The three of them turned their heads almost at the same time and looked behind them warily, only to find that Xu Chenxi, who was wearing professional attire, was covering her mouth and looking at the three of them with an embarrassed look on her face.
Wei Ziqi frowned slightly and took a deep look at Xu Chenxi, but did not speak.
Hu Shouyu also breathed a sigh of relief when he discovered that this was the woman who had just confronted Su Jianxia in the coffee shop. But when his eyes caught the woman's face, he suddenly froze.
"Why are you everywhere? You've already run into the mountains and you can still follow me." Su Jianxia walked up to Xu Chenxi with her hands on her hips and said dissatisfiedly.
Xu Chenxi looked at Wei Ziqi with a guilty conscience, but when she saw Su Jianxia coming to accuse her, she straightened her back immediately.
"I just came here to relax, why do you think I came with you."
"Who has nothing to do to come here to relax in the wilderness? I see that you followed me all the way here because you couldn't find anyone in the store." Su Jianxia said with a glare.
"You're such a good girl, why are you acting like a shrew?" Xu Chenxi looked disgusted, "What if I followed you here?"
When Su Jianxia heard this, he became even more angry. Just as he was about to shout louder to drive this woman away, he saw her walking around him and walking in front of Wei Ziqi.
"Mr. Wei, you agreed to give me a chance to get to know me, but why are you still avoiding me? Is this what a man should do?"
Wei Ziqi changed his usual embarrassment when seeing Xu Chenxi and said softly: "I didn't expect Miss Xu to be so obsessed and interested in me."
"I can't say it's obsession, it's just too strong. After all, we've only just met." Xu Chenxi looked at the mountain road behind Wei Ziqi, "But I didn't expect that Mr. Wei was not an ordinary person. No wonder he didn't treat me at all. not interested."
"Ms. Xu seems to be very confident. Men should be very interested in you?"
"As a woman, and a beautiful woman at that, I still have some confidence."
Wei Ziqi stared at Xu Chenxi's eyes for a while, then nodded and said, "Since Miss Xu has followed, let's come in and take a look together."
"Uncle, this person is just here to cause trouble. It has nothing to do with this matter. Why do you want her to come with you?" Before Xu Chenxi could say anything, Su Jianxia rushed up and got in between the two of them.
Xu Chenxi ignored Su Jianxia, but looked directly at Wei Ziqi, "Is this appropriate? Tell me your secret so easily."
Wei Ziqi turned around and walked towards the mountain road, "It's not really a secret, and Miss Xu should be quite interested, so why don't we come and take a look together."
With Wei Ziqi's permission, Xu Chenxi glanced at Su Jianxia provocatively, then walked around Su Jianxia with her head held high, and followed Wei Ziqi.
Su Jianxia stomped her feet angrily on the spot, glanced at Hu Shouyu who was staring at Xu Chenxi intently, and got angry again, "Hey, hey, what are you looking at? It's so beautiful? My wife and children are hot on the kang at home, why don't we come out? Staring at the beautiful women here, it turns out that all men look the same."
Hu Shouyu was startled by the sudden anger, and quickly waved her hands and said, "I misunderstood, I just felt like I had seen her somewhere, but I couldn't remember her."
"You just met her an hour ago, of course you are familiar with her." Su Jianxia said angrily.
Hu Shouyu shook his head and said: "No, it wasn't the meeting in the morning. I should have met her a long time ago. In a certain specific scene, I didn't look at her carefully during the meeting in the morning. I felt a deep familiarity after just taking a look at her. I feel it, but I can’t remember it now.”
"Isn't this a common way for you men to talk when you meet a beautiful woman?" Su Jianxia expressed doubts.
"Absolutely not. In my eyes, no woman is half as beautiful as Lian Zhi. It is impossible for me to be attracted to other women." Hu Shouyu quickly raised his watch in loyalty.
"That sounds nice." Su Jianxia muttered, "Let's go. If we don't walk for a while, we won't be able to keep up with them."
Only then did Hu Shouyu notice that Wei Ziqi and Xu Chenxi in front had already walked a little halfway up the mountain, and he quickly responded and followed.
This section of the mountain road seemed very long, but the mountain winds among the trees blew gently on a few people, and the leaves of the sycamore trees blocked the blazing sun, so the few people did not feel it while walking. Hot and tired, it seemed that it didn’t take long to reach the halfway point of the mountain.
