Chapter 138 Sister
The sky gradually became brighter.

Although Hebei, a frontier area, is not as cold as the Far East, the autumn is gradually turning colder. The cold morning breeze blows into the carriage through the curtains, which instantly cheers up the elder sister. She climbs up from the treasure bag that is almost as tall as her.

She rubbed her big droopy eyes, sleepily lifted the small curtain on the side of the carriage, and poked her little face out.

"Also? It's snowing outside?"

"Stupid, it's frost."

At the back, the surrendered minister was sitting with his legs crossed, flipping through a book and speaking slowly.

"Huh? So early?" The elder sister frowned and did not respond. She immediately rummaged through her treasure bag on her shoulders, which was as tall as a person. Most of her body was sunken in it, with only two tiger-head shoes hanging outside.

From beginning to end, Jiang Chen seemed to have gotten used to it. She never raised her eyes, and her gaze was always on the scroll in her hand. It was a collection of poems and lyrics from the Tang Dynasty spanning three hundred years. Next to her was a thick stack of poems. It was obvious that the poems left behind by the Tang Dynasty poets were so vast that they could not be fully recorded in one book.

She was looking for a phrase that would be worthy of her status as the "leader". She had spent most of her time on this journey from Yuyang.

Over there, the elder sister finally found what she wanted. She flapped her legs for several times before she crawled out again with a red face. Her two pigtails were a little loose, making her even cuter.

But she didn't care whether her pigtails were messy or not, and she happily raised the thing in her hand.

“Found it!”

She was making a lot of noise, so Jiangchen raised his eyes slightly and took a look. He saw a yellowed booklet with the word "Huangli" written on it in crooked handwriting.

"..."

Sister looked at the booklet excitedly, counting on her fingers and muttering to herself for a long time: "All things are complete... Bi enters the Xu, the Yang goes down to the earth... The Yin Qi begins to condense..."

"Hey, is it really frost? It's still October. In Shuzhong, this is the most fun time. It's very cool. It's a good time to go to the mountains with Hou Wawa to look for black-eyed cats. It's nothing like here, where the grass is all white..."

Jiang Chen held his forehead and reminded him, "That's called an iron-eating beast. It's a bear. How come you mistook it for a cat?"

"It's just a cat!" Sister snorted and responded aggressively.

"Huh?" Jiang Chen widened his peach blossom eyes, looking as if his dignity was violated. He was so imposing that he made the sister's face tighten.

The elder sister didn't dare to face her anymore, she picked up the treasure bag and walked out: "I won't talk to you anymore, I'm going to go find some little girls to play with."

"and many more."

Jiang Chen reached out his hand, grabbed the treasure bag, and then handed over a silver needle, "You can play, but help me check if the little girl in Mobei is awake. Estimate the time, don't forget to give her a needle."

"knew."

The elder sister's face puffed up, and she took the silver needle very reluctantly. She didn't even need the driver to stop, and she jumped off the carriage, muttering quietly, "You don't want to go by yourself? You are so lazy."

But immediately, she folded her arms and folded her arms, trembling.

"It's freezing cold. Hebei is really not a place for human beings to stay..."

Behind the carriage, there was another carriage, with knights leading the way in front and more than a hundred riders escorting from the back. Everyone looked at this playful and cute little girl and couldn't help wanting to tease her, but considering the little girl's unknown identity, they didn't dare to be too presumptuous.

Shangguan Yunque was accompanying the carriage at the back. Seeing his elder sister trembling and moving backwards like a counter-current, he quickly dismounted with an "Ouch", ordered the bad guys on both sides to stop, and then went to greet her with a smile on his face.

"My dear, it's so early in the morning, don't catch a cold. Come on, put on some clothes."

"You are a childish person with a kind heart. I will ask my brother to catch a black-eyed cat for you when the time comes." The elder sister nodded with satisfaction. The humiliation she had endured from the surrendered minister was instantly offset by more than half. She waved her hand and gave the reward generously.

Shangguan Yunque was dumbfounded: "Black-eyed cat?"

"Yes, cat!"

Sister nodded solemnly.

But Shangguan Yunque immediately caught the key information and asked in surprise: "You have a younger brother?"

"Of course I have a brother."

"That's not right..." Shangguan Yunque murmured in his heart. On that day in Yuyang, he asked Xiao Yan out of curiosity, wanting to find out what the relationship between this little girl and Xiao Yan was. At that time, the latter just smiled and said nothing, and did not refute his guess of "daughter", which immediately made Shangguan treat his elder sister more cautiously.

Especially since the relationship between the surrendered minister and Xiao Yan was unclear and his behavior was particularly ambiguous, Shangguan Yunque had to be suspicious. Could it be that the information in the file 'Xiao Yan, eighteen years old' was false?
Or maybe it was that this rumored corpse ancestor Jiangchen had a daughter, and the dignified Tian Anxing was willing to be her stepfather?
Now, after hearing my elder sister mention that she had a younger brother, I became even more curious and whispered, "Your younger brother, your biological brother?"

