Xialan Fanren: The Spectator

Such things as dreams are really unpleasant.Yun Dan thought so.

It is the end of Yinshi (3:5 am to [-]:[-] am) in the early morning, and it is not yet the time for the sun to rise.No matter how long the days and nights are in summer, there is only darkness outside the window at this time.

She lay on the bed, looking at the bed curtain above her head that could not be seen clearly at night.

Surrounded by the background music intertwined with the chirping of crickets, in addition to the silence like the end of the day.

After she lost her status as a town hall envoy, she was assigned an independent and remote house to live alone.This was not Yi Henxi's decision, but a gift given to her by the old man when the leader of the broken formation was still alive.

"You're tired too." The white-haired old man sat on the wicker chair and said slowly, "It's not so easy to wait for ten years. Even if you wait, you won't feel much relieved."

At that time, Yun Dan was standing opposite him, silent, wondering whether he was talking about herself or herself.

"There is an old residence in the west of Jiugong Ridge. No one lived in it more than ten years ago. I don't know if it can still be lived in." The old commander continued, "Can you go and see it for me?"

The old man looked up at her, his sunken eyes almost narrowed into slits, but Yundan could still see the different light in the other's eyes, which looked like stars, but were hidden in the deep ancient well.

"Yes." The monosyllabic reply meant that she gave up the choice to ask questions.

The residence that Pozhen mentioned later became her new residence.But when she led the order to the hut facing the lake at the foot of the mountain to the west of Jiugong Ridge, it seemed as if it had been forgotten.The grass is luxuriant, and the cobblestone path is almost covered up.

The house can still be lived in, no one has lived in it for more than ten years, at most it is dusty, but Yundan did not expect that the furnishings here are so complete, even the cups that have not been taken back from the tea tray are on the table that can be seen when entering the door , but the inside is real, full of ashes.

Yundan pinched the lid of the teapot, but unexpectedly did not see the moldy and rotten old tea leaves, so he raised his head again, trying to find the most common species in this old house.

"Not even a spider's web."

Here, it seems, there is only dust.

Although Jiugong Ridge occupies a large area, it doesn't take much time to walk around from southeast to northwest, but in the short time that Yundan came to the old residence in the west, the leader of the broken formation was in front of all the other high-ranking Xia Lan. After announcing that he would give up the position of commander to Yi Henxi, he walked back to Juntian Palace.The big guy who came back to his senses wanted to rush into the hall to find someone to ask for clarification, but he couldn't find the old man.

Yundan was the last to know about it.

"The commander of the broken formation only gave me this." Yi Henxi took out a small copper coin and put it in the palm of his hand. "I think he probably wants to give it to you." At the end he added another sentence, "There is information recorded by Yuan Qi on it."

"Why don't you take a look." She asked in a steady tone.

Yi Henxi smiled, "Do you think I would do such a thing?"

That copper coin reminded Yundan a lot. Before she read the information on it, she had already thought of many things, good, bad, new and old.

From the change bag my parents handed me when I first entered Xialanxu, to the box that my relatives and friends used to hold coins when they came to collect debts from my mother at my father's funeral, to the days when I saw it in Zuifenglou The wealthy businessmen and tycoons hold the banknotes in their hands to tease the women in the brothel.She couldn't help feeling that there were so many things in her life that had something to do with money, but in the end, when she stretched out her hand to pick up the small metal disc from Yi Henxi's palm, she remembered what happened more than ten years ago. a piece of fire.

That was the only fire that she spent money on but didn't eat.

The right hand suddenly stopped in mid-air.

"What do you remember?" Yi Henxi asked.

Yun Dan glanced at him and smiled softly, "I remembered that someone had given something to the dog."

Yi Henxi had a black question mark on his face.

The outside of Shenyoujian's room has begun to have some faint light.Through the shadow of the window lattice cast by the yellowed window paper, Yun Dan turned his head sideways, looking at the faint light on the ground.

"You may not think that that place is actually within the eruption range of a volcano."

The metallic energy released from his hand quickly covered the small copper coin in his palm, and Yundan sat beside the bed in his dormitory, quietly reading the information inside.

The voice of the commander of the broken formation seemed to come from the depths of a very ancient time. Although it only recorded the voice of the old man, Yundan somehow always saw the hut and the lake in his mind.

"A friend of mine used to live there. He likes a secluded place, and it really suits him very well." In a daze, Yun Dan seemed to be able to see the hunched figure standing on the cobblestone path next to the house. "But who would have imagined that Jiugong Ridge is so big that they would have circled one without realizing it."

She had read records in some books that when the volcano became active, it seemed that someone had planted bombs in that mountain, stacking them from the bottomless place to the top of the mountain, every explosion was like an earthquake, and every explosion was like an earthquake. The earthquake will spray ash tens of feet high.Yun Dan has never seen such a scene with his own eyes, and all he can remember is the descriptions in the book as "overwhelming" and "darkness".

