hermit meets king

The warm sun in winter shines into the bottom of the cliff.

Xu Taiyan woke up in a daze, but saw a glimmer of sunlight entering his eyes.

It's a bit dazzling, is he still alive?

I wanted to reach out, but found that I was covered with a black dress, and the bottom of my body was not a pebble, but a dead tree leaf.

I saw a bunch of flames really burning in front of me.The flames have gradually died down, and there is a pile of burnt charcoal.His broken hand has been fixed and bandaged by branches.

Was it the man in black yesterday who saved him?

Xu Taiyan shook his drowsy head, his thoughts drifted away.

In a panic yesterday.

"Stop!" "Stop!" A large number of pursuers followed closely behind.

Xu Taiyan was exhausted from running, but found that there were still pursuers who couldn't get rid of behind him, and ran desperately into the depths of the vegetation.

Must run, otherwise there will be no chance.

On one side is the avenue, on the other side is a steep cliff edge path, as long as you are not careful, you will roll down the cliff.

Xu Taiyan gritted his teeth, and quickly ran towards the edge of the cliff.No matter how steep and dangerous the terrain is, they cannot be caught back.

Being trampled to pieces of gravel, he kept rolling off the cliff and stumbled.

Maybe the next one is me.Xu Taiyan forced himself not to look at his feet, and ran forward desperately, throwing off the pursuers behind him.

"Ah!" Xu Taiyan was in a panic, he didn't step on it firmly, and he stumbled and rolled down the cliff.

For a while, the world spun and lost consciousness.

When Xu Taiyan woke up, it was already dark, his vision was blurred, and his mind was confused.

It seems to be at the bottom of a cliff, there are pebbles under the body, and there is the sound of water not far away, it should be a small stream.

I struggled to get up, but found that my hand was broken and it was difficult to support it.And the left leg has no strength, and the pain in the calf is severe, it should be injured.

The whole body is cold, and the cold wind blows like ghosts crying and wolves howling in winter nights.

Xu Taiyan still wanted to get up, but he still had no strength.There is a creek a few steps away, I want to climb over it, drink some water, and wake myself up.But my mind was dizzy and I had no control at all.

Want to move but can't.

Could it be that he managed to escape, but was going to die here?

How can I not be reconciled, there are so many things waiting for me.

After an unknown amount of time, Xu Taiyan vaguely saw a huge bird falling from the top of the cliff.

No, judging by the speed and posture of the fall, it should be a person.

When Xu Taiyan was startled, he found that the speed of the man's descent had slowed down.

Some sparks can be seen in the dark.It should be sparks from hard objects colliding and rubbing each other.

The black shadow was getting closer and closer to the bottom of the cliff, and Xu Taiyan finally saw it clearly.

The source of the tiny sparks was the collision between the sharp sword and the rocks on the cliff wall, and the man was using the sword to slow down his falling speed.

In the end, it fell to the ground lightly like a mountain bird.

It was too dark at night to see the man's appearance clearly, or maybe he was dressed in black, and he could only see the silver sword reflecting the crystal moonlight.With the knife sheathed, even the last light disappeared.

Xu Taiyan hesitated heavily in his mind, should he speak out for someone to save him, or try his best to pray that this person will not find out his existence.

Obviously before it was his turn to make a decision, the man had already spotted him and strode towards him.

The man approached like hell, standing two steps away from him, blocking the moonlight, a huge black shadow enveloped him like an iron frame.

Xu Taiyan wanted to raise his head to see as clearly as possible, but he found that the man was dressed in black, which was tightly covered, and only two eyes were exposed, but in the night, they shone bright golden yellow like the eyes of a leopard, powerfully intimidating and captivating. fear.

Xu Taiyan saw the man draw out his sharp sword and point it at himself.I had no choice but to pray in panic, but the voice was too weak to be heard, "Help me, save me..."

