Chen Baiqi immediately ran over, and as soon as he touched him, he felt cold under his palms, as if it was wet with snow. When he looked again, he was almost soaked through, and his clothes were covered with ice crystals as if they had been taken out of the refrigerator.

If she delayed any longer, she might develop a cold or a fever, and she didn't have any special medicine to cure fevers and colds.

While thinking about it, Chen Baiqi immediately pulled out a purple fox fur fur from the "system package" that an ordinary person could wear and put it on his body.

Name: Expensive fox fur coat

Quality: White

Special Attribute: When Wu Jiang was lying on her lap, Chen Baiqi reached out and patted his face: "White horse? White horse? Wake up?"

After she shouted several times, Bai Ma Zilong regained consciousness and woke up in a daze.

"Ah..." He frowned and groaned unconsciously: "It hurts..."

pain?

Chen Baiqi felt something was wrong, so he hurriedly moved the hair scattered on his face to see if he was injured anywhere. Unexpectedly, when he moved the black hair away and saw his exposed face, his expression suddenly became strange and hesitant.

The violent tendons on his face turned from the normal blue color to a dark purple-red, one by one, as if they were bruised by a whip, although the whole thing became smoother and smoother.

But at first glance, the whole face is far more shocking than before.

This change happened suddenly. She could vaguely see him under the water before, but he was not like this. Could it be the influence of the "portal"?

It's no wonder that Chen Baiqi guessed like this. First of all, when she came out of the portal, she was awake, except for a brief dizziness. But on the contrary, Baima Zi, who had always been unafraid of the cold, felt as if she had been trapped in the cold after this trip.

It looked like someone had been ravaged over and over again, short of breath, weak and mentally exhausted.

Come to think of it, not just anyone can enter this "portal".

"What's wrong?" He held up his hands and sat up. Seeing Chen Baiqi staring at him with an unexplainable meaning in his eyes, he nervously tightened his clothes and shrank back.

Chen Baiqi noticed his discomfort, so she looked away. She tucked up his robe, helped him up, and asked as if unintentionally: "Has your face always been like this?"

Baima Zixi also had no strength. He didn't realize what was wrong with the extra fox clothes on his body. He didn't realize what was wrong with him waking up from the bottom of the lake and coming to the ground. He was just confused.

For a moment: "Me, my face?"

He touched his face, and was not surprised by the uneven touch of his hand. He whispered: "I can't remember clearly. I haven't seen... my face in a long time."

Chen Baiqi raised his eyebrows, these words sounded interesting.

She nodded, indicating that she knew about this matter. She didn't ask any other questions, but just expressed some concern about his body.

Bai Ma Zixi mentioned that he felt uncomfortable with his face, and Chen Baiqi took another look at his face. How could he feel comfortable now that his face was like this?

"Rong, Rong..." He tried shouting a few times, but he was still embarrassed to shout it in front of her.

This word was not something she told him, but something he heard from another person. He didn't know how to call her.

In the end, he seemed to give up and said gloomily: "Where are we...?"

Chen Baiqi didn't quite understand his Mandarin with a Nanzhao accent, and sometimes she would rather he speak the language of his Nanzhao country, so that she could understand what he meant by looking at the translation directly.

It's better to listen to him keep saying "meat, meat" for a long time and I don't know what to express.

But I did understand the second half of his sentence in Nanzhao dialect. She had already roughly thought of what to say. She said: "You fainted at the bottom of the lake. I was the one who carried you away from the pursuit of the royal city. Unfortunately, I lost my strength in the middle of the journey."

Bu Zhi, I also fainted and was unconscious until now. When I woke up, I found myself lying in the wilderness with you."

He looked at her blankly and had no reaction for a long time.

Chen Baiqi knew his acting skills, so he stopped making expressions and looked directly back at him with his eyes, trying to be as stunned as him.

Bai Mazi twitched the corner of his mouth suspiciously, but he didn't question anything anymore and just obeyed her words.

The weather was not very good and was very gray. Chen Baiqi asked the white horse to put on the fox fur, and the two of them walked all the way to the west, but they didn't meet anyone after walking for a long time.

Chen Baiqi waited all the way until the system finally loaded the "regional map" and then checked their current location - Jinum.

Which corner did they fall into?

Chen Bai hurriedly zoomed in on the map. The location she had never set foot on was all gray, while the regional map she had downloaded had detailed location routes. She first found Luoyang, and then determined the location of Jinum. Suddenly, a link between Luoyang and Jinum appeared.

A connecting line with distances marked on it.

Seeing this, Chen Bai's face turned green.

She finally knew how unreliable the system's random location transmission was!

The place where she was standing was actually more than a thousand kilometers away from Luoyang, not one mile, not ten miles, but more than a thousand kilometers!

