Li Xiangru gently walked to Yan Ruyu's side, feeling the mountain aura coming from the bottom of the stream, and looked into the distance with his hands behind his back to learn from her.

Yan Ruyu glared at her and snorted coldly, then continued to look into the distance.

The mountain breeze blew her red dress, the corners of the skirt swayed in the wind, and with his delicate facial features when he was quiet and quiet, he really had a bit of a fairy temperament.

After a long time, Yan Ruyu sighed slightly and said, "Brother Li......"

After shouting a sentence, there was no sound, as if the remaining words were contained in the throat. Li Xiangru hummed, and after a long time, he didn't hear her writing, and when he looked sideways, he found that her mind was flying wildly. guessed that she was too far away from home, and the first time she went out, she encountered twists and turns on the road, so she had this sadness and depression that did not fit her style.

After she was silent for a while, Li Xiangru took the lead in breaking the silence, he took out two green dates from his arms, wiped them with a silk handkerchief, handed them to Yan Ruyu, and said with a smile: "Why, are you starting to be sentimental now? Is it the encounter along the way that has made you have a lot of life epiphanies? Why don't you tell me about some of the places you met on the road...... Something interesting, or what you've learned along the way?"

Yan Ruyu took the green jujube and smiled, this is her favorite fruit, the bite is crisp, the juice taste is sweet and sweet with some fresh taste like licorice, every year when the green jujube is ripe, Lao Yan always buys a lot, and even later planted two directly in the small yard of her land for the purpose of satisfying her cravings, but why can she eat it again in this season now? , I don't want to make Li Xiangru feel that he really knows nothing about the soil buns, thinking that this capital is so big, so prosperous should be everything, or it is natural that the results will be regardless of the season?

She put the green jujube in her mouth and took a bite lightly, and said, "It's nothing special......

When she said this, she suddenly felt that something was wrong again, pondered for a while, and changed her words: "It's also a special thing, although I thought I had heard someone talk about where the locust plague was, but wherever I passed, there was no trace of green." This time, I happened to see that in a place called Paper Horse County in Ningzhou, there was a scorched yellow along the way, and there were still many locust cubs among the trees that had been gnawed away from the green leaves, stumbling to the ground. The little cyan insects were extremely disgusting and terrifying, but fortunately there was Qiu He, although she also jumped to her feet and screamed in fear, but she shot those insects. After fleeing from that side, we didn't dare to go that way, Qiuhe said that her family had suffered hardships, and after the locust plague, there would be a tragedy in the world where Yizi ate the land, and I scoffed at that time, and retorted that her parents in the world are so vicious. Look at the poor Chen family in Liuli Lane, although he was always beaten and scolded by his father, he didn't see his father and mother beat him to death. When he scolded very fiercely and said that he was not allowed to eat, he didn't secretly let the old man send food to Chen Jiazi, and I saw it a few times, Chen Jiazi's savage and domineering father pushed his old man to wake up at night and let him go to deliver food, and threatened the old man not to tell Chen Jiazi that he instructed him. ”

"Hmm. And then you saw it?" Li Xiangru looked at her and handed her another green date.

Yan Ruyu took it but didn't eat it, rubbed it in the palm of her hand, there was a look of horror in her eyes, and she said with palpitations: "See, secretly." Qiuhe couldn't resist me, I wanted to pass through there, and when I passed there, it was okay at first, Qiuhe said that it was because the locust plague had just passed, and those people still had some food at home, and they could also dig some wild vegetables and hunt some game on the mountain. She also said that when the rats were gone, the group would be inhuman. I still didn't believe it at the time, and deliberately stayed there for a while, but there was no place to eat, and there was nothing to eat at the inn. A large number of displaced people began to flock to the main city, and slowly even the food in the city was running out. Walking on the street and looking at those homeless people's eyes are terrifying, and I am even more afraid outside the city, Qiuhe said that it is even more unsafe outside the city, so I dare not go out. After staying for a few days, we couldn't get out, but fortunately, Qiuhe was smart and secretly bought a lot of food and hid it under the bed in the inn. But slowly the city began to riot, and at night you could hear the terrible screams that echoed long and sharply through the streets. Qiuhe and I hid under the covers, clasped the window tightly, and used the table to hold the door against it. The innkeeper lost his original kindness in those days, and his eyes were a little more evil when he looked at us. Later, there was really no way, and it was reported outside that the city lord's mansion had been killed, and soldiers in armor forcibly broke into people's homes everywhere to collect food. The days had become so terrible that Qiuhe said we had to run out or we'd die here. At that time, I had no master, and I thought in my heart that it was good that there was Qiu He, otherwise I would have died there, and I would never see Brother Li again, and I would never see Lao Yan again. ”

When Yan Ruyu told this, her face seemed to have the afterglow of the day, and she couldn't help but feel a little distressed when she looked at her eyes open. Gently approached her side, held her cold hand, and said softly: "If you don't want to say it, let's not talk about it, those are already in the past." Aren't you okay now? I'm also by your side, and you can still be with Lord Yanruo's father and daughter. ”

Yan Ruyu raised her head, showed a pale smile, and said, "I know, but I want to tell you what I have encountered." When I went up to the mountains just now, the ugly lady told me everything about you, saying that you have escaped death many times, and how many scars you have on your body. She said this is where you last fell off the cliff. ”

Li Xiangru asked softly, "So, you came up the mountain and went straight here?"

