Rebellious officials bow their heads

The two fled in the narrow alley, startling countless reptiles and birds in the dark. Xu Yan wanted to leave the city immediately, but when he approached the city gate, a troop of cavalry had arrived, shouting loudly and guarding the city gate, not to let go of any changes.

Xu Yan's thoughts changed sharply, and he retreated into the darkness again.

When Ye Liuzhou woke up, he saw beams and pillars covered with spider silk, dilapidated tile roofs and dusty Buddha statues.

He closed his eyes and opened them again, but the scene in front of him remained unchanged.After a pause, he sat up quickly from the cold floor, and found that he was already in a dilapidated temple that was about to collapse, beams of hazy light fell in from the gaps in the window cabinet, thousands of dust Constantly surging in the light.

He turned around and saw Xu Yan sitting leaning against the door, with one long leg propped up, his head drooping slightly, his eyes closed tightly, as if he was asleep.

The door was torn to pieces, and light penetrated through it, reflecting on half of his face, outlining the man's handsome outline, slightly raised black sword eyebrows, and the tip of the tall nose was tinged with a halo, showing a bit of a smile. Very soft.

As soon as Ye Liuzhou took a step closer, the softness disappeared immediately. Xu Yan opened his eyes vigilantly, his eyes were like the blades out of their sheaths, and he said coldly: "Stop."

Ye Liuzhou stopped, "What?"

Xu Yan didn't speak, his eyes turned around the dirty Ye Liuzhou, and he wrinkled his nose in disgust.

"Okay." Ye Liuzhou understood, and sat down cross-legged, "Where are we? Are we out of town?"

"No." Xu Yan said, "The gate of the city has been sealed, and a large number of forbidden soldiers searched from house to house in the city. I hid for a night before finding this place to take refuge."

"Ah, it seems that our situation is very dangerous..." Ye Liuzhou touched his chin.

Xu Yan stared at him sharply, "It's very dangerous. Why did you appear in Taixuan Hall last night? Who are you?"

Ye Liuzhou looked calm and composed: "I said, my purpose is the same as yours. Why did you appear there? I am why."

"Last night, the imperial army turned the imperial city upside down and ordered every family not to go out, even the officials of the imperial court did the same. They searched and arrested everywhere."

Xu Yan said coldly: "Do you think it's because you lost a bead?"

Ye Liuzhou opened his eyes wide: "Otherwise, what do you think? And it's not the idea of ​​losing the beads. It's you, no, we entered the emperor's palace to steal and attracted the imperial army all over the city. Didn't you think of it before you went to steal the beads?" Consequences?"

Xu Yan covered his forehead with a headache.

The two were silent for a while, Ye Liuzhou fell back, looked up at the roof, sighed, then stretched out his legs to kick Xu Yan, "Hey, I'm hungry."

Xu Yan didn't respond.

Ye Liuzhou said again: "Go steal some food and come back. I'm really going to starve to death. It's better to bring some wine. It needs to be good enough wine."

Xu Yan didn't bother to talk to him at all.

Ye Liuzhou stretched out his legs and kicked him again.

"No." Xu Yan suppressed his temper and spat out a word.

"What?" Ye Liuzhou sat up suddenly, and said in disbelief, "You don't just steal things from the palace, do you? What's wrong with you?"

"I won't steal things from common people."

"With a thief like you, the palace really thinks it's unlucky." Ye Liuzhou sighed deeply.

The two stayed in this dilapidated temple until dusk, Xu Yan was always on guard against the wind and grass outside, he saw that the time was almost up, walked to Ye Liuzhou and said: "I have already taken you out of the palace, now we each Let's go, you'd better not stay here for a long time, the imperial army will check it out in a while."

Ye Liuzhou was lying on the floor with his long hair loose and his eyes unfocused. After staring at Xu Yan's face for a while, he said vaguely, "...Don't go."

Xu Yan didn't respond, he didn't stay any longer, turned around and walked out the door.

The cold wind howled past, and the cobwebs on the pavilion door were shaking. After walking a certain distance, he paused, as if he was blocked by an invisible barrier in front of him, and returned back the same way annoyed.

Back at the ruined temple, Ye Liuzhou was still lying there motionless, as if he had lost consciousness.Xu Yan squatted down, stretched out his hand to brush the messy hair on his forehead, tested the temperature, and found that this guy really had a fever, and his hands were astonishingly hot.

If he was left here overnight without being discovered by the imperial guards, he would probably be burned to death.

Xu Yan made up his mind, lifted Ye Liuzhou's skirt, and shook him awake abruptly.

Ye Liuzhou opened his eyes dimly: "Didn't you leave?"

Xu Yan said with a sullen face, "Get up and follow me."

Ye Liuzhou rubbed his eyes, and a smile appeared on his lips, "Remember, you said this, and you are not allowed to drive me away no matter what the situation is."

