"You shouldn't have told me." Wu Du frowned and said to Duan Ling.
"If you can't even tell me." Duan Ling replied, "No one in this world can believe it. Helian was my classmate when he was studying in Beijing, and even he didn't know my identity. There's no way I can go on like this, and at times, my whole being...like I'm going crazy."
Duan Ling looked at Wu Du, frowning deeply, sad.
"I understand." Wu Du said, "You... hey, I must... Forget it, it's useless to say anything now, just look at me."
"What?" Duan Ling looked at Wu Du strangely.
Wu Du said: "No, I mean, let's take a step by step, I will prove it to you, and I will never betray you."
"I'm not worried." Duan Ling laughed, and leaned forward again, hugging Wu Du, leaning in his arms, Wu Du moved very unnaturally, his face flushed, and he was at a loss.
"Don't move." Duan Ling whispered, "Can I hold you for a while?"
Wu Du sat like this, letting Duan Ling hug him. Duan Ling's feeling was very strange. He hadn't felt this way for a long time. On weekdays, he also liked to sleep with Wu Du in his arms, but it was different from this time. sharer.
Wu Du sat blankly, raised his hand subconsciously, and wrapped his arms around Duan Ling's shoulder.
In the past, Duan Ling always felt that a heart was hanging in the air, but this time, maybe from now on, his heart could fall into place, as if he had found a place to rest.
Wu Du: "..."
Wu Du looked down at Duan Ling, Duan Ling closed his eyes, and the light of the setting sun flickered on his eyelashes.
Wu Du was still in a dream, the sunset was shining, and the maple leaves were flying around them. Everything seemed different to him.
Wu Du said, "You... what's your name?"
"Li Ruo." Duan Ling looked up and replied, "Fusang in the east, Ruomu in the west, but as long as there is no one in the future, you can call me Duan Ling, I don't want to forget this name."
Duan Ling felt uneasy in his heart. Looking at Wu Du's expression, Wu Du was completely confused. Duan Ling thought he had accepted this fact at first, but after saying a few more words, he found that Wu Du's thoughts had become confused, and the previous words were only pure By instinct.
"You... you swear, you didn't coax me to play." Wu Du said, "Wang Shan, you..."
"Why am I coaxing you to play!" Duan Ling couldn't help laughing and crying, "Are you joking with your own life? What's the benefit of pretending to be the prince? Find me to die."
Wu Du thought the same thing, but he thought for a while that the people he got along with in the morning and evening had changed their identities, and then he thought that the crime he owed the Li family had finally been repaid, and the one sitting in the courtroom was actually a fake! It is really mixed with five flavors, all kinds of tastes, and I still want to talk, and they all come to my heart...
"But it doesn't matter if I'm the prince or not." Duan Ling said seriously, "I'm still me. Wu Du?"
He was still confused, Duan Ling couldn't help laughing, and pushed him again, saying, "Hey, Wu Du."
Every time Wu Du fell into a trance, he would be pulled back to reality by Duan Ling, turning his head to look at him, his eyes full of confusion.
"Let's go." Duan Ling said, "The sun is going down soon."
Duan Ling wanted Wu Du to stand on his shoulders, and Wu Du hurriedly said: "Chen... I can walk by myself."
"Don't make trouble." Duan Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He forcibly put Wu Du's arm on his shoulder and let him lean on himself and slowly walk down the mountain.
The setting sun was setting, and the maple forest was like a sea of light. Duan Ling knew that Wu Du's world had been subverted. He had to think about it carefully, and he couldn't ask him anything else, otherwise Wu Du would become more and more chaotic, and he didn't know what to do. .
Before getting into the car, Duan Ling patted Wanli Benxiao again, rubbed its head affectionately, Benxiao snorted, leaned forward, and stared at Duan Ling.
Wu Du looked at Ben Xiao in amazement, and finally, everything was explained.
"It recognizes me." Duan Ling whispered to Wu Du, "Look."
Duan Ling took a few steps and followed his father's whistle towards Ben Xiao, and Ben Xiao came over to him. Duan Ling ran a few more steps, and Ben Xiao followed again. How could there be any trace of violent temperament? Duan Ling grabbed Ben Xiao's saddle, turned over, and rode steadily.
"Let's go." Duan Ling said, "If you don't hurry, you will spend the night on the road."
After getting into the car, Wu Du did not dare to sit with Duan Ling, so Duan Ling pulled him forcibly, and the two still sat as they had come. It seems that everything is following the rules, but it seems that something is different.
