Between the vast sea of ​​clouds

Chapter 124

As if awakened from a dream, Wu Ying regained her composure, put Qingping down on the ground, picked up the long sword and went to the leader's body, opened her breasts, and soon a white porcelain bottle fell out.She reached out to pick it up, helped Qingping up, and sprinkled the medicine powder in the bottle on the wound on her back, and the bleeding stopped after a while.

People who practice martial arts always have some wound medicine on them. The medicine that Commander Yu prepared for herself is really extraordinary. Wu Ying was relieved. She had seen Commander Jade use medicine when he was injured. At this time, she couldn't help feeling lucky that she had come all the way. Commander Yu relied on his great ability, but he was never seriously injured, so there is still a lot of this medicine left.She put away the medicine bottle, helped Qingping to walk slowly towards the depths of the reed.

They walked for half a day, and finally found a cave where they could barely accommodate themselves before nightfall. After resting all night, although Qingping was groggy, the bleeding had stopped at least from the wound, and he was able to walk on the ground by himself. The two started on their way again , Follow the river to find the shadow of the village.

It was clearly noon, but the sky couldn't see a ray of sunlight, and the dense dark clouds were reflected in the water. Qingping lowered his head to wash his face with water, and saw that his face was covered with dust, his hair was messy, and he was randomly tied behind his head with cloth strips. Ragged, like a wandering wanderer.And Wu Ying was not much better, she sighed deeply towards the water surface, looked at the black dirt in her nails, frowned, with disgust on her face.The two were not far apart, Qingping splashed some water on her face, Wu Ying was startled, and immediately realized that her hand had just reached into the water, halfway through the movement, she remembered that Qingping was still wounded, I had no choice but to give up.Qingping couldn't help laughing, Wu Ying looked at her and then at herself.Thinking back to the past when the two of them met, they were neatly dressed and well-groomed, how could they have imagined that today, they would sit on the mound like a peasant woman without any image, their faces were all black, like a beggar.She didn't hold back for a moment, and laughed together with Qingping.

After walking for a few more days, the plain at the end of autumn was desolate and desolate, with yellow grass and low bushes everywhere, and occasionally birds flew by, as if flying south in time.Wu Ying looked up at the sky, a little envious of the birds with wings, and after watching them go away, looked at the endless wilderness and sighed heavily and helplessly again.

Qingping licked his chapped lips, and asked vaguely: "Why, do you want to fly?"

"I can't fly even if I want to." Wu Yingyang's neck was sore, she looked away, and said pointingly: "So what if you have great ambitions? The sky is high and the earth is far away, and they are all cages. Get it back to nature?"

Qingping couldn't understand the meaning of her words, he just said: "Don't think about it, let's just look at the moment."

When they arrived in Fengfeng County, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the north wind was blowing.The clothes on the two were thin, but they finally looked at the town.It's just that Fengfeng County was on guard during the war, and there were so many people fleeing, it was not so easy to get in. Fortunately, Wu Ying took the passing documents from the leader's body early in the morning, and queued for a long time among the fleeing crowd. go in.

The journey was full of twists and turns, and both of them were at the end of their battles. Ye Qingping developed a high fever when he entered the city. Fortunately, he had some bank notes with him when he went out. Wu Ying went to the pharmacy to get the medicine, and went back to the inn to make the medicine herself.She didn't dare to ask the doctor to ask for a doctor. There must be someone in the city who the leader said earlier. The arrow wound on Qingping's body cannot be hidden from others.

Qingping took care of her for a few days, and gradually recovered some vitality, but the wound on her body healed slowly.During the war, the price of goods rose rapidly, and the silver in Wu Ying's hands gradually became insufficient. She never told Qingping, but she just walked around the streets and alleys when she had free time during the day to see which stores were recruiting workers, so she went to find one. luck.One day when she was walking through the streets, a group of people came on horseback. They were obviously from the military department. A layer of paste was brushed on the column, and a few portraits were pasted on it, and someone asked: "My lords, what are you doing?"

One of the women said: "This is a felon wanted by the imperial court, and it has been stamped by the Ministry of Punishment."

Most of the people were illiterate, and they heard the words and said, "My lord, what crime did these people commit?"

The woman flicked her cloak, got on her horse, and spit out two words: "Treason!"

