old grace

It took Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan a day to find the way to Qin Ting's royal capital from the wasteland.

Xie Qinghe reminded that it was time to dismiss the accompanying wolves.Fu Chuan was quite reluctant.

In just one day, he had already named the head wolf and several strong and young male wolves, and by relying on the head wolf and the elite of the wolf pack, he directed the pack of wolves around—the joy of animal taming and leading human beings It's completely different, Fu Chuan is always keen on novel ways of playing.

"If a wolf is kept at home, it becomes a dog." Xie Qinghe patted his head.

Dogs were originally wolves domesticated by human ancestors.Xie Qinghe broke Fu Chuan's longing for wolves with one sentence.

Thinking of the loyal big black dog at home, Fu Chuan blew a whistle to bid farewell to the wolves.

The alpha wolf was also somewhat reluctant to part with Fu Chuan, and the other strong male wolves had long wanted to run away. Under the clamor of the crowd, the alpha wolf could only reluctantly look back three times at a step, and take a look at Fu Chuan at two steps. Lead the pack back - they are going back to their territory.

"Qiao Mao likes me very much." Fu Chuan followed Xie Qinghe and walked north along Chidao, "If it didn't have eight wives, three brothers, and twelve horse boys, it might take the initiative to go with me."

"We can't bring a wolf with us when we go to the king. It's easy to besieged and die if we put a wolf in the wild. So I can't discuss with it, let it go with me."

"Eldest brother, we came back from the capital, can we go around here to look for Qiaomao?"

"Maybe it really wants to come with me."

"If it really can't live without its eight wives, three brothers and twelve ponies, can we raise them together?"

……

Xie Qinghe listened with a smile, occasionally agreed, and rarely refuted the younger brother's thoughts.

As we walked, dark clouds approached ahead.

"It's raining ahead, and it's getting late, so let's cook and rest nearby," Xie Qinghe said.

"Okay." Fu Chuan looked around to find a place to camp.Since he learned the cloud-climbing technique, he has mastered the true energy barrier without a teacher, and it is much easier to find a campsite, as long as it is close to the water source, and he does not insist on shelter from the wind and rain.Anyway, wind and rain can't penetrate the true essence barrier.

Usually looking for water sources relies on Xie Qinghe to judge based on the mountain and soil, but now Fu Chuan flies directly into the sky to see farther.

"You can't leave Chidao." Xie Qinghe stopped Fu Chuan who was about to go to heaven.

Fu Chuancai suddenly realized that they came here to block Mrs. Jiang.Although according to Xie Qinghe's speculation, Mrs. Jiang will not pass through this place until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow at the earliest, isn't this just because she is afraid of missing it?

"That's okay, I'll go farther to find the water source, and use a water bag or other methods to bring the water back to the elder brother." Fu said.

"There is still water in the water bag, just save it." Xie Qinghe didn't want to make a fuss.

Fu Chuan didn't say a word, he found a relatively flat place near Chidao, cut grass, picked up firewood and started a bonfire.

Xie Qinghe fed all the dried meat in the bag to the wolves. Fu Chuan picked up the cloth bag containing rice noodles, thought about the dry powder, and then put it down silently: "Brother, I'm going to get some wild animals to eat. Today What do you want to eat?"

When Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan camped, they would light a fire to keep warm and cook.

If the bonfire is left unattended, once it burns, with the help of the wind, it is almost impossible to fight against human power.

The two of them grew up in the cold mountains since they were young. They believed in immortality and life, and they were told to live carefully in the mountains since they were young.Even if this place has been in war for years and there is no one in the wilderness, it is not good if the wild animals are burned to death in the wilderness, so one person must be left to watch the fire.

Since Fu Chuan had a cultivation base, it was difficult for Xie Qinghe to keep up with him, so it was naturally Xie Qinghe who stayed behind to guard the bonfire.

"Let's be whatever you come across. It's hard work, Junior Brother." Xie Qinghe said.

"It's not hard."

Seeing that Fu Chuanfei dived into the weeds and quickly disappeared, Xie Qinghe's eyes fell on the rice noodle bag.

Fortunately... the younger brother doesn't like fried rice noodles.

