Under the bright moon, between the mountains and rivers, and on the Qianshan Lake, there are boats searching back and forth.

Gu Chuyu stood on the big boat in the middle of the lake, his wide sleeves swaggered with the wind, the river wind blew people's hearts uneasy, and there were thousands of sails in front of him, but there was still no news of her.

The Xie family's ship had been found today, and it was just an abandoned empty boat, drifting to the shore of an empty island, with no trace of her on it.

Xingyun walked up to the bow of the boat and said: "Master, there is news from the capital, King Yu with a thousand forbidden troops from Shangjing to the east by boat, it should arrive tomorrow, they are holding His Majesty's edict in their hands, and the prefect of Xinyang asked the master if he wanted to intercept it." ”

"Let him come, a thousand more, as long as you can find her......"

This lake is as vast as the sea in sight, Gu Chuyu looked at the lake and asked, "Where is the other side?" ”

Xingyun said: "Back to the master, north of Yuezhou." ”

An official hurriedly found the boat and presented the document with both hands: "Prime Minister, urgent military report, Xia Guo has stationed 100,000 troops on the border, and wants His Majesty to let the prince of Xia Guo leave Daning, and Your Majesty will let the Prime Minister return to Beijing to discuss this matter quickly." ”

Gu Chuyu didn't plan to accept the paperwork, and said lightly without looking back: "Tell Your Majesty that there is no room for compromise in this matter, and when the prime minister finds someone, the corpse can be considered to be returned to them." ”

The wind was blowing strongly on the top of the mountain, and Mei Xiaoren looked at the lake in the distance, as if he saw a boat there...... There is light......

Are they looking for someone to commit it, or are they looking for her?

Mei Xiaoren thought for a moment, and his shoulders sank, and he saw that Qingying had turned his head and leaned lightly on her shoulder.

"My lord, Qingying is unfortunate in this life, the only fortunate thing is to meet an adult, Qingying knows that she is not worthy of an adult, I can reunite with an adult today, let Qingying look at the adult again, Qingying is already satisfied."

Mei Xiaoren was uncomfortable, she wanted to retreat, she wanted to avoid, but when she heard a woman say such a thing, her heart was somewhat touched, or resonated.

She also thought that it would be nice to see him again.

If she still has the life to go back, from now on, she will be right to him as she loves, no matter what he thinks or thinks, just like Qingying, he doesn't care if he can be together, he just wants to be good for her and wants to see her, and it is enough for him to be satisfied.

In the same way, what does it have to do with whether she loves or not, whether he likes her to be a woman or not? The lord of Haoyang County dared to break into the Prime Minister's Mansion at the age of sixteen, and even Ji Nanrou dared to send things behind her father's back, why didn't she even have the courage to face it.

Mei Xiaoren looked at the person leaning on her shoulder, and no longer intended to refuse. After tomorrow, whether it is life or death, it will be difficult to meet again, and she doesn't want to ruthlessly erase the only fortunate thing in Qingying's heart.

They sat on the ground under the starry sky, which reminded Mei Xiaoren of when he was in Jinshan Academy, he promised to accept her as a student, put down political affairs to accompany her, and stayed in the academy for several months. He never showed up in the academy, but only waited for her on the Star Picking Cliff, accompanied her to practice swords, and reasoned with her.

Now he seems to rarely tell her what to do as an official, and he helps her do the errands she can't finish; The boss was difficult, so he forced people to return to his hometown and handed over the entire Shangjing Prefecture Office to her......

He is so good to her, but why did he do so many things that the world criticized when facing Daning, such as accusations of speech, heavy punishment, no matter whether he was loyal or treacherous, as long as it hindered the affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he would get rid of it.

She still doesn't understand why he values power so much, does he like to play with power?

Why doesn't she feel like it?

Qingying was still leaning on her shoulder, but she didn't sleep. Mei Xiaoren asked curiously: "Qingying, why are you in the Flowing Fire Gang, don't you have a family?" ”

Qingying shook her head and sighed: "My father and mother died early, I was sold to the Qinglou by creditors when I was a teenager, and I only accidentally joined the Flowing Fire Gang the year before last. ”

"Don't say that, as long as you want to leave, you can live again after you go out, and you can do whatever you want." Mei Xiaoren hugged his knees, looked into the distance, and smiled slightly, "If I can get out alive this time, I will get along with someone well, don't think much about anything, just be good to him." ”

"Is it a girl?"

"No, it's a son, he was kind to me and saved my life."

Even if she said this, Qingying still had a smile on her face, and she didn't mind what kind of love was between her and the son, she only said: "Qingying will definitely help the adults get out of here." ”

"I still want to come back to arrest the prince of Xia Kingdom, he killed the people of Daning, I sentenced him to death, I can't let him leave safely." Mei Xiaoren frowned and asked again, "At that time, were you still here?" ”

She brought the officers and soldiers over, the scene must be chaotic, she was afraid of accidentally injuring Qingying, after all, Qingying's nature is not bad, what she did in the past was just involuntarily.

Qingying smiled lightly, "Adults only need to do what adults want to do, don't worry about me." ”

After Mei Xiaoren calmed down, she didn't think much about it, she didn't even know if she had the life to go out, and what was she going to talk about.

The next day at noon.

Qingying went down the mountain early in the morning to investigate the situation, and Mei Xiaoren was still waiting at the top of the mountain.

The sky was clear, and Mei Xiaoren looked at the lake, and he could vaguely see that there were boats on it, as small as a grain of dust.

After a while, Qingying came, brought her some food, and told her that the boat had been arranged, and she could leave for the mountain in a while.

The pastries and porridge she ate at noon today were all from Qingying's hands, and they were all the flavors of Jiangnan. After eating, Qingying took her down the hill, around Zhuangzi, and walked to the mountain where she had come and gone, and on the other side of the mountain was the lake.

Qingying was silent all the way, with her hands in her sleeves, and she turned her eyes to look at Mei Xiaoren from time to time. Mei Xiaoren was wearing the red clothes of the Flowing Fire Gang, but the hairpin on his head was his own, she had seen it, and it was a plum blossom engraved on it, and she was very impressed.

Mei Xiaoren inadvertently blinked her eyes and met Qingying's gaze, she found that Qingying's eyes seemed to have tears, maybe because she was reluctant.

The trees in the col are lush, Mei Xiaoren walked for a while, and the front gradually opened up, and he could still hear the sound of waves crashing on the shore, and he knew that he had reached the lake.

The two of them walked out of the mountain pass, and Mei Xiaoren's heart was full of joy for the rest of her life, but this joy dissipated after a while, because what she saw was not a boat that could carry her out of danger, but a group of stray fire gangs with knives waiting for her to appear.

Dozens of men in red surrounded them, and the knives in their hands were pointed straight at her.

Mei Xiaoren wanted to call Qingying to be careful, but when she saw Qingying walking towards the gang with a calm face, she turned to look at her when she walked behind them, and said indifferently: "My lord, I'm sorry." ”

Mei Xiaoren didn't know why, but suddenly heard someone laughing a few times, she turned her eyes and saw the prince of Xia Kingdom coming out from behind a tree on the shore and walking to Qingying's side. He was followed by another woman, who was also laughing.

The woman said: "Sister Qingying, you really know the current affairs, okay, for the sake of you handing over the spy, the master of this hall will spare you from death." ”

Mei Xiaoren remembered that she had seen this woman yesterday, when she was just standing at the head of the maids, and today she became the hall master?