On the official road nearly a hundred miles west of the capital, a carriage creaked forward in the night.
When they arrived at a small lake, the carriage finally stopped.
There are lush reeds all around the lake. The night wind blows and the reeds sway, making it extremely quiet.
The driver let go of the horse's reins, stood up, walked to the door, opened the curtain, and said respectfully: "Sir, we're here!"
An elderly man in his fifties came out of the carriage, wearing a long gown. He stood at the front of the carriage, looked around, and finally turned back to the carriage and said, "You can come out now."
Soon, Qin Xiao came out of the carriage first, and Suzaku followed him out of the carriage.
The coachman whistled, and immediately responded with two whistles from the reeds. Then a man came out of the reeds, leading a tall horse, loosened the reins, came forward, and shouted at the elder.
He bowed his hands and looked very respectful.
"Young man, we will send you here." The elder said to Qin Xiao, pointing to the horse coming out of the reeds: "I didn't know there were two of you, but we only prepared one horse."
Qin Xiao bowed deeply to the elder and said, "Thank you very much, sir, for your help. I will keep it in my heart and never forget it."
"It doesn't have to be like this." The elder smiled and said: "I am just repaying a favor. You don't need to take it to heart. The sooner you forget it, the better. If there are no accidents, we will never meet again in the future."
Qin Xiao was startled, but the elder slightly cupped his hands and turned back to the carriage. The coachman also got on the carriage and sat next to the coachman. Without any words, he shook the horse's reins and left quickly. In a moment,
Has disappeared into the night.
Qin Xiao watched the carriage disappear, but he still cupped his hands in that direction, and then sighed: "I don't even know who he is, and I don't know how to repay him in the future."
"You didn't say a few words along the way. It seems to me that he doesn't know who we are." Suzaku said, "There's nothing wrong with it. We meet each other by chance and go our own ways. Don't get too involved. And he
As I said, I'm just repaying the favor, and we won't see each other again. Too much contact may not be a blessing."
Qin Xiao nodded and looked up at the sky.
The moonlight is faint and the night breeze is blowing.
"Is it time for us to say goodbye?" Qin Xiao looked at Zhuque and said with emotion: "If we say goodbye today, I don't know when we will meet again next time."
There was a slight smile on the corner of Suzaku's mouth, and he said: "You seem a little reluctant to leave?"
"After all, we share the same sorrow." Qin Xiao smiled and said, "How is your injury?"
"You should be able to recover in two or three days." Suzaku said, "Are you going back to the Northeast?"
Qin Xiao nodded and said: "The general will be prone to change if he does not return to the team for a long time. You also know that Tantai Xuanye's power is growing day by day, and the only card left in my hand is Long Ruijun. If there is something wrong with this army and horse,
, then we will no longer have the opportunity to fight for the country."
"Being self-aware is your strength." Suzaku nodded slightly.
Qin Xiao pointed to the horse and said, "Can you ride a horse? If you can ride a horse, the horse belongs to you. Just ride away."
"What about you?"
"I'll look back and see if I can find a horse market to buy a horse." Qin Xiao said: "You can't buy a good horse, but you can always find a bad horse."
Zhuque said: "You are in a hurry to return to the Northeast. If you can't buy horses on the way, won't you be delayed?"
"There's nothing I can do about it." Qin Xiao said, "I only have one horse. I can't ride it by myself and leave you alone.
Just walk."
Zhuque said: "Actually, that's okay."
"No." Qin Xiao shook his head and said: "If I'm not afraid of making you angry, you are a woman, ahem, and so good-looking. If you meet a bad person and your skills are not restored, what will happen?
It will be a big trouble. Forget it, the horses are yours and I won't fight with you."
Suzaku showed a rare gentle smile and said: "Are you worried that I will meet a bad person?"
She was already beautiful and charming, but her smile made her even more charming.
Qin Xiao just smiled, hesitated, and said, "I'll help you bring it over." As he was about to go over, Suzaku had already shaken his head and said, "No need."
"how?"
"Do you know how money moves people's hearts?" Zhuque sighed: "I am old and young, and even if I meet bad people, they will not take advantage of me. But if I have horses, they know that horses are expensive, but they will bring disaster to me."
Qin Xiao was startled. Zhuque claimed that she was old and young. Of course, she was being modest. With her appearance and figure, even if she was older, she was enough to make men think wildly. However, she said that bad people have evil intentions when they see a horse. That is true.
A beautiful woman riding a horse is more likely to make people with evil intentions have evil thoughts.
"Actually, I have nowhere to go now." Suzaku said quietly, "I haven't recovered my skills. It's really dangerous to walk a long way alone."
Qin Xiao frowned and said, "Where are you going? If you want to go, I'll take you there first."
"If it's not troublesome, can you let me go to the Northeast with you for a while?" Zhuque stared at Qin Xiao with a touch of amorous eyes, and said calmly: "Tantai Xuanye wants to kill me and then quickly, but he can't find me in Kyoto, so he will naturally send someone
People are searching everywhere. The Purple Clothes Prison is already under his control, and the eunuchs have their eyes and ears all over the states...!" At this point, he shook his head and sighed softly: "That's all, I won't cause you any trouble.
Already."
