48. Chapter 48
48 No more contact
The mountain breeze at night is very steep, and you can blow people through the cold at will.
The mountains are far less than the city, and the lights in the city are brilliant this night, but the mountains are still dark, and you can't even see a single figure. Oh no, it doesn't seem like it's accurate, because it's not like there's no one on the trail.
The one who fell in the middle of the road was the only one.
This is a man who can't tell whether he is alive or dead.
From a distance, he was a clear shadow, motionless and silent, only his sideburns and the hem of his clothes were blown by the wind from time to time. A crutch fell not far from him, making the scene seem like a pure accident.
An hour later, a second figure finally appeared on the trail. Unlike the one who didn't know whether to live or die, this figure was definitely a big living person, and a slender young woman.
Under normal circumstances, who would choose to climb a deserted mountain in the middle of the night?
The woman immediately spotted the person who had fallen in front of her, ran to the man as fast as she could, and lowered her body to find a small bottle from her baggage. She poured out a small pill from the vial, carefully flipped over the man's body, and put the pill into the man's mouth.
This lifeless man has a clean and dusty face, but the color of this face is extremely bleak. He was also different from ordinary people, the sleeve of his robe on the right side of his body hung limply on the ground, and there was nothing in it.
"Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu." The woman called out twice anxiously, put his left hand on her shoulder, lifted him a little bit, and led him to sit down on a large rock by the side of the road.
Xiao Yu didn't slowly open his eyes until this time, and weakly put on a pale smile at the woman: "Lan Ya." β
"Wait for me, I'll go find a big and small to pick you up." The woman named Lanya frowned and ran quickly back to the mountain path.
"Hmm." Xiao Yu nodded, but at this moment, he seemed to be struggling to even nod his head.
In less than half a moment, there was a little light and fire on the mountain path.
Coincidentally, with the big stone Xiao Yu sitting on as the boundary, there are stone steps on the way down the mountain, but when you go up the mountain, it becomes a gentle ramp. The two of them pushed a wooden wheelchair and hurriedly ran down the ramp, while Lanya followed them with a lamp.
The two of them shouted "Childe, Childe", both sweating profusely, and their little eyes were so frightened.
Xiao Yu also smiled lightly at the two of them, stood up with his small shoulders, and sat in a wheelchair with a lot of help.
"Childe, don't scare us! Fortunately, Sister Lanya is back, otherwise we wouldn't know what happened to you! The two little cubs pushed Xiao Yu back, and even their voices were crying.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Xiao Yu opened his mouth at this time, and his voice was very soft, slow, and reluctant.
"It's okay, I won't faint halfway." Lan Ya's eyes were so stern that she looked at who was trembling.
The light of the fire was in Lanya's hand, and her face was reflected. Lan Ya is about two or three years older than Xiao Yu, and her complexion is an interesting brown and bronze color. She also has a face that is obviously different from that of a woman in the Central Plains, this face has deep facial features, clear contours, and a rare exotic beauty, but at this time it is tense and cold, making people dare not take a second look.
Xiao Yu was quickly pushed back to the Qingya courtyard by a small person. Lan Ya glanced at the two children, threw a sentence of "he handed it over to me" to the two children, took the wheelchair from the two of them, pushed Xiao Yu into the room, and slammed the door shut.
"Hands." She only said one word to Xiao Yu coldly.
Xiao Yu sighed lightly and obediently put his left hand on the table. Lan Ya probed her fingertips into Xiao Yu's robe sleeve and pointed at the veins of his wrists, her brows furrowing more and more.
After a long time, she withdrew her hand, tightened her face, and said sharply: "Xiao Yu, if I hadn't fed you a Bailu Pill in time to restore your vitality for a while, it is very likely that you would never wake up again." You don't want your life, no one can save you. β
"How could it be, I was so desperate for my life." Xiao Yu smiled awkwardly, his voice low and out of strength.
"People who don't want to save their lives don't run out when they know they're in terrible shape. You've been eating candy lately! β
The only little bit of brilliance left in Xiao Yu's eyes gradually dimmed, but he still smiled: "Recently, the attacks have been more frequent than before, but they are not as exaggerated as Cheng DΓΉ." I went out today because of the old man's birthday, and I could see rare flowers, and I wanted to see them with her. β
"She? The girl you said had saved your life? β
"Well, that's her." Xiao Yu talked a lot, as if he was getting less and less energetic, "Speaking of her, I just asked you for her." She was injured a long time ago, and she was left with a long scar on her leg, do you have a way to help her get rid of it? β
"Don't talk, I can try it when I see her, before I see her, I don't care about others, just you. From now on, you're not allowed to go anywhere, just stay here for me. Lan Ya snorted coldly at him, and pushed the door out of the door.
Who knew that the two little cubs were eavesdropping on the door frame, Lan Ya opened the door, and the two of them were hit by the suddenly open door.
