Rebirth of the Golden Bastard

Jinzhang is in the southeast of Yilan. On the way, it passes through Qingxia City, the largest city besides the Yilan capital, which is rumored to be beautiful.

Qingxia City is the closest to the Liusha River, and it is also the most important city for the formation of troops.After crossing the Liusha River and passing through an uninhabited desert, opposite to the coast is Jinzhang Island.

The Cold Moon Palace is also near the Liusha River, so it must not be far from Qingxia City.Before entering Qingxia City, everyone will first arrive at a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, Liujia Town.

On this day, several people walked to a small village, where they rested and drank horses, and replenished some necessities by the way.When Cang Qiao dismounted, he looked around and said, "Where is this?"

"Stone Village." Xia Yunqing pointed to a rotten wooden sign in front of her, with crooked writing on it.

"How far is it from Liujia Town?" They must send Hua Que back to Liujia Town first, and they will pass by anyway, but they are just passing by.

Jiang Ji said beside him: "There is still about half a month to go."

"So far?" Cang Qiao opened his eyes wide. Although he is good at riding a horse now, he is still not used to it.After sitting on the horse for a long time, you have to get down and ride in the carriage for a while, otherwise your fart and butt will be unbearable.

Jiang Ji said: "Originally there was a small road to save some time, but I heard it was occupied by a group of bandits. We have to go around the main road and cross a river so it will take some time."

Cang Qiao asked in surprise, "Are there bandits and no one to care about them?"

Jiang Ji laughed and said, "I'm not an official, how do I know?"

Having said that, Cang Qiao turned to look at Sikong Lang.Sikong Lang was helping Hua Que memorize the salute at this moment, seeing everyone looking at him, he wondered, "What am I doing?"

Cang Qiao clapped her hands, "Oh, I almost forgot, this guy doesn't do practical things, so it's useless to ask him."

Sikong Lang twitched his brows, he didn't care at first, but he was not reconciled to what Cang Qiao said.He puffed out his chest and said carelessly: "I will go to court together every day!"

Cang Qiao nodded, "The eighth prince is talking about why there are bandits here but no one cares about them?"

Sikong Lang tried his best to search in his head but couldn't find anything related to this remote mountain village.He was looking very embarrassed, but Hua Que beside him said leisurely: "The mountain is high and the emperor is far away. If someone wants to hide it in such a small place, the emperor will not know."

Sikong Lang was relieved and looked at Hua Que gratefully.Hua Que turned away from him, and led the horse straight to the village.Sikong Lang naturally hurried to follow, Cang Qiao teased from behind, "Tsk tsk, don't let us bully you."

Jiang Ji simply put aside his relationship with him, "No one bullied him except you."

Cang Qiao glared at him sideways, but was led forward by Xia Yunqing.Gu Xiao took the things from the carriage behind and drove the horse into the village entrance. Jiang Ji turned to help him, "You idiot, don't carry everything alone. What will happen if you call for help with so many things?"

Gu looked at him absently, "It's okay, I'm used to it."

Jiang Ji frowned, always felt that Gu Xiao had been inactive since the past few days, no matter what others asked him, he would just simply pass it by, his brows were full of sorrow, not worthy of that cute little face at all!

Jiang Ji didn't know why, but felt inexplicably annoyed. He opened his mouth to speak, but he didn't know what to say, so he reached out and snatched those big and small bags.Gu Xiao felt a little lighter, but he just nodded slightly, "Thank you."

Jiang Ji: "..."

This stone village is not big, there are a few thatched houses surrounded by loess walls, and there is some open space for people to walk in the middle, but it is very narrow, and the carriage cannot enter the village, so it has to stop.There is a harmonious atmosphere in the village. The well-raised hens are not afraid of people running around, and they can hear the fierce barking of dogs from several houses away.

A child watched outsiders enter the village and shouted: "Someone is coming, someone is coming!"

Cang Qiao inexplicably felt that the shout sounded like "a wolf is coming!" He echoed and shouted: "Children! Where are your adults?"

A few brave children ran out with their noses dragging, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"We were just passing by." Cang Qiao said, "Is there an inn where we can stay?"

"Yes, yes..." A child pointed to the hillside behind the village, "There is a family up there, but it is very dilapidated."

Cang Qiao and the others thanked them, and the group walked up the mountain. The road at the end of the small village can reach halfway up the mountain. The winding road is full of potholes on the yellow land, making it very difficult to walk.

A few curious children kept following them, asking this and that.Hua Que patiently explained to them, but those children pulled his sleeves again.

