Xia Wutong pulled the reluctant Nangong Ruyu away from the stone temple. The group walked a few miles and came to a small stream, where they stopped to make breakfast.
Nangong Ruyu smiled and said, "Master, you wasted a lot of monster meat."
Li Ye looked at her and smiled: "Mr. Tang said you are not allowed to eat that guy. If you eat it, you will turn into a vampire. Does Yu'er still dare to eat it?"
Nangong Ruyu stared at Li Ye for a long time, then suddenly let out a cry, then lay down on Xia Wutong's neck and took a bite gently.
"Sister, Yu'er has become a vampire!"
Xia Wutong turned around, glared at her fiercely, and made a face in response to her.
"Sister is the big ghost, Yu'er is the little ghost!"
While smiling, he took Li Ye's hand and ran up the hillside.
"Master, pick some flowers for Yu'er. There are many in front of you."
The little girl started acting coquettishly, and even Li Ye couldn't do anything to her.
Li Ye pulled her to climb up, just like he pulled Mu Mu in Tianshan. At this time, he suddenly had the illusion that he was holding Mu Mu's little hand.
"I'm sober before I'm drunk..." Li Ye murmured softly as he listened to Nangong Ruyu's laughter like a bell.
Spring in Fangcun Mountain is the same as spring in Tianshan Mountain. The most indispensable thing is unknown wild flowers. Maybe Tang Qiuyu and Xia Wutong know about it, but Li Ye definitely doesn't know about it.
The two masters and apprentices toiled on the hillside for a long time. When they reached the creek, Xia Wutong called out for dinner. Li Ye took the little girl's hand and walked down.
When the two returned to the creek, Nangong Ruyu happily greeted the master and apprentice, while Xia Wutong frowned.
"Junior brother, I will cook breakfast with my master and apprentice, where are my flowers that you picked for us?"
"Yu'er snatched some, and the rest are all here." Li Ye took out a large handful of small wild flowers from behind and handed them over.
Xia Wutong was stunned, she just said casually, but she didn't expect Li Ye to actually pick a handful back.
With a blushing face, she took the wild flower from his hand, returned to Tang Qiuyu, put it under her nose, sniffed it, and said with a smile: "Master, junior brother, this idiot, can also pick flowers to coax people."
After two days away from Xuantian Temple, and after the life-and-death battle last night, she finally had a smile on her face.
Li Ye looked at Xia Wutong's happy face and suddenly realized in his heart, if the young lady from the General's Mansion was here, would he pick a handful and give it back to her?
When I thought of this, I suddenly became confused.
...
On this day, Li Ye led the three of them up and down the mountains, trekking for more than thirty miles. Seeing that they were approaching Shenshi, Tang Qiuyu and Xia Wutong found a cave where they could spend the night, so they decided not to go any further.
Tang Qiuyu looked up at Li Ye and said with a smile: "I'm lucky today, I picked a lot of herbs. I'll take Yu'er and Wutong here to clean up the results of today's battle, and I'll ask the Imperial Master to hunt down a wild beast and come back to roast it and eat it. "
"Master, go quickly, before it gets dark, so Yu'er doesn't get hungry and lose weight!"
When Xia Wutong heard this, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and giggle.
When it comes to coquettishness, Nangong Ruyu is not much worse than Mu Mu.
"Wait, I'll try my luck!" Shaking his head, Li Ye quickly ran into the forest.
To find wild animals on Fangcun Mountain, you really need to be very lucky, because this place is so big. A situation like last night is probably rare in decades.
Li Ye muttered as he walked quickly through the woods.
Li Ye walked through the woods of Fangcun Mountain like a hunting cat and a wild beast. He lost sight of him in a blink of an eye.
But night is coming, spring fog is spreading in the mountains, and everything is going on quietly.
Li Ye stood on the treetop and looked down...
A wild boar was looking for food, but this wild boar was larger than the one Li Ye met on Tianshan Mountain, and looked a bit like a monster.
Sneaking down from the treetops, Li Ye took out the sword box Ouyang Dongli gave him and gently took out his iron bow.
To deal with such a large monster, he didn't want to fight head-on. It was best not to do anything if he could.
This is the law of vertical forest that Mr. taught him.
He took out three iron arrows, placed one on the iron bow, and then quietly aimed at the wild boar foraging at the foot of the mountain.
