fifty-five

After the New Year, Zhao Chengjin was one year older, but this did not mean that he could go to Jiangnan with Lord Rui. For this matter, he has been angry with Rui Wangye for several days, Rui Wangye has not let go, Zhao Cheng is so angry, stalemate for a few days without seeing results, Zhao Chengjin had to find himself under the stairs, and took the initiative to find Rui Wangye and said that if he brought him more gifts, he would not follow.

Lord Rui readily agreed to him.

This time, the emperor's southern tour was very large, and most of the nobles in the capital went, not to mention the prince, and even the queen was moved. In this way, wouldn't the emperor be free to expand the harem? Xu You thought to himself.

In March, the weather gradually warmed up and returned to spring, the team of the southern tour went out of Beijing in a mighty way, the capital suddenly became clean, Princess Rui was bored and lived in the house for a few days, and finally couldn't help it, and led a few children out of the city to live in the Grange on the outskirts of Beijing.

This grange is said to be in the suburbs of Beijing, in fact, it is not close, the carriage walked all day to arrive, but Zhao Chengjin did not complain at all, he was as happy as a bird that was let go, and the road has been half-lifted the curtain to look curiously at the side of the road, even if he saw a cow, he had to shout in fuss for a long time.

Although Zhao Yanran is a few years older than him, she is not much more stable than Zhao Cheng, and the two children are chattering all the way, saying that they are so unhappy.

This grange is the wedding of Princess Rui, there are more than 20 hectares of land, there are more than a dozen hills spread around, there is a blue lake under the mountain, clear to the bottom, swimming fish swaying, blue lotus beckoning, against the surrounding undulating mountains, it is really a unique flavor. Xu You liked it as soon as he got off the carriage.

The place where they lived was a manor house by the lake, not very tall, but it was a spacious place, surrounded by dense woods, and a large green in the shade, full of life. This time, the teapot and the two parrots didn't follow, Zhao Chengjin only brought Shen Rong's small servant and Cuiyu and Xue Fei's two maids, and after a few people lived in one room each, there were still a lot of empty rooms in the courtyard, which seemed a little deserted.

But Zhao Chengjin didn't seem to think so at all, the second day after coming to the Grange, he played with a group of half-grown children in the Zhuangzi, rushing around all day long, either digging earthworms to fish and catch shrimp, or following them to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, but for a few days, the little white face was tanned, and his temperament was wild, and he basically couldn't think of coming back until it was dark.

Princess Rui didn't care about him, Zhao Yanran went to her angrily to complain, and Princess Rui waved her hand indifferently: "Brother Shun is difficult to come out, and he plays with his temperament, so there is no need to be restrained." When he returns to the city in the future, it will be difficult for him to come out again. Seeing Zhao Yanran's angry expression, she couldn't help but smile and asked, "Is Brother Shun unwilling to take you there?" ”

Zhao Yanran was broken by her words, and suddenly blushed, pouting and saying a little awkwardly: "Brother Shun is not at home with that group of mud-legged people all day long, like a wild monkey, you don't care about him, mother, he can't even take care of the snow group now." ”

Princess Rui smiled, "The mountain is full of grass, and as soon as the snow ball comes out, make sure that you get lice all over it, and it is right for Brother Shun not to take her out of the mountain." Isn't there no trouble with the snow balls? ”

"It's a cat, and it knows what to say." Zhao Yanran didn't find anyone to support her from Princess Rui, she was a little disappointed, and muttered: "I brought almond cake over if I knew that I had come here." ”

The family lived in the grange for more than a month, and there were several letters from Prince Rui, and there were even all kinds of small things, some for Princess Rui, some for Zhao Yanran and Zhao Chengjin's sisters and brothers, and even Brother Ping, who was in infancy, got a few brightly colored cloth tigers, and giggled happily.

Zhao Chengjin felt that the Grange was simply too fun.

However, the good times didn't last long, at noon in the scorching sun, Zhao Chengjin was greedy for fun, and actually followed those children to the lake to learn to cast nets, but he didn't want to fall into the lake, and fell down as soon as he got home.

In Xu You's memory, Zhao Chengjin rarely gets sick, even has few colds and coughs, he is simply a child who can't be worry-free, but once such a child gets sick, it will be terrible, he started a high fever that night, and was so scared that Princess Rui stayed by his side all night, and it was only slightly better on the morning of the second day.

