[Twelve Kingdoms] Twilight and Dawn Rain

"The next thing will be arranged like this: I will try my best to contact some officials to win them over; Xiusu will be responsible for all matters during my departure; Mr. Taifu should have a good talk with Wang first." Yi Ruo made arrangements while packing up the official documents .

"Master Yi Ruo, I..." Ye Ming took a step forward.

"You are responsible for Taifu's safety." Yi Ruo raised his head when he didn't hear the answer, "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing."

One is like an adult.Ye Ming silently looked at the rising sun hanging outside the window, the strong golden light hurt his eyes.Sorry, if there is really no other way, I have to leave you and this land.Closing his eyes, the uncontrollable pain bit his cold heart wantonly.

"Ye Ming, I can finally thank you for saving me that day!" Cao Lin happily took Ye Ming's hand and shouted with a smile.

"Do you have anything else to say? Master Taifu." Ye Ming abruptly withdrew his hand.

"Yes." Gaolin immediately became serious. "You should already know, right? Ye Ming, no, my lord..."

"I don't know!" Ye Ming interrupted her, "I don't understand. You got the wrong person."

"Ye Ming! Why do you always avoid me?" Cao Lin grabbed the corner of Ye Ming's clothes who was about to leave, "Don't go, Nan Xiao."

Ye Ming turned his face slightly, his trembling lips were as pale as paper, and the words that fell were like icy dew falling to the ground and splashing loudly. "You...recognized the wrong person." Nan Xiao was already dead, buried in the belly of a demon.

"Nan Xiao, are you blaming me for leaving you alone in Qing? I can't help it! At that time, I didn't have the ability to help you ascend the throne, so I had to ask someone to take care of you..."

"Lord Taifu, I'm guarding outside." Ye Ming broke free from the hand that was holding her tightly, pushed the door and went out.I am not Nan Xiao.

"So it's Mr. Xia Guan. He really is a rare visitor. What's the use of looking for me?" Chun Guan Quji sneered, making it clear that he didn't want to keep anyone, so he blocked Yiruo at the entrance of the hall.

"It's not that I'm looking for you, it's Taifu's intention." Yiruo also pointed out straightforwardly: This time I'm here for business, don't mix personal prejudices into it.

Qu Ji stared at him for a long time, and finally turned sideways to make way. "Let's go inside and talk."

In the waning wind, Ye Ming leaned on the dirty door panel in a trance, his eyes drifted involuntarily to the wind-leaking window, revealing a pair of eyes full of expectation.

Why did it become like this?Why is it me and not Master Yiruo who is the king?Why only the king can save Qiao?Why... let me meet Master Yiruo?

"I'll trouble you for the rest." Yiruo thanked Quji who sent him out.

"I don't want to help you either, but I can't just ignore the king. Of course, if you have other plans, I will not hesitate to be your enemy." Qu Ji expressed his attitude unfriendly.

"I'm afraid I will disappoint you. My feelings for the king are far beyond what you think." Yi Ruo replied politely.

"Whether it's true or not, you'll only know when it's time. Don't send it away!" Queji slammed his face coldly, and closed the door hard without politeness.

It is obvious that you are a person who is too contemptuous of personal feelings to fall into a misunderstanding.Didn't you find out the truth back then?To say that I threw away the children is true, to say that I killed my own wife is too much.How much do you know about me and Ye Ming?Do you know what kind of mood I had when I kept Ye Ming by my side?

Yi Ruo turned and walked towards the horse under the tree, with a bitter smile on his lips.

That year was the fifth year since Qiao began to decline.For a split second he saw the child curled up in a pile of tattered hides, and he thought he saw the spirit of the little half-beast.The child's frozen little hands tightly hugged a nearly fragmented piece of fur on her chest, her disheveled silver hair was stuck together, her skin was bruised and purple by the freshly fallen hail, the only thing that proved she was alive was her pair of full Frightened eyes still stared at him warily.

The cold wind was bitter, and he stood motionless in the wind mixed with ice particles and gravel, staring, reminiscing, and waiting; while she was tensely confronting him under his strangely complex eyes, until, finally, ——

"Come with me." He uttered these words with difficulty, he always felt that he was asking for something extravagantly, obviously doing so would not make anyone understand him more.

The child didn't speak or move, but just stared at him timidly and hostilely.

Without knowing it, he reached out his hand to the child.The child struggled clumsily in his powerful arms a few times, and after finding that he couldn't break free, he obediently fell in his arms.

Holding the child's ice-cold and hard body, he felt an inexplicable joy and gratitude in his heart, and at the same time felt that he had an extra responsibility.

When asked about the child's name, she didn't say anything, so he didn't know that the child had his own name.

"Call it 'Ye Ming', I will definitely let you see Qiao's dawn."

"Yi Ruo, you are finally back, I have something to tell you!" Cao Lin rushed to his room as soon as he heard the news of Yi Ruo's return.

"I've already felt it. The wind is getting smaller, is it going to stop?" Yi said with a smile in a calm manner.

