A glance at the spring breeze

The smell of blood around was getting stronger and stronger, Ruan Lan wrinkled her nose in disgust.

He stared at the letter on the ground, feeling a little impatient, but he still asked: "What if—I mean what if, before Cen Kong...was still alive?"

Zhang Yushen looked down at the raised cuff on his arm - there were still bloody fingerprints left by Manager Zhang on it.

"impossible."

Zhang Yushen seemed to answer very easily: "He is dead."

After Zhang Yushen finished speaking, he looked at Mr. Zhang who was lying on the ground with a long sword stuck in his chest.

He behaved in a trance, somehow there was some watery light in his dark eyes, and he said: "Impossible..."

"No... no!"

Zhang Yushen jumped up, just about to move Manager Zhang's body to the side indiscriminately, when he was suddenly interrupted by a loud noise.

"Grandma Lu, why are you holding me back... Is Ruan Lan in there?"

It was Zemo's voice.

Ruan Lan was secretly taken aback, she didn't expect Qi Mo to stay here.

Right now, his hands and feet are tied up, and there are no sharp weapons around, so he can't get out alone, and now a helper finally came, he is very happy, and quickly shouted in the direction of Qi Mo's voice: "Qi Mo! I it's here!"

After Qi Mo over there heard it, he really shouted: "Hey, Granny Lu, did you hear that! I can already hear Ruan Lan's voice, let me in!"

With a sound of "Boom", a stone wall in the cave was separated and pushed away.

Qi Mo walked in straight, he was still wearing a dark green shirt.Followed by a white-haired old man, the old man Ruan Lan has seen before, is Granny Lu who has been raising the Qi brothers.

Ruan Lan couldn't help wondering: Why is Granny Lu also on the island?

When Qi Mo saw the two people in the cave, he was immediately taken aback by the disfigured Zhang Yushen: "Who are you, why...you look so scary." His eyes fell on the corpse of Director Zhang in a blink of an eye, "Isn't this Manager Zhang? Why, why did he die...?"

Zhang Yushen, whose face was burned by the fire, was left with a face whose facial features could not be seen clearly, which was naturally terrifying in the dimly lit cave.

"Hmph. Death is more than worthwhile." Zhang Yushen looked contemptuously at Mr. Zhang who was on the ground.

Qi Mo was about to run to Ruan Lan's side to help him untie the rope tied around his body, when Zhang Yushen shouted to him: "Qi Mo! Don't touch him."

"Where did you know my name?" Qi Mo stopped, frowned, looked at the strange-looking man in front of him, turned his head and glanced at Granny Lu, and then suddenly realized: "Oh! Got it! You brought Granny Lu to the island, right? Otherwise, why would she be here. You... who are you?"

Ruan Lan sat on the ground and couldn't move. Since he kept the same posture all the time, his back and waist became more and more sore, so he had to lean his back and shoulders against a stone wall.He raised his head, looked at the three people in front of him, and began to feel uneasy in his heart.

There was a huge birdcage hanging beside it, and the bird that Zhang Yushen was raising was staying in it without saying a word.

"Who am I? It's a really good question of yours." Zhang Yushen walked towards Qi Mo, and the grimace that was getting bigger and bigger was also approaching.

Zimo suddenly took a breath.

He heard it.

"Your voice... I've heard your voice. You are, you are... Eunuch Yu."

Zhang Yushen suddenly laughed loudly: "Hahaha, let me tell you, I am not only Eunuch Yu, but also your lifesaver! I gave you your life now!"

"The rain is deep! Stop talking." Granny Lu interrupted him, "You and I agreed, never tell him—"

Zhang Yushen reached out and grabbed Qi Mo's collar, then turned to Granny Lu and said, "Aunt! Don't play dumb anymore. Look at him, there is no sign of Liu Chi, nor our Zhang family. Shadow, it doesn't look like any other, he is clearly, clearly is—"

Granny Lu's old and hoarse voice suddenly rose loudly, and she shouted heart-piercingly, "The rain is deep! Don't say any more!"

Qi Mo couldn't hear it, so he slapped Zhang Yushen off his right hand, strode up to Granny Lu, and asked, "Grandma Lu, what were you talking about just now? I couldn't understand anything... ...Didn't you get to know us because Qi Wen fell into the water? What's going on? From what Eunuch Yu just said, you seem to have known me a long time ago...No...No. "

"It's not just acquaintance." Zhang Yu snorted coldly and said, "She is your mother's biological mother, that is, your grandmother."

