It was a small sachet, exquisitely embroidered, and it looked like it was woven with fine silk and gold thread.

"Aren't you going to accept it?" Chen Ziyu found that Xie Xuanzhuo didn't respond after listening to the words, shook his head and smiled and stuffed the sachet to her, "There are calming flowers and plants in it, you should take it."

"In this way, the old minister's task is considered complete, Fifth Highness, please leave now."

After finishing speaking, Chen Ziyu left with a big stride, leaving Xie Xuanzhuo casually putting away the sachet, with a calm expression on the surface, thinking about his words repeatedly inside.

"The grassland is vast, and there is nothing to explore."

By the time Xie Xuanzhuo was sent to the new tent, Mingjing Fei had already sat on the wooden bench, spread out the bamboo slips recording the illusion, and carefully flipped through them.

This new tent is not an exaggeration in terms of the four walls of the house.The living utensils are only two wooden basins, a few cups and chopsticks.

There are unexpectedly many charcoal fires piled in the corner.

"It was sent by your sister just now." Mingjing Fei closed the bamboo slips and said with a bit of a headache, "The dried meat in this tent is only enough for five days. We may have to go hunting."

"Hunting?" Xie Xuanzhuo touched the knife on his waist.

"With your small body, just stay in the tent and don't move." Mingjing Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, and she smiled softly, "You, just do something for me."

The days in the prairie passed quickly, ice and snow covered the ground overnight, and all life was wiped out due to the cold.

The curtain of the tent was lifted lightly, Su Lingxin hunched over, got in, and finally stood up straight.Her lips were red and moist, and some messy black hair set off her thin cheeks like crushed ice.

Although a pot of charcoal was burning in the tent, the temperature was still frighteningly low.Xie Xuanzhuo raised his eyelids and saw that it was Su Lingxin, so he lowered his head and washed Mingjing Fei's clothes.

In fact, Su Lingxin often sent the two of them extra wool and goat milk, and the woolen sweater Xie Xuanzhuo was wearing was made by Ming Jingfei, so she was no stranger to Su Lingxin's uninvited behavior.

"Miss Ming is not here again. You are so kind to her and help her wash clothes every time." Su Lingxin scratched her hair and smiled a little shyly. She knew that Xie Xuanzhuo would not answer her, so she stopped being polite, "You come with me Shall we go find something to eat?"

Speaking of which, since she moved to this tent, Ming Jingfei went out early and returned late every day, and Xie Xuanzhuo hardly touched her—except every night, when Ming Jingfei checked whether the laundry was dry or not.

"You are not still waiting for the majesty to bring you food, are you? The majesty will only dislike wasting food for those who come to the grassland as hostages."

Looking at the bows and arrows in the corner, Xie Xuanzhuo felt very sorry for Su Ling. In the eyes of the Prairie Maharaja, she was like a pig, and she could not distinguish between five grains and four limbs.

The only effect is that when they fought with Shangxie, they were pulled out and beheaded.

"I originally wanted to go with Miss Ming, but she...should be protected and wait at home for us to bring food back."

Hearing this, Xie Xuanzhuo couldn't help but want to laugh, Su Lingxin hadn't seen Mingjing Fei's neat way of skinning the rabbit before, otherwise he wouldn't have said the nonsense about Kunze being weak and needing protection.

What's more, after coming to the grassland, she could feel the power of illusion in Mingjing Fei fluctuate greatly.Every time I go back to the tent, there are traces of cultivation on my body.

However, Xie Xuanzhuo himself didn't know how she could see the fluctuation of the power of illusion.

"Are you going or not?" Su Ling interrupted Xie Xuanzhuo's thoughts impatiently. She opened the tent to look at the sky. It was so cloudy that it might snow, which would be troublesome.

The cold wind blew in, Xie Xuanzhuo shuddered, but still stood up, hung the knife that her sister gave her on her waist, and prepared to cut a piece of dried meat for Su Lingxin.

"I'll give you meat to eat."

"Don't, how can you eat your own food when you are full!" Su Lingxin wrapped the scarf around Xie Xuanzhuo's neck, "Come with me."

"Come on?" Xie Xuanzhuo was a little out of breath from being strangled by the scarf, so he quickly loosened it.

"Wait, we have to get the guy right." Su Lingxin's delicate eyebrows were tightly frowned, and she looked experienced.

Before Xie Xuanzhuo came back to his senses, he suddenly found something in his hand.Looking down, it was a rusty kitchen knife.

"Our hero who does great things must have something on his body." Su Ling nervously took the kitchen knife in his hand and touched Xie Xuanzhuo's, and both knives lost some rust.

Looking at the deep red rust on the ground, Xie Xuanzhuo doubted whether the two kitchen knives could be rolled when cutting a piece of tofu.

However, the "hero" around her didn't give her time to think, and carelessly dragged her into the frosty wilderness outside.

The cold wind blew straight at his face, Xie Xuanzhuo took a big breath, and then coughed hard.

"You are so weak, no wonder you are easily bullied. You should eat more. If you are as tall as me and as ruthless as I am, no one will dare to provoke you." Su Lingxin patted Xie Xuanzhuo on the back, speaking earnestly explain:

"Are you moderate? How come you haven't differentiated at the age, I remember I was differentiated into Qianyuan when I was 16 years old, you..."