The night is slightly cool, the fog is gradually rising, and there is a "buzzing" sound from the strings.
A black iron arrow pierced the night fog and flew forward.
Before the wild boar at the foot of the mountain came to his senses, "Buzz! Buzz!" sounded two times in succession.
Three iron arrows, one in front and two in back, flew down the mountain...
Just as the wild boar was eating roots in the soil, three iron arrows pierced the night fog and flew over.
There was no sound, no sound of iron arrows flying through the air at high speed, only the painful wail of a wild boar that had been hit by an arrow and fell to the ground.
And the wailing stopped abruptly with just one sound. Three iron arrows were shot at the same wound, and a blood arrow shot up into the sky from the wild boar's neck.
The night becomes quieter.
Three iron arrows pierced the wild boar's neck and pinned it to the ground.
The wild boar twitched a few times and then died completely, and its blood began to flow like spring water.
Without running, Li Ye first put the iron bow into the sword case, and then walked slowly down the hillside.
...
"I'm back, Yu'er can barbecue tonight, that's enough!"
Li Ye shouted from a long distance away.
Hearing the shout, Nangong Ruyu came out of the hole with a "swish" sound like an arrow, and ran towards Li Ye who was walking away.
"How about it? Is this wild boar enough to eat?" Li Ye looked at Nangong Ruyu who was running towards him and said with a smile.
"Oh, Master, you are so awesome, Yu'er loves you so much!" Nangong Ruyu jumped up and lay on his back.
The master and the apprentice dragged a wild boar that was larger than the two of them and walked towards the stream under the cave.
"Master, you are really lucky today!" Tang Qiuyu also emerged from the cave with Xia Wutong.
"It just so happens that you guys have rested for a while. I'm going to process the meat and grill it later. Please help me, senior sister, to light a fire." Li Ye dragged the wild boar to the stream and started processing the pork.
Tang Qiuyu looked at him and smiled: "With such a big head, we can probably eat it for more than ten days! Yu'er, you can let go of your belly today, and the same goes for Wutong."
"I'll cook a big meal for you tonight, and you can all have two glasses of wine!"
Li Ye brought wine with him, and Tang Qiuyu knew this.
Xia Wutong deliberately joked: "Junior brother, you drank wine at night. Aren't you afraid of those monsters last night?"
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. After we have eaten, we will find some big rocks and block up the cave..."
"Master, don't be afraid, Yu'er will be by your side at night." Nangong Ruyu squatted by the stream and watched Li Ye clean up, while reaching out to touch the pig's head.
"Master! This pig is bigger than the pigs that master raised in the temple. It seems that the pigs that grandpa killed during the Chinese New Year were not that big!" Nangong Ruyu stretched out her hand and gestured in the air, smiling so hard that her eyes narrowed.
Li Ye looked at her and said, "That's natural. I don't know if it's a monster. I'll look for the inner elixir later."
Tang Qiuyu said doubtfully: "I don't think it looks like a monster. Is it just a little bigger than an ordinary wild boar?"
"I'll look for it, maybe it is? If there is one, give it to senior sister!" Li Ye said with a smile.
Xia Wutong looked at him and asked, "What are you giving me?"
"Although you have no use for the demonic beast's inner elixir now, you can keep it for fun." Li Ye originally wanted to say more, but he thought it was inappropriate and stopped talking.
Tang Qiuyu took the two little girls back to collect a lot of dry firewood and lit a fire by the stream.
...
The cool evening breeze blew in, bringing with it the aroma of barbecue.
Li Ye put the wild boar meat on the fire beside the stream and sprinkled some spices on it. After a while, oil began to drip down, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the meat gradually turned golden.
Nangong Ruyu held a wooden stick in her hand and kept pulling at the fire, pulling away the unburned branches.
He looked at Li Ye and said, "Master, can you eat this meat for a long time?"
Li Ye looked at her and smiled and said: "It's delicious, but you can't bake it every day. Let's cook hot pot tomorrow and change the taste. The day after tomorrow..."
"Eat the sky and roast it." Xia Wutong, who was sitting aside, added. If she was a glutton, she and Nangong Ruyu were as good as each other, and both liked to eat Li Ye's roasted meat.
Li Ye concentrated on roasting the pork on the rack. When he saw that it was almost done, he changed the rack and continued roasting it. He cut the roasted meat into quarters and placed it on a plate on the stone.
