No matter now or before, Shen Lie never talks much, let alone seeing his emotions exposed.
Ji Xiahe looked at the long wooden box.
Shen Lie's hands were handsome and slender. Under the soft night light, their skin was like jade, and the strength of holding the wooden box was very gentle.
Ji Xiahe raised his eyes and looked at Shen Lie again. His facial features were clear and handsome, his eyebrows were sharp and his eyes were starry. He had seen so many handsome men, and every time he looked at Shen Lie, he felt that he was unique. He was so cold and otherworldly.
So now, even if he laughs at his disgusting words of love, he can only laugh and sigh.
If you like someone, you can't hide it. He should be careful and quiet in front of her, but when he comes in front of them, he can't hide it anymore.
Ji Xiahe said "Hey" and looked up at the vast night sky.
The moon and stars are sparse, the vast cold sky is wide open, and the long wind is blowing the sea of clouds, rolling out thousands of miles of waves.
"Then it's decided now, right? Let's go to Puluwu?" Ji Xiahe said.
"Um."
"Are you really not going back to Huazhou?" Ji Xiahe asked again.
"Um."
"Then you and Miss Xia..." Ji Xiahe looked at him.
Shen Lie smiled softly and pushed the map in his hand: "Compared with the problems of Shuangpo Gorge and Puluwu, the key points are the intersections from Huazhou to Zuilu. Even if there are no people from the Xia family and the Guo family, Song Zhiyi's soldiers Horses will show up too."
Ji Xiahe put away the wine bottle in his hand and the smile on his face disappeared.
"I actually don't want to go back," Ji Xiahe said. "I think it was quite good to wait for the people in Yongwucheng for twenty days. But when I think about facing those faces when I go back, I feel sick."
"After you go back to see your father, make arrangements for your mother."
Ji Xia and Pi smiled and raised their lips: "It's really annoying to raise a family. Look at the Xia family, it looks like a big family, but it's actually too big. Guang Zhuo has really suffered a lot since he came out, and he won't have a good life in the future. Yes, Song Zhiyi will never let go of the Xia family easily."
Shen Lie didn't answer.
The sound of horse hoofbeats came quickly at this moment.
Shen Lie and Ji Xiahe turned around.
Du Xuan and others nearby heard the sound and came over, looking at the horses approaching from a distance.
The thin sentry turned over and dismounted, gasping for breath and saying, "There are troops and grain storage warehouses fifteen miles away from Puluwu!"
The words "grain storage" made everyone's expressions change drastically, and they subconsciously looked at Shen Lie.
The word "grain storage warehouse" means that it is heavily guarded, and the wiring area is definitely not as close as the five miles radius of the grain storage warehouse.
Now they are less than fifteen miles apart, and it's hard to say that they have already entered each other's territory.
"Master, could they be the people we met before?" Dai Yu looked at Shen Lie.
"Impossible," Du Xuan answered, "This area is completely dark, and there is not a single human habitation. If the entire rear area is their station, then the fire in the middle will not be cut off. After all, the soldiers and motors of the fortifications in front are arriving. With more than a thousand people, there will definitely be people running back and forth."
"If there are troops stationed in front, should we continue to Puluwu?" Dai Yu asked again.
"Young Master, let's divert to the Guozhuang River Estuary." Du Xuan said.
"Don't take the water route." Shen Lie said.
"Let's go by water. The water route is indeed safe," Ji Xiahe said. "There must be boats along the coast. Let's go there in the dark and commit evil. If you feel that you have lost your morality, I will send you money to make amends in the future."
"It has nothing to do with the boat," Shen Lie said, "it's just a floating corpse."
Ji Xiahe had a meal, thinking about what he had heard and seen these days, it was true that the waterway at the mouth of the Guozhuang River was probably full of evil.
A chill ran down his spine. He looked at Daqiu Lake in front of him. The sky was clear and the water was clear, which was rare in troubled times.
"Then, shall we go to Shuangpo Gorge?" Zhai Jinsheng asked.
Shen Lie looked at him but said nothing.
After a moment of silence, Shen Lie made up his mind: "Get ready to leave. First, we will find a deserted village to stay. We will wander here for the remaining five days. Five days later, we will leave from Shuangpo Gorge."
Everyone was stunned.
"Notify me." Shen Lie looked at Zhai Jinsheng, his tone not allowing for refutation.
Zhai Jinsheng reacted quickly and nodded: "Yes!"
Huazhou was originally prosperous, and the southeastern part of Huazhou was a place of elegance and celebrities. If there were deserted villages here, they were either slaughtered or fled due to war.
Going southeast along the lake shore, the six spies sent out all returned within an hour and found two places in total, one at the foot of Niuling Mountain and one at Jianchungang.
Shen Lie looked at the map for a long time and finally chose the foot of Niuling Mountain.
A group of more than sixty people, not too many but not too many, headed towards the foot of Niuling Mountain in the dark.
Different from the previous rush and raid, they were unusually quiet now. The horses' hooves silently trampled through the shallow grass on the shore, and even the sound of the wheels rolling over the soil and rocks was faint.
Heading in the opposite direction to Puluwu, the road ahead turned into an endless wilderness. Until a pale white light emerged from the eastern sky, and gradually spread out the beautiful morning glow on the horizon where heaven and earth meet, it seemed that there was an end in the distance.
I met many corpses along the way, some were mummified in the sun, some were badly decomposed, and some were torn apart by wild beasts, leaving only stumps.
The men rode by on horseback, without squinting, and with the gentle sound of horse hooves, they stepped through the wilderness and wood paths, and entered the ruined and ruined village.
Shen Lie did not stop and took people to survey the terrain nearby.
It is said to be a deserted village, but in fact the buildings and scenery in the village, including the size of the open space in front of the ancestral hall, show how wealthy this small village was originally, at least not inferior to Taoxi Village on the banks of Bajiang Lake.
Dai Yu even found several jars of unopened peach blossom wine in the cellar in the backyard of the ancestral hall.
He was very moved and tried to get Shen Lie to agree to stay and move out of Ji Xiahe. Shen Lie refused readily and said lightly: "Put it back."
"Master..."
Touching Shen Lie's dark and calm eyes, Dai Yu finally put the wine jar back.
Apart from the wine, there were also a lot of silks and satins scattered in several well-built courtyards nearby, which shows how frightened he was when he ran away.
There were no corpses in the village, but there were some excrement of wild dogs or other wild animals, but the number was small and widely scattered. From this, it can be inferred that before they came, there was no food left in the village for them to scavenge.
When he came back, Du Xuan had put the house in order, and Lin Zhonghu was also dragged over by him to clean and tidy up the house.
The lighting in the room was not good, so Du Xuan specially lit two lights.
Shen Lie unbuttoned his clothes, took off his underwear and threw it aside. Lin Zhonghu followed Du Xuan in carrying hot water and caught a glimpse of his back.
The young man is tall and tall, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. His skin is as cold as jade on his back, and his texture is strong and well-toned, but there are dozens of scars on his upper part.
Every scar is neat and tidy, not as ferocious as a centipede, but it looks extremely uncoordinated on such a back that should be smooth, ruining the beauty.
Noticing the eyes behind him, Shen Lie turned around.
The lights in the room were defined by his handsome nose, half of which was bright and half of which was dark.
No matter which half it is, it's so cold that it looks like it's going to swallow you.
