"What?"

"Remember when I told you about the night when the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan attacked the Zhao family?"

"Yes."

"When I raised horses for the house, the servants in the house called Xiao Ran a ponytail, because she followed me every day. On the night of the fall of the Zhao family, after I escaped from the firewood house, I went to her house, but she was already dead. ”

"Dead?!" I was stunned.

"Well, she had a high fever and was unconscious for the past few days. Xu was reluctant to run away with her on her back, so they simply covered her with a quilt. ”

"How so?" I covered my mouth and couldn't speak for a long time, "What about this girl?" ”

"I don't know whose work it is. It's a good thing you sent her back, otherwise it would have been too dangerous to stay with you. ”

"Wouldn't it be more dangerous to stay with you?"

"There's something else I'm doing to keep her, you don't have to worry. It's you, where did you run away today? Who did you meet? Wuxian sat up at this point.

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that I don't know who that person is. He bit me a few times, and I stabbed him, but I didn't suffer much. I was just scared when I fell off the horse just now, but now it's fine. ”

"You said before that you wanted to learn swords with me, and I promised you." Shirtless sighed and pinned a strand of wet hair from my cheek behind her ear.

"Really?"

"Hmm."

"Great! You can teach me on the way back to Qi this time! By the way, when did the prime minister ask you to go to Qi State? ”

"Father Qing has been busy discussing with Prince Wei about sending him back to China to succeed to the throne these days, so I haven't had time to ask, but I must leave within ten days at the latest."

"Prince Wei? The prince of Wei who plotted to assassinate Nanzi and fled to the Jin Kingdom after being exposed? ”

"Exactly. His father will send 50,000 troops to send him back to China to seize the throne next autumn at the latest. ”

Nanzi is the princess of the Song Kingdom and the wife of Wei Linggong. When I was a child, she was already famous. It is rumored that Nanzi is not only beautiful, but also quite powerful. When Linggong was in power, the government of the country had to ask Yu Nanzi. This Wei prince Kuai Yu fell out of favor with Wei Linggong because of his disagreement with Nanzi, so he tried to assassinate Nanzi, but was discovered by Nanzi, so he fled to the Jin State in a panic and attached himself to Zhao Ying. After the death of Wei Linggong, Wei Ren set up his son as the monarch, and he has been staying in the Jin Kingdom, driving a chariot for Zhao Ying, and he can be regarded as a rare fierce general of the Zhao family.

"I've heard about this person for a long time, but Wei Guo has been attached to Qi for many years, and the prime minister wants to send Kuai Shen back to Wei to seize power, and Qi people probably won't sit idly by."

"Qi and Jin have been fighting for hegemony for many years, and because of the melee between the six secretaries of the country, the Song, Zheng, and Wei Kingdoms are all the only ones who look forward to the Qi State. Now that the national government has been decided, and the Qi State was defeated by the Wu State in Ailing, this is the most appropriate time to win over the Song, Zheng, and Wei Kingdoms. Father Qing has kept Kuai Yu for many years, just to collect and defend the country. ”

The man in front of him is perceptive, calm and strategic, and his eyebrows are flying when he talks about political affairs. I couldn't help but secretly sigh in my heart, maybe God gave him such an identity of noble and lowly intersecting, which was his test and grace.

"Ah Shi, I'm back, I have meat to eat today! Who—who cut down the tree I planted! The voice of innocence and rage came from outside the courtyard.

The apricot tree that was cut off by Wuxie's sword was a wild apricot tree that Wuxian had dug from the mountains when he first arrived in the Jin Kingdom last winter. Although the wild apricot is small and green in the mouth, the green apricot wine brewed is clear and delicious, and it has always been the favorite of innocence. Si'er and I grew up smelling the fragrance of apricot blossoms in the General's Mansion, so we also have a special affinity for the apricot trees. The spring breeze is coming, the apricot blossoms are blooming, and the three of us are looking forward to the day when the green apricots are hanging on the branches. At this moment, Wuxian saw that his beloved apricot tree was cut down, and he screamed and shouted outside the courtyard, and howled several times with wolves.

"This is not a human voice to change the wolf howl, you hurry up, don't let him bump into it!" I hurriedly pushed the shirtless, "Don't go through the door, hurry up and get out over the wall!" ”

"You're letting me go over the wall?! I'm not afraid of him......" Wuxian was dragged up by me before he finished speaking.

"I'm afraid you two will tear down my yard." I shoved my shirtless shoes into his arms and said urgently, "Hurry up, I'll go out and coax him first!" ”

"Ah Shi, I ......"

"Zhao Wuxian—" Wuxian kicked the door open, rushing in like a gust of wind, and I reached out and pulled it, only to touch the corner of his clothes.

Wuxian was sitting on the steps with his shoes on his face reluctantly, but now he saw Wuxian rushing in with a sword and murderously, he carried a shoe that he was not wearing well, and flipped out of the wall with a swish: "Wolf cub, I'll pay you two another day-" In a short moment, his voice was too far away to be heard.

"Okay, I can't catch up." Si'er and I attacked from both sides to drag the crazy innocent life.

"You let go of me—you're all to him! Now he's cut down my tree, and you're helping him escape! Innocence shook off my hand and entered the house in a rage.

"What to do? It seems that this time I was really angry. Si'er pursed his mouth and smiled bitterly.

"I'll go in and coax, you stew the rabbit he hit, and bring it in later."

"Okay." Si'er nodded, picked up the two hares that had been thrown outside the courtyard gate and turned around and entered the kitchen.

I gently opened the innocent door, and he sat in the corner with his knees crossed, and he didn't even lift his head when he heard me come in.

