Dai Xue did not ride a horse as when she took her up the mountain that night, but held Layue in her arms to perform light skills, and moved out of the opposite peak far away from the cottage, looking at Phoenix Peak from here.

Today is September 19, the weather is a little gloomy, there is no moon and no stars, it is a little cold, Layue burrowed his head in Dai Xue's arms, and after a while Dai Xue stopped, "Layue, do you know that there are wolves in Phoenix Mountain?" ”

Layue was startled, raised her head from his arms, and looked around, only faintly seeing the shadows of trees and black peaks, "Is there really a wolf?" I've heard the shopkeeper say before, I haven't seen a wolf yet. There was a hint of fear in her voice and a hint of anticipation in her fear.

With Dai Xue here, she believes that wolves are nothing to be afraid of, but it is said that wolves live in packs, and their actions are more than a dozen or dozens together.

She looked at the dark night with uneasy vigilance, "Dai Xue, we won't meet wolves, right?" ”

Dai Xue snorted, picked her up and jumped up to the highest mountain, which was also the place where they watched the sunset on Phoenix Mountain last time, looking at the shrinking wax moon, he gathered some dead branches around him, took out a fire fold and lit a bonfire, and hugged her to his chest, "Don't be afraid, wolves are afraid of fire, they won't come." Kissing her hair, Dai Xue said softly, "Do you think the mountains are beautiful at night?"

Layue smiled and nodded, "There is a kind of dangerous beauty, and it smells good," she closed her eyes and inhaled the air vigorously, "There is the smell of mountain chrysanthemums, and the smell of a lot of grass, all of which I smelled in the grange where I lived when I was a child." ”

"Do you like Phoenix Peak?" Dai Xue looked at Layue under the firelight with her eyes closed and a smile of satisfaction, "In the future, it is better to help Lord Dou win the world, why don't we go back here with a few good brothers, you accompany me." ”

I never thought that a person like Dai Xue would say such a very "Shi Yunqing" hermit-like thing, Layue was a little surprised, and then shook her head with a smile, "Are you stupid?" There is no real success in this world. You're a military general. Although I am less literate, I have listened to my father tell many stories of the past dynasties since I was a child, and the generals were either killed or seized power after their success, and there are only a handful of people who can really get the freedom to return to the countryside. ”

Layue leaned on his arms, playing with a branch in her hand, "If you really have this thought, it is still possible to be a real robber to occupy Phoenix Mountain now." ”

"I can't," Dai Xue said firmly, with a cold eyebrow, "I will definitely avenge my family." ”

Layue wanted to ask him what blood feud he was carrying, but after thinking about it, she decided not to ask, she believed that Dai Xue would tell herself when she wanted to say it, just like she had something in her heart that she didn't want to say, and she didn't want to uncover the scars.

He didn't say anything, she didn't ask, and the two leaned quietly together, enjoying this rare peaceful night.

"Whew-"

A wolf howl came from the valley far away, and Layue was frightened, "Wolf? Wolf! ”

"Well, it's a wolf, I'm just for you to listen to the wolf," Dai Xue smiled and kissed Layue on the cheek, "Don't talk, you listen well, and the fox chirps." ”

Layue nodded, took the initiative to lean into his arms, and listened to Fang Cai's long wolf howl, followed by another wolf howl, which seemed to echo Fang Cai's wolf, and then the wolf howls continued to sound, breaking the silence of the night in Phoenix Mountain.

As the wolf howl gradually ended.

"Woo-woo--"

A slightly weaker and softer cry sounded, although this cry sounded less pathetic, mighty, and poignant than the wolf's howl, but there was another kind of cunning charm.

I don't know if I've listened to too many stories about fox spirits since I was a child, or if this voice makes people think of them as monsters that absorb people's spirit, cunning, intelligence, and intelligence.

"Is this a fox?" Layue asked in a low voice, Dai Xue lowered her head and stroked the broken hair in her ear in her ear and snorted, "The foxes also echo each other, how many foxes there are in this mountain They themselves know how many foxes in this mountain, and they will use this method to greet their kind every night, so as to know how many of their kind die every day." ”

"Does Layue want to learn how to bark as a fox?" Dai Xue suddenly asked her a little mischievously while kicking the fire, her hands formed into the shape of an urn, a thin slit was revealed where her thumbs met, and her lips were pressed against the root of her thumb and she blew gently: "Humm-huh-"

The cry between Dai Xue's palms was the same as the fox's roar, and what was even more amazing was that as soon as his voice fell, there was a fox cry echoing him on the mountain in the distance.

"It's amazing, I want to learn, teach me, teach me!"

Layue's eyes were bright and bright, and she learned to put her hands together like that when she learned from Dai Xue, she couldn't blow her voice, "Ah, what's the matter, Dai Xue, teach me quickly." ”

"It's called Ah Xue, I used to say yes."

"Ah Xue, Ah Xue taught me. I'm going to say hello to the fox on the hill on the other side, too. ”

Layue seemed to have returned to the time when she was a girl, pestering her father to ask for this and that, and the unhappiness in her heart was swept away.

"There must be no air leakage between hands...... Right...... Except for the small gap in the thumb, there must be no air leakage anywhere else...... Yes, that's it......"

"Ah, it still doesn't work."

"Don't be in a hurry, blow slowly and evenly when blowing, the more you blow quickly, the more you can't blow, try again." Dai Xue wrapped Layue in her arms and grabbed Layue's hand to help her adjust.

"Hmm" A short fox roar came from his hand, and the airflow that Layue was happy to blow became rapid, and the sound disappeared again.

"Don't panic, come again, don't be in a hurry." Layue never thought that Dai Xue would say something to others one day, such as not to hurry and take his time.

Tonight's Dai Xue has changed like a person, gentle and affectionate, not overbearing, and will take the trouble to teach her to play the fox whistle over and over again. At that moment, she looked at Dai Xue's face under the firelight, and the soft warm current in her heart slowly flowed, and a familiar feeling that had not been seen for a long time rose.

She thought: What if ...... If you are really free in the future...... If Dai Xue could not take a concubine...... Then I might want to consider being with him for the rest of my life...... May I?

The fox whistle of Layue gradually changed from short to long, and gradually became tactful and charming, and gradually the fox whistle of other peaks echoed her. When the first fox chirped, she even laughed happily.

On this night, the fox chirping on the peak opposite Phoenix Mountain sounded all night, and it was dawn.

Looking at the red morning glow on the horizon, Dai Xue stroked the begonia flower on her forehead and said to Layue, "The feather red leaf tree of Phoenix Peak is about to arrive, and I will take you to see it when the time comes." ”

"Hmm......" The woman in his arms slept sweetly, and her head rubbed in his arms like a lazy kitten.

Dai Xue couldn't help but kiss her forehead, "Layue, it's beautiful, don't feel inferior......"