In the middle of the night, outside the Shaoguang Hall, two figures shook on the wall.

Meng Zhou poked his head out, glanced at the closed mahogany door, retracted his body and whispered to Jingrong: "This is it, let's go back and enter from the path we just passed." ”

After a while, Meng Zhou pulled the person behind him out of a cloud of weeds and reminded in a low voice, "Be careful with the stones under your feet, follow me." She let go of her hand and leaned forward.

The evening wind blew through the dark and gloomy courtyard, bringing a faint sweet aroma, Meng Zhou sniffed, looked around and frowned, and said: "This school is really unusual, no lights, no academic spirit, no ink fragrance, it seems that today is a good exploration of this place." ”

Meng Zhou was talking to Jing Rong, a few steps away from a room suddenly lit up with a candle, she hurriedly reached out and pulled Jing Rong, hiding behind a tree, Oh, the door creaked open, out of two children and a tall man dressed in blue, over half a hundred years old.

One of the children was probably sick, with his hands on his belly, his waist hooked, and his face pale. Another thinner child had a bamboo basket with a few pieces of pastry hanging from his arm.

The man in blue took out a white porcelain vase from his sleeve and put it in the bamboo basket, reached out and patted the thin child's shoulder, and said softly: "If he is still not feeling well after going back, you can give him this medicine, and he will get better." ”

"Yes, sir, disciple remember."

"I've been tossing for a long time, you haven't eaten dinner, it's time to be tired, you take this pastry back and cushion it, rest early, don't alarm the other children."

"Yes, sir, disciple remember."

"Okay, let's go back, it's dark at night, walk slower on the road."

Hearing this, the two children leaned down and replied with the same blank look, "Yes, sir, disciple remember." ”

The tall gentleman watched the two children leave and step out of the yard before he sighed softly and closed the door.

The courtyard was calm again, and Meng Zhou turned back to lean against the tree, touching the corner of Jing Rong's clothes: "You are here to help me keep watch, I need to confirm one thing." ”

"Okay."

Meng Zhou moved lightly to the outside of the room, poked a hole, and looked inside...

"Who's there!"

With a loud sound, Meng Zhou was frightened and excited, turned around, a black figure flashed on the roof tiles, she swept over the big tree in the courtyard, she knew that she didn't have time to dodge, so she hurriedly hid on the side of the house, and then from the left side of the rush out of a few big men, three of them chased the figure.

The door creaked open, and the tall gentleman put on his old robe, frowned, and asked, "What's the alarm?" ”

The black-faced man at the head said in a rough voice: "Sir, I'm really sorry, I'm disturbing you to rest, our brothers just passed by here at vigil and found a suspicious person, we were worried about Mr. safety, so we wanted to take a look." ”

"What about the man, but he got it."

"Ah Ming took his two brothers to chase after him, and asked Mr. to lock the door and pay more attention to safety."

"I might as well ask a few people to go to those children's yards to have a better look, so as not to have any accidents."

"Yes, I'll just take a look." The black-faced man whispered a few words to a man beside him. The man nodded and strode south.

The black-faced man said, "Sir, go in and rest, I've arranged everything, and our brothers will take care of this yard." ”

"Okay, hard work."

When Meng Zhou heard the words of the black-faced man, he secretly sighed in his heart, and sure enough, as soon as the door was closed, the night watchmen in the courtyard began to search around, and seeing that one of them was about to turn to the back of the tree, Meng Zhou closed his eyes and hated to pat his head, put his toes over the rocks on the ground, and kicked them out hard in the direction of aim.

There was a crunch, and several footsteps in the courtyard stopped at the same time.

But in a few moments, the night watchmen locked the direction, the footsteps approached, Meng Zhou sighed and moved his hands and feet, glanced at the tree helplessly, and sighed in his heart, It's really troublesome.

As soon as the thought flashed through her mind, she swept across the side of the room like the wind, slipping into the darkness.

