twin moon

Chapter 67, Scene [-]
Time flies, and two months have passed in a blink of an eye.

As Jiang Yan was gradually able to walk on the ground, the three young men mixed together again.They ate together, laughed together, played together, and sat on the roof together to watch the stars.However, Ning Yue clearly felt that there seemed to be a layer of barrier between them that she had never felt before.

The girl was still not sure whether the food box in front of the medical hall was sent by Qi Ziyin.After that day, she also wanted to ask the other party clearly several times, but she didn't know how to speak.After several hesitations, time slipped away bit by bit unconsciously.And as the black-eyed boy recovered from his injury, the three of them seemed to have made an agreement with each other, and never mentioned the unhappy things that happened before.

In the past few days, Jiang Yan, who moved from the medical center back to Jiayunzhai to continue to recuperate, would practice swords in the backyard whenever he was free.His knife skills became more and more sophisticated, and he could split a wooden stake with the thickness of a bowl in just a few days.

That night, Jiang Yan went into the backyard with his knife after eating, and practiced it against the stake.Ning Yue was a little worried about her companion's health, so she followed behind trying to persuade him to rest more.However, before he could step out the door, he saw a white shadow suddenly rushing to his feet, tilting his head and opening a pair of small black eyes, and chirping at himself.

"Xue Ling is you, where did you sneak off just now?"

Ning Yue squatted down with a smile, stretched out her hand and scratched the little white fox's head twice, "You refused to come out to eat before, are you still hungry now? But you have to wait, I have to go and let the little stutter stop first." Practice the knife, and then I will get you something to eat."

After saying that, the girl wanted to go to the courtyard again, but before she got up, she felt her skirt was being pulled by something.When she lowered her head to look, she saw that Xue Ling was dragging herself backwards with her mouth.

"Xue Ling, stop making trouble. I'm a little worried that if I continue to practice like this, the wounds on Xiaojieba's body that haven't healed will burst open again. Be obedient and I'll be here soon."

As the girl spoke, she reached out her hand to pull the hem of the skirt out of the little white fox's mouth, but Xue Ling walked around behind her instead, and playfully arched her master's ass with her little head, as if doing her own thing.

"Xue Ling! If you are not good, you will be hungry tonight."

Ning Yue didn't quite understand why the always well-behaved little white fox suddenly became disobedient.She raised her head and looked at the black-eyed boy who was practicing saber in the courtyard, and suddenly seemed to realize something, and muttered to herself:
"Don't you mean to say that, in fact, Xiaoba has his own sense of propriety, and if I say it, it will be unnecessary?"

Before the words finished, Xue Ling barked again, let go of her mouth obediently like a house dog, walked back around the girl, raised her two front feet to touch her knees.

The red-haired girl couldn't help but pursed her lips and laughed, reached out and hugged the little white fox from the ground into her arms, walked slowly to the stone bench in the corner of the courtyard and sat down, her two blue eyes kept looking at the dancing fox in the distance. Knife Companion:
"Xue Ling, you said little stammer, what happened to him? Since he cried loudly in my arms last time, he seems to be a different person, and the hostility in his body has become more and more serious. I am worried that he will be like this. Bury all the past in the bottom of my heart, and refuse to talk to anyone, sooner or later I will suffocate myself..."

The little white fox lay flat on the owner's lap, with all four feet in the air, allowing the other party to scratch on his fluffy belly, and purring comfortably.Ning Yue didn't care if she could understand or not, she just talked to herself wishfully:

"But speaking of it, I am also secretly hiding a lot of little secrets. Little stammer, he has no father or mother. If he hears that I ran out of the house because of anger with my father, will he be so shocked that his jaw will drop? On the ground?"

Xue Ling stretched comfortably, then turned over and sat up, looked back at Jiang Yan in the distance, then looked at the gate of the courtyard, and chirped twice.

"I know, I know, and I can't forget Ziyin—this guy always talks about a lot of truths that I don't understand at all, such as righteousness and morality. But even if he doesn't say it, he actually cares about me. of……"

Speaking of another companion, Ning Yue suddenly felt a little melancholy:

"Ziyin, he and Xiaojieba are two completely different types of people. This guy is a good person, and he always treats others with infinite kindness. I still remember that when we first met, he didn't hesitate to spend a lot of money to help others. We got out of trouble. But after we have known each other for so long, Ziyin always behaves too politely in front of me, seems to be always a little timid, dodging cautiously everywhere, wanting to greet or reject..."

