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Jiang Rao blinked and looked at him, he smiled, and the canine tooth that disturbed her sight was exposed again, "May I take you to a place?"
Jiang Rao looked at his picturesque face under the lamplight, and it was hard to say anything to refuse.
She couldn't sleep anyway.
She sighed, grabbing the quilt to cover her body which was only wearing a jacket, "You go out and wait for me first."
Rong Ting smiled happily, the lantern was placed beside her, and she went out first.
Jiang Rao put on a coat and a cloak, came out with a lantern, and walked behind him, "Where are you going?"
"Look at the stars." Rong Ting waved at her, motioning her to follow him.
He first walked into the woods next to the camp.
Jiang Rao shone the light on the ground with a lantern, afraid that he would walk too fast, the road would be bumpy and uneven, and the light would not be able to reach him, so he said to the figure in front, "Slow down, I have the light in my hand, you Follow me."
Before the word "I" was finished, Jiang Rao's lips were still round, and she was stunned to hear the leaves rustling by the wind, the sound was loud, and the lantern was shaken by the wind.
Went out.
Just like that.
Jiang Rao stared at the lantern in her hand like a ghost, and stopped in her footsteps. Once the fire was extinguished, she couldn't see anything clearly, and frowning, she stopped in place.
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Rong Ting turned around and came back, "The lantern went out?"
"Go back to find Huoshi?" He took the lantern in her hand and held it in his own.
Jiang Rao thought about how long it took them to go out, and felt a little lazy. It was hard to get here, and I will go back again. If it is an exaggeration, maybe it will be dawn.
Although he couldn't see where the road was, he took two steps forward carefully and tentatively, not staggering. Jiang Rao didn't plan to go back, and picked up a long branch from the ground to explore the way, "Just go like this Bar."
But she was worried about falling down later, so she looked at Rong Ting, "I can't see the road clearly, if you pass some potholes, please remind me if you see it, okay?"
She learned a lot from Hu Tang that some people with good martial arts have much better eyesight than ordinary people, and can see things at night. The old doctor in Yecheng told her that he has a good foundation in martial arts, and she thought to herself Maybe he could see better than she did.
In the thick night, the sly light in Rong Ting's eyes flashed, he looked at her without looking at the road, and said in a deep voice, "Okay."
Seeing that he readily agreed, Jiang Rao immediately became very at ease, walking by his side, wherever he went, she would definitely not fall down, after walking a few steps there was no problem, she stuck her hand in her hand The small wooden sticks on the road gradually became decorations.
Not two steps later, he encountered a big pit and stepped on the air, Jiang Rao exclaimed, his heart almost jumped out.
But she didn't fall.
Rong Ting's firm and strong arms wrapped around her waist.
Although his body didn't fall into the pit, Jiang Rao took a step back with sweat breaking out on his forehead.
She stood firm, a little embarrassed, but also a little strange.
She looked at Rong Ting and asked suspiciously, "Can't you see the way too?"
If he reminded her of the pit just now, she wouldn't step on the ground and wouldn't have to be hugged by him so embarrassingly.
"You can see clearly before."
previously
"And now?" she asked.
"Some of the medicines used to heal my leg injury... depleted my internal energy."
Jiang Rao frowned.
His hand was still around her waist, so strong that she even had the illusion that he could lift her up with one hand.
This is called loss
"I vaguely saw it just now, but it was too late. I was wrong."
"Come closer to me so I can remind you." His tone was weak, but he hugged her to his side on his own initiative. Her body was warm, but his body was covered with the coldness of the medicine. The difference was so obvious that Jiang Rao When she got close to him, she was driven by shame and wanted to hide back, but when some sounds from the forest came to her ears, she suddenly pressed herself against his arm.
It's the cry of a frog.
She is most afraid of this kind of animal with wet skin and no fluffy hair.
Just thinking about it is scary.
The moment she leaned forward, Rong Ting's body stiffened for a moment. Jiang Rao was so close to him, so she naturally felt it. She hesitated whether to let go of her hand, but the frogs kept crying, and instead of letting go, she held it even more nervously. up.
