Huaiyu is slightly cool

The eldest princess felt that there were many things that she hadn't figured out yet, and it was inconvenient to talk and do things after returning to the palace. She looked at the sun that was about to set, and took the excuse that the city gate might be closed because it was getting late, and asked the group of people to transfer to another place for the night. In a small farmyard on the outskirts of the city.

This action directly led to a perfect stagger between them and the guards who were chasing after them.After Qingchuan barely boiled the water for the eldest princess to take a shower and change clothes, Yunling entered the room with a tray in her face in embarrassment.In the room, Princess Chang and Zhou Huai sat kneeling and sitting cross-legged at the Kang table in the farmhouse. The atmosphere was a little silent and stiff. They were holding their own jade fish and staring at each other.

The eldest princess glanced at the tray and couldn't see what kind of food was cooked. She looked away and asked Zhou Huai, "Didn't you prepare some dry food?"

Zhou Huai shook his head, looking at the food with lumps of salt of different sizes on it, he was speechless about the cooking skills of those guards.

Because the eldest princess has only three or four guards with knives this time, for the sake of safety, the guards have already used money to let the owner of the house take the whole family to live with relatives in the same village, and then guard the courtyard gate and the courtyard wall carefully. Vigilance guarded.Zhou Huai felt that these guards were good guards, but definitely not good cooks.

The eldest princess asked unwillingly: "Then there should be snacks and snacks in the carriage, right?"

"Those things are not enough to satisfy hunger."

"I'm not too hungry, just have some snacks."

Hearing this, Zhou Huai looked at the eldest princess who deliberately straightened her back and looked proud, but actually looked so arrogant, and spit out two words: "I didn't bring it."

In fact, there were some on the carriage, but Zhou Huai sent the two dishes of snacks to the children of the owner's family, and the remaining small dish of sour plums was eaten when the eldest princess drank ginger soup.

"You!" The eldest princess almost slapped the table angrily, glared at Zhou Huai, glanced at the two maidservants next to her who wanted to come up to persuade but hesitated, sneered, and said: "Don't take what you should take, it's useless." Take it all."

Zhou Huai was not in a hurry, but said in a disgusted tone, "If you hadn't blocked the way to delay the time, we would have entered the city long ago."

The eldest princess frowned, and said meaningfully: "The matter is not over yet!"

"are you hungry?"

"Huh?" The eldest princess was stunned by the jumping topic, and didn't react for a while.

"I'm hungry, I'm going to cook." Zhou Huai continued in a flat tone: "I haven't eaten anything today, can I wait until I finish eating?"

"Is the food you cook edible?" The eldest princess looked at her suspiciously, then glanced at the two maids with disgust, and muttered in a low voice: "You two maids don't know how to cook."

"Don't eat it if you don't believe it! But your rabbit still has to contribute. Just your fat rabbit is enough to make a whole rabbit feast. You can make spiced rabbit heads, stewed rabbit legs, white garlic rabbits, dried rabbits, etc. Pot rabbit, shredded rabbit dipped in water..."

Before Zhou Huai finished speaking, the eldest princess immediately became angry: "Don't even think about it! Is it easy for me to make Xiaobai so fat?!"

"Why are you so fat if you don't eat?" Zhou Huai shook her head after she finished speaking. At this time, she was so hungry that she had no energy left, so she didn't say anything more. out of the kitchen.

The eldest princess was a little surprised to see the other party leaving like this, and hurriedly asked Qing Chuan to carry Xiao Bai into the house before she was relieved. Then, with the remaining small piece of candle, she carefully studied the candle that fell on the carriage at that time. And Yuyu survived.

At this time, in the small kitchen, Yunling was lighting a fire under the stove, and Zhou Huai was standing on the pony and cooking.

Yunling looked at the obvious fingerprints on the other party's fair and tender neck, and asked a little uneasy: "Miss, Nu Gang has always wanted to ask you, what is the injury on your neck?"

Zhou Huai touched his still sore neck, thinking about what happened this afternoon, hesitantly said to the servant girl, "Yunling, let me send you back to Yunzhou."

Yun Ling panicked, waved her hand and said, "Miss doesn't want to say it, so I won't ask any more. Why let me go back to Yunzhou?"

