catch the rabbit

"The boy who sold the buns died?" Huang Cai felt inconceivable when he heard that, "This is really a response to the saying 'unfortunate things happen'."

To him, Lin Wanke was really an insignificant little person, and it was just a bit of a surprise to hear this. If he were to say that he was sentimental about it, it would be nothing at all.

But Jiang Tiaotiao is different.

This little rabbit who is always in a daze, as if he doesn't care much about everything, has red eyes.

Since the acquaintance, Huang Cai has never seen Jiang Tiaotiao feel so uncomfortable.When we met this time, I felt distressed at first, but when I remembered who he was so sad for, my nameless anger immediately burned to the sky.

"why are you crying."

He pulled Jiang Tiaotiao closer, and wiped the corner of his eyes with his sleeve, so hard that his cheeks were blushed.

"Baoxiu said that Brother Lin is dead..."

Jiang Tiaotiao raised his head and looked at him, his eyes were full of helplessness.

"Death is death, is it worth you crying for him like this?" Huang Cai said angrily, "He is a mortal, and he cannot escape death after all. What's the matter with you being sad for him?"

"But...but I don't believe..."

As Jiang Tiaotiao said, he turned around and was about to leave, but was grabbed by Huang Cai: "Where are you going?"

"I'll go back to the capital to see if there is any way to save him."

"Ginger Jump!"

Huang Cai's suppressed anger finally broke out: "I wanted to tell you a long time ago, did you care too much about this Lin? The matter of Roupu has not been resolved yet, and the group of feather immortals suffered a lot. Will you come to Peach Blossom Valley to trouble you again? You don’t care about it? Now just leave, how much do you value him? Is it more important than us?!"

Huang Cai had never yelled at Jiang Tiaotiao like this before, this time he was so angry that he couldn't bear it for a moment.

"Huangcai, it's not that I don't care about you. I'm just, just eager to save people..."

"Save people? What do you do to save people when they are dead? Jiang Tiaotiao, tell me clearly, if you feel sorry for him because we cheated on his baby last time, I will pay him back! If you take him He is more important than us, okay, just go find him, and I, Huang Cai, will know you for nothing!"

After he finished speaking, he took off the unicorn bead on his wrist and threw it hard to the ground.This rare treasure was smashed to pieces by him, and it was no longer dazzling.

When Jiang Tiaotiao was yelled at by him, he was even more flustered: "Huang Cai, what's wrong with you...Xiao Lin is also our friend, something happened to him, shouldn't I save him?"

"Who is his friend!" Huang Cai was so angry that his heart ached, "Jiang Tiaotiao, let me ask you, do you have to go back to the capital to find him today no matter what?"

Jiang Tiaotiao was silent for a moment, then said, "Yes."

Huangcai didn't expect that he had made up his mind, so he laughed out of anger. After laughing twice, he pointed to Jiang Tiaotiao and said: "Okay, since that's the case, you can go, but you remember, from now on After that, don't come to see me again!"

Hearing what he said so decisively, Jiang Tiaotiao felt anxious and felt wronged, but now his life was at stake, and he couldn't delay any longer, so he made up his mind and turned around and whistled, attracting a snow wing.

The moment Xue Yi spread her giant wings, Huang Cai behind her couldn't help shouting: "Jiang Tiaotiao! I'm not joking with you! Why do you think I've done so many things for you! Do you think I'm really I like to stay before and after Yueranju's running! Don't you feel how I treat you? Jiang Tiaotiao! Even good wine can tell that I like you, why only you don't know..."

The snow wings had already flown up to the clouds, and Huangcai's words gradually dissipated in the wind, just like the ashes of the Miaoyin bird after burning, mixed with dust, no trace of its existence could be seen anymore.

***

After Jiang Tiaotiao returned to the capital, he hurriedly cast a spell to hide Xue Yi and ran to Fushou Street.

Fushou Street was surprisingly deserted, and the door of the Lin family was even more closed.

Jiang Tiaotiao knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered, so he could only go back to Yueranju first, but the door of Yueranju was also closed.

He stretched out his hand to knock, and the person who opened the door was the little girl he cut out last time.

"Is Baoxiu not here?"

The paper man turned his head and laughed and shouted, "Baoxiu! Baoxiu!"

Baoxiu heard the sound of "Deng Deng Deng" running down the stairs, and replied, "You silly girl, what are you yelling about?"

When he saw Jiang Tiaotiao at the door, tears almost fell down: "My Tiaotiao! You are finally back!"

