The midsummer night was as calm as dead water.
Li Yue carried a lone lantern and walked into the small turret of Li Mansion through the shade of lush branches.
"Crunch, crunch -"
The small turret was still creaking and swaying as she stepped on the old stairs. She only focused on looking at the road under her feet, which seemed to have blended into the stagnant night, and she didn't even notice that the thorns had pulled off the hem of her clothes.
"Gulu——"
After going upstairs, the wine bottle rolled down at her feet. Li Yue stopped and bent down to pick it up without being surprised.
Han Fei, who smelled of alcohol, was sitting with his back against the wall. The purple cloth that was hard to buy in Xianyang Cloth Village was hung loosely on his shoulders. He put one hand on his bent knee, revealing his slender neck and eyes. He lowered his head and looked at her, "You're here."
Li Yue blew out the lone lamp, touched the round lamp handle, and put it aside appropriately.
She got straight to the point: "I took the ice jade you gave me and went to see Little Master Tao, but I didn't see him."
Han Fei nodded: "Thank you."
"I didn't see it, why do you want to thank me?"
He dropped his hand on his knee, and tapped his fingertips on the ground. After a long time, he raised his hand to straighten the wrinkled skirt of his clothes, and chuckled: "She is not the person I want to see. If I haven't seen her, I have."
Li Yue didn't understand: "Why?"
"because--"
With a "swish", he suddenly pulled away the dagger from his waist, and the torn silk ribbon was thrown in a sharp arc in mid-air, with a cold light flashing.
Before Li Yue's eyes widened and she could react, she heard the sound of flesh and blood popping from her back. Warm blood splashed onto the back of her neck, and she felt trembling all over her body. She couldn't help but slump down, "You——"
"Niece, don't you know you are being followed?"
He quietly came over to support her. Li Yue could even feel the tight muscles on his arms and the scent of Korean aristocrats on his body. Han Fei raised his sharp chin towards her, "Be careful." some."
Li Yue suppressed her composure, her chest rising and falling several times. In this dark corner tower, she did not dare to look back at the dead body on the ground, "Am I being followed?"
"Maybe so." Han Fei stretched his wrist and pulled out the dagger from the dead maid. He asked in a dull tone, "You must be afraid of dead people."
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She said nothing.
"Or maybe I didn't expect that Han would kill a civilian." He raised an eyebrow and asked.
Li Yue remained silent, only clenching his sleeves.
"You blame Han for killing? Oh, even if Han doesn't kill, your father." There was a faint pause between Han Fei's lips and teeth, "Your father will kill her."
"It seems that you are no different." Li Yue said.
"Yes." He wiped the warm blood on the dagger carefully and looked sideways at her. There was no movement on her face. Even when measured with a ruler, there was no emotion at all.
Looking away, Han Fei asked again: "In the girl's heart, do you think Han is different from others?"
"I thought you were a gentleman with unforgettable virtues, it seems."
"Gentlemen emerge from troubled times. Miss Yue thinks everything is too simple." His voice was lowered, just like Leng Yue outside, very sad and desolate.
All Li Yue's words seemed to be blocked by his tongue, his cheeks were tense, and his eyes were dark as he looked at the dark night outside the window. "You have been exposed. You can't stay in this turret. Where will you go from now on?"
"Then stand up. Han didn't want to hide for the rest of his life." Han Fei walked over and opened the window. The cool moonlight blew his purple robe, and the long shadow on the ground cast an extremely dark color. Even he The outline of the body is also beginning to shake.
"Dong dong dong——" "Dong dong dong——"
There seemed to be countless footsteps running towards here under the turret. Li Yue panicked and hurriedly approached the window. He saw a dense crowd of men in black below, raising their spears and quickly dividing into three groups to block the retreat.
"Quick, quick, we can't let the Han thief escape."
"No wonder we searched for so long and couldn't even find the butt shadow. It turned out to be hiding here. Bah, old thief Han!"
She subconsciously closed the window and fled down. Han Fei's big, knuckled hands held down all her movements. Looking at his plain white and calm eyebrows, Li Yue somehow calmed down, "Aren't we going to run away? "
"Enough of escaping." He looked at the moonlight, as if he were looking at everything under the sky, "My motherland has abandoned me like a worn shoe, like a rat in the toilet, like a panicked dog. If my ambition cannot be fulfilled, I will not be rewarded."
"But Han Fei, helpless and as sincere as the bright moon."
