It was getting dark and there was some noise in the market.
In the alchemy room, Niaoniao squatted on the small bench next to the stove, squinting his eyes to warm up to the fire. Occasionally he felt that the flames were dim, and he would fan himself with his wings.
In the room opposite, the slight movement that lasted until midnight had already quieted down.
In the curtain room, Fan Qinghe was lying on the outside, with the quilt covering his chin, only revealing his long eyelashes and high nose. After hearing the slight noise in the market, he frowned, and then slowly opened his eyes.
I drank some wine yesterday and inevitably had a headache when I woke up in the morning. Fan Qinghe looked around the room and wanted to raise his hands to soften his brows, but suddenly realized that something was not right!
My back was warm, as if I was leaning on a man's arms...
Fan Qinghe's expression froze slightly, and his mind quickly came to his senses. He slightly lifted the quilt to check, and it was seen that she was huddled between the man's arms, and his big hand passed under the neck, and fell just in front of him. He covered her conscience and shook it.
Full of...
!
Fan Qinghe's pupils shrank, and he didn't dare to move for the first time. He quickly recalled his experience last night:
The Queen had a sudden idea and pestered her to teach her, but the Queen was very stupid and always made mistakes, so she had to teach her instead. Because she drank too much at the wine party, she got a little dizzy later. While watching the Queen practice,
My eyelids trembled and I fell asleep leaning against me...
How could I fall asleep?!
Fan Qinghe felt that he was so arrogant that he could fall asleep while doing such a thing. If he didn't leave after teaching, he would have to stay the night.
Fan Qinghe felt it carefully and found that apart from the hand on his conscience, there was no other abnormality in his body. He couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief...
How can I relax after everything is like this?!
Fan Qinghe was in a mess and didn't know what to say about herself. She quietly looked back and saw that Ye Jingtang remained the same as yesterday, still lying in the back as a tool. The only difference was that his left hand was holding her and his right hand was holding her.
Holding the sleeping Queen in her arms...
Fan Qinghe bit his lower lip slightly in embarrassment, but he didn't dare to wake anyone up. He carefully removed his hand from his chest, then got up and put on his shoes, pulled up his bra to cover it, and walked out quietly.
go.
Between the beds, there used to be a Night Terror Hall in each hand, but suddenly it was empty on the left side. No matter how deep you sleep, you should be awakened.
He opened his eyes and found Miss Fan sneaking out of the door with her skirt in her arms. His mind came to his senses. He exhaled secretly and turned his head to look inside. He could see that Da Benben was resting on his arm, with his back to him.
He was sleeping soundly, and through the soft warmth in his palms, he could clearly feel his gentle heartbeat.
He didn't wake up when he saw this, he gently pulled his hand away, wrapped the quilt tightly, and then put on his robe.
Wow~
The east glowed with rays of light, and the faint sound of splashing water came from the quiet courtyard.
Ye Jingtang stretched out in the yard and saw Qinghe washing in the ear room, so he didn't run in to disturb him and fetched a bucket of water by the well to wash himself.
The bird in the alchemy room was already a little sleepy at this time. When he saw Ye Jingtang coming out, he quickly jumped forward and kicked Ye Jingtang's boots with his claws:
"grumble!"
Ye Jingtang raised his hand and rubbed the big bird to comfort him:
"Thank you for your hard work. I'll take you to eat roasted hump when I wake up later."
"Ji~"
When Niaoniao heard this, he looked at the stove all night and his annoyance disappeared on the spot. He rubbed his head against Ye Jingtang, then fell asleep and almost fell into the pot.
Ye Jingtang shook his head and chuckled. He carried the bird to the alchemy room and put it in a basket to sleep. Then he sat down in front of the stove and fiddled with it a few times with a fire stick.
Squeak~
After a while, Fan Qinghe came out of the house with a basin in his hand and found Ye Jingtang sitting in the alchemy room, his steps slightly paused and his eyes obviously evasive.
But everything was done, and she couldn't hide even if she lowered her head and looked up. She gritted her teeth and suppressed her distracting thoughts, poured out the water, and walked into the house slowly, pretending that nothing had happened:
"I'll just come and watch. If you're okay, go out to eat and inquire about the news in the city..."
As he spoke, he walked to the medicine shelf, picked up a small scale and weighed the medicinal materials, pretending to be 'I'm very busy'.
Ye Jingtang turned around and looked at the graceful back. After thinking about it for a moment, he stood up and walked behind.
?!
