"Third brother, don't rush on your way in such a hurry, okay?" Princess Gaoyang exclaimed, tugged on Li Ke's sleeves and hummed, "I just committed suicide by taking poison, and my body is so weak. And I just walked all the way. Running here with you, I feel dizzy and a little nauseous, I am afraid that the poison has not been eliminated and I may have another attack."
While talking, Princess Gao Yang also looked hard at Qin Mubai, asking him to help persuade Li Ke.
"Okay, stop making eyes." Li Ke shook his head helplessly and smiled, "Actually, I'm also exhausted, and I really want to take a rest before leaving. How about this, Mu Bai, you can arrange an ordinary car for us tomorrow. Come on, let’s take the bus back to Puzhou. We’ll rest here tonight and won’t show up anywhere else. I’ll leave you to arrange the rest.”
"That's okay." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Fortunately, some of the insiders today are trustworthy, otherwise it would be bad if the news about your two highnesses coming to Jiangzhou would spread. Your highnesses will Let’s rest for a while in this thatched cottage, I’ll send someone to prepare dinner and bedding.”
"Thank you." Li Ke didn't care about being dirty. He sighed and sat down on a dusty low table. He shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Gao Yang, you can kill people."
"Hehe, I'm sorry, third brother, who makes you my best brother and the most trusted person?" Princess Gaoyang covered her mouth and snickered, looking like her plot had succeeded.
Qin Mubai then walked out and asked two of his confidants to go to the city to buy some good food and wine. He also brought two sets of clean marching quilts so that Li Ke and Princess Gaoyang could rest here for the night.
After the food was ready, Qin Mubai was ready to go back to the military camp to explain and handle some military affairs. When he was about to leave, he heard Princess Gaoyang calling from behind: "Hey, the surname is Qin!"
Qin Mubai had no choice but to stop, turned around and looked at her dumbfounded: "Is something wrong, princess?"
"Are you leaving now?" Princess Gao Yang walked quickly with her skirt in hand and stared at him angrily. She turned back and glanced at Li Ke who was still sitting and resting. She moved very close to Qin Mubai. He gritted his teeth and whispered, "You are so heartless! I tried my best to escape to Jiangzhou just to be with you, but you don't have the slightest intention to accompany me!"
Qin Mubai was slightly surprised and asked in confusion: "You said you escaped from the palace just to see me?"
"Can there be any lie?" Princess Gao Yang bit her lip and looked very angry, raised her pink fist to demonstrate, and said bitterly, "Do you think I am really that stupid and don't know that I shouldn't leave the palace at this time? But I really tried to die! I hung myself, jumped into a river, and took poison. I almost lost my life several times. When I was confused about life and death, what I was thinking about was not my father. It’s not my mother-in-law, it’s you, this stinky man! I really, really want to see you before I die, you know?”
"..." Qin Mubai was speechless and thought to himself: Could it be that this silly girl really has feelings for me
"You're talking!" Princess Gao Yang blushed with embarrassment, lowered her head, and hit Qin Mubai's chest with two small pink fists, one after another, but she was not willing to use her strength to hit him.
Qin Mubai grabbed her fist cooperatively, looked at her with frowning eyes and said, "How can you be so stupid?"
"I don't care! I just don't want to marry my wife, I just like to be with you!" Princess Gao Yang bit her lip, raised her head and looked into Qin Mubai's eyes unscrupulously, and said word by word, "Listen clearly No, I just like being with you!"
"It's very clear." The corners of Qin Mubai's eyes twitched slightly, and a tiny electric current seemed to pass through him from the bottom of his heart to his fingertips.
Am I just so moved
he questioned himself. Such a feeling rarely occurs.
No matter in his previous life or in this life, Qin Mubai has always been a self-proclaimed romantic person. He likes women, often wandering among flowers but keeping his clothes clean, and rarely gives true feelings.
Princess Gao Yang may be a domineering, unreasonable little devil and a little girl full of shortcomings, but Qin Mubai can deeply feel her sincerity towards him.
"Your eyes are so confused..." Princess Gao Yang seemed a little disappointed. She looked down at his big hands holding her pink fists and murmured, "I know you definitely don't like me... People like me are not popular. ”
Qin Mubai let go of his hand, took a breath and smiled: "Who said I don't like you?"
"Really?" Princess Gao Yang suddenly beamed, grinning with a pair of small tiger teeth, and there were dimples at the corners of her mouth, and said with a smile, "Do you really like me?"
"At least it's not as annoying as before." Qin Mubai laughed strangely.
"Go to hell!" Princess Gao Yang was furious and hit Qin Mubai hard with a pair of pink fists.
"Bang, bang, bang," there were several dull thuds in succession, and Qin Mubai screamed, clutching his stomach and about to fall backwards.
"Wow! Did the beating really hurt you? Are you okay?" Princess Gao Yang was so frightened that she hurried forward to hold Qin Mubai, her little face turned pale with fright.
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Li Ke sat in the dilapidated wooden house, tilted his head and looked at Qin Mubai and Princess Gao Yang not far outside the house, sighed softly, shook his head, and said to himself: "Who said Gao Yang is stupid, the smartest It's her. Because she's so good at picking men! Well, this time even I fell into your little trick! ... I said that although Gao Yang always likes to fool around, why is he so stupid all of a sudden? She has escaped from the palace, and she still wants to force me to bring her to find Qin Mubai? She is lovesick, right? Besides, there seems to be a secret agreement between Qin Mubai and Gao Yang, but even I don't know about it... It seems that it will be difficult for these two to get entangled in the future."
