In fact, as early as when he saw the two people outside the door of the small courtyard from a distance, Shang Xia had already judged the strength of these two people.
That age was about twenty, and his martial arts cultivation was about the same as Hai Min's, and they were all martial arts realms.
The other thirty-year-old warrior obviously condensed the will of martial arts, but his cultivation was not as good as Shang Xia's, and he was only the first level of martial arts.
Naturally, the two of them didn't know that their cultivation had already been seen through, but they still looked up and down with a scrutinizing gaze as Shang Xia approached him.
Shang Xia didn't care about the eyes of the two, just looked at Hai Min with a smile and said, "My mother's family is here, won't you introduce me to me?"
Haimin's face turned red when he heard this, but he still said softly, "This is Uncle Cen, this is Brother Huang Jiu."
Shang Xia smiled and raised the grouse in his hand, looked at the two of them and said, "It turns out to be the fifth uncle and the ninth brother, it's rare for the two of them to come, and they happened to hunt game, so it's better to stay for dinner!"
The slightly older Uncle Cen Wu smiled when he heard this, "Dinner is not necessary, the thirteenth sister likes peace, since she is willing to stay here, please be kind to her!"
Shang Xia smiled and said, "Of course!"
Uncle Cen Wu nodded, then looked at Brother Huang Jiu beside him and said, "Let's go!"
When he walked to Shang Xia, he whispered, "If you can't take care of their mother and daughter, hum ......"
"Old Nine!"
Uncle Cen's voice came from the front, and there was an undoubted point in his low voice, "Keep up!"
Brother Huang Jiu glanced at Shang Xia fiercely, turned his head and chased in the direction where Uncle Cen Wu left.
From beginning to end, Shang Xia had a smile on his face, looking like he welcomed the two of them to his home.
At this time, Uncle Cen's voice came again, "If you have any difficulties, you can come to everyone for help, you know how to find everyone!"
Shang Xia's eyes swept over Hai Min's body and noticed the slightly complicated expression on her face.
Watching the two disappear into the street corner, Shang Xia turned his head and smiled, "Go back, it's getting late!"
Haimin said "oh" and got out of the way of the door in the way with some uncomfort.
It happened that at this time, Hai Yuanyuan rushed over from the small courtyard, and when he saw Shang Xia, he jumped up even more happily, pointing to the cloth tiger under his armpit and said, "I want that, I want that!"
Shang Xia smiled and handed the cloth tiger to the little girl, while handing the two silver dollars in his pocket to Hai Min, and said with a little pride, "Hey, I beat a roe deer today, and I exchanged it for two silver dollars!"
Hai Min hesitated for a while whether to take the silver dollar from his hand, which showed Shang Xia's expectant smile, she finally reached out and took the silver dollar, and said with a smile, "This money is enough for a long time, you don't have to go into the mountains every day, the snow is too dangerous!"
Shang Xia took off the longbow on his shoulder as if he were showing off, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, with this bow, even if you encounter a big insect, you won't be afraid!"
Haimin was amused by his deliberate show off as if he was playing a treasure, and couldn't help but say, "Look at what you can do!"
After saying that, she suddenly realized that this sentence was more like a term between husband and wife, and her face was a little hot for a while, and she didn't dare to look at Shang Xia with her eyes.
Shang Xia didn't seem to notice the change in her expression, so he went straight to the courtyard and said, "You boil a pot of hot water, I'll fix this grouse, and you can eat chicken at night."
Saying that, Shang Xia had already come to the middle of the small courtyard, took out an oil-paper bag from his arms, and shook in front of Hai Yuanyuan, who was playing with a cloth tiger, "Good girl, look what this is?"
"Sesame candy!"
Hai Yuanyuan's big eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly snatched the paper bag and took out one and stuffed it into his mouth.
Saying that, the little girl took another one from the paper bag and handed it to Shang Xia, saying, "Uncle, eat it too!"
As soon as Shang Xia took it, the little girl had already run from him to Hai Min, handed her another sesame candy and said, "Mother, uncle bought me candy, you can eat it too!"
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On the eaves of a house not far from the small courtyard, Uncle Cen Wu and Brother Huang Jiu, who had already left, actually appeared here at some point, and were looking at the sea Yuanyuan with a cheerful and crazy face in the small courtyard, and the laughter like a silver bell could still be heard clearly even if it was dozens of feet away from the two of them at this time.
"Let's go!"
After a faint sigh, there was no trace of the two of them on the eaves.
However, what these two didn't know was that shortly after they left, in the corner of the small courtyard, Shang Xia, who had just bleded the grouse and was about to pour water to pluck the 'hair', inadvertently glanced at the diagonal top of the small courtyard, and then handed over one of the most beautiful feathers 'hair' plucked from the grouse to Hai Yuanyuan to play.
On the way back to the inn, Uncle Cen Wu suddenly asked, "Can you give Thirteen that kind of life? Are you willing to live like that?"
Brother Huang Jiu's face was flushed, and he couldn't help but say, "We are ......, coming and going without a trace, wantonly high-spirited, that is our life."
Uncle Cen Wu sighed and said, "That's the life we live, but it may not be the life that everyone wants and wants!"
