The stars hang down and the plains are wide, and the moon swells and the rivers flow.

I stood at the bow of the boat leaning against the fence, and felt the wind sweep across my cheeks with a cold blade, and this was what I saw.

The ship had been sailing for many days, and although it was a day and night, it was clear that the fleet we were chasing had not relaxed, so it had never been able to catch up with them, and it was about to reach the mouth of the sea, and the rolling mountains on both sides were gradually swallowed up by the turbulent river, and even the bright stars at the end of the sky seemed to be about to merge into the boundless waters.

Even such a beautiful scenery can't make me relax at all, because my departure is still nowhere to be seen.

Thinking of this, I was angry, gritted my teeth, and sometimes, even thought viciously that if I found her this time, I would definitely break her legs!

But—

When he thought about it viciously, his mind flashed through the calm, even cold, gentle smile of another person, whose eyes were clear and bright, like the waves of water containing thousands of stars.

He manipulated the wheelchair, slowly walked out from the countless windblown pictures on the Hongyan Tower, from the ashes of my dusty memory, and said with a smile: Sister, you promised that you will always be by my side.

……

At this time, a cautious voice came from behind him: "Madam, it's late at night, please go back to your room and rest." ”

I turned around and saw an attendant standing behind me.

It's the people around Yao Lao.

In the days since I got on the ship, I have hardly seen the medicine elders again, although everyone is no more than a hundred feet away.

When he got on the boat, he stood on the bow of the boat, he must have heard all the words I said to Pei Yuanxiu, maybe as a medicine elder, he has something to love me, but as Pei Yuanxiu's father and my father-in-law, he may not be able to face me, a daughter-in-law who "does not abide by women's morals".

Therefore, I don't embarrass him, nor do I embarrass myself, these days, everyone avoids meeting directly, intentionally or unintentionally.

However, some people are unavoidable.

Another attendant's respectful voice came from the side: "Miss Zitong, it's late at night, please go back to your room and rest." ”

I turned around and met her gaze as she looked at me.

Both of them were stunned.

Nothing to say for a while.

I still remember that after boarding the ship that day, seeing that the ship was about to lift anchor and sail away, Han Ruoshi suddenly said a few words to her, Han Zitong's face showed a look of surprise, she seemed to hesitate, but did not say anything more, but immediately followed the boat.

Of course I was surprised, but not too surprised.

Just looking at the dock, Han Ruoshi slowly walked to Pei Yuanxiu's side, as if she wanted to open her mouth to comfort him, but Pei Yuanxiu only looked up at us standing still on the boat from beginning to end, and his eyes looked extremely blank.

At this moment, Han Zitong looked at me with the same gaze.

In many cases, people always think that they are omnipotent, but when they really face huge resistance, or even disaster, they will find themselves small and powerless, not to mention that at this moment, we are facing a completely unpredictable, and there is no end to the river, after converging into the sea, our future is even more bleak.

Han Zitong and I looked at each other at this moment, as if we both saw our helplessness on this journey.

I was silent for a moment and said softly, "Rest early." ”

Without waiting for her to say anything more, I turned and walked into the cabin, and when I walked through the hatch, I couldn't help but glance back.

At this moment, the earth under the canopy of heaven has been completely dark, only a bright moon in the sky remains, reflected in the river, with the gurgling river, the moon shadow is hazy, as if to pass with it, flowing to the other end of the earth, the end of the ocean.

Under such a moonlight, Han Zitong's originally slender figure became more and more exquisite.

It is also becoming more and more small and helpless.

She suddenly said, "Do you have any plans?" ”

My eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Under the moonlight, her body was slightly swayed by the wind, and even her voice seemed to tremble a little: "We're going to sea tomorrow, right?" ”

“……”

"Do you have any plans?"

“……”

The wind seems to be a little colder.

After our ship sailed out of Jinling, it has been moving at full speed, but it is obvious that Liu Qinghan and the others have not slowed down the speed of the ship, and seeing that according to the route and process we are traveling, we will go to sea tomorrow, and we have not caught up with their ship.

Tomorrow, once we go out to sea and have no course, we will be completely headless flies.

So she asked me what I was going to do.

Although she was just standing there quietly looking at me now, I understood that she was quite uneasy, although she was the princess of Jiangxia, although she was irritable and impulsive, but after all, she was just a princess, a girl who had always been pampered and spoiled by others, and if she suddenly had to face such a dangerous journey, she would inevitably have a romantic breakdown.

