Under dim vision, the perception abilities of other senses are infinitely magnified.
Gu Xiyu could vaguely see Yu Chi Yan walking slowly in front of him in the darkness, but he was very clear about the breath that he lightly pounced on him. He stood on the spot with his back straight, and the hazy feeling that he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night slowly dissipated, but he was not affected by the oppressive feeling from Yu Chi Yan, only a little curious about why he suddenly did this.
This slender wrist was suddenly grasped tightly by another warm and powerful hand, and the pain of the flesh being pressed made Gu Xiyu frown slightly. He didn't break free, but asked again patiently, "What's the matter?"
The grip on his wrist grew stronger.
"When you are with me, which sentence is true?" Yu Chi Yan's voice was very soft, as if he was just muttering casually, but Gu Xiyu was stunned to hear the panic underneath.
Yu Chi Yan didn't wait for him to answer, didn't let him go, and went on to say, "The world is so big, it's so difficult to have someone who can really communicate with each other."
Almost everyone who approached him had impure motives. Those who could believe in him were taken away by God in a short time, and those who thought they were credible... turned out to be his enemies in the end.
Before the age of twelve or thirteen, he used to have so much expectation for his partial mother-in-law. He thinks that his body has a congenital disability, so he should be hated. In order to make up for this, he needs to do better in other things, be more sensible, and not be jealous of his own younger brother.
However, he found that the better he did, the more bad his mother-in-law treated him, and the word disgust was written in his eyes unabashedly. At that time, he was very puzzled. Later, the mother concubine occasionally had a sudden change in her attitude towards him.
"Yan'er, this is the cake steamed by the imperial kitchen today. I specially sent it to you. Didn't you always like these sweets the most?" Xiaoyu delays seeing that he is hard to see on weekdays, and is always special to him The estranged mother concubine rarely showed herself a loving smile and gentle words, and was flattered.
Happy, of course.
The mother-in-law stayed in his courtyard for a long time. Seeing that he had eaten well, she touched his head and said, "Is Yan'er happy today?"
The innocent Yu Chi Yan nodded when he was young: "Happy."
The gentle and beautiful woman coaxed him: "Can you help the mother-in-law with one thing later?"
Although Yu Chi Yan was puzzled, as long as he could make his mother happy, he would definitely agree: "Yes!"
Only later did he find out that it was his younger brother Yuchi Sheng who accidentally made trouble in the palace, not only damaging the glazed treasure that had just brought tribute from Nanjiang, but also hurt the envoy from Nanjiang who escorted the tribute. The emperor came to question him later, and the concubine pushed him out to blame, asking him to plead guilty no matter what His Majesty said, and help his younger brother to admit all his mistakes.
In the end, Yu Chi Yan was punished and sentenced to a month of confinement. Not only did he have to copy books, but he also got to kneel in front of the imperial study for an hour at noon every day.
There have been many times like this. As long as the mother and concubine are good to him, it is Yuchi Sheng who has caused trouble outside and needs to push him out. After many times, he also gradually became chilled by the thoughts and punishments that fell on him, and completely gave up on the so-called family love.
With such a blatant preference of his mother-in-law, Yu Chi Sheng also looked down on him, and often laughed at his brother: "You must be a very sinful person, so you were born imperfect, destined to be bullied by others, and can only be a low-ranking person forever!"
Then he met Murong Heng.
Murong Heng is a very thoughtful proton. The relationship between the two people looks really good now, but it is actually based on mutual benefit and mutual assistance.
No ambitious prince would be willing to be a peaceful proton in an enemy country. Murong Heng saw through his resentment towards the people in the palace and knew that he didn't want peace in the remote country, so he had a deep friendship with him. Although most of the time he has no intention of harming himself, because of the interests involved, the trust between the two people will be stronger, but—
After all, it is still a friendship built on the basis of mutual care.
Now even Chen Wei...
Yu Chi Yan suddenly had a headache, and the thoughts that were originally strung together spread out in his mind as if they were disconnected, stimulating every one of his brains.
This world, what else in this world could he miss? What is he waiting for? What should be prepared... is almost ready.
The slight tug at the palm of his hand brought him back a little bit of sanity. He knew that he should grab that hand harder, but he was a little reluctant to give up.
If you exert more force, you may injure someone, and if you injure someone, he may run away.
This is an era of feudal superstition, and everyone thinks that he was blinded in one eye because he had done evil things before he was punished by heaven. He used to doubt the absurd origins of his previous life because of his inner feelings, but later he was about to be brainwashed by the people around him, and he felt that he was also a sinner.
Until now, Gu Xiyu gave him a glimmer of hope again, delusional that he wasn't really that damnable.
Yuchi Yan's head was in chaos, and he couldn't figure out what he was thinking. He only had an obsession to at least keep the people in front of him by his side. In the tone of his voice, there was a hint of split-like humbleness in his strong voice: "Just tell me what you want from me, as long as..."
