Chapter 137: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell (1)
The night was deep, the waning moon was like a hook, Cen Kexuan fell on his back on the bed, staring at the roof in a daze, and he lay down unconsciously late at night. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info turned his head slightly, but saw that the beam was overhanging, the light and shadow were cramped, and in the northwest corner, a small spider was climbing on the web that had just been woven, weak, persistent, silent. She finally closed her eyes, but she couldn't fall asleep, so she opened them again, and stared at the roof, but the whole world seemed to tilt in an instant, overwhelmingly pressing on her......
- The tragedy of the Cen family, the uncertain life and death of her brother, her true background, all unknown conspiracies, and the strange and long-ago tombstone......
What is the connection between all this, and what kind of secrets are hidden? She didn't know who else to trust, who else to turn to. She felt as if she had fallen into the depths of the sea, an indescribable sense of oppression coming at her from all directions, and she desperately stretched out her hand, but could not find a driftwood to cling to.
Only completely shrouded in darkness and loneliness. Only herself. Only her.
Her breathing became rapid and depressed, and suddenly she heard a faint flute sound, spreading in the night that had already been darkened, with an eternal desolation, it was an empty flute song far away from the world, but it was a little familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere......
It's him! Cen Kexuan rolled over and got out of bed, eagerly pushing the door out.
She ran barefoot down the long corridor toward where the flute sounded, and the night wind ruffled her long tousled hair and lifted her wide silk garment.
At the end of the corridor, the moonlight is sprinkled like a thin veil, and the treetops are quiet and peaceful, only the young man playing the transverse flute under the corridor is lazily leaning on the vermilion trunk, and the light moon-white clothes hang down to the ground, as if dyeing the glory of heaven and earth. As if he heard Cen Kexuan's footsteps, he put down the bamboo flute and looked at her slowly, with a smile in his eyes, soft as water.
"Shulan ......" She quickly ran over and rushed into his arms, as if she had seen a long-lost relative, tears immediately burst the embankment, and her voice trembled.
It turned out to be him...... How is he......
Obviously coming in the middle of the night, the sound of the flute spread everywhere, but no one seemed to know in the Green Willow Garden, and the corridor was silent, how did he do it? Cen Kexuan couldn't believe it, but the clothes tightly held in his hands were dust-free, with a faint smell of bamboo forests and grass, as if he was one with heaven and earth, and there would be no one else except Shulan.
"Shulan......" she whispered again cautiously.
Shulan was originally leaning on the trunk, but at this time she had already stood up straight, and when Cen Kexuan burst into his arms with tears in his eyes, he reached out to support her a little, and there was still no lack of ridicule in his smiling eyes: "Who bullied us Xiao Kexuan?" Why do you cry so ugly? ”
Cen Kexuan instantly burst into laughter, pushed him, and said, "Who is ugly?" After finishing speaking, there was a sour feeling in his eyes, and he cried and laughed, so he had to wipe his tears, pretend to be angry, and snort, "I know you can't say anything nice." ”
Shulan didn't return her mouth, showing rare patience, and her eyes were full of smiles. Cen Kexuan took half a step back, staring at him intently, he was still wearing a moon-white light silk shirt, a pair of peach blossom eyes, but the color of his pupils was becoming more and more purple, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, with the contemptuous look of the game world. This appearance is harmless to humans and animals on the surface, but it is hateful in the bones, who is not Shulan?
He seemed to have descended from the sky, coming with the wind, without the slightest warning, without half a cent of wind and dust, as if he was in the Purple Cloud Palace, suddenly appearing, and suddenly disappearing. Under the red window of the moon, he tricked her into closing her eyes, and left decisively without knowing what she had taken.
She rubbed her eyes vigorously, and felt incredulous, and blinked several times in succession, but the familiar face was still there. "Shulan ......" she couldn't help but call again, making sure that the person in front of her was not an illusion, and then she had an indescribable steadiness in her heart.
Shulan seemed to be a little helpless by her, reached out and knocked her head, frowned and joked: "What's the matter, don't you know me?" ”
Of course she knew him, but ...... It's so unexpected, it's a surprise, it's a surprise...... Her eyes were sour and hazy, she wiped her eyes again, and her sleeves were moist again, and she really cried with joy. She never knew that her tears were so numerous and so flooding.
"Why are you here?" She asked the most surprising question in her heart, and before Shulan could answer, she immediately patted her forehead and laughed to herself: "I forgot again, you are Shulan, there is no place you can't go." She cried and laughed, her eyes that had been dull had become bright and dejected.
"I love to hear that." Shulan casually flipped the bamboo flute in her hand, and immediately easily put it into her sleeve, and gave Cen Kexuan one before, but somehow there was a new one. He tilted his head and smiled and said, "I knew you—" Suddenly caught a glimpse of her bare feet under her long skirt, and asked in surprise, "Where are the shoes?" The movements of his hands did not stop unconsciously.
