Between mountains and seas

Chapter 73 Midnight

The courtyard of the guest house is very quiet at night, so if there is a thump in one of the rooms, it can be heard clearly and loudly.

Huo Qing, who was lying on his side by the bed, opened his eyes, reached out his hand helplessly to turn on the desk lamp, then turned around, and saw Shao Jingxing sitting up from the floor with a dazed expression, still subconsciously reaching out to rub his face— — This time he landed in an incorrect posture, hitting the casters of the bedside table.

"Did you hit it?" Huo Qing also had nothing to say.With Shao Jingxing like this, do you still have to share a bed with him?It was only two o'clock in the morning, they had only slept for more than two hours, and this was the third time Shao Jingxing had rolled to the ground.This is still under the condition that he has been lying on his side all the time, leaving most of the space on the bed for the other party to turn over...

It took Shao Jingxing a long time to realize that he fell down again.The first time he fell to his hip, the second time he fell to his shoulder, this time he hit his face... He was obviously on Huo Qing's back every time, why did he move to the floor after a while?

"I didn't kick you—" Huo Qing saw his eyes, and immediately defended himself, "You turned over yourself..." This bed is not half as big as the one in Shao Jingxing's villa, so it's no wonder that he would fall to the ground when he turned over .

Shao Jingxing got up with a sad face, "I didn't doubt you." He really overestimated himself.The good wish of sharing the same bed did not come true, and instead threw himself miserably.

Huo Qing looked at him helplessly: "Can't you just turn over?"

"No." Shao Jingxing was confident, this was a habit he had developed since he was a child, the bed was so big, how could he increase his utilization rate without turning over a few times during the night?

"Then you just fall." Huo Qing scowled.

Shao Jingxing immediately wept again, and climbed onto the bed with drooping head, like a dog with one ear hanging down.

Huo Qing looked at him like this, and said helplessly, "Won't you lie on your side with your back to me?" In this way, even if you turn over, you will be blocked by him. It is impossible for Shao Jingxing to turn over on his stomach and not wake up, right?

"I don't!" Shao Jingxing immediately refused.It's hard for him to squeeze a bed with Huo Qing, so he doesn't want to turn his back on Huo Qing.

"Then you will fall."

"..." Shao Jingxing drooped his ears again, with a look of despair on his face.

Huo Qing looked at him with a tendency to roll his eyes.But after a while, he still compromised, lay down on his side facing Shao Jingxing, and put his hands on Shao Jingxing's waist: "Go to sleep."

No, this, is this sleeping with your arms around?

Shao Jingxing's heart was bursting with joy, and he was so excited that he lost all sleepiness.Although Huo Qing's hands were placed on him through the thin quilt, he had already ignored the quilt when he rounded it up - this is, hug!Go!sleep!

Since he slept with his arms around him, shouldn't he also hug Huo Qing?Shao Jingxing tried it out and found that even the quilt was fixed by Huo Qing, so of course he wouldn't roll over and roll on the bed, but it was not easy to move around, especially it was not easy to extend his arms out of the quilt and put it on Huo Qing's body.

Of course, it's not impossible if you have to do that, but that would be too deliberate, Huo Qing might kick him out of bed immediately, right?Shao Jingxing thought about it for a long time, but decided to talk: "Then what, Huo Qing, when did you join the special affairs department?"

"." Huo Qing closed his eyes, a little helpless, "Aren't you going to sleep?"

"It hurt so much from touching my face just now, I don't feel sleepy at all." Shao Jingxing continued to open his eyes and talk nonsense.In fact, it was a knock, but it didn't hurt that much. His body is not as good as before, and he probably won't even leave a blue mark when he wakes up tomorrow morning. Where can the pain go?

"You say you, why do you have to suffer this..." Huo Qing also had nothing to do with him.It’s not good to live in Shao’s house, I have to squeeze the single bed in the guest house, “With your turning over method, you will fall if you sleep on a bed alone.” The single bed in the guest house can’t help being turned over twice.

"But don't I have to sleep in this kind of bed in the future? If I don't get used to it now, what should I do in the future?" Shao Jingxing said righteously, but he was secretly happy in his heart.Roll out of bed even if you sleep alone?Then it would be good to sleep with Huo Qing.

