Chapter Twenty-Five: Sweet Dreams
Just like the day before, Ling Yuxin was so excited that she was unwilling to stop practicing, and when it was close to noon, she reluctantly followed him back to Ling's mansion under Xiao Yurui's soft and hard work.
When she arrived at the gate of Ling's mansion, although Ling Yuxin lowered her head and followed Xiao Yurui, she couldn't help but secretly use her afterglow to straf, wanting to see Wei Chifeng and Zhang Meng's expressions at the moment, but only saw a few guards guarding the door, Wei Chifeng and Zhang Meng were nowhere to be seen, Ling Yuxin couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in her heart, and Xiao Yurui seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and took Ling Yuxin into the mansion without squinting, and the guards at the door had already received Wei Chifeng's instructions, so they naturally didn't dare to stop them.
During lunch, Ling Yuxin couldn't help but quip: "It seems that my cousin owes Wei Chifeng a big favor again." ”
Xiao Yurui's eyes were full of jokes, "That's not for you, when he wants to return this favor to me in the future, should I ask my cousin for you to pay it back?" ”
After the two laughed and finished lunch, Xiao Yurui led his entourage out of Ling's mansion. And Ling Yuxin once again studied various formations in Shapan Mountain.
Just like the day before, in the afternoon, Cui Han also came to the backyard to accompany the attendants, but once again in surprise and depression, she saw Ling Yuxin fiddling with clay figurines on the sand table with great interest. She wanted to speak several times, but every time she saw Ling Yuxin's preoccupied appearance, and after glancing at Bai Zhu who was quietly accompanying her, she forcibly held back her full stomach words, and held it from afternoon to night, until Ling Yuxin was urged by her and Bai Zhu to go to bed, but she couldn't find a chance to vomit, and finally she could only return to the West Courtyard with a depressed face with a full stomach and Bai Zhu.
That night, Ling Yuxin had a strange dream, and although she had often dreamed of it during her time in the Twilight Villa while she was confined to the Twilight Villa, it was the first time since she had lost her memory that she had dreamed of being hunted and lost in the Wilderness Valley.
In the dream, Ling Yuxin saw a little boy and a little girl, although it seemed to be far away, although it seemed to be very blurry, she couldn't really see the faces of the little boy and the little girl, but she could see that the little boy was teaching the little girl to practice martial arts, she saw that the little boy was teaching the little girl very seriously, every move and style were taught very carefully, and the little girl was also learning seriously, and every move and style was learned in a good way.
Early the next morning, when Bai Zhu arrived at Ling Yuxin's house, he saw Ling Yuxin's smile in her sleep for the first time, and was surprised to find that Ling Yuxin actually slept very soundly, and it could even be said that she slept very sweetly. Bai Zhu was very surprised, to be precise, he looked at Ling Yuxin who was sleeping in shock, he was a little embarrassed for a while, he didn't know whether to wake her up, he was used to seeing Ling Yuxin who was easy to wake up when he slept, and now for the first time he saw her sleeping so sweetly, Bai Zhu faintly had a feeling that he couldn't bear to disturb her dreams. After all, since she was arranged by Xiao Yurui to Ling Yuxin's side two years ago, she had only seen her face full of fear and dazed after waking up from a nightmare overnight, and she had never imagined that she would also have a time when she would laugh in her dreams.
Bai Zhu just stood in front of Ling Yuxin's bed and looked at her with a hesitant face, and he was entangled until the time when Xiao Yurui came to pick up Ling Yuxin, and then he reluctantly woke up Ling Yuxin with a sense of guilt.
When Ling Yuxin woke up from her sleep, what appeared in front of her was Bai Zhu's guilty expression. She subconsciously rubbed her eyes, and then listened to Bai Zhu say: "Miss, it's not too early, it's time to get up, Young Master Cousin will come and pick you up to ride a horse and practice martial arts." ”
Ling Yuxin immediately sat up, only then did she wake up completely, and hurriedly lifted the quilt and got out of bed, "Oh, it's so late, Baizhu, why didn't you wake me up earlier." ”
Bai Zhu hurriedly took the clothes and helped Ling Yuxin put them on, and hesitated for a moment before explaining: "I'm sorry, Miss, when the slave maid came in, I saw that Miss seemed to be sleeping soundly, and ...... And it seems that she is still laughing, the slave maid has never seen the young lady sleep so sweetly, so the slave maid can't bear to wake up the young lady. ”
Ling Yuxin listened to Bai Zhu's words, and couldn't help but be stunned, and subconsciously stopped dressing, "You mean I'm still laughing when I'm asleep?" ”
Bai Zhu nodded very seriously.
Ling Yuxin couldn't help but look surprised and dazed.
Bai Zhu then asked tentatively, "Miss, are you dreaming?" ”
Ling Yuxin was stunned again, and subconsciously frowned and pondered. After a while, a fragment of the dream gradually surfaced in his mind, and he muttered, "I seem to have a dream, dreaming of a boy and a girl practicing martial arts...... Oh no, no, it's like a boy teaching a girl martial arts. ”
This time it was Bai Zhu's turn to be stunned, and then he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Ling Yuxin looked at Bai Zhu puzzled: "What are you laughing at?" ”
Bai Zhu couldn't help but smile, "The slave maid guessed that Miss must have had a dream this time, but I thought it was Miss who dreamed of something happy before, it turned out to be a dream day and night, it seems that when the young master taught Miss to practice martial arts in the past two days, Miss You must be very happy, so happy that you will even dream at night, and you can't enjoy practicing during the day, and you have to continue to practice in your dreams at night." After saying that, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and smile.
