Dust.

Swirling, drifting, colliding with each other, separating, approaching, missing again, in a small inch of golden sunlight. It was just a very small gust of wind, and it disappeared without a trace.

I sat up, and beneath me was a cool and silky soft—grass, a meadow.

Before she was surprised and delighted, a flickering figure in Tsing Yi suddenly appeared at the end of her vision, as if she was greatly frightened, she was running as fast as she could, a waist-length long hair scattered behind her back, and she threw it up left and right as she ran, like a smooth and delicate plain black long exercise.

It's a clear water.

"Shui Qing!"

Perhaps because the air was too stagnant, the sound I came out of my throat was so thin and shrill and harsh. Shui Qing obviously didn't hear my call, and still ran wildly towards the far side.

"Shui Qing, don't go over! It's dangerous over there! ”

It wasn't intimidation, looking in the direction of Shui Qing's wild run, behind a low turquoise hillside, there was a chaotic and restless surging silver mirror.

It's that terrible meteorite.

"Shui Qing! Come back! ”

I ran in the direction of Shui Qing, and at the moment of pulling my legs, the wind around me seemed to howl, pushing me to step softly on the grass.

"Shui Qing! Can you hear me! ”

I almost flew straight into the air, but we were still so far apart that the wind was howling, and I felt a little sharp and unfamiliar with the sound of my own desperate shouting. In her heart, she was anxious, and her feet accelerated faster and faster as if riding the wind—the long black hair behind Shui Qing's scattered back in front of her was getting closer and closer, but she was almost one step away from the silver mirror of the meteorite.

"Don't!"

At the moment when Shui Qing's fingertips touched the ripples on the mirror, I grabbed her shoulder. Shui Qing stopped abruptly, her long hair falling down her shoulders at an extremely slow and wonderfully dreamlike speed.

"Shui Qing, don't go... Don't leave me again! ”

As if at last she heard my voice, her shoulders trembled slightly, her hair flickered, and she turned her slender neck.

In a minute, I finally saw the face that I had not seen for a long time—the moment the four eyes met, it seemed that the pulse of the whole body stopped instantly, and my hand that grabbed her shoulder was like an electric shock, and after a sharp tingling, it was a panic numbness.

The girl in front of her was fair-skinned, her cheeks were slightly emaciated and sunken, and her silhouette was not as delicate and small as Shuiqing, but as familiar and suffocating as seeing each other every day. A pair of almond eyes seemed to be frightened, and they were staring at me in a daze.

That's my own face.

"Shui Qing," I heard the familiar and frightening voice of my self in front of me in slightly surprise, "what's wrong?" ”

She, I'......

Heaven and earth were suddenly shrouded in a cold darkness, as if the air in the lungs was frozen in an instant.

I grabbed a handful forward, but I flew into the air towards the increasingly turbulent silver mirrored body.

Maybe it was near, but it seemed to be far away, a terrible wail shook my eardrums, and in the darkness it seemed that a thousand cold huge palms suddenly appeared, stretching out from all directions, squeezing and kneading my body, and the real and intense pain extended along the blood veins like the roots of a tree to my fragile heart.

I wanted to scream, but I couldn't feel my throat, or even my whole body.

In a small inch of golden sunlight, only the two pieces of dust remained, whirling, drifting, separating, approaching ......

Miss.

The body was weightless in an instant, and it fell back into the warm and soft mattress.

As if filled with lead water, open your eyes, raise your hands, get up, get out of bed, move... Every movement took a lot of effort.

Standing quietly in front of the window, letting the cold wind of the winter night blow through every inch of my skin like an ice blade, I felt the precious moment of sobriety brought by the piercing pain, but I could not fade the words out of my mind for a moment.

"On the day of Xiaohan, the four princes will escort Miss Pei to the execution ground in the West Market and behead Miss Pei in public."

Shui Qing, I have been looking for you for a long time, and now I finally have news, why is it the news that you will be executed?

We have already lost the Chu River, if we can't even save you, where else can I hope of looking for the golden gift alone?