He stood back and forth, with the bright moonlight shining on him. He turned around, and his back was not facing the narrow turret, but the vast sky. He stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around Li Yue's thin waist. Li Yue hadn't come yet. He exclaimed, having no time to care about this exaggerated, crazy and blurry night, and the scream in his throat was suppressed in his throat and he couldn't spit it out.
The man below her was looking at her intently, and she was once again thrown into the sky of the turret. The man's pupils were very deep and black, as if there was something with claws and teeth inside that wanted to pounce out.
"Han Fei, you are crazy!"
The hunting wind lifted the hair around Li Yue's ears. She looked panicked and confused, but Han Fei had a specious smile and said, "Fei, it's always been like this."
*
"Ran?!"
Li Si was furious, and his yellow face turned livid with anger.
Under the dim oil lamp, there were rows of private guards in black kneeling in front of him with their heads hanging down. He was walking on thin ice with difficulty. Logically, he shouldn't have made such a big move, but Han Fei, Han Fei, the resourceful Han Fei, could do it in Jixia. The deceptive and calculating Han Fei, if he is appreciated by the King of Qin, who is eager for talents.
Li Si's eyes were like a talisman tempered with poison.
How could there be a place for Cai Xiaoli, who came from a humble background and had no foundation in dealing with other countries?
In Jixia, he was not as good as him, his position was low, and he was inappropriate, so he was hampered by his reputation everywhere. But now he is the Great Qin Tingwei and a confidant of the Qin State. Is it possible that he has to wait for this day to come?
Li Si's eyelids suddenly twitched wildly, and veins popped up on the back of his hands and forehead: "Move over the death guards from the great wizard and pursue Han Fei with all your strength!"
Someone below hesitated and said, "But Wei Ting, the eldest girl is still in Han Fei's hands."
"Yeah, what should we do?"
Li Si gritted his teeth fiercely, but the remaining family affection suppressed his reason, "Capture...all alive."
"Yes Yes Yes!"
*
After months of sleepless escape, Han Fei and Li Yue could only temporarily rest in a dark alley due to the interrogation at the city gate. Han Fei was thin and angular, with a half-inch upward scar on his cold face, hiding. In the bustling crowd, there were uneven tables and stools and a bowl with a broken mouth.
He was swallowing the pimple soup from the bowl.
Li Yue's face turned pale. Seeing the Korean prince being so condescending, he said, "I was used to hardship, why are you?"
"Then why did my niece escape with Han? Why didn't she report Han?" he asked her.
"I"
Putting down the bowl, Han Fei said calmly: "Niece, if you are not full of chaff, you should not worry about rice and meat, and if you are short and brown, you should not be embroidered."
Li Yue didn't expect him to be so evasive. She turned her head and said, "You'd better stop calling me niece."
Although he and her father studied together in Jixia and were senior fellow students, he was not much older than her. It felt extremely awkward to be called like that.
Han Fei was stunned for a moment, but he didn't ask why and just said: "Okay."
Several beggars in ragged clothes and bare feet ran by next to them. A pungent smell of sweat arose in the hot weather. Li Yue felt nothing at all, and even felt at ease. She quickly poured out the oil-free bowl. I swallowed a fishy taste in my lower abdomen, and sweat poured out all over my lower abdomen.
Why did she risk her life to accompany this Qin State wanted criminal? I am afraid that only she - Li Yue knows the answer.
After a short period of food and clothing, Han Fei picked up the dagger on the table with one hand and held it in his hand. Li Yue followed him with difficulty. She looked at the sweat stains on his shoulder blades, as if it was raining in the evening.
Such a tall and straight figure is particularly eye-catching in the flow of people passing by.
Li Yue thought to herself.
Being able to lead her to escape the pursuit of her father's personal guards was not only extraordinary in skill, but also probably unparalleled in resourcefulness.
If he and his father compete on the same stage, if his father loses
Unknowingly, he walked to the bottom of the wall. Han Fei looked sideways at him. His clear outline seemed to have put a handful of snow in Li Yue's chest. He stepped over and hugged her with his muscular arms. The omen is another whirlwind.
"arrive."
Before he could react, Li Yue only felt soreness in his fingertips. She was in his arms, still holding his arms tightly. Before his pupils had time to expand, he heard the sound of a long sword piercing the air from his back. .