"I'm afraid you'll fall." Her tone was serious, but the fingers holding his arm trembled slightly.
Rong Ting looked down at her approaching figure, under the cover of night, he didn't even hide the smile in his eyes, and lied for her: "I'm afraid too."
Jiang Rao was terribly afraid, but she still used a small wooden stick to explore the road, and walked forward in small steps.
Gradually came to the middle of the forest, where the trees were sparse.
There are no tall and lush trees blocking the moonlight, and the vision is much wider and brighter.
There is a small pond.
"Here we are." Rong Ting said.
Jiang Rao looked at the fireflies rising from the lake and let out a "wow".
Those bright fireflies were like stars falling from the sky, the light from their small bodies fell into her eyes again, making her eyes sparkle, and she gradually let go of her hand.
If she could see such a beautiful scene every night, she would be willing to sleep for several nights.
Her surprised expression fell into Rong Ting's eyes, and he smiled lightly, "Do you like it?"
Jiang Rao nodded, but she looked at the lake as smooth as a mirror, no matter how much she liked it, she didn't move on.
The noise of frogs in the pond made her feel terrified.
Why are there so many frogs in autumn
He looked at her thoughtfully, and said, "It's fine if you don't go forward."
"There are frogs and snakes in the pond." He asked her why she didn't dare to go forward.
Jiang Rao's body tensed up when she heard this, just now she thought it would be great if she could see fireflies every night, but now she just wants to get back into the tent.
Rong Ting paid attention to her reaction, his long eyes narrowed slightly, looking extremely cunning, he reminded seriously, "You pay attention to the back of your feet, don't climb up on something, you don't know it yet."
She lowered her head and looked at her insteps and surroundings, but she didn't see anything scary, and then she turned her gaze to the lake in the forest, where the stars were reflected and shimmering, making people unforgettable even at a glance.
Jiang Rao raised her eyes and looked at the stars all over the sky. They were no different from the stars over Jinling, but they were brighter because there were no people around but trees.
The scenery here is too clean, clean and peaceful. There is a deserted sandy land by the lake. The trees are obviously tall, but the night sky above the head is full of vast and deep stars, which seems to be within reach.
She was so fascinated by it that she couldn't help taking a step forward, but the back of her foot suddenly sank.
This heavy feeling made Jiang Rao's scalp tense instantly.
She frantically held up the hem of her skirt and jumped up.
When the heavy feeling on the instep slipped away, she still couldn't get rid of the tightness of her scalp. She always felt that the thing would jump up again, screaming and jumping up and directly hanging herself on the person beside her.
She hugged Rong Ting's neck, her legs and feet were so frightened that she couldn't jump very high, her legs couldn't reach his knees, she could only weakly wrap his calves, but the sense of security that her feet were off the ground was still solid Let her breathe a sigh of relief, relieved, and finally let go of the feeling of fear that made her goosebumps all over.
"Are you really so scared?" There was a relaxed and comfortable smile in his voice, and when he listened carefully, there was still a hint of childish naughtiness. He lifted her body up and told her to curl up on his knees. His lowered legs were wrapped around his waist, and his hands continued to rest on her back, stroking lazily as if to comfort her.
Jiang Rao hung there unsteadily, neither daring to let go nor to check to see if the thing that jumped onto her instep on the ground had slipped away, her ears were flushed, her chest heaved, as if it had run away It's like a long road, and the sound of panting and breathing is difficult to calm down.
The watery moonlight poured down like silver yarn, covering the sandy land by the lake.
There was nothing on the sand except Rong Ting's gray boots slightly sunk in the sand, and the shadows of the two of them melting together.
Jiang Rao closed her eyes and didn't dare to look, Rong Ting moved her feet calmly, kicking away the cake-shaped mud on the ground that was as big as a child's fist.
His smiling eyes were radiant and affectionate when he smiled, his deep voice rang beside her ears, and the heat hit the tip of her ears, making her ears numb. When he moved, she thought he was going to put her down, and groaned uncomfortably After a while, he said cowardly: "Let me hug you for a while."
