Aggrieved Fish Sprite

There is a gap behind the tree hole, and an earthen stove is built.

Perhaps Lin Dou has long been planning to use this place as a hiding place. The earthen stove is on a thick tree root several feet above the ground. The opening of the flue is very hidden. The hot air and smoke just pour into the raised tree root, waiting for the smoke to rise into the air. It has already drifted away, as long as you don't get close, you won't smell the smoky breath.

When Meng Qichu saw the smoke, his expression changed drastically, and he immediately followed the breath to find the earthen stove.

Huzi was squatting by the stove fanning the fire, but Meng Qi lifted his fan away, so frightened that he dropped his fan.

"Extinguish the fire!"

"But, the medicine hasn't been boiled yet..."

Hu Zi stammered, before he finished speaking, Mo Li followed.

"What's wrong?" Mo Li still didn't understand what was going on.

Meng Qi asked with a very bad expression: "Have you never seen a quagmire formed by decaying branches and leaves in the mountains? What would happen if an open fire was lit there?"

There is usually methane in the swamp, and mountain dwellers can often see bubbles emerging from the surface of the swamp. If a candle falls into it, sparks can be seen instantly, like firecrackers.The mountain people don't know what it is, and they usually call it a monster.

Because a monster was involved, Mo Carp naturally went to see it.

These puddles usually have a very bad smell.

Moli gave firewood to Huzi to cook the medicine, precisely because he did not smell the smell after entering the ancient forest, and because Huzi said that they had boiled hot water, Moli saw that the direction Huzi was going was not the ground. I didn't care.

As soon as Meng Qi reminded Dr. Mo that he saw the flue of the earthen stove, he was taken aback for a moment, then was shocked, and immediately extinguished the fire in the stove.

"What's the matter with this flue? Why do you want to vent the smoke like this?"

As soon as Mo Li said the words, he thought of Lin Dou's thoughts. This person was probably afraid that the cooking smoke would be discovered, so he covered it up like this, but isn't this courting death?

There is no smell in the forest, probably because of the snow and ice.

Underneath the roots is old sapropel mud, and the heat and smoke will melt snow and ice.

"How deep is the rotten ooze on the ground?" Mo Li asked.

"No, it's not that deep." Huzi compared the height, which probably reached his knees.

Mo Li was not relieved, he told Hu Zi: "Don't use this stove again."

If the methane in the mud layer rushes in along the flue, accumulates and increases, and encounters an open flame when heated, it will be enough for even a martial arts master, let alone a child.

The ink carp picked up the tiger and retreated to another tree.

Huzi looked confused, he didn't understand how to start a fire to cause trouble, they still spent several days!

Meng Qi walked around the earthen stove, and found that although the opening of the flue was pierced into the roots of the tree, other parts were still exposed, just covered up.Pushing aside the withered vines again, the airtightness of the flue was not good, and smoke leaked out from some places.

"How about it?"

"There is no danger for the time being, and there is no obvious smell near the tree roots." Meng Qi regained his leisurely look, he calmed down and said with a smile, "Maybe it's luck, there isn't much methane here, maybe it's because stupid people have to go to heaven Favor."

Doctor Mo was a little puzzled, and when he saw the unqualified and unsealed flue, he was speechless for a moment.

Meng Qi seemed to be in a good mood, and he said with emotion: "There are always some people who are blessed by God, foolishly looking for death, and then escaped because of their poor ability. After closing the gate of hell, they still don't know anything. In this world, foolish people have no worries, and sober people live in pain, doctor, do you think I should give up something and just muddle along like this?"

Doctor Mo didn't even think about it, and asked in surprise, "Why do you think that foolish people don't have any worries?"

"Eat and sleep every day, eat and sleep, what troubles do you have?"

"That's not a fool, it's a pig." Mo Li retorted solemnly, "Lin Dou is just a fool in your opinion. How dare you say he has no worries?"