Wu Ying's eyes darkened, and she was pushed towards the notice board. She made up her mind, looked carefully at the portraits, and found a small portrait in the last row, with the word "Li Qingping" in it. Circled by the vermilion pen, next to it is the big seal issued and stamped by the Ministry of Criminal Justice. She was not an official in Beijing, but she knew the six seals. At this moment, her heart was shocked, as if being poured with cold water, her whole body trembled from the cold, How can not stop.

It said that the mission to Xirong had transferred to the royal court of Xirong, so all the accompanying officials in the mission were punished as treason.how so?She repeatedly recalled the situation when she left Chang'an, and sorted out those intricate relationships.The mission had already been convicted before returning to the country, and Li Qingping's mission was to replace Chu Jun, which was an extremely private matter, and she did not exist on the list at all.It is precisely because of this that Chu Yan believed that Chu Jun had evil intentions and secretly plotted for a high position. Finally, under Mr. Si's suggestion, he began to secretly investigate along Chu Jun's past, to confirm that her blood has a different name.Li Qingping and other important witnesses should have been secretly escorted to Beijing by her and Commander Yu, and handed over to King Qi as the last card to suppress Chu Jun.Standing in the bustling street, she wondered what the hell was going on.Li Qingping, who had never been on the list before, has become a wanted criminal. The list of missions is limited. Anyone who is interested can find out the tricks here. Shouldn't she be hidden so that everyone does not realize this? Human existence is.

A shadow flashed in Wu Ying's mind. If it was the worst plan, there would be some problems in the capital. King Qi might have already... Otherwise, how could the Ministry of Criminal Justice still issue an arrest warrant for an extremely important witness? Such a blatant act, then there is only one explanation, unless no one can prove that Li Qingping did not exist on the list in the first place!But at that time, there were so many people participating in the peace talks in Anping County, and there were many officials from the Anping government office handling the matter, how could no one not know about it?

She felt a chill in her heart, but she didn't dare to think about it.Returning to the inn in a hurry, I suddenly heard the shopkeeper chatting with the staff: "...Since the government has issued a search warrant, you should cheer up and watch carefully, understand?"

Wu Ying straightened her clothes, went over to order a plate of side dishes, took the opportunity to chat with the waiter, and asked: "I heard that the government will send people to search the inn? What's the matter, and let no one live?"

The clerk also vomited bitterness and complained: "I don't know the guest, isn't it very peaceful recently? Just after posting a post today, the government said that they would search for the wanted criminals next to each other! Hey, let me tell you, where did these treasonous sinners come from?" What about this small place of ours, don’t you say that we are already Xirong’s guests?......"

The rest of Wu Ying didn't hear clearly, she paid her silver taels and hurried upstairs, she just knocked on the door, the door was opened, Qingping sat in the room dressed up, poured a glass of water for her, and said: "Why? Such a hasty look?"

Wu Ying took the tea, and was hesitating what to say when she fell to the ground, but Qingping stretched out his fingers to press his lips, and said in a low voice, "Needless to say, I've already gone out this morning."

She didn't have her hair tied up, but tied it all behind her head, and she didn't look like the same person on the arrest warrant.Wu Ying couldn't express the feeling in her heart, knowing that she must have dressed up specially when she came back.But she took out two parcels and said: "You go from Fengfeng County to Guangyuan, Yunzhou City, and then leave Yunzhou as soon as possible, and go north to Chang'an. Before the security is strengthened on this road, the Xirong people are still in Anping County Besides, it’s still too late to go now.”

"After winter, there will be heavy snowfall. Before that, Fengfeng County will transport timber to Guangyuan City, so this road will be open until the snow falls, and it will be closed after the snow falls. At this time, we must be able to go."

Wu Ying was startled, she was about to get angry, but lost her temper again.She knew that this was the best way. If she didn't get out at this time, she might never be able to leave again.She sat silently at the table and took one of the packages. Qingping immediately felt relieved, picked up the other package and said, "Don't gossip, let's go, Wu Ying."

She got up and hugged her, her body was covered with the fragrance of bitter medicine, Qingping said softly: "Live."

live.