"How can it be false?"

Afraid that he wouldn't believe her, the elder sister took down the suona hanging next to the treasure bag and said, "I play the suona, and my younger brother plays the gong. We are born to be brother and sister."

Shangguan Yunque scratched the back of his head, feeling a little confused. It was as if a flash of inspiration came to him, but he couldn't grasp it.

He seemed to have a vague idea of ​​the identity of this elder sister and her so-called "brother", but he was still confused because he was missing that key piece of information. So he asked, "How old is your brother?"

"You are so stupid! My brother, of course you are younger than me, do you even need to ask?" The elder sister was overjoyed and scolded Jiangchen in the same tone as he called her "stupid". Then she imitated the way Jiangchen looked at her and looked at Shangguan as if he was a mentally retarded person.

Shangguan Yunque was embarrassed, coughed, and compared with his fingers: "What does it look like? How tall is it? Besides being able to play the gong, there must be other features, right? I can always ask that, right?"

"My brother..."

Unexpectedly, the elder sister was suddenly startled, then her eyes lit up, she cupped her hands to her cheeks, and said with longing: "He is seven feet tall and very handsome. If he wasn't my younger brother... hehe..."

Shangguan Yunque was very upset, but subconsciously thought of Xiao Yan's heroic yet handsome face, and was startled: "Are there any other obvious features?"

"He has no hair!"

"Wait, how old is he? How can he be handsome without hair..."

"Very handsome!" Sister interrupted him, raised her chin, and brushed the hem of her clothes that was pressed down by the treasure bag. Although it didn't move, it was very imposing. "My brother is wearing white clothes and his long hair is fluttering, but he looks sickly, alas."

"Little ancestor, you really confused me. Didn't you just say that there was no hair?" Shangguan Yunque already regretted asking the question. After talking for a long time, all the clues in his mind were messed up, and the original flash of inspiration seemed to have turned into question marks.

"There is hair!" said the elder sister with certainty.

"..."

Shangguan Yunque was petrified on the spot.

The bad guys waiting on both sides laughed. They didn't think there was anything wrong. After all, children speak without restraint. Their own children are the same. They say whatever they think. They just feel that Tian Qiaoxing is being teased, which is extremely funny.

“What are you laughing at!” Shangguan Yunque pinched his fingers angrily, his voice becoming more feminine, “Hold it back!”

After that, he looked at his elder sister again, not giving up, and said, "Let me ask one last question. How many brothers do you have?"

The elder sister frowned, as if she was a little dissatisfied: "One, he is ugly, not like me at all, and looks fierce."

Shangguan Yunque gave up struggling, took out a small stool and placed it next to the carriage.

"Little ancestor, get in the car, let's not waste time."

"Yes, yes, yes, look for a girl."

The elder sister put on her clothes and shivered again. She stepped on the stool with her short legs and got on the carriage: "It's so cold..."

"..."

Shangguan Yunque felt that his anger was shocked and he became a little dizzy, but he was already convinced that this little girl must not have any blood relationship with Xiao Yan. With Tian Anxing's brain, she would never give birth to a hopeless girl, right?
He looked at everyone angrily: "What are you looking at? Hurry up and get going!" At once, countless laughs rang out, and the team was filled with a happy atmosphere.

……

"Girl, I'm here to play with you again."

My sister got into the carriage, but she was still trembling and kept squeezing in.

In the carriage, Ji Ruxue was browsing a piece of letter paper with a faint, peaceful smile. From the sister's perspective, she could see the ink words on the letter paper soaking through the back of the paper, which was very powerful.

She had just heard her sister's strange conversation outside, but didn't take it seriously.

Since she arrived in Yuyang a month ago, her elder sister and her have been like old friends since they met, and she has been pestering her to play all day long. She also tells some weird stories from time to time, such as that she has a good friend "Xiaohong" who can fly, is considerate, and plays with her the best.

Ji Ruxue naturally didn't believe it. No one in the world could truly achieve "flying". Even a person with strong internal strength like the Great Heavenly Rank could only fly a certain distance in the air by relying on lightness skills.

However, Xiao Yan had already told her that this elder sister was actually Ying Gou, one of the four great corpse ancestors, and now she was just insane due to practicing martial arts and had split off a personality. So she could just treat her as a little girl, so she just thought that the elder sister was just talking nonsense and boasting about the abilities of her good friend 'Xiao Hong'.

"Huh? What are you laughing at?"

The elder sister tilted her head, carrying a huge treasure bag on her back, and as soon as she came in, she squeezed in and sat down next to Ji Ruxue.

"Nothing." The latter pursed his lips, folded the letter, and prepared to put it in his arms. Unexpectedly, the little hand of the elder sister suddenly fluttered over and snatched it away.

Ji Ruxue naturally won the fight, but she was afraid of tearing the letter into pieces, so she simply let go.

