Yanzhou in July is the hottest time of the year, with clear skies, no wind, no clouds, and no pedestrians.

Yang Qiong has been driving day and night for three days, changing horses six or seven times, no matter how tenacious her perseverance is, her body can't bear it, and finally slows down the horse's hooves and finds a shady hillside to sit down and rest.

Adjacent to the junction of Yan and Gan Prefectures, the endless grassland green waves are rolling, the noon sun is scorching, Yang Qiong drank most of the pot of water in one go, and poured the rest on his head, splashing water droplets.

Unable to tell whether it was water or sweat on his face, he grabbed his sleeve and wiped it, closed his bloodshot eyes hard, and leaned his head against the hillside, wanting to sleep for a while.

The horses snorted and bent their heads to graze.

A slight wind blew, and Yang Qiong fell asleep.

Even when he was asleep, his brow furrowed tightly, and his eyelids flicked twice from time to time, as if he would wake up at any moment.

He had a long and chaotic dream, in which his father and eldest brother first appeared, and the eldest sister-in-law, the eldest brother didn't know how, but he knew that the sister-in-law secretly admired his little brother-in-law, no matter how he defended, his father and eldest brother resolutely did not believe him, and were sure that he had hooked up with the Li family, and his father also whipped himself a few times with a broom.

In his memory, the eldest brother had never lost his temper, but at this time, his eyes were red, the corners of his forehead were bruised, and he angrily asked himself why he wanted to do such a thing that betrayed morality.

Li just cried on the sidelines, neither admitting nor denying it, making him angry, hateful and helpless.

Why do they distrust themselves so much, they are clearly people who will never do such a thing, their father and eldest brother should know their own temperament very well, Li is his sister-in-law, he shouldn't have any wrong thoughts about her!

The dream was turned upside down, and I vaguely cried, and the moment I opened my eyes, I still had the kind of sadness and unwillingness that I was slandered for no reason and couldn't argue.

It was already dark, and he slept for four hours.

The horse was still waiting on the side, Yang Qiong sat up, feeling that her whole body was sore, but her spirit was much better, so she took out the dry food from the saddle and ate a few bites of cold water.

He had barely eaten for the first three days, but now he woke up hungry enough to eat a cow.

The bloodshot in her eyes had not subsided, and Yang Qiong looked at the end of the night sky, her expression full of worry.

Compared with the beginning of tossing and turning and running all night, now he has completely calmed down after fatigue and rest, and he can't help but think in his heart - what am I going to do here?

A voice in my head replied, "To save her, of course." ”

Yes, go and save her, but do you really have the ability to snatch her from Hu'er Hana? This is the drama and cloth game jointly performed by Emperor Qisheng and King Beidi, sacrificing Cheng Fengyi in exchange for peace, and using Huerhana to get rid of Cui Yi, the whole thing has nothing to do with him, right? No one ever expected themselves to interfere, or to anticipate that they would do.

He is just a hot-blooded pawn who wants to turn the sky upside down with one hand, and neither the calculating nor the calculated see him.

Or go back! What if you save her? She must have been bullied along the way, once she escaped, it is hard to say whether she will find a short-term vision, even if she is a strong woman who can withstand such humiliation, what about her husband? Is it acceptable that his wife has been defiled by strangers?

What should I do after saving her? Yang Qiong couldn't help but be at a loss.

But fortunately, this confusion did not bother him for too long, no matter what, he still has to be saved to think about the future, and it is always better to live than to die.

After eating and drinking, Yang Qiong turned over again and ran in the direction of Ganzhou.

At the same time, Cui Yi and the other three, who were half a day behind him, also entered the Yanzhou grassland.

Hai Dongqing circled in the sky, and after discovering the prey, he swooped down, and his claws precisely caught the hare running wild in the grass, and in the whistle of Sanduo, he flapped his wings and returned.

"Good Nayang!" Sanduo stretched out his arm to catch it, and Bomur bent down to pick up the stunned hare, neatly disemboweled, peeled and deboned, cut the best piece of belly meat and threw it to Nayang, who quickly held it low and ate it in a few bites.

Cui Yi dug a soil pit on the ground, filled in the withered grass collected from everywhere, rubbed the flint and lit it, Bomur wore the rabbit with a wooden stick, and when he looked back, he was quite surprised: "I don't see that you, a pampered prince, can actually make a fire?" ”

Sang Duo was feeding Nayang, and he was startled when he heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Brother! ”

"What's wrong with the prince," Cui Yi didn't get angry, he took out the salt from the baggage and sprinkled it on the rabbit meat, "This king went to the battlefield at the age of sixteen, and when he deliberately retreated from the enemy for thousands of miles, he also had the misfortune to be alone, and when he ran out of ammunition and food, if he didn't even know how to make a fire to roast food, he would have starved to death." ”

The flame licked the rabbit meat, and after a while, it was cooked, Cui Yi cut a few pieces of meat from the rabbit leg and handed it to Sang Duo, who was flattered and took it and said, "Thank you." ”

Bomur said coldly: "Thank him for what he did, the prey was captured by Nayang." ”

Sang Duo was speechless for a while, and at least three breaths of cold time before she squeezed out a sentence: "Brother, why are you so aggressive, the medicine you used during your recuperation was all given by others, and I didn't hear you say thank you to Zhiying." ”

"Why should I thank her if she is willing to give it?" Bomur looked indifferent, "Just like when she was homeless, I gave it to her, and I never wanted her to thank her." ”

Sando couldn't answer again.

