Volume 1: The Abyss Chapter 20: The Villa of Love (4)
20 Love Villa (4)
The courtyard door was ajar, and rusty iron chains dangled from the door, making a soft noise.
Yun Zhi pushed open the door without any hesitation and walked in.
The courtyard is full of peach trees, and the grass under the trees is overgrown, and the branches are scattered, and the residual flowers are scattered, so it is not desolate.
Further in, a small patio emerged from the weeds and dead trees, and on the left lay a stone table with heavy mud and dust, under which several stone benches were crooked, and moss had grown near the ground; On the right is a swing with a broken rope and half of the sheltered wooden shed gone.
Obviously, no one has lived here for a long time.
Stepping through the patio with thick dust, walking up the creaking steps, pushing open the door of the room with broken window paper, creaking and stirring up a room of dust.
The musty smell of not seeing sunlight all year round penetrated into his nose, Yun Zhi couldn't help frowning, covered his nose and coughed twice, raised his hand to disperse the dust in front of him, and walked inside.
Under the heavy dust, everything in this room is neatly arranged, and there are some books and pictures on the bookcase by the window, which are already yellowed and old on the exposed side, and when they are picked up and turned to the other side, they are the same color.
There is no pen holder on the table, only a stone inkstone and a book.
There was a flowery feather pressed under the book.
Yun Zhi's heart suddenly tightened, and he carefully opened the book, and with just one glance, his hairs stood on end in an instant.
Familiar simplified handwriting, one stroke at a time, neat and beautiful.
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"On the ninth day of August, the ...... It's been almost half a month, and I always feel like it's probably a dream. My parents are still alive and well, and there are a group of lovely brothers and sisters, all of whom are unreservedly kind to me...... If it weren't for the dream, I thought, maybe God gave me a chance to live again...... It would be nice if I knew it too......
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"It would be nice if the knowledge was there......"
Yun Zhi's whole body trembled uncontrollably, she gritted her teeth, and turned a few pages back in succession, almost unable to stand on her feet.
This is her sister's diary!
A cursory look at the date, it has been recorded for more than half a year!
On the last page, she said that she had met the person she was destined to leave with him for his sect, and she said between the lines that she had sweet expectations.
My sister actually got a boyfriend here?
Yun Zhi hadn't recovered from the shock yet, but he still subconsciously smiled first, and somehow, he was a little relieved.
Immediately, she thought of the empress of the Yan Kingdom again.
According to what is written in her sister's diary, she has returned to the sect with her sweetheart, who is the empress?
If the empress is not her sister, then why is her handwriting exactly the same as her sister's? And why does she also know the core values and the Analects? If she is her sister, then how did she become the empress? What happened in the meantime?
A series of questions kept popping up in his mind one after another, Yun Zhi stood in place and thought for a long time, put the diary into his sleeve, and walked around the room again, not finding anything else related to his sister.
When he went out, a young disciple was pinching the rusty iron chain and hanging it on the courtyard door, which seemed to be about to lock the door.
Yun Zhi hurriedly rushed forward, "Wait a minuteβ"
The disciple didn't expect that there was someone inside, he was startled by her, and the iron chain slipped out of his hand with a clatter, and he looked at Yun Zhi in surprise while picking up the chain in a hurry.
"Who are you, why are you still here! Come out, come out! β
As soon as Yun Zhi stepped out of the courtyard gate, the disciple rechained the courtyard gate.
"What is this place? Can't come? β
Yun Zhi saw that he looked anxious and flustered, and suddenly became puzzled.
The disciple locked the door and hurriedly led her away.
"This place is unlucky!"
Yun Zhi frowned slightly, and hurriedly asked, "Unlucky?" But what happened? β
The disciple shook his head, "I don't know the specifics, anyway, everyone in the village says so!" As he spoke, he suddenly squinted at Yun Zhi, "You are also here to participate in the sword appreciation conference?" β
Yun Zhi snorted, but the disciple asked again, "Which sect are you from?" Why don't you stay in front and run here......"
"Know!" A shallow voice drifted from behind him, interrupting his questioning.
Yun Zhi turned around, and the young man came in the wind, dressed in white as light as moonlight, and there was still a little worry between his eyebrows, and he stopped at her side in the blink of an eye.
"Young master." The disciples on the side had already begun to salute.
Xiao Yi hummed lightly, glanced at the stone plaque on the courtyard door, squinted slightly, and then looked at the girl beside him, paused when he opened his mouth, and suddenly laughed, "It's time to go back to lunch." β
Yun Zhi was stunned, she was already thinking about making up some reason to perfunctory him, but he didn't even ask anything, not even a sentence of "how did you get here?"
Yun Zhi couldn't figure out his mind for a while.
Xiao Yi didn't seem to care about this matter at all, only turned around and took two steps forward, and then looked back at her, "Let's go, Miss Ayu and Brother Pei have been waiting for you for a long time." β
Yun Zhi responded and followed.
He didn't ask, but she couldn't hide it.
After walking a few steps, he began to ask him, "Who lived in that yard just now?" β
"I don't know, that yard seems to have been abandoned for decades." Xiao Yi glanced sideways at her, and suddenly said, "I don't come back often, and I don't know a lot about things in the village, if you want to know, you can ask my uncle." β
Yun Zhi hummed and didn't say anything more.
