"You choose me, okay?"

After saying this, I closed my mouth tightly, even suffocating my breath, only staring at him with wide eyes, and the hand holding his fingertips was almost cold.

Qing Han has not looked at my eyes, but from my angle, I can clearly see that under the slightly trembling thick eyelashes, there seems to be ice and fire entangled in those clear eyes, constantly tearing at his soul, every moment is a bit of torment, compared to the torment in my heart, it is not inferior at all.

You choose me, okay?

How bold did I have to ask this sentence, putting my life, my life, into his hands, his words can make my life shine, and the same sentence can be like a sharp knife, piercing my chest, making my life dark from now on.

I don't know how long it took, but he finally raised his head slowly, and his dark eyes looked at me fixedly, but his gaze was the same as his voice, and he kept trembling.

"I ...... Choose your ......"

……！

My heart suddenly felt like it was about to explode, and the hand holding his fingers was almost spasmodic: "Light chill! ”

"I choose you!"

“……”

"Then, where do we go?"

For a moment, I was almost frantic with joy, and I shuddered, "I, let's get out of here, we-we-we-go to find-"

"Find a child, right?"

"Yes!" I nodded vigorously - my departed son, my daughter, no matter how long she is imprisoned, no matter how long it passes, I will not give up the goal of finding her, and if I can have him by my side after finding her, then - then what more can I ask for in this life?!

Thinking of this, my heart darkened for no reason.

Then, slowly, I looked at him.

He also looked at me, his eyes indescribably clear: "Over the years, Li'er will not come alone." ”

“……”

"I've heard people say that the princess was robbed by someone."

“……”

"But you're not too worried about Li'er being hurt, or—you're gone, because you know that the person who kidnapped Li'er won't hurt her, and will treat her well, right?"

“……”

"Then, who is Li'er's side?"

……

Who is Li'er's side?

Hearing this, I felt as if a door that had been sealed for a long time was suddenly pushed open, and a white-clothed, dusty figure stood there, suddenly appearing in front of me.

Who else can there be around Li'er?

Pei Yuanxiu, the crown prince who was only one step away from the throne, wielded a knife for me in Dongzhou City to confront the "Yuan Gongzi" of the grassland barbarians...... It was also the one who smiled faintly in the quiet air of the Inner Pavilion and had a calm conversation with me.

It is also the person who rescued my departed son, who disappeared for so many years.

Why did Qinghan mention him, and why did he mention him at this time?

Thinking of this, my heart looked at him more and more worriedly. Qinghan asked calmly: "The person next to Li'er is the prince at the beginning, right?" ”

"Yes, it's him."

After a question and answer, Qing Han stopped talking, and I looked up at his flickering eyes uneasily, and asked, "Why do you know about him?" Who sued you? ”

“……”

I suddenly seemed to understand something--the matter of Pei Yuanxiu has become a taboo in the palace, even if Shen Gongji wants to talk to him, there is no need to talk about these past events, and the only thing that can talk about these things in front of him makes him hesitate and scruple like this, and even has the idea of retreating, only-

"It was Pei Yuanzhen who told you, right?"

He didn't speak, but his eyebrows slowly twisted into a Sichuan character.

This time, I got it all right.

No wonder he has always been so close to me, even when I am alone with him, it always feels like I can't get close to each other, it's not my delusion, it's that hesitation.

"Actually, it's not just the eldest princess," said in a light cold voice, "I've heard of this prince a long time ago. I heard that he is outstanding, gentle and elegant, and has the style of a gentleman. The student who gave a lecture at the Selling Incense Academy also praised him for his outstanding virtues. ”

“……”

"The eldest princess told me that he once spoke up for you in public when everyone was embarrassed for you, and contradicted his mother; Later, when he left the capital, he was alone, and the only thing he took with him was a book you gave him. ”

“……”

"She also said that in fact, five years ago, the battle in Dongzhou was also fought by him for you."

My heart sank.

Of course, I haven't forgotten what happened in Dongzhou, but at that time, I lost all my memory, and I didn't know what it meant for that person to appear by my side, but I just regarded him as a friend, and when he fought bloody battles on the city tower and used my body to resist iron arrows for me, I still didn't know anything except gratitude, except for his doubts.

