twin moon

Time flies, and the stars move.In the blink of an eye, another hundred years have passed in the world.In the vicissitudes of life, even the twelve vassal states on land no longer exist.However, on the east bank of the Chanying Sea, the old capital of Ye Kingdom, called Mulu, still stands at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Yanjiang River, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

On this day, a strange guest suddenly came to the bustling and noisy Zitong Street.The man was wearing a robe that looked quite old, even the style was out of tune with the people around him, and he even covered his head with a large cloak, making it impossible to see his face clearly.Beside him was a beast as tall as half a man.

However, this person is quite familiar with the streets and alleys in Mulu City, and his eyes are shining from the shadows under the cloak. Although there is no hostility in the slightest, it still makes the surrounding crowd feel a strong aura. He kept a distance of Zhang Xu from him with some trepidation, and dared not approach him from afar.

Now, the visitor stopped in front of a shop that was being repaired, looked up at the empty lintel, as if in a trance, and refused to leave for a long time.Suddenly saw an old man walking out from the door, he didn't understand why there were so many people surrounded outside, he was very astonished, but he was grabbed by the guests at the door, and he immediately gave a salute:
"Excuse me, old man, is this place still called Jiayunzhai?"

As soon as he opened his mouth, it was a female voice with a pure Wanzhou accent, as crisp as a silver bell.

"This store—it was called this name once. But that was a long time ago, how did the customers know?"

The old man is the current owner of the store, and he looked at him in surprise.

"I—— am a singer who has traveled all over the world. I was originally from Mulu City. I have been away from my hometown for many years, but now I finally have the opportunity to come back, so I want to visit my old place again."

The girl opposite said, and finally raised her head, but did not take off the cloak covering her head.However, a few strands of fiery red hair still protruded from the side of the forehead and cheeks, shaking slightly.

"That doesn't make sense—when the store was called Jiayunzhai—if you've heard of it, girl, it's too inappropriate for your age—"

The old man couldn't help being surprised, suddenly raised his hand and patted his head, and suddenly realized, "Oh—could you be that strange person that great-grandmother said?"

"Who is your great-grandmother?" The girl suddenly flashed a pair of blue eyes, and there was a trace of doubt in her eyes.

The old man on the opposite side laughed, bowed his hands and said:
"My surname is Leng, and my single name is Ye. My great-grandmother is called Leng Jiayun."

"You are the great-grandson of Sister Jia? Then she—"

Before the words were finished, the other party already knew what Ning Yue wanted to ask:
"During her lifetime, her great-grandmother spent her entire life in Zheliuxuan and lived for more than a hundred years."

"But as far as I know, she was never married—"

"Oh, my grandmother adopted my father, Leng Baili, in her old age, and later I was born. Girl, did you call her Sister Jia just now? It must be true, you are the moon that my grandmother asked me to wait here girl!"

Before the woman could ask any more questions, the old man turned around and opened the door, asking her to come in and talk again.

Ning Yue nodded, and followed the other party into Jiayun Zhai again.However, the appearance of the store was quite different from what I had imagined.

The old man took out a mahogany box from the back room.The outside of the box was carefully wrapped with several layers of silk and satin. After opening it, one saw a letter that had turned yellow and became brittle.

"My grandmother asked me to hand this letter to the girl myself."

After receiving the letter from the old man, the red-haired girl became more suspicious.I saw a skylark with wings soaring to the sky painted on the dark red sealing wax at the mouth of the envelope.But she didn't open the letter, but squeezed it tightly with her hands, as if seeing her old friend again:

"You can read the letter later. Please tell me first, what kind of story has happened in this land that has been rejuvenated after the flood in these years?"

The man opposite nodded, and told him everything that happened in the past hundred years:
It turns out that after Qi Ziyin went to Yingzhou to return to hermitage, a brand new dynasty was established very quickly.And its first lord was Mo Zeming, who was jointly elected by all the vassal states, and it was well-received by everyone.

Adhering to the teachings of their ancestors, all the rulers of the Mo family have worked hard to think for the people, cut down feudal vassals and established counties, and lightened corvees and paid little taxes.Today, the throne has been passed on to Mo Zeming's great-grandson.And people from all states and countries on this continent, including the prairie people, who used to be hostile to each other, can coexist peacefully and merge together like never before.

