In the middle of the night, a group of masked men secretly tracked a group of heavy soldiers, hurrying non-stop.

Heavy soldiers escorted a prisoner, in order to speed up the pace, the prisoner sat on the prisoner car, surrounded by ironclad heavy soldiers on the front and back, left and right, led by Luan Guifei's cousin Luan Rong, and Luan Huanyu, a close confidant of the Luan family.

The prisoner was Mu Suihan, the crown prince of the dynasty, but he had been deposed and demoted to a commoner, and Luan Guifei had already ordered that he must die on the road.

Rushing late at night, there was a routine curfew in the city, and the roads were already closed, so the team took a detour from the suburban paths, all of which seemed so casual, but full of deliberateness.

In the middle of the moon, at three o'clock, the escort team became more and more desolate and farther and farther. The man in black who was tracking the army whispered, "The road is not right, the sky is going to change." Everyone obeys my command, no matter what, we must let the prince escape safely. The men in black nodded silently.

The trees on both sides were getting taller and the roads were getting rougher, and they had long since moved away from the outskirts of the city and nearby villages and towns to a barren mountain.

Luan Rong and Luan Huanyu were originally near the prisoner cart one after the other, but suddenly, the horse pulling the prisoner cart neighed, and the person stood up, and the person who drove the cart was overturned to the ground, and the horse rushed forward like crazy, and ran away with the prisoner cart behind, and the bulky prisoner cart knocked over a group of people.

The incident came suddenly, and the surrounding trees and weeds were deep, and this change caused a panic in the escort team.

Luan Rong looked back and saw that the carriage was crashing towards him, he was afraid that someone would stop the carriage, so he shouted: "The prisoner is a serious offender in the imperial court, don't move!" He himself turned his horse's head and made way for the carriage to run deep into the woods.

They deliberately let the wagon escape.

Luan Huanyu also pretended to be worried, and shouted: "The horse doesn't know what it has scratched and is frightened, you guys are here to guard and don't move, the terrain in the forest is complicated, don't follow it, Lord Luan Rong and I will chase it!" ”

The commander spoke, and where the soldiers resisted, they reorganized the team in the same place, and only Erluan rode his horse to chase after him. Their real task tonight is to avoid their generals, find a place where no one is there and kill the prince, and find a random excuse to shirk in the future, so that they will not fall into the trap.

On the other side, the man in black also crawled after him. The carriage was unable to move, and Luan Huanyu and Luan Rong could have caught up quickly, but they let the carriage run all the way deep into the woods. The men in black saw that the time had come, and one of them asked the people around him, "Second brother, don't you want to do it yet?" ”

"No, wait for them to stop!" Cold sweat was already pouring out on his head, and he reached out to wipe it.

The other, unquestioning, nodded and did not speak.

Soon Er Luan also saw that this was a good place to do it, so he kicked the stirrups, flew up, crossed to the side of the prisoner car, and swung his sword to cut the rope connecting the carriage and horse, the prisoner cart leaned forward, and Mu Suihan hit the cage hard.

Luan Huanyu acted simply, didn't say a word of nonsense, quickly stepped forward and opened the cage to lift Mu Suihan out, and held him down, while Luan Rong took out a pile of cut straw paper from his arms, wet it with the water he carried, and sealed Mu Suihan's entire face.

This trick can kill people invisibly, and even if an autopsy is required, the cause of death cannot be found. They want to kill the crown prince for the concubine Niangniang, but they can't leave anyone with any handle.

A piece of paper was pasted up, and Mu Suihan felt that he couldn't breathe well, and struggled desperately. But he was wearing shackles, and he couldn't take them off with his hands, so he could only whine and wail. Luan Rong wet the second one, and was about to put it on Mu Suihan's face, when suddenly several black-clothed people came out of the forest, and shouted in a rough voice: "I opened this mountain, who broke in!" ”

Luan Rong ignored it, and the second piece of paper was also pasted.

