Heroes of the Fantasy World

Chapter 22 Departure
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Zhao Kuo and Bai Feng, who rushed out the door, received the attention and criticism of the Miao people along the way, and wandered aimlessly in the Miao village like headless flies.

The two walked to a wine shop. Zhao Kuo saw that the large and small jars were randomly placed in a disorderly manner.

When the wine shop owner saw the visiting Han people, he enthusiastically brought a bowl of wine and greeted him. With unskilled Chinese in his mouth, he called Zhao Kuo, who was headed by him, to taste the wine made by his Miao family.

Zhao Kuo followed his wishes, tasted a bowl, and exclaimed, "This wine is so sweet and mellow, completely different from the northern wine that is as strong as a wild horse! This kind of wine is probably the only place that is so stable and isolated from the outside world. , can be brewed.”

Afterwards, Zhao Kuo ordered two or three catties of crafted rice wine, and poured out the water in Bai Feng's gourd, and immediately filled it with wine.Although Bai Feng was reluctant at first, in order to find out why Zhao Kuo was so angry about the incident just now, he had to accommodate the latter first...

The two sat on the simple wooden stools in the wine shop, passing the good time with wine.

Zhao Kuo tried to exchange cups with the friend in front of him several times, but Bai Feng refused.In addition to complaining repeatedly that Bai Feng was not witty, he also knew that the other party was quite dissatisfied and doubtful.So he took advantage of the wine and said, "I know it's my fault, and I will delay Brother Bai's trip for a few days!"

"Brother Zhao, I actually want to know, why?" Bai Feng replied.

"Haha." Zhao Kuo sneered: "That kind of thing, even talking about it won't solve the problem..."

Ajuan, who has been inquiring about for a long time in the village, finally found the teenagers in the wine shop.She walked slowly to Zhao Kuo's side, lest she would suddenly disturb his Yaxing, and immediately said, "Young Master Zhao, it's time to leave for Qianfeng Town. If you delay the time, it will be difficult to walk at night."

After Zhao Kuo heard it, he still drank the wine on his own, ignoring it.

Seeing this, Bai Feng hurriedly called Zhao Kuo and said, "Brother Zhao, Miss Aju is talking to you!"

"Huh? What did she say?"

Bai Feng repeated what Ajuan said, Zhao Kuo listened, and seemed to use a tone of indifference on purpose, and replied to Bai Feng: "Tell her, wait for this young master to finish tasting this wine, and then go on the road. It's not too late!"

"Uh... Miss Ajuan..." Bai Feng just called to Ajuan, then watched her walk outside the door without looking back, leaned against the door, and waited quietly.

Bai Feng looked at the sobbing figure outside the door, and looked at Zhao Kuo at a loss, as if saying to him, "Look, what should I do now?"

"She's crying about this trivial matter, does she really think she's a child?" Zhao Kuo sneered loudly in the direction of the door while holding the wine glass.

Shaoqing, the two youngsters walked out of the wine shop, Bai Feng looked at Ajuan who was still wiping her eyes, stepped forward and asked, "Miss Ajuan, are you alright?"

"Me?" Ajuan blinked her reddish eyes and said in a panic, "I...I didn't cry! Come on, let's go!" After speaking, she lowered her head and hurriedly brushed shoulders with Zhao Kuo. And passed.After walking two or three steps, I found that it was not in this direction, so I turned around and said to the two: "Yes... go over there..."

Seeing that Ajuan was in such a downturn, Bai Feng was even more puzzled by Zhao Kuo's actions, and looked at him slightly dissatisfied.And Zhao Kuo just held Bai Feng's gourd and smiled easily: "Yeah! This wine is good..."

The three immediately began to return to Qianfeng Town, but the atmosphere was very different from when they came.It was a sunny day, but I could often feel the cold wind from Sanyin hovering around several people.In particular, Zhao Kuo and Ajuan, who were supposed to be familiar with each other, went their separate ways in just half a day.In order to ease the suffocating silence, Bai Feng, who was usually taciturn, actually wanted to talk some gossip to warm up the scene, but unfortunately it had little effect.

"Miss Ajuan, do your new shoes look so good?" Bai Feng said in a reluctant voice.But all he got was Ajuan's cold "Really?" as a response.After that, the helpless teenager could only be sandwiched between the two, especially returning to Qianfeng Town with "difficulty".Only after that did he realize that the silence that he was used to was sometimes so painful!

The sun was setting, and it was almost dusk.The three walked slowly from the mountain road at the other end of the town, never speaking to each other on the way.

