"It's getting dark, are your eyes okay?" The middle-aged woodcutter said with a worried face.

"Well, don't worry, I can, I can see a glimmer of light." Xu was because he had just worked too hard to concentrate his eyes to find acupuncture points for Wang Er, and at this time, in fact, Ruoxi had only recovered a little bit of light, and it had already been exhausted. But in order to make the woodcutter and Wang Er agree to make the trip as soon as possible, she still lied to him.

Hearing this, finally, the three of them began to walk down the mountain together.

However, as the saying goes, "It is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down, although it is laborious to go up the mountain, it is not easy to be dangerous, and it is very easy to lose your footing when you go down." ”

On the way down the mountain, the middle-aged woodcutter carried the groggy Wang Er on his back, tightly tied a rope made of a bundle of mountain vines cut down with a machete, and led Ruoxi, whose eyes at the other end had no trace of light, and walked hard and anxiously through the wooded, verdant, and rocky mountain paths.

As the weather got worse and worse, the middle-aged woodcutter involuntarily gradually quickened his pace.

Along the way, Ruoxi obviously couldn't keep up with the middle-aged woodcutter's footsteps more and more, and suddenly stepped on the air under his feet, only to hear a scream of "Ah......", the middle-aged woodcutter was frightened, turned around and hurriedly held him up and said with concern, "Are you okay?" Be careful! ”

However, in fact, the next Ruoxi is still stumbling into a situation. Sometimes he stepped on the air and shook his whole body, sometimes he was shocked when he touched a big tree, sometimes he slid into the forest stream and staggered, and sometimes his legs hit the rocks with a painful face......

But in order not to become a burden to others, let Wang Er go down the mountain safely as soon as possible, in the face of every time the middle-aged woodcutter looked back and cared, Ruoxi endured the pain on his body, shook his head with a smile and said, "I'm fine, let's go quickly!" ”

Just when he saw that there was only less than half of the distance left from the bottom of the mountain, the cumulus clouds in the sky became thicker and thicker, and the rolling thunder in his ears suddenly intensified, and the whistling mountain wind mixed with the raindrops suddenly began to rage wantonly, hitting people and making people feel painful, Ruoxi couldn't help but gently stroked his painful arm.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning suddenly exploded in the air, and it slashed down at a tall pine tree beside the middle-aged woodcutter.

I saw that the bark of the pine tree was torn off in an instant, leaving only the bare half of the trunk.

The tree above it was broken and broken by its waist, and it was mixed with flames, emitting a thick puff of black smoke, and smashed viciously down on the top of its head.

At this critical moment, I don't know if the chaotic Ruoxi suddenly regained her sense of light, or because her ear power has increased after being blind, I saw that she suddenly paused and listened quietly, and then stepped forward and used all her strength to push the middle-aged woodcutter who was only in a hurry but didn't notice it because he was in a hurry and fell to the ground.

The middle-aged woodcutter was suddenly pushed forward for no reason, and before he could react, he turned back to see what had happened, only to hear Ruoxi, who had long been separated from him, issue a loud warning: "Be careful!" ”。

When he turned around in a panic, he saw that Ruoxi's whole person had already rolled up the steep hillside under his feet with half of the body of the tree that was emitting black smoke and mixed with flames

rolled down, and in an instant people and trees disappeared, leaving only a mess behind them.

The middle-aged woodcutter looked at everything that was happening around him for a while, and was stunned by the scene in front of him.

I don't know how long he fell to the ground, staring at everything around him with a pair of surprised eyes, he held his breath, as if everything around him was no longer there in an instant, and he felt his ears buzzing. He couldn't believe that at this moment, it was such a thin woman's body that saved his and Wang Er's lives. And just now, even now, he still thinks that she is a blind person with a cripple.

The middle-aged woodcutter recalled all this to the present day with mixed feelings, and after a long time, he sat up slowly in a daze, as if he had just come to his senses, and then climbed to the edge of the hill, looking for a way down the hill in a hurry, but finally found that it was a steep slope that could not be stepped down.

So, as if instinctively, he panicked and screamed again and again at the bottom of the hill where Ruoxi had disappeared, "Girl, girl......"

At this moment, the middle-aged woodcutter seemed to be about to cry helplessly, and Wang Er, who was rescued from the ground with him, watched all this, a seven-foot man, but he had already cried on the ground and became a tearful man, his two fists kept slamming the ground, and he couldn't stop muttering and repeating himself, "It's all my fault, it's all because of me that all this happened......"

At this moment, the heavy rain had begun to float up from the air, wetting the middle-aged woodcutter's swarthy face, and waking up from the rain, he hesitantly looked down the hillside again, and then looked back at Wang Er, who was lying on the ground and was very weak.

Seeing that the sky was already dark, so, gritting his teeth and his heart, he clenched a big rough hand into a fist, slapped it fiercely on a big tree on the side of the hillside beside him, and sighed heavily, "Alas! Then he hurriedly got up, paced over and picked up Wang Er again, and galloped down the mountain.

