Before the Xixia people leave Daheng, their every move will be closely watched by the Supervision Office and Donglingwei.
Gu Yuanbai also asked the envoys who sent the redemption letter to Xixia, and asked them how the Emperor Xixia behaved when he received the redemption letter.
The envoys spoke for a long time and said: "After the Emperor Xixia ordered people to finish reading the book, he was furious and furious. He ordered the guards to suppress me, but fortunately I was stopped by all the officials. We were worried and panicked, but within a few days, When the Western Xia Emperor called me into the palace again, although his expression was still bad, he was ready to prepare for indemnity."
But if you ask them where Xixia prepared these things, they can't answer. Because the things in their own treasury, only they know best.
Gu Yuanbai is sure that there is something wrong with Xixia, so secret stalking and inspection are indispensable. In this regard, there is no need to be concerned about humanitarianism. If it reaches the necessary level, Gu Yuanbai even detains all Xixia people without being moral. preparation.
Of course, if it wasn't to the point where he had to do it, Gu Yuanbai didn't want to damage Daheng's credit and reputation diplomatically.
February 25th, the Shangyuan Festival.
On this day, the lanterns were decorated, and there was no curfew at night. Xue Jiuyao wanted to invite an order to enter the palace early in the morning, but Gu Yuanbai refused. Until noon, the afterglow of the setting sun made the earth still warm, and the Holy Master changed into a crow cyan uniform, put on the silver-haired cloak that was sent yesterday, and tidied his hair outside the cloak, and then walked leisurely. At a leisurely pace, he walked out of the palace.
As soon as he left the palace gate, he saw Xue Jiuyao standing tall and straight with his hands behind his back.
Xue Jiuyao was dressed in a purple robe, slender and straight. When he saw Gu Yuanbai, his eyes seemed to light up, his eyes were straight and he couldn't move his eyes.
Gu Yuanbai approached, glanced at him, and laughed, "Go back to your senses. Why are you looking like this, do you see some immortal?"
Xue Yuan restrained and wanted to withdraw his gaze, but in the end he gave up and murmured, "I saw the saint."
Gu Yuanbai paused, goosebumps all over his body.
The Lantern Festival is lively, and the carriages cannot enter the downtown, and can only stay on both sides of the market. In order to save trouble, Gu Yuanbai didn't take the carriage, he walked on foot, and when he was tired, he walked slower.
Xue Yuan still remembered what he said, "Do you still feel weak in your hands and feet when you walk?"
Gu Yuanbai said, "It's fine now."
Xue Yuan had to ask again, but Gu Yuanbai reminded: "We take a private visit, don't say the wrong thing."
Xue Yuan changed his mouth, "Yuan Bai."
Gu Yuanbai: "..."
You can really hit a snake with a stick.
Not long after walking, the group saw the transparent lantern street. In the street market, transparent lanterns hang high, large and small. The crowd is like a sea, and the sound of laughter suddenly hits like water pouring into an oil pan. Gu Yuanbai walked in with people, and it didn’t take long before it was submerged among the people. middle.
There is a gurgling water stream next to the flower lantern street, and there are swaying lotus lanterns floating in the water stream. The young men and women in the street market were separated by a long distance by the river, and from time to time they said a few words shyly.
Gu Yuanbai was looking at a lantern that looked like an old cow, but his hand was suddenly held, and another person's hand was inserted between his five fingers. Gu Yuanbai looked down at his hand, followed his head up, and saw Xue Yuan's calm expression. .
"Release." Gu Yuanbai said.
Xue Yuan bite the bullet, "Not loose."
Gu Yuanbai's eyes narrowed, Xue Yuan glanced at his expression out of the corner of the eye, and added another sentence with a tingling scalp: "There are many people here, I'm afraid you will get lost."
After holding it for a while, Xue Yuan's palms were already sweating, and the sweat was sticky. His palms were close to his palms, and his pulse could be touched.
Gu Yuanbai was delighted, "I got lost?"
