On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, the carriage of the blue number stopped at the door of the side gate early in the morning.

Bai Ling brought a few changes of clothes, and her baggage was collected by the maid and prepared in the carriage.

"I don't need to send it," Bai Ling said with a smile, "I just went to the mountains to see my old friend, and then I came back." ”

"No, no," Ai Songqing shook his head, "let me send you." ”

With that, Ai Songqing walked to the side of the car with a stack of mosquito nets that had been packed, handed the things to the groom, and asked him to help put them in the car.

"Why?" Bai Ling was a little amused.

Ai Songqing turned her head, she was a little inexplicable, so she replied honestly, "...... I don't know, I just want to send you off. ”

The groom in the carriage asked Ai Songqing where to put this burden, and Ai Songqing hurriedly looked at it.

Bai Ling, who was behind him, looked at Ai Songqing's back, and his heart suddenly felt a little sour.

Bai Ling stepped forward and patted Ai Songqing's shoulder gently, "Go back and see Niannian, she should be awake by now, everything is fine here." ”

Ai Songqing sighed softly, "Are you coming back the morning after tomorrow?" ”

"Hmm."

"It won't take that long, Xuanqingguan...... If it's fast, you can go back and forth on the same day. ”

Bai Ling smiled, "If you go back and forth that day, you can't do anything, and you will come down when you go up the mountain." ”

Ai Songqing didn't answer again, just looked at Bai Ling quietly.

She wanted to ask Bai Ling not to leave, because she had a secret and absurd premonition, as if today's separation was goodbye, and Bai Ling would not come back after taking the car.

“…… Why are you crying? Bai Ling glanced at her, and retracted his foot that was about to step into the carriage.

Ai Songqing shook his head.

Bai Ling just went out to relax, and it didn't take much time, when he parted, he didn't want to say such bad words, it was unlucky, and it ruined Bai Ling's mood to go out to play...... But Ai Songqing felt an indescribable sorrow suddenly welling up in his heart.

She suddenly thought that in the past few years in Baihuaya, she had almost never really separated from Bai Ling.

Is this the reason?

But she didn't miss it...... She is no longer a little girl who will cry and cry unaccompanied.

Ai Songqing was speechless, but tears still fell.

The two hugged briefly in front of the carriage.

Bai Ling gently patted Ai Songqing's back, then looked up, and took one last look at the blue building.

In the faint light of the morning light, the whole Baihuaya didn't seem to wake up yet, and everything was quiet.

"In the past three years of coming to Baihuaya, the happiest thing is to meet you and Niannian." Bai Ling said suddenly.

Ai Songqing felt shivers all over his body.

"Take care of yourselves." Bai Ling said again.

"Phew, bah, bah." Ai Songqing hurriedly said, she wiped the tears on her face with her sleeve, "It's all because I ruined the atmosphere, what are we doing here...... You just go to the mountains to relax, and I'll wait for you to come back for dinner at noon the day after tomorrow. ”

"yes, okay." Bai Ling's eyebrows moved slightly, "You should also pay more attention to the things over there in the Lanxin Society, what I said to you before, you have to remember." ”

"Yes." Ai Songqing sniffed, "Go, go, let's not talk about this." ”

The carriage carrying Bai Ling gradually faded away on the street outside the blue number.

Ai Songqing stood at the door, watching Bai Ling's carriage disappear around the corner, and she suddenly felt that a certain place in her heart seemed to become empty with the disappearance of this carriage.

After saying goodbye, Ai Songqing did not go back to the house immediately, but stood alone outside the door for a while, until the unexplained sadness subsided, and she wiped away these inexplicable tears, she turned around and stepped into the threshold of the blue number again.

It's been another busy day.

……

Outside the Xuanqing Temple, Yikang stood alone on a hill looking north.

A small boat looms in the fog on the lake, and she takes a deep breath before turning and walking towards the pier at the foot of the mountain.

These bluestone slabs on the mountain road, in the past three years, she has walked alone I don't know how many times.

When Yikang came to the pier at the foot of the mountain, Bai Ling's boat also happened to pass through the faint morning fog and slowly docked on the shore.

The curtain of the cabin was lifted, and the eyes of the two girls met.

At that time, the eleven-year-old Bai Ling and the thirteen-year-old Yikang stood together, and others could clearly see the age of the two parties, but now the eighteen-year-old Bai Ling and the twenty-year-old Yikang are no longer much different.

Yikang still stretched out his hand to Bai Ling as before, and Bai Ling quickly held it, and then went ashore smoothly.

The two walked up the mountain road, the boatman behind them propped himself up on the shore, and the boat slowly and leisurely drew a ripple on the water, gradually melting into the quiet mist.

"Why are you alone?" Bai Ling looked at it, "What about the girl next to you, I remember what it was called-"

"She got married last year," replied Yikang, "and a few miles south from here, in a village married to a woodcutter, and she seems to be giving birth lately." ”

Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, then sighed with a smile, "...... It's so fast. ”

"yes." Yikang smiled, "I have everything ready, and I originally planned to find a time to send it to her in the next two days." ”

Bai Ling glanced at Yikang again.

Yikang is still as good as ever.

The thirteen or fourteen-year-old's little rudeness had completely faded, as if the fierce Gulf Stream on the land was slowly seeping into the ground, and the still water was deep, and when she got closer, Bai Ling could smell a faint scent of grass and trees on her body.

In the early morning in the mountains and forests, birds can be heard everywhere, and where the two pass, a few birds will be startled from time to time to flutter their wings.

"How have the past few years been?" "What are you doing?" ”

“…… My sister is sick. Yikang said softly.

"Lord Yining?" Bai Ling frowned slightly, "What's wrong?" ”

"I don't know, and the doctor doesn't know, but anyway, people are getting thinner and thinner day by day, and it's been more than two years." Yikang said softly, "There is not much I can do, just take care of her, and then plant medicine, collect medicine, and boil medicine...... But there is no improvement. ”

Yikang laughed and looked at Bai Ling, "If only Imperial Doctor Bai were still here." ”

Bai Ling didn't speak, just quietly followed behind Yikang.

"The doctor said my sister might not survive this fall," Yikang said softly, "You're here at the right time, and I probably won't be here later." ”

"Where do you want to go?"

"I haven't thought about it yet," Yikang said softly, "there's a war going on in the north, so maybe go west or south...... I've been in Pingjing since I was a child, and I haven't gone out to see it. ”

Bai Ling nodded, "It's okay to go out and have a look." ”

Before she could finish speaking, Bai Ling suddenly heard a noise above her head, and a white-bellied and brown-backed bird was passing over her head, and a handful of orange-yellow feathers stood on the bird's head, which was beautiful in the morning light.

It chirped pleasantly, flew freely over her head down the hill, and then landed somewhere in the woods where Burling couldn't see.

"What kind of bird is this?" Bai Ling asked softly.

"This is a lark." Yikang laughed.