Chapter 332: Licheng (2-in-1)
Yun Ya, who was pretending to be a female official, looked at the two of them kindly and gently, looked at Shen Lingxi, and teased with a smile: "Yun Yu Feige passed on the book, you once told him that when I came out of the imperial tomb, I would return to Yunjiang with me, we have been together for a long time, and now that we have Lang Jun, I don't want a little aunt." β
Chu Yan didn't expect that Shen Lingxi once had such an idea, and his eyes were slightly condensed.
"That's exactly what I used to think." Shen Lingxi smiled, but he didn't shy away from admitting it.
She paused, took Chu Yan's hand, interlocked her fingers with him, and said to Yun Ya, "It's just that now I feel that he needs me more than my little aunt, so I decided to stay." β
"Is it just needed?" Yun Ya was not very satisfied with this answer, "You didn't say that last time, you said that you liked him, and he liked you, you are in love with each other......
Chu Yan's eyes melted into starlight.
The corners of his lips raised slightly, clasped Shen Lingxi's hand with his backhand, and asked with a smile, "When did Lingxi say these words to his aunt?" β
"Last time, you will become ......"
Yun Ya's words were not finished before she was hurriedly interrupted by Shen Lingxi, "Little aunt, it's not too early, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, you better hurry up and get in the car." β
Yun Ya saw a red cloud rising on her cheeks, smiled and attached it to Shen Lingxi's ear, covered her lips and whispered: "There are flowers that can be broken and must be broken, don't wait for no flowers and empty branches, my aunt is waiting for your good news in Yunjiang." β
After speaking, she smiled and nodded at Chu Yan, turned around and got into the carriage.
It wasn't until Yun Ya's carriage went far away that Shen Lingxi reacted, what does it mean to "have flowers that can be folded straight and must be folded".
She thought that these days, because of Xu Yuanshan and Yun Chong, two people who didn't know what etiquette, righteousness and shame were, floated in their dormitory from time to time.
Between Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan, even sleeping is a regular rule, so as not to be watched by those two.
Now they have finally dissipated into heaven and earth.
Since then......
Shen Lingxi's cheeks burned badly.
Turning his head, he saw Chu Yan's paint-like phoenix eyes, like a spring mountain, looking at her.
"You...... Did you hear it all? β
Shen Lingxi knew that a person like Chu Yan who practiced martial arts had an ear power beyond ordinary people.
She was inexplicably flustered, for fear that he would discuss with her about "folding flowers" in broad daylight and in bright days.
If Liu Meiren heard it, she would definitely laugh at her about it.
"Let's go back to ...... first"
Before the word "go" was spoken, Shen Lingxi heard Chu Yan's voice ask in a slightly hoarse voice: "Aunt said that the last time I saw you, it should be ...... At the beginning of October, when did we go to the imperial tomb with the holy car? β
"Huh?" Shen Lingxi raised his eyes, his black and white apricot eyes were full of doubts.
Chu Yan tightened his hand that interlocked with her fingers, and it was much more difficult to find out a little bit of persistence in his eyes, "Aunt just said that the last time you saw her, you said that you were happy with me......"
Shen Lingxi blinked, and then realized that what he cared about was this.
It's that she's thinking too much.
Shen Lingxi's heart was shocked.
Thinking that at the beginning, she said those words to her little aunt, but it was just because she wanted to reassure her that she lied.
"I was ......," she explained.
However, before she finished speaking, she was firmly embraced by Chu Yanjie.
The powerful heartbeat in his chest, like a drum, shook her eardrums.
"I'm very happy." Chu Yan buried his head in her neck, his voice was smiling, and his tone was unsatisfactory in the previous work, "I thought that you and my family affairs were forced by me, and I have always felt guilty about tricking you into marrying me in the first place." Unexpectedly, at that time, I was no longer wishful thinking, and you fell in love with me so early. β
Well? Deception?
Shen Lingxi's breathing paused slightly, and he pricked up his ears, "Deceive...... What is the meaning? β
"That day, you said that you didn't want to marry me, and hurriedly ran back to Shoukang Palace, I couldn't rest assured, so I went to the west hall to see you, and accidentally heard what you said to Xuetuan......"
Chu Yan's jaw rubbed the top of Shen Lingxi's soft hair, and he repeated the words he heard outside the west hall that day, "...... When I got back, I thought, if this is the only way to get a chance to stand by your side, then I must try anyway, and after all, since I have identified you, I must be with you......"
"That's why you pretended to be urged by the emperor to get married, and you were forced to ask me for help and ask me to form a contract husband and wife with you? In fact, at that time, you were already pleased with me? Shen Lingxi pressed his forehead against Chu Yan's chest and asked in a muffled voice.
The voice could not distinguish between joy and anger.