Cen Kexuan was stunned for a moment, followed his line of sight and looked down at his cold toes, his white instep was slightly red from the cold, and he stepped on the floor like two smooth little loaches. She curled up her toes, pulled her long skirt to cover her carefully retracted feet, and gradually her face became a little hot and extremely uncomfortable. Now, it's really embarrassing...... Of course, she didn't want to tell Shulan how she rushed to find him in such a hurry that she forgot to put on her shoes, this guy would definitely laugh at her.
"I ...... I forgot to wear it. She whispered as her eyes drifted from side to side, racking her brains to finally find a reason that didn't look like a reason.
"Can this be forgotten?" Shulan raised her eyebrows, feeling very strange.
Cen Kexuan had no choice but to mutter: "What's the matter...... "The two slippery feet rubbed unconsciously on the ground, and they didn't pay attention to it all the time, but at this moment they felt that the ground was very cold, and their feet became cold, as if they were soaked in ice water. The ankle, which was already a little sprained, is probably even more serious now. If you don't care about your body so much, you will be the one who suffers in the end, and you can't be so careless.
"Either go and help me get my shoes, or carry me back, you choose." She suddenly had a little urgency in her eyes, and leaned on the vermilion pillar with her hands behind her back, giving Shulan two choices word by word, and did not forget to blink and remind: "I'm injured now." "It's as if to say how cold-blooded and ruthless you are if you don't take care of me.
Shulan was originally a character who didn't eat this set, but fortunately, after many years of relationship between the two, he at least didn't let go, just bit his finger and looked her up and down, and seemed to think very seriously, and then said in a matter-of-fact manner: "You are so heavy, I can't carry it." ”
Hah, that's exactly what I want! Cen Kexuan didn't mind his dislike, he was happy in his heart, and immediately said: "Then go get me shoes!" As she spoke, she squatted down to cover her feet: "You can't tell me to go by myself, it's easy to catch a cold." She raised her eyes to look at him, blinked her eyes and pretended to be pitiful: "I sprained my foot a few days ago, and when I get cold, I'm afraid it's even more serious......"
"Then I'll carry you in." Shulan sighed exaggeratedly, and finally said in compromise, but her eyes were already full of smiles.
"Wouldn't it be right to say that earlier?" Cen Kexuan immediately smiled, jumped to the railing bench on the side with a smile, and said arrogantly: "Hurry up, hurry up, turn around." While dancing and gesturing, he didn't forget to muttered secretly: "I haven't thought about tea and dinner recently, it's a lot lighter." These words immediately attracted the ridicule of Shulan: "The word tea and rice is not used like this, Xiao Kexuan." ”
Cen Kexuan didn't bother to pay attention to him, and kept waving his hand and laughing: "Turn around, turn around, no one has carried me for many years!" ”
Shulan shook her head funny, and as soon as she turned around, Cen Kexuan pounced at once, the two almost didn't stand firm, Cen Kexuan hurriedly shouted: "Oh, be careful, I'm not wearing shoes, I'm going to fall to the ground." As he spoke, he wrapped his whole hand around his neck, for fear of falling off and clutching him to death.
"Got it, got it." Shulan let out a long sigh of relief, turned her head and said, "Loosen your hand, I'm almost out of breath." ”
"I didn't make much effort, you...... Hey, it's going to fall, it's going to fall! Don't look around! Cen Kexuan hung on him like an eight-legged octopus and shouted, "Did you hear it, didn't you hear it!" But his grip tightened.
"Got it, got it." Shulan replied weakly, but still reached out and hugged her body slightly.
In the distance, under the willow tree, a man dressed in white hid in the shadows, silently watching as the young man picked her up and walked towards the end of the corridor until he disappeared around the corner. So, he finally turned around and walked slowly through the night, still no emotion on his calm face.
Luoyang Street is the most prosperous place, and it is also the gate of the Zhang family's mansion, but at this moment there are constant fights. After returning from the ancestral hall of the Lin family, the Shuangyan Dart Bureau and his party tried to continue to negotiate with the Zhang family, but the Zhang family's natural caliber remained unchanged for many days, and they still avoided it on the grounds that Zhang Dagongzi was sick. According to Miss Lin, Zhang Minzhi not only appeared in Banjiang Building a few days ago, but also rarely got sick since he was a child, so it is unlikely that he will be sick.
In other words, it is highly likely that he is faking his illness.
As the saying goes, rabbits bite when they are in a hurry, not to mention that the people of the Shuangyan Dart Bureau have never been as weak as rabbits, and when they heard the same answer dozens of times, they finally lost their patience, and overturned the family on the spot, and broke into the door by force, and they must ask Zhang Minzhi to come forward and give them an explanation. The two sides clashed at that time, and immediately fought, and it was out of control.
In fact, the original force of the Zhang family is still good, after all, two of the three swords of Taihua were invited at a high price, and Zhang Jiansheng, the second son of Master Zhang, and Zhang Mingxuan, the adopted son, both have good skills, but unfortunately the killer Han Yue sneaked in a few months ago, not only took the life of Master Zhang, but even the two masters from Taihua Mountain were also defeated in the contest with him, one died on the spot, and one was seriously injured. At this time, the Shuangyan Dart Bureau broke in, and it happened that there was no one in the house at the moment, they fought all the way and entered, who knew that they finally entered the Zhang family's mansion, only to know that Zhang Minzhi actually came to a golden cicada to escape from the shell!
