Fog and clouds
"Hey hey hey."
Before Gui Yao could react, she was grabbed by the man with one hand, and curiosity could not be hidden in her almond-shaped eyes.
She slapped Ren Beixi's hand away, climbed the stairs, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Li Cong is from the capital, is his wife also in the capital?"
Ren Beixi looked at the young lady's fluttering light yellow hairband indifferently, then grasped her waist with his backhand and lifted her steadily to the second floor. He said in a deep voice: "Well, Li Cong is going back to Beijing with us. I forgot to tell you last night."
Hearing this, Guiyao bit her lip lightly.
The rose hairpin in her bun swayed, and her voice was filled with a hint of coquettishness for no reason: "I'll go back to my room first."
"good."
Ren Beixi's cold and lonely voice always made her ears feel hot.
During the day, she forgot that she had not been coaxed by him yet, and at night, she forgot that she was already married.
...and you have to sleep with your clothes on.
The post station was close to the border of Xianyu City and had complete facilities. After dinner, Ren Beixi called the servant to fetch some water, while Gui Yao leaned on the couch and nibbled on a cherry.
The slender hands twisted the light pink juice.
Lip color varies from light to dark.
Why.
She bent down and fed the cherries one to her left and one to her right, blinking and looking at the dog and bird in the house.
Ah Ji couldn't even move his wings, but he could only scream with all his strength: "The lenient admission and strict exit policy is a scam. You two left and left me in the general's mansion. What's your intention?!"
Ren Beixi, who was standing by, lowered his eyes to look at his empty plate and suddenly said, "It's so noisy."
Upon hearing this, Gui Yao slowly leaned over to the window where he was, and looked up to see that the crescent moon was already directly overhead.
"It's a bit noisy."
She narrowed her eyes and dropped the six cherries that appeared in her hand one by one onto Ren Beixi's desk.
The man's eyes didn't even go to Cherry. He held her slender wrist with one hand, pursed his thin lips, and carefully wiped the water stains with a handkerchief. His fingertips accidentally touched her red mole.
Just let go.
Gui Yao sighed, then walked back to the Golden Pheasant, who had broken down and was crying. After a pause, she mentioned the little bird as if it were Ren Beixi, and said helplessly, "We had planned to release you back to Shuxi Mountain as soon as we left. Why did you follow us?"
"Ah?" Ah Ji screamed and tried to escape.
"Then I should go back now? No, no, no, I can't fly anymore. Take me to the capital."
Guiyao asked Mo Mo to take care of it. There was no other way. She was too busy yesterday and too anxious today, so she really forgot to tell it.
Thinking of this, she asked Ren Beixi for his opinion.
Ren Beixi agreed quickly, sent the dog and the bird to the next room, and locked the door with one hand.
He picked up the lotus handkerchief that Guiyao had dropped beside him and smelled the sour scent of cherries. He lowered his eyes, carefully wiped his knuckles, and said in a deep voice, "We have to travel tomorrow, so get some rest early."
Gui Yao hummed, bent down to test the water temperature in the tub, and missed her modern bathing equipment. The system was being updated, and she couldn't find anyone to talk to.
She turned around and pushed the screen in the inn over, blocking the bathtub before stretching her legs and going into the water. She closed her eyes and rested for a while. When she opened her eyes again, she saw Ren Beixi coming around from that side, sitting in front of the window under the moon, writing something with a brush in his hand.
"You walk without making any sound."
The young lady slowly bent her knees, dipped a little into the water, and looked up at him.
The man said in a calm voice, "It's because Madam is too defenseless."
He looked at her red ears in the smoke, lowered his voice, put down his pen, crushed the flower petals beside him and put some into the clear water.
Glancing sideways, I heard a muffled voice: "Don't call me Madam, it's weird."
"Yeah." He agreed.
When Guiyao got up from the bathtub, her hair was wet with water, which dripped onto the ground, leaving many marks.
On the other side of the screen, she tidied herself up. Perhaps because she had been soaking in hot water for too long, she felt dizzy and fell asleep in a daze before her hair dried.
In the middle of the night, the wind blows.
She opened her eyes confusedly.
Ren Beixi was wearing a bathrobe, half naked, sitting at the table with a stern expression. When he heard her movement, he suddenly looked up at her.
The tip of the brush trembled, and the ink seeped out into a ball of ink.
"Why did you wake up?" The man's Adam's apple rolled.
She left one candle on as per her habit. The night was deep and quiet. He held his breath and looked at her slightly opened red lips, as if the candlelight fell on her slender back.
Gui Yao pulled the quilt back over her head, clearly still asleep. She asked in a muffled voice, "Why aren't you sleeping yet?"
She watched the man pick up the pen again, as if he had finished writing the last word, folded the letter paper flat, and tapped the wooden frame on the window with his slender and powerful fingers, and a carrier pigeon landed beside the window.
Ren Beixi pondered for a moment and said, "I'll be busy after returning to Beijing, so whatever I can do on the way is good."
After he finished speaking, he stood up, closed the window, walked back to the bed and trimmed the candle wick.
The man's brows were as sharp as swords. He sat back on the bed with his back straight, and a warm steam clung to his back.
"Took a shower? Why didn't I hear the sound of the water being changed?" Her hair fell on his collarbone, not to mention the chest muscles covered by her hands through her arms. Gui Yao felt a little dizzy, and rubbed the man's Adam's apple with her hot face before she heard his deep voice.
“Well, the water wasn’t changed.”
Ren Beixi actually didn’t quite understand Gui Yao’s interest in his chest muscles, so he gently held her hand, wanting her to let go.
Guiyang is not loose.
