Chapter 66: Peril

“…… Why is it so cold, Huang'er is not well-behaved again? The man stepped down the corridor and took the girl from outside the city in his arms.

Touching her cold jade-like hand, there was pity hidden in his eyes, but the tone of words that came out was another kind of sternness in the ears of others.

The sound faded away, the picture faded, and the silver-covered heaven and earth suddenly filled with a bleak atmosphere, and as soon as the north wind passed, the only remaining autumn colors were gone.

"Huang'er...... Don't be afraid, I'll be fine......"

Under the dead tree, there is still the clear shadow of the white robe of the moon, when the wind rises, the corners of the clothes flutter and move, and the light sound of the late autumn path cold is played low, like a resolute, like a sad roar.

The girl stood a foot away from him, looking at him with a numb expression as the blood soaked through the placket of his chest little by little, watching the corners of her lips gradually disappear and there was no more pampering in the world, and looked at him...... Tilt your body slowly until you ......

With a "boom", a dry thunder suddenly sounded in the sky.

Xiao Huang woke up from her dream, sat up with the trunk beside her, she eased her mind, looked up at the electric light in the sky that had not had time to disappear, and suddenly felt that her eyes were extremely sour, and she wiped her hands......

You guys...... Who the hell is it?

She stood stunned for a long time as she watched the teardrop on her fingertips slip down her fingertips to her fingers.

Those two vague figures, from time to time in her dreams since childhood, made up some strange and suffocating situations, and when she woke up, she felt a kind of loneliness on the verge of death.

However, that kind of dream, after she came to this continent, has not been there for a long time, but today I don't know why......

"Huh-"

While pondering, Xiao Huang suddenly sneered, it seems that his cranial nerves have been too active recently, so he will conceive some messy things when he sleeps.

She raised her eyes and glanced at the Huxi River a few meters away, only to see that under the gray sky, the waves were rolling on the surface of the river, and the turbulent water was slapping the stone teeth on both banks, surging and fluttering, and suddenly breaking and splashing countless splashes.

The raging rapids are all warning of the night sky that will not be calm tonight.

After a short rest, she leaned sideways to remove the burden from the low stump and did not linger long.

In this place where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back, Xiao Huang has been running along the Huxi River for several days to find people, and the fatigue factor of his whole body has actually been waving and shouting for a long time.

Halfway through, she tried to stop, stop this rambling search, but just the thought of that person had a 100% chance of being in the river...... She didn't even think of stopping.

The bread in her pocket bottomed out in two days, and if it weren't for her innate habit of cleanliness, she would have wanted to taste what the sawgrass at her feet tasted like.

The word "hungry" gives people an intuitive feeling, and I am afraid that it is the only one in this world.

Shaking the skin pot on his waist, listening to the dull sound of the sound of water swaying from inside, Xiao Huang rarely entertained himself and thought that in the past, there were painted cakes to satisfy hunger, and now it is a good strategy to fill his stomach with water.

It's just that the land of Juncheng is said to be a place favored by the Dragon King, and if she can't find a place to live in the future, I'm afraid that the shape of "Soup Chicken" will be unavoidable.

Even her current appearance is not much better.

For people who are wandering outside, "superficial work" is always not their primary concern, let alone in addition to ...... Xiao Huang had no time to care about anything else.

Because of a few days of laying grass as a mat and the open air as a quilt, when she is tired and sleepy, she can sleep lightly for half a day by finding something to lean on, and the black powder used to disguise her skin color on her face is all wiped clean by the cuffs, and she is completely unaware.

His clothes were wrinkled, his chestnut hair was loosely tied behind his back, and his shoes and socks were in the muddy water, wet and dry, dry and wet......

Fortunately, floating on the surface of the Huxi River are often the floating corpses of some domestic animals and wild animals, and occasionally after the water recedes, several ruins and broken walls will be faintly revealed, but what she is looking for is not even half a shadow.

