this king; that king

After another half a month, when the golden color of late autumn finally dyed every leaf, the group finally returned to the capital palace.

Naturally, Ting Lan could not live in the palace. The king arranged for her a temporary residence at the foot of the mountain, saying that if she had a suitable house, she would be subsidized to live nearby.

The big ceremony was approaching, and everyone in the capital became joyful.Lingluo is knotted like water on the top of the city and floats with the wind. Hundreds of flowers are hung on the top of the city gate, and the hanging bells are ringing. The shops and markets are decorated with lights and festoons. Lanterns, decorative straw handicrafts were hung on the carriages coming and going, people began to buy new clothes, and the noisy streets and alleys were splashed with a sense of fashion.

According to the king, the Great Sacrifice is a more solemn festival than the New Year, reflecting gratitude to the gods of heaven and earth, rewarding the harvest, and praying for peace and warmth in the coming winter.Generally, the monarch and the high priest compose songs and cast spells, because the king was worried about the expansion of the power of the priests, so he abolished this position long ago. For hundreds of years, the king sang sacrificial songs in the sacrifices.

"Singing under the gaze of the whole country, aren't you nervous?" Ye Song asked.

The king sitting on the other side of the long table smiled lightly and threw the puff into his mouth: "Of course I was nervous at first, because my eyes were all my audience. Afterwards, I was not nervous anymore, because I only had eyes in my eyes. Down with my people."

"What kind of god is 'God of Heaven and Earth'?" Ye Song asked.

"The god of heaven and earth is not a god. You Dongguo should call him 'nature', right? He is the incarnation of all things in nature that cannot be created by man, and the messenger between this world and mankind. Worshiping him is to remind Myself, you must respect everything in the world at all times." The king began to eat his cheesecake, and the smile on his face showed a bit of respect.

"Dongguo...can I take a vacation and go home and have a look?" Ye Song asked along the way.

The king was taken aback for a moment, and immediately agreed, "There is no need to ask for leave. I originally planned to let you go back."

"really?"

The king's expression became a little serious, he didn't say a word, only the sound of knives and forks in the air, Ye Song was a little flustered, wondering if he had offended the king.

"Your semester is coming to an early end. You don't need to stay here for two years. I have made an appointment with the emperor of the Eastern Kingdom. After the ceremony, I will let you go in mid-November," the king said.

Ye Song's brain thumped, and he was stabbed to pieces by the king's calm words.

what?

In other words, after the ceremony is over, he will never see the king for the rest of his life?

Why so suddenly?How come no one told him?

The cold air that slipped in through the open window seemed to be at odds with the crackling of the stove. The king in the cloak was still eating calmly. Seeing that Ye Song's eyes were red, the king didn't react at all, but calmly With a smile: "Are you reluctant to part with Ting Lan? I have arranged everything for you. The database has been unfrozen. If you catch up with her, you can directly hold a wedding with her in Wuming Country—as long as you want."

Ting Lan?Ye Song felt an inexplicable anger in his heart. Usually, the king can see through his own thoughts at a glance, but this is the only thing that the king can't see through.

For the first time, Ye Song clearly felt that Ting Lan was just an outsider, someone he had admired once, and now his greatest wish was not to marry her, but to be with the king all the time.

Of course he misses Dongguo's home, but he only misses the familiar streets and alleys, not his annoying father and uncle.If he could never come back, he would rather stay under the starry sky the king set up for him than go back to the home where his relatives didn't love him.

What does the king know!

Just when he was too sad and angry to speak, the king stood up and wiped his mouth gracefully: "Thank you, apprentice, I am very happy for the past six months... In the next half month, you will start Play happily, and say goodbye to me happily. I am full, take it easy."

After speaking, the king turned his head and disappeared behind the door, just like when he first came to the palace and had the first meal with the king.At that time, the king's back made him feel ridiculous and unapproachable, but now, he never so much hoped that the king's turning around would not be so resolute.

It's a pity that the king's footsteps are as crisp as ever, hope is just hope after all.

