Li Dan's shout pulled Xia Xianyin, who was sitting in front of the fire in a daze, from her thoughts.
She smelled the smell of burning, and then realized that the hare on the wooden fork in her hand had been roasted to black.
Xia Xianyin looked frightened and quickly took the stick back and carefully inspected it. Only after he was sure that the outer skin was only slightly burnt did he feel relieved.
"Xiao Xianyin, your cooking skills won't make you into my Li family. You have to practice hard." Li Danqing's teasing voice also sounded at the right time.
Xia Xianyin's face turned a little red, wondering if the temperature beside the campfire was too hot.
She gritted her teeth, but surprisingly she didn't look at him coldly like before. Instead, she walked up to Li Danqing with the roast rabbit, handed it over, and said in a dull voice: "Here."
But Li Danqing didn't buy it. Xia Xianyin's hand went numb even when he stretched out it, but Li Danqing still didn't take the roast rabbit.
"Don't bite your nose, our situation is still very dangerous, and we don't know if those guys will catch up. If you don't eat, I won't have time to catch a second one for you!" Xia Xianyin was quite concerned.
Said impatiently.
"How do you want me to eat when I'm like this?" As soon as Xia Xianyin finished speaking, Li Danqing's aggrieved voice rang out.
Xia Xianyin was stunned and looked at Li Danqing. Then he remembered that Li Danqing was injured by a stray arrow shot by a bandit during the escape. At this moment, there were three bandaged wounds on his bare back. Speaking of Li Danqing
It was also a fate. One of the three arrows that hit him hit his vital point. Fortunately, because of insufficient strength, it did not penetrate the flesh and hurt Li Danqing's heart. Otherwise, Li Danqing would not be with her now.
Time for idle chatter.
As for the other two stray arrows, one injured Li Danqing's shoulder bone, and the other hit his waist. Although they did not hurt the inner palace, they did make Li Danqing unable to move. At this moment, he could only rest on the tree trunk.
.
"Then what should we do?" Xia Xianyin's voice was a little softer, a little at a loss.
Li Danqing raised his eyebrows when he heard this, narrowed his eyes, and said with a teasing smile: "Feed me."
"You!" Li Danqing's frivolity made Xia Xianyin frown, and she was about to get angry, but out of the corner of her eye, she saw that although Li Danqing's back had been bandaged, there were still bleeding wounds, and she finally felt soft.
, swallowed back the second half of the words that came to his lips.
She knelt down with a bad look on her face, but finally followed Li Danqing's request, pulled off a small piece of meat from the roast rabbit, and put it into Li Danqing's mouth.
Seeing Xia Xianyin's submission, Li Danqing immediately beamed. He came up shamelessly, opened his mouth and bit into the barbecue handed over by Xia Xianyin - it wasn't just whether he did it intentionally or not. In the process,
His lips lightly touched Xia Xianyin's fingertips.
This strange feeling made Xia Xianyin retract her hand as if she was electrocuted. Just as she was about to have an attack, she heard Li Danqing murmur with some meaning: "Smells! It smells so good!"
"You're a bastard!" Xia Xianyin was so angry that she stamped her feet. She immediately wanted to throw the roast rabbit on the ground and ignore this guy.
"Ouch! The wound on my back seems to have opened again. Why does it hurt so much!" But Li Danqing understood Xia Xianyin's thoughts and let out a very artificial cry of pain at that time.
Xia Xianyin couldn't tell that he was putting on a show for her, but she was wrong after all. She gritted her teeth and glared at Li Danqing again, and finally sat down patiently and continued to feed Li Danqing.
…
Fortunately, Li Danqing also knew how to restrain himself, although he still said it from time to time.
He uttered some words of tiger and wolf, but his hands did not move as abruptly as before.
Xia Xianyin picked out the unburnt part of the hare and handed it to Li Danqing's mouth, but her eyes also fell on that guy.
She was in a daze for no reason, and her thoughts went back to a quarter of an hour ago.
In her mind, she recalled the moment when she accepted her fate, the cry that cut through the darkness, and the angular face illuminated by the firelight.
She looked at the careless guy in front of her, and it was really difficult to connect the two.
She suddenly asked out of nowhere: "Why...why did you come back to save me?"
Li Danqing ate a piece of rabbit meat with a look of enjoyment on his face, and said casually: "We put all our money with you. If we don't save you, will I have to drink the northwest wind all the way to Yangshan?"
Xia Xianyin never thought that Li Danqing would be the kind of guy who would do what is right, but after getting this reasonable answer, she was still a little disappointed for no reason.
She took a deep look at the guy in front of her and asked, "Did you chop down those big trees?"
"Cut?" Li Danqing blinked, a little confused: "Why do you want to chop? I pulled it with a carriage and it fell down..."
How could Xia Xianyin believe this nonsense? The waist of the big tree that was pulled was as wide as a person's arms. Not to mention ten trees, even a war horse could not pull them down, let alone the dozen or so trees at that time. It must have been
Li Danqing cut down those big trees to the point of collapse beforehand, so that he could do this.
only……
Thinking of this, Xia Xianyin looked Li Danqing up and down again. The guy slumped on the ground in front of him did not look like a guy who could knock down more than ten big trees in such a short period of time. Or was he just a man?
