The sky was still a bit gloomy at dawn, and the wilderness seemed to be still sleeping. The arrival of wheels and horse hooves broke the silence.

A black carriage drove slowly on the official road heading east. In the carriage, Baili Xuan retracted her body from leaning out to look out, lowered the curtains and sat down calmly.

"Are you reluctant to leave? We just left the city not long ago, and it's still too late to regret it." Zhong Linqi seemed to have eyes behind his back. He could know what was happening in the car behind him even though he was driving.

Yu Shiqi looked at Bai Lixuan and found that the expression on her face was very calm.

"No, just to see if anyone is chasing me."

"No one will chase you." Zhong Linqi's confident voice floated from the front, "There was no movement last night, and there were no obstacles when leaving the city. Don't worry."

Bai Lixuan seemed to have other things on her mind. She didn't listen carefully to Zhong Linqi's words, and just instinctively responded "Yeah."

Yu Shiqi sat opposite her and closed his eyes to rest. He actually didn't sleep well last night, not because of his injuries, but because of the conversation he had with Zhong Linqi before going to bed, which made him unable to suppress his random thoughts.

The two people in the carriage had their own concerns. Although they were sitting across from each other, they were just bored with each other. Even if Zhong Linqi wanted to talk to them, he couldn't find a chance to open the topic.

The journey was really lifeless. Fortunately, we arrived at the ferry near noon and caught up with a southbound passenger ship. After boarding the ship, the two young men seemed more willing to stay on the deck, and Zhong Linqi was happy to go with them and swim alone.

He entered the lower cabin and disappeared.

Bai Lixuan held on to the guardrail and looked at the outline of the distant mountains on the other side, with no trace of joy or sorrow on her face. Yu Shiqi stood not far from her, lowering his head and staring at a copper bell tied with a red string in his palm.

The ship quickly raised its sails and set sail. The wind on the river at noon was not too cold. The warm sunshine of the sunny day shone on the two people wearing fox fur cloaks, and even made them feel a slight sweat in their vests.

"Yu Shiqi." Baili Xuan suddenly turned to look at him, "This boat is going eastward along the river, is it going to Wuyue?"

Yu Shiqi held the bell in his hand, carefully put it into his pocket, and nodded to Bai Lixuan.

"Miss Baili, you don't even understand where this boat is going, so you dare to board it?" He pursed his lips and smiled, "You are so brave."

"So what?" Bai Lixuan disagreed, "Anyway, I don't know where I should go. It's good to get on a ship with no idea of ​​the destination. Besides, with that great hero Zhong here, I don't worry about myself at all.

safety.”

"What about after we separate from Master Zhong?"

Bai Lixuan replied without hesitation: "Isn't there still you?"

"Then what happens after you separate from me?"

Baili Xuan opened her eyes in shock: "What do you mean?"

"You can't always follow me," Yu Shiqi said.

"Why not?" Baili Xuan frowned, "Is there anything important you have to do?"

"I...this has nothing to do with whether I have anything important to do." He shook his head and said to her seriously: "It depends on your own plans for the future. You can't just follow the trend."

Bai Lixuan raised one corner of her mouth: "I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I'm finally free, and nothing can restrain me anymore."

"Did you bring the money out?" Yu Shiqi asked.

Baili Xuan was stunned for a moment, and remained silent for a long time. All the expenses from running out of home until now were paid for by that Zhong Daxia alone.

"I ran in such a hurry, so I thought you didn't take me with me." Yu Shiqi smiled, "Freedom... it's not something without a price. Bailihou Mansion is a cold cage, but at least you have enough food and clothing in it.

Isn’t it?”

Bai Lixuan clenched her fists and said resolutely: "Then I don't want to go back either."

"I'm not asking you to go back, I'm asking you to think carefully about what happens after you come out." Yu Shiqi scratched the side of his face and said to her tactfully: "It's true that the world is huge, but it's important to have a place to stay.

easy."

Bai Lixuan blinked at him for a long time, then slowly said: "You...you mean that you...don't plan to care about me in the future...right?"

