Jiaohua

Although the rain stops, there is still rain everywhere in the world.

When the rain stopped, Xia Zhaoyi and Shen Lie left the lonely temple at the foot of the mountain. Before leaving, Xia Zhaoyi left a few boxes of Lingzhou specialties and a letter for the old man who was sweeping the floor.

If someone happened to bump into them and reported to the officials to come to the temple to find trouble, this letter could save the old man's life.

If no one bumps into it, that would be great, and this letter will be disposed of at will.

The curtain of the carriage was rolled up, Xia Zhaoyi leaned on a soft pillow and looked out the window at the distant mountains and the moon behind the clouds.

Shen Lie leads the way, and will leave Songzhou in half an hour.

After rushing for several days, Xia Zhaoyi has never felt at ease at this moment, and it is also the first time that she feels sleepy in this carriage.

She gradually closed her eyes until she fell into a dream.

She felt that she hadn't slept for long, from closing her eyes to opening them, it seemed like a snap of her fingers, but the sky outside was already dim.The carriage was parked by the side of the road, the curtains had been lowered, there were soft voices outside the carriage, and the sound of horseshoes stepping lightly back and forth.

Xia Zhaoyi raised her hand to open the curtain of the car, and the breeze greeted her face, and she shivered when she just woke up.

Everyone got off their horses, and when they saw her come out, others called her softly, including "Miss Ali" and "General Ali".

Xia Zhaoyi nodded at them, and stepped on the muddy mountain road with his riding boots to pass through the horses. The further he went, the worse the road was, like a rockslide falling down, blocking the way.

Soon, she saw the backs of Shen Lie and Di Jinsheng, and about a dozen tall and straight men were standing in the front, discussing and talking.

Hearing the movement, Shen Lie turned his head and saw Xia Zhaoyi coming, so he immediately walked away.

Although the road is difficult, Xia Zhaoyi can walk on Qianrenya Cliff as if walking on flat ground, this road is nothing to her.

Shen Lie still stretched out his hand to support him. When Xia Zhaoyi held his hand, he raised his eyes to look at the sky above their torches, his bright eyes froze slightly, and his expression became serious.

It was indeed a landslide, and a large amount of mud landslides rolled down. The mountain valley seemed to be split by a knife, and the cut was smooth.Down the slope, the vegetation collapsed, the old pines hung upside down, and there was a huge stone statue stuck in the middle.

The hand raised by the stone statue seemed to be as big as ten of them.

Xia Zhaoyi stared for a while, then looked to the left and right, and said, "Looking at the sky, we should have left Songzhou early."

Shen Lie said: "Well, now in Guizhou, this is the southwestern hill of Leigong Mountain, Yuxianpi."

Xia Zhaoyi said solemnly: "It can't be such a coincidence. A heavy rain can destroy the mountain like this. There must be mining in the mountain in the near future."

Ye Zhengdao: "What's even more coincidental, Miss Ali, do you feel familiar when you see the hand of the stone statue?"

Xia Zhaoyi looked up at the hand of the stone statue, she remembered well, recalled briefly, and said: "I remembered, at Hengxiangruan's house, there is a cave behind the wall of the secret room in the mountain where Feng Qingang kept the corpse. There is a statue of Nine Goddesses, which is filled with bones. The gesture of one of the goddesses is indeed very similar to the one in front of you."

Shen Lie said: "Ali, if you want to go up and take a look..."

Xia Zhaoyi frowned slightly, looked sideways at Shen Lie's eyes, opened his mouth, and stopped talking.

She didn't know whether to go up and have a look, the cave where the statue of the Goddess Jiulian was placed was Fan Zhuyi who forced Yu Xiaozhou to go there, so it may not have anything to do with her.

But Fan Zhuyi, Feng Qingang, Wei Xingchuan and the others had a lot of grievances with her.

To live this life again, she still has a wish unfulfilled. There are so many things she wants to do, but she was born to be involved with the surname "Joe", and You Wushuang has been staring at her secretly.

She is not afraid to be afraid, but she will worry about missing details.

Shen Lie's black eyes were deep, without urging, he waited quietly for her.

After a long time, Xia Zhaoyi said, "Or, let's be a villain."

Shen Lie said: "The villain?"

"Well, this stone statue is alive, and it is the same as the cave in the Ruan family's mountain. Do you think it will arouse the interest of those people?"

Shen Lie said: "It's hard to say, it depends on whether they know where this stone statue is, if they knew it was here early, they probably wouldn't be interested."

Xia Zhaoyi laughed: "Okay, let's add a bargaining chip, how about adding a few members of the Qiao clan?"

Shen Lie paused: "...you know what kind of bait can catch them."

Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyes to look at Fukong: "What's the situation up there, we can just ask them then, and we won't have to climb the mountain today."

Ye Zheng frowned: "But Miss Ali, if it rains again these days, will the upper side collapse even more? Or, before those people came, did the nearby villagers go up the mountain first? Why don't I just Call a few brothers together, let's go up now and have a look, everyone climbs the mountain is still very good."

"No," Xia Zhaoyi smiled at him, "The nearby villagers go up first, then go up, then there will be a lot of mouths to tell us what's going on on the mountain. We won't go, you have been raiding for days It’s hard work, and it’s too much to go climbing after a night without sleep. Moreover,” she looked back at the mountain, “my curiosity about it is only on the surface, not deep.”

To be precise, it's not that it's not deep, but that the feeling that these stone statues accompany is extremely bad.

Right now, this stone statue is not the one holding the lotus, but she already thinks of the deceased, the dead bones and flowers, and... that Qiao Xiyang who is exactly like her.

These kinds of things are dark and rotten, without seeing the light of day. Although she is curious, she really doesn't like it.

Just wait for the turtle in the urn, and ask directly from other people's mouths, saving her from contacting herself.

The hand she and Shen Lie had been holding each other was suddenly lightly clenched.

Xia Zhaoyi lowered her eyes, and her long and thick palm hugged her whole. The palm was hot, like a small heater on the eve of this cold dawn.

Xia Zhaoyi looked into Shen Lie's eyes, who was looking down at her.

His beautiful face is usually cold and expressionless, and all emotions seem to be expressed through his eyes. At this time, these deep and beautiful black eyes are focused and serious, with a quiet bottom. See himself in his eyes.

Whether it was his eyes or his hands, Xia Zhaoyi felt as if there was a warm and firm force coming from him.

The memory seemed to go back to the Da'an Road in the capital city many years ago. When Zhao Ning handed over the bag of ashes, she panicked and felt like falling into a dark and cold wilderness. It was him who stretched out his hand to her.

He said, "Ali, give it to me."

She said, "You understand me?"

It turned out that he had always been able to understand her emotions, her joy or anger, fear or surprise.

He never spoke much, but he always stood by her side, silently accompanying her.

Xia Zhaoyi raised his lips and smiled brightly: "Shen Lie."

"Ok?"

"Thank you."

"..."

Shen Lie paused slightly, but his beautiful sword eyebrows were slightly raised.