Chapter 60: Chasing Hard
Bai Tan said: "Because of the weakness brought out of my mother's womb, I have been weak and sick since I was a child, and the medicinal soup is constant, and I will linger on the sickbed every now and then. When he was ten years old, he was not as good as a six- or seven-year-old child, so he was ridiculed by his classmates in the college. Lan Lan studied a year later than me, and she was the first female student at Jinyun Academy. Because she is the daughter of the patriarch and has a noble status, everyone humbles her. But she never put on a shelf of concubines, she calls everyone a brother and sister, and she is a tomboy. She saw that I was being bullied and helped me out. She is naturally very capable, punching a child, beating them with their heads and rats, and the farts are rolling and urinating. From then on, I thought that I had to marry her when I grew up...... Oh no...... Let her marry me.
She and Lu were taken captive by the bandits of Bailongdang that year, I was worried that she was broken, for fear that she would have to worry about her life, who knew that the next day, she went down the mountain intact, and also turned the evil bandit den upside down. It was on that day that I strengthened the conviction in my heart that I would marry ...... Oh no...... Marry her.
The first time I confessed to her, she didn't understand anything about love, and stared at me blankly, thinking that I had come to fight her in a duel. She happily shoved a red tassel gun into my hand and forcibly fought me, and the confession ended with me being thrown into the pool by her.
I confessed to her for the second time, she became a nerd because of Zhuzhu's enlightenment, addicted to books, and I was almost red after a confession. She looked up at me in a daze, said she hadn't heard, and asked me to say it again. Woooooooo He cried so hard that he beat his chest.
In the third time, it was the right time and place, and it was last year's Tanabata. I pondered for a long time, and I proposed to her in a concise and concise manner, just as the fireworks exploded, engulfing all my courageous voice. I thought I had failed again, but I didn't expect her to hear it this time. She was stunned for a long time before she showed an apologetic smile, she said that she liked men who were stronger than herself, so I made up my mind to go to Junmei Mountain to cultivate. Who would have thought, I've only been gone for just a year, and you're a vixen! He suddenly came out of the fond memories and pointed his trembling finger at the living man in front of him with grief and indignation. He burst into tears, and he lay on the table and sobbed.
Li Yi raised his eyebrows lightly and swallowed a sip of spicy wine. The difference between the spirit of this outside and the spirit of the empty mangosteen may be the difference in brewing techniques, or the difference in physique, and he can't bear the taste of this sake.
He put down the wine glass and wanted to leave quietly, only to see Bai Tan raise his head with tears on his face, looking so sad. He sobbed and continued, "I know Lan Lan has done a lot for you, and it makes sense that you will secretly promise her, but whether she really likes you or not, I will never agree to you being together!" ”
Li Yi replied coldly: "It's not up to you to decide. ”
Bai Tan wiped away the sobs on his face, and said categorically: "You are harming her!" Do you know how her birth mother died? ”
Li Yi put down his wine glass and cast his searching gaze on him with an unkind face.
Bai Tan's gaze was unusually solemn and said, "Lan Lan's biological mother committed suicide. This is a secret, even Lan Lan herself doesn't know, her biological mother is Li Shi. Her mother secretly fell in love with the patriarch when she was young, and after being discovered by Jinyun, Jinyun forced the patriarch to kill her in order to protect the patriarch's reputation, but the patriarch refused to live or die. But Lan Lan's biological mother, in order to keep her daughter, still cut herself with a sharp knife after giving birth. With such a lesson from the past, how could I allow you to be with Lan Lan. What's more, you only have a short lifespan of thirty years, do you want to let Lan Lan live and be widowed with memories for the rest of her life? Li Yi, if you know each other, stay away from Lan Lan! It's good for all of you! ”
Li Yi was stunned and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Early the next morning, Jinyunlan was about to go out to look for someone, but Xiuxiu's high fever had only subsided, and she had not fully recovered, so she needed someone to take care of her.
Li Yimao then recommended herself, "Go ahead, I'll stay and take care of her." ”
Bai Tan glanced at him quietly, not knowing if yesterday's words had an effect. He looked pale today, his attitude was even colder than before, and he made much less eye contact with Jinyunlan.
Jinyunlan seemed to notice something unusual about him and was watching him worriedly. Bai Tan didn't give her this opportunity, and pushed her out of the door.
Li Yi looked at the open door, sighed to himself, stepped forward to close the door, turned around and sat down at the small table in the room, as if he was preoccupied.
Xiuxiu had just taken a patch of medicine the night before, and her body temperature had dropped, but she was still a little weak, and she slept until three poles in the morning before she slowly woke up.
She sat up rubbing her hazy sleepy eyes, her head still a little dizzy, and the scene in front of her was spinning.
Li Yi approached and handed her a cup of warm tea, "How do you feel?" ”
Xiuxiu took a sip and replied, "It's not uncomfortable." ”
Li Yi silently soaked her with a handkerchief and asked her to clean her face. After being covered by a steaming handkerchief, his face looked a little more complex.
"Where are we?" Xiuxiu asked.
