Immortals live at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain. The sun is shining brightly and the breeze is gentle. It’s a good day today! There was a crowd of people in front of the Xianrenju Inn. A large group of people were watching. Everyone was pointing and talking. There were waves of shouting and scolding from the crowd, accompanied by intermittent voices crying for mercy.
Xu Feng and others rushed to the door of the inn, got off their horses, and came to the crowd. Liu Ruyan looked inside and saw a short young man kneeling on the ground, bowing his head to a middle-aged man with fat head and big ears. Begging for mercy: "Brother, I don't dare to do it anymore. Just spare me this time. If I can be of any use to you in the future, I will give you my orders!" The young man begged hard and burst into tears. His hair was disheveled, like a A beggar.
The fat middle-aged man scolded: "Humph, you shameless thing, next time I catch you, I will bring you to justice! Bah!" He looked furious and scolded the young man. There was spit next to him. The crowd around him was still talking a lot, some joined the middle-aged people in cursing the young man, and some sympathized with the young man who was kneeling down to beg for mercy and looked embarrassed. ap.
The three of them glanced at the venue and walked straight into the inn lobby. At this moment, a woman's voice shouted: "Brother Liu, Uncle Chu, are you finally back?" The voice was brisk and joyful, but so familiar.
Liu Ruyan hurriedly looked to the side and behind where the sound came from. He was happy. It was Chu Menghua who called him. He waved to Menghua and said with a smile: "We just arrived, what are you doing here? ? Everyone is here, right?" He raised his eyes and glanced at the lobby.
Menghua came over quickly and said with a smile: "At lunch time, we were about to go back to the room to rest after dinner, but saw that the store had caught a thief, so I ran out to watch the fun, and many people had gathered outside. It turned out that this person was the thief. He took the store's money and was afraid that the store would take him to the government, so he knelt down and begged for mercy. He returned all the store's money, and the store let him go."
Liu Ruyan asked hurriedly: "Where is the master?"
Menghua said: "After you left, the master went to the mountains alone. I asked him what he was doing in the mountains? He just said to go back to Wolong Valley to have a look. Well, I know dad is homesick!"
Several people walked into the lobby, and the waiter came up to them and greeted everyone with a smile. At this time, Menghua hurriedly ran to the wing upstairs and almost bumped into the waiter who was walking downstairs. She rushed upstairs and came to the room where Shangguan Hongqin and Xu Lengyue lived. She was about to knock on the door, but Leng Yue had already pushed the door open and walked out. Seeing Menghua standing at the door with a hurried face, Leng Yue was startled. , asked: "Hua'er, what are you doing? Who is chasing you in such a hurry?"
Menghua gasped and said, "Yes... it's Uncle Xu and Brother Liu who are back! They also brought an uncle back."
At this time, Leng Yue hurriedly turned back to greet Shangguan Hongqin and muttered: "Mom, Daddy and Brother Xu are back. Come on, let's go down and have a look!" She hurriedly turned around and walked quickly to Shangguan Hongqin's bed. She had just taken a nap. I was about to pour a glass of water to drink. Listening to Leng Yue shouting happily, he turned around and smiled at her, his eyes full of joy. She always seemed very loving in front of her baby daughter. Leng Yue helped Shangguan Hongqin go downstairs with Menghua. Xu Feng, Gu Zhi and Liu Ruyan were eating in the lobby. As soon as Leng Yue came downstairs, she greeted them: "Dad, Brother Liu, you are finally back." ." She caught a glimpse of Gu Zhi, who had silver hair and a vicissitudes of life on his face. She looked surprised and asked, "Who is this?"
Xu Feng looked at them and smiled and introduced: "Everyone, come here quickly. Let me introduce you. This is Liu Ruyan's uncle Gu Zhi! Hua'er Yue'er, please call me Uncle Gu!"
Menghua and Leng Yue looked at each other and smiled, shouting in unison: "Hello, Uncle Gu!" The two girls clustered around Shangguan Hongqin, looking like cute little birds.
Leng Yue came to Xu Feng and said coquettishly: "Dad, we have been out for almost a month. When will we go back? Yue'er is already homesick!" He murmured, quite sentimentally, "No. Do you know if Uncle Ma is back? Dad, do you think Uncle Ma will never come back?" Her fair girlish face was filled with sorrow, and she was also at a sentimental age.
Xu Feng pondered, then suddenly smiled and said: "No, he might have returned to Hongqin Residence. Don't worry, dad knows where he went." There was a slight smile on his face, and he seemed to be in a calmer mood at this moment than before. A lot.
