Three hundred years later
In the cave, next to the coffin, Mu Xize knelt there quietly, looking at Rumo who seemed to be sleeping in the coffin, his eyes showed relief and ease.
"You're here...... Are you leaving?"
A red halo rose around Rumo's body again, and a weak and ethereal sound came to Mu Xize's ears, sounding a little sentimental.
"I'm here to say goodbye to you, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave any bones after I die, so I ask you to bury my clothes with Xiaoyezi. And also...... Thank you. ”
In an instant, the wind was blowing in the cave, and the flying sand and rocks mixed with the withered yellow leaves in the autumn were hovering around Mu Xize in one go. When the wind dissipated, when the things around Mu Xize fell, a seemingly crystal clear bead with white light suddenly rose from his chest.
The bead was not affected by gravity, it hung in the air, as if attracted by some force, and the light around it was cast into the large open coffin, and gradually the bead seemed to be sucked into the body by the ink, and there was no trace of it.
Golden-red ashes flashed from the cave, and the ashes were peeled off from Mu Xize's body piece by piece, like Mu Xize's flesh and blood burning. Mu Xize's already mutilated face had a satisfied smile, just like when Ye Ningxiang passed away, he seemed to have no complaints about this world, and seemed to be full of gratitude for his life.
In this life, he can love and know the woman he loves, and he has no regrets in this life.
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Three hundred years later.
Yingdu, the palace of the Daxing Dynasty.
Twilight Yunwan is the youngest daughter of the current saint, she has lived for seven years and has been pampered by her father in the palm of her hand day and night, but she is not happy, quite unhappy. Because she has grown so big, she has never been out of the palace, and she has never seen the outside world.
According to the palace ladies, there are bazaars outside the palace, scattered streets, bustling people, men, women and children, tall, short, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, all kinds of people. In Twilight's mind, the outside world is heaven, a fairyland on earth, and the place where she is nothing more than a dark cage.
Twilight Yunwan secretly thought about it in her heart for a long time, and finally came to the day of the 100,000 Flower Festival in early May. On this day, her father would invite civil and military officials and royal nobles to the palace to attend the banquet according to the custom.
Things were really as Twilight Yunwan expected, in order to prepare ingredients for the banquet, the imperial dining room specially ordered a large number of vegetables and meat from outside the palace. Twilight Yunwan secretly hid in the empty box of a truck when the palace people were unloading the truck containing the ingredients, and then was unknowingly trafficked out of the palace by the merchants.
The first time she walked freely on the streets of Yingdu, and for the first time she really saw the dreamlike world that the palace ladies talked about, Twilight Yunwan's heart felt an unprecedented comfort.
But this Yingdu City is so big, every street is decorated with flowers, and I can't see any difference, there are too many people on the street, shoulder to shoulder, as if she is going to squeeze her thin body flat. Standing in an unknown place, Twilight became a little panicked, a little afraid that she wouldn't find her way home.
I don't know why, there are so many people around her, these people are like they have encountered some once-in-a-lifetime event, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, and rush in the same direction. Twilight was afraid of getting lost, and she thought that if she followed these people, she might be able to go to a famous place, and maybe she would be able to find her way back to the palace!
These people finally stopped in a place where the door was not very large, although Twilight Yunwan did not know all the words, but she recognized the words on the plaque: Drunken Life Dream Death Building. Twilight Yunwan wondered what this place was, but her feet unconsciously followed the flow of people into the door of the Drunken Dream Death Building.
I can't imagine that this drunken dream and death building has a different world, the building is splendid, carved and painted, and it doesn't look much worse than the palace where she lives.
She stood in the hall as stupidly as the person who later entered the drunken dream and death building, but everyone else had a pursuit, but she was stupid and didn't even know why she was here.
On the corridor on the second floor of the hall of the drunken dream and death building, a graceful girl slowly walked out, although Twilight Yunwan was far away from the girl, but just looking at it from a distance, she felt that this girl was as beautiful as a fairy, and she didn't know how many times better than the woman in her father's palace.
As soon as the woman appeared, the noisy hall fell silent in an instant, and Twilight could see the eager and excited looks of the guests, and she pricked up her ears for fear that she would not hear the important message that the woman was about to say.
"Today is the day when our drunken dream of the death of the pianist returns, the pianist is in a good mood today, and will make an exception to play a few more tunes for everyone, everyone can enjoy it!"
Knowing this result, Twilight Yunwan was very hurt, she was not yet three years old, and before she could say anything, her father was very merciless to send a court musician to teach her piano skills, she cried and fussed for three days and nights, and finally under the cold eyes of her father, she was forced to do the first thing she did not want to do. But since then, Jean has become the thing that Twilight hates the most.
Twilight wanted to find a crack and sneak away, but when she saw the luthier, her legs seemed to be glued to the ground. The violinist was dressed in black, and the black veil on his face covered most of his appearance, but just looking at his tall and tall figure, and the half-tied black shiny hair, Twilight Yunwan concluded that he must be a beauty who captivated the country and the city.
