“......”

Xia Xun's brows sank deeply, and he closed his eyes in meditation. Let the passers-by around him flow in front of him. Like a fool, he stood still, as if he was feeling something...

"Any clue?"

Peony led the watermelon and walked back from the fructose stall not far away. The crimson on her face that had been dyed with embarrassment had long since faded and been replaced by a few strands of solemnity.

Xia Xun opened his eyes and shook his head: "I still can't feel it, he shouldn't be near the temple fair." ”

"What the doll stole is important?" Peony handed over a fructose skewer.

"Thanks..."

Even though Xia Xun is in a very bad mood now, he can't refuse to buy it with a heart. He took the fructose skewer, put it in his mouth and took a bite before continuing:

"The national test is recommended and a leaf of gold. ”

Peony didn't look too surprised: "Oh... That's really important. ”

She pulled up her messy hair, tied it in a small braid at random, showed a sweet smile, and said as if comfortingly: "Let's go back to the distance and see, maybe we can find some clues." ”

Xia Xun quickly finished nibbling on the fructose string in two bites, then bent down to pick up the watermelon.

"That's all there is to it. ”

Peony didn't talk back. Lift the skirt slightly, and walk back with broken steps. Xia Xun hugged the watermelon and followed behind...

Now Xia Xun is calm, but not too calm.

He couldn't have imagined that the thief he saved with kindness was not only grateful to him, but actually stole him in turn. It's really a response to that kind sentence that is not good to repay...

The thief is just stealing other things. If the letter of the national test is gone, you can still find a way to remedy it, but the one that Jin Shan is not exchanged for is too involved. If the thief was deliberately arranged to steal it. The storm that will be set off by this incident is unimaginable...

Come in a hurry, go in a hurry, and return in a hurry.

Ups and downs on Chinese New Year's Eve,

A wave of unsettled waves.

The three of them went back to their place,

The crowd is looking for him thousands of times.

Looking from afar, where is that person still there, where is the lamplight?

The flow of people is still the flow of people, but with a different face. The stick has long since disappeared, not to mention the thief doll who fled earlier. Except for a few drops of dried old blood on the ground, how could there be any other traces?

Xia Xun held the watermelon, led the peony, followed the faintly invisible drops of dirty blood, walked more than a hundred zhang to the east, and then had no clue.

"He had been gone for so long that all the footprints on the ground had melted. Xia Xun said helplessly.

"Shh~"

Peony closed her eyes slightly, sniffed her nose, gently raised her onion fingers, stopped at her lips, and made a gesture not to disturb. It seems to be sniffing the aftermath of the air drifting through the air. Very seriously...

Xia Xun was slightly different, and it seemed that Peony's smell was more powerful than he thought.

The night fire is warm and the flow of people is endless.

After a while,

Peony frowned without a trace, and a few wisps of freshly condensed sweat slipped away. Opening his eyes, he looked eastward, and said, "I should go east, I smell some of the remaining cloves..."

As she spoke, she grabbed the hem of her skirt again, and without looking back, hurried eastward. At the same time, he said in a somewhat hurried tone: "We have to go faster, there is not much left of this medicinal incense, and it will soon disperse." ”

"Yes"

Xia Xunning nodded in response, silently holding the watermelon, and continued to follow. He has no choice, the thief has been gone for a long time, and the traces left behind have long been trampled by pedestrians on the road, his divine sense is useless, and now he can only hope for the magical nose of the peony, and smell a trace of it.

Night, go deep.

The watermelon lay on Xia Xun's shoulder and fell asleep peacefully.

Peony stepped on small steps all the way and led Xia Xun out of the temple fair. After going around and around, I walked for several miles and came to the easternmost street in the east of the city...

Fang stopped.

At this time, the place is empty, and the lights on both sides of the street are sparse and quiet. It is in stark contrast to the bustling temple fairs on the other end.

Peony wiped the slight sweat on her forehead with a hand towel, glanced around, then shook her head, and said solemnly: "The fragrance of medicine suddenly disappeared when it came here." ”

"Gone?"

