The east was pale, and the sky light streamed in and fell into the cave. Tao Jingyi's consciousness gradually returned, she opened her eyes, and a ray of sunlight passed through the gaps in the grass and fell on her feet.
Su Xingchen was still asleep, or rather, still unconscious.
He leaned on Tao Jingyi's shoulder all night, and Tao Jingyi felt that half of his shoulder was numb. She supported Su Xingchen's head with her hands, slowly lifted him up and leaned against the wall.
Su Xingchen didn't wake up during the whole process.
Tao Jingyi was a little worried, shook his hand, and sniffed his breath. His body temperature is still low, and his breathing is also very weak. We must take him down the mountain to find a doctor as soon as possible.
Tao Jingyi bent out of the cave, raised his eyes and looked around. The surrounding area was quiet, only the clear and crisp chirping of birds came from the branches, the people who fought last night should have all left.
She returned to the entrance of the cave, squatted in front of Su Xingchen, and whispered: "Xingchen, wake up!"
Su Xingchen's eyeballs rolled vigorously under his eyelids, apparently hearing her voice.
Tao Jingyi recalled that day in Lingxiao Hall, she slashed to death a girl who was chasing her with her palm. At that time, she felt a warmth in her lower abdomen, and her limbs were filled with strength.
Could it be the legendary internal force?
Tao Jingyi tried to recall the feeling of heat flowing through his meridians that day, and held Su Xingchen's hand. This body obviously has memory, and after a while, the feeling of heat flowing through the meridians came again.
A wave of internal force flowed into Su Xingchen's body continuously along her palm.
Su Xingchen woke up slowly, opened his eyes, and stared at Tao Jingyi.
Tao Jingyi raised his eyes, just in time to meet his burning gaze.
"Let's go down the mountain." Tao Jingyi looked away in embarrassment.
Su Xingchen nodded.
"Can you walk by yourself?" Tao Jingyi worried. It's not a short walk down the mountain.
"Can last down the mountain."
"That's good." Tao Jingyi heaved a sigh of relief, and helped him out of the cave.
The two walked down the mountain road, and there were many corpses lying on the road. They were the group of people who ran down the mountain last night. Along the way, there were bright red blood stains everywhere on the ground, even the flowers and plants on the side of the road were also splashed a lot. At first, Tao Jingyi still had some discomfort, but later on, his face was calm, and he was no longer surprised.
Su Xingchen stroked his chest and walked with her support. He didn't speak all the way, he was trying to conserve his strength, and Tao Jingyi didn't have anything to say. After walking for about half a day, the two finally reached the foot of the mountain.
After walking for a while, there is a small village in front of her. She walked this road with Feng Linzhi before, and went to the village to borrow some water on the way.
As soon as Tao Jingyi arrived at the foot of the mountain, there was a sound of horse honking, and then "da da da" a vigorous maroon pony galloped towards this side.
"Xiaohong!" Tao Jingyi almost jumped up happily. That day, she, Feng Linzhi, and Yun Xin went up the mountain by another shortcut, but they couldn't take the little red horse with them, so they left it at the foot of the mountain, unexpectedly it was still waiting here.
"Forget it, I didn't hurt you for nothing." Tao Jingyi stroked the little red horse's head.
Su Xingchen smiled behind him: "Sister, when did you give it a name? Xiaohong... this name is really stupid."
Tao Jingyi turned around and patted his head.
Su Xingchen covered his head and turned on the horse in aggrieved manner. The two rode horses and galloped all the way, and it didn't take long before they arrived at the small village.
Tao Jingyi helped Su Xingchen into the village and entered a family. In the yard, a farmer is feeding chickens.
Tao Jingyi reached into Su Xingchen's arms and took out an ingot of gold, handed it to the peasant woman, and said with a smile: "Auntie, our sister and brother encountered some trouble on the way, can you give us a room for us to live in, by the way?" Help us find a doctor."
Seeing that Su Xingchen was covered in blood, the peasant woman didn't want to cause trouble at first, but the gold Tao Jingyi handed over was really tempting, so she hesitated for a moment, took the gold, put it in her mouth and bit it, and after confirming that it was real, she immediately smiled. Said: "You come with me."
