After the expiration of the period of filial piety, Lin Jikuo took Chu Jun to return to Gutuo.

Chu Jun said with regret, "Has the matter here been dealt with?" ”

"I promise you that I will return to Gutuo after the expiration of your filial piety."

"But ......"

"I'm the emperor, not a general, I don't have to do everything myself, someone will handle the rest."

"Okay."

Ordinary thatched huts, ordinary tables, chairs and benches, ordinary meals are inconspicuous. No one would have thought that there were two abdicated emperors sitting in such an ordinary room.

The young woman put a dish on the table and turned back into the house, dressed in a coarse cloth shirt, but could not hide her beautiful appearance, and if she wore beautiful clothes, she would be a beautiful person.

Gengmu Dalu poured tea for the two, "You have been living with me for more than two months, when are you leaving?" ”

"They'll pass by tomorrow." Yuan Yongyan said.

"So fast? What are you going to do? ”

"Xi'er is pregnant with my child, so naturally she wants to stay by my side."

Gengmu Dalu was helpless, "You know that's not what I'm asking. ”

Yuan Yongyan looked at Gengmu Dalu, who was leisurely eating, because he knew his former scenery, so he doubted his current attitude, "What you told me are your true thoughts?" ”

"Of course it's my true thoughts, you just look at the way I look." Gengmu Dalu said, "What about our Mengye, unlike you Gutuo, our clansmen love freedom, in fact, it doesn't matter who is the emperor, as long as the clansmen live well, and besides, let go of the rights in their hands, be with their beloved women, and live a life of connecting branches in the sky than winged birds on the ground, isn't it?" I love days like this. ”

"Actually, during this time, you have also seen that Lin Jikuo is a good emperor, under his leadership, the life of the people is no worse than when you were there, you have been secretly following them, but there is no next move, isn't it because of this?"

Seeing that he was still indifferent, Gengmu Dalu continued, "Next month, we are leaving, it is better to leave it here for you to live, and you continue to think about things that you haven't thought clearly." ”

"Leave?"

"There are so many great places with beautiful scenery, how can we stay in just one place."

Should I really give up? Yuan Yongyan asked herself, she has paid too much for this throne, can she really be nostalgic?

Gengmu Dalu shook his head helplessly, "You think slowly, I'll rest." ”

The team crossed the border between Hou Yan and Gutuo and entered the territory of Gutuo. Chu Jun lifted the curtain and looked outside, after a while, there would be no such boundary, Hou Yan and Gu Tuo, who were divided into two, would be merged into one this year after more than three hundred years.

"Hey, hey~"

Someone shouted not far away, Chu Junxi looked in the direction where the voice came, the other party's clothes were a little familiar, but he couldn't remember seeing them there for a while.

"Hou Yan's princess, please stop."

Chu Junxi stared at what the person was wearing, and suddenly thought of a person, "Stop, stop." ”

The advancing team stopped, Gengmu Dalu stepped forward, and Chu Junxi got out of the car, "Do you remember me?" We've seen it. ”

Chu Jun said with pity, "Brother Gengmu Dalu." ”

"My house is nearby, why don't you go to my house and sit down? And, of course, the emperor of your country. Gengmu Dalu looked at Lin Jikuo who came over.

"Why do you live in Gutuo?" And it's such a remote place.

"I'm traveling." Gengmuda said, "Actually, we wanted to leave two months ago, but helplessly, there was an uninvited guest at home, and I couldn't help it." ”

Chu Jun smiled, "What kind of guest, there is such an unreasonable person." ”

"Why don't you go and see for yourself?"

"Okay." The dilapidated thatched house appeared in front of him, and Chu Jun said in disbelief, "You live here?" ”

"Weird? Actually, it doesn't matter where you live, it's the people who are willing to live with me. ”

At the square table in the room, Yuan Yongyan had been waiting for a long time, looking at each other, and the room was silent.

Gengmu Dalu smiled, "What? Don't know each other? Probably not, it's only been a few months, let's sit down, for you, I specially ordered the people to make a few more dishes. ”

Chu Junxi had imagined the scene of meeting Yuan Yongyan countless times, how to explain the child in her belly to him, but she didn't expect it to be so sudden, and her right hand couldn't help touching her belly.

The four of them sat down at the table, no tension, no strong smell of gunpowder, just a faint silence.

Yuan Yongyan spoke first, "I want to take Xi'er away." ”

Lin Jikuo said, "Where are you going?" Where are you staying now? ”

"She has my baby in her belly, do you want to break up the three of us?" Yuan Yongyan squinted at Lin Jikuo and said, "If you hadn't used despicable means to leave Xi'er behind, how could she have stayed by your side." ”

"I'm sincere about everything about Yuanyuan."

Chu Jun stroked Lin Jikuo's hand.

Yuan Yongyan's eyes narrowed dangerously, "You want to be with him?" ”

"Yuanyuan." Lin Jikuo looked at Chu Junxi.

