Chapter 42: The Clock Tower

After a long day's effort, Yuyang finally climbed to the top of the bell tower with Lingtian's pace, the narrow staircase was difficult to settle, so he had to climb carefully with his whole body, and finally arrived at his destination.

Seeing her hard work, Ling Tian squatted in front of her with interest, looked at her with a smile and said, "Did you eat too much fish just now?" I didn't expect you to look thin, but the amount of food is not small. ”

Yu Yang propped his stomach and panted and said, "You are still laughing, who came up with a bad idea to come to such a high place." ”

Seeing that she was working so hard, Ling Tian hurriedly apologized: "Blame me, my wind spirit power is very weak, at most I can only use my strength to help you go to the wall, if that idiot is here, he can directly take you to fly over from Yayu City." ”

"Night Wind?" Hearing this, Yu Yang snorted and laughed, "It turns out that our high-ranking Young Master Ling Tian is not very powerful." ”

Hearing her say this, Ling Tian childishly refused to admit defeat and argued: "I was born with only fire spiritual power, so my hair and eyes are such colors, don't be unreasonable." ”

"Angry, angry, young master Lingtian, angry!" Seeing Ling Tian arguing excitedly, Yu Yang felt cute and funny, and teased him, Ling Tian couldn't talk about her, and scolded with a wrinkled nose: "Big Stomach King!" ”

"You!" Yu Yang looked at him angrily, but Ling Tian saw that she was angry and smiled even more wantonly, so angry that she stretched out her hands to beat him together, but Ling Tian firmly caught the wrists of both hands, smiled and watched her struggle angrily, and waited for her to admit defeat and quiet before saying to her: "Come over here." ”

Ling Tian took her wrist and pulled her up from the ground, naturally took her right hand, and led her to the railing. Yu Yang was a little overwhelmed by the temperature of his palm, but when she looked out, she was already instantly fascinated - the mist in the drizzle covered everything in front of her, and in the hazy night, it was clearly visible that the buildings on the two high mountains were brightly lit, misty in the mist, and the light was reflected on the fluttering clouds, floating freely and lightly, floating into the distance, and the light on the edge faded little by little, like a glowing jellyfish floating in the deep sea, brilliant and elegant.

"Where are those places?" Yu Yang was stunned, and only looked at such a beautiful scenery for a long time and asked Ling Tian beside him, Ling Tian leaned on the railing, pointed to the two lights in the distance and said to her: "In the south is our Ruian City, and in the west is the Haoyue City of the Fu Zhi family, the home of that idiot, look back, it is Yunqi City in the forest north of Turbidity." ”

Yu Yang followed Ling Tian's guidance and looked back at the back of the bell tower, which was a distant place, without any light around, as if it was a secluded forest, and the terrain was higher than these two cities.

"Cloud but the city...... It is the head of the three major families of Wanting, the city of the Zhen clan, and the home of Her Royal Highness the Queen. ”

Hearing the queen's title from Yuyang's mouth, it was not her biological mother who was calling, and Ling Tian's heart was not a taste, he looked at the lifelight fan on Yuyang's body, and said: "The lifelight fan in your hand is the most important treasure of Yunqi City." ”

"From Cloud but City?" Yu Yang hurriedly took off the fan, looked at the delicate jasmine carving on it, remembered all kinds of today, and the heaviness that she had just forgotten for a while suddenly came back to her heart, she gently stroked the fan, and told Ling Tian: "This morning, there is a maid...... Suddenly yelled at me, Queen...... Don't kill me......"

Thinking of the look of fear in the eyes of her colleagues in the Garment Bureau, Yu Yang shook her head, she didn't like to appeal to others for her troubles, especially those she cared about, she put up a smile and said to Ling Tian: "Don't say it, don't say it!" It was a misunderstanding, or maybe I misheard. ”

Ling Tian didn't dare to say that he could fully understand her feelings, but the fear, incomprehension, loneliness and grievances in Yu Yang's heart, at this time, he may be the only person in this world who can understand. He couldn't imagine that a girl like her, who grew up in a simpler environment than ordinary civilians, was forced to come to a foreign land alone, involved in the biggest turmoil in the country, ostracized, deceived, and used, but didn't even know who his real parents were and where she came fromβ€”how strong such helplessness could be, he could understand a thing or two.

He remembered the last time he took her to the city of Turbidity, the helpless look in her eyes when she cried and said, "No one has ever told her a word of truth." He clenched his fists, looked at her strong smile and pretended nothing to happen, and said to her: "I know, I know everything about what happened to you in the garment bureau in the morning, and I even know whose subordinate the maid is, who her family is, how old she is, and where she is at this time." ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ How would you know? Yu Yang didn't understand, Ruo Ling Tian just knew what happened to her today, which was normal, but he seemed to be tracking down the situation of the maid, and there seemed to be something wrong.

