twin moon

Chapter 37: Act Three
"Give it to me, don't let that little bastard Jiang Yan get away!"

Yu Li's distraught voice echoed in the criss-crossing alleys, and amidst the hurried and chaotic footsteps, the muffled sound of fists hitting people and the young man's painful groans could be heard from time to time.However, in the successive confrontations, Jiang Yan didn't seem to suffer, but Deng Guiyi and Yuchi Jingde kept scolding.

The black-eyed boy only cared about covering his companion's escape, but after all, Qi Ziyin and Ning Yue's physical strength was far inferior to his. After some chasing, they were still blocked by the other party in the middle of a bridge called Yudai Bridge in the lower reaches of the canal, facing a dilemma.

"Jiang Yan, it is impossible for you alone to defeat the three of us. Besides, you are not so lucky this time, there will be no tornado to help you again, so you should surrender quickly!"

Yuchi Jingde's tone was not that aggressive, but seemed to be trying to persuade him to surrender.

"What are you still talking about with the prey you got? Hang it up first and break your hands and feet, let it out!"

Yu Li's face was still ashen, but the ecstasy could not be concealed in his tone.

"What about this little girl with red hair?" Deng Guiyi had just received a few heavy punches in the face, half of his cheeks were swollen, and he was slurring his words when he spoke.

"I'm still thinking about women at this time, believe it or not, I'll castrate you when I go back!" Yu Li turned his head and scolded, and the captain with a high-pitched voice was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak again.

"You two, one is the youngest son of the Guangluqing family, and the other is the only descendant of the three generations of Tingwei family. Both of you are of the humerus blood in the court. Why do you have to hang out with such a bully in the army? Could it be that the most holy man who has read Have all the books of the sages been fed to dogs?"

Just as Jiang Yan wanted to speak, he suddenly heard Qi Ziyin, who was running beside him with a pale face, take a step ahead and scolded him loudly.The black-eyed boy looked at this strange companion with some surprise, not knowing what he wanted to do.

"How do you know about my family's situation—" Yuchi Jingde was a little surprised, fixedly staring at the boy with golden pupils in front of him, and was startled as if he suddenly thought of something.

Deng Guiyi was still speechless, roaring like a mad dog: "Who to follow is our own business. Brother Yu Li is invincible in the camp. If you don't follow him, do you want to follow such a weak waste like you? You How old are you?"

"I am the young master of Ye Kingdom! If you step down, I can pretend that what happened tonight never happened!"

Although Qi Ziyin was thin and weak, what he said at this time was righteous and dignified, and for a moment he was so frightened that the two people who wanted to besiege him did not dare to move rashly.

Yu Li folded his arms, still half leaning on the railing beside the bridge, with a look of indifference:

"The young master of Ye country has a bodyguard following him, so could you tell me that your bodyguard is this general Yan? Besides, even if you are the young master, you are just a son of a concubine. Could it be that you are serious? Do you think someone will take you seriously? I heard that when Concubine Jin died—"

"Shut up!" Qi Ziyin suddenly roared angrily when he heard the word "Concubine Jin".

Concubine Jin, the mother of the boy in white, passed away when he was six years old.From childhood to adulthood, she has always told her son: He is not the eldest son, even if he has outstanding abilities, he should not try to steal the limelight from his elder brother, who is the current eldest son Qi Zixiu.And Qi Ziyin did follow the wishes of his mother and concubine, resolutely rejected Xiang Baili's martial arts guidance to him, and only read the books of sages and sages.

Although his father's love for him is not small, after all, the time he can be with him is limited.This little young master has been faintly aware of the respectful yet overexpressed alienation from everyone in the palace towards him and his mother since he was a child.Even those palace servants who were assigned to serve the mother and child had a bitter face all day long as if they had eaten Coptis chinensis.It seems that it is an extremely unlucky thing to serve their mother and child as servants.

Until the winter moon of that year, the news of their mother's death finally tore off the last fig leaf from these people's faces.Although Ye Guogong came to mourn in person and ordered people to bury the deceased well, who would have thought that on the first night Qi Ziyin kept vigil for his mother and concubine, he witnessed with his own eyes that more than a hundred palace maids and maids all ran away completely. .

Therefore, the lonely and helpless boy could only wrap himself in the quilt and kneel beside his mother's coffin blankly, without any particles entering or dripping water.It wasn't until three days later that the lord Qi Heyin came again, only to find him collapsed to the ground and fainted.

Although after this incident, the palace maids who left their duties without authorization were all sentenced to death, this incident still caused serious injuries to the young Qi Ziyin, and made him change his temperament drastically, becoming more silent and unhappy.And it was from then on that the young master became a freak in the eyes of others, and he would never wear black clothes again no matter what.It seemed that only the spotless white would not remind him of those lonely nights when he kept vigil for his mother, and the endless darkness and desolation that spread around him.

But except for the loyal guard Wan Shi, the suffocating sense of alienation that filled the palace did not dissipate in the slightest.In the dark, people called this young man in white clothes a broom star who would bring bad luck to others.In a fit of anger, Qi Ziyin took the initiative to ask his father to move into the quiet and remote Guihong Garden.This move was not only to leave the old palace that broke his heart, but also to avoid many unpleasant eyes and criticisms.

