Zhu Lan is dead

Three years is an instant, seize the day and night.

The sky is light and shadowless, and the early birds are singing on the branches in the middle of spring.

On the clear blue water, the oarsmen of the boats made circles of ripples on the surface of the water.

The man leading the horse had not had time to close his eyes for three days and three nights in order to reach the town early, and he staggered ashore when the boat berthed.

It's just that the first thing I saw when I went ashore was not to see the picturesque beauty of Lichun, but to run under a big tree and spit out the darkness.

It never occurred to me that I would be able to vomit while sitting on a boat. After thinking about it, I couldn't figure out the reason. I thought that I had been traveling all over the world for the past few years, and my physique would not be bad, but I never thought it was me. I think about the reason why I am full.

"Lang Jun."

A handkerchief was suddenly handed over to him, he smiled politely, then wiped his mouth with it very rudely, then raised his head and saluted the girl in front of him in a graceful manner, "I'm sorry, girl... "

"Don't you remember me, sir?" The girl opposite was wearing a lotus dress and pink dress, she was gentle and beautiful, but not very reserved.

When I came up, I asked myself if I knew her, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. After wandering in the rivers and lakes all these years, with my gorgeous appearance, I naturally captivated the crowd of men, women and children.

It's a pity that he is a clean and self-sufficient person, always remembering that he is a man with a family, so he smiled softly and said what he had said a thousand and one times, "Girl, don't do this, I already have a true love in my heart... "

"Miss."

Before he could finish his sentence, a rather simple-looking man suddenly came across from him. He was dressed in short brown and concise. He looked like... he was the oarsman of the boat he was sitting on just now...

The girl smiled at the man when she heard the words, then turned her head again, her almond eyes curved, "Does Lang Jun really not remember me?"

"Uh..." He blinked, and said with some hesitation, "I'm sorry, I..."

"Caiji!" The girl looked at him with a gentle smile, "I'm Caiji, Mr. Ye Lang, don't you remember?"

"..." Ye Fan was shocked, but he really didn't expect that the little girl who was with him back then has become a married woman now.

Immediately, I was so ashamed of the narcissistic thoughts in my heart that I almost buried myself in the mud.

"Lang Jun must have worked hard all the way." Cai Ji raised her hand and poured him a bowl of tea.

At this time, they were sitting outside the door of a tea shop. Not far from here was the river for the ferry, and rows of willows were planted in front of the door.

Ye Fan took a sip of tea, looked at her and said, "I didn't expect to meet you here."

"I didn't expect that either." Cai Ji smiled, "My husband and I met here. He used to punting here at first, so I opened a tea shop here and guarded the ferry, waiting for him every day. Come back, who would have thought that today I happened to meet Mr. Lang..."

I couldn't help feeling a burst of emotion in my heart, but my eyes fell on the child beside Caiji. The five or six-year-old child was stretching out his hand to grab the peanuts on the plate in front of him. He kindly handed it over and looked at the child with a smile. Said: "This child belongs to your family, he looks really juicy..."

Cai Ji couldn't help covering her lips and smiling when she heard the words, her brows and eyes were curved, "This is not from my family. My husband and I have only been married for three years. He is busy with work, how can it be so fast..."

"Ah?" Ye Fan was startled for a while, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed, "Blame me for talking too much, don't mind..."

Cai Ji smiled and said, "When did the gentleman become so reserved? I remember when you were in the palace..."

Speaking of this, she suddenly paused, only to realize that Ye Fanji had been alone all along, and couldn't help but wonder, "Why, I don't see the prince..."

His eyes suddenly dimmed, and he said softly: "Something happened back then, so we separated. I came here today to look for him."

Hearing this, Cai Ji nodded, and said softly: "Then I wish you and your lord a reunion as soon as possible."

But he was startled, he always felt that these words sounded strange to his ears, so he couldn't help but look up at Caiji, "How do you know..."

But she smiled, with a playful look, "Didn't Mr. Lang just say that you already have a true love in your heart."

After a simple Han Xu fight, he led the horse and walked towards the small town.

He has been inquiring all these years, but he only heard that the place where he was exiled for three thousand miles was very difficult, and he couldn't help worrying that Yu Changqi would not be able to bear the hardships. After all, people who were exiled in the past dynasties either died of illness on the road, or died of exhaustion due to corvee labor.

It's just that no matter how I think about it, I always feel that that person will not fall into this situation, so I found out that those who have recently completed their exile have been transferred here, and when the day comes, they will all be released.

