Chapter 146: Little Ambition
Ling Yiyi played with the night pearl with her little hand, and glanced at Zhao Xuanchen on her side with a smile on the corner of her mouth, ignoring the affection in his eyes, and looked at the soaked dress and got up from the ground.
"Zhao Xuanchen, even if I don't go to Dongzhao, we are still friends who share life and death, and I won't occupy your Chenwang Mansion!"
Ling Yiyi said, stretched out her hand and pulled Zhao Xuanchen, who was sitting cross-legged, up, ignoring the loss in his eyes, and pulled his arm over his shoulder with a smile.
"Besides, I don't have much ambition, I just want to go to the rivers and lakes with a sword, and get away with the world, or, find a quiet paradise and live a life of 'picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely,' your Nachen Mansion is really not suitable for me!"
The premise of these is that they must first leave here, find a way out, and then find out the person who framed her and take revenge before they can carry it out.
Zhao Xuanchen rested on Yiyi's shoulder with one hand, and stood up with a cane in the other, and he was also dripping with water, and he was helped by Ling Yiyi to the entrance of the cave in the south of the cave, and his heart was full of loss and unwillingness.
Yiyi is rejecting him without a trace, a friend who shares life and death, but he will not be the master of Chen's mansion, and his ambitions are different, so he can't go together.
He also wanted to live the kind of life of walking the rivers and lakes with a sword, and he also wanted to return to the mountains and rivers with Yiyi, but his great revenge had not been avenged, and the undercurrent of Dongzhao had risen, and he had to return to Dongzhao!
Ling Yiyi saw that Zhao Xuanchen didn't speak, silently helped him to the dark cave entrance, and with the faint and soft green light of the night pearl in his hand, the two of them walked into the mountain road that allowed the two of them to pass through Guò.
The long cave of the mountain road is a naturally formed circular cave, the uneven rock wall is a little awkward, the rugged stone road under the foot is not easy to walk, the front that cannot see the end is like a demon with a big mouth open, the strange voice of the puppet comes out, the cold wind blows in the face, and the two people who are soaked are even colder.
Zhao Xuanchen was supported to walk with all his heart, looking down at the resolute little face cautiously and cautiously, with mixed feelings in his heart, moved, joyful, and more helpless.
Ling Yiyi didn't feel Zhao Xuanchen's gaze, recovering the memories of her previous life, she just wanted to live an ordinary life, and she didn't want to get involved in the royal family fight, so she could only apologize to him.
In this way, the two supported each other and walked silently, turning east and west along the cave, and walking in the direction of the mountain.
Suddenly, "Pounce! ”
Ling Yiyi and Zhao Xuanchen shouted 'pounce' almost at the same time, and then both of them pressed the other person to the ground, Zhao Xuanchen reacted faster, and at the same time fell to the ground, he threw away the branch crutches, and his powerful arms directly protected the petite Ling Yiyi in his arms, and pressed her head in his arms with his big palm.
As soon as she lay down, Ling Yiyi felt a large group of bats blowing overhead like a dark whirlwind, and even several of them almost hit her.
Zhao Xuanchen held Ling Yiyi in both hands, his head was facing the ground, listening to the sound of bats fluttering and fanning their wings, and quickly flew over his body, secretly rejoicing in his heart.
Fortunately, these bats are just ordinary bats, if he encounters a vampire bat, then he has to risk going mad and forcibly urge his internal force to recover his skills, so that it is possible to protect Yiyi, who smells of blood in his arms.
Yiyi's heart at this time was the same as Zhao Xuanchen's thoughts, although her legs were simply bandaged, and the cold pool water had been frozen for a long time, there was no longer blood, but after the fall just now, the wound on her leg seemed to have cracked again.
The smell of blood is exactly what vampire bats like the most, and fortunately, these bats are just ordinary breeds.
Ling Yiyi pushed Zhao Xuanchen, who was protecting her underneath, and lifted the night pearl pinched on her body higher, "It's okay, let's go!" ”
"Hmm!" Zhao Xuanchen exhaled softly, nodded and let go of Ling Yiyi, touched the thick branch with his big hand, supported the stone wall with one hand, and slowly climbed up.
Ling Yiyi felt a loosening of his body, looked at the big hand stretched out by Zhao Xuanchen, who was still outstanding in his cloak, put his small hand in the big hand, and climbed up with his strength.
Ling Yiyi really wanted to tell Zhao Xuanchen, you don't have to protect me like this, I'm not so weak, but when I thought that he even dared to jump off the cliff for himself, and felt that it was too hypocritical to say that, so I could only accept his good calmly, thinking, big deal, after going out, if he is in any danger in the future, she will also protect him with her life!
At this moment, a delicate dagger appeared in front of Ling Yiyi's eyes, and Ling Yiyi turned her head to look at Zhao Xuanchen who was leaning on her head suspiciously.
