343: The beginning is also the end
At that time, the clock seemed to have some inexplicable magic, and Mu Xue woke up and looked at the clock for a long time.
She rubbed her sour eyes, and there was still three points of warmth between her hoarse voice: "Is it because I slept in a daze, or did I see it wrong, how do I feel that this needle is going in the opposite direction..."
She was dressed in white, close to the color of the wall.
The skin is also white and shiny, and the whole person looks bright and eye-catching.
In fact, she was not mistaken, nor was she sleeping in a daze, this needle was indeed going backwards.
When all the needles have returned to the original point, Mu Xue should also go back.
She didn't understand where this was, but she just watched the needle walk slowly backwards, and inexplicably felt her brain swell.
This needle is all done in one circle, but it has been twelve years.
Exactly one annual ring.
When Mu Xue realized this, she knew that the cold air rose from the soles of her feet.
It almost froze her flesh and blood layer by layer, and her whole body was trembling.
It was a closed room, there were no doors or windows, and there were no secret doors to be found, like a natural square box, and Mu Xue became a trapped beast.
Nangong Li could feel that the people around him were not sleeping steadily, it was not particularly hot weather, but the woman who was napping next to her was covered with hot sweat, and her dark hair stuck to her white and shiny skin, forming an irregular net.
"Little Cher? Cherry, what's wrong with you? ”
Nangong Li patted her on the back, trying to lull Mu Xue, who was still frowning in her sleep, to sleep.
But at this moment, he found that she seemed to have fallen into a deep nightmare, and Mu Xue couldn't hear his shouts at all.
It's like an invisible wall, blocking all his news,
Mu Xue woke up when his lips bit down on his red lips, and he took all the breath from her mouth.
He lifted his body slightly, propped up his elbows to look at the woman below him, and all the sparkles in his eyes full of calculation were his concern.
He was really worried.
The whole heart hung in the air.
"Xiao Xue'er, are you having a nightmare?"
Nangong Li thinks she must have had a nightmare, otherwise why would she be sweating profusely.
Nangong Li's voice was gentle, and while asking, her fingers were raised, and she gently peeled off the black hair stuck to her neck.
It's a nightmare.
Mu Xue, who woke up, didn't say a word, but her lips were bloodless white, she shrank into his arms, and kept silent.
Mu Xue's dependence on Nangong is very much in love, which deeply arouses his pity.
He always felt that Mu Xue didn't say anything in his heart, but he didn't think about it carefully, and leaned down to imprint a shallow kiss on her forehead.
"Seeing that your clothes are wet, go and let Fei Qi prepare water for a bath, otherwise it will be bad if you catch a cold later."
Mu Xue got up too early this morning, and she was already suffering from some cold, but she was greatly frightened in her dream, and she soon became ill.
The complexion is as pale as frost, like the nephrite jade, white and flawless, with three more points of morbid beauty.
Leaning on the pillow of the bed, Nangong Li was feeding her medicine in front of the bed, very considerate, afraid that the medicine was too bitter, and he also prepared the appetizing hawthorn on the other side early.
In fact, the hour was not early, and the bright sun had already set in the west.
The dim light of the setting sun shone on the uva of Yunlan Garden, as if it had plated the courtyard with an inexplicable layer of light.
Fei Qi came over with small steps in full swing, as if carrying some great news.
"What's wrong?"
Nangong Li's tone contained a hint of impatience, as if he didn't like it very much that Fei Qi came over and disturbed his relationship with Mu Xue.
"Lord Wang, Lord Li has come to the General's Mansion to find you and the princess."
This Lord Li in Fei Qi's mouth is naturally Li Mingze.
It turned out that this Mu Zhennan thought that Li Mingze had come to visit him, and when he was about to euphemistically refuse this person to enter the mansion, Li Mingze said that he had something important to look for the princess, so someone came to report.
"Did he say anything?"
Nangong is not particularly interested in seeing Li Mingze in his selfish heart.
After all, he, the vinegar jar, would not wait for any man who pulled Mu Xue's mind away.
"He only said that he had something important to find the princess, but he didn't say anything specific."
In fact, when Li Mingze knew that Mu Xue came through like himself, he was not in a hurry to talk to Mu Xue about something.
But now he actually found the general's mansion, which means that this person must have been to the palace, and heard that the prince and the princess came to the general's mansion, so he found the general's mansion.
Thinking about it like this, it must be a very great thing, otherwise this person would not be so anxious to find himself.
Mu Xue's eyelids raised slightly, and her voice was hoarse and pleaded: "He is in such a hurry to find me, there must be something important, let him come over first." Good no good? ”
In fact, Mu Xue had a bad premonition in her heart.
Didn't Li Mingze Mo have a dream that was exactly the same as himself?