Mu Suihan couldn't breathe anymore, and he struggled even harder.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the man in black led by him hurriedly shouted angrily: "Grandma has legs, dare not answer Lao Tzu's words!" Then he shouted, "He wants to kill that man, but we won't let him kill him, brothers, take that man for me!" ”

While speaking, the four people surrounded him at the same time, and Luan Rong shouted: "Presumptuous, little mountain bandit, delay the official mission to handle the case, do you want to rebel?" ”

Unexpectedly, the leader sneered: "We all have no way to serve the country, and it is difficult to express our ambitions, but it is you stupid officials!" As he spoke, he had already arrived, and the two sides waved their blades and hit one place, Luan Rong hurriedly shouted to Luan Huanyu: "Send a signal quickly!" Luan Huanyu immediately let go of Mu Suihan, and was about to release the signal, but Mu Suihan took advantage of him to let go, and suddenly hit him fiercely, this collision contains Mu Suihan's ten percent of his skills, although Luan Huanyu was guarded, but he never expected that Mu Suihan, who was blocked from breathing, could still have such great strength, and he never knew that he had such a deep cultivation, this collision made him fly five feet away, spit blood, and couldn't get up for a long time.

Three more black-clothed men came out of the grass and grabbed them, helped Mu Suihan up, and removed the straw paper from his face. Mu Suihan inhaled and asked the man in black in a low voice: "Young Master Lin!" The other party replied, "It's us, His Royal Highness the Prince, let's go!" Mu Suihan nodded immediately, and reluctantly followed them to escape into the woods.

Not far after escaping, a firework suddenly came out of the night sky, which was particularly dazzling in the quiet night, it was a signal sent by Luan Huanyu, and the army was about to chase after him. Second Prince Lin said: "Your Highness, hurry up and change your clothes!" Mu Suihan nodded, Lin Er Gongzi smashed his shackles and cut off the shackles, Mu Suihan began to undress, and an unknown stranger began to take off his black clothes. Mu Suihan looked at this person who was the same age as himself, but his face was very calm, and his undressed hand couldn't help but tremble slightly, because this person was going to die for him tonight.

The two exchanged clothes with each other, Mu Suihan put on black clothes and blended in with the Lin family's son, while the stranger wore his prison clothes.

He grabbed his hair, and Prince Lin smeared some black ash on his face, and Mu Suihan only felt cold sweat on his back when he looked at it. He stared at him infatuately, feeling more terrible than asking him to die himself.

He wanted to ask the stranger's name, but he didn't, he was afraid that he would dream of him every day in the future.

Lin Ergongzi looked around, and suddenly saw a mountain cliff, not high, but very steep, there are not many trees, and the mountain is full of rocks, so he said: "Go up the mountain to the highest place, pretend to be forced to kill the prince and flee for his life, and the dead body will be pushed down the mountain!" ”

The four of them ran up the mountain like this, and Luan Rong's men and horses also began to go up the mountain with torches.

When he reached the top of the mountain, Mu Suihan turned his back and didn't dare to look. Lin Ergongzi and Lin Dagongzi bowed deeply to the stranger, and then raised their knives and killed him. Mu Suihan didn't see anything, but the sound of the knife piercing his heart and the muffled hum of the dead were as deafening as the thunder of a rainy night, and he trembled all over his body, trembling uncontrollably.

The Lin brothers completely ruined the man's face with a big stone, ruining it beyond recognition, and then they saw the direction of Luan Rong's team and threw the body off the cliff. He shouted at the bottom of the mountain: "Hey, if you don't give money, forget it, you are bullying, Lao Tzu won't fight with you, if you want this person, then I will give it back to you!" ”

The sound traveled far away, and the people under the cliff could hear it clearly. The torches on the mountainside did not move, and they gathered around a point, presumably seeing the dead body of the false prince. The Lin brothers hurriedly took Mu Suihan down the mountain from the other side.

