Chapter 12 The Old Man Meets

After a short walk, Xuan Si and I finally found a concave place under a cliff. The place www.biquge.info is not very large, about one zhang wide and two zhang deep, and the most important thing is that this is a leeward cliff, and the cold north wind cannot blow here.

I ran to the tree outside and cut a branch with my sword, which was bare and had no leaves, but it was barely enough to clean the hole.

The ground inside the cave was fairly flat, and I knocked a few sharp corners with the stones, barely clearing a place to lie down and rest.

By this time, the sun had already set. In the distance, the cries of wild beasts could be heard, and the north wind was still blowing.

I took a few pieces of clothing out of my bag and spread them on the floor near the hole. He handed two thicker ones to Xuan Si, but Xuan Si didn't take them, turned around and took out a few pieces of his own clothes from his baggage and spread them on the ground. I just smiled and pretended not to care.

I sat on my clothes, took out the dry food and distributed it to Xuan Si, and the snow outside the cave was solved by dividing it by two. When I turned around, I saw Xuan Si being breaking dry food in small pieces and sending it to his mouth.

I put the burden between me and Xuan Si, lay down on the laid clothes, stretched my limbs straight, and said to Xuan Si: "Is it the matter of the palace? How can you be wanted?"

Xuan Si swallowed the dry food and said, "It should be!"

"Except for the fact that the royal government has the ability to use the official so quickly, I can't think of anyone who can do it. I put my hands behind my head and said, "But I don't feel that there is any flaw left in myself, how can the palace find out so quickly?"

Xuan Si didn't answer, just shook his head.

I watched Xuan Si finish eating and said, "I don't want to think about it for the time being." If you're tired from the day, let's rest first! ”

Lying on the ground, the ground was a little cold, for fear of being discovered by the pursuers, but he didn't dare to burn the fire to keep warm, and he didn't know if he would be dragged away by wild beasts in the middle of the night without the shock of the fire. I tightened the clothes that covered my body, and shrunk my hands and feet against my body, so that I felt a little better.

Xuan Si fumbled for a while, then he also folded his clothes and lay down, and took two slightly thicker clothes to cover his body.

I was thinking about the experience of this day, thinking that I didn't leave any clues when I stole the treasure map in the palace. Why did the palace find out so quickly? Someone told the truth? It's not like it! Only Xuan Si and I knew, and Xuan Si couldn't have told the truth. Could it be that someone in the palace suddenly entered the treasure house and found that the treasure map had been lost and missing? But how could it be that someone had just entered this secret room after at least ten or twenty years had not entered it? Or if it wasn't the affairs of the palace that had been exposed, what could it be? After thinking about it for a long time, I still had no clue. I don't know when I fell asleep in a daze.

I don't know when, I felt that the light was a little dazzling, and I opened my eyes in a daze, but it was the sunlight shining through the hole. Suddenly I felt that something was wrong, my right hand seemed to be pressed by something heavy, something was curled up in my arms, hot, and there was a faint fragrance.

I took a closer look, but I was stunned. Xuansi's head was resting on my right arm, and his whole body was bent, with only two burdens on my chest and Xuansi's chest.

I looked at the face close at hand, blown-out, face-like condensation, long eyelashes, small two red lips, the corners of the lips slightly upturned, as if I had dreamed of something happy in my sleep. I swear I've never seen her smile when I'm alone with Xuan Si, as if the person in front of me only reveals a trace of her unpretentious true self in her sleep, like a beautiful elf in a deep sleep. My heart suddenly felt a little sour.

A few strands of silky hair fell down my cheeks, and I suddenly felt the urge to reach out and flick it, but I still didn't have the courage to reach out. I looked at Xuan Si silently, not daring to move, for fear that I would wake up this sleeping beautiful elf.

The sun was brighter, and Xuan Si's eyelashes moved slightly, and I knew that she should be about to wake up, so I hurriedly closed my eyes.