When they were almost in their own yard, she finally couldn't help but ask, "Why don't you ask me?" β
Xiao Yi was stunned, "What do you ask?" β
"That's it...... Why did I go to that yard, and ...... Hao Ran Zhai, Yushulou, and why do you want to go to Yanguo......" Yun Zhi looked at him and doubted: "These, aren't you curious at all?" β
How could it not be curious? Xiao Yi smiled lightly, dragged a long voice, and asked her, "Then do you want to say?" β
Yun Zhi thought for a moment and shook his head, "I don't want to think about it yet." β
Xiao Yi pouted: "Then why should I ask?" β
"......" Yun Zhi was dumbfounded for a while.
"Everyone has things in their hearts that they don't want others to know, even if it's friends, family, or ...... Husbands and wives don't have to explain everything. I don't know your secrets, and you don't know mine, but that doesn't stop us from dating, does it? β
Xiao Yi's voice was clean and soft, and his eyes fell on her face, and the smile on his lips was shallow.
The late autumn sun always brings warmth.
Yun Zhi was silent for a long time, nodded, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, Xiao Yi." β
He didn't ask her why she thanked her, but Lang Lang smiled: "That's it, when you want to say it one day, I'll tell you my secret, how about it?" β
Yun Zhi also laughed, and his tone was a little lively, "Okay! β
After a slight pause, she added: "But you can't tell my second brother!" β
The corners of Xiao Yi's lips were slightly raised, "Okay!" β
After making this appointment, the two looked at each other and smiled, and entered the courtyard together.
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In the afternoon, Xiao Yi and Pei Shun met to learn chess skills, and Ah Yu went out to meet friends.
Yun Zhi stayed alone in the room, took out the diary that he had hidden in his sleeve earlier, and read it carefully.
Yun Zhi had always thought that she had fallen into this world by accident, but after reading a few pages, she couldn't help but start to suspect that maybe she came here and it wasn't an accident at all.
At the end of each page of the diary, almost the same sentence -
"It would be nice if Zhizhi was there."
In fact, since she was a child, my sister has always been like this, and she is always the first to think of good things. Even in the days when she was fostered in Pei's house because of her studies, she would send messages to care about her almost every day.
My sister is living well here, so I always hope that she can come here too, could it be because of my sister's obsession that she really came to this world?
Yun Zhi couldn't help but think wildly.
The diary only writes about the day before my sister left, and my sister said that she met a very gentle person at that year's sword appreciation conference.
She called him Ah Xuan.
Ah Xuan is from the famous Seven Star Island in the rivers and lakes, and at this sword appreciation conference, he single-handedly picked the top ten masters in the Jianghu records of the Three Dynasties, and became famous in the world in a battle. Ah Xuan speaks very little, he is an indifferent chivalrous man, and he is always gentle and gentle when facing her.
So, she fell.
The last sentence of the diary is, "If only Zhizhi was there, she would be happy for me."
Yun Zhi's fingers brushed over this sentence, and there were insects and ants crawling in his heart.
She took the booklet and got up and went out.
She was going to find Xiao Rufeng, and she wanted to know what had happened after this.
Turning out of the courtyard, she hadn't walked a few steps when someone suddenly shouted her name behind her.
"Zhi'er?"
The voice was a little familiar, and he stopped and turned around, and a familiar and delicate face appeared in front of him.
It's Lu Yunsheng.
She was wearing the white clothes of the outer disciples of Qingyi Villa, and she only used a silver hairpin to tuck her long hair behind her head, and the bookish qi around her body dissipated a little, adding three points of chivalrous spirit.
I still haven't gotten away.
Yun Zhi sighed silently in his heart, and pulled out a stiff smile, "Eldest sister...... What a coincidence...... haha"
"It's really you!" Lu Yunsheng was very surprised at first, but soon showed a smile that was as expected, and then said amazingly: "I knew that you would also run away from marriage, so I took you with me." β
Her expression is much more lively than when she was in the Anguo Mansion, and even the whole person exudes a comfortable and leisurely atmosphere.
ββ¦β¦οΌβ Yun Zhi was stunned for a while, and exclaimed, "Are you ...... escape?" You weren't taken captive? β
"Of course not!" Lu Yunsheng immediately denied it.
Yun Zhi pretended not to know that the crown prince was there, and only showed concern on his face, "Then His Royal Highness the prince ...... over there"
"Shhhhhh β
Yun Zhi made a shocked expression, "You mean that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in the Righteous Villa now?" β
Lu Yunsheng nodded, "That's right." β
Yun Zhi wanted to continue to show his acting skills, but he suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help frowning, "Then have you seen His Royal Highness King Ning?" β
"King Ning?" Lu Yunsheng showed a puzzled expression, and then shook his head, "No, King Ning is not in Luozhou?" β
Yun Zhi continued to frown, "He was ordered to come to protect the crown prince, haven't you seen it yet?" β
Lu Yunsheng was even more puzzled: "When I met Huan Chengxi outside the village, he was alone, and he didn't even have a guard by his side, let alone King Ning......
Yun Zhi sighed, but his heart began to get nervous, if King Ning didn't come to protect the prince, would he have returned to Luozhou? Wouldn't her illness escape Dafa be debunked soon? At that time, it will be more than just a cousin who has been divorced!
It seems that she can only put her sister's matter aside for the time being, she has to solve the big trouble of King Ning first!