fan dance

28

The deep night is endlessly rendered among the mountains, the morning sun has not yet risen, only a faint light is revealed in the eastern sky, the night dew has not faded, and the air is filled with the smell of grass.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, you can overlook the entire Taohua Town. In late autumn and early winter, Taohua Town has not yet woken up from its deep sleep.Occasionally, a few dog barks came from far away in the open space, which only put a cloak of loneliness on all this.A carriage quietly drove out of Peach Blossom Town, and under the cover of the dark sky, along the winding mountain road, went all the way to the north.

The speed of the carriage is not fast, but it can't help the mountains and mountains, and it goes away a little bit, until finally it is completely submerged in the boundless darkness, and it can no longer be seen.

"That's good." On the top of the mountain, the wind blew up the cloak, and one person stood alone, looking at the carriage going away, unable to regain consciousness for a long time.

An Yanheng came leading two steeds. The sound of hoofbeats echoed in the silent mountain, and finally brought the person who was lost in thought back to reality.

The wind in this season is already very cold, with a whizzing chill blowing on his face.Yu Chiqiu sighed softly, turned around and walked towards An Yanheng, stretched out his hand to stroke the smooth mane of the steed, the horse lowered its head comfortably, and snorted: "Xiao An, are you all ready?"

An Yanheng patted the horse's bridle, but did not answer Yu Chiqiu's question. He stretched his neck and looked towards Taohua Town at the foot of the mountain. The carriage was gone, and the man's thoughts had also gone away.

"If you regret it now, maybe it's too late." For a moment, An Yanheng couldn't help but said, raised his finger and pointed down the mountain, but his eyes turned to Yuchiqiu's face. "Go back to Beijing with him."

Yu Chiqiu looked sad, but shook his head stubbornly: "Xiao An, you know I can't."

The tenderness of last night is still in front of my eyes, the two get along well, full of tenderness, and give each other body and mind, Xu will never be separated for the rest of my life.But Yuchiqiu still chose to be decisive. When the affection was strong, he secretly hid the drug under his tongue, and while their lips and teeth were touching, he sent it into Su Chengjing's mouth. middle.

"My lord, I'm sorry." Yu Chiqiu sent Su Chengjing to the carriage with his own hands, and asked Zhuang Pu to take him back to the capital. No matter how long the road is, he must not turn back.The effect of the drug is quite powerful, and when Su Chengjing wakes up, he may already be in the capital.Yu Chiqiu arranged the deployment and conspired with Zhuang Pu long ago. From the beginning to the end, he has made up his mind every step of the way.

An Yanheng sighed, and reached out to touch Yu Chiqiu's cheek: "You look like you're about to cry, you just can't bear it, why are you pretending in front of me?"

Yu Chiqiu turned his face away, avoiding An Yanheng's comfort.He is a resolute person, and he always knew what he was going to do. He warned himself like this, he tightened the cloak on his body, and said softly: "I am reluctant, but, he is Su Chengjing, and I am Yuchiqiu. I am not a person who indulges in love.”

"Oh, so you still lied to him?" An Yanheng smiled wryly. He was used to being straightforward. Seeing Yu Chiqiu's stubborn refusal to show his true feelings at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious. When his temper came up, he said without restraint, "You What would happen if he knew that the two men he was closest to and trusted had teamed up to lie to him?"

Yu Chiqiu's face turned cold, and he shouted: "Shut up!" An Yanheng was also taken aback, and soon realized that Yu Chiqiu must be very concerned about the deception, so even if he mentioned it, he would react so violently.

"I'm sorry..." Yu Chiqiu calmed down and said, "I have an appointment with King Chen, and King Chen is the person who knows him best. Since he dares to make such an appointment with me, he naturally knows that he can deal with it even if he knows the truth."

"King Chen asked you to take care of him for half a year, and the price is the map information of Lanxu Palace." An Yanheng recalled the content of the agreement that Yu Chiqiu told him, "However, King Chen can predict that there will be..."

On that day, Yu Chiqiu had a private transaction with Chen Wang Leng Qiyu in Ningzhou, the two reached an agreement, even Su Chengjing also kept it secret.In the past six months, when Yu Chiqiu and Su Chengjing got along, every little bit has already crossed the boundary. In fact, even Yuchiqiu himself did not think of this.Even when it was the night of parting, he could still blurt out the promise of white heads, the friendship between Qin and Jin... now it's all in vain.

