The carriage clattered along the road, and the gravel on the road behind it gradually increased, and the carriage was bumpy.

Su Li had already put down the curtain and concentrated on protecting the oil lamp in her hand, but Chu Huai'an's face kept flashing in her mind.

Only a year has passed, he looks a lot darker, and his whole face seems to have been carved by time, and he has lost his previous chic and uninhibited appearance, leaving an unapproachable coldness.

He doesn't look like him anymore, but it's clearly still him.

Su Li was sure that he didn't recognize the wrong person, but how could he be here at this time? Didn't Chu Lingzhao say before that it would take three years?

With a lot of thoughts in his head, the coachman pulled the reins of the horse.

The carriage stopped suddenly, Su Li was defenseless, the oil lamp came out of his hand, Su Li unconsciously snorted, and when the oil lamp was about to knock on the door, the wizard who had been closing his eyes suddenly shot out and grabbed the oil lamp.

"Be careful!"

The wizard opened his mouth to warn, Su Li reached out and took the oil lamp, and was shocked again, just now the wizard spoke Yuanzhao Chinese!

When Su Li was surprised, the wizard had already gotten out of the carriage, and Su Li didn't have time to think about it, so she followed.

Forty or fifty Hu warriors gathered outside the carriage, and in addition to twelve women, Su Li glanced at it, saw Zuo Yihe, and immediately understood that these women were to be sacrificed.

Twelve living human sacrifices, what exactly are they going to do?

Su Li guessed, turned her head and saw that the two mountains were still there, and the bumps of the carriage could see the mountain more clearly, the mountain was full of green trees, and the mountainside was full of smoke, which looked fairy and fascinating.

It's just that the distance between the two mountains is not very far, and the carriage has been driving for so long, and the distance has not been narrowed at all.

It was as if the carriage was moving, and the mountain was moving with it.

Su Li could see that someone pushed her and asked her to stand with the twelve women.

Zuo Yihe was in the middle, looking back at her with some concern, Su Li shook her head quietly, and walked forward with the team.

After walking a few hundred meters, the wizard raised his hand to signal everyone to stop, and recited a spell in the direction of the two mountains, and then the twelve women knelt down and kowtowed, repeating the spell from the wizard's mouth in unison.

Then get up and continue walking, kneeling down and kowtowing again.

There was a lot of rubble on the ground, and after repeating this dozens of times, these women were bleeding from their heads.

However, no one cried out in pain, and the blood beads fell silently to the ground, leaving marks all the way.

Su Li frowned, and then raised her head and couldn't help but widen her eyes in shock, the two mountains that were still far away just now had actually narrowed the distance a lot, Su Li's eyesight was not bad, and she could even see crane-like birds flying over the mountainside.

Even if someone really cheats, they can't move mountains and rocks so easily, right?

Su Li raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, and when she looked closely, there was no trace of the two mountains in front of her, replaced by two altars built high.

The altar is made of long square stones, at least a few tens of meters high, and from a distance it looks similar to the shape of the two mountains.

Su Li bit the tip of her tongue to make sure she was awake now.

She could see the mountain clearly just now, so was it just an illusion?

The altar was still a little far apart, and the group kowtowed while walking, and it took an hour to finally walk to the altar, and the faces of the twelve women had been blurred with flesh and blood, like ghosts, very weird and scary.

There was a two- or three-meter-high round platform between the two altars, and the wizards walked up to the round platform step by step, chanting incantations in a hurry, and the warriors began to lead the women up to the altar.

The woman who walked in front sang in a low voice, Su Li couldn't understand what words they were singing, she only felt that the melody was very slow and elegant, like Sanskrit sound, which could cleanse people's souls.

After the women in the back stepped on the altar, they also echoed shallowly, so many people stood here, but none of them made a noise, for a while only the wizard kept chanting incantations and these women's shallow chanting, but it was a little solemn and solemn.

The two women standing at the back stopped when they reached a height of two or three meters, and they knelt on the ground and continued to sing, and the two Hu warriors stood beside them.

