“Let’s go, let’s go~~~~”
Xiang Yuanyuan raised her hand and gestured forward. It was obvious that she couldn't wait.
"Okay, okay, let's go now. You stay at the back and don't scratch the seat."
Du Ruo patted the clouded leopard lying on him, then prepared to start riding his bike.
"Come here first and behave yourself, or I'll put you in my bag."
Xiang Yuanyuan smiled and held the clouded leopard in her arms. Xiang Yuanyuan, who had been pregnant for more than a month, had no symptoms of pregnancy at all, except for a bad temper.
"If you feel uncomfortable, tell me and we can find a service area to rest."
Du Ruo drove the car very steadily.
"Yeah, husband, eat dried fish."
Xiang Yuanyuan nodded repeatedly, then took out a processed dried fish from the small bag and let Du Ruo take a bite before she started eating it in small bites.
Along the way, Xiang Yuanyuan didn't say where she felt uncomfortable, but she never stopped eating. She ate dried fish, fruits, drinks, and even a tomato that she took out from somewhere.
Hmm...it seems that Xiang Yuanyuan's appetite has improved a lot after she became pregnant.
"The chicken soup my mom made tastes pretty good. I see you're quite resistant to it."
When the car was about to arrive, they happened to be talking about these things, and Du Ruo couldn't help but ask a question.
"Even if it tastes good, you can't eat too much. And chicken soup is for drinking. Every time I pour a little soup into a bowl of chicken, I get fat."
Xiang Yuanyuan took out another piece of dried beef and ate it while tearing it apart. When she talked about gaining weight, she looked down at her figure.
“…Are you sure you got fat because of the chicken soup???”
Du Ruo glanced at Xiang Yuanyuan who was eating happily, and felt a little amused.
"You're not fat. Didn't you go to the hospital for a pregnancy checkup last time? You're doing fine now. It's almost time. Should we go directly to Qi's house or office?"
Du Ruo quickly changed the subject. There was never a definitive conclusion when discussing fat with women.
Some people think that they are just slightly fat at 145 or 175 pounds, but Xiang Yuanyuan thinks that she is too fat to be presentable at 172 or 115 pounds, and she exercises all year round.
"Just go to her house. She doesn't have much to do lately."
At this time, Xiang Yuanyuan stopped eating, cleaned up the garbage, and caught the clouded leopard that had begun to become restless.
Du Ruo drove and soon arrived downstairs of Li Qiyao's apartment.
"Hi~ Qiqi~"
Before getting out of the car, she saw Li Qiyao standing at the entrance of the community waiting for her. Xiang Yuanyuan quickly rolled down the window and waved happily.
"I've said hello, just drive in and go directly to the underground parking lot."
Li Qiyao opened the car door, got in, and gave Du Ruo directions.
"Wow~ This is the clouded leopard. Its tail is so long."
After parking the car, picking up the luggage and getting out, Li Qiyao noticed the clouded leopard that Xiang Yuanyuan was holding. Her eyes lit up immediately, and she wanted to touch the clouded leopard's slender tail.
"Meow!!!"
But the clouded leopard would not let strangers touch it casually. When it saw Li Qiyao reaching out her hand, it became alert, bared its teeth and made threatening sounds. It was no longer lazy and began to hunch its body.
"Hey, you can't touch it. It's not very friendly to strangers."
Xiang Yuanyuan did not go to the fierce clouded leopard this time. She asked Du Ruo whether the clouded leopard should be less wary of humans, but Du Ruo rejected it. No matter what the future holds, let's keep some wildness for now.
"Ok."
Li Qiyao looked at it a few more times, and finally felt a little unwilling.
"Come, husband, hold him. This little guy is so heavy now."
While the elevator was still going up, Xiang Yuanyuan stuffed the clouded leopard into Du Ruo's arms.
The clouded leopard is not small, about eight months old, with a body length of nearly 60 centimeters and a tail as long as that. It weighs more than 16 or 17 kilograms, so it is still very difficult to hold it for a long time.
When we arrived at Li Qiyao's apartment, her house was still the same as before, with not much change, except for a few more bouquets of flowers and a cat bed on the windowsill.
At this time, two cats, one black and one white, were lying lazily in the cat's nest. When they saw the three people enter the room, they just looked up but had no intention of getting up.
"Meow~~"
However, the clouded leopard in Du Ruo's hand was very interested in the two cats. After calling out to someone, it slipped out of Du Ruo's hand.
