Xie Huai originally thought that most of what Shen Yaobai said in the small boat on the river that night were just casual jokes.

However, after a certain period of time, after not hearing anything about evil spirits for ten consecutive years, Shen Yaobai offered to take him to a place.

They rowed around several green hills, climbed over a continuous ridge, and finally saw an empty plain.

It was night at that time, and looking down from the last mountain, it was like what the predecessors said in the poem, the stars are flat and the fields are wide, and the moon is surging and the river is flowing.

Yi Lan stared at the empty plain in front of her through Shen Yaobai's eyes, and for a moment, a sense of strange familiarity emerged inexplicably—as if he had been here before and was wiped by the gentle wind on this plain. across the cheek.

Before he had time to think about it, Shen Yaobai put his hips on his hips, and bent his eyes at Xie Huai next to him:

"Brother Xie, let me do a trick for you."

Xie Huai turned to look at him, his eyes moved, as if interested.

I saw the young man striding towards the plain in front of him, until he reached the flat ground, he stretched out his hand suddenly, and his slender fingers touched the air, causing ripples in the shape of water.

Immediately afterwards, starting from his hand, the plain in front of him underwent earth-shaking changes—the mountains in the distance turned into layers of terraced fields, continuous towns and cooking smoke appeared around the river, and the empty grass turned into continuous mountains and forests. The closest to them are countless peach blossoms shrouded in the light of the moon.

"Thank you! Follow me!"

Shen Yaobai lowered his voice, and suddenly grabbed Xie Huai's hand.

Xie Huai's body froze, he lowered his head and glanced, his expression seemed a little surprised.

But this touch of surprise passed in an instant, as light as ripples on the surface of the water, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Shen Yaobai naturally didn't notice this, he was a little nervous, and the source of his nervousness also appeared at the front of the peach blossom forest - a tall stone tablet seemed to appear out of thin air, and above the stone tablet, a wisp of The light blue shadow has a voice as thick as a bell:

"Who is coming?"

"Why?"

"Can it be the blood of Qingqiu?"

Shen Yaobai responded one by one:

"Nine-tailed fox clan, Shen Yaobai."

"Return from travel."

"Yes."

After a while, the shadow did not respond, but raised his head, his blurred facial features seemed to be sizing up Xie Huai who was behind Shen Yaobai.

Shen Yaobai's Adam's apple rolled, and he clenched Xie Huai's hand, even Yi Lan couldn't help feeling anxious.

However, the shadow seemed to just make a random movement, and within a few seconds, he raised a hand:

"Pass."

Yi Lan and Shen Yaobai breathed a sigh of relief at the same moment.

After stepping into the blooming peach blossom forest, Shen Yaobai let go of Xie Huai's hand, Sui Suinian explained: "I have heard that as long as you lead another person into Qingqiu, you can confuse the blood spirit. Judgment, if so!"

He turned his head, scratched the tip of his nose, a little embarrassed: "Brother Xie, I never told you about it before, but now, I really haven't hidden it at all."

He stood in front of Xie Huai with a bright smile:

"Welcome to Qingqiu."

For a moment, Xie Huai seemed to remember something, and blurted out: "You are..."

"Shen—Yao—Bai!!!"

Patriarch Shen's expression changed, and he immediately said: "Brother Xie, let's go first..."

Before he finished speaking, a tall and enchanting light purple figure appeared beside him. The woman's eyebrows were as beautiful as a fairy in the sky, and her angry face was extremely beautiful.Although she was half a head shorter than Shen Yaobai, she grabbed the boy's ear with great precision, and it was clear that she had done this a lot:

"Go? Where are you going? Who gave you the guts to sneak out and not come back for more than a year? Ah? How dare you bring outsiders in—"

As she spoke, she raised her head to look at Xie Huai, she was dumbfounded, and it took several seconds for her voice to recover: "... Xie Leader?"

Xie Huai bowed briefly to the woman: "Patriarch Shen."

Shen Yaobai: "...Huh?"

In the early morning of the next day, in the living room of the patriarch of the Qingqiu clan.

"Brother Bai, is the human world fun?"

