Born of Worry

night.no moon.

The sparse stars hang high, and the breeze passes through the ears.

At the east gate of Daizhou City, several guards at the gate secretly chatted.

"Hey, tomorrow is the last group of people leaving the city, right?"

"No, no, you remembered wrongly, there will be another batch later."

"That's it... well, I really want to go to the guards to spend a few taels of money."

"Don't think about that beautiful thing, it's the job of the Lin family army. How can we gatekeepers catch up with that beautiful job?"

Both shook their heads and stopped talking.After a while, one of them suddenly picked up a long|gun and shouted: "Who is it?!"

"Several military masters are Xiaomin."

A donkey cart slowly stopped in front of the city gate, and the two guards used the torches to see the old man getting off the cart, retracted their guns, and said with a smile: "Who am I? It's so late today, you still have to go out of the city?"

The old man said: "Yeah...can you bother a few military masters and open a city gate for the little people?"

"This..." The guard wondered, "Grandpa, I'm afraid this is not good? Once the city gate is closed, you can't open it without an order from above. You two should go back. There is no moon today, and it is too dark. The road is dangerous, how about going another day?"

At this time, the donkey pulling the cart suddenly yelled a few times, as if trying to break free, and the guard said: "Master, you see that your donkey is not willing, you'd better go back quickly."

"Hey," the old man waved his hand, "Master, don't tell me, let this donkey delay you today. The donkey has a bad temper, so he won't leave no matter how much you drag him, otherwise Xiaomin would have rushed out of the city before the city gate closed." Already." He paused, slapped his forehead, "Master, look at Xiaomin's memory, Xiaomin has this, I wonder if you..."

The guard took the thing he handed over, it was a token with the word "Li" and the royal seal engraved on it, and he was shocked and said, "My lord, this is the token of the Holy Majesty, why do you have it?"

"Master Rong, it's like this, Xiaomin promised General Wei today during the day, and he will go out of the city to bring back ten altars of good wine in the evening, saying that he wants to drink and celebrate tomorrow... Xiaomin didn't quite understand. As a result, this ...This donkey was disobedient and delayed until the city gate was closed. Xiaomin had no choice but to go back to General Wei and say that he couldn't go today, but he didn't find General Wei, but he met the Holy One." He spread his hands, "Xiao Min was frightened at the time... Alas, but the Holy One is really a good man, not only did he not punish him, but he also gave the token to Xiaomin, saying that he would not embarrass the city guards, and he could go out of the city with this token." Sighing, "Where does Xiaomin dare to accept it? Using the token of the Holy One for such a small matter is really...but the Holy One must give it to Xiaomin, and Xiaomin thought, since the Holy One has taken care of it like this, then Xiaomin Even if you are on your way late at night, you still have to go and buy back those ten jars of wine! Military Lord, look..."

"So that's how it is," the guard smiled and handed the token back to him, "It's okay sir, your two elders have done so many things for our defenders, and it's too late for us to be grateful. Since we have the token of the Holy Majesty, we will also It’s hard to say anything. Come on, open the city gate! Let the two elders go out of the city!”

The old man hurriedly knelt down, "Thank you, Mr. Jun! Thank you so much, Mr. Jun!"

The guard helped him up, "Don't thank me, I have to thank you, the Holy One. Go out of the city quickly, it's too dark tonight, so be careful on the road."

The old man thanked him a few more times, and drove the donkey cart out of the city.

Another guard asked the previous one: "Hey, what are we going to celebrate tomorrow? Can we go and have some drinks?"

"What are you thinking about! You said just now that I thought well, and I think you think well too! Tomorrow, the people who escorted the people back to the city will be able to drink wine and wash away the dust. You didn't do any shit, and you still want to Drinking some wine, I think you should wash up and sleep!"

"Hey! What a difference in treatment, not only earning money, but also drinking, tsk tsk..."

barracks.

"Xiao Xian, Xiao Xian?"

Li Ye called a few times outside the tent, but no one answered, he scratched his head and said to himself, "It's strange, are you asleep, I never saw him go to bed so early..."

He asked the guard at the tent entrance: "Where's Your Majesty? Did you fall asleep?"

"Returning to Your Highness, I don't know what to do. Your Majesty paid back the bill at the beginning of Haishi. There has been no movement. Maybe he is busy."

"Busy, busy every day! I don't know what messy things I'm writing every day."

He was a little annoyed, so he pushed the guard aside, stretched out his hand to open the curtain a crack, and looked inside, but it was pitch black, and the candles hadn't been lit, so he was even more annoyed: "The lights aren't on, why don't you get busy?" Fart! Do you write in the dark?!"

Without waiting for the guard to say anything, he went into the tent and lit the candle, but the bed was empty and there was no sign of Li Xian.

"Weird..."

He suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart, and said in his heart: Xiao Xian is not in the tent, so he should have gone out, why did the guard say he didn't see him go out...

Sweeping his eyes around, he suddenly fixed on a certain place, and saw a tea cup overturned on Li Xian's most frequently used desk, and the tea in it spilled a large amount of water on the desk, and the tea flowed smoothly. The edge of the book case fell to the ground, and the ground was also wet.

He was stunned for a moment, and he was horrified: "Oops!"

Half an hour ago.

Li Xian yawned.

I'm a little tired...

It seems that since he left the palace, he no longer has the habit of taking a nap, no more naps... His schedule seems to be getting more and more chaotic.

If Mo Wen was here, he must be scolded again for not caring about his body.