"...As long as you can stay."
Gu Xiyu was taken aback by Yu Chi Yan's sudden anomaly, and hesitantly recalled that Yu Chi Yan had been suspicious of Chen Wei a while ago, thinking that he might have discovered something.
He was thinking about how to answer so as not to irritate the man who is now, just at this moment, a messy footstep sounded on the corridor outside the inn, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, like someone who was crazy or not sober. The vain steps taken.
With the weak light coming from the far side of the room, Gu Xiyu could see two silhouettes walking by with their shoulders on each other through the paper window.
They looked like a pair of drunken friends.
"Brother Cheng, you hiccup... tonight's meal is worth it, those girls are really pretty!"
"Hey, you are my best brother. If I want something good, I must share it with you first!"
"Change tomorrow we must go again, I, I have already agreed to Xiangxiang hehe..."
"Go, go, go. But, I am so happy tonight, I don't know about the business I discussed with Brother Cheng earlier...?"
"Business? No problem! We can continue talking now. Of course, it would be better if we could have a good drink and chat while drinking!" Although he was already half-drunk, he still wanted to continue drinking.
His friend also cooperated closely: "Of course, of course, I will help you go back to your room to sit first, and I will have someone bring you wine right away!"
The voice that was slowly going away was also heard by Yu Chi Yan.
Gu Xiyu only felt that he suddenly woke up a little bit, and in the dimness, he touched his cheek accurately, and the other hand squeezed lightly on his waist with some nostalgia, with a solemn tone: "Yes, you can have a good chat after drinking. , can enhance feelings."
So, in the middle of the night, the lights in the room were turned on again, and there were fruit wine and glasses prepared by Yuchi Yan's orders on the table, with a serious expression.
Gu Xiyu felt that his appearance was more like preparing to do something big than chatting.
Before the topic started, Yu Chi Yan drank several glasses by himself, his eyes dark and cloudy.
Gu Xiyu knows that his physique is not very good at drinking, and this body is not drinking because of his health. If he drinks as hard as he does, not to mention whether it will cause any problems, he must drink only a few glasses. drunk.
He was somewhat panicked in his heart, and it was easy for a half-drunk person to have a drunken disorder. If something really happened to this broken body... Anyway, this guy in front of him doesn't seem to have the temperament to take pity on things in that area.
After a few rounds, the man at the table finally realized that he was the only one drinking in the room, and with a frown, he poured a glass and put it in front of him.
Gu Xiyu was silent for a while and was about to reach out to pick it up, when he saw him put the wine glass back.
His demeanor looked the same as usual: "No, you can't drink it, it will hurt your body."
Gu Xiyu's movements were stagnant, and he lowered his eyelids slightly, just to cover the shallow waves in his eyes.
Yu Chi Yan took the initiative to drink it for him, then put the empty wine glass in front of him again, and said solemnly, "Just smell the aroma of the wine."
Gu Xiyu: "..."
He looked down at the glass that had not a drop of wine left, and when the man put another glass of wine into his mouth coldly and gracefully, he opened his mouth to answer his earlier question: "I don't remember telling you all about it. nothing, but one thing is absolutely true."
"I like Yuchi Yan. It was true in the past, it is true now, and it will be true in the future."
"If you ask me what I want from you, now I only have one request, and that is to let me go so that I can meet him." Although he now suspects that the village owner Awen is a disguise by Yu Chiyan, it is possible that It is already about 90%.
But in Commander Gu, don't say 10%, even if there is a 1% failure rate for important things, he will not execute it immediately.
Unless Yuchi Yan admits his identity to him personally, and can get the proof of the people in the palace, he can... only then can he cooperate with what he wants to do in the future.
Unconsciously, the man's eyes had a little more drunkenness that he let loose. Gu Xiyu suddenly smiled lightly when he saw him, the curvature of his mouth was gentle and sincere, and it came from the heart.
The cold and hard guy on weekdays softened, but it was really terrible.
"If you want to get what you want, you always have to pay a price or exchange it with conditions." The man squinted his eyes while holding the wine glass, the only exposed eyes stared straight at him, and he approached him and said, "Let me Kiss me, sleep with me once, and I'll let you go to him, how about that?"
Gu Xiyu pushed him away before his lips touched him.
He got up from the chair, took a few steps back, and asked sullenly, "What are you doing?!"
Gu Xiyu took a deep breath and tried to pretend to be very virtuous. He glanced at the window facing out beside his eyes and said coldly, "I said, I won't do these things with anyone other than Yuchi Yan."
Having said this, if this village owner is really a big devil, he should admit his identity, right
But the owner of the village didn't mention anything related to Yu Chi Yan until the end. Instead, he pushed him like that, with a calm and sober expression on his face.
