The handlebar stood up lazily, stretched his waist, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and hummed a little song in a low voice while setting up the car, "Little sister go back to her parents' house, my brother will take you a ride home, don't talk about homely words, talk about homely tears"

"Brother Han, please go to the inn first, I still have some goods to load." Xia Qingyun lifted the curtain of the car to show him the way.

When she arrived at the inn, she called Xiao Er to help her carry the things in the house to the carriage. Xiao Er responded, wondering in his heart, when did this girl buy so many things!

Less than half an hour after coming out of Liwan Town, the surrounding area was full of vast mountains. The mountains here are not as gentle as those in Beixi Village, but the mountains are high and steep, and the water is deep and rapid. The winding mountain road spirals like a sheep's intestine, and a few miles away is a sharp turn.

It was better when going up the hill, the speed was not very fast, and the turn was very calm. But over the mountain pass, all the way downhill, the speed of the carriage is getting faster and faster, not the horse is pulling, but the cart is pushing the horse to run.

After a sharp bend, the rear wheels of the carriage were thrown up violently, and a small half of it hung in the air, and there was a cliff below!

The handlebar style skillfully tugged on the reins, shook his head and sang the tune: "One egg and two yoyo, the little sister and two Lang put me to sleep in the middle, the two taste unusual, one egg and two yoyo, a little sister and two Lang, the three of us sleep together, each has its own ghostly name!" ”

Xia Qingyun, who was lying at the window looking at the scenery, was shaken so much that he almost vomited out yesterday's dinner. She leaned out and shouted, "Brother Han! Can you slow it down? ”

The handlebar-style head does not return. The voice came intermittently with the bump of the carriage: "Sister! There are three mountains ahead, and if you can't climb them before dark, you have to feed the wolves in the mountains."

The wheel crushed against a rock and jerked, her forehead slamming against the window.

"Oops!" Venus was popping up in front of her, and her forehead suddenly bulged into a big bag, and she grinned in pain, so she had no choice but to enter the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion to avoid it.

From the hour to the hour, it took six hours, and when Xia Qingyun poked his head out of the car window again, it was already full of colorful clouds outside.

Mountains are rolling in the distance. Like a group of giants lying on the earth and sleeping. The surrounding area is sometimes dense woods, and sometimes passing by several ponds, at first glance I thought I had come to the Jiangnan water town. The air was humid and hot, as if it had suddenly reached the middle of summer.

The carriage drove past a small mountain village. Smoke rises from the rooftops of every house. Dressed in a short coat. Dark-skinned men sat in front of their homes to cool off. The women put food on plantain leaves and took it out and gave it to the men and children.

After walking for another half an hour, I finally saw a large black camp tent in the night. The guards on duty stopped the carriage for questioning. Check the handlebar-style token and wave it away.

Jumping out of the carriage, there were already soldiers waiting on the side, leading her directly to General Zhenyuan's military tent.

As she walked, she looked around, and it was pitch black, with no light in sight except for the occasional few fireflies flying by. She breathed as deeply as she could, trying to calm the tension and excitement in her heart.

In addition to the two guards at the door of the military tent, there was also a man in black wearing a brass mask, who saw Xia Qingyun coming, nodded at her slightly, and lifted the tent curtain.

In the military tent, it was still the same furnishings as before, and only a single candle was burning on the table, and the candlelight was like a bean, illuminating a small halo.

The tall and thin figure heard the voice and slowly turned around, still wearing a blue-veined silver mask on his face.

"Qingyun see General Zhenyuan." She whispered.

"You're here. Don't be polite, sit. The general's voice was still hoarse and low, without any emotion. But if you look closely, you can definitely hear a subtle tremor in the voice.

She sat down across the table with a slight restraint, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"You"

The two spoke almost at the same time.

The general coughed lightly, as if to hide the embarrassment.

"How's the reclamation going?"

"One qiē shun lì, two hundred and seventy-eight houses have been built, 1,150 acres of terraced fields have been cultivated, and the ironwork workshop" she replied fluently, as if reporting work.

"I went to Liwan with the prince of the emperor to deliver goods, thinking that I would bring something by the way, there is bacon, and some clothes, shoes and socks."

General Zhenyuan bowed slightly, and said lightly: "The weather here is hot, and things are not resistant to storage, so there is no need to send them in the future." The journey is tiring, you rest early, and I will send someone to send you back the day after tomorrow. ”

With that, he stood up and posed as a send-off.

Xia Qingyun bit her lip, repeating words such as 'Are you okay, are you hurting better' over and over again in her heart, but she couldn't ask a word, so she had to turn around and leave the tent.

The curtain fell, shielding her delicate back from his view.

His fingers moved, trying to pull her back back, but he clenched his fist tightly, and the knuckles clicked softly.

Blowing out the candles, he lay down on the narrow camp bed with his clothes, took off his mask in the darkness and put it on the side of his pillow, put his hands behind his head, and looked at the top of the tent in a daze.

