Shaojun riding the sea

Chapter 31
In the house of Yuzhu, the moonlight shines through the window lattice, Ji Zhiyue is lying on the bed, clutching the quilt tightly, but there is another tall and handsome figure sitting in front of the table.

That figure was none other than Wen Yanru.

"Miss Ji, go to sleep, I'll be right here guarding you, don't be afraid."

Wen Yanru turned her back to Ji Zhiyue, didn't look at her, abided by etiquette, only comforted her in a deep voice, and brought her a sufficient sense of security with her solid back, hoping that she would no longer shrink from fear, and could shut up with peace of mind. Eyes, a good night's sleep.

It's not polite for a man and a widow to live together in the same room, but hearing Ji Zhiyue's sobbing outside the door, Wen Yanru really couldn't bear it, so he couldn't care less.

After all, he was the one who caused her to be like this. He felt ashamed and couldn't leave her alone.

Shi Xuanling's strings of bells were placed next to Ji Zhiyue's pillow. She originally grabbed the bells, wanting to be by her side as Xuanling, but the fear in her heart was still overwhelming, and she couldn't help it. He was sobbing secretly, but he didn't expect Wen Yanru, who was guarding the door, to hear it.

The usually cold-faced and cold-hearted young general not only comforted her with his voice, but also personally watched her fall asleep. Ji Zhiyue was stunned and felt unspeakable gratitude.

While her long eyelashes trembled slightly, she could only close her eyes quickly, hoping that she would fall asleep soon, and the room was quiet for a while, as if they could hear each other's heartbeats.

The moonlight was shining brightly, and the waves were churning. Wen Yanru had been sitting quietly in the dark for an unknown amount of time, when a girl's timid voice suddenly came from the bed behind her——

"General Xiaoyan, I, can I hold your hand and sleep?"

Wen Yanru was caught off guard, suspecting that he had heard wrongly, "What, what?"

"No, it's okay, it's just that Little Bell usually sleeps with her arms around me, but tonight she's not here, and it's cold beside me, and I can't sleep all the time..."

As soon as she closed her eyes, she seemed to be back in that eerie prison cell. Those light blue eyes were staring at her, smiling at her all the time, making her feel chilly and unable to fall asleep.

Although the bell is Shi Xuanling's personal belonging, it is a cold dead thing after all, how can it be compared to a living person?
She wanted to grab something warm so that her body and mind would not be so cold, otherwise the long night would be too difficult, and she was really tossing and turning, so she had no choice but to speak to Wen Yanru.

Hearing Ji Zhiyue's explanation, that handsome figure sat in the darkness, silent for a moment.

Although this request was quite absurd, just like the last time in the dark prison, after Wen Yanru pursed her lips, she still agreed to Ji Zhiyue.

The young general sat on the ground with his back against the bed, and only stretched out one hand for Ji Zhiyue to hold tightly.

The moonlight outside the window shone on them, and the boys and girls folded their hands, creating a dreamlike scene, like an ethereal and tranquil picture scroll.

Ji Zhiyue's hand was still small, slender and soft, as if it could be crushed with a little force, Wen Yanru held her breath and was concentrating carefully, when she suddenly heard a girl's voice coming from behind her ears——

"General Xiaoyan, I, I can't sleep, can you chat with me, talk?"

"Chat, chat?" Wen Yanru was a little surprised.

"That's right, I used to chat with Little Bell every night in bed, we got tired after chatting, and fell asleep before we knew it..."

"Then, what are we talking about?"

"I don't know either. Little Lingdang and I are all over the world, chatting all kinds of nonsense, General Xiao Yan, you can say whatever you want, I'm willing to listen, is that okay?"

"I, I don't know what to say, I hardly ever... talk to girls."

When Hai Centipede made a bet, they went to the mass grave in the back mountain together. He carried her behind his back and said some words, but they were all around Zhonglisheng.

Suddenly, Wen Yanru thought of something, and said in a deep voice: "I have caught the spy on the island, Xi Yuehan, you don't have to be afraid anymore, no one will tip off him and help him escape. "

"Traitor, spy?"

"Yes, it was captured by Lieutenant General Luo next to me, a soldier who was bought by the Chinu tribe. He had been secretly passing messages between Xi Yuehan and the Chinu tribe. He found a lot of criminal evidence... In short, this spy has been dealt with, Mr. Pei from the Zhenfu Division will go to the island in a few days, Xi Yuehan must not play any more tricks, you can rest easy."