Xie Qinghe now only hopes that Mrs. Jiang's carriage will arrive sooner.Once meeting Mrs. Jiang, there are many people and luggage, so it will be much more convenient to hide things.Now it is a little risky to hide the tip in the rice flour cloth bag and let the junior brother carry it on his body every day.

Not long after, Fu Chuan came back dragging a fat boar, Xie Qinghe was a little speechless: "So big?"

"Elder brother, didn't you say that whatever you encounter is what you see? I found a few snakes first when I went out. The snakes are covered with bones. If we have water and a pot of stew, we can eat them. Roast snakes can be eaten until midnight. I Just keep looking, well, I found it."

Fu Chuan dragged the wild boar to the bonfire, and Xie Qinghe discovered that the pig had been disemboweled and cleaned, and only the skin hadn't been peeled off.

"Looking at me as a dwarf, it still wants to hug me." Fu Chuan quickly cut off branches and skewered meat, "I just caught it and ate it. Senior brother, look at its teeth! They are quite thick."

What Xie Qinghe thought was that the wild boar was too big, he and Fu Chuan couldn't finish it, there was no need to kill such a big beast.

Hearing that the wild boar wanted to attack Fu Chuan, Xie Qinghe really wanted to taste the meat of this stupid pig, and cut branches to skewer with Fu Chuan.Fu Chuan handed the only dagger they carried to Xie Qinghe and said, "Brother, don't get your hands dirty. You come to cut the branches, and I will skewer the meat."

"Don't you need a dagger for skewered meat?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Fu Chuan triumphantly called out a sword energy from the Purple Mansion, and slashed into the wild boar's chest, the meat was cut into flowers.

Xie Qinghe: "..."

Fu Chuan always likes to show off his sword energy in front of him, Xie Qinghe's mood is very complicated.

After the two ate the barbecue, Fu Chuan lifted the remaining wild boar to the water source, and when he came back, he carefully held a large piece of ice and placed it far away from the campfire: "Brother, I just ran away One trip. Such a big piece of ice can be used until tomorrow morning."

Xie Qinghe was dumbfounded by his whimsical ideas, and was a little moved when he saw his junior brother Kang Kuang chiseling stones with sword energy to prepare cooking water.

He said that everything is kept simple and the water in the water bladder is saved because he knows that the water source is far away.It would take too much effort for Fu Chuan to run three or five times to fetch water by chiseling stones or water bags.Fu Chuan also knew what he was worried about, so he froze the water into ice and brought it back at once.

After Fu Chuan dug the stone pot, he immediately put it on the campfire, turned around, knocked off a piece of ice and threw it in.

"However, I think the water here is not very clean, and I'm afraid it won't taste good when you make tea." Fu Chuan went to find the tea in the small bag, and sighed, "I still don't have enough. I'm going to finish drinking it, and I can't drink it anywhere else." Can't buy it."

Xie Qinghe's heart moved, and he couldn't help but hug him in his arms, quietly next to him.

At this time, Fu Chuan didn't like to chatter badly, so he let him hold him obediently. The two of them didn't think about anything, just stared at the bonfire in a daze.

"When will you learn the spell of dripping water into ice?" Xie Qinghe asked suddenly.

"Just now." Fu Chuan was also a little proud when asked about this matter, "Eldest brother doesn't want me to go a few more times. Although I think the elder brother is too polite, isn't it my duty to serve the elder brother in daily life and bathe? But, elder brother I don’t want to work hard, but I have to know what’s good or bad. Anyway, I’m going to throw the remaining wild boars by the river, wash my hands by the way, and just think about how I can bring back a little more water — enough for one time.”

"Just like Dengyunshu and the Zhenyuan Screen I just figured out, turning water into ice, I also thought about Dengyunshu's analogy, but I also feel very strange... I seem to know what water and ice look like , I can’t say it out, anyway, water is like this, ice is like this, if you touch it, it will turn the water into ice... Senior brother, let me write a secret word for you to read?” Fu Chuan strongly wanted to share his insight.

Xie Qinghe has mastered the art of yin and yang of the five elements very early, and does not need a junior to teach him.

However, he didn't say that he understood everything, but instead smiled expectantly and said, "Teach me in the future. Now that I'm reading a coded word, I'm going to lose my energy." As he spoke, he rested his chin on Fu Chuan's shoulder, " You wrote me a letter last time, do you know how many days I have been reading it?"