Looking at the people coming and going on the street, he couldn't help but feel a bitterness in his heart. He had been doing well all these years, but he didn't expect that the closer he was to that person, the more sad he would feel.

Back then when he was young, he acted recklessly and recklessly, and that person always took care of him for what happened, but he never knew how much suffering that person had silently endured.

Thinking of Yu Changqi's always calm and gentle attitude, he couldn't help but want to cry, but his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of the beggar on the side of the road, looking at the poorly clothed and hungry I couldn't help thinking of Yu Changqi, so I couldn't help crying even more.

Thinking about how painful the punishment of exile is, what if that person is tortured to such an extent that he doesn't despise alienation, but thinks that person is really good-looking, and if he is just destroyed like this, he will probably endure it. Can't stop killing those people.

After being gloomy and gloomy for a long time, he led the horse and walked towards the gate of the town's yamen step by step.

"Well, may I ask..."

The clerk outside the yamen seemed to know what he wanted to ask, but he waved his hand impatiently, "You are asking about those who have expired in exile, right, the county magistrate released them all this morning..."

"..."

By the time I left the yamen, it was almost noon.

Maybe the sun was too hot, or maybe it was because of being imprisoned in a dark cell all year round that damaged his eyes.

When I came out, I saw everything in a hazy appearance, and my footsteps were a little vain, so I had no choice but to find a place with few people and sit down.

Holding his forehead with one hand, the tingling became more and more intense.

"Tsk tsk."

Just after a short rest, a frivolous voice came from above his head.

He was startled, and raised his head subconsciously, but found that the sun was shining on his brows and eyes, and he couldn't see anything clearly. He just vaguely looked at the outline of the man, and he always felt a little familiar.

"Whose husband is this lost and can't find his way home?"

The frivolous sound came again, but his expression suddenly stopped, as if he had realized something, but the next moment, the person in front of him picked him up and hugged him tightly in his arms.

"...Ye, Fanji?" He said in a hoarse voice, but he could clearly feel that the man was holding him tightly, and his stature seemed to be much thicker and stronger than before.

"Hey, my husband, do you have bad eyesight and bad brain?"

That familiar voice sounded again. Although it still sounded extremely frivolous, he could feel that the man was crying, and even his tone of voice was trembling.

"You, came to see me?" Tears welled up in his eyes, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Ye Fanji let go of his hand a little, and looked at him carefully. Fortunately, this person hasn't changed much, but he has lost a little weight. After all, he still has the confidence to gain weight.

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears falling from the corner of his eyes, "I said I would wait for you, no matter what you become."

After finding someone, I was naturally relieved, so I directly found an inn in this small town to rest for a few days.

When he reached out to take off his clothes, he realized that there were many wounds on this man's hands, but most of them had healed, some formed thick calluses, and some formed a scar, which was very different from his impression of the hands with clear, slender and delicate phalanges. Far.

"What do they want you to do?" Holding those hands with some distress, Ye Fan almost jumped out to chop people in a hurry.

Yu Changqi looked down at him and smiled, "I can do anything. After all, I am a guilty person. Without the title, to them, I am just an ordinary person. You don't need to care so much."

Ye Fanji curled his lips with red eyes and dissatisfaction, although he was still exactly the same as when he was young, but in his eyes, he gradually revealed a little difference.

Leaning over and wrapping his neck around him, he said in a low voice: "You have nothing to say to me, because of you I haven't closed my eyes for three days and three nights."

Yu Changqi was stunned for a moment, his eyebrows and eyes were still a little astonished, "Then do you want to sleep?"

"..."

Ye Fan raised his eyebrows and looked at him, stretched out his fingers to pinch the fleshless face, "How do you want to sleep?"

"..."

Soon he felt that hand wandering dishonestly around his body, and he said helplessly, "Didn't you sleep for three days and three nights, why do you still have energy..."

Ye Fanji leaned close to his chin and bit him lightly, "For you, I will never run out of energy."

As he spoke, he stretched out his fingers and pinched the somewhat sharp chin, feeling a little sour in his heart, but he laughed in a low voice: "I'll fatten you up in the past few days, this lamb to be slaughtered is too thin to eat. It doesn’t taste good, but it’s better to be firmer.”

When he said this, he really put it into practice. Every day, he would order the cook downstairs to make some nourishing broth or light porridge. It's just that after half a month, people should eat and sleep, but it's a pity Still so skinny.

