Jiang Rao blinked and looked at him, he smiled, and the canine teeth that disturbed her vision were exposed again, "Can I take you to a place?"

Jiang Rao looked at his picturesque face under the lights, and it was hard to say anything to refuse.

She couldn't sleep anyway.

She sighed and grabbed the quilt to cover her mid-shirt body, "You go out and wait for me first."

Rong Ting smiled happily, the lantern was placed beside her, and he went out first.

Jiang Rao put on a coat and a cape, came out with a lantern, and walked behind him, "Where are you going?"

"Look at the stars." Rong Ting waved to her, motioning her to follow him.

He went first into the woods beside the camp.

Jiang Rao illuminated the ground with a lantern, fearing that he was walking too fast, the road was bumpy and uneven, and the lights couldn't shine, and she said to the figure in front: "You slow down, I have the lamp in my hand, you Follow me."

Before the word "I" was finished, Jiang Rao's lips were rounded, and she was stunned when she heard the leaves rustling in the wind.

Went out.

It's gone.

Jiang Rao stared at the lantern in her hand like a ghost, and stopped, and when the fire was extinguished, she couldn't see anything clearly, and stopped in place with a frown.

Rong Ting turned around and came back, "The lantern went out?"

"Go back to find flint?" He took the lantern in her hand and took it in his own.

Jiang Rao thought about how long it took them to go out. She felt a little lazy. It was hard to get here. Go back and come back again.

Although he couldn't see where the road was, he cautiously and tentatively took two steps forward. His steps were not staggering. Jiang Rao didn't even plan to go back. Bar."

But she was worried that she would only fall, and looked at Rong Ting, "I can't see the road clearly. If you pass through some potholes, you can remind me when you see it, okay?"

She has learned a lot from Hu Tang. Some people with good kung fu have much better eyesight than ordinary people, and can see objects at night. The old doctor in Yecheng told her that he has a good foundation in martial arts, she thought to herself. Maybe he could see better than her.

In the thick night, the sly light in Rong Ting's eyes flowed, and he looked at her without looking at the way, and said in a deep voice, "Okay."

Seeing that he agreed readily, Jiang Rao immediately became very at ease. Walking by his side, wherever he went, she would definitely not fall down. After walking a few steps, there was no problem. The little wooden stick of the road gradually became a decoration.

After two steps, he hit the big pit and stepped in the air, Jiang Rao exclaimed, and his heart almost jumped out.

But she didn't fall.

Rong Ting's firm and powerful arms wrapped around her lower back.

Although her body did not fall into the pit, Jiang Rao was sweating on her forehead and took a step back.

She stood firm, a little embarrassed, but also a little strange.

She looked at Rong Ting and asked suspiciously, "Can't you see the road too?"

If he reminded her of the pit just now, she would not have stepped on the air and would not have to be hugged by him so embarrassedly.

"It was clear before."

previously?

"What about now?" she asked.

"Some of the medicines used to heal my leg injury... have depleted my internal strength."

Jiang Rao frowned.

His hands were wrapped around her waist, and his strength made her even have the illusion that he could lift her up with one hand.

Is this called loss?

"I saw it vaguely just now, but it's too late. I was wrong."

"You are closer to me, so that I can remind me." His tone was weak, but he took her to his side on his own initiative. Her body was warm, but his body was cold with medicine. The difference was obvious to Jiang Rao. When she was close to him, she was driven by shame and wanted to hide back, but when she heard some sounds in the woods in her ears, she suddenly stuck to his arm.

It's the cry of a frog.

She is most afraid of animals with wet skin and no fluffy hair.

Just thinking about it makes me feel creepy.

Rong Ting's body stiffened for a moment when she leaned up, and Jiang Rao was so close to him, she naturally felt it, and hesitated whether to let go, but the frogs kept croaking. .

"I'm afraid you will fall." Her tone was serious, but the fingers holding his arm trembled slightly.

Rong Ting lowered his eyes to look at the figure she was approaching, concealed by the night, without even hiding the smile in his eyes, he helped her lie: "I'm also afraid."

