The next day.
When Li Junchen woke up, he stood up and sat on the bed. The blank space in his mind made him look sluggish.
He saw the light outside through the window in the room, and then turned to look at the beds on both sides. There was no one on the bed.
Lu Youjing and Chen Tianwen were not under the covers. It seemed that they had gotten up long ago.
Li Junchen grabbed the clothes beside the bed and quickly put them on.
He walked out of the room and stood in the yard. He saw a figure in the kitchen, walking back and forth looking for something.
Li Junchen yawned and asked, "Chen Tianwen, what are you doing there!"
"You're awake. I'm waiting for you to get up. The pots in the kitchen are too dirty. There is a well not far from our yard. I picked up some water and just cleaned the kitchen."
Chen Tianwen rolled up his sleeves and walked out carrying a wooden bucket.
Judging from the dense beads of sweat on his forehead, it was extremely difficult in this winter, which meant that he had indeed been busy for a long time, and the water stains on his body were old and new.
Li Junchen saw that even though he was cleaning the kitchen, Chen Tianwen didn't have any stains on his face. His black hair was tied back and he looked very energetic.
He thought that they had finished their work, so he got up and said with a slight blush, "Why didn't you see that guy Lu Youjing?"
"He said he saw a few edible grasses at the entrance of the well and was digging grass there to eat." Chen Tianwen showed a wry smile. He also couldn't understand why Lu Youjing was so ignorant in this regard. Pass.
He can be considered a wizard.
"As soon as he got up, he went out and started looking for food. I really think that guy only wants to eat, and he doesn't know how to help you clean the kitchen."
Li Junchen cursed.
Chen Tianwen shook his head and said softly: "It doesn't matter, he is probably more troublesome. It's not bad if it's not enough for me to cause trouble. But fortunately, he carried the two buckets of water. I don't have as much strength as you two."
Having said this, Chen Tianwen secretly thought: Let's practice martial arts quickly!
In this way, he could carry two buckets of water and walk as fast as Lu Youjing. To be honest, he was really envious.
Li Junchen said with a smile: "That guy did something serious, let me tell you."
"What's wrong?" Chen Tianwen casually put the bucket in the corner, rolled up his sleeves, and took a look at his clothes. Fortunately, they were not stained.
Li Junchen gritted his teeth and said: "After you got drunk last night, I took a sip of the rest of the wine, and the guy snatched it away and drank it all. Then he chatted with me and fell down while talking. I fell asleep on my shoulder.”
When Chen Tianwen heard that he was drunk, his face was a little embarrassed, and then he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Lu Youjing was also drunk.
He lowered his head slightly, looked at his feet, and asked in a low voice: "So I didn't do anything embarrassing when I was drunk last night."
Li Junchen looked at Chen Tianwen's uneasy look, smiled and said, "You don't, you are still graceful and elegant when you sleep, looking like a great talent."
"Don't make fun of me, although I am indeed handsome."
Chen Tianwen imitated Lu Youjing's exaggerated appearance and told a cold joke, but he looked like a scholar and was full of awe-inspiring righteousness. He couldn't imitate Lu Youjing's impetuous aura. He didn't look like a playboy at all. He was a bit nondescript.
Li Junchen smiled appropriately, and then said: "It's that guy Lu Youjing. After he was drunk, he kept shouting about steamed buns and steamed buns. He was a little bit crazy."
"Who is criticizing me behind my back?"
A loud shout came from the courtyard gate.
Li Junchen turned around and saw Lu Youjing with his head held high, a piece of grass in his mouth, and his sleeves rolled up to his shoulders, revealing a pair of white arms.
Looking down, he saw that the other person was holding a handful of grass in his mouth, striding towards Li Junchen with an arrogant expression.
Li Junchen saw this ruffian coming back and said with a cold face: "You guys have the nerve to say that I criticize you behind your back, then I'll blow you to death in front of you, okay?"
Lu Youjing smiled and nodded: "Feel free to come here, but I will be afraid of you. You may not know how I, the No. 1 Young Master of Beixiang County, got my reputation."
He shook his sleeves, put his hands behind his back, and looked at Li Junchen with wide eyes, but because his sleeves were rolled up so high, he couldn't shake them off at all.
Li Junchen said with a half-smile, "Maybe you people in Beixiang County all like to eat big steamed buns."
"Why do you say that?"
"You won't forget that last night, I carried Chen Tianwen to the room. You took advantage of this opportunity to drink all the wine, and then kept shouting about steamed buns, steamed buns!"
Lu Youjing was stunned. He said why he woke up so hungry in the morning. It turned out that he dreamed of eating steamed buns last night. Now Li Junchen listened.
Do you want to silence yourself?
This kid seems to have some skills, so I'm afraid it won't be that easy.
Chen Tianwen asked that this person was not bad.
Forget it.
"Oh, it turns out there is such a thing. I think you missed me a little when you woke up and didn't see me for the first time. I misunderstood you."
