Early the next morning, Xuan Si and I simply cleaned up and left the cave. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info can't see what time it is. The snow was falling heavier and fluttering. The north wind howled fiercely, and the snow kept churning in the air.

The snowflakes in the sky make it impossible to find the direction. Xuan Si and I found a big tree with many branches, discerned the direction, and continued to walk southwest.

I don't know how long I walked, but I climbed over two mountain beams. In the snow, I vaguely saw a basin in a river valley in front of me, and in the basin was a small town.

Xuan Si and I thought that there would definitely be officers and soldiers in the town, so we didn't dare to enter the town directly. The two of us walked down the dense forest on the hillside, and when we reached the edge of the dense forest, we saw a ruined temple not far away. I beckoned Xuan Si to go around to the back of the ruined temple and peek in through the window. The ruined temple is obviously not full of incense, and dust is piled up everywhere, and no one will come on this snowy day.

The two of us discussed it for a while, and decided to take shelter from the wind and snow in this ruined temple first, rest for a while, and wait until it was dark before approaching the town. I jumped in through the window first, and Xuan Si followed. The offering table in the temple had a broken leg and was crooked, but the ground was very flat. The two of us swept out a place, laid out our clothes, and rested on the spot.

I don't know what time it was, but suddenly there was a sound of firecrackers in the town. Gradually, the sound of firecrackers became more and more intensive, mixed with the sound of fireworks being fired. Xuansi and I walked to the temple gate and looked at the town, but saw that the whole town had become a sea of fire trees and silver flowers. After counting the days, I realized that today was Chinese New Year's Eve.

It was getting dark, and the sound of firecrackers was reduced, only sporadically. From the hillside, the town is already brightly lit.

After waiting for about an hour, Xuan Si and I quietly entered the town from the rooftop. The town was already buzzing with people, and the sound of cups and cups was everywhere. On the square in the center of the town, a Qin opera is being sung, melodious and bitter singing, and the beating sound of jujube wood bangzi resounded throughout the town. On the long street, two teams of officers and soldiers patrolled back and forth against the wind and snow. I waved to Xuan Si and pointed to a brightly lit house in the middle of town. Xuansi understood, and followed me towards the house.

The house occupies a very large area, with four entrances and a garden. The whole house was hung with red lights, and the lights reflected the red sky, but I chose it before I entered the town.

Xuan Si and I hung under the corridor in the front hall to investigate, and sure enough, we saw a few familiar figures. There are two tables in the hall, and the first one sitting is Lan Yun, the head of the guard of the Zhenbei Palace, the "Silver Whip Guest", and on the right hand side of Lan Yun is Gao Xiang, the Ouchi guard who has fought before, Li Hu's four personal guards, Lao San Xingshu, and two Ouchi guards who have besieged me with Gao Xiang, one of whom has a bandage on his arm, but he was injured by Xuan Si and rolled off the roof, and he was lucky to pick up his life.

A few people on Lan Yun's right hand were extremely flattering, thinking that they were the local officials and squires who accompanied them, but they had never seen a few people at the other table.

I made a gesture to Xuan Si to go, and the two of them quietly jumped from under the cloister to the roof on one side and went straight to the backyard.

Xuan Si and I carefully hid all the way to the backyard. According to the previous agreement, Xuan Si went to the storeroom to look for something to keep out the cold, and I went to the kitchen to find some food.

Xuan Si searched all the way, and finally found the warehouse, gently pushed open a gap, and flashed in. But he saw that the storehouse was full of all kinds of things. I picked out two fur coats and two pairs of leather boots, but I felt that it was not enough, so I turned around and ripped off a few tiger skins hanging on the wall, and wrapped them together.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was looking, I sneaked into the storeroom by the kitchen. Pick up an empty cloth bag and put it in bacon, dried fish, deer breast, sausage and other foods that are not easy to spoil. When I went out, I passed by the kitchen window and picked up a fat chicken that was roasted golden brown on the windowsill.

When I left the house and returned to the ruined temple, Xuan Si was already waiting for me there. Smelling the aroma of roast chicken from afar, I clearly noticed that Xuan Si's eyes were shining in the dark night. It's finally been a fat year.

