When Xuan Qing saw Shu Qingwan again, it was already the morning of the third day after Shu Qingwan left.

At that time, Shu Qingwan waited at the door of Ruan's house for another morning, and finally he was exhausted, so he bought some food with the scraps of money given by Uncle Fu, and walked back again.

She walked from the gate of Ruan's house for nearly a full day, and only when the sky was cloudy on the second day, she climbed up the steps under Dongyun Temple, walked through the bamboo forest, and reached the gate of the bamboo garden.

She never knew that the road was so long.

It's not that she hasn't been to the city with Ruan Lianyi before, but the time was romantic at that time. Ruan Lianyi led her on a horse, laughing and laughing all the way, and felt that there was not enough time, and the road was not long enough .

Now that she was really walking by herself, remembering what Ruan Lianyi had said to her along the way, and the place where she rested with her, she was afraid that this road would never end, and she would not be able to meet Ruan Lianyi in time.

She went from noon to the end of the sun, and from the beginning of the moon to the change of the sun and the moon. She held her last breath and walked to the gate of the bamboo garden. When the first ray of sunlight penetrated into the bamboo forest, she passed out and was just getting up to clean the bamboo leaves. In front of Mingming.

At this time, Shu Qingwan's face was haggard, the corner of his mouth was cut, the blood from his forehead had dried up, the shoes on his feet were worn out, and the white clothes on his body that were supposed to be worn by Ruan Lianyi were also dirty. Can't see the color.

Xuan Qing, who had already seen through the emotional matters in the world, was also moved by Shu Qingwan's perseverance and persistence at this time.

He personally fed porridge to Shu Qingwan, healed the wound on his forehead, and recited a Qingxin Sanskrit Sutra for Shu Qingwan who was still comatose.

Although Xuanqing's sincerity was poured into the Qingxin Brahma Sutra, after waking up, Shu Qingwan still stayed in her obsession, regardless of whether she cared about it, and only wanted to find Ruan Lianyi who had evaporated from the world.

This time Xuanqing did not refuse, he couldn't bear to see Shu Qingwan walking like a dead body like this, so he granted Shu Qingwan's request and sent Hui to the city to investigate the situation in person.

One month later, Liaohui went to several places and spent a lot of money to invite back a servant who had been dismissed by the Ruan family. It was an old woman in her destiny. Ruan Mansion spent money to dismiss.

The old lady was invited to the bamboo garden, but no matter how Xuan Qing asked her, she refused to speak.

Shu Qingwan knelt down on the ground again, kowtowed her newly healed forehead again, and begged: "Madam, I just want to know how she is doing now, I don't mean anything, can you tell me?"

The old woman struggled for a while, but still pretended to be confused and said: "I'm just an old woman who washes clothes. If the master asks me to leave, I will leave. I don't know what happened to the master's house."

Shu Qingwan kowtowed again stubbornly, as if she didn't know the pain: "Please tell me, mother, what happened to her."

"I...how would I know..." The old woman was a little guilty, but she still refused cruelly, "I really don't know, I am the lowest servant in the family, how could I know these things .”

"Please Mammy tell me." Shu Qingwan propped his hands on the ground, and knocked again persistently, the just-in-place wound burst open in an instant, and the blood oozing out from inside made his forehead shocking.

The old woman felt distressed, and reached out to help Qingwan, but she still gritted her teeth and said, "I...I really don't know, little girl, you are embarrassing me, oh... "

Shu Qingwan broke free from the old woman's hand, leaned over and knocked again, the blood in the wound could no longer be restrained, broke through the wound, stained his forehead, and even the ground was stained with blood.

Seeing Shu Qingwan's resolute and persistent appearance, the old woman was heartbroken, but she couldn't hold back in the end, and still poured out some information.

But the old lady thought of her loyalty, so she finally kept an eye on her, and she just said euphemistically that Ruan Lianyi suddenly fell ill for some reason and was bedridden.

When Shu Qingwan heard that Ruan Lianyi was inexplicably ill, he knelt down and took two steps forward, anxiously asking, "Why do you get sick when you're fine?"

"I don't know." The old woman shook her head and said sadly, "At that time, the laundry and quilt were sent to the room. Although they had been washed briefly, how could the old woman not know that the clothes were stained for more than [-] years? A lot of blood."

"The clothes and quilts sent for cleaning are stained with blood every day. Alas, Miss Lianyi is so pitiful."

Shu Qingwan grabbed the old woman's skirt and said anxiously: "How is she doing now? Has she been cured?"

"Miss Lian Yi, she... oh..." the old woman said, her face choked with sadness, "Miss, she passed away a few days ago."

Shu Qingwan's face suddenly became pale to the point of no blood, and he muttered in a daze, "Passed away..."

The old woman covered her face and wept: "Yes, the day I left, the miss died of illness, alas... our miss is really so pitiful."

Afterwards, the old woman said something to Xuan Qing, but Shu Qingwan was in a daze and couldn't hear it anymore.

All she knew was the woman with crooked eyebrows who smiled, the person she cared about, and she never saw it again.

I haven't told her that I like her, and I haven't told her that I am willing to accompany her to walk the rivers and lakes for the rest of my life. Even if she is married, I am willing to stay by my side forever and be her most solid backing.

But it was too late, and she never had a chance to tell her that she saw her.

After the old woman left, Shu Qingwan sat alone in the yard for a while, her eyes were glazed over, she didn't say a word, as if her three souls and seven souls had been taken away, leaving only a blank body sitting there.

The twilight diffused into the bamboo forest, and the surroundings gradually became gray. When Liao Ming came back after cleaning the bamboo leaves outside the yard, he found that Shu Qingwan, who had been sitting in the yard all along, had disappeared.