The ascending section of the mountain road just ended here. Looking forward, everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them. Even the well-informed Wei Ziqi showed a fleeting look of surprise on his face.
The peak of this mountain seemed to have been cut off from the mountainside, leaving a huge flat space.
At this time, in this open space, there was a river flowing from nowhere. At the end of the river was a huge lake with a radius of about fifty meters.
The water in the lake is crystal clear and seems to have no impurities. Above the lake, several large waterwheels are slowly turning, carrying the water in the lake for watering through dozens of wooden pipes of different lengths. in the farmland surrounding the lake. The golden wheat in the farmland is swaying with the breeze. Even if it is not the season for wheat to mature, every wheat plant here looks like it is growing vigorously.
Hidden Mountain doesn't look like a very big mountain from the bottom. In a region like the south, anything with a few small hills can be considered a mountain.
But at this time, the area of farmland and lakes in front of everyone has far exceeded the actual area of Yinshan Mountain. Even the foot of the mountain with the widest plane is not as big as what is seen in front of them.
"Is this place still stuck in the agricultural era?" Xu Chenxi first recovered from the shock and couldn't help but sigh.
"How many people are needed to cultivate such a large area of wheat field?" Hu Shouyu squatted down and looked at the wheat in the field. "It's still far from the wheat harvest season, but the wheat here is about to mature. Oh, this is completely against the laws of nature.”
"Hey, who are you and how did you get in?"
Just as several people were looking at everything around them curiously, a childish voice suddenly came over.
Following the sound, a little boy about twelve or thirteen years old had his arms folded across his chest and was looking at his group of people with a serious face.
"Are you, Xiao Che?" Wei Ziqi looked at the little boy in front of him and asked with some uncertainty.
The boy was stunned for a moment, seemingly surprised that the man in front of him knew him. He took a few steps forward and looked up and down with his eyes wide open, "Uncle Ziqi?"
Wei Ziqi nodded, "I didn't expect you to be so old. The last time I saw you, you still looked like a five or six-year-old child."
"It's really you, Uncle Ziqi!" The boy said in surprise, trotting up to Wei Ziqi, "I should have thought of it, who else but you would know how to get in."
Wei Ziqi rubbed the boy's head, "Where is your father?"
"It's inside." The boy pointed to one direction of the farmland. "I have been coming to the field to look at it during this period. Dad said that the wheat is almost ripe again. This year is only half over, and it has already ripened for the third time. The rice at home is ripe." There’s so much food that I can’t even finish it.”
"I have been farming since I met him. I have been farming for two thousand years and I still haven't done enough." Wei Ziqi thought of a man in the field, facing the loess and his back to the sky, and a rare trace of emotion appeared on his face. smile.
"By the way, Uncle Ziqi, who are they?" The boy suddenly remembered the three people following him and asked curiously.
Su Jianxia didn't wait for the other two to reply, then took a step forward and rubbed the boy's head, "My little friend, my sister's name is Su Jianxia, and she is the fiancée of your uncle Ziqi."
After speaking, he raised his chin and glanced at Xu Chenxi, snorting coldly to express his victory.
The little boy reached out and pushed away Su Jianxia's hand on his head, "Sister, I am already two hundred and twelve years old this year."
The three of them were stunned for a moment, looking at this little boy with an immature face and voice, and they all felt a little unbelievable.
"My name is Ying Che. Since you are Uncle Ziqi's fiancée, I can round things off and call you sister."
"You are quite good at rounding things up." Su Jianxia was a little dumbfounded.
"Those two are my friends, one of them came to your father for help." Wei Ziqi explained.
"Help?" Ying Che looked back at the two people behind him, and finally locked his eyes on the backpack held in Hu Shouyu's hand.
"You can tolerate it until now." Ying Che shook his head, "Dad went to look for that thing before, but it seemed to have been poached. I didn't expect it to be in your hands.
I must have gotten a lot of benefits from it over the years, and if it comes back now, it's just karma. "
Hu Shouyu lowered his head and sighed, hesitated for a moment and then asked carefully, "Then...Mr. Ying, do I still have a chance to terminate the contract with this jade statue now?"
Hu Shouyu felt a little awkward calling a boy about the same size as his son sir.