Because the roots of those trees were rotten and could collapse at any time, so Li Danqing took advantage of it?
With this thought, the more Xia Xianyin thought about it, the more she realized that this was the case.
Deep down, she secretly cursed herself for being so confused that she suddenly had some strange expectations for the guy who killed Sister Qingzhu. She secretly told herself——
Xia Xianyin, you have to remember that this guy in front of you is a heinous bastard!
It's just that the task of escorting him is related to her position in Tianjian Division's Young Master. Only by securing this position in Tianjian Division can she have the opportunity to overturn the case of her father and Uncle Qing!
Thinking like this, Xia Xianyin threw away all the unrealistic thoughts in her mind. When she looked at the leisurely appearance of the guy in front of her, she felt inexplicably angry and had no intention of feeding him anymore.
When eating, throw a handful of roast rabbit on him.
How did Li Danqing know that in this short period of more than ten breaths, Xia Xianyin had thought about all the twists and turns in his mind. He looked at him inexplicably and said: "How can I eat if you don't feed me?"
“Eat it if you like it!”
…
Li Danqing knew very well that this woman's heart was like a needle in the sea, so he did not go into detail about where Xia Xianyin's anger came from.
But after the other party fell asleep, he placed the Chaoge Sword behind his back on his knees. This action made the wound on his back hurt again.
He secretly rejoiced that he had made the right decision three days ago - to infuse the adamantium marrow he had cultivated into his physical body. Although the adamantium marrow he had cultivated these days was almost enough to open a vein gate, the improvement that that thing brought to his physical body would not be enough.
Obviously, it is not as direct as infusing the physical body with diamond marrow.
It was precisely because of his decision that day that he resisted the arrow that almost killed him.
Li Danqing thought of this and secretly thought that he was destined to be lucky. Then he restrained his other thoughts and mobilized his skills to prepare to absorb the blood and energy he got today.
force.
Everything that happened today made Li Danqing realize that the imperial court would not let the Li family go just because the White Wolf Army was taken over and Li Mulin died in battle. Those guys disguised as bandits are the best evidence.
Li Danqing doesn't believe that those guys will just give up. Getting stronger is the only way for him to survive now!
Thinking of this, he looked at Xia Xianyin who was already asleep beside him, fell into concentration, and started practicing again.
The bonfire burned and made soft noises. The girl lying beside the bonfire had a peaceful face. Sometimes the corners of her mouth were raised, and sometimes her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she was dreaming of a dream that was both beautiful and terrifying.
…
New Year's Eve.
The lights in Wuyang City are bright.
The sound of firecrackers and fireworks and the laughter of children are endless.
The woman in green clothes was sitting in the pavilion with red and blue tiles, staring at herself in the bronze mirror in a daze.
Boom, boom, boom.
Suddenly there was a soft sound next to the window.
The woman woke up from a dream, stood up quickly, walked over, and opened the window.
A young face poked its head in.
"Xianyin, why are you here again? I am the daughter of a guilty minister and was demoted to a prostitute. If someone sees your dealings with me, it will implicate the entire Xia family." The woman in green clothes said anxiously.
The person outside the window didn't take it seriously. He turned over and jumped into the room. He raised his neck and said angrily: "I'm not afraid! Uncle Qing is an upright man, but it was all set up by bad people! One day, Sister Qingzhu can clear the wrongs!"
"
The woman in green smiled bitterly when she heard this, but she couldn't bear to reveal the "fact" that the girl believed.
She just sat aside and said noncommittally: "I hope so."
The girl saw her sorrow, mysteriously took out a food box from behind, placed it in front of the woman's table and said: "Sister Qingzhu, I brought you your favorite red crispy duck, and
The sweet potato cakes are all placed here for you."
"I have to go back first. I sneaked out at the end of the year and my father found me and I got scolded again. I will come to see you after the Lantern Festival. Then I will bring you the Lantern Festival made by my mother."
…
Half a month later, during the Lantern Festival, the lanterns are first lit.
The girl carried the hot Yuanxiao to the outside of Zhulou, thinking of flying in from the high wall on the side as usual, but just as she approached there, many drinkers outside Zhulou started talking mysteriously.
something.
"Have you heard? Miss Qingzhu was taken home by Prince Li three days ago, and she never came back."
"Isn't Miss Qingzhu a prostitute rather than a prostitute? Then how could Prince Li take her away?"
"Who is Prince Li? He can take away any woman that the prince likes. Who dares to stop the person he wants in Zhu Lou? Speaking of which, this is already the fifth one this year, right? You are talking about Li
Danqing, if you like women, you like women, but you still have to go to such an extent, it’s really abominable!”
"Is Zhu Lou going to let it go like this? Why don't you go to the government to report the case?"
"Report a crime? Who dares to try the Li family's case?"
"It's not just once or twice that Li Danqing has killed girls. I heard from the servants in his house that those girls were tortured by Li Danqing for several hours before they died. The screams were more penetrating than those of evil spirits."
, after you’re done, just throw it into the river, no one will dare to fish it out!”
thump!
A soft sound interrupted the conversation of the drinkers. They looked for the sound and saw only the back of a girl running away into the night, and...
Lantern Festivals scattered all over the ground...