C211 (2/2)
Once she reached the west side of the city, she started to wait.
Linglong did not come out. She stood alone under the jujube tree at the corner of the city, waiting in silence.
The night was very quiet, not even the wind blew. She looked around, and after counting the words on the signboard seven or eight times, she looked up at the sky in boredom.
The beautiful Milky Way was extremely beautiful in the sky. Because of the shine of the starlight, the dark night turned into a deep purple curtain that was extremely enchanting.
”Cowherd, weaver …” She muttered softly, and thought of every night before, when she would raise her head and look at the Milky Way in Qing Moyan's embrace, and sing that ancient little song, ”Dian Qiao Xian”.
Blinking her eyes, she looked at Yin He and started to hum softly.
”Twin stars on a bright night; plow lazily weave; should be envied by the fairies... Juan Yueyue's eyebrows knitted together, feeling even more helpless as she watched her Aunt Feng blow away the rain … ”Meeting hastily and fighting to avoid meeting each other …”
”Let's part ways …” Suddenly, a man's voice came from behind Bai Ruyue, as he sang out the melody, ”New love is always more complicated than old age, it's even more interesting now … ”New worries go home …”
”Prince?” Bai Ruyue looked at the man who appeared behind her in shock. She didn't think that Liu Li still hadn't come out, and that the one who came out was a prince. She also didn't think that he would actually know this tune and sing along with her …
”How did you know how to sing this song?” The Duke tilted his head and looked at Bai Ruyue.
”Uh, from master.”
This song was too old, she really didn't know if people would still sing it now, so she could only push it onto the black-clothed person's body.
The Prince looked at her for a moment. ”Why do you want to sing this song?”
”Boring, looking at the Milky Way, I just, just think of the master singing, just, blind, just sing!” Bai Ruyue made up a reason, and the prince tilted his head:
”This song is about love and love. It is about love between men and women. Don't you have no thoughts about love between men and women? Why are you still singing? ”
Bai Ruyue blinked her eyes, ”When I sing, I don't think so much!”
”Is that so?” The Prince sized her up before raising his hand to grab her arm. He then brought her into the forest with two leaps.
”Did you take your oath seriously yesterday?”
The Duke's words stunned Bai Ruyue for a moment, then she nodded: ”Of course it's true!”
”Alright, then you must remember your oath!” The prince stretched out his hand, ”Come, the last and most important part!”
Bai Ruyue took a deep breath and placed her hand on it.
The moment she entered, she discovered that it was not a familiar pillar of light, nor was it the environment of the five places she had seen before. Instead, she was standing at the side of a pavilion, looking around, and everything she was familiar with, was the courtyard of the Violet Bamboo Garden!
”Let's begin!” The prince walked out from the hall behind her. He was dressed in his usual outrageous black clothes and lazily sat by her side.
Bai Ruyue looked at him, ”Your Highness? Why are you here? ”What's going on?”
”I have already shown you the difficulty of the medicinal pill maze. I let you familiarize yourself with these things first so that you could win the flag and preserve your Cloud Sea Division, but I actually need you to do two things for me in this maze.”
”Which two things?”
”Take something. Put something in it.” The Duke said as he looked at Bai Ruyue, ”However, this is a challenge for you. You must enter the third floor, which is … ”The advanced apothecary level.”