This is the only thing she feels fortunate about in recent days.

Seeing that the sky was about to darken, she looked around as she walked, looking for a suitable place to stay at night, but in the flash of her eyes, she suddenly seemed to be frozen, and the package in her hand fell to the ground.

But the stiffness of his limbs was only a few seconds, and Xiao Huang rushed to the river without thinking much about raising his feet, and then jumped into the ...... Jumped off.

"Oh, this person has some meaning...... "I don't want to pick a clean place when I seek death."

Interesting? This time, I heard a large number of people from the secret report from the palace, and I don't know what the master said?

Mo Yan raised his head slightly, just in front of the secret note that Shanggong Liyu casually threw back, he respectfully took it, lowered his head, but accidentally broke into a ...... in the Huxi River at the foot of the mountain Tumbling black spots?

I saw the figure floating up and down and fluttering, swimming towards the deep water in a very strange posture.

Mo Yan was stunned for half a second, and then his eyes were leisurely cold, and a person like him who had survived from purgator committed suicide was his most shameless behavior.

But before he could retract his gaze, a corner of his clothes quickly flashed in front of him, and the air flowed instantly, leaving only a heavy sentence.

"You don't have to."

In the city, the prefectural government.

The tea on the table was getting colder, but the people in the back hall didn't care about adding tea and pouring water at the moment.

The county magistrate of Juncheng sat restlessly walking around the house, and now he only hoped that the person who was lying in front of the desk and writing hard could get an idea, but ......

"His Royal Highness the Prince, in the past three days, the government has almost exhausted the arrests, and I have only turned the Huxi River upside down, but I still haven't seen the Metropolitan Governor...... The remains, according to His Royal Highness's opinion, how should the lower officials report to the imperial court? ”

Compared with Lu Feng's trepidation, Xia Yujie was unusual, and deafly prepared to write a letterhead.

After he rested his pen and put it in his bag, he summoned his guards and advised: "Send this letter to Beijing quickly, and be sure to hand it over to the queen yourself." ”

"Yes, my subordinates will do it immediately!"

After the guards left, Lu Feng hurriedly blocked Xia Yujie's way in a few steps, but in his anxiety he maintained the courtesy of his subordinates, "Your Highness, what the official just said......

"Hmph, the governor of Nangong died to protect the palace, I believe it was his life's honor, the deceased is gone, how the living mourn is in vain, you truthfully return is that the father is benevolent and virtuous, maybe he will set up a loyal tomb for him."

Xia Yujie waved his sleeves and interrupted, full of painful words, but his eyes were indescribably proud.

Although the collapse of Heti Bang that day was an accident, and even he almost died under the stone dam, it ...... Compared to seeing Nangong Qijue being swept into the torrent with his own eyes, it was nothing.

Even if he never thought that Nangong Qijue would die so easily, what difference did it make if the surprise came earlier and later?

At first, he was still sitting on pins and needles, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that it was not the will of God. If it weren't for the power of the queen mother's jealousy of the criminal governor, the current father would have retired to retire and retire for the rest of his life.

It's really in vain that he swallowed his anger for so many years, and now he is finally happy to come to the end of the flowers, Nangong Qiqi is dead, who dares to stand in his way to becoming the emperor in the future......

"From tomorrow, the team of people who are looking for people will be withdrawn, the city will build a gate and repair the embankment, and the matter of allocating food for disaster relief will be arranged by the palace with full authority, as for the twists and turns you submitted...... How to present the truth, I believe that Master Lu will be impartial and measured. Xia Yujie patted him on the shoulder with a kind face, and then walked out with a big smile.

It wasn't until the footsteps died down that Lu Feng pulled the sleeves of his official robe and wiped the cold sweat from his temples, remembering that Fang Cai's snake-like eyes were staring at him, and there was a gust of wind behind him.

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"Anyone?" The dehydrated throat made a slightly dry voice, with a hint of tentativeness, but no one answered except for the little empty echo.

