you got on my tail

Of course Lan Ziqing knew what Bai Xuehe meant.

Coal can be used to smelt iron, and iron can be used to forge tools and weapons. That's why the mastermind behind the scenes painstakingly faked mine disasters to blockade the coal mines. What he wanted was not just a Xingshan coal mine, but a huge iron mine connected to it behind the mountain.

Bai Xuehe finally understood why Ruan Jianghe hinted that he came here.

Before Lan Ziqing took office, the former county magistrate was a good friend of Ruan Jianghe. He must have discovered some clues and was killed after giving Ruan Jianghe the news.

Ruan Jianghe knew about this but couldn't inquire about it, so he could only pass the news to himself before he died.

The matter is of great importance, and the guards behind him also fell silent. Xu Lin, the leader, approached slowly, "Master Bai, what should we do now?"

"Keep going." Bai Xuehe raised his hand, there is only one road here, and if he keeps going forward, he will definitely find a passage connecting to the iron mine.

Xu Lin nodded, took the torch and walked forward quickly, quickly surpassing Bai Xuehe and the others. The group walked deeper and deeper, and finally they could not see the light at the entrance of the cave at all, and a dead end appeared in front of them.

There is a large pile of rubble in front of the dead end, as if the coal mine has been mined so far, there is no flaw.

Bai Xuehe struggled to keep up with panting, and stopped before the dead end. He groped for the gravel in front of him by the light of the torch, paused for a moment, and said with a smile: "This is the road behind."

"How is that possible, Lord Bai?" Liu Xiancheng, who had been silent all this time, said, and the officers and soldiers of the county government behind him also came over, "This is all gravel, isn't it left over from the previous coal mining?"

"Gravel? I faked mine accidents before, and there are also such gravels at the entrance of the mine." Bai Xuehe smiled, "This man first killed Ruan Jin, who kept silent, and told us to return to the capital in a hurry, and he came back to the coal mine. Eliminate the traces. This is a small road in the deep mountains, as long as the road is blown up and covered by gravel, the gravel is so neat that it looks like it was made by a **** explosion."

"Is the black hand behind the scenes really General Xu?"

Such an inexplicable sentence came from the darkness, but it was not spoken by either Lan Ziqing or Xu Yan. Bai Xuehe suddenly turned his head, and Liu Xiancheng had already stepped back two steps, standing next to the officers and soldiers he brought.

Xu Lin has the natural tightness of a martial arts practitioner, and the thin knife in his hand has been unsheathed, emitting a cold light in the mine.

"Since there was a mine disaster a few years ago, it must be possible now." Liu Xiancheng smiled, a chrysanthemum piled on his face, and then he pretended to hold his hands, "I'm sorry for being an adult!"

Before he finished speaking, the officers and soldiers behind him quickly drew their sabers. Liu Xiancheng, who had looked a little puffy earlier, had started to step back suddenly, and the thin sword in his cuff was unsheathed, and the sharp edge quickly cut through the air, rushing towards Bai Xuehe Forced to come.

Lan Ziqing suddenly jumped in front of Bai Xuehe, and pushed him to the corner, the soft sword swept through the air, the cloth was cut silently, but the wound burst open in just a moment, and blood gushed out from that arm, Leaked a pool of blood on the official uniform.

At this time, Xu Lin threw the torch on the ground, and there was the sound of metal colliding, and the blade firmly pressed against the soft sword, emitting two flames.

Jin Yiwei has been trained for many years, but these officers and soldiers don't seem to be from grass-roots teams, they even seem to have been trained a long time ago, all of them are very vicious, clearly putting people to death.

Lan Ziqing reacted quickly, he pulled Bai Xuehe away with one hand, and kept waving the torch with the other.

"You! Do you know martial arts?" Bai Xuehe couldn't believe it, and looked at Lan Ziqing blankly, "Just now, this is..."

"I'll take you first!" Even though he was injured, Lan Ziqing didn't dare to let go for a moment. He used his injured right arm to hold on to Bai Xuehe's wrist, dragging him stumbling towards the outside of the coal mine.