In fact, Mu Xue's assumptions are not wrong at all, Li Mingze and Mu Xue's dreams are really exactly the same.
Clothed in the dim light of the setting sun, he ran a little anxiously, and there was great anxiety between the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
Maybe there were outsiders here, otherwise he couldn't help but ask the question in his chest.
He only found out that Mu Xue's expression was abnormal when he approached the bed, and he naturally wanted to touch Mu Xue's forehead, wanting to see if she had a fever.
"Mu Xue, what's wrong with you?"
Fei Qi and Yun Zhi were still at the door, and when they heard this Lord Li call the princess Mu Xue, how strange it sounded.
"She's sick."
Nangong Li's slightly cool voice sounded from his side, and Li Mingze noticed that the real husband of the family was still sitting here.
may have thought that the ancient times would take innocence and these things more seriously, and the back of his hand withdrew before he could put it on Mu Xue's forehead.
"Lord Wang, my tongue is bitter from drinking this medicine, can you go and help me see what appetizing snacks are available in the kitchen?"
In fact, Mu Xue wanted to leave Nangong away.
How could this man not understand.
He put down the medicine bowl in his hand, and then glared at Li Mingze with an unfriendly gaze, and then walked out, leaving space for these two people.
Nangong was so obedient, he turned back after walking a short distance.
Actually, he didn't really want to do this kind of eavesdropping, but he was too uneasy.
The panic in his heart swelled up without warning, and this panic came towards him, forcing him to go crazy.
"Senior Aze, you sit down first."
Mu Xue's voice was light and weak, and she was hoarse with illness.
separated by a thick layer of tiles, it fell into Nangong Li's ears.
Li Mingze first sat down obediently, and then couldn't wait to ask: "Mu Xue, did you also dream of it?" A shiny white house with no doors or windows? ”
Hearing this, Mu Xue's face turned even paler.
The uneasiness in my heart was also magnified.
It's like a thick ink dotted between the clear water, and all of a sudden it stains a basin of water.
Her hair was originally scattered, and she lowered her head in frustration, and the hair covered half of her face, making Li Mingze unable to see the expression on her face clearly.
"Well, I dreamed it."
"And a weird-looking clock? A bell that goes against the grain? ”
In order to make sure that Mu Xue was the same as he dreamed, he asked the scene in more detail.
Mu Xue followed his words, as if she was talking about an ordinary thing.
"The edge of that strange bell is engraved with the twelve zodiac signs, go backwards, Senior Aze, this may mean that we can only stay in this Great Abyss Country for twelve years..."
Mu Xue's voice was empty, as if someone had pumped her soul, her eyes were empty and scary, and she didn't even have light.
It was dark and dreary, as if it had been stripped of its light, and the rest was pitch black.
For a while, she didn't know whether she felt that this time was too long, or complained that the short time of twelve years was too short.
It's just that she didn't notice it herself, her tone was reluctant, and her emotions had already made a choice for her.
Hearing Mu Xue's speculation, the look on Li Mingze's face was solemn and terrifying.
"Yes!! When I woke up, I drew this thing, and I walked the needle backwards, and sooner or later I would return to the starting point."
It's all back to square one.
It's like they've never been here.
It's quite like the beginning of Taoism is also the end.
"Hmm."
Mu Xue hummed softly, this small sound was almost inaudible, and it dispersed with the wind before it could be condensed into characters.
"But Mu Xue, have you ever thought about what we are going to this Great Abyss Country, which has never existed in history, for what?"
Li Mingze's wise Mu Xue knew, and when she heard his words, doubts flashed in her eyes.
"Huh? How do you say that? ”
Li Mingze was actually not particularly sure in his heart, and speculatively said what he thought in his heart.
"Maybe we're here just to help Prince Li's become emperor."
"How is this possible?"
Mu Xue instinctively doubted this person's words.
But Li Mingze said again: "Now I'm not afraid to let you know with this prince, in fact, after the last time I met you, I went to investigate this prince in private, do you know what great things I found?" ”
Mu Xue was not surprised that this person said that he was going to investigate Prince Li, and even felt that this was normal.
"Nangong Li's mother, Wei Ling'er, is almost a person who came out of nowhere, and her background can't be found, the key is that Wei Ling'er also died after staying in this Great Yuan Country for twelve years."
When Wei Ling'er died, Nangong Li was only ten years old.
After deducting those ten years, plus ten months of pregnancy, there is only about one year left.
One year is enough to change a lot of things in the capital.
For example, when she had been with Nangong for nearly four months, she never thought that she would love each other so deeply with that man.
She once said that a lifetime is only a few decades.
It's like someone has cut it off, and there are only 12 years left.
Her voice was hoarse, in fact, she already believed what he said in her heart, but she was still asking, "Is what you said true or false?" ”