The world was so silent, there was not a trace of wind, and the big snowflakes floated down from the air lightly and gracefully, gently falling on the thick snow, and falling on Gu Xiyan's clothes and hats.

Gu Xiyan stepped on her feet impatiently, and Duan Yingluo's face changed greatly: "Don't, don't move." Be careful to be shot. ”

"Shoot?" Gu Xiyan looked at the adobe city wall that was at least five hundred meters away from him.

"Look around the city wall, there is nothing, the four fields at a glance." Fauber's voice was tense, "It's all a strategy to clear the wall. Let's be careful. ”

Gu Xiyan's big eyes outside the cloth rolled around: "It's too cold, it's too cold."

Duan Yingluo said helplessly: "You bear with me, they will definitely let us into the city before dark." ”

Gu Xiyan didn't believe it: "What if you don't let us into the city?" ”

Duan Yingluo was silent.

The atmosphere became a little solemn.

The sky darkened little by little, and the city wall in the distance became a blurry shadow, and in the sound of the door shaft, orange lights illuminated the city wall, and a group of people holding torches walked towards the place where Gu Xiyan was resting. The neat and uniform steps creaked through the snow, with an eerie aura in the silence of the night.

Gu Xiyan couldn't help but shudder.

Duan Yingluo's eyes were sharp: "It's Qingfeng" There was a kind of relief in his voice that people didn't understand.

The one who came back with ** Feng was an officer about thirty years old with a beautiful face. The temperament is elegant, with a kind of reading unique to the high.

**Feng pointed to Duan Yingluo and introduced to the man: "This is my ancestor aunt Duan Twelve Aunts." The man smiled and nodded at Duan Yingluo, and **Feng pointed to the person and introduced to Duan Yingluo: "This is Lord Gong, the Shaofu of the Yanguo Mansion."

Gong Tao

Gu Xiyan's pupils couldn't help shrinking.

Duan Yingluo slightly bowed to Gong Tao: "Lord Gong, excuse me"

Gong Tao smiled. Turning around and making a gesture of please, the people he brought immediately quietly surrounded Gu Xiyan and the others in the center and walked towards Hongtai City.

In the city of Hongtai, it is covered in silver. On the wide landlord street, there is a post in three steps, and a post in five steps, and the snow is swept clean, revealing neat bluestones, and under the light of orange torches, there is a unique clear glow after being penetrated by ice and snow.

A group of people walked down the street in silence.

Gu Xiyan's eyes looked forward to it.

Next to the main street are criss-crossed alleys with a thick layer of snow. But it was spotless, clean and pure, as if no one had walked by. {___]

Her heart tightened.

Look around again.

The whole city was quiet and quiet, except for the crackling sound of pine oil burning. I can't hear anything else.

No noise, no barking, no neighing, complete silence, like a dead city.

Gu Xiyan's heart was cold, her back was cold, and she couldn't help lowering her eyebrows and following behind Duan Yingluo in a regular manner.

Gong Tao took them around a few corners and came to a luxurious two-story wooden building next to the street, with a plaque hanging under the eaves. It is written with four big characters of "Ruyi Inn".

Gong Tao said with a smile: "A few will be here for the time being tonight."

**Feng hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted Gong Tao: "Thank you, Lord Gong"

Gong Tao smiled and left with a few people, leaving more than half of them behind. One of the officer-like people helped them push open the door of the inn, **Feng politely thanked him, and then led Gu Xiyan and them in.

The officer saw them enter the inn. Immediately closed the door.

Gu Xiyan, who was walking at the end, couldn't help but reply.

Through the glass windows of the inn. She saw the officer wave his hand, and the group of people left by Gong Tao immediately stood straight on the steps in front of the inn at a certain distance. Fenced off the inn.

Duan Yingluo in front felt that Gu Xiyan hadn't followed, and looked back, now Gu Xiyan was staring at the soldiers standing there like tree poles outside the window, so he took her hand and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, there is me."

Gu Xiyan followed Duan Yingluo noncommittally towards the room behind the inn.

Fu Bo had already looked around the inn and said, "The rooms in the back are quite luxuriously furnished, and there are still rice and cabbage left in the kitchen. ”

Duan Yingluo smiled: "Since this is the case, please trouble Fu Bo to boil some water, and I will cook." ”

**Feng said: "I'll cook, and Aunt Zu will accompany the girl." ”

Duan Yingluo was about to say something, but Gu Xiyan said, "Okay, Sister Duan, you accompany me." The inn is deserted and a bit of a."

Duan Yingluo smiled: "Don't be afraid, the owner of the inn may have fled to avoid the war." ”

As she spoke, she helped Gu Xiyan untie the strip of cloth covering her face and led Gu Xiyan towards the backyard.

There was a room side by side in the backyard, and Gu Xiyan chose the middle room as their resting place.

The house is typical of northern architecture. Opposite the door is a large kang, which occupies half of the area of the room, and next to the door is a table, and there are four Taishi chairs between the table and the kang. Duan Yingluo touched the kang: "Yo, it's cold, let's let Qingfeng burn the kang first." ”

Gu Xiyan opened the short wooden cabinet on the kang, and the bedding was neatly placed inside. She took it out and smelled it, there was still a faint fragrance, Duan Yingluo saw this, and first went to call **Feng to burn the kang, and then took the quilt next door in and spread it on the kang: "Take off your coat and wrap it"

Along the way, everyone's coats were covered with snow and fog, and the temperature in the house was warmer, and the clothes would be wet after a while.

