Chapter 69: One Hour Pei Yixue chuckled and leaned closer: ...
Overnight, the news that Pei Yixue, the owner of Jishiyi Station, and Xu Yi, the owner of Liming Pharmacy, were the same person spread throughout the streets and alleys.
Earlier, when Xu Yi was still a man in his seventies, he was recognized wherever he went, and enthusiastic crowds would block traffic and roads, scrambling to get forward.
Now, this "seventy-year-old man" has suddenly turned into a handsome young man in his early twenties, and the enthusiasm he has caused is even greater than before.
A large number of people surrounded and blocked Pei Yixue, trapping him in his mansion, making it impossible for him to move.
After breakfast in the morning, the sun was still mild and there was a cool breeze.
In the pavilion in the backyard, Xie Yushu and Pei Yixue sat opposite each other.
The eerie silence was mixed with the noise of fanatical fans outside the wall.
Pei Yixue felt a little guilty, and took advantage of the breaks between drinking tea to steal a glance at Xie Yushu from time to time.
Seeing that the other party neither spoke nor asked, Pei Yixue was unsure of what he was thinking, so he deliberately coughed weakly twice, causing Xie Yushu to look up.
"Did you choke?" Xie Yushu closed the account book in his hand, stood up and patted him on the back.
Pei Yixue was slightly stunned. This man treated him the same as before.
He simply let go of most of his strength, leaned over, and said casually, "It's said outside that Dr. Xu from Liming Pharmacy has been pretending to be old, but he is actually in his twenties, and... he looks exactly like me. What a coincidence."
The hand that was stroking his back suddenly stopped. After a while, Xie Yushu responded softly, "Yeah."
Pei Yixue looked up at the sound and saw that there was no doubt in Xie Yushu's eyes, which were as clean as a spring and seemed very easy to deceive.
He pulled a brilliant smile at the corner of his lips: "Ah Shu, what do you think... could Doctor Xu be my twin brother?"
"Maybe... yes." Xie Yushu answered, his eyes fixed straight on his face.
The big stone in Pei Yixue's heart finally fell to the ground, and his tone became cheerful: "Well, then I'll go find the miracle doctor and have a good talk with him some other time." He stood up and saw that Xie Yushu was perfect in every way.
Before he could get closer, Xie Yushu took a step back, "Still outside."
"Ashu thought--" Pei Yixue paused deliberately, leaned forward and closed the distance, "What should I do?" His tone was sticky and his eyes were lingering.
After just two rounds, Xie Yushu was defeated and glanced at the account book on the stone table in panic.
"I haven't finished reading the account book yet." Xie Yushu's figure flashed, and he swiftly passed by him, sat back at the table, and opened the account book again.
Pei Yixue stood up, walked to his side, and said with a sad tone: "Thank you, sir, today is a day off."
Xie Yushu's hands froze, his eyes wandering, not knowing where to look, "Then... shall we go back to the house?"
Pei Yixue chuckled and leaned closer: "What are you going back to the house for?"
"..." Xie Yushu picked up the account book on the table and said, "Look at the account book."
"I don't want to see~"
"So what do you want to do?"
Pei Yixue couldn't help but let out a low, pleasant laugh, thinking to himself that this guy had learned his lesson and knew to throw the question back.
He said, "Do something that can make Ah Shu happy."
Suddenly, his vision was occupied by a blue color—Xie Yushu slapped the account book in his hand directly on his face, stood up and walked away quickly.
When the vision returned to him, Xie Yushu was already walking out of the pavilion with the account book in his hand.
Pei Yixue straightened up and called out lazily, "My Lord, wait for me. I have no strength left."
Under the pavilion eaves, Xie Yushu stopped and looked back. Pei Yixue smiled like a flower, walked slowly closer, and leaned against him gently, "Master, can you carry me back?"
The person in front of me has a smile in her eyes and thick eyelashes fluttering. She is bright but not ostentatious, and gentle as water. Once you are attracted by her, you can't help but be intoxicated.
This extreme temptation of beauty made everything around it pale in comparison. At this moment, the only thing left in Xie Yushu's mind was this face that made his heart stop beating. He bent down on his own without any need to move his body, and picked the person up steadily.
It turns out that Pei Yixue, who was “too weak to take care of herself” under the bed, was incredibly energetic after the curtains fell.
Since returning to the room, Xie Yushu didn't know how much time had passed. He just hoped that Pei Yixue would get enough of his troubles soon.
He lay on his back on the messy bed, gasping for breath like a drowning man finally emerging from the water.
The fog in front of my eyes gradually dissipated and my vision refocused.
At his side, Pei Yixue supported her head with one hand, her charming eyes gazing at him from top to bottom. Her scattered hair fell naturally, making her look like a bewitching and charming woman. Even the most gorgeous red peony would be pale in comparison.
Xie Yushu was so fascinated by the sight that his right hand involuntarily touched the face that was so close to him.
Pei Yixue's eyebrows curved, her thin lips slightly parted, and she started to act naughty again: "Are you happy, Ah Shu?"