At this moment, the Qin Palace, east of the city.

Under the persuasion and companionship of Cheng Liang, Xuanyuan Han finally packed up his mood and rushed back to the palace when night had just fallen and a light rain was falling.

As soon as he stepped off the horse, Xuanyuan Han's heart suddenly felt a pain like a knife, he couldn't help but pause and frown slightly, and then reached out and covered his strong chest heavily, and a cold face that was not angry and arrogant suddenly showed a trace of extreme discomfort.

When Cheng Liang saw it, he hurriedly stepped forward to hold it up, and said with concern, "Your Highness, are you okay?" ”

"It's fine!" Xuanyuan Han seemed to suddenly feel something in his heart, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it, but although he was so casual, Yun said lightly, but said in his heart, "Could it be her ......?"

When he cheered up again and walked into the Chenghua Hall with Cheng Liang, Lu Xian's father and son were already waiting in the hall. In addition, there were two minions from the palace sent by the emperor to escort him.

As soon as Xuanyuan Han came in, the father and son and the two palace people hurriedly stepped forward and saluted him respectfully:

"Old man, see His Royal Highness King Qin, Chitose, Chitose, Chitose!"

"Tianlin see His Royal Highness King Qin, Chitose, Chitose, Chitose!"

"Slave see His Royal Highness King Qin, Chitose, Chitose,

Chichitose! ”

"Get up!" Xuanyuan Han stepped forward and sat down, and said coldly to everyone in the hall.

"Why are you here? What is it in your hand? Xuanyuan Han suddenly raised his eyes, caught a glimpse of Lu Xian holding what seemed to be a painting scroll in his hand, and asked.

Lu Xian then raised it high above his head with both hands, and raised his voice and said deliberately: "The old man is on the order of my emperor, and he specially came to personally send a painting to His Royal Highness King Qin. ”

"Send a painting to the king? This king is in the early court today, why didn't he listen to the royal brother talk about it in the palace? What is the painting? Cheng Liang, take it. Xuanyuan Han pretended to be puzzled.

"Yes!" Cheng Liang took the order and walked to Lu Xian's side to take it, and then went back and respectfully handed it to Xuanyuan Han.

"What is this?" Unexpectedly, although Xuanyuan Han saw the posture in front of him, he had some numbers in his heart. However, when he opened it to draw the scroll, he still couldn't help but be stunned by the content of the starry eyes.

At this time, Lu Xianfang opened his mouth and slowly explained, "This is the portrait of Ruoxi Girl, the guardian of Western Qin, who was handed over to the old man for seventeen years to finally restore it recently. ”

"Portrait of a Guardian? The guardians of Western Qin have been protecting the Son of Heaven of Western Qin for generations, what does this have to do with this king? What do you mean by showing this to the king? Xuanyuan Han asked coldly.

Lu Xian immediately said with a serious face, "Pass on the emperor's message, and the king of Qin will accept the order." ”

When Xuanyuan Han heard the sound, he hurriedly walked down and bowed down with everyone in the hall and bowed to him, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Lu Xian said, "The guardian of Western Qin has been lost for many years, and it is a great pity. It has even caused internal and external troubles and natural disasters in our Western Qin Kingdom over the years. Therefore, finding the guardian is a major matter for the Xuanyuan royal family, and it is incumbent on him. In order to ensure that the Western Qin can bring peace to the country and the people, I am now ordering the King of Qin to spare no effort and do his best to find the missing guardians. ”

Xuanyuan Han: "Minister, obey the holy decree!" ”

At this time, Lu Tianlin took out another scroll from his body and handed it over to his father Lu Xian.

Lu Xian immediately said to Xuanyuan Han earnestly, "Your Highness, the little girl is deeply loved by the princess and her mother, and she has been with her in the palace for some time, and the old man misses it very much. I was bored last night, and I made this portrait of the little girl from memory, and I ask His Royal Highness to transfer this to the little girl, so as to send her lovesickness, and I am not very grateful. ”

Xuanyuan Han was silent about this, and Cheng Liang hurriedly stepped forward to take it for him.

Lu Xian looked at the sky outside the window and said, "It's not too early, the old man has to go back to the palace to report to my emperor, so I will leave, and I hope Your Highness will take care!" As soon as he finished speaking, the two palace people followed Lu Xian's father and son as if they were watching, and the four of them paced together and left in a hurry.

Looking at his distant back, Xuanyuan Han looked suspicious: Lu Xian today is not such a childlike person, and Lu Tianjiao has frequent correspondence with Xiqin Academy on weekdays.

This time, Lu Tianjiao only lived in the Qin Palace, and he only lived for more than half a month, thinking that when the concubine was alive in the past, even if she lived in the palace for more than half a year, Lu Xian seemed to turn a blind eye, how could this be the case now.

With a flick of his eyes, he suddenly saw Cheng Liang rolling up the portrait of the guardian spread out on the case, holding the scroll that Lu Xian gave to Lu Tianjiao in his hand and was about to leave, Xuanyuan Han hurriedly stopped him and said, "Wait......"