[Rat cat] Mirror City

Chen Mu really hoped that this was a dream.When he rushed down from the carriage, he happened to see the huge boulder rolling down on the roof of the carriage, when he heard Xu Shuyan's screams became two, and when he turned around, he saw Xu Yuqi fall from the horse on the ground. on the ground.

Whether it was Xu Shuyan or Xu Yuqi, they could only scream in pain when they saw the carriage destroyed by the boulder.The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the blood under the boulder was washed away completely, and there was no trace on the boulder.

And the nightmare didn't stop.The horse was startled, neighed and raised its front hooves, and after breaking free from the driver who was already unable to control it, it rushed towards Xu Shuyan like crazy.

After that, Xu Shuyan was knocked down like this, and fell off the cliff.All the pictures he had experienced in this place flashed in an instant, and Chen Mu even had the illusion that the person who was knocked out was not Xu Shuyan, but himself.

"Sister!" It was Xu Yuqi's almost desperate cry that made Chen Mu recover from the shock, and what he saw was Xu Yuqi holding Xu Shuyan's hand tightly, but Xu Shuyan's body was caught by the extremely slippery cliff. Take it out.

"Why are you still standing there! Stop them!" Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang rushed up the moment Xu Shuyan was knocked out, but they were cruelly separated from the world.

They couldn't touch Xu Shuyan at all, let alone pull Xu Yuqi and Xu Shuyan up.And now the only person who can help is still standing there as if in a daze.

Zhan Zhao's words brought Chen Mu back to his senses like a thunderbolt. He also stretched out his hand and grabbed Xu Shuyan's wrist, but Xu Shuyan had already closed his eyes.

"Shuyan, Shuyan, please open your eyes!"

"Sister, sister, look at us, sister, can you come up?" Xu Yuqi's tears fell little by little, even though it was washed by the cold rain.

Mixed in the rain, the tears falling on Xu Shuyan's face were so hot that Xu Shuyan dragged the desperate nightmare back to an even more desperate reality.

Lifting her head with difficulty, Xu Shuyan saw the two most important people in her through the rain curtain that blocked her sight. They were both holding her hands and calling for herself desperately. The anxiety and sorrow on their faces were reflected in her eyes. so clear.Suddenly, she felt very tired.

Xu Yuqi and Chen Mu didn't know what Xu Shuyan was thinking, they only knew that Xu Shuyan opened his eyes, so they could pull Xu Shuyan up.

But just as the two of them were about to exert their strength, Xu Shuyan actually raised his right hand that had been hanging by his side.A bad premonition struck, Xu Yuqi held Xu Shuyan's wrist with both hands, "Sister, I beg you not to."

"I'm sorry." Xu Shuyan showed a sad smile, and tears burst out like a bank, "But I'm really tired." Then, she pushed Xu Yuqi and Chen Mu's hands away with all her strength.

The tighter the thing is, the faster it will be lost, and the deeper the sense of loss, a hole will be dug in the bottom of my heart, and then blood will be swallowed up completely.

Eyes, can't see anything.ears, can't hear anything.The body can't feel anything.This rain-curtained world disappeared with Xu Shuyan's fall.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't believe that Xu Shuyan, a woman, chose to end her own life after going through these things.

But here, the person who can't accept this fact the most is Xu Yuqi. "Sister!" She was in such pain and heart-piercing that everyone would have believed that if Chen Mu hadn't stopped her, Xu Yuqi would have jumped off the cliff with Xu Shuyan.

Even in Chen Mu's arms, Xu Yuqi kept struggling, screaming and wanting to jump off the cliff.Chen Mu slapped her, and shouted angrily and desperately, "Be sober, what's the use of doing this?"

This sentence expressed his anger, his despair, and his pain. He was speaking to Xu Yuqi, but he was telling himself that anything they did here would be useless.

But what Chen Mu said was useless. Xu Yuqi once again covered his ears, refusing to listen to all voices, just in pain, shouting in disbelief, "It shouldn't be like this! It shouldn't be like this! Why did it change?" It’s like this, why it’s like this, things shouldn’t be like this! Why, why, why did you let me out!”

The world seemed to be shaken by Xu Yuqi's grief, lightning and thunder ripped apart the sky, and the whole night became pale under the lightning.Xu Yuqi pushed Chen Mu away with all his strength and jumped off the cliff. No one could react in time.

The moment Xu Yuqi jumped off the cliff, the ground under Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao's feet shook violently, throwing them off the ground.

"Cat!" Bai Yutang didn't know what happened, but he just squeezed Zhan Zhao's hand tightly. If he didn't hold tight, then would they still be together after this shock.

