Chapter 55 Chapter 55 [VIP]
Before Zhou Zhi could answer Gu Xuanyou, Ling Suye spoke up, "Why is the Princess investigating this matter? As far as I know, for over a decade, she's been ill and hasn't held any banquets or seen anyone. She only occasionally attends the New Year's Palace banquet, but she'll quickly return."
Three years ago, when Ling Suye was still on duty at the Du'e Division, it was only July or August, but the Du'e Division was already preparing for the Autumn Festival and the New Year's defense arrangements.
Ling Suye was young and handsome at the time, and he also had great ability in catching monsters. Zhou Zhi almost trained him as his successor. Therefore, he was very willing to assign Ling Suye to tasks that were easy but also honorable, such as guarding the safety of princes and nobles at banquets.
Although Ling Suye did not have the opportunity to attend the palace banquet that year, he was well aware of the banquet process, the seating arrangements of the princes and nobles, and the disputes and conflicts.
He remembered that the officials from the Honglu Temple had emphasized to him, "Her Royal Highness is the Saint's most beloved daughter, bar none. She is ill and will have to leave the table after only a few bites. During this time, you must ensure Her Royal Highness's safety and not frighten her."
However, three years later, Ling Suye returned to Shangjing City.
Her Royal Highness the Princess already possesses immense power and influence, and often appears at major ceremonies, competing with the Crown Prince and poised to surpass him.
——You can’t tell at all that this is a frail woman who can barely eat a few bites of food.
Zhou Zhi stared at Ling Suye intently and said seriously, "I dare not fathom your thoughts, Your Highness."
Ling Suye still looked at him.
Zhou Zhi sighed, "I've followed Her Highness for over two years, and I still can't fathom Her Highness's thoughts. In this vast city of Shangjing, Her Highness can do whatever she wants with a flick of her hand, without needing any explanation or justification. It seems to me that Her Highness acts on impulse, often simply because she finds something interesting."
Zhou Zhi said the last four words very slowly: "As long as she wants."
Ling Suye slowly lowered his eyelids, and his long eyelashes extended from the base of his eyelids like crow feathers, each one bright and neat.
Zhou Zhi couldn't help but think of Ling Suye three years ago. No matter who he met, that young man always had a smile in his eyes.
It is well known that these eyes are called affectionate eyes. Even if he says nothing, just looking at you steadily like this, there are three parts of tenderness and seven parts of infatuation, making people want to pour out everything they are thinking in their hearts.
But now, the shape and curvature of these eyes are still as beautiful, but the spirit in them has disappeared.
It looks empty and numb, and there is a sadness that cannot be concealed.
Xie Qingnian was completely confused by what he heard.
Finally, he found an opening to interrupt: "Boss, what is the identity of Ling, Ling Wuming? Could they be spies sent by the princess? What are we reporting?"
Zhou Zhi looked back at Xie Qingnian and remained silent.
Gu Xuanyou couldn't bear to look at him.
It’s not that he thinks Xie Qingnian is stupid. After all, he was also afraid to admit the answer that was right in front of him. He kept dragging it on until the end, when he entered the demon realm and saw his master enter the space that only people from the Du’e Division could enter. Only then did he dare to think about the answer a little bit.
So, compared to him, Xie Qingnian's reaction was already pretty good.
Ling Suye said calmly, "Oh, Lord Zhou saw the tragic deaths of my parents and brothers, and the gouging out of his own delusion-piercing pupil. He couldn't bear to see me running around like a headless fly, so he told me some of what he knew to help me sort out my thoughts."
"Oh, I see. Ah Wuming, is your life so difficult?" Xie Qingnian quickly responded. He said, "I have a brother who is even more miserable than you. He originally had a bright future, but someone coveted his Eye of Delusion, so..."
Coveted...
What?
The eye that destroys delusion.
What did Ling Wuming say just now?
What of his was dug up???
Doesn't this thing only appear once in a hundred years?!
Xie Qingnian suddenly looked up, widened his eyes, and looked at Ling Suye in disbelief.
Suddenly, he raised his arms and touched Ling Suye's face with both hands, as if trying to find evidence of his disguise, but after searching for a long time, he found nothing.
Zhou Zhi couldn't bear it anymore and helped his arm down.
"Don't make trouble." Zhou Zhi said.
As soon as he finished speaking, two bean-sized tears overflowed from Xie Qingnian's eyes, and then more and more tears came out, forming a chain, until his cheeks were covered with tears, and then he whimpered.
Then, in Gu Xuanyou's astonished gaze, Xie Qingnian threw himself into Ling Suye's arms.
Ling Suye: "..."
He sighed, raised his hand and touched Xie Qingnian's head, but under Zhou Zhi's murderous gaze, he withdrew his hand and pushed Xie Qingnian up.
Forget, these are all people with families.
Xie Qingnian ignored him and tried to get into his arms.
"Woo, woo, woo, is this a dream? Is this a dream? You don't know how many times I've dreamed of you. After hearing the news about you, I even went back to find that witch and asked her to kill me, because when that time comes, you will definitely come to save me..."
Zhou Zhi added: "He almost died that time."
Ling Suye looked up and gave him a questioning look. Zhou Zhi said, "That demon girl had come to him and wanted to kill him. If I hadn't been nearby and chased her away, he probably wouldn't have survived."
