Shen Yuan raised his eyebrows, looked at Chu Li, and asked, "Is Senior Brother serious?" ”

Chu Li groaned for a while, puffed out his face under Shen Yuan's smiling gaze, looked like he had been bullied, scratched his head, blushed and chuckled twice, and said, "Actually, I still like my junior sister, anyway, the master is just our two apprentices, aren't they all fat and water that don't flow into the fields of outsiders?" In that case, I will marry ...... No, no, after I marry you, I will have a legitimate reason to stay in Chang'an for a long time. ”

Shen Yuan didn't answer immediately, just looked at the fire quietly, a little distracted.

Chu Li was a little discouraged, thinking that he was afraid that he would be out of play, but he was actually very confused in his heart.

He has been following Xiao Nanshan since he was a child, and in the palace of Southern Xinjiang, Xiao Nanshan taught him to read and write, taught him imperial strategies, and taught him to make Gu and drugs......

But Xiao Nanshan is not there every day, but only enters the palace once in a while to teach him. It wasn't until he was eleven years old that he suddenly found that Xiao Nanshan was following a little girl, and that was Shen Yuan.

Unlike him, who has to stay in the palace all the time, Shen Yuan will travel with Xiao Nanshan outside, so every time they contact the time is very short, Xiao Nanshan leaves, and Shen Yuan will also leave.

This time is the longest time their brother and sister have been together, Chu Li likes to stay with Shen Yuan very much, just watching her paint there every day, listening to her occasionally talk about one or two things, Chu Li finds it very interesting, and it is completely different from the confidantes he knows.

"Okay, after returning to Chang'an, senior brother will marry me." Just when Chu Li was still sorting out his thoughts, Shen Yuan's sudden sentence was like a thunderbolt, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Senior sister, you ......"

"But after all is over, we will only be a fake couple." Shen Yuan looked at Chu Li with a calm gaze, she knew very well what she was talking about, "But no matter what kind of relationship we have in the future, I will always be on your side to help you." ”

Her current life was saved by Chu Li, so no matter what Chu Li asked, she was not qualified to refuse.

The firelight shone in Shen Yuan's eyes, jumping gently, and Chu Li didn't know whether to say that Shen Yuan was too rational or too ruthless.

Chu Li felt a burst of loss and discomfort in his heart, he turned his head and said, "Let's wait until I go to Chang'an, isn't there still seven days?" ”

Shen Yuan's eyes blinked slightly, and the sharpness just now was no longer there, and he returned to his usual smiling appearance, and responded: "Okay, listen to Senior Brother." ”

"Okay, it's not early, you go to bed quickly, I'll keep a vigil for you." Chu Li urged.

Shen Yuan's body has not fully recovered, Chu Li is afraid that she will suffer halfway, to put it bluntly, Shen Yuan is running around like this now, all for him.

Shen Yuan didn't have a front, he fell asleep leaning on the haystack, his hands clenched unconsciously in front of his chest, and the exquisite red bean dice was no longer there.

Early the next morning, Chu Li and Shen Yuan simply packed up and set off again, and it only took two days at most to get from here to Xuzhou.

But this road is not easy to walk, southern Xinjiang is not richer than the Ming Dynasty, perennial seclusion from the country, cut off contact with the outside world, so that there is no way for southern Xinjiang to get rich, out of the more central several capitals are more prosperous, the rest of the place famine, locust plague, plague and other situations abound.

Several kings of southern Xinjiang were warlike in their bones, they did not know how to govern the country, and only thought of relying on force to fight for other countries.

Chu Li and Shen Yuan had just passed by a desolate village, where several dark-skinned women were rummaging through the barren fields with baskets, and the old man was leaning in the corner, holding his last breath.

"How many years have passed, and southern Xinjiang still hasn't changed." Shen Yuan's mood was a little heavy, she had seen many of these scenes in southern Xinjiang when she traveled with her master in the early years.

Chu Li took some water and food from the baggage, dismounted and said to Shen Yuan: "You wait for me here, I'll be back immediately." ”

Shen Yuan glanced at the child who fainted not far away, and knew what Chu Li wanted to do, and nodded.

Shen Yuan watched him pick up the dirty child, carefully feed him water and food, and then watched him surrounded by a group of refugees, unable to move an inch, those people grabbed Chu Li's clothes, Chu Li didn't give anything, they didn't let go.

Chu Li couldn't bear to use force against them, but no matter what he said, the refugees couldn't listen.

Shen Yuan sighed and shouted, "The officers and soldiers are here!" ”

As soon as he heard the word officers and soldiers, all the refugees who were still holding Chu Li fled in all directions like birds and beasts, and Chu Li took advantage of this to go back to Shen Yuan's side, "It's so dangerous, I thought they were going to eat me." ”

"Let's get out of here first." Shen Yuan urged.

Chu Li nodded, immediately rode away, and left the village, Chu Li's heart was not comfortable.

Shen Yuan noticed Chu Li's emotional ups and downs, and she said: "There are still many such villages in Southern Xinjiang, Senior Brother is just giving them water and food, which is not a cure for the symptoms at all, there are still many things that Senior Brother can do, I will always stand on Senior Brother's side." ”

Chu Li finally glanced back at the depressed village, his eyes were firm, and he replied, "I know what I have to do. ”

After arriving in Yuzhou, Xiao Nanshan still did not show up, Chu Li and Shen Yuan found a hidden place to live, but Chu Li was also idle.

He grew up in the palace of Southern Xinjiang since he was a child, but he often sneaks out to play, and his personality is easy-going and gentle, so he has a wide range of friends in Yuzhou.

Shen Kite was still painting in the room, and the last point of the painting scroll was finished, when suddenly a carrier pigeon stopped on the window, its wings fluttering.

"Senior brother, your carrier pigeon is back!" Shen Yuan shouted inside, but there was no echo on the other side of the screen.

Shen Yuan was a little strange, walked over and poked his head out to see that there were corrected documents stacked on the table, but there was no figure of Chu Li.

Shen Yuan walked in and took a look, and a note with handwriting was placed in the middle: Senior sister, I will go to Cui'e House to find an old friend to catch up, and I will remember to bring you something delicious back.

Two more carrier pigeons landed on the window, Shen Yuan rubbed the note in his hand, changed his clothes and was about to go out to arrest people.

She, a senior brother, is good at everything, but the focus is always wrong at critical moments, and she actually goes out to find a confidant at such a time to catch up with her old days.

After Shen Yuan put the carrier pigeons in the cage, he took the key and went out of the door, and went straight to Cui'e Residence.

She used to run to this kind of bright place to look for people so impulsively, but she ......

Shen Yuan raised her head and looked at the unfamiliar Cui'e Residence, there was no one in it who she was looking for, and there would be no more that person in her future.

"Shen Kite!" Wei Yan woke up from his dream, he sat on the bed, panting roughly.

In the past three years, he has often woken up in the middle of the night, and his dreams are full of blood from Shen Yuan, but this time the dream is that Shen Yuan is far away from him, and he can't catch up.