The Son of Heaven is in my arms.
Son of Heaven, into, me, arms.
Gu Yuanbai sat in front of Xue Yuan's desk and was shocked by this line of words, so much so that he didn't come back to his senses.
By the time he came back to his senses, the papier-mâché swallow kite had been destroyed under his hands.
Great, Xue Jiuyao.
How many other things have you done that I don't know about.
Gu Yuanbai thought that after hitting Xue Yuan for fifty big boards, Xue Yuan was really honest and disciplined that day, but also rules, but also sensible, it turns out that even when flying a kite, he can take the kite with this line written on it to fly it to him, and can be so bold as to allow the guards to go up to him to fly a kite.
With balls like that, why don't you go fly your bullshit kite on a rainy day?
The paper surface of the kite was pinched by Gu Yuanbai and creaked, Gu Yuanbai pressed the dark fire in his heart, he tore down the paper surface with Xue Yuan's handwriting on the kite and balled it up in his sleeve, and sooner or later, he let Xue Yuan pay the price for the words he had written out. In the middle of the process, Gu Yuanbai's heart also kept saying, "You still dare to think.
The Son of Heaven enters your arms and sneers, he remembers.
After crushing the remains of the kite, Gu Yuanbai was about to leave Xue Yuan's room with a cold face, but as soon as he stood up from the chair, his afterglow inadvertently glimpsed something under the bed.
Gu Yuanbai slowly walked closer to see, was placed at the bottom of the bed is a hands can hold up the exquisite wooden box, looking very heavy and precious look, can be placed here, Gu Yuanbai seem to smile, feel not simple.
"Tian Fusheng."
Outside, Tian Fusheng walked in with a small eunuch, and Gu Yuanbai pointed to the bottom of the bed and said, "Bring out the stuff."
The little eunuch drilled to the bottom of the bed to take out the things, respectfully placed on the table. Gu Yuanbai approached to see, this box should be because Xue Yuan has been gone for more than a month, the top has accumulated a thin layer of dust. The little eunuch was ordered to lift his sleeve to wipe away the dust on the box, Tian Fusheng stood by the side, also squinting curiously at the contents of the box.
With a creak, the wooden box was opened.
Gu Yuanbai looked at the contents, half a moment, "Jade?"
Long, thin, slender jade, from thin to thick, rounded at one end and flattened at the other, looked like it was of good color, only the shape was odd.
Gu Yuanbai raised his hand to take a closer look at the last piece, and was abruptly stopped by Tian Fusheng, who was sweating profusely and his voice trembled, "Your Holiness, this jade has accumulated dust and is not clean."
Gu Yuanbai glanced at him and faintly said, "What is this thing."
Tian Fusheng Nuo Nuo dare not say, mouth opened many times, just not once can say out words.
Lord Xue himself in the room prepared jade potential, but also hidden so deep, what to do with nature is self-evident. Look, the emperor does not like Lord Xue, Lord Xue is already ready to bear the dragon's grace. This iron bone strong male son Lang usually hide in the house secretly use jade potential also so, if the saint knows, this, Xue adults still have the face to see the saint?
But the emperor asked, Tian Fusheng can not not answer. Just as his temples cold sweat sliding down the side, outside suddenly sounded the Xue mansion boy's report sound: "Your Holiness, the home Mrs. sent some tea, you can now want to use?"
Gu Yuanbai's eyes glanced outward for a moment, and Tian Fusheng quickly stepped out to receive the tea and sent it back, "Your Holiness, Lord Xue's house is narrow and small, would you like to go out and use the refreshments?"
Gu Yuanbai hadn't forgotten about the box of jade, he stared at Tian Fusheng for a moment and snorted coldly, "I'll ask you later." He had the box of jade brought along with him and left.
Something that could make Tian Fusheng so difficult to talk about, and about Xue Yuan, Gu Yuanbai intuited that this object was not something that could be seen openly and honestly. He was prepared to bring this thing back to the palace and then take a good look at it.
Mo about being back in a familiar place, the two wolves that had been tempered by Xue Yuan were so excited that after Gu Yuanbai had exited Xue Yuan's room, before he could even taste the Xue Mansion's refreshments, he was bitten by these two wolves on his shirt and led Gu Yuanbai all the way to the front of the wolf enclosure.
The wolf circle was in the depths of the Xue Mansion, two wolves howled, and a few moments later, the group of wolves in the wolf circle also began to bark furiously, their voices echoed through the sky, and they even began to bump against the locked wooden door, which was thumped, and the faces of the guards around Gu Yuanbai suddenly changed, and they were about to retreat backward as they escorted Gu Yuanbai.
However, the farther away Gu Yuanbai was, the more manic the wolves in the circle became, and their howls were bloodthirsty and higher pitched than one another.
Gu Yuanbai searched his body for a while and couldn't find anything that could make them so hyperactive. The Xue Mansion's household servants hurried over at the sound of the news, and when they saw the two adult wolves tugging at Gu Yuanbai's sleeves, their eyes glazed over and they were scared out of both of their wits, "Sheng, sheng sheng!"
The guards pacified, "These are the two wolves that Lord Xue sent to the side of the saint, there is no need to be concerned. You guys come and take a look, what's going on with these wolves in the wolf pen?"
The household servants returned to their senses and busied themselves by going up to check on these wolves. Gu Yuanbai still remembered what Xue Yuan had said, but he had spoken beautifully, saying that all the wolves in the mansion had been taught a lesson by him, and that they would all listen to the words of His Majesty. But now, one by one, they were untamed, not like what Xue Yuan had said.
Gu Yuanbai secretly gave Xue Yuan another mark in his heart.
After the household servants stepped forward, the head of the guards whispered, "Your Holiness, I will escort you to leave first."