When she was in Yanzhou Mansion, she had a strong fear of Cui Yi, and she wanted to get as far away from this person as possible, but all the way down, although Cui Yi didn't like to laugh or talk, she was very good at taking care of her feelings as a woman, and would ask her if she was tired and needed to stop and rest, and never instructed her to do anything, but she did it all by herself, giving her the best food and drink, and eating the rest for herself and Bomur. In such a relationship, the initial fear has faded, and she began to feel that Zhiying chose to return to Cui Yi, maybe it was really better than staying on the grassland, and some of the qualities that Cui Yi had were completely invisible in her brother.

has the intention to reconcile their relationship and say a few good words for Cui Yi, but he is always coldly refuted by his brother, and after so many days, he has not received any effect at all.

After eating, Sanduo can lie down and sleep, and the two men take turns keeping vigil.

Cui Yi woke up after sleeping for an hour and a half, and saw Bo Mu'er staring at the bonfire intently, not knowing what he was thinking, so he got up and went to a farther place to release water.

When he came back, Bo Mu'er was still sitting in that position, and Cui Yi didn't bother to care about him, adding some hay to the bonfire, and also sitting in a daze.

After a long time, Bomur suddenly said coldly: "How did you and Zhiying get acquainted?" ”

Cui Yi was stunned for a moment, and was thinking that it was not good to take advantage of his profit in the Qinglou before he forced to marry someone to outsiders, so Bo Muer said to himself: "The marriage of the Central Plains people is the order of their parents, the words of the matchmaker, there are many people who have never even met before they get married, if a man goes to a wife he doesn't like, he can also take a concubine and go to prostitution, but a woman doesn't matter what kind of person she marries, whether she is old or young, talented or incompetent, she can only accept her fate, and after giving birth to a child, it is even more so, It's the so-called husband as the sky! ”

"You still think that Zhiying doesn't really want to be with me?" Cui Yi laughed angrily, "Hahaha! ”

Bomur's face was cloudy: "What are you laughing at?" ”

Cui Yi laughed enough, and said coldly: "You don't dare to ask her, or you don't get a satisfactory answer when you ask, so isn't it ridiculous to make a ridiculous face in front of me that thinks about her?" ”

Bomur lay down with his arms folded, closed his eyes, and seemed to see the smiling face of Zhiying when he sent them out of the city again.

"How did you meet?"

"I said, will you believe it again?"

Bomur fell silent, and Cui Yi was also silently recalling the past.

Although he also wanted to say confidently that "Zhiying is willing to be with me", Cui Yi knew very well in his heart that he had indeed played tricks to take her for himself, and the person who Zhiying wanted to marry at the beginning was the prince Cui Jie, the handsome man who looked like Zhilan Yushu, not him, the reckless man who knew nothing but war.

After getting married, Zhiying said that he liked him, and he was indeed planning everything for him, but he was never at ease, as if he had stolen a small flower cat from someone else's house to raise, and he didn't know when he would be asked to go back by the owner, this kind of uneasiness, even if there was no appearance of Bomur, has been bothering him.

From not wanting to get married at all, to suffering from gains and losses in the face of a woman, Cui Yi felt that he didn't know himself anymore.

"I saved her once."

What the? ”

Cui Yi said expressionlessly: "During the period when the imperial brother was choosing a concubine, someone sent her into the Qinglou in a daze in order to prevent her from becoming the crown princess, intending to make her lose her candidacy and take the opportunity to collapse the entire eldest grandson family. ”

Bomur narrowed her eyes suspiciously and asked, "Since you like her, why do you only let her be a concubine?" You don't really like her at all, but you accepted her as a concubine in order to share the power of the prince. ”

Cui Yi sneered: "Believe it or not." ”

Silence fell into silence again, but this time it was Bomur who broke the silence first: "You like her?" What do you like about her, her looks, her intelligence, or her family background? ”

"What about you, what do you like about her?" Cui Yi asked angrily.

Bomur looked at the sky and said: "When she appeared in front of me, she was in a state of extreme panic, embarrassed, haggard, but she did not collapse, she held the child in her arms tightly, for fear that I would hurt Xian'er, the kind of spirit that has obviously reached the end of the strong crossbow, but still tenacious and unyielding, like a reed in the wind, although weak, but never really falls." ”

Cui Yi thought silently for a while, then looked up and said, "In this way, it's all my fault that you like her." ”

He took a deep breath and drew a picture of what Zhiying looked like in his mind, and felt a pain in his heart.

"If it weren't for the fact that I had no intention of fighting for power, I was suddenly choked by the throat and forced to a dead end, and I didn't have the ability to protect the people around me, I wouldn't have been expelled from Xuanzhou and almost died, but I still desperately protected me and her children."