After the rebirth, the cold prince clings to me every day

William went to see Anna in the dyeing workshop, and An An and Jing Qi went to see the grandfather they met here last time.

Dogs have the most sensitive sense of smell. From a distance, the skinny dog ​​who ate An An's beef jerky last time ran over slowly, stuck out his tongue and licked An An's feet.

An An touched its skinny head: "Don't worry! The jerky is enough this time!"

The two children and the dog came to the dilapidated house, and it was still the same as the last time they saw it. The old man sat motionless outside the dilapidated house, not even changing his posture.In addition to the breath of a living person, like a statue,
An An squatted down and put the food brought by the old man's hand. Seeing that the other party was still unmoved, he just pretended that he couldn't hear, so he could only talk and gesture. Happy..." Waiting for the intimate words.

In the end, he was in a hurry, but what he said was: "Grandpa, only when you are full will you have the strength to be in a daze!"

What did you say in response?An An hurriedly covered her mouth.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief, but it's okay, the old man couldn't hear him.And what she just said seems to be Chinese.

Just when I thought about it, I saw the old man in front of me who was motionless like a statue raised his hand and waved it. He paused, as if afraid of her misunderstanding, he picked up a piece of bread and put it on his lips to bite it lightly.

An An's eyes widened in shock: "Grandpa, you can hear me!"

Jing Qi was also a little surprised, and deliberately called "Grandpa" in Chinese.It's a pity that the old man hasn't responded since he made a move just now.

The two children looked at each other, but An An didn't care much: "Maybe it's just a coincidence! Grandpa probably just doesn't want to reject us."

But knowing that the old man can hear, she is still very happy.He took out the jerky and squatted down to feed the skinny dog.

Although the dog is thin, it is still human.He was fed twice by An An and was very affectionate to the little guy.

A man and a dog were chasing back and forth in the open space. No matter how smart the little guy was, he couldn't escape his childish nature, and his clear and carefree laughter spread far and wide.

Although Jing Qi disliked childishness, it did not affect his active participation.

No one noticed that although the old man who was sitting motionless in front of the dilapidated house still did not look up, the expression on his face could not help but move.

This laughter reached the ears of a group of girls who were playing on the ice in the distance.

Unlike being in prison, the prisoners who are exiled here are free except for the fixed daily working hours, except that they cannot leave the Mayan city.

Listening to this carefree laughter, many girls feel envious. Although they are also playing around, even if they laugh, they are restrained.

But girls as young as them are mostly implicated by the family. As long as they become adults and atone for the family, they still have the opportunity to go out, marry and have children like normal people...

Only in the corner, a girl with a thin face stared at An An's cheerful running figure in the distance, her eyes were full of resentment,

Her name was Rebecca, and she was the little girl who An An felt pitiful and gave bread to on the official ship before.

Rebecca hated Ann for no other reason than that she felt it was unfair.

Obviously they are all in trouble, why can some people be so lucky?With just one face, he could make the vicious officials look good, and he was even taken back to the City Lord's Mansion.

However, she and her mother tried their best to escape from the country, but they were finally arrested.She felt that these officials were ruthless, and her mother knelt down to beg them. Couldn't she turn a blind eye and let them go?
These people are really stupid. Even if they have finished their sins, they will leave the stain of criminals all their lives, and they can only marry ordinary men.

An An, who was chasing after them with the thin dog, also noticed them, and trotted over with bright eyes. They were all half-grown children. Although An An was the youngest, they quickly got together.

An An stomped hard on the ice, and asked with no experience in the world: "With so many of us stepping on it, won't the ice crack?"

An An's familiarity made them relax, and the girl next to her smiled and said, "No way! How thick is this ice? Not to mention us, even if a group of strong laborers step on it, it won't crack."

A group of girls overheard the conversation between the two and jokingly asked, "Don't you Orientals freeze the river in winter?"

"It's also frozen, but it's not as thick!"

Although the capital city is quite cold in winter, the lake generally does not freeze too deeply.She still remembered that Qin Shuqing secretly went to play on the frozen lake last winter, but stepped on the broken ice with too much force and almost fell off.After returning home, he was beaten for half a month and did not dare to go out.

