[ABO] The Sparrow in the Threshold

"What is your plan?"

"Silver Sparrow doesn't trust me, so he can't take my hints as easily as you did...I need him to be sober while exhausted."

"and then?"

"Then give him a hint when he thinks he's invulnerable. I don't guarantee success... You haven't told him how you managed to get married without showing a trace of your feet, right? If you fail this time, he should I will understand the beginning and end of the matter in an instant, and then I will try my best to bring him back, provided that I can beat him."

"Or I'll send someone to follow."

"No, I have a feeling that he must be aware of someone following."

"..."

"Let me tell you clearly that this is a gamble. The bet is that if he wins, he will be brought back. From then on, Cheng Yinque is just a down-and-out young master who is married to you by you. There is no such bitterness and hatred; Flap your wings and fly high.”

"...Since it's a gamble, then leave it to God."

-

Danlong remembered the look on the other side's face when he said this, it was very... Painful.

Maybe other people can't read it, but he is very clear about Qianqiu's character - everything should be under his own control, and accidents are never allowed to happen.He is extremely confident in himself, but usually such a person is also extremely inferior, and the combination of opposing personalities is inseparable from contradictions.

When Qianqiu said "God's decision", he had probably bowed his head and surrendered.

It took about three hours to leave the capital by horse-drawn carriage. During this process, Yinque kept paying attention to the movement outside the carriage, and occasionally opened the curtain to observe what was unusual.Just like Danlong's intuition, if Qianqiu sends someone to follow him so that he can be taken back after failure, Yinque will definitely find out.

"You can sleep for a while. In your current physical condition, if you want to leave the empire headquarters smoothly, you really need to conserve your energy." Danlong reminded him more than once.

But Yinque is very energetic, as can be seen from the light in his left eye.

It was the same this time, Yinque shook his head: "I'm not tired."

"It's just because you're so excited, your brain doesn't have the time to deal with the physical fatigue."

The emerald necklace around Yinque's neck is still there, and the wedding ring between his fingers is still there - and he obviously has the opportunity to take them off and leave them in the Yin family's mansion...or throw them away.During these few hours, Danlong went back and forth to take a thorough look at every part of Yinque's body, including his left foot that was still wrapped in bandages, or the shirt that Qianqiu was wearing on him.

He took out two bottles of water from under the seat of the carriage, unscrewed one of them and handed it to Yinque: "Then drink some water, there will be a hotel in a while, we will have a rest there."

"I don't need to rest..." "But I have to rest, this car is about to knock my bones apart." Danlong smiled wryly, "Why didn't you take off the ring and collar?"

Yinque leaned against the car window, took a sip of water, and looked outside with her arms folded: "Why did you pick it?"

"I thought you would want to return it to Qianqiu... or something like that."

"Wait until it's safe and sell it, so you have the money to do other things."

"...That was my misunderstanding. I thought you had some feelings for Qianqiu." Danlong said, "Going to the southwest is to go to the 'Southwest Islands'?"

"Ah."

"Is there anyone who will accept you when you get married... I don't mean anything else, but if you have no place to settle down, I can arrange for you to live in peace and stability." Danlong said with a smile, "I don't see beauty in trouble, so I can Wherever I can help, I will definitely help, after all, my purpose is just to hope that you leave Qianqiu, nothing else."

Yinque also smiled back: "I remember, when you brought someone to meet him at the beginning, you were very opposed to him marrying me. ... There are people from me in the southwestern islands, so you don't have to worry about it. Just send me out to sea. enough."

"That's right, you're not like someone who doesn't hold back."

Being able to extract this information is already a sign of success for Danlong.

The most important thing is that Yinque doesn't need to lie to him, just keep silent.

An hour later, they arrived at the suburban hotel that Danlong had mentioned. The groom led the horse to the backyard to feed it, and Danlong helped him into the store, where he casually asked the storekeeper for some food.There are few people here, and there is no large area of ​​farmland around, so naturally there are no tenants living here.This dilapidated hotel has outdated facilities, and when you step in, you can hear the creaking and creaking of the cracked wooden floor; there are no other guests in the store except the two of them, and it is eerily quiet.

But Yinque didn't care about this, he sat down at the dusty table in the corner, as if he had lost interest in everything outside, without showing the slightest disgust.

On the other hand, Danlong, who grew up in wealth and honor, has not stepped into such a place for an unknown period of time.

He casually took a rag from the counter, and wiped the table hastily: "This road used to be a freight road, and vendors often settled here; later on, didn't the family pay for the official road, and this side gradually fell into disuse." Yes. If Qianqiu sends someone to chase you out now, even if you know that you are heading southwest, you should still take that official road, after all, it is not easy to drive here."

"...You think carefully." Yinque smiled at him, not at all like a prisoner bird fleeing in a hurry, but like a young master traveling with his servants, the messy clothes can't conceal his own temperament, Even looking at the time, Danlong even throbbed slightly.

Yinque continued: "Do you have any cigarettes?"

"Yes." Danlong quickly handed it to him, "But I don't know if it's something you like to smoke."

"I don't choose."

The two were smoking cigarettes, Danlong took out a pocket watch from his skirt, looked at the time and put it back.

