The northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty is located in the north of the capital, on the col of a mountain road leading to Changping County. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As the sky gradually darkened, Liu Shuangli stood on the mountain road in a daze, glanced at the bandit leader, and then looked at Chen Fan, who was still crying.

"You said that Brother Chen is fleeing in fear of crime?" Liu Shuangli didn't believe his ears anymore.

The bandit leader, half-closed, replied, "Yes." ”

"How come," Liu Shuangli still didn't want to believe it, and said in a trembling voice, "What crime is he afraid of?"

The bandit leader's half-closed eyes widened suddenly, staring at Liu Shuangli for a long time, but he shook his head and didn't answer her half of the question.

Chen Fan's crying finally stopped completely, because he inadvertently found Chen Fan, Liu Shuangli didn't want to leave forcibly, so he followed the will of these bandits and went back to their cottage with them.

Fortunately, this gang of bandits is not extremely vicious, and under Liu Shuangli's willingness, they let go of the ordinary people who were forcibly arrested. Because of the woman who was raped to death, they also returned part of the money to the woman's relatives and friends, so that the woman who died unjustly in the wilderness could at least have a coffin to be buried in the ground.

The bandits' cottage is not far from here, but the road is not easy to walk, because they have to cross a muddy swamp. Although most of the swamp has dried up because of the drought in the north, I don't know if it is the land that has cursed it, and in the middle of this swamp, there is a large area, even if not a drop of rain never falls from the sky, this place will never dry up.

And to get to the cottage of these bandits, you have to cross this swamp that never dries up.

Few people knew how to cross this swamp without sinking into the ground, and even the nearby residents regarded this swamp as an asura field and never stepped into it.

Only these daring bandits would dare to cross this swamp and choose a place to hide.

Liu Shuangli hugged Lian'er and followed the bandits, cautiously, not daring to take a wrong step and jumped over the swamp. As the sky to the east slowly moved into the air, they finally followed the bandits to their lair.

It was a very ordinary-looking cottage camp, with several houses built out of crude bricks and tiles on several hills, and the bandits lived in these houses scattered. The only difference is that the hill where the bandit leaders are located is the highest of all, and the materials used to erect the houses are also the best.

It is said that the materials are the best, but in fact, none of the bricks and tiles are broken, and the others look no different.

Liu Shuangli and Lian'er were arranged in the most remote tiled house on the highest mountain. The tiled house is backed by a large rock on the mountain wall, and the cliff is only a few steps away on the left, and the residence of a bandit leader is connected to the right side. Only the front can be passed, but because it is in the most remote place, if you want to go down this hill, you must pass through all the houses on this hill. Therefore, even if Liu Shuangli was not tied up and locked up, it would be impossible for the two children to sneak away from this mountain without alarming anyone on this mountain.

Seeing such an arrangement, Liu Shuangli smiled bitterly and was speechless, these bandits were really trying to prevent her. But now on the mountain, she has to take Lian'er with her, and she has to go down this high mountain, and she has to pass through those swamps that can swallow people, can she escape?

The days in the mountains are said to be leisurely, but it is better to say that they are boring.

Liu Shuangli took Lian'er to this bandit mountain, and more than half a month passed at once, and his sixteenth birthday was also mixed up on this mountain.

Because he knew Chen Fan, Liu Shuangli carefully observed these bandits, and unsurprisingly found that they were extremely tightly organized, and their style of action was very different from that of ordinary bandits.

Thinking of the origin of the Zhengbei League, and then looking at Chen Fan's situation, it is not difficult for her to think of their hostility towards the Zhengbei League, the predecessor of this gang of bandits.

Looking for an opportunity, he asked Chen Fan, and he admitted it very sincerely.

"Among the eight leaders, except for Ah Fu and Lai Qing, including me, they are all officers of the original Jizhou City, and the third brother was originally the garrison general of the Zhengwupin of Jizhou City. As for the brothers below, most of them are doctors and soldiers from Jizhou City. Chen Fan replied.

"Even if you are all soldiers of Jizhou," Liu Shuang said bizarrely, "why did you fall into the grass here?"

Chen Fan sighed, shook his head, his eyes were lonely, and he didn't want to answer again.

Seeing this, Liu Shuangli could only smile bitterly and turn the topic to other inconsequential matters.

Although he heard Han Qihai explain the tragic battle in Xuanhua three years ago, Liu Shuangli still didn't know much about the process of that battle. Later, Liu Shuangli also learned that although Jizhou City is an important border city in the north, the main reason for its existence is not to defend against the Mongols in the northern desert, but to defend against the Manchus in the northeast.

The Manchus in the northeast have been subservient to the Great Zhou since the beginning of the construction of the Great Zhou. The Manchus did not have a regular army, and their behavior on the edge of Jizhou City was mostly similar to bandits, and the harm to the northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not great, so the Great Zhou Dynasty had not paid much attention to the military defense of Jizhou. Nine years ago, the Jizhou army assisted Xuanhua to attack Mengdi, once defeated, after the court was furious and surrendered, it no longer sent military defense to Jizhou, no longer paid military salaries, and finally made Jizhou a deserted city.

