Become a cat [Zhan Zhao]

"It doesn't matter, she is just overworked. The previous battle may not be a big deal to you and me, but the little girl can't bear it."

"really?"

"really."

"It was fine before, why did you suddenly faint?"

"She was like a string that was too tight before, and it was loosened all of a sudden, so she fainted suddenly."

"You better not lie to me."

"I didn't lie to you, do you want to hear me swear?"

"You can go out."

"...This is my bedroom."

"Can't you let us be quiet for a while because I just helped you win a battle? By the way, drive those guys out of the door, or at least let them be quiet."

"Ok."

A Lan's eyelids moved slightly, the voice of this conversation was so low that she couldn't hear it clearly, but she recognized Zhan Zhao's voice.It's just that she still can't wake up, it seems that her spirit and body are separated due to some unknown reason, at this time she still remembers that she is in the valley of infatuation, and Zhan Zhao is always by her side to accompany her.However, she often forgets this at some point, and has the illusion that she is somewhere else.

She seemed to have walked into a temple, and this feeling was so real that Alan couldn't realize that this was not the real world.There is a faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus in the wind, which is not strong, but just right.She walked slowly along the cobblestone path, passing through the osmanthus trees, and saw a monk's house.

In front of the monk's house, there was a monk in a moon-white monk's robe sitting on the porch reading a scroll of scriptures.His attitude was leisurely, he neither knocked on the wooden fish nor chanted Buddhist scriptures, and looked more like reading some light-hearted stories and novels from a distance.

This artistic conception is very calm, and the appearance of the other party makes this scene more poetic and picturesque.It's hard to describe his appearance as handsome, because even this word is too gorgeous compared to his indifference.He is like a cloud in the sky or a stream in the forest, with a refreshingness that is not touched by the smoke and fire of the world.

However, A Lan didn't notice these things. Although she felt that the other party's appearance was refined, she never let the other party enter her heart.When he stopped, A Lan's first thought was - this person is Chen Yin.

This idea naturally rose from the bottom of my heart. Although A Lan had never met the other party, she knew the other party's identity at a glance.

Suddenly, Ah Lan lowered her head, and she found a key lying quietly in her palm.No, that's not accurate, it's not a key, it's half a key.The other half seemed to be cut apart, and it was scattered somewhere.And the remaining half of the key was slowly emitting a dull light, flickering on and off, as if breathing gently.

And A Lan raised his head, and found a part of the lost half of the key in Chen Yin's hand.The other party was looking down at the key in his hand, and he didn't seem to notice Alan's peeping. After a long time, he sighed and put away the key.

A gust of wind swirled past, and brought down a few petals from the osmanthus tree. After wandering reluctantly in mid-air for a while, they fell to the soil.

Alan slowly clenched her open palm, only to find that half of the key had disappeared.A strange yet familiar voice suddenly sounded not far away: "My lord."

This voice gave Alan a strange feeling, it seemed very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he heard it.She looked up and found a person standing in front of Chen Yin at some point.The man was wrapped in a black cloak from head to toe, not even his fingers were exposed.

Chen Yin said indifferently: "Master Qingjiu, you are here, what can you do?"

"My lord dare not do that. Your lord can just call me 'Qingjiu'." The man named Qingjiu spoke, his tone was even lighter than Chen Yin's, but unexpectedly he was not cold.

Chen Yin waved his hand: "It's just a title. Did Third Sister ask you to come?"

"The general has a message for me to send to His Holiness."

"What message?"

"She dreamed of poison."

Chen Yin was not moved, he just said in a calm tone: "I dreamed about it too."

"Does your lord have a reply letter asking me to send it to the general?"

Chen Yin thought for a while, then suddenly smiled: "I have nothing to say to her, it's just that your younger brother has recently become an official in the court of the world. Don't you care about him?"

Ah Lan suddenly remembered—Qingjiu, the name Han Shi had mentioned before, seemed to be Zhan Zhao's elder brother.No wonder she felt so familiar when she heard it before.

However, Qing Jiu didn't seem to care about what Chen Yin said, and just replied: "If the lord doesn't reply, then I will leave."

"Are you still going to deliver letters to elder brother and fourth younger sister?"

"The general didn't ask me to deliver a message to His Highness and the others."

"Only for me?"

"Only for His Holiness."

"Sanmei is narrow-minded, is she still holding grudges at this moment?" Chen Yin seemed to be dumbfounded, he thought for a while and said, "If Master Qingjiu is willing, you might as well persuade Sanmei for me."

Qingjiu didn't answer, turned and left.

And Ah Lan looked at the back of the other party leaving, and couldn't recover for a long time.She felt dazed for a while, and suddenly remembered: Isn't she in the Valley of Infatuation?How come here?Isn't Zhan Zhao's elder brother passed away?

As soon as this thought came up, Ah Lan felt her body suddenly sank, and she had already returned to the bed.At this time, the more real feeling gradually washed away the absurd scenes just now, her eyelids trembled, and she desperately wanted to open them.

