The carriage turned around and drove out of the city, and after walking for most of the day, two more eunuchs were dispatched, and one of them was ordered to go back to Baylor Mansion to arrange all the affairs in the palace, and the other to Wanyan Mansion to spread the word.

By the time Amma got the news, we had already left Beijing City Liangli Road. It's summer, the sky is as clean as a blue velvet curtain, and the white clouds shimmer with a blinding light, making it impossible to look at them directly.

Xiao Hai was so hot that he was soaked, and said with a look of regret: "If it goes on like this, I will be steamed" Min Qiu took two fans, and tried his best to fan me and Xiao Hai, he was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and he didn't forget to take the idea and said: "In the future, we will rush more at night, and we will be sharp during the day." I stared at Xiao Hai sideways, and said angrily: "What? Tired after only a day of walking? I lifted the curtains, and the plainclothes guard on horseback in front of me hurriedly turned the horse's head and asked, "Master, do you have any orders?" "I saw that his face was flushed with sun, and we were still breathless from the heat when we sat in the carriage, not to mention that they were already dizzy when they were directly exposed to the sun.

I thought for a while and said, "If there is a tea shop in front of you, stop and breathe." The guard replied yes, without a word of gossip, and waved the whip in front.

I brought a total of eight guards and two eunuchs who drove the carriage, plus Minqiu and Xiaoman, a total of thirteen people.

Xiaohai has been pampered since he was a child, except for knowing the route of the fourteenth and being able to understand the official language along the way, he basically can't help.

Not to mention Minqiu, although she will do whatever I ask her to do, but after all, she is a weak woman in the boudoir, and at a critical time, she has to help her.

The only ones I could rely on were the eight guards, all of whom had been handpicked by Fourteen from the Guard, whose duty was to protect me.

Besides, the two eunuchs, except for driving the carriage to buy food, pour tea and serve water, etc., can't do other things. The road was dusty, the sun was fierce, and after three days of driving, Xiaohai and Minqiu and I all suffered from heat stroke.

We didn't have any medicine to relieve the heat, so we had to live in a small village nearby, and we asked Dr. Yamano to see us.

Fortunately, it was not a serious illness, and after taking two medicines, it soon improved, except for weakness in the hands and feet, nothing else, and the spirit was also there.

Not daring to delay, we went all the way west. The ground grew drier, the dust thicker, and the more westward we went, the more sparsely populated, and as we entered the territory of Gansu, we began to hear rumors about Fourteen, and I knew that I was already very close to him.

We traveled day and night, did not sleep well for more than a month, did not know how many horses died, always started to rush in the second half of the night, stopped in the first half of the night to rest, each time only rested for two or three hours, drank tea and ate some fresh food, washed and slept a little, and then continued on the road.

Xiao Hai and I have lost a lot of weight, and the eight guards have become charcoal, and they don't even need to cover their faces when they go out to steal things at night, because except for the two whites of their eyes, they have become one with the night.

When we arrived at the small village closest to the Fourteenth Station, the sun had just set and it rained heavily. We had no choice but to stop and recuperate.

It just so happened that there was a dilapidated temple next to it, and the abbot in it warmly invited us in for fasting. In the Kangxi Dynasty, because of national policies, being a monk was very status, especially the presiding officer of the temple.

Although there are only four rooms on the left and right of this temple, and there is only one statue of Manjushri, there are two old monks and two young monks guarding it.

The rain was like a silk thread, and I stood under the porch in a state of uneasiness, but I couldn't tell why. In order to make it easier to walk, Minqiu and I wore men's clothes all the way, and at this time we were dirty and sweaty.

The monk didn't know that we were women, and said kindly: "It just so happens that there are two buckets of hot water in the kitchen, and if the donor doesn't dislike it, you can go to the bath room to bathe and change clothes." "To be honest, I haven't taken a bath for a week, because there is no inn along the way, and every time I stay in a broken temple or a common person's house, it is inconvenient everywhere, so I have to endure it.

So when the monk mentioned taking a bath, it was just right in the middle, and I hurriedly said: "Very good, there is an abbot." I really don't want to meet Fourteen covered in sweat.

The leader of the guards was very vigilant and said, "Master, when the rain stops, we will leave immediately, it is better for you to endure it any longer, and wait until you get to the fourteenth master's residence before bathing." He replied in a low voice: "I always feel that something is wrong" Before he finished speaking, Xiaohai had already taken off his coat and said, "I'll go take a bath, and you call me when the rain stops." I can't stand it anymore, I'm about to get lice on my body" and said to the monk with a smile: "Please let the little master lead the way." "I thought about it, and I circled around, and I felt weird, but I couldn't tell what was weird.

Xiao Hai had already gone to the backyard to take a bath, and the head of the guard had two guards to follow quietly, while the others were still by my side.

I was so tired that I thought that even if those monks tried to do wrong, there would only be four of them, and two of them were children, and there were so many of us that there was nothing to be afraid of, so I gradually relaxed my vigilance and sat in the house drinking tea.

