At dusk, someone came in the courtyard again.

"Master, the flood in Xicheng has receded." He Xinlai reported.

Mu Qingyan threw down the bowl and told him something to deal with through the open door.

He Xin came in a hurry and left in a hurry.

Mu Qingyan glanced at the main courtyard separated by a wall from the east courtyard, and called slowly, "Don't you come in yet?" ”

Before she could finish speaking, a man dressed in a street jumped into the wall. "Master, twenty miles north of the city, two carriages were opened by the men when they were resting in the tea shed, and the man was killed at that time, and the carriage came to Liangzhou City.

"Is the carriage loaded with blades?" Qin Yan asked nonchalantly.

The man looked at Mu Qingyan vigilantly and nodded.

"Keep an eye on it these days, but if there is such a vehicle passing by, someone will definitely be sent to follow." Mu Qingyan commanded.

After the man left, Mu Qingyan completely lost his mind to eat, biting his fingers and not knowing what he was thinking.

Qin Yan got up, took her hand and sat back at the table, and handed the chopsticks again, "I don't know when the next meal will be, use more." He coaxed her softly, and put some light dishes on her plate.

Mu Qingyan was thinking about things while eating, Qin Yan was eating whatever she wanted, she was picky when she couldn't eat a few bites of a meal, but she unconsciously ate more than usual.

A hidden smile flashed on Qin Yan's lips, and even he didn't know it.

"Qin Yan......" happened to Mu Qingyan to figure out some things, and when he looked up, he suddenly saw his smile and called him in a daze. That smile warmed his body and warmed the way he looked in her heart.

Qin Yan responded unknowingly, "Huh? ”

The smile disappeared, and Mu Qingyan only felt that his heart was beating harder. She left the table at a loss and ran out, "I'll go to that courtyard and have a look." ”

She never explained her past to him, she always came silently and disappeared silently. Qin Yan's heart moved, and he hurriedly followed her to the west courtyard.

"Master!" Luo Zhen seemed to have aged a lot in one day, his stubble was uneven, and even his eye frames were black.

Qin Yan asked Mu Qingyan before he could speak, "How?" ”

"Go back to the prince, stupid!" He pointed to the door, "I took another dose of medicine, although there were no sores on my body, but there were a lot of broken noodles in my mouth, as if I didn't know the pain, and I didn't care at all." ”

Qin Yan grabbed Mu Qingyan, who was about to go in, and whispered softly, "I'll go, you go back." ”

Mu Qingyan didn't fight with him, and stomped his feet and turned around and returned to the East Cross Courtyard.

"The blood flowing from this ruin also smells, Lord Wang, look!" Luo Zhen pinched the chin of one of them and forced him to open his mouth, and the general stench rushed out.

Although Qin Yan twisted his eyebrows, he didn't retreat, pinched open the mouth of the other person and checked, "Burn some Huoxiang ashes and sprinkle them on the broken place......" He narrowed his eyes suddenly, and his sword eyebrows drooped.

Luo Zhen was about to agree, and he didn't know what to do when he was stunned.

"Shopkeeper Luo, do you mean that the people who bought the desmodium burned it all in one fell swoop?" Qin Yan's eyes were covered with frost, and the temperature in the room dropped a lot in an instant.

Luo Zhen hurriedly whispered back to him, "Yes, it's all burned out......"

Qin Yan raised his hand to stop his words, "Quick, bring some of the money grass you have hidden here." ”

Luo Zhen glanced at the majestic Qin Yan for some reason, turned around and went to the room next to him and took a small bundle with a thick wrist and came back, "Tiger King, that's all, is it enough?" ”

Qin Yan didn't speak, took the money grass and threw it into the medicine jar, took out the fire fold and lit it.

Luo Zhen seemed to understand something, and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

In less than a moment, the bundle of money grass burned to ashes. Qin Yan twisted some grass ash with his two fingers and smelled it, a very familiar smell, similar to what he smelled in Xicheng that day.

"Take it with water, pour it down and try it!" He patted off the ashes on his hands, walked out of the door indifferently, stood in the courtyard and looked out into the north of the city, and stopped talking.

It was only about a tea time before there was a sound of vomiting in the room.

"Lord Wang, Lord Wang, the spirit is gone!" Luo Zhen's hair also fell apart, and he ran out with an excited face, crying and laughing at Qin Yan no matter what, "Lord Wang, I vomited a lot of small black insects the size of sesame seeds, and I knew that it hurt." ”

Qin Yan nodded and muttered, "But it turned out to be Gu." He turned and went out of the courtyard.

In the east courtyard, Mu Qingyan was talking to Qu Fengcheng about the whereabouts of the carriages.

