Under the hazy moonlight, a tall horse was leisurely enjoying the night grass around it, when suddenly a black shadow came out of the forest and slapped the horse's buttocks, and the horse panicked, broke the reins and began to run forward.

Xiao Jiansheng saw that the jujube red horse that cost eight taels of silver quickly disappeared in front of him, his face was sad and pale, he did not dare to run away, but found a wide tree pole nearby and hugged the white-clothed girl in his arms to hide.

At this moment, his heart was pounding.

Kidnapping prisoners and killing military personnel of the imperial court are capital crimes.

I don't know how long it took, the chaotic footsteps of the soldiers were far away, and the light and shadow of the torches were also blown away by the wind, Xiao Jiansheng got up and ran lifelessly along the edge of the woods with the girl in white in his arms.

That night, he lost count of how many hills he had crossed and how many small rivers he had crossed, and in order to prevent those people from finding out that they had been fooled and then killing them, he persevered until dawn.

Wisps of soft mountain wind rushed towards him, and the comfortable sunlight tightly wrapped Xiao Jiansheng's thin body, even if he had a brute force, he couldn't support it at the moment, especially the bursts of pain from behind, which made him feel that it was difficult to breathe, he looked around and put the woman in white on the ground with confidence, and then tore off the black cloth that made him breathless, and then reached out to touch his back, and his fingers just touched a hard thing.

Patronizing and fleeing, he didn't know that he had been hit by an arrow in his back, Xiao Jiansheng's face turned a little pale, he turned his head with difficulty and counted, there were five black arrow shafts nailed to his back, the blood on his shirt was shocking, and the arrow on the top was on his shoulder, which shot through his bag, and the water hyacinth inside was also pierced and the water was drained.

Xiao Jiansheng calmed down slightly, he tried to grit his teeth and use the last bit of strength in his body to hold the arrow shaft and pull out the arrow, only to feel a heart-piercing pain, and suddenly the darkness in front of him fell on the girl's soft body.

I don't know how long later, Xiao Jiansheng was woken up in pain.

He half-squinted his eyes, and dimly saw a white figure kneeling beside him, surrounded by white cloth balls used to stop the bleeding or wipe the bloodstains, like red flowers blooming on the ground.

Xiao Jiansheng was suddenly startled, and just as he wanted to turn over, he felt his head being pressed by a soft hand, and an extremely weak female voice said, "Hold on a little longer, there is still the last arrow." ”

Hearing the voice of the woman in white, Xiao Jiansheng lowered his head and gritted his teeth without saying a word, until the woman in white threw the arrow aside, and then used the long cloth strip prepared in advance to help him bandage the wound simply, and then he exhaled a long breath.

After Xiao Jiansheng sat up with difficulty, he looked at the girl's blood-stained hands, he didn't know if the blood was his, he stared at the girl's soft eyebrows and said, "So you're not dead?"

The girl was not angry because she was cursed by the handsome-looking young man in front of her, she just stared at the young man with beautiful eyes and replied: "It's just that you faint with blood and blood, aren't you looking forward to my death?"

Xiao Jiansheng was speechless for a while, and was choked by the girl and quickly lowered his head, and struggled on his face for a while before continuing: "Your name is Shangguan ......"

The girl looked surprised, but was soon relieved.

The girl said softly: "It seems that you are only fifteen or sixteen, just call me Sister Shangguan Xue in the future, Shangguan Yunting is my father, I guess you heard their conversation." ”

Xiao Jiansheng looked at Shangguan Xue a little annoyed, and nodded quietly, he really wanted to ask Shangguan Xue how old he was, and he dared to let him call him sister in the first contact, you must know that when he was at the mouth of the mud well, no matter whether he was older or smaller than him, he was called the boss, and few people dared to call him by his name, and no one dared to call himself sister in front of him.

Shangguan Xue should have seen that Xiao Jiansheng was dissatisfied, smiled lightly, gestured with two fingers and said: "Two years older than you, you are not wronged by shouting sister, by the way, how should my sister call you?"

Xiao Jiansheng said three words speechlessly in a voice that was almost inaudible to outsiders: "Xiao ...... Sword...... Raw"

At this moment, Shangguan Xue looked at Xiao Jiansheng suspiciously and said: "There are five arrows in the body, even if ordinary people don't die, they can't afford to be seriously injured, and I also found that although those arrows are extremely sharp, they can't cause you to worry about your life, isn't it...... You're also a cultivator?"