"Lan Xu's trip is imperative for me. Now that the agreement is fulfilled, it's time to return him to the place where he should be." Yu Chiqiu looked cold, took out a roll of sheepskin from his arms, and handed it to An Yanheng. "This is what King Chen fulfilled the agreement."

An Yanheng put it away solemnly, seeing that Yuchiqiu was so decisive, he couldn't say anything more, so he took the reins away in his hand, and handed one of the horses to Yuchiqiu.He had been looking for these two horses for a long time, and bought them back from Anzhou. They had been hiding in An's house until last night when the matter was settled.

Yu Chiqiu led the steed and turned around and walked away. The horse was also human, following Yu Chiqiu cautiously, lowering its head and rubbing his hair affectionately, as if it understood that the master was in a bad mood and wanted to come forward to comfort him.

An Yanheng followed for a while, then suddenly caught up and held Yuchiqiu's saddle, and said with a smile: "Yuchi, King Chen just agreed to give you the map, and didn't ask you to go immediately, why don't you go back with the third prince?" Beijing, if you take care of yourself, it’s okay to go to Lanxu with him in spring.”

Yu Chiqiu was silent for a moment, then said softly: "Xiao An, if you don't want to die with me, then..."

"That's not what I meant!" An Yanheng interrupted loudly, but his good intentions were misunderstood by Yu Chiqiu, and he couldn't help raising his voice, "I don't want you to die!"

Yu Chiqiu suddenly gave a "chuck" smile, stretched out his fist and punched An Yanheng: "I know." He raised his face and smiled slightly, the sadness just now had completely disappeared, "Xiao An, this time we will fight side by side again. "

"you……"

Yu Chiqiu got on his horse and faced the slowly rising sun, his thin back was sprinkled with golden rays, outlining a thrilling beauty.

"The poison of Yaoshi, the scourge of Lanxu, started from my ancestors, and ended with me, Yuchiqiu." With lowered eyebrows and sideways eyes, with a slight smile, Yuchiqiu pulled the reins, and the steed galloped away. "There is no duality in the heart, and life and death are at the mercy of fate!"

"You, you, you..." An Yanheng said you three times in a row, and finally stomped his feet, flew onto the horse's back, and kicked the horse's belly. "Wait for me!"

It took three or four days to go around from the back of Taohua Town to Duosang, the capital of Lanxu.The horse An Yanheng bought was worthy of being a god horse. Even though the mountain road was rough and difficult, the two horses were up to the challenge, and they arrived in Duosang smoothly in the early morning of the third day.

Duosang is the largest city in Lanxu, built more than a hundred years ago.However, 20 years ago, a fire destroyed the imperial city of Duosang, so Lan Xu re-planned Duosang, and built the imperial city that was originally located in the center of Duosang to the foot of Duosang Mountain.This new imperial city is backed by the deep mountains of Lanxu, overlooking the entire Dosang city in front, it is magnificent, it has been built intermittently for more than ten years, and it has not been really completed yet.

The terrain of the newly built imperial city is complicated. Although Yu Chiqiu successfully sneaked into it three years ago, it also alarmed Ning Wu and others, and he was almost trapped in it and could not escape.Now he has made a deal with Chen Wang Leng Qiyu, holding the map of Dosang New Imperial City that Leng Qiyu sacrificed several undercover spies in his hand, and only then did he plan this second infiltration operation.

Yu Chiqiu and An Yanheng hid their horses in a hidden place outside the city, changed into civilian clothes, one pretended to be a quack doctor and the other a street peddler, and entered Dosang among a group of common people.

There are several arch guard camps between the imperial city and the prosperous neighborhood of Dosang, so it is really inconvenient to sneak into the imperial city from Dosang.After Yu Chiqiu and An Yanheng studied the map carefully, they decided to enter through a small gate in the northwest corner of the imperial city.The small gate is located in a remote place with weak guards. It is the channel for transporting vegetables into the imperial city every day. After entering the gate is the dining room of the imperial city. The night watch there is generally not too strict.Moreover, the small gate here is also very close to the medical department that Yu Chiqiu most wants to go to. If you enter from there, it is the most convenient and safe way.

The two of them finished their plans and arranged the escape route to leave Duosang. After all the preparations, they hid in the small inn in the city and stayed there until the sun went down.

Every day after sunset in the imperial city, food raw materials will be delivered to the dining room to prepare for consumption on the second day.An Yanheng had contacted Lan Xu's secret agent early in the morning, and deliberately delayed the delivery time today. When the guards were about to turn over, Yu Chiqiu and An Yanheng were mixed in the delivery team. Into the imperial city.