"That's not prey, you know?"
As soon as the clouded leopard landed, Du Ruo said that Li Qiyao seemed to like her black and white cats very much. They were here as guests, so they couldn't let the clouded leopard kill the two cats.
After a while, Li Qiyao and Xiang Yuanyuan brought out the dishes from the kitchen. Du Ruo was drinking wine, while Xiang Yuanyuan and Li Qiyao were chatting.
At the cat's nest, the clouded leopard has occupied the cat's nest of two cats. It is wagging its tail and lying in a very comfortable posture.
The white cat squatted beside the clouded leopard and licked its fur, while the black cat put its front legs on the clouded leopard, looking like two lackeys serving their boss.
When women get together, they have endless topics to talk about. It’s okay at the beginning, but at the end, they can talk about anything.
"You guys chat, I'll go to my room to sort out some information."
After listening for a while, Du Ruo felt bored and walked towards the room.
Du Ruo arrived at the room, took out paper and pen from his luggage and started writing.
What was written was naturally the information promised to Fox about going to the United States.
But Du Ruo wrote very quickly and finished it in almost half an hour.
After finishing writing, Du Ruo put the papers aside, then looked at the paper and pen in a daze, but his mind was focused on the panel in his mind.
The spirit, energy and vitality on the panel can still be increased by points every once in a while, but this is no longer important. The points required for adding points are increasing. The growth of the three is no longer so important for Du Ruo, who has transformed three times, and the bonus is not that much.
And beneath the spirit, there are a variety of skills densely packed together.
Each skill represents a type of martial arts. Almost all existing or extinct traditional martial arts can be found on Du Ruo's panel.
Fists, kicks, weapons, hidden weapons, mental techniques, and martial arts are all here. It is not an exaggeration to call it an encyclopedia of martial arts.
Under the skills are "Three Flowers" and "Five Qis". Du Ruo's attention is now on these two.
Looking at the progress bars of both of them, which had already reached 98%, Du Ruo's mind was filled with thoughts. He thought about what might happen in the future, the current situation, Xiang Yuanyuan and the unborn child, his parents, and his friends...
Finally, Du Ruo took the pen in his hand and wrote two big characters "Xingyi" on the paper, and then began to write various things and draw pictures.
Du Ruo decided to sort out all the skills in his mind first. The skills in Du Ruo's mind were all completely inherited. Du Ruo didn't know what the future would be like, but he still planned to leave some things behind.
Of course, the skills that Du Ruo intended to record were only up to level three, and at most they could be practiced to the level of Zhang Aimin or the old lama in the past.
As for the rest, he hasn't decided whether to keep it on paper.
Du Ruo's writing and drawing are now completely different from before. With his current control over his body, he can write in any font he wants and draw any picture he wants, and he can make it look just like printed.
But if you want to tell him about the artistic conception of calligraphy, forget it.
Du Ruo wrote very quickly, almost without any hesitation. Slowly, Du Ruo was completely immersed in it.
By organizing these martial arts, Du Ruo is also reviewing the old and learning the new, which is not boring at all.
"Huh~ I've finished writing a book. It seems like it's really a big project."
Du Ruo looked at the A4 paper in his hand. This was just a compilation of Xingyi related skills. There were many more such skills on Du Ruo's panel.
Du Ruo put "Xingyi" aside, thought about it, and knew that the time should be eleven o'clock in the evening. This can be regarded as a kind of application of "God". He can know the time without looking at the watch, and can sense the weather without looking at the sky.
It is the natural knowing.
Du Ruo put down the pen in his hand, pushed the door and went to the living room. The lights in the living room were off, but six green lights were on under the windowsill.
"Meow~"
The clouded leopard barked, ran to Du Ruo's feet and lay down, revealing its round belly, and wrapped its long tail around Du Ruo's calves.
"Be good~ You play with the two kittens first."
Du Ruo squatted down, touched the clouded leopard's belly, and then pushed open the door next to him.
The room was pitch black and the air conditioner was blowing cold air, but it had no effect on Du Ruo. He glanced at the bed and saw Xiang Yuanyuan and Li Qiyao wearing cool pajamas.
Moreover, Xiang Yuanyuan was not sleeping soundly. She put one hand on Li Qiyao's chest and one leg on Li Qiyao's body, and she was sleeping very soundly.
"Whoo~"
Du Ruo waved her hand, and a thin air-conditioning blanket was placed over their stomachs.