Xiaohan, isn't that ten days later... It's that I was able to come up with a careful plan to save you in such a tight time, but the palace mansion is such an iron and bronze wall—

"The axe once told me that at this time, the four princes' mansions had already laid a net of heaven and earth. The subordinates persuaded you a lot, that is, Miss Pei is a friend of the flag owner, and you can't act rashly during this period and throw yourself into the net! ”

Yu Yue's words are not unreasonable, the reason why Gong Yu moved Shui Qing under his nose was to prevent her from being rescued in the palace curtain.

Now Shui Qing's strict guard can be imagined, although I am very anxious, I also agreed to Yu Yue in the end, and did not say much else - first, it is very dangerous for his two brothers to listen to the news for me in front of the curtain, and now the palace is no longer trusting the palace of Prince Huan. If I beg them to rescue Shui Qing for me at this moment, it is equivalent to putting his two brothers in the sea of swords and fires, and letting them exchange their lives for Shui Qing's lives;

Second, although they call me the banner master, how can I really regard myself as a gentle spirit and drive her subordinates at will? It is true that I have used the sovereign position of Wen Linggang's wind banner to let them find everyone's whereabouts for me, but now the situation is so dangerous, if I use them again, I will really have a guilty conscience.

Not only can't I ask for an axe - now the person holding Shui Qing is Gong Hao, the fourth prince of the dynasty, and the matter involves the court, even if the Hou Ye and I have a deep friendship, it is not good for me to ask him for help again;

And the relationship between the Tail Sect and the imperial court is so tense, and Duan Ming is the deputy banner master of the Tail Sect, so naturally I can't ask him for help anymore;

As for Aunt Wen Zhaohua, one is a conscientious Lifu general, and the other is the housewife of the Qinglou in the age of the sixtieth year, they treat me as a gentle spirit to take care of everything for me, but now they ask me to pull them down into this troubled water for their own affairs, which is really impossible.

I am the only one who can save Shuiqing.

With such a plan in my heart to rescue Shui Qing, I was groggy and shrunk in my room all day.

However, the more I want to be quiet, the more chaotic my thoughts become.

The little girl outside would knock on my door every hour or two, and after a while, Aunt Hua had already asked her subordinates to change Wanqiu's prescription, just to delay her illness for a while; After a while, he said that Ji Sarong's illness was like a mountain, and he had already lost half his life, and he fainted to death in bed several times a day, and now he had been moved out of the Taopin Building and sent to the suburban garden for recuperation and treatment.

Listening to such a sentence in my ears, my heart became more and more sad, I don't know if it was more distress for Wanqiu, or more guilt for Ji Sarong.

In the end, it was a letter brought by the little servant during the evening meal, which slightly relieved my worries about the day - it was a letter sent by Gan Lai from Yiyang to report safety, saying that everything was fine at home, and that he was going to buy two acres of land in the next year.

A few crooked lines of small characters on a piece of sallow yellow letter paper made me happily read it more than ten times.

When the girls saw a slight smile on my face, they also breathed a sigh of relief, pushed open the window and happily beckoned to me: "Girl, come and see!" It's snowing outside again, and the old peach trees in the yard are getting more beautiful with snow falling! It's easy for that one to go out to recuperate, it's rare to be so clean in the building, the girl has been depressed in the house for a day, go to the yard to relax! ”

"It's just snowfall, and the old peach tree hasn't bloomed, so there's nothing to see." I smiled and said, "I'm done, you can clean up too—the window is for me, and I'll just watch the night view from here." ”

The crowd was ordered, and they took the dishes and went out.

After closing the door, I walked to the window, but I saw that the snow was falling outside, the stars were twinkling, and the lights of the thousands of homes in the city of Kaju were warm, but they were not brighter than the round moonlight in the sky.

Because of Ganlai's letter, the beautiful scenery in front of him became more and more intoxicating. My mood suddenly opened, and I didn't even want to think about Shui Qing's matter for a while, but such a bright mood was not entirely due to the letter and the snow scene in front of me.

Tonight is the day when the young man in white invited me to meet at the foot of Lianyue Mountain on that snowy night.

In the blink of an eye, has it been seven days since I first met him?

I was so tired from the past seven days, and I couldn't end it in front of me, and that day was the only hope I had in those days.

It's ridiculous to say, I met him in the water, and the time we spent together was pitiful, how could this person leave such a deep impression in my heart, and after seven days, I didn't even forget half of my voice and smile?

