Chapter 164: Destiny 10 You cried for me, that's good.
Li Yanze couldn't pretend not to hear it, as the peach blossoms in Taoxi Village were blooming in clusters of deep pink and light pink. The spring breeze carried the petals like spring rain, but softer than spring rain.
Qi Youwei seemed to be just talking to him casually, without any intention of asking for his opinion, and did not give Li Yanze any chance to respond.
The sound of whipping spring broke through the air. The villagers of Taoxi Village were reluctant to whip their old cows, so they made lifelike cloth cows. The only sound was the sound of the whip breaking through the air.
"I..." Li Yanze turned his head away, his lips moving, only a helpless sound came out.
Qi You smiled slightly, just grabbed his wrist and said nothing more.
The Spring God would be noisy from morning till night. The more lively the outside world was, the more silent the two of them were. Or it could be said that it was Li Yanze who was silent unilaterally. He was obviously absent-minded when he was eating at the buffet.
Qi Youwei kept smiling at the villagers who came to greet him, and stayed quietly beside him, looking very calm. But only he knew how flustered and anxious he was.
He was afraid that Li Yanze would distance himself from him, but he was also anxious to get him to reconsider his decision.
That senior brother...how could he not remember him?
If he came out, Li Yanze would just ask him a few questions and everything he had now would come to naught.
"I hate it most when people lie to me." "I will only trust someone unconditionally once." "Are you sure you won't lie to me again?" "Don't lie to me..."
Qi Youwei's breathing was almost difficult, and he had no mercy at all. How could he keep Li Yanze?
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse. It is a fine day.
They walked together on the country road, and they didn't speak to each other for a whole day.
Qi Youwei followed him closely, and when he saw clumps of furry foxtail grass on the roadside, he couldn't help but stop and pluck a handful.
Li Yanze didn't look back, but when Qi Youwei stood up after interviewing, he saw him standing there.
Li Yanze was dressed in a plain blue suit. The bright and cool moonlight fell on his frosty shoulders. He turned half of his face to the side.
A young and lively face is like a white marble statue, quiet and compassionate, with only the cinnabar mole between the eyebrows bright red, the color of the world.
Qi Youwei held a handful of foxtail grass, and a feeling of pilgrimage-like piety that he had never felt before surged in his heart.
"The little rabbit you gave me is gone." Qi Youwei said whatever he wanted to say, without any purpose or plan.
Li Yanze lowered his eyes and looked at the green furry foxtail grass. He teased it with his fingers and silently pulled out two strands.
"I'll teach you." Li Yanze didn't look at Qi Youwei, but he could still feel his gaze following him.
"This way you can have whatever you want in the future." Li Yanze said, and he made a plump grass rabbit without a single grass seed falling out.
Qi Youwei didn't respond. He imitated him and put his fingers together and tied them into a circle, but a handful of grass seeds fell out, revealing the thin grass stems.
Li Yanze handed him the one in his hand, took it from him, and chuckled. Qi Youwei touched the furry ears of the grass rabbit very carefully and chuckled as well.
"You're using too much force. Be gentler." Li Yanze did not throw away his failed work, but taught him softly.
Qi Youwei walked slowly with him on the path, looking at the grass rabbit in his hand.
"I can't learn it. Even if I learn it, I still can't get what I want."
Li Yanze understood this time, but did not make any promises.
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Late at night, Qi Youwei sat sideways on the couch facing the window, twisting the furry green grass rabbit in his hand between his two fingers, and his ears trembled.
"Your Highness."
Qi Youwei supported his chin with his other hand, without even looking over there, just looking at the straw rabbit in his hand.
"When are you planning to return to the Imperial Capital?"
"The Imperial Master sent you here to ask when I will start splitting the elixir, right?"
The half-kneeling figure lowered his head and said nothing more. Qi Youwei had a faint smile on his face, and was not affected by his words.
"The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth month shows the earthly bond, the cinnabar and blue phoenix fall into the peach stream. Why does the bright pearl fall into the purple clothes? The lonely city is nowhere to be found for thousands of miles." Qi Youwei finished reading softly.
"This is the maxim that the national teacher calculated for me, and the first two sentences have come true. I didn't believe it before, but now I really think it is wonderful. Since it is my chance, whether it is a fate of love or a fate of evil, I have the final say."
