Why do I have the lowest fighting ability among the whole family?

Mrs. Cheng's legs and feet were almost healed. She picked up Pei Shao from the ground and put him in her arms. Then she unfolded the letter and read it while teaching Pei Shao how to read.

[Mother is well:

It has been more than two months since my son left home, thousands of miles away from home. Knowing that his mother was worried, he wrote to express his condolences.

...It is now scheduled to return home on the fifth day of February. ]

Neither Pei Shao, who was in front of me, nor Pei Shao who was behind me could understand it very well, but she sensitively captured the word "returning home".

"Second brother is coming back?"

Pei Shao looked up at Mr. Cheng, his eyes full of surprise.

Cheng rarely showed his emotions, but this time he couldn't help but beam with joy and nodded happily.

"Yes." She looked out the window through the window lattice, but her eyes were a little lost.

"After being out for so long, it's time to come back."

The wintersweet outside the window was in full bloom, and a wisp of plum blossom fragrance floated into the house through the gap in the window that was not closed tightly. Mrs. Cheng felt a little happy when she smelled the faint fragrance of plum blossoms.

Probably affected by Mrs. Cheng's mood, Pei Shao was not so resistant even when he went to the Imperial Academy in the afternoon.

As soon as she sat down, Yu Qiao came over mysteriously.

"Pei Shao?" Yu Qiao knocked on the table, glanced back at Cheng Jinheng, with a look of envy in his eyes, and squinted his eyes and asked in a low voice: "The day after tomorrow, Xiu Mu, do you want to go see hunting animals with us? "

"Hunting animals?" Pei Shao had never heard of it, so she asked with some confusion.

"Isn't it only February now? Why are we hunting animals now?"

She knew that there were spring hunts and autumn hunts, but they were organized by the royal family and they were not that early.

"You don't know about hunting animals?" Seeing her reaction, Yu Qiao was a little stunned, but he quickly came to his senses and patiently explained to her.

"It's not a spring hunt organized by the royal family, it's organized by a few of them. We have had this tradition from previous years."

Yu Qiao pointed to the young boys following her. Pei Shao looked familiar.

There were only a few people in the Imperial College, most of whom Yu Qiao had introduced to her that day, and there were only one or two unfamiliar faces.

"The prey has been hungry for many days. Many noble men in Beijing will come to participate, and the prizes will be very generous." Yu Qiao added: "Don't worry, it's very safe. There are no wild beasts with high attack power. Basically, they are all Roe deer or something like that.”

After saying that, Yu Qiao looked at her with bright eyes: "How about it, do you want to go? It's fun."

"Okay." Pei Shao agreed without much thought.

She knew nothing about Beique now, so she could only wish for this opportunity to get to know the people in Yu Qiao's circle.

Yu Qiao immediately smiled, and then moved closer to Pei Shao, her tone a little awkward.

"Then...can you bring your brother with you? Don't worry, I won't let you suffer -"

Fearing that Pei Shao would be under some psychological pressure, Yu Qiao hurriedly added: "Just ask for me. It'll be okay even if he doesn't come. You must come. I invite you sincerely!"

Pei Shao was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses when he thought of Yu Qiao's admiring eyes when he looked at Cheng Jinheng.

Yu Qiao was using her as an excuse to chase stars.

But Pei Shao didn't mind this, and it was just a matter of asking more.

And she could also see that the three little brothers had been feeling very uncomfortable at home these past few days. Now that they finally had a chance to go out and have fun, they might be very happy.

After getting Pei Shao's affirmative answer, Yu Qiao smiled widely, and the happiness almost appeared directly on his face. His whole body was different and he was very happy. Pei Shao also talked to Cheng Jinheng and the others during his break.

When they heard it was Chunyue, the three people's eyes lit up.

The man's love for hunting is stolen from his bones. Although the three of them are young, they are eager to try hunting when they hear it.

Pei Shao felt relieved.

Although Yu Qiao said that it didn't matter even if she didn't go, she agreed. If she didn't shout, she would be a little embarrassed.

Pei Shao thought about going back to talk to Mrs. Cheng about this matter. During class in the afternoon, she was not concentrating on anything. Fortunately, her mind was still flexible, so she could keep up with the course for the time being, and it was not difficult to learn.

Pretending to be worried, Pei Shao rushed to the palace where Cheng lived with his schoolbag as soon as he finished school. He didn't even catch up with Cheng Jinheng and the other three who came out immediately.

But she saw a strange and familiar person at the palace gate.

The unshaven old man in front of her, looking slovenly, wasn't the same old man she met in Tianlao who later gave her the jade gourd——

Pei Shao touched the jade gourd on his wrist almost subconsciously.

All her previous strange experiences seemed to be caused by this jade gourd. Even if the old man didn't know, he couldn't escape his involvement.

"We meet again." The old man stroked his beard twice and said enigmatically.

If he was clean and tidy, he could be said to be a fairy, but now he is slovenly. Let alone a fairy, he looks like a sick beggar.

"What's wrong with you?" Pei Shao looked him up and down in silence before asking carefully.

The old man coughed a few times in a panic, and raised his hands in embarrassment to cover the holes in his clothes, but his clothes were too torn and could not cover anyone else.

Pei Shao raised the wrist tied with the jade gourd and shook it, then straight to the point asked: "What's going on?"

The old man disappeared so quickly last time that she couldn't find a chance to ask anything. She couldn't let him run away again now.

The old man smiled coquettishly, his voice a little guilty: "How do I know..."

But soon he rolled his eyes and thought of something, and he became confident again: "You gave this to me and asked me to give it to you. Now you come to trouble me again..."

Pei Shao almost laughed out of anger.

She shook the jade gourd on her wrist and laughed angrily: "What do you mean I gave it to you? I've never seen you before -"

The old man was stunned when he heard this. He scratched his head and said nonchalantly: "That's you before...it's you anyway!"

He retorted confidently, but he held on to this statement and held on to it. Even Pei Shao couldn't do anything to him.

I could only wave my hand a little tiredly.

Immediately, a sensible little maid came forward to help the old man down and wash himself.

It was obviously not like this when we met before, but it had been so long since we last met, and now my whole body was dirty, and I don't know how it got there. If I didn't wash it, I really couldn't see anyone.

Moreover, the adventures brought by the jade gourd were still hidden in Pei Shao's heart. Although the old man denied it quickly, she always felt that the old man knew something, otherwise he would not have reacted so bigly.

Pei Shao waved his hand, and a ray of green light was faintly visible between his fingers.

(End of this chapter)