A glance at the spring breeze

Eunuch Yu's words were like a thunderbolt hitting Ruan Lan's head.

After a long silence, Ruan Lan finally said, "Elder-in-law, help me back to the house."

"...Yes." Eunuch Yu replied with some doubts.

Before he took two or three steps, he heard someone shouting towards him: "My lord."

It is an elegant and noble female voice.

This voice is familiar and familiar, but it is not an exaggeration to say that it is unfamiliar.

Ruan Lan did not stop.

The woman stepped forward and continued to call: "Lord Ruan."

Ruan Lan still ignored it deliberately, ignored it, and walked straight forward.

The woman didn't give up, her voice became a little hoarse, and she suddenly called out: "Brother Lan...!"

Hearing this, Ruan Lan couldn't bear it, and finally stopped, turning her head to where the sound came from.

Eunuch Yu saluted respectfully, but Ruan Lan was standing tall and straight.

Concubine Wang looked at the gauze on Ruan Lan's head, then scanned Ruan Lan's face.Ruan Lan's appearance doesn't seem to have changed from many years ago, with black hair and thick eyebrows, her face is still as gentle as jade.

It's just that her temperament has changed. It used to be gentle and elegant, but now she looks haggard and dull.

"Lan...Master Ruan, how have you been doing all these years?"

Hearing the imperial concubine asking him this, Ruan Lan lowered her head and smiled.

"Good or bad, what's the use."

Wang Guifei suddenly felt that the question just now seemed inappropriate: "I... have always wanted to see you, but because of your Majesty..."

Ruan Lan knew what she was going to say, so she directly shook her head and said, "I understand your empress' difficulties."

Concubine Wang smiled: "Xuan'er came to disturb Your Excellency last time. When he told me back, I knew he must have met Your Excellency."

Ruan Lan's expression didn't change, she nodded and said, "I didn't expect that smart and lovely child to be the prince of the imperial concubine, it's because the guilty minister didn't take good care of him."

Ruan Lan's words obviously wanted to separate herself from the identity of Wang Guifei, so that Wang Guifei couldn't take it anymore and retreated in spite of the difficulties.

Concubine Wang's smile froze on her face, and it took a long time before she said: "I... Xuan'er will definitely not disturb Your Excellency in the future, after he went back last time, I have already punished him."

"Thank you, ma'am." Ruan Lan tugged at Eunuch Yu's sleeve and said, "Eunuch, let's go inside."

For a moment, Wang Guifei wanted to hold Ruan Lan, but her hand stopped in the air.

What else can I say if I stop him?

The person in front of him was dressed in a plain robe, and his figure was thin. He seemed to be the same as the handsome young man many years ago.The lonely figure left slowly, and in a blink of an eye, he entered the He Yu Xuan, where His Majesty's golden house hides his beauty.

Ruan Lan went back to the room and sat down, only to find some fine beads of sweat on her palms.

Eunuch Yu tremblingly brewed a cup of tea for Ruan Lan.

Eunuch Yu didn't know that Ruan Lan had met the imperial concubine who was in charge of the Six Palaces.You must know that Your Majesty has no empress, and the Empress Dowager has already gone west. As a result, the identity and status of the imperial concubine in the harem is naturally extraordinary.No matter how many people want to curry favor with the eunuchs and maids in the imperial concubine's chambers, they are not able to curry favor with them, Master Ruan even met the imperial concubine and did not go to her.

Since returning, Ruan Lan sat at the table in a daze.Eunuch Yu said in his heart that something was wrong.

If there is something between Master Ruan and the imperial concubine... different from the normal friendship between friends, what should I do?

If His Majesty the Emperor knows, what should he do?

Eunuch Yu shrank his neck in fright.

Ruan Lan didn't know that Eunuch Yu had rich and miserable guesses in his heart.He was just thinking silently: it would be the best thing for these acquaintances not to come to see him again in the future.

He is already Yin Jian's prisoner.No official position, no relatives, no freedom.

Those maids were right, anyone who knew him would be in bad luck.No matter how you shake it, you can't shake it off.

Before going to bed, Eunuch Yu changed Ruan Lan into a gauze that had been sprinkled with medicinal powder.

Eunuch Yu took a piece of paper and pondered over it: "My lord, that long-lasting note said that there is no need for acupuncture tonight."