"Brother Bai! Is the mermaid really good at singing?"

"Brother Bai, you have become vicissitudes - woo! Don't lift my tail!"

Shen Yaobai pulled the little white fox that crawled up to his neck to the side, but he was still clutching three or four cubs tightly. The underage little foxes in the clan had big black and round eyes and shook their fur. The fluffy tail stuck to him, insisting that he tell what he saw outside the clan.

Xie Huai was on the guest seat not far away, holding a teacup in his hand, and glanced at Shen Yaobai's direction calmly.

The boy looked impatient with being pestered, but in fact he was very patient with the kids, answering their questions in every detail, and was very proud of the kids' "wow" He lifted his chin up, but a faint blush floated on his cheeks.

The current patriarch of Qingqiu, Ms. Shen Linglong, couldn't help but sighed, and complained to Xie Huai: "This little thing sneaked away to the human world while I was talking with the elders in the back mountain last year. He is still a bastard at such a big age." It's because I have no way to teach my son. I also want to thank Leader Xie for taking care of the dog during this period of time."

Xie Huai shook his head lightly: "Not to mention caring, Yaobai has a pure heart, but he has helped me a lot."

Shen Linglong snorted: "It's still useful to count him."

Not far away, it was time for the youngsters to go to the private school to attend classes, and they reluctantly walked away one after another amid the call of the private school teacher.Shen Yaobai was finally liberated. He caught a young cub who wanted to bite his finger, squeezed the screeching little guy by the back of his neck and threw it into the cradle next to him, then sat down on the chair beside Xie Huai. He still didn't forget to pat the fox fur all over his body, and there was a faint grievance in his voice: "Brother Xie, why didn't you tell me in advance that you have been to Qingqiu before?"

He also wanted to show off in front of Xie Huai wholeheartedly, wanting to win a little bit of surprise and admiration, but Xie Huai had come to Qingqiu a long time ago... Thinking about the mysterious "trick" he played before, Shen Yaobai felt his face pale. A little hot.

Shen Linglong glared at him, Shen Yaobai deliberately hid behind Xie Huai, just not to let her stare at him.

Xie Huai hooked the corners of his lips: "I've been here before, but I don't have a deep impression, and most of them have forgotten."

Shen Yaobai heard the words, and immediately asked again: "Then do you now think that Qingqiu is as you imagined?"

His eyes were shining brightly, looking forward to receiving an appreciative answer.Xie Huai put down the teacup in his hand, looked back at him, and said in a deep and affirmative voice:

"Beyond expectations."

Shen Yaobai couldn't help showing a bright smile, and patted him on the shoulder: "I'll just say, I won't let you down!"

"Shen Yaobai!" Shen Linglong next to her slapped the table hard, "Nothing big or small! Do you deserve a beating?"

Xie Huai coughed lightly, covering his eyes with a smile: "Patriarch Shen, it's okay."

Shen Yao's white fox took advantage of others, and even had the guts to stick out his tongue at his own mother, then turned around and ran out.Patriarch Shen barely maintained his demeanor as the head of the clan, and said to Xie Huai with a smile, "I still have something to do, you can do whatever you want", then picked up the feather duster next to him and chased him out.

The news of Shen's patriarch, the Hui clan, spread throughout Qingqiu within a day, accompanied by Shen Linglong's furious scolding and the screams of flying chicken feathers.

Xie Huai sighed softly, with a smile on his lips, he couldn't help but think of a few years ago, when he came to Qingqiu by chance, when he was wandering, he met a big two-person tall fox in the peach forest.

There was a red rune on the fox's forehead, the first time he saw him, he immediately stood up vigilantly from the pile of fallen flowers that had just rolled around, with a few soft petals stuck to his ears, pretending to be profound and incomprehensible. He looked like a tester and asked him what he wanted to do.

As soon as Patriarch Shen came back, the fox turned around and ran away like a mouse seeing a cat.

Also a few months ago, by chance, he saw the familiar red rune on the white forehead of the sleeping Shen Yao, and only then did he realize that catching a thief on the street that day was not a first encounter, but a reunion after a long absence.