Lan Ya stared at the two children with her eyebrows: "If you two don't want to sleep, don't sleep!" I brought back a unique herb of Tianzhu, which has the effect of strengthening the foundation and replenishing qi and blood, you two will go with me to decoction medicine! β
The two little boys followed Lan Ya all the way to the other side of the courtyard, making sure that they were out of Xiao Yu's line of sight, and then grabbed the corner of Lan Ya's clothes and asked eagerly: "Sister Lan Ya, the son is really fine, right?" β
Lan Ya glared at the two of them: "To tell you the truth, your son's current body is much worse than when I left a year ago, if you two are really for his good, you should stop him from running around." β
"We ...... We stopped it, but he ...... He insisted on going out, and we couldn't stop him! β
"If you can't stop it this time, I don't want a next time."
"Mmmmmm, we promise to take a good look at him, Sister Lanya, hurry up and adjust your son's body!" The two little cubs nodded to death.
"Let me ask you, apart from going to the capital today, what else did he do a few days ago?"
"A few days ago, Gongzi was in the courtyard, and he didn't go anywhere, so every day he just drew a picture and passed a small note with a carrier pigeon."
"Pass a small note? To whom? Lanya raised an eyebrow.
"Who else could it be, isn't it Tang Ai of the Six Doors!"
"Listen, you two, his body is in urgent need of recuperation, and in the next few days, he is not allowed to get out of bed again, and he is not allowed to write any more small notes!"
When he brought the steaming medicine bowl to Xiao Yu, it was already the middle of the night.
Lan Ya stared at Xiao Yu with crossed hands, and only smiled with satisfaction when he pinched his nose and drank no scum left.
Xiao Yu sent the big and the small to go to sleep, got up from the wheelchair slowly, and was helped to the bed by Lan Ya. Lanya helped him remove the prosthetic leg of his right leg, and he didn't say anything.
Lan Ya looked at his stump, and her eyes gradually softened: "You obviously don't care for yourself at all, don't you feel pain when your knees are ground like this?" You've been in bed for the past two days, and you don't need to wear this leg for the time being. β
Xiao Yu replied "Okay", his expression was very quiet, and his voice did not ripple: "You say, it's okay for me to live for another ten or eight years, right?" β
Lan Ya was stunned and didn't answer for a while.
Xiao Yu said again: "There are no ten years or eight years, there must be three years and five years, right?" β
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"Not for three or five years?"
ββ¦β¦ I went back to Tianzhu this time to find an ancient prescription for you, and I finally gained something, and I believe it will help your body. What you have to do now is to leave everything behind and meditate. Lanya exited the room and gently closed the door.
"There are some things that you can't say and don't do." Xiao Yu slowly closed his eyes, muttered to himself helplessly, and then hooked the corners of his lips firmly, "But I will definitely live a long time, and I will live a long time with Tang Ai." β
The longevity of Xiao Qing, the son of the Great Heaven/Chaotian, was spent peacefully in the fireworks in the sky, and Tang Ai returned to the six doors and slept until the light of the day.
The next day, she got up early in the morning, and lay down by the window, as she had done the days before, waiting for the pigeon to fly to the table of its own accord.
But the strange thing is that until noon, the meat pigeon has not come. Tang Ai was disappointed, and he couldn't figure out the reason, so he only sat at the table and sulked.
At this time, a brother happened to pass by, reached in from outside the window and knocked on her desk: "Xiao Tang, the commander of the pro-army Commander's Mansion is here again, and he is asking us Lord Liu about you." β
This person said that Xu Zhan Xu Zhan was here, Tang Ai was bumped into by him and was idle, and he couldn't refuse guests, so he could only invite him into the house to sit.
In the past, when Tang Ai and Xu Zhan met, they basically talked about official business. Both of them are good young people who are willing to shed their blood for the country and the people, and they certainly have a common topic when they talk about the country's construction of a legal system and economy. But once they don't talk about serious things and talk about private matters, it is like a gap between the two that can't be broken or broken, in short, except for national affairs and people's lives, they don't have any other common language.
Xu Zhan is not good at words, and he can't pick up the conversation at all. And Tang Ai was thinking about the meat pigeon, and he didn't want to be speechless, and in an instant, the atmosphere in the room became awkward again. The two of them were relatively speechless, only staring at each other with wide eyes.
In the end, Tang Ai couldn't stand the cold scene, and pulled out Xiao Yu as a topic: "Brother Xu, I met Xiao Yu yesterday, I think he is very energetic, nothing is wrong." β
"That's really good, it seems that he has been recuperating quite well in the past few days, and his body is no longer in serious trouble." Xu Zhan smiled sincerely.
However, after one person finished speaking, he had nothing to say.
Tang Ai always glanced out the window in a hurry, hoping that the meat pigeon would come soon, and inadvertently put Xu Zhan aside.
