Sweet as candy

The horse galloped on the road, and the people on both sides avoided it in a panic. The horse's hooves disappeared in front of them like a gust of wind, leaving only a strange burning smell in the air that had not dissipated.

Qingluan shrunk into a ball and leaned against Xiao Lang's arms.The scenery on both sides flashed by her side quickly, her eyes were injured and could not be fully opened, she only looked greedily at Xiao Lang's face through a thin slit: "My lord..."

"Qingluan." Xiao Lang lowered his head and glanced, then speeded up with his legs clamped together: "Hold on, I'll take you to the doctor."

"It's too late." Qingluan shook his head slowly and painfully, and said hoarsely: "I asked, that idiot of the Meng family, he can't handle things..."

"We'll discuss this matter later." Xiao Lang gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take you to see a doctor first, you must hold on and don't fall asleep."

Qingluan smiled wryly, and tears rolled down the corner of her scalded eyes, making the wound even more painful: "There is no time, son, listen to me."

Xiao Lang lowered his head, and she struggled to cover her face with one hand: "Don't look... I'm ugly now."

"That Meng Yuntang has a strict mouth, but his son is different. I just made a few detours, and he got caught in everything." Qingluan continued intermittently: "Meng Yuntang met a distinguished guest from the north before. A Jianghu guest, he often discusses with him how to keep in good health. It is through him that Meng came into contact with the Wujiang God Sect. I heard from him that this smiling Buddha has some background in martial arts. trouble……"

The thick smoke eroded her heart and lungs, talking too much made her sore throat even more dry.She swallowed the blood foam in her throat, as if she wanted to cough out all the smoke in her lungs: "I only asked so much, my lord, Meng Yuntang is familiar with the officialdom, and he has a smiling face and a martial arts in his hands. You must be careful, don't trust those ..."

Before he finished speaking, he coughed violently again.

"I see, you've done a good job." Xiao Lang wrapped him up a little tighter, Qingluan's condition was not good, and it might be too late to go to the hospital he trusted.

He made a decisive decision and sent the person to a nearby hospital.The doctor at the hospital saw two people rushing in wet, and the one in his arms was almost burnt to a charcoal, with a solemn expression, he hurriedly beckoned to the medicine boy to help carry them in.

"What's the matter, how did it burn like this?"

To clean someone's wound, one must first remove her clothes.But after going through the fire first, and then swimming all the way out of the water, all the clothes on Qingluan's body were burned and melted into a pitch-black mass, clinging tightly to the flesh.Most of the exposed skin was also scorched red by the fire.

Moreover, the patient's breathing became weaker and weaker, accompanied by severe coughing from time to time, probably because he had inhaled a lot of black smoke.

The doctor felt heavy in his heart, knowing that the patient could not be saved.Qingluan saw his sympathetic eyes clearly, and understood that there was no way for her to recover.

She was sad in her heart, but she smiled again, and begged the doctor: "I'm afraid I won't survive, doctor, please stay away, I want to have a few words with my young master."

Seeing that she faced life and death so calmly, the doctor shook his head regretfully, and lifted the curtain to go out, leaving a moment of peace for the two of them.

Xiao Lang squatted down beside her gently: "Why are you so stupid?"

Qingluan smiled wryly and said: "I told you my son... Even if Li Xing successfully approached Meng Yuntang, he would definitely be suspected because of buying the pills. But I am different, my identity is easier to talk... You see, I did it……"

Xiao Lang's eyes turned red, and he reached out to help her: "I'll take you away, there must be someone who can save you."

"No." Qingluan tremblingly said: "I don't want to waste all my time on the road, son, Qingluan has a few words, and I must tell you."

Xiao Lang turned his head away, Qingluan stared blankly at the tears in his eyes, quietly stretched out his hand a little distance in that direction, and then stopped immediately: "It's good that you will cry for me."

"In the future, you should be able to remember me as a person." She gasped for words, and it was extremely difficult to say: "Young master, you are soft-hearted and affectionate. Although I am happy, I have to remind you that I am just a piece of yours." Chess pieces, when playing chess with others, don't feel compassion for a single chess piece."

"I'm willing to be the chess player in your hand." Her voice became smaller and smaller, and she could hardly hear it at the end: "Please... don't lose the whole game because of a single chess piece..."

Before she finished speaking, she could no longer support herself, her hands dropped limply, and she closed her eyes.

"Qingluan?" There was sudden silence beside her, Xiao Lang turned his head stiffly, looked at her as if she was falling into a deep sleep, and gently shook her: "Qingluan?"

No more promises, Xiao Lang felt great pity, and gently hugged him up.

The doctor waited outside for a while, but no one came out. Not long after, a group of soldiers ran past outside, asking from house to house, "Have you seen two people? A man and a woman. The woman has burns all over her body."

When asked about the medical center, the doctor flicked his wrist and immediately gave away his flaws.

He was escorted into the inner room and opened the curtain in fear, but the hospital bed was already empty.

"It must have run from behind!" The team leader said, "Chase!"

Xiao Lang left the hospital with Qingluan's body, knowing in his heart that the two of them were too conspicuous, and they must not go to Li Xing's place.

But where can he lead people?

Anzi was homeless, and even where they were born was sealed with their real names.The city gate of Chang'an was strictly checked, and he couldn't take it out.

Xiao Lang didn't know Qingluan's hometown, he buried her in the house he used to hide, and then picked flowers and placed them in front of the unnamed stele.

It's a pity that the piano stayed in Tianqingfang, and now it is estimated that it was also taken away by the government.

