When Ah Yin woke up, it was pitch black all around, and he couldn't see his five fingers. It took a long time for her to remember what had happened before she fell unconscious, and as soon as she moved, there was a pain in her forehead, and she gasped.

She shouted tentatively: "Master Hou? ”

No one answered her.

She shouted again, still unanswered. She was a little panicked for no reason, she was the only one in this place that she didn't know what it was, and she didn't know if there would be any wild beasts around.

She gasped.

I don't know how long it took for her to finally calm down.

She gritted her teeth and stood up against the cold mountain wall, and it was pitch black everywhere. She couldn't remember which way she had fallen in. She walked forward instinctively, and after about a dozen steps, she stepped on a piece of softness.

She was startled, took a few steps back, and shouted tentatively: "Master Hou? ”

Still no one replied to her.

She mustered up the courage to go forward again, kicked lightly, and only after feeling the temperature did she squat down and touch it with her hand, and when she felt a sticky patch, she smelled blood. At this time, Ah Yin was sure who was in front of him.

She patted his face in the dark and said, "Master Hou, wake up." ”

Mu Yanghou never reacted.

She shuddered in her heart and reached into his nose with a shudder. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a strong force pinched her wrist. She screamed softly, and the force slackened, and the guard subsided.

"Not dead." The voice is slightly weak.

Ah Yin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Master Hou, I'll help you up." ”

"Not necessarily." He said, "I'll just rest for a while." As if he was afraid that she would be worried, he said: "I am different from ordinary people, I only need to rest for a few days to heal if I am injured, and no matter how serious the injury is, it can heal." ”

Ah Yin was slightly stunned and said: "I am also different from ordinary people, I can use brute force at critical times, but once brute force comes out, I have to rest for a day or two to recover my spirit." ”

Shen Changtang chuckled.

"We are so similar, you should go to Yongping with me."

As soon as the word Yongping was mentioned, Ah Yin stopped talking.

Shen Changtang didn't force her, he only said: "In less than a day, Xuanjiawei will be able to find me, don't be afraid." ”

Unexpectedly, Ah Yin asked, "Who wants to kill Hou Ye?" ”

Shen Changtang didn't expect Ah Yin to suddenly ask like this, so he couldn't help but be silent, and said after a while: "This time it was an accident, I think there was a mistake in the villa." After lying down for a while, he felt better, touched her hand, and said, "After a while, we will follow the wind." When you fall down before, you should have fallen near the entrance of the cave and could be easily found. ”

Ah Yin let him grasp his hand and said "um" softly.

The cave became quiet, except for the sound of ghosts crying wolf howls, and the slender hands in the palms of which were soft and boneless, trembling slightly.

He suddenly said: "During the nuclear conference, what was the name of the nuclear carving you carved at the end?" ”

"Not yet." Hearing him talk about the nuclear carving, Ah Yin was a little more energetic, and said: "After the nuclear competition, the nuclear carving was given to one of the nuclear carvers, and I was in a hurry and didn't have time to choose a name. ”

She remembered that the nuclear carver told her that his surname was Yuan, and his single name was Hong. It seemed that he wanted to say something later, but the people on Shen Changtang's side were in a hurry, and without saying a word or two, they went to the villa with the other nuclear carving technicians.

At this time, Shen Changtang said again: "There is a nuclear carver by the side of the saint, surnamed Yuan, who is extremely good at carving landscapes. The Holy One admired him very much. There is also an attic in the palace, called the Tibetan Core Building, which contains the nuclear carvings treasured by the emperors of the three dynasties, all of which are of the highest quality. ”

Ah Yin's breath tightened.

There seemed to be a smile in his voice, and he said, "In the future, I will give you a holy gift and take you to see it." ”

As he spoke, he stood up and said, "Let's go, go inside." ”

There is no light in the cave, and one qiē can only touch the dark.

