Chapter 540: Mountain Expo
After leaving Jinfeng Tower, Xiao Qianye couldn't help but look back and asked in a low voice: "How is my elder brother?"
Yun Xiao comforted him and held his hand and smiled: "If I want to say he is fine, you will definitely not believe it, but don't worry, the night curse on him now has no worries about his life."
He seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and his hand, which had been clenching his fists tightly, suddenly relaxed. After a long time, he smiled bitterly: "Thank you, we two brothers... always cause trouble for you."
Yun Xiao did not reply, humming a song and walked towards the mirage. The entrance to the Mountain Expo was in another direction of the black market. You could see tall rockery piled up into peaks, green bamboos and pines planted in it. The red tiles of the auction venue were revealed from such lush green. At first glance, it looked like some literati and poets lived in seclusion in it, elegant and graceful. Xiao Qianye led Yun Xiao to the foot of the rockery. When he looked up, he was surprised to find that this artificial rocky road was so long and tortuous. Pedestrians of all kinds rushed through it in groups, and they did not communicate with each other.
"Wow... it's really high." Yun Xiao also raised his head and muttered. No wonder Xiao Yibai said that the mirage is only three floors, but each floor is extremely high. This rocky road is at least a thousand meters long, just like a real mountain stone path. But here is a mountain mirage carried on the back of a giant solstice. Everything is made by manpower. Who is so amazing and creating such a lifelike natural scene?
The two looked at a pavilion at the foot of the rockery together, which was surrounded by many people and many sedan chairmen, as if they were talking about the price. Those from wealthy families were not willing to walk up such high stone steps in person, so they simply hire sedan chairmen at the foot of the mountain to sit leisurely and leisurely, and could enjoy the scenery near the mountain Expo along the way. Wouldn't it be beautiful?
"It's such a waste to not climb up such a road." Xiao Qianye couldn't help but laugh, but heard Yun Xiao pulling his arm and chuckling, "What do you know! This is not a question of not being able to walk. Take a look at the bamboo sedan chairs used by the sedan chairmen, which are inlaid with gold, silver and jade! There are one, a few, and all the sedan chairs are all inlaid. It must be just a symbol of identity. Unfortunately, we have no money, so we can only climb up by ourselves. Maybe we will be ridiculed by others when we get to the top!"
Xiao Qianye grinned and muttered: "What's there to laugh at? The fox fur cloak in Qingyifang can't be bought for no amount of money."
"Yes, yes." Yun Xiao responded to him with a smile, and had already pulled him up impatiently. There were actually some guests on the rocky path who chose to walk like them, but looking at their appearance, they didn't seem to be natives of Feiyuan. Xiao Qianye had to be vigilant again and again. Although Feiyuan fell into the sky and fell into the sea, there was no connection with Wanqianliu Island in the sky, the black market, where fish and dragons were mixed, can always attract strange people from all walks of life. These people wandered between the Liuyuan Island with different purposes and did some special business.
As we went up, the temperature was dropping a little bit, as if we were immersed in the mountains. Even singing orioles and birds came from our ears, mixed with the sound of streams and waterfalls, which made people feel refreshed.
"Is the owner of this black market a gentle person?" Yun Xiao looked at the grass and trees around him curiously. They were all artificially planted things, but they were really arranged in a staggered manner. It was not inferior to the magical skills of nature. Xiao Qianye also followed her eyes to the flowers and plants on the roadside, frowned and replied, "Then I don't know. In fact, whether it is a mountain city or a sea city, it is not within the jurisdiction of the military pavilion. Although it belongs to the Jing pavilion, it has to pay a large amount of tax every year, because it is a black market, many things cannot be managed by Jing pavilion. As long as you don't cause any major trouble in Feiyuan, you will go with them."
Yun Xiao fantasized curiously and guessed: "A greedy for money... a literati and elegant man? It's a bit interesting."
Xiao Qianye smiled casually and continued: "There are so many such smiles. They all look gentle and elegant on the surface, but they are not ruthless in making money behind them. Isn't Gongsun Yan the best example?"
The two continued walking while talking and laughing. When they reached the middle of the mountain, a breeze suddenly blew down their shoulders with drizzle. At this time, small courtyard lights appeared on both sides of the rock path, emitting a quiet and gentle faint orange light, as if the whole world was suddenly silent. Xiao Qianye swept around alertly, faintly sensing some agile shadows swept up from the depths of the rockery, silently drilling into the red brick tower, and then the wind and rain dissipated, and the moonlight was seen again.
"Yu Jiao." Yun Xiao stared at the places where the shadows disappeared, and finally a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "It's true that I'm here, it's not in vain."
"Be careful." Xiao Qianye held her hand tightly, suddenly his eyes sank, and he spread her palm in surprise. Yun Xiao hurriedly wanted to pull it back, but he grabbed it tightly and pulled it in front of her. Her palm had a sticky cold sweat, and her five fingers were trembling slightly, as if they were experiencing some kind of enduring pain. Before he could ask, Yun Xiao had already rushed over with a smile and said perfunctory, "I can't climb mountains since I was a child! Such a steep rocky path is not easier to walk than those snowy roads in Kunlun."
Xiao Qianye looked at her suspiciously. Yun Xiao was afraid that he would notice that his body was helping Xiao Yibai to resolve the backlash power blocked by Ye Curse, so he threw himself on his back and jumped on him, and said with a smirk: "I don't want to leave anymore, can you carry me on it?"
