The night was as still as water, the city gates were closed, and the grains in the fields adjacent to the official road suddenly shook, like waves coming from afar, and separated into clusters on the left and right.
Rustle…
That was the sound of a wild animal's paw pads running across the ground. A light red shadow was running quickly across the field, with two other waves approaching from behind.
Two fox shadows, one red and one white, hissed sharply.
"Bitch! Give us Yang Yuan!"
The light red shadow ran without making a sound or looking back. In front of him was a long and towering city wall, with torches flashing from time to time.
He bit his long lips tightly, kicked the ground with his limbs, and shot into the air. A gust of cold wind blew, his figure became dim, and he rushed towards the city wall.
Whoosh!
The torches in the patrolling soldiers' hands swayed suddenly. A strong wind blew, confusing everyone and making them tilt their heads. In the range of the swaying light, it was like a black shadow flashed by.
"What a strong wind..."
Just as the previous gust of wind passed, someone said something, and another gust of wind came, blowing several people to and fro.
"Hey, the wind won't stop, right?!"
"I seemed to see a shadow in the wind..."
"… Don't talk nonsense, you must be dazzled."
Over the city wall, the strong wind blew across the roof of a building. The two figures, one red and one white, turned into furry human figures. Their green eyes swept around. In the eyes of the two demons, there were countless houses lined up one after another. In the dark night, occasional coughs were heard, attracting a burst of dog barking.
On the roof, there was a continuous squeaking sound of foxes.
“… My little sister is really good at hiding.” The white fox shadow chuckled.
The fox shadow on the other side snorted and clenched its claws.
"She must be hiding with her lover. We can find her by following the scent. She can't escape."
…
It was a dark night and the tiles on the roofs of the houses of those who had gone to bed early could be heard rustling.
Some people thought that bandits had come and quickly got up. However, the sound had already faded away. Under the cold moonlight, a light red shadow flew over a house and descended the wall towards a large mansion in front.
The moment he approached the eaves with outstretched limbs, the shadow cast on the wall by the moonlight, as he walked around the corner, he had become a human.
Under her skirt, she walked in lotus steps with embroidered shoes to a door. She seemed to know that there was only one person inside, and she stretched out her white jade fingers and knocked on the door.
A faint call.
"Lian Cheng."
Soon, in the dark room, there was a rustling sound, and then a light came on. After a while, the door creaked open, and the warm yellow light illuminated the man who opened the door. He was wearing a thin blue dress over his underwear, and his body was thin with sunken cheeks.
His originally lifeless eyes lit up when he saw the beautiful woman outside the door. His dry and peeling lips suddenly smiled and he hugged the woman in his arms.
"Rouge... I thought you weren't coming."
"Why wouldn't I come... Lian Cheng, come in quickly, I've brought the things."
The woman named Yanzhi pushed the other person inside, turned around and looked outside the door, carefully closed the door, and under the oil lamp, opened her mouth and exhaled a cloud of white smoke.
"… I stole this from my elder and second elder sisters. Take it quickly."
Zhang Liancheng looked at what the woman was holding in her hand and raised his eyes weakly: "Yanzhi, what is this?"
"The elixir... Just don't worry about it."
Yanzhi looked at the window frame from time to time, her eyes red and wet. She handed it over and urged him with a sob: "Lian Cheng, hurry up and breathe it in. You will be fine. Only then can we stay together forever. Please hurry up."
After looking at the woman for a moment, Zhang Liancheng nodded weakly: "Okay." He took it, held it in his palm without hesitation, put his face above the white mist, and inhaled hard.
Two streams of smoke entered his nostrils.
Yanzhi looked at the man anxiously, squatted down, and held his hand: "Lian Cheng, how do you feel? Do you feel any heat?"
The man sitting on the edge of the bed nodded.
"There is a heat that feels like it's swimming inside my body... uh..." The smiling face suddenly froze, her hands broke free from the rouge, and she clutched the sheets tightly, the veins on her face and neck bulged, and she fell to her side, her whole body twitching.
"Lian Cheng!"
Yanzhi rushed forward and hugged him in her arms. She gritted her teeth and spat out a small green bead from her mouth. She rubbed it on the man's forehead and felt that the energy did not dissipate and be absorbed by Zhang Liancheng. Instead, it ran wildly.
At this moment, water stains fell from the corners of her eyes and she cried out.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I don't know how I ended up like this..."
"fine… "
Zhang Liancheng weakly raised his hand and stroked the woman's cheek, forcing a smile on his thin face.
"It's okay... I know my body... Actually, I'm very happy that you can come... Really..."
He took a breath, his words coming out in staccato bursts as he tried to squeeze out the sound.
"... You saved me, I know you are good... In the past two days, actually... I have been thinking...
If only I had met you earlier... "
She closed her eyes, took a few weak breaths, and forced a smile: "Yanzhi... I have never regretted anything... It's just that these past two days... I have thought clearly about some things...
Let her die... But Zhou Rong... I want to see her... Tell her... I can't marry her..."
Yanzhi wiped away her tears and let go of his hand: "Don't talk, I'll go find her."
On the bed, Zhang Liancheng, who was originally weak, suddenly grabbed the arm of the woman who was about to get up and leave, and shook his head vigorously.
"Don't go... Don't go... There is a master in the Zhou Mansion. The Taoist priests my father hired were all driven away by him... Don't go... Just stay here with me... and talk..."
"Well, I won't leave. I'll stay here with you."
Yanzhi sniffed, smiled with red eyes, but she slightly opened her lips and blew out a breath quietly. The man on the bed trembled his eyes and slowly closed them.
The woman tucked her hair up, sniffed, turned around and opened the door, looking at the figure lying on the bed through the slowly closing crack of the door. She didn't leave until she could no longer see it.
Expert...
Maybe the other party will have a solution, she thought.
She crossed the courtyard wall and went down to the street. She knew the location of the Zhou Mansion in the city and had seen it from afar once before.
After a moment, Yanzhi jumped onto a nearby roof and flew a distance like a gust of wind. After passing two streets, she smelled two completely different scents.
His body suddenly tilted, and a big hole appeared on the roof under his feet. Tiles shattered and flew into the air.
Inside, someone was hugging the quilt and screaming.
"What's going on? What's going on? Where's my roof?!"
A few drops of blood seeped out. Yanzhi looked back and saw two fox shadows, one red and one white, falling not far away, which elicited a sneer.
"Little sister, how can you keep running away? Where's Yuan Yang? Hand him over."
Yanzhi did not answer, but slowly took two steps back, turned around, and rode the cold wind again, rushing away in a farther direction.
The red fox snorted coldly, "Still want to run!" He did not slow down his pace, and the second sister beside him chased after him again.
"If I catch her this time, I'm going to skin her alive!!"
Three figures, one in front and one behind, ran back and forth on the rooftops. In less than half an incense stick of time, a large courtyard appeared in Yanzhi's sight.
This is it.
Without hesitation, he flew across the middle street, jumped over the courtyard wall, lay on a tree, and rushed into the yard.
rear.
One in red and one in white followed closely behind and descended into the courtyard.