Xian Xian

Chapter 108: New Year

After the old woman left, Li Chaoge closed the doors and windows and whispered softly: “This is the second time we have met the Valkyrie. It’s really a fate.”

“Folklore exaggerates a lot? Just listen to it as a story, don’t take it seriously.”

Li Chaoge sat back across the table. She looked at the hot food in front of her, without the intention of moving her chopsticks. Li Chaoge said: “Even if it is exaggerated, it is magnified based on real deeds. There is a portrait of the **** of war in Guibei Village. This village enshrines the **** of war, and there is a tablet of Emperor Qin in the ancestral hall of Guibei Village, and the surname of the **** of war is Qin. I suspect, The spiritual seat in the ancestral hall is the **** of war.”

After Li Chaoge finished speaking, after waiting for a while, he stared at Gu Mingke dissatisfiedly: “You? Why are there no responses?”

Gu Mingke nodded perfunctorily, and said, “You? You’re right.”

It’s not hard to guess, Gu Mingke can crack the Soul Gathering Formation, maybe he has guessed that the Valkyrie and Diqiu Qin are alone. Li Chaoge curled her lips slightly. She supported her chin and leaned on the table, and said incomprehensibly: “Send portraits, offer gods, and exchange incense. All things are for the **** of war. But?, the **** of war is dead? For many years? What the **** is it? Who is pushing these things, and what purpose do they have? Is there any? Does anyone want to make trouble in the name of Valkyrie?”

Li Chaoge thought for a while, and always found it unbelievable: “The **** of war is too long ago. If you really want to rebel, use the Taishang Laojun, the Jade Emperor, and the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, which one is not better than the **** of war? Is so much effort really useful?”

Moreover, Li Chaoge also noticed a detail. On that tablet, the name of the **** of war was not written, but the name of Qin was written. Whoever writes the incense will enshrine whoever is written, why should it be obscured?

“Destiny is like a ghost and god. If you believe it, there will be nothing. If you don’t believe it, there will be nothing.” Gu Mingke lowered his eyes, his eyelashes covered the look in his eyes, and there seemed to be a hint of mockery in his tone. “No matter how many people say it is absurd,” As long as the person believes it, it is useful.”

It’s not too bad to think about it like this?. Since ancient times, the man who founded the dynasty and founded the country, which one is not? I firmly believe that I am the chosen son of heaven. Only by relying on this ambition to change his fate, can he create a hegemony. Li Chaoge thought that Qianyuan Sword was also the funeral of King Kuiguo. It is said that Qianyuan Sword integrates the fortune of the atmosphere, and it can win the world. Now another **** of destiny has emerged.

Li Chaoge thought, and said to Gu Mingke: “The people of the Qin family are too superstitious. First, fortune telling, saying that the child of his family was reborn as the emperor, and then he made a sword, saying that holding this sword can get the world. ?. They have been inciting public opinion, making mysteries, do they really believe that these illusory things can help them win the world?”

“That era is different from now. Ancient witchcraft was prosperous, and a hundred schools of thought contended. Many things are true.” After Gu Mingke finished speaking, he glanced at Li Chaoge very lightly, and asked, “How do you know that it is?

“Obviously, they have been creating momentum for themselves.” Li Chaoge spread her hands. As a princess who had ascended to the throne in her previous life and is still struggling for the throne in her life, she knows these means of creating momentum. When the queen of the past life ascended the throne, she has been constantly creating auspiciousness in various places, using various methods to prove that she was ordered to heaven, and her name is right. It’s just that Qin’s methods are more extreme. Not to mention the effort to cast a Qianyuan sword, he has to create a god.

Gu Mingke sat behind the candlelight, the dim light swaying, his eyes seemed to be brewed, making people dizzy: “Why?”

Li Chaoge was so distracted by his eyes that he didn’t even hear what he asked. Li Chaoge returned to his senses and asked, “What did you say?”

Gu Mingke said that he never asked the question a second time, but now, he slowed down his tone and asked gently: “The villagers are convinced, why do you think the **** of war is fake?”

Li Chaoge was slightly startled, did not want to understand why he pays attention to this place?. Without thinking about it, Li Chaoge replied: “Intuition. There are many things in him that are very fragmented, as if they are a patchwork model, rather than a real person.”

