Chapter 269
As long as you don't go! This sentence is like praying for the owner not to abandon his puppy.
Although the second prince was tall and strong, it was almost the same as a bear, but Su Jinyao felt that he was as pitiful as a puppy without an owner.
So much so that the current second prince seems to be looking for a comfort, someone who can stay by his side (shēn).
After walking up for a while, the second prince pointed to a mountain wall in front of him and said, "That's a very strange place, it can be said that there is a further cave." Let's go, let's see. ”
After saying that, he took the lead and bypassed the mountain wall.
Su Jinyao watched the thick back of the second prince disappear on the other side of the mountain wall, and the doubts in her heart were a little lighter. She had an intuition that the second prince really wouldn't hurt her, and maybe it was really for her good.
As for the reason, maybe she will know, maybe ...... She could never have known.
"Hey, stupid girl, come here. You look at the fruits that you don't eat. The second prince poked his head out from the side of the mountain wall again and beckoned Su Jinyao to hurry up.
Su Jinyao said "um", and then walked over quickly.
Bypassing the stone wall, there is indeed a cave. The stone wall was like a door, and behind it was a circular basin, and the surrounding mountain wall was as high as a three-story building, enclosing the place into a small world.
The second prince was standing under several cherry trees, which were covered with red cherries like small lanterns. Each one is so big and red, and the moonlight glows with a soft light unique to the night.
"How can there be so many cherry trees!" Su Jinyao was indeed surprised. Cherries must have been a rarity in ancient times, right? At least I have never seen or heard of Su Jinyao since I crossed over.
And the cherries here are not small cherries that are native, but big cherries. It's an American thing, right? That's at least what I've heard of in modern times.
However, in the small basin on the top of the mountain, no less than 20 trees were planted, and each one was full of fruits.
"This is a fruit tree from Fanbang, and there were only three at the beginning. Later, I found a gardener to plant here, and it took nearly five years to produce some fruit last year, but it was not much, and it was not very tasty. This year, there are more fruits, and since last month, I have added fertilizer, and the fruits are sweeter. You're the first to try it out. ”
As he spoke, the second prince began to reach out and pick it. The big cherries were picked off one by one, and a large handful of them were sent to Su Jinyao.
The corners of Su Jinyao's mouth twitched, feeling that this guy had absolutely something wrong with his brain. But looking at so many red fruits, Su Jinyao's stomach couldn't help but "gurgle".
"You sit here and eat, I'll go over there and dig some sweet potatoes." The second prince placed the cherries on a stone to the side and turned (shēn) to walk deeper into the basin.
Su Jinyao saw that there was a field in front of her that she didn't know anything, and the green leaves still had a few drops of dew. The temperature in this basin is not high or low, and the humidity is relatively suitable, which should be very suitable for the growth of crops and fruit trees.
Su Jinyao grabbed a handful of cherries in her hand, rubbed them with the hem of her clothes and stuffed them into her mouth. It tastes sweet and slightly sour.
Because of curiosity, Su Jinyao followed the second prince over while eating, wanting to see what kind of field it was. When I walked over, I saw that the small field in front of me was all planted with sweet potatoes.
"You also asked the gardener to grow sweet potatoes?" Su Jinyao squatted down and pulled out the sweet potato leaves to take a look, and pulled out one vigorously, and the sweet potato below was as big as her two fists together.
Rub the dirt off the top and break off a small piece to see the ròu inside, which is orange-red. If such sweet potatoes are roasted and eaten, they are soft, glutinous and sweet.
Su Jinyao couldn't help but pull out two more trees, and each sweet potato grew super big. When it is cooked, it must be that there is a lot of 瓤 (ròu).
When the second prince saw Su Jinyao starting to pluck sweet potatoes, he pointed to the other side and said, "There is still sugarcane over there, do you want to eat it?" I'll cut it back for you. After speaking, without waiting for Su Jinyao to answer, she had already run forward.
Su Jinyao glanced up and shouted, "What else is planted here?" Let's get some back. ”
"Oh." The second prince agreed, and ran out of the smoke.
