On the 10th day of the road, I was completely lost. In the reckless jungle, you can only follow the guidance of the sun and the big trees, and walk eastward, which is the direction of Kyoto. The dry food and water I brought with me were almost finished. The day is coming to an end, and I have to dismount and rest. The horse was still underage, and it was difficult to walk at night, so he had to rest along the way.

I found a large tree, and after making sure there were no signs of wild beasts around it, I tied the reins to the branches. In Fulanyuan, we spend a few days in the wild every spring, so it wasn't hard for me.

Just as I was laying out the straw mats, lighting the fire, and preparing to sleep on the floor, there was a sudden sound of sneaky footsteps behind me.

I turned my head and saw two people. One is extremely fat and very short, and the other is extremely thin and very tall. The stocky one had small eyes, thick lips, and hair tied into a cupola with red string; The tall and thin one had a long face, a high nose, and a handful of goatee drooping down his chest. They all had a bright knife in their hands. When they saw me turn their heads, they immediately stood on their feet and raised their knives.

I stopped my movements, looked at them, and didn't speak.

After a pause, the thin man poked the fat man with his hand that was not holding a knife, and the fat man immediately reacted and cleared his throat: "Ahem...... Little girl, do you know, know who we are? ”

I looked at them suspiciously, and in fact, seeing their outfits and the knives in their hands, I had already guessed eight points.

When the thin man saw that I didn't speak, he thought I was weak-hearted, so he stood up straight: "We are the king of this mountain, I am tall, he is a sophomore, we kill people like numb, and never blink!" ”

"No, but, seeing that you are so young and so beautiful, we will spare and spare you from death. But, but you have to hand over your valuable things, hand them over! The fat man stuttered a little, and he blinked and continued.

"Poof!" I couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Tall and sophomore, it's really a bit ...... Hahaha! ”

As if feeling insulted, Gao took a step forward: "Little girl, don't toast or eat and drink!" With that, he raised his knife and ran towards me.

"Whoosh-" An arrow grazed his ear and shot straight into the sophomore's pigtail.

"Mom-" "Plop" almost at the same time, Gao Da roared out, and Gao Eryi sat on the ground.

I put down the bow in my hand and said, "Then it depends on whether you have the ability to do this!" I tilted my head and smiled at them.

"Don't dare, girl! The little brothers have eyes but don't know Mount Tai, they have eyes without beads, and dogs look down on people, don't worry about us......"

The tall man kept waving at me.

"Alright—stop!" I stopped him.

He was bent down and paused in mid-air, looking up at me. The goatee shook and shrugged, sticking to some bright spittle.

I thought for a moment, "If you really want to make amends, do one thing for me." ”

"What's the matter? Girl, please tell me, the little old man will be the ...... of the sword mountain and the sea of fire."

"Stop—" I hurriedly stopped him, "it's not a difficult task, you go and get me a good horse, the kind that travels thousands of miles a day, and help me prepare some dry food." If you have enough of it, you can make it to Kyoto. ”

"Girl, you're going to Kyoto? Do what? Is it to defect to a relative? In chaos, what do you little girl do in that place! ”

"Are you going or not?" I raised the volume.

"Go, go, I'll go and prepare the horses!" As he spoke, he was going to help the sophomore who was still sitting on the ground. The sophomore still has his mouth open, and there is a pale yellow liquid under him.

"Wait a minute!" I shouted.

The tall man looked at me blankly.

"He's going to stay!" I pointed to the sophomore year of high school.

Although tall and timid, he is not stupid, and he knows that I am afraid that they will never return. He nodded, and ran into the depths of the dense forest.

I walked over, pulled the arrow from the head of the high two, and dragged him to the fire in case of a wild beast attack. After that, he lay down on a freshly laid straw mat and slept in his clothes.

I didn't know it at the time, but there was a pair of eyes looking at me from a tree not far away, and at this time, the corners of his lips were raised, revealing a very faint smile.

I don't know how long later, Gao Da brought a horse, dark and smooth fur, and at first glance it looked like a good horse. A big burden was on the horse's back: "Girl, the horse is coming!" ”

I thanked him. He untied the reins of the little red horse, handed it to Gao Da, and told them to take care of it.

Gao Lian nodded repeatedly, shook his brother, who had fallen asleep, and led the horse away. Before leaving, he whispered in my ear: "Girl, there are good things in the baggage!" Take care! ”

When they were far away, I unwrapped my baggage and took out a piece of dry food, which had been bumpy in the past few days, and I was really hungry. At this time, I saw that there seemed to be something on one side of the baggage, and when I took it out, it was a stack of silver tickets.

