The climate in the mountains is changeable. It was sunny all day long. When the sun set, a large group of dark clouds suddenly gathered and a heavy rain fell without warning.
Nangong Zhi had someone build a simple pergola under a few big trees. Looking at the heavy rain falling outside, he turned to Yunqi and said, "If the rain doesn't stop until dark, we can only stop for now." Stay here for the night and wait until daybreak before continuing.”
After searching for more than a day, it stands to reason that even if the location of the fall is slightly different, it shouldn't be that far away, but so far there is no clue. I wonder if they are looking in the wrong direction.
Yunqi was lost in thought while looking at the rain curtain. Hehe came over and said the words of gratitude that had been lingering in his heart all day.
The two of them are on the left and right. Due to the visual difference, from the sight of the people behind them, they seem to be close to each other.
"Lu Anran is coming from the corner." Lu Taotao sat on a tree and swung his short legs, his tone inexplicably a little excited.
Watching the moon, folding his arms and closing his eyes to rest, Mo Yan rolled his eyes, "What are you talking about?"
Lu Taotao shook his head and said: "Look, there is a saying, what does it mean to take advantage of every opportunity? To win people's love? Or is it half-hearted?"
Mo Yan said coolly: "Pretend to be crazy and act stupid."
"Hey, don't you hate Lu Anran? You should feel a breath of bad breath at this time."
Mo Yan's palm covered his abdomen. There was a scar there. The mark was difficult to remove. It was as ugly as a centipede crawling over it. But without this scar, he might have died long ago.
Thinking about the origin of the scar, his eyes became subtle and he blurted out: "None of your business."
Lu Taotao chuckled: "Man, you don't mean what you say."
"You should be worried that you won't be able to survive even if the person named Lu dies."
Lu Taotao made a face and said with a smile: "I must have miscalculated. Lu Anran detoxified me a long time ago, hahaha."
Mo Yan turned to look at her in surprise, "When did it happen?"
"None of your business." Lu Taotao quickly threw the words back.
The sound of rain hitting the leaves gave the voice a rustling sound. Mo Yan touched the wound that would itch on rainy days and said, "She is really strange."
It was unclear, and I didn't want anyone to answer.
However, Lu Taotao answered as if he wanted to join in the fun and said: "Be a good person. A good person will not pay for his life, but an evil devil will last for a thousand years."
Yunqi was still stunned by the rain, and Hehe said a few words of gratitude. Before Yunqi could react, he seemed to have a soul wandering outside. When he smiled, his peach-blossom eyes were slightly hooked, and his whole body was charming. His cold eyes conveyed a sense of alienation.
He He was a little embarrassed and was about to leave when Yun Qi turned around and said, "Do you often come to this forest?"
"It took several times to collect herbs."
"Can you show me the topographic map of a ten-mile radius around here?"
Hehe hesitated and said, "I can't draw."
"It's okay, you describe it and I'll draw it."
Hehe is simple and very general. Most of the time, there is a hill there, a forest on the left, a rocky hill across the grassland on the right, and then there are still woods...
Yunqi took a branch and traced it on the ground. At a certain point, he suddenly stopped and pointed: "Is there a low mountain blocking this place?"
He He thought carefully, "It's not a short mountain. I remember that one year, heavy rain caused a flash flood and washed away half of the mountain. Those stone towers collapsed there. Over time, vegetation grew again, and it looked like a short mountain."
Yunqi still remembers the debris flow caused by heavy rains, which turned many villages in the opposite valley into ghost villages.
He stared at this place for a long time, then threw down the branches and quickly found Nangong Zhi, who was commanding his guards to set up camp and perform their duties. "I probably understand why we can't find them."
Nangong Zhi waved away the others, "What do you say?"
Yun Qi grabbed Nangong Zhi's wrist and pulled him back to his original position, "Look here, because the woods blocked the view before, we didn't realize that there was actually a low mountain blocking the road in the middle."
After looking at it for a while, Nangong Zhi immediately understood what he meant, "If the prince and Miss Lu were on the other side of the short mountain, we missed the chance to meet them."
The two of them looked at He He together. He He was slightly startled and then said: "There is no direct way to get there. If you want to go there, you still have to take a long detour from the front."
He He thought carefully, and the path she took everyone on was indeed carefully chosen. If she didn't find anything again, she would turn around from the intersection in front and go to the other side of the short mountain.
"By the way, the Fourteenth Pond is right there. Will they choose to swim out from the bottom of the lake?"
"No." The two said in unison and looked at each other after speaking.
Nangong Zhi shook his head: "His Royal Highness is dizzy."
This answer was a bit unexpected. He Hexin said, isn't it motion sickness and seasickness? Why are there still people in the world who are water sick?
Yun Qi pressed his teeth and said calmly: "Lu Anran is a landlubber."
There are not as many rivers and rivers in the north as there are in the south, and nine out of ten people cannot swim.
Nangong Zhi asked Hehe to explain the details of the route again, and decided to divide them into two teams. One team would set off overnight, and the other team would search according to the established route. The signal would be used as an agreement when the time came.
After thinking about it, Yun Qi said, "I'll still go with you."
Astonishment flashed through Nangong Zhi's eyes. The Yunqi he had come into contact with was a bit glib, and his words were not serious. He always choked himself intentionally or unintentionally, but generally speaking, he could tell that this person had a game-playing attitude towards many people and many things. .
So, being so serious all of a sudden, does it mean that Yun Qi cares too much about Lu Anran?
"Young Master, what questions do you have?" Yun Qi raised the corner of his mouth, trying to stop smiling.
Nangong Zhi: "I just think Prince Yun treats Miss Lu a little differently."
