A glance at the spring breeze

"Let me tell you...why have you been sitting on a rock without moving, like a stone statue?"

Cui Hong carried the brook water wrapped in leaves, stepped on a stone step, and walked slowly to Manager Zhang: "I went to fetch some water, you can drink it."

Manager Zhang didn't even raise his head, he seemed to be preoccupied, his dark eyes flickered, and said: "Give it to Your Majesty."

"For Your Majesty?" Cui Hong turned his head to look at the emperor and princess lying on the ground, "They haven't woken up yet."

Cui Hong was originally from Wu County, even though Wu County has been dilapidated like this, he still remembers every mountain, river and stream in Wu County.He brought Manager Zhang and the unconscious emperor and princess to the only unbroken stream in Wuxian County, and settled the emperor and princess before he had time to sit down and chat with Manager Zhang.

Manager Zhang looked at Yin Jian on the grass with a complicated expression.

Lying in the shade of a tree, Yin Xun had a calm face and a steady and long breath. The profile of his profile merged with the sunlight pouring from top to bottom, and the light and shadow formed a warm and soft arc.

However, there is no sign of waking up yet.

Manager Zhang asked: "You are quite familiar with this place, so do you know where the others are?"

Right now, only he, Cui Hong, and the comatose majesty and princess are around, while Eunuch Yu and Qi Mo are nowhere to be seen.

Cui Hong shook his head, looking quite strange: "I don't know, but I guess, someone must have sent the four of us out."

Manager Zhang clenched his right fist and lowered his head to think.

Cui Hong said again: "By the way, did you know that there was actually another person who was with Chen Chuiling in the past, but he never showed up today, so I wondered if he sent us outside."

Manager Zhang frowned: "You mean, maybe he... the others are still in that cave?"

Cui Hong said in a deep voice: "You can also say that. After all, there is only one place left in Wu County that can shelter from the wind and rain."

Director Zhang frowned deeper and deeper, and after a long time, he suddenly stood up from the stone.

Cui Hong was taken aback.

He was obviously a eunuch, but he was taller than ordinary men, and his aura was much more dignified than others.Looking at it... there is a sense of majesty that does not allow others to violate it.

It may be because of staying with the emperor and general for a long time.

Manager Zhang's complexion sank, he lifted the hem of his clothes with one hand, and knelt down in Yin Jian's direction.

"Plop" sound.

It was the sound of knees hitting the ground.

"What are you doing?" Cui Hong walked half a circle behind him, "Well, what are you kneeling for?"

Director Zhang ignored Cui Hong's question, and immediately kowtowed three times to Yin Jian.

Afterwards, he stood up and said to Cui Hong, "During the time I'm away, please take good care of Your Majesty."

Cui Hong couldn't keep up with Manager Zhang's train of thought, and it took him a while to realize, "You...where are you going?"

Manager Zhang looked in the direction of the cave: "I'm going to find him."

"Who?"

Manager Zhang spread out his right palm that had been clutched all the time.

What he held in his hand was the letter he had just found from the son-in-law.

The letter was signed by Zhang Yushen, and the date on it showed that this letter was written by Zhang Yushen and handed over to Chen Chuiling not long ago.

It turns out that the young master of the Zhang family is not dead.

He... has been alive for more than ten years.

He tilted his head so that the bridge of his handsome nose covered half an inch of sunlight on his face, forming a dark overlapping fan shadow.And the expression in the eyebrows seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, making it difficult to distinguish clearly.

He said: "When His Majesty wakes up, please be sure to tell him, Young Master Cui, that Cen Kong thanked His Majesty for saving his life 12 years ago, and now... Cen Kong is going to repay the favor."

Cui Hong was even more puzzled, thinking that his ears were broken: "No, isn't your surname Zhang? Why is your surname Cen..."

and many more……

Cui Hong repeated upside down: "Cen, the surname is Cen..." Then he stared at Mr. Zhang with a pair of bright eyes in disbelief, "The Cen family was ordered by the former prince to be removed from the Cen family. ?”

Manager Zhang did not answer, but glanced at the emperor on the ground.