It wasn't until I regained my memories that I realized that I had been in debt.

A debt that can barely be repaid.

Thinking of this, my eyes were also a little hot and red, I took a deep breath and raised my head to look at Qing Han: "What do you mean by this?" ”

“……”

"You're trying to say that you're not my only choice, are you?"

“……”

"Do you want to say that I don't have to be you Liu Qinghan, right?"

Qing Han was silent, the interweaving of ice and fire in his eyes almost made me feel pain when I looked at it, and my chest was also throbbing. In the end, as if he had made up his mind, he raised his head to look at me, and said word by word: "Lightness, I, not the best." ”

"What?"

"I'm not the best."

He repeated, his eyelashes drooping slightly, and his eyes darkened.

Hearing this, my eyebrows furrowed, and I suddenly understood.

Is this why he has always been hesitant and aloofed from me?

Because he is the person he loves, he feels that he must be the best in the world to be worthy of him. And he went all the way to Beijing, what he saw and knew was all royal relatives and nobles, dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren, for a fisherman like him who was born in a fishing village, I can't know how much pressure there is, but Shen Xiaokun's sentence of "mud legs" made him linger all the time, how much, I can also understand.

Thinking of this, I calmed down and said, "So, who do you think I should choose?" Him? ”

He didn't speak, but when I said I wanted to choose "him", almost every furrow in the deep furrow of his eyebrows was tormented, and on his pale, barely bloody face, he looked more and more melancholy.

"Light cold, you sue me, what's the best? Who can be the best? ”

“……”

"I know tens of millions of people, but in terms of appearance and character, I can't compare with Huang Ye; If you are knowledgeable, you can't compare with Fu Badai; On the power of the sky, it failed to reach the supreme of the dynasty; On brave martial arts, he failed to reach the prince of the steppe; On the scheming city ......" I paused, and a chill surged faintly from the bottom of my heart, and I swallowed this sentence only halfway through.

"With so many of the best, should I choose them all?"

“……”

"You're right, you're not the best, and he's really good. For me, he gave a lot, even to the point of separation...... Li'er was also rescued by risking his life. ”

“……”

Speaking of this, I choked up a little: "I owe him too much." ”

The cold was so quiet that he could barely breathe, but he just looked at me like this, his eyes as black as eternal night.

I looked firmly at the dark pupils and said slowly: "Some people are good to me, I will be grateful; What I owe to others, I will repay, even if it is a grass ring in the next life, I must repay it. But there is one man, he is good to me, I take it for granted, I owe him, I don't want to pay it back, I want to ask him for more, and even - I want the rest of his life, give it to me. ”

“……”

"Because, take the second flower bush lazy review, half of the cultivation of the road and half of the king."

Qing Han looked at me with his eyes wide slightly: "Light." ”

"Qinghan, you are this, the one who is destined to suffer."

“……”

"No matter how good it is, I don't want it."

“……”

"All I want is you."

“……”

Hearing this, he didn't say anything, just looked at me for a long time, his eyes were a little red, and finally slowly raised his hand and stretched out to me, his voice was low and hoarse: "Come here." ”

I gritted my teeth and put my hand in his palm, and immediately it was held tightly, and with a pull, my whole body fell into his arms, and I felt the solid and warm chest rise and fall violently, and I grabbed his shirt hard: "Light cold." ”

He didn't say a word, just hugged me hard, and when his slightly trembling lips pressed against my forehead, the hot touch seemed to be marked by him, and it was all his life.

I had the urge to cry, my hands wrapped around his thin waist, and hugged him hard, as if that was the promise between me and him, only for a moment, forever.

At that moment, I really thought it was forever.

However, at this time, I forgot to brand him......

The weather is slowly starting to get hotter.

Even the dense shade of the trees overhead could not hide the scorching heat brought by the sun, and the specks of light poured down on the surface of the river, almost dazzling.

Fortunately, the river that has been flowing endlessly still has a warm and cool breath, which makes our two "wild men" who almost drink blood a lot more comfortable.

