The other two women walked a little further ahead. Shi Wang rode a long-haired Bella clumsily, while Lian manipulated her grey mare with her knees flexibly. There was a long stretch in the dense forest, which showed that there used to be a road to grow here. The weeds in this land had withered, and the horseshoes kept falling leaves and cracking. The thick branches blocked the noon sun a little, but the air still didn’t feel the slightest cool. Although there was an occasional breeze blowing from behind them, the face was covered with sweat.
It’s been fifteen days since they left Lugard and marched southwest. Shi Wang didn’t know where they were going. Of course, she wouldn’t tell them what she was thinking. Both Shi Wang and Lian clenched their teeth like a bear trap, and they were not sure whether Lian knew that Shi Wang’s plan had passed for fifteen days. The towns and villages along the way became less and less separated, and now there are no signs of human habitation in this place. Logan’s shoulders will be more depressed with each passing day. And with each passing day, the nimbus above his head will appear more frequently-Logan will mumble a few words that they are chasing after a thousand fog, but Shi Wang has regained the leadership of this team without objection, and he has become more and more withdrawn. In recent six days, it seems that he has no strength to worry about where they are going or whether they can reach their destination.
Swan and Lian are talking in a low voice right in front of them, and their ears are not clearer than the rustling of the leaves by the wind. If she wants to urge the horse to approach them, they will tell her to look at Logan or stare at her without saying a word until a wooden fool knows that he should go further. Both cases are enough. However, Lian will turn from the saddle to look at Logan from time to time.
Finally, Lian slowed down the pace of the moonlight flower and came to Logan’s black stallion. Although the hot weather made Lian’s bronzed skin ooze a layer of sweat, she seemed unaware of it and let the wild rose step aside to make way for Lian.
"It won’t be long," Lian said in a provocative voice. "Logan still hasn’t raised his head from the weeds. Lian came closer and grabbed Logan by the arm and pressed his weight." Hold on for another generation of Lin and you will have a chance to get revenge. "His eyes were still staring at the road.
"Even a dead person wouldn’t be so slow" said she was telling the truth. She remembered Lian’s every move and talked to her all night, but tried not to reveal the reasons for her understanding. She could never be like Lian-unless I drank enough wine to lose my mind-but she still wanted to learn some skills from Lian. "Maybe you will kiss him for a while?"
Lian gave her a cold stare, which almost froze the flowing stream, but looked back at her flatly. Lian never made her feel breathless and stressed like Shi Wang, and left the White Pagoda less frequently than Shi Wang did. After talking about men together, it’s almost complete. How can you feel pressure from a woman who seriously tells you that there are 17 ways to kiss and 93 ways to touch a man’s cheek? It seems that Lian really believes these statements.
There is no irony in actually suggesting that Lian kiss Logan. Ever since Logan had to be dragged out of the blanket instead of being the first to get up and give orders to them, Lian has been smiling at him and flirting with him. I don’t know if Lian really has any feelings for this man (although she knows it’s very unlikely), or to make him have the desire to continue living so that Swan can help him complete his plan.
Lian never stopped flirting with men outside Logan. From Lugard, she and Shi Wang obviously reached a certain tacit understanding. Shi Wang dealt with women. Lian dealt with men. On two occasions, the innkeeper said that after the house was full, Lian smiled and winked at them. On the other two occasions, Lian used the same method to make them sleep in the barn instead of the bushes, and their accommodation was often reduced. However, on one occasion, the four of them were blown out by a farm housewife waving a grass fork. Another time, they were thrown a pot of cold cereal in front of them at breakfast, but Lian thought these episodes were very interesting, although others might not think so. In recent days, Logan has no longer responded to her as a man. In fact, he has no longer responded to people.
Swan pulled Bella back stiffly. She kept looking at the ground with her elbows propped out, as if she would fall all the time. The hot weather didn’t affect her. "Did you see any visions of him today?" So she didn’t go to see Logan.
