In the middle of the night, only insects could be heard in the tent.
Ji Yunhe lay quietly on the simple-made bed. In the darkness, she opened her eyes as if in a daze, and seemed to be looking up at the starry river outside through the tent above her head.
Suddenly, the worm beside him was a little weaker, and Ji Yunhe had a guess in his heart that Lin Haoqing came to him.
She knew that since Lin Haoqing came, she would not do what she said. So she didn't have to watch or listen to what happened in the camp next to her, but she seemed to have seen it in her eyes and heard it in her ears.
She was a little distressed. I even feel that this approach is a bit cruel to Changyi.
But, there is no way out.
The night was still quiet.
The more it was in such a quiet night when it seemed like something was about to happen, the more uncontrollable memories of the past came up in Ji Yunhe's mind.
Those vague childhood, the hurried and displaced parents took her along the escape route, and the slightly clearer days in the Valley of the Demons... For example, the day Lin Canglan fed her poison for the first time.
It was not a bright day. Lin Canglan asked her to go to his room. Before Ji Yunhe could say a word, Qing Shu squeezed her mouth open, threw a pill into her mouth, and lifted her up. chin, and let her swallow the pill.
At that time, she was confused, she didn't know what was being fed, she just stared blankly at Lin Canglan and Qingshu.
The two of them also paid close attention to her. The room was silent for a long time. Just as Ji Yunhe wanted to ask what he had eaten, he suddenly felt a colic in his heart.
This was the first time she felt the power of the poison. She didn't know what she had done wrong, she rolled on the ground in pain, but Lin Canglan and Qingshu didn't care, they just shook their heads and said it was a pity.
She spent that night in severe pain. She stayed up all night. Lin Canglan and Qingshu kept watching her, as if they were waiting for when she would die. Now that I think about it, that night and tonight have the same effect.
It was just that the body was in extreme pain. But now, it's hard to be patient...
Later, Qing Shu gave her another pill the next morning, and she got better. Qing Shu also said at the time that she was the first.
Ji Yunhe still doesn't understand what Qing Shu said at the time, but now Ji Yunhe feels that the person in this world who can make her feel so distressed is probably the first person in this world.
There was another sound from the side.
The movement was a bit loud, and it seemed to alarm the soldiers. The soldiers' voices came from outside: "There seems to be movement over the merman, go and have a look."
Ji Yunhe lifted the quilt and sat up.
Suddenly, a blue light flashed outside the tent, followed by a crisp sound of cracking ice!
It was like the sound of the frozen lake cracking by the lake in winter. The sound has not fallen! An ice cone pierced Ji Yunhe's tent directly. The bonfire burning in the brazier outside seemed to be overturned by an ice cone that suddenly grew out of the ground. The brazier rolled over, igniting the dead wood on the ground in the forest, and the fire burst into Ji Yunhe's tent. The ice cones inside reflect the brilliance.
Before Ji Yunhe could leave the camp, he heard the soldiers outside shouting: "The merman has run away! The merman has run away!"
The chaotic voices of the soldiers and horses outside, mixed with Zhu Ling's scolding and Ji Chengyu's calm arrangement, completely broke the silence in the forest.
But at this moment of panic, Ji Yunhe suddenly laughed, a smile that was rarely called bright on her face.
She thought about it, and since she swallowed this poison, the days when she laughed happily in her life have been more than two months before she met Changyi.
Changyi is gone, no longer dragged down by her.
congratulations.
Ji Yunhe sat down again, and at this moment, she just fulfilled the three words she said when saying goodbye to Chang Yi - "Don't be afraid".
At least, when the long-term intention was still there, she was still afraid of one thing. If the long-term intention did not go away, it would be bad.
Now, this last thing, she has done it too.
In this world, there is finally nothing to frighten her anymore.
She thought about it. Suddenly, the tent curtain was pulled up by one person, and Ji Yunhe's heart tightened, thinking that it was Changyi who came back to find her, but when he looked up, it was Ji Chengyu.
Ji Chengyu stood by the tent door, his shadow was elongated by the firelight outside, extending to Ji Yunhe's feet.
He looked at Ji Yunhe, and the gentle smile on his face subsided slightly: "The merman ran away, as a demon master, why do you sit here?"
This Ji Chengyu has not yelled at her until now, it seems that he is very polite.
Ji Yunhe also looked at him calmly and said, "The merman's power is unfathomable. If he runs away, no one can catch up."
"You claim to have tamed the merman, but now the merman has escaped, and the princess is held accountable. You know what the outcome will be."
Ji Yunhe thought for a while, then shook his head and sighed with a pretense of gloom: "I'm probably not saved. It's just that you and the major general were punished."
