The time that Yi Xun and Li Hongye knew each other was not long for a monk with a life span of more than a hundred years, but it was half a lifetime for a mortal.
At that time, Li Hongye was still a young prince, but he was said to be a prince because he was born without spiritual roots, and he was inferior to ordinary children. In the Eastern Capital, demon cultivators occupy most of the country, not to mention that everyone can cultivate, at least in the Li royal family with several demon lords, every child is a seed of cultivation. In this way, Li Hongye's soulless root is very conspicuous.
What is the devil? Those who do whatever they want, respect the strong. This is the case in all corners of the world, and even more so in the royal family.
The royal family is ruthless, and the emperor has countless harems. Li Hongye's father has more than a dozen children, and several of them are surprisingly rooted. Even if he dies, he will not attract the attention of his father. His mother-in-law is like almost every harem woman, a tool to climb up the children's flesh and blood. There is no possibility that he will become stronger, even if he is excellent, there is no possibility of winning the heirloom, so the mother concubine is no longer willing to pay attention to him.
Father doesn't hurt, mother doesn't love, only he knows how miserable Li Hongye is. Perhaps it was too much suffering, and one day he finally couldn't hold back and sneaked out of the palace.
It was the eve of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the beginning of the lunar new year, the earth rejuvenated, the bright moon hung high at night, and the lanterns on the ground were blooming. How lively the lamp market is and how happy passersby are smiling, Li Hongye is so sour.
"Daddy, Daddy, I want this!" A child shouted, pulling at the man's clothes next to him, pointing at the bright red candied haws at the candy seller's stand.
The man squatted down and hooked the child's nose, and said with a smile, "I'll have a toothache if I eat it again."
The child pouted, "I don't care, I want it!"
"You stinky boy." The man complained, but he fondly picked up the child and picked a big red candied haws in front of the candy seller, "Take it."
The child took it with a smile, took a bite with satisfaction, "Daddy is the best!"
Daddy is the best... Daddy... Li Hongye looked at the father and son, his eyes became numb and tears filled his eyes, but when he was about to flow out, he was hit by someone. Enough to make him stumble.
"Hey, do you want to eat that stuff too?"
Li Hongye turned his head to look, and saw a little beggar who looked about the same size as himself, with tattered clothes and a strange sour smell.
"Hey, what about you!" The little beggar's hair was disheveled and his face was dirty, so that Li Hongye couldn't see his appearance at all, but he had bright black eyes.
He frowned and looked at Li Hongye up and down. No matter how bad Li Hongye's life was, his clothes were also made of materials in the palace. He clicked his tongue, "I see, you don't want to talk to me because you think I'm dirty? Sure enough, the little brat from the noble family—"
"It's not, it's not!" Li Hongye then came to his senses, blushing, trying to explain in a hurry. He was like an invisible man in the palace, few people spoke to him, and now facing the little beggar he couldn't say a word after holding it for a long time, he could only grab the little beggar's hand and repeat, "No. !"
I don't know if he used too much force in a hurry, but the little beggar couldn't pull out his captured hand after a few strokes. He said, "What are you arresting me for? My hands are so dirty, you can't touch a little boy like you."
"I...I, I didn't..." Li Hongye gripped tighter now, bit his lip, and said, "I'm not, not your little son."
The little beggar raised his eyebrows and said, "Aren't you the little son of your family? Could it be a little beggar like me?"
"Little beggar..." Wasn't he a little beggar when he lived in the palace? Li Hongye's eyes turned red again, and couldn't help shedding tears, he used When I wiped it off the back of my hand, it couldn't be wiped clean, and it made a mess on my face.
"Ah? Eh? Why did you cry?" The little beggar panicked when he saw Li Hongye crying. He stretched out his hand to help Li Hongye wipe it, but he stopped when he saw his dark paws, and rubbed his hand on his clothes several times before reaching out again, "I didn't bully you, don't cry. Now. Oops, stop crying!"
Li Hongye said with a twitch, "I didn't cry."
The little beggar touched his face twice, put his wet fingers in front of Li Hongye, and said, "You still said you didn't cry, what is this?"
"I-I didn't cry! Woah!" Li Hongye pouted, crying even more fiercely.
"Ah!" The little beggar was crying so hard that his head was about to explode, he hugged him, patted his back, and coaxed, "Okay! I didn't cry, I didn't cry!"
Li Hongye's cry brought out the grievances he had held for so long, and his tears were endless. He buried his head between the necks of the little beggar, holding onto the little beggar's clothes like he was the last straw. The strange sour smell on the little beggar filled his nose, but Li Hongye only felt at ease.
I don't know how long he cried before Li Hongye's cry subsided. He raised his head, his eyes were still red. He sniffed and whispered, "You're so kind."
The little beggar asked, "How am I all right?"
Li Hongye was a little embarrassed, "You wiped my tears and hugged me... You are so kind to me."
The little beggar said, "This is good for you? You are so strange, won't your parents wipe your tears and hug you?"
When Li Hongye heard this, the tears that had just stopped felt like they were about to come out again. He grabbed the hem of his clothes and tugged it back and forth, choked slightly, "They won't, they, they don't think I'm a person."
"No way?" The little beggar smacked his mouth, as if he heard something new, "Don't read it wrong. If I tell you, they must still treat you well, and you will definitely have a bunch of mountain and sea delicacies to eat when you go back now. ."
"No." Li Hongye pursed his lips and said, "I, I usually turn over, turn over... swill buckets."
He said the word swill very lightly, but the little beggar still heard it. Suddenly the little beggar widened his eyes in surprise, "Swill bucket?! They treat you like this?!"
