That night, Xiao Hei invited Crow to drink a pot of spiritual wine.
Qingqing ate two pieces of dragon meat and drank a belly of soup made with the elixir dragon meat. She sneaked into the house early and waited to break through in her dream.
Even the old shopkeeper said that this was a pot of precious medicine. After drinking three glasses of spiritual wine, he went back to the ground floor early to meditate and circulate Qi, waiting for another breakthrough in one day.
Xiao Hei didn't expect that just a piece of black dragon meat would cause Qingqing and the old shopkeeper to break through.
Then he looked at the crow and asked, "Why are you okay?"
Crow shook his head and smiled: "Why are you okay?"
Xiao Hei sighed and said leisurely: "I wonder if the old turtle will transform as he wishes tomorrow after taking the elixir? Can you take a look when you go back?"
Crow shook his head and said with a smile: "That old guy is better than that girl Bai Ling. Believe it or not, when I go home tomorrow, he might already be talking to the monk."
Xiao Hei sighed and said: "Since he wants to leave with you, then take him with you."
In his opinion, the old turtle had endured so many years of loneliness in the big lake, and it was time to leave this small world occupied by insects.
Crow was worried about Xiao Hei and repeatedly asked Xiao Hei where he would go in the future.
Xiao Hei touched his head and smiled: "Our world is different. If you don't want to stay, don't ask me where I am going."
Just like he no longer asked Bai Ling where he was going to go in the future, once he left, he stopped entangled.
This is what the old monk taught him back then. His brother and the old Taoist called it: "Go and recite."
Crow didn't understand these principles, but couldn't help but ask: "Where else can you go if you leave this small world?"
Xiao Hei took a sip of the spirit wine and smiled lightly: "I still have a brother and sister waiting for me. My world is much more exciting than yours."
With the elixir, maybe he could try to change Qingyu, the runaway princess in the Imperial City of Northern Qi, and the old Taoist priest on Qingniu Mountain.
Maybe after taking the elixir and asking my brother to show them a clear path, they might not be unable to cultivate immortality in this world.
Before he could think of talking, a crow fell down in front of him.
After drinking an unknown amount of spiritual wine, this guy finally got drunk.
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Spring is warm in Tianhu, and Xiaohu and Shuzi on Tianshan Mountain have been practicing swordsmanship by the lake early.
The happiest thing was Ashina. This princess who ran away from home finally got her wish on Tianshan Mountain and became a monk in the Qi Gathering Realm.
These days, she has been following Shuzi to learn the methods of running practice and meditation.
There were many long swords, and Xiaohu gave her one.
So, she started to practice sword-drawing skills with Xiaohu in the wind and snow again, and she spent a whole winter learning it well.
A few days later, Li Xiuyuan added two more magic circles in front of Yan's grave to ensure that she would not be disturbed by the wild beasts on Tianshan Mountain.
Xiaohu also knew that if he left this time, he was afraid that he would never be able to come back to visit his mother again.
These days, when he had nothing to do, he would accompany his husband to talk at his mother's grave, and he felt very uncomfortable looking at Shuzi.
In the end, Li Xiuyuan patted him on the shoulder and said, "She has been gone for hundreds of years and has entered reincarnation long ago. We have to remember her and give up her memory."
Xiaohu nodded and replied: "Although I understand this truth, I still feel a little uncomfortable."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said in a solemn voice: "We will leave tomorrow. After walking to the capital in the desert, we will return to the imperial city."
The imperial city is also Xiaohu's dream, and there are no traces of him and his mother anywhere.
Not to mention that there was an older brother, Xiaohei, waiting there. Xiaohu finally had a smile on his face.
Looking at Shuzi and Asuna on the side, Xiaohu suddenly laughed.
She said with a smile: "Last year, the caravans of Northern Qi and Da Zhou went to the capital to marry each other in vain. I wonder if we can meet them on the road this time?" Ashina was stunned, looked up at Li Xiuyuan and asked: "Sir, can Asuna not marry?"
Li Xiuyuan raised his head and looked at the ripples caused by a big fish on the Tianhu Lake. The ripples spread to all directions, which was very beautiful.
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Thinking about the imperial empress of Zhou Dynasty written in the history books, I couldn't help but smile lightly.
He looked at her and replied: "This matter ultimately depends on your father's wishes, secondly it depends on your own thoughts, and finally it depends on God's will."
Both countries wanted to make peace with the Turks, so as to use the other party's soldiers and horses to destroy the opponent.
It's just that the Turkic Khan is also a capricious villain, which makes the marriage delay for countless years.
He didn't expect that this matter would eventually fall on Xiaohu and Shuzi, and in his own hands.
Even so, he still wouldn't make up his mind for Asuna. After all, this was a major event related to the course of history, and neither he nor Xiaohu could get involved.
But Shuzi gave her an idea and said with a smile: "If you become the empress of Zhou's imperial city, you can come and sit at my place."
"I also have a younger brother, Xiaohei, who is currently staying in the Great Zhou Palace..."
It wasn't until this moment that Shuzi remembered that there was a queen in Zhou Dynasty. Could it be possible that a dynasty could have two queens?
What Shuzi didn't know was that Li was actually a queen, but had never been canonized as a queen.
But, all this is a thing for later.
On this day, Xiaohu stayed with his mother's grave for the whole day. Li Xiuyuan took Shuzi to the lake to catch some fish, roasted them overnight, and said they would take them on the road to eat.
There is no way, Shuzi and Xiaohu both like to eat the meat grilled by their husband and brother, and even Ashina likes the taste.
But on this day, Asuna also had an idea in her mind.