Brother Huang Jiu was stunned in his heart, and his eyes looked at the people around him suspiciously, "Uncle Fif?"
Uncle Cen Wu waved his hand, his expression seemed to be a little lonely, "Let's go, go join the others first, and we still have to find a way to rescue the third child now!"
Brother Huang Jiu said unwillingly: "Even so, can she still die without help? That's her ......"
Uncle Cen Wu took out a corner of something from his cuff and said, "Do you know why I asked for this quiet cloak from her?"
Without waiting for Brother Huang Jiu to answer, Uncle Cen Wu continued, "If I'm not mistaken, Thirteen's original plan was to use this cloak to save people."
Brother Huang Jiu was stunned and lost his voice, "Isn't that looking for death? She is only a martial artist, how can she save people from Yang Hu's hands?"
After that, Brother Huang Jiu saw Uncle Cen's sighing expression, and his expression changed, "You want to take the cloak from her hand to prevent her from taking risks? But she would rather save people herself than trust her brothers?"
After saying this, Uncle Cen Wu sighed and said no more.
The two walked silently on the street back to the inn, and after a while, Brother Huang Jiu said, "Uncle Fifth, is there anyone among us who is unwilling to save the third child?"
"More than that!"
Uncle Cen Wu said a word that made Brother Huang Jiu a little stunned.
"Fifth Uncle, what do you mean more than that?"
Brother Huang Jiu faintly had some not-so-good guesses.
Uncle Cen Wu was silent for a moment, until Brother Huang Jiu couldn't help but speak again, and then he said, "Yang Hu is actually secretly recruiting me and others, this time the third child was detained in Changfeng City, it may be a game, and the third child is a bait!"
Brother Huang Jiu's face changed, and he said, "So, the thirteenth sister doesn't believe in her own people? Does she suspect that the third child was detained and framed by her own people?"
Uncle Cen Wu didn't raise his head and said: "Only we know about the third child going north."
Huang Jiu Ge retorted: "That's not necessarily us. Changfeng City is Yang Hu's territory, he has deep roots here, wouldn't the third child be exposed to his whereabouts and then captured by Yang Hu?"
Uncle Cen Wu shook his head slightly, unwilling to argue with Brother Huang Jiu on this issue anymore.
Brother Huang Jiu thought of something at this time, and suddenly said, "Uncle Fifth, I heard that there are actually people behind our Eighteen Riders, why don't you let those people come forward?"
Uncle Cen Wu's face changed when he heard this, and after a long time, he said complicatedly, "They seem to be too busy taking care of themselves, otherwise, what can Yang Hu do? In fact, I have always suspected that the reason why Yang Hu dared to plot against our Eighteen Riders was because he knew this reason."
Brother Huang Jiu suddenly said: "That's why the thirteenth sister suspects that someone among her people has secretly colluded with Changfeng City?"
Uncle Cen Wu glanced at him and said, "Eighteen cavalrymen have been crisscrossing Jizhou for many years, if they don't have a backer, they will be surrounded and suppressed by the Jizhou family in an instant!"
Brother Huang Jiu sneered, "Even if we are abandoned, can Yang Hu and his Changfeng City protect us, does he have this ability?"
Uncle Cen Wu was silent for a moment before slowly saying, "At least, he is from Youzhou!"
Brother Huang Jiu was startled when he heard this, as if he suddenly understood something.
Although he grew up in Jizhou, his parents and grandfathers seemed to have come from Youzhou decades ago.
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Tongyoucheng Merchant Mansion
More than a month ago, Duan Hong, a craftsman enshrined by the Shang family, finally forged a low-grade sharp weapon.
After the merchant had his own master craftsman, the gap between the merchant and the other three major families in Tongyou City had been further smoothed out.
However, after the successful forging of this sharp spear, Shang Xia, who should have belonged to it, disappeared after being attacked in the Chiba Mountains.
For more than a month, although the merchants still haven't given up searching, because there has been no news, and now the entire merchants, and even the entire Tongyou City, have been focused on the return of the Coral Forest Mysterious Realm, and Shang Xia's search has become more and more unconcerned.
Now only Yan Qi is left to '' this matter.
Although Shang Xi asked him to report the search results to her every day, in fact, Shang Xi himself was too busy now, and Yan Qi's daily reports could only add to her troubles when her search was fruitless.
Some of Yan Qi's surprises were that Shang Jian would come to ask a few questions every few days, sometimes discuss with him where Shang Xia might be hiding, and occasionally make some suggestions.
Whether these suggestions are reliable or not is another way, Yan Qi can feel that Shang Xia, the second uncle, cares about Shang Xia from the bottom of his heart.
This actually made Yan Qi a little impressed by this person, at least it was much more pleasing to the eye than Shang Xia's ninth uncle who had always coveted the inferior sharp spear.
However, in the evening of this day, Yan Qi suddenly discovered that Yan Nier and her four little birds, who had returned to their nests at a fixed time in the past, did not come back until dusk fell.
Just when Yan Qi's heart was gloomy and he was about to report this to Shang Xi, a silver lightning bolt suddenly crossed the sky over the Shang Mansion, and Yan Ni'er came back!