With a legacy of the previous dynasty, living in hiding in Tibet, finally settled down in Qinghu Town, but met the holy lotus altar, gritted his teeth and lived here, but the epidemic happened again.In this situation, who would not worry about it?

"Don't talk about Lin Dou, just talk about Hu Zi, isn't he troubled?" Mo Li wiped off the ashes on Hu Zi's face.

Huzi blinked his eyes and lowered his head awkwardly.

The child is still young, Mo Li wondered if he understood Lin Dou's words just now.

But even if you don’t know your life experience, you can find many unusual things, such as why there are no parents, why they are hunted down, why everyone around them disappears and only Lin Dou is left. This is enough for a child. up.

"The farmer is worried about the harvest for a year, the businessman is worried about the damage of the goods, and even the fool who doesn't know anything is afraid of being beaten when he walks on the road. People have no long-term worries, but they must have near-term worries. How can there be people without worries in the world? Those who envy ordinary people who work at sunrise and rest at sunset must be wealthy people who have never tasted the hard work of farming, and those who envy others who live in a muddle-headed way must be smart people." Mo Li said, warning Meng Qi expressionlessly, "If you want to boast, just say it directly, don't be so euphemistic."

Meng Qi was dumbfounded.

He did always think of himself as extraordinary and different from ordinary people, but just now he really didn't mean to boast about being a smart person. Did the doctor misunderstand something?

Do I need to explain to the doctor?

Meng Qi struggled for a while, and suddenly realized that the other party did it on purpose.

——In order for him not to continue digging into the dead end.

Meng Qi raised his eyebrows, he looked at Mo Li with deeper eyes, thinking to himself, how could he meet such a person?

Mo Li picked up the earthen pot on the stove, the medicine hadn't been boiled yet, and a strong bitter smell had already emerged.

The crock was very hot, and the ink carp didn't care at all.

"If the doctor doesn't mind, I can help." Meng Qi took the initiative to reach out to receive the medicine jar.

Mo Li was a little worried, looked at the tree hole in front of him and said: "You don't know how long it will take, I will go to another place to find some firewood to cook the medicine. The sooner Lin Dou's illness recovers, he can take it with him as soon as possible. Huzi left Qinghu Town."

Meng Qi thought it was true, so he agreed to stay here and take care of it until Mo Li came back.

Hu Zi saw that the good-tempered doctor had left, so he quietly moved to a place far away from Meng Qi.

"Afraid of me?" Meng Qi raised his eyebrows.

Hu Zi shrank his neck, and instead of quibbling, he nodded honestly.

Meng Qi couldn't help squinting his eyes, thinking that this child is very smart and good at looking at people.

A noble man of noble blood who was forced to flee, not only does not have the appearance of domineering, but also winks at others. What does this mean?

This child's life is not easy. Although those guards tried their best to protect him, they didn't respect him as a superior. They only protected "Prince Zhaohua's blood".

So Lin Dou didn't tell Hu Zi the truth, and he controlled the child a lot, preventing him from interacting with outsiders, and not allowing him to eat food from outsiders.Lin Dou and others sacrificed their lives to protect the child, and the child must have a "correct attitude" in order to survive. The two are actually completing tasks of the same nature.

The difference is that Lin Dou is voluntary, and Hu Zi has no choice.

"You can light a fire and cook a stove." Meng Qi looked at the child in front of him and said to himself, "Interesting, really interesting."

Huzi didn't know what he was talking about, so he could only hide in a corner.

The child touched the goosebumps on his arms, and lowered his head, thinking that this person looks really good-looking, but he is also really scary.When he looked at it, it was like being stabbed on the neck with a knife, and the whole body was chilly, as if all clothes were gone, and all the secrets were exposed to the other party's eyes.

The more scared the tiger was, the more interested Meng Qi became. He suddenly felt that teasing children was also a good way to pass the time.

