A glance at the spring breeze

When Yin Xian woke up, the clear sky was extremely clear.The light and thin white clouds like silk and satin floated above, very slowly, very slowly... so slowly that he thought that the time seemed to have stopped, and the surrounding air was frozen.

The cool waves gently slapped the sandy shore, and white foam emerged from the shore one after another. The waves came ashore again and again, and then left again.Not far away, there were a few gulls with white bodies and black wings spreading their wings and circling on the sea, making shrill and sharp calls.

The pure and gentle breeze caressed his cheeks, with a hint of salty smell, which belonged to the smell of the ocean.

In the farthest place ahead, the sea and the sky formed a long line.It is this line that divides the world into two.

he……

They escaped at last.

Yin Jian closed her eyes to rest quietly, and suddenly smelled a sweet and intoxicating fragrance of flowers.

The fragrance of the flowers was very strong and sweet, as if... he was lying in a place full of flowers.

"Your Majesty." He heard Ruan Lan call him, "The tree over there is full of peach blossoms. I saw that it looked pretty, so I picked a few branches."

Yin Jian suddenly opened his eyes.

He saw Ruan Lan kneeling beside him, holding a branch of peach blossom, reaching out to hand it to him.

As soon as Yin Jianfu held the peach blossom branch, Ruan Lan lowered her eyebrows and bowed her head obediently, a blush appeared on her pretty face, and her black eyelashes trembled: "Your Majesty... we have already walked side by side After a life-and-death calamity, now, I don’t know if it can be counted as the next life?”

After hearing this, Yin Jian quickly sat up from the ground, threw away the flower branch excitedly, and held Ruan Lan's hand.

Just last night, when the sea surged up and was about to swallow everything, he once said to Ruan Lan: "If there is an afterlife, you can accept me... Ruan Lan, are you willing?"

The afterlife...the afterlife.

Ruan Lan agreed.

He forgave him!

Yin Jian was overjoyed, and kissed Ruan Lan lightly on the face, and then said: "Of course, Ruan Lan, whatever you say is what you say."

The two hug each other.

The sunshine falling from the sky is warm and soft, like the scenery of going out with others in the spring when I was young.

They hugged each other for a long time, until the gulls on the sea had already flown away, Ruan Lan said: "Your Majesty, the peach blossoms I just picked were thrown away by you, right?"

Yin Jian lowered his eyes and looked at a pink branch lying alone on the sandy shore two feet away. Several petals had fallen off, and a few traces of filthy dust were still on it.

He felt very embarrassed.

"Where does this flower grow? I'll pick it for you."

Ruan Lan stood up from the ground and looked in a direction behind Yin Zhen: "No need. Not far from there, there is a peach grove. I will pick some more. Your Majesty, you wait here I."

"okay."

After Ruan Lan left, Yin Xian lay down on the beach again.

Sea Breeze...Sunshine...Spray--

It's so beautiful here.

He closed his eyes and listened to the beautiful and melodious sound of the sea wind and waves.

It would be great if he could stay here with Ruan Lan forever, regardless of the world.

When Xuan'er grows up——

Don't bother with those mundane things anymore...

ignore...

How nice it would be...

"His Majesty!"

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, wake up... why are you lying here!"

Yin Jian woke up suddenly.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Mr. Zhang squatting beside him, pinching his wrist to feel his pulse, his face was very anxious: "Your Majesty, you have finally woken up."

Yin Jian frowned: "Where did Ruan Lan go?" Then he realized that something was wrong around him.

It was dark.

He was indeed lying on the sandy shore, and there was indeed sea breeze and waves, and there were a few gulls circling and dancing on the sea.But the sky was shrouded in layers of dark clouds, with little light and rolling clouds.

The sea was surging, coming in hastily, and receding quickly, the spray had already wet his boots, and the strong sea wind had blown his coat away.

A burst of salty smell blowing in front of him made him sick to his stomach.

