Chapter 125: Running Out of Oil

Even though spring had already arrived, Sui Yan's room still had a charcoal basin burning day and night, filling the room with warmth.

Sui Yan didn't know whether he was frightened or hot, his forehead was covered in sweat, and his long hair was wet and stuck to the sides of his face. He was breathing weakly.

Jun Jingxing broke out in a cold sweat for no reason after hearing these two words.

"Wang...Wanggui." Jun Jingxing knelt down beside the bed, afraid of scaring him, and said carefully, "K.D.T.C. Your second brother and the prince are fine. I will ask someone to call General Sui Xun over, okay?"

Sui Yan hugged his knees and shook his head like a madman: "You are lying to me, even you are lying to me..."

Jun Jingxing said: "I didn't lie to you. I will send someone to call him now."

Just as he was about to get up and leave, Sui Yan rushed over like a madman, grabbed Jun Jingxing, and screamed, "Yue Jian... Yue Jian! Where are you going?! Where are you going? Are you leaving too?"

His face was filled with fear and despair, and he grasped Jun Jingxing's hand with more force than ever before.

Jun Jingxing hurriedly comforted him: "I'm just going to help you call your second brother, I'm not leaving, I'll be back soon..."

Sui Yan suddenly got angry again: "I don't want anyone! They are all fake, I only want you!"

Jun Jingxing was stunned.

After Sui Yan yelled at him, he seemed to remember something and immediately changed his expression and returned to his previous panicked state, grabbing Jun Jingxing's hand and unwilling to let go.

He begged bitterly, "Yuejian, Yuejian, you are all I have. Are you going to leave me too? I, I couldn't find you anywhere just now. Where did you go?"

Jun Jingxing was stunned and didn't know how to react for a long time.

Sui Yanhun was shaking all over, looking at him with fear and expectation: "I...are you always scolding me for not taking medicine? I cough...I will take it right away, I will listen to you, your poison...I won't steal it anymore..."

As he spoke, he crawled on his knees to open the small secret compartment in front of the bed. With trembling hands, he turned over the things inside, muttering, "Poison... I hid the poison here... Right, right here..."

Jun Jingxing stared at him blankly and murmured, "Forget to return..."

Sui Yan was still looking for the poison he had hidden in his previous life, but he found nothing after searching for a long time.

He sat on the bed in a daze, looking down at the ring on his finger. After a moment, he seemed to remember something and froze in place.

Seeing that he had finally calmed down, Jun Jingxing asked tentatively, "Wang Gui, are you... awake?"

Sui Yan stared blankly at the emerald green ring on his finger and murmured, "Hmm."

Jun Jingxing finally breathed a sigh of relief: "You are going to scare me to death, so I will go find General Sui Xun now..."

Sui Yan calmed down completely. He stared at the ring for a long time before lowering his head to pick up the small things he had found on the bed.

Jun Jingxing's heart was raised again.

Sui Yan said softly: "Don't bother brother, I'm fine."

Jun Jingxing frowned, and was furious for once: "Do you think you're okay just now?"

Sui Yan placed the wooden horse that Sui Xun had carved for him in the secret compartment, and then he was absent-minded for a moment before saying, "I'm fine, you can go back to sleep."

Jun Jingxing: "You..."

Sui Yan said: "Get out."

Jun Jingxing: "Forget to return..."

Sui Yan raised his eyes to look at him, his glass-like eyes were without any light, and he spoke every word without emotion: "Jun Jingxing, I say, get out."

Jun Jingxing had never seen Sui Yan speak to him so coldly before. He was stunned for a moment, and turned away for fear of irritating him again.

Sui Yan sat on the couch in a daze. After a while, he struggled to get up, took out all the candles in the box, and lit them one by one with shaking hands.

Soon, the room was filled with white light.

Sui Yan sat on the bed, staring blankly into the air, not knowing what he was thinking.

More than half an hour later, Duan Mingchong came hurriedly. Seeing that the room was as bright as day, he was stunned for a moment before walking in.

"Ayan?"

He lifted the curtain and went to the inner room, where he saw Sui Yan sitting at the head of the bed, reading a book with his eyes lowered.

He heard Duan Mingchong's voice, raised his head, and a smile appeared on his pale face: "Your Highness is here?"

