Alternative Jianghu Adventures

In the 14th year of Kanghe, on October [-]th, there was a heavy snowfall, and an earthquake occurred in the heavy snow mountain range in the Holy Land of Usai. The Lanlada Palace and all the teaching sites of Qige Sect were completely destroyed.

On the first day of November, at the beginning of winter, there was internal strife in Usai's army, Ulan Tuya's subordinates mutinied, he was stabbed in the middle of the night, his body was not found, and he was suspected of death. When the faction split, the long-lost Suhratai appeared on the battlefield and suppressed the unruly elements by force with iron and blood.

On the third day of November, Suhratai gave up looking for Ulan Tuya and prepared a heavy flower burial for him in the army.

On November 28, Usai's army came to Laquan, and Suhratai changed the style of Usai's massacre of the city before, and those who surrendered were not killed, and went deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains.

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, Suhratai led an army to the capital, locked all the officials in the imperial city, and declared that they would not kill them within a day.

The next day, when the time came, the city gate was not opened.

It has been seven days since Suhratai ordered the siege.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Laba Festival, the defenders of the capital are still standing firm, and the city is in depression.

In front of an inconspicuous inn on the west side of the capital, two seals were tightly pasted on the door, and all the things that could be removed had been robbed long ago. A small facade, let others spoil it.

Although everything that should be robbed was robbed, there were still some big things that couldn't be moved.

At this time, in the back kitchen of the inn, the stove that had accumulated a thin layer of dust was carefully cleaned up, and the bundles of dry firewood were not stolen. A lot of things.

Someone took out a fire pocket and carefully ignited it with thin dry wood sticks, then gathered a stack of dry firewood and carefully let the small cluster of flames lick the flammable edge of the firewood, and waited until the cluster of fire burned bigger and bigger, and then put it away. Throwing the bundle of firewood into the stove, there was a crackling sound, and the visitor hurriedly pushed it in with the tongs.

On the stove, baskets of whole grains were still dripping with wet water.

"Cheng Zhe, lighten the fire."

A plain voice came from above his head, and Cheng Zhe, who was sitting on the four-wheeled cart burning the stove, hastily put down the firewood he was about to add.

He, Qiao Anyue, and Yuan Hua, after descending from the Great Snow Mountain, they secretly followed Suhelatai's army to Laquan first, found the hidden pile of Shenyuan Pavilion and sent a message back, and then arrived in the capital first.

wait.

Cheng Zhe originally wanted to go back to Shen Yuan Pavilion, but was followed by a secret letter from Shen Gongze to the capital, saying that he had something important to tell.

This is the foothold they chose. Not long after they arrived, they received a message from Shen Yuan Pavilion in the morning that someone would come to meet them.

After receiving a pot of clean water, Qiao Anyue's fingers slid across the rows of baskets one by one.

Yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, the capital was besieged, food was in short supply, she never expected to be able to find so much food.

After all, it is still at the feet of the emperor.

No, Qiao Anyue remembered what she said when she sent Yuan Hua out to buy things, "Just pay whatever you want, even if you take all three people's money away, you still have to buy everything."

After all, money can turn ghosts around.

Add water caltrop rice, chestnuts, peeled jujube paste and water to cook, and cook slowly over low heat. Qiao Anyue quietly stared at the white gas coming out of the pot lid, and the fragrance of grains slowly penetrated into the pot. into the abdominal cavity.

"Master Yue." Yuan Hua walked up to him step by step with a basket of fresh ingredients in his arms, and called out cautiously.

"Let it go."

Qiao Anyue still had that indifferent look, Yuan Hua put down the things lightly, for fear that he would accidentally offend the master.

...However, the current master really has never seen it before.

Yuan Hua glanced at Qiao Anyue secretly, and muttered in her heart with certainty: Ever since Master Yun's accident, she and Master Cheng couldn't help crying a few times. But Master Yue seemed to be a normal person, he should eat and drink, as if he didn't know Master Yun at all.

She didn't dare to mention this matter, for fear of irritating the other party.

Occasionally, she mentioned something inadvertently, but was stunned by Master Yue's plain "oh", and then she was taught by Master Cheng's ears for a long time.

Not even breathing.

I heard Master Cheng say that Master Yue had such a temperament a long time ago, but now he just changed back.