In this world without airplanes, high-speed trains, or cars, how can she return to Luoyang as quickly as possible?

By walking? By riding a horse?

When she thought about her appointment with Ju, she thought about how anxious he would be if he couldn't wait for her.

The more she thought about it, the darker her face became.

The wind blew up the soft hair on her clothes, and her delicate side face with the coldness of jade was crystal clear. She may not be the kind of appearance that makes people lose consciousness at first sight, but she is definitely the kind of face that makes people get more and more excited the more they look at it.

favorite.

The white horse beside her followed her in small steps, and their footprints spread all the way on the snow behind them.

The sky is very blue and the snow is very white. The boundary between the two is lengthened silently, leaving a more vivid color contrast. The air that people inhale is cool and clean, while the air that people exhale is warm and misty.

Between heaven and earth, there is such a clear distinction. Only the tall trees on the high mountains are dotted with green, like human boundary monuments.

As he walked, he kept peeking at her with his little eyes. Seeing that she looked unhappy, but she was too stupid for some reason, he pursed his lips and opened his mouth. He wanted to talk to her several times, but he didn't dare to speak rashly.

.

His clumsiness and inexperience are so obvious.

"Baima Zixi, why did King Zhou want to kill you?" Chen Baiqi was the first to break the silence.

Bai Mazi's expression froze, and he slowly raised his head.

Chen Baiqi didn't look at him. Her eyes were always on the front. This made Bai Mazi's head, which was numb with panic, finally calm down a little.

He rubbed his wrist: "I, I don't know."

At first glance, you can tell that what he said is a lie. Although Chen Baiqi himself is not very good at acting, he is very sensitive to other people's disguises.

But she did not reveal it, and she added: "Why did King Xian Nanzhao send you to Luoyang when you were young? Were you voluntarily or were you forced to stay in Luoyang City?"

He bit his lower lip, lowered his head, and remained silent for a long time.

Chen Baiqi did not get angry in the face of his repeated silence. Her tone was still gentle, but she could not hide the disappointment in it: "Zi Xidian, the original intention of saving you is indeed not as righteous as the world's poems praise, but in order to complete what I have done.

As promised, I will never give up on you no matter how difficult the situation is."

"You were among us back then, but King Zhou didn't care about your life at all. He just wanted to keep you, whether life or death... I just care about you. I brought you out because I have the responsibility to take care of you, but you

But he didn’t even want to tell me the truth.”

"If you don't trust me, I will be very sad. Although you don't want to be honest with me, I won't blame you."

Bai Ma Zixi didn't know why, but the more he listened, the more confused he became. Seeing her walking away, he suddenly raised his head, reached out and grabbed her.

Baima Zi's eyes turned red and he was about to cry. He said aggrievedly: "It's not that I didn't say it, I just didn't know how to say it. I was five years old when I was sent to Luoyang. It was voluntary. I just had an affair when I was seven.

Sickness, the King of Zhou said... He said that I must avoid crowds and stay in the middle of the lake to recuperate quietly. My father, my father also fell ill later. He came to see me for the last time and said..."

He paused and did not continue the conversation for a long time.

Although he talked from beginning to end and pieced it together, she only listened to the general content, but the content inside was half-understood.

For example, who sent him to Luoyang? Why sent him there? What disease did he contract? Why did he stay alone at the bottom of the lake away from the crowd? Why did he lock his hands and feet, etc...

It's a pity that the favorability level is not reached, and the "asking task" cannot be triggered.

"What did you say?" she asked.

Baima Zilong hesitated for a long time before saying: "He told me...if you are less than twenty, don't leave the bottom of the lake."

Chen Baiqi paused and asked subconsciously: "How old are you now?"

Judging from his voice and the condition of his skin, he must be very young. She had previously guessed that he was no more than a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, but maybe he had been confined for too long, and sometimes his speech and behavior seemed like that of a teenager.

He clapped his fingers and said: "The lake has frozen thirteen times. My father said that every time it freezes, it counts as one year. I should be twenty years old."

"As long as it's full."

"But... my father said that after the age of twenty, my face will be like that of an ordinary person, but why does it still feel rough to the touch?" He said to himself.

Chen Baiqi froze and thought of a possibility: "When is your birthday?"

Bai Mazi shook his head: "I don't remember."

"Then have you ever celebrated your birthday?"

He thought for a moment and said, "Yes."

"Then do you still remember the season, whether the grass is tender and green, or the lotus leaves are fragrant, or the leaves are yellow in late autumn, and the winter is cold?"

Baima Zixi tried hard to remember, but finally said uncertainly: "There are flowers, the grass is thick... When is this festival?"

Chen Baiqi knew as soon as he heard that it was definitely not winter, which meant that he might not be twenty years old at all.

She looked at his face and felt surprised in her heart.
To be continued...