Fangyi Inn

It was late at night, and the stove in the kitchen had been extinguished for a long time. Otochi hasn't come back yet.

Linglan cleaned up the bed in her brother's room again, and sat quietly outside, thinking about tomorrow's work.

Forty or fifty people from the Jiang family were crammed into the inn and couch room at once, and the reserve of vegetables, rice and noodles was definitely not enough, so we had to find a way to exchange some with Murakami first. Firewood and horse material are enough, and my younger brother has to work for half a day every time he runs back, and the chopping wood in the barn can be used until the beginning of winter.

Mother's room is still dark. She took the women of the village to the third tun to wash the jackets and bedding, and it has been five days, and she has not returned.

There are so many things in the inn, my mother is not there, I don't know if I can cope with it on my own.

My mother adopted me nineteen years ago. At that time, he was only two years old, and Xiao Yi was still in his mother's womb. What do the biological parents look like, who they are, and how did they die? No one has ever mentioned it, and my mother never said it, but she gritted her teeth and silently brought herself and Xiaoyi up.

My mother was very beautiful when she was young. Of course, it is now also known as a great beauty. But her temper is like that of a man, much hotter than the eldest lady of the Jiang family.

Thinking of Jiang Jinglan, Linglan suddenly felt a little annoyed. Is it because of those teasing words in the afternoon?

Linglan didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Who is Bai Ye? He is the life of the whole village.

Although they all grew up together, although the elders are used to covering up, from childhood to adulthood, the eyes of the uncles all revolve around him.

It's definitely different from looking at Xiao Yi's eyes.

She didn't understand why the elders in the village were always faintly distant from Xiao Yi and her mother. I didn't dare to ask about my life experience.

is the younger brother who depends on him, although he has been stubborn since he was a child and his face is cold, he loves this place and the people here from the bottom of his heart.

But now, how late did they drink and why didn't they come back......

Fangyi, on the shores of Genting Lake

At this time, Yi Chi was already fainting from hunger.

Since the afternoon, he has been waiting boredly in the house of Bai Ye. The meal prepared by my sister has been heated several times, but she still can't wait for Amber and Bai Ye.

The night was already dark, and Yi Chi practiced cross-legged at the low table on the kang again. Amber and Nightshade finally entered the house.

Bai Ye stretched his waist, looked at the food on the table, rubbed his hands vigorously, and sat next to Yi Chi.

Taking advantage of the fact that the night was not sitting, Yi Chi's shoulder hit it with force. Bai Ye was in pain, and his hand was an elbow, but he was caught. The two of you went back and forth silently and dismantled a few tricks. Bai Ye was born with great strength, and Yi Chi had just been injured, so he didn't dare to exert his strength, and only competed in moves.

Even so, Yichi will eventually suffer. As long as he doesn't pull away to hit the powder pill with a bow, whether he is sitting or standing, he will never be able to beat Bai Ye.

The two are close in age, and they are only a few months apart from birth. Growing up playing together in Fangyi, it's not a brother, it's better than a brother.

Amber ignored the small movements of the two, and his eyes were just fixed on the wine jar on the table. Xiao Yi had just filled the wine, and he had already drunk it in a blink of an eye.

Amber silently took the wine jar from the stunned Yichi's hand, filled it for the children, put down the wine jar, but his hand kept picking at the mouth of the jar, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

After a while, he looked up at Xiao Yi, and asked faintly and muttered to himself, "The effect is okay?"

Yi Chi knew that Amber was asking about the pendant.

After returning from Ul, he was scrutinized by Amber. Determined that he was fine, he picked out the crystal energy pendant in the treasury and gave it to him.

Yi Chi had never come into contact with such a high-level magic weapon.

This pendant made Bai Ye blink, and dragged it to introduce him carefully for a long time.