Running through a few paths, Meng Zhou tried his best to shrink into the shadows in the corner, and tried his best to restrain his breathing, for fear of bringing those troubles again.

In the courtyard at that end, Jing Rong hadn't made a move yet, and he saw Meng Zhou disappear into the wind like a flying fox, and he sighed helplessly, it was really her way of doing things as always.

A smell of wine rose in the wind and covered the faint sweet taste, Jing Rong stopped and turned around, and on the wall behind her, sat the woman in red in the full moon building, but today she changed into a black robe, and the green silk was bundled, and her every move was still that bewitching posture.

"Don't come unharmed, Fourth Highness." Li'er shook the small wine jar in her hand, and her voice was charming, "Your Highness is still smart, and you can understand it at one point." ”

"What exactly are you looking for?"

"It seems that His Royal Highness ignores the government and does not plan over the years, and his ability to investigate has really retreated a lot. Well, in that case, then I'll help you. ”

Li'er said and glanced over the path and smiled softly, "You will thank me." ”

The voice and the figure disappeared from the wall at the same time, as if they were not seen.

"You're here."

Jing Rong turned around, Meng Zhou was panting, his face was flushed, and he spoke intermittently, "Let you hide, it's good for you, stand here with a big grin, is it afraid that those night watchmen won't find us, so just be a landmark." ”

"You didn't say you were going to go on your own when you separated."

Meng Zhou rolled his eyes, "I want to leave, but what if you are caught and confess to me, I must not come back to clean up." Meng Zhou said and took Jing Rong's hand, walked forward, and said hatefully, "Even if you kill your mouth, you have to come with me." ”

Jing Rong smiled on his lips and followed behind Meng Zhou, his hand tightly held. He looked up and saw that Mengzhou's headband swayed along with his long inky hair, wrapped around the moonlight.

The two of them went around and around, following the sweet smell in the air to a firewood room, and the more they walked in, the stronger the smell became.

Meng Zhou touched his cuffs, took out two handkerchiefs and handed them to Jing Rong, "I soaked medicine on this handkerchief, which has the effect of clearing the mind, just in case something is wrong." You carry it. ”

"Okay."

Pushing open the door, the smell instantly rushed out the door. After a few moments, he took a few peeks into the house through the night light, and then Meng Zhou closed the door.

The moon was bright outside, but for some reason it was dark in the house, and I couldn't see my fingers.

A little light flickered in the darkness.

Meng Zhou looked at the light and whispered to Jing Rong: "When did you bring the fire box?" ”

"When I'm waiting for you."

Meng Zhou didn't make a sound, and by the light, the layout of the house was no different from the few eyes he had just explored, a small table, a few large wooden boxes placed along the wall, and a few dead flowers.

Meng Zhou cautiously walked inside. Lift a heavy curtain,

As soon as she settled in Mengzhou, she felt that something was wrong, she took the light from Jing Rong's hand, and her feet were no longer the smooth and smooth ground just now, but a piece of land, on which some straw was sparsely laid.

Meng Zhou frowned, grabbed Jing Rong's arm with his backhand, and whispered, "Be careful." ”

There were a few flutters in the corner, Meng Zhou turned his hand, and a thin child under the low light hugged another child with a black cloth on his eyes, and the two shrank in the corner next to each other, it was the two children that Meng Zhou and Jing Rong had just met in the courtyard.

One of the children looked up, his pale face with red eyes, and a few bits of red blood oozing from his lips.

Meng Zhou slowly walked over and squatted in front of the two children, and the straw under his feet creaked, making a weak **.

"Are they coming?" The clothed child opened his chapped lips and made a cracking sound.

"No, it's the wind." The other child raised his eyes and looked straight into Mengzhou's eyes, looking fearless, but his unrelenting hands holding the blindfolded child revealed his fear.

"Sora, are there any flowers where I'm going?"

The thin boy who called Xiaokong turned his head to the side, his eyes seemed to pass through the curtain, he suddenly clenched his hands, like a suffocating fish, and suppressed all choked with silence, "No, there is no there." ”

"I know, they're waiting for you to choose."