"Where is Xiao Lin? How is he?" Jiang Tiaotiao asked hastily.

As soon as Lin Wanke was mentioned, Baoxiu couldn't help but look sad: "What else can I do... Go and see, if you can't save even you, then it's too bad."

Baoxiu is usually considered calm and self-sustaining, and even he said so, it seems that Lin Wanke is indeed in danger.

Jiang Tiaotiao was already worried, but after hearing this, she was even more anxious and didn't know what to do.

He followed Baoxiu to a small room behind the kitchen, Baoxiu motioned him to keep quiet, and then opened the door carefully.

A thick smell of medicine rushed over, and I saw a bed covered with herbs in the center of the room where the magic circle was set up. The person lying on it seemed to be covered with a medicine quilt, but his eyes were closed, and he didn't feel any pain. lethargy.

Even though half of his face was covered by entangled grass leaves, Jiang Tiaotiao recognized at a glance that the person on the medicine bed was Lin Wanke.

What shocked him even more was that even if he looked at it from a distance, he could feel that Lin Wanke had no breath at all.

"how so……"

Baoxiu sighed: "I was out of breath when I was rescued. Cheng Ju helped find these medicinal herbs, and said that they had some effect, but after a few days... Sigh, I'm not good enough, I can't do much, just I hope you will have a good idea when you come back.”

As he spoke, he closed the door again to make sure that the cold air from outside would not seep in. Then he and Jiang Tiao jumped back to the front room, intermittently telling what had happened in the past few days.

It turned out that after Jiang Tiaotiao and Huang Cai went to Peach Blossom Valley, Lin Baizhi came and said that Lin Wanke was missing, and he couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

Also missing was a teacher surnamed Le.

Lin Baizhi thought that his elder brother would be in Yueranju, but when he asked, he found out that he hadn't been here, and Jiang Tiaotiao had also gone on a long trip. This was good, the child was worried and frightened, so he sat on the ground and began to cry.

Those who can make up their minds are not there, so Baoxiu can only lead him upstairs, coax him to sleep with nice words, and then figure out a solution on her own.

Lin Wan is not the kind of person who would cause people to worry. If he disappeared for no reason, something must have happened.Baoxiu didn't care too much, and immediately closed the door, quickly stacked a bunch of paper dragonflies, and released them all after casting a spell.

In such a snowy day, it is actually very unusual for paper dragonflies to fly around in the capital, but there is really no way right now.Two hours later, a paper dragonfly flew back to Yueranju, Baoxiu braved the heavy snow to follow it to find someone, and walked to Mount Xiluo.

The paper dragonfly flew to a small slope and stopped. Baoxiu cleared a large piece of snow before he saw Lin Wanke who was buried under the ground. He was still holding a young man who had passed out in his arms. , must be that Mr. Le.

When Baoxiu said this, he couldn't help sighing.

"Didn't you see... I don't know how many wounds Brother Lin has. His head and hands are covered with blood, which has condensed into ice. His whole body is as frozen as snow. The teacher is not injured at all, but If I find out later, I’m afraid I won’t be able to hold on.”

Jiang Tiaotiao naturally knew that the teacher was Le Xin, and remembering Lin Wanke's feelings for him, he said dumbly, "It turns out that Xiao Lin was here to save him."

"I don't know exactly what's going on here. I only know that little brother Lin... Baizhi saw that his elder brother became like this. He couldn't cry anymore. I came back to ask you, can you help me?" I can't think of a way to save him. Brother Lin is such a good person, he can't let him die in vain. I know I don't have the ability, but you and Huang Cai—oh, where is Huang Cai? Didn't come back with you ?”

When Huangcai was mentioned, Jiang Tiaotiao was even more upset: "I somehow made him angry, so he didn't come back with me."

"At this time, why are you still making trouble!" Baoxiu said, "I originally expected Huang Cai to lend him the fairy orb from Caiqiong Palace, but now it seems that there is no way..."

Jiang Tiao jumped in his heart, even if there was no quarrel, Huang Cai might not lend the fairy orb.It's not that he refuses, but that Sister Huangxian is sad about it.

"What about Cheng Ju? Is there nothing Cheng Ju can do?"

Baoxiu said: "Cheng Ju can only find those medicinal herbs, he is quite good at catching monsters, but if he can save people-"

Speaking of this, he and Jiang Tiaotiao suddenly thought of someone, and said in unison: "Master Xu Yao!"

