After the first snowfall, it has been more than ten days.

The good news that was laughing at the beginning did not appear, but the bad news came one after another.

The scholars who originally stayed with Mrs. Wen have returned to Kyoto one after another under the leadership of other gentlemen.

Their original study tour plan has been completed, and there is no need to continue to delay time at the border gates.

What's more, now that the border war is suspended, no one knows when the war will be ignited again.

They should have gone back just to be on the safe side.

The snowflakes fell one after another, and after one night, the whole city of Meaux became a snow-paved city.

When Ah Yu pushed open the window, the cold of winter rushed in through the open window, blowing away the warmth of the charcoal fire in the room. She put her hand out the window, and snowflakes quickly fell into her palms.

The warmth of the body melted into a small pool of water, dripping down the fingertips between the window lattices.

"Girl......" Aoba stood behind Ah Yu, his eyes full of worry, but he didn't dare to persuade as bluntly as before.

It was probably because Ah Yu was too thin at this time, as if a gust of cold wind could blow her away.

Ah Yu withdrew his hand and turned to look at Aoba: "What time is it now?" ”

Aoba replied, "It's almost noon now......"

Ah Yu thought for a moment and said, "Those people should be sent to Yulin Pass to sacrifice the souls of the dead!" ”

Before she came to Meaux, the centuries-old city had closed her gates to remove the cysts from it.

Whether it was Ah Yu or the person in charge of cleaning up, they all thought that the city had become clean.

However, when Jin Xinyan recognized what he had done and identified his companions who had betrayed together, they found that there were still many people hiding in the city.

Those who were supposed to be beheaded at noon were transferred to Yulin Pass, where they were to be sacrificed together with the barbarians.

There was a sudden knock on the door outside the house, and Ah Yu looked for a voice, and saw Qingrui wandering at the door with an excited expression.

She paused and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

It was as if something unexpected had happened suddenly.

Otherwise, Qingrui, who always appears silently by her side on weekdays, suddenly began to learn to knock on the door.

Qingrui walked forward quickly, and Ah Yu realized that she was followed by another subordinate.

Ah Yu frowned, very confused by Qingrui's behavior of directly bringing people in.

It's someone who wants to report the news to her, which time it wasn't Aoba and Qingrui who told her, when will they bring people directly to her!

The person who came was wearing very ordinary clothes, and he lowered his head so that people couldn't see the other party's appearance clearly, judging from his height and body shape alone, the other party should be a man.

Ah Yu's gaze moved down slightly, and he found that there were obvious scratches on the man's clothes, and the color was darker than the color on the clothes, and it looked very fresh, as if it had only been on it for a long time.

None of the people who replied in front of the master had cleaned themselves up, but this one appeared in her yard with a body of dust.

Naturally, the identity is very suspicious.

Qingrui knew that Ah Yu had never liked to let outsiders wait by her side, even if she had lived in Meaux for several months, the only people who could usually get close to her were her and Aoba, and her favorite thing in her daily life was to be alone.

When I entered the door, I saw that there were only two people in the room, Aoba and Ayu, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He said, "Girl, who is this?" ”

As soon as her words fell, the unidentified subordinate had already raised his head.

The wound on his face had just scabbed, and his face was as pale as the snow on the wall outside the house, but his appearance was all too familiar to Ah Yu.

"Thank you...... Huai'an? ”

Ah Yu hesitated for a while, and slowly spat out a name that she couldn't even believe.

"You're still alive!"

Surprised, she even lost her ability to organize her words a lot, and the words she said sounded very unpleasant at first glance.

But she was really happy.

In a moment of excitement, he pounced directly and hugged the person.

At the moment when Ah Yu pounced, Xie Huai'an opened his hands to catch the person, but when the wait fell into his arms, he couldn't help but snort.

It was also this sound that directly awakened Ah Yu's reason.

She withdrew from Xie Huai'an's arms, pulled the person to the chair next to her, and touched the wound on his face with her fingertips, and finally calmed down after a long time.

Even if he calmed down, Ah Yu still had many unanswered questions in his heart.

