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After chatting, Yi Qingchen paid more attention to observing the environment of the village. After wandering around for a whole morning, he found nothing besides the dilapidated Earth Temple.

Yi Qingchen wanted to continue strolling along the paddy field, but Caizhu reminded him, "Master, it's noon, why don't you go and have lunch before continuing to stroll? Auntie and the others should have already prepared lunch."

Yi Qingchen looked up at the sky, because he couldn't see the sun, and because he was full of thoughts, he didn't even notice the change of time, he was really negligent, so he accepted Caizhu's invitation and walked with her In front of a building on stilts.

On the Diaojiao Building, a Miao girl was holding a bamboo plaque to dry herbal medicines. When she saw the colorful bamboo, she hurriedly shouted into the house, "Mother, sister brought someone back for lunch."

As soon as the words fell, an older woman came out from the house, leaned on the bamboo railing, and said to Caizhu, "Caizhu, quickly bring someone here to have a look."

Caizhu smiled awkwardly at Yi Qingchen, but Yi Qingchen didn't care about anything, just followed Caizhu upstairs, and met the older woman, when the woman saw Yi Qingchen, she was overjoyed. He leaned over and patted Yi Qingchen's shoulder, as if he was picking up some goods, and commented in the native language, "It's a little thinner, with a little boyish face, Caizhu, you actually like this kind of firewood sliver?"

Yi Qingchen pretended not to understand and went to look at Caizhu, Caizhu smiled awkwardly, "My aunt said...Young master, you look pretty good. You are handsome, good-looking, and immortal .”

Yi Qingchen took it as Aunt Caizhu said so, and the latter smiled when she returned, and the latter happily patted Yi Qingchen's arm twice, neither light nor heavy, and Yi Qingchen took a breath of cold. gas.

Aunt Caizhu withdrew her hands and said to the two, "What are you doing in a daze, let's go in and eat!"

Caizhu's aunt entered the room first, and Caizhu's younger sister also walked in. Yi Qingchen looked at the backs of the two, and thoughtfully rubbed his arm that might be bruised. She embarrassedly walked to Yi Qingchen's side, and said in a low voice, "Young master, do you still want to go in and eat? If you don't want to, I'll tell them, and then I'll take you to the market to buy food."

Yi Qingchen wasn't that particular about it, he just smiled and said, "It's all right, let's go in."

As soon as Fang walked into the room, he saw a steaming pot hanging in the center of the room, which was not very bright. There were two people sitting around the hanging pot. One was Caizhu's younger sister, and the other looked a little older. He is Caizhu's uncle.Caizhu's aunt was serving rice in front of another pot.

Caizhu led Yi Qingchen and sat next to the hanging pot. Caizhu's younger sister lifted the lid of the pot, revealing the steaming thick soup inside. It seemed impossible to tell what kind of soup it was just by looking at it. Caizhu said, "It's inside. It's lamb, with some local spices."

Yi Qingchen felt a little more at ease, he thought there would be some weird worms in it, although he was born in Miaojiang, he was not used to eating worms since he was a child, and every time he saw it, he felt a little nauseous, his parents and sisters love to eat it, so every time No matter how hungry I am for the first meal, I can't increase my appetite, so I have been a picky eater since I was a child, and I can't blame my physique for being thin.

The meal was eaten quickly, and the mutton soup was delicious, but it was different from Yi Qingchen's imagination. He thought that a family of four and a guest would gather together, and the host would inevitably talk lively during the meal. Parents are short-sighted, but Aunt Caizhu's house is not like that.During the meal, everyone was silent, and their faces were very solemn, Yi Qingchen occasionally raised his eyes to look at their faces, only vaguely felt that there was an indescribable awkwardness.

Not long after the meal was over, Caizhu got up with Yi Qingchen, and said goodbye to the family, "Auntie, Uncle, I will take the guests to the market for a while."

The aunt turned her head and said with a smile, "Go ahead, bring some food for your sister when you come back."

Caizhu responded with a smile, turned around and walked towards the door, Yi Qingchen deliberately slowed down her pace.Before going out, he glanced inside the house again, and saw Cai Zhu's uncle slowly getting up, and moving clumsily to the next room, with his head lowered and expressionless the whole time.