The man seemed to hesitate for a moment, looking at the thirteen or fourteen-year-old child in front of him, he finally turned around and wanted to leave.

Xu Taiyan watched the man withdraw his sword and let him go, but he didn't know where the strength came from, so he reached out and grabbed the man's feet, "Please, please, save me."

The man struggled, but he didn't break free and grabbed his hand.

Dying people will always try their best to grasp at the last straw.

Just as he was about to cut off the hand that was in the way with his knife, he saw the child curled up in a ball, as thin as an animal, and finally refused to cut off the hand.

Instead, he chose to lift his foot, broke away from Xu Taiyan's hand, and walked forward.

Xu Taiyan desperately wanted to open his eyes to see his powerless hand, gradually blurring the distant shadow.

Maybe it's really dead here.

I thought that the man in black would be good if he didn't kill himself, but he didn't expect to save himself.

The winter sun is a little warmer.

Xu Taiyan wanted to get up, but the injury on his leg was still painful.Lifting off the covered clothes, he saw that the wound on his leg had been cleaned and bandaged.

But the head is still very dizzy, it seems to be infected with a cold, or a fever caused by a wound infection.

Did that person abandon himself and go?Xu Taiyan thought, then thought, what does it mean to leave?

If a stranger can save you, he has done his best and is your benefactor.

But he saved himself, but he thought that he could send the Buddha to the west, save himself from the cliff, and not be trapped here.

Xu Taiyan looked up at the steep and towering cliff.If this is only human power, there is absolutely no hope of being able to climb up.

While thinking wildly, the man in black came back.

He was dressed in black, and even wore a black scarf on his face, revealing only two golden eyes.Tall and tall, with a tall and straight figure wrapped in black clothes, he looks like a Lianjiazi at first glance.

The man in black holds a sword with blood on it in one hand, and holds a pheasant and a hare in the other hand.He glanced at the boy with two eyes, "Are you awake?"

As if talking to himself, or asking Xu Taiyan, he put the dead pheasant and hare on the ground, and then turned to gather firewood.

"En." Xu Taiyan faintly belatedly replied, and he didn't know if he heard it.

Roasted pheasant and hare, golden and attractive, full of aroma.It can be seen that his technique is very skilled, and he should be a person who often lives in the wild.

The man in black tore off a leg and told Xu Taiyan.

Xu Taiyan swallowed, and took it silently.

The man in black watched the child start to take small bites, nibbling like a rabbit, but behind him, he stuffed it into his mouth like a very hungry wolf.A half-sized leg disappeared in an instant.

Then he handed the whole roasted hare to Xu Taiyan.

Xu Taiyan looked at the hare that was suddenly handed in front of him. It was golden and fragrant, and his empty stomach was very hungry. He had just tasted the sweetness, and now he swallowed unconsciously.

Hesitating whether to reach out and take it.Taking a sneak peek at the man in black, he saw his leopard-like golden eyes staring at him.There is a feeling of being suppressed by a strong force, so I can only take the hare silently.

"Are you afraid?" the man in black asked suddenly.

"Huh?" Xu Taiyan grabbed the roasted rabbit in his hand, afraid that he might not hear, and replied nervously, "What?"

"Are you afraid of me?" The man in black looked at the child in front of him, raised his head, and signaled him to eat.

"Well." Xu Taiyan obediently bit the rabbit, and then said softly, "You saved me, I'm not afraid."

The man in black picked up firewood and said unintentionally, "Maybe in two days, if you find the exit, you will be killed."

"Ah?" Xu Taiyan was startled, obviously unable to turn this corner, his face was full of doubts and disbelief.

The man in black looked at the child like a frightened rabbit, with his mouth slightly open, like a little white fox in the snow. The child's appearance was quite eye-catching, with long black hair like satin hanging down on the ground. The skin is as white as an elf.Look at this appearance, he doesn't look like a Sikou countryman, but he doesn't look like a Haoyuan countryman either.