The man tidied up the slightly messy front of his clothes, and after tidying up his clothes, he suddenly said to him in a low voice, "The woman I saw on the street a few days ago, called Mu Qingwan, is your imperial sister."
Gu Xiyu was surprised, but he didn't expect the identity of the heroine to be discovered long ago. He grabbed his sleeve lightly and didn't answer, but it was a tacit agreement.
He was just curious as to why the village owner brought up Murong Qingwan at this time. Of course, he didn't want to guess whether Murong Qingwan had already fallen into the other party's hands.
After a while, the man who was drinking continued to say to him, "She should have noticed your trace and came to this inn."
"Let's go." The village owner's tone was very calm, and he couldn't hear any nostalgia, "Go down now, I guess you can meet them."
Gu Xiyu was shocked, and even suspected that he had secretly threw money to Murong Qingwan to remind her, and the other party had seen through it long ago.
But he didn't say anything, and he still hasn't admitted his identity so far. He only gave him a chance to let him leave, which is completely different from the one who strongly wanted him to stay just now.
Gu Xiyu is a little uncertain again. Could it be that everything is just a coincidence, the owner of the village is really the owner of the village, not the big devil
He raised his hand and scratched lightly at the position of the heart, consciously wanting to firmly believe that the familiar feeling would not deceive him, but intellectually he was involved in the percentage data.
After hesitation, the man said in a deep voice: "Get out of here before my head is clear and I have no regrets."
Gu Xiyu watched him silently for a long time, and finally opened the door and walked out without taking any extra things.
After he left in the room, the space originally occupied by him was slowly replaced by loneliness. Yu Chi Yan turned the empty wine glass in his hand back and forth. On the one hand, his heart was empty because of Gu Xiyu's departure, but on the other hand, he was filled with joy when he kept saying that he only liked 'Yu Chi Yan'.
The whole person seems to be about to split, but is unusually awake, and his eyes are slightly red.
He lived for twenty-seven years, and he hated his name, which symbolized the son of the royal family, and his own identity all the time. This was the first time he was glad that his name was Yu Chiyan, and that he was Gu Xiyu's target.
Yuchi Yan suddenly laughed again and whispered: "Gu Xiyu, this is a promise you made yourself, and we will meet again in the future... there is no excuse for rejection."
He wanted to run outside all the time. Naturally, there was a reason why he didn't want to be the third prince. Everyone didn't love him and didn't care about him, and there was no need to occupy this status.
Now... it's time to go back.
·
"Emperor... brother?!"
The owner of the village was right, Murong Qingwan did find Gu Xiyu's trace with the help of Yu Chirong. After asking many people, Yu Chirong gave her the result, saying that the last person who saw Gu Xiyu said that he appeared in this inn. The place.
In the middle of the night, Murong Qingwan rushed over as soon as she had news, afraid of missing out with Gu Xiyu again.
Accompanied by Yu Chirong, she had just arrived at the inn, and wanted to ask the shop assistant who was guarding the midnight customers if she had seen Gu Xiyu, but she saw him with long hair scattered, and a thin undershirt just draped over a coat. Go down the stairs.
After a long absence, Gu Xiyu's complexion was not as bad as she imagined, but it was much more rosy than in the Dayan Palace before.
Gu Xiyu was also very surprised when he went downstairs to see Murong Qingwan. Not only was he surprised by the village owner's accurate time calculation, but also that he didn't deceive and tease him.
The man really let him go like this, and didn't say a word about Yu Chi Yan from the beginning to the end. He tasted it carefully for a while, and always felt that something was not right, but he couldn't get around it for a while.
He patted Murong Qingwan on the back and said to her, "I'm fine, I've been missing for so long, what does the palace say now?"
"I have to meet the three princes no matter what, and no matter what, I will come to the palace."
Murong Qingwan reassured: "I heard that the palace guards have not stopped looking for you. This seems to be the third prince's advice. He seems to want to get married."
Gu Xiyu paused for a while and asked, "The third prince, he... is he in the palace now?"
"Yes." Murong Qingwan was a little puzzled, but she answered confidently, but when Gu Xiyu asked this question, she suddenly became less confident.
She looked back at the handsome man standing silently behind her, and confirmed, "Are you there?"
Yu Chirong glanced at Gu Xiyu and replied, "The third prince is relatively withdrawn and spends most of his time alone, but there are palace servants watching. It's rare to hear about him leaving the palace, and I haven't heard about him going out for a while, it must have been a long time. They are all in the palace."
Gu Xiyu was full of worries, so he didn't answer.
On the contrary, Yu Chi Rong, who realized something, raised his brows lightly and asked, "I only know that Dayan and our imperial palace are in a relationship, but I didn't say... is it a man?"