Just to get closer to her husband and Shuzi in the future, she would have to marry to the Imperial City of Zhou Dynasty. The emperor of Northern Qi had a bad reputation, and she didn't want to marry an emperor who was addicted to romance.
During this period of time, he followed Shuzi to learn the skills of sword use. In addition to stabbing, he also learned skills such as chopping, teasing, hanging, point, collapse, and interception.
Xiaohu even asked her to practice the simplest sword-drawing movements day after day.
It is said that if you practice hard for four or five years, you will be able to protect yourself even if you encounter danger.
The spring breeze blew, and Xiaohu finally said goodbye to his mother reluctantly. He knelt in front of the grave and kowtowed three times, with tears streaming down his face. Shuzi couldn't bear to look at it, so she also kowtowed three times.
Beside the big lake, Li Xiuyuan stood there quietly and motionless, like a sculpture.
He knew that this farewell meant that we would never see each other again. Although his old friend had passed away, he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.
Everything is just like yesterday.
The stubborn woman who felt sorry for her son and wanted to leave the royal city with Xiaohu even though she had been wronged could never come back.
The four of them were speechless and walked all the way down Tianshan Mountain.
After going down the mountain, Xiaohu rented two carriages in the village and headed all the way to the capital deep in the desert.
At this time, spring was just blooming, and even the coachman in the village didn't mind running a long distance to earn more money for his family.
Fortunately, Shuzi and Ashina didn't care, and Li Xiuyuan was even more happy to sit in the carriage and relax, leaving Xiaohu to sleep on the carriage for several days with his head in his arms.
The two carriages drove all the way to the town where Xiaohu met the fat man from Northern Qi last year.
After getting off the carriage, Shuzi suddenly shouted loudly: "Come on Xiaohu, you have an acquaintance here."
Xiaohu looked up and saw a fat man leading a horse towards the inn where he was.
I couldn't help but be stunned. Isn't the guy with the heart living in seclusion?
The fat man holding the horse didn't expect to meet Xiaohu here, so he couldn't help but greet him from a distance: "I said, why are you so mysterious? Do you want to scare people?"
Xiaohu sighed, looked at the fat man and said, "I'm going to rest in this inn all night. Do you want to have a drink with me?"
When Li Xiuyuan saw Xiaohu meeting his friend, he ignored him and took Shuzi Ashina to the inn. He never talked too much about Xiaohu.
After all, he has been taught propriety, and if he disobeys again, he will be beaten.
"I'm just out for a walk, but I have to go back in two days!"
Fatty followed Xiaohu and settled in the inn. The two found a place to sit down. Fatty told Xiaohu his plans. After all, he was used to living there.
"Where do you plan to go when you come down from Tianshan this time?"
The fat man took the tea from the waiter and asked, "You don't want to go back to the capital to have a look, do you? Is there anything interesting there?"
Xiaohu replied in surprise: "How did you know I was going to the capital? By the way, I was going for a walk with my brother. Didn't you see that was my brother?"
The fat man was stunned this time: "Think about it for a while, are you planning to send that girl back to the capital?"
Xiaohu chuckled, took a sip of the hot tea handed over by the fat man, and replied casually: "That's not entirely true. My brother has never been to the capital and wants to see it."
"Then what? Go back to Tianshan? How about you live with me for a year and a half? I bought a yard there. It's really good."
The fat man said proudly: "I plan to live there for ten or eight years before I come out to travel around the world."
Xiaohu shook his head and said: "When we come back from the capital, we are going to the imperial city of Zhou Dynasty. I have a younger brother waiting for us somewhere."
Fatty obviously didn't expect Xiaohu's final destination to be the imperial city of Zhou Dynasty, and he couldn't help being stunned.
As if thinking about his final destination, where is he?
Xiaohu patted the fat man on the shoulder and said seriously: "Since you have no hope of rising in a few decades, why not find a wife to live with you honestly."
Fatty didn't expect it to go well. Xiaohu once again mentioned his wife's matter to him, and he was speechless for a moment.
Perhaps, he thought of the gentle smile of the woman who sold his yard...
Shivering all over, he replied after a while: "I'll go back and discuss it with her."
When Xiaohu heard this, he patted the table and said with a smile: "Based on your words, I will have three drinks with you tonight."
The two drank two cups of tea, and the fat man ordered several plates of melon seeds and dried meat to be served.
Xiaohu thought about the bad things that happened on the road last year, and couldn't help but think of Asuna.
He looked at the fat man and asked, "Let me tell you, those caravans from Northern Qi last year, if they come back this year, will they recognize you?"
The fat man shook his head and said quietly: "They are just the Imperial City's imperial guards. I have always hated them. How do they know who I am?"
Xiaohu then nodded, looked at him and said seriously: "Remember, never let your enemies know where you are settling."
The fat man was greatly moved when he heard this, and said with emotion: "Brother, you are still good to me. There are not many people who are sincere to me these days."
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from outside the inn.
Xiao Hu thought to himself that he really couldn't talk to people during the day, and not long after he finished talking, the ghost came.
Looking at the fat man facing him, he whispered: "I was telling you about the caravan from Northern Qi just now. No, I didn't expect them to come again. I guess my trip last year was in vain!"
The fat man had a stern expression on his face, and then he smiled faintly: "Come here, it's none of my business."
While they were talking, several people from the Northern Qi caravan entered the inn.
The middle-aged shopkeeper's eyes fell on Xiaohu and the two of them. He couldn't help being stunned and blurted out: "The mountains have not changed, but the water has changed. I didn't expect that my little brother is still alive?"
Xiaohu immediately became angry when he heard this, glanced at him, and then shook his head.
Said: "I am neither a killer nor a bandit. Why did the shopkeeper curse me like this?"
