Chapter 247: Dark Clouds
Seven days later, Northridge Snow Mountain.
Grandpa Hua and his group crossed the mountains and mountains, and finally arrived at the bottom of the snowy mountain, and everyone looked at the majestic snow-capped mountain, and they all gasped in their hearts. If at the beginning, everyone who followed Grandpa Hua to the Snow Mountain had different thoughts, then now they are basically just for one person.
Grandpa Hua asked Zhou Mingyi to settle everyone down, chattering around the snowy mountain alone, no one heard what he said clearly, but everyone saw Grandpa Hua's face was very bad, so no one dared to ask Grandpa Hua if there was anything wrong, Zhou Mingyi was only responsible for letting everyone have a place to live, but because there were too many of them, many people had to sleep on the ground, so the ground was so cold, and the villagers had no extra quilts at home, how should they keep warm?
In the past few days, a lot of people have left, and some inexplicable people have joined the team, when Zhou Mingyi was worried, there was a sound of horseshoe galloping horses on the road, he raised his eyes and looked, the galloping person was a middle-aged man who appeared next to the prince a few days ago, the person was tall and strong, and there was a carriage pulling the goods forward farther behind him, which was very difficult.
This general named Li Yi, the prince called this person a general, it was the commander of this war with Mu State, Zhou Mingyi didn't know this person, but the prince believed in this person's ability very much, Li Yi also had a man named Muqiu by his side, both of them were almost obedient to the prince, Zhou Mingyi was worried about another thing, and didn't pay too much attention to the prince's affairs, but the other two people paid attention to Zhou Mingyi vaguely for a long time.
After surveying the surrounding terrain, Grandpa Hua determined the route up the mountain. Let everyone wait at the foot of the mountain, he took a small number of people up the snowy mountain, and set off early tomorrow morning, everyone was excited. In the evening, Zhou Sheng came back and did not bring back the purple jade snow lotus that Grandpa Hua wanted, Zhou Mingyi thought that maybe the Jin family did not have a purple jade snow lotus at all, and Zhou Sheng did have another explanation for what Grandpa Hua said.
After listening to Zhou Sheng's story, Grandpa Hua couldn't hang the charge of doing unfavorable things on Zhou Sheng, he knew that Qi Zimin's sometimes paranoid thoughts could not be persuaded by anyone, although Zhou Sheng did not tell Grandpa Hua about his initiative to hand over power to Qi Zimin. But Zhou Sheng himself knew that Qi Zimin had lost. He thought about how Qi Zimin would regret it in the future, and told Grandpa Hua that Qi Zimin would definitely send the purple jade snow lotus back, and Grandpa Hua would be suspicious, and the matter had come to this point. He couldn't say anything more.
"Then you can go up the snowy mountain with me. There will be a place for you when the time comes. Grandpa Hua said to Zhou Sheng. And without waiting for Zhou Sheng's answer, he decided what he should do, and Zhou Sheng, who was ineffective, went out without saying a word, and when he left, he didn't know how long he raised his eyes and saw Zhou Mingyi. He turned around and left without thinking about it.
"Wait!" Zhou Mingyi shouted behind Zhou Sheng, chased after Zhou Sheng and said, "How are things? β
Zhou Sheng clasped his hands to his chest and said mockingly: "What does it have to do with you, and what is the purpose of your questioning?" β
The-for-tat two looked at each other quietly for at least a stick of incense, and in the end, Zhou Mingyi was defeated and said: "Grandpa Hua may know about you, all of them have been keeping you by your side, you have to find a chance to leave, otherwise the rest of the matter will be troublesome." β
Zhou Sheng smiled: "What's the trouble, isn't it the son of the son of a criminal minister, what's the big deal, I don't believe that I can't get out of this snowy mountain, don't worry about it." β
Zhou Mingyi's heart was blocked, and he said with some unhappiness: "I'm just reminding you that you don't need to regard me as your enemy, after all, we ......"
"We've been together for twenty years, and I still don't know what you're thinking, so it's best if you pretend you don't know me, and I pretend I don't know you, so that's the best outcome." Zhou Sheng cut off Zhou Mingyi's words, and turned his head to look at the white snow-capped mountains, "Even if this is my cemetery, I am very happy, I am willing to guard what I want to protect, if you can't get used to it, turn around and leave, no one will let you stay again." β
"What do you mean by that?" Zhou Mingyi frowned, and said unhappily: "Don't talk about death all day long, you want to use this trick to make me regress, this has only worked many years ago, and it is useless to me now." β
Zhou Sheng laughed: "You think too much." β
The two had nothing to say, and fell silent for a while.