When Su Jinyao plucked six large sweet potatoes in one go and wiped all the soil on them clean, the second prince carried two sugarcanes and came back with a pumpkin.
Su Jinyao said casually: "Why are there still pumpkins?" Is this an orchard or a vegetable garden, and are there tomatoes and peppers? ”
"Nope. Do you want to eat? Go back and ask someone to plant. After the second prince finished speaking, he put down the pumpkin in his hand, pushed the sugarcane in front of Su Jinyao, and said, "You eat, I'll go and make a fire." ”
"Are you sure you won't cause an explosion when you start a fire?" Su Jinyao took the sugarcane and said, "Don't you have a dagger, how to peel it?" Do you want me to bite and peel the skin? ”
"Or else? I'll give you a bite? The second prince shook his head and said, "There is a dagger, but I won't give it to you." The silver needle on you (shēn) and the stone on the ground almost killed me, and if you give you a dagger, am I too long-lived? ”
"Cut." Su Jinyao glanced at the second prince, ignored him, and really began to bite the sugarcane skin.
The sugarcane is still very tender, the skin is not hard, and if you peel it, you will pull a long strip. Soon peeled out a section, Su Jinyao took a bite and chewed it in her mouth, it was sweet and sweet, it was really delicious.
On the other side, the second prince had already found a lot of hay and started to light the fire. He also deliberately used the stones he picked up to surround a simple stove, and the piles were still decent.
Su Jinyao walked over while biting the sugar cane, watched him squat on the ground and lit the fire, and said, "Looking at your skills, you don't look like a person who can blow up the kitchen?" Why did it stink so much just now? ”
"It's really the Gu worm that fell into the pot." The second prince said very sincerely: "There are really a lot of Gu worms on me (shēn), and I will crawl out of one by accident. ”
Su Jinyao said curiously: "Aren't you very powerful at the Imperial Gu?" I think the four princes are all (tǐng) powerful. ”
"Actually, I don't know how to resist Gu, I'm born with a mental connection with Gu worms." When the second prince said this, he grabbed another handful of hay and was still in the freshly lit fire, and said, "When my mother was pregnant with me, the Gu worms ate back. Later, although I suppressed it, it also hurt me who was still in her womb. So after I was born, everything I looked like an ordinary fetus was undoubted, but in fact, I was already a Gu worm in my heart. ”
After speaking, the second prince pointed to his own mouth (xiōng) and said, "Here, there is a heart-protecting Gu who lives and dies with me. I am also Gu, and Gu is also me. So it's not that I'm in the Gu Sect at all, it's that the Gu worm is one with me. ”
Su Jinyao secretly took a breath of cold air when she heard this, and faintly felt a little pity.
She had heard Zhu Xinsu say that among the Gu masters of the Miao and Yao tribes, there was a kind of witchcraft that cultivated Gu with the blood of self (shēn). After raising it, it is really indistinguishable from people. It is precisely because Gu is closely integrated with people that it can reach the highest level of Gu insect control.
But the second prince is definitely not a Gu master, he was forced to accept a Gu worm when he was a fetus, and when he was born, the Gu worm was like a parasite, living and dying with him.
In a flash, Su Jinyao suddenly asked, "Do you hate your mother?" She didn't give you the best protection and made you like this? ”
The second prince (shēn) stiffened, and his shoulders tightened significantly. But then he slowly relaxed, shook his head and said, "This is actually not the reason why I hate her." ”
Isn't that a reason to hate her? So, there is still hatred?
Su Jinyao immediately heard the meaning of the second prince's words, and he had already admitted that he actually hated the nobles.
But a mother and son, and the mother is desperate to fight for the throne for her son, why do they still have hatred?
Su Jinyao paused for a while and remained silent. She knew that what she shouldn't ask couldn't be asked in too much detail, and she was afraid that the second prince's capriciousness would bring trouble to herself.
The second prince didn't dig deeper, and when he saw that Su Jinyao was silent, he lowered his head and fiddled with the fire again, and when the fire was a little stronger, he roasted the stone (rè), and then went to bring the sweet potato and roasted it on the stone stove that was temporarily erected.