"...The letter in the girl's hand was specially written by the grandmother Mo Zeming, and it was stamped with Mo's seal. Holding this letter, there is no pass on this land that the girl cannot pass. There are no palace gates that cannot be entered. If you want to, you can even go to the imperial palace in Yujing City to meet Jinsheng. "

The old man smiled and motioned Ning Yue to open the letter again.However, the red-haired girl shook her head:

"Knowing that the old man is well and the world is peaceful, that's enough for me. Embarrassing things like entering the capital to face the saints are still avoided. But now—where can I read the classics and history books of the past dynasties?"

The other party didn't seem to expect that the woman would not care about the priceless letter left by her grandmother, and it took a while before she realized:
"It existed in the old palace of Ye Kingdom, but now it has been converted into a county government academy. Anyone can come and go freely, consult classics, and there are special instructions to answer questions."

Upon hearing this news, Ning Yue lowered her head and exchanged a glance with the beast sitting cross-legged at her feet.The beast was quite spiritual, and immediately tilted its head and whimpered twice, it was the grown-up white fox Xueling.

"You want to go too, so let's go now."

The girl smiled, and immediately got up to salute, and after thanking the old man, hurried to the direction of the academy.During this trip, she originally planned to visit the old palace of Ye Kingdom, now that she can enter without any effort, it is great news.

Half an hour later, Ning Yue, who was wearing a cloak, was already standing in the Tianyuan Pavilion in the academy dedicated to collecting books.Here, she and Jiang Yan once sneaked in and dragged Qi Ziyin, who was studying with Master Gou, out of the palace to play in the Black Bamboo Hall.Now in front of her, rows of bookshelves made of paulownia wood are neatly stacked, recording various bamboo slips and books from the Dasheng Dynasty to the present.

Right now, what she is holding in her hand is a volume of "Daxin Zhiyi" that has just been copied and still exudes a faint fragrance of ink.In black and white, the scroll clearly recorded the names and surnames of her dear friends from the past.

She gently stroked the pages of the book with her fingertips, allowing the time deep in her memory to resurface before her eyes.And the owners of those names seemed to be standing side by side again.

"Your stories will last forever in the world, and will be remembered and admired by people... It's really great..."

The girl who was muttering to herself suddenly laughed, but big tears rolled down her eyes.In the sunlight pouring in from the window, the teardrops were like clear crystals, glowing with golden light.

The following year, Ning Yue, who had been traveling on land for a whole year, disappeared into the vast crowd again.Since then, no one in the world has ever seen this girl with fiery red hair and watery eyes.It seems that as early as a hundred years ago, she had disappeared under the stars along with those legendary heroes who saved the world.

Right now, it is the season when the autumn wind blows up suddenly and the flying frosts fall. However, Yingzhou on the other side of the Chanying Sea is full of dense clouds and rain, and the lush vegetation is warm and humid.

The figures of Ning Yue and Xue Ling now appeared on this continent full of wild and untamed atmosphere.

Compared with the hustle and bustle of the market that is far away across the ocean, everything here maintains its most primitive appearance.Not even a faintly recognizable path remains in a land where few people come.

However, in the wild grass that is as tall as half a person, there is a hut made of stones.Although it is dilapidated, not a single ivy and weed has climbed outside the house.The red-haired girl walked to the front of the house and stood there for a long time before reaching out and pushing open the creaking wooden door that was just replaced last year.

That Lord Ye who used to be in white clothes, that dear friend whom she could not stop thinking about, who was as innocent as a child, spent the last period of her life in this stone house.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this period of time does not seem to be comfortable and comfortable at all, and it can even be said to be very difficult.But for Qi Ziyin, the last few years of his life, because of Ning Yue's company, became as sweet and warm as bee jelly melted in winter.

All the attendants who accompanied Lord Ye to sea all those years ago were dismissed by him when he was dying.But after that, they followed this great leader, upholding the pious longing for the "paradise" in their hearts, and even imitating the appearance of the pioneers from Qingwan, spreading branches and leaves on this rare continent Divide, live endlessly, and open up a world of their own.

Not far from the stone house to the east is a red bay called Chiwan.People established a settlement called Hundred Beasts here.From then on along the coast to the north, passing through the Naohe Plain, is the second settlement, named Pangui.But they did not stop there, and continued northward, passing through the Xifeng Gorge, and established Donglai and Wangnan on the highlands of the West. There was even a place called Shuanglingkou near the northern pole. For the settlement of antlers.

And all these places are clearly marked on a sheepskin map, which is hung on the wall of this stone house.

After the death of her best friend, the red-haired girl would visit each settlement in turn every year, and finally returned to this stone house to settle down and pay her respects.Even after a hundred years, this habit has not changed.