The man thought for a moment, turned over and pressed her back, his thin lips falling behind her ear and whispering something.
"lady."
"I told you not to scream."
"Well, don't shout."
The next morning, Ren Beixi wrung out the towel, gently wiped the fair face of the person in his arms, and then coaxed her to put on her clothes.
Gui Yao leaned quietly on his shoulder, frowned, pushed him, and whispered, "My head hurts a little."
The man's expression changed slightly.
The back of his hand immediately touched her forehead.
"You have a fever." He frowned, holding her firmly in his arms, his breath falling into her ears, and said in a deep voice, "We are not far from Xianyu City. Let's go back to the nearby clinic."
Gui Yao nuzzled into his arms, shook her head, and raised her eyes after a long while. She said sullenly, "Let's go back to the carriage first. I have pills in my package."
If it was just a common fever, she would be fine after a day's rest in the carriage. In the past two months, she had tried her best to complete tasks and earn points. After adjusting her basic health value yesterday, she could indeed feel that her breathing was no longer so labored and she had a lot more strength.
Guiyao half frowned.
I subconsciously wanted to call the system, but it was still that mechanical female voice: /Hello host, the Animal Mind Reading Notebook is being updated to unlock a new map. The intelligent service will be restored in three days. During this period, tasks will be released as usual and points will be collected as usual. /
It is true that although she was weak in the past, she had the system, which allowed her to exchange points for health and save her from a lot of suffering.
The carriage was spacious. She held the corner of Ren Beixi's clothes tightly, watching him find the medicine bowl from the medicine jar, and then took a cup of warm water from outside the carriage. He gently placed the rim of the cup against her lips, exhaled slightly, and swallowed the medicine.
"It's okay. I just had breakfast and I'm not feeling dizzy anymore. Let's get going."
Gui Yao curled her eyes, unable to bear to look at Ren Beixi's dark eyes and tense jaw anymore.
She pushed him.
"Let's go."
"I dare not delay you."
The sunlight at noon poured water vapor all over the mountain.
The fog was lingering around the top of the mountain, and suddenly it became thinner. The wind swept away the remaining clouds, pressing the branches down a little. The grass and trees in the forest seemed to be sentimental, curling up their new leaves to retain a piece of mist. The sea of forest on the half-covered hillside made a rustling sound.
The mist formed into strands, wisps, piles, and sheets, but it could not penetrate the carriage. Gui Yao looked at the closed window and said helplessly, "If it can't blow me down, I will suffocate first."
"Don't say the word death lightly."
There was silence in Ren Beixi's eyes, and it was rare for him to teach her a lesson.
According to the thick fog, there must be a river at the foot of the mountain. The fog obscured the road so much that the convoy moved slower.
Gui Yao supported her face and snatched a piece of osmanthus cake from Ren Beixi's mouth. After taking a bite, she tried to hold his hand again. But just as her fingertips landed on his palm, she paused, held her breath, and then held his hand and touched her forehead.
Ren Beixi held her slightly trembling hand tightly, lowered his eyes and whispered to coax her. He was a cold-hearted person, but at this moment he tried his best to recall what Gui Yao liked to hear and what she liked to do when she was happy in the past.
He knew she didn't want him to worry too much.
But her hands were very hot, her face was hot, and her forehead was even hotter. At this moment, she was like a young animal, leaning on his chest, not for warmth. Her eyelashes were like small fans trembling slightly, and every breath she took was hot. She was instinctively looking for a sense of security.
"The road ahead is difficult. How is my wife?"
Someone asked outside the carriage.
Ren Beixi's features were indifferent, and his eyes were as hot as her skin. He lowered his eyes and saw that Guiyao was rubbing against the mung bean cake and stuffing her mouth full, causing her to choke a little. He then brought a bowl of soy milk from the side and fed her in small sips.
The curtain of the carriage swayed slightly. The mountain road was different from the official road. The road was rugged and rocks often fell.
The convoy was long, and the journey became more difficult.
Gui Yao asked Ren Beixi to go out and check the road first, and hugged the pillow beside her and changed the man's position. Her face was very hot. She was wearing a lot of clothes, but without the man's body temperature, she still felt cold suddenly. She could only wrap herself in the light red mandarin duck quilt beside her.
The person who spoke outside the carriage was not Xiao Hui, but his tone sounded somewhat familiar. When Ren Beixi went out, he seemed to have spoken a few more words to him, probably giving instructions about the journey.
Guiyao paused for a moment to breathe.
When she looked up again, a few tears in her eyes slid down her thin cheeks in vain. She was a little dazed, looking at the empty carriage, and hot tears flowed out from between her slender fingers that she wiped away belatedly.
Why are you crying?
Suddenly, many familiar yet unfamiliar voices came into her mind, and Gui Yao closed her eyes in panic.
It was the distant modern time when she heard the faint meow of a cat and parted the grass. Or it was not long ago when she deliberately ignored the silent howling and held the long-haired white cat weighing more than ten pounds in her hands, spinning around with a smile on her face.
...and opened them helplessly.
Gui Yao grabbed the soft flesh on her arms with both hands, and her lower lip was bitten until it lost its color.
She needs to breathe.
I can't breathe.
The young lady stood up with the help of the couch, looking at the closed window with her hand stretched out, but the carriage suddenly shook, and her light red skirt stumbled and fell into the air.
The screams were drowned in the fog. The moment she fell to the ground, Gui Yao heard a familiar female voice in her mind.
"Hello host, I am the system.
Are you anxious about the various unexplained noises you've heard recently? Are you worried about your own frail body that can't take care of itself? "
"Collect and bind with the Animal Mind Reading Notebook to earn points and survive."
Your current location is
——Xiaohe Village.
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