Rebuilding the Silk Road is a difficult and dangerous road.
In contrast, the sea route is more dangerous than the land route. People living on land have been yearning and curious about the sea and the sky since ancient times. Daheng people want to open up new roads, see the scenery of various countries, and want Daheng to prosper and spread the glory of Daheng to their eyes. everywhere you can see.
This is the goal of some aspiring young officials, and it is also the goal of everyone gathered around Gu Yuanbai.
They not only long for peace and prosperity, they want to long for more. Inside and outside the mountains and rivers, Jingping prosperous, let the hearts of men set off a magnificent passion.
What Gu Yuanbai saw in his eyes had already passed thousands of miles away. The coast, grassland, yellow sand, and the vast land made him extremely broad-minded, showing an unrealistic ambition.
He is not a person who is addicted to love, and he does not think that company is so important on weekdays. But now, when he thinks that Xue Yuan is going to leave the capital and take the Silk Road again, he feels a bit bitter in his mouth.
Gu Yuanbai had long been accustomed to having Xue Yuan by his side. When it was cold, some people were distressed. When it was hot, some people were anxious. When he woke up in the middle of the night, someone handed a cup of warm water, and was coaxed to fall asleep again. After a long time, looking back quickly, I realize that it has been Jingping fourteen years now.
It has been four years since the wood carving given to him by Xue Yuan ten years ago.
And this time, if he wants to leave, he will have to leave for three or five years. If Gu Yuanbai is not in good health, where will he wait for him for three or five years? But now that he is healthy and has time, Gu Yuanbai is unwilling to let Xue Yuan go.
He wanted Xue Yuan to stay under his nose and be visible at all times. But what Gu Yuanbai admired was Xue Yuan's vigorous aura of freedom, like wild grass and wild animals, vigorous and untamed. He should run wildly, and should not be raised as a family flower under the protection of Gu Yuanbai's wings.
The man's ambition is in all directions, and Gu Yuanbai understands it. But that is not a short time, it is a time when the years increase, the grass at night turns yellow and withered, and the frost and snow come several times.
At night, Gu Yuanbai faced the wall, absentmindedly thinking about what he wanted Xue Yuan to do.
But he couldn't think about it. He didn't want Xue Yuan to go, and he didn't want to go if Xue Yuan didn't. The decisiveness and neatness were all gone at this moment.
A hand came across behind him, groping for his hand in the quilt. Gu Yuanbai didn't move, Xue Yuan pressed close.
His breath hit his neck, Xue Yuan didn't speak, just clenched Gu Yuanbai's hand tightly. Thick cocoon rubbed, Gu Yuanbai was familiar with every place on these hands, and his thumb was soothing on the back of his hand, as if to reassure Gu Yuanbai.
After a while, Xue Yuan asked in a low voice, "Can't you sleep?"
Gu Yuanbai subconsciously let his breath take a long time and pretended to fall asleep. Xue Yuan chuckled a few times, "If we can't sleep, let's go out for a walk."
"How can you tell that I haven't slept?" Gu Yuanbai finally said.
"Have a good heart," Xue Yuan lifted the quilt, got out of bed to find Gu Yuanbai's clothes, and hugged him beside the bed, "How about wearing this indigo?"
Gu Yuanbai nodded silently, Xue Yuan knelt down on one knee, raised his foot and stepped on his own knee, arranging his white socks with concentration.
He is serious, even a little serious. Gu Yuanbai looked at him from top to bottom, and only saw his handsome eyebrows as thick as ink. After Xue Yuan came to Gu Yuanbai's side, he took care of everything, personally, and served Gu Yuanbai willingly. From unfamiliar to skilled, a favored man just liked Gu Yuanbai's food, drink, and sleep.
"I should give you an extra salary," Gu Yuanbai cheered up, "let Tian Fusheng give you half of it."
Xue Yuan smiled, "Director Tian thinks he will hate me to death."
He helped Gu Yuanbai, put on his clothes one by one, the robe smoothed out the wrinkles, the silver thread rolled around, and the blue cloud dragon pattern belt was slowly tied around his waist. After getting dressed, the two quietly walked out of the dim palace.