The secret guard understood his subtext and looked at Qi Youwei in shock. Qi Youwei picked up the letter and handed it to him, his eyebrows relaxed, not showing that he had decided to give up the last bit of hope and die.
"There is one more thing." Qi Youwei tapped the table lightly with his fingers, raised his phoenix eyes and looked straight at him.
"I want you to do it right away."
Early in the morning, Li Yanze had just stretched in the corridor when he was shocked to see Qi Youwei, with his arms tied, bringing out a plate of steamed buns from the kitchen.
"You did it?"
Li Yanze picked up the steamed buns. Each one was plump and white, without even the slightest blemish of shrinkage.
Qi You nodded proudly and asked him, "How does it compare to Miss Xing'er's steamed buns?"
Li Yanze choked, pounded his chest, took the tea that Qi Youwei brought and drank it.
"Hers is more solid, yours is prettier." Li Yanze commented objectively, but when he saw Qi Youwei's eyebrows drooping and putting down his chopsticks and spoon, he immediately changed his words.
"I definitely like this one of yours better. I'm so lucky to have this."
Qi Youwei was happy again. Li Yanze sighed and saw that the headband he used to tie his hair was the one he gave him yesterday.
Qi Youwei's clothes and headband are different every day, and he has never been seen wearing the same ones. Li Yanze was really surprised to see that he still kept the headband.
Taoxi Village is quiet and leisurely, with few outsiders coming, but today I could hear noisy voices outside.
Li Yanze and Qi Youwei went out together and saw from afar three monks in gray and white Taoist robes holding a stack of talisman papers and entering Taoxi Village in a grand manner.
"We are monks from the Imperial Capital Astronomical Observatory. Evil spirits have been causing trouble in many places recently, so we have come here to sell talismans to ward off evil spirits. Ten taels of silver each! First come, first served. Each one is made by the Imperial Capital Astronomical Observatory's state master."
Li Yanze glanced at the three monks and turned to look at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
"Do you know him?"
Qi You smiled slightly and leaned closer to him: "In the imperial capital, a gray-robed monk like this is not qualified to meet the prince."
Li Yanze scratched his head and had a real feeling that Qi Youwei was the prince.
This was the time when every household was just about to leave the village or go to the fields, and soon a group of people gathered.
"Evil spirits causing chaos? We have never heard of such a thing here."
"They didn't lie about this. I heard them say a few days ago at the market that there are monsters in the imperial capital that peel off people's skin and eat their hearts."
It’s not that there are no evil spirits causing trouble in Taoxi Village. It’s not that Li Yanze is here and has set up a formation.
"Yes, you country folk don't know. So many high officials and nobles in the imperial capital have been harmed, let alone you common people. Why don't you spend money to save your lives?"
After being frightened and coaxed, many people hesitated. Li Yanze frowned, walked out of the crowd, and came to the front.
Ten taels of silver is a huge sum of money for an ordinary farmer, but this group of people must have made inquiries. Last year there was a good harvest, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has exempted taxes, so most of the hardworking people can really afford it.
"Can I borrow the talisman for a look?"
As soon as Li Yanze asked, those people immediately looked at him warily and refused immediately.
"Go away, go away, how can you touch the things of the immortals?"
Xing Er immediately jumped out and said, "Mr. Li knows magic, you are hiding it like this, are you trying to trick us?"
Xiao He and Xiao Sui had seen Li Yanze perform the magic with their own eyes, but they had not told anyone about it in order to keep it secret. Now they also loudly echoed Xing'er.
After all this, no one in Taoxi Village was willing to spend such a large sum of money.
Li Yanze did not force it. He did feel a faint spiritual power in these people, but he had never seen the talisman, so he couldn't say whether it was true or false.
But since he is here, he will do everything he can to avoid evil.
Qi Youwei stood outside the crowd, smiling without saying a word. His phoenix eyes swept over the expressions of the three gray-robed monks, without a trace of smile in his eyes.
"Something happened in the Imperial Capital, don't you want to go back?"
On the way back, Li Yanze couldn't help asking him. Qi Youwei put his hands behind his back, bent down and plucked two dogtail grasses, and Li Yanze took them and tied them in a knot reflexively.
"I found out right after the incident, and my good brother was involved behind the scenes. After all, I am just a mortal, so I can only leave it to the Imperial Observatory to handle. Half a month has passed, and the matter has not been resolved. Instead, people are in panic."