"It’s still the same" said patiently as much as possible. How many times did Swan still refuse to understand and believe that Lian had seen the illusion even without Tavalon? Even though Logan was still angry because of being tamed, he was willing to bet on what he had. He would get up again and a two-performer would appear and treat him. What she saw was true. Just as when she first saw Rand Arthur, she knew that she would be trapped in other ways and love her. She also knew that she wanted two other women to share his destiny. Will Logan get it?
"Don’t talk to me like that," Swan said. "Those blue eyes have become sharper." It’s bad enough that we have to feed this hairy carp spoon by spoon. I don’t want you to get angry like an osprey in winter. Maybe I have to put up with other girls, but if you want to give me trouble, you’ll soon regret what I said. Are you clear? "
"It’s Malai", please add some sarcasm to your words! She blames herself for thinking that you don’t have to be as docile as a goose! You have blamed Lian to her face. At last, the Aladorman woman in the village suggested an internship as a farrier-they discussed that it was a tall, The handsome man has strong hands and a slightly dull smile, but she still … "I will try not to be so grumpy." The most annoying thing is that she finds herself still trying to make her voice sound sincere. Shi Wang has such ability. I can’t imagine how Shi Wang talks about smiling at men. Shi Wang will look at a man in the eye and tell him what to do and wait for him to finish the order immediately. She has the same attitude towards everyone. If she changes her attitude towards others as she did with Logan, it will be because she needs brute force to solve the problem.
"It’s not far away, is it?" Lian’s tone is bright and clear. She puts away her tone for men. "I don’t like him like that. If we have to sleep out for another night … Well, if he is more depressed than this morning, I don’t know if we can get him into the saddle."
"Not far away, if the person who showed me the way didn’t say anything wrong," Shi Wangyin was annoyed. Two days ago, she finally asked some questions from the village. Of course, she didn’t let her hear it and Logan lost interest in everything around her. But now she is very reluctant to go to those villagers. She doesn’t know what it is. Shi Wangyin can’t recognize those villagers as Elida in the background!
I hope the road won’t be too long. She doesn’t know how far they have gone south since they left for Jahan Road. Most villagers probably know the relative position of their nearby towns, but just before Swan led them away from the road, they crossed the Man Eselain River and entered Atala. When they crossed the river, the gray-haired old boatman somehow was studying a tattered map, which extended to the misty mountains. According to the judgment, they may meet another big river soon, which means they have entered Haidan, where the prophet and his mob are gathered. Or the Ada River, where Amadeus and the White Robes are on the other side.
Bet it’s Haidan, whether a prophet or a fool can get close to Amadiya and find two performers, but whether they are Haidan or Ata Amadiya is not far away.
"Now we must be gentle with him." Shi Wang also lowered his voice. "If he can hold on for a few more days …" She said nothing if the woman didn’t want to listen to her.
Shi Wang shook her head and kicked Bella back to the leading position. She gripped the reins with both hands as if the stocky mare would come out like a meteor. Lian talked to Logan in that amorous voice. Maybe she did have feelings for him. It wouldn’t be more strange than her choice.
Grown round hills pass by them one by one, with trees, grass and bushes. Everything seems to never change. The traces of the old road go straight ahead like an arrow. Lian said that the soil here is different from the road they walked, as if it should be white. These squirrels with fluffy ears occasionally squeak at them from the branches. Sometimes they hear birds. I don’t know what they are. Compared with Kemlin, Hillan or Balun, it may be a city, but people in the city always think that they are a city girl. Just as she can’t distinguish the soil where weeds grow.
She suspected that once again, after leaving Keer Spring, these doubts surfaced in her heart more than once. Originally, she could easily drive them away, but from Lugard, they emerged more and more frequently, and found that she had never dared to evaluate Shi Wang in a way before. Of course, she didn’t have the courage to confront Shi Wang head-on, although she was ashamed to admit it to herself. Now she suspected that Shi Wang didn’t know where they were going. Shi Wang had already lied. Maybe Shi Wang still hoped that if she broke the three vows because of silence. If she keep searching, she can always find some trace that she has been desperately searching for. Lian has chosen a kind of potential, strength and Rand life, which may not be true, but after all, Swan is different from denying Swan, and life can be as different as Lian’s. Baita and reincarnation are the life of Swan’s department, and she will hold on to them tightly even if she has to lie to herself.
