After Reincarnating, the Ice-Cold Prince Won’t Leave Me Alone

William went to the dyeing workshop to see Anna, and An An and Jing Qi went to see the grandfather they met here last time.

Dogs have the most sensitive sense of smell. From a distance, the thin dog that ate An An’s beef jerky last time ran over slowly, stuck out his tongue and licked An An’s feet.

An An touched its head, which was so thin that it was almost bone-shattering: "Don't worry! I brought enough dried meat tubes this time!"

Two children and one dog came to the dilapidated house. It was still the same as the last time they saw it. The old man sat motionless outside the dilapidated house, without even changing his posture. Except for the breathing of living people, like a statue,

An An squatted down and put the food he brought in the old man's hand. Seeing that the other man was still unmoved, he pretended that he couldn't hear and could only talk and gesture. He originally wanted to say something like, "Grandpa, are you going to open the door?" I'm very happy..." Wait for the intimate words.

As a result, in a hurry, what came out of his mouth was: "Grandpa, only when you are full can you have the strength to be in a daze!"

What did you say when you realized what you were saying? An An hurriedly covered her mouth.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief, okay okay, grandpa couldn't hear me. And what she just said seemed to be in Chinese.

Just when he thought this, he saw the old man standing as motionless as a statue in front of him raised his hand and waved it. After a pause, as if he was afraid that she would misunderstand, he picked up a piece of bread and put it to his lips and took a bite.

An An's eyes widened in shock: "Grandpa, can you hear me!"

Jingqi was also a little surprised and deliberately called "Grandpa" in Chinese. It's a pity that the old man hasn't reacted since he waved his hand just now.

The two children looked at each other, but An An didn't pay much attention: "Maybe it's just a coincidence! Grandpa probably just doesn't want to reject us."

But she was still very happy knowing that her grandfather could hear her. He took out the dried meat and squatted down to start feeding the lean dog.

Although this dog is thin, he is still quite humane. He was fed twice by An An, and he was very affectionate towards the little guy.

A man and a dog chased each other back and forth in the open space. No matter how smart the little guy was, he could not escape his childish nature, and his clear and carefree laughter spread far and wide.

Although Jing Qi despised the childishness, it did not prevent him from actively participating.

No one noticed that the old man sitting motionless in front of the broken house still didn't raise his head, but the expression on his face couldn't help but move.

This laughter reached the ears of a group of girls playing on the ice in the distance.

Unlike being in prison, the prisoners exiled here are free at other times except for the fixed working time every day, but they cannot leave the Maya City.

Listening to this carefree laughter, many girls felt envious. Although they were also having fun, even if they laughed, they were restrained.

However, most girls as young as them are implicated by their families. As long as they become adults and atone for their family's sins, they will still have the opportunity to go out, marry and have children like normal people...

There was only a girl with a thin face in the corner, staring at An An's figure running happily in the distance, her eyes full of resentment.

Her name is Rebecca, and she is the little girl who An An felt sorry for and gave her bread on the official ship.

Rebecca hated An An for no other reason than that she felt it was unfair.

Obviously they are all in trouble, why can some people be so lucky? With just one face, he was able to make the ferocious official look nice, and he was even taken back to the city lord's palace.

She and her mother went through all kinds of troubles to escape from the country, but were eventually captured. She felt that these officials were ruthless, and her mother had knelt down to beg them. Couldn't she just turn a blind eye and let them go?

These people are so stupid. Even if they atone for their sins, they will remain stained as criminals throughout their lives and can only marry ordinary men.

An An, who was chasing the thin dog over, also noticed them. His eyes lit up and he trotted over. They were all half-grown children. Although An An was the youngest, they quickly played together.

An An stomped the ice hard and asked in a very unexperienced way: "With so many of us stepping on it, won't the ice crack?"

An An's familiarity made them relax. The girl next to them laughed and said, "No way! Is the ice thick? Let alone us, even if a group of strong laborers step on it, it will not crack."

A group of girls overheard the conversation between the two and joked kindly: "You Easterners, don't the rivers freeze in winter?"

"It's also freezing, but not as thick!"

