On this day, the three of them walked to the ferry, the spring breeze was warm and sunny, the roadside mountains were full of flowers, warblers and birds, the river was shining with golden scales, and the water waves were light. When they arrived, the crossing was deserted, and no one else was there. There was only one canopy on the river, and the boatman was sleeping on a sack on his bed, with a hat on his head.

Li Can stood on the shore and called out to the boatman, who woke up and turned over the hat, yawned and rubbed his eyes, and asked impatiently, "What's the matter?" ”

His accent was a little strange, Li Can thought for a moment, and then told him the route he had asked in the country farmhouse beforehand, and asked him if he would be willing to take them across the river.

The boatman squinted at him for a long time, and then crossed him and looked at Lin Yueyuan and Li Min carefully. The two of them fled because they were away, so they disguised themselves as men to make it easier to travel, and the boatman watched for a long time. Lin Yueyuan hurriedly explained with a pleasant face, for fear that he would think that they were coming from the wrong way.

The boatman hesitated, "Well, the three guests will wait a while, and I will discuss it with my family before I will call you back." ”

Lin Yueyuan nodded, and he reflexively lifted the curtain and entered. The three of them waited outside.

The cautious Li Can felt slightly uneasy, he always felt that the boatman looked strange, and his eyes were a little unkind when he looked at them.

The more he waited, the more suspicious he became, so he simply glanced at Lin Yueyuan, threw the burden on his backpack, Lin Yueyuan reached out to hug it, and he jumped on the boat.

The boat shook slightly, and the two men on the shore held their breath nervously, and he stood still, waiting for the boat to stabilize before tiptoeing outside the curtain to eavesdrop.

Lin Yueyuan saw Li Can's face change greatly from a distance on the shore, and knew that there was a deception. Sure enough, at this moment, several people in the boat were discussing in a low voice in standard official dialect how to trick the three people into the boat, drive the boat to the center of the river, and then think about removing the three people.

Li Can didn't have time to listen completely, so he hurriedly jumped off the boat, waved to the two and whispered, "Run." ”

They sold their horses in the previous town because they wanted to take the waterway, and now Li Can and Lin Yueyuan had to drag Li Min to run with their feet all the way.

The boatman came out with a smile on his face, but when he saw that there was no one on the shore for a long time, he looked at the woods on the shore and shouted: "Brother, chase after you, the prisoner has run away!" ”

As soon as it fell, four people jumped out of the boat, all dressed as boatmen on the shore, and at this moment they heard the shouts of their companions, and rushed into the forest with them.

Although there were many of them, the difficulty was that the forest was big and deep, and although there were not many forks in the road, the dense branches and dense flowers and leaves in the forest were just enough for cover, and the three of them hid behind any tree, and the leaves were enough for them to find them for a while.

They scurried around inside like headless flies, and one of them, in a hurry, drew his knife and slashed at the place he passed, trying to split the branches and leaves that stood in his way.

The five of them walked around in it, and the clothes on their bodies were also scratched by the branches, and suddenly they saw a foot exposed behind a green leaf in front of them, and they were happy in their hearts, and immediately dispersed to surround them, and suddenly the leaf brushed sound, and the foot quickly retracted, and the five people rushed forward together, and someone in the chaos screamed and grabbed it, and the rest of the people looked at him when they heard the sound, but they saw that he was holding a shoe in his hand, and a rope was tied to the shoe.

One end of the rope stretched upwards to the dense canopy of the tree overhead, and the five of them knew that they had been tricked, and they cursed. Suddenly, the shoes were pulled up from the man's hand, and before the five could come to their senses, a large handful of choking white powder was sprinkled on their heads, and a smug laugh erupted from the canopy.

The five men were dizzy, unable to stand, and after a few struggles, they fell to the ground one after another, and one of them raised his arm to aim at the source of the laughter above his head before he fell.

He only heard the laughter in the tree stop abruptly, and then there was an exclamation and a scream, and he knew that someone had been hit by an arrow, and he sneered and fainted to the ground.