Looking at the mossy rocks above her head, Xiao Huang adapted for a while before she began to move, she slowly sat up with the dry grass under her, and her apricot eyes looked at the environment she was in extremely confused.

Surrounded by rocks on all sides, the grass grew unevenly on the rock wall, and the vines hanging from the entrance of the cave blocked the light from the outside world, and she could not tell where she was at this moment, nor could she know what time it was.

Because without her, there is no other living creature in the cave, as if the whole world is in a closed, silent, quiet and small space.

If it weren't for the occasional creeping sound of Chai He on the side being eroded by the flames, she would have almost mistakenly thought that she was already deaf......

Gong Liyu didn't want to pay much attention to it, but after the figure with his hands around his knees and staring at the fire came into his eyes, the words "dirty" blurted out involuntarily.

Suddenly, hearing such a disgusted tone, Xiao Huang turned his head sideways and saw the man who only had two sides but could penetrate the dangerous aura into the hearts of the people, carrying a bamboo basket that was extremely incompatible with his temperament and walked in from the entrance of the cave.

"Gong Liyu?!" The surprise in my heart was undisguised.

The visitor glanced at it, and felt that Xiao Huang's frizzy hairstyle and dusty cloth clothes seemed to have been picked up from the stinky gutter, and he simply threw the things in his hand into her arms a few steps away.

"What is this?" After subconsciously holding the bamboo basket, Xiao Huang asked a rhetorical question in hindsight.

The basket contains a small kettle and a few lotus leaf bags, bulging, mixed with the fragrance of lotus leaves and a strong sweet and glutinous taste.

Her heart moved, and she picked up a lotus leaf bag and opened it, and sure enough, it was a few pieces of delicate and round soft rice cakes.

Seeing this, her already hungry stomach was even more cheerful, but ...... looked at the person who Shi Shiran sat on the other side of the fire, "You saved me?" ”

Although the facts were obvious, her tone was a little unconvinced.

"It's not a bad memory." Seeing that she twisted a piece of pastry and sent it to her mouth without thinking about it, the corners of someone's lips hidden under the mask were rarely bent a little, "It's a pity that my brain is not very good." ”

"Ahem...... cough cough ...... "Hearing this, Xiao Huang almost choked to death before she swallowed her first mouthful, she couldn't help but feel a little angry, and rushed out: "What do you mean, Your Excellency?" ”

"This should be the attitude towards life-savers?"

"That'...... We're even, you saved me this time, and I ...... before."

Halfway through the words, Xiao Huang suddenly took a dip, why did he soak in the river once, and his brain also entered the water? Her appearance at the moment should be a stranger in his eyes.

Seeing that she was so eager to clear up the relationship, Gong Liyu's heart inexplicably burned a trace of boredom, he only thought it was caused by the hot flashes in the cave, and he couldn't help but lose a little calm in his words.

"Flat? Last time I was in the ancestral hall of the General's Mansion, this seat didn't let you save it. ”

Listening to the suddenly gloomy voice like passing through an ice cellar, Xiao Huang couldn't help but feel a little weak.

Although it is true to help him heal his injuries, after all, it is also "taking advantage of people's danger", Yu Qing, they have never known each other, and Yu Li - it seems that she is the one who is difficult for strong people...... Hey, no, he just said that the ancestral hall of the General's Mansion?!

A thought flashed in her heart, and she hurriedly reached out to touch her face, when her fingertips touched the smooth and delicate skin, and the long hair scattered around her neck...... She thought helplessly, she would have to spend more time studying waterproof makeup in the future.

"What's the matter, the eldest lady of the General's Mansion is not easy to do? Or is it more to your taste to dress up as a man to wander the world? The tail note was slightly provoked, and it sounded a little ridiculous.

Sure enough, meddling is not a good habit, Xiao Huang was nervously holding the bamboo basket in his arms - he was stunned last time, so he won't come to me now, but she is really hungry now......