Fu Chuan said embarrassingly: "I always forget. It took me several days to recall the letter after I sent it, and I couldn't write another letter to regret it."

Xie Qinghe took the ciphered love letter of his younger brother and read it with relish for many days. If it was not interrupted by the news of Chen Qi's defeat, this should be the funniest and sweetest part of his experience with Fu Chuan.Hearing the younger brother say he regretted it now, Xie Qinghe couldn't help smiling.

——In the mind of my junior brother, he is always omnipotent and invincible.

Xie Qinghe is not a vain person, from the unspoken words of his beloved junior brother, he heard this implicit reliance and admiration, and he couldn't help being secretly proud.However, the reality is that the junior brother made a mistake, he was indeed exhausted by the cipher text love letter, and it's a bit ridiculous to think about it.

Fu Chuan sighed.

"What's wrong?" Xie Qinghe touched his ear, "Why are you unhappy?"

"The days go by too slowly." Fu Chuan sat in Xie Qinghe's arms, with undigested wild pork in his stomach, warm and lazy, unable to lift himself up, thinking something wrong, "Nor Know when you can grow up... If it is the same as the world of that memory, it will be fine if you can drag it to ten years... 20 years will be fine."

Xie Qinghe knew what he was thinking, but there was nothing he could do about it, so he could only pinch his face: "Go to sleep."

"I'm thinking, how did the elder brother live those decades?" Fu Chuan suddenly mentioned the life he never participated in.

The two had a bad fight over this matter, Fu Chuan relentlessly quarreled with Xie Qinghe for a long time, Xie Qinghe didn't know why he was angry, but suddenly the story was brought up again, Xie Qinghe, who had always been calm, felt a little flustered.

For Xie Qinghe, the half afternoon when he was having trouble with his junior brother was really irritating and painful.

Fortunately, Fu Chuan didn't intend to turn over the old score. He nestled lazily in his arms, and even took his arm and rubbed his face against it: "I'm going to suffocate to death for the past six years... Eldest brother is possessed." When Jiang Yingzhou was in his prime, he didn't miss me at all?"

"Jiang Yingzhou is also a non-cultivator. Senior brother can't refine Qi, what should I do after so many years?"

"Would it be too much to be direct...hehehe..."

It has been nearly a hundred years before and after Fu Chuan, and it's not that he doesn't talk dirty to Xie Qinghe at ordinary times, especially when the two of them left this world to become a demon together, they got rid of the teachings of their masters, their identities and living environments are completely different from those in this world, Fu Chuan It is heartless to joke with Xie Qinghe.

But now, Fu Chuan doesn't have the self-consciousness of a brat, Xie Qinghe couldn't stand seeing his short figure and baby fat face.

This feels so weird.

Xie Qinghe turned around silently.

Fu Chuan sat in his arms, made uncomfortable by his turning around, and asked, "What are you doing, senior brother?"

As soon as the words were finished, a small bronze mirror that was polished and polished appeared in front of him, against the red light of the bonfire, his pink face was reflected.

Fu Chuan opened his mouth.

"You say again?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Fu Chuan sighed, bowed his head and admitted defeat: "The water is boiling, I will make tea for senior brother."

Xie Qinghe refused to let him go, hugged him with one hand, and held up the bronze mirror with the other, aiming at Fu Chuan's childish face: "Tell me again what you said about molesting senior brother just now."

Relying on Xie Qinghe's back, Fu Chuan couldn't see the senior brother's appearance clearly anyway, so he dared to feel lustful and talk nasty words.

Now looking at himself in the bronze mirror who has not lost the baby fat, those nasty words are really hard to say: "I don't." Before Xie Qinghe could speak, he covered his face with his hand and said pitifully, "Shame, senior brother , please forgive me."

Seeing that his cheeks were slightly red, Xie Qinghe was really shy, so he put the bronze mirror back on the ground, bowed his head and kissed him.

Fu Chuan hurriedly got up to make tea, Xie Qinghe looked at the profile of the junior brother in front of the bonfire, who was honest and not acting like a monster, and was also very confused, wondering how the junior brother cultivated his flirtatious temperament... He was clearly very serious in front of others.It's so naughty behind people's backs.