"brush--"
This is a spacious training ground with sparse vegetation and sand and gravel blown up by the wind. There is a man in coarse cloth who is wielding a single sword. The sword is walking among the dragons and has been placed on Han Feidao's neck. , a seemingly inadvertent sword, the sudden sound that it brought about broke through the air, but it was difficult for thousands of troops to resist.
This man, who although dressed in commoner clothes can hardly hide his appearance, is none other than the Great Qin Tiger General - Meng Yi.
Meng Yi raised his long eyebrows and looked at Han Fei with sharp eyes: "Goodbye, Jixia. I hope you are well."
Han Fei said calmly, "Brother Meng."
The two were both students studying in Jixia. After years of separation, one tiger general and the other escaped prison.
With such a gap in status, Han Fei was not embarrassed. Instead, he said with a relaxed indifference, "Cangshan Yuelan, you have been harvesting it for two months."
Li Yue lowered his eyes and saw that Meng Yi's sword tip picked out a dried flower string, which was woven with rattan grass. It was almost the same as the Cangshan Moon Orchid that Han Fei handed to his father.
Meng Yi's expression did not change, his eyes swept over her, and the tip of his sword shifted a little: "Li Tingwei wants to hunt you down, and you run away with his eldest daughter. You are a dignified Korean prince, a man of noble character, with a prosperous reputation in the six countries." , I don’t know when you would be so private."
Han Fei chuckled at the young general's uprightness, put down the man in his arms and asked Li Yue: "Li Tingwei has always been on good terms with the Meng family. Could you please tell me, is she the girl that Han has kidnapped?"
Li Yue squeezed her fingers tightly.
It was she who had to follow her.
She looked at her fiancé, who was frowning, and then at Han Fei, who was feeling relaxed, and said, "I had to follow him. I don't blame Mr. Han."
Han Fei lazily sat down on the ground and said, "I've made it clear that I've traveled thousands of miles to ask for a drink of water from my senior brother. It's okay, right?"
Meng Yi's resolute face was normal. He turned around and picked up a clay pot to fetch water for them. After Han Fei and Li Yue drank, Meng Yi said to Li Yue straight to the point: "This matter involves a lot of trouble. I'd like to ask Li Girl, go to the cool room and wait."
Li Yue nodded, looked at them deeply, turned and left.
Han Fei walked to the shade of an ancient tree with his sword in hand, and sat down with his back against the tree. The cool breeze was blowing at his beard, which had not been taken care of for months, making him look a bit shabby.
"Your Han Feizi is not bad. King Qin cherishes his talents and he will definitely want to see you."
"Han knows."
"When you enter the Qin Dynasty, you must not bring up any intention of protecting the Han Dynasty, otherwise I will not be able to protect you."
Han Fei used his strength to raise his head, opened his mouth and slowed down his voice: "Junior brother, what does Great Qin do to you?"
"As fate would have it." Before Meng Yi could answer, he said to himself, "Han is here, Han is not here."
"According to the nature of the King of Qin, he will not let you get what you want. Even if you are resourceful, I am afraid that the building will collapse and the sheep will be lost in the wrong road. It will be difficult to recover."
The leaves rustled suddenly.
Han Fei raised his head to look at him again, and there was something in his eyes as if the edge of a sword was filled with blood, bringing out his soul that was severely wounded but not lost. "If you enter Qin and Cunhan, you won't die nine times without regrets."
Meng Yi's expression changed slightly.
For just a moment, he lowered his eyes slightly and said with a normal expression, "Brother Meng, recalling Jixia, the teacher took this piece of Cangshan Moon Orchid and went out to practice for us."
"yes."
Meng Yi's arms hanging by his sides were slightly tense.
There seemed to be thousands of thoughts floating around, like the endless grass growing after the wind, but no one spoke.
Han Fei took out the paint-red xun from his chest and played it close to his mouth, "Heaven moves in a regular way. It will not exist for Yao, nor will it perish for Jie. The stars rotate with it, the sun and the moon shine, the four eras are governed, and the yin and yang are transformed." , the wind and rain are abundant. The crops are damaged by dry plowing, the work is dirty, and the government is in danger and the people are lost. The fields are dirty and the crops are bad, the nobles are hungry, and people are killed on the roads. I call it a monster."
The strong wind blew the leaves, and Meng Yi's shoulders gradually became covered with dead leaves.
And the melodious and sobbing tone floated through the earthen wall, recalling the time of learning without Xuanyuan, Lanling wine, Cangshan orchid, drinking parties, and talking about poetry.