Seeing someone calling him from a distance, Zhou Mingyi glanced at Zhou Sheng, still indifferently standing three steps away with his hands on his chest, he saw Zhou Sheng's appearance and had a lot of powerlessness, he wanted to step forward and pat Zhou Sheng's shoulder, but according to the current situation of the two, this kind of close behavior is not what the other party likes, so Zhou Mingyi had to say the last word to Zhou Sheng and turned to leave.
"You're going to survive." This was the last sentence Zhou Mingyi said to Zhou Sheng.
The concern in the words can be heard by anyone, but Zhou Sheng just smiled coldly, walked forward without looking at Zhou Mingyi's back, he looked at the towering snow-capped mountain, if the news from Grandpa Hua was not wrong, this snow-capped mountain would be a miracle, and there was nothing bad about him disappearing into a miracle.
Zhou Mingyi wanted to stay and take care of everyone, the prince was very weak but Grandpa Hua insisted on letting him go up the mountain, the prince himself wanted to go and see, there were many people left, Grandpa Hua only took a small number of people, and the people who stayed were handed over to Zhou Mingyi, this is a trust in him, but also a test, even if Zhou Mingyi said that he wanted to go to the snow mountain very much, Grandpa Hua would not agree, so he didn't say anything, accepted it quietly, and waited quietly.
After they walked for three days, a special guest was ushered in at the foot of the snow mountain, Zhou Mingyi was stunned when he saw the person coming, and then thought of a lot of bad things, his heart has been raised high, and he always felt very uneasy in his heart, maybe some things are destined to be changed, he can only watch.
"Where is Zhou Sheng?" Qi Zimin ran to Zhou Mingyi as soon as he got off the horse, grabbed Zhou Mingyi's shoulders, stared at Zhou Mingyi's eyes with blood-red eyes, and did not let go of any change in the expression of the person in front of him. "Where is he?" Hand him over! β
Zhou Mingyi took a step back very calmly, making way for a distance, he sorted out his clothes, and said casually: "On the mountain." β
Qi Zimin was about to ride a horse up the mountain immediately, but Zhou Mingyi quickly grabbed the person and said, "Do you think you can still hold on to the mountain?" What's wrong? β
The more anxious he was, the calmer he became, seeing Qi Zimin's appearance, if it wasn't a big event, he wouldn't be down like this, Zhou Mingyi was ready, just waiting for Qi Zimin to tell him a lot of inside information, "There is no one in front." Let's go sit there. You can sue me for whatever you want. β
"Can you represent Zhou Sheng? You can be responsible for everything he does? Qi Zimin shook off Zhou Mingyi's arm and sneered: "I think you are also a fool, you think you can get him by paying a little behind your back, but in his opinion, you are worthless!" You're here alone. You'll never have to wait. What can you wait for? Do you need me to sue you? Scold...... Just wait. β
Qi Zimin was full of momentum and wanted to run from the snow mountain, Zhou Mingyi opened his eyes and closed his eyes to instantly imprison Qi Zimin's actions, took a deep breath and said, "You come with me." β
Qi Zimin shook him off again. Mockingly, "Let's go." β
He wanted to see if the man who knew the outcome could maintain an indifferent face and be impartial in charge of everything.
"In other words......" Zhou Mingyi said: "The purple jade snow lotus of the Jin family is in your hands?" You've brought it with you now? β
"Of course." Qi Zimin fidgeted and said impatiently to Zhou Mingyi: "I have already told you the whole thing, now you should let me go to Zhou Sheng, and you have to ask Zhou Sheng to hand over his treasure." β
"Hahaha......" Zhou Mingyi looked up to the sky and laughed.
Qi Zimin's crazy state startled Qi Zimin, frowned and said, "What are you laughing at?" β
"It's too late." When Zhou Mingyi said these words, he had a deep smile on his face, "It's too late, do you know where they are now?" Don't say whether he has a treasure on him, even if he really didn't tell me anything, now they should have seen the person they are looking for, and if there is a baby, he can't wait for you to go up the mountain to grab it, it's too late. β
"What do you mean?" A deep fear emerged from the bottom of Qi Zimin's heart, and he looked at Zhou Mingyi, his last hope was shattered little by little.