But Yuan Hua still felt that such a master Yue was shrouded in an extremely strong sense of alienation - he was still talking to them and doing things, even cooking for them, but he still didn't dare to approach them.

very scary.

But it was so distressing that I couldn't help but want to give him a hug.

"Ah, it's all right." Qiao Anyue used a spoon to scoop off the white foam on the boiled water from time to time, then set out three empty bowls, and filled them up steadily.

Qiao Anyue picked up the basket that Yuan Hua carried over before, and took out the things on the plate one by one from it.

Red-dyed peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, finely chopped hazelnuts and pine nuts, and finally a few raisins from the Western Regions for decoration.

"Candy, do you want it?" Qiao Anyue looked up at Cheng Zhe and Yuan Hua.

"Hmm..." Yuan Hua realized later that Master Yue was talking to her, and quickly shook his head, "A little bit is fine."

"I don't need mine." Cheng Zhe saved the trouble.

Under Yuan Hua's watchful eyes, Qiao Anyue sprinkled a little white sugar and brown sugar for decoration on her portion, then pushed their bowls forward, and simply said, "Eat."

"Okay!" Yuan Hua shivered unexpectedly.

For a while, there was only the sound of drinking porridge in the room.

It is smooth and delicious, and the crunchiness of grains and nuts makes the originally soft and glutinous rice grains look a bit chewy.

Of course, Yuan Hua could trust Master Yue's craftsmanship, so he drank eight-treasure porridge contentedly in two or three mouthfuls, and immediately felt warm in his stomach.

"Hey, Master Yue, don't you want to eat?" Yuan Hua raised his eyes to set the bowl, but found that Qiao Anyue was putting down the spoon and was lost in thought, so he asked hastily.

Relieved, Qiao Anyue tilted her head and asked, "Is it delicious?"

"Well, it's delicious...the stickiness and taste are great." Yuan Hua was asked for some reason.

"Cheng Zhe, what about you?" Qiao Anyue turned to look at the person sitting on the four-wheeled vehicle.

"It's pretty good, and it tastes sweet even without sugar."

As soon as Cheng Zhe finished speaking, he heard three knocks on the door from the backyard.Followed by a series of high-pitched birdsong.

"Here we come." Yuan Hua said, "This is the password we agreed with the person from Shen Yuan Pavilion before."

Yuan Hua was responsible for the whole process of contacting. After hearing this, it was her duty to consciously explain.

"You guys go first, I'll clean up here." Qiao Anyue winked at Yuan Hua and Cheng Zhe, half pushed Cheng Zhe to the kitchen door, and said to the little girl, "You push, I'll be there soon. "

Yuan Hua nodded hastily, and took it neatly.

Before leaving, she turned around and asked worriedly, "Master Yue, are you really alright?"

This sentence has been asked countless times by Yuan Hua and Cheng Zhe on various occasions and in various ways for such a long time, and Qiao Anyue has also answered this question calmly countless times .

"I am fine."

There was no sadness or joy in his eyes, as if... he didn't care.

After watching the two of them go out, Qiao Anyue withdrew her gaze, slowly picked up the bowl of eight-treasure porridge again, took another spoonful, and put it into her mouth.

Sweet and tempting.

...that's what everyone else said.

But only Qiao Anyue knew in her heart that in her tongue, this bowl of porridge was extremely bland - tasteless at all.

Like every dish she's eaten and every sip of water she's had for so long, it's tasteless.

If you taste it carefully, you can even taste a hint of bitterness lingering on your tongue.

The problem is not eating, but herself.

Qiao Anyue knew that it wasn't the ingredients that were the problem, but herself.

From that day on, her sense of taste began to have problems.

At first, there was no distinction between sweet and salty, and there was confusion, and then it became more and more difficult to distinguish small differences, until recently, it completely collapsed.

Although doctors don't self-medicate, such obvious symptoms don't even need to be diagnosed. Qiao Anyue knows in her heart that there is nothing wrong with her body, but her heart is the problem.

This is heart disease.

As for the cause of the disease, she knew it well.

After such a long time, the people of Shen Yuan Pavilion have turned Keshan upside down, and found many other irrelevant people, but they are all corpses without exception.