Gu Xiyan hurriedly took off his coat and wrapped himself in the quilt, and said with a smile: "Sister Duan, you are also on the kang, let's chat"

Duan Yingluo said with a smile while hanging the clothes that Gu Xiyan had taken off on the head of the Taishi chair: "No." I'll have to serve you a meal later."

Gu Xiyan had a calm face: "Sister Duan, there are some words, I don't ask to understand, I really don't have any heart to eat."

Duan Yingluo patted the clothes hanging on the Taishi chair. To put it mildly: "What's the matter, what are you worried about?" ”

Gu Xiyan snorted coldly and said, "Sister Duan took so much effort to trick me into coming to Hongtai. Why, exactly? ”

Duan Yingluo's hand patting the clothes was slightly stiff.

"I just want my sister to tell me sincerely," Gu Xiyan's eyes were as cold as ice edges hanging under the eaves, "Is Qi Hao alive or dead?" ”

Duan Yingluo smiled unnaturally and said, "Why did the girl say this? ”

Gu Xiyan sneered: "Brother Yan Jin can't be contacted, that Ruomei can still smile when she sees her martial arts and strong ancestral aunt instead of asking for help; temporarily set to take me to Lingzhou, and Fu Bo could prepare a backpack in time to carry me all the way to Hongtai; **Feng self-reported his name to let Gong Tao, one of the four fierce generals around Qi Hao, personally pick us up into the city, but he chose to cross the mountains and mountains from Funiu Mountain to Lingzhou instead of choosing to go directly to Lingzhou from Jiazhou, which was occupied by the Yan army, to Lingzhou ......" said. She clenched her fists tightly, restraining herself from wanting to touch the bracelet with Qi Maosheng's private seal hidden between her wrists, "I just want to ask Sister Duan, Qi Hao, is he alive or dead?" ”

Duan Yingluo coughed lightly. The mouth seemed to mutter, hesitating.

"Or, what do you think you can achieve with me?" Gu Xiyan stared at her coldly: "Since I dare to come here with you, I am sure that you Shuramen will live and die together with me."

Duan Yingluo looked up in surprise.

Gu Xiyan smiled softly, her eyes were dark and dark: "Sister Duan, you people from Southern Shura, what a good means"

"No, why does the girl think I'm from Nan Shura" Duan Yingluo couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

Gu Xiyan stared at Duan Ying's eyes: "North, how can you grow bamboo." ”

Duan Yingluo couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Miss Gu." You're really smart, but this time you're really mistaken. We are really from the Northern Shura, but our headquarters is in Nanhai County. ”

Gu Xiyan didn't believe it at all: "Those don't matter, I just want to know now, is Qi Hao alive or dead?" ”

"We don't know either," someone suddenly pushed the door open and entered.

Gu Xiyan squinted his eyes.

It's the ** peak.

His face was expressionless. There was a deep worry in his eyes: "Miss Gu." We didn't know either, so we hurried to Hongtai. ”

Gu Xiyan sneered.

Duan Yingluo opened his mouth when he saw ** Feng. The embarrassment went a lot, and he said with a smile: "You are a family, it's easy to talk, I won't bother, go and see how Fauber's dinner is doing" After speaking, he went straight out of the door.

Gu Xiyan heard what was in this, and couldn't help but look at ** Feng with an inquiring gaze.

**Feng Zheng said: "Miss Gu really misunderstood Aunt Gu." Although the Shura Gate is divided into two, the headquarters of the two families are in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is only because the Northern Shura walks in the three places of Liang, Jin, and Yan north of the Songjiang River all the year round, so the people in the rivers and lakes misunderstand that the North Shura is always in the north......"

Gu Xiyan impatiently interrupted ** Feng's words and said, "These things have nothing to do with me, I just want to know Qi Hao's life and death." ”

**Feng showed a rare embarrassed expression, and his tone of voice also carried a hint of respect: "Girl, I was the same as Brother Gong, I was the little guy next to Grandpa Guo, but Brother Gong and Master Gong went to the Northwest Camp, and I was sent to the general practice of Northern Shura by my master." On the 14th of July, I received an order from my lord to return to Yandi immediately. When my master and I were in retreat, my disciple didn't know the importance of this letter, and when I got out, it was the end of September, and my master had an accident in Lingzhou. The master asked me to take Brother Mo, who is skilled in medicine, to Tongli Town, and the sniffing mouse in Brother Mo's hand suddenly smelled the intermittent incense...... The ancestor aunt said that she said that she had given the meaning of the lord's land and wanted to take the girl back to Yandi...... We're all together. When we arrived in Jindi, we contacted the Ninth Senior Aunt, and knew that some time ago Gong Tao asked Fu Bo to go back to Yongzhou to find Mrs. Wei and take a lot of ginseng fruits to Hongtai, and we also knew that the third master took Lin Yongzhao to Lingzhou. We thought about it and felt ...... I feel that those ginseng fruits are for the master, and the third master rushed to Lingzhou in such a hurry, I am afraid that it is the master, which is a little inappropriate. ”