After an unknown amount of time, she finally opened her eyes a crack.The dim light was still a little dazzling to her, and everything around her was blurred, like a calligraphy and painting soaked in water, and the brush and ink were smudged.

"Alan?" A voice sounded very close, but it sounded a little distant.The figure of Qingjiu flashed in Ah Lan's mind, but it quickly disappeared.

She saw clearly Zhan Zhao who was bending over beside the bed.The dimly lit candle made his figure somewhat blurred, and most of them were hidden in the darkness where the light could not be dispelled. Only those eyes reflected the dancing candle flame, containing complicated and unspeakable emotions.

Many years later, when Ah Lan recalled this scene, he still felt hot in his heart.It was a feeling of finally taking root after wandering for so long.

"Master." A Lan spoke a little slurred, "I fell asleep?"

Zhan Zhao said angrily, "You fainted." He seemed to want to say something more, but his face suddenly changed.

Alan's heart shuddered, and he stood up abruptly, and just said half a sentence: "What's wrong with you..." Zhan Zhao suddenly changed from a big living person to a cat, and his shrunken body fell from mid-air.A Lan instinctively reached out to catch the fluffy and warm cat.In the silent night, she stared blankly at the cat and lost the ability to speak for a moment.

And even if Zhan Zhao was not speechless right now, he could only make a "meow meow".He has never felt so helpless, these days he has been concerned about Alan's body, he has almost forgotten his curse of "becoming a cat".Who would have thought that Ah Lan had just woken up, and he didn't even have time to finish a complete sentence, so he directly staged a dramatic transformation in front of the other party.

Until A Lan came to his senses, Zhan Zhao kept pretending to be dead, unrealistically hoping that A Lan could forget the embarrassing scene just now.But Alan didn't care, she just breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed her face against the cat with the sleepiness that had not dissipated, and muttered, "How many days have I been asleep?"

Zhan Zhao: It wasn't that she fell asleep for a few days, but she fell into a coma for a few days.

It's a pity that he couldn't say that, couldn't express his depression, so he could only wag his tail slightly and bark twice unwillingly.

"Two days?"

"..."

A Lan hugged the cat tightly with her eyes closed, sat on the bed and shook her body back and forth slightly, she whispered, "I seem to have a weird dream."

The cat naturally couldn't answer.Alan couldn't recall the scene in the dream very well, but instead had a vague feeling of absurdity.She muttered, "Forget it, it's a rather boring dream."

"..." Zhan Zhao looked up at A Lan suspiciously, with a dignified expression.But to a cat, this expression looks more like staring at a mouse and preparing to kill it.Alan scratched the cat's chin lightly, still trying to recall the messy dream, but it was all in vain.

In the end, she gave up this attempt, and lay back on the bed with the cat in her arms: "I'm still very sleepy, let's sleep together for a while." Alan knew that Zhan Zhao must have not slept for a long time, and just now she saw the shadow under his eyes.

It wasn't very cold in the stone room, Zhan Zhao prepared a charcoal basin.And Alan's mattress and quilt are also made of cotton, which is very warm to cover.She hugged the cat and shrank into the bed, feeling unprecedentedly satisfied and relaxed, and no longer wanted to bother thinking about anything.

Zhan Zhao also gradually relaxed. After he turned into a cat, he would be afraid of the cold, but the blanket was very warm.Although sharing the bed with A Lan in this form makes people wonder whether to cry or laugh, but Zhan Zhao has no plans to change to another place to rest.

He was really tired. After Ah Lan woke up, his nerves finally relaxed, and he fell asleep after a while.One person and one cat slept until dawn, Zhan Zhao felt something was wrong in a daze, but he didn't wake up in time - he forgot the noon effect.

So Ah Lan was dreaming a sweet dream, when she suddenly felt her body sinking, and someone pressed her upright.However, before she had time to open her eyes, the person who was pressing her stood up quickly, followed by a series of "plops" and "crashes".

Alan sat up suddenly, and saw Zhan Zhao was supporting a precarious stone lampstand, and beside him was the stone bench that had been kicked down by him.

"Uh..." Zhan Zhao has never felt so guilty, he looked at A Lan and murmured, "You're awake."

Alan nodded blankly, not realizing what was going on.She subconsciously looked for the cat, and then remembered that Zhan Zhao had changed back, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

"You...you clean up first," Zhan Zhao immediately turned around and walked out, "I, I'll go out for a walk." Before he finished speaking, he disappeared.

Alan looked at the back of the other party fleeing in a hurry, and suddenly laughed out of nowhere.She was about to get up when she suddenly heard a conversation coming from outside.

"Where are you going in such a hurry? Is something wrong with your little girl?" The voice was Han Shi's.

Zhan Zhao replied vaguely, "It's okay, she's awake."

"..." Han Shi continued, "Since I'm awake, I just happened to tell you about Chixin Spring."