It's a dream.

Zhou Huan walked back to the Western Regions in a dream, and at this time it was a deathly silence, the charred and black earth was full of devastation, ruins and broken walls everywhere, and corpses were scattered everywhere.

Her heart tightened, and she couldn't help but quicken her pace.

"Silver Moon?"

She couldn't help but whisper, and all she could respond to was the howling of the wind and the suffocating silence.

Zhou Huan called again, but he never got a response, and ran forward with a fast heartbeat.

Yamen!

Her eyebrows lit up, and in a ruin, a plaque with the word yamen written on it.

Following the route she remembered, she ran to the place where she left, and her intuition told her that the person was here.

Zhou Huan pulled the bricks and tiles, rummaging, and calling, until he caught a glimpse of the silver fox skin mask in the hands of the person buried in the depths of the ruins, and held his breath for a while.

"Silver Moon!"

Her voice trembled like never before, and with her crying, she wiped away her tears and threw herself at it.

Almost frantically scratching at the broken bricks, tearing off all the pieces that pressed on him, until the lifeless, unrecognizable headless corpse appeared in front of him.

"Ahh

Zhou Huan screamed and woke up violently.

"It's a dream." Qi Fengmian comforted softly and pushed the warm hot tea to her.

Zhou Huan gasped a few times, patting his chest with palpitations, "I dreamed of ......"

When she met those clear eyes, she suddenly fell silent.

It's just a dream, but it's not real.

After comforting herself, she forced a calm and said, "I had a nightmare, where am I now?" ”

Qi Fengmian said empathetically: "I just entered the city, and I am looking for a place to stay." ”

Zhou Huan breathed a sigh of relief, lifted the corner of the curtain, and glanced at the gray sky, "It's night, it seems that you can only go on the road tomorrow morning." ”

"Rest well tonight, tomorrow will be a day and a night, and you will be there the day after tomorrow." Qifeng Mian comforted softly, and asked the scholar to spread tea and snacks.

The delicate and small dim sum was very tempting, Zhou Huan took a piece, "It's also, it's done at one time." ”

"My lord, we're here."

The coachman reminded the three of them again.

Xuan Yue was the first to jump down, and Zhou Huan was helped by her when she went down.

The carriage stopped at the door of a fairly grand mansion, and the family members of the mansion were standing outside, and the county magistrate headed by him saw that he didn't know the girl, and couldn't help but wonder, and after seeing the national teacher who came down later, he smiled, stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency, please." ”

The national teacher walked to follow, motioning for Zhou Huan and the two to follow behind.

"Thanks to the presence of the national teacher, the petty official is full of brilliance." The county order is not a mouthful, and after saying a congratulatory word, he turned to the current situation, "I heard about the rebellion in the Western Regions, what does the national teacher think of the petty officials?" ”

Qi Fengmian groaned and said in a low voice: "When the city gate is opened, so that the people on the border can take refuge in the city, and at the same time set up a shelter for them to live in, and then strengthen the defense of the city gate to resist the invasion of the Western Regions." ”

What he said was not to send troops to support, but to resist the invasion of the Western Regions, the difference between words and sentences made him chuckle in his heart, his face turned a little whiter, and he said uncontrollably: "Thank you for your advice." ”

Qi Fengmian was the most expensive to observe his words and expressions, caught the unnaturalness in his eyes, and asked in a low voice, "But are there family members among the people who are suppressed this time?" ”

The county magistrate was poked in the heart, sighed again and again, and said with a sad face: "Don't hide it, my son is in this suppression team, this man usually doesn't like Wenmo, so he loves to dance knives and guns, and as soon as he heard that he was going to be conscripted, he participated, and he didn't just go to war." ”

Qi Fengmian smiled slightly, "Your son is auspicious, as long as he is not greedy for merit and knows how to protect himself, it will be fine." ”

The county order was overjoyed, and the tears that were about to flow back were held back, "Thank you, Lord Jiyan." ”

The two chattered for a while, and then stopped in a secluded and elegant place, surrounded by peach blossoms, and the wind blew pale pink petals sprinkled like snow.

The county magistrate made an invitation, bowed down and said: "This is the residence where the adults stay, I don't know that the adults have brought their families, so they have wronged their wives to live in a side room, and Ming'er will ask someone to clean up and make room for you." ”

Zhou Huan's face was hot when he heard this, and when he saw that Qi Fengmian was also looking at him, he lowered his head even more shyly.

Qi Fengmian's eyebrows were crooked, and he said with a smile: "My lord must have misunderstood, she is the maid who grinded in front of me, I haven't married a wife yet, and I don't have a wife." ”

It didn't seem like he was saying this to the county order, but he still responded and wisely found an excuse to leave.

Zhou Huan coughed embarrassedly, "Let's go in." ”

Qi Fengmian looked at her with a smile, "You live in the guest room, I sleep in the side room, you still have to hurry tomorrow, but you have to raise enough spirits." ”

Zhou Huan wanted to refuse, but his words later brought thought, and she thought about it a little, and after only one night, she should go.

As soon as he entered the guest room, Tuanzi jumped down and probed around, staring at Zhou Huan without blinking the glass beads.

"Are you hungry?"

The dumplings snorted, collapsed on the ground and turned up their white bellies.

Zhou Huan touched it while thinking about something else, "What did you say about Yinyue?" ”

Tuanzi seemed to understand, and when he heard it, Yinyue's body trembled, pressed her belly under her, her hair was a little fluffy, and she looked around in fear.