Pure-blooded Holy Spirit Clansmen like the Elders in Retreat were able to freely absorb the essence diffused by the weather with a mouthful of innate aura in their bodies. And the vast majority of the mixed-race descendants of the Eastern and Western Continents, the accumulation of spiritual power is not as convenient as that of the Western Continents.

Generations of high-ranking people have come up with more efficient methods. The ancestors used different magic weapons to effectively channel the spiritual power contained in the crystal nucleus of the spirit beast, or the essence extracted from the spirit strain, into the body.

Later, this method was borrowed and matured by the Holy Spirit Clan. For example, this crystal energy pendant is the masterpiece of the Great Elder.

This grade of magic weapon is much higher than the salt crystal hanging on the body of the herdsman of the Wei Kingdom. As long as you practice diligently, in a few days, the spiritual power in your body will be able to recover.

Now, in order to recover his spiritual power as soon as possible, Amber took it out and gave it to Yi Chi. But he didn't dare to ask for it.

Amber sank his face at that time, and said that he couldn't care so much, if your mother was at home, she would definitely agree. Yi Chi took the pendant with a weak heart.

However, after half a day of cultivation, now if you want him to take it off again, I'm afraid it's going to be difficult.

The abundant spiritual power contained in this pendant is too tempting. Once the connection is established, the wisps of spiritual power will smoothly flow into the body, gently ironing the meridians of the whole body, and it will be extremely refreshing from the inside out.

Yi Chi blushed and nodded: "Thank you, uncle." When he looked up again, he saw that Amber had almost drunk the jar of wine.

Amber picked at the empty jar in a daze, and muttered to himself: "Ten years ago, there was not a single military household in our village. At that time, our old brothers were still young, running horses and hunting during the day, sitting around drinking, and at night each went home, carrying oil lamps to accompany my mother-in-law to sew. How easy it was then!"

The two brothers peeked at Amber who was a little depressed by the help of the oil lamp, and suddenly felt that he seemed to be getting very old.

However, the face of a man in his forties has skin like tree bark, and the wrinkles are deep in the corners of the forehead and eyes, and the light has drawn a deep shadow.

"Look, you're all so old. In the beginning, everyone's hearts were the same. Just stay in the mountains and don't go anywhere! If you can be at ease for one more day, you will be chic for one more day! Until that thing is done, and then think about the rest of the matter. ”

"But slowly, we persuade ourselves that sooner or later your generation should go out. If we are tied up in the mountains, we can't see the scenery outside. Actually, aren't we the same......"

In the end, the brothers moved out step by step. Beards, they spend all day outside to relieve boredom. Desheng went to Yongshun Post to guard and consolidate our periphery. Dacheng went to Yongshun City and got up flat with a tongue. With the help of the Jiang family's funding, we built an inn and opened a tea mountain, and even the tax officials of Yongshun City lived in the village. Twenty years ago, if it had been said that the dignified Iron Guard would become such a philistine, the brothers' teeth would have laughed off. ”

"I've been thinking about it these days, it's not so much that I can't bear you to grow old in the mountains and forests, but in fact, it's still the old brothers, and the mind is alive. ”

Yi Chi interrupted Amber's babbling: "Amber, what is in the old town, what the secret ritual is, I already know. ”

He glanced at Bai Ye, and finally mustered up the courage to stand up, and drank the liquor in the cup in one gulp: "Amber, I have long grown up, and I have also practiced the methods taught by Uncle Yama. If there is a real war, I will not stay with Uncle Desheng, I will go back to the village to guard. ”

Amber burst out laughing. He looked at Yi Chi's serious face, and hammered his shoulder with a smile: "Can you still have a bowl after taking a bite?"

Fangyi Inn

Linglan's heart finally let go. She heard the sound of rustling outside the door. Sure enough, Yi Chi gently pushed the door and flashed in. Seeing that his sister was still waiting for him, he stuck out his tongue slightly.

Yi Chi squeezed a smile at his sister and wanted to rush into his room.

Xiaolan returned her hand and chiseled her brother's back.