Xiao Qianye looked at her clear eyes and always felt something was wrong. He asked worriedly: "Are you uncomfortable? Is it influenced by dragon blood? Otherwise, I'd better send you back to join my elder brother and the others. I will definitely catch the Yujiao and send it to you with my own hands."
"Stop talking nonsense, do you want to carry me?" Yun Xiao refused, afraid that he would continue to ask, so he quickly coughed a few times and said in a low voice, "I remember that in the two years I had just become a disciple, I had to walk a long mountain road from Jianfeng to Xijianping. I was often left by my master, and it was a big night. The sword spirit is so heavy, and it was so hard to drag it to climb the mountain! Fortunately, you are here, although you were forced by your mother to wait for me to finish class, I would still help me carry my sword. I just asked you to carry me back. It's been a long time since I was ten years old. Have you never carved me again?"
Xiao Qianye was indeed pulled back to the distant past by her words. When she recalled those things little by little, she couldn't help but smile faintly. She simply carried her on her back and said, "It seems that my senior brother should carry you more, you always bully him."
"Senior brother is better than you!" Yun Xiao poked his cheek with a smile and cursed a few words in anger. Xiao Qianye walked casually and replied, "You are always lazy and not practicing swords well. Master and uncle are also not too much to control your character. But after all, I am your senior brother. I can't watch you keep doing your job without doing your job. So every time you make excuses to be lazy, I will find a way to drag you back and continue practicing swords. As a result, the senior brother is fine. Not only does he not blame you, but he blames me for taking too much care. If you can't walk, he will carry you back to rest."
This slight memory made Yun Xiao's body suddenly shake. She was silent for a moment, as if she had returned to the helpless and desperate night in the black coffin.
Xiao Qianye suddenly turned his head and found that Yun Xiao had pressed his face deep on his back. He choked up and said blaming himself: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, if time can be repeated, I will definitely practice swords well, can protect myself and you..."
"A Xiao..." He quickly called out, realizing that he had said the wrong thing. Before he could panic, he put in a lingering comfort. The two sedan chairmen beside him carried a young man in a brocade and swept past them briskly. The young man in the sedan chair was playing with two wooden walnuts in his hand, curled his lips and glanced at the two people who were climbing the mountain with disgust, and then made a disdainful mockery from his nose, grinning and provoking frivolously: "Poor ghost!"
Yun Xiao took advantage of the opportunity to put away the hidden pain in his heart in an instant, as if everything that happened just was just an illusion. He put his chin on Xiao Qianye's shoulder and changed the topic quietly: "He scolded us poor!"
"A Xiao." Xiao Qianye didn't have any leisure to deal with this unreasonable provocation. He turned his head worriedly to look at the ever-changing face on his shoulder. He didn't know what the woman was thinking. She should just not want to mention the sad things she had talked about unintentionally, so she found a way for herself. Yun Xiao pinched his face, raised his hand and pointed at the young man who had already walked away, and smiled, "Catch up quickly, you dare to call me a poor man. I insist on looking good!"
"Okay." He didn't dare to say anything anymore. He moved his footsteps and had already blocked the middle of the rockery in the blink of an eye. The two sedan chairmen were startled and couldn't stop. Under the influence of inertia, the young man on the bamboo sedan chair was thrown out and fell into the rockery pile next to him. He touched his butt and got up hard. When he saw that it was the two he had just passed by, he immediately cursed in anger: "It's you! Do you know who I am and dare to tease me?"
Yun Xiao stuck out his tongue at him and poked Xiao Qianye reminded: "Run quickly, why are you still standing stupidly!"
Xiao Qianye only felt that the scene before him was so funny. He was rigorous in his life. Due to the ethics and rituals, he always struggled and was cautious. He never used such small means to tease a rich man in a place like the black market. But he immediately obediently turned around and ran away with Yun Xiao on his back. The two sedan chairmen looked at the agile figure in a daze and disappeared from sight. The young master was supporting the rockery, looking like he twisted his waist for a long time and couldn't move. He cursed angrily: "Go and chase him! Damn, the poor man who can't even sit still dares to come to the Mountain Expo to cause trouble. Hurry up and find me to kill them!"
"That, young master..." The sedan chairman grabbed his forehead awkwardly, raised his hand to point at the stone path, grinned awkwardly, "People, people are gone, I can't catch up!"
Xiao Qianye carried Yun Xiao on his back and arrived near the auction venue of the Mountain Expo in just a moment. This was a wide square, with a giant bronze drum hanging high in the center. The sound of the gong that shocked the entire mountain city just now came from here.
He found a corner with few people to put down Yun Xiao. Perhaps because of his emotions, this mountain road that was not worth mentioning to him made him bend down panting at this moment. Yun Xiao quickly helped him sit down against the rockery and asked with a funny look: "My good brother, how can you get so tired of such a little road? Could it be that I have not practiced hard over the years and have my skills regressed?"
He supported his forehead with his hands, and he was also surprised, with a rare and brilliant smile on the corner of his mouth: "I was chased and I didn't run away so quickly. The other party is just a stupid son of a landlord's family. Why do you want to run away? He can't beat me at all."
Yun Xiao covered her mouth and laughed constantly, patted his back, then came over to pry his cheek, blinked and said, "Is it because I'm too heavy? No, I've always been paying attention to maintaining my figure..."
Xiao Qianye looked absent-mindedly at the smiling face in front of him, and an uncontrollable impulse ejaculation arose in his heart. He raised his hand and gently grabbed her neck, and pulled Yun Xiao into his arms with a little bit of force. When he felt her breathing for a moment, he kissed her tightly against his lips.
Chapter completed!