I live in Beihai Jun Nanhai [Rebirth]

After seemingly tens of millions of years, Xie Wuyi moved his Adam's apple and said softly, "Master."

The voice was a bit hoarse, and the tone was completely different from before. It was like talking in a dream, and Shui Jing felt a little confused when he heard it, so he couldn't help lowering his voice and replied: "Well, I'm here."

Hearing the words, Xie Wuyi seemed to be in a daze for a moment, then lowered his eyes and said slowly: "I thought that Master would never come back."

"Why?" Shui Jing asked in surprise, "Didn't I ask Yanque to tell you? Didn't she tell you?"

Before he left, he specifically told Yan Que to convey his whereabouts to Xie Wuyi, and he confirmed it with her again just now in the palace. He believed that Yan Que would not lie about this matter. As if you don't know about it?

"Que'er said, Master has returned to Beihai." Xie Wuyi raised his eyes and looked at him again.

Shui Jing nodded, but she didn't know what to say, she suddenly realized something, and said in astonishment, "Then what? She didn't say I'd be back in two months?"

Xie Wuyi shook his head slowly.

"Hey?" Shui Jing had nothing to say, this girl, if she asked her to tell her whereabouts, she really only told her "whereabouts", and directly saved the "return date".

Shui Jing was angry and funny and said: "Hey, you can't blame me. Before I left, I asked her to bring you a message. Who knows that this girl only brought half of the message, really..."

He didn't know how to evaluate it for a while, although Yanque was wrong in her message, she was just a child after all, and Shui Jing couldn't be cheeky enough to push all the responsibility on her.

Thinking that Xie Wuyi had been immersed in the misunderstanding of "gone and never returning" for the past two months, and thinking that it was all due to him leaving without saying goodbye, Shui Jing suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and changed the subject: "Well, I should be blamed. I shouldn't have let her pass on the message. I should have told you in person before I left."

He never knew how to comfort others, but now seeing the sadness in Xie Wuyi's eyes, he felt that he had to do something.

Thinking about it, he raised his hand clumsily to touch Xie Wuyi's cheek, and said softly: "Master promises you, it won't happen again, okay?"

Although the complex emotions in Xie Wuyi's eyes were not as intense as before, they still hadn't completely disappeared. He lowered his eyes and sighed softly, and answered the wrong question: "It's getting late, it's time to go back to the palace."

At this time, the sun had set and the sky had indeed darkened. Shui Jing nodded and walked back and forth side by side with Xie Wuyi.

After walking a certain distance, Shui Jing looked back at the father and son in the forest.

At this time, the mature man had already loaded all the felled trees onto the cart, and was tying them up with ropes, while the child had an extra lantern in his hand at some point, and was standing beside the cart, holding up the light Bright.

Shui Jing turned her head, remembering that Jie Wuyi had stood there motionless and looked at them just now, so focused that she didn't even notice the sound of footsteps, she couldn't help asking strangely: "What were you looking at there just now?"

Xie Wuyi's footsteps paused slightly, but soon returned to normal, and continued walking while saying, "It's nothing."

Seeing that he didn't want to say more, Shui Jing didn't ask further questions.

The two walked in silence for a while, and Shui Jing glanced at Jie Wuyi from time to time, and found that he had been staring at the road under his feet, seemingly absent-minded.

Shui Jing could feel that he was a little unusual today, but he couldn't figure out what the reason was.

According to Shui Jing's understanding of him over the years, Xie Wuyi is not the kind of unforgiving temperament, even if there is any misunderstanding, as long as he makes it clear, he will not keep holding on.

But now he clearly knew that leaving without saying goodbye was a misunderstanding, but he still seemed a little depressed, which really made Shui Jing not sure if he still cared.

After walking for a while, Shui Jing really couldn't stand the weird silence, so he had nothing to say: "Are you unhappy to see me back?"

Xie Wuyi seemed to have been interrupted suddenly, and he turned his head belatedly and replied, "Happy."

