The little ancestor of the family

At that moment, Ye Xinran's mind was confused.

If a person says this kind of thing when trying to please her, she will just think that person is being slick.

But when someone said such words when he almost died trying to find her, Ye Xinran was shocked.

A shock from the bottom of my heart.

She pulled Xiao Huaian's shoulders, forcing him to lower his head slightly, and then when Xiao Huaian didn't know how to react, she kissed him domineeringly.

Xiao Huaian's lips were dry and warm.

The kiss went from shallow to deep, and Xiao Huaian gradually took the initiative from being passive at the beginning.

He held Ye Xinran's slender waist with one hand and stroked her delicate neck with the other. The breath they exchanged was extremely hot, as if it could break all the shackles in the world and melt all obstacles.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

The two were getting carried away when a cough was heard from behind.

Ye Xinran and Xiao Huaian stopped what they were doing at the same time and looked at the coughing old man.

"I didn't mean to interrupt you."

The old man explained.

"It's just that the temperature in this secret passage is getting higher and higher. I'm afraid if I stay here any longer, this place will collapse."

"Let's go, let's get out of here first."

Xiao Huaian reached out to tuck the hair around Ye Xinran's ears, then held her shoulders and walked out.

The old man looked at the two figures from behind, feeling infinite emotion in his heart: This brat has really grown up, he doesn't even blush when encountering such things!

The three of them walked to the wellhead and happened to meet Ding Qiao who had returned.

When Ding Qiao saw Xiao Huaian, she finally felt relieved.

"I'm so glad you're all okay!"

"Master, we won!"

Ding Qiao said to Ye Xinran excitedly.

The blush on Ye Xinran's face had not yet disappeared. She looked at Xiao Huaian and said, "I know I will win."

"Let's go out first." Xiao Huaian looked at the wellhead, "It's so high here, how did you get down?"

Ye Xinran took out a climbing rope from her sleeve again and said, "Use this rope."

"it is good!"

Xiao Huaian took the rope and climbed up first.

Then he let down the other end of the rope: "Ding Qiao, help your master up."

"Hey!"

Ding Qiao agreed and immediately supported Ye Xinran, helping her climb up.

Ye Xinran was very flexible. She moved a few times on the wall of the well and climbed up.

"Old man, it's your turn!"

Seeing Ye Xinran coming over, Ding Qiao said to the old man again.

"I don't need a rope. I can climb up by myself."

The old man stubbornly let go of the rope and slowly climbed up along the traction points he had honed before.

When she came to the ground, Ye Xinran discovered that the entire Xueyue City had become a devastated place.

It turned out that before the barbarians fled, they not only burned the granary, but also set fire along the way, burning down countless houses.

The people were forced to take to the streets. A skinny child, barefoot, lay in his mother's arms and cried loudly.

"Mom, our house is gone, our house is gone, we have no place to sleep from now on."

"Be good, Mom will find a way!"

The equally thin mother coaxed softly.

Ye Xinran looked forward and saw the people on the street covered with sackcloth with despair on their faces.

They looked at the soldiers running past them and seemed not excited at all.

There was no trace of joy of being rescued in their eyes.

"I'll be able to meet my family soon. Why do they seem unhappy?"

Ye Xinran didn't understand the situation.

Xiao Huaian said: "Xueyue City has been occupied twice before. For them, the current victory is only temporary. No one knows when the next war will break out."

"How pitiful they are!"

Ye Xinran was very heartbroken.

When two armies fight, the people suffer the most.

"This time, I will definitely pacify the Northern Frontier and make sure the people there no longer suffer!"

Xiao Huaian looked into the distance and said.

"Yeah! I believe you!"

Ye Xinran looked at the man next to her and felt that he was getting taller and taller.

It turns out that men who are engaged in business are the most handsome.

Although his business cannot make money and may even be life-threatening, he can protect the people and keep the country peaceful.

Who can not love a man like this!

"Let's take a look over there."

Xiao Huaian pointed at the city gate and said to Ye Xinran, "Prince Rui is still waiting for my news."

"it is good!"

Ye Xinran nodded in agreement.

Xiao Huaian turned around again and told Ding Qiao: "Go over there and inform the people guarding the granary to come to this street and help the people clean up the burned houses and yards."

"Yes!"

