The first rays of the morning sun shine on the dew on the blades of grass, which is crystal clear and colorful, and it is so beautiful that it is close to the eye.

Nangong Jue's men searched in several teams along the mountain road that Tuoba Jiuxiao and Lin Ling'er had walked yesterday, and one of them stopped at the place where they had a brief rest last night.

The man in charge observed the cut pile of artemisia grass for a moment, then got up and observed the direction, and said:

"Keep chasing east."

A group of officers and soldiers brandished long knives in their hands, cut off all the waist-high artemisia grass around them, and continued to march eastward.

Lin Ling'er felt as if she was on a boat, and her body kept swaying with the waves, making her dizzy, and she couldn't wake up when she wanted to.

"Hmm...... I'm so dizzy......"

After she muttered, the ship seemed to suddenly stop drifting, and came to a steady stop.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Tuoba's face, and he was looking at her, staring intently.

"Dreaming?"

He asked.

She blinked again, and then she really came to her senses, and turned her face to look at the rising sun, which was full of red light, so beautiful but so dazzling.

When she turned her face to look at him again, she found that she was being held by him, her brows were frowning more and more, and she couldn't help but say:

"I'm asleep?"

He nodded.

"When?"

"Last night."

He simply threw out two words.

"You've been carrying me since you fell asleep?"

He nodded again.

"Walked all night until dawn?"

This time he didn't nod, but put her on the ground, rubbed his sore arm and said:

"I thought you were a little rabbit, but now it seems that you should be a bear."

She was stunned for a moment, and then she understood what he meant, did he mean that she was serious? When I first hugged it, it looked like a rabbit, but after holding it for a long time, of course, it became a bear!

But now even if he says she's a bear, she won't be angry, watching him keep rubbing his arms, you know how hard he worked last night, and he only feels sorry for him.

"Then why didn't you wake me up?"

As she spoke, she took his arm into her arms and massaged him,

"If I wasn't pregnant now, I wouldn't be so gluttonous and sleepy."

She pouted, feeling both sorry and a little aggrieved, and he couldn't help but smile again, since he had her by his side, he probably had more smiles on his face than the sum of his previous ones.

He didn't say anything, just took out the kettle and took a sip of water, then handed it to her, and said:

"It's dawn, Nangong Jue's people should catch up soon, let's go."

She took the kettle and drank a few sips, the cold mountain spring was very sweet, plus she slept all night, and she was full of strength at the moment, especially looking at the rising sun, she felt a lot of hope.

"Let's go, let's go east or west this time."

She asked.

"We've gone a long way west while you're asleep, and then we'll need to find a place with a lot of people, reveal our identity, and further north."

She understood what he meant, and that's what he said, and then she smiled and pointed her finger at the tip of his nose, and said:

"Husband, you're so bad!"

He just hooked the corner of his lips slightly, then took her hand and moved on.

Nangong Jue's people shuttled eastward in the dense forest until the sun climbed overhead, but they still didn't find half of the shadow of Tuoba Jiuxiao and Lin Ling'er.

With a wave of his hand, the leader ordered all the soldiers to rest in place.

It was unusually hot in the dense forest, and if I continued to look for them like this, I am afraid that before I could find them, they would have already suffered from heat stroke and collapsed.

"This Mu Jiuxiao is really powerful, with a woman, he can escape so far."

"Now the general has sent almost half of his troops here to look for them, they are really imposing!"

"However, if you can't find it, then you will lose your adult!"

"That Mu Jiuxiao will go north for a while, and then go east, this is disrupting the line of sight and distracting our troops, he really deserves to be a master of war."

……

A few soldiers sat under the tree, talking about each other.

They are right, since yesterday a few bandits came to report that they had found their traces in this area, Nangong Jue dispatched most of the troops to search here, and the deployment of other places will naturally be much lax, which is also in the middle of Tuoba Jiuxiao's intention, and what he wants is such a result.

Tuoba Jiuxiao took Lin Ling'er to the west, passed through the dense forest, and finally saw a path.

The path is close to the mountains, and there is a small babbling river on the side of the road, the water is very clear and shallow, and the pebbles at the bottom of the river are clearly visible.

There are a few dilapidated thatched houses along the river, the occasional child running and playing, and the smoke curling from the cooking on the other side of the river, behind the low grass, the roofs of several houses loom in the background, presumably this is a village.

Lin Ling'er looked at the shallow river, and her heart suddenly rose, she has liked this kind of place since she was a child, but her home is in the city, and it is a luxury to occasionally go down to the river to touch a fish or something.

She looked across the river and said:

"Our portrait shouldn't be in this backwood, right?"

