The Golden Bough and the Dog Verse 37
As usual, Yun Zhu didn't know how many times he turned his face, and the more he could bear it today, the more Tang Xian wanted to chase him and make him angry.
"Tell me, eldest prince? Little heart-eyed? Tang Xian chased after him, laughing and teasing, seeing that he was still unmoved, he learned again, "Brother? Big Bad? β
As the last word came out, Yun Zhu Huo Ran turned around and pulled out the dagger in Tang Xian's hand.
The morning sun that leaked from between the branches and leaves turned into a silver fish and jumped on the blade, refracting a silver light, which happened to be reflected in Tang Xian's eyes, shaking her so that she let out a low cry and turned her head to close her eyes.
He's angry?
Ready to do it?
Tang Xian recalled the look of the cloud stopped when she closed her eyes, and her heart panicked.
The closed pupils felt the silver light slicing away, so she struggled to open her eyes, and against the light, she saw Yun Zhu holding the dagger and raising his arm.
The garment is tightened by the raised arm, revealing tight muscles in the lower arm.
The dark bracers buckled the cuffs, and then up, Tang Xian saw the dagger held horizontally, and the arrows that pierced like meteors.
"Dang Changβ"
The arrows from the jungle struck the dagger, and the surging momentum was stopped, and then it was cut in two, and the lost dog fell to the grass.
Tang Xian was still holding the empty scabbard in her hand, frozen, and when she reacted, the guards had already chased after her with swords, and the remaining few surrounded the carriage, protecting the clouds inside.
Yun Zhu bent down to pick up the arrows on the ground, fiddled with them a few times, and said in a deep voice: "Let people come back, it's the same person as last time, the other party is very good at archery, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a hundred steps through Yang, and it is impossible to catch up." β
After a few days, the other party also found out, and sent assassins to follow secretly, with many people, it was easy to be detected by Yun Zhu, so he changed to an archer to secretly attack.
Yun Zhu has fought several times with the person who released the dark arrow, and he probably understands his style.
Good archery skills, decisive action, only one shot, whether successful or not, the arrow off the string, immediately retreat, very difficult to capture.
By the time the guards found the place, they were gone.
Capture this archer unless you know his identity, or capture his master.
Yun Zhu's fingertips wiped a handful on the blade, feeling the cool air on the blade, and the killing intent in his heart pressed down.
He turned the dagger and stabbed it towards Tang Xian's hand.
With a sound of "Cheng", the dagger entered the sheath, which shocked Tang Xian's mouth numb.
This was the second time she had faced the killing intent that was coming at her.
The first time, she was at a loss and didn't know what was going on until she was rescued, and then she was even more frightened by Yun Zhu's injury, and before she could panic, she was angry at his vexatious trouble.
Intellectually it was clear that someone wanted her life, but she didn't feel the danger very clearly, so she didn't have any real fear.
This time it was different, she saw the whizzing arrow with her own eyes, and the trajectory of its path.
If Yun stopped with a dagger, it should have come to his eyes.
The sharp tip of the arrow, with an unstoppable force, was probably enough to pierce her pupils and kill her on the spot.
Tang Xian thought about that picture, her face turned white with fright, her fingers shook, and the dagger fell to the ground, smashing heavily on the broken half of the arrow.
Visible to the naked eye, her ignorant expression collapsed, the corners of her eyes drooped, her mouth flattened, and tears swirled in her eyes.
"Aren't you afraid...... Yun stopped halfway to retract his words, stood motionless for a moment, coughed lowly, and bent down to pick up the fallen dagger.
When he spoke again, his voice was much softer, "When I talk to you about this, I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it, I'm bold when you are not afraid of these ......."
He really thought that Tang Xian was bold, after all, from the beginning, he refused to give in, and he could sarcastically mock him openly and secretly.
Tang Xian's voice was unsteady, "...... I'm not afraid of ......."
I was still afraid, and I easily agreed at that time because I didn't want to be watched all the time, and I didn't want to be imprisoned in the house by external forces.
