The carriage creaked along the winding and rugged mountain road, and Ouyang Qingying slept dimly against the corner of the body, completely ignoring the bumpy and shaking body and the sound of the horse's hooves.

Xia Qingyi was woken up by a stumble in the body, changed a comfortable position and wanted to squint again, and when she raised her head, she saw the boy sleeping sweetly in front of her, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously raised a good-looking arc.

How can it be so hot?

Xia Qingyi pinched her hot cheeks, and casually lifted the curtain to see the mountain scenery outside, but found that the sky was very gloomy.

"It looks like it's going to rain heavily this day!" Ouyang Qingying, who didn't know when she was awake, tilted her head and was looking out from the curtain she had opened, one hand still rubbing one of her eyes that had not yet opened.

"When did you wake up?" Xia Qingyi asked with a smile.

"Just now, where did we go, sister?" The boy stretched his arms and began a simple lifting motion in the cramped carriage.

Suddenly, a hand opened the curtain, and a man's voice followed in.

"It's almost time to Yunxi Village, we'll stay there tonight, I hope it's before the rain falls." Chu Zexi had been paying attention to the movement in the carriage, and when he heard that the sister and brother were awake, he naturally wanted to take a look.

The team that protects the soul of the eldest princess has gone from six carriages and more than 20 people to less than ten people who have returned to Beijing now, and there are only three carriages left, although this does not include the secret guards secretly arranged by Chu Zexi, but the number of guards given by Emperor Southern Chu has indeed been greatly reduced, so Chu Zexi, who was worried about Xia Qingyi's safety, simply took the same car with her automatically, and was forced to sit side by side with the coachman who was driving the car because of the difference between men and women.

Ouyang Qingying didn't overdo it, and shrank and shrank into the corner. He chose to ignore Chu Zexi's appearance, he didn't even bother to raise his head, and after Fu Ya's abduction, he had the same attitude towards the men around Xia Qingyi.

Disdain!!!!!!

At the moment of crisis, he didn't find that any man was willing to stand up, how could a man who couldn't work hard for what he loved be worthy of his sister, isn't it a joke!?

Xia Qingyi noticed that the boy was deliberately distant, so she laughed apologetically, and hurriedly spoke to relieve the embarrassment.

"Then hurry up, it's troublesome to get caught in the rain and cold."

The man looked back and forth at the two sisters and brothers in the car, shook his head helplessly, put down the curtain, and replied in a low voice.

"Well, you'll sleep again, and I'll call you when it's time to call you."

After about half an hour, the raindrops outside the car were crackling, and the group finally arrived at Yunxi Village. The carriage stopped in front of the door of the Yunlai Inn, and only saw two lanterns swaying back and forth in the wind, but no Xiao Er came to answer them.

Chu Zexi made a color, and someone immediately got out of the car to check the situation. After a while, a female doll of eight or nine years old with a double ponytail came out, and when she saw that there were so many people in this battle, her face immediately smiled, and she said in a milky voice.

"Auntie will be here soon, please come in, guest officers!"

Chu Zexi was obviously very dissatisfied with letting a female doll entertain her, but at the moment there was no other choice, so he still asked his entourage to lead the carriage into the courtyard with a black face.

Xia Qingyi didn't pay so much attention to it, and when she got out of the carriage, she looked at it with great interest, the only old and depressed inn in Yunxi Village.

The place is not big, a total of two stories high, excluding the stables where the horses are parked underneath, Xia Qingyi counted a total of only a dozen rooms.

Before he had time to take a closer look, a slightly chubby figure had already approached him, and the little doll also saw the person coming and immediately spoke up. "Auntie, it's them, a lot of people, they've all entered the house."

"See, go pour tea." After the woman finished speaking, she turned around and looked at Chu Zexi.

"Hostess, open four rooms for us, we're busy on our way." As soon as the attendant opened her mouth, the woman smiled so much that she couldn't close her mouth, and said hello again and again, and the female doll who came back with the kettle saw this, and was a little overwhelmed, and she clenched the handle of the kettle with both hands and said timidly.

"Tea, tea is here."

The woman hurriedly stepped forward to take the pot.

"The guests are tired from a hard day, you can take them to the second floor to rest."

The girl was instructed to jump up and down the stairs to show the way to the crowd, and before she had taken a few steps, she shouted at the woman as if she had suddenly remembered something.

"Auntie, do you want to give it to the guests?" Before she finished speaking, it was visible to the naked eye that the woman's face had changed.

But she still forced a smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Guests only need to stay for one night, do they, guests!?" In the end, the woman's gaze shifted to Chu Zexi, as if she was also confirming with him.

"Yes, we're only staying for one night, we're on our way." Although Chu Zexi had doubts in his heart, he still obeyed the woman's meaning on his face and gave her a positive response.

After listening to this, the female doll showed a smile again, holding the ladder with one hand, and singing a mountain song to lead the way to everyone.

When they arrived at the room arranged for Xia Qingyi and them, when they left, Ouyang Qingying deliberately held the female doll's hand.

"Hey, what are you talking about peace leaves?"

