Returning to you in the depths of the white clouds

From dawn to dusk, the two walked for a whole day, and finally saw Yedutou on the other side of the mountain before the sky was completely dark.

Shen Chong's people went to Yuezhou Port via the official road, and then went to inform the people who had responded to them. It would take another half a day to arrive here.Fortunately, there was a dilapidated old thatched hut between the downhill road and the ferry, which was barely suitable for shelter, so Gu Linfeng found some dry firewood and lit a fire, and settled here for one night.

Shen Chong looked rough and straightforward, but he was careful. He prepared all the clothes, dry food, medicinal materials, and even wine.After dark, the mountains were especially gloomy and cold. Gu Linfeng piled all the clothes he could use on Xu Yuqing's body, and moved him to the fire to finish cooking. He went to the ferry to get some fish, and roasted them on the spot for hot food and wine. , to warm up the two of them.

"Here, take two sips to warm it up," Gu Linfeng flipped through the grilled fish with one hand, took a sip of the wine, then handed it to Xu Yuqing who was behind him, after thinking about it, he emphasized: "Only two sips, not more."

"Tch," Xu Yuqing was distracted from the matter at hand, and while reaching out to take the wine, said nonchalantly, "You're not healed from your injuries, so I don't care how much I drink."

"Be careful."

Xu Yuqing rolled his eyes at him, deliberately took two gulps, put the flagon back again, and continued to fiddle with the things in his hands with his head down.

Gu Linfeng took a look, and what he was studying was nothing but the wooden box they finally brought up from the crypt.They had seen before that Qiu Shu's name was engraved on the inconspicuous bottom of the box, presumably it was indeed an important thing that Fu Sheng stole from the palace.

"Do you have eyebrows?"

Xu Yuqing nodded: "I probably know, when I get to Bai Er's place, there are fine tools at hand, and it should be able to open it."

"Then don't look at it, eat first."

The hot grilled fish was handed to her eyes, and the aroma only rushed up. Xu Yuqing closed her eyes and sniffed it as if enjoying it, then put down the box, and took the grilled fish to eat.After taking two bites, he called Gu Linfeng again: "What do you think is in this box?"

"Evidence." Gu Linfeng thought for a while and added: "It is said in the handbook that the maid gave Fu Sheng a lot of trivial evidence. The box is not big, it should be some folded letters."

Xu Yuqing nodded while eating the grilled fish, as if thinking of something again, she suddenly laughed while eating.

"...?" Gu Linfeng didn't know why.

"Hey, I suddenly thought of it," Xu Yuqing laughed and stopped the grilled fish in his hand, with a mouthful of unfinished food still in his mouth: "Do you think the thing he cut off will also be in it hahahaha!!! "

"...beware of the fishbone."

"Cough, cough, cough!!" I don't know if Gu Linfeng's crow's mouth is too effective. As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Yuqing coughed all the time, and quickly reached out to grab the flagon and took another sip.

When he finally calmed down, Gu Linfeng suddenly said: "I think you are right."

Xu Yuqing was taking her second sip of wine, and almost spit out when she heard the words.But looking at Gu Linfeng's expression, he was very serious, not teasing the poor.

"What I mean is, King Chen would never want to keep the things in this wooden box in the world. Why did the pylorus guards take it instead of destroying it directly?"

Xu Yuqing naturally understood what he meant.In the wooden box in their hands is hidden the secret of Qiu Shu, the leader of the dark guards. If this secret is really as recorded by Fu Sheng, it will deeply involve the personal relationship between Qiu Shu and the concubine Yuan, the birth mother of King Chen. Both Chen Wang and Qiu Shu will never allow them to stay in the world.But in the crypt, the hidden guards they encountered didn't destroy them immediately after getting them, but wanted to take them out. This is worth thinking about.

"So what you mean is, maybe there really is Qiu Shu's thing in here? So the first priority of his subordinates is to take the box back first, and then they destroy the evidence inside?" Xu Yu Qing followed his train of thought.

"It's also possible that King Chen doesn't know about it at all. Qiu Shu doesn't want him to know either." Gu Linfeng said.

"Then it seems that the people of the pylorus secret guards should destroy this box as a last resort." Xu Yuqing thought for a while and said, "This is not good for us."

