[Xianze] Danbo Bookstore Jiangnan Branch

*Suburban Picnic

Li Hongcheng was devoted to his wife, so he only had time to meet Fan Xian and the others in the early morning of that day, so he rushed to the south of the Yangtze River with a cart full of books.The task of delivering the letter for Concubine Shugui was postponed to Xie Bi'an.

"Aren't Chengze going to visit your empress?" Xie Bi'an asked.

Since the death of Emperor Qing, Concubine Shugui went to Huangling Mountain together with the rest of the concubines to enter the temple and become a monk, eating fast and chanting scriptures all day long, praying for the late emperor.Li Chengze didn't think that his mother and concubine loved Emperor Qing so much, probably because he didn't care about the trivial matters of the harem and decided to find a quiet place to study in the mountains.

Li Chengze said with a smile: "My concubine and I have always talked lightly and deeply, and we prefer to chat with letters. Meeting her abruptly disturbs her purity. If you send the letter, my people will also arrive. But if she asks to see me, I'll go right away."

Xie Bi'an responded, and Fan Xian passed behind them carrying a box.Li Chengze's status is special, after all it is not suitable to live in the capital for a long time, they are going to leave for Jiangnan in the afternoon.The journey was in a hurry when we came, but fortunately, we can be a little more leisurely when we return, and we can take a leisurely tour of the mountains and rivers.

Li Chengze informed the detailed location of the Jiangnan branch, and asked Xie Bian to come to Hangzhou to take a look at his well-managed bookstore after delivering the letter.

"In the past, Bi'an always stood by my side and obeyed my orders. Now there is no need to fight, and I don't know what your plans are. Is there anything you want to do?"

"What do you want to do?" Xie Bi'an asked hesitantly.

Li Chengze said: "You are the best swordsman in the capital, and I have always been proud of it. From now on, you shouldn't be bound by this house. For yourself, Bi'an, is there anything you want to do?"

Fan Xian passed by behind them for the second time, and by the way complained: "Hey, that's a good question. That's how I asked Uncle Wuzhu last time, so I started the main quest to get the Dragon Slaying Sword..."

Li Chengze made a gesture to let him go away.Xie Bi'an lowered his head in thought, and looked carefully at the beloved sword in his hand - only with a sword can he have a complete soul.He said: "I'm afraid it still has something to do with it. I want to sharpen my sword skills."

"Don't worry, wait until you arrive in Jiangnan to think about the future. No matter where you want to go from now on," Li Chengze nodded as he brushed the broken hair on his forehead in the breeze, "Don't forget, you still have such a lazy person in Hangzhou." younger brother."

Fan Xian passed by with his luggage for the third time, and suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Hey, Xie Bi'an, there is something I'm curious about."

"Master Fan, please tell me."

"If you weren't interrupted by Cheng Ze that day, what exactly were you trying to tell me?"

Li Chengze's left eyelid twitched, not understanding what new tricks Fan Xian was playing.Of course he and Fan Xian knew what Xie Bi'an was about to say that day, and they had even communicated with each other. Why let Xie Bi'an say it again, which would only increase the embarrassment?

He stretched out his hand and called "Bian" to stop him, but Xie Bi'an straightened his clothes and had already spoken.

"What I want to say is: Your Highness has always admired you."

"...?"

Li Chengze's hand was hanging in the air, without direction.

Fan Xian grinned and said, "That's it?"

Xie Bi'an frowned, seemed to be confused by the two people's reactions, and asked: "Otherwise?

"Your Highness admires your talent, and also admires your intelligence. It's a pity that the current situation is such that you can only become a sworn enemy. I thought His Highness passed away, so I wanted to clarify his principles for dealing with things and not people... Why are you looking so strange? ?”

Fan Xian's smile gradually widened, revealing a mouth full of healthy white teeth. He helped Li Chengze put his hands that were frozen in mid-air, and finally patted Xie Bi'an on the shoulder.

"Your cross-server chat skills have never let me down. Let's compete a few more times in the future." Fan Xian was quite satisfied to see that Li Chengze hesitated to speak, his face became more and more purple, and finally turned into a bowl of delicious food. Fried liver color.

