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Chapter 29

Chapter 26

The wind blows the dust, the fragrance and flowers are all gone, everything rests, everything rests early.

Ming Yu at the last moment in the past, the last phantom floating in front of her eyes, is her father's broad back, her mother's gentle crescent eyebrows, and her younger brother's innocent childlike face... She longs to hold these phantoms with her hands, Just for a moment.And the lovesickness that once made her unable to extricate herself from being entangled in her heart like a demon has already turned into torch tears and ashes, and she never wants to and never thinks about it again.

God likes to tease people, so at this time, he sent this person to her again in this way.

At this moment, Ming Yu was completely out of her wits.She twisted her neck stiffly, opened her eyes wide, and stared at the young man a few steps away from her, with a kind of horror almost in her eyes.

"Who are you! Why did you set fire in the middle of the night?"

The man leaned slightly towards her, lowered his voice and shouted again.

Suddenly, a gust of gusty wind blew up in the center of the lake, tearing at the raging flames woven outside the Wangshan Tower, sparks fluttered around like red fireflies, and then went out suddenly.The wind was full of blazing energy, and it rushed towards Mingyu, which also made the corner of the man's clothes dance wildly.He stared at her, motionless, only the two fires in his eyes kept jumping.

Ming Yu heard the crackling and bursting of every blood vessel in her ear.

She suddenly turned around and ran towards Zijin Tower with all her strength, but she forgot to lift her skirt, tripped and fell heavily like a broken shoot.

Ming Yu couldn't feel the pain, and almost at the same moment when she fell, she got up from the ground, and continued to rush away as if she had seen a ghost.

The man let out a "Hey", as if a little surprised, he stepped in front of her in a few strides, and stretched out his hand to block the way.

"Want to run after setting fire?"

This time, he faced the Wangshan Tower in the flames, and his whole face was covered with a layer of radiance.Ming Yu could see clearly, it was the pair of eyebrows that were well defined and stretched.

Suddenly, she grabbed his hand that was holding him in the air, opened her mouth and bit down hard.

This bite is really not light.She felt his wrist tense suddenly, and she already tasted the thick smell of blood in her mouth.

The man never dreamed that she would grab him, took such a bite, "hissed", and shook off her mouth, his brows frowned, showing some disbelief.

"Go away!"

Ming Yu pushed him away with all her strength, and ran towards the flower wall without looking back.

"It's not good, put out the fire!"

There were already noisy footsteps and panicked calls not far away.He watched the girl run away from him like a frightened deer, and her back was quickly engulfed by darkness on the curved corridor.He hesitated for a while, but did not catch up immediately.Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly saw something on the ground where the girl wrestled just now. Under the light of the fire, it shone brightly. He bent over and picked it up. Seeing that it was a jade lock, he flipped it twice. Received in the palm.

Ming Yu panicked and rushed forward desperately, the wind whistled past her ears, until her heart beat almost out of her throat, and she couldn't run any more, then she stopped panting heavily.Looking back, there was only a dark tree shadow left behind, and the flames in the northeast corner were soaring into the sky, dyeing half of the sky red.Looking around, he recognized Liangmingxuan here.He wanted to go back to Zijin Pavilion, but his legs were so soft that he was shaking, he couldn't hold it anymore, he slowly squatted down on the ground, hugged his knees, buried his head in the crook of his arms, clenched his teeth, but couldn't stop shaking .

The memories of the previous life are like the sea tide breaking the dam, roaring and scrambling to come out.

She was regarded as a chess game in the hands of the prince of the Hou's mansion, and only then did she get her wish. She became a gentleman's wife at the age of 16.Like Jiaorui, she would like to be Siluo, full of admiration, but he is not her tree.In the first two years, he left Beijing at his own request, and the number of times she saw him could almost be counted by ten; in the next two years, Emperor Zhengde passed away suddenly, the third prince ascended the throne, and he, who had always been on good terms with the prince, was relegated. The government also lost its former power.Just a few months before her death, this man sent his pregnant concubine back to Beijing from the northwest border, and she was able to see him.At that time, she cried and knelt down in front of him, begging him to find her young brother An Mo who was sent to the frontier.He complied.But after all, she still hasn't heard from An Mo...

Because of this man, she was like a water chestnut branch in a storm.She thought she didn't have enough or extra heart to hate.All kinds of sufferings only started from his passion and ended with his ruthlessness, that's all.But now, she suddenly felt that she was not as generous as she thought.She was actually complaining, complaining about his fickleness.This grievance lasted forever, but it was always deeply hidden.At this moment, it was like a dendrobium bead whose thread was torn off, suddenly splashing in all directions, unable to be collected again.

Ming Yu closed her eyes, until her cheeks were wet and cold, and she touched them with her hands, only to realize that she was crying.

She wiped the wetness off her face vigorously, and slowly stood up.

It's good to see you, but that's all.From now on, Xiao Lang is a stranger.He doesn't know her, and she doesn't know him.God gave her a new life, not to review the road she had traveled, but to make her live better for herself and her family.The bloody bite left on his wrist was the end of her past and him in this world.

Facing the night wind, she tightened the cloak on her body, walked quickly towards the Zijin Pavilion, and when she reached the flower wall, she saw Chunyuan and Danlan holding lanterns in front of her, and scattered away in a panic , stopped.

Chunyuan raised her head sharply, saw Ming Yu, threw down the lantern, and hugged her, chanted Buddha, and patted herself on the chest: "Where did you go, girl? When I woke up, there was fire in the northeast." , and the girl is not in the room, I'm really scared to death."