"Seven days later, on the night of the full moon, I sincerely invite Miss Lian to gather by the Lianyue Lake."

Inadvertently, the corners of my mouth lifted into an imperceptible smile - it was indeed a very funny young man, not very old, but rather a man of his own words. Although it was a cynical impression at first sight, it was so pleasing and unpleasant that it was really annoying. Coupled with such a dusty appearance, just a moment of staring in the fine snow is enough to make people fascinated and unforgettable for a long time.

And outside the window at this moment, the lights of Taohua Street in Kazhou City are on, and the white light and dust are falling from the sky, just like the cold and snowy night when I first met him.

"Girl, it's been this hour, and the snow outside is getting bigger and bigger, what are you going out for?"

"Oh... It turned out that I had a serious date with my friends before, and I really couldn't miss the appointment. ”

I tightened the white oak embroidered silver silk Ruyi dark mink hair tie on my body, and smiled brightly at the little guy who stopped me at the door of the peach sales building, "It's okay tonight, although the snow is heavy, it's not very cold, and the reflection makes the road brighter and brighter...... You are busy, and you don't have to tell Aunt Hua about me going out, the gate will be closed after more than two hours, and I will definitely be able to come back before then. ”

After sending the little servant, I stepped up my steps and walked around Peach Blossom Street in the direction of the city gate.

I haven't been out and about these days, and I feel so happy for a while, even the cold wind on my face seems a little tender.

There was no trouble along the way, except for a group of officers and soldiers patrolling the city gates, and every passing man would be caught in the corner of the city wall and carefully examined by a chief with a portrait.

I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, so I put on my hood and lowered my neck and followed the caravan slowly, but fortunately my figure was obviously that of a daughter, and although it was delayed for some time, I was able to pass safely.

As soon as I got out of Kashu City, I used my internal strength to pull my legs and run. Tonight, the clouds are thin, the moonlight is clear, and the snowflakes are white and shining, and the black soil official road outside the city is not very difficult. In less than two moments, I was led by the moonlight to the foot of Lianyue Mountain, a forbidden mountain that everyone kept secret, ten miles away from Kazhou City.

I saw that the mountains and rocks in front of me were towering and abrupt, and all the dead trees were covered with snow, and it was indeed empty, even a wild mouse or hare could hardly be found.

I was a little surprised to find that although the scenery in front of me was chilling, my emotions were still high, and I did not have too much fear and melancholy.

Looking up, but seeing a half-moon behind the ridge, I let out a deep breath and continued to walk through the snow.

Bypassing the two low mountains at the head and behind, there is a wide and open flat land between the fruit ridges. When the full moon was in the sky, a silver light was faintly reflected on the ground as if it echoed it, and I looked forward, but I saw that it was the place where I came to this world three months ago, and was captured by Xiao Yaosheng in the body of the seriously injured Wen Ling, the place of the Hou Mansion - Lianyue Lake.

Different from the rippling blue waves of the day, now in the wax moon season, this bay of lakes has been frozen into a smooth and smooth ice surface like a silver mirror between the ice and snow, at this moment reflecting the bright moon on the horizon, the cold wind in the valley swept away most of the floating snow on the lake surface, reflecting a soft and treacherous, looming dark light.

For no apparent reason, my mind drifted back to the dark, damp circular cave of the time.

It is also a silver lake that is breathtakingly beautiful and unrealistic, Shui Qing, Jinbi, Chu River, Xiaoli, Zhuo Ying, and Mo Yunxia......

It seemed like a long, long time ago, but just like the frozen lake in front of me, although things are not people, everyone's faces can always flash back in my mind so inadvertently, and then what follows is a burst of cold on my body that is difficult to dissipate for a long time, like the cold and biting bones blown by the mountain wind on a winter night.

There was a sudden uncontrollable twitch in my calves, and I was pulled back from my deep thoughts by my body's instinctive reaction, and I realized that I had been shivering by the cold and blade-like wind of the valley. Looking around, he didn't see the imaginary figure in white, and he wanted to open his mouth to call, but suddenly realized that he didn't know the name of the young man.

"Hey... Where are you? ”