A Thousand Hills Verse 23

After hesitating, this time, he finally stepped in, stopping opposite her, with the candlestick between them.

"Fang scared you, didn't you? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. โ€

He never thought that when they met again, the first thing he said would be this.

Su Yu laughed when she heard this, looked at him and shook her head: "It's okay." It's just that I really didn't expect that you would come to the capital too. โ€

Pei Xiaoyuan nodded: "Yes, I didn't think of it myself." Just after you left, I also received a call from the imperial court, so I set off......"

He paused slightly, "I left for Chang'an, and now I am serving under Jin Wuwei." โ€

Su Yu glanced at it.

He should have come here after today's court, he had not changed his clothes, and he was still wearing the robe of the military attache of the Jinwuwei embroidered on his shoulders and back, and he wore a gold belt around his waist. The room is narrow and yellow, and the more he looks like a green pine.

She knew that this was the official position of the fourth or fifth grade. At his early twenties, he was indeed prominent.

She smiled: "Congratulations to Gao Sheng!" โ€

Pei Xiaoyuan also laughed with her and waved his hand: "Don't make fun of me." As he spoke, he looked down at himself and explained, "When I came out of the government office today, I was in a hurry, and I didn't change my clothes, so I came like this, but it made you laugh......

Su Yu said: "I didn't laugh at you!" You look very good in this official robe. โ€

She's not a compliment. Since she was a child, she has her own views on aesthetics.

The young man Langjun is cold and heroic, with a scarlet robe and gold belt, and the two are set against each other, and he has a noble bearing. If it is in the painting, it will be a good scenery.

This is the third time Pei Xiaoyuan has met her.

I never dreamed that she would praise her like this. Seeing her eyes fall on herself, she couldn't help but secretly feel her heart beat and her ears were hot, so she had to be silent.

After she finished praising her, she also walked away, picked up the tea bottle on the table, took an upside-down cup that she had never used, first carefully swung the tea over the bottom of the cup, poured the residual tea, and refilled the tea, and then held it in both hands, brought it to him, and invited him to drink tea.

"I don't have good tea here, so I'll be wronged by you."

Pei Xiaoyuan also took it with both hands.

Tea is as she said, the first entrance, the quality is bitter and astringent, and the cup is also a coarse porcelain cup, but it is the most special cup of tea that Pei Xiaoyuan has ever drunk. The tongue and teeth have a long aftertaste, and the throat is full of delicate sweetness.

"You said in the book that day that you went to the place where you came from, I thought you went back to Luzhou, how did you come to the capital?"

After drinking the tea, he was finally able to open his mouth and ask this great doubt.

Su Yu didn't want to mention the hidden secrets, so she only smiled apologetically: "I changed my mind after leaving the book, and I wanted to come to the capital to break through again, so I came." โ€

"Prince Ashina is on the same road with you, and he has never met you."

"I'm on the northern road, and it's a little harder, but it's close. The prince should have taken the southern road. โ€

"By the way, how did you know I lived here?" Su Yu asked.

Do you know how many places I have traveled in search of you?

"After you left the book, my uncle was very worried, and he couldn't rest assured, and he kept looking for you. After I came to Chang'an, there was a blue head who saw you from afar in Xishi, and came back to tell me, so I looked for it and found it here tonight. โ€

He suppressed the emotions that couldn't help but churn slightly in his heart at this moment, and said in his mouth, his tone was very flat.

Su Yu expected that something like this might happen, looked at him with both eyes, and sincerely apologized: "I'm really sorry! I knew that the Pei Guild couldn't rest assured, so I deliberately begged again and again in the letter not to look for me. Not intentionally to annoy him. If it's convenient, you can make amends to him on my behalf in the future, please rest assured that I'm really fine. โ€

Looking at the pair of eyes full of apology reflected by the candle flame, Pei Xiaoyuan quickly sobered up.

He is looking for people. In her writings, she did dissuade them earnestly.

"Don't worry, Uncle won't blame you. He will be happy to know that you have a whereabouts. He said.

Su Yu smiled and waved at him: "Thank you." โ€

She was smiling and her room was full of light.

Pei Xiaoyuan turned his face slightly, looked at the four walls, and asked, "What are your plans to come to Chang'an?" โ€

"I do have one thing-"

Su Yu hesitated in his heart and quickly made a decision.

I don't know how he came to the capital, and he entered Jin Wuwei, and his official position does not seem to be low. After he enters the palace, he walks in and out every day, even if he doesn't say it now, he will find out sooner or later.

"I came here for another purpose, I want to enter the palace to be a painter."

Pei Xiaoyuan Huo Ran turned his face back.

"Enter the palace to be a painter?"

He repeated her words, his expression unconcealed in his surprise.

Su Yu knew that he would react like this, and she also guessed what he was thinking at the moment, and explained, "Yes." And I've already been admitted to the painting school. โ€

He seemed to be about to say something, but was interrupted by the rain.

"I know your kindness, you don't have to worry. Ever since I was four or five years old, I have been living as a man, and I know how to behave. โ€

"Why are you doing that?"

He was silent for a moment, then looked at her and asked.

"I'm sorry to advise."

The brisk atmosphere that had been the meeting a moment earlier was gone.

Pei Xiaoyuan's expression became solemn.

"Sister-in-law, I have no intention of exploring your private affairs. But if someone finds out and reveals your identity, what you have committed will be a crime of deception. โ€

"I understand. I am sorry to tell you why. I'm not going to change my mind about this. Exactlyโ€”"

Su Yu paused.

