20 Love Villa (4)
The courtyard door was half open, and the rusty iron chain hung on the door, making soft noises.
Yunzhi opened the door and walked in without any hesitation.
The courtyard is full of peach trees. Under the trees, there are overgrown weeds, branches flying in disorder, and residual flowers scattered, making it very desolate.
Further inside, a small patio is exposed among the weeds and dead trees. On the left is a dusty stone table. Several stone stools are leaning crookedly under the table. Moss; on the right is a swing, one of the ropes is broken, and half of the wooden shading shed is missing.
Apparently no one had lived here for a long time.
I walked through the patio through the thick dust, walked up the steps that creaked when I stepped on them, and opened the door with broken window paper. There was a creaking sound, which stirred up dust in the room.
The musty smell that had not been exposed to sunlight for many years entered his nose. Yunzhi couldn't help but frowned, covered his nose and coughed twice. He raised his hand to wave away the dust in front of his eyes and walked in bravely.
Under the heavy dust, everything in the room was arranged neatly. There were some books and scrolls on the desk by the window. The exposed side was already yellowed and old. When I picked it up and turned it over to the other side, it was... Color remains as before.
There is no pen holder on the table, only a stone inkstone and a book.
Under the book lies a colorful feather.
Yun Zhi's heart suddenly tightened, and he carefully opened the book. Just one glance, and his hair stood up instantly.
The familiar simplified handwriting, one stroke at a time, is neat and beautiful.
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"On the ninth day of August, it's sunny... It's been almost half a month. I always feel that this is probably a dream. My parents here are still alive, and there are a group of lovely senior brothers and sisters. All of them are kind to me without reservation... ...If it’s not a dream, I think maybe this is God giving me a chance to live again... It would be nice if Zhizhi was here..."
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"It would be nice if Zhizhi was here..."
Yunzhi's whole body was shaking uncontrollably. She gritted her teeth and turned back a few pages, almost unable to stand still.
This is actually her sister's diary!
After a cursory look at the date, I actually recorded it for more than half a year!
On the last page, she said that she had met her destined person and that she would leave with that person to go to his sect. There were sweet expectations between the lines.
My sister actually found a boyfriend here?
Yun Zhi hadn't recovered from the shock, but he still smiled subconsciously, feeling a little relieved for some reason.
Then she thought of the empress of Yan Kingdom.
According to what was written in her sister's diary, she has returned to the sect with her sweetheart. Who is the empress?
If the empress is not her sister, then why is her handwriting exactly the same as her sister's? Why does she also know core values and "The Analects of Confucius"? If she is the sister, how did she become the empress? What happened during this period?
A series of questions popped up in his mind one after another. Yunzhi stood there thinking for a long time, put the diary in his sleeve, and walked around the room again, but found nothing else related to his sister.
When they were leaving, a young disciple was hanging a rusty iron chain on the courtyard door, seemingly trying to lock the door.
Yun Zhi quickly rushed forward, "Wait a minute -"
The disciple didn't expect there was anyone inside at all. He was startled by her, and the iron chain slipped from his hand. He picked up the chain hurriedly and looked at Yunzhi in surprise.
"Who are you? Why are you here? Come out, come out!"
As soon as Yun Zhi stepped out of the courtyard, the disciple locked the door again.
"What is this place? Can't you come?"
Yun Zhi saw him looking anxious and flustered, and suddenly became confused.
The disciple locked the door and led her away anxiously.
"This place is unlucky!"
Yun Zhi frowned slightly and hurriedly asked: "Unlucky? But what happened?"
The disciple shook his head, "I don't know the specifics, but everyone in the village said so!" As he said that, he suddenly looked at Yunzhi sideways and said, "Are you here to participate in the sword appreciation ceremony too?"
Yun Zhi hummed, but the disciple asked again: "Which sect are you from? Why didn't you just stay in front and run here..."
"Zhizhi!" A clear voice floated behind him, interrupting his question.
Yun Zhi turned around, and saw a young man walking in the wind. He was dressed in white and was as pale as the moonlight. There was still a trace of worry between his eyebrows, and he stopped beside her in the blink of an eye.
"Young Master." The disciples on the side had already begun to salute.
Xiao Yi hummed lightly, glanced at the stone plaque on the courtyard door, squinted slightly, then looked at the girl beside him, paused when he opened his mouth, and suddenly laughed, "It's time to go back for lunch. "
Yunzhi was stunned. She was already thinking about making up some excuse to deal with him, but he didn't ask anything, not even "Why did you transfer here?"
Yun Zhi couldn't figure out his thoughts for a while.
Xiao Yi didn't seem to care about the matter at all. He only turned around and took two steps forward, then looked back at her and said, "Let's go, Miss Ayu and Brother Pei have been waiting for you for a long time."
Yun Zhi then responded and followed.
He didn't ask, but she couldn't hide it anymore.
After walking a few steps, I started to ask him: "Who lived in that courtyard just now?"
"I don't know, that yard seems to have been abandoned for decades." Xiao Yi glanced sideways at her, and suddenly said: "I don't come back often, and I don't know many things in the village. If you want to know, You can ask my uncle."
Yun Zhi hummed and said nothing.
When they were approaching their own yard, she finally couldn't help but ask: "Why don't you ever ask me?"
