Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but ask when he saw me stunned: "Don't you go in?" ”

I took a deep breath and said, "Come in." "Raise your feet and walk into the cave, look around the cave, people go to the empty building about this time, loss and sadness coexist, especially the charcoal that has been burned out on the ground, all of which are cold.

Zhu Gaoxu looked left and right, turned back to me and said, "Did you find anything?" ”

I stared at where Ah Ping had been lying and didn't answer him immediately, slowly squatted down, touched the stone, and the scene from the dream flashed in my mind. After I saw the barrier, Ah Ping was carried away by a vague figure, and this vision preconceived to occupy my brain, making me think that it was either Zhu Di or someone else.

However, I overlooked one thing, and it was not the severity of the injuries that kept Ah Ping awake, but the shock after falling into the water from a high place and the wind chill caused by the cold, which subsided shortly after he drank the herbs.

So, is there any possibility that Ah Ping went out on his own?

He should have woken up after the fever subsided, maybe he woke up long before I went to Shengshui and kept pretending to sleep, or he could have woken up when Zhu Di's subordinates came over after I left, but somehow he didn't make a sound. Is it to test Zhu Di? Or did he hear my conversation with Zhu Di? Looking back at that time, Zhu Di and I didn't say anything ambiguous, but Ah Ping has always cared about him, and it is hard to guarantee that he will have other thoughts. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this possibility was very high, because when I analyzed the possibility of Beiyuan Bing or Mu Bing taking Ah Ping away after ruling out Zhu Di, I always felt that there was something wrong with it, so I asked to come to the scene to take a look.

But what I can't figure out is, why did Ah Ping leave alone? Even if he only woke up just after we left, there were so many people searching in the forest, no matter how they would bump into him, why was he still nowhere to be seen?

It could only be that he didn't want to be found, and it wasn't difficult for him to hide from being found with his mental strategy.

I stood up straight and walked out, and Zhu Gaoxu shouted from behind: "Eh, where are you going?" ”

Standing at the entrance of the cave, I looked around and gauged where Ping would choose to go when he came out. Suddenly thinking of something, his eyes fixed on the direction of the stream, and he walked away. Immediately following behind him, Zhu Gaoxu ran forward and asked me a little worriedly: "Xiaolan, are you okay, don't think about it." Brother Wei must be able to find it, it's a matter of time, if you can't think about it, what will you do when Brother Wei comes back? ”

I paused, turned my head to glare at him, "Which eye of yours can't see me?" ”

But he replied confidently: "Both eyes have seen, and you have been silent since you reached the cave, and you seem to be unable to hear what you are asking, which is clearly a sign of distraction." ”

I was so angry that I stepped on his feet, "I'm thinking about things, what does it mean to be sanity?" ”

He was thick-skinned, so he only grinned and said, "It's okay if you're okay, I'm not worried that you've been talking nonsense." ”

It turns out that he deliberately diverted my mind to make up the faction, this kid doesn't look at him arrogantly, and occasionally he is careful. didn't hide it from him, and told him what he might have thought of just now, and his eyes widened after listening: "You mean Brother Wei left by himself?" Then why didn't he come back? ”

"I won't know until I find him."

"And where are you going now?"

I pointed to the waterfall in front of me, "I found him there, he was caught in a crack in the rocks and had been swept away by the waterfall, suspecting that he had fallen from above, and wanted to go to the hillside to have a look." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, "It fell from there?" Brother Wei doesn't know martial arts. ”

Yes, he doesn't know martial arts, but he always tells fortunes, and he falls down so high that there is a waterhole at the bottom, and I'm glad I found it.

The waterfall was soon reached, but it was not easy for us to go up, and we walked around and couldn't find a way up the mountain. I was about to shout Zhu Gaoxu to go around along the mountain range, when I suddenly glanced at a certain stone and looked up, saw a few grasses resting on it, and couldn't help but approach the past, and when I saw the blades of grass, my heart was shocked, isn't this the herb I picked before?

By the way, I remember that I had picked a surplus of herbs to cure the wind and cold, and I was going to come back with some water and give them a little to drink, and then decoction a bowl of my own drinking, but just now there were no blades of grass on the ground except for the cold charcoal.

This neglected thing suddenly came to mind, so Ah Ping really came here!

Only he could have taken these blades of grass, how could he be a spy of an enemy country? Behind him, Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward, "What are you looking at?" At the same time, he also caught a glimpse of the blades of grass on the stone, and couldn't help but wonder, "Hey, these blades of grass are a bit like herbs." ”

Instead, I turned my eyes to him in surprise: "You also know medical science?" ”

He shook his head and said: "I don't know any medical science, this is just the common sense of excepting marches and wars, often in the field there is a disease or something, you can find some grass leaves to chew on the spot." ”

"Do you recognize what herbs these are?"

