The city gate creaked open, Zhenshu suddenly felt a little involved in his heart, and when he looked back, he saw Du Yu running wildly on the street and chasing him. She turned around in a panic and followed the guards out of the city, saying in her heart: I'm afraid that I won't see you again in this life.

Du Yu sat silently in the bathroom for a long time, and suddenly patted his head and said to himself: "Since he wants to escape, he must not let Zhenshu know, but I am afraid that he will not settle here." Could it be in his Jade Mansion? ”

His mind moved, and he rushed out and waved his hand to Huang Zijing and the civil officials: "Quick, come with me to Xicheng." ”

The two of them panted and shouted all the way to Xicheng, the Jade Mansion is not far away, and they cross the royal street. He went to the gate and shouted a few times that no one opened the door, and the door was too thick and heavy to kick open, so he took a few steps back, jumped up the high wall and climbed into the wall, and then opened the gate and let Huang Zijing and others enter.

They ran all the way through the courtyard of the ownerless house to the back, and then passed by Yu Yichen's strange and dark building until they went out to the small building. Du Yu took the sword and picked out a few newly changed black clothes to look at, and only then did his heart settle in his chest, and he raised his hand and said, "Chase me." ”

At this time, it was already dark, and after about a mile or two out of the city gate, Yu Yichen dragged Zhenshu away from the team, and the two turned around and walked into the woods next to them. Sun Yuan led a horse and waited in the forest, and when he saw that Zhenshu was also following Yu Yichen, he hurriedly ran over and asked, "Father-in-law, do you want to find another horse?" ”

Yu Yichen waved his hand and asked, "Where is the ship?" ”

Sun Yuan said: "Now the canal has not been opened, and the ship is moored twenty miles downstream. ”

Yu Yichen hugged Zhenshu on the horse, and he also turned over on the horse, and did not say goodbye to Sun Yuan, turned around and patted the horse and left.

Zhenshu saw that he was arranged very tightly with one ring after another, obviously he had been ready to escape a long time ago, and he had lost his heart for a long time, but he was also happy at this time. He turned around and asked, "Why are you leaving without me?" ”

Yu Yichen smiled bitterly: "Escaping is not an easy thing. ”

Zhenshu also sighed and said apologetically: "Not only can I not help you, but I want to drag you down." ”

Yu Yichen rode a horse and comforted Zhenshu in his ear: "Although it is a bit of a drag, it also keeps me from being cold all the way." If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have dared to think that this short road out of Beijing would be feasible. ”

Zhenshu asked, "Where are we going on this trip?" ”

Only then did Yu Yichen ask, "Is your lotus lantern still there?" ”

Zhenshu pulled it out of his arms and said, "I've always pretended." ”

Yu Yichen bit her ear before saying, "Then put the lotus lantern first." ”

Zhenshu took the lotus lantern into his arms and said, "No, you have to tell me that you are going there, I can't tell you to leave me halfway." ”

Yu Yichen was speechless for a long time, and then asked leisurely: "Sending me here, are you still unwilling?" ”

Zhenshu raised his head and asked, "Are you really going to leave me?" ”

Yu Yichen said: "You shouldn't have such an obsession, I'm not a serious man after all, I can't give you what they can give you, you have both children and a husband, you should go back and live a stable life." ”

Zhenshu's tears blew the wind on both sides, and he said hatefully: "You begged me to marry you at the beginning, and now you say such things, you are really bad." ”

Yu Yichen smiled bitterly and said in his heart: I can't wait to leave you for a moment, and accompany you every day and night, but after all, where I want to go, I can't take a woman with a big belly.

Seeing that he was silent, Zhenshu persuaded again: "Everyone in the palace, even Du Guogong thinks that we are dead, if I go back, won't it be equivalent to telling them that you are not dead, so that they will come to track you down again?" ”

Yu Yichen said: "They will find out sooner or later, and there are many people in the palace who know about it, and they can't hide it for long, it's just a trick." ”

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the moon that was as clean and smooth as a jade plate on the fourth Shangyuan Festival after they met finally rose. Zhenshu looked up and muttered, "I can't believe it, I've known you for four years." ”

Yu Yichen smiled: "Four years? ”

Zhenshu said: "Well, the year I first arrived in Beijing, I met you in a bookstore. You have to trick me into reading for you. I didn't see you on the Shangyuan Festival the following year. In the third year, I called you to Chuanzi Lane. Now that I am in the fourth year, although I have done something wrong, you have also lied to me, why do you refuse to ask me now? ”

Yu Yichen said: "I'm sorry. ”

After traveling about twenty miles, although there is no obstacle on the road, the canal goes up to pull the checkpoint. Yu Yichen rode down his horse and walked for a long time, when he heard Zhenshu shouting: "There are many boats stuck here, but I don't know which one is the one that picks you up?" ”

Yu Yichen jumped off the horse, hugged Shangzhenshu and dismounted, and said, "Let's put the lotus lantern first." ”