Right now, seeing Qi Ziyin, who has always been gentle and refined, with red eyes, throwing his fist and wanting to pounce in front of Yu Li, who is a head taller than him, Jiang Yan and Ning Yue, who didn't know the reason, were also taken aback.

However, the young Captain sneered, and pulled his posture to teach this ignorant nerd a lesson.But at this juncture, there was a clear song floating in the wind along the canal:
The moon shines on the seashore, and the stars are flat;
Raise the sails and travel north, the sky is cold and snow covered.

The edge is waiting to be sharpened, Ye Ye takes up the sword;
In the wilderness, the sky is lit up with fire, how can we learn from the turbid and clear?
Along with the singing, a boat soon appeared in the sight of everyone on the bridge.There was only one person on the boat supporting the penny, and they sailed to the front in a short while.Jiang Yan didn't know who the person was, but he couldn't miss the opportunity. Without even thinking about it, he grabbed his companion beside him and shouted in a low voice:
"Jump down! Jump down first before talking!"

Before Yu Li and others could react, the desperate children had already stepped on the fence by the bridge and leaped into the air. They were dressed in black, white as snow, and red-haired as fire.The three of them landed firmly on the deck of the boat, and the boat swayed from side to side as they stepped on it, causing water splashes on both sides of the boat.However, the pole-puller didn't feel anything wrong at all, instead he drove the boat even faster.

Yu Li and the others immediately wanted to jump off the bridge and chase after them, but in the blink of an eye, the boat had traveled several feet away, and they couldn't catch up at all.

"Stop the boat, stop the boat for me immediately!"

"This boat belongs to my master. I can do whatever I want, but how can I listen to the gangsters on the shore?" The pole-puller, wearing a bamboo hat, replied in a confident tone.

"I'm the Captain of Ben Haiying. You have someone on your boat that I want to take! If you don't stop, you're going against Master Ye!"

"Since these three little friends are able to come on the boat, they are the honored guests of my master. Even if Ye Guozhou master really has something to do with them, we can only talk about it later!"

"How courageous! Who are you, do you dare to report your name?"

"My surname is Mo, and my single name is Chen. If you have anything to do, you can come to Yunzhi to find me!"

While speaking, the boat traveled further and entered the open place on the river.As soon as the man who punted the boat finished speaking, there was a sound of hula-la, and a silver brocade sail was lowered from the mast.

The brocade sail shines brightly in the night, and there is even a skylark embroidered on it.At first, Qi Ziyin wondered why the other party would help, but when he saw the pattern on the sail, he immediately exclaimed:
"Your Excellency just said that your surname is Mo, and the Skylark family crest is tattooed on the sail. Could it be that it has something to do with the Mo family in Yunzhi City in the south?!"

"I didn't expect my Mo's reputation to spread so far that I even knew about an underage kid more than a thousand miles away? Not bad, it seems that my master did the right thing in allowing you to board the boat today."

The man wearing the bamboo hat laughed, and pointed to the cabin door on the boat that was hung with cloth curtains.

A slender little hand then stretched out from the cabin and lifted the curtain, revealing a bloodless face behind the curtain.The owner of this face has long silver hair that hangs neatly on his shoulders, but his figure is thin and short. He looks so weak that he is actually a child who is several years younger than Jiang Yan and the others!

"This younger brother is the head of the Mo clan?"

Qi Ziyin seemed a little surprised, but the child in the cabin just smiled and didn't explain much.

"Why is this so strange? The young Patriarch Zeming is the only heir of the old Patriarch. After the old Patriarch passed away, the seat was naturally passed on to him."

The pole-puller took up the conversation lightly, but he had already sailed out of the city while speaking.The guard at the exit of the canal recognized the skylark on the sail and immediately opened the gate to let it pass.

"Ziyin, what is the background of this Mo family? Is he very powerful?" Jiang Yan couldn't help but move closer to the young man in white and asked in a low voice.

"The Mo family is the largest salt merchant in Wanzhou, a wealthy party. It is said that the family owners of the past dynasties are proficient in prophecy and astrology, love to travel around, and have a lot of research in numerology and metaphysics. And his family has not declined for more than a hundred years. related to this."

The boy in white closed his mouth with his hands, and whispered into his companion's ear to explain.

"Proficient in astrology? Isn't that a fortune-telling alchemist?"

"This—it might not be impossible to say that, but—"

Unexpectedly, even though the two kept their voices very low, the whispered discussion was still overheard by the child in the cabin.The other party still didn't speak, but just winked at the person who was pole-pulling outside.

The man named Mo Chen immediately let go of the steering hand, bowed and saluted the two teenagers:
"General, Mr. Qi, although I, Mo Shi, are proficient in prophecy and astrology, the ancestral secrets I use are much better than ordinary alchemists. I hope that you two will not make unreasonable comments, and make young master Zeming unhappy."

"Hey - we haven't reported our family names yet, how do you know what their last names are?"

Ning Yue didn't quite understand what astrology is called, but she just found it very novel and couldn't help but interjected to ask.