Ye Song stretched out his hand and wiped his cheek, and he didn't know when he was crying.

Back in the room, he closed the door, threw himself on the bed, and rubbed against the palace quilt vigorously.

"I do not go."

Morris looked up in surprise, did his young master know what he was talking about?

"Aren't you going? Then you plan to stay in the palace of the Nameless Kingdom for the rest of your life? In what capacity? An envoy? A commoner? A servant?" Morris asked.

"I...don't know." Ye Song sat down, resting his head on his palms, "I don't want to go back to see those people, and I don't want to leave Ah Jin either."

"You like the king again now?" Maurice asked puzzled.

"No...it's not that I like it."

"what is that?"

"I don't know. Friendship...?" Ye Song still didn't look up, "I just feel uncomfortable, how can I graduate after graduation..."

"There are always joys and sorrows, ups and downs. And the king has made an agreement with the emperor that we will go back when the time comes. If you don't leave, the king will not keep his promise, and international relations will be very troublesome. If you really Be considerate of him, just do as he says. Even the king is willing to let you go, why do you hesitate?" Morris jumped onto Ye Song's lap.

"That's right..." Ye Song raised his head and let out a long sigh.

Is the next half a month the last days?

Ye Song looked at the desk calendar on the table, picked up a pen, and made a big cross on the day of the return trip.

At this time, there was a knock on the door without warning.

"Ye Song—!"

Behind the opened door was Ting Lan, who was wearing a rabbit winter coat, and greeted him with a smile.

"Ting Lan? Why are you here?" Ye Song asked in surprise.

"I hate it, today is my birthday!"

Yeah?Ye Song's heart was not fluctuating. Ting Lan didn't seem to have told him the date of his birthday. She must have come to see him because she wanted to invite him to have a birthday party or something.

Seeing that Ye Song was a little dazed, Ting Lan thought it was her delicate tone that hit him again, making him stunned.Sure enough, pretending to celebrate a birthday is the most effective way, so she launched a further offensive: "Would you like to have a banquet~ I haven't celebrated your birthday with you yet."

Ye Song nodded indifferently.

"Great! In fact, A Jin asked me to come here to do it... I'm so sorry, it's obviously a royal palace, it's really presumptuous." Ting Lan said.

The king sent her?It's king again!The king still didn't understand anything, so he pushed Ting Lan to him.

But looking at her face that she knew she was wrong and clearly wanted to comfort her, Ye Song didn't want to show boredom to her: "It's okay, Ah Jin is a very gentle person, and she won't say that you overstepped."

After Ye Song finished speaking, he was also taken aback. His tone of voice to Ting Lan was much colder than expected, so he hurriedly smiled.Only then did he know that it was so difficult from being unscrupulous to trying to cover up, how much pain the king had silently swallowed?Not so much, perhaps, as to be mind-numbing, but not so little as to be blissful.

He was scared, he obviously felt that every word he said was praising the king, "not overstepping" was not because "it was invited by the king", but because "the king is very gentle", this is too wrong.

"What's wrong? You feel a little upset, ah! Are you annoying me!" Ting Lan put her face in front of Ye Song and asked dissatisfied.

yes!What he hates is that you are annoying!

Although Ye Song really wanted to answer this way, he just turned his head away: "I'm a little tired today, I want to sleep, and I will play with you on my birthday tonight, okay?"

"Okay!" Ting Lan left obediently.

Ye Song's actions made Morris very puzzled. Since when did his young master treat Ting Lan so...unlike Ting Lan?

"Master, even if you are very tired, you can't be so indifferent to her, right?" The little Shiba Inu's frown was like a little twist.

"No, Morris, you don't understand...you don't understand." Ye Song felt the real fatigue, he simply changed his clothes, rolled up under the quilt, and didn't speak anymore, and soon the sound of sleeping sounded in the room Voice.

don't know?I bother!Morris shook his head.