Cheng Ju's master, Xu Yao, is a legendary figure even among monsters. He is almost omniscient and omnipotent. Flying into the sky, moving mountains and filling the sea, is a trivial matter in front of him.Of course, this is just a rumor, but the master of Chengju, the number one magician in the capital, must not be an ordinary person.

Without further ado, Jiang Tiaotiao told Baoxiu to take good care of Lin Wanke, and rushed to Zizai Guanqiu Chengju to ask Master Xu Yao to save him.

Cheng Ju heard the purpose of coming, and said helplessly: "My master travels all over the world, and his whereabouts are erratic. Unless he takes the initiative to find me, I really can't find him."

He paused, and then said: "But my senior sister happens to be watching freely, maybe she can do something about it."

Cheng Ju's senior sister, Wan Kong, once helped him stand up to Xi Baiqing in the competition. When Jiang Tiaotiao heard that she was there, he immediately felt relieved.

It’s just that Wankong came from Zaiguan this time to heal her wounds. She was helping people eliminate demons during her travels. As a result, she ate up all the food and lost her strength. She was accidentally scratched by a monster on her left shoulder. Although she is fine now, she is still not healed. Quan, but after hearing about Lin Wanke, she also insisted on going to see it.

The three of them returned to Yueranju together, Baoxiu brought them into the medicine house, and Wankong screamed when he saw Lin Wanke: "Why is it him!"

After questioning, I found out that Wankong came to the capital to find Chengju for his younger brother, and got lost accidentally, and the food and money on his body were stolen by thieves. When he was so hungry and powerless, it was Lin Wan Ke's buns saved her life.

"At that time, I had no way to repay him, so I gave him a string of unicorn beads. I didn't expect that my savior would..." Wan Kong wiped his tears as he said, "Someone must have murderous intentions when they saw the treasures in his body." , will make it like this. Speaking of it, I actually harmed him."

Jiang Tiaotiao and Baoxiu exchanged glances, only to know the origin of the string of unicorn beads, but they didn't bother to explain these right now, they just asked if there was any way to save Lin Wanke's life.

Wan Kong calmed down a bit, and thought for a while before saying: "The Fengzhilan plant that Zhang Sanxian guarded at Wangxing Mountain originally had the effect of bringing the dead back to life, but..."

Jiang Tiaotiao asked: "Just how?"

"This Fengzhilan is the treasure of Lord Yunlan in Wuyan Mountain. It can't be surrounded by ordinary soil. It can only bloom when it grows in Wangxing Mountain. Therefore, I asked Zhang Sanxian to take care of it. Brother Cheng and I have guarded this fairy grass. During the ten years, countless monsters and spirits wanted to snatch it, and you will know its value." Wan Kong sighed, "So as soon as it bloomed, it was taken away by Lord Yunlan, and it is really hard to ask him to give it up. sky."

Cheng Ju said: "I thought you could come up with a good idea. Let's not even think about the matter of Feng Zhilan. This thing only smokes one leaf every five years, who knows that it will take hundreds of years to produce that one leaf?" Duo Hua, if he has his mind on it, he will probably be shot to death on the way before he reaches Wuyan Mountain."

Baoxiu said urgently: "According to what you say, there is really no way out. How can we get those elixir and panacea if we ask for them, and Huang Cai refuses to help... Sigh..."

Seeing that he was so anxious, Cheng Ju said in astonishment: "It's really strange, this person is not related to you, why are you so concerned about his affairs?"

Before he could finish his sentence, Wan Kong slapped him with a knife: "He is my savior, how can he be regarded as not a relative? You have no heart since you were a child, and you can ignore it. I don't want to be this ungrateful people!"

Being labeled as "heartless" for no reason, Cheng Ju couldn't keep his face off, snorted and stopped talking.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly changed, everyone seemed to be immersed in their own emotions, whether they were frowning or sullen, they didn't say a word.Only the piece of paper cut out by Jiang Tiaodiao, who didn't know the situation, didn't know why, was laughing and playing with the teacup.

At the end, Jiang Tiaotiao stood up: "It's getting late, Wankong, you still have injuries on your body, you should go back first. When it snows again, the road will be difficult to walk."

He always looked indifferent, although at this time he looked normal, but Baoxiu faintly felt that something was wrong.

After Chengju and Wankong left, he hesitated for a moment, and asked cautiously, "Tiaotiao, what's wrong with you?"

Jiang Tiaotiao replied: "It's nothing, I was just thinking about how to get Feng Zhilan."

As soon as he said this, Baoxiu almost staggered and knocked against the pillar.

