Journey to the Rose

Before dawn, the wind cleared and the snow stopped.

Ruan Xi is well-behaved now, she doesn't stay in bed anymore, she wakes up very early, to be precise, she wakes up from the cold.

Lu Zhenghe is indeed a source of heat, and it is very comfortable to hug and sleep, but if you hug him too tightly, you will sweat all over. When the sweat sneaks into the tent and the wind blows, Ruan Xi's whole body is cold and shivering.

Ruan Xi woke up at about six o'clock in the morning.

He stepped out of the tent to wash up in a separate place.

The sky darkens into a faded, uneven gray cloth, and the snow is the accumulation of millions of white spots.

In the case of insufficient light, Ruan Xi's half-covered face is provocative, with a straight and beautiful nose bridge, and when she pulls off the mask to rinse her mouth, there is a shallow dimple at the corner of one lip.

Occasionally, some warriors would peek at him with curiosity in their eyes, but he didn't care anymore.

He is used to it, don't accept that kind of stare.

In the eyes, the snow has piled up to form a white patch of arches and hollows. When you step on it, it is a deeper crater than last night.

The one who was in charge of temporarily taking over the internal affairs for Boyang was an unfamiliar soldier, with a blushing face, and came to wash Ruan Xi with two buckets of water.Ruan Xi splashed water on his face, almost paralyzed from the cold.

Seeing him shivering with cold, the soldier hurriedly said that the current conditions of the Union Army are not very good, and they can only make do with snow and water.

Ruan Xi hasn't lifted it yet.

He said it's okay, it can be used.

Sniffing, he let the ice water flow from his forehead down his eyelashes, and then drip from the tip of his nose back into the ice bucket, feeling refreshed after washing his face.

Ruan Xi has never done rough work, her fingers are round and white like milk jade, the skin on her hands is sensitive, and the only calluses are from practicing knives, and she often uses knives along the way, which makes her skin rough. But he doesn't care about that either.

After washing her face, Ruan Xi's hands and face were flushed with cold.

For the first time, he experienced what is called the cold in the north. It was not cold in the true sense, but his whole body would be so cold that his skin ached, and it felt as if 1000 million needles had been pierced through his fingers.

Back in the tent, instead of telling Lu Zhenghe to get up, he put his hands on the inside of his legs to warm him up for a while, he was really afraid that Young Master Lu would find a way to get him a whole bucket of hot water when his mind got hot.

When his hands were no longer stiff, he stretched out his hands and rubbed each other, and finally squeezed Lu Zhenghe's face.

But Lu Zhenghe still woke up from the cold.

He reached out and grabbed Ruan Xi's hand and stuffed it into his neck, before opening his eyes, "Come on for a while..."

"Get up!"

Ruan Xinuan was unwilling to withdraw his hand, so he simply grabbed him, "Soldiers are all up, don't set a bad example."

"I'm a bad example." Lu Zhenghe buried his face in the nest again, was lazy for a while, and then exposed his face, with a look of "what can I do".

"Lu Zhenghe, don't be so lazy!"

"No matter how lazy I am, they will listen to me."

"...you force your words."

"I'm tall. High. Weight. Heavy."

"Forget it if you don't get up, it's not me who is talking about it."

Ruan Xi was angry and laughed, and was about to say why the Alliance Army.Team spoiled such a handsome and lazy young master, but suddenly Lu Zhenghe reached out and grabbed him by the corner of his clothes.

Oh wait.

I seem to have forgotten something?

Ruan Xi completely forgot about asking for the prophecy because of being coaxed for a few days.

When Lu Zhenghe came back after washing, the sky was still not completely bright.

Ruan Xi folded his collar to meet him, and mysteriously closed the curtain of the tent.

After drawing the curtain, he turned around and was about to speak when he saw Lu Zhenghe lifted his chin and pulled down the collar that had been pulled to the top, then leaned on the bed with his hands facing back, and whistled at him.

"I warn you, don't play hooligans."

Ruan Xi really doesn't understand that once this person returned to the north, he used his lower body to think every day like he was beating chicken blood, and he would shoot at anytime and anywhere, his mind was full of nothing but stripping naked, "Lu Zhenghe, I have something to ask for you."

"Question or suspicion?"

"quality!"

Hearing that his baby was so serious, Lu Zhenghe felt a little uncomfortable, so he stopped his movements: "What's the matter?"

Ruan Xi stepped forward, step by step, until he reached the surface of Lu Zhenghe. He stretched out his hand and pinched Lu Zhenghe's chin, as if trying to force him to open his mouth. He narrowed his eyes and said, "You haven't told me yet, seriously What is the prophecy in the deep mouth."

Lu Zhenghe's reaction was also quick: "I won't say anything."

Ruan Xi was impatient and glared at him: "Say it quickly."

"Do not."

Lu Zhenghe shook, let him pinch his chin, and said with a smile: "Who is playing hooligans, Ruan Xi?"

After getting along for such a long period of time, Ruan Xi found that Lu Zhenghe was not a soft-hearted person.

"I want to hear it," Ruan Xi chose to soften up, and with strength in his hands, he half pushed and half leaned into his arms, "I also want to help you solve it."

"You can't solve it," Lu Zhenghe lowered slightly, his lips just touched Ruan Xi's cheek, rubbing it greedily, and he continued: "Because it's about your prophecy."

Ruan Xi pointed to herself in disbelief: "What prophecy do I have?"

Seeing that he was serious, Lu Zhenghe took over the folded military jacket.