The forest suddenly turned into a big village, which made me stunned by a sweet gum tree. Outside the oak tree and the hard-haired pine forest (this is an identifiable tree), there are many round rivers and thatched huts with walls in the low hills. I am willing to bet that it was a forest not long ago. Now some houses are still growing with many big trees and shrubs, some of which are directly attached to the walls. Besides, there are many stumps obviously just cut down beside the houses. It can be seen that the streets are all paved with new soil instead of being trampled by generations. Men in shirts are laying bundles of new grass. To the three large stone square houses, it is obviously a faded signboard with wind and rain marks hanging on the door of a village inn, but you can see that all thatched roofs are men in the new village. Compared with here, there seem to be too many women and the number of frolicking children and women is pitiful. The smell of lunch in the air is the only normal thing in this place.
If the first impression of this village is a little surprising, when we look at it carefully, she almost fell off her horse. Those young women are wearing simple wool skirts, whether it’s the window shaking carpet or running quickly to finish some errand, but in terms of scale, there won’t be so many women wearing silk and high-quality wool riding clothes, and the colors and tailoring of these clothes can be said to be various. These women and most men are flying around with all kinds of constantly changing flashing images and halos, which most people can’t see. Phantom always appears around two performers and guardians. Those children must all belong to the White Pagoda. Servants rarely get married, but if they know that they need to escape, they will try their best to bring out their servants and their families. Shi Wang finally found her and wanted to find a place for two performers to gather.
When they hurried their horses into the village, the village immediately fell into a strange silence. No one spoke. The two teachers stood and watched them. So did the girls who were supposed to be apprentices and even beginners. A moment ago, the men moved back and forth like wolves. They also stopped. They put their hands into a pile of thatch, and some reached into the door. There were weapons hidden in those places. The children had disappeared. They were all driven away by adults who were supposed to be servants. They were stared at by so many people and felt that their back hair stood up.
Lian looked very uneasy as she walked forward, glancing at the people around her, but Shi Wang kept a calm and calm expression and went straight to the biggest inn. Her ambiguous signboard tied Bella to an iron ring that had obviously just been erected. Shi Wang never helped Logan, even if she moved a finger, Lian helped Logan to help the horse. Everyone looked at them involuntarily. "I didn’t expect to be as popular as a daughter who had been away for a long time," Shi Wang said to Lian.
Before Lian could reply (if she had something to say), Swan added, "Well, since we have reached the shore, don’t stop the paddle and bring him in!" With that, she disappeared into the inn door, and Lian and I still led Logan to the door. Logan walked fairly easily, but when the two women stopped urging him, he took one more step and stopped.
The inn hall is completely different from the hall I have seen before. Of course, there is no fire in the wide fireplace. There are many holes in the fireplace after the stones fall. Plaster painted the ceiling, which looks very worn. Some of the boards inside are exposed. Several girls are cleaning the floor, which has been damaged due to age. There are several tables with different shapes and sizes. Some women with age and indistinct appearance are sitting at the table reading documents and giving orders to others. Among them, there are several dharma protectors and novices wearing color-changing cloaks. Some of them have gray hair and their faces clearly show the years. There are also some men who are not protectors, and people keep running fast as if to reach something; Another two artists sent new documents or wine. This hasty scene reveals a kind of satisfaction that something has been solved. All kinds of illusions keep flying in this room. People are hovering overhead. If there is no way to ignore them, they will be swallowed up immediately. It is not easy to ignore them, but since she has to have so many artists in the same room, she must learn this skill.
For me, seeing the familiar face is like going home after being lost for a long time.