Xue Yuandao: "It's bad, I will get lost, you have to take good care of me."
After that, no matter what Gu Yuanbai said, he would not let go of his hand, his palm was like an iron scorch. The pace was getting faster and faster, and the people behind were squeezed out of the crowd, shouting to Gu Yuanbai: "Master, wait for the little ones!"
Xue Yuan didn't hear it, grabbed Gu Yuanbai and ran eastward, and quickly left a group of people ten paces away.
Xue Yuan stopped abruptly when he saw a stall selling sugar.
Gu Yuanbai almost bumped into him, and said with a dark face, "Xue Jiuyao!"
Xue Yuan pointed at the sugar man: "Want to eat?"
Gu Yuanbai looked at it at a glance, and was aroused by the food. He stepped forward and asked, "Old man, what kind of candy man would you be?"
The white-haired old man said quite complacently: "This son, the old man knows a lot. If you want me to say, I can't count my fingers."
Gu Yuanbai smiled and pointed at Xue Yuan, "Can he do it?"
The old man opened his eyes and looked at Xue Yuan up and down, and nodded affirmatively: "Yes!"
"Then be a him," Gu Yuanbai took out a few copper plates and said deliberately, "Come with pig ears."
Xue Yuan was startled and couldn't help laughing.
The old man took the money and flew up and down on the bamboo stick with the brown and sweet candy shreds, but after a while, a tall man with a big horse and pig ears appeared on the bamboo stick.
Gu Yuanbai took the Sugar Man, smiled gloomily at Xue Yuan, and then clicked, biting off the entire Sugar Man's head, "Not bad."
Xue Yuan suddenly felt a chill in his neck.
The two of them left the candy man stand. Xue Yuan listened to the sound of the candy man crunching bite after bite, and his body was also shivering with chills, "Sir, don't eat it, sweeten your teeth."
Gu Yuanbai said, "What do you call me?"
Xue Yuan choked and changed his words: "Yuan—"
Gu Yuanbai looked at him with a smile.
Xue Yuan swallowed, lowered his head and said in his ear: "Yuan Ye, Bai Ye, listen to Xiao's words, please, don't eat any more."
Gu Yuanbai didn't want to eat it either, he glanced at the sugar man: "Half of it left."
Xue Yuan didn't say a word, he immediately took it and put it in his mouth. After eating, he threw the bamboo stick, and finally freed his hand again. He didn't forget to change his other hand to hold Gu Yuanbai, "Why is this hand so cold?"
Gu Yuanbai earned his hand, but he didn't. He simply regarded Xue Yuan as a stove to warm his hands, "It's because your hands are too hot."
Xue Yuan smirked twice, "I'll cover you more."
After eating Candy Man, all the way was fried goose, green onion tea, and naan soup, all kinds of snacks were fragrant, Gu Yuanbai was the first time to visit the night market of ancient people in the real sense, and his appetite He opened it up, and went to eat the spring cakes, Mrs. Li's meat pie and the soup dumplings. When eating the soup dumplings, they were very careful, the skin was thin and the meat was juicy. He gently lifted them up, sucked them and ate them, so delicious that Gu Yuanbai ate two whole ones.
He only took one or two bites of each to taste the taste, and he didn't dare to eat more, for fear that he would not be able to continue eating when he was full. Fortunately, Xue Yuan's appetite was extremely large. He walked all the way, and he solved 80% of the food, but he was still calm and didn't look full.
After eating a four-color steamed bun as small as a baby's palm, Gu Yuanbai willingly conceded defeat, "Finally, another glutinous rice cake, I can't eat anything else."
Xue Yuan couldn't help showing a bit of regret on his face. Once the Sage was full, he would not be able to eat what the Sage had tasted.
The two went to buy ciba cakes, stood at the stall and went to the end of the street to see, Gu Yuanbai couldn't help smacking his tongue, it took half an hour to walk along the way, but it seemed that they hadn't walked a third of the way on this street. one.
