The man in white walked to the bedside, where the young man was still fast asleep. Perhaps because he had drunk too much alcohol and felt too hot, his arms were exposed, and his cheeks were still burning with the heat from the alcohol. The man in white stared for a long time before sitting down beside the bed. He first took the young man's hands and spread them out. Seeing no injuries, he put them into the quilt, then lifted the quilt at the end of the bed to expose the young man's legs.
He rolled up the young man's trouser legs and saw that his knees were clean and white without any injuries. His expression paused and the ointment in his right hand seemed to be very redundant.
An unknown amount of time had passed before the man in white lowered his eyes, put away the ointment, and was about to pull the young man's trouser legs down again when a loud thunderclap suddenly sounded outside. The sound was so loud that it woke up the drunk people.
When the man in white met the young man's opened eyes, he pursed his lips slightly, and the next moment, he stood up and was about to leave, but when he turned around, his sleeve was caught.
"Don't... go." The young man's sleepy voice came from behind.
In fact, the hand that grabbed his sleeve had no strength and could be freed with a slight struggle, but he just stopped where he was, and even turned his head back following the force of the other party pulling. Intoxicated by alcohol, not only were Fang Chaozhou's eyes red, but even the corners of his eyes were red, as if peach blossoms had been crushed and smeared on them.
He grabbed the sleeve of the person beside the bed, but because he had no strength, his arm slipped down. But when the sleeve was about to slip out of his palm, he suddenly raised his hand and grabbed it tightly again.
Zhongli Yueshui looked down at the hand that was holding his sleeve, then slowly raised his hand and held it. He wrapped his hand around it, then slowly pulled it apart, allowing it to loosen his sleeve.
He held the hand and put it back into the quilt, but as soon as he put it in, Fang Chaozhou stretched out his hand again.
"It's hot." Fang Chaozhou said vaguely. He grabbed Zhongli Yueshui's sleeve again, and not only grabbed it, but also pulled it towards himself.
It didn't move. He blinked wearily and kicked his legs. "It hurts."
Zhongli Yueshui looked at Fang Chaozhou's leg and asked, "Where does it hurt?"
"The wound hurts." Fang Chaozhou kicked his legs again. Zhongli Yueshui watched his movements and a sigh seemed to escape from his lips. He sat down beside the bed, took out the ointment he had used before, and applied it again to his knee where the wound was no longer visible.
In fact, Fang Chaozhou fell down in the afternoon and treated the wound after taking a shower. Fifth Junior Brother Du Yunxi had sent him a lot of medicine before, including a bunch for treating minor injuries. But after two applications, the wound healed completely and no trace was left.
Zhongli Yueshui was halfway through applying the medicine when his body stiffened. He lowered his head to look at the young man who had climbed onto his legs and was lying there. Fang Chaozhou rested his head on Zhongli Yueshui's legs, with one hand pinching Zhongli Yueshui's hanging sleeve. The thunder outside disappeared, leaving only the sound of rain.
He listened to the sound of rain outside, half closing his eyes, "It's raining."
Zhongli Yueshui looked at Fang Chaozhou for a moment before returning his attention to his legs. "Yeah."
"Is it cool outside?" Fang Chaozhou asked again.
"Um."
Fang Chaozhou raised his eyes and looked at Zhongli Yueshui through the gap in his sleeves. "Why did you only say 'hmm'? Can you say anything else?"
"Yes." Zhongli Yueshui paused, "Yes."
Fang Chaozhou laughed and pulled the other's sleeve to cover his face. The sleeve was slippery and a little cold, just right to cool his face. "When did you come?"
Zhongli Yueshui finished applying the medicine, "Just now."
"Master let you out?" Fang Chaozhou said this, but without waiting for a reply, he could not help but lift his sleeves a little, "Why don't you say anything? Did you sneak out?"
Zhongli Yueshui clenched the ointment in his hand so tightly that he almost crushed it.
Fang Chaozhou didn't wait for a reply, and covered his face with his sleeves again, and said vaguely: "Today I went to see Master and Tu Bai, but they didn't see me. They are probably still angry. Well, Master is so proud, and cats are also proud, so they must be angry."