"The rabbit I caught today is very fat, Si'er took it to stew, and I will eat it later." I sat down beside him lightly and wiped the sweat from his forehead with my sleeve, "Annoyed me?" I wasn't looking at Zhao Wuxian just now, I was looking at you. ”

Wuxian glanced back at me and said sullenly: "You lied to me, you obviously helped him, you are afraid that he will be beaten by me." ”

I lowered my head and smiled: "How many times did you fight Zhao Wuxian when you were in Jinyang City?" ”

"Four times."

"How many times did you lose?"

"Four times."

"Then how do you know you can defeat him this time?"

"Uncle red-haired said, my swordsmanship has been able to defeat many people, and I am improving every day, and now it has been more than half a month since the last sword competition, how do you know that I can't win? In your heart, you just think I'm inferior to him! You like him now, you don't like me anymore! ”

"I ...... How could I not like you? I touched my innocent head and whispered, "It's just that I don't like you like him the same......"

"I knew it!" Hearing this, Wuxian stood up and shouted, "What Uncle said is really right, you just don't like me when you say that!" ”

"What did the thief tell you? Don't listen to his nonsense! ”

"Then you kiss me." Innocent pursed his mouth and leaned towards me.

"I ...... That's what he taught you too?! I pulled the innocent hand and said angrily, "Where is the thief?" He robbed the house, raped the *** son, and I didn't care about him until he was in the bones, but he couldn't defile you! Go, take me to him! ”

"Now?" Innocent exclaimed.

"Now! If you can't learn from anyone you can't learn from, you have to learn from him in everything! He burns, kills, loots, and does all kinds of evil, should you be like him? ”

"Ah Shi-" Seeing that I was angry, Wuxian hurriedly hugged me with both hands, "Don't be annoyed, I won't say it, I won't say it......" He muttered, rubbing his face back and forth against my hair. I closed my eyes and sighed, for so many years, because he didn't understand the world and didn't understand human feelings, I always looked at him as a child. But I forgot, he will grow up, he will be sensible, and he is also a man.

It was night, the three of us gathered around the small table to eat, usually this time is the most lively time in the small courtyard, but today it is extraordinarily quiet. I don't talk to Wuxie, and Si'er can only drink soup with us.

"I'll go with you tomorrow morning to see the thief." I put a rabbit leg in the bowl of innocence.

"You're going to quarrel with him?" Innocent asked in a whisper.

"I'm going to talk to him." I said viciously.

"Then I'll go too!" Si'er suddenly raised his head and said.

"What are you going to do? The thief can take off a woman's clothes with his eyes, and if you go to see him, he will gnaw you to the bone! "I didn't even think about saying no.

"No, I'm going to learn swords, too. I can't hold you back in the future, and I want to protect you! Si'er put down the pottery bowl and said stubbornly.

"Dead girl, well said! I'll take you to see Uncle tomorrow, you really can't hold us back any longer! ”

"What are you talking about, wolf cub!" Si'er snatched the innocent soup bowl, "Don't eat it, you're too hungry!" ”

"I hit this rabbit!"

"I stewed it!"

Looking at the two people in front of me, the sullen breath that lingered in my chest dissipated.

Hey, I obviously felt that I couldn't eat it just now, and now it seems that I can eat another rabbit leg by licking my mouth!

Usually when Si'er and I got up, Wuxian had already gone out to practice swordsmanship, and on this day, just after the rooster crowed, the yard was lit with lights. Si'er broke the prepared dry food into small packets, and Wuxian hung two water bags sewn from cowhide around his neck. I put on a plain dark coat and picked up a jar of antidote from the wine room.

After the three of them packed up, they walked towards the western suburbs with the morning dew and a remnant star in the sky.

The hiding place of the thieves is in a valley in the west of Xinjiang City, which is only twenty miles away from the garden of the autumn hunting of the Marquis of Jin, but because the valley is dense and dense, and there are many wild beasts, few people set foot on weekdays. Wading through the creek and through the dense forest, we followed Innocent for more than an hour before finally entering the place that Innocent called "Lost Valley".

On one side of the valley is a steep cliff, and a slender silver-white waterfall cascades down from the top of the cliff, and its sound is rumbling and menacing. But when we saw that the cliff was a thousand feet high, the water was blown away by the mountain wind halfway, and it was as ethereal as smoke, and there were only broken beads falling on us. Under the waterfall is a pool of blue pool, the edge of the pool is green grass, and the thorn bushes are thick. The slender branches of wattle are full of bright yellow flowers, and the wind is full of spring.

"It's a great place!" Si'er hummed a small tune and leaned over to fold a small flower and pinned it to her ears, and the two big-tailed rats hiding in the flowers were startled by her, and quickly slipped away from her feet, standing curiously in the distance, tilting their heads to look at us.

"You practice your sword here every day?" I asked innocent.

"Hmm." Innocent nodded, pulling out a bronze longsword I had given him and swinging it in front of him.

"Wolf cub, when will that thief come?" Si'er put down his burden and found a bare boulder to sit down.

"When the sun peeks out of the cracks in the rock, he comes."

"What stone crevice?" I looked in the direction of the innocent finger, and saw a strange narrow crack in the cliff face hidden behind the waterfall. It was sandwiched between two boulders, like a wound embedded in a polished stone wall. I took a few steps back and stared up, and for a moment, a red glow burst out of the crack, dyeing the droplets of water scattered in the air with incredible force. The mountain wind whimpered, the blood mist filled the sky, and the white-clothed and red-haired thief walked slowly towards us with a long sword. The corners of his mouth tugged at the corners of his mouth, and that smile was like the flower of evil, the ghost of a ghost.

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