Xue Yuan took two glutinous rice cakes. This glutinous rice cake was about the size of a finger. It was as soft as a rice cake. There was a red jujube in the middle of the glutinous rice cake. The greasy taste of the things I ate before.
Gu Yuanbai ate slowly, and finally freed his eyes from the snack to look at the playthings on the roadside.
But with a glance from the corner of his eye, he saw Chu Yi not far ahead. The little boy was being carried on his back, his face was ruddy, he smiled cleverly and excitedly, and there was a gap in his mouth of millet teeth. eyes.
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"Nephew," Chu Yi couldn't help pulling the sleeves of the people around him, "Nephew!"
Chu Wei looked back at him, his eyes soft: "What?"
Chu Yi whispered in disbelief: "I saw the saint! Right behind us!"
Chu Wei's heart jumped, and he looked back subconsciously.
But thousands of people came and went, the lanterns hung all over the sky, and among the mountains and peaks, he did not see the shadow of the saint.
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In the dark alley, the fragrance of chiba cake permeates the whole body.
The streets outside were extremely noisy, and from time to time, people in the palace could be heard yelling at Xue Yuan, but in the alley a few steps away, it was quiet and dark, with only the sound of breathing and the murmuring of water.
Gu Yuanbai only felt that he was dragged into the alley by Xue Yuan in the blink of an eye. Xue Yuan was in front of him and snorted, "Don't go to Lord Chu."
Gu Yuanbai's voice was full of anger, "When are you going to find him?!"
"Remove your breath," Xue Yuan lowered his head, couldn't help but approach Gu Yuanbai's neck and coaxed in a low voice, "It's not good for your body to be angry when you're full."
Gu Yuanbai tilted his neck. In the darkness, he only felt that his neck was hot. A hand touched Gu Yuanbai's right ear. Gu Yuanbai knew that he was touching the red mark.
The anger in his heart rose again, Gu Yuanbai kicked him, and sneered: "It's gone."
Xue Yuan took this, and paused, "Does the sage know that the minister did it?"
Gu Yuanbai's eyelids jumped, "I know now."
Xue Yuan didn't suspect him, and didn't have time to think about it. His head was full of Gu Yuanbai, and from the first time he saw Gu Yuanbai today, he could no longer be distracted.
"It's gone now, can you make it up now?" His breathing gradually became heavier, and the heat hit Gu Yuanbai's neck, causing a numb itch, "There's no one here, be quiet."
Gu Yuanbai raised his neck, as if caught by his suppressed desire and breath, and his breathing became hot.
The stars in the sky are connected together, and it is impossible to tell which one is brighter than which one. Such a starry sky is rare in modern times. Gu Yuanbai once saw such a night sky on his way to the North Pole. He was lying on the deck, and as the waves rolled and undulated, he looked at the stars that seemed to be so big. The stars that hit him.
Those who have seen such a starry sky will never forget this scene in their lifetime.
"..." Gu Yuanbai's eyes suddenly widened.
The earlobe was sucked, and someone beside Gu Yuanbai's ear hoarsely pleaded, "Sir, I want to kiss you."
It was cold on the deck, and even wearing a jacket could not keep out the chill. Gu Yuanbai still remembered the feeling of that night. The waves under him made his body seem to be flying, the weightless ups and downs, the stars were near and far away, and the humidity was thick, like a dream in a fairy tale.
The hot lips fell one after another on the neck and ears, mixed with the sweet scent of glutinous rice cakes and penetrated into the nose, Gu Yuanbai's throat moved, and spit out a short and cruel word: "Get out!"
Xue Yuan found his lips in the darkness, "Gu Lian, Yuan Bai, Master Bai."
He clearly grasped Gu Yuanbai's two wrists, obviously trapped the person between the wall and his chest, but said pitifully, "Master Bai."
Master Bai glanced at the shining stars in the sky and evoked a sneer, "It's over, why do you talk so much nonsense."