"It's dangerous to follow me."

"This slave has always known." Yunling smiled softly, as if she had already put life and death aside.

Zhou Huai was a little stunned, thinking of the death of Yunling's mother, her nanny, she smiled helplessly, and then changed the subject: "If only that woman would be willing to part with that fat rabbit, the taste must be even more delicious."

Yun Ling glanced at Zhou Huai, who was adding salt to the pot, and then at the thick mushrooms and millet cooked in the pot. She looked like a cook, but Yun Ling who had been with Zhou Huai since she was a child only smiled and praised Zhou Huai for his good cooking skills, and didn't ask anything else.

"It's quite fragrant, so I'm not lying." The eldest princess looked at Zhou Huai in surprise as she looked at several fried vegetables and two bowls of mushroom porridge on the table.In fact, the eldest princess has also been taught to cook, but it is enough for royal princesses to know how to cook some delicate pastries. The art is good, I can't help but praise it.

Zhou Huai ignored her and just concentrated on eating.The eldest princess asked the maid to back down, and couldn't wait to start eating, but her manner was elegant, and she didn't make any noise during the meal, which was completely different from Zhou Huai's fast and unrestrained eating style.

"What's the use of this jade fish?" The eldest princess asked Zhou Huai while drinking a cup of tea after she was full, but her tone was much better than before.

"Can save the soul." Zhou Huai replied lazily leaning on the kang, seeing that the eldest princess didn't understand, he explained: "Isn't it often said that people have three souls and seven souls? When the body dies, the soul will leave the body and reincarnate , and this jade fish can store the soul, that is, the soul will live forever."

"Anyone's? No price?"

"It doesn't matter who you are, the price is that after finding a suitable body, you will have fewer emotions and six desires than others." Zhou Huai glanced at the eldest princess, saw her attentiveness, and continued to talk: "The jade fish was born from the palm of the hand. It was taken from a large and small Taiji gossip plate. The jade plate was kept by the patriarch of the family. It was used to take people through time and space. Ten years of life lost."

The eldest princess asked with a puzzled face: "Then how did the Tai Chi Eight Diagrams Plate come about?"

"I don't know. The only thing left at home is a tortoise shell with the picture of the jade plate engraved on it. Maybe it is something like a turtle shell. Anyway, the picture is blurred. In fact, I haven't seen that thing. The rest There are still a few scrolls of bamboo slips left, but the text on them is too badly damaged. My mother managed to translate those ghostly characters after looking for those old scholars and materials. Meaning. And the legend left by the older generation about this jade plate has no beginning and no end, and I don’t know if it’s true or not. I’m not interested in these things, and I haven’t studied them carefully.”

at home?The eldest princess looked at Zhou Huai strangely, thinking that the other party's mind might be abnormal, so she continued to ask, "Why did you take the jade fish down?"

"That's a long story." Zhou Huai rubbed his nose and said, "I'm not experienced in telling stories to people, so I'll just briefly tell you what I know, and I hope you can understand."

Seeing the eldest princess nodding, Zhou Huai signaled her not to talk nonsense, and said quickly.Zhou Huai cleared his throat and said, "It is said that the ancestors of the Zhou family once had an ambitious guy who wanted to travel back to the past to change his destiny, but ended up traveling twice, and indeed became famous, but he also died at the end of his lifespan. It's all over, but after his generation, in the family with few members, very few people lived past the age of 30, and then a strange thing came out of this small group of people, and used the gossip plate to stop that ambition Home."

The Eldest Princess answered with a strange face and continued to ask: "Is it a success or a failure?"

"It's a success. Anyway, from now on, the people in the family are not only poor, but their lives are getting shorter and shorter."

The eldest princess's expression was a little stiff, but Zhou Huai continued to talk rather wanting to complain: "Later, a capable person appeared and split the jade into two pieces, and as a result, only the soul could be kept, and the body could not be taken everywhere. For a stroll, I hired an expert to find a yin well to replace it, but the yin well is not stable due to the magnetic field, sometimes it travels through time, sometimes it travels into space, and I have to use the blood of the Zhou family to summon the soul back Also, after the jade fish was removed, the original ten-year life expectancy reduction for the ninth generation became eight years for the eighteenth generation, which is hardly good news."

