Chapter 1.1 - There Are Weapons in Panlong Mountain (1/2)

In the cold winter, there was a thick layer of snow on the low eaves of the narrow alleys.

Even though Hua Qingxue sat by the stove, she still felt cold. She lowered her head, and she breathed in her hands and continued to wash her clothes in the tub.

Bang, bang, bang!

Suddenly, hurried knocks 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 held her breath.

… Bang, bang, bang!

The banging came once again, this time, there was a young voice in the middle——

“… Quickly open the door! It’s me! “

It seems like the voice didn’t want to alarm others. Despite being suppressed, Hua Qingxue could hear the voice.

Hua Qingxue felt her heart drop due to fear and slowly settled down. She tossed away the dripping wet clothes, stood up, and stepped out of the doorstep, arriving at the front steps of the courtyard.

Creak–

Hua Qingxue opened the gate of the courtyard through a narrow slit.

Standing outside the door was a seven- or eight-year-old boy, who looked severely frozen. At the moment, he was shrinking his neck, his arms wrapped around his chest, and his small face frozen to a whitish blue, only his nose was very red.

Hua Qingxue immediately reached out and dragged him in.

Bang! The gate was closed again.

As soon as the little boy entered the yard, he ran towards the house. He rushed to the fire and wished his whole body was attached to it.

Hua Qingxue, who followed him into the house, silently picked up the little boy’s collar and dragged him to the bed-stove. “Be careful; the stove has melted the snow on your clothes. Take off your clothes and go to the bed-stove first.”

The little boy turned his head and glanced at his shoulder. Sure enough, the snow on his shoulders and sleeves turned into water, and his clothes were wet.

He pouted, he took off his outer clothes and complained: “This coarse cloth is useless. I have a pure white fox fur robe, which is worth a thousand gold! Any snow or rain that falls on it will disappear with just one gentle blow, how can I get wet like this… “

Hua Qingxue ignored him, turned around and sat back beside the stove, and continued washing her clothes.

After the little boy took off his outer clothes, there was only one layer of single garments inside. He climbed on the bed-stove and wrapped himself in the quilt. He felt comfortable and breathed softly.

“So warm… Where did you get the money to burn the bed-stove?

Hua Qingxue shook her head. “If you have money to burn the bed-stove, you might as well buy a few pounds of meat. I just wrapped the remaining charcoal ashes with rags and stuffed them into the quilt.”

Hearing this, the little boy stretched out his hand and felt around the quilt. As expected, he detected several soft parcels across the quilt.

“Now, there is still heat left. We will change the charcoal when it cools down.” Hua Qingxue said, glancing at the small stove beside the bed.

The charcoal they can buy now was limited, and it was only enough to burn this small stove. If they burned the bed-stove, it wouldn’t be enough.

The little boy stared blankly at the stove. He was a bit confused by the warm yellow spark.

Hua Qingxue looked at him, and she couldn’t bear it. He was just a child. How could such a small thing make him look like he had suffered an offense?

Hua Qingxue called him: “Li Jingnan?… Hey! Li Jingnan! “

Li Jingnan returned to his senses and found Hua Qingxue shouting his name. He immediately put on a fierce look and shouted: “Bold! You naughty woman! How dare you call me by your Highness’s name! ”

Hua Qingxue saw that he had recovered a little spirit, so she felt relieved. She just rolled her eyes at Li Jingnan’s scolding, and then continued to wash clothes.

——Yes, at this moment, the little boy curled up on the bed-stove and wrapped in a quilt was His Royal Highness, the prince with great dignity.

As for how Hua Qingxue and His Royal Highness got together, it started a month ago.

A month ago, His Royal Highness the Prince secretly slipped out of the palace and took a group of secret guards to Panlong Mountain, where the Daqi and the Daliao border exists. He sent people to search for treasures in the mountain. He didn’t find any treasures, but he found Hua Qingxue in a coma in the mountain.

However, His Royal Highness of Qi Guo’s made a lot of noise in Panlong Mountain. In the end, the news was leaked and attracted the soldiers of Daliao. The subsequent development can be described as “nine deaths.” Initially, Li Jingnan slipped out of the palace with few people. Thus when the Daliao army pursued and killed all the way, with the secret guards suffering heavy casualties. In the end, Hua Qingxue took the prince to disguise himself as her brother and entered Renqiu City, and escaped from the pursuit of the Daliao army.