twin moon

Chapter 15 Act Two

The Leiyin Mountains shrouded in the night seem to be an ancient monster lying on the horizon.The towering main peak is its shoulder blade, the steep north slope is its skull, and the gentle south slope is the giant beast's curled torso and long tail.

It has been three days since I entered the mountain.But two hours ago, Ning Yue and General Yan finally got rid of the encirclement of the pursuers.At this moment, they still didn't dare to relax for a moment, and continued to trek hard on the rugged mountain road with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

When I was at home, the red-haired girl always liked to draw in her mind the magnificent scenery on land that she had only seen in books.She loves to fantasize about rain, snow, wind, frost and the changing seasons, and also loves to fantasize about measuring the earth with her feet and watching the sunrise and sunset.However, at this time, she was completely unable to appreciate the rivers and mountains around her, and she just instinctively lifted one foot and then the other under the drive of inertia.

"We have to go faster. There are more and more rain clouds in the sky, and a lot of water droplets condense on the stones. I'm afraid it will rain heavily. Just now I saw that there seems to be a cave in the high place. I can go there to take shelter first. Dodge."

The boy's voice came from the front, and it wasn't very clear, but it still brought Ning Yue, who was already a little numb, to her senses.Soon, a dark hole appeared in front of the two of them. Although the hole was not big, there were no traces of ferocious beasts in it, so it should be considered safe.The little white fox who had been sleeping in the girl's arms also jumped down, stretched out his paws and stretched comfortably.

Ning Yue breathed a sigh of relief.But when she turned her head to look at her companion beside her, she saw him curled up into a ball, leaning against the entrance of the cave and refusing to go in, looking very painful.

"What's wrong with you, little stammer? Is the wound on your back starting to bleed again?"

The girl panicked suddenly, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask with concern.She understood that if the bleeding could not be stopped in such a wilderness, nine times out of ten it would be fatal.Fortunately, the three-inch knife wound on Jiangyan's back was fine at this time, but the blood scabs that had solidified around him were melted away by sweat, and there was a deep red on the bandage cloth.

"Little stammer, take off your clothes, and I'll change the herbs for you."

As Ning Yue said that, she wanted to tear off the corner of her miraculous skirt that could help stop the bleeding.But the young man in front of him didn't agree, he just shook his head with his back to her, with a cold look of not wanting to talk to her:

"Don't worry about my injury..."

"What's wrong with you little stammer—we are friends, shouldn't we help each other?!"

"But what if I'm not a good person? Maybe Brother Cui is right, I was originally a pirate..." Jiang Yan suddenly clenched his fists tightly, his nails deeply embedded in the flesh of his palm, as if he had won it He muttered to himself in a frenzy, "No one can escape the past, no one! The mistakes I made will one day come to my door like a nightmare..."

"Little stammer, what do you remember about the past? Maybe I can help you?"

"What do you think you can help? Ever since I went up the mountain, I have been repeating a scene in my mind. It was on a boat full of corpses and blood, a girl your age was stripped naked, All kinds of humiliation. And I myself was one of the beasts who attacked the boat to kill! What, do you still want to help me now? You are not afraid that I, a murderer with human blood on my hands, will suddenly die in this cave. Does it hurt you to reveal your true colors?"

An inexplicable anger in the black-eyed boy's heart suddenly exploded in front of Ning Yue, causing the girl's smile to froze on her face, and then a burst of anger surged out from the bottom of her heart. She stepped forward and stepped in front of the boy, raising her hand Come and pat him on the cheek:

"Idiot, what are you talking about!"

This palm came fast and hard, Jiang Yan couldn't dodge it, or maybe he didn't want to dodge at all from the beginning.However, to his surprise, the girl in front of her, who seemed to be completely irritated and her blue eyes widened, suddenly withdrew her hand the moment her five fingers were about to touch his cheek.The slender little hand only lightly brushed across the boy's cheek, without even making a sound:

"Little stammer is a good person, I know it, and I can't be wrong!"

The boy was startled suddenly as if he had woken up from a nightmare, and opened his mouth slightly to apologize to the other party, but he couldn't say a word.The girl couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, she pouted and walked back into the cave, refusing to talk to him again.After a long time, she was the first to break the air of silence between the two:

"I lost my memory, you must be very sad..."

Jiang Yan quietly turned his head away, seeing that the anger in the other party's eyes had dissipated, replaced by a trace of imperceptible concern, he turned his head back more and more guiltily:

"Yue'er, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said those words just now..."

"I know you didn't do it on purpose. You were merciful to Brother Cui when you were so angry that day, so I already knew that little stutterer is definitely not a bad thing that hurts people at will." Ning Yue said, and walked back to the entrance of the cave , sat down beside Jiangyan, "Besides, didn't you promise to accompany me to Yujing? You must count your words, otherwise you will grow a tail and become a puppy!"

"But what if you misread me?"

"Then I have no choice but to make the mistake. Trust—what a rare thing in this world. I don't want to lose you as a friend. After all, I am on this land, and you are just a peer who can talk. "

Ning Yue pursed her lips half-jokingly, and her tone of voice returned to the previous cheerfulness.While speaking, she gently lifted the clothes on the young man's back, and gently replaced him with some herbs collected on the road not long ago, "I have been praying along the way, if Xiaojieba can think of something Alright. You used to protect me desperately before, and now, I want to do something for you as a reward..."