Meng Yusheng blamed Qingluan for the fire on the painting boat, saying that the woman in the brothel was greedy for wealth and wanted to hijack him for money, but she didn't expect to kill herself in the end.Officers and soldiers searched everywhere outside, and the brothel where Qingluan was staying was also forced to temporarily close the door.

Li Xing heard so much commotion outside, he was anxious and restless, he wandered around the house with his hands behind his back.

Xiao Lang sneaked into his house at Yinshi, when Li Xing had just fallen asleep, when he heard some movement, he sat up from the bed in shock: "Who?"

"Me." Xiao Lang replied.

Li Xing immediately asked: "My lord, Qingluan..."

Li Xing had already prepared for the worst, Xiao Lang sighed quietly, and he guessed that the other party must have died.

He forced himself to mourn and said: "My lord, you can't live up to Qingluan's life, wait until Meng Yuntang's birthday..."

Xiao Lang changed his mind and said: "No, you don't have to go."

"What?" Li Xing was taken aback, "But I finally got the chance."

Qingluan was right, if Li Xing had contact with the Wujiang God Sect, if he entered the Meng Mansion again, he might be a sheep in the mouth of a tiger.

"After Qingluan's accident, a large number of officers and soldiers searched and arrested along the street. After this incident, Meng Yuntang will only become more cautious." Xiao Lang said: "You go to contact the Wujiang God Sect and say that the elixir of life really has to wait too long. You can't wait, let them make you another one."

"Replace it with what?"

"Anything that doesn't hurt people's lives will do."

Qingluan has been exposed, Li Xing must not break this line.After burying Qingluan, Xiao Lang thought hard for a long time, and finally planned to shift his focus, let Li Xing get rid of the suspicion first, and then set up a second-level spy: "I have already got the clues about Chang'an, and you should finish it properly. By the way, the transaction was successful." Finally, if the people of the Wujiang God Sect do not suspect you, you can ask them again, you have friends who live near Haoran City, where the Martial Arts League is strictly guarded, and there are other ways to buy pills."

Xue Shiji took on Xiao Lang's responsibility in the Wulin League for a long time, and only then did he fully understand the difficulty of being alone.

All the big and small things wiped away the smile on his face. At the busiest time, Xue Shiji could not sleep for two days.

While leaning on the table and looking dazedly at the news from outside, he admired Xiao Lang from the bottom of his heart for being able to maintain a good temper in such a chaotic situation.

During this period of time, he was like a firecracker, about to catch fire at one o'clock.Because of this, he still shut the door to see Song Shuyan, because he was afraid that an impulse would kill someone, and he would have to feel sorry for himself in the future.

Song Shuyan was not afraid of him at all, and thoughtfully brought him refreshing chrysanthemum tea to drink.

Someone stepped in from outside, and Xue Shiji buried his face in the teacup, and raised his face in displeasure when he heard that someone came in without knocking on the door.

But when he saw the person coming, all the anger he had just now disappeared.

"Brother Xiao!" Xue Shiji jumped up suddenly: "You are finally back!"

Xiao Lang smiled and pinched his face: "It's only been a few months, why do you look so much older."

"It's a good thing you're back. If you delay a little longer, I'm going to die here from overwork!"

"Bah, bah, bah." Xiao Lang squinted at him: "That's so outrageous, come, tell me, what happened in the alliance these few months?"

"It's still the same as usual, most of them are gang knots and local fights. Oh, when people in the alliance asked you, I said that I went to Hengyang, and I didn't show my feet." Xue Shiji said: "It's just that you were caught Amu saw through..."

Xiao Lang smiled lightly and glanced at him, Xue Shiji was really wronged, he frowned and complained: "There is no way, the more he can't see you, the more frequently he will come, and as time goes by, he will naturally be exposed."

"But don't worry, I have already persuaded him to restrain him." Xue Shiji patted his chest to claim credit: "I didn't tell him where you were, and he also promised not to act rashly. Another funny thing is that during this time he frequently sent The person's high-profile deeds in the Jianghu have disturbed the elders on the left and right, saying that there must be some huge conspiracy hidden in his heart."

"Well done." Xiao Lang patted him on the shoulder.

Xue Shiji chuckled, sat down at the table, and said with a smile, "How is your investigation in Chang'an? Have you made any new progress?"

"Yes." Xiao Lang briefly explained what happened in a low voice: "You go to the dark market to check and find out, but there is a quack from the north named Laughing Buddha."

"Okay." Xue Shiji said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Miss Qingluan is really good, and she actually got something out of old man Meng's son."

Xiao Lang concealed the fact of Qingluan's sacrifice, looked at his innocent and joyful smile, and twitched the corner of his mouth bitterly.

When Xiao Lang came back, the original things were naturally handed over to him again.Xue Shiji finally felt relieved, and his daily steps of going in and out became brisk.

But Xiao Lang became more and more depressed, as if he wanted to make up for the lack of days of hard work, he set himself on the desk.

Xue Shiji noticed it, and lay beside him at a loss, watching him read the letters with a flat face, but his eyes were empty.

He suddenly remembered that he had forgotten something, hurriedly went out, and came back with a small pear wood box.

"Amu asked me to hand it over to you." He opened the box and glanced at it, his complexion darkened instantly, and he closed the box with a bang: "Assuming I didn't say it, this candied fruit is already rotten beyond recognition."

Xiao Lang finally made some movement, he was still holding the pen lightly in one hand, and looked at the box in his hand: "What candied fruit?"

"It was delivered not long after you left." Xue Shiji said, "It is said to be preserved pears, but I can't eat them now."

He rolled his eyes and said again: "But he must still have it there. If you want to eat, go find him yourself."