She put the ginger juice in her palm and gently patted it on the faces of the two, and after the ginger juice dried, the two looked at each other, and the other party seemed to have become an old man with poor nutrition.

Lin Ling'er originally thought that when she saw him like this, she would definitely laugh more than once, but who knows, if he didn't laugh, she couldn't laugh either.

Maybe in a few decades, they will really become like this, living in the palace, probably the probability of not being well nourished will be very low, but the wrinkles on the face will accumulate over time, and at that time, he will become an old woman who is no longer handsome, and she will also become an old woman who is no longer beautiful, at that time, they will still look at each other quietly like now, and they will not get tired?

She touched his face emotionally, and there were tears in her eyes.

"If one day, I become what I am now, will you still love me?"

Are women always worried about this problem caused by beauty?

There was a smile in his eyes, but his expression was very stiff, and he pinched her wrinkled face:

"You will always be sixteen years old in my eyes."

She thought for a moment and pouted:

"That means you only love me when I'm sixteen?"

“……”

He was speechless, what kind of logic did she have?

So she got up and left, but she followed him relentlessly, pulling at the hem of his coat to discuss with him the question of love and non-love.

Getting closer and closer to the Lingshui River, I dodged two guarded checkpoints on the way, standing on the mountain, through the branches and leaves of the trees, I could already see the sparkling waves on the water, the river reflected the sunset, and the water surface was wrinkled by the wind shining red.

"This is the Lingshui River?"

Lin Ling'er sighed, the long river in front of her could not see the end, nor could she see the tail, but from this bank you could see the opposite bank, the bank was full of pebbles, and beyond was the red earth, there were mountains on the bank, high or low.

Lingshui River is really as Tuoba Jiuxiao said, the river is narrow and the water flow is stable, you can cross the river with a bamboo raft or an ordinary boat, look at it from a distance, although you are catching a wanted criminal at this time, but there are still a lot of boats that make a living by ferrying on the river, there are checkpoints on the bank, as long as you want to cross the river, you must go through the strict inspection of the checkpoints before you can get on the boat, at this time it is already sunset, there are a lot of boats coming and going on the water, carrying more or less people, shuttling between the two banks.

"It's beautiful!"

Lin Ling'er pulled Tuoba Jiuxiao's clothes, looked at the long river in front of her, and instantly jumped out of the previous question of "love or not", and laughed stupidly.

Just as she was admiring the picturesque scenery, Tuoba Jiuxiao suddenly grabbed a handful of soil from the ground and smeared it on her clean clothes.

She looked at the dirt on her body, and immediately stopped drying, and raised her little brow and exclaimed:

"Are you rejuvenated? Playing with mud when you're so old? ”

He ignored her, and then grabbed a few handfuls of dirt and smeared them on her body and face, almost all over the front and back.

There are also words in the mouth:

"After going down the mountain for a while, we are two old husbands and wives who accidentally fell down the mountain, remember?"

Only then did she understand what he meant, so she didn't slack off, grabbed the dirt and began to wipe it on his body and face, until she had a good time, and then she stopped.

She looked at her masterpiece, wiped her nose, and hummed:

"Who wouldn't play with mud? Yours is called blind wipe, mine is called artwork, learn a little! ”

He looked at her body, and then at himself, both of them were now gray-faced, was there any difference?

"Let's go."

I couldn't see the difference, so I threw her two words coldly, then pulled her up, picked a no-man's path and walked down the mountain, deliberately avoiding the last checkpoint on the road, so that only the officers and soldiers by the river needed to deal with.

The two walked down the hill with each other, and then they became two hunched old couples, supporting each other and walking generously to the shore.

At this time, there are not many people coming and going on the shore, there are many small fishing villages on the other side of the river, many of them are located in the riverside area of Bac River, the people in the small fishing villages mostly rely on fishing for a living, the river fish in Bac Giang are very famous in Daegu, the people in the small fishing village will take the fish to Jintan City every day to sell or barter, and then return to the fishing village at night, so there is this endless ferry business.

At this time, in addition to setting up two fixed checkpoints on the shore, there were also many officers and men patrolling back and forth on the shore, stopping people from time to time to ask questions again, or simply getting on the boat to check again, for fear that they would take advantage of the chaos to get through the customs in confusion.

"Husband, what should I do, I'm a little nervous, if they find out, will we still be able to cross the river today? Husband, don't forget, I don't know how to ......."

Lin Ling'er was terrified as soon as she saw water, even at this moment, she still didn't forget to remind Tuoba Jiuxiao of the fact that she was afraid of water, for fear that he would forget.

He squeezed her hand and whispered:

"Don't forget, don't let go of my hand at any time."

She looked at his side face under the hat, and that determined gaze simply did not allow her to doubt, well, she could only think that even if she fell into the water, as long as she didn't let go of his hand, it would be fine, although she was so scared.

Every time they took a step, they were one step closer to the checkpoint, and Lin Ling'er calculated in her heart, if they were interrogated later, how would they answer, thinking about it, they had already lined up at the back of the line.

"Hey, they'll ask us what we're doing in a minute, what shall I say?"

She asked him quietly.

"You're mute, you can't speak, just listen to me."

He whispered back to her.

