Chapter 79: Mountains and Forests in the Distance
After lunch the next day, Li Ran went out of the door, went straight to the Eight Immortals Building, sat in the private room, held a cup of tea, looked at the sun outside the window, the sun set, and sat until the street was full of lights, before coming out of the Eight Immortals Building, walking as a car, and going to the alley.
There were still more than ten steps away from the mouth of the alley, and Li Ran saw Xie Ze standing in front of the noodle restaurant at the mouth of the alley.
Li Ran walked a few steps, stood four or five steps away from Xie Ze, and looked up at him.
For the first time, she felt him standing there, helpless.
"What's wrong?" Xie Ze looked at Li Ran, who paused for a moment before approaching, frowning slightly.
"Yesterday, Old Madam Shen talked to me a lot." Li Ran approached Xie Ze and looked up at him.
Xie Ze's eyes narrowed slightly.
Li Ran took another half step forward, got very close to him, stretched out his hand, and gently grabbed Xie Ze's sleeve with two fingers.
Xie Ze looked down at her for a moment, then turned around and walked into the deep alley, "Drinking?" ”
"Hmm!" Li Ran snorted, grabbed Xie Ze's sleeve with two fingers, followed in, and turned into the alley.
Passing through the alley, Xie Ze turned around and walked to the door of the small restaurant, didn't go in, turned his head and ordered Shi Nan and the others, who were more than ten steps behind, "Get some wine and come out." ”
Shi Nan responded, brought two small servants, carried two small bamboo chairs, and moved a small white wooden table out, and put a wine jug and two wine glasses on the small table.
Li Ran sat down with Xie Ze, watched Xie Ze pick up the wine jug, reached out and picked up a cup and handed it over, Xie Ze first poured half a glass of wine in her cup, then poured herself a glass, took a sip, Li Ran also slowly sipped the wine.
Outside the dim lantern halo of the small dining shop, the two sat side by side on small bamboo chairs, facing the lotus flowers in the lake not far away, in the breeze, the fragrance of the lotus, and the faint smell of the lake, slowly drinking wine.
It's getting quieter and quieter. It's getting more and more lively.
In the distance, the scolding of a mother-in-law gradually became inaudible, and the mourning and crying of a woman not far away also disappeared into the darkness, and the cries of several children gradually subsided, and the surrounding voices were silent.
The insects chirped louder and louder, and the frogs sang loudly, reveling in the night.
In the distance, the bells of the Bell and Drum Tower were wrapped in the night, with a bit of dullness, and a sound came.
"Let's go back." Xie Ze stood up and staggered forward.
Li Ran drank less, but he was also a little drunk, reached out and grabbed Xie Ze's sleeve, stood up, looked up at Xie Ze, and laughed non-stop.
"Go back, let someone bring you a bowl of sobering soup, drink it and then go to sleep."
Xie Ze put a finger on Li Ran's shoulder, pushed her to turn around, watched her move while twisting her head to look at him, waved his hand, and watched Li Ran get into the car, Xie Ze took the reins and got on the horse.
Xie Ze got off the horse at the gate of the mansion, and as soon as he entered the second gate, the steward who was waiting for the white tiger hurriedly greeted him, and lowered his hand to report: "General, General Tiger only ate half a chicken today, and at this moment, he was lying on his stomach at the gate of the courtyard and refused to enter the house." ”
Xie Ze was stunned, pushed away the steward, and hurried forward.
The white tiger was lying on the wild flowers and wild grass at the gate of Xie Ze's yard, and when he saw Xie Ze hurrying over, he staggered to his feet, took two steps, roared lowly, and lay on the ground again.
Xie Ze rushed over in a few steps, sat down beside the white tiger, reached out to hug the white tiger, and put his face on its head.
The white tiger stuck out his tongue and licked his hand gently.
"General, General Tiger, I'm afraid it's going to return to the mountains and forests."
Standing among the tiger attendants around the white tiger with his hands down, the middle-aged man in the lead took a step forward, looked at Xie Ze, and said cautiously.
Xie Ze turned his head to look at the middle-aged man, looked at it for a moment, turned his head, lowered his head, and put his face on the white tiger's head again, tears raining down.
The white tiger roared, raised his head, looked at Xie Ze, stretched out his tongue, and licked Xie Ze's face with tears a few times.
Xie Ze wiped a few handfuls of tears, next to the white tiger, his head rested on the white tiger's shoulder, as if he was sitting and sleeping, sitting straight until the dawn was almost dawn, and the white tiger was lying beside him, sleeping deeply, snoring.