"Yeah." Ruan Lan closed her eyes and lay down.

Eunuch Yu became anxious now: "My lord, according to this, will His Majesty not come tonight?"

"It's the best." Ruan Lan covered the quilt and turned over.

Eunuch Yu knew it would be futile to ask further questions.Doesn't this correspond to the old saying, the emperor is really not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry.So he blew out the candle lamp in the bedroom for Ruan Lan, and prepared to wash up and go to see Duke Zhou.

Ruan Lan closed his eyes and fell asleep as usual, but he felt restless for a while, always recalling the troubled past in his mind.

For a while I think of the imperial concubine, for a while I think of Yin Cheng, and for a while I think of my father who died of illness.

Maybe it was because he met his old friend today, even though the surroundings were dark and quiet, warm and pleasant, he still tossed and turned, restless on the bed.It was as if there was a taut string in my heart.

Suddenly, Ruan Lan's body sank.

The surrounding air gradually becomes unbearably hot.

The heart was pounding, beating faster and faster.

It was so boring that he could hardly bear it.

The bed under him became hard and hot.

The room was hot and humid, and the air wafted the rotting smell of dead bodies.

The cobwebs in the corner were torn and knotted, and there were dried blood stains and swarms of flies and flying ants everywhere.

Ruan Lan felt that she was also filled with the breath of the dead.

The dark prison cell, the shackles that cannot be shaken off.besides……

Through the blurred and dim light, he saw a ghost standing outside the prison door, who was doing all kinds of evil.

The ghost walked in a bit more this time, and looked down at him condescendingly.

He spoke in a thick and deep voice: "Are you still waiting for Yin Cheng to come to rescue you?"

Tears flowed from Ruan Lan's eyes for some reason.

"Yin Cheng is dead." The ghost smiled lightly, as if telling a well-known joke, "Yin Cheng, jumped off the city wall."

He leaned close to Ruan Lan's ear, and the breath he exhaled burned Ruan Lan's face.

"He... fell to his death..."

The ghost suddenly laughed, and the laughter was so powerful.Ruan Lan shook her head and stepped back, desperately covering her ears.

He doesn't want to listen.

He doesn't want to hear it!

Unexpectedly, in an instant, his hands were grabbed violently, and his whole body fell onto a hard iron plate.

It was an execution platform where countless innocent souls were shackled.He saw those innocent souls hanging around him, screaming and wandering.

The execution platform was filled with the stench of decaying corpses.The pungent smell was sucked into Ruan Lan's internal organs, which made him vomit incessantly.

The evil-doing ghost said in a piercing and creepy voice next to his ear: "This is the top-quality Jindi meteorite. It burned in Huoshaoshan for 49 days. The mark branded by it will never be seen again in this life." Fades. He will burn into your bones, melt into your soul... so that you will never be able to escape my palm..."

Ruan Lan struggled hard, and he screamed: "No! No! I don't want it! Let me go!"

However, his hands and feet were tied, and he was firmly tied to the execution platform. No matter how he struggled, it was useless.

He saw a piece of scarlet iron fall down, the meteor iron had already been burned red, and it must be painful to the bone when it is branded at this moment.

Ruan Lan was sweating profusely all over her body, and in the blink of an eye, her prison uniform was already soaked in sweat.

The hot tongue of fire dug into the waist and abdomen, and the severe pain spasmed all over the body.

"Zi-"

It was the sound of hot and fiery meteorite firmly pressing against the skin.

"Ah!—" Ruan Lan screamed heart-piercingly.

Ruan Lan's limbs were so painful that she couldn't feel it, she was sweating profusely, and sweet blood gushed out of her throat.

Before he fell into a coma, he did not forget to look up at the ghost.

Ghost chuckled.

It was Yin Jian's face.

Ruan Lan screamed and sat up from the dream. He tore off the gauze on his head with all his strength, and then opened his eyes.

He glanced around, fixed his eyes on Yin Jian, and frantically lifted his clothes, and he saw a dazzling pattern on his waist and abdomen.The patterns are branded and can never be removed.

Some people branded "slaves", others branded "prostitutes", and the patterns branded on his waist and abdomen are the proof of Yin Jian's prohibition.

