Chapter 1: Weapons on Panlong Mountain

The cold winter, narrow alleys, and low eaves accumulated a thick layer of snow.
Even though Hua Qingxue was sitting by the fire, she still felt very cold. She lowered her head and sighed in her hand, continuing to wash the clothes in the tub.
Bang, Bang, Bang!
A rapid knock on the door came from outside the courtyard.
Hua Qingxue's face suddenly turned white!
She stopped and turned to look at the broken wooden door outside the yard. For a moment, she even held her breath.
...Bang, bang, bang!
The knock on the door came again, and this time, there was a tender voice in between-
"...Open the door! It's me!"
This sound didn't seem to disturb the others, the volume was extremely low, so Rao was also clearly heard by Hua Qingxue.
Hua Qingxue felt that the heart she mentioned slowly fell. She threw away the wet clothes in her hands, stood up a few steps, walked over the threshold, and came to the courtyard door.
Crunch—
Hua Qingxue opened a narrow slit in the courtyard door.
A little boy of seven or eight years old stood outside the door. He seemed to be frozen very lightly. At the moment, his neck was shrunk and his hands were hugging his chest. A small face was frozen to white and white, but his nose was red.
Hua Qingxue immediately reached out and dragged him in.
Slam! The courtyard door was closed again.
As soon as the little boy entered the yard, he flew towards the house, and he ran to the edge of the stove, wishing his whole body was attached.
Hua Qingxue, who entered the room behind, picked up the little boy's collar without saying a word, and dragged him to the edge of the kang. "Be careful that the stove roasts the snow on your clothes. Take off your clothes and go to the kang. "
The little boy turned his head and looked, and the snow on his shoulders and sleeves turned into water, and his clothes became wet.
He deflated his mouth and took off his outer clothes while complaining: "This thick fabric is really nothing. I have a pure white fox fur, worth a lot of gold! Rain and snow fell on it, just gently Blow it and it will fall off! How can the clothes get wet like this..."
Hua Qingxue ignored him, turned and sat back to the stove, and continued washing.
After the little boy took off his outer clothes, there was only one coat inside. He climbed on the kang, wrapped himself in a quilt, and exhaled comfortably.
"It's so warm... where did your money burn Kang?"
Hua Qingxue shook his head. "If you have the kang money, you might as well buy a few pounds of meat. I just wrapped the burnt char in a rag and stuffed it into the quilt."
The little boy heard the words and stretched out his hand to touch the quilt. Sure enough, he touched a few soft packages across the sheet.
"There is still residual heat now, and we will change to new charcoal as soon as it cools down." Hua Qingxue said, looking at the small stove next to Kang.
The carbon they can buy now is limited, and it is only enough to burn this small stove. If it is burning kang, it is far from enough.
The little boy stared blankly at the stove, looking a little confused with the warm yellow spark.
Hua Qingxue looked at it, and she couldn't bear it. It was just a child. Where did he suffer such a crime?
Hua Qingxue called him: "Li Jingnan? ... Hey! Li Jingnan!"
Li Jingnan recovered and found Hua Qingxue shouting his name. He immediately put on a fierce look and shouted: "Bold! You foolish woman! How dare you call the name of your highness!"
Hua Qingxue saw that he had regained some energy, and she felt relieved. She just rolled her eyes at Li Jingnan's scolding and went on to wash her clothes.
Yes, at this moment, the little boy curled up on the kang head and wrapped in the quilt is His Royal Highness Prince, who is extremely distinguished.
As for how Hua Qingxue was mixed with His Royal Highness, he had to talk about it a month ago.
One month ago, His Royal Highness sneaked out of the palace and took a group of secret guards to Panlong Mountain on the border between Daqi and Daliao. He sent people to search for treasure in the mountain, but did not find any treasure, but found a coma in the mountain. Light snow.
However, the movement of His Royal Highness Prince Qi in Panlong Mountain was too great. In the end, the news leaked and attracted the soldiers of Daliao... The next development can be described as a nine-death life. Li Jingnan was secretly out of the palace and brought the manpower Originally, there were not many. Liao Bing chased all the way, and the Dark Guard suffered heavy casualties. Finally, Hua Qingxue took the prince to disguise as a younger sister and entered Renqiu City.
Renqiucheng belongs to Mozhou, and was ceded to Liao Kingdom a year ago. Liao Bing never thought that the prince of Daqi would not escape to Daqi's territory, but fled to their territory.
However, it is precisely because the Liao people are in charge here that it is easy to get out of the city. Now, Li Jingnan only hopes that the dark guards who escaped from death will send his news to General Fu who is stationed at the border...
If his news didn't get through... would he be a prince all over the country, would he always be trapped here? How long will it be sleepy? Two months? Three months? ...Or a year? ...
Li Jingnan couldn't help shivering.
"Don't think about it, the more you are afraid of what comes," Hua Qingxue said quietly on the side.