In the afternoon, Fan Xianguan borrowed a carriage from the housekeeper of Prince Jing's Mansion. He didn't invite a coachman. He sat in the front of the carriage and drove the horse leisurely, while Li Chengze lay in the carriage and took a nap.They bid farewell to Xie Bi'an for a while, and left the city bumping on the bluestone road.

As soon as he arrived in the outskirts of Kyoto, a pair of icy ghost claws suddenly stretched out from the originally quiet carriage, and pinched Fan Xian's neck fiercely, as if to pinch him unconscious.

"Hey, how about massaging my muscles?" Fan Xian slid his horse, while the man behind him leaned half out of the car door and began to grind his teeth.

"You guessed Bi'an's original intention from the very beginning?" Li Chengze asked gloomyly.

"What's the original intention?" Fan Xiandou asked.

"Shameless." Li Chengze commented.

"You didn't know?" Fan Xian whistled triumphantly, "From the moment he chatted with me about SF express across servers, I vaguely discovered his steely and cute attributes... You are a fan of the authorities, and you are clever Clever and mistaken, Mr. Fan Kun."

Li Chengze nimbly jumped out of the carriage door, sat down cross-legged beside Fan Xian, and said, "I never thought of hiding it."

"What are you hiding?" Fan Xian asked.

Li Chengze simply turned his head, stared straight at Fan Xian, and said boldly, "I am happy with you, little Fan Shixian."

Fan Xian's hand holding the rein froze, and he couldn't help hissing, as if someone had stabbed his temple a few times with a needle.He also didn't expect that Li Chengze could say a serious sentence so easily, and the tone was still raised lightly, as if he was talking about a matter of course.

Fan Xian only nodded his head on the surface, but the tips of his ears were burning red.He couldn't help cursing in his heart: It's over, it's over, if you can't hold back the aura of this monster, won't you be ridden on your head by him in the future?

"Can you drive a carriage?" Fan Xian tactically changed the subject.

Li Chengze still looked at him with his chin up, blinked his eyes with his upper eyeliner and said softly: "I used to be a prince, when will I get to drive by myself, would you... teach me?"

Fan Xian shoved the reins into Li Chengze's hands, and explained: "Our two horses run side by side, and they belong to two-wheel drive engines. You have to learn how to balance left and right, you know?"

Li Chengze saw that the two bay red horses in front of him were docile and obedient, running forward steadily, so he took the rope with confidence.

Fan Xian added: "I'm under the tutelage of Fei Jie and Wu Zhu, and the teaching belongs to the beast experience school...that is to say, I grow up in pain and soar in vomiting blood. Malayania is indeed a rare herbal medicine, and I am also collecting it. I went around the city three times before I found a pharmacy..."

The more Li Chengze listened, the more hesitant he became, the bitter taste of sour plums suddenly recalled in his mouth, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he was about to jump out of the car when something bad happened, when a strong arm was tightly wrapped around his waist.Fan Xian looked at him leisurely, with an extremely wicked smile on the corner of his mouth.While pulling Li Chengze into his arms and refusing him to break free, he slowly raised the whip.

"Hold on to the reins, Brother Hafan, you have to drive hard for the next section of the road..."

Suddenly, there was a hateful "Fan Xian?!" in the forest on the quiet outskirts of the capital, followed by a whip that resounded through the sky.A few birds perched on the branches flew out from the forest, and the creaking sound of the rolling wooden wheels of a carriage echoed in the woods, and then gradually disappeared.

The two steeds that had eaten the lunatic weed galloped forward crazily, and the wooden cart behind them also bumped violently with the sky and the ground.Li Chengze's bangs were almost thrown into the clouds, and his buttocks kept hitting the car board, which became more and more painful.But Li Chengze didn't care too much, he just held on to the rein tightly, and the forest path in front of him almost jumped out of his eyes.

Originally, he only knew that a roc could soar up to [-] miles, but he didn't know that ordinary people in the world could also be carried away by horses.The oncoming spring breeze slammed into their faces, Li Chengze tried hard to see the road ahead, the forest in front of him turned into countless green silk threads passing by his eyes in an instant, and he still had the leisure to start cursing intermittently Fan Xian.