After a while, a reproachful voice came from the tree: "You get carried away, and now you will suffer." ”

Lin Yueyuan raised his arms, his lips were purple, and he trembled: "Don't talk nonsense." ”

Li Min cried: "Brother Can, you quickly find a way to save Sister Yueyuan, you all blame me, if I wasn't too stupid and didn't dodge that arrow, Sister Yueyuan wouldn't have been injured." ”

Li Can said unforgivingly while helping her treat her wounds: "That's also her own doing, if she hadn't held back and laughed out loud, how could she have deserved this arrow." ”

Lin Yueyuan was about to reply, but there was a sharp pain in her arm, she screamed, Li Can pulled out the sleeve arrow, and hurriedly blocked her wound with a silk silk, but saw a piece of black slowly leaching out of the silk silk, he exclaimed: "Not good!" Poisonous! ”

Lin Yueyuan's face turned pale in an instant, and he fell on top of him, he wrapped his arms around her body, kept shaking, and asked anxiously: "Yueyuan, hold on, don't faint." ”

He carried her on his back and told Li Min to sit obediently on the tree and wait, Li Min sobbed softly, Li Can brushed her back, comforted her softly, she gradually stopped crying and sat obediently.

Li Can quickly carried Lin Yueyuan down the tree on his back and put her down against the tree, he didn't know who put the cold arrow on these five people, so he searched her body one by one, but found nothing. He planned to tie up the five of them, torture them, and force them to ask for an antidote.

The drowsy Lin Yueyuan took out a medicine from the porcelain bottle taken out of her arms and stuffed it into her mouth, the medicine was extremely bitter, her facial features were wrinkled together like bun skin, she laboriously held the poisoned arrow to look at it and sniff it carefully, and said weakly after a while: "Li Can, don't be busy, I know what kind of poison this is." You quickly kill them while they are unconscious, and don't let the news leak into Li Jin's ears. ”

Li Can asked in disbelief, "How sure are you?" ”

Lin Yueyuan closed his eyes and snorted, and said proudly: "You don't want to think about what kind of person the master is, the master walks the rivers and lakes to practice poison and detoxification, and even my father was almost defeated in his hands back then, what is this little poison?" Hurry up, don't grind, they wake up later, and you won't be able to do it. ”

"Nope." Li Can flatly refused, "Nothing is as important as your life, as long as they live, I will have to let them tell the whereabouts of the antidote." ”

"You're going to be mad at me, aren't you?" Lin Yueyuan hurriedly said, "It will be against me, there is no antidote to this poison at all." ”

Li Can staggered back, as if he had been hit hard, and asked in a trembling voice, "Are you joking?" ”

Lin Yueyuan's wound was painful, and he couldn't help but inhale: "Do you think I still have the strength to laugh?" ”

Li Can suddenly laughed, Lin Yueyuan angrily picked up the stone on the ground and smashed him: "You are so happy that I am injured, you person with no conscience." ”

She was weak in her hand, and the stones that were thrown out made him easily brushed away, he threw the knife at his waist, sat next to her, and said resolutely: "So what else do we go to Jinling, if you can't survive, why don't I accompany you, let them wake up and kill me, let's go down to the underworld to reunite with Ah Tan." ”

Lin Yueyuan pushed him and said, "Li Can, what nonsense are you talking about." Don't say that I can't die, even if I die, what does it matter to you, you live your life well, what kind of chaos is added. ”

Li Can held her hand and said with burning eyes: "Your cousin handed you over to me, and I will take care of your affairs." If you're dead, I'm not going to live. ”

Lin Yueyuan's heart was beating wildly, he threw his hand away, and said in a panic: "If you want to die, I haven't lived enough." Hurry up, kill them, and heal my wounds. ”

Li Can slowly got up under Lin Yueyuan's urging, picked up the knife on the ground, and cut the throats of the five people cleanly with the knife in his hand, splashing blood all over the ground.

Lin Yueyuan shrank aside in disgust and shouted, "Li Can, help me to a clean place." ”

Li Can helped her to sit down on a cobblestone behind her, Lin Yueyuan took out a dagger from his arms and handed it to him, "Have you heard Guan Gong scrape bones to heal his wounds?" ”

"That's a drama, it's not true." Li Can took the knife and tore her sleeve open as she commanded. I saw that the wound was dark purple and black, and the skin and flesh around it had festered, but fortunately, the arrow was shot from below, the distance was too far, the wound was not big or deep, and she sealed the acupoint on the arm in time, and the toxin did not spread, all accumulated around the wound.