Wu Du fell into a long silence, and Duan Ling began to get a little nervous. He didn't know how he would react, or he couldn't wait for it. He was full of anxiety, but said, "I'll sleep for a while, when you get there, call me."
"Yes." Wu Du hurriedly replied, the eyes of the two met, and Wu Du immediately looked away.
He was very uneasy, Duan Ling felt the change in his identity, and Wu Du was still in shock.
Duan Ling leaned on Wu Du's legs and thought for a while, and felt that moving his body a little closer would eliminate Wu Du's anxiety, so he climbed up and reclined in Wu Du's arms. The whole person froze.
"Your Highness!" Wu Du hurriedly said.
"Shh." Although Duan Ling knew that the old man who was driving was deaf and dumb, what if he was pretending
Just as he was lying in Li Jianhong's arms before, he leaned on Wu Du and put one hand around his waist and put Wu Du as a big pillow on his strong chest.
Duan Ling was actually not sleepy, but he knew that Wu Du needed time, so he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep and let him think about it. There was silence all the way, only the sound of the whip in front of the car waving from time to time, and the sound of the wheels turning and bumping on the road.
He felt that Wu Du was very careful, as if he was awakened, and moved a little.
Wu Du held Duan Ling's hand on his shoulder, put his hand in front of his chest, then carefully took out the robe and put it on the two of them, covering Duan Ling's hand together.
The first quarter moon has risen, illuminating the mountains, the earth, and the rivers. The long river is shimmering with dreamlike silver scales, glittering like thousands of flickering dreams.
Duan Ling just pretended to be asleep at first, but later found that Wu Du was breathing evenly and seemed to be really asleep.
Wu Du dreamed that the carriage was parked in the middle of a huge wooden bridge. The driver did not know where to go. The silver moonlight filled the sky and the ground all around. Only Duan Ling was still lying in Wu Du's arms, and Wu Du was still dumbfounded. That look, holding Duan Ling.
Someone got into the car, but it was Li Jianhong who asked Wu Du, "Is my son asleep?"
"Sleep." Wu Du replied sincerely.
"I'll leave it to you." Li Jianhong replied, "Take good care of him."
"Wu Du?" Duan Ling woke Wu Du and the carriage stopped. They had just left the Qinling Mountains, and the return journey was much slower than when they came. They stopped at the fork of Gyeonggi Road on the first night and stayed temporarily by the river. .
There was an inn by the river. The moment Wu Du woke up, he seemed to have forgotten that his entire world had undergone earth-shaking changes.
"I had a dream." Wu Du yawned, his arms numb from Duan Ling's pillow, and he patted Duan Ling, motioning him to get up from himself quickly.
Seeing that Wu Du seemed to be back to normal, Duan Ling packed up his things, prepared to go to the hotel, and asked, "What dream?"
"Dream of the late emperor—" Wu Du was dumbfounded for a moment and remembered.
Duan Ling: "..."
Wu Du: "..."
"Did you dream of my father?" Duan Ling asked.
Wu Du replied, "Let me take care of you."
Wu Du began to realize again that the man in front of him was the real prince of Nan Chen. Although his identity was not recognized by the imperial court, and he was even impersonated, he was the only blood of the Li family at the moment.
The two went to the shop as usual. Duan Ling was waiting for Wu Du. Wu Du was very frightened. He tried to get up several times, but was pressed down by Duan Ling. Duan Ling first led Ben Xiao to the backyard to settle down, and then ordered dinner to be delivered to the room. The two sat opposite each other and had dinner on either side of a low table.
Wu Du had a bandage on his left hand and couldn't hold a bowl. He held chopsticks in his right hand. Duan Ling asked, "Would you like to eat?"
"No no." Wu Du hurriedly said, "I'll do it myself."
Duan Ling took the vegetables and fed him a mouthful. Wu Du's expression was really overwhelmed.
"You and me." Duan Ling thought about it and said, "Well... it's still business as usual, Wu Du, you used to say that I was unkind, but I really had no choice."
In the blink of an eye, Wu Du suddenly understood how much responsibility Duan Ling had on his shoulders and how much risk he had taken before he believed in himself, because if anyone knew about this, it would most likely lead to death for him. disaster.
"I will protect you." Wu Du said, "You will no longer be in any danger, and no one will be able to hurt you again."
Duan Ling was very moved. He knew that Wu Du would not betray him, but he did not expect him to be so determined and have no room for it.