His voice was much louder than the eunuch in Cui Hong's impression.

"Zhang Yunsheng, His Majesty named me for me."

——In his own eyes, this name is to commemorate the missing Zhang Yushen.

Zhang Yunsheng... Zhang Yushen...

How similar it sounds.

He originally thought that he would never be able to repay his life-saving grace, but now...

He took the large leaf in Cui Hong's hand, and drank the sweet stream water in it with his back, and then threw the wet green and yellow leaves into the air at will.

"Take care of Your Majesty."

The leaves clung to Cui Hong's shoulders, swirled and passed by, and then fell on his toes.

It seems quiet but not quiet.

"I—I'll go back as soon as I go."

Manager Zhang left the last sentence.

Then, a gust of wind blew.

Bow down again, the leaves on the shoe are gone.

……

At the same time, Ruan Lan looked at the figure of the person in front of her, and then looked at the extremely terrifying face.

——Rather than saying that it is a face, it is more like a piece of meat without edges and corners, sticking limply to the body.The surface is bumpy and uneven, and the facial features are very vague. If you don't observe carefully, you can't tell where the eyes, ears, mouth and nose are.

"Eunuch Yu, why are you—is it really you...?"

The other party replied: "My lord, it's really me."

Hearing the voice, it was indeed Eunuch Yu.

Ruan Lan's scalp was numb when she saw it: "I just saw you standing behind His Majesty safe and sound... Why did you suddenly, suddenly become like this?"

In fact, what Chen Chuiling said before was right, Ruan Lan had indeed been watching them in the cave.He trapped Ruan Lan in a confinement place in the cave, and gave him a silence technique.Ruan Lan's position happened to be able to see everything that happened under the roof of the cave through a gap, but he couldn't make a sound, so Yin Jian and the others naturally couldn't know that he was here.

Ruan Lan said: "Did the son-in-law cast some spell on you, causing you to be disfigured..."

"My lord, you are still deceiving yourself and others." The "Eunuch Yu" in front of him laughed and said, "My lord, you are as smart as you, how could you not have thought that the medicine powder used to cure eye diseases replaced the medicine powder and killed Fu Rongdian?" Is it the maid in the palace, who blamed the concubine Wei, the one who has always been by your side, Eunuch Yu?"

The shrunken and unfamiliar figure in Ruan Lan's eyes became more terrifying with the expression of horror and astonishment in his eyes.

"Also, my lord, do you know that His Majesty killed the eunuch and maid of the First Palace just because you killed Wei Wanpin?"

Eunuch Yu bowed down, and that monster-like face moved closer to Ruan Lan: "Actually, I did everything. I put on your clothes, and then I stabbed the dagger into Concubine Wei's forehead with my own hands. Breasts—and those maids, because they have long been displeased with His Majesty's favoritism towards His Majesty, they all insisted that they saw the assassin with His Majesty's face, but obviously, they only saw His Majesty's clothes from the back..."

When Eunuch Yu proudly showed off the "good deeds" she had done, Ruan Lan lowered her head halfway.The fine hair covered his forehead, and the part below his forehead was buried in a shadow.

When he opened his mouth, he couldn't hear the slightest emotion in his calm and composed tone.

It seems that he has resigned himself to his fate.

——"So, the so-called Shen Chun Rongzhi is actually you and Xichen."

There has never been anyone who disguised himself as him, and there has never been anyone who disguised himself as Eunuch Yu.

Eunuch Yu has always been Eunuch Yu himself.

Layers of echoes of human voices hovered in the cave.

"It's you and Xichen..."

"Let's go with Rhinoceros..."

Then there was a moment of silence that reached the depths of the soul.

then--

"That's right! My lord, I did everything!" Eunuch Yu's voice was piercing and piercing, and the already flushed fleshy face turned even more blood red.

The surrounding echoes in the cave entangled and collided around, reaching into his ears.

Eunuch Yu said: "I will not be as cowardly as Chen Chuiling, who easily followed the way of a woman and let go of the twin brothers in Wu County. My lord, the tree outside the palace made a bond with me, I have to... …Kill everyone inside and outside the palace, including you."