Can't help but looked at Yu Changqi gloomyly, stretched out his hand to pinch and touch that face, "Am I going to lose money?"

Yu Changqi also looked at him dumbfounded, "It seems that you will continue to operate at a loss."

Hearing the words in my heart, although I was sad for a while, I smiled on my face, hugged his waist and raised the corners of my lips, "If I can have my husband in my arms, even if I lose all my money, I will still be happy."

It's just that I didn't hear anyone's words for a long time, but I felt that this person's body was a little stiff, and I couldn't help but immediately let go. Looking at his pale face, I said, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

He just smiled, showing a peaceful appearance, "I'm fine, I'm just a little thirsty, can you go and pour me a cup of tea?"

Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief, "Don't scare me like that next time, just say it when you're thirsty..." As he spoke, he reached out to pick up the teapot on the table, but suddenly found that it was empty.

"Wait for me, I'll go downstairs and pour some hot water."

He nodded when he heard the words, and finally heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the blurry figure in his vision go out the door, but the stinging pain became more and more intense, forcing the light in his vision to turn into a blur. In the darkness, he finally couldn't hold back and sat down along the edge of the table.

Although he always feels that his body is not too weak to withstand the wind and rain, he still clearly feels that his eyesight is obviously not as clear as before. After all, he has been in a dark dungeon all year round, and it is difficult to adapt for a while. .

Maybe it will get better slowly, or it will continue to be so bad.

"My lord."

After closing his eyes and resting for a short while, a figure suddenly walked over in front of him. He was stunned when he heard the sound, but when he raised his head, he saw that person walking over.

He subconsciously got up and stepped back three feet. Although his vision was blurred, he still vigilantly felt that this person was not Ye Fanji, but a woman.

"Long time no see, I wonder if the prince is still okay?"

The woman spoke softly, and looked at him without hostility, but with the joy of reunion after a long absence.

"...You." He couldn't help frowning, "Are you Ayan?"

"It's me." The woman nodded, her eyes were as clear as water, "I'm here to find you."

He stood up straight and said nothing.

Ayan lowered her head, with a look of shame on her face, "My lord, don't worry about what I will do to you, after all..."

After all, Zhou Lixiao is dead, she is now like a lonely soul without an owner, and he has also left the Zhou family and is free.

"Where are you safe now?" After a while, he spoke slowly.

A Yan smiled, "I have been with the young master since I left the palace. He has grown up now, and he still talks about you to me all day long..."

"Really?" He moved the corners of his mouth with a calm expression, "You came here... just to find me?"

She heard the words and looked at Yu Changqi's expression, but it was obvious that there was something wrong with the man's eyes, and she couldn't help sighing: "I am indeed looking for you, my lord, and this time I came here just to tell you..."

"who are you?"

Before she could finish her sentence, a low-pitched question suddenly came from behind her. She turned around in astonishment, and saw that the man in front of her had a different facial expression and demeanor. There is a coldness in people's hearts.

A Yan stood still, but Ye Fanji walked towards her, put down the teapot in his hand and poured a cup of tea, came to Yu Changqi's side, and helped him sit down on the bed slowly.

"I just……"

She was about to explain, but Ye Fanji looked at her and sneered, "You have nothing to do with us now, right?"

"..."

"It's so far away from the capital, how did you find where we are? Seeing that you're well dressed and don't look dusty at all, you must have stayed here for a while, right?" He raised his eyebrows slightly, "What do you want to say? Did you come here this time to spy on us, or is this just a coincidence?"

It's nothing more than why he is so hostile to each other. He knew who Ayan was from a long time ago, and he also knew what she did. After all, he was no longer on the same boat. After so long, he also I don't want to be involved with the past anymore.

"I know..." She frowned and said softly, "I know that Langjun and the prince have no intention of getting involved in the past."

"It's just..." She suddenly raised her head, her expression faintly anxious, "Your Majesty has been sending people around to inquire about the whereabouts of the prince for half a month. I came here just to inform you, please leave this place as soon as possible. The farther the better..."

Ayan's words before leaving still linger in his ears, but what he sees is a deep and bottomless river, surrounded by red candle lanterns on bamboo poles.

Facing the cool breeze blowing from the river at night, he stretched out his hand to hold Yu Changqi and the two boarded a small boat together.

"Lang Jun, please take care this time." Cai Ji stood on the bank of the river and untied the rope for them.