The candlelight was reflected in Gu Mingke’s eyes, and it was not clear whether it was the fire or the other. Gu Mingke looked at her with heavy eyes and asked, “For example?”

“For example?” Li Chaoge thought for a while and said, “The records on the drawing paper, and the old lady just now said that the **** of war can be literary and martial, read through a hundred schools, is smart and eloquent, and also teaches divination. If it’s just? He is also brave and good at fighting, winning in all battles. How can this be possible? It’s not? A man of blood and flesh, but a pile of all the imaginary virtues on one person.”

Gu Mingke looked down after listening, and was speechless for a long time. The room was quiet, and only the sound of candles beeping could be heard. Li Chaoge paused and answered without changing his face: “What’s more, I learned martial arts since I was six, and I only need to do one thing a day, so I’m very busy. How could he learn so many things at the same time and still be proficient in everything? I have always felt that civil and martial arts are mutually exclusive… Except for Pei Ji’an, which is known as both civil and martial arts. He is absolutely professional, good at? Culture, learning martial arts is not good, with good roots, and often has no patience to sit down? Reading. Even if the God of War is no longer a god, it is from a child’s growth. How can an ordinary child have so much energy to learn civil and martial arts at the same time?”

Gu Mingke has been quiet and quiet, hearing her words, he laughed blankly: “Who said that, you? This is? It’s not good.”

Li Chaoge is a genius in martial arts, but on the contrary, she is short in terms of culture, art, music, painting, etc. So Li Chaoge always stubbornly felt that civil and military can’t have both, not because of her problem, but because these two talents are mutually exclusive by nature. I want to cultivate into specializations in both, unless it is an old fairy who has lived for a long time.

“Don’t talk about it.” Gu Mingke smiled and said, “These legends are true and false, and most of them are fabricated by later generations. In the portrait, the Valkyrie still has eight hands. How could this be? Really? ”

When Li Chaoge thought about it, she was competing with a man with eight hands. Maybe this kind of person doesn’t need to be pregnant in October, just jump from the cracks in the stone to look like an adult.

Seeing her relaxed, Gu Mingke came and said: “You? You have been on the road for the past two days, now go and rest. Tomorrow, we will go to the mountains and have a look.”

Li Chaoge responded with one mouthful?: “Okay.” When she stood up, she saw that Gu Mingke did nothing, so she couldn’t help asking, “What about you?”

“I don’t need it.” Gu Mingke said lightly, “You? Sleep at ease. I’m not far away.”

Li Chaoge knew that Gu Mingke looked like a normal person, but he actually didn’t need food. Not sleeping all night might not be a big deal for him. Didn’t Li Chaoge ask any more, turned around and went to bed to rest.

Li Chaoge and Yiyi were lying on the bed, holding the sword in their arms. After she lay down, the lights in the house went out.

The moonlight is dim tonight, the country is far away from the crowds, and there is no other light source, and the house is completely dark. Li Chaoge stroked the pattern on the Qianyuan sword with his fingers, slowly feeling embarrassed.

There was silence on all sides, it seemed that there were only two of them left in the world. Gu Mingke didn’t make a sound, but Li Chaoge knew that he was not far away.

Li Chaoge’s face was getting hotter and hotter, even more embarrassing than the last time they were forced to spend the night together in the princess mansion. Li Chaoge coughed lightly, lifting weights? Ruoqing said: “Today? I neglected, wait for tomorrow, let grandma prepare another room.”

“No need.” In the dark, his figure can’t be seen clearly, but his voice is as deep and clear as the best silk, “When you go out, safety is the top priority. The enemy is in the dark and I am in the light. It is not appropriate to separate the action.”

Li Chaoge opened her mouth slightly, she wanted to say that it was different, but when it came to her lips, she herself couldn’t tell the difference. There is no difference between men and women in her mind, only the case. Since Gu Mingke doesn’t care? What is she tweaking?

Finally, Li Chaoge turned around, closed his eyes hard, and said: “It’s all right for me, you? Feel free to?”