If the goal is to win the box and open it safely, then Xu Yuqing will be very important. At least when they lose to the hidden guards, they still have bargaining chips.But if the situation is as they guessed, then if the hidden guards are really ruthless, they will be ruined if they are all ruined.

"En." Gu Linfeng responded, but asked another question: "It's reasonable for the pylorus guards to chase us, but the army is from the prince's faction, and they are also setting up cards to check our whereabouts. Why?"

"It seems that no matter whether King Chen knows about his tricks or not, the East Palace has already smelled it." Xu Yuqing said.

There were traces of the Five Sacred Bases near Shengzhou. Chen Jiong, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Palace, first blocked the main roads, and then secretly spread news to attract people from the world to come, and publicized the matter that the pylorus guards wanted to cover up and solve it quietly. They reacted quickly after they left the crypt, joined in the pursuit, and set up checkpoints on the major official roads to block the way to check people. This can only show that the people of the Prince's faction know the dirty things about Qiu Shu. , I am afraid that I have been searching for clues secretly for many years, and now I can "mantis catch cicadas, and orioles follow".

"I heard that the crown prince has been very useless these years. He often stays behind closed doors, eats vegetarian food and prays to Buddha. It seems that he is also pretending. However, his power is stationed abroad and cannot be easily transferred. Most of the generals in the imperial city are He can't touch his father's direct lineage either. In the capital, it's really not as good as King Chen's ability to command wind and rain."

"So he needs more evidence, an aboveboard reason to regain his rights." Gu Linfeng took the words.

"Heh," Xu Yuqing sneered, "How many lives were involved because of that little trouble in their family." For more than ten years, their master, Bai Er's family, the maid's family back then, and there may be countless others among them. The other people they don't know... The more Xu Yuqing thought about it, the colder he felt in his heart - they were all victims of the Tian family's struggle for power.

The hip flask and the leftover grilled fish were taken away, and Xu Yuqing regained consciousness only to find that his hands were held by Gu Linfeng, and his true energy slowly poured in.Only then did he realize that he had been shivering from the cold just now, without realizing it.

"Don't worry about it, just talk when you're cold."

Gu Linfeng sat in front of him like that, warming his hands with his head down.There was a warm light from the fire behind him, but those who were close in front of him couldn't see the expression clearly.He suddenly thought of the road at dusk that Gu Linfeng walked with him on the mountain road earlier.

In fact, the injury on Gu Linfeng's back has not healed yet, so he shouldn't be allowed to carry it.But only in this way can the speed of the two of them be accelerated, and they can climb over the mountain before dark.

At that time, the drizzle had stopped, and it was rare to see a little sunset sun, sinking westward little by little among the mountains.There was obviously no warmth from the sun in the mountain forest, but he was lying on Gu Linfeng's back, and he didn't feel like before, his chest was tight and his heart was tight.Suddenly there was a little slant of afterglow, which was casting on them.From his point of view, there was a round of warm yellow light around Gu Linfeng's hair.

He owed it, so he reached out to touch it.

Gu Linfeng didn't know, so he turned his head slightly to ask, his ear swept over, and just touched the tip of Xu Yuqing's nose resting on the side of his neck.

I don't know if it was an illusion projected by the warm light of the setting sun, but Xu Yuqing felt that Gu Linfeng's ears were a little reddish.

So he seemed to find a topic to talk about.

"Hey, when you were young, you carried me down the mountain to find the way. At that time, I seemed to have passed out and didn't react at all. Are you afraid?"

Gu Linfeng turned his face away, continued to walk forward with his back on his back, and answered after a while: "Of course I'm afraid."

"What about you?"

"What can I do? Try after a while if you're still out of breath."

Xu Yuqing smiled, approached Gu Linfeng's right ear with evil intentions, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, senior brother, listen, I'm still panting?"

Gu Linfeng, who was carrying him on his back, stopped and froze for a moment before saying, "Get down and walk by yourself."

Xu Yuqing, who was on her back, laughed so hard that she couldn't breathe, and replied without sincerity: "Okay, okay, I was wrong, I was wrong, senior brother!"

So Gu Linfeng only stopped for a moment, and then continued walking with him on his back.

I'm wrong.

Xu Yuqing looked at the person in front of him who was warming his hands, and said to herself.

I was wrong because I didn't know that he has been so kind to me.