Mr. Zhang said: "Your Majesty, after we landed, we started to search separately. I don't know if the others have found Mr. Ruan."

"Ruan Lan is gone?" Yin Jian shook off Manager Zhang's hand that was supporting him, and stood up from the ground, "How is it possible, he was still here talking to me just now."

Hearing this, Manager Zhang hesitated, but he still said, "Return to Your Majesty, this servant has been guarding His Majesty's side for most of the time, and has never seen Lord Ruan. Seeing that Your Majesty has not woken up from the nightmare, so--"

"nightmare?"

It was only then that Yin Jian realized that his forehead and behind his ears were wet, like sea water, and also like sweat flowing down.

Even the clothes seemed to be glued to the back.

Manager Zhang replied: "Yes, Your Majesty. After seeing Your Majesty, this servant wanted to inform others that His Majesty is here. But when I got closer, I found that His Majesty was sweating profusely, frowning all the time, and kept talking. Calling Lord Ruan's name, so the servant wanted to wake up His Majesty from the nightmare first, and then inform the others."

Yin Xian couldn't believe it: "You said...you haven't seen Ruan Lan? How could it be...he just said that he was going to pick peach blossoms, and there are peach blossoms blooming all over there—"

Yin Jian looked in the direction Ruan Lan left, but the distance was full of devastation and chaos.There are some forest trees that are still standing, but they are all withered, and more trees are overwhelmed and directly fall to the ground.

The vigorous cool wind howled and rolled away, and soon another tree fell.

"No, it's impossible—"

This was probably the first time Yin Jian lost his composure in front of Manager Zhang.

Manager Zhang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, where did you see Master Ruan last time? Slave... let them find it."

This island is full of withered and desolate feeling of twilight, where there are peach blossoms in full bloom.

Yin Jian clenched his fists tightly, closed his eyes sadly, and opened them again after a while.

The fist has spread out and turned into a palm.

"No need."

Yin Jian seems to have accepted the fact that he has always been able to maintain the sobriety and rationality of an emperor, except for very few times—mostly when he is in front of Ruan Lan.

Yin Jian didn't hide anything from Manager Zhang: "The last time I saw him was at the bottom of the sea."

On the other side of the seabed, he once said to Ruan Lan.

——If there is an afterlife, you can accept me... Ruan Lan, are you willing?

He looked at the cloth strip on his wrist and remained silent for a long time.

The other end of the cloth strip was originally tied to Ruan Lan's body.

However, it is broken now.

The cuts on the cloth strips are not even, as if they were cut with a knife.

—more like biting it off with your teeth.

Maybe it was because Ruan Lan knew that she was not good at water and was almost unable to hold on anymore, so she bit off the cloth strip with all her strength, fearing to drag him down.

Maybe...he didn't make it to shore at all.

stay in the sea forever.

If there is an afterlife—

Yin Jian didn't dare to think about it anymore, he said to Mr. Zhang: "Have you brought enough people? If you have enough, let them go to the sea to find Ruan Lan's body."

His tone seemed a little cold and heartless.

Manager Zhang couldn't understand what it meant.

Mr. Zhang said, "Your Majesty, ordinary people can't get on the island at all. It was Daoist Xuan Mo who used magic to send us ashore. He said, we are all destined people on this isolated island, and only we can unlock its secrets." The secret—it helps to get rid of the green sandalwood tree next to the Taoist temple. The Taoist priest said that he is not from this land of China, so he can't interfere too much with things here."

"People with predestined relationship." Yin Jian thought about it, "So, very few people went ashore?"

"Only the slave, Xiao Yuzi, and... Mr. Qi Moqi. Mr. Qi heard that Mr. Ruan might be on this island, so he insisted on clamoring to come. The slave couldn't stop him, but Daoist Xuan Mo agreed. "

"So that's the case, then..." Yin Chen rolled his eyes, "The Taoist master used up his spell and disappeared again?"

