Chapter 5: Train Encounters
The next day, the memory competition was held on time, and Jin Yiran still ranked first with dazzling results, as for Jin Zhiya, after Jin Chongkui's one-night teaching, although he resolved the resentment in his heart, he also lost the heart to participate in the competition, so he went out smoothly in a negative attitude. And on the same night, a more shocking news appeared than the Tong Xiu competition, Jin Jueming was going to remarry, the object was Gao Xuelin, the niece of the current Empress of the Xiaoyang Empire, this obvious marriage of foreign relatives, once again let everyone see the ambition of the current queen to expand her power; For the Jin clan, Jin Jueming has not been married for nearly five years, just to show everyone that Jin Zhiya is the first heir to the Fuling City Lord; and this time Jin Jueming and Gao Xuelin's marriage not only further consolidated Jin Jueming's position in the family, but also means that Jin Zhiya is no longer the heir to the position of Fuling City Lord, because everyone knows that the future Fuling City Lord must be the child born to Gao Xuelinγ
As soon as the news of Jin Jueming's marriage came out, the entire Fuling City was boiling instantly, and all kinds of rumors and news continued to circulate and change in the mouths of the people in various markets, and it was rumored that Jin Jueming was completely desperate for Jin Zhiya, so he would choose marriage to stabilize his position, and it was rumored that the current queen coveted the Jin family's unique Fire Heart Sutra and the Jin family's military power before choosing to marry, among which there are more conspiracy theories, Gong Yu gossip, for a time this marriage became the hottest topic in the entire Fuling City, so that the original focus of the Tong Xiu competition was also no one cared about, just like Jin Zhiya was like abandoned sand, and even the Jin clan began to gradually forget his existence.
Just after the topic of Jin Jueming's marriage continued to heat up for three days, in front of the gate of Mingxia Villa, Jin Zhiya, who was wearing ordinary plain clothes, after taking a final look at the villa, carefully climbed a small donkey and slowly left the villa under the traction of a middle-aged servant, and Jin Chongkui, who was on the cliff, kept watching the figures of the two disappear at the corner of the mountain road, and then closed his eyes: "Xie Kun, I will ask you to take care of the cliff in the future." Jin Chongkui remembered in his heart, but he couldn't help but look up to the sky and let out a long sigh.
After a day's journey, Jin Zhiya came to the Douxiu Transportation Station on the outskirts of Fuling City, although the name is a transportation station, but the entire area is about one-third of Fuling City, the main means of transportation is the Dou Qi train, the Dou Qi train is powered by the demon beast essence core, which can easily pull 100 tons of goods for thousands of miles a day, but the manufacturing and management costs of the relative Dou Qi train are also very high, so only cross-county or key trade or military areas will lay train tracks and construction sites.
The Jiangbai Caolu that Jin Zhiya is going to on this trip is located in Dagnuma County, which is separated from Fuling City, this county is the closest county to the Demon Beast Forest in the Xiaoyang Empire, because the area is like a dagger, and the county is rich in swamp resources, which can grow many rare herbs, which is famous for attracting countless Douxiu adventurers to come to seek medical treatment.
And at this moment of the train, for the first time to take the vindictive train of Jin Zhiya, naturally it is difficult to hide the curiosity in his heart, just when Xie Kun placed the luggage, Jin Zhiya ran out of his sleeper room, after a quick look around, he ran towards the direction of the front of the car inexplicably, and after running through a carriage, Jin Zhiya saw that the new carriage was the same as an isolated sleeper room, so he continued to run forward, but when he reached the middle sleeper, Jin Zhiya's inspiration felt a slight impact fluctuation, so he stopped and thought a little, and soon confirmed the source of the fluctuation of a sleeper room, so he stepped forward to secretly open the door and take a look insideAfter seeing that the sleeping room was empty, he opened the door completely and walked in, and then leaned down to look at the bottom of the bed, and his eyes instantly met with a pair of big blue eyes.
