Chapter 164 Where in life do we not meet each other

The third day of the first lunar month.

Snowflakes were rustling outside the window. In the bedroom, it was warm. The lavender dress hanging on the wooden rack gave off a faint fragrance that was refreshing.

Xiao Yan pinched his brows, sat up from the bed, stepped barefoot on the floor, sat on the edge of the couch and pondered for a moment, calming his still confused mind in the early morning.

But just as he was about to stand up, a pair of round, jade-like feet came from behind and gently embraced his waist.

"You haven't answered me yet. Which dumpling was the best that night?"

Xiao Yan ignored her, grabbed her ankle and pulled it to the side, then went barefoot to get the robe hanging on the hanger. While changing his clothes, he faced the bronze mirror and rubbed the stubble on his chin with his fingers.

In the reflection in the bronze mirror, one could see Jiang Chen's fair and plump figure straightening up, with a blanket covering her chest. Although she was plain-looking, her foxy face still looked extremely graceful, and even with a slight frown at this moment, she was quite alluring.

"Mr. Xiao, why don't you answer me?"

Seeing that Xiao Yan didn't respond, Jiang Chen became very angry. He picked up the pillow and smashed it on Xiao Yan's back. The force was mixed with his internal strength, and the originally light pillow became as hard as a stone. Even though the latter caught it casually, one could still sense how angry this royal sister was from the dull sound.

Xiao Yan put the pillow aside, tied his belt and said, "Don't worry, I'm savoring it."

"Pooh."

The surrendered minister snorted and said, "I don't believe you."

"I'm not reminiscing about the dumplings." Xiao Yan put on his boots and smiled calmly.

"You are such a scoundrel!"

The surrendered minister was stunned for a moment, then rolled his eyes, his face flushed, and he spat through gritted teeth.

“Each has its merits, each has its merits.”

Xiao Yan smiled and comforted her, saying, "In my opinion, as long as the filling doesn't come out when you make dumplings for the first time, they are delicious. Whether they are delicious or not depends on the filling inside."

Jiang Chen did not respond. Instead, when Xiao Yan approached, he suddenly stretched out his long legs and gently kicked him. Then he hooked him back with the back of his foot and rolled his eyes, saying, "You little thief, you have become more shameless as you grow older."

"I don't understand what Corpse Ancestor is talking about." Xiao Yan just had a righteous look on his face and smiled faintly.

He was born with an imposing bearing, and with his belt tied tightly around his waist, he looked even more heroic. Even in the eyes of the picky aesthetic taste of the surrendered minister, he was still a handsome man.

At this moment, their faces were very close, Jiang Chen held Xiao Yan's cheek and gently touched his forehead with his rosy lips.

"Sister, congratulations on growing another year older."

……

A moment later, Xiao Yan strode away wearing a fu hat. Jiang Chen watched his back disappear behind the door. As the door closed, he let out a long sigh and crossed his arm in front of his forehead, looking a little annoyed.

After a moment, the door was opened and a figure with pigtails walked in with his hands behind his back.

As he calmly sat down at the table, Jiang Chen knew who the visitor was without even looking.

"Why are you in the mood to come out today? Do you want to breathe some fresh air?"

"You've been here long enough. Haven't you gotten the results you wanted?"

"I got it, let's play with it again."

"Don't play yourself into it." The little girl at the table spoke in a cold tone, just staring at her reflection in the bronze mirror opposite her, with no expression on her face.

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, stood up, raised his hand and pulled the purple dress on the wooden frame, and then said, "Hey, Yinggou, please pay attention to the tone of your voice when you talk to me."

"Oh."

Ying Gou still had her arms crossed over her chest, her face expressionless as she said, "His cultivation technique has almost stabilized. You should know how to modify it. He should continue to stay here. It's a bother."

"If you are annoyed, just go back by yourself." The surrendered minister didn't care.

Ying Gou's face suddenly fell, and she pressed her hands on the table. Her tone, which had always been very frugal with words, also showed some emotion: "You said that he could help me kill her..."

"Are you lying?"

Although she is small in stature, she has a great aura. At this moment, her drooping eyes are open indifferently, and her blood-thirsty pupils are flashing with an evil light, making people dare not look directly at her.

But Jiang Chen ignored him completely and just fixed his hair. Under Ying Gou's angry gaze, he slowly fixed his hair in front of the bronze mirror and said calmly, "You want to kill her, have you asked her opinion?"

"Eh, kill her, what else do you want to say?"

"My little man said that we must always respect our elder sister's opinion."

"She was the one who stole my body!" Ying Gou was furious. He pressed his palm on the table. Suddenly, a sharp wave of light swung out, circling across the entire room. Suddenly, the bronze mirror cracked into several cracks.