Ling Yuxin couldn't help but be ashamed and annoyed, "Okay, you Baizhu, you dare to make fun of me and call you nonsense." As he spoke, he made a gesture to tickle Bai Zhu's itch, and Bai Zhu immediately stopped laughing and begged for mercy.
After some laughter and play, the two quickly put the dream of last night behind them.
After that, for more than ten days, Ling Yuxin was like the previous two days, in the morning with Xiao Yurui out of the city to ride horses and practice martial arts, in the afternoon until the evening stayed in the house to fiddle with the clay figures on the sand table to study various formations, lunch and occasionally when alone with Bai Zhu, Xiao Yurui and Bai Zhu would be asked some questions about their moves. During this period, there were also several nights when the little boy taught the little girl to practice martial arts, but the dream always seemed to be far away, neither could see the faces of the little boy and the little girl, nor could he see the surrounding scenes, everything seemed to be very blurry, and the only thing that could be seen clearly seemed to be the martial arts and body techniques that the little boy carefully taught and the little girl carefully learned.
Bai Zhu also saw Ling Yuxin's sleeping smile several times when she entered the house in the morning, although she couldn't help but make fun of her every time she woke her up, but in her heart she was relieved that she finally stopped being haunted by nightmares every night, and she didn't have to be ordered to sleep by Xiao Yurui in order to sleep peacefully until dawn, but she always took it for granted that Ling Yuxin would have such dreams entirely because she thought about it day and night.
Although Ling Yuxin first felt a little strange about the scene in the dream when she woke up in the morning and thought about last night's dream, and even had the illusion that she seemed to be the little girl in the dream, but every time she was ridiculed by Bai Zhu, "It's a dream day and night, it's not enough to practice martial arts with the young master during the day, and she has to continue to practice in the dream at night", after a few times in a row, although she still has that strange feeling, because it is the same dream every night, she only remembers the same fragment after waking up, and she can't really see the scene in the dream, I couldn't find any memories outside of my dreams, so I could only accept Bai Zhu's explanation of my dreams, and over time, I gradually relieved myself and stopped digging into it.
And Cui Han was also the same as the previous two days, every day after lunch, she would come to the backyard to accompany Ling Yuxin with Bai Zhu, and then she kept watching Ling Yuxin depressed and tinkering with the clay figures on the sand table with great interest, until after Ling Yuxin went to bed in the evening, she and Bai Zhu went back to the west courtyard together. Although every time she came, she would tell Bai Zhu to let her go and rest, and it would be good to be alone, but Bai Zhu would smile and refuse every time, claiming that she was not tired, and she would be here with the two of you, and she would have a companion. So, as the time spent together increased, she was only surprised that Ling Yuxin was interested in arranging troops for more than ten days in a row, until she saw that Ling Yuxin had been studying the book of war and formation for more than ten days in a row, obviously not just interested, it could be said that she was obsessed with the art of war, and the initial surprise gradually evolved into shock; And she was somewhat hostile to Bai Zhu from the beginning, until she saw that Bai Zhu did her best to take care of Ling Yuxin's food, clothing and daily life every day, and when she returned to the West Courtyard with Bai Zhu every night, she could always chat with her, and Bai Zhu could often answer some of her doubts or comfort herself, and the initial hostility gradually disappeared into invisibility, and was replaced by treating her as a sister like other maids in the Ling Mansion.
Early this morning, Xiao Yurui still came to the Ling Mansion as usual.
Ling Yuxin had already changed into the clothes of a domestic servant and waited for Xiao Yurui to come as usual, but she only saw Xiao Yurui with a solemn face, and she didn't see the domestic servant following, and was about to ask, Xiao Yurui had already opened her mouth first, "Xin'er, I have something to leave Beijing for a few days, and I have to leave today, I can't take you out these days, you can stay at home and rest." ”
Ling Yuxin was a little surprised, "Is something wrong?" Cousin, where are you in a hurry? When will you be back? ”
"There are some things to deal with, and I will talk to you in detail when I have the opportunity to talk about them later. The fastest is 3 days, and the slow is up to 5 days. ”
Ling Yuxin's expression suddenly became a little gloomy, thinking that since he left Chi Du Villa, he had been accompanied by Xiao Yurui every day, and he had long been accustomed to the days when he was there, and now he suddenly heard that he was leaving, although it was only a few days, but when he thought of facing so many strangers alone in this strange capital and Ling Mansion in the next few days, he unconsciously felt a little reluctant to Xiao Yurui, and a sense of confusion about dealing with the next few days alone.
Xiao Yurui seemed to be able to see through Ling Yuxin's thoughts, and comforted softly: "Silly girl, I'm just leaving for three or five days, look at your expression, as if we are going to be separated for a year and a half, don't worry, at least three days, at most five days, I will definitely come back, and then I will be like these days, I will appear in front of you on time every day, and take you out of the city to ride a horse and practice martial arts, okay?" ”
Ling Yuxin thought that Xiao Yurui was in such a hurry to get out of the city so suddenly, presumably there was something important to do, and she didn't want him to worry about herself, so she hurriedly restrained her emotions and reluctantly smiled: "Okay, then I'll wait for my cousin to come back, you go and come back quickly." ”
Xiao Yurui smiled and nodded, and then gave a few more instructions to Bai Zhu, asking her to take good care of Ling Yuxin, and then went straight out of the mansion to the outside of the city.