Ding Qiao agreed and left quickly.

At this time, Xiao Huaian looked at the old man behind Ye Xinran.

The old man tilted his head slightly and said absentmindedly: "I am not your business. I want to go home and see how my yard is doing!"

"Don't look at it."

Xiao Huaian said forcefully: "You will follow us in a while, and then go back to the Xixia Mountain camp with me."

"Eh? Isn't that right?" The old man questioned, "I'm just a commoner in this city. My home is here. Why should I go back to Xixia Mountain with you? Are you interested in something on me and want to steal it?"

As he spoke, he touched his clothes from top to bottom.

"I am really a poor man. I have no money! You guys are busy. I am leaving now!"

"A gentleman is cautious when he is alone, and does not deceive himself in secret; he is humble and does not deceive himself in his heart."

Xiao Huaian looked at his back and said this sentence,

The old man's body suddenly stiffened, but he paused for a moment and continued to move forward.

"Master, you won't acknowledge me?"

Xiao Huaian continued shouting while looking at the back.

Ye Xinran was shocked, "Master, father? Is this old man your master?"

The old man couldn't pretend he didn't hear it, so he turned around and looked at Xiao Huaian with a helpless smile: "Major General, did you recognize the wrong person? I am an ordinary citizen, what qualifications do I have to be your master?"

Xiao Huaian ignored the old man’s denial and took a step forward: “When the Xiao family was in trouble, I didn’t find the master’s body when I was cleaning up the mess.

In order to conceal my tracks, I went to a mass grave and found a person with a similar body shape to my master and arranged for his burial.

Since then, I have been secretly looking for your trace.

But after so many years, there is still no news.

I didn't expect you to come to Snow Moon City."

"I have no idea what you are talking about!" said the old man, "I grew up in Snow Moon City."

"When you were teaching me martial arts, I injured your right ear with my sword. Master, you haven't forgotten it, right?

Even though you have changed your appearance now, the scar on your ear is still there.

How do you explain this?"

"What's there to explain?"

The old man subconsciously touched his ears and asked, "Is it possible that only your master's ears can be injured, but other people's ears cannot be injured?"

"I respect you as a capable person, so I won't say much, but I am an ordinary citizen and don't want to get involved with the imperial army."

The old man said this and turned away.

Before he had taken two steps, he saw Ding Qiao running towards him hurriedly from the opposite side.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute! Old man, where did you get this sword?"

The old man looked at Ding Qiao holding the sword in his hand and said to himself, "This is bad."

Xiao Huaian stared at the sword in Ding Qiao's hand and frowned slightly.

"What kind of sword is this? Where did you get it from?"

Ding Qiao changed the direction of the sword in his hand and handed the handle of the sword to Xiao Huaian, "General Xiao, please look."

Xiao Huaian took it and pulled the sword out of the scabbard.

There was a flash of rainbow light, and the sharp sword blade shone with a strange light.

"Drink blood!"

Xiao Huaian blurted out.

The Bloodthirster is the master's sword, and he never leaves it for decades.

Ding Qiao said, "This is Master's sword. Master must be in the city. Old man, where did you get the sword? Have you seen the owner of the sword?"

Xiao Huaian and the old man sighed at the same time when they heard Ding Qiao's words.

The old man sighed and said to Ding Qiao, "How could it be such a coincidence that she discovered him at this moment?"

Xiao Huaian sighed that Ding Qiao's eyesight was not good. Her master was right in front of her, but she couldn't recognize him.

"Take a good look at who the old man you are talking about is!"

Xiao Huaian said.

Ding Qiao looked the old man up and down again and again, making the old man's hair stand on end.

"Don't look at me, I'm really not the person you're looking for!"

The old man was about to run away, but Ding Qiao grabbed his wrist and pulled him back.

"Master, is that you? It really is you, old man!"

Ding Qiao's eyes were red.

"When I first saw you, I felt that you looked familiar, but I never thought that you could be my master."

Ding Qiao still found this matter a little unbelievable.

"I said I'm not!"

The old man shook his wrists hard, trying to escape.

But Ding Qiao neither let go nor listened to what he said, and continued to talk on her own: "My master is obviously a martial arts master, but you don't have any internal strength at all."

