For Yi Zhixing's words, Zhilan didn't dare to speculate without permission, after all, this time is different from the past, who knows if Yi Zhixing's heart will pretend to be someone else? However, if the thoughts reach the true love of the Son of Heaven, Zhi Lan's heart will ache faintly, and because of the pain, Zhi Lan immediately waved away many unrealistic thoughts in her heart. Including being entangled in who the person in front of him loves, there is no lack of thinking about Yi Zhixing's temperament at this time.

"Okay, I'm here for fun today, so why don't you ...... Why don't you ask Mother Zhi from Qingwulou to play a song for me herself, I wonder if I have this honor? ”

Hearing that Yi Zhixing called her mother Zhi, Zhilan was still a little uncomfortable, but when she saw her smiling, her cheeks were shy: "This ...... It's been a long time since I've performed, so I'm sure I'm not familiar with that shamisen. ”

"It's okay, I won't laugh at you anyway, you just play for me here, only I can hear it, do you think?"

Yi Zhixing was very sincere, and Zhi Lanzi couldn't refuse, so she could only bow her head and agree.

"In this case, the contemptible man will be ugly in front of His Majesty."

"Zhilan, don't be despicable, I don't like you to call me so much, you still come like before, I won't blame you."

"Yes......"

Zhilan owes a debt and regains some of the old feelings of getting along with the person in front of her.

Soon after, she fetched the shamisen that she hadn't played for a long time, while Yi Zhixing sat next to the desk, quietly sipping tea and listening to music.

During the process of Zhi Lan's playing, the woman never raised her head, but Yi Zhixing moved her eyes to Zhi Lan from time to time. The two hadn't seen each other for more than a year, and when they met again, it would be today's situation, and Zhilan never thought of it.

At the end of the song, Shirashi hastily collected the shamisen, and the blush on her cheeks still did not fade.

"What? Isn't Shiba's mother playing anymore? I think your skills are not inferior to those back then, so you might as well play a few more songs for me to listen to. ”

"Your Majesty, I have long been unfamiliar with this skill, and I don't want to show too much ugliness. Also, Your Majesty still doesn't want to call me Zhi's mother, just call Zhilan as before, you and I can be more suitable. ”

"But I didn't call you Zhilan back then, I called you Lan'er back then."

As soon as these words fell, Zhi Lan looked at the person in front of her in a daze, and was speechless for a while, but there was no doubt that the blush on Zhi Lan's cheeks only increased.

"Your Majesty...... Don't make fun of me......"

Looking at it like this, Yi Zhixing burst into laughter, but at the same time he had other thoughts in his heart.

"Okay, okay, don't I make fun of you? Since you don't want to play, come and drink tea with me, I haven't talked to you for a while, and you also told me how your great name in Yin Land spread. ”

"Where did the big name come from, it's just a false name, mainly because when Mother Lu once entrusted Qingwulou to me, this place was already full of glory, and what I did was just icing on the cake, not worthy of being with others."

Zhilan walked over, and immediately sat down to pour tea for the person in front of him. Yi Zhixing can see that compared with the past, Zhilan's temperament seems to be a little more amorous and soft, and a little less ruthless and tough in the past. Regardless of whether this change is good or bad, in short, Yi Zhixing is not disgusted, and he seems to be able to accept all the changes in Zhilan calmly.

Not long after the two of them were clear, a familiar voice sounded outside the door.

"Sister Lan! Someone over there asked you to kiss some beauty for him! ”

It was Li Falcon who pushed the door in, and when he saw the presence of the Son of Heaven, Li Falcon's eyes were immediately mixed with a little horror and fear.

"Falcon, why are you back again? Didn't you tell you to marry Yuyan? What do you always come here like? Also, Your Majesty is here, hurry up and salute Your Majesty. ”

"I've seen Your Majesty."

Li Falcon reluctantly owed, and then muttered to Zhi Lan again: "What, Sister Lan, you know how to push Falcon out, Falcon just wants to stay by your side, can't you?" Why does Hayabusa have to listen to you and marry her? Hayabusa just doesn't want to! ”

"You kid, I'm doing this for your good."

"Don't listen! Don't listen! Wang Ba chanted the scriptures! Sister Lan, let's go and greet the guests, don't nag Falcon! In a few years' time, you'll have to become a worrying old woman! ”

"Hey! How do you talk about that! I'm only twenty-five or sixteen, how can I become an old woman? ”

Zhilan was angry in an instant, maybe she was getting older, and she couldn't listen to others say 'old'.

Li Falcon hurriedly retreated half a step, then stood outside the door, closed the door, and just said to Zhi Lanyi through a door: "Anyway! In short, Sister Lan, you go quickly! Someone else is urging you! Do you still want to make money! The livelihood of everyone in this Qingwulou is all on you! Go and greet the guests! ”

Li Falcon's tone was like that of a little adult, and after saying these words, he ran away, lest Zhilan go out and catch him.

Zhilan wanted to go out and arrest people, but because of the presence of the Son of Heaven, she couldn't leave half a step.

Seeing this, Yi Zhixing smiled, and then said: "Since you are busy, I won't bother, you go and greet the guests, I'm fine." ”

Zhilan pursed her lips, after a dilemma, she finally decided to go out to solicit business, she owed herself to the person in front of her, and then walked away quickly.

When the woman's flying back disappeared within the reach of her sight, the light smile on Yi Zhixing's lips finally fell. He sipped tea alone, listening to the noisy movement outside, but his heart was inexplicably stained with an indescribable layer of loneliness.

From then on, he was the only one left in the Yin Palace.