After doing all this, Du Ruo did not stay long and retreated quietly.
Then he returned to the study and continued to write with pen and paper. This time he wrote "Tai Chi".
"Click, click, click~" Du Ruo was writing quickly when he heard a scratching sound outside the door.
Du Ruo was still writing when the door opened automatically. The clouded leopard squeezed in through the crack in the door, then jumped onto the table and circled in front of Du Ruo.
The time of concentration passes the fastest. Du Ruo was in a good mood and kept writing, and he wrote faster and faster. Even the clouded leopard that was originally moving around fell asleep on Du Ruo's legs, but Du Ruo did not stop at all.
Until the sky outside the window turned pale and footsteps were heard outside the house.
"Hubby, you didn't sleep last night. What do you want for breakfast? Li Qiyao and I will go downstairs to buy it."
Xiang Yuanyuan opened the door and saw Du Ruo still writing furiously. There was a bottle full of A4 papers filled with written words, so she asked Du Ruo about it.
As for the fact that Du Ruo had not slept, she just asked a simple question and did not show much concern. Du Ruo had not slept for a long time before, and not sleeping for one night at Du Ruo's place was not considered staying up late.
"I still have some finishing touches. Let's have porridge and fried dough sticks for breakfast."
Du Ruo did not stop writing, but looked up and smiled at Xiang Yuanyuan.
"Okay~ Kiss~~"
Xiang Yuanyuan came over, hugged Du Ruo's neck, kissed her, and then closed the door again.
When the two came back, Du Ruo was no longer in the study, because the remaining half stack of A4 paper next to Li Qiyao's study had been written by Du Ruo.
Xiang Yuanyuan didn't ask Du Ruo what he wrote. After breakfast, the three of them went out directly. The main reason they came here this time was because Du Ruo still hadn't forgotten it.
When they went out today, the three of them were dressed rather plainly. This time Du Ruo was driving, heading towards the hillside that they had been to several times.
Du Ruo didn't need navigation or anything like that. Once you've been there, you'll basically never forget it. Today, Xiang Yuanyuan and Li Qiyao were relatively quiet. They chatted in low voices occasionally, and then he would stroke the clouded leopard lying on Xiang Yuanyuan's legs.
The clouded leopard still refused to let Li Qiyao touch it, but its tail kept wagging in front of Li Qiyao.
After more than 40 minutes' drive, the vehicle arrived at the foot of the mountain. At this time, a fox could be seen standing next to a car waiting. As soon as the car stopped, the first to get off was the clouded leopard. Being back in the wild, it was particularly happy and ran around everywhere.
The three of them ignored it and let it move freely.
"Mr. Du, everything is ready. Shall we go up now?"
The fox stood straight, and was dressed in black. It was not the heroic and dashing look he had before, but a rare and capable outfit.
"Well, thank you for your hard work. Let's go up now."
Du Ruo nodded, then took Xiang Yuanyuan and Li Qiyao up the mountain.
The mountain is still the same mountain. As you walk along, you can still see some flowers blooming here and there, and the mound on the mountainside is still the same mound.
There was just a new mound of earth next to it, and a shed was built next to it. There was a table under the shed, and the urn on the table was somewhat eye-catching.
Du Ruo glanced at the mound of earth surrounded by wild flowers. The surroundings had been cleaned up and there was a bouquet of flowers in front of the tombstone, but the flowers must have been there for two days and looked a little wilted.
"We didn't put these flowers there. We checked the source and found that they were sold by a flower shop in town. The buyer was a middle-aged man, but he was not caught on camera."
The fox saw Du Ruo looking over and spoke.
"Well, let's not talk about this for now, let's deal with this first."
Du Ruo nodded, retracted his gaze, then walked to the urn and took a look. There was not even a photo on it.
Xiang Yuanyuan and Li Qiyao stood behind Du Ruo without saying anything. They just waited quietly. The scene was dull.
"Meow~~"
A clouded leopard appeared from nowhere, holding a bird in its mouth. It came to Du Ruo and called out.
"You go eat first, he won't eat."
Xiang Yuanyuan hurried forward and pinched the fur on the clouded leopard's neck in annoyance, while holding the dead bird in her other hand.
"Haha, it's okay. I think Master Zhang should be very happy to be buried here. This is not a sad thing."
Du Ruo laughed, making the atmosphere relaxed again.
