The dark blue sky in the distance revealed a patch of fish belly white, and it was almost going to be bright that day.
When Liu Ruyan woke up, she found that her surroundings were airtight and she was curled up in a small, dark wooden box with a faint smell of bitter medicine.
She was stunned for a moment, and then heard movement outside.
Someone approached secretly, and soon after, the box was staggered onto a cart, and someone seemed to be talking.
"Quick, pour all the medicine residue in!"
Although the words were concise, she could still hear it - this was Uncle Quan's voice. Uncle Quan was still alive?
Liu Ruyan was shocked, Uncle Quan was fine, he was still alive!
Just as she was about to speak, the box was suddenly opened, and the person standing outside was none other than Uncle Quan.
"Yan'er, don't talk!" Liu Hanquan looked into the distance nervously and whispered, "Someone has reported your father. The situation is urgent. I will send you out of the military camp now."
Military camp?
She raised her head and looked around, and there were indeed many white tents under the sky.
Green hills, white tents, and military flags, this is the military camp of Zhou Dynasty!
"Aye is here too?" she asked.
Liu Hanquan's lips moved, and transparent crystals appeared in the corners of his fine-lined eyes. He looked at Liu Ruyan, who had a hopeful face in the wooden box, and nodded after a long while.
"Before sneaking into the military camp, your father told me that if anything happens to him, I must keep Liujiazhuang and you, Yan'er!"
Liu Ruyan's face moved slightly. Everything here reminded her of the day her father had an accident five years ago.
A hint of sophistication appeared on her childish face: "Uncle Quan, I will find a way to distract the soldiers, and you can take Aye away from here."
Liu Hanquan stopped her immediately: "Your father has been surrounded by soldiers, how can he still..."
He spoke slowly, his voice a little more throaty.
Liu Ruyan still wanted to speak, but suddenly countless medicine residues fell on her head, and the wooden box was immediately covered.
"Xiao Yang, Ah Chao, you two quickly send her away from the military camp." Liu Hanquan said in a deep voice.
The two young men had ordinary faces, with only a pair of determined eyes looking in the direction of the camp gate. They held the cart and pushed it forward step by step.
"Stop!" shouted the soldier guarding the gate, "show the wooden sign."
Xiao Yang casually took out the military doctor's sign and laughed at the guard guard: "The outside of the tent is full of these medicine residues. If we don't send them out to bury them, we won't have anywhere to stay. Please help me, brother."
The soldier checked the sign and handed it back. He frowned and looked at the wooden box: "Open it and take a look."
Ah Chao remained silent and opened the lid of the box.
The soldier covered his nose: "What does it smell like? Why does this medicine smell so bad?"
"It's been stacked for several days. It's hot and the medicine will smell bad." Xiao Yang replied with a smile.
The soldier was about to raise his hand to let them pass, but another soldier whispered: "I heard that there was a special operation in the camp, just in case, we still need to check the bottom of the box."
"What kind of detailed work?" Xiao Yang asked.
"It's a father and son pair who hang out in the military doctor's tent. I've seen the medicine boy before, he's only so tall." The soldier said and made a gesture with his hand.
Xiao Yang looked surprised: "Is such a thing happening?"
"Tell him any nonsense, and quickly check the bottom of the box!" The other soldiers looked impatient, and raised their knives to stab into the medicine dregs.
Ah Chao's eyes were condensed, and he secretly lowered his sleeves, holding a willow-leaf-shaped hidden weapon in his hand, and was immediately ready to take action.
"Quick, catch the spies -" a shout came from not far away.
Immediately, the sky above the military camp was filled with noises, shouts, and the sound of weapons.
In the center of the crowd, a man broke through the heavy blockade, holding a seven-foot-long sword in both hands. As he turned around, the fat and strong horses in front of him were retreating steadily!
The Mo Dao, also known as the Horse-Zhanping Dao, is specially designed to defeat cavalry. It can chop off a horse's legs from below and chop off a human head from above. Its power is beyond the comparison of ordinary weapons.
But there are only a handful of people in the world who can make Mo Dao such a great general.
"Beast, you can't even catch this!" the cavalryman shouted angrily and rode towards the man again.
The man's eyebrows darkened, and he used his sword to cut off the horse's hooves, and then penetrated the chest of the horseman without losing strength.
