A glance at the spring breeze

Ruan Lan turned her head and coughed out a mouthful of blood.He could feel a few drops of blood splashing on the back of his hand.

There is still chaos all around, Ruan Lan can't see the surrounding things, he can't see the white bone in front of him that is spinning in place, he can only hear the sound of the white bone stepping on the ground, and The owner of the voice sighed incoherently: "Father, he...hey, he wanted to pass on me, Ruan Lan, and Ruan Lan didn't betray me...and that Yin Jian..."

Ruan Lan breathed heavily. Although the punishment that was worse than death had been removed by Yin Cheng who was in a daze, the pain that penetrated deep into the internal organs still persisted and did not disappear.It seems that due to excessive blood loss, Ruan Lan's mind is a little unclear at this moment, he shook his head, struggled to get up from the ground, and then faced Yin Cheng's direction, said: "Your Highness, don't stop After falling down like this, leaving Rhinoceros, after that, after that..."

"After...how about after?" Yin Cheng's voice was urgent, and he quickly approached Ruan Lan. He grabbed Ruan Lan's arm, and his words seemed to be full of hope of escape, "Ruan Lan, will you help me?"

Ruan Lan controlled the speed of her breathing to relieve the pain and burden in her body: "His Royal Highness, if, if His Royal Highness finds his way back, Ruan Lan will definitely help His Highness get rid of that evil thing, so that you will be free from his shackles forever and ever. "

"Ruan Lan." Yin Cheng was still asking anxiously, "Ruan Lan, you really didn't betray me?"

"Ruan Lan has never betrayed His Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness...don't listen to that Xichen's instigation...Your Highness, please turn around, Your Majesty and I are waiting for you to go back in the capital, come back..." Said At the last sentence, Ruan Lan's voice choked up, and Yin Cheng seemed a little moved. He held Ruan Lan's arm, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly heard Xi Chen who had been silent for a long time at the side say, "Ruan Lan, do you know , I have never been proficient in disguise?"

Ruan Lan frowned: "Xichen, what did you say?" Thinking of the "proficient in disguise" in Xichen's mouth, he was startled, "You—the Shen Chunrongzhi who helped me disguise myself as Ah Shan before, unexpectedly It's you……"

"That's right. Shen Chunrongzhi is me. But I really don't know how to disguise myself. I only disguised myself once, and that was to use magic to disguise you into Ah Shan's appearance. It doesn't look exactly like Ah Shan. Still, it's more than enough to fool those stupid soldiers and troupe boys—"

Ruan Lan asked: "Xi Chen, what exactly do you want to say?"

Xi Chen faintly blew into Ruan Lan's ear, and said in a low, hoarse, arrogant voice: "I have no entity, if the surroundings are dark, unless I use magic to touch you, otherwise, You can only feel my voice. If there is light all around, the me you see is the person you most expect to see at this moment."

"The person I want to see the most at this moment..." Ruan Lan stood in the chaos and repeated it lightly.

Xichen said: "That time, I told you that I would disguise myself, and I could be disguised as you, so from the bottom of your heart, you eagerly hope to see yourself in me, don't you?"

Ruan Lan was silent.

He wanted to say he didn't believe it.But he couldn't say anything.

That day, in Cui Die Palace where the theater troupe staff gathered, he stepped into a room as promised.There is Shen Chun Rongzhi waiting for him in that room.At the very beginning, Shen Chun Rongzhi pretended to be Ah Shan. He told Ruan Lan that he was proficient in disguise, and was good at observing words and imitating voices. Help him escape from the heavily guarded palace.

But then, Ruan Lan actually saw Shen Chun Rongzhi disguised as her in a flash, the appearance was exactly the same as her own, even he couldn't tell the difference.

At that time, when he looked at Shen Chun Rongzhi who had changed into his own image, he suddenly had an unreal feeling that his soul had gone out of his body, he was floating in the air like a disembodied soul, peeking at his physical body.

But now that I think about it, where in the world would there be such an exquisite disguise technique.

Xichen pressed on step by step, not giving Ruan Lan a chance to breathe: "On the day of Yin Jian's birthday, when you first saw me in that room, what you wanted most in your heart was someone who came to rescue you from the palace. , you naturally don’t care what that person looks like. In fact, you didn’t even remember how many noses and eyes he had on his face. But later, when you learned that I disguised you The appearance that I saw at the beginning was directly imagined as the appearance of Ah Shan, isn't it? From this, the original memory in your mind will be gradually replaced by the development direction you most hope for, isn't it? ?”