Gu Xiyu was not afraid of Yuchi Rong, but after hearing what he said, he replied in a low voice, "My sister Qingwan is the one my father wants to send away. If I don't take her place, then she will have to be sent to Yuchiyan's palace. in."
Sure enough, Yu Chi Rong's expression changed imperceptibly after hearing this sentence, and after a long time, he asked again: "Then what the young master said was to continue to hide from the palace and replace Qingwan with a man? But that step in the bridal chamber, you can hide it for a while, but you can't hide it for a lifetime."
"And my imperial brother has an unpredictable temperament and hates being deceived the most. If your identity is discovered by him, I am afraid you will suffer."
Gu Xiyu didn't think there was anything, but Murong Qingwan was frightened by Yu Chirong's words, and tangled: "How about brother, let's forget it?"
"You think, anyway, the palace has been looking for you for so long and there is no news. It is estimated that it will give up after a while and decide that you have been killed. We finally left the palace, and the people of Dayan must have discovered our intention at this time. , worried about what kind of trouble they will encounter when they are discovered. If it is assumed that both of you and I are dead, Dayan would not dare to pursue the matter to the remote country, and they will definitely feel guilty if it happened in the remote country. will not be discovered."
"What's so good about life in the palace? I've heard A Rong say a lot, the situation in the remote country is much more complicated than that in Dayan, why don't we just be happy and carefree little people and live an ordinary life? "
Gu Xiyu only touched Murong Qingwan's head, not knowing how to explain to her.
In particular, there will be bad news from Dayan soon, and Murong Qingwan may change her current thoughts.
He thought about it for a while and said, "I have to enter the palace. I need to meet Yuchi Yan for something."
Murong Qingwan could not persuade him, and finally had to follow the original plan and return to Beijing with Yuchirong to prepare to enter the palace.
It was just that they didn't expect them to enter the imperial city. On the same day, news came from the palace, directly announcing the unfortunate death of the Princess Dayan who came to be with her. This matter can only be left with regret. mountain bandit.
Of course, it doesn't matter to them whether the princess is dead or alive, so it's not necessary.
Gu Xiyu was directly stunned by the imperial palace or Yu Chi Yan's cowardly operation, and there was even a little anger and grievance in his heart.
He is so busy these days, why is he trying so hard to survive? After a lot of hard work, he came to the imperial city, and as a result, the Great Demon King gave a direct order to give up this marriage, so he had no reason to enter the palace.
When the meeting was delayed and they couldn't enter the palace directly, Yu Chirong took them to the Prince's Mansion outside the palace.
After learning about the cancellation of the marriage, Gu Xiyu was in a dull mood for a long time, and when he complained to the system, his tone was still indignant: "It's been so long, he can't wait another day?"
"I think he's here to beat me, and deliberately go against me."
The more Gu Xiyu thought about it, the more angry he became, and his tone became more and more calm and indifferent: "Forget it, since he disdains me, then I don't want to see him yet."
When Yuchi Yan received the news from Gu Xiyu, he was in the imperial study room in the palace and asked the emperor.
He returned to the palace a few days earlier than Gu Xiyu and the others. Not to mention that he was originally on his way alone. Besides, Yuchirong and Murong Qingwan had to deal with the aftermath on the way, and Yuchirong himself also had needs in private. The things that have to be dealt with, the return trip will definitely take longer than him.
"Yeah, the mission target is too hateful. If you meet him in the future, you must give a good lecture." While kneeling and bowing to the emperor, he replied with a smile in his heart, and when he looked up again, his face There was no smile in his eyes.
When I came to the imperial study today, I was naturally ready to continue discussing his marriage.
In fact, he is not too young. He has already married someone else, and he may have given birth to several children. Now it is estimated that it is difficult to shirk it.
His mother-in-law was worried that he would use the marriage to find the shelter of the big family, which would affect his younger brother's competition for the crown. These girls are from good backgrounds, but they are only good. They are worthy of his status, but they cannot provide him with more help, or they are closely related to her family.
Anyway, it is very easy to control, and you can use the other party to control him.
"Yan'er, have you seen the portraits and files of the girls who were sent to your palace yesterday? Do you have a favorite?"
Yu Chi Yan was silent for a while, then lowered his head and said, "I didn't look at it, so I asked people to retire."
Seeing the emperor's doubts, he explained calmly: "I don't like those girls, and I won't marry them."
"Father, I am here today to make it clear to you that I already have someone I like." There has never been any kindness and filial piety between them, and Yuchi Yan doesn't know how to be with himself like other brothers and sisters.' Father's acting like a spoiled child or negotiating, and he is too lazy to think about it, and expresses his attitude in the most direct way.
The emperor didn't know what he was thinking. He stroked his beard and asked him, "Oh? Then you can tell me which girl she is from, and I'll check whether it's suitable for you."
There was another brief silence, and when Yu Delay spoke again, his words were astonishing.
"It's not a girl, it's a son."