Seeing his father standing behind him at some point, Xun'er's eyes widened again, and Yingying's little mouth did not forget to sneer: "Dad, hehe, when did you come back? Didn't you go
Is Ayi Village ready?"
"Humph, I'll settle the score with you later!"
Behind him, this man from the Miao family, who was as tall as a tiger, wearing a short blue collar that did not match his figure and temperament, and with a floral cloth bag wrapped around his head, glared at Xun'er, then let go of her and looked at her again.
He looked at Xiao Han and the others in front of him and made a strange gesture of raising his hands: "Several distinguished guests have come from afar, and it is really rude for you not to be able to welcome them from afar!"
"Ahem, Commander Gupu is too polite. A few of us have taken the liberty to come to visit. It would be best if the Commander doesn't look weird."
In the room, Xiao Han already knew his identity from the name Xun'er just called him.
However, the corners of Xiao Han's mouth were still twitching at this moment, and he obviously had not gotten over the fear of being devoured by thousands of insects just now, so even the gesture of returning the gift was a bit stiff.
"What? Are you Commander Gupu?"
Liu Hongji, who stood in front of Xiao Han and protected Xiao Han intentionally or unintentionally, was also looking at the uninvited guest in front of him.
But soon, he came to his senses, glared at him fiercely, and then gritted his teeth and looked at Xun'er, who was twisting the corner of his clothes. No matter that before leaving, Xiao Han had confessed that Qi Pu was the leader of the Miao family's twelve villages.
The commander opened his mouth and said bluntly: "Hey! You man, don't say anything about being rude or not. Let me ask you, your daughter is bewitching us! Do you care about this matter?!"
"Ah? Cough cough cough..."
Pu Pu never expected that Liu Hongji would be such a straight-tempered person, without turning around at all. After being stunned for a moment, he awkwardly coughed several times in succession: "Dear guest, don't worry, I was just joking.
Well, how could she bewitch you?"
"Hey! You still don't admit it, do you?!"
Unexpectedly, after listening to Jipu's explanation, Liu Hongji became even more furious. He pointed at Xun'er who was still looking innocent next to him and shouted angrily: "She just admitted it, talking about those invisible Gu insects.
He wants to make a nest in us! He also wants to eat up our flesh and blood! Finally, "bang"..."
"Well……"
Pu Pu's eyes were a little dull, and he looked straight at Liu Hongji clumsily using his hands like bear's paws to imitate the explosion of his body. He was speechless for a while, and when he finally came to his senses, he turned back fiercely.
He glared at his daughter fiercely.
"Well, please don't worry, distinguished guest! This is all nonsense made by a little girl. Only a few elders in the village have such deadly poisonous insects! She is so young that she will never come into contact with those things!"
"You promise?" After Liu Hongji heard this, his expression finally improved, but he still pointed to himself with some worry and asked: "We really don't have those invisible bugs on us?"
"Really not, I guarantee that!"
Pupu shook his head helplessly, and then continued: "Guests don't have to worry too much. Although Gu worms are mysterious, they can't be cultivated casually. Because my daughter is playful, she still doesn't have one of her own.
Gu worms. As for other people’s worms, they are basically their treasures, and they cannot be used easily just because of a trivial matter! Don’t worry about this!"
"Haha, I'll just say it!"
Hearing what Pu Pu said with such certainty, Xiao Han on the side finally breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile reappeared on his originally livid face: "It's like such a powerful thing, how can it be everywhere and available everywhere?
?If it were that simple, our great commander Qipu would probably have commanded the entire Lingnan area by now!"
"Oh? Hahaha..."
In front of him, when Pu Pu heard Xiao Han's words, his eyes flashed, and then he burst out laughing. While laughing, he kept waving his hands: "This young talent is the legendary Xiao Hou, right? But Xiao Hou, you
What a joke! We Miao people believe in heaven, earth, mountains and rivers. We have lived in the mountains since ancient times and are familiar with this world! We have never thought about leaving the mountains, nor have we ever thought about occupying other people's land. We just want to live quietly, like this
sufficient!"
"Just a joke, just a joke, hahaha..." Xiao Han also laughed at this time, but when he looked at Gupu again, he couldn't help but be a little cautious.
Damn it, who said these Miao people are naive and ignorant of the ways of the world?
If nothing else, just take a look at this guy in front of you. Although he is as strong as a gorilla, he is absolutely fine with his hair attached, and he is a monkey!
From the moment he entered the house, to when he talked about Gu worms, he was sure that there were such things as Gu worms, but he also said that he couldn't use them casually.
Then he doubted the power of Gu insects and deliberately made trouble with Lingnan. He also said that he had no intention of competing for supremacy and just wanted to stay peacefully in the mountains.
Anyway, these words sound reasonable at first, but when you think about it carefully, they are useless!
Gu insect?
This is like a biological weapon from later generations. I tell you clearly that I have it! But no one knows whether it will be used or not!
As for war and conquest, or even rebellion, which is what Xiao Li is most concerned about?
He also said that he doesn't want to fight, but he wants to live in this mountain! He doesn't care about things outside, but you want to occupy our territory, hum, you can try!
Although, in Xiao Lizi's eyes, this idea of treating the habitat as one's own territory means splitting the soil and enclosing the territory, and represents rebellion, Xiao Han is not Xiao Lizi after all, and he did not come here to be an enemy of Pu Pu.
However, he was prepared to make such an ally, so he just laughed off the caution and caution he showed.
"Hahaha, why are you still standing? Sit down, sit down! Xiaodong, Xiaodong! Where are you dead? Hurry up and make tea!"
The misunderstanding was resolved, and the atmosphere seemed to become heated all of a sudden. Xiao Han hurriedly invited Pu Pu to sit down, and during the process he did not forget to ask Xiaodong to make tea.
Tea was brought by Xiao Han from Chang'an. Although Lingnan was known as the hometown of morning tea and Kung Fu tea in later generations, tea at this time was not widely cultivated by Lingnan people, nor did it become their daily drink.
The kettle was taken away from the small clay stove where the pine cones were burning, and the boiling water was poured into the porcelain bowl. The fried tea leaves flew up and down, exuding a faint fragrance of tea.
"Eh? Is this tea?" Pupu frowned and looked at the porcelain bowl in front of him strangely. As the leader of the Miao family, he was also a guest of Feng An and others. He was no stranger to Han tea, but
Compared with those tea soups that add orange peel, onion, ginger, or even lard, Xiao Han's bowl of elegant and light tea is obviously more suitable for Pu Pu's appetite.
"It's just a bowl of tea, what's the big deal!"
Xun'er stood behind his father, looking at Xiao Han's elegant movements of making tea, and Gao pouted, hey, why don't he have Gu worms? If he did, even the mother-in-law worms would disgust him!