Because Daoist Xuan Mo is not from this land of China, he cannot use spells here, otherwise he will be backlashed by the spells. The most common backlash is being sent to a barren land thousands of miles away instantly. It takes a lot of effort to come back.

"Your Majesty is wise, but before the Taoist disappeared, he told the slaves that he will do an extremely important thing for His Majesty when he returns, and it will be counted as a reward for His Majesty's gift of the keel."

"..." Yin Jian turned his back to Mr. Zhang and looked into the boundless blue sea.

The sea is so magnificent that it seems to be able to swallow everything.

Do something extremely important for him...

But now he seemed to have nothing left to ask for.

"One more thing." Yin Jian immediately put away the melancholy look in his eyes, and turned to Mr. Zhang, "Yun Sheng, this time, I seem to have found the Huzhang family you've been looking for."

"What?! Your Majesty, are you serious?" Director Zhang became excited in an instant.

Seeing Manager Zhang's overjoyed expression, Yin Jian couldn't bear to continue: "I heard from Ruan Lan yesterday that Yin Cheng was ordered by Xichen to destroy a family of merchants on Qiumang Mountain. The shady house that Ruan Lan went to... that family is exactly the surname of Li Zao Zhang."

Director Zhang immediately stood there in a daze, not moving.

Yin Jian said helplessly: "I thought to myself, there are so many people with the surname Zhang, but there are very few merchants with the surname Zhang who happened to disappear after they built their houses at that time. Even the government can't find out their whereabouts. Now Come to think of it, someone like Yin Cheng, who holds a lot of power, must have tampered with it at that time."

Mr. Zhang gradually recovered from the bad news, and then said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for letting me know...Since this is the case, I will not ask for anything extravagantly. In fact, I should have thought that Zhang's family has not received a letter for more than ten years, and it should have been dead for many years. .”

"I see that you often read the letters you had with Mr. Zhang in the early years. In fact, you have always missed him in your heart. If... If they had told you the location of their newly built house earlier, you wouldn't have Waiting all these years in vain."

After listening to Mr. Zhang, it was rare that he didn't reply to Yin Jian's words according to the rules, but kept silent and lowered his head quietly.

Both of them were thinking about their own thoughts.

After a long time, Yin Jian, who was staring at the secluded sea, was awakened by Director Zhang: "Your Majesty, look. They are coming."

Yin Jian looked in the direction of Manager Zhang's finger, and there were two figures about ten feet away - Eunuch Yu and Qi Mo.

"Your Majesty! The servant finally found you!"

Eunuch Yu trotted up to Yin Jian, knelt down with a "plop", and gave a heavy knock: "Long live my emperor! Long live, long live my emperor! Little Yuzi, my servant, I greet your majesty."

Qi Mo, who followed closely behind, was stunned for a moment. He raised his finger and pointed at Yin Jian, and his mouth was already incoherent: "You, you——you are the emperor?!"

"Bold!" Manager Zhang shouted loudly, "Don't kneel down when you see Your Majesty!"

"I...he...the emperor..." Qi Mo stammered out of surprise, "he...he is the emperor."

"What? I don't look like you." Yin Jian asked loudly.

He stared at Zimo intently with those dark pupils.

These eyes were quiet and heavy, bottomless, as if carrying a natural aura of awe, which made Qi Mo lower his head unconsciously.

Qi Mo thought to himself: It's really strange, even with a thick face like him, he dare not look into the eyes of this "liar" in front of him.

It seems that he is really the emperor.It's scary.

He knelt down and kowtowed like that father-in-law Yu said: "Long live my emperor, long live my emperor, Qi Mo, a grassroots man, kowtows to His Majesty."

"Calm down, since we are all on this deserted island, and you were chosen by Daoist Xuan Mo, there will be no need for red tape during this period of time."

"Really?" Qi Mo suddenly jumped up from the ground confidently, ran to Yin Jian, and asked, "You... didn't you say that your surname is Ruan, how did you suddenly become the emperor?"

