After the heavy rain, Chu Qingyan started to have a fever, and she was in a coma for two days. She didn't wake up until the morning of the third day.
She opened her heavy eyelids, but met the sun unexpectedly, which was too dazzling. She closed her eyes immediately and sat up slowly after getting used to the light.
He was sore all over, as if he had been crushed by something, but this was not the point, everything in front of him was very unfamiliar.
Although the simple house was well-equipped and neat, it made her vigilant.
As she propped up her aching head, the wooden door creaked, and someone pushed in from the outside.
She immediately pulled out the hairpins in her hair, and if the visitor was unkind, she threw it directly.
However, to her surprise, the person who came was an elderly old woman with a bowl in her hand. When she was stunned, the old woman was pleasantly surprised, "Miss, are you awake? You scared the old woman, thinking you Go to sleep again."
Because of the improvement of her skills, she can judge from the old woman's walking and breathing that she has no martial arts skills and is an ordinary woman.
She breathed a sigh of relief and smiled back, "Did my mother-in-law save me?"
The old woman walked up to her and handed her the bowl, "It wasn't the old woman, it was the master who saved you, this is the medicine the master asked the old woman to boil for you, drink it quickly, so that your illness will get better soon!"
Chu Qingyan nodded obediently. After drinking the medicine, she realized that she had a high fever in the rain. Fortunately, she was rescued, otherwise she would have been corpse in the wilderness. She, therefore, called him the benefactor. This time it was he who passed by the mountains and forests, and took her to the middle of the mountain to the old woman, so that she could take care of herself.
A master monk
In her mind, there seems to be one.
As if to confirm her conjecture, a tower bell came from outside the door, and her thoughts flickered, and the blue monk robe appeared in her sight.
Although the texture is average, it is neat and drapes without a trace of creases.
Chu Qingyan slowly raised her head and looked at the person with a long body standing in the center of the room. Yunxiu posed lightly, and her eyebrows were plain, like a spring plum blossoming in snow, and her temperament was clean and holy, like an autumn chrysanthemum covered in frost.
It seems that as long as he appears, the lotus blossoms wherever he goes.
"Donor Chu, stay safe."
The soft sound starts, like the light recitation of the Buddhist scriptures, washing away people's distracting thoughts, leaving only his voice resounding in his ears.
Chu Qingyan smiled bitterly, "Do you think I'll be fine if I'm like this?"
When the other party heard this, she also felt that it seemed inappropriate. When she was thinking about what words to use instead, she chuckled and thought to herself, this person is still such a fool.
"Long time no see, see you."
The pondering person heard the joy in her depressed mood, and for some reason, they also smiled and said, "It's really been a long time."
The old woman knew that it was not good to disturb the conversation between the two, so she went down with the empty bowl.
Chu Qingyan's eyes were withdrawn from the back of the old woman. Since she knew that he was the one who saved her, there is nothing to worry about. She leaned against the bed wall, raised her eyes and smiled gratefully at Xu Jian, "Thank you for your help, otherwise I really became the food on the plate for the beast on the mountain."
Seeing that she was still able to make jokes, the heart that had been hanging up for the past few days also fell to the ground. He sat down on the wooden chair and said modestly, "It's hard work, nothing to worry about."
Chu Qingyan looked at him, and even if he was sitting on a worn-out legless chair, it gave him the illusion that he was sitting on a lotus pedestal. She sighed in her heart, she was really handsome, and she was different from others in everything she did.
She chuckled and said, "It seems that saving people is like a regular meal for you.
Xu Jian heard her teasing, and it seemed that every time he saw her, he would say this, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Buddha, is to save all sentient beings. If you are in trouble, you will help. It is the so-called saving one's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda."
"It seems that if you save me, you are enough to build dozens of slaughterhouses!" Chu Qingyan teased and laughed.
Perhaps after getting along a few times, he was caught by her familiar tone, and he couldn't help but agree, "Donor Chu is right. It seems that in the future, if the poor monk stays by the donor's side, the great cause of the Buddha can be completed."
Chu Qingyan laughed lightly when she heard the words. It seems that this is not an ignorant master. She nodded and said generously, "It's easy to talk!"
Seeing her relaxed expression, Xu Jian also smiled, and then asked suspiciously, "Why did the donor Chu pass out on Fengshan?"
After hearing this, her eyes darkened, "We were chased and killed, and we fled all the way. I didn't expect to come here by accident."
She thought of leaving Dong Ting without saying goodbye, her head hurt even more, and her whole body was enveloped in grief.
Xu Jian clearly felt her depression, his eyes fell on her face, the shadows covered by the thick long eyelashes covered her eyes, I don't know what she was thinking at this time, but after not seeing her for many months, she grew taller again A lot, the chin is also sharper, and the appearance is more beautiful and beautiful. This is one of the few words about women's appreciation that he has understood in the past 20 years.
"The poor monk heard some news in the past two days, saying that His Majesty was assassinated, and the entire capital was heavily guarded to search for the assassin. Yesterday in the mountains, the poor monk saw the guards haunting."
Chu Qingyan heard a sneer at the corner of her mouth, that was Emperor Xixuan's thief shouting to catch a thief!
She raised her head and asked him, "Hui Jian, if I say that the person they want to arrest is me, will you hand me over?"
Xu Jian looked at the woman sitting upright on the bed, his eyes were calm, and he looked back at him indifferently, as if he was not asking about his own life and death, but an irrelevant question.
Such a calm girl made his brows gentle, and he put his hands together, "The poor monk is a monk, and he doesn't care about the world, nor does he get involved in royal disputes."
Chu Qingyan was a little surprised, meaning he knew what happened to them and Emperor Xixuan? But then she thought that he was a magic stick, and she was not surprised if she wanted to know what the divination was.
"Thank you, Xu Jian." She was testing him just now, and his reaction made her relieved. She could no longer fall into the hands of Emperor Xixuan and the others, otherwise she would be wasting a big chunk of ice and spending so much energy to save her. .
A faint smile.
"Xu Jian, can you inquire about the news in Kyoto?" She is now the target of arrest and cannot show her face easily, so she pinned her hopes on him.
Xu Jian shook his head, "Poor monks can't interfere in the world."
He saved her, it was already an exception, and it couldn't be made any more.
Knowing that she was embarrassing him, Chu Qingyan retreated and said, "Then can you ask someone to help me find my companion? He was lost with me in Fengshan."
Xu Jian hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in her bright eyes, "The poor monk will do his best."
"Thank you!" Chu Qingyan blushed slightly and thanked him.
Because she was seriously ill, and after talking for so long, she was already exhausted, so Xu Jian stopped staying, told her to rest, and left the room.
Standing outside the house, I sighed softly when I saw the sky after the wind and rain.
Her friend is probably no longer in Fengshan.
The tower bell went away, and Chu Qingyan slowly fell asleep amid the ethereal sound.
Maybe she will never know in her whole life that Xu Jian's appearance in the forest to save her was not an accident.
But it was only after she figured out that she was in trouble, she went down the mountain.