Zhao Xuanchen stuffed the dagger carved with a black python into Ling Yiyi's little hand, "Give you self-defense!" I wanted to give it to you a long time ago, but I never had the chance! ”
He didn't see Yiyi kill with his own eyes, but when he rushed to the Zhengfeng of Taigu Mountain to save her, he saw that he was injured by internal forces in the depths of the forest and fell unconscious, what he was holding in his hand was a sharp dagger, and the dagger should be her weapon.
Ling Yiyi pulled the burden of the wild fruit on her back, looked at the unbearable appearance of the two of them now, thought about the difficult road ahead, and neatly took the dagger and inserted it into her waist. "Let's go!"
It doesn't matter if she has a dagger to defend herself, she doesn't want to die in this cave like this.
Zhao Xuanchen finally showed a smile on his face, and with the help of Ling Yiyi on crutches, he stepped on the way out again.
In the meantime they encountered bats again, and the road up became steeper and harder, and the two of them walked for a while to rest for a while, and persevered uphill with the faint green light.
In the Xiangguo Temple, the old general Ling of the early dynasty, after being proud of the news of Ling Yiyi's disappearance, rushed to the Xiangguo Division with the guards of the General's Mansion and the horsewhip.
As soon as he got off the horse, General Ling went straight to the backyard wing room and found the old lady Ling who stayed in the wing room.
At this time, the old lady Ling, who was only allowed to enter and not leave, was sitting in the wing room drinking tea in the middle of the morning, and Mama Zhou was serving by the side.
Ling Wanrou, Ling Xuerou, and Ling Kerou, accompanied by the maid, came to the wing room to greet the old lady, and by the way, to inquire about the old lady's attitude towards Ling Yiyi's disappearance.
As soon as General Ling entered the backyard, the guards guarding the courtyard gate wanted to go in to report, but were stopped by General Ling's hand-raiser.
Old General Ling wore hard armor and strode into the wing room, and when he saw Old Madam Ling's demure and leisurely appearance, a cloud of anger filled his heart.
"You're laid-back, Yiyi is missing, and you're not worried at all? Anyway, she is also the eldest lady of our General's Mansion! ”
Old General Ling's sharp eyes shot at Old Madam Ling like a knife, and at the same time, he glanced at Zhao Wanrou and the three of them who were sitting in danger with a warning, "And you, and you, and you, and you're still in the mood to drink tea!" ”
After speaking, General Ling raised his feet in disappointment and walked out, not wanting to pay attention to the stunned old lady and the three granddaughters in the wing.
In his heart, no matter how arrogant Yiyi is, no matter how virtuous she is, she is the eldest lady of the General's Mansion, and she is one with the General's Mansion, and the flesh and blood affection is unchanged, but he didn't expect that his good wife and granddaughter really wished that Yiyi would disappear and never appear again, so he hid in the wing room and drank tea, and didn't say that he would send someone to look for it, how not to disappoint him.
"Sir!" Old Madam Ling, who came back to her senses, tightened her heart, and immediately stood up from the wooden chair, took Mama Zhou's outstretched hand, and chased her out.
"Master, no, the concubine is ......"
When Zhao Wanrou and the three of them saw this situation, they shouted that it was not good, and immediately got up and chased after the old lady. "Grandfather ......"
Grandfather was disappointed in them, although they are now the future princesses and side concubines, but no matter where they go, they are all young ladies who go out of the General's Mansion, and what they can rely on is always the General's Mansion.
The hasty footsteps of several female dependents could catch up with Old General Ling, and when they went out, Old General Ling was already nowhere to be found.
Zhao Wanrou was worried in her heart, and couldn't help but look at Old Madam Ling standing in the courtyard, "Grandmother, what can I do now?" Grandfather seems to be angry! ”
After they closed the mountain this morning, they heard that someone had died in the mountain behind Xiangguo Temple, and the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion sent someone to arrest the murderer, and then they heard that Mo Lan and Hui Lan were coming to report, and they knew that Ling Yiyi was missing.
Because they were afraid of accidentally going out and encountering danger, they didn't send someone to find Ling Yiyi.
In her selfish heart, it was also because her grandfather favored Ling Yiyi, and her reputation was so bad that he only punished her to Xiangguo Temple to pray for blessings, so he didn't want people to go to her.
Unexpectedly, the grandfather who thought he was here to pick them up and return home had such a big temper when he came, and now he must have brought someone to find Yiyi.
Old Madam Ling looked at the courtyard gate calmly and snorted lightly, "Mama Zhou, the old body is just afraid that looking for that girl with great fanfare will make her reputation even more damaged, so let people secretly look for it!" Since the old man complained that the old man didn't send someone to look for her, you should immediately send more people to find that girl! ”
In a word, to make a matter of course, but also to push his own responsibility away.
The meaning is obvious, she sent someone to look for it, just for the sake of fame, the old general didn't know, and now that the old general has taken people to look for it, she no longer cares about it, and sends more people to look for it.
Zhao Wanrou had to admire her grandmother in her heart, her calm thinking and decisiveness.
Meng Rutian in the other courtyard was not as leisurely and calm as Old Madam Ling.