"There are those who treat wind and cold, and there are those who treat external injuries. That kind of traumatic herb is very rare, but the force is very strong, if the wound is deep, it hurts like torture, the key is to have a quick effect. ”

No wonder Zhu Di not only became conscious later, but he was able to stand up on his own and walked for such a long distance with me in his arms.

I was thinking about Ah Ping sitting on this stone with these blades of grass, what was he thinking at the time? Why didn't he come to me right away or join Uncle Mu? He just walked away, and he didn't even hear from him.

Later, Zhu Gaoxu accompanied me to find the way up the mountain, all the way to the waterfall. Although there was no corpse of Jinyiwei or Beiyuan soldiers on the ground, the blood stains and the smell of blood wafting in the air were so strong that it was disgusting, if it weren't for the water flowing in the waterfall pool, I am afraid that even the water might be dyed red.

I didn't find Ah Ping, I searched all the corners around there, and there was no trace of it.

Zhu Gaoxu called me beside him, turned around and saw him looking at me with a solemn face, his heart sank, and his legs were weak when he walked over, could it be ...... I don't dare to think about the worst.

When he got to him, he saw that the open space at his feet was slightly raised, and a large circle was drawn on the ground.

"This ......" only said one word and felt angina, impossible.

I heard Zhu Gaoxu say: "If I guess correctly, there should be a lot of corpses buried underneath." ”

I asked, "How do you know?" ”

He raised his hand and pointed to the ground and said, "You can see that the soil on this ground is obviously different from the color of the next one, it is the red clay underneath that has been renovated and filled, and the tool used to dig this pit should be a sword, and there are some scratches on the ground." He paused and turned his eyes to look at me, "I heard you say that Brother Wei escaped by the Jinyi guard, and then he fell from here into the waterhole at the bottom of the mountain, I'm afraid that after a fierce battle here, many people died." Shall I dig up some soil and take a look? ”

He was asking for my opinion, and it stands to reason that I should not have agreed, and it would be disrespectful to the dead to dig it up again. But I only hesitated and nodded, and Zhu Gaoxu immediately took out the dagger he carried with him to dig the soil. Indeed, as he said, the soil was very loose, and it was dug up without any effort, and as the excavated area increased, the corpses side by side also came into view.

There are familiar and unfamiliar faces, and the familiar ones are the brocade guards who came with them, escorting Ah Ping to escape, and now they are all lying here; The strange ones should be Beiyuan soldiers from the point of view of their attire, and they are all buried in this pit.

I whispered, "Axu, stop digging." ”

He looked back at me and answered, and filled it all back.

"Xiaolan, are you sad?" Zhu Gaoxu got up and looked at me cautiously and asked.

It's not just sad, it's sad. If these people were not buried by Uncle Mu, then Ah Ping really came back here and then dug a pit to bury them in the ground. At that time, when he did this, his heart was extremely painful, he didn't like war, but he lived in the smoke of war, and it must have been painful to witness the death of his guards one by one.

Even though I feel sorry for it, I feel it because I wasn't there. Was it these things that made him come here quietly and leave without leaving a word? But Ah Ping, don't you even want me?

Standing there for a long time, from afternoon to dusk, and then from dusk to dark, Zhu Gaoxu never urged me, just guarded by the side. Later, the waterfall was flying, the night was dark and the wind was high, and the chill hit me and made me shiver, so he came over and asked softly, "Xiaolan, are you going back?" ”

Slowly turning sideways as if in slow motion, and looking at the cathartic waterfall again, I nodded, "Go back." ”

It's just that my feet are stiff and I can't lift them, and I barely move my body and fall forward, Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly supported my arm and asked repeatedly: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" Is your foot numb? I'll carry you down the mountain, and you won't have to walk when you get to the carriage. ”

So Zhu Gaoxu carried me on the way down the mountain, and I was lying on his shoulder, but I vaguely found Ah Ping's shadow, and I couldn't help but look worried. It seems that a long, long time ago, Ah Ping also carried me on my back more than once in such a night to walk step by step in the shade, which was very reassuring at that time, but now it is very uncomfortable.

Hearing Zhu Gaoxu, he suddenly broke the silence: "Xiaolan, you are so light." ”

I rested my forehead on his shoulder and buzzed, "It's better to be lighter." But he said, "It's not good, my mother said that a woman should be fatter if she has given birth." ”

In the past, I would definitely laugh at him, but at this time, I didn't even want to pull the corners of my mouth, and only said lightly: "When you have a woman in the future, you will raise her well." He paused at his feet, then said, "Definitely." ”