Zhou Huan saw that it was this kind of reaction, and shook his head angrily and with a smile, "It's good that someone saved your master's life, and you don't say thank you, you can't be afraid of others when you mention it, you can only be afraid of it." ”

As soon as the words fell, the scholar who had served in the carriage came in to make vegetables and intimately gave the dumplings a bowl of surimi.

The dumplings meowed happily and jumped on the edge of the table to eat.

Zhou Huan finished eating, wiped his lips elegantly, washed and rested, but his mind echoed what he had seen and heard today.

It stands to reason that the people who joined them would not be hunted down, if it was because of the national teacher seeking revenge, they could have come to her to settle accounts, but they killed the people who joined them first, and let them go, no matter how you think about it.

Zhou Huan couldn't think of an answer over and over again, but when he was in a daze, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

There was no dream all night, until the hot tongue with a barbed hook licked her awake, and Zhou Huan estimated that she would sleep on the three poles of the day.

She touched her hot face, and as soon as she stretched, the door opened.

"Miss Zhou?"

Xuan Yue's voice sounded behind the screen.

"Come in." Zhou Huan got dressed, changed her clothes and beckoned her in.

Xuanyue leaned into her ear and said: "Last night, Xuanji saw my flying pigeon and passed the book, so he came to look for me, and said that the master was fine, and he would leave for Beijing today." ”

Aiming at Daimei's hand, she immediately asked, "Where is Xuanji now?" ”

"She only received an order to come to my door, but she didn't receive someone to accompany us, and she left after explaining what happened." Xuan Yue's smile deepened a little, "Let's hurry up and get on the road after breakfast." ”

Zhou Huan knew the little Jiujiu in her heart, sighed and said, "Do you know the route back to Beijing?" ”

This asked Xuan Yue, she shook her head blankly, and then felt that it was inappropriate, and said stubbornly: "We can ask the national teacher to borrow an entourage who knows the way to follow." ”

This is a method, but Zhou Huan doesn't want to be embarrassed anymore, "Let's see when the time comes." ”

Xu is learned that Yinyue was fine, Zhou Huan was much more refreshed, and he ate more bowls of porridge with a big appetite, so he went to find the national teacher with a bun.

Qi Fengmian had already arranged for someone to send her back to Beijing, and when he saw her coming over, he said with a smile: "What a coincidence that you came, I was about to send someone to call you, but I turned around and saw you." ”

Zhou Huan bent his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "It's better to come early than to come early, but you are asking people to help you because of the reserve materials." ”

Qi Fengmian glanced at her seriously, and said softly: "Yes, you are not the only one who will go back, I will go back too." ”

"Aren't you going to stay in the border city?" Zhou Huan looked at him in surprise.

Qi Fengmian shook his head helplessly, "The emperor didn't worry that I was in the side, so he sent a letter overnight urging me to return to Beijing, and just in time for you to go back, I thought that I would just go back together." ”

When did he hear the Emperor?

Zhou Huan knew that it was to take care of her, but he didn't want to add to her burden, so he changed the topic, "As soon as Tuanzi heard that he was going to find you this morning, he was very positive, you see that he won't even let him hug him at this time, and he will rub around you." ”

The dumplings snorted very loudly, and as soon as Qi Fengmian reached out to touch it, he squinted his eyes comfortably, not happy.

"It's spiritual."

Qi Fengmian held it in his arms and went to the county order with Zhou Huan to say goodbye.

The county commander sent them all the way out of the city, and then stood at the gate of the city and watched, and did not leave until the two were far away.

Zhou Huan looked back at the gate of the city again, and the heart of the national teacher also won the hearts of the people, if it weren't for the person who opened the eyes of heaven and said that the emperor would be punished by heaven, I am afraid that the emperor would be the first to suspect that he had the heart of rebellion.

"Do you know why the emperor cares more about me?" Qi Fengmian suddenly spoke.

Zhou Huan was stunned for a moment, and then speculated: "It's a pity." ”

She regretted saying this, how could the emperor care more about a talent? At most, I care about a few words on the surface, and I am secretly on guard.

Qi Fengmian's eyes flashed a trace of confusion, and he said in a low voice: "He is guarding against me, worried that I can't be used by him." ”

Zhou Huan didn't understand what he meant at first, but after thinking about it, he understood the meaning of these words, and he actually broke out in a cold sweat.

Sure enough, the companion is like a tiger.

Although the emperor knew that he could not usurp the throne, he was afraid that he would be bribed by others, so he favored him to the extreme, and even allocated his own soldiers to him, but in fact, those personal soldiers were placed in front of him to monitor his every move.

This position of national teacher is really not good, no wonder he rarely shows up in front of the family, and occasionally interacts with a small portal like the Zhou Mansion, which is afraid of the emperor's suspicion.

Zhou Huan couldn't help but feel a little distressed about him, it was very hard to survive in such a depressing environment.

"You don't have to worry about me, I'm used to it for a long time." Qi Fengmian smiled at her and rode his horse with the general.

Xuanyue waited for him to go away, and then he followed slowly, with a joy on his face that could not be hidden, "Xuanji said that the large army is behind, and it will be able to join us in a few hours." ”

"How can they keep up with the horses we are riding?" Zhou Huan glanced at her, and his heart was much clearer, "Did you pass the book to her flying pigeons?" ”