Weicheng snow

As soon as Yi Qingchen entered, the guards closed the door from the outside.

Murong Qian poured a cup of tea for Yi Qingchen, and said with a smile, "The food will be served in a while, Brother Xue, let's listen to the book first." But his eyes stopped on the candy painting in Yi Qingchen's hand, "Brother Xue, what is that?" Fall in love with this kind of children's snacks?"

Yi Qingchen shook his head, and handed the sugar painting to Murong Qian, "I bought it for you."

There was a moment of astonishment on Murong Qian's face, and then it turned into a clear smile, he reached out to take it, bit a small piece crisply, and exclaimed, "It's very sweet."

No matter how Murong Qian laughed, Yi Qingchen knew that what should come would always come.Confused for a moment, he sat down on the seat directly opposite Murong Qian with a complex expression, his right hand resting on the edge of the table, his gaze turned to the lower left carpet, and hesitantly asked, "You shouldn't have used any taboos, right? For example... ...made a deal with gods and demons?"

The sound of chewing the candy painting stopped abruptly, and the smile on Murong Qian's face froze.The sugar painting melted in the residual warmth of the mouth, after a while, Murong Qian swallowed it, and said with a wry smile, "Where did Brother Xue hear about this?"

Seeing that Murong Qian did not deny it, Yi Qingchen felt more and more uneasy, "The woman in the red dress is probably a demon... Also, I know all about the situation you set up in Jiangling... ..”

"...You've gone too far."

Murong Qian smiled wryly, put the remaining sugar paintings on the empty porcelain plate at the side, folded his hands, lifted his chin, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his expression became cold and his voice lost its voice. He smiled, "I also have my plans for this matter. There is a faction in the royal family who wants to blame Brother Xue for the theft of the shark beads no matter what. Of course, I will never let him happen. Since they want to find someone to be a scapegoat, isn't Ghost Faced Lord, a man who deserves more than a crime, the best candidate?"

Yi Qingchen heard the words, and asked tentatively, "Jiang Zhige's method of drawing dreams should have nothing to do with you, right?"

Murong Qian laughed lightly when he heard this, and replied, "This is Jiang Zhige's own request. I just happened to meet him at the beginning and took him to Haishi on the way. As for what he will do in the future, it is up to him." not my business."

Yi Qingchen frowned, "So you just let him go?"

Murong Qian asked rhetorically, "Why not? I have nothing to lose, and I can use the hands of these two brothers to clear Brother Xue of your charges. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone? In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome, but Brother Xue, you If I insisted on going to Jiangling, I had to change the plan halfway, and ended up like this."

Yi Qingchen held his hands in disbelief.

Just at this time Xiao Er led the maid to serve the dishes, Yi Qingchen couldn't say anything more, so Murong Qian picked up the sugar painting from the tray and took a bite, smiling obediently.

After Xiao Er and the maids had all left, Yi Qingchen raised his eyes, looked at Murong Qian in front of him with a complicated expression, and said sadly, "Xiao Qian, you have changed."

Murong Qian bit off Tang Hua's tiger's head, chewed it up and swallowed it, still said with a smile, "Xiao Qian is always for Brother Xue, and this will never change."

The meaning behind this sentence is also very clear, except for this point, everything else has changed.

Yi Qingchen is in a complicated mood. He knows that all these changes in Murong Qian started when he jumped on the Negative Snow Cliff ten years ago. He is the one who changed everything. If he dies, if he dies more thoroughly, he will not implicate the current Murong Qian, Hua Shenchi, and other people around him.

Thinking of this, Yi Qingchen rubbed his temples with a headache, "So why do you want to make a deal with the demons?"

Mentioning this, Murong Qian was very curious about where Yi Qingchen knew about gods and demons, "Brother Xue, you actually believe that there are gods and demons in this world?"

