cloudless sky

"The sixth day! You can't just throw me away, I'm such a big man! I'm still your brother!" Ye Weiliao got on his horse and ran after him in a daze, shouting angrily.

Feng Pingping just ignored him, but Lu Fengxia shouted at him behind her, but she couldn't do it in time.Feng Pingping drove the two horses around a bend at the foot of the mountain and left Wei Xingyu and his party far away.Ye Weiliao turned the corner and looked back. Wei Xingyu had just walked out of the villa with one hand on his waist, and pointed to here with the other hand and cursed something loudly, but he couldn't hear clearly.

"Yuyu is going to die of anger." Ye Weiliao shook his head and smiled.

"Forget about being mad." Feng Pingping said.

"Where did you have such a deep hatred with him? Although he was arrogant and bullying when he was young, how old were you then, can you still remember?" Ye Weiliao wondered.

"Everything has to do with my childhood, so what if I can't remember?" Feng Pingping said angrily.

"Not really," Ye Weiliao smiled, and said submissively, "Isn't it okay if I don't mention it?"

"Hmph." Feng Pingping hummed softly, his momentum instantly weakened.

"Then can I ask you something else?" Ye Weiliao looked at him and asked, "How do you know where Tan Zhonglu is?"

"There's a poisonous thorn in the pill furnace that hasn't been burnt clean. It's so long, and the root is a bit flat." Feng Pingping stretched out two fingers to compare with him, and said: "The plant of this poisonous thorn grows in the desert west of Mount Yi. Haven't seen it anywhere else."

"Even if she has been to that desert, she may not still be there." Ye Weiliao said.

"The stinger is not very powerful, and it is not necessary to prepare the poison. It should be added in casually. Tan Zhonglu went to the west not for the stinger, but because of the black snake." Feng Pingping paused while talking, and stared ahead of time. Ye Weiliao glanced at it before continuing: "Black Snake... When I was young, I had to feed the colorless insects and rats in the desert, and I had to catch them every half a month. She was willing to keep this one, it's a new breed. one."

Ye Weiliao lowered his head and smiled, and didn't bother with him about the words "when I was young", glanced at the bamboo tube on his waist, and said: "There is no proof of Tan Zhonglu's fraudulent death, as long as she doesn't show up, she can't be found anyway. But She still appeared after hearing the news of your death, Shanzhuang, Qiping... You said you smelled her in Qiping?"

"Well," Feng Pingping said, "It passed by in a flash."

"Then she has seen you and knows that you are not dead." Ye Weiliao thought for a while and said, "It's also good, she won't go to Nanxian Racecourse to poison and kill more people. The bad thing is that she should also know that you can kill more people." If you find her, you may have escaped far away."

"As long as she has been to the desert, there will be more traces, go and have a look." Feng Pingping said.

Knowing that he couldn't be persuaded, Ye Weiliao had no choice but to keep up. He searched aimlessly like this, and felt that he would have to accompany him to find Tan Zhonglu for the rest of his life.Maybe when they become two old men, Tan Zhonglu will die of old age even if he is alive, so he can finally stop looking for them.Thinking of this, he laughed again, and couldn't help being glared at by Feng Pingping again.

"The sixth day, why are you so angry?" Ye Weiliao asked with a smile.

"Why are you always laughing!" Feng Pingping said.

"I want to laugh just looking at you."

"Dont look at me!"

"Just look."

"You... You said I'm not a child anymore, don't always treat me like a child!" Feng Pingping said fiercely.

"I just wanted to tease you," Ye Weiliao said with a smile, "You always keep silent, you always hold back, and then you get so angry that it hurts your body too much. Don't be like this. By the way, what's wrong with your injury?" Healed up so quickly? Did Tan Zhonglu feed you some tonics when he fed you the poison? Children shouldn't take so many tonics..."

"You're so wordy..."

Feng Pingping shouted, shook the reins, and galloped out with the two horses.Ye Weiliao had no choice but to try his best not to fall off the horse, and couldn't care less about teasing him.