Yun Qi chuckled, his peach-blossom eyes a bit frivolous, "I'm worried that there will be fewer cowards in the Criminal Division who work for nothing in the future."
Nangong Zhi nodded to him, "Then let's prepare ourselves."
Behind Nangong Zhi's back, Yun Qi's upper eyelids slowly dropped, and the smile at the corner of his mouth gradually faded away. His starry eyes turned a thousand times, filled with ambiguities that he couldn't even analyze.
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Lu Anran and Zi Sangjin found a cave not far from the lake. They didn't know how deep the cave was. It was very humid inside. It became darker and more empty as they went inside, as if there was a "tick-tick-tock" sound of dripping water, which was amplified by the echo.
The two of them were extremely tired and their legs were not suitable for walking any further. Lu Anran suggested: "Let's sit down and rest first. It's best not to lean too far in."
Generally speaking, Zi Sangjin was not as faulty as Yun Qi, nor was he as willful as Feng Qing. He sat down at the entrance of the cave and looked up just in time to see the heavy rain coming in. He couldn't help but feel lucky.
It was obviously a small thing, but because he remembered that he had never encountered such a small amount of luck in his life in the past seventeen years, he arose in his heart a dense and complicated emotion that he could not explain.
Lu Anran gathered the dead branches and dry grass around and polished the fire. After the fire started, he felt a little more secure.
It rained heavily, as if water was pouring directly from the sky, and a small pool soon formed at the entrance of the cave.
Zi Sangjin pressed on his abdomen and paused. The feeling of hunger inside was burning, but there were only two people here, and there were no servants to dispatch. He also had the pride of being a man, and he was always embarrassed to wait for a girl. Go find something to eat.
So, Zi Sangjin waited for the rain to subside a little, then stood up little by little, holding on to the stone wall.
"Are you going to find something to eat?" Lu Anran saw it and asked.
There were a lot of dead branches and leaves in the cave. After eliminating them, it was easy to know what Zi Sangjin was thinking.
Zi Sangjin nodded and was about to step outside, "It will be inconvenient when it gets completely dark later. I'm going to see if there are any edible fruit trees nearby."
Lu Anran did not stop him and asked one more question: "Does Your Highness know Qing Kung Fu?"
Zi Sangjin's back stiffened and he did not turn around. He turned back and said, "I have never practiced martial arts."
Lu Anran did not dwell on this issue, but pointed out a problem, "I just observed that the trees here are very tall, and it is difficult for ordinary people to reach them."
"There will always be a way." Although Zi Sangjin didn't know what the solution was.
"His Royal Highness's internal injuries are more serious than mine, so I'd better go." Lu Anran originally thought that it would be easier if Zi Sangjin knew how to do Qing Gong. Since he didn't know how to do it, it wouldn't make any difference to whoever goes.
Zi Sangjin frowned, as if he had been underestimated. Just when he was about to speak, he saw something rushing towards him, hitting the mountain wall with a dull crash.
Zi Sangjin opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out for a long time.
Lu Anran looked at Zi Sangjin, then at the hare that ran out of nowhere and knocked him unconscious, "Your Highness, there is no need to go out."
The gray rabbit is still fat enough for two people to enjoy a dinner.
When it was almost cooked, Lu Anran took out two porcelain bottles from the bag he carried and sprinkled a bunch of powdery stuff on them.
Zi Sangjin looked familiar. The bottle was exactly the same as the one she used to put pills in. She said, "What are you pouring on it?"
Lu Anran cherishes words like gold, "medicine powder."
"Is it okay to eat?"
"It can stop bleeding and remove blood stasis, invigorate energy and nourish the mind. You should eat it on both sides. I added lemongrass in it, which can be used as a seasoning."
Zi Sangjin believed her, but it actually tasted really good. If you ignored the fact that Lu Anran was too calm when skinning and removing the internal organs, which made him look particularly perverted, Zi Sangjin thought the dinner was okay.
Because it was raining and it was still early, the sky was gray and foggy, especially dark.
The firelight of the cave danced on the two of them. Lu Anran added some dead grass branches from time to time, "Has your Highness noticed?"
"What?"
"There are a lot of branches and dead grass in the cave."
Zi Sangjin put his right leg flat and leaned against the mountain wall. After changing his position, he said, "Well, it doesn't look like an animal nest."
Animals will also fill their caves with dry vegetation during the winter, but most will not choose caves that are too humid, and there are no traces of large animals living here.
"Your Highness, look at this." Lu Anran clasped her knuckles behind her back and tapped on the mountain wall next to her.
Zi Sangjin moved over a little, looked closer, and vaguely made out a few words, which were twisted and childish, "flower, wind, bird... like words written by a child casually."
Lu Anran said: "Children will not come here casually."
Zi Sangjin's whole body trembled, "What do you mean?"
"I don't know either." Lu Anran touched the words as if with a small blade or a sharp stone. The marks were not deep, only a few white marks were scratched on the stone wall, "From It shouldn’t take long to identify the traces.”
"Someone has stayed in this cave and brought their children with them?" Zi Sangjin said this inference, which was a bit ridiculous. "There is no way someone would fall off the cliff like us."
They also discovered during the day that this place could not be said to be deserted, it could also be said to be inaccessible. It was possible to move around the path under the cliff. Who would come to this area.
"Is there a trace at the highest point?" Lu Anran raised his head and asked.
"Children can't climb that high."
The two of them couldn't get to that position no matter what, so they had to give up.
Listening to the wind and rain, Lu Anran threw a branch into the fire and turned his head and asked: "This dynasty is a martial artist. With your highness's qualifications, you can accomplish something."
Zi Sangjin's eyes were half asleep, and the orange warm light shone on his face. As the corners of his mouth lowered, he felt a little cold for no reason, "Do you want to know the reason?"
