The second day of the sixth month of the Wu calendar.

Wu.

The outskirts of Taizhou.

Luqiao Town.

The so-called suburbs are just small villages around the mountains, separated from the city.

June is the beginning of summer, the dazzling golden yellow is sprinkled on the earth, the huge field has nowhere to hide, as far as the eye can see, the green mountains in the distance, the golden fields below the mountain, the fertile soil in the fields, and the clear springs flowing by the soil are all sprinkled with a layer of dazzling brilliance. The locusts did not dare to look directly at the sky, and buried their heads in a wheat plant that was swaying in the wind. The fields are next to the mountains, divided into several pieces, and arranged neatly. There was a different harvest in each field, and the wheat grew faster than the others, and the head was proudly raised in the face of the sun, and when the cool summer breeze blew it, the whole wheat field bent down like a meadow, and rattled.

The camphor tree on the edge of the field for people to enjoy the shade also grew so thick that the two could not hug it. The top of the lush umbrella on it also rattled, like a mother's hand, as if to gently caress the baby in her arms. The invisible cicadas in the trees hissed and chirped, corresponding to the sound of frogs in the fields.

Under a camphor tree with a crooked neck is a simple thatched hut. The roof was piled together with bundles of grass roots, and it was hot from the sun. The bricks on the walls were also rotten, and several rays of light passed through the cracks in the bricks, falling to the ground in speckles. The house was small, with cobwebs taking over all the corners and roofs, and a few rats burrowing in and out of the fields and houses. There was only a large tattered bed in the room, and there was no bedding on the bed. Ouyang Mu was lying on it, his eyes closed and his face pale.

Yan Wuchang was dressed in a simple peasant uniform, and his long dark hair was wrapped in linen cloth and tied on his head. He brought a bundle of straw from outside the house and spread it on the ground, moving like an ordinary mountain villager.

After laying the straw on the ground, Yan Wuchang sat down against the wall, threw a dog's tail grass into his mouth with one hand, and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

Chenshi.

Ouyang Mu slowly opened his eyes and looked straight at the roof.

Yan Wuchang didn't open his eyes, and said, "What are you going to eat today?" The porridge is gone, and there is only some soup and water left. ”

Ouyang Mu listened to it and said, "Lord Wang, my injury is almost healed, and I don't need to rest anymore." ”

"Who asked you about your injury?" Yan Wuchang's dog tail grass moved up and down, and said, "Don't you know anything about your body?

Ouyang Mu listened quietly, his chapped lips moved, and he didn't answer.

Yan Wuchang said lazily: "Your leg injury is not important, the important thing is your internal strength, which has been lost seventy percent, and your body can't hold it, and it may leave disasters in the future." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Ouyang Mu who was lying flat on the bed, and said, "What should you eat, porridge or rice?"

Ouyang Mu closed his eyes lightly and began to feel the flow of internal force in his body, and sure enough, the flow of internal force was not as smooth as before, and there was always weakness and procrastination.

"Rice. ”

Yan Wuchang listened, got up from the ground, patted the straw on his buttocks, faced the outside of the house, and picked up the hoe leaning against the wall.

Ouyang Mu opened his eyes again and turned his head to look at his back.

"If you want to eat, you have to work, this is the rule of Wu Guo's short-term work. Yan Wuchang didn't look back and said, "When the wheat is ripe, I'll cut a few catties and ask the owner for more bowls of porridge." ”

Ouyang Mu looked at him and issued some certificates.

The summer days are always long, and when it comes to unitary time, the sunset on the horizon still does not dissipate.

Ouyang Mu put down the bowl in her hand, the rice in the porridge had a moldy smell, and she was a little difficult to swallow, but Yan Wuchang ate quickly, finished her bowl in a few bites, and looked at the half bowl of porridge in her bowl with a blank eye.

"Lord Wang. Ouyang Mu pushed the bowl beside him towards Yan Wuchang, he looked at it, then brought it over and ate it in a big gulp.

The gentle afterglow of the sunset was directly reflected on Ouyang Mu's face through the doorless door frame of the thatched hut. The world seemed to suddenly become quiet, the endless waves of wheat in front of me were gently surging, the dusk seemed to stain the whole sky red, and the fiery clouds slowly moved in various poses. The gentle golden color makes everything calm.

Ouyang Mu changed to a position of lying on his side, quietly admiring the scene outside the house, and his heart seemed to be immersed in it.

Yan Wuchang leaned his neck and drank the porridge in the bowl, and looked at Ouyang Mu's face, her facial features were shrouded in the afterglow of the setting sun, exuding a different kind of tenderness.

"Who was the person who stopped you that day?" Yan Wuchang asked.

"I don't know. Ouyang Mu's eyes were still outside the house, and he said, "Most of my internal strength at that time has been lost, and I can't exert my full strength. ”

Yan Wuchang said: "Then you have fought with him, who do you think it is?"