Ying Che thought for a while and said truthfully: "I'm not sure, but this jade statue was made by my father himself. It shouldn't be completely hopeless. Let's go and see what he says first."
"Thank you so much. It's really a problem." Hu Shouyu breathed a sigh of relief. Although the boy named Ying Che couldn't guarantee that he would be able to solve the problem, at least he didn't say there was no hope at all.
Ying Che waved his hand and glanced at Xu Chenxi who was looking at the surroundings curiously. He quickly looked away and looked at Wei Ziqi.
It's just that everyone is thinking about their own things, and no one pays attention to the small actions between the two.
Although the wheat field looked very big, a few people would inevitably feel a little relaxed mentally and physically in this environment. They didn't even feel the passage of time, and it didn't take long for them to pass through the wheat field.
Behind the wheat fields is an elegant Chinese-style garden. The garden is full of peach blossoms. There are also many peach blossom petals scattered on the ground, making the whole garden look a little pink.
The buildings in the garden look very simple. Different from the modern garden styles in Jiangnan, this place retains more of the original flavor of ancient gardens.
While everyone was curiously observing the architectural style of the garden, a young woman holding a basin of clothes walked out from the circular arch in front. Although the woman was wearing a simple solid-color dress, she had a slim figure and a stunning face. Even if she is placed outside, she is a rare beauty. Even Xu Chenxi feels a little ashamed when she sees her.
The woman looked at the people curiously while eating melon seeds, as if she had never seen outsiders before.
"Sanniang, it's your turn to do the laundry again today." Ying Che stretched out his hand and greeted the woman with a smile.
The woman sighed, "Well, today I am the worst lucky person to play mahjong with your two mothers, four mothers, and six mothers. This job falls to me again."
"I'm not talking about Sanniang, your skills are really not at the same level as Erniang's. You lose every day, wash clothes every day, but you still play mahjong with them every day."
The woman stepped forward, stretched out her hand and tapped Ying Che's forehead, "What do you know, little kids? Sanniang, I call this a battle of repeated defeats. After repeated defeats, one day you will win. This kind of perseverance If you don’t learn to be kinder, you’re still making sarcastic remarks here.”
Ying Che curled his lips, "Sanniang is right."
"Are you in trouble?" The woman turned her gaze and looked at the people behind Wei Ziqi.
Wei Ziqi nodded, "Yes, the current owner of the jade statue he made back then is entangled."
The woman thought for a while and nodded thoughtfully, "That's what happened. I remember that girl was quite pitiful. That family named Hu was really evil.
I heard that the girl's evil spirit was not killed by the Hu family, and a boy escaped. Later, another Hu family was established somewhere else. What a pity. "
"Hey, is that jade statue in your bag?" The woman suddenly looked at the backpack in Hu Shouyu's arms.
Hu Shouyu nodded nervously.
The woman tilted her head and stared at Hu Shouyu for a while, then couldn't help but ask, "What's your name?"
"I...my name is Hu...Hu Shouyu." For the first time, Hu Shouyu found it so difficult to say his name.
"Huh? Oh." The woman couldn't help but glance at Hu Shouyu again and shook her head.
"Every injustice has its own owner, and every debt has its owner. You just brought the instigator here." The woman pulled Wei Ziqi aside and whispered.
"This matter has to be resolved. Who knows if she will find other people after destroying the Hu family." Wei Ziqi was a little helpless, "Things like evil spirits will not disappear after taking revenge. .”
The woman sighed, "That's right. This matter must be settled. Although the woman is pitiful, it has been more than a thousand years. She has already had her revenge twice, and she is still looking forward to the third round. , this is indeed a bit unauthentic.”
"But how did you bring the two rightful masters here, and they were able to coexist peacefully."
Wei Ziqi shook his head, "I don't know what she was thinking. She should be able to guess who lives in this place. It's really unexpected that she dares to follow her. But Hu Shouyu definitely doesn't know her identity."
"Interesting." The woman glanced at the three people behind her, then locked her gaze on Su Jianxia, who was looking over here, "Your little girlfriend?"
"What kind of little girlfriend? Just a little girl I adopted a few years ago." Wei Ziqi quickly denied.
"Oh? The little girl looks pretty to me, and she seems to like you quite a bit. You've been alone for so many years, and you haven't thought about starting a family?"