The weather was getting hotter, and they were wearing sleeveless embroidered vests on top and knee-length skirts below, and they were dressed coolly, so Su Li could easily see the changes in their bodies.

Starting from their waist and abdomen, gradually a stalk-like thing wriggled under the skin, and soon, the stalk pierced the skin and roamed over the skin, and the stem and whisker were pure black, in stark contrast to the woman's fair skin.

The wizard's incantation grew more and more rapidly, and the whiskers grew wildly as if consciously, covering the women's legs densely over the hem of the skirt, and then the black of the whiskers faded into a blood-red color, as if they were sucking human flesh.

Su Li's scalp was numb when she saw it, and she remembered the words she had seen in the stone cave before, and her stomach spasmed, and the women stopped singing, but they didn't cry out in pain, as if they didn't feel pain and fear.

About a moment later, a thin green pea-sized sprout emerged from the woman's bloody face.

The buds are small and not easy to see, but they glow fluorescently and easily attract attention.

The thin buds grow very quickly, and after a while, they pull out slender vines and green leaves, when the vine grows to seven or eight inches, it begins to produce buds, the leaves of the buds are blood-red, blooming little by little, the petals are blue, the stamens are golden, and the strange fragrance spreads in the air, Su Li subconsciously holds her breath.

The wizard stopped chanting and beckoned to her, motioning for her to come over.

Su Li hesitated for a moment or walked over with a lantern, she didn't walk fast, when she walked to the wizard's side, the breath she was holding had already run out, and she inhaled without a trace, the strange aroma was still there, but it didn't immediately cause any adverse reactions in people's bodies.

The wizard did not rush to command, and the surrounding Hu warriors began to chant in unison, the voice was loud and neat, making people's hearts tremble slightly, and Su Li vaguely heard the words Ku Keduo and Death.

So do these people think that today's sacrifice is to pay tribute to Kukhoto's dead soul and let him die? Are all these afterlife flowers that bloom on the soil of human flesh and blood just coincidences?

"Ahh

There was a scream from the high altar, Su Li subconsciously looked up, and the screams did not stop, but got closer and closer, as if the women kneeling on the altar were relaying one by one.

After a few moments, the strange fragrance in the air was replaced by another smell, and the bodies of the two women who knelt closest to the ground quickly collapsed, and the flowers drooped as if they were about to wither.

Su Li then found that there was a small groove two fingers wide in the middle of the steps leading to the altar, and after the woman's body collapsed, black liquid rushed down the small groove and converged on the round platform where the wizard was standing, just filling the shape of the dead flower on the round platform.

Su Li was awe-struck, and suddenly couldn't look directly at the oil lamp in her hand, she finally understood where the candlestick oil that the wizard gave her before was strange.

It wasn't tung oil or kerosene, but corpse oil that had been sucked by the blood of the afterlife!

Su Li wanted to vomit a little, the wizard stretched out his hand towards Su Li, as if he wanted to touch her eyebrows, Su Li stood on the steps under the round platform, three steps lower than the wizard, she subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but her body couldn't move for some reason, she could only watch the wizard's hand approach.

The closer she got, Su Li gradually felt a burning sensation in her eyebrows, as if something resonated with his fingertips, wanting to pierce the skin and rush out.

The scene in front of Su Li's eyes gradually changed, no longer the two altars, but the two high mountains he saw before, this time, the mountains were close in front of him, and Su Li was even in the mountains.

She saw a village at the foot of the mountain, and the houses in the village were strangely built, a bit like the style of Miao Jiang, and each house was supported by wooden stakes under it, and a space was built to store firewood and weeds.

These people are uniformly dressed in indigo clothes, embroidered with large and large afterlife flowers, I don't know what technique they used, the flowers are like alive, the color is no different from the real one, and it also glows blue.

These people lived separately and did not notice the existence of Su Li.

Su Li walked around the village for a while, and suddenly saw an elegant bamboo house, the door of the bamboo house was wide open, and there was a man sitting inside, he was dressed in white, and there was no pattern of dead flowers on his clothes, which was different from anyone else.