Meng Yi was silent for a long time, pinched the flower string in his hand, and sighed: "I will introduce Brother Han to the King of Qin, but the rest has nothing to do with my Meng family."
Seeing this old classmate, he is still so strong-willed and soft-hearted.
"The time has not come yet, Han just came to say goodbye." Han Fei curled his lips slightly, wiped the xun slowly, and said, "After all, Miss Li is too young, too immature, and too ambitious. , you send her back to Li Mansion first, and Han is waiting to drink your wedding wine."
Meng Yi asked: "What about you?"
"The sky is high and the clouds are wide, we will see you again in the future."
After the two talked, they gradually drifted away.
Unexpectedly, their conversation was overheard by a fox and a beaver in the tree.
Baitao originally wanted to see what the young master Fei who had deceived Zheng Guo looked like, but when he saw what happened, he curled his lips and said: "You really have grown a skin, you can pretend to be tight, just use that Miss Li. He also deceived General Meng into risking his life to recommend him. If he gets involved in anything related to Korea, he will be entangled in rumors and evil schemes, but General Meng is willing to give up the reputation of his family."
Zheng Guo was lying next to him, with strings of steaming beads on his fair face.
He was really overheated, but he still held his breath and said, "Mr. Han, he, he, he is still very kind."
"Goodness?"
The white peach fox flicked its tail and exploded a red-tailed flower in mid-air. Then it turned over and jumped to the opposite branch. "Give me a flower. The second son of the Meng family is standing right there. He doesn't even care about the reputation of the Meng family." , I think if you say a few nice words to coax him, Meng Yi will be so fascinated that he can't find his way around, can't you see it? How did you see that he looks kind? "
Zheng Guo had a few drops of sweat on his forehead and said, "Well, he always protected me before."
"The past is the past, and the future is the future. We fairies value friendship, but humans don't." Baitao lowered the tip of his tail and said coldly: "Don't even think about it, he gave you a gift when you were sent to prison. Poison, if I hadn’t informed the jailer after I woke up to send you a few pots of tree leaves, medicine and bedding, as well as a bottle of poison, and said a few inciting words, would you think I was kind? "
"meeting."
Baitao: "??"
"It was me who caused your aunt to get seriously injured." He puffed up his cheeks, looking like a victim. "My aunt wanted to drug me to death, so that's right."
Baitao: "."
It's really a hanging ghost to ask for debt, he deserves it.
After sharpening her claws, Baitao really felt that she owed him. Not only did she want to redeem him from prison and restore him to an upright identity, but she also had to deal with the mess that followed. The key was that this stupid beaver was deceived. I also want to help count the gold.
She took a deep breath of demonic aura and said, "If Han Fei wants to save Han Fei, he has no choice but to die. Relying on him alone to save Han Fei is no less than a mayfly shaking a tree, and it will be difficult for him to reach the sky. When that day comes, will you protect Han Fei Zi?" Protect your canals."
After saying that, Baitao stood on the branch of the tree and looked at him silently.
Zheng Guo, the beaver, didn't know whether it was too hot or too entangled. His cheeks turned crimson, his eyelashes blinked twice, tears lingered in his eyes, and he whispered: "Can I choose Young Master Han first?"
"!" Baitao gritted his teeth, wishing he could boil a pot of water and drink the soup.
I heard the doormat covering his forehead and saying, "It costs money to repair the canals, and now there is a severe drought. There was no harvest in the fields last year. The Great Qin treasury is about to be closed, and the canals cannot be repaired, so I can only protect the young master first." You can’t protect everything.”
Baitao was stunned.
I have never heard of this matter.
"You mean, there's no money left to repair the canals?"
"Yes, your Majesty is also very worried about this." He put down his paw and said, "It costs money to protect the canal, but you have to protect the young master for free. When the time comes, I will knock him out and throw him into a deep mountain and old forest, far away from the world, and he will naturally not His mind will be filled with thoughts of coming to Qin to die. It would be a good outcome if I could still see him when he is old."
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What follows what.
She flicked her tail and looked at him with foxy eyes, "It's quite simple to think about it. It's so childish to live such a long life without growing anything but hair."
Zheng Guo, who was abandoned on the tree cover, clung to his big tail in grievance, "Hey, hey, hey."
It just lived for several hundred years, so how old is it?
(End of chapter)