……

And in the Xingshan county government office, Heidan was staring at the young Jin Yiwei in front of him.

That Jin Yiwei was still a little afraid of snakes, but because of Bai Xuehe's order, he really didn't dare to leave. He put the black egg in a wooden box on the table, and carefully sat opposite him.

"I want to eat!" Heitan straightened up, and then made a "hissing" sound. Jin Yiwei stood up "dangdang" in fright, and then brought down the stool behind him.

"I said I want to eat, you are so timid." Heitan dangled his tongue out, he could not speak, he could only point to his stomach with the tip of his tail, and then pointed to Jin Yiwei in front of him, motioning for him to give Grab yourself something to eat.

"Oh, you're asking me what's my name?" Jin Yiwei completely misunderstood, he relaxed a lot, and immediately introduced himself like coaxing a child: "My name is Zhao Erbao, what's your name?"

"My name is... I want to eat!!" Heidan said angrily, "Who cares what your name is! What an idiot!"

But to Zhao Erbao's ears, it was just a few "hisses" that were more excited than before.

"Master Bai didn't say what your name is, and I don't understand what you said." Zhao Erbao smiled silly twice, and suddenly came to tease him, "Then I will give you a name, and you will call How about Heipang, hahahahahahahaha—”

"What, you are black and fat!" Heidan was about to explode in anger, seeing Zhao Erbao put his arm on the table, and was about to rush up and bite him.

"Ahh-"

"Zhao Erbao!" Someone yelled outside, Zhao Erbao got up suddenly, Heitan followed him and slammed into the cabinet door with a "bang".

"Ouch—"

Heidan staggered and slowly got up, but Zhao Erbao had already run out of the house and disappeared, as if something very urgent had happened.

Well done.He quickly ran to the side of the cabinet where the snacks were kept, ready to get some food for himself, when another team of Jinyi guards passed by the door, Heidan suddenly straightened his body and swam forward quickly.

This time, he really felt Yu Yan's aura, and Yu Yan's transformation became even more intensified. She was no longer a woman, but put on a man's appearance and clothes, and shuttled through Jinyiwei like Zhao Erbao. between.

What is she going to do?

Heidan frowned at his non-existent brows, and decided that this time, no matter what, he had to see what happened.

Jin Yiwei didn't have any serious problems, it seemed that they had made an appointment to have dinner together, Yu Yan also went to the street with them, Heidan followed carefully, but Yu Yan didn't follow them to the restaurant, but slipped out of the queue at the corner come out.

There is a big mountain behind the county seat, and Yuyan walked to the foot of a deserted mountain, her face slowly changed to the young woman she was when Heidan first met, she dug out a package from the hole in the big tree, and hugged the package carefully After coming out, she didn't ride a horse and drive, but walked along the mountain road with both feet.

The mountain road became more and more difficult, and there were no people around at all, only a small red flag was planted on the cliff in the middle of the mountain for marking. Yu Yan hurried over to pull out the red flag, and opened the package on that spot.

Heidan didn't understand what she was doing at all, Yuyan pulled out a lead wire with trembling hands, and then took out a stick-like thing from his sleeve, at the moment when the mountain wind blew, Yuyan squatted on the ground with her head in her arms, Suddenly started crying.

Yu Yan didn't look like he was doing bad things, but he was very wronged, Heidan couldn't help but whispered behind the tree: "Yu Yan, what's the matter with you?"

"Who!" Yu Yan stood up suddenly, and pulled out a dagger from her waist. She looked around, but still saw the black egg huddled in the corner.

"Xiao Hei?!" Yu Yan was taken aback, her blue-gray eyes showed a trace of uneasiness, she waved her hands and smiled and said, "Okay... we haven't seen each other for a long time..."

Yu Yan falters and hesitates, always looking up at the sun, as if waiting for some moment, with a hesitant and excited expression on his face.

"Yeah, why do you always look like someone else?" Heitan raised his head and rubbed towards her feet affectionately, the questions in his mouth were like a cannonball, "By the way, where did Bai Tuantuan go? What are you doing here again? Have you found your husband?"