"Master, two hundred miles further out of Liangzhou is a big town, the town extends in all directions, and there is an official road to Yuhua County." Qufeng City explained the road here in detail to Mu Qingyan.

Mu Qingyan is also a person who has been walking the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he knows the military, so he is naturally familiar with all the main roads in Dongchu. Her hand fell on the map she had drawn improvisely, and her eyes flashed slightly, "Replace the escort here, I'll take this batch of things!" ”

Qin Yan came in and saw where her finger was pointing, but it was an important town that she passed by when she came, Taiping Town.

"Liangzhou to Taiping Town is fast for one day, and heavy-duty vehicles are not more than five days. It takes three days and nights for a fast horse from Taiping Town to the capital, and it takes at least 15 days for a vehicle, which is not appropriate. He approached the map and pointed his finger to one place, "Longquan Town, the distance from the capital is appropriate, the rapid march will arrive in one day and night, and it can be combined with the Jincheng soldiers in the west." ”

Mu Qingyan waved his hand away, still pointing to the map and telling Qu Feng City, "All vehicles will change cars and horses in Taiping Town, and additional personnel will be sent to Longquan Town." She glanced at Qin Yan defiantly, "Taiping Town is now in my hands, and I will definitely collect the money for buying the road!" ”

Qin Yan raised his eyebrows slightly and didn't speak, his eyes were still on the simple marching map. From the capital to Jinguan City, all the large and small towns and mountains on this road are marked on it, and Longquan Town and Taiping Town are all circled with thick ink.

Nothing beats this.

He took out the ink core from her hand, walked to the opposite side of the table, and drew the road from the capital north to Longmen County and west to Jincheng on the paper in detail.

Qu Feng Cheng stared so hard that his eyes were about to fall. He thought that only his master in this world had the ability to remember this, but he didn't expect someone to be able to compare with the person he admired the most, he was so surprised.

Mu Qingyan was not surprised, waved his hand in front of Qufeng City, beckoned his soul, and continued: "After the city gate is closed tonight, let our people go to guard the city. She looked at Qu Feng Cheng seriously, "You go!" If you fly into a fly, you know what the consequences are! ”

"No!" Qin Yan still drew his map, "Even if the capital sends troops to rescue, it will be too late, if Chu Li wants to attack the capital, his troops must not be weak, and he doesn't know how many people are scattered everywhere after five years of planning." ”

Mu Qingyan frowned, "It's easy to stop him outside the city, I'm just afraid that a hundred miles outside the city will be trampled by his brute soldiers; can let him go south through Liangzhou, and the 1,800-mile journey into Beijing will definitely be devastated, and he may have the disaster of destroying the city and destroying the gates. ”

Qin Yan put down his pen, "He intends to be in Longquan Town, and it will not be good if he fights the grass and startles the snake halfway." He looked at the gradually gloomy sky, and said coldly, "It's time for this king to go to Longquan Town to join in the fun!" ”

"If Chu Li passes through Liangzhou, he will definitely forcibly take over this city, which is why I won't let him enter the city!" Mu Qingyan pursed her lips and glared at Qin Yan, "This is his retreat!" If you can fight, you can fight, but if you can't fight, you can retreat, Qin Yan, do you believe it or not? ”

Qin Yan said calmly, "Aren't you at ease?" Feng Xiang is probably already on his way to Natsume, right? ”

It turned out that nothing could escape his meticulous thoughts. Although she didn't say anything, he saw it all.

"Lord, master, is this city a dead or a deception?" Qu Fengcheng listened half-understood, and in the end, he still didn't understand the final result of what the two of them were talking about.

Mu Qingyan sighed secretly and instructed him: "Close the city gate and let our people go to defend the city, but if there is a strange speed to report to me, it will not be counted." ”

"Yes, my subordinates will do it!" Qufeng City trotted out the door.

Qin Yan looked at the thunder and lightning in the sky, and swallowed back what he wanted to say and Mu Qingyan knew.

"Weiyang, I still have to go to Songlin Temple." He walked around half of the table and walked to her, caressing the dark shadow on her eyelids in distress, "I haven't slept for a few days, you should rest early!" With that, he pecked her lightly on the lips.

Mu Qingyan looked at him steadily, and there were stars falling in his eyes. The eyes that should have been pure were covered with a layer of dark ash at this time, like loneliness after burning all hope, sad and moving.

Qin Yan understood the look in her eyes almost instantly, nervously hugged her into his arms, leaned against her shoulder and gently coaxed, "I just don't want you to get wet in the rain anymore......" He grabbed Mu Qingyan's soft little hand and pressed it to his heart, "It will hurt here!" ”

Mu Qingyan was extinguished by his two words, and leaned obediently into his arms, "I'll go with you!" She raised her head in Qin Yan's arms and looked at him, "I already know about the matter of the Western Courtyard, since the Baicao Hall does not have enough medicine to cure the Gu, then I can only go to the Songlin Temple." ”

Qin Yan kept looking at the lower and lower clouds outside the window uneasily, suddenly picked her up horizontally, and strode towards the bed.