Xie Ze stood up cautiously, and ordered in a low voice to the few tiger attendants who had been standing beside him with their hands down, "Wait well." After a pause, he continued: "Prepare to prepare, I will go to the palace and come back, and I will set off for the mountains." ”
A few tiger attendants nodded and bowed.
Xie Ze entered the courtyard, quickly washed up and changed his clothes, came out and got on the horse, and went straight to Miyagi.
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The prince watched Xie Ze go out, his face was gloomy, and he twisted his eyebrows and instructed the little chamberlain, "Look who is waiting by Lin Feng's side and call in." ”
The little waiter agreed, rushed out, and came back in a moment, Shi Nan followed behind the little waiter, kneeling down to salute.
"In the past two or three years, I have been very worried, if the day when the white tiger returns to the mountains and forests, what else in this world can leave Lin Feng behind."
The prince looked at Shi Nan, and his tone was slow, word by word.
Heather choked in her throat and tears welled up in her eyes, which was also their concern.
"Now, your general, it's different, isn't it?"
Without waiting for Shi Nan to answer, the prince continued: "Find a way, let that one go with Lin Feng." ”
"Yes." Shi Nan hung his head and agreed.
Exiting the main hall, Shi Nan went straight out, and when he arrived outside the palace gate, he hurriedly called his little servant over, and commanded in a low voice: "You go to General Zhou E Zhou and tell her." ”
Shi Nan paused and sorted out his thoughts.
"Let her and the fourth lady say, general, our general, go out of Weizhoumen...... Let her tell the fourth lady, let the fourth lady hurry up to find our general outside the gate of Weizhou, the sooner the better, and tell General Zhou to let her follow the fourth lady, and also, about a while outside. ”
The little guy was confused by Shi Nan's explanation, but he remembered these words, sorted them out, and repeated them quickly, seeing Shi Nan nodded, he rushed out to find Zhou E.
Before Li Ran got up, she was woken up by Zhou E, frowning and looking at Zhou E who was frowning, "You? ”
She had a lot of alcohol last night.
"Hurry up, say that General Xie is out of Weizhou Gate, let you hurry up and catch up with him, hurry up, I'm afraid something will happen......"
Before Zhou E finished speaking, Li Ran had already rolled out of bed, "Where are my clothes!" ”
The girl on duty hurriedly brought in the clothes and waited for her to get dressed in a hurry.
Mama Fu also came in, and saw that Li Ran was already in a hurry to get dressed, and while hurriedly ordering to hurry up and prepare to wash, she looked up at Zhou E, who looked stern.
Zhou E met her gaze and said in a low voice: "I don't know, just those two or three sentences, I have to be outside for a while, and Mama looks at the arrangement." ”
"Hmm." Mama Fu hummed in a low voice, turned around and went out, hurriedly wrapped a bag of snacks, and just grabbed a few pieces of clothes, but before they were wrapped, Li Ran had already rushed out of the house.
"Here you go." Mama Fu couldn't care about the neatness, so she hurriedly followed out, tied the burden indiscriminately, and stuffed the burden that was only stuffed with a bag of snacks and two or three clothes to Zhou E.
Zhou E took it and followed closely with the meteor.
Outside, the sun was just about to show its face.
Outside the gate of the Marquis of Chang'an, the two horses were still preparing, Zhou E took a horse first, sorted it out, and handed the reins to Li Ran, Li Ran stepped on the horse stone and got on the horse, watched Zhou E get on the horse, followed Zhou E, and went to the Weizhou Gate.
On the street, the porter and hawker who carried and pushed a full load of goods trotted all the way, and there was already a lot of water.
Li Ran's equestrian skills are not proficient, and in such a street where there are already many people, he can't run a horse, so he can only trot slowly between the heavily burdened porter and pedestrians and the pedestrians who get up early.
Li Ran was so anxious that she sweated one after another.
How is he? What happened? Will she be able to catch up?
Li Ran looked up at Zhou E in front of her.
Zhou E looked very calm, well, in the Taiping Capital here, in peacetime, there should be no life and death, she will definitely be able to catch up.
He's going to be fine!
Li Ran forcibly suppressed his mind, followed Zhou E, and when he finally got out of Weizhou Gate, the sun had almost jumped overhead.
Out of the city gate, Li Ran rode like a fly, crossed Zhou E, and hurried forward, Zhou E raised her eyebrows and looked at her, and after a while, the horse followed.
Seven or eight miles away from the city gate, Shi Nan was behind the cart where Bai Hu and Xie Ze were sitting, and he glanced behind him from time to time.
The cart in the middle of the group was very spacious, with indigo curtains hanging on three sides, and when the wind blew, the curtains were slightly raised, but they only blocked the view.
