Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1284 Reunion
When Ying Baoyue was in dire straits, Li Ji was traveling through the jungle.

It had been a long time since he had run so alone in the forest.

There is no one by his side, only the boundless mountains and forests, and the mountain roads are rugged, but he can run freely in the mountains and forests.

Li Ji let go of the shackles all over his body, stretched his true essence to his heart's content, and ran towards the road ahead.

At this moment, he seemed to be back when he was a child. He was running in the cloud forest wearing a rough coat and a mask. No matter how many branches hit his body, he didn’t feel pain. No beast will harm him.

Sometimes he would meet the beasts she had rescued and bring him some local products.

After staying by her side for a long time, he has naturally been contaminated with her breath, and many beasts with their own realm can recognize him as the little guy next to her.

The most time, Li Ji remembered that he received twenty peaches from a female monkey.

This is a huge fortune.

When he was young, he felt as if he had made a fortune, so he specially found a tree hole and hid it. When he walked halfway, he felt guilty, so he dug it out again and carried it home. Then he had a beautiful peach feast that day.

Peach jelly, peach steamed buns, peaches in syrup, peach cobbler...

Li Ji smiled while running in the jungle.

If it weren't for the last memory, it was really the best time in his life.

Fortunately, before the last part of his memory was reached, he caught that figure exuding heat in the forest.

Perhaps thinking he had escaped far enough, the ragged old beggar stopped in the distance, lying on the branch of a crooked-neck tree, panting heavily.

Lin Wangong took out a somewhat cracked wine gourd from his back waist, uncorked it and poured it into his mouth, only to find that the gourd was empty.

"Hiss, damn it!"

The gourd fell down violently, and the man collapsed on the tree decadently, cursing in a low voice.

He reached out and grabbed his gray hair, as if he was at war with heaven and man.

"You idiot! Why did you run away?"

Li Ji restrained his breath, stood deep in the bushes, and watched this scene quietly.

"Why are you running? Could she still eat you?"

"I don't know if it's true! You will die if you meet me!"

The man's gray hair was rubbed into a mess like a chicken coop. Li Ji thought he would say something, but these words were repeated over and over again.

Seeing that the man's face was about to be rubbed off by him, he walked out of the bushes.

"Who!?"

Even though he was full of remorse and disgust, the man on the branch was still extremely vigilant, and opened the barrier when he was ten feet away from him.

Li Ji stood in front of the barrier, bowed and saluted, "Senior."

"This voice..." Lin Wangong narrowed his eyes, "Dongfang Yi's adoptive son?"

"Yes," Li Ji nodded, "my name is Li Ji."

"Li?" Lin Wangong was stunned for a moment, then took a deep breath, "I said something seemed to be chasing me, so it was you kid."

"Senior found out," Li Ji smiled. He also guessed that this person stopped for no reason, and he probably wanted to get rid of his tail.

"In terms of ability in the mountains and forests, fire magicians are no match for water magicians and wind magicians anyway," Lin Wangong stared at the young man who seemed to be integrated with the mountains and forests, with a hint of danger in his eyes, "Just now Did you hear what I said?"

"Understood," Li Ji said indifferently, "but seniors don't need to worry, I was entrusted to come to you."

He concealed the word grasping, there was no need to be so intense at first.

"Looking for me?" However, Lin Wangong still froze when he heard the word looking for, and stared at him suddenly with a complicated expression, "Who is looking for me? Dongfang Yi? Xu Canghai?"

"Neither of them," Li Ji said, "It is said to be an acquaintance of the senior."

"The only acquaintances I have here are those two old fellows besides my apprentice," Lin Wangong sneered, "No matter who you are running errands for, tell them that I am in a bad mood today, so don't see anyone."

"Really?" Li Ji looked calm, "I don't know what entanglement Senior has with her, someone asked me to bring a word."

"What?" Lin Wangong asked suspiciously.

Li Ji looked at the empty gourd thrown under the tree by Lin Wangong.

"The person who entrusted me told me that tonight someone in the Shi'an Courtyard will invite you to drink the good wine that Shanhaiju has cellared for ten years. Please be sure to come."

This sounded like an ordinary sentence, but the black eyes under Li Ji's mask suddenly widened slightly.