Sick like a mountain, sick like a thread, Zhao Chengjin became a weak little white rabbit overnight, and was locked in the yard by Princess Rui all day long and not allowed to go out. Although his illness has been improving, for some reason, every afternoon there is always a little low-grade fever, and his spirit is wilted, and sometimes he can fall asleep while playing with Xu You while leaning on the bed. That weak and pitiful little appearance made Xu You feel very distressed.

She didn't go out much, she stayed by Zhao Chengjin's side from morning to night, Shen Rong found a lot of books out of nowhere, all kinds of wild histories and good words, he moved a stool and sat on the edge of the bed, and read it to Zhao Chengjin word by word. Xu You also listened to it by the way, and then he was completely shocked by the divergent thinking and imaginative writing of the ancients!

After Shen Rong read two articles, even he felt that these stories were not suitable for children of * years old, so he silently put all the books away.

At the end of April, Zhao Chengjin's body still did not recover, but Princess Rui received a letter from the capital, Princess Rui's father Kang Guogong was seriously ill, and Xu You lost color when he saw Princess Rui for the first time.

Because Zhao Chengjin's health had not healed and it was difficult to hurry, Princess Rui only took Zhao Yanran and Brother Ping back to the city, and left a few guards and subordinates to serve in Zhuangzi, and carefully told Shen Rong and Xue Fei before leaving. Zhao Chengjin comforted her with a pale face, "Mother, the child is fine, and when the child gets better, I will go back to see my grandfather immediately." ”

He insisted on sending Princess Rui and her party out of Zhuangzi all the way, and then he drooped his head and went back to the house, wilting and unable to lift his spirits at all, and said to Xu You with a bitter face: "I don't know how long it will take for Lu Dao to go back." ”

Everyone thought it was just a short parting, so they didn't say goodbye seriously, and for many years afterward, Princess Rui couldn't help but burst into tears whenever she thought of it.

The accident happened that night, Xu You couldn't tell what time it was, it seemed that just after midnight, there was a sudden quarrel in the grange, there was a noise outside, and the sound of panicked footsteps came from far and near, Xu You woke up immediately, and slipped out of the bed. Zhao Chengjin also opened his eyes, sat up a little confused, stretched out his hand, and took Xu Yu into his arms.

"What's going on out there?" Zhao Cheng whispered to Xu You: "It seems that something has happened." ”

As soon as his words fell, Shen Rong outside had already rushed in, he seemed to have just gotten up from the bed, with a piece of clothing on his body, his hair was a little messy, and the expression on his face was forcefully calm, "Lord Shizi, hurry up, we have to leave immediately." ”

Something is wrong! Xu You thought, but her heart gradually sank.

Zhao Chengjin didn't panic at all, he didn't even let Shen Rong wait before he got up and dressed, and found a dagger from the cabinet to hide it at his waist, and then called "Xuetuan", Xu You immediately jumped into his arms.

Out of the courtyard, several guards had already assembled, and even the carriage was ready, Zhao Chengjin didn't ask much, and got into the car with a small face.

After the carriage left the grange and got on the road, Shen Rong took a deep breath and slowly said to Zhao Cheng: "Someone from the capital reported that His Majesty was assassinated, and the Qin family framed the prince for rebellion, and the capital has been controlled by them. ”

Xu You was suddenly shocked, the Qin family? The queen's family rebelled! But didn't the queen mother follow the emperor to the south of the Yangtze River? So, even his own daughter has become an outcast?

Zhao Chengjin hugged Xu You tightly and didn't speak, his expression looked quite calm, not even like a child under the age of nine at all, but Xu You could feel his flustered and beating heart, his arms were a little tight, his palms were sweaty, and even trembling slightly, but his face was still calm, and his voice was no different from usual, "Where are we going now?" ”

"Probably going south." Shen Rong thought about it, replied in a low voice, paused, and said to Zhao Cheng solemnly: "I'll ask." He lifted the curtain and said a few words to the guards outside, and soon came back and said in a low voice: "The eldest brother of the guards said that the Qin family must have set up an ambush on the official road, and I am afraid that we will have to detour." ”

Zhao Cheng nodded and did not speak again.

Sure enough, the carriage didn't go long before it changed to a mountain road, which was so rugged and bumpy that it was almost about to turn out the overnight meal.

Shen Rong kept looking at Zhao Chengjin, for fear that he would feel uncomfortable, but Zhao Chengjin never said a word, sitting quietly in the car, but his two hands involuntarily patted Xu You's body.

After just going all the way, there was finally some light on the horizon, but the guards outside were obviously getting more and more nervous, almost as if they were facing a great enemy, and the air seemed to be stretched into a string, which could break at any time.