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on his lips involuntarily, and at this moment, a voice came from outside the tent: "Your Majesty."

"come in."

The servant came in with a tray and gently put the tea on the desk, "Your Majesty, your tea."

"Thanks for the hard work, you go."

"Yes."

The fragrance of the tea is lingering, although it is not the Dragon Well tea that I am used to drinking before, it is not hard to swallow. After all, in this military camp, everything must be kept simple, and it is enough to have this tea.

He doesn't pick.

The teacup moved to his lips, but for some reason, he stopped, his brows furrowed slightly, his fingers lightly dropped, and the tea returned to the table.

He touched the Heilong paperweight with his left hand, picked it up, and put it down again.

As if he suddenly remembered something, he took out a token-shaped thing from his pocket, stroked it, and put it in the small drawer under the desk.

Pick up the teacup again.

The fragrance of tea is overflowing and refreshing.

He seemed to feel a little tired, and pinched the center of his brows.

dizzy...

Sleepiness swept over.

He fell asleep lying on the table, accidentally knocked over the teacup, and the tea in the cup poured out.

"Lin Ruxuan, Lin Ruxuan!"

Li Ye panicked, and his instinct was to go to Lin Ruxuan, who glanced at him, "What are you fussing about? Everyone is about to rest, stop shouting."

"Something happened! Something happened! Xiao Xian is gone!"

"what?"

Without waiting for him to ask any more questions, Li Ye shouted: "Follow me!" and dragged him to Li Xian's tent.

Lin Ruxuan saw the overturned teacup at a glance, stepped forward, dipped his fingertips in the tea, sniffed it with his nose, frowned and said, "It's a drug. Sure enough, something happened."

Li Ye's face was ashen-colored, and his usually seductive eyes were filled with panic and helplessness, "Then what should we do now? What should we do?!"

"Don't panic."

Lin Ruxuan calmed down for a moment, and thought about it: Since the guards didn't see His Majesty leaving the tent, and didn't notice anything unusual, then...

He turned around, and after a while, in a dark corner where the light could not be found, he found that the curtain was separated by a big opening. He got out through the opening, and immediately two knives were on his neck. :"who?!"

The two guards saw him clearly, and immediately withdrew their swords in shock: "General."

"Hmph." Lin Ruxuan sneered, "You can find out when I come out, but you can't find out that His Majesty was kidnapped?! Come on! Arrest all the guards within a radius of ten feet of this camp!"

"Yes!"

Li Ye followed him out, "Lin Ruxuan! What should we do now? Xiao Xian..."

"General Yang!"

"exist!"

"Immediately take a hundred brothers and go to each city gate to check! See if anyone has left the city tonight! And immediately blockade the whole city, and we must not let the thieves escape!"

"Yes!"

He issued a few more orders, but suddenly his mind moved, and he said to himself: "That's not right... Li Ye, follow me!"

The two returned to Li Xian's camp, and Li Ye said, "Shall we, shall we go out of the city to look for them? Going now, maybe there's still time... Maybe they haven't left the city yet..."

"No," Lin Ruxuan interrupted him, "Li Ye, this matter is by no means that simple. Think about it, Your Majesty... how could he be taken away? Even if he doesn't have martial arts himself, there are so many people around him. How could it be possible for such a master to enter and leave the enemy's formation without harming him, and watch him being captured by the thieves?!"

"This……"

Li Ye also seemed to understand something suddenly, thinking of the man named Qin Gong with a scar on his face, he shook his head, "You are right, I have seen those people's skills, they come and go without a trace, they will never Maybe... Could it be that it's a prisoner stealing?"

"Not at all. If there were undercover agents among them, then Dayin would have died long ago."

"Then, what's going on?!"

Lin Ruxuan pondered for a while, and said, "Li Ye, take a closer look, is the decoration here different from usual?"

"A display? What do you care about the display now?!" Li Ye's eyes were red with anxiety, "Now that Xiao Xian's life or death is uncertain, what are you still in the mood to look at?! He's not your brother, don't you feel bad?!"

"Don't worry, they worked hard to rob His Majesty, and they will never hurt his life. No matter where he is now, at least his life is safe."

"……But!"

The other party waved his hand at him, and began to look at the environment here seriously.

At this time, Li Ye seemed to have discovered something suddenly, and shouted: "The bow! That bow is gone!"

Lin Ruxuan nodded, but his eyes fell on the desk.On the desk, there is a paperweight.

He walked over slowly, looked at the black dragon paperweight, and thought: Generally speaking, if it is a dragon-shaped paperweight, people's habit of placing the paperweight should be head left, tail right, and Dayin respects the left, and the dragon's head should face the left. , but now... the dragon's head is facing to the right.

And looking towards the direction of the dragon head, it was the place where the bow and sword were placed. Now the bow is gone, and there is only one sword left.

He picked up the sword and found that the blade was not completely inserted into the scabbard, but there was a slight gap left. He was more sure of his speculation and took the sword out of the scabbard. Slightly revealed something.

Taking that thing out, there are several sheets of tissue paper stacked together, and the paper is full of densely packed small script.

Li Ye came over to look and recognized it immediately: "It's Xiao Xian's handwriting!"

Lin Ruxuan unfolded those pages of tissue paper, scanned them roughly, and handed one of them to him: "This one is for you."

"Give it to me?"

Li Ye took it, and after looking at it halfway, his face was pale, his eyes were empty, he took two steps back, and fell to the ground.