Western Chu is probably the most mysterious area in Upper Zhongzhou. Due to its high terrain, many mountains, year-round cold and difficulty in growing crops, it is sparsely populated. It is a good place for many desperadoes to gather in order to survive. It has always symbolized danger and desolation.
If it were not forced by the situation, Yi Chenjing would definitely not have brought Bai Qige to such a dangerous place, but the charlatan made it very clear that there are only two people in the world who can save Bai Qige, and one is the poisoner, Yi Chenxuan. The other one is Shen Yuqiu, a poisonous doctor who lives in seclusion in Qingming Mountain in Western Chu.
If he doesn't go, Bai Qige can only wait for death.
After all, he had no experience in evading pursuit. Even though Yi Chenjing was careful, he still could not completely erase the traces. The killer sent by Yi Chenxuan followed behind him, groping for clues all the way to the junction of Xichu and Liangjun. At They hid in the reeds for a whole day. Near dusk, relying on the guidance of kind-hearted people, Yi Chenjing and Bai Qige finally found a boatman who was willing to take them across the river. They used the broken silver that Bai Qige had pawned as a hairpin and waited for the boat to arrive. .
After crossing this river, on the opposite side is the land of Xichu, which is also a place full of hope.
"Just hold on for two more days. It shouldn't be difficult to find the poison doctor since he's so famous." With her arms around the trembling Bai Qige, Yi Chenjing tightened her arms distressedly. The medicine given by the charlatan was about to be used up. , Before that, he had to find a poison doctor as soon as possible. He didn't want to see Bai Qige suffer anymore, and he didn't want to see her trembling with cold and still insisting that it was okay - if it was okay, how could she faint and die easily?
Bai Qige didn't want to speak. Her physical strength was almost exhausted, and she felt exhausted every time she said a word. However, when a lone boat appeared on the vast river in her field of vision, she still couldn't help but raise her voice: "The boat... the boat has arrived... "
That boat was her life, and it was the decisive factor for her to be able to stay with Yi Chenjing for the rest of her life. Even though she was not afraid of life and death, she still looked forward to the boat arriving as soon as possible.
Yi Chenjing also saw the boat. He immediately helped Bai Qige, who was stubborn and refused to let him carry him, out of the reed swamp. He waved to the oarsman on the bow to indicate where they were. The man waved when he saw someone waving. He changed his direction and rowed straight towards the two figures.
Everything seemed to be going well. When the two of them were less than ten feet away from the boat, Yi Chenjing even felt relieved that there would be no danger or danger. However, she forgot that the wave of her hand just now was not only visible to the boatman, but also that he had been searching for them. The enemy could also be seen from a distance. The shouts were heard and the fire was getting closer. The boatman looked at a group of strong men who suddenly appeared not far away with a confused look on his face. He was completely unaware that Yi Chenjing's face was dark and gloomy.
"Sail!" Yi Chenjing and Bai Qige said almost in unison.
As soon as they drank, the boatman subconsciously pushed up his oar. The boat that had just docked slowly retreated away from the shore, and was about to return to the wide river. Yi Chenjing saw that Bai Qige was too weak to speed up any more, so she gritted her teeth and beat the man horizontally. Picking her up, she took three steps at a time and ran towards the boat quickly. When she arrived at the shore, the boat was already about a foot away from the shore. It was dark and she couldn't see the underwater situation, so Yi Chenjing had to put Bai Qige down and push her onto the boat. , after Bai Qige got on board, she took a few steps back, sprinted suddenly, and jumped into the boat using the inertia.
"Get down!" Bai Qige nearly fell down due to his push. She managed to get up and was about to turn around when her tall body suddenly pressed on her back, followed by several sharp roars, accompanied by splashing water and a muffled sound.
Taking a deep breath, the wound on her back hurt like tearing. Bai Qige gritted her teeth and remained silent, fearing that Yi Chenjing would notice the pressure on her wound and get up to avoid it - she could hear that the enemy chasing behind her was firing arrows.