Shui Jing raised her eyebrows suspiciously, and said jokingly, "Really? I can't tell you are happy with your expression."

Xie Wuyi was stunned, and after a while, the corners of his mouth were slightly bent and he smiled, but the smile only stayed on his lips, and the smile didn't get into his eyes at all, it seemed a bit forced.

Shui Jing looked at his forced smile, felt helpless, and felt a little distressed, couldn't bear to press on any more, smiled wryly and shook his head, "Forget it, don't laugh if you don't want to, I believe you are happy. "

After finishing speaking, Shui Jing changed the subject and said, "I heard from Yanque that you go out early and come back late every day. How is the matter in the salt office going?"

As soon as the topic touched on political affairs, Xie Wuyi quickly restrained his emotions, nodded and said, "Very well, we have reached an agreement with all the salt craftsmen, and soon the emperor will issue an edict to replace the imperial supply with a share of salt profits. And let them go in and out of the salthouse freely."

Shui Jing nodded, and said with a smile: "That's the end of your mind."

Xie Wuyi looked at him, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just opened his mouth and closed it, and nodded slightly.

……

After returning to the palace this time, Xie Wuyi seemed to be busier than before, either staying in the imperial study room day and night, or finding no one in the palace.

For several days in a row on the scheduled sword-giving days, he just asked Yanque and others to tell Shui Jing at the rockery that he could not come to practice sword because of important government affairs today.

Although Xie Wuyi hasn't had a leisurely time in the past few years, Shui Jing always has a strange feeling. He feels that Xie Wuyi's busyness today is different from before.

The reason for this feeling is that when Shui Jing saw Xie Wuyi outside the window of the imperial study several times, he was just sitting in front of the desk with a pen in a daze, but every time Shui Jing pushed the door and walked in, Xie Wuyi Wu Yi immediately lowered his head and began to approve the papers, as if he was busy showing Shui Jing to let him not disturb him.

Even when Shui Jing brought him the brochure brought back from Four Seasons Mountain, he also shirked that he was busy with government affairs and couldn't even finish reading the brochure, let alone take the time to read it.

Once or twice is fine, but if there are too many times, no matter how slow Shui Jing is, he will inevitably notice something strange, but what he doesn't understand is what caused this change.

If one traces back to the source, Xie Wuyi's changes began when he returned from Beihai.If talking about what happened at that time, Shui Jing could only think of Yanque's mistake in delivering the message.

Could it be that he is still brooding over that matter?

Shui Jing didn't think he was such a small-minded person.

So... Could it be that something happened while I wasn't around?

Shui Jing couldn't figure it out, but felt that she had never been so depressed in the past thousand years.

Finally, he decided that being alone is worse than being alone, and risking being ridiculed by Shijiu again, he went to Shijiu Hall late at night and dragged him out of bed.

Shi Jiu was distracted from his dream for no reason, while looking sideways at him, he sat up from the bed, but he didn't intend to get out of bed, sat cross-legged on the bed and said indifferently: "What's your business?"

Shui Jing chuckled, lit the candles in the room, walked back to the bed and sat down, and said, "Ask you something."

Shi Jiu was dazzled by the sudden light of the candle, closed his eyes and then opened them again, raised his eyebrows and said, "It's best that it's such an urgent matter that we can't even wait for the dawn."

Shui Jing had expected his teasing a long time ago, and was completely unmoved. He nodded casually and said, "Yes, yes, yes, it's a big deal."

Shi Jiu looked at him expressionlessly: "Ask."

Shui Jing said kindly, "Did anything happen during the two months I went back to Beihai?"

While listening absentmindedly, Shi Jiu groped around behind the pillow with his backhand. He didn't seem to find what he was looking for, so he raised his sleepy eyes and looked around, and found the wine gourd hanging on the hanger in the corner.

Shui Jing followed his gaze, and immediately stood up knowingly, went to fetch the gourd, handed it to Shi Jiu and said, "Come and drink some wine to sober up, and then think about it."

Shijiu pulled out the cork and took a sip of the wine, finally seemed to understand Shui Jing's question, but asked instead, "When did you go back to Beihai?"