Xue Ryan raised her green eyes to her forehead and immediately stared at the silver-blue light shining. Her fiery hair and a soft golden light don’t know what that means. At this moment, Xue Ryan is a little plump and wearing a dark blue silk skirt. It seems to be the embodiment of severity. "I’m glad to see your child, but I also want to know how you found out what else is here. You would come up with that stupid idea to bring him here." Six dharma protectors stood by them with sharp eyes on the hilt, but Logan didn’t seem to see them at all.
Took a deep breath. What do they want to ask her? "I have no brain-"she couldn’t say more.
"If he is as dead as he heard," Karina interrupted coldly, "it would be much better." Her voice was cold, not because of anger, but because of cold feelings. Karina was a Bai Zong two-performer, and her ivory dress had been worn very badly. For a moment, she saw a crow floating next to her black hair, which was more like a bird drawing than a living bird, but she didn’t know what it meant. She focused on people’s faces and tried not to look at anything else. "But he looked like death."
Swan and Lian exchanged a proud look, and few people looked at them in the shock they brought.
Mairiel is a dark-skinned beauty, wearing a corset embroidered with twill green silk skirt. Usually, her perfect oval face always has an intellectual smile, and her charm is no less than that of Lian now. But now there is no smile on her face. She walks up behind Karina and says, "Come on, don’t stay there like a puppet." Mairiel, a green teacher, has always been famous for her hot temper.
"You must tell us," said Ai Naiya in a more friendly tone, but there was also anger in her voice. She is a tough-looking woman. Although she has the defects of two performers, she looks more like a mother, and she looks more like a mother who is trying to restrain herself from getting a whip. "We will find a place for you and these two girls, but you must tell us how you got here."
Shake your head and shut up. Of course, the other two girls in their eyes are ordinary girls. She has been with them for so long that she forgets how much they have changed. Swan and Lian have definitely not met these two performers since they were thrown into the Baita dungeon. Lian now looks like she wants to laugh. Swan shakes his head angrily at these two performers.
"I’m not the one you want to question" said to Xue Ruian, "Let those two girls be questioned by these people! "You can ask Shi Wang or Lian." Both the performers stared as if she had gone crazy until they nodded to their two companions.
The four performers turned their eyes to the two women, but Shi Wang and Lian were not immediately recognized. The performers studied them carefully, frowned and looked at each other, while the protectors kept staring at Logan’s palm and firmly grasped the hilt.
"Static disconnection may have such an effect," Merrill finally murmured. "I have read about this literature."
"Judging from many features, faces look very similar," Shirley said slowly. "Maybe someone can find women who look similar to them, but what is this?"
Swan and Lian no longer seem so proud. "We are us," Lian Gao said. "Ask us questions! An impostor won’t know what we know. "
Swan didn’t wait for them to ask questions. "Maybe my appearance has changed, but at least I know what I do. I bet I am better than you."
Shi Wang’s stiff voice made him groan for a while, but Mairiel nodded and said, "This is Shi Wang Sang Chen, and it’s her."
"Sound can be trained" Karin Yayin is still cold.
"But how far can memory be trained?" Aeneas frowned sternly. "Swann-if you are Swann-we had an argument on your 22nd naming day. Where did the argument between you and me take place and what was the result?"
Shi Wang smiled confidently at the woman with a motherly face. "That’s what you taught the trainees about the Artoo Eagle Wing Empire. By the way, when he died, he would split into so many small kingdoms. I still don’t agree with some of your views today. As a result, I had to work in the kitchen for three hours every day for two months,’ I hope the hot air there can cover your anger’. I think you said so."
If Swann’s answer can satisfy them, then she is wrong. Ai Naiya asked these two women more questions, and then Karina and Shirley Ryan. They obviously used to be beginners and apprentices with Swann. They asked many questions before they could know that things had been in trouble. Success or failure: Bad dramas have different opinions about their two masters and tutors. I can’t believe that these two women, a jade throne and a historian, have gone through so many disasters. There is also a feeling that what they say now is just the tip of the iceberg, and it sounds that Shirley is not much better than them. She is the youngest of these people and a few years younger than them. She didn’t actually question them until Shi Wang talked about a trout that was put into the bathtub of Saloya, a master of two ceremonies. She was warned by her to be cautious for half a year before she occasionally said a few words. She sneaked out of the White Tower to go fishing? Even interns need permission to leave the Baita if it’s not at a specific time. Swann and Lian together cooled a bucket of cold water to near freezing, and then it became a trap. As a result, the head of a two-instrument teacher was knocked down, and they all thought it was unfair. It’s really a good thing to infer from Ai Naiya’s eyes that they were not discovered at that time. According to their understanding of beginners and interns, these two women were lucky to stay in the Baita until they became two-instrument teachers and were not completely skinned.