Ruan Lan was silent, staring at the ground ahead without saying a word.

After a while, he finally said: "Since you want to kill me, why bother to please me pretendingly and endure by my side for six full years. You...you are so calm."

Eunuch Yu made an indistinct emotional sound, and lifted the piece of flesh connected to his neck upwards, as if he was laughing or crying: "Master, you are wrong. Do you still remember?" I remember, at that time, the granary in the eastern suburbs of Prince Yu's Mansion leaked water for no reason, and after Yin Cheng's death, His Majesty received an anonymous letter about the Ruan family's collusion with foreign countries? I did it all the time. I tried my best to provoke you and Your Majesty... I have been hiding beside Your Majesty and Your Majesty for far more than six years."

He paused for a moment, as if he was trying to stabilize his emotions. He covered his face and took a step back, saying: "Since the day the Zhang family was exterminated, I have lived like an ant in the world. I have never forgotten that I, Zhang Yushen, will one day personally avenge you bloody dignitaries."

Ruan Lan's eyelashes trembled weakly, and she repeated it slowly in a hoarse voice.

"Revenge on the powerful...with blood on their hands."

The words that came out of his mouth were like a strong hemp rope that tightly strangled his heart.

"So you have been taking revenge on me." Ruan Lan snorted, first glanced at the ground blankly, and then at the next moment, she suddenly cast her gaze on Eunuch Yu.

The expressions in Ruan Lan's eyes were complicated and complex, and the sparkling and clear water was reflected in them.

With clear lips and teeth, he only said three words: "I don't believe it."

That Eunuch Yu who likes to snooze and drool on the steps, that Eunuch Yu who would throw himself into Ruan Lan's arms and cry bitterly after being separated from Ruan Lan for a long time, that Eunuch Yu who keeps talking about "My Lord" and "Your Majesty" in everything Eunuch Yu...

How could it be pretended.

And it has been installed for six years.

Pretend flawlessly.

He didn't believe it.

The father-in-law Yu, who has no facial features, walked around beside Ruan Lan with his hands behind his back, and said, "In the beginning, I never planned to enter the palace, thinking that I would be able to succeed in revenge with my own strength. But, the progress is not good, It is difficult for me to get close to those officials, so I thought of a way to enter the palace to approach you..."

Ruan Lan suddenly sneered, this laughter moved her whole body, and the rope that bound him was tightened accordingly.

"The way you said is to enter the palace as a eunuch?"

"What about the eunuch?!" Eunuch Yu stopped, turned his head, and there was a black hole in his face, and his voice was particularly gloomy, "I am alone with no relatives and no reason, and my face was burned by the fire. What's the use of keeping that pubic bone. What's more...my sweetheart has already—"

Just as Ruan Lan was about to speak, she heard Eunuch Yu raise her tone: "My lord, what about you? Even if your thing is still alive and well, it's only [-] years old now, why don't you still have no wife and no children, and you are humiliated by His Majesty. Compared to me, do you live with more dignity, my lord?"

"You—" Ruan Lan hated foul language the most, and just wanted to refute, but found nowhere to refute.

Yes, Eunuch Yu was right.

Can he say that he is more dignified than Eunuch Yu who is a eunuch?

Even he didn't believe it himself.

"Look at your lord, your face is blushing, but you can't say anything to teach me, right?... In order to gain your trust, Lord Xichen gave me a human skin | mask, as long as you wear this Wearing a mask, I will become the appearance of Eunuch Yu that you see on weekdays, kind, cowardly, outspoken, and forgetting who I really am, I will become timid and fearful, but fortunately, I am very loyal to you and Your Majesty, Therefore, you will not doubt me, but trust me. But if I take off the mask...everything will change again."

Eunuch Yu suddenly raised his sleeve and waved it, and that lumpy face instantly changed into Eunuch Yu's original appearance.

Then there was another wave, and it was back to normal.

Even though she couldn't see the expression on the meatball's face, Ruan Lan could guess how smug he must be right now.

"How, my lord, are you trustworthy?"

