The worst is the next cousin

In the evening, a group of people walked slowly on the ice. They were dressed in silk and satin worn by rich merchants, and more than a hundred people only brought two carriages.One of the cars was not loaded with goods.

"Hey, get up and drink your medicine." The woman's voice was extremely impatient.

"I didn't expect the major general to be good at this." The rough bearded man frowned at the calm middle-aged man beside him.

"Shut your mouth and let the major general hear, I won't intercede for you."

"What are you afraid of? I taught him how to ride and shoot." The big man didn't think so.

"His nanny's son, you stole a bow from him, and you forgot what to do with it?" The middle-aged man said in a deep voice, "He is no longer a child, you better restrain yourself."

The big man snorted coldly, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "What's the air, let his father know that this trip is for the sake of public benefit, hum. He's just an adopted son."

The middle-aged man gave him a hard look.

"Okay, okay, I got it." The big man dragged his tone lazily, turned his horse's head, and followed the team to check if anyone was left behind.

In the car, Aling called Mu Canshang once, and saw that his face was still so bad. He had been half-dead since leaving the pass, and it was much colder outside the pass than inside the pass, even if he was wrapped in the thickest blanket , Wrapped into a bulky cocoon, Mu Canshang still has a face like gold paper, looking like he will die at any time.

She didn't understand why this man was so desperate.She had seen him desperately trying to protect that handsome and slightly clever man, and she had also seen that man squatting sleeplessly all night for him.She didn't understand that if you are injured, you should take good care of it and not become a burden to others. Such a simple truth, why does this noble man not understand?

Ah Ling originally wanted to kick him, but she held back, fearing that she would kick him to death.

"Get up and drink the medicine. If you want to die, don't die in front of me. It's bad luck!" A Ling was very upset, and naturally she didn't have a good face.

Mu Canshang opened his eyes. His complexion was very bad, but his eyes were still as sharp as an eagle. He struggled to get up and leaned on the car.Every time the carriage bumped, the wounds on his body were torn. He didn't wait in the town for a few days before his family arrived, so he set off immediately.Under the freezing weather, the wound will not rot, but it will heal very slowly.

After feeding him the medicine, Ah Ling poked his head, frowning uncomfortably: "I'm still running a fever, I'll call the doctor."

Mu Shenshang was noncommittal.

He was accompanied by two doctors from the Mu family, whose medical skills were even higher than that of Qingxi's imperial physician, and they were sent by the old man of the Mu family.

Mu Canshang rested on the car floor for a while, moved his feet to the ground, and the blanket slipped to the ground, but he didn't notice it.Mu Canshang's slender fingers pushed aside the curtains, and a bone-piercing cold wind rushed towards his face.The vast snow covered the entire land, even in the twilight, it is difficult to hide the white light of the snow.

Mao Xiaofei.

Mu Canshang told himself over and over again that he just wanted to know the secret that Ye Jintian was hiding. From Ye Jintian's few words, he could tell that Jielin was an ambitious country.This is a state matter, not a private matter.But every time he was in so much pain that he couldn't lie down, his mind was filled with Mao Xiaofei's smiling face, as if life and death could be resolved with a meal.Mao Xiaofei was different from all the people who were involved in important affairs that Mu Canshang was familiar with. What he was thinking was clearly written on his face.

The sudden dull pain in his chest made Mu Canshang take a deep breath, his cough brought up blood, he opened the curtains, spit blood, at that moment, his face looked a little hideous.

Footsteps came.

Mu Canshang put down the curtains and let himself lean on the cushion.

Ah Ling brought the doctor in, Mu Canshang nodded to the doctor, and the doctor began to check his injuries.After the bandage was untied, a less strong fishy smell radiated out, and cold sweat dripped down Mu Canshang's forehead.

"Major General, please be patient. I will cut off the carrion for you, miss A Ling." The old doctor turned his face away, and A Ling immediately understood, opened the door curtain and shouted outside: "Stop the car and rest in place meeting."

"Did you hear that, the little girl told us to stop and rest again." The big man ordered the whole team to stop, and winked at the middle-aged man, "You said this girl is not our major general's woman?"

"You are a big man, why do you act like a gossip woman all day long, and forget how your wife manages the government?" The middle-aged man got off his horse and inspected the troops of the government soldiers, stopping from time to time to boost morale.

"Hey, if you don't talk about other people's right and wrong, that's for scolding those aunts, and I'm not, why can't I say it?"