Sooner or later, if you have to choose, of course, it is better to take the initiative and solve it as soon as possible.
Now that the arrow is in front of you, you know how dangerous and cruel it is.
"How can I not be afraid, my legs are weak!" Tang Xian's voice trembled, "He's going to shoot my eyes!" β
Yun stopped lowering his eyes, and saw that her troubled eyes were filled with water vapor, trembling, and could turn into tears at any time.
He wanted to ask, "I am still going to the treasure cave compared to this man, am I still fierce to you?" β
Looking at Tang Xian's appearance, thousands of sentences were retracted from the bottom of my heart.
After a moment of silence, he stretched out a hand and said, "Then follow me." Speed up the pace and get rid of people as soon as possible. β
Tang Xian grabbed his arm, moved a small step towards him, half leaned on his shoulder, and emphasized weakly in a weak voice: "Then you have to protect me, Yanxia and the Treasure Cave have to rely on me......
That's the reason, just for the sake of the treasure cave, Yun Zhu has to protect her.
Yun Zhu's eyes were slightly dark, feeling the weight on his shoulders, and his heart was slightly irritable.
"Don't protect me......" Tang Xian was still delicately admonishing.
"Then you should be honest and don't always make me angry."
Yun stopped thinking about saying this, and then looked at Tang Xian's pale face, all the emotions in his heart were scattered, and there was only one simple word left for the exit, "Hmm." β
Chapter 32: Into the Mountain
After the dagger incident, Yun stopped speeding up and quickly arrived at Chuyang Mountain.
There was a small village near Chuyang Mountain, and that night, Tang Xian and Yun Yuan were placed in the village, and Yun Zhu led people up the mountain.
Tang Xian was very afraid of the archer hiding in the shadows, and he had never been separated from Yun Zhi since that day, and he was eager to go up the mountain with him at night.
The mountain road is difficult to walk at night, and if you take her with you, you can't leave Yun Xuan alone, and Yun Zhu lures the enemy to go deeper, and he still left her behind because he was worried that she would not be able to see her at night.
Seeing that she was so scared, out of nowhere, she recruited a hundred guards to surround the entire village, and left the dumb man and Lin Beishu to guard her and Yun Yuan, so that they could be separated with peace of mind.
As night fell, Yun Yu took a bath, sat on the threshold and blew the wind, breaking steamed buns to feed the two little puppies in the farmhouse.
On the opposite side, the rudimentary wooden door creaked open, and an old woman came out with a woman with a black cloth on her head.
The guards were alert, and the dumb man stepped forward directly.
"Bring candles to your guests." The old woman was so old that she had to walk with a cane, and the candle was held by an emaciated woman behind her.
The mother and daughter were the owners of the farmer's household, and they received the silver and left Tang Xian and Yun Yuan to live temporarily.
"Thank you, Grandma!" Yun Yuan rose from behind the mute and thanked him clearly.
The old woman nodded flattered, wrinkled, handed out the candle, and then took the woman back to the house.
Farmers are economical and rarely light up at night, which is a candle that is deliberately asked for more on the grounds that the clouds are afraid at night.
Late at night, Yun Yuan entered the house with two small dogs, and Tang Xian was measuring the distance from Chuyang Mountain to the Imperial Tomb in her heart.
She felt that something must have happened in the imperial tomb, and wanted to ask Yun Zhu, for fear of arousing his curiosity, but in the end she didn't ask, and could only guess by herself late at night.
"Sleepy." Yun Yuan kicked off his shoes and wanted to carry the puppy to the bed.
The room was bright, and Tang Xian saw the mud on the puppy's paws and hurriedly stopped her.
"Then let them sleep on the bedside floor, and tomorrow I will see them when I wake up, and I will play with them." The clouds are full of anticipation.
Tang Xian wanted to agree to her, but the owner of the family could not agree.
This peasant family is an elderly couple with a daughter, who is two years old, and the daughter is not sure of her age, and her face is covered with a black cloth all day long, which is said to be because of her ugly appearance.