"I’m satisfied." Finally, the mother-in-law teacher said while looking at others.
Merrill nodded with Sheridan, but Karina said, "There is still a problem to deal with her?" Her eyes were fixed on Shi Wang without blinking, and others suddenly showed an uneasy look. Mailer bit his lip. Ai Naiya was looking at the floor. Snow Ryan seemed to be trying to avoid seeing these newcomers.
"We still know all the information before," Lian told them, and she also showed some concern. "We do."
Swan’s face sank. Lian might be interested in describing the bad things and punishments she had done, but Swan didn’t like them, but her expression was a little tense compared with her voice. "You want to know how we found you. I got in touch with a secret agent who is still a blue master. She told me about Sally Della."
I can’t understand what Sally Della is-who is she? -But Xue Ruian and others immediately nodded to each other and realized that Shi Wang had his meaning besides telling them that he could find the way here. She let them know that she could still make the jade eye line.
"You sit there," said Xue Ryan, pointing to a table in the corner. "Or do you still call Ildeida? Take Logan with you. "She and three other people gathered around Swan and Lian and surrounded them and walked to the back of the hall. When they disappeared behind a new wooden door, two women in riding clothes joined them.
Sighed, then grabbed Logan’s arm and led him to the table, where he sat on a thick wooden bench, and himself sat in a chair with a rickety ladder back. Two dharma protectors leaned against the wall, and their eyes were not on Logan’s body, but they knew that Gaiding never let go of clues, and even when they were asleep, they could draw their swords without a heartbeat.
That means no one here will welcome them with open arms, even after Swan and Lian are recognized. Well, what can she expect? Swan and Lian used to be the two most powerful people in Baita. Now they are not even two performers. Others probably don’t know how to treat them worse. They also have a tamed pseudo-dragon. Swan had better stop lying or expect altruism to deny Xue Ryan and other two performers to be as patient as Logan.
Little Snow Ryan recognized her and got up and looked into the street through various glass windows. Their horses were still tied to the horse post, but before she could touch the wild rose reins, a dharma keeper would definitely catch her. In the last section of her white tower, Shi Wang made great efforts to hide her identity. Now it seems that this did not happen, but she denied that these two performers knew what she saw. Shi Wang and Lian kept this secret, hoping that they would keep it a secret. If those two performers knew this, they would cling to her like Shi Wang did in the past. If they wanted to go to Rand forever.
It’s very important to help Swan find this gathering place and help her lead the two performers to Rand Arthur, but she still has her own goal to make a man who has never looked at her twice fall in love before he goes crazy. Maybe she will go crazy before him. "In that case, we will be a good couple," she muttered in a low voice.
A girl with freckles and green eyes who is obviously a beginner came to her desk. "Would you like something to eat or drink?"? We have stewed venison, wild pears and maybe some cheese. "She tried not to look at Logan and rolled her eyes as she spoke.
"Pears and cheese sound very good" and told her that they spent the last two days of their journey in hunger. Swan once caught some fish in the stream. When they couldn’t get food from the inn and farm, it was Logan. In the concept of hunting game, dried beans could never be regarded as a meal. "And some wine if you have it, but I want to know something first. Where are we? Is this a secret? This village is called Shalida? "
"A mile to the west of Atra is the Ada River, and Amadisia is on the other side of the river." The girl clumsily imitated the mysterious expression of the two performers. "Where can the two performers hide more secretly than where they shouldn’t be?"