The middle-aged man talked to him impatiently, and the bearded chattered for a while, but fell silent.

Ah Ling got out of the car, picked up two balls of snow and returned to the car. There was no anesthetic, so she had to freeze it to cool down.

Mu Canshang was still running a fever, and his muscles couldn't stop agitating. The moment the snow hit his skin, his strong back muscles were roaring, and his entire neck was drenched in sweat.

Ah Ling wiped his sweat beside him, not quite understanding what this man was insisting on.Mao Xiaofei's arrangement couldn't be better. The wounded should stay in a safe place to recuperate well. Now even if they are on the road, their footsteps are very slow, and they have to stop from time to time to scrape off the carrion like this. This is not the first time. If it happened, not to mention that I suffered, everyone would suffer as well. After all, they were not inside the city, but outside the pass.

"Okay, major general, your fever hasn't gone away. It's freezing and snowy. I'm afraid it won't be effective to just eat Bupleurum pills. We haven't been out of the city for a long time. I still say the same thing. I hope the major general can return to the city first and wait for the injured to recover. alright……"

Mu Canshang raised a hand, the doctor's words stopped abruptly, he shook his head helplessly, and had to get out of the car.

After a while, the carriage was on the road again.

A Ling sat next to Mu Canshang and helped him get up to take medicine and drink water. She had endured it for the past few days and couldn't bear it any longer.

"The icy and snowy weather, why do you have to come outside the pass? I haven't heard of anyone returning from outside the pass alive. North, what is there in the north? If it weren't for the sake of you setting up my grandma, and giving her With so much money, I won't come with you."

It's not difficult to buy a maid to serve her personally, but no one can talk about Mao Xiaofei with Mu Canshang, and no one knows him, only Ah Ling.

"Look what I'm doing? I have flowers on my face!" A Ling pursed her lips and said dissatisfiedly.

"I don't know what there is." Mu Canshang lay down again and closed his eyes exhausted.

A Ling almost thought that he would not say anything more.

"Do you miss him?" Mu Canshang asked in a hoarse voice.

Ah Ling was taken aback for a moment, and after a while, she put her cold hand on her slightly hot cheek, and said, "Who are you talking about, I don't know what you're talking about."

Mu Canshang coughed again, a smile appeared on his usually expressionless face.

Ah Ling opened her mouth wide: "You still laugh, what are you laughing at? How dare you laugh at me?" She clenched her fists, and finally held back, angrily said: "If it weren't for the injuries on your body, I wouldn't have you I was beaten until I cried my father and mother."

The smile gradually faded from the corner of Mu Canshang's slightly curved mouth, as short as the summer dew.

"What are you thinking?" Ah Ling blinked her round and big eyes, and pinched her chin thoughtfully, "You said before, you told him you wouldn't wait for him to come back, and now you're chasing after him , Tsk tsk, I really don't understand you men and men."

"I'm... not breaking my promise." He didn't wait for Mao Xiaofei to come back, but he could go find him.After saying this, Mu Canshang coughed violently, which made Ah Ling dare not say any more. After helping him to lie down, it took a lot of effort to light the time-soothing incense.The weather is getting colder and colder, and the exhaled breath is as cold as frost.

north.

What is there in the north?

Under the deep twilight, Ah Ling poked her head out of the car window and looked blankly at the distance where the sky and the earth meet. The field of vision here is unprecedentedly wide, and there is no shelter in sight, as if everything in the world has been uncovered and there is nowhere to hide .

Ah Ling's water-dangdang big eyes only had the same melancholy as the night.

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The wait is always getting longer and longer, and the longer it is, the more desperate it is.

It was completely dark, the sun was shining during the day, and it was not so cold in the mountains, but now everyone was wrapped in the blankets they brought with them, and no one entered the cave. Although the cave might be warmer, it was damp and dark inside , and it is not easy to turn on the lights, so several people chose to wait outside the cave.

Mao Xiaofei woke up, turned his face back and forth for a while, and then he was completely awake.

"Are you awake?" Xu Qi seemed to have been awake.

"Well, Brother Xu, are you up?" Mao Xiaofei wiped his face carelessly with his wet sleeve.

"Slept for a while, woke up before you."

"I'm awake too!" Jin Chen shouted from the side.

No one talked in the night, Mao Xiaofei scanned around, and almost everyone was awake, probably like Xu Qi, who woke up earlier than him.Mao Xiaofei stood up, straightened the blanket, draped it in his arms, and walked in front of Jin Su.

