worthless [rebirth]

After walking for a day, he finally left the imperial city and entered a deep mountain.

The trails in the mountains are no more lively than the town, and there is often not a single pedestrian in sight for several miles.

Knowing that he was going to travel on a mountain road, Qin Shan had already prepared sufficient dry food and drinking water in the carriage.In the evening, entering a canyon, the speed of the carriage slowed down, and finally stopped.

Although Chen Ling closed his eyes, he did not fall asleep.Feeling the carriage stop, he opened his eyes and sat up.

"Why did you stop? What happened?" Chen Ling asked. He heard the sound of horseshoes outside, and there was more than one horse. There were at least twenty people on the other side.

Qin Shan glanced at him, but didn't speak.Looking at the gap under the soft couch where Chen Ling was sleeping, Qin Shan said calmly: "Come out, Lord Huai. Your people are here to pick you up."

Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, before he realized who Qin Shan was talking to, he saw a person coming out from under his soft couch.

With a thin figure and gray hair, although he is no longer young, he is already energetic, and there is a bit of the heroism of the Jiang family between his eyebrows.But unlike Jiang Chi's handsomeness and Jiang Chao's softness, this person's appearance is not so much soft as Yin.

Even though he didn't meet much in the previous life, and even more so in this life, Chen Ling quickly recognized the other party's identity.

Huainan King, Jiang Sheng!

"You...it's you?!" Jiang Sheng appeared in the carriage on his return home. This incident can no longer be described as "shocked", it is simply unimaginable!

After shrinking in the small space for a day, Jiang Sheng also looked uncomfortable.Stretching his old arms and legs, and tidying up his clothes and some messy hair, he said to Chen Ling: "His Royal Highness, you are safe and sound. This time, thank you for being a little older."

"How did you..." Chen Ling wanted to ask why you appeared here, isn't Jiang Chi trying his best to search for your whereabouts?

But after thinking about it, Chen Ling soon understood.

Jiang Sheng was trapped in the imperial capital. If he wanted to leave the city, he had to go through strict inspections by the city gate guards.However, Chen Ling's carriage going out of the city had Jiang Chi's acquiesce, and it went straight through without going through inspection.

As long as Jiang Sheng hides in his carriage, he can avoid being searched and leave the city smoothly.

Chen Ling looked at Qin Shan, and his voice sank: "Qin Shan, did you let him hide in when you were preparing the car?"

"Your Highness, since Jiang Chi is unkind, we can't blame us for being unrighteous!" Qin Shan said, "Don't forget how he treated you and us when he left the country!"

forget?How could he forget!

The hatred of destroying the country and the family, the hatred of three years of imprisonment.

If he could do it, he wished he could beat Jiang Chi to ashes!

Since I am worthless in your heart, why should I cherish you?

But he tried, no matter how much he hated him, he still couldn't do it.

Chen Ling knew that he was too cowardly. He had always been cowardly in front of Jiang Chi.

Chen Ling knew how much Jiang Sheng threatened Jiang Chi.

In order to get rid of Jiang Sheng, Jiang Chi prepared intensively for several years, and even went to Chaozhou at the risk of his own life. In the end, he ran away with him by accident.

Chen Ling had no intention of letting Jiang Sheng go, but now that the other party had indeed escaped from the imperial capital because of himself, and his troops were outside, Chen Ling couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Perhaps, it is God's will.

"How long will King Huainan stay in my car?" Chen Ling didn't like Jiang Sheng at all, glanced at Jiang Sheng lightly, and said coldly: "Since someone is coming to pick you up, why don't you get off the car?"

Jiang Sheng tugged off his cuffs, and smiled eccentrically, "Why is Your Highness so indifferent all of a sudden, isn't our cooperation very pleasant?"

"I didn't know about taking you out of the imperial city this time, so where does the word cooperation come from?" Chen Ling asked.

Jiang Sheng didn't answer, but just bowed his hands to Qin Shan, and said with a smile: "Thank you General Qin, we will have a long life in the future, haha, we will have a long life in the future." He opened the car curtain and jumped down, "Both of you, just leave now, haha !"

Chen Ling glanced out through the gap in the curtains, and the other party was indeed prepared to pick him up here in advance. 30 people, riding tall horses, with a knife hanging from their waists, came menacingly.

If Chen Ling raised an objection just now, he must have been chopped up by those people by now.

The other party didn't know who it was or where he was taking Jiang Sheng, but it didn't seem like they were trying to embarrass Chen Ling and the others.

After Jiang Sheng sat on one of the horses, he looked back at Chen Ling.There is a faint smile on the corner of the lips, which is particularly intriguing.

As if someone had seen through, Chen Ling suddenly felt guilty.This guilty conscience came inexplicably, but it made him faintly uneasy.

Seeing that Chen Ling's expression was not good, Qin Shan said, "Xiao Ling, are you angry that I took Jiang Sheng away without your permission?"

"This is the end of the matter, I don't want to say anything." Chen Ling said calmly, looking at the sky, "Let's go, it's best to go out before dark."

***

Concerned about Chen Ling's body, Qin Shan didn't dare to walk too fast. Whenever he went to hotels and inns, he would stop and rest.In this way, they hurried on their way slowly, and when they arrived at the capital of Liguo, "Worry-free City", the New Year had already passed, and it was just in time for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Although it’s not yet night, there are already lanterns arranged, and hawkers have prepared masks, lanterns and other unique small items. When it gets dark, there will be more people on the street, and it will be easy to sell when there is a festive atmosphere.There are 360 ​​and five days in a year, and lanterns are bought well on the day of the Lantern Festival, which can make a small profit.

