Chapter 11
Yes, with Yu Xi's ability, this little trick would not be able to hide it. Moreover, he did not hide it from Yun He, so if Yu Xi asked, he would know everything.
"Your Majesty, do you not blame me?"
Yu Xi raised an eyebrow, "Why should I blame you? Are you supposed to be a bodhisattva and forgive others even after being framed? My dear, just do whatever you want. I'll support you."
Ling Huanchen never thought that Yu Xi would accept everything so calmly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Seeing that he looked unhappy, Yu Xi thought that he was frightened by this incident, so she pulled him into her arms and held him there.
"Don't blame yourself." The little mermaid is still too kind.
The art of exorcism would bring disaster to the entire clan. If the whole process was used, Ling Huanchen would probably feel uneasy, so he whitewashed the charges before making the above judgment.
Because of his words, Ling Huanchen obediently let him hold her without struggling, allowing herself to be infected by the man's warmth.
Yu Xi lowered her head, and her lips brushed Ling Huanchen's forehead lightly, causing the person in her arms to suddenly freeze.
Then a clear cough sounded beside my ear, "Someone, bring the food up."
After a while, the palace servant came into the room carrying a glass cup, knelt in front of the two of them, and raised his hands above his head.
Ling Huanchen's gaze fell on the glass cup, which contained a number of red, round, and uneven objects.
It turned out to be lychees. He had tasted them before. Since the second year after entering the palace, Yu Xi ordered people to deliver lychees every year, and they were always the first batch when they were fresh and ripe.
"These lychees have just been delivered to the palace. I specially ordered someone to bring them to you to calm you down." As he said this, Yu Xi peeled a lychee himself and handed it to his mouth.
Ling Huanchen opened his mouth reflexively. The food tasted sweet, and after he swallowed it all, he was surprised to find that he had become so accustomed to Yu Xi's feeding behavior.
"Do you think it's sweet, my dear?"
Ling Huanchen savored it and said, "Sweet."
When Yu Xi looked down at Ling Huanchen, his expression remained as cold and serious as ever, "I want to eat too."
Ling Huanchen raised his eyes and met Yu Xi's slightly smiling eyes.
Are you asking him to feed you again?
Glancing at the palace servant in front of him again, Ling Huanchen was not yet used to any intimate behavior with Yu Xi in front of others.
But the man kept looking at him, his eyes full of expectation. If he didn't respond, it would seem that he was wrong.
So Ling Huanchen followed suit, peeled the lychees and fed them to Yu Xi with his own hands.
Yu Xi narrowed his eyes slightly. The lychees fed by the beauty were indeed sweeter than the ones he ate himself.
The two of them fed each other one by one, and in a blink of an eye, half of the lychees in the glass cup were empty.
After Yu Xi left, Ling Huanchen called Xiao Qi and Yun He in.
"There are still some lychees left. Share them among you."
Xiao Qi's eyes lit up immediately. He had only heard of lychees but had never eaten them, so he really didn't know how to eat them.
Yun He, on the other hand, was much calmer. After all, she had been in the palace for many years and had seen and tasted it before. Although she had never tasted it herself, she had seen the king use it before, so she immediately demonstrated it to Xiao Qi.
Ling Huanchen looked at the two of them with a smile, as if he were looking at his own children, even though their ages were not much different.
"Eat slowly, there's a core inside, be careful not to choke."
Before he could finish his instructions, Xiao Qi choked and coughed several times.
"Idiot." Yun He said mercilessly.
Tears welled up in Xiaoqi's eyes, but he still didn't give up and reached out to the glass cups. He took a few and put them in his pocket, laughing foolishly and looking very silly.
Ling Huanchen watched indulgently from the side, thinking how wonderful it would be if it could continue like this, with all the people he cherished still around.
"You guys continue eating, I'm going to take a bath in the hot spring."
As soon as he stood up, the two of them followed him immediately, forgetting about the glass cups and lychees.
"I will serve you."
"I will guard the door."
Even after being surrounded by people, Ling Huanchen still did not ask them to come over to serve. The two men finally stood obediently outside the door, like two door gods.
He always took advantage of Yu Xi's absence to bathe here. The hot spring pool was large enough for him to freely display his mermaid form. After all, he was a mermaid, so he naturally preferred to stay in the water.
Ling Huanchen swam in the pool, his shark tail slapping the water from time to time, creating a few splashes of water, and ripples appeared in circles wherever he swam.
When he put his arms back on the shore, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the red mark on his wrist. It was an old scar, which was extremely eye-catching on his fair wrist.
He remembered that in his previous life, the thing he used to cover his scars lost its effectiveness while he was bathing.
"Your Highness!"
Ling Huanchen suddenly looked up and wondered why this person came over while he was taking a shower.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you." He was unable to perform the salute in this state and could only nod his head.
"Have I disturbed you while you were bathing?" Although he said so, Yu Xi was fully aware of not wanting to disturb others. His eyes swept across the fair neck and suddenly fell on the scar on the wrist.
"What's wrong with your wrist?" He didn't remember seeing this scar before.
"It's just a scar from the past. My father was worried that the tribute might be defective, so he asked someone to find a special medicine to apply on it." Ling Huanchen smiled nonchalantly, as if it was none of his business. "I don't know why it's ineffective. If your Majesty minds, I..."
