"Of course there is!" Tang Zixi wiped the corners of his wet eyes, turned his head and smiled, "Maybe when we meet again, you and I will both grow beards!"

"Nonsense. Qinglian was amused by her words, "Where does a woman grow a beard?" ”

"Who says it won't. Tang Zixi sneered disdainfully, and reached out to touch the other party's cheek, "Isn't this it?" ”

Qinglian knocked off the hand that was touching indiscriminately, and scolded with a smile: "Dead girl, you tease me......! No, I'm going to touch it back!"

"Ah, it's not good!" Tang Zixi shouted, jumped up and ran, shouting as he ran, "If you come over again, I'll call it indecent time!"

"You stop me!" Qinglian was angry and funny, chasing after her.

It didn't take long for Tang Zixi to catch up, and the two laughed together, and the laughter like silver bells floated far away with the stream. The fawn, who had been playing alone by the stream, raised his head in confusion, looked twice, and then concentrated on nibbling on the fat grass.

The sunset on the horizon faded in laughter, and the tide-like night floated up, gradually enveloping the whole land.

God, it's finally dark!

The second daughter lay on the grass, quietly looking at the shining stars in the sky, and the whole person fell silent. The dazzling splendor and magnificence made them forget everything at this moment. Forget the misfortunes of the past, forget the uncertainties of the future, and forget the powerlessness of the present.

At this time, even time seems to stand still, and the sound of insects chirping one after another, the occasional birdsong in the distance, and the sound of the babbling stream under your feet converge into the most beautiful music in the world.

Tang Zixi stretched out his hand and grabbed the void, as if he wanted to grasp all these beautiful sounds in his hand, closed his eyes and put his clenched fist on his chest, and sighed with satisfaction.

I don't know how long it took, Qinglian suddenly asked, "Little girl, you say, is there really a god in this world?" Her voice was very low, as if it contained endless suffering.

When people are tormented by fate, or when they are desperate, they always hope that there are gods in the world. It is not necessarily the hope that a god will save you from the sea of suffering, most of the time it is just to find a straw, a belief to support your life. Then tell yourself that all this is just a test given to you by God, as long as you grit your teeth and persevere, everything will slowly get better.

Tang Zixi Bingxue was smart, and immediately heard the clue from the other party's seemingly calm words, so he didn't answer immediately, but thought about it seriously before saying slowly: "Yes, otherwise, where would those high-ranking monks and saints of the past dynasties go?" After a pause, he added, "Also, I am not called Little Girl, my name is Tang Zixi, you can call me Tang Woman." ”

Qinglian slowly exhaled a breath when she heard this, and the boredom and uneasiness in her heart seemed to be spit out with this breath, and her tone became relaxed, and she smiled: "Okay, Tang Nuxia, are you cold?"

"It's okay! It's just that my nose is a little blocked. Tang Zixi sniffed, and sure enough, his voice was thick nasal, "I'm afraid I drank too much cold water in the afternoon." ”

Qinglian straightened up and said, "There seems to be a light over there, why don't we go and spend the night?"

"Where?" Tang Zixi also straightened up and looked around, but only saw the majestic mountains and the silent jungle, where was the shadow of the slightest light, "Could it be that I am blind?"

"Whew!!" Qinglian pointed in a certain direction, "It's blocked by that tree." ”

Hearing this, Tang Zixi leaned his head to her side and looked up, and sure enough, he saw an orange light, although it was very weak, but it was extremely warm in the night, and he couldn't help but say, "It's true." After saying that, he got up, patted the grass clippings on his body, and said impatiently, "Let's go quickly! ”

The two of them walked towards the light with one foot deep and one foot shallow, but fortunately, the sky was full of stars, and they were not afraid of not being able to see the road clearly.

I thought I would be able to walk for a while, but I didn't expect to walk for more than half an hour before I walked not far from the lights.

Tang Zixi looked at the lantern hanging in the corner of the house, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said: "No wonder it is said that the mountain runs dead horses, I looked quite close by the stream, I didn't expect to walk for so long." You're going to have to pinch my legs when you get back, they're all swollen!"

Qinglian pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "Okay, okay, can't you pinch it?" Go and knock on the door to take a look." ”

Tang Zixi nodded, walked to the door and called, "May I ask anyone? We accidentally got lost and want to spend the night with you." ”

Qinglian looked at the symbol drawn next to the lantern, and her eyes flickered.

After waiting for a long time and no one answered, Tang Zixi put his ear to the door and listened, and after a while, he sighed softly and turned around: "There seems to be no one inside! ”

Qinglian smiled and said, "Since there is no one, then we can spend a night under the eaves, which is better than being in the wilderness." ”

"How's that going to work? Tang Zixi glanced at his mouth and said, "Since you want to sleep under the eaves, it's better not to come." I'll try again, maybe I misheard. After that, he raised his voice and called, "Is there anyone in the house?" He shouted and reached for the door.

I didn't expect the door to come in response, but it turned out to be just a cover-up.