Jiang Rao was frightened to death, but instead she used a small wooden stick to explore the road and walked forward in small steps.

Gradually to the middle of the woods, where the trees are sparse.

There are no tall and lush trees blocking the moonlight, and the view is much brighter.

There is a small pond.

"It's here." Rong Ting said.

Jiang Rao looked at the firefly rising from the lake and said "Wow".

Those bright fireflies were like stars falling from the sky, and the light from their small bodies fell into her eyes again, making her eyes sparkle, and she gradually let go of her hand.

If she could see such a beautiful scene every night, she would be willing to sleep for a few nights.

Her surprised expression fell into Rong Ting's eyes, and he smiled lightly, "Do you like it?"

Jiang Rao nodded, but she looked at the lake as smooth as a mirror and didn't move forward no matter how much she liked it.

The roaring of frogs in the pond made her tremble.

How come autumn has so many frogs?

He looked at her thoughtfully and said, "It's better not to go forward."

"There are frogs and snakes in the pond." He quietly inquired about the reason why she was afraid to go forward.

Jiang Rao's body was tense when she heard the words, and just now she thought that if only she could see fireflies every night, she just wanted to get back into the tent.

Rong Ting paid attention to her reaction, his long eyes narrowed slightly, looking terribly cunning, he reminded him seriously, "You pay attention to the back of your feet, don't climb anything, you don't know how to change it yourself."

She lowered her head and glanced at the back of her instep and the vicinity, but saw nothing scary, and turned her eyes to the lake in the forest, where the stars were reflected, sparkling and sparkling, making it unforgettable at first glance.

Jiang Rao raised her eyes and looked at the stars in the sky, which were no different from the stars in the sky above Jinling, but because there were no people and only trees around, they appeared brighter.

The scenery here is so clean, so clean and peaceful. There is a deserted sandy land by the lake. The trees are clearly tall, but the night sky hanging overhead is so vast and deep that it seems to be within reach.

Seeing that, she couldn't help but take a step forward, and the back of her foot suddenly sank.

This heavy feeling made Jiang Rao's scalp tighten instantly.

She hurriedly jumped up with the hem of her skirt.

When you have a heavy feeling on the back of the feet, you have no way to get rid of the skin's feeling. I always feel that the thing will jump again, ah, I called the jump and jumping and jumping together and directly hung yourself. body.

She hugged Rong Ting's neck, so frightened that her legs were weak and she couldn't jump very high. She couldn't wrap her legs around his knees, so she could only weakly wrap around his calves, but the sense of security that her feet were off the ground was a real deal. She breathed a sigh of relief, and finally let go of the fear that made her goosebumps all over.

"Are you really so scared?" There was a relaxed smile in his voice, and he listened carefully to a childish stubbornness. He lifted her body up and asked her to wrap her body on his knees. His lower legs were crossed around his waist, and his hands continued to rest on her back, stroking lazily as if to comfort her.

Jiang Rao hung there, neither up nor down, not daring to let go, nor to look to see if the thing on the ground that jumped on her instep had slipped away, her ears were flushed red, and her chest was up and down, as if running over. It's a long way, and the sound of panting and breathing is difficult to calm down.

The water-like moonlight poured down like a silver gauze, covering the sand by the lake.

There was nothing on the sand except Rong Ting's gray-edged boots that were slightly sunk into the sand, and the shadow of the two of them merging together.

Jiang Rao closed his eyes and didn't dare to look, Rong Ting moved his feet calmly and kicked away the cake-shaped mud the size of a child's fist on the ground.

His smiling eyes smiled brightly and passionately, his low voice rang on the side of her ear, the heat hit the tip of her ear, making her ear numb, when he moved, she thought he was going to put her down, and groaned uncomfortably. After a moment, he said cowardly, "Let me hold you for a while."

She was prudent and reasonable, just like he spoke to her in the daytime, saying, "Anyway, you are my future husband."