After he said that, he closed his eyes again, as if he was going to sleep.
"Why do you want to go?" The sudden voice pulled Fang Chaozhou back from Zhou Gong, but he was still in a state of half asleep, half awake, and half drunk.
"I think you can restore your previous relationship. He has always been kind to you and this time he allowed us to come back. You should go and apologize." Fang Chaozhou said.
Zhongli Yueshui lifted up the sleeve that was hanging over Fang Chaozhou's face, "Aren't you afraid... aren't you afraid that he won't let you come back?"
Fang Chaozhou looked at the flickering candlelight and said in a daze, "Don't be afraid. Master is very proud. How could he force himself after being rejected once? I went to find him because I hope he can see me for who I am. I am just an ordinary person, nothing worth liking. Don't miss the road to becoming an immortal because of me."
He turned his gaze to Zhongli Yueshui's face. In his sight, he couldn't see the other person clearly, it was just a blur, but he automatically filled in a face in his mind.
"Some things are just rotten meat. If you don't face them with your own eyes and dig them out, they will remain there forever. If I keep avoiding them, it will easily make my master unwilling. But if I don't avoid them and even take the initiative to find him and continue to respect him as my master, he will think that he must have been blind at the beginning, or that he was just looking up to me because of a temporary novelty."
As Fang Chaozhou spoke, his voice became softer and softer, as if he was extremely sleepy. He pressed his face against the other's legs, slowly closed his eyes, and muttered, "I miss you so much, little brother."
Before, when I had no one in my heart, I didn’t feel time was unbearable. But now that I have someone in my heart, a hundred days seem as long as a hundred years.
The sound of rain gradually died down, and the person on my lap fell asleep.
Zhongli Yueshui pulled his sleeve out of the other person's hand, looked at the defenseless face sleeping, stretched out his hand, but stopped when his fingertips were about to touch the face. He closed his eyes and withdrew his hand.
The next day, when Fang Chaozhou woke up, he saw a letter left at the door. It was left by Hu Xiang.
Hu Xiang has already set off.
Fang Chaozhou looked at the letter in his hand and sighed, "Hu Xiang at least left a letter, but Da Hei didn't even leave me a single word. He really forgot his friends for the sake of beauty."
And at this time on the official road.
A frail young man was curled up in a brocade quilt, his face pale and his eyes full of sadness. The attendant's cautious voice came from outside, "Your Majesty, it's time to change the hot water bottle."
As soon as he finished speaking, a hot water bottle flew out and hit the speaker directly on the head. The follower fainted immediately, and the others around him seemed to be used to it and just dragged the man away.
Hu Xiang got angry and was not in a good mood. The scene of last night kept appearing in his mind. At the same time, his hand, which had just hit someone, hurt badly, as if it was being burned by fire.
Last night, he found an opportunity to get Fang Chaozhou drunk, but before he could even reach the other party's door, he was stopped. To be exact, he was not stopped, but he was almost killed.
He had seen that man before, he had seen him in the imperial palace, and he heard Fang Chaozhou call that man his master.
The man looked at him as if he were an ant.
"You shouldn't have any thoughts about Fang Chaozhou."
Hu Xiang was frightened when she heard this. "You...what did you say? I don't quite understand."
But the next moment, he felt as if his whole body was burning. He tried to resist, but he was powerless in front of the opponent and could only reveal his true form in embarrassment.
His lower body turned into vines.
Hu Xiang looked at the disgustingly ugly vines beneath her, gritted her teeth, and looked up at the person in front of her, "You noticed it early?"
He didn't wait for a reply, so he just laughed to himself, "Yes, a great man like you is naturally not as easy to fool as Fang Chaozhou, but since you discovered it a long time ago, why didn't you kill me at the beginning, just like you killed Fang Chaozhou's father?"
Zhongli Yueshui's eyes were cold, "His father's hands are stained with the blood of countless people."
After hearing this, Hu Xiang couldn't help but sneered, "Yeah, but if you don't kill me, the vines on my body will just suck my blood!"