Fan Qinghe heard the footsteps coming from far away, his shoulders shrank slightly, his stern expression turned into nervousness, he quickly turned around and picked up the knife for cutting medicinal materials from the side:
"What...are you doing here?"
Ye Jingtang's expression remained normal, he took out the knife and threw it aside, looking down at his face full of bewilderment:
"What can I do? Just chat..."
"you……"
Fan Qinghe found that his waist was hugged, his eyes suddenly panicked, and he pushed his chest gently with his hand:
"I've told you, I'm a doctor. I don't want to treat my illness, so I asked Prince Jing to help you. How can you be so aggressive..."
Ye Jingtang put his hands on his waist, lifted Fan Qinghe's feet off the ground, and sat on the stage behind him.
He let go of his hand, supported the desk, surrounded Fan Qinghe, and looked at each other:
"My daughter's family is as innocent as heaven. I took advantage of it by mistake at first. If you don't want to take it to heart, I can't take the initiative to mention it. But now that it's like this, I can't just pretend that nothing happened. If
If I really act in a hurry and follow authority, I'm afraid Miss Fan will have a knot in her heart and feel that I am irresponsible..."
"Who pays attention to the knot? I don't think you are irresponsible, just get out of the way!"
Fan Qinghe wanted to jump down and run out, but was blocked by the Night Terror Hall and couldn't escape.
Ye Jingtang didn't force anything, he just stopped Fan Qinghe, thought for a while and said:
"The tribes in the West Sea have an alliance of five tribes. If nothing happened back then, Miss Fan would have become a princess according to the rules, right?"
"What princess? If the Northwest Royal Court is still there, I will be your aunt! You..."
Before he finished speaking, Fan Qinghe's face turned red, feeling that what he said was a bit outrageous.
Ye Jingtang blinked: "If you like me, call me aunt..."
"Shut up!"
Fan Qinghe actually has quite a fierce personality, but he just can't show it in front of the Night Terror Hall. At this time, he was forced to panic, so he didn't care about it anymore and took out two needles from the back of his waist:
"The Northwest Royal Court is gone. We are just strangers who have some friendship. Do you want to get out of the way? If you don't, I will go back to Dongming Mountain and stop helping you!"
Ye Jingtang didn't hide, but asked: "You mean you won't go back to Dongming Mountain after I get out of your way, and you will always follow me to help me?"
?
Fan Qinghe blinked her eyes, feeling that these words seemed to be a trap. She thought for a while:
"I am the Zhu Zong of the Dongming Tribe. How could I not go back? There is no banquet in the world... eh?!"
Before she finished speaking, Fan Qinghe looked at the handsome young man in front of her and moved forward. He looked like he was trying to make a meal. She panicked and quickly pressed Ye Jingtang's forehead:
"You are not allowed to move! I...I am not saying that we have to break up. I am the clan leader of the Dongming Tribe. My purpose is to rebuild the Northwest Royal Court so that my clan members no longer have to be bullied by Beiliang.
"You are a descendant of the Qinchi tribe. If you can resist the burden of your ancestors and protect the Dongming tribe, I will naturally abide by the covenant of my ancestors. Well... even if I don't want to be a princess, for the sake of my tribe, I can't ignore the overall situation..."
Ye Jingtang nodded thoughtfully: "You mean, as long as I block Beiliang, Miss Fan will marry me as my little wife?"
"..."
Fan Qinghe really meant that, so naturally she couldn't shake her head. She thought about it for a moment:
"That's what I said, but the situation is undecided now. I don't know where I will go in the future. Now the tribes in the West Sea are still suppressed by King Zuo Xian and dare not make mistakes. You must at least have a higher prestige than King Zuo Xian, so I...just...
"
Although Fan Qinghe was quite submissive, her personality was still that of a wild girl. She couldn't say anything anymore, so she jumped down forcibly and chased Ye Jing out of the hall:
"Anyway, we are just helping each other now. I am a kind-hearted doctor and don't want anything to happen to you, so I help you at any cost. You can't repay kindness with enmity."
"Ah……"
Ye Jingtang was just joking a few times. After being rubbed against Fan Qinghe twice, he stopped teasing her intentionally and moved a little further away.
Fan Qinghe quickly got out of the side, his face turned red and he ran to the stove, opened the lid and checked:
"You go out and buy some food. I can't calm down while standing here. Don't blame me if the oven explodes."
Ye Jingtang was indeed a little hungry, so he walked out the door:
"What to eat?"