After another brief silence, Wu Du couldn't swallow, put down his chopsticks, and asked, "Then, what are we going to do in the future?"
"In the future?" Duan Ling thought about it and said, "You have the final say. What I promised you today is still the same. If you don't have a family, we will..."
"I mean." Wu Du replied earnestly, "How do you want to return to the court?"
"Have you seen the current prince?" Duan Ling said, "I don't have anything to prove my identity. I look like my mother, not my father. How could the prince's appearance be concealed..."
"He is the child of the Cai family." There was only one day in Wu Du's life, when he swung his sword towards Cai Yan, Wuluohoumu's reaction made him very puzzled. At this moment, I got Duan Ling's personal answer.
So there are definite answers to all things that can't be understood.
"Oh, so it was Cai Yan?" Duan Ling replied, "It really is him."
Duan Ling felt melancholy and sadness in his heart, but he had already vaguely guessed that after fleeing to Beijing, there was no news of Cai Yan. He escaped from the village in Xianbei Mountain that day. It is reasonable that Cai Yan succeeded. Then Lang Junxia might have gone to find himself, until he returned to the court with the "Prince", and only Cai Yan who had seen him, who had learned the swordsmanship of mountains and rivers with his father, could pretend to be.
Wu Du frowned, and Duan Ling said, "He doesn't look like my father either."
"You will know when you see him." Wu Du said, "Uluohou Mu must have used herbs and a knife to change his appearance. His eyebrows, eye corners, and lip line are indeed similar to the late emperor."
Wu Du looked at Duan Ling seriously and said, "You look much better than him."
Duan Ling was thinking about Cai Yan's affairs, and felt a little irritable in his heart. He nodded, and Wu Du said, "I just don't know about the Fourth Prince... No, does your Majesty recognize you?"
Duan Ling replied, "It's hard to say. Can you take a gamble? Can you take me to see him?"
Wu Du nodded and said, "It's really not difficult to meet, but you have to think carefully about how to say and do things after seeing him, so that he can trust you. When the fakes returned to the court, the Fourth Prince asked us to follow each other. I've seen it, I only remember seeing that fellow when I was in Mingtang, and I nodded my head when it happened."
Speaking of this, Wu Du felt very guilty again, frowned deeply, and thumped the table with his injured hand to vent. Duan Ling was afraid that he would be disturbed again, and hurriedly said: "This has nothing to do with you! How can you imagine someone pretending to be I?"
"Let's take it slow and take a long-term view." Duan Ling replied.
Wu Du nodded, propped himself up, and went to clean up. Duan Ling hurriedly put him to bed and said, "I'm coming, you are injured."
Wu Du kept looking at Duan Ling, his eyes followed him to the west and then to the east. Duan Ling knew that Wu Du still had a hard time accepting this reality for a while, and he was a little surprised that Wu Du accepted it like this before. . But Wu Du didn't doubt him too much, and the feeling was the most real.
Wu Du followed his father, but it was only a few short days. He tried to observe Duan Ling, but in fact, at this time, he no longer had much doubt in his heart. Beside him, he happily pulled the quilt over the two of them.
Wu Du has become a bird of fright. He suddenly looked at Duan Ling, as if he was thinking about whether he should roll under the bed and sleep, but Duan Ling took his hand, still resting on his arm, thinking about throwing the burden to him. After Wu Du was simply relaxed, he could go to sleep.
"Do you know?" Duan Ling said to Wu Du.
Wu Du: "..."
Wu Du said "Yes" was too formal, "Huh?" It seemed too perfunctory, what kind of identity is he, I still haven't figured it out, is it the prince's personal bodyguard, or is it the late emperor's minister of entrustment
"In the year after my father's death," Duan Ling said with a smile to Wu Du, "I have never been so happy as I am today, I feel like I am alive again."
Duan Ling smiled as if in the early spring of that year, Wu Du had just descended the mountain. On the day he arrived in Jiangzhou, all the peach blossoms in Jiangzhou flew up. The gust of wind seemed to be waiting for him to come. Like a curtain, opened for him.
At that moment, Wu Du just wanted to give him the best in the world, but he had nothing.
"I...my hand is hurt." He thought and thought, and finally said nervously, "Otherwise I'll play a tune for you."
"Yeah." Duan Ling replied, closed his eyes, put his pillow on Wu Du's shoulder, fell into a sleepy dream, and said before falling asleep: "In the future, it will be a long time in Japan, I'm sleeping, I'm so sleepy."
Duan Ling smiled and fell asleep.