After a day of clearing, a misty light rain began to fall.

This is the case in the rainy season of the Rizhao River, sparing every bit of light, and spending the rest of the time pouring water on the ground, splashing the big water and splashing the small water.

As long as the aurora in the sky does not disperse, the fugitives will not dare to show their heads. The location of this aurora is beyond the imagination of the fugitives, and it may really stretch for thousands of kilometers, as long as you see it, you will be illuminated. Assuming that there was no Heavenly Mirror, Gu Chuan might change his identity outside, and he would dare to swagger back to Sun City again.

"Can you ruin your face to hide?"

"It doesn't make sense, you've been positioned by the mirror, you've already shiny, and after that, whatever you do on your face, as long as you touch the light, it will shine again. Perhaps, it is okay to leave the range of the mirror illumination. ”

His Highness said.

Wearing water-soaked hoods, they avoid the sunlit rivers and ride horses in the jungle or wilderness.

There was a faint light in the hoods of His Highness and Gu Chuan, rising and disappearing. Of the three, the toeless man was the most relaxed. The Toeless Man is not known if he was born or raised from a small dungeon, and he doesn't like sunlight.

The sun seemed to burn his skin and hurt his eyes. It wasn't until the sky was cloudy and it rained that he became happy.

It's just that somehow, the more the toeless person walks, the more depressed his spirit becomes.

"Turning over this jungle is the next jungle."

He spoke in a language that had no tongue or intonation, and he had no tone of voice from years ago.

"Turning over this field is the next field."

Two horses, frightened by His Highness, drank water by the river, and the fugitives rested for a while. The toeless man was playing with the water while looking sideways at the mountains. At the edge of heaven and earth are mountains with no end in sight.

"Will there be a new mountain behind that mountain?"

He asked.

At that time, Gu Chuan was communicating with His Highness about the comet that crossed the sky during the brief time when it was clear. Her Highness said that she didn't know much, only that the Twelve Days family had been working on making a calendar to guide the flooding and depletion of the great rivers, and to guide the cultivation and non-cultivation of grain.

But in a world where there are no stars and no moon, there are too few natural signs that can be relied upon to make the calendar from the eternal cycle. The basis they finally found was the sun-like glow of something that had returned by chance in the sky.

His Highness also said that there are quite a few such comets, and the periodicity of return and the method of observation vary. But the thief is one of the demon stars with the longest return cycle.

After Gu Chuan heard the questioning of the toeless man, he turned his head and said with interest:

"Maybe yes, so what?"

Who knew that the toeless man's hand playing with the stream suddenly stiffened.

He frowned, and said earnestly, like a child, in a loud voice:

"Is there no end?"

This is an abstract concept that the toeless man himself has learned, and it means the boundary of man's actions in the world.

He stammered that the place where he was born had an end, a small piece, belonged to him, and he knew that all the moss and mushrooms grew in that small place, and he also knew that the flight, arrival and disappearance of every little insect was his "home".

"The End...... Maybe there is, but if it doesn't arrive, then no one knows! ”

Gu Chuan said.

"Oh...... Oh......"

The toeless man shook his body, looked down, and saw a dead butterfly at his feet. It was soaked by the rain during the previous rainstorm and died unable to fly.

The three of them rode again and went into the distance.

Faintly, Gu Chuan represents the direction of this small team.

"I decided to go back to the village first."

"Aren't you afraid of bringing in the Protectors?"

"I have a lot of things to do when I go to the village to make supplies, and I will leave as soon as I go in a day."

Gu Chuan said.

When Gu Chuan saw Rizhao Village again, Rizhao Village was still calm, a few old women were gossiping inside the door, and several old men were dressed in clothes every once in a while to row up the water in the fields. A large number of young people, middle-aged people, and young people all went to the city, and Rizhao Village was visibly deserted to the naked eye.

A small village like Rizhao Village, which has been newly opened for more than ten years, is almost isolated from the world when it is not visited by caravans.

Now it's the rainy season again, and the big guy really doesn't like to go out.

