"I remember that last time Langjun came to my house and asked Xiaolangjun where you lived, and then went into the city to deliver water, I still remembered it, and I don't know if I found it. It is wonderful that you brothers are now reunited! I won't bother, Pei Langjun will also hurry up to dry his clothes and rest quickly. ”

The old man left an oil lamp and lit wormwood in the house, and then led his grandson away.

The barking of dogs by the chaimen stopped. The golden black horse chewed the hay quietly under the mule shed, and the horse's tail snapped and flicked from time to time to drive away the small insects around it. In the distance, there is a faint sound of the mountains and rivers flowing after the heavy rain. And in this humble room hidden in the foothills, the firewood in the hearth was burning, making an intermittent slight beeping sound.

The oil lamp dimmed, reflecting the shadows of a couple of people in the room.

It was about the middle of the night in the mountains that it was really too quiet, and the absence of grandparents and grandchildren not only made this miscellaneous house more empty, but the rain felt even more cramped. As if he moved, his shadows were shaking all around.

She guessed he might feel the same way.

"Take care of yourself. Don't worry about me. ”

"I'm not going to watch it." To reassure him, she added.

But not only did her promise make him feel free, but he looked at her with a look of embarrassment.

"Or, I'm going to wait outside?"

After a while, seeing that he still couldn't let go, Su Yu was a little helpless, thought about it, and said.

"No, you don't! It doesn't hurt you to stay. He immediately stopped him, and this time he finally stepped towards the fire.

Su Yu smiled, turned his back to him, and sat on the bamboo bed.

Finally, after another moment, she heard a slight rustling of undressing behind her.

Suyu and his clothes lay down, their backs to him.

"You can sleep in the house at night, I think the bamboo bed is enough. I'm fine. After a while, she whispered.

She lay on one side of the bamboo bed, occupying only a tiny space, leaving him with enough room for him to lie on his back.

There was no response behind him.

"Did you hear that?" Su Yu waited for a moment, raised her voice slightly, and asked.

It's damp outside, and there are mosquito bites, so you can't stay overnight.

"Yes." His voice was finally heard behind him.

"If the princess is tired, go to sleep. I'll have a little more to come. He added.

The experience of this night, although it is still like a dream when I think about it at the moment, but Su Yu feels okay, she is not tired and does not want to sleep. But somehow, accompanied by the occasional slight noise of the man behind him, in the bitter scent of wormwood, the eyelids began to sticky. Slowly, she closed her eyes.

The firewood in the hearth gradually burned into red ashes, and the embers danced, reflecting the thin torso of the young man opposite, the muscles were tight and tendonous, and there was no fat in sight.

He quietly turned his face to look at the figure on the bamboo bed with his back to him.

She hadn't moved for a long time, and she didn't speak anymore. I guess I'm asleep.

He took his clothes, which had already been dried, and put them back on his body that had been scorched hot and dry by the fire. With his dressing movements, the dark muscles of the shoulders and dorses flexed and moved slightly. Soon, when he was dressed, he walked lightly to the bamboo bed, blew out the nearby oil lamp, and then silently bypassed her and went out.

"Where are you going-"

Just as he walked to the door, behind him, there was a sudden faint questioning voice, and his voice was soft and mumbled, with a heavy sleepiness.

Pei Xiaoyuan stopped and turned his head.

In the hazy night shadow, she was half-awake, and after the questioning, her body moved, and it looked as if she was about to fall off the bamboo bed.

He spun back, stretched out his arms to drag her back, and gently sent her back to the bed, where she placed her in the middle.

"Princess, I'm here." He leaned over her and whispered in a very soft voice.

Su Yu's eyes were half-closed, his fingers seemed to touch a hot and solid elbow, he was relieved, and muttered: "I said, you don't have to go out......"

Pei Xiaoyuan let her hold her arm and sat quietly in the dark. After a while, hearing her breathing lightly, she slowly lowered her head, stared at the sleeping face in the night shadow, looked at it for a moment, and finally gently withdrew her arms and stepped out.

She trusted him completely.

However, if you don't sit still, what kind of sage can reach the realm.

After experiencing the secret experience in the fir forest that had secretly offended her, Pei Xiaoyuan knew that at least, with him, it would be difficult to do it.

Su Yu slept very sweetly this night, and when she woke up the next day, it was already noon, and Pei Xiaoyuan was naturally not by her side.

Last night, a heavy rainstorm broke a small bridge nearby, and the way out was blocked, and he has helped the mountain people to repair the bridge. This day, because of the accident, it was delayed until the evening, and the road was restored, he took back the rain, said goodbye to the old man, and took her back to Chang'an.

