she won't live to twenty

Wuming and Nanyue looked at each other, both eyes were slightly bright.

But the old lady shook her head slowly, and continued: "Last night, the magician came to the village from Pingjiang to spend the night. This morning, he set up a stall in the village and helped the villagers to tell their fortunes. It is really accurate. But he finished the calculation. Fate, I left the village early in the morning and headed north. There are many roads in the north, two little girls, I am afraid you will not be able to catch up."

Wuming raised his head and glanced to the north of the village. The village is very small, and he could see the head at a glance.Sure enough, as the old woman said, there is almost no complete road to the north. Even if Wang Xian left traces when he set off in the morning, but now nearly four hours have passed, the footprints have been washed away by the heavy rain.

It is indeed impossible to catch up.

Wuming thanked the old woman, and was about to get on the horse and return, but the old woman suddenly remembered something, stood up and said: "Two little girls, listen to my advice, whether you can catch up or not, don't chase after us. The village is the northern border. Have you seen that big mountain? It’s the Jishan Mountains. It’s very messy. When you two beautiful girls pass by, it’s easy to meet Ren Yazi. Some girls in our village were abducted, it’s tragic Yo……"

The northern territory is far away from Changjing, and has always been much more chaotic than the south.

"Well, we won't chase anymore, thank you mother-in-law for reminding me." Wuming said softly.

Although he failed to catch up with the lame man this trip, Wuming was not discouraged. On the way back, he hugged Xiao Nanyue leisurely and hummed softly.

Nanyue leaned against her arms and listened quietly.

The sound of the rain, the music of the horses and the sound of the horse's hooves mixed together, but it made Nanyue feel extremely calm and peaceful, and her whole body was filled with warmth.

It rained heavily all day and all night.

After the rain cleared, Wuming and the others did not delay for a moment, and immediately transported twenty carts of grain into the mountain.The members of the Escort spent a whole day recuperating in the county town, and they were so energetic that they didn't even take much rest along the way, but within two days, the food was sent to Fengcheng.

The food on Nan Haomiao's merchant ship was just enough to last the day. In a few days, Nan Haomiao, who almost ate and lived with the victims, experienced the sufferings of the world. Seeing the carts of food behind Wuming, he was almost moved to tears Eyes full.

Tang Chiyu even waited at the gate of the city in person, ran forward excitedly, and gave Wuming and Nanyue a big bear hug, their snow-white teeth shining brightly in the sun.

Tang Chiyu had lost a lot of weight even though she had only seen her for a few days, and her eyes were even darker, which showed how exhausted she had been due to the disaster these days.However, it will take at least ten days to wait for the court officials to come back.Wuming took over most of the work for the time being, and asked Tang Chiyu to take a rest as soon as possible.

Tang Chiyu fell asleep when he returned to his room.

Wuming sat in the lobby of the inn, propped his chin with his hands, and stared at the front with a smile.

A figure in red floated over, sitting opposite Wuming.

Nanyue was beside Wuming, and she didn't show any surprise when she saw Si Lian who suddenly appeared.After traveling for three months, Si Lian followed them for three months, and the three of them had already made it clear.

"Miss Si, thank you for taking care of Xiaoqi in secret during the few days when Xiao Nanyue and I are away." Wuming chuckled lightly.

Prefect Liang colluded with the Fengcheng navy, and Fengcheng's officialdom was intricately intertwined, and dirty things abound.If it weren't for Si Lian being here, Wuming wouldn't have let Tang Chiyu stay alone.

In the past few days, Si Lian has secretly helped Tang Chiyu block many conspiracies and tricks.

"You don't need to thank me." Si Lian smiled softly, "Your Highness, she has grown a lot and doesn't need my care. I'm just helping her with some shady dirty things."

Wuming nodded with a smile and said nothing.

Si Lian got up and asked, "I want to go into the room to see her, is that okay?"

Wuming said indifferently: "The answer to the question depends on Xiao Qi, not me."

Si Lian lightly slid his fingers across the table, and finally curled up by his side, his expression dimmed a little: "I see, thank you, Miss Wuming, for pointing it out."

