A glance at the spring breeze

When Ruan Lan woke up, she saw a light yellow moon in the night sky, surrounded by many twinkling stars.The dark blue sky stretches as far as the eye can see, and looking towards the place where the sky meets the ground, he seems to be able to hear the sound of the waves lapping on the shore.

Because His Majesty said they were on an isolated island.

However, the surrounding area is really quiet—so quiet that not a single sound of the wind, not a single sound of the waves, not even a sound of insects and birds can be heard.

Ruan Lan sniffed and found that the surrounding soil exuded a dirty, decayed, and sticky smell. It felt like being in a mass grave where corpses were discarded, and her whole body was stained with the smell of death.The weeds on the ground are like fluffy tentacles in the dark night. Even though there is no wind, they stand up straight from the ground, grabbing something upwards. Ruan Lan continued to lie on the ground for a while, feeling more and more breathless. The smell in the air was pungent, and there was a rush of nausea rushing up in his chest.At this moment, Ruan Lan suddenly propped her unbroken elbow on the ground, turned over and vomited continuously—but he hadn't eaten or drank any water for several days, and couldn't vomit anything.

The long-term retching made his eyes and nose full of sourness, and tears began to flow uncontrollably from his eyes. He stood up to the supporting body, but he had no strength in his whole body, and his legs seemed to be numb.

"Ruan Lan—"

From the place two feet away, a black figure suddenly appeared - it turned out that Yin Jian was walking towards him with a bunch of branches in his arms.

Yin Jian put the branch in his hand on the ground, and stepped forward to help him up: "You are burning, lie down and rest, I just found some firewood, so it will be much warmer at night."

"Hmm..." Ruan Lan lay down slowly with his eyes half-opened. He saw that Yin Jian was about to set those branches on fire with the flint he carried with him.

Although there were no living things on the island, fortunately there were still some dry branches left, which were found by Yin Xian.

"I brought a few pieces of dry food, you can eat first." He said and threw a small package at him.

Ruan Lan caught it, and suddenly saw a fire shining from Yin Jian's place - the firewood pile had already been ignited.It was only then that Ruan Lan saw clearly that the piece of cloth wrapped around his own broken arm was part of Yin Jian's dragon robe, and the remaining half of the dragon robe was tied around his body by Yin Jian indiscriminately.

Yin Jian's body was not covered tightly, with half of his shoulders and chest exposed.

If you don't look carefully at the dragon pattern and gold thread embroidered on it, Yin Jian's attire is no different from those rural peasants who usually do farm work.

It really hurt Yin Jian.

The burning firewood made a "beep, beep, beep" sound, and the heat wave hit her face one after another, making Ruan Lan, who hadn't eaten for a long time, feel much more comfortable.

Yin turned his head, and there was a bright yellow fire flickering in his black eyes.He found that Ruan Lan was staring at him blankly at this moment, without blinking his eyes, so he asked, "Why don't you eat? Are you unable to eat?"

"No..." Ruan Lan finally remembered the dry food in his hand. Although these few pieces of dry food were not delicious, he had been hungry for many days, so he naturally felt that the ordinary dry food that was difficult to swallow was extremely delicious.

"Slow down. Don't choke." Yin Jian handed a small water bag to Ruan Lan.

Ruan Lan had almost finished eating, and her eyes kept looking at the half of the dragon robe on Yin Jian's body.Yin Jian followed Ruan Lan's gaze, and immediately understood what Ruan Lan was thinking, so he said, "Don't worry, I was wearing casual clothes, but I just brought a dragon robe in my bag. But I want to go to the beach to catch some fish and shrimp for you to mend. I am afraid that the casual clothes on my body will get wet, so I put it under your body and put this half of the dragon robe on my body to keep out the cold. I tore the other half and gave it to you. Bandage the wound, this dragon robe is useless now."

Ruan Lan turned her head and looked, that's right, the regular uniform that Yin Jian was wearing before was lying under his body intact, and a haystack was folded under the clothes.No wonder Ruan Lan felt that the lower part of her body was as soft as a bed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I..." Ruan Lan wrapped the dry food in her hand and pushed it to Yin Jian, "I left a piece for Your Majesty."

"No, you can eat, I'm not hungry."

"..."

Yin Jian watched Ruan Lan eat the last bite, and then said, "Ruan Lan, I wanted to go to the beach to catch some seafood for you, but..." He cast a pair of dark and deep eyes, "But I found out that I don't care about you. No matter what, I can’t go out, I can’t go to the beach, I can’t go to the place I came from before.”

Ruan Lan was about to put the water to her mouth, but stopped after hearing the words.He was surprised: "Your Majesty means—"

"Ruan Lan, we may not be able to go out with the usual method, so we have to find other ways."

The two were silent for a long time, each sitting in front of the bonfire thinking about their own inner thoughts.When the firewood was burning, the sound of "beep, beep, beep" still continued, and it seemed to be the only thing making a sound on the island at this time.

Ruan Lan lowered her eyes, looked at the bright pile of firewood in front of her, and suddenly chuckled: "Your Majesty, is it worth it for you...to do this?"

Yin Jian was very frank: "There is nothing worth it. Ruan Lan, I don't regret it."

Ruan Lan laughed again, obviously her face was full of worries, but the smiles in the corners of her eyes were even more serious. Seeing it in her eyes, Yin Jian felt that this scene was just like the peach blossoms in the March sky, which made people intoxicated and fascinated.

Yin Xian sat upright on a haystack, seemingly out of politeness, but also cautious.