After Liu Shuangli heard about it, he thought that he would never see anything about Jizhou again, and he didn't want to see so many soldiers from the original Jizhou City in this place less than a hundred miles away from the capital now, what is wrong?

To tell the truth, these Jizhou soldiers were born bandits who forcibly detained her and Lian'er on this mountain, except for not allowing them to leave, they did not treat them badly in terms of food and clothing.

After Liu Shuangli reported his real name and explained that he was a teacher of Yuntianmen, these bandits from the Jizhou army nodded again and again, letting go of all their vigilance against her.

However, even if they let down their guard, no one explained to Liu Shuangli what kind of changes happened to the Jizhou Division in the battle nine years ago, so that the officers and soldiers who survived their gang were reduced to the grass.

In that battle, he didn't want to explain that Chen Fan fled in fear of crime, and no one would talk much. Even Liu Shuangli, since he didn't get a reply when he first met that day, he didn't mention a word about Chen Fan. Liu Shuangli didn't ask about Chen Fan, but this Chen Fan took the initiative to ask her a lot later, and she stayed in Chen's house for half a year.

Chen Fan asked very carefully about that half a year, and the focus was also on his father. He wanted to know everything about his father's six months. Liu Shuangli was always asked to be miserable, but in order not to make this son who was in pain due to excessive self-blame sad, Liu Shuangli still tried his best to recall, and then told Chen Fan little by little.

In this way, the days came to the golden autumn of October.

Liu Shuangli and Lian'er have been living in this bandit mountain for almost a month.

Lian'er was young and innocent, and she didn't understand why she came up this mountain, and she would always cry and ask why they lived here, why her mother didn't come to her, and when her father would be found.

Liu Shuangli had nothing to answer to this, so he could only try his best to persuade him. looked at the bandit leaders again, but he didn't mean to let them leave the mountain.

She has lived in the mountains for almost a month, and Han Fu has been cut off from her for more than a month. Liu Shuangli didn't know if Qin Siyang would resent her for this.

Qin Siyang gave her a sixteenth birthday gift, a hand-twisted gourd for a literary play. This small gourd is tied with a red silk thread, only half the size of a palm, yellow mud appearance, the surface is extremely warm and smooth, because it has been soaked in oil. Qin Siyang's attached letter also specifically stated: I heard that people who walk in the rivers and lakes have a wine gourd with them, you are not good at drinking, and I don't want you to drink, so I will give you this small gourd instead of that wine gourd. Remember to have had enough of the rivers and lakes, be sure to come back!

Liu Shuangli looked at the words on the letter, smiled dumbly, and when he saw this little hand twisted gourd, he immediately couldn't put it down. Carefully tie the red thread firmly on the wrist and use it as a bracelet. Lian'er begged several times, but Liu Shuangli would rather spend another money to buy playthings for her to play with, and was reluctant to give her the gourd.

At this time, Liu Shuangli was standing alone on the edge of the cliff, looking at the white clouds on the mountain ridge, but he did not feel happy and happy. She played with her fingertips and twisted the gourd, thinking in her heart when she would be able to get down the mountain and leave here with Lian'er.

She had been on this mountain for nearly a month, why didn't the people from the Han Mansion come to look for her? What about the Zhengbei League? Who was Lian'er's father in the Zhengbei League?

After dinner, Lian'er was coaxed by her to sleep in the house. Of the eight bandit leaders in the mountain today, except for Chen Fan, who had not gone down the mountain for a long time due to his poor mood, the other seven all went down the mountain.

The sky was getting darker, and the eastern moon had shown a little corner. A sudden gust of wind blew in, and Liu Shuangli turned his head in shock.

On the other side of the cliff, there was a trembling person, a tall and thin man in a soap robe. At the moment, he looked at her with a smile on his face.

"Brother Xu. Liu Shuangli exclaimed in a low voice.

This person is Xu Zhensheng, the first-class guard of the Han Mansion that Liu Shuangli has not seen for a long time.

"Hello Miss Liu. Xu Zhensheng smiled lightly and nodded to Liu Shuangli.

"Brother Xu, why are you here, they-" Liu Shuangli looked at Xu Zhensheng's back uneasily, but there was no movement.

"Don't worry, I didn't let anyone find out all the way up the mountain. As for that Chen Fan, although his martial arts are high, his precautionary heart is too light, and he has been fascinated by me with incense, and he can't wake up in an hour or two. Xu Zhensheng explained with a chuckle.

Liu Shuangli was taken aback: "You also know about Chen Fan?"

Xu Zhensheng smiled again: "Anything about Miss Liu, no matter how big or small, we must know." ”

"Ah," Liu Shuangli was shocked again, she could hear it, although Xu Zhensheng said this with a smile, he understood a very clear meaning, "There has been no change in Beijing for more than a month, is it okay with Siyang?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is more and more concerned about Miss Liu, everything is fine, Miss Liu, please rest assured. Xu Zhensheng replied. (To be continued.) )