Shen Changtang's eyes quickly adapted to the darkness, and at first they were a little bumpy, but now they can move freely. He took her hand and rubbed slowly through the cave. I don't know how long he walked before he stopped.

Ah Yin asked, "Aren't you leaving?" ”

Shen Changtang said: "This cave is a bit strange, and the sound of the wind suddenly disappeared. ”

"Taken the wrong path?"

"It's a little weird, don't leave for now, take a break here. After a while, we turned back the way we came. ”

Ah Yin said "yes" and wanted to break free of Shen Changtang's hand. Shen Changtang didn't let go, he clenched it a little tighter, and only said, "Don't let go, if you accidentally get separated, it's bad." ”

Ah Yin said calmly: "If I don't go away, and you don't go away, how can you get separated?" ”

Shen Changtang also said calmly: "Ben Hou doesn't want to let go. ”.

The time in the darkness passed for an unusually long time, and the two returned the way they came, and walked for a long time, but still did not arrive. The surroundings were quiet, and the sound of the wind did not know where to go, and if it weren't for the sound of their own breathing, the whole world would be dead silent.

Two days later, the Xuanjiawei still hadn't arrived.

The two did not get a drop of water.

Ah Yin leaned against a boulder, her eyes were dizzy with hunger, she never thought that she would one day die in a cave that she couldn't get out of. She hasn't found a good marriage for Ah Xuan yet, and there are still a lot of nuclear carvings she wants to carve out, and people are dying, so she realized that she wanted to do too much.

And she didn't want to die at all.

She asked, "Master Hou, will Xuanjiawei really come?" ”

Shen Changtang was still calm, and he said, "Xuanjiawei must also be in the cave at this time, I'm afraid we will walk into a fork in the road when we walk in." One more day, there was blood in the cave, and they could follow the blood. ”

He still spoke calmly and calmly, not at all like someone who hadn't eaten in two days.

But after another half a day, the surroundings were still quiet.

Ah Yin's breathing became lighter and lighter, and Shen Changtang took her hand and shouted, "Ah Yin." ”

She grabbed his hand as if she had exhausted all her strength.

"Master Hou."

"Huh?"

"It's pitch black here, there's nothing but me and you. If Xuanjiawei hadn't come, we'd both be dead here in two days. After death, no matter how high the status and good skin look of a person before death, they can only turn into a pile of white bones in the end. There was a deep desperation in her tone.

Shen Changtang was shocked when he heard this.

Her voice was as calm as a pool of stagnant water.

"The thing I regret the most in my life is that I met you at the foot of Cangshan Mountain that day, you are domineering and selfish, and you have a strong desire to conquer. Yes, you are a high-ranking marquis, and I am just a humble and weak commoner. In your eyes, I'm just a plaything you want to conquer, not even a person. Because I was unlucky, because I didn't burn high incense, that's why I became your antidote. Regardless of my wishes,

Tears fell silently.

The grievances and uneasiness of the past six months have all been vented at this moment.

She's going to die, he's going to die, and she doesn't have to be afraid anymore.

People die, they have no status, they have no lineage, they are equal.

She shook his hand away as if it were something filthy. Shen Changtang's heart was like falling into an ice cellar, and in the dark, his breathing was extremely loud. Ah Yin was not afraid, she even said in a brisk voice: "I don't want to die with you when I die." ”

She got up from the ground, just stood up, and before she could stand firmly, a cold hand grabbed her, and with a fierce force, she was pulled into Shen Changtang's arms. He pinched her chin and said viciously: "You dare to dislike Ben Hou!" ”

She said unscrupulously: "Yes, I just dislike you." ”

"It's just an excuse that you don't want to be a roommate, if I give you a wife, you also have a new excuse! After all, you never trusted me. ”

She said, "Shen Changtang, what do you have to believe in it?" You said the Xuanjiawei would come, but now? ”

Her rhetorical question left him speechless.