Yi Qingchen pretended not to see it, quickly followed Caizhu, and went out together.

After walking quite a distance, Cai Zhu opened his mouth and apologized to Yi Qingchen, "I'm sorry, son, my aunt's house is like this, you may not be used to it, it's because I didn't think carefully and neglected..."

Yi Qingchen didn't care about it, just asked, "Don't you like to talk when you eat in your village?"

Caizhu froze for a moment, then hesitated, "No, maybe my aunt's family has a special habit."

Yi Qingchen asked again, "Why don't you go home for dinner, girl? Is your mother all right at home?"

Caizhu explained, "It's okay, Ma'am, she's not feeling well, and she's getting old, so she'll sleep for hours a day. If I'm not at home, I'll heat up my own food after waking up, so I don't need to worry too much."

Yi Qingchen didn't ask any more questions, or he already vaguely knew the truth.

In order to digest food, the two took a walk for a while. Caizhu led Yi Qingchen to the market in the village according to her words. Yes, only one or two are selling clothing and jewelry.

Caizhu walked past the stalls and went straight to a pastry stand to pack pastries, while Yi Qingchen followed slowly and watched, and finally stopped in front of the jewelry stand, staring at a pair of gloves silently shaking his head.

Caizhu carried the pastry and walked to Yi Qingchen's side, staring at the Linglang jewellery, and asked curiously, "Master, do you want to buy jewellery? Who are you giving it to?"

Yi Qingchen laughed when he heard the words, picked up the pair of silk gloves that were of good quality, rubbed their hands, and asked the price, "How much are these gloves?"

The middle-aged stall owner glanced at the glove, said nothing for a long time, and finally smiled, "One gold."

Yi Qingchen was a little unbelievable, "One gold? So cheap?" The material feels very good, the embroidery is high-quality, and there are hidden patterns, even the craftsmanship of Lingshan disciple's clothes is no more than that. The psychological price of Yi Qingchen is fifty gold , so when the stall owner asked for a piece of gold, he couldn't help wondering whether the glove was taken off a dead person.

Seeing Yi Qingchen hesitating, the stall owner smiled and said, "I'm a peddler. I travel and sell everywhere. I don't need to rent it. I just need to control my mouth. If I meet someone with a destiny, I don't make money. The two or three small coins are fine. There are many jewelry here, but you only value these ordinary gloves, my lord. Presumably there is a story..."

Caizhu was also a little shocked by the price, "It's so cheap, is there really such a good thing in the world?"

The stall owner explained, "To tell you the truth, these gloves were something I wore back then. Later, I ran into some troubles and broke my hand, so I can no longer use the gloves, so I exchanged them for some money. I sell jewelry. No one has ever noticed this pair of gloves in this pile of jewelry. You have a good relationship with them, my lord. It is just a burden to keep these gloves by my side. I will sell them to you at a cheap price. It’s considered a small income, so it’s okay to give it away, but I’m leaving this place to do business elsewhere tonight, and I’m short of money, so I’m selling you a gold.”

Yi Qingchen was a little moved by the words, but if what the stall owner said was true, the stall owner must have suffered a big loss if the glove was exchanged for one gold, so he picked two or three pieces of jewelry at random and prepared to take them back as a gift Give it to Shen Yi and Ruhui, and send another one to Caizhu as a thank you for the lunch.

After picking for a long time, I didn't find the one I wanted, but it was colorful bamboo. When I heard that Yi Qingchen wanted to give me jewelry, I quickly picked it out. Yi Qingchen was very difficult to choose, and the stall owner also saw his difficulty. He said with a smile, "Young master's vision is that of a connoisseur." He took out a brocade box from the salute behind him, and opened it for Yi Qingchen to see.

Inside the brocade box lay a pair of silver forged phoenix bracelets, the phoenix eyes were inlaid with red coral, as soon as this thing came out, the jewelry on the booth lost its splendor, and Yi Qingchen said in amazement, "This...how much is this? "

"This can't be sold cheaply, it's two hundred gold." The stall owner looked at the pair of phoenix bracelets, his brows were solemn, and he sighed suddenly, "I bought this as a dowry for my daughter, but after she died, this thing is no longer needed." Got it. I have been seeing things and thinking about people for nearly 20 years, so I should be tall..."