Li Jingnan stared at Hua Qingxue vigorously, "You're a woman! Even if the accent is strange, let's talk a little bit about the whole day!"
As Hua Qingxue rubbed his clothes, he replied: "It's not a skew theory, it's Murphy's law, Edward Murphy's famous statement."
"What does that mean?" Although Hua Qingxue always had some nonsense in his mouth, the child's mentality made Li Jingnan very curious about these.
Hua Qingxue smiled casually, "In fact, it doesn't mean anything. This sentence is just to explain a life phenomenon. For example, some things are always not useful, but once you throw it away, you often have to use it. It. Another example, the more you are afraid of what happens, the more it will happen in your life..."
Li Jingnanwo didn't make a sound on the Kang. He thought for a while before saying: "When I want to use something, there will be a maiden and a bodyguard to find me... But once the father emperor tested me to endorse me, I only have that paragraph The article didn't recite, but the father emperor just took that paragraph to make me recite... This is somewhat the same as what you said."
After Li Jingnan finished speaking, he seemed to think of something interesting again, with a sweet smile only on his face. "One more time, my sister and I sneaked out of the palace to play on the street, always worrying about being recognized, but I thought it was impossible in my heart. After all, Shengjing City was so big, why did it happen so much?...As a result, I finally met the Three Uncles in a shop... At that time, the eyes of the three Uncles were all startled. Alright...haha..."
With a smile, Li Jingnan's expression slowly cooled down. He stared at Hua Qingxue's hands for a while, and suddenly said, "Don't wash it, your hands will be rotten, so ugly."
Hua Qingxue was stunned. She looked at her hands. Although there was a stove roasting, she washed several pots of clothes every day, and her hands were already frozen and swollen.
However, it's just red and swollen, let's not say it is ugly...
Hua Qingxue looked at Li Jingnan and thought, he was really afraid of what came... It seems that he heard bad news outside today.
"Did you go out today, what happened?" Hua Qingxue asked him.
Li Jingnan's small face stretched tightly, and he said after a while: "...The bodies of the seventh and thirteenth were hung on the city gate."
Hua Qingxue gasped.
"Sooner or later they will find me...I will die...They will also hang me up like me..." The eight-year-old child's face was only desperate.
Hua Qingxue looked at Li Jingnan's almost numb face, only to feel that he had to pull it all in one heart.
She walked over and took Li Jingnan into her arms, patting his back gently, "There are sixteen, don't you often show me with me? You said that sixteen is the smartest although he is the youngest One... as long as the sixteen sends out the news of your presence in Renqiu City, someone will surely come to our rescue."
Li Jingnan did not refuse Hua Qingxue, he buried his entire head in Hua Qingxue's arms, his voice choked: "I killed them... I was too naive, Panlong Mountain is so big, just a dozen of them Personally, it’s not easy to find a weapon all over the mountains...I killed them..."
Hua Qingxue knew that Li Jingnan was crying. She only did nothing, and continued to pat his back gently.
This prince’s self-identity has been compelled to calm down for a long time. In fact, he was already panicked and afraid... This is nothing wrong. After all, he is just a child, but he is such a precious identity, even one. The teardrop did not dare to fall, and now finally let out the emotion, Hua Qingxue let go of it instead.
Hua Qingxue did not want him to continue thinking about the dead dark guards, so he led him to think elsewhere, and asked, "What kind of weapon is it? Are you sure you are on Panlong Mountain?"
Li Jingnan shook his head in Hua Qingxue's arms, his voice was muffled, "I don't know very well, this is... it was divination before the emperor's illness, he said that there was a weapon hidden in Panlong Mountain, which was extremely powerful, It can be used as a weapon of the country. He also said that this weapon must not fall into the hands of the Liao people, and asked me to find it."
Hua Qingxue was dumb, she never thought that the little prince fell into this field, just for a divination? A prophecy?
But she thought about it, although the divination was unreliable, she saved her life by mistake. Speaking of it, she really had to thank the emperor of Qi State. Otherwise, now she is only afraid of death Are you on the mountain...
Li Jingnan suddenly raised his head, his black eyes stared straight at Hua Qingxue, and there were still half-dry tears on his face. "You must think I am ridiculous now, don't you?"
Hua Qingxue quickly shook his head.
Li Jingnan snorted coldly, apparently not believing, "You don’t believe it is normal. The Manchu Minister of Civil Affairs and Military Affairs didn’t believe my father emperor. Even the mother said that the father emperor’s head was full of divination. I heard the ministers say that if it were not for the father emperor to indulge in these sidelines, Xi, He and Mo Sanzhou would not be ceded to Daliao."
When Li Jingnan talked about it, his face was full of grief, "But, that's my father emperor, everyone in the world can not believe him, but I can't believe him! My father emperor said that Panlong Mountain has weapons, there must be some. Panlong Mountain, the weapon of the country...I must find it!"