Justu left the palace, with a gold-embossed invitation in his hand.
He did not understand the real intention of His Majesty Apu in wanting to meet Lu Yuan. He just felt that such a extravagant banquet would inevitably cause quite a stir, and he seemed to be worried all the way.
By the time Justu returned to the academy, it was already late at night. The playground was silent, and only a few windows in the dormitory building were still lit. The evening breeze blew up the corners of his clothes, and a layer of coolness spread over his body. The moon was high in the sky, but only a vague light could be seen.
I couldn't explain why, but I suddenly lost all desire to sleep.
Justu didn't really want to go back to sleep. His eyes fell on the male insect dormitory which was only a hundred meters away. It took him a long time to retract his gaze. Then he leaned against the lamppost, lowered his head and thought to himself.
I don’t know if it’s because His Majesty Goping died too early, resulting in Justu not having a father to teach him, but over time he developed such a withdrawn personality, always keeping to himself and not close to anyone.
His Majesty Apu taught him the mind of an emperor and how to plan every step, but he never taught him about something as complicated as feelings, because even he himself didn't understand. Justu held the invitation in his hand, not knowing how to tell Lu Yuan about this matter. He felt a rare difficulty in his life.
When Lu Yuan came down from upstairs carrying a garbage bag, he saw this scene. He threw the garbage into the recycling bin, stood on the steps and stared at it for a while, then slowly walked down.
"Why are you standing downstairs so late at night?"
Lu Yuan's sudden voice startled Justu, who was deep in thought. He looked up and saw Lu Yuan standing not far away with one hand in his pocket, looking him up and down with a subtle gaze.
Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows: "Go home? Which home?"
Lu Yuan noticed Yusitu's movements and glanced behind him: "I went downstairs to take out the trash. What about you? Where did you go this afternoon when you asked for leave?"
The female soldier had a keen hearing, so she shouldn't have ignored Lu Yuan's footsteps, but for some reason, Yusitu didn't raise any vigilance towards the male insect in front of him. He subconsciously stood up straight and hid the invitation behind him: "Why did you come down?"
"Okay, I believe you," Lu Yuan's attitude was unexpectedly casual, and he didn't intend to ask any further questions, "But since you don't tell me now, then don't ever tell me again."
Justu hesitated for a moment: "... No."
Lu Yuan: “…” Lu Yuan actually wanted to ask Justu whether he had returned to the palace, because his face was too similar to the Insect Emperor. Could he also be a royal relative or something
Justu said, "I'm going home."
Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, thinking that when he was in the underworld, he had done everything from subduing dragons to taming tigers. How could a mere rabbit spirit escape from his Five Finger Mountain
Lu Yuan turned around and deliberately asked, "What's the matter?"
Lu Yuan realized that he had said the wrong thing. He thought, that's right. Yusitu is so rebellious, which male insect must be tired of living and want him to be a partner? He took the invitation and asked, "Is your relative getting married?"
Justu: “?!!!”
Justu was somewhat interested in Lu Yuan's questioning. He leaned back against the lamp post and gently hooked his fingertips at Lu Yuan: "Do you want to know? Come here."
Justu was so angry that he silently swallowed a mouthful of blood. He felt a sense of being held tightly in his hands but unable to resist. He reluctantly took out the red gold-stamped invitation from behind and handed it to Lu Yuan, then turned his head away and said, "Here, this is your invitation."
He dusted off his hands and was about to go back to the dormitory to sleep. But before he had taken two steps, Justu called out from behind, "Wait!"
Justu suddenly came to his senses after hearing this and hid the invitation behind him: "Some documents."
Justu's eyes widened upon hearing this, and he immediately became like a rabbit whose tail was stepped on. He lowered his voice and said angrily, "I'm still a single female insect, why should I get married?!"
"… "
Lu Yuan looked down and noticed that Yousitu had a gold-stamped invitation in his hand. He secretly raised his eyebrows: "Really? Then I won't ask... What is this paper?"
Seeing this, Lu Yuan subconsciously asked, "Are you getting married?"
Lu Yuan's sixth sense suddenly came into play at this moment. He touched his chin and frowned, thinking: "Is it related to me?"
Lu Yuan didn't think much about it, he tilted his head slightly and put his ear close to it, but Yusitu quietly approached his ear, curled the corners of his lips slightly, and whispered with a hint of cunning: "I'm sorry, I can't tell you now, because only my future master can ask these questions~"
Justu was so angry that he almost went to the hospital. He wondered what the party invitation had to do with marriage: "There are words on the invitation. You can tell by looking at it."