Damn it, leave it, the rumored Son of Heaven who was sick back then finally became a loner, and no one bothered him. Twenty-seven or eighteen, no relatives and no wife, no children and no daughters, I think about it but I also feel desolate, sure enough, it is the high place that is unbearable, and I can't tell people about it.

Thinking of this, Yi Zhixing shook his head, and reluctantly drank the tea in the teacup in his hand, it was clear that there was tea there, but Yi Zhixing was like drunk, and the boundless sorrow and loneliness were finally magnified after Aluluo's happiness, and he was the only one who was still lingering in place, without any warmth at all.

"Shiba Mama! Help me find that cowardly! Tonight, Ben Gongzi wants to drink with Ben Gongzi timidly! Get drunk! If you don't get drunk, you can't go home! ”

"Okay, Prince Wang, wait a minute, I'll bring the cowardly out to see you later."

The movement outside did not take long to enter the ears of the Son of Heaven in the Accord, perhaps because he was alone and inevitably entangled in bitterness, Yi Zhixing slowly paced out of the original Accord.

Standing on the corridor on the second floor, Yi Zhixing could clearly overlook the scene below, but his attention was always focused on Zhilan, who was busy below.

Today, Zhilan always has a smile on her face, although it is not as cold as in the past, and there are three more cheerfulness, maybe this cheerfulness is also a last resort, but Yi Zhixing is still pleased that Zhilan has such a change now. It's better to smile than to have a sad face, whether it's out of true feelings or fake, at least Zhilan can integrate into the lives of the people. However, because of this, the existence of Yi Zhixing seems to be insignificant. Zhi Lan alone can hold up the entire Qingwu Building, and she doesn't seem to need anyone. Because of this, under its seemingly cheerful appearance, isn't it a colder heart?

At this time, within the sight of the Son of Heaven, Zhi Lan was dealing with all kinds of people, some of them were disciples who liked to make trouble, some were scholars who had set foot in this place for the first time to relieve their fatigue, or those fierce women who came to find a husband, all in all, Zhi Lan seemed to be able to get along well with everyone. In the past, this was not daring to think at all, because Zhi Lan was not a person who was willing to deal with others from the beginning, and she could do things smoothly in the smoke willow land where all kinds of people gathered for so long, presumably Zhi Lan had already practiced a body of patience and sophistication, and she was pleased with Yi Zhi's behavior, but at the same time she was lonely for herself.

Zhilan seems to be drifting away from him, and it is difficult for the lives of the two to be accurately blended together.

"Your Majesty, the hour is getting short, when are you going to return? It's still a long way from the palace. ”

Yan Qi's steep voice suddenly called Yi Zhixing to think of the night when he and Zhilan first met, although they didn't meet here, but they were also in the same smoke willow land in Yindu, at that time, the two still had to make a mortal enemy, but they didn't expect that now they have become friends who care for each other from afar. It may not be accurate to say that friends are interested, but this is also the most accurate statement of the relationship between the two now.

"Okay, then let's go back, and I'll ask someone to talk to Zhilan later, and I won't say goodbye in person."

Throwing down his head with a deep gaze, the Son of Heaven paced back from the side courtyard.

Not long after, when Zhilan was busy with all the work at hand and was ready to find another trip, the man was nowhere to be seen. With the Accord not there, and the corridor nowhere to be seen, Zhilan did spend a lot of time searching for people.

"Hey, Xiaoshui, have you seen Your Majesty?"

"Mother Zhi, I seem to have heard someone say that His Majesty has returned to the palace first, and I don't know who to ask to say hello to you when I see you."

"Oh, yes......"

Hearing the news that the Son of Heaven had returned, Zhilan subconsciously pursed her lips, and there was an indescribable sense of loss in her heart.

Yi Zhixing rarely arrives at this pastime, the interval between the two times can be more than a year, Zhilan doesn't know when he will see him again, Xu is a year, Xu is two years, Xu is difficult to meet again, even if the two are indeed in the same Yindu, but due to the disparity between the two identities, in fact, there is no difference from being thousands of miles apart.

Thinking about this, Zhilan's heart added a layer of loneliness.

On the way back to the palace, Yi Zhixing always sat in the sedan chair and never spoke, but Yan Qi wanted to break this strange silence.

"Your Majesty, when is the next time you come here?"

The man's cold questioning made Yi Zhixing a little stunned, but when he saw him with a smile, he immediately said: "I don't know, I am the Son of Heaven, and there are all kinds of opportunities, where can there be a fixed number." ”

"Your Majesty, over the years, Miss Zhilan has never had any personal affairs, and she has never secretly agreed to a marriage contract with the man next to her, and she is ......."

"Yan Qi, what do you mean by this? Is it a preparation for the repetition of the old things? She didn't promise a marriage contract because she was busy with the trivial matters of Qingwulou, why do you mess around here, those are all in the past, no need to mention it. ”

There was a little anger in the tone of the Son of Heaven, and somehow, once the vague relationship between him and Zhilan was mentioned, Yi Zhixing's emotions often rose up. Even Yan Qi, who is his loyal servant, can't understand the temperament of Yi Zhixing today, and he seems to have stranded his feelings for Zhilan in the past.

In any case, this is a pity after all, the two who used to fight and make trouble are now respectful of each other, and there is no doubt that there are some strange and alienated elements in this politeness and politeness, but neither Zhilan nor Yi Zhixing took the initiative to pierce this seemingly nonexistent barrier. It is indeed a contradiction that they are nostalgic for the past, but at the same time do not regret the present.