The water of the Rizhao River, on which Rizhao Village rests, has not flooded much, but it has not crossed the pebble bank and is still as clear as ever.

When he saw Mother Sichuan again, Gu Chuan's mood was very different.

Last time, I was ambitious, thinking that I could make a career like those young geniuses who became famous in the previous life.

As a result, the next time it was embarrassed and ragged.

The house in the window and the door outside the window were still clean, and the rain gathered from the eaves into small streams and fell to the ground like silver threads. Gu Chuan knocked on the door silently, and a voice came from inside the house.

"It's coming, it's coming, who is it?"

When Mother Chuan opened the door, she first searched silently and blankly, and when she saw Gu Chuan, her gaze immediately became gentle and happy.

She said normally and calmly:

"Why aren't you dressed, come in, it's cold outside."

Gu Chuan lowered his head and hummed sullenly.

The door was closed, and there was no rain inside. The rain was still falling outside.

Chuan's mother burned three buckets of hot water to wash the dust for the three juniors. The wood on the roof of the house was very old, and white water vapor rose from the barrel to the edge of the roof beams. The rain stopped again, the wind died down, the creek flowed quietly, and the night became warmer.

When Gu Chuan finished washing and put on the old clothes at home, he suddenly felt the urge to cry.

Who knew that Chuan's mother pushed him:

"Why don't you move?"

He turned his head suspiciously, but saw Chuan Mu say with a smile:

"Do you want to see the girls in the shower?"

Before the words fell, the door opened, and His Royal Highness, wrapped in a loose and large warm cloth given by the mother of Chuan, walked in. She held her old robes in her hands, and her eyes looked at the people in the inner room with a blank look.

She didn't know how to avoid it, so she made eye contact with the young man. Gu Chuan blushed and immediately walked out of the door.

"It's all due to the body's male hormones!"

Gu Chuan muttered.

His Royal Highness didn't know how this situation developed, but he only knew that he somehow made it into the bath bucket that Gu Chuan had washed before, and the bath bucket was filled with new hot water. The water is boiled with clear river water outside the window.

Rizhao Village is bathed with soaphorn. Saponaria is a fruit of a tree that can be used as a shampoo after being soaked and mashed with water foam.

Mother Chuan gently applied soaphorn water to His Highness, and then gently rubbed His Highness's hair.

Every strand of His Highness's hair is black and bright, and the white ketone body is like a flawless fairy in water. Her already clean face took on a very beautiful rosy color after soaking in hot water for a long time, like a crimson cloud under the setting sun.

His Royal Highness's lush hair made Chuanmu a little envious, and a few days ago, Chuanmu found that she had grown gray hair!

"What do you call a girl?"

Mother Chuan said while braiding His Highness's hair.

"I ...... What do you call ......"

His Highness was a little at a loss. Her soft body was half floating on the water, swaying gently. The candlelight lit on one side caused her soft shadow to fall on one side of the wall.

"You...... Mom...... I, I don't have a name. ”

She didn't know the name of Sichuan's mother, so she learned Gu Chuan's name to call her mother.

Mother Chuan rubbed His Highness's shoulder, and His Highness was so frightened that he almost jumped out of the water. Fortunately, His Royal Highness did not forget to restrain his strength, and only made the barrel shake, and the water droplets splashed out, and the mother of Sichuan let out a giggle:

"You don't have a name, did your parents not give it to you?"

His Royal Highness didn't know how to answer, he was flustered, and he wanted to defend His Majesty:

"No...... Yes no, no, no ......"

"And what shall I call you? Girl. ”

Chuanmu asked patiently.

"I ......"

Is it called Your Highness?

In the past, people called her His Royal Highness because of the rules of the crown. She was noncommittal about it, and when Yucun told her that there was once another Highness, she felt a hatred for the name of His Highness that she herself had not expected.

She said sneeringly:

"I don't know."

Mother Chuan didn't bother, but only carefully observed His Highness's body and told her to get up and scrub her. Her Highness stood in the vapor, and suddenly remembered her first doctor. The doctor was so gentle with her.