Previously, the uncle of the Fan family said that Xie Huai'an was the first person to discover the barbarian siege, and it was he and his companions who dragged the barbarians besieging the city before waiting for the rescue of the army, and he later disappeared on the battlefield.

No one is alive, no corpse is dead.

That's why they mistakenly thought he was dead.

But now Xie Huai'an is standing in front of her in a dignified manner, so he naturally did not die on the battlefield as they guessed, but how did he escape from the battlefield, and why didn't the uncle of the Fan family know that he was still alive?

Ah Yu temporarily suppressed the many questions in his heart, looked Xie Huai'an up and down carefully, and asked: "I seem to have heard you snort just now, is there any other injury on your body, I only have a bottle of gold sore medicine left over from last time, and I don't know if it is the right symptom." Why don't I call Doctor Yang first and ask him to show you the injury? ”

Xie Huai'an shook his head.

A hand was pressed between his chest and abdomen, the wound on his body had been bandaged before he came, and he may have accidentally collapsed when he entered the Wen Mansion, but now is not a good time to find a doctor.

He felt that there was no sign of wetness under his palm, and he was slightly relieved to know that even if the wound was torn, it was not particularly serious.

"I can't let anyone else know my identity now, Ah Yu, and help me hide it again."

That day, he fought against the barbarians on the city wall, and when he accidentally cut open his stomach, the barbarians almost cut open his stomach, and although he barely managed to dodge, he was still left with a long wound.

Originally, he was ready to fight and retreat, thinking that if there was really no way to retreat, he chose to die with the other party.

But after he jumped off the city wall with the person in his arms, the person who dragged the cushion on his back fell directly to his death, but he himself still had a breath left.

In the dark light, he mixed with the corpses of the barbarians, and was particularly unlucky to be stripped of his clothes. The barbarian who put on his coat pretended to be a city guard, and he didn't know if he finally mixed into the city, anyway, he fainted directly.

When he woke up again, he was in the barbarian barracks.

Xie Huai'an couldn't understand the barbarian's words, but looking at the other party's attitude, he was respectful to him, as if he was something that could not be offended.

Xu recognized the wrong person.

So when the barbarian brought water and wanted to ask him to scrub it, he decisively refused.

Who knows if the barbarians will find out that they have recognized the wrong person after washing off the dirt on their faces, and the life he finally picked up will be confessed on the spot.

He escaped from the barbarian camp with great difficulty, originally planning to return to Yulin Pass directly, meet with his grandfather and others, and send out the barbarian force distribution map he had discovered.

Imagination is beautiful, but reality is the cruelest.

Obviously, he was walking in the direction of Yulin Pass, and he encountered a fork in the middle, but he didn't dare to deviate from the route, for fear that he would run away after going astray, but he rode the horse intercepted by the barbarians from Yulin Pass, and finally ran to Mocheng.

The city gate of Mocheng was not sealed, but the people guarding the city were people Xie Huai'an did not know.

It's just that he doesn't even have anything on him that can prove his identity, let alone Lu Yin.

In order not to be caught as a spy, he waited until the dead of night to sneak up the wall into the city.

His luck suddenly improved at this time, and the road was uneventful, not even a single patrol person was encountered. Just like that, I came all the way to the vicinity of Wenfu.

Of course, the most conspicuous building in the city is the county office.

Just like he didn't dare to go directly into the city, Xie Huaian didn't dare to go directly to the county office, even if he knew that his uncle was in the county office, he didn't dare to go.

After all, the barbarians can mistake him for someone else, it must be because they are very similar in appearance, he can pretend to be the other party and escape from the barbarian camp, who knows if that person will pretend to be him in Yulin Pass!

He remembered that someone had secretly stripped him of his coat, and if it wasn't for his impersonation, how he could have been chosen from among the many corpses.

At this time, Xie Huai'an had forgotten that he was blind in the dark light at that time, and people who had no night vision could distinguish the difference between corpses and corpses.

It is entirely possible that the selection of him was an accident.

But he certainly wouldn't think so.

Listening to Xie Huai'an explain his experience during this time in a low voice, when Ah Yu listened to him, he was always worried and trembling with fright.