Yi Qingchen was determined to hide the truth, and did not answer, but said forcefully, "You answer my question first." Murong Qian blinked in amazement, and after a long while, his expression was a little wronged, although Yi Qingchen Knowing that he was pretending, his tone still softened unconsciously, "Brother didn't mean to kill you..."

After coaxing for a long time, Yi Qingchen only felt that the longer the separation, the more he could do nothing about this little ancestor, but the matter of the demon clan was very important, so he had to ask clearly, so after Murong Qian's expression eased, he went Repeated the question again.

This time, Murong Qian did not choose to escape, but narrowed his eyes, staring at Yi Qingchen dangerously, "Brother Xue, why do you have to know?"

Yi Qingchen said firmly, "I don't want you to pay an irreparable price in order to achieve your goal. You are my younger brother and the child I brought up. I don't want you to get hurt... don't you understand? "

Murong Qian repeated with a smile, "Brother...child..."

Sighing silently, he said lightly, "I'm already an adult. I have been on the battlefield and killed hundreds of times more enemies than you can imagine. I know what is measured, and what can and cannot be done. I don't need you to teach me anymore..."

"I can tell you clearly that this deal with the demons is the result of my careful consideration, and the price is something I can afford. Brother Xue, you don't need to worry."

"Xiaoqian promises that as long as brother Xue can live in peace, Xiaoqian will always be fine."

Until this moment, Yi Qingchen clearly saw the distance between himself and Murong Qian.

The person in front of him was unfathomable, and he was no longer the innocent child in his memory.

Yi Qingchen was silent for a long time, his eyes drifted away from the porcelain plates filled with sugar paintings and the crowd listening to books outside the wooden window, no matter how much Murong Qian softened his tone and acted coquettishly, he couldn't listen anymore, he just stood up and was stunned by Murong Qian He said lightly in his eyes, "I remembered that there are still some things at home, so I'll go back first..."

Murong Qian hurriedly got up along with him, wanting to persuade him to stay, "Brother Xue, it was indeed my fault just now, please sit down and eat dinner first..."

Yi Qingchen wanted to sit down too, the two brothers finished their meal in a friendly manner, talking and laughing, but...

Yi Qingchen looked at the table, and all the dishes on it were his favorite dishes, and he didn't even put chopped green onion in the spoon.

Seeing this, the boredom in his heart dissipated a bit, Murong Qian saw that Yi Qingchen stopped, and hurriedly struck while the iron was hot, "Brother Xue, you can be angry with Xiaoqian, but don't starve yourself to death."

After speaking, he walked to the dining table, filled a bowl of rice for Yi Qingchen, piled up a lot of dishes, pushed it to Yi Qingchen, and laughed like a child begging for a reward, "Brother Xue, try it."

Yi Qingchen picked up the chopsticks and tasted a few mouthfuls reluctantly. Although Qiaoniang's craftsmanship was indeed excellent, but because of her preoccupation, she still had no appetite, and after two more mouthfuls of soup, she was full.Murong Qian saw Yi Qingchen put down his chopsticks, the smile on his face froze, "Brother Xue, do you want to eat more?"

Yi Qingchen looked at Murong Qian thoughtfully, expecting that the latter would never be able to tell the truth, so he felt another block in his heart, so he didn't ask any more questions, and just shook his head, "There are still people at home who are waiting for me to go back to see you off." Dinner, I'll be sitting down soon." Getting up and pushing the door and closing it, Murong Qian remained seated in his original seat, without getting up to see him off.

Yi Qingchen turned his head to look at the carved door panel behind him, sighed helplessly, then turned and went downstairs to find Qiaoniang to pack meals.However, Qiaoniang was too busy and didn't show up from the beginning to the end, so Ruyi Qingchen had no choice but to ask Xiaoer for help.

While waiting for the food downstairs, Yi Qingchen squeezed behind the crowd and listened to Su Xiazi's storytelling.

