"When are you going back?" Duan Ling asked.
While he was worried about Li Yanqiu, he couldn't let go of Yecheng, and he didn't know what happened to Yecheng.
"Just leave without a word." Wu Du naturally knew that he was worried about Hebei County all day long. Although Duan Ling didn't want to be separated from Li Yanqiu again, but now that Li Yanqiu is safe and sound, he should follow the original plan and make no mistakes.
"Where's Lang Junxia?" Duan Ling asked again.
"Also in Yao's house." Wu Du said, "Are you going to see him?"
Duan Ling thought for a while and nodded. He had done a good job in saving the car before, but he wondered if it could offset Lang Junxia's death penalty. Whenever he thinks of him, Duan Ling's mood is always complicated. He misses him, but doesn't want to see him.
Lang Junxia was not in prison, but was drying clothes in a courtyard. Duan Ling walked outside the courtyard and glanced inside from a distance. When he saw where Lang Junxia seemed to be, he was all calm and composed. It was time to eat and eat, sleep and sleep. When the water boils, I don't know what I'm thinking.
He stopped in front of the courtyard, Lang Junxia turned his back to him, Duan Ling wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to speak for a while.
Lang Junxia noticed that Duan Ling was behind him, turned his head and glanced at him, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start.
"Is it better?" Duan Ling asked.
"I'm not injured." Lang Junxia replied.
"I said you were poisoned." Duan Ling said.
Lang Junxia thought for a while, nodded, and said "um".
"You still behave yourself and follow my fourth uncle." Duan Ling thought about it for a while, and finally could only say, "Don't bother."
Lang Junxia stared at him, and after a long time said, "Okay."
Wu Du always stood behind Lang Junxia. After a while, Duan Ling asked again, "Do you have any requirements?"
Lang Junxia was startled, his brows filled with confusion. Duan Ling was thinking about what exchange conditions Lang Junxia would propose. If he asked Li Yanqiu for conditions, Li Yanqiu should take his sword and give him a sword directly. But if he puts conditions on himself, he will still consider it.
After a short thought, Lang Junxia said, "What is the requirement? No, no."
Duan Ling said again: "I will intercede with the fourth uncle for you, and try my best to..."
Duan Ling was quite embarrassed, after all, he didn't forgive himself for this matter. The opinions of the ministers had to be taken into account. To save his life, he had to make meritorious deeds first.
"Don't you want to kill me?" Lang Junxia asked.
Duan Ling frowned slightly, across the courtyard door, but did not go over, stood outside the door and said, "It doesn't matter whether I want to or not, it has nothing to do with me, you should try your best to make a contribution to the crime, and you will be cleared of the crime in the future."
"You don't want to kill me?" Lang Junxia asked again.
Duan Ling looked at Lang Junxia, and suddenly felt that he was still the same. For some reason, he did not change anything from the Lang Junxia in his memory. The old Lang Junxia had a kind of gentleness and sharpness in his eyebrows. And now, he still has this kind of spirit.
This was something Duan Ling had never understood. He stared blankly at Lang Junxia, tilted his head slightly to look at him, and tried to compare him with the Lang Junxia he remembered. It stands to reason that a person, after so many setbacks, will be somewhat disappointed.
It was a feeling of despair, the helplessness and irritability of hitting the wall everywhere, just like the aura that Wu Du exuded when he first met Wu Du.
But Lang Junxia didn't. He was always like this. He spoke very little.
"You'll find out later." Duan Ling replied in his own way.
Lang Junxia was a little surprised and laughed. Duan Ling was about to turn around and leave with Wu Du, but Lang Junxia suddenly said, "I have a request. I want to go to Wanguang Lake."
"Where is Wanguang Lake?" Duan Ling asked Wu Du.
"A place in Huaiyin." Wu Du replied, "It's in the city."
Duan Ling originally wanted to say that if you want to go, you can go, but thinking that Lang Junxia should be grounded, he said, "I'll ask the fourth uncle to let you out."
Before Lang Junxia could answer, Wu Du leaned on Duan Ling's shoulder and turned to leave.
"Now that I think about it, I made a mistake." When passing the corridor, Wu Du couldn't help but say, "The other day I was thinking about the future, but I didn't know that you gave him the antidote, and you actually asked him to act together with you and Your Majesty. If something were to happen, the consequences would be unimaginable.”
"It doesn't matter." Duan Ling replied, "I think... he doesn't want to kill me anymore, at least not recently."
In fact, except for the one time when he used Ji Mie San on him, every time Lang Junxia saw him again, he didn't do anything. But on the day he returned to Xichuan, his memory was so deep that every time he saw Lang Junxia, he couldn't help feeling nervous.
Duan Ling went outside the side hall, the door was still closed - they should be discussing how to deal with Mu Kuangda. Yao Zheng was standing outside the door eavesdropping. When he saw the two of them, he immediately stood up straight and tiptoed to leave.
Wu Du said, "I have seen the county master."
As soon as these words came out, the three people in the hall were immediately alerted, and Li Xiao said in a stern voice, "Zheng'er?"
Duan Ling couldn't help laughing, thinking that Wu Du was too thief. Yao Zheng had to stand still, Li Xiao pushed open the door and came out to look at Yao Zheng with a look of anger, scolding Yao Zheng, and then turned to Duan Ling, his face softened, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Wuluohou Mu wants to leave the house and go to Wanguang Lake." Duan Ling said, "I'm here to ask the fourth uncle to ask for mercy."
