Stranger and Chen in the Palace

After hearing this, the old man laughed loudly: "This fate is determined by God, old man, I can't be sure. But, if two people really love each other and draw a circle on each other's palm, they will meet again in the next life and continue to live together again." Love."

"Really?" Ling Yichen asked in surprise.

The old man looked at him meaningfully: "Young master, if you believe in this kind of thing, it will happen, if you don't believe it, you won't. It's a pity, old man, that I have never met such a person in my life!"

Ling Yichen looked at Xue Zimo, took out a piece of silver from his pocket and put it on the old man's stall, turned around and wanted to leave.

The old man smiled, threw the money back to Ling Yichen, and said, "I have a predestined relationship with the two young masters, so I won't accept the money, but the old man has a word of advice, the two young masters may be in trouble recently, please don't worry about it." careful."

A strange look flashed in Ling Yichen's eyes, and after taking back the money to thank the old man, he took Xue Zimo away.

When the two of them walked more than ten steps away, they suddenly heard the old man behind him shouting loudly: "My lord, you should cherish the predestined ones!"

Ling Yichen and Xue Zimo turned their heads at the same time, but the old man had disappeared.

"This old man is quite strange." Xue Zimo smiled.

Ling Yichen didn't speak, took his hand, carefully drew a circle on his palm, then spread his hand in front of Xue Zimo, and said softly: "It's your turn—"

Xue Zimo was speechless: "You also believe this?"

Ling Yichen said seriously: "Believe it, the old man said it, and believe it. Mo, I want to be with you, in this life, in the next life, in the next life, forever..."

Xue Zimo looked at the persistent hand in front of him, lowered his head and smiled, turned around and left...

Ling Yichen sighed helplessly, and quickly followed Xue Zimo, and the two continued to wander aimlessly.Suddenly, Ling Yichen stopped in front of a small stall selling masks, his eyes lingering among the various masks.

Xue Zimo wondered: "Could it be that you also want to buy one to play with?"

"Well, I plan to choose one, but it's for Yize. I promised to bring him a gift when I go back." Ling Yichen said.

Xue Zimo smiled: "So that's the case, but you, brother, are you too perfunctory? This is a child's play."

Ling Yichen reached out to take one off, paid the stall owner, then put the mask on his face, tilted his head and smiled at Xue Zimo, "He's just a child!"

Xue Zimo was slightly stunned, never thought that he would be as calm as him, but also have such a cute side, he couldn't help laughing: "I think you are just a child!"

Hearing this, Ling Yichen took off the mask, and whispered in Xue Zimo's ear, "Can children also kiss?"

Xue Zimo suddenly remembered that he kissed himself on the night of his birthday, and a blush slowly appeared on his face.

Ling Yichen's heart throbbed again.

In the middle of the night, in the station.

The sheriff of Dianxi County rushed to report that the spring flood had broken out.

Ling Yichen, who had just fallen asleep, sat up and immediately rushed to the bank of the Fen River. It was raining cats and dogs outside. When Ling Yichen arrived at the bank of the Fen River, Xiao Ye was already directing people to rescue him. Fortunately, he had made preparations in advance. It won't be in a hurry for a while.

Although there were many torches for lighting, they flickered under the influence of the heavy rain. Ling Yichen could barely see the guards and craftsmen who were rushing to the bottom of the river embankment.

The sheriff of Dianxi County was careful to hold an umbrella for Ling Yichen. He couldn't help here anyway, so he might as well take the opportunity to flatter him.Ling Yichen didn't notice this at all, he was fully focused on the rescue work, seeing that the water flow was getting more and more urgent, and the rescue work became more and more difficult, Ling Yichen was secretly worried.

Suddenly, someone patted him on the shoulder, Ling Yichen turned his head impatiently, but rushed to Xue Zimo, even though he was holding an umbrella, his clothes were still more than half wet, Ling Yichen held him and said distressedly: "Why did you come here?" gone?"

Xue Zimo's eyes were full of worry, and he asked back: "Why didn't you call me for such a big matter?"

"I want you to sleep a little longer, and you will be one more person in a hurry when you come." Ling Yichen had no choice but to say truthfully.

Xue Zimo stopped talking, and focused all his attention on the people who were rescued in the river, and the rain was getting heavier.Xiao Ye came to Ling Yichen's side and said anxiously: "Your Highness, the situation is not good. If this continues, I'm afraid—"

In fact, needless to say, Ling Yichen also discovered that although the guards kept piling up sandbags, the water level of the river was still getting higher and higher.Before the dam was not repaired, in order to prevent the spring flood, they placed dozens of boulders behind the foundation of the dam, leaving only a man-wide gap between each boulder for the river to pass through. Now these gaps have been filled with sandbags. Sandbags are also constantly piled up on the boulders.