As soon as Xichen finished speaking, Ruan Lan opened her lips and let out a chuckle, revealing a few teeth stained with blood.

I don't know if I'm laughing at him or myself.

Following Xichen's words and recalling what happened that day, Ruan Lan realized how selfish, hypocritical, and self-deceiving she was.

Looking back now, it seems that the Shen Chun Rongzhi he saw at the beginning was really completely different from Ah Shan.

no no……

In fact, he didn't remember Shen Chun Rongzhi's appearance at all, not even his eyes and nose.

Memory is fuzzy.

The face was also blurred.

He doesn't remember at all.

Ruan Lan lost his mind.

At this moment, the surrounding light suddenly flourished.

The surrounding darkness and chaos instantly disappeared without a trace.

Ruan Lan put her hands in front of her eyes to block out the strong and dazzling light, and after getting used to it for a while, she could see clearly what was in front of her.

He seemed to be standing in a long and narrow cave.

On the left hand side, there is a piece of complete bone, it is standing in front of him, there are several long and slippery maggots climbing, circling and wriggling on the skull.

This must be Yin Cheng.

And on the other side-

Just five steps away from Ruan Lan, stood a man of extraordinary appearance. The man's brows and eyes revealed the arrogance that only belonged to an emperor. The expression on his face was as calm and composed as a god in the sky.He was wearing a dark purple dragon robe inlaid with gold thread, and his whole body exuded a dazzling light, which made Ruan Lan unable to move his eyes away.

He took out a folding fan and looked up at Ruan Lan.In those bright eyes, there is a gentle color like a spring breeze.

"Alan, I finally found you."

It's Yin Jian.

"Your Majesty—" Ruan Lan called out to Yin.

But at this moment, Yin Jian, who was standing there, turned his eyes to Yin Cheng, and said to him with a mocking and teasing expression: "Did you hear who he called? Hehehe... Yin Cheng, Yin Cheng, Do you really think he will save you?"

Ruan Lan didn't react in time.

The skeleton grabbed Ruan Lan's neck with lightning speed, and was very furious: "Ruan Lan...you lied to me! The person you want to see the most at this moment is—Yin Jian, that The incompetent Yin Jian...Ruan Lan, you lied to me...you betrayed me..."

In Yin Cheng's two black holes that should have eyes, there are maggots stirring and wriggling.

"No wonder... no wonder!" Yin Cheng slowly tightened his palms and cried hysterically, "That time in Zhang Zhai, I saw him holding you in a coma, looking very anxious... Ruan Lan, you have already You betrayed me, didn't you?"

Ruan Lan's neck was clamped by Yin Cheng's finger bones, and she couldn't move for a while, so she hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness, you, listen to me—don't, don't be caught by the rhinoceros dust, the trick of alienation—"

Ruan Lan saw that all of Yin Cheng's teeth were closed. Yin Cheng gritted his teeth and grabbed him by the neck, lifted him from the ground, and said viciously: "I think you are trying to drive a wedge between Master Xichen and me! Ruan Lan, you Die-"

Ruan Lan was pinched by Yin Cheng's neck, and her body was slowly raised.

The bones of Yin Cheng's hand holding Ruan Lan were "creaking", which showed how hard he was, and how much he hated his younger brother Yin Zhe.

Ruan Lan felt that her neck was about to break, she couldn't breathe, she couldn't move, and even the scene in front of her was almost blurred.

Those slender fingers seemed to be about to pierce his throat.He was so painful that tears flowed from his eyes, but he could only make a "cough cough" sound.

Probably he will die here today.

At this moment, Ruan Lan suddenly took out a hard object from her arms and threw it at Yin Cheng.

Count it as a last-ditch effort,

"Ah!" Yin Cheng cried out in pain.He let go, and Ruan Lan fell from the air.

"cough……"

Ruan Lan touched her neck, took a deep breath of the surrounding air, and the pain in her whole body eased slightly.

"Ah—" But Yin Cheng was still crying out in pain. The bones of "Knock Knock Knock" are spinning all over the floor.

Before she had time to see what happened, Ruan Lan's eyes went dark for a moment, and then she lost consciousness.

*****

The sun is good in the palace today, with plenty of sunshine, much warmer than those rainy days before.

There was a burst of fragrance outside the imperial study.

"Your Majesty—" Manager Zhang shouted from outside the door, "The imperial dining room has delivered freshly baked pastries."

"Come in." He heard His Majesty order.