She added: "I don't want glory and wealth, let alone high-ranking officials, I just want a quiet place to carve cores." Why do you have to force me? Now Shen Changtang, you are about to kill me, are you satisfied? Happy? ”

In the dead silence, there was a sudden sound of footsteps in the distance, and a faint fire.

“…… Is someone in there? ”

After a while, two figures appeared, dressed in coarse cloth, all dressed as peasants.

The light of the fire approached, revealing a handsome face of gloom and compassion, and a little face that was so frightened that it was bloodless.

Shen Changtang let go of Ah Yin and stepped forward to talk to the two farmers.

The two farmers were very enthusiastic, and knew that Shen Changtang and Ah Yin were trapped inside, so they immediately said to take them out. Shen Changtang promised a reward, and one of the farmers quickly agreed to go to Gongcheng to report the news. Another farmer smiled and said, "Why don't you come to my house for a night, the food is rude, and I hope you don't mind." ”

Shen Changtang nodded.

The farmer called Ah Feng and said, "You two go this way." ”

Ah Yin Rao has another idea, and his mind is blank at this time.

didn't die, but scolded Mu Yanghou for a bloody ......

Shen Changtang looked back at her and said gloomily, "Come here." ”

Ah Yin woke up like a dream, lowered his eyebrows, and walked over. Shen Changtang didn't look at her anymore and took a step ahead. She followed behind Shen Changtang step by step, Ah Feng held the torch and talked as she walked, very talkative.

After Ah Fengyi's statement, the two realized that they had inadvertently entered the mechanism of a tomb of a former court official from a cave on another mountain.

“…… In fact, you are not the first to fall in, there was also a person who fell in half a year ago, stayed in for three or four days, and fortunately was found later and rescued. But there is nothing left in the tomb, and the good things have long been touched. I heard that this former official is not a local, but a native of southern Xinjiang. You are still young, you must not know, I also heard my grandfather say, hundreds of years ago there was a southern Xinjiang country, and then I don't know why it perished. But these things have nothing to do with us, as long as the harvest is good and the taxes are light, whoever is above is the emperor. ”.

Ah Feng's woman knew that the two had not eaten for two days, so she specially boiled a pot of millet porridge first. After they drank and warmed their stomachs, they burned a table of dishes and served them one after another. The farmhouse vegetables are boiled directly, which is sweet and crisp. There is also boiled chicken, cut into seven or eight pieces and placed in a large bowl.

Ah Yin silently ate the dishes, and didn't dare to look at Shen Changtang.

After eating, the woman didn't think much about it, but thought that the two were young couples, so she prepared a room for the two.

Shen Changtang didn't say anything else, and walked into the house by himself, leaving Ah Yin alone outside. The woman thought that the two had a conflict, so she said softly: "The family is prosperous, and your husband and wife are in trouble together, what cannot be solved?" ”

Ah Feng called the woman over and said, "Don't meddle in your business. ”

As soon as the two left, Ah Yin was still outside.

There were no doors in the farmhouse, only a dark blue curtain. Ah Yin really encountered a problem, if her grandfather was alive, she must want to consult her grandfather, she thought she was going to die, but she couldn't die, and what if she offended someone?

It wasn't until she saw the faded patterns on the curtain that she lifted the curtain and walked in.

The room was simple, there were no tables and chairs, only a kang with bamboo mats. However, no matter how simple it is, it has become luxurious because of Mu Yanghou on the bamboo mat. Shen Changtang sat on the bamboo mat and looked at her coldly.

The matter has come to this, and the words spoken are like water that has been spilled, and it cannot be recovered.

Thinking of this, Ah Yin simply let go.

She said, "Hou ......"

He sneered: "Isn't it neat to call Ben Hou's name this morning? She was swallowed, and he added, "From now on, you are not allowed to speak without Benhou's permission." ”

didn't rest well for two nights in a row, and at this time Shen Changtang was also tired, fell on the bamboo mat, and closed his eyes.