He didn't tilt his head and said straight: "Come in!" ”

After the words fell, Su Li entered the house.

The man turned his head to look at her, he was born very well, although his expression was bleak, there was a righteousness between his eyebrows, and it did not make people feel afraid.

Hello.

Su Li wanted to say hello, but couldn't make a sound.

The man looked at her for a moment, and finally landed on her eyebrows.

"Do you know how to heal?"

He asked, Su Li wanted to say that he knew a little about fur, and after remembering that he couldn't make a sound, he nodded and shook his head again.

"Do you know who your mother is?"

Su Li was surprised, not understanding why he asked his mother, and without waiting for her to answer, the man raised his hand and nodded at the center of her eyebrows through the void.

There was another moment of stinging, and a crystal full bead of blood slowly floated towards the man from the air.

The man stared at the blood bead for a while, his eyes were revealed, he stopped talking, and with a wave of his big hand, he returned the blood bead to Su Li.

"You don't belong here, let's go!"

The man let out a low shout, Su Li's eyes darkened, and there was a sound of breaking the air in her ears, and then her body seemed to be pushed by a brute force, and she quickly fell backwards.

The feeling of weightlessness came, and Su Li opened her eyes to see the wizard snatching the oil lamp and standing on the round platform, a sharp arrow shooting straight at him.

Who is it?

Su Li thought distractedly for a moment, and the next moment, her waist was tightly clamped, and the familiar and unfamiliar male breath poured into the tip of her nose.

"Hold me tight!"

The person who came said in a low voice, his voice was no longer the same as before, wrapped in forbearance and hoarseness, but Su Li hugged his waist without any hesitation, and the next moment, he used the spear as a pillar to prop it on the ground, and with the inertia of the spear, he landed firmly on the back of the horse not far away.

The good sacrifice was suddenly interrupted, and the Hu warriors were furious, and all drew their swords and rushed towards this side, but the wizard was not affected in any way, he took the oil lamp, and lit the fire on the round platform, and the two flames immediately jumped up to the altar.

Chu Huai'an turned his horse's head and rushed in the opposite direction, Su Li turned around, and saw the two mountains again from the towering firelight, and at the same time, a cold voice faintly sounded in his ears: "Those who rebel and harm people's lives are not tolerated by heaven, and the only way to apologize is to die!" ”

As the words fell, the two high mountains disappeared, and the two high altars also collapsed, raising dust up to several meters high.

The Hu warriors who were chasing them were stunned, and when they turned around, they saw only a ruin, and even the shadow of the wizard could not be seen.

Just as they were stunned, several sharp arrows roared, but in an instant, they took the lives of several people.

"Chu Huai'an?"

Su Li came back to her senses and shouted tentatively, still not sure about the identity of the person who came.

The tightly wrapped waist tightened a little more, the horse ran faster, the wind was whistling, and just when Su Li thought he wouldn't answer, he opened his mouth and answered: "It's me!" ”

It's him!

He didn't have to wait three years for her to pick her up.

There were a lot of things I wanted to ask, but I didn't understand a lot of things, and in the end, Su Li didn't say anything, just pressed against his back to feel his heartbeat.

It's good that she's going back to Yuanzhao.

After running all the way for nearly a stick of incense, a small tent appeared in front of him, and there were more than 20 people with bows and arrows around the tent.

"General!"

Everyone shouted in unison, Chu Huaian took the reins of the horse and stopped, only responded indifferently, dismounted first, and then stretched out his hand towards Su Li.

Su Li: "......"

I could have dismounted myself.

She tried to convey such a message with her eyes, but Chu Huai'an turned a blind eye and stubbornly stretched out her hand, there was no way, Su Li could only let him hold herself down.

There were more than a dozen people running back from behind: "General, those people are all solved!" ”

"Alert, leave in a quarter of an hour!"

