Huaiyu is slightly cool

Zhou Huai met Fang Shuying in her jade shop, and then they took a carriage together and headed for the suburbs of Beijing.

In a secluded bamboo house on the outskirts of Beijing, Zhou Huai saw the legendary Gongxi Millennium.The other party was sitting alone on the bamboo rocking chair in the fenced yard, basking in the warm autumn sun, and beside him was a large clump of just and elegant flowers, which reflected the dusty plain clothes on his body.He has a handsome face and a gentle and peaceful temperament, but his hair is as white as snow.

Gongxi Qiannian smiled and nodded at Fang Shuying in front of him, but was shocked when he saw Zhou Huai, and then immediately stood up to greet her with an inexplicably respectful attitude.

Zhou Huai looked strangely at the man in front of him whose age could not be discerned, and then looked at the white hair on the other side. He always felt that he had seen it there, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

The three of them sat in the courtyard, and after introducing each other and greeting each other, Zhou Huai went straight to the point, and took out the jade ornament between the lotus leaves and fish playing that he had brought for Gongxi Qiannian to have a look at first.

Gongxi was taken aback for a thousand years, but still took it with a smile, held it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, after seeing the seal under the jade, his face became more dignified.He stroked the seal with his hand for a while, and then said cautiously: "Where did you get this jade?"

Zhou Huai asked without answering, "Did you carve this jade piece?"

Gongxi Millennium said suspiciously: "Although this seal is mine and the carving is similar, I don't remember ever carving this 'Fish Playing Between Lotus Leaves'."

Zhou Huai stared suspiciously at the opponent's eyes, and finally took off the jade fish on his neck, handed it to the opponent and said, "Look at this again, can you carve the same one?"

Gongxi Millennium glanced at the jade fish in Zhou Huai's hand, but did not take it. Instead, he stared at Zhou Huai's eyes and shook his head, and said with a little deep meaning: "You can try to imitate it, but the ones that are made are definitely not good enough. Your Excellency has a spirit."

Zhou Huai glanced at the other party, took the jade fish back, and saw that Gongxi Qiannian was going to return the lotus leaf jade piece to her, she waved her hand gently: "I will give this to you." After finishing speaking, without waiting for Gongxi Qiannian to refuse, she said : "Come here today, actually there is one more thing I want to trouble you, master." Zhou Huai said and glanced at Fang Shuying.

Fang Shuying understood immediately, got up and opened the box in her hand and handed it to Gongxi Qiannian.

Zhou Huai went on to say: "I heard that you have superb skills. This time, I am here to ask you to help carve this out."

Gongxi Millennium curiously picked up the oval-shaped rough energy stone in front of him, and after a while, the hand that was caressing gently gradually trembled.He took a deep breath and asked Zhou Huai after recovering his emotions: "This thing doesn't seem to be jade? How did you get it?"

Zhou Huai has been paying attention to the other party's every move, and naturally saw the strange behavior of the other party, but she just smiled and replied calmly: "These are all given by others, and I don't know what material they are made of. I just accepted it because I thought it was pretty. You have seen a lot, why don’t you tell me?”

Gongxi Qiannian's attitude was a little cautious, and after putting the energy stone back into the box, he said to Zhou Huai with a probing and apologetic expression: "Your Excellency, I am just an ordinary jade grinder. Got this strange thing? If the person who sent it told me where it came from, maybe I can guess it, but now I don’t know anything about it, so it’s really hard to make a judgment.”

Zhou Huai nodded, and when the other party expected her to tell more about the origin of the energy stone, he changed the subject in a wicked way: "What do you think is good about this sculpture?"

Gongxi Qiannian was stunned for a moment before answering: "Do you have a plan in mind?"

Zhou Huai looked at the white energy stone, pondered for a moment and asked, "Is it enough to make a belt?"

Gongxi Qiannian nodded, looked at Zhou Huai's waist again, and asked, "Are you going to wear it yourself or give it away?"

"Give it to an important woman, wish her a happy housewarming, so please hurry up and make it as soon as possible, the price can be negotiated." Zhou Huai is going to send the jade belt to the princess after the princess mansion is completed.