"Is this considered good news?"

"Of course, if you live two years longer, you will have more children and grandchildren."

The eldest princess was choked successfully, and after a while she asked, "Is there any other way?"

Zhou Huai yawned, his eyes were almost closed, and he replied casually: "Yes, with the method of 'only going in and not going out', the family that is dying is forced to continue."

"Only in and out?"

"It means that men and women in the family must marry wives or recruit sons-in-law as soon as possible. Well, you can also marry a few more, and then write a marriage contract with your blood to enter the Zhou family. In this way, the subtracted life span can be shared by the husband and wife, although it is somewhat detrimental to others. Already, but at any rate it survived from generation to generation.”

After Zhou Huai finished speaking, he also made a conclusion: "These people love to mess around, and they really thought they could defy the sky, and the result? It's not that the huge family that sealed off the border and established the country has declined to a few generations. Fortunately, I am the last generation."

The eldest princess was stunned for a long time before slowly opening her mouth: "I have a guess, I hope you won't get excited after hearing it."

Zhou Huai opened his eyes, glanced at the other party plainly, and nodded: "Go ahead."

The eldest princess stared into Zhou Huai's eyes, paused every word, and said with a serious expression: "Based on what you said, the Tai Chi gossip jade plate may just be an accidental acquisition of your ancestors, so I don't know the origin, and the usage may be wrong. I finally got the curse!"

Zhou Huai nodded in agreement: "Actually, when I felt that I was very talented in learning 'Miaoshou Kongkong', I also had this guess."

"You used to be a thief?!" The eldest princess almost threw the teacup in her hand in shock.

"Accurately speaking, they are bandits who rob the rich and give to the poor, not thieves. If they are caught, they will be sentenced to different sentences, okay?! Of course, the biggest difference is the harvest. I estimate that one order can be worth a city's worth of thieves for a year."

The more the eldest princess heard, the more something was wrong, and then she grabbed Zhou Huai by the collar and asked, "Aren't you born again? Who are you?"

"Can you let go first?" Zhou Huai felt a pain in the neck when he saw the excited eldest princess, and said after seeing the other party let go: "I traveled from another time and space, wearing here with the jade fish soul. If you If you can’t understand it, you can think of it as coming from heaven or hell.”

The eldest princess nodded hesitantly, but her expression was still a bit unbelievable. She carefully observed Zhou Huai's expression, and saw that the other party's expression was complacent and even somewhat smug in the dark, and he didn't seem to be lying, so she asked curiously: " You seem very proud of being a thief?"

"Of course, I have built the world's top genetic disease research institute. You must not know how expensive those researches are! It's a pity that the group of researchers are abnormal and can mispronounce words. It turned into studying infectious diseases."

"Are you afraid of death? Do you think short life is genetic?"

"That's right, otherwise why would I keep this jade fish!" Zhou Huai wanted to take off his clothes and go to bed with a sleepy face.

The eldest princess put down the cup, and hurriedly asked: "By the way, you are here, what about Zhou Huaiyu? Should it be the old Zhou Huaiyu?"

"I don't know." Zhou Huai pulled the quilt to wrap himself, but his eyes were looking at the length and width of the kang, not knowing how to lie down.God testifies, this is definitely the first time Zhou Huai has witnessed this kind of kang.

The eldest princess looked at Zhou Huai who was wrapped in a silkworm chrysalis and huddled in a corner speechlessly, pulled her quilt, pulled her to her side, and then lay down and asked: "Then tell me what your time and space is like, Is it the same as here?"

"It was a technologically advanced world. Judging from Jingguo's current humanities, technology, and even economic and political governance system, it is equivalent to 2000 years ago in my time and space."

The eldest princess half understood and imagined the people of Jingguo 2000 years later, but she couldn't figure it out. She didn't bother with it, so she shook Zhou Huai who was already drowsy again, and asked, "Then what will happen to you in the future?" Any plans?"

Zhou Huai gave the other party an angry look, and said, "What plan do you want? It's better to be open-minded, accept the natural and man-made disasters that will inevitably happen in this world, and then sleep peacefully."