Wuming is right, Si Lian likes Tang Chiyu, so she should find a way to win Tang Chiyu's liking, find a way to impress Tang Chiyu, not other people around her.

Before Si Lian left, Wuming saw a conch shell hanging on her waist sharply, which looked familiar.

……

Half a month later, the flood finally receded, and the officials Tang Zhi sent from the capital finally arrived in Fengcheng.

In the past half a month when the three of them devoted themselves to dealing with the flood, not to mention Wuming and Tang Chiyu, even Nanyue was exhausted and lost a lot of weight. The baby fat raised in the capital completely disappeared, her appearance became more beautiful, and her temperament became more elegant. .If one year ago Nan Yue was at most a little girl, now she has grown into a young girl who can take charge of her own affairs.

So as soon as the new prefect arrived, Wuming couldn't wait to leave all the finishing work to him, and wanted to take Nanyue back to the inn to rest for the night.Anyway, the flood was over, and Wuming didn't bother to take care of the rest of the mess left by the Fengcheng navy and Liang Taishou.

Before walking out of the prefect's mansion, Wuming and Nanyue were stopped by the new prefect Gu.Wuming gave Tang Chiyu a look, and she temporarily left the house and waited outside for the two of them.

"His Highness Chang Ning, Miss Nan." Eunuch Gu saluted respectfully, "His Sixth Highness asked me to give you a message."

Hearing the words "Sixth Highness", Wuming raised her head slightly, a cold light flashed in her eyes, Nanyue also clenched her fingers vigilantly.

The atmosphere in the courtyard suddenly cooled down.

Eunuch Gu took a small step back instinctively, and said in embarrassment: "Your Highness said, it's really hard for you two to eat and sleep outside, so it's better to go back to the capital earlier... Both of your family members miss you a little. His Highness sent you to welcome you back to Beijing The convoy should be able to reach Fengcheng tomorrow."

"Thank you, Prefect Gu, for telling me." Wuming returned to his bright smile, as if the hostility just now didn't exist at all.

After leaving the prefect's mansion, Wuming's face darkened again.

Tang Zhi actually used his family to threaten them to return to Beijing.

It's a pity that the nameless family members are nothing more than the master and the second master. Although the master looks like a dude, he actually has a lot of influence in Beijing. In addition, his martial arts has already broken through to the first rank, so it is absolutely impossible for Tang to roast the fish.The second master... If Tang Zhi can touch the second master who has a mysterious background and a strange behavior, he is capable.

Wuming didn't worry about the safety of the two masters at all. As for the Nan family... Wuming recalled the cold atmosphere of the Nan family, and couldn't help but look weird.If she were Nan Yue, she would not care about the life and death of Nan's family at all.However, compared to her, Xiao Nanyue has a soft heart after all, so Wuming still consulted and asked: "Nanyue, do you miss home?"

Nanyue shook her head without hesitation: "...I don't want to."

Saying that, she hugged Wuming's arm tightly.

Nanyue once said that home is where there is no name.

When Wuming recalled it, he couldn't help feeling a little warm in his heart, and his complexion gradually softened.

"Then we won't go back for the time being?" Wuming asked softly.

Nanyue nodded vigorously: "Yeah!"

"What did Governor Gu tell you just now?" Tang Chiyu rubbed his eyes when they came out, and walked up to them.

Wuming: "He said that Tang Zhi sent people to take us back, and his people will arrive tomorrow."

Tang Chiyu didn't know Tang Zhi was a person before, but the night before the trip, she chatted with Tang Zhengze all night, and then she vaguely understood something.Now that the journey was more than three months old, Tang Chiyu was no longer as innocent as before, and immediately guessed that Tang Zhi's sudden call back to the two unknown people must have a certain purpose...

As for what the purpose was, Tang Chiyu couldn't guess, but it was not a good thing after all.

"Brother Six..." Tang Chiyu frowned, and changed the topic, "Then Wuming, are we going back? How long has it been... I still haven't had enough fun."

"Not going back to Beijing." Wuming chuckled and winked at her, "Tonight we will return to Nanhaomiao boat, follow them on the waterway, and go north to Mount Ji."

