Lu Zheng helped Xiao Qi look up into the sky and said to him with a smile, "It's snowing."
Xiao Qi was able to walk on his own, but he still didn't let go of Lu Zheng's hand until Lu Zheng broke away from his hand, ran two steps forward, and raised his hand to catch the snow in the air.
It was still snowing lightly at first, but after a while, heavy snow fell slowly, leaving the ground completely white.
Lu Zheng happily spun around in circles twice, "Tomorrow we can build snowmen again. Do you know how many snowmen I have built in one go?"
Xiao Qi walked slowly and motioned to her.
Lu Zheng held out three fingers and said, "Three hundred."
Xiao Qi paused in surprise, three hundred snowmen?
Lu Zheng looked up at the sky, grabbed a handful of snow in the air, turned to look at Xiao Qi, and continued: "There was a heavy snowfall in the valley one year, and senior brothers and the others were not here."
She and Tianyi were left alone. There was someone at the Jiange Pavilion in the back mountain, but her senior brother told her not to go to the Jiange Pavilion for nothing, as it would disturb them. Although Lu Zheng knew it was not the case, she did not go against his wishes.
"I was in the medicine pool... I felt unwell and wanted to eat sweets. When Tian saw that I was feeling uncomfortable, he went out of the valley to buy me sweets, but he didn't come back for a long time."
Xiao Qi's heart tightened. How old is she? Are you afraid of being alone?
"But I got better the next day, and then I made snowmen while waiting for Tianyi. Then I made 300 snowmen before Tianyi came back."
She didn't know how many days it was, but she just woke up every day and went to build a snowman. When she was tired, she went to bed. When she was hungry, she went directly to Tianchi to pick snow lotus to satisfy her hunger.
That time Tianyi brought her a lot of candies, which surprised her, but a large snowman shocked Tianyi.
Lu Zheng thought of this and laughed twice, "Can you imagine what three hundred snowmen would look like?"
Xiao Qi walked up to her, shook his head, then moved his eyes from Lu Zheng's face to her head, straightening the crooked hairpin.
He didn't know what kind of spectacular scene three hundred snowmen would be, but he knew how lonely it was to be alone for a long time.
But Lu Zheng was bright, and Xiao Qi never saw any real trouble on her face.
He was thinking that Lu Zheng must have lived a happy childhood, happy enough to withstand all the long and lonely years.
The two of them continued to walk forward, but before they returned to Ping'an Lane, they heard a few faint barkings. Xiao Qi listened intently, his face lit up with joy, and he took two steps quickly. Sure enough, he heard it more clearly.
"...Prince, this way!"
"...Woof, woof, woof."
The sound is getting closer.
When Lu Ming, who had been following them closely, heard this sound, he secretly said, Oh no!
The next moment, before Lu Ming made any move, he saw Lu Zheng in the alley leaping up to Xiao Qi's back. If it hadn't been for a crooked-necked tree right next to him, he would have almost brought Xiao Qi down.
"There's... there's a dog!"
Xiao Qi froze, and then when he felt Lu Zheng's fear coming from the depths of his soul, he immediately comforted her and patted her arm again and again.
Lu Zheng buried her head in his neck, her voice trembling, "Let them go away..."
Xiao Qi nodded, and then realized that Lu Zheng couldn't see him, so he had to pat her arm again to comfort her.
This is what Xiao Chunan and the guards who came all the way saw this scene.
"...A Ci!"
"Your Majesty."
"...Woof, woof."
Lu Zheng's arms around his neck tightened, "...take it away."
Xiao Qi quickly raised his hand anxiously, and Xiao Chunan reacted immediately, "Changping, send them back to Lord Yun."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After Changping took away the two dogs that Lu Zheng didn't even know what they looked like, Xiao Qi patted Lu Zheng again, but he couldn't speak.
"Miss Lu, the dog has been taken away." Even if it was Xiao Chunan, he didn't expect that Lu Zheng was afraid of dogs, and he was so afraid.
It seemed that only at this moment did Lu Zheng know that Xiao Chunan was coming. She raised her head and glanced cautiously behind Xiao Chunan and others. When she saw that there were really no dogs, she got off Xiao Qi's back.
Her breathing was uneven, and she was obviously frightened.
Huasui, who was behind the crowd, quickly went over to help Lu Zheng. She lowered her head with a guilty conscience. She chased Lu Zheng and lost him near the entrance of the alley.
But she didn't dare to leave here, fearing that the people she found wouldn't know which direction they were going?
When Xiao Chunan came over, she suggested that the alley here was too complicated and it would be easier to find it with a hound, but she didn't expect that Miss Lu was afraid of dogs.
When Xiao Chunan saw that Xiao Qi was fine, Lu Zheng turned pale and said to Xiao Qi: "The Xuanjia Guards are dispatched. There is still some chaos on the street. There will be no idlers, let’s go back home first.”
Xiao Chunan knew that Emperor Chongning trusted Yunzhang very much and gave him a lot of power. Everyone below the third rank had the right to kill first and then report. Tonight Yunzhang ordered a curfew, so tomorrow morning he would have to report the troublemakers to Emperor Chongning.
Suddenly, Lu Zheng raised her hand and touched the back of her neck. Only then did she realize that a lot of snow had fallen on her collar, and some of it had already melted. The coldness brought her back from the predicament she had just been in.
Huasui quickly helped her pat the falling snow off her body.
She coughed, with a stiff smile on her face, and said to Xiao Chunan, "Fortunately, the prince sent someone to pick us up. We were too tired from running tonight, otherwise we wouldn't be able to walk back."
Lu Ming's mouth froze when he heard this from a distance. She was not too tired from running, she was obviously scared.
Lu Zheng always felt that she was very lucky. She had never met a dog since leaving the valley. Even if she heard a dog barking from a distance, she would run away quickly.
But in reality, Lu Ming had already lured those dogs away that he could bump into just around the corner.
As soon as the group came out of Ping'an Lane, they saw a carriage parked on the street. Xiao Fuzi, who was standing in front of the carriage, heard the movement and almost cried with joy: "Master!"
"Master, are you okay? Are you injured anywhere?" Xiao Fuzi rushed towards Xiao Qi quickly and asked anxiously.
Xiao Qi waved his hand to indicate that he was fine. If something happened to him, would his father still be like this?
Xiao Fuzi said with lingering fear: "But I was scared to death..."
"Where is Miss Lu injured? Why does her face look so bad?" Lu Zheng forced a smile at him: "I'm fine."
Xiao Chunan looked at the Xuanjia guards walking back and forth in the distance and said, "Get in the carriage and go back home."
Xiao Fuzi quickly stepped forward to help Xiao Qi. Xiao Qi reached out and wrote something on his hand. Xiao Fuzi was startled, glanced at Lu Zheng who was getting into the carriage, and nodded in agreement.
Lu Zheng, who had just got on the carriage, suddenly thought of something. He lifted the curtain and suddenly realized, Huasui is here, but where are Lian Xin and A Zhi?
"Where are Lian Xin and A Zhi? Have they gone back?"
Huasui, who was waiting outside the carriage, replied: "Eunuch Fu has just been picked up by someone at the medicine shop. He should have arrived at the palace by now."
Lu Zheng breathed a long sigh of relief, that's good. I wonder if the kid A Zhi was scared?
(End of chapter)
