Rebellious officials bow their heads

"When I did these things before, I was never found out, so naturally I don't have to worry about the consequences." Xu Yandao, "Whether it's Yanjing or this place, it's not a place to stay for a long time. If you want to avoid the Imperial Army and the Beizhen Prefecture Spy, we can only leave from the wilderness, we will go south from Yujun Mountain, and within half a month, we will be able to reach the south of the Yangtze River."

"Jiangnan?" Ye Liuzhou turned his face to Xu Yan's direction, and asked with great interest, "Going to Jiangnan? How's it going there?"

Xu Yan put away the pearl, and said impatiently: "Shut up and go to sleep."

"Oh." Ye Liuzhou could only respond briefly.

The comfortable days on the mountain came to an end soon. Although it was only two short days, Xu Yan had already built a shed where they lived. The roof of the shed was covered with a layer of banana leaves to shade the sun, and flowers and vines were hung as curtains. Tables and chairs are available.

It was rare for Ye Liuzhou to experience such a life, and he was still a little bit reluctant. He sorted out the herbs he picked, took off the bandage and changed the medicine himself, and when he was tightening the wound, Xu Yan came back with a bunch of wild game. Hanging on the black horse, he waved to him.

Ye Liuzhou put on a bamboo hat and went down the mountain with him. There was a small town at the foot of the mountain. He stood aside with a bamboo stick. Not far away, Xu Yan was talking to the villagers while observing the surrounding situation. I rented a carriage and headed south along the forest path.

The coachman was driving ahead, and the wheels made a screeching sound. Xu Yan sat in the corner and didn't sleep for a while, and woke up because of the constant bumps. Looking out the car window.

Outside was a vast green field, the sun shone on his face, and his eyes seemed to be full of light.

"The warm mountains and soft waters in the south of the Yangtze River, it's a little late for this season, if you go earlier, you can see peach blossoms all over the city."

Ye Liuzhou heard Xu Yan's voice, turned his head to look at him, and said with a smile, "I've only seen it in books before."

Xu Yandao: "Have you stayed in Yanjing and never gone out?"

"Yeah." Ye Liuzhou stretched his waist, and looked out of the window again.

The carriage drove for a few days, and they approached the south of the Yangtze River. They changed bamboo rafts and walked by the waterway. The boatman paddled across the emerald green river with a wooden oar. The two trees on the bank were verdant. It is full of lanterns, oiled paper umbrellas and some rouge and gouache.

Ye Liuzhou smelled the aroma of wine and became greedy, turned his head to pull Xu Yan: "Buy wine."

Xu Yan looked at him coldly, motioning to let go.

"Buy wine." Ye Liuzhou said, "Buy wine, buy wine, buy wine."

Xu Yan grabbed the Mo knife that was placed beside him, flicked his thumb, and the knife came out of its sheath for three points.

Faced with such an obvious threat, Ye Liuzhou looked at him for a moment, and said firmly, "Buy wine."

Then there was a bang, and several exclamations sounded from the shore, Ye Liuzhou formed a beautiful parabola, flew out and fell into the water.

Xu Yan withdrew the leg that kicked him out, the boatman looked over in horror, met Xu Yan's gaze, and quickly turned his head to pretend he didn't see anything.

The bamboo raft reached the place where the ripples continued to spread, Ye Liuzhou emerged from the river, choked several mouthfuls of water, covered his mouth and coughed, and then felt a cold sharp object fall on his jaw, a rush of water He raised his head vigorously.

Xu Yan stood on the bamboo raft, looked down at him, and raised Ye Liuzhou's face with the Mo knife.

"Is the water in the river good to drink?" Xu Yan asked.

Ye Liuzhou didn't say anything.

"Come up, let's go." Xu Yan told him to finish his lesson, and handed Modao forward. He wanted him to grab the scabbard and come up, but Ye Liuzhou bypassed Modao, struggled to climb onto the bamboo raft, and then came out. With a sound, sit down in the corner.

Ye Liuzhou's whole body was wet, his black hair was sticking to his face, his robe was clinging to his body, the bandages on his shoulders were faintly exposed, and there was a trace of blush.

He turned his back to Xu Yan, lowered his head, his hair was dripping, and the shadow covered his expression.

This appearance reminded Xu Yan of the scene when the other party fell into the water last time, and he couldn't see anything when he got up again.Xu Yan raised his head and glanced at the sky. It was dusk, and the lights on both sides of the river were lit up.

Xu Yan paused for a while, frowned somewhat annoyedly, hesitated again and again, but couldn't help asking: "Can you see it?"

Ye Liuzhou remained motionless, as if he hadn't heard anything.

Every time he brought up the matter of eyes, he would not answer, Xu Yan knew that he could not see again.

The two sat quietly for a while, and Xu Yan gestured to the boatman to stop by the shore.

The bamboo raft stopped by the river, and the moss-covered stone steps were washed away by the river. Xu Yan poked Ye Liuzhou with a bamboo stick, "Go ashore."

Without making a sound, Ye Liuzhou took the bamboo stick, knocked on the ground and walked forward.

The two walked slowly in the street full of lights, Xu Yan followed behind, without saying where they were going, while looking at the road under Ye Liuzhou's feet, he took out the silver from his jacket and counted it one by one , After counting, take it back, think about it, and take it out again.

He went to the wine shop and asked the peddler, "What kind of wine do you have?"

