The northern foot of the mountain is completely different from the east and west sides, there are no towering trees or dense weeds, and the fog is so thick that it is torn apart by the swift night wind. The mountainside was full of craggy strange rocks, and the never-ending sound of the wind in my ears seemed to be the terrifying roar of these stone-shaped monsters.

"Are you okay?" Yu An walked beside me and said worriedly.

"I'm okay, are we going to move forward?" I was still wearing thin-soled embroidered shoes distributed by the palace, and the silk on them had been torn, but the most frustrating thing was the soles, which had worn thinner than cloth along the way. Stepping on the gravel one by one, it hurt me so much that I felt heartbroken.

"Don't go any further, it's steep, but there's more rock to tread on than anywhere else, so we'll wait here for them to come." Yu An helped me sit down on a big rock on the side of the road, "Does my foot hurt?" Why didn't you let me carry you away just now, you have to be strong? ”

"This road is too difficult to walk, if you carry me on such a long mountain road, where will you have the strength to kill the enemy later?" I glanced at Yu An with a smile, lowered my head and slowly took off my embroidered shoes.

A large hole was made in the sole of his right foot, and a layer of skin had been lifted from the front of the soles of his feet, revealing the tender flesh with blood inside. If you don't bandage it now, you won't be able to walk anymore. I looked down at myself, the robe I had worn outside had been taken off and covered the corpse of Swordsman, and because the single garment on my body was less stained with blood than others, it had also torn a lot of cloth to bandage the wounds of Qi Hou and Ah Yu. Now when I sit like this, the hem can't even cover my calves. Where else can I tear out an extra piece?

I was worried in my heart, and Yu An suddenly ripped off the sleeve of his left hand: "You sit down first, don't move, I'll use a cloth to help you wrap your feet." Although the fabric is a little thick, it is better to tie it twice than to grind the stone directly with the meat. ”

"No, I'll do it myself!" I saw him kneeling down in front of me, and I quickly reached out to help him.

"Later, when you go down the mountain, you have to climb the slope, and if the cloth on your feet is thickened and thin, it will be dangerous to walk. I'm better at this than you, let me do it! Yu An lifted my right foot and gently brushed away the gravel particles from the wound, "Ah Shi, how did you and Wuxian meet?" Why didn't you go back to Qin after you left Tianshu, but went to Jin instead? ”

"It's a long story, and I can't tell it for a while. I can only say that I met him a few years ago when I was in the Qin State, and then I made a mistake in Yongcheng, and he happened to be by my side, so I went back to the Jin State with him, and now I am in the Qi State again. What about you? I only found out today that you are actually Dong Anyu's son. Before returning to Qi State, I also went to Jinyang City once, and the city walls of Jinyang were really well repaired, and none of them collapsed after the ground moved. ”

"What I've done in the past two years is still licking blood from the knife edge, what's the difference between Dong Anyu's son and not?" Yu Anyan laughed and stopped talking, only silently tore his sleeve into rags and carefully wrapped it around my right foot.

Dong An was Zhao Ying's most important retainer, he personally supervised the construction of Jinyang City, and withstood the repeated attacks of the Fan family and the Zhongxing clan for the Zhao family. But in the end, because of his amazing talent, he was forced by the Zhi clan who were afraid of Zhao Ying to commit suicide in the Jinyang City he built. The Dong clan was also slaughtered in a genocidal manner. I remembered what Yu An said to me in Tianshu back then, so I stopped asking about his life experience, and instead smiled: "Yu An, do you know that half of my return to Linzi City is for Wuxi, and the other half is for you!" ”

"For me?" Yu An raised his head and looked at me in a daze.

"Well, I've been wanting to find you since you said goodbye to Tianshu that day. This sorcerer Mingyi told me that you are in Linzi City, so I will simply take Si'er to look for you. It's a pity that you also went to Guangrao City, which caused us to wander around Linzi City for several days. When you come back this time, you can see Si'er? ”

Yu An's eyes darkened, and he lowered his head again: "I saw it." ”

"What's wrong?" I thought he looked a little strange, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Are you all bad? ”

"When I came back from Guangrao City, I knew that you had been robbed, and Si'er only cried in the house every day, and we didn't say a few words."

"She must have thought she was a problem with me." As soon as I thought of Si'er, my heart was blocked, and I looked down and saw Yu An's lonely face, and I felt even more guilty and blamed myself in my heart. Hey, how happy it should have been for the two of them to meet, but because of me, they didn't even have a chance to talk.

"I'm sorry, I'm to blame."

"What is there to be sorry for, you are safe. Si'er was sent to Lu by Wuxian a few days ago, and when we send Qi Hou away, you will be able to meet again. ”

"Well, when the time comes, the three of us will have to talk for three days and three nights like before." I smiled at Yu An.