What he said was so reasonable, Huo Qing thought about the big bed in his villa, and felt that he really needed to get used to it.In other words, he never fell off the bed when he lived in a private restaurant.

"At that time, how could I have the strength to stand up..." Shao Jingxing was not without resentment.He is trained to collapse every day, and sleeps like a dead dog as soon as he goes to bed. Have you ever seen a dead dog turn over?I can't even get up at night.

Huo Qing dumbfounded: "Is it that miserable?" His training volume has already been halved, not to mention that Shao Jingxing's movements are basically not up to standard.

"How can I compare with you?" Shao Jingxing said confidently, "Your power level must be much, much higher than mine." If he wears underwear outside, then Huo Qing wears at least ten pairs of underwear, how can he be the same?

Huo Qing really had nothing to say about his comparison: "It seems that you still need to train after you go back, otherwise you will fall every night, which is too pitiful."

Wouldn't it be more pitiful to be trained as a dead dog?Shao Jingxing thought for a while, and decided not to discuss this issue: "I don't know when Qiu Yizhu will be able to find out about Yuan Fei, and about Zheng Yingying - I heard that she hasn't shown up since the car accident, and there is no news about her, is it because The matter of the Wang family, so I hide to avoid suspicion? Hey, why did I forget, let Lao Shao ask!" Shao Zhongyan has a good relationship with Wang's eldest son?Who can know better than Wang's eldest son about his fiancée?

"It's three o'clock now..." Seeing Shao Jingxing reach out to touch his phone, Huo Qing couldn't help sighing for Shao Zhongyan.

"Never mind him." Anyway, he couldn't sleep.

One can imagine how Shao Zhongyan felt when he was woken up at three o'clock in the middle of the night.He wished he could follow the sound and crawl to the phone, drag Shao Jingxing out and beat him up.But Shao Jingxing choked him with one sentence: "Don't you want me to visit Mr. Wang? I can take Huo Qing with me. How about it?"

What else?Of course he agreed.Shao Zhongyan twisted his facial muscles twice, and finally agreed: "I see, that's it." Then he hung up the phone immediately - if he didn't hang up again, he was afraid that he really wanted to strangle his nephew to death.

"How is it?" Shao Jingxing complacently put his phone back on the bedside table, got back under the covers, and showed his gratitude to Huo Qing.

"Will the Wang family talk about this kind of thing?"

"Don't worry." On this point, Shao Jingxing really doesn't doubt Shao Zhongyan, "My second uncle has nothing to say on this point. Besides, he is quite tight-lipped, and he won't spread the word easily. Get out." So next time someone might tell him.

Huo Qing wanted to say something, but in the end he only sighed to Shao Zhongyan and changed the subject: "Do you doubt Tang Jia and Zheng Yingying?"

"Zheng Yingying is a piggyback, but she is famous, so it must be easier to check. Tang Jia——if you have known her before, you will know that her voice is really...well, that kind of change, like a reborn, It's like the feeling of jade being carved and polished into a fine product. Anyway, I think that no matter how scientific the training is, it can't change that much? And not only does she have a nice voice, but she also has a kind of..."

His meager vocabulary is in a hurry again: "I can't think of how to describe it, but anyway, listening to her, it's as if a hand is moving back and forth in your heart..."

"Strike the heartstrings..." Huo Qing murmured, "It's so amazing..."

"I'll find out if I take you to meet her." Thinking of this, Shao Jingxing wanted to get up again, "There should be someone who can know about her." Among his cronies, he must be able to find out.

Huo Qing tightened his arms helplessly, and wrapped him in his arms: "Don't worry about it, call tomorrow." Doesn't his friend need to sleep in the middle of the night?

"At this time, they probably haven't slept yet..." Shao Jingxing muttered.But when Huo Qing hugged him lightly, the breath on his body also surrounded him.In this case, let the fox friends and dog friends sleep well for a night, and there will be time to find them tomorrow...

Of course, it would not be very comfortable to be imprisoned to sleep. Shao Jingxing dreamed that he was entangled by a hooked snake. He wanted to hit a fireball but couldn't do it, so he desperately tried his best As soon as he struggled, he also woke up when the hooked snake let go.