Squeak –

The sound of the wooden door being pushed open was particularly harsh in the silent night sky, Tang Zixi was startled by this sound, and scurried back several steps in a row, looking at the dark room with vigilant eyes.

After waiting for a long time and still there was no movement, she breathed a sigh of relief, turned her head and smiled: "Look, I said no one!

Qinglian shook her head and said, "Otherwise, let's stay under the eaves, I don't know why, I always feel cold behind my back." At this point, he glanced a little fearfully at a corner of the room, and swallowed the second half of the sentence.

"It's cold behind you?" Tang Zixi glanced around when he heard this, and said in a low voice, "Didn't we encounter dirty things?"

Qinglian's body instantly stiffened, and she trembled: "You, you, don't, don't scare me!"

"Haha, tease you! Coward, look at you scared!" Tang Zixi patted her shoulder vigorously and said loudly, "I'm a dignified Tang woman, and I can't get close to this woman within three feet of me, so you can follow this woman." After speaking, she deliberately straightened her chest and coughed loudly a few times, as if she had to do this to show her momentum that she was not afraid of.

Qinglian seemed to be infected by her boldness, and reluctantly smiled and said, "Okay, let's go in together!" After speaking, she took out the fire fold from her arms and blew it up, handed it to Tang Zixi, and said, "It will be better to take this." ”

Tang Zixi smiled, took the fire fold and turned around and walked towards the door, saying as he walked: "It's not that I'm bragging, I've never been afraid of those things since I was a child." It's just a small uninhabited room, so there's nothing to be afraid of. Back then, I made a bet that I had been to a mass grave in the middle of the night, and it wasn't all right. As the saying goes, people are afraid of ghosts and ghosts are afraid of people for seven points, you just have to make the momentum a little more, those ......" suddenly felt that something was wrong, and turned his head to look at Qinglian still standing in place, looking at her with a strange expression.

Tang Zixi urged: "What are you doing in a daze, come here!"

Qinglian looked at her steadily, and suddenly fell down, revealing a dark figure behind her.

Tang Zixi was so frightened that her knees were weak and she almost knelt down directly, and the fire fold in her hand was extinguished with a pop as she shivered and fell to the ground.

She hurriedly held on to the door frame and barely stabilized her figure, trembling and shouting: "Are you a human or a ghost?"

In the past, she might have been happy for a while when she heard herself make such a sound, but now she couldn't laugh, but just stared at the black figure in horror, for fear that the other party would suddenly open her bloody mouth and ask for her, or stretch out eight arms to grab her. When she was a child, she was frightened once by the angry eyes of King Kong in the temple, so in her mind, those evil spirits from hell were four heads and eight arms, and they were terrifying with angry eyes.

The visitor stretched out his hand and brushed it, and a strange fragrance wafted over. Tang Zixi's body shook, and then he fell down softly.

After she fell, the person who came removed the black cloth on her face, revealing a face with a mask, which was actually Su Jing.

He said coldly, "Get up!"

Qinglian, who had fainted to the ground, suddenly opened her eyes, quickly got up, and lowered her head and said, "Master!"

No one knew that Su Jing, who was the number one master in Ouchi, was also the mysterious leader of the Qingque under the command of the emperor. In order to restrain the Jin Wuwei left by the first emperor, the current saint personally selected people to set up Qingque. And Qingque has lived up to his expectations, rising rapidly from the day it was established, and although it has only been less than ten years, it has faintly surpassed Jin Wuwei.

Over the years, in order to weaken Tang Mingru's influence in the army and the court, the emperor has withdrawn his capable generals for various reasons, and Zhang Jue is one of them. Of course, he was one of the luckier ones - perhaps because he was not very conspicuous in the Iron Blood Camp before, but he was sent by the emperor to Liangzhou to make a general judgment, and most of the other generals were nowhere to be found. And the question of the whereabouts of these generals is also the most talked about topic in the letters exchanged between Zhang Jue and Tang Mingru. Because for these disappeared people, the emperor's reply to Tang Mingru was the words 'other reuse'.

Although the emperor has always been favored by the Tang family on the surface, how can he not know his temperament if he has known this emperor for decades, and driven by a strong sense of crisis, this will be taboo to contact his subordinates privately. This move naturally allowed the emperor to grasp the handle, and also confirmed the speculation in his heart, and began to take action against Tang Mingru and the Tang family faction step by step. And all this is also the root cause of the Tang family's annihilation.

As for Qinglian, it was a chess piece that Su Jing had buried in Zhang's Mansion at the beginning. Qinglian didn't lie to Tang Zixi, she was indeed sold by her father at the beginning, but it was not sold to Zhangfu, but to Qinglou. was met by Su Jing by chance, ransomed her and sold her to Zhang's mansion. It's just that Su Jing has never looked for her since she put Qinglian in Zhang's mansion, nor has she been told to do anything. First, it is to better hide her identity, and secondly, it is also because the time has not come. This made Qinglian almost forget her identity, until a few days ago she saw the code that she had been familiar with for a long time.