After clearing up the weeds around the tomb, Ning Yue squatted down again, but she was holding three objects carefully in her hands—one black, one red, and one white, which were carefully crafted from obsidian, ruby, and white jade. The completed villains are lifelike and have different expressions.

Among them, the black man was holding a long blade and riding on a dark horse, looking imposing.The person in red is a girl with long hair reaching to her waist, with the corners of her skirt fluttering, as if she is dancing.And the white man stood with his hands behind his back, looking up, as if he was looking forward to someone's arrival.It was exactly what Jiang Yan, Ning Yue and Qi Ziyin looked like.

These three stone carvings were originally made by Qi Ziyin for his own entertainment when he was free, but it was after he repeatedly polished them that they became as detailed and agile as they are today.

The red-haired girl wiped the three stone carvings spotless, and placed them neatly in front of the stone tombstone.Afterwards, she took out a yellowed letter from her bosom, and gently placed it at the foot of the stone sculpture.

However, under the unopened letter, there was still a piece of neatly folded white paper.Blown by the wind, a corner of the paper suddenly unfolded from the girl's hand, and the ink on it seemed to be written just now, and there were still some wet ink stains at the end of the silver hook:
"When hiding in hiding, it is difficult to be free;

Dao karma rewards hard work, and the heart is hard.

Prosperous but not indulgent, not afraid of danger;

Dance the front to drink blood, stop the soldiers and release the dispute.

From the square to the straight, from the remonstrance to the holy;

Cultivating virtue and doing righteousness will eventually lead to consummation. "

The first line in the poem is the inscription on the star flow that the silver-haired child told Qi Ziyin when the three met Mo Zeming for the first time.And the next few sentences are the life that Ning Yue specially wrote for Lord Ye on the day he left for Yingzhou.

"Ziyin, the precious legacy you left behind has been carried forward in the hands of Zeming and his descendants. Everything is fine in the homeland. If you can know, you should be comforted..."

As the girl muttered, she suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of relief.Now that I have fulfilled the other party's last wish of returning home for a glimpse, I have finally fulfilled myself.She lowered her eyes and looked at Ye Guogong who was sleeping here forever, "I finally found what I was looking for right now. You should be happy for me in the sky, right?"

After visiting her old friend, Ning Yue embarked on a new journey again.All the way to the north, I returned to the continent covered by ice and snow, and returned to the blue ice field of Guizhou.

This continent, which was ravaged by wind and snow, has already become mountainous and mountainous, with many mountains and mountains.It's as cold as ever, but it hasn't changed in any way since it was more than a hundred years ago.However, a large crowd of people gathered on the ice that should have been deserted.They are all dressed in gorgeous gowns, and they are actually thousands of members of the Cangyu clan.

Now, following Ning Yue's guidance, they descended into an ice cave with a width of more than ten miles on the ice, and dug there more carefully, as if they were looking for something.

I don't know how many hours have passed, and in the dimness, the red-haired girl suddenly heard someone shouting "I found it" in a loud voice!Immediately, Ji Ling jumped up, followed the sound and rushed into the icy alleyway dug day and night, chanted a spell, and lit the black rose on the whalebone staff in his hand.

On both sides of the deep alleyway, black ice is melted and boiled by magic, smooth and smooth like a mirror.Under the solid ice, everything remained as it was torn apart by the violent explosion more than a hundred years ago, as if the long time ago met here, forming a link connecting the past and the present.

Looking at the ruins of the dungeon that had already collapsed beyond recognition, the memories of Zhuoyue's fall suddenly flooded in like a tide, and became vivid again, making Ningyue's heart beat faster and her breathing difficult.

At the end of the alleyway was a huge metal pool that was about to be pierced by solid ice from the inside out.The water in that pool was obviously different from other places, glowing red like a flame.Under the frozen red ice, a vague human figure loomed.

"Little stammer... I finally found you... All these years, you've been here alone, you must have gotten tired of staying here... But don't worry now, I'll rescue you..."

The red-haired girl looked at the body of her lover frozen under the ice with joy, and burst into tears.And right now, what she is holding tightly in her hand is the scroll of the secret method named "Su Sheng" that she found from the ruins of Cangliu City not long ago after spending a hundred years.

Ning Yue was also not quite sure whether the secret method of suffocation recorded in that volume, which had been almost forgotten by the world, could revive her lover.But even if there is only one chance in ten thousand, she still has to give it a try...

The starting point is not the starting point, and the whole book is free.

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