"Didn't you hear that just now? Mr. Yunlan regards Feng Zhilan more than anything else. If he is an ordinary person, it would be easy to deal with. If he just stuffs two treasures, he might change them, but he is a fairy! We are just monsters." , I don’t even have the qualifications to discuss with him, let alone... well, I think it’s better to bring Huangcai back and ask him!”

"It's useless, I made Huangcai angry, and he said he would never see me again." Jiang Tiaotiao said with his head down.

Baoxiu was shocked, and was stunned for a long time before saying: "If it is said that others do not want to see you, I might believe it, but if it is Huangcai, I don't believe it."

"It's true. As soon as I said that I wanted to go back to the capital to save Xiao Lin, he got angry and said that I didn't value him, and he knew me for nothing." Jiang Tiaotiao said, thinking of Huang Cai's appearance at that time, and again A moment of sadness.

Baoxiu said, "Do you know why he gets angry?"

Ginger jumped and shook his head.

Baoxiu didn't know whether to cry or laugh: "Tiaotiao, answer me honestly, do you like Huangcai?"

Jiang Tiaotiao said without hesitation, "I like it, of course I like it."

"It's not that I like it like a friend, it's—" Baoxiu stopped talking in the middle of her sentence, and just slapped herself on the mouth lightly.

Jiang Tiaotiao had a lot of things on his mind, so he didn't care about it. Now he was fully focused on the life-saving Feng Zhilan, wishing he could grow wings and fly to Wuyan Mountain.

But even if he went to Wuyan Mountain and found Feng Zhilan, how could he get the treasure of Xianjun with his ability.

The more Jiang Tiaotiao thought about it, the more hopeless he felt. He just sat by the window and stared blankly at the snow on the opposite roof, not even aware of the cold wind blowing into his collar.

As night fell, the weather became colder, and the stove in the house was crackling.

A little snowflakes came in the window, and it was snowing again outside.

Baoxiu fell asleep on the table at some point. Jiang Tiaotiao covered him with a thick blanket and closed the window tightly. Just as he was about to go to the pharmacy to see Lin Wanke, there was a slight knock on the door downstairs. .

At this time, who else will come and live here?

Jiang Tiao jumped downstairs to open the door, and a cloud of cold wind with powdered snow came in through the crack of the door, blowing him so hard that he couldn't keep his eyes open for a moment.

"Excuse me, is it Brother Jiang?"

The warm and pleasant voice seems to be heard somewhere.

Jiang Tiaotiao rubbed his eyes, only to see a young man wearing a cloak standing in front of him, and beside him was a child who looked like a book boy holding an umbrella, and their shoulders were covered with snowflakes.

He hurriedly led them into the house, hurriedly took a cup to pour hot tea, and heard the man say in his ear: "Excuse me. I am the teacher of the academy on Fushou Street, my surname is Le."

Jiang jumped and said, "I know you."

He had indeed met Le Xin, even though he was hugged by Lin Wanke and hid behind the wall at that time, he was still in the form of a rabbit.Of course, Le Xin didn't know this.

"You're here for Kobayashi's business, aren't you?"

When Jiang Tiaotiao asked the question, the little book boy was undoing Le Xin's snow-covered cloak, and he couldn't help crying.

Seeing this, Le Xin said softly, "Wen Jin, don't be rude."

When he said this, his tone was calm, but a tear slipped from the corner of his eye, and fell silently on his knee.

The book boy who called Zuo Wenjin cried even more after hearing his persuasion, and buried his head in the folded cloak, whimpering softly.

Jiang Tiaotiao was at a loss and didn't know what to say, so he could only sit quietly without saying a word.

After a long time, Le Xin asked, "Can I... can I meet Xiao Lin?"

Jiang Tiaotiao nodded, stood up and opened the door for him.

Baoxiu drew a barrier around the medicine house to ensure that the cold outside would not affect the house, but even so, this section of the road was still covered with ice and snow.Jiang Tiaotiao took a few steps, looked back at Le Xin, he didn't let the little book boy support him, and he didn't open an umbrella, every step seemed to consume all the strength in his whole body, he was as thin as a piece of paper in the wind and snow .

When Le Xin finally walked to his side, Jiang Tiaotiao stretched out his hand and pushed open the door, and the warm scent of medicine immediately filled his nostrils.

Under the effect of the Chengju technique, these rare medicinal herbs exerted the greatest effect. Lin Wanke, who was lying on the bed, still maintained a peaceful sleeping face. A little blood color gave people the illusion that he would wake up the next moment.

