Chapter 23 The Hill
When we parted last time, Jiagu Heng hated Du Kangfeng very much.
He clearly showed him one hundred and twenty sincerity and asked him for advice, but in the end he was Du Shufeng's ruthless teasing. The feeling of being fooled made him want to tear Du Shufeng into pieces on the spot - if Feng Yan hadn't gone up the mountain at that time.
Feng Yan had a breath similar to Mr. Xia. This aura itself was a warning, so at that time he quickly left Tianji Palace and released Du Kuangfeng to a life.
But seeing you today, Jia Guheng found that he didn't hate him so much.
Perhaps it was because he had been by Xia Ying's side for a long time. Mr. Xia had always been banned from thinking about those mysterious things. Hong and Sha were not interested in these topics. He was not familiar with A Yu. In addition, the storm and bloody rain a few days ago, everything around seemed to have become messy in an instant...
Therefore, after these days, Jiaguheng has never found a suitable audience, let alone someone who can fight against him.
Now that I suddenly saw Du Huanfeng, Jia Guheng felt like a big pie suddenly fell from the sky and steadily hit her mouth.
This moment of joy made him forget all the evil deeds that Du Kuanfeng had committed before - there is a greater fun to pursue than pursuing those disappointing past events.
He drove Du Xuanfeng to the left and then to the right. Seeing that Du Xuanfeng seemed to be running far, Jiaguheng appeared again, blocking Du Xuanfeng's road ahead and driving him back along the same route.
From time to time, a wave of sand and stones appeared in Daizong Mountain.
Hong withdrew her gaze and looked at Liulang, "Why are you the only one, sir?"
Liulang patted Luo Hui on his shoulder, "Sir, you are on the other side of Guixu Mountain, you can find it soon."
When Hong heard his tone a little distant, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, "...Don't you lead us?"
"No, it's easy to find." Liulang whispered, "I... have something else."
Hong stared at Liulang with some strangeness - although this guy often carried some secret tasks assigned by his husband on his back, he always felt that his words sounded a little insincere today...
Liulang took a last look at Du Huanfeng who was being chased and blocked in the distance, "I'm leaving."
"Why--"
Hong wanted to ask something, but Liulang had quickly disappeared into the forest of Daizong Mountain.
She stood there and thought for a while, and then she heard the sand not far away calling her.
"What's wrong?" Hong turned around.
"Are you asking where the sir?" Sa said, "Ayu and I are a little hungry and want to find a place to rest immediately."
Hong turned around and took a deep breath in the direction of the constant stirring of huge dust in the distance.
Sa immediately said to Ayu, "Come on your ears."
Ayu did it in a daze.
The next moment, a huge roar sounded in the valley—
"Stop playing - come back - do serious business!!"
After a while, Jia Guheng carried Du Kuangfeng and ran and jumped back to Hong Hesha.
Hong looked at the middle-aged man who was tied up by Jiaguheng and beaten to the point of bruising face, "Who is this?"
"Don't worry." Jia Guheng smiled and patted Du Huanfeng on the back, as if he was patting a treasure of his own. "When I see the sir, I will explain to him personally."
...
In Luoyang City, Xiaoqi sat on the roots of a banyan tree that was rarely visited and shouted in the direction of the ground.
"Are you sure you're here?"
Under the tree roots, Ji Ran's voice came quickly, "I will not admit my own home... It's just that the damage is a bit serious."
Xiaoqi stopped talking, she could hear that Ji Ran seemed to be moving something hard.
She turned around, and although she was still blindfolded, she could hear the nearby guards following her and staring at the Ping Demon Bureau.
"Can you go down and see, do some help?"
No one answered her.
Xiaoqi sighed.
After dinner today, Ji Ran said that he also wanted to go home to see if he could pick up some things from the ruins - mainly his mother's relics. Xiao Qi felt bored and asked to come and take a look with him.
The garrisons of Ping Yao Office who suddenly came back from outside the city last night did not stop them, but just followed Ji Ran and Xiao Qi without saying a word.
It was quiet all over, and the afternoon sun was so sunny that people felt a little sleepy. Xiaoqi was silent for a while and took off the blindfolded cloth strip himself.
She covered her eyes for a while, and when she could adapt to the surrounding light, she slowly opened her eyes.
As she expected, there were almost no people in this place.
She was immediately frightened by the huge banyan tree in front of her and forgot everything. She slowly raised her head until her eyes completed the tour of the entire banyan tree along the roots, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
——Although she had heard people around her talk about Luoyang being covered with huge trees yesterday, "heard" and "seeing" are completely different things.
Sunlight spills from the gap between leaves, spots, as if the water flowing from a high place is floating up and down and flying up and down.
Standing under the tree feels like returning to the midsummer of Daizong Mountain...
Xiaoqi's feet slowly moved until the figure of the Ping Demon Bureau appeared in the afterglow. She immediately closed her eyes and stopped looking at her.
There was another rustling sound from under the tree roots, and Xiaoqi blindfolded his eyes again.
Almost at the same time, a bag suddenly dropped from the gap between the roots of the tree. Then Ji Ran poked out half of his body, and he supported the roots and turned up, "I'm fine."
"What have you found?"
Ji Ran leaned over and picked up the bag, walked to Xiaoqi's side, "There are not many things that I can take out, I took out all the things I can take, and I don't know what some things are..."
He led Xiaoqi to the side, and on the surface filled with tree roots, the two sat down again. Xiaoqi held one hand behind his back, gently pinched the strip of cloth with one hand, and watched Ji Ran put out the things in the bag one by one from the gap between his nose and the black cloth.
The biggest thing in the bag is Ji Ran’s mother’s spiritual position, and there are some letters and seals, which were put back into the bag by Ji Ran.
Some other things are quite strange - such as inkstones that are broken into half, and the wooden parts that fell from which furniture are... They all have a smoother surface to the touch, but they can't see clearly what they are.
Ji Ran threw them back into the tree hole.
The last thing was a brown-yellow wooden dressing box, which looked almost the same size as Ji Ran’s palm, and the surface of the box was covered with grayish-white brick gray.
Ji Ran took the wooden box in his hand and looked at it. It had plum blossoms on the front and cedars on the back.
"This is……"
"I don't know." Ji Ran said softly, "I have never seen it before. I picked it up under the collapsed wall on the lower half. When I stepped on it, I thought it was a brick. I heard the creaking sound of my feet and felt it was not like it, so I picked it up and took a look."
"Open and take a look?"
"Um."
Ji Ran gently pushed open the thin plate on the upper layer of the wooden box, and first a 4-fold letter came out. He immediately caught the letter and unfolded it.
There was Duan Xiu's handwriting in the middle of the envelope. Xiaoqi leaned closer and took a look, and saw that it said:
Du Xiaoshan is honored
Chapter completed!