The owner of those big eyes may not have expected that he would be discovered so suddenly, and he was so frightened that he opened his mouth, but at the same time he used two pink little hands to cover his mouth, and at this time there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and the small hands grabbed Jin Zhiya's ears and dragged them in, Jin Zhiya couldn't care too much under the pain, so he had to climb into the bottom of the bed; The young man embroidered with black bamboo on it walked directly into the room, and he walked out of the sleeper after carefully searching the entire room, including the bottom of the bed, and then Jin Zhiya heard the conversation between the two outside the door: "It seems that the little county lord has used the power of the beast transformation ring again, let's hurry up and return to the elder." β
"Okay, you go back to the elder, I'll keep the carriage guarding this side just in case. As the conversation between the two went farther and farther, Jin Zhiya recalled the information about the beast transformation ring in his heart, the beast transformation ring is the special fighting spirit of the orc clan, that is, the fighting temperament of the fusion of its own fighting spirit and the demon beast essence stone will eventually produce the fighting temperament, and the beast transformation ring will also inherit the special power of the demon beast before its death, such as the beast transformation ring produced by the bear-type demon beast essence stone, then when this beast transformation ring is cast, it will have the power of the bear, if this bear-type demon beast mutates the ability to use fire, then this beast transformation ring will have two attributes: fire enhancement and strength enhancement; γ And the little girl next to him should be a beast transformation ring with abilities similar to chameleon demon beasts, so the two people just now couldn't see themselves and this little girl.
"Hey, do you have anything to eat there?" Just when Jin Zhiya was thinking, a crisp and beautiful girl's voice suddenly sounded in his ears like wind chimes, and he couldn't help but feel an itch in his ears, and he was busy nodding his ears with a red face, but due to the space under the bed, Jin Zhiya couldn't spread his limbs for a while and took out the dry food in his arms, and his whole little face turned red in a hurry, and the little girl on the side looked at Jin Zhiya's embarrassing action like a kitten trying to catch a cat's tail, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle, and then pointed outside, signaling Jin Zhiya to climb out with her.
Seeing this, Jin Zhiya also hurriedly readjusted his posture, and climbed out of the bed with the little girl, at this time, under the light of the sleeper, Jin Zhiya finally saw the little girl in front of him, who was about four or five years old, with big sapphire eyes, wearing a set of pink lace embroidered skirts. At this time, the little girl climbed into the sleeper, stretched out her pink right palm to Jin Zhiya, who had just climbed out of the bed, Jin Zhiya looked at the outstretched little hand and was stunned for a long time, seeing that the little girl had puffed out her cheeks and pouted her little mouth to be angry, and instantly the whole person was like an enlightenment, and quickly took out the bottle wrapped in oil paper from her arms, and then explained while opening the oil paper: "This is the sesame sugar cake that I make bean paste filling at home, which is fragrant and sweet." Saying that Jin Zhiya had opened the oil paper, inside was a piece of cake slightly larger than Jin Zhiya's palm, wrapped in sesame seeds, Jin Zhiya held this cake in both hands and hesitated for a long time, as if he had made some major decision in his life, as soon as his eyes closed, he handed the cake to the little girl's palm, and said with great difficulty: "Come, give it to you." β
Looking at Jin Zhiya's face full of pain, from time to time slightly open her eyes to look at the expression of the small cake in her hand, the little girl couldn't help but put the small cake on her legs, and then covered her mouth with both hands to "giggle" and chuckled; soon after the little girl laughed enough, she took out a small green jade folding knife from her small waist bag, and then looked at the small cake, and carefully cut the small cake into two parts with a jade knife in a ratio of about 5:2, and then picked up a small part and handed it out to Jin Zhiya; "Come, this piece is for you to eat." β
"Ah, thank you. Hearing this, Jin Zhiya's originally painful face suddenly unfolded, and he hurriedly stepped forward to take the cake, skillfully licking the honey flowing out, the little girl saw this, and also learned from Jin Zhiya's appearance, first licking the honey flowing out, and then licking part of the surface of the sesame seeds into the mouth with her tongue, so that the crispy skin softened slightly, and then took a bite of the cake with the filling.
After Jin Zhiya ate the sesame cake in his hand in two or three bites, he saw that the little girl still had more than half of it in her hand, and couldn't help swallowing her saliva, and after looking down at her fingers stained with sesame seeds, she licked her fingers regardless of the image, and the little girl saw this, she couldn't help but be angry and funny, and she didn't have the mood to eat for a while, so she put the remaining sesame cakes on the oil paper, and then asked while wrapping: "My name is Gong Xueji, what's your name?"