But Jiang Tiaotiao knew in his heart that he would never open his eyes again.

Le Xin walked to him slowly, sat on the small chair by the bed, turned his back to Jiang Tiaotiao and said, "Brother Jiang, can you let me stay alone for a while."

Before he could finish his sentence, Jiang Tiaotiao closed the door gently.

Even if Le Xin didn't tell him, he wouldn't stay in the medicine store.Because he felt that, compared to himself, Lin Wanke definitely hoped that Le Xin would be by his side.

The heavy snow outside has not stopped, and the footprints left when we came are almost completely covered by fresh snow.

Jiang Tiao jumped back to the front room, and the book boy named Wen Jin was still crying. Seeing him coming in, he hurriedly wiped away his tears, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Mr. Are you dead?"

Jiang Tiaotiao said: "Don't worry, there must be a way."

"But... But the invited doctors said they couldn't do it anymore..." Wen Jin said several times without being able to complete a sentence, "Mr. Jiang, Baizhi lives in the academy now, and I lied to him that Brother Lin was just hurting you." It's serious, and I can see him in a few days. If he knows that the eldest brother is gone... then what should I do..."

As Wen Jin spoke, tears fell down again.

"It's all my fault. If I had persuaded my husband to leave the capital earlier, I wouldn't have been caught by those two bastards... Brother Lin wouldn't have died..."

Jiang Tiaotiao didn't hear right, and asked, "What's going on here? Didn't Xiao Lin have an accident to save your husband?"

Wen Jin said: "It's just to save Mr.... Well, I thought that in the capital, so far away from Zhizhou, the Le family would never be able to find people with great skills. This is really..."

He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, and sighed: "My husband is from Zhizhou, and his family is a wealthy local family. Although my husband is not loved by the master, at any rate, he has no worries about food and clothing, and lives in peace. Who knew that he met that beast Liuzhi?" Let’s not say that he was hurt like that at the beginning, but now he is looking for trouble for Lejia’s treasure house, forcing us to tell where the key to the treasure house is. But the husband is not greedy for the money, and he has been away from home for many years. Such an important thing..."

When Wen Jin said this, he was so sad that he could hardly speak. He paused for a long time before saying, "That Liu man has an accomplice named Shen Congwu, who is also an ignorant rascal. The tea man and I were tied up in the academy, and my husband and brother Lin were arrested. If my husband can't tell the whereabouts of the key to the treasure house, they will take him back to Zhizhou Yuefu... Not to mention that this trip is full of bad luck. At that time, my husband was ill, and they refused to ask for a doctor or take any medicine. Brother Lin managed to escape with my husband, but was chased by them again..."

Jiang Tiaotiao was worried when he heard it, and he had already guessed what happened next without Wen Jin telling him.

"Mr. said that there was so much snow in the mountains at that time, they couldn't find anyone to help them, so they had to run all the time, but the two beasts still refused to let them go. They had knives, but Lin Xiaoge didn't have anything...they had a knife He slashed at Brother Lin with a knife, but he still grabbed them to prevent the husband from being taken away. In the end, he was hacked to death just like that... The two beasts saw that they had killed someone, so they threw them into the snow. Pushed in the ground and ran away... After the husband was rescued, he only got better yesterday. Neither the tea man nor I dared to tell him that Brother Lin was dead, but he couldn't do it if he didn't... He was in front of us Tears didn't fall, but I can see that Mr. is in more pain than anyone else..."

Wen Jin spoke with tears in his eyes, and intermittently talked about Lin Wanke's past benefits, and finally sighed: "Such a good person, no matter how you say it, he will be gone. Liu Zhi and Shen Congwu did all kinds of evil, but they lived happily. It's a pity that I don't have the ability Otherwise, if I risk my life, I will avenge Brother Lin."

Jiang Tiaotiao said: "You are still young, you shouldn't think about these things."

Wen Jin cried and asked, "Mr. Jiang, is little brother Lin really saved? If there is, I beg you to help me with this!"

Jiang Tiaotiao sat blankly for a while, seeming to say to himself: "There must be a way."

As he spoke, he stood up and picked up the umbrella at hand, "Can you lend me this?"

Wen Jin asked: "Young Master Jiang, are you going out? The snow outside is very heavy, and the road is extremely difficult. You should wait for the snow to stop before going out."

"It's okay, Baoxiu asked me to find a friend." Jiang Tiaotiao replied, "I won't be there for long."