Xia Xun didn't quite understand, hugged the watermelon, walked to the peony, and continued to ask in a low voice, "Why did it suddenly disappear?"

Peony looked at Xia Xun, pursed his mouth slightly, and said unwillingly: "Maybe he slyly hid the medicine, or left this area very quickly, leaving not much aftertaste." ”

"Well, is it possible to ......?"

Xia Xun said halfway, hesitantly took a few steps forward, and squatted straight down. With his free hand, he stroked the mud on the ground and pointed along a slightly new rut mark: "There should have been a carriage passing by here not long ago, and it was not slow. And, it just crosses the road we came from..."

"Is it possible, you say, that he got into the carriage?"

Hearing this, Peony's eyes lit up, and she stepped forward and walked to Xia Xun's side. Look at the rut marks pressed by the two wheels, and the horseshoe prints that stretch along the rut marks.

Then, she turned her head to look at the rut marks behind her. Tilting his head sideways, he thought for a while: "It should be right." ”

"These two rut marks began to sink into the depths of the threads when they came here, and it is likely that the doll got into the carriage here. ”

As he spoke, Peony spoke a little slower, looking a little worried: "So, someone answered him?"

Xia Xun stood up and shook his head: "It shouldn't be." If he still had accomplices, he should have come out to answer him when he left the temple fair. In this case, it is estimated that after he had run here, he happened to come across a passing carriage, and the direction of the carriage happened to be along with him. ”

"Oh. "Peony, slightly open the mouth, slender and light.

"This..."

Xia Xun was quite embarrassed, and he said after a while: "Maybe I'm going to trouble you again." ”

Peony smiled shyly, she knew what Xia Xun meant by trouble.

Now that the thief had gone in the carriage, he could no longer pursue him with his feet. Otherwise, you may not be able to catch up for two days.

Now there is only one way left, only to ride around...

"I hope Xiaoqing didn't run far..."

I saw that Peony reached out and took out a verdant grass from her small waist bag. The grass is a foot long, emitting a faint green light, faint and fragrant.

She held the grass in her palm and held it up gently. It glows faintly like a green star raised. The faint fragrance spreads...

Not long after,

"Whew..."

There was a long roar in the night sky, from far to near.

A bluebird spreads its wings and flies at great speed...

The blue bird is quite large, only one circle smaller than Lu Suifeng's fierce crane. The feathers are verdant and shiny, the sharp hook is like gold, and dozens of long tail feathers are dragged behind them, like a splendid wren warbler that is magnified a hundred times and noble a hundred times.

"Xiaoqing here. ”

"Bang Bang"

The bluebird flapped its wings in response, slipped from the sky, and stopped in front of Peony.

"So it's called Xiaoqing?"

"Yes. ”

"But it's not small. ”

“... It was given a name when the gentleman was young, and I guess it was still young at that time. ”

“......”

The two climbed onto the back of the bird one after another...

"Whew..."

After a few people sat down, the bluebird spread its wings again and sang long, flew into the night, turned into a dark green meteor, and headed east...

The easternmost part of the city, and the further east, it is not the east of the city.

It is the eastern suburbs outside the city.

The bluebird does not fly too high, more than 400 feet above the ground. If it is high, Xia Xun's divine sense will not be able to keep up with the speed to see the ruts on the ground.

Led by the rut marks, he didn't say anything all the way, and went out of the east of the city and entered the official road in the eastern suburbs.

After leaving the city, there were no more lights, and all around were low bushes, and it was dark and quiet in the night.

The sky was cold, and the watermelon sleeping on the back of the bird was covered with two red robes, and it slept soundly. Xia Xun looked down along the wings, guiding the direction from time to time. Peony sat cross-legged beside the watermelon and carefully tied the rope for him.

Just like three travelers...

"It's already a wilderness, isn't it really a trap?"

As she got farther away from the city, the dark and silent atmosphere seemed to make Peony feel a little scared: "Why don't we go back to the city first and find some people to help?"

