Bai Furong had never thought that eagles were such annoying creatures before. She even envied the eagles for being able to soar into the sky. However, she didn't know that now, whenever she saw an eagle flying or heard an eagle cry, she would panic in her heart. The panic made her heart tremble and she almost couldn't even sit still.
Bai Ze raised his head, stared at the hawk that circled twice for a while, and said with a smile: "Why, Miss Bai is afraid of hawks?"
Bai Furong didn't say anything, her eyes fixed on the front while riding her horse seriously. After a while, she suddenly turned her head to Xuan Tianming and asked him, "I heard that Ah Heng has trained a magic archer, who can shoot arrows in a roundabout way, circling or straight. I wonder if there is anyone in our group who has that magic archer?"
Before Xuan Tianming could say anything, Bai Ze stopped working: "Hey! What are you doing?"
Bai Furong smiled and said calmly: "Nothing, I just want to ask if we can shoot down the eagle in the sky."
Hmm? Bai Ze frowned, "Why shoot it?" That's your communication code. If you really shoot it down, won't you be in trouble?
"It's so annoying." Bai Furong rubbed her temples. "Just watching it flying in the sky makes me feel so annoying. Especially when it calls, I get a headache."
"Just fly." Finally, Xuan Tianming spoke, but he said: "If you think it's noisy, don't watch it. As for the sound, just get used to it."
Bai Furong didn't say anything, but lowered her head, as if she was thinking about something. Xuan Tianming's voice came into her ears again, and he actually said to her: "It's meaningless to hide from something you don't like, and shooting it to death with one arrow won't solve the problem. If you shoot one, there will always be another. There are always plenty of eagles. Unless one day you are no longer afraid of them, their existence will not pose any threat to you."
Bai Furong's heart moved, her face turned pale immediately, and her hands holding the reins trembled a little. She secretly looked at Xuan Tianming again, but found that he didn't look at her at all, as if what he said just now was just a casual remark, and she was overthinking it.
Bai Furong took a deep breath, adjusted her emotions, then said to Bai Ze with a smile: "Your Highness's words are both difficult to understand and make sense." Although she was smiling, bitterness rose in her heart.
Ah Heng, Ah Heng, Bai Furong looked ahead and thought to herself, you should have reached the North Boundary, right? I don't care what your plans are, anyway, hurry up, I can't delay any longer.
This march lasted for two days and one night, until the men and horses were exhausted, and finally they found a valley suitable for camping.
It has been snowing for the past few days. Although the snow is not heavy, it never stops. No one is cleaning the mountain, and the temperature is lower than outside. As a result, the snow has piled up to almost knee-deep.
When setting up camp, the soldiers took great pains to clear out a large area of open space. Xuan Tianming's tent was set up in the middle, tightly surrounded by the soldiers, leaving no gaps.
When Bai Ze'an arrived at the camp, he paid special attention to Bai Furong, but he saw that she had no objection to such an arrangement. Instead, she went inside the tent after it was set up. The reason was: "If I stay outside for too long, I will be easily recognized by the soldiers."
Bai Ze spread his hands towards Xuan Tianming, and then heard Xuan Tianming say, "Don't worry about her. If a person has a heart, he will never do anything to harm his friends. If a person has no heart, just kill her, why bother with her?"
Bai Ze deeply agreed with this.
That night, Xuan Tianming used the excuse of discussing military affairs with the deputy general and stayed overnight in the deputy general's camp.
At 3:30 am, four eagle cries sounded again in the snowy night. Bai Furong tucked her head into the quilt and covered her ears with both hands, trying desperately to block out the eagle cries. Unfortunately, the eagle cries were very penetrating, and no matter how hard she tried, the sound was still piercing her ears, piercing her eardrums and going straight into her nerves. She began to have a headache, biting her lower lip with her teeth, trying not to let the tears burst out.
Gradually, the emotions were suppressed, but people still had to face reality.
She stood up reluctantly, put on her cloak, put on her shoes and socks, and hurried out of the tent.
Bai Ze's tent was only half an arm's length away from hers. It was unclear whether the man had even slept. Anyway, as soon as Bai Furong opened the door of her tent, the man over there poked his head out and asked her, "Where are you going?"
Bai Furong rolled her eyes at him and asked, "Bai Ze, are you annoying? Every night when I get up, you ask me where I'm going. People have three urgent needs, where else can I go?"
Bai Ze pointed to her tent and said, "There's a chamber pot inside."
"I'm not used to it." Bai Furong said honestly, "After all, I'm not Ah Heng, and I'm not that close to you. There are some things I hope you can give me some dignity."
Bai Ze spread his hands. It would be rude for him to ask more questions after what the other party had said. So he could only say, "Go ahead, just don't go too far."
Bai Furong walked away hurriedly, passing through the military tents and going into the jungle in the mountains.
