According to rumors in Tiancheng, the four princes went to a neighboring country, but they were attacked on the way and disappeared

The wait for the three-day appointment was much quicker than expected.

I held a simple burden, and according to General Liu's instructions last night, when I entered the tunnel for the last time in the mansion, I reclosed the mechanism hidden behind the entrance of the tunnel.

This means that the only feasible way to use this tunnel next time is to enter through General Liu's mansion on the other side.

The road to this port is blocked!

I don't have time to think about the turmoil that will be caused in the courtyard after the disappearance of such a big living person.

I didn't have time to think about what the expression on Mama Xu's face would be.

How will someone in the palace who has always regarded this mansion as a potential bait be to be angry?

- At least after dawn!

This is not the scope of my worries, at this moment, the only thing in my heart is the person who is not around!

I walked briskly along the tunnel to the house where I had been going for several days.

Unexpectedly, this time, only General Liu was waiting for me in the small courtyard.

He was the same as that day, wearing a parent's light blue robe, since seeing his image, the original black clothes in his mind obviously even his temperament has softened a little.

That's the magic of the costume change!

He also looked at my clothes, and when he saw the package I was holding in my hand, and both of them knew what I had to accomplish today, he lowered his voice and said, "Childe has left the city and is waiting twenty miles away. ”

I lowered my eyes, suppressed the worry in my heart and asked him, "Xiao Chu, was his injury better when he left?" ”

General Liu didn't answer me, hesitated for a moment and said, "You need to change your outfit." ”

"You should have heard some rumors in the city, so I need to stay in Yingtian recently, and I can't escort you, but I have already arranged for the people and boats to answer."

He pronounced the words clearly and said in a soft tone: "The gate of the city has been very tight these days. "I know the boss of Yingtian Juxianzhai, and I happened to send a convoy to set off today. You change your outfit and go out with the convoy. ”

He walked back and forth a few steps with his hands in his hands, and stood firmly by the flowerbed: "There will be no big problem at the gate of the city. ”

"He'll be waiting for you on the boat, and when he arrives, he can tell my men to sail."

As the carriage passed the city gates, I looked vigilantly at the large group of patrolling guards.

This time, I really felt the tension in Yingtian's atmosphere, like an arrow on the bow.

I took a carriage that went to the south to purchase goods from the Juxian Study, a time-honored brand in Tiancheng.

The person who followed the car was the housekeeper of the study, and I was dressed as a little maid in the car.

There were three wagons in the procession, and I was on the last of them.

In normal times, such an inconspicuous carriage should be able to pass through the level quickly. But the last few days have been different. The guards of the city questioned and examined us carefully for a while before they would let us go.

But there is also a mystery in the position of following the car. When the guards checked, it was obvious that the first car was the most serious, followed by the second one, and the one I was sitting on. Their hasty inquiry was over.

I noticed that there were a few other small guys in the car, each of them was thin and delicate, and I had done some modifications, so it was really not conspicuous in the crowd.

General Liu naturally didn't go with the car, and he didn't even say a word when he handed me over to the study manager, thinking that he had already contacted me properly.

After leaving the city, my nervous mood was completely relaxed, and I followed the carriage for more than ten miles. The person who answered me was waiting on the way as General Liu said.

After changing the car, the driver sped up and sped all the way to take me to where Xiao Chu was.

I was in the bumpy carriage, dissolved my hair, and without a comb, I could only pick up my hair with my fingers and simply straighten it up. Then he wiped the marks on his face.

The speed was very fast, just like General Liu said, but after two hours, I arrived at my destination.

When the car was stopped, I quickly got out of the car, and saw the boat moored under the trees by the lake in the distance, and I quickened my pace and ran straight there.

At this moment, the morning sun was rising, the lake was still steaming and white mist was swirling, and there was only one person waiting for me in the bow of the boat.

After saluting me, the dark-skinned young man reported himself to his home, saying that he was a subordinate of General Liu and was in charge of escorting the boat.

When I opened the heavy curtain of the cabin, I found that it was not large, but it was delicately furnished, and it looked like a room.

Xiao Chu was sitting cross-legged at the table, and when he saw me coming in, he hurriedly got up, I ran a few steps and leaned down, and also knelt beside him.

Tilting my head to look at his complexion, I frowned and grabbed his wrist and said, "Last night looked better than now, what do you think?" ”

Xiao Chu smiled, stared at me with a pair of eyes for a few seconds, and said softly: "Out of Yingtian, I'm in a good mood." ”

Obviously I answered the wrong question, and I was confused by his smile, but I couldn't criticize his words!

Lowering my head, I took the teapot on the table and poured myself a cup of tea, bowed my head and held it, hiding the nervousness in my heart, and I drank it slowly in small sips.