"Happy." How could Xie Yushu not be happy? His life was not smooth. If it were not for Pei Yixue, let alone becoming an official in the court, he might still be a dumb Shuang'er struggling for three meals a day in Daohua Village, Xitang County.
Pei Yixue was a first-rate figure in both appearance and medical skills. He could not imagine why such a beautiful person who could seduce people with her beauty alone would appear beside him like a drop from the sky, and why she would fall in love with a mediocre-looking and mediocre-talented man like him.
Seeing Xie Yushu looking at him infatuatedly, Pei Yixue leaned over and kissed him. After a passionate kiss, he withdrew a little and sniffed his breath: "Then... let's be happy again?"
Before he finished speaking, Pei Yixue covered the soft lips again, and his fingertips moved on Xie Yushu's sensitive skin like a snake. However, the other party put one hand on his chest and gently pushed him away.
"Tonight... until night." Xie Yushu's breath was unstable, and he said hurriedly, "I have to go to the government office later, and I will... have no strength."
It was the government office again. Pei Yixue now had a deep resentment towards places like the court and the government office. The affairs there seemed to be endless.
His sight slid down to Xie Yushu's slightly rolling Adam's apple, which was as tempting as a peeled lychee. Pei Yixue leaned over without hesitation, opened his mouth and bit it punishingly.
Xie Yushu took a breath and coaxed, "A little while... no more than an hour, I'll be back."
Satisfiedly feeling the tremors coming from the body in his arms, Pei Yixue said vaguely: "I didn't say you can't let Ah Shu go..." He put his palm against Xie Yushu's pounding heart, and when he stood up, he suddenly started coughing violently.
Even though he already knew that Pei Yixue was not sick, Xie Yushu's heart couldn't help but tighten when he saw his shoulders shaking from coughing.
During these days, he gradually figured out the pattern: Pei Yixue's illness was a way for her to express her emotions to him: whenever Pei Yixue was a little dissatisfied, his "illness" would show signs of worsening.
"... Stop making trouble." Xie Yushu sighed and held the person in his arms again.
It was not concern or worry, but three words full of helplessness: "Stop making trouble." Pei Yixue buried her head in the crook of his neck, and from an angle that Xie Yushu couldn't see, the corners of her lips curled up into a knowing smile.
He said that Xie Yushu had been acting a little strange recently, and now everything was explained - it turned out that he had known for a long time that he was Xu Yi.
Since Xie Yushu didn't expose it, he pretended not to know.
It seems like it would be a good idea to pretend to be sick for the rest of my life in front of Xie Yushu.
Xie Yushu kept his word and the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue were handled in less than half an hour. However, just as he was leaving the government office, someone from the palace came to summon him.
Inside the hall, the veils fluttered, white mist was thick, and the air was filled with warm water vapor and a faint scent of incense.
"Your Majesty, thank you for your presence." The eunuch bowed and lowered his voice to a very low level.
Zhao Jingyan, who was resting with his eyes closed in the bath, glanced sideways lazily.
The water reflected his naked upper body, with smooth lines, but a red mark on his heart that looked like a winding vine caught Xie Yushu's eyes unexpectedly.
Xie Yushu's eyes were like nails, fixed on the cold golden brick floor in front of him, and he bowed deeply: "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
"No need to be so formal." Zhao Jingyan's voice was slightly hoarse with laziness after taking a bath. The sound of water was heard softly, and the eunuch standing by bowed silently and quietly retreated into the lingering mist.
Xie Yushu stood up, but his eyes were still fixed on his feet.
Zhao Jingyan let out a light laugh: "I told you not to be so formal. I called you here tonight just to have some personal conversation with you."
Seeing that his body was tense and motionless, Zhao Jingyan casually stroked the striking scar on his chest with his slender fingertips. His tone was nonchalant, but it seemed to carry an invisible hook: "It is said that the shape of the mark here is different for each Shuang'er. I wonder what yours looks like?"
Xie Yushu's ears instantly felt as if they were on fire when the king openly asked him about such a private matter. "Your Majesty...Your Majesty doesn't know." His voice was hoarse, almost squeezed out of his throat.
"Why don't you know this?" Zhao Jingyan tilted his head slightly, and pointed his fingertips through the mist at Xie Yushu's tightly tied collar. "Just pull it open and take a look, then you'll know."
Facing that piercing gaze, Xie Yushuo gritted his teeth and replied, "Your Majesty... my desire to get pregnant... has not yet blossomed." Their lips and tongues intertwined, their bodies rubbed against each other, and those hands and tongues with electric currents traveled through every inch of their bodies... He and Pei Yixue had done everything they should and shouldn't have done, but they had never reached the final step.
The air suddenly stagnated. Zhao Jingyan stared at him, his long eyebrows raised high, and a trace of disbelief and curiosity flashed across his eyes: "Hasn't bloomed yet?"
"I dare not deceive Your Majesty." Xie Yushu lowered his head. Under his fear was deeper confusion and vigilance. What exactly did the emperor want to do by doing this?