"Hmm." Chu Yan chuckled, "If it weren't for that, you would definitely hide away from me like you did to Mu Huai'an, I really can't think of a better way, I can't tie you to my side." That's not a trick to take it, it's a forcible one. β
Shen Lingxi: ......
She thought of the "rumors" she heard in the Drunken Flower Courtyard and the "rumors" that Chu Yan personally choreographed.
"What if I didn't agree to marry you?" She asked.
"You'll say yes."
"Why?"
Chu Yan was silent for a few breaths, "You are unmoved in front of money, power, and beauty, although you are helping those dead souls fulfill their wishes, in fact, you are not too interested in helping them." It seems that there is no one you care about in this world, and there is nothing you care about. You are like a wisp of wind, and you may withdraw at any moment...... With your strength and ability, you shouldn't have put yourself in trouble. β
"But you entered the palace and were willing to stir into the troubled waters, which means that you must have something to ask for......"
Shen Lingxi's eyelashes trembled slightly.
"At that time, although I didn't know what you were looking for, I could probably guess it, and maybe I could help." Chu Yan said softly: "So...... As long as I ask for nothing too much, you will definitely agree. β
"Aren't you worried that I'm ill-intentioned and ill-intentioned towards you, and have other plans?" Shen Lingxi asked again in a muffled voice.
Chu Yan stroked her hair, "I'm just afraid that you have no desire for me." β
Speaking of this, he sighed lightly, "Do you know, later I knew that you were Yunxi, how glad I was that I left the life of the eldest princess in the first place." If it weren't for that, you wouldn't have come to me and given me a chance...... Keep you. β
"What if...... In the end, they couldn't keep it? Shen Lingxi asked in a low voice, "You say that I am the wind, if I only want to be the wind and don't want to stop, what should you do?" β
At the beginning, when she didn't know that this body was herself, she didn't dare or want to respond to him.
I'm afraid that one day, she will be like those dead souls, dissipating like light smoke, which will only increase the sadness.
Chu Yan fell silent.
Just when Shen Lingxi thought that he would not answer again-
"Then I'll follow the wind." He said in a hoarse voice: "As long as I can be by your side, I will not be a husband and wife, and I will ...... OK. β
Shen Lingxi silently tightened the hand around his waist.
After experiencing a life that ended in such a tragic way, and was reborn in a different shell, for a long time, she only regarded herself as a ghost wandering in this world.
Sending Shen Laoweng to the end of her old age and washing away the stigma of her little aunt has become her only reason for existing in this world.
She never thought that there was a plain person who could see her so thoroughly, and she never expected that this person would be so stupid that he would be willing to let her use it and keep her.
"And what about ......'love at first sight'?" Shen Lingxi thought of the "rumors".
Chu Yan's warm palm pressed her head to her heart, "The first time, when I saw you laughing, it hurt a lot, I thought it was pity, but later I knew that it was heartbeat and heartache." See you again after a long absence, even if you change your appearance, it is still only for you. β
Shen Lingxi listened to the sound of his strong heartbeat in his chest, and only felt that all this had an unprecedented sense of reality.
She is like a tired bird that has been flying, and finally found a harbor to anchor, warm as the warm wind of spring, beautiful as the purple and red all over the mountains.
The love surging in the bottom of my heart, like a clear spring, begins with the heartbeat, full of enthusiasm, and the "understanding" that can be met but cannot be sought.
Shen Lingxi raised his head in Chu Yan's warm embrace, his clear apricot eyes were burning bright, "Last time in the Dragon Cutting Slope, you said that I came back to life, and it was a very lucky thing for you." But for me, it's the luckiest thing to meet you in both lifetimes. β
"My love comes later than yours. But this heart is the same as you, and it is only for you from beginning to end. I love you, very much. β
As she spoke, she stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the lips.
Chu Yan was slightly stunned, and then, in those beautiful phoenix eyes, large and gorgeous fireworks bloomed, as bright as thousands of stars.
Before Shen Lingxi escaped like a dragonfly, he hugged her with his backhand.
"I love you too." His deep eyes stared at her, "I love very much." β
Sealed with a kiss, unswerving......
*
At night, the dormitory of the East Palace is full of red silk and hazy candles.
A pair of dragon and phoenix candles on the dressing table burst into candle flowers, which provoked Shen Lingxi, who was sitting on the side of the bed with a single glance, and his heart was numb.
In the deserted suburbs during the day, the most direct consequence of an impulsive confession is that the dormitory of the East Palace, which has been silent for several months, is once again covered with a happy tent, as if returning to the night of the candles in the cave room.
Shen Lingxi looked at Chu Yan, who walked into the dormitory with a vermilion tray in his hand, coughed, and stumbled: "It's all, it's all old husbands and wives, just, you don't have to be so bells and whistles, let's make people laugh ......."
It's not just a joke.
