The last golden light of the setting sun hanging on the branches finally moved away.
The fire in the distance was gilded by the sunlight. It was already dazzling, but now it hurts people's eyes.
Lao Tong sat on the ground leaning against the rock, staring blankly at the fire.
Zhi Changle was still sleeping, and he did not relax his alertness in his dreams. He usually snored loudly, but today he was particularly peaceful.
The two of them worked shifts with each other, but this way they didn't have enough time to get a good night's sleep. Instead, they became even more exhausted and decadent.
Looking at the darkening sky over there, Lao Tong pushed Zhi Changle: "Zhi Changle!"
Zhi Changle quickly opened his eyes: "Huh?"
"Let's go," Lao Tong said, "Are you hungry?"
How could you not be hungry?
Zhi Changle touched his belly and found it was completely deflated.
"Otherwise, let's go back." Zhi Changle said as he got up. "If we go back and get beaten, at least we will have something to eat, otherwise we will starve to death now. And we won't necessarily get beaten when we go back, let's just talk about the scene last night.
The fire separated us from the others."
"If you don't go back," Lao Tong said coldly, "I'm warning you, Zhi Changle, you are not allowed to say such words again in the future, you have some backbone."
"How much is the backbone worth?" Zhi Changle said, "I just want flatulence."
"Flatulence is a disease." Lao Tong raised his feet and walked forward.
Zhi Changle was annoyed and followed him.
Inside the tent, the atmosphere was calm.
The beautiful concubine sat on her knees on the straw mat beside the door, feeling a little embarrassed.
Although she is eloquent, she rarely comes out to receive guests, let alone the young master in front of her. When he speaks, he is lukewarm. When he is not speaking, he looks as arrogant as a piece of ice.
But it's not difficult to understand why he has such a temper. My concubine has heard about the things about the Shen family and the Guo family.
The maid outside the door came to call her aunt, and the beautiful concubine went out. The maid told her that it was rare for Marquis Jing'an to sleep so soundly today, and it would probably take a long time before he woke up.
The beautiful concubine is annoyed, why does it happen to be today?
After going back and sitting down on her knees, the concubine smiled and said, "Mr. Shen, has the tea gotten cold? How about a different cup?"
"No need." Shen Lie replied.
Looking at her expression, one could vaguely guess what the maid said.
He paused and looked at Dai Yu beside him: "Go and see Ah Li."
"Yeah." Dai Yu responded, turned and left.
The concubine smiled and said: "This little lady is a very quiet and well-behaved girl. She is also pretty. Is it true that Mr. Lang just met her?"
"Yeah." Shen Lie replied.
"Have we only met each other a few times?" the concubine asked again.
"Um."
I heard that this Young Master Shen is extremely difficult to get along with, and is famous for his bad temper and coldness, but when he was outside the Tuyuan earlier, he could see that he took good care of the girl.
The beautiful concubine had a thought in her mind and said tentatively: "I think the young lady's behavior and conversation are extraordinary, she looks like those girls who come from big families in the capital."
"No." Shen Lie replied.
The beautiful concubine is speechless.
What are you trying to do? You can't even continue with normal topics.
She looked at the boy's guards and felt really sorry for them.
"It turns out not to be the case. Then her parents are really powerful and can raise their children so well." The concubine said with a smile.
Shen Lie nodded lightly: "Yes."
The little girl's behavior was indeed not like that of an ordinary child. Even the girls from the big families in the capital that the concubine mentioned must have been put down in front of her.
That day he pulled her horse, and she said "let go" lightly, with a condescending look that seemed to have a natural nobility.
Shen Lie has never encountered this with anyone else.
The beautiful concubine smiled, picked up the tea, raised her sleeves to cover her face to drink, but she couldn't help but curl her lips behind her sleeves.
Shen Lie glanced at her, curled up the corners of his lips, and looked back lightly.
"Do you know the road?" Zhi Changle followed Lao Tong and shouted unhappily.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the road ahead could no longer be seen clearly. In addition, branches were blocking the road. Zhi Changle's legs were already a little weak.
"I've never been here, how can I recognize you?" Lao Tong replied angrily, "Be quiet."
"Light a torch."
"You dare to order it."
The two chatted and walked forward.
After reaching the top of the mountain here, the firelight on the mountain in the distance was also blocked.
"Is there anyone living there?" Zhi Changle stretched out his finger.
Old Tong raised his eyebrows and looked, seeing a vague village under the horizon in the distance.
"It will take at least two hours for us to get there." Zhi Changle added.
"Let's go!" Lao Tong said, "Just say that we are here to put out the fire and beg for something to eat."
"Yeah." Zhi Changle responded, and Ying Wan stepped on the ground.
He screamed in surprise and hurriedly grabbed the grass and trees at hand. Unexpectedly, the grass and trees were also loose. In his embarrassment, he reached out and grabbed what he could.
Old Tong's back was pulled by him and he also fell down.
Fortunately, Lao Tong stood a little further inside, holding onto the edge of the cliff with his arms and pedaling with both feet, unable to move.
Looking back, he found that Zhi Changle was still dragging him in the darkness, and said angrily: "You don't have eyesight when you walk!"
"I can't see even if I have long eyes. It's dark here." Zhi Changle was also angry.
"Don't move!" Lao Tong said with difficulty, "I can't hold it anymore!"
All the weight was on his arms, but the soil on the edge of the cliff was not necessarily tight.
"It's over, it's over." Zhi Changle said painfully, "We have to die here."
"If you want to die, you die. If you do well before you die, just let me go."
"Brother Bai must be missing me down there. If he drags me, I will drag you." Zhi Changle said, hugging Lao Tong's knees tightly, ignoring the dirt and grass on them, and pressed his face against them. .
"Ah!!!" Lao Tong roared angrily.
A long branch knocked upwards, and Zhi Changle was surprised: "Who!"
"What?" Lao Tong asked.
The long branch knocked on Zhi Changle's back again: "Come down."
The girl's voice is crisp and sweet, and there is even a hint of etherealness in this atmosphere.
Two people shouted at the same time.
Xia Zhaoyi laughed: "Hey, you are tall and strong, but you only have so much courage."
The two people were stunned for a moment and lowered their heads.
In the darkness, my vision gradually adapted, but I could only see a vague outline.
Xia Zhaoyi took the branch, knocked it on the ground again, and said, "Come down, you are only one foot above the ground."
Zhi Changle blinked: "Me?"
"Go down!" Lao Tong kicked him lightly.
Zhi Changle tentatively lowered his hand a little, released his hand, and indeed stepped firmly on the ground.
"Hey!" Zhi Changle looked up and said with a smile, "Old Tong, it's not a cliff below!"
"It's one foot behind you." Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Help me." Lao Tong shouted.
"Okay!" Zhi Changle stepped forward and stretched out his arms, "You come down, I will catch you, I..."
Before he finished speaking, a huge thing fell from the sky, and Lao Tong pressed his butt on his stomach.
Old Tong got up from the ground and turned back to play Zhi Changle: "Zhi Changle."