The location of Liguo is much southerly than that of Jiangguo, and the winter is also very warm, as long as a thin jacket is enough to keep out the cold.

On the way, Chen Ling had already changed out of the heavy cotton padded clothes he wore in Jiang Country, and now he was very light.

Qin Shan wanted to drive the carriage all the way to the palace, but when he heard the bustling sounds in the city on the street, Chen Ling asked him to stop the car.

"I want to go down for a walk," Chen Ling said.

Ever since meeting Jiang Sheng, Chen Ling has always regarded himself as "My Palace".Qin Shan knew that Chen Ling would only act like a prince to him when he was angry, and usually called him "Brother Qin".

"Xiao Ling." Qin Shan was a little worried about Chen Ling's body, but Chen Ling had already got out of the car, so he had no choice but to follow.

Lotus lanterns, hexagonal palace lanterns, lanterns of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, pumpkin lanterns... sugar figurines, sugar paintings, melon seed cakes, sesame candies... ghost masks with green faces and long fangs, monkey masks full of joy, silver butterfly masks, golden foxes mask…

All are memories of the past.

Familiar streets, familiar buildings, familiar accents.Really, nothing has changed.

The only thing that has changed is himself.

Standing among the crowd coming and going, Chen Ling looked at everything that was strange and familiar before him. He raised his head and looked directly at the bright sunshine at noon.

The light was a little harsh, but warm.

"I'm back." Chen Ling said softly, with a hint of firmness in his calm voice.

"Come on, come catch me~"

"Monster, where are you running! Hey, give me a stick from my old grandson!"

I don't know whose family's naughty children, one ran in front and the other chased after.

The one who is running has the mask of the Green Bull Spirit on his face; the one who is chasing has the mask of Monkey King on his face.

During the chasing and fighting, the child who was running in front accidentally bumped into Chen Ling.

"Yeah!" Chen Ling took a step back.And the child was directly hit by the force of the recoil and fell to the ground, and the mask fell to the ground, revealing a chubby pink face.

If you take away his wrinkled and crying facial features, he is really a cute child.

"Wow—" the child burst into tears.

"Whose child?" Qin Shan frowned, "Xiao Ling, I didn't hurt you, did I?"

"No." Chen Ling said indifferently, walked over and leaned over to help the child up from the ground, patted the dirt for him, and said, "Does it hurt?"

"No... woo... no." The child was sobbing.

Chen Ling said, his voice softened a bit: "Then why are you crying so hard?"

The child's companion pointed to the cracked Qingniujing mask on the ground, and said: "His mask is broken. He bought it with two years of lucky money. Without a mask, you can't play Monkey King vs. Qingniujing." Game on."

Chen Ling looked at the mask on the ground, took the child's hand, and said, "Don't cry, brother will buy you another one that is exactly the same, okay?"

"Really...really?" The child looked at Chen Ling suspiciously, and he didn't smile until Chen Ling led him to a mask stand and took a mask of Green Bull Essence.

"I don't want the Green Ox Essence anymore." The child shook his head, "I want... the Bone Essence! Sun Wukong beats the Bone Essence three times!"

"Ah hello!" His companion curled his lips and said, "Hu Xiaole, you are so mean in your heart that you want me to beat you?"

Hu Xiaole looked back at the person who was full of disgust for him, his brows frowned, his eyelids drooped, and tears of grievance came out again.

"Crybaby!" The child gave Hu Xiaole a disgusted look, walked over and pulled Hu Xiaole's hand out of Chen Ling's palm, and held it tightly.He took the "Bone Essence" mask from the small stall and put it on Hu Xiaole's face, saying: "Is that all right?" Then he said to Chen Ling: "Pay." After speaking, he dragged Hu Xiaole away.

"Thank you... um... thank you, um..." Hu Xiaole thanked Chen Ling while turning her head three times at a time. Although she stopped crying, she still twitched aggrievedly.

"My lord, five cents." The stall owner said, reminding Chen Ling to pay.

Chen Ling was not in a hurry to pay, his eyes fell on another golden mask on the stall.

It was a mask made of pure gold. Although it was a mask, it only covered half of the face and could only cover the eyes and nose.

The entire mask is designed in the shape of a "fox", with raised eye corners and a straight nose bridge. Except for some foxtail-shaped patterns carved on the edges, the rest of the mask is smooth, exuding a coquettish light under the sunlight.

"Young master, you really have a good eye. This mask is the most expensive in my stall. It's made of pure gold! Look at the workmanship, this shape, this..."

"General Qin." Chu Ling said.

Qin Shan took out a bank note and handed it to the stall owner, "Is that enough?"

"Enough, hey, enough."

Picking up the mask, Chen Ling slowly put it on his face.Until the coquettish light of the mask merged with the cold look in his eyes.

Since then, no one can see through his mind, including himself.

Chen Ling turned around, boarded the carriage, and said calmly, "Go back to the palace."

The author has something to say: PS:

Jiang Xiaochi: Daughter-in-law, why did you let the "King of Bad Guys" go, I hate you!

Chu Lingling: He came here by himself, I feel helpless too!

Jiang Xiaochi: I want to follow you too, do you want to wow?

Chu Lingling: No!

Jiang Xiaochi: Wow—cry out.

Chu Lingling: Hurry up and die for this prince!

Jiang Xiaochi: Hey, let me just say, you won't want me.Kiss me~ The newly bought mask is very beautiful, but wearing it is a bit in the way, I can't kiss the cheek, how about a kiss?

Chu Lingling: Uh...uh...

[Guess who is the last boss, buy it and leave!The deadline for the next chapter is before the update, and each person who guesses correctly gets a spicy stick, hahaha! 】