Tang Chiyu opened his mouth slightly, cupped his fists and bowed to Wuming: "Niuuu! Sixth brother is a guy who likes to stick to his horns, and hates others not doing things according to his arrangements. If he knows that we slipped away, he will definitely be furious."

Wuming raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Don't you dare to slip?"

"Dare, dare!" Tang Chiyu wanted to hook Wuming's shoulder, but she avoided her, and Nanyue Rourou took a look.So Tang Chiyu had no choice but to scratch his head, grinning and said: "Anyway, Sixth Brother won't do anything to me. When we return to Beijing in a year or two, his anger will have disappeared."

Tang Chiyu said again: "However, if we are really on the Jishan side, we will not be far away from Weibei. I...I want to go back and have a look. I will take a sneak peek so that no one else will find out, so that my father and sixth brother don't really know each other. Get angry and send troops directly to capture us back."

Qin Wang told Tang Chiyu not to return to Weibei, if she went back aboveboard, it would be against the decree.Although King Qin was still lying on the hospital bed and Tang Zhi was in charge of the overall situation, the three of them slipped away from Fengcheng and offended Tang Zhi severely once, and he would never speak for them on this matter.

Wuming chuckled lightly: "Not at all. If you go back to Weibei and take the general power in your hands again, they won't dare to act rashly."

Seeing no one around, Tang Chiyu muttered softly: "Then... isn't it the opposite?"

Wuming patted Tang Chiyu on the shoulder, blinked and said, "It's just a joke."

"Then let's secretly go back to Weibei to have a look. As for the further itinerary, let's talk about it at that time." Wuming thought.

The three of them agreed.

When I went back to the inn to sleep and woke up, it was completely dark.Wuming lazily pushed open the window of the inn, and saw the colorful lights flickering on the street, and the street was bustling with people coming and going.Many young men and women walked hand in hand, carrying a lantern, and drew colored lines on the street as they walked.

Nanyue also came over and looked down with her: "Today is Qixi Festival."

"Yeah..." Wuming rubbed Nanyue's head and sighed.

A few days ago, the people in the city were still worrying about the flood, and there were countless victims outside the city, and there was a dead silence inside and outside the city.Now that the flood is over, the city is full of vitality again, the popularity has risen, and the whole city has come alive.Since ancient times, human beings have been able to survive natural disasters again and again, and their lives are endless, relying on this warm vitality.

The candles in the room were extinguished at some point, and the colored lights from the street shone into the room, reflecting the silhouettes of two people on the wall.

Nan Yue took the initiative to raise her head and approached Wuming's lips.This time Wuming didn't move, and Nanyue imitated her previous movements, sticking out the tip of her tongue tentatively, tracing the outline lightly.She didn't cautiously poke in until the entire lips were covered with moisture, her movements extremely jerky.

Wuming closed his eyes and felt it carefully, the corners of his lips were itchy, the tip of his tongue was numb, but his heart was unbearably warm, his brain was a little dizzy for no reason, and for a moment he even forgot to turn against the customer.

It wasn't until Nanyue slowly backed away that Wuming opened his eyes in a trance and let out a long sigh of relief.

Nanyue looked up at her and blinked slightly.

Wuming raised his hand, gently caressed Nanyue's cheek with his thumb, and with another light movement, he untied the bun on Nanyue's head, and the long black hair like a waterfall immediately fell down.The hairpin was full of the soft fragrance from Nanyue's body. Wuming sniffed it lightly, then took off his own hairpin, exchanged the pair of hairpins, and tied Nanyue's hair again.

Wuming returned the hairpin to Nanyue's hand, turned around, she didn't say anything, but Nanyue also helped her tie her hair tacitly, and put her own hairpin on it.

"Let's go." Wuming took Nanyue's hand and said softly.

The two wore each other's hairpins, held hands, walked out of the inn slowly, and moved forward slowly along the crowd.There were people who bought colored lanterns on the side of the road, so Wuming bought a small red lantern and sent it to Nanyue.

When he walked to a bridge, Wuming saw lotus lanterns floating in the small river. Young men and women kept coming to the bridge to set up lanterns, and the whole stream turned light pink.So the two bought a lotus lantern, engraved each other's name on it, and pushed it into the river together.

