The dark night fell, and the wooden lattices of different thicknesses of the skylight were sifted into a series and pressed into people's hearts, and the moonlight quietly disappeared at this moment.

In the dark, Qing Ruyun patted her heart rhythmically, her movements were very slow, trying not to alarm the people in the opposite corner.

Finally, she took out a light veil from her sleeve and covered her eyes, so that she could feel more at ease.

Suddenly, the young man asked, "Are you afraid?" ”

Qing Ruyun hesitated for a moment and whispered: "A little, just a little." ”

The young man said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here too." ”

Qing Ruyun smiled slightly, although she couldn't see the young man's expression clearly blindfolded, she could also feel that this statement came from his sincerity, and it was not a temporary fake, and said, "Thank you, but I'm not afraid of being alone." ”

She suffered from an eye disease since she was a child, unable to see normally, and groped in the dark for 15 years.

Until two years ago, after a serious illness, it was as if I had a long dream, and after waking up from the dream, my eyes miraculously recovered, no different from ordinary people.

She has always been open-minded and not afraid of gains and losses, but only in this one matter, she always felt the unexplained fear in her heart.

She is not afraid of loneliness, what she fears is the long and boundless darkness.

The clouds dispersed and the moon opened, and the faint light and shadow shrouded through the night, gently and softly enveloping the face of Qing Ruyun, and the light veil covering the eyes moved slightly, stirring the mind of the young man opposite, and he looked at her like that, as if he had gazed at her so deeply a long, long time ago.

The moon fades away, like waking up from a dream, as if a lifetime has passed.

The young man said, "Don't be afraid, I am your eyes." ”

Qing Ruyun smiled lightly again, but found it interesting, and said, "Little brother, do you mean to protect me?" ”

The young man's tone sounded cold and indifferent, but Qing Ruyun could inexplicably feel that the other party was very kind-hearted, at least, for her.

The young man said, "You may not be older than me, why do you call me a little brother?" ”

Qing Ruyun bowed slightly, and said, "Okay, then I won't call you a little brother, what do you like others to call you?" ”

The young man said, "My name is Lin Zhiqi. What is your name? ”

Qing Ruyun suddenly said: "You are the little son of the Sect Master of the Jade Void Alliance?" ”

Lin Zhiqi said: "It's me." ”

Lin Zhiqi, the only child of Lin Yiyu, the sect leader of the Jade Void Alliance of Nanrong Kingdom.

In the past five years, although the war between Beichen and Nanrong is on the verge of breaking out, the people of the two countries have not been without contact.

In Yicheng in Beichen, there is a large ferry crossing that crosses the river, and you can take a boat to Fancheng of Nanrongguo on the opposite side of the riverbank. Cross-strait family visits, businessmen and freight are all financed from here.

Speaking of the defender of Yicheng, it is the deputy general of General Feng'en Xie Yan, and General Feng'en's mansion is also located in Yicheng, and Xie Yan himself is also in Nanguan.

On the other side of the riverbank, Nanrong's Fancheng was guarded by Lin Yiyu and assisted Qi Shen, the son of King Xuan.

Lin Yiyu is well-known in martial arts, although he is involved in the military affairs of the imperial court, he does not accept all rewards. It wasn't until later that his subordinate Tianji Hall Master Zhuquan persuaded him that if he always avoided the gifts of the lord, he would inevitably be suspected of despising the imperial power.

Qing Ruyun said: "Don't you wonder why I know your identity?" If I go to tell the truth, this is Beichen, where your enemy country is, aren't you worried? ”

Lin Zhiqi said: "I'm not curious about how you know, and I'm not worried that you know, and I don't believe that you will tell the truth." ”

Then he asked very persistently, "What's your name?" ”

Qing Ruyun said frankly: "My name is ...... I was born in the Qiantang Qing family. ”

After hesitating for a moment, he continued: "I'm sorry, but I don't dare to do it. ”

Lin Zhiqi said: "I know you, your name is Yun Muqing, right?" ”

Qing Ruyun's heart was shocked, and she secretly said to herself: Yun Muqing? This name, is it the Muqing sister that Xiahou Wuyu has been talking about all day long? However, why did Xiahou Wuyu say that I was Mu Qing, and this strange young man also said that my name was Yun Muqing, but I couldn't remember such a thing anyway?

Lin Zhiqi said to himself: "I have seen you, in a city where phoenix flowers grow everywhere in the streets and alleys. We studied together, played together, grew up together, but then many of us were gone, and the city was gone. ”

Qing Ruyun's heart moved, buried her head in the crook of her arm, didn't let the other party see her expression, and tried her best to ask in a low voice: "We, were we once relatives?" ”

Lin Zhiqi lowered his eyes, thought for a while, and replied, "No." ”

Qing Ruyun was a little disappointed, and asked again: "Then ...... Where's the city full of phoenix flowers, you said? Are there still my relatives there? ”

Lin Zhiqi said: "This city is not in Nanrong, nor in Beichen. This city only exists in the distant past. The only thing I know for sure is that I'm not here for this city that has fallen into nothingness, or for anyone else. You don't remember anything now, and you forgot me, but I do. The reason why I'm here, and why I'm here no matter what, is to be able to recognize you. ”

Qing Ruyun was stunned and said, "You don't have to say it so directly." ”

Lin Zhiqi asked: "If I tell you that we have known each other a long time ago, do you believe me?" ”

Qing Ruyun pondered for a moment and said, "I don't know, but if you want me to believe your words, I will seriously and without hesitation believe what you say." ”

Lin Zhiqi felt a little funny, a gentle and doting smile crossed his eyes, and asked, "What does it mean that if I want you to believe it, you will believe it?" ”

Qing Ruyun said: "I don't want to say things like 'I don't believe', because I know the feeling of not being trusted, and I know that no matter how I am sure and how to persevere, I will still be denied by others with a sentence of 'this is impossible', such a feeling of powerlessness." Therefore, if I say that I believe you, I will really believe everything you say, not perfunctory, not deceitful. ”

Lin Zhiqi said: "Thank you." ”

He had more to say, choked in his throat and couldn't speak.