On the front side, the curtain was rolled up high, Xie Ze leaned against the pillar of the carport, bent one leg, the white tiger was lying on the car, his chin was resting on Xie Ze's other leg, snoring from time to time, as if he was asleep.
Xie Ze took a yellow wooden comb and slowly combed the white tiger's hair, his expression gloomy and dazed.
He never thought about what he would do after the white tiger returned to the old mountain forest, he didn't want to think about it, and now, he still didn't want to think about it......
"General!" Shi Nan saw Li Ran and Zhou E galloping over, his eyes were shining, and he immediately urged the horse to take a step forward and signaled to Xie Ze.
Xie Ze patted the white tiger, leaned out of the car, and turned his head to look behind.
Li Ran even led the horses with men, and there was only a shot away from the carriage.
Xie Ze could clearly see Li Ran dressed in Ai Green and riding on a white horse, at this moment, Li Ran was stepping on the horse, standing up on the galloping horse, and looked at him anxiously.
Li Ran's horse ran very fast, Xie Ze looked at her standing on the horse's pedal, as if she was going to rush straight at him, stretched out her hand to pull the eaves of the carport, and stood up with a breath.
Li Ran had already seen Xie Ze, urged the horse again, rushed to the side of the cart, looked at Xie Ze, but failed to restrain the horse, and even led the horse, crossed Xie Ze, and rushed forward.
Shi Nan hurriedly rode his horse to follow, parallel to Li Ran, stared at Li Ran holding the reins firmly in her hand, watched her stop the horse hard, breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly turned around and gestured at Xie Ze, signaling that Li Ran was fine.
The horse stopped, Li Ran jumped off the horse, threw the reins, and ran towards Xie Ze's cart.
Xie Ze had already jumped out of the car, twisting his eyebrows and looking at Li Ran, who was sweating profusely and his upper clothes were soaked with sweat, "Why are you here?" ”
Without waiting for Li Ran to answer, Xie Ze looked at Shi Nan from Zhou E, Shi Nan had already dismounted, met Xie Ze's gaze, and knelt on the ground on one knee, "It's the prince......
"Where are you going?" Li Ran reached out and grabbed Xie Ze's sleeve, and looked from Xie Ze to the white tiger lying in the cart, the old one had no majesty, and looked up at her.
"I'll go with you!" Li Ran looked at Xie Ze again, and his tone was firm.
Xie Ze looked at Li Ran, was silent for a moment, hummed, jumped into the car, stretched out his hand to pull Li Ran up, and sat on the other side of him.
The white tiger looked at Li Ran and roared in a low voice, Xie Ze patted it gently, bent down and hugged it, the white tiger's roar went down, gradually became a snoring, moved, was comfortable, and no longer paid attention to Li Ran.
Li Ran poked his head out from Xie Ze's side and looked at the white tiger carefully.
This white tiger is too old.
"Wipe it." Xie Ze handed a handkerchief to Li Ran, his upper body leaned back slightly, looked sideways at the hair scattered from Li Ran's sideburns, and raised his hand to press back the golden hairpin on her head that was slanted down.
Li Ran wiped the sweat from her face, looked down at her wet clothes from the inside out, and carried the sweaty placket of the outermost long gown, leaned over and smelled it.
"It's fine." Xie Ze looked at Li Ran, who had a disgusted look on his face.
Li Ran was a little embarrassed, but it was okay, still!
"Drink some soup." Xie Ze gestured. Li Ran took a large cup of soup handed over by the little guy next to her, drank it in one go, and then remembered that she didn't seem to wipe her teeth.
"Have you had breakfast?" Xie Ze watched Li Ran drink another bowl, and asked while gesturing to the little servant.
"Nope." Li Ran never felt hungry, but when Xie Ze asked her, her hunger suddenly came out, and she seemed to have not eaten dinner yesterday.
Li Ran took the small tray with edges handed to her by the little servant, looked at the excellent buns wrapped in the tray, shredded chicken porridge, and two emerald and attractive shaking vegetables, and looked up at Xie Ze, "What about you?" ”
Xie Ze hummed plausibly, reached out and took a bun from the small tray placed in front of Li Ran.
Shi Nan leaned over and looked at the horse, secretly relieved, and hurriedly motioned for Huaizhi to add a few more buns and a bowl of porridge.
The two ate, Xie Ze moved, and then slowly combed the white tiger, Li Ran bent his legs, his chin rested on his knees, and looked at Xie Ze who was combing the white tiger with a good look.
Next to him, Zhou E, who was riding on a horse and parallel to Shi Nan, finished eating the last bun, sighed with satisfaction, and glanced at the two people in the cart again, and the corners of her mouth pulled down.
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