Yi Yuan didn't say anything more.
He just stared at Yun Xi, who was unconscious on the couch.
He was more than willing to repay this debt, but... would his little Xi be willing to accept it?
Yun Xi had no idea what was going on outside. She felt like she had had a very, very long dream.
In the dream, she was a chubby little baby, running around behind Yun Qi and giggling in Liu Jingyue's arms. But in a flash, she was in the hands of a strange and eerie man. He tapped on her chubby, lotus-root-like arm, and a red mole immediately appeared on it.
Little Yun Xi was very scared. She wanted to call for her mother but somehow couldn't utter a single word. She could only cry and struggle desperately.
In the dream, there was a little boy who looked like the young acolyte sitting beside the Goddess of Mercy, but his expression was very serious. He saw her.
The boy, who seemed to be about the same age as her brother, suddenly rushed over, grabbed her, and shouted:
"Brother! This is a child-stealer! He's trying to kidnap this little girl. Quick, catch him!"
Behind the little boy appeared an older brother, looking majestic with a sword taller than himself in his hand. He led a lot of people like guards and drove away the strange man.
Tearful Yun Xi stopped crying stupidly and let out a "wow" with her mouth wide open.
The little boy who had grabbed her smiled immediately. The boy said:
"That's my brother. His name is Yi Zhuo. Isn't he amazing?"
Little Yun Xi nodded. Then she tugged at the boy's sleeve and said defiantly:
"My... my brother is amazing too. It's just that... he's not as old as your big brother yet. So... so..."
Yun Xi didn't finish her "so" because suddenly she disappeared. Her brother and mother came looking for her, calling out.
The little boy let go of her chubby little arm and said:
"Your mother is here to find you. Go quickly. Don't make them worry."
Yun Xi said "um" and said "thank you" before running towards her mother. But after running just two steps, she stopped, turned her round little head, and asked him:
"By the way, your brother's name is Yi Zhuo. What's your name? Mother always says that one should repay kindness. You saved me. I want to repay you."
The boy waved his hand and smiled extremely nicely:
"No need, no need. It's just a piece of cake. Just call me Brother Yi Yuan. Go quickly, go quickly. Don't run around next time."
Little Yun Xi really wanted to say that she hadn't run around. It was that man who had suddenly grabbed her. She was too weak to struggle free.
But before she could say anything, the little boy had already left with his big brother.
Yun Xi pouted, feeling wronged.
"Brother Yi Yuan..." Yun Xi thought, "He wronged me. I won't recognize him as my brother. But he saved me. I still have to remember his name. Otherwise, how can I repay his kindness?"
As little Yun Xi was thinking, Yun Qi rushed over and hugged her tightly, his eyes teary:
"Woo... Little Xi, I finally found you! Woo... Brother will never leave you alone while looking at weapons again..."
"It's all brother's fault. No! It's all that little girl named Qiao. Such a little girl insisting on competing with me, a real man, for a dagger. It made brother forget about you... Ouch!"
Before Yun Qi could finish his words, his beautiful mother slapped him on the head:
"You, a real man, competing with a little girl for something and still thinking you're in the right!? You almost lost your own sister. Just wait till we get home and see how I'll deal with you!"
Then she quickly pulled Yun Xi into her arms like a precious treasure, checked her carefully, hugged her again and again, and then calmly left while holding Yun Qi's ear.
Yun Qi, in pain, shouted: "I'll never get close to any little girl named Qiao again!"
Little Yun Xi hugged Liu Jingyue's neck and laughed happily.
But as she was laughing, the houses and streets suddenly changed. Yun Xi was in the arms of an old, kind-looking grandpa with white hair and a long beard.
The grandpa smiled and looked at the red mole on her arm. He said that she had a disaster on her and must leave the Yun family and her parents immediately.
Then there was a scene of traveling.
But as she was traveling, somehow she was in the hands of that strange man who had put the red mole on her again.
The man's expression was very terrifying. He said:
"Humph - Let's see where you can run this time!"
"If it weren't for those two brats meddling last time, making me get discovered by that old man Qing Yi, I should have taken you away on the street then. How could there have been such a big mishap! Now it's good. Qing Yi couldn't solve my thing so he sealed it. I still have to find an unlucky guy to transfer this thing away!"
Little Yun Xi didn't understand what he meant. But in her memory, when she got lost, there were indeed two people who had saved her. Their names were...
Um... what were they?
She remembered that the names were very, very important, but she just couldn't remember them.
She was so stupid.
Little Yun Xi thought dejectedly.
If her parents and brother knew, they would surely laugh at her. Especially her brother...
But what were the names of her parents and brother again?
She couldn't even remember their appearances clearly.
Little Yun Xi was sad for a long time.
Until that strange man brought her "mother".
That "mother" said:
"You don't have a brother. You have a twin sister. Oh, and a younger brother."
"Remember, don't get it wrong. Otherwise, don't blame me for not wanting you."
Little Yun Xi was very scared and uneasy. But she couldn't remember what her mother looked like, couldn't figure out if she really didn't have a brother, and even forgot who she was.
