Cheng Ning wandered outside for a day, and finally got rid of the guards, he was so tired and out of breath that he sat on a stool and drank half a cup of tea.

Zhou Yunzhen watched him drink tea like a cow with disgust, and couldn't help but snort twice.

"Cheng Ning, you fled here, right? How did it come to this? ”

The gray face was scratched by black claws, and his hair was messy, and at a glance he knew it was his own handiwork.

Cheng Ning put the cup down, and was afraid that he would choke to death.

"Shizi, the subordinates have only now discovered that compared to these few, Mu Ji and they are too kind, at least at that time they still had the time to catch their breath, unlike today, they chased their subordinates and refused to fall behind, and their subordinates were almost caught!"

He finished speaking in one breath and poured another large mouthful of water.

Zhou Yunzhen sneered: "They are bent on arresting us back, just like dogs, they come when they smell it!" Yu Dafeng's people, I don't dare to compliment! ”

Cheng Ning nodded in agreement and brought back another message.

"Shizi, when they were chasing their subordinates, they seemed to have received some news, and they retreated inexplicably." He said, "The subordinates all think it's strange, could it be that they have other plans?" ”

Zhou Yunzhen's eyes rolled when she heard this, and then laughed.

"Retreated?" He raised a handsome brow, "They retreated, then our good days will come!" Ha, Chengning, pack your things, let's go! ’”

"Are you leaving?" Cheng Ning was still puzzled, but seeing Shizi's smug expression, he smiled in surprise, "Shizi, are we going back to Beijing?" ”

Without waiting for Shizi to answer, he immediately pinned the sword on the table to his waist, drank tea with a teacup in one hand, and grabbed the last two cold cakes from the plate with the other.

Seeing Shizi's slightly disdainful eyes, Cheng Ning smiled dryly and explained: "There is still a long way to go back to Beijing, and my subordinates are here...... Prepare to eat on the road. ”

He won't admit that he has developed a good habit of cherishing these days, and he doesn't want to waste everything he buys with money.

Zhou Yunzhen snorted and said arrogantly: "When will I be hungry for you with this son!" It's really unproductive! ”

He threw the last silver tael from his waist to Cheng Ning, "You can use all of these, you can eat whatever you want, and you can go on the road after eating!" ”

Cheng Ning didn't hold on to the mistake of the words "good on the road", he nodded, his eyes were eager and happy.

"Shizi, the wine and food in Gwangju are delicious, let's go there for a meal and then go back?" He proposed.

Zhou Yunzhen really didn't expect his subordinates to become like this, he shook his head again and again, his expression was helpless and incredulous.

"Go, go, go." He waved his hand impatiently.

"Thank you, Shizi!" Cheng Ning said, full of joy.

……

……

As night fell, black clouds rolled in, and rain fell silently from the sky.

Slowly, the rain became heavier and heavier, and it beat the ground and sizzled.

The earth was shrouded in a thick fog, and the night sky was dark with no shadows and a faint twilight.

The two men rode horses for some distance in the rain and stopped at the door of a dilapidated house.

"It's raining heavily, so rest here tonight." Zhou Yunzhen said, turning over and dismounting neatly.

He led the horse to the corner of the eaves, pushed the dilapidated door, squeaked, very strange in the quiet night, Cheng Ning couldn't help but shake his shoulders.

The door slowly opened, and the dust came to their faces, choking two people to cough.

Cheng Ning hurriedly took two steps forward to help Shizi block the dust.

"Shizi, this time I blame my subordinates, if I leave early, maybe I will go to that post station at this time, and I won't encounter such a rainstorm." He said guiltily.

Between states, there are generally post stations for the transmission of documents and the like, some roads are longer, a few more, and two or three are shorter.

Gwangju and Yizhou are not far away, so there are only two post stations, they have already passed one when they were on the road yesterday, and now the nearest post station is still twenty miles away, Zhou Yunzhen did not want to get drenched in the rain anymore, so he found this place where he could barely settle down.

"What's so good about the station?" Zhou Yunzhen said disdainfully.