"Quick, help me cut this rotten meat." The delirious Lin Yueyuan muttered.

Even Li Can, who was a man, was a little shocked when he heard this, and he asked again and again uneasily. Lin Yueyuan no longer had the energy to explain to him, so he urged impatiently.

He was worried, but there was really no other way, before he started, he patiently and gently comforted her, Lin Yueyuan couldn't hear what he said clearly.

Li Can desperately controlled the trembling hand, and slowly cut the blade of the dagger into the flesh of her arm, she gradually changed from the moan she had endured at the beginning to scream in pain, black blood flowed out from between the blades, Li Min, who was sitting on it, pushed aside the branches in front of her, and paid close attention to their every move, when she saw the moment the flesh and blood were separated from Lin Yueyuan's arm, her tears burst out like a torrent again.

He could empathize with her every cry of pain, as if it was his own flesh and blood that was broken in front of him, and at that moment he knew that they had been connected to life and death since now, and the knife that cut through her flesh and blood also hurt his heart.

She didn't cry, she just couldn't stand the tearing pain of the cold, sharp blade cutting through her skin.

A whole piece of meat as big as a bird's egg was cut alive, Lin Yueyuan fell into his arms, and when he was about to faint, he actually said with a smile: "Li Can, your knife skills are nothing more than that." ”

Li Can admired Lin Yueyuan's strong optimism, he calmly treated her wounds, and hugged Li Min down from the tree. In the face of such Lin Yueyuan, she had no reason to cry, she inhaled hard to force back her tears, helped Lin Yueyuan to Li Can's back, took the initiative to carry her bags, and ran to the front to open the way for the two. After this bitter ordeal and hardship, they joined hands with each other to warm the cold road ahead.

The two wandered around the forest for a long time, and found a dilapidated Yuelao Temple in the depths of the mountain forest, with countless red ribbons floating on the big tree at the door.

Li Can carried Lin Yueyuan into the temple, the area was full of ash, the air was filled with a choking musty smell, the incense burner on the incense case was covered with a thick layer of spider silk, and the statue of the old moon in the middle was blurred, and the color on his body faded into a piece of yellow.

Li Min instantly became sensible, no longer blindly sad and painful, but silently opened the doors and windows in the temple for ventilation, and picked up the broom behind the door to sweep the ground. After she swept out a clean place, Li Can put Lin Yueyuan down, and she was busy spreading out the thin quilt she had brought with her and placing it under her, so that she could lie down and rest for the time being.

Li Can turned around the inside and outside of the temple, picked up some branches as firewood and lit a small fire, and lit the remaining candles in the temple, and the temple suddenly brightened.

In the midst of his hustle and bustle, Li Min gradually forgot his sadness and helped Li Can boil water and cook rice. Maybe it was the aroma of cooked rice that tickled the cravings in Lin Yueyuan's stomach, and the first thing she said when she opened her eyes was: "I'm so hungry." ”

Li Canzhen didn't know that a person could have such a good appetite after suffering the pain of cutting blood and flesh. Lin Yueyuan didn't let Li Min feed it, and after gobbling up a bowl of tasteless food with one hand, he actually showed an intoxicated posture that he had just enjoyed the delicacies of the mountains and seas. Li Can couldn't hold back the taunt of her, she hiccuped and continued to argue with him.

Li Min is undoubtedly the happiest, under the chaos and separation, being chased and killed, and hiding in Tibet, Lin Yueyuan and Li Can are not afraid at all, and they are still happy.

But heaviness also followed, and after eating, Li Can proposed that after she got better, the three of them still parted ways. He defected to Li Tan, the king of Jinling, to the east, while Lin Yueyuan took Li Min west to return to the Lin Mansion in southern Shu.

At first, Lin Yueyuan categorically refused, but Li Can calmly analyzed that Li Jin had sent a killer here, and he must have known the reason for the incident, and he would announce the death of the emperor in the near future, and then launch a nationwide search for the capital crime of stealing the national seal. The Lin clan was bound to be implicated, but she immediately rushed to report the letter and hid with the Lin clansmen. At that time, he encouraged Li Tan to raise troops, and he thought that Li Jin would not care about dealing with the Lin family.