Yin Jian looked at the light-yellow crescent moon in the distance, and his heart was gradually covered with a trace of flickering, very hazy emotions.He hesitated for a while, then plucked up his courage and said: "Ruan Lan...Actually, I seem to have always had a very special feeling for you. But I don't know why, at that time, I did a lot of wrong things to you, And forced you..."

——I don’t know if I’m expressing my feelings or exposing scars.

Ruan Lan sighed: "Your Majesty, these past events are gone, so why mention them again."

"……it is good."

Yin Xian sat closer to Ruan Lan, and Ruan Lan could see very clearly that half of the chest exposed in the half of the dragon robe was illuminated by the fire, reflecting a faint light in this dark night.

Ruan Lan quickly shifted her gaze elsewhere.

Yin Jian felt that Ruan Lan's serious appearance was very cute, so he leaned in front of Ruan Lan, put his hands on his shoulders, and kissed him.

Ruan Lan, who was "pretending to be serious", couldn't sit still now, and turned her head to look at Yin Jian with wide eyes in surprise.

Yin Jian moved away from Ruan Lan's lips, and kissed his eyelashes again.This row of eyelashes was thick and thick, piercing his heart like soft thorns, making his heart itchy unbearably.Yin Jian slowly put Ruan Lan down on the haystack, and continued to kiss his forehead, nose, chin, neck, and shoulders...

The breathing of the two became more and more heavy, Ruan Lan put the unbroken hand on Yin Jian's chest that could not be covered by the half of the dragon robe, and then slid back, slowly hugging the other's back.

"Well……"

Yin Jian was about to tear off Ruan Lan's pants, when Ruan Lan suddenly thought of a strange voice.

—— "I'm here watching you."

That was the voice from Rhinoceros.

Ruan Lan woke up instantly, pushed Yin Jian away, and sat up suddenly.

"Your Majesty, you cannot—"

The fire light illuminated Yin Xian's eyes, and there seemed to be a strange white figure in those black eyes, slowly drifting away.

Ruan Lan looked around in a panic, seeing that there was no one else, she breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Ruan Lan met Yin Xian's eyes again, and he saw the momentary loss in Yin Xian's eyes.

This sense of loss made Ruan Lan feel a little sore in her heart.

"Your Majesty, for some reason, I heard Xichen's voice just now. He said that he was watching us here, so I just, I just..."

The pig liver-like complexion on Yin Jian's face suddenly looked better.

"really?"

"Ah."

Yin Jian also looked around and asked Ruan Lan, "What have you encountered these days? How did you come here and meet Xichen?"

Ruan Lan recalled the events of these days, frowned and said: "It's a long story, let's start from the night I was in the Linzhou Mansion."

……

So Ruan Lan told Yin Jian everything that had happened in the past few days. Except for the personal grievances between himself and Yin Cheng and the shameful thing that regarded Xi Chen as Yin Jian, Ruan Lan would tell Yin Jian about everything. He explained the whole story clearly, and even pointed out Xichen's supernatural powers a few times in his words, so as to comfort Yin Jian tactfully, so he really didn't push him away on purpose.

"Hey, I didn't expect Yin Cheng to be so miserable. People from my Yin family can't even keep their own bones."

When talking about Yin Cheng, Yin Zhen shook his head.

Ruan Lan also said: "Your Highness is too confused."

……

At the end of the talk, Ruan Lan already felt parched, and she did not forget to say: "During the day, there is still a cool breeze here, but why does it become lifeless here at night?"

Yin Jian guessed: "Xichen's methods are vicious, maybe like the yin house on the top of Qiumang Mountain last time, some kind of sinister spell was cast here, in an attempt to make people who landed on this deserted island never return."

Ruan Lan nodded in agreement: "I was wondering if Wu County was originally not an isolated island, but located on land, but when the people in Wu County were slaughtered, Xi Chen took the island to hide from others. It was moved to the sea. But... since the situation is the same as that of Mount Qiumang, there should be a green sandalwood on this island, where is it now?"

Yin Jian had already dragged Ruan Lan to lie down on the haystack, and the two of them were pillowed on his robe.Yin turned around and leaned against Ruan Lan with his shoulders: "Yin Cheng slaughtered Zhang's family for the throne, so why do you say that he killed the entire Wu County?

"I don't know."

There are too many doubts.

Ruan Lan yawned, and gradually became sleepy.

Yin Jian looked at Ruan Lan's red eyes, and said, "Since you are still sick, go to bed early. I will watch here. If there is any movement, I will wake you up at any time."

Ruan Lan originally wanted to evade Yin Jian's kindness and let him keep watch at night according to the etiquette of a monarch and minister, but her sleepiness became more and more intense, and coupled with the fact that she was really tired these days, before Ruan Lan had time to speak, the sleepiness made her sleepy. He first met Zhou Gong.

……

I don't know how long I slept this time, probably because Yin was rolled by her side, so Ruan Lan slept very peacefully.When she woke up again, Ruan Lan found that the surroundings were still pitch black, and there was a yellowish crescent moon in the black sky, and the stars around the moon were quietly blinking.

No... Ruan Lan suddenly felt a burst of panic, and suddenly her hair was terrified.

Yin Xian was sitting aside, with his back to Ruan Lan, looking up at the sky.

"you're awake."

Yin Jian didn't look at him, but continued to look up at the night sky.

"Yes." Ruan Lan replied.

Yin Jian's voice was very calm, as if he had calmly accepted what happened in front of him: "Ruan Lan, have you noticed? The position of the moon has never changed, and even the surrounding stars are exactly the same as before you fell asleep. "

The stars in the sky remained the same without any change.

The moon, which was supposed to rise in the east and set in the west, stopped in the night sky forever.

This means that there will only be endless night here.

Dawn and dawn will never come again.