"To be honest, the little Patriarch watched the stars a few days ago, and he calculated that the two of you would be provoked at this time tonight, so he ordered me to drive a boat past to pick you up from danger. The song Mo Chen sang before is It was sung for Young Master General. Sure enough, he felt something in his heart, and he really jumped out of the boat following the song."

The other party's serious answer made the three children on the boat dumbfounded for a moment.Even Qi Ziyin had never heard of a fortune teller in the palace who could predict someone's fate so accurately, so he couldn't help but be very surprised.

Ning Yue was full of curiosity, and looked suspiciously at the man who was pole-pulling in front of her, and then at the child in the cabin: "Then tell me, have you figured out anything about this girl?"

"This—" The pole-pulling man was suddenly at a loss for words.

"Is there any difficulty?"

"Little Patriarch, he only counts the fate of Young Master and Young Master Qi. As for the girl, you—"

"Could it be that I was left out? No, no, now I have to do the math for me!" Ning Yue didn't seem to believe that the other party could figure out her own fate, and she refused to forgive her like a mischievous one.

"Is this - maybe something is wrong?" The man who was pole-pulling still looked at the child sitting in the cabin with some hesitation, and when he saw that the other party nodded in agreement, he said with a wry smile, "Okay, please give me a little more time." Wait a moment."

As he said that, he handed over the rudder in his hand to Jiang Yan, and then got into the cabin to grind ink for the silver-haired boy.After that, three more incense sticks passed before he came out with a troubled expression on his face, holding a piece of paper with a few lines of text in his hand, hesitating whether to hand it to the girl outside the cabin: "I think It's better not to look at it, girl."

"It's okay, give it to her." The silver-haired child suddenly spoke, but his voice was a weak moan, almost drowned by the sound of water outside the boat.

"That's right, I've written everything, what else can't I read?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Ning Yue stretched out her hand and pulled out the wet paper, and began to read silently by means of an oil lamp lit under the cabin door.I saw what was written on the paper:

The beauty is said to be peerless, and the spirit of the bones is bestowed by God;
I often think of leaving home for a long time and migrating to Huajing.

Bright eyes and snow-skinned skin, fire hair is rare in the world;

The muscles and bones are solid and intact, and the true heart is hidden in the wonderful hands.

This life is tired of love, and the dying moon is just sighing.

Looking back on the past, there will be no end to miss...

However, before she finished reading the inscription, she suddenly crumpled up the paper in her hand and threw it into the river: "Nonsense, nonsense, all nonsense! This is something you just made out of your nonsense!"

"Ning Yue, what's the matter with you? What was written on that piece of paper?" Qi Ziyin had never seen a girl lose such a temper, and immediately stepped forward to ask.

Ning Yue refused to answer, but kept shaking her head: "It's full of nonsense! Stop the boat, I want to go down!"

The girl's red hair fluttered in the wind, caressing the cheek of the boy in white, itching.

Embarrassed, Qi Ziyin looked back at the silver-haired child in the cabin.The other party didn't care about it at all, but slowly whispered a few words in the servant's ear.The man holding the pole came out immediately, and made a bow to Qi Ziyin:
"The little Patriarch also wants to give Mr. Qi eight words: When avoiding traces, it is rare to be free."

Qi Ziyin was also stunned by the words on the spot.Others may not understand the meaning of this sentence, but his chest suddenly seemed to be struck by lightning, and an indescribable fear surged up.Because these eight words are the last words left by the concubine mother before she died!And the other party has already seen the secret deep in his heart inadvertently!
"Hey, you two, why do you look so ugly?"

Jiang Yan hurriedly stretched out his hand to support his companion's shoulder.But before he continued to question, the boat under his feet had already leaned against the shore.Ning Yue immediately jumped out of the boat without looking back, and rushed towards the city gate.The black-eyed boy hesitated for a moment, but he had no choice but to pull Qi Ziyin who was still restless, turned his head and gave the two unknown weirdos a gouging look, and followed closely after him.

Mo Chen, who was standing on the side of the ship, turned his head and looked at the boy in the cabin with a puzzled face: "Little Patriarch, is this really appropriate for you?"

"Father once told me that the fate of the stars cannot be violated. In this era of gold and jade but ruins, nothing can last forever, whether it is the comfort of the present or the uncertainty of the future. For the three of them, It is not a bad thing to recognize the true face of this world earlier, and perhaps be able to accept one's own destiny earlier."

"But if you act so aggressively, will it be counterproductive?"

"No. I believe that the three of them will realize in a short time that those good wishes they once made, as well as those absurd vows they swore, will eventually be trampled under their feet by cruel fate. And there are only two people in front of them. There is no other way, either to survive with all your strength, or to die with your neck."

The silver-haired child still just shook his head with a slight smile, looked at the backs of the three people on the shore, and said lightly:

"Actually, in the dark, our destiny has already converged. I hope the three of you can take care of yourself. One day, we will meet again."

There was a slight breeze, and it seemed that the sky was about to dawn.The boat swayed in the water again, and in the blink of an eye, it was submerged in the morning mist floating in the bay, and it was hard to find it anymore.

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