"whatever……"
After Fan Qinghe confirmed that Ye Jingtang was out, he quickly ran over and closed the door, and then secretly breathed a sigh of relief...
——
Two days have passed since the battle at Tianlang Lake. Shi Daoyu and other main forces were all defeated, and the Night Terror Hall was temporarily withdrawn. There was no earth-shaking storm on the lake, but it did not calm down.
Although he didn't grab the big one, in order to deceive others, King Zuo Xian acted like "a dragon is trapped in the shallows and has nothing to do", so he arranged a small number of people to carry a small amount of snow lake flowers like ants moving, and tried to escort them to the east of the lake.
Very few of these teams could reach the city. Most of them were looted by wolves within a few dozen miles of the city, and they had to throw away their goods to save their lives. But once the Jianghu people got their hands on it, it was not that easy to get out of Tianlang Lake. The entire ice field basically disappeared from the city.
From morning to night, you can see people from the north and south fighting for each other.
At dusk, on the ice field on the east side of Tianlang Lake, several Jianghu people were chasing each other on the endless ice. The old man at the front was holding a cloth bag, while behind him were warriors from the north and south armed with various weapons. They could be heard in the distance.
Shouts:
"You have a share in seeing me, but you, an old man, still want to take it all to yourself?"
"It's just two fucking pieces of snow lake flower. How can we divide it among so many people? You deal with the people behind, and we'll split it half..."
…
At the end of the skyline, a big white horse stood facing the wind, with two cold iron maces hanging on its sides, giving off a slight metallic color in the sunlight.
The leader of Pingtian, who was wearing jade armor, stood on the ice with his hands behind his back, looking from a distance, with a voice that was naturally cold, and said softly:
"Wu Laoer from Shishizhai in Beiliang, doesn't he call himself the 'Wine Fairy' and is only interested in good wine? Why did he come to Tianlang Lake and grab the Snow Lake Flowers?"
Not far behind, a tall female hero in green clothes and a bamboo hat had no interest in the disputes in the rivers and lakes. She just looked down at the fish under the ice:
"I heard from Shui'er that this person had robbed the birthday card sent by King Youxian in previous years and stole several altars of night white heads. Now he is being chased and running away. Could it be that he was injured secretly?"
"My body skills are better than yours. I can still be worthy of being a master. It doesn't seem like I have a hidden injury."
"..."
Luo Ning's expression slightly condensed, and she turned around, wanting to refute the outspoken Bai Jin. However, after looking carefully, she found that the old man running around was indeed better than her, so she snorted lightly:
"Then what do you think he did to rob Snow Lake Flower?"
"Perhaps he wants to make wine with Snow Lake flowers. Mengzi, like Master Xuanji, can do any weird things with this kind of wine..."
Xue Baijin, as the overlord of the world in the Southern Dynasties, came to Tianlang Lake with the purpose of defeating King Zuo Xian alone, so that he could naturally gain the title of Martial Saint.
Although she was also interested in Snow Lake Flowers, this was something that the emperors of the two countries were bound to get. As a rebel leader, if she took too much, she would get burned. If she took too little, she would not have the motivation to take action. After chatting for a while, she thought
Continue to set off with Luo Ning.
But before Xue Baijin got on his horse, he found that a group of people who had chased him far away stopped at the end of the ice field, and then several explosions were heard under the clear sky:
Bang bang——
A little dust mist was raised at the end of the ice field, and then a few figures dispersed and fled to the surrounding areas.
Luo Ning couldn't see clearly, so she took out her binoculars and looked over there, only to see a horse team approaching from the end of the ice field.
There were more than ten people in the cavalry team, all wearing standard robes. It looked like they were members of the government. The first three were wearing green robes and gauze hats. After injuring two Jianghu men, they did not pursue them, but looked towards them.
to her side.
Although the distance was far away, Luo Ning still felt a bit eerie. She frowned, put down the telescope, and asked:
"These three people look unusual. Who are they?"
Xue Baijin kept looking over there, and after thinking about it for a while, he responded:
"It seems like the 'Twelve Attendants of Yandu', the eunuchs around Emperor Liang, who are responsible for guarding the emperor like Cao Qiansui. They never left the imperial city in the past. How come they are here at Tianlang Lake..."
After all, Luo Ning's career in the world is not as great as that of Xue Baijin. Hearing this, he said with confusion:
"Are these people powerful?"