Blind Su babbled all over the world again, "It's said that the dustman Shen Yuan understood the way of the old village, helped the world and the common people, and wandered around the world with a three-foot green blade to kill demons and eliminate demons. He passed by Taoze one day, which is the gate of Weicheng. At that time, the mountain torrent broke out, the flowing water roared, and the mountains and bridges were broken. He watched from the bank, and was shocked to find that the evil spirit was lingering in the formation. !"

"And this day is exactly the day when the fish spirit will go through calamities. You must know that if the mountain goblin wants to become a fairy, he must do a lot of good deeds in his life. As for the fish spirit, he has eaten countless pedestrians resting by the river on weekdays. It is the way of the devil! If it survives the kalpa successfully, it will be a great disaster! Tianchenzi made a decisive decision, took the spell, black dog blood, glutinous rice, peach wood sword, gossip mirror, etc., and first used the gossip mirror to fix the fish demon in the water. Azimuth, sprinkling black dog blood to force its original shape, while muttering something, saw a stack of spells lifted into the air, formed a flowering circle, attacked the fish demon, and locked the fish demon in one place in the blink of an eye."

"The fish demon was terrified, and the splash it made when struggling was as high as a city tower. Tianchenzi was determined to fight, not to let it harm the people of Weicheng, so he entered the water himself, drew his sword in the air, and the sword stroke was fierce. It danced like a god, and the residents of Weicheng who watched the battle on the city wall once thought it was a god in person."

"Tianchenzi fought with the fish demon for three days and three nights before he seized a hard-won opportunity. He made a decisive decision and pierced the inner alchemy of the fish's belly with his long sword, sealing the fish demon together with the mahogany sword. After that, the fish demon sank to the bottom of the water with a long sword, and the body of the fish demon turned into the beach in the peach lake, and the long sword turned into the most beautiful peach tree on the beach...Okay, everyone Those who have money will be in the money market, and those who have no money will be in the personal market!"

Yi Qingchen applauded along with the people around him, and there was thunderous applause in the hall, but the food Yi Qingchen wanted hadn't been packed yet, so he stretched his neck to look for the waiter who ordered food, wanting to remind him.As soon as he looked past the crowd, he saw Murong Qian walking down the stairs, followed by a person beside him, and this person Yi Qingchen also recognized, it was the weird person who paid for his sugar painting.

Yi Qingchen couldn't imagine that Murong Qian would have anything to do with this person, he didn't care about other things for a while, he didn't even wait for the food, he went straight out of the Qiaoshou Pavilion, walking cautiously along the way.

As a result, he followed to the vicinity of Murong's family military camp in the north of the city.

Murong Qian and that person entered the camp, Yi Qingchen could only hide in the canopy of a tree in the distance, looked around and searched, and found a gap where he could sneak in.Pointing his toes, he turned over and landed lightly into a hidden place in the camp. He hid there for a while, until the patrolling troops around him had completely left, then he poked his head out and searched for Murong Qian's location from camp to camp.

After searching around, they were still lost, and they were not even found in the general's camp.

Yi Qingchen sighed resentfully, and was about to get up and leave, when two soldiers spoke from the tent beside him, and one of them said, "The man who was stopped by the general outside the city gate today was sent by the capital." Messenger, right? I remember that he came the day before yesterday, yesterday? He was rejected by the general, why does the general not want to see him?"

The other replied, "Hey, don't ask, I'm here to control the general's begging for his brother. You know the general's temper. He doesn't even frown when he gets knifed on the battlefield, but if someone dares to say that his brother is not , You can immediately burst into anger, you say that the southern border is coming to invade, what good can the capital come to ask for people? How can the general give it?"

Yi Qingchen still wanted to listen carefully, but suddenly a smiling male voice came from a short distance away, "Something has sneaked into your camp..."

This subtle sense of distance makes Yi Qingchen unconsciously think of the nightmare in the dream that speaks with spiritual consciousness.

Before he had time to think about it, the hairs on his body suddenly stood on end, and before he even had time to dodge, the sharp edge was wrapped in a tearing vigor and struck him head-on, trying to split himself in half.