"And what do you like?"

"What do you like?"

Chuanmu said patiently:

"It's the meaning of preferring to see something. Some people like water, some people like mountains, and like I liked flowers when I was your age...... Flowers blooming in the suburbs, whoever gives me one, I am very happy. ”

Her Highness didn't think about this, she spent most of her childhood sleeping, and most of her waking hours watching how others treated her body. Her body never seemed to get better, and it wasn't until Lady Ogiri came that she woke up longer than she slept.

But she didn't like Mrs. Ogiri, she liked the gentle doctor who took care of her in the first place.

The doctor seemed to have talked to her about it and what she liked. What did the doctor like?

His Highness thought silently, his eyes kept looking out the window.

A small river flows outside the window. She remembered that the river was officially called Himesui in the Sunset City books.

Several lights in Rizhao Village illuminate the nearest water. There were dense clouds in the sky floating in the water.

She looked up at the sky. The clouds after the rain are extremely magnificent, faint in the water vapor, and change into various shapes. The clouds on the mountain at the end were extremely thick, completely obscuring the sun, and the reflection in the water seemed to be a wonderful and abnormal world.

But after looking at it for a while, her face was about to give birth to the light of the heavenly mirror again, and she hurriedly turned her head sideways. Knowing that this was an anomaly, Chuan Mu closed the window, and then heard His Highness say:

"Cloud ......"

"And what do you expect from yourself?"

"Expectations?"

His Highness was in a state of confusion again.

"Expectation is ...... Looking forward to something in the future, I hope that the future will be the same as I think now. It's like, just like what I expected from Ogawa! Chuanmu smiled and said, "I like that he can often look back, so calling him Gu is not a nice word?" ”

Her Highness didn't have expectations for herself, but she knew what many people expected. Mrs. Ogiri seems to be fascinated by research, and she has been working on the human body all day long. His majesty wants to live forever, Yucun wants to live up to his subordinates, some people want money, some people want power, and some people don't want anything and just want to stay away from here.

One of the expectations she remembers most was still that of the doctor.

The doctor looked at her and said:

"If only everything had been the way it had been."

She finally understood why the doctor had said that—assuming Yucun hadn't deceived her.

When Chuanmu heard this, she fell into deep thought. She scrubbed the front of His Highness, and then took out the large cotton cloth that was treasured at home, and carefully wiped the shy girl's body. Chuanmu said:

"Cloud Beginning...... Or Hatsukumo. ”

"What does that mean?"

His Highness was puzzled.

Chuanmu said solemnly:

"Chuyun, this is what I will call you in the future!"

Hatsuyun ......

His Highness was stunned.

Chuan Mu asked gently:

"Okay?"

Hatsuyun didn't know, just nodded, and then looked around in a panic and uneasiness, diverting his attention. She suddenly felt as if something was missing.

Seeing this, Chuanmu only said:

"Then I'll take you as a confession."

Chu Yun said anxiously:

"I'm looking for something I had with me."

Mother Chuan thought for a moment and took out the travelogue of the adventure from the cabinet. There are a few feathers on the side of the travelogue:

"The clothes are being washed. Here's what I see you put in your clothes, are you looking for this? ”

Chu Yun hurriedly held the travelogue of this adventure and stood in the bucket excitedly.

But when she flipped through a few pages, she found that the travelogue was soaked and the paper was too pasty to be used. As soon as she stretched out her fingers, she punctured the paper.

"Broken...... Soaking wet......"

So she froze in place, inexplicably, and felt the urge to cry in her heart. Travelogue she thought she could keep it well.

"Wouldn't it be nice to ask Xiaochuan to write you another one?"

Chuan's mother took out a set of clothes that she had worn at her previous wedding, and it was also the best she had, and handed it to Chu Yun.

"But...... Didn't you say that the tourist died? Didn't he write it down because he couldn't write it down? Chu Yun said with a sad face, "Then he may not be able to remember." ”

"Oh, these are all made up by him." Mother Sichuan seems to be very happy today, but somehow, she can't hide her words at all, "If you ask him more, maybe you can make up more things!" ”

"Ah...... Yes? ”

Hatsuyun took the clothes and stayed there without moving.

