vs 11 The thorny road is not seen, but it is already on the way
Yao Jin doesn't quite remember what the day she came here, what the moonlight was, how she screamed, how Chen Cheng slapped her, all this, along with her thoughts and temper, seemed to have become a vague memory, just attached to the body of the thirteen-year-old girl now. She went from sunrise to sunset in a daze, and two months had passed in the blink of an eye. But for her, the past two months and one or two days don't seem to be much different, most of the day, the twenty-nine-year-old Miss Yao does not exist, only the thirteen-year-old little palace maid Yao Jin, this little girl who eats and wears warm every day, but only knows how to sprinkle and sweep on duty, for people to send errands, and there is not even a little girl who knows each other.
It was late autumn, and it was raining lightly on this day, Yao Jin was wearing a somewhat thin autumn coat, and trotted up after turning a corner out of the pear orchard. Not far in front of Taichang Temple, she was instructed by her aunt to get winter clothes today, but the two little eunuchs who were supposed to be with her suddenly had abdominal pain, and shouted that she couldn't walk and asked her to run two more times by herself. This kind of fake routine will naturally not work if it is put on Yao Jin in 2017, but the nameless little palace maid in the palace of the Li Dynasty only looked at the two little eunuchs who seemed to be grinning in pain, and then responded in a low voice.
As soon as she left the palace gate, a sharp wind swept over Yao Jin's body like a whirlwind, and her seven souls and six senses seemed to suddenly wake up from her drowsy sleep, and immediately returned to everyone. Miss Yao, who had a lively brain, turned her face and wanted to go back and scold the two little eunuchs, but she suddenly thought that today was the seventeenth of Dan, and it was Chen Cheng's turn to inspect the area of the North Gate Garden.
After being here for two months, he had only met Chen Cheng once secretly, as if he was still at the risk of cutting off his head. Yao Jin felt depressed in his heart, and while walking with his head down, he quietly looked at the continuous palace walls and palaces that looked a little calm. Soon she arrived at a garden, glanced around and there was just no one, and hurried to a rockery next to a big golden cinnarel. This rockery is not big, but it is just enough for the small Yao Jin to hide in it, and then look at the corridor not far away from the gap in the stone, which is where the patrol change is located.
Yao Jin estimated that it had been more than ten minutes, but he hadn't seen half a figure, he couldn't help but be a little anxious, he was shrunk inside and couldn't move, he felt very uncomfortable, he just wanted to turn sideways slightly, a burst of heavy footsteps accompanied by a low voice came, Yao Jin leaned on the crack in the stone to take a closer look, the guards came to change shifts, one of them was thin and a little pale, it was Chen Cheng.
"Jin Liancheng, you just wait here, in half an hour, the eldest aunt's people will bring the things, and tomorrow someone from the palace will naturally ask you to take it." The first middle-aged fat man, who was dressed more gorgeously, patted Chen Cheng on the shoulder with a rough voice, then looked around with a little guard, and then led the others away with a swagger. Yao Jin was a little strange when he saw this, and when he saw that those people had gone away, he leaned out and shouted softly: "Chen Cheng, I'm here!"
However, the person standing there did not seem to hear and remained motionless.
"Chen Cheng, Chen Cheng! Jin Liancheng!"
The last sentence seemed to be louder, Chen Cheng turned around suddenly, and saw Yao Jin's small body hiding there, his frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and he hurriedly walked to the back of the rockery, and looked back again, it was indeed no one, so he whispered, "How did you get out?"
"Send me to Taichang Temple to get winter clothes! How are you doing?"
