16. Hometown is in sight
The next day, as Lan Yu said, the wind and snow stopped suddenly.
Because the body is already clean, and the blue tree has purchased horses in the market to travel, even the journey is not as hard as before. When Rong Jin was still hesitating in Yan Li, he didn't say a word at the moment, and directly told Lan Ying and asked Lan Ying to arrange the things on the road.
"I'm going to say goodbye to Ruxue." Rong Jin said to Yan Li.
Since he couldn't stop it, Yan Li was also kind and flowing, and after listening to Rong Jin's words, he immediately said, "I'll go with you." ”
Rong Jin shook his head, "No, Ruxue is afraid of you, it's not good if you go." ”
Yan Li didn't insist, "Then you go, go early and come back early, let's get on the road early." ”
Rong Jin nodded, turned around and went out to find Ruxue, who had not shown up today.
Ruxue was helping her grandmother make cured meat, and when she saw Rong Jin walking in, she threw away the work she was doing, stood up, wiped her hands on her body, stepped forward, and asked, "Sister, are you here to find me?" ”
Rong Jin nodded, her eyes fell on the salted meat that Ruxue and her grandmother were pickling, and said with a smile: "Yes, I am here to say goodbye to you." ”
Rong Jin and the others are leaving, and Ruxue will know when she gets up in the morning. She was a little reluctant in her heart, and it happened that her grandmother called her to make cured meat, so she hid in the kitchen, but who knew that this beautiful and gentle sister had found it.
Ruxue raised her head, looked at Rong Jin with dark eyes, and asked softly, "Sister, can you not leave?" ”
Rong Jin was stunned, "Don't go?" ”
Ruxue nodded, "Sister, you stay, our family still has land, but I'm still young, and my grandmother can't do it, our family's land is planted for you, you can stay." ”
The words fell, and he looked at Rong Jin expectantly.
Rong Jin couldn't have imagined that Ruxue would ask her to stay, and after a moment's pause, a smile bloomed on her face, and then she took out the wooden cage hidden behind her, "Ruxue, I can't stay, but I can leave it behind, can you help me take care of it?" ”
Ruxue and Huanxue looked helplessly at the wooden cage in Rong Jin's hand, and in the cage, the fat squirrel squeaked up and down, "Sister, I'm afraid I won't be able to support it." ”
Rong Jin squatted down with a smile, put the cage on the ground, and then held Ruxue's thin shoulders with both hands, and said softly: "However, my sister doesn't have time to take care of it!" My sister left you some silver, you buy some pine nuts to feed it, and when it comes to autumn, there is food outside, and you put it again, okay? ”
Ruxue looked at Rong Jin with a puzzled expression, "Why doesn't my sister want it?" ”
"Because the place I'm going to is too dangerous, I'm afraid it's dangerous!" Rong Jin casually lied.
"It's so dangerous, why does my sister want to go?" Ruxue glared at her watery eyes, shook her head and said, "Sister, don't go, okay?" ”
Rong Jin sighed, the fate between people is really strange.
Thinking of when she first arrived, Ruxue was wary of her, how could she have thought that Ruxue would want her to stay and not leave?
"Good as snow, everyone has a way she has to go, I'm sorry, my sister can't stay."
Before Rong Jin's words fell, two lines of tears flowed down Ruxue's face.
Rong Jin sighed again, took out a heavy purse from his sleeve, stuffed it into Ruxue's hand, and said softly: "Ruxue, this is the money to buy pine nuts for Gray Fat, you take it." ”
Ruxue lowered her eyebrows, her sad little shoulders trembled, but she tried her best to refuse to make a crying sound.
Rong Jin rubbed her head, hugged her again, turned around and strode out.
"Sister......
Ruxue threw her purse and chased it out.
In the courtyard, Lan Ying and the others were already ready, waiting for Rong Jin. Seeing Rong Jin walk out, Yeli looked towards Rong Jin, "Girl, shall we leave now?" ”
Rong Jin nodded.
Yeli immediately ordered everyone to get on their horses and prepare to leave.
Yan Li led a jujube red horse to Rong Jin's side, and seeing that her feelings were a little low, she couldn't help but twist her eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Rong Jin shook his head, took Yan Li's hand, and turned over on the horse.
Yan Li then turned over and got on the horse behind.
"Sister......
Ruxue ran out, but only saw the horse's hoof prints on one place.
Looking at the courtyard that suddenly quieted down, the tears that had just stopped in my eyes flowed out again.
A hand, gently caressing her face, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and her eyes fell on the wooden cage she was carrying in her hand, and asked softly, "They left it?" ”
Ruxue nodded, looked up at Lan Yu, who also looked sad, and said softly: "Dawu, sister, they're gone." ”
"yes, I know." Lan Yu nodded, and reached out to tease the fat squirrel in the cage who was full of food and dozing, "If there is fate, you will gather, and if you are fate, you will disperse, rest assured, you and that beautiful sister will meet again." ”
Ruxue looked at Lan Yu with a blank expression.
Lan Yu's fingers stroked Ruxue's eyes that seemed to be able to speak, and said softly: "I have already told the patriarch that you are the cup girl of this generation!" ”
"Ahh
Like snow froze in place.
Lan Yu's fingers stroked Ruxue's long, dense eyelashes like butterfly wings, and asked softly, "What, aren't you happy?" ”
"No......" Ruxue pursed her lips and said in a trembling voice: "Da Wu, is it really me?" ”
"When did the Great Witch lie to you?" Lan Yu looked at Ruxue with a smile in her eyes.