At this time, Yin Jian summoned Yin Xuan and was preparing to inspect the little prince's homework for the past two days.

Yin Xuan was hesitating to memorize the book at first, but as soon as he smelled the pastry brought by Manager Zhang, his eyes pressed tightly against it, and his mouth began to drool.

Seeing that the little prince was still trying to pretend to be reciting the book seriously, Yin Jian couldn't help feeling amused in his heart, and suddenly thought of teasing the little prince.

"Elder-in-law, I suddenly don't want to eat it, so you can take it and throw it away."

"Yes." Manager Zhang was very obedient, he turned his head and left with the tray in his hand.

"Wuuuu..." Who would have thought that the little prince would cry with frowning behind his back, but he still couldn't take his eyes off those plates of pastries.

"Father." The little prince said aggrievedly, "I want to eat."

Yin Jian then said to Mr. Zhang: "Eunuch, put them in front of the eldest prince."

So four plates of pastries were placed on the table in front of Yin Xuan.But at this time, he heard his father say: "You can only eat a piece if you recite one chapter."

"Ah..." There was mist in Yin Xuan's eyes, and he was about to cry again.

"Hurry up and recite it." Looking at Yin Xuan's adorable appearance, Yin Jian did not soften his heart.

"Yes--"

……

Later, Yin Xuan actually recited eight chapters intermittently, and ate eight yuan of pastries.Just when Yin Xuan finished reciting the ninth chapter and was about to take out the ninth piece from the pile of cakes in front of him, he suddenly heard his father ask: "Xuan'er, don't you like eating the cloud cake in the middle? Why don't you just eat it?" Eat something else?"

Yin Xuan didn't care about anything else but the delicious cakes in front of him, so he answered very sincerely: "Father, can I give the cloud cake to my concubine, my concubine likes to eat it..."

Mother and concubine like to eat... Yin Jian slowly pondered over the meaning of Yin Xuan's words.

"Xuan'er, what are you talking about?" Yin Jian narrowed his eyes, and there was a hint of evil spirit that Yin Xuan hadn't noticed in his eyes.

The little prince was still devouring heartlessly: "My concubine likes to eat cloud cakes, but the one I like most is made by a pastry shop outside the palace."

"Oh? Outside the palace." Yin Jian sneered with a sneer.

The ones outside the palace are probably eaten by the imperial concubine and Ruan Lan when she was a child.

Only then did the little prince realize that there seemed to be something wrong with his father. He turned his head to look at Yin Jian, only to see that his father's face was already gloomy.

Yin Xuan trembled when he spoke, and he didn't know where he annoyed his moody father: "My son... my son won't eat."

Yin Jian was about to explode, but Director Zhang's deep and powerful voice came from outside the door: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of War has urgent military information from the north."

Hearing Manager Zhang's announcement, Yin Jian's heart suddenly tightened for some reason.

His intuition told him that something happened to Ruan Lan.

"Quick announcement."

Manager Zhang led a soldier in armor into the room. The soldier was breathing unsteadily and was sweating. It was obvious that he had just rushed back to the capital to deliver the military information.

"See Your Majesty." The soldier knelt in front of Yin Jian.

"What's the military situation, play it quickly."

The officer said: "Return to Your Majesty, Lord Ruan Lan disappeared three days ago."

Yin Jian maintained his composure on the surface, but he clenched his hands under the table.

"What happened, you can't protect even one person?"

"Return to Your Majesty, that's not the case." The officer said, "Two patrolling soldiers saw that Lord Ruan was not bound or threatened with his life, and he left with the three generals of Yasukuni on his own initiative."

This is the capital crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason!

"You said he was taking the initiative?" Yin Xun swung the teacup on the table to the ground, and his words overflowed with murderous aura uncontrollably.

The soldier kowtowed, and then took out a note from his hand: "Your Majesty, please calm down. We found evidence in the guest room where Master Ruan lived temporarily, please take a look at it."

Manager Zhang presented this note.

Yin Jian's fingers trembled a little, and the skin on his arm became tense uncontrollably.

When he slowly opened this piece of evidence and saw the writing on it, for a moment, he seemed to be unable to feel his own heartbeat, and his mind went blank.

This piece of evidence was crushed into ashes by Yin Jian in a blink of an eye.

Even though nearly ten years have passed, he still knows whose handwriting is clearly written on it.

—— "Ruan Lan, I have wronged you all these years."

——"But fortunately, I'm finally back. You and the three generals came to find me, and we conspired together."

And the final inscription is:

——Prince Yin Cheng.