The old man was really helpless, and said in a pleading tone: "That's why I said you recognized the wrong person, girl!"

"Master." Ding Qiao suddenly raised her voice: "How did you become like this? How can I recognize you like this?"

After saying that, she began to sob.

The old man's wrist was held very tightly, and he couldn't shake it off. Seeing Ding Qiao crying so sadly, the old man tapped her forehead twice: "You are so old, why are you still crying so ugly!"

Tap twice gently on the forehead, which was the gesture that the master used to teach Ding Qiao a lesson when she cried.

It is said to be a lesson, but in fact it contains infinite pampering.

"Master!"

A long-lost yet familiar feeling came over Ding Qiao, who could no longer hold back. She let go of her hands, lay in the old man's arms and cried even louder.

Xiao Huaian clasped his hands together, bent down and was reluctant to stand up:

"Master, I am an unfilial disciple and have made you suffer over the years!"

The old man knew he could no longer hide it, and looked at his two apprentices helplessly: "You two, why are you still the same as before, one so stubborn, and the other crying at the slightest provocation."

"I didn't!"

Ding Qiao wiped her eyes and showed a little childishness, "I'm just so happy to see Master!"

"Ding Qiao is much more mature now than before."

Xiao Huaian also explained for her.

"Ok!"

The old man looked at him and said, "I think you are not much worse. You are much thicker-skinned now than before, which is a good thing."

Speaking of being thick-skinned, Xiao Huaian suddenly looked embarrassed and secretly glanced at Ye Xinran.

Ye Xinran was completely unaware.

She was still in shock.

Who would have thought that this old man he met by chance was actually Xiao Huaian’s master?

What did she say to this master before? She praised Xiao Huaian to the sky and earth, but

The person opposite is actually more familiar with Xiao Huaian than himself?

What was Master thinking at that moment?

I don’t dare to think about it, I really don’t dare to think about it.

Ye Xinran suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"Master, you must come with us!"

Ding Qiao said firmly.

"Let's go!"

The old man said helplessly, "Even if you leave, you have to pack up your things before leaving, right? I have collected a lot of good things in Xueyue City over the years."

"There's no rush to clean up now."

Xiao Huaian said: "We will stay in the city for a few more days, and leave after everything is settled here."

"Then you guys can just stay at my place first!" said the old man. "I have everything there anyway. It's a little shabby, but you can still use it as it is."

"Okay, then you guys go ahead, I'll go see King Rui first."

Xiao Huaian patted Ye Xinran's hand and said.

Ye Xinran nodded, and after Xiao Huaian left, the embarrassment in her heart rose little by little.

"Master, considering his age, I don't think he would embarrass me."

She comforted herself.

As a result, when I looked up, I saw the old man looking at me.

"Master...father," Ye Xinran said with difficulty, "I used to..."

Before she could finish, the old man rushed to ask: "We were strangers before, there are some things you can't say.

Now that you have followed that brat Xiao Huaian and called me Master, can you tell me where you hid the food?"

Ye Xinran: ...

The old man was a little anxious: "You still can't tell me? I'm just curious. I promise I won't tell your secret to anyone else."

"It's not that I don't want to say it, it's just that some things really can't be explained clearly."

Ye Xinran tried to get away with it.

The old man sighed in disappointment: "Ah, I knew you wouldn't tell me.

If I had known this, I shouldn't have accepted these two disciples. It's useless to accept them anyway!"

Ding Qiao opened her eyes wide: "Master?"

The old man looked at her: "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong? Look at yourself, you haven't made any progress in these years. And that Xiao Huaian, I thought his personality had changed just now, but when I looked closely, he was still as cold as ever."

"I finally got an interesting one, but I have so many secrets that I can't tell you anything."

"Master, that's not what you said when you first taught us!"

Ding Qiao was dissatisfied, "You clearly said at the beginning that although it is a piece of rotten wood, it can become a talent if it is carefully carved."

"That was my mistake! Humph!"

The old man walked in front with an arrogant look on his face. Ye Xinran found it very interesting to see him bickering with Ding Qiao.

Just when he was feeling relaxed, the old man suddenly turned around, looked at Ye Xinran and said:

"Although you don't want to tell me your secret, I still like your character. You are bold, thick-skinned, and have your own principles.

This is very good, your master should be very pleased."