After moving everything into the warehouse, Yu Chiqiu and An Yanheng slipped out from behind the dining room, waiting patiently for the sky to completely darken.The night is the best cover, and just after nightfall, the guards everywhere have to change shifts, so this is the opportunity to take advantage of it.

Yu Chiqiu and An Yanheng originally wanted to sneak into the guard team, but the guards in the imperial city were in groups of five, and it would be easy to expose if they acted rashly, so they had to give up.The two took off their camouflage and only wore black strong clothes, with Yu Chiqiu in the front and An Yanheng behind, they walked carefully all the way to the medical department.

The guards of the Medical Department had just turned over, and the team leader led four guards to patrol the door, probably thinking that there was nothing important, and two of them were still chatting and laughing in a low voice.Yu Chiqiu made a gesture, went around to the base of the wall, performed lightness kung fu and jumped in. An Yanheng had a tacit understanding and immediately followed. The two jumped into the courtyard silently, then entered the house, and immediately closed the door.

After entering the house, An Yanheng realized that something was wrong. The layout here is not like a medical department where medicines are stored, and there is no strong and pungent smell of medicines. He just wanted to ask Yu Chiqiu, but Yu Chiqiu nodded to him and walked to The desk in the room, and then began to turn over,

An Yanheng frowned slightly, and quickly looked around. The setting of this place should be a study room, with various scrolls and papers stacked neatly on the table, and Yu Chiqiu went forward to look at it with ease, as if he wasn't annoyed by going to the wrong place.

"Yuchi." While guarding the situation outside the house, An Yanheng approached Yuchiqiu and whispered, "We went to the wrong place, let's go."

Yu Chiqiu kept his hands in his hands, took out a few copies from the pile of scrolls and papers, opened the drawer of the desk to check, and replied: "That's right, you go and watch at the door, I'll be fine soon."

An Yanheng was surprised, the room was too dark and he couldn't see what was written on Yuchiqiu's hand. He wanted to get closer but was afraid that there would be too much noise, so he said patiently, "This is not the Department of Medicine, what's the matter with the map?"

"Shut up!" Yu Chiqiu scolded in a low voice, An Yanheng hurriedly held his breath and concentrated, the room was dead silent for a moment, after a while, a group of guards outside walked by, and a figure was reflected on the window.Fortunately, the group of guards did not find anyone in the room and left quickly.

"Weichi..."

Yu Chiqiu poked his head out from behind the desk, he had already packed a small package in his hand, and after a moment of silence, he said: "The guards have gone far, now, let's go out through the window. Go southeast."

"Ah?" This was completely different from the plan, An Yanheng couldn't react for a while, Yu Chiqiu had already moved to the window, opened a gap for the two of them to pass through, looked out for a while, and then waved.

An Yanheng was completely confused, and it was difficult to ask questions because he was in a dangerous place, so he had to follow Yu Chiqiu's wishes.The two climbed out of the wall very smoothly, and retreated all the way back to the warehouse of the dining room.

The warehouse of the dining room is not guarded by guards, and it is locked by a special person at night.It's just that the person in charge of the key to the warehouse of the dining room is the internal response of Dayan's side. This time, in cooperation with the actions of the two, the warehouse was not locked, allowing the two to return to this place to deal with it.

Finally able to catch his breath, An Yanheng immediately took out the roll of sheepskin map and checked it carefully. Sure enough, the place they went to just now marked the Department of Medicine. "Yuchi, King Chen is lying to us, it's not..."

"Xiao An." Yu Chiqiu calmly interrupted An Yanheng's questioning.He looked at An Yanheng calmly, with a chill in his eyes, which made An Yanheng shiver uncontrollably. "Yuchi, you..."

"It's me who lied to you." Taking a deep breath, Yu Chiqiu said in a low voice, he took the roll of sheepskin map and said with a wry smile, "The map that King Chen gave me is fine, but the roll I gave you The map was forged by me."

An Yanheng was taken aback for a moment, then asked: "Why? Yuchi, what do you mean?"

"For this." Yu Chiqiu pointed to the small bundle in his arms that he took out from the place just now, "Listen, Xiaoan, this thing is very important, you must take him out of here, go to the capital, and hand it over to King Chen .”

"I?"