Ling Tian didn't intend to hide it from her, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty knows about this, and has ordered that idiot to investigate to the end." ”

"Your Majesty?!" Yu Yang covered his mouth in surprise, "How could Your Majesty know about such a trivial matter?" ”

"It's not a trivial matter." Ling Tian's affection became solemn, and after thinking for a moment, he continued, "Your Majesty thinks that someone is making a fuss about your appearance. ”

"Looks?" Yu Yang pointed at himself curiously, "Mine?" ”

Although he was reluctant to let her know the pain of her mother's past, if he didn't tell her, maybe one day she would fall into passivity, and she would only be more dangerous if she didn't know anything, not to mention that he didn't want to hide so much from her anymore, except for the things he couldn't say, he decided to tell Yuyang some truth.

In her past life, she has been living in a huge lie woven by everyone, and he doesn't care what the others do, he wants to have as little reservation as possible for her.

He sat down against the railing, and Yu Yang also sat next to him, he didn't dare to look into her eyes, only looked at the misty sky outside, and said to Yu Yang: "The 'incident back then' they mentioned refers to a disaster caused by the loss of control of spiritual power. In that disaster, one hundred and sixty-five people died, and the person whose spiritual power was out of control, her spiritual power was only under the high priest, and during the time when she could not control her spiritual power, she could not even survive wherever she went. ”

"The man...... The person whose spiritual power is out of control, I look like her? ”

"Hmm......" Ling Tian looked back at Yu Yang's face that was similar to that of Queen Spinning Smoke, and told her with difficulty, "It's very similar to ......"

Hearing this, the mysteries that made Yu Yang uneasy gradually became clearer, and there was even a glimmer of light in her eyes, and she asked Ling Tian: "So Madame chose me as the clothing officer because I look very similar to that person, what does Madame need me to do, right?" ”

Ling Tian had never seen her look like this, it was a kind of gaze that she had never revealed, as if she had been freed. It wasn't until this moment that Ling really realized that the huge mystery pressing on Yu Yang had already overwhelmed her, and even the slightest truth was very important to her. He was even more determined to be honest with her, and no longer hesitated, and said to her: "Well, Madame needs you to do something, something very important, so bring you here from Nianping Island." ”

"I see!" Yu Yang clenched her fists excitedly, thinking that she finally didn't need to think about it anymore, she could finally not be hidden, her life without a trace of transparency finally saw a strong light, and that light was brought to her by Ling Tian.

She let go of her fist, looked into Ling Tian's eyes, and said to him sincerely, "Ling Tian, really, really, really thank you, I've been for a long time!" Long...... It's been a long time since I've felt like this, it's just ...... Call...... I can finally breathe freely, thank you for telling me this, I, Yi Yuyang, am a citizen of Qingmo, a citizen of Wanting, no matter what Madam needs me to do, I will definitely do it! ”

After speaking, Yu Yang patted his chest and looked at Ling Tian with a smile.

Looking at her beautiful smile, Ling Tian felt a little guilty for not telling her earlier, even if it wasn't the whole truth, even if it was a half-truth, but at least it could comfort her helplessness and confusion. Seeing that she was proud, he gently knocked on her head and reproached: "You are still so happy to be respected by so many people." ”

"They say theirs, it's not me who kills, but I just look alike, am I also guilty? Besides, you didn't say that the person's spiritual power was out of control, maybe killing people was not her intention, what is the secret? By the way, you said that this fan is a treasure of the Zhen clan, so you can say it...... The person whose spiritual power is out of control is also from the Zhen family, who is she? What happened to her? ”

Finally asked this question by her, Ling Tian lowered his head and thought about how to answer, and after sorting out his words, he said cautiously: "She is a person who is not allowed to be mentioned within the borders of Wanting Country, her name, her existence, her merits, her identity...... Everything was destroyed, except for some, in the memory of whom, she did not exist in any corner of the country. ”

She ...... He's dead? ”

When she asked him like this, Ling Tian suddenly felt shocked, he looked at Yu Yang, shook his head, and continued: "I don't know where she is, back then...... She was burned at the stake, robbed before the execution, and has not been heard from since. ”

"Burning at the stake? I had never heard of such a punishment, and I saw that the maid was only forty or fifty years old. ”

"Twenty years ago, burning at the stake...... That was the punishment used by the priest to dispose of the monster, and Wan Ting had been like this for the past few hundred years. ”

Yu Yang listened to Ling Tian tell the story of the long time, and became more and more curious: "What's her name?" With such a strong spiritual power, she must be in an important position in Yayu City, right? ”

Ling Tian raised his head, looked in the direction of Yun Qicheng and said, "Her name is ...... Zhen Fangyan, she is the sister of Queen Zhen Lanxue, His Majesty's wife, and the original queen. ”