The uneasiness in his heart fluctuated with the night wind.
He never thought that the world could be so small.
Before the fall of Kaifeng, the Taoist priest who told his fortune unexpectedly met him while he was on the run!
The cold air rolled in his chest.
When he saw the Taoist priest who came to buy food through the sparse leaves and under the weak firelight...
kill him!
This is his intuition.
He always trusted his instincts.
Because his intuition was always right, he was even a little surprised by his own instinct.
But Xing'er has been gone for a long time, why hasn't he come back yet?
Suddenly, his hair stood on end and his skin tightened.
He suddenly felt that there were thousands of eyes staring at him.
He shrunk his shoulders and didn't dare to look back.
Aren’t they all his cronies?
Why do you have this creepy feeling for no reason?
His wife was beside him, lowering her head and eating chicken legs.
There were also the sounds of eating from behind.
Who is looking at me?
Damn it, who is looking at me?
That cold gaze, silent and silent, yet staring at him greedily.
It’s up there too!
Who is it? Not just from behind, but also from above!
Suddenly, everyone in the forest opened their eyes in all directions, staring at him with narrow and lewd smiles.
What if there is actually one before?
He suddenly opened his eyes and looked forward.
You can see through the forest in front, see a small fire on the ground, and see the vast and lonely sky under the pale moonlight.
There are also dark shadows that cannot be illuminated by the moon.
Dark shadow!
Qin Hui opened his eyes alertly, trying to see through the darkness outside.
He couldn't see clearly, he wasn't sure.
Is there other darkness hidden in the darkness?
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Xing'er looked back and saw that the fire he had started had turned into a spot of light. Thinking of the chicken he had burned just now, he felt even more hungry.
He complained secretly to his master, complained that he ignored his hunger, and complained that he had taken him to the distant Kingdom of Jin and lived in poverty for three years.
Now he is asked to kill someone for no reason.
He complained for a while, his eyes searching for traces of the Taoist priest.
"It must be too dark," he muttered.
He suddenly stopped, held his breath, and listened to the sounds around him.
Was he the only one talking just now?
"Is there anyone?" he asked boldly and quietly.
When he asked, the sounds of insects around him suddenly receded and disappeared into the darkness.
The world was so big that Xing'er felt like he was trapped in a small room, unable to hear any sound at all.
Cold sweat slid quietly down his cheeks, startling him as he thought there were fingertips touching him.
He was so frightened that he forgot the mission of this trip and forgot to find the Taoist priest.
He looked back again.
This time, he couldn't see the fire or the woods.
He couldn't see anything.
He was suddenly startled and took two or three steps back.
A black shadow clung to his eyes, and he saw the shadow only after he backed up.
"It's not human!" His instinct told him, and he moved his hand to the side in panic.
He quickly retracted his hand and turned to look at what he had picked up.
There is also a black shadow next to it.
His eyes had never been so wide, and his fear had tightened around his neck, making it impossible for him to say a word.
He was surrounded, surrounded by many, many dark shadows.
The black shadows were quite tall and motionless at first glance, but Xing'er felt that they were slowly shrinking and surrounding him, slowly depriving him of his space.
When they were very close, Xing'er saw eyes.
Just two black masses within black black.
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No one noticed.
Qin Hui saw that everyone else was concentrating on eating food, and no one noticed anything strange.
The lingering fear gradually invaded every inch of his skin.
He is very annoying, very annoying, very annoying.
He has always tried his best to tolerate such annoying things.
But now he didn't want to endure it anymore.
Because of his endurance, he became the scapegoat again and again.
Therefore, he took the initiative to gain himself the position of Jin Bing's staff officer, paving the way for his escape to the Southern Song Dynasty.
These things that were spying on him, whatever they were, were they trying to thwart him?
"Who are you?" he asked in a low voice.
For a moment, he seemed to hear contemptuous laughter.
The followers looked at him in panic, not knowing what he had discovered, and they also looked around suspiciously.