The sky and the sky were spinning before Wu Ying's eyes, and she couldn't tell where she was for a while.After she reacted, Qingping had already left the inn.

survive.She has been chewing on these three words, knowing in her heart that there is no better solution than this, maybe we can see each other again, it's nothing at all.She carried the package on her back and walked towards the post station. As Qingping said, there was a steady stream of horses and carriages in the post station. Seeing her carrying the bag, a coach woman tentatively asked: "The guests are going to Guangyuan? Our car is specially for that." From Guangyuan, but you need to have paperwork."

Wu Ying nodded dumbly, and the woman smiled when she saw this, and said: "You also know that business is not easy in this world, and the car going to Guangyuan has also increased some money, two taels of silver, what do you think?"

Two taels of silver, if it is a normal day, people will point their heads and scold them for black hearts.But at this time, the situation of the battle was unclear, and those who could leave would choose to leave. After Wu Ying paid the money, the driver yelled, "It's full! Let's go!"

She got into the carriage, and there were indeed many people sitting in the carriage, looking at each other.The people in this car are neatly dressed, obviously they are from a slightly low-income family.There were also a few boys sitting there, Yunzhou people were not happy to wear veiled hats, and seeing Wu Yingsheng's beauty, those boys poked their heads out of curiosity to look at her, and were all scolded back by the elders around them.

The curtains of the car were shaking, and the post station was getting farther away.A little girl emerged from among the children and looked at her curiously.The girl combed her boyish hair, and Wu Ying suddenly remembered that when she was studying in Lize Academy, she looked at the houses that kept going away, but it strangely overlapped with the scene in her memory.

It was also such an evening that day, when they were still children, they met a strong man at the intersection on the way to school together.Qingping told her to leave, and she did.It's just that the road that day was surprisingly long, and she was so flustered that she couldn't see the road under her feet clearly.Now that she is an adult, she seems to be the same as before.She was still that cowardly child, and when she told her to leave, she could only choose to run farther away.

Is it the only way?

Before she could react, she heard an exclamation, and the girl called out: "Father! Father! Look, how she jumped down!"

Wu Ying rolled in the yellow ground, and suddenly realized that she had jumped out of the car. She walked back uncontrollably, faster, faster.She ran, raised a handful of dust, and the house fell backwards, as if this could go back in time and bring her to the alleyway many years ago.

The carriage stopped, and the woman driving said: "Guest! Guest! Where are you going? You won't be able to pass the city gate any later!"

But the man just walked away and never answered.

It was evening when Qingping left this small city, a little orange light appeared under the thick clouds, that was the sun that had not been seen for many days, and it was hidden in the clouds at this time.Qingping asked the city guards about the way to Anping County, and the man kindly persuaded her, saying that the place is not peaceful now, there are no vehicles and horses to go there, if it is not only allowed to enter but not to exit, otherwise the people would have run away long ago.

Qingping thanked him, but still insisted on walking in the direction of Anping County.It's just that the wilderness is endless, and there seems to be no end in sight.But when it was getting late, she already felt a little cold.

Fortunately, Wu Ying left.She pressed the painful wound on her shoulder, and was a little thankful that she hadn't become her burden. After coming out of Xirong, she realized that Wu Ying wasn't all there to help King Qi find witnesses, otherwise she wouldn't have killed the leader.

She remembered seeing her name on the arrest warrant this morning. She was not shocked, and she had even expected it.How could she not know that it was Chu Jun who was looking for her, but she didn't want to go back. If she was charged with treason and returned to Chang'an, I'm afraid those who died in the mission would not rest in peace.

As long as no one can tell whether the mission is really treasonous, then this is an unsolved case.It's just a way for the superiors to play tricks. Whether there is treason or not is just a sentence.It is not so much to pursue who is treasonous, but to pursue whoever is treasonous, which is crucial.

She walked absent-mindedly for a while, the wilderness is so vast, people are like gravel, walking, even she can forget who she is.She didn't know that Fengfeng County and Anping County were so far away, and when it was dark, she didn't see the imagined city.

That's right, Yunzhou has a large area and few people, Qingping smiled bitterly in his heart, and after walking for a while, the wound on his body was painful and itchy.She could only find a piece of dry grass, hugged some grass, and planned to just stay here overnight.

Strange to say, the dark clouds parted at night, revealing the incomparably gorgeous Milky Way in the sky. The stars were shining brightly, shining charming starlight above her head, embellishing this desolate place like a dream. The stars shine together, like countless big and small dreams.