Chu Huai'an ordered in a cold voice, and these people immediately turned their backs, centered on the tent, and walked twenty steps forward to defend, while Chu Huai'an directly carried Su Li into the tent.

The tent was makeshift and rudimentary, with a layer of hay on the floor, a cloth on top of the hay, a gray cloth suit and a short bow, and equipment somewhat similar to the others, presumably for her to change clothes and go with them.

"Is this the clothes for me?"

"Hmm."

“……”

This friend surnamed Chu, aren't you going to go out or turn around?

Knowing that signaling with her eyes would be ignored, Su Li could only speak bluntly: "Don't look at me changing clothes, turn around." ”

In response to her, he refused without moving, and after refusing, he did not forget to remind: "A quarter of an hour is coming." ”

“……”

Su Li had no doubt that if it was too late, the man would help her change her clothes with his own hands.

There was no way, Su Li could only choose to turn her back and not look at him, pretending that he didn't exist.

After quickly changing her clothes, Su Li's face burned uncontrollably, she hadn't seen her for too long, and this person's gaze was too presence, which really made her embarrassed.

With a short bow and arrows on her back, Su Li walked out past Chu Huai'an, wanting to get rid of this ambiguous atmosphere as soon as possible, and was grabbed by this person's waist, and her strength was so great that Su Li's ribs hurt.

"Hurt me."

Su Li whispered, Chu Huai'an's face tightened even tighter, and his hand loosened a little, as soon as they walked out, the people guarding next to them immediately turned around, and two people quickly stepped forward to collect the tent and swept away the traces on the ground.

The two exchanged glances with each other while collecting the tent: See, the general is holding a girl and not letting go! It's so rare!

After getting on the horse, the group rode all the way quickly, and it took four days to arrive at a small town bordering Yuanzhao in Hudi.

When they arrived in the town, everyone else abandoned their horses and hid their bodies, and Chu Huai'an took Su Li to knock on the door of an inn.

As soon as the door opened, a smile immediately appeared on the shopkeeper's face: "General, please!" ”

Chu Huaian didn't speak, and there was no expression on his face, so he directly hugged Su Li upstairs.

After entering the house, Chu Huaian first checked all sides of the house, then pushed open the window, and hung the golden hook upside down: "General, the surroundings have been checked, safe!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Huai'an closed the window mercilessly, and when he turned around, he unexpectedly looked at Su Li's serious eyes, and couldn't help but be stunned.

"What are you looking at?"

He asked, as if he wanted to soften his tone, but with little success, and it was still hard.

"Master Hou, you have become so fierce."

Su Li said seriously, Chu Huai'an's face changed, his jaw was tight, and his whole body exuded an inaccessible cold air.

After a long while, he took two steps towards Su Li and gently grabbed her hand: "You are wrong, I am not fierce." ”

Su Li: "......"

Master Hou, haven't you looked at your expression in the mirror for a long time?

A group of soldiers on duty outside: "......"

General, do you dare to say again that you are not fierce?

The guy at the inn quickly brought hot water and carried the bath bucket up, and after several days of travel, Su Li couldn't wait to take a bath, but saw Chu Huai'an sitting by the door and still motionless.

"Master Hou, it's safe here, do you want to think about it...... Going to stand outside the door? ”

She was still silent and unmoving.

Su Li had a little headache.

Could it be that this man will always guard her like this in the future?

Su Li was racking her brains to figure out how to persuade Chu Huai'an to go out, and this person said very calmly: "After returning to Beijing, you and I will get married, it doesn't matter." ”

“……”

That's also after returning to Beijing, and now it's very harmful!

And didn't Your Majesty decree that marriage should not be performed for three years? How do you marry after returning to Beijing? Blatant disobedience?

Countless messy thoughts jumped out one after another, and before Su Li could think of the wording, Chu Huai'an said in a low voice: "I won't do anything to you, I'm just ...... Want to see if you're hurt. ”

She has been here alone for so long, he doesn't know if she has suffered or not, he doesn't know if she is hurt, he wants to see her safe and sound, and what anyone conveys to him is not as real as what he has seen with his own eyes.

