Standing in the bucket with both feet, Tang Ji didn't sit down immediately, and looked at Liu Wei, who had one foot on the board and the other on the wheel, and was holding her arms with both hands.

"Bear with me!" Looking at Tang Ji, who was still a little hesitant in her expression, Liu Wei sighed lightly with some distress, reached out to help her brush the wrinkled clothes on her shoulders, and said to her softly: "Just leave Luoyang City, you don't have to suffer such grievances." ”

Looking at Liu Wei's eyes full of concern, Tang Ji didn't speak, she lowered her head, pursed her lips tightly, raised one arm, covered her nose with her sleeve, and slowly squatted into the bucket.

Helping Tang Ji put a lid on the night incense bucket where he was hiding, Liu Wei jumped out of the car, shook the whip slightly, set up the donkey cart, and slowly walked towards the city gate.

In Luoyang City in the middle of the night, the city gate was closed. Two veterans guarding the city gate, one on the left and one on the right, stood on either side of the gate.

Both of them held a long wooden pole and a spear about two meters long. The old soldier standing on the left side of the gate, holding the shaft of his spear in both hands, was napping little by little.

"Stop!" Driving the night fragrance car, as soon as he arrived at the city gate, the veteran standing on the right side of the city gate raised a hand and made a stop gesture at Liu Wei.

Liu Wei stopped the donkey cart, smiled all over his face, bowed slightly, and bowed to the veteran who was walking towards him, and greeted: "Master Jun!" ”

"It's so late, where are you going?" The veteran walked to the car, smelled the smell of night incense, and hurriedly reached out to pinch his nose, and asked angrily: "On weekdays, it takes half an hour for the car to pull night incense in the city to go out, why did you come out so early?" ”

"Returning to the military master, the little one is not for the night incense in the city!" Liu Wei snorted at the veteran again, and said with a smile on his face: "The little one is for the palace to pull night incense." ”

"Oh!" The veteran nodded, looked at Liu Wei from head to toe with some suspicion, and asked in a long voice: "Isn't the night incense in the palace pulled by Lao Zhangtou on weekdays?" How did it change to you today? ”

"The old Zhang Tou who pulls the night incense is a little grandfather!" Liu Wei maintained a slightly bowed posture, nodded his head, and said to the old soldier: "Grandfather is old, and he can't do this business anymore, so he let the little one take over him." ”

"Old Zhang Tou has been widowed for several years, and I haven't heard that he has grandchildren?" As soon as Liu Wei's words came out, the veteran frowned, and looked at him from head to toe again in confusion.

The soldiers guarding the palace gate are all above the top on weekdays, and they don't look down on the miscellaneous servants who pull the night incense at all, so they don't know about the widowhood of the old Zhang Tou in the road, but the soldiers guarding the city gate are different, in order to pass the boring time, they always like to chat with some people who often go in and out of the city gate, and they also know the old Zhang Tou who pulls the night incense very well, so Liu Wei's lie was said, and it was immediately punctured by the veteran.

The lie was exposed, Liu Wei did not panic, and continued to nod and say to the veteran: "Don't hide it from the military master, my grandfather has indeed been a widower for several years, and there is no descendant. The younger one was originally the grandson of the second grandfather, but because his grandfather had no descendants, he was afraid of losing this livelihood, so he passed the small one to his grandfather. ”

"Have you heard of this?" Liu's reason for choosing could be said to be almost faulty, but the veteran was still a little suspicious of him, and shouted to another veteran standing on the left side of the city gate.

When Liu Wei talked to the veteran, the veteran standing on the left side of the city gate had already woken up, and instead of walking to the night fragrance car, he stood where he was, listening to the two with half-squinted eyes.

When his companion asked him if he had heard of Lao Zhangtou stepping someone else's grandson, the old soldier frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "It seems to be!" I heard Lao Zhangtou say that he is old, and I am afraid that he will not be able to do this business in the palace, and he will hand over the mission to someone. But I can't forget whether he succeeded his grandson or something. ”

"That should be right!" The veteran who was standing next to the night incense car with his nose held his breath, stretched out a hand to grab the wheel, leaned into the car halfway, raised the hand holding the spear, pointed to a night incense bucket on the car, and said to Liu Wei: "Open the lid of the bucket." ”

Liu Wei answered, jumped onto the car with both hands on the wheel, and lifted the lid of the night incense barrel that the veteran pointed to.

The lid was lifted, and a bucket full of night incense appeared in front of the veteran's eyes.

Although he held his breath, the veteran's eyes were still astringent from the stench of the sky, and his tears were almost smoked out. He hurriedly let go of the hand holding the wheel, jumped out of the car, waved his hand at Liu Wei and said, "Hurry up, go quickly, I will recognize you today." ”

"Thank you, two military masters!" Liu Wei bowed and thanked the two veterans without stopping, and when the two veterans helped him open the small half of the city gate, he shook the whip of the donkey, drove the donkey cart, and went out of the city.

As he drove the donkey cart out of the city, the gates slowly closed behind him, and the doorshaft made a strange creaking sound.

