Chapter 8 A Different Kind of Journey
"Your Highness, we will arrive at the Yunlong Inn in two hours, we will stay there tonight, we will leave tomorrow, and we will arrive at the capital of Southern Chu at noon."
Gong Yaoyuan had to report to Chu Zexi as usual, and he had long been accustomed to this highness's attitude of ignoring him.
Chu Zexi didn't raise his eyelids, he answered softly, still maintaining the action of touching the bun, completely unaffected, only Xia Qingyi, who was sleepy, was excited to hear the words of the capital of Southern Chu in a trance
Jumped up from the seat, hit his head on the edge of the sedan chair, and let out an earth-shattering scream, but he didn't care about the pain, and opened the curtain to see the appearance of the legendary prosperous capital, but looking at the lush forest mountain path that was still the same, his face immediately collapsed.
"Ahh Didn't you say that it was here, why is it still a mountain road, where is it??? β
Gong Yaoyuan was amused by her babbling actions, and looked at Xia Qingyi, who was sitting opposite him, with a bulging brow, and laughed out loud.
"Hahaha, don't worry, Childe, I said that the capital will not arrive until tomorrow, and I will go to the inn first."
Her nose, eyes and mouth are not the best, but there are so many expressions when they get together, full of vitality, it seems that some of the ladies can sit and talk silently all day long, step by step, beauty is beautiful, but lack aura.
"In the evening, we will have a few drinks at the inn as a celebration, which is good."
Gong Yaoyuan looked at Chu Zexi, who was speechless, with a smile, and suggested respectfully and cautiously.
"Celebrate, what do you want to celebrate?" Hearing this, Xia Qingyi couldn't help but be curious, and asked.
"Congratulations to our fateful acquaintance, the grass people have fulfilled their mission and safely escorted His Highness to the capital."
Gong Yaoyuan deliberately paused, paving the way for the next thing to say.
"By the way, I want to say goodbye to a few people, and I haven't asked the prince and the prince of Chu about their names all the way, if they are destined to meet again in the future. I don't even know a few names below, which is really rude! β
Xia Qingyi's words made Xia Qingyi a little stunned, and her heart had already turned a thousand times.
Interpersonal communication has always been her weakness, I thought that Pingshui met, but it was a fate to go together, and there should be no more connections in the future, and this is the first time someone has asked her name for so long, whether she made it up or used her real name in the world. If someone digs deep into her origins, how will she respond? You can't say that you have inherited this body when you wake up through time and space, right!?
The look of embarrassment on her face was obvious, so Gong Yaoyuan on the side easily captured this information. In fact, from the mention of this topic, Gong Yaoyuan keenly noticed that the two had completely different attitudes, and the person who had never changed his face before the collapse of Mount Tai was obviously just wondering what his real intentions were? And this "girl" is completely distressed, holding her forehead for a while, sighing for a while, and completely immersed in her own world.
Until the arrival at the inn, there was a suffocating and oppressive atmosphere in the carriage. No one spoke again. Everyone was in a state of false sleep, thinking and anxious.
The Yunlong Inn is very large, and above the faΓ§ade, the words "Yunlong Inn" are baked with pure gold lacquer, which is very domineering.
The first floor is dedicated to guests to rest and dine, and the upper four floors are used for accommodation, and according to the owner, the top floor is only open to people who are not rich or noble. There is also a large stable behind the inn. Provide feed for foals coming and going, or need to be replaced by guests who travel long distances
Gong Yaoyuan watched his groom skillfully place the horses and turned around to report, then moved to the dining table and sat down and poured tea for Chu Zexi, and after the teacups of the three were full, he held up the bottom of the cup with his left hand, fixed the wall of the cup with the index finger, middle finger and thumb of his right hand respectively, raised his hands, elbows and chest height, and arched solemnly.
"Formally introduce Xiaosheng Donghuan Gong Yaoyuan, who has followed his father in business since he was a child, and has dabbled in the money pile of the cloth inn, I hope that I will have the opportunity to be supported by Prince Chu in the future. Saying that he really drank it in one gulp.
The big guys were the last to appear, Xia Qingyi swallowed her saliva, knowing that she couldn't escape, she learned from Gong Yaoyuan to pick up the teacup, straighten her back, and clear her throat in a matter-of-fact manner.
"In Xia Qingyi, those who came to the capital of Southern Chu to look for relatives, thank you brothers and Taiwan for taking care of them all the way, and see you in the rivers and lakes."
After saying that, he drank it all and sat down with his head down, and didn't look at them, so let's do it. She felt that there was nothing wrong with what she said, except for a slight change of the name at the end of herself, everything else was done as it was.
Half loud, without waiting for the voice of the person opposite, Xia Qingyi raised her head slightly and glanced at Chu Zexi quietly, and found that Gong Yaoyuan was the same as her, pursed her lips, and peeked at Chu Zexi with her residual vision, and suddenly felt funny, and quietly pulled Gong Yaoyuan's sleeve under the table with her hand, don't turn her head and start a conversation with Gong Yaoyuan with a silent mouth.
"He didn't respond, so embarrassed, is he angry?"
"I don't know! Now what!? Gong Yaoyuan had a tacit understanding and responded to her in the same way, and for a while, the two exchanged songs under Chu Zexi's nose, but the atmosphere was a little ambiguous and funny.
