Chapter Sixty-Eight: Leaving Sorrow, the Past and the Present
"Situ, tomorrow Asai Bena will leave for Xianbei, but I still have some things to deal with tomorrow, you can send her off for me." Bai Yucheng bowed his head to deal with government affairs, and said to Situ Che, who was standing on the side.
Situ Che's hand serving tea trembled slightly, and he was stunned for a moment.
Does she want to go back to Xianbei.......
Seeing that Situ Che didn't respond, Bai Yucheng slowly raised his head, but saw that between the cold young man's eyebrows, there was a bit of sluggishness.
They have been together for more than ten years, and for the first time, they saw this young man look so confused, as if he had lost his mind.
"Situ, Situ? What's wrong? Bai Yucheng asked with concern.
"No, it's nothing, I'll go get ready......." Situ Che stood up and walked out of the door solemnly, but he was still holding the teapot he had just used for serving tea in his hand.
In the next half day, Bai Yucheng kept receiving reports from the maids.
"Oh no, Your Highness, General Situ smashed the white jade porcelain vase you treasured........"
"Your Highness, General Situ entered the room with a spear and stabbed the ceiling......."
"Your Highness, General Situ went to the street to buy wine, and forgot the wine in someone's shop........"
Mian Fu listened to the maids who came to complain, and couldn't help frowning, and felt a little funny.
"It's strange, Situ Che never makes a mistake in doing things, why is it that today he seems to have lost his soul, and he is about to overturn the roof of the entire palace."
Bai Yucheng smiled and said nothing.
After reading the two lines of paperwork, he said to Mianfu: "Mianfu, I'll go out." ”
He walked slowly to the garden, stopped under a huge camphor tree, and coughed softly.
"Situ, come down."
After a long time, a figure fell from the tree. Compared with the indifference in the past, he seems to be a little more melancholy today.
Bai Yucheng understood why he was worried, and this time, he wanted to knock on the side of this unworldly elm head.
"Your Highness......."
"I've heard everything about today, let's say, what's going on, so overwhelmed?" Bai Yucheng saw Situ Che rubbing his hands nervously like a child, looking around, and felt very interesting.
"Your Highness, am I sick, I am very worried, but the imperial doctor said that my body is very healthy."
"Is this the case since today?"
"Yes."
"Is that because Asaibena is leaving?"
“.........”
Bai Yucheng smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Situ, I have known you for more than ten years, and for the first time, you will intercede with me for someone else." In life, it is not easy to have someone who can make you care, if you meet someone who can make you worry, you should grasp it well. ”
"Your Highness, what do you mean?"
"See for yourself, I have a lot to attend to tomorrow, and I'm bothering you to send Asai Bena for me."
After enlightening Situ Che, Bai Yucheng returned to Qinxue Garden again to prepare to continue to review the official documents.
Bai Yucheng opened the door, and what caught his eye was a sleeping girl sitting in front of his book with her chin propped up, with some light side dishes and a glass of hot milk in front of her. Mianfu didn't know where he went.
Counting the hours, it is indeed time for dinner.
He closed the door gently, walked closer, and crouched down to look at the girl.
The circles under her eyes deepened a little, she was still frowning, and her face was not very good-looking, presumably because she had not slept well. Bai Yucheng slowly stroked her sideburns, but stopped in a moment.
The girl seemed to sense the subtle touch, and opened her eyes suddenly.
Bai Yucheng was a little caught off guard, stood up with his back to her, and asked coldly, "Who allowed you to come in." ”
"No one will let me in, so it's okay if I trespass into the house......." Ji Lianmei jokingly stuck out her tongue and handed him the hot milk on the table.
"Yes, I heard that hot milk can help people recover their memories, can you try it? And these dishes are new to me and the cook, and they say you only like light things....."
"Get out."
"What?"
Bai Yucheng slapped away the milk in Ji Lianmei's hand.
"You're really annoying, you're here, you're just going to cause me trouble. I want someone like Asaibena who can help me ascend to the throne, not a little maid who can only serve tea and water. If you think you're going to make me look at you more if you do this, it's better to die sooner. Get out and don't let me say a second time. ”
Ji Lianmei squatted down, picked up the copper cup that fell on the ground, and smiled slightly.
"Okay, then I'm out."
Looking at her lonely back walking out with a tray, Bai Yucheng only felt a surge of qi and blood surging in his heart. He looked back at the steaming side dishes on the table, at the milk that was lying on the ground.
In just two days, this is the third time she has been kicked out by herself.
Every time she came, she always took something different to amuse him, but the more she did this, the more he hated himself.
He made the girl he loved very sad, but he couldn't reach out to comfort her. Once he softens his heart, it will ruin her whole life.