An Yanheng took the burden in a daze, and wanted to untie it, but Yu Chiqiu stopped him and said, "Don't look at it, we went to Ning Wu's study just now, and the things I brought out are evidence of his treason and his seal." He stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the Dosang Imperial City, which was brightly lit outside, but it was a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. "As long as you have these things, you can prove that the eldest prince still has... the Lanxu royal family."

"You..." An Yanheng was so terrified that he almost dropped his bag on the ground, he suddenly approached Yuchiqiu and grabbed his collar, and asked with suppressed anger, "Yuchi, what did you do!"

Yu Chiqiu didn't care about An Yanheng's anger at all, Shi Shiran stuffed the burden into An Yanheng's clothes, "I said that the disaster of Lanxu, I will stop it, Ning Wu colluded with the inner court of the Great Mian to make trouble, I will He must not be allowed to succeed." He looked at An Yanheng still puzzled, sighed and continued, "The agreement between me and King Chen is not what I said before. The relationship between Su Chengjing and me in Peach Blossom Town , is what I exchanged for."

"So... Actually, you agreed to King Chen to steal these criminal evidence?" An Yanheng finally understood.

"Sorry... I used you."

An Yanheng shook his head. After knowing the truth, he breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but blame him: "Why do you hide it from me? Even if I accompany you to steal this criminal evidence, I am naturally obliged to forge the map. That's enough time." Seeing Yuchiqiu's gloomy expression, he guessed that he must be a little guilty because of Su Chengjing's matter, and comforted him, "Don't worry, Yuchi, the third prince is not a ruthless person, let's go back to see him after completing the agreement, presumably He can also understand. Sigh... You tell the truth earlier, I can steal these things by myself, why do you have to do something."

Yu Chiqiu hesitated to speak, but just looked at An Yanheng.An Yanheng looked out, the sky was dark, and the moonlight was just covered by dark clouds. No stars and no moon, it was a good time to leave. He returned and grabbed Yuchiqiu's sleeve, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, turn back Let’s count this with you again, let’s get out of here first.”

"Well, you leave first." Yu Chiqiu flicked his sleeves to dodge, still standing where he was.

"how about you?"

Yu Chiqiu took a deep breath, suppressed his fluctuating emotions just now, and said softly: "I have my own destination... You take this bag and leave immediately, leave me alone, go straight to the capital, I... and Other things."

"You still want to find Yaoshi's antidote?" An Yanheng stepped forward and said, "In this case, we will advance together and retreat together, and I will not leave alone."

Yu Chiqiu was unmoved, as if he had expected this situation, and said with a smile: "An Yanheng, this is my last order."

An Yanheng was stunned suddenly.All the while getting along with each other on an equal footing, he almost forgot that he was Yu Chiqiu's guard.When the young An Yanheng was taken away by Yuchi's family to study art, he had already made an oath, but now as long as Yuchiqiu opens his mouth to order, he has no room to refuse. "Do you know...if you are discovered, you will die...you won't have the good luck you had three years ago!"

"I know." Yu Chiqiu slowly stretched out his hand, the poisonous needle in his hand was glowing with a green light, he was ready to die, "But this is my fate and my responsibility."

"What are you kidding?"

Yu Chiqiu shook his head: "Listen, An Yanheng, don't forget, if I give an order, you can't refuse."

An Yanheng didn't know how to refute for a moment, this was the education he had received since he was a child, he gritted his teeth for a moment, and he had to whisper: "Fate..." Suddenly raised his head, he stared at Yu Chiqiu, with grief and anger in his eyes, and finally Finally he said bitterly: "But Yuchi, don't forget, you gave the last order. After I finish it, I will be free, and I will have no relationship with you anymore!"

Yu Chiqiu closed his eyes slightly, as if he was suppressing the sadness in his heart: "Yes."

"Then, you also remember that I will give the things to King Chen, and then come back. If you live well, I will come to save you. If you die, I will go back here to avenge you even if I die. "

"Xiao An..."

An Yanheng waved his hand to stop Yu Chiqiu from continuing, took a deep breath, glanced at the thick night outside the warehouse, and sighed: "It's still too late for you to change your mind, I hope you think it through."

"You know I won't change my mind." Yu Chiqiu also resolutely remained the same.

"Oh, that's good, this matter is over, whether you are dead or alive, I will come back to find you, Yuchi, take care!" An Yanheng took a deep breath, stopped entanglement, hugged the burden tightly in his arms, and turned around Hidden in darkness.

Yu Chiqiu stood there without moving for a long time, "Heh!" After a chuckle, he flung his sleeves and hands behind his back, and escaped into the unknown night.