When he got closer, he could clearly smell the faint smell of medicine on Xiao Chu's body, and he said in a low voice: "Xiao Ling'er, raise your head." ”

I was stunned, I looked at him according to the words, Xiao Chu looked at my face carefully, and stroked a few strands of messy broken hair on my forehead, he couldn't help but laugh and took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it to me.

I suddenly realized that I must have not wiped off the makeup I had just passed through the city gate, and then I remembered that the subordinate of General Liu at the bow of the ship looked at me calmly, his face turned uncontrollably red, and he hurriedly turned his head to look for something like a mirror in the cabin that could reflect his face.

Xiao Chu held my movements to get up, he held my jaw and put my face directly at him, his bright eyes contained a smile, almost wanting to make people ignore his pale lips.

The movements of his hands were very gentle, and he wiped them unhurriedly.

After a few moments, he let go of me and whispered, "Okay." ”

He said yes, yes, there wasn't even a mirror in the cabin, what else could I say?

The boat was gentle, looking out through the window, and had already set off out of the big lake, passing along the river, with peaks and mountains on both sides.

Recalling his sentence just now, "Out of Yingtian, I'm in a good mood", I couldn't help but pull the corners of my mouth.

After hesitating, I whispered, "Xiao Chu, were you injured a few days ago?" ”

has been cooperating with him in acting, but now one is out of the sky, and the other is that the third person on the ship is firmly stationed outside, and he has no time and will not notice the movement in the cabin.

Between two people, there should be no need to continue to conceal it.

There was a moment of confusion in Xiao Chu's eyes, and then he pulled the corners of his mouth and said, "It's almost good." ”

The devil believes in him!

I frowned and said, "When I saw you three days ago, I felt that something was wrong at the time, but now I actually told me that it is almost good, are you an immortal?" ”

Xiao Chu pondered for a moment, rubbed his forehead and said, "It's not the first time I've been injured, and I've had no less than five or six major and minor injuries over the years." "Besides, you know, I know how to heal, and I am measured."

I was angry, clenched my fists and wondered whether to sell General Liu, so I simply asked him directly how he could use strong medicine to suppress his injuries casually, and swallowed the words when they came to my mouth.

promised that he would not break it, and betraying others at this time would inevitably be a little unjust.

I hung my head in despair.

Xiao Chu saw that the expression on my face changed and changed, the corners of his mouth hooked, there was silence in the cabin, Xiao Chu moved, as if he remembered, I quickly raised my hand to support him and said, "You sit well, what do you move?" ”

He turned his head to look at me and said helplessly, "Xiao Ling'er, aren't you hungry?" I went out of town in the morning, and it was almost noon by now. ”

"Where to put the food, you stay well, don't move, sue me, I'll get it."

After a simple snack with tea, he summoned the black-faced guard who was the boatman, but he refused.

"Military discipline is strict," Xiao Chu leaned on the couch and heard me touch a nail, and said with a smile, "He doesn't dare." "It's not in Yingtian, it's not on the march, there aren't so many rules."

With uncertainty in my tone, I whispered.

That being said, I still think Xiao Chu always has a point, and there is no need to argue with him about these things.

I couldn't make people hungry, so I brought a few snacks and tea to the stern of the boat.

The guard's dark complexion could not tell whether he was blushing or not, but he did not refuse with the righteous words just now, bowed his head and took what was in my hand, and also whispered thanks

As the sky began to darken, I walked to the window of the cabin and looked out, and the green peaks in the sunlight during the day seemed to be slowly blurred as if the light patterns on the ink paintings had added a heavy brush.

Night fog also began to fill the river.

Xiao Chu's gaze swept along the crack in the window that I had opened, and he said in a low voice: "Xiao Ling'er, go to the stern of the boat and say something, find a place where the water is gentle and dock temporarily for the night, and continue to hurry tomorrow morning." “

When I came back from the stern of the boat, I saw Xiao Chu getting up from the couch, and hurriedly ran over to hold his arm, he didn't object, and said lightly: "Go to the table and grind the ink for me." ”

"It's so late, why don't you rest early, if you want to write a letter, I can ghostwrite, who are you going to write to?"

Xiao Chu smiled: "I can't ask you to ghostwrite, and besides, it's not a letter." ”

"What's that going to do?"

"I'll be on the outskirts of the Lost Valley tomorrow morning, the waterways in the valley are difficult to walk, and I need to draw a map for the boatman."

"Lost Valley?" I looked at him in a daze, and then said, "Then why are you?" ”

Xiao Chu's deep eyes glanced at me and said, "What you are asking is why you didn't paint it earlier and give it to him directly?" ”

"That's right."

He held his forehead, and said in a low and soft voice: "Xiao Ling'er, the waterways in the valley are complex and not fixed. "The flow of water changes with the seasons and the amount of rainfall, and you have to look at the water level along the road to see the terrain to get an estimate, so how can you draw a map in advance?"