I can't, let me be a wound to you. It's too hurtful to remember this kind of thing, so it's what I should do if it's too early.......
Why, you used to be so petty and lose your temper with me, why now, when I treat you like this, you don't make up your mind to stay away from me?
After a while, there was no movement outside.
Is it gone?
Then he'll go and have a look.
Bai Yucheng stepped over the mess, stretched out his hand to open the door and was about to go out, but his toes accidentally kicked the corner of his soft clothes.
He lowered his eyes, and saw Ji Lianmei sitting on the ground against the door, wrapped in a thin quilt, and the small one was alone in the corner.
Was she going to spend the night at his door? Even the quilt was thought out in advance.
It's just that for a moment, her face looked even worse than before, and the autumn wind blew her red lips bloodless, and there were vague tear stains in the corners of her eyes.
Did she go out with a smile and secretly shed tears where I couldn't see?
"Bai Yucheng, don't, don't drive me away, don't drive me away......." The sleeping girl twisted her eyebrows, with a crying voice, kicked the quilt on the ground with her hands and feet.
A sucker.
Bai Yucheng picked up Ji Lianmei, step by step, and walked through the long stone road, drenched in moonlight all the way.
If God could give me a little more time to accompany you, I would definitely not torture you and torture myself so cruelly......
Ten years of planning, ten years of cunning, but because you smiled flawlessly, there was a deviation.........
The next day, at the gates of the city.
Asabena changed into the armor she had worn on the expedition and straddled her horse, holding the reins of her horse, and looked behind her with a fluttering expression.
"Princess, it's time for us to go." Senna quietly reminded Asaibena from the sidelines.
"Wait, wait."
The bustling streets behind her, people coming and going, the people she was looking forward to
, never appeared.
The bell tower sounded twelve bells dullly, and if I didn't set off at this time, I was afraid that I would have to spend the night on the Gobi Desert in the wilderness.
"Forget it, let's go." Asaibena looked back at the glittering "Gusu" city gate number at the city gate, sighed, and straightened her clothes to leave.
Suddenly, there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, and looking back, a man dressed in black, with a handsome face, rode his horse, through the crowd of people, leaping through the narrow alleys, and approaching step by step, until the outline of his face was also clearly visible.
In a short distance, in Asaibena's eyes, it was like a slow-motion video, just silently watching him run towards her, her heart was already surging, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously rippled with a smile.
Since Bai Yucheng came to visit her and said those words to her, she suddenly felt that in fact, he was not as good as she imagined, and she was not as great as she imagined.
Maybe it's appropriate, but it's not in love.
She also craves the love and care of others, rather than the respect of each other based on the use of each other.
When she saw Situ Che running towards her, she finally understood that her heart had been entrusted to someone else.
Even though they only got along for a few days, all he did for her was to bring a glass of white water in front of her door every morning......
"I'm sorry, princess, I'm late." Situ Che's breath was a little disordered, probably because he was in a hurry.
Asai Beina's mouth pursed, and she pretended to be arrogant and asked, "Why are you here, Bai Yuchengren?" ”
"Your Highness is entangled in important matters, so let your subordinates send the princess."
"So, what do you have to say to me?"
"Her Royal Highness Princess....... Good ...... all the way."
"Hmph, then I'm leaving." Asaibena pursed her lips and raised her horsewhip, silently thinking in her heart: dead wood that does not understand the amorous feelings.
"Wait," Situ Che licked his lips nervously and asked, "Princess, will you come back?" ”
"What?" , Asaibena smiled and asked, "Then do you want me to come back?" ”
Situ Che hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Asaibena turned her head away, pursing her lips and smiling secretly.
She turned over and dismounted, and beckoned to the young man on the horse:
"Situ Che, you come down."
Situ Che obediently dismounted.
Asaibena leaned into his ear and whispered, "Fool, I'm just going home to settle some things, and I'll be back soon, didn't Your Highness tell you?" ”
Situ Che's face turned red, and he quickly turned his back.
It's over, it's a shame to lose......
"That princess has a safe journey, and I will not send it far."
"Hey, come back." Asai Beina took out a jade box containing pills from her bag, rubbed it in her hand, and handed it to Situ Che.
"This is the holy medicine of our Xianbei clan, my father told me to keep it well, and now, I will hand it over to you."
"This ....."
"You're going to be here, waiting for me to come back."
Asai Bena blinked, and while Situ Che was still holding the pill in a daze, she quickly stepped on the horse, raised her whip, and galloped away.
"Remember, on the day I return, you must wait for me at the gate of the city......"
The girl's loud voice came faintly under the sunset, Situ Che looked at the back of the girl stepping away from the horse, a smile rippled on his lips, and his heart had never been so warm.