"Brother." Lin Jikuo regarded Chu Junxi as Yuan Yuan and his sister, but Chu Junxi never asked him to do things as a sister, even when he was facing life and death. I owe him too much, I can't pay it off in this life, and I don't want to use this false identity to use him, but today, she shouted out the word brother.

"Yuanyuan." In an instant, Lin Jikuo's tears burst into tears.

"Brother." Chu Junxi held his hand in front of his chest, "Yuan Yuan has grown up, I am already married, and I have children, Yuan Yuan can't always be by my brother's side, I have my husband, we should be together." ”

Lin Jikuo looked at her, silent, tears like beads of broken threads, constantly falling.

"Yuan Yuan knows everything his brother has done for Yuan Yuan, and he knows that his brother loves Yuan Yuan very much, and Yuan Yuan is reluctant to give up his brother." Instead of using Yuan Yuan's identity, Chu Junxi decided in his heart that this brother himself would not shout in vain, and he would treat Lin Jikuo as his brother, just as he regarded himself as his sister, until he didn't recognize himself.

"Okay." Lin Jikuo said, and smiled, "It's good that I have it with me." ”

A round ball of amber with a yellow daisy in the middle that he joked about not wilting or withering, glowing in the sun.

"I'll be visiting my brother." Chu Jun cherishes his promise.

"I'll wait for you."

"He will be very happy to have an emperor's uncle." Chu Jun caressed his stomach.

Seeing the team that returned to Gutuo leaving, Chu Junxi and Yuan Yongyan stood side by side, and the oblique and elongated shadows behind them were connected together.

"I thought you'd go back with your soldiers, and we'd see each other in the bloody palace when we saw each other."

Yuan Yongyan snorted coldly, "There will be that day." ”

Chu Jun smiled, "However, you didn't mention this matter just now." ”

"You are not allowed to go back to see him, and you are not allowed to call him brother."

"Why?"

Yuan Yongyan's face darkened.

Thinking about the reason, Chu Junxi chuckled, Lin Jikuo is Yuan Yongyan's younger brother, if he is called Lin Jikuo's brother, then his husband will also be called his brother, no wonder Yuan Yongyan has a black face.

"I thought you would misunderstand that the child was Lin Jikuo's." The two held hands and walked back slowly.

"I know everything that happens in the palace, how can I not know about the child."

Chu Jun was taken aback, "Could it be that during this time, you have been hidden in the palace?" ”

Yuan Yongyan said lightly, "It's just eyeliner." ”

Chu Junxi realized that in fact, the power of the Gutuo Palace was not as simple as he saw.

"In that case, why was the throne still taken away?"

Yuan Yongyan was gloomy, "I knew it too late, and the troops were in his hands, so I didn't have time to deploy them all." ”

Chu Junxi chuckled lightly and changed the topic to a lighter topic, "We haven't seen each other for so long, and you don't seem to care about my affairs at all." ”

"How so?"

"Why don't you ask?"

Yuan Yongyan asked Chu Junxi to lean on his shoulder, "I have a lifetime to listen." ”

Two years later

Chu Junxi and Yuan Yongyan entered the palace with a little man with pink makeup, Lin Jikuo was in the imperial study to approve the fold, and when he saw the villain coming in, he immediately threw the fold aside and picked him up from the ground, "They have grown so big, the last time I saw you, you were still held in your mother's arms and couldn't walk." ”

Gong'er hugged Lin Jikuo's neck, kissed him on the cheek, and said softly in a childish voice, "Does the emperor's uncle miss me?" ”

Lin Jikuo frowned and smiled, "Of course Uncle Emperor misses you." ”

Chu Junxi entered the house, "What should I do if I run so fast and fall?" ”

"I won't fall anymore, my mother loves to worry about it."

Yuan Yongyan then came in and picked up the fold on the desk to look through.

Lin Jikuo didn't care, and teased the villain, "Is it okay for the emperor's uncle to take you to play?" ”

"Daddy will be angry."

"Why?"

"Mother said, Dad is jealous."

Lin Jikuo laughed, "If Dad doesn't let you play with the emperor's uncle, what will you do?" ”

Gong'er frowned, "Then my mother will be unhappy." ”

Yuan Yongyan hugged his son back into his arms, "If you can only choose one of your father and the emperor's uncle, who will you choose?" ”

Gong'er didn't understand anymore, "Why can you only choose one?" ”

"No, why, who would you choose?"

"Dad, don't you like the emperor's uncle?"

Yuan Yongyan just wanted to speak, but when she saw Chu Junxi on the side, she changed her words, "Of course not." ”

"But you didn't hug you, Dad likes Gong'er, so he will hug Gong'er, and the emperor's uncle likes Gong'er and will hug Gong'er, but Gong'er didn't see Dad and the emperor's uncle hugging."

Chu Jun smiled and looked at the two with embarrassed faces, hugged each other a little stiffly, all the grievances and estrangements disappeared, and their shadows on the ground were intimate.