Chapter Twenty-Three: Retreat

Noticing Yan Xining's gaze, Xie Ronghua turned his head and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ā€

Yan Xining was like a child who had done something wrong and was caught, and her face was embarrassed for a moment, but fortunately, the night hid her embarrassment, she hurriedly lowered her head, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "It's nothing, I just thought that I would be separated from my son in a few moments, and I don't know if there will be a chance to meet in the future." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

Xie Ronghua thought about it, touched the jade pendant on his waist, and made a decision in an instant, he took off the jade pendant, put it in the palm of Yan Xining's hand, and said, "This, give it to you." ā€

Yan Xi stared at the jade pendant on the palm of his hand with wide eyes, the color was transparent and quiet, the tentacles were warm, and the pattern of Junzi Orchid was finely carved, and it was a priceless thing at a glance, so he quickly shook his head and excused himself: "What does this mean, Childe?" I can't ask for something so valuable. As he spoke, he was going to return the jade pendant to Xie Ronghua.

Xie Ronghua held Xi Ning's hand and said in a deep voice: "No matter how valuable the item is, it is nothing outside the body, I can escape today, it all depends on the girl's help, this jade pendant is left to the girl, if the girl needs Ronghua in the future, take it to the Weiguo Mansion in Chang'an, Ronghua will do his best to help." ā€

"But ......" Yan Xining wanted to say something, Xie Ronghua frowned and said, "Someone is coming." ā€

Yan Xining heard this, turned around, and sure enough, he saw a slight firelight slowly approaching in the distance, and hurriedly said to Xie Ronghua: "There should be a lot of people who come to see the firelight, it is estimated that it is Lord Wang's people, Gongzi should find a place to hide first, and you will come out after we leave." ā€

Xie Ronghua nodded, and when he saw that Yan Xining was about to withdraw his hand to leave, he hurriedly clenched it and said, "Xining." ā€

"Huh?" Yan Xining raised her head and looked at Xie Ronghua, not knowing what else he had to say.

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ You take care. Xie Ronghua moved his lower lips, and finally only said these three words.

"Childe also take care, Xi Ning wishes Childe a safe journey in the future." Yan Xining smiled and clenched the jade pendant in his hand and pulled it out of his palm.

Xie Ronghua got up and quickly disappeared into the night, Yan Xi put away the jade pendant, took a breath, and slowly stood up.

Seeing that the firelight was getting closer and closer, Yan Xining shouted loudly, "Is it Lord Wang's person?" I am here. ā€

When the guards heard her voice, they quickly ran to this side, and they didn't dare to get any closer after a few steps at the entrance of the cave, they were still afraid of Yan Xining's sickness.

Wang Ke stepped forward, stopped a few steps away from Yan Xining, and asked, "Miss Yan, what about the thief?" ā€

Yan Xining pointed to the inside of the cave and said, "Inside, he can't get through it, and he has lost his breath." ā€

Wang Ke was stunned when he heard Yan Xining's words, he didn't expect the anti-thief to die so quickly, and took a few guards into the cave, and saw the "anti-thief" lying motionless on the ground from a distance, and the acne on his face even began to blew pus, Wang Ke ordered the guards to shoot the "anti-thief" with bows and arrows, and with a few swishing sounds, several feather arrows had been inserted in the black-clothed man, and the black blood flowed out along the feather arrows, and the "anti-thief" still did not move at all, Wang Ke saw that he was really dead, and felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say anything wrong, he took the guards out of the cave, asked Yan Xining: "Miss Yan, can you tell the old man about the situation after you were robbed by that thief." ā€

Yan Xining nodded and said: "He took me to escape halfway, Tiandian attack began to lose his strength, so he dragged me off the horse and asked me to treat him, I told him that I couldn't cure without medicinal materials on my body, and he wanted to kill me to accompany the burial, I was afraid so I lied to him that there were medicinal materials to cure Tianyin on Kui Mountain, so he took my dagger and stabbed the horse, and then took me to Kuo Mountain." ā€

Wang Ke nodded, they did chase the injured horse, and when they found out that they had been deceived, they returned to chase him, and motioned for Yan Xining to continue.

"When we got to the mountain, we found this cave, and he couldn't stand it, so he asked me to help him relieve his pain with a silver needle, and said that if I made a small movement, his sword would be faster than my hand." Xi Ning said with palpitations.

"Did the girl really help her heal?" Wang Ke said suspiciously.

"Naturally I won't really help him treat, adults also know that the treatment of this disease requires special medicinal materials, acupuncture alone can't work at all, I just used needles to help him relieve the pain, and then lied to him that I was going to find medicinal materials, and wanted to take this opportunity to escape, but the thief was treacherous, he didn't worry that I left alone, said that I wanted to go together, and I didn't really have medicinal materials to collect, where did I dare to take him with me, so I refused, and lied to him that he could use acupuncture to stabilize his condition, and then go to find medicine when he was stable." Yan Xining pretended to think about it.

"And then?" Wang Ke nodded.

"At night, he began to have pain again, let me help him heal, but this time the disease was menacing, and I couldn't stabilize it with a needle, so I took advantage of his unbearable pain and found an opportunity to run out, but it was too dark outside and a person didn't dare to go down the mountain, so he dared to hide outside the cave to observe the movement in the cave, and when there was no sound inside, he sneaked in, only to find that he had lost his breath." Yan Xi said with palpitations.

"Did the thief say anything strange?" Wang Ke groaned.

Yan Xining shook his head: "He didn't say anything special, my lord, Xining suggested that it would be better to destroy the corpse as soon as possible, so as not to spread the disease." ā€

When Wang Ke heard her say this, he saw that the guards around him were all face changed, took a few steps back, looked panicked, and sighed: "Miss Lao will do this matter." ā€

Yan Xining nodded and said, "Please help me prepare some firewood." ā€

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Yan Xining took the firewood that the guards piled up at the mouth of the cave and piled it up under and around the man in black, took the lit torch, and said silently before lighting the corpse: "Big brother, although I don't know your name, I will definitely burn a few more pillars of incense for you in the Qingming Festival in the future, and you will save people's lives after you die, you will definitely be able to ascend to Bliss early, please forgive me for the sin of letting your bones be gone." After reciting it, he lit the corpse and exited the cave.

The guards were standing far away from Xi Ning outside the cave, they didn't want to die with the people in the cave, the fire burned for a whole hour before it was extinguished, Yan Xi Ning went in to see everything turned into ashes, and came out to Wang Ke and said, "My lord, it's okay." ā€

Wang Ke nodded, and ordered the guards to go down the mountain together, because of Yan Xining's sickness, although she was a woman, those guards only dared to watch from a distance when they saw that she was walking hard, and did not dare to come forward to help, Yan Xining found a branch to hold, and walked down the mountain step by step, and began to miss the feeling of Xie Ronghua carrying her back when she went up the mountain, she touched the jade pendant in her arms, and the warmth passed into her heart a little bit through her fingertips.

When they were all far away, Xie Ronghua walked out from behind a huge stone, looked at the fire in the distance, and gradually moved away.