The feeling of dizziness really lasted for a long time, so long that Bai Yutang didn't know whether this feeling of being alive was his own illusion.

Until he felt something warm under his hands, and in the darkness he felt that it was a person, and he was surrounded by a person.At that moment, Bai Yutang felt the frozen blood all over his body boil, he opened his eyes suddenly, just in time to look into the same opened eyes of the man in his arms.

In the eyes of the other party, Bai Yutang saw joy, ecstasy, and couldn't believe that there was his own reflection.Come to think of it, it's the same in my own eyes.

"Cat!"

"Yutang!"

Having just gone through an unimaginable event, the only thing that can calm the two of them down now is each other's arms.The two hugged each other tightly, as if they would be separated again if they loosened a little.

The two hugged for a while, and suddenly realized something was wrong.Their bodies were dry, and the places they were standing on were not mountain roads, but grasslands.In their hands, it turned out to be the apricot tree.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang felt as if their whole bodies were frozen. They both turned their heads at the same time, and what imprinted in their eyes was not Xu's backyard, but Chen Mu's house. They came back, and they turned out to be back.

"Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang?" Gongsun Ce's surprised and delighted voice came from the door, and the two looked towards the door. Gongsun Ce was holding the door, looking at them excitedly.

Gongsun Ce flew to the two of them, anxiously inspected the two of them from top to bottom, and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was nothing wrong with them, "Why are you back?"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao exchanged glances, and told Gongsun Ce everything that happened to them in the Xu Mansion after Gongsun Ce left.Gongsun Ce listened quietly, groaning in a low voice.

After Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao finished talking, he looked at them solemnly, "Are you sure, you were all there at the time?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded affirmatively, caring about the worry in Gongsun Ce's eyes.

But this daze was only for a moment, and they soon noticed that there was a voice missing, "Chen Mu!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang called this name at the same time.

The three looked in the direction of the stone platform in panic, and Chen Mu was still lying there in a deep sleep with his original movements, without moving at all.This is a good or bad thing, good thing, Chen Mu didn't have an accident, at least he is still alive; bad thing, since Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang have come out, why didn't Chen Mu come out.

"Since the dream was controlled by two parties, it is very likely that you were ejected from the dream." Gongsun Ce calmly stated his judgment, and made a judgment in a very short time, "Chen Mu should be fine now, You come with me first."

Seeing Gongsun Ce's seriousness, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang immediately remembered the reason why Gongsun Ce broke contact with them before, and he probably discovered something.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang quickly followed in Gongsun Ce's footsteps and arrived at the courtyard that Chen Mu had mentioned earlier.All they saw was the wall, a high wall covered with ivy.

However, Gongsun Ce walked in a certain direction very accurately, and then pushed aside the creeper covering the wall. Behind the creeper, they could clearly see a wooden door, and the lock had been unlocked.

Gongsun Ce walked in a hurry, and Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao didn't ask any questions. Anyway, Gongsun Ce would definitely tell them what happened.So the two just speeded up their pace tacitly and caught up with Gongsun Ce.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang never expected that there would be such a unique courtyard behind the wall.There has been no one for a long time, and the place has been swallowed by the years, leaving only a unique frame, but it is no longer what it used to be.

Gongsun Ce looked back at the two of them. The shock of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang was within his expectation, because he was also shocked at the beginning, but he immediately found that the shock on Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's faces was more than what he had originally imagined. something.

Zhan Zhao muttered "How is that possible?" Bai Yutang wanted to be more calm. He noticed Gongsun Ce's confusion, so he told him, "The layout of this small courtyard is Xu Yuqi's other courtyard."

Gongsun Ce suddenly realized and understood the shock of the two.Why did such a wall be erected in the small courtyard of the Second Miss of the Xu family, as if to separate her from the world outside the wall.

"What exactly happened..." This huge change made Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang unable to figure out what happened to the Xu family in the follow-up that they couldn't see.

"This is why I want you to come." Gongsun Ce said, and then pushed open the door of the hut, revealing all the furnishings inside in front of Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's pupils shrank. When was Xu Yuqi's room transformed into a Buddhist hall?In the impression of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, Xu Yuqi's room is full of bright colors of girls.And here, even after the precipitation of time, it still cannot conceal its original plainness.

This room has also been remodeled a lot, at least the bookshelf behind the curtain is several times bigger than what they saw before.