By this time, the sky was already slightly bright.

The horse is indeed energetic and docile. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: tall is ridiculous, but honest and reliable. Thinking about his parting words and the pile of silver tickets, I can't help but be moved. If you see you again in the future, you will be rewarded.

After two more days of walking, he began to see a steady stream of pedestrians on the road, and from a distance, he saw a city, which was in the mist. This is Ningyuan, it is the territory of Wang Chenghao of Ningyuan, and here is my younger brother Yuanqing. Only, where is he now?

It took a whole day to walk through Ningyuan City, which is a big city in Liyuan, comparable to some remote small states.

This is the first time I've been in the city, and when I see the crowd outside Fulan Garden, I can't help but take a closer look. The green tile houses, vermilion pavilions, and shop vendors are as prosperous and lively as written in the book.

Led the horse through the streets and alleys, you can feel that the people here are simple and orderly, but in this troubled era, there are no homeless people in the city. Although the people were plainly dressed, they were clean and courteous, and the neighborhood was harmonious.

It seems that King Ning Yuan really deserves his reputation, maybe Yuan Qing's choice is really not wrong, he is really a master.

Many years later, I learned that in the days I had been from Fulanyuan to Ningyuan, there had been a person who followed me silently and looked at me. For a long time afterward, he saw my embarrassment, my bravery, my helplessness, and my struggles......

When I walked to the exit of Ningyuan City, it was already dusk, and I looked at the sunset that was about to fall below the horizon, thinking about the coming days, and my heart was mixed. Mu Zixiao, how will you greet me? And what do I have to say when I see you?

Maybe because of my heart, or maybe because the sentimentality of being separated from Yuan Qing could not be calmed, I didn't want to stay in the city.

When I arrived at the gate of the city, the general guarding the city saw me, looked at me, his face changed slightly, he suddenly drew his long knife, waved his hand to the back, and a group of officers and soldiers surrounded me.

"What's stopping me?". I stood in front of the horse, and I didn't know why

An officer came over and patted the horse's mane, looked carefully at the horse's ears, took the burden on my horse's back, flipped it over, pinched out the silver ticket inside, and clenched his fists with both hands: "General Hui Tu, that's right, it's something that Gu Sanye lost!" The marks under the horse's ears and the amount of money in the baggage are not bad. ”

My heart tightened, could it be......

While scolding himself for being careless and forgetting his tall identity, he was thinking about how to get out.

At this moment, General Tu had already walked over, he looked like he was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, dressed in soft armor, tall and serious, with a businesslike look in his eyes.

He held the knife in one hand and put the other hand on his chest, saluted me, and looked up at me: "Girl, please come with me!" There was a majesty in his voice that could not be refused.

I stood still, aggrieved. But the surface is silent.

"Girl!" General Tu continued to urge.

When the officer who had searched for the baggage saw that I was not moving, he reached out to arrest me.

"Woo~~" I grabbed his arm and cried loudly. The outstretched arm paused and stopped in mid-air.

"My parents died young...... Alone and miserable...... Woo......" I rubbed my nose on the arm of the officer and soldier, "I, I have been walking for more than ten days in a row...... I went to my relatives, and my legs were swollen...... Dry food and dry food were also eaten...... There are horses and baggage on the side of the road, and I, I'm so tired...... Whining...... Daddy, Mother...... I didn't steal ...... Why do you say you left me alone in the world...... "Fortunately, I read a few plays and learned these tricks.

The more I talked, the more sad I became, so I simply grabbed the officer and soldier's arm and didn't let go.

There were already a lot of people around me, and when they heard my words, they all began to whisper: "This girl is so pitiful! ”

"Yes, you are helpless at a young age!"

"Just let him go!"

"Let him go, the horse can stay!"

The voices of the people became louder and louder, and General Tu easily tore me away from the soldier: "Girl, this country has national laws, even though I sympathize with you very much, but I can't break the law and discipline!" Otherwise, if there is any real thief who harms the people in the future, and there is a set of rhetoric, then what should I do, if I let him go like this time, wouldn't it be a disaster to the people? ”

He said it vigorously, and the onlookers began to nod their heads again.

