It hurts
"What are you avoiding..."
Guiyao's fingertips touched her lips, and her long eyelashes drooped slightly as she thought.
Many scenarios flashed through her mind.
I really want to.
The phoenix has symbolized auspiciousness since ancient times, and this word is often associated with it.
"Phoenix fate? But what happened ten years ago concerned the previous dynasty, and the current emperor was not born to the former queen."
Guiyao walked around the room, looking at the books all over the floor, confused.
She originally thought Jiuchong was just eccentric, but the handwriting everywhere in the room conveyed the impression that he had not left this place for a long time, as if he had never seen a living person again.
"Who is he going to look for?"
Gui Yao supported herself with her hands and looked up at Ren Beixi.
Is this underground? How deep is it?
The animal voices in her ears were getting closer and closer. Guiyao had no other thoughts. She remembered that when she lived in the city in her previous life, there was always noise around her and it was normal to stay up late and not be able to sleep.
Sometimes, she seems to be more afraid of silence.
A lot happened today.
Jiuchong here, Guiyue on the mountain, and Ren Zhong in the story, to be honest, she didn't know much about their stories in the past.
She raised her eyes and saw the man put the sword on the candlestick and drop it into the red lantern at his feet.
Even he was playing tricks on her, intentionally or unintentionally.
Compared to the vague secrets of the emperor and empress at the moment, Gui Yao highlighted one sentence in her mind.
Kunou's words, "The beginning of autumn in the year of Guisi."
It was the time when she was adopted by an orphanage in her previous life, and also the birthday of Gui Xiaoniang, which she accidentally came across.
She looked at Ren Beixi's silent dark eyes.
"It's late at night."
Gui Yao looked at the flickering candlelight, put down the book in her hand, and pushed open the next door.
She glanced at her hands.
You should move slower, you seem so anxious.
Without waiting for the heavy stone door to creak open, she sneaked back behind Ren Beixi.
She smiled and said, "Since General Ren doesn't want to talk to Yaoyao, then please lead the way."
The slender hands gently squeezed the man's arm.
The system came out of nowhere, and the mechanical female voice seemed to have deliberately imitated her tone, which made her sound a little uneasy.
"Host, there are quite a few points here. Do you want me to tell you how to get them all?"
Guiyao: ...
She wasn't acting like that just now!!
In front of her was a terrain similar to the bottom of a pit. Gui Yao didn't know how to describe it. When she looked up, she could still see the moon blocked by leaves.
There was a fence in the woods under the moonlight, which enclosed about ten golden pheasants.
Based on the sounds of the ten birds in her mind, Guiyao leaned over to observe their condition carefully. They were defecating normally, in good spirits, and a bit talkative.
Xiaohong pursed her lips and said, "Did you hear that the host just left with a smile?"
Fuyi replied: "Oh."
"Then we would become wild animals."
A slightly old golden pheasant walked out of the open fence gate.
Then he flapped his wings and closed the door.
"For ten years, I will wait for the person he didn't wait for."
"Ouch, hey——" Fuwu shouted appropriately.
Apart from the nagging voices in her head, Guiyao actually felt that this place was quite quiet.
She beckoned, and the thin cuffs fell to her elbows with the movement. The mist was hazy. Her skin was already fair, and now her cheeks had a little pink. Her voice was as clear as dew on a moonlit night.
He only said: "General Ren, have you ever been here?"
The man took the lamp from her hand and seemed to be observing the birds and animals in the circle as well.
“I’ve been here.”
He seemed to have unknowingly moved closer to Guiyao. He paused for a moment and straightened the girl's sleeves.
Gui Yao curled her eyes and hooked her little finger around his hand. She looked up at him and saw that he didn't give her any movement for a long time, so she felt bored and wanted to pull away.
As soon as she thought about it, she felt Ren Beixi holding her wrist, and the thin calluses made her uncomfortable.
Not to mention.
His gaze seemed to be burning, and her palms were itchy.
Gui Yao pulled her hand away uncomfortably and muttered, "When did General Ren come here?"
"Let me go..." She hummed softly in her weak voice.
Ren Beixi just kept his eyes on her wrist. The skin was too thin, and the light blue veins were throbbing under his fingertips.
So fragile.
Guiyao saved her hand.
She raised her chin to look at Ren Beixi, their eyes meeting, and under the moonlight, their eyes seemed more lively than the other.
"You care about me?"
Someone accidentally lost their breath.
Seeing Ren Beixi lowered his eyes and avoided her questioning.
She finally felt that something was wrong. Ren Beixi seemed to be even more silent tonight than usual.
"you……"
"Show me your neck."
She stood on tiptoe, leaned forward, and reached out to hold his back. Herbal medicine is bitter; too many ingredients make it sour, too few make it ineffective, but on Guiyao, it smells fragrant.
She lit the lamp, and the flame filled the air before their breaths.
Ren Beixi kept a close eye on the cut on her hand and applied medicine to it every day, so there was no trace of it left.
The thin knife scar under her long eyelashes had just healed.
Ren Beixi could only hold his breath.
Gui Yao's breath fell lightly on his Adam's apple: "Hmm... General, you didn't have any other wounds here before? It's so delicate and beautiful."
He captured her slender index finger.
"Stop touching me."
He also had to listen to her coquettish excuses. The more he let her go, the closer she wanted to be to him.
He seemed to hold her breath.