But here is much colder than the capital, and it is no exaggeration to say that a drop of water turns into ice.

At this time, there was a burst of excited yelling from a young man in the distance, and the girl who spoke just now turned her head to look: "Oh, Jack and the others are catching fish! Let's go and join in the fun."

While talking, he dragged An An to the place where the crowd gathered. The river was very long, and the other side of the river was excitedly surrounded by boys.

An An was curious: "How can I catch fish when the lake is frozen!"

"I've heard of this," Jingqi explained, "In the north of us, where the climate is colder, ice fishing is used, that is, a hole is cut in the ice, and a fishing rod can be used to fish directly on the ice. There should be a request!"

"Wow! Although I don't understand it, it sounds amazing!"

During the conversation, the group of people trotted to the destination, which was similar to what Jing Qi said, but there were still people using fishing nets to catch fish.

An An poked Jing Qi's arm, eager to try: "How about... let's try too!"

Jing Qi knew what she wanted to do without even looking, and she refused with a serious face: "No, if you get wet and catch a cold, you will cry!"

Seeing the dissatisfaction on the little girl's face, he emphasized coldly: "Whether you want to go home or not! This is not Daxia. If you are sick, no one can say for sure what will happen."

Although Jing Qi, the elder brother, was willing to accompany her to toss around most of the time, but if she really screamed, An An couldn't help it, and she let out a listless "um".

Seeing her drooping her little head and drooping long eyelashes, Jing Qi couldn't help feeling a little soft-hearted. He rolled up his sleeves: "Don't you just want to catch fish? Wait, I'll catch it for you!"

An An raised her head and stared at him suspiciously: "Can you catch fish?"

"...can't be learned."

He carefully watched the professional fishing techniques of the boys on the opposite side. It was not difficult to learn, but he just felt that it was too slow.

The following yamen servants could not help but also participated in it.

Jingqi and a servant worked together to cut through a hole in the ice, and then exchanged some bait with the same half-grown boy who was eating.He found wood again and began to cut wood thorns with a knife.

An An became a little interested, and stared at him in disbelief: "You want to stick a wooden thorn into a fish with your bare hands!"

Jing Qi nodded casually, "This way the grasping speed is faster."

An An said earnestly: "Brother, self-confidence is necessary, but we can't be too ambitious!"

I remember one time when the family went out to play in the city, my mother said that she wanted to eat fish, my father found a small stream, cut seven or eight wooden sticks for sticking fish, and threw them into the water at will.
With a splash, the water splashed, and then a row of seven or eight fish were thrown ashore.

She remembered that scene in her heart for a long time, and whenever she felt that practicing martial arts was hard, she would unconsciously recall the greatness of practicing martial arts.

Jing Qi had already set his posture, and he fixed the bait. "How do you know if you don't try?"

However, the reality is that after Jing Qi struggled for a long time, she barely encountered the shadow of a fish, and all the fish that came over ran away in a fright.

What Feng Lisheng catches fish is relying on the powerful internal force that has reached the state of perfection,
But Jing Qi is still in the stage of body training, at most she has touched the threshold of inner martial arts.

Jing Qi is not willing to admit defeat, she just wanted to catch a fish to make An An happy, but now she is a bit more serious.

An An felt bored after watching it for a while, and began to slide on the ice. Anyway, she was wearing thick clothes, so it didn't hurt if she fell.

After repeated practice many times, Jing Qi gradually figured out some tricks, but she did not forget to distract her attention and stare at An An:

"Don't walk around, there are people digging holes in the ice nearby to fish, it's still a bit dangerous."

An An happily spun around, but didn't turn her head when she heard the words: "Got it."

She and a group of girls slid forward holding hands. There was a hole in the ice that was smashed and not yet frozen. The girl who took the lead was about to make a detour skillfully, when there was a commotion behind her.
The girl in line behind An An felt pushed, and was driven by inertia to bump into An An.