"Don't understand?" Ting Lan, who was eavesdropping outside the door, rolled her eyes, hey, man!Morris didn't understand, didn't she understand?Even couples sometimes get bored with each other, but Ye Song really fell asleep anyway, that means he is really sleepy.How could Ye Song have any plans to play with her, but the king should be more careful.

Ting Lan touched her face, it seemed that she was going to give full play to her charm, the plan must not fail.

But Ting Lan never expected that the king would play a big hand, which caught her off guard.

Her original expectation was to gather with King Ye Song in the small restaurant, the king sat at the main seat, and she and Ye Song sat on the side, grabbing Ye Song's heart through the intimate gestures at the dinner table.She also specially put on a beautiful nude pink long dress for this purpose, which is what she is most proud of. Her skin color advantage makes her not only not look dark, but also looks very good.

She could allow her prediction to have unplanned errors, but she didn't expect this prediction to be completely overturned from the very beginning.

The birthday party was actually held in the hall of the court hall. In the immaculate white hall, a new gold-embroidered wine-red flying bird blanket was spread, and the pillars were even covered with water-like soft colored silk. Bead curtains were hung on the doors and windows everywhere. A series of clean sounds rang out with slight shaking.The king was not stingy at all, so he lit all the lamps in the palace with fish oil candles, and the crystals were like wisteria flowers, cascading down from the chandelier, which was extremely extravagant.There are four long tables on both sides of the hall, and the cooks in the palace come and go to put the food on the table, and the aroma of the sizzling fat dancing in the baking pan hits people's hearts directly.

The most surprising thing is that the king, who had no contact with the outside world at all, even invited the lower officials and wealthy households in the capital to enjoy the feast, and also invited many representatives of the common people, and even ordered that it be specially given to every household in the capital. Give wine.

Ting Lan realized that she was overshadowed by gentlemen in suits and leather shoes, glamorous ladies, tall and handsome boys, and beautiful girls. She could only quickly find a bright lip gloss to enhance her color.She secretly loathed the king in her heart. Among the crowd of women, she didn't know how much of her face's allure to Ye Song was left.

And the king, who initiated the banquet, was wearing a five-layer black gown with Egyptian-style golden snake pattern, and a golden eagle in the shape of a swooping golden eagle on his head, leaning lazily on the throne decorated with gorgeous velvet cushions Accepting the greetings from the guests, the beige mask on the face was clean, only a black epiphyllum was painted on the cheek, symbolizing the short banquet for only one night.

Looking at Ting Lan's surprised look from the corner of the king's eyes, he snickered in his heart, she never thought that he would use others to suppress her.Didn't she enter the palace just to get closer to Ye Song? Although she had no objection to being with Ye Song, jealousy drove him to do it - he didn't want to be left aside by the young lover during dinner, why? They can talk to themselves but not?Simply find outsiders to chat about some anecdotes.

Love that comes easily is unbelievable, if they can still make love to each other even in such a crowded place, it means that Ye Song really likes her, and Ting Lan still has a bit of conscience as a spy.Killing two birds with one stone, not only tried it, but also avoided my own embarrassment.

No, it kills three birds with one stone, he has to suppress Ting Lan's limelight, she has been using her presence these days, isn't it just because she looks good!He is not a saint, it is understandable to do some bad things, he just wants to see if Ting Lan can still dominate the ladies in the circle of ladies.

Ye Song soon appeared at the entrance of the corridor, dressed in a black tuxedo that fit snugly, the small leather shoes under his feet made a light noise, and the silver buttons were clean and shiny.Ting Lan was startled, and immediately got into the crowd, pretending not to see him, holding up the red wine and waiting for him to chat with her.

But she drank three cups, and she didn't feel someone calling her back, which was too abnormal.Although it is fake, she is also a birthday party anyway.The king said that she has no status and cannot invite guests in the name of a birthday party, so no one knows her birthday.The people around were all eating and drinking, but no one noticed her. Finally, she couldn't help but turn her head, but Ye Song disappeared.

what happened?Looking around, the wives around are all wearing heavy makeup, how could it be possible to have her elegance and beauty?Could it be that Ye Song wants to play the tricks of that kind of novel, run behind and cover his eyes and ask "Guess who I am"?It's not impossible...