Xiao Yi was startled, "What do I ask you?"
"That's...why I went to that courtyard, and...Haoran Zhai, Yushu Tower, and why I want to go to Yanguo..." Yunzhi looked at him and said doubtfully: "You are not curious about these at all. ?"
How could you not be curious? Xiao Yi smiled softly, said in a long voice, and asked her: "Then do you want to say it?"
Yun Zhi thought for a while and shook his head, "I don't want to think about it yet."
Xiao Yi pouted: "Then why should I ask?"
"..." Yun Zhi was speechless for a moment.
"Everyone has things they don't want others to know. Even if they are friends, family, or...husband and wife, they don't have to explain everything. I don't know your secret, and you don't know mine. , but this doesn’t prevent us from dating, does it?”
Xiao Yi's voice was clean and soft, his eyes fell on her face, and there was a slight smile on his lips.
The late autumn sunshine always brings warmth to people.
Yunzhi was silent for a long time, nodded, and whispered: "Thank you, Xiao Yi."
He didn't ask her why she was thanking her, he just smiled and said, "Well, when you want to talk about it one day, I'll tell you my secret too, how about it?"
Yun Zhi also laughed, his tone a little more lively, "Okay!"
After a slight pause, she added: "But you can't tell my second brother!"
Xiao Yi raised the corners of his lips slightly, "Okay!"
After making this appointment, the two smiled at each other and entered the courtyard together.
. . .
In the afternoon, Xiao Yi and Pei Shun met to play chess, and Ayu went out to meet friends.
Yunzhi stayed alone in the room, took out the diary hidden in his sleeve earlier, and read it carefully.
Before, Yunzhi had always thought that she fell into this world by accident, but after reading a few pages, she couldn't help but begin to wonder that maybe her arrival here was not an accident at all.
At the end of every page of the diary, there is almost the same sentence——
"It would be nice if Zhizhi was here too."
In fact, my sister has always been like this since she was a child. She is always the first to think of anything good. Even when she was fostered in the Pei family because of her studies, she would send messages to care about her almost every day.
My sister is living a good life here, so I always hope that she can come here. Is it possible that it is because of my sister's obsession that she really came to this world?
Yun Zhi couldn't help but his thoughts started to fly.
The diary only wrote about the day before my sister left. My sister said that she met a very gentle person at that sword appreciation conference.
She called him Ah Xuan.
Ah Xuan comes from the Qixing Island, a famous family in the world of martial arts. At this sword appreciation competition, he single-handedly defeated the top ten masters in the Three Dynasties Jianghu Record, and became famous in one battle and became the best in the world. Ah Xuan talks little and is a cold knight. When facing her alone, he is always gentle and gentle.
So, she fell.
The last sentence in the diary is "It would be great if Zhizhi was here, she would definitely be happy for me."
Yun Zhi's fingers brushed over this text, and his heart felt like insects crawling through it.
She collected the book and got up to go out.
She was going to find Xiao Rufeng, and she wanted to know what happened after that.
After turning out of the yard and walking a few steps, someone suddenly called her name from behind.
"Zhi'er?"
The voice sounded familiar. He stopped and turned around, and a familiar and delicate face appeared in front of him.
It's Lu Yunsheng.
She was wearing the white clothes of an outer disciple of Qingyi Villa, and tied her long hair behind her head with only a silver hairpin. The scholarly aura around her body had dissipated a little, and she had gained a little more chivalry.
Still haven't escaped.
Yun Zhi sighed silently in his heart and gave a stiff smile, "Sister... what a coincidence, haha..."
"It's really you!" Lu Yunsheng was surprised at first, but soon revealed an unexpected smile, and then made a surprising statement: "If I had known you would run away from marriage, I would have taken you with me."
Her expression was much more lively than when she was at Duke Anguo's mansion, and she even exuded a carefree and carefree atmosphere.
"...?" Yun Zhi was stunned for a while and said in surprise: "Are you escaping...? Were you not kidnapped?"
"Of course not!" Lu Yunsheng immediately denied it.
Yun Zhi pretended not to know that the prince was there, and only looked worried, "Then where is the prince..."
"Hush -" Lu Yunsheng heard those four words and quickly took two steps closer to Yun Zhi, lowering his voice and saying: "He is in this villa now."
Yun Zhi made a shocked expression, "You mean His Royal Highness is at Qingyi Villa now?"
Lu Yunsheng nodded, "Yes."
Yun Zhi wanted to continue to use his acting skills, but suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but frown, "Then have you met His Highness Prince Ning?"
"Prince Ning?" Lu Yunsheng showed a confused expression, then shook his head, "No, Prince Ning is not in Luozhou?"
Yun Zhi continued to frown, "He was ordered to protect the prince. Have you really never seen him?"
Lu Yunsheng was even more confused: "When I met Huan Chengxi outside the village, he was alone. He didn't even have a guard around him, let alone Prince Ning..."
Yun Zhi said oh, but began to feel nervous in his heart. If Prince Ning had not come to protect the prince, would he have returned to Luozhou? Then wouldn't her illness escape method be exposed soon? When the time comes, it will be more than just a cousin whose engagement has been broken off!
It seems that she can only put her sister's affairs aside for the time being. She has to solve the big problem of Prince Ning first!