"When the volcanic ash first erupted, it was like the lead gray rain clouds accumulated before the heavy rain," the old man's voice sounded again, "but it's not a cloud, it's just a large pile of dust blown up into the sky. Back to the ground, like a man-eating beast."

She probably guessed the story the leader was going to tell: the hut by the lake with a beautiful scenery suddenly encountered volcanic ash erupting in the distance, and the dust that covered the sky and the sun came crashing down when it floated over the place, obliterating all life.

"He never went back to live after that."

Yun Dan was stunned for a moment, then opened his eyes that were lightly closed, and what came into view was the small and green evergreen on the balcony in front of him.The voice of the old man continued, but those imaginary pictures seemed to be punctured by the dark green pot of evergreen, like a picture scroll that was burned from the middle by fireworks, and disappeared without a trace.

"Before leaving Jiugongling, write that experience into Jiugongling's history book."

It turns out that the record I read earlier was written by the owner of the house...

She traced the original appearance of the hut in her mind, and when the outline became clearer, she couldn't help sighing, "It's such a good place."

"If you want, this place will be yours from now on."

This is the last sentence left on the copper coin by Yuan Qi, the leader of the broken formation.After hearing this, Yun Dan was stunned for a while, then got up and went out to find Yi Henxi to check the truth.

It was later learned that she was not the only one who received an unexpected gift from the former leader.

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In the four directions of Jiugong Ridge, southeast, northwest, all were arranged by the leader of the broken formation to arrange a Tai Chi Xia Lan whose Yuan Qi attribute corresponds to his geographic location attribute.It was announced to the public that it was entrusted with the name of guarding, but after knowing the identities of the other three colleagues, Yundan guessed that it might really be a gift from the leader of the broken formation.

Or more precisely, compensation for those who suffered certain losses during his tenure.

Most of these people, like her, just want to find a quiet place.

Yin time (5:7 am to [-]:[-] am) has arrived, and the light projected on the windows gradually becomes brighter. It is the time of dawn and the beginning of a day.There are no longer only crickets singing alone outside the house. Occasionally, birds will pass by the low window, leaving fleeting afterimages on the window paper and the ground. Occasionally, some birds will choose to rest on the window lattice, briskly. Jumped two steps, and flew elsewhere to look for companions.

When Yun Dan really got up and was about to get out of bed, she found two birds perched outside the window, standing quite close to each other.

She suddenly remembered the piece of fire.

In the dream that dissipated just now, there was also that piece of fire.

When I was young, it was always easy to feel throbbing because of various things that seem insignificant today, whether it is myself or others.The unexpected encounter more than ten years ago later became her last hope for that person in ten years.She always remembered all the details, thinking that she would remember death, but she didn't expect that when she wanted to recall it again now, she couldn't tell whether the boy's hair color was black or gray.

Even I didn't realize that the heart that seemed to hang in the air for ten years had been gently put back on the ground when the opponent returned to the Jiugongling camp. Since then, it has been like stagnant water, more like a dry well, dry and silent .

"You are tired too." The old man's words sounded from the bottom of his heart again.

She is indeed tired.

Yundan hasn't had such an exhausting dream like last night for a long time, it's like the past experience was picked and pieced together, reversed the cause and effect, and forced her to experience, relive, and use the dream Use logic and strength in the game against those enemies who oppose you.

She suddenly realized that those people in the dream, whether she knew them or not, and no matter how close they were to her in reality, they all became enemies that blocked her progress.These people even used swords, guns, halberds, and Yuan Qi, but in their dreams they were empty-handed, fighting back and evading helplessly.

It's so tiring...

She wanted to find someone to pour out the bitter water, but she could only think about it.After living for so many years, she has long understood how dangerous this idea of ​​pouring bitter water is.

But this time, Yundan suddenly thought of someone.

Might be a reliable confidant.

The author has something to say: I haven't watched Xia Lan for a long time, so I don't know the identity of the people in it and the latest ending, so this place is completely private, and the character ooc may be a bit serious, because I still have to watch the first episode In the sixth season, I found that Sister Dan had deviated a little from my original cognition, which was a bit difficult for me personally. .So the text has always maintained what I thought Yun Dan's character was.Sorry for any offense here.

This chapter has been stuck for a long time, and today I feel complicated and difficult to calm down, so I produced this chapter. Although it may seem unclear, the follow-up will still be related to this chapter, so it can be regarded as a transitional chapter no matter what. By the way, explain some things orz

Thank you to everyone who has been reading this article [bow

☆、Chapter 18

After leading a few young Liangyi Xialan to perform routine mountain patrol tasks, Yundan did not return to his lakeside hut immediately, but walked around the dormitory area row upon row, and finally turned to a tea garden.

