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Chapter 125 125%
Chapter 125 125%
Many fragmented pictures flashed in his mind, like an illusory moon floating on the water, and like a treasure buried in a desperate situation.
Ji Qingzhuo stood at the bottom of the well, she heard Shen Rongyu's chaotic breathing, she held up her umbrella and came to him.
When she approached him, Shen Rongyu suddenly held her hand, his palm was warm, and his wrist was scorching hot.
Ji Qingzhuo felt his tightly pursed thin lips and slightly frowned eyebrows, but she opened her eyes and couldn't see anything.
"Xiaoyu?" Ji Qingzhuo called to him.
Shen Rongyu raised her chin and looked at her eyes. Her eyes were moist but dull, like beautiful black and white jade.
He remembered that the last time he seemed to remember something, it was also after he looked at her, but the memories that were about to flood up still failed to piece together a complete picture.
Ji Qingzhuo didn't know what happened, she blinked, her long eyelashes fell, and she said, "Xiaoyu, do you want to take a rest first."
Shen Rongyu said hello, he thought, returning to a familiar place, he might be able to trigger his memory again.
He remembered that he had lived very hard and very hard before, so hard that he didn't want to remember these things, but... he was so young and young at that time, how did he come by himself?
Shen Rongyu always felt that he couldn't get to where he is now, but... But if there is no Ji Qingzhuo now, he should be alone now, with no one to accompany him.
What has he lost?
Shen Rongyu led Ji Qingzhuo into the room. In the center of the dilapidated house where he had lived for 20 years, there was a familiar big box. The opening of the box was open, and a few moths flew away. Sprinkle all the way crystal powder.
He walked up and opened the big box like a ghost. At the top of the box, there was an old travel journal, a version from more than a hundred years ago.
Shen Rongyu opened this travel journal, and he noticed the folded page at a glance. On the folded page, it seemed that there was an error in the binding, and the illustrations on a whole page were upside down. On the upside-down page, Shen Rongyu saw the familiar handwriting.
"Flying birds have scales, and swimming fish have wings."
"Zakuzuo said yes, you want to go to the beach with me."
Shen Rongyu clutched the page, turned around again, and looked at Ji Qingzhuo, who was standing at the door collecting an umbrella.
He looked at her and locked her with his eyes, as if afraid that she would disappear from his eyes.
Shen Rongyu strode up, he hugged her and asked her a question: "Zuo Zhuo, are you for real?"
Memories surged, and Shen Rongyu's thoughts fell on what his mother said when she took away this travel journal.
"Shen Rongyu, are you crazy? There are no palace servants in this cold palace. Even if there are, there will be no one named Zhuo Zhuo."
"You should have died in the beginning, but now you look so crazy, like a lunatic in the market."
"If you don't think about this person, from the beginning to the end, there will be none."
The former queen still retains her majesty, she said so to Shen Rongyu in an imperative tone.
Zhuo Zhuo, where did it come from?
Shen Rongyu also felt that she was crazy. Maybe she was just his fantasy. He was so humble and small, how could anyone notice him?
He remembered the night he first met Takuto.
Shen Rongyu has been in the cold palace since she was born. Although the former queen did not hurt her life due to the jump on the tower, her behavior with another man outside the palace was exposed, not only the former queen's status was lost, but also the loss of her status. Shen Rongyu's existence was also questioned.
Rong Yu, originally a very nice name, placed the expectations of his parents on him, but his own cognition is not wrong, his existence is wrong, the former queen's mother family is powerful, and since the marriage, the emperor and the queen respect each other like a guest However, the appearance is inseparable, and the emperor of the Dongshan royal family spent several years slowly eroding the power of the queen's mother's family. When he can completely control the line of the queen's mother's family, it is the end of the rabbit.
The former queen is a very romantic person. She has been the eldest lady of an aristocratic family since she was a child, and she was born beautiful. She is the number one beauty in Yun Zeyu. Most of Shen Rongyu's handsome skin comes from her inheritance. The former queen was ignorant of politics, and married someone she didn't love. She didn't want him to be born when she had a child. Such behavior became the last straw that crushed her mother's family, and was finally demoted to the cold palace, where she spent her life discussing .
When Shen Rongyu saw the first ray of light in the world, he was facing such a world, a small yard, encircling his range of activities, and he would be trapped here for the rest of his life.
The former queen had never seen him in the future, and no palace servant was willing to talk to him. From the moment of his consciousness, he was alone.
He lived so hard that he had no hope of surviving very early. On his ninth birthday, it was summer, and fireflies were lit up. He was wearing shabby clothes and sat in the yard watching the fireflies.
Shen Rongyu didn't know what to do. His daily life was so boring and hopeless. He rushed at the firefly, walked through the grass, and came to the outside of the small courtyard. The courtyard wall of this cold palace was so broken that it collapsed. Covered by lush vegetation, no one came to repair it.