"Xiaokong, the weather is fine today."

Words are like light clouds, but they startle the thunder that breaks through the clouds.

Tears suddenly welled up in Xiaokong's eyes, and he pushed Meng Zhou away, hysterical, "I won't let you take him away, if you have the ability, you will kill us together, even if I die, I will not let you go." ”

Meng Zhou was pushed off guard and fell into Jing Rong's arms. After she reacted, she waved her fist in a fake way and said in a low voice, "Be quiet, stinky boy, if I want to kill you, do I need to listen to your nonsense here?" ”

She said as she got up from Jing Rong's arms and patted Jing Rong on the shoulder, "The reaction is quite fast, give me the medicine bag, and then help me go to see if anyone is coming at the door, this dead boy has to put us all in today." ”

Jing Rong got up in response, and when the curtain fell, he saw Meng Zhou kneeling on the straw, pulling out the medicine bottle and feeding one in his mouth, before feeding it into the mouth of the blindfolded child.

After a while, the effect of the medicine had arrived, and the expression on the child's face was finally soothed.

"Who are you?"

Meng Zhou took off his robe and put it behind the blindfolded child, glanced at Xiaokong, and said, "Don't thank you for your life-saving benefactor first." ”

There was hope in Xiao Kong's eyes, "You can save us out." ”

"I didn't say that."

"I know, I should know." ”

There was a faint ** on the side of the wall, and Xiaokong immediately put on the hand of the blindfolded child, a little anxious, "Ah Yuan, how are you, do you still hurt?" ”

"It doesn't hurt anymore, I don't hurt anymore." As the child spoke, a few bits of blood spilled from his mouth.

"How can this be, he didn't take medicine, why still can't he." Xiaokong grabbed Mengzhou's hand, and pleaded in his words, "Please, save Ah Yuan, as long as he can live, you can let me do anything." ”

"It's too late, Xiaokong, Mr. won't let me go, I'm content to die with less pain like this. But you're different. Since he gave you a choice, as long as you are obedient, he will let you live. ”

"Do you want me to survive stepping on my friend's bones like those scumbags?"

"That's enough." Ah Yuan desperately took a breath, tore off the black cloth on his eyes, grabbed Meng Zhou's cuffs with all his strength and said: "If you have the opportunity, please take Xiaokong out, the villain will definitely remember the kindness of his benefactor for the rest of his life, and he will repay him as a cow and a horse in every life." ”

Ah Yuan coughed up a mouthful of blood after speaking, and it was extremely difficult to breathe.

Meng Zhou bit his lip and felt a pain in his heart, "Okay, I promise you." ”

"Sora, thank you, live."

The hand that grabbed Meng Zhou fell to the ground, and the last trace of life melted into the dirt under him, and there was no more wind sound.

The two figures in front of him gradually blurred, the corners of Mengzhou's forehead suddenly seemed like pins and needles, and a vague face flashed in his mind.

"Sister, when are you coming back?"

"Sister, don't cry."

"I know, you did your best."

"Su'er, Su'er, Su Qinghui!"

Meng Zhou was fed a pill in his mouth, and the slightly bitter taste gradually dissipated and dissipated those hidden illusions. She slowly opened her eyes, and the picture before her became clear again.

"How are you?"

Meng Zhou patted Jing Rong comfortingly, and said in a pale voice: "It's okay, it's just that I'm hallucinating again, just take it slowly, how is it outside?" Are we going out? ”

"They're coming."

Meng Zhou got up with the strength of Jing Rong and said to Xiaokong: "It's too late, I can only take you away first, wait for us to go out, and then find a way to take Ah Yuan out." ”

"I'm not leaving, I'm not going to leave him alone."

Meng Zhou hated iron but not steel, and finally slapped a palm of hatred on Xiao Kong's shoulder, "Do you want to accompany him, what to accompany him, and die together in vain?" Get up and go. ”