Xu Zhan sat precariously for a while, and finally opened his mouth with a gurgle: "Brother Tang, on the first day of the first month of next month, we will open the stage with the spring class in Xiao/Xiangguan, and ...... together Let's go to the theater together. β
Tang Ai patronized and paid attention to the fat pigeon, and didn't hear what Xu Zhan said clearly, so he nodded casually.
Xu Zhan's expression changed suddenly, as if the emperor had just issued a holy decree and made him a first-class duke.
"Brother Tang, that ...... I'll take my leave. He walked out of Tang Ai's room with gurgling steps.
Tang Ai came back to his senses, and he couldn't see Xu Zhan for a long time, but the big meat pigeon still couldn't wait left and right. She looked up at the sky with a puff of air, and did not see a single pigeon hair until her neck was broken.
At this time, there was a lot of movement in the front hall of the six doors, and it turned out that the "Dynasty Times" had received special approval and sent two street detectives to the six doors to do an exclusive interview, one of whom was Yan Diejin.
Mr. Liu was the main interviewee of this interview, and other colleagues also said a few words. Tang Ai listened to the sound in the hall and always felt that something was wrong, but she had nothing to do, so she didn't want to get involved in it, so she just chose to close the door and continue to look up at the sky.
At this moment, a shadow suddenly flashed outside the window, but it was not the meat pigeon that Tang Ai was looking forward to.
The person who came was Yan Diejin.
"Lord Xiao Tang, I, I'll ask you one thing, just one!" He blinked his round eyes and pleaded.
Tang Ai didn't know what this kid wanted to do, and he couldn't hide, so he had to say: "If it's about the case, I really don't have anything to say, I'm on vacation these days." β
"No, no, no, it's not about the case, yes, it's about Lord Xu! Lord Xu...... Why has he been coming to you so often lately? Yan Diejin's face flushed, like a little girl.
"Uh......" Tang Ai was also asked. Why Xu Zhan always comes to her is really a question worth thinking about.
She looked at Yan Diejin and was wrong, and she didn't know how to answer: "That, Xiao Yan, me and Master Xu...... It's a friend. β
Yan Diejin's eyes widened: "It's just ...... Are you a friend? β
When he asked, Tang Ai was even more confused: "Can you still ...... Is it something else? β
Yan Diejin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly changed her face, and put on a smile on her face: "Hahaha, that's great!" Don Jr., thank you so much! You're busy, I won't bother you! β
After he finished speaking, he jumped up and ran away, not taking a single cloud with him, leaving Tang Ai alone in a daze.
Tang Ai stupidly opened his mouth half-open, and it took a long time before he could close his mouth.
Today, when she met Xu Zhan and Yan Diejin, none of them were normal. There is also the dead man Xiao Yu, who said that she would send a fat pigeon to send a small note, but there was no bird feather at night, she was really going to be to death!
Seeing that it was as dark as she could speak, she closed the window and fell asleep with a long nest of breath.
It was another morning, and Tang Ai opened the window again to look at the sky. The weather was nice on this day, the sky was cloudless, and you could see everything clearly when you flew in. It is true that birds fly by from time to time in the sky, but none of them are the fat and fat pigeon.
Tang Ai had itchy teeth and liver pain, his fist smashed the table, the table opened a corner, his heel stomped on the ground, and the ground was dented.
Master Liu came to her again, saying that the other siblings of the six doors were busy chasing down the felons, and there were a few small errands that no one did, and seeing that she had not packed her luggage to go home, he wanted to ask her to reluctantly deal with these small cases.
Tang Ai looked at Lord Liu's small eyes, and could only say to him, "Don't worry, adult." Now for her, it's better to do something than to be stupid and wait.
So within this day, she sent Granny Li, who didn't remember her home, home, to find the lost chicken for Aunt Zhang, and helped Lao Wang next door identify her own son.
But when she sat down at the table wearily, the fat pigeon did not fly. Not on this day, nor on the third, fourth, fifth, and third, fourth, and fifth days thereafter.
Day 6 and Day 7...... First.
Tang Ai's patience was at its limit. She wants to say goodbye to Lord Liu on this day, and she also wants to see in person what Xiao Yu is doing! It's a pity that she remembered both of these things, but she forgot about Xu Zhan's appointment to listen to the play.
The Xishan courtyard was as peaceful and pleasant as ever, and before Tang Ai entered the courtyard gate, he saw two moving quilts, one wide and one narrow, in the courtyard.
The quilt entered the house, but out of the house came out of the two little cubs, who were carrying the quilt into the house just now.
The courtyard is piled up with clumps of fallen leaves, which adds a bit of depression to this elegant courtyard. There was a wooden wheelchair next to the stone platform in the courtyard, and the person sitting in the wheelchair was the person Tang Ai was looking for.
Xiao Yu sat in a wheelchair, calm and distant. And on the stone bench beside him, there was a beautiful woman Tang Ai didn't know. The woman and Xiao Yu were very close, and looking at Tang Ai, Xiao Yu and the woman were simply close together.