, you must not reveal your body at such a critical moment, otherwise you will end up with thousands of arrows piercing your heart.
The shouts and curses were getting closer and closer, one after another. Fortunately, the boatman was quite clever. After dodging the first wave of arrows, he immediately propped up his oar and drove away from the shore as fast as possible. Waiting until the enemy arrived with fire and bow.
, the figures of the three people on the boat had long been lost in the mist, and they saw their prey running away again.
She couldn't remember how many times she had escaped by chance, dozens of times. From Lingyun City to Xichu, she stopped, walked, and hid all the way. Bai Qige even doubted that the blood in her body was really enough to flow for so long?
The road always seemed to have no end, but she still persisted, even if she had no hope for any poisonous doctor, just because Yi Chenjing was by her side, staying with her through thick and thin.
Even if death is inevitable in the end, at least accompany him until the end. If you are lucky enough to survive... some things may not be so important.
Bai Qige's groggy mind was thinking wildly. After a long time, Bai Qige suddenly noticed something strange. Her nose was filled with the smell of blood.
"Are you hurt?" The voice rolled in his throat was slightly hoarse.
After a long while, Yi Chenjing let out a faint "Hmm", weakly, and finally moved his warm body away from Bai Qige's back, leaving a brightly colored blood stain.
Bai Qige half sat with her hands on the board of the boat. The warm and viscous liquid stained her palms. She knew it was Yi Chenjing's blood, but she didn't expect it to be so much. A small pool of blood formed between the two bodies.
Looking at it, more than an inch of sharp arrow clusters were exposed on the broad chest, and blood was flowing out from the punctured wound, like water carrying a boat, flowing endlessly. Yi Chenjing's face turned a little pale. This situation
Bai Qige was no stranger to her. She suffered from the same symptoms of excessive blood loss. However, her injuries were treated with medicine and were not too serious. After surviving so many days and nights, she was still living tenaciously. However, Yi Chenjing was different.
His injuries were too serious.
"Don't move." Bai Qige tried to press the wound with her hands, but it was in vain. Her remaining strength was not enough to compress her blood vessels and reduce blood loss. However, Yi Chenjing refused to lie quietly even at this time and quickly lost her temperature.
He put his palm on her cheek and rubbed it gently.
"I'm the one who caused you trouble."
"Don't be so self-righteous. Do you think you can influence me?" Bai Qige hurriedly tore her clothes and blocked the wound. She squeezed out a stiff smile and said, "It's just an arrow. Don't make it seem like we are separated from each other. I'm dragging you."
Are you still alive after all this time?"
How could the two of them not know the truth? It was just to give Yi Chenjing and herself a psychological comfort.
Yi Chenjing still couldn't bear to let go. His fingertips touched the ugly scar that he had carved on Bai Qige's cheek, and his eyes felt a little sad. In the past, he was obsessed with Honghuang, so he deeply hurt Bai Qige as revenge, and then when he realized that his heart
He didn't know when he started to care about her, and that scar became his sin. He carried the guilt that he could not make up for in his whole life. Until now, he could not give her any compensation. Instead, she was so tired that she almost died many times. It seemed that God ordered
He lives just to make Bai Qige suffer.
Now, is it finally the end? It seems that what I owe her will never be repaid in this life.
Slowly closing her eyes, placing her palms on Bai Qige's wrists, Yi Chenjing let out a long breath.
"It's enough to die with you."
How long was that memory? From hatred to love, from being bitter to the point of never getting tired of looking at each other, a down-and-out prince who endured humiliation and kept a low profile, and a childhood sweetheart who was timid but had the courage to confess to him. When did they start to bury each other?
Who is responsible for this fateful marriage?
Bai Qige didn't know whether to tell Yi Chenjing that she was not the Xiao Yingge he knew, and she didn't know how to make him understand that a person like her who didn't care about love had overturned everything after meeting him and was willing to bear the burden for him.
Sin lives and dies with him.
Unprecedented panic spread in her heart, her long hair was stained with blood red, her cheek was pressed close to her chest, Bai Qige lay on Yi Chenjing's body and trembled, the quiet and gentle sound of someone's heartbeat in her ears gradually made her feel at ease and sleepy.