But despite this, his whole face was taut.

Ah Yin stood in the corner, a little overwhelmed. After a few moments, she was tired of standing, squinting and dozing, her head nodding constantly. In the summer, there are many mosquitoes and flies, and every once in a while, a mosquito flies and buzzes in the ears.

She couldn't take a nap, and with a wave of her palm in a daze, she swept away her sleepiness.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Shen Changtang on the bamboo mat sat up at some point, and looked at her with Fang Cai's cold eyes, and suddenly even the only remaining sleepiness was scared away. She then hung her head and did not look at him.

There was the sound of clothes rustling on the kang, and after a while, a pair of black leather and silver-rimmed boots appeared in front of her eyes, and the sound of breathing above her head was not light or heavy.

The two stood silently for a long time.

The black-skinned silver-rimmed boots suddenly moved to the left, but in the blink of an eye, he disappeared from her sight like a gust of wind.

As soon as he left, she breathed a sigh of relief, tapped her hands, thumped her shoulders, and loosened her muscles.

After waiting for a long time, he didn't see Shen Changtang come back, Ah Yin was tired again, and squatted down to take a nap. She was probably really sleepy, and this time the mosquitoes were screaming in her ear, and she didn't wake up. When she actually woke up, it was the next morning.

She sat up and looked around.

The blue and white walls and round windows covered with paper are shiny in the sun.

The memory of last night poured in, and she suddenly came back to her senses, and looked down to see that she was actually lying on the kang. As if thinking of something, she hurriedly got off the kang, and before she could put on her shoes, a pair of black leather boots appeared outside the dark blue curtain, followed by Chen Dou's voice.

"Miss Yin, are you awake?"

When Ah Yin heard this, he put on his shoes and tidied up his clothes before he walked out and asked, "Where is Master Hou?" ”

Chen Dou said: "Early this morning, the Hou Ye has already left, and instructed his subordinates to take the girl back to the villa after the girl wakes up." ”

At this point, she didn't seem to have anything to say, so she had to nod and follow Chen Dou back to the villa. There were dark clouds in the villa, and Chen Dou said that Mu Yanghou was catching the details of the villa. It didn't take long for Ah Yin to return to the room where he had lived.

Obviously, it has only been a few days, but Ah Yin feels like a world away.

As soon as he pushed the door open, Jiang Xuan came over with a smile and said, "Sister is finally back, are the flowers in Fahua Temple blooming well?" ”

Ah Yin was stunned, knowing that the news of Mu Yanghou's assassination had not spread, and he didn't want to worry Jiang Xuan, the days of escaping death were really bloody. She smiled and said, "Well, it's beautiful, and the food is delicious." If I have the chance, I will take you to try it. ”

Seeing that Jiang Xuan didn't suspect it, Ah Yin was a little grateful to Chen Dou for being thoughtful and specially brought her a change of clothes.

"Hey, sister, what's wrong with your forehead?"

Ah Yin touched it, a little red and swollen, and suddenly remembered how it was hurt, showing a disapproving look, and said: "It should be the time to enjoy the flowers, bumped into it, don't get in the way, we still have the gold paste that Hou Ye gave before, rub a little, and the swelling will go down in a day or two." ”

She pulled Jiang Xuan inside, and said, "I've been thinking about your marriage these days, what do you think of the Fan family?" ”

Jiang Xuan was stunned and looked at Ah Yin blankly.

Seeing this, Ah Yin also knew that he was in a hurry. But if he offended Mu Yanghou in the cave, what if he became angry? She is the most precious sister, if she has any accidents, without her protection, I am afraid that she will be sold by her father in a few years. She has a kind heart, but she can't hide her words, and her father will definitely beat her up and ask her where the money is hidden. If you get married, with the help of your husband's family, your father will not dare to act recklessly. Originally, the lifelong happiness of the baby sister should be seriously and carefully considered, but now it is too late, and after thinking about it, it seems that the Fan family Xiaolang can really trust her.

