When Xia Qian walked out of the forest, Mingyu was still looking for her outside the woods.

"Mingyu, is there something wrong with me?"

Mingyu turned around and saw that Xia Qian was looking at her not far away, and hurriedly explained, "Young lady, young master has come to see you." That's right, young master! It was obviously here just now, how could this disappear? ”

Mingyu searched for a long time on the boulevard, and shouted for a long time, but he never saw Huo Zun.

"Forget it, let's go copy the scriptures first!" Xia Qian said lightly and returned to the courtyard wall where the scriptures needed to be copied.

"How did you get up until you slept now? What about the vines? Didn't he come to see you, and he hasn't come back for so long? Lin looked at Xia Qian angrily, and his tone was full of reproach.

Xia Qian lowered her head and replied softly, "I...... I didn't see him! ”

"Didn't see that?" Lin looked surprised.

Mingyu thought about it for a while, and hurriedly spoke: "The training camp is very disciplined, and the young master may have gone down the mountain!" There is a cold wind today, and it seems that the weather is probably going to change, so it is better for the slave to go back and get some clothes. ”

As soon as the maid said this, Lin suddenly remembered that the winter clothes for Huo Feng were not ready, and after giving Xia Qian an explanation, he took Mingyu down the mountain.

Xia Qian looked at the backs of the master and servant, and the bone-eating chill froze her whole body.

They know that they have to add clothes when the day changes, but what about herself?

When she herself was taken up the mountain by them, she didn't even bring a change of clothes.

The only carriage they had taken was gone, so what would she do?

It is more than 20 miles away from Qinglong City, and the grass on the road is high and dense, how can she go back when she is penniless?

Escape!

Even the weeds that have been trampled under people's feet have the desire to live!

She must escape from the Huo family before she can find a way to live for herself!

During the lunch fast, Xia Qian deliberately nibbled on two more steamed buns, and sneaked out of Fahua Temple while no one was paying attention.

Along the high bluestone steps, she ran down the hill in one go, heading for a gravel road on the east side.

After walking for some time, she noticed that a pile of large rocks was blocking her way.

The stones are piled up into a wall, but they are obviously not as tall and wide as the courtyard wall, and there is no bond between the stones, which is simply held together.

Xia Qian climbed over these boulders with great difficulty and found that the road ahead was paved with thick lime. The lime had been mixed into the mud and sand of the road by the wind and rain, and the grass was so overgrown that it looked as if no one had walked on it for months.

"Why is this road blocked? Why is there so much lime sprinkled in the latter paragraph? ”

Looking at the thick layer of lime powder sprinkled on the road, she instinctively became vigilant.

There was silence all around, the lime road ahead was as wide as the carriageway, and it was impossible to see the direction from the gravel pile not far away, and she looked into the barren grass for a long time, and there was hardly any sign of any living thing.

After struggling inwardly for a long time, she didn't give herself a chance to turn back, and walked along the lime road head-on.

The soles of her feet hurt when she stepped on the pile of rubble, and she slipped her legs and sat on the gravel when she lifted her feet.

This was originally a blocked slope, and the top of the slope was covered with piles of gravel, and Xia Qian did not see it from above.

This slip followed dozens of gravel and climbed to the bottom of the slope at once.

"Ahh

After a burst of screaming, Xia Qian felt a burning pain in her limbs.

When I lifted my clothes, I saw that my snow-white arms and legs had been cut through countless bloody cuts by gravel and thorns. The lime powder stuck to the wound, and it was even more stinging.

Before she could stand up, she noticed something unusual in the grass below the hillside, and she quickly held her breath as she watched one rotting body after another rise from the grass.

"What the hell, what—zombies?"

Xia Qian's mind stiffened, and her whole body softened into a puddle of mud.

The festering, emaciated bodies slowly rose from the grass and staggered towards her.

Xia Qian, who was already frightened, trembled and curled up tightly in a ball.

"There are ghosts! Help me! Help me! ”

Seeing those bodies with blurred flesh and blood, bruised hands and necks, and festering skin approaching him step by step, Xia Qian fled back in a panic, and shouted for help in her mouth.

Feeling that those people had been following her, Xia Qian didn't dare to look back, dragging her two weak legs and stumbling back along the lime road.

The gravel was originally scattered and piled up, and at the moment, she was terrified and panicked under her feet, and she slipped and climbed more and more to the top of the gravel pile.

Looking back, the bodies were only three steps away from him, and a few heads were emerging from the grass not far away.

"Help!" She shouted, tears streaming out.

Suddenly, a light green figure appeared in front of her, and before she could see the man's face clearly, the other party had already dragged her all the way and ran all the way, quickly running over the pile of rubble to the wall where the big pile of stones had just been raised.

Lu ...... Lu Jingheng! ”

Xia Qian screamed in panic, and when she looked carefully, Lu Jingheng's face was as white as paper, and his eyes were uneasy.

He glanced at Xia Qian, pulled her over the stone wall, and escaped a mile away in one go.

Letting go of her hand, Lu Jingheng let out a long sigh and sat on the stone on the side of the road.

"You don't want to die, this plague is extremely contagious, and once it reaches the later stage, the body decays and there is no cure. Those infected were found helpless, so they were left to fend for themselves, and if you were touched by them, you would probably be sent to the plague as well! Lu Jingheng said breathlessly, looking at Xia Qian with a serious face.

"I ...... I didn't know it would happen! She looked at the other person in horror and explained weakly.

She was dying for a while just now, and she used all her strength almost all the time, and at this moment, her whole body was paralyzed after escaping, and her heart seemed to be able to jump out of her body at any time.

She leaned against the tree, feeling her lips trembling and her hands and feet gnawing like insects.

Pulling up her sleeves, she saw that the wounds she had just cut had turned purple and red, and her calf was swollen.

"Are you infected with the plague? Are your wounds scratched by those rubble? There is a plague on those stones! ”

Xia Qian looked at her ankles in a panic, not only her legs and feet, but also the places that were scratched just now were all red and swollen.

The gravel and brambles were the places where the plague-infected people had been, and they were more or less stained with poisonous blood and abscesses.

"Why am I so stupid, where others can't hide, I am in a hurry to send me to death." Xia Qian looked at her red and swollen wrists, and tears of regret were about to fall.

"Am I going to die?"

"You go back to the temple first and lie down, don't get out of bed, this plague can't see the wind and cold, I'll go back to the city to find medicine!"

Lu Jingheng picked up Xia Qian and walked back to Fahua Temple, and after settling her, he hurried back to Qinglong City.

Along the way, he was in turmoil.

Last night, he struggled all night, and he felt that he had to kill Xia Qian over and over again, otherwise what he did in the Qingtian Palace, and the matter of secretly placing eyeliner in the Huo family would soon be exposed.

But just now, he was struggling again.

Yesterday, the dagger was already in his hand, and when he saw her crying heartbreakingly, his heart also hurt.

This time, watching her walk into the epidemic area, he could have done nothing, just quietly watched her die, and didn't even have to look at it, waiting for the news of her body festering and exploding in the wilderness a few days later.

It's a pity that when he heard her urgent cry for help, he couldn't help but be flustered, worried and heartbroken, hesitated for a long time, and finally rushed forward desperately.

"Xia Qian, do you know how much I love you, why do you deceive me?"

Lu Jingheng sat on horseback, his knobby fingers clucking.