Lin Yueyuan pondered for a long time and said: "What you said is very true, I actually forgot that once this matter is about to come out, the Lin family will be implicated, I suffered a skin injury, I set off for Shunan every morning, and I have to report to my brother and sister-in-law." ”

"Not busy." Li Can waved his hand and said, "Jinling is close to Fuyang, and I will arrange the affairs of your brother and sister-in-law, so you hurry up and take Ah Min home." ”

Lin Yueyuan looked at him silently, turned his head to look at the fire, and said in a low voice, "Okay." ”

The three of them suddenly became dull, silent around the fire, they were not ready, and parting came suddenly.

The three of them spent a heart-wrenching hundred days listlessly, and at night, the night breeze was still cool, Li Can burned the fire more vigorously, Li Min made the bed, got into the quilt and slept obediently.

The loneliness of the night added to the sadness of parting, and the two sat facing the fire, the flames reflecting a warm flush in them. Lin Yueyuan's chin rested on his knees, fiddling with the stones on the ground boredly, and a few sighs overflowed from his mouth, intentionally or unintentionally. Li Can, who was sitting cross-legged, stood up beside her, she thought he was tired from sitting and got up to move his muscles, but unexpectedly he opened the temple door and walked out in the moonlight.

Tonight's moonlight is as clear as water, and there are a few faint clouds floating in the sky, like a fine yarn wrapped around a pearl, and like a shadow shadow behind the light behind the cloth, there is always a sense of confusion that I don't know what day and night.

Thousands of red cloths hanging from the trees at the door swayed in the wind, adding a touch of peace and joy to this desolate mountain forest. Li Can stood under the tree and looked up at the beautiful prayer of the red ribbon drooping, his heart immediately became clear and pure, and his whole person was like a Zhilan laurel tree bathed in the soft moonlight, with a bit of holiness and nobility.

A red ribbon swept mischievously across his face in the evening breeze, and he gently pulled it, only to see the famous sentence from Fan Chengda's "Che Yaoyao Chapter" written in a juanxiu font: "May I be like the stars and the moon, and the night and night streamers will be bright and clean." The moon is temporarily obscure, and the stars are always bright. Leave the light to wait for the month to return, and the three or five will be profitable. His heart moved, he untied the ribbon and put his hands together in prayer.

Lin Yueyuan couldn't sit still in the deserted temple, and also came out for a walk and saw Li Can standing under the tree praying, so he quietly ran behind him and patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Li Can, what wish did you make?" ”

Li Can turned his head and smiled suddenly, and said slowly: "I hope Lin Yueyuan will never marry in this life." ”

Lin Yueyuan was stunned, slapped him on the chest angrily, and said with a tense face: "I knew you didn't have a good heart." Then she didn't know whether it was a joke or a serious one, but she smiled generously and promised, "I will grant you this wish on behalf of Yue Lao." The words were full of neatness and cheerfulness, without a trace of love and sorrow.

Li Can's hands are dashing, full of style, if Wu takes the wind. He laughed, and his phoenix eyes were as bright as morning stars: "Really? I'm only halfway there, and there's still half of it. ”

Lin Yueyuan listened to him motionlessly with a pair of big eyes. Li Can leaned over to her ear and whispered, "If God punishes her for having to marry someone in this life, then marry me." ”

The heat in his mouth sprayed on her face with his words, she was ashamed and annoyed, stared at her face calmly, and stepped back and shouted: "Li Can, what the hell are you talking about?" ”

Li Can strode forward, took her hand brutally, stared into her eyes with bright eyes, and said domineeringly: "Lin Yueyuan, you don't want to marry anyway, then I'll treat you as if you're waiting for me." ”

Lin Yueyuan was in a hurry, his arm was injured and he couldn't resist hard, so he had to pinch the flesh on his hand with his nails. He endured the pain, and the expression on his face was not confused. Lin Yueyuan was furious, and instinctively made a girl's coquettish action, grabbed his hands, and sent a mouthful of silver teeth up.