Although Beijing is quite cold in winter, the ice on the lake surface is generally not too deep. She still remembered that Qin Shuqing secretly went to play on the frozen lake last winter, but stepped too hard on the ice and almost fell. After returning home, I was beaten so hard that I didn't dare to go out for half a month.

However, it is much colder here than in the capital. It is no exaggeration to say that a drop of water turns into ice.

At this time, there was a burst of excited shouting from a boy in the distance. The girl who just spoke turned her head and looked: "Oh, Jack and the others are catching fish! Let's go over and join in the fun."

As he spoke, he pulled An An and ran towards the crowd gathering place. The river was very long. At this time, there was a circle of excited boys on the other side of the river.

An An was curious: "How can we catch fish when the lake is frozen!"

"I've heard of this," Jing Qi explained: "In our north, where the climate is colder, ice fishing is used, which is to dig a hole in the ice and fish directly with a fishing rod on the ice. But this pair of baits There should be a requirement!”

"Wow! Even though I don't understand it, it sounds awesome!"

While they were talking, the group of people had already trotted to their destination, which was almost the same as what Jingqi said, but there were still people using fishing nets to catch fish.

An An poked Jingqi's arm, eager to try: "How about... let's try it too!"

Jingqi knew what she wanted to do without even looking, and refused with a serious face: "No, what if you get wet and catch a cold and you cry!"

Seeing the unconvinced look on the little girl's face, he emphasized coldly: "Do you still want to go home? This is not Daxia. If you get sick, no one can say what will happen."

Although Jingqi, her brother, was willing to accompany her most of the time, An An couldn't do anything if she really screamed. She said "hmm" wilted.

Jingqi saw her drooping little head and her long curled eyelashes drooping, and couldn't help but feel a little soft. He rolled up his sleeves: "Don't you just want to catch fish? Wait, I will catch it for you!"

An An raised her head and stared at him with suspicion: "Can you catch fish?"

"...You can't learn it."

He carefully looked at the professional fishing techniques of the boys across from him. It was not difficult to learn, but he just felt it was too slow.

The few officials who were following him couldn't help but join in.

Jing Qi and a yamen officer worked together to dig through a hole in the ice, and then exchanged some food for some bait with a half-grown boy. He found another piece of wood and began to cut the wood thorns with a knife.

An An became a little interested and stared at him in disbelief: "You want to stick a fish with your bare hands with a wooden thorn!"

Jingqi nodded casually, "It's faster to catch him this way."

An An spoke earnestly: "Brother, you need to have confidence, but we can't be too ambitious!"

I remember one time when their family went out to play in the city, my mother said she wanted to eat fish. My father found a creek, cut off seven or eight wooden thorns for inserting fish, and threw them into the water at will.

There was a splash, water splashed, and then a row of seven or eight fish were thrown onto the shore.

She had kept that scene in her mind for a long time, and whenever she felt that practicing martial arts was hard, she would unconsciously recall the greatness of practicing martial arts.

Jingqi has already set up his posture, and he has prepared the bait. "How will you know if you don't try?"

However, the reality is that after Jingqi spent a long time digging, she just barely touched the shadow of a fish, and all the fish she attracted suddenly ran away.

Feng Lisheng relies on his powerful internal strength to catch fish.

Jingqi's martial arts practice was still at the stage of physical training, and she had at most touched the threshold of internal martial arts.

Jingqi, on the other hand, has a temperament that refuses to admit defeat. She originally just wanted to catch a fish to make An An happy, but now she is a bit more serious.

An An got bored after watching it for a while, and started sliding around on the ice. Anyway, he was wearing thick clothes, so it wouldn't hurt if he fell.

After repeated practice many times, Jingqi gradually figured out some skills, but did not forget to distract her attention and stare at An An:

"Don't wander around. Someone has dug a hole in the ice nearby to fish. It's still a bit dangerous."

An An spun around happily without looking back when he heard the words: "I know,"

She and a group of girls were skating forward hand in hand. There was an ice hole in front of them that had been broken by someone but was not yet frozen. The girl in the lead was just about to make a skillful detour when a commotion suddenly broke out behind her.