"hey-hey."

The evil plan succeeded. Sister laughed frivolously, turned around, tore open the letter, and then read aloud to the handwriting: "When will the bright moon appear? I raise my cup to ask the sky... Eh? What's so funny about a poem?"

She was too lazy to look at it anymore, so she threw it to Ji Ruxue and walked over to look at Yelu Zhiwu, who was lying quietly in the carriage with his hands on his stomach and his eyes closed.

Ji Ruxue was not annoyed, but folded the letter with pity, breathed a sigh of relief, and put it in her arms.

This was written to her by Xiao Yan himself when he was in Luoyang.

The elder sister glanced at Yelu Zhiwu and ignored him. She turned around and hugged Ji Ruxue's waist, shivering and saying, "Little girl, you're freezing to death..."

After saying that, she suddenly jumped off the soft cushion as if she had just remembered something, and rummaged through the treasure bag: "It's so cold, Sister should have a bowl of hot buckwheat noodles."

Ji Ruxue was not surprised, as she had seen her elder sister take out too many strange things from here. She just smiled faintly, reached out to the small pot beside her, and took out an egg.

"Since you want to eat noodles, here, I know you'll come to find me, so I'll leave this for you to eat with it."

"Eggs?" Sister crawled out of her treasure bag, her eyes sparkling, "We have eggs to eat again today?"

"Someone told me that children should eat more eggs to help them grow."

The elder sister ate an egg in two bites, puffed up her cheeks, and said incoherently: "You eat it every day... Do you want to grow up too..."

Ji Ruxue's ears turned slightly red. She glanced at her breasts, which were already quite large, and did not answer.

Seeing that she didn't answer, the elder sister didn't care and ate another bowl of buckwheat noodles. She patted her round belly contentedly, leaned close to Ji Ruxue, and rubbed her cheek against her arm: "Girl, you are so good to me..."

The girl narrowed her eyes, and a hint of warmth appeared on her cold face.

"Why don't you come back to Shuzhong with me?" Sister suddenly stood up and said solemnly: "I will introduce Xiaohong to you. I have money and I will treat you to a buffet every day. It's a top-notch banquet!"

"No, that old witch might try to stop us. We have to sneak away and not be noticed by her..."

Listening to her talking to herself, Ji Ruxue just smiled and listened quietly.

The elder sister talked all the way in Ji Ruxue's carriage and had long forgotten what the surrendered minister had told her to do. At the end, she even curled up in the carriage and fell asleep, with Ji Ruxue covering her with a blanket.

……

So there was no conversation along the way, and the team walked west for another half a day.

Gradually, the surroundings began to become noisy. The sound of wheels rolling on the street, the sound of people selling winter vegetables, and the occasional voices of refugees begging all mixed together and floated into the carriage.

We’ve arrived at Youzhou.

"Oh, after rushing so fast, we're finally here. We almost had to wait another day." Shangguan Yunque's voice was heard outside, followed by noisy shouting, as if someone was welcoming us.

In the carriage, Ji Ruxue had a calm expression, her back leaning against the wooden carriage, and she just pursed her lips and said nothing.

In front of her, Yelu Zhiwu's red eyes kept flashing with golden light. He held Ji Ruxue's throat with one hand, and also did not make a sound.

Yelu Zhiwu was still a little weak. His originally fair skin looked even paler now, but his hand was still very powerful and could crush Ji Ruxue's throat with one blow.

The difference in strength between the two is more than just the difference between a river and the sea. Even if Yelu Zhiwu has no internal strength, he can crush Ji Ruxue with his extremely strange psychic skills alone, leaving the latter with no power to resist.

After a while, Yelu Zhiwu uttered the first words after waking up: "Where is this place?"

"Youzhou."

"I haven't seen you... Where is the southern commander?"

This time, Ji Ruxue didn't say anything.

Yelu Zhiwu was stunned for a moment, then he increased the strength of his palm: "I don't want to kill you."

The former breathed disorderly, closed his eyes and said nothing.

Beside the two of them, the elder sister murmured in her sleep, turned over, and continued to sleep soundly.

Yelu Zhiwu glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, feeling a little fearful, but also a little anxious for the moment and didn't care about much else.

Why is this girl from Central Plains unwilling to be threatened?

She was feeling a little at a loss when the curtain was suddenly pulled open and a ray of bright light came in.

"Aogu!"

An extremely harsh scolding sounded instantly.

Yelu Zhiwu looked outside and was stunned for a moment.

The southern commander who was fighting with her was wearing a round-necked red robe, standing with his hands behind his back, with a fierce and cold look on his face. In front of him, Shuliduo was wearing a Mobei military uniform, looking extremely solemn, and her beautiful eyes stared at her intently.

"Mother, Queen..."

"Get out!"

Yelu Zhiwu was confused for a moment, loosened his hands, and obediently walked away barefoot.

When Shuliduo saw this, he suddenly felt the looming gaze behind him disappear, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)