Going to the Yuelao Temple, of course, must be at night. There is still some time before dinner, and it is still bright outside. Duan Baiyue asked: "Sleep for a while? I'm tired of going all the way."
Chu Yuan shook his head: "I'm not tired, but it's really boring in the carriage. It's much better when I come out to blow air."
"Then do you want to eat?" Duan Baiyue asked again.
Chu Yuan laughed: "Why don't you sleep or eat?"
Duan Baiyue said: "Naturally because I feel sorry for you."
"I'm not hungry, I'm thirsty." Chu Yuan said, "The sour plum soup will be delivered later. What else do you want to eat? I asked Sixi to buy it together. The meat-filled shortbread in this city is very famous. Fried dumplings, do you want it?"
Duan Baiyue looked at him and smiled.
Chu Yuan was puzzled: "What are you laughing at?"
"It's nothing." Duan Baiyue said, "I just like to see the way you just talked." It's not like the emperor, talking about trivial things, some nagging, but very relaxed and comfortable, which makes people feel comfortable. stand up.
The sour plum soup was quickly chilled, along with shortbread pancakes and a few other specialty snacks. Chu Yuan had no appetite. He just sat at the table and watched him eat. He couldn't help but say, "You haven't eaten all day?"
Duan Baiyue said: "Yes."
Chu Yuan: "..."
"I've been waiting for you to come." Duan Baiyue said, "It's delicious free food."
Chu Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and handed him another bun.
After the two finished eating, they talked for a while in the room. Seeing that it was getting dark outside, they left the post house through the back door and walked slowly to the Yuelao Temple—don't ask for directions, just follow the people on the street That is, the Yuelao Temple is the most lively place tonight, and everyone wants to get a good seat early and seek a good marriage.
"Well, it's the front." Duan Baiyue said, "But looking at the posture, it's hard to say whether you can squeeze in."
"Forget it, let's take a look here." Chu Yuan stopped, "It's the same." Otherwise, if two big men went to worship the marriage tree, even if no one recognized their identity, they would inevitably attract attention.
Duan Baiyue nodded, hooked his finger and said: "It's okay, even if you are far away, Lao Yue can still hear what you should hear."
Chu Yuan smiled and didn't speak, just kept looking ahead.
There were people in front of the marriage tree, and the red rope was about to hang the branches all over. Tao Rende squeezed to the front with all his might, and wrapped a red rope around the tree. He was so tired that he was out of breath. Empress Concubine, don't be so foolish anymore. Otherwise, in the future, if he closes his eyes, he will have no face to go to see the emperor under the spring.
The people around were not knowing what to do, and they were all muttering in their hearts. This old man who came from nowhere is also thick-skinned. He looks like he should be a grandfather at a lot of age. He even came here to seek marriage, and he is not afraid of other people's jokes.
Liu Dajiong stood outside, drinking a big bowl of tea and tsk tsk tsk, and said that he likes to be a matchmaker, how can he compare to this one, and this has to be mixed in. If the emperor still refuses to get married after another two years, Mr. Tao is afraid that he will be crazy.
"Wait for me a moment." Duan Baiyue said.
Chu Yuan nodded: "Well."
Duan Baiyue turned around and left, and came back after a while with a red rope in his hand.
Chu Yuan asked, "Where did you steal it from?"
"Shh, don't talk nonsense in front of the gods." Duan Baiyue held his wrist and wrapped the red rope gently, "I found a little baby and bought it in front of the Yue Lao Temple. It looks like a tiger with a big head. People, Yue Lao should like it when he sees it, so he can bless us for a while."
"Just for a while?" Chu Yuan asked.
"Every time we pass, we will come to ask the old man once, so that the old man can't forget it." Duan Baiyue intertwined his fingers with him, "Do you think this is good?"
Chu Yuan smiled: "Okay."
The surrounding people are still running forward, saying that the emperor happened to be in the city these few days, and he hastened to ask the old man more, maybe he can let his daughter and niece enter the palace to be the empress, which is a great deed to honor the ancestors.
Duan Baiyue said: "Cough."
"Let's go." Chu Yuan patted him on the chest, "Elder Yue also paid his respects, ate the sugar porridge, and did everything that should be done, go back and rest."
Duan Baiyue said: "I stay in the inn tonight?"
Chu Yuan glanced at him: "Where else would you like to go?"
Duan Baiyue almost wrote a smile all over her face.
The two suspected that there were too many people, and they did not walk on the main road, so they walked slowly in the small alley, almost lost their way, and finally returned to the post house. While bathing, the King of Southwest was still squatting outside the screen with his hands on his cheeks and sighed.
Chu Yuan rested his chin on the edge of the tub and smiled at the blurry figure outside.
The bed is very big, with two pillows and a quilt. Duan Baiyue hugs the person in his arms: "Sleep well."
Chu Yuan grabbed one of his belts: "Huh?"
Duan Baiyue said: "I'm afraid you will kick me out of bed."
"Pretend to be pitiful." Chu Yuan wrapped the quilt, revealing only two eyes.
Duan Baiyue turned over and suppressed him.
"Bullying the king is guilty." Chu Yuan grabbed his cheeks with both hands, "Drag out and punish him for twenty."