"If you are an officer and a soldier, I am Zhongcheng, the imperial censor of the Song Dynasty. I escaped from the Jin people. Take me back to meet your commander!" He did not forget his original official position. "If you are a robber, I will give you everything and leave it behind." Just save your life!" When they escaped, they brought a lot of property with them, which were gifts from some golden people, so he thought that someone was coveting these properties.
This time, everyone heard it.
Close to their ears, giggles rang out. The laughter became more and more wild, and the laughter became more and more unrestrained. It seemed to be the laughter after a prank succeeded.
The whole forest, the whole darkness surrounding them, was laughing.
Smiling very happily.
But they never saw the owner of the laughter.
Qin Hui stepped out of the forest, picked up a piece of wood from the fire, and raised a blazing torch.
The torch was so bright that it instantly illuminated the surrounding "darkness".
No tree trunks could be seen, no front could be seen, and the torch was surrounded by darkness.
However, the fire soon became weak, as if its light was absorbed by the darkness.
In Qin Hui's hand, there was only a stick of firewood with a red light at the end. The red light glowed with a few sparks and was immediately swallowed up by darkness.
It's enough, Qin Hui has seen it.
They were very tall and all black and looked like things covered in soot.
Curious heads are placed on tall bodies, with no facial features—no? It seems to have eyes. Since it can smile, at least it has a mouth, right?
Ah, he doesn't know, he only knows how to deal with people, because he knows people's tricks very well, but now he faces a problem.
He sat cross-legged on the ground and sighed in annoyance.
"Ms. sir..." It was his wife, Mrs. Wang, who was calling him.
"Master Qin..." The cronies who fled with him were also very worried.
What a bunch of idiots! Don't they all know what's going on?
Qin Hui raised his head, trying to find traces of those things in the darkness.
Suddenly, he heard those things commotion, making a sound like mice scurrying, and then discussing something noisily.
"Chirp──" they said.
In an instant, the air suddenly became refreshing, and the pale moonlight broke in again.
They all seemed to suddenly leave.
When Qin Hui was wondering, he heard his wife's scream.
"Who?!" A long spear was stretched out in front of him.
Surrounding them were replaced by a dozen patrols.
Qin Hui breathed a sigh of relief, the other person was a human.
Now, he knew how to deal with it.
He bowed his hands and said, "I am Qin Hui, the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty. I accompanied the Second Emperor on his northern tour. Now I have escaped and returned to the Song Dynasty. Please report it to your superiors."
"Zhongcheng?" The patrolman was very suspicious.
"Take me to see your commander quickly," Qin Hui said, "This is a great achievement."
The patrol leader covered his face and thought for a while.
No matter who he is, as long as he is brought back, he will have merit.
He is the enemy's spy, so he has military merit; he is an old minister of the Song Dynasty, so he should be rewarded.
He glanced at the luggage on the ground, as if he wanted to see through the contents.
Qin Hui's insoles were soaked in cold sweat, making his feet very uncomfortable.
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It's not easy to walk in the dark.
The clouds followed the thin moonlight and found the place where Xiancha was parked.
There was a person sitting on Xiancha.
"Why so fast?" Mr. Huang Cong's head was eaten by a tiger last time, and it took him a long time to grow back to his original body. This time, it was shattered and it grew back so quickly?
"Mr. Huang Cong," Yun Kong called him, "the food is gone."
"Aren't you afraid that he will find you flying around on a lifeless fairy tree?" The voice was faint.
Not Mr. Huang Cong.
Yun Kong stopped alertly and quickly looked at the man.
That man wore a Taoist crown and was also a Taoist priest.
"This Taoist brother..."
The Taoist opened his mouth and sang: "The night is vast, the jade rabbit is dim, the morning dew is on the grass blades, and the golden crows fly away when they appear."
Yun Kong couldn't finish the conversation for a while.
"The night is vast, the Jade Rabbit is dim, there seems to be a road ahead but there is no way, and sometimes there is no end at the end;" the Taoist sang softly, his deep voice echoing back, "On the few green grass leaves in the morning dew, the summer insects are fighting for a moment, and the golden crows are Now it's all scattered, and a fool will spend it as gold."
It turns out that the song "Tao Qing" is a kind of chant performed by Taoist priests when they sigh about life.