"Really?" Xu Taiyan lowered his head and asked uncomfortable being stared at by the golden eyes of the man in black.

It feels like it should be a joke, otherwise why save yourself.

"Let's take a look." The man in black finished eating the roast chicken in his hand, and got up with a sword, "I'll go find the exit."

"Hmm." Looking at the back of the man in black, Xu Taiyan felt that he should not be from Si Kou, judging from his speaking habits and eating habits just now.

He would cut open the baked food with his sword and pass it to himself instead of tearing it open with his hands.

Could it be from Haoyuan Kingdom?How could it be possible, this place is within the territory of Si Kou country.Then why is he dressed in black?Not even showing your face?

Xu Taiyan looked at the black clothes that covered him in the morning, trying to find some clues from them.

But this black dress is just a well-behaved black dress, without any characteristics or decorations, and can't find any characteristics.

When it was getting dark, the people in black came back.This time he was holding a stick with two big fish sticking out of it, and a handful of herbs in his hand.

Fire up the fire and grill the fish on the rack.Seeing the man in black, he walked up to Xu Taiyan and knelt down.

"Yes, what's the matter?" Xu Taiyan looked at a man in black who gave him a sense of oppression, but at this moment he was squatting in front of him, so nervous that he didn't know what to do.

"Put your feet out." The man in black said while handing the herbal medicine to Xu Taiyan, "Chew it up and apply it on yourself."

"Oh." Xu Taiyan stretched out his feet obediently, but he didn't understand why he stretched out his feet to show him since he wanted to chew them up and put them on.

The man in black stretched out his hand to untie the bandaged cloth strips on the wounded leg, and looked at it, the wound was indeed showing a tendency to worsen and become infected.

He looked up at Xu Taiyan and motioned him to hurry up.

Stared at by the golden cheetah-like eyes of the man in black, Xu Taiyan quickly grabbed the herb in his hand and chewed it, his mouth was filled with the taste of jerky herbs.Xu Taiyan squinted his eyes because of the bitter taste of the herbal medicine, and his whole face was wrinkled with bitterness.

The man in black looked at the child and urged, "Hurry up, or the meat will be spoiled and you have to cut it off." He pointed at the child's calf, "This whole piece..."

"Ah?" Xu Taiyan was so frightened that he opened his mouth slightly and uttered a sound, then quickly closed his mouth, fearing that the herbal juice in his mouth would flow out, but a stream of green juice had already flowed out from his small mouth.

Xu Taiyan quickly reached out to cover the gap between his mouth.

Even if it hurts, even if it may be infected, it really won't cut it all, right?

But look at the serious look of the man in black.Not like a joke.

"Okay, apply it to the wound." The man in black shook off the cloth strips that had been bandaging the wound in his hand, "I'll help you bandage it."

Xu Taiyan quickly spit out the herbal medicine in his mouth into the uninjured hand, and the green juice dripped to the ground along the gap between his fingers, which was a pity.He hurriedly pressed the herbal medicine on his calf, and there was a burst of irritating pain, which made Xu Taiyan want to let go directly.

"Don't move." The man in black clearly saw Xu Taiyan's subconscious impulse to let go, and at the same time pressed his hand with his hand, "You put your calf face up."

Xu Taiyan obediently changed the angle of the calf and folded it to one side, so that the wound on the calf faced upwards.

"Let go." Seeing the child let go of the hand, the man in black carefully bandaged the wound.

Seeing that his wound was bandaged, Xu Taiyan sighed, still worried, and asked cautiously, "Isn't it going to be cut now?"

After the man in black bandaged the wound, he looked up and saw the child's big eyes, reflecting the firelight next to him, showing ignorance like an innocent animal, with an indistinct smile flashing in his eyes.

He didn't answer him, but got up and went back to the other side of the fire, and continued to grill the fish.

