1novels Chapter 23
Chapter 23
The bright moon hangs high, and the dark night is starless.The summer night is sultry, and the long cicadas sing one after another.
It was the first time in the past few years that Lin Zhen was so angry. He strode out of the courtyard, and when he reached the door, he was spotted by the guarding ladies and eunuchs. I, I am not your master, Master Hou is in the room, you should stay here and guard him well!"
Seeing that Lin Zhen was furious and his tone was not kind, those people didn't follow him for a while, and they didn't follow him at all. In the end, they had to ask a little eunuch to follow Lin Zhen from a distance, lest he get lost.
The little eunuch's name is Babao. Although he is young, he has been in the palace for two years and knows everything in the palace. It is a piece of cake for him to follow Lin Zhen and promise not to lose it.Anyway, it's boring to stay in Yuanyun Zhai, so it's okay to follow Mr. Lin in front of you.
Lin Zhen had long legs and big strides, and Babao followed from a distance, trotting from time to time for fear of being discovered by him.
The location of Yuanyun Zhai is relatively remote, and there are few people and quiet, so I didn't meet many people along the way.Babao watched Lin Zhen go straight, turn right when he encountered a bend, without thinking, as if he was just out of breath, so he came out to relax.Following along, he also felt a little boring, so he became negligent, and the distance from Lin Zhen grew wider and wider.
By the time he noticed something was wrong with Lin Zhen, it was already half an hour later.
Lin Zhen was walking in the palace, recalling Xiao Ling's indifferent appearance, he was angry, but even more angry at his inexplicable upset, Xiao Ling was his junior, how could he have anything wrong with his brother who was his own brother? How much do you want?This is a matter of human relations and nature, but it must not be messed up.
"Why can't it be messed up?" Such a voice suddenly sounded from the bottom of my heart.
Lin Zhen was stunned for a moment, only to realize that the scene around her was different from before. It used to be a tree-lined path, but now she was in the middle of a sea of flowers, and the surroundings had opened up. There were no trees, no palaces, and the only thing that remained unchanged was the bright moon , hanging alone in the dark night.
Instead of peonies and chrysanthemums, there are large poppy poppies planted in the flower beds, in red, white and blue colors, which match each other, swaying into poses, and are especially enchanting under the moonlight.Lin Zhen stared at the flowers, thought in a trance that the flowers had come to life, and let out a lingering laugh. After he was surprised, he held his breath and heard nothing.
Even the lingering cicadas in summer did not make a sound.
Lin Zhen looked around and found that the way he came from had disappeared, and even the little eunuch who was secretly following behind him was gone.This flower bed occupies a large area, more like a wide altar.He looked back, only to see poppies all over his eyes, red and demon blue, flashing between nirvana and white like groups of red fire and will-o'-the-wisps.
Is it a dream, a hallucination, or his hallucination?
Lin Zhen walked along the stone road among the flowers. After walking for a while, he saw a white pavilion in front of him. He said it was a pavilion, but it didn't look like a pavilion, because there were empty pillars and no eaves. Table and two stone benches.Under the moonlight, two figures stood under the steps, looking at their figures, they looked like a man and a woman.
Lin Zhen took a closer look, only to realize that the man was not the man in black robe that appeared in his dream before the quarrel with Xiao Ling?And the woman in his arms also seems to have known him before, and he should have dreamed about it.The moonlight outlines the woman's grace and grace, and her white dress is in sharp contrast to the man's black dress.
The woman turned her face sideways, nestled in the man's arms, she was clearly facing Lin Zhen, but as if she didn't see him, she sighed to herself, "Ye Yu, the laws of nature cannot be messed up."
The man snorted coldly, with a frivolous tone: "Why can't we mess up? Why did the so-called thing in the heavens force it on me, Ye Yu?"
The woman said: "Humans and ghosts have different paths, let alone gods and demons?"
The man smiled and said: "You said that humans and ghosts have different paths, but it is not uncommon for humans and ghosts to fall in love. I, Ye Yu, can be regarded as the king of demons. Although I am not kind and benevolent, I am not evil. To you, the daughter of the Heavenly Emperor?"