Without exchanging too many greetings, Ye Fanji saluted her solemnly, "Thank you for your help, madam." Then, holding on to the oars, he slowly slid away from the river bank, and the small pontoon slowly slid on the surface of the river. Far away, there were circles of ripples on the surface of the water. When the distant scene had become distant, and the moonlight gradually sprinkled on the water surface, coating a thin layer of frost, he let go of the oars and let the water flow by itself.

He bent down and sat down to cover up the cloak for the person beside him, Yu Changqi also relaxed and leaned on his shoulder, his brows and eyes reflected the waves of the river, a little clear, "This world...is there no more of us in the end?" It's a shelter."

Ye Fanji stretched out his arms to hug him, and said with a slight smile, "How could it be? The world is so big, there are so many mountains, rivers, and seas. Even if you follow the rivers, spending your whole life on the water, I don't think it would be a pleasure."

He bent his eyebrows, looked around quietly, and felt an inexplicable sense of peace for a moment, even if it was difficult to tell the truth from what Ayan said, they couldn't stay in that place for too long after all.

In the past half month, he has also heard a lot of rumors that the new emperor is worthy of being the parent and son of the first emperor, and his style of work is now gradually tending to the characteristic of cutting weeds and eradicating roots, and even worse, but it is not a blatant killing. Instead, they cleaned up one by one in secret.

The one who is seriously suspicious is almost denied by his relatives, maybe he should really thank Zhou Lixiao for letting him go and let him out of the predicament, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

He couldn't help but think of the eldest son of the former emperor who had passed away. If that person was still alive today, wouldn't this great week be different?

"What are you thinking about?"

He raised his head and looked at this person, and for a moment he seemed to be able to see through the tenderness in those eyes. He was stunned, and always felt that his life was not in vain, and that he was lucky enough to return home with his family after going through ups and downs.

"Thinking about throwing away those annoying and trivial things, the rest will be used to think about you."

Ye Fanji reached out to caress his eyebrows and eyes, and his fingertips slid down the slender and straight bridge of the nose, over the tip of the nose and onto the lips.

"Did you eat honey behind my back with this mouth? It's so sweet, let me taste it."

He opened his mouth to enclose him little by little, bowed his head and kissed him more seriously than ever before. He heard the sound of water churning in his ears, and his whole body was immersed in the space between heaven and earth. each other.

After the kiss passed by, he opened the distance slightly, and seeing the man's bloody face finally, he couldn't help teasing and said: "It seems that I should love and love my husband more in the future, if you are pale all day long." With a face, it looks so pitiful."

Yu Changqi smiled and said: "If you have the heart to do this, I will repay you well after I recover."

Playing with the movements of his fingers, Ye Fan chuckled, "How do you want to repay?"

But he suddenly got up and faced him, straightened his waist, reached out to hold his hands, "Let's get married."

"..."

His brows and eyes were a little astonished, but after being with this person, he never thought about it, so he couldn't help but curl his lips, "These common etiquettes are for us..."

"I know." Yu Changqi looked at him, "Although this is just a ceremony, it represents belonging and beginning, and we have always been the same, there is no difference."

"But..." He hesitated for a while, "Is it just the two of us? I heard when I was a child that a marriage without blessing is..."

"I can give you what you want, do you still need someone else?" Reaching out to caress the side of his face, he smiled softly, "I just hope that if we grow old in the future, at least there will be one nostalgia."

Three days later, the boat berthed and docked, and this place was like another painting of a water town. It was a waterway all the way from Lichun.

It's just that although this place is remote, it is full of tourists today. The sky of the small town is full of lanterns. The sudden colorful and bright is better than the darkness of the night, and it is even more precious in the atmosphere filled with joy.

He held the hand of the person beside him tightly and refused to let go, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be scattered with the flow of people.

"I didn't expect it to be so lively here." He looked up at Hualou, which was crowded with people not far away. There seemed to be a crowd of people dancing, and there was a burst of applause.

Ye Fan looked at him a few times and said, "Would you like to take a look?"

But he lowered his eyebrows, and seemed to be weighing something in his heart, but the people around him always kept a childlike attitude, in order not to disturb his interest, he smiled again: "If you want to see, I will accompany you."

"I won't go." Ye Fan frowned slightly, his brows revealed some worry, "There are so many people there, it's unsafe, let's change to another place."

As he spoke, he dragged him to the side stalls, during which time there were a lot of food for sale, and the aroma was overflowing, just smelling it made his mouth water.

He tilted his head to see the man salivating like a wolf, and couldn't help pointing at a piece of sugar cake, and said to the boss: "Wrap this up..."