She hugged his neck tightly and made up her mind not to let go. She shrunk her head on his shoulders more timidly than a turtle, but her tone had an air of unrejection and bravado.

He kissed all day, so where did she go.

Her lips pursed, and the more she thought about it, the more imposing she was, and the tighter the hand wrapped around his neck.

Rong Ting stood tall and straight like a tree, standing firmly on the sand, with both hands protecting her back, and there was a smile in her breathing.

He couldn't help but let go of one hand and squeezed her red earlobe, it was really nice that only he could see her like this, he said "yes" with a faint smile.

Learn fast.

Lovely.

The emotion of fear came and went slowly, and it was a long time before Jiang Rao finally had the courage to look at the ground.

Glancing at the ground, there are no frogs, toads, or snakes, only the faint moonlight shines on the fine sand on the ground, and there are footprints large and small, and the rest is empty. Immediately it made her panic like she was in a panic. Jiang Rao's face immediately turned red, and she tilted her feet and stuck her head to look at the uppers of her embroidered shoes, trying to see if she was really too nervous. Misunderstood.

There was a layer of mud on the embroidered shoes, like a toad jumped on her feet just now.

I didn't expect something to actually jump up.

Jiang Rao shivered and put her feet back.

Hold tight.

A low voice came from my ear, "Nian Nian."

His voice sounded dull and depressed, "Don't move."

She's not heavy, it's easy to hold her, and it doesn't even take much effort.

But it's not so easy to not think about anything else while holding her.

Jiang Rao settled down.

After all, she was no more flustered than when she jumped up. Although she knew that a toad had jumped on her instep just now, there was nothing on the ground.

Don't panic, just now she was in a hurry and only did something and said something, which came to her mind, and even the shyness that was suppressed by panic and fear also surfaced. This time, the redness not only covered behind her ears, but also gradually covered her neck and face. She felt ashamed and wanted to go down and step on the ground, but he didn't feel tired when he held her waist tightly. Jiang Rao buried her face on his shoulder like an ostrich, and whispered to his ear, "Put me down."

Rong Ting followed her wishes very much, the strength in his hands loosened, and he put her down, Jiang Rao's toes were about to touch the ground when he heard him say casually, "It seems that something is jumping over again. ."

Jiang Raoxu lifted the toes that were about to touch the ground, turned her feet back, looked around in fear, and heard him sigh with guilt, "I was wrong."

Jiang Rao finally fell to the ground, her eyes staring nervously at the grass and the pond, for fear that the things she was afraid of would jump out again.

"Did you really see it wrong?" Her chaotic gaze couldn't find anything, and she turned around to confirm with Rong Ting.

The ground was so empty that she thought he was teasing her.

Rong Ting looked innocent, "I was wrong."

He bent down and picked up a stick.

"Did you see clearly..." Jiang Rao moved her body and got closer to him. When she asked him, her little head turned to the ground, left, right, front and back, with a hint of timidity in her tone. I was afraid, "Did you see what it was that just jumped on the back of my foot?"

"I didn't see it clearly." Rong Ting said innocently, "Maybe he escaped too quickly."

Jiang Rao stared at the grass and the pond with fear.

Rong Ting said to her, "If you stay in Jinling, you won't be frightened by this."

"But if I stayed in Jinling, I wouldn't be able to see the beautiful fireflies and stars here." Jiang Rao frowned when he heard that he seemed to be pursuing her for following up, and followed up smartly.

Rong Ting smiled lightly, and the smile fell into Jiang Rao's eyes. She actually felt that there was some bitterness in his smile. She ignored the things that scared her and walked up to him and looked at him. He raised his hand and embraced her. As it approached, Jiang Rao hesitated for a while, but in the end, she didn't struggle, just let him hold her obediently.

"After I arrived in Chuzhou, I was too far away from Jinling, and there were no shortage of tell-tale people. The three became tigers. I don't know what will happen in the end."

His tone was a little low, and Jiang Rao muttered in his arms, "If I were in Jinling, I would definitely not let others say that to you."

