"How can you think that?" Lou Xue heard his apprentice and said with great sincerity, "Senior Brother Wen of Qinglong Pavilion has led six disciples, but none of them have been able to stop the design of the Yellow Cliff Gang leader, I'm just worried about you." If you go head-to-head, they may not be your opponent, and I'm afraid they'll just come to the shadows......"

The temperament of the famous and upright people is arrogant, but Zong Mingze is not only arrogant, but also careful and cautious. The little girl in front of him said this with some flattery, but it clearly pointed out the worry in his heart.

He and the other five disciples who came to investigate were likely to follow in Wen Shou's footsteps if they continued like this.

Since the other party is the leader of the Yellow Cliff Gang, he will never care which young master he is.

He couldn't help but glance at Ding Ruoyu more.

"The Yellow Cliff Gang has already formed a grudge with you, and they will not give up, so why should they care about these few days?" Ding Ruoyu saw that he had a tendency to relax, and continued, "We ultimately want to defeat the other party, if we rush back to Yanguo as soon as possible, maybe we can get some help." ”

Even Lou Xue said to him helplessly in the back: "Let's go together, we won't be alone, and we will take care of each other." ”

Zong Mingze seemed to be waiting for her words, and when she finished speaking, he smiled slightly and finally nodded.

After returning to the room, Ding Ruoyu sorted out his bags for the next day, rubbed his frozen hands and climbed onto the bed, and got into Lou Xue's arms to keep warm.

Lou Xue was so excited by her that she knocked lightly on the door of her head.

"Working with others is what Master told me." Ding Ruoyu hugged her soft waist and buried her face in her arms, her voice muffled.

Lou Xue was stunned, the corners of her mouth rose unconsciously, her fingers gently combed her long black and soft hair, and said quietly: "I know why my senior brother fell in love with you." ”

Ding Ruoyu crawled out and looked at her blankly, his face full of disbelief.

"What's the matter, little apprentice?" Lou Xue was also taken aback by her reaction.

"Master said he, he ......" Ding Ruoyu said with difficulty, no matter what, he couldn't say that word.

"You don't know what he wants for you, do you?" Lou Xue pondered her demeanor and said slowly.

Ding Ruoyu shook his head vigorously.

Lou Xue laughed, pulled her to lie down, looked up at the bed tent and said, "I have never seen someone with such a temperament as him, who can be so attentive to any woman." Do you know how much he secretly arranged for you? ”

Ding Ruoyu lowered his eyes. There are many things she can't see or touch, but she understands that she can live safe and sound to this day because of him. His methods are indeed intolerable at times, but they are all for her.

"At the age of fifteen, Li Yun was regarded as a god by the emperor because of his three-line magic, and he was named a great teacher. In terms of appearance and mind, they are all first-class, and it stands to reason that women should be indispensable around him. But after so many years, except for a dead princess's fiancée, I have never heard of him being close to any girl. Lou Xue smiled bitterly, "Aren't you strange?" ”

Ding Ruoyu looked at her side face, the lines were soft and beautiful under the dim light, and she couldn't help but quietly reach out and hug her.

What she said was undoubtedly an insoluble mystery in her heart.

"When I went to see him a few times later, he only told me that the person he was waiting for hadn't grown up yet." Lou Xue took her in her arms and patted her back, "Until he brought you to Caihualou to see me, I understood at a glance that the person he was talking about was you." ”

"He doesn't seem to like me," Ding Ruoyu said softly, "the kind between men and women." ”

"You don't understand," Lou Xue whispered in her ear, "Sometimes, the woman is asked to take the initiative." He's a dead duck with a hard mouth, so we're going to turn our fingers around and make him admit little by little......"

When she talked about the strategies in this regard, one by one, Ding Ruoyu was dumbfounded.

"Master, you haven't had a lot of good relationships, have you?" Ding Ruoyu was not paying attention and said what was in his heart.

"Your master, what ...... I," Lou Xue snorted, "I've lived for twenty-four years, and I haven't gotten along with a man, I've always been alone, and I can't be more chic...... In the blink of an eye, she became an old girl......"

In the end, her voice became weaker and weaker, and she completely lost her confidence.

"But! I also watched the sisters of the music shop around me come over, and I also know a lot about the doorways with soft intestines and nine bends and eighteen bends. She hurriedly explained, "You listen to me, you listen to me, you must be right!" ”

Ding Ruoyu smiled extremely perfunctorily.

"Don't worry, Master and I will definitely arrive on your wedding day!" Lou Xue raised her hand and promised.

The expression on Ding Ruoyu's face stiffened, even she knew that there was this marriage, if it wasn't for that time Youlan said that she leaked her mouth, I was afraid that Lihong would hide it from her until the incident.

Is a dead duck hard-mouthed? Ding Ruoyu smiled secretly, that person may be the type who doesn't like to express real emotions......

After dawn, the team of peers grew even stronger. Except for Ding Ruoyu and Lou Xue, no one else has ever been to Yanguo. Zong Mingze heard that the desert environment was extremely harsh, so he hired two carriages and prepared a lot of drinking and water tools, for fear of encountering any accidents.