"Taking advantage of today's opportunity, I also want to thank Pei Langjun for his care of me before, from now on, you and I have nothing to do with it, Pei Langjun don't think of me as a sister-in-law, and I don't have you as a brother. Whether in front of people or behind people, we should not know each other. โ€

Pei Xiaoyuan glanced at her after hearing this, and his brows furrowed slightly.

"Are you so greedy for life and afraid of death? I know you didn't come here to marry me. That morning, you heard what Chengping said to me, and although there was some misunderstanding, it was true that I had no intention of marrying a wife. Later, I recognized you as a righteous sister, which was completely out of my own heart, not from my uncle's reluctance. What you're going to do now, in my opinion, doesn't make sense, it's very inappropriate. But if you insist on not changing, it must be as you say, and there are other reasons for this, and I can't force it to stop it. Since I have recognized you as a sister that day, how can I be afraid of being implicated by you and going back on my word? โ€

"You're too worried!"

"I know that Pei Langjun is upright, it's my own reason."

Su Yu stiffened his heart when he looked at the man opposite.

"I'm withdrawn by nature, and I don't want to be involved with anyone except my grandfather. On that day, Pei Langjun offered to recognize me as a righteous sister, if I knew that you would also come to the capital in the future, we might still meet, I don't think I would have nodded. โ€

Pei Xiaoyuan was speechless for a while, his eyes fell on her face, and his brows wrinkled unconsciously again.

"You mean, you recognized me as a brother out of perfunctory behavior that day?"

Su Yu bowed deeply to him again.

"Please forgive Pei Langjun. I know that this should not be said, and it is extremely rude. But indeed, under that circumstance at that time, I really couldn't refuse Pei Langjun's kindness, so I could only respond temporarily. I was thinking that you and I would never meet again in the future, and I didn't expect you to enter Beijing with me. โ€

The room fell silent. The candle reflected the two opposing figures, and neither spoke again for a long time.

Su Yu suppressed the great sense of regret that welled up in her heart, raised her eyes again, looked at the handsome face of the man opposite, and said softly: "Pei Langjun, you are a good person, really a very good person." You are the best ...... I've ever met besides Grandpa."

"Needless to say!"

Pei Xiaoyuan suddenly spoke.

"I see what you mean, I can do whatever you want, I don't matter. As I just said, it's just that you didn't say goodbye before, and after I came, I knew that you might also be in the capital, and I looked for you. If you find it today, you're okay, that's the best news. โ€

"I'll just have one last thing."

He looked around again.

"It's not the right place for you to stay here. Come with me, change places and stay first. โ€

Su Yu subconsciously continued to refuse: "Thank you for your kindness, ...... here"

"You can't live here!"

Pei Xiaoyuan directly cut it off this time.

"Don't worry, I won't disturb your purity in the future. It's just that your grandfather entrusted you to my uncle, and I have to do my duty on my uncle's behalf, otherwise I won't be able to explain when he asks him in the future. The location of this workshop is remote, the public security is not as good as the north of the city, the three religions and nine streams are mixed, everyone has it, and the gamblers and drunks are rampant in the alleys. You can't stay here. โ€

The impression he gave to Su Yu was calm and gentle, and he would not be difficult to force. But at this time, his words were quite strong, and they were not negotiable.

Su Yu hesitated, and then struggled again: "...... I entered the palace in a few days, and I didn't plan to stay here for long. In a few days at most, I'll move out myself......"

He listened.

"If you don't come with me, I'll seal this shop tonight."

He said lightly, a chill between his eyebrows.

Su Yu was stunned.

"I'll wait for you down there, you clean up."

With that, he turned and walked out, stepping on the floor of the walkway, and the sound faded away.

Chapter 26

He let it go like that.

At the beginning of Su Yu, there was a brief dazed feeling in his mind, and he was at a loss. When I came back to my senses, I didn't hesitate for long before I knew what to do.

He seemed quite restrained from beginning to end of this meeting, just like the impression he had left on her before, even in the last moment when he was offended by her.

But she could still feel that in the end he was actually somewhat irritated by himself.

On the matter of whether to move or not, he insisted so much, she decided to obey. Non-principled issues do not have to be opposed to him. She couldn't afford to get the inn into trouble because of herself.

Fortunately, she didn't have many things, and it didn't take much effort to pack up, so she went down with her bags, and saw that there was still no one in the lobby, only the tall lady came out again, and sat behind the counter, while he turned his back and stood alone in the lobby.

Suddenly seeing her appear, the tall lady's face and expression immediately became richer, and she squeezed her eyebrows for a while, as if she was about to come up, glanced at the figure in front of her, and stopped.

Pei Xiaoyuan turned his head to glance at her and walked out.

As soon as he left, the tall lady was like an amnesty, and she couldn't wait to come to Su Yu.

"I don't live with you anymore, I'll leave tonight. How much do you owe for the house, and I'll pay it offโ€”"

"I see! The man has already been married! โ€

The tall lady turned her face and looked at the back of the person who was going out, and asked in a low voice, "That person knows you?" Where did it come from? At first, I thought it was Xiao Langjun that you committed something and came to arrest you, but I was very scared, and I was thinking about how to ask someone to deliver a message to you at the door of the workshop. It's good that you're not a villain, otherwise my place would have been closed! โ€