Little by little, the clouds obscured the light of the bright moon. The low night sky was like a cloth soaked in ink, and the rain lines flew down from its inky texture, swept densely across my face by the mountain wind. In the darkness, twelve samurai in strong clothes and swords stood on several large rocks in a staggered position, looking motionless at the bottom of the mountain.

They are all Xungua-trained assassins! Back then, I could still believe that Mingyi and Bolu were just personal friends, but now Yu An's background and his appearance tell me that the owner of Tianshu is most likely the Zhao family.

"Okay, you bend your feet, but it's too tight?" Yu An let go of my right foot.

I cocked my toes and arched my instep, and said, "Don't tighten or loose, you're well wrapped." Yu An, after your father died that year, why did you appear in the Qin State? Were the men chasing us in the snow sent by the Zhi Clan? ”

"After my father's death, the people of the Zhi clan have been trying to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. Back then, I was the only one who escaped with the Dong family. I went to Yongcheng to avoid trouble, but I didn't expect to be betrayed on the third day of entering the city. Yu An said and took off the brocade socks on my left foot, "However, fortunately, I met you, and I finally left a cheap life." He held my scarred foot and looked up and smiled.

"Then the one who picked you up outside the city to go to Tianshu was the prime minister's person? The master of Tianshu is the Zhao family? ”

"It was Qi Yong of the Gen hexagram who took me to Tianshu back then. I don't know much about Tianshu as much as you, Mingyi has seen the Lord, why don't you ask him? Or...... You can just ask the shirtless ......"

"Forget it, there's nothing to ask." I looked up at the dark sky above me and exhaled a long breath, "It's all about being alive now. ”

"It's not a bad thing that people are confused sometimes, I just want to be a fool." After Yu An wrapped the strips of cloth around my feet, he picked up his sword and stood up, "Don't worry, we will be fine today." ”

"Hmm." I smiled and nodded.

The rain on the mountain was getting heavier and heavier, and the people waited on the ridge to the north for about two quarters of an hour, and then Wuxian and Wuxian hurried with about thirty secret guards and the people in the cave.

"Are you all here?" Wuxian tied a rattan to Qi Hou's body, and handed the other end of the rattan to Wuxie.

"It's all there!" The guards replied in unison.

"Okay, the two of you go downhill together, and if you encounter a situation on the way, use the whistle as a signal."

"No!" Although each of these guards was more or less wounded, they still spoke loudly and powerfully.

"Xiao Shu, Mrs. Qi will be handed over to you." Wuxian took a rattan from his shoulder and handed it to Yu An.

"Don't worry!" Yu An patted his shirtless arm, took the rattan and strode in front of Lu Ji, and bowed his head: "It's rude." ”

Wuxian then took off the remaining two rattans, threw one to Ah Yu and Chen Pan, and walked to me with the other one: "Girl, you can make do with me!" ”

I smiled and opened my arms to him, and he lowered his head and tied the end of the rattan tightly around my waist: "Ah Shi, are you afraid? ”

"If I am tied to you, I can live and die with you, what else do I have to fear?" The mountain wind is getting stronger and stronger, and stones are constantly rolling down from the top of the mountain, but holding the rattan around my waist, my heart becomes extraordinarily peaceful.

"Okay, let's go!" With an order, the guards jumped down the steep slope one by one, their movements neat, swift and orderly.

Shirtless took me and jumped down the slope with a few quick steps. I hugged his waist and closed my eyes tightly, and my body flew down, the wind whistled past my ears, and the raindrops seemed to turn into ice particles, and fell on my face like pins and needles.

"A ......"

In the strong wind, the voice of Wuxian was blown away, and I could only hear the first two words: "What did you say?" I opened my eyes and leaned into my ear and shouted.

At this moment, a white light suddenly flashed in the sky. By the glare of lightning, I finally saw what I saw. The ridge of this mountain seems to have been slashed diagonally from above and below at our feet, and the bare and steep rock wall hangs like a huge bronze mirror on the mountainside. The wind blew more and more violently, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and the rainwater on the rock wall diverted and gathered, like a rushing stream rushing down. The moss that grew on the rock wall sucked up enough water, and shimmered faintly between the flashes of lightning, a dark green sheen.

When I was in Tianshu, Yichen once warned me that if I encountered a dry and rough steep slope when I went into the mountains to collect medicines, I could still try it hard, and if I came across a mossy rock, even if the medicinal materials in the rock crevices were precious, I should never try it easily.

"It's too slippery to walk in here," I cried out in my ear.

"Xiao Shu, can you go down there?" Shirtless wiped the rain from his face and shouted at Yu An, who was standing on a big rock on the right.

"No, it's too steep" Yu An grabbed Lu Ji's arm and glanced down the mountain.

At this moment, a deafening thunder suddenly sounded overhead, and the wind rushed down from the top of the mountain like a wild horse that had lost its bearings.

I was pushed forward by the wind, and I was quickly crouched down by the shirtless hand.

The steep rock walls in front of us and the sudden storm trapped us halfway up the mountain.