Chapter 04 Shouzhou

Zhang Linger just smiled faintly and shook her head slightly to indicate that there was no need to thank her.

Three days later, although Yan Ji's wound did not heal, he could get up and walk without relying on Zhang Linger to feed.

Two lessons in a row, let him completely see how weak he is. With his ability, he can't even protect himself. How can he avenge his senior sister and master?

After that, Yan Ji carefully introduced Zhu Guo's spiritual power into the meridians, trying to get the power of Jiazi as soon as possible.

After taking Zhu Guo, Yan Ji could clearly feel that the true qi in his body was gradually thick. Just a few days of accomplishment was better than his achievements of four years of practice, which really excited him for a while.

More than half a month later, Yan Ji introduced all the aura of Zhuguo in her body into the meridians and successfully obtained the power of Yijiazi. Moreover, with Zhu Guo's spiritual power, the true method of "Taiyi Wanxiang" he practiced has been passed from the fivefold to the sixfold realm.

Although there are still three red fruits left in his hand, he did not dare to take them due to Qin Shen's previous explanation.

At dusk, the sunset shone into the inn where the four people lived.

It was getting late, and the number of passers-by who came to stay gradually increased. The voices were noisy and it was not suitable for practicing the real method. Yan Ji walked out of the inn and walked aimlessly on the street. He just wanted to wait for the inn to calm down before going back to practice the real method.

In the bustling crowd, the pale green figure shuttled alone, and his back looked very lonely. At a glance, he felt that he was obviously not one of the bustling crowd.

The noise, hawking and bargaining on the street are not special at all, just like the Shuijiahu Town in his hometown. Once, he was very afraid to hear this sound, because when he was on his way home from the downtown, he must hear this kind of hawking sound. If there is a hawking sound, it means that there are many people on the street, and those people will open their mouths and "thiefs" and "little thief heads" to call him.

At that time, Yan Ji was very afraid to pass through the downtown and hear the sound of such downtown hawking. Nowadays, in a strange environment, no one will recognize him or call him a thief. However, if he returns to Shuijiahu Town, will those people still call him a thief and throw him away with eggs and vegetables? How will he respond? Or do you bear it silently as four years ago?

"Hey! Don't you call me when you come out to play?"

A jade hand with light yellow sleeves was placed on Yan Ji's shoulder. He looked back. Who was it, not Zhang Linger?

Yan Ji stopped and replied faintly, "I didn't come out to play."

Zhang Linger said "Oh", lowered her head and was silent for a while. Suddenly, she looked up and proposed, "Then I'll take you to play here!" We have lived here for half a month and haven't played on this street yet!"

With that, she began to introduce Shouzhou City to Yan Ji: "Although this 'Shouzhou City' is not as prosperous as Chang'an and Luoyang in Zhongzhou, it is also the most prosperous big city in Jianghuai. There are at least 10,000 people living here!"

"Play?" Yan Ji read this word in a stunned way. Looking at his expression, he really couldn't think of anything that could be "played" on this street. In the past, how did this teenager who dared not go to the street for fear of being scolded as "thieves" understand the joy in the hearts of those children playing on the street?

"Yes!" Zhang Linger actually took his hand and walked to the stall on the street. At that time, Zhang Linger didn't think about why she held Yan Ji's hand at all, perhaps as casually as holding her childhood playmate.

Yan Ji was not used to her move, so she broke away from Zhang Linger's hand. It was Zhang Linger's action that reminded her of the past.

In Qingzhu Xianju, the girl also held his hand so casually. It was the first time he was held hand, and he couldn't forget a night. At that time, she was also so casual, without any worries, and wanted to hold her childhood playmate casually.

Zhang Linger was broken away by him and found that the action was too intimate. For a moment, she also blushed and bowed her head and said nothing. People of this age can no longer hold hands as casually as they did when they were children, just like the meaning of "can't hold my hand casually" that the beautiful girl like hibiscus said to Yan Ji in Qingzhu Xianju. The one who can hold hands with each other is the lover.

After a while, Zhang Linger's embarrassment finally receded, and the girl's nature rekindled. She began to look around at the stalls on the street to see if there was anything to buy.

In front of a stall selling fried stinky tofu, Zhang Linger suddenly stopped, and an unknown emotion flashed between her eyebrows. Yan Ji also stopped without any expression. She just wanted to see what she wanted to do.

She was stunned for a moment and recalled the past in a low voice:

"When I was a child, my family was very poor. When I saw that children on the street could buy food, I could only envy them from the bottom of my heart... At that time, I was very ignorant and cried and asked my parents to buy me food, but I didn't know that my parents didn't even have money to buy a few decent clothes. At that time, I wanted to eat so much that I bought my mother's fried stinky tofu for my brother. However, when I was sensible... I couldn't be filial to my parents.

Seeing this stall of fried stinky tofu, Zhang Linger couldn't stand sadness any longer and seemed to cry.

In a desolate world, many weak people are destined not to get what they want, even this small snack. Therefore, becoming a strong man is the only way out.