At this time, there was no more scenery to see in the imperial garden. Gu Yuanbai looked up and saw the bright stars above his head.
Xue Yuan took him for a walk, "Do you want me to go?"
"Look at you," Gu Yuanbai continued to raise his head, "Would you like to go or not, how can others persuade you?"
Xue Yuan clenched his hand tightly, "How do you know that you can't tell me if you don't try?"
Gu Yuanbai stopped talking, and Xue Yuan flashed disappointment in his eyes, "Sometimes I really want to get into your stomach and see what you're thinking."
Gu Yuanbai said: "Then you should get into your head."
It should be two or three o'clock in the middle of the night now. Two people in the middle of the night came to see the dark imperial garden. Gu Yuanbai suddenly woke up and scolded himself: "Stupid."
Xue Yuan quit, he said displeasedly: "What are you scolding yourself for?"
"..." Gu Yuanbai, "I can't even scold myself?"
He suddenly had some incomprehensible grievances, Xue Yuan was taken aback and coaxed: "Don't scold yourself, you scold me."
Gu Yuanbai lowered his eyes and pursed his mouth. He looked stubborn and stubborn, but Xue Yuan looked soft-hearted. He hugged him, his full of affection was replaced by invisible and intangible threads, and he sighed sincerely: "If I could put you on my body, how much would it be? it is good."
Gu Yuanbai groaned in his arms, "It's impossible to put it on your body, but if you—"
Xue Yuan remained calm and looked down at him, "What if?"
Gu Yuanbai couldn't help but say: "If you stay by my side, it's like wearing it on your body."
He really said this sentence, but he woke up after speaking.
no.
This is not Gu Yuanbai's style of doing things.
Go when you want to go, come back when you want to come back. What do you do sticky? Use feelings to bind the other party to give up the idea of making contributions, if others dare to treat Gu Yuanbai like this, Gu Yuanbai can shy away from this person.
There is more than love in the world, and Xue Yuan should not be detained by Gu Yuanbai's side. How much effort he has made before, which one is not for meritorious service
Now that such a big credit is in front of him, Gu Yuanbai told him not to go. Thousands of people are shouldering the burden, and the prosperity of a country is the driving force. Gu Yuanbai should not use his sons and daughters to imprison a person who is useful to the country. .
Gu Yuanbai took a deep breath and gradually became firm, "I said it's bad, you should go."
Xue Yuan was stunned for a moment, "The sage is willing to let me?"
"It's natural to be reluctant," Gu Yuanbai smiled stiffly, "but this is a great opportunity for meritorious service, will you miss it?"
Xue Yuan's actions in the past two years have attracted much attention. It seems that he is born with a keen sense of danger, and this sense of smell is also very rare in politics. It is rare for him to have such an official position at his age, but if he still wants to be promoted, he will either be transferred to another place for meritorious service, or he will have to go through seniority.
It will take at least ten years to get him to the position of the privy envoy.
This is a good opportunity to make great contributions. Xue Yuan is really moved. The purpose of his meritorious service is to stay by Gu Yuanbai’s side openly, and to become Gu Yuanbai’s pillar. It's not a good way for him to boil over seniority. This opportunity is very good, but the only downside is that it takes too long to travel.
After leaving Gu Yuanbai for several years, Xue Yuan couldn't accept this alone.
"Daheng is so great and has so much credit, don't worry about it this time," Xue Yuan smiled, holding Gu Yuanbai's hand and covering his face, "What you say is what you say, as long as you say it, I'll just listen, and it's no big deal to miss it."
Hint: "Your Majesty, this minister is telling the truth."
"Then go," Gu Yuanbai touched the corner of his eyes, "you are not young anymore."
"...I'm still young."
Gu Yuanbai smiled and rolled his eyes, stroking from the corner of his eyes to the bridge of his tall nose, "It's fine to go once, you are my eyes, if you go and see those countries, you will see it for me."
Xue Yuan looked down at him and didn't speak for a while. The color of his eyes melted with the night, as if there was the pain of being separated, and the irritability of wanting to retreat.