Fan Xian sat behind him, with one arm around Li Chengze's waist to prevent him from being knocked out, and the other hand happily raised in the air to feel the strong wind, his voice full of high-spirited laughter.

"Hey, turn left, turn left—right! Hahaha, turn the steering wheel to the right! Come on, we're going to fly!"

Li Chengze's heart was pounding, and there was a layer of sweat on his back. He was afraid that someone would turn his back on his back when he jumped over the mud pit in the forest, and take both of their lives.But when he leaned back, he fell into an embrace that smelled of summer bamboo and the sun. That person was tightly pressed against his back, warm and thick, like a pair of birds' wings, At any time, he can take him away and fly away from the storm.

Li Chengze slowly lost his nervousness, and followed Fan Xian's smirk.His sleeves were blown back violently by the wind, but he raised his whip in an attempt to make the horse run faster.Li Chengze has found the fun of racing (horse) carts, and the movement of pulling the reins has become more and more proficient. On the narrow forest path, he led two crazy horses to nimbly overtake other carriages, jumped over the mud, turned left and right, and drove the horses. All the gloom in Kyoto was left behind.

By the time the Malayanism had passed, the two of them had been completely exhausted from the torment, and finally they led the equally exhausted horse to a stop in front of a valley.Fan Xian found a piece of clean cloth and spread it on the green grass, and the two of them collapsed on the ground as if their bones had been pulled out. With their limbs spread, they looked up at the white clouds drifting by in the sky.

"Fan Xian," Li Chengze said, looking at the blue sky above his head, "We have no end to this grudge..."

"Yeah, Iloveyoutoo." Fan Xian answered.

Li Chengze held the rein for a long time, and his hands were already shaking so much that he could no longer lift them up.He bumped the head of Fan Xian next to him with his head, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Experience it carefully yourself." Fan Xian said casually with his eyes closed.

"It's not enough for me to experience double Malay madness all the way? Say it quickly, little Fan Shixian."

"Don't tell. Three chances, guess."

Li Chengze regained some strength due to his anger, sat up straight with a carp, and then persistently went to pinch Fan Xian's neck, trying to use cruel torture to make Fan Xian explain this sentence in a foreign language he didn't understand word by word clear.It's a pity that his fingers lost grip, so he could only scratch and stab Fan Xian's chest.

Fan Xian's stomach and neck immediately shrank, and he dodged his hand with an "ouch".He was used to the pain from Wu Zhu's sword and Fei Jie's poison since he was a child, but he couldn't bear the itching. Soon, Li Chengze grabbed the handle and scratched him mercilessly.He was so itchy that he burst into tears with laughter, his arms had already rolled out of the long cloth, and there was a sound of grassy smell.

Fan Xian began to struggle and beg for mercy, but Li Chengze had fun, and picked on Fan Xian's stomach and creaking nests, and finally tossed Fan Xian until tears flowed down his face, he spread his limbs as if he was out of breath, and surrendered. .

"Stop the war for a while, just for a while." Fan Xian put Li Chengze's head on his chest, eyes hard to open due to the afternoon sun, and patted the back of his head, "Go to sleep."

The warm sun in early summer licked Li Chengze's back, and he narrowed his eyes comfortably.Listening to the steady heartbeat in Fan Xian's chest, he gradually felt the reassuring drowsiness.When his body was getting heavier and his consciousness gradually blurred, he suddenly thought: It seems that he still hasn't asked, what does that sentence mean...

The afternoon nap is always shallow, and it is difficult to sleep for a long time.Li Chengze woke up after a quarter of an hour. A small pillow was stuffed into Fan Xian's chest, and a coat was put on behind him at some point.

Li Chengze rubbed his eyes and slowly got up, looked around but there was no sign of Fan Xian.He was not in a hurry, knowing that Fan Xian would not go far for no reason, so he dragged his shoes to the stream, rolled up his trousers on the cool stone, and dipped his feet in the flowing stream.