Xiao Jiansheng looked even more puzzled than Shangguan Xue at this time, maybe it happened to him, or he didn't have time to think about this, now that Shangguan Xue was mentioned, Xiao Jiansheng hurriedly took a few arrows and looked at them carefully.

As Shangguan Xue said, the arrow is very sharp, but the blood-stained part of the arrow is less than an inch, and there is no skin or armor on his body except for a coarse cloth shirt, which is a bit inexplicable, Xiao Jiansheng thought for a long time and couldn't find out what the problem was.

In addition to his brute strength, he doesn't even know what is going on with his cultivation until now, even the simplest fist and foot kung fu has not been touched, how to practice, at this time, not only Xiao Jiansheng can't figure it out, but Shangguan Xue, who is a cultivator, can't figure it out either.

Xiao Jiansheng frowned and looked at the red blood stains on the arrow that had not yet solidified, and said, "Maybe it's fate, or ...... I was born with a vajra body, anyway...... It's better not to die than to die. ”

The first serious conversation between the two of them came to an impasse because of an unsolvable problem, and they were two strangers, so the conversation ended here, Shangguan Xue didn't bother to clean up the dry blood stains on his clothes and began to close his eyes and recuperate, and Xiao Jiansheng also calmed down and began to recover his strength.

It was noon, the light on the hillside was very sufficient, the clouds were white like new cotton, it felt very close to the sky, but far from the ground, the stubborn grass between the mountains and rocks was blown by the wind, Xiao Jiansheng and Shangguan Xue had their own hearts and were in a daze alone. Until a black-gray hare sprang out of nowhere, breaking the purity of the two of them at once.

Xiao Jiansheng looked at the direction where the hare disappeared and suddenly remembered something, and said anxiously: "We can't sit still, we need to find a safe place to recuperate as soon as possible, as long as those people are not really stupid, they will definitely find my house according to the wood-chopping axe, and when they return to Yuntian City, they can't find out about me, and it is very likely that this area will be used as a key search area, and when the team comes, we will be unable to fly even if we have wings." ”

Shangguan Xue nodded in acquiescence, and then the two of them began to clean up the traces around them.

Shangguan Xue was unable to move with shackles and shackles, and was responsible for cleaning up the bloodstains and bloody cloth on the ground, while Xiao Jiansheng returned to the bottom of the mountain, cleaned up the bloodstains remaining in the ground, and erased the crooked footprints.

Then, he glanced at the two pairs of shackles on Shangguan Xue's body, took out a short rope from his bag, tied a dead knot in the middle of the shackles, and handed the other end of the rope to Shangguan Xue.

Xiao Jiansheng looked at Shangguan Xue's struggling expression and said, "Although it is a little heavier and a little troublesome, at least it will not leave traces of drag." ”

Shangguan Xue snorted, and the two began to walk to the top of the mountain in a hurry.

At the beginning, Shangguan Xue deliberately kept a certain distance from Xiao Jiansheng, but as the mountain road became steeper and steeper, she was a little overwhelmed, and when she climbed a straight mountain rock more than two people high, she had to turn to Xiao Jiansheng with her eyes.

At this moment, Xiao Jiansheng had some pain in his back, and his physical strength had recovered, he subconsciously looked at Shangguan Xue with a gloomy face, although he had hugged all the way, but at the moment he didn't know how to start.

For the rest of the journey, almost all of them were Xiao Jiansheng helping Shangguan Xuebai walk, hugging or carrying or holding her white and tender hand, both of them would blush at first, and slowly get used to it.

Sometimes, in order to alleviate the embarrassment of being too intimate, the two of them will ask irrelevant or bizarre questions, and along the way, they basically have nothing to talk about.

Just after Xiao Jiansheng and Shangguan Xue struggled to climb the towering ridge, almost at the same time, the two of them spoke softly.

Under a cloud of mist, a moat that seemed to cut the earth in half lay in front of him.