"This dress looks so beautiful! It feels slippery..."

Hua Que smiled lightly and said, "It's made of silk, it's different from cloth."

The children blushed a little when they saw Hua Que's face, and Sikong Lang next to him pulled Hua Que and glared at him with some displeasure, "Hey! Do you have nothing to do? What are you doing with us?"

Sikong Lang was tall and big, and his voice was thick and deep.The children were a little frightened, and they slowed down a little but still followed behind, "No one has come to our village for a long time."

Another child said: "My lord is still doing farm work in the fields at this time, and there is no one in the village."

Hua Que was a little surprised. A village is unguarded, and all the children are kept?Can adults rest assured?

"Isn't there a bandit in front?" Hua Que said, "Isn't something going to happen?"

The children were laughing and laughing, "It doesn't matter, since that person came, bandits don't dare to come!"

Cang Qiao also leaned over curiously, "Which person?"

"He is a good-looking big brother." The children looked up at Cang Qiao, thought for a while and said, "Although he is not as good-looking as you."

Cang Qiao laughed, a little smug, "I also know I'm pretty."

A boy said unconvinced: "Thick-skinned! How dare you praise yourself!"

The other children also laughed and booed, "Cheeky! Thick-skinned!"

Cang Qiao chased the child and ran left and right on the mountain road, "What do you know, you little devils! Stop! Don't run! Let my young master's handsome face change your face to wash your brains!"

Holding the sword, Xia Yunqing watched Cang Qiao running back and forth in a good mood, with a gentle smile on her face.Jiang Ji asked him with a big bag on his back, "How do we brainwash him?"

Xia Yunqing shrugged, and Gu Xiao sneezed behind her.Jiang Ji turned around, "Have a cold?"

Gu Xiao shook his head, the gloom in his heart was washed away by the liveliness of a group of children, he also leaned forward and asked: "Who is the good-looking big brother you are talking about? Is he very powerful? He beat the bandits away?"

"Isn't that right!" said a boy, "He's so powerful, he can drive away the bad guys with just a few swishes!"

"Whoosh?" Cang Qiao said with a smile, "Could it be that he fired a rocket?"

"What is a rocket launcher?"

"That thing..." Cang Qiao raised her head and began to explain, and even stretched out her hands to make gestures. Hearing the children screaming, even Gu Xiao's eyes widened.

"There are such miraculous things in this world?" Gu Xiao asked puzzled, "Really?"

Cang Qiao said: "Anyway, there are none here."

"It must be very powerful to have such a thing!" The child said: "Boom over there, and blow out all the bad guys in Jinzhang Kingdom!"

Cang Qiao rubbed their hair, "Then they will definitely find a way to blow us away."

Children are always passionate, especially a group of boys. Hearing Cang Qiao's words, he became unconvinced, "Then let's see whose bazooka is bigger!"

Cang Qiao laughed, but didn't say much.Sikong Lang said seriously from behind: "I didn't expect Xia Cangqiao to have such an idea."

Hua Que turned to look at him, "What's wrong?"

Sikong Lang remembered the frontier wars that he would definitely discuss every time he went to court, he was silent for a while and just shook his head, "War is always a double-edged sword, and so are weapons. The more powerful the weapons, the more people will be injured. If this If there is such a terrible thing in the world as Xia Cangqiao said, probably Yilan and Jinzhang would no longer exist."

Hua Que suddenly said: "If you become the emperor, will you let the war happen?"

Sikong Lang was taken aback, "Why should I be emperor?"

Hua Que stared at the road under her feet, "If you don't want the people to be harmed, you should protect them yourself, right?"

"Then you can also be a soldier, a general." Sikong Lang said with a smile: "Compared to sitting in the back and talking about strategies, I would rather fight with my own hands."

Hua Que was taken aback for a moment, and after a while a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Really..."

"Although that brother doesn't have a bazooka." The previous conversation was still going on, and a child said: "But his kung fu is very good. Speaking of..." He looked carefully at Cang Qiao's face, rubbed his chin and said: " He looks a bit like you."

Cang Qiao was taken aback, and the other child said again: "No, no, it's not that they look alike, but they feel alike."

"No! They look alike!"

"It feels like it!"

"Looks alike!"

Seeing that the children were about to quarrel, Cang Qiao quickly stopped him, "Don't quarrel, don't quarrel, you say he looks like me, but you can't tell whether it feels like him or looks like me?"

The children clapped their hands, "Yes! That's it!"

