Chapter 411 Mask

After drinking seven or eight pots of wine in one night, Yun Chen was completely drunk and couldn't remember how he got home.

She only vaguely felt that Rong Yi was walking out with a drunken gait, ignoring all his relatives, carrying her and staggering.

During this time, he hit her head against the door frame twice and her butt against the tree three times, which made Qingxuan, who came to see her off, grin.

When finally exiting the low door, Yun Chen raised his flushed face, looked drunkenly into Qing Xuan's eyes, smiled, pinched his face, and said with a thick tongue:

"You're so tender...ah..."

Before she could even utter the last word "Nian", she was completely drunk again.

When she sobered up the next day, she rubbed her aching head and recalled what happened last night in bits and pieces.

When she remembered that she seemed to have covered and touched her husband's face, she was so scared that she screamed "Ah--" and jumped up from the couch with her hands shaking, stretching her arms far away, not daring to look at her sinful "claws" directly.

Now she was sober and calm, she realized that she had been deceived by Rong Yi last night. She wanted to grab Rong Yi and beat him up, but Fu Lin said:

"General Rong asked me to take a few days off for him. The old man of the Rong family has something urgent to do and asked him to go back."

Ten days later, when Rong Yi came back, Yun Chen immediately rushed over and kicked him twice on the buttocks. His original intention was just to scare him, but Rong Yi actually jumped up, holding his buttocks, tears streaming down his face from the pain, and said with a grin:

"Boss, stop kicking me. My father heard from someone that I went to the Elephant House and was whipped thirty times. Now I can't even sit on a stool."

Luo Dongdong laughed and scolded from the side:

"Serves you right! You dare take the boss to that kind of place? When General Huo finds out, he'll definitely skin you alive!"

Rong Yi touched his buttocks, which were covered with blood scabs and whip marks, with a sad face:

"I've already peeled off a layer of skin. I seriously suspect that it was General Huo who reported me. Otherwise, how would my father know? And he never cares about these things of mine, but this time he is particularly angry - oh no, who told General Huo?"

"Then I don't know." Fu Lin smiled and slapped Rong Yi's butt hard, causing him to break out in a cold sweat. Then he swaggered away.

Three days later, when Rong Yi was still lying on the couch recuperating from his injuries, a figure sneaked into his tent after struggling and thinking for several sleepless nights.

Yun Chen leaned against the edge of Rong Yi's couch, revealing only a pair of watery eyes and two red cheeks. He spoke in a low voice, shyly:

"Rong Yi, um, um... I don't remember the address of the Xianggu Pavilion we went to that day. Um, um, I'm thinking..."

Rong Yi's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he forgot about the pain in his butt. He stood up and laughed:

"You still want to go? Boss, you finally got it! That's right, what's the point of just riding on one tree? Why not try riding on a few trees nearby too?"

After being punched twice by Yun Chen, Rong Yi stopped talking dirty, covered his nose and told her the address of Xianggu Pavilion.

But this time Rong Yi was injured and couldn't go with her.

Yun Chen came to Xianggu Pavilion alone and chose the most secluded room. She refused the steward's kindness to recommend eight young men to serve her. She only asked for a short screen and asked Qingxuan to come again.

When Qingxuan sat behind the screen fiddling with tea sets, with only a pair of familiar phoenix eyes showing from the top of the screen, Yun Chen was stunned for a moment.

Only today did she suddenly seem to understand from her own perspective why Huo Gannian had summoned Dan Kou time and again but only had her sit behind the screen.

It turns out that just a few hazy illusions can also ease the pain of longing...

Qingxuan didn't understand what was going on and asked quietly:

"Girl, do you want me to do something?"

Yun Chen stared at the screen and Qing Xuan, his eyes already looking at another person, muttering:

"You walk, sit, or lie down as you please. Just let me take a look... Your eyes are very similar to mine..."

After pondering for a long time, Yun Chen still didn't know what her relationship with Huo Gannian was now. He could only spit out two words:

"friend."

Qingxuan shrugged and did as he was told. To him, he had seen all kinds of strange guests, and Yun Chen was considered a very normal one.