She was stern and well-founded, just like he said to her in the daytime, and said: "Anyway, you are my future husband."
She hugged his neck tightly and made up her mind not to let go. She shrank her head on his shoulders and was more timid than a turtle with her head shrunk, but her tone carried an undeniable confidence, a bluff confidence.
He had kissed him during the day, so she didn't follow her.
Her lips were pouted, the more she thought about it, the more fake prestige became, and the tighter the hands wrapped around his neck became.
Rong Ting was as tall and straight as a tree, standing firmly on the sandy ground, protecting her back with both hands, and there was a smile in her breathing.
He couldn't help but let go of one hand and pinched her red earlobe. It's really good that only he can see her like this. He said "yes" with a faint smile.
A slow learner.
Cute love.
The emotion of fear came and went slowly, and it was quite a while before Jiang Rao finally had the courage to look at the ground.
Glancing at the ground, there are no frogs/toads or snakes, only the faint moonlight shining on the fine sand on the ground, and there are large and small footprints, and the rest is empty. Immediately, her panic just now seemed to be in a state of self-disorder. Jiang Rao's face immediately turned red, and she raised her feet and poked her head to look at the upper of her embroidered shoes, wanting to see if she was really too nervous. I misunderstood myself.
There was a layer of mud on the embroidered shoes, as if a toad had jumped on her feet just now.
I didn't expect something to actually jump up.
Jiang Rao shivered and turned her feet back and hugged her tightly.
A low voice came from next to my ear, "Niannian."
His voice sounded hoarse and depressed, "Don't move around."
She is not heavy, and it is easy to hold her, even without much effort.
But it's not so easy to hold her without thinking about anything else.
Jiang Rao calmed down.
After all, she was not as flustered as she was when she just jumped up. Although she knew that a toad jumped on her instep just now, there was nothing on the ground after all.
Don't panic anymore, what she did and said in a hurry just now came to my mind one after another, even the shyness suppressed by panic and fear also came to my mind. This time the redness not only covered the back of her ears, but also gradually covered her neck and face. She was so ashamed that she wanted to go down and step on the ground, but he didn't feel tired when he held her waist tightly. Jiang Rao buried her face in his shoulder like an ostrich, and whispered to his ear to beg, "Put me down."
Rong Ting followed her wishes very much, loosened his hand, and put her down, just when Jiang Rao's toes were about to touch the ground, he heard him say calmly: "It seems that something jumped over again. .”
Jiang Rao lifted up her toes that were about to touch the ground, turned her feet back, looked around in fear, and heard him sigh guiltily, "I was wrong."
Jiang Rao finally landed on the ground, her eyes still staring at the grass and the pond nervously, for fear that those things she was afraid of would jump out again.
"Is it really wrong?" She couldn't find anything in her chaotic eyesight, she turned her head to confirm with Rong Ting.
The ground was so empty that she thought he was teasing her.
Rong Ting looked innocent, "I was wrong."
He bent down and picked up a stick.
"Did you see clearly just now..." Jiang Rao moved her body to get closer to him, and when she asked him, her little head vigilantly turned to the ground, looked left, right, forward and backward, with a timid tone in her tone Afraid, "Did you see clearly what it was that jumped on my instep just now?"
"I didn't see clearly." Rong Ting babbled innocently, "Maybe he escaped too quickly."
Jiang Rao stared at the bushes and pond in fear.
Rong Ting said to her: "If you stay in Jinling, you won't be frightened by these things."
"But if I stay in Jinling, I won't be able to see the beautiful fireflies and stars here." Jiang Rao frowned when he heard that he seemed to be pursuing her for following, and followed up cleverly.
Rong Ting smiled lightly, and the smile fell into Jiang Rao's eyes. She actually felt that there was some bitterness in his smile. She ignored the things that frightened her, and walked up to him and looked at him. He raised his hand and embraced her. As it got closer, Jiang Rao hesitated for a moment, but in the end she didn't struggle, and obediently let him hold her.
"After I arrived in Chuzhou, it was too far away from Jinling. Telltale gossip is indispensable. Three people become tigers. I don't know what will happen in the end."