Liaoming reported to Xuanqing and asked if he would find Shu Qingwan along the way.

Xuan Qing looked at the last ray of light that disappeared into the horizontal surface outside, finally sighed softly, and shook his head.

He closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, and recited another Sanskrit sutra, the sound of the sutra penetrated the bamboo garden, drifted through the bamboo forest, and disappeared in the winding wind.

Shu Qingwan stumbled out of the bamboo forest and ran towards the steps where Ruan Lianyi and Ruan Lianyi had gone back and forth countless times. She was too anxious and accidentally sprained her foot, but she didn't stop, and stepped on the last ray of sky and hurried towards the direction of the city. run away.

The twilight was getting darker, and when Shu Qingwan ran to the woods where she had waited for Ruan Lianyi, the surroundings were already invisible, like a black hole without any direction, and there was terrifying fear everywhere.

In the forest where the direction is not clear, the cry of wild beasts will be heard from time to time, and the sound is disturbed in the secret night, making people even more frightened.

Shu Qingwan's desire to prove that Ruan Lianyi was still alive overcame all her fears, she just kept moving in that vague direction, maybe she could see the person she had been thinking about day and night again.

Shu Qingwan fumbled for a while, and soon after, a little light suddenly appeared in front of the road that must be passed. As the distance shortened, it seemed that a few men's conversations could still be heard.

As if she had never heard of it, she just stepped on the night and walked in her direction.

But what she passed still alarmed the three men who were surrounded by the fire, and after a while, two of them surrounded her and stopped her between them.

Although Shu Qingwan tried his best to resist, he was finally caught by these two men and carried to the side of the fire.

One of the men asked a sitting man with great interest: "How about this little girl? Do you want to have a good time together? She looks really juicy."

The sitting man didn't answer, he took a branch and smacked Shu Qingwan's cheek: "Little lady is alone so late, where are you going?"

Although Shu Qingwan was also a little scared in her heart, it was more about the despair of losing her life in the future. She said calmly, "I'm going to the city and looking for someone."

The man was a little surprised, but more surprised by Shu Qingwan's attitude: "Going to the city so late? It will take two or three hours to walk there. If you walk like this, dawn will arrive, right?"

Shu Qingwan didn't answer, suppressing her timidity, she looked into the man's eyes calmly.

The man was attracted by Shu Qingwan's fearless gaze, and said with interest in a pretense of discussing: "Otherwise, you don't want to go to the city, follow us three brothers, brother promises to bring you delicious food and spicy food, how about it?" ?”

"I can go with you." Shu Qingwan boldly refused: "But, I have to go to the city first."

The man was startled by Shu Qingwan's composure, he glanced at the other two men in disbelief, and said with a smile: "Little lady is quite courageous, she is not afraid of us, aren't you afraid that we will do you now?"

Shu Qingwan seemed to have lost his mind, without any fear: "I can let you do it, but you have to take me to the city first."

The other man next to him was irritated by Shu Qingwan's bargaining tone, he pushed Shu Qingwan to the ground, took off his pants and was about to rape him.

Shu Qingwan pulled out the only rough wooden hairpin from his head and pressed it against his throat, panting and said in a cold voice: "I want to go to the city first, otherwise I'd rather die!"

Just when the third man was about to hold down Shu Qingwan, there was a horse cry from a distance, and then a clear male voice came with the wind: "The three brothers forced a little girl in this wilderness to behave It's too biased."

Shu Qingwan followed the gaze of the three men to the distance, and a man riding a horse appeared among the trees in the distance, and he walked slowly towards them holding the rein.

The man was still young, but his eyebrows were clear and bright. Although there was still a trace of youthful youthfulness in his eyebrows and eyes, one could tell from a distance that he was a noble young man who was away from home.

When the three men saw the man's attire and the sword in his hand, they stopped their movements and said angrily, "The three of us have no intersection with the young master, and each side of the road faces the sky. Why should you meddle in your own business?"

The man rode up to him, tightened the reins, got off his horse, and smiled kindly at them: "This statement is wrong. Although I have no experience with you, you are forcing a woman you don't know for no reason. Please forgive me for not being able to stand by."

The sitting man stood up, smiling politely and hypocritically: "Young Master, what do you mean, you must take care of this nosy business?"

The man smiled kindly, bowed and said: "I am also a reasonable person, how about I bid to buy this woman? Even if I invite the three brothers to drink tea, how about letting this innocent woman go? "

The men saw that the masculinity was extraordinary, and the saber in their hands was also a first-class sword, so they guessed that he might have a lot of background.

For the sake of an unknown woman, confronting this man head-on, seems to be worth the candle.

Although there are three of them, they may not necessarily get any advantage if they cause trouble, so they let go and said, "Okay, for the son's sake today, we will let her go."

"However, she is so pretty, and she doesn't have twelve taels, so we don't rely on her."

"It's easy to talk about." The man took off a purse from his body, threw it to the man opposite, and said with a generous smile, "Here are 15 taels. Thank you, Xiongtai, for your kindness."

The men got cheap for nothing, so naturally they stopped pestering Shu Qingwan.

Shu Qingwan put the wooden hairpin back on his head, climbed up and walked in front of the man, imitating Ruan Lianyi and bowing his hands to give the man the courtesy: "Thank you for saving my life, sir, I hope you will leave your name, if there is a chance in the future, the little girl will repay you." .”

"No, no, no." The man smiled and shook his head, "Where is the girl going so late? Why is she here at this time."

Shu Qingwan didn't hold back, and said honestly, "I'm going to the city to find someone."

The man bowed and saluted, and said decently: "I just want to go to the city, if the girl doesn't mind, I can take the girl along."

Without any hesitation, Shu Qingwan gave another salute: "Thank you, my lord, for your success."

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