After catching two fish and grilling them, I was reluctant to put on my shoes and socks, sit on the shore, and soak my bare feet in the river, the cool river water flowed around the snow-white ankles, and occasionally small fish frolicked and swam over, brushing the surface of my feet, bringing a crispy/itchy feeling.

I couldn't help but laugh and reach out to touch it, and the fish was also clever, and as soon as my fingertips entered the water, it swished and swam away without a trace.

Qing Han saw it on the side and smiled: "It's so small, are you willing to catch it?" ”

"I'll just play for a while."

"These small fish are the most intelligent, they can feel it when someone is in the river, and it is not easy to catch."

I looked at him curiously: "I remember that you used to catch small fish by the river and come back to make soup, how did you catch them?" ”

Qing Han smiled: "Although these little fish are clever, they are only sensitive to danger, and if the surroundings are calm, they will not have a sense of crisis at all." Therefore, we often take stones and enclose a small pond in shallow water, lower than the water surface, and sprinkle small sandworms or something into it, and they will swim in to eat, and when the river recedes, these small fish will not be able to get out. ”

"Oh......"

I nodded, looked down at the little fish that had swam back and frolicking between my ankles, and couldn't help but smile bitterly at the picture of not knowing the taste of sorrow and only seeking peace and happiness.

It turns out that being trapped, that's how it was trapped.

Qinghan sat down next to me, also took off his shoes and socks, and I immediately said, "Be careful of catching a cold." ”

He laughed, "How can I be so weak." It's okay. ”

After saying that, he soaked a pair of barefoot girls into the river, and a few small fish swam over again, spitting his toes, and having a lot of fun.

The two of us were close to each other, and his skin became darker, and my ankles were snow-white, and I couldn't help but smile and step on his barefoot: "Look at you, how dark your feet are." ”

He couldn't help but choke me: "Just you are white." ”

"It's whiter than you." I said, stepping on it again: "How long has it been since I washed your feet, so dirty." ”

"Nonsense, I wash it every day."

"It's still so dark."

"It's a natural thing."

"So you say you're black, and you still don't admit it."

……

It turns out that even if two of the most sensible adults are together, sometimes they will be more naïve than children, and the two of them will just step on me, and I will step on you, making a splash. My skin was pale, and my instep was red after two strokes, I was not convinced, and I stepped on his instep hard and made a crackling sound, but his dark skin was not red no matter how much I stepped on it.

Suffered......

The two laughed for a while, and then he said, "Okay, it's a draw, right?" Light, I want to eat some fruit. ”

I patted his knee hard: "You are really an uncle!" ”

He sat there looking at me with a grin, and I couldn't help but laugh: "Wait until I go over there to find it." ”

After living in this valley for so long, most of the fruits around me have been picked almost by me, and I can pick the fruits on the trees after the body is better, but it is not autumn now, and it is also sitting on the empty mountain in the end, I walked a long way to the side, and finally saw a low tree, bearing clusters of small coral-red fruits, and hurriedly picked them and walked back.

As soon as I walked to the place not far from the cave, I heard the sound of water splashing, and when I went around a forest, I saw Light Han standing in the middle of the river with his upper body exposed, slowly scrubbing.

He had his back to me, and I could see his back at a glance.

His figure was slightly thin, not as burly and strong as a martial artist like Shen Xiaokun, but a thin and strong physique that had been trained by years of hard work, with firm and beautiful lines, and his dark skin was covered with a thin layer of water, reflecting the sunlight to reveal a honey-colored luster, like a large piece of beeswax.

It's just that the hideous knife wounds on the back, across the dark skin, look a little shocking.

His injuries were not bad, he was a young man after all, and he had also lived out of the most difficult places, so he was naturally better able to bear these injuries than some delicate and expensive people.

Although now, these injuries are no longer important, just like the painful memories of the past, one day I can talk about them with a smile, but when I think of the tragic situation at that time, I still can't help but be afraid, because maybe a knife is a little deeper, a little heavier, I may lose him. He also knows, so in the past few days, he has been taking medicine and wiping his body, and he will get it himself.