"Is there any more horse meat?"

Jin Su put down the mahogany stick that had just caused sparks to fly, and tore open a gray leather bag that could hold half a person. That bag was originally carried by Yu Qing.

Mao Xiaofei squatted down, picked through the flesh with his fingers, and picked out two horse legs, which were still intact.

"It's just waiting anyway. I'll roast some meat for everyone and wait while eating. I don't know when they will come back. When someone comes back, we will start our journey right away."

Jin Su hummed.

"That's what I mean too. This forest is very strange, maybe there are other things." When Jin Su said this, he stared at Tang Miao.

"Look at what I'm doing? I haven't met it before, how can I predict it? Don't forget, I am one with you now, and no one can leave the other. Besides, you have no one else to use except trust me now." Tang Miao said with a dark face, he moved his buttocks which were sitting very uncomfortable, and slightly pulled the cool cloth sticking to the buttocks away from his legs.

Mao Xiaofei didn't care about them, he set up a fire and started to barbecue, which he was familiar with, and soon the mouth-watering aroma of meat wafted away.

"How long will it take?" Jin Chen, who had been listless before, came around, rubbed his hands, couldn't stop smacking his mouth, stared at Mao Xiaofei with his bright eyes, and glanced back and forth between him and the circling meat on the shelf.

"It's still early." Just after the smell came out, Mao Xiaofei sprinkled salt on it and picked out a few spices from the Wuleng tribe. This time he didn't put all of them. When grilling fish, Mao Xiaofei found that not all spices are suitable for grilling meat eat.

"Follow big brother and have meat to eat!" Jin Chen smiled contentedly.

"I know how to cook a sea of ​​delicious food. It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. After Qingxi, I haven't cooked a decent meal." Mao Xiaofei sighed regretfully, thinking that his little chef Mao could cook eggs back then. After frying more than a dozen tricks, he never forgot the great cause of raising chickens, who knew he would end up here.

"Then I have to follow you when I go back."

There was fire and meat to eat, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively. Before the meal was served, Jin Chen got drunk, his face was flushed, his eyes were half-closed, he yelled the most and ate the least.

The bones were thrown into the fire and gradually turned into coke.Mao Xiaofei saved one leg, intending to feed the three who were going to pick up the goods on the way, so as not to starve them out. It is not known when they will be able to eat tomorrow.

Even if there is no more omission for timing, no more reminders, the biting cold lingering on the soles of the feet, and the eyelids that are getting harder to support, still remind them that it is already the middle of the night.

The faint chirping of insects became more and more deafening, and the fire was about to burn out. Everyone was staggering to and fro, relying on whomever they caught.

Mao Xiaofei slept for a long time before, but he was not sleepy anymore.

He was lying on Xu Qi's lap, only then did he discover a bright starry sky above his head, tens of thousands of brilliant stars twinkling in the velvet night sky.

"Go to sleep." Xu Qi whispered, touching Mao Xiaofei's face.

It would be hypocritical to leave suddenly at this moment, why should a man care about these details.Mao Xiaofei regarded Xu Qi as a big brother in his heart, and he found that he would not be so uncomfortable if he regarded Xu Qi's actions as brotherhood.

Mao Xiaofei hummed vaguely, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

I don't know how long it has passed, and there is a low growl faintly from the mountain.Mao Xiaofei opened his eyes suddenly, the others were still sleeping, only Ye Jintian lazily moved his hand resting on Shu Tong's body.

Immediately afterwards, there was an angry howl that shook the mountains and the sea.

Everyone is awake.

A ray of golden light mixed with people's angry shouts, swished through the leaves in the forest, shot off countless branches, and penetrated into the cave not far away like a mad snake rolling around the ground.

With a bang, the entire cave slowly collapsed like an old man.

Ye Jintian, who was closest to the cave, had already picked up the Shutong and jumped a few meters away.

"They're coming!" Jin Chen shouted.

Mao Xiaofei squinted his eyes, only to see a ball of golden light jumping out from the woods. On the back of the golden light sat a naked red-haired man, it was Xun Chi. But it has not turned into scorched black, but has been burned red.

His expression was not relaxed, and the several loops of vines wrapped around the monster's neck were torn off by the monster's sudden struggle.

Xun Chi's face was contorted almost out of shape, he let out an angry cry, and slashed at the one-eyed monster's head with his palm.