Liu Meiren looked at the two of them from a distance, and she was about to laugh.
"Your little Langjun is really interesting, this cave room is full of candles...... and the candles in the cave room are like a second marriage. β
"Isn't it just a ritual? What matters. Xiao Langjun is still too old-fashioned. It didn't work out last time, this time it will definitely be done, how many pairs of eyes are there in the East Palace, tonight it's like this, early tomorrow morning, the whole palace knows that the two of them are in the cave. This well-known cave house...... Gee. β
"Oh my God, Xiao Langjun didn't think about it, if it still doesn't work out tonight, then tomorrow morning, then everyone in the capital will know that 'His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not good'."
"That's why I said, this is not to leave a way back for myself, you say, can Xiao Langjun do it?"
Shen Lingxi listened to these words, his cheeks and neck burned red, and he only hated that he could hear them.
Chu Yan didn't know anything about the female ghosts' doubts about him.
He put the tray on the table in front of the bed, and his phoenix eyes raised slightly, "That's not possible, on the day of the candles in the cave room, our ceremony has not yet been completed." β
The gift that didn't work out, that's it.
Shen Lingxi tightened the handkerchief in his hand.
When it came to the end, she admitted that she was still very cowardly.
"Let's talk about it later."
As she spoke, she quickly took off her embroidered shoes and was about to hide under the quilt.
However, as soon as he lifted the brocade quilt on the inside of the bed, his slender shoulders were held down by Chu Yan's big palm.
"Wait."
Chu Yan smiled when he saw her like a great enemy, "What are you afraid of, I won't eat you." β
When the words fell, the laughter of the concubines couldn't help but sound in the distance.
"My sisters tell you as people who have come over that the little Langjun in this world is all capable of eating people." Liu Meiren said with a smile.
"No, no, the little lady can also eat people, hahaha."
Shen Lingxi was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.
"Sheβthey're all watching...... Don't mess around. She snapped her head at the point.
Chu Yanfeng's eyes were slightly raised, "It's okay." β
He turned his head to look at the void, and said loudly, "Please be a witness today, elders." β
These words made the concubines smile slightly.
They looked at each other and muttered in a low voice, "Today's young people are so generous? β
"Well, I'm so old, I don't really want to see it that much."
"Do you listen to what you say, do you believe it?"
At this moment, Shen Lingxi had no time to pay attention to what they said.
She was straight, leaning her back against the head of the bed, looking nervously at Chu Yan's tall body and leaning down towards her.
His handsome face approached her, and under the light of the candlelight, he was beautiful and bewitching, and it was confusing.
Shen Lingxi felt that during the day, Chu Yan said that she was "unmoved by money, power, and beauty", which was not entirely correct.
Her pounding heartbeat can prove that she is still very moving.
"There are too many people in this hall, let's, let's ...... Or blow out a lamp? She muttered.
Chu Yan chuckled lightly, his thin lips curled with pleasure, and his phoenix eyes filled the night sky like stars.
He reached out his hand, and his slender finger bones gently wrapped around a strand of black hair on the side of her faceβ
With a "click", he didn't know where he got the red scissors, and cut off the strands of hair.
Shen Lingxi blinked in dismay.
She has always done all the white things for others, and this red thing was all done by Shen Yuyao.
What kind of gift is this?
The concubines in the distance let out a sudden sigh.
Chu Yan concocted it according to the law and cut off a strand of his own black hair.
Then, sitting in front of Shen Lingxi, the slender finger bones divided the hair of the two into two strands, one circle after another, and tied them together with red ropes.
"As a husband and wife, the white head is inseparable." He looked at Shen Lingxi with a smile in his eyes: "That day, we still lacked this knot gift." β
His movements, slow and solemn, seemed to be completing an extremely important ritual.
Shen Lingxi looked at him seriously, and a layer of tears appeared in his eyes.
Chu Yan put the tied hair into a pair of purses embroidered with mandarin ducks, tied them tightly and sealed them, and then said with satisfaction: "Okay, Licheng." β
He raised his eyes to look at Shen Lingxi, and in his smiling eyes, there was a child-like piety and enthusiasm, as bright as the sun, which burned a brand in Shen Lingxi's heart.
"It's time to sleep."
Chu Yan stretched out his big palm, stroked the top of Shen Lingxi's hair, and carried her into the bed again, covered her with a brocade quilt, his eyes were gentle, and he imprinted a kiss on her eyebrows, "Sleep." β
As he spoke, he straightened up and slept on the outside side as usual.
Unexpectedly, a porcelain-white delicate arm climbed up to his neck, "...... together"
Shen Lingxi blushed and said, pulled him down, and kissed him on the lips.
The concubines all blushed, covered their lips and chuckled, and floated out of the hall silently.
It is when the moon is hazy, the spring night tent is warm, and the night is still very long......