"You asked for love." Li Yanqiu replied inside, "It will land on you and let him come back before night, that's all."
Duan Ling responded and walked across the corridor with Yao Zheng and Wu Du. Yao Zheng gave Wu Du a bitter look. Duan Ling smiled and said, "Cousin, are you helping Wu Du to watch Wuluohoumu?"
Yao Zheng answered absentmindedly, and went to the secluded courtyard to find Lang Junxia.
Duan Ling stretched and looked at Wu Du helplessly, but Wu Du laughed.
"Let's go for a walk too." Wu Du said.
"When you have dinner in the evening, you must make it clear." Duan Ling replied, "I can't delay any longer. I will return to Yecheng early tomorrow morning."
Wu Du nodded and went out with Duan Ling. In the past few days, the whole city of Huaiyin has entered winter, and fine snow is floating in the air, but the lake is not frozen. Wu Du took Duan Ling across the long street on horseback, and when he arrived at the market, he led the horse and walked side by side.
Although it snows in the southern winter, there is a strange warmth, the smell of charcoal fires on the roadside, the wet water vapor on the road, and the snow melts silently as soon as it hits the ground. Wu Du bought some snacks along the street, such as fried fish and shrimp, and marinated quail eggs wrapped with bamboo sticks, which he ate while walking.
"Do you like it here?" Wu Du asked.
"It's beautiful." Duan Ling stood on the bank of Wanguang Lake, facing the fine snow in the lake, he touched the lake water with ripples, the lake surface could not be frozen, but the water was a little thick, and the snowflakes stuck to the lake surface, and it took a long time to melt. into the lake.
"If I can live here for three years," Duan Ling said, "life will be happy, but I still miss Yecheng."
"Master promised to take you to the ends of the earth, everywhere." Wu Du said, "I asked you to come and play, and you miss your family."
Duan Ling just remembered that in the mountain where the White Tiger Hall was located, Wu Du said that when the two fell in love.
"The year I came down from Minshan Mountain and entered Jiangzhou all the way, Zheng Yan also invited me to Huaiyin as a guest. But it was also that year, when there were frequent reports of wars in the north, and he didn't care about enjoying the scenery, so he was busy going to the Central Plains to help Master and Mistress. "Wu Du said, "Ten years ago, I was alone, walking around the lake. It's not interesting. I've been wanting to bring you here for a few years."
There were singing voices on the lake, and painting boats shuttled back and forth. Duan Ling replied, "We still have a lot of places to go."
"Well." Wu Du said in a trance, "I'm afraid that after entering the palace, it won't be so easy to sneak out. Go, find a painting boat, go up and sit down."
The painting boat was originally docked at the pier to pick up passengers, but Wu Du was in the middle of the bridge, looking directly at one, and carrying Duan Ling hula la and flew up.
Duan Ling couldn't help laughing and laughing immediately. As soon as the two jumped off the boat, someone above shouted in panic, thinking that an assassin was coming, but Wu Du threw a piece of silver and hit it on the counter "dang".
"Please have a drink." Wu Du said, "Is there still an elegant seat?"
"It's really messed up." Duan Ling hurriedly apologized to the guests. However, Wu Du dragged him to his private seat and said, "It's all yours, and the boat is yours too. Why are you being polite to them?"
Duan Ling: "..."
After a while, the boat was quiet again, and there was a peaceful atmosphere. The piano on the first floor of the boat was ding-dong, and the second child served warm wine and vegetables. Wu Du put his arms around Duan Ling, leaned on the couch behind the screen to drink, cuddled with each other, covered a blanket, and watched the lake view, which was really pleasing to the eye.
"Do you want to sing a song for the master?" Duan Ling laughed.
Wu Du was a little drunk, his fingers hooked Gou Duanling's chin, and he held him tightly in his arms, for fear of being robbed.
"Shan'er, you have grown up." Wu Du said.
That sentence made Duan Ling feel the softest part in his heart. When he remembered the time when he was brought home by Wu Du three years ago, it was indeed different.
"You always treat me like a child." Duan Ling leaned in front of Wu's body and faced Wanguang Lake, which was full of snow.
Wu Du hugged Duan Ling from behind, rubbed his lips with alcohol on his ear, and said in a low voice, "I don't want you to grow up, and I usually won't be so old."
Duan Ling grabbed Wu Du's wrist, turned to lie in his arms, and kissed his lips sideways. Wu Du took a sip of wine and came over after a bit of wine. When the two of them were lingering on their lips, the painting boat gradually came to the shore, and some guests got off the boat one after another, and some people boarded the boat on the pier.
Yao Zheng's voice sounded outside the screen, saying, "This winter, there will be no one on the boat for swimming around the lake."
"The two of you, please," said the second's voice.
Duan Ling was about to separate from Wu Du, but Wu Du didn't let go, hugging him and still kissing him.
"Don't care about them." Wu Du moved his lips and whispered.
Lang Junxia put away the umbrella and went to the painting boat with Yao Zheng. Yao Zheng looked around and said, "Just here."
Yao Zheng and Lang Junxia chose the private room on the first floor near the lake, just below where Wu Du and Duan Ling were. Lang Junxia raised his foot, leaned sideways in front of the rail, looked out, and said casually, "Maybe this is the last time I come to Wanguang Lake in this life."
Duan Ling and Wu Du also leaned against the bar, listening to the answer below.
"What are you talking about?" Yao Zheng said, "Fourth Uncle will not treat you like that."