When he came to Gwangju, he passed by there, and the two of them smiled and complimented the officials, and if he was there, he might have to listen to a lot of sycophants.

He didn't bother to listen.

Cheng Ning couldn't say what was good about the post station, but he had long heard that the food served at the post station was not bad, and he wanted to try it.

After rushing all the way, his stomach was hungry again.

Zhou Yunzhen seemed to guess what he was thinking, and his gaze was really stunned.

"Beware of poisoning that meal and poisoning you!" He snorted and said, "I see if you dare to eat it!" ”

"They...... How dare you. Cheng Ning muttered, "You must be careful and careful in the food you cook, you can't make any mistakes, it's impossible to poison it." ”

The prince just hated him for eating too much, so he said such things to scare him. It's corny!

"Why don't you dare?" Zhou Yunzhen snorted coldly, "I can't help anyone who looks at me and wants to poison me!" For example, Xie Chi, I have to guard against him! A guy with a bad stomach! ”

He cursed as he entered the dilapidated house, covered with dust all the way, and he could feel the dust drifting when he stepped on it.

The room was pitch black, the walls were covered with thin cobwebs, and the table was covered with rags, on which a black plate rested.

"Everything is black!" Zhou Yunzhen felt a bad chill, walked to a place that looked slightly cleaner by the dim moonlight, and spread a thick layer of hay before sitting down.

Cheng Ning also followed his example and laid the grass.

Although he is not very particular about these, he does not spread them in vain, and the only use of these grasses is this.

"No fire." Zhou Yunzhen said lightly.

Cheng Ning had to look for firewood everywhere, the firewood outside was wet, and he definitely couldn't use it, so he could only look for it in the broken house.

But the surrounding lights were dark, and I couldn't see if there was any firewood through the faint light from the window of the prince.

"Shizi, there is no firewood." He said distressedly.

Zhou Yunzhen took off her robe and only wore a thin undershirt.

"That's because you didn't look for it well, go and take a look, isn't there a room in the corner over there, and there is always firewood under the eaves outside." His calm voice sounded in the darkness, "My coat is wet, and I have to roast it on the fire before I can wear it." ”

He seemed to be unusually calm at this time, he didn't get angry or angry, he just talked lightly about his current situation.

Cheng Ning said in his heart that this matter was his own fault, if it wasn't for his greed to eat himself to the stomach discomfort that day, he would not have been delayed on the road for too many hours in the past two days, and they would not have encountered heavy rain in this gloomy place.

He nodded and said in the dark: "Shizi, you can rest first, your subordinates know that you are tired." Rest assured, your subordinates will find firewood. ”

He rolled up his sleeves and glanced around with wide eyes, carefully examining every place where there might be firewood, carefully observing the dark corner.

He pushed open the worse wooden door in the innermost room.

The wooden door was crooked and smashed, and he patted his chest and cautiously approached the house.

The sound of footsteps spread in the dim room, and Cheng Ning stretched out his leg and just stepped on a round piece of wood, which he picked up in surprise and held in his hand.

Slowly, he found a second one, and he wanted to continue looking, but found nothing.

There are two wooden sticks hidden in such a big place! Is it to let him fight with Shizi!

He was deflated and came out of the dark room.

"Shizi, there is no wooden ...... in it"

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Yunzhen stood up from the haystack, and he lowered his voice and reminded: "Don't speak, someone is coming." ”

But Cheng Ning didn't hear any strange sounds, he looked surprised and felt his heart beat wildly.

Zhou Yunzhen dragged him to stand farther away, and somehow reached the stick in his hand, so he took one in his hand in case he needed it.

Cheng Ning's heart was suddenly shocked.

This stick is of such a use!

He tightened his grip on the stick in his hand, and in one hand he grasped the sword and prepared to make a move.

At that moment, there was one or two slight footsteps outside the door, and then the door was opened, and the creak was unusually harsh.

A tall black figure gradually appeared through the crack in the door, and a terrifying sense of oppression came to him.

The two looked at the visitor with wary eyes.