"Let me go, Qin Yan, you bastard......"

Qin Yan put her on the bed and pulled the quilt over to cover her, "Don't be in a hurry at this time, sleep first, and go again when the rain stops in the middle of the night." He got up to leave.

Mu Qingyan instinctively called him without thinking, "Qin Yan ......"

The smile on Qin Yan's lips came unexpectedly, "I'll just close the window." When he turned around, the smile could no longer be hidden, and the sweetness overflowing from his heart was endless.

Mu Qingyan blushed instantly, muttered something that Qin Yan couldn't really hear, turned over and fell asleep on his side, but left most of the bed outside.

Qin Yan closed the door and lowered the window, and in the darkness, he couldn't wait to stride towards the bed.

He lay down in her kimono and pursed his lips silently, maybe God knows how much he misses her little nature! In the past five years, he has dreamed back every midnight, and she is the only one who has been thinking about her.

Now, she was only on the same bed an arm's length away, and how could he endure the joy he had lost.

Qin Yan hugged her from behind. This moment is something he has been thinking about every day for five years. Since it is Heaven that has mercy, why should he not be wholehearted......

"Weiyang, Weiyang?" Qin Yan whispered in a low voice.

Mu Qingyan's face was already red behind his ears, and his heart was also restless.

The big raindrops hit the window edge and made a noisy noise, but the two of them didn't know when it started to rain.

The rain is swift and the wind is strong, and it comes and goes quickly.

After the shift, the rain gradually became dripping. The two did not sleep, and hugged each other and talked for half the night.

"The rain has stopped!" Mu Qingyan lifted half of his body from Qin Yan's arms and looked out of the window, and the already scattered clothes on his shoulders slipped quietly.

"Hmm!" He got up and hugged her in his arms, and quietly arranged her clothes.

Mu Qingyan's face turned red again, he hung his head and let him put on his clothes, and unwrapped his hair and combed it again.

Qin Yan got out of bed first, turned his back and put on his clothes, and then bent down to put on his shoes for Mu Qingyan, who was combing his hair.

The two went out one after the other, without alerting the guards outside the courtyard, and each performed light skills all the way to the north of the city. After crossing the city wall, he did not take the official road, but first followed the path to the east for a long time before turning north and entering through the east wall of Songlin Temple.

Both of them are top-notch, and although the Songlin Temple is heavily guarded, it can't hinder them in the slightest. or accompanied or echoed, and it didn't take any effort to search the east hall.

"Qin Yan, there won't be too much ash burned by the desmodium, and there have been a lot of rainy days recently, so it should be piled up in which room." Mu Qingyan and Qin Yan were hidden under the offering table in a side hall, discussing how to find it.

Qin Yan nodded, Qingling's voice was slow and solemn, "That grass ash has a special smell, it won't be in a crowded place, the more people who know, the more difficult it is to keep secrets." He snorted lightly and then said, "Most of the people who are running for Chu Li are people who have been bewitched, and many of them are controlled by Gu worms. ”

"That's right, so we have been to the apse yesterday, and the side hall of the east courtyard has not been found, only the main hall in front of the inspection!" Mu Qingyan's voice was naughty, "But ......" she pointed to the west, "Most of the people who live there are important deacons in the temple, and there are always those with strong martial arts, so let's be careful." ”

Qin Yan understood what she meant, nodded and went out from under the offering table first, and as soon as he stretched out his hand to pull her out, the two of them quietly went to the main hall in front of them with the sound of footsteps.

The fourth watch day has passed, there are still people doing homework in the main hall, and the sound of wooden fish comes out of the hall in an unstable manner, and it seems so lonely in the deep silence of the night, as if this uninterrupted percussion sound can guide the lost people to find the way to the world.

Mu Qingyan raised four white fingers and pointed to the hall. She has often traveled back and forth to the Broken Sky Temple since she was a child, and she is used to hearing this kind of sound, but she doesn't feel anything, and she has to enter it with her legs raised.

Qin Yan frowned and stopped her and protected her behind him.

He was not a sinister person, and someone chanted in the middle of the night in a place where someone was ambushing, and there must have been some plan. The two listened for a while, and the sound of the wooden fish did not change at all, and it was still stable and powerful.

Suddenly, a very thin air flow surged in the hall, and then a voice was heard complaining irritably: "What's the matter with this crazy monk, he has been knocking here all night, and he is making noise." ”