The way up the mountain was not long by pulling out the branches and climbing up the boulders, but for Zhou Ranzhuo, the way was like climbing to the sky. He walked for a long time and thought a lot.
Xia Jingxuan and Xia Jingchen took a shortcut to the mountain on the road. They had arrived a long time ago and asked Gu Yun, "Are you a relative of Zhou Ranzhuo? Why don't you look like them?"
"Hey, hey, hey... Lord Marquis, general... my subordinates are back." Upon seeing this, Zhou Ranzhuo rushed forward and grabbed Gu Yun's arm with one hand, fearing that he would say the wrong thing.
"I...we are cousins, so we don't look alike. My brother spoke rashly. I hope I didn't contradict the Marquis and the General."
"No! We had a great chat!" Xia Jingchen was very excited.
Zhou Ranzhuo didn't even know what Gu Yun said to make Xia Jingchen so happy, but he knew it right away.
"Mr. Zhou, I usually see you as gentle and gentle, but I didn't expect you to be so good at kung fu. The main reason is..." Xia Jingchen stole a glance at Xia Jingxuan and said, "It turns out that like my second brother, you are also a habitual bully of your younger brother!"
Gu Yun started to sweat coldly. He just wanted to make Xia Jingchen happy and let him put down his guard, so he casually talked about a few things. He had been raised by Zhou Ranzhuo's side since he was a child, so naturally he never left Zhou Ranzhuo, and Zhou Ranzhuo
Zhuochang bullied him, so...
Gu Yun slowly turned his head and glanced at Zhou Ranzhuo. Zhou Ranzhuo was sneering at him, hiding a knife in his smile! Gu Yun had already made up his "last words".
Later, after listening to Xia Jingchen's arrangement of a few sentences, the soldiers at the foot of the mountain also set up their camps elsewhere. It was almost dark before everyone returned to their camps.
But the fire in the trap couldn't be extinguished. I heard it burned for three days.
Midnight, Xia Junying
"Gu Yun...where are you..." Zhou Ranzhuo sat on the couch holding a pillow and shaking constantly.
"Your Majesty, I am right next to you..." Gu Yun sat cross-legged next to Zhou Ranzhuo, lowering his head and dozing off.
In order to prevent the bandits from attacking at night, Xia Jingxuan asked the soldiers to remove all the lights to prevent the bandits from finding the camp.
But Zhou Ranzhuo was afraid of the dark! After struggling for half a night, he was stunned and couldn't fall asleep.
"Your Majesty, if you really can't sleep, just count sheep. It's very useful... like this, one sheep, two sheep, three sheep..."
Not long after, Zhou Ranzhuo only heard a "plop", and he hurriedly came to Gu Yun to see, "What's wrong with you?" Zhou Ranzhuo asked in a lowered voice.
At first he was nervous and scared. Was Gu Yun secretly hurt? What to do? Who hurt him? Until he heard a snoring sound.
"Oh, I slept well." Zhou Ranzhuo pulled the quilt and put it on Gu Yun.
The chirping of insects came from outside the door, and it was the only sound that Zhou Ranzhao could hear in this quiet night. He sat holding the pillow for a long time, and it was rare to see such silence in the world.
"What will happen if one day the plan is really completed?" This doubt suddenly appeared in Zhou Ranzhuo's mind.
"Well... Emperor Yuan wants to kill Li Jue first. Yun Wan has been wronged by his side. Emperor Yuan will definitely be beaten. As for Xia Jingsheng and Xia Jingxuan, I don't want to see them. I will kill them directly. Xia Jingchen
Well, although I have never participated in the war, I am still a son of the Xia family and cannot be kept here. I just pity Xia Jingyan. Although she has a bad temper and is a bit squeamish, she always teases me! But she is still a little girl after all... quite smart.
One, or... just fill her with medicine and wipe out her memory and keep her with you?"
Zhou Ranzhuo thought about it for a long time and felt a little sleepy.
I don't know how long it took, but Zhou Ranzhuo suddenly heard a "click" sound, as if someone stepped on the firewood stick at the door. He was already drowsy, but he suddenly woke up when he heard this sound.
The moonlight illuminated the figure of the man on the account. Zhou Ranzhuo quietly got down to the ground and picked up the sword beside him.
outside the camp account
Xia Jingyan sighed, lowered her body to pick up the firewood sticks from the ground and put them aside. She stood up and was about to leave. But when she was about to stand up, something cold suddenly hit her shoulder. She almost raised her hands and surrendered. After all, good men don't eat.
Loss in front of you!
"Who? Turn around." Zhou Ranzhuo's voice came from behind. Xia Jingyan breathed a sigh of relief. It's better that he wasn't a bandit. He was startled.
"Me." Xia Jingyan raised his hands and turned around.
"Whatever little girl you are doing out here in the middle of the night, you are not afraid of the bandits catching you." Zhou Ranzhuo calmed down when he saw that it was Xia Jingyan. He did not forget to say Xia Jingyan's words to express the fear of the darkness in his heart.
It also gradually dissipated, and he didn't even realize it.
"I'm not afraid, no one can catch me." Xia Jingyan replied, "I just slept too much during the day and couldn't sleep at night."
Zhou Ranzhuo put away his sword and was really convinced by the little girl, "Then where can you go in the middle of the night?"
"Well..." Xia Jingyan was speechless for a moment, but not long after, another strange idea came to her mind, "Can you grill fish?"
Xia Jingyan is hungry. People are like iron, and food is like steel. If he doesn't eat even one meal, he will feel hungry!