"Chu Zexi." He threw down three words neatly, got up and strode out of the inn.
"Was he talking just now?" Xia Qingyi was startled by the sudden voice, she didn't come to her senses, and looked at Gong Yaoyuan in disbelief to confirm with him,
"It should be!"
Gong Yaoyuan is very accustomed to Chu Zexi's reaction, most of the people in the royal family are cold. Even if there are two occasional people who seem to be enthusiastic, gentle and quiet, they are just a disguise to deliberately settle in front of others.
Intrigues, mutual temptation, and deception are the most common state of existence in the great palace, which is helpless and pathetic.
Chu Zexi originally didn't want to expose too much information about his royal family, and he didn't want to. But just now, seeing Xia Qingyi and Gong Yaoyuan interacting so intimately under his nose, it was so dazzling that he blurted out his name.
He was also puzzled by his unusual behavior, so he decided to come out to breathe and contact the secret guards in the city by the way. This time quietly out of the city, no one should know his whereabouts, the imperial city has its own since childhood training dead soldiers in the palace dressed as a couch bed of him, but so cautious to travel, or ambushed, indicating that there must be an internal response in the palace, thinking of this, he raised his eyes, a murderous aura spread.
It seems that he is too merciful! Even the "cripple" in the eyes of the royal family has still become a stumbling block for his older brothers and younger brothers on the road to the throne. Heh, in that case, what are you pretending to be weak!?
What's more, there was still an unexpected gain from this trip---- that woman suddenly became weak somewhere in her heart, which was really interesting.
A flash of silver fireworks suddenly poured out of the sky, Gong Yaoyuan glanced at the air, looked at Chu Zexi who walked back from a distance, and immediately got up and greeted him as if nothing had happened, with a smile on his face.
"Your Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, the room has been arranged, and the villain will guide you."
One sentence of the Four Princes!! Chu Zexi's heart was shocked, he knew that he !!??
A businessman from another country actually knows so much about the royal family of Chu State, how could this be a descendant who came out of an ordinary businessman's family.
For the first time, Chu Zexi seriously began to look at Gong Yaoyuan, what kind of thoughts and purposes were under the cynical and unruly human skin.
Gong Yaoyuan also knew very well that he had attracted the attention of the other party, this time he did not avoid the other party's gaze, but directly greeted him without dodging.
Since Xia Qingyi is in Nanchu, his entanglement with Nanchu is bound to not end in the short term, and it is time to open the business road to Nanchu. And Chu Zexi is the best stepping stone for him to open the door of Southern Chu.
The two men looked at each other and looked at each other with fixed eyes, as if they were curious and cautious as if they had met for the first time.
After that night, Chu Zexi mysteriously disappeared, leaving Gong Yaoyuan alone to accompany Xia Qingyi into the city.
In order to alleviate the atmosphere, all the way Gong Yaoyuan described the customs of Southern Chu to Xia Qingyi, but secretly observed Xia Qingyi's face, Chu Zexi's emotional reaction without saying goodbye to Xia Qingyi can verify the intimacy of their relationship from the side.
But it was not as Gong Yaoyuan expected, Xia Qingyi was calm and terrible, no accidents, no sadness, as if this person had never appeared, so that Gong Yaoyuan couldn't help but secretly = Fu: Is she pretending to be calm, or is it really worth mentioning to her from acquaintance to farewell to a prince.
Xia Qingyi was bitter in her heart, this man only left her a jade pendant and a note.
"Something, the shopkeeper of Wangjianglou Restaurant in the city is looking for me with this jade."
After so many days of knowing each other, she thought γγγγγγ
Since ancient times, there has been affection and hatred. Shake her head, what is she asking for!? Originally, he hoped to use his royal status to find and introduce the master's junior sister to himself. Since he left like this, it is really a bit abrupt and exceedingly to let himself take the initiative to find him, and this kind of thing is not something that she Xia Qingyi would do.
So the matter has been thought about at this point, so the other remaining emotions left in her are worthless, and she has been doing psychological construction for herself. On her face, she didn't show it, kept smiling, and pretended to be completely attracted by Gong Yaoyuan's words, only the hand that kept stroking the cat could reveal a trace of her anxiety and nameless loss.
The south Chu is adjacent to the north Liang, the left is next to the west of Xinjiang, the right is connected to the east Huan, the capital Bianjing is located in the middle of the whole territory, the land is fertile, the four seasons are distinct, the iconic moat makes the city defense of Bianjing more stable, and once became the model of the four countries against the enemy.
Outside the sedan car, the autumn is boiling, the afterglow of the golden sun illuminates the rolling water waves of the moat, forming a beautiful silver mirror, and there is a faint smell of water in the wind, mixed with the smell of fallen leaves, full of a kind of vitality. Xia Qingyi retracted her poked head, and an unconscious smile rose on her lips.
"That's great!"
"What's so good?" Gong Yaoyuan keenly captured her sudden change in good mood and looked at her curiously.
"I'm happy to have finally arrived at my destination!" Xia Qingyi responded seriously with a sideways face.
"So, what's next?" Gong Yaoyuan wanted to follow her words and inquire again, but was interrupted by a piercing exclamation and a bumpy sedan body:
"Get out of the way!!"