The sound of the piano reached her ears unhurriedly, as if the emotions that had been buried for hundreds of years flowed into her body, her heart trembling uncontrollably, and her hairs could not help but stand on end.
Sure enough, this luthier is different from the master who taught her piano skills in the palace, one is floating on the fur and embroidering the legs, and the other is simple and innocent, and hits the heart.
If only the luthier could remove the veil!Twilight sat on the steps, her chin in her hands, and stared at the violinist in a daze, fantasizing about the violinist's seemingly otherworldly face.
The intoxicating time was always short, and the luthier played three pieces of music for the first time in the anticipation and love of everyone, then got up gracefully, picked up the guqin that seemed to have been with him for a long time, and seemed to have existed for hundreds of years, and respectfully bowed to the guests who had worked tirelessly to listen to the piano in the drunken dream and death building, and left Twilight Yunwan's sight.
Twilight Yunwan was curious about the luthier and really liked it, so she was reluctant to let the luthier leave, so she struggled to make her way through the crowd, thinking that she could catch up with the luthier and remove the veil of the luthier with her own hands, so as to fulfill her wish.
"Little girl, are you looking for a luthier?"
The sudden inquiry from behind her ears made Twilight's eyes light up, and the innocent Twilight turned her head in anticipation and nodded heavily at the person who was speaking.
"I can help you find him, you come with me. ”
Twilight looked suspiciously at this strong man who wore gold and silver and looked a little evil, hesitated for a long time, but obediently followed behind the man.
Twilight followed the man for a long time, and gradually, there were fewer and fewer people around her, and even the houses on both sides of the street became deserted. She stopped timidly, not daring to step forward, her frightened eyes wide open, as if she had fallen into the deception set up by the strong man.
"Little girl, why don't you leave, don't you want to see your pianist brother?"
"You're a liar!"
Having the courage to shout these three words, Twilight turned her head and ran in the opposite direction, but she didn't expect that four strong men with two and a half heights suddenly appeared behind her, and they were all fierce and vicious, and they could kill Twilight Yunwan in an instant.
"This little girl is really smart, if she sells it to the kiln, the money she makes is estimated to be enough for a few brothers to spend a year and a half, isn't it!"
The rude and wicked men laughed at the helpless Twilight with their mouths wide open, revealing their large scorched yellow flaps. Where had Twilight Yunwan seen such a battle in the deep palace, and immediately sat on the ground, holding her head in her hands, crying non-stop.
I don't know how long it took, the laughter around Twilight Cloud Wan stopped, and the men who threatened to sell her to the kiln didn't make a move on her, she nervously withdrew her hands in front of her, and raised her head timidly, and all the men who threatened her disappeared, and in front of her stood a man dressed in black and carrying a guqin on his back.
The man turned around and squatted down, Shunze's hair almost hanging to the ground, and there seemed to be a smile in his eyes that seemed to contain the sea of stars.
"Don't be afraid, I've all driven them away. ”
Twilight Yunwan's eyes widened and stared at the beautiful young man who fell from the sky in front of her, she had never seen such a beautiful man, beautiful and resolute, but with a hint of coldness in her warmth, even if she was still an ignorant child, she felt that the fawn in her chest was rampaging through her body.
"Are you...... Are you the luthier in the drunken dream of death?"
The man smiled and nodded.
"You're really a violinist, great, I thought I'd never see you again in my life!"
Twilight Yunwan, who was still a child, instantly threw the fear of holding hostage behind her, and was so happy and excited that she almost flew up.
The man's questioning seemed inappropriate to such a scene: "The ornament around your neck is so beautiful. ”
Twilight didn't seem to like the fluffy ornament, and pursed her lips and reluctantly replied, "This ornament is my father'...... My father insisted that I bring it, saying that it would bring it to Funari to keep him safe, but I thought it was big and ugly, and it was not beautiful at all. ”
The man stopped laughing, and there seemed to be a lot of emotions in his eyes that Du Yunwan couldn't understand, and he continued to speak for a long time: "Little girl, what's your name, where is home? I'll send you home." ”
"My name is Twilight Yunwan, and my home is in ...... Home in ...... I don't know my brother's name?"
Not knowing where her home was, Twilight suddenly changed the subject, smiling, her eyes not too big bent into two shallow crescents, and the pear vortex at the corner of her mouth loomed.
"Like ink. ”
"Rumo, this name is so nice! What is your last name?"
"Last name...... What's your last name? I'm ...... I don't know what my last name is, so why don't you give me one. ”
Rumo lowered his head, his fair face reflected a slight flush, and he seemed to be a little embarrassed.
"Then the surname is Wen, gentle and elegant, just right for you. ”
"Good. ”
The corners of Rumo's mouth rose again, revealing a charming smile, and he easily picked up Twilight Yunwan, who was sitting on the ground, and walked towards the middle of the street.
"Brother Rumo, where are you going to take me?"
"Take you home. ”
"But you don't know where my house is!"
"I ...... Know. ”