Yu Shiqi smiled bitterly: "Miss Baili, I'm sorry for my weakness, but the Marquis still owes me five months of coins, which means I didn't get anything out of my trip to the Western Wilderness."

"As long as you are willing." Bai Lixuan showed a cheeky smile, "It doesn't matter if you are poor now, please work harder in the future."

Yu Shiqi's facial expression twitched involuntarily, and then he looked at Bai Lixuan with disbelieving eyes, trying to figure out whether she was joking or really thought so.

"Yu Shiqi, why are you looking at me like this? What's wrong? Haven't you seen enough in the bath before?" Baili Xuan said, tightening the collar of the fox fur cloak, with a look of caution in her eyes. After a moment,

Then he smiled slyly: "By the way, you looked at me, you have to be responsible."

Yu Shiqi was speechless. Although he knew that Bai Lixuan was deliberately messing with him, he was not good at rejecting others. At this time, even if he had all the reasons in his heart, he could not express them.

He lowered his head silently, which made him look a little depressed.

When Baili Xuan saw it, he was slightly startled, and finally became serious and said in a good voice: "Hey, hey, I'm teasing you, you won't take it seriously, right?"

Yu Shiqi opened his mouth and swallowed back the words he had thought about rejecting her for a long time. The expression on his face looked a little uncomfortable.

"In what year were you born?" Bai Lixuan poked his arm with her finger and asked casually.

"Twenty-five years of Taiye." After he answered, he felt a little strange. Bai Lixuan asked himself what he was doing?

"It's the same year as me, that's nineteen." Bai Lixuan nodded and asked, "When is the twenty-fifth year of Taiye?"

"At the time of autumn and winter..."

Bai Lixuan laughed, with a proud look on her face that said, "It's just as expected."

"What's wrong?" Seeing her like this, Yu Shiqi felt a little uneasy.

"It's nothing. I was born in Chuchun and am older than you. How about being your sister?" Bai Lixuan raised her hand to cover her mouth and giggled.

Yu Shiqi didn't expect that she would say such a thing suddenly. He was caught off guard and lost his mind, so he asked blankly: "Sister?"

"Hey, what else? Even if you want to get married, you can't do it." Bai Lixuan sighed, stretched out her hand and patted his head: "Sworn brother."

"No, no... no, I didn't promise you!" Yu Shiqi took a step back in shock and looked at her in fear.

"What are you doing!" Bai Lixuan shouted with a sullen face and glared at him: "Am I that scary?"

Now there is... Yu Shiqi thought silently in his heart.

Baili Xuan stared at him for a few breaths, then suddenly she collapsed as if she was deflated. She put her elbows on the railing to support her face, and said sadly: "I really want to be with my past and Baili."

The Hou Mansion has cut off contact..."

After Yu Shiqi heard this, his heart moved slightly and he began to sympathize with her again.

He understood that Baili Xuan actually understood the truth and justice, otherwise she would not have taken the risk to come to the cell to save herself, nor would she have scolded Xie Liangzhe for being ungrateful and seeking revenge when Xie Liangzhe plotted against him. But she seemed accustomed to using those seemingly willful means.

He laughs and curses to hide the nature of his pain.

Such people are very pitiful...he thought, but how can he help?

"I want to give up this name." Bai Lixuan said suddenly, her tone full of determination.

"Give up?" Yu Shiqi looked at her in surprise.

"You are not allowed to call me Miss Baili from now on." She pointed her hand at Yu Shiqi domineeringly and warned, "I will be called Hu Yan from now on, and I don't even want the surname Baili."

"Hu Yan...isn't it your nickname?" Yu Shiqi recalled the conversation they had when they first met in the bathhouse.

"Yes, but it was given to me by my mother. No one has called me by this name since she died." She held her head up stubbornly, "Although I haven't figured out how to live my life in the future.

I'm not ready to face a new life, but I'm not the kind of person who starts when everything is ready. So, let's start with a new name."

After Yu Shiqi heard this, he felt happy for her in his heart. The fact that Bai Lixuan could say this meant that she had the courage to cheer up again, and he probably no longer had to worry about her.

"Fox Yan..." He muttered, seeming to taste the name.

"Um?"
Chapter completed!