Jing Qi finally inserted a fish. He raised his head to look at An An with a smile on his face. Seeing the picture in front of him, his pupils shrank sharply, dropped the wooden spikes and moved madly towards An An's direction.

At the moment of danger, An An didn't care to panic, she knew that if she fell down, she might not be able to climb up.

She pursed her lips and showed the energy of striding horses every day. When she fell, she pressed one palm to the ground, trying to maintain her body balance. At this time, her head was facing the ice hole.

Rebecca, who retracted her hand, saw that An An didn't fall, gritted her teeth angrily, stretched out her hand and pushed An An, who was about to get up soon, when her head became hot,
The two were relatively close to each other, and this accident happened only in a blink of an eye.

The crowd screamed in horror.It was too late to attack Rebecca's viciousness, so she stared at An An.

Jing Qi who rushed over was blindsided, and stretched out her hand to grab Chao An'an, but there was one person who moved faster than him.

Just at the critical moment, everyone felt a very fast afterimage passing by, and An An, who was about to fall into the ice cave, was pulled far away.

It wasn't until the moment when her feet landed firmly that An An had a sense of reality, and only then did she realize it belatedly.
She seems to have passed through the gate of hell!
At the moment when she was out of danger, the little girl's first thought was, "It's okay, it's okay, mother doesn't know about this, otherwise fried pork with bamboo shoots is light, and the number of words in the review is definitely not online."

She was still in a daze and didn't slow to come in, when she saw Jing Qi rushing over, hugging her tightly,
"An'an, I'm sorry! I didn't protect you well,"

At the end, there was a hint of crying in his voice.

An An finally regained her soul and pushed him: "Hey! Let go of me first, your shoulder hurts me so much!"

Jing Qi subconsciously let go of her arms.

An An looked at his red eye circles, and couldn't help but soften her heart. She had never seen this guy cry since she could remember.The mouth is not forgiving: "Hey, I haven't cried yet? Why are you crying!"

Jing Qi turned her face away uncomfortably, and said in a muffled voice, "...there's sand in my eyes!"

An An was speechless: "Brother, you said that getting ice into your eyes is more reliable than sand!"

She looked around her eyes before realizing it belatedly: "Who saved me just now!"

Jing Qi wiped away her tears: "It's the old man!"

"what……"

An An just wanted to ask if it was the old grandpa he was thinking of?A loud commotion was heard in the distance.The first time An An was rescued, Rebecca was held down by the yamen who reacted.

Naturally, she would not admit it, and she cried and said that she did not mean it.

An An walked over and recognized Rebecca at a glance as the little girl she met on the official ship before.

For a moment, she didn't know how to feel in her heart, but she felt a little stuffy and uncomfortable, she asked Jingqi: "Do I count as the farmer and the snake that Mr. said, Shengmi is kind against Miqiu!"

The same is true of the Wen Wan she met before, and now there is Rebecca again, which makes her feel a little discouraged and wonders if she is particularly unpopular with girls of her age?
Jingqi's face was sullen: "Don't affect your mentality for a few irrelevant people."

After finishing speaking, she directly pulled a veil on An An's body to block Rebecca's mouth, then turned her head and asked An An: "How do you want to deal with her?"

The servants at the side also hurriedly agreed, saying that they would report to William that he would not let the girl in front of him go.They were specially sent by Lord William to protect the two children, and naturally they wanted to make up for such a mistake more than anyone else.

An An was also very angry. If she hadn't been lucky, something might have happened just now.

Anna tied a rope around Rebecca's waist, pushed her into the ice hole and choked up a lot of water, which made her experience the fear of hovering on the verge of death.

Although she has gone through a lot of things along the way, but at this age, she can only think of retaliation, not murder.

The yamen went to report the letter, and William hurried over, and was shocked to hear the news, Ruo An'an was really the queen's niece, what if something happened? , he can't afford it.

He waved someone to take Rebecca straight down.Before leaving, An An repeatedly told the girls that she fell down and had nothing to do with them, and told the steward not to punish them. She didn't feel relieved to leave until the steward agreed with William's signal.

The girls who were playing on the ice just now breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at An An's back with gratitude.

