Dare to Live Up to the Country and Live Up to Your Honor Ⅰ

Just when Yan Xi and Zhan Pei were feeling dizzy, Gongsun Mingyue's situation took a turn for the worse.

For unknown reasons, the flowers and plants on the edge of Han Tan all withered within a few days. Gongsun Mingyue, who originally saved his life by this, was facing the biggest challenge in his life.

Seeing Pang Ce carrying those flowers and plants into the cave over and over again, Gongsun Mingyue sat by the bed and said lightly: "Don't be busy, what's the use if they are all withered?"

"I can save your life in your critical moment. I don't want to save my life with great difficulty and finally fall in front of me." Pang Ce said as he walked, his eyes never looked at Gongsun Mingyue, and he only thought about saving his life. his life.

"How could I fall down so easily?" Gongsun Mingyue smiled contemptuously.

Pon Ce stopped at the entrance of the cave, looked back at him, and finally walked out without saying a word.

As the sky gradually darkened, Pang Ce managed to carry all the flowers and plants into the cave, Gongsun Mingyue looked at the piles of flowers and plants expressionlessly, and said, "Do you really think I will die? "

"Don't say that word." Ponce walked to him, grabbed his hands vigorously and said, "With me here, I will definitely not let you die."

Gongsun Mingyue looked at Pang Ce, showed a miserable smile, and said helplessly: "You can't do it if you say you can't? Do you think you are Yama of the underworld?"

"Is Yan Luo big? Is it as big as the emperor?" Pang Ce said.

Gongsun Mingyue looked into his eyes and asked in disbelief: "Didn't you say that you would not be rebellious?"

"For you, maybe I will break my own rules." Pon Ce lowered his head to feel Gongsun Mingyue's cold hands, and sighed, "It's so cold."

Gongsun Mingyue gently pulled out her hands, and tilted them to one side in displeasure, with complex emotions in her eyes, she said, "Do you know what I think now?"

"I know, but I don't want to hear it," Ponce grabbed his hands persistently, and said with his head down, "Now we don't know if we can go out, so how can I seek to usurp the throne?"

"What if we go out?"

"I never think about the eventuality, I only look at the present."

Gongsun Mingyue turned her head, looked at Pang Ce seriously and said, "I don't want to be that sinner who brings disaster to the country and the people?"

"Hehe, even if it's a disaster for the country and the people, it's me, Pang Ce. What does it have to do with you, Gongsun Mingyue? It's me, not you, who wins the world." Pang Ce said with a smile.

"you sure?"

"I'm sure."

Gongsun Mingyue sat up straight, looked down at her clenched hands, and said flatly: "Promise me, no matter what happens in the future, you will never be a sinner through the ages."

Pang Ce bowed his head in thought, but did not answer. Gongsun Mingyue looked up at him and said eagerly, "Promise me."

"I promise you." Pon Ce's voice was so low that it was almost inaudible. Gongsun Mingyue knew that he was unwilling, but as long as he was still alive, he would never let him go on the road of no return.

Gongsun Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief, coughed twice and said, "I'm hungry."

Pon Ce looked up at his pale cheeks without a trace of rosiness and said, "I'm going to prepare now."

"I will go with you."

"Forget it, you'd better rest. I can do it by myself. It's much colder outside now than during the day." After Ponze finished speaking, he let go of his hands, turned around and threw another log into the fire.

There are not many things to eat at the bottom of the valley. Occasionally, some small animals will fall from the top. At that time, they will eat better, but there are not many such times. If there is no such luck, then Ponzer always goes to the hills Pick some wild fruits or some edible wild vegetables from the nearby woods. When Ponce joined the army, he learned a lot of skills that would allow him to survive in times of crisis. He never thought that after becoming a general, there would be one day will be used.

Eating is easy to solve, but drinking water is more difficult. Gongsun Mingyue must not be able to drink the water in the cold pool. Before drinking water, he always received stream water from the edge of the cliff, but the water seeped out from the edge of the cliff. After all, the water in the stream is limited, so Ponce dug a few deep pits and stored some rainwater because of the rain some time ago. Presumably there will be no problem in a short time, but what about in the future?If they can't find a way out, even if Gongsun Mingyue doesn't die of cold, they will die of hunger and thirst.

Pang Ce didn't dare to tell Gongsun Mingyue about this, because he was afraid that if he said it carefully, it would give him the courage to survive as a zombie.

……

The night was dark, and Yan Xi hadn't rested yet. He spread all the thin threads he had collected on the desk in front of him. After returning to the Yamen this morning, he locked himself in the room and carefully studied the paper that looked Oh those weird maps.

What does the red mark on the edge of the cliff mean?

"Brother Yan." Just as he was thinking, Zhan Pei's voice sounded outside the door.

"Come in." Yan Xi thought his head hurt, so he stood up and shouted towards the door.

Zhan Pei happily walked in with a plate of food, put it on the table and said, "Brother Yan, you haven't eaten all day, come and eat something, sister Xiaoman made it."

"Xiaoman." Yan Xi repeated, walked from the desk to sit down, looked at the food in front of him, and said with a smile, "It's really her?"

"Of course it's true." Zhan Pei raised his head and said, "Look, Sister Xiaoman is still the best for you, right? That Ponce doesn't know what to mix in?"

"Pang Ce?" Yan Xi raised his head and asked suspiciously, "What does this have to do with Pang Ce?"