The forest is quiet and the birds are singing.The stream flowing out of the valley was crystal clear, and small silver fish swam past his bare feet from time to time.Li Chengze stretched his waist greatly, dangling the water with the soles of his feet.There is a layer of moss on the rocks at the bottom of the stream, and the tender green fallen leaves drift along with the stream.In the distance, a few tufts of round lotus leaves have grown, wrapping the small lotus that has just emerged.There was a smell of leaves and soil in the air.

Li Chengze closed his eyes to enjoy the afternoon, when there were soft footsteps behind him.Fan Xian wrapped some picked wild fruits in his pocket, and asked in greeting, "What do you want to eat?"

"Grape."

"Where can I pick wild grapes for you? Eat the apples."

Li Chengze took the wild apple thrown by Fan Xian without paying attention, wiped the peel with his sleeve, opened his mouth and bit down.The fruit skin in the mountains is thick and sour, but it has a lot of water, and it also has a fragrance of wood.

Fan Xian sat down beside him, picked and picked with his legs crossed, found a few wild strawberries and stuffed them into his mouth.The two of them had nothing to do, so they chatted without saying a word.

"Is there still an emperor in 'Fairyland'?"

"Some countries still exist, and some don't. But even if there are royal families in many places, they have become like mascots, with little real power."

"Then who will be in power?"

"Choose by the people, directly and indirectly."

Li Chengze couldn't figure out the logic of this, and asked: "You give the people great power, don't you allow them to rebel and stand up for themselves?"

"If the common people live and work in peace and contentment, and have enough food and clothing, who would think of rebelling? Just like you, if you were not pushed out by Emperor Qing, and he let you go in and out of the library freely, and go to the imperial study to be an idle book repairman, you would still think about it. Fighting for the throne?"

"That's what you say." Li Chengze put his hands into his sleeves habitually, slapped the water with his bare feet, and said after thinking for a while, "But as a child of the royal family, if I have no ambitions, I don't want to be criticized by the world. A weak and incompetent rat?"

Fan Xian smiled strangely: "How come I don't know, you still care about other people's opinions?"

Li Chengze also laughed, with a feeling of "Fan Xianye who knows me": "I really don't care. I just want to survive."

The two looked at each other and smiled, leaned forward in tacit understanding, and kissed each other quickly on the mouth.A taste of wild fruit.

It took a long time to suppress the smile on his face, Li Chengze cleared his throat and said: "In the past, to fight for a way out for myself, even if I had time to go out and play, I still need to consider the worries after all. I don't know how to have fun now that I have no worries."

Fan Xian snapped his fingers and said loudly, "You have asked an expert."

He turned his head, rubbed the tip of Li Chengze's unconsciously frowned brows smooth with his fingers, and gestured with his head: "Look to the right, what do you see?"

Li Chengze looked at the lush vegetation, flowers and fruits in the valley on the right for a long time, and answered, "...Natural scenery?"

"Look again."

Li Chengze narrowed his eyes and continued to observe, and suddenly found that in the quiet and windless green valley, there seemed to be some small creatures with brown feathers walking around under the cover of leaves.

"Guinea fowl," Fan Xian replied, "I just passed by and saw it. It must have been raised by a nearby villager. Every bird is fat and white."

Li Chengze swallowed, and asked professionally: "Steamed, braised, boiled, or grilled?"

Fan Xian rubbed his chin and decided, "I'll be in charge of burning you and arresting you. How about it?"

Li Chengze was about to nod his head to tell him to act quickly, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and immediately showed a fake smile, beckoning Fan Xian to come closer.He lowered his voice and asked, "Does this king seem like someone who can catch chickens?"

Fan Xian also smirked professionally, and praised commercially: "You can drive a two-wheel drive car just now, everything is possible."

Li Chengze's fake smile became more and more charming, and he looked at Fan Xian affectionately, with murderous intent written all over his eyes.Not to be outdone, Fan Xian rolled up his trousers, unceremoniously plunged his feet into the stream, sighed deeply, and said, "Oh, it's so cool—if you have a cup of rice wine with lotus leaves boiled Beggar chicken is so satisfying! The chicken legs are oily, and even the bones are fragrant..."