Roasting sweet potatoes requires patience, and the appearance of baking them is actually ugly. The outside is completely charred and blackened, but there are bursts of sweet fragrance wafting out.
While the sweet potatoes were still roasting on the improvised stone stove, the second prince sat down cross-legged, churning around the firewood, not knowing what to find. After a while, he drew a small, sharp dagger from his bracer, picked up a twig and sharpened it.
Su Jinyao also sat aside, a few steps away from the second prince, nibbling on sugar cane while watching him cut branches.
Originally, Su Jinyao thought that he was playing at random. It wasn't until he had cut two branches that Su Jinyao saw that this was used to replace a pair of chopsticks. smiled and said: "Cut, this is not in the palace, what are you still paying attention to?" ”
The second prince glanced at Su Jinyao, didn't say a word, turned over the sweet potatoes on the fire again, and then folded them with a few large leaves, wrapped a sweet potato that had ripened first, and handed it to Su Jinyao.
Su Jinyao was not far away from the second prince who could touch sweet potatoes without stretching out her arms, so she shook her head and said, "You eat first, don't let me." I'll just gnaw on sugar cane (tǐng). ”
"Eat it for you, come and get it." After the second prince finished speaking, he put the sweet potato to the side (shēn) and went to play with another sweet potato.
Su Jinyao suddenly felt that this guy's temper was really stinky, and she didn't bother to pay attention to him, still lowering her head and nibbling on her sugarcane. Anyway, there is a pumpkin, take it back to make a pumpkin porridge in a while, and she will not rarely eat any mushy caramelized sweet potatoes.
But after a while, the second prince looked at the sweet potatoes on the side (shēn), and then at Su Jinyao, who refused to come, frowned, and actually got up (shēn) to send her the sweet potatoes. He also broke the sweet potato in half, held it in front of Su Jinyao with leaves, and said, "Eat it now, it's not hot." Dig and eat with chopsticks without getting your mouth full of ash. ”
Su Jinyao took it with a blink of eyes, she really didn't know what kind of trouble this prince was making. He roasted sweet potatoes by himself, and even sent them to himself so diligently?
"Eat, there is no Gu poison." After the second prince finished speaking, he took a sweet potato from the stone stove and nibbled it with leaves.
When he ate it himself, he didn't use chopsticks or carefully peel the skin, but just broke it in half and gnawed on the inside, and the corners of his mouth were stained with a little burnt black ash.
Su Jinyao looked at the simple chopsticks in her hand, the length was the same, the thickness was even, but it was (tǐng) to take advantage of it. looked at the second prince who was eating heartily, and couldn't help asking, "Hey, which one is the real you?" ”
The second prince heard it, but he didn't raise his head, so he said, "It's all the same, whatever you think." ”
Su Jinyao asked again, "Then what's going on here?" You deliberately built a paradise here? ”
"Sort of." The second prince finished eating a large sweet potato, and he couldn't get enough of it, and he pulled another one from the fire. This one was even hotter, and he had to change it with two hands through the leaves. While squeezing the sweet potatoes back and forth, he said: "Actually, I envy the imperial brother, he can have a free life." ”
"Then you can let it go." Su Jinyao suddenly felt that this was her chance to counterattack. Maybe she used her kung fu to spit lotus flowers in her mouth, and said that the second prince would let him unload his armor and return to the field?
As long as the second prince gives up the throne and doesn't fight with Gu Xuebin, the Yugui people will have no puppets and goals, and they won't be able to set off any waves.
Unexpectedly, the second prince smiled after hearing this, and said: "I said that there must be a result in this dispute, and I will never back down until the victory or defeat is known." ”
After a pause, the second prince looked up at Su Jinyao and said seriously: "I have no way out, once I give up, it will be a dead end." ”
"What did you do to hurt nature? I'm so worried now. Su Jinyao also dug a bite of sweet potatoes and ate them, and the orange-red 瓤 (ròu) was soft and glutinous and sweet. It seems that the land here is not bad, (tǐng) is fertile, and the sweet potatoes grow so delicious.