Ning Yuan's Wang Chenghao's subordinates are really extraordinary. I looked at him, and he was still standing with his chest up, his eyes lowered, and he seemed to turn a blind eye to my pretense of pity.

Could it be that before I went to Kyoto, I had to walk in the yamen of Ningyuan City first? It's hard to settle down!

I hung my head, my shoulders sobbing and continued to think of ways to get out.

Just as we were at a stalemate, a gust of wind passed by our ears, and with this gust of wind came a unique fragrance of grass and trees in the mountains, and a man in black slowly fell from the sky. This amazing light skill stunned everyone, including me.

General Tu's expression was even more surprised, he clenched his fists and respectfully said, "Night Shadow King!" ”

It turned out to be the Night Ghost King!

The Night King glanced back at me, he was wearing a black mask the same color as his clothes, covering the upper half of his face, so that people could not see his eyes and forehead, only the slightly exposed angular jaw and the corners of his lips.

"Let her go." His voice was cold and deep.

General Tu's face turned slightly pale, and he stiffened his body: "This ......"

"Let him go!" The voice of the Night Shadow King couldn't help but speak, which made people shudder.

"Yes!" General Tu waved his hand, and the officers and soldiers around him got out of the way.

I stared at the man in black in a daze, all along, I thought that the Night King was just a legend.

The book says that the Night Shadow King only appears at night, and he once single-handedly exterminated the location of the secret spies of the Bone Jade Kingdom that had been lurking in the north of Kyoto for ten years, and half a year ago, he killed the Kyoto Prefecture Yin who poisoned the people for bad officials. He was also seen at the head of the city in Beiguan, and the cloak behind him hunted on the city wall under the moonlight......

In front of him, is this really the legendary Night King who only appears in the night, majestic in all directions, punishes rape and eliminates evil, and makes all gangsters and corrupt officials frightened? I stole my eyes up at him.

It's just that how could the Night Shadow King make King Ningyuan's soldiers so frightened? What is he doing for me all of a sudden?

"Not leaving?" His thin lips opened slightly, and his voice was still without the slightest warmth.

As if awakened, under the gaze of more and more people and officers and soldiers, I bowed my head, wrung my hands, and ran away as if I were flying. Years later, when someone talked to me about this time, he always laughed and said, like a little daughter-in-law......

Walking out of the city, while wiping the snot and tears on his face, he was thinking about the matter of the Night Shadow King, what is the relationship between him and Ningyuan Wang Chenghao? Is King Ningyuan subject to him? No way. Then, it was he who obeyed the orders of King Ning Yuan, and the decision to kill was all assigned by King Ning Yuan, otherwise how could he deign to help me a nameless woman? Why did the officers and soldiers listen to him? The face with the black mask kept flashing in my mind.

From Ningyuan City to Kyoto, the journey was only half a day, I walked all the way, all the way to think, but I didn't find that there were two fast horses, galloping towards me.

"Jinse!" The owner of the horse at the head shouted.

When I heard this, I was shocked. Keep your head up. And the tears fell silently.

That's right, it's Mu Zixiao.

He called me Jinse. It was the first time in eight years that he called my name. He's the same guy he was eight years ago, tall and powerful. There was more calm in his eyes, but there was still a bright light. At this moment, he was smiling on his horse and holding out his hand to me.

Like eight years ago, I sat in front of his horse. The difference is that once my head was only on his waist, but now, I can feel the hot breath exhaled when he speaks, hitting my neck, crispy and itchy, making me forget what I wanted to say to him, and forget the waiting and grievances of him not coming to me for so many years.

When I walked into the city, I remembered to ask him how he recognized me. After all, eight years ago, I was a skinny, dirty little girl.

Mu Zixiao said that someone came to inform him in advance that I was coming and told him to come and pick me up.

I thought about it, maybe Sister Yu and Steward Wang didn't worry about me, so they specially helped me. It really worries them.

When I finally arrived, I saw two big "Mu Mansions" on the door. This is Mu Zixiao's home. Eight years later, I finally returned to his home.

Xiao Feng—the guard who came to pick me up with Mu Zixiao—got off his horse and went in to report. Mu Zixiao hugged me off the horse, and the warm and cool touch was still the temperature of the year.

He led me up the steps of the Mu Mansion.

I saw a woman walking out of the door, surrounded by many servants, and she looked even more elegant and dignified.

Mu Zixiao immediately greeted her, put his arm around her shoulder, looked at me, and said, "Jin Se, this is the inner room, Hua Nian." ”