Tang riddles

The scorching sun in July shines on the earth, and the land of Youzhou is steaming with blazing heat, making pedestrians walking on the road feel like they are in a fiery hell.However, at night, the temperature dropped rapidly, and the cold came, making people have to add a single coat to feel a little warm.

It was the seventh day of July's No.20. Shen Sui and Li Jinyue's marching team came to Xincheng County, which is only a few hundred miles away from Fanyang. In the army camp.Li Jinyue brought Yang Yuhuan into the county with Shen Sui, Zhang Ruohan and other Qianyumen.The county magistrate of Xincheng had already opened the gates of the city and came to greet him in person, and arranged for a group of people to stay in the Xincheng official post.It's a pity that the official post here is really small, so Shen Sui turned to bring his subordinates to return to the Yan post.

Seeing this, Li Jinyue also refused to stay in the official post, and followed Shen Sui to Guiyan post.The county magistrate of Xincheng was very embarrassed, but there was nothing he could do. If he had a big house, he would naturally welcome the distinguished guests into his home.But he is a poor and petty official, and he himself only lives in the humble mansion of the county government, and the whole family is crowded in it, so it is really inconvenient for distinguished guests to come in.

Shen Sui sat on the shaft of his own carriage, side by side with Hutuo, looking at the red sun falling from the sky with a serious face.Li Jinyue rode his horse to catch up with her from behind and came to her side, blocking her sight just in time.

"Bo Zhao, wait for me," she said.

"What do you do? The Guiyan Station in Xincheng is not very big, you'd better live in the official one." Shen Sui withdrew his gaze, and said lightly with a smile on his lips.

Seeing her like this, Li Jinyue felt sad.But she didn't dare to be depressed too, raised a smile, and said with a smile:

"We live together along the way. I'm really not used to you not being around."

"Childish." Shen Sui smiled.

Seeing that she finally smiled, Li Jinyue breathed a sigh of relief.She subconsciously glanced at the carriage behind again, knowing that Zhang Ruohan was sitting in it, she felt a little uneasy.Her uneasiness came from the recent abnormal behavior of her two friends.Especially Shen Sui, she is a person who likes to laugh, no matter how difficult it is, she can face it with optimism.But recently, her smile has disappeared, and most of the time she frowns deeply, with a gloomy look.She began to drink alcohol, at first she drank it at night, and later she also drank it during the day. She had a bag of wine around her waist, and she always smelled of alcohol.She wasn't drunk at all, she just drank, and after the strong wine cut her throat, she seemed to be able to relax for a while.

What surprised Li Jinyue even more was that Shen Sui, who loved Zhang Ruohan so deeply, recently began to avoid Zhang Ruohan intentionally or unintentionally.In the past, she always sat with Zhang Ruohan in the carriage, but these days, she loves to sit on the shaft of the carriage, no matter how strong the sun is, she doesn't seem to care.He drank a sip of wine from time to time, and then took his own flute to play. Often the tune could not be tuned, and it made people feel tender.Then stopped, sat quietly, stared into the distance, without saying a word.

These days, she didn't even sleep all night and night. She sat by the campfire and read books when camping in the wild, and practiced knives in the yard of the post station when she stayed in the county town.Then it can be seen that Zhang Ruohan also stayed up all night, standing by the window in draped clothes, looking at her.But she didn't come up to talk to her, and they didn't say a word.

To Li Jinyue, this was unbelievable.She thought that even if the mountains had no edges, the sky and the earth were united, and the river was exhausted, it would not be like this between them.She didn't know what happened between them to get here.

Not only she was worried, Qin Nu, Xiong Niang, many people in the team were also worried.

"Bo Zhao, I want to talk to you, can I do it tonight?" Li Jinyue couldn't stand it anymore, she felt that she had to intervene.

"I don't want to talk about it." Shen Sui refused.

"I'll come to see you at night." Li Jinyue couldn't refuse.After finishing speaking, she turned the horse's head, went to Shen Jin's carriage behind, and said a few words to Shen Jin by the window.

Then she didn't go back to Shen Sui's carriage, but came to Yang Yuhuan's horse and walked side by side with her.

"Princess...how is Mr. Bo Zhao?" Yang Yuhuan asked.

"As usual, this person is disgusting, it really makes people want to slash her with a sword." Li Jinyue said angrily, "I must have a good talk with her tonight, and the lotus maid...Your sister Zhang, she...I am There is really no other way but to entrust Zhong Qin to talk to her."