Leng Yue showed her face and said excitedly: "Is Uncle Ma really back? Let's hurry up
Let's go back and take a look. I don't know what happened to Cuilian and Yinggu! Dad, when will we go back? ” She looked at Xu Feng expectantly.
Xu Feng looked at Leng Yue kindly and sighed: "Okay, let's go back to Hongqin Residence in these two days! We will see them soon." After saying this, he greeted Shangguan Hongqin and said, "Madam, follow me this time. It’s really difficult for you to go down the mountain. Now that the matter is over, it’s time for us to go back. Just ask everyone to pack their luggage and we’ll set off tomorrow!”
Shangguan Hongqin nodded and told Leng Yue: "Yue'er, go and ask Wang Shi and Li Qiang to pack their luggage. We can go home tomorrow. By the way, go to bed early tonight. We will be on our way early tomorrow morning. .”
Leng Yue couldn't help being happy and ran out of the inn. She was looking for the two servants. They went to the woods early in the morning to look for rare herbs for Shangguan Hongqin, but no one came back at noon.
Menghua also came outside the gate and looked towards the mountain road, her face looking a little anxious. "It's been a day since dad went to the mountain. Why hasn't he come back? Maybe something happened to him!"
At this time, Liu Ruyan's eyes fell on Menghua, seeming to see her anxiety, and said: "When the master went out, he said what he was doing up the mountain? Did you see anything unusual about him? Are you sure he was the only one going up the mountain? "Is that so?" He asked a few questions, causing Menghua to be stunned. She shook her head and said, "Early this morning, daddy got up and went downstairs to have breakfast, and then went out alone! I didn't have the appetite to go to bed early last night. Next, when I woke up in the morning, I felt hungry, so I ran downstairs to eat. I happened to meet my father, so we had dinner with him. I also persuaded my father to sleep more, but he didn’t want to finish the meal. He said he wanted to go up the mountain. , I asked him what he was doing in the mountains, and he just said he wanted to go back and have a look! There was nothing unusual about him in the morning, and he asked me to stay well at the inn and not run around. It’s just that dad went out alone." She frowned. , said worriedly, "Brother Liu, do you think something will happen to dad?"
Liu Ruyan comforted him: "Don't worry, master, nothing will happen to him. He must be missing Wolong Valley and our home! Waiting like this is not an option. I'll go to the mountains to take a look. You wait for my news." "
Menghua said coquettishly: "No, I want to go with you!" She looked at him with a pair of water-like eyes.
Liu Ruyan suddenly said: "I will be back soon. Uncle Shangguan and Uncle Xu are going back to Hongqinju. You stay here to talk to them, and don't go there again. I don't know when we will see each other again! Now I will be two My uncle came down the mountain and has been living with us since then. The master has just recovered from his injuries and is still very weak. You have to take care of him more!" He gently patted Chu Menghua's shoulder and nodded to her firmly. .
Chu Menghua said hurriedly: "Oh, by the way, there is something I want to tell you. Sister Chunlan left a few days ago! She asked me to tell you that she doesn't want to implicate us, so don't worry about her, and don't Go find her." Menghua frowned slightly, looking miserable.
Liu Ruyan was startled for a moment, and then he remembered that he had never seen Chunlan. He secretly blamed himself for neglecting Yang Chunlan's sister. He hurriedly asked: "Did Chunlan say where she went?"
Chu Menghua bit her lip lightly, watching Liu Ruyan shake her head blankly, and said thoughtfully: "Three days ago in the morning, we had breakfast together, and she suddenly said goodbye to my mother and said she planned to leave. She said she didn't want to go back. It hurt Brother Liu, in short, she was a little weird that day and seemed worried." Menghua spoke in a very soft voice, as if she had been wronged in some way, and she seemed worried that Liu Ruyan would be angry.
Liu Ruyan sighed softly and frowned: "She is a weak and helpless woman. Where will she go? Oh, this silly sister, nothing happened after I left, right?" He looked at Chu calmly. Dream flower.
Menghua shook her head and said: "No, Sister Chunlan can talk to everyone, and she often talks to me about her and grandpa. It turns out that she is so miserable, and we all sympathize with her. That day she suddenly said When she wanted to leave, Sister Leng Yue and I tried every means to try to keep her, but she had already decided to leave and we couldn't keep her." There was a trace of loneliness on her face.
Liu Ruyan said: "What I'm worried about is that she doesn't know martial arts. What should she do if she encounters a bad guy? Okay, I'll go to the mountain to find the master. You stay well at the inn and wait for me to come back."
Menghua curled her lips to show her dissatisfaction, but she didn't dare to be stubborn, so she could only stamp her feet and look at Liu Ruyan
He got on his horse and galloped up the mountain road.