Walking in the snow that had not been trampled by anyone, Xie Xuanzhuo deliberately raised a large piece of snow and flew it into Su Lingxin's mouth.

"Okay, okay, I won't talk anymore." Su Lingxin looked at Xie Xuanzhuo's back helplessly and shrugged.

The area they were sent to was the most barren land in the grassland, with endless yellow grass, and the vast wilderness was so empty that there were no people except Su Lingxin's dozen or so sheep hiding in the sheepfold in the straw shed. Watching their backs going away.

Those sheep belonged to a great Khan, and thanks to that Khan's carelessness, they were able to get the wool and goat milk.

Just last month, Su Lingxin lied and reported that a sheep had frozen to death, and the three of them only ate a roasted whole sheep.

The two walked for a long time under the black clouds hanging down like a curtain. Suddenly, a ray of sunlight cut through the dark clouds, and the sky seemed to open its eyes, emitting an irresistible brilliance.

It seems that today is a sunny day, but the weather on the grassland is unpredictable, and it is very likely that it will get worse after a while.

"It's over there," Su Lingxin pointed to several gorgeous tents not far away, she raised two delicate and slender eyebrows, her pure black pupils reflected the bright light like agate bracelets, "and I'm coming, approach slowly."

This place should be a place with abundant water and grass and fertile land. As far as Xie Xuanzhuo could see, there was a stream that hadn't completely frozen and was flowing snow.

Because the crushed ice is melting, the stream is bubbling with small bubbles like ice crystals, like fireflies in the galaxy, which is extremely beautiful.

"Take out the kitchen knife for self-defense," Su Lingxin asked Xie Xuanzhuo to carry the kitchen knife behind his back, "There should be no one here now, they are all going to the majesty's banquet.

As Su Lingxin sneaked closer to the tent, Xie Xuanzhuo's doubts became more and more serious. How would they find food without anyone.

She originally thought that Su Lingxin was planning to work in other people's tents to earn food.Now it seems that the situation is a bit wrong.

"Wait here for me, watch out for me." Su Lingxin grabbed a handful of snow from the ground and squeezed it vigorously, "If you are found out, you can do that little boy's business and use your body to pay off the debt. Let's do this, I contribute my strength, you contribute your body, it’s a good deal.”

"Physical?" Xie Xuanzhuo asked uncontrollably. Whether she was pampered before the age of 11, or displaced after the age of 11, the prosperity of the world and the indifference of human relations could not make her fall into such a situation.

"Haha, I'm just kidding, we are grasshoppers on a boat now, if the boat sinks, we will all die. Don't you still have a lot of things to do, you can only do big things when you are full."

Su Ling held a kitchen knife across his chest in his heart, and his tone was as heroic as a heroic martyr.

No matter how righteous Su Lingxin said, Xie Xuanzhuo didn't have the concept of "stealing" in his mind.But can she go now?

The answer is obviously no, because of the word qingyi.

In fact, she didn't really know what friendship is, but during the seven years in exile, she had also imagined that there would be a group of people who would loyally support her and return to Fenghuai in a mighty way.

Even after so long, no one followed her.But now she has nothing to repay others, only simple friendship.

So, in the ice and snow, Xie Xuanzhuo held a broken kitchen knife and started the so-called "watching the wind" for the first time in his life.

After sneaking into the tent, Su Ling's heart was beating very hard. After all, it was the first time for her to do such a sneaky thing.

The only worry was that it was raining and snowing outside, and the rotten boots on the two of them would definitely slip.

If he had known earlier, he should have turned all those wools into woolen boots, Su Ling groaned, while carefully walking towards the inner layer of the tent.

This is the place where a big noble from the Yiyang Department lived while hunting. Logically speaking, some dried meat and furs should be stored.

Because there were no candles, the visibility in the tent was not high, so she could only move slowly and gropingly.

In the ice and snow, Xie Xuanzhuo breathed the cold and fresh air alone.

The ray of light in the sky disappeared, and the bone-piercing cold hit, as if the god waved his hand at will, causing the biting cold wind to sweep across the earth, and the thunder and lightning were attracted by the dark clouds, and they wanted to pour down the rainstorm on the grassland together.

That's right, it's raining, not snow.Because there was already a light rain, which wet Xie Xuanzhuo's eyelashes, she raised her head, and suddenly opened her mouth slightly, wanting to catch the falling rainwater and taste it.

Until Xie Xuanzhuo raised his hand to wipe his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw a waterfall of golden hair fluttering in the wind.

She met those deep red eyes, and the owner of the eyes looked at her coldly, and said in a cold and mean tone: "Your Highness, you don't need to drink rainwater even if you are thirsty."

Hearing this, Xie Xuanzhuo was a little embarrassed. She didn't expect Ming Jingfei to see her like this. The rain in her mouth was too cold. For a while, she couldn't spit or swallow.

It was raining heavily, and the water dripped on Mingjing Fei's beautiful face. She wiped it off carelessly, leaving lines of water droplets, just like a cat with a painted face.

Really like a leprechaun.Xie Xuanzhuo quietly swallowed the rainwater, hid the kitchen knife behind her back, and muttered softly. The sound of rain covered her up, so she was not worried that Ming Jingfei would hear it.

"What are you doing sneaking around here by yourself?"

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