Three become tigers, bah. When two people dared to speak ill of him, she tried to cut them off.

She felt his chest vibrate and seemed to laugh softly. Jiang Rao raised his eyes and looked at him. He sighed and nodded her forehead, "It's a pity you're not in Jinling."

He looked at her with a sad look on his face, suddenly let go of his hand, bent down and picked up a wooden stick, and drew something on the ground. Jiang Rao followed him and saw that it was two circles.

"Huaizhou is here, Chuzhou is here." Rong Ting drew another line near the two circles, "This is Yitong Mountain."

Jiang Rao was ignorant and obediently repeated, "Huaizhou, Chuzhou, Yitong Mountain?"

Rong Ting said: "The ropeway mentioned in Xi Zimo's letter is only damaged, and Yitong Mountain is one of them."

Jiang Rao only knew that Xi Zimo wanted Rong Ting to go under the pretext that the ropeway was damaged, but she couldn't see the letter from Xi Zimo asking Emperor Zhaowu to send troops, and she didn't know which mountain the ropeway was damaged on. She understood when he said this. Now, looking at the location of Yitong Mountain, it seems to be closer to Huaizhou, but it is not far from Chuzhou. She doesn't know much about military matters, but intuition is that this is a very important threshold, she asked : "Do you need someone to guard here?"

"Need." Rong Ting laughed when she looked like she wanted to help, "But I'll find a way."

Rong Ting drew the location of Jinling on the sand, far away from the two circles, and pointed to Jiang Rao, "Look at Chuzhou and Huaizhou, how close are they?"

"Near." Jiang Rao didn't understand what he was going to say, "What's wrong?"

"Even in Taoyuan, where there are few people, there is a possibility of being affected by the war. The ropeway in Yitong Mountain is destroyed. If someone wants to enter the Central Plains, they may attack Chuzhou."

Jiang Rao frowned, "But Chuzhou doesn't have to be the only way."

"You don't have to go through the road before you can be surprised."

Rong Ting threw down the wooden stick in his hand, suddenly approached her, rested his head on her shoulder, put his arms around her, hugged her and whispered, "Chuzhou is very dangerous."

"Even if you come, I'm happy, but Chuzhou is not the place you should go."

His eyes were thick as ink,

"You should go back to Jinling."

Jiang Rao wanted to refute him, but his head suddenly dizzy, his eyes were black, and his consciousness went down.

Rong Ting withdrew the hand that touched her sleeping hole, reached out to catch her when she was about to fall down, looked down at her, and muttered with a wry smile, "How could a man march to fight, how could he bring his weakness with him? ?"

...

Jiang Rao slept for a long time, and vaguely remembered that someone coaxed her to drink medicine. When she became conscious again, her eyelids were heavy, and she couldn't open it for a while. The sounds that fell into her ears made her very strange.

The voice of someone talking.

It was her mother's voice.

"Nian Nian was fed medicine, so she slept for so long a day and a night. The medicine won't hurt her body. The doctor said that she will wake up within half an hour."

Her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't open them, even if she heard footsteps walking towards her, it seemed that someone came to her side and looked at her for a while, and said with satisfaction, "Hmph, count the year. Year is right."

It was her father's voice. She tried several times, and finally opened her eyes this time.

Looking at the familiar curtain and surrounding furnishings, she rolled over and sat up.

She turned her head slowly and looked around.

There are no large tracts of lush forests and the night sky that is almost within reach, and there are no fireflies and stars in the sky.

Some were just her father standing in front of her and her mother sitting beside her couch.

It was dark, but this was her own room.

She gradually realized something, and her face changed from stunned to sad.

She looked at Jiang Xingzhou and Jiang Qinshi as if asking for evidence, "How did I get back?"

...

A day later, the convoy from Jinling to Huaizhou had passed Kaizizhou.

He set up camp in the pastoral area at night, Rong Ting ordered people to buy dozens of sheep back, roast them on the fire, and follow him to Huaizhou. , Have a good rest after eating this meal, and have a walk tomorrow night, and then have a good rest when we arrive at Qingzhou."

