Chapter 154: You Have To Miss Deeply.1
The two of them stared at each other and hurriedly ran towards the cave that the Eastern Wu soldiers had just searched.
The cave wasn’t large, but it was dark, damp, and cold. Chen Ge acted quickly to make a simple torch to illuminate the whole cave, but there was nothing inside the cave that could work. There were only leaves and mud.
“The roof of the cave… the roof of the cave…” Xiao YuAn looked up at the roof of the cave, which was ford by the erosion and dissolution of groundwater, and saw that it was full of holes. So of them were higher, and so were lower. Since there weren’t any kind of light inside the cave, it was so dark that the roof looked extrely creepy.
“Yan-ge! Can you hear ? Yan-ge, are you here?!” Xiao YuAn put his hands around his mouth and started to shout loudly. His voice echoed every corner of the cave, over and over again. However, as if a stone sunking at the bottom of the sea2, no one replied.
“Physician Xiao, do you think that the words ‘roof of the cave’ written on that wooden plate an sothing else?” Chen Ge yelled as he knocked at the walls of the cave, only to end up disappointed when he found out that every wall was as solid as stone. Chen Ge then turned around to discuss this with Xiao YuAn, but saw him standing in place, quietly looking up without saying a word.
“Physician Xiao?” Chen Ge walked closer to him: “What are you… looking a-?”
Chen Ge couldn’t finish what he wanted to say, because Xiao YuAn suddenly pressed hard on his shoulders, making him squat down.
“Help go up.” Xiao YuAn firmly said as he stepped on Chen Ge’s shoulders.
Chen Ge, while exerting so strength, replied: “Physician Xiao, be careful. It’s so dark in here, that I’m afraid of making you hit your head against the roof of the cave.”
Xiao YuAn jumped up and went into a specific hole at the roof of the cave. The hole in front of him was more spacious than what he thought it would be, and since the inside of the hole was vertical, Xiao YuAn had to rely solely on the strength of his arms and feet to support himself. However, because he wasn’t careful enough, he ended up falling.
“Hey, hey, hey!” Chen Ge couldn’t react in ti, and only saw how Xiao YuAn fell heavily on the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
Xiao YuAn imdiately propped himself up, because he didn’t have the ti to check on himself. Without saying a single word, Xiao YuAn pressed Chen Ge down again and stepped on his shoulders one more ti. In the end, Chen Ge didn’t have any other choice than to help him go up the hole again. This ti, Xiao YuAn took a posture that allowed him to move bit by bit.
At that mont, Chen Ge lit up a torch with what he could find at the last minute, and held it high to help Xiao YuAn see what was inside the hole: “Physician Xiao, be careful. It’s too dark to see clearly. What if there’s a stone wall at the end of the hole? Won’t you end up hitting your head?”
However, after a while passed, Chen Ge could barely see Xiao YuAn’s ankles, until he suddenly heard Xiao YuAn express an ‘ah!’, followed by Xiao YuAn disappearing from sight.
“Physician Xiao! Owowowowaahh where are you?! This is awful! Can you hear ?! Answer ahhh!!” Chen Ge, who held the torch as high as he could, began to swing it back and forth, while he kept on stubbornly staring at the hole, not daring to move his eyes away.
“I can hear you! I’m not deaf!” Xiao YuAn’s voice suddenly ca from the depths of the hole, across the stone wall, sounding distant and hollow: “Chen Ge, since you’re there, you have to catch him….”
Chen Ge replied confused: “Catch… catch what?”
He soon discovered what Xiao YuAn ant when he heard a sound coming from the hole and saw a pair of feet appearing at the entrance of the hole. Such a scene was so bizarre that Chen Ge blurted out ‘oh for my mother-’, and then the torch in his hand fell on the ground, as he raised his hands to catch the man coming out of the roof of the cave. Since Xiao YuAn wasn’t able to hold on any longer, when Chen Ge finally caught that person, his weight instantly caught Chen Ge off guard as he fell on the ground, ending up acting as a human cushion.
“Ouch! Ah mother, it hurts! It hurts!” Chen Ge subconsciously reached out to push that person away from him, but when he saw who it was, he suddenly froze and stared at him wide eyed: “Your Majesty?!”
As soon as he said this, Xiao YuAn fell down from the roof. He fell so heavily, that he ended up rolling twice on the ground. However, he couldn’t care less whether he was hurt or not. He simply turned over and grabbed the man, who had just fallen on top of Chen Ge, into his arms.
Xiao YuAn’s hands were shaking as he held that man tightly. He was so lost in thought, that he murmured sothing a few tis. Then he took a deep breath to force himself to calm down, lowered his head, and gently kissed Yan HeQing’s closed eyes and cold lips: “Yan-ge, it’s , can you hear ? I’ve found you. I’ve finally found you.”
Finally!!! YHQ is in XYA’s arms ♡✧( ु•⌄• )!!
Also, wasn’t it extrely cute how CG kept worrying that XYA would hit his head against a wall by accident? XD
Footnotes
也得姮娥念我痴 yě de héng é niàn wǒ chī; A sentence from the poem《南乡子·戊申秋隽喜晤故人》written by (高鹗 gāo è) Gao E [1738-1815] from the Qing Dynasty [1644-1911]. This poem was written in the Autumn of the 53th year of Emperor Qianlong’s reign, when Gao E had successfully passed the Imperial Examinations in Shuntian County, so he was able to reunite with his lover again after a long ti being apart from each other. The poem reveals his sincere happiness and is written with love and tenderness.石沉大海 shí chén dà hǎi; It’s a Chinese idiom. It ans that when a stone is thrown into the sea, it will sink, and will never be found again. It’s used as a taphor for ‘never being heard of again’. From《西厢记》(xī xiāng jì) “Romance of the West Chamber”, written by (王实甫 wáng shí fǔ) Wang Shifu [1295-1307], from the Yuan or Mongol Dynasty [1279-1368].
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