The person she was looking at slowly opened his eyes. Mingyi couldn't take his eyes back in time, and the two of them looked at each other. She was slightly stunned, thinking that his eyes were always dark, but they made her feel at peace inexplicably. Maybe it was because these were the last eyes she saw before she died in her previous life?
"Are you awake?" Xue Lin spoke, his voice hoarse as if he had just woken up. Mingyi was not very clear-headed, so she softly said "hmm" and nodded. "Get up when you wake up. I'm afraid they are..." They were already waiting outside. Before she could finish the last part of the sentence, Mingyi said "oh" and jumped off the couch. Xue Lin looked at her tender bare feet on the ground. The words "put on shoes" stuck in his throat and did not come out. Seeing that she was a little uncomfortable, he stood up and walked out of the door. It wasn't until the door closed with a "squeak" that Mingyi took a breath and started washing up quickly. After freshening up, Mingyi and Wei Yu left the inn together. Cars and horses were already waiting outside the inn door. Before Mingyi got in the car, she glanced at Xue Lin and saw that he was talking to Yang Li, without even looking at her. Hanging for a moment, she couldn't help but feel slightly relieved. She didn't relax completely until she got into the carriage and the curtain fell. Arriving at the inn in the afternoon, Mingyi heard Xue Lin instructing Yang Li, "Let someone prepare an extra couch in the room!" Mingyi was still a little worried, but she suddenly calmed down, pursed her lips and smiled softly. At night, Xue Lin really rested on the couch, and it was another peaceful night. In the next two days, Xue Lin asked someone to prepare a couch in the guest room. The two of them were in the same room, but they were completely different from each other. The uneasiness in Mingyi's heart completely dissipated.
In the blink of an eye, we entered the territory of Kishu. On this day, after settling down at the inn, Mingyi lay down as usual and prepared to sleep. However, Xue Lin showed no signs of going to sleep. He even kept his sword at hand and just sat by the couch, calming down and recuperating. Mingyi vaguely guessed something, and sure enough, the cries of two night owls outside the house came from far and near. Xue Lin suddenly opened his eyes, grabbed the saber at hand, walked to the window in two or two steps, and pushed the window open a crack. , and looked around, it must have been dark outside at this time, and I didn’t know what I could see. After two breaths, Xue Lin turned his head and looked in. Mingyi had already sat up on the couch. "I'm going out. I've left someone outside to protect you. If someone comes, please help me cover it up, madam." Xue Lin whispered in a deep voice. Mingyi didn't know what he was doing, but he was so solemn that she couldn't help but straighten her expression and nodded. "Thank you, madam!" Xue Lin's expression seemed to soften for a moment, and the next moment, he pulled away and quietly opened the window, and his figure turned down like a shuttle. Mingyi ran to the window with her shoes and looked around. It was indeed dark outside and she couldn't see anything clearly. Naturally, she couldn't see Xue Lin. She closed the window again and pressed her chest, her heart beating like a drum. Sure enough, she knew that it was not as simple as buying a horse. I was on tenterhooks for most of the night, until I heard the almost inaudible sound of opening the window, and Mingyi jumped up and sat up on the couch. The person who had just climbed through the window did not expect that she was still awake, so her movements paused for a moment, and finally she said softly, "It's me!" For fear of drawing attention to herself, she turned off the light, and could only vaguely see the figures by the window through the dim moonlight outside. She didn't know whether they were friends or foes. Her heartstrings were tightened, and the quilt under her fingers was wrinkled by her fingers. Tuan, until I heard his voice, my heart quietly fell to the ground. She breathed out gently, and Xue Lin, who was by the window, had covered the window with her hands. After another moment of silence, she whispered, "It's okay, go to sleep!" Mingyi nodded, thinking that she could not see her hands at the moment. He couldn't see the five fingers, so he let out a low "hmm" before lying down again. Xue Lin also walked to the bed and lay down. It was quiet everywhere and felt at ease. As he lay down, he felt sleepiness coming over him. Within a moment, Mingyi breathed evenly and fell asleep. On the bed, Xue Lin quietly turned over and faced the direction of the bed. He opened his eyes and watched the girl on the bed sleeping soundly. Her black hair was spread like a cloud. She rose and fell slightly with her breathing. The moonlight shone through the window. It was sprinkled in the cracks and reflected on her face as white as jade. She did not apply powder, but her cheeks were plump, her pink lips were slightly raised, and a little cinnabar under her eyes was also trapped in a soft halo. She was beautiful, but so beautiful. Some are not quite real. The next day, they were on the road again as usual. After walking for about an hour, someone tapped the wall of the compartment twice from the outside. Mingyi opened the curtain and glanced into Xue Lin's deep eyes. "Madam..." He called her in a low voice, with a faint smile in his voice, "Would you like to go out for a horse ride?" Mingyi was puzzled. She remembered that she was the wife of Governor Xue. Although she wanted to run a horse race, she had some scruples in front of so many of his subordinates, so she endured it. Unexpectedly, he took the initiative to propose. Although she didn't know why, Mingyi happily agreed, "Okay!" In the past few days in the carriage, she finally felt the pain of the heavy frost. The bones in her body were about to fall apart, and...it was boring. !
The carriage slowly stopped, and when Mingyi got out of the carriage, someone had already brought her a horse. She stepped on the horse, gently pulled the reins, and drove the horse to Xue Lin's side. "Run for a while?" Xue Lin looked at her and raised his eyebrows slightly. Mingyi nodded, then the horse's reins stirred, and he shouted "drive" and galloped out. Behind him, the horse's hooves clattered, and it was Xue Lin who followed, not too far but not too close.
After running for a while, Mingyi raised her eyes and saw only blue sky and white clouds, endless grassland, and endless waves of grass swaying layer by layer towards the horizon under the blow of the wind. In the distance, she could vaguely see a jade belt winding through it. The small river is shining with sparkling silver light under the sun. When the grass waves are low, the cattle and sheep are looming. It is really beautiful. Mingyi had never seen such beautiful scenery in her two lifetimes. It was completely different from what she had seen from a high slope that day. She was even more shocked when she was in it. The horse under her crotch slowly stopped, looking straight ahead, as if she was immersed in it and couldn't pull it out, and murmured, "It's so beautiful!" "After a while, the flowers on the grassland will bloom, yellow, white, and purple, and you can't see the edge. It will be another beautiful scene." Xue Lin rode his horse to her side and whispered. Mingyi turned her head to look over and saw that his gaze was in the distance. His usually cold lines seemed to be much softer. In his eyes, which were always deep and deep and could not distinguish between joy and anger, she could see obvious love for him. Love of this land. Somehow, Mingyi suddenly remembered what he said to her that day. What he was loyal to was this land and the people living on this land. "Where is my hometown?" After a moment of silence, Mingyi asked casually. Xue Lin glanced at her. In his life, apart from his various meritorious services after joining the army, the previous ones were just mentioned briefly. Even if she had seen them, she would not remember those insignificant things. "In Xizhou!" Xue Lin said softly, his eyes falling in the distance, with a bit of emptiness, as if he had passed through the grassland in front of him and saw a distant time and space. "It is the southernmost state of the Fourteen Prefectures of Anxi, very close to Jiannan. There is no grassland or Gobi Desert, but there are deep mountains and ravines everywhere, rivers pass through the valleys, and there are no apes growing on the cliffs..." (End of this chapter)