Outside the house, Princess Gao Yang held on to Qin Mubai's sleeve.
"Don't leave! I've traveled thousands of miles to come to you, risking my life and death, just to see you." Princess Gaoyang puffed up her mouth and shouted domineeringly, "Even if you don't like me, you can't be so heartless!"
"Okay, I won't leave." Qin Mubai smiled helplessly and said, "But now that I am the captain of Jiangzhou Prefecture, and I have thousands of soldiers under my command, I can't go out at night for no reason. Aren't you going to return home? Give me some time to go back to the military camp and explain some things clearly, and then come back to accompany you and King Wu, okay?"
"That's pretty much it." Princess Gaoyang let go of Qin Mubai with a smile and waved her hand, "Then you go quickly, go early and come back early. Remember to bring a pipa, I want to listen to you in my dreams What’s the song you’re playing!”
"There is no such thing in the military camp. Don't be too funny." Qin Mubai smiled and left.
Princess Gao Yang stood still, staring intently at Qin Mubai as he disappeared by the woods. Then she smiled and was about to turn around and walk back to the cabin, but she was almost knocked over accidentally.
"Ah, third brother, you are so evil. You stand behind people without saying a word, trying to scare people to death!" Princess Gaoyang was startled and complained in a loud voice.
"This is really the villain who complained first." Li Ke said with an innocent smile, "I strode over and coughed a few times, but you pretended that you didn't hear it and still blame me?"
"Is there? Is there?" Princess Gaoyang knew she was in the wrong and could only argue forcefully, but her face turned red.
"Of course, who told you to be so fascinated by looking at other people's backs?" Li Ke said as he put up his hands to look at them.
"Third brother, you are so evil!" When Li Ke discovered this little secret, Princess Gaoyang stamped her feet in shame and embarrassment.
Li Ke laughed a few times, put his arm on Gao Yang's shoulder, and said in a serious tone like an elder brother: "Little sister, tell the truth, do you really like Qin Mubai?"
"Third brother, why are you asking like that..." Princess Gao Yang said in a low voice, her face turned red to the root of her neck.
"Actually, I know even if you don't tell me, you do fall in love with him." Li Ke said, "You are still young, and you may not even know what love between men and women is, and you may not think clearly why. When did you start falling in love with him, right?"
"Who said I didn't know?" Princess Gao Yang regretted a little after saying this and hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth.
"Forget it, what else is there to hide in front of my brother?" Li Ke chuckled, "Tell me, how did you fall in love with him, and when did it happen?"
"It's just... unknowingly!" Princess Gao Yang blushed a little and lowered her head in embarrassment. She said with a smile, "This guy is a bad guy, and everyone is respectful and fawning over me, the princess. There is no rush." , just pretend he doesn’t take me seriously. I just fight and fuss with him. Although I get very angry sometimes, I like fighting with him like this. At least it’s more boring than staying in a lifeless harem all day long. Is it fun to have nothing to do? Later, I wanted to learn pipa from him, go out to play with him, and go to Yao'er with you. When I was living in Chenli, I felt like this in my heart. Relaxed and happy. From that time on, I fell in love with the feeling of being with him. I think he is so magical, he can always affect my mood easily, but he only wants to make me angry. If you are happy, I will definitely be happy. Third brother, does this mean that I like him?"
"That's right." Li Ke said with unusual certainty, "That's for sure!"
"Third brother, you are a bad guy, you are making fun of me again!" Princess Gaoyang pouted and coquettishly, so Li Ke had no choice but to pat her on the shoulder to coax her. She continued, "Then my marriage to Fang Yiai broke up. In fact, before that, I wasn't sure whether I really liked Qin Mubai. But when I knew that I was going to be married to someone else by my father, After marrying this man, I am unwilling to do so, because I will never let go of another man in my heart. Even if his Fang Yiai is not a dandy, but a gentle and graceful handsome man, it is useless, anyway. I just don't want to marry him! ... The third brother already knows what happened next. Didn't I commit suicide and fight to the death a few days ago? Whenever I was between life and death, I only thought about him. I was thinking that even if I was really going to die, I would want to see him before I died. So... I ran out of the palace secretly. "
Li Ke's expression froze in astonishment, he looked at Princess Gao Yang blankly, and murmured: "Just to see him, you actually took such a big risk?"
"No matter how great the risk is, it is not greater than life, right?" Princess Gaoyang took a deep breath, her usual expression of naughty and mischievous changed to firmness and perseverance, and said seriously, "A person who is not even afraid of death can still Are you afraid of any risks? Third brother, you may not know that after a person has experienced the tempering of life and death, he will understand what he wants most in this life, maybe it is power, wealth, or something. Sweet wife and concubine. And I... In the past, I may have cared about my status as a princess, the love of my father and mother, and whether I could marry better than other royal sisters in the future. In short, I just care about my appearance and I will sacrifice my life to save my face. Now I don’t know how to do it. I know what I want and I will pay any price for it!”
"What you want...is Qin Mubai?" Li Ke asked carefully and tentatively.
"That's right!" Princess Gao Yang responded immediately, turning to look at Li Ke, her eyes full of determination and persistence, "Although you will definitely think that I am ignorant, I always do whatever I think! Qin Mubai , is the first man who made me fall in love with him, I want to be with him! I don’t care about anything else!”