"This is really great. No wonder Xi... That bad guy knows everything. It turns out he has his inner support on the island."

Thinking that in a few days, there would be no such person on the island, Ji Zhiyue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After Wen Yanru finished speaking, she fell silent again, and the room became quiet again.

The young general who is not good at speaking is either talking about Zhong Lisheng or the official affairs on the island. He seems to seldom talk about his own affairs.

For some reason, Ji Zhiyue suddenly became curious while holding that big warm hand in the stillness of the night.

"General Xiaoyan, I told you about my childhood, what about you, what was your childhood like? Do you have any interesting experiences?"

"...No, I practiced martial arts every day when I was a child, and when I got older, I entered the military camp." After a pause, the young man said in a deep voice, "The most thing I have done is to fight wars, but it is not fun, on the contrary... it is very cruel."

The room was silent for a long time, and Ji Zhiyue said abruptly, "Well, General Xiaoyan, has your family ever engaged you?"

This topic really jumped too fast, Wen Yanru was still immersed in the battlefield of cruel fighting, and couldn't react for a while, "You, why are you asking this?"

The bases of his ears were a little red, but luckily the room was dim, so he couldn't see it very well.

"Because, me, my family has arranged a marriage for me. To be precise, it is a baby kiss."

"Doll kiss?"

"Yes, it seems to be the family of generals. I heard you said that you practiced martial arts and fought in wars, so I remembered this marriage, but I know very little, and I don't even know the other party's last name."

While recalling, Ji Zhiyue said: "Because my grandmother arranged for me a long time ago, she and the grandmother of that family are handkerchiefs, but I have never met the person who was engaged to me, and this The family relationship has already faded several years ago, and now that I have been exiled to Yunzhou Island, it should be even more insignificant."

"Why is this marriage... going to be yellow?"

"Because the young master of that family didn't like me, he left a letter for his family, then ran away from home and traveled around the world. I didn't care too much. I was busy making a hidden weapon box at the time, so I didn't care about other things. For him to regret the marriage is just what I want, and I didn't want to marry so early."

"You...you really don't even know the other party's last name? Don't you want to ask?"

"The family didn't tell me, probably because they were afraid that I would be sad. After all, they don't like me, and they regretted the marriage early, but I don't care at all. I only vaguely heard that the other party is from a family of generals, but which general is it? I really don't know."

"So, so that's the case, that's good..."

"What good?"

"No, nothing."

Wen Yanru's palms broke out in a layer of cold sweat for no reason, and he lowered his eyelashes with some guilt. Fortunately, Ji Zhiyue didn't notice his strangeness, and still said to himself:

"Marriage is destined, so don't force it. The little son of the family may be traveling somewhere now. Let's live a happy life. Anyway, we have never met before, and we will never be involved again in this life. I am quite envious of his free and easy way." Sex, choose the path you want to go, what's wrong with that?"

Wen Yanru's long eyelashes trembled slightly, sitting in the moonlight, listening to Ji Zhiyue's words, his mind was in a trance for a while.

The girl was kept in the dark, so understanding, how could she know that her original "fiancé"——

Not traveling around the world, but joining the army and fighting.

It's not a tour of the mountains and rivers, but a vertical and horizontal battlefield.

Things in the world are just such a coincidence, absurd as in a dream, and after going round and round, two people who have nothing to do with each other but are inextricably linked will meet on the same island.

It was a past that Wen Yanru had already forgotten. Just like Ji Zhiyue, he didn't care about the other party's name. Anyway, it was a marriage that his grandmother decided for him without authorization. He never agreed to it, let alone If you don't intend to fulfill the marriage contract, why should you care about it?
If the girl hadn't mentioned it unintentionally tonight, he would never have imagined that the "suffering master" whom he divorced back then is now lying on the bed behind him, still...holding his hand tightly.

All of a sudden, various emotions rushed into the young man's mind. He opened his mouth and finally asked: "Then when his family retired, did you suffer from rumors? , after all, it's not good, have you... been affected in any way?"

"There aren't too many gossips. After all, it's just a verbal agreement between the two grandmothers. Outsiders don't know about it, it's just..."

"Just what?"