Yin Jian replied: "Private visits in micro-services, of course you need to change your identity."

"That's right, it's rare for someone like you to go out. So you used Ruan Lan's last name? By the way... Speaking of Ruan Lan, where did he go? Why didn't I see him here? Xuan Daoist Mo told me that Ruan Lan is here."

At this time, hearing the name "Ruan Lan" in other people's mouths, Yin Xian felt a dull pain in his heart.

Eunuch Yu also said: "Yes, Your Majesty, where has Your Excellency gone? This servant misses Your Excellency very much."

"Ruan Lan, he..."

Yin Xian turned his head away.

Manager Zhang walked up to the two of them and whispered to them, "Lord Ruan has already gone."

Qi Mo suddenly opened his eyes wide, and said in a trembling voice, "You said—"

After hearing this, Eunuch Yu covered his mouth in disbelief, took a small step back slowly, his legs trembled, as if he was about to lose his balance: "My lord...he's dead..."

"En." Manager Zhang's eyes were a little regretful and sad.

"That day, my lord told me that he would definitely come back... woo woo... why did your lord die..." Eunuch Yu couldn't stop crying.

Qi Mo was not feeling well either. He pondered for a long time before he realized that Ruan Lan was dead.

He walked up to Yin Xian and patted Yin Xian on the shoulder: "My condolences, Your Majesty. My intuition tells me that you and Ruan Lan have a very good relationship, just like me and him."

When Qi Mo said the last sentence, Yin Jian suddenly looked at him.

"Different."

Qi Mo wondered: "What?"

Yin Jian did not reply, but continued to look at the sea in front of him.

"Our master in the temple on Mount Qiumang said that a good person will go to heaven after death. Ruan Lan is an extremely good person, and he will definitely go to heaven."

"That's just what you said for being late."

Zimo raised his head and said, "Have you seen the albatross circling in the sky? The villagers there also said that the albatross in the sea is transformed from the deceased relatives and friends. I have only seen it in the letters of the village. The albatross in the painting saw his real body for the first time today."

Yin Jian was attracted by the phrase "dead relatives and friends", and also raised his eyes to look at the gulls in the sky.

A gull bird with a white body and black wings is making a mournful cry.

Spread your wings and circle, soar and fly.

Just like in a dream.

wrong--

Yin Jian stared straight at his eyes.

What is one of the albatrosses holding in its claws?

Then he jumped up and flew lightly over the sea.

When I was about to grab the albatross, it started to whimper strangely as if it was frightened, and the things on its claws fell off.

Yin Jian tried his best to catch the thing before it fell into the sea, and most of his body was soaked in seawater.

The water splashed, and Manager Zhang on the shore shouted: "Your Majesty!"

Yin Jian held it high, preventing it from being soaked by any seawater.

This is a peach blossom.

The petals on the peach blossom seem to have fallen in half, and there are still a few grains of sand on the flowers.

In the dream, he threw this flower on the shore, let it touch the sand on the shore, and many petals fell off.

No, it's not a dream...it's still there.

——"Your Majesty, the peach blossoms I just picked were thrown away by you, right?"

That's what Ruan Lan told him.

With a trace of tenderness, but also with a trace of resentment.

Although Yin Xun was lying on his back, most of his body was submerged in the water.

These are the flowers Ruan Lan gave him.

It means that everything that happened in that dream is real.

"Boom—boom."

It was thunder from the sky.

The dark clouds began to flash and thunder, and became chaotic and terrifying, and it was about to rain.

He heard someone on the shore shouting: "Your Majesty, it's dangerous."

He thought, it was because he threw away the flowers, so Ruan Lan was going to pick a new one back.Then, Ruan Lan disappeared.

Therefore... If it wasn't for him, Ruan Lan would definitely still be by his side now.

How could he throw the things that Ruan Lan gave him everywhere.

Blame him.

Blame him.

He must find Ruan Lan back.