Liu Wei turned his head to look at the slowly closing city gate behind him, and let out a long sigh, the heart hanging in his throat was finally put down. I was secretly glad in my heart that after escaping from Xiaolou, although he was in danger repeatedly, he still managed to get out of Luoyang City.

Looking up at the bright and dark torches on the city wall, Liu Wei did not immediately release Tang Ji, but drove the donkey cart and continued to walk west along the official road outside the city.

After walking more than a mile, he saw the shadow of a temple not far ahead.

The mountain gate of the temple is not very tall, and from the position where Liu Wei is located at night, its front gate is not much different from the main gate of some rich and noble houses in the city. Standing on the side of the official road, this temple seems a little lonely and lonely.

When he was about to reach the gate of the temple, Liu Wei stopped the donkey cart and looked back at Luoyang City. Standing here, he could no longer see the torches lit on the city wall, and it was absolutely impossible for the guards in charge of guarding the city wall to see him again.

Standing next to the donkey cart, Liu Wei glanced around a few times, the official road was quiet, except for him and the donkey cart beside him, there were no other pedestrians.

Sure that there was no one nearby, Liu Wei jumped onto the donkey cart with the wheels of the cart in both hands, and reached out to open the lid of the night incense bucket where Tang Ji was hiding.

The lid of the bucket opened, and he poked his head into it.

Tang Ji sat with his back against the wall of the barrel, his eyes slightly closed, as if he had fainted from being smoked.

"Wake up, wake up!" Liu Wei leaned over, stretched out a hand, gently stroked Tang Ji's cheek, and whispered to her, "We're out." ”

Tang Ji in the bucket was not really stunned, she just fell asleep under the bumps of the donkey cart. Her cheeks were gently tapped twice by Liu Wei, and she suddenly woke up in her sleep, raised her head to look at Liu Wei, who was leaning out of her body and was trying to grab her with both hands and drag her out of the bucket.

Tang Ji, who woke up, didn't speak, she cooperated with Liu Wei in a daze, stood up and climbed out of the night fragrance bucket.

Helping Tang Ji jump out of the night fragrance car, Liu Wei raised the whip in his hand and quickly whipped the buttocks of the three donkeys.

The donkey was in pain, spread its hooves, pulled the cart and ran forward, and soon disappeared into the darkness of the night.

Seeing the donkey cart running away, Liu Wei didn't say much, and pulled Tang Ji towards the field on the north side.

In the wilderness of early spring, the grass and trees are withering, everything has not yet recovered, and even the most vigorous grass has not yet pulled out its buds.

Pulling Tang Ji and running wildly on the wilderness, he had already run far away, and Liu Biancai turned his head and glanced back.

The shadow of the Luoyang city wall is already a little hazy, and the outline of the city wall can only be vaguely seen. Liu Wei slowly slowed down, pulled Tang Ji from running to walking, and continued to march towards the north.

"Your Majesty, where are we going?" The little hand was pulled by Liu Bian, and while walking forward, Tang Ji asked Liu Bian a little confused.

"In the future, in front of people, don't call me 'Your Majesty' again." Liu Wei stopped, put his hands on Tang Ji's shoulders, and whispered to her: "From now on, just call me husband." ”

His shoulders were supported by Liu Wei, Tang Ji raised his head slightly to look at his sincere eyes, and nodded with a soft "um".

"Jizhou Yuan Benchu, Hebei Gongsun Zhan, Xuchang Cao Mengde and others are all in Tiger Prison now, but I don't want to go to them." Holding Tang Ji's fragrant shoulders with both hands, Liu Wei turned his head to look at the northeast, lowered his voice and said to her: "Right now, Dong Zhuo is in turmoil, and there are many heroes, if I go there, I can't say that I will fall into someone's hands and send them a strong capital, but it will not benefit you and me at all." ”

"If you wish, I would like to return to your hometown with you, and live in seclusion from now on, and never ask about the affairs of the world again, wouldn't I be free?" Stretching out his hand and gently stroking Tang Ji's hair, Liu Wei looked up at the vast night sky, sighed lightly and said: "I just hope that this world is strife, and it has nothing to do with you and me from now on." ”

Tang Ji didn't speak, just looked at Liu Wei with a pair of big blank eyes.

Liu Wei lowered his head, stretched out his hand to take Tang Ji in his arms, and said to her softly: "I don't want to achieve the great cause of the emperor, nor do I want to keep the ancestral inheritance, as long as I can live well in the world with you, I will be satisfied." ”

Tang Ji, who had never seen him so gentle since she married Liu Bian, felt like a bowl of honey in her heart when she heard these words, and she actually left all the suffering she had suffered hidden in the night incense bucket behind, her head snuggled against Liu Bian's chest, and she gently responded: "Follow Your Majesty, the concubine doesn't feel bitter." ”

"Look, you've called me Your Majesty again." With a faint smile on his face, Liu Wei stretched out his hand and gently scraped the bridge of Tang Ji's small nose, and said softly: "You will call me husband in the future, remember?" ”

Pulling Tang Ji, he walked all the way north along the field and walked more than ten miles. The moon was already hanging in the western sky, and the moonlight was much darker, and it was a little darker than before.

As he was walking, Liu Wei vaguely heard a dog barking in front of him.