He just thought about her for too long and refused to let her out of his sight.

Su Li didn't expect him to say such a sentence, that tone sounded inexplicably aggrieved, and overlapped with the carefree marquis in her memory.

Su Li sighed, after all, she was still soft-hearted, she didn't rush him again, she took off her clothes with a red face, and thought to herself that it was fortunate that she hadn't been injured these days, otherwise this person might not know what to be stimulated to go crazy.

Chu Huai'an looked inch by inch, and his eyes stopped on her lap: "What's wrong with your knee." ”

After kneeling for a long time, there is a layer of calluses on the knees, and the color is slightly darker than other parts, so you can't see it if you don't look carefully.

Su Li was surprised by Chu Huai'an's eyesight, and hurriedly pretended to explain easily: "It's not a big deal, it's just that the kneeling time is a little long, and there is a little problem." ”

Chu Huai'an's brows furrowed, his eyes were filled with murderous intent, the hand on his knee was clenched into a fist, calmed down for a while, and said in a low voice: "Ah Li, don't lie to me." ”

He said a little weakly, obviously the person had returned to him, but he still had the illusion that he couldn't grasp it.

Su Li really felt ashamed, and hurriedly stepped into the bathtub and sank her body under the water, and then spoke: "I don't lie to you, this problem is not big or small, it is not suitable to stand for a long time, every windy and rainy day, the knee will be sore and unbearable, and it is even more painful in the bitter cold season in winter, but after returning to Beijing, it should not be a big problem to use moxibustion and medicinal food to recuperate." ”

"Hmm."

Chu Huai'an replied in a deep voice after listening to it, and said no more, seeing Su Li leaning down and lying on the edge of the bathtub staring at him with wide eyes, he didn't dare to move, and finally turned around.

Su Li breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to finish washing quickly, but the whole room was surprisingly quiet, and the sound of rushing water became more and more ambiguous.

Su Li's whole body was hot, but the person still didn't understand the amorous feelings: "Ah Li, you and I will soon get married, in front of me, you don't have to be so shy, otherwise when it comes to the night of candles in the cave room, of course how will you ......"

"Shut up!"

Su Li was annoyed and angry.

I only think that in just one year, this person's temperament has become upright and stubborn, which is completely different from the person who was unreliable in his mouth but was actually very innocent.

After taking a bath and changing into clean clothes, Su Li's face was still hot, Chu Huai'an asked people to take down the hot water and send the food up, the two sat at the same table for the first time after reuniting, the atmosphere was finally a little normal, and Su Li had time to ask about the cause and effect.

"Didn't Your Majesty say three years? How did you get here now? Su Li thought about it carefully for a long time in the past few days, and felt that time was still too fast, not like Chu Lingzhao's steady and steady style, so without waiting for Chu Huai'an to answer her, she asked again: "You won't leave your post without permission and bring troops here without permission, right?" ”

Deserting one's post without permission is a felony, and you will definitely lose your head when you are discovered.

The more Su Li thought about it, the more she felt that it was possible, her brows were unconsciously tightened, she had already thought of the punishment that Chu Huai'an would receive after returning to Beijing, and she couldn't help but be a little annoyed, why was this person still so willful?

"No, you hurry back in case you are discovered......"

Su Li's voice stopped abruptly, and Chu Huai'an stood up at some point, leaned over slightly, and her rough fingertips gently pressed her frowning brow.

"I'm here by order."

He said, rubbing the folds of his eyebrows and sliding down the thin bridge of his nose and landing on her rosy, plump lips.

His eyes were very gentle, as soft as the sunshine in March, which made Su Li's face burn all of a sudden, and he subconsciously wanted to dodge, but he couldn't dodge, he pressed so quickly, and it fell on her lips but it was soft and soft, like the most devout believer, worshipping at the top.

His lips and tongue were hot, the tip of Su Li's heart was burned and trembled, and his hoarse murmur exploded in his ears.

"Ah Li, I'm here to marry you!"