Xuansi's body moved, and slowly opened her eyes, and I suddenly heard the sound of her inhaling. The sound of inhalation was only a short one, and it was gone. I knew she was scared, but I was afraid to wake me, and suddenly I wanted to see her now, but I didn't dare to open my eyes.

I felt Xuansi's head slowly leave my arm, and I felt a little lost in my heart.

Xuansi stood up, and I heard the slight sound of sorting out.

After a while, I was suddenly touched on my foot, but it was Xuan Si who kicked me: "Get up!"

I pretended to have just woken up and rubbed my eyes in confusion, but Xuan Si had already walked out and couldn't see her face.

I tidied up my clothes a little and put the clothes on the ground into the baggage, but Xuansi's clothes had already been taken away.

I walked out of the cave, and Xuan Si was standing under a tree not far from the cave, with his back to me.

At this time, the wind has stopped, and the sun is shining on the body, and there is a hint of warmth.

I stepped forward and saw that Xuan Si still had a cold face. I took out the dry food, handed it to Xuan Si, and said, "Let's eat while walking!" Xuan Si took the dry food, didn't say a word, and walked forward after me.

After walking through two hills, it is already the middle of the day. In the distance, under the hillside, a wisp of green smoke rises. Xuan Si and I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and our tired bodies seemed to be full of strength in an instant, and we ran wildly in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Running over a mountain beam, the smoke was already in front of me. I saw a lonely hut appear in front of me. When I got closer, I saw an old lady sitting in the courtyard fenced with a bamboo fence in front of the door, and she was looking down to pick up broken rice in the dustpan.

I stood outside the fence door and said to the lady, "Hello, auntie!"

The lady didn't seem to hear it, she still lowered her head, and I screamed again. But I saw a big man rushing out of the door, about thirty years old, holding an iron fork in his hand, shouting: "Mother, who is coming?" When he looked up and saw us, he showed a vigilant look, tightened the iron fork in his hand and said, "Who are you?"

I hurriedly said: "This eldest brother, our sister and brother are going to go to Zhashui to join their relatives, and they have taken the wrong path in the snow. If you want to ask for some water, ask for directions. ”

The eldest lady also raised her head at this time, saw me and Xuansi, pulled the big man and asked, "Huzi, is this your friend? "Only then did I know that this lady was old, and her ears were a little back, and she didn't hear me call her just now.

After listening to the big man's words, the eldest lady said enthusiastically: "It's not easy for such beautiful two dolls to go out by themselves at such a young age! ”

The big man saw that Xuan Si and I were carrying long swords on our backs, but we didn't look like bad people, and when he saw that we were speaking politely, he put down his heart a little and said, "Come in! This is my mother, my ears are a little back." You're all hungry, aren't you?" I smiled and nodded. The big man let us into the house, filled a porcelain jar of rice in the rice jar on the side of the road, and said to me and Xuan Si: "You can call me Huzi, I'll go to wash rice, you sit down first." ”

I picked up the dustpan on one side and helped my aunt pick up the gravel in the rice together, and Xuan Si also sat down to help. The eldest lady couldn't stop praising us for being sensible.

Soon, the smell of rice wafted through the house. Huzi even deliberately fried a bacon, and the whole thatched house was filled with the unique aroma of bacon. Xuansi and I were a little hungry, so we were no longer polite, and beckoned the eldest lady and Huzi to the table, talking while eating.

It turns out that this tiger is a famous hunter nearby, relying on hunting barely and the old lady to make a living, rare is to face the strange passer-by actually take out the bacon to use the New Year to greet the guests, the mother is also amiable, although the family is small, but it is full of warmth.

Wait to fill your stomach, find Huzi to ask the way, it turns out that this place is not far from the official road, turn a hill, you can see the town, there is only one road in the town, but not afraid of going wrong. Xuan Si and I secretly put two ingots of silver under the dinner table, said goodbye to the lovely mother and son, and rushed towards the town.