The substitute princess of the general who crossed over

One day passed after this sleep, Xia Lin woke up in the night, her whole body was sore, the candlesticks were lit in the hall, and there was only a faint light.Zhiwen was not there, just woke up, it was a little cold, and the room was quiet.

She heard whispers of conversation in the back room, got out of bed, and walked over lightly, without shoes on.

Qin Xi was already awake, sitting on the back of the bed, looking in good spirits.Sitting at the side, Dong Lu fed her the medicine in small mouthfuls, and carefully blew the medicine around her mouth to cool before delivering it to Qin Xi's mouth.

Dong Lu seemed to have said something, she pursed her mouth in grievance, Qin Xi laughed at her, she still had a wound on her face, when she smiled, she pulled the wound, and gasped in a "hiss".

Dong Lu stopped her hand that wanted to touch the wound, and insisted on giving her another mouthful of medicine.

Qin Xi pinched Dong Lu's nose.She didn't want to admit that she did see tenderness in Qin Xi's eyes that she hadn't seen for a long time.

"Ah... ah...."

The voice of Zhiwen suddenly came from behind, and everyone in the room was stunned. Xia Lin had no time to dodge, and met Qin Xi's eyes that turned his head to investigate, and that smiling face sank instantly.

Being caught peeping, Xia Lin smiled generously and walked towards the bed.

Before she could speak, Qin Xi chuckled and said, "I've let you down."

Qin Xi's throat was injured by the smoke, and the sound he made was like the rustling of a broken bellows.The corner of Xia Lin's eyes twitched, and he said slowly, "It's really a pity."

Xia Lin turned around to leave, but heard Qin Xi behind him continue to say, "I asked my servants to vacate the house on the west side, go and see if there is any dissatisfaction, and if there is, ask them to arrange it."

"What if I say that I'm not satisfied with the whole Taohuayuan?"

After speaking, Xia Lin walked out without hesitation.

Compared to Dong Lu who was jumping with anger, Qin Xi's complexion was indeed indifferent, but when he had a splitting headache, he said to Dong Lu, "Be quiet."

Zhiwen trotted to catch up with Xia Lin, and eagerly waved the things in his hands to her.

Xia Lin saw that it was a pair of shoes.Looking at her feet again, she suddenly realized, she said why when she came out, the soles of her feet were as cold as needles, and it turned out that she forgot to wear shoes.

Those fair little feet were already red from the cold, Zhiwen squatted down, holding her feet in his arms to warm them distressedly, and finally got a little hot, and then stuffed them back into the cotton boots.

Xia Lin stayed in the west.

The people in Taohuayuan, except Zhiwen who was picked up from the palace, are all old people who have been with Qin Xi for several years.Everyone saw the fire incident.

What's going on, everyone knows well.He became more and more disdainful towards Xia Lin.

Even with Qin Xi's pressure, there is no shortage of food and clothing.But the attitudes of those servants, although they are good-natured and knowledgeable, they also detected a trace of something wrong.

No matter what you do, the nose is not the nose and the face is not the face.

Zhiwen complained to Xia Lin, Xia Lin smiled at her.

She can only smile, she is just an outsider, not only living under someone else's roof, but also has a grudge with the master's family, if not against her, who is it against?

Just as he was thinking about it, Zhiwen ran in crying again, even making gestures and guessing, Xia Lin finally understood what was going on.It's getting hotter, isn't it?Zhiwen thought that Xia Lin was afraid of the cold and heat, so he wanted to go to the housekeeper in advance to ask for some ice cubes.

But the butler was so sneering and sarcastic, Zhiwen wanted to argue with her, but couldn't speak, turned around and ran back crying.

Xia Lin laughed, what a big deal this is.

She patted Zhiwen's head, as if to comfort her, and said softly, "When the day comes, they will send it themselves. You know they are very dissatisfied with you and me, so why bother to suffer this?"

Unconvinced, Xia Lin gestured again, pressed down her hand, and shook her head slightly.Knowing this, she fell silent, and after a while, she burst into tears again, took Xia Lin's hand, and wrote and drew in her palm.

After finishing writing, Xia Lin also understood, she said, "When will you be tall in such a day?"

Xia Lin is silent, she also wants to know, when will she be tall?

The two were silent for a while, Zhiwen suddenly thought of something, took the paper from the table, wrote a few strokes and handed it to Xia Lin.

Xia Lin took a look and saw that it said, "Princess, let's run away."

Xia Lin raised her head and met Shang Zhiwen's earnest eyes. Seeing that Xia Lin was unmoved, she eagerly took a pen and wrote, "It's better if we go back to the palace than here, just swallow it."

Xia Lin didn't speak, and ran away?Escaping wherever she goes is nothing more than changing from one cage to another. To her, it really doesn't make any difference.

But seeing Zhiwen's angry face, he hesitated again.

Ever since Zhiwen had her tongue cut out, she put Zhiwen in the same camp as herself.After such a long time, Zhiwen is no longer a slave, but a sister who lives with her.

As a "princess" myself, I have lived an extremely aggrieved life here, let alone talking about her as a maid.

"You want to go back?" Xia Lin asked.

Knowing that her eyes were red, she wrote on the paper, "I miss my parents."

Xia Lin patted her head and said, "Okay, let's go back."

She said she wanted to go back, but Xia Lin really didn't know what to do. She no longer remembered the way she came in, let alone the way to the Peach Blossom Spring.

Her eyes were completely darkened, and she didn't know anything.

The Taohuayuan is so big, how can she find the exit?

