37, the first fish king
This time it was Bai Li who stood up and patted Feng Ruqing on the back. Feng Ruqing finally recovered, took a sip of water and sighed helplessly, "Eat, eat, what nonsense do you think about all day long? Let's talk about it after we get fat!"
Bai Li said "Oh". Although he was still nervous and wanted to try it first, he listened to Feng Ruqing's words and went to eat obediently.
Tan Lin asked Bai Li to make preparations and set off tomorrow from the mountain road to the imperial city to meet the Queen Mother at the palace. After that, they would stay at the palace and listen to the Queen Mother's orders.
That being said, if the Queen Mother finally chooses the Eighth Prince's suckling baby, Bai Li, a loser, may not be able to leave the palace at all.
Feng Ruqing said to give Bai Li some time to think about it. After dinner, Bai Li said that he had made a decision. After dark, the two of them walked from the back mountain and left here.
Feng Ruqing looked at the purple color lingering on his soul and knew that he was the future human king, but she could not and did not want to reveal the secret, so she just said, "Okay, you have decided, we will leave in the evening."
So Bai Li started to pack things. In fact, the two of them came and went in vain, and there was nothing to pack.
But since you have to escape and live outside, it is necessary to bring some things with you in this house. Clothes and pen and ink are necessities.
While Bai Li was busy packing things in the house, he asked Feng Ruqing who was drinking tea carefully, "Do you want this? It may not be needed. In fact, after avoiding the pursuers, I can find a way to make money."
Bai Li finally chose a lot of things, but put them all down. He only brought a change of clothes for the two of them and the pen and ink for Feng Ruqing's skin.
He half-crouched beside Feng Ruqing's legs and looked up at her, "I can find a way to feed you. I look thin, but I'm actually very capable. I can keep you fed."
Feng Ruqing drank tea slowly. After hearing this, she lowered her head and touched Bai Li's head, and said, "Okay."
But if she really let go of eating, no one in the world would be able to feed her.
Bai Li spent the entire afternoon hanging around Feng Ruqing, walking around.
There were only two people in the room. He took off his mask and hair tie and rested his head on Feng Ruqing's knees, with his long hair spread on her knees.
Feng Ruqing slowly ran her hands through his hair, feeling as if she was entangled in his three thousand troubles.
He is really clingy, but Feng Ruqing undeniably likes him.
After hundreds of years of chaos and loneliness, she likes to have such a person by her side. Even if the two people know each other very strangely, she knows very well that Bai Li relies on her like grasping at a life-saving straw.
It doesn't matter, she is willing to let him rely on her, and she doesn't mind getting entangled with him as time goes by.
The closer it gets to dark, the more uneasy Bai Li becomes, but this behavior is because he is too excited.
This feeling was indescribable. Ever since he was a child, no one had ever been alone with him for such a long time, been so close to him, treated him so well, and promised to take him away.
Bai Li lay on Feng Ruqing's knees, even imagining how great it would be if she had appeared in the palace a few years earlier and taken him away.
Bai Li couldn't help but said, "I'm so nervous. Can we run away?"
Bai Li said, "There are many guards in this courtyard, and there are many experts in the villa. If we are caught..."
"No one can catch us," Feng Ruqing tapped Bai Li's nose with her fingertips, "You have doubts about my ability."
Feng Ruqing is still very confident in herself, because she has lived with the abyss monsters in the Extremely Cold Abyss for so many years.
That was an abyss monster that even high-level monks in the world of cultivation were talking about. Although they didn't fight and just vomited it, she had never suffered a loss.
Bai Li's eyes were bright, "I really don't understand, I... what should I call you?"
Feng Ruqing was stunned for a moment by the question, but after a long silence, she still told the truth, "My name is Feng Ruqing. I can't remember anything from the past. You can call me anything, even by my first name."
No problem."
Bai Li grabbed Feng Ruqing's fingertips, read her name over and over again, and asked, "Then can I call you... um, Qingqing?"
Feng Ruqing was confused as to how old she was. In fact, she had no awareness of how old she was. She nodded, "It's up to you."
Bai Li happily called out twice more, and Feng Ruqing let him go and just said, "It's good to smile. You look particularly beautiful when you smile."
He is indeed very good-looking. After the dark spots on Bai Li's face were cured by Feng Ruqing, he looks really good. The dimples on his cheeks will show up every time he smiles, making him handsome and handsome.
Bai Li's face turned red after being praised. He had never smiled like this to anyone.
But probably because he has been a "monster" for too many years, he has been treated as an alien by others, like a pig or a dog. He can't really relax around people at all.
Because he knew that Feng Ruqing was an evil spirit, he was able to relax.
Bai Li had nothing to repay for the kindness of saving his life and the kindness of rebuilding his life, not to mention a smile, but he was willing to do whatever Feng Ruqing asked him to do.
"Qingqing, you said..." Bai Li stopped talking.
"What?" Feng Ruqing raised her eyebrows and asked doubtfully.
Bai Li lowered his head, then raised it again after a moment, with a shy smile on his face, "Do you think this is an elopement?"
Feng Ruqing: ...This is at best considered her kidnapping a child.