After a long silence in the dark, Ji Zhiyue's soft voice came: "I like to study the Yanjia mechanism since I was a child. In the eyes of others, my behavior is weird, and I am even an outlier in the Ji family of Nanling. No one in my family wants to play with me. Of course Well, it’s also very interesting for me to do things in the house alone, but it’s boring occasionally... Since I don’t have a playmate, I make myself a flying wooden bird, a beckoning doll, and all kinds of things. Such a fun little thing."

"At that time, I climbed to the Chongming Pagoda for the bet made by Little Bell, and brought a treasure chest to give you gifts. Although you don't even look down on the things I made, those are my treasures, and I plan to give them to you. When I was with you, I was actually very sad in my heart."

Bringing up the past, Wen Yanru opened his mouth with an indescribable apology: "I'm sorry, Miss Ji, I didn't know those things were against you at that time..."

"It doesn't matter, it's all over..." Ji Zhiyue smiled, and continued: "Besides, my eyes are often ridiculed because I read too many books since I was a child, and gradually lost my eyesight. Suffering from eye disease, I can’t see clearly, I have to rely on glass mirrors, I have a few naughty cousins, they joked that I was a 'one-eyed dragon' when they met, they are all annoying..."

"After letting them know that I was divorced, they often used it to make fun of me, saying that I was a nerd and a 'one-eyed dragon'. They didn't want me. Their mouths are bad. They obviously couldn't read me in school. They made all kinds of taunts about me, and one time I was really angry, so I made a special slingshot to deal with them, and beat them until they screamed, which can be regarded as a breath of anger!"

Recalling this, Ji Zhiyue couldn't help showing a smile, as if she was secretly happy that she had successfully teased a few cousins, but Wen Yanru's face was stunned, unable to show a smile.

Hearing all of Ji Zhiyue's experiences, his throat moved, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't utter a single word.

There is a wrong and a debtor, he really never expected that he owed her only once, and now he has added a new debt, no, it is an old debt.

Now that he owes her so much, when will he be able to pay it off?
The young general leaned against the bed, could not help but lower his head, and sighed.

"General Xiaoyan, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, I just found out... It's so difficult to pay off the debt."

"You, who do you owe money?"

-

In Yuncheng, fireworks were blooming all over the sky, and on the bustling long street, looking at the delicate face of a foreign race under the mask, Yue Wugui was obviously a little bit taken aback.

"No, sorry, I recognized the wrong person."

The same crane mask, the same white clothes fluttering around, Shi Xuanling happened to take off the bell in his hand tonight, Yue Wugui was eager to find someone for a while, so he mistook someone else.

The alien girl stared suspiciously at Yue Wujiu, snorted coldly, put on the mask again, turned and left.

Yue Wujiu looked at her leaving back, but suddenly thought of something, his pupils shrank suddenly, no, how could there be a strange face of a foreign race in Yuncheng? !

Or take advantage of this Muhua Festival, and wander among the crowd, could it be, is this girl a red slave?
Indeed, I have vaguely heard that Xi Yuehan also has a sister Wang, could it be her?
After all, there was an ambush and sneak attack by the Chi Nu people in Yuncheng not long ago, and Xi Yuehan was about to be escorted, Yue Wugui didn't dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly carried the lantern and followed the white-clothed figure.

The alien girl seemed to have sensed something, wearing a crane mask, turned her head several times, Yue Wujiu was extremely alert, and quickly hid in the crowd.

I don't know if this girl has noticed Yue Wujiu's stalking, but she is walking faster and faster, her figure is getting more and more eager under the moonlight, if Yue Wujiu hadn't been watching closely, I'm afraid she would have lost track of her long ago.

The night wind came head-on, passing through countless streets and alleys, leaving the hustle and bustle far behind, Yue Wugui flew away, and finally followed the girl into a remote alley.

He held his breath and walked forward step by step with the lantern in hand. The alien girl was standing at the end of the alley. She suddenly turned around and said softly, "Aren't you tired after following all the way?"

Yue Wugui was startled, and before she could speak, the girl of the foreign race stretched out her hands and slapped a few times.

The night wind was bitter in the alley, and murderous aura was everywhere, and several black figures quickly sprang out from the dark place, firmly guarding the girl in front of her.

"Beat me to death for this pedant, you dare to hit my head, don't you want to die?"

　Ding, a new character debuts, see you tomorrow~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)