"This horse has light ruts, only two horses and ropes, and it is not the property of a rich family. There was some blood on the ground all the way, and the doll should be hiding on the edge or under the car, and he didn't know the people in the carriage... It should be fine. Besides, if you go back to the city to call people, this time and again, I am afraid that the time will be in the morning. At that time, the merchants in the city went out of the city, and this rut mark was not easy to recognize..."Xia Xun turned his back to the peony and analyzed it carefully. His eyes had been carefully observing the ruts on the official road, so he couldn't see Peony's expression at this time, let alone know that she was afraid.

"That's... That..."

“......”

Peony grabbed the sleeve of her shirt with her hand, "that" for a long time, and she didn't think of how to say "Actually, she was afraid".

It's embarrassing, but there's also a hint of stubbornness. After all, her cultivation is much higher than Xia Xun's. To say that I am scared is to be too ashamed...

The bluebird went out of the city and flew more than 200 miles to the southeast. Yueyang City, which was brightly lit behind him, gradually became a palm-sized point of light.

Around here, there was still a dark bush, and it grew denser than what it had seen when it first came out of the city. It is even darker and quieter, and even the crickets and insects in spring are rarely heard, which seems quite dark and terrifying.

"Let's just leave it here"

"Whew"

As Xia Xun's words fell, the blue bird whispered very spiritually, turned its wings in one direction, circled twice in the sky, and slowly slid down...

Here

The two rut marks and horseshoe prints on the official road still extend along the road. It's just that at the place where the blue bird will fall, there are a few more shoe prints of small dolls, and they disappear to the path next to the official road in a few steps. The path winds like a python into the depths of the jungle...

The bluebird landed,

Xia Xun slowly turned his head to look at the peony, and said softly: "The forest is too vigorous, and there are no footprints in the sky." We've got to get in..."

As he spoke, he stopped talking suddenly.

"Eh~I'm sorry..."

When he turned his head, Xia Xun suddenly realized that Peony's face had been dyed pale with fear.

is a simple two words, it is really difficult to describe the guilt of the young man at this time.

The girl was speechless.

Long

Seeing that Peony kept her head down slightly and didn't answer...

Xia Xun continued to say guiltily and carefully: "It's late now, and I don't know when I have to follow this way." I think... Could you please help me bring the watermelon back to the mountains for the night?"

Xia Xun's words were tactful.

“......”

Slow down for a while.

Peony slowly raised her head, the white of fear was still there, and there were a few strands of aggrieved red silk in her eyes, she should have been frightened by the darkness and darkness along the way.

She looked thoughtfully at the small footprints that had disappeared into the bush, and after a moment, it seemed as if something had been decided. Qiang raised a smile and pretended to be calm and said, "If the footprints are gone, you won't be able to find anyone." ”

Her voice was dry...

“......”

Of course, Xia Xun had thought about this question, but although the surrounding environment was not dangerous now, the atmosphere in the forest was even darker and more terrifying than looking at the sky. In addition, it is indeed not too early now. If he bothered a girl to accompany him to find someone in such a forest, then he really couldn't help it. Not to mention the question of whether people are afraid or not, just saying that they will not return home this night will damage the reputation of the girl's family.

"It's too late now, if you take the watermelon to find someone, I'm afraid this forest will not be easy to walk. Xia Xun pointed to the forest where the footprints were hidden, and turned the corner and refused.

Peony's face couldn't help but flush, it was shy.

Both of them are geniuses in the same vein of learning and wisdom, and Xia Xun's words have a deep meaning, and she can't hear it.

The watermelon referred to in the words is actually her...

However, at the same time, she also knew that Xia was capable. In terms of strategy, she may not be as good as Xia Xun, but if it is about force, then a hundred Xia Xun may not be able to compare with him. If Xia Xun was allowed to go into the forest alone to find people at this time, she would not be able to settle down.

Even though she has a thousand percent of the girl's instinctive fear of the darkness in her heart...

Peony tidied up the watermelon's padded jacket a little, endured the fear in her heart, and said in a low voice: "If I let Xiaoqing bring the watermelon back to the mountains first, I will accompany you into the forest to find someone, so that it will be easier to find it faster." ”

She gritted her teeth...

"Otherwise, if something happens to you in the woods, I'm afraid it won't be easy for me to explain it to my husband..."

“......”