Gongxi Millennium nodded, and said with a smile: "Forget about the money, I think we are very destined to be with you. If you don't dislike it, let's make friends in the future."

friend?Zhou Huai glanced at the other party's age, and said a little speechlessly: "Friends are one thing, and transactions are another. One size is one size."

Gongxi Millennium saw the intention of the other party's refusal, thought for a while, and said: "Actually, I have something to ask your Excellency for help."

Zhou Huai joked with a smile: "I'm not short of money, why do I need to barter?"

"Maybe I didn't express clearly, so I misunderstood you. What I mean is, I will still carve your belt for free. As for whether you want it or not, it's all up to you."

"Thank you very much, after all, if you have advantages, don't take advantage of them."

Gongxi Qiannian was dumbfounded, he opened his mouth but couldn't utter a word.

Fang Shuying, who was sitting by the side, had a thin skin. After hearing Zhou Huai's words, she lowered her head impatiently, trying to find a crack in the ground.

Gongxi Millennium smiled stiffly, and said in this awkward atmosphere: "Your Excellency is really humorous."

"Yes." Zhou Huai nodded, accepting the other party's compliment.

This reaction made Gongxi Millennium completely at a loss for what to say. In the end, Fang Shuying stood up with a blushing face to smooth things over: "Miss Zhou is young and straightforward. Don't mind Master Gongxi. If you need help, just tell me. .”

Gongxi Millennium glanced at Zhou Huai, who had already acted as if he had nothing to do with himself, and then at Fang Shuying, who was trying to maintain a smile, gritted his teeth, and said, "Actually, I came to the capital this time to find my good friend Fan He is a skilled craftsman. He disappeared in the capital a year ago. I searched all the way to the capital, but there was no news from all the inquiries. Seeing that you look good, I boldly ask you to help me find out. This person."

Fang Shuying hesitated after listening, but decided to ask: "Have you ever thought about what may have happened to the other party?"

"Originally, I also had these conjectures in my heart, but I always held on to the last sliver of hope when I didn't see the corpse. I feel better if I can find a way to ask someone to inquire about it. It can be regarded as a dead horse as a living horse doctor."

Fang Shuying listened with pity in her expression, but she didn't know what words to comfort her, so she bowed her head and remained silent.

Zhou Huai, who was listening to their conversation quietly, was thoughtful when he heard the name Fan Gou.

Model?Zhou Huai recited it silently twice in her mind, and then remembered where she had seen this name before—it appeared in the study letters and drawings Wu Mingtai gave her.

Zhou Huai glanced at Gongxi Qiannian, and continued to watch quietly.

After Fang Shuying glanced at Zhou Huai, she bit the bullet and asked Gongxi Qiannian about his general appearance, and ended with a sentence of "I will help you to find out, and I will tell him as soon as I have news", and then I didn't stay any longer, pulling Zhou Huai said goodbye to Gongxi Millennium politely, and left the bamboo house.

On the way back, Fang Shuying looked at Zhou Huai with her eyes closed and meditating, but couldn't help but ask, "What are you going to do about finding Fan Gou?"

Zhou Huai yawned and said nonchalantly, "You agreed, not me."

Fang Shuying was furious because of Zhou Huai's rascal, she gritted her teeth and reminded the other party: "We are in the same group!"

Zhou Huai replied lazily: "Then why haven't you finished the matter I entrusted to you? I have fulfilled my promise and made your father the head of the family."

Fang Shuying was a little flustered, but she still found a reason to fight back: "What about the eldest son of the big house?" Although her father took the position of head of the family for nothing because many important members of the Fang family were imprisoned, her father's eldest son still Live well.

"It's just a dude, design to get rid of it, and still use me to teach?"

Fang Shuying pursed her lips, the hatred in her eyes could not be dispelled, but her expression was hesitant and tangled, and finally she remained silent.

Zhou Huai could tell that Fang Shuying had probably never killed anyone, so she smiled and asked, "You dare not?"

Fang Shuying looked at Zhou Huai, then lowered her head.

"You told Gongxi Qiannian about my identity?"

"No."

"Then why is he so respectful?"

"I also think his attitude is quite strange. I thought he was a subordinate of your Zhou family."

