Chapter 67 - A Miserable Hope
When Xiao FeiFei learned that Ouyang Zhong was about to depart for the Populus Euphratica Forest in Beiwang City, she said nothing and refused to let Ouyang Zhong leave. She grabbed Ouyang Zhong's lapel with a death grip and cried like a pear. Ouyang Zhong calmed her down for a long time, almost running out of patience. Ouyang Zhong struggled to break away from Xiao Feifei. Striding towards the outside of Ouyang Mansion, Xiao Feifei surprisingly cried out, rushed out of the door of the mansion unkempt, hugged Ouyang Zhong tightly from the back, crying, "You can't leave if you leave and in case of death, what will I do what will I do?"
It was the first time Xiao Fei Fei made a fuss like this, regardless of her previous experience of madness. She would rarely lose her temper like this on the street without regard to the nobleman's face. There were quite a few people in Zongcheng City. The streets were crowded with people coming and going, and soldiers were patrolling the streets. The people who were busy with their own business were also curiously gathered over one after another when they heard a young woman being so distressed. County Princess Xiao Feifei sat on the ground as if no one else was there, crying bitterly while tugging at the corner of Ouyang Zhong's coat and refusing to let go.
"Ouyang Zhong, you are my husband. You can't leave me! I only have you in my heart now! Please, don't leave me behind!"
Ouyang Zhong was very embarrassed. He knew clearly that it wasn't how much Fay Xiao couldn't leave him behind, but because of his fear that no one would take care of her, protect her, or take care of her, and she would be alone from then on. But this is a dangerous trip, Ouyang Zhong can not take Xiao Feifei with him. Right now, there is a better solution. Ouyang Zhong squatted and gently coaxed Xiao Feifei, "Don't be like this; I won't leave you behind. I said I would care for you for the rest of your life. Be a good boy and wait for me to return to ZongCheng City, okay? Before I return, General Wei and the others will take care of you for me. Come on, get up and be obedient!"
The surrounding passersby began to gossip and discuss in low voices:
"Hey, is this the former Prideful Sun Sheriff? Gosh, how can a royal nobleman fall into this state?"
"Don't say. You see, General Ouyang is really a good side horse harnessed by the side of a team. His Xiao family is like that, but he can not abandon his original wife. What a good man."
"I don't think he can let his wife defy his face in the street crying into this retention. This husband did not do well. The world men are so matter."
"What do you women know? A woman's opinion! General Ouyang is going out to face Dingling's enemies. He is going out to protect all of us in Zongcheng City. He is so righteous that this woman as a wife is still unforgiving and splashy and is losing General Ouyang's face."
"Yet I can understand the county lord's mood; my husband and brother also went to Beiwang City to garrison and fight in the first place; before they left, I also cried my heart out," he said, and he couldn't help wiping the tears.
Everyone, you a word, I a word, watching the fun not too big. In short, Ouyang Zhong is like a piece of plaster; how can we not eliminate Xiao Fary? Several times he wanted to cut Fay Xiao with a knife simply, but in front of so many people, he really couldn't do it.
At this uncomfortable stalemate, Fox Xiaxia and Shan Xiaohu arrived. Fox Xiaxia wrapped her arms around the side and watched the fun for a while, wanting to see how this Ouyang Zhong planned to solve it. Shan Xiaohu has no patience to waste time here. His heart is very anxious, but he also has to hurry back to see the Populus Euphratica Forest in the small fairy how ~ Fox Xiaxia saw the urgency of the senior brother, not waiting for Shan Xiaohu to open his mouth, flew from the roof to and jumped to Ouyang Zhong and Xiao Feifei's side, no extra words, directly a hand knife Xiao Feifei cut stunned, and then dragged the Ouyang Zhong pushed on the horse, a pat on the back to let Ouyang Zhong hurry out of the city, the horse's ass! He then dragged Ouyang Zhong and pushed him onto the horse, slapping the horse's butt and telling Ouyang Zhong to hurry out of the city. He also cheaply shouted behind him, "Don't worry about me. I'll keep an eye on your wife for you!"
Shan Xiaohu gave a thumbs-up in his heart. His sister had used this trick before, and it was the most effective way to make immediate decisions. Then Shan Xiaohu also flew from the eaves of this room to jump to another, flying only a few jumps and chasing Ouyang Zhong together out of the city to run to the Populus Euphratica Forest.
The night before departure, Ouyang Zhong's carrier pigeon and General Wei's close friend brought back the news that Ouyang Ming had indeed died at the hands of Dongfang Chang, the Marquis of Dingguo of Nandu. This news was like a thunderbolt that made Ouyang Zhong unable to return to his senses for a long time.
