Chapter Forty-Nine: A Stormy Evening
If it's just a light rain, then it can be said that what you like is not a rainy day, but under the eaves that you have escaped the rain with so-and-so. But now that the rain is pouring down and the lightning and thunder are blowing every now and then, this small roof is not so poetic.
What's more, there is also a panicked heroine here.
Gu Nian irritably kicked the soaked stones on the ground with his foot, "What about Shen Huan?" Why haven't you come yet? ”
Yu Zeyan shook his head, he didn't speak, just quietly looked at the rain scene on the street.
The stalls in the market were almost closed, there was not a single pedestrian on the road, and the shops were almost closed.
Gu Nian looked up at him, and from time to time the rain blew on his face, but no matter how embarrassed the situation was, he looked extremely graceful and graceful.
A light breeze blew, and the rain was as heavy as ever.
Not far away, on the street corner, a horse-drawn carriage drove by.
The horseshoe hit the stone ground clangling, Gu Nian stretched out his head and looked there, and saw Shen Huan from afar.
"You're here!" Gu Nian shouted, "I will count on you in the future, I might as well wait for death on the spot." ”
Shen Huan was aggrieved: "Eldest sister, don't look at how big the wind and rain is!" ”
He wiped his face, and he couldn't tell whether it was rain or sweat on his hands, "I'm here too, right?" ”
"Yes, yes, yes!" Gu Nian said in response, she raised her hand to block the rain, and rushed into the carriage in three steps and two steps with a horizontal heart.
Around the corner, Yu Zeyan walked over slowly.
"Yo, why is Childe here!" Shen Huan teased, and he instantly stopped when he received Yu Zeyan's glaring glance.
He hurriedly jumped out of the car with an umbrella and greeted Yu Zeyan.
Gu Nian's butt was not stable, but when he saw Shen Huan's operation, he said angrily: "Why don't you know how to pick me up if you have an umbrella?" ”
Shen Huan pulled out a dog-legged smile: "This is my son-in-law after all." ”
Yu Zeyan didn't get into the car, but sat straight in the front room of the carriage.
Shen Huan closed the curtain with his backhand.
"There's a frame under that seat, and there's clean clothes in the box, so you can find some to change into, and don't catch a cold again." Yu Zeyan said softly.
Gu Nian's nose was a little out of breath, and when she heard this, she was a little moved in her heart, and she replied with her nose in response, "Okay." ”
Listening to the sound of rustling clothes behind him, Yu Zeyan whispered to Shen Huan: "Just now I saw Lao Wu passing over with a team of people. ”
"Old... Your Highness Five? Shen Huan reacted instantly, "Is something wrong?" ”
Yu Zeyan shook his head, his expression flickering.
"Where now?"
"Let's send her back first."
The rain became heavier and heavier, and the sky became cloudy in an instant. Black clouds are pressing down on the city, and it seems that something big is about to happen.
Yu Zeyan sent Gu Nian back to the house first, and Chang Ji came to report under the heavy rain, saying that the five princes were sending people all over the city to find the son.
Yu Zeyan immediately rode his horse to the restaurant on the left side of the Xijing Inn.
The restaurant has only two floors, and now it is a meal, so it stands to reason that it should be overcrowded, but the restaurant is quiet, only King Xu is sitting alone on the first floor drinking.
There was silence in the hall, except for the crisp sound of wine cups hitting the table, which seemed extremely ethereal in this uninhabited hall.
Yu Zeyan dismounted and found a row of small servants standing at the door. They all kept their heads down, whispered from time to time, and their voices were as loud as mosquitoes, completely obscured by the pouring rain.
He stopped at the door and symbolically asked the little guy standing at the door: "Who is inside?" ”
The little guy looked up, he was thinly dressed, his lips were blue, as if he had been frozen at the door for a long time, and his words were not very neat: "There is only His Royal Highness King Xu." ”
Yu Zeyan nodded, he just stepped into the threshold, but turned back, he glanced at the shivering little guy who was shivering, and said softly: "You all go up, go to the back kitchen, find a warm place to stay, don't stay here." ”
The little ones looked at each other in embarrassment, and they all bowed their heads.
"It doesn't matter, I'll carry it for you." Yu Zeyan said softly, and there was more urging in his voice, "Hurry up, don't let me say it a second time." ”
This is not the first time this has happened.
Whenever the fifth prince was reprimanded by His Majesty, he would be alone to find a place to drink.
It's just a matter of drinking, and he's always willing to ask these people to go to the gate to guard it, whether it's spring, autumn, winter or summer. Even if the sun outside is so poisonous that he sweats like rain in three seconds, even if the snow outside is as thick as his ankles, he has to go out and stand.
Why? Because he has low self-esteem.
His background is not as noble as the third prince Yu Jingyan, the late biological mother is the eldest princess of Shangyuan, and the adoptive mother is the daughter of Guogong, the current concubine Niangniang.
He is just a child born to a palace born in His Majesty's favor, although he grew up under the knees of the Queen Mother since he was a child, and his father also took great care of himself, but his too humble background is something that cannot be concealed.
Although his father cares about himself, he always has a little alienation in his tone, and when he accidentally mentions his biological mother, his father will be displeased.
Although he is a deputy general in the battalion, his years of experience have also made him more or less his own power, but it is far from what he really wants.
People are greedy.
He hated his origin, he felt that it was a stain on his life, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not get rid of the strange eyes of some people in class society.
And these little guys, who are also from low backgrounds, have become his only outlets. He tried to prove with this behavior, or to show everyone that he was not the same as them.
Although he can't choose his background, he can choose how to go next.
He was never a man of too much integrity.
Yu Zeyan took a deep breath and stepped in.
He walked down the corridor to the inner hall on the first floor, and saw King Xu sitting upright at the table closest to the stage drinking. There was no one here, quietly, it was a scene.
Xu heard the footsteps, and King Xu looked up at Yu Zeyan, his eyes blurred.
His cheeks were slightly red, and he smiled at Yu Zeyan, then raised his hand and shook the wine cup. Sake was shaken out and dripping onto the upholstery of the mahogany seats.
"His Royal Highness is still busy with official business, so let His Highness find it easy." There was a slight stain of wine on his wide sleeves, and he didn't care, but let the spilled wine scatter freely.
Yu Zeyan stepped forward quietly, deliberately avoiding the place where the wine was spilled, he picked up the crumbling wine jug on the table in front of King Xu, picked a clean glass and poured it a little.
If you have any official duties, don't make fun of me. Yu Zeyan raised his head and toasted, this good craft beer is really soft in taste, not as spicy as ordinary liquor.
He asked softly, "Your Highness is troubled?" ”
"What do you mean by this, why don't you be upset about living in this world?" King Xu smiled, that smile was also thrilling, for the ill-intentioned Yu Xueyan, he actually accepted it as comfort.