Gu Yuanbai's hands were behind his back, and the sleeves that fell beside his wrists were then taken in the mouths of two separate wolves, hooked with their sharp teeth to prevent Gu Yuanbai from leaving. He asked the head guard to look at these two wolves beside his feet, "These two pestering things are blocking this, how else can I go?"
They had to let Gu Yuanbai come closer to take a look, so Gu Yuanbai then walked forward. The closer he got, the more agitated the wolves' voices became, and by the time he got in front of them, these wolves were already lying on the fence, their sharp claws scraping the fence, and above the neck of each wolf, they were actually wrapped around a white porcelain bottle.
Gu Yuanbai stared at this white porcelain vase, suddenly reaching out and yanking one off the neck of the nearest wolf, steadily pulling the lid of the white porcelain vase amidst the gasps of the crowd on the sidelines, and a rolled up note was resting inside.
The mouth of the bottle is very thin, the note is not good to take. Gu Yuanbai directly will porcelain bottle on the ground a fall, the palace attendant in the debris picked up the note respectfully sent, the saint took, will be leisurely unfolding the note.
"Did His Holiness come to my home to see the wolves, because the teeth of those two wolves chipped, or because His Holiness missed his minister?"
Gu Yuanbai abruptly closed the note, his knuckles gripping tightly, his eyes narrowing as he sank his eyebrows dangerously.
Xue Jiuyao.
*
Xue Jiuyao traveled day and night with the big soldiers, and he couldn't throw away the bag of bath water he had with him when it became rancid.
The wind, the food, and the trekking. The only time to rest is before going to sleep, and sometimes the officers gather together and talk about their wives and daughters at home.
Speaking of this, someone also asked Xue Yuan, "General, you are traveling far away from the northern border this time, your wife and daughter at home should be very reluctant to part with you."
Xue Yuan sat cross-legged beside the fire, his figure was tall, and the firelight reflected on him, brightly and darkly.
Hearing these words, the Lord General's expression that had been so cold and hard as if it were stone all these days finally showed signs of easing, "I have not taken a wife, nor do I have any children."
The surrounding people were surprised, "I can't believe he didn't take a wife?"
"If I remember correctly, the general is twenty-four, isn't he?"
Xue Yuan would have a little more patience this time, "The saint has not taken a wife either."
"Your Holiness ......" someone laughed twice, "Your Holiness is still young."
"The saint is young, and I am not old. As a courtier, naturally I have to think of the saint with one heart," Xue Yuan didn't hold back and hooked up the corners of his mouth, seeming to say, "If the saint hasn't taken a wife, I have to accompany him."
"If the saint takes a wife, will the general follow suit?" The man beside him laughed out loud, "Old General Xue will have to worry."
The corners of Xue Yuan's mouth curved hard, chills seeping through.
The bystanders didn't see his scowl and continued to laugh and joke, and someone asked Xue Yuan, "Doesn't the general have a sweetheart?"
Xue Yuan thought, "Why not.
He even kissed and touched his sweetheart. Envious? But envy doesn't mean shit. His sweetheart doesn't recognize this.
The more Xue Yuan thought about it, the more he felt that he was really fucking suffocating, just as he was suffocating, his ears twitched, and he abruptly looked up, and saw the scattered sentries hurrying towards this place, with their torches flying, and when they saw Xue Yuan it was a shout, "General! There are locusts attacking!"
The officers immediately put away their smiles and laughter, rolled over and stood up, skillfully going forward to arrange their troops. Xue Yuan took his sword and led his horse to follow him, "Vice General, send someone to take care of the grain and grass, this place is getting closer and closer to the northern border, and the locusts are gaining momentum rapidly, we must not let there be the slightest loss of food!"
The Vice General cupped his fists in a deep voice, "Yes!"
Xue Yuan mounted his horse, and with a gale of hooves, he ran out like a galloping wind. He pushed down his children's feelings and buried the face of the saint in his mind as well, his face was bearded, and his hand holding the reins was worn out with many rough calloused marks again.
Running into the darkness at the last moment, he suddenly thought untimely about whether all his racking his brains to make Gu Yuanbai remember him had taken effect, would it work?
*
Very useful.
Gu Yuanbai was so angry with him that he couldn't sleep most of the night.
The box of unknown jade pieces brought back from Xue Yuan's place were forgotten to explore, and placed in front of them were twenty-three small white porcelain bottles. These vases were printed with various colorful patterns, the material was ordinary, and a few of them even had slight cracks.
Gu Yuanbai looked at these porcelain bottles, knowing that Xue Yuan couldn't spit ivory out of a dog's mouth, but he still broke a bottle and took out a roll of fine paper slips from inside.
These thin notes were ambiguous in their statements, stepping on that line and repeatedly testing it. The twenty-three notes plus the one Gu Yuanbai smashed out in the Xue Mansion during the day almost connected into an alternative love letter.
Just write a "love letter" of the nature of the person after all is not a gentle reader, words to the halfway point, which the stronger the sense of aggression, the surface of the more hypocritical submissive, and finally know that the sweetness of the bitter, with Gu Yuanbai talked about the past that night in the cave, talking about the kiss.
"Your Majesty's dragon root is as warm as jade," the words on it flaunted, "I love it to the touch, and it should be very delicious to look at."
The latter few sentences all made Gu Yuanbai look like he had feelings.
The last time I was ridiculous was five or six months ago. Gu Yuanbai read the notes without changing his face, his fingers reaching under the covers, but once he moved, he stopped doubly feeling drained.
It's not cool at all, it's not comfortable at all.
I didn't think anything of it in the past, but now I find it tedious.
Gu Yuanbai swept the note next to his pillow and pulled the covers over his head.
Halfway through the day, he let out a deep sigh.