"Are you okay?"

"It's so late, why don't you light a candle?" Yuan Ming saw darkness in front of him. When he woke up, it was still gray outside. He didn't expect that while he was talking to her, the room was already pitch black.

There were only two lamps still burning in the room, but he still felt the light was too weak, so Nangong had to bring a few more candles.

"Is this okay?" Nangong Ruowei asked cautiously, only to see him looking ahead blankly, his eyes lifeless.

"I still can't see anything. What's going on?" Yuan Ming stretched his hands in front of him like a blind man and felt a ball of cold air blowing towards his face, as if the wind had blown open the window.

"Wait a moment, I'll close the window first." Nangong Ruo shrank his neck slightly because of the cold. The two of them were not wearing any thick clothes, and their thin bodies looked extremely pitiful in this cold winter.

When Nangong Ruowei closed the window, Yuan Ming still felt that everything in front of him was pitch black and he couldn't touch anything. Suddenly, he was burned by something. It turned out that he accidentally touched the oil lamp.

"You've turned on the light, but I still can't see anything..." Yuan Ming looked ahead in confusion. His eyes had lost focus and were gray, making him feel very uncomfortable.

"What's wrong? You still can't see?" Nangong Ruowei felt strange and stretched out her hand, but she still couldn't see anything, as if she had gone blind.

"I'm blind, right?" Yuan Ming began to make a bold guess. Apart from this possibility, he could not think of anything else.

"No, I'll go get Doctor Liu to take a look at you." Doctor Liu is a veterinarian here who specializes in treating small animals. Doctor Liu came to take a look at Yuan Ming and indeed found what his problem was. It was because he had been soaking in the water for too long, which damaged his brain and compressed his nerves, causing him to become temporarily blind.

"Don't worry, it will be fine. But we have to get to a warmer place quickly. This is a plain and the snow won't melt once it falls."

"Thank you, Doctor Liu. Thank you so much."

"You're welcome."

After Doctor Liu walked away, Nangong Ruowei closed the door and walked over to him and sat down and said, "You also heard what Doctor Liu just said, you're fine, but we're going downstream, and it will probably take some time to get to Gaolan County."

"Do you think they will think I'm dead?..." Yuan Ming is just a puppet emperor. In their hearts, he is nothing. Maybe they have already chosen a candidate.

"How could you think so? Even though you were supported by the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, you still hold the jade seal in your hand."

Although Nangong Ruowei didn't know the complicated relationships in the imperial court, it seemed unbelievable that the original king of a country could be deposed just like that.

"Now only the Zoroastrians can save me."

Yuan Ming suddenly became determined and stared straight ahead. Although his vision was cloudy, his heart was bright.

"Baihuo Jue, you plan to join the Zoroastrianism!" Nangong Ruowei was so surprised that she couldn't speak, and even her tone became a little higher. Realizing that walls have ears, she quickly lowered her voice.

"Do you know that people in the royal family cannot have any connection with Zoroastrianism? If you really join Zoroastrianism, how can you make your subjects believe in you?" Nangong Ruowei explained the pros and cons to him, but she didn't expect that he no longer cared and smiled bitterly with a calm face.

"Only by combining the power of Zoroastrianism and unifying the sect and politics can we defeat the military power under Wei Shang and get the prison seal. In fact, I am just a puppet emperor. If I really want to achieve this step, I still need the help of someone."

"who?"

"Zhuge Jinyu..."

At the same time, Zhuge Jinyu sneezed. He didn't know who was talking about him behind his back, which made his nose itchy, and even his heart itchy. Seeing Shu who was still shivering all over, he had brought the best wood to burn. The cave became much warmer and brighter, but she still couldn't stop shivering.

Seeing her face turning blue and her lips turning purple, Zhuge Jinyu felt a little bit sorry for her. After all, they had supported each other for so many days, so he walked up to her, untied her outer robe, held her in his arms, and used his body temperature to transfer warmth to her. Only then did Shu'er feel a lot warmer.

About half an incense stick of time had passed before Shu'er gradually regained consciousness, but Zhuge Jinyu had fallen asleep on the side. Shu'er silently raised her pair of eyes, as bright and deep as a deer's, and looked at his handsome profile. Her heart suddenly began to jump like a deer.

"Cough cough..." Zhuge Jinyu coughed a few times at this moment. Presumably because he caught a cold, his forehead was a little hot. Shu'er stretched out her hand to measure his temperature. Unexpectedly, it was because the fire was extinguished last night and the cold wind invaded his body, so this happened.

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"Oh no, you've caught a cold. You should have a good rest first. I'll go see if there are any houses nearby." Shu'er said and was about to go out, but she heard heavy footsteps coming from the door. The footsteps didn't sound like they were made by a human, but rather like those of some animal.

"Wait, don't go out..." Zhuge Jinyu also found something wrong at the door. The entrance of the cave was relatively narrow, and the heavy footsteps sounded a bit like that of a big-headed bear or a white bear. If it was really an animal like a bear, then the two of them would become someone else's meal.

Shu'er's forehead was covered with cold sweat. She had never experienced such a terrifying moment before. Her heart was pounding and her brows were twisted into knots.

Sure enough, the footsteps gradually approached and stopped at the door. It was a big white bear. Seeing this girl, he was frightened and couldn't help but gasp.

At this moment, the big white bear seemed to smell the presence of people in the cave, and it actually stayed at the entrance of the cave and refused to leave. Shu'er remembered what Gu Yunru had reminded her before, that if she encountered such a huge bear in the wild, she should hold her breath and pretend to be dead.

Shu'er watched Zhuge Jinyu prepare to leave the cave, and she grabbed his hand and kissed his moderately thick lips with her thin lips. Zhuge Jinyu didn't know what she was going to do, and stared at her with wide eyes.

I don’t know how much time had passed, Zhuge Jinyu’s heart was beating wildly, and the big white bear at the door actually moved, and the outside world had calmed down.