Chapter 14: True Turns to Ashes
Pulling out the branches and climbing the boulder, the road up the mountain is not long, but for Zhou Ranmao, this road is like climbing to the sky, he walked for a long time and thought a lot.
Xia Jingxuan and Xia Jingchen approached the mountain on the road, they had already arrived, and they were facing Gu Yun for a while and asked, "Are you a relative of Zhou Ranmao?" It doesn't look like it. ”
"Oops...... Hou Ye, general...... The subordinate is back. Seeing this, Zhou Ranmiao hurriedly rushed forward and dragged Gu Yun's arm with one hand, for fear that he would say the wrong thing.
"I ...... We are cousins, so we don't look like each other, and my younger brother speaks recklessly, hoping that he has never contradicted the Hou Ye and the general. ”
"Nope! We've had a good conversation! Xia Jingchen was very excited.
Zhou Ranmao didn't know what Gu Yun was talking about, which made Xia Jingchen so happy, but he knew it right away.
"Mr. Zhou, I look at you gentle and elegant on weekdays, but I didn't expect your kung fu to be so good, mainly because ......" Xia Jingchen glanced at Xia Jingxuan, "You are the same as the second brother, and you are also used to bullying your younger brother!" ”
Gu Yundu began to break out in a cold sweat, just to coax Xia Jingchen to be happy, let him let down his guard, and only then did he talk about a few things casually, he has been raised by Zhou Ranmiao's side since he was a child, and naturally every word is inseparable from Zhou Ranmao, and Zhou Ranmiao often bullies him, so he ......
Gu Yun slowly turned his head and glanced at Zhou Ranmiao, Zhou Ranmiao was sneering at him, hiding a knife in his smile! Gu Yun has already made up his "last words".
Later, after listening to Xia Jingchen's arrangement, the soldiers under the mountain also placed the camp elsewhere, and it was almost dark, so everyone returned to the camp.
But the fire in the trap could not be extinguished, and I heard that it burned for three days.
In the middle of the night, the summer barracks
Gu Yun ...... Where are you......" Zhou Ranmiao sat on the couch with a pillow and kept trembling.
"Your Majesty, the minister is next to you......" Gu Yun sat cross-legged next to Zhou Ranmiao, bowing his head and dozing.
In order to prevent the mountain bandits from attacking at night, Xia Jingxuan asked the soldiers to remove all the lights in case the mountain bandits found the camp.
But Zhou Ran is afraid of the dark! I tossed for half the night, but I didn't fall asleep.
"Your Majesty, if you really can't sleep, count the sheep, it works very well...... Like this, one sheep two sheep three sheep ......"
It didn't take long for Zhou Ranmiao to hear a "plop" sound, and he hurriedly approached Gu Yun to see, "What's wrong with you?" Zhou Ranmiao lowered his voice and asked.
At first, he was nervous and scared, was Gu Yun secretly injured? What to do? Who hurt him? Until he heard a snoring sound.
"Alas, I slept soundly." Zhou Ranmao pulled the quilt and draped it on Gu Yun's body.
The chirping of small insects outside the door was the only sound that Zhou Ranmao could hear in this silent night, and he sat with a pillow for a long time, it was rare in the world to be so silent.
"What if one day the plan is actually completed?" Zhou Ranmiao suddenly had this doubt in his heart.
"Hmm...... Emperor Yuan is the first to be killed, Yun Wan has been wronged by his side, and Emperor Yuan will be beaten at that time. As for Xia Jingsheng and Xia Jingxuan, I don't want to see them, so I will be beheaded directly, Xia Jingchen, although he has never participated in the war, but after all, he is the heir of the Xia family, and he is still a man, so he can't stay, but he pities that Xia Jingyan, although his temper is a little worse, he is still a little squeamish, and he always teases me! But after all, she is still a little girl...... It's a clever one, or ...... Just poured medicine and wiped her memories and stayed with her? ”
Zhou Ranmiao thought about it for a long time, and was a little sleepy.
I don't know how long it took, Zhou Ranmiao suddenly heard a "click", as if someone had stepped on the firewood stick at the door, and he was already drowsy, but he suddenly woke up when he heard this sound.
The moonlight reflected the man's figure on the account, and Zhou Ranmiao quietly got off the ground and lifted the sword beside him.
Outside the camp account
Xia Jingyan sighed, lowered her body and picked up the firewood stick on the ground and put it aside, got up and prepared to leave, but just as she was about to stand up, her shoulder suddenly hit a cold thing, and she almost raised her hand to surrender, after all, heroes don't suffer losses in front of them!
"Who? Turn around. Zhou Ranmiao's voice came from behind him, Xia Jingyan breathed a sigh of relief, it's good that it's not a mountain bandit, it's scary.
"Me." Xia Jingyan raised his hands and turned around.
"In the middle of the night, the little girl ran out to do something, and she was not afraid that the mountain bandits would arrest you." Zhou Ranmiao saw that it was Xia Jingyan, and he could be regarded as calming down, and he didn't forget to say a word about Xia Jingyan, and the fear of darkness in his heart gradually dissipated, and he didn't realize it.
"I'm not afraid, who can catch me." Xia Jingyan replied, "I just slept too much during the day and couldn't sleep at night." ”
Zhou Ranmiao put away the sword, but she really convinced the little girl, "Then where can you go in the middle of the night?" ”
"Hmm......" Xia Jingyan was speechless for a while, but it didn't take long for another ghost idea to pop up in her heart, "Do you know how to grill fish?" ”
Xia Jingyan is hungry, people are iron, rice is steel, and he is hungry if he doesn't eat a meal!