The girl in line behind An An felt someone push her, and she was driven by inertia and bumped into An An.

Jingqi finally caught a fish. He raised his head and looked at An An with a smile. When he saw the scene in front of him, his pupils shrank suddenly, dropped the wooden thorn and rushed towards An An's direction like crazy.

The moment danger approached, An An couldn't bear to panic. She knew that if she fell, she might not be able to climb back up.

She pursed her lips and exerted the same energy as she did every day. When she fell, she clasped one hand on the ground and tried to maintain her balance. At this time, her head was facing the ice hole.

Rebecca, who retracted her hand, gritted her teeth angrily when she saw that An An didn't fall down. When her head got hot, she stretched out her hand and pushed An An hard, who was about to get up.

The two of them were already relatively close to each other, and this incident only happened in the blink of an eye.

The crowd screamed in terror. It was too late to attack Rebecca's viciousness, and she stared at An An.

Jing Qi, who rushed over, opened her eyes and reached out to grab Chao Anan, but there was someone who moved faster than him.

At the critical moment, everyone felt a very fast afterimage passing by, and An An, who was about to fall into the ice cave, was pulled far away.

It wasn't until the moment when her feet landed firmly that An An had some sense of reality, and only then did she react belatedly.

It seems like she has been through hell!

At this moment of escape, the little girl's first thought was, okay, okay, my mother didn't know about this, otherwise the stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots would be too light, and the review would definitely miss the 10,000-word mark.

She was still in a daze before she came in, when she saw Jingqi rushing over and hugging her tightly.

"An'an, I'm sorry! I didn't protect you well,"

At the end of the sentence, there was a hint of crying in his voice.

An An finally came back to his senses and pushed him: "Hey! Let me go first, your shoulder is squeezing me so much!"

Jingqi subconsciously let go of her arms.

An An looked at his red eyes and couldn't help but feel soft. She had never seen this guy cry since she could remember. But his mouth was unforgiving: "Hey, I haven't cried yet? Why are you crying!"

Jingqi turned away uncomfortably and said in a low voice: "... there's sand in my eyes!"

An An was speechless: "Brother, you said it's more reliable to get ice cubes in your eyes than sand!"

She looked around and then reacted belatedly: "Who saved me just now!"

Jingqi wiped away her tears: "It's grandpa!"

"ah……"

An An just wanted to ask if it was the grandfather he was thinking of? I heard a loud noise in the distance. The moment An An was rescued, Rebecca was held down by the Yamen who reacted.

Naturally, she wouldn't admit it, and she would complain and cry, saying that she didn't do it unintentionally.

An An walked over and recognized Rebecca at a glance as the little girl she had met on the official ship.

For a moment, she didn't know what to think, she just felt a little uncomfortable. She asked Jingqi: "Am I the farmer and the snake that the husband said, fighting for the sake of rice?"

The same goes for the Wen Wan she met before, and now Rebekah is here, which makes her a little discouraged and wonders if she is particularly unpopular with girls of her own age?

Jingqi's face was tense: "Don't let a few irrelevant people affect your mentality."

After saying that, he directly pulled a piece of veil from An An's body and blocked Rebecca's mouth, then turned to ask An An: "How do you want to deal with her?"

The officer on the side also hurriedly agreed, saying that he would report to William and he would definitely not let the girl in front of him go. They were specially sent by Lord William to protect the two children. After such a mistake, they naturally wanted to make up for it more than anyone else.

An An was also very angry. If she hadn't been lucky, something might have happened just now.

An An tied a rope around Rebecca's waist and pushed her into the ice cave where she choked on a lot of water, making her experience the fear of being on the edge of death.

Although she has experienced a lot along the way, at her young age, she can only think of retaliation, not killing.

The officer went to report the news, and William hurried over. He was shocked and broke into a cold sweat when he got the news. If An An was really the Queen's niece, what if something happened? , he couldn't bear it.

He waved someone to take Rebecca directly down. Before leaving, An An repeatedly told her that her fall was none of the girls' business and asked the steward not to punish them. She did not leave until the steward agreed at William's signal.

The girls who were playing on the ice just now all breathed a sigh of relief and looked at An An's leaving figure with grateful eyes.