"Say! Where the hell did he go? Yan Shuangshuang kicked a family member, and his face turned red with anger, "Where did the surname Zhang hide?" Don't dare to come to see us, do you? "Their southern party suffered such heavy losses, and they didn't ask his Zhang family to lose money and lose their lives, but if you want an explanation, this surnamed Zhang actually hid and disappeared, Yan Shuangshuang was already so angry that he trembled.
That family had already been beaten to the point that his nose and face were swollen, and his eyes were so swollen that he was squinted into a line, and he shrank into a ball in fright, and he only shook his head and said that he didn't know.
"You are faithful, and if you don't tell the truth, believe it or not, I will kill you!" Yan Shuangshuang pulled out his sword with a "brush".
"Shuangshuang!" Fan Yuqing and Du Xiaoshan interrupted her in unison, for fear that she would really do something, Du Xiaoshan quickly closed her unsheathed long sword and said, "No blood!" Yan Shuangshuang had no choice but to explain angrily: "I scared him." After speaking, he glared at the family Ding fiercely, and seeing that he still didn't respond, he couldn't help but step forward and kick him, who knew that after the family Ding snorted, he actually fainted.
He ...... He's not going to die, is he? Seeing this scene, the Zhang family didn't dare to squeak, but a person named Feng Xiaoma from the Shuangyan Dart Bureau whispered.
The rest of the Zhang family's guards were all around, and because they were invincible by force, they didn't dare to say anything, and when they heard this, they were even more frightened. Yan Shuangshuang didn't expect this change, and hurriedly stepped forward to probe under his nose, feeling that his fingers were warm and still had a faint breath, so he breathed a sigh of relief and turned around and explained: "I just fainted, I didn't have a heavy hand at all." ”
Du Xiaoshan and Fan Yuqing glanced at each other and sighed, helpless.
In the end, the Shuangyan Dart Bureau is open to do business and want to be famous, and it can't kill people and set fire here, and if you can't find the son of the Zhang family, you have no idea for a while, just looking at the Zhang family's bunch of trembling family members and those guards who were injured by them, and they were helpless. In the entire hall of the Zhang family, the two people were either imposing, or trembling, standing in a large circle around several rows, Du Xiaoshan and Yan Shuangshuang frowned and sat in it, with a sad face, Fan Yuqing leaned lazily on the pillar, although not anxious, but also quite unsure of what to do.
After a moment of silence, Yan Shuangshuang suddenly slapped the table and said, "Otherwise, we will stay here and not leave, I don't believe that the surnamed Zhang will never come back." ”
Feng Xiaoma hurriedly agreed: "It's worthy of being a senior sister, I'll just say that I can come up with a good idea!" ”
Everyone suddenly came back to their senses, and then they seemed to wake up, and they all said yes, and they really stayed.
The reason why Zhang Minzhi has been hiding in the house and refusing to see people is not because he is afraid of the pair of swallow darts game, but because there are some things that he really can't explain clearly, and he can't think of a reasonable way to deal with it, so he can only cover his head and be a turtle with a shrunken head. He saw that the people from the pair of swallow darts were losing their patience more and more, so he knew that something would happen if he dragged on any longer, so he secretly slipped away through a small door behind the house and escaped from Luoyang City when the night was dark and the wind was high.
Jiansheng left Luoyang since three months ago, I don't know where he is, Ming Xuan was injured by a woman of unknown origin on the night of escorting the wooden box back to the city. He covered his head and fled all the way out of the city, thinking to himself that he couldn't return to Luoyang City for the time being, and because he was in a hurry and was afraid of being discovered, he didn't even take a decent carriage, and he didn't dare to live in a too conspicuous inn.
"I don't know when they'll give up!" He secretly complained, and hid alone in a small temple outside Luoyang City, which was also not beautiful, and there was a sudden thunderstorm outside, so he had to find a corner in the temple to hide from the rain and spend the night temporarily. This ruined temple is uninhabited all year round, spider webs are intertwined in the corners of the four corners, or occasional beggars spend the night, there are a lot of mice and cockroaches, Zhang Minzhi has been used to living in a good place since he was a child, and at the moment he is lying on a ball of grain grass piled up randomly, only feeling itchy all over his body, extremely uncomfortable. He couldn't help but stand up and shake his body, trying to relieve the itching that came from nowhere, but he didn't know what to step on, his foot slipped, and he almost fell.
"What the hell!" Scolding and scolding, he lifted the grain grass on the ground with his feet, looked down, and saw that it was a broken bowl with a gap, it must be a beggar who spent the night, he was very disgusted in his heart, and kicked it away, and then covered his body again and lay down, still feeling uncomfortable, a person groped on his body from time to time, and after tossing and turning, he felt tired and fell asleep unconsciously. (To be continued.) )