Xue Baijin shook his head: "That's it. It is said that these people are dead soldiers trained by the Northern Liang court with secret medicine. They have strong bones and are not afraid of pain. Their six senses are far beyond ordinary people. Ordinary Jianghu people can't deal with them at all, but in this situation
In my hands, it can only serve as a delaying move."
Seeing that Luo Ning was not very powerful, she asked:
"We seem to be being watched, should we leave?"
There was no grudge between Xue Baijin and the Beiliang court. When she saw that the other party was just observing from a distance, she didn't have the leisure to go up and say, "What are you looking at?", so she got on her horse and said:
"It's none of your business, let's go. Isn't Ye Jingtang in Tianlang Lake? How come it's nowhere to be seen after searching for a long time."
Luo Ning mounted the horse and sat behind her, looking around the endless ice field:
"Tianlang Lake is so big, how can we just happen to meet it? If we look again, if the birds see us, they will definitely come to lead the way."
Xue Baijin honestly didn't want to see Ye Jingtang because of his experience in Jiangzhou, but his wife missed the wild man, and as a husband, she couldn't stop her from seeing her. She didn't say anything more at the moment, and said "drive~" lightly,
Then continue to travel deeper into the ice field...
…
——
At dusk.
As the sky gets darker, the lights slowly turn on in the East Market, and a restaurant selling barbecue near Xiaonan Street is filled with customers coming and going.
In the private room on the second floor of the restaurant, a large plate of hump meat was placed. Niaoniao squatted on the table, squinting as if celebrating the New Year, and was being fed by his two sisters.
Ye Jingtang, who was dressed in black robe, stood at the window with his hands behind his hands, listening to the chatter of the traffickers and footmen:
"You are so bold. I heard that the seven teams sent out by the prince today were all robbed on Tianlang Lake. One team was even robbed three to five miles outside the city. What is the difference between this and riding on the prince's head to shit...
…”
"The prince is famous for his bad temper. Why don't you punish the gangsters who are so unruly?"
"Hey, isn't this guarding the Snow Lake Flower? Even the Night Terror Hall has not been arrested. The prince cannot leave his post without authorization..."
"I heard that at noon today, the prince was so angry that he was ready to leave the city with a gun. Mr. Xing and others knelt on the ground to persuade him, and then persuaded the prince to go back..."
…
After Fan Qinghe calmed down for a whole day, he had suppressed his messy thoughts, sat on the table and listened for a while, and said:
"Aren't these gangsters afraid of angering King Zuo Xian if they are so presumptuous? Three to five miles outside the city, King Zuo Xian passed by in the blink of an eye..."
Dongfang Liren sat in front of him and served Niao Niao some food, and responded:
"King Zuo Xian has no idea where we are. He can go outside the city in the blink of an eye, and Ye Jingtang can go to prison in the blink of an eye. Not to mention three or five miles outside the city, even if someone makes trouble in the city, King Zuo Xian will not
It will definitely show up."
Ye Jingtang returned to the table and sat down, picked up the wine bottle and poured wine for the two girls:
"Yesterday I stopped the housekeeper of Prince Zuo Xian's Mansion and learned that King Zuo Xian had asked his family to pack their things and seemed to be preparing to go out. If King Zuo Xian was so angry that he left the city these two days, then there would be some explanation for this matter...
"
Dongfang Liren frowned and said, "Will the housekeeper report this matter to King Zuo Xian?"
Fan Qinghe scratched the bird's belly, shook his head and said:
"King Zuo Xian is not someone who is easy to fool. Cao Aning and the others were left in Pingyi City and were not allowed to turn back. This was to prevent anyone from being incited to rebel and come back to act as spies. The housekeeper was blocked by unknown thieves and returned unscathed.
The palace knows that the secret has been leaked without even thinking about it, and Li Xian is not stupid, how dare he take the initiative to report it."
Dongfang Liren thought about it and said instead:
"King Zuo Xian has been stationary for too long. Your Majesty will arrive at Jingjie City. It will be an order to lead the army to the north. King Zuo Xian can't leave even if he wants to. If he wants to go out of town, he should take action in the next few days.
.How long will it take for the Tianlang Pearl to be refined?"
Fan Qinghe saw that Niaoniao was full, so he stood up and said:
"It will snow and lake flowers tonight, just condensed beads will form. The heat is coming soon, let's go back."
Seeing this, Ye Jingtang didn't say much. After getting up to pay, he and the two girls returned to the pharmacy again...
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There really aren’t many rivals left, and the length should be about the same as the first two books.