Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-Eight

The sun had already risen, and the sunlight came in from the high skylight. There was a bright streak, with fine dust constantly rising up, floating gently in mid-air.There was a soft, cracking sound, so small that if you didn't listen carefully, you might think it was the sound of a mouse crawling over the grass.The child was sitting against a wall, eyes closed, as if asleep.But behind her, there was a hand moving slowly, holding a small stone, and polishing it carefully on the earthen wall. The sun rose and then slowly set, the hustle and bustle outside gradually subsided, and the cold night covered the bustling imperial capital.The patrolling jailer looked back and forth twice, then yawned and retreated. The moon was hollow, and the night was already dark. There was a muffled bang, and a large piece of clay brick fell into the grass.

"Yan Xun..." A weak voice sounded slowly, and it was so clear in the dead silence of the prison. The child moved his eyes and looked at the cell next to him.I saw a young man in white fur leaning against the opposite wall, sitting in the dirty withered grass with his legs stretched generously, with his eyes closed, as if he was sleeping. "Yan Xun," Chu Qiao lowered her voice and called out cautiously. The boy's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he opened his eyes. He looked around in confusion, and suddenly saw the child's clear eyes. He was overjoyed and crawled over after a few strokes. He smiled at the hole, "Girl, you're so smart."

"Fool!" Chu Qiao hurriedly shouted: "Keep your voice down, don't be heard." "Oh," the boy followed her example and looked around, then turned his head and smiled foolishly, showing his white teeth: "Girl, don't be afraid, my father will definitely send someone to rescue us, They guys dare not do anything to us." "En." Chu Qiao nodded lightly, without answering. Yan Xun frowned: "Hey, you don't believe me?" "How dare I?" Chu Qiao stuck out her tongue, curled her lips and said, "But your father is here to save you, and I don't have such capable relatives."

Yan Xun smiled when he heard the words, his eyes sparkled like stars in the sky: "Don't worry, I won't leave you alone, just follow me from now on, and I will protect you." A warm current suddenly rushed through his body, and the eight-year-old smiled lightly, with a bright smile, and nodded: "Then why don't you treat me to something delicious when you go out, I'm almost starving to death." "No problem," the young man agreed, "You can choose whatever you want to eat, as long as you can name it, I will get it." At some point, it suddenly snowed heavily outside, snowflakes drifted in from the high skylight, and with the cold wind, they swept the icy prison cell bitingly.Chu Qiao was about to speak when suddenly her whole body trembled and she shivered.When Yan Xun saw it, he hurriedly turned his face, and saw the child's clothes were thin, his face was pale and his lips were purple from the cold, he immediately became nervous.

"Girl, are you cold?" "fine." "You must be freezing to death if you wear so little." The young man stood up suddenly, took off the big fur on his body in a few strokes, squatted down and wanted to stuff it through the hole, but unfortunately the big fur was too thick, and couldn't even get a sleeve through, Chu Qiao quickly pushed his clothes away In the past: "Stop making trouble, it would be bad to be found out." "What if I'm found out?" Yan Xun snorted coldly, "When I get out, none of these people will let me go."

"Let's wait until you are ordered to go out to say such cruel words." The child mocked, raised his head slightly, and looked very disdainful. Yan Xun was taken aback, then snorted unconvinced: "Just wait and see." The prison cell was getting darker and colder at night, Yan Xun leaned against the edge of the cave, and suddenly said: "Girl, stretch out your hand." "En?" Chu Qiao was taken aback, "What did you say?" "Your hand," Yan Xun said while gesticulating: "Extend your hand." The child frowned: "What are you going to do?"

"Don't ask," Yan Xun called impatiently, "If you tell me to stretch it out, you can stretch it out." Chu Qiao muttered something in a low voice, then stretched out her slender arm, and stretched a frozen blue hand along the hole, grabbed it in mid-air, shook it, and asked softly: "You What are you going to do?" The cold little hand was immediately grasped by someone. The young man's hand was slightly bigger. While holding her hand, he kept breathing, his eyes were bright, but his movements were clumsy. He breathed and asked, "Is it better?" ? Is it warmer?"

The night was gloomy, the moon was as cold as frost, and the snowflakes outside were drifting more and more urgently, drifting in along the skylight one after another, covering the cold prison.The child sitting against the corner was suddenly a little stunned, and her big watery eyes felt a little sore. She nodded vigorously, but suddenly remembered that the person on the opposite side could not be seen, so she used a slightly nasal voice With a sound. "Hehe," Yan Xun said happily with a chuckle; "Girl, what's your name? I heard the fourth child of the Zhuge family called you Xing'er. Is this your real name?"

"No," the child replied in a low voice. The warmth like lake water was continuously transmitted from her arms, and her blood flowed little by little. She leaned against the wall and said softly, "My name is Chu Qiao." "Chu?" Yan Xun frowned, and stopped unconsciously: "Aren't you the child of the former official Cui Shijing Yidian? Why is your surname Chu?" "Don't ask." The child's voice was very low, but with an unspeakable solemnity: "Yan Xun, no one knows this name, I will only tell you one person, you have to remember it, but don't tell it to others. .”

