Heaven's Formula

"Yes." The energetic He'er stretched out his hands and pressed them on the books, "Xianshu, chess game in the world!"

After a hazy light and shadow, her voice returned to immature, "The probability of success is ninety-nine percent."

Yan Qing said in a deep voice, "Action!"

The alchemists put on black robes and took advantage of the darkness to enter the forest silently. It was He'er who showed them the way——

"Don't relax your vigilance at the intersection of mountains and paths. Although there are no dense trees there, there may be poisonous insect traps hidden in the bushes."

"Report, a nest of poisonous insects has been found ahead, and all of them have been destroyed."

"Fine, move on."

"Although the Fang family is not good at fighting with spells, they can command the guards of the living dead. The latter have weak five senses, so as long as they hold their breath, they can easily pass their surveillance."

"My lord, those big trees in front are the Fang family's tree house."

"Avoid the guards, let's go over from the sky." Yan Qing ordered, "Fox bats!"

"Understood," the alchemist known as the flying fox cast a spell, and his outstretched hands instantly turned into surging black air, enveloping the surrounding alchemists in it.Then he jumped up and flew up to the treetops like waving huge wings, and gliding for a short distance between several big trees, finally landed on the tree house silently.

"Leave one man to put the rope gun, and the rest will follow me."

"Yes!"

"According to information, the head of the Fang family lives on the roof of the largest tree. When entering, you should pay extra attention to Fang Jiuzhang and a special undead person. Fang Yu is nothing to worry about. The threat of Fang Jiuzhang lies in the use of poison. Subdue it for a while. The living dead looks like a girl, but its strength should not be underestimated. If you encounter resistance, you don’t have to hold back, you should kill it with all your strength.”

He'er's words are still in his ears.

Yan Qing glanced at Baihuajian, "Do it!"

The two broke through the roof and landed directly in the middle of the room.Almost instantly, the iron chain in her hand penetrated into the ground and quickly spread to the entire tree house.This is the net she made, and any creature that steps into it will become the prey she perceives immediately.

But there was no strange feeling.

The room was quiet, as if the Fang family were still asleep.

"Report, the outside of the house has been controlled, and no guards have been found!"

"Master Yan, there is no trace of an alchemist in this residence, and something seems to be wrong."

Baihuajian took out a fire pocket from his pocket, lit the candle on the table, the flame flickered twice, then stabilized quickly, and the dim yellow light illuminated the tree house little by little.

There was no one on the bed on one side, obviously the Patriarch of the Fang family did not fall asleep here.

what's going on?Yan Qing frowned, the action plan was leaked?The other party is deliberately leading her into the ring?

"Wait a minute, there seems to be a note on the table." Bai Huajian noticed that on the low table in the center of the room, there was a piece of white paper with a few bold lines written on it.

Yan Qing walked over and picked up the paper.

"The Fang family gave it to you, you're welcome."

"We don't have many disciples, only about thirty or so. We have finished dividing the family property, and we have gone to east, west, north, south, don't read it."

"Don't come looking for it, it won't yield any results. Just treat us as dead, and offer incense sticks for us next year on Qingming Festival, thank you."

"Fang Jiuzhang, Fang Yuliu."

Chapter 248 More Comfortable Things

Shenzhou, Jinxia City.

The time has come to December unknowingly, even in Yancheng, which is always hot by the sea, there is a chill in the air.

For the residents of the city, it can be said that they have seen more changes in these few months than in the previous half a lifetime.The Bureau has fully fulfilled its promise, not only repairing all the houses that were burned during the pirate invasion before winter, but also building a large number of new houses.

These neat row houses are beautiful and grand, one after another along the street, making the originally somewhat empty inner city denser and more compact.

Especially in the section from the Inland River Wharf in the north of the city to the Chengdong Affairs Bureau, it will pass through the large factory building, the machine building bureau and the residential area successively. Vigorous.

As a result, the number of shops and pedestrians on the street has increased significantly.

Even though winter has officially entered, business and trade seem to show no sign of abating.At this time in the past, there were often only two things that could be bought in the market, one was expensive charcoal, and the other was meat that was also expensive.The former needs to compete with the salt cooking field, while the latter is a must-have for the Chinese New Year.

This year, however, that has changed.

First of all, the price of charcoal is very low, and you can buy a basket of copper coins; secondly, there are also a large number of fresh seafood in the meat market. The price of meat.