She knew he had spent the night out last night. Chou'er told her that when she came out in the morning, she saw Lang Jun sitting on the wall outside the chai door with his sword on his knees, cross-legged, and told him that Xiao Langjun was tired last night and should not wake people up.

In the middle of the night, when Jin Wuqi was about to bring the two back to Chang'an, the city gate was already in sight, she finally couldn't help it, and turned around to ask him why he didn't listen to himself last night.

Along the way, he didn't speak, and neither did she.

It was the first thing that was spoken between the two.

"The princess forgives her subordinates, and the princess is benevolent. Guarding the princess at night is the duty of a minister. ”

That's how he responded to her. Moreover, at first he didn't seem to want to reply, but it was she who pressed him again, and he answered.

He hadn't called himself a "minister" in front of her for a long time, but now he was serious again, and, when answering her, Su Yu noticed that he didn't look at her at all, his eyes seemed to sweep over her head, looking at the city gate that was getting closer and closer in front of him.

I don't know why, this situation and this scene actually made Su Yu secretly want to laugh, it was with this faint sense of pleasure that didn't know where it came from, she found one thing, after the city gate was opened by him, what appeared in front of her was actually the two faces of Zhao Zhongfang and Han Kerang.

Finally when the two came back, Zhao Zhongfang and Han Kerang had different expressions.

Han Kerang quickly glanced at the old palace eunuch, immediately sank his face, and ordered Pei Xiaoyuan to dismount.

The old palace eunuch breathed a long sigh of relief, and then his face was full of joy, as if he didn't see the two riding together at all, and even, he greeted Pei Xiaoyuan as usual, and then urged Su Yu to board a carriage waiting near the city gate in a low voice.

As soon as Su Yu saw these two people, she understood in her heart.

The delay in the trip, as well as the accident in the courtyard last night, must have alarmed Ayah. When she returns, there will inevitably be a trouble.

However, at the moment, her mood was still not affected in the slightest.

Just when she was picked up by Zhao Zhongfang into the carriage and was about to leave, she hesitated, glanced back, got out of the car again, walked back to him, approached him, and said in a low voice that only he could hear: "Don't be afraid, I'm here." ”

With that, she turned around and boarded the carriage again.

I didn't hear what the princess said to the young man, but it was enough. At this point, the smirk on the face of the old palace supervisor could no longer be hung up. I thought that His Majesty the Emperor would know this scene again......

He almost hid his face with his sleeves.

"Little princess! Don't look at it! ”

The old palace supervisor whispered a plea, hurriedly closed the car door, and immediately ordered someone to go back to the palace.

Chapter 68

Su Yu entered the palace from the small gate, entered the Ziyun Palace, and saw that the palace supervisors on duty at night were all gathered outside, and they did not dare to enter. Her Aya didn't sleep late at night, and she was walking around the outer hall of the ashram alone, with her hands behind her back, her brows furrowed, and she looked very angry.

Zhao Zhongfang asked Yang Zaien to drive everyone away, guard the palace gate, and he didn't care about wiping the hot sweat off his forehead, and hurriedly reported: "Your Majesty, the princess is back!" ”

"Aye!" Su Yu also walked in, made a crisp sound, and grabbed his arm when he went up.

"It's all my fault! Tell Aya to worry! I'm back and I'm fine! ”

The emperor looked at her a few times, and his expression finally changed slightly, and asked her where she had gone to spend the night last night, and why she had not returned today.

Su Yu responded as he pleased, saying that last night was a family in Xishan who knew Chunshan Mountain people in the past to spend the night, this morning I wanted to return, who knew that it was unfortunate, the heavy rain broke the bridge road, the trip was delayed, and this just rushed back.

"I really can't help it, I didn't mean to worry Aye. I'm really fine! It's not too early, I'll send Aya to rest! ”

"It's okay, it's okay, you're frightened."

After hearing this, the emperor breathed a long sigh of relief, gently patted the back of his daughter's hand, comforted her a few words in turn, and then turned to Zhao Zhongfang, and changed color at the moment: "What about Pei Er?" ”

"General Han has called him, and he will be severely reprimanded!" Zhao Zhongfang hurriedly responded.

"This Pei family thief!"

The emperor scolded angrily, "I see how Han Kerang will protect him this time!" The dog is so bold that he dares to falsely preach the holy decree! Everyone is watching, take your concubine away! What the hell is he trying to do? ”

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, the dragon body matters! Pei Jia'er has always acted steadily. Rong Lao Nu boldly speculated that there may be another reason for this matter, and he would be reckless to this point last night. It would be good for the princess to return safely. Your Majesty has also been worried for a day, why don't you listen to the princess, go and rest first, and see how the general responds tomorrow? ”

The Emperor nodded: "Okay! Even you, old thing, have you excused him? His gaze wandered around the temple, and finally landed on the incense burner on the desk, and his eyes began to burn.