Xia Qingyun followed the soldiers, came to the camp tent prepared for her, and bowed her head and got in.

There were no candles or oil lamps burning inside the tent, but it was shrouded in a faint light. She looked up and was pleasantly surprised to see a lantern made of bamboo sticks hanging in the middle of the tent, and hundreds of fireflies gathered in the lantern, and the tail shimmered brightly and darkly.

There are clean bamboo mats, a table, a chair, and a bamboo bed on the ground. Also on the table are two oval fruits and a bunch of blooming phalaenopsis.

Xia Qingyun's heart suddenly pounded, like a deer crashing. These things were obviously prepared for her by the general, and it can be seen from the lantern filled with fireflies that a lot of thought must have been put into it.

She couldn't help but smile on her face, feeling a hint of sweetness lingering in her heart.

Although it was extremely hot in the tent, she did not flash into the Wishful Treasure Pavilion that night. Lying on the bamboo bed, tossing and turning, it was not until dawn that he fell asleep in a daze.

In the dream, she ran desperately for some reason, and suddenly stepped on the air, fell straight down, and woke up suddenly. A ray of morning light shone through the crack in the tent and shone on the string of Phalaenopsis petals on the table, revealing a faint pink.

Xia Qingyun sat up, remembering the situation of meeting last night, he suddenly regretted it in his heart, what is there to be ashamed of, once he is born and twice cooked, not to mention that he also saved his life, it is normal to meet and greet him.

After entering the treasure pavilion, he briefly freshened up, changed into a moon-white tunic dress, tied his hair on the top of his head, and pinned the silver bamboo hairpin.

When I stepped out of the tent, I found that the sun had just risen, and the soldiers were conducting their morning training in the open space between the tents.

She looked at his tent, and saw that the curtain was rolled up, but it was empty.

After asking the guards, I learned that General Zhenyuan went out to inspect early in the morning and might not be back until an hour or two. She found the goods she had brought with her yesterday, and took out an oilcloth bag from a basket of sausages, and poured out baskets of bacon, revealing several wooden crates hidden underneath, and called two soldiers to carry them to her tent.

When he was idle, he wandered around the station. It is an open plain between the mountains, and there are many thick banyan trees, long aerial roots hanging from the trees and swaying with the breeze.

In the lush grass, wildflowers bloom in the east and west, attracting wild bees to buzz among the flowers.

As she walked, she accidentally kicked a stone, and a foot-long centipede crawled out from under the stone, with a black and red carapace, the thickness of a thumb, and hundreds of insect feet moved together into the grass beside it.

Xia Qingyun was startled, it was the first time she had seen such a big centipede, although she was not afraid of insects, but looking at its dense feet, she couldn't help but feel numb in her scalp.

The climate here is hot and humid, the vegetation is lush, and there must be a lot of poisonous snakes and insects growing in the jungle. She was faintly worried that if she was accidentally bitten by a snake or insect, there was no special medicine, but it would be life-threatening. I don't know how the army drove away these poisonous insects when they set up camp.

She wanted to ask someone and turned around and walked towards the station. In the distance, I saw several black-clothed men flying horses rushing to the camp, turning over and dismounting, and went straight to the general's military tent.

The general is back? Xia Qingyun quickened his pace, rushed back to his tent first, took out a short gun from the oilcloth bag, grabbed a bullet case from the wooden box, flashed into the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion to fill the gunpowder, loaded the magazine, wrapped it in a piece of green cloth, and walked out with it in his hand.

When she came to the door of the military tent, she found that there was no one inside, and turned her head in disappointment, and through a few tents, she saw the back of a man in black.

From the slender waist and long hair that hung down to the waist, as well as a few small movements inadvertently, Xia Qingyun judged that this was a woman.

Then the man came to the horse, took a package from the horse, and walked straight out of the camp.

Xia Qingyun was quite surprised, and couldn't help but follow curiously.

She walked lightly, concealed her figure by the thick trunk of the banyan tree, and followed far behind, unnoticed by the woman.

After walking half a stick of incense, the woman squeezed in from between the two big banyan trees that were very close to her, waist-deep shrubs and hanging air roots blocked Xia Qingyun's vision, stopped and waited for a while, she slowly approached, looking in from the gap, but was blocked by the dense plantain bushes.

She had no choice but to follow the woman's example, squeezed in from the middle of the big tree, and drilled out of the plantain bushes, and a small pond appeared in front of her, and the giant trees and plantain bushes on the shore were like natural screens that tightly surrounded the small pond in the middle.

A few pieces of clothing were scattered around the pond, and the woman was half soaked in the water, revealing her smooth back and lotus root-like arms, and rubbing her long hair. Hearing the noise, she squatted down vigilantly, only exposed her head to the water, turned her head suddenly, and took a look at Xia Qingyun, who had just straightened up, and the two of them exclaimed at the same time: "Why are you!" (To be continued......)