The night is still long, but for the fugitives, every bit of time counts. Gu Chuan put chains on the two horses and connected them to a small wagon. He found a few bags, stuffed some useful tools into the salute, and asked Chuan's mother:

"Mom, can I use the human stone?"

At that time, Chuan's mother had just finished washing her clothes, and she was pounding the clothes on the cold anvil, and she was so busy that a thin layer of sweat leaked from her forehead. She looked up in bewilderment:

"Do you want to mend the corpse too?"

"Probably yes."

Gu Chuan smiled bitterly,

"I want to try it as I want, or I won't be able to escape the pursuers."

The old men and ladies in the village, as well as the few remaining young people, probably already knew the predicament of these three people, and after Gu Chuan and Chu Yun went to the cemetery, they held a meeting overnight.

"What should I do?"

Several of the elderly people in charge also have a headache.

"They may have committed something terrible in the city, so get rid of them."

"Did you mint coins without permission......? I've heard of a coinage village that was killed by Sunset City, and the slightest bit of it was killed. It's the first time I've seen Sunset City deal with it so harshly since I was born......"

"Probably not...... If that's the case, why don't our other babies come to report it? ”

"Indeed, they are all together!"

The few remaining young and middle-aged people are excited and want to drive away the children who might be in trouble. On the contrary, the old people who Gu Chuan felt stubborn said something to him. This is because they are very insistent on the concept of "family". Spreading branches and leaves is something that the old people talk about every day.

Chuanmu sat silently on the side and did not speak.

Finally the eldest lady in the village knocked on the table, opened her cloudy eyes, and said:

"Remember how we, and those villages, escaped from Sunset City in the first place? In your father's life, you did something worse than coinage with those executed prisoners. Now you're fine, I think you don't have any strength at all, so you just stay in one place and don't want to move? ”

The village of Rizhao decided to move to a few more secluded and friendly villages.

Those villages don't even go to caravans, they are all self-sufficient in the mountains, rivers and fields, and they are already very close to the outer edge of this quiet world, and when the army is recruited, there will be conscription officers running over, and then forcibly pulling strong people from a group of people who no one knows and who have not registered in Sunset City.

"But they seem to be leaving soon, so don't tell them, so you don't have to panic when the children escape, and I don't know when I'll see them in the future......"

The old lady said.

Mother Sichuan still remained silent.

After the overnight meeting, when Chuan's mother returned home, she saw that the three people with hoods were already sitting in the car.

They were ready to leave, and the reason why they didn't leave was that they were waiting for Chuanmu.

Mother Sichuan can't walk. She had been worn away from time and the energy of her youth, and she saw Gu Chuan sitting in the car and beckoned to her.

"Goodbye......"

"Oh, goodbye......"

Chuanmu stood in place, and it was dark in front of her.

The sound of the carriage was far away, and she knew that her happiness was all gone. Today's time may be the end and end of the memories she will do every day and night in the future.

"That's right, people have to get used to it, just like my mom and dad died, and I thought he was dead...... Don't mention him again, don't mention it, don't mention it, no, no, can't curse Ogawa......"

The city guards did not give up tracking, they went all the way down the Huaishui, still searching for the traces of the three fugitives, and there were strange birds made of paper in the sky, which was the means of searching for the Fourth Legion.

It was impossible for the city guards to be dispatched in full force, due to supply problems and bad weather during the rainy season. Most of the supplies away from Sunset City rely on raiding villages. The number of the city guards is afraid that they will eat up all the people in the village. In the end, the search team was neither more nor less, about 200 people.

A few days later, it could be seen in many places, far away from Rizhao Village, that there would never be a connection, close to the south of the Daling Mountains, and the Heavenly Mirror emitted a little light.

So the ten teams divided into two hundred people, the nearest of which had been searched to the edge, and the farthest was still at the water's edge, and now all of them were assembled to the wild land south of the Daling Mountains.