The clothes have been washed by the soldiers, and the fragments of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" that they went to get are also put in their pockets.Lu Zhenghe thought about it and felt that Ruan Xishi also had the right to know.

Seeing his hesitation, Ruan Xi quickly jumped up, but she still pretended to be calm on the surface: "Don't make me worry."

Lu Zhenghe didn't say a word, he put his hand into his military coat, and took out a very small piece of broken pottery wrapped in silk from the inside.

He was silent for a few seconds, as if he was afraid of being reprimanded, he said: "My 'task' that time was actually to get this. The prophet said that you would be in danger, and I will find a way to resolve it."

Ruan Xi opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word: "Dangerous?"

"Yes," Lu Zhenghe pointed, "Your danger is a risk I won't take."

It was dawn, and the snow seemed to start falling outside the tent again, and the world became a misty mist.

But Ruan Xi didn't have the heart to look at the snow anymore, all his attention was now on the piece of pottery in Lu Zhenghe's palm.

He really didn't expect that for such a thing, Lu Zhenghe led two members of his army to risk their own lives, almost never came back, and almost lost their lives in the south.

"you really……"

Ruan Xi felt sorry for him, and couldn't say anything to blame, and said low, picking up this piece of pottery with her fingers.

This is obviously a product that has experienced a lot of wind and frost. The handwriting on the surface can only be seen clearly if you look carefully, as if someone carved it with a sharp tool and re-trace it with oil paint.

The oil paint used for writing is a bright underglaze red, which attracts attention at once.

There are two pieces of information on this piece of pottery——

First, it's an astrological symbol, and the more Ruan Xi looks at it, the more familiar it becomes.

It is a circle with an arrow growing like a shield and a spear.

Ruan Xi remembered that this meant representing men, and twisted: "Male?"

"No." Lu Zhenghe laughed, "This is Mars, the God of War, a mysterious red celestial body. This symbol represents the meaning of Mars."

Mars is power and desire.

On the other hand, it represents the "walking man" -

So Lu Zhenghe chose this one among several pots of pottery.

Fate made him meet Ruan Xi again, so he believed in fate so much.

Ruan Xi didn't bother about what the meaning of Mars represented, and focused on the words next to it, and wrote a row of things he couldn't understand in some ancient characters crookedly.

He had no choice but to look to Lu Zhenghe for help.

Lu Zhenghe said: "I got Wen Kai to recognize it. These are the words of curse city."

Hearing what he said, Ruan Xi frowned: "But I remember that there are no words in curse city."

"Yes, it is precisely because the secrets of the heavens cannot be revealed that the lack of written culture has led to some smart curse city people choosing to record their prophecies in the languages ​​of their various city-states."

"Then what does this mean?" Ruan Xi lowered her fingertips, rubbing the already stained oil paint, pinching crimson with her fingertips.

"Seeing Quanxing can resolve it." Lu Zhenghe said.

"What do you mean seeing Quan Xing?"

"Astronomical symbols."

Speaking of this, Lu Zhenghe felt an urge to ask for a hug.

Indeed, he did the same, even though Young Master Lu thought it was not a shame to hold his wife in his army's tent.

"Why do you need to hug when talking about business..." Ruan Xi hugged his waist, but couldn't push it, and looked out through the gap in the curtain in shock, afraid that someone would come in and report the matter.

Lu Zhenghe has a very thick skin: "Hugging is also a matter of business."

"...There is a way."

Ruan Xi nodded and said, "That means..."

He said, thinking of the Neptune symbol seen in the city of curse, plus this city, and the pottery tablet with the Mars symbol left in the south, Ruan Xi couldn't help thinking, "see the whole star", is it he? Need to see all the symbols?

"That's exactly what I mean."

Seeming to see through his thoughts, Lu Zhenghe continued: "My hometown is also Zenith City. There is a statue at the foot of the snow mountain, which enshrines the letter of the god. According to legend, he will complete various tasks assigned to him by the snow mountain god, representing Loyalty. The Mercury symbol is associated with him, his winged helmet and his scepter."

After understanding what he meant, Ruan Xi clicked: "It means... can this prophecy continue until you and I return to the top of the snow mountain?"

"I think so. Now the question is, there are only four cities left from the last city. How do we find other symbols." Lu Zhenghe said.

"Young master." A soldier called him.

Lu Zhenghe stood up, "What's wrong?"

The soldier said: "It's getting colder and colder. Captain Li Shen asked me to bring out the snow camouflage, and I also brought you a set."

At this point, Lu Zhenghe motioned him to put the set of snow camouflage on the stool at the mouth, thought for a while, and said, "Bring another set."

The warrior knew that Ruan Xi was inside, so he didn't dare to come in, but he was stunned when he heard Lu Zhenghe's request, "Ah? Do you want more?"

"Size M." Lu Zhenghe's eyes wandered to Ruan Xi's waist, his Adam's apple moved, "Add a size S weapon and bring it here."

When the soldier ran away, Ruan Xi saw that he was changing clothes, and asked him: "Let me wear your clothes...is it to confuse the target?"

In fact, he should have been allowed to wear it long ago, so that he would not be easily spotted among a group of soldiers.

Although he has arrived in the relatively safe north, after all, Lu Zhenghe still has his brother as his deadly opponent, and no one knows what emergencies will happen.

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhenghe shook his head and smiled, "It is to subdue the temptation."

Ruan Xi's forehead was throbbing with veins: "..."

Uranus·97 Lu's young master's uniform temptation.