When the hooves of the pursuers came, Zhao Chengjin didn't even frown, he quietly let go of Xu You's tightly bound arms, and said to her in a very low voice: "After a while, they will chase after you, and you will run." You know how Lu Dao went back to Beijing to find me, right? ”

Shen Rong's heart jumped suddenly, and he lowered his head and secretly looked at Zhao Chengjin's expression, he didn't look like a *-year-old child at all now, and he was surprisingly calm. Xu You was silent, close to him, a little nervously stretched out his paws and sharpened his nails.

Can her nails cut a person's throat?

The sound of the pursuers getting closer and closer, and even sharp arrows whistling in, "thud-" nailed to the wall of the carriage with a muffled sound. Some guards turned their horses' heads to fight with the pursuers, and the sound of fighting suddenly entered his ears, and Shen Rong's heart trembled.

The horse in front of him suddenly neighed, and then rushed forward like crazy, Shen Rong really couldn't help but quietly opened the curtain and glanced outside, with the faint light in the sky, he could vaguely see a long arrow stuck in the horse's hip, and with the horse's wild gallop, the blood continued to flow.

What to do? Shen Rong's mind was blank, and he was stunned for a long time before he suddenly remembered something, and said to Zhao Cheng: "After a while, the carriage will stop a little, and you will jump out of the car, and I will go to lure the pursuers away." ”

Zhao Chengjin glanced at him, actually smiled rarely, and said, "It's useless, they recognize me." "He often goes in and out of the palace, how could the Qin family not recognize him? Shen Rong is a few years older than him, no matter his height and facial features, he is completely different, and he can be exposed with just one face, and when the enemy is angry, Shen Rong will definitely die.

"It's okay." Zhao Cheng involuntarily shook the dagger on his waist, "Even if they are really caught, they don't dare to mess around." ”

As soon as the words fell, the carriage suddenly staggered and fell forward, and the two teenagers in the car did not stabilize for a while, and were thrown out by inertia and slammed to the ground. Although Xu You's body was fat, the cat was more flexible than a human, so he jumped out of the car window, landed on the ground lightly and skillfully, and then quickly jumped to Zhao Chengjin's side to check his injuries.

"Meow-" She whispered twice in worry and agitation, and patted his face with her paws.

Zhao Cheng groaned heavily, opened his eyes, saw Xu You, and grinned at her reluctantly, "I'm fine." He tried to move his hands and feet, as if the injury was not serious, so he slowly got up again, touched the back of the head that was injured and looked around, and soon saw Shen Rong lying on the ground not far away.

"How are you?" He groped his way to Shen Rong's side and patted his face, Shen Rong screamed in pain, "...... Legs, legs may be broken. ”

The sky was still dark, Zhao Cheng couldn't see his wound clearly, and he didn't dare to touch it, so he turned him on his back with difficulty and said, "I'll carry you away." ”

Shen Rong refused to die, and said hurriedly: "Lord Shizi, you run away, the pursuers are looking for you, even if you arrest me, they won't do anything to me." You run fast with the snowballs, and there must be market towns and villages out of this forest, and you want to change your clothes, so that they don't find you. ”

"No—" Zhao Cheng said categorically.

"If you don't leave, then I will ...... I'll jump right from here! Shen Rong was in a hurry, saw the cliff on the other side of the road, his eyes lit up, and he immediately threatened.

Zhao Chengjin didn't speak, but there was still a look of disapproval on his face.

Seeing this, Shen Rong was about to struggle to climb to the edge of the cliff, Zhao Cheng was afraid that he would come to the real thing, so he quickly stopped drinking, gritted his teeth, and said to Shen Rong, "Take care!" With that, he stomped his foot and turned his head and ran.

A man and a cat quickly got into the forest, the forest was still very dark, and the road was almost invisible, and Zhao Chengjin stumbled. He was already young, and his body had not yet healed, so he could not afford such a trek, and after walking for a short time, he was out of breath, coughing, and sat on the ground.

Xu You didn't rush him, squatted down next to him quietly, and gently patted the back of his hand to comfort him. Zhao Chengjin wanted to cry a little, but after looking at Xu You on the side, the tears did not fall after all, he only made a few circles in his eyes and forced him back, and said to Xu You with a smile hard: "Xuetuan, don't worry, I will definitely be able to escape." With that, he stood up again, took a deep breath, made a walking gesture towards Xu You, and once again resolutely burrowed into the forest.

I don't know how long I walked, the sun had risen, and the sunlight shone into the forest through the dense branches, and the sweat on Zhao Chengjin's body was layer after layer, and his clothes had already been soaked.

