One of the Twelve Kingdoms

"I'm suffocating, Baihu, I'm about to suffocate." Joshya said weakly to Baihu while lying on the table, almost rolling on the ground.

Several balls the size of goose eggs on the table used for lighting emit white light. It is said that they are the eggs of a kind of demon living on the mountain wall. During the five-year incubation period, they will glow day and night. , so it is often picked up by the people of Huang Zhu and sold at a high price to wealthy businessmen and nobles.

But Joshua looked left and right and couldn't see any traces of life in these stalactite-like eggs, and to be honest, they were not as beautiful as electric lights.The table was originally a miniature generator and desk lamp that Jonathan dismantled and modified before he left, but after he was happy, Da Sikong took it for research within a few days.

They're a bunch of demons, taking everything that makes him happy, and he's kind enough to remind them of things like don't get wet, don't disassemble with bare hands.

"I have to go out and see, even a king has to have a holiday."

Bai Hu said: "As soon as we go out, the maid at the door will immediately tell Yan Qi to arrest people."

"Don't worry about that nasty dormitory supervisor." Joshua dug out two sets of casual clothes from the closet for the two to change into, and then rode a white tiger and flew directly down from the window to the top of Aoshuang Mountain.

The speed of the white tiger is very fast, and the mountains, rivers and wilderness pass by like the wind.They flew over the thick incense in the palace, the freshness of leaves and flowers, and the sweetness of berries, and then fell into the world in the thick cooking smoke.

"Where do you want to go?" Baihu asked.

"Whatever, the farther the better." Joshya thought for a while: "Fly by feeling."

They finally stopped by a river outside a village, some soldiers were digging ditches, and more were building houses further out on the plains.

"It doesn't seem to be the army of the Qiao Kingdom." Joshua saw the military uniforms they were wearing, and a passing villager heard him and replied casually, "This is a specially invited craftsman from the Qing Kingdom. It is said that these waterways can directly lead to every My own home. If you want me to say that digging a well is enough, it’s so troublesome, it’s better to find more food..."

He shook his head and walked away. Joshua's face that was expecting to be praised suddenly drooped. He touched his nose, and then muttered: "You will know how to thank me after it is built."

They walked into the renovated town, but they ran into an acquaintance while wandering.

The burly figure with a huge sword on his back swaggered into a beautifully decorated double-eave terrace. Before the white tiger could stop Joshua, he had already chased him in. He looked at the green plaque and the second floor leaning against the window. The woman had no choice but to hurry up.

"Ao Dou." Joshua called the other party, the figure turned around, then his eyes lit up, and he grinned and said loudly: "Oh, boy, what a coincidence that you also come to play." He stroked his unshaven beard He winked at Joshua viciously with his chin, and said in a low voice, "I didn't expect our King Gong to be a big kid."

"Ao Dou, long time no see, we have something to talk about another day." Baihu came up and wanted to pull Joshua out of the door, but Ao Dou grabbed him back one by one: "Since you are here, why not go? You drink."

The inside of the building was exceptionally cool and quiet, with the sound of the thumbling piano and soft whispers.Layers of pink gauze curtains seem to draw blurred boundaries, making the spacious and bright hall charming and tender.Several well-dressed girls were playing and singing on the high platform in the center, but Joshua basically couldn't understand what they were singing.Ao Dou led the two of them to sit in a cubicle around a low square table, a charming woman in pink came up, the strong smell of rouge made Joshua feel like she was sitting among a hundred women.

Audou boldly ordered a table of food and drink, and Joshya finally realized what kind of place this was when he enthusiastically wanted to give them a girl.He looked at Bai Hu, who had the helpless look on his face that he had already told you.

Joshua quickly refused, and said, "I thought you went back to the Yellow Sea, and you're the only one?"

"Ah, I went back for a few days, and came out after finishing the work." Ao Dou hugged left and right like a fish in water, ate a piece of beef from the girl and asked: "What about you? You sneaked out again behind your big beauty's back? "He was talking about Qilin, since Ao Dou saw Qilin's real appearance, he always called it half in joke and half in admiration, and from time to time he even made fun of it openly.Yan Qi never paid any attention to him, especially after knowing that his snow fox was called Little Beauty, Ao Dou always wanted to catch him for a ride, and was so angry that Yan Qi hid away when he saw him.

Joshua scratched his head and made up an excuse: "Baihu and I came out to inspect the progress of the house construction."

Ao Dou snorted inexplicably, but did not expose the obvious lie, and said: "Then it is really time for you to come out. Today is the Dionysus Festival. After the sun sets, I will take you to the temple fair to watch the excitement."