Yun Chen looked at the "Huo Gannian substitute" behind the screen and recalled every moment he had with Huo Gannian.

Glass after glass of cold wine poured into the stomach, but when it came out of the eyes, it was boiling hot.

Yun Chen felt upset. He didn't expect that he would end up coming to Xianggu Pavilion and looking for someone who barely resembled Huo Gannian to relieve his longing for him.

Then she thought that when she returned, Rong Yi would definitely misunderstand her and think she went to Xianggu Pavilion for pleasure, and would definitely humiliate her for half a month. She felt even more upset and kept sighing and wiping away tears. She didn't even notice when Qingxuan left.

When she raised her head again, she saw that there was nothing behind the screen and the door of the wing room was wide open, swaying in the fragrant breeze and warm mist.

"Eh? Where's everyone? My 'A-Nian'... oh no, where's Young Master Qingxuan?"

She opened her eyes wide and looked around, her vision slightly blurred by the alcohol.

"I am here."

A deep and powerful male voice came from outside the door.

Then, "Qingxuan", wearing a round-necked robe with a black background and a Qilin pattern, a jade belt with two pythons holding their mouths around his waist, and black boots with red gold decorations on his feet, stepped over the threshold with his long legs and strode in.

Yun Chen blinked his eyes, staring at the expensive and eye-catching clothes, and asked in a slightly drunken tone:

"My dear husband, have you gone to change your clothes? This dress is really beautiful, and it looks very expensive. Eh? What's that on your face?"

"Qingxuan" raised his slender and bony fingers and gently touched the glazed flying phoenix mask on his face. His voice was deep and powerful:

"Don't you like my eyes, girl? If you don't like the rest, I'll cover it up."

Only then did Yun Chen notice that the mask covered the rest of Qingxuan's face, leaving only a pair of phoenix eyes exposed.

But why aren’t Qingxuan’s eyes as ordinary and plain as before?

It was as if he had changed his clothes and his eyes had changed as well, becoming dark and deep, like two unfathomable cliffs with two bright sparks burning from them.

Yun Chen scratched his ears, rubbed his eyes, and stared blankly for a moment.

She always felt that after just a short while, "Qingxuan" seemed very different from before. He became taller, his shoulders were broader, and his waist was stronger.

Moreover, her eyes and temperament were like a different person. Although her voice was not clear because of the mask and her hearing impairment, it was obviously very different.

Yun Chen couldn't figure out what tricks Qingxuan was playing, but after looking him up and down, she nodded repeatedly and said:

"My dear husband, you look good dressed like this. I like it."

"Why, it looks more tender, more fragrant, and more beautiful, right?"

"No, more like my... friend."

"friend?"

The voice behind the mask asked back, as if raising an eyebrow, and the tone was obviously displeased.

"Yes, he's my friend." Yun Chen repeated again. As the alcohol got stronger, she continued in a drunken voice:

"Looks like my friend... Ah Nian... Looks just like that Ah Nian... The one I'm going to meet in two years... Rong Yi said, two years is two years, whoever changes their mind first is... is... is a dog!"

There was a chuckle from behind the mask, and "Qingxuan" raised his hand to touch the mask, shook his head gently, sighed quickly, and said something like "It seems that thirty whips are still too few", and then while Yun Chen didn't hear clearly, he picked up the jade bone pipa on the instrument stand next to him.

He kicked the low screen away, kicked away the tea table, and sat down cross-legged opposite Yun Chen. The pipa was tilted and upright in his arms, and his white and slender fingers touched the strings. The song "Spring River Moon Night" immediately sounded slowly.

Although Yun Chen couldn't hear clearly, he could still roughly feel the rhythm. He couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised:

"My dear husband, you play the pipa so well. Didn't you say the other day that you couldn't play the pipa? How come you can play it today?"

"Qingxuan" plucked the strings non-stop, the sound was as mysterious as a ghost:

"I didn't know how to do it originally, but I knew you liked it, so I went to learn it. Do you like it?"