Ling Yichen didn't speak, but his face became more and more ugly. When he came here just now, his eyes couldn't adapt to the darkness for a while and he didn't look carefully. Now he could clearly see even the slight shaking of the boulder under the impact of the huge water flow.

Fortunately, a few large canals were dug on both sides of the river embankment to disperse a lot of pressure, otherwise I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand it now.But even so, the situation is not optimistic.Xue Zimo was also very anxious, seeing that the torrential rain was getting more and more crazy, and the torches were gradually unable to maintain.

Ling Yichen said in a deep voice: "Extinguish the torches, leave the guards pulling the net behind, and the rest of them will all go into the water and hold against the boulder."

Xiao Ye took the order, leaving five hundred guards behind, and the rest of the guards all filed in to join in the rescue work.After these people entered the water, the boulder obviously stabilized.When the nearby people heard about the spring flood, they also rushed to help.

But the situation improved within a short while. Due to the continuation of the heavy rain, the water level in the upper reaches of the Fen River was getting higher and higher, and the people behind the boulders were also struggling more and more. The river water had already submerged to their chests.The spring flood this time is more ferocious than ever before, it is really a house leak and it rains all night.

Suddenly, a huge boulder fell down without warning, the sandbags on it and on both sides began to fall, and a huge water overflowed instantly.Once this boulder falls, the other boulders will inevitably collapse under the pressure, and the consequences will be disastrous.

Ling Yichen didn't hesitate, and immediately flew down to resist the boulder, and forty hidden guards also went into the water at the same time.In the nick of time, the boulder was prevented from continuing to collapse, but countless sandbags also fell on Ling Yichen and the hidden guards, and the huge water flow instantly submerged their figures.

"Your Highness—" Xue Zimo shouted anxiously, and couldn't help rushing forward.

The magistrate of Dianxi County was so frightened that he grabbed him: "Young Master Xue, you can't go down, it's dangerous—" How nervous is the third highness? Otherwise, Ling Yichen would have to skin him.

Xue Zimo also knew that going down would be useless, but...

He stared anxiously at Ling Yichen's direction, but fortunately, it only took a moment for the river to submerge his figure, and the boulder quickly returned to its place, Xue Zimo clearly saw that Ling Yichen and Lian Fenglianhuang were desperately resisting the boulder.

Seeing Ling Yichen go into the water, Xiao Ye hurriedly shouted: "Pull the net, quickly pull the net—"

This was their last line of protection against the spring floods. The guards on both sides of the strait immediately put down the huge net after receiving the order. This huge net was made of extremely resilient cowhide rope, and there were many thick iron bars tied on it.

Once the giant net was pulled away, the boulders and sandbags were wrapped in it, and the force on the bank was stronger than that in the water, so when the giant net was pulled away, everyone in the river felt much more relaxed.

Soon, the rain gradually became lighter, until the early morning, the rain stopped completely.

The water level slowly decreased under the drainage of the canal, and it took another hour for the water level to drop to a safe level, and everyone went ashore one after another.

After fighting in the water for most of the night, Ling Yichen felt extremely tired, and there were waves of piercing pains in his shoulders and back. He didn't feel it when he was focused on rescue in the water just now, and he probably injured it when the sandbag fell.

Seeing Ling Yichen coming up, Xue Zimo quickly grabbed him and checked him up and down.Ling Yichen held his hand and said with a smile, "I'm fine, don't worry."

Xue Zimo stared at him for a while, making sure that he was really all right, and then he was relieved.Seeing that he was so nervous about himself, Ling Yichen said happily, "I feel so blessed to have you worrying about me."

Xue Zimo knew that he must be very tired, so he stopped talking to him, and urged him to go back to the station to rest.

Back at the station, Ling Yichen told the guards: "Go and make a bowl of ginger soup for Mr. Xue."

Xue Zimo hurriedly added: "Stay longer, as well as you and Lianfeng Lianhuang, they all stayed in the water for most of the night, and they must get rid of the cold in their bodies."

With a smile hidden in the corner of Ling Yichen's eyes, he nodded to the guard, and then asked someone to bring hot water to Xue Zimo before returning to his room to take a bath.

Lying in the bathtub, Ling Yichen closed his eyes, a huge exhaustion immediately brought him into the darkness, and made him fall into a deep sleep, he didn't even hear the knock on the door...

Seeing that no one answered the door, Xue Zimo was worried that something would happen to Ling Yichen, so he opened the door and came in, only to see Ling Yichen fell asleep in the bathtub.

Looking at Ling Yichen who was shirtless, Xue Zimo was a little embarrassed, and was about to back out, but seeing that the water in the tub was no longer steaming, he was worried that he would catch cold in the water, so he went over to wake him up.

As soon as he approached, he found that Ling Yichen's shoulders were covered with bruises, and he was indeed injured!

Although he was very tired, his long-term martial arts practice kept his body highly alert. When he felt someone approaching him, Ling Yichen suddenly opened his eyes, but it was Xue Zimo who was walking towards him.