The servants cooked a lot of food. After Aunt Feng treated Liang's wounds, Liang sat down next to her and picked up her chopsticks to eat.
The woman over there who finished eating first has already started to clean up.
Mother Yu looked at them, feeling a little uneasy in her heart, and whispered: "Those people down the mountain should have noticed that we are missing."
"Whatever." Mrs. Liang said while chewing the bones, "We'll talk about it after we're full."
Mother Yu looked at Aunt Feng: "Are you really sure there is a way down here? If not, what will we do if they come up? Moreover, even if they go down, they have horses, so they can catch up with us in no time.
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Aunt Feng calmly tinkered with the small porcelain bottle filled with medicine and said, "I never said I wanted to go down this way, and I didn't say there was a way down this way."
Mother Yu was stunned.
Liang was also stunned for a moment.
"Then we didn't pass through this way?"
"no."
"But didn't you say there's no way down here? There's a battle wall blocking it down there." Mother Yu asked.
If it weren't for those battle walls, the water under the mountain wouldn't have accumulated so much.
Mrs. Liang could no longer hold the bowls and chopsticks, so she put them down and said, "She didn't say this, it was me..."
"It's okay." Aunt Feng was not afraid of anything now and said, "We still have a treasure trove below."
"You don't mean to talk about the knight in Ah Li's mouth, right?" Yu Ma said.
Aunt Feng nodded: "When he said it would rain, it would rain. He said there would be no thunder and lightning, but he pretended there would be no thunder and lightning. He said it would stop raining for two hours after reaching the top of the mountain. Look, now
Has the rain stopped?"
"So... magical?" Yu Ma was stunned when she heard this, "Could it be that this knight can control the wind and rain?"
"How can anyone call the wind and rain," said Liang, "I think he is probably a capable person who can observe the sky, calculate solar terms, and understand astronomy and calendar."
Aunt Feng looked at the bamboo basket that was placed upside down on the other side and said, "Ah Li asked me to insert the six sticks of incense on it. She said that we would cross the river when the incense was over."
"Across the river?" Ms. Liang looked towards the wooden railing over there, "Across the river?"
"These incense seem to burn very quickly, and the wind is strong here." Yu's mother said.
"She said no matter what, we will leave after the burning."
Liang suddenly understood: "Could it be that we made this big plank not to use it as a boat, but to cross the big river?"
Aunt Feng nodded.
Mrs. Liang and Mama Yu looked at each other.
"Actually, I don't know if there is a river. I've never been up there." Aunt Feng said.
"Then why did you..."
"I can afford it." Aunt Feng smiled.
Since you said you want to gamble, then dare to gamble and play.
Anyway, I don’t have much wealth and family, and I can’t even survive. Instead of losing it in the hands of those horse thieves, it’s better to use it myself and fight for it.
But now it seems that Aunt Feng is becoming more and more certain that she did not press the wrong treasure.
"You can afford it," Mr. Liang repeated, and then smiled, "I have nothing that I can't afford, it's so refreshing. I don't know if I can see this knight. I really hope he can directly destroy this shabby village and put all those
All the bastards who deserve to die will be chopped into pieces of meat!"
As she spoke, she took a hard bite of the meat in her chopsticks.
The sky was high and the wind was strong, and the wind at the entrance of the cave was even stronger.
Zhao Ning was sitting at the entrance of the cave, his feet dangling, and his green clothes were flying in the wind.
Her bony hands rested on both sides of her thighs, and she looked up at the looming white moon in the dark clouds.
A figure came from the corner of his eye, and Zhao Ning turned around.
The nine-year-old girl crawled over there like a monkey, moving quickly and smartly.
To her, the nearly vertical cliff was like walking on flat ground. She was neither afraid nor timid, and her skills were strong. I am afraid that even a real monkey would not be able to be so nimble and skillful.
When she came closer, Zhao Ning stretched out his hand to give her a hand.
But she had already climbed up the cave wall, jumped upward lightly, and landed firmly at the entrance of the cave.
Xia Zhaoyi knelt down and took off the small baggage tied to his back. When he spread it out, it was all filled with fruits.
"You said you had something to do, so you went to pick fruits." Zhao Ning said while looking at the fruits.
"It's just convenient." Xia Zhaoyi said casually, not speaking fast and not breathing at all.
She took out a fruit, wiped the water outside, and handed it to Zhao Ning: "Eat it, I've washed it."
Zhao Ning took the fruit. The peel was shiny and the fruit was plump and plump. He put it under his nose and smelled it. It had an elegant and light fragrance.
"Does it smell good?" Xia Zhaoyi smiled.
"Fragrant." Zhao Ning said, opened his mouth and took a bite.
The cold juice seeped out, and her teeth chattered with the cold.
"It's so cold." Zhao Ning lowered his eyes and looked at the fruit he had taken a bite of.
"If you eat a few more bites, it won't freeze anymore."
Zhao Ning nodded lightly, but looked from the bite marks on the fruit to his own fingers.
Sitting in the cave every day, killing time by folding leaves, unknowingly, twenty years passed by, and what was wasted in the end was not time, but her appearance and years.
"I don't know how you ended up here with such abilities at such a young age." Zhao Ning looked at his fingertips and asked softly.
"I want to know too." Xia Zhaoyi replied.
Zhao Ning raised his head: "Looking at you, you must have suffered a lot. Did the person who trained you ask you to do this?"
"The person who trained me?"
"Why else would you be here?"
Xia Zhaoyi smiled: "I told you first, I want to know too."
With a smile on her face, her thoughts had drifted far away, thinking of that winter.
The green lamp flickers, and everything is silent.
She was dressed in a long blue crane dress, kneeling in the sky and watching the stars and falling coins.
The turtle coin made of Changqiu pig iron fell on the Fanzhe soil, and all six sides were cloudy.
"Master, it's very dangerous."
"Where will you go?"
She raised her head and looked at her master's white clothes and white hair: "I am willing to go north alone to fight for my brother."
"If you use your physical body to resist calamity, you will no longer be a human being. If you are a fly or an ant in the next life, are you willing?"
"Master, I don't believe in ghosts and gods."
"Then why do you believe in this art of fortune-telling?"
She was speechless.
After a long time, he said softly: "Because it was taught by Master, and it was taught by God with all his heart."
…
Xia Zhaoyi raised her hand, stroked the bruise on her cheek that Ah Li had left, and shook her head: "No one ordered me to do this, I just wanted to do it myself. These injuries are a bit painful, but no one can do it again in the future."
I leave no pain behind."
The girl's eyes were clear and bright, and when she spoke these words, she was calm and gentle, without the stubbornness, perseverance and anger that these words should have.
Zhao Ning nodded, raised his hand and took another bite of the fruit.
The cold juice soaked into her teeth and tongue, causing her to tremble again due to the cold, which also made her truly feel that she was alive and had come out.
After twenty years, I only felt like I was in a trance for a moment.
She feels that she is still the same woman she was twenty years ago, but it is true that she is no longer young.
Xia Zhaoyi also bit into the fruit, and the already quiet atmosphere became even more silent.
Neither of them likes to talk too much.
Xia Zhaoyi had no intention of caring about how rough other people's fortunes were.
Zhao Ning had a lot of curiosity and questions about her, but seeing the girl's behavior, for some reason, she couldn't say those probing words.
Furthermore, even those killer secret guards secretly trained by noble families are very rare to be able to train such a calm and calm girl who is not impatient or impatient.
After eating two fruits, Zhao Ning asked: "Are we going to sit still?"
Xia Zhaoyi shook his head: "No, I will go down later."