Qing Ruyun sneaked into Beichen Yangzhou Mansion to assassinate the day, when he received the news, he was in Huangtai County on the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Road, it was too late to cross the river through the Fancheng Ferry, and he could only risk going straight to Beichen by sea.

When the Beichen soldiers who infiltrated Yaoxian Island and set fire to capture him back to the shore of the East China Sea, he finally met the man.

In the past two years of separation, he has wandered in front of Qiantang Yun's house many times, but he has not been able to recognize each other. The master of the Yun family told him that there was no such person as Yun Muqing in the family.

Is the loss of my left eye important? Of course it's important.

The life that was almost lost, does it matter? Important, but not regretted.

Qing Ruyun said gently: "I didn't help you anything. However, since you are unfortunately in trouble because you mistook me for Yun Muqing, I will definitely find a way to help you escape. ”

Lin Zhiqi said: "When you leave, I will naturally leave." Although my martial arts skills are not as good as yours, there is still a way to escape. ”

Qing Ruyun said: "If you don't go back earlier, your father will be very worried." ”

Lin Zhiqi said: "In order to help a prince of Beichen who has just met, you delayed more than a month in the enemy country and did not return, won't the Yun family's father and mother worry about you?" ”

Qing Ruyun said: "I said, I don't have the surname Yun, and my parents have people and things they care about more to distract themselves from cooking, where can they take care of me?" Maybe they don't know about it when I come out this time. ”

Lin Zhiqi leaned against the back wall, crossed his hands as pillows, and said indifferently: "The wife of Master Yun of Qiantang Yunjiayun is surnamed Qing, two years ago, you were seriously ill, and you have followed your mother's surname since then, right?" ”

Qing Ruyun was stunned.

I could only hear the sound of rustling on the roof, Lu Lin stepped lightly on the roof tiles, and after a while, he heard the tinkling sound of the chain at the door of the firewood courtyard, and Lu Lin slipped in.

He took off his helmet and armor and handed it to Qing Ruyun, waved his hand, and said respectfully: "Thank you Sister Qing, it's wet and cold here, I shouldn't have made my sister wait so long, don't blame me." ”

After saying that, he took out the flint velvet and lit the oil lamp again.

Qing Ruyun smiled, put on his armor, fastened his hat belt, and glanced in the direction of Lin Zhiqi, seeing him closing his eyes and pretending to be asleep, and remembering some of the words he said before, he couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion, and he was inexplicably messed up.

Lu Lin saw a few names on the ground and said with a smile: "Mu Qing, Xiao Xue, Sister Qing knows them?" ”

"Huh?"

Qing Ruyun looked stunned, and hurriedly leaned down and grabbed a half-dried straw to erase the gray and black handwriting, and said, "I'm just listening to it tonight...... Hearing these two names......"

Lu Lin still smiled and said: "Although I haven't seen the girl Muqing mentioned by my senior brother, my sister must be very similar to her in appearance and temperament, so my senior brother is so persistent." If you have caused trouble to my sister, please understand my brother's distress in remembering the old man, and don't blame him. ”

Qing Ruyun was stunned for a moment and asked, "Old man?" ”

Lu Lin's eyes darkened, nodded, and said: "Three years ago, the senior brother met a girl named Yun Muqing in Phoenix City under Kunlun Mountain, and formed a fate, and planted a stream of begonia flowers for her, but when the senior brother returned to his hometown a year later, Phoenix City had been burned to ashes by King Xilang, and Miss Muqing was gone. ”

Qing Ruyun couldn't help but feel a pain in her heart, as if she had given someone a heavy blow.

It turns out that there really was a Mu Qing girl in this world. She suffered from eye disease, grew up in a city full of phoenix flowers in the streets and alleys of Kunlun Mountain, and when she was fourteen years old, she met Xiahou Wuyu, and the two had an appointment with Begonia Flower Creek, and her life ended abruptly at the age of fifteen.

She suddenly remembered that Xiahou Wuyu told her that she had old illnesses and old injuries. However, what really cannot be cured is a disease that no one knows.

He said that there is such a disease in the world, this disease is not painful or hurtful, but it is entrenched in the body of Zhou, attached to the muscles and veins and blood, and cannot be eradicated throughout his life. This disease is called the past.

Even if your heart is like a cold gray, it is difficult to forget the past.

In the silence, a poignant and tactful whistle sounded, and following the voice, it was Lin Zhiqi who was humming.

After a sudden and swept away winter night heavy snow, he sang the ballad of the old year—

The moon rises brightly, and the best people are shining. Shu is entangled, and he is quietly tired.

The moon rises brightly, and the best people are scared. Sorrowful and tired.

The moon rises and shines. Shu Yao is miserable, and his heart is miserable.