Li Chaoge originally thought that she was going to be unable to sleep, but? In fact, she fell asleep not long after she turned around. When I woke up the next day, the room was full of light. She was still lying on the bed in the same posture as yesterday, with Qian Yuan Jian quietly leaning against her, showing no signs of movement.

Li Chaoge got up holding the sword, she stood by the window and saw Gu Mingke standing in the courtyard, staring at the mountains ahead for a long time. His eyes are focused, his face is silent, and he doesn’t know what he is thinking.

Did Gu Mingke turn his head back, Qing Qian said: “Since I am awake, prepare for it? Let’s go.”

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The two of them are going to explore the mountain today. This village is located in the deep mountains, there are few human traces, and Zhou Da Mountain is even more reckless and wild. There are almost no roads in the mountains, and in the depths of the woods, you can see the paw prints of wild beasts from time to time.

In front of him is a very narrow narrow path. The path clings to the cliff and only allows one person to pass. There is no obstacle outside. If you take a wrong step, you will fall into the cliff. Gu Mingke walked ahead and reminded Li Chaoge in a low voice: “Be careful, the road ahead is slippery.”

Li Chaoge calmly walked behind, and when she heard Gu Mingke’s words, she smiled softly: “What’s this. When I was a child, it was longer than this? I have walked through steeper canes. This kind of road seems to me. It’s different from the flat ground.”

Gu Mingke deftly walked around the bumps on the stone wall and asked, “Did you often climb mountains when you were young?”

“It’s not just? Climbing. The cliff is in the air, in the den of poisonous insects, next to the tiger’s cave, where? I have been there. I remember? Once I opened my eyes? Woke up and found myself lying in the nest of a giant eagle, up and down. Is it? Bare cliffs, maybe the giant eagle will come back sometime. I can only figure out how to climb the cliffs by myself. As a result? Old man Zhou didn’t wait for me on it, so I had to find my way home by myself. When I went back, I found him sleeping in the room. Old man Zhou saw me without a glance, and he threw me an axe and let me cook.”

The topography of Jiannan is much more complicated than here. The miasma in the southwest is dense, the forest covers the sky and the sun is densely covered with poisonous insects. Years old veterans dare not enter the mountains alone. But Li Chaoge often opened her eyes and was thrown into a new place. Gradually, she got used to it.

Gu Mingke frowned as he heard it, and asked in a cold voice, “How old were you at that time?”

“It’s about ten years old.” Li Chaoge’s voice is full of “don’t care”, “I entered the mountain alone after twelve years old, and ordinary terrain can’t bother me, so I haven’t been lost again. But old man Zhou. Said, because I was too heavy, he was struggling.”

Gu Mingke’s face was already very cold: “He treats you like this?”

“Do you practice martial arts, all? That’s the case. The tiger next door is beaten to tears by his father every day. I haven’t been beaten by him anyway.” Li Chaoge saw that there was already a cliff in front of him, and she pulled the vine on the stone. I thought it was solid, so I said to Gu Mingke, “I’ll go there first, you? Follow it yourself.”

After speaking, Li Chaoge pulled the cane and leaped gently across the canyon. When the cane was about to hit the rock wall, she let go of the cane, tapped her toe on a protruding rock, and then hung up in the air like a bird. A few took off and fell lightly on the flat ground.

Gu Mingke watched her move among the stones from a distance. When he first saw Li Chaoge, she felt that she was in good shape, unlike ordinary mortals. Later, I learned that her master was Zhou Chang Geng, and Gu Mingke also thought that Zhou Chang Geng didn’t pay attention to it, and taught his apprentices to be diligent. This kind of skill is a solid practice. Unexpectedly, she turned out to be like this.

Gu Mingke knew that Zhou Chang? Geng was unreliable, but he didn’t expect him to be so unreliable. Throwing a ten-year-old girl into the giant eagle’s lair… It’s a shame that he can figure it out.

Li Chaoge stood on the opposite side, beckoning to Gu Mingke, indicating that everything is safe. Gu Mingke condensed his thoughts and moved gently under his feet, stepping on the breeze and falling to the opposite side.

Gu Mingke’s sleeves swelled in the wind, and he appeared in front of her in the blink of an eye. Li Chaoge was stunned. The morning sun passed through the dead branches, spreading dots on the mountain stream. A white-clothed man stepped on the wind, his clothes draped and his long hair fluttered, as if the scene of twelve-year-olds was reappearing.