It was a simple and simple pocket watch, probably made of silver, and the engraved edge of the case was a little black, it should have been made for some years.Yinque only glanced at it, and then returned to the window of the hotel.

Danlong was paying attention to all his auras, and at this moment he spoke just right: "Can I ask you a question, Yinque."

"Ok?"

"If Qianqiu wasn't from the Yin family and didn't betray you, what would you do?" Danlong said, "Ah, the premise is that the Cheng family was defeated by other people."

Omega lowered his eyes slightly, held a cigarette between his fingers, rested his chin on the back of his hand, and thought for a moment before saying: "Those servants around me should spend their lives with money now; if he insists on not leaving, maybe I I will take him and find a chance to start over."

"He is actually quite special to you?" Very well, the topic gradually turned from superficial to deep, but Yinque did not show any resistance or displeasure.

Yinque didn't look at him, but opened her thin lips lightly, and breathed out lightly like a sigh: "... who knows, or I'm still very good to the servants around me." After he said this, he looked at him suddenly Xiang Danlong said with a half-smile: "Do you want to consider following me? It will be more enjoyable than being in the Yin family."

"I'll leave it alone," Danlong said, "I am very grateful to the old man for raising me."

The two of them were silent for a moment, and at this moment the shop owner brought some fast food they wanted, turned around and left without saying anything, and probably had no intention of managing the hotel that was about to close down at any moment.

"Before I couldn't eat it all the time, now I can eat a little bit, otherwise you won't be able to survive in Southwest."

"I know."

Yinque picked up the long stick of bread, tore it up and stuffed it into his mouth bit by bit.

Danlong knows why Qianqiu is obsessed with the person in front of him, and it's hard to get away - the attractive smell on Yinque seems to be innate, and it doesn't need to be deliberately highlighted, and it doesn't need to be revealed through eyes or movements. Or language... He can easily arouse Alpha's desire to protect just by sitting there.

"There's nothing to drink here, I'll get you a cup of hot water, it will make you feel better." Danlong said, turned and left the table.

If he didn't have other people in his heart, maybe he would really have some thoughts about Cheng Yinque that he shouldn't have.

Thinking this way, he stood at the counter and picked up the water bottle, pouring it into the teacup while observing Ginque's movements from the corner of his eye.

After confirming that the other party had no suspicion at all, Dan Long flicked his wrist, and the pill hidden in the sleeve slipped into the palm of his hand, and sank silently into the steaming water, melting and disappearing instantly without leaving any traces.

-

Before Danlong asked this question, Yinque also thought about what would happen to him if the person who betrayed him and caused the fall of his family was not Qianqiu.

To him, the letter of transfer that he took out that night was a bet that Qianqiu would not accept it, as he had said to himself thousands of times, no matter whether he was the sole heir to the richest businessman in the empire or not, he would never leave him. abandoned.

However, the gambling table is always unpredictable, and sometimes no matter which side the player is betting on, the player will only end up losing.

Yinque would never tell Yin Qianqiu that he had thought that the two of them could just take the rest of the money and go to the west to find his mother's entourage, or go to the north to watch the long polar night, and live peacefully without thinking about anything .

He once felt that Qianqiu loved him, infinitely approaching the kind of love he wanted, a love that didn't care about gain or loss, and didn't know how to give in.

Danlong came back quickly with hot water, he nodded slightly to express his thanks, put down the half-eaten bread, and took a few sips.The warmth entered the body along the esophagus, indeed as Danlong said, he felt much better instantly.

Suddenly there was a sound from a small metal chain, Yinque looked up at Danlong, who took out the pocket watch again, lifted the cover to watch the time.

He also did this a few times in the car, as if he was accurately counting the time.

Yinque asked: "Do you care about time, or is someone going to ambush me somewhere after an appointment?"

"No." Danlong shook his head, turned the watch over seemingly casually, and the dial inlaid with many diamonds came into Yinque's eyes, "I think my watch is running a little slowly."

A subtle sense of dizziness surged up at this moment, and Yinque blinked, staring at the second ticking.

It seems that from yesterday to now, all the tiredness is hooked out by the faint sound of the second hand moving, the time is infinitely elongated in the senses, and the second hand walks out of the double image.

Dan Long's voice seemed to come from far away, and he couldn't hear it clearly: "Look at the second hand, isn't it going very slowly..."

——No, this is not the feeling of being tired.

Yinque unconsciously opened his mouth to answer: "Yes..."

"Look carefully," Danlong said, "Look carefully..."

The perception became more and more erratic, as if he was stepping on soft clouds; the brain's control over the body was delayed, and it was very difficult to even look away.Yinque watched in a daze as the second hand moved slowly, one tick, one tick, one tick...

"You are Cheng Yinque, and your father was imprisoned for hooking up with the prince; it was Yin Qianqiu who saved you, and he loves you very much...you love him too."

In Danlong's words, Omega closed his eyes.

The fabricated story sentence by sentence entered Yinque's mind, until the other party said, "Now you can sleep in peace", he was completely relieved, and fell asleep on the dining table.

[The author has something to say]: I like watching you guys guess the plot the most~