Zimo took a step back in shock.

Qi Mo shook his head: "How is that possible! Granny Lu clearly said before that she has only one daughter, and after she is married, her daughter often comes back to see her."

"Oh?" Zhang Yushen pretended to be very surprised, "Then have you seen her daughter with your own eyes?"

Qi Mo accentuated his tone, with flustered eyes: "I, I haven't seen it! But Granny Lu often goes down the mountain, saying that her daughter is coming back to visit her relatives, and she is going to prepare meals."

"Of course she went to see her daughter—after all, there is a cemetery under the mountain, where her daughter, your mother, is buried."

"Impossible!" The veins on Qi Mo's forehead popped up, and he quickly grabbed Granny Lu's hand and said, "Grandma Lu, talk to me, tell him quickly that you have nothing to do with my mother, you just fell in love with my mother a few years ago. While washing clothes, I accidentally rescued Qi Wen who drifted down from the upper reaches, so I got to know us..."

Granny Lu remained silent, holding Qi Mo's hand back in embarrassment, patted Qi Mo's palm with five rough and dry fingers, and said after a while, "It seems that I can't hide it. .”

Qi Mo suddenly felt as if he had been struck by five thunders, and his whole body froze there.

Although this is someone else's family business, Ruan Lan couldn't help sighing.

Zhang Yushen said: "Did you forget that when you fell into the river valley, your younger brother was already dying, and half of his foot stepped into the gate of hell. Grandma Lu gave you a pottery fish and asked you to put it on him. No matter what, you can't leave it." You can save your life. But why did you let him give it away?!"

When it comes to Tao Yu, Ruan Lan knows it has something to do with her.After all, Qi Wen gave him a pottery fish at the beginning, and this pottery fish had saved him twice, so Ruan Lan was extremely impressed.

"I..." Qi Mo looked down at the tip of his shoe, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

"Don't you know that all the people in your village survived because they carried a pottery fish with them, yes, they are all dead, no—— they are almost dead, and there is still a ray of soul left. You have to use this pottery fish to barely survive in the world, don't you know!"

"I, I know. But when I saw Ruan Lan, I somehow—"

Zhang Yushen let out a sneer: "As soon as I saw him, I somehow had a good impression of him, I somehow wanted to bring him back, I somehow started to like him in my heart, didn't I?"

After Ruan Lan heard this, she immediately looked at Qi Mo.

Zhang Yushen continued: "As soon as I saw him, I forgot who I really am, and who else is in the same village, and all my relatives are ignored, right?!"

Qi Mo stood there for a long time with blank eyes, and finally nodded.

Ruan Lan's eyes widened instantly, and she asked in disbelief, "Why?"

Zhang Yu sneered deeply: "It's my fault... I shouldn't have let Lord Xichen save you in the first place. Even if you were not allowed to go out for a few years, and you were allowed to stay in Qiumang Mountain obediently and stay in the habit, in your bones There are still shadows in the imperial city. By the way, the injury on your back is getting worse, right?"

Zimo nodded resentfully again.

Of course Ruan Lan remembered that every time he met Qi Mo, Qi Mo said that he was seriously injured and asked Ruan Lan to apply medicine for him, but those injuries were very serious, as if rotten to the bone, at first Ruan Lan thought it was someone who had been injured. Hit, now that I think about it, it's unlikely—after all, it's too serious.

Granny Lu comforted Qi Mo's arm kindly: "Since the day Da Yushen rescued you and came back, your back began to fester slowly, and until now...it still hasn't improved. You keep asking me why, I I don’t know why, and Yu Shen doesn’t know why.”

Zhang Yushen said: "No, Auntie, I already know."

Granny Lu asked eagerly, "What's going on?"

"That's because it wasn't Qi Mo who was rescued at all!"

"what?!"

"That day..."

On that day, Aunt Lu rescued her son-in-law Xuan Keqi and his family who had fled from Liuchi, and hurried over to look for him.

Aunt Lu was one of the few members of the Zhang family who were still alive at that time. She escaped her life because she traveled far away when the family was exterminated.So he cherishes Aunt Lu very much.

Facing the dying Xuankeqi people, he had no choice but to go to Lord Xichen and beg him to save them. He didn't want the Xuankeqi people to repeat the same mistakes of the Zhang family.

