Chapter 43
As the night deepened, when Tian Qi got up to add lamp oil for the second time, Tang Lu'er finally knew that he was hungry. After she put down her pen, she looked at the map that had only drawn a quarter of the way for a while, and then raised her eyes blankly, but her gaze swept directly over Tian Qi in front of her and looked for it in the room.
Tian Qi was slightly stunned, and realized that this girl was afraid that she had never seen the bronze sword, so she got up and walked over, opened the copper sword, and took out the food that was lying in it and put it on the table. As soon as the aroma of the food came out, Tang Lu'er's eyes immediately focused, and she saw that she wiped her ink-stained hands on her clothes at will, and then walked over and sat down, picked up the rice bowl, picked up the chopsticks and ate directly.
Tian Qi hesitated for a while, but finally accepted the words, he could see that he had practiced martial arts since he was a child, and this girl was obviously still in a state of selflessness at this time.
After a while, the two dishes and a soup, plus a bowl of rice, were poured into Tang Lu'er's stomach, and then she put the bowl down, then got up, and floated behind the screen in the corner like a ghost. Tian Qi was stunned again, and then he came to his senses, his eyes couldn't help showing a little embarrassment, and he hurriedly walked out.
After standing in the dim corridor for a moment, and then entering the room, Tang Lu'er had already returned to the table and picked up the pen again.
When Tian Qi pushed open the door and made a sound, she still glanced back at him, but there was no emotion in that gaze, and her eyes were as light as if they were separated by a layer of fog. Before Tian Qi could see it clearly, she had already retracted her gaze and turned her head to write again.
After Tian Qi checked the oil of the lamps, he went back to the bed and sat down cross-legged again.
He was no stranger to such a quiet night, such a bright candle flame, and there were countless such nights in his memory. It's just that tonight, it's a little different, and there is a faint feeling of reminiscence in my heart.
Tian Qi sat cross-legged on the bed, he was about to meditate, but his eyes fell on the candle closest to Tang Lu'er, and then slowly fell on the girl's serious face. All kinds of things back then came like a tide, and the hand he put on his knee even trembled a little.
The night was endless, except for the occasional slight sound of the wick bursting, only the sound of the pen hitting the inkstone when Tang Lu'er was dipped in ink. This night, the two people in the house, each immersed in their own minds, time slowly slipped by, the night faded, the sky slowly rose a round of early sun, the glow shrouded the earth, a new day came.
When the window lit up, Tian Qi came back to his senses in a daze, and then looked at the girl, who was still standing in front of the table, the expression on her face was the same as before, but the speed at which she put down the pen was a little slower than before.
He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, then put away his memories, got out of bed, and walked to the table, only to see that the map was nearly halfway complete. Looking up at the girl again, I wanted to let her rest for a while, but before she could say anything, I saw her suddenly put down her pen, turned around, and drifted to the bed in a daze, and climbed into bed without taking off her shoes, and lay down, and after a while she made a slight snort.
Tian Qi stood there and looked at the girl's strange behavior, half speechless.
The half-drawn map rested on the table in the room so big, and the girl was lying on the bed so unsuspectingly, Tian Qizi didn't dare to leave for a moment. After Tang Lu'er lay down, he sighed, took out yesterday's dishes and chopsticks and asked the guy in the inn to take them away, and asked the guy to prepare two more lunches later, and specially explained that there was no need to prepare rice and oily food, just the fragrant rice porridge that was boiled thickly.
However, Tang Lu'er got up less than an hour after lying down, only to see her with slightly fluffy hair and a pair of confused eyes before she got off the ground and walked to the table again. Tian Qi was looking at the map, seeing that she was coming, and then seeing that she was still that sluggish, he asked, "Do you want water?" ”
Tang Lu'er nodded like a marionette, Tian Qi handed her a cup of warm tea, she took it and drank it up a few times, handed the cup back, picked up the pen again, and began to dip the ink.
Her seriousness and dedication made him moved.
That day passed quietly. At noon, Tang Luer only ate half a bowl of fragrant rice porridge, and at dinner, she only drank two mouthfuls of soup. She ate less and less, and by evening her bright eyes were almost bloodshot, but the map was only eighty percent complete. The further she went, the slower she put down her pen became, and sometimes she had to put down her thoughts for a while.
Tian Qi hesitated a few times, wanting to open her mouth to let her rest, but finally stopped it.
It was not until the evening, when night fell again, and the oil lamp was lit again in the house, that he saw that the girl's face was still so pale in the light of the orange-red firelight, and at last he could not help but say, "It's okay, you can rest for the night, and continue tomorrow." ”
"It's almost ready, it's almost ready......" Tang Lu'er didn't look at him, just muttered to herself, "I can't stop, it's even harder to stop and think about it." ”
Tian Qi was stunned, and was about to stretch out her hand to take the pen in her hand.
An hour passed, two hours passed, and the girl's face grew paler and paler, and her eyes became more and more bloodshot. The map was so big and complicated that it would take at least seven or eight days to draw it against each other, but she had compressed it by nearly three-quarters.
When the sky released light again, Tang Lu'er, who was almost tired, finally put down the pen in her hand and stood there for half a quarter of an hour, and then her face slowly regained her vitality, and her bloodshot eyes also regained their agility, and then she was heard to say extremely arrogantly: "Ha, Lao Tzu has finally done it!" ”
Tian Qi was already standing next to her, watching her put down the last stroke, and looking at the huge and complicated map with her. It's been a long time, and my heart hasn't been so shaken, this girl's ability is really amazing.
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die." After Tang Lu'er said those words, her face immediately regained her popularity, and then she hummed and chirped as if the gate had been opened, "No, no, no, life loss, life reduction, I have to go to the corpse for a while, now I must sleep in the dark, the sun and the moon are dark, no one will bother me!" ”
Tian Qiben still wanted to express his gratitude, but after seeing that she had recovered her appearance, she couldn't spit out the words when they reached her mouth.
After seeing the girl kick her shoes and climb into bed, he sighed helplessly, walked over to help her put the gauze tent outside, and then turned around, put away the pen and ink on the table, and waited until the ink on the map was completely dry, and then carefully put it away.
Tang Luer slept for a whole day and night, and when she woke up again, she just cleaned up the garbage in her stomach, filled her stomach, took a bath, and then continued to lift her body. For this picture, her mind was too exhausted, and it took three or four days before she finally almost recovered her spirit.
And just when Tang Lu'er was living like a pig, Tian Qi had already sent the map to the place where it should be sent, and then quietly arranged the rest of the matter, and the rest was just a few days later, the Douxiang meeting on the Phoenix Terrace.
Flipping through the post sent by the man in white, there was a list of people who would be present on the day of the Douxiang Meeting, and King Dingnan was at the beginning of that list.