As soon as Bai Ze entered the city, he found out that both Mu Chen and Mu Qingling had gone to the front line of Weicheng with Grand Duke Zhao Dun. Now, only Lu Qian is left in Heyang City.
All the way back to the familiar alley, Bai Ze knocked on the door, but no one responded. He pushed open the door of Tao Hongjing's courtyard, which was unlocked. The sword stove inside was already cold, and there was no blazing fire.
"It seems that the teacher has left?" Bai Ze felt a little disappointed in his heart. In just one month, there were too many changes, one after another, which made him a little overwhelmed.
He opened the door to his room. The courtyard was covered with deep snow, and it seemed that no one had been there. Bai Ze didn't bother to clean up, but he just raised his energy sharply and shook the whole body. The snow in the courtyard was shaken away and piled up in the corner of the courtyard.
"That's it, let's rest for a while and see if we can go to the Chamber of Commerce to get the Black Snake Heart." Bai Ze opened the door and heard a creaking sound, and said to himself: "Then crush the jade token and go back to Liuzhuang with the master first. .”
As soon as he entered the door, he saw two letters covered with jade cards on the table. Bai Ze was stunned, then walked forward and picked up the letter. One of the letters was left by Mu Qingling, and the other was signed by Xie Xuan.
"Master, have you been here?" Bai Ze quickly opened the envelope and saw that Xie Xuan said in the letter that he had important things to do at the moment. If Bai Ze comes back, just wait for him here and come to him when he is finished. .
He also specifically told Bai Ze to bring a jade token, because the jade token contained a trace of his spiritual consciousness. No matter where Bai Ze was with the jade token, he could sense it.
"Master, is there something wrong again?" Bai Ze put away the jade token and then opened the second letter. Mu Qingling initially accused Bai Ze of leaving suddenly without saying hello to her, saying that she was very angry. The second half of the letter mentioned that Heyang City was about to start a war with Weicheng, and she would also go to the front line with her brother Mu Chen, so she might not be back in the near future.
If Bai Ze comes back and sees this letter, I hope he can wait until the war is over, and then she comes back and settles the debt with Bai Ze without saying goodbye.
"Haha, this little girl is quite interesting." Bai Ze couldn't help but smile as he thought of Mu Qingling's cute angry look when he looked at the letter.
Bai Ze took off his cloak, took off his two swords, and put them on the table. He first went to the kitchen to light a fire, then took charcoal and lit a brazier and placed it in the room to heat up.
As the room temperature warmed up, Qing Lin, who had been curled up on Bai Ze's chest for the past few days, suddenly regained some energy. He crawled out from Bai Ze's collar and looked curiously at this unfamiliar environment.
"Haha, you, you, grow up quickly." Bai Ze reached out and tapped Qing Lin's little head. After many days of getting along, he and Qing Lin became more and more harmonious.
This little guy was just born, and he is so cute. According to Linglu, it regarded Bai Ze as its mother, so it would not bite Bai Ze to death without warning.
"This is not funny at all." Bai Ze still remembers his white face when Jiuselu joked with him, but Bai Ze gradually understood Linglu's arrogant temperament.
That guy, on the surface, looked down upon the name Lu Hao given to him by Bai Ze, but actually he was quite happy in his heart. After all, being a spiritual deer that can only live in the sun is quite bluffing, isn't it?
"Hiss." Qinglin was not dissatisfied with Bai Ze's action of nodding his head. Instead, he rubbed Bai Ze's fingertips affectionately and spit out cute snake letters.
"When you grow older, you won't be afraid of this bitter cold weather." Bai Ze said to him, "After all, you are also a spiritual beast. You even ate the Snake Yuan Fruit that I risked your life to snatch, and you didn't even leave me any left. What a little heartless person.”
"Hiss~" Qinglin couldn't understand what Bai Ze was muttering, and rubbed Bai Ze's fingertips again.
After leaving Dushan, I suddenly felt free and no longer worried. I was always worried about encountering ferocious monsters in the mountains and fighting for my life. Bai Ze took out the three sword manuals and studied them for half an hour, and practiced sword practice for another hour in the courtyard. Then he felt empty in his stomach. He hurriedly took out two mouthfuls of dry food and prepared to go out to buy some ingredients and treat himself to a good dinner. abdomen.
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East of Heyang City, Chamber of Commerce.
When Yu Youwei held an umbrella and went out, the maid Qing'er wanted to follow him. Yu You put on a fox fur coat under her hundred-fold undershirt, stood in front of the chamber of commerce and called Qing'er, took the brocade box from the maid's hand, put it in her arms, and said, "Are you ready with everything that the chamber of commerce needs to prepare? "
"It's ready, girl." Qing'er said.
"Okay." Yu You nodded slightly and said warmly while standing in the snow: "Go and tell Shopkeeper Dong to check it again and make sure there is nothing missing."
Qing'er nodded and asked doubtfully: "Does the girl want to go out alone?"
"Yes." Yu Youwei said, "Don't worry, there is no one in Heyang City who can hurt me yet."
So when Bai Ze returned to his residence, he saw the courtyard door half open. He stepped forward and pushed the door open, and saw the girl sitting at the stone table.
The paper umbrella she held was placed next to the stone table, with a thin layer of snow already piled on it. Yu Youwei's back is turned to Bai Ze, her three thousand black hair and the fox fur hood on her shoulders create a clear black and white visual impact. The graceful lady was warming the wine with bare hands. The faint aroma of wine in the courtyard was perfectly contrasted with the coldness of the ice and snow, and set off the warm fragrance of the girl. For a moment, it was as beautiful as a picture scroll, and Bai Ze was stunned.
