In the afternoon, Gao Wei, the adjutant of the envoy team, found Bai Ye. The two discussed it, and then went out together to deal with things like personnel arrangements.

Chen Xiaolan inquired from several old ladies in the hall about Bai Ye's childhood.

When the child of the White Ripple royal clan is born, a red curse mark will appear somewhere on the body, usually between the eyebrows, and there is no trace of the curse mark all over the body when Bai Ye is born.

After Bai Ze learned the news, he was angry and sent Xiao Niangniang into the cold palace, thinking about the old relationship and not directly executing him. And Xiao Niangniang, who also couldn't bear this fact, was just right, so she threw Bai Ye to the nurse, and began to approach Bai Wang deliberately, crying and shouting to prove her innocence.

Fortunately, Bai Ye has a quiet temperament, and always sits in one place in a daze, not crying or making trouble. After he learned to speak, he would always wander in a trance when others talked to him, so that other people in the palace began to rumor that he was a "fool".

Until one day when she was four years old, Xiao Niangniang unusually said that she wanted to sleep with him. The next day, when he woke up in the middle of the night, he walked out of the bedroom and shouted that he was hungry, and the others found that the royal curse mark appeared between his forehead and eyebrows, and the whole person looked more energetic than before.

When the White King heard about this, he rushed to see him, confirmed his royal identity on the spot, smiled and gave Bai Ye a title and hurried away. At the same time, Xiao Niangniang, who was supposed to be excited, looked crazy, and it didn't take long for her to go completely crazy-

In the middle of summer in Bailian Country, the rain is like a river.

It was supposed to be able to reach the border of Bailian Country in seven days, but because of the sudden rain, it didn't arrive after ten days.

The weather was sunny and cloudy, which made the accompanying guards look sorrowful. On a sunny day, the green trees are thick, the sun is scorching and the wind is warm, and the group wears straw hats and sweats profusely after a while. On a rainy day, the misty green hills in the distance, the grass shaking in the wind nearby, and the group hurriedly looked for a place to hide from the rain under the rain.

Early morning.

"The rain has stopped!"

Chen Xiaolazily came down from the second floor of the inn and heard the exclamation of the envoy adjutant Gao Wei.

The sun was rising outside, and the light illuminated the Wutong Mountain that they were about to pass by. Although the ground is damp, the sky is blue and white, refreshing and picturesque.

"Yo!"

Bai Ye raised his body slightly from the table and greeted Chen Xiaolazi, he raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Mu is the latest to get up today." ”

"I also feel like I woke up very early today." Chen Xiaolazy grinned. Last night, she fell asleep with the sound of wind and rain, and she had a rare dream.

In the dream, when she returned to the first grade of elementary school, she wore two pigtails, and when she smiled, she would show her hollowed-out front teeth, looking silly. It was very hot in the classroom in the middle of summer, and she was in class with a red face.

On the podium, the female teacher was reading the text to them in Mandarin with the atmosphere of her hometown, and the voice of the acquaintance in the tree outside the window called, and she was drowsy holding the textbook. Then suddenly there was silence in the classroom, even the teacher stopped speaking, and a little boy appeared at the door of the classroom, with short black hair, red lips and white teeth, and moon-eyed eyebrows. He rushed into the classroom and walked towards her seat, where he took her by the hand and ran out before she could shake her senses.

She babbles in fright behind her, and the boy doesn't stop until he sees an empty classroom. The people in the classroom were in gym class, and their first-grade textbooks were messed up on the desk, and he pulled her through the door.

Later, Chen Xiaolazy never understood how he was frightened by his momentum when he was a child, and let him hold her face with both hands. He looked at her, her appearance reflected in his dark eyes, and the boy smiled brightly, revealing shallow dimples.

"Don't forget me, my name is ......," his childish voice drifted through the empty classroom. She nodded blankly and watched as the boy's mouth opened and closed, and he said a lot, but she couldn't hear what he was saying.

This childhood dream gradually fell silent in darkness under the fluttering white curtains of the classroom. By the way, what is his name, everything that happened in Chen Xiaola's dream was blurry when she woke up, she couldn't remember the boy's face, she couldn't remember what he said, she could only vaguely feel his panic and obsession.

She thought, it's been a month since she came here, so she still misses the original world in her sleep.

"I knew wood couldn't sleep in."

As soon as Bai Ye and Chen Xiaolan started to eat breakfast, they saw Su Yan coming in from the door, looking refreshed. He walked over to the table, glanced at the exaggerated white night, and began to eat quietly with them—

"Lord Wang, you are ready, you can go." Deputy Envoy Gao Wei said respectfully.

Bai Ye smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Let's go." ”

This deputy envoy is quite steady and meticulous, Bai Ye has repeatedly emphasized that he should not be so restrained, he always agrees with a gentle smile, but as usual. Chen Xiaolai has spoken to Gao Wei a few times, and he has a good impression of him, he is very capable, but he is introverted, and he speaks humbly and with a little humor.

The team consisted of more than two dozen escorts, a carriage, and three wagons. They took the official road, and they could see the supply post at intervals along the way. This was their last stop in the White Ripple Country, and they were going to the border area next.

Su Yan rode at the front of the group, and Gao Wei also rode beside him. Behind them was a carriage carrying Bai Ye and Chen Xiaolazi, the two of them were sitting in front of the carriage chatting, and the three wagons behind them were covered with thick raincloth of the same color.

After the rain, the sky was clear, and in the cool morning breeze, the faces of the guards faded away from depression and exhaustion, and they were in a lot of energy. The team of envoys walked slowly at the foot of Wutong Mountain.

There is a legend about Wutong Mountain. Once upon a time, the mountain was called Sycamore Mountain. The Vermilion Bird Sacred Beast and the White Tiger Sacred Beast fought in the sky above it, and during the battle, the Vermilion Bird accidentally spit out a fire on the mountain, and the Wutong Mountain ignited in an instant without extinguishing the fire, becoming a burning volcano. After the White Tiger Holy Beast returned to its own territory, it found the situation of Wutong Mountain, and in desperation, he invited the Qinglong Holy Beast to draw water to extinguish the fire, and the fire of Wutong Mountain was extinguished, but it was already pitch black, and it was later changed to Wutong Mountain.

Although the surface soil is charred and black, it does not affect the growth of plants, and the inside is extremely strong, and ordinary gunpowder can only destroy the surface of the mountain.

"One time I jumped into the river and wanted to drown myself. Water poured into my body through my nose, mouth, and ears, and I didn't feel the so-called suffocation, and I slowly sank to the bottom, thinking that I could finally die before I fell into a coma. Bai Ye held the horsewhip and turned his face to look at Chen Xiaolan and continued to tell his death-seeking experience, the bangs on his forehead swaying with the bumps of the carriage.

When I woke up, I found myself floating to the shore and had nothing to do but soak in the edema. His face was swollen, his eyes finally opened a slit, and his hair was wet and stained with black mud. His eyebrows furrowed, revealing a palpitating expression, "I really don't understand that so many people would choose to die by throwing themselves into the river." ”

Chen Xiaolazy leaned on the carriage, and was deeply touched when he heard the words. Starting from Bai Du, Bai Ye began to share his various death-seeking experiences with her, and he never got tired of it. According to him, "My wish is to die less badly." "Feelings that were difficult to share with others before, found an outlet in her.

Death to him was like a dream that could not be sought.

Through Su Yan's upright figure, Chen Xiaolazy squinted at the scene ahead, but caught a glimpse of a figure flashing behind the leafy bushes on the mountain.