And her sentence was completely ridiculous, and she didn't care too much about the answer.
Unexpectedly, the second prince stared at Su Jinyao for a moment, and said: "Sometimes, it's not that I have done something unreasonable, but I also have to bear the consequences that don't belong to me. Anyway, they are all going to be abandoned by the world, so it is better to let go and fight for once. ”
Su Jinyao's hand holding the chopsticks stiffened, and she could feel that the second prince had something to say. Is he alluding to the noble people?
"Eat, eat more, there's nothing else to eat here, I can't cook, if you stay, it's this every day." After the second prince finished speaking, he began to gnaw his sweet potatoes seriously.
But Su Jinyao found that when he was nibbling on the mushy sweet potato, his eyelids were lowered and the edge was gone, but he was more honest and simple.
Su Jinyao suddenly said: "What you yearn for may not be difficult to get, it just depends on when you let go." ”
"Well, maybe." After the second prince finished speaking, he looked up at Su Jinyao, his face was black and gray, his eyes were shining, and his face (qíng) was very serious, and said, "If I have a reason to give up, I will." Like what...... Now you. ”
"It can't be. I will fight with him and will never make so-called sacrifices for him. Will he like the country that the person who uses his heart (ài) in exchange for the country? Su Jinyao said very resolutely.
The second prince smiled after hearing this, wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, and said, "That's right, so you are more and more interested in me." ”
"Phew. Can you rely on some points? Since you want to fight for the throne, it is better to fight with a real sword and a real gun, than to play (yīn) behind your back. Su Jinyao glared at him and threw the half-hollowed out sweet potato shell towards the second prince.
"Be careful, don't throw things around." The second prince said, caught it casually, and put it aside. Then he put together the shells he had eaten.
After a few roasted sweet potatoes were eaten, the second prince knocked down the stone stove, completely covered the fire below, and began to dig a pit on the side again. Then he buried the sweet potato skins that the two of them had eaten, along with the leaves.
Su Jinyao really didn't expect that this second prince, who was pampered no matter how you look at it, was still an environmentalist. And he seems to have a special (ài) protection for this place, and his every move seems to have a sense of belonging.
Does he really like the idyllic scenery? Or is it that a person is bad enough to do something ordinary (qíng) to make up for the lack of personality?
Su Jinyao found that her head really couldn't see through the second prince. Her psychology doesn't work for such capricious, moody, and inconsistent people. The only explanation is that he is a madman.
"Alright, let's go." The second prince buried the garbage, and leveled the surrounding soil, and then looked up and saw Su Jinyao looking at him with surprised eyes. Smiling slightly, he shook his head and said, "Actually, I'm not crazy, I'm just imitating all the time." ”
"Imitating whom? Gu Xuebin? Su Jinyao suddenly understood that everything here might be the second prince imitating Gu Xuebin's life in seclusion in Pingshan Village? Faced with Su Jinyao's question, the second prince still only smiled slightly. Moonlight moved another position, he looked up at the sky, and said, "It's really not early, go back to sleep." ”
Su Jinyao couldn't ask anything more, so she had to follow him down the mountain.
When he returned to the door of the small courtyard, the second prince pushed the door and said, "Sleep well after going back, don't try to leave here in vain." I promise you that tomorrow morning after dawn I will go with you to the mountains. You can run as much as you want. ”
"You're so confident here?" Su Jinyao didn't (jìn) asked, "What if I know the formation?" Won't I just break out? ”
"I said, then let it be." After speaking, the second prince entered the courtyard and went straight to his room. When he stepped into the threshold, he turned around and said, "Don't worry, my imperial brother is fine." You can stay here with peace of mind. ”
"Oh." Su Jinyao watched the second prince enter the house, but she was still standing in the courtyard. I can't sleep, it's really preoccupied.
It stands to reason that she shouldn't believe the second prince, she can't believe a word or a word.
But vaguely, she felt that the words of the second prince were credible. Because he really didn't need to go to great lengths to get himself here, just to play some special little trick in the end.
And he was also prepared to stay here, and he personally guarded himself.