Lu Yuan thought to himself, I am semi-illiterate, what the hell can I see
However, he was unwilling to expose his flaws in front of Justu, so he pretended to open the invitation and took a look. He half guessed and half guessed, frowned and read the words with difficulty: "..."
Three minutes later, Lu Yuan closed the invitation with an expressionless face.
Damn, I can't understand.
Lu Yuan had difficulty recognizing words, and this royal invitation was written in a very literary style, just like reading classical Chinese. He stared at it for a long time and only recognized the first few words: "Dear Sir Lu Yuan", but he could not understand anything else.
Lu Yuan deliberately raised his hand to rub his eyes, handed the invitation to Yousitu, and coughed awkwardly, "Um... there is sand in my eyes, it hurts so much that I can't see the words clearly, can you read it to me?"
Justu's heart tightened when he heard this, and he quickly walked forward to check his eyes, frowned and asked: "What's wrong with your eyes?"
In a moment of desperation, he reached out and held Lu Yuan's face. However, after staring at it for a long time, he didn't find any sand. When he reacted and wanted to withdraw his hands, Lu Yuan had been staring at him for a long time with a complicated look.
Justu's body froze: "..."
Regardless of whether they were friends or not, this action was a bit too intimate for the opposite sex. Facing Lu Yuan's gaze, Youstu subconsciously retracted his hand and hid his fingertips behind his back, feeling a bit at a loss: "You...do your eyes hurt? How about I take you to the infirmary?"
After he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that Lu Yuan was taken advantage of in the infirmary last time, and frowned again, changing his mind and said, "Forget it, I'll take you to the hospital. There is one outside the college."
"… "
Lu Yuan remained silent, and suddenly realized that Justu's concern for him was a little unusual, which was not a good thing for them as they were of different races.
Lu Yuan noticed that the invitation had accidentally fallen to the ground, so he bent down to pick it up, flicked off the dust on it, and handed it to Yousitu: "It's okay, it doesn't hurt now, read it to me."
Justu asked subconsciously: "Why?"
Lu Yuan suddenly stopped hiding the truth from him and said with a smile, "Because I can't read."
Yusitu was stunned: "Because of amnesia?"
Lu Yuan didn't mind exposing his vulgarity and ugliness. He shrugged and said half-truthfully, "When I was a child, I didn't like studying. I fought outside every day and didn't listen to the teacher in class, so I couldn't read." However, Yusitu didn't say anything. Instead, he comforted him awkwardly, "It's okay. My cooking is also terrible. I'll teach you if you don't understand something in the future."
He opened the invitation and explained to Lu Yuan, "The palace will hold a banquet next month and I would like to invite you to join us."
Lu Yuan frowned, thinking that this matter should have nothing to do with him: "Royal palace banquet? Why did you invite me?"
Justu paused and said, "The Insect Emperor wants to see you."
Lu Yuan was even more confused: "Why?"
Yusitu closed the invitation and said, "Do you remember the male insect that you beat into the hospital on the day you registered for the academy? His male father, Duke Monk, went to the palace to meet with the Insect Emperor today and wanted the Insect Emperor to punish you severely."
Lu Yuan didn't know what to say for a moment. He felt that impulse was the devil. He took out the invitation from Justu's hand and looked at it carefully for a while: "Then this piece of paper should be a judgment book, why is it an invitation?"
Justu shook his head to indicate that he didn't know. He slowly put his hands into his pockets and didn't want to say that he had gone to plead for mercy. "Perhaps the Insect Emperor thinks that you are not at fault, but admires your courage."
But in fact, even without him saying it, Lu Yuan had guessed it.
There was a bench not far away. Lu Yuan walked over and sat down. He patted the seat next to him and motioned for Yusitu to sit over as well. “You asked for leave today to go home to visit your parents… your female and male father, right?”
Justu paused when he heard this, and subconsciously looked up at Lu Yuan, but smiled and blinked at him, and said in a nonchalant tone: "Sir, you guessed wrong, I don't have a female father~"
He slowly sat down beside Lu Yuan, most of his body blending into the darkness. He crossed his legs and shook his military boots from time to time: "I just went back to visit my uncle."
Lu Yuan seemed to have guessed something: "Your uncle is the Insect Emperor?"
Justu paused when he heard this, and tilted his head to look at Lu Yuan in the dark: "How did you know?"
Lu Yuan suddenly wasn't surprised anymore, because Justu really looked like a prince: "My class this afternoon was "History of Interstellar Warfare", and the professor showed us a picture of the Insect Emperor, and you look a lot like him."
