Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 116 A Glove

Xiao Wang silently hid the fox fur scarf behind his back and said softly, "Beautiful."

Yan Ciwan smiled with curved eyebrows: "Don't forget to wear more clothes to prevent catching cold."

"it is good."

At this time, Chaolu came out, carrying a saddlebag in one hand and an oil-paper umbrella in the other, and asked, "Are these things enough?"

Yan Ciwan opened the knapsack and took a look. There were dry food and water, as well as a bottle of spare medicine.

"That's enough, let's go."

"Ok!"

In the end, Xiao Wang failed to give away the fox fur scarf.

Because she already had a scarf given by someone else, she no longer needed the scarf he made for her.

He told himself that this was fine. After all, it would be embarrassing if the secret relationship between a man and a woman got out, and it might damage her reputation.

As he thought this, he stuffed the fox fur scarf into the bag he was carrying.

Although she already had a rabbit fur scarf, it would be okay for him to prepare a fox fur scarf as well. After all, it was really cold in the mountains, and a scarf alone might not be enough to keep her warm.

He did this to be on the safe side.

Since they had to go into the mountains and carriages were not convenient, they could only ride horses.

Yan Ci Wan still rode Li Chengge's horse. Chao Lu didn't know how to ride a horse, so she and Yan Ci Wan shared a horse, while Xiao Wang rode his own horse alone.

Uncle Jiu saw the three of them off from the hotel and gave them some instructions before leaving.

"If you haven't returned in two days, I will go into the mountains to look for you."

Xiao Wang nodded and said, "Okay."

The three men wore cloaks and hoods and rode out of the city.

They walked east along the road and indeed saw a stone tablet.

The three men drove their horses closer to the stone tablet and saw many names densely engraved on it. In the lower left corner of the stone tablet was the date when the tablet was erected.

July 10th, the twelfth year of Tiansheng.

Xiao Wang was well-versed in history books. After seeing this line, he searched his memory and quickly remembered it.

"In July of the twelfth year of Tiansheng, a plague broke out in Luzhou City, killing nearly ten thousand people."

Chaolu also remembered it, and she said, "I once heard my mother talk about the plague. At that time, the epidemic spread very quickly, and the doctors in the city were helpless. The situation was not optimistic. The court ordered the city gates to be closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave the city. The food and medicine in the city were almost exhausted, and the people were almost waiting to die. It was Prince Renxian who begged the saint to transfer the imperial doctors and female doctors in the palace to Luzhou, and raised a large amount of medicine from all over the country. At that time, my grandfather, uncle, and my mother also came to Luzhou City to help treat the infected people. The imperial doctors studied for more than a month and finally developed a prescription for treating the epidemic, and the people of Luzhou were saved."

Yan Ciwan looked at the densely packed names on the stone tablet and said, "I guess these are the people who unfortunately died in the epidemic."

No wonder it is called a requiem.

As the name suggests, it is to comfort the souls of the dead and to remember the thoughts of the deceased.

Yan Ciwan withdrew her gaze. Now was not the time to be sentimental. She had to find Mengdie Villa as soon as possible.

She flicked the reins and rode along the mountain path into Qibao Mountain.

The mountain road became deeper and deeper, and the surrounding temperature became lower and lower.

Yan Ciwan's fingers were frozen red because she had been holding the reins. Xiao Wang took off the glove on his right hand and handed it to her.

"Put it on so your fingers don't get frozen."

Yan Ciwan asked: "What are you going to do then?"

Xiao Wang held the reins with his gloved left hand and said calmly, "I can use both hands, so you don't have to worry about me."

Yan Ciwan's right hand was already frozen, and she accepted the other party's kindness.

She put on the soft sheepskin glove on her right hand. Xiao Wang's body temperature was still retained in the glove, and it felt very warm.

She touched the gloves gently and whispered, "Thank you."

Chaolu pointed ahead and said, "The road ahead is blocked!" Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang had also seen that the mountain road ahead was completely blocked by a fallen tree, and it was impossible for them to pass on horseback.

Xiao Wang dismounted from his horse and walked over to take a closer look.

He said to Yan Ciwan and Chaolu.

"The cut on the tree was very neat, as if it had been cut by someone."

Yan Ciwan curled the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "It seems that someone deliberately set up obstacles and does not want people to enter Mengdie Villa."

She had originally doubted whether there really was a fox demon in the villa, but now it seemed that the fox demon legend was probably false, and the human-caused mischief was real.

Xiao Wang estimated the height of the tree trunk and said, "It's not difficult to climb over the tree, but our horses have to stay where they are."

Yan Ciwan disagreed to abandon the horse.

"There must be someone doing something here. If we leave the horses alone, that person might steal our horses."

Xiao Wang touched the horse beside him and asked, "What can you do?"

Yan Ciwan handed the reins to Chaolu, then dismounted and walked to the tree trunk.

The tree is so big that it takes three adults to hug its trunk.

Yan Ciwan touched the handle of the Ning Dao behind his waist and was about to draw the sword to chop down the tree, when the sound of horse hooves came from behind.

somebody is coming!

She paused, turned around and looked back, and saw five inner guards in black robes riding towards them on horseback. The leader among them was the Dage Leader Si Buping whom she had met in Xiangzhou not long ago.

Si Buping was wearing a dark green round-necked Hu suit today, with a black cloak and hood.

When he saw Yan Ci Wan, Xiao Wang and Chao Lu, his narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and there was a hint of inquiry in his look.

"Why are you three here?"

Chaolu quickly dismounted, and she, Yan Ciwan, and Xiao Wang saluted towards the leader of the Great Pavilion. Then Xiao Wang replied, "We are preparing to go to Chang'an, and happened to pass by here. We heard that there was a fox demon in Mengdie Villa, so out of curiosity we wanted to come and see it."

Si Buping looked confused: "Is that so."

Yan Ciwan asked tentatively: "The Grand Master has also heard of the legend of the fox demon. Do you want to come and find out what it is?"

When Si Buping looked at her, his gaze stayed on her face for a moment, then fell on her right hand - he noticed that she and Xiao Wang were wearing the same style of sheepskin gloves.

His eyes gradually became deep: "The so-called fox demon is just a rumor in the market. It is not credible. We are here to track down the master behind the black market."

Yan Ciwan was very curious: "Who is the owner of the black market?"

Si Buping smiled meaningfully: "This is not something you should know."

Yan Ciwan was not embarrassed by the rejection. She turned sideways and pointed at the big tree next to her and said, "Someone cut down the tree and blocked the road. We can't get through."

Si Buping's expression remained unchanged. He ordered the four guards following him to move the tree away.

The four inner guards immediately dismounted from their horses. They were all highly skilled in martial arts and had much more strength than ordinary people.

The four of them worked together to lift the tree trunk up little by little, making enough width for a horse to pass through.

Yan Ciwan, Xiao Wang and Chaolu tactfully stepped aside and asked Si Buping to go first.

After Si Buping and the four inner guards had passed by, Yan Ciwan and Chaolu mounted their horses, and the three of them continued along the mountain road.

After walking for about another hour, they finally saw Mengdie Villa.

The villa is located halfway up the mountain, with its back against the rock. It is surrounded by high walls on three sides, with only doors on the front and left sides.

There is a sign next to the main entrance with lanterns of Mengdie Villa hanging on it.

After getting off the horse, Yan Ciwan returned the gloves to Xiao Wang.

Xiao Wang took the glove and put it on his right hand. The glove still had the warmth left by Yan Ciwan. His fingertips unconsciously rubbed the inside of the glove, thinking to himself that it couldn't just be a scarf, it had to be a glove as well.

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