Yi Qingchen hesitated for a moment, then took [-] gold from the purse and handed it to the stall owner, "This phoenix bracelet is worth more than [-] gold, this thing is for you, and it is very precious to me, two hundred gold for it It's a bit cheap for you to express your intentions, so you can only spend all your money in exchange."

Hearing this, the stall owner stared blankly at the five hundred gold, and suddenly laughed loudly, "Young man, you are really interesting. If it was 20 years ago, I would be happy to make friends with you. You can take the things, and I will also give you the money." I will only charge the price I set, and I will not take any more."

Yi Qingchen couldn't beat the stall owner, and in the end he offered the price of colorful bamboo hairpins, barely enough for 250 gold, and the latter refused to accept the extra.

On the way back, Caizhu couldn't help sighing, "This stall owner is so interesting. I have grown up to such a size, and I have met so many peddlers, but I have never seen such a novelty. My son, you are really a fairy?"

Yi Qingchen smiled and said nothing, seeing that it was getting late and the entrance of the village was close in front of him, he said to Caizhu, "It's dusk."

Cai Zhu's smile immediately froze on her face, she turned her head to look at the sky, and said regretfully, "It's so fast. Then, young master, are you going back?"

Yi Qingchen nodded, "See you tomorrow."

Just now Cai Zhu turned regret into joy, nodded heavily, "See you tomorrow."

The camp was half an hour away from the village. Yi Qingchen ate some pastries on the market. He was struggling and didn't really want to eat dinner, so he walked very slowly. When he returned to the camp, he had already It's past dinner time.

The sky was getting dark, and there was a ray of burning clouds in the sky. The area facing the entrance of the South Marching Army camp was the stationed area of ​​Jianzong. If all the members of the sect and aristocratic families came back from outside, they would definitely pass through this place. As soon as he stepped in, he noticed that many eyes fell on him. He slightly raised his eyes and looked around, and found that many people were whispering, the voices were not loud, and Yi Qingchen couldn't hear what they were talking about. He just walked to the Lingshan camp on his own.

What was different from usual was that there were many people standing on the square of the Lingshan Camp. Those disciples who were supposed to be busy in their tents all ran out and stood outside to watch the excitement.

Yi Qingchen squeezed through the human wall, walked a little closer, and found two people lying on the ground, one of them was unconscious and covered in blood, it was A Gu who was invited by Shen Sheng to lead the way during the day, Hua Shenchi He was squatting beside him and taking medicine carefully.

The other lying down was Shen Sheng.

Shen Sheng was not as badly injured as Ah Gu, but right now his forehead, legs and feet were covered with medicine packs, and he couldn't move around, only a pair of eyeballs were still rolling, and finally turned to Yi Qingchen. Reluctantly hooking his fingertips towards the latter, he mouthed weakly, "My lord, come here."

Yi Qingchen was puzzled, so she really walked over, squatted down, put her ears close, and heard Shen Sheng hoarsely say, "I saw Yeluo..." Yi Qingchen opened his eyes slightly in surprise. Opened his mouth, although this reunion was expected, he never expected it to come so soon.

Shen Sheng sighed, and smiled wryly, "That's it, out of the 12 people in the team, only two came back."

What Shen Sheng said was very rough. Yi Qingchen could only judge the tragic situation when they fled from the wounds on their bodies, but could not understand more details. place to talk.

Yi Qingchen thought for a while, stood up, looked at the disciples who were watching the excitement, and asked, "What are you all doing here?"

All the disciples looked at me and you, all with worried expressions on their faces, and one of them asked aloud, "Even the senior brother was injured so badly, it shouldn't be the work of... the Marrow Sect, right?" ?”

Yi Qingchen was silent, and replied calmly, "Of course not, just look at the wounds on his body, they are just the work of wild beasts."

The disciple doubted, "Beast... Elder brother can't beat the beast?"

Yi Qingchen nodded, "On a normal day, it would be impossible for this situation to exist, but the situation in the forest is complicated, and there are many accidents. If you fail to deal with it in time, you will easily lose your life."