Except for these two types of goods, there are still plenty of other commodities—from fabrics to ready-to-wear shoes and socks, from paper, pen and ink to various daily utensils. No one wants to close the store early.As if the wallets in the pockets of the residents swelled up overnight, the market area is always patronized by people.Faced with this change, businessmen also postponed their plans to close their stalls for the New Year, hoping to make more money.

But the difference that makes the locals feel the deepest is the salt price in Yancheng.

After the fall of the Wang family, there was a saying in the neighborhood that the salt production could not keep up, and the salt price might skyrocket.Coupled with the closure of the salt cooking plant, this rumor has been promoted even more.

Until the bureau itself sold salt publicly.

The price of salt was only a quarter of the normal price, and anyone could buy a bag, and such good news spread throughout the city in an instant.At this moment, people really believed that there were new saltworks on the east coast, and after the Bureau of Affairs released the list of saltworks recruitment, applicants quickly piled up the quota.

The fact that people in Yancheng couldn't afford salt has since become history.

All these changes made the bureau's prestige unprecedentedly high, and everyone understood that it was not the government office that brought these benefits, but the princess who lived in Fengyang Villa and her representative Xia Fucheng.

Today's new residents, the first thing they hear from their neighbors is the anecdote of these two people.

Of course, not only ordinary people in Jinxia City were affected by the changes, but Xia Fan himself was also included.

Under the strong suggestion of the princess, he moved out of the alchemist dormitory where he was originally, and moved into a new house in the south of the city.

Ning Wanjun's original words were: "I don't mind if you live in the villa permanently, but as the head of the Privy Council and the Bureau of Affairs, you shouldn't even have a mansion of your own. Talking about it will only embarrass me. .Chengnan District itself is a place where officials and wealthy businessmen gather. Now that there are so many empty places, you can choose a house at random. You can build it yourself.”

So Xia Fan had a permanent home for the first time.

He didn't choose the residences of those officials, but chose to rebuild them - each of those mansions covers an area of ​​tens of acres, with small bridges in the garden, and seven or eight houses. Unreasonable.Therefore, he directly leveled a large courtyard, used part of it as the base of his own mansion, and built a "big flat floor" of about [-] square meters on it. Including the area of ​​the front yard and the back yard, the overall area is almost Five hundred square meters.

According to the point of view of this era, although the mansion with less than an acre of land could not be called magnificent, it was already an extremely spacious house for Xia Fan.

After the housewarming banquet, he and Li moved into their new home.

Shanhui was arranged to live in a house across the street, so they could take care of each other.

"I thought you would also let me live opposite or next door." Li looked around the new house, her light tone undoubtedly showed that she was in a good mood at the moment.

"If you want to have a space to be alone." Xia Fan walked to a copper pipe, pressed his hands on the surface, and cast a shock spell, "But no matter when, the door of this house is open to you."

"There's no need to be so troublesome, just arrange it like this." Li also followed and asked curiously, "What is this?"

"A heating device, commonly known as floor heating, can keep the house at a comfortable temperature without burning charcoal." Xia Fan laughed.Although Jinxia City belongs to the southern city, the average temperature is not low, but because it is close to the sea, the humidity is quite heavy, which is the magical attack that ordinary clothes and bedding cannot resist. Therefore, at the beginning of construction, he considered the need for independent heating.

A few copper pipes, the fine sand filling the bottom of the house, and the wooden floor laid throughout the house constitute a simple and reliable heating device.This set of floor heating does not need a water pump to keep the warm water running, and the heating method is electric heating. Apart from manual heating once a day, there are no other disadvantages.

"So that's how it is," Li immediately understood its principle, "it's the same as the stone room where you boiled salt water, right?"

"Smart." Xia Fan praised.The reason why he expends energy to do this is very simple, he doesn't want to wrap the winter fox demon in three layers, so that when he returns home, he can still enjoy the whole picture of the other party.

What's more, being able to take off your shoes and run around barefoot as soon as you arrive at the house is an extremely pleasant thing in itself.

"What is this bench?" Li turned his head to look at the buckskin sofa in the living room, ran over to touch it, "It feels so soft!"

"It's stuffed with cotton, that's why it's fluffy. So are the beds, by the way."

"You really know how to enjoy it." The fox demon lay on it and stretched out, "It's so comfortable... Is this news that only the listener can know?"

"Probably." Xia Fan didn't bother to argue that he wasn't a listener. "By the way," he cleared his throat, "There is another more comfortable thing, but it needs someone's assistance to complete it."

"Oh? What?"

He took out a box from his pocket and opened it, revealing several thin needles and fluffy balls inside.

"Put this in your ear to remove earwax. I heard it's ten times more enjoyable than scratching it."

