Chapter 20 (1) Boundary River
Before dawn, Qingran stepped into the suburbs in the night. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Dongjun is a deserted place, and the suburbs of Dongjun are even more inhabited.
It's been a long time since I've enjoyed the silence of such a person, and I thought to myself standing in the night. At this time, the night is silent, and there is no one around. It's nice to be in a place like this for a while. It's a pity that people can't always do what they want, whenever and wherever they want.
Qingran sighed a little and lay on his back on the grass. The dew soaked his clothes, and he didn't care, staring at the wide night sky with his big eyes open, quietly waiting for the dawn to come.
The night breeze was cool, stirring the weeds on the ground. A few of the weeds swayed in Qingran's ears. Qingran tilted his head and rubbed his ears, which had been tickled by blades of grass, on his shoulder.
The moonlight was shining brightly, and the moonlight covered the entire countryside. Qingran lay on the ground and reached out to take out two things from his arms.
These two things were given to him by Yu Zimo before he set off. It was also a dark purple carved wooden barrel more than half a foot long and the thickness of a fist. It's a strange stick.
Qing Ran held these two things up in front of his eyes, and looked at them carefully by the moonlight. The carved wooden barrel Yu Zimo also gave Changming one, and at a glance, he knew that it was used to hold the collected dew. This wooden stick - Qing Ran can't understand it. It is said to be a wooden stick, and it is also engraved with a scale that only exists on a ruler. It is said that it is a ruler, and the general ruler is straight, but it has a pointed end and a round end. What could it be?
Seeing the white of the fish belly faintly appearing on the eastern horizon, Qingran jumped up in a hurry. He put the carved barrel in his hand back into his arms and put it in his arms. Stick the strange stick, pointed down, into the dirt beneath his feet. The moment the stick was inserted into the dirt, Qingran felt his body tremble slightly, as if a cool breeze was blowing vertically from his ankles to his knees.
The morning sun gradually rises over the horizon, surging with brilliant glow. The sun shines on the grass in the suburbs, making the otherwise quiet grass warm and vibrant. The weeds that slept all night stretched out in the morning sun, and they exuded brilliant light in their gestures.
Qingran saw the golden light on the grass, and knew that it was the reflection of the sun on the dew on the blades of grass.
Now the temperature of the land is still cool, and the dew here is still beautiful. When the sun rises and the temperature rises, this dew will disappear, how can it stay until noon, let him go and collect it. Qing Ran stood alone in the middle of the suburbs, thinking, but Yu Zimo didn't look like he was joking.
Last night, after dinner, Yu Zimo handed a carved wooden barrel to Changming, asked Changming and Qing Yao to collect the dew at midnight, and then also gave him a carved wooden barrel that was almost the same as Changming's appearance, and let him collect the dew at noon alone. "Aren't you going?" he asked Yu Zimo at that time. Yu Zimo said that he could only go alone, and others would not be able to collect it. She also stressed that he must find a place where no one is around, and when collecting dew, he must not be seen by others. Qingran agreed.
Yu Zimo gave him this strange wooden stick again, and asked him to stick it into the ground under his feet before the sun rose.
"Why before the sun rises?"
"You don't have to ask, you leave early. Yu Zimo replied like this.
"What's next?" he asked.
The next thing is to stay where you are, wait until noon, and collect the dew around you.
Can this dew really stay until that time? Qingran was also curious.
Seeing that the sun was rising higher and higher, it was almost above his head, and the grass in front of him was still full of stars. The dew still lay comfortably on the blades of grass - it hadn't gone away.
It's incredible. Qingran's eyes widened, and he even wondered if he was dazzled. However, at noon, when he took out the carved barrel in his bosom again, and let drops of dew flow into the barrel, he was truly convinced that all this was true.
After collecting the dew, he pulled out the wooden stick that had been planted in the ground in the morning. Another strange gust of wind blew. Qingran felt that in an instant, the air around him warmed, and a thin white mist rose from the grass. After the white fog cleared, the sun was still shining, but there was not a single starlight flickering on the grass. The dew that had just been left in the grass was now gone.
Qingran walked through the slightly scorching grass and left the countryside.
When he returned to his residence in Dongjun City, it was already past lunch time, and Yu Zimo was reading and resting in the house. Chang Ming and Qing Yao stood beside her.
Seeing Qingran come back, Changming was anxious to know the result, and hurriedly asked, "How is it, did you get the dew?"
Qingran nodded at him.
"I really got it-" This is too unreasonable, too incredible, Changming was surprised. He also saw clearly with his surprised gaze that this horse could not be ridden well, and arrows could not be shot well, and it was a matter that the prince could do this. He began to look at Xiao Qingran differently.
Qing Ran's face was calm, he took out the carved wooden barrel with dew and the strange wooden stick, and handed it to Yu Zimo.
Yu Zimo put together the dew brought back by Qingran and the dew brought back by Changming and Qingyao.
"Now that the dew has been collected, what else needs to be done?" asked Qingran.
"It's enough to have dew, you all go back and rest, and we'll set off together tomorrow morning to go to the Boundary River." Yu Zimo said.
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"This boundary river can't be seen or touched, where are we going to find it?" Chang Ming said to Qing Yao.
"Just trust the princess. Qing Yao replied.
"That's right. Changming laughed at his mediocrity, "Our princess is really unexpected." ”
"You have a lot to say. ”
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Chang Ming and Qing Yao went down, and Qing Ran also left. Yu Zimo sat alone on the chair, his eyes gradually narrowing in one place. I didn't expect him to really bring the dew back. Yu Zimo looked at the dew that Qingran brought back on the table. She was right. This person...... It's really interesting.
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When the sky was bright, Yu Zimo, Xiao Qingran, Chang Ming and Qing Yao rode off together.
Yu Zimo's white horse Changyue was extremely fast, running in the front, Qing Yao riding Tongyun behind, and Changming and Qingran riding horses, following closely behind. Yu Zimo took them all the way to the southeast.
In front of her was an undulating hill, and Yu Zimo's long moon quickly crossed two of them, and when she reached the foot of the third hill, she stopped and dismounted.
After a while, Qing Yao, Chang Ming, and Qing Ran arrived one after another.
"Is this the place?" Qing Yao jumped off her horse and asked the princess.
Yu Zimo's eyes were blazing, and he looked up to observe the direction of the surrounding mountains and the aura emanating from them.
"It should be here. She said.
"Here?" Changming looked around, but it was just a mountain hill, similar to other places, and he couldn't see anything special. At this time, the sun is just on the opposite hill. The princess said to go out early, thinking that the place they were going to be far away. I didn't expect this to happen.
Qingran led the horse and stood behind, he couldn't see anything, just looked at Yu Zimo.