"Subordinate?" Zhou Huai frowned, chewing on these two words, and then suddenly remembered that the other party's white hair was quite similar to the man in another world she had seen in the jade fish. Could it be that the other party was a spirit race?Then why Wu Mingtai has black hair again?Zhou Huai was a little puzzled, and decided to send someone to check the identity of the other party after returning, and test the other party next time when she came to get the jade belt. Maybe she would also ask Wu Mingtai about his hometown.She could remember that Wu Mingtai escaped from the crack in the space after being tricked by his enemies. What if the other party was sent by the enemies who chased and killed Wu Mingtai?

Zhou Huai frowned, guessing Gongxi Qiannian's identity in his mind, and suddenly felt the horses outside the car screaming, obviously something happened.

Fang Shuying just wanted to lift the curtain of the car to see, but was pushed aside by Zhou Huai, who had quick eyes and quick hands, and saw an arrow with a cold light pass through Fang Shuying's position just now and hit the wall of the car, and several more arrows later The arrow flew into the carriage from the windows and curtains.

Zhou Huai and Fang Shuying were lying in the corner, not daring to move, but suddenly felt the carriage shake a few times, and then fell forward. The unsuspecting two people rolled directly from the carriage to the ground, and they fell completely. , when I raised my eyes to look at the surrounding situation again, I saw that there were a dozen or so guards with me, and there were only three standing ones left. There were already a lot of casualties on the ground, and the situation was tragic, but the horses and people who fell on the ground were still surrounded The carriage was in the middle, and the carriage she was riding in was tilted forward because the horse pulling the carriage was dead, but it did not overturn.

Zhou Huai looked at the killers shooting arrows hiding on the mountains on both sides. It was estimated that there were at least 20 people, and the worst thing was that there were no rocks or trees nearby to cover them.

"There is an ambush, be careful." After the guard finished speaking, he quickly dragged Zhou Huai and Fang Shuying who were on the ground to the side of the carriage, and stuffed them under the chassis of the carriage.They used the carriage as a cover, holding the last few horses in a fan shape to guard the surroundings, and tried their best to stabilize the carriage so that it would not roll over.

Just as the guards finished speaking, they saw two more rounds of arrows raining down on the hills on both sides of the road.The few guards couldn't resist in front of them, they could only pull up the corpse on the ground to block in front of them with grief and determination in their eyes, and then consciously gathered together to block the gap in the chassis of the carriage, trying not to let the arrows hurt the two people under the carriage. people.

But everyone knows that this can only be avoided temporarily. If the opponent uses rockets or directly kills them, the number of them is very different, and they will definitely die.

Just when everyone was feeling desperate, there was the sound of horseshoes galloping not far behind.When everyone looked up, they saw a group of light cavalry galloping from the road behind them, two of them approached their carriage quickly, and the rest of the ten cavalry rushed towards the hills on both sides in two batches.

The two men rushed to the carriage, showed the iron plate in their hands, and ordered loudly: "Get on the horse and charge forward!"

Hearing this, the only guard who was still able to move under the rain of arrows just now threw Zhou Huai and Fang Shuying onto the horse one by one.Those two people followed his movements and beat horses to protect them on both sides.

But before the two teams of Qingqi approached, the ambushing people on the mountain sent a final wave of arrows to Zhou Huai's side.

Zhou Huai was so dazed by the horse, she didn't even feel the wind blowing on her body, but she smelled a strong smell of blood in her nose, and felt the guard behind her shaking her body with the horse. , something dripped onto her head and face, and the sticky feeling made her heart sink.

After they galloped for about one stick of incense, the horses naturally slowed down and stopped.Zhou Huai moved his head and looked to both sides, only to see that the two people who had been protecting them just now had only one wounded horse left behind them, dying.But Zhou Huai's movement caused the guard behind her to fall to the ground from the horse.

Zhou Huai looked at the other party's blood-stained corpse with several arrows in his body, and asked Fang Shuying in front of her, "Can you ride a horse?"

Fang Shuying's body was stiff, and she shook her head numbly.

"Then get off the horse." After Zhou Huai finished speaking, he jumped off the horse first, helped the guard close his blood-red eyes, looked at the roads with mountains and forests on both sides, and then leaned over and put his ears on the ground to listen.

Zhou Huai stood up, wiped the blood that was dripping on his face, looked back at the group of figures chasing them on horseback with knives, and at Fang Shuying who was at a loss beside her, took her hand and looked Run in denser forests.