Bai Ze was still quietly following behind, but his mood was no longer as calm as before when he followed Bai Furong. At first, he followed her with the mentality of "catch the thief, catch the dirty, catch the adulterer, catch the couple", but since he heard what Bai Furong said to the man in black last time, and watched Bai Furong's hidden contradictions and struggles in the next two months, he suddenly felt that it was quite hard for a woman to live like this. But what exactly is going on here? Bai Furong doesn't say it, and His Highness the Ninth Prince doesn't ask. This matter is so deadlocked, and no one knows when it will end.
This time, Bai Furong walked quite far and turned two corners. Finally, the goshawk in the sky gradually swooped down in one direction. Bai Furong also quickened her pace and ran two steps in that direction.
There was thick snow in the mountains, and the road was a slope going up the mountain. Bai Furong was shaky even when she was walking steadily, and she was even more unsteady when she was running, and she almost fell several times.
Bai Ze was anxious watching from behind and always wanted to go forward to help. However, he was a stalker who was not allowed to show his face. The one in front was his target, so he could not help this one.
Bai Furong walked forward with difficulty and finally reached the place, but her feet suddenly slipped and she fell into the snow. Bai Ze saw that her little face, which had been frozen white for the past two months, was buried in the snow. He didn't care, but his heart was tightened. He couldn't control his feet and quickened his pace. He thought, don't care what she came out for. If he didn't help at this time, he would be unmanly. At worst, he could say that he followed her to protect her on the orders of His Highness.
She had made up her mind, taken a step forward, and even stretched out her hand, but at this moment, a man in black suddenly appeared diagonally to the side where Bai Furong fell.
Bai Ze stopped walking and quickly found a big tree to hide himself. But the man did not help Bai Furong, but just stood beside her and looked down. Bai Furong struggled for a long time before she could stand up. Even Bai Ze could see that she was shivering because of the cold snow. The man in black standing beside her remained indifferent and just asked her: "Why are you so slow?"
Damn it! What kind of man is this! Bai Ze complained in his heart, and looked at Bai Furong again, but saw that although she was no longer lying in the snow, she did not stand up. She just sat in the snow, looking up at the man in black, gritting her teeth and said, "It was your damn eagle that led me such a long way. Look at this mountain of snow. How fast can I walk to meet your requirements?"
The man in black had his face covered, so his expression could not be seen, but his narrow eyes were always cold and ruthless. He did not feel that it was his fault at all because of Bai Furong's words. He just said to her in that ruthless voice: "The reason why you can't stand the cold is because you didn't grow up in the north. The master said that if you were raised in Qianzhou, you would not be so weak now."
"Hmph." Bai Furong snorted coldly, still sitting on the ground without getting up, still looking up and saying: "Your master can say a lot, but since he said everything, why do you still treat me like this? If I am really that man's biological daughter, then I am also half a master to you, right?"
A trace of contempt flashed across the man's eyes, and he told her bluntly: "It's definitely not now. If you really want to be our master, you should be obedient and work hard for Qian Zhou instead of betraying us and helping those people to deceive us."
"You are a traitor?" Bai Furong also became angry and subconsciously wanted to stand up to argue with him, but she sat back down immediately with a painful expression on her face. Bai Ze looked at her with a frown, staring at Bai Furong's feet, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart. At this time, Bai Furong's words came again, asking the man in black, "You say I am a traitor. If you are the traitors, then what have I eaten from you since I was a child? Have I been drinking a sip of water or eating a bowl of rice for a thousand weeks? Did your damn master give me clothes to wear or a bracelet to wear? I have nothing, so how can you say that I ate your food? Are you fucking blind?"
A woman suddenly started to curse. Even the man in black was stunned for a moment, but he recovered quickly. He looked at Bai Furong coldly and said in a deep voice, "So, you admit that you deceived us? Princess Ji'an didn't return to the capital at all, right?"
"Did I lie to you?" Bai Furong still had that angry tone, staring at the man in black and said, "I really wanted to lie! You gave birth to me but didn't raise me, so why did you force me to help Qian Zhou after I grew up? But you captured my father in a despicable way, and told me that if I didn't tell the truth and cooperate, you would torture him to death! I, Bai Furong, don't have many relatives in this life, and my father is my life. In order to save him, I deceived my best friend, betrayed my best friend, and hurt his sister. I did all this for my father. After doing everything, why would I lie to you?"
The man stared at Bai Furong, as if he wanted to find a flaw in her expression, her eyes, and her words, but it was all in vain. At this moment, Bai Furong was so angry that her whole body was shaking. She stared at him fiercely, but it was this stare and this fierceness that made the man feel that what she said seemed to be true, but...
Suddenly, the sword was unsheathed and pressed firmly against Bai Furong's neck. The man said, "We didn't find the Princess Ji'an in the capital!"
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