Before going to bed, a peasant girl dressed in a black cloth came to beg for a puppy, and Yun Yuan was reluctant to give up, but as soon as the puppy heard the peasant girl's call, he wagged his tail and ran out.
Yun pouted: "Why are other people's puppies so well-behaved, but mine is disobedient?" β
Tang Xian patiently coaxed her, hid the dagger under the pillow, turned off the lights and fell asleep.
The next day, when Yun had not yet gone down the mountain, Tang Xian took Yun Yuan to wash, and saw the farmer's daughter feeding the dogs, and Yun Yuan came over again.
But after inadvertently seeing the peasant girl's face, she was so frightened that she dropped the steamed bun and ran back to Tang Xian, and threw herself into her arms and didn't dare to raise her eyes.
The peasant girl seemed to notice this, pulled the black cloth on her head, and quickly hid in the house.
Before the peasant girl moved in, the guards had already found out, which frightened the two of them not to say anything in advance.
Unexpectedly, Yun Yuan was still frightened, and Lin Beishu made it clear, "I was sleeping in the mountains a few years ago and was bitten on the face by a poisonous snake. It is also for this reason that I have not been able to talk about people for a long time. β
Few people can not care about their appearance at all, Tang Xian hurriedly told Yun Yuan that she could avoid the peasant girl, but she could not have that kind of reaction again.
Yun Yuan nodded obediently, afraid that he would also be bitten by a snake, so he didn't dare to go out easily.
In the evening of this day, there was finally movement on the mountain, Tang Xian's heart was raised high, the mute and the others were completely different from her, they were vigilant, but they were not worried, they all just dutifully protected the two of them, even Yun Yuan was more indifferent than Tang Xian.
When Tang Xian asked, Yun Yuan said: "Don't worry, my brother is the best at fighting, and when he was at home, he used to lead hundreds of people to chase thousands of villains and fight, beat people all over the ground to find their teeth, and also seized other people's territory." β
At first glance, the thousands of people she said were in a very large formation, and after adding the words "home" and "grabbing territory," it sounded like a ruffian brawling, and it was difficult to convince people.
Seeing that she didn't believe her, Yun Yuan emphasized in an accentuated tone: "My grandfather's family is very good at fighting, and my brother has studied well and has never lost before, so he will definitely win this time." β
Tang Xian combined these words with her family's ridiculous ancestral teachings, and guessed: "Your grandfather's family can't be born as a bandit and robber, right?" β
When Yun Yuan heard this, he first shook his head affirmatively, then rolled his eyes, and said uncertainly: "My grandfather's family is not a robber, but I heard my father say that there was an old ancestor in his family who liked to steal things, and he was caught and twisted to the government several times...... Is this a robber? β
Tang Xian nodded: "Count, it's all about robbing other people's property, the essence is the same!" β
That's right, there was such a person in the ancestors, and Yun Zhu once led hundreds of thousands of people to fight and brawl, and it must be the bandit leader who fought for territory.
His ancestors were in the west of Yinyue Bay, which was too far away from the capital, so he had never heard of it.
It seems that the emperor has changed too quickly in recent years, which still has an impact on the stability of remote towns.
- Tang Xian thought.
It is not unheard of before when bandits and robbers gathered a crowd to revolt and colluded with dissident ministers of the DPRK and China to compete for the throne.
Tang Xian had a very complicated mood about the matter of seeking to seize imperial power.
This is not something she can meddle in, so she can only sigh in her heart and judge without saying a word.
When the two of them were looking at Chuyang Mountain from the window, in the yard, a peasant girl with a covered face carried a basket to the backyard to feed the chickens.
Tang Xian was afraid that she would inadvertently hurt the peasant girl's heart again, so she stopped her in the house.
Yun Yuan was greedy, and said to Tang Xian: "When I go home, I will also raise a few chickens." β
Tang Xian's heart was full of things about the clouds on the mountain, and she didn't care too much about nodding.