They stood on the bridge and watched the little lotus lanterns drifting away.

Until the dead of night, there was no light on the street, and the surrounding was silent.Wuming carried Nanyue in his arms and quietly came to the city wall, jumped over, and hurried to the pier outside the city.

Tang Chiyu had been sitting on the boat eating meat and drinking with the boatmen, getting along well with each other. When she saw Wuming and Nanyue, she immediately threw a wine jar at them: "Come here!"

Wu List held the wine jar and sat down with Nan Yue.

The merchant ship set sail and headed for the Huaihe River under the night sky with stars shining.Once the flood was over, the entire Huaihe River was quiet, as soft as a long ribbon.

When Wuming was woken up by the wind in the early morning, he found drunk boatmen sleeping all over the place. Nanyue was sleeping in her arms, and she also opened her eyes in a daze.

"Are you awake?" Wuming said softly.

"Hmm..." Nanyue rubbed her eyes softly, "Good morning."

They sat here drinking and chatting with the boatmen last night, and somehow fell asleep. Now when they wake up, the sky is orange, and the time is just right.The two held hands, deftly walked around to the front of the deck, embraced each other, and watched the sun rise in the distance.

The water surface of this generation is vast and boundless, and after driving for a while, the land can finally be seen.

The land in the north is obviously much poorer than that in the south. For a long time, there is no farmland, and it is full of land with withered trees.Occasionally, you can see refugees gathering in twos and threes, like the refugee gathering place outside Daxing Mountain, looking numbly at the people on board.

"Now both sides of the river are considered good. The further north we go, the more chaotic it will be." Nan Haomiao appeared beside the boat at some point and explained from a distance from the two of them.

Nameless nodded silently.

A week later, the merchant ship finally arrived at the foot of Jishan Mountain. The three of them bid farewell to Nan Haomiao and his party, and boarded a carriage to continue northward along the foot of the mountain.

As Nan Haomiao said, compared with the prosperous and peaceful southern border, the north is completely different.The vegetation is withered, chaos is rampant, and wild animals are rampant.There were many robber groups, large and small, on the side of the road. In just two days, the three unknown people encountered four waves of attacks.

Wuming has a clear attitude towards the robbers who kill without blinking an eye, and there is only one word - kill.

Wuming was worried at first whether Nanyue would be afraid, and he did not forget to push Nanyue into the carriage when killing the robbers.As a result, Nanyue was not only not afraid at all, but took the initiative to take the scimitar and short sword of Wuming Killer, and carefully wiped the blood off the sword for her.

So after Wuming finished killing the robbers, he handed the sword to Nanyue and watched her gently wipe it with a handkerchief.

Sitting aside, Tang Chiyu shook off the blood on the sword sullenly, thinking to himself, isn't it just cutting someone, why is this sword so delicate?Wuming had hacked so many horse thieves in Weibei before, but she had never wiped her knife once.

Tang Chiyu exhaled sourly, and sat on the shaft to drive the carriage alone, leaving Wuming and Nanyue behind.

What the three of them didn't know was that in just two days, stories about their deeds had spread throughout the bandits around Jishan.

In a shabby tea shed, the robber with a big knife exaggeratedly said to the people around him: "You don't know, but I saw those three goddesses beheading people this morning. If I hadn't escaped quickly, I would have died." It's all gone."

"Old Wangtou, stop bragging, isn't it just three little girls? I'll take the three of them down today and tie them up for fun. Don't be envious. Tell me again, what do those three look like?" Sample?"

"If you want to die, you can go!" Anyway, whether it is the death of the three female devils or the death of other robbers, it has nothing to do with the old Wangtou. He took a sip of wine and recalled, "One is a bit black , one is Orchid, and the other is a little girl... Tsk, that dark-skinned devil is extremely powerful and terrifyingly arrogant. I saw her cut the big yellow ghost in half with my own eyes. It was scary. And That barbarian is terribly beautiful, but she strikes the hardest and fastest. I can't even see her drawing the knife clearly, but she is still smiling when she kills. It's a beautiful smile. It's not bad to die under her knife .The little girl in the end didn’t make a move, but she must be the scariest of the three.”