The surrendered minister, who was washing his face in front of the bronze mirror, was stunned for a moment, then he gritted his teeth.

"Firefly hook!"

"You're such a coward!" Ying Gou rarely confronted the surrendered minister this time. He jumped off the stool and looked at her coldly, unwilling to be outdone.

Jiang Chen narrowed his peach blossom eyes, stepped forward suddenly, grabbed Ying Gou's ears, stared at her and said, "Why, do you still want to fight me?"

Ying Gou was very angry, but he couldn't struggle. If he struggled, his ears would hurt. He could only vent his anger and raise his hands: "Let go first, I apologize, I apologize."

"Humph."

The surrendered minister clapped his hands, stared at her and said, "We have come this far over the years, why should we rush at this moment?"

"I want to kill her all the time."

Ying Gou looked at himself in the bronze mirror and spoke in a low and cold voice.

"I still say the same thing." Jiang Chen sat back, crossed his legs, and said, "I need to ask Sister's opinion..."

After that, she looked at Ying Gou, took out a medical book and flipped through it, frowning and said, "After all, neither you nor I know if you will still be yourself after you lose your elder sister. According to what the book says, you and your elder sister may have become one."

Ying Gou snorted coldly and did not answer the question. He just said coldly: "How could that coward agree to it?"

"Then just wait. Whether you go back to Shuzhong or go somewhere else, just wait."

The surrendered minister stretched lazily, not concealing his figure at all, and yawned, "When the time is right, perhaps everything will fall into place."

Ying Gou had a cold expression on his face, he just crossed his arms and said nothing.

The former glanced at her and saw that she was staring at her figure, so he twirled his hair and smiled: "Besides, if you kill my sister, your body will still be like this, it's better to leave it like this. At least my sister looks more suitable."

Ying Gouyi remained silent, but this time she half-closed her eyes and stared at the bronze mirror for a while. Her face fell, and she hunched over her chest and turned away.

wow——

Almost at the same time, the bronze mirror, which was already covered with cracks, suddenly shattered and fell off the frame with a loud noise.

Jiang Chen didn't care at all, he just stared at her back and suddenly called out, "Ying Gou."

The latter stopped and turned half of his face towards him.

"You'd better not have any bad ideas." Jiang Chen's voice was light and a little slow, but his tone was not to be rejected: "Especially for-"

"My little boy."

"Heh." Ying Gou didn't comment, just snorted coldly and walked out of the room.

Jiang Chen lowered his head and looked at the lens that had been broken into countless pieces on the ground, reflecting countless images of her face, and he couldn't help but frown slightly.

Could it be that she really played herself into this? "..."

In the bedroom, he let out a long sigh, sounding increasingly worried.

…………

"You should go south to Bianliang in the next two days."

The meal was being served in the front hall. Xiao Yan sipped slowly from a large bowl of porridge, picking up some pickles while making nonchalant comments.

Ji Ruxue was holding her cheeks up and watching him eat the porridge she cooked, with a faint smile on her face, looking quite happy. When she heard this, she was slightly stunned, and then subconsciously took out an egg from the bowl, cracked it, peeled the eggshell for him, and pursed her lips without saying a word.

The hall suddenly became quiet.

Shangguan Yunque, who had been pretending to be invisible, was also stunned for a moment. Then he glanced back and forth between the two of them, half of his face hidden behind the bowl, not daring to say a word.

Seeing that no one answered him, Xiao Yan frowned and looked at the two of them: "Any objections?"

Ji Ruxue had a cold face, clearly reluctant to leave, but she tried to pretend she didn't care. She handed the egg to Xiao Yan and asked calmly, "When are we leaving?"

"Hey, what's the hurry?" Shangguan Yunque hurriedly tried to smooth things over. He turned to Xiao Yan and laughed dryly while pinching his fingers together. "It's just that you, Xiao Lang, never mentioned this matter before. Why are you suddenly asking us to go back to Bianliang?"

He said shamelessly: "I haven't lived in this Feng Shui treasure land for long. I can't bear to leave."

Xiao Yan looked at Ji Ruxue with interest and asked, "Do you think so too?"

"I don't want to."

The girl tilted her head, her tone not softening at all.

Shangguan Yunque was very anxious, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he just said: "I really don't want to leave, mainly because I can't bear to leave you, Xiao Lang... You know, I don't dare to go back to Cangbing Valley now. Shi Yao is so fierce. Where else can I go except staying with you?"

Xiao Yan stepped back calmly, then looked at Ji Ruxue who had remained silent and smiled.

"In fact, I should also move south."

"Ah?" Shangguan Yunque was surprised.

Ji Ruxue also turned around silently and looked at him.