I thought about it for a moment, and said in a soft tone, "You can go to bed early tonight." ”

“……”

"I'll arrange it for tomorrow."

After saying that, without waiting for her to ask any more questions, I nodded gently at her, and I turned my head and walked into the cabin.

When I entered the room, two other maids came in and lit the bed for me, and I sat down at the table by the window, and when they were done and were about to leave, I said, "No one will come in and disturb me tonight, and no one will enter my room tomorrow morning unless I have come out of this room myself." ”

They were startled for a moment, looked at each other, and said softly, "Is there something Madame is going to do?" What do you need the slaves to do? ”

"Don't ask."

“……”

"All you have to do is keep an eye on my room."

“……”

"Remember, don't let anyone in until I'm out the door. Do you understand? ”

"Yes."

They listened to my tone, and understood that this was not an ordinary command, and leaned down to salute, then withdrew gently, and then closed the door.

Immediately, it also isolated the sound of qiē outside.

I opened the wooden cabinet, took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone from it, and carefully spread it on the table, but instead of putting down the pen immediately, I walked back to the bed, took off my shoes, and sat cross-legged on the bed.

Lotus flowers sit cross-legged.

This is the supreme Dafa of meditation practiced by Buddhists, and my second uncle, Master Enlightenment, sat cross-legged in this posture and entered the state of meditation, while I, who had not practiced to the same level as him, naturally could not enter the state of meditation, but such a posture could help me close the five senses and enter the deepest part of the spiritual realm.

I sat there quietly, calming my heartbeat and slowing my breathing.

Slowly, I felt that the breath around me was a little different, the choppy river under the hull of the boat, as if it had annihilated my ankles at this moment, every stream of water flowed past me, lightly touching my skin, with my breathing, together with a volt, a movement and a stillness, all so clear.

Then, as if the current of water was guiding me to another time and space.

I slowly opened my eyes.

The river was bubbling and flowing, like a gentle hand, gently pushing behind my back, I slowly took a step with the current, and immediately saw a burst of sunshine shining on the river in front of me, reflecting the sparkling waves, forming a brilliant galaxy in front of me.

For a moment, my vision was also a little dazed, as if I saw a small open yard, in the middle of the courtyard in the pool stood a craggy rockery, in the water a few orange carp swimming around.

On the other side of the pool was a very elegant-looking house, with doors and windows hidden and a faint incense wafting from it.

This view is very familiar.

It dawned on me almost immediately, and this was the place I was looking for.

The backyard of Tiejia Qianzhuang.

I walked over step by step, stretched out my hand and pushed open the hidden door, and immediately saw that on the round table in the center of the room, there was an opened brocade box, the brocade box was empty, and on the table next to it, there was a small thing.

It's a transparent soft handkerchief, something wrapped.

That's the death-free jade plaque that was wrapped.

I was overjoyed, and I was about to raise my hand to take it, but suddenly I felt a heaviness in my hands and feet, and I could barely lift it. I hurriedly calmed down, stayed quietly for a while, and finally felt some strength in my hand, so I stretched out my hand, picked up the jade plate, carefully placed it in the palm of my hand, and began to unwrap the layers of soft handkerchiefs.

In the end, it was finally dismantled by me.

The jade plate fell heavily in my hand, and the huge word "free" on the face came into view.

However, there was not the slightest joy in my heart, and the shock I felt when I first saw this jade plaque also subsided at this moment, I held my breath and slowly moved my gaze to the other side, the soft handkerchief that I had unconsciously discarded on the table.

The texture on it......

No way! I can't see clearly!

As soon as I realized this, I immediately felt the river around my body surge, almost pushing me away from this table, and shaking everything around me.

No, I have to calm down!

Thinking of this, he hurriedly took a deep breath and closed his eyes again.

In my vision, it was still a blur, but I returned to the moment just now, when I held the heavy jade plate in my hand and carefully opened the soft handkerchief.

When I lifted the upper corner of the soft handkerchief, there was a thin curve on it, which, although intermittent, was inserted diagonally from the upper left corner.

When I lifted the left corner of the soft handkerchief, it was almost blank, but in the center, a short curve appeared, converging with the curve in the upper left corner.

And when I lifted the lower corner of the soft handkerchief—

In the lower left corner, there are several intermittent dots, as if connected into a line, and at the end of the line is-

Thinking of this, I suddenly opened my eyes.