The house is clean, with some debris piled up in the corners. Tao Jingyi supported Su Xingchen to sit down by the bed, and the peasant woman dug out two sets of clothes from the cabinet, and handed them to them: "These are the old clothes of me and my husband, if you don't mind, you can change into them."
Both of them were covered in blood, and their clothes were all tattered, it was really inconvenient to wear them. Tao Jingyi took the clothes and thanked them.
After the peasant woman cleaned up, she went out to find the only doctor in the village.
Tao Jingyi handed the men's clothing to Su Xingchen, and Su Xingchen held her hand, smiling with crooked eyes, "Sister touched the gold so smoothly, it seems that there is something on me, You can't hide it from my sister."
Tao Jingyi's pink cheeks flushed, and he glared at him: "I accidentally touched that ingot yesterday when I was treating your wound. I didn't look at your other places."
"Sister, if you want to see it, I'll show you." Su Xingchen gestured to lift his clothes.
Tao Jingyi immediately turned around, "Don't mess around."
"I just want to change clothes." Su Xingchen's voice sounded extremely innocent.
Tao Jingyi realized that he had been teased by him, opened the door angrily, and ran into the courtyard. There was no one else in the yard, she found an empty room, went in and changed the **** clothes on her body.
After changing her clothes, the peasant woman just brought the doctor into the house. The doctor is young, about 20 years old, it is said that he is a traveling doctor and only came to this village last year. He made a diagnosis for Su Xingchen, reapplied medicine and bandaged him, and after a lot of tossing, Su Xingchen passed out again.
After Tao Jingyi sent the doctor away, he stood by Su Xingchen's bed. The peasant woman brought over the dinner, and Tao Jingyi put it down after two mouthfuls. She borrowed the peasant woman's kitchen and cooked a pot of porridge for Su Xingchen. When the porridge was served, Su Xingchen just woke up.
He lost a lot of blood, his face was pale, and his figure was a bit thinner. The contours of his face, which was between a teenager and a young man, showed edges and corners.
Tao Jingyi put the porridge on the table, sat by the bed, and stroked his forehead.
The doctor was really skilled in medicine, and his accent seemed to be from Jiangnan. Such good medical skills should come from a great family. But Tao Jingyi didn't bother to find out the details of his family, there were crouching tigers and hidden dragons in the rivers and lakes, and there were many talented people who were not born in the world.
Su Xingchen sat on the head of the bed, looking at her quietly. Tao Jingyi waited for the porridge to cool, picked up the bowl, and fed him mouthfuls.
Su Xingchen stared at her with extremely bright eyes, with a well-behaved expression like a child.
"It's good to be sick." He sighed sincerely.
Tao Jingyi couldn't help but flicked his head: "Nonsense, next time you do this again, I'll leave you alone."
"Sister won't, sister is always very soft-hearted towards me." Su Xingchen has seen Su Xiyan's cruelty and domineering before, but Su Xiyan in front of him is soft and kind. He likes Su Xiyan like this, Su Xiyan is only good to him.
After all, Su Xingchen was seriously injured. After drinking the porridge, he couldn't hold on anymore and fell into a deep sleep again.
Tao Jingyi didn't feel like sleeping.
The bright moon climbed into the sky, and the cold moonlight shrouded the sky and the earth. Tao Jingyi pushed open the door and stood in the yard, looking up at the sky. The owner of the house had already fallen asleep, and the entire yard was quiet, but the chirping of insects seemed to be getting more and more lively.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door of the courtyard, and Tao Jingyi was taken aback for a moment. In the middle of the night, everyone fell asleep, who would knock on the door at this time?
She walked to the door, looked through the crack of the door, and asked cautiously, "Who?"
A figure could be vaguely seen in the crack of the door, and the voice of "Duk Tuk" sounded again, somewhat hurriedly. Tao Jingyi hesitantly pushed the latch, and as soon as the door opened, a white figure fell in.
Tao Jingyi supported the figure subconsciously, and a familiar face came into her eyes.
"Duan Feibai!" Tao Jingyi said in surprise.
He was covered in blood, leaning against Tao Jingyi's arms, looked up at her, and passed out.
With mixed emotions, Tao Jingyi helped him into the yard, leaned against the tree, turned around and walked to the gate of the yard, and looked around. The village under the moonlight was empty, and there was no one in sight, except for Duan Feibai.