No matter what, break the jar and break it, it's better to be a full ghost than a hungry ghost, so ...... She shook half of the pastry in her hand and smiled awkwardly but politely, "...... This one is more in line with my taste. ”

Seeing this, Gong Liqian was stunned for a few seconds, and the green tendons on her forehead under the mask seemed to jump a few times, and then ...... He silently turned his head to the side and wordlessly added a dry wood to the fire.

After a while, the mode of getting along between the two gradually formed, one only chewed slowly to fill his stomach, and the other person closed his eyes and meditated like a bell, the two were at peace with each other, without interfering with each other, and a strange and harmonious atmosphere was permeated in the cave for a moment.

Half a pillar of incense passed, Xiao Huang ate two packs of soft rice cakes before she felt seven or eight points full, after she carefully packed the rest of the snacks, the opposite side still closed her eyes as if she was asleep.

The firelight reflected in the silver mask on his face, a mirror image of the scorching sun, as if softening the eyebrows of the iceberg peak.

Sensing the look on the other side, Gong Liyu opened her eyelids and met a dodging gaze without surprise, "Full?" ”

The sound was in his ears, and the person who was still in the fugue sky nodded sluggishly.

"Hmm...... That, Your Excellency's saving grace today, Xiao Huang will definitely repay it if he has the opportunity. ”

Staring at people and getting caught red-handed?! This can be included in the embarrassment book of her lifetime, and after reacting, she was a little hesitant in her words.

"Repay?" Gong Liqian read the two words lightly and jokingly: "Don't want to die? ”

When did she lose the desire to live? Xiao Huang was full of question marks, "I live a good life, why do I want to die?" ”

"So, you threw yourself into the river to catch fish?"

Hearing this, Xiao Huang was obviously stunned, she suddenly had a stirring in her brain, and her hands hurriedly poked around.

When she felt the burden behind her, and a corner of bright red brocade was revealed between grasping, the throbbing heartbeat in her chest returned to its normal frequency.

Thinking of the thrill in the Huxi River, she couldn't help but be a little afraid, and she didn't know which temple the driftwood in the temple had been washed away by the flood, wrapped in several layers of thick red yarn floating in the water, and the dark sky made her five-point vision mistaken for ......

Her mind was in turmoil, and the moment she saw the things in the river as they were, and realized that she was in the middle of the whirlpool, it was too late.

The icy and piercing water rushed like a tide, mixed with gravel and broken branches surrounded into large and small deep whirlpools, no matter how strong Xiao Huang's water nature was, he couldn't resist the suffocation feeling of the river water that didn't pass his head for a while, fortunately......

She looked up at the opposite side, and was about to open her mouth when she heard a slightly disdainful sarcasm, "Show the gold thread, the leaves and flowers, the special silkworm embroidery craft of the Flower Pavilion, two pieces are produced in a year, and one of them must be dedicated to it." ”

Seeing that Gong Liyu noticed the crimson satin exposed on the outside of the cloth bag, Xiao Huang subconsciously leaned back, and stopped with five fingers, "What about the other one?" ”

"You're curious?"

"Not really, I just want to know." She said frankly.

Doesn't that mean the same thing?

Gong Li's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "...... Isn't it in your hands? ”

"How do you know that this piece is not given by Emperor Xia Yu?"

"Yanhua Pavilion is a tailor-made garment workshop for the royal family, and the splendid cloud forging that pays tribute in the four seasons is the top craftsmanship of the palace workshop, not to mention this silkworm embroidery and silk forging, which the favorite concubine can't ask for, who do you think he will reward to?"

When Xiao Huang heard this, he smiled casually, "Although Your Excellency is in the rivers and lakes, you seem to know a lot about the affairs of the court. ”

Gong Liqian glanced at her lightly, "If you want to come to this seat at this time, don't you think it's too late?" ”

"What ......" was silent, and there was no sound in the cave.