Shen Gongze issued a death order, once Xia Yun is found, no matter whether he lives or dies, he will release a carrier pigeon to announce it.

But in the past so long, there is no news except for Asuka who is in normal contact.

Although she kept saying that she believed in Xia Yun, that person should never have died in such an accident.

But it shouldn't doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

The bones may have fallen deep underground, or they may have fallen directly into the terrifying lava. No one can believe that anyone can survive that huge collapse.Taking ten thousand steps back, even if he barely survived, he would have been trapped and starved to death if he hadn't been found after so long.

Unlike Xia Yun, Qiao Anyue is an extremely realistic person.

Xia Yun could persist in searching for Qiao Anyue for five full years without finding any bones, but Qiao Anyue couldn't.

It's gone, it's gone, if you don't find it at the first time, the last tiny hope is directly equal to zero.

So even if she is emotionally unwilling to accept Xia Yun's result, her body has already accepted this fact one step ahead of her emotions.

Xia Yun is dead.

Just like that fleeting cloud in the summer sky, it is gone when it is blown by the wind.

I can't find it, and I can't come back.

Qiao Anyue recalled Xia Yun's last words over and over again in her mind, and slowly realized that maybe without that collapse, Xia Yun would not have survived.

Every word she said and everything she did seemed to have a deep meaning—holding the will to die, she was trying to convey something to her.

The ends of the earth that have not yet been opened are for Cheng Zhe.

The task of monitoring Suhra Terrace that she seemed to mention unintentionally before she died also seemed to tell her that there were still things to be done.

Even if she didn't say it clearly, Qiao Anyue could already be sure what Xia Yun meant at that time.

Knowing that she would die, she entrusted this important task to her.

It was like what Shen Feiwei did to Xia Yun a long time ago, except this time Xia Yun was Shen Feiwei, and she—— Qiao Anyue, became the entrusted person.

Suhra Terrace had to break into the capital and successfully force the palace, and the southern army had to arrive at the capital at "just the right time" to "repel" the foreigners and restore the throne.

In the middle, the poison planted by them on Lu Kun's body must be "proper" to explode, completely destroying the center of the Northern Army.

Someone has to control this time, someone has to ensure that there will be no accidents, and someone has to do whatever it takes, regardless of his emotions, time, and selfish desires to ensure the completion of the great cause.

Countless people gave their lives for it, but now, it just happened to be her turn.

It happened to be her turn.

It's just Xia Yun...

You pulled me out of the endless darkness with your own hands, and how cruel it was, the moment I finally saw the light of the sky, I fell to nothing.

If I knew this earlier, why did I have to open my eyes again?

I finally opened my heart, I can hear voices and see everything. You told me that the world is far less than an inch in front of me. Let me get out of the cage and learn how to live, how to think, how to... love.

And then you just disappear.

Which kind of darkness is more hopeless, a born blind person or an acquired blind person?

Xia Yun.

"you liar."

Qiao Anyue twitched the corners of her mouth, silently drank the whole bowl of eight-treasure porridge, served a few more bowls, and put them out on a tray.

dong dong dong.

She politely knocked on the wooden door for receiving guests, and slowly pushed it open after getting a response from inside.

The wooden door creaked, revealing the person sitting inside.

Yuan Chong.

"The accompanying guards have already left." Yuan Hua explained.

Qiao Anyue raised her eyebrows, and handed the wooden bowl to Yuan Chong, "Eat?"

Then she noticed Cheng Zhe's gloomy expression and Yuan Hua's uncomfortable little movements.

"Say."

Qiao Anyue spoke concisely and said one word to Yuan Chong.

Yuan Chong had to come, because the crown prince had to return to his throne after Dacheng.Shen Gongze is the center of the whole plan. In order to ensure the delivery of every piece of information, he is not allowed to leave for half a step. That's why the scene of Yuan Chong being sneaked into the capital by the guards in front of him happened.

And he also brought Shen Gongze's "very important" message - even Feige can't be trusted.

"Say."

Seeing Yuan Chong's delay in speaking, Qiao Anyue raised her tone and emphasized it again.

The author has something to say: I have been waiting for this scene for too long since I wrote about foodie.

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Thank you, little reporter from Zhenshou Mansion, Aoba Landmine*2