Although it is located in the central area under the heavy protection of Jiugong Ridge, the environment is as quiet as a paradise.Lush forests surround this small tea field. To the north of the tea field stands a brick hut with a very simple shape, not even the decorative relief of Xia Lan printed on buildings in Jiugongling.

Yundan walked into the field from the west along an unidentifiable path, and the empty space above the flat tea field allowed sunlight and rain to nourish the tea leaves to the maximum, without being robbed of nutrients by the canopy of other trees.

She reached out her hand to touch some light belonging to the tea leaves, and the palm was filled with the warmth of the sun, so beautiful that one wanted to hold it tight, but when the four fingers covered the palm, the warmth dissipated.

Had to let go.

"Is it Yundan?" A pleasant voice came from behind, from a blind woman wearing a bamboo hat, her eyelids were lightly closed to cover the old and hideous eyeballs inside.Probably because I feel that since I can't see, I don't need to work hard to open it.

Yun Dan turned around, bent the corners of her lips, and said softly to her, "It's me. Sister Yunju, long time no see."

The person Yun Dan called Sister Yunju tilted her head slightly, and said with a smile, "Let me just say, only you know how to get on this small road to the west."

"Isn't there still that child? Why is it that only I know about it?" Yun Dan turned his body sideways and let the other party walk side by side with him.The aisle in the field is narrow, but fortunately, it can accommodate two people side by side, not to mention not always side by side.

"You said return to the sea." Yunju stopped in front of a low tea tree, and stretched out his hand to caress the delicate young leaves bathed in the sun. "He once fell on this path when he was a child, but he never walked on it again. He should have forgotten it after so long."

Yun Dan smiled, "You just said 'should', so it's still possible to remember."

Yunju turned around, although his eyes were closed, but Yundan seemed to be able to feel that the other party's pair of damaged eyeballs covered by eyelids were staring at her inexplicably, "Then do you still remember?"

She froze for a moment.

When Yundan entered Jiugongling for the first time, many people thought she was Yunju's younger sister, but the two had different looks and backgrounds, and it didn't take long for such speculation to subside.

But the similarity in the names still made the young Yundan very curious. "Why is sister called Yunju?"

At that time, both of them were still young, but Yunju was still three or four years older than Yundan.Because of their names, the two naturally became acquainted with each other, and Yun Dan, who was unaccompanied in Xia Lan Xu, also fell in love with this big sister.

"Then why is Yundan called Yundan?" The older girl asked without answering, her big eyes that were still very clear at that time looked tenderly at the little Yundan hanging on her hand.

"Ah... I don't know..." The little girl thought ignorantly, "Maybe it's because it sounds good?"

"It sounds really good."

"So why is my sister called this name?" Xiao Yundan was not fooled by this change of subject.

Yunju propped his chin with the other hand that was not picked up, looking at the tea field handed down from his parents in front of him, "Because my parents like it."

Limited by her age and knowledge, Yun Dan at that time really thought that the name Yunju was due to her parents' preference. It was not until the girl gradually grew up that she accidentally found a "Tea Classic" in the vast sea of ​​books. "Yunju" was originally the name of tea.

What a tea-loving family this must be.

"What do you mean by sister?" Yun Dan didn't think too much, for some reason, every time she came to see this sister Yunju, she always seemed to forget the reason why she came here in the first place.

The other party laughed softly, and his left hand was still on top of the tea bushes. When he moved his footsteps, his palm and fingertips passed over the upturned leaf tips of the tea leaves, giving him a sensation of ecstasy. "Of course it's what you think in your heart." After walking a few more steps, there was already a small tea bush between her and Yundan. "Although I don't know how to detect it, I can't see anything now."

"elder sister……"

"But you appearing here is enough to show that you want to escape from something." Yunju, who was drifting away, walked skillfully through the tea fields, and walked to the door of his brick hut, sighed helplessly, "You guys , I always want to escape to peace.”

Yun Dan was stunned, "You?"

"One step before you came, someone just stepped out here." Yun Ju was obviously very familiar with her own residence, and her blind eyes did not cause any inconvenience to her actions at all.She pushed open the door, then turned to face Yun Dan who was still in a daze, far away, through the hazy morning light, pursed her lips and chuckled, "Come in and talk. I'm tired from standing."

The house is very open and bright.

A set of simple tea sets is placed on a small round table by the window, and next to the table is a small stove for boiling water.The lid of the kettle moved from time to time under the action of the steam, making a crisp sound when it collided with the body of the kettle, mixed in the noise of the boiling spring water.

The two sat facing each other, Yun Dan straightened his body, as if deliberately hiding himself in the shadow of the wall.Yunju, opposite her, put both hands on the table naturally, with the palm of his left hand spread out in the sunlight coming in from the window, just like what Yundan did when he first stood by the tea field.