At one moment, two little monks entered the house, one opened the lampshade to add lamp oil, and the other held seven or eight bowls of sweet potato porridge, and lightly put them in front of me and Minqiu, and put their hands together and said: "Please don't eat for the donor, it is all the usual food in the temple, please don't dislike it." "To be honest, most of the time we eat dry food on the road - steamed buns, flatbreads, etc., and even a bowl of hot vegetarian porridge is like a delicacy that we have eaten in our previous lives.

Minqiu swallowed, she didn't dare to eat without my orders. I couldn't make up my mind, so I looked at the leader of the guards.

The leader was calm and composed, took out the silver needle from his bosom and tried it in the porridge, and tasted two more bites himself. The little monk looked at the leader's movements, was very angry, and said with a raised face: "The Buddha doesn't speak, if the donor is wary of us monks, he can't eat." I have a natural affection for children, and I refuse to break his heart, so I hurriedly said: "Don't get me wrong, they are just used to it" The leader had a straight face, and casually covered a bowl of porridge with a big palm from the table, handed it to the little monk and said: "If you eat, we will believe you." I felt that this was inappropriate, and I was about to say something, but the little monk was very happy, and drank the porridge in a few sips, and said angrily: "What? The leader paid no attention to him, but said to me, "Master, you can eat." Hearing the leader say this, Minqiu couldn't help but smile, took out a handkerchief to wipe the spoons and chopsticks for me, and served me to eat.

I ordered everyone to drink porridge, after all, there are goods in the stomach, and only when you are in a hurry can you have the strength. When he was almost finished, Xiao Hai also came back, he changed his clothes, and his whole person was refreshed.

He saw the food on the table at a glance, and without saying a word, he started eating as soon as he sat down on his buttocks, and said: "You also go to wash, I remember when you were not married, but you had to bathe every day." After a pause, he said to the guards who followed him, "Go, bring the clothes of Fujin in the carriage." He looked at me again and said, "Anyway, the rain hasn't stopped, you can also go and wash up, and when Ming'er sees her brother-in-law, she won't be pickled." "When a person has a full stomach, he becomes sleepy and lazy.

I leaned back on the wooden bench and closed my eyes to recuperate, waiting for the guards to bring me my clothes. I was in a trance, as if I was asleep, and I saw Fourteen lying on the sickbed, moaning incessantly.

His face was pale, even his lips were white, his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and his sideburns were soaked one by one, as if I had been by his side for a long time, I turned around and found a handkerchief, wrung out warm water with my hands and feet, and wiped the sweat for Fourteen.

His eyes opened and closed for a while, staring at me clearly, but his eyes were empty, and I fell into a dream unconsciously, and it was the scene I had always expected, it was in the drowsiness, and suddenly I heard a scream, and my brain suddenly tightened the strings, and suddenly opened my eyes - it was Minqiu She fell in a pool of blood and fainted.

I screamed in my heart, I stood up, and wanted to help Minqiu, but a sword light flashed in front of me, I couldn't dodge, I tightened my body, and instinctively closed my eyes.

After a while, I realized that the sword had not fallen on me, and I lifted my eyelids and looked hard to see that the leader was standing in front of me with his body.

The little monk I had a good impression of before was holding a short sword and stabbing the leader in the abdomen, and behind the little monk, there was a scuffle between the other three monks and the guards, and the guards seemed to have been drugged, all of them were weak in their hands and feet, and they couldn't resist the invasion.

I had never seen such a scene before, and I was stunned for a moment, and I didn't know what to do, but the leader kicked the little monk away, and the sword was still in the abdomen, and he carried me on my shoulder with one hand, and threw myself straight out.

It was dark, the rain was heavy, the lightning was thundering, and I couldn't even see the road clearly. Soon, a big monk caught up with him, and the leader said, "You want money, and there are still two hundred pieces of gold in the carriage, just take them all, and we will not pursue them." The great monk sneered: "I didn't want to kill you, just take the silver, but there are things from the government in your carriage, we can't afford to provoke the court, and we can't keep you alive." After speaking, a sword stabbed over, and the leader dodged clumsily, quickly put me down, and caught the sword of the great monk.

The two fought each other in the rain, it was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly, and after a while, the sound of swords around me suddenly stopped, and I was tense, and the voice of the leader cut through the rain, and he shouted: "Run!" "I didn't have time to think about anything, and I couldn't take care of Xiaohai and Minqiu, my footsteps were deep and shallow in the mud and rain, and I ran forward desperately.

I didn't know whether it was rain, sweat or tears on my face, I didn't care, I ran wherever there was a road, and before I knew it, I climbed to the top of the hill.

The rain has not stopped, and there is no light in the dark and gloomy mountains and forests. I really didn't have the strength, so I leaned against a big tree in the dark.

The rain was heavy, the mud and rocks were rolling, and just as I was gasping for breath, a pair of glowing eyes flashed in the jungle, and I was so frightened that I didn't dare to stop, so I had to continue to run forward, behind

The "thing" followed me all the time, not far or closer, and I knew it was waiting for its moment. When I got to a slope, it somehow stopped chasing me.

I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but my feet slipped and I rolled out of the muddy water. ...