"You're going to stay here for a few days."

The shopkeeper picked up the mandarin duck from the carriage, threw it into a small dark room, locked the door from the outside, and ignored her.

The mandarin duck, which had been bumpy on the carriage for a day and had not eaten all day, made a "cooing" sound from its stomach, and the feeling of nothing in its stomach was really uncomfortable.

If he could, the mandarin duck really wanted to chew and eat the rag in his mouth as food to fill his empty stomach.

Fortunately, the black cloth on the eyes has been torn off, but after entering this room, whether there is a black cloth or not, it seems to have become the same.

In this small black room, it is indeed as black as its name, except for the door on all sides, there is not even a window for ventilation, and the moment the shopkeeper closes the door, it also takes away the only light in front of the mandarin duck. The world around her was plunged into darkness.

The sudden pain made her lie on the ground curled up, and for some reason many things from the past came to her mind: she remembered how shy Xia Yuan was when she first met him.

"Are you my companion in the future?" The little Xia Yuan grabbed the emperor's dragon robe tightly, hid behind Xia Huai, and spoke timidly.

I also remembered that when he was a child, he sneaked out of the palace with himself to buy roast chicken, and when he came back, he happened to be caught by the emperor and counted half an hour.

"It's so dangerous outside the palace, what do you want to eat and say no to the imperial chef?" The two of them carried a book of ancestral teachings on their heads and knelt in the ancestral hall. The roast chicken outside the palace is really delicious.

When he learned to climb a tree for the first time, but accidentally fell off the tree, Xia Yuan's worried expression of repeatedly asking if there was anything wrong seemed to appear in front of him again in an instant.

"Ah Yang, why are you so careless! Next time, don't do anything so dangerous, I'll be worried. "The fears at the time did not seem to be fake. Why be so gentle, why give me such an illusion.

The person in her memory, with her most familiar and gentle smile, faded away from the world of mandarin ducks, and the past days flashed in front of her eyes one by one.

Is this the so-called marquee? Am I going to die?

The mandarin duck closed her eyes, and tears slowly flowed from the corners of her eyes. If he had known that there would be such a day, then he would not have run outside the palace twice in three days as before, always drinking tea and boxing with those people in the rivers and lakes, and talking about ideals. She will obediently stay by Xia Yuan's side, accompany him to study, accompany him to practice martial arts, and when he is reading, he will stay quietly by his side and accompany her.

He won't always say some willful words, let him accommodate himself, after all, he was the prince at that time, and he was a good match in the hearts of many women. If he could be like Ah Yan, he could be gentle and considerate from the bottom of his bones, wouldn't he have pushed him out like before, until he pushed him into the arms of others.

Xia Yuan......

Obuchi ......

I didn't expect that I was still thinking of you at this time, but I haven't found the Seven Lives Gu yet, and I haven't been with you forever, so I won't be able to see that day.

Speaking of which, Master should be very worried now, he left the inn without saying anything, Master must feel inexplicable.

If I had the chance to meet Master, I would have to apologize to him......

Chu Huai walked on the street of Yushenzhai, and the clothes on his body were really incompatible with everyone on the street. He always felt that everyone who walked by him had their eyes focused on him, and the whispering look seemed to be discussing why his clothes as a stranger were so strange.

He was finally looked at like a man's back, and he looked left and right, but fortunately the tailor's shop was not far from him.

Chu Huai walked briskly to the tailor shop, took out a few silver tickets, and slapped them on the table in front of the master.

"Boss, bring me a set of ready-to-wear clothes."

The tailor was so frightened by Chu Huai that even his glasses fell under his nose. He hurriedly helped his glasses, and said to Chu Huai in a not very standard Central Plains dialect: "Are you ...... Central Plains people? ”

"What's the matter, don't the clothes in your store sell Central Plains people?"

"Sell! Sell! How can it not be sold? The tailor instantly bounced up from his position with a smile and led Chu Huai to the back room, "See which one you are satisfied with?" I'll wrap it up for you. ”

"That's it." Chu Huai casually pointed to an indigo ready-to-wear garment, and walked out, "Don't wrap it up, I'll wear it directly." ”

"Okay." The tailor followed behind Chu Huai with his ready-to-wear clothes, "Are you really from the Central Plains?" ”

"It may or may not be counted."

"We're here, but it's been a long time since we've seen anyone from here."

Why is that? Didn't even the caravans from the Central Plains ever come here? Chu Huai took the ready-made clothes from the tailor's hand, took off his coat, and began to study how to wear this clothes that were not quite the same as those of the Central Plains.

"I remember, the last time I saw a Central Plains person was more than ten years ago, speaking of which, there is a Central Plains person in our village, I guess your silver ticket should have been exchanged for it from him, right?"

"You're talking about the boss of the bank, I've heard him talk about it."

"Yes, but since that incident, no one from the Central Plains has ever come to us." The tailor saw that Chu Huai hadn't put on his clothes for a long time, so he took the clothes and put them on for him himself.

"I wonder what you're talking about?"

"It's a shame to say, there is a written rule in the sacrificial ceremony of the Western Regions, every year there must be a living sacrifice to the Gu God, sometimes it is a seriously ill person, sometimes it is a lonely old man who is already old, sometimes it is an abandoned baby who is thrown on the side of the road, in short, only a living sacrifice can ensure that the Gu worm obediently listens to us, and we have a smooth sail for a whole year, just more than ten years ago, someone here unexpectedly discovered that if it is a living sacrifice made by the Central Plains people, then the Gu worms refined in this year will have many of the best of the best, The Gu worms planted on the body will also be more obedient than in previous years. Somehow this news spread in the village, and many greedy people began to kidnap the Central Plains people, torture them to a state of illness, and then sell them to the priest at a high price, so that not only did they get the money, but they could also refine the best Gu, this kind of thing that kills two birds with one stone, made more and more people moved, and they began to continue to hurt the Central Plains people who came to the village, and there were fewer and fewer Central Plains people in the village, which also directly led to the fact that no Central Plains people came here for more than ten years, until you appeared. ”

Chu Huai was horrified in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Then do you know where they are?" It's very likely that my apprentice was kidnapped by them. ”

In this way, they should want to make the mandarin duck the next living sacrifice.

"I didn't expect them to do it so quickly, it seems that they are really rich slaves. I don't know where they are, I just know that the altar is in a dead forest on the top of the mountain. ”

"Thank you."

Before the tailor finished speaking, Chu Huai ran out of the tailor shop quickly, and he was still clueless, but his brain instantly became clear.

Mandarin duck, wait for me, I will come to save you immediately, I will never let you become a living sacrifice.

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