If it weren't for being trapped in such a weak skin, it would be... kind of cute.Xie Qinghe couldn't help but think of the real appearance of his junior brother.

The two drank tea, washed, made the bed and rested as before.Fu Chuan was just yelling, the two little kids looked at each other childishly, it was hard for them to have any thoughts, they slept together with their arms around each other at night, and their breathing was extremely pure.

After sleeping until midnight, he was suddenly woken up by raindrops. Fu Chuan immediately opened his eyes and pulled up a real energy barrier.

Xie Qinghe has also woken up: "Is it raining?"

"That big dark cloud is coming." Fu Chuan looked up at Xingyue who had long since disappeared. It was rare for him to use his cultivation base to present treasures in front of senior senior, and he said in a proud tone, "Master, go on to sleep, my true love." Yuanping can last forever."

Xie Qinghe pulled him to lie down, watched the raindrops hit the invisible and colorless true energy barrier, and said, "You won't be able to sleep."

"I'm not tired either." Fu Chuan leaned against his ear, "I watched Senior Brother sleep."

"Then aren't you boring and pitiful?" Xie Qinghe stroked his ears as if stroking some kind of cute little animal, "We have to stay on the side of the road now and can't take shelter from the rain, and we don't know about this rain. How long will it be... Senior brother will talk with you."

"It's not yet the time of the day, and the senior brother hasn't slept for a long time. These days, the senior brother is walking on the ridge and sleeping in the wilderness. The senior brother doesn't rest well, and he must have enough sleep. I can close my eyes and adjust my breathing for a while to refresh my energy , why does senior brother always have to be so polite to me?" Fu Chuan asked.

Xie Qinghe reached out his hand helplessly to touch his side, and then took out the small bronze mirror, facing Fu Chuan's face.

Fu Chuan was dumb.

"If you are ten years older, I will not be polite to you. I will ask you to stand at the door and watch when I sleep." Xie Qinghe said.

Fu Chuan blinked, pressed the bronze mirror on the fur skin, and said in a low voice: "If I am ten years older, why would senior brother sleep by himself?" Without waiting for Xie Qinghe to treat him, he picked up the bronze mirror by himself , pointing at his own face, "Mrs. Jiang must have hired a wife for the eldest brother. I don't know what kind of sister will accompany the eldest brother?"

Xie Qinghe was so amused by him that he couldn't laugh or cry, and said: "We must consider the family members with the same surname, and cousins ​​are the best."

Fu Chuan couldn't hold back any longer, he lay in Xie Qinghe's arms and laughed for a long time, lying on Xie Qinghe's stomach, looking at the raindrops all over the sky hitting the real essence barrier, thinking longingly, asking : "Then are we really going to get married?"

Xie Qinghe didn't think about this question, but he didn't care too much: "Young brother, if you want to get married, you can get married."

"Eldest brother, don't you want?" Fu Chuan's ears pricked up, "Master will come, he agrees that I and elder brother will be married. After he takes Chen Qi's skin, he will be the emperor of the world and also the father of elder brother. He said they can get married, and the two men can get married."

Fu Chuan's attitude was already so obvious, Xie Qinghe stroked his soft hair lying behind his ear: "I think so. The elder brother also wants to marry the younger brother. When the time comes, we will...bring Sanlang to be the crown prince."

"That won't work. What if he is stupid?" Fu Chuan was already thinking about the next thing, "The age is not suitable. We want younger children, raise a few more, choose the ones, and they can't grow up. It's crooked... I still want my mother's child, that's my younger brother."

Xie Qinghe thought to himself, judging from the current friendship between Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Jiang, I am afraid that it is impossible for you to have a younger brother.

"It's still early." Xie Qinghe wanted to laugh a little, the world hadn't been defeated, and they were already thinking about the third generation of princes.

Fu Chuan also sighed: "That's right, I don't know when the master will come. I hope time passes more slowly now."

This is the most pitiful thing for apprentices.If Xie Qinghe became an adult and Shangguan Shiyi hadn't taken over Chen Qi's skin, Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan would probably have to pack up their money and run away from home - they couldn't really listen to the arrangement to marry a famous lady and raise a whole house of concubines Bar?