There seemed to be something important in the palace, so there was no palace guard who stopped him. Shen Rongyu walked out smoothly. He didn't know how to go back after leaving the courtyard for the first time, like a lost lamb.
He could only follow the light and dancing fireflies on the road, walking and walking, leaving the dark place of the cold palace, and gradually walking towards the brightly lit place in the palace.
Coincidentally, the major event in the palace today is that the emperor of the Dongshan royal family will celebrate the fifth birthday for the princess born to the new queen. On the same day in different years, two people with the same blood flow came to this world one after another, but , one is surrounded by the splendid palace, and the other is lost in the wild grass and firefly.
Shen Rongyu didn't know where to go, but in a panic, he broke into the vicinity of the main hall and walked forward from the dark corridor. The fireflies disappeared, because the lights in front of him were brighter than the glowing insects.
He saw the scenery he had never seen before. In the bright palace, there were countless palace people and ministers surrounding the three people in the center. They were the emperor of the Dongshan royal family—his father, and the new queen, with whom they had just five year-old daughter.
Shen Rongyu didn't know what happened, but he was very embarrassed at that time. His face was full of dirt. When he got through the grass, the sharp edge of the blade cut his cheeks open. The clothes he was wearing were also shabby. like a little beggar.
The little princess in the hall had never seen such a terrifying person before. She cried at the first sight of him. The emperor did not recognize him, and only ordered him to be dragged down for execution. The emperor whispered a few words, and in the end, the self-proclaimed benevolent emperor just gave him fifty big boards according to the rules of colliding with the nobles.
If these fifty sticks are knocked down, people will be disabled even if they don’t die, but the Emperor Dongshan doesn’t care. He has never admitted the existence of Shen Rongyu, and letting him die in such a logical way can be considered as fulfilling his wish— In his eyes, Shen Rongyu is an evil species with unknown bloodline.
After he gave the order, he turned around and teased the little princess in the arms of the new queen. She was born Yuxue cute, and the tears that Shen Rongyu was frightened just now were wiped away by the palace servants. She pointed at Shen Rongyu and used immature The voice said: "Fifty..."
The punishment of these fifty sticks naturally fell. No one pleaded for him, and no one blocked him. Even when he was dragged back to the cold palace, the palace servants just threw him at the gate of the courtyard.
If he wanted to rest and recuperate, he had to crawl back into bed by himself. Even if he lay for several months with such a serious injury, he might not be able to recover.
However, what did he do wrong, except that he chased the firefly away.
Shen Rongyu was in severe pain all over his body. He felt that his bones were broken and he would not be able to move for the rest of his life. He was only a nine-year-old child.
He couldn't stand up, so he could only reluctantly crawl into the yard, but... Shen Rongyu is not a fool, just when he was listening to the palace servant, he knew that it was his father who ordered him to punish... So he also has dear ones.
Shen Rongyu didn't understand, but he was just a little tired.
He didn't climb back to the room to rest and recuperate, to bet on the possibility that he could survive. There was a deep well in the courtyard. He thought that if he fell, he might not be able to climb up again.
The red dust is hot like purgatory. He has only been here for nine years, and he doesn't want to stay any longer. A moment of pain is more decisive than a long torment.
Everyone doesn't want him to live, so what is the need for him to live?
A child so young is not enough to sustain all this.
At this time, it was the summer night, and the water in the well was blown by the wind, causing faint ripples. The well water was clear and cold, reflecting the moon in the sky, like a mirror.
Shen Rongyu looked at the moon in the well, the moonlight was bright, but it was cold to the bone. The rippling well water has a fresh breath.
With all his strength, he moved himself to the edge of the well. He stuck out his upper body and looked at the moon reflected on the water.
This moon is not perfect, it is a little thin, but it is very beautiful. Shen Rongyu clearly knows that the moon reflected on the water is fake.
He stretched out his hand and moved the water, the ripples swayed and the moon twisted.
This is the most beautiful place in this little world, but... now he wants to destroy this beautiful corner with his own body.
Shen Rongyu lay on the side of the well, gasping for breath. The reason why he didn't continue to move was that he had no strength. Now he has regained his strength, and only barely supported his upper body, so that half of his body reached into the well.
This is a deep, deep despair, and he will lose even the will to live.
Just before it was about to fall, he stretched out his hand and touched the moon in the water again.
Beautiful things are like water moon mirror flowers, if you reach out and touch them, they will be twisted and broken.
But this time, Shen Rongyu was convinced that he had touched something. His hand reached into the water, touched the bottom of the water, and picked up a small mirror that had been covered in dust for a long time.
In the mirror, there is a pair of eyes, as bright and clear as the moonlight, like an ignorant little beast in the mountain forest. Tears filled her eyes, reflecting the moonlight.
In the deepest despair, in the moments before death.
He reached out and tried to touch the moon in the water.
So he caught the moon.