I looked at Xiao Chu with wide eyes, and I couldn't speak for a while.

This valley sounds very strange and has a strange name.

I made up my mind and said, "Since the place called Lost Valley is so weird, why should we go there?" ”

Xiao Chu had a smile on his lips, turned his head to look at me and said, "Go see an old man." "The deceased?" I repeated inexplicably.

What a person, living in such a weird place!

As Xiao Chu said just now, the waterways in the valley will also change according to the seasons and the amount of rainfall.

Doesn't that sound relative?

On the surface, this person lives in seclusion, and it is difficult for outsiders to go in and disturb him, but on the contrary, isn't it even more difficult for him to go out by himself?

There's no way to get the route, is there?

But I thought about it, Xiao Chu is an outsider who can also observe and judge the route through guò, and the one in the valley should be more accomplished than Xiao Chu.

Anyway, anyway, the first impression that person gave me was decided from the moment I heard the route of Lost Valley, one word, strange!

Retracting my thoughts, I raised my hand and took the ink block on the case, pasted it on the inkstone and ground it with water.

Xiao Chu saw that my subordinates kept moving, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he looked sideways out the window.

At this time, the night fog on the river surface could not be dissolved, and the coolness and humidity rushed through the cracks in the windows.

I lowered my head and was concentrating on grinding the ink, and the cold wind blew and I couldn't help but sneeze.

Glancing at Xiao Chu embarrassedly, he raised his hand to close the window, glanced at me, looked at my progress, and smiled: "It's okay, stop." “

I quickly moved away from the table, walked over to him, and said, "Next, you should draw a circuit diagram?" “

Xiao Chu nodded, walked to the table, took a pen and began to draw on the paper.

I don't want to be idle. Quietly watched him put down his pen.

There was silence in the cabin, and you could hear the sound of the side of the ship being beaten by the waves, and you could feel the gentle ripple of the cabin beneath your feet.

Xiao Chu used his pen steadily, drawing nothing more than the distribution of waterways in the valley, and he used arrows to point in the right direction.

I looked at it for a while and came to the conclusion that the meandering waterways look very complicated even on paper!

After watching it for more than half an hour, Xiao Chu's drawing was almost finished.

I nodded to the waterway above and asked, "Why didn't you finish painting and bypass this mountain?" What's next? “

Xiao Chu glanced at me. Patiently explained: "The waterway ends here. Then you need to go ashore. ”

I took a closer look at the line from where we had anchored, and saw that the zigzag around the east and west ended at the foot of the mountain I had just pointed out.

After reading the whole picture, I was relieved and said, "It's okay, although it sounds scary." With you, it seems that Lost Valley can't charm us. "Just go ashore."

Xiao Chu's gaze turned to the paper again, and I saw the corners of his mouth move, as if he had doubts about my statement, and I yawned and felt sleepy. "I went outside to deliver a blanket to the guards under General Liu, it was so cold in the cabin, and I am afraid it will be even worse in the second half of the night."

Xiao Chu nodded and didn't say much.

I carried a blanket outside the cabin to the guard who was temporarily acting as a boatman.

Wait until I get back. Seeing that Xiao Chu was already sitting at the table like when I came, he lowered his head and flipped through a booklet. "Aren't you sleeping?" I looked at him in surprise and asked, "Tomorrow morning's line is so difficult, just with a map." The guards may not be able to understand the direction of identification. "Guangyuan knows the destination of my trip, this guard was selected by him, he has been in Jiangnan for a long time, and he is familiar with the water."

When I heard the word "Guangyuan" at first glance, I didn't react, and after thinking about it, he was talking about General Liu, and I was used to calling him General.

Hearing Xiao Chu call him that, the two of them are very familiar.

"Did you grow up with him?" I asked him with a smile.

The deep drowsiness was driven away a bit, and I walked over to him and sat there.

I smiled and snapped my fingers and said, "I am so familiar that I bought a house together, and I bought one after another, and it is not used to hide the beauty of the golden house, it is all empty and uninhabitable." ”

I had the intention to make a joke, but unexpectedly, Xiao Chu turned his head to look at me and frowned: "Do you want me to hide Jiaojiao in the golden house, and every house I bought will have a beautiful girl?" ”

Ay! Blunder! What a hole to dig for yourself!

I was so choked by him that I couldn't speak, and I lowered my voice regretfully and muttered: "As long as you want who can control you, who can control you." ”

When Xiao Chu heard this, he leaned towards me, looked down at me and said with a smile: "As long as I want you, don't you care?" ”

"No matter." I stiffened my head, avoiding his gaze.

Xiao Chu was close to my ear, and the warm breath was close to me: "I really don't care?" ”

There was a smile in his voice, and my palms began to sweat, and my heart was beating faster and faster!

The momentum can't be lost!