At this time, he had finished scrubbing, carefully wiped the water off his body with his clothes, and when he turned his head, he saw me coming, hurriedly put on his clothes, and smiled at me: "You are fast." ”

I handed the fruit over, "Eat it." ”

He took it with a smile, sat on the ground and ate it, handed one to me, I shook my head and didn't ask for it, just sat down next to him and gently leaned on his shoulder, he took a big bite and ate for a while, looked back and saw my somewhat gloomy eyes, and said softly: "Are you still afraid?" ”

“……”

"Didn't I say that? It's all right. ”

“……”

"It's just ugly to look at, but it doesn't hurt at all."

As he spoke, he seemed to want to amuse me, and said with a smile: "I still want to be an uncle in the future, and my daughter-in-law will help me wipe my back." You can do this, how can you do it? ”

"......" I finally couldn't help it, and he laughed when he gave him a blank look.

But when he smiled like this, my heart was not so heavy, I just looked back at his back and said softly, "Is it really okay already?" ”

He nodded: "The wound is almost healed, but sometimes there is a throbbing pain inside, and it is always like this when it heals." ”

I reached out to caress his back, and through the wet clothes, I could feel the uneven scars and ravines under the palms, slightly undulating as he breathed, as if it really didn't matter.

I thought for a moment and said, "Light cold, since you're almost better—"

"Huh?"

"Let's go."

"Let's go?" He was stunned for a moment, and said, "You mean—"

"You promised, you want to come with me. We're going to get out of here, everyone here, and go find Li'er. ”

This time, he did not refuse, nor did he hesitate, but after being silent for a while, he stuffed a handful of fruit in his hand into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, and said, "Okay! ”

As soon as the two of them made up their minds, things were much faster, so I caught a few more fish and grilled them with me, and found some wild fruits to make dry food with. When I fell from above, I still had a few pieces of pearl green on my head that Chang Qing had not yet fallen, and it would be easy to do when it was crowded, but if I was walking on the grassland, what I ate was especially important.

After the two of them left the cave where they were temporarily sheltered, they walked all the way up the river, stopping and walking for nearly two days, when they heard a loud thunder in front of them.

It's the sound of a waterfall.

The waterfall that flows straight down is like a silver belt, hanging high on the river valley, and the huge impact will rush out of a deep pool below, the water splashes more than one person high, and the water mist everywhere reflects a seven-colored rainbow under the sunlight, which is particularly beautiful.

This is also the first time I have seen this waterfall, and the whole person is stunned, standing there and unable to walk.

I exclaimed, "Light cold! Light cold! ”

After shouting for a long time, he came back to his senses, turned his head to look at me in a daze, and I said loudly: "What are you doing in a daze!" ”

The sound of the water almost drowned out my voice, and it was repeated several times before he heard it clearly, swallowed his saliva, and said a word to me, which I couldn't hear clearly, and asked him what he said, and he said loudly: "Light-light, let-two-life-really-big!" ”

Yes, our lives are great.

Perhaps, it was God who gave me a chance to truly cut off the past and start a new life with him.

Therefore, the fear and pain at that time, now that I think about it, it seems that I can completely ignore it with just two words, and I can even face it with a smile.

I whispered in his ear, "Then you should listen to God!" ”

He looked back at me, couldn't help but smile, and the two of them walked to the side.

This waterfall is very high, the mountain next to it is also dangerous, but it is not to the point where it can not be settled, those raised mountain stones can just become the stepping stones for us to climb, but his body is not good, two people walk and stop, after half a day, only to climb but ten zhang, the feet are already suspended. The water stirred up by the waterfall next to us soaked the clothes of two people, and we curled up in a col, and I took out a fruit: "Eat some." ”

His forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and he nodded and took it and ate it.

I wiped his sweat while looking up, this is just the beginning, if I really want to go up, I don't know how long it will take, I am afraid that I will have to rest on the mountain wall at night.

At this time, I couldn't help but think of those who knew martial arts, one by one, who were as light as swallows, and sighed: "It would be nice if either of us knew martial arts." If it was Huang Ye, with his martial arts, he was afraid that he would be able to jump up in just two or three strokes, and the old Taoist priest who had no desire to speak that day, this valley would definitely not be difficult for him. ”

At this time, Qing Han glanced at me, and his gaze looked a little strange.