The peddler said enthusiastically: "There are a lot of wines, including Nv'erhong, Songhua wine, osmanthus wine, and the bamboo tube wine that just arrived a few days ago. Which kind?"

Xu Yan didn't listen to what the peddler was saying. He noticed that Ye Liuzhou had walked a certain distance, and his figure was about to disappear in the crowd, so he said casually, "It's what you said."

Xu Yan paid the money, took the bamboo tube wine from the peddler, strode forward, grabbed Ye Liuzhou, and dragged him away.

Before Ye Liuzhou could react, he was dragged into an inn by him. Xu Yan supported him who was constantly struggling, and said to Xiao Er expressionlessly: "Give him a fresh wash and change clothes."

Xiao Er was stunned for a moment, and quickly responded, leading Ye Liuzhou inside, "Come with me."

When Ye Liuzhou entered the room, several store clerks filled the wooden bucket with water, and before exiting, they said, "If necessary, please give me instructions."

Ye Liuzhou nodded, he stretched out his hand to touch the temperature of the water, his face was thoughtful, he was silent for a while, he didn't know what he thought of, and he smiled slightly.

After taking a bath, he stepped out of the barrel, changed into the bathrobe he had prepared, stepped on the wooden clogs to push aside the bead curtain, and twirled the bamboo stick in his hand. He combed his long hair, and the room was filled with a rich incense.

Xu Yan came in from behind the screen, holding a tray in his hand, which contained stacked robes, clean bandages and a bowl of soup.

The maid tied Ye Liuzhou's hair, and said with a smile, "My family has served guest officials here for more than ten years, but I have never seen such a good-looking young master."

Hearing the sound, Xu Yan turned his head to look at Ye Liuzhou. The other party was no longer in the panic when he fell into the water, his clothes were neat, his eyes were picturesque, and he even raised his lips and smiled at the little maid, looking like a monster.

The little maid blushed, retreated softly, turned around and left.

The remaining two people did not speak, and the room fell into silence. After a long time, Xu Yan stepped forward to help Ye Liuzhou change the dressing, and untied half of the bathrobe. The wound was torn due to falling into the water just now, and he took a cloth towel to wipe off the oozing blood. , After he tied the bandages round and round, he put the bowl in front of Ye Liuzhou, and said, "Drink the medicine."

Ye Liuzhou didn't move the whole time, letting Xu Yan move. After hearing this sentence, he frowned and looked away, pretending that he didn't know where the bowl was placed.

Xu Yan was a little helpless, opened the bamboo tube of wine, used chopsticks to marinate, "Do you want to drink the wine?"

Ye Liuzhou's eyes lit up immediately, and he smelled the wine, but he caught a cold because of falling into the water, his nose was blocked, and he couldn't smell the smell at all. He took the chopsticks and licked them, like a squirrel that ate a pine nut.

Ye Liuzhou tasted the wine, and ignored Xu Yan's revenge for kicking him into the water before, and asked, "Is there any more wine?"

Xu Yan was noncommittal and knocked on the bowl.

Ye Liuzhou raised the bowl and poured it into his mouth in search of sound, he gulped down in two big breaths unpreparedly, and then an extremely bitter taste exploded on the tip of his tongue, making him want to spit out the medicine immediately!

But Xu Yan had expected it a long time ago, pinched his chin with one hand, and pressed the bowl with the other, forcing him to swallow all the soup and medicine.

After Ye Liuzhou drank the medicine, he fell back as if he was exhausted, and lay motionless on the ground.

Xu Yan stood up, "Change your clothes and prepare to leave."

Ye Liuzhou ignored it, yawned, covered one side of the quilt over his body, and closed his eyes.

Xu Yan said: "Do you still want to drink?"

Ye Liuzhou stood up abruptly.

The two walked out of the inn. Although the sky was dark outside, the flower market lights were like daylight, and the long street was like a brilliant galaxy. The crowd was bustling and bustling.

Ye Liuzhou and Xu Yan were squeezed back and forth, the bamboo sticks couldn't touch the ground, and there were children laughing and running back and forth with lanterns. Someone bought a bowl of syrup and spilled it on Ye Liuzhou.

Xu Yan subconsciously blocked in front of him, and was splashed with syrup all over his chest.

"What's wrong?" Ye Liuzhou asked as he stretched out his hand, touched Xu Yan's skirt, and his hand was sticky.

Then Xu Yan saw him put his fingertips in his mouth and taste it, then laughed, "Sweet."

Xu Yan was taken aback.

Ye Liuzhou's face was shrouded in the light, shining like warm jade.

In the distance, bright fireworks were scattered in mid-air, and the crowd surged again. Ye Liuzhou was staggered and nearly fell. Xu Yan had no choice but to tie the wrists of the two people with a rope, and said: "Follow me, don't let me go!" lost."

Ye Liuzhou said, "Where's the wine?"

Xu Yan stuffed the bamboo tube of wine on his girdle, "Remember, you can't drink too much."

Ye Liuzhou readily agreed, and they followed the crowd to the lamp stand, which was covered with a variety of lanterns, with various crossword puzzles written on it, and people eagerly guessed the answer.

"Which lantern do you want?" Xu Yan asked casually.

Ye Liuzhou said without thinking, "I want the one with the peach blossom pattern."

The scene froze for a moment, as if something was wrong, Xu Yan's face was cold in the next breath, and his tone was extremely cold: "Didn't you see it?"