"Young master is back?" Yu Youwei smiled slightly and asked Bai Ze: "You are just warming the wine to wait for you to return. Can you please fold flowers to make you happy?"
Bai Ze held the ingredients in his arms, smiled when he heard this, and said, "A city full of snowflakes, maybe it can make a beautiful woman smile?"
"Giggle," Yu Youwei stood up and looked at Bai Ze, who was wearing light makeup. Her bright eyes gently looked at the young man in black and said, "There is snow falling all over the city. Which one was given to Youwei by the young master?"
"How about this one?" Bai Ze asked back. He stretched out his right hand, and the Qingqi of the green wood at his fingertips transformed into a green vine. The nearby snowflakes were pulled by the Qi and condensed into a snow-white Yao flower, which he handed to Yu Youwei.
The girl's eyebrows were curved, she smiled softly, confounded all living beings, and with a little bare hands, she saw a layer of misty red flames ignited on the snow-white Yao flowers, making the Yao flowers look alluring, and said: "Compared with pure white, young and tiny are more beautiful. Prefer warmer colors.”
Bai Ze's pupils shrank, and Yu Youwei held the flaming ice flower in his hand. The red flames burned, but the ice and snow did not melt. It was really scary.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, but the young master's cultivation has advanced to the other side of the world. Such a speed is really mysterious." Yu Youwei said, "Given time, the young master must also be a famous person in the world of Jiuzhou."
Bai Ze closed the door with his backhand and asked, "I just don't know why the girl suddenly visited my humble home. What's the important matter?"
"Gee, we can't talk about important matters." Yu Youwei looked at the ingredients that Bai Ze was holding and said, "The former master came to our chamber of commerce and said that he needed some elixir. The rest of the ingredients are ready, but one is missing. Black snake snake heart. These days, you have spent some effort to find one for the young master. When he heard that the young master was coming to the city, he came here to deliver the medicine."
Bai Ze was stunned for a moment, then looked at the brocade box on the stone table, wondering what this young girl with extraordinary skills was up to. But with Yu Youwei's Nine-turn Golden Pill in front of him, Bai Ze couldn't maliciously speculate on the other party's intentions, so he said: "Well, Bai Ze thanks the girl. I just don't know, what does the girl need from me?"
"I think the young master seems to be preparing dinner. I wonder if you can ask the young master to make one for me?" The implication was that she wanted to have dinner with Bai Ze.
"Of course." Bai Ze said, "Girl, wait a moment." After following Xie Xuan for twelve years, Bai Ze is quite confident in his cooking skills. Although it is not as good as the signature dish of Zuixianlou, there is no problem in calling it a delicacy.
"Okay." Yu Youwei sat down immediately without any intention of helping. Firstly, she knew nothing about cooking, and secondly, she could tell that Bai Ze was still very guarded against her, so she needed to pay attention to leaving enough personal space for Bai Ze.
It's just that she couldn't understand that since she came into contact with Bai Ze, she had not taken any dangerous measures. She was the one who saved Bai Ze on Qinghe. Where did Bai Ze's wariness against her come from?
Yu Youwei couldn't figure it out. He knocked lightly on the cold surface of the stone table with his bare hands. Watching the young man walk into the kitchen, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.
This little guy is really interesting.
Maybe the trip to the Southern Region won't be so boring.
Yu Youwei gently narrowed her rose-red eyes and looked at the vague black and yellow dragon aura on Bai Ze's body. She clearly remembered that the last time she saw Bai Ze, there was absolutely no such aura on his body.
"Haha," Yu Youwei looked at the temperature of the bronze wine on the stone table stove, a faint light flashed in his eyes, and thought to himself: "If it weren't for the 'same origin', it would be difficult for me to detect the dragon energy in him. Bai Ze, Bai Ze Ze, how many secrets are you hiding in your body? I really look forward to how much trouble you will stir up in this land of Kyushu when you break out of the world of Jiuzhou."
Really, looking forward to it.
Over there, Bai Ze also noticed Yu Youwei's gaze. The feeling of being watched made Bai Ze very uncomfortable, as if the rose-red eyes behind him could see through his soul and reach into his heart.
This man is an extremely dangerous person.
Bai Ze is born with Taoism, and his sense of murderous intent is far beyond that of ordinary people. When Qinghe was attacked that night, Bai Ze was certain that the murderous aura on Yu Youwei's body when she tapped the low table with her bare hands was aimed at everyone, not entirely at the assassins.
What is the purpose of this woman getting close to him? Bai Ze couldn't understand. To say that she had murderous intentions, on the painting boat, neither he nor Mu Chen's brother and sister could block the Qinghe Fire Tornado, but why didn't she take action in the end?
Both men have their own agendas.
Bai Ze stayed in the kitchen for half an hour, then went out to carry the food and walked to the stone table in the courtyard. Yu Youwei has already warmed up the wine. The wine is the best wine in Zuixianlou, Zuixianren.
Bai Ze and Yu Youwei sat across from each other, and Yu Youwei poured wine. The fragrance of the wine hit his nostrils the moment it was poured into the glass.
"Sir, please." Yu You said with a slight smile.
Bai Ze picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
Thousands of years later, the storyteller told this story as follows:
"A beautiful woman warms with wine and is as moist as jade,
The young master's horse is unparalleled in the world.
The true phoenix fire dwells in the tree,
Xuanhuang Biyizhi hill. "
The story of Jiuzhou will eventually become a pot of old wine, and everyone who rises and falls in it will have a long-lasting relationship.
The young man and the young lady are also like pictures.
In the slowly unfolding picture scroll, there are continuous killings and tenderness.
You and I in the story will eventually grow up.
