Sui Yan was waited on by servants to put on his clothes, and he was completely awake by the oncoming cold wind when he went out.
Duan Zhisu held an umbrella and walked side by side with him towards the front hall.
The snow was howling, and Sui Yan vaguely remembered that Duan Zhisu's birthday in the previous life was also the same kind of snow.
Then he said...
What is he saying? Sui Yan suddenly couldn't remember.
After such a good time, the two walked through the veranda to the main hall full of guests.
Although Duan Zhisu was not very favored, he had a very good relationship with the children of some princes and nobles. When he looked up, they were all young men in Chinese robes. Because there was no adult discipline, his behavior was extremely presumptuous.
When Sui Yan was led to the seat by the servants, Song Xian and Jiang Enhe were winking at him, he ignored it, and only after sitting down did he realize that Duan Mingchong was beside him.
As soon as he saw Duan Mingchong's gentle face, Sui Yan suddenly remembered how embarrassing he had been before, and his pale face immediately flushed, almost burying his head on the table.
It was just a birthday banquet, and there was no first or second seat. Duan Zhisu sat with a few teenagers, raised his glasses and said to everyone, "Thank you all for coming together in front of you, today is just a small gathering, don't be restrained, I will respect you first. A cup, everyone."
The teenagers in the room hurriedly raised their glasses and drank them all.
Then came all kinds of gags.
Sui Yan still had the energy to play with them in the last life, but now he has no such thoughts. He took a sip of wine while holding the glass, but was stunned to find that there was peach nectar in his glass.
Sui Yan raised his head, Song Xian was smiling at him, and secretly mouthed: "Don't tell others."
Sui Yan laughed.
A group of teenagers were playing together, and together with their indulgence, the whole main hall was very lively, but Sui Yan was only yawning on the side.
Duan Mingchong, who was on the side, saw that his tears were falling, and said with a chuckle, "I heard that you were sleeping in the dormitory of the three emperors all day, why are you still so sleepy?"
When Sui Yan saw him, he was so embarrassed that he blushed, but seeing that Duan Mingchong didn't seem to have any plans to tease him about the previous shameful things, he gradually didn't care that much.
"Maybe it's going to hibernate." Sui Yan said solemnly.
Duan Mingchong was amused by him and said, "You, I don't know where so many ghost ideas come from, and they talk about it one by one."
Sui Yan rolled his eyes and smiled at him, but out of the corner of his eye glanced straight at Duan Mingchong's table.
For some reason, there was no wine glass on the table in front of Duan Mingchong, only a crystal clear porcelain bowl, which seemed to be filled with ginseng soup.
Sui Yan asked tentatively, "Your Highness, don't you drink?"
Duan Mingchong said, "I injured my right arm while practicing swordsmanship with Master Wuyi this morning. The imperial doctor applied medicine and told me not to touch alcohol for three days."
Suiyan said "oh", and he was full of doubts. In the last life, he also heard about Duan Mingchong's injury, so how did he get poisoned? Mixed in ginseng soup
Sui Yan was wondering when someone suddenly told him that the second prince had arrived.
Duan Zhisu quickly stood up and asked someone to come in.
There are many charcoal basins in the main hall, and the door is open, and it may not be too cold, but the second prince in dark green clothes came in wrapped in the wind and snow, and it still froze everyone enough, even Zheng Huan, who was just jumping. No one dared to speak.
The second prince, Duan Ruwang, has a very eccentric temperament. In the court, he is full of methods and profound. In the eyes of the courtiers and the emperor, he is young and talented, but in the eyes of his peers, he is cold and surly. In addition, there was a period of crazy rumors in the city that he had the eccentricity of abusing and killing people, which was even more frightening, and every time he was mentioned, his face was full of horror.
So as soon as he came in, even Gann and Dou bowed their heads wearily, not daring to speak.
Duan Ruwang glanced at everyone, and everyone hurriedly saluted.
He smiled and squeezed out a smile, and said, "No need to hold ceremony. I originally wanted to come over to celebrate the birthday of the third emperor's younger brother earlier, but he was kept by the emperor for a while in the cabinet, so it didn't take too long."