Yi Qingchen closed his eyes resignedly, but he didn't feel the pain for a long time.Opening one eye tentatively, he saw the strange young man who paid for his candy painting standing in front of him, with the folding fan in his hand resting an inch in front of his forehead, as if he could stick it to his forehead if he got closer. skin, and he could faintly feel the chill wafting over the folding fan.

Murong Qian came from behind that person, seeing clearly that it was Yi Qingchen, he was taken aback for a moment, then walked up to that weird young man, moved his hand holding the folding fan away with his sword, and stood in front of Yi Qingchen, He clasped his fists with the man and said, "Sir, this is my elder brother, he should be looking for me, not an outsider."

The weird young master tapped the palm of his hand with a folding fan, and chuckled, "I know, I won't accidentally hurt him, but I just frightened him..." He was obviously laughing, but Yi Qingchen couldn't hear it anyway. There was a hint of laughter, only a sense of threat.Murong Qian didn't say much after hearing that, but turned around and introduced the identity of this strange young man to Yi Qingchen, "This is Mr. Dugu, the teacher my father hired for me after I entered Murong's house..."

Yi Qingchen didn't believe it, if he was just an ordinary teacher, how could his clothes be so luxurious?The next moment, Yi Qingchen suddenly realized the person's surname, felt a tightness in his heart, and murmured, "Dugu..."

Murong Qian had no choice but to continue explaining, "Mister taught me to read and taught me the art of war and martial arts since childhood. I learned all my abilities from him. Although Mr. is the head of the Dugu Patriarch, he is not as terrifying as in the legend... ..”

Mr. Dugu smiled again when he heard the words, through the mask, Yi Qingchen couldn't see the expression on his face at the moment, so he could only choose to listen to Murong Qian's words for now, and made a bow with him, "Bringing into the camp at night disturbed Mr. , please don’t blame me, sir.”

Mr. Dugu tapped his palm with a folding fan, turned around and left, leaving only one sentence to the two of them, "Since he is your elder brother, please treat him well, I will go back first."

When Mr. Dugu left, Murong Qian just turned his eyes away from the former, and looked at Yi Qingchen worriedly, "Brother Xue, why did you follow here?"

Yi Qingchen also slowly retracted his gaze, and replied, "His clothes don't look like normal status, I'm worried that you might be related to some other force, follow up and have a look... Speaking of which, Mr. Dugu, As soon as I get close to him, I feel very dangerous, are you really sure that he is a good person?"

Murong Qian smiled helplessly, "Brother Xue, you believe me, Mr. is on my side." With Murong Qian's affirmation, Yi Qingchen felt relieved and asked Murong Qian another question, "The capital city Did you send an envoy?"

As soon as the words fell, Murong Qian's smile froze on his face.He looked thoughtfully at the tent next to him, "Brother Xue, who did you listen to?" Yi Qingchen was afraid that Murong Qian would do something to those soldiers, so he quickly argued, "I didn't know who to listen to when I came here. As I said, don't interrupt me, you child is more and more fond of avoiding problems by interrupting, and finally even brother Xue is going to hide it, hey..."

When Murong Qian heard this, he immediately let go of his defensive face, and his attitude softened again, "Brother Xue, don't sigh, can Xiao Qian say it's still okay? It's just... the matter at Jiangling has been resolved, and the crime is gone." The blame is on the head of the ghost-faced gentleman, but the capital still wants to arrest brother Xue. I am worried that once you enter the capital, brother Xue, you will be charged with unwarranted charges. At that time, the mountains will be high and the road will be far away, and Xiaoqian will not be able to protect brother... ..”

Yi Qingchen was taken aback when he heard the words, after all, the national teacher still wants to send someone to arrest him?Why?

As if seeing the doubt on Yi Qingchen's face, Murong Qian muttered and explained, "They not only want Brother Xue, but also that piece of wood..."