"Hurry up and wash and rest. Tomorrow, I will go to the third tun early, and then report back to the military post. I packed the change of clothes for my mother, don't forget it. ”

Yi Chi was stunned for a moment, and slowly clenched his fists: "No, I'll go at night." ”

"The third tun is too close to the big city, I will take my mother back. ”

On August 16, Lan Guo Yongshun Station

The sky is getting brighter, and the new rice on the stove has been boiled for half a pair, and the warm porridge fragrance envelops the entire Yongshun Station.

The post station was already overcrowded inside and out.

The temporary sites around the area were filled with large and small military tents, and soldiers and civilians of different colors shuttled endlessly.

The soldiers who had returned from morning exercises to prepare for dinner and the pack caravan who had hurried in at night to unload food were huddled together.

The streams of people struggled to move towards their respective destinations, and the huge post field was like a pot of boiling rice porridge.

The air around him was mixed with the smell of freshly sawn wood and the smell of damp iron, and the smell of the whole Yongshun Station was different from usual.

Yi Chi felt a slight dizziness. Although the crystal energy pendant can quickly replenish spiritual power, the side effects are still quite obvious, and after wearing it for a long time, you will feel more or less drunk.

But his mind was incomparably clear. Thick war clouds are already pressing down on the border.

Beside him stood a middle-aged officer, with a headband on his head, wearing only a brown burqa, and a cigarette stick pinned to his waist to prop up the robe.

Kong Desheng, one of the twelve iron guards. Five years ago, he changed his name and came out of Fangyi, taking on the post guard of this small Yongshun, in charge of the military post covering an area of one mile, and nearly 100 post soldiers.

But for now, it is clear that he has lost the authority to give orders and commands. The war machine of the Lan Kingdom roared rapidly, and the Guannan battalion had fully taken over the dispatch authority of Yongshun Station.

The post guard didn't know what Otochi had been through in the past few days. As for his super fake late return, he just opened his eyes and closed his eyes, and didn't ask.

Speaking of which, among the little uncles, except for Uncle Yama, who taught him archery, Uncle Desheng can be regarded as the one who takes the most care of Yi Chi. I have always had him by my side for more than half a year. With the advice of the masters, Xiao Yi went to the road very quickly.

Although he is still only a rookie, his observation skills are becoming more and more accurate.

Not long ago, the Huzhou soldiers who were stationed in the camp overnight have already moved into the third canton.

What is even more amazing is that the state troops of Haizhou and Hezhou are said to have rushed to the front line one after another from their respective stations.

Haizhou! It's 700 miles away from here. When was the troops deployed?

It seems that Dashuai really knew that the people of Wei were going south more than a month ago.

Yi Chi had just heard the former enemy division inform the post guard that 300,000 catties of military supplies had been disembarked at the nearby ferries and must be transported to the first tun tomorrow.

"Uncle Desheng, you're about to start fighting, right?"

Yishou, like Uncle Ba Hong, is a temperament that cherishes words like gold. He didn't answer, but took out his cigarette stick and asked, "Is your mother going back?"

Yi Chi instantly collapsed a little like a frosted eggplant, and his straight chest collapsed a little: "Naturally, I won't go back." The pulp washing team and her stayed in the third tun. ”

Yi Chi ran from Fangyi to the third tun, and then turned back to Yongshun, not only tossing all night in vain, but also scolded the old lady in front of the aunts. Now that I think about it, I still have some grievances.

Yi Shou Muran's face twitched, "Pulp washing team...... Your mother's name?"

"Well, the aunts in the village like it very much, and they have each received their own positions, but they are ...... energetic."

The post guard looked up to the northeast, as if trying to see something.

Rolling tents and oak forests on the periphery obscured the view, and there was no distance in sight.

The hand holding the cigarette stick clenched a little tighter.

"Next time I go back to Fangyi, remember to find your aunt. Take the tobacco, two cases. ”