Xie Qinghe comforted Fu Chuan: "It's still early."

It rained all night.

Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan lay in the real essence barrier, chattering away until the sky was bright, and the rain was still pattering.

"It's not too rainy, but it's just continuous. It's too annoying." Fu Chuan was a little hungry, but what annoyed him even more was that under such circumstances, the elder brother had to wait for the road between being drenched in the rain and starving. Make a choice, "I didn't drag the rest of the wild boar yesterday and throw it away."

"Keeping blood food is easy to attract wild animals to attack." Xie Qinghe looked at the sky, "Wait a little longer, it seems that it will stop soon."

"Brother, are you hungry? Would you like some rice noodles?" Fu Chuan turned his head and wanted to dig through the rice noodle bag.

Xie Qinghe began to think about how to stop him.

Fu Chuan picked up the rice noodle cloth bag, turned it over with his left hand and right hand, sighed deeply, and threw it back again: "Forget it, forget it, it doesn't taste good like that. The ice cubes I got back yesterday also melted." It's..."

Xie Qinghe remained calm: "Well, wait a little longer."

It was already dawn at this time, Fu Chuan lowered his head and looked curiously at the yellow mud on the ground that was wet by the rain and flowing along the ravine beyond the real essence barrier.

Relying on the barrier of real energy, the mud could not stain and wet his body, and his face almost stuck to the mud floor.The rain turned out the earthworm hidden in the soil. Fu Chuan had a whim, and used a taming book to domesticate the tumbling earthworm. The earthworm stretched in the rain easily responded to his thoughts, and Fu Chuan was pleasantly surprised Said: "Earthworms can also be tamed!"

Xie Qinghe smiled and said nothing.

Fu Chuan immediately reacted: "It doesn't seem to be useful..." Training earthworms to dig the soil and loosen the mud?

The two of them were talking, when a few horse-drawn carriages approached in the distance in the rain, Fu Chuan immediately sat up from the ground, turned around and asked, "Is it Aunt and the others? Did they see us like this?"

Lying on the side of the road in the rainy night, the two of them were dry and clean, which can scare the jaws of normal people.

"Not that direction." Xie Qinghe said.

Fu Chuan had been looking forward to the appearance of Mrs. Jiang's carriage, and subconsciously believed that the carriage that appeared was Mrs. Jiang. After being reminded, he realized that the direction was wrong—it was not the direction to the Qin Ting King's Capital, but the direction from the Qin Ting King's Capital. .

"How about we avoid it?" Fu Chuan didn't really want to get the senior brother wet, and he didn't want to cause trouble.

Xie Qinghe nodded.

The two immediately packed up the things on the ground, and Fu Chuan took Xie Qinghe's hand. They were young and short, so they could easily hide in the grass.

A heavy rain made the grass-covered road even more difficult to identify. Several carriages coming out of the distance were not moving fast, and they did not follow the ruts completely—it was really difficult to recognize the road.In recent years, the Qin court has also been unable to strengthen and repair Chidao, and the possibility of falling into a pit while walking on Chidao is no less likely than on wasteland.

Several carriages slowly passed by from a distance, Xie Qinghe whispered: "I'm afraid it's not good."

"What's wrong?" Fu Chuan didn't see anything wrong, "The cars are very light, and they should be seated by nobles. If it's an assassin sent by the capital, he can just ride a horse, why use a car?"

"The car is too light. There are only people in the first car, and the two cars behind are empty." Xie Qinghe said.

"Without a suitcase cage, there are still two empty cars... This is to pick up people? That has nothing to do with our plan." Fu said.

"Now Shuzhou, Qingzhou, Dongzhou, Xianzhou, and Enzhou are all in the hands of the Chen family, and the king's capital is the enemy of the whole world in the east. Even if there are aristocratic family in-laws who can buy favors and communicate freely, they are all familiar with each other." Xie Qinghe explained. .

Fu Chuan immediately understood: "Eldest brother is worried that at this juncture, the 'guests' brought back by this family don't even know the mother and the others who are also looking for ways to go to the capital."

Xie Qinghe nodded: "My mother borrowed the identity of the widow of the Dongzhou concubine's family on the surface."