Yang Yuhuan pursed her lips and muttered for a moment.Seeing that she hesitated to speak, Li Jinyue said:

"Ask anything, why hesitate?"

Yang Yuhuan paused, and asked, "Princess, are you... and Sister Zhang, are you real?"

Embarrassment flashed across Li Jinyue's face, and then she smiled wryly:

"Whether it's true or false, it's all in the past. It's meaningless to talk about it now."

Yang Yuhuan looked at her profile for a moment, then bowed his head in silence.

***

It was night, in the guest room of Guiyan Station, Zhang Ruohan lit the oil lamp and read scriptures under the lamp.Wu Ya fetched hot water, poured it into a large wooden barrel, and said:

"Sanniang, take a bath, it's hot today, and you're sweating all the time."

"Well, I'll save it, you go, I'll do it myself." Zhang Ruohan said without looking back, her cold voice seemed to return to the time when Shen Sui hadn't returned.

Wuya sighed silently, looked at Sanniang's thin back, twitched his nose twice, forced back his tears, and quietly led the door out.

Zhang Ruohan slowly put down the scriptures in his hand without reading a single word, and decided to copy one of the scriptures for homework today.Lay out paper and raise your hands to grind.Suddenly, the scene of Chishi holding her hand and grinding appeared in front of her eyes, her hand paused, and her lips trembled.Then continue grinding.

After grinding the ink, she picked up the pen and dipped it in the ink, she hung her wrist on the paper, and began to copy the scriptures.But those familiar scriptures are like flowing water, unable to stop in my mind.That night, the scene of Chishi and her looking through a master's notebook once again appeared in front of her.When seeing Master Yi and Annayi eating oil tea together, Chishi couldn't help retching, her painful appearance was something Zhang Ruohan had never seen before, and Zhang Ruohan was heartbroken.Zhang Ruohan didn't feel scared, even when he recalled it, his face was pale.Akashi left that notebook to her just like that, and didn't look through it again.Zhang Ruohan hid the notes and did not dare to touch them.

That night, Chishi ran away from her in a panic. As far as Zhang Ruohan knew, Chishi had never been a person who was fearless, and there was no such person in this world.The tragedy in her childhood was her lifelong nightmare.The death of her father, the death of her mother, and the fire were nightmares that haunted her.But now this nightmare has become more and more terrifying, almost beyond the range she can bear.Zhang Ruohan felt her fear.

So Zhang Ruohan understood why she was hiding from herself.She is Yi's disciple, and Yi... ate something that was unbearable for her.Therefore, even if Shen Sui just saw Zhang Ruohan, he would unconsciously recall that terrifying scene in his mind.She couldn't bear it, so she had to hide from herself.

Dodge it, dodge it.Zhang Ruohan thought to herself.

Master has been doing good all his life, but he can't get good results.All the suffering she endured was not what she wanted, but imposed by others.How much Zhang Ruohan regretted that day, she played "Guangling San" to attack Shizun, and that turned out to be the last time she and Shizun saw each other.I doubt her, I don't believe her, how sad the master should be.Every time I think of this, regret and grief will make Zhang Ruohan cry uncontrollably.

However, Akashi was at the scene that day, and so many people were there, why did the master still die? Could it be that everyone couldn't save the master from Anna Yi?She knew she shouldn't think like this, but she just couldn't control herself.She is deeply favored by her master, without a master, there would be no Zhang Ruohan now.However, she couldn't save her, how useless she was.

Maybe it's not bad to avoid it for a while, they should calm down with each other.Otherwise, if things go on like this, they should resent each other and become a pair of resentful couples.

But why is her heart so sad.

Holding the pen, the ink has been blurred by tears.Zhang Ruohan saw two lines of music on the paper, which she wrote down unconsciously.

Feng's drop-off returns late, and the chaos of red flies away. Who pity the river wind shakes the late branches, and the heartbroken new moon makes lovesickness, when infatuation is hard to complain.

The lotus perishes in the secluded stream, the solitary lamp in the Cen tower, the jade flute blows through and no one asks, there are several layers of frost in the dusk, and the geese pass through autumn without a trace.