"Brother Yan, you don't know, sister Xiaoman came to Tianshui Town with Pang Ce this time, don't you think it's weird?" Zhan Pei grabbed the kettle and poured himself a glass of water, and said unhappily .

"Did Xiaoman come with Pang Ce?" Yan Xi put down his chopsticks, stared at Zhan Pei and asked, "What did she say about it?"

"She just said it was a chance meeting, who would believe it?" Zhan Pei picked up the water glass and put it down again.

"Maybe it was really a chance encounter?" Yan Xi stopped eating, but stared at the food in front of him in a daze.

"How is this possible? How could it be such a coincidence?" Zhan Pei retorted, but when he saw Yan Xi's unnatural expression, he realized that he had said something he shouldn't have said, so he tied his tongue and said, " That..., that... maybe it was really a chance encounter, a chance encounter."

Seeing that Yan Xi hadn't eaten, Zhan Pei felt uncomfortable. When he saw the map on the desk, he stood up happily, walked to the desk, picked up the map and asked, "What is this?"

It was only then that Yan Xi came back to his senses, saw the map in Zhan Pei's hand, stood up, walked in front of him, pointed to the red mark on the map and said, "What do you think is this place? These people have drawn this place, it must be It means that this place is very important, do you know where it is?"

Zhan Pei looked at it again and again, and finally said with certainty: "I haven't been there, I really haven't been there."

"Shall we go and have a look?" Zhan Pei put down the map, looked at Yan Xi and said.

Yan Xi stood in front of the desk, picked up the map again, looked left and right, it must be very easy to find there with the map, the key now is whether to take someone with him?

In the end, Yan Xi still made up his mind and took Zhan Pei to take a look. Since the opponent marked it, he couldn't let it go, no matter if it was a trap or a clue.

Just when Yan Xi and Zhan Pei were about to leave, Huang Xiaobei came back, and he brought back Qiu Chenghu's body, which was so rotten that he couldn't distinguish his face.

Looking at the corpse, Yan Xi could tell at a glance that he fell to his death, and he must have been pushed off the cliff. While examining the corpse, Yan Xi asked, "How do you know this is Qiu Chenghu's corpse?"

There were tears still in Huang Xiaobei's eyes, and he said with a choked tone: "He is our eldest brother, of course I know it is him, such as this clothes, such as the nails on his hands, all show that this is Brother Qiu."

"What happened to his nails?" Yan Xi grabbed Qiu Chenghu's hand and examined it carefully.

"Brother's ten fingernails are different from other people's. You can see that they are all gray, and the elder brother should be very clean, so the teacher always cuts them very short. Besides, he has nine fingers, and the little finger on his right hand is because he is young. When he was young, he liked to gamble and was chopped off by his family, doesn’t that all mean that he is Big Brother Qiu?” Xiaobei pointed to the right hand of the corpse and explained.

Yan Xi saw that the instructions on the corpse were indeed as Xiao Bei said, so he gently put down his hands, looked at the corpse without a human figure again, and said with a sigh: "It seems that this is really Qiu Chenghu. "

Yan Xi walked around the corpse twice and said, "From the looks of it, this person fell off a cliff and died..."

"Master Yan, you are really amazing, you can tell at a glance, we really found him at the bottom of Wangfeng Cliff." Huang Xiaobei looked at Yan Xi with admiration.

"Actually, it's very simple. But I want to check the corpse carefully, you all go down." Yan Xi squatted down again, and continued to examine the corpse carefully.

After everyone had left, Zhan Pei asked in a low voice, "Then when shall we go there?"

"After I see all this clearly." After Yan Xi finished speaking, he didn't speak anymore, he believed that the corpse could also speak.

……

The next day was another sunny day, and now the warmth in the air is becoming more and more obvious, and summer is approaching.

It has been many days since Gongsun Mingyue and Pang Ce disappeared, and Niu Dachuan's inn has not opened for several days. He has not completed the task given to him by the door owner, and these few days, the door owner sent someone to remind him. He really doesn't know what to do?

Originally, he was only here to monitor the former county magistrate and collect evidence of his corruption and bribery, but now all of this has been followed by the death of the county magistrate, and there is nowhere to investigate.

But the door owner asked him to find the letters between the original two parties hidden in the original county magistrate's house, but he couldn't find it. The county magistrate's mansion had been in many times, and even saved Gongsun Mingyue once, but he still treated the county magistrate. I don't know much about the secret place where the letters are stored. Seeing that Hongdumen's mission in Tianshui Town is about to be completed, but my own mission has not been completed, I am afraid that the sect master will not let me go this time.

Sun Hongniang is from the Hongdumen, but he has never thought about this, why the spies sent by the emperor turned into Hongdumen, whether it is the emperor or the owner of the sect.

The last time General Pang returned to the capital safely, but he was still invited back by Gongsun Mingyue. Who put the letter blaming him in the Lin residence? Could it have something to do with the head of the sect?

In the past, no matter what happened to the Hongdu Gate, the head of the door would call him, but since he came to Tianshui Town, the head of the door didn't look for him often. Is he completely at ease with himself, or is he not at all at ease?

Sitting by his bed, Niu Dachuan thought over and over again about those unreasonable things, and recalled whether he did something wrong. The closer to the last moment, the less he could make mistakes.