The two led the horse along the bank of the canal for a long time, and when they reached a gentle slope, a round of bright moon in the sky reflected the sparkling waves on the canal, which was really a quiet interest only in heaven and earth, he shook Zhenshu's hand and said: "The clothes you bought and the money and things I gave you are all placed in the small courtyard of Sichuan Lane, and when I leave, you still go there to get them." That courtyard is what I left to you, if Du Yu dislikes you because of me and refuses to marry you, you can take your children to live there in peace. ”

When Zhenshu heard this, he was angry, shook Yu Yichen's hand and said, "It turns out that you have such a mind, and you still refuse to take me away." ”

Yu Yichen said again: "But I don't think he will either, if he is in the palace once today, I am afraid that he will treat you well from now on." ”

He took the flint velvet and beat it, stretched out his hand and asked for the lotus lamp to light it and put it in the river, before saying: "Du Yu is your good fate, and I am just a bad fate." After that, don't remember me. ”

Zhenshu saw that the lotus lamp had entered the water, and slowly floated into the canal from the side, slowly going downstream. Still shaking his head, he said, "I won't let you go alone, you have to take me with you." ”

Such a beautiful moonlight, sparkling river, the two of them were dressed in the clothes of the guards, and their faces were ridiculously smeared, and they were two hasty escapees who had ruined the scene. Yu Yichen reached out and scooped up the water to wipe the fat powder on her face for Zhenshu, rubbed it down little by little, wiped out her reddened skin, and then said: "I robbed you on this official road, and I asked you to go to Wanshou Temple to worship the Buddha, and that was the first time I kissed you." Everything you have done with me will probably be done with Du Yu, but this one, you must promise me that you will never go to the temple with him to worship the Buddha. I always hope that you can stick to one thing, and I'm the only one in it, okay? ”

Zhenshu shook his head and said, "It's not good, I don't want it, I'm going to go with you." Moving forward, let's do everything together, eat and sleep together, go up the mountain and worship the Buddha together. Don't you leave me behind, okay? ”

Yu Yichen didn't answer, pinched her two lips and kissed them for a long time, raised his head and held Zhenshu's face and looked at it, before he opened his mouth to say something, suddenly there was an arrow roaring behind him. As soon as he turned to protect the book, the whistling arrow drove into his back.

Zhenshu felt the slimy blood, and was frightened to help Yu Yichen drag him and said, "Let's run quickly and find a place to heal you." ”

Du Yu's voice came from not far behind him: "My lady is still in his hands, who the fuck will put cold arrows?" ”

When Yu Yichen heard Du Yu's voice, his heart was slightly calm, he pushed Zhenshu, and fell into the icy canal water on his back. At this time, it is still a cold winter, although the canal has not been closed because of the perennial transportation, but the river water is cold to the bone, and Qia Yu Yichen is the most afraid of cold. Zhenshu was anxious and angry, and ran with Yu Yichen's figure gradually drifting down, stretched out his hand and said, "Yu Yichen, swim here quickly, I'll pull you up." ”

He turned over with difficulty, and the arrow on his back floated on the water, and his whole body was suffocated in the river. Zhenshu saw that he drifted farther and farther away from him, the canal was wide and wide, and there was no possibility of going ashore if he drifted down, so he took off his outer clothes and threw them away, and took off the robe on his body, and took off his boots in his middle coat and was about to jump into the canal.

Du Yu caught up and took Zhenshu in his arms, still crying and thrashing, and put the cotton robe on her, and hugged her on the horse before leaving, when he saw Zhenshu pointing to the civil officials behind him and asked, "Who are you?" Who put the cold arrow? ”

A man with a bow in his back hand said in a cold voice: "It's down, He Peng." He was originally a eunuch, controlling the Inspectorate, and how many people did he harm in vain as an inspector? How many Confucian scholars and virtuous ministers have been killed, although I am a civil official, I dare to be the backbone of the country, and I also have a heart to serve the country and eliminate traitors, so I practice archery all day long, just to be able to shoot him one day. ”

He said so generously that Zhenshu was powerless to refute it.

She looked back, the river was sparkling, and the little lotus lamp was drifting somewhere. Between heaven and earth, without Yu Yichen, the emptiness made her a little cold.

Du Yu drew his sword and pointed at He Peng and said: "Today's matter, just a few of us know about it, I won't pursue you who almost shot my wife, and you don't want to investigate Yu Yichen's whereabouts, okay?" ”

He Peng nodded silently, still staring at the river with hatred from time to time.

Du Yu wrapped Zhenshu tightly in his arms, patted his horse, and went straight to the capital.

In the canal under the bright moon, there are no waves on the cold and biting water. He Peng still didn't want to go, so he stood on the bank of the canal with his bow behind him, watching the little lotus lantern float for a long time, and finally gradually extinguished because it was soaked in water and ran out of candles. He sighed softly and turned around, walking alone on the moonlit night road.

Everything about Yu Yichen and him ended there.