Even beggars rarely turn over such things as swill buckets. Dongdu is prosperous, and beggars can sometimes ask for some steamed buns from others to eat, and sometimes restaurants will give some extra food.
Li Hongye nodded tearfully, "Yes."
This little guy is dressed so well, but what the hell is going on? Might as well be a beggar! Little beggars have heard that some noble families have a lot of right and wrong. He looked at Li Hongye and sighed deeply, and said, "Wait for me here for a while."
After speaking, he ran away without waiting for Li Hongye's reaction, not knowing what to do. After a while, a bright red candied haws came into Li Hongye's sight.
"Well, here it is for you." The little beggar said.
"Here, give me?" Li Hongye looked at the little beggar in surprise, but when he hesitated, he pulled out his hand and stuffed the candied gourd into his hand. The little beggar stared, "Just take it if you give it to you."
Although the little beggar stared at him fiercely, Li Hongye felt sweet in his heart. He carefully licked the candied gourd, but his eyes were staring at the little beggar like a kitten. Seeing a little blush, he couldn't help but say, "What do I do? Eat yours!"
Li Hongye smiled stupidly, "You are so kind to me."
The little beggar's face turned even redder, "How can it be good? It's your parents who are so bad."
When he mentioned his parents, Li Hongye couldn't help but feel a little lower, and he suddenly said, "You said my parents are not good, then do you know what a good parent is? Are your parents good? "
The little beggar heard the words and said, "I don't know."
Li Hongye was also stunned, "Huh?"
The little beggar turned his head away and said slowly after a long silence, "I don't remember, I don't remember anything, and I don't know if I have parents or not. I seem to be alone from the beginning."
Li Hongye tilted his head and asked, "Then what do you remember? Do you have your own name?"
"Name?" the little beggar murmured, "My... name?"
He has been wandering for so long, and no one has ever asked his name. When Li Hongye asked such a question, he realized that he didn't seem to even remember his own name, and his head was vaguely like a mess. He held his forehead, trying to think about it, but it caused a sharp tingling in his brain.
my name... ...
name…
who I am
Suddenly, a blood-red ground appeared in his mind, but it flashed by and quickly disappeared.
The fifteenth full moon hangs high in the night sky, and the silver-white moonlight sprinkles on the ground, like a layer of dark gauze, shrouding everything under the haze, and every grass and tree is blurred. In this moonlight, Li Hongye couldn't see the little beggar's face clearly, and he seemed to see a scarlet flash in his black eyes.
"Yixun." The little beggar said, "My name is Yizhen."
"Yixun?" Knowing his name, Li Hongye was a little excited, "Yixun Yihen... What a good name."
Looking at the gleaming light in Li Hongye's eyes, Yixuan couldn't help but ask, "Do you like it?"
Li Hongye nodded heavily, and he said, "My name is Li Hongye."
"Your surname is Li?" Yi Xun was a little surprised. Although he is a little beggar, he is also a native of Dongdu, and he has heard and seen a lot of things when he was wandering, and he is still very clear about the country's surname. "Are you from the prince's family? How could the current prince's family treat you like a child?"
Yi Xun originally thought that Li Hongye was the son of a nobleman, but he would be a person with the surname Li. However, he only guessed which Li Hongye would belong to the family of the prince surnamed Li, and he never thought that the royal family of Li would go up.
Li Hongye pursed his lips and nodded.
Yixun asked again, "Which prince's family are you from? I'll tell others later. The prince's family is most afraid of getting a bad reputation. Hearing rumors that they are abusing children, they will definitely not dare to treat you badly."
Li Hongye's eyes lit up immediately, but quickly darkened, shook his head and said, "Farewell, you will be in trouble."
Yixuan said, "What are you afraid of? I'm a little beggar who will run away, and they don't dare to send a lot of people to chase and kill me. If it gets to the emperor, they will lose their face. They will lose face, don't Worry."
Li Hongye hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "But, but, my father...he, he is the emperor."
When Yi Xun heard this, the expression on his face suddenly froze, and he almost lost his voice, "You are the emperor!"
He covered his mouth tightly and swallowed the rest of the words. He looked left and right, and seeing that no one noticed them, he hurriedly dragged Li Hongye into the alley avoiding the crowd. He lowered his voice, "You, you turned out to be a prince!"
Li Hongye said aggrievedly, "It's better to be a little beggar."
Yi Xun thought about it, Li Hongye, a prince, was still looking for something to eat in the swill bucket, and he was indeed not as good as him.
Li Hongye took Yi Xun's hand and said, "I, how about I become a little beggar with you, not a prince."
Seeing his pitiful appearance, Yi Xun was about to agree, but suddenly thought of something, and refused with a heavy face, "No, you have to go back to the palace. Do you know how precious the blood of the Li royal family is? Catch it and you're done."
Li Hongye said, "Can they still eat me?"
Yixuan said, "It's more terrifying than eating. You don't know how much the blood of the Li royal family can do, but I heard that it can make a big difference."
Li Hongye was taken aback, and his eyes were red as if he was about to cry again, "Well, what should I do... I don't want to go back, and I will die one day when I go back."
He held Yi Xun's hand and whispered "I'm afraid". Yi Xun couldn't bear to see it. After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and hugged his shoulder, saying, "Don't be afraid, brother will accompany you back."
The author has something to say: This chapter aka those stories from the past
Well... I feel like I have to show everyone the stories of these two before the main story continues. At most, the next chapter will be over, and the number of explosive words will be finished~
Double update today, this is the first update