He raised his hand to draw the knife, and blood spilled out onto his face. The man was covered in blood, and his face looked hideous and terrifying.
Everyone was shocked. At this time, another soldier was struck by the man with a knife, and the encirclement gradually began.
The man ran towards the west gate with a knife in his hand. Anyone who blocked the way was cut in half by him. With his arms waving, he opened a bloody path.
Kill one person in ten steps and leave no trace behind in a thousand miles!
Seeing this, everyone else was shocked, and for a while no one dared to step forward.
"If we can't capture this man alive, I'll reward him with random arrows!" On horseback, the general shouted sternly, "Archers, come out!"
Seeing this, the Mo Dao man jumped towards the west gate.
The soldiers guarding the gate had rarely been on the battlefield and had never seen such a battle. At that time, they were dumbfounded and stood there with pale faces.
"Trash, stop this person quickly. If you dare to disobey, you will be punished by military orders!"
The few soldiers guarding the gate had no choice but to bite the bullet and hold their spears in the direction of the man. Behind them, Xiao Yang and A Chao looked at the man with disheveled hair and blood all over his body, and tears actually wet their eyes.
"General Liu——"
In the medicine box, Liu Ruyan curled up into a ball, her body trembling uncontrollably.
"Aye——"
Father Liu seemed to feel something. He looked towards the end of the west gate in the distance, looked in her direction, and opened his lips.
The next moment, arrows rained down!
Countless sharp arrows pierced into the flesh and blood, piercing through the chest. The triangular arrows with a cold glow were stained with blood and suddenly appeared outside the white clothes.
Poignant and beautiful, like a red lotus blooming.
And in the sky above the camp, there was the jubilant noise of soldiers everywhere, executions were carried out carefully, and rewards were given according to merit!
At this time, it was dawn.
The warm golden sunlight penetrates layers of clouds and drives away the boundless darkness.
And she, hiding in the bumpy and shaking medicine box, saw her loved ones lying motionless in a pool of blood through the ray of dawn through the cracks in the wood.
No more life.
The bloody figure got further and further away, getting smaller and smaller, until it finally turned into a small dot, just like the dust in this world, small ones are hard to find.
Humble and weak.
"If Yan'er persists, what will you do if dad is no longer here?"
"What should I do..." she whispered hoarsely.
Bai Zhi held the medicine bowl and wiped away the spilled medicine stains from her lips. She frowned and said, "She still refuses to drink the medicine."
Shen Yanchu sat at the end of the bed: "Then give me the acupuncture. If the fever continues like this, sooner or later my body will be unable to bear it."
Bai Zhi took out the needle pack and gave her acupuncture through her clothes. Finally, she told Shen Yanchu: "I'll make another bowl of medicinal soup. Please take care of Brother Shen."
"Cold, Dad, Yan'er is so cold."
Shen Yanchu leaned down and listened quietly to her lips for a while.
"cold……"
He covered Liu Ruyan with all the clothes. Seeing that she was still shaking uncontrollably, he put his hand on her chest.
Under the clothes, her chest rose and fell slightly. At the moment when she was close, Shen Yanchu's expression suddenly changed, and he held her hand instead, and the true energy was continuously introduced into her body.
Liu Ruyan sighed, hugged the warm hand and pressed it against her cheek.
Feeling the softness under his fingertips, Shen Yanchu was stunned for a moment, as if a feather had brushed against the hardest part of his heart.
He thought for a moment, then helped Liu Ruyan up, letting her half-lean in his arms, and placed his other hand on her back to dispel the cold air in her body.
"Brother Shen, what are you doing?" Bai Zhi saw the scene in front of her, "Your Yang Veins were damaged before, but now you are depleting your Qi again and again. If you continue like this, it will be a matter of time before you lose all your power."
"I know." Shen Yanchu said calmly.
"Then you still..."
When Shen Yan saw her for the first time, her expression gradually improved: "After this time, I won't use my inner strength anymore."
"That's all, it's for her own good." Bai Zhi placed the medicine bowl on the bedside and checked her pulse. "She's almost awake. I hope Brother Shen will urge her to take this bowl of medicine. I'll go to the back mountain to find some herbs." return."