"There are more bullies, do you want to try?" Duan Baiyue asked while biting his lower lip.
Chu Yuan's eyes were full of smiles.
The kiss was patient and gentle, Duan Baiyue intertwined his fingers with him, and the tip of his tongue licked the soft lips inch by inch, feeling the other party's cater, and his movements became more and more arrogant.
After a long time, Chu Yuan pushed the person away, all the way from the ear to the back.
Duan Baiyue said: "This is the end?"
Chu Yuan paused and said, "Well."
"Huh?" Duan Baiyue rubbed in his ear.
Chu Yuan hid but couldn't dodge, wanted to call Si Xi but felt that he didn't wear much clothes. Unable to hold back, he held his hand and did something... something that had never been done before.
Duan Baiyue was breathing heavily.
Chu Yuan closed his eyes tightly, and really didn't want to think about the situation around him.
This time, it took quite a long time, even longer than the last time I was in the southwest, when I got hit with Acacia Gu.
I don't know how long it took before Duan Baiyue let out a sigh of satisfaction.
Chu Yuan's face was red and his ears were red, he pulled the handkerchief and wiped his hands, then wrapped himself tightly with the quilt, leaving only the back of his head outside, almost squeezed into the gap between the bed and the wall.
Duan Baiyue carefully pasted over and said, "I'll help you."
Chu Yuan said in a sullen voice, "Dare!"
Duan Baiyue: "..."
Chu Yuan simply wrapped his entire head in it.
Dog days, don't be afraid of being stuffy. Duan Baiyue forcibly pulled the quilt down: "I—"
"Don't talk!" Chu Yuan's ears almost turned blood red, and if he said one more word, he would probably explode.
Duan Baiyue shut up.
The palm of his hand was always hot, as if it would never dissipate again, Chu Yuan bit his lower lip angrily, and rubbed the sheet hard twice.
Duan Baiyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Otherwise, I'll get some hot water and wash your hands for you?"
Dare to say it! Chu Yuan sat up and drove the person off the bed with a pillow.
The King of Southwest had no choice but to lay the floor.
But the floor is also comfortable.
Looking at the moonlight outside the window, Duan Baiyue thought, the Yuelao Temple here is really effective.
When I go back to the southwest this time, I will definitely allocate a sum of money and make offerings.
Early the next morning, Father Sixi came to wake Chu Yuan up. Duan Baiyue did not know when he had already left. The bedding used for laying the floor was neatly folded, and a pillow was placed on top of it.
Father Sixi thought to himself, he sleeps in separate beds.
It's never been like this in the palace, maybe it's a quarrel.
Chu Yuan coughed.
Father Sixi returned to his senses, and hurriedly put a smile on his face, waiting for the emperor to wash and change his clothes - today he has to continue on his way.
The rest of the journey was going smoothly—in fact, there were the imperial guards and masters in the front, back, left, and right. Duan Baiyue still arrived at Yunde City two days in advance. After finding an inn and staying there, she went to the North Palace alone, thinking that it would be better if she had nothing to do.
The emperor is coming, so naturally the palace has to be well prepared, there are people everywhere, and it looks like he is going to work all night. Duan Baiyue looked around in the front hall, then went to the bedroom to sit for a while, then picked up the sword and wanted to go back, but saw a faint light coming from a small courtyard, and the surroundings were quiet and dark, compared with the lively and busy elsewhere. , seems a little out of place.
Duan Baiyue was curious, so she walked over to see what happened, but before anyone approached, there was already an old voice in the courtyard: "Who is Your Excellency?"
Duan Baiyue was slightly taken aback.
"Come out." The old man continued, "Listening to the footsteps, it doesn't look like someone in this palace."
Duan Duan Baiyue had no choice but to stretch out her hand to open the courtyard door, and said bravely, "Excuse me."
"Yo, Xuanming Cold Iron, it seems that he has a background." The old man glanced at the saber around his waist, continued to play chess with himself, and ignored him.
The Central Plains Wulin Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Duan Baiyue sincerely said: "The younger generation saw the lights here, so they came over to take a look. I didn't expect to disturb the senior's Yaxing, and I hope you forgive me."
"Yaxing can't be called it." The old man said, "After 30 years of playing a game of chess, either the left hand wins or the right hand wins. But recently, the left hand seems to be no good, and it has been lost for a whole month."
Duan Baiyue moved in her heart and asked, "Senior like to play chess?"
The old man shook his head: "Just to kill time."
Duan Baiyue said again: "Does that senior know about the Star Burning Bureau?"
The old man was a little surprised, and sighed again: "Little Mistress, not to mention that you also want to find gold, there is really nothing on that island."
Duan Baiyue was overjoyed and sat across from him and said, "Senior, don't worry, this junior has no interest in gold jewelry, nor does he care about Chaoya. I just want to ask senior, why does Burning Star sometimes shine?"
"Fen Xing is in your hands?" The old man finally raised his head and stared straight at him for a long time, "Everyone said that Jiu Xuanji was destroyed, so it was your descendant who did it."
"Senior." Duan Baiyue asked again, "What exactly is Burning Star?"
The old man waved his hand: "Do something for me first, and I'll tell you the secret in this Burning Star."