The female doll originally saw that Ouyang Qingying was handsome and secretly glanced at it several times, but now, when she was held by the handsome little brother, her heart immediately jumped like beating a drum, and her little face turned red.

But as soon as he heard him talk about Ping'an Ye, he was so frightened that he immediately withdrew his little hand, and looked around for a long time with a panicked expression before saying.

"Our village used to be haunted, and people who went out at night always disappeared. Fortunately, the holy woman of the imperial city came later and gave everyone in the village a peace leaf, and with this leaf, there was no accident. Anyway, don't go out at night. ”

The female doll looked solemn, and when she left, she didn't forget to take care of Ouyang Qingying again and again not to go out.

"Little brother, if you want to go out, tell me, I'll give you a leaf, remember."

After Xia Qingyi waited for the female doll to leave, she kept staring at Ouyang Qingying playfully, she maintained an expression with bad intentions, and finally made the boy angry.

"Sister, what are you always looking at me doing?"

"That girl seems to have taken a fancy to you."

"My dear sister, you still have time to care about this, didn't you hear what the girl said?" Ouyang Qingying looked at the party who was completely unaware of the problem.

"Ahh I heard it, don't go out at night, I wouldn't have gone out. Xia Qingyi replied with a blank face.

"No, sister, what she just mentioned is a saint, a saint, this is the realm of Nanchu, my sister, aren't you a saint? So who is the saint in her mouth? Ouyang Qingying took the trouble to explain to his stupid eldest sister.

The woman who suddenly realized the problem finally realized the problem.

"Oh, yes, I'm the saint, someone is pretending to be me, it's too much, this can't work, I'll go find Chu Zexi." The woman who threw down this sentence turned around and knocked directly on the door next door with great fanfare.

The boy froze in place, he didn't finish his sentence!

Fortunately, Chu Zexi was not as reckless as Xia Qingyi, he looked at the door dancing with his hands, and the crooked woman pulled her back to the room as soon as possible, locked the door, and then said,

"It's strange, I've asked the secret guard to investigate, let's not leave tomorrow, let me probe the boss's tone again."

"。。。。。。 that night?" Ouyang Qing wanted to speak and stopped.

"I'll go out at night to have a look, you take a good look at your sister, don't act rashly!" Chu Zexi volunteered to check the situation according to the boy's wishes, but the last sentence of advice was also directed at the boy.

"I'm sure I'll be watching, my sister, but are you okay?" The boy muttered in a low voice, but his words revealed his distrust of Chu Zexi.

"It doesn't matter if I can do it or not, you have to do it, remember what you promised me." Chu Zexi was too lazy to reason with a child, so he simply held the other party and said.

Ouyang Qingying despised Chu Zexi even more when he heard this, and glanced at the other party with contempt, but he accepted it in his mouth.

"Got it, I'll take a good look at my sister."

The two of you come and go, and the division of work is clear at once, but Xia Qingyi is anxious on the side.

"What's the matter, this matter has something to do with me, why don't you consult with me and don't ask my opinion!?" Xiao Nizi protested indignantly.

"You stay honest!"

"You stay honest!"

This time, the two men answered in unison to stunned Xia Qingyi, and they also smiled at each other for this tacit understanding.

"Okay, go to bed early, take care of your sister." Chu Zexi told the boy again.

"yes, I know." The boy also had a rare submissive answer.

The two men who agreed said goodnight to each other and then prepared to go to bed satisfied, leaving Xiao Nizi, who was completely ignored, with a confused face.

"Ouyang Qing wins, what are you two doing, say it quickly!"

"Sleep, sister!"

"You speak first!"

"Sleep sister, I'll talk about it tomorrow."

In the early morning of the next day, Xia Qingyi was woken up by a sound of gongs and drums, and then heard a commotion outside the window. Looking at the boy who was still asleep, Xiao Nizi simply put on a coat and quietly slipped out of the room alone.

But when she left the room on her front foot, the boy immediately rolled over, quickly straightened his clothes, and hurried to follow.

Next to the dry well at the entrance of the village, Xia Qingyi looked at the villagers surrounded by three layers and three floors, covered her face, sharpened her head, and squeezed to the front row.

I thought I was looking at something earth-shattering. I stepped forward only to find that it was actually a male corpse, or even a corpse without a head, and I tried to suppress my emotions of wanting to vomit, and raised my head, but saw the innkeeper looking at her with a strange expression.

"Boss, what a coincidence!" Xia Qingyi held back for a long time before she spit out these words.

The innkeeper asked with an embarrassed look on her face.

"The girl got up so early, aren't you going to leave in a hurry today?"

Oops, what did Chu Zexi say last night, Xia Qingyi was worried about how to reply, but she heard a familiar voice coming.

"The carriage is broken, I'm afraid we'll have to stay a few more days." Chu Zexi quietly went to Xia Qingyi's side to relieve her.

He bent down and leaned closer to each other's ears and spoke in voices that could only be heard by each other.

"What's wrong with this corpse?"

Xiao Nizi's eyes locked on the corpse again, and replied half-loudly.

"This man should have been devoured to death by Gu worms."