There is no need to expend too much energy on the road you have already traveled.
Qiuqiu and Guanwei rested one night on the roadside at the top of the slope. They lit a fire. Guanwei meditated beside the fire, while Qiuqiu wrapped herself in a felt and sat under the tree next to the fire.
He fell asleep leaning against the tree.
One side of her hair was loose, and a few strands were hanging on her cheeks. The firelight danced, reflecting a delicate blush on her face.
The felt blanket covering her shoulders slipped down, and the night breeze was extremely cold, causing the hair on her cheeks to flutter gently.
The guard walked over and gently pulled the felt blanket up again to cover her shoulders.
Qiuqiu's face looked more childlike after she fell asleep than when she was awake.
When she was awake, her eyes looked calm and quiet, and her behavior made people think she was calmer than her actual age. The guards unknowingly treated her as a peer and equal.
But she was asleep now. Her face was as small as a palm, her eyelashes were long, and her nose and lips were particularly small and exquisite. Only then did the guard remember that she was actually very young, and she even came to Jiufeng with them all the way.
At that time, she looked like just a little girl. After encountering Heliu and Xiuru, her figure and appearance changed.
The guard covered her with a felt blanket and sat cross-legged next to her.
Qiuqiu slept deeply. It wasn't until the sun hit her eyes that she frowned slightly and opened her eyes.
She stood up, folded the felt blanket and put it into the Qiankun bag, then simply combed her hair with her fingers and tied it with a hair tie.
She did all this calmly. She washed her face by the stream beside the road, and the guard came back from the woods with his sword in hand.
Compared with others, Qiuqiu felt quite ashamed. She was not as diligent as the guards in practicing swordsmanship. They had just come back from practicing swordsmanship, and she had just woken up.
The two of them continued on the road. However, not long after they started on the road, they encountered a fork in the road.
Originally there was only one road, and there was no objection as to which way to go. But now the road has forked, extending in two different directions.
Qiuqiu was stunned for a moment.
Why did the road fork? What directions did the forked roads on both sides lead to?
No, what's more important is, which way did Shier take?
Qiuqiu squatted down and looked around carefully at the fork in the road.
Shi'er will definitely leave a mark for her here.
Just on the tree on the left fork of the road, Qiuqiu saw the familiar mark.
Qiuqiu didn't hesitate at all. She would definitely choose the left path.
But she was a little unsure about the choice of guard.
If you take different paths, you will definitely encounter different experiences. Does the guard want to go to the left? Or is he more willing to choose the right?
If he chooses the right, then they will separate.
But the guard didn't hesitate at all: "Let's go to the left."
Qiuqiu was slightly startled. The guard had already taken a step forward. He took a step and looked back at her: "Aren't you going?"
Qiuqiu quickly followed.
The road became smoother and smoother as we walked. Compared with the road that was made of gravel at the beginning, the road condition now is obviously much neater than before. The foundation stones on the roadside don't look dilapidated either.
Qiuqiu had a premonition. This road reminded her of another road, when she followed Jingyuan, Jinglan and the others down Xiuyuan Mountain to Heshan Town. The road was the same, from thin, narrow, to rugged.
Be wide and flat.
When thinking of Jingyuan and Jinglan, Qiuqiu will inevitably think of Jingfei.
Jingfei is not much older than Qiuqiu, but her fate is so unfortunate.
If she hadn't pestered her senior brothers and sisters to go down the mountain that time, maybe she would still be alive and well.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Qiuqiu raised her head and said, "It's okay." When she saw the guard, she swallowed her words.
The guard is not a person who cares about others easily or asks questions easily. It is easy for her to reply that nothing is wrong, but she feels that she cannot bear his concern by prevaricating him like this.
"I think of Xiuyuan Mountain. I don't know what's going on on the mountain now. When we left, the head master and the others used the first monster they caught as bait to capture a group of monsters... I don't know what these monsters are.
How did you get through the mountain guard formation and reach the mountain?"
Guan Wei really didn't know much about this matter. He asked: "How did the first monster get up the mountain?"
Qiuqiu told what happened before in short words. She had experienced this incident personally, but after leaving Xiuyuan Mountain, she never thought about it because it was always sad and sad when she thought about it. Senior Brother Jinghai unfortunately lost his life.
He and Jingfei were both familiar to her, but they were separated forever.
The guard was thinking: "The first monster occupied the mountain on Jing Fei's body?"
"Yes." That night she was excited about old paintings and books. Jinglan also went out to look for herbs, and only Jingfei was alone in the small courtyard. If there were two people around, maybe the monster would not dare or it would be inconvenient to attack.
The guard frowned: "What kind of real person is that? Does he live alone in Heshan Town?"
"He is Master Changyang of the Wulou sect. There are only two children following him, doing chores of pounding and collecting medicines and serving Master Changyang."
The guard asked: "Even if you live in seclusion outside the town, as long as you practice, don't you have protective formations in your house?"
Qiuqiu was slightly surprised. She had never thought about this before.
Yes, there should be. Even the mountain where she and her master lived before has a formation, although it is not that strict. Without the formation, if there are mountain people, hunters, or birds and animals on the mountain, it will be
Not a big trouble.
They live in such a remote place and have set up formations. Changyang Zhenren lives near a densely populated town. In order to prevent such a situation from happening, there should be formations set up.
How could the monster easily break through the formation and sneak into Changyang Zhenren's yard? Changyang Zhenren's cultivation level is also not ordinary, and it is very likely to be discovered. Rather than taking the risk of sneaking into Changyang Zhenren's yard, she and Jinglan, who were out alone,
Wouldn't it be easier to kill? Compared with Jinglan, Qiuqiu was weak at that time, so the monsters should be looking for her. She walked alone for so long at night, how come she didn't encounter danger?
Qiuqiu felt very confused.
Yes, Guan Wei was right, this matter was indeed unreasonable, but Qiuqiu had never thought of this before.
While they were talking, they climbed over another hillside. Qiuqiu looked at the scenery in front of her and was speechless for a moment.
There are no longer barren mountains ahead. Looking from here, there is a stone pavilion halfway up the mountain.
"Where is that place?" Qiuqiu murmured.
The guard made no sound.
The two of them quickened their pace and walked forward together.
There are stone pillars facing each other on both sides of the road. After many years of wind and rain, the carved patterns on the stone pillars have become very blurred.
They walked up the stone steps. The long stone steps were pale gray-white.
When the stone steps reached the end, Qiuqiu stood on the platform in front of the pavilion and saw a person standing at the other end of the platform from a distance.
The man heard the sound of footsteps and turned around slowly. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.)