Tang Qiuyu raised his face, looked at the night sky, looked at Li Ye and said softly: "I wonder if those guys from last night will come again tonight?"
Li Ye took out half a jar of wine, poured four glasses and put them down. He looked at her and smiled and said: "The biggest king has been dealt with. Those little guys should not come running to die."
The tempting aroma of barbecue wafted over. Nangong Ruyu reached out, grabbed a piece, put it in her mouth, and took a bite... "Master, this is better than the snow chicken we grilled in the yard."
"Then eat more!" Li Ye smiled.
Xia Wutong also put it in his mouth, took a bite, and said, "Sure enough, it tastes better than the roasted meat before."
Tang Qiuyu couldn't help but took a bite. After that, he didn't say a word. He just lowered his head to eat the meat. After eating, he took another sip of wine.
"Looks like I need to kill a few more heads. I'll take them back to the imperial city and eat them again." Tang Qiuyu was also addicted.
"Master, you are so good at eating it. You even want to pack it up and take it back to the imperial city. You have to wait until the weather is good to make it into dried meat, otherwise it will smell bad if you don't take it back."
Xia Wutong stayed in Xuantian Temple for a few days and still knew this truth.
"Well, master, make more and take it with you. If there's nothing good to eat at the Tianshan Sword Sect, we'll cook some meat."
The little guy's mind was thinking further, and his heart had already flown to the Tianshan Sword Sect in the Northern Territory.
Li Ye looked up at the three foodies and couldn't help but smile and said: "Senior sister will teach Yu'er archery tomorrow. Before going back, Yu'er has to kill a wild beast by herself."
"Do you have a bow and arrow? Your iron bow and jade will definitely not be able to pull it." Xia Wutong looked at him and knew.
Li Ye smiled: "You forgot, I still have a wooden bow in Fuchun River..."
Xia Wutong suddenly realized, looked at Nangong Ru's jade pen and said, "Yu'er is going to suffer."
Tang Qiuyu glared at the three of them, pointed at the meat on the fire and said, "Barbecue quickly."
...
In the Imperial City of the Central Region, in the emperor's study.
Nalan Yu and the chief eunuch stood aside, looking at His Majesty the Emperor who was admiring it with a black knife.
"The master's craftsmanship is so good, I can't help but want him to cast one for me." The emperor noticed that he was a little distracted, and after a slight start, he said with a smile.
"How about your Majesty using this one first? Then let the national master recast it for me later." Nalan Yu said with a smile. "I don't know where the Imperial Master is now. I heard he is going into the mountains to collect medicine."
"How can that be done?" Looking at the respectful general in front of Nan Qian, the emperor said quietly: "You are a general, how can you have no weapons? I don't lack these things around me. I just look at the craftsmanship of the national master and endure it. I can’t help but think of him.”
After speaking, he handed the black knife in his hand to Yan Wuxue and said with a smile: "General Manager, let's see, how is the craftsmanship of the Imperial Master?"
"Good guy! These are Ouyang Dongli's disciples, the only two in the five regions." Yan Wuxue took the black knife, put it in his hand and stroked it gently, praising softly.
"It's a pity that due to innate deficiencies in the Five Regions, there are few Earth Fires, no Heavenly Fires, and lack of materials. As a result, the Five Regions do not have many magical weapons."
Looking at the two of them, the emperor sighed softly.
Yan Wuxue smiled slightly and responded: "That's good, it saves the emperor a lot of worry, otherwise he would have to be careful of those who are careful and cause trouble from time to time."
"That's true. We all don't have magic weapons, so we can live in peace with each other and it's not easy for trouble to arise." The emperor said calmly.
Yan Wuxuejing handed the black sword to Nalan Yu, looked at him and asked: "Congratulations to General Nalan."
Nalan Yu smiled and put the knife into its sheath.
Looking at the two people, the emperor thought for a while and said: "I wonder how prepared the Nanxuan Region and Dongxuan Region are for the military training mentioned by the Imperial Master?"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have sent a secret letter to the two Palace Masters. Both of them were single-handedly promoted by the Imperial Master and will not make mistakes." Nalan Yu looked at the Emperor and replied seriously.
"Despite this, it would be better to send two capable lieutenants to the second domain to supervise!" The emperor looked at the two men and said softly: "We have to be on guard no matter what. The Imperial Advisor always does everything for our safety. Got my thoughts."