There is another world in the moat entirely, there seems to be a big river rushing, the sound of the water is turbulent, the tall tree pole penetrates the fog layer, pokes out the head to breathe the fresh air of the outside world, occasionally a hawk that tears through the sky, only to see a black eagle with wings soaring into the sky.

Shangguan Xue seemed to be in a good mood, she looked at Xiao Jiansheng and said with a smile from the bottom of her heart: "I really didn't expect it...... I'm still alive. ”

Xiao Jiansheng chuckled, how could he not hear that Shangguan Xue was talking to him, he knew that in fact, what Shangguan Xue wanted to express was, thank you for keeping me alive.

Xiao Jiansheng never thought that she would say something like thanks, and he couldn't get used to hearing it, it was a complete accident for him to save Shangguan Xue, and he followed his heart.

The way down the mountain is more difficult than the road up the mountain, the terrain is complex and changeable, and from time to time there will be a few knife-like vertical cliffs, sometimes hidden under the cracks of dead branches and leaves are several feet deep, this way thanks to Xiao Jiansheng found a slender cane on the way to explore the way.

Unconsciously, the sky was getting dark, and at this moment, there was a sound of water droplets splashing not far from them, Xiao Jiansheng glanced at Shangguan Xue with chapped lips and took the initiative to say, "You wait for me here, I'll go find some water and come back." ”

Shangguan Xue chuckled: "Then you be careful, there may be a cliff in front of you." ”

Xiao Jiansheng snorted and followed the sound of the water, Shangguan Xue glanced at Xiao Jiansheng who had bypassed a few towering trees and sighed, as Scarface said, she is a waste now, otherwise how can Xiao Jiansheng risk finding water sources.

Shangguan Xue's delicate eyebrows condensed for a moment, then sat down calmly, closed her eyes and gently absorbed the fresh air around her, in order to break away the seal left by Wei Xiangwu on her body, she began to condense the residual Yuanyang qi in the sea of qi at the expense of her life, but in order to deal with Scarface, the remaining Yuanyang qi was also dissipated, she is now a complete waste, unless someone with a higher realm than Wei Xiangwu can help him break the seal, otherwise her cultivation path will be completely extinct, and once she performs the exercises, she will explode and die。

Just when Shangguan Xue was restless, Xiao Jian came back angry and panting, and he didn't have time to catch his breath and said anxiously: "There is a cave below, and it seems that the sound of water droplets comes from the cave. ”

After Shangguan Xue suddenly opened her eyes, she pursed her chapped lips and said happily: "Doesn't that mean...... Can we heal in the cave?"

Xiao Jiansheng nodded repeatedly.

Then Shangguan Xue said uneasily: "In case Wei Xiangwu sends someone to search the mountain, the cave will not be discovered, right?"

"Unless he can muster a few thousand men at once, less than that. ”

The entrance of the cave is like a triangle, hidden in the forest on a mountain cliff, more than two people from the bottom of the cliff, the roots of the trees around the cave entrance are covered by green grass, there is an intermittent sound of water droplets in the cave, the sound is light and pleasant, Shangguan Xue only glanced at it and nodded with satisfaction.

Xiao Jiansheng looked at the entrance of the cave, and the brightest smile on his face appeared for the first time in the past few days.

In the next time, Shangguan Xue sat under the cliff and closed her eyes to recuperate, Xiao Jiansheng began to be busy making simple ladders, a few sections of rope, a few dry hardwood sticks that can withstand a person, less than a stick of incense, the simple ladder was completed, Xiao Jiansheng was the first to climb into the cave, and found that the cave was not very spacious, but it was more than enough to accommodate two people, and because the entrance of the cave was well hidden, it could be regarded as warm in winter and cool in summer.

After a while, he smiled and waved his hand at Shangguan Xue and said: "The inside is very large and spacious, warm in winter and cool in summer, it is very suitable for the two of us to live, I have now avenged the revenge of Xiao Lin'er and grandpa in the sea of blood......"

Before Xiao Jiansheng's words were finished, he saw Shangguan Xue glaring at him hatefully, and said, "It's really useless, if it weren't for the fact that there was no second person at the scene, I really don't want to believe that Scarface would have been killed by you." ”

Xiao Jiansheng didn't refute it, he didn't dare to imagine it, killing Scarface was not as difficult as he imagined, but thinking of the jujube red horse, he was a little lost on his face.