Yan Xun was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly realized that it might be some family secret, and it would be disgraceful to tell it out, and suddenly felt a little bit of happy satisfaction in his heart. Have you become your own person? He patted his chest and promised: "Well, don't worry, I won't say anything." "Then what should I call you?" The young man frowned and said, "How about I call you Xiao Qiao?" "No," Chu Qiao suddenly remembered the beauty of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period, and frowned and objected: "Don't call it this."

"Why?" Yan Xun asked suspiciously, "Then can I call you Ah Chu?" "Hmm..." Chu Qiao thought about it for a while, then nodded, "Okay, let's call it that." Yan Xun laughed, "Ah Chu!" "Yep," "Ah Chu!" "heard it." "Ah Chu! Ah Chu!" "Are you done yet?" "Achu, achu, achu!" "Ah Chu, that hand." The child obediently withdrew the already warm hand, and stretched out the other one. Yan Xun hugged the child's arm, heaved a few breaths, and found that his hand was also cold, so he simply pulled off the clothes on his chest, and put The child's hand was stuffed in along the clothes. "Oh!" Chu Qiao let out a low cry, and immediately wanted to shrink back. "Haha," Yan Xun laughed, clutching tightly but not letting go, "It's a big advantage, I promise to have fun in my heart." "Virtue!" Chu Qiao snorted, her small palm pressed against the young man's chest, the night was so quiet, she could even feel Yan Xun's heartbeat, so powerful, beating again and again.The boy is very thin, but he has been riding horses and practicing martial arts all year round, his body is very strong, and his chest is full of well-defined muscles. The young man held the child's hand, sat down against the wall, and said in a gentle voice: "Achu, when this matter is over, you can come back to Yanbei with me. If you have anything to worry about, I will find People did it for you. This world is so chaotic, where can you go as a little child? When you meet bad people, you may even be bullied by others. Don’t think you are fierce, because you have never met a real villain , if you meet, and I don't have me by your side to protect you, you will definitely suffer." Chu Qiao leaned against the wall, with dry straw under her feet, and white snow flying in front of her. Her eyes seemed to see so far, but they seemed to be limited to the area in front of her. Where did she want to go?Maybe she didn't know it herself. Didn't hear Chu Qiao's answer, Yan Xun continued: "I don't know why, I just want to help you, the first time I saw you on the hunting ground, I thought this kid was very funny, obviously so young Ding Dian, but he was so vicious, so I couldn't bear to attack, I have been in the capital for so many years, and this is the first time I lost to that bastard Zhao Che, I hold my breath just thinking about it." The watch drum of the third watch suddenly rang, and it was transmitted from a distant street. The young man’s voice seemed a little ethereal, faint, and distant: "Ah Chu, Yanbei is very beautiful, and rarely fights. In summer, there are young people everywhere. My father, my elder brother and my third brother often rode horses to Huoleiyuan to hunt wild horses. At that time, I was still young, but I was only seven or eight years old, and I couldn’t ride a big horse. I was always very angry when the pony gave me a ride, thinking that he looked down on me. In fact, I gradually realized that he was just afraid of hurting me. The third brother has the worst temper and always fights with me. I lifted it up high and yelled that I would fall to my death, and then the second sister would rush up and beat him with a whip, and they began to fight. Although the third brother was strong, he couldn't even beat the second sister. Back then I looked down on him, but now that I think about it, maybe he didn't want to fight with Second Sister." "In winter, there will be heavy snowfall in Yanbei for more than a month. We will go to the Shuobei Plateau. There is Huihui Mountain, which is high and steep. There are many hot springs on the mountain. My mother is from Biantang. She can't stand the cold in the north. It's not very good either, we always live in the palace next to the hot spring for half a year. We always sneak out of the school behind our father's back to see her, but when we got there, we found that the father had already left Stayed in the palace in front of us." The moonlight was bright and shining, and the young man's face suddenly became so gentle, a warmth that Chu Qiao had never seen before. "Ah Chu, our Yanbei is not like the imperial capital here. Father, son, brother, sister, and husband and wife can all become enemies. There are scheming plots everywhere, greed for profit, rotten singing and dancing and starving people everywhere. In our Yanbei On the land, there are few wars, no refugees, everyone can eat enough, and slaves can live according to their own wishes. Ah Chu, come back to Yanbei with me, where you can live a better life with my protection You, no one can bully you anymore, no one can point an arrow at you anymore. I will take you to Huoleiyuan to hunt wild horses, and I will take you back to Huishan to see my mother. She is a very gentle person. You must would like her." It was so quiet in the air, only the boy's low-pitched words were speaking quietly, the thinly clad child suddenly felt very warm, she raised her face, and seemed to see the Yanbei that Yan Xun said, and saw the green grass , I saw the snow-white Huihui mountain, saw the galloping wild horses, heard the hearty laughter and the wind of the young people. The corners of her mouth were slowly raised, she smiled lightly, then nodded heavily, and said softly: "Okay, let's go to Yanbei." In the long night, in the cold and damp sky prison of the imperial capital, two little children were sitting in the cell separated by a wall, their hands pierced through the barrier, and they held each other tightly. We go to Yanbei, we will definitely escape.