So she could only timidly walk to that "mother" and obediently reply:
"Okay, mother. Little Xi knows. Mother, don't not want me."
That mother seemed very happy at first, but then suddenly unhappy. She asked her:
"Little Xi? You still remember your name is Little Xi?"
Little Yun Xi was also stunned.
She didn't know if her name was Little Xi. She just remembered that someone had called her that, so she just blurted it out.
But actually, she vaguely remembered that if it was her mother, she seemed to call her "Yingying"?
Could it be that because she had remembered the name wrong, "mother" was unhappy?
Little Yun Xi was a bit panicked. Just as she was about to explain, that "mother" had already turned around to talk to the strange man.
The two of them didn't know what they were saying. After a while, the "mother" became much kinder and told her that her name was:
Ye Xi.
Oh, so her name was Ye Xi.
Little Yun Xi nodded, but for some reason, she always thought of the name "Yingying" in her heart.
They didn't know why they didn't go home. Instead, they temporarily stayed in a nunnery in this small town.
Her "mother" went out every day, saying that she was looking for someone.
But she never let her follow, just saying that she was afraid she would get lost.
Little Yun Xi waited and waited. Finally, one evening, she chased a little rabbit down the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, there was a very beautiful and fragrant big house. Little Yun Xi had never seen such a house before. There were many people standing on it, wearing colorful clothes.
In the dream, she subconsciously walked over.
But before she got close, she heard angry scolding sounds of "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" coming from a small alley.
Little as she was, she didn't know why she ran over. She saw two or three adults bullying a very handsome little brother.
She didn't remember ever seeing such a good-looking little brother before. But for some reason, she always felt that she had seen a little boy who was about the same as him and who laughed even better than the young acolyte beside the Goddess of Mercy.
So she clumsily picked up a thick short bamboo pole beside her, shouted that there was a fire, and rushed over, hitting randomly.
Little Yun Xi thought she was very brave, just like what a tall and mighty man in the depths of her mind had always said.
But actually, little as she was, she didn't have much deterrence at all. In the end, it was the person left by her "mother" to watch over her who found her and saved both of them.
When they were about to leave, that handsome little brother whose clothes were torn into rags asked her:
"What's... your name?"
"Yingying."
In the dream, she said so.
She wanted someone to help her remember this name. For no reason, she wanted to remember this name because she found that she was about to forget it too.
Little Yun Xi knew that he had seriously remembered it.
Because one evening, she met him again in the nunnery.
He was standing by the well at that time, as if he was about to jump down.
In the dream, she didn't even think and rushed up to hug him:
"Pretty brother, don't die!"
The pretty brother immediately recognized her voice:
"Yingying?"
Little Yun Xi was very happy, happy that he didn't jump down, happy that he remembered her name.
But the pretty brother was not happy. He said that he was dirty, that he didn't want to live in this world anymore, and that he thought life was so bitter.
So she took out her last piece of candy like offering a treasure and stuffed it into his hand. Then she wiped the dirt off his face with her sleeve and comforted him in the way she remembered a very mighty man talking. She told him:
"Go learn kung fu. As long as your kung fu is good enough, no one will dare to bully you again."
"Kung fu?"
The handsome little brother's eyes lit up:
"Why didn't I think of that? It's really a good idea. Yingying, how did you, such a little girl, come up with this?"
She didn't know either.
Little Yun Xi grinned. She seemed to have heard someone say this to another naughty boy.
But... she couldn't remember who it was.
After that, she became good friends with that handsome brother. But he never told her his name. He always said that the name was not good, that he didn't like it, and that he just wanted to hear her call him "Pretty Brother".
Little Yun Xi in the dream thought it was okay too, just like she liked him calling her "Yingying".
But as time went by, little Yun Xi in the nunnery didn't know when she came to the capital. She forgot about the "Pretty Brother" in that small town and also forgot that she had a name called "Yingying".
She only remembered that her name was Ye Xi, the second legitimate daughter of the Ye family - Ye Xi.
After that, the scenes in the dream were chaotic and complicated. Sometimes it was Ye Jueyao gently pinching her face with a tender look on her face, but the jealousy and unhappiness in her eyes flashed by quickly. She said:
"Sister should dress like this from now on. It's the most beautiful..."
Sometimes it was herself suddenly finding Ye Yudong peeping through the window when she was taking a bath. She was so scared that she screamed, but it only invited a scolding from Qian Fangxue. Sometimes it changed to Cao Sheng, looking at her coldly and disgustedly, saying:
"As a woman, one should be virtuous, gentle, and self - respecting. How could you come and invite me to go out with you on the Qixi Festival by yourself? You're really shameless. If there's a next time, I'll break off the engagement!"
Yun Xi was very confused.
He was her betrothed husband, but he thought her closeness was "shameful".
It seemed like there was a heavy weight pressing on her heart, and countless ropes were growing inside, binding her tightly. She couldn't break free or escape.
Yun Xi gasped for breath, as if a fish about to drown.
Save... save me...
A Yuan.
Suddenly, several bright white lights came through the wind, cutting off the ropes that were tightly binding her like tentacles and tearing apart the overlapping figures.