"Tsk," Shui Jing almost wanted to knock a hole in his head, but he had to hold back because of his needs, and said in another way, "It was after the Song and Yuan corruption and bribery cases were closed. , did something special happen?"

Shi Jiu casually said, "What makes it special?"

Shui Jing was at a loss for words for a while, and found that it was really difficult to define the word "special" without a cause and effect, so he simply said bluntly: "Let's put it this way, since I came back from Beihai, I feel that something is wrong with Xie Wuyi, and I want to know the reason."

When Shi Jiu heard the word "Jie Wuyi", he immediately squinted his eyes, showing an expression of "It's not what I expected and it's because of him".

Shui Jing immediately raised his hand to stop him before he could speak, and said, "Hey, hey, there's no need to say sarcasm, I already understand it, please just answer the question directly."

The sarcasm that Shi Jiu had prepared was not able to come out, he curled his lips a little unwillingly, and said, "What's wrong with him?"

Shui Jing pursed her lips and thought for a while, then frowned and said, "I'm not sure, I just think he always prevaricates me with his busy government affairs, and he is worried and unhappy all day long. Anyway...it's not the same as before anyway."

Shi Jiu heard the words, took another sip of the wine while holding the gourd, and said with a sneer, "He is the crown prince of a country, so what's wrong with worrying about the country and the people every day? Do you think everyone is just like you and me, just idle around all day long?"

Shui Jing knew that he could hide from the first day of the junior high school but not the fifteenth day of the junior high school, and there was no lack of some sarcasm, but he didn't expect Shi Jiu to be a ruthless person. hero."

Shi Jiu glanced at him, disapproving.

Shui Jing returned to the topic and said: "He used to be the prince too? But he is not as busy as he is now, so he doesn't even have the time to say a word, right? I just want to know, is he really busy or fake busy?"

The wish of Shijiu's sarcasm was fulfilled, and he was finally willing to speak properly. After a little recollection, he said: "If you insist on saying that there were any special things that happened during that time, there are two things."

"What's the matter?" Shui Jing asked immediately.

Shi Jiu said unhurriedly: "One is that Daluan has transferred troops to the southwest again."

Shui Jing thought for a while, then frowned and said, "What's so special about this? Daluan has been dispatching troops to the border of Qi country from time to time in the past few years, hasn't he received hundreds of spies?"

"Well," Shi Jiu continued noncommittal, "The other thing is that the ruler is ill."

"Sick again?" Shui Jing couldn't help but laugh, "What's the reason again this time?"

Shi Jiu glanced at him suspiciously at first, then realized what he meant by his words, he shook his head helplessly and said with a smile: "It's not an act this time."

"Oh? Are you really sick?" Shui Jing asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Shi Jiu lazily said: "Head wind, the imperial doctor said that the menacing force needs to rest, so he has almost become a hands-off shopkeeper recently, almost all government affairs in the country are handled by Xie Wuyi, and even the morning court is presided over by him."

When Shui Jing heard this, his previous guess was suddenly shaken.

The king is sick in bed, and Xie Wuyi alone is burdened with the burden of the country's government affairs, so it is completely understandable that he is so busy and worried.

So it wasn't hiding from me...

Shui Jing silently breathed a sigh of relief, and when he realized his reaction, he couldn't help laughing at himself.

Why are you so hypocritical all of a sudden?This is really not like my usual style.

Shi Jiu saw that he was thoughtful for a while and then smiled, not knowing what he was thinking of, so he raised his eyebrows and said, "The question is over?"

Shijiu's expulsion order has always been straightforward, and Shui Jing has always been straightforward, patted his shoulder and got up and said: "The question is over, the question is over, you can continue to sleep, I am leaving."

Shi Jiu yawned and lay down while waving his hands: "Turn off the lights."

Shui Jing passed by the candlestick and extinguished the candle flame with a wave of his wide sleeves, stepped out of the bedroom in two or three steps, and closed the door smoothly.