"Huh? Why?"

"Because the barbarian would hand the knife to the little girl every time he chopped off everyone. The knife was covered with blood, and the headless corpses lay crookedly on the ground. I felt disgusted when I saw that scene. The little girl The girl didn't respond at all, she wiped the knife and smiled at the barbarian..." At this point, old Wang had goosebumps on the back of his head, and then burst into cold sweat.

Another robber slammed the table and laughed loudly: "Hahahahaha, old Wang, you are getting more and more timid. You are afraid of even a little girl. You are not afraid."

Perhaps it was the old Wangtou's words that aroused the fighting spirit of some robbers. That night, the three unknown people were attacked by three waves of robbers.But for Wuming, there is no difference, just cut it off.

After this night, the robbers around Jishan were really scared out of their wits, and they didn't dare to approach them deliberately, even if they saw them from a distance, they only dared to walk around.

Three days later, when the evening was getting dark, the three of them finally arrived at a small village.

……

At the same time, Chang Jing.

Chunlei walked lightly into the imperial study room, and said in a low voice as much as possible: "Your Highness, His Highness Chang Ning and the others..."

When Tang Zhi heard the word "Chang Ning", he immediately put down the memorial in his hand, and interrupted Chun Lei with excited eyes, "She's back?"

"No..." Chunlei held back his fear, "The news came from Fengcheng that the three of Changning...they jumped over the city wall and left at night before the people you sent arrived. They should have taken the waterway, now I don't know where to go."

Tang Zhi's expectations were in vain, his brows furrowed suddenly, and the veins on the back of his fists were also bulging.

"No, know, where to go?" Tang Zhi gritted his teeth and said word by word.

He was trapped in the palace for three whole months. There was no news from Changning for such a long time. Finally, he found out that she was in Fengcheng. Tang Zhi didn't delay for a moment. He immediately sent someone to pick her up, but she didn't say anything. gone……?

Tang Zhi felt his ribs hurt from anger.

The sky is big and the earth is big, how can he find someone now that he is trapped in the palace?And how to find her?

"Yes... Your Highness, our intelligence network is already looking for someone. But to the north of Fengcheng is the Northern Territory, which is far away from Changjing and full of chaos. It is not easy to find His Highness Changning immediately..." Chunlei whispered .

What's more, even if he managed to find someone, by the time the news came back to the capital, it would have been more than ten days.When Tang Zhi sent people over again, they didn't know where they were going. Just thinking about this situation, Tang Zhi almost vomited blood from anger.

Tang Zhi suppressed his anger and waved his hand to signal Chunlei to leave. When they were far away, he finally couldn't control a roar from his throat.

"Hey..." At this moment, Tang Zhi's face was covered with bloodshot eyes, and his nostrils continuously let out a turbid exhalation sound, like a beast without reason.

There was the sound of his panting in the imperial study room, but there was no other sound.

After a while, a cup of herbal tea appeared in front of Tang Zhi, and a hoarse voice sounded: "Your Highness, have a cup of tea...or you will have a headache when you wake up tomorrow morning."

In the extremely ugly voice, there was a trace of extremely undetectable tenderness.

Hearing the voice of the dead man's autumnal equinox, Tang Zhi finally recovered a little and drank the herbal tea in one gulp.

"Autumn Equinox." Tang Zhi placed the teacup heavily on the table, "Next time you get news from the three of Changning, go there yourself. Even if you can't bring them back, you will always be by their side and give everything to them." Tell me everything."

Autumn Equinox was silent for a moment: "Your Highness, I can't leave..."

"I'll let you go!" Tang Zhi's eyes were filled with mad anger again, and he slammed his palm on the table with a "bang".

The equinox is still silent.

The imperial study room was quiet for a while before he spoke again: "Yes, Your Highness."

Tang Zhi leaned back, relaxed, and chuckled loudly: "Autumn Equinox, you are my eyes, so I can only entrust this matter to you. I can't trust anyone else, I only trust you, only you... only You are gone."

Qiufen stood in the darkness, listening to Tang Zhi's slightly crazy voice, his light brown eyes turned slightly, wondering what he was thinking.

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