Rong Ting sat alone by the bonfire and did not participate in the activities of dividing the sheep. Some people tried to get close to him, but he retreated because of his indifferent expression.

His indifferent, downcast eyes seemed to be looking at a campfire or something else.

The root of his disease was left on his body. Although his physical strength was restored to the original, and even increased a little with age, his body was always cold and he was dressed heavier than others.

The firewood on the bonfire is burning vigorously, hissing and burning

The flame reflected on his fair and glamorous face, and also illuminated his left hand playing with a pearl earring. His five fingers were slender, the earring was small, and his movements were very gentle and beautiful.

The sound of horses neighing came from behind.

The dark guard, who rushed back from Jinling, saw Rong Ting here, jumped off his horse and said, "This subordinate hastened and sent the Fourth Young Lady back. It will be Yin Shi when we arrive at Ning'an Bo's Mansion.

Rong Ting's eyes that had been cold all day saw a little warmth, and he hooked his lips, "It's good to go back."

...

Jiang Rao also learned from Jiang Qinshi and Jiang Xingzhou that she returned to Jinling during Yinshi.

After coming back, dozed off again for a whole day and couldn't wake up when shouted.

She knew that Rong Ting fed her the last medicine again.

She had already been harmed by his medicine once, but this time she was in his way again.

Jiang Qin rubbed Jiang Rao's head and asked him, "Nian Nian, do you want to go instead?"

Jiang Rao's face was ashen, but he didn't say anything.

But she felt in her heart that she might not go again.

It was only then that she understood what the call he said to her meant.

He had long planned to send her back to Jinling, and even thought of a reason why she could no longer leave Jinling.

He never thought of letting her go to Chuzhou, and he blocked her way instead!

Saying that three people became tigers, clearly wanted her to stay in Jinling with peace of mind.

After all, he had already left Jinling for two whole days. If she went to look for him now, even if she knew which way he went, she might not be able to catch up.

What's more, she didn't even know the route he was going to take.

Mingming and Mingming have already promised her, why not let her follow?

Jiang Rao lowered her head in frustration, and when she thought about it carefully, she realized that he never made a statement or said good when she said she couldn't drive her away.

He never really promised her.

It's just that the way she looked at him didn't blame him, she thought so.

Jiang Rao devoured for a while.

Recently, he had clearly changed to the gentle and docile look she was familiar with, but she gradually felt that her heart was not enough in front of him.

Although lost, but really can not get angry.

She was just a little sad in her heart, sad that the emperor's life was difficult to violate, and that she was saddened by natural disasters.

She lowered her head, suddenly feeling that something was wrong with her left ear.

Raised his hand and touched his earlobe, it was empty.

She remembered that she was wearing a pair of pearl earrings and touched her right ear again.

The pearls are smooth to the touch, and the earrings on the right ear are replaced. She really is wearing a pair of pearl earrings.

but left

The ear is missing.

She thought about it carefully, but couldn't think of where the earrings could have been left by her. She slowly rubbed the earlobes twice, then put her hands down again, and looked at them in front of her eyes.

When just lifted wrist, unexpectedly felt that wrist was a little heavy, as if there was something more.

When she saw what was on her wrist in her sight, she was sure again in her heart.

Sure enough, there was a bunch of things she didn't wear herself.

But she looked a little stunned.

She recognized the extra stuff.

This is the bead given to her after she went to the little novice to donate incense in Sanqing Temple more than half a year ago.

At that time, she pityed him that he had never lived an ordinary life as an ordinary child, and put the bead on his hand in person.

The color of the beads has been mottled, and it seems that it has been worn by its owner for a long time.

Jiang Rao remembered that when she told him to wear it when he was tired, he took it off and threw it away, but he never lost it, so he couldn't help but curled the corners of his lips, and only smiled and then shrunk down again, and his eyes were red.

This is probably the only object in his body that has the meaning of seeking fortune and avoiding misfortune.

After two laps, it was wrapped around her wrist.