He didn't know whether he should push her away again or indulge her. He wasn't good at doing these things, but the knuckles in his hands were getting tighter and tighter. If he wasn't paying attention, he would hear the person under him crying softly: "Oh, it hurts, let go, let go, Ren Beixi, I won't tease you anymore!"
"Did it hurt you?"
Ren Beixi sighed.
The tears in Gui Yao's eyes hadn't fallen yet. When she raised her eyes, she secretly glanced at the man's silent black eyes, curved her crescent-shaped eyes, and then changed the subject. She put her hands on her hips and raised her head: "Oh, what should I do with these birds? Their buttocks are so red."
Ren Beixi looked at Gui Yao picking up the bird and looking at her butt, and loosened his hand that was holding the scabbard.
Things here are more orderly than he thought.
There were only five phoenix birds on Shuxi Mountain back then. After their brother died, two of them went on a hunger strike, one swallowed stones, and one hit itself to death in front of the cave.
Now the mountain is full of flowers.
But it was just planted casually that year.
Gui Yao listened to Ren Beixi speak and counted on her fingers. One red feather was in the Nari Restaurant, and two red feathers were with the Zheng father and son.
"Another one?"
Ren Beixi looked at the way Guiyao was holding the bird.
His voice was quiet as he said, "He used it on me ten years ago."
Upon hearing this, Gui Yao stared at the golden pheasant curled up in the basket. When she saw Ren Beixi nod slightly, her guess was confirmed to be about 70%.
This is a golden pheasant.
It’s 5-4=1, the one that didn’t die that year.
To be honest, Guiyao is no longer interested in unilaterally interrogating this chicken man.
When she heard it telling time before, she thought it was a stupid little bird that couldn't count. Now, she was even more curious about how this little thing could live for so long.
The golden pheasant stayed in the basket for a long time, and its eyes were bulging when it was lifted up.
Guiyao stared at it, as if saying: Stop pretending, I know you have heard me talk enough along the way.
Ah Ji pretended to be stupid: Cluck...
Suddenly, there were bursts of gurgling sounds behind me: Gugugugu! ! !
Ren Beixi supported his chin, his dark eyes staring at Gui Yao thoughtfully.
Gui Yao asked him curiously, "What are these for?"
"Recognize relatives?" He speculated seriously.
Guiyao laughed so hard that she almost fell over with her chicken.
The man raised his eyebrows: "You say."
The young woman crooked her eyes as she soothed the golden pheasant in her arms, saying casually, "Perhaps these artificially raised birds don't recognize this pheasant anymore."
"Of course, I'm just guessing." Gui Yao raised her eyebrows at the chicken that was squeaking in her arms.
Ah Ji was so frightened that he made a sharp noise——
Ahhhh why can you understand what the chicken says and the chicken can also understand what you say? ?
Guiyao hummed a song.
She was in no hurry to deal with it. Seeing that the golden pheasant in front of her was about to fly up and hit the chicken in her arms, she put it back into the basket and walked towards Ren Beixi.
"Hey, Ren Beixi."
She supported herself on the ground and climbed onto the stone bench.
This place is truly a paradise of water and moon, even better than Shuxi Mountain.
She looked at Ren Beixi's tall shoulders, straightened her back, and leaned against them with her narrow shoulders.
"You seem to like this phoenix bird very much."
Ren Beixi held the scabbard with one hand and looked down at her.
From his perspective, he could only see Guiyao's fan-like eyelashes trembling slightly, and the step he had chosen for her swaying.
I don't know where the moon went.
He saw her very much like a peep.
The man suddenly asked in a deep voice, "After we get married, if you have to go to the capital with me, do you regret it?"
But she had been stupid for many years, and he had just now pacified the war in the north. If there was the slightest mistake, neither he nor she would be holding their breath like they are now.
Ren Beixi loved listening to her speak the most. She was eloquent, knowledgeable and compassionate.
But he suddenly didn't dare to listen to her answer.
Beside him, a line of black-clad guards holding torches filed in. The owner of the building had clearly opened the fence when he left, but the phoenix inside was unwilling to leave.
Her body temperature was often cold, and he had gotten used to holding her hand.
"The things here will be shipped to the capital."
"If you like this chicken, leave it at the General's Mansion to keep the pheasant company."
"I'm not good at writing, so I can't recite the Phoenix Drink to you."
He was a military strategist, but even better at strategy. He knew that she wanted to ask more than that. The person next to him was slow to respond, so he just lowered his eyes and tied her cloak tighter.
"Are you sleepy?" Ren Beixi's voice was deep, but before he could get her consent, he bent down and picked her up.
"Go back home and sleep."
The man covered the back of her neck with one hand and signaled the secret guard to take away the phoenix chicken that was so scared that it retreated into the basket and dared not come out.
Well, she heard his heartbeat again.
Guiyao was very sleepy, but she was always worried that the clues would be broken somewhere again, as she had not seen enough of everything here.
Forget about the mechanisms and hidden weapons, but she was very curious about Jiuchong's calligraphy and paintings.
"Can I come here again in the future?"
She breathed in his arms.
Ren Beixi hummed, and this time, his heartbeat didn't speed up. Gui Yao wasn't afraid that Ren Beixi would lie to her. She knew she didn't belong here, and she still had the system.
So at this time she felt that Ren Beixi was a little wronged.
Just comfort her.
"I have been mentally handicapped since childhood, and it is thanks to this marriage that I was able to meet General Ren."
She spoke softly, half-truths.
"I want to go to the capital, and I want to go with you."
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