The two walked obliquely into the mountain from the southern foot of Yishan Mountain, rested for a night after dark, and walked for half a day on the rugged mountain road with twists and turns. The same wilderness appeared one after another, with low and sparse vegetation, and a few spots dotted on the bare earth and rock slopes.At the end of the walk, there were no dwarf trees, only patches of barren grass and dry soil stretching forward and backward, and the wind blew clouds of dust and dust past.

On such a piece of barren land, there is also a faint trace, which is the footprints of pedestrians.

Ye Weiliao and Feng Pingping each reined in their horses, looking forward, there was a small sedan chair in front of it, with a carved yellow wood body, red satin curtains, and rusty gold threads, it looked like a family member of a rich family was riding, and suddenly appeared without front or back In this kind of place, it is indescribably weird.

Two porters carried the small sedan chair and staggered ahead.

"I've seen this sedan chair," Feng Pingping said suddenly, "it's just outside the burnt Xiong's mansion, and I smelled it when it passed by."

"You didn't say such strange things long ago?" Ye Weiliao looked at him, wondering.

"It's strange here, what's so strange on the street... Humph!" At that time, Feng Pingping couldn't figure out how to think about a sedan chair. In the end, it was still Ye Weiliao's fault, but he couldn't explain it to him, so he had to Forget it.

After Feng Pingping snorted coldly, he beat his horse and chased after him alone, kicking up dust with all four hooves, and in a blink of an eye he reached the front of the sedan chair, reined in his horse, raised his front hooves high, and then stood still in front of him.

Seeing that it was still the two bearers, he stopped in panic and almost knocked over the sedan chair.

Feng Pingping took out his horsewhip and swung it out, breaking the car curtain, the little girl inside was still crying, her face was full of tears, and she shouted in a hoarse voice: "Help! Help! These two villains have tied me up, father! Mother! I want to go home woo woo woo..."

"You..." Feng Pingping wanted to ask her something, but she couldn't do it because of her crying and shouting.

"Father! Mother! I'm afraid..."

Feng Pingping had no choice but to turn to the two porters, and asked, "Did you tie her up?" "Hero, spare your life! Brave man, spare your life!" The two porters knelt down again, kowtowed one after another, and one rushed to say: "Yes A woman told us to carry the little girl here, saying that we should go three miles to the west and half a mile to the north, and there is a place with water and trees in the desert ahead, so we will send it there. The woman gave me a lot of money , and even said that we would give another copy at the place! If it wasn't for the sake of money, we wouldn't want to take this drudgery!"

The other asked smartly: "The hero chased after him all the way, could it be that he wants to kidnap this little girl? That woman is not easy to mess with, she can kill with a single hand, so the hero should think carefully! Please the hero raise your hand and spare our lives!"

"What are you talking about?" Ye Weiliao also walked up and said with a smile: "We are the ones sent by that woman to pick you up, leave this little girl to us."

The two bearers looked at each other and looked at him very suspiciously.

"Let me ask you, does that woman only have one hand? She looks beautiful and has no expression on her face. After seeing it for a long time, she feels scared? Also, does she have a bamboo tube hanging around her waist? Just like this hero's waist The hanging is very similar? This is her nephew, do you believe it? Shall he also kill one for you to see?" Ye Weiliao asked each sentence, and saw that the two bearers were skeptical and very shaken.He raised his head and looked at the little girl in the sedan chair again, she took a break from crying and shouting, she was gasping for breath, secretly looking at Ye Weiliao and Feng Pingping with wide open teary eyes.

Ye Weiliao smiled at her, and changed his words: "I don't want you to hand it over now, but I have to ask the two of you to carry her to the original place, and I will escort her all the way."

"I know the place, so I don't need them." Feng Pingping said.

"Do you think she is somewhat similar to Tan Zhonglu?" Ye Weiliao approached him and asked in a low voice.

Feng Pingping turned his head to look at the little girl with a crying face, his dark eyes were blinking tears, his red lips were flattened, he shook his head and said, "I can't tell."

