After a face-to-face with the visitor, I was a little disappointed and stunned for a moment.

Then, with my eyes wide open, I asked him strangely, "Whose house is this?" ”

"Why are you here?"

He didn't care about my lonely and disappointed look.

With a frown, he lowered his voice and said, "Hurry up, you come with me." “

I fixed my mind and asked him, "Where are you going now?" “

He took a step ahead of me, turned his head and stared at me, and said, "If he could come, he would not let me come to meet you." ”

His face was as handsome as it had been a few years ago, his eyes were bright and piercing, but against the moonlight, I could clearly see a few shallow marks crisscrossing it.

Xiao Chu once told me that he missed the best opportunity to heal the wounds on his face because he wanted to divert the group of people who were chasing and killing.

And one of the other party's original intentions was to damage Xiao Chu's appearance, and the sword blade was poisonous, but he blocked it with his body.

After returning to Yingtian, Xiao Chu had searched for all the famous doctors in the country, but he couldn't remove all those marks, so he could only try to make them as light as possible, so that he didn't look so terrifying.

For this reason, Xiao Chu has always been full of guilt for him, but he comforted Xiao Chu and said: "To settle down and make contributions, it is not my face that depends on me, if I can really meet the person I like in this life, the other party will definitely not be a woman who is discouraged by looking at her face." ”

The scene of my conversation with Xiao Chu came to mind, and my heart tightened, and I said, "General Liu, where is he?" "It's right inside the house."

I was speechless with shock! After a pause, he stopped in place, and then immediately pushed him away from the front and ran towards the house quickly.

The moment I pushed the door open, I was almost out of breath!

Without time to think, my eyes fell on the figure lying on the couch in the room with his back to me.

I ran over, half-knelt in front of the chuang and said in a panic: "Xiao Chu, when will you come back?" ”

The man on the bed was covered with a heavy quilt, and he slowly turned his face. The bright eyes looked at me fixedly, and the nerves that I had been tense for several days finally relaxed.

Seeing Xiao Chu's usual smile at me, I sighed and said, "I was frightened just now, and when I heard General Liu say that, I thought something had happened to you." ”

"What can happen," Xiao Chu took a deep breath and said with a smile, "It's me who has been on the road non-stop for many days, and I'm too tired to do it when I get to Yingtian." So borrowed a chuang and fell asleep here. ”

He stretched out a hand from under the covers. Gently stroked my face and asked, "From the tunnel?" "Isn't it?"

Speaking of what happened just now. I pouted and said, "Who dug this tunnel, it smells musty, and it's damp and cold inside." “

Xiao Chu smiled slightly. Then he frowned, he paused, and then smiled: "If Xiao Ling'er comes to accept the project, shouldn't it be reworked?" "Yes, you're right, I'm going to dig tunnels, I won't make it look like that, it's better to paint some materials on the walls to hide the smell, well, spices will do." There are cheaper ones, my father worked in the spice business in Daye for a while, trafficking spices from the south to Daye to sell. "What you said seems to be a place to play, but it's an urgent place."

Xiao Chu coughed. whispered: "I'll sleep and let General Liu pick you up, I won't be angry." "Angry?" I nodded in agreement, "You're right, I'm just very angry at this moment, and I'm worried in vain, for fear that something will happen to you." "Next time, you can't be so scared." I laughed, "I'm probably going to be scared to death by you." "Wouldn't you be afraid that you are so daring to go so far in the dark tunnel?" "Who said I wasn't afraid, I was scared to death, but I thought you were waiting on the other side, and it was too late to leave." "It's not pitch black," I said with a wink at Xiao Chu and a nonchalant wave, "I have torches." ”

"With torches in hand, you can walk all over the tunnels without worry!"

Xiao Chu owes a debt, seems to be amused by my movements, and raises his body and is about to knock on my head door as before, when his raised hand hangs down a little weakly.

"Are you tired?"

The lights in the room were dim, and I couldn't see it if I didn't look closely, and now I noticed that his face was extremely pale, and I thought of what he had said about the non-stop journey for several days.

I looked at him distressedly, "Why don't you sleep a little longer." ”

"I'll talk to you when you wake up."

Xiao Chu closed his eyes, and immediately opened them and said, "I'm afraid that I will have to get dawn after I sleep, but you can't stay here directly." ”

I nodded and said, "No, I have to go back the way I came before dawn so as not to alarm the people in the house." ”

"You don't know a thing."

"Ying Tian doesn't know what's going on these days, but yesterday I passed by the city gate in a carriage and saw twice as many guards patrolling."