Zhou Zhi omitted the fact that Xie Qingnian helped the banshee fight him, and then he went back and beat Xie Qingnian up severely, and only briefly recounted the whole process.
Ling Suye pushed him into Zhou Zhi's arms and said, "Thank you for your concern."
Xie Qingnian originally wanted to say - You are so good, Ling Suye, I have been waiting for you for three years, staying alone in an empty room every day, and persisting even when digging wild vegetables, and you actually pushed me into the water!
But the next moment, he felt himself being embraced by a broad chest, and his nose was filled with the clean and refreshing scent of soapberries from his boss's body.
Xie Qing's old face turned red, and he felt that he had defiled his boss's pure body, and he quickly got up.
Zhou Zhi mistakenly thought that he was going to try to get into Ling Suye's arms, so he hugged Xie Qingnian and whispered, "Don't mess around."
Ling Suye felt that it was not appropriate for him to stay here any longer, so after thanking Zhou Zhidao, he and Gu Xuanyou jumped onto another small boat and went back to the shore to rest.
As they approached the shore, Ling Suye heard a voice from Zhou Zhi: "No thanks. If it weren't for this day, I wouldn't have recognized my true heart."
Zhou Zhi meant that when Xie Qingnian threw herself into Ling Suye's arms just now, he began to feel jealous. Not only was he jealous, he even wanted to keep Xie Qingnian by his side and in his arms for the rest of his life.
Although he had long realized that he had become accustomed to the noisy clerk Xie Qingnian making trouble around him, and even when he saw him going to the East China Sea to die, he disregarded the consequences and asked Her Royal Highness the Princess to go with him.
But Zhou Zhi, who is so calm and introverted, still doesn't want to break the last layer of window paper.
Although he saw many gay people having sex here, and even in those men's brothels in the capital, there were often famous and elegant men.
But in Zhou Zhi's old-fashioned understanding, men cannot be together.
——Even if others are having sex with each other, he is known to everyone as the "good" lotus that is untainted by the mud.
In the past, when he heard Xie Qingnian always talking about Ling Suye, although he felt unhappy about it, he always kept that talented and good-natured young man in his heart, so there was no reason for him to say anything bad about Xie Qingnian.
But at this moment, looking at Xie Qingnian who was throwing himself into Ling Suye's arms, it was undeniable that he was jealous.
In this case, it would be fine for him to just recognize his own feelings.
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The next day, during the lunch break, Ling Suye and Gu Xuanyou were eating roasted rabbit meat they had caught on the way when they saw Xie Qingnian jump out of Zhou Zhi's carriage.
It seemed that he had difficulty walking and even sprained his foot when he jumped down.
Xie Qingnian had already smelled the aroma of barbecue, and looked in the direction, and sure enough, he saw Gu Xuanyou and Ling Suye.
He strode closer. "Hey, even though we just did a job together once, your barbecue skills are really far beyond my reach. Can you give me a leg, Xuanyou?"
Gu Xuanyou handed Xie Qingnian a golden, juicy whole rabbit roasted on a nearby tree branch and said, "I saved this for you. It tastes even better with the pancakes."
Ever since he knew Ling Wuming was Ling Suye, he didn't hesitate to turn around and raise his eyebrows at Ling Suye: "The one you found is really virtuous, hey."
After saying that, he knew that he would be beaten by Ling Suye, so he immediately ran away with the rabbit and the pancake.
After a while, two more Du'e Division officials who were on good terms with Xie Qingnian came over, put down the three rabbits they had hunted, and said to Gu Xuanyou sheepishly, "Can we get a roasted rabbit instead? We have wine and honey here."
Gu Xuanyou said: "Okay, but there is only half left now, I will continue roasting."
Ling Suye knew these two people. They had been with him and served under Zhou Zhi, but they had arrived earlier than him, so they were not as familiar with each other as he and Xie Qingnian. But they were both reasonable people and easy to talk to.
So he stopped being polite and said, "Sit down and learn, or don't expect him to help you next time."
The two of them came here with the intention of learning how to roast rabbit, but they were afraid that since it was a unique skill, Gu Xuanyou would not teach them. When they heard what Ling Suye said, they immediately sat on the ground with a smile on their faces.
"Thank you, Brother Gu, hey."
Anyway, they were still quite far away from the East China Sea, and there was no need to worry about any problems on the way, so they both drank some wine.
After drinking a lot of wine and still feeling bold, one of them couldn't help but say, "Oh, I never thought that our boss would be captured by Xie Qingnian."
"I see Xie Qingnian couldn't even stand steadily after getting off the carriage today, and he still had to fetch barbecue for the boss. The boss really doesn't treat Xie Qingnian as a human being." Another drunken man said, "But our boss is still injured, and he got injured while saving Xie Qingnian last time. It's only right that he serves the boss this time."
The former said, "You must not say that. If I had a wife, I would take good care of her under the bed and never let her lift a finger. Although Xie Qingnian is tall and strong, he is definitely still a virgin. How can you order him around like that?"
The latter said, "Oh, that's right. I was already so far away yesterday, but I still heard that panting and groaning. Tsk, our boss really doesn't treat Xie Qingnian as a human being."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man felt a chill on his back.
When he turned around, he found that Lord Zhou had appeared behind him at some point, with a deep look in his eyes.
The author has something to say:
Good night, babies.
Xie Gong and Zhou Shou, his men guessed the opposite, haha.
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