"Chen Jing, I have never regretted meeting you."
The murmur is like a weak wind and drizzle. As the river water is stirred by the oars, the sound gathers into the final sound. A lone boat ripples on the river. The young man and woman with peaceful expressions on the boat seem to be asleep. They clasp their hands tightly to prevent any water from seeping in. Perhaps it is
Affected by such an inseparable thought, the pool of blood under their bodies also selflessly accepted each other's blood, and finally merged together. Although the shades were different, either bright or dark red, they were still together.
At the bow of the ship, the captain stood there for a long time with his head tilted, and sighed with regret. He got into the low cabin and took out a straw mat to cover the two of them. He propped up his long oar and looked forward. Under the night, the water was misty and misty, depicting
The faint outline of the mountains in the distance seems far away but not far away, and it seems close but not close yet.
"My lord, Xichu has arrived..." the boatman said to himself. Before the boat docked, he took off the money bag from Yi Chenjing's waist and weighed it. He jumped off the boat with satisfaction and was no longer seen.
The coldness of Western Chu is far beyond the reach of the distant emperors. When the distant capital is in the hot summer, it is as cold as winter here. The heavy snow falls with the night, making the land of Western Chu enchanting with silver and the magnificent rivers and mountains.
In comparison, the two broken bodies on the lone boat were simply tiny and pitiful. It didn't take long for them to be completely covered by the crystal clear snowflakes, leaving only a few bright blood-red flowers blooming quietly in the white.
"Why worry about life, and why be afraid of death? God will not delay even a moment for whomever is destined to be destined. What money cannot buy in this world is love and life."
Thousands of miles away, the moonlight was bright. In the simple wine shop, the blue-eyed man holding the wine and lamenting finally made Xiao Baishan's face, which had been gloomy for many days, finally show a smile, but it was still bitter and unusual: "Boss Ning is quite free and easy, how can you say that the general and the
You don't have a close friendship. It's just a pity that the pair of dragon and phoenix figures were so impressive for a while, but in the end even their bones were burned to ashes and never found again."
"General Xiao didn't see the two of them being captured with his own eyes, so how can he be sure that the bad-tempered general and Miss Bai are no longer alive?" Ning Xi flicked the wine glass with her long fingers, and Ning Xi smiled drunkenly, as clear as running water, with profound meaning.
"The people of Lingyun City who were lucky enough to escape the disaster have seen it with their own eyes. How can it be false?" Even so, Xiao Baishan also began to mutter in his heart, can the man who claims to be a citizen of Lingyun City really be trusted? Take a deep breath.
, then looking at Ning Xizui, there was a glimmer of hope in his eyes: "Boss Ning means... the general and the princess may still be alive. Someone is fabricating the news?"
Ning Xizui smiled noncommittally, and then jumped to other issues: "According to what General Xiao said, when you arrived at Lingyun City, you only saw the bodies of Chen Canjun and others, and the ambushed Huoluohe soldiers were nowhere to be found. General Xiao has
Have you ever wondered where they went?"
"Afterwards, I sent people to search and found that the footprints were heading south, but we didn't see any Jolohe people all the way back south. General Liang and I were also quite puzzled by this - does Boss Ning have any ideas?"
"What kind of insight can Ning, a small businessman, have? He just thinks that those Huoluohe soldiers have no reason to go south, unless..." He paused for a moment deliberately to show off, and when he saw Xiao Baishan pretending not to understand, with a pious look on his face, Ning Xizui
He curled his lips and continued, "Unless there is something attracting them, or in other words, those Jolo River soldiers are chasing something or someone."
What’s worth the trouble of constantly tracking? The answer is self-explanatory.
Xiao Baishan's face became much brighter, he banged the wine table hard, and his voice was as loud as a bell: "Come here! Send people to rush back to Lingyun City to bring the surviving people! Then tell General Liang to prepare a team of elite cavalry and follow me to find the big army.