"But I should just go to the Yellow River and not go south." Xiao Yan kept looking at the girl and said, "Although I was forced to leave from Youzhou this time, I was also summoned back to Bianliang. It has been nearly a month. It is understandable that the heavy snow has slowed down the progress, but people should have left Hebei at least. And you returning to Bianliang on my behalf is a good way to eliminate Zhu Wen's doubts."

He laughed and said, "When we left Bianliang, although there was very little noise, it certainly could not be hidden from Zhu Wen. He must have known that you two were with me. This is part of the plan, don't think too much about it."

"So that's what it is for." Shangguan Yunque responded thoughtfully, but said sadly, "It seems that this is the only way. Living here is much more comfortable than in Bianliang."

After that, he shamelessly leaned closer and said, "Xiao Lang, from now on I will move to the Yanzhou branch and live here as a family member, how do you think?"

"Stop talking nonsense. Bianliang is so prosperous, isn't it to your liking?"

"Tsk, what prosperity is Bianliang? Chang'an a few decades ago was a grand scene! Even after the Huang Chao Rebellion, it was not comparable to Bianliang. If it hadn't been destroyed by that bastard Zhu Wen, the population of Guanzhong wouldn't be as small as it is now!"

Speaking of this matter, Shangguan Yunque became a little indignant, which shows that he really did not take the prosperous scene of Bianliang seriously.

Xiao Yan just smiled faintly and looked at Ji Ruxue.

The girl didn't say much, but just nodded silently: "I'll go clean it up later."

After the matter was settled, the breakfast was naturally finished quickly, and Xiao Yan went to the front village to summon Feng Dao and others.

But immediately, Ji Ruxue, who had just returned to the back village, came over non-stop and in a somewhat panic.

"The Corpse Ancestor has left."

"Ah."

Xiao Yan was not too surprised. In fact, he had already had some premonition when Jiang Chen gently kissed his forehead in the morning.

Jiang Chen seemed to be different from other women of this era. She seemed to be in love with him, but even Xiao Yan himself knew that they would not be truly in love.

At least not now.

She is like a traveler who has traveled all over the world. She may linger on the scenery of a certain place for a while, but inertia will force her to not linger on that scenery forever.

But even though he had a premonition, he still stood firmly in front of the steps, looked up at the dense snow in the sky, and pondered in silence.

"If you can't bear to leave, why don't you go find her?" Ji Ruxue took a step closer and asked in a low voice.

Xiao Yan smiled, caressed her cheek lovingly, and said softly: "I'm not reluctant, I'm just thinking that in life, it's normal to not be able to keep everyone, so there's no need to worry about it. Besides...

If there is anyone in the world that I cannot bear to part with, it is probably only you. "

The girl just shook her head, and then said: "Aren't you afraid that you will never meet the Corpse Ancestor again in the future?"

Xiao Yan looked at the sky, put one hand behind his back, thought for a long time, and just put his arm around her shoulders.

"It's said in the book that all good things must come to an end. Everyone will face separation, just like you and me, and we will also go our separate ways when necessary."

Ji Ruxue's eyes were dim, and she just tilted her head stubbornly and stared into the distance, not wanting to reveal her expression so as not to affect Xiao Yan's mood.

But the latter's voice suddenly changed.

"But don't worry, the book also says -

We will meet each other everywhere in life. "

The girl was stunned for a moment, then she smiled and took out a piece of letter paper.

"This is what my sister left for you."

Xiao Yan took it with a faint smile, only to see a row of not very nice handwriting on the letter paper.

"Xiao Dalang, thank you. She was reluctant to leave, but she insisted on taking me with her! Welcome to Shuzhong. I will take you and the little girl to catch black-eyed cats. - Sister Liu"

The words are simple and the meaning is concise, but one can feel the sister's resentment and gratitude towards him.

Xiao Yan knew what she was thanking him for, so he put it in his arms without saying anything.

The future is long, and we will meet again somewhere in life.

……

Two days later, the carriages and horses separated at the bank of the Yellow River, one heading south and the other heading north.

Xiao Yan stopped his horse at the bank of the Yellow River. The wind and snow were howling, but it only fluttered his cloak, adding a touch of red to the plain sky, making it extremely dazzling.

After a moment, he reined in his horse and headed north.

Behind him, hundreds of bad guys put on their hats silently, and there was only a murderous atmosphere between heaven and earth.

Ding Zhaopu, who came from Bianliang to deliver the imperial edict, looked at his nose and his heart, but Hou just stared at the ground, as if he was in a trance.

Xiao Yan smiled casually, took off his cloak and put on a hat.

The rumbling sound of horse hooves finally swept northward.

This day was the fifth day of the first lunar month in the third year of Kaiping.

(End of this chapter)