The topic in the girl's mouth was turned back and forth, but it was still inseparable from the two young men:

"As for Little Stutter - he always looks sullen on the surface, doesn't talk much, and sometimes has a single-minded mind, just like a big stupid buffalo. But when I'm with him, I don't care much at all. Don't worry about saying something wrong, and don't worry that he will get angry and stop talking to me..."

Ning Yue talked to herself like this, and gradually fell into memories.She smiled for a while, and frowned for a while, and she didn't even notice that the black-eyed boy who wielded the sword had returned to the room.

"The two of them... are the only friends I have on this land. I want to live like this without any worries. Someone will treat me well, and I will treat them well. I don't want to suffer because of myself. hurt any of them..."

Ning Yue raised her neck and looked at the starry sky above her head.The sky was high and the clouds were light, the moon was bright and the wind was clear. In the night, the two bright moons, one clear and one cloudy, gradually turned into the appearance of two companions, one black and one white, slowly rotating in the huge sky.However, it is difficult for girls to find a place of their own among them:

"Oh, so sometimes I'm really embarrassed. Man, why do you have to choose..."

The red-haired girl let out a long sigh.

"Instead of being so embarrassing, why not go with me! After all, this land is not your real home, and the people here are not your relatives, why worry about them!"

A woman's voice suddenly sounded from behind, startling Ning Yue who was in a trance, and almost fell off the stone bench.The voice sounded old, but the girl thought it sounded familiar, she turned her head quickly, and saw a figure in a cloak entering the courtyard at some time, standing under the eaves not far behind her.

However, after only one glance at the other party, the girl immediately ran towards the other party with joy, her joy was beyond words:
"Grandma Cen! How did you find her!?"

The old woman who was called Granny Cen looked like she was afraid of being discovered, and hurriedly stretched out her hand to take Ning Yue and walked quickly towards the courtyard gate, until she could not hear the sound of sharpening the knife in the room, and then she walked towards the door. Standing still under a blooming pear tree.

The old woman pulled back her wide cloak, revealing her gray hair:
"Miss Yue'er, I'm afraid you haven't thought about it in the past three years, but the old man has been watching you in secret, right?"

"What does mother-in-law mean by this? Could it be that you rescued me from Ganyuan with the Water-Hiding Curse back then, and then cast a spell to transform me into a land person and send me ashore?"

The red-haired girl's eyes widened immediately, and she asked in surprise while holding the other's arm.As long as she can remember, the old mother has been taking care of the food and daily life of herself and her mother at home, and they are very close to each other.It was not until the other party left without saying goodbye a few years ago that the news was cut off.

"It's what the old man did, showing off in front of the young lady." The old lady bowed and gave a knowing smile.

"Then I heard the rumors that Granny Cen joined the rebellious party, is it true?"

"It's a long story. I'll talk to the young lady in detail some other time. As the old lady said before, I want to persuade the young lady to leave here with me." The old woman on the opposite side had a clear goal. Straight to the point.

Ning Yue immediately shook her head: "I won't leave, I'm fine here now."

Granny Cen's expression suddenly became serious:
"Miss, you have been away from home for many years. The current Cangliu City is already in danger. If no measures are taken, it may soon become a dead city on the bottom of Chanying! Are you planning to ignore this?"

"Mother-in-law, don't lie to me. Everything was fine when I left. It's only been three years, and besides, my father, the great priest, is still in charge..."

"Miss, although Cangliu City appears to be calm on the surface, it is actually riddled with holes. You should know that the black treasures left by the ancestors have been exhausted. If you don't want to find another place to stand, the millions of people in the city will not have to die." years, they will be trapped to death at the bottom of Chanying Sea!"

The corners of Ning Yue's eyes twitched imperceptibly: "How can the Xuangui be consumed so quickly? I have heard from my father that the Xuangui in the city can be used for at least a few years!"

"This is not the only thing that Fatang is hiding. Even if it tells you what you listen to, it is hard to tell the truth from the truth. Don't talk about you, Miss. I am afraid that apart from Feng Weishu and Sui Ya, there is no third person in the city who knows the matter. The truth. But after all, the high priest took the lives of countless people with his own hands, so why would he care about it today..."