His tone was a little low, and Jiang Rao muffled in his arms, "If I were in Jinling, I would definitely not let others say that about you."
Three people become tigers, bah. There were two people who dared to speak ill of him, and she tried to cut them off.
She felt his chest vibrate, and seemed to be smiling slightly. Jiang Rao looked up at him, he sighed, and nodded her forehead, "Unfortunately, you are not in Jinling."
He looked at her sadly, then let go of his hand suddenly, bent down to pick up a wooden stick, and drew something on the ground, Jiang Rao followed to see that there were two circles.
"Huaizhou is here, and Chuzhou is here." Rong Ting drew a line near the two circles again, "This is Yitong Mountain."
Jiang Rao was ignorant and obediently repeated, "Huaizhou, Chuzhou, Yitong Mountain?"
Rong Ting said: "Yitong Mountain is one of the places where the cableway was damaged mentioned in Xi Zimo's letter."
Jiang Rao only knew that Xi Zimo insisted that Rong Ting go there under the pretext that the cableway was damaged, but she couldn't see Xi Zimo's letter begging Emperor Zhaowu to send troops, and she didn't know which mountain's cableway was damaged. She understood when he said that Now, looking at the location of Yitong Mountain, it seems to be closer to Huaizhou, but not far from Chuzhou. She doesn't know much about military skills, but she feels that this is a very important pass, and asked : "Does anyone need to guard here?"
"Need." She smiled awkwardly at the look of wanting to help, "but I'll figure it out."
Rong Ting drew the location of Jinling on the sandy ground far away from the two circles, and pointed to Jiang Rao, "Look at Chuzhou and Huaizhou, are they close?"
"Near." Jiang Rao didn't understand what he was going to say, "What's wrong?"
"Even if Taoyuan is inaccessible, it may be affected by the flames of war. The cableway at Yitong Mountain is destroyed. If someone wants to enter the Central Plains, they may have the idea of Chuzhou."
Jiang Rao frowned, "But Chuzhou is not the only way to go."
"It is not necessary to go through the road to be surprised."
Rong Ting threw down the wooden stick in his hand, approached her suddenly, put his head on her shoulder, put his arms around her, and murmured while holding her, "Chuzhou is very dangerous."
"Even if you come, I'm very happy, but Chuzhou is not the place for you to go."
His eyes were as dark as ink, and he insisted on saying, "You should go back to Jinling."
Jiang Rao wanted to refute him, but suddenly her head became dizzy, her vision was dark, and her consciousness sank.
Rong Ting withdrew his hand that touched her sleeping hole, reached out to catch her when she was about to fall, looked down at her, and murmured like a wry smile, "How could a man bring his weakness with him when he marches and fights? ?”
…
Jiang Rao didn't know how long she had been asleep, and vaguely remembered that someone coaxed her to drink medicine, and when she regained consciousness, her eyelids were heavy and she couldn't open them for a while, and the sounds that fell into her ears made her very strange.
The sound of someone talking.
It was her mother's voice.
"Niannian was given medicine to sleep for so long a day and a night. The medicine will not hurt the body. The doctor said that she will wake up within half an hour."
Her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't open them. Even so, she heard footsteps walking towards her. It seemed that someone came to her side and looked at her for a while, and said in a satisfied voice, "Huh, counting every year." You are right."
It was her father's voice, she tried several times, and finally opened her eyelids this time.
Looking at the familiar curtains and surrounding furnishings, she turned over and sat up.
She turned her head slowly and looked around.
There are no large expanses of lush forests and the night sky that is almost within reach, and there are no fireflies and stars splashing in the sky.
There were only her father standing in front of her and her mother sitting beside her couch.
It was dark, but this was her own room.
She gradually realized what was happening, and her face turned from dazed to sad.
She looked at Jiang Xingzhou and Jiang Qin Shi as if asking for proof, "How did I get back?"
…
A day later, the convoy from Jinling to Huaizhou had already passed Kaizizhou.
Set up camp in the pastoral area at night, Rong Ting ordered people to buy dozens of sheep and came back, and roasted them on the fire. After eating this meal, we will have a good rest, and we will have to go on the road tomorrow night, and we will have a good rest when we reach Qingzhou."
