Cub Nursery

"You still have time to leave now, we won't stop you," said the pig-headed boy.

"Why do you want to leave?" Brother Dan jumped onto the guardrail and squatted down, stared at the pig-headed boy in puzzlement for a while, then turned his face and asked the snake-bodied boy, "Brother, why did they tell us to go, what law in Daqin?" stipulated by the law?"

The snake-bodied cub cleared his throat, and said leisurely, wagging the tip of his tail, "There is no Daqin law that stipulates this. After all, we were ordered to escort Master Jia to serve as county magistrate. It is their fault that they drove us away." .”

"Since it's their fault, shall we do it directly?" Brother Dan squeezed his small fist and waved it down, "Brother, I always feel that I can't explain it to them, they are all forbidden."

Seeing Brother Dan talking to the snake cub as if no one was there, some of the other cubs even started yawning, and some of them found out where the jerky came from and started to chew, all of them didn’t let them go. The look in the heart.

The young man felt that he was underestimated, and he blushed and said, "We... told you to leave for your own good, just listen to it..."

Hearing this, Brother Dan slowly turned his head, looked at the boy curiously, and asked, "For our own good?"

"En." The young man nodded heavily.

"Oh." Brother Dan really looked at the boy seriously at this time, because he found that the boy was not lying, nor was he trying to be a good person. He actually wanted them to leave from the bottom of his heart, out of good intentions, not because other.

The snake-body cub swam forward, looked at the boy below, and whispered: "He is a kind-hearted person, and he didn't treat us differently just because we are monsters. Brother Dan, let's go down and ask, there must be a reason for us to go away." Just do it."

Because of the kindness of the pig-headed boy, the cubs all came down from the top and lined up to protect the old wooden building behind them.

"Tell me, why did you tell us to go?" Brother Dan asked.

"I can't say it." The boy blushed and said, "You guys go away, this is not the place you should come to."

There was a lot of noise outside, those voices were very clear in Jing Fengye's ears, and he could even distinguish who those tiny gasping sounds were.

"There is no fight now, those people outside are just trying to drive us away." Yan Xun affirmed, seeing Jing Fengye nodding and then laughed, "Master Jing, go tell the cubs to invite the leader in." , I want to see you."

"Okay." Jing Fengye hurriedly stood up and went out to talk to the cubs.

After a while, the pig-headed boy came in with Jing Fengye, and the cubs stayed outside to confront the rest of them, and didn't show much.

"You want us to leave Xiasha County, but you don't want to say the reason. It's because if we know the reason, we won't be able to leave, right?" Yan Xun motioned the young man to sit down, poured a cup of scented tea and handed it over .

Holding the transparent and smooth glass in both hands, the young man smelled the unique fragrance of scented tea, looked up at Yan Xun, and suddenly felt a little at a loss.

It should have been a tense atmosphere, but it shouldn't be so gentle. I always felt that something was wrong.

"Then..." Yan Xun picked up a small plate, put a piece of dim sum on the plate, and handed the plate to the young man, "Try it, this is the dim sum from the capital made by Mr. Jing, the taste is very different. If I tell that secret now, won't you stop kicking people out?"

The young man was just attracted by the aroma of dim sum, he had never seen such delicate food, and was thinking about tasting it, when he suddenly heard Yan Xun say this.

He suddenly raised his head to look at Yan Xun, unable to say anything to refute.

"I got it right." Yan Xun covered his mouth and coughed lightly, and Jing Fengye hurriedly handed him some tea, "Medicated tea..."

The scented tea on the table turned into herbal tea at some point, the taste is naturally not as fragrant as scented tea, but it can suppress coughing.

Yan Xun took a sip of tea, took a cushion and leaned on it, "The secret of Xiasha County... Mr. Zhong didn't say anything, so I naturally don't know anything about it. But... Xiasha County should have some ordinary soldiers who can't deal with it." The danger exists, that's why so many people become like that, isn't it?"

"Do you know the secret of Qiyuan County?"

The young man shook his head, he didn't even know what the other side of the boundary marker of Xiasha County looked like, and how could he know the secrets of Qiyuan County, if Yan Xun hadn't asked, he wouldn't have known the existence of Qiyuan County at all.

"There is a stone gate in Qiyuan County, which hides the unknown." Yan Xun said, "Occasionally, there will be invisible and intangible monsters in the stone gate, which will devour human flesh and blood. This kind of existence... is called by those in the county. For the ancestors, and guarded for ten years."

"Later, when Jia Qiugu became the magistrate of Qiyuan County, the cubs and I went to help, and a monster ran out and the cubs killed it."

"The secret of Xiasha County...is probably the same as that of Qiyuan County."

At that time, Yan Xun even speculated with the little cubs that the reason why Daqin has never been withdrawn from the beginning of its establishment until now, no matter what the local garrison has become, there may be some unknown reasons: For example, in Daqin many, many years ago, there were not only Shimen in Qiyuan County, but also Shimen in other places?