The difference is that Li Chaoge could only watch from a distance that time, but this time, she clearly saw his face like jade, long hair like ink, eyes with clear glaze, and his gestures were full of majesty. indifferent.

After Gu Mingke stood up, he found Li Chaoge staring at him in a daze. Gu Mingke raised his eyebrows and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Gu Mingke lowered his eyes slightly, and his black eyes looked at her seriously. Standing in the remote mountains and forests, he became more and more like an immortal who fell into the world.

Li Chaoge returned to his senses, closed his eyes to hide his expression, and said, “It’s nothing. Thinking of an old person.”

Seeing him think of an old person… Gu Mingke felt a subtle unhappiness in his heart. This emotion is inexplicable. Gu Mingke stunned severely. He immediately suppressed the emotional fluctuations. He said coldly, “Since it’s okay, let’s go.”

Li Chaoge responded, and the two walked in tandem on the silent mountain road, very silent. Gu Mingke kept thinking about what happened to him. What was he just now? What’s the matter? Suddenly I heard Li Chaoge ask: “What did you do when you went to Pingshan?”

Gu Mingke was startled slightly, and then replied quietly: “Pingshan? Where is it?”

Li Chaoge sneered: “It’s this time, you? You still cover up. That’s it, you? Don’t want to say it. You? Have you returned to Jiannan later?”

Gu Mingke didn’t say anything. If he answered, then he had been to Pingshan. Although Li Chaoge had completely guessed it by now, Gu Mingke still wanted to struggle a bit and make the last effort for his next mission.

When Gu Mingke was arresting Peony before, he personally went down to the world, and Yu Pingshan arrested the two of them. Also? There, Li Chaoge met Gu Mingke for the first time.

To be precise, it was Li Chaoge who saw Gu Mingke face to face. At that time, Gu Mingke didn’t know. In the short interval when he appeared, a young girl happened to see him.

Seeing Gu Mingke not speaking, Li Chaoge quietly curled his lips. She gave up the topic and turned to an interesting story from the past: “When I was a child, what worries me the most was not doing exercises, but about cooking. Whether I cook or Mr. Zhou cooks, it tastes very unpalatable. Then I couldn’t help it. , Quietly robbed other people’s food, anyway, I fight fiercely, no child in the village can beat me. In a blink of an eye, so many years have passed.”

Li Chaoge’s voice was nostalgic. She broke a tree and pulled away the vines on the road ahead. She said, “This year? Jiannan will move in May, and Heilin Village will not be able to live. Before I leave, I will ask them to move to the city as soon as possible. Here, I don’t know if they heard?. That hut is the place where I stayed for the longest time since I grew up? It was destroyed like this. What a pity. I don’t know when I can go back to Jiannan and look. Look at Heilin Village and see if the nest of giant eagles that raced with me is still there.”

Gu Mingke listened quietly to Li Chaoge’s deeds when he was a child. He saw her in the mirror of Xumi for the first time. At that time, she was dressed in beautiful clothes and full of blood. Gu Mingke’s first impression of Li Chaoge was that she was a cruel empress. He almost neglected, and Li Chaoge also had a childhood when he couldn’t run smoothly.

When Li Chaoge finished speaking, he felt that the fact of fighting and grabbing food was too much of a loss. She looked at Gu Mingke and asked, “What about you? What did you look like when you were a kid?”

When I was young? Gu Mingke thought for a while, and realized that he couldn’t find any interesting things worth talking about. Gu Mingke flicked his eyelashes lightly, and said in a low voice, “It’s boring, ten years? Just like a day, there’s nothing to say.”

Perhaps as Li Chaoge said, he has been playing a role, life? For the kingly way, death? For the kingly way. The only thing outside of the plan was the pain he didn’t want to mention all his life.

Li Chaoge looked at Gu Mingke and found that his face was plain white and his expression was very cold. He has always been cold, but he is usually cold? He is too lazy to talk to people, unlike now, as if thinking of something very unpleasant.