"Tell me, what are you thinking about right now?"

"..."

"Do you want to try the consequences of not telling or not telling the truth?" Meng Qi threatened directly, without any guilt of bullying the child.

Huzi shook his head hastily, and whispered, "I'm wondering when the doctor will come back."

It's not that I hope that Uncle Lin's medicine will be ready soon, but that with the presence of a doctor, this person will restrain himself.

Meng Qi saw through the child's mind at a glance, and said with a smile: "That's right, the doctor is a good man, and he can control me. It's a pity that he won't come back for the time being. You continue to say, don't try to get away with it, I'll wait."

Huzi was embarrassed, and couldn't help leaning his back against the tree trunk, and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito, "...I, I was thinking, in fact, you are the national teacher that Uncle Lin said."

"Oh?"

"...You are just afraid of trouble and don't want to take over my trouble." Hu Zi hung his head and repeated, "I know I am a trouble. Uncle Lin is always very dissatisfied with me. I can't do anything well."

Meng Qi was noncommittal: "What else?"

Hu Zi was stunned for a while, then suddenly pulled off the jade pendant around his neck and handed it to Meng Qi.

"If this thing stays with me, it will only bring trouble to me and Uncle Lin forever."

Meng Qi was a little surprised this time, he thought the child was just retreating and wanted to keep himself.

Huzi held the jade pendant and said in a low voice: "Actually, Uncle Lin said in his sleep that he hoped that I could become a great person, but I can't recite poems and books, and I can't learn martial arts..."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Meng Qi directly picked him up and walked into the tree hole.

Lin Dou was lying on the bed with all hope lost, when he saw Meng Qi bring the tiger cub in, his eyes lit up.

"Do you know what stupid thing you did?" Meng Qi didn't give Lin Dou a chance to speak, and scolded her head and face.

Lin Dou was very dazed at first, and was secretly annoyed by the scolding. After he realized that his flue almost blew up the tree hole, his expression turned to panic, and he was terrified.

Meng Qi didn't give him any face, and continued to scold him: "You don't know my identity, so you dare to trust the orphan? Even if I was the Meng Guoshi from the previous court, I would definitely protect this child? You know that when you said you were about to die, What kind of expression? At that time, you seemed to have thrown off a heavy burden, and your performance was so obvious that even the child knew it!"

Lin Dou looked at Hu Zi in shock, but the latter pursed his lips and remained silent.

Meng Qi sneered and said: "Not to mention, you want to keep the blood of Prince Zhaohua, why don't you throw away this jade pendant? The world is in chaos, and there are rebels everywhere. Now the imperial court is not strict in controlling the people. If If you wanted to hide it, how could you be found many times, and you were the only one left after death? Have you gone to contact the former government to find a good opportunity to restore the country?"

Lin Dou retorted instinctively: "I don't think so anymore, I just want to protect the tiger and let him grow up safely."

"It can be seen that otherwise he wouldn't be able to start a fire, just like an ordinary child. But even so, you still don't give up and entrust the tiger to me. The burden you throw out is not a troublesome legacy from the previous dynasty." pulse, but the idea of ​​restoring the country.”

Meng Qi put his hands behind his back and exposed Lin Dou mercilessly, "You really want to give up, but you are afraid that you will lose face after death... Let me think about it, maybe it's your father, maybe your colleagues, or even think that I have no face to see Prince Zhaohua."

Lin Dou couldn't speak, and he got up staggeringly after a while, and said in pain: "I know what the national teacher said. But they are all dead, and they put their hope on me before they die, but I live to the end , if Huzi becomes an ordinary person, I...why am I the one who survived to the end? If the matter has nothing to do with me, I can still speak high-sounding words!"

"Why, you're still not convinced?" Meng Qi sneered, and sarcastically said, "The Qi Dynasty only ruled the north of the Yangtze River, and the several kings in the south were separated by the blood of the previous dynasty. The land of the Chu Dynasty has not yet fallen. This is a matter of restoring the country." , why do you have to come with this child?"