"Mother-in-law, you don't need to remind me that the rumors about my father in the city are true..." Hearing what the other party said, the smile on the girl's face gradually froze, "So, you and those traitors—could it be that you want to With the help of my identity as the daughter of the great priest, go to Cangliu City to reveal the truth to the public?"

"Miss, I know that it is not an easy task to persuade you to be an enemy of your own father. But the fate of the whole clan is at stake, so I have no choice but to resort to this extraordinary method. Not to mention your mother..."

Granny Cen's expression of hesitation made Ning Yue's heart suddenly thump, and she clasped her hands together nervously: "Mother, is she okay?"

After hesitating for a while, the old woman sighed softly, and her tone was full of regret: "Miss, since you escaped from Ganyuan, the priest has never returned home. Mrs. Shan Huan misses her so much that she cries day and night. , now she is completely blind!"

"Mother, is she—blind? Impossible!"

Suddenly hearing such bad news, the red-haired girl suddenly buzzed in her head, and became dizzy as if someone had slapped her face hard.When she landed at the beginning of three years ago, she also made some painful choices, but she did not expect that the always strong mother could not bear the blow of her daughter's disappearance in the end.

Finally, the two people under the tree stopped talking.Ning Yue bit her lower lip hard, trying to hold back the tears that swirled in her eyes.

"Miss, I have served your family for many years, and I really don't want to see the chief priest insist on going his own way and drive himself to a dead end. You should go with the old body. Even if you don't do anything for the time being, you can at least think of a way together. Get him to change his mind!"

Granny Cen took two steps forward, supported her slightly trembling shoulders, and continued to whisper in her ear.But the girl just kept shaking her head and refused to say anything: "No, I can't go with you yet."

"Why is Miss so stubborn? Since you are still relying on the illusion spell of the old body to maintain the appearance of a person on land, you should know that this is not a long-term solution. Could it be that Miss still can't let go of those two people?" juvenile?"

As the other party spoke, he turned his gaze back to the brightly lit Jiayun Zhai courtyard, "Silly boy, my family's life expectancy is much longer than those of the people on land, even if Miss insists on staying here, with those two boys It is impossible to have any results. Sooner or later, you will have to face the choice, and you will not be able to escape or hide."

"Is the fate of a person really predestined somewhere in the dark?"

Facing such conjectures, the girl was noncommittal, and the words in her mouth seemed to be asking herself, and also seemed to be asking her mother.

"Miss, the so-called destiny is hard to break. Some people are destined to shoulder the responsibility of leadership when they are born, such as you, Miss. And some people are born to take care of others, such as Lao Shen. No matter how you resist, After we have taken countless detours, we will eventually find that we are still walking back on the path that we always wanted to escape, but which was already arranged by fate—”

Granny Cen hadn't finished her sentence, but Ning Yue suddenly raised her head, and the tears she had been holding back all the time overflowed from her eyes in an instant, like a broken dam, which could no longer be stopped:

"But I don't want to! I don't want to go against my own will because of the so-called fate. Since I can't escape, why can't I make the decision first when I still have a choice? Even if I stumble and get scars all over my body, even if I pay an irreparable price !"

"Don't cry, don't cry—the old man has no intention of persecuting the young lady!"

Looking at the painful look on the other person's face, the old woman clearly realized that this red-haired girl would never agree to go with her tonight, so she stopped trying to persuade her, but gently wiped her face tears:

"However, things are impermanent. This elixir is Lu Hui Dan, which we imitated in private. Although it will shorten your lifespan, it can still save your life in a critical moment. Please keep it away, miss. Something unexpected happened in the world. The old man and his subordinates have opened a dyeing village in Fanloufang in the south of the city. If you change your mind, you can go there to find me. But please always remind yourself, leave Cangliu City's time is running out."

Granny Cen said, and took out a small crystal vial from her bosom.A round elixir the size of a small fingernail in the bottle is particularly conspicuous.She stuffed the vial into Ning Yue's hand, and without another word, she turned around and escaped into the dark night, as if she had never appeared before.Only the pear blossoms that were full of trees drifted down after a gust of evening wind, covering the girl's body.

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