Li Chaoge murmured in her heart. She immediately took Gu Mingke’s arm and said, “If there is nothing to say, then don’t say it. Those things have passed since childhood, so look forward? It matters. There are two places for tracking tactics? I’m not very good at it yet, can you? Can you show it again…”

Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke searched in the mountains for a day, but unfortunately, did not find any traces of monks. The two of them found nothing, and when it was too late, they went back to the old woman’s house again.

When descending the mountain, the sky gradually darkened. Li Chaoge looked down the mountain and saw that the village had been lit up, and the stars were very beautiful. Li Chaoge glanced at him, and said casually: “This village is built neatly, like a gossip line.”

When Gu Mingke heard her, he turned his head and quietly glanced at the mountain village at his feet.

When the two of Li Chaoge arrived at the old woman’s house, it was already dark. The old woman was busy in the yard, and when she saw them, she greeted them enthusiastically: “You? Are you back? How is it? Did you find the way?”

When Li Chaoge went out today, he used the excuse of going out to find his way. Li Chaoge smiled and said, “No. I have to bother you for another day. How much? Excuse me, we will end up spending these days.”

“What are you saying about these extravagant things!” The old woman was very happy to see them coming back. She wiped her hands on her clothes and said hurriedly, “Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year? It’s time to have a reunion dinner. In previous years? The house has been cold all the time. Desolate, rare this year? There are so many people, I have prepared a lot of cakes and noodles. Girl, do you know how to make birthday cakes?”

Li Chaoge was slightly startled: “What?”

“We all make birthday cakes for the New Year in our village. After eating them, we will keep them safe and prosperous.” The old woman opened the door of the kitchen, took out two new cushions, and waved to Li Chaoge, “You? Young people have dexterous fingers and make birthday cakes quickly. You can wrap them here first, and I will go to the stove to boil water.”

Li Chaoge didn’t expect that the old woman would invite them to eat for the New Year, and was stunned. She wanted to refuse, but when she saw the old woman in a hurry, she couldn’t bear to say it. Tomorrow is New Year’s Thirtieth, Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke are alone, and the old woman is also celebrating the New Year alone at home. The old woman said that this year is rare? There are too many people, and I want to come and go in previous years, so she will be alone.

Li Chaoge didn’t have the heart to refuse in the end, anyway, they didn’t have any other arrangements tonight, and it was not a delay to help the old woman prepare food for several years. Li Chaoge looked at Gu Mingke, and Gu Mingke nodded slightly and said, “Since you are willing to?, let’s go.”

Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke washed their hands and sat at the desk. The old woman showed them how to pinch New Year cakes. Her skin was rough and her hands were wrinkled, but she was very dexterous when she pinched the dough. Li Chaoge just squeezed the zodiac in the blink of an eye. The old woman put the vivid zodiac on the wooden board and looked at Li Chaoge expectantly: “These things are simple, I want to come out of you. The girl looks like a big family, should you learn it?”

Li Chaoge nodded hesitantly, probably? The old woman got up in relief, and hobbled to the outside stove to work on other things. Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke were left in the kitchen soon. Li Chaoge looked at the five-color dough in front of him and fell silent.

She could not help quietly bumping into Gu Mingke: “Have you learned it?”

Gu Mingke’s long sleeves were tied up, revealing a slender forearm. He squeezed a ball of dough in the palm of his hand, and the flour clung to his hands indiscriminately, making his hands extraordinarily slender and beautiful.

“Probably it will.”

Li Chaoge was originally looking for the alliance, but Gu Mingke bowed his head and actually pinched it. Li Chaoge opened his lips slightly, and finally closed silently.

Gu Mingke saw that he could learn that anyone with ten fingers that doesn’t touch Yang Chunshui, has lived alone for ten years? How could Li Chaoge not? Li Chaoge pressed his lips tightly, showing the energy he had when beating a fairy, staring at the dough intently with his eyes.

She remembered that the old woman seemed to use this kind of flour first, then knead it like this, and finally close her mouth like this…Li Chaoge stumbled and squeezed a rabbit. She satisfactorily looked at the result in her hand. Although the shape has changed, the material is still the same. of.

Gu Mingke had already put down several birthday cakes, he took the time to glance at Li Chaoge’s side, and he couldn’t look away immediately.

