She ran back to where she was this morning, but there was no one there. She yelled a few times, "My Lord, help me."
Han Shu heard and came out to check the situation. Cai Yue hurriedly knelt on the ground, pleading anxiously:
"In order to prepare medicine for the Regent, our girl went to the back mountain alone to collect herbs. She hasn't returned yet. Please ask the prince to send someone to look for her. The snow is so heavy, what will happen if she can't get out?"
Although Han Shu felt a little sorry that such a beautiful girl like Miss Ning had passed away today, but thinking of the broken engagement and what the prince said yesterday, he said coldly:
"You should go to the Cheng'en Mansion to rescue your daughter. Our prince and Miss Ning have no relationship now."
Cai Yue was angry when she heard such an excuse, but saving the girl was more important at the moment. She made trumpet shapes with her hands and tried to amplify her voice so that the Regent could hear:
"It was the master who decided to cancel the engagement. The girl was unwilling, but the lady threatened to die, so the girl could not go back on her kindness in bearing and raising her.
Over the years, the girl has been unable to let go of the prince. Not only has she copied scriptures and prayed for him every day, she has also studied medical books hard in order to help the prince cure his hidden illness. She also begs the prince to save her life because she is collecting herbs for him.
By the time I go down the mountain to deliver the letter to Duke Cheng'en, I'm afraid the girl will have already frozen to death in the snow."
When Han Shu was in a dilemma, Ji Chenglin came out and said coldly, "Do you know which direction your daughter went?"
Caiyue cried and shook her head: "I don't know, the girl only told me that she went to pick snow herb. The medical books may have indicated the characteristics of the place where snow herb grows."
Ji Chenglin asked Caiyue to lead the way back to the house to retrieve the medical book. He stepped into the simple bedroom. Besides the bed, there was only a table and chairs. The room was simple and clean. There was embroidery on the bed, and a small mountain of scriptures and medical books piled in the corner. On the table was an open medical book, which happened to be the page about Xueji Grass.
Snow lily grass usually grows on the edge of cliffs. It looks very similar to grass, but only when it snows does its red color show, distinguishing it from weeds. In other words, she knew it was going to snow soon and chose this time to go.
Caiyue said with a sad face, "The girl has suffered so much. On weekdays, we can only earn a little money by selling embroidery, and she only thinks about buying medical books and learning medicine to save the prince."
Ji Chenglin looked indifferent, but he was actually a little touched. "I will definitely bring your daughter back."
Seeing that Ji Chenglin was going in person, Han Shu was worried: "Your Highness is a precious person, how can we risk his life? I will take my brothers to look for him."
Ji Chenglin thought of the aggrieved pretty face this morning, crying in fear somewhere, and he couldn't stop walking. "Let's split up and look for her. I'll go to the east."
Caiyue insisted on going, but Han Shu scolded her, saying that she was a burden and asked her to wait in the house.
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At this moment, Danruo was in the cave, holding the fiery red little fox, roasting a sweet potato by the fire, and feeling warm all over.
The Reincarnation Pearl will synchronize Ji Chenglin's position with her at any time. When she feels the time has come, she will appear where she should be.
Ji Chenglin had been walking in the snow for an hour, but he still hadn't seen the gray figure. Instead, his eyes hurt from searching for someone in the vast snow. He had no choice but to ask, "Ning Danruo, where are you?"
However, the silent world would not respond to him.
He shouted as he walked until he heard a weak voice coming from the front.
"My Lord, be careful of the cliff."
Ji Chenglin slowly moved to the edge of the cliff and saw a snowman hanging on a crooked tree on the cliff. The little girl's eyelashes were all white, and her hands were frozen purple, but she was still holding a bright red grass.
He untied the rope around his waist and lowered it, but Danruo's frozen hands couldn't hold the rope at all. She tied the snow herb to the rope and smiled brightly: "Your Highness, there is no need to save me. I have a prescription I wrote in my room. Take the snow herb back and ask a doctor to try it and see if it works."
Seeing her finish her last words, with a look of courage and determination to die, Ji Chenglin felt a surge of anger in his heart: "I don't want to owe you anything. You are not allowed to die."
Danruo had been pressed against the branch by the heavy snow for too long, and was already shaking, about to fall off the cliff.
Ji Chenglin jumped up and tied the rope around Danruo's waist. He wanted to use the power of the tree to return to the top of the cliff, but the branches could not support him at all. The two fell straight down until they landed on the thick snow.
It turned out that there was a terrace about one to two or three meters wide halfway up the cliff, which caught the two of them.
Ji Chenglin hurriedly looked at Dan Ruo who had fallen beside him. Seeing that she was breathing weakly and had already fainted, and her whole body was cold, he knew that she had been frozen in the snow for too long. He had been on the march for several years and knew that if this continued, the person would die soon if the temperature was not restored quickly.
He saw a cave behind him and pushed the stone to the door to block the wind and snow outside.
The cave was pitch black. He took out a tinder and looked around, only to find some dry firewood and a clay pot, which he thought were left by hunters.
He lit the fire and held Danruo in front of it, checking her temperature from time to time. It didn't get better, but became colder and colder. He reached his hand into her snow-white, slender neck and looked down, and his back was covered in cold sweat.
With such a small amount of firewood, it was impossible to dry out both the person and her clothes. He looked away and fumbled to take off the woman's cotton coat that was soaked with snow.
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