Not far away, there was a faint sound of the murmuring of the stream, Zhao Chengjin suddenly became happy, bowed his head and said to Xu You: "Xuetuan, there is water!" As he spoke, he quickened his pace and ran forward.

A man and a cat ran to the brook and poured a belly of water without regard to the image, until the stomach was full, and then fell backwards and lay on the edge of the stream.

"Snow ball, I can't seem to walk anymore." Zhao Chengjin's voice was very low, and he looked weak.

Xu You was actually physically exhausted for a long time, but she couldn't show any weakness and discouragement now, she jumped on Zhao Chengjin with her thousand-pound limbs, and screamed at him with a loud voice, Zhao Chengjin was so noisy by her that he couldn't help it, so he had to smile bitterly, sat up with difficulty, and muttered in a low voice: "Zhilu has said Zhilu, I will leave immediately." ”

"Stand still—" A person suddenly appeared behind him, Xu Yu was startled, and glared at him fiercely in disbelief. She was too tired to observe the movements around her, and she didn't hear any sound, so she was stopped by her pursuers. Xu You was very angry, she stared at the person without blinking, it was a man who was not particularly strong, not tall, holding a crossbow in one hand aimed at Zhao Chengjin, holding a short knife in the other, and a rocket pinned to his waist......

Xu Yu clenched his claws and involuntarily stretched out his long nails.

Zhao Chengjin took a deep breath and didn't move.

The man glanced around a few times, and made sure that there was only a half-old child in front of him, and there was no other threat, so he put the crossbow away and said proudly: "It's really God's eyes, this luck was actually hit by Lao Tzu." It's a shame that no one else has followed this road, or else, this credit will be given—"

Before he finished speaking, Xu You suddenly became difficult, and lightning jumped over Zhao Chengjin's shoulder, waved his claws, and slashed at the man's neck with all his milking strength.

"Ahh

Zhao Chengjin also reacted quickly, took out the dagger on his waist and rushed forward, using all his strength to stab the dagger into the man's chest.

The accident came too quickly, everything happened in more than ten seconds, and Zhao Chengjin was stunned.

The surroundings suddenly fell silent, Zhao Chengjin suddenly looked down at the blood on his hands, wiped two handfuls on his body indiscriminately, and then knelt on the ground like a dream, and gently stroked the top of Xu You's head with his two hands like sifting chaff, and tears fell down without any expectations, "...... Snow...... Snow ......"

His throat was completely choked, and he couldn't say a complete word, so he looked at Xu Yu in a pool of blood, tears welling up.

Xu You also looked at him, she didn't know where she was hurt, that is, the pain on her body was terrible, it hurt everywhere, and she couldn't make a sound, she wanted to tell him not to cry, but when she opened her mouth, her throat was like a windmill "rustling", and the shadow of the young man in front of her was becoming more and more blurred in tears.

Xu Youzhi said that she seemed to be really going to die this time, she never thought that this day would come so early, she thought that she could accompany this child for many years, watch him grow up, and even watch him get married, just yesterday she thought that she would live happily for a long time, God sometimes really plays tricks on people.

In the past, I always heard people say that before people die, all the most important things in their lives, those pictures will be reproduced in front of them. Xu Yu died so quickly in his previous life that he was already dissipated before he could react, but this time, she really seemed to see what she looked like when she met Zhao Chengjin for the first time, when he was still so small, with a round little face, even his hands were chubby, squatting on the ground and feeding her with a deformed mung bean, and asked in a low voice: "Do you eat this?" ”

Although she is just a cat in this life, she has never said a word to him, although Xu You used to always complain about why she was so unlucky that she would become a cat, but now, Xu You thought, she does not regret being a cat at all, and does not regret accompanying this child to grow up little by little, she is just a little worried, without her company, will he be sad, lonely, and sad......

She used all the strength of her body and couldn't make a sound, and at the last time, she could only gradually close her eyes in Zhao Chengjin's grief-stricken howl. Those beautiful and simple past, those days of snuggling and companionship, finally ...... That's it, it's all over.

Is...... I'm not reconciled.

The author has something to say: I thought I could withstand this kind of petty abuse, but I found that I overestimated myself too much, I didn't have a little antibody at all, and I wrote hundreds of words of life and death to make myself cry, I don't abuse myself anymore, and I will write stupid white sweet essays in the future.

PS: Because the school arranged for me to defend at the end of the month, the revision of the thesis was not so urgent, so I hurried up to code the words, and I had to code out the manuscript when I went to the defense, and then, if there was no problem, it would be updated at noon recently. Eight o'clock in the evening was too pumping!!