Ming Yu smiled slightly and said, "It's all right. I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, but when I got up, I saw a fire on the mountain tower, so I went to see what happened. When I saw someone going to put out the fire, I went back."

Ming Yu was talking, when she suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind her, she turned her head and saw Guan Shi running over, panting heavily, "Damn it, the Wangshan Tower is flooded! It's already fighting the fire, It will be thrown away! Miss, don't be afraid, don't move around, just stay in the room." Seeing that his head was sweating profusely, his face was dripping with oil.

Ming Yu turned her head to look at the fire again, then turned and walked in.

In his sleep, Ruan Hongtian was startled awake by someone who came to report the news. When he heard that the Wangshan Building caught fire in the middle of the night, he broke out in a cold sweat. The first thing he said, he grabbed the person and shouted: "Miss is there, is there something wrong?"

The little servant hurriedly said: "Chen Guanshi specifically mentioned that Miss Dao lives in Zijin Pavilion, which is far away from the scene of the fire, so she is fine."

Ruan Hongtian heaved a sigh of relief, and suddenly thought that at this juncture, the Wangshan Tower would catch fire. He felt extremely annoyed, paused, turned around and ran back to the inner room, and saw that his wife had also been awakened with sleepy eyes. Looking over, afraid of scaring her, he comforted her: "Someone came to the garden over there just now, saying that the Wangshan Tower was on fire. Fortunately, Ayu lives far away. You sleep on your own, I'll go over and take a look."

Jiang Shi was also shocked, so she wanted to get up and go together, but was stopped by Ruan Hongtian, who asked Gu Xiang and a few maids to come and accompany her, and hurried over after she put on her clothes.

"Next time, don't go out quietly by yourself like this, your hands are freezing cold..."

While helping Mingyu take off her cloak and clothes, Chunyuan complained softly, then suddenly gasped, and said in surprise, "The jade lock pendant hanging on the girl's cloak, why is there only a buckle left..."

Ming Yu lowered her head and saw that the jade lock that had been hanging was gone, only half of the jade clasp was left where it was connected to the chain, and it looked like it was broken. She was startled, turned around and went out the door.Unable to stop Chunyuan, she hurriedly grabbed her coat and lantern and chased after her.

Ming Yu hurried towards the place where she fell in front of Wangshan Tower.

The Wangshan Building is three stories high, all of which are painted with golden silk nanmu.The nanmu is inherently oily, and since it has been ignited, how can it be suppressed for a while just by those people staying behind in the garden splashing water?A little closer, I saw that the fire had not diminished, and it was reflaming more fiercely. In the sky-high flames, the sound of burning wood could be heard in my ears, and the burning smell mixed with the aroma of nanmu oil was faintly diffused in the air. The lake near the Wangshan Tower was also half red under the light, as if a huge golden dragon spread out on the water surface.Chen Guanshi was in a hurry to direct people there, and there was a lot of chaos.

Ming Yu found the place where she had just wrestled, and looked carefully under the firelight, but she didn't find the jade lock.

Looking at the fracture of the jade buckle, it was clearly burst.The biggest possibility is that when I fell, I smashed it and left it here.Now I can't find it everywhere, could it be that person picked it up?And why did he appear here in the middle of the night?

This thought made Ming Yu shiver all over.The heart that had stopped with great difficulty just now was beating wildly again, and a thin layer of cold sweat had already broken out on the forehead and back.Looking up, there was no sign of that person in the chaotic crowd.While in a trance, he suddenly saw his father hurrying along the corridor opposite, and hurriedly turned around to avoid going to Zijin Pavilion.

Ruan Hongtian was in a hurry and didn't see Mingyu. When he saw that the Wangshan Tower had been engulfed in flames and he was powerless to recover from it, Guanshi Chen was in a state of distress, and when he saw him, he trembled and kept pleading guilty, although he was annoyed. , but had no choice but to give up after a few curses, thinking of her daughter, and hastily went back to Zijin Pavilion.

"The girl has already rested, and she still hasn't woken up after thinking about it."

Chunyuan followed Ming Yu's instructions and responded in a low voice.

Ruan Hongtian originally wanted his daughter to go back to Rongyin Hall, but when she heard that she was still awake, and seeing that this place was far away from the fire scene, he decided to give up after thinking about it.

Ming Yu didn't sleep all night, she closed her eyes and dozed off at dawn, but she kept having nightmares.

She was walking alone on the road back to Jiangnan from Jinjing, but both sides of the road became unfamiliar scenery, covered with weeds and weeds, and even the wind blowing seemed to be lifeless.She stopped, and saw the crumbling moon like a hook in a trance, broken beams and tiles in front of her, crows standing silently on the dead branches, and pale bones were faintly exposed under the soil under her feet. The silence between heaven and earth was terrible.

This is the Rongyin Hall ten years later in the previous life, she knew it.She wanted to scream, but no sound came out of her throat, as if she was being pinched by a hand.Struggling to wake up, only then did he see that it was dawn, and the horns were wrapping around his neck.The panes facing east were glowing brightly, and dots of dazzling golden light sprinkled on her bed, making it hard for people to open their eyes.

The fire in Wangshan Building has been extinguished, but the whole building is burned down to nothing but ruins and broken tiles, and even the verandah on the side is blackened.Ruan Hongtian didn't come back last night, and he is still instructing people to deal with the aftermath.

Ming Yu washed up indiscriminately, and immediately followed the route he traveled last night, slowly looking for it all the way.After going back and forth twice, the lost jade lock was gone.In all likelihood, he was picked up by that person.

The spring sun was shining brightly, but Ming Yu felt chills in her heart.

(End of this chapter)