It was already dawn, and Huo Qing was not on the bed, only he was wrapped in the quilt, and a pillow was placed behind him, probably to prevent him from rolling out of bed with the quilt.

That's it, he also wrapped the quilt around himself, no wonder he dreamed of hooked snakes.

The result of tossing around midnight yesterday is that I didn't get enough sleep.After Shao Jingxing finished washing with a yawn, Huo Qing came in covered in thin sweat. Obviously, he had already finished his morning exercises: "Are you up? Go have breakfast."

"Oh——" Shao Jingxing felt guilty, "Why didn't you call me?" He also vowed to resume training.

Huo Qing glanced at him and went into the bathroom: "Let's start after returning to Linghai." Call him in the morning?That must be impossible to call.

When the two of them went down to the restaurant on the first floor, Shao Jingxing felt even more guilty.There were seven or eight people in the dining room, most of whom looked like they had just taken a shower, obviously they were morning trainees, even the only lady was no exception, and the only one who was yawning and looking lazy was He's alone.

"Call me tomorrow morning..." Shao Jingxing whispered to Huo Qing in despair.This kind of restaurant is full of top students, and it doesn't feel good to be the only one.Especially when Huo Qing took him, it seemed that he also lowered his score.No, he, he also wants to be a top student!

Huo Qing smiled slightly: "Okay." Knowing that making progress is a good thing, people's subjective initiative is very strong.

After dinner, the two went to the laboratory of the special affairs department.

This place is in the small building of the headquarters, and the person in charge is a young girl. Huo Qing introduced to Shao Jingxing: "This is Xiao Chu, Chu Xinling, the laboratory technician."

Chu Xinling's attitude towards the two handsome guys was very good: "I still need to test the Yangyan Pill? It just so happens that there is nothing to do today, and the machine is empty. Wait, the results will be available soon."

"I want to test whether this is the same composition as the last pill. It may be—"

"Fake?" Chu Xinling, as a laboratory technician, is actually an ordinary person, so according to the regulations of the special affairs department, she does not ask about the specific case, as long as the procedures are up to standard, she can do whatever inspection is required.

Shao Jingxing looked at this laboratory. Although it was not a big place, there were quite a lot of instruments. It felt like a small sparrow with all internal organs.While dissolving and sampling the pills they brought, Chu Xinling couldn't help but look at Shao Jingxing curiously: "Did you treat that piece of beast meat with supernatural powers last time? It's amazing..."

Although he acted according to the regulations, curiosity was always inevitable, especially Shao Jingxing's ability was so special that no one in the logistics department knew about it.Chu Xinling did the laboratory test on the piece of stolen animal meat last time.Of course, the last half of the piece was eaten by Deputy Section Chief Yan, to test for himself whether he really lost the ability to make people lie.

"I roasted it." Shao Jingxing automatically understood that it was a compliment for his delicious cooking, "Actually, the meat is delicious, and I didn't add much seasoning."

Huo Qing really wanted to press his forehead, but Chu Xinling's reaction was that she agreed: "It's really very fragrant. It was a bit dry when I got it, but it's still very fragrant. It's better than the beef and fish meat before." It’s much more delicious—that kind of thing, no matter how pickled it is, it’s unpalatable!”

Shao Jingxing suddenly remembered the jerky that Huo Qing had given him, and immediately showed a sympathetic expression: "Yes, yes, it is a dark dish! I have never eaten such an unpalatable jerky! Hooked snake meat is delicious too much."

"Can you also handle hooked snake meat?" Chu Xinling was greatly surprised, "That is poisonous!" She had tested it, and of course she knew the poison.This is not exactly the same as the ability of the black beast.

"It doesn't matter what kind of meat it is, it doesn't matter if you burn it with fire!" Shao Jingxing said proudly, "If you don't believe me, ask Huo Qing, the hooked snake meat is also delicious when grilled! The meat of the wild animal has a strong fragrance, and the hooked snake meat has a delicate fragrance type, and will not be roasted, especially fresh and tender!"

"Wow!" Chu Xinling looked at Huo Qing.Huo Qing could only nod his head against the stares of the two foodies.