"You know I don't mean it!" The woman explained anxiously.
Lin Zhen heard their conversation clearly, and couldn't help but be surprised. The man in black robe turned out to be the demon king Ye Yu who was burned in the fire from the sky more than 70 years ago?Back then when the Demon King was burned and Shouyang was burned, there are several versions of the reasons circulating in the world. One of them is that Ye Yu seduces the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, Zi You, who offends the wrath of the sky and causes trouble to her upper body.This version loves to be adopted by storytellers because it has the romantic and tragic qualities of a hero and a beauty, and he has never believed that a generation of demon kings would ruin their own names for the sake of their children, and almost endanger the entire demon world.
But judging from the conversation, the woman should be Zi You.
Wait...why would he see someone who no longer exists?Why did these appear as his hallucinations or dreams?
Lin Zhen approached step by step, but the pair of bi figures in front of them seemed not aware of him, whispering intimately.Looking at Ye Yu, Lin Zhen felt as if she saw herself in the mirror.Ye Yu is an extremely mature man, and with a few words, he made Zi You laugh. Zi You's laughter was as soft as a feather, and Ye Yu's smile was as deep as the night. Lin Zhen looked at their smiles, listened to their laughter, and his heart flowed. Yes, it turned out to be unstoppable sadness.
However, Ye Yu suddenly turned into a mass of pitch-black crow feathers and flew away, leaving Ziyou alone, standing alone under the moon, in front of Lin Zhen.
Lin Zhen didn't understand what happened, but Zi You walked up the steps step by step with a calm demeanor, sat down facing Lin Zhen, stared blankly at the bright moon, two lines of tears flowed silently on her cheeks.
A gust of night wind blows, and all the poppies in the garden wither.Ziyou's eyes slowly moved to Lin Zhen, and said slowly: "You are back, Duli."
Lin Zhen was surprised, Ziyou couldn't see herself at all before, but now she seemed to be able to see her again, and locked her eyes on herself.He hesitated, and finally said: "Are you Ziyou?"
Ziyou was disappointed, and said tiredly: "Looking at you, I thought it was Ye Yu who came back. You have grown up, come on, come closer, let me take a good look at you."
Seeing that Ziyou's answer was irrelevant, Lin Zhen couldn't help hesitating and looked at the woman in white vigilantly, just like in the dream about Ye Yu.
The sadness on Ziyou's face gradually spread to despair, she stood up, swept the glass of wine on the table to the ground with her white sleeves, and said sadly: "Forget it, you'd better run away! If people from Beidou know You are still alive, you will not let it go!"
After finishing speaking, she turned around suddenly, her thin back was as fragile as a paper kite.With her back to Lin Zhen, she walked down the steps and left without hesitation.
Lin Zhen was full of doubts and wanted to catch up, but as soon as he stepped on the steps, a burst of coldness spread from his feet to his head. At this moment, he felt as if he was drowning, unable to breathe.
From Babao's point of view, Lin Zhen was very strange. He seemed to see something while walking on the road. Trying to trot to keep up, Lin Zhen stopped again, looking forward as if lost in thought, with a dazed expression, Ba Bao murmured in his heart at first, but then he became a little scared, thinking that Lin Zhen was bewitched.
At this time, he followed Lin Zhen to a small lake in the palace, and he heard Lin Zhen talking to himself: "Are you Ziyou?"
Babao looked in the direction Lin Zhen was looking at, facing the small lake, where is there anyone?
Babao felt a little terrified, his legs trembled, and he turned around and wanted to escape, but at this moment, he saw Lin Zhen running towards the small lake, and his body went through the white jade railing and fell straight into the lake middle!
hell!Really hell!
Babao was so frightened that he ran to Yuanyunzhai, and wanted to shout for help, but found that he was so scared that he couldn't even make a sound, he could only let out a low scream.
In a panic, he didn't see the road ahead and bumped into a person.
The lights in Yuanyun Zhai were still on. Xiao Ling sat under the lamp and read a book, but he was so upset that he couldn't read a word. He looked at the sky outside, regretting the quarrel with Lin Zhen in his heart, and didn't know that his senior brother had been separated for so long. Heart, will you still get angry when you come back?