I gritted my teeth and resolutely spit out two words: "No matter." ”

In the next second, Xiao Chu raised his hand to wrap his arms around my waist, and hugged me in his arms with all his strength.

My face was so red that it was about to burn, and I broke free a few times, and suddenly, Xiao Chu leaned his head on my shoulder, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't move, I'm not hurting well, but the wound has been painful."

Hearing this, my heart tightened, and I didn't dare to move as if I had been immobilized, for fear of inadvertently hurting him.

Xiao Chu hugged me and slowly stroked my long hair, I held my breath and still didn't move.

After a few seconds, he whispered in my ear and laughed, "It's just that you don't struggle, and it's not going into the water, what are you doing with your breath." “

I gasped for a few breaths and complained, "It's not that you're not harmed, you know what I'm most worried about, just pick on my weaknesses." ”

Half-asleep and half-awake, I saw Xiao Chu on the side of the couch in a trance, and my eyes suddenly cleared up a little, and I raised my hand to grab the medicine bottle in his hand.

"Xiao Chu, what do you have in your hand?"

I grabbed it and opened the stopper and smelled it, there was a strange smell, and I thought to myself, is this what General Liu said, is it the strong medicine that Xiao Chu used to suppress injuries?

I took a pill, raised my eyes and looked at Xiao Chu and said, "This medicine, is it to treat your injuries?" ”

Xiao Chu nodded.

I put the pill back in the bottle. Shaking his head, he said, "You look better, so don't eat this." ”

I stuffed the bottle under the cushion behind my head, patted the folds of the fabric on the couch, closed my eyes again and whispered: "Put it here, you can't get it, it's not a good medicine, the less you eat, the better."

Sleepiness hit, and I rolled over and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up in the morning, my first instinct was to reach under the mat to find the medicine bottle, and I saw that it was still there. I'm sure it wasn't a dream last night. I breathed a sigh of relief.

When he raised his eyes, he saw Xiao Chu sitting at the table facing the chou couch. He propped his head up and looked at me, his eyes were a little confused, and he smiled: "Xiao Ling'er." Are you awake? “

Re-started the voyage, Xiao Chu and I sat by the window, the river during the day, the field of vision at a glance, looking at the azure sky and the continuous mountains on both sides of the river. "Xiao Chu," I whispered, looking down at the curling white gas on the edge of the teacup in my hand, "You told me that the scenery in the south is beautiful, and I think I can go with you one day to see it." Walk all over the great rivers and mountains in this world. "It's not difficult," he said, taking a sip of his teacup, "but I have a hard time worrying about Yingtian." “

I suddenly looked up at him, and saw that his focused expression didn't look like a joke at all.

Xiao Chu looked at me and said earnestly: "Since my mother left." For me, it's just two people who care about me the most. “

Two?

My eyes looked at him without blinking.

He smiled and said, "In Yingtian City, I still have a concern. "In this world, one is you, and the other is Aning." "I can take you away, the two of you can go anywhere, but A-Ning and I also have to settle properly, this is my responsibility."

I silently recited the title I had heard for the first time in my life.

The voice of a guard suddenly came from outside the cabin door and interrupted the conversation: "Childe, there is a forked waterway ahead, is it the way you said you want to go to the Lost Valley?" "Let's go! Go to the bow of the ship and take a look. Xiao Chu said, stretched out his arm and took my hand and stood up.

When I walked out of the cabin, I saw several more roads ahead, which seemed to be branches of this river.

Xiao Chu let go of my hand and looked up at the sun in the sky, he carefully looked at the projection of the mountain peaks in front of him, was silent for a while, pointed to one of the waterways and said to the guards: "It's that road, go in that direction." “

The guards agreed, and Xiao Chu pulled me to sit cross-legged at the bow of the boat: "Xiao Ling'er, you can't continue to stay in the cabin, we have to cross the waterway to the valley before it gets dark today." “

"It has been raining for several days, and if it rains again tonight, I'm afraid our ship won't be able to enter the valley."

As I said the night before, a map alone is not enough to deal with the complex waterways of this Lost Valley.

I was a little uncomfortable when I suddenly turned into such a winding waterway from the river, especially when I saw the dark passage that had to be passed through the cave in front of me, and the stones hanging from my head were almost touching the top of the boat.

Several times I was worried that our boat would get stuck!

At this time, I understood what Xiao Chu meant, no matter how high the water level is, our boat really can't pass!

Xiao Chu sat there, pointed out the direction to the guards in a clear tone, the boat crossed the water, but it was smooth, out of the next hole, and saw that the scenery on the shore was different from the outside. "Is it coming soon?" Even if I was sitting there, I felt like I was about to be dizzy, and I was going to see the light of day again, and I was a little happy in my words.

The boat we were on finally came to the end of the waterway.

Behind us, the guards fastened the boat to a large tree on the shore with thick ropes.

I jumped ashore and walked all the way up the slope.