Although the rain has stopped, it is still raining everywhere in the world.
When the rain stopped, Xia Zhaoyi and Shen Lie left the lone temple at the foot of the mountain. Before leaving, Xia Zhaoyi left several boxes of Lingzhou specialties and a letter to the old man sweeping the floor.
If by chance someone bumps into them and reports the official to the temple to cause trouble, this letter can save the old man's life.
If no one sees it, that's the best thing, and this letter can be disposed of as you wish.
The curtains of the carriage were rolled up, and Xia Zhaoyi leaned on the soft pillow and looked out the window at the distant mountains and the dim moon behind the clouds. The gentle breeze came slowly, the night was quiet in the mountain sky, thousands of mountains were covered with green ink, and the sky and the earth were more open.
Shen Lie leads the way and will leave Songzhou in half an hour.
After running for days, Xia Zhaoyi never felt at ease and peaceful at this moment. This was also the first time she felt sleepy on this carriage.
She gradually closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
She felt that she had not slept for long. From closing her eyes to opening them, it seemed like just a blink of an eye, but the sky outside was already dim. The carriage was parked on the side of the road, the curtains had been lowered, and there were soft voices outside the carriage, and light footsteps coming and going. The sound of horse hooves.
Xia Zhaoyi raised her hand to open the car curtain, and was greeted by the breeze, which made her tremble when she woke up.
Everyone dismounted. When they saw her coming out, others called her gently, including "Miss Ali" and "General Ali".
Xia Zhaoyi nodded at them, and stepped on the muddy mountain road with his riding boots as he passed the horses one after another. The further they went, the worse the road became, as if a landslide came down, blocking the way.
Soon, she saw the backs of Shen Lie and Zhai Jinsheng, and about a dozen tall and straight men standing at the front, discussing.
Hearing the commotion, Shen Lie turned around and saw Xia Zhaoyi approaching, he immediately walked away.
Although the road is difficult, Xia Zhaoyi can walk on the Thousand Blades Cliff as if it were flat ground, so the road is nothing to her.
Shen Lie still stretched out his hand to support him. When Xia Zhaoyi held his hand, he raised his eyes to look at the sky above their torches. His bright eyes narrowed slightly, and his expression became serious.
It was true that the mountain collapsed, and a large number of mud slides rolled down. The mountain ravine seemed to have been split with a knife, and the cut was smooth. Along the slope, the vegetation collapsed, old pines drooped, and a huge stone statue was stuck halfway.
The raised hand of the stone statue seemed to be as big as ten of them.
Xia Zhaoyi stared for a long time, then looked to the left and right, and said: "Looking at the light in the sky, we should have left Songzhou early."
Shen Lie said: "Well, we are in Guzhou now. This is the southwest hill of Leigong Mountain, Yu Xianpi."
Xia Zhaoyi said solemnly: "It is impossible for such a coincidence that a heavy rain can destroy the mountain like this. There must be mining in the mountain in the near future."
Ye Zhengdao: "What's even better, Miss Ali, do you think the hands of that stone statue look familiar to you?"
Xia Zhaoyi raised her head and looked at the hand of the stone statue. She had a good memory, so she recalled briefly and said: "I remembered that in Hengxiang Ruan's house, there was a cave behind the wall of the secret room in the mountain where Feng Qingang kept the corpse. There is a statue of the Jiulian goddess, which is filled with white bones. The gestures of one of the goddesses are indeed very similar to the one in front of you."
Shen Lie said: "Ah Li, if you want to go up and have a look..."
Xia Zhaoyi's eyebrows were slightly closed, he looked sideways at Shen Lie's eyes, opened his mouth, but stopped talking.
She didn't know whether to go up and have a look. The cave where the statue of the Jiulian Goddess was placed was forced by Fan Zhuyi to go there, and it might not have anything to do with her.
But Fan Zhuyi, Feng Qingang, Wei Xingchuan and others had a lot of grudges with her.
When she relives this life, she still has an unfulfilled wish, and there are so many things she wants to do, but it happens that she is involved with the surname "Qiao", and there are unparalleled eyes watching her secretly.
She is not afraid, but she will worry about missing details.
Shen Lie's dark eyes were deep, and he waited for her quietly without urging her.
After a long while, Xia Zhaoyi said: "Maybe we should be evil people."
Shen Lie said: "Evil person?"
"Well, this stone statue is now in the world, and it is the same as the one in the cave in Ruan's family mountain. Do you think it will arouse the interest of those people?"
Shen Lie said: "It's hard to say. It depends on whether they know where this stone statue is. If they knew it was here early, they probably wouldn't be interested."
Xia Zhaoyi laughed: "Okay, how about we add some chips and add a few people from the Qiao clan?"
Shen Lie paused: "...you do know what kind of bait can catch them."
Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyes and looked at Fukong: "What's going on up there, we can just ask them then. We won't have to climb the mountain and walk today."
Ye Zheng frowned: "But Miss Ali, what if it rains again in the past few days and the top collapses even more? Or, before those people come, the nearby villagers go up the mountain first? Why don't I just do whatever I want? Call some brothers together and let’s go up now to take a look. Everyone is still good at climbing mountains.”
"No," Xia Zhaoyi smiled at him and said, "The nearby villagers have to go up first, so let's go up. Then there will be many mouths to tell us what's going on on the mountain. We won't go, you guys have been attacking us for days. It’s hard work, and it’s too much to climb a mountain after staying up all night. And,” she looked back at the mountain, “my curiosity about it is only superficial, not very deep.”
To be precise, it's not that they are not deep, but the feeling accompanying these stone statues is extremely unpleasant.
The current stone statue was not the one holding a lotus in its hand, but she had already thought of the deceased, of dead bones growing flowers, and... that Qiao Xiyang who looked exactly like her.
Although she was curious about this kind of thing, it was dark and rotten and never saw the light of day. But she really didn't like it.
Just wait for the turtle in the urn and ask directly from other people's mouths, saving her the trouble of having to contact her herself.
The hands she and Shen Lie had been holding were suddenly squeezed gently.
Xia Zhaoyi lowered her eyes, and her slender, thick palms hugged her whole hand. The palms of her hands were hot, like a small heater on this cold dawn eve.
Xia Zhaoyi looked into Shen Lie's eyes, he was looking down at her.
His beautiful face was usually cold and expressionless, and all his emotions seemed to be expressed through his eyes. At this time, these deep and beautiful black eyes were focused and serious, and the bottom of his eyes was quiet. Through the surrounding firelight, Xia Zhaoyi could faintly see See yourself in his eyes.
Whether it was his eyes or his hands, Xia Zhaoyi felt as if there was a warm and firm force coming from him.
The memory was like going back to Da'an Road in the capital many years ago. When Zhao Ning handed over the bag of ashes, she panicked and felt as if she had fallen into a dark and cold wilderness. It was he who stretched out his hand to her.
He said: "Ah Li, give it to me."
She said: "Do you understand me?"
It turned out that he had always been able to understand her emotions, whether she was happy or angry, fearful or frightened.
He never spoke much, but always stood by her side, silently accompanying her.
Xia Zhaoyi raised her lips and smiled brightly: "Shen Lie."
"Um?"
"Thank you."
"..."
Shen Lie paused slightly, but his beautiful eyebrows were slightly raised.