Duan Zhisu said with a smile: "The second emperor's brother's willingness to come is enough to be flattered by Zhisu, how can there be a delay."
Duan Zhisu invited Duan Ruwang into the seat, and the two seemed to be talking happily.
Sui Yan drank the peach nectar carelessly while he was on the throne, and out of the corner of his eye kept looking at Duan Ruwang, perhaps because he was too blatant, Duan Mingchong on the side said with a chuckle, "After the new year, you have to go to the court. , I will definitely deal with the second prince, do you want to take this opportunity to get acquainted?"
Sui Yan hurriedly shook his head, thinking that he should not deal with such weird people, I think he was just preventing him from doing bad things.
Duan Zhisu and Duan Ruwang didn't know what to talk about there. Sui Yan even drank several cups of peach nectar.
Just when Sui Yan was a little impatient, Duan Ruwang finally stood up.
He had the highest status among the people present, and when he saw him standing up, no one else dared to sit, so he quickly stood up.
Duan Ruwang raised the wine glass and said lightly, "The cabinet still has important things to do, so I won't stay any more. I will give you a toast and leave first."
Everyone was busy picking up their wine glasses.
Duan Mingchong's brows were wrinkled. If Duan was serious about toasting, he could drink tea instead of wine without changing his face. Chong was inconvenient to let him grasp the handle of disrespecting his brother, so he whispered to the servant behind him.
Soon, the servant poured a glass of wine for him.
Sui Yan's pupils shrank dramatically.
From the looks of it, Duan Ming Chong would only drink one glass of wine during the whole banquet, and it was the glass of wine that Duan Ruwang respected.
Sui Yan turned back and gave the servant a cold look, and found that it was the servant boy who was waiting beside Duan Zhisu.
Sui Yan didn't know what to think, and his face suddenly turned pale.
While Duan Ruwang had already drank the wine, Duan Mingchong, who was beside him, was also holding the wine, frowning and wanting to drink it.
Sui Yan took a breath, then jumped forward suddenly, and fell straight towards Duan Ming Chong.
Duan Mingchong was startled, he quickly reached out to support him, and hugged him full, but the hand holding the wine did not move at all.
Sui Yan buried his head in his arms and gritted his teeth secretly. If he could throw the glass of wine with one blow, things would be easier, but Duan Mingchong didn't know the way he practiced, and the wine turned out to be a drop. Not sprinkled.
Sui Yan wailed in his heart: "If your arm is injured, don't hold it so firmly, okay? Doesn't it hurt?"
Sui Yan's movement was so loud that everyone in the main hall looked at them.
Duan Mingchong's face turned red: "Little Marquis?"
Sui Yan thought that his face was all lost, so he simply gave it up, he snorted deliberately, and pressed his hand hard on Duan Mingchong's right arm.
Duan Mingchong let out a "hiss" and shook his whole body in pain, even holding the cup firmly in his right hand.
Sui Yan almost knocked the cup down desperately.
Duan Ruwang looked at him lightly and said, "What's wrong with the little prince?"
Duan Mingchong blushed and whispered, "Maybe you're drunk."
Song Xian's eyes are about to pop out, is he drunk? Drunk with peach nectar
Sui Xun's face turned dark, and said in a low voice, "Sui Wanggui!"
Sui Yan shuddered all over, but now it is difficult to ride a tiger. If it was Duan Ruwang, and the toast was suddenly interrupted, he would definitely find other reasons for Duan Mingchong to drink this glass of wine.
Duan Mingchong didn't know how he lived such a big life in a palace full of tigers and wolves, and he didn't even have the slightest guard.
Sui Yan hated that iron was not steel, and struggled to get the wine again, but Duan Mingchong's left hand grabbed his shoulders, trapping him in his arms.
Suiyan: "..." I'm going to chop off your arm!
Duan Mingchong lowered his voice and said, "Don't be ridiculous, this is in front of the second prince. Aren't you afraid that he will say that you are reckless and useless in front of your father?"