Duan Mingchong walked over and asked in confusion, "Why haven't you slept yet?"

Normally at this time, Sui Yan would have fallen asleep unconscious.

Sui Yanchong winked at him and said with a smile: "I knew Your Highness would come over today, I was waiting for you."

After hearing these words, Duan Ming Chong's heart melted, and he no longer cared about the doubts in his heart.

He walked forward with a smile, took the book from Sui Yan's hand, and said, "How come I didn't know you were so studious? This book..."

Duan Mingchong looked down and saw a few large words on the cover - A few things about the current crown prince and Sui'an Hou.

Duan Mingchong: "..."

Duan Mingchong's hands shook and he almost dropped the book.

Sui Yan smiled with eyes curved: "It's well written, very refreshing."

Duan Mingchong stuffed the book into his sleeve with a stern face and said calmly, "It's confiscated."

Sui Yan: "No, no, it was not easy for Wu Mo to help me snatch it."

Duan Mingchong flicked his forehead and said with a smile: "You still read this kind of book. I won't be right next time."

Sui Yan had no choice but to smack his lips.

Duan Mingchong tidied up hastily, went to bed and hugged Sui Yan, saying, "Let's sleep."

Sui Yan shuddered instinctively when he heard this, although it was very slight, but Duan Mingchong still noticed it.

"What's wrong?"

Sui Yan shrank into his arms and whispered, "It's a bit cold, hold me tighter."

Although Duan Mingchong found it strange and asked again, Sui Yan just said that he was cold, so he had no choice but to hug him tighter.

After a while, Duan Mingchong fell into a deep sleep. After his breathing became steady, Sui Yan, who had been sleeping with his eyes closed, opened his eyes silently.

He stared at Duan Mingchong's sleeping face without blinking, as if he could never see enough.

Sui Yan thought: "I'm beginning to forget him..."

When he just woke up, he really regarded his past life in the dream as reality, and the reality after rebirth as a ridiculous dream.

Perhaps it was because his previous life was too tragic, and subconsciously he still couldn't believe that so many beautiful dreams in this life could happen to him.

Sui Yan thought to himself, am I worthy of her?

He kept thinking to himself, "I can't remember him." The more he thought about it, the more desperate he became. Even though he was about to close his eyes due to exhaustion, he still forced himself to keep them open, staring at Duan Mingchong's face.

The next morning, before dawn, Duan Mingchong woke up.

Duan Mingchong's eyebrows twitched, and Sui Yan, who had been staring at him all night, immediately closed his eyes and rubbed against Duan Mingchong's arms, pretending to be asleep.

Duan Mingchong looked down at Sui Yan, smiled tenderly, hugged him for a while, and then quietly got off the bed.

Sui Yan listened to the noise of his mistress Duan Mingchong getting dressed and washing, and stared at the ring on his finger, not knowing what he was thinking.

Sui Yan didn't get up from the bed until the noise in the outer room stopped.

Haitang, who came to serve, brought in hot water. She thought she would have to wait for half an hour for her young master to wake up, but as soon as she entered the room, Sui Yan was already dressed neatly and sitting on a soft chair waiting for her.

Haitang was surprised and asked, "Young Master, why did you get up so early today?"

Sui Yan smiled and said, "I can't sleep, and it's boring to lie down, so I got up and walked around."

Haitang didn't care. She just said "oh" and helped him wash up.

Outside the Marquis' Mansion, Jun Jingxing bowed and entered the East Palace's carriage. He tilted his head to glance at the plaque of the Marquis' Mansion before letting go of the curtain.

The carriage moved slowly.

Duan Mingchong sat upright in the carriage, his sleeves bulging with something hidden. He looked up at Jun Jingxing and said, "Is there something important that must be said now?"

Jun Jingxing just accidentally saw a corner of the book sticking out from Duan Mingchong's sleeve, and his face suddenly turned pale - that book had been in Siu Yan's hands all the time for the past half month, and he could tell at a glance that it was the insulting storybook.

I don’t know whether the prince took this book because he felt offended and planned to destroy it, or because he wanted to keep it for himself.

Jun Jingxing looked away expressionlessly and said, "The Marquis asked me not to tell His Highness about this, but after thinking it over, I still feel that if he continues to endure like this, he will sooner or later run out of energy."