"There's also duck meat that's also good." Shao Jingxing continued to brag, although he actually only ate the buttocks, but it didn't prevent him from describing it, "Make it into a beggar's chicken, smash the mud-oh, it's better than ordinary meat The grilled chicken is delicious!"

Chu Xinling's eyes were already shining: "It sounds like you can make a mountain and sea feast..."

"A feast of mountains and seas!" Shao Jingxing became regretful as he spoke, "Hey, it's a pity for the roe owl last time, it should be good to make a whole roasted lamb, right? And haggis soup..."

Is this because I forgot how scared the roe owl was when I saw it last time?Huo Qing said unhurriedly: "It doesn't matter. When you enter the world of mountains and seas in the future, sometimes you will show your skills. I heard that roasted spiders, mixed earthworms, and ant eggs are also delicious."

Shao Jingxing and Chu Xinling shivered at the same time.Chu Xinling's expression was distorted: "I was traveling in Yunnan last time, and I saw the grilled spiders they sold. It was so scary, I didn't want to eat them at all!" Even if you are a foodie, there are things you don't want to eat!As for what is mixed with earthworm and ant eggs, I don't even want to eat it!

Shao Jingxing smiled dryly: "I don't want to eat, I don't want to eat." Whether it's mountain spiders, earth dragons or red ants, he doesn't want to eat them!

After discussing the food, time passed quickly, and the laboratory tester soon beeped, Chu Xinling hurried to the computer and fiddled with it for a long time, and finally typed out a test report: "The ingredients are exactly the same. "

"Exactly the same?" Huo Qing frowned slightly, "But the effect is definitely different."

"This..." Chu Xinling scratched her hair, "It's like this, the instrument can only analyze the ingredients, for example, there are xuncao in the two pills, and the dosage is the same. But... of course I am an ordinary person, I don’t understand some things, but I heard from Aunt Yan that when she tasted those things before, sometimes even though they were the same thing, the taste was not exactly the same because of different origins or different growth years. This instrument is Can't be measured."

Huo Qing's eyes flashed: "Thank you."

Walking out of the laboratory, Shao Jingxing couldn't wait to ask Huo Qing: "Does it mean that the xuncao used here is different?"

"It's possible." Huo Qing pondered, "Because the raw materials of xuncao are different, the finished products have different effects, which limits the amount used. Moreover, the sales method and sales channel have been changed..."

"But Xuncao only grows in Qingyao Mountain, right?" Shao Jingxing really looked at the app carefully yesterday, "Could it be that things that grow on the same mountain are different? Or do they grow in other places besides Qingyao Mountain?" Xun Cao?"

Huo Qing was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "For large quantities and stable sales, there must be a stable source of supply. If it is collected from the world of mountains and seas, unless they have a fixed door, otherwise they cannot guarantee the output. The only The only way to guarantee the yield... is artificial planting."

"It can also be artificially planted?" Shao Jingxing was dumbfounded, "But, but it seems to be..." Planting is a good way to ensure supply. Humans have finally turned from fishing and hunting to planting for a living, isn't it because planting can ensure a more stable life? Is it a food source?

"There is always a way." Huo Qing said lightly, "It's just that planting is definitely not an easy task, and it should also require the power of mountains and seas, otherwise Xuncao will be ineffective. In other words, either they are in the world of mountains and seas Plant directly in the ground, or plant near a barrier crack."

"If you want to plant in the world of mountains and seas, you still need to fix the door?" Planting next to the crack is much easier to operate.But anyway, it's still amazing to think that someone is planting xuncao in large quantities?If Xuncao can be grown, can other things be grown?And those living creatures and beasts, can they be raised?

"It's difficult." Even the production of harmless beauty pills is not particularly high, and the ingredients in each pill are pitifully small, which shows that even artificial cultivation is not enough to supply unlimited supply.

"The point is that if there is such a crack, it must have existed for many years, which is very dangerous! The power of mountains and seas will erode the crack, and small cracks will expand, and if it expands to a certain limit, it may collapse!"

From this point of view, fortunately, this kind of pill with side effects entered the market. Although some people died because of it, it also attracted attention.Otherwise, the gentle beauty pills would be sold so calmly, and it might not be discovered until ten years or even decades later. During this period, the crack will be continuously eroded, and who knows when it will get out of control !

"It has to be found!"