Although he recognized himself as a person with few emotions since childhood, not too emotionally attached, whether it is family or friendship, all of them are faint and silent; only the relationship with Linghu Xian had once immersed him, and he felt that he had lived. He thought that the relationship with his father was not that close, especially because the matter of Linghu Xian had angered the then Nanling Elder Princess Xiao Wushuang, threatening the future and safety of the whole clan, and the father and son even almost turned against each other because of this matter. In Ouyang Zhong's heart, his father is a mountain that has to be faced and hangs over his head for many years above the sword. To do anything has to weigh the pressure of the scale, but also in the face of all the bottom of the source of energy.
A few months, a sea of change in general. Since childhood, he has been accompanied by his father to grow up together with his father, so living people no longer. We last met in Zongcheng City, but Ouyang Ming sent Ouyang Zhong to the battlefield. And now, Ouyang Zhong can't even go to his father's spirit hall to pay homage and can't stand by his mother's side to give her reliance and comfort. Ouyang Zhong flung himself to his knees and solemnly knelt toward Xi Cheng City to pay homage to his father, Ouyang Ming.
The mother did not listen to the previous arrangements, hiding everything from her son; in her opinion, at this time, we can work together to fight the same enemy, which is more important. The head of the family is gone, and she, as the mother of the house, will have to take up the beam so that all people and all the things have a good arrangement, hidden from each other, rather than achieve the effect. Has always given people gentle and friendly Mrs. Xie, in the letter to the son's family wrote:
"Order my son heavy, to the national justice first, temporarily put aside the family feud and personal hatred. Hope to cut down all the enemy invaders and restorative the Chinese Ming. If the enemy is captured one day, the mother will be generous with your father and go to the netherworld again. My son, do not miss us!"
The world said the Ouyang family climbed the phoenix to pursue power and wealth. Still, it is also always said that the children of the family clan family are parasitic on the millions of people in the worm's body, in addition to being pampered and spoiled, nothing else. And now the Ouyang family patriarch, Ouyang Ming, has died for the country; the principal mother, Xie Linghuan, is always ready to fight the enemy in a fish death net rather than die, but also orders his son, Ouyang Zhong, also wants to fight for the country for the people until the last moment. General Wei looked at such a family and felt a lot of emotions but could not say anything. He accompanied Ouyang Zhong in the direction of Xi Cheng City, kneeling, kneeling together to pay homage; other people see the great general kneeling down, followed by kneeling down, all people kneeling together, not only to pay tribute but also to make up their minds. This stormy Zhong Ming country may fall apart, but there is still a faint hope as long as there is such a group of hot-blooded men. Sometimes, hope is the best weapon, even if only a little, may burn the entire grassland to form a prairie fire.
Ouyang Zhong, with fox Xiaxia, gives him a variety of pills prepared in advance but also temporarily follows the single small tiger to learn a few minor magic spells. He wears the Fox Xiao Xian's peach core whistle and the short sword of the heavenly tribe, a moment not daring to delay with the single small tiger to run to the north of the north of the city of hope, that piece of water swamp.
"Finding the water swamp will make finding the Populus Euphratica Forest easier." Shan Xiaohu said while running.
Ouyang Zhong asked with concern, "Why don't you ride a horse? Aren't you tired of running like this?"
Shan Xiaohu replied truthfully, "I'm not used to riding, and the horse isn't as fast as I am! If it wasn't for you having to ride a horse, I could only run slowly, or else I would have run out of sight by now."
Ouyang Zhong was confused in the wind when he heard this, and before he could say anything, the horse he was riding was unhappy. The horse stopped on its own and refused to go. It looked as if it was saying, "I'm tired and won't run. If you can do it, you do it!"
Ouyang Zhong was a little embarrassed and hurriedly patted the horse and used the whip to whip it a few times, but this stubborn horse refused to go. Shan Xiaohu looked at the horse unhappily and said, "You know what? If it wasn't for the fact that Master Shan's spells were almost blocked, and he couldn't change back to his original form, or else you disobedient fellow would be my dinner today!" Then, the ferocious action of a tiger hunting for food shocked the horse; he raised his two front hooves and erected his body, directly dropping Ouyang heavily on the ground, and hurriedly ran back in a huff himself.
"Look, why do you scare my horse? I can't even outrun you; without a mount, when will we get to the Populus Euphratica Forest?" Ouyang Zhong rubbed his butt while patting the dirt on his body and complained to Shan Xiaohu.
"Hmph! It's better if it runs away. I'll take you." Shan Xiaohu half squatted his body and signaled Ouyang Zhong to climb onto his back.
"Ah? This is not good, right? It's not like I can't care for myself, a big man letting another man somehow walk on his back. I can't afford to lose this person ..."
"I asked why your nonsense was so much. You can't run by yourself. Give you back so many things. How did my little sister fall for such an annoying spirit like you? Hurry up, be quick! We're still in a hurry!" Shan Xiaohu said impatiently.