"How many days has the princess disappeared? Did she sue you where you went? Zhou Mingyi didn't answer the rhetorical question, and after thinking about it carefully, he pondered: "Think about where the princess will go, if you go up the mountain alone, let's not say whether you can safely reach the top of the mountain and get the 'baby' you want, and when you get the things and find the princess, it's too late." β
"What do you mean? What's so strange about this mountain, if they can all go up, why can't I get to the top? Qi Zimin looked Zhou Mingyi up and down, and said with a smile: "You want to use this method to make me unable to go up, and you are underestimating me." β
Seeing that Qi Zimin didn't believe it, Zhou Mingyi sneered and said, "Do you know why Grandpa Hua can go up?" β
Qi Zimin's uneasy feeling in his heart grew bigger and bigger, and he listened to Zhou Mingyi's story like a myth to him.
"Grandpa Hua is a national teacher, he can know astronomy and geography, and Grandpa Hua has predicted the next things, he has seen a lot of phenomena through time and space, and he will send her back when he comes back this time." Zhou Mingyi tried to say it as simply as possible, "You know, Zhang Xiaoman is not from us here, Grandpa Hua wants to send Zhang Xiaoman back, and the general also knows about it, but he doesn't agree, so Grandpa Hua wants to negotiate with them personally, and the result is above." β
He looked at the snow-covered mountains and glanced at Qi Zimin, who was lost in his soul, "Grandpa Hua is half an immortal, this sacred mountain does not have much confinement for him, as for how the general and his wife went up in the first place, I don't know, in short, if mortals want to enter the mountain without their own strength, haven't you heard from the villagers, all people with strong martial arts are a fate, their whereabouts are unknown, and their bones are gone." β
"How is that possible? So what will the princess do? Qi Zimin looked up at Zhou Mingyi sharply and said, "Then you just watched him go up?" β
Zhou Mingyi closed his eyes and didn't answer.
Qi Zimin muttered to himself, "I know that my sister-in-law has been replaced by another person, but I don't know the process of the matter, if I ask you to say so, the eldest brother knows it but has been pretending not to care, what does he want to do?" β
"No one knows what the general thinks?" Zhou Mingyi was a little tired, shook his head and said: "I don't know, the national teacher said that it is not what he does, it depends on how the lady chooses, as for the general, he will come back, right?" β
"What do you mean?" After Qi Zimin finished speaking, he understood and was a little confused, and asked, "What about the child?" β
Zhou Mingyi sighed: "Take it up, Grandpa Hua said that they will definitely come down within seven days, and everything will be clear by then." β
"No way!" Qi Zimin immediately said: "At that time, it was too late, I have to catch up with the mountain now, I have to ask the eldest brother in person." β
The howling mountain wind came one after another, and the whole snow-capped mountain seemed to be roaring, and the sky was gloomy.
Zhou Mingyi said with some self-deprecation: "I think you are confused, the top priority is to find the princess and give her the snow lotus in your hand, it is better to save one than to waste it." β
Qi Zimin was very bitter in his heart, and said, "I can't find her, I don't know what to do?" β
Zhou Mingyi didn't know what to do, he was not absolutely sober now, he had been confused about many things, but he didn't expect that after being confused for so many years, the person who made him suddenly understand was actually Qi Zimin, it was really a creation and a trick, but it was still too late.
The two of them looked up at the black and oppressive sky, the visibility of the snow-capped mountains was getting lower and lower, and suddenly a flash of lightning flashed, illuminating the dazzling field on the top of the mountain.
Qi Jimin is lost in the snowy mountains, he has lost his direction for two days, if he can't find the right direction today, the dry food and water in his bags are not enough, and unknown dangers may occur at any time, he will die in the snowy mountains.
From the beginning, he decided to find Zhang Xiaoman alone, settle down with someone close to him and go on the road alone, he didn't mention anything he encountered, but he got to the snow mountain with difficulty and entered the mountain in one go, he still underestimated the unreachability of the snow mountain, so that he couldn't find the way forward for the whole person, he was even wondering if he passed by Zhang Xiaoman like this in this life, and never saw her for the last time.
Some people's happiness is very simple, just looking at it from a distance, and some people's regrets are also very simple, but there is one less explanation. He hadn't said that to her yet, he was going to find her, and tell her personally, the biggest regret of his lifeββ(To be continued......)