"My husband, I found it." Hearing the word "Xianggong", Yu Yan stood up as if she had made up her mind, and she suddenly pointed to the cave in the distance and said, "Xiao Hei, Bai Xuehe is in that cave. Go find him."

"He has something to do, I can't disturb him." Heidan answered sweetly obediently, tilting his head and said, "I'll stay with you."

"Okay, you stay with me..." Yuyan moved towards the edge of the cliff, and Heidan followed her without knowing the truth. Just as he was getting close to the edge of the cliff, a fox fire suddenly smashed down, knocking out the stone in front of Heidan. a hole.

"A Li? No, Yu Yan, you..." Hei Dan couldn't believe it. He raised his round eyes and stared blankly. The eggs rolled off the cliff together.

The cliff was very deep, and a very small snake rolled with the stones and lost any trace in a blink of an eye.

The mountain wind continued to blow, blowing away all the tears in Yu Yan's eyes. In the end, only the smile of Xu Yan when she was young remained in her eyes. His general is him, even if he never returns in the desert...

But Yu Yan still likes him, in these long 30 years, there is not a single day when she doesn't like him.

Murder is a sin, but the fox demon Yuyan no longer wants to become a fairy. The man told her earlier that as long as Bai Xuehe was killed, the emperor of the world would no longer pursue Xu Yan's crimes.

Yu Yan lit up the fire, sat down beside her with a smile, and quietly waited for the agreed time to arrive.

……

Inside the coal mine, Lan Ziqing was still dragging Bai Xuehe forward, blood was dripping down non-stop, Bai Xuehe lowered his head, seeing in the faint light from the transom that his hands had been completely stained blood red.

"It's not right here!" Lan Ziqing looked around, frowned at the surrounding equipment, and then said decisively: "We went wrong, this is a fork in the road, probably where tools are kept."

As he said that, he dragged Bai Xuehe to prepare to go back the same way, his pace was still fast, but he was really a little staggering.

"Don't go." In the boundless darkness and silence, Bai Xuehe said: "It's right here, I will bandage your wound."

"No, they will catch up soon." Lan Ziqing pinched his wrist decisively and pulled it forward like something.

"I said you don't want to leave!" Bai Xuehe was so anxious that he couldn't help swearing. He stood against the wall, panting, and said with a frown: "I know you have a lot of blood and you are not afraid of bleeding, but I can't run away." Moved."

Lan Ziqing was silent for a while, and finally had no choice but to stop, Bai Xuehe helped him sit down against the corner, and then started to take off his clothes.

"What are you doing?" Lan Ziqing frowned. In the darkness, she couldn't see whether her face was red or not. Bai Xuehe smiled and said, "Why are big men shy? You are seriously injured. Be careful that you will bleed to death. Bandage it."

Lan Ziqing saw that struggling was useless, so she didn't move any more, and let Bai Xuehe take off his clothes, but gritted her teeth and didn't make a sound.

The wound came towards Bai Xuehe's throat, and naturally the wound was extremely deep, Bai Xuehe frowned and said with a smile: "You are not a soldier, nor am I scraping bones to treat poison, so I scream out when it hurts, why endure it?"

Lan Ziqing groaned very lightly just now, but his body did not tremble. Bai Xuehe tore off a large piece of cloth from his shirt and covered his wound, his muscles were beating faintly, and the blood was still gurgling down, as if everything would stop Can't live.

Bai Xuehe put his bandaged hand on his shoulder. Lan Ziqing should be a literati, but his shoulder was covered with a layer of muscle. His skin was uneven. Although he couldn't see it clearly, Bai Xuehe felt that it was a series of scars .

Lan Ziqing's head drooped, his spirit was already very bad.

"Why do you have so many wounds on your body?" Bai Xuehe laughed with a trembling voice, trying to talk to him to bring up his interest, "Could it be that you have any other hobbies, looking so abstinent, but actually like looking for excitement?"

Seeing that Lan Ziqing was silent, he continued, "Hey! You can't sleep!"