"Father should make arrangements properly, right?" Fu Chuan was quite confident in Chen Qi.

Xie Qinghe remained silent.

"The rain seems to have stopped." Fu Chuan stretched out a hand, feeling the damp air in the air, "It really stopped."

Xie Qinghe had heard the sound of Fu Chuan's stomach growling a long time ago, took the small bundle that Fu Chuan was carrying, and said, "Go and find something to eat, I will guard the road in the dark."

"What if it rains later?" Fu Chuan was worried.

"It's just getting wet. Your cultivation is not weak now, just open the Zhenyuan screen a little bit, light the bonfire and roast your clothes."

"Then I'll go and come back quickly."

Fu Chuan couldn't bear the hunger, so he flew away through the mud without even splashing a little water.

Fortunately, the weather became clearer and clearer, and Xie Qinghe even saw two rainbows in the sky.The heat was gradually transpiring, and it was not very comfortable to stay in the grass full of moisture. Xie Qinghe returned to the campsite where the grass had been cut and was relatively flat. The place was so wet that he couldn't sit down, so he simply punched a set to stretch his muscles.

After finishing the exercises, before Fu Chuan came back, Xie Qinghe stood in place with his eyes slightly closed, meditating and resting his mind.

Although Chen Cong's body is unable to cultivate, doing static exercises can strengthen his body, prolong his life, and keep his mood happy.Xie Qinghe was rarely bored in his life, it was all because practice made people happy.

I don't know how long it took after entering meditation, Xie Qinghe felt the scorching sun on the top, so he opened his eyes.

A person like him who knows how to practice too much, put on the skin of not practicing, and refuses to practice at Meridian.An unrefined skin can't stand this pure yang energy at all.Xie Qinghe couldn't feel the passage of time while practicing, Xie Qinghe was surprised that Fu Chuan hadn't come back yet.

Zhengxin was tempted to take the risk to find Fu Chuan, and Fu Chuan's figure appeared in the distance, running very fast.

"What's wrong?" Xie Qinghe caught Fu Chuan flying from the weeds, "No one chased you."

"Eldest brother, you can't even think of it..." Fu Chuan shook his head and said, "We are going to enter the capital by ourselves."

Xie Qinghe was puzzled.

"The nearest water source here is thirty miles away. I just shot two hyenas. I was going to go to the river to dissect them and clean them up. Then I brought back the meat. I found... there are many dead bodies tied to stones in the river. There are traces of camping. Forget it, let me just say it, I think yesterday after I threw the wild boars, my mother and the others slept by the river, and today they killed some people, tied them to stones and sank into the river .” Fu legend.

"How do you know they killed someone?" Xie Qinghe didn't doubt Mrs. Jiang's cruelty.

"Because I saw her get on the carriage that passed us in the morning. Cui Shi, a widow who claims to have a dead father, mother and husband, is going to the capital to meet her brother-in-law, Prime Minister Han. Didn't the eldest brother say that her identity should be Dong?" Is it the widow of the Zhou concubine's family? The concubine's family and the Cui family do not intermarry!" Fu said.

Xie Qinghe didn't figure out what was going on, but under the current situation, he definitely couldn't rashly recognize Mrs. Jiang.

"Is mother safe now?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Fu Chuan nodded: "The servants sent by the Prime Minister's Mansion to pick up Mrs. Jiang and Aunt are very respectful, and Mrs. Fu also exchanged greetings with each other fluently. Besides, the spies sent by her father are all by her side, and her uncle is also guarding her."

"We'll talk about it once we're in the city." Xie Qinghe was used to planning an abortion.

No matter how well planned in advance, there will always be various accidents in execution, and we can only adapt to the situation.

"Shall we go by ourselves? Do we want to follow the mother's car?" Fu Chuan asked.

"There is no need to follow. There are no experts in the carriage team that passed us in the morning, and Chang Jiuyang can handle it alone. The real danger is within the capital." Xie Qinghe looked at Fu Chuan, "Did you come back with nothing to eat? "

Fu Chuan said angrily: "The river is full of corpses! How can the water be used! Moreover, it rained all night, and the water is muddy!"

Xie Qinghe comforted him: "Then let's hurry up and go to Wangdu Restaurant to have a good meal."