Yan Ruyu nodded and said, "I know a lot of things about you here, and I will also tell you about some things I encountered on the road, so that it is fair." ”

Li Xiangru smiled bitterly, he really couldn't understand the logic of Miss Yan, but he had to nod and said, "Well, well, I know." I know what you've encountered along the way. ”

Yan Ruyu smiled and said, "You don't know, what you can know is just some passing events in the old words." But those things that I have encountered are not a passing thing, it is something that has really happened around me, I have seen the ground, and even felt it myself, it is not something that seems to have passed in a few words.

The more Yan Ruyu spoke, the more excited she became, and even the green jujube rubbed in the palm of her hand fell without noticing, and slowly rolled into the cliff.

Li Xiangru glanced at the green jujube that rolled to the ground, and grabbed Yan Ruyu's increasingly cold hand, and could also feel her body trembling slightly, either because of excitement or fear. He frowned unscrupulously, and quietly injected a Confucian righteousness into Yan Ruyu's body, feeling the warmth of Yan Ruyu's emotions slowly calming down, but his body was still a little chilly.

Yan Ruyu raised her head, her face was a little pale, she smiled apologetically at Li Xiangru, and said, "I'm sorry...... Brother Li, I don't know, what's going on, I can't seem to control my emotions anymore. ”

If it was usual, Li Xiangru would laugh at her and tell her that if she could control her temper, then she would not be the rude and willful lady of the Yan family. On weekdays, he rarely heard Yan Ruyu call him Brother Li, either by his name, or by a stinky scholar. Now his words are like jade, and the fragility only makes him feel more pity. He took Yan Ruyu into his arms and comforted him softly: "It's okay, it's all over." Now I'm by your side, you know, I'm fighting very well, and I can easily knock them down if I come to ten or eight of them. I can protect you!"

Leaning on Yan Ruyu in his arms, he laughed out loud, remembering the first time he saw him, chasing him away, and feeling funny when he got up. She opened her mouth and said: "The stinky scholar came to the capital and didn't learn any other skills, but the Dragon Gate Array will be set up, and he will protect me?

When Li Xiangru heard her laugh, he couldn't help but feel a little relieved, and his face couldn't help but blush slightly when he mentioned the old things, and said embarrassedly: "Ahem...... Don't mention it, don't mention it. ”

Yan Ruyu chuckled again, squirmed her head in Li Xiangru's arms, and found a comfortable posture for her mouth, but she didn't break him, and said in a thin voice: "It's so warm in your arms." ”

Li Xiangru smiled bitterly, seeing her snuggling in her arms like a docile cat, she still stubbornly asked, "What happened later? What else happened? Tell Brother Li together." ”

Yan Ruyu, who closed her eyes and enjoyed the warm embrace, gently opened her eyes like flowing water, and recalled: "We hid in the house and didn't dare to go out." I used to say that I wanted to be a chivalrous woman when I saw injustice, and I pulled out a sword to help me be a chivalrous woman, but when I really encountered something, I realized that I was so timid, and even the courage of Qiu He, who was reprimanded the most by me on weekdays, was bigger. ”

"We hid in the inn like this, and no one came. Once, when we were sticking to the door, we heard the sound of falling things and fighting and killing people downstairs, and we were so frightened that we even pushed the wardrobe to the door and pressed it against the door. I didn't dare to open the door, I didn't dare to speak. Hearing the shopkeeper's voice knocking on the door and shouting for help, I wanted to open the door and put the shopkeeper in, although he said that his eyes were not good, but after all, it was a human life, but Qiuhe didn't let me, covered my mouth and pulled me tightly, not letting me go. After a while, I heard the miserable screams of the shopkeeper outside, and a chaotic footstep stepped on the staircase aisle, and I hugged Qiu He together, and I didn't dare to breathe, for fear of being discovered by thieves. I kept shouting outside, and when I saw that I couldn't open our door, I left. ”

"Then I heard them shouting downstairs that there was no land to eat, so we would go to the next house to find it. Then he listened to their footsteps and walked away before he dared to gasp for air. In this way, the inn returned to quiet, and occasionally there were a few footsteps, Qiu He said that he was not afraid, it was some people who were hiding from the land, and they couldn't enter. And so we were, when we were hungry, we nibbled on the bread we had prepared, and it was dry and hard, the most unpalatable thing I had ever tasted, and I swore never to eat it again. We hid there, and when there was chaos in the city, we hid for three days, and there were murderous voices everywhere. Through the cracks in the windows, it was found that many parts of the city were on fire. Someone set fire to the house, and we were afraid. I'm afraid that if the thieves can't open our house, we'll set it on fire?"

"Or Qiuhe comforted me, saying that we will wait here, the court will not leave the land alone, and they will definitely send troops into the city to rescue us. At that time, we had to wait, and we didn't dare to go out. The sounds at night were less popular than during the day, stealthy and terrifying like ghosts, and even a few times I could see a white shadow drifting past our window. Qiu He and I hugged each other, and both of our bodies trembled with fear. ”