"Are you sure? I've never tried... What if I stab your ear?"

"If not, I'll make a demonstration first."

Li suddenly tilted his head, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "I said, are you just looking for an excuse to touch my ear?"

Xia Fan froze, had his intentions been seen through?

Indeed, it has been several months since Li agreed to let him pet his tail, and he often thinks about how to go further—but after all, the ears grow on the top of the head, and it is always inappropriate to speak directly, and it will undoubtedly be a blow if he is rejected, so Only then did I come up with the method of curve research, and use my ears to achieve a breakthrough.

Unexpectedly, before it was implemented, his idea was clearly understood by the other party.

"Actually, you don't need to make so many excuses. I know you are full of curiosity about monsters, and this is not a bad thing..." Li Li lay down and said, "So it's okay, just do it according to your ideas."

Chapter 249 A Heart That Fluctuates

Looking at the lying fox demon, Xia Fan took a deep breath.

It's obviously not a heart test, but the heartbeat seems to be a little faster than during the Zhongkan technique.

He sat next to the other person and cupped one of his ears.

Li twisted a little, and seemed a little uncomfortable, but she still closed her eyes and let Xia Fan feel it carefully.

——This is a genuine animal ear.

Compared with Shanhui's Shiba Inu ears, these ears are undoubtedly much longer.

Xia Fan thought, it feels like a cattail leaf, wide and soft, but not without strength.A slightly pulsating meridian can be touched at the root of the ear. As long as the fox demon thinks, it can immediately stand up and capture the small sound a hundred meters away.

He followed the outer skin of the ear to the inside, where there was a ball-shaped fluff that blocked the entrance of the ear canal, probably to resist the intrusion of dust and rain.

I have to say that this shape is quite scientific.

"Giggle..." When Xia Fan kneaded the ball of fluff, Li couldn't help laughing out loud, "It's a little itchy, and..."

"And what?"

"It's an indescribable feeling."

"Okay," Xia Fan withdrew his hand, "The next step is to clean the ears."

"Hmm." She responded softly.

Xia Fan picked up a slender earpick, passed through the fluff, and penetrated into the depths of the fox demon's ear hole, and the latter's body immediately tensed up.

Obviously, when this sensitive place is invaded by a foreign object, anyone's first reaction is tension and rejection.

But even so, she did not express the slightest rejection.

The ears are different from the tail—the latter is not a vital part of the body, and no matter how much you touch it, it will not cause serious consequences, but the former is connected to the head, and even she herself rarely touches the ear canal deeply.

In fact, Li himself was surprised.

She didn't expect that one day people would be unsuspecting and let humans come into close contact with this kind of weakness.

But thinking back a little bit, she felt that this scene was a matter of course.

Perhaps since the two of Gaoshan County fought side by side, she has been different from her previous self.

After the initial stiffness and uneasiness subsided, Li felt an indescribable sense of comfort, as if the lower part of her brain's scalp was being touched directly, and she couldn't help but hum softly.

It seems that the other party did not make a mistake.

This is indeed a very pleasant thing.

After removing both ears, Xia Fan let out a sigh of relief.

Finally, he took another solid step in exploring monsters.

"It feels... pretty good." Li wagged his tail and straightened up, took the box of tools, "Lie down, it's your turn next."

"Uh..." Looking at the other party's eager expression, Xia Fan suddenly had a bad feeling, "Actually, it doesn't matter if I put it next time."

"That can't be done." Li stretched out his tail, and easily rolled Xia Fan onto his legs, "I suddenly thought of a new training method."

"No way, is that okay?"

"Do you still remember the shield technique used by the An family during the last battle of Jinxia City? It was the echo technique that can amplify perception—actually, I also know a little bit about it." Li followed Xia Fan's previous practice and turned his ear The spoon stuck into his ear, "Then your feelings will be magnified several times. According to my experience just now, most of them should be benign feedback, but sometimes when facing the enemy, comfort and ease are more threatening than pain. If you are not careful, you will let down your vigilance. So you remember to stabilize your mind and don't lose to this kind of enjoyment."

"Wait, I'm not ready-"

"It's started. Kanshu, Echo!"

Immediately there was uncontrollable laughter and shouts in the room.

……

In the middle of the night, the fox turned out the window, quietly climbed up to the roof, and sat down on the ridge of the roof.

She didn't know why she had to leave the room at such a time.

Probably looking at the bright and clear moon above my head will calm down my mood fluctuations a little.

"Meow……"

The fat cat that had been following her before appeared in front of her again.