An hour and a half later, it was almost dusk, and Li Chengze and Fan Xian were squatting by the stream, holding banana leaves in their hands to fan the stone kiln piled up in front of them.Grayish-white smoke continued to rise from the cracks in the stones, and there was a faint fragrance of lotus leaves.

"Are you familiar?" Li Chengze asked patiently and friendlyly for the hundredth time.Except for his disheveled face, a few cuts in his cuffs, and a chicken feather stuck in his head, everything is fine.

Fan Xian poked the stone pestle with a wooden stick, and said, "Not yet. Let's talk about Fengyue."

"No wind, no moon, even more ruthless." Li Chengze paused every word, the last few words were almost squeezed out from his hungry stomach, "unless it's cooked."

"Brother, after you brought the dead chicken back, it became paralyzed. I did it all by myself, plucking, washing the chicken, marinating it, and lighting the fire."

"Do you know how I got this chicken?" Li Chengze just asked.

Fan Xian endured the hot smoke and moved a stone away. A meaty smell mixed with earthy smell immediately emanated from the smoky stone platform.He doused the fire with stream water and carefully removed a large chunk of mud from the ashes.

"You said."

Fan Xian was actually a little curious about Li Chengze's half-hour-long method of catching chickens.But ever since Li Chengze came back with a dying chicken, he squatted aside in secret, staring at Fan Xian with the eyes of a vulture watching its prey... Fan Xian really didn't dare to ask.

Li Chengze looked at the dusty stone that had made him wait for an entire hour with a sneer, and said leisurely, "I killed it, Fan Xian. From now on, if you let me catch chickens, I will kill you in the same way. "

Fan Xian heard the last two words very familiar, but he shrugged cheekily and said, "Then let's change the animal next time and eat roasted wild boar."

As he said that, he began to hit the mud block hard with another stone, knocking away all the burnt soil outside the ash block, revealing the roast chicken wrapped in thick layers of lotus leaves.

The smell of steamed and roasted white meat became more and more intense, and Li Chengze also forgot the hatred he had just had, and moved to Fan Xian's side, and together he scalded his hands while peeling away the lotus leaves layer by layer.

A steady stream of hot steam steamed into the eyes of the two, and finally the last layer of hot lotus leaf skin was removed, and suddenly a beggar's chicken with golden skin and fragrant juice remained.Sniffing carefully, you can also smell a fruity fragrance besides the marinade. It turned out that Fan Xian stuffed wild fruits into the hollowed out chicken belly, which neutralized the greasy smell of chicken fat.

"It's very hot." Fan Xian warned, but Li Chengze, who was hungry, didn't care so much. After washing his hands, he tore off a chicken wing, blew a few breaths of cool air into the steaming wing, and then bit it. into the mouth.He immediately kicked his legs happily and let out a "hmm".

The chicken wings are the closest to the skin, and the tips of the wings are roasted crispy now, but the meat in the wings still retains the taste of wild fruits and spices. Creaking in the mouth.

The two wiped the oil from the corners of their mouths, and continued back to the stream with beggar chickens and wild fruits in their hands.In the woods of the valley, the red sunset still exudes residual heat, and the stream that has been baked for an afternoon is still warm.Li Chengze dangled the water, and Fan Xian pulled out from his arms a yak jug with a painting of the scenery of the Northern Qi Dynasty as if by magic.He took a big sip and handed it to Li Chengze, who also poured it directly into his mouth.The newly brewed rice wine still has the sweetness of rice.

Li Chengze got a chicken leg and a chicken wing, and when he finished eating, he and Fan Xian began to scramble to tear up the remaining chicken breast. The white meat was full of oily juice, and the torn texture was clear. When it was sucked into his mouth, it was like eating chicken noodles. quit.

They quickly ate the once plump guinea fowl until there was only a perfect chicken skeleton left, and poured the rice wine into their mouths without a drop. Appetite is satisfied and a boundless sense of happiness arises.

"I deserve it." He squinted and sighed.

Fan Xian washed his hands and was digging out his pocket to get up when Li Chengze stopped him.