She pointed to her nose, she, she's become mute so quickly?

Well, the dumb will be dumb, as long as she can cross the river along the lì, let her be blind and deaf.

Little by little, the ranks moved forward, and the people in front of them decreased one by one, and it was almost their turn.

Tuoba Jiuxiao pulled her, the two of them hunched their backs like a question mark, at this time the color of Tuoba Jiuxiao's hair also fell almost off, the color of the white and white flowers is very realistic, Lin Ling'er in order to hide her black hair, wrapped her head with a turban, and then put on a hat, as long as the turban does not fall off, it should not be found to be different.

When it was their turn, several officers and soldiers with long knives at their waists walked around them, and when they saw the dirt on their bodies, they couldn't help frowning in disgust.

An officer and soldier stepped forward, and because they were hunched over, they naturally looked much shorter than this group of officers and soldiers, so the officers and soldiers used their scabbards to provoke the hats of the two men, and only then did they see the "old" faces of the two men.

"What for?"

The voice of the officers and soldiers was a little lazy, Xu didn't find the shadow of the fugitive for so many days, the original tense nerves naturally relaxed little by little, and I always heard that Mu Jiuxiao and the two of them either appeared on the passage to Sinan, or appeared on the mountain road to Zhebei, in short, in the eyes of many people, he would never choose this most conspicuous and dangerous road again, people's psychology is like this, once they start to relax, they will slowly become lazy, and then I am afraid that the next step is inaction.

Lin Ling'er pretended to be deaf and dumb, just helped the hat, and naturally hung her head, only to hear Tuoba Jiuxiao deliberately dumb her voice, coughed twice and said:

"Ahem...... We went to visit relatives in the fishing village opposite. ”

"Relatives?"

The officers and soldiers looked at the two and asked,

"What kind of relatives are you leaving? What is your last name and where does your family live? ”

Lin Ling'er secretly wondered in her heart, this person asked really carefully, do you want to count how many grains of rice are in other people's rice jars?

However, while complaining, she was also worried about how Tuoba Jiuxiao would answer such a question, what if the officers and soldiers had the roster in their hands, and he said that he was exposed?

Just thinking about it, Tuoba Jiuxiao replied fluently:

"This relative is my nephew, named Gao Tian, who is from Ant Village opposite."

Lin Ling'er almost laughed out loud, he didn't expect that he was a dignified prince, and he didn't even bring a draft to lie, so he came when he opened his mouth!

"Takata in Ant Village?"

The officer and soldier repeated, his brows furrowed, and then he pulled over a person who had just been interrogated next to him and asked,

"Is there a person named Takada in the ant village opposite?"

The man thought about it, and immediately nodded his head again and again, "Yes".

As soon as the officers and soldiers heard that they were reasonable, they looked at the two of them carefully, and at this time, the red light of the sunset shone on the faces of the two people, washing away a lot of the original turmeric complexion, but they could not hide the wrinkles on their faces, and the officers and soldiers waved their hands and just wanted to let the two of them pass, but they asked again:

"Why don't you go and see your nephew in clean clothes?"

Tuoba Jiuxiao coughed twice and said in a hoarse voice:

"Uncle doesn't know, this mountain road is not easy to walk, my wife and I accidentally fell, which made us covered in soil, I really can't help it......"

As soon as the officers and soldiers heard this, they gave up, and it was normal for the two old men to fall, and seeing that they had been holding hands together, they knew that the two usually walked with each other, and it was reasonable to fall together.

Finally passed the test, and the officers and soldiers shouted impatiently:

"Let's go, let's go, next ......"

"Hey, thank you, uncle, thank you, uncle......"

Tuoba Jiuxiao responded again and again, and hurriedly pulled Lin Ling'er to staggered past the checkpoint and began to walk towards the ferry.

Lin Ling'er secretly let out a long breath, after passing this checkpoint, does it mean that he can cross the river safely?

She didn't dare to say more, and kept walking with him, while Tuoba's eyes began to scan the boats moored in the ferry port alertly, and he was looking for a pair of boat pulps, a pair of boat pulps with strips of red cloth tied to them.

His eyes swept over the boats and rafts moored at the entrance, and when he finally saw the fifth boat, he found a strong man sitting on the bow of the boat with a pair of boat pulps in his hand, although this strong man was watching the passers-by like the other boatmen, shouting business, but his eyes were not as empty and full of interest as the other boatmen, but he was very vigilant, and observed the passers-by more carefully.

Tuoba Jiuxiao's gaze fell on his pair of boat pulp, and there were indeed strips of red cloth tied to them, and that was it.

After discovering the answering boat, he pulled Lin Ling'er and walked silently towards the boat.

The wide hat always obscured their faces, and his eyes watched the people around him vigilantly, especially the group of officers and soldiers who passed by from time to time, and if they did not get on the boat for a moment, they would not be safe, and even if they reached the other side of the river, there might be danger waiting for them.

The strong man seemed to have spotted them, and although his mouth kept shouting, his eyes began to fall more on the two of them, consciously or unconsciously.

Seeing them get closer and closer, he was almost certain that this was the person he had been waiting for.

At this moment, a group of officers and soldiers passed by the two and suddenly stopped them:

"Stop."