Lin Dou shook his head, and said with difficulty: "The few kings in the south of the Yangtze River can't make a fortune. In order to fight for the orthodox position, they beat themselves to the ground first."

Meng Qi clapped his palms and smiled: "Really? But you guys like to talk about orthodox. Now you have an orthodox blood in your hand. If you now have a hundred thousand troops and a whole state, you can treat this child as king." .Then, the world will come to worship, count the kings and surrender, and admit that he is the real dragon emperor?"

"..."

"So, what's the use of orthodoxy?" Meng Qi looked indifferent, and said with a flick of his sleeves, "If you have the ability, and this child has the ability, then start from scratch and work hard to gain power and fight for the world. If you can't, just live a good life incognito , People like you who are superstitious about orthodox bloodlines, shouldn’t the top priority be guarding this child, raising him, and letting him have a family and a career to carry on the family line?”

After Meng Qi finished speaking, he went out of the tree hole without looking at Lin Dou's reaction.

Mo carp was standing outside holding a medicine jar, and the two happened to bump into each other.

"...The national teacher is so majestic." Doctor Mo said quietly.

"Cough, I think that child is pitiful." Meng Qi stood upright, but his eyes wandered elsewhere.

Mo Li smiled and said: "You seem to be in a much better mood after cursing? Why don't you scold Lin Dou a few more times, I can cure him, and I can also cure you, which is killing two birds with one stone."

Meng Qi quickly said: "This prescription is not easy to use. Although I don't remember the past, I don't want to touch the old things of the Chu Dynasty! I don't know how the emperor of the previous dynasty offended me. I feel bored when I think of him. It's like drinking soup and seeing flies."

"It feels right."

Mo Li looked at Meng Qi and said thoughtfully, "My teacher said that Li Yuanze, the founding king of the Chu Dynasty, was just a small general at the border in his early years. Corrupt people have no means of living, so after he rebelled, they all responded. Li Yuanze has both the appearance of a hero and the ambition to be a master. He knows people and uses them well. , surrounded by a gathering of civil and military forces, and finally ruled the world. He started to cut military power within a few years of being emperor, and became even more fatuous in his later years. There are those charged with treason, and there are also people like Jing Yuanhou who died inexplicably. You think Li Yuanze is like a fly in the soup. This analogy is not bad. You may indeed be Meng Guoshi. Didn’t General Liu say that Meng Qi is also Li Yuanze’s Founding hero? It’s not surprising to be disgusted by a king who betrays his promise and kills his loyal ministers and good generals.”

Meng Qi was silent, and he pointed to his face for a long while: "Doctor, then do you think I will have any past life memories, otherwise I can't live forever, and I can't rejuvenate, why am I so young..."

"I suspect that you are not a human being, like a monster who will not grow old."

Mo Li left behind these words, leaving Meng Qi standing there numbly as if struck by lightning.

So his past...was the monster going down the mountain to help others conquer the world?

Why does it sound so ridiculous?

The author has something to say:

Lin Dou: This child is of orthodox blood, his grandfather is Prince Zhaohua, and his great-grandfather is the founding king of the Chu Dynasty!It's the blood of a real dragon!

Longmai: Say it again!

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Qin Lu: If you envy the life of ordinary people, it means that they have never tasted the hardships and dangers of ordinary people's life. If you envy foolish people, it means that they are smart people... the old man's chicken soup, drink it quickly.

Mo Li: Every Chinese New Year, I envy people who live together bustlingly and are connected by blood.

Author: This means that you do not have a copy of the blind date.

Ink carp: ...

Author: I envy people who go out to travel for the New Year.

Mo Li: It means you are poor.

author:……

The scene where the author and the protagonist hurt each other

Qin Lu: ...What are you doing, where is my chicken soup?Why has it changed?