Then Du Ruo held the box on the table and walked towards the mound, and finally put the box into the mound through the reserved place behind the tombstone.
Du Ruo doesn't need to worry about it anymore, someone will naturally come to handle it, and all Du Ruo can do is give the other party a ride.
"Mr. Du, do you need some incense?"
The fox stood up from the side, holding three unlit incense sticks in his hand, and asked Du Ruo.
"Ah."
Du Ruo took the three unlit incense sticks from the fox with his left hand, then shook his hand, and the heads of the three incense sticks turned red, and then light smoke came out.
Du Ruo did not perform any kind of worship, but simply inserted three incense sticks in front of the tombstone.
"I'll ask you to help deal with the follow-up."
After doing all this, Du Ruo just took one more look and then said something to the fox.
"OK, all right."
Fox moved her eyes away from the burning incense and nodded at Du Ruo. Knowing that Du Ruo was about to leave, she was not surprised. She stood still, ready to stay and deal with the follow-up.
"Please take us down the mountain first."
Du Ruo said one more sentence, and then without any explanation, he walked first to the parking place at the foot of the mountain, followed by Xiang Yuanyuan and Li Qiyao.
The fox was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything and quickly followed the three people.
"Last time I said I had to hand in some information. I sorted this out yesterday. You can take it back later."
Coming to the car, Du Ruo took out a thick stack of A4 paper from the car, then took out a few sheets and handed them to Fox.
"Ok."
The fox quickly took it without looking at it, but just continued to look at Du Ruo, waiting for Du Ruo's instructions.
"These... you can take them too. Please bind them and send the bound version to me later. I will continue to organize these later. If you are interested, you can continue to bind them for me later."
After thinking about it, Du Ruo handed all the remaining A4 papers in his hand to the fox.
The fox took it in his hand and took a look at it. When he saw the big words "Xingyi" on it, his pupils shrank immediately. He looked around subconsciously, then held the A4 paper to his chest with one hand and made a gesture with the other hand.
She didn't pay much attention to the research materials Du Ruo gave her before, but after seeing the word "Xingyi", she immediately became nervous.
If someone else gave Fox these manuscripts, Fox would definitely look down on them, but these were given by Du Ruo, and this was the first time that Du Ruo had shared knowledge about martial arts.
Although they had many speculations and doubts about Du Ruo's martial arts, they had never asked Du Ruo related questions. Now that Du Ruo took the initiative to give these things, it was a very good signal. No one knew what was inside.
But what is certain is that this is absolutely top secret.
"Don't be so nervous. I've been organizing the martial arts of various schools recently. These can only be considered basic skills. I will probably compile hundreds of books of this kind later."
Du Ruo saw the fox's expression and some movements around him, smiled, and spoke with great concern about the game.
"..."
The fox just grinned but said nothing.
But at the same time, a group of fully armed soldiers in camouflage uniforms emerged from several places around.
These people stood apart and guarded the surrounding areas.
Seeing this scene, Xiang Yuanyuan and Li Qiyao were filled with surprise and curiosity. They originally thought that there was only the fox around.
Only Du Ruo was not surprised at all, as these people could not hide from his eyes and ears, and the appearance of these people was obviously the result of the gesture made by the fox just now.
"Since these people are here, let's take care of this other matter as well."
When Du Ruo saw these people coming out, he smiled and said another sentence.
"Ah? Mr. Du, please go ahead."
The fox was a little confused and looked at Du Ruo, then respectfully waited for Du Ruo's instructions. However, while speaking, his hands were still tightly holding the A4 paper in his arms.
"It's nothing important. It's just that since we arrived here, someone on the mountain has been watching us with a telescope. You can go and bring that person back later."
Du Ruo just said this and then opened the car door. The long sword that Fox had sent over flew out of the car, with its scabbard still attached, and flew straight towards another hill.
The speed was so fast that it seemed even the space was torn apart.
"Go with one or two people, follow the direction of Mr. Du's flying sword, and bring the person back."
The fox's originally serious face became even more stern, and he gave an order.
"Okay, we'll leave first. I'll trouble you here."
Du Ruo didn't plan to stay long, so he opened the car door, and Xiang Yuanyuan and Li Qiyao hurriedly got into the back seat.
"Whoosh~"
After Du Ruo Du Ruo started the car, the long sword that had just flown out flew back again. There was no blood on the sword body and scabbard, and it was obvious that it had not been used for killing just now.
(End of this chapter)