It's not Yan Ji's bitter childhood, and the girls around him also have a sour past. Yan Ji didn't say anything, but stared deeply at the bright luster flowing from the girl's bright eyes, but she didn't feel it in her heart.

"If I can take the delicious food and go home to eat it for my brother and give it to my parents, they will be very happy..." Zhang Linger took the fried stinky tofu she bought and handed it to Yan Ji, forcibly brushed away the sourness, and whispered, "The most famous thing in my hometown 'Huainan City' is stinky tofu. When I was a child, my brother and I loved it very much. . Although the stinky tofu in Shouzhou City is not as good as that in Huainan City, it is also delicious. Try it!"

Although Yan Ji was not interested in tasting this so-called delicious food with a stinky and roasting taste, she did not refuse. She took the stinky tofu and took a symbolic bite.

The female stall owner listened to Zhang Linger's words, but frowned and complained, "Little girl! What you said is wrong. I'm from Huainan like you. My father came to this Shouzhou city after marrying my child. Later, I started the business of fried stinky tofu here. It was said that the stinky tofu I fried was the best stinky tofu in Shouzhou City!"

After listening to this, Zhang Linger's eyes seemed to light up and deliberately tasted the fried stinky tofu, but she still couldn't find the taste of her childhood. Maybe it's because she grew up, and she no longer has the feeling of competing with her brother to eat.

The female stall owner looked at Zhang Linger's careful taste and thought that she thought it was delicious. She was intoxicated with it. The female stall owner smiled and asked Yan Ji beside him, "This young man is also from Shouzhou City, right? Your beautiful daughter-in-law is the same as me, marrying from Huainan City to your Shouzhou!"

Yan Ji suffocated for a moment, and her fierce eyes quickly glanced at the stall owner, which made the female stall owner trempy and dared not speak any more. After a while, Yan Ji only heard a cold sentence: "She is not my daughter-in-law!"

This woman was really scared by Yan Ji's fierce eyes and repeatedly made amends: "This young hero, I said the wrong thing. Don't care!" She saw the long sword in Yan Ji's hand and thought that Yan Ji was a chivalrous man. She was afraid that they would be unhappy and split the sword.

Yan Ji glanced fiercely at the stall owner and moved away from here. When Zhang Linger caught up with Yan Ji again, she already had a whole bag of fried stinky tofu and a bag of fried chestnuts with sugar. She handed a bag of fried chestnuts with sugar to Yan Ji and said, "If you can't get used to stinky tofu, then this fried chestnut with sugar is also delicious."

After saying a sentence, before Yan Ji reached out to pick it up, she took the initiative to stuff it into Yan Ji's hand.

With a crack, a thin beggar with a dirty face bumped into Yan Ji's arms, knocked the bag of fried chestnuts on the ground, and the chestnuts scattered all over the ground.

The little beggar withdrew his head in Yan Ji's arms and saw that she was a girl, about twelve years old. Her face was quite beautiful, but her hair was too messy. She looked at Yan Ji's fierce eyes and thought it was to blame. She turned pale with fear and slowly retreated.

"You are looking for death! How dare you come to our 'Zhenhuai Building' to steal things!" Behind the little beggar, three or five big men came this way aggressively, as if they wanted to teach her a lesson.

The little beggar was mixed in the middle and suffered from the enemy. For a moment, he didn't know how to deal with it. He stood there, looking like he didn't know what was wrong. Yan Ji was touched. At this time, it was so similar to what he experienced when he was in his teens. He even felt that the faces of those big men were very similar to those who had beaten him.

Yan Ji was thinking about something, but he saw that the little beggar suddenly changed his original state and made a pair of movements of pinching his waist with two hands. He looked like he was not afraid of heaven and earth. He shouted at the group of clerks in Huai Building, "Master, didn't I just take the leftover food from the guests in Huai Building? As for chasing so far? My husband is in the sky... What a fairy, if you bully me, he will definitely trample on your Zhenhuai Tower!"

After she finished speaking, she immediately attracted a burst of laughter from passers-by, and even the running men in the town of Huailou couldn't afford to straighten up and sneered at the little beggar, "You are so funny. Do you 11 or 12 years old beggar and your husband? Are you a father-in-law or a fairy in heaven? It's so funny..."

"Is your father-in-law a thunderstorm in the sky? Or are there any generals and four heavenly kings in the sky?

The little beggar actually raised his head and muttered, "My father-in-law seems to be called some kind of wind. It should be the 'wind god' in the sky!"

Those running guys laughed again and said, "You're only ten years old, aren't you?" And the father-in-law?"

Seeing that they didn't believe it, the little beggar snorted heavily and said, "If you don't believe it, try it. Do you dare to hit me?" With that, the little beggar even strode forward and vowed, "If you dare to touch me, my husband will set fire to your town's Huai Tower!"

Those running men in Zhenhuai Building finally stopped laughing. Hearing her words, they bent down with laughter. Some of them suggested, "I think this girl's head is broken. Let's go back and don't care about this fool!" After saying that, several people ran away laughing.