She took a deep breath, wiped away her tears, and put down her pen.Get up, go to the window, push open the window, and see that familiar figure standing in the courtyard with a knife.She should have just put away the knife, still a little out of breath, and her hair is a little messy.Not far away, Li Jinyue arrived with two jugs of wine.She wanted to leave, but was held back by Li Jinyue. She didn't struggle anymore, and the two sat on the stone bench in the courtyard.She snatched the wine from Li Jinyue's hand, patted the Kaifeng Ni, and poured it into her mouth.Li Jinyue snatched it back and refused to let her drink like this. She sat down with her head down, like a wronged child.

Zhang Ruohan slowly closed the window.Looking back, the hot soup in the wooden barrel was already slightly cold.

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"We'll be able to reach Fan Yang the day after tomorrow at the latest, so you plan to keep looking like this?" Li Jinyue asked her with a frown.

"What... this look." She said with disinterest.

"This looks like a drunk!" Li Jinyue said angrily.

"Oh, it would be great if I could get drunk." Shen Sui smiled wryly.

"What happened to you?" Li Jinyue was very puzzled.

"Mamao... Do you know that in this world, people can eat people."

"What?" Li Jinyue was puzzled by her nonsensical words.

"My father..." Shen Sui tried to speak. After saying these three words, she seemed to be choked by something. After a long while, she said with difficulty, "There is no bones left after death. Do you know that I once found My father's body has been searched for a long time. But the only thing I know is that his body mysteriously disappeared after it appeared on the Danfeng gate tower. The imperial guards who rushed to the gate tower only found an empty cross. This mystery It has puzzled me for many years, and it is only now that I have not solved it."

Li Jinyue held her breath and looked at her without blinking.Li Jinyue also knows about these things, and she has also started to investigate the events of the year. The Jingzhao Mansion did not find Yin Yu's body, although many people saw him hanged upside down on the Danfeng gate tower, with his neck cut open , dripping blood continuously.But until now, the whereabouts of Yin Yu's body is still unknown, so there is no way to investigate the cause of his death.

"My father...was taken away..." Shen Sui raised his hand to cover his lips, Li Jinyue saw that her throat was trembling, her expression was about to vomit, and her heart couldn't help but hang up, "He was taken away by someone The bone marrow was eaten, it was Annayi who did it, she ate... the bone marrow, and one more."

Shen Sui uttered such broken words intermittently. After she finished speaking, her whole body was shaking, her complexion was pale, and her throat was constantly dripping with acid.

Li Jinyue was silent like a cicada, she only felt that the heart that was hanging high fell down heavily, as if hit by a heavy hammer, and her mind went blank for a moment.

"Why...a master meeting..." After an unknown amount of time, Li Jinyue seemed to pull away, and quietly asked this question.

"Anayi lied to her. She... put my father's bone marrow... into the camellia oleifera, tricked... tricked her into eating it..." When Shen Sui said this, Li Jinyue saw her jaw trembling. I felt extremely sad in my heart, it was a feeling of suffocation.She thought to herself, how sad Shen Sui should be if she was like this.

"Chi... Chishi..." Li Jinyue's eyes were red, "It must be a mistake...how could it be, why did she want to eat..." Li Jinyue bowed her head, unable to continue.

"What is written in Yi's notes is true, not false." Shen Sui suppressed his emotions and said awkwardly, "Luanhuang marrow blood, do you know what it is? She said that it can Immortality. It seems to be really effective...haha." Shen Sui laughed dryly, and was speechless again.

Li Jinyue slowly curled up, hugged her head, and let out a short but painful sob.

The author has something to say: I know that the development of this plot is a bit unacceptable, I hope you don't think it is too heavy.I didn't write this on a whim to disgust everyone. The plot has already been conceived. I believe that after the last few chapters, you may have seen some clues.

After yesterday's chapter, many friends wondered why Annayi had to lure Yi all the way to Chang'an to trick her into eating the blood of Luanhuang.Her psychology cannot be judged by common sense.Annayi herself said that Yi is her only relative in this world.After Yin Yu entered Princess Taiping's mansion and gave birth to a daughter with the princess, she has completely fallen into despair.You can imagine that you are the only one left in the whole world, whether you will desperately find a companion.When she was passionately in love, she abandoned her junior sister in a feverish manner; when she was broken in love and despaired, she thought of her junior sister again.Her character was originally a very extreme person, one thought became a Buddha and one thought became a demon. After she became a demon, she did such a thing to the only person who could be called a relative.She hoped that someone could accompany her, so she chose one.

Just in case, I want to emphasize once again that this article has fantasy elements in it, which was clearly written in the copy when I wrote it.