Although the girl said it lightly, Jiang Yan suddenly felt his heart beating fiercely in his chest.He looked at the blue pupils of the other party, and it seemed that the fragments of those memories that had disturbed his mind before were all smoothed away by the tenderness in them.

For the boy, this feeling was so familiar, as if he was struggling to find that lost precious memory.It was not until many years later that he finally realized that the simple warmth back then was what he had hoped to pursue all his life.

Ning Yue suddenly discovered that the sharpness and violence in the other party's black pupils before were gradually being replaced by something indescribable.He looked at himself, like a rootless wandering soul, suddenly found a destination, his face suddenly became hot, and he lowered his head in embarrassment.

"Hey, why are you staring at the girl's house like this...?"

"Because—because Yue'er, you—are beautiful—"

Jiang Yan didn't know why he would say such nasty words, but he just faintly felt that the girl in front of him was unknowingly occupying a large and indelible space in his extremely limited memory.

One of them was blushing and lowered his head, while the other was fascinated by it, and sat side by side at the entrance of the cave like this, as if they had forgotten the time.

After a long time, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in the sky, illuminating the backs of the two children.Immediately there was an explosion of thunder, which awakened General Yan, who was in awe, and Ning Yue's face turned pale with fright, and she yelled "Yeah".

"Don't be afraid, it's just the spring thunder in Wanzhou. Lei Yinshan is also famous for such thunder." Jiang Yan hurriedly comforted the other party, "I almost forgot, I have to find some firewood nearby as soon as possible. Tonight We may have to spend the night in this cave tonight."

Ning Yue shook her head, and pressed him who was about to get up: "You are injured, so don't go."

"If you don't build a fire quickly, if you encounter wild beasts in the mountains and come to this cave to shelter from the rain, you will be in big trouble. You and Xue Ling will wait for me here obediently, and don't run around and get lost. Don't worry. Well, I'll be back soon."

After leaving a few words, the young man turned around and ran towards the night-shrouded forest outside the cave.Ning Yue still wanted to open her mouth to persuade him to come back, but in an instant she couldn't even see the figure of the other party, leaving herself sitting alone in the cave.

Yet something worrying happened.Not long after Jiang Yan left, the torrential rain poured down from the sky.The fine raindrops quickly formed a water curtain at the entrance of the cave, and the splashing water also wet Ning Yue's shoes and socks.

The little white fox in the girl's arms poked its head out, looking at the rain that was pouring down like a torrent in front of it with some panic, its nose twitched, and its two big pointed and wide ears were shrunk behind its neck because of fear.

"Xue Ling, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Brother Jiangyan will be back soon."

Ning Yue kneaded the soft fur on the back of the cub's neck, and she seemed to be speaking to it, but she was actually comforting herself.

After about a stick of incense, she finally got a little impatient and stood up at the entrance of the cave to look around—the torrential rain was so violent that as far as she could see, she could only see a piece of darkness that she couldn't see with her hands , I can't see the road at all, let alone the shadow of the young man.

The girl whose shoes and socks were completely soaked waited more and more anxious, and tears welled up in her eyes.Standing at the entrance of the cave, she helplessly called out the names of her companions against the darkness.However, the sound of the rain completely covered that thin cry, even if Jiang Yan was so close at this moment, he might not be able to hear it.

The girl bit her lower lip hard, and suddenly picked up the little white fox and prepared to rush into the rain outside the cave.Unexpectedly, the little white fox suddenly struggled in her arms, and yelled "Jiu Jiu" with its ears closed.

"Xue Ling, what did you hear?"

Ning Yue raised her head suddenly, and finally saw a group of flickering flames faintly appearing in the rain curtain ahead, illuminating the raindrops in the dark night like golden threads.The fire is getting closer and closer, who is it not Jiang Yan who went out to collect firewood?

What the boy is holding in his hand right now is a torch wrapped in random strips of cloth torn from his sleeve, and a thick layer of extremely flammable turpentine is coated on it.It was also because of this that the flame was not completely extinguished by the heavy rain, but it still became darker and darker irresistibly.

"Little stammer, where did you go? Do you know that people are almost worried to death!"

"You can't stay in this cave anymore, come with me quickly!"

The first thing Jiang Yan heard when he drilled into the hole was his companion's reprimand.He didn't explain much about it, instead he kept urging him.

Ning Yue immediately heard something wrong with the other party's tone:

"What happened on the mountain? Didn't you say you were going to spend the night in the cave? It's still raining outside!"

"It's not just the two of us who are trapped on the mountain by this rain, there are also a few galloping wolves who have nowhere to hide! If we don't run away, we will be blocked in this cave and become their food and belly." Meat!"

As soon as Jiang Yan finished speaking, there were several mournful howls of wolves in the woods outside the cave, which made people's hairs stand on end.The two children looked at each other in horror, and immediately rushed out of the hole, plunged into the boundless night rain outside.

(End of this chapter)