She closed the door and walked back to Duan Feibai.
Duan Feibai seemed to have been seriously injured, his face was extremely pale, even his lips were pale.
Tao Jingyi crouched in front of him, with a struggling look on his face. She didn't know if this Duan Feibai was real, or if his double was pretending, and she didn't know if his injury was real or not.
She recalled the plot in the original book, which mentioned that the real Duan Fei had a mole behind his white ear.
Tao Jingyi stared at Duan Feibai's sleeping face, swallowed, quietly reached out his hand, brushed the hair behind his ear, then held his breath, and rubbed forward little by little.
Her eyes were wide open, and she didn't dare to let out the sound of her breathing, for fear of waking Duan Feibai up. Since Duan Feibai recovered her memory, she has been very wary of everyone. If she was awake, she would definitely not dare to act so boldly.
Tao Jingyi's body slowly tilted, and soon, immediately, he could see...
"Xiyan, cough cough, what are you doing?" Duan Feibai's weak voice rang in her ears, but it exploded above her head like a thunderbolt.
Tao Jingyi was so frightened that he fell down and sat on the ground, a bit of panic remained in his widened eyes.
Duan Feibai naturally did not miss the frightened look in her eyes.
Just now, she got so close, what was she trying to do?
Duan Feibai was full of doubts in his heart, but he didn't show any clues on his face. He stretched out his hand, pulled Tao Jingyi up who was sitting on the ground, and said softly, "What do you want to see?"
"No, nothing!" Tao Jingyi came back to his senses and shook his head hastily. She seemed to remember something, and quickly asked, "Brother Feibai, why are you here? What's the matter with your injuries?"
Mentioning this injury, Duan Fei's eyes dimmed. This injury was caused by Duan Hongying, and they had a dispute over the treatment of Hongfeng Villa. Duan Hongying insisted on attacking by force, but he suggested outsmarting. During the dispute between the two, Duan Hongying scolded him angrily: "Duan Feibai, have you been stunned by that girl Su Xiyan? Don't forget, your surname is Duan. , They got you to this point."
How dare Duan Feibai forget.
But Red Maple Villa is an important existence in Jianghu, there are organs everywhere in the village, if there is a strong attack, it is hard to say whether it will be successful or not, and at that time, countless lives will definitely be sacrificed.
Duan Hongying slapped him on the chest when she heard the words: "Duan Feibai, when did you learn the hypocritical benevolence and morality of those martial arts people? They claim to be gentlemen, but it is these who killed our Meilin hypocrite."
Over the years, this is not the first time he has had an argument with his aunt. Duan Hongying hated everyone, wishing to turn the whole world upside down, but Duan Feibai still had some conscience left in his heart, at least he didn't forget that the old man Tianji who raised him was a truly good person.
Duan Feibai was wounded and ran away. Helu sent him a letter, telling him that Su Xiyan and Su Xingchen are currently hiding in a small village.
Duan Feibai rushed over immediately.
The aunt's palm hit him took 70% of her strength. He really passed out in Tao Jingyi's arms, but only for a short while, when he opened his eyes, he saw Tao Jingyi lying on top of him, as if he was looking at something.
He stopped her with a sound, and the girl fell to the ground as if she had seen some evil spirit, almost frightened out of her wits.
Duan Feibai's eyes darkened, recalling her actions just now, if she guessed right, she wanted to look behind his ears just now.
What's behind his ear?
Duan Feibai raised his hand to touch it, but found nothing. He was even more puzzled, but his face was a little gentle, and he answered her words: "I was injured by Mr. Gui, and I fled all the way here. What a coincidence, what a coincidence. Met you."
Tao Jingyi bared his snow-white teeth, and obediently accompanied him in acting, he laughed and said, "Yes, what a coincidence."
"Why do you keep staring at me?" Duan Feibai couldn't help asking.
Her big eyes kept shooting at his face, almost wanting to stare a hole in his face. Hearing his question, she was stunned for a moment, and looked away, but still couldn't help but sneak a glance at him, her eyes were full of confusion.
Now even Tao Jingyi himself doesn't know whether Duan Feibai in front of him is real or not. What a pity, I could almost see if there was a mole behind his ear.