Ouyang Mu shook his head lightly and said, "His face is covered, he uses an official sword, and he doesn't have any special moves, but he can guess my movements, can resist and suppress me, he should be a person who has been experienced in a hundred battles and has strong martial arts." I didn't play to my full strength. ”

"If I hadn't rescued you, would you have died there?" Yan Wuchang asked.

"The prince doesn't have to save me, my life and death don't matter compared to the danger exposed. Ouyang Mu looked at Yan Wuchang and said.

The two glanced at each other, and Yan Wuchang's eyes were still as indifferent as ever, exuding a godless light.

"That's it. Causing such a big movement, there are also many high-ranking people in the Wu State Palace, and it is not good for us to alarm them. Yan Wuchang muttered, stood up, and came to Ouyang Mu's bedside. His body blocked the dim light outside the door.

He slowly leaned down and stretched out his arms to get closer to Ouyang Mu's body. Ouyang Mu could feel his distance getting closer and closer, the hairs on his body stood up unconsciously, and he simply closed his eyes.

Yan Wuchang helped her upper body up against the wall, and then Yan Wuchang sat on the edge of the bed again, took off her boots straight, and rolled up her trouser legs, revealing her white and slender calves.

There was a long, scarlet scar on his calf, imprinted in the middle, grinning his teeth.

Yan Wuchang took out a few bottles of wound medicine from her shabby clothes and skillfully poured them on Ouyang Mu's calf, she frowned in pain and trembled all over.

"It's a deep cut, and if you retreat slowly, you won't be able to save this leg. Yan Wuchang said, holding the soles of Ouyang Mulinglong's feet with one hand, and rubbing them on his calves with the other, so that the wound medicine could melt into the wound faster.

Ouyang Mu just looked at him lightly, expressionless and silent.

After a while, Yan Wuchang spoke: "Tell me about your family background, I remember, you are not from Yan Kingdom, right?"

Ouyang Mu's voice was slightly hoarse, and he said in a low voice: "Back to the prince, I am from the Han Kingdom, and I came south to the Yan Kingdom at the age of sixteen to join the Tianshu Pavilion. ”

"Oh, then you are also an elder, and there are not many people who can live in Tianshu Pavilion for more than ten years. Yan Wuchang looked at Ouyang Mu Dao.

"Back to the prince, the little girl is twenty years old. Ouyang Mu looked at him and said.

I don't know if she heard the meaning of the abuse in Yan Wuchang's words, Yan Wuchang just continued: "Oh, what about your family, will they agree to you coming to this kind of place?"

"My father is an ordinary merchant in the Han State Commercial Bank, and my mother is just an ordinary woman, so I don't need to mention it. Ouyang said.

Yan Wuchang listened, thought for a while, and said, "Your father is Ouyang Zhenhua?"

"Since the prince knows, why should he ask again?" Ouyang Mu said.

Yan Wuchang put down her calf, and began to massage her injured leg with both hands, with gentle techniques and delicate movements.

"I just want to confirm, this generation of your family, there are people who go to the academy, some who are in business, some who are county officials, and some who are in the army, but is this?" Yan Wuchang said.

Ouyang Mu looked at Yan Wuchang, who was carefully pressing his injured leg, and after a while, said, "The prince is well-informed. ”

Yan Wuchang will massage her to promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, and said: "It's nothing, there are rules for short-term work, and Skynet has the rules of Skynet." Who doesn't have a person to worry about? If you are captured by the Wu people that night, who can guarantee what will happen? ”

Ouyang Mu listened quietly and did not respond.

Yan Wuchang continued: "You are the person next to me, I will try my best not to let this happen, but I will not put myself in danger, and I am also responsible for the person I want." ”

After that, he raised his head and looked at Ouyang Mu's cold gaze, and said: "People are wandering in the four seas, there are always people waiting for you to go home on the shore, if it is gone, there is no point in going ashore." ”

Ouyang Mu looked at him with a cold gaze, and neither of them was moved.

Outside the door, the dusk faded, and the occasional sound of the villagers shouting for work could be heard from a distance. Summer insects began to murmur in the field, and the sound of frogs was loud. The crescent moon hung in the night sky early, and the sound of cicadas did not abate in the slightest.

The sky had turned a deep blue, and the surroundings had gradually darkened. Yan Wuchang's face was also blurry and couldn't see clearly.

He put down Ouyang Mu's injured leg and said, "I heard that you have a cousin who is working as a county official in Hangzhou. ”

As he spoke, Yan Wuchang raised his head, and Ouyang Mu couldn't see his face clearly in the gloomy room, only hearing his deep voice: "Do you want to go and see him?"

"The prince doesn't need it. Ouyang Mu said, "I haven't been in contact with my clansmen for a long time. ”

Yan Wuchang gently put away the dishes and chopsticks, rubbed the side of the bed with his patched sleeves, and said, "Then let's go out for a walk, it's good to enjoy the cold at night, and it's also good for your leg injury." ”