"Rhinoceros...it's rhinoceros again..." Ruan Lan murmured in a low voice, but after only a moment, her expression turned sharp, and she spat a mouthful of blood foam viciously at her feet—isn't it like what he usually does? What he did—then stared intently at Eunuch Yu's bloody face.His eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger.

Ruan Lan raised her voice.

"Yu——Zhang Yushen, it's obviously the rhinoceros that caused your family to be ruined, it's the one who made you unable to stay with your sweetheart, it's the one who caused you to be disfigured and become neither human nor ghost—it's obviously him Your enemy. But you exalted your enemy, and the evil god Xichen came down in your heart like a god. You touch your conscience and think about those family members and friends who died because of the rhinoceros. Zhang Yushen, Don't you have a clear conscience?"

"Hahaha——" the black hole on Eunuch Yu's face opened wider and wider, his eerie laughter was creepy, and the hairs on his skin gradually rose.

He said: "My lord, tell me, what exactly did Lord Xichen do?"

"..."

"Because Yin Cheng was jealous of his younger brother and was worried that his younger brother would seize his crown prince, he killed my relatives; Chen Chuiling resented the princess's fickleness, and he transferred his hatred to all the unworthy husbands in the world. Resentment drove him crazy, and he almost slaughtered everyone in Wu County; but what did Master Xichen do... Could it be that he put a knife on the necks of the two of them and forced them to kill and set fire? !"

Ruan Lan didn't know what ecstasy soup Xichen had given Eunuch Yu, so that Eunuch Yu desperately tried to justify the sophistry for his enemy.

Eunuch Yu walked towards Ruan Lan, raised his hand to choke his throat, and pressed his frightening face on Ruan Lan's shoulder, his tone became agitated: "My enemies - it's you! It's you who are in high positions You are powerful officials. You hold the power of life and death in your hands, but you don’t care about the safety of the people in the world. For your own selfishness, you can trample on the lives of countless innocent people with a flick of your finger. Why? Why! You Why on earth!"

He slowly tightened the fingers holding Ruan Lan's neck.

Ruan Lan gradually lost her breath, her eyes blurred.

"My parents, I saw them burnt to death with my own eyes; my sister was shot through with a bow and arrow by two rogue officers and soldiers; all the servants in my family were locked in the billowing smoke by Yin Cheng—alive bored to death."

Eunuch Yu's fingers loosened for a moment.

He seemed to be recalling that nightmare memory.

On that day more than ten years ago...

On that day, not long after the completion of the house on Qiumang Mountain, he happily wrote to Mr. Cen, who had not seen him for many years, and asked Mr. Cen to wait for him to pick him up in person.

On that day, my father, who had been doing business outside for many years, finally had time to return home, catching up with the joy of housewarming in his new house, and both mother and younger sister put on beautiful new clothes.The servants arranged the new house gracefully, and it was time for the whole family to celebrate.

On that day... the prince Yin Cheng, who is under one person and above ten thousand people, came to visit with a team of people.

……

Memories of burning flames and loved ones gone forever.

The flames burned his face, but did not take his life.

He lingered in the choking smoke, exhausted his last bit of strength, and crawled out from the dark ruins.

Since then, his only hope of survival is to avenge his loved ones.

And, to take revenge for Mr. Cen, whom he secretly loves in his heart.

"Yes, Yin Cheng jumped off the city wall and killed himself, but you—you are still alive...you are all the culprits, and you still hold the power to kill everything in your hands."

"I can't let you go on living."

Ruan Lan's hands were tied together, unable to break free from Eunuch Yu's grip.

Eunuch Yu held his neck with one hand, using all his strength with his five fingers.

He could only raise his head, resigned to his fate, and waited for death to come.

Ruan Lan closed her eyes.

Is he going to die just like that?

"No—I won't take your life just yet."

Zhang Yushen let go of his hand.

Ruan Lan fell to the ground in an instant, and the feeling of suffocation made him cough violently.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zhang Yushen turned his back.

That was the back of Eunuch Yu.

——"I will let you bear all my sorrow and humiliation."

——"Death...is too easy."