"What?" Xia Jingyan was stunned by a word.
But after a while, Zhou Ranmiao will also be sober.
Xia Jingyan dragged him to the room before he could react, and picked up a water scoop by himself, opened the big bucket in the room, and several fat and big fish were fluttering in the water.
Xia Jingyan rolled up his sleeves and took the scoop to fish, a whole set of actions seemed to be flowing water, and he looked like a "habitual offender".
It's just that this fish is really disobedient today, always fluttering around, and can't get into Xia Jingyan's scoop no matter what, and one by one "swear not to obey".
"Did you catch it?" Zhou Ranmiao was a little impatient, his stomach had already begun to "growl", but "Chef Xia" hadn't caught the fish yet.
"Oops, it's almost there!" Xia Jingyan threw the scoop aside and reached out to grab it directly.
Zhou Ranmiao stepped forward and wanted to help, but by coincidence, he caught up with the fish in Xia Jingyan's hand, and a "dragon swinging tail" shook him in the face.
Zhou Ranmiao felt aggrieved in his heart.
"Even the fish bullied me!!" Zhou Ranmao is on a relationship with this fish, roll up his sleeves and it! Grabbed left and right with Xia Jingyan, and the water splashed everywhere.
Hard work pays off! They! Caught!
But obviously, the wrong one was caught, and it was the other one that was caught, and the one who shook the drenched water was still spitting bubbles in the water towards the two people with black lines on their faces.
The two glanced at each other, and both understood what the other meant.
After a while, the patrol soldiers of the camp saw two black shadows carrying two long poles and carrying water tanks to the entrance of the camp, and several patrol soldiers stopped their patrol and stood in place dumbfounded.
Mountain Bandits??? Stealing the Water Tank???
A few people were silent, afraid of startling the snake, so they only quietly approached and looked.
"It turned out to be the county lord and Mr. Zhou, who are you?" The patrolman asked.
"It's okay, I just want to catch a fish, take the tank outside, pour the water and catch it again, it's convenient, and the fish can't run away." Zhou Ranmiao looked back sluggishly, and there was only one thought in his heart, that is, to personally execute this fish!
"Oh, so do you want your subordinates to help?"
"It's okay, no, we'll do it ourselves." Zhou Ranmiao responded with a smirk.
"You're busy with yours." Xia Jingyan also turned his head and smiled.
The smiles of the two were eerie and terrifying, and several soldiers shivered.
"Then the subordinates went back first...... "A few soldiers wrapped themselves in clothes and went back, thinking that the sky in this mountain would change quickly.
Zhou Ranmao and Xia Jingyan continued to act, and when they were almost far away, they pushed the water tank down, and the water flowed out, soaked in the mud, and the fish also slid out.
"Is that it?" Xia Jingyan's face was full of seriousness, and he grabbed the most energetic one of the jumping.
"No problem, I know it when it turns to dust." Zhou Ran grimaced.
It was just a fish, and the two of them looked at each other and nodded, grabbed a few fish and a pile of firewood and walked into a nearby cave to make a fire and grill fish.
Xia Jingyan volunteered to take over the task of grilling fish, with Xia Jingyan by his side and a fire lighting, Zhou Ranmiao finally fell asleep against the rock wall.
I don't know if Xia Jingyan teased him because his shadow was too big, he dreamed of Xia Jingyan again, but fortunately he didn't talk in his dreams again.
Xia Jingyan, who was originally a dream, approached him step by step, but somehow, the dream gradually changed, and the scene in front of him became that disobedient fish! The fish had grown several times bigger, a head taller than him, and it turned its fat body to rub against Zhou Ranmao, and it couldn't shake it off!
Zhou Ranmiao woke up in shock, and Xia Jingyan hurriedly hid the charcoal-stained branches behind him.
"Where's the fish?" Zhou Ranmiao looked at the extinguished fire and the gray Xia Jingyan asked suspiciously.
"You don't mean the fish...... Do you know all the ashes? Xia Jingyan said with a weak heart, took three pieces of carbon ash that were not in the shape of a fish and said: "Then which piece of ash do you recognize......
"You roasted all night...... Roasted three lumps of ash out? Zhou Ranmiao looked at the three "fish" and was helpless for a while.
"Hmm......" Xia Jingyan nodded.
"You're a genius." Zhou Ranmao threw the three "fish" aside with a disgusted face, got up and patted the soil on his body, and couldn't help comforting himself in his heart:
"It's not nothing, at least it's a night of fire, even if it's a nightmare, but at least I'm asleep, isn't it?"
"It's dawn, or ...... Shall we go back first? I'll ask the guy to redo a few and send them to you. Xia Jingyan said "aggrieved", and Zhou Ranmao couldn't bear to talk about her.
Little girl! Everyone apologized, and they were coquettish, didn't they!
Of course, this is also on the premise that he doesn't know what "good things" Xia Jingyan has done.
"Let's go." Zhou Ranmiao pulled Xia Jingyan by the hand.
The two walked back to the barracks, without saying anything all the way, Zhou Ranhao was still thinking about whether Xia Jingyan was too disappointed to bake three fish, and needed to be comforted, until he saw that the soldiers in the camp were avoiding him one by one, and he was still holding back his laughter, and Xia Jingchen began to laugh unscrupulously when he saw him, Zhou Ranmao realized that Xia Jingyan was holding back his bad!