If at the beginning, there were stone gates in various places in Daqin, then it would explain why there must be garrisons in various places in Daqin.

It's just that there is no evidence, and this guess is also very absurd, with no basis at all, and it doesn't look like the truth, so Yan Xun only told the cubs, and didn't tell anyone else.

"You..." The boy stood up abruptly, looking at Yan Xun in surprise.

"I didn't say anything." Yan Xun said, "Why panic, just sit down."

"But..." The young man sat down slowly, bowed his head and did not speak.

Although Yan Xun didn't say anything, he seemed to have said everything, as if he had penetrated all the secrets of Xiasha County.

"What's your name?" Yan Xun suddenly said something else, "Actually, I heard about a place like Xiasha County a long time ago. That person...has a very high level of cultivation and looks very heroic. Bottom line, that's why I survived..."

Jing Fengye next to him paused for a moment, and quickly went back to work as if nothing had happened.

The boy didn't know why Yan Xun suddenly mentioned these things that seemed to be related but didn't seem to have anything to do with it, but as long as it wasn't related to the secret, he had nothing to hide, so he said, "My name is Zhutou."

He didn't have a name at first, but he made a hat that looked exactly like a pig's head and wore it. People called him a pig's head, so he got a name.

"Do people outside listen to you?" Yan Xun asked suddenly.

The pig-headed boy hesitated, not understanding why Yan Xun asked this, he nodded, "Yes."

"Do those boys who are different from you also listen to you?" Yan Xun asked again.

"...Yes." The face of the pig-headed boy turned pale little by little, and he didn't want to mention those white-haired boys outside.

"Master Jing." Yan Xun said suddenly.

Jing Fengye immediately stood up, went to the room and came back quickly, holding a heavily tied boy with white beard and hair, dull eyes, still struggling.

"Does he listen to you too?" Yan Xun pointed at the boy.

"Ah..." The pig-headed boy jumped in fright, thinking that the people outside had been arrested, so he hurried over to take a look, and when he saw the person's appearance clearly, he suddenly screamed and murmured: "Keep Qiu Son, you...why..."

He said incoherently, "You're not...you're not...why did you become like this?"

The boy was still struggling, and didn't respond to the pig-headed boy at all. Even though he jumped over and made several noises, and even made several very weird movements, the boy still didn't respond.

The boy called out by Zhong Xi didn't listen to the pig-headed boy.

"How did you catch him?" The pig-headed boy sat back dejectedly, with a very frustrated expression on his face.

"He is from the Zhong family." Yan Xun said, "He didn't respond to his name, has he completely forgotten the past?"

"Has County Magistrate Zhong come back?" The pig-headed boy's eyes suddenly brightened, but after seeing the boy, he turned into boundless anger, "Master Zhong can't, how can he...how can he take Ke Qiuer become like this..."

As he spoke, he rushed over.

Jing Fengye raised his hand to block it, Yan Xun hurriedly pressed Jing Fengye's arm, shaking his head slightly at him.

Jing Fengye stepped aside, and the pig-headed boy rushed over smoothly. He squatted by the side and carefully looked at the struggling boy. He stretched out his hand to touch him, but when he saw his white hair, he withdrew his hand violently. His anger gradually turned into sadness, filled with big drops of tears.

Finally, I couldn't help crying, from sobbing to howling, and then to choked and breathless.

The pig-headed boy who had kept calm before and didn't panic when facing Yan Xun cried like a dog.

Yan Xun just looked at the pig-headed boy quietly, and didn't step forward to disturb him.

After a long time, after weeping and resting, he said to Yan Xun, "Since you already know their existence, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave. But you will be very dangerous, and you will die at some point. I thank you for finding him, but I have no ability to protect you."

"Now you still can't tell the so-called secret?" Yan Xun asked.

The pig-headed boy shook his head lightly.

"I see." Yan Xun waved his hand, "You take the outsider with you, he stays."

"I..." The pig-headed boy suddenly looked up at Yan Xun, he wanted to take the boy away.

"You can't take him away." Yan Xun saw through the pig-headed boy's thoughts at a glance, "He must stay. He is in a very bad situation now, and he will die at some point. I can still think of a way to stay by my side. Let's see if we can save him."

The pig-headed boy froze violently, his eyes burst into ecstasy, and suddenly he turned back rationally, muttering: "There is no way."

"How will you know if you don't try. You go first, and if you have a chance in the future, you can avoid people coming to me. You can meet him, and I won't stop you."

Having said all this, the pig-headed boy knew that he couldn't take him with him, so he had no choice but to turn around and leave.

The door of the house opened and closed, and the pig-headed boy left like a wind.

Yan Xun breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Ke Qiuer who was lying motionless on the ground, "If you want to talk to him, I won't stop you, you don't need to pretend like this again."

"You don't understand, Xiasha County is not as simple as you think." Ke Qiu'er turned over and sat up, looking at Yan Xun with burning eyes, "Even if you try to wake me up."