Yin Jian at the bedside saw that Ruan Lan's eyes were bloodshot, his eyes were red, and he had fallen into madness, so he wanted to reach out and pull him.

"Don't come here! Don't come here!" Ruan Lan carelessly pushed aside Yin Jian's hand in front of her, and retreated to the back of the bed.

Ruan Lan's expression was twisted, her eyes were as big as copper bells.

His right hand tremblingly touched the scarlet fire mark on his waist, and his voice suddenly began to cry: "Prince, when will you come to save me!..."

He raised his neck and looked at the beam in confusion, his voice became soft and hoarse: "I'm in pain...I'm going to die...Prince, Yin Zhen is going to kill me..."

Eunuch Yu, who ran over after hearing the sound, was frightened half to death when he saw this situation.Lord Ruan has gone crazy!

At this moment, Ruan Lan suddenly closed her eyes and fell straight down on the bed.

Yin Jian kept silent, with a dignified expression.He reached out to hold the fainted Ruan Lan in his arms, and brushed away the sweat-soaked hair on Ruan Lan's forehead.

Ruan Lan's eyes were bruised, and her lips were still trembling slightly in a coma.Yin Jian pressed his chin to Ruan Lan's forehead.

Sure enough, it was already very hot.

Eunuch Yu lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty, the Taoist priest is already on his way."

Yin Jian nodded and gestured for him to go down.

After the ceremony, Eunuch Yu withdrew and closed the door behind him.

Yin Xian in the room tucked up the quilt for Ruan Lan, and then continued to sit by the bed and watch Ruan Lan's sleeping face.Ruan Lan was still sweating, her forehead was hot, but her hands and feet were cold.

Yin Jian thought, there must be something wrong somewhere.

The Taoist priest came very quickly. After understanding the general situation, he stepped forward and rolled Ruan Lan's eyelids, then sat on the edge of the bed and closed his eyes, feeling Ruan Lan's wrist to feel the pulse.

Seeing his leisurely and unhurried appearance, Yin Jian couldn't help feeling a little anxious: "Master Daoist, Ruan Lan..."

The old man frowned, put two fingers on the pulse at Ruan Lan's wrist: "Your Majesty, what piece of gauze do you use on your head when you are insane?"

Eunuch Yu hurriedly presented the white cloth that Ruan Lan had torn up just now.

The old man picked up one of the rags, crushed it with his fingers, then took it up and smelled it.

A trace of doubt flashed across his eyes, and he said to himself: "No..."

The old Taoist shook his head, walked to the carved wooden table, and asked Eunuch Yu, "Is the bottle of medicine powder that Pindao brought last time still there?"

Eunuch Yu nodded, took out a small blue and white jade bottle from the wooden cabinet beside the table, and handed it to the old man with both hands: "It's exactly this."

Yin Jian personally put down the bed curtain neatly before walking to Lao Dao and Eunuch Yu.

Eunuch Yu stared intently at the bottle of medicine powder and was picked up by the priest.The Taoist priest opened the bottle, only glanced at the inside of the bottle by the candlelight, and said, "Your Majesty, this bottle of medicinal powder has been replaced."

Yin Zhen was startled.

Eunuch Yu waved his hands in panic and denied it: "How is it possible... The slaves are clearly put away every day!..."

Hearing such a commotion, Yin Jian immediately put his index finger between his lips and made a "hush" gesture to Eunuch Yu.

Ruan Lan was still asleep in the room.

Eunuch Yu hurriedly bowed his head and lowered his voice, and explained to His Majesty and the Taoist priest: "My servant, every time I change the medicine for Master Ruan, I will put the medicine bottle back in this wooden cabinet and put it in a safe place. Your lord is often in the house these days. I rested and didn't go out, so the slave never left my lord..." Suddenly, Eunuch Yu seemed to remember something, "No..."

Eunuch Yu seemed to have something in his words, Yin Jian hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Eunuch Yu knelt down in an instant, his voice trembling: "Master Ruan said that he would go out for a walk this afternoon, and the slave followed him. When he came back, he met... met..."

"Who did you meet?" Seeing that Eunuch Yu hesitated to speak, Yin Xian couldn't help becoming annoyed, "Speak quickly."