It's been almost an hour, why hasn't senior brother come back yet?
Xiao Ling became worried, got up and went out to look for Lin Zhen, just now he shouldn't, Lin Zhen told him to go, he should go, instead of letting Lin Zhen, who is unfamiliar with the place, walk out of the room, although there will be servants following , but he was still worried.
Just as they were walking to the atrium, they saw Rong Ming walking in with Lin Zhen on his back. Both of them were soaked through, dripping water all the way, followed by Babao who was trembling.
Xiao Ling was startled, and hurried over to pick Lin Zhen up, only to find that Lin Zhen was unconscious, his face was pale, and his whole body was icy cold.
He didn't bother to ask Rong Ming what had happened, so he quickly hugged Lin Zhen horizontally, carried him into the room, and changed Lin Zhen into dry clothes. After peeling off his inner clothes, he found that there were some stripes on Lin Zhen's body, like Like a loop, it glows and disappears from time to time.
After being taken aback, Xiao Ling hurriedly continued to change Lin Zhen's clothes, then covered Lin Zhen with a thick quilt, sat on the head of the bed, held Lin Zhen's hand, and for the first time such a flustered look appeared in his eyes.
During this busy period, the maids also took Rong Ming to change into clean clothes.With wet hair hanging loose, Rong Ming walked in with Babao who was much calmer.
Rong Ming practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he walked silently, but Babao was different, his footsteps were flustered, Xiao Ling knew someone was coming as soon as he heard it, and said coldly: "What's going on?"
Babao knelt down on the ground with a "plop", kowtowed and said, "Damn the slave, damn the slave!"
When Xiao Ling heard this, he wasn't very upset, he stood up and kicked Babao fiercely, and said calmly, "You are following senior brother?"
Babao was kicked so hard that he felt blood rushing from his throat, curled up on the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.
Xiao Ling looked at Rong Ming, tried his best to control his uncontrollable anger, and said, "What's going on?"
Rong Ming's face was expressionless, as if nothing in the world would move him, his unique amber eyes were calm, and he said calmly: "When this slave hit me, he was so frightened that he was scared out of his wits. After shivering for a long time, he said that Lin Zhen was bewitched and jumped into the lake. There is only one lake nearby, so I jumped into the water and rescued him, but luckily he didn’t drown.”
After a few words, Xiao Ling was startled. When he looked at Rong Ming again, his eyes softened a lot, and he said, "Thank you."
Rong Ming said: "I'm going back, the emperor's side, I can't hide it for you."
Xiao Ling has long been used to Rong Ming's straightforward speech, nodded and said: "Thank you, I will definitely remember this kindness in my heart, and if you need my help in the future, just tell me."
Xiao Ling has never been a talkative person, it is rare to thank someone, and it is even rarer to repay someone.
But Rong Ming shook his head and said, "You can't help me." After speaking, he turned around and left without saluting.
Xiao Ling didn't care either, he looked at Babao who was still lying on the ground, and snorted coldly: "Why don't you explain the matter quickly?"
Hearing what Xiao Ling said, Ba Bao endured the pain, knelt up again, and told the story of Lin Zhen's bewitching and bewitching intermittently, and glanced at Xiao Ling's face, unable to understand.
After a while, I heard Xiao Ling say: "Get out."
Babao seemed relieved, but he still couldn't help asking: "Master Hou, do you need a servant to invite the imperial physician?"
"roll!"
Babao hurriedly backed out in a scrambling manner.
As soon as Babao left, the calmness on Xiao Ling's face seemed to be peeled off, he held Lin Zhen's hand and brought it to his mouth to breathe, not to mention how regretful he was.
He murmured: "Brother, I was wrong, I shouldn't be angry with you. If I knew it, I would have followed you out..."
What is the use of an imperial physician?The doctor was treating common typhoid fever, but Xiao Ling knew that Lin Zhen's disease could not be cured by any herbal medicine.
The blood in Lin Zhen's body is slowly waking up.