At the foot of the mountain, there were soldiers, but the forces were scattered, and the three of them were all martial arts masters, so it was easy to break out. The three of them hid in Tibet and went straight to the densest bamboo forest, Luan Rong and Luan Huanyu never imagined that the hiding place they chose to kill the abolished prince would become the hiding place of this group of bandits who did not know where to come from at this moment.

The abolished prince is dead, although this news is fake, but Luan Rong and Luan Huanyu don't know that the prince has been stolen and replaced, although there are suspicions, but the evidence is insufficient, just when they panicked, Mu Suihan and the Lin family brothers had already run to find the horses and fled far.

……

On a bleak autumn evening, Xiaoxiao walked in the wilderness in despair.

She was a woman, alone, and seeing that it was almost dark, she did not go into the city, but walked aimlessly around the countryside alone.

The wind is getting stronger and colder.

In the spring, she walked from Anning County to the capital, and when she left the capital and returned to the vicinity of Anning County, she didn't realize that it was already early autumn. She didn't want to stay in the capital anymore, but she didn't want to go back to Anning County. She didn't want to see anyone along the way, so she walked all the way through the middle of nowhere, never entering a town along the way. She felt that she was getting thinner and thinner, and every time she drank water by the river and washed her face, she would look at herself again, and when she saw her reflection in the water again today, she was almost unrecognizable.

She hadn't washed her face for three days, she hadn't drunk a sip of water, she had a fever all these days, she should have found a place to rest and recuperate, but she didn't want to stop, she was very afraid and panicked.

She remembered that her mother had told her before she died, telling her to live well and live happily, and she promised her to live, but she couldn't be really happy. Her joy was all fake, because she later became a Qinglou woman. She learned to dance, play the piano, sing, recite poetry, practice her eyes, and practice her body...... In order to survive, she learns everything well, but she is just not beautiful.

The literati came to the Qinglou and said that they had come to chant poetry and find a confidant, but in fact, they didn't come to see the girl? The pretty girl just sat there motionless, with her eyes closed, and in the eyes of those literati she was also picturesque, which made them intoxicated; If you are not a beautiful girl, you will be disliked if you send it to the door for nothing.

She is not worth much, usually can only play the piano in the corner, dance for the Oiran, the old bustard said, the only use of her is to let her be a green leaf, set off the beauty of other girls.

Because she is not beautiful, no one cares how well she dances, naturally, and no one knows her. In addition to playing, playing and singing, her real favorite is reading and literacy, she feels that these are very close to her, all the meaning is expressed very directly, through the book, it is like talking to those real sages, there is always some truth in it, so that after she has read it and made it white, she feels some light in her heart.

But reading is not all good, reading makes her look very white, but she is powerless to change anything, it only adds to her troubles. Only now does she feel that it is better for her not to study and live a life in a daze.

If you have never seen the light, you will not know the darkness.

That person, like those books, disguised himself as light into her life, but never told her how cruel life was, and when the darkness came, those books were high enough to save her, and brought her even darker darkness. She used to be alive in the dark, but now that she was in the darkness again, she just wanted to die.

She hung a jade belt on a crooked-necked locust tree, tied a dead knot, and prepared to hang herself. The jade belt is a token left by Zhao Baiquan to her, he once took out all his coils in order to see her, and she also gave him the silver she had worked hard to accumulate for him, and sent him to Beijing to catch the exam, and then he won the lift, and she was ecstatic when the news came, but her Zhao Lang never came back, nor did she send someone to deliver the letter.

The sisters persuaded her not to believe Zhao Baiquan, but she couldn't help but believe him, he taught her to read, taught her to write, he could answer all the questions in her heart, and the answers were so in line with her heart. He understands her, she understands him, she believes that their love is different from those stories in the past, and her Zhao Lang is also different from others, and her heart is happy and sweet at that time.

"He's probably entangled in affairs, so there's something delayed!"