It was not too early when the two of them came out, and the sun was already setting in the west. After the three of them finished their meal, Ao Dou paid the bill while looking at the woman upstairs behind the carved wooden railing and sighed: "Spend a lot of money on Fengyue. Eating light meals in restaurants is really a waste, a waste."

The festival is held in a wide open space, which is usually a grain field, which is specially cleaned up to celebrate the festival. There are fireworks and wine jars piled up beside it. The instrumental music team and performers occupy a corner and prepare nervously, pushing the carts. The vendors stretched all the way from the open space to the nearby temples. Are there gongs, drums and bells coming out of it?

Ao Dou pointed to a few shirtless middle-aged men who were eager to try, and said, "The drinking competition in a while is free, do you want to try it?"

Joshua held a few strings of meatballs and bulged his cheeks and shook his head quickly. Suddenly, he was hit hard on the back. He wobbled and was supported by the white tiger, but the things in his hands were scattered all over the floor.

It was a young man who bumped into him. He stepped on the round ball and fell to the ground unexpectedly.

"Let me go!" he cried, speaking in English.Joshua immediately asked the person who restrained him: "What did he do?"

"He steals the cakes we sell and doesn't pay for it." The man who pressed him hard snorted. The young man was taken aback when he heard Joshua's words, and immediately became excited when he looked up and saw his typical Western appearance: " Were you involved in this too?"

Joshya said, "We'll talk about that later, he said you ate his stuff."

The other party immediately argued: "I paid."

Joshua relayed his words, and the man took out a pound and threw it on the ground, "What kind of money is this?"

That's ten pounds.Joshua said silently in his heart, and then paid for him.

"I'm Jason, thank you." The man stood up and clapped his hands to introduce himself. He has slightly curly black hair and a pair of gray-blue eyes. He is not tall but has a straight back.Joshya said: "You're welcome, I'm Joshya. Are you an American?"

"My dad is American," Jason said, "Damn it, I just dozed off by a flower bed and woke up to find myself in a woods and walked out to find people in weird clothes and weird shapes , I thought I was sent to a desert island by a prank." Jason's expression was still a little disbelieving, and then he asked Joshua, "Have you been here for a long time?"

Joshua denied, "Not for long."

Jason asked strangely: "But you can communicate with them and speak very fluently. How did you do it?" He expressed his interest and doubts without hiding it.

When Joshua was struggling with how to answer, Audou suddenly said: "Boy, where is Britain?" Then he said to himself: "Isn't it called Britain that everyone in this country is very handsome?" Then he looked suspiciously To the British kid.

Joshua curled her lips and said, "I'm sorry not."

"Then the United States is not called the United States because it has many beauties?"

"Of course not."

Their conversation became understandable English in Jason's ears, and he asked as if he had finally found hope: "Do you know how to go back?"

"This... I don't know very well." Joshua said guiltily, and then quickly added: "But we have been looking for it."

Jason let out a little disappointment, and Joshua gave him all the food in his hand, and the latter took it and said, "Thank you."

Joshua glanced at Bai Hu and Ao Dou, and felt that it was not good to leave Jason alone, so he asked, "Do you have a place to live?"

The hungry Jason shook his head while gobbling: "No, I've been living in the temple."

Joshua pulled Ao Dou and said in a low voice: "Can you help him find a place? If Qi Qi finds out that I take people back casually, he will definitely kill me."

"Why, isn't Qilin incapable of seeing blood? Besides, why is he willing to kill the king?" Ao Dou lazily said, Joshua secretly rolled his eyes, and took out a gold coin to him: "Enough."

Ao Dou smiled and said to Jason: "Young man, come with me."

"I'll come to you some other day." Joshua waved to him, then suddenly looked at Baihu in a daze: "Wait, how can Jason understand Audou's words?"

"I heard from his companions that Audou used to be a general of Fang Kingdom." Baihu said uncertainly.

"Really?" Joshua asked in surprise, thinking about how he led the soldiers at that time, it didn't seem surprising.

Because there were suddenly more things about Jason, Joshya's interest in having fun dropped by half, and he went back to Cuihuang Palace with Baihu without even watching the fireworks.Yan Qi was waiting for him on the gravel road outside the forbidden gate, when he saw him come back, he said to Bai Hu, "Thanks for your hard work." Then he said lightly to Joshua, "Rest early."

Joshua suddenly behaved like a rabbit and slipped back to the Shuiyang Temple. Before closing his eyes, he was still thinking about how long Yanqi had been waiting there.

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