The two were silent for a while, Xu Taiyan raised his eyes occasionally, and looked at the man in black on the other side of the fire, who was concentrating on grilling fish, his eyes were slightly squinted, the golden eyes were very beautiful in the firelight, but they were also heart-warming. fear.

But thinking that since this person can bring her herbs and bandage his wounds, I have already begun to choose to believe in this man in black who has been masking his face all the time.

Xu Taiyan wanted to ask him about the current situation, and stared silently at the fire in front of him, "What day is it today?"

"What?" The man in black didn't hear the vague words of the child on the opposite side, he seemed to have something to say, but he looked very afraid of himself.

"What day is today?" Xu Taiyan finally asked a little louder, how did he ask his father and mother, it has been a few days since the collapse of Mingshan, where are they now?

"Today? Just the second day after the hunting festival." The man in black looked at the child and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"No." What Xu Taiyan wanted was not Si Kou Guo's life.But how to ask, buried his head, not daring to look into his eyes, and lied, "I forgot something."

"Forgot?" The man in black looked at the frustrated child with his head buried, looked at the hillside above, if he rolled down the hillside.

So stupid, it is indeed possible to break it.

"Hmm." Xu Taiyan asked simply, "What time is it?"

"Si Kou Jianyuan 27, July [-]th." The man in black looked at the child and said the time.

"Si Kou Jianyuan in [-]?" Xu Taiyan felt that he must have heard it wrong.How is it possible, could it be that I misremembered the time of Si Kou country?

"Yeah." The man in black saw that the child kept his head down, looking very restrained, but now he looked at him with a face full of shock.Is there something wrong with this time?

"Then, then, how old is Haoyuan?" Xu Taiyan was so shocked that he forgot to hide it, and after blurting out the question, he realized how dangerous it was to expose himself in the enemy country.

"Hao Yuanguo?" The man in black squinted his golden eyes, looking at the child on the other side of the fire, and staring at himself with wide-eyed eyes, his face was full of shock and anxiety.

"No, I..." Xu Taiyan lowered his head hurriedly, not knowing what excuse to make, but has it been 17 years?

"Haoyuan Wanli three or two years." The man in black replied.

"Three or two years?" Xu Taiyan was so shocked that his head went numb. Has it really been 17 years?

The man in black looked at the bewildered child on the opposite side, and said, "Are you from the Haoyuan Kingdom?"

Originally, the appearance of the people of the two countries can be clearly distinguished. The border of Sikou Kingdom is bitter and cold all the year round, and the facial features are more profound and rough than those of the people of Haoyuan Central Plains.

But this child's appearance is unique, not to mention the rare black hair that is as smooth as satin, but the facial features that are as delicate as those in an elf painting, and the skin that is far fairer than ordinary people.It's not like a Sikou country, but it can't be sure that it is a Haoyuan country.

It can only be judged from the habit of getting along this day.

"You know?" Xu Taiyan looked up at the man in black opposite him.After being exposed, he finally seemed to grasp at straws and asked, "Then can you take me away from here? I want to escape back to Haoyuan Kingdom. I want to go back."

"Escape back?" The man in black caught the word.

"Well, they put me under house arrest." Xu Taiyan swallowed, and finally said slowly, "Are you also from Haoyuan Kingdom?"

"Oh?" The man in black didn't seem to have guessed that this child who looked as ignorant as an animal and was only thirteen or fourteen years old could still tell that he was from Haoyuan.

Sure enough, he was too careless, but he originally planned to either get rid of this person, or take him back for interrogation.

"Can you take me back?" Xu Taiyan asked.

"Okay." The man in black replied.

"Thank you." Xu Taiyan thought to himself that it was lucky that he met a nobleman, otherwise it would be unimaginable, and he might die here directly. He looked gratefully at the man in black opposite him, "Thank you..."

The man in black smiled, looked at the grateful child on the other side of the fire, with an innocent and ignorant look, and said, "You're welcome..."