She thought so innocently. For the sake of Zhao Lang, she has to find a way to redeem herself. She still had some silver on her, but it was not enough, so she saved up for another two years, and finally saved enough silver. The bustard didn't want to raise her for a long time, the guests didn't like her, she even had to save the fat powder money and jewelry money, and now she saw that she had made up the silver, so she didn't keep her anymore, discounted it, and returned her deed.

When Xiaoxiao was about to leave, the old bustard suddenly said to her: "Actually, if you are really for that man, you don't deserve it at all, but you have such courage, then I wish you no regrets." ”

Xiaoxiao had never heard the old bustard, who had always been babbling, say such serious words, and the tone in which she spoke to her that time was like a different person, as close as a blood relative, but she insisted on this, and the bustard had no choice and didn't pay much attention to it.

She went to the capital with the deed.

"He must have been delayed by something, he is the only person in the world who understands my piano, he is different from others." She told herself.

On the day of going to Beijing, it was a day of spring rain, there were a lot of willow trees in the suburbs of the capital, and when it rained, it was hazy, like the stone blue that was soaked open by the water, and the surrounding mountains and rivers all became a faint stone blue. She felt that the willow trees here were very similar to her Zhao Lang, when she first saw him, he was wearing a stone blue Wensheng Gongzi Yu, wearing a stone blue Wensheng Gongzi scarf, clean and elegant, and handsome, she had never seen such a good-looking, so refreshing and clean, making people look comfortable.

Zhao Baiquan promised her for life and gave her a jade belt, but now, she wants to ask the jade belt to take away her life. Because the youngest daughter of the prime minister of the capital took a fancy to him, he was going to marry the daughter of a high-ranking official. Xiaoxiao was also pale when she arrived in the capital, if it weren't for God's pity on her, she wouldn't be able to see Zhao Baiquan again, he became a big official and lived in a big mansion, she couldn't see him at all, but that day Zhao Baiquan and his wife went out, she saw their gorgeous team, she wanted to see a lively scene, but she didn't expect to see Zhao Baiquan.

He probed out of the carriage first, and then helped a fair-skinned and good-looking lady out of the carriage. Although the woman was beautiful, she had a luxurious atmosphere of gold and silver, and she stood with Zhao Baiquan, a little unsympathetic.

The woman's eyebrows and eyes were gentle and sweet, Zhao Baiquan gently hugged her shoulders, holding her and laughing as she walked, surrounded by countless attendants and servants, not far away.

Xiaoxiao couldn't help but move with their team from a distance, and her eyes didn't leave Zhao Baiquan for a moment.

Zhao Baiquan still likes Shi Cyan, he is still wearing a Shi Cyan casual clothes, clean, elegant, and has a bookish air on his body, the same as when he walked to her and praised her for playing the piano well, but the only thing that has changed is that he will not marry her. Xiaoxiao is pale, his Zhao Lang is no different from others, the love between them is the same as a dream, when they wake up, they are gone.

She didn't have time to cherish this relationship, she was a woman, alone and didn't know where to go. She was freed, but she found herself in a different predicament.

Her life is really miserable.

She is heartbroken, the world is full of shadows, it is better to die. She stretched out her hand and stretched the jade belt, moved a few stones, and finally stepped on it, and was just about to put her head into it, when suddenly someone in the grass not far away shouted, "Hey, wait a minute!" ”

Xiaoxiao turned her head and saw that there were three men hiding in the grass with knives in their hands. These three people look weird, a short and thin man with one eye, a fat man with a white and fat complexion, a ruddy complexion, and a "living Zhang Fei" with a muscular body, bronze skin and beard, and a pair of big ring-eyes.

These three people don't look like bandits in any way.

Xiaoxiao was not afraid, just looked at them like that. When they got closer, the one-eyed screamed, "Hey, I opened this mountain, you tell me clearly, are you disheartened and have no way to die?" ”

Xiaoxiao was stunned and said, "Yes." ”

He asked again, "Do you have any money?" ”

Xiaoxiao was stunned again, and then blew up their meaning: "After I die, you can take my money as you like." ”

The three bandits glanced at each other, turned their backs together and whispered a few words, and Xiaoxiao heard them talking.

