twin moon

Chapter 76, Scene Nine
"...Wake up...wake up! It's getting late!"

A voice rang in Jiang Yan's ear.

"Am I - dead?"

The young man struggled to open his eyes, and found that his whole body was shrouded in a haze, as if separated by a layer of tulle, emitting a faint halo.The warm sunlight poured into the room through the window lattice, but people could not feel a trace of warmth.

"Oh, there's no such thing as death. Today is the day of Beizi's wedding. You can't say such unlucky things when you meet the bride later!"

It was a woman in the palace who woke up Jiang Yan.The young man felt that he should have met the other party somewhere, but after all, he still couldn't remember her name.The woman in front of her couldn't help him from delaying any longer, she pulled him up from the couch with a light tug, sat down on a small stool, and then untied the crooked bun on the boy's head , I picked up water from the copper basin with my hands to wet it little by little, and combed it carefully.

The water in the copper basin was cold, and occasionally a few drops fell on Jiang Yan's face, making him shiver uncontrollably.The fine teeth of the comb pass through the hair, occasionally encountering irregularities, making a crackling sound, which makes people's scalp hurt.After a while, the young man finally couldn't sit still, he struggled to break free from the old woman's hand on his head, and asked:
"Grandma, how did I get rescued ashore? Where are my friends? And the soldiers on the ship, are they all right?"

The mother-in-law didn't respond, she just raised her finger and pointed to the sunny outside.The black-eyed boy turned his head, and saw that the high platform specially built for the wedding outside the door was already crowded with dense crowds.Among them was a young man in white, smiling and looking at him, waving frequently.

Jiang Yan lowered his head, only to realize that he had changed into a bright red brocade robe at some point, with dragons and phoenixes embroidered with gold thread flying up and down, which was the handicraft of top craftsmen in Mulu City.

"Beizi, what are you still waiting for? The bride has been waiting impatiently!"

Seeing the astonishment on the boy's face, the mother-in-law laughed, stretched out her hand and pushed hard on his back, and Jiang Yan staggered out of the room.Under the watchful eyes of the spectators, he climbed up to the high platform a little ignorantly.Standing vaguely on the top of the stage was a girl in fox fur, her back was facing her.The young man stopped climbing up, but just looked at each other quietly from a distance:

"Forgive me, Your Highness, I just wanted to win the ring for my friend, and I didn't think about getting married."

Although the young Beizi's voice was not loud, it caused an uproar from the audience.

Jiang Yan knew in his heart that this marriage was agreed to by the king himself in Zichen Hall.If he repents at this time, it will not only disgrace the Shuodi people who came to marry him, but also commit a serious crime of deceiving the emperor.However, at this moment, the shadow of a red-haired girl and the promise he had made with her was still haunting in his mind.

Because of this, the black-eyed boy didn't accept his fate because of the repeated sighs. Instead, he raised his voice and shouted at the crowd:
"I once promised Yue'er that I would accompany her to Yujing, where we can see the beautiful scenery and eat delicious food all over the world together!"

"Hee hee, so you still remember..."

The girl who had never thought of wearing fox fur suddenly opened her mouth, and a few strands of crimson hair came out from one side of the fur hood.She turned around, her blue eyes were bright and moving, and she looked up and down playfully at Jiang Yan, which surprised him inexplicably:
"Yue'er—how could it be you?"

"Hee hee, does little Jieba really plan to marry that Princess Di Ren? Alright, alright, come here quickly, she won't eat you."

The red-haired girl smiled, took the boy's hand and climbed to the highest point together, knelt down facing each other, and handed him half of the paw bottle that was cut open from the middle.

Jiang Yan was holding the cup full of wine in his hand, and happiness overflowed from the bottom of his heart in an instant.Living in Mulu City for so many years, he often fantasizes about what the day of his marriage will be like in his mind, but he never thought that this day would come so suddenly, so unexpectedly.

But this happiness does not seem to be as pure as the young people once expected.From the beginning to the end, he vaguely felt that everything in his eyes was like a dream, a little unreal.At first, he didn't know where this feeling came from, but when he and Ning Yue knelt down face to face and kowtowed, something caught his eyes and suddenly made him freeze in place.

It was an exquisite necklace hanging around the other party's neck.On the sterling silver pendant, which is only bigger than a pea, a clear and translucent crystal is embedded in a hollow ball.The sun shines through the crystal, scattering rainbow-like colors, and making the eye-catching pure red in the center more vivid.

That tinge of red was like a lifelike little fish, but it made Jiang Yan feel as if he had been drenched from head to toe by a bucket of ice water.And the blurred and incoherent past in his mind, at this moment, emerges from the depths of his memory like an overwhelming mountain, vividly in his mind, as clear as yesterday.

When the young man came back to his senses, he noticed that the palace, high platform, crowd, and guards of honor around him had all disappeared without a trace, and what was replaced was a simple fishing boat under his feet, and the endless scenery surrounding the boat. the sea.And the young girl in fur on the opposite side also turned into a five or six-year-old female doll in the blink of an eye.

Xiao Nan's face seemed to be covered with a layer of tulle, no matter how hard Jiang Yan tried, he couldn't see her facial features clearly.Only a small black mole on the tip of his nose is particularly clear.

"Brother, brother, when do you think father and mother will come to look for us?"

The female doll tugged Jiang Yan's sleeves vigorously, and there were still tears left on her face not long ago.The young man clearly saw that the other party's delicate and slender neck was actually wearing a necklace that was exactly the same as Ning Yue's neck!

Countless doubts suddenly surged up in Jiang Yan's heart, and gradually he felt a little flustered.He faltered in his mouth, and stretched out his hand to pull the rope on the sail, but he heard a loud bang, and the crossbar on the mainmast fell from a height!