I don't know if Qin Xi will have a picture of Taohuayuan in his place?

No, no.

As soon as this thought came up, Xia Lin suppressed it.Not to mention her current relationship with Qin Xi, even her relationship with everyone is cold to below zero.

Stealing is absolutely impossible.

If you ask Qin Xi directly, that will not work.What if you have an excuse to go to the warehouse to look for it?

Xia Lin rested her chin in thought, and then shook her head. If she went by herself, Qin Xi would be fully prepared. Even if she found the whole picture, Qin Xi would find out immediately.

It doesn't work either.

If you can't get an existing map anyway, then... you can only make one yourself.

Xia Lin's plan is to walk north from the courtyard until the end, and calculate the time needed to get from the courtyard to the north end.Then walk clockwise, looking for the exit while walking.

Make a simple map record of your daily activities, how far you have traveled, and how long you have traveled.It takes about two to three hours a day.Although the servants of Taohuayuan don't pay much attention to them now, but if it takes too long, it will attract others' attention.

Xia Lin told Zhiwen about the plan, and finally one afternoon, the two started to implement it.

Just when the two were about to be discharged from the hospital, Qin Xi suddenly appeared and asked behind him, "What are you going to do?"

Xia Lin turned her head and smiled slightly, "Am I not even qualified to take a walk now?"

"How come?" Qin Xi also smiled, "Come back earlier."

It wasn't until Qin Xi turned to leave that the two breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the courtyard.

The Peach Blossom Spring is really not small, even after a week, I didn't even finish the circle, and I don't know where the exit is hiding.Xia Lin vaguely remembered the scene by the exit, but after more than a year, the grass grew and the warblers flew, and she no longer knew where it was.

"Let's go back after walking for a while." Xia Lin glanced at the hourglass hanging on Zhiwen's waist, "It's been too long since I've been out."

Zhiwen nodded, and continued to explore along the cliff.

After walking for a while, Xia Lin finally found something different.

"Look here." Xia Lin rubbed her feet against the rocky ground, motioning for Zhiwen to look.

Zhiwen looked at it for a long time but didn't feel any difference, and frowned at Xia Lin.

"Here, there are no weeds." Xia Lin said.

Only then did Zhiwen see some meaning. The place where the bottom of the rock wall connects to the ground has always been overgrown with weeds, and there will always be moss or mud attached to it, but only this one piece is bare and nothing.

Xia Lin put her face close to the wall, while beating with her knuckles, and listened with bated breath from left to right. If there is nothing in one piece, the sound must be different, so there must be nothing wrong with the mechanism.

It took Xia Lin half an hour to listen to the huge rock wall, but he didn't find any hollow places, so it was difficult.

Xia Lin looked at the rock wall and circled back and forth, where could it be...

Just as she was thinking, Zhiwen suddenly grabbed her cuff, swayed, and pointed at a branch with a small head protruding from a crack in the rock.

"That one you said?" Xia Lin asked, Zhiwen nodded fiercely.

Xia Lin looked up, indeed, the rock wall was bare, only that branch stood out, if so, it could not rule out the possibility that the branch was where the organ was located, but the height was not accessible to ordinary people, but if Qin Xi used lightness kung fu to go up, so maybe this is really possible.

But how to get there?

The pot of hourglass has already run out, Xia Lin simply put aside her thoughts and decided to go back first, the left and right places are already known, just wait for them to figure out how to reach that branch, and then escape directly.

Qin Xi was sitting in the study reading a book, Dong Lu brought tea in and put it heavily on the table, with an unhappy expression on his face.

"Who's making you unhappy again?" Qin Xi only took one look and said with a light smile.

"The eldest princess didn't know what to do all day long, and she didn't know how to come up with a looping game. She took a small iron ring in the yard all day, and asked the servants to move all the flowers and plants in the house. move."

Hearing the sound, Qin Xi said without raising her head, "Let her play, there's nothing wrong with the left and right, I have to have some fun for myself."

Seeing that Qin Xi didn't take it seriously at all, Dong Lu pouted and went out again.

When she went out, Qin Xi raised his head, frowning slightly.Xia Lin... When did she learn to enjoy herself?

Xia Lin was holding the iron rings made by the servants in the backyard, throwing them one by one on the flower pots not far away, sometimes when the throws were empty, she would adjust her posture; Applause from the sidelines.

Maybe I'm in high spirits, and I've been playing for several days, and even my accuracy has improved a lot.

Qin Xi stood watching from a distance, and the person throwing the hoop was all smiles, and he laughed too. It's been a long time since I saw such a scene. Since she wants to play, let her play. .

At night, Xia Lin sat in the house, holding an iron ring in one hand and a small piece of wire in the other, wondering what she was doing.

Zhiwen wrote a note, Xia Lin glanced at it, "Can the princess do this?"

Xia Lin held up the iron ring to show Zhiwen, and explained to Zhiwen, "Do you know what is tied inside here? It's a barb. When the time comes, we will throw the iron ring directly on the branch of the tree, and the barb is hooked. , it will not slip down, as long as you pull it hard, the mechanism can be activated."

Hearing Xia Lin's explanation, Zhiwen's eyes lit up immediately, and he clapped his hands as if saying, "Princess, you are awesome!"

"Although I am practicing the accuracy of the head every day, there is still a difference between throwing upwards and throwing forwards. Besides, we fled at night, so the difficulty will be much greater."

Xia Lin continued to tie barbs on the iron ring, while talking to Zhiwen.

"In the past two days, pack up your things, we will... let's go the night after tomorrow."