No one knew that he was no longer a human being. The reason why Fang Chaozhou's father did not kill him was because he, like Fang Chaozhou's father, had become a puppet of the vines. Fang Chaozhou's father relied on devouring the royal heirs to provide nutrients for the vines in his body, while he relied on his own broken body to barely survive.
At that time, Zhongli Yueshui killed Fang Chaozhou's father with one move. He thought the other party would kill him too, but he didn't, so he continued to be controlled by the vines until five years ago, when the monster found a new body.
The monster was called Baishen, a vine spirit. Since Hu Xiang and Fang Chaozhou's father was a member of the royal family, he became a vessel that provided nutrients to the monster. As a vessel, he can feel some of the things happening on the main body's side.
Bai Shen didn't know how many years he had lived, and his body was almost broken down. He urgently needed to find a new body. He and Fang Chaozhou's father were not qualified to be each other's new body.
Hu Xiang expected Bai Di to find Fang Chaozhou, but he didn't expect Fang Chaozhou to be so capable as to trap Bai Di in his body for five years. Recently, he could no longer sense Bai Mi, as if she had disappeared from this world. But then someone told him that they had seen Fang Chaozhou.
When Hu Xiang learned that Fang Chaozhou had returned to Tianshui Sect, he couldn't help but be tempted. If he could eat Fang Chaozhou, then Bai Shi's cultivation could be used for his benefit, and he could achieve immortality.
But these days, he tried to test Fang Chaozhou several times but couldn't find out anything. The other party seemed to be no different from before, and he didn't dare to act rashly. Until today, he found an opportunity to give Fang Chaozhou a drink of Divine Drunk.
Even if Fang Chaozhou woke up in the middle of the night, he would still regard him as the person he trusted the most.
But all this was ruined by the person in front of him.
"Kill me, there's no point in living like this anyway."
If he didn't eat Fang Chaozhou, he would have to live like this for the rest of his life.
Zhongli Yueshui's expression didn't change at all. "I have put a seal on you. From now on, if you hurt others, you will get back the same amount of sin you inflict on yourself. You must leave Tianshui Sect now. If you are still here when the rain stops, you will be imprisoned in the Demon Subduing Prison." He looked at Hu Xiang as if he was not only looking at an ant, but more like looking at a dead object. "There, you will experience a hundred times more pain than you are experiencing now."
When Hu Xiang heard these words, her pupils dilated and her lips couldn't help but tremble. Just as he was about to speak, the person in front of him disappeared, leaving only one word -
"roll."
So Hu Xiang hurriedly left Tianshui Sect in the middle of the night.
Hu Xiang looked at his hands that felt like they were being burned by fire and laughed sneerfully. He knew why that man didn't kill him. It was because he was still useful and could be emperor for a few more years until the Fang family's children from the side branch grew up.
If he can't hold on, Fang Chaozhou will have to go back to inherit the throne, and then he won't be able to relax here. It is really enviable to have someone who protects and loves you and to have a healthy body.
"Your Majesty, it's time to take the elixir."
This sentence drew Hu Xiang's attention back. He bit his lip and then let it go. "Bring it in."
After taking the pill, he looked at the attendant kneeling on the ground and said, "Go and transfer some more money to the emperor's uncle's account. He must have a lot of expenses living alone. I see that his clothes have become a little worn out. He wears the same clothes over and over again. The pearls on his jade crown have also dimmed."
"Your Majesty, rest assured. I have already arranged for the local silver shops before I left. I have also prepared cloth and jewelry. The five pieces of Feiyan satin that were newly offered as tribute this year have all been left in the Zhuoyu Pond. Clothes made of Feiyan satin are the most comfortable to wear."
After hearing this, Hu Xiang slowly leaned against the wall of the car and said softly, "That's good." Suddenly, he said, "Do you think the Ninth Prince will remember me?"
"Of course. Your Majesty treats the Ninth Prince no worse than the late Emperor did." said the attendant.
Hu Xiang hummed and lowered her voice, "It's good this way, we can be uncle and nephew for life."
Fang Chaozhou knew nothing and would continue to treat him as his nephew. He thought that there were people in this world who were kind to him without expecting anything else.
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