Qin Xiao's mind suddenly changed, thinking that Zhuque was smarter than others, and it wouldn't be a bad thing if this person went to the Northeast for a while and secretly helped him make plans.
She is from Tianzhai and has a deep understanding of Tantai Xuanye. It is said that only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one be able to survive a hundred battles. To deal with Tantai Xuanye, it is of course best to have an adviser who understands the opponent well.
But he also knew that just because Suzaku was so smart, she offered to follow him to the Northeast, which was a bit strange, but he still had to be more careful and wary of her.
"It doesn't matter." Qin Xiao said with a smile: "Anyway, Tantai Xuanye has already regarded me as a thorn in his flesh. If you are in the northeast, he will kill me." He walked over, got on his horse, urged the horse to Zhuque's side, and stretched out his arms.
Take action.
Zhuque did not hesitate and reached out. Qin Xiao pulled Zhuque onto the horse, sat behind him, patted the horse and left without further delay.
Suzaku moved back at first. Although there was a big age difference between the two, there were differences between men and women, so Suzaku obviously paid some attention.
However, when the horse started running, she had no choice but to keep a distance. Without Qin Xiao's instructions, she could only grab Qin Xiao's belt with both hands. The horse galloped, and Suzaku's body involuntarily pressed against Qin Xiao's back.
Qin Xiao's attitude towards Zhuque is actually quite complicated.
It is certainly not a bad thing to have allies like Zhuque to jointly deal with Tantai Xuanye. Qin Xiao is also happy to work with this fairy who knows Tantai Xuanye. However, Zhuque happens to be from Dongji Tianzhai. Qin Xiao is very interested in this.
Dongji Tianzhai didn't have any good feelings for that Taoist master, if it weren't for the fact that Zhuque and Tantai Xuanye had already turned against each other.
Huo, this fairy girl is actually an important assistant to Tantai Xuanye and one of her strongest enemies.
The roles of friend and foe change in an instant.
Qin Xiao can't guarantee that although Zhuque is no longer an enemy, who can guarantee that Suzaku will not change his position due to other interests in the future?
There are no permanent friends or eternal enemies in this world. Everything will change its position at any time because of interests.
Therefore, although Qin Xiao is willing to join forces with Suzaku, he does not dare to completely trust this fairy girl and remains wary of her.
And he believed that Suzaku was in the same mood.
He just felt that anything really could happen in this world.
When he came to Beijing, he was alone. Now when he returned to the Northeast, he brought back a mature and beautiful Taoist nun, and she was also a disciple of the great master Hong Tianji.
Things are unpredictable.
The horse galloped, but I didn't feel much at first. I just wanted to rush on as quickly as possible and get out of the border as soon as possible.
But after running for more than ten miles, he felt something was wrong.
At first, Zhuque just grabbed his belt with both hands. Although his body was close, Zhuque tried his best not to let his body get close to him. However, Qin Xiao was in a hurry and the horse was getting faster and faster. Zhuque could only move his arms forward and hug him.
Qin Xiao's waist.
Qin Xiao didn't pay attention at first. He only felt it when his back was squeezed by two voluptuous balls. He only felt that the contour and elasticity were really outstanding, resembling a papaya. Perhaps it was due to the practice of martial arts. It was plump and straight without losing elasticity.
soft.
Qin Xiao was a little embarrassed. In fact, he also knew that Zhuque must be embarrassed as well, but both of them could only pretend not to know.
On the way for more than one day, when they met a city, they would go into the city to have a good meal, and then replenish some dry food and water. During the occasional rest, Suzaku just exercised his energy to recuperate. As for the ambiguous situation of the two bodies touching each other on horseback, the two
They didn't mention it at all, and whoever mentioned it would be embarrassed.
A few days later, he finally entered Youzhou. At dusk, Qin Xiao saw a pond on the side of the road, so he stopped his horse to rest and eat some dry food.
Qin Xiao felt a little sticky on his face. He wanted to wash his face by the pond and put water on his face, but he found a lot of things like water-soaked flour falling down on his face. He was shocked at first, but he quickly realized it.
, the effect of Hong Ye’s disguise for herself has come to an end.
Hong Ye said when she helped her disguise herself that although the disguise was fake, the effect would only last for ten days.
He didn't know what materials Hongye used to disguise himself, but he calculated the time and found that the ten-day period had already arrived.
After the disguise, although his appearance changed, his face was actually not very comfortable. Now that he was far away from Kyoto, Qin Xiao no longer hesitated and washed the strange materials with clean water by the pond. After a while, he suddenly heard
There was a faint sound of thunder from the sky, and I frowned. The sky had darkened, and it looked like a heavy rain was about to hit.
He returned to Zhuque, who had just finished eating the dry food when he suddenly saw a strange man coming over, but the clothes on his body were familiar. He was startled for a moment, then stared at Qin Xiao's face and said, "You...?"
"No need to be surprised, fairy lady." Qin Xiao said with a smile: "You know I was disguised before, and this is my face."
Zhuque was obviously a little uncomfortable with what he saw, but he still nodded slightly and said: "I didn't expect you to be very handsome." As soon as he said this, he seemed to feel that it was inappropriate to praise a man's appearance, and just as thunder came from the horizon again,
He looked up and whispered: "It's going to rain heavily!"