After a vague chuckle, Zhao Jingyan said, "Such a wonderful person is in front of you every day, facing you day and night... Thank you, my dear minister," he dragged out the tone, his tone full of inquiry, "You can really hold back."
There was a splash of water, and Zhao Jingyan stood up suddenly. Xie Yushu subconsciously raised his eyes, and a dazzling white came into his sight. He lowered his head suddenly as if he had been electrocuted.
The rustling sound of dressing echoed in the empty hall. After a moment, a pair of bare feet without shoes or socks and stained with water stopped in his lowered sight. Xie Yushu's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly took two steps back, bending his body even lower.
Zhao Jingyan's voice was full of teasing as it fell from above his head: "My dear... don't you want to have a taste of that?"
"Try...taste?" Xie Yushu's mind was in a mess and he could hardly speak straight.
Zhao Jingyan suddenly laughed, raised his hand and casually patted his shoulder, and at the same time stuffed a booklet into his stiff hand: "Try this."
The blue cover was smudged by a few drops of water, and printed on it were three thin gold characters - "Shadows among Flowers". Xie Yushu took it blankly, and subconsciously opened it, and what caught his eyes were several pictures of men entangled in gorgeous lines and intimate postures!
The vivid picture exploded in his mind like thunder. He slammed the book shut as if he was holding a branding iron, and looked up in astonishment at the smiling emperor in front of him.
"How is it?" Zhao Jingyan asked leisurely with a playful smile, "My dear, do you feel a little bit...blood boiling at this moment?"
First he asked about the private matters in the room without any reason, and then he showed him this pornographic picture album... His behavior was no different from that of a street hooligan!
If the person in front of him was not the emperor, Xie Yushu would have punched him right now.
"No." He pursed his lips tightly, his face was as cold as ice, and his voice was hard. Then he bowed and said, "The affairs of the Ministry of Revenue are complicated. If Your Majesty has no important instructions, I will take my leave first."
Sensing the chill emanating from Xie Yushu, Zhao Jingyan kept smiling: "My dear, you may have misunderstood my good intentions. I just thought that the Liming Pharmacy has made great contributions to this epidemic, and the miracle doctor is indeed a hero of our Daqing. I called you here to ask you not to neglect him." He suddenly changed the subject, his tone was sticky and ambiguous, "Especially... this matter between the bed. It is natural for men to be interested in this. A person with such extraordinary grace as the miracle doctor," he deliberately dragged out the tail tone, with a mischievous light in his eyes, "My dear, have you never thought of pressing him under you and watching him for you..." He took a step closer, and his low voice was full of devilish temptation, "...be obsessed and cry?"
"......?" Xie Yushu's eyes widened and his whole body froze. These words, these actions... were completely unfamiliar and shocking to him. Could Shuang'er... actually do this to a man?
Zhao Jingyan smiled so hard that he could hardly close his mouth. He bent his index and middle fingers, gently tapped the copy of Shadows among Flowers that Xie Yushu was tightly holding, and coaxed him kindly: "This book is something I treasure, and I am giving it to you today. Go back and study it carefully, and don't let my painstaking efforts down." Every word he said was full of bewitchment.
Last night, while the mystery of the "miracle doctor's origin" stirred the capital, the old story of Zhao Jingyan "staying overnight at Nanfeng Pavilion at the age of fifteen" also spread like wildfire. Upon hearing the news, Du Ruo was so angry that she left the palace immediately.
Zhao Jingyan didn't need to think about who was the mastermind behind this. He forced Pei Yixue to reveal his identity. If the other party didn't do something, he would not be Pei Yixue anymore.
But Zhao Jingyan has always been a tit-for-tat person. When Pei Yixue spread rumors that angered Du Ruo and made her leave, he "taught" Xie Yushu to "subdue" Pei Yixue... This is fair.
Of course, he also believed that he was preparing for the overall situation of Daqing.
The tentacles of Liming Pharmacy and Jishi Post have already begun to extend to other countries. Pei Yixue has raised the people's livelihood in Daqing to a higher level by his own efforts. Now, not only his own country is paying attention, but neighboring countries are also eyeing him covetously.
Where the focus of the Yaotang Station will be located and where the miracle doctor "Xu Yi" will eventually belong to are all issues that concern all parties.
But Pei Yixue was aloof and arrogant, and he even disdained the position of national teacher, which was second only to the emperor.
Zhao Jingyan didn't know how many unknown thunders Pei Yixue had hidden in his hands, but just because he and the emperor had relied on him to save their lives several times, this man had to be tied firmly to Daqing no matter what.
But how easy is it to restrain Pei Yixue? Without Xie Yushu's restraint, Pei Yixue would be like a wild horse running free, doing whatever he wants, and there's no telling when he'll strike.
The only way is to make the bond between Pei Yixue and Xie Yushu deeper and stronger... and it would be best if that unruly genius doctor could willingly "submit" to Xie Yushu.
All he had to do was entrust Xie Yushu with important tasks regarding court affairs, thereby gaining a hardworking confidant and trapping Pei Yixue, killing two birds with one stone.
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