong Yan lit two red candles, placed them on both sides, and put four bowls of water in the middle. The four women all knelt on the ground, prayed to the air, and said some words of "forever sisters, never separated, share blessings and misfortunes, and be united in wind and rain".

Since then, these four women have become sisters with different surnames according to their age. Hu Yiyi is 1,292 years old, Yiqing is 30 years old, Murong Yan and Yao Zibei are both 29 years old, in terms of months, Murong Yan was born in May and ranked third, and Yao Zibei was born in October and ranked last.

After the ceremony was completed, at the moment, Yiqing was the first to give Hu Yiyi "tea". She held a bowl of water and offered it to Hu Yiyi with both hands, and said apologetically: "Eldest sister, I was offended by my words a few days ago, and I hope that eldest sister will not take it to heart! To tell the truth, although the eldest sister is a demon clan, she is kind-hearted and broad-minded, and she is really a hundred times stronger than human beings! It is a blessing for Yiqing to have an eldest sister like you!" After that, she leaned over to salute Hu Yiyi again.

Hu Yiyi hurriedly bowed and returned the salute, she took the bowl of water in Yiqing's hand with both hands, and almost drank it all with her neck up. After drinking, she hugged Yiqing and said with a smile: "Second sister, we have been a family since then, what are you doing with these words?!"

Next, Murong Yan and Yao Zibei also gave Hu Yiyi "tea" one by one. Hu Yiyi stretched out his hand to take it, and drank it in a big gulp, so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. When she arrived at Yao Zibei, after she finished serving tea, she pouted and said: "Eldest sister, there is a way, you have drunk tea and brought red envelopes! You have drunk all the tea, what about the red envelopes?"

Hu Yiyi smiled: "You are the most naughty! I have prepared it for you a long time ago!" As she spoke, she took out three sachets from her arms and handed them to her younger sisters one by one.

"There is really a gift! Good eldest sister, kiss one!" Yao Zibei cheered, she suddenly threw herself into Hu Yiyi's arms, and suddenly kissed her eldest sister on the face.

"You dead girl, you don't learn well, but you learn badly with Xiao Wuxi!" Hu Yiyi slapped Yao Zibei lightly and said angrily. Although she was only kissed by Yao Zibei, Hu Yiyi couldn't help but look shy when she remembered the "crazy lingering" with Xu Ke the night before yesterday.

Yiqing opened the sachet and saw that it contained some medicine, she smelled it, only to feel a fragrance coming, which was quite refreshing, and immediately said happily: "Sister, where did you get this sachet from?

Hu Yiyi said with a smile: "Yesterday, the demon subduing general sent a bag of medicinal herbs. I saw that there were a few good medicines in it to refresh my mind, so I made a few sachets for everyone. ”

Yiqing asked, "Eldest sister, this sachet is used to fight the poison of black smoke, right?"

Hu Yiyi replied: "Well, I looked at the Bashan Demon Cave in the north of Chang'an, and the black smoke emitted was much thicker than that of Xuchang. This black smoke contains poison, and my sisters should be careful when they go out in the future! This small sachet can protect you from some poison a little......

"Thank you, big sister!" the sisters said in unison.

Hu Yiyi shook his head again, and said worriedly: "No wonder Ah Ke before has been reluctant to take us back to Chang'an." In the demon cave in Xuchang, the black smoke spewed out will only obscure the sunlight and cause the surrounding grass and trees to turn into ashes, after all, it will not hurt people and animals. But this magic cave in the north of Chang'an City, the entrance of the cave is too big, and the spitting is particularly violent! Most of those black smoke are poisonous, and if people inhale it for a long time, it will inevitably damage the lungs and veins, and they will not live long...... In my opinion, although this Chang'an City is strong, it is not a safe place!"

Yiqing couldn't help but sigh: "What the eldest sister said is very true! There are no less than 100,000 people who have fled to Chang'an from all over the country! But most of them have died under the poisonous smoke, and there are only more than 30,000 residents in Chang'an City today. At present, there are still corpse trucks carrying dozens of corpses to the west gate for burial every day. Those people are coughing up to death......"

Yao Zibei couldn't help but exclaim when he heard this: "Ah, this Chang'an City is so terrifying! The eldest sister and the second sister, don't we have anything to do about this poisonous smoke?"

Hu Yiyi and Yiqing both shook their heads and were silent......