Lu Youjing smiled flatteringly at Li Junchen.
"You are right. You didn't eat anything bad this morning! For example, those beautiful mushrooms, I heard they can make people hallucinate."
Li Junchen saw that Lu Youjing was extremely excited and asked worriedly.
"What are you talking about? I know how to eat that thing. I'm talking about where can there be mushrooms in this winter." Lu Youjing glanced disdainfully, but he really didn't mean to show disdain to Li Junchen. It was really like ordinary people in the past. He looked down upon them.
So now it's all out of habit.
Chen Tianwen watched Li Junchen and Lu Youjing's endless bickering.
He cried and laughed and said to the two of them: "You two have forgotten that you have to go to Thousand Stone Forest to find the mountain chief's apprentice today!"
If this delay continued, he felt that the first person to faint from hunger would be this person with weak health. Judging from the high spirits of Li Junchen and Lu Youjing, as long as these two people were put together, they could last at least three days.
"Oh, I almost forgot about this." Lu Youjing pretended to be annoyed.
"Come on, you two eat some grass first. This grass is called sweet root. It tastes sweet. Although it won't satisfy our hunger, it can still keep us going for a while."
Lu Youjing gave some of the grass in his hand to Li Junchen and Chen Tianwen.
Li Junchen looked at the grass in his hand, which Lu Youjing called sweet roots. The whole grass was white and yellow in color and was about a foot long. It looked like there were water stains on it, which meant that Lu Youjing had dealt with it when he came here. Yes, it looks very clean, without any dirt on it.
He followed Lu Youjing's example, picked up a piece of grass, put it into his mouth, and chewed it. It was really sweet and had a small amount of water in it.
Li Junchen nodded and said, "Not bad."
Lu Youjing held his head high and said proudly: "Of course what I like is good. You two should eat more. If it's not enough, we will dig it out. There is a large area of this kind of grass over there. There are plenty of it."
Chen Tianwen thought to himself: "Painting cakes to satisfy hunger, looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst, in the future I will have to eat grass to fill my stomach!"
"Oh, yes, come on, come with me, I have a little discovery here."
Lu Youjing walked out of the yard, and Li Junchen and Li Junchen followed Lu Youjing. The yard where they lived was at a high place after all, and more houses were actually built at the foot of the mountain.
Lu Youjing stood outside the courtyard, pointing to the rows of houses at the foot of the mountain, and said, "I just counted, there are ninety houses at the foot of the mountain, and we have nine houses up here."
"Then what."
Li Junchen looked at the houses at the bottom of the mountain. They were rehearsed like a military camp. They were similar in size and style. He could easily count them. He did not question Lu Youjing's arithmetic skills.
The courtyards on the mountain are different, and they are farther apart.
The most beautiful and gorgeous building is the place on the mountain, which is like a small palace.
"Then, I've been digging grass outside for a long time, and I haven't seen anyone wandering around at the bottom of the mountain. Don't you think it's strange?"
The view from where Li Junchen was was extremely wide. There were no big trees and flowers in front of him, but smooth bluestones, as if someone had cut them out from the sky with a giant sword. There were dozens of feet of stone hanging in front of him.
Below the stone cliff are what Lu Youjing said, those houses arranged neatly in a certain way.
"Logically speaking, there shouldn't be no one there. With so many houses and hundreds of people living there, it's not difficult. Besides, when I came here yesterday, I didn't see a single person. It's very strange."
Chen Tianwen thought for a while and said.
Li Junchen looked at the two people who were thinking hard, waved his hand and said with a smile: "What are you thinking about here? Let's go down and find out what's going on."
He was also very curious.
"Qianshilin, aren't we going?" Chen Tianwen frowned and asked worriedly.
"What are you afraid of? I went there just for a bite of food. There are so many people down here, so I'm afraid I won't be able to get a bite to eat." Lu Youjing agreed with Li Junchen's suggestion.
"Lu Youjing, after you said this, I have a bad feeling!" Li Junchen looked at Lu Youjing and said seriously.
"What a bad premonition."
Li Junchen thought for a while, nodded and said, "Maybe there is really no food to eat."
"Then let's not go, and go directly to Thousand Stone Forest." Chen Tianwen persuaded the two of them. He always felt that there was something wrong with the arrangement of the houses, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, and it was not good for Li Jun. Shen and Shen made it clear.
I could only keep urging the two of them to go to Thousand Stone Forest as soon as possible.
"You still believe this kind of thing." Lu Youjing glanced at Chen Tianwen a little surprised. He didn't believe Li Junchen's nonsense. It was just a secret dig at himself.
It seems that the act of snatching his drink last night has not made the other party angry yet.
Chen Tianwen nodded and said seriously: "I believe in fate."
Lu Youjing looked at the other party's serious look and almost bit his tongue. You are a son of an aristocratic family and you believe in fate...
"Come on, let's go down and have a look. Don't delay. It won't take much time. We can still go to Thousand Stone Forest to meet the mountain chief's apprentice."