Jiang Yan hurriedly wanted to pick up his sister and run away, but when he lowered his head, he found that the sister beside him was gone, and the fishing boat under his feet had also turned into a huge dilapidated warship.The giant ship sank slowly towards the dark seabed, and the water was full of moving human heads, like a nest of ants whose nest had been dug by someone.And he himself suddenly became a member of the colony of ants.

The strong sea breeze whipped up waves as high as ten feet one after another, and they were smashing down on the crowd. Even if they dived into the water, it was impossible to escape.The monstrous waves formed countless vortices under the water surface, and an irresistible force pulled up the young boy's body, pushing him straight towards several reefs on the seabed!

The darkness, the endless darkness engulfed the flames, and the cold sea water penetrated into almost every pore of his body.In the midst of nothingness, he suddenly realized that he might have reached the end of his life.

However, after a while, a soft and warm feeling gradually surrounded the young man.It feels like honey melted on the fire in winter, sticky and moist, and like a warm sheepskin jacket, smooth and soft.In the dark night, there seemed to be an erratic light that pulled him back to the world from before the gate of hell.

Jiang Yan instinctively moved his arms, hugging the warmth in his arms even tighter...

I don't know how long it took before Jiang Yan woke up again.At this time, he was lying in a low cave, despite the cloudy clouds outside and the surging waves, the cave was dry and warm, and there was a bright bonfire beside him.

The smell of grilled fish wafted in the air.The boy turned his stiff neck following the scent, and saw that Ning Yue was squatting beside the campfire not far away, with the branch in his hand flying up and down.When she realized that her companion had woken up, a blush immediately appeared on the girl's face, and she hurriedly walked to her side nervously, and asked softly:
"Little stammer, how do you feel?"

Jiang Yan tried his best to support his body, but suddenly found that the clothes on his body were dry, but he was not dressed as neatly as before, with his lapels loose, as if he had been taken off.When I went to see Ning Yue again, I saw that she was also disheveled, and the buttons on her collar were in the wrong place.

The dark-eyed young man came to his senses at this moment—it turned out that the warmth he felt in the dream before was actually the girl in front of him who did not hesitate to kiss his skin, and then used her body temperature to save himself who was almost frozen to death.But he didn't understand how the girl's frail body survived such a stormy sea.It's just that I suddenly felt that my ears had a severe fever, and I raised my head to look at the other person in surprise, and called out her name:
"Yue'er—"

"Oh, don't ask, don't ask! If you dare to reveal anything about today's affairs to others, I will make you look good!" The red-haired girl immediately tore off a piece of fat and tender fish and stuffed it into the mouth of her companion. The blush on her face became more and more obvious.

The girl's reaction confirmed that Jiang Yan's guess was correct, her mind fell into a long blank, and she was so moved that she nodded again and again, chewing the grilled fish in her mouth.The fragrance mixed with fish oil immediately permeated between the lips and teeth, and the salty smell was also mixed with a touch of sweetness, which was indescribably delicious.

"How about it, my girl's craftsmanship is not bad, right? Although there is no back kitchen in Bijiayunzhai on the island, these blue breams are delicious without adding salt. You take this piece first, I have roasted a lot !"

After speaking, Ning Yue went back to the campfire and got busy.Looking at the back of the other party, the black-eyed boy reached into his arms, touched the necklace that the girl gave him, swallowed all the doubts that had come to his mouth, and ate the fish without saying a word— —

After waking up, those unreal dreams were always lingering in his mind, lingering.It's just that facing the sea of ​​death outside the cave, no matter how important something I want to ask at this moment, at least I have to wait until I return to Ye Country alive to say it!

The meat of the blue sea bream was thick, and it quickly dispelled the last trace of chill from Jiang Yan's body.After his limbs regained some strength, he got up and walked to the entrance of the cave, looking at the storm that was still raging in the Tianfury Strait outside, he murmured and asked:
"Yue'er, have you found any other living people?"

"No...perhaps most people at this time...are already in danger..."

The girl who was still squatting by the campfire and fiddling with the grilled fish suddenly tensed up, then lowered her head, and the faint smile that appeared on her face because of Jiang Yan's awakening disappeared instantly.

"Ziyin has acquired a good water quality since he was a child—"

"I don't know, I really don't know! You are the only one I can drag ashore. When I try to save Ziyin again, he has already been swept away by the waves! All the people floating in the water are Corpses, all corpses!"

While speaking, Ning Yue's shoulders trembled involuntarily, and when she raised her head, tears were streaming down her face.

The black-eyed boy's heart also seemed to have knocked over the five-flavor bottle, which was very unpleasant.Even he didn't quite understand why he blurted out a stupid question that obviously had no answer.I don't know whether this is out of concern for another companion, or for some other reason that is hard to say.

Jiang Yan didn't say anything else, just stared at the black water shrouded in thick fog outside the cave in a daze.The Chanying Sea was foaming in the wind, like an angry monster.And the small island under their feet is just a tiny place among the countless islands and reefs in the Tianfury Strait, which will be swallowed up by that monster anytime and anywhere.

The uneven, pure black reefs are like claws protruding from the bottom of the sea. They are hideous, ugly and rough, but they are as sharp as knives and axes.The broken boards that fell from countless shipwrecked ships floated nearby.In order to prevent seawater corrosion, these woods are coated with a thick layer of tung oil, even after soaking in water for a long time, they are still dry.And the wood that Ning Yue used to make the fire before also came from this.

However, apart from this good news that can be comforted, there is no grass on the whole island.It's hard to find something that can be used to cross the sea to survive!
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