Tuoba Jiuxiao observed the surrounding situation, obviously the deployment of officers and soldiers has not yet arrived, this is still a small village that no one disturbs, and there is a quiet and peaceful atmosphere everywhere, he really can't bear to disturb their lives.

Shaking her hand, he said:

"Let's go, go to the river and wash your face."

Lin Ling'er's eyes lit up:

"Really?"

This was exactly what she wanted, so without waiting for him to speak, she looked to her left and right, and when she saw that it was safe, she rushed out first and ran to the river.

A few children were playing by the river, splashing water and throwing stones into the river, and she soon played with them, and the sound of laughter suddenly rippled across the river.

Tuoba Jiuxiao washed his face, then sat by the river and watched, and the adults who came in and out of the thatched houses only looked at them a few times, and did not think that they were wanted criminals, he thought to himself, it seems that these people do not know about them.

He got up and walked to Lin Ling'er's side and signaled that she was leaving, and Lin Ling'er reluctantly said goodbye to the children and crossed the river with him.

He carried her on the cobblestones, and crossed the river steadily, step by step.

Looking at those big and round pebbles, Lin Ling'er suddenly remembered something, so she asked:

"Do you remember how there are such pebbles?"

After crossing the river, he put her down, put down his trousers, put on his shoes, looked at her, and then straightened his face, and asked rhetorically:

"Where?"

She was in a hurry, she wanted to relive the hot spring night with him, but he didn't remember?

"You don't remember?"

She clenched her little fists tightly, and her little face turned red with anger.

He raised his eyebrows, turned around and walked towards the small village, and dropped a sentence lightly, which almost didn't make her angry:

"The rivers and lakes are in emergency......

He's kidding her? And is it to trick her with her troubles? It's really infuriating.

She quietly followed from behind and pinched his buttocks hard while he wasn't paying attention, this is his most sensitive place, okay?

He was pinched and stiffened, and he almost stopped there, but she laughed and ran forward.

At this time, I could only hear the group of children on the other side of the river behind him also laughing, and the dignified Hades King was actually pinched by someone and not to say anything, and was teased by a group of children, which really made him speechless!

"Lin Ling'er, you stop for me!"

He whispered through gritted teeth, and then chased after her.

Most of the residents of the village make a living from farming, and the houses are relatively scattered, but there will be a gathering place in the scattered place for the village chief to hold meetings with the villagers.

At this time, every household in the village was cooking on a fire, and the smell of firewood wafting in the wind at this time was fragrant, because Lin Ling'er hadn't eaten a serious meal for a long time.

He saw through her thoughts, so he found a house that looked relatively clean, and called the door.

Lin Ling'er asked nervously:

"What do you want to do? What if they recognize us and trap us here? ”

"Test the reality first, recognize it, recognize it, but you can't be sleepy, let you have a hot meal first."

He said lightly, as if he had already asserted an idea in his heart.

"Who?"

In a few moments, an old voice came from the adobe house, and then the door opened, and an old woman walked out.

She was dressed in gray coarse cloth, with gray hair, and looked to be about fifty years old, with gray skin and wrinkled face, and she looked like a peasant woman who often worked outside the home.

She looked the two of them up and down, and there was a look of surprise in her eyes, obviously such good-looking men and women are not common here.

"Who are you looking for? I don't know you. ”

As he spoke, he was about to close the door.

Tuoba Jiuxiao propped himself on the door with one hand, took out a silver ingot from his bosom, handed it to the old woman, and said:

"Old man, we want to beg for a bowl of hot rice to eat here, is it convenient?"

The old woman hesitated for a long time, looked at the silver, and then at the two of them, and then took the money, and let them into the house.

Her slight movement didn't escape Tuoba's eyes, but he still quietly entered the dilapidated adobe house.

The room was small and simple, and a boy of seven or eight years old sat on a bed made of planks, and when he saw someone coming, he hurriedly jumped out of bed and hid behind the old woman, looking at them with only his eyes out.

The old woman said:

"We are from the mountains, we haven't seen much of the world, and we don't know what we want to eat."

With that, she looked at the silver in her hand again, as if she was thinking about what she had to do to make it worthwhile.

Tuoba Jiuxiao saw her embarrassed appearance and said:

"We just passed by and saw smoke coming from the chimney, what did you do, just bring us a bowl, don't care."

The old woman seemed to be a little moved, and nodded her head in agreement, so she turned and went to the stove and brought out two bowls of things, and brought them to them.

Lin Ling'er looked down, this bowl was a stick batter with thin soup and little water, and said that the paste was a little too high to look at it, because it was so thin that it was not a paste at all, and there were a few vegetable leaves floating in it, she took it under her nose and smelled it, and tasted it again, she didn't even put the salt, she didn't taste it at all, and she thought to herself what kind of life this was, Tuoba Jiuxiao would really pick people.