Ye Fanji grabbed him and shook his head, "I still don't want to eat."

"why?"

"I'm afraid I'll eat too much and throw up on the boat, what should I do?"

Hearing this, he couldn't help chuckling, "If you have nothing to do these few days, stay here for a while, it's okay for you to indulge yourself tonight."

Feeling touched for a moment, I couldn't help leaning over to kiss him twice, a girl next to me seemed to see it, and laughed aloud, but Ye Fanji didn't care, and dragged him to the stall next to him.

I just wandered around for a while, and I was almost full after eating. I didn't know what I saw again for a while. After I walked over to have a look, I found out that it was a stall selling masks.

There are all kinds of masks hanging on the booth, depicting folk monsters and ghosts, thick and colorful, or ferocious, charming or mighty.

Ye Fan looked curious, so he chose a mask painted with the appearance of a Kui beast and brought it to his face.

"looks good?"

He smiled, but he couldn't help remembering that this person also wore a mask when he first met him. Although the encounter was not pleasant at that time, it was over anyway, and he knocked on his forehead with his fingers, "This thing is fierce. , do you think it looks good?"

The person wearing the mask didn't respond, he was puzzled, and just about to reach out to lift the mask, the person in front of him suddenly ran away.

With a figure like a swimming fish, he quickly disappeared into the crowd.

He was anxious, not knowing what kind of trick this person was playing, and hurried to catch up. When he finally caught up, he showed a look of feigned anger, and grabbed the arm of the person in front of him, but when the mask was taken off, But it was a strange face.

"..."

For a moment, it seemed that the light and shadow were floating, and the scene around him began to distort. He gradually fell into a darkness, and layers of thick fog spread around him.

My heart began to be confused and overwhelmed. Going forward is an invisible future, but turning around is the past that has passed away.

Finally, he realized that he had already fulfilled his promise.

When it was raining and snowing, and there was snow and frost between the sky and the earth, he took advantage of the fact that the lake was not yet frozen, and he staggered into the boat, looked at the cold and deep lake, paddled, and swam little by little. lake center.

The sky began to slowly drift with snow and dust. He was sitting alone on the bow of the boat, with a coir raincoat and a hat on his shoulders, facing the cold wind. He moved his fingers to the side, but found a mask .

It must have been a long time, and the eyes finally didn't work well, but the tentacles always felt warm. Although the paint had fallen off, he still clearly remembered that it was a fiercely painted mask of a Kui beast.

"This thing is fierce, do you think it looks good?"

When he said this with a smile, he saw the man turn around and run away. He felt anxious and hurriedly chased after him. When he got under a big tree, he looked down and found a mask under the tree.

He walked over and bent over to pick it up, but suddenly a petal fell from his shoulder. He raised his head, but saw a man in red sitting among the green leaves, looking down at him and chuckling, with a smug smile, red lips and white teeth, raw Handsome, but he grabbed a handful of petals from nowhere in his hand.

Suddenly he let go of his hand, and a gust of night wind blew, and the petals fluttered one after another, falling all over his body.

"Didn't your husband say that you want to marry me?"

He looked up at him in a daze, seemingly forgot to answer for a moment.

But the person on the tree stepped on the branch, grabbed the branch, jumped down directly, and then approached him, with his hands behind his back, he raised his eyebrows, "I think the atmosphere is good tonight, how about How do you feel about this happy marriage?"

He smiled, his brows and eyes moved slightly, but he always felt a little guilty, "I originally..."

Ye Fanji smiled, "This time, let me treat it as a surprise for you." As if conjuring, he brought a bright red sleeve robe from nowhere, leaned over his body and put it on On him, she suddenly lowered her head and kissed her forever.

There seemed to be hot tears rolling down from his eyes, and they fell on the mask drop by drop. He lowered his head, looked at the decayed mask vaguely, and said in a daze, "A hundred gold buys a horse, a thousand gold buys a beauty; ten thousand gold buys a beautiful woman; Gold buys nobles, but where can you buy the heart of a king..."①

Finally, a heavy snow fell across the world, and he clings to the man's hand, and finally, forever.

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①Used in Qing Qu Fu's "Occasionally Made": A hundred gold buys a horse, and a thousand gold buys a beauty.Wanjin buys Gaojue, where can I buy youth.

②This is a newcomer's clumsy work, the writing logic is not yet mature, please bear with me~

③By the way, Amway will pre-accept the new article~ "The world is full of Yangou"