Rong Ting sat alone by the bonfire, not involved in the activities of dividing the sheep. Someone tried to get close to him, but because of his indifferent expression, he retreated.
His indifferent and lowered gaze seemed to be looking at a bonfire or something else.
The root of the disease was still left on his body. Although his physical strength returned to the original level, and even increased a little with age, his body was always cold and he wore heavier clothes than others.
The firewood was burning very vigorously, and the hissing flames reflected his white and glamorous face, and also illuminated his left hand, which was playing with a pearl earring. His five fingers were slender, and the earring was small. His movements were very graceful and beautiful.
Behind him came the neighing of horses.
The dark guard who rushed back from Jinling saw Rong Ting here, jumped off his horse and said, "Your subordinate hastened his horse and sent the fourth girl back. It will be Yin time when we arrive at Ning'an Bo's mansion, and it is still dark."
Only when Rong Ting's eyes had been cold all day long could he see some warmth, he hooked his lips, "It'll be good when we go back."
…
Jiang Rao also learned from Jiang Qinshi and Jiang Xingzhou that she returned to Jinling at Yinshi.
After I came back, I dozed off all day again, unable to wake up from shouting.
She knew that Rong Ting fed her the medicine from last time again.
She had already been harmed by his medicine once, but this time she fell into his trap again.
Jiang Qinshi touched Jiang Rao's head and asked him, "Niannian, do you still want to go?"
Jiang Rao's face was ashen, and he didn't say anything.
But she felt in her heart that she might not go again.
Only then did she understand the meaning of what he said to her.
He had long planned to send her back to Jinling, and even thought of a reason to prevent her from leaving Jinling.
He never thought of letting her go to Chuzhou, and even blocked her way himself!
The reason why three people become tigers is clearly to let her stay in Jinling with peace of mind.
Counting that he had been away from Jinling for two whole days, if she went to look for him now, even if she knew which way he was going, she might not be able to catch up.
What's more, she didn't even know the route he was going to take.
Mingming, Mingming has already agreed to her, why not let her follow
Jiang Rao lowered her head in frustration, and after careful reflection, she realized that he never expressed his attitude or said yes when she said he could not drive her away.
He never really promised her.
It's just that the way she looked at him was not complaining and blaming, she thought so wishfully.
Jiang Rao was devastated for a moment.
Recently, he is still the gentle and docile look she is familiar with, but she gradually feels that her heart is not enough in front of him.
Although lost, but really can not get angry.
She was just a little sad in her heart, more sad than the emperor's order, more sad than natural disasters and man-made disasters.
She lowered her head and suddenly felt something was wrong with her left ear.
He raised his hand and touched his earlobe, it was empty.
She remembered that she was wearing a pair of pearl earrings and touched her right ear again.
The touch of pearls is lustrous, and the earring on the right ear is still there. She is indeed wearing a pair of pearl earrings.
But the one on the left ear was missing.
She thought about it carefully, but she couldn't think of where she could throw the earrings. She slowly rubbed her earlobe twice, then put her hand down again, and raised it to her eyes for a look.
When he lifted his wrist just now, he unexpectedly felt a little heavy on his wrist, as if something was added to it.
When she saw what she was wearing on her wrist, she felt sure again.
Sure enough, there was a bunch of things that she didn't wear herself.
But she looked a little stunned.
She recognized the extra thing.
This is the prayer beads that she was given as a gift after she went to the little novice to donate incense in the Sanqing Temple half a year ago.
At that time, she pitied him that he didn't even live an ordinary life as an ordinary child, so she put this prayer bead on his hand herself.
The color of the beads has been somewhat mottled, as if worn by its owner for a long time.
Jiang Rao remembered that when she made him tired, she took it off and threw it away, but he never lost it, so she couldn't help curling the corners of her lips. After a smile, the corners of her lips shrunk again, and her eyes turned red.
This is probably the only object on his body that has the meaning of seeking blessings and avoiding disasters.
After two turns, it was wrapped around her wrist.