"I just can't sleep, and I don't need Han Ke to let me! Why don't you invite him here, and ask him to tell me in person what the reason is. "The emperor said with compassion.

Zhao Zhongfang hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty is angry, Your Majesty has misunderstood!" How dare the old slave excuse outsiders? It's really too late tonight, and if the Pei family child is summoned into the palace to punish him at this moment, no matter how secretive it is, there will inevitably be movement. If the matter spreads, I'm afraid it won't be good for the princess......"

Last night, Pei Xiaoyuan rushed to the courtyard outside the Fan family in the rain and took the little painter Ye Xuyu away in public, and then the two disappeared. Yuwen Shizi couldn't catch up, and then he and Zhang Dunyi looked around for most of the night, but there was no one at all, and he almost vomited blood with hatred, and cursed until dawn. Subsequently, I don't know what he thinks, or he doesn't want people to know that he is embarrassed, or he is angry, so he told Zhang Dunyi not to spread the news of last night, and he went back to Chang'an.

However, Zhang Dunyi's side is not as simple as Yu Wenzhi.

Han Kerang had repeatedly told him before that the identity of the little painter surnamed Ye was very special, and he couldn't make a difference, and how to protect the saint was how to protect the little painter. So at that time, if it weren't for Pei Xiaoyuan saying that the emperor had something to do with summoning the little painter, he would not have asked him to take people away anyway, and then he woke up and felt wrong, but it was too late, and he couldn't find anyone, seeing that it was dawn, he ordered Song Bokang and a few people from the painting academy to keep all the things they saw last night tight-lipped, hurried back, didn't dare to hide it, and reported it all to Han Kerang.

When Han Kerang heard this, his head buzzed at that time, and he almost died of anger.

Although the emperor did not tell him who Ye Xuyu was, as a close confidant who had participated in almost all of the emperor's confidential affairs, he had his own eyes and could see. The Queen Mother of the West, the eunuchs in the palace were sent to serve in the Yongning Mansion, Zhao Zhongfang returned to the palace, and the little painter went in and out of the Ziyun Palace as a common occurrence, and the emperor had to protect the little painter as if he were protecting him. Taken together, it can be seen that the little painter is definitely inextricably linked with the late Empress Zhaode. Although he was not sure for a while what the relationship was, Han Kerang knew very well what Empress Zhaode meant to His Majesty the Emperor.

This little painter may be the person the emperor has found now who can give him some comfort after Empress Zhaode is gone.

Now his subordinates have eaten the gall of the leopard, and they are going to touch this person?

Originally, he also hoped that Pei Xiaoyuan would send the little painter back soon, then as if nothing had happened, he would be punished by the emperor in the future, and he would suppress last night's incident first.

The emperor personally asked, how dare Song Bokang hide it, and was so frightened that he confessed last night's incident, how Yuwen Shizi hunted and lived together, how to set up banquet invitations, how to dance swords and offer flowers, and how Pei Sicheng appeared to take people.

The emperor was so angry that he almost fell down, and called Han Kerang to scold him, which led to the scene where Zhao Zhongfang and Han Kerang waited for them tonight.

One of the reasons why the emperor endured his anger and did not make a big deal about it was that he didn't want to be known about it. At this moment, he was woken up by Zhao Zhongfang again, and he was so angry that he swept away the incense burner on the desk: "It's the opposite!" You go and tell Han Kerang that the trip to Cangshan does not need the Pei family thieves to go! Let me see him again, I can't spare him! ”

"Ayya! I want him to go! ”

On the way here, Zhao Zhongfang told Wan Yu to wait to see the emperor, don't say more, so as not to make the emperor angry.

Fang Caiyu also followed Zhao Zhongfang's advice, and kept silent, but when he heard this, he couldn't help it anymore, and went up to open his mouth.

Zhao Zhongfang was dumbfounded. The emperor's face turned blue: "What did you say?" ”

With a smile on his face, Su Yu walked to the emperor's side and helped him to sit beside the bed.

"Aye, sit down!"

The emperor's face was gloomy and did not move.

"Aye, sit down!" Su Yu tugged at the emperor's sleeve and pressed it vigorously.

As soon as her daughter is coquettish, how can the emperor still stop it. Finally reluctantly sat down.

"What the hell is Aya angry about last night?"