After Xie Huai'an finished speaking, Ah Yu couldn't help but hold Xie Huai'an's hand: "I almost feel that you have used all your good luck all your life to use this time to return to Mocheng safe and sound!" ”

According to the injury he suffered in Yulin Pass, he would have been weak for a long time even if he was immortal, but because the barbarians misrecognized him, he carefully bandaged his wounds, and used a lot of tonics, so that his injuries did not drag him back too much.

If there is the slightest mistake in the middle, Ah Yu may not really see him.

After relieving for a long time, and after drinking a large cup of tea and being shocked, Ah Yu finally thought of what happened in Mo City, as well as Xie Huai'an's life experience.

She pursed her lips and told Xie Huai'an about what had happened in the city of Mo since he left.

Including the attack on Yulin Pass by the barbarians was Jin Xinyan's mastermind behind it, and Jin Xinyan is now being imprisoned in the prison cell of the county government, just waiting for the emperor to send a minister to escort people into Kyoto, and after the trial, the final verdict should be made by the emperor.

Xie Huaian sneered: "I'll just say that he's not a good person!" ”

When he said this, Ah Yu hadn't mentioned Xie Huai'an's life experience, and he didn't know where to start.

I heard him say, "No wonder I see that the guards at the gate of the city have changed to a group of people I don't know, it turns out that this is the case!" ”

He paused, and then said, "Then can Ah Yu help me inform my uncle that I have returned?" ”

"You shouldn't know the situation over there in Yulin Pass, Ah Yu shouldn't know, my uncle may know, but he shouldn't specifically mention it to outsiders, and I don't know if someone over there is using my identity, and it's not good to go to my uncle in person, so Ah Yu can help me?"

Of course, Ah Yu was willing to help him.

After she answered on the spot, she asked hesitantly, "Can I tell Aunt Deng the news of your return?" ”

"Why did you suddenly mention your aunt?" Xie Huai'an's expression looked a little strange.

He shook his head and said, "Even if Jin Xinyan has been locked up, he is willing to tell the location of all the hidden lines, but he is already wrecked, who knows if those who followed him in the past will continue to listen to him." It's hard to get the news out loud about my return, so don't talk about it! ”

But Deng Shuang has been very sad after hearing the news of Xie Huai'an's death.

She remembered the missing memories of the past, but the toxins in her body had not been eliminated, and she had no intention of continuing to heal, as if she was waiting for death.

Even outsiders like Ah Yu can't help but feel sympathy when they see her current appearance.

After all, she is Xie Huai'an's biological mother, if she died because of self-abandonment before the news of Xie Huai'an's return spread, then Xie Huai'an will definitely regret it after he knows his identity!

Because he now has the opportunity to arouse Deng Shuang's fighting spirit to live.

How sorry it would be if the worst result was caused by the concealment at this time.

But before Ah Yu's words of persuasion could be spoken, Xie Huai'an blocked him back with other words.

"I have obtained the map of the distribution of the barbarian forces, as well as the map to the barbarian royal court, as long as I give these to my grandfather and them, let the army guarding Yulin Pass catch up, and I can solve the threat of the barbarians.

For these things, it has always been sooner rather than later, anyway, I'm still alive, and it's okay to tell my aunt when the news is, but for the sake of the overall situation now, it's better not to say it for the time being. ”

Xie Huai'an blinked, his already extremely pale face was even more tired at this time.

On the way back to Meaux, he always maintained a high degree of vigilance, and he never let down his guard until he met Ah Yu.

Now that he has someone to rely on, he let go of the breath that he has been pressing in his heart, and after relaxing, the tiredness around his body can no longer be suppressed.

Seeing that he could sleep directly in the next moment, Ah Yu sighed, but did not persuade him to continue.

couldn't even find a chance to tell Xie Huai'an's identity, so he saw the other party crooked on the wooden chair and fell asleep directly.

Aoba and Aoba wanted to carry the person somewhere else, but they were stopped by Ayu.

"He fell asleep in a chair, and he looked very uncomfortable, but with his vigilance against the outside world, you will only wake him up suddenly in the past, but it will hurt his vitality, let him rest like this!"

Ah Yu whispered.

The man exited the room and went to the study on the side.