"What?" Xia Jingyan's words confused Zhou Ranzhuo.
But after a while, Zhou Ranzhuo woke up.
Xia Jingyan dragged him to the kitchen before he could react. He picked up a water ladle and opened the big bucket in the kitchen. Several fat and big fish were splashing in the water.
Xia Jingyan rolled up his sleeves and took out a ladle to fish out the fish. His movements were like flowing water. He looked like a "habitual offender" at first glance.
It's just that this fish was really disobedient today, always flopping around, and couldn't get into Xia Jingyan's ladle no matter what, and every one of them "swore to death".
"Did you catch it?" Zhou Ranzhuo was a little impatient. His stomach had already started to growl, but "Chef Xia" hadn't caught the fish yet.
"Oh, it's coming, it's coming!" Xia Jingyan threw the ladle aside and reached out to grab it.
Zhou Ranzhuo stepped forward, wanting to help, but by chance, the fish in Xia Jingyan's hand made a "dragon tail wag" and swung him in the face.
Zhou Ranzhuo felt aggrieved in his heart.
"Even the fish bully me!!!" Zhou Ranzhuo finally got in touch with this fish pole, rolled up his sleeves and fucked with it! He and Xia Jingyan grabbed left and right together, and water splashed everywhere.
The hard work paid off! They! Caught it!
But it was obvious that he caught the wrong one. He caught another one. The one that shook Zhou Ran into the water was still spitting bubbles in the water at the two people with black lines on their faces.
The two looked at each other and understood what the other meant.
After a while, the patrols in the camp saw two black figures carrying water tanks on two long poles to the entrance of the camp. Several patrols stopped patrolling and stood there dumbfounded.
Bandits???stealing water tanks???
A few people kept silent for fear of disturbing others, so they just quietly took a closer look.
"So it's the princess and Mr. Zhou, who are you?" the patrolman asked.
"It's okay, I just want to catch a fish. Take the tank outside, pour out the water and catch it again. It's convenient and the fish won't be able to escape." Zhou Ranzhuo turned around dully, with only one thought in his mind, that is, to personally do it for this fish.
Execution of a fish!
"Oh, how about using your subordinates to help?"
"It's okay, we'll do it ourselves." Zhou Ranzhuo responded with a fake smile.
"You guys are busy with your business." Xia Jingyan also turned around and smiled.
The smiles of the two men were so eerie and scary that several soldiers shuddered.
"Then my subordinates will go back first..." Several soldiers wrapped up their clothes and went back, thinking to themselves that the weather in the mountains can change quickly.
Zhou Ranzhuo and Xia Jingyan continued to move, and when they were almost far away, they pushed the water tank over. The water flowed out and soaked in the soil, and the fish also slipped out.
"Is that this one?" Xia Jingyan said with a serious face as he picked up the most energetic one.
"No problem, I know it even if it turns into ashes." Zhou Ranzhuo said with a straight face.
They were just catching a fish, and the two of them acted as if they were about to execute a prisoner on death row. They looked at each other and nodded, grabbing a few fish and a pile of firewood and walking into a nearby cave to light a fire to grill the fish.
Xia Jingyan volunteered to take over the task of grilling fish. With Xia Jingyan by his side and a fire illuminating him, Zhou Ranzhuo finally fell asleep leaning against the rock wall.
I wonder if it was because Xia Jingyan was teasing him that he was too affected. He dreamed of Xia Jingyan again, but luckily he didn't talk in his sleep again.
Xia Jingyan, who was originally a dream, this "little hooligan" was approaching him step by step, but somehow, the dream gradually changed, and the scene in front of him turned into that disobedient fish! The fish became several times bigger, even bigger than him
It was a head taller and turned its fat body to rub against Zhou Ranzhuo, unable to shake it away!
Zhou Ranzhuo woke up with a start, and Xia Jingyan hurriedly hid the branch covered with charcoal ash behind him.
"Where's the fish?" Zhou Ranzhuo asked suspiciously, looking at the extinguished fire and Xia Jingyan's gray face.
"Didn't you say that the fish... turned into ashes, do you recognize it?" Xia Jingyan said guiltily, took three pieces of charcoal ash that were not in the shape of fish and said, "Then which piece of ash do you recognize..."
"You roasted it all night... and three lumps of ashes came out?" Zhou Ranzhuo looked at the three "fish" and felt helpless for a while.
"Hmm..." Xia Jingyan nodded.
"You are really a genius." Zhou Ranzhuo threw the three "fish" aside with a look of disgust on his face, stood up and patted the dirt on his body, and couldn't help comforting himself:
"It's not like I gained nothing. At least I kept myself warm for a whole night. Even if I had nightmares all night, at least I fell asleep, right?"
"It's already dawn, how about... let's go back first? I'll ask the kitchen staff to make a few more and send them to you." Xia Jingyan said in an aggrieved tone, and Zhou Ranzhuo couldn't bear to talk to her anymore.
You're a little girl! You apologized and acted coquettishly, right?
Of course, this was also under the premise that he didn't know what "good things" Xia Jingyan had done.
"Let's go." Zhou Ranzhao pulled Xia Jingyan.
The two of them walked back to the military camp and were silent all the way. Zhou Ranzuo was still thinking that Xia Jingyan was so disappointed because he burned the three fishes and needed comfort, until he saw that all the soldiers in the camp were avoiding him.
He was still holding back his laughter, and Xia Jingchen started laughing unbridled the first time he saw him. Only then did Zhou Ranzhuo realize that Xia Jingyan was holding back his laughter!