Xichen rewarded everyone with a piece of pottery fish for them to wear next to their bodies, but shook his head at Qi Mo, who had lost his breath: "Others still have a ray of soul, but he has no soul, I'm afraid I can't save him... ..."

Qi Mo is Aunt Lu's grandson, and Aunt Lu must not be able to accept this bad news. Thinking of this, Zhang Yushen quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Please, Mr. Xichen, please save him. I... I will promise you before The conditions mentioned are to form a contract with the green sandalwood tree in the capital, and I will serve you from now on, and I will be your servant willingly for eternity.”

"Okay. Okay." Qi Mo was very satisfied after hearing this, and laughed, "If I want to save him, I must have a soul attached to him, but the soul is only found in the underworld, and there is no other place... Let me think about it." ...Well, I just happened to take away a person's memory before, and I can squeeze out a strand of soul based on his memory, and barely extend my life, but—"

"Just what? Lord Xichen, just give orders."

"It's just that if he accidentally grows into a look you hate, don't blame me."

……

Disgusted look.

Looking back now, Zhang Yushen understood what Master Xichen meant by the "appearance of disgust".

This disgusted look is the ugly face of those princes and nobles in Jingcheng!

He quickly rushed to Qi Mo and grabbed Qi Mo's neck: "No wonder, you have been learning Liuchi's inner strength, but you will unknowingly use the royal inner strength!"

A soul pinched out of memory...

Zhang Yushen's face became more and more strange: "Who are you!"

"I-I am..."

Even though his throat was choked, Qi Mo was still thinking intermittently about who he was.

"What are you doing, Yushen! Let him go!" Granny Lu immediately became anxious, her voice turned into tears, and the old wrinkles on her face were clustered together. She tremblingly grabbed Zhang Yushen's arm and said: " Let go of Qi Mo, if you have something to say..."

"Auntie, you see clearly! He is not Qi Mo at all!" Zhang Yushen roared, and then waved Granny Lu away, "He is our enemy, Auntie!"

He remembered Master Xichen once said that Yin Jian looked like this when his memory was stolen—wearing a dark green shirt with festering on his back...

Unexpectedly, the life he exchanged for the eternal freedom from Lord Xichen was just a ray of soul that hides Yin Zhan's memory...

He is not willing!

Zhang Yushen tightened his fingers quickly, and the whites of Qi Mo's eyes began to roll upwards.

"Uh...!" Qi Mo looked very painful and blushed.

"Go to hell!" Zhang Yushen pressed harder.

"The rain is deep——" Granny Lu fell to the ground, still not forgetting to shout.

Ruan Lan said: "No—"

He heard Zimo slowly squeeze out the last two words from his lips.

"A...Lan..."

Afterwards, his head hung down, and there was no other movement.

Ruan Lan couldn't believe it for a while, and was still hesitating in her heart.

He... Qi Mo died too?

A golden mist gradually gathered above Qi Mo's head, and then slowly lifted into the air and drifted away.

"Ah, Qi Mo, woo woo woo..." Granny Lu hugged Qi Mo's collapsed body and cried bitterly, "You... why did you just go like this, why did you die suddenly..."

She looked up to the sky and yelled, her hoarse voice became even hoarse and hoarse, with endless tears streaming down her face: "How will I explain to your mother in the future, woo woo woo...Qi Mo..."

Ruan Lan saw a few drops of water dripping on the ground.

It turned out that he was crying.

At this time, Zhang Yushen walked towards him, as if he didn't feel any guilt in his heart.He stopped in front of Ruan Lan, brushed the dust off his shoulder casually with one hand, and suddenly asked a very abrupt question.

"If only one of you and Yin Jian could survive this time, who would you choose?"

……

At this time, Yin Jian had finished arranging the princess and was walking on a field path with Cui Hong.The weather is very hot, the sun shining from the sky is scorching hot, but fortunately there are dense trees on both sides for shade.

Suddenly, a golden mist floated quickly, enveloping Yin Jian's entire body, and then quickly disappeared.

Cui Hong asked in surprise, "Your Majesty, what was that just now?"

Yin Jian frowned and shook his head: "I don't know."

He continued to take a step forward.

"and many more--"

Yin Jian paused.

"I seem to...remember something from a long time ago."