Li Yi replied: "Jade City." ”
Xiuxiu nodded secretly, and asked again, "What about them, sister?" ”
"I'm going to find your brother." He replied succinctly.
After Li Yan said this, a layer of obvious panic and worry appeared on Xiuxiu's listless little face, and all of this was fully seen by Li Yan, "You don't have to worry about ......"
Xiuxiu lowered her head and clasped the wet handkerchief in her palm, "I'm sorry for causing trouble to everyone." ”
“…… Your brother hasn't been captured by us yet. Li Yi picked up the unfinished words and looked at her firmly.
When Xiuxiu heard this, her brain immediately "buzzed", her breathing became obviously short, and her heart was weak and shaken.
"What do you mean, I don't understand?" Her eyes flickered at him.
Li Yi didn't wait for her to express it clearly, and continued to support her opinion: "The key to the dungeon where Jinyun Chong is imprisoned is kept by the Jinyun Patriarch himself, and only those who can get the key while he is not paying attention are those close to him. And that dungeon is located in the underground of Jinyun Academy. When you got on board before us that night, I wondered how your news could have come so quickly. There is only one possibility, you knew early on that Jinyun Chong had escaped from the dungeon, and you insisted on joining, and you deliberately contracted the wind chill to delay our search, isn't it? ”
His tone was so flat but the words were heavy, like a mountain pressing on Xiuxiu's heart, making her breathless. She naturally knew that she had done a great wrong thing, but when she saw her own brother struggling in prison for ten years, she really couldn't stand idly by.
"Tell me, where did Jinyun Chong flee?" Li Yi took advantage of the victory to pursue, pressing step by step.
Xiuxiu's lively and brilliant face was as pale as paper at the moment, pitiful, she broke out in a cold sweat in the wax moon day.
Li Yi then said: "Xiuxiu, aiding the abuse, acting for the tiger has never been a good deed. You treat your brother as before, but Jinyun Chong is not the same as before. If he really values you, he won't trick you into taking risks and help him escape from prison. ”
Xiuxiu wrinkled a face that did not understand the world and people's hearts, her nose was sour, and she wanted to cry, "I, I ......"
"Knock knock" three times, there was a knock on the door, and the voice of the inn's junior second rang out, "Guest officer, there is something wrong with the brewed medicinal soup, you can follow me to the kitchen to take a look." ”
Li Yan glanced at the child who was in a mess and couldn't help but sigh. Children are the best and most difficult to talk about, and it seems that they can't be rushed.
He got up and went out with Xiao Er for the time being, leaving her some time to digest.
As he walked out, he smelled a rich, almost pungent fragrance in the air.
He followed Xiao Er to the kitchen and saw that the soup was boiling on the stove. He opened it and smelled it, but he didn't notice any problems, and the little two who came to him disappeared in front of him early in the morning.
He poured the boiled medicinal soup into a bowl and returned to the second floor of the inn. However, when I entered the guest room, I saw a row of strange burly figures.
A delicate and feminine figure walked out from behind several big men.
She was dressed as she was yesterday, except that today she wore an extra pair of jeweled brocade boots that enveloped her slender ankles and calves. She stepped on those boots and walked straight towards him, her steps as light as those of a cloud, swaying.
"We'll meet again, Li Yan." She called out his name with unmistakable accuracy.
Li Yan narrowed her eyes slightly, and she was suspicious that she actually knew her name.
He looked past the crowded figures, and really didn't see Xiuxiu on the bed. He put the medicine bowl down, curled his fingers secretly, and looked at the group of uninvited guests vigilantly.
Fu Guangyao saw his concerns, and explained "empatheticly": "I have no malicious intentions, but when I saw you in the street yesterday, I was very satisfied with you, and I want to invite you to sit with me." Without looking, she sat down behind the empty place, and her attendant quickly moved out of her throne and laid it under her hips.
She was straightforward, and for those who didn't know the truth, she might take her words as a sincere invitation.
Li Yi remained silent, always staring at them with an indifferent and hostile gaze.
Fu Guangyao was extremely patient, folding her legs, her slender fingers rubbing back and forth on the intricate carvings on the armrest of the throne, as if she was very satisfied with Li Yi's attitude of no one in her eyes, which undoubtedly provoked her competitive spirit and desire to conquer.
"Oh, yes. Your little friend has already taken a step ahead of you towards my Fusang Temple. However, she is too young to stand my hospitality, and I am afraid that you will need to go and retrieve her in person. ”
Li Yi clenched his fists, and the Li Greedy Sword on his back sensed his emotional fluctuations and was about to move, the sword qi boiled, the purple qi overflowed, and the hilt of the sword also shook uneasily, like a pot lid lifted by boiling water.
But this murderous aura was forcibly suppressed by him after all. The boiling sword qi quickly cooled, and Li Yi's sharp eyes also eased, and he put on a gesture of surrender.
The smile on Fu Guangyao's face was fleeting, with a hint of unhappiness, as if he was complaining that he was not tough enough and resisted not strong enough.
With a flick of her fingers, she headed home.