Under the dim light, Bai Yi and Bai Ling chatted about what happened in the past four years.

"After Fourteen came to our rescue, he told us the news that you had been suspended from death and imprisoned in the palace. I had made up my mind to go back, but Fourteen handed me a letter......" Bai Yi said softly, "it's the letter you wrote to him." ”

Bai Ling on the bed had a gentle expression and listened to Bai Yi quietly.

"He said, if you really die, then you must not want me to go back." Bai Yi said softly, "You will also want me to be a confidant...... But I don't understand why if you really don't want me to go back, why do you want someone to use that song "Farewell" to tell me that you are still alive when I leave Beijing. ”

Bai Ling just wanted to speak, but Bai Yi continued, "But then I understood. ”

He looked at Bai Ling and said softly, "The kind of death that you are forced to fall into the lake must be something you don't look down on, even if there is really only one dead end left, you have to crash into that high wall by yourself...... Isn't it? ”

Bai Ling was noncommittal, just smiled.

"Later, we stayed outside Jiangzhou City for several days, just like looking for a way to inquire about some news from the capital, but we didn't hear anything...... Bai Yi sighed, "I read your letter over and over again in the past few days, and read it over and over again...... Although no one said anything, we all felt that you must have made up your mind, otherwise you would not have left the word 'masterpiece'......"

"So......" Bai Ling whispered, "why do you ...... Coming to the North? Obviously, I said it at the beginning......"

"I didn't think much of it at the time." Bai Yi smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's my father who wants to come, so I'll come with me." But I've done something in the North over the past few years—"

"I know." Bai Ling whispered, with a slight smile on her face, "In Jiangzhou, look at both ends...... I've heard it all. ”

Bai Yi's eyes lit up, "Did you see the couplet I left in Jiangzhou?" ”

Bai Ling burst out laughing.

"I actually left a lot of clues along the way," Bai Yi's body leaned forward slightly, "There are many more besides the pair of stone couplets, like the songs we sang and the verses we heard...... And some more stories. ”

Bai Ling nodded.

"I always felt like you weren't going to die like this." Bai Yi said in a low voice, he smiled, "Even if I deceive myself, I think, if I were you, I would definitely try my best to escape and try my best to join us." Therefore, we must not be incognito, and if I really go to some mountain soil to live a secluded life, this sea of people is vast, and you will not be able to find us. ”

"I hear you," said Bai Ling softly, looking at the oil lamp in the distance, "the ...... In the south, there is also ......'Lin Bai'......"

"By the way," Bai Yi suddenly remembered, "you...... Why is it called Wei Songqing? ”

"Songqing, that's what I met later...... A friend. Bai Ling said softly, she looked at Bai Yi's expression, and was a little amused for a while, "I'll ...... later." met Fourteen's master, Wei Ying...... He took care of him a lot. ”

"Fourteen's master?"

Bai Ling nodded, "A bit stubborn...... Old man, he has been staying in Pingjing City for the past few years...... I don't know if it's ...... For what. ”

She originally wanted to tell the story of the meeting with Li Yiru Mucheng that night, but she was already tired at the moment.

She looked at Bai Yi, and from Bai Yi's eyes, she could see the same vigorous and restrained desire to talk as herself.

"I'm tired." Bai Ling slowly closed his eyes and opened them again, "...... I'm going to take a break. ”

"Okay."

Bai Yi was about to get up and twist the quilt for Bai Ling, but Bai Ling held his hand tightly.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yi asked.

"When I was asleep," Bai Ling whispered, closing his eyes, "...... Don't let go either. ”

Bai Yiyu's eyebrows moved slightly, and he responded softly.

"When you wake up tomorrow...... "Bailling" said slowly, "can you ...... Is it still here? ”

"Hmm." Bai Yi smiled and replied, "I will." ”

……

On the third day after Bai Ling woke up, Zeng Jiuyan and Zhang Jingzhen visited this remote courtyard together.

Bai Ling could barely sit on the bed and eat by himself by this time.

From Fourteen and Bai Yi, she probably pieced together the story of her rescue - after receiving the Feihong biography sent by her from Tunlongpi, Bai Yi and Fourteen left Jingzhou together, and found Zhuozhou all the way along Fuzhou and Yanzhou, but learned the news that she was besieged at Liangtouwang there.

After seeing the ruins of the burning city at both ends, both of them realized that Bai Ling might have been robbed by the Jin people, but it was impossible to chase the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Jin people alone, so the two decided to go north to Fuzhou to find Zeng Jiuyan, who had become the vanguard of the Fuzhou garrison, to borrow troops - this is really the next strategy among the next strategies, and it is impossible for Chang Sheng to give the army withering order in order to save a Bai Ling, but the two decided to bet on whether Zeng Jiuyan was willing to take a risk in this matter.

However, they soon changed their minds, because when they first arrived in Yanzhou, the two met a group of deer hunters.

At that time, the deer hunters had not yet broken with Chang Sheng. After hearing that the Deer Hunters were planning to infiltrate Aquili's tribe to rescue a group of Hestas, Bai Yi and Wei XIV immediately decided to join them.

Shortly thereafter, the Deer Hunter managed to find a reliable inner response in Aquili's military camp - though he didn't reveal it until the last moment of his operation that it was Bai Ling himself.

What happened later, Bai Ling also knew about it.

It's just that when she heard "the deer hunter and the everlasting break", she was still a little surprised.

When Zeng Jiuyan and Zhang Jingzhen came, Bai Ling had just woken up from a nap, and she was full of surprise to learn that these two old friends had come together.

Before stepping into Bai Ling's house, Zeng Jiuyan and Zhang Jingzhen also washed their hands and changed their clothes honestly, and when they saw Bai Ling's face when they entered the house, it was already half an hour later.

Where Zeng Jiuyan is there, there is no reason why it is not lively, and the three of them sit in the room and chat, and there is laughter from time to time, as if there are far more than the three of them in this room.

"I'm not surprised that you're here," Bai Ling said to Zeng Jiuyan with a smile, and as she spoke, she looked at Zhang Jingzhen with a puzzled expression, "But why did Jingzhen come here too?" ”

"Wasn't there a Great Zhou envoy envoy to the capital of the gold thief some time ago," Zeng Jiuyan replied first, "Jingzhen is one of them!" ”

Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, "It's ......"

"As soon as they walked on the front foot, the deer hunter parted ways with us." Zeng Jiuyan smiled, "We were worried that the deer hunters would attack our mission halfway...... But then I heard that they were busy with other things. ”

"Why?" Bai Ling finally had the opportunity to ask the question in his heart, "What did you go to the Jin Kingdom to talk about?" ”

"It's still a matter of grain and horses." Zhang Jingzhen said softly, "The emperor agreed to exchange five hundred horses from the Jin Kingdom for our twenty percent harvest next year, starting next year, for a period of five years." ”

"What......?" Bai Ling was momentarily stunned.

"Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet," Zhang Jingzhen said with a smile, "but the emperor has added a condition, requiring that after the Jin people start spring next year, all the people of the Great Zhou who have been looting from our border for nearly three years will be released." ”