Ouyang Zhong had no choice but to do a few moments of mental construction, then gently jumped onto Shan Xiaohu's back, wrapping his arms around his neck. As a divine beast in human form, Shan Xiaohu was naturally a bit taller than Ouyang Zhong, and he was also a lynx spirit of origin, and his shoulders were vast and thick. He shouted, "You can hold on to it! I don't care if you fall!" Then he jumped on the spot, all of a sudden leaped out ten feet away, and then gently jumped again more than ten feet away, and no matter what high mountains and dense forests are like walking on the ground, riding on his back, Ouyang Zhong can not help but wail.
"Don't scream! You are so annoying! My ears are almost deaf from your shouting."
"No, you and Fox Xiaxia are both so fierce? Wouldn't I be invincible if I could be like you guys?"
"That said, you used to be quite powerful as well. You're even better than us in terms of flying with the wind." Shan Xiaohu suddenly felt as if he had said something he shouldn't have said and hurriedly closed his mouth. Luckily, the wind was so strong that the wind blew away the sound, and the fantastic scenery around him attracted Ouyang Zhong.
"What did you say? I didn't hear you just now~."
"Uh, it's fine, it's fine, we'll be there soon."
After departing from Zongcheng City in the morning and reaching the night, Ouyang Shige proposed taking a slight break. Although Shan Xiaohu felt fine and wasn't too tired, this mortal riding on his back could not continue. Ouyang Zhong took dry food from inside his carry-on luggage and broke off half of it to share with Shan Xiaohu. The two of them ate and rested by the stream while chatting. It was the first time that the two of them were alone together.
Ouyang Zhong hurriedly beat a pot of water and handed it to Shan Xiaohu to dissipate the embarrassment, saying, "Brother Shan, you have worked hard. Brother Shan, please drink."
Shan Xiaohu had always been straightforward and did not have the bent minds of Fox Xiaxia and their fox clan. He naturally took the water and gulped it down before returning the water bottle to Ouyang Zhong.
Ouyang Zhong hurriedly took it, came closer to sit down, and asked, ''I've actually been wanting to ask the two of you, but I haven't had much of a chance. Did we know each other before? There's also Linghu Xian, oh no, Fox Xiao Xian. What was she like before? I want to know if it's the same as the Linghu Xian. '
Shan Xiaohu scratched his head and didn't know how to answer correctly, so he stammered, "Our master said that there are some things that are not convenient to say to you mortals. I can only say that we have indeed met before, but we are not familiar. There is also the fact that Little Senior Sister was indeed a fox before and came to the mortal world to reincarnate because of the tribulation. But we don't know much about her days on earth, so it's not a good comparison. The former senior sister should be more unrestrained than the Linghu Xian life. You know there is still happiness, right ..."
"The previous her, was she a bit happier?" Ouyang Zhong muttered.
A bright light was strangely bright at this time, not far away from the hill. Gradually, a round moon slowly rose, the dark earth sprinkled with a layer of silver white. In the quiet moonlight, Ouyang Zhong could feel the peach kernel whistle he wore on his chest, faintly throbbing and emitting a long, warm feeling. He took it out and stared at it. Indeed, the whistle glowed with a faint red light as if it were a guide.
Shan Xiaohu looked at it and said, ''We'd better hurry up and get going! Little sister is waiting for us. When we get near the Populus Euphratica Forest, you must be careful. I don't know what awaits us, but I will do my best to protect you and that Populus Euphratica Forest."
"Don't worry, even though I don't have your magic power, I can't hold you back! I'll take care of myself and protect the Populus Euphratica Forest with you." Ouyang Zhong patted his chest and gave Shan Xiaohu a sincere smile.
As if he wasn't that annoying. Shan Xiaohu thought silently in his heart.
The night was like water. Even though it was already summer, dew was still soaking his clothes. Insect chirps could still be heard in the grassy woods, owls gave out ghostly hoots, and a wolf summoned his companions with a howl on a distant hillock. Flying Shan Xiaohu is like the wind, only leaving traces of running without any sound.
The peach kernel whistle on Ouyang Ming's neck started to make a sound because of the wind, a sound that only the two of them, Ouyang Zhong and Linghu Xian, could hear in this world. The current ringing reminded Ouyang Zhong of the time when he ran back to Beiwang City to report the news while playing an elegy to mourn for the sacrifice of Linghu Xian. Perhaps because he was tired or Shan Xiaohu's figure was too athletic and peaceful, Ouyang Zhong staggered on Shan Xiaohu's back and dozed off.
He didn't know how long he had slept, but he felt that Shan Xiaohu had suddenly stopped and patted him. Ouyang Zhong rubbed his eyes and asked vaguely, "Are we there yet?"
Shan Xiaohu replied in a small voice, "No, we got lost. And we ran into a bit of trouble ..."