…

It wasn't until they had walked a long way that An An took the opportunity to ask: "You said the person who saved me was the old man in the house over there? You read that right!"

Jing Qi nodded: "His movements are very fast. He pulled you over and then left. But I can't be wrong."

The opponent's movements were really fast, and the two government officials present were stunned and didn't see clearly.

And he faintly noticed that the other party did not leave, as if he was following them in the dark.

In other words, since they arrived here, the old man has been following them secretly, but he deliberately hid it before, so he didn't feel it at all.

He was born with extraordinary sensitivity to this kind of things. He had an intuition. Now he could vaguely feel that someone was following them. It was not because of how powerful he was, but because the other party deliberately let him know.

It shows how powerful the other party’s martial arts is!

An An's mind went blank at the time. She only remembered that a strong arm pulled her away when she was about to fall. Thinking back on it, I seemed to hear the sound of the iron chains colliding.

An An didn't understand: "But if this is the case, grandpa is so powerful, why..." He looks so desolate!

Jing Qi: "You can find out if you just ask."

The two of them usually spoke in Chinese when communicating. William couldn't help but asked curiously: "What are you talking about?"

An An pointed in the direction of the broken house: "What are we talking about about grandpa?"

When a group of people arrived at the broken house, the door was empty. The stone bench at the door was still there, but the old man sitting like a statue was not there. The thin dog was there.

An An gently touched its head: "Where did grandpa go?"

Jingqi closed her eyes and listened quietly to the various sounds passing around her. Then she opened her eyes and looked in a certain direction outside the house.

The next moment, a figure flashed in front of him, and an old man with disheveled hair appeared silently from nowhere.

An An looked at the grandfather who suddenly appeared in front of her, and her eyes widened in surprise: "It's really you!"

No wonder the little guy was surprised, he was obviously the same person, but his temperament was completely different from what he had seen before. Although the man in front of him was still as skinny as a stick, with white and messy hair, when he stood up, he completely lost the sense of desolation and desolation, and his back was unconsciously straight, like an unsheathed sword!

An An raised her head and looked at the old man in front of her curiously, her eyes admiring: "You are the legendary hidden master! You are really amazing!

Thank you for just saving me. "

The old man couldn't speak, so he just waved his hand gently.

William narrowed his eyes thoughtfully. He had always guessed that this old man was not an ordinary person. Unfortunately, the other man did not want to say anything and did not leave, so he ignored him.

He was born in the Earl's Mansion and has seen a bit of the world, but the skill the old man just showed was something he had never seen before in his life.

William warmly invited: "If you don't mind, old man, you can be a guest at my official residence."

He just said it casually and did not expect the old man to agree. After all, in the two years he had been in office, he had always had the impression that the old man was very independent.

But before he finished speaking, the old man nodded slightly.

Although William was surprised, he couldn't help being pleasantly surprised. Some people have a natural respect for the strong, and William was not immune to this.

An An and the two were also very happy. They talked to the old man from time to time along the way, but it was a pity that the other party could not communicate normally.

Jingqi kept staring at the old man, unable to help but wonder about his martial arts skills. "I wonder what you call me, grandpa?"

Just when she arrived at the carriage, Jingqi found paper and pen from the carriage.

The old man picked up the pen, paused with his fingertips, and slowly wrote a name in Chinese characters.

Before the two children had time to be surprised that he knew Chinese, An An looked at the words on the paper and said strangely: "Shadou, this name is so weird?

Then let’s call you Grandpa Sha from now on, right? "

The old man seemed stunned for a moment, then nodded casually.

William came over, handed several bundles of red thread to Jing Qi, and teased the two of them with a smile: "If you want to learn how to do business, would you like my uncle to find someone to take care of you?"

An An shook her head firmly and said with confidence: "Thank you, uncle, I am very good at business."

William raised his eyebrows with interest, "Oh, when Miss An An makes a lot of money, don't forget to treat uncle to dinner."

An An patted her chest generously: "Don't worry, when I find my family, I will treat my uncle to the best restaurant in Maya City."

However, within half an hour, the little guy was slapped in the face.