Someone with a straight figure, holding a sword, stepped on the air and came. His clothes fluttered in the wind. He firmly grabbed her hand and said:
"Little Xi... my wife..."
His cold and frost - like eyebrows overlapped with those of a little serious boy and clearly appeared in front of Yun Xi.
"... Call me Brother Yi Yuan..."
Yi Yuan!
Yun Xi on the couch suddenly opened her eyes.
The dancing shadows of the trees on the window frame were dimly cast on the bedside through the hot sunlight. The intermittent chirping of birds echoed in the spacious bedroom.
The long - forgotten memories of her childhood came flooding back, mixed with what had happened recently.
So it turned out that she and Shen Zhou had indeed known each other a long time ago.
Even earlier than that, they had met in their childhood...
A Yuan.
The door "creaked" and opened. Saixing was talking to Lingyan while carefully carrying a copper basin in.
The next moment, the copper basin "clanged" to the ground, splashing water everywhere.
Lingyan outside "swished" into the room. Her hand on the sword scabbard froze in place.
Yun Xi curved her lips. The hand supporting her body trembled slightly:
"What are you two standing there for? Your lady can hardly hold on anymore. Come and help me."
"Miss -"
Saixing's tears welled up immediately:
"You're finally awake! You're finally awake, woo... Quick, someone, someone! Miss is awake! Miss is awake!"
The quiet backyard suddenly became lively.
Several maids rushed in from outside. Seeing Yun Xi lazily leaning against the head of the bed, they all ran out excitedly. As they ran, they shouted:
"Miss is awake! Miss is awake!"
The shouts showed no sign of the usual proper upbringing. They all seemed not afraid of being beaten.
Yun Xi was a bit confused.
Before she could ask the reason, Liu Jingyue outside rushed in like a gust of wind. She hugged Yun Xi tightly, crying and laughing. She didn't look like the calm and dignified mistress of the family at all.
After everyone had cried for a while and finally managed to calm down their emotions, Yun Xi then found out that when she had fallen into a coma because of the Mind - Reading Gu back then, it was still early spring, but now it was midsummer.
Lan Chu had said that she would sleep for a relatively long time, but no one had known it would be this long.
Almost everyone was worried, worried that she would just keep sleeping like this and never wake up.
Zongzheng Fengyi had already been sent back to the Ying State. Xie Huaiyue had long been executed.
After the war, Yun Weisheng and Yun Qi had almost completely eradicated the spies in the army. The entire Shen family had been executed and no one had come to collect their corpses. Only Concubine Shen had been temporarily spared because she didn't know the truth and had to take care of the crazy Yi Zhen. They had been expelled from the palace together. And Shen Zhou's body had been buried in a well - chosen burial ground by Yi Yuan.
Because Hun Yuan had brought Lian Yi and timely rescued the poisoned common people and soldiers, everyone had now recovered. The common people praised them highly and trusted Lian Yi and Hun Yuan even more.
The Emperor Zhaohuan had kept Yi Yuan's background a secret. Not many people knew about it. On the surface, the two still pretended to be brothers. The Holy Master was dead. Yi Yuan already knew everything and could protect himself well. Lan Chu had fulfilled his wish. He left the palace and went to see the beautiful scenery of the world on behalf of the late Concubine Qing.
The summer was scorching hot. The new improved rice seeds developed by the Grand Minister of Agriculture in the paddy fields were already a lush green. The common people all said that this year would surely be a prosperous year.
Everything was developing in a good direction.
And Yun Xi, after a long coma, had finally woken up.
As Liu Jingyue was talking, Yun Weisheng and Yun Qi, who had just received the news on their way back from inspecting the military camp, immediately rushed back on their horses.
As soon as they saw the awake and smiling Yun Xi, the father - son duo's eyes turned red.
Then Qiao Yan and Liu Mengxian, who had just gone out and planned to come and see Yun Xi together, almost drove the carriage to pieces and rushed over at the fastest speed when they heard the news.
And Yi Yuan, who was still discussing matters in the palace, didn't even wait for Mian Xiao to finish saying "The Second Miss is awake". He was already at the door. He directly left all his colleagues, ministers, and even the Emperor Zhaohuan behind, not even having time to say "I take my leave".
When he arrived, Yun Xi was just comforting a bunch of crying people in the room. She looked up and saw the tall and big Yi Yuan standing at the door, slightly out of breath. His clear and cold eyebrows still vaguely showed the shadow of that little boy in his childhood.
Yun Xi stretched out her hand towards him and called him with a smiling face:
"Brother Yi Yuan."
After suffering comes happiness. Everything turns out well.
After Hun Yuan's divination, Yun Xi and Yun Qi's weddings were set on the same day.
By this time, Yun Xi was in good health and the summer heat was gradually subsiding.
The festive suona and firecrackers resounded through half of the capital. The Emperor Zhaohuan, Hun Yuan, and Lian Yi all came to congratulate. The servants and maids who were distributing happy cakes and copper coins were beaming with joy, attracting the common people to watch. Almost half of the capital was empty.
At the door of