Justu unconsciously raised his hand and touched his eyes, then touched his hair. "Maybe. The bloodline of the Gunhedra family all has silver hair and red eyes. In order to keep their bloodline pure, they always do countless stupid things."
Lu Yuan: “For example?”
Justu: "For example, inbreeding? I won't follow their old path."
Lu Yuan didn't know who had told him that the offspring of close relatives tend to become idiots, but he stared at Youstu for a long time and didn't think he looked like an idiot. He whispered in the night: "Well, don't learn from them. Just find a male insect who treats you well and marry him in the future."
Justu looked at him quietly in the dark night and said, "But I want to find one that I like."
Lu Yuan did not answer his question, but changed the subject and talked about something unrelated: "I am only here to study for a period of time. I will be back home soon. I may not be able to see you get married by then."
Upon hearing this, Justu's body stiffened and the color on his face slowly faded away. It was not because he had to go back home too far, but because of the implicit rejection in the other party's words.
Although Justu had no idea about feelings, it didn't mean he was a fool. He saw Lu Yuan's vague retreat and resistance. Even if he didn't notice it before, he should have realized it after what he said just now.
His fingertips felt completely cold in an instant, and his brain was in a mess, and he couldn't even do the most basic thinking.
Justu subconsciously stood up from the bench, as if he wanted to go back to the dormitory, but then he realized that his chat with Lu Yuan seemed to be not over yet, and his direction was temporarily confused. He secretly pinched himself hard with his fingertips, and finally regained consciousness with the help of the pain. He forced a smile to Lu Yuan and tried his best to ask in a relaxed tone: "Oh, then...are you still going to the party?"
If Justu could look in the mirror at this moment, he would find that his face was extremely pale and his smile was very ugly.
Lu Yuan stared at him, hesitant to speak: "You..."
As if he was afraid that he would say something like rejection again, Justu tried his best to straighten his back in the dark night so that he would not look so embarrassed. However, a strand of silver hair that slipped down quietly still revealed a trace of embarrassment: "It's okay if you don't want to go. I will explain to His Majesty."
After he finished speaking, he bent down to pick up the invitation that had fallen to the ground at some point, then hid his hands behind his back, smiled and shrugged, pretending to be indifferent: "Sir, we are friends, it's okay to refuse an insignificant banquet."
Yes, my friend.
Now Justu can only use these two words to maintain his embarrassing and dwindling dignity.
Lu Yuan was silent for a moment after hearing this, then he stood up and took a step forward, gently pulling out the crumpled invitation from Justu's hand. Suddenly, he couldn't bear to refuse the rabbit in front of him whose eyes were red with grievance. "It's okay, let's go shopping. Is there anything you need to prepare in advance?"
Justu's mind was in a mess, and he answered instinctively: "Dress... Just make a dress to order..."
Lu Yuan nodded, and suddenly found that his mind was a little confused: "Then... take me to order a set some other day, I don't know the way."
Justu nodded without saying a word. Apart from nodding, he didn't know what to do anymore.
Lu Yuan glanced at the time, hesitated for a moment and said, "Why don't you go back and rest early? It's getting late and you have to go to class tomorrow."
Justu hummed, lowered his head and stared at the ground. After a moment, he said in a hoarse voice: "You too, go to bed early. I'll go back to the dormitory first."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked into the dormitory building, not daring to look back at Lu Yuan. His steps seemed steady, but in fact they were flustered and embarrassed.
Lu Yuan watched Justu leave and stood there for a long time before turning around and going upstairs. He returned to his dormitory, and for some reason, he felt inexplicably heavy and complicated.
Is this the trouble of adolescence
But he is already in his twenties and has long passed puberty.
Lu Yuan lay in bed, tossing and turning all night long and couldn't fall asleep until the sun rose the next day. He finally sat up from the bed with a pair of panda eyes open and decided to give up thinking about what happened last night.
Lu Yuan picked up the invitation on the bedside table, opened it and took a look, but he still couldn't recognize a few words.
People will have some inexplicable thoughts after being stimulated.
For example, at this moment, Lu Yuan suddenly felt that he could not repeat the same mistakes. He should cherish his current school life, take the opportunity to make up for the studies he had wasted in the past, and strive to be a good student with both good character and good academic performance, and well-rounded development in morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor.
No more skipping classes or fighting!
No more sleeping in class!
Never waste time again!
Today is the first day, let’s get started!
(End of this chapter)