One-eyed said: "She committed suicide, not what we killed, this silver is considered to be picked up, not what we robbed, so the owner of the village can't blame us!" ”

Huo Zhang Fei pointed at him and said: "Wow, you are really, everyone is going to die, you still count other people's money if you don't save you when you die, it's really immoral!" ”

One-eyed raised the knife in his hand and said incredulously: "What kind of virtue, we are bandits!" ”

Huo Zhang Fei said: "That's not good, the owner of the village said, we are bandits, but we are moral bandits!" ”

One-eyed scolded angrily: "Damn, what do you say?" He slammed his knife to the ground and slammed it into the stone with a loud bang. "That sissy doesn't know where to go, Lao Tzu is about to starve to death, you say, what to do, I can't tell Lao Tzu to whip you!"

Although the one-eyed man is small, but he has a lot of aura when he starts his temper, Huo Zhang Fei was startled by him, the fat man saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly protected Zhang Fei behind his body and said: "Ah yo, what are you arguing about, say something slowly, don't be angry!" ”

One-eyed like a crab, he scolded: "I'll tell you, I was the boss here before that sissy came, and now although Lao Tzu has given up the position of boss to him, in front of the two of you, Lao Tzu is still the boss!" How many times have I told you, telling you to either lose weight or go to the sun to tan yourself, you just don't listen, hide in the cave and eat and sleep, and now you have become this ghost, I asked you to be a bandit, not to paint the doll mascot back then! And you ......" He pointed to Zhang Fei who was hiding behind the fat man and said: "I don't want to talk about you, you said that you are quite big, and your courage is smaller than that of a mouse, the three of us look the most like bandits, but you are the most abrasive, and now there is a big village master on the left and a big village master to call, I see you, sooner or later you will become the same sissy as him!" ”

The fat man was caught in the middle and couldn't dodge, and he was so angry that he began to refute, but his tone was sticky, and listening to it only made the one-eyed even more angry: "Ahh You're a poisonous person! The master of Dazhai recruited you to provoke you, we all think that the master of Dazhai is good, we are all willing to listen to his anger, you are careful, you can't beat people and no one has money, and now you are still saying bad things about people behind your back, you be careful I will sue! ”

"Dead fat man, dead fat man......" The one-eyed man is very flexible, and he is angry and wants to fight, and after a few punches, he beat the fat man to the ground, riding on him and beating him hard, the fat man did not admit defeat, and fought back and scolded: "If you want to say that it is not like, the three of us who are least like bandits are you, do you think that you are the bandit leader one-eyed dragon when you wear an eye patch?" You see you're skinny, you're a monkey when you climb a tree, and you're a skinny dog when you hide in the grass! ”

One-eyed ripped off his blindfold, it turned out that both of his eyes were good, it was very inconvenient to be covered to see things, he suffered a little bit when two people did it, and was slapped several times by the fat man, he was furious, and wanted to fight to the death with the fat man, scolding: "Damn, I don't want the image of a bandit today, I want to fight to the death with you!" The two of them scolded and scolded, and they couldn't get along, and Zhang Fei shouted on the side: "Don't fight, oops, don't fight!" But he just stood far away, not daring to stop him.

Xiaoxiao looked at them in a daze, and almost forgot to hang herself.

A gust of evening wind blew, and Xiaoxiao's body shook and almost fell off the stone, and she reacted. Looking at the bandits who had come to rob but fought themselves, he sighed and thought, "How nice and happy it is to be so stupid like them!" ”

Xiaoxiao put a jade belt around her neck, kicked her feet, and closed her eyes.

Xiaoxiao was already skinny, the evening breeze blew her long hair and clothes, and her body was as light as fluttering, just swaying slightly in the afterphotos.