"I always feel...it's not that simple, let's take it with me." Ye Weiliao said.

"You are troublesome." Feng Pingping said.

Ye Weiliao smiled at him, and turned to ask the little girl, "What's your name? Where are you from? How old are you? Are your parents at home? Why did you run out alone? If you can Say it and we'll send you back, okay?"

"My name is Yingshi, I'm 11 years old, my father, my mother..." Yingshi started crying again when she mentioned her parents, but she couldn't be coaxed.

"Stop crying! Get up and go!" Feng Pingping said fiercely.

"Wow-"

Yingshi cried even harder, Ye Weiliao kicked Feng Pingping's horse's ass, and drove him to lead the way, and he followed beside the sedan chair, coaxing Yingshi to talk softly, asking questions one after another. , her family is in a mountain village not far from Qiping. Her surname is Wang, and she is a hunter.One day after the mountain rain, she was picking mushrooms on the hillside, and when she ran far away, she met a fairy in the forest.The fairy took her to Qiping, and then the two bearers carried her all the way to such a place, unable to return home.

Yingshi sobbed again as she spoke, the sedan chair in front gave her a sideways glance and muttered something in a low voice.

"What did this brother say?" Ye Weiliao asked patiently.

"It's not that we want to run so far...we have to pay enough money when we reach the ground." The bearer said loudly.

"The woman handed the little girl to you and left? She didn't say where she was going? She has to wait for you on the ground to make up the money?" Ye Weiliao asked.

"Didn't she send you here? Why are you still asking us?" the bearer asked back.

"She... Fei Ge sent us a letter, and we don't know where she is." Ye Weiliao smiled.

"Then when can I go home?" Yingshi cried.

"Soon, we'll be home." Ye Weiliao said.

After turning over the hills, there are continuous rolling sand dunes. Feng Pingping led the way and walked along the top of the sand dunes, with a small sedan chair in the middle, and Ye Weiliao followed at the end.The journey was even more difficult than the mountain road, the wind and sand covered the eyes, the sun was scorching, Yingshi cried so hard that she had no strength for a long time, and Ye Weiliao followed her from time to time to poke her head in.

Feng Pingping walked in the front, looking back at them from time to time.

I always feel that it is not only three and a half miles, but also more than ten miles. When I reach a very high sand dune, even a horse cannot climb it.Feng Pingping came down to lead the horse, and came back to help Ye Weiliao lead the horse when he reached the top. The two porters used their hands and feet together, and finally carried the sedan chair up.After going up, the other side is a steep slope like a cliff, almost falling straight down.

At the bottom of the slope, not far away, you can see a pool of dark green water. There are a few green trees standing on a grassy field beside the water, and a shed made of dry branches.

"Is this where you rest?" Ye Weiliao asked.

"Well, let's go down." Feng Pingping said.

After finishing speaking, he pulled him straight to the front, carefully hugged his injured arm and hid him in his arms. Before Ye Weiliao could say anything, he sat back down, then rolled over and wrapped him all the way forward. Roll down the dunes.

"The sixth day..." Ye Weiliao's voice was lost in the rolling down.

The two bearers looked at him and looked at each other for a while, so they abandoned the sedan chair, one of them carried the little girl in his arms, and rolled down from the sand dune one after another.

At the bottom of the sand dunes, Ye Weiliao was finally able to break free from Feng Pingping's arms, sat aside, and said angrily while spitting out the sand: "You... I have long legs myself! You just have to run with me!" , take me out, can you tell me first?"

"Your feet will sink in, you will fall, and your arms haven't grown well yet." Feng Pingping said simply.

"Isn't that a mountain pass!" Ye Weiliao pointed it out with one arm that was still intact, poked at the notch between the two sand dunes on the other side, and shouted, "Why don't you go there!"

"Far away." Feng Pingping said more simply.

Ye Weiliao didn't know if it was anger, but it was a smile, he endured a few moments and still laughed, and said, "I don't know who treats who as a child."