It is not surprising that the emperor wants to live alone, and it is not surprising that he wants to die alone, but it is very difficult to understand that he wants a baby in swaddling to live and die.
"Are you asking me?" Xie Yun smiled.
Shan Chao nodded.
"I can't tell you."
This answer was not unexpected to Shan Chao, and he snorted softly in his nasal cavity.
"Eight years ago at Ci'en Temple, you asked me if I was an old friend in a dream. If I had told everything at that time, where would you and I be today?—You have already gone back to Mobei to eat sand, I'm afraid it's already gone. Died in Shangyang Palace."
"Even if you eat sand, you won't live long. Once the Empress Dowager takes power, she will definitely send a large number of killers to Mobei to take your head..." Xie Yun said with a smile: "Therefore, there is no such thing as easy to get in the world." The answer, and on the way to find the answer, you will gradually discover something more important."
In the early morning, the gray mist gradually dissipated, and the morning sun flashed from the sky, and a ray of clear sunlight appeared outside the window lattice.
"What about you?" Shan Chao finally couldn't help asking: "Have you ever been lost in your heart and wanted to seek answers, Master?"
One side of Xie Yun's side face was still reflected in the gray brass mirror, while the other side was outlined with a perfect and smooth outline in the light of the rising sun. After a while, he smiled and shook his head: "No."
Qianzhou is remote, and the news of the small town under Fulong Mountain is relatively closed. The two of them lingered here for several days without hearing any news from Luoyang, let alone what happened to Empress Wu's palace change that day.
It's hard to say whether Xie Yun, who has spent most of his life in the wealth and splendor, can adapt to the life here, but Shan Chao enjoys it very much. Every day, he goes out to the river to catch a few fresh fish, and hunts some wild game from the mountains, as well as mountain mushrooms and fungus. It is also very leisurely to practice martial arts in the mountains with fresh air at sunrise and walk by the river at sunset.
Xie Yun's condition gradually improved, the toxin was excreted from the wound, and the skin and flesh rubbed by the poisonous crossbow quickly healed into a hideous scar.
His figure still maintains the graceful and neat figure of a young man, but there are no fewer obvious or obvious scars all over his body than Shan Chao, and some traces left in fatal parts such as the lumbar spine and the back of the heart still silently reveal the thrilling past. One night when he was drowsy in the steaming bathtub, Shan Chao suddenly leaned over from the table, brushed up his wet sideburns, pointed to a hidden scar on the back of his temple and asked, "How did this happen?" ?”
Xie Yun raised his hand and groped through his hair for a while, then said, "Yin Kaiyang."
In the dark, Dan Chao's eyebrows twitched.
"Yin Kaiyang seriously wanted to kill me several times," Xie Yun said lazily, "Both Xuanwu and Fenghuang's family have few good things... The same goes for Baihu. Of course, they describe Qinglong similarly."
Shan Chao thought for a moment, and then asked in a calm tone that could barely hear anything unusual: "Why did he adopt you, and then wanted to kill you?"
With a clatter, Xie Yun changed into a more comfortable position, raised one eyelid and glanced at Shan Chao, and asked, "You know that Xuanwu is a turtle and snake, right?"
Even if Xie Yun was exhaustive, he didn't know what Shan Chao saw the night before the palace change, so he didn't notice the little Jiujiu in the villain's heart.
"There used to be a saying that the Qinglong complements the snake in Xuanwu. Refining the Qinglong seal can make Xuanwu's power surpass the peak of the four holy seals. Although this is just a legend, at least I have never heard that there is such a thing as the Xuanwu seal. I've done it, but I'm sure there were a few times when Yin Kaiyang really wanted to kill..." Xie Yun frowned, and said, "It's just that I'm not a wooden man who just sits and obediently let him kill me. Later, when I grow up, it's not easy to kill me. .”
In the heat, he closed his eyes slightly, so he didn't see Shan Chao's expression: "So he raised you because of this?"
"Yeah, what else?"
"..." Shan Chao's tense shoulder muscles relaxed: "That's great."
"Well," Xie Yun suddenly reacted, and said in surprise: "—that's great?"
Shan Chao immediately slapped the cloth towel dry, and when he came up, he grabbed Xie Yun from his armpit and hugged him out: "The water is cold, my apprentice is here to serve you today, be careful not to touch the wound..."
"What did you mean when you said it was too good? Shan Chao! Don't touch me, stop!"
Regardless of resistance, the villain wrapped his master in a large cloth towel, carried the whole thing on his shoulders, stepped to the edge of the couch and threw it under the quilt. With a bang, Xie Yun fell down, and was about to shake up the majesty of being a teacher, but it was not easy to shake when he was completely naked. Instead, Shan Chao bent one knee and pressed it loosely on his waist, Then he picked up his hair and rubbed it all over his head.
Xie Yun said angrily: "What did you want to say just now, huh?"
Shan Chao hummed, raised one sharp and bushy brow, and his face was filled with a rebellious expression that you can do nothing to me.
The scoundrel has grown up and is no longer easy to discipline. This seemingly rebellious expression made Xie Yun involuntarily have the urge to find a whip. He stretched out his hand to grab Shan Chao's chin, making him look down at him. After staring at each other for a while, he seemed to suddenly understand something, and narrowed his eyes jokingly: "—what do you think is the reason, huh?"
