The encounters in the past few days have made Lu Zhaoling unable to bear any sorrow in his heart.

At the moment, she felt a little numb.

Lu Zhaoling was silent for a long time.

"What about my brothers and sisters?" She asked suddenly.

"Your eldest brother has escaped, and his whereabouts are unknown. Some of the rest died, some were imprisoned. ”

"Oh." Lu Zhaoling replied sullenly.

After a moment of silence, she asked again, "How do you know?" ”

"Master knows."

"Counting...... Can you tell where my eldest brother is? ”

Shen Fengjiu shook his head: "I just know that it is still in the northwest." ”

A long silence ensued.

Suddenly, Lu Zhaoling was homeless. She fled from Anping's palace, and she didn't know where to go next.

For a moment, she even missed the days in the Anping Palace.

At this time, Lu Zhaoling, the cocoon was independent of the world, like a wandering duckweed, and there was no place to return.

She no longer has a home.

Shen Fengjiu is here to help her accomplish what she wants to do...... And what does she want to do? Now she doesn't know it herself.

The two of them sat like this for a long time.

Shen Fengjiu spoke first: "Don't worry, you can stay in Mengzhou for a few more days." ”

Lu Zhaoling nodded like a puppet.

"Rest first." After Shen Fengjiu finished speaking, he got up and went out.

Lu Zhaoling was left alone in the room, staring at the simple ceiling in a daze.

It's early winter.

It was dark early, and the window gradually began to turn gray.

Lu Zhaoling felt cold, the tip of her nose was cold and sore, and she shrank her face into the quilt.

There was the sound of the wind whistling outside the window.

It's cold...... So sleepy......

Lu Zhaoling closed his eyes and fell asleep again unconsciously.

Shen Fengjiu bent down outside the house to pick a few green vegetables, and stood in the courtyard for a while holding the green vegetables, looking up at the gray sky.

He looked as usual, and there was no joy or sorrow.

He looked at the sky until the night had completely covered the sky, and then he moved and came to the stove.

He put the greens in the house and gathered some firewood.

When he returned to the main house, Lu Zhaoling was already asleep.

He burned the wood to keep the house warm.

Then he sat down at the table, closed his eyes, and began to meditate.

Lu Zhaoling slept until the afternoon of the second day, and then woke up groggily.

On this day, the white porridge prepared by Shen Fengjiu added some chopped vegetables and a boiled egg.

It's still just as bad to drink.

Lu Zhaoling smiled.

"I want to walk around." After the meal, Lu Zhaoling said.

Shen Fengjiu nodded and led her out of the courtyard.

"What kind of place is this? Why is it only you in this yard? Lu Zhaoling asked curiously.

"On the mountain." Shen Fengjiu said.

"At the top of the mountain? No wonder it's so cold. Lu Zhaoling hugged his shoulder.

"Go back and make a fire." Shen Fengjiu said.

"No, I don't. I feel warm when I go out for a run. Lu Zhaoling said with a smile.

She seemed a little more energetic this day.

Lu Zhaoling turned aimlessly for a while, and when he saw a path down the mountain, he followed it down. Shen Fengjiu only followed behind her and didn't say much.

The trees in the mountains are all dead and leafy.

"It's so lonely." Lu Zhaoling sighed.

After walking for a while, Lu Zhaoling saw a small animal skimming through the grass on the side very quickly, but he didn't see what it was.

"By the way, if we stay in Mengzhou for a few more days, will we be hunting in the mountains?" Speaking of hunting, she suddenly remembered something, "Ah, my Ember Moon Knife ......"

"No, I don't. The knife is in. Shen Fengjiu said briefly.

Sometimes when I talk to Shen Fengjiu, I always have to talk to him several times.

Lu Zhaoling sighed with a smile.

"Where's the knife? Did you help me find it? She first asked about the Ember Moon Knife.

"Put it in the box."

Saying this, Lu Zhaoling did remember that there was a box against the wall in the house. It turned out to be her stuff inside.

"You said you don't need to hunt, so we only eat vegetables these days?" Lu Zhaoling asked again.

Shen Fengjiu glanced at Lu Zhaoling, although his face was the same as usual, Lu Zhaoling always felt that Shen Fengjiu's glance seemed to say, "You are a little stupid." ”

"There's a liquor store in the town down the hill." Shen Fengjiu said lightly.

“…… Oh. You didn't say it, I thought this was some kind of wilderness. Lu Zhaoling was a little unconvinced.

"What do you want to eat?" Shen Fengjiu asked.

"If you want to eat something sweet, if only there were sugar gourds." Lu Zhaoling smiled, "But I'm starting to get tired now, and I can't go down the mountain in such a situation." ”

"Tired and resting." Shen Fengjiu said.

Lu Zhaoling nodded, and the two of them slowly returned to the top of the mountain.

Shen Fengjiu urged Lu Zhaoling to go back to bed and lie down, lit a fire for her, and went out again.

I don't know what Shen Fengjiu is doing outside, growing vegetables and feeding chickens?

Lu Zhaoling smiled "eating".

I can't imagine Shen Fengjiu doing farm work.

As a result, it didn't take long for Shen Fengjiu to come back.

He pushed open the door and came in with a cool air, with two sugar gourds in his hands.

"You...... Have you gone down the mountain to buy sugar gourds? Lu Zhaoling looked at Shen Fengjiu in surprise.

Shen Fengjiu nodded and handed her the two sugar gourds. Then he sat down at the table and began to close his eyes and concentrate.

Lu Zhaoling sat on the bed in a daze with a sugar gourd in one hand.

Before I knew it, tears had burst out of my eyes.

Shen Fengjiu stood up, came to the side of the bed, stretched out his sleeve and wiped it on Lu Zhaoling's stunned face.

Lu Zhaoling snorted.

"Thank you." She spoke in a nasal voice.

"Hmm." Shen Fengjiu responded.

"If you are weak, cry less." Shen Fengjiu instructed again.

Lu Zhaoling nodded.

She picked up a sugar gourd and took a bite, the crisp and sweet sugar shell was sour and glutinous hawthorn, which was her favorite taste in the Central Plains in the past few years.

She silently finished one, licked her lips, and looked at the remaining one.

"Aren't you going to eat?" She asked Shen Fengjiu.

Shen Fengjiu shook his head.

"It's delicious." Lu Zhaoling said again.

Shen Fengjiu ignored it.

"If you don't want to eat it, help me collect it first, and I'll eat it tomorrow." Lu Zhaoling said.

"I'll buy it tomorrow." Shen Fengjiu said.

Lu Zhaoling chuckled: "You are so stubborn. Have you ever eaten a sugar gourd? ”

"Nope."

"Then you can taste it."

Shen Fengjiu didn't speak.

"I have liked to eat sugar gourd in the Central Plains in the past few years, but there is no one in the Western Regions, and you, as a native of the Central Plains, have never eaten it."

"Only children eat." Shen Fengjiu spat out a sentence.

"I don't think you're an old man." Lu Zhaoling was amused by his old-fashioned appearance, "Well, you can taste it, if you don't like it, give it back to me." I don't dislike you. ”

Shen Fengjiu saw that she would not give up easily, and she didn't want to continue to be entangled, so she silently took the sugar gourd and took a bite.

"How?" Lu Zhaoling looked at him expectantly.

Shen Fengjiu was silent and stuffed the sugar gourd back into Lu Zhaoling's hand.

However, when he turned around, Lu Zhaoling seemed to see him licking his lips.

Oh, it's awkward.

Lu Zhaoling chuckled in his heart.

Then happily finished eating the sugar gourd in his hand.