"That lock..." Zhan Zhao gently picked up a book, which could be vaguely seen to be a Buddhist scripture, and most of the books next to it were the same, "Could it be that Xu Yuqi lived here alone after this incident, Never associate with Chen Mu again?"

Bai Yutang remained silent, this is not impossible.After going through so many blows, Xu Yuqi is extremely likely to be disheartened, so the remaining years of this flowery girl will be to practice meditation and worship Buddha in this isolated small courtyard?

"It's not just about practicing Zen and worshiping Buddha, but also practicing with hair." Gongsun Ce asked Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang to pay attention to him.Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Gongsun Ce in puzzlement, not understanding what was behind his words.

Gongsun Ce pointed to his top, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked up along his fingers.There are actually scrolls hanging on the walls on both sides.

Gongsun Ce faced Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, without even turning around, just stretched out his hand according to the position he remembered before, and then smoothly grasped a thin tassel hanging by the door curtain, gently swayed pull.

Something made the sound of being pulled out, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang held their breath, and opened their eyes wide to watch the countless painting scrolls hanging down.

I don't know how many years have passed. The moment the scroll was opened, Zhan Zhao was really worried that the scroll would be cut off in the middle like this.

Fortunately, nothing like this happened.All the paintings hang there intact, which is a relief.Bai Yutang didn't worry that much, so Zhan Zhao first examined the contents of the painting.

With just a casual glance, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang knew who the person in the painting was.Two women and one man, these two women are still and move, but they still have exactly the same face, and that man, although the face is really unrecognizable, but who else is it besides Chen Mu and Xu Shuyan and Xu Yuqi?

These paintings should be made by Xu Yuqi.And all the contents in these paintings are happy.This records the picture of the three of them growing up together. It can be seen that they were happy during those years.

In all the pictures, Xu Shuyan is peaceful, she always turns the pages of the book quietly, or embroiders, or plays the piano, while Xu Yuqi is lively, she always plays among the flowers under the tree, her face is full of joy.

And Chen Mu will always accompany the two of them, impartial, peaceful and calm.During that period of time, it was peaceful and good, and it always made people hope that it would never change.However that is also impossible.

Gradually, the three people in the painting changed.Xu Shuyan put his hair up in a bun, and Chen Mu deviated from his original middle position and stood beside Xu Shuyan.And Xu Yuqi stood under the shade of a tree and looked at them.

That was the change she had to face when she grew up. The man she loved deeply married her sister and became her brother-in-law, but it didn't matter, they were still the two people she loved the most.Presumably, Xu Yuqi faced Xu Shuyan and Chen Mu with such a mood during that month.

But...Zhan Zhao looked at these beautiful pictures, and suddenly his nose felt a little sore.Bai Yutang came up in time, covered Zhan Zhao's eyes, "If you don't want to read it, then don't."

"Yutang..." Zhan Zhao gently held Bai Yutang's wrist, "How much courage did Xu Yuqi muster to draw these?"

Thinking about the scene they saw before being ejected from this dream, it was a cruelty that none of them, the audience, could forget, and for Xu Yuqi, it was a nightmare that he would never forget in his life.

Bai Yutang looked at those paintings and didn't speak, but was also immersed in Zhan Zhao's question, how did Xu Yuqi face such a tragic situation.

"She has lived here alone for decades. Every time she sits here, she is looking at these paintings and then writing them down." Gongsun Ce took out a wooden box from the bottom of the book case, which was originally hung on it. The small lock on the door was rusted and was put aside by Gongsun Ce.

Gongsun Ce took out one of the booklets, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang gathered around the desk, and opened a page.The first thing they saw was the beautiful handwriting dotted on the yellowed paper.

Without Gongsun Ce's signal, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had already looked at it naturally.Xu Yuqi wrote her memories of her life in this booklet, starting from her childhood.

At first, it doesn't matter at all.But when they saw the back, both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang exclaimed, which attracted Gongsun Ce's attention.

Gongsun Ce glanced at the two in surprise, seeing that they were staring at the contents of the booklet, he temporarily swallowed his doubts.Then, the reaction of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang made him more and more concerned.

Zhan Zhao's hand turning the pages of the book trembled uncontrollably because of the unknown emotions surging in his heart, as if he couldn't read it anymore, Zhan Zhao pressed the booklet on the table with both hands, and said to himself incredulously, "How can it be?"

"What's the matter?" Gongsun Ce didn't understand, he hadn't carefully read the contents of the pamphlet before, and couldn't understand what made Zhan Zhao lose his composure.

Bai Yutang handed the pamphlet to Gongsun Ce, "The things recorded here are different from what the cat and I saw in it."

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