The group walked for more than half a month, and the weather became hotter and hotter, gradually turning from early summer to midsummer.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, especially as it approaches noon. The carriage's interior is like a big steamer, making people unable to breathe if they stay in it.
Even if people can overcome the hot weather by drinking water, horses can't stand it and need to drink water. Otherwise, if a horse suffers from heatstroke, let alone whether it can buy a new one, let's just say that most of these are small towns along the way. , there is no place where such sleek horses can be replaced.
In fact, the carriage alone along the way was equivalent to a group of people driving a supercar through the city, so it was not without attracting people with ulterior motives.
But I don't blame the bad guys for being incompetent. It's just that everyone in this group, except Su Qingluan, has extraordinary skills and is very smart. In particular, Yao Guang and the other two secret guard brothers, although they are not one of the "Big Dipper", are still very skilled. They have almost developed the habit of detecting malicious sights in the dark, and they can make accurate shots every time.
Sometimes, Su Qingluan didn't even realize what was going on. The people who wanted to stir up trouble had already been dealt with, and it could be said that there was no suspense.
So Su Qingluan was a little nervous about bandit gangsters and gangsters in the beginning, but later she only had expectations. When all the gangsters were dealt with in one go, Su Qingluan didn't even have expectations anymore, because... she was used to it.
However, due to various reasons, the traveling speed of the group was delayed a lot - after all, there was no way to rush at noon, and there was a night ban in the morning and evening.
They even occasionally slept in wild temples in the mountains during the journey, but they had no choice but to do so.
Su Qingluan once asked Mu Xingzhi secretly whether it was okay to do this, and whether it would delay his travel plan. Su Qingluan smiled and said, "I'm such a sick person. Isn't it natural that I can't walk fast?"
Su Qingluan said in her heart, okay, she was overthinking.
So what happened next seemed unexpected and logical. In the evening of the day before Mu Xingzhi and his group arrived in Xunyang County, he disappeared because the group was "robbers" again. It is said that the place where he disappeared was on a road. Beside the big flowing river, the direction of the river's flow is towards Jingzhou City, which is the capital city.
Su Qingluan: ...Well, people may be washed away, so you have to look in the direction of the river. There's nothing wrong with it!
Yao Guang, who was next to him, was also conscientiously reciting his lines and going through the process: "Cousin, please relax, cousin, he is a good person. Let's go home to my father first and see if he can find a few more people to help find him!"
In fact, Su Qingluan was a little worried when he learned that Mu Xingzhi disappeared by such a fast river - after all, from the outside, Mu Xingzhi was "unable to walk" in a wheelchair. And she was not sure who was real and who was fake when she met so many bad guys on the road. What if?
As a result, when she heard Yao Guang reading lines here, Su Qingluan said in her heart: Yes, this is the established process, don't worry about it, it's time for her to follow the process.
Then I stayed up late and read a storybook that I had heard was very tear-jerking - well, how should I put it, the plot was quite cliche, but the victory was the delicate description, so Su Qingluan still shed a few tears along with it.
The number of tears is not important, what is important is the effect of a haggard face and red and swollen eyes.
Yaoguang "consoled her cousin all day and night" so she knew how Su Qingluan became so "haggard", but the rest, especially the duo of coachmen, once again expressed their appreciation for Su Qingluan's detailed "acting skills" ” expresses heartfelt admiration.
Su Qingluan looked at Yao Guang, who was speechless at the side, and whispered: "Don't look down on the script so much. At least it has an effect? But the expression on your face has softened - it should be sadness and worry now. when."
"I...I can't worry..." Yaoguang had been trained rigorously, but this obviously did not include acting skills.
Su Qingluan told her: "At least keep your face down and don't roll your eyes." Although Su Qingluan couldn't detect her anxious mood, she had seen many anxious and worried faces in the ward in her previous life. I have collapsed, but in the end I gradually became numb, because I knew that I was unable to change the gears of fate.
Now Su Qingluan thought about it rationally. If she really loved Mu Xingzhi sincerely, and they were technically newlyweds, she understood rationally that her husband would probably be buried in the roaring river, which would be a disaster. . But emotionally, she felt that "if you are alive, you want to see a person, and if you are dead, you want to see a corpse." She was always unwilling to see the corpse and held on to a glimmer of hope.
So although Su Qingluan couldn't "act", she still remembered the numb and desperate expressions of those people. She just had to do it.
But thinking about it this way, she still felt a little lucky: Fortunately, Mu Xingzhi was not the real "Mu Xingzhi", otherwise how desperate would she have been if she had just realized that she fell in love with him?
The group entered Xunyang County the next day, and were led by Yaoguang to Mu Xingzhi's "uncle" home.
Then Su Qingluan was a little dumbfounded - the old man on the hospital bed not only looked extremely ill, but his appearance was also 60-70% similar to Mu Xingzhi!
That's the kind of thing that no one would believe if they said they were not related in any way!
Even among the relatives in the family, anyone who has a close blood relationship with this "old uncle" is somewhat related!
Su Qingluan was simply dumbfounded: Sure enough, no matter what Mu Xingzhi did, he would always make it look real - she had not forgotten at all that "Mu Xingzhi" and his appearance were all disguised. !
Of course, these people are also good at singing and chanting. They are extremely ill and popular. When they heard the arrival of Mu Xingzhi and his entourage, they were filled with joy at first. After hearing the bad news that Mu Xingzhi "may fall into the river", they beat their chests and cried. Out of breath.
Even because I was seriously ill, the feeling of being out of breath and weak when I cried was very appropriate!
Is this... is this really staged? Su Qingluan got closer. Seeing that the other person's face was sallow and exhausted, she thought to herself that maybe this old man was really ill...
Soon, she was no longer in the mood to complain. Because as the only Mu Xingzhi's family member so far, and the one who has a high probability of becoming a "widow", the old man burst into tears again, which made Su Qingluan, who had poor acting skills, say that it was a good thing she had done it beforehand. Spread onion water on the handkerchief.
In this way, every time she felt her tears were about to dry up, she would wipe her eyes with a handkerchief, which would make more tears flow.
In fact, if you apply onion water on a handkerchief, it won't matter if you are far away, but the smell of onions is very strong. At least the old uncle who is close at hand will definitely be able to smell the strange smell on the handkerchief. It is not a fragrant ointment. The taste is more like onion.
Su Qingluan was also sure that the other party had discovered this. But it was obvious that the old uncle was different from Su Qingluan, a rookie. She was an experienced actor. Not only did he not expose her, but he covered her up without leaving a trace when people around wanted to help her.
This made Su Qingluan wipe her tears with an onion handkerchief, and admired in her heart: Look at these lines, look at this movement, look at this expression, and his ability to adapt to the situation, this old man's acting skills are simply outstanding!
