eurekapd Chapter 374 A Travel by One Person
Chapter 374 A Travel by One Person
At the beginning of the morning hour, the sky was still dark, but the south gate of Changling City had slowly opened.
On both sides of the city gate, people and horse-drawn carriages who were rushing to leave the city early formed long queues, and the sound of people and horses was very lively.
People entered and exited from the left and right, and the soldiers at the city gate began to check their identity tags and let them in one by one.
A round-faced girl in a sunny blue outfit, holding a mottled horse in her left hand and a boy of six or seven years old in her right hand, passed the customs smoothly.
After leaving the city, not long after they had walked, the girl bent down, picked up the boy, lifted him onto the horse's back, and then mounted the horse.
She held the reins with one hand and protected the boy with the other, squeezing the horse's belly gently, and the horse trotted forward. Once it was far away from the people still queuing, the horse started to gallop.
On horseback, the boy with delicate features leaned in the arms of the round-faced girl, with his hands on the hand she was protecting in front of him. The chubby little cheeks trembled with the rise and fall of the horse's back.
Less than half an hour after setting out, he was tired of the scenery and yawned with his hands covering his mouth. He couldn't help but remind himself in his heart: "Zhao Zhao, we agreed that I will be the child today and it will be your turn tomorrow."
The round-faced girl lowered her head and rubbed his hair, then raised her hand to rub his cheeks, and then she answered contentedly in her heart: "I know. Today you call me sister, tomorrow I will call you brother, and I will never cheat."
It turned out that Zhang Xueming and Gong Yuanzheng had agreed with the third old master of the Zhang family the day before that they would go out incognito today to start a tour of the entire territory.
They did not wait patiently for the Third Old Master to make arrangements, as they could imagine how big a deal the trip would be with the elders from the Third and Sixth Houses combined.
After throwing a smoke bomb and leaving a letter, Zhang Xueming and Gong Yuanzheng slipped away at dawn.
These days, everyone has gotten used to them living in the new house and their schedules, so the secret guards are not watching them as closely.
The two of them took advantage of the shopping trip to prepare everything they needed early, and Zhang Xueming put it into the storage space.
At this moment, Gong Yuanzheng leaned against Zhang Xueming, imagining that he would be able to hold little Zhang Xueming in his arms tomorrow and hear her sweetly call him brother. He smiled with his teeth bared: [Zhao Zhao could change the new version of the Snow Burial Heart Sutra into this way, making it bigger or smaller as he pleases. Xue Chongzi probably couldn't have imagined that.]
Zhang Xueming raised his eyebrows: [I hid the modified version in the base of the snow palace model you gave them. I don’t know when they will find it.]
Speaking of which, if she hadn't assisted Gongmen in eliminating the hidden dangers of alienated humans and alien consciousnesses, and the world had given her a reward of "world blessing", the deduction of the skills would probably not have been so smooth.
[Unfortunately, no matter how much I deduce, I can only do this. Although we can make the appearance have the effect of going back in time, the bone age has not changed, and there is no effect of increasing internal strength. It is similar to auxiliary techniques such as the Breath Containment Technique. ]
It looks amazing, but it's actually not very useful. If it's not a disguise, it's hard to use.
[It's not a pity, it's great to have achieved this.] Gong Yuanzheng didn't care about that. God knows how shocked and excited he was when he first saw the childhood Zhang Xueming.
Recalling that night, when the pink and tender little girl pulled his sleeves, tilted her head and called him "cousin" in a soft voice, he couldn't help but giggle: [That's great, this way I can raise Zhao Zhao all over again. ]
No hurt, only love.
Let her heart be filled with sunshine and warmth again.
Zhang Xueming's eyebrows were gentle, and his smile was as warm as the spring sun: [That's right, I can raise A Yuan again. ]
There is no loneliness, only love.
Let there be no more dark clouds and haze in his world.
【Then, we can grow up together. 】
[Yes, when we grow up, we can get married. ]
In the sky, a red sun peeked out from below the horizon.
On horseback, two smiling faces greet the rising sun, silently expressing their joy to the world.
……
When the sun was about to climb to the middle of the sky, Zhang Xueming shook the reins lightly, and the horse slowed down and turned down the official road.
[Should we go to the village to buy fresh ingredients, or go hunting in the woods?] She asked Gong Yuanzheng.
Gong Yuanzheng chose the latter.
Zhang Xueming knew that he didn't want to be disturbed, so he used his spiritual sense to clear a path, avoiding the people in the nearby villages and heading towards the forest.
The horses were tied outside the woods, and she had tied a knot that was only used in the military to prevent anyone from stealing the horses when they saw that there was no one around.
She squatted with her back to Gong Yuanzheng: [Come, I'll carry you.]
Gong Yuanzheng's eyes widened: [I just looked smaller! And sometimes I go up the mountain to collect herbs when I'm at the palace gate. It's common to stay in the mountains for three to five days. It's not a problem to catch a few wild rabbits and pheasants.]
Zhang Xueming looked back at him and smiled: [That doesn't stop me from wanting to carry little Ayuan on my back.]
Gong Yuanzheng pursed his lips, but still leaned on her back, put his arms around her neck, and muttered: [How can I go hunting if you carry me on your back?]
Zhang Xueming smiled and lifted him up: [One hand is enough.]
Gong Yuanzheng stopped muttering and tilted his head to put his face against the back of her neck.
Zhang Xueming's internal force spread out and wrapped around him. He looked at the grass and trees retreating beside him and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
Zhang Xueming bent down, picked up a few small stones and held them in his hand, ready to take action as soon as he found something.
In a short while, she caught three gray fat rabbits, two pheasants, and a bamboo green snake that wanted to sneak attack him but had its bones shattered by Zhang Xueming's internal force protection.
[This snake is too small. I don't want it.]
Zhang Xueming kicked the thumb-thick snake corpse away with his toes in disgust, took out a small backpack from the storage space, put the prey in it, found the pheasant's nest, took out the five pheasant eggs in the nest, carried it in one hand, and returned the same way.
Along the way, I stopped from time to time to pick some wild vegetables, dug up some wild ginger, found wild onions and mint, and finally I even found a piece of wild taro, which filled my backpack.
[We will go to the stream we saw on the way here to cook. If there are fish, we can catch a few and make fish soup for you.]
Gong Yuanzheng smiled so hard that his teeth were showing: [I will study hard, and next time it will be my turn to take care of you.]
He thought for a moment and asked, "Did you and your brother behave like this in the past?"
Zhang Xueming laughed secretly, knowing that he had always been bothered by this matter: [Yes, in order to prevent Wufeng from tracking us, we rarely stay directly in towns.]
Gong Yuanzheng was satisfied. He couldn't participate in the past, and now his brother can't participate either. It's fair.
But there is still a question to be asked: [Were you and your brother also riding together at that time? ]
Zhang Xueming lifted him up and told the truth: "At first he always wanted to escape, so I pressed his acupoints and put him horizontally on the horse's back and carried him away."
Gong Yuanzheng widened his eyes in astonishment, imagining the scene, and it took all his willpower to prevent the laughter from escaping his mouth.
【and after? 】
[Later he became obedient, so I got him a horse and let him ride it.]
Gong Yuanzheng was satisfied.