With a plop, Lin Wangong fell from the tree.

The barrier lingering around him was instantly untied. Li Ji glanced at him, walked under the crooked neck tree, and bent down to look at the man lying on the ground.

"senior?"

Li Ji looked around, focusing on the vines wrapped around the rocks, assessing their flexibility and firmness.

Lin Wangong felt a chill all over his body, took a deep breath and sat up.

Li Ji turned his gaze back to him, "Senior, don't you want to go?"

If he doesn't want to go, that person will find someone to tie him up!

Just like when he was hiding in a restaurant drinking flowers and wine and didn't want to exercise, but every time he was captured by a different Yin Chanwei, packed and sent to her, that girl...

Thinking of that person, the unrestrained expression on Lin Wangong's face suddenly faded.

Seeing the change in his expression, Li Ji felt confident.

"Senior seems to be willing to go with junior." He said quietly.

"It's okay to go, but boy," Lin Wanjian put his hands on his knees and looked at the mask on the face of the person in front of him, "What's your relationship with her?"

This person was obviously not a soldier, and the origin of the adopted son of the Eastern Wu State Teacher had always been a mystery, and Lin Wangong remembered very clearly that the news he received in the Northern Wei Dynasty said that the former Princess Qin's engagement object should be Chunhua Jun of Southern Chu.

But the one chasing him now is Mr. Zhaohua, right?
"You are……"

Lin Wangong frowned, looked at Li Ji, thought about what to say and asked.

"Are you her new man?"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

In the dense forest, Li Ji choked.

……

……

Inside Ruyang City, the lights are brightly lit.

"This Intermediate Class Ceremony is really exciting!"

"People from Hanshan Academy are gathering at Qingfeng Pavilion, brother, do you want to go too?"

"Go, go! I'm just looking for someone to talk about today's battle!"

The whole city is full of carnival atmosphere, and Ruyang is destined to be a city that never sleeps tonight.

The curfew was lifted tonight, and every household was filled with a joyful atmosphere. People talked loudly in the tea houses and restaurants, and the big families opened their doors even more. Families whose descendants got good rankings in the mid-level ceremony were all throwing money and shooting cannons.

There is only one courtyard, guarded by Jinwu guards outside, maintaining a certain amount of silence, but you can still see that the inside is full of lanterns, beaming with joy.

Even the three big characters "Shi'anyuan" on the plaque were hung with red cloth today.

"Jin Wuwei?"

Lin Wangong was standing at the corner of the street wearing a bamboo hat, and looked at Li Ji beside him, "Would Zhao Muren come here?"

"Probably not," Li Ji said, "It seems to be a common practice to send Jin Wuwei to send the leader home to prevent the leader from being robbed halfway."

"In this way," Lin Wangong pouted, "he can't get in even if he thinks about it."

But the Jinwu guards stood guard at the door, proving that that person was in this courtyard.

Looking at the vast courtyard in the distance, Lin Wangong's footsteps took root.

Do you really want to meet?
He was both afraid of seeing and afraid of not seeing.

What if not?
Then he probably won't be able to get up again this time. The cruelest thing to do to people is to give hope and then puncture it. He is a weak person and really can't bear it.

But just when Lin Wangong was hesitating, several carriages drove towards Shi'an Yuan at the same time, and the concierge came to welcome him beamingly.

"The former Qin stepson and Mr. Huo are here!"

"The Second Prince of Hou Liao and Lord Fenghua have arrived!"

"Northern Wei's stepson and Lord Guanghua have arrived!"

Lin Wangong was a little stunned watching this scene, "What... what is this for?"

"Ah, she said earlier that she seemed to be having some kind of banquet," Li Ji looked at the people who got off the carriage with no surprise on his face.

"What kind of banquet?" Lin Wangong had good ears after he became a heavenly rank, and he could already hear the sound of water coming from the courtyard. With so many princes and nobles from aristocratic families, what is the most elegant way to get together?
"Is there flowing water?"

Lin Wangong asked.

"No," Lin Wangong didn't expect, but Li Ji denied it, and said with a delicate expression.

"I remember what she said it was called..."

"Rotating small hot pot?"

　Everyone is here, get up!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)