……

It wasn't until after walking a long way that An An took the opportunity to ask, "You said it was the old man in the house over there who saved me? You read that right!"

Jing Qi nodded: "He is very fast, he pulled you over and left immediately. But I can't be wrong."

The opponent's movement was really fast, and the two yamen servants present couldn't see clearly.

And he faintly noticed that the other party did not leave, as if they were hiding in the dark and following them.

Or, since they came here, the old man has been following them secretly, but he deliberately hid it before, so he didn't feel it at all.

He is naturally sensitive to such things beyond ordinary people. He has an intuition, and now he can faintly feel that someone is following them, not because he is so powerful, but because the other party deliberately let him know.

It can be seen how powerful the opponent's martial arts are!

An An's mind was blank at the time, only remembering that when she was about to fall, a very powerful arm pulled her away.Thinking about it this way, it seemed that he could faintly hear the sound of iron chains colliding.

An An didn't understand: "But if this is the case, Grandpa is so powerful, why..." It seems that life is so desolate!

Jingqi: "Just ask and you'll know."

The two usually communicate in Chinese, and William can't help but ask curiously: "What are you talking about?"

An An pointed in the direction of the broken house: "Are we talking about the old man?"

When the group arrived at the dilapidated house, the door was empty, the stone bench was still there, but the old man sitting like a statue was not there, but the thin dog was there.

An An gently touched its head: "Where is the old man?"

Jingqi closed her eyes, quietly listening to the various sounds passing by around her, then opened her eyes, looked in a certain direction outside the house,

The next moment, a figure flashed in front of him, and an old man with disheveled hair appeared silently from nowhere.

An An looked at the grandfather who suddenly appeared in front of him, and his eyes widened in surprise: "It's really you!"

No wonder the little guy was surprised, it was clearly the same person, but his temperament was completely different from what he had seen before.Although the man in front of him was still skinny and his hair was white and messy, when he stood up, he completely lost the feeling of withering and desolation, and his back was straightened unconsciously, like a sharp sword out of its sheath!

An An raised her head and looked at the old man in front of her curiously, her eyes adored: "You are the legendary hidden master! You are really amazing!

Thank you for saving me just now. "

The old man couldn't speak, but just waved his hands lightly.

William squinted his eyes thoughtfully. He kept guessing that the old man was not an ordinary person. Unfortunately, the other party refused to say anything and did not leave, so he ignored it.
He was born in the Earl's Mansion, so he has seen some worldly experiences, but he has never seen the skill that the old man showed just now.

William warmly invited: "If the old man doesn't dislike it, you can come to the official's house as a guest."

He just said it casually, and didn't expect the old man to agree. After all, he has been in office for two years, and the old man has always been very lonely in his impression.

Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, the old man nodded slightly.

William couldn't help but be surprised. Some people have a natural reverence for the strong, and William is no exception.

An An and An An were also very happy. They talked to the old man from time to time along the way, but unfortunately the other party couldn't communicate normally.

Jing Qi kept staring at the old man, couldn't help being curious about his martial arts skills. "I don't know what your name is, grandpa?"

Just at this time, when she arrived at the carriage, Jing Qi found a pen and paper from the carriage,

The old man picked up the pen, paused with his fingertips, and slowly wrote down a name, which was written in Chinese characters.

Before the two children had time to be amazed that he could speak Chinese, An An looked at the words on the paper and said strangely: "Shadou, what a strange name?

Then we will call you Grandpa Sha from now on, shall we? "

The old man seemed to be taken aback for a moment, then nodded casually.

William came over, handed several bundles of red thread to Jing Qi, and joked with the two of them with a smile: "I want to learn how to do business, do you want uncle to find someone to take you?"

An An shook her head resolutely, her tone was full of confidence: "Thank you uncle, I am very good at business."

William raised his eyebrows with interest, "Oh, then when Ms. An An makes a lot of money, don't forget to invite uncle to dinner."

An An patted her chest generously: "Don't worry, when I find my family, I will invite my uncle to eat at the best restaurant in Maya City."

However, within half an hour, the little guy slapped him in the face.