Cang Qiao frowned, turned her head and looked at Xia Yunqing who was walking over.

"I think……"

Before Cang Qiao could finish speaking, Xia Yunqing nodded and stopped him, "It's possible."

Gu Xiao also reacted, "Could it be..."

Several people were talking, and they had already arrived at the front of the inn.Looking up, Cang Qiao's mouth twitched.Under the blue sky and white sun, surrounded by green trees, the inn is like a legendary ghost building, built in a dark place where the sun can't reach, it looks very strange.

"Because no one has been here for a long time." The children explained, "This store is also very old."

This is more than dilapidated... Cang Qiao complained, Gu Xiao had already stepped forward to knock on the door, "Is anyone there?"

After a while, there was a creak in the room, and the door was pulled open from the inside.

A man in clean white cloth and a pointed hat appeared at the door.He yawned lazily, "What's the matter, little ghosts, do you want to come here to play ghost hunting again?"

"No, Boss Shi, we have guests!"

That Boss Shi looked only twenty-eight years old, and he looked rather bookish. When he heard that there was a guest, he was stunned for a while and didn't respond. Then he noticed Cang Qiao and the others standing not far away, and his eyes stared fiercely. big.

"How many years has it been!" Boss Shi hurriedly opened the door to welcome the guests, "Please come in!"

……

Although the inn is a bit dilapidated, it is also a bit damp.But fortunately, the bed is clean and tidy, and the windows can be opened to see a large forest, which makes people feel good.

Boss Shi poured tea for everyone, and cooked some side dishes himself, "I don't know how many days you plan to stay here?"

"Going from here to Liujia Town, you have to pass through a river, right? How far is the next place where people can live?" Jiang Ji asked.

"It will be there after crossing the Quicksand River. If you leave early tomorrow morning, you should be able to arrive in the evening."

Cang Qiao said, "Little quicksand river?"

"Are the guests going to Jiangnan for the first time?" Boss Shi smiled and said, "The Liusha River outside Qingxia City has a branch on our side, so it is called Liusha Xiaohe."

Xia Yunqing asked: "Why is no one here? There should be a lot of merchants in Qingxia City."

"There used to be a lot of people coming and going on our side. The scenery here is beautiful, and many people used to come to visit the mountains and rivers. It was only later that they left the bandits' den, and gradually no one came. The merchants all came from the other side of the mountain. Going on the cableway, although it is a bit farther, at least it is safe."

Cang Qiao looked out in the direction of Boss Shi's finger. At the end of the forest everywhere, there were faintly a few mountain peaks connected together.

"So there is a road over there." Cang Qiao said clearly.

Hua Que said: "When I came from Jiangnan, I took a boat. I didn't go by land, so I don't know."

"It's faster to take a boat, and you can go down the river to Qingxia City." Boss Shi looked at Hua Que, "Is your son from Jiangnan?"

"Yeah." Hua Que said: "People from Liujia Town."

"Have you been to Qingxia City?"

"I haven't been there yet."

It seems that Boss Shi is very talkative, and chatting with Hua Que immediately started.Cang Qiao was a little tired, yawned and got up to rest for a while, Xia Yunqing followed him up.

"I'll accompany you."

Cang Qiao was noncommittal, and the two went up to the room on the second floor together.After entering the room, Cang Qiao's exhausted expression disappeared. He opened the window and sat down on the wooden chair under the window, "The people the group of children are talking about are Fang Xing, right?"

Xia Yunqing also became serious, "It sounds like the description."

"I said why did he disappear, but he ran here." Cang Qiao wondered, "What is he doing?"

Xia Yunqing shook her head, "It's hard to guarantee that he didn't mean to wait for us at the front first, so we have to be careful during this journey."

Cang Qiao nodded, sat sideways in the chair, stepped on the edge of the chair with one knee bent, with her elbows on her knees and her palms dragging her chin.He looked out of the window, but his eyes were not focused, and he just said in a daze: "I don't understand what role Fang Xing plays in the Cold Moon Palace. He doesn't seem to care about the Cold Moon Palace. It doesn't seem like he is helping, no It's not like helping."

Xia Yunqing also shook her head, "Even if you don't understand, we don't understand."

Cang Qiao laughed, the wind in the forest pulled the black hair around his ears with moisture.He suddenly said, "I don't know who that Mr. Seven is?"

"I would like to know more about where I saw the ring in Shenyang's painting."

Cang Qiao groaned, but said something irrelevant: "I don't know if the results of the scientific examination have been released."