It's just different from her, the warm light always feels much more docile in the opponent's hand, no matter how the palm is turned over, it never dims and dissipates.

It took a long time for Yundan to realize that there was a thin layer of Yuan Qi on the palm of the opposite person.

The bamboo hat has been taken off and put aside, Yun Dan is staring at the side face of the opposite person coated with a layer of soft light, staring at the old scars that are becoming more and more obvious at this moment, even though there is only a faint, almost invisible line left. scar.

She still remembers that incident, Yunju fell off a cliff in order to rescue Guihai. Although there was no life-threatening injury due to the buffer of the forest, his eyes were scratched by messy branches when he fell, and he could no longer see anything.This incident also caused a lot of controversy at the time, about whether the rescue was worthwhile.

At that time, Yundan had just experienced the death of his father. After returning to Jiugongling, he was no longer what he was before, but he was very different from those "reasonable people" who were obsessed with measuring "current value" and "long-term value". .

She never judged whether Yunju's actions were right or wrong. She just sipped her tea gently when the big sister herself regretted the rescue operation, "This child seems to like you very much."

Probably because of the natural maternal love of women, when Yunju really touches the person involved, no matter how much annoyance and remorse turn into heartache, the other party just mentions this sentence lightly, and she can say a lot of things incessantly. About the child he saved, even though he knew very little, he didn't even know it was repeated.

Yun Dan laughed out loud.

"Eh?" Yun Ju who was talking about Xing's head was startled by the laughter for a moment, wanted to blink his eyes, moved his eyelids and felt a needle-like pain coming from the eyeball. "Hiss—what's the matter?"

"You're already like this, what are you regretting?"

"Why don't you drink tea?"

Yun Dan came back to his senses, picked up the small hemispherical wooden cup in front of him, looked at it for a while, and then drank the slightly hot tea inside. "The shape of this cup is really unique." After drinking, he still sighed.

"Because I did it myself." The other party smiled. "Although I'm blind, I still have all my limbs, so it's okay to fumble and make something with Yuan Qi occasionally."

Yun Dan was silent for a moment, and asked: "You just said, who is the person who left before I came?"

"Wen Qi."

"Wen Qi?"

Yun Dan is not familiar with this name, only knows that it is a young Xia Lan who disappeared a long time ago. Later, he was injected with zero energy, and his jaw was torn when he struggled.It seems that when she was hiding in Shibuya later, she also served as the envoy of a certain temple.

"She can't speak, I can't see the words." Yunju propped his chin with his right hand, and knocked on the table with his left hand holding a small ball cup, "I can only perceive her with the net of Yuan Qi scattered around me Later, she saved some information with Yuan Qi and passed it to me through the branches of the tea tree."

"What did she say?"

"A chore."

"..." Yun Dan really didn't expect that Wen Qi came to Yunju for a mission.After all, who would come to Xia Lan who has almost no fighting power to ask about the mission?

"She was looking for you, but she couldn't find you."

"...Huh?" Yun Dan was slightly taken aback.

"I'm in trouble."

She sighed, "Don't be a fool."

Although he couldn't see it, Yunju could still hear the helplessness in Yundan's words.Although she is a few years older than the other party, she has a more lively personality than Yun Dan, and she prefers to play tricks on a junior like her, but now, he still decided not to joke. "Someone from her family has come to join her."

The eyes hidden in the shadows blinked suspiciously a few times, "Family? Wasn't her family told that she had died? Did Jiugongling inform them of the truth later?"

"Even if they wanted to notify, they would have moved a long time ago." The woman in the sun said flatly, "This time, the elder brother who was supposed to enter Jiugongling with her was here, but the eldest son was not allowed. When leaving home, only Wen Qi came."

"So?" Yun Dan knew that those were not the point.

"This time, the small town where he worked was invaded by foreigners. The court thought they were a small place and didn't care. Her brother was the magistrate. If he couldn't move the court's reinforcements, he could only find Jianghu forces. In the end, he remembered Jiugongling .And Wen Qi knows that you have friends in the world, so I want to ask you for help."

She picked up the boiled kettle next to her and poured the water into the purple sand teapot. The evaporating water vapor was very conspicuous in the sunlight, covering up the floating dust in the sunlight like mist. "She probably wanted to go to the western region to find you, but if you don't know each other well, it's more effective to send a message through someone like me," she added.

Yun Dan raised his eyebrows, "I don't come to you every day."

"That might be fate." Yun Ju didn't care, and his frankness made Yun Dan a little ashamed of his villainous heart, "She is busy, you are free, help each other, benefit others and yourself."

"I don't see any selfishness in it."

Yun Ju raised the corners of his lips meaningfully, "Aren't you always confused about some things?"

This time, let that ordinary person who is more complicated than Master Jiu tell you the answer.