The other party let go of his hand decisively and walked out directly. He couldn't help laughing, pulled himself together and stood up, following behind Xu Yan.

The sky was gloomy, and when leaving the deep alley, Ye Liuzhou saw a large group of imperial guards patrolling the street not far away, and it was too late to go back. Cover the mat.

Ye Liuzhou's eyes were pitch black, he heard the sound of chaotic footsteps, and felt Xu Yan's slight breathing above his head.The distance between the two of them was extremely close. If Xu Yan hadn't supported the ground with one hand, he would have been crushed on top of him.

He felt itchy and wanted to move, but Xu Yan held him down firmly before he could do so.

"Don't move." Xu Yan's voice seemed to be choked out from between his teeth.

Ye Liuzhou raised his head, and whispered accurately in his ear: "There are bugs crawling into the clothes..."

The last few words could not be uttered, because Xu Yan covered his mouth.

After finally waiting for the imperial army to pass by, the two came out of the haystack, covered in debris.

"Where are we going now?" Ye Liuzhou asked while shaking his robe.

"Go to the Dongcheng Inn, it is strictly forbidden in the whole city that there will be no one in the inn today."

"Why is there no one? There are shopkeepers and Xiaoer. They will definitely report us to the government when they see us."

Xu Yanju glanced at him condescendingly, "I am the manager of the inn in Dongcheng."

"Ah." Ye Liuzhou rolled his eyes very subtly, raised his hand and patted the other person's shoulder, "Lao Chao has already spoken out, don't worry, I will definitely not betray you."

Xu Yan twitched his lips, and led him all the way to avoid the patrolling guards, and entered the inn through the window.

As soon as the two of them landed, a candle was lit up in the dark lobby, and the lamp bearer was completely hidden in the darkness, looking very cold.

In the quiet and strange atmosphere, Xu Yan went to the table and sat down, poured a cup of tea, and said lightly: "Okay, it's me, don't play tricks."

As soon as the words fell, the light in the room suddenly brightened a lot. The person who came was dressed as a junior and looked young. He waved his hand to the upstairs and shouted: "Xiuxiu, fat cook! Boss is back Already!"

There was a sound of stepping on wooden planks upstairs, and two people came down in a hurry, one was a beautiful young girl, and the other was a fat cook with a stick in his hand.

Xiaoer said: "Boss, what's going on? The whole capital has changed since you left, and me, Xiuxiu and the fat cook are all worried all day long! —Wait, who is he?"

As soon as these words came out, the burning eyes of the three moved to Ye Liuzhou at the same time.

Ye Liuzhou smiled back.

Xu Yan said: "He will stay in the inn for a few days."

His slender fingers tapped on the table, "Ah An, I remember that there are still some medicinal materials in the warehouse. I went to get hyssop, thyme, thyme, linden flowers and licorice root to fry together."

Xiao Er responded and asked curiously, "Who is sick?"

Just as Xu Yan was about to speak, he suddenly paused, only to hear a heavy knock on the door.

"The government investigates criminals! Open the door!"

Several guys in the inn panicked, Xu Yan's face was calm, "Fat cook and Xiuxiu go upstairs, and A'an and I are downstairs."

Several people moved quickly, Ye Liuzhou watched Xu Yan's gaze turn to him expectantly.

"As for you—" he said, "Let's leave it to the government."

Ye Liuzhou's expression froze immediately.

The next moment, under A'an's shocked gaze, Xu Yan raised his hand and struck Ye Liuzhou on the back of the neck.

With a plop, Ye Liuzhou fell on the table.

"Old, old, old, old -" Ah An was so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly, "Are you really going to hand him over to the government?"

"Otherwise, how can this inn hide him?" Xu Yan said lightly, "Carry him behind the door, and then you go to open the door."

"This, this, and this will work?" Ah An couldn't believe it. Under the coercion of the other party, he could only obey.

The double doors were wide open to both sides, surrounded by the cold wind, and there was a dense forest of imperial guards outside, and the armored soldiers shone with a sharp and cold light, and a chilling aura rushed towards them.

A'an suddenly trembled with fright, almost unable to stand still, his two narrow eyes kept looking nervously at the door covering Ye Liuzhou.

Behind him, Xu Yan lifted him up straight calmly, and Ah An barely looked away.

A team of imperial guards entered the inn from both sides to search, and the commander of the imperial guards in armor stepped into the threshold, glanced around the lobby of the inn, and solemnly said: "Call all of you here."

"Jun, Mr. Jun, what happened?" Ah An couldn't help trembling and asked.

"There are thieves entering the palace to steal tonight, and I will pursue them according to the order."

There was the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets upstairs, Xiu Xiu and the fat cook pretended to be disturbed and panicked at this moment.

A group of people stood in the lobby, and the commander of the forbidden army glanced over one by one, and finally stopped on Xu Yan's face, "You..."