Duan Mingchong was stuffing the script into his sleeve inconspicuously. When he heard this, his hands trembled and he looked at him with frowned brows.

Jun Jingxing took a deep breath and felt that even if Sui Yan killed him in the future, he would not regret saving Duan Mingchong today.

"Tell me more."

Sui Yan, who didn't know he was being sold, was squatting in the yard, moving the herbs from Jun Jingxing's room out to dry them. He didn't quite understand Jun Jingxing's way of researching and preparing herbs, so he moved all the herbs out of the bamboo basket and filled the yard with them to dry.

He was originally bored and wanted to find something to do, but he exposed himself to the sun a little too much and also placed the bamboo basket a little too low, so all the rabbits grazing in the yard jumped on it and pounced.

The medicine spilled all over the floor.

Sui Yan hurried to catch rabbits, but after he caught one, another one jumped on it. Not only did he spill all the medicine, but he was also exhausted and sweating.

He hadn't slept all night and was already very tired. He almost wanted to lie down and sleep soundly.

Sui Yan squatted on the ground, patted his face and tried to cheer himself up.

"As long as you don't sleep, it's fine."

Rabbits hopped around him, and some even lay on his clothes, chewing undried herbs with their three-lobed mouths with relish.

Sui Yan looked at the rabbit eating happily at his feet. He tilted his head and watched for a long time before he picked up a herb and carefully brought it to his lips and took a bite.

After just one bite, Sui Yan's whole face wrinkled up. He felt the outrageous taste lingering between his lips and teeth, stimulating him so much that his whole body went numb and he almost jumped up.

The rabbit at my feet was still chewing its food contentedly.

Sui Yan frowned and stuck out his tongue to spit out something, then he realized that his tiredness had disappeared completely.

Sui Yan looked at the herb in his hand in amazement, wondering if this was the best magical thing to refresh himself.

He felt that he had found a good remedy and happily filled a bag with the herbs.

After separating from Jun Jingxing, Duan Ming Chongshen went to court in a distracted manner, and made frequent mistakes while helping the emperor deal with the government affairs of recent days, causing the ministers to look at him with extremely strange eyes.

Duan Mingchong rubbed his brows, concentrated his mind and quickly dealt with the trivial matters. He left the palace quickly without waiting for the officials from the Hanlin Academy to surround him.

In the Marquis' Mansion, Sui Yan was squatting on the ground picking up medicine, and next to him was Jun Jingxing who was so angry that he kept pressing his chest.

However, perhaps because of today's informant incident, Jun Jingxing felt a little guilty, so he didn't scold Sui Yan, nor did he ask him to pick up the medicine on the ground. But Sui Yan didn't know what was wrong with him, and he squatted down to pick it up unconsciously.

Jun Jingxing watched him pick up the medicine carefully with his eyes downcast. After his anger subsided, he ran forward and said tentatively, "My Lord, you don't need to do these little things yourself. Let me do it."

Sui Yan said casually while picking up the trash: "Of course I should pick up what I knocked over. But why are you so nice to me today? I thought you were going to get mad and beat me up."

Jun Jingxing said: "That was originally the plan."

Sui Yan: “…”

Sui Yan looked at him dimly: "Have you done anything to let me down?"

Jun Jingxing immediately waved his hands in guilt: "How, how can that be possible? Lord, please don't make blind guesses and slander someone's innocence."

Sui Yan looked at him suspiciously, then lowered his head to pick up the medicine, saying, "Forget it, I'll let you go. As long as you don't talk nonsense to the prince, I can let you go."

Jun Jingxing felt even more guilty.

At this time, Duan Mingchong came in from the courtyard gate and saw Sui Yan squatting on the ground picking up medicine, and his brows frowned.

"Ayan?"

As soon as Sui Yan saw him, he waved at him: "Your Highness."

Duan Mingchong came over, pulled him up from the ground, and said, "Why did you do this yourself? Don't you have servants in the mansion?"

Sui Yan curled his lips and pointed at Jun Jingxing, saying, "It was him. He spilled the medicine himself and then caught me to pick up the medicine for him. He also said that if I didn't pick it up, he would make bitter medicine for me."

Jun Jingxing: “…”

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