"My name is Xia Zhiya. Listening to the little girl's silver bell-like voice, Jin Zhiya had already forgotten Jin Chongkui's advice to leave, and looked at Gong Xueji and said with a smile: "By the way, why did those people arrest you?"
"Because I am dying. And looking at the Jin Zhiya with a demented expression on her face in front of her, Gong Xueji only felt an inexplicable sense of trust, and subconsciously told the secret buried in her heart, and as soon as she said this, Gong Xueji's original brilliant expression began to gradually dim, and she couldn't help muttering: "I just want to do something I like before I die, and go to see the Wu Kun Wonderland in my aunt's mouth, but those fathers and queens will only lock me in the house and let me do nothing." The little girl's voice became softer and lower, and her head drooped lower.
And Jin Zhiya didn't hear the little girl's words clearly for a while, so he also stepped forward and climbed into the sleeper, moved his body and sat down next to Gong Xueji, and continued to laugh stupidly: "You look so good, why are you dying?"
"Huh?" Hearing the voice from beside her, Gong Xueji couldn't help but be stunned for a while, looked up at Jin Zhiya again, and saw Jin Zhiya said to himself with a smile on his face: "My grandfather said that the beautiful things in this world will live for a long time, and the ugly ones will die soon, so the world will become more and more beautiful; β
"Hmm. Listening to Jin Zhiya's naΓ―ve words, Gong Xueji's original gloomy mood became inexplicably cheerful, and she unconsciously asked casually: "Then how long do you say I can live?"
"This, this. Jin Zhiya, who couldn't find words to describe it for a while, scratched the back of his head, and then stretched out his hands and said while gesturing: "It's so long, it's not right, it should be this long, it's not right." After Jin Zhiya gestured for a long time and couldn't express his consciousness, his little face was red for a while, and in the end he could only spread his hands and said to Gong Xueji with a serious face: "Anyway, it's very long, longer than the stars in the sky." β
"Poof. Seeing Jin Zhiya's flushed and serious face, Gong Xueji finally couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh; Seeing Gong Xueji smile again, although Jin Zhiya didn't know what it was for, she couldn't help but smirk on the side. After a while, Gong Xueji, who finally held back her smile, turned her head to look at the lower Jin Zhiya and chuckled: "If you could live as long as the galaxy, what would you want to do?"
"What are you doing?" Hearing Gong Xueji's question, Jin Zhiya scratched his head and said, "I want to be the sun." β
"The sun?"
"yes, so that people can see more and more beautiful things. β
"The sun?" Looking at Jin Zhiya, she excitedly explained to herself, Gong Xueji only felt an unprecedented strangeness in her heart, and then fell into her own thoughts, just staring at Jin Zhiya blankly.
About half an hour later, outside the sleeper door.
"Elder. The young man in the blue silk robe said to the white-haired old man in front of him who was wearing a white robe and embroidered with a long red dragon: "The train is about to leave, let's take the little county lord back." β
"Alas. Hearing this, the white-haired old man could only sigh helplessly, and slowly opened the sleeper door, and with the entry of the white-haired old man, the laughter of the child on the sleeper also stopped, Gong Xueji glanced at the white-haired old man, carefully put the remaining sesame cakes wrapped in oiled paper into his waist bag, then jumped out of bed, and slowly walked out of the door, the white-haired old man saw this and did not say much, he could only sigh helplessly, and followed the figure of Gong Xueji out of the room.
Jin Zhiya, who was still dazed on the bed, suddenly came back to his senses after seeing that everyone's figures completely disappeared from sight, and hurriedly jumped out of bed and ran out of the room, and saw the white-haired old man walking towards the carriage in front of him with Gong Xueji, so Jin Zhiya was busy trying to catch up, but before he could take a step, a pair of powerful hands pressed on his shoulders, Jin Zhiya looked back, it turned out to be a middle-aged servant who followed him; For a while, Jin Zhiya felt a strong sense of sadness in his heart for some reason, tears involuntarily flowed out of his eyes, and he choked with sobs: "Uncle Xie, me. β
"Hmm. Xie Kun patted Zhiya's shoulder and said, "If you want to cry, cry." β
After hearing Xie Kun's comfort, Jin Zhiya finally couldn't help crying loudly, Xie Kun didn't say much when he saw this, just silently picked up the crying Jin Zhiya and turned around and walked towards his carriage.