Qi Youwei sighed, his face still not looking very good. Li Yanze's spiritual power is now gone, and the one strand in his heart is almost gone. Qi Youwei can't stop taking medicine recently.
"I think without someone to take charge of the situation, it may be inconvenient for them to act." Qi You rubbed his eyebrows slightly, looking a little annoyed.
Li Yanze asked him hesitantly: "Then why don't you return to the imperial capital?"
Qi Youwei stopped walking, turned to look at Li Yanze, and smiled bitterly. A breeze blew past. Li Yanze saw the pain and helplessness in his eyes.
"I'm going to die."
His voice was soft, and his tone was as if he wanted to be entangled with him for the rest of his life.
"The imperial capital is a place of wealth and nobility, but it is also a heavy shackle for me that I cannot escape. In my short life, everyone says that I have a noble fate and am a descendant of the emperor. But no one says that I have few relatives, my mother died early, my father is not kind, my brothers are not friendly, and I am just a lonely person."
Li Yanze felt as if a heavy weight had fallen on his heart. His eyebrows drooped and he said nothing, but his eyes were already filled with soft light.
"I am about to die. In this last year, I just want to find a beautiful place to live out my last days in peace and quiet."
"No."
Li Yanze interrupted him eagerly and gave him the rabbit in his hand. When he met Qi Youwei's eyes, he subconsciously wanted to dodge, but hesitated and did not avoid it.
"You won't die. I have a hunch, trust me."
Qi You sighed lightly and smiled: "I know there are some things you don't like to hear and it bothers you."
"But I'm just afraid that if I don't tell you, you'll never know what I'm thinking. And after I die, in a few years, you'll forget me. This is more terrifying to me than death."
Li Yanze stared at Qi Youwei in a daze, until he reached out to wipe away the tears sliding down the corners of his eyes, then he realized that he was crying.
"You cried for me, that's good." Qi You smiled slightly, and this time he took Li Yanze's hand and he would not be avoided anymore.
Li Yanze became depressed because of his words. He wished he could recover his spiritual power immediately, then use a shrinking talisman to go back to Qingluan Mountain to wake up his brother who was in seclusion, and quickly find a way to save him.
"Your Highness!"
Before they reached the courtyard, a large group of plainclothes guards in gorgeous clothes knelt down. Li Yanze tried to break free, but Qi Youwei held on tighter and tighter.
"Please rest assured, Your Highness. We have not alarmed anyone. We are kneeling here to ask you to return to the imperial capital and take charge of the situation!"
Li Yanze turned to look at Qi Youwei and took the initiative to hook his fingers.
"I have arranged everything before I left. You can do whatever you want."
"Your Highness! You must return to the Imperial Capital to seek treatment from the Imperial Master for your heart disease!"
The leader kept kowtowing and looked like he was in tears.
"It's just a lingering death. It doesn't matter if it's not treated." Qi Youwei's face was very cold. He pulled Li Yanze around them and went into the house.
Li Yanze was about to say something but stopped himself when he saw the imperial physician holding a medicine box.
"Youwei, at least let the imperial physician take a look at you."
Qi Youwei looked at him and hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head: "It's useless. Letting him in will give them a chance to nag."
Li Yanze just looked at him. Qi You sighed slightly, compromised, and turned to let the imperial physician in.
Li Yanze was a little puzzled. Qi Youwei's tone when speaking to his subordinates was very commanding. He seemed to be the kind of master who had a strong desire for control and would not tolerate his subordinates acting on their own.
But they dared to block here and kneel down to beg Qi Youwei to return to Beijing.
Perhaps the situation in Beijing is indeed bad.
Li Yanze poured a cup of tea for the imperial physician, and Qi Youwei stared at him. Li Yanze thought he was a little childish so he smiled and poured him a cup as well.
"If you're saying that I can only go back to Beijing, then you don't have to say anything more."
The imperial physician knelt down and said, "Then I have nothing to say."
Li Yanze watched the imperial physician retreat. After hesitating for a moment, Li Yanze rolled his eyes and said to Qi Youwei, "I'll get you a book."
After saying this, he chased after the imperial physician.
Qi Youwei did not stop him. His frown suddenly relaxed as he watched him run out. After a long while, he chuckled and drank up the two cups of tea on the table.
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