I was puzzled by his gaze and said, "What's wrong?" ”

He said, "That old Taoist priest, light, have you seen him before?" ”

"I haven't seen it." I shook my head: "It's just that I've heard that there is such a warlock by the emperor's side, but almost no one in the palace has ever seen him." I think he showed up that day, and there were probably a lot of ministers who saw him for the first time. ”

"Oh......"

"What's wrong? Why do you ask this? ”

Qinghan hesitated for a moment and said, "However, he seems to know you." ”

"What?" I was taken aback - that mysterious old Taoist priest actually knew about me?

Qinghan nodded: "When the emperor introduced me to him, I talked to him about some things, and then he suddenly asked about you, and also about our life in the fishing village. ”

My eyebrows furrowed.

I can't hide those things with Qinghan in the fishing village, and it's not strange for me to be known, but this Yan Wuxian is an old Taoist priest who accompanies the Emperor Taishang, and he has nothing to do with me, even if he knows it now, he knows that he is also used by Pei Yuanhao, but what can it have to do with me, why do you want to ask me?

I said, "What else is he asking?" ”

Qinghan thought for a while and said, "By the way, he also asked, have I seen any brands on you." ”

"Brand?"

My heart chuckled - is it, that brand?

But what does that brand have to do with him?

Even if that famous brand of "Yan Qingqing" almost killed me, but Pei Yuanzhen had already helped me get through that catastrophe, and now that the Shen family has fallen, that famous brand is even more irrelevant. The old Taoist priest asked what the famous brand was for?

Or is the brand he talking about referring to something else?

I thought about it for a long time, but I still couldn't figure it out, and the current situation didn't allow me to think about those things, the most important thing at the moment was to get out of this danger first.

After resting enough, Qinghan and I regained our spirits and climbed up.

Although my injuries were not as light and cold, but in the end I was a woman, and my strength could not be compared with his, and it didn't take long for my hands and feet to be sore and swollen, and my fingertips were even more red and almost broken, and I saw that it was getting late, and when we all climbed on a relatively spacious rock, the light cold did not allow us to go any further, and the two of us were ready to rest on it for the night.

This mountain rock is said to be spacious, and it is enough for two people to lie down, and there is no more, so Qinghan insisted that I stick to the mountain wall and sleep outside.

As soon as you turn over, there are craggy strange rocks below.

After a while, it was dark.

Everything around me was darkened, I couldn't see anything, and the only thing I could feel was this person who was close at hand, and his strong chest, which was slightly undulating against my back, and his body temperature was ironed against my body, giving people an indescribable sense of peace.

But I know that in his back, it is empty, and even the danger of making people's legs and feet weak at first glance.

Thinking of this, I cautiously turned to face him, stretched out my hand, hugged his waist tightly, and almost curled up in his arms.

The man froze for a moment, and after a while he slowly reached out and grabbed my waist and hugged me tightly.

There is no gap between the two people, and they are tightly together.

I felt that his breathing was a little cramped from the top of his head, the hot breath was blowing on his forehead, the broken hair was stirring, with a little crispy/itchy feeling, I subconsciously rubbed it in his shoulder socket, and I felt his body stiffen a little more, as if he couldn't bear to open his mouth, and his voice was hoarse: "You sleep well." ”

I looked up from his arms.

Then in the faint light of the sky, I saw that his dark face seemed to be darker than usual, or it might be red, and his eyes stubbornly looked at the mountains and rocks behind me, as if they were so good-looking, and said dumbly: "It's terrible to fall here." ”

I couldn't help laughing, and the snort blew on his neck, causing him to shrink back and look down at me, and I hurriedly closed my eyes, and like a kitten found a winter stove, I burrowed into his arms again.

"You......"

He muttered, hugged me helplessly, and closed his eyes.

The silence of the night, only the sound of water not far away echoed in my dreams, and what was clearer in my ears was the reassuring heartbeat and his warm and touching breath, which surrounded me.

One night, like spring.