I frowned and said, "Xiao Chu, is there something wrong outside, or is there something wrong in the palace, or maybe a prisoner has escaped from prison?" ”

I can think of nothing more than one of the increases in the number of checks at the gates of the city.

As soon as my mind turned, I suddenly said, "Could it be that a foreign enemy is attacking?" ”

Xiao Chu shook his head and said hesitantly: "I don't know very well, but there is something, Xiao Ling'er, I want to ask you." ”

"You say." I tried to get closer to him, but Xiao Chu moved his body to the inside of Chuang, as if deliberately keeping a little distance from me.

I noticed this detail, and felt a little strange but didn't think much about it, so I climbed on the edge of the chuang, supported my head with my elbow, looked at him seriously, and said, "You ask." ”

Thinking about it, why my mind was full of questions and wanted to be taken by him again, so I said angrily: "I changed my mind, not this time, you should answer me a few questions first." “

I was thinking about how to ask more clearly, and I was silent for a few seconds, and I smelled a faint scent wafting from the corner of the room.

I glanced in that direction, and saw a small incense burner resting on a few desks in the corner of the room, and the smell wafted from the incense burner.

I realized that the whole room was filled with a faint fragrance.

Distracted, I pointed to the incense burner in the corner and said to Xiao Chu: "The incense over there, it smells quite pleasant, I didn't notice it when I first entered the house." "It's normal," Xiao Chu smiled. Your mind is on me, how can a mere handful of incense notice. “

I glared at him but couldn't say a word of rebuttal, my face flushed and said: "You understand and scare me, you must not be like that next time, what did General Liu say just now, he said that if you can come, how can you ask him to pick me up." "When I heard it, I thought, I thought, anyway, it's just this once. Don't scare me anymore. "General Liu, he spends more time on the battlefield than in the city."

"You can't expect such a person to be able to read words and be very good at talking. You're satisfied. ”

"It's not surprising that you misunderstood him. I'm here in good condition, you should be relieved to see it. "yes, I'm relieved." I grinned and said, "Now." It's time for you to answer my question. “

I put away my smile and said, "First, why is the atmosphere in the house so unusual these days? ”

I thought about telling Xiao Chu that Mama Xu had been out for a long time before she came back, and that the people guarding the courtyard had been transferred.

He listened carefully, but his face was not good-looking, so I summarized it more and more concisely. "Second, you clearly explained to me when you left, this kind of contact is only used in case of accidents." "I proposed to Mama Xu to go to Makuyama Temple, and I also wanted to try my luck, because I was in the house. It's no different from house arrest, I thought I would be able to walk around the streets to know some rumors. "Your subordinates are really good enough, they came out at the gate of the city, and the result was that they actually delivered a letter to the carriage!"

"Luckily, I reacted quickly, and I was still thinking about it when I grabbed the ball of paper. If Mama Xu didn't go down, how could she explain it when she saw it. “

Xiao Chu took a few breaths, squeezed out a smile and said, "Since you are the person I sent, of course I know that if you go out, it is impossible to be alone." ”

"But with your personality, you won't agree to bring a bunch of irrelevant people with you on a trip to Makuyama, and the biggest possibility is to bring only one Mama Xu." "They must have done it when Kou saw Mama Xu get out of the car." "If you don't have any eyesight, can you still deliver a letter for me?"

It can be regarded as solving a small doubt, but an even bigger doubt comes to mind.

I looked at Xiao Chu curiously and said, "When you left, it was said that your father asked you to go to a neighboring country to do errands, and the original deadline was ten days. "Well, it's going to be a few days." "But you just said that you came back without stopping," I looked at him puzzled, "is it that the matter has been cancelled, or have you not been to the neighboring country at all, and have you turned back halfway?" “

Xiao Chu didn't answer, he frowned, closed his eyes and looked at the deep tiredness, and suddenly there was a knock on the door outside.

General Liu lowered his voice and said: "Miss Ye, what is the matter with you, you might as well wait until tomorrow to come and ask, Gongzi has been on the road for a few days, and he has only slept for more than two hours." “

He's been on the outside?

Xiao Chu opened his eyes and looked at me with a smile, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Ling'er, I want to ask you, it's the same if I ask again tomorrow night, I will stay here for a few days." "I know," I said embarrassedly, bowing my head, "by the way, you haven't told me yet, whose house is this house?" "It was placed by General Liu." "There is a tunnel between your house and his house, is this convenient to visit?" I looked at Xiao Chu amusedly and quipped.

Xiao Chu opened his eyes and looked at me helplessly: "I said, it's an emergency channel." “

(ps:Outside,I heard that the strike is higher than a wave.,I'm in this chapter n chuang words.,Blocked when I tried to send it.,Change it to pinyin :)