Yue Wuxian sat up suddenly, his heart pounding, and the heart-wrenching pain and sadness seemed to be faintly involved in him.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Luo was washing up in the house, and when he saw Yue Wuxian sitting up with a pale face, he couldn't help asking.

Yue Wuxian suddenly came back to his senses, he had been dreaming before.

Fortunately, I just had a dream, and the county lord of Jianing was not killed by a sword.

He lifted the quilt and sat on the edge of the kang for a long time, not understanding why he had such strange dreams.

Dream it, dream it, why is it so sad to see that the delicate county lord is so sad when he sees that the brute county lord is seriously injured.

He is used to seeing life and death, and he doesn't know how many people's lives he has harvested, even when he stabs his own cousin, he never blinks his eyes, and he never has the slightest pity and emotion for those who have died.

But why can't I see a little girl die?

It must be that he hasn't licked the blood for a long time recently, and his heart is kind and gentle.

"Xiao Luo, we can't delay here, we should go back to Beijing earlier." There are still a lot of things to take care of in Beijing, and the killers of Bodhi Gate have been arranged, so there must be a good show staged at the beginning of the year.

"If you want to go back, go back first, I'll go with Jianing." Xiao Luo wiped his face, threw the towel to the servant, picked up some facial grease and wiped it on the back of his face and hands.

Yue Wuxian squinted at him, and said dissatisfiedly, "No! If you don't worry, you can leave a few more guards for her, but you must go back to Beijing with me!" The affairs of the military department should not be taken lightly. ”

Xiao Luo wiped his face, rubbed the fat away, raised his head and asked in surprise, "When did you take care of my errand?" ”

"Hmph, we can't relax in every link, you better keep an eye on the yamen honestly." Yue Wuxian couldn't help but say, and ordered the guards to prepare their horses and prepare to leave immediately.

The guards answered.

Yue Wuxian asked people to fetch water to wash up, put on his robes, boots and socks, tied a black crane hat, put on a horned soap veil, ignored Xiao Luo, and strode out.

When I went out of the house and came to the front yard, I saw the county lord of Jianing leaning his neck to watch the guards beat the ice cubes hanging from the eaves with wooden sticks.

The girl's hair is not tied up, her long black hair like a waterfall is draped straight behind her head, the snow color of the eaves reflects the delicate and picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and she is wearing a begonia red dress, like a red lotus in the snow in full bloom.

This picture suddenly coincided with the dying girl in the dream, bright blood, pale jade cheeks, and slightly upturned eyes on the half-closed eyelids......

Yue Wushu shivered fiercely, and his heart suddenly tightened.

He didn't dare to look any more and hurried out of the courtyard.

Qingluan turned his head and watched with some puzzlement as the man walked out of the courtyard gate, the cowhide boots stepped on the horse and the man had turned over on the horse, and the black crane suddenly lifted up, revealing the big red brocade robe inside.

A group of people beat their horses and left quickly, splashing a burst of snow mist in the snowy field; The hurried behavior couldn't help but make Qingluan suspect that something big had happened in Beijing.

At this time, Xiao Luo came over and said to her gently, "Jianing, when are you going to return to Beijing?" ”

"A few more days."

Qingluan asked suspiciously, "Senior brother, what's wrong with Brother Wuxian?" Did something happen in Beijing? ”

"Nothing matters." Xiao Luo glanced outside the courtyard gate, "Brother Yue remembered that he still had an errand to finish, so he left in a hurry. ”

"Are you going back too?" Qingluan looked at Xiao Luo and asked.

"Yes, at the end of the year, the affairs of the yamen are busy, and I have to rush back to meet the errand."

Xiao Luo hesitated and said, "Jianing, you might as well return to Beijing earlier, in a few days it will be the winter solstice, the royal altar will be opened to worship the ancestors, although we are not the family surnamed Li, but the mother and the eldest princess always have to go through the motions, and when the time comes, we will have to go to worship again." ”

Qingluan remembered that Emperor Li had always worshiped her ancestors on the day of the winter solstice, and she really had to go back earlier.

"I'll go back the day after tomorrow at the latest, senior brother, you have an important errand, so you should be back early."