Sui Yan was so angry that his chest hurt, and he almost roared in his heart: "I am saving you!"
Duan Mingchong seemed to want to carry him back to his seat and sit, just as the wine glass was about to be put aside, Sui Yan suddenly became hot, and there was a buzzing sound in his ears.
In a trance, he seemed to be out of his body, and he watched as he struggled a little and threw himself on Duan Mingchong's arm.
In front of him was an alternation of black and white like snowflakes, and that ghostly voice resounded in his ears again.
At the lakeside outside the Xiaonian Palace Banquet, the voice murmured: Come here, you won't be afraid anymore.
But just a few days later, on the birthday of all the people, the voice sounded again: Take it, take it, as long as you drink it, you will no longer suffer.
Sui Yan stared at the wine cup in Duan Mingchong's hand in a daze, and Duan Mingchong's voice in his ear seemed to be coming from a far distance, making him completely inaudible.
He listened dazedly to the voice that kept echoing in his ears. I don't know how long it took, maybe a day, maybe a moment, before he suddenly realized it.
—Since he was reborn, the voice that made him seek death has been echoing in his ears, and it turned out to be his own.
No, maybe in an earlier life, when he was alone, and when he was free from worries, the voice had always existed.
As if in a dream, he watched as he grabbed the wine glass from Duan Mingchong's hand, brought it to his lips and drank it directly.
Duan Mingchong was startled, he quickly supported him and said, "You... are you really drunk?"
On the other hand, Song Xian, who was standing beside him, suddenly turned pale for some reason, Duan Zhisu's hand was a little unstable, the wine was spilled all over his body, and even Duan Ruwang's brows were wrinkled.
Sui Yan's body seemed to be out of control, and he almost looked at the cup in his hand in horror.
Seeing his pale face, Duan Mingchong hurriedly helped him back to his seat.
The wine cup in Sui Yan's hand fell to the ground, and his body was as soft as a pool of water, lying on the table motionless.
Everyone present saw Sui Yan's farce, and they all stared at him watching the good show. Gan He's eyes were full of light, and they consciously got a handle on Sui Yan, and they will make fun of him someday.
Sui Yan had already drank the glass of wine, Duan Ming Chong sighed, asked for another glass of wine, raised his glass to Duan Ruwang, and drank it all in one go, it was considered that he had returned to the glass of wine just now.
Sui Yan buried his head in his arms and closed his eyes, trembling slightly all over his body upon closer inspection.
"Am I crazy? What the hell am I doing?" Sui Yan shivered, "My brother is still alive, my brother is still alive, and I don't want to die anymore. Since I want to live, why should I drink this glass of wine for him? Back then Are the lessons not enough?"
I don't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that the wine was swallowed all the way down his throat, and there was a faint pain and soreness that made him want to cut his throat.
"Forgetting to return, forgetting to return!"
He recited his name over and over again, his mind was hazy, and he couldn't even tell whether he didn't want him and Duan Zhisu to repeat the same mistakes, or he didn't want Duan Mingchong to be killed, so he willingly swallowed this poisonous wine.
In a trance, what he and Duan Mingchong said a few days ago resounded in his ears.
"His Royal Highness is kind-hearted, just help me this time, and I will find an opportunity to repay in the future."
Sui Yan thought about it, suddenly laughed in a sullen voice, and said in his heart: "It seems that people really can't owe money casually. If you are not careful, you will lose your life."
"It's not worth it," he thought to himself.
What happened after that, Suiyan didn't want to care anymore, he waited until Duan Ruwang left, then staggered to his feet, turned around and left without saying a word.
Suixun frowned and pulled him, "What the hell happened to you today?"
Sui Yan's face was pale, and he said softly, "I, I want to go home."
Suixun said: "If you want to go back, you have to tell His Royal Highness the third one. It's too rude to leave without saying a word..."
Sui Yan's lips trembled, and she said in a sullen voice, "Brother, let's talk to him, I'll go first."
He said, without even wearing a cloak, and hurriedly got into the roaring snow outside.
The author has something to say: Sui Yan: When it comes to drugs and alcohol, no one can go beyond me.