Ruxue shook right.
Lan Yu's gaze met Ruxue's black and white eyes again, a touch of helpless desolation passed between his eyebrows, he stretched out his hand to hold Ruxue in his arms, and said softly: "Ruxue, when you learn the ability in the future, that iceman-like uncle is in trouble, can you help him?" ”
Ruxue nodded, "I listen to Da Wu." ”
When Lan Yu heard this, a smile appeared on his face again, he picked it up like snow, and said softly: "Let's go, let's go and give them another ride!" ”
Rong Jin didn't know that Lan Yu and Ruxue were far behind to see her and Yan Li.
Although Yan Li knew that there were people following him, because the other party did not show hostility, he signaled Feng Weiquan not to know, and after he crossed the mountain in Shilong Village, if the breath behind him disappeared, he knew that the people who followed him had already left. When you think about it, you understand.
I sighed a little more in my heart, thinking, if the person my mother chose back then was Lan Yu, it seemed to be different? It's just that the most useless thing in this world is if!
There was snow all the way, and although there were horses to walk on their behalf, it was still very slow.
On this day, after several days of trekking through mountains and rivers, the group finally arrived at Dumu Mountain.
After a few days of sunshine, the snow on the top of Dumu Mountain is still faint, but the snow at the foot of the mountain has melted.
After Rong Jin took a breath, he said to Yan Li: "Aunt Lan said, if you climb over this mountain, it is high water, and if you run through high water, it is Jingshan?" ”
"Yes, when you get to the other side of the mountain, you can see it, although it is only separated by a river, but Jingshan is like spring all year round, at this time, the mandala flower that my mother let people plant on the hillside must have bloomed in full swing!" Yan Li said.
Rong Jin took a deep breath and said to Yan Li: "Then let's work harder, and strive to get to the other side of the mountain before it gets dark!" ”
"Miss Rong, it's good to be halfway up the mountain before sunset, you want to go to the other side of the mountain before dark, unless you have wings to fly!" Lan Ying quipped on the side.
Rong Jin couldn't help but smile and said, "But, Aunt Lan, this mountain really doesn't look high?" ”
"It's not high," Lan Ying took Rong Jin's words and said, "However, it is dangerous, not only dangerous, but also a kind of poisonous insect that likes to haunt in winter, and the road we are going to walk is the most infested with this poisonous insect." ”
Rong Jin couldn't help but smack his tongue.
Thinking about it, over the mountain, home is in sight.
Even though they knew that this last part of the road was the most dangerous, everyone still couldn't hide their excitement.
"Aunt Lan, what day is it today?"
has been in a hurry, Rong Jin has a feeling of "I don't know how the years have changed in the mountains, and Chunzhou has listened to the barbarism six times".
Lan Ying didn't answer Rong Jin's words immediately, but thought about it in her heart before she said, "Girl, tomorrow is the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month!" ”
That means the Chinese New Year is five days away!
If he wants to bury the princess of the country before the year, Yan Li must rush back to Jingshan within three days.
But...... Rong Jin asked Lan Ying softly, "Aunt Lan, the last time you went back to Jingshan, did you say that someone was besieging Jingshan, who are they?" ”
Lan Ying looked at Rong Jin puzzled, not understanding why Rong Jin suddenly asked about it.
But she didn't think much about it, and at the moment, she said softly: "Oh, it's another group of people who want to sneak into Jingshan to hunt for treasures." ”
"Is it the Eastern Xia people, or the Northern Qi people?"
Lan Ying was slightly stunned, "Miss Rong, what do you mean?" ”
"Aunt Lan, you can't have the heart to hurt people, and you can't have the heart to prevent people." Rong Jin sighed, looked up at the narrow mountain road on his side, which could only accommodate the two of them walking side by side, and said to Aunt Lan: "I'm just worried, what if those people are not just as simple as grabbing treasures?" ”
"The girl is suspicious, those people are still likely to come for the young master?"
Rong Jin nodded.
"But they've been sent away!" Lan Ying said.
A helpless smile bloomed on Rong Jin's face, could it be that she was talking too subtly about it?
After thinking about it, she simply asked straightforwardly: "Aunt Lan, since the Dongxia royal family swears to the jade seal, what about Northern Qi?" Can Northern Qi sit back and watch the jade seal wander outside? ”
Lan Ying can be regarded as understanding.
It turned out that Rong Jin's previous Xu was aimed at the Northern Qi royal family!
After figuring it out, Lan Ying didn't rush to answer Rong Jin's words, but after thinking about it, he slowly said: "The situation in Dongxia is different from that of Northern Qi, Miss Rong." ”
Rong Jin looked at Lan Ying, "What's different?" ”
"The emperor and the princess are the same mother, and the queen died early, and the emperor can be said to have been brought up by the princess." Lan Ying said softly: "It was the princess who sent him all the way to the throne, and the princess also promised the emperor that day, as long as the royal family is not in chaos, she will send the jade seal back." ”
Rong Jin couldn't help but smile and said, "Aunt Lan, you said that the eldest prince quietly sneaked into Dongxia for the sake of the jade seal, and he can even ask the king of war to be a lobbyist for him, does he know the second prince?" If he knew, what would he do? ”
The implication is that the royal family in Yan Zhengtian's hands is not chaotic, but what about his sons?
Lan Ying's face bloomed with apprehension.
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