Gu Yuanbai finally said: "Go."
The stars became the Milky Way, and the spring breeze gently eased his steps in the night. Xue Yuan's Adam's apple rolled. After a long time, he said with difficulty: "Okay."
*
There are a lot of preparations to be done before the Silk Road moves forward, and it takes at least six or seven months of tossing. Since that night, Xue Yuan has been sticking to Gu Yuanbai's side all day long.
Like the lingering lingering before the parting of life and death, as the preparations became more and more thorough, Xue Yuan gritted his teeth more and more fiercely. Sometimes at night, he pressed Gu Yuanbai's back, as if his neck was touching. To the dying mandarin duck, "Sir, after I leave, will others climb on this bed?"
When Gu Yuanbai said no, he would ask again, "What if you like other people?"
He almost asked Gu Yuanbai more than a dozen times a day whether he liked him or not.
As the time of separation drew nearer, he visibly panicked. The quietness developed in two years was broken, and fear and fear almost swallowed him. He would often look at Gu Yuanbai and see his fingers trembling, irritable and depressed, which made Xue Yuan start to lose weight scarily before parting. .
Gu Yuanbai knew that he was reluctant to leave, but he didn't know it would be so serious.
Even in the daytime, Xue Yuan would occasionally fall into the pain of separation. He was stunned by such emotions, and only Gu Yuanbai's soft call could wake him up. Day after day, the red blood in his eyes became deeper and deeper. Gu Yuanbai woke up in the middle of the night, only to realize that he didn't even sleep and just stared at him.
The pair of eyes in the night seemed to be looking at the last straw for life.
For Xue Yuan, sleeping has become a waste of time. He is reluctant to go to sleep, and he would rather take this time to look at Gu Yuanbai more.
Gu Yuanbai put down all government affairs, pressed Xue Yuan on the bed during the day, and said, "You need to rest."
Xue Yuan looked at him with red eyes. These eyes were exhausted to the point of heavy exhaustion. Gu Yuanbai didn't know how Xue Yuan could open his eyes again, or how much willpower he used to fight exhaustion. The body, but when you think about it, you can feel the difficulty.
The mattress is soft, and the incense smells of the sun. Xue Yuan was lying on such a bed, but stared straight at Gu Yuanbai without any movement.
Gu Yuanbai covered his eyes, "Jiu Yao, can you sleep with your eyes closed?"
Xue Yuan didn't want to disappoint Gu Yuanbai, but as soon as his eyes were covered by darkness, he couldn't see Gu Yuanbai's panic attacking, making him unable to resist. He resisted the thought of pulling Gu Yuanbai's hand away, thinking about sleeping, so he couldn't worry.
But his teeth were clenched, his masseter muscles were shaking, and he was struggling.
Gu Yuanbai looked at him like this, and suddenly there was a burst of enthusiasm in his eyes, like a bottle filled with water suddenly fell to the ground, he collapsed completely, and kept his mouth shut and made no sound, tears in his eyes But it rolled down drop by drop like beads.
Hot and sad tears fell on Xue Yuan's face.
Xue Yuan was startled, he couldn't help loosening his clenched teeth, and the panic in his heart turned into a complete loss. Can fall asleep."
It was dark in front of him, and the little emperor's cold fingers blocked his vision firmly. Xue Yuan couldn't see what Gu Yuanbai looked like now, but he could feel the trembling of his fingertips and the choked sobbing that was extremely suppressed.
The tears fell more and more, and it seemed to flow from the corner of Xue Yuan's eyes in a trance.
Gu Yuanbai cried so hard that he could not stand up, he was crying silently in pain, his face was red with embarrassment, and his eyes were blurred by this fierce and violent emotion.
It was too torturous, the sudden sadness could not be concealed, and no amount of willpower could prevent the current collapse.
Sad, why is it so sad to fall in love.
Xue Yuan's appearance made Gu Yuanbai too uncomfortable, drowning in the deep sea, breathing intermittently, only his eyes were wanton to express his emotions.
He felt sorry for Xue Yuan.
So distressed.