Yin Jian has not had time to call the secret guards who usually protect Ruan Lan to report on Ruan Lan's recent situation. One is because Ruan Lan is really honest these days. The white gauze was running around; as for the second reason...it was naturally because he was still in Wei Wanpin's bedroom before a stick of incense.

Therefore, this half of the anger is annoying himself.

Eunuch Yu shrank his shoulders, feeling that he couldn't hide it now: "Meeting the imperial concubine——"

A frightening light suddenly flashed across Yin Xian's eyebrows.

Eunuch Yu was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head. This one is the emperor's concubine, and the other is the emperor's lover. If there is any connection that shouldn't be there, His Majesty the emperor will definitely think that he knew about it and didn't report it, and he will have to kill him at that time... ...My lord doesn't know if he will be... Eunuch Yu's shoulders trembled involuntarily, and his legs were so weak that he could hardly kneel.

Yin Jian was very self-cultivated, and his temper was well controlled. He only glanced at the bed curtain, then turned to the old Taoist and said, "Master Taoist, what has this bottle of medicine been replaced with? Is there a way to solve it? "

The old Taoist stroked his beard, sighed and said: "The poor Taoist can't tell what the replacement medicine powder is for a while, but this medicine powder is not highly toxic, it should only have the effect of making people insane or even insane... , if it is only applied once or twice, the effect will not last long. Therefore, Pindao can prescribe a prescription for clearing away heat and burning, and take it for Mr. Ruan. Medicine powder, and then heal Lord Ruan's eye disease."

"I'm sorry to trouble the Taoist priest." Yin Zhen nodded, "I explained to the Taoist priest that Ruan Lan's abnormal behavior when she woke up, as if she could see things around her, but is it related to this medicine powder?"

The old Taoist looked at the bottle in his hand, and replied: "Master Ruan's eye disease is actually caused by Gu poison. It is different from ordinary blindness. After being stimulated by some strong drugs from the outside world, the vision may recover in a short time, but the effect is not good. If Master Ruan wakes up tomorrow, he will still be blind again. If we really want to cure this kind of eye disease, we need to think about it in the long run.

Yin Jian pursed her thin lips, with a hint of disappointment in her eyes: "Since that's the case, I'm really bothering the Taoist priest tonight, Eunuch Yu, and send the Taoist priest back to rest in the temple."

The view that Yin Jian is talking about here is the view of the yellow crane.The Yellow Crane Temple is a Taoist temple next to the imperial palace. It is the place where the emperors of all generations sought immortality and asked immortals and Taoists from all walks of life.In fact, this Taoist temple has been idle since Yin Jian ascended the throne. No one has cleaned the inside and outside of the temple for many years, and there has been a lot of dust.It was only in the past two years that it started to be refurbished.This octogenarian Taoist priest now lives in the Yellow Crane Temple.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Eunuch Yu climbed up from the ground tremblingly, the corners of his lips were bruised from fright, obviously not slowing down, "Master... the slave will lead you the way."

The old Taoist flicked his wide sleeves, nodded and left, and bowed to Yin Jian.

Yin turned around and entered the bedroom.

When Eunuch Yu saw the door was closed by Manager Zhang outside, he let out a long breath, and his stiff limbs stretched a little more than before.

Seeing the white-haired Daoist standing beside him stroking his beard, Yugong said openly, "Thanks to the Daoist for saving my lord this time."

"It doesn't matter." The old Taoist waved his hand, "This is what the poor should do. The reason why the poor came to the capital this time is to cure Lord Ruan's eye disease."

"Thank you, Daoist!" Eunuch Yu thanked, "If your lord can see it one day, His Majesty will be very happy."

After walking for about half a stick of incense, Eunuch Yu pointed forward and said to the high pavilions looming in the clouds: "Master, the Yellow Crane Temple is ahead."

"I'm sorry to bother you, Eunuch, it's almost dawn, and the poor Taoist is going to the lotus pond to collect morning dew. Eunuch can stop here, and there is no need to send any more. The poor Taoist name is Xuanmo, if Master Ruan still has any discomfort in the future, you can come here Find the way out."

Eunuch Yu thought to himself, people who practice Taoism are really extraordinary, what kind of dew are they going to collect in the middle of the night.He saluted respectfully: "Thank you, Daoist Xuanmo, that slave will leave first."