Without waiting for the disciple to continue to ask, Shen Yi hurriedly reprimanded, "Ask this and that, are you done with the work at hand? Originally, the manpower is very tight. As a disciple of Lingshan, each performs his own duties, but only ask questions and obligations. It's irrelevant, have you forgotten this sect rule? Do you want to copy the clan rule hundreds of times?"

All the disciples even wearing Yi Qingchen had never seen Shen Yi get angry, they were all frightened and shrank their necks, Shen Sheng was even scared off the medicine bag on his forehead, Hua Shenchi said lightly when he saw this , "Shut up, anyone who has nothing to do will leave on their own."

Shen Yi and Hua Shenchi spoke successively, and the disciples dared not stay any longer, no matter how courageous they were, they all returned to their tents one after another, and for a while, the camp became empty again.

While waiting for Hua Shenchi to heal the old man, Yi Qingchen called Shen Yi aside, and said with a smile, "It's the first time I see you angry, is it because you are really angry?"

Shen Yi stuck her waist in, unable to laugh or cry, "Although I've always had a good temper, I lost ten disciples right now. I was already short-handed. Isn't this making things worse? Actually, I'm not angry, just annoying and have a headache... ...."

Yi Qingchen knew in his heart that the current situation of Lingshan was indeed not optimistic. The number of dispatched people was too small to be criticized, but before they entered Juexian Valley, [-] of them were lost. No wonder the group of disciples who passed by the Jianzong camp earlier He will point and point at himself, I am afraid that there will be a lot of gossip about himself, right?

Yi Qingchen shook his head helplessly, and handed over the jewelry he bought at the town fair together with the brocade box to Shen Yi, and Shen Yi took it with a puzzled face, "This is it?"

Yi Qingchen said, "A small gift for you."

As soon as Shen Yi opened it and took a look, she wanted to push back and give it back to Yi Qingchen, "My lord, this is too expensive, I can't accept it."

Yi Qingchen didn't think there was anything unacceptable, and explained with a smile, "Feng Chuan belongs to you, and the cloisonné enamel hairpin is for Ruhui, I saw it when I was wandering in the market, The price is not expensive."

Girls prefer jewellery, and Shen Yi is no exception. Feng Chuan is gorgeous. She is moved by her heart, and her refusal is just out of etiquette and her own conscience. Ask clearly, "Why did you suddenly think of giving us a hairpin?"

Yi Qingchen knew Shen Yi's temper well, and if she didn't convince her conscience thoroughly, she would definitely not accept it calmly, so she took out the gloves and quietly handed them to Shen Yi, "I originally wanted to buy them for Shen Chi. This one, the stall owner urgently needed money to sell it at a low price, but the stall owner was a man of temperament and very down-and-out, I wanted to give him some travel expenses, so I consumed the hairpin on his stall by the way, but I am a man, and I kept the hairpin It's of no use."

With such an explanation, Shen Yi was completely relieved, but another doubt came to mind, "Young master, did you quarrel with the elder brother?"

Yi Qingchen was stunned for a moment, then smiled wryly, "It's okay, don't worry about it."

Shen Yi was not a good person, so he just looked down at the gloves and asked, "Then, do you want me to hand over these gloves to Senior Brother?"

Yi Qingchen was stunned for a moment, and felt that this was indeed a good idea, so he urged, "I hope that when you give it to him, don't say that I gave it to him."

Shen Yi was puzzled, "Is it because you are angry?"

Yi Qingchen sneered, and said helplessly, "If you think so, you can just let it go. For the sake of this hairpin, help me."

Cannibal's mouth is soft and his hands are soft, Shen Yiben was more inclined to stand in Yi Qingchen's position, after listening to the latter's request, he really agreed, "When does the young master want me to give it to the senior brother?"

Yi Qingchen thought for a while, and said, "Let's wait for this matter."

Shen Yi was a little puzzled, "Is this the matter? This matter? Is it the matter of this village or the food marrow sect..." Before the future could finish speaking, not far away, the ancient man woke up screaming Coming over, the screams were so loud that they attracted the attention of Yi Qingchen and Shen Yi, and they had no time to chat, so they hurriedly surrounded them.