But looking at Bai Li's excited and expectant eyes, she still said, "That's what you say."
Bai Li smiled with deep dimples, lowered his head and said, "But those who elope are men and women in love, do you and I also count?"
Feng Ruqing couldn't say anything this time. They had calculated everything. They had only known each other for two days. It was really too early to talk about falling in love.
Besides, she asked herself, she didn't...have that intention towards Bai Li.
Bai Li's smile faded a little because of Feng Ruqing's hesitation, "Do you dislike me?"
He said, "I am of no use. In fact, I..."
Halfway through his words, there was a sudden knock on the door, and Baitao's voice came from outside, "Sir, the owner of the village asks you to come over."
The green, shy and other emotions on Bai Li's face were completely restrained the moment Baitao's voice sounded.
His first move was to grab the mask and put it on, quickly tying up his long messy hair, glanced at Feng Ruqing, stood up and said to the door, "I know."
Baitao added, "The owner of the village is waiting for the young master at the gate. He said that he has something urgent to discuss with the young master. Young Master, please come with me."
Bai Li's face was solemn, and even Feng Ruqing could smell the unusual meaning.
Bai Li said to the outside, "I have gone to bed. Now I will get up and wait for a while."
After finishing speaking, he showed a pleading expression to Feng Ruqing, "When Tan Lin told me during the day, he wanted me to leave early tomorrow. I am afraid that the emperor in the palace will not be able to hold on any longer."
Bai Li said, "He is so anxious to find me now. The maid even said at the gate that something must have happened in the palace. Maybe the emperor has already arrived and he wants to send me away overnight."
"What should we do?" Bai Li looked at Feng Ruqing anxiously and grabbed her hand, "Qingqing, he will definitely send many people to escort us, how are we going to escape?!"
As he spoke, he quickly turned around, went to the bedside, grabbed the small bundle he had packed during the day, and pulled Feng Ruqing towards the window, "We're leaving now."
The window looked toward the back mountain, and Feng Ruqing really made Bai Li nervous because of her nervous look, as if she was really eloping with someone.
The owner of the village, Tan Lin, was the arrogant master who wouldn't allow them to be together. They were eager to jump out of the window and become a pair of desperate mandarin ducks.
Bai Li stepped on the window frame, and Baitao's urging voice outside became even more urgent, "Master?! Master, please go in and help the master get dressed."
As he said this, he heard the sound of the door opening. Bai Li was so nervous that he held the window open and was about to jump out.
Feng Ruqing pulled him and whispered into his ear, "I saw it when I was burying the thrush last night. There were more people in the back mountain, and I didn't know what they were guarding. It would be more troublesome for us to run over now."
Feng Ruqing pulled him down and said, "Don't panic. What if Tan Lin comes to you for other reasons?"
Bai Li's face turned pale and he held Feng Ruqing's hand tightly, "You won't leave alone!"
Feng Ruqing smiled helplessly, stretched out her arms and hugged Bai Li, "How could it be? I never go back on my promises. I am your personal maid. I can just go and see with you."
Bai Li hugged Feng Ruqing tightly, as if hugging the only driftwood in the stormy waves, "Don't abandon me."
Bai Li had a very terrible premonition that this time, he really had a narrow escape from death.
When he was in the palace, he had never felt this way before, even when he couldn't get up for more than ten days due to the drug being tested.
Feng Ruqing let him hold her and whispered assurances. At this moment, Baitao and Hongmei came in from the outside. Seeing the two people hugging each other, complex emotions flashed across their faces.
Bai Li let go of Feng Ruqing's waist, but did not let go of her hand. He just pulled Feng Ruqing and said to Baitao and Hongmei, "Let's go, lead the way."
His clothes were disheveled, his hair was not properly tied up, and he actually looked a little embarrassed. It was not appropriate to meet Tan Lin like this.
But Baitao and Hongmei didn't even offer to help him tidy up. Instead, they led the way, walking in a hurry, obviously in a hurry.
After Feng Ruqing left the yard, she broke away from Bai Li's hand. Bai Li didn't force it, but looked sideways at Feng Ruqing from time to time.
Feng Ruqing also tried to get as close to him as possible, but she was only half a step behind him, so she was just a step ahead.
The closer she got to the door, the more unusual Feng Ruqing could smell.
Before she arrived, she could already sense that there were a lot of people at the gate. As Bai Li guessed, they were going to send him back to the imperial city overnight.
Bai Li was obviously getting more and more anxious. When he arrived at the gate and saw the battle outside, Bai Li's heart was beating wildly.
But he was always good at disguise. When he saw Tan Lin approaching with a solemn expression, he bowed slightly as usual and asked, "I didn't know that the owner of the village was so anxious to find..."
"What are you doing!" Bai Li was halfway through his polite words. Suddenly, the person he had been seeing in his peripheral vision was pulled away by someone. He turned his head and saw Feng Ruqing's head falling to the ground.
Bai Li looked at the head rolling on the ground in disbelief. The blood quickly filled the ground with a darkness that penetrated into the soil.
He opened his mouth, and after a moment he growled, "Ah!"
Chapter completed!