Murong Yan and Zhao Xiaomei, who had been waiting at the inn for almost a day, stopped to look out from the distance. Seeing that the people who had been waiting for so long had finally returned, they were so excited that they hurriedly called the second shopkeeper to prepare meals to wash away the dust for them after a day of adventure.

Unexpectedly, when the three people approached, they only saw strange expressions on their faces, as if they were thinking about each other.This made the two people in the stack, who expected to bring good news, suddenly had a bit of worry on their faces.As soon as Zhao Kuo entered the inn, he took the gourd and went straight to his room, and said to his sister, "Don't let anyone come to my room!"

The little sister was naturally confused, so she asked Bai Feng, "Bai Shaoxia, what's wrong with my brother?"

Bai Feng sighed, looked helplessly in Ajuan's direction, and said, "Let Ajuan talk about this matter..."

A moment later, at the dinner table, Ajuan explained the ins and outs of the matter to the two who did not know the facts.Both Murong Yan and Bai Feng were puzzled by what Zhao Kuozhi had done, and even scolded him for betraying Ajuan's sincerity, trying to comfort the extremely lost Miao girl.Only Zhao Kuo's younger sister expressed sympathy for what her brother did, and explained the story behind it to everyone...

"Although Yuyi Town is named as a town, it actually already has the scale of a county and county. Yao Shi, the prefect of the town, is a family friend with the Zhao family, so Yao Caiwei, Yao's daughter, has known her brother since childhood. Caiwei was born in a scholar family. She was required to be proficient in playing the violin, chess, calligraphy and painting. When she practiced the violin, even if she risked being locked up by her father, her brother would go to her house just to listen to the wonderful music she played. In the end, Daddy couldn't stop his brother from falling in love with these useless things in his mouth, so he had to let the relationship between his brother and sister Caiwei grow deeper and deeper. Until one day, they even set up a 'holding hand and growing old together' The oath, privately set for life..."

After hearing this, Ajuan couldn't help repeating the poem: "hold the hand of the son, grow old with the son?"

"However, things are impermanent." The little girl took a sip of weak tea and continued: "When Sister Caiwei reached marriageable age, at her father's request, she married the son of the court servant. Listening to my father, this is them. Intermarriage is common among scholars to prevent their descendants from being defiled by the so-called worldliness. The worldliness refers to the merchants and common people who roam around in the rivers, lakes and bustling cities. After my brother heard about it, he naturally felt indifferent in every possible way. I understand. He went to Yao's house almost every day to make trouble, and every time he was beaten all over his body. The relationship between the two families was almost broken. If it wasn't because the Zhao family was in charge of Yuyi's economic lifeline, my brother would have been... raped. hurt people."

"And then?" The other three said in unison.

"Then... On the day when Sister Caiwei got married, my brother locked himself in the room for three days and three nights. After he came out, his hair was disheveled and his temples were pale, and he looked like an old man of several decades. It terrified everyone!" The little girl continued to recall, with tears in her eyes, "I still remember the first sentence he said after going out of the room that day, which was when he knelt in front of Daddy and said..."

"Father, I want everyone in the world to know that Yuyi is so prosperous and stable because of our Zhao family!"

Several people have heard the story of the past, and felt sad and sighed.Bai Feng and Murong Yan looked at each other, both feeling guilty for rebuking Zhao Kuo just now.And Ajuan suddenly said, "Could it be that Young Master Zhao is so angry because he still misses that girl in his heart?"

"This..." The little girl hesitated: "Actually, there are not no girls who admire my brother, but he has always treated each other with courtesy, and he has never reacted like this to Miss Ajuan..."

"I knew I wouldn't see the wrong person!" Ajuan stood up and announced, "I've decided, I want to go with you!"

Several people before the case panicked and watched Ajuan's figure walk towards Zhao Kuo's room.Zhao Kuo, who was drinking alone, heard footsteps approaching outside the door, and was about to get up to fasten the bolt.When she walked to the door, Ajuan just opened the door as if it was designed, she stood up half a head short of Zhao Kuo, and returned to her former lively atmosphere, pointed at her temples mischievously, and said: " I know what's going on with you here."

After Zhao Kuo touched his hair on the temples, he just reacted and replied with a smirk: "You know, so what?"

"I know you must like me in your heart!" Ajuan said with a smile: "You are so angry because you are afraid of breaking your promise!"

"You... what nonsense are you talking about!" Zhao Kuo said angrily.

"I have already decided to go with Mr. Bai and the others, but I didn't follow you!" Ajuan continued, "I must see what kind of person that girl Caiwei is, who can make you so fascinated. Humph!" After speaking, Ajuan turned around and returned to the dining table downstairs, leaving Zhao Kuo, who still thought he was drunk, and stood at the door stupidly.

(End of this chapter)