After eating the roast chicken, Xuan Si said that he wanted to change the clothes that he hadn't changed for a few days, and drove me out of the broken temple. I sat on the steps in front of the temple and stared at the lights of the town.

The crackling of firecrackers and the sound of fireworks sounded loudly, reflecting the snowy sky beautifully, and even the snowflakes were dyed with color. But the big drama in the town has already been sung.

The light of the flowers illuminated the entire town and the nearby hillside, and I suddenly noticed that something seemed to be moving under the hillside. After a closer look, it was a group of figures coming quickly in the direction of the ruined temple.

I hurriedly pushed open the temple door, and a piercing scream sounded, but it was Xuan Si who was carrying me to change clothes, and the entire back appeared in front of me under the light of the flowers, although it was only for a moment and then turned into darkness again. I was in a daze, and my mouth was a little dry.

Xuan Si didn't know if it was shame or anger, or if the flowers reflected his cheeks red, and his whole face turned red. Seeing that I was still looking at her dumbfounded, Xuan Si shouted angrily: "You still see! Get out of here quickly." ”

I hurriedly turned my head, walked out of the temple gate, and shouted at the temple: "I didn't mean to! At this time, the officers and soldiers thought that they heard Xuan Si's screams, and they had already rushed up the hillside with a shout, and they were only a few dozen zhang away from the broken temple. Only then did I realize that there were also figures moving on the river to the east of the ruined temple.

At this time, the door slammed open, and Xuan Si walked out with a bag and a cloth bag in his hand. I took the sack, put it on my back, and said, "Let's go, go west." ”

At this time, the shouts of the officers and soldiers were getting closer and closer, and the characteristic sharp sound of the "Sky Monkey" sounded continuously, which seemed so harsh in the sound of firecrackers and fireworks.

Xuan Si and I headed west, leaving striking footprints on the snow. It was only a dozen zhang away, and he had already entered the dense forest, and his eyes suddenly became dark. The snow in the dense forest is thick and thin, this is the pattern that Xuan Si and I have figured out in the reckless snow field in the past few days. As we walked, we paid attention to where we landed, and almost every foot landed on the top of a tree or a raised rock, and the speed was suddenly much faster.

From time to time, there were screams from behind him, but the officers and soldiers had chased them into the dense forest, and sometimes they stepped on the air or kicked stones and were injured. The distance grew wider and wider, and the officers and men of the brigade had to light their torches and follow our footprints.

Xuan Si and I moved forward quickly in the dark forest, and the pursuers behind us were getting farther and farther away. But I saw that the mountains were all over the field, and there were sporadic fires everywhere, but the officers and soldiers of the brigade had already dispersed.

Xuan Si and I ran out of the dense forest, and there was a small ravine in front of us. I was about to jump over the ravine, but I saw that there were torches in the southwest direction that kept lighting up. The two of us had to change direction and flee along the ravine to the northwest of the mountain.

A sharp voice rang out, and a beam of sparks burst out in the air, but it was one of the pursuers behind us who had already reached the edge of the ravine and spotted us. Torches scattered across the mountains began to move in this direction.

It won't be long before the sound of "Sky Monkey" sounds, and the fire is getting denser and denser. Xuan Si and I sped up and fled to the mountain beam. But I saw that there were dozens of torches moving quickly in the northeast direction.

There were no pursuers in the mountains and mountains in the northwest direction, and there was no other choice, and Xuan Si and I no longer hesitated at the moment.

The mountains are getting higher and higher, and the snow is getting thicker. The snowflakes in the sky were dense and getting bigger and bigger, blurring my vision, and I could only see the firelight moving behind me.

Xuan Si and I didn't dare to relax at all, and we climbed over a mountain beam again. The firelight behind him was gradually distanced, but there were more and more, densely packed, thinking that there were new pursuers joining.

I don't know how many hours I ran, the sky gradually brightened, but it was gray, and only the white of the snowflakes could be seen.

The pursuers behind were gone. Xuan Si and I gasped and rested against an uncle's tree. I took out a sausage and gave it to Xuansi.

After eating briefly, the two of us did not dare to linger and continued to speed up.

Turning over a mountain beam again, Xuan Si and I faintly heard a rumbling sound coming, and it gradually became more and more dense. Dense snowflakes blocked the view, but could not block the sound of horses' hooves.