Gu Mingke quietly stared at the face in the singer Li Chao’s heart. After a while, he asked, “This is?…”

“Rabbit.” Li Chaoge proudly showed, “Isn’t it?”

Gu Mingke stared at the “rabbit” in silence. After that, he smiled lightly, his eyes lit up with shards of light, and he raised his eyes to look at Li Chaoge: “Do you feel like it?”

Li Chaoge paused for a moment. She glanced at Gu Mingke’s hand and found that he had already pinched three, and they looked a little different. Li Chaoge was very upset, put it on the panel hard, and said, “Our rabbit grows like this?”

Gu Mingke nodded, not arguing with her. He believed that Li Chaoge had to grab a meal with her companion when she was a child, so it seemed that the meal she cooked was really not delicious.

As for Zhou Chang? Geng… if you didn’t eat anyone, Li Chaoge was already considered dead.

These cakes and noodles are made of five kinds of grains, and they are very lively when they are placed on the table. Gu Mingke discovered that Li Chaoge was going to get the black flour, which seemed to be a dragon. Gu Mingke was rather helpless: “You? Rabbits have no choice but to challenge the hardest. Snake is simple, you? Or? Be a snake or a rat first?”

“No.” Li Chaoge resolutely refused, and just do the best. What is a nest of snakes and rats? Li Chaoge firmly believes that she can do miracles with her own hands. She squeezed it for a while, and the black dragon gradually formed, but it was so soft that she couldn’t stand up. Gu Mingke watched the mighty Xuanlong lying on the ground like a strange snake, and couldn’t help but smile: “You? Are you? You don’t want to be a snake?”

“You? Shut up!” Li Chaoge glared at him angrily, leaned over and rubbed the black dragon perseveringly, trying to make it stand up. Gu Mingke held back a smile and pointed her finger at her: “This is wrong, you? You have added too much water, so it’s no wonder that you can’t stand up. How come your dragon has three legs?”

Li Chaoge discovered that her “dragon claw” had fallen off. Li Chaoge hurriedly pressed it up, and the last two of them worked together, and finally squeezed out a rugged shape and barely complete organs.

Did Li Chaoge fight monsters? So tired. She couldn’t help but collapsed on the cushion and wiped her exhaustedly? The sweat on her forehead: “Too tired. Didn’t you go to the water to catch a real flood dragon? It’s so troublesome.”

Gu Mingke was using a bamboo stick to draw the dragon’s beard and eye, and when she heard her, he laughed: “That’s not okay. The mortal dragon is in the record, and one more or one less will be investigated.”

Li Chaoge was startled, and immediately looked back at him: “What did you say?”

Gu Mingke didn’t change his face, and said calmly: “The dragon of the water stream. Focus on doing what you do, half a person, you? Look at you? How much did you do?”

Li Chaoge found that Gu Mingke’s noodles had been reduced by more than half, but Li Chaoge hadn’t moved much here. Li Chaoge sat up reluctantly and continued to fight with the slimy flour. Gu Mingke became familiar with it later, faster and faster, and soon completed this half of himself. Gu Mingke is very rigorous, saying that half is half, not a single bit? Infringement of Li Chaoge’s share.

After Gu Mingke finished, he wiped his hands without any hurry, and then watched Li Chaoge’s movements. Li Chaoge had been fighting with himself, but when he was watching, he became more and more frantic: “You? Just stay idle like this?”

Gu Mingke hummed unexpectedly, meaningless to help. Li Chaoge was secretly fooling. She was afraid that Gu Mingke would see it. She deliberately talked about it. She diverted her eyes and said, “This village does not eat dumplings, but instead eats grains. I have never seen this kind of longevity cakes.”

Gu Mingke narrowed his eyes lightly. When he raised his eyes, he saw a strand of Li Chaoge’s hair fall out. She rubbed the back of her hand repeatedly, instead of pulling her hair up, she rubbed a lot of flour on her face instead.

Gu Mingke stretched out his hand and put her scattered hair behind his ears. Li Chaoge’s figure suddenly stopped. She wanted to hide, and was pulled by Gu Mingke: “Don’t move.”

His fingers were cold, and he gently rubbed the flour from her cheeks.