"When I was young... I did farm work. Of course I had... wounds..." Lan Ziqing replied solemnly as usual, but her voice rose and fell as if she had lost her backbone. Bai Xuehe gritted her teeth and finally bandaged the wound good.

"You must not sleep!" Bai Xuehe groped on his body, offering a treasure: "I have smoke ointment on my body, I will give you a piece, and you will feel refreshed immediately, at least until Xu Lin and the others finish the fight..."

However, he groped around on his body, only to realize that the purse on his body had fallen somewhere in the fight, so he quickly untied the pipe and tried to disassemble it, trying to pour out the remaining tobacco cream inside.

The pipe is very strong, the cigarette holder can't be pulled out no matter what, Bai Xuehe lifted his pipe inlaid with gold, and smashed it hard against the stone wall.

"You are like this...but...you will attract them..." Lan Ziqing sat close to the wall, seemed to regain some energy, and his speech was no longer obviously intermittent. After a while, he said again: "You Don't make a sound, save some energy, Jin Yiwei can't go back after a day, and the county government will naturally send someone again."

"How do you know that Xu Lin can't beat them?" Bai Xuehe smiled, "Now we two, it's you who should save energy."

After a while, he felt that something was wrong again, and added: "Don't save your energy now, talk to me, tell me the story of your farm work."

Lan Ziqing, who was as dumb as a tree, gave a rare grin. He leaned against the wall and moved a few times, then said, "Okay."

There was silence after this sentence, because Lan Ziqing was having a hard time speaking, Bai Xuehe could only laugh and said: "Since you can't say it, then listen to me."

Naturally, Lan Ziqing could only nod.

"You only know that the King of Yan is kind to me and thinks I'm weak. You don't know that the emperor dragged me to prison. I couldn't see the light every day. I was either beaten or denied food, and then forced me to take Xitong ointment. But in fact Well, the emperor also gave me the chance to seek death, because I didn't dare, afraid of pain, afraid of the feeling of a knife being inserted into the flesh... I really wanted to live, so I confessed to King Yan." Bai Xuehe smiled disapprovingly. Laughing, chattering in words, "Later I found a child, you should have seen him, he is very stupid, he always regards me as a good person."

"So, I think I should be a good person." Lan Ziqing didn't answer, Bai Xuehe continued: "Only if something happens to Xu Yan or King Yu, the emperor will release King Yan and set him free."

Suddenly, the right side of the mine began to shake violently like an earthquake, Bai Xuehe frowned, and quickly pulled Lan Ziqing up.

"Are you feeling better?" Bai Xuehe yelled at him, "It's okay if you're not feeling well. I don't know if it's an earthquake. We have to get out!"

"Put me down." Lan Ziqing pushed him, the raised hand was bleeding profusely, Mu Mu persuaded him kindly for the first time, "Otherwise it will be too late."

"It's too late, who said—" Bai Xuehe's voice stopped abruptly, the beam of the mine seemed to be blown off, and gradually lost its support, countless rubble fell in the darkness, and the narrow air window was smashed half closed, the only light It is also gradually disappearing.

In the end, the girder above his head fell with the sound of the wind, as if he heard the sound of the wind or other movement, Lan Ziqing suddenly exerted force, and slammed the girder away, and Bai Xuehe was also pushed to a relatively safe corner by him, knocking his head on the ground. on the wall.

"Mei Qing, be a good official."

The gravel fell down like a waterfall, Bai Xuehe could only curl up and crawl towards the corner, the surrounding was pitch black, he could not feel that Lan Ziqing was bumped there at all, only heard the last sentence.

In the boundless darkness and pain, he quietly closed his eyes.

I don't know how long after dawn, Bai Xuehe felt pain all over his body, and his eyes were still irritated and painful through a layer of eyelids.

"Bai Xuehe." A young man's voice sounded next to his ears, "I've woken up."

Bai Xuehe froze for a moment, the sunlight was so dazzling that he didn't want to wake up for a while.

"Bai Xuehe." The man's voice was gentle and warm, "I am Cang Hua."