"It's not this!" Gao Lin slapped the table hard, causing dust to fall everywhere. "My lord, she...refuses to admit that she is a king!"

really……

Yiruo has an expression of "I expected it a long time ago". "Maybe it's because of me. That child is a little too dependent on me... Forget it, anyway, how about I persuade her?"

"You must convince her!"

Gently pushing open the half-hidden door, a pair of misty black eyes under the gray and messy silver threads gradually appeared through the slowly opening door, and if you clearly saw your own figure reflected in those black eyes, The silvery white moon shrouded the mist with faint rays of light, gradually softening the stiffness of his expression.

Facing such a strange Ye Ming, Yi Ruo didn't know if he could still see her as a child who obeyed his orders.After thinking for a while, he finally asked:

"Ye Ming, can you tell me why you don't want to be king?"

Hearing this, Ye Ming hesitated for a moment, finally turned his head away, and said a word forcefully: "No."

"Why not?" Yiruo's hand gently stroked her soft hair, carefully testing her tone, "Aren't I just like your father?"

"Father? I don't know who is my father." With a stubborn back and a cold tone, she seemed to have returned to the lonely and closed self-world a long time ago, exuding the message of rejecting everything and rejecting everything.

Yiruo silently stared at the girl whose back was turned to him. After all, the thin body in his vision was no longer immature, but he could still touch the elusive longing through the stiff neck.What exactly do you want?This 14-year-old kid...

"Ye Ming," he said again, his tone full of bitterness, "I once had a half-beast daughter..."

His heart skipped a beat, and Ye Ming couldn't help but clenched the cold sweat in his palms.

"...she has the same hair color as yours, and there are beautiful cloud-like patterns on both sides of her body, she is very cute. So, when I met you that day, I wanted to keep you by my side no matter what, I I think this is a little compensation for my daughter in my heart. I don't want to force you, I just hope you can be happy. But please think carefully, if you evade your responsibility, will you be happy?"

With the door open, the whimpering of the wind lasted for a moment, and then choked on the other side of the door with the rotation of the door hinge.

"How is she?" Before Yiruo stepped into the door, Gao Lin couldn't wait to rush to the door to ask.

"How should I put it? It's not depressing, but the tone is very hard. I'm afraid it will be difficult to change her mind in a short time. In short, observe for a while, I have sent someone to guard her."

Gaolin sat down dejectedly.How can you do this?Ye Ming, why do you want to punish Qiao people?

"Ye Ming, if you have something on your mind, tell grandma, don't worry about it." The old woman's kind eyes fell on Ye Ming's long hair.

"Master Yiruo...what did he say to you?" Ye Ming raised his eyes, the mist in his eyes did not dissipate.

"If your lord says that you are not in a good mood, let me, an old woman, come and chat with you." The old woman put Ye Ming's hand into her rough palm, and caressed it gently lovingly.

Ye Ming lowered his head, the hair on his forehead covered his eyes, and locked his words.

"What's there to be embarrassed about with grandma? Grandma is here. Although if adults don't understand the girl's mind, grandma can see it. Tell grandma, which boy do you like?" The old woman said with a smile ask.

Ye Ming was slightly taken aback.How could you think of such a thing?But... It seems that Master Yi Ruo really didn't reveal anything, right?

"What a stubborn child, Ye Ming." Unable to hear the answer, the old lady cleverly changed her way of asking, "Then what do you think of Xiusu?"

"Xiaosu... very good." Ye Ming replied absent-mindedly.

"So that's how it is." The old lady had a clue in her heart, so she stopped asking questions and started rambling about some trivial things in life.

Ye Ming stared blankly at the haze outside the window, and Yiruo's voice kept repeating in his ears:

"...Aren't I the same as your father...I once had a half-beast daughter...I think this is probably a little compensation for my daughter in my heart..."

I am... a substitute for your daughter?Yi Ruo adults, do you think so?This is... my status?

"Master Yiruo!" Xiusu barged in abruptly, "The wind stopped!"

Yi Ruo and Gao Lin looked at each other and smiled, and were about to say something, when more explosive news came - "Ye Ming is gone!"

what? !

I'm sorry, Mr. Yiruo, who chose to leave at such an important time.It's just that I can't stay by your side anymore, or it's bound to get worse.I just need a moment, I will try to calm myself down as soon as possible.When I come back, if you are an adult, I will come back one day.

Ye Ming caressed the dry trunk of Limu, and resolutely turned and walked towards the end of the horizon.

"Yi Ruo, is there no news from Ye Ming yet?" Gao Lin asked reluctantly, almost without any hope.

"We have already contacted local officials to look for it, but Ye Ming will try to hide as much as possible without being discovered."

Speaking of which, the wind started to blow on the third day after Ye Ming's disappearance, but no matter what, he felt that the wind was quite different from the wind in the past ten years.Yi Ruo tapped on the window sill lightly, lost in thought.

"Tick-tack-"

Yiruo raised his head and quietly looked at the traces of dampness between his fingers.Where does this water come from?so cool...

Could it be... is it the sky? ?