It's just that young people are very forgetful, and I'm afraid they have already forgotten this.

His gaze flicked over the palm of his left hand, and his pupils became deeper.

On the other side, Shen Yaobai was beaten by Patriarch Shen Haosheng, clutching his buttocks and muttering heartbrokenly: "How old am I, why are you still spanking..."

Shen Linglong slapped him on the back of the head: "Do you have an opinion?"

Shen Yaobai: "..." How dare you.

He turned around: "There is nothing else, I will go to Brother Xie first..."

"Hold on."

Shen Linglong grabbed him by the collar and dragged him into the clan's ancestral hall, only to see that the five elders of the clan were all there today.

Shen Yaobai secretly thought that something was wrong, but he couldn't run away even if he wanted to, so he could only kneel on the futon in the middle obediently, his pair of watery eyes looked extremely innocent.

The third elder who loved him the most when he was young immediately said: "Oh, my good little patriarch, go to the human world, and you are not being bullied, right? Is the silver tael enough?"

Shen Yao laughed so hard that his little canine teeth showed: "Enough is enough, don't worry."

Shen Linglong was speechless: "Is that the money you secretly gave him?"

The Fourth Elder was the most serious, frowning: "Escaped from the Qingqiu Barrier privately, do you know what crime you should be guilty of?"

"Oh, oh, don't scare the child," the second elder said with a smile, "Little patriarch, is the human world fun?"

Shen Yaobai avoided the fourth elder's death stare guiltily, and nodded to the second elder.

The second elder couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Really, I also want to go out and have fun. Brother, the last time we went to the human world was more than 200 years ago, right?"

The Great Elder was silent and only nodded upon hearing the words.

The fifth elder enthusiastically took out his acupuncture bag: "Has the little patriarch ever suffered any injuries when going out? It doesn't matter if you are not injured, come and let me prick twice to see if you have grown again..."

In the ancestral hall, the third elder and the fourth elder played Tai Chi on whether Shen Yaobai should be punished or not. The second elder talked about the past to the first elder. The fifth elder chased Shen Yaobai up and down with a needle. Shen Linglong held his forehead and thought to himself This generation of Qingqiu is really speechless, and I hope the next generation can be saved... But she took a look at the next Qingqiu patriarch in the future, fell silent for a moment, and decided to pin her hopes on her grandson who does not exist for the time being Forever.

Shen Yaobai tossed and tossed for a long time before he was finally released from the ancestral hall. In the end, he was punished by copying the family rules a hundred times. This kind of small punishment is not painful or itchy for the little patriarch Shen who has been copying books since he was a child. .He heard that Xie Huai had gone to Taolin, so he walked all the way in the direction of Taolin. On the way, he met many people he used to know very well and called him "Little Patriarch". His brothers and sisters touched his head and greeted him along the way. During the process, the older elders lovingly stuffed him with freshly made pastries and freshly picked fruits, and the laughing children turned into their original appearances and insisted on wrapping around his legs to be with him Go to Taolin to play.

When we got to Taolin, it was almost dark.The sun was setting and the fire was burning and the clouds were warm and gorgeous. Under a peach tree, Shen Yaobai found Xie Huai with his eyes closed.

He put down the cloth bag with countless fruit cakes in his hand, and Xie Huai opened his eyes almost instantly.

"You're not asleep, Brother Xie." Shen Yao smiled whitely, and sat down beside Xie Huai.

Leaning under the same tree with Xie Huai, he looked at the peach petals falling one after another, his eyes blurred: "These peach blossoms have been so many since birth, and have been floating for so many years... It seems that they never end."

Xie Huai glanced at him, and a peach blossom just fell into his hand. He looked down and said softly, "Mmm, it's very pretty."

Shen Yaobai stretched his waist: "Peach blossoms are beautiful, I like them, Qingqiu is beautiful, I like them too..."

He suddenly bent his bright eyes and said frankly:

"Brother Xie is also pretty, and I... like it very much."

Xie Huai's hand trembled, and the peach blossoms in his palm fell lightly onto his body.

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