Xiao Luo saw that he couldn't persuade Jianing, so he said helplessly, "Then I will leave ten guards to you, and it will be safer if there are more people." ”

Qingluan thought for a moment and nodded, "Thank you so much, senior brother." ”

Standing outside the courtyard gate, seeing Xiao Luo and his two servants finally ride away, he just breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw him turn around, he waved his hand to him.

Alas, it's finally gone.

Qingluan turned around, only to see that not far away, the county lord of Chaoyang and Li Lan were setting up a big bamboo plaque to catch birds in a cleared field.

They sprinkled a lot of grain under the plaque, supported one side of the plaque with a short stick, and a long thin rope was knotted to the short stick, and they led the rope like cats and hid behind a tree and waited for the birds to enter the bottom of the plaque.

Qingluan walked into the kitchen and saw the mute woman and Wei Bao eating breakfast.

As soon as the dumb woman saw Qingluan coming in, she immediately got up and saluted, and then withdrew.

Qingluan had already had breakfast, and motioned for Wei Bao, who stood up, to sit down, "You eat first, and I'll find a name to take Aunt Zhu through the back door later." ”

"Yes." Wei Baofu sat down again, eating and drinking in two bites.

Qingluan walked out of the kitchen and returned to the house.

Zhu Niang was holding her deerskin boots and roasting them on the charcoal stove.

"Aunt Zhu, you go back and follow me to a place, and you can't let others know." The less people know about her private training of secret guards, the better, but she can't avoid her mother and Aunt Zhu.

Zhu Niang raised her eyes to look at the county lord and nodded, "The maid understands." ”

Subsequently, Qingluan instructed Yuzhu to take good care of the county lord of Chaoyang and Miss Li Lan, urging the dozens of guards here to protect them and not to go into the mountains to hunt without permission for a moment.

However, now the county lord of Chaoyang and Li Lan don't mind not letting them into the mountains at all, after all, there are large forests and clearings in the village, and they can't catch birds, so how can they have the heart to go to the mountains to wade into danger.

Chaoyang and Li Lan didn't pay attention, Qingluan and Aunt Zhu, who had been dressed in disguise, had already quietly walked out of the back door of the courtyard with Wei Bao, turned over on their horses, and quickly walked away along the mountain road.

The three of them worked hard all the way, and entered a valley in less than an hour. On the side of the valley there is a large concave shallow hole in the mountain wall.

It's not a hole, it's just a rock bottom with cornices to cover it from a distance.

Two wooden houses were built under the cave, and two young men of fifteen or sixteen years old were sitting at the door of the house chopping wood.

As soon as they saw Wei Bao, they shouted happily: "Sect Leader Zhao is here!" ”

Wei Bao dismounted, and the two teenagers unloaded the two bags of rice and noodles on the horse's back.

"There's also a bag of salt and bacon, you keep some and the rest inside." Wei Bao commanded.

"Yes!" The young man smiled and responded, looking at Qingluan and Aunt Zhu, and the two were not much surprised.

"This is our master, and I came here to see you today." Wei Bao continued.

The two young men immediately saluted Qingluan, "I've seen the master!" ”

"Master, the little fat man's name is Wei San, and the thin one is called Wei Si, and the villain named them all." Wei Bao introduced.

Qingluan nodded to them, as if he had said hello.

"Let's get through the crack in the rock behind the hut and we'll be to where they're training." Wei Bao said, opening a mezzanine door behind the wooden house where firewood and grass were placed, and then moving a few more bundles of firewood and grass, revealing a gap in the rock wall that was two or three people wide and more than a zhang high, deep and straight.

The little fat man carried two bags of grain and climbed up in front of him, Aunt Zhu followed, Qingluan followed Aunt Zhu, and Wei Bao carried two bags of smoked bacon to finish.

Sometimes this mountain crevice allows only one person to walk, and sometimes it is wide enough for three or four people to walk side by side, and it is extremely difficult to climb up and down.

Eventually, the crevice road became extremely dark, as if entering some mountain, and the few people walked only by the torches lit in the hands of the little fat man in front of them.

He passed through a very dark cave, climbed up for a long time, and finally came out of the cave.

Qingluan's eyes suddenly opened up, and he saw an extremely spacious cave under his feet.

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