"No need to go," Li Chengze said, stuffing wild strawberries into his mouth, "After I caught the chicken, I put four taels of silver on the wooden fence. The location is secret, and only the chicken owner can see it."

Fan Xian laughed.

"By the way!" Li Chengze pointed his fingers in the air, and added, "In the past, even if the venue was cleared, this king would ask Bian to pay all the food expenses for that day's stall in advance."

Fan Xian looked at him left and right, feeling more and more pleasing to the eye, rubbed his hairy head with the back of his hand, and finally pulled out the chicken feather on his head: "Oh, so good."

Li Chengze stepped on Fan Xian in the water as a return gift, and the two looked at the setting sun in the forest.Compared with the warm morning glow seen by the West Lake, the setting sun in the valley has a sense of grandeur and aloofness. The vigorous and powerful branches cover the glaring afterglow, but the sharp red lights like sharp swords still pass through the leaves, becoming Fine pieces of red mercury fell on the hands of the two of them.

Li Chengze looked at the sunset, and his mood was different.When he was by the West Lake, he always felt that the beauty of the south of the Yangtze River was nothing but a dream.When he wakes up, he will still be trapped in the three days before his suicide, the wooden railings with carved edges in the palace, the conversation with the candlelight, the last despair and dignity in his heart.He was still thinking about what else he could do besides losing the fight for the throne and the identity of a whetstone... What was the meaning of his existence in the world?

Now he and Fan Xian are sitting by the stream, stepping on the spray, their hands are gradually clenched, and he feels the reality beyond the dream.He looked at Yu Ri, whose blood was covered by layers of leaves, and sighed in his heart that the setting sun was too short, and there were still many things he wanted to do.He wants to collect ancient books, travel around the world, share the sunrise with Fan Xian, and look at the galaxy every night.

There is little country and country in his heart.In the past, fighting openly and secretly, in order to live, was even more dignified.Now, his originally empty heart lived in an academy, a pool of West Lake, a ray of morning glow, and a fan Xian.This made him more vulnerable, and also gave birth to a desire to protect.

Fan Xian was right, Li Chengze thought to himself.All living beings have their own ways of living and standards, but they should all be allowed to live freely.And one of the first freedoms of human beings is not to be bound by the so-called "meaning of living". Who said that being an emperor is a success, and being a hermit is a failure?

Fan Xian tapped the back of his hand, and Li Chengze turned his head. There was a burning fire in his eyes, and there was a transparent and lively smile on the corner of his mouth. Fan Xian was stunned for a moment.

The most common Li Chengze he saw was proud, cunning, and involuntary, but he had never seen this kind of Li Chengze—he was like the most beautiful and proud rose under the setting sun, struggling to bloom, and no longer concealing his edge.He was going to bloom unrestrainedly in the moonlight like this, showing off all his petals and thorns carelessly without putting any guard against Fan Xian.The burst of beauty and danger in an instant is the ultimate. He seems to be saying: If you have the ability, you can pick it.

Fan Xian smiled lightly, squeezed Li Chengze's neck and moved towards him.

They turned their heads naturally, closed their eyes, and their thin lips were easily pressed together again.Li Chengze let out a sigh, and wrapped his hands tightly around Fan Xian's neck, as if he was afraid of being taken away by the stream.Fan Xian hugged his waist tightly, slipping wet kisses over Li Chengze's mouth one after another.They kissed deeper and deeper, and could no longer control the blushing "tsk tsk" when their lips moved.

Li Chengze tried to lick Fan Xian's teeth with his tongue, but was bitten by the other party. There was a faint pain from his tongue. Li Chengze thought like crazy: "Bite well, I should bite me so painfully, so that I will know if I am alive or not." alive.

Until there was no air gap in their mouths, the two barely let go of each other, a silvery white waterline passed by their mouths, they looked at each other with bewildered eyes, and then hugged each other again, praising each other's beauty with their lips contour.They indulged in this earth-shattering kiss, their bodies were burning hot, but their brains were awake.

Two figures merged into one are reflected in the dark stream, the sun is dimming and the moon is rising.

TBC