"How did you get hurt?"
Suddenly stopped by Yu Xi's question, Ling Huanchen was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's just that when I was young, I was too playful and didn't follow the instructions, so the ruler accidentally cut off a piece of my flesh."
Yu Xi frowned when she heard that, grabbed his wrist, stared at the scar, and felt an inexplicable impulse in her heart.
"Did you have a mark on your wrist before?"
Ling Huanchen thought for a moment, "Originally it was just a mole, not so obvious."
As soon as he finished speaking, the force on his wrist suddenly increased.
"Did you ever go out to sea when you were little?"
Ling Huanchen felt uncomfortable under his gaze and spoke truthfully, "I did go out once. The mermaid royal family was not confined for instruction until they were six years old. I had been out to sea before that. There's a story behind this. The only time I escaped, I accidentally saved a man. He was sinking in the sea with a large rock tied to his foot. I struggled for a long time to drag him back to shore. He was unconscious, his heartbeat barely audible, so I ripped off a scale from my body and gave him his blood to drink."
As Ling Huanchen recalled, Yu Xi's thoughts gradually drifted away.
"Little brother, little brother?"
A sweet child's voice sounded in his ears. The boy moved his eyelids and tried to open his eyes. When his vision became clear, he saw a child staring at him with big black and white eyes.
Those eyes are as clear as water, and they are unforgettable once you see them.
"You saved me?" The young man was surprised to find that his voice was hoarse and there was an unignorable fishy sweetness in his throat.
When the boy saw the boy wake up, he immediately showed a bright smile, "Little brother, you finally woke up, I know my treatment method is correct, hiss!"
"What's wrong with you?" The boy was worried and looked him up and down. He didn't see any injuries on the boy's body, but only saw him covering his left leg with one hand.
"It's okay, it's okay." The boy blinked his eyes. "Where are your family, little brother? Where do you live? Why did you sink into the sea?"
His family.
The boy laughed at himself, "They don't want me anymore."
The boy couldn't understand the boy's emotions, but he could tell that his smile wasn't from happiness. He suddenly reached out and rubbed the boy's face, "Little brother, don't cry."
The young man was stunned for a moment, then said woodenly, "When did I cry?"
The boy persisted, trying to comfort him through touch. "I know you want to cry, I just know."
The two of them were in a stalemate for a while, and the boy finally gave up struggling, tilted his head and touched the boy's hand, and saw the red mole on his wrist out of the corner of his eye.
He had no tears, as if he no longer wanted to cry.
"Little brother, where are you going from now on?"
The boy took his hand away and held it in his palm, "Go back to where you came from."
The boy looked puzzled, "But didn't you say they didn't want you anymore?"
The young man laughed when he heard the voice, "I don't want them either."
The tide hit the shore and landed at the feet of the two people. The afterglow of the setting sun reflected their shadows. At this moment, there seemed to be infinite tranquility.
The boy let the boy drag him away until he heard hawking sounds not far away and realized that there were people around.
"This is the closest village to the seaside. I heard about it from others. It's my first time here, and I heard it's very lively."
The boy pulled the young man and walked among the bustling crowd. They saw the shops and stalls on both sides with eyes full of novelty.
"Little brother, what do you think that is?"
The boy looked in the direction he pointed and said, "It's a candied haws."
"Is it tasty?"
The boy lowered his head and said, "It's delicious."
The boy ran over, picked up a string of candied haws, and took a bite. He turned around and waved at him, "Little brother, this is really delicious."
"Little kid, you haven't paid yet!"
The man grabbed the boy by the collar and lifted him into the air. "Where did this wild kid come from? Is there an adult to take care of him?"
"Let him go!"
The man saw that the person following him was also a half-grown child, and said unhappily, "Little brat, you can't expect to eat for free!"
"We're not eating for free, we just don't have any money." The young man felt around and took out a gold chain. He raised his hand and threw it to the man, "Take this as payment, and let him go."
The man was no longer an air traffic control boy. He grabbed the gold chain and bit it, "It's really gold."
The young man caught the boy and snatched a branch of candied haws.
The man smiled from ear to ear, "Take it, take it, it's all yours."
The boy held the boy's hand and said, "They are all yours."
The boy's eyes lit up when he heard this, because all these candied haws were his alone.
He took a few bites, pulled out a string and handed it to the boy, "Little brother, have some too."
"good."
The two children, not knowing each other's identities and not even having the chance to exchange names, walked hand in hand through the bustling market.
Until the sun went down, the little boy said goodbye to the boy with reluctance.
The boy didn't know where the boy had gone, but he found a red bead left at the place where he had left.
Ling Huanchen didn't understand why Yu Xi suddenly jumped into the pool and hugged him tightly.
The arms that were wrapped around him were incredibly strong, leaving him no room to resist.
It was the same back then. After listening to his childhood stories, Yu Xi seemed to have become a different person. He still doesn't know the reason.
"Your Majesty?" Ling Huanchen didn't care whether the two of them were behaving properly or not. He could only deeply feel that this man was holding him tightly.
Yu Xi did not respond, but the strength in his hands did not decrease at all. The hot spring was so strangely quiet that they could clearly hear each other's heartbeats.
He should have thought of it earlier. When he saw these eyes, he should have thought that there is no one like him in the world.
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