Although Ji Yunhe said so verbally, she knew in her heart that the two people who came here today would definitely not be low-ranking in the National Teacher's Mansion and the imperial court. You can infer one or two by looking at the actions of the two of them. No matter how domineering the Princess of Shunde is, the son of the National Teacher's Office and high-ranking officials and generals, I am afraid that she can't just kill her.
Seeing Ji Yunhe like this, Ji Chengyu obviously had nothing to say. He lowered the curtain, turned to leave, and his calm commanding voice came from outside: "Come with me with a group of people."
This Ji Chengyu doesn't seem to be easy to deal with. Just as Ji Yunhe was thinking about whether to follow, the tent curtain was pulled open again.
Ji Yunhe disliked it in his heart, this court person is really annoying. But when she looked up, she was stunned.
The person in front of him had his silver hair loose, and his white clothes were also dyed with the ashes of the bonfire, making him seem a little panicked. But those ice-blue pupils stared at Ji Yunhe without turning around.
The chaotic sound of the soldiers and horses outside had gone, only the sound of the bonfire burning the wet trees "crackling".
He still didn't go. Still stubborn, came to her.
Ji Yunhe looked at him and suppressed all the emotions in her heart. She can only say one sentence now. Except for this sentence, everything else is a wrong answer—
"I guessed you would come back, Changyi."
The firelight outside the tent melted the ice pick that penetrated into her tent, but the light of the ice pick turned in Ji Yunhe's eyes.
Her smile was seventy percent false.
Chang Yi looked at her quietly: "Ji Yunhe, I only believe what you say, so I only came to ask you."
"what?"
"From the moment you met me, everything you did, what you did, and what you said were all intentional?"
Ji Yunhe restrained the smile on his face, and his expression became cold: "Who told you?"
Seeing the look on Ji Yunhe's face, Chang Yi's lips slowly turned white, and his voice trembled slightly: "It's fake that you treat me well, it's also fake that Xu Zhen treats me, all you do is to tame me. , let me willingly serve the human princess?"
Ji Yunhe approached him: "Changyi, tell me, who told you."
"Really?" And he just asked stubbornly.
Ji Yunhe was silent.
"Is it..." He said again, but he avoided Ji Yunhe's gaze and turned to look elsewhere, puzzled, unwilling and hurt.
Ji Yunhe stared at him: "Yes."
Chang Yi clenched his fists, his eyes clouded.
"That day when the human princess was in prison, whipping you, forcing you, and harming you, it was all fake. It was just a bitter trick you performed?"
"Yes."
The room was silent for a long time, and the more intense the fire outside, the more piercingly cold the inside of the room was.
Chang Yi closed his eyes: "Ji Yunhe." He tried his best to control his scattered breathing, "I... thought you were different from other humans."
With these words, Ji Yunhe could hear the anger he had suppressed, and there was still so much pain... grievances.
Yes, he is aggrieved.
Like a child, he took out his favorite toy, only to exchange for the grievance of the other party turning away.
"Changyi, I'm different from others." She looked at Changyi and said, "No one else can make you serve Princess Shunde, but I can."
She wants to say a word to pierce Chang Yi's heart.
And she did.
Chang Yi finally looked at Ji Yunhe again.
Shock, pain, disbelief.
Like the ice awl next to him, inserted into his chest, the whole person, from beginning to end, was completely cold.
He staggered slightly, and at this time, he realized how uncomfortable his legs were with their tails cut off. It was this stagger that made him lose his footing and grabbed hold of him. The wooden frame of the tent was just stabilized.
Ji Yunhe looked at him coldly.
go.
She approached the long meaning step by step: "You are my tool for freedom."
go.
She stretched out her hand, with spiritual power condensed in her palm, as if to trap Changyi: "Don't try to run."
why don't you go...
When the spiritual power in Ji Yunhe's palm approached Changyi, Zhu Ling's voice came from the side: "The merman is here!"
Ji Yunhe's heart froze, his eyes suddenly sharpened, and the hand that gathered spiritual power no longer hit Changyi with stingy strength.
And Chang Yi just stared blankly at Ji Yunhe's murderous palm, and took it in a daze. With a grunt, he fell directly from the tent, fell to the ground in a daze, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The blood and mud stained his clothes and hair. Changyi turned his head and saw Ji Yunhe standing outside the tent, looking at him with a cold expression. And dozens of sergeants swarmed behind her.
Chang Yi clenched his teeth and swallowed the blood in his mouth. With a wave of his hand, countless ice picks shot out from the soil, pointing directly at the soldiers. For a while, the forest screamed constantly, blood was everywhere, and the smell was sour.
And in this wave-like ice cone, only Ji Yunhe didn't have one in front of him.
It seems that at such a moment, all his hardness and sternness have been used, but there is still no way to be sharp to this person.