She was covered with withered grass, but she didn't feel cold, knowing that it was a sign before the heavy snow came.Just when he was a little sleepy, he heard a slight vibration from the ground. Qingping stayed in Xirong for a while, and knew that it was the sound of horseshoes. At that moment, his heart was clear, and there was no sleepiness.

She was wrapped in straw and lying in the grass. I don't know how long it took, the galaxy gradually disappeared, the night faded, and the wilderness seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and everywhere was pale.Qingping lay on the ground all night. As soon as she moved, she felt the pain in the wound. She stood up and stretched, but she flung herself in the grass alone. She was about to struggle, but the man held her shoulder and said: "Don't move!" .”

Qing Ping thought she was hallucinating, but the voice of this person was so similar to Wu Ying, she turned around, and it turned out to be Wu Ying.At that moment, her mind went blank, she just stared at her blankly.

Wu Ying pressed her down in the grass for a while, then got up and said, "What are you looking at?"

After finishing speaking, she stuffed something back into the chest of the chessboard, and said coldly: "You gave me all the valuable things, and you expect me to run away by myself? You like to be a good person, and everyone in the world is bad, so you will So selfless?"

After being scolded repeatedly by her, Qingping became dizzy and couldn't even utter a word of rebuttal.Wu Ying first let out a mouthful of anger. Seeing her like a wooden fish, she remembered that if she hadn't opened the package behind and looked at it, she would not have known that she had given all the things to herself. The cotton coat contained two pieces. Yupei, it turned out that she wanted to go alone, and never thought of coming back.

"Isn't it just death?" Wu Ying gritted her teeth and said, "At worst, we will die together. You will think that everything will be fine after I meet Chang'an? I'm afraid I will die!"

Qing Ping only thought that she deliberately made the matter serious in order to come back, and wanted to persuade her to leave quickly, but Wu Ying's expression changed, and she covered her mouth and said, "Don't talk, leave quickly!"

It was only then that Qingping realized that the sound of horseshoes heard at night was not fake. Someone must be chasing after Wu Ying. The situation was critical, and there was no time to say anything. She was running like a headless chicken in the wilderness.

I don't know where they are, but there is a small mountain in front of them. There are many mountains in Fengfeng County. After the local people finish collecting firewood, they will put the firewood that they can't take back into the cave.The leaves on the mountain had almost fallen. The two of them searched around and found a small cave. There were several bundles of dry firewood neatly placed inside. The cave seemed to have been sprinkled with medicinal powder to repel insects, snakes and beasts, but no beast left. footprint.

Qingping saw that some of the bundles were new firewood, and guessed that there must be a village nearby.This was good news for them, but Qingping got hot that night and leaned against the stone wall drowsily.Wu Ying didn't dare to leave, so she could only guard her, pulling her to talk and not letting her fall asleep.

After talking like this for a long time, Wu Ying's mouth was dry and she wanted to go out to find some water, but she heard the faint sound of horseshoes. She felt a chill in her heart, knowing that those people were chasing after her.

Soon there was a rustling sound, and she looked through the dense grass under the cover of the cave, a woman in gray was searching for something in the tall grass, she turned her face to the side, but it happened to let Wu Ying see clearly the whole picture.Wu Ying looked at this person in disbelief. This woman was actually a shop selling liquor by the inn. Wu Ying had passed by her shop several times.This is a person jumping down from the slope in the mountains, but it is the woman who drove the car the day before yesterday.Suddenly, she seemed to understand something and looked at Qingping.They are similar in stature and appearance, if you look for her based on the painting, you may really think of her as Qingping.In other words, these people mistook her for Qingping, and hurriedly chased after her when they saw that she was about to leave.

It turned out to be so!If she hadn't turned back, Qingping would have been fine today, it was because she was angry in her heart and came after Qingping, but she led these people here by mistake.

Wu Ying clenched her fists, turned around and walked to Qingping's side, looked at her back wound, remembered that there was still some medicine in the medicine bottle, so she sprinkled all the medicine on the wound, tore off the inner robe, and wrapped it up carefully for her Wound.

Her eye circles were reddish, she stared at Qingping's face seriously, put her head against her forehead, tested the temperature, and put her nose close to each other like a kid playing around, the two breathed intertwined, Qingping seemed to feel something, tried to open his eyes, Holding her hand, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something.

