Mo Huaijin looked at the place where Hua Qing pointed out, and the wine flag fluttered in the wind in the distance. A line of egrets flew across the sky, very free.

He stretched out his hand to hold Hua Qing and asked:

"Do you want to take a break?"

Hua Qing shook her head and said:

"Don't do it, Childe is so anxious to go back to his hometown, saying that there is someone there who makes you worry, that person is bound to be very important to Childe, you can't delay for a moment, let's go!"

Mo Huaijin's heart warmed.

"But you ......"

He looked at her thorn-torn dress, revealing a white flower on her calf, and her delicate skin had a touch of dried dark vermilion blood scabs, and he thought of the wound that had been cut by thorns somewhere.

Hua Qing quickly took a few steps forward and replied:

"I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me. It's you, when you arrive at the post station, buy a better horse, inquire about the direction, and go home early. ”

Buying a horse? Mo Huaijin was taken aback. It is true that he carries a jade pendant with him, but that jade pendant is an accessory carried by the royal family, and it is used to pawn and buy horses, where can the dignity of the royal family go? He frowned slightly, but said nothing.

But the truth is that he thinks too much.

After the two arrived at the post station, the store opened two adjacent rooms for the two, Hua Qing took out a silver ingot from the package, and said to the shopkeeper:

"Please, look for a better horse."

Mo Huaijin was taken aback again. After these years of contact, Hua Qing has never been such a poor woman who is so rich that she is struggling with food and clothing, if she has a lot of savings, so she has the money to open two rooms, it is reasonable, but she has the money to open a house, not to mention, and the money to buy him a horse?

"Childe, let's go, go up to rest."

The two followed Xiao Er and went upstairs. Hua Qing went to his room first, turned out the previous luggage and divided it, and at this time Xiao Er had already poured the tea.

"Little Er, please prepare something to eat, two or three light side dishes, and serve it with porridge."

Xiao Er took the promise and left. Mo Huaijin just wanted to talk to her, but she spoke first.

"Childe, you sit here to rest, I just saw a seller selling baked cakes next to the post station, I'll go buy a few baked cakes and come back, when the time comes, you take it with you on the road, if the food comes up in a while, you can eat first, don't wait for me."

After speaking, Hua Qing went out. Mo Huaijin sighed in her heart, she is really a woman who comes and goes like the wind.

He picked up the tea cup and just took the tea lid and slowly twisted the tea, and suddenly a white dove flew to the window from the corner of his eye, and he looked sideways, and his white body was only red with five plum blossoms on the top of his head.

"Cloud pigeon?"

He walked to the window, stretched out his right arm, and the dove flew to the back of his palm. If he remembered correctly, the line of egrets he had seen at the top of the mountain had clouded doves mixed in, because the egrets and clouded doves were of different sizes. He untied a very thin silk from the pigeon's feet and glanced at the words on it. And he let the cloud dove fly.

Hua Qing rushed upstairs with the baked cake and pushed the door open, only to find that Mo Huaijin's room was empty.

"Childe?"

She looked back and forth in the room twice, but she didn't see a single person. There are two stacks of side dishes on the table, two bowls of porridge, chopsticks and spoons are in place, and there is no trace of moving. The quilt and pillows on the bed were also in place, and they were not used passively.

"Say goodbye? Let's go? ”

She walked a few steps downstairs. Asked:

"Shopkeeper, have you seen the boy who came with me?"

The shopkeeper turned around and took out a letter from the cabinet and handed it to Hua Qing.

"This is what the boy asked me to pass on to you. He said please take care. By the way, the companion of the boy paid the room fee, saying that you can rest here for a few more days. ”

"Thank you."

Hua Qing took the letter and went upstairs.

When she arrived at Mo Huaijin's room, she opened the letter. There are only a few short lines in it.

"Hua Qing Shulan:

See the words like meeting. Recently, there have been a lot of troubles, and I am ashamed. Where the gods are wasted, the mud head has been grateful. Because of the suddenness of the incident, he had to resign. In the bag, there is a jade, looking at the Wan Cun do not be, he has a fate, in the Central Plains to see, this is a token. In front of Lord Lingtang, pray for peace and no other.

Best wishes. ”

Hua Qing hurriedly unwrapped the package, opened it and took a look, and sure enough, there was a jade pendant with a transparent texture and the word "Zhao" engraved inside.

Illustrious? What do you mean? Central Plains? Could it be that his hometown is far away in the Central Plains? Although she didn't dare to think about it anymore, all that flashed in her mind was the bright face of Mo Huaijin. As soon as I closed my eyes, tears began to fall.

She wiped a handful of tears, put away the jade pendant, put her bags back on her back, and went downstairs to ask:

"Shopkeeper, may I ask who the boy is leaving? In which direction did you go? ”

"A group of people, the leading men and women, dressed in black and white, went northeast."

"Shopkeeper, please prepare a horse for me, thank you."

The shopkeeper wanted to persuade her not to chase after her, because he saw that it was an army that came to greet the prince, and although the two people in the lead did not wear military uniforms, they were extravagant, and they were either rich or noble.

But Hua Qing's eyes were red in front of her, coupled with the wind and dust, and her body was thin, the shopkeeper felt that she was very pitiful, thinking that she was another infatuated woman who loved her son, and was ruthlessly abandoned by her son, so he sighed and said to her:

"Girl, you're still young, if you can't catch up, let it go, the second half of your life will be long."

Outside the post station, Xiao Er brought a jujube red horse, although Hua Qing didn't understand the shopkeeper's words, but he also said thank you, took the reins and got on the horse.

She rode her horse and galloped, she thought to herself, no matter what the prince thought, this jade pendant would be returned to him, because she knew that she would never leave southern Xinjiang in her life, and the people of the Central Plains paid attention to "the gentleman has no reason, and the jade does not go to the body". Childe's jade pendant looks so valuable, she categorically can't accept it, and she is bound to catch up with him and return it to him.

But she didn't meet anyone along the way, and at night she saw a post station in the middle of the fork in the road, and wanted to go in to find out the news, and change horses by the way to continue riding.

She went into the stack and gave some broken silver and inquired:

"Shopkeeper, have you ever seen a man dressed in white, followed by two men and women, one black and one white? There may be other people around them, have they ever been there? In which direction did you go? ”

The shopkeeper pondered for a while and replied:

"Girl, you're talking about the three guests in the upper wing, right? The man in white was about this tall and very energetic. The woman is also very beautiful, but she doesn't speak the whole time. They don't look like locals, they look like they're from out of town. ”

"Yes, yes, shopkeeper, the man in white, if you think about it, is his clothes all intact? Is there a scratch in the first category? ”

The shopkeeper replied:

"Yes, girl, aren't you acquaintances? Why do you say as if you've seen them? ”