Shan Chao was a little embarrassed.
"What's on your mind all day?" Xie Yun joked, "The poor general?"
The inn, where people come and go during the day, is quiet, and Fulong Mountain in the distance is undulating in the night, throwing itself into the dark night sky. The light in the room is like a bean, shaking light slightly, the bed is narrow but clean and warm, the layers of gauze curtains are hanging down, and the water vapor still exudes a faint fragrance in the hair on the temples.
Shan Chao's breathing was a little short, but he couldn't look away.
The warm yellow and dim candlelight is like a veil, and the old wounds on the naked body seem to have disappeared, and the graceful arc below the waist is hidden in the messy cloth towel, showing only dark shadows.
"...No... thinking about anything," Shan Chao said hoarsely.
He gently rubbed the wet ends of his hair with a corner of a dry cloth towel, leaned down and almost pressed against Xie Yun, with his handsome and clean eyebrows drooping, he pressed against his temples and gently kissed Xie Yun's cheek. At that moment, the two breaths were entangled, and the infatuation could not be hidden, and the breath of the skin after the bath just lingered in each other's noses.
"It is recommended to sleep with low clouds on the temples, and to untie the neon clothes..."
Shan Chao's voice was deep and soft, and Xie Yun laughed: "You said you didn't think about anything?"
"Is it wrong to remember what you taught, Master?"
Just as Xie Yun was about to say something, Shan Chao grabbed the wrist on the other side of him, borrowed his strength to press on him, stared at his eyes from top to bottom, and smiled: "'When I first wanted to know a man , two hearts look at the same thing. When the reason is broken, why can't you realize it'... Who teaches students to read this all day long, huh?"
Xie Yun retorted: "At that time, there was no paper or pen, so it would be good to teach you how to read, so picky. Emperor Fan, Chunqiu, and Xunzi also taught, and now I still remember... huh!"
Shan Chao grabbed those light red soft lips, as if they were destined to be connected a long time ago, rolling and sucking kisses gently and irresistibly.
That was the first time they cuddled together on the bed, although it was not the high bed soft pillow woven with gold and silver embroidered by the Xie Mansion, but the low and simple wooden couch of the Qianzhou Inn, and even a little movement would make a creaking sound; In a world full of unpredictability and unpredictability, the square inch reflected by an oil lamp is their eternal time.
The gauze hung down like flowing water, moaning and raving intermittently, and suddenly stopped as if it was stuck by something. Immediately afterwards, I don't know what happened, the sound became more urgent when it sounded again, as if it was directly scratching the most sensitive nerves, forcing people to have nowhere to escape.
A trembling hand stretched out the gauze curtain and grabbed the edge of the bed, with five fingers sinking deeply into the bedding, as if venting some long-suppressed pain and lust, twisting the cloth cover tightly with the undulating frequency.
But then another strong hand stretched out and held it down, and then easily pulled it back into the gauze.
"I love you, Master..." At the moment of the final climax, Shan Chao whispered in his ear: "From a long time ago... many years ago..."
Xie Yunju panted and raised his hand, but the palm was pressed by Shan Chao, and he pulled it to his lips, leaving fine tooth marks on his knuckles.
The oil lamp flickered and flickered, then went out. The starlight swayed in the darkness, and the panting in the heavily draped veils gradually merged with the night, just like the fiery body temperature tightly attached at this moment.
Xie Yun moved uncomfortably, his voice was still very lazy and hoarse: "... what are you doing?"
Shan Chao concentrated on it, and after a while he whispered, "Okay."
I saw a few strands of hair tied together in the dark, with a light red silk rope that had faded loosely in the middle.
"Xie Yun."
"Ok?"
Shan Chao seemed a little hesitant, and he smiled after a while, and said: "When I begged you...to love me in Mobei, you said that you didn't mean anything to me. The ministers above..."
He was referring to the beginning of the bloody revelation of the truth before finally fleeing from Mobei.
Xie Yun listened silently, only to hear him ask in a low voice: "Did you really think that way at the time?"
The breathing of the two of them fluctuated, and it took a long time for Xie Yun to let out a "huh" and said lightly: "Even a wealthy family can be overthrown in one day. There is nothing more stable in this world than Conglong's merits."
"Then what about my affection for you?"
"..."
"Isn't my love for you wholeheartedly stronger than any merits and rewards?"
This time Xie Yun was silent for a long time, even when Shan Chao thought he was asleep, he suddenly heard him laugh briefly: "That's not the case."
"Youth's infatuation is like a passing cloud, while the love of a superior is as deadly as poisonous wine. The deeper it is, the more dangerous it will be. It will turn into hatred and hatred in an instant. It has been like this throughout the ages..."
Shan Chao wanted to refute something, but Xie Yun turned his head and kissed his resolute thin lips, as if he sighed softly: "Sleep."
the next day.
The report from the imperial palace arrived in Qianzhou, and then the wind spread across the mountains north and south, breaking the peaceful time of the town inn for more than ten days: King Yong poisoned the prince, hid soldiers in the mansion, and tried to rebel in the Luoyang palace. The emperor was frightened and his condition worsened, so he decided to abdicate and recuperate. From now on, he will issue an edict to the world, and from then on, Empress Wu will be in charge of the court.