"Don't be so exaggerated...... "Lou Xue Dao, "There is a shortcut to enter the Yan Country, there are actually not many desert areas on the way, and it is cumbersome to bring more things." ”

At her suggestion, everyone had to remove a lot of supplies and drive west along Duyun Mountain.

As the sun grew, they did not completely relax their vigilance on the road, paying attention to the wind and grass on the way, in case the Yellow Cliff Gang secretly caught up and played a sneak attack.

In the carriage, Lu Xianda patiently wiped his face and combed his hair for his wife, muttered something to her, and suddenly raised his face again, and said to Ding Ruoyu on the other side: "Can your witch emperor cure my wife?" ”

Being asked so coldly by him, Ding Ruoyu was stunned for a moment before saying, "I have to ask him himself." ”

Lu Xianda rolled his eyes at her, and continued to mumble to the unconscious Mrs. Lu.

All the way through the border of Yuguo, turning the mountain, everyone came to the edge of a desert.

Ding Ruoyu got out of the car, rode on the little red horse, and wrapped his head and face tightly with a shawl with Lou Xue, and let others cover it.

"The wind and sand are too big, so follow us, and be careful not to fall into the quicksand pit when you get ahead." Although Lou Xue has only been here once or twice, she also knows that this road is not easy to walk. Ding Ruoyu is more experienced than her, and has already ridden forward to lead the way.

Although this section is full of wind and sand, the ground is not difficult to walk, and there are still a canopy of low gray-green plants growing around. Walking along the hills of different sizes on both sides, the plants became less and less, and they became some rare xerophytic succulents.

The master who drove the carriage refused to go any further when he was at the border of Yuguo, and Zong Mingze refused to give him more silver, and finally sold the carriage to them, which was driven by two disciples of the Qinglong Pavilion.

There were only three people in the car, Zhu Gan and Lao Lu, Zong Mingze followed closely behind Lou Xue's master and apprentice, followed by Duan Hongzhu, and the other three disciples rode horses around the car, their eyes full of surprise at the environment here.

The ground cracked inch by inch under the horses' hooves, and sparse strange grass grew in the cracks, and further on, the wind struck, rolling up the fine and hot yellow sand, and they were caught off guard and almost unable to breathe.

The sand was soft, the horses' hooves were slumped, and the march of the people slowed down. There was a piece of yellow sand in front of him, monotonous and unsightly, and the cold sun of Yuguo had become scorching hot here, roasting the mouth dry, and the whole body was hot but could not sweat.

Zong Mingze didn't walk through the desert at first, he didn't think so, but now that he had suffered this crime, he regretted that he came with them so easily.

Ahead, Lou Xue straightened himself in a shawl like a zongzi, seemed to guess his thoughts, and didn't reply: "Some pampered young masters, if they can't endure hardship, they might as well hide in the carriage and let others pull them away." ”

Even if he had this heart, he would not be embarrassed to say it again.

Ding Ruoyu also glanced back at him, as if he deliberately wanted to see his expression of crying and laughing after being deflated.

Another gust of wind blew, blowing the cloth towel on his face, and he noticed that he was also covering his head, face, mouth and nose, and the other party couldn't see anything at all.

"At this rate, there will be no accident, and tomorrow at noon, you can leave the desert and come to the wilderness." Ding Ruoyu looked at the sky and turned around again to face everyone.

"What, we're going to walk for a day and a night in this place where the bird doesn't pull X?" Duan Hongzhu wailed, only to feel that the horse under the seat was walking as slowly as a turtle, and his face was full of despair.

"What's it called? It's already fast. If you go elsewhere, you won't be able to get out of the desert for several days. Lou Xue scolded, afraid that everyone would not be able to lift their spirits, and added, "Out of the desert, we can reach the Agni City after walking for two or three days, and we are all energetic, and the people of the Yellow Cliff Gang are still waiting for us to go back and clean up!" ”

The last sentence finally encouraged everyone.

"Lao Zhu, if you go back alive, you have to brag to them for a while!" Duan Hongzhu turned to Zhu Gan in the carriage and said, "We are also people who have been to the desert, and we are different from them......

Several disciples of the Blue Dragon Pavilion also glanced at each other and participated in their conversation.

The lifelessness of Fang Cai's first entry into the desert was swept away, and as the topic increased, the fear and resistance to the unknown in everyone's hearts gradually disappeared.

On this day, there was hardly a pause to rest. In the middle of the moon, the temperature plummeted, and everyone gathered their horses together, took turns to take a nap in the car, and then moved forward again after sunrise.

A desolate stretch of yellow sand is dotted with scattered quinoa, adding a continuing greenery to this endless yellow. Zong Mingze became curious, led the horse to stop next to one of the plants, and reached out to pick it, Ding Ruoyu hurriedly shouted: "That grass is poisonous!" ”

Zong Mingze retracted his hand, stepped on his horse and hurried to the side of the large team and said, "I didn't expect that there was such grass in the desert. ”

"You don't know much!" Before Ding Ruoyu could say anything, Lou Xue stepped on him, and the shawl couldn't stop her disdain.

"Sister Lou is right." Zong Mingze smiled good-naturedly and didn't take her words to heart at all.