She said softly: "But you don't like Fan Xiaolang? ”

Jiang Xuan blushed and said, "Does my sister like it?" ”

Ah Yin smiled: "Silly sister, it is you who marry, not me." What you like is the most important thing. ”

Jiang Xuan said seriously: "If my sister likes it, I will marry." I have been under the fence since I was a child, and thanks to the protection of my sister, I can live to this day without worrying about food and clothing, and I have learned skills. My sister has been good to me since I was a child, and there is no one in this world who is better than my sister to me. ”

Ah Yin felt a lot of sour in her heart, if it weren't for herself, her sister wouldn't have to marry in such a hurry. She had thought carefully before, she earned money, and when her sister was looking for her sweetheart, she would marry her off in style, so that she would have the confidence to go to her husband's family.

She lowered her eyes, not wanting Jiang Xuan to see the light in her eyes, and said, "Then I will talk to Fan Xiaolang in a few days, if it is done, the wedding date will be set at the end of the month." I have checked the auspicious day of the zodiac, and there is a good auspicious day at the end of the month, and it is appropriate to get married. ”

"Okay, listen to my sister.".

After another four days, there was still no movement on Mu Yanghou's side.

It wasn't until the fifth day that Chen Dou came over to put Ah Yin and Jiang Xuan in the carriage. Ah Yin was slightly stunned and asked, "Where are you going?" Chen Dou said: "Master Hou ordered, send the girl home." The other five nuclear carvers were also sent back this morning. This morning, the Hou Ye has left Gongcheng and returned to Yongping. ”

She asked tentatively, "Is Master Hou still coming to Gongcheng?" ”

Chen Dou said: "What does Master Hou mean, as a subordinate, it is not appropriate to figure it out. ”

Ah Yin said "thank you", but his lips couldn't help but rise. Seeing Chen Dou coming, he quickly smiled, and asked again, "Do you want to go back to Gongcheng too?" ”

Chen Dou's head.

Ah Yin only felt that the joy came so suddenly, stabilized his mind, and owed to Chen Dou: "These days, thank you Lang Jun for taking care of you." As he spoke, he got into the carriage, and his back was very cheerful for no reason.

Jiang Xuan asked, "Why did Master Hou go back to Yongping alone?" ”

Ah Yin said: "It's urgent to make an appointment, it's okay not to go to Yongping, I can accompany my sister for a while." ”

Jiang Xuan saw that there was no sadness on her face, and she was relieved, grabbed Ah Yin's arm, and said, "Then I don't have to be in such a hurry to get married." In fact, if my sister can not go to Yongping, it is fine, if I go to Yongping, my sister will not be able to carve the core. It is rare to win the championship in the nuclear competition, and my sister will definitely have a bright future in the nuclear carving in the future. My sister must not know, as soon as the nuclear conference is over, many people will hand over prayer stickers to our home! Even Xie Xianling wanted to see his sister, but his sister was not there at that time, and Xie Xianling didn't dare to go to the villa. She said with a smile: "In the past, Xie Xianling looked down on his sister, but now he may have to come to slap my sister." ”

Ah Yin touched her head and smiled.

At the bottom of my heart, I was completely relieved.

This time, Mu Yanghou withdrew Chen Dou, thinking that he had given up on her. He is such an arrogant person, after being so insulted by her, he must be extremely angry in his heart, and forcing her again will damage the dignity of the Hou Ye. But he didn't punish her, and it was a bit unexpected to let her go so easily.

The summer breeze blew, blowing the curtains on the car windows, and looking at the backward mountain scenery outside, Ah Yin added a complicated feeling to his heart.

The person is gone, but in the end he is still a little melancholy.

I don't know if Shen Changtang wanted to throw her to death when he hugged her to the kang?

That's fine.