Li Can couldn't help but let go of his hand, Lin Yueyuan retreated in embarrassment, shook his hand and said angrily: "You don't pretend to be sentimental." She turned around and walked back in a panic, Li Can smiled brightly, and shouted loudly behind him: "Lin Yueyuan, you promise me, you will always wait for me." ”

Lin Yueyuan didn't look back, his steps quickened and shouted casually: Anyway, I won't get married. ”

Li Can grinned happily at her anxiously departing back, he looked up at the bright moon in the sky, raised the red ribbon in his hand, and carefully put every word on the ribbon in his heart by the moonlight, and said secretly: "Lin Yueyuan, you know that I don't want to part with you, but this trip to Jinling is the tiger's lair and Longtan, and I am not sure that I can move Li Tan." In case Li Tan is greedy for life and afraid of death, or if he doesn't believe it at all, if I can take away my father's old subordinates, I can still fight, but if not, I can only die. If you flee back to Shunan, at least you can save your life. You and I are here to say goodbye, is Pengshan thousands of miles, I hope you are safe and cherished, I hope you and I can have a day of reunion in this life. ”

Lin Yueyuan, who was a thief, quietly opened a crack in the temple door and dodged in, but she still let Li Min catch her, she was embarrassed and didn't know how to deal with herself, Li Min's smile only lasted for a moment, and then fell silent. She sighed and said: "If you have to separate sooner or later, it is better to be ruthless, this farewell is thousands of rivers and mountains, the sky and the south and the north, how to dissolve this long lovesickness, picking up the stars and going with the seventh brother, although the death is tragic, but the torment of lovesickness is a good thing." ”

Lin Yueyuan pretended to rub her head briskly, and said with a smile: "Don't think about it all day long, you little child. ”

Li Min sat back in the quilt, hugged Li Tan's urn and rubbed it gently, and sighed sadly: "In the end, there is more pain, less joy, more separation, less gathering, more lack of the moon than the full moon, and regret is greater than consummation." Brother Seven's love for you is incomprehensible, Brother Can's unrequited lovesickness for Brother Seven, Brother Can's parting with our life and death, I think it's more painful than death, Brother Seven used his life to exchange us, and I didn't think it was interesting. ”

"You must not do such a mournful word." Lin Yueyuan said busily.

Li Min is smart and precocious, and her mind is heavier than ordinary people, and the words she said were a little bit of Chu Yunxi's despair that day, and she said with a straight face, "Death is lighter than a feather, heavier than Mount Tai, life and death are a major matter, how can it be said easily." The cousin killed the benevolent, sacrificed himself for righteousness, and followed the stars loyally, all for the justice of heaven, not just for the personal feelings of his children. And we are not born in the world like ants. Li Can's departure is to reveal the edict of the former emperor to the world, and urgently recruit people of insight in the world to fight against Li Jin, a traitor who killed his father and mother, and usurped power and seized the throne, and we should do our best to support it. As a descendant of the Li family, you should also do your best, and it is your unshirkable responsibility to capture thieves and protect the country. In this world, the vast mountains and rivers are still waiting for you to protect and save, how can you say that life is boring for this little love, parting sadness. ”

Li Min bowed his head and remained silent, as if he was not moved.

Lin Yueyuan also knew that she was hurting in her heart, how could she not be in pain, but how could the pain of one person be worth the rise and fall of the world and the sorrow of all the people. A person is not only born in the world, but also knows his responsibilities and missions, which is the meaning of life.

In the early morning of the second day, Li Can got up very early, and Lin Yueyuan and Li Min had also woken up when they heard the sound of the ground in the morning, but the two tacitly understood that they were sleeping, and it was difficult to face the gloom of parting.

Li Can put the burden on his back and opened the temple door, and there was a thriving new spring scene outside the window. He looked back, approached Lin Yueyuan, who was still pretending to be asleep, took out the red ribbon in his arms and tied it to her palm, and then tucked the corners of his back for the two, got up and dressed properly, and walked firmly and confidently into the mountains and forests in the spring light.

His footsteps walked away, Lin Yueyuan immediately lifted the quilt and got up, she unfolded the red ribbon tied in the palm of her hand, saw the verses on it, and had mixed feelings in her heart, she took the ribbon into her arms and chased it out.

She stood on the hillside and saw Li Can's blue figure gradually blending into the mountains and forests, and suddenly gave birth to the pride of thousands of people, and at that moment she felt that he had entered her heart like a lonely hero.