"It's just because I've been alone for so long that I got used to it."
"I really don't understand you people." The woman waved her hand, "I won't talk to you anymore. I went to do laundry. He is inside. Just go in."
"Sanniang, don't let the river wash away your clothes again today." Ying Che thought of something and shouted quickly.
The woman waved her fist without looking back.
"Everyone, come with me. The road in the garden is very complicated. If you lose it, you won't be able to find the way." Ying Che turned around and warned when he walked to the gate.
After entering the garden, everyone understood what the complicated road conditions meant.
Just one main road branched off into more than a dozen small roads in different directions, extending to the front with more branches. The end of each small road was tightly blocked by peach blossom trees, and there was no way to see the end of the road. Where to go.
"With such a complicated road, can you all tell where each road leads?" Su Jianxia couldn't help but ask.
Ying Che nodded, "I have lived here for hundreds of years, and my father and mother have lived here for thousands of years. They are already familiar with the layout of this place."
"Are these roads all leading to where you live?"
"Only three or four of them are dead ends. The rest are all dead ends."
"Can't get through?"
"It is a dead end in a literal sense. At the end of the road there may be some phantom formations that can trap people to death, or cruel monsters. What you will encounter if you take the wrong road depends on your own luck."
Su Jianxia was a little confused, "You still do these things at home?"
"It seems that a group of people broke into this place a long time ago and almost caused serious consequences. Since then, Dad has set up various formations and wild beasts on and off the mountain to protect this place." Ying Che explained. road.
"It seems that your father is also a great person, and he can actually let people break in." Su Jianxia said in surprise.
Ying Che shook his head, "I wasn't born when it happened. I just heard the second mother and the third mother mentioned it when I was a child. I don't know exactly who broke in and what their purpose was. I don’t know either.”
"Uncle Ziqi should know, right? I heard that it was you who took action to drive those people away." Ying Che looked at Wei Ziqi, also a little curious.
Wei Ziqi hesitated for a moment, then said after thinking about it: "The person who came at that time was your father's... enemy, after all. Your father probably didn't expect that they would still be able to find him after almost two thousand years." here.
Among that group of people, there was a scholar who was proficient in deduction and calculation. He calculated your father's specific location step by step, and then led the others to bypass all obstacles and go up the mountain. "
"Are those people strong? Even dad can't resist them."
"Your father's era was ended by those people with their own hands." Wei Ziqi recalled: "Those people who can leave a strong mark in history are indeed not simple. I have to admit that each of them is capable. It’s astonishing to see the characters of an era, let alone the gathering of these people.”
"What happened later, were all those people killed by Uncle Zi Qi?" Ying Che asked quickly, and even Su Jianxia and others behind him got closer out of curiosity.
Wei Ziqi shook his head, "The cause and effect of killing them is too heavy. Although I can accept this cause and effect, your father is not willing to let the two sides get into endless entanglements. So in the end both parties reached an agreement, Keep the peace for now.”
"Then, wouldn't they come back at any time?"
"I don't know about that. If those people want to cover up their whereabouts, I won't be able to tell for a while, but if they come back again, your father won't be completely unprepared like last time."
After Ying Che heard this, he nodded with some relief.
While talking, Ying Che led a few people to the outside of a Chinese-style courtyard located in a peach blossom forest. The courtyard looked very calm and majestic from the outside. The courtyard wall alone was almost ten meters high, but it was still blocked. The peach blossom tree could not help but poke its head out.
Several people crossed the half-meter-high threshold and were once again shocked by the sight in front of them.
In the center of the courtyard stood an ancient palace, about several hundred meters long and forty to fifty meters high. Its majestic and majestic aura made several people feel like surrendering.
"The owner here would not have been a member of the royal family in ancient times." Hu Shouyu sighed, "I have never seen a palace building of this scale even in the tombs of princes and nobles over the years."
"Everything about the palaces of cats and dogs can be brought up to make excuses. My father was a serious emperor back then. Later dynasties just got a little bit of the afterglow." Ying Che said disdainfully.
"Wait a minute, your surname is Ying? Then your family is..." Su Jianxia suddenly looked at Ying Che and came to his senses.
Ying Che pointed to the palace, "The name of this palace is Wangyi Palace. My father is the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Hu Hai."