Hearing this, Chen Cheng's expression seemed to be a little aggrieved, he shook his head, and muttered, "That's it, it's nothing." ”
"How can it be nothing!Please, you haven't found any clues, haven't you found a way for us to go back?" Yao Jin was a little anxious, she usually couldn't get out of the pear orchard, and she had been counting on Chen Cheng to find a way to go back to modern times, when she heard his words, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart, she read it in her heart a few times to calm down, and continued: " I've been in a daze in the pear orchard for the past two months, and I just sobered up along the way, I think maybe it's just that our thoughts have traveled to this inexplicable dynasty, maybe our deity is still in the elevator of Hechang Building! This possibility is absolutely existent, and only this possibility can explain why after we crossed here, our age has changed, our appearance has also changed, and we have inexplicably have the identity and memory here!"
Chen Cheng didn't seem to react to her words, but he still shook his head slowly and didn't say a word.
"Hey!" Yao Jin became annoyed, "The two of us are now meeting here at the risk of killing our heads, don't you even have the slightest idea, are you going to just shake your head at me and count? Are you here like me, your brain is broken!"
Chen Cheng glanced at her at this time, but there was despair and decadence in his eyes that could not be concealed, this was Chen Cheng that Yao Jin had never seen before, she couldn't help but take a step back in fright, and she couldn't speak.
But after a moment of silence, Chen Cheng seemed to sigh very lightly, slowly rolled up his sleeves, and a Z-shaped wound that had not yet fully healed appeared on his arm, Yao Jin glanced at it hurriedly, felt a little hideous, and muttered, "How did you do it, catch the assassin?"
The young guard lowered his sleeves and said lightly, "The summer before last, on Yuebai's birthday, you got drunk and said that the scar on my arm was a tattoo, and asked me if I was tattooed which little girl's initials, how did I tell you later, do you remember?"
"Since you're drunk, where do you remember!" Yao Jin became anxious again, "When are you talking to me about this gossip now!"
"I told you at the time that the scar was when I was 18 years old when I hit a stainless steel electrical cabinet and was injured by the unsealed edge inside, it was my father's birthday, and I accompanied my mother to my father's company and hit it in their workshop. ”
"What the hell are you trying to say?"
Chen Cheng looked at Yao Jin intently, and said word by word, "My father's birthday is the twelfth day of October in the lunar calendar, and the new injury you see now was injured five days ago." Do you understand?"
Yao Jin's scalp was a little numb, and his teeth trembled slightly, "Five days ago, it was October 12, it was October 12!"
"yes...... So at that moment, I suddenly understood that the current me, that is, the eighteen-year-old me, would happen what should happen, but in a different era. Chen Cheng said these words with a kind of dead silence, "So if you ask me what way to go home, it's not that I haven't thought about it, but it's impossible." ”
"That, that can only mean that we are indeed in this inexplicable ancient time now, and it doesn't mean that we can't go back!" Although Yao Jin was hit, he still had a clear mind and still refused to give up.
Chen Cheng looked at the sun and said coldly, "You think about what happened in that elevator last time, what you saw at that time." ”
It was as if a large basin of ice water had suddenly poured Yao Jin from head to toe, and she couldn't help but feel excited. She didn't want to recall the scene she saw at the time, and she didn't want to tell Chen Cheng in front of her, she put away her unwillingness, walked out of the rockery calmly, and said lightly, "You tell me first, what you saw." ”
"I see it...... I'm old. ”
"What is it?"
After a pause of a few seconds, Chen Cheng's answer seemed to be with a helpless smile, "It's good, it's just that I'm old, but I'm still in this palace." ”
Yao Jin didn't speak again, she was already facing away from Chen Cheng, and at this moment she walked away by herself, without looking back or saying goodbye, and even forgetting that she should have gone to Taichang Temple to receive winter clothes. Yao Jin walked aimlessly step by step, this was the first time she had experienced the cloth shoes on her feet so carefully, this long skirt, and even the belly pocket that she wore close to her body that did not have any underwear effect, all of this already belonged to her, she could not be put aside, could not dodge, could not be avoided or ignored, every organ of Yao Jin was keeping this feeling in mind, because she felt that she might have to accept this feeling and accept herself for a long time.
As for how long this time was, she didn't dare to think about it.