When she was looking around, she inadvertently raised her head to glance at the throne, well, she found Ye Song.

Ye Song was walking up to the throne with a smile. The king who was eating puffs didn't seem to notice him until he bent down and extended his hand to the luxuriously dressed king.

Ye Song was rarely so close face to face, the king could even see the small hairs on his fair face.

The king was stunned for a while: "Well... what's wrong?"

"Your Majesty, do you want to show me your face?" Ye Song's slightly magnetic voice seemed to be full of magic.

The king had never been so grateful for his mask - he was blushing, he hadn't danced in over 100 years, and it was the first time in his life anyone had offered to dance with him.

The king paused: "No... sorry, I'm not free right now, Ting Lan is at the table over there..."

"Can't you get down?"

"What did you say? What's your tone? You say it again?"

"Can't you get down?"

The king was taken aback, Ye Song's expression was obviously unhappy, he quickly took Ye Song's hand and stood up, for fear that he would make everyone unhappy at the banquet.

Unexpectedly, Ye Song burst out laughing immediately: "Bulb is really right, it is to be hard on people like you."

Light bulb!I owe a beating!

The king made a decisive decision and let go of Ye Song's hand: "Ah... Speaking of the light bulb, I have something to do now and I will accompany you next time... Hey!"

Unexpectedly, Ye Song directly pulled him over, wrapped his arms around his waist, and jumped up shamelessly in the middle of the hall.The king had no way to show resistance to him, otherwise both parties would lose face.He can't pretend he can't dance, or he'll make a fool of himself at the party.What's worse, his clothes today are not suitable for walking around at all, so he can only turn around like a little princess lifting her skirt.

"Little bastard..." The king's sense of shame was overflowing from his heart, almost gushing out of his head, he lowered his head and could only let Ye Song go.

We must quickly find a way to return to the throne!Otherwise, Ting Lan would be upset, Ye Song is still stupid, he doesn't know that dancing with other people will make people misunderstand cheating, has his EQ been eaten away by Morris!

"Ah Jin, don't be distracted." Ye Song's voice interrupted his thoughts.

"Missed? If outsiders find out about your behavior, where will Dong Guo's face be placed?"

"The palace is so shabby that there are no servants. If the nobles outside know about it, where will you put your face?"

"Do you dare to make irresponsible remarks on my decision-making? Then is your next step to blackmail the monarch to manage political affairs? My lord envoy?" The king immediately retorted.

"That's better than you writing the music alone until midnight." Ye Song's calm words made the king's eyes widen.

"Are you peeking at me?!"

"Shh—or there will be no place to put your face." Ye Song's tone of voice was like a light bulb, and the king knew immediately who taught it.

"Okay, since you are so worried about me, you can help me review the melody tomorrow." Ye Song could hear the king's smile, "Oh, no, this is too presumptuous. Then I will write this year's palace tomorrow." If you can’t calculate the total income and expenditure within half an hour, you don’t have to mess around with me.”

Ye Song's mentality has completely collapsed. Shouldn't ordinary people be blushing and heart beating when they are taken to the middle of the ballroom?Why didn't the king play his cards according to the routine?How dare you punish him for math?

But he soon discovered that the one blushing and heartbeating was himself. The king's hands were actually not that fat, but just right and soft. Unlike his bulky body, the aristocrat-educated king danced neatly.Ye Song didn't need to take off the mask to feel the gentle and obedient side of the king.

Was he not merely friendly to the king?

Before he could reach a conclusion, the king suddenly changed his pace, led him to the table, let go of his hand, and patted his head very quickly: "Okay, I'll jump!" Tired, let's talk."

The king didn't say anything else, and walked back to the throne from the side. Ye Song turned his head a little disappointed, only to find that Ting Lan was standing in front of him.

Oh my god, he's dying of disappointment now.