"It's okay." Wu Ying reassured, touched her forehead with her hand, her voice was very gentle, her shoulders trembled, she held Qingping's hand tightly, and said: "I'll be fine after tonight, Li Qingping, live—— "

She put a kiss between Qingping's eyebrows, as light as a feather brushing, she was suddenly relieved, no matter what was waiting for her, but at this moment, she seemed to have found the meaning of life.This long and arduous journey seems to have filled all her imperfections.

What more could she ask for?Wu Ying closed her eyes and said in a low voice: "Do you still remember, you told me to run before, and I really ran away. I have wanted to understand one thing for so many years, and I also want to stand in front of you and protect you, Qingping , no matter what your name is or who you are as a substitute, you must remember that you live for yourself. In fact, I don't care what your name is, whether it's Yu Jun or Li Qingping, it doesn't matter... It’s just that you are usually very stupid, and your vision is not very good, so don’t be confused this time—”

A drop of hot tears fell on Wu Ying's hand, Wu Ying suddenly withdrew her hand, thinking that Qingping had woken up, but she saw her tears streaming down, as if she was about to say something, Wu Ying put her ear close to her mouth and listened carefully, only heard the vague A few vague words: "Don't go..."

Wu Ying smiled, her eye circles became more red, she broke free from her hand, took something from the skirt and put it in her hand.The thing trembled slightly, and almost rolled to the ground. It turned out to be a paper crane. The edges of the paper had turned yellow, as if it had been rubbed many times, but it was well preserved.Wu Yingzhen put the paper crane into her palm again, and said softly: "I'm leaving, Qingping. You remember what we said before, we want to see famous mountains and rivers, and travel all over six states and eighteen counties."

She finally couldn't help it, choked up and said: "Just remember, if I can't go, you can go by yourself." A drop of tears fell on the paper crane, soaking its small wings, and Wu Ying wiped it off in embarrassment. Wiping tears, took a deep breath, held Qingping's hand and put it away, but the voice was very soft: "You don't have to remember me, and don't look for me, okay?"

Wu Ying lowered her head and said, "Just pretend you never knew me, okay?"

She seemed to be begging, but she clearly didn't want to get an answer, so she hurriedly got up and walked out of the cave.

This night Qingping knew that she had developed a fever, she felt like one day she had a fever, and woke up at noon of the second day, and there was no one in the cave, she touched the wound on her shoulder, it had been bandaged.

Her throat was so dry that it was about to smoke, she managed to hold herself up, and suddenly something fell out of her hand.Looking at it by light, a small paper crane fell on the ground, she reached out to pick it up, and it happened that the paper crane was turned upside down, revealing two small characters behind its wings.

It was a Wu character, which was somewhat blurred.The one on the right is obviously written in Xinmo, and it is a Li character.

Qingping recognized the paper crane, it was clearly folded and given to Wu Ying by her without saying goodbye that year, but she didn't expect that she had kept it for so many years.Suddenly, her heart felt empty, and she looked blankly at the darkening sky outside the cave.

Where did Wu Ying go?She put the paper crane away, packed up the package, and suppressed all those bad thoughts.

Must have gone out to find water?Thinking so, Qingping sat in the cave for a while, but finally couldn't hold back, and went out to look for Wu Ying regardless of the danger of the wound opening. She searched the whole mountain, but didn't see a single person.

Qingping was a little discouraged, and went to fetch water from the river. She put a water bag in, and suddenly realized a problem. If Wu Ying really went to fetch water, why didn't she bring a water bag?

Her heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of her throat, and she had a vague feeling of bad premonition. She searched all the way up the river, and finally saw the most unforgettable scene in her life by the river.

Wu Ying was lying in the water, the river washed her face flawlessly, her long black hair spread out like algae, she curled up, her brows were slightly wrinkled, as if she was very uncomfortable.There was a wound on her chest, and dark blood flowed out continuously, and was diluted by the water flow.

Qingping knelt by the water, touched her face with trembling hands, she hugged Wu Ying's cold body, closed her eyes, and looked up at the sky.

I don't know how long it took, she seemed to be completely numb, a piece of cold stuff fell on the corner of her eyes, melted, and flowed down her cheeks.

She opened her eyes, and a few snowflakes fell from the sky, falling on her face, like a cold and warm kiss.

She thought it was tears, but it wasn't.

It was nothing but melting snow.

The author has something to say: Crying while writing, crying into evil.