Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 222 Fear
When Xu Yishan pointed at Ying Baoyue at the star observation platform of Jixia Academy and said those words, no one knew that there was also a dark tide raging in another place.

New waves are coming.

Half an hour ago.

It was raining heavily, and just as the opening ceremony of the Upper Fourth Palace in Shangjixia Academy Palace on Zihua Mountain was involved in an unexpected turmoil, the Nanchu National Teacher's Mansion returned to tranquility.

But just under the silence, there is an unusual undercurrent.

Some people have noticed it, but some haven't.

In Qing'an Courtyard, Ji Qingyuan came back after listening to the report of the person left by his mother every day, and stepped out of the threshold of the East Courtyard like countless mornings, but unlike the previous mornings, he saw his fellow sister sitting quietly on the porch.

This scene was not uncommon, and Ji Ange's demeanor was still as quiet and elegant as he had been used to since he was a child, and he couldn't find any faults, just like a perfect and dignified young lady.

He quietly stopped in front of his sister's courtyard, staring at the girl who was dazed in the corridor.

Ji Ange's expression was calm, even the maid serving behind her didn't notice anything was wrong, she just seemed to be in a daze.

But Ji Qingyuan didn't think so.

"Eldest son?" Ji San, who was following behind him, noticed his pause, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?"

"Miss, something is wrong." Ji Qingyuan said lightly.

"What's wrong?" Ji San looked at Ji Ange, who was doing everything as usual. Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out. The next moment Ji Qingyuan ordered lightly, "Stay here and watch, I'll go in and take a look."

After speaking, Ji Qingyuan sighed in his heart, and walked into the west courtyard of Qing'an Yuan. He and Ji Ange had a very close relationship, and he often came to this courtyard. It didn't look any different from the past ten years or so.

However, the next moment Ji Qingyuan looked around for a moment, the young man's heart felt cold, and his eyes closed.

It was only then that Ji Ange, who was usually keen, reacted.

"Brother, why are you here?" Ji Ange's eyes, which seemed to be looking at something, gradually focused, and he suddenly got up and saluted his brother.

Ji Qingyuan withdrew his gaze, looked at his sister who was standing quietly not far away, sighed again from the bottom of his heart, and spoke quietly.

"Because you look distraught."

"Desperate?" Ji Ange was taken aback, subconsciously raised her hand to touch her face, turned her head to look at the bewildered servant girl, and smiled softly at the elder brother opposite.

"It's always only you who can see it."

Ji Qingyuan stared at her concisely, "What happened?"

Ji Ange was taken aback, and before she could answer, the elder brother in front of him said calmly, "I heard that you went to Jiashu's courtyard with her yesterday morning."

It is self-evident who this "she" is.

Ji Ange took a deep breath and nodded.The eldest brother is trapped in one place but his hands and eyes are open to the sky, she is not surprised that he knows.

Ji Qingyuan frowned upon hearing this, and looked deeply at Ji Ange, "Then where is she now?"

"Huh? Brother, you don't know?" Ji Ange was taken aback, then took a deep breath, "She has already left."

Ji Qingyuan nodded, and got his sister's affirmation. He recalled the rumors he had just heard, "Is it... sending her guard to participate in the screening of the fourth palace?"

Ji Ange nodded, and Ji Qingyuan looked at her and asked tentatively, "You see that she can go out, do you want to go out too?"

Ji Ange was taken aback when she heard the words, but the next time she looked at her elder brother with a complicated expression, she hesitated for a long time, and finally felt that she should confess to her elder brother.

Even if everything is her guess.

"You seem to want to say something to me," Ji Qingyuan said quietly, looking at his younger sister's violently shaking eyes.

Ji Ange's shoulders trembled, watching his brother with a firm face clenched his lips, and finally said those words.

"Brother, she may...not just send the guards to participate in the screening of the fourth palace."

Ji Qingyuan's pupils shrank when he heard this, and he stared closely at Ji Ange's eyes.

"What did you find?"

"No," the man's voice paused, and he closed his eyes. For no reason, Ji Qingyuan suddenly saw the starry sky he had seen when he was eight years old.The man quietly opened his eyes and looked at his sister, "Did she say anything to you?"

Ji Ange's heart trembled violently. She thought of the scars on the woman's body under the candlelight, and the words she thought she would laugh at in disapproval, but at this moment she looked at Ji Qingyuan and spoke quietly.

"She told me that she wanted to participate in the primary ceremony."

As a woman, a concubine princess, that person wants to participate in the primary ceremony.

Ji Ange originally thought that as a normal Southern Chu person, she would not be able to take this seriously, but only now did she realize that she actually subconsciously thought that woman would really do this.

Otherwise, she would not have such doubts at this time.

Ji Qingyuan looked into Ji Ange's eyes, and expressed her doubts for her, "Do you think that woman will also participate in the screening of the fourth palace?"

Ji Ange clenched her fists and nodded with difficulty, "Brother, I know you must think I'm being stupid, but..."

"No, I think what you guessed might actually happen." However, Ji Ange didn't expect that Ji Qingyuan not only didn't laugh at her, but his eyes became complicated the next moment.

Maybe the world thinks it is impossible, but there is nothing impossible in this world.

Ji Qingyuan suddenly gave a wry smile.

At least he had seen, and there had been such a bold woman in this world.

"Brother?" Ji Ange didn't know why, but felt that his elder brother's eyes were a little strange at this time, and he couldn't express his nostalgia.

"If that's the case, what are you doing sitting here?" Ji Qingyuan looked at her with more complicated eyes, "Do you want to go together?"

Ji Ange was shocked again. The reason why she was sitting here was because she couldn't forget the look in the woman's eyes when she left this morning.

The girl strode towards the threshold like that, and suddenly turned around to look at her at the door.

"An Ge, let's go together."

An Ge, let's go together.

Go, where are you going?go outside?Go to Jixia Academy?Go to the world of practitioners?

Ji Ange didn't know what she was thinking at that time, she only knew that at that moment, she had never felt panic and fear.

Listening to his sister's words, Ji Qingyuan's mood became more and more complicated. He looked at Ji Ange, took a deep breath, smiled at him and said.

"Brother, I refuse."

Ji Qingyuan looked at the mask-like smile on his sister's face, fell silent for a while, and then spoke quietly.

"Why? If it's my father's ban, and my father is not at home, I can find a way if you want to go out. Why do you..."

"Brother," Ji Ange interrupted him, staring deeply into his elder brother's eyes.

Then she paused word by word.

"I am afraid."

Ji Qingyuan was taken aback.

Just listen to the younger sister in front of her continue talking.

"I'm afraid." Ji Ange said frankly, "I'm afraid of going to Jixia Academy as a woman."

"Brother, you may have never experienced such a feeling." The girl said lightly.

"If ten people in this world oppose you, people may feel that what they did was wrong."

"So what about hundreds of people? Thousands of people?"

She really didn't know how to face it.

Since she was a child, she has only been told that it is wrong to do this and that is wrong, and it is right for her to do nothing.

The girl's smile was lonely, bitter and full of disgust, and Ji Ange spoke quietly as if vomiting poison.

"Brother, I can't even resist my father, how can I face accusations?"

Ji Qingyuan's heart felt as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer. He looked at his sister who was clenching her teeth and trembling slightly, and was about to speak, when there was suddenly the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door.

Ji San rushed into the door, looked at Ji Qingyuan and said, "Eldest son, something happened, the second son asked you and miss to go there!"

(End of this chapter)