Loyalty Hou Tiansheng rebellious

The second year of Yongjia, the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.

The fief Zhuangzi doesn't pay much attention to etiquette, and each farmer celebrates his own New Year, and the people who originally served in the Zhuangzi have also been on vacation long ago.

Chen Hen and his party ate a meal in the room, and it was considered a new year.

In winter, the bamboo couch is covered with a blanket of white fox fur, and the small table is placed with bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses, and there are not many dishes.

Seats are not arranged according to status, but according to age.

The old doctor Zhang took the main seat, that is to say, he moved a chair and asked him to sit in front of the wooden table.Li Tan and Chen Wen are on the right of the old doctor Zhang, and Chen Hen and Xu Xing are on the left.

According to the rules, the person sitting on the main seat has to say the congratulations.

Chen Hen raised his hand to fill the old doctor Zhang with wine, and the old doctor Zhang drank it all in one gulp, took a look at each of them, and said, "Don't let anything happen again."

Chen Hen laughed at him: "That's all you can say."

"I haven't taken your pulse today, have I?" Mrs. Zhang gestured to grab his hand, "I've already told you that your pulse is chaotic, and you never take a good rest. I'll show you."

"No." Chen Hen tucked his hands into his sleeves and shrank back into the couch, "Take a good pulse? I'm eating."

Originally, it was just to tease him, but the old doctor Zhang turned his hand in a different direction, took away the flagon in front of him, poured himself a drink, squinted his eyes and took another sip.

Doctor Zhang asked casually, "When will the emperor come back?"

Chen Hen lowered his eyes, and also pretended to answer casually: "26, come back for the New Year."

"Look, when the emperor comes back, I will sue him."

Chen Hen sighed slightly, not knowing what was going on in Jiangzhou.He didn't speak, just rolled up his sleeves and picked up a piece of fish, and put it on the plate so that he could carefully pick out the fish bones.

"I'll be back tomorrow, what are you doing out of your mind?"

The old doctor Zhang obviously drank a little too much, and Chen Hen just wanted to talk.Old doctor Zhang put down the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, stroked his head, and called him: "Hate it."

The people at the table couldn't help laughing, and Chen Hen laughed too, and said helplessly, "Don't shout like that..."

The old doctor Zhang shouted again: "Tan."

This is calling Li Tan.

Li Tan clenched the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, but did not speak.

"Don't complain, everyone has their own status and status, and everyone has their own difficulties." The old doctor Zhang was drunk and stammered, "If there is anything, just fight and it's over. If it doesn't work, just fight." Two fights. Don't complain."

His last words were leaning on the back of the chair, with the back of one hand pressed to his forehead, muttering: "Why can't you be like you guys when you are still kids? Why is it that the bigger you are, the more sad you are? "

After a moment of silence, the candles exploded twice, Chen Hen got up and lay down on the bed, and put on his cloak: "I'm afraid he's drunk too much, I'll help him go back."

Chen Hen held his hand and took him down to rest.

Mrs. Zhang is not a heavy doctor, a thin old man who can barely walk two steps when he is drunk.

Chen Hencai helped him to the flower gallery, and he stood upright by himself with the help of the wall.

"Go back, I'll go back by myself."

Chen Hen was taken aback, and said, "Aren't you drunk?"

"No." The old doctor Zhang wiped his face, "Isn't it because I am an old man, you are not having fun."

Doctor Zhang pushed Chen Hen: "Go back, let's play with them."

He walked away on his own, fearing that the road would be slippery in the snow and he would fall if he couldn't walk alone, so Chen Hen followed him half a step, followed him back to the yard where he lived, watched him enter the door, and Seeing him resting on the couch, he turned around and went back.

They ate in Chen Hen's house.

Standing in front of the door, Chen Hen suddenly thought of Li Yan, wondering how Li Yan spent his New Year's Eve.It started to snow in the evening, and I don't know if he can come back tomorrow.

While thinking about something, someone pushed the door open and came out.

He didn't come back for a long time, Xu Xing went out to look for him, but unexpectedly he was standing in front of the door.

"Chen..." Xu Xing didn't know what to call him. In fact, the two of them had never met in private, nor had they met alone, so Xu Xing didn't know.

"Come here." Chen Hen lifted the hem of his clothes, walked up the steps, took off his cloak in the corridor, and shook off the broken snow on his clothes before entering the door.

Xu Xing turned to let him in, and closed the door.

Sitting according to the original position, it was cold outside, Chen Hen drank two more glasses of wine to recover.

Before the thorns of a piece of fish meat on the plate were cleaned, he continued to fiddle with them with chopsticks.

It took a while to pick it up, and Chen Hen took the plate and put all the fish meat into Chen Wen's bowl.Coincidentally at this time, Li Tan also raised his hand to put vegetables in Chen Wen's bowl, exactly the same.

Chen Wen couldn't see it, but the two of them could.

With a twist of Li Tan's chopsticks, he snatched away the one that Chen Hen allocated to Chen Wen and ate it, leaving only his own for Chen Wen.After eating, he smiled bitterly at Chen.

"What are you doing?" Chen Hen was so angry that he took food from Chen Wen's bowl and ate it in one bite.

Seeing his actions like this, Li Tan put down his chopsticks and rolled up his sleeves: "Sometimes I really think that old doctor Zhang is right, some things can't be solved without fighting."

Before Chen Hen had time to fight, he heard Chen Wen put the bamboo chopsticks on the table and said softly, "Okay, it's the holiday."

"It's him first..." Chen Hen didn't speak any more, and poured himself wine with his lips pouted.

Chen Hen took advantage of the seven-point alcohol, and seemed to be angry. He didn't know whose bamboo chopsticks he had caught, and knocked on the wine glass, making a ding sound.

"Sing a tune."

At this time, after drinking for seven rounds, and the fire was smoking again, the alcohol quickly got on his head, and a little redness appeared on his cheeks, his ears were also red, and his eyes were even more red.

Bamboo chopsticks knocked on the rim of the cup, once and for all, and he still sang in Jiangnan dialect: "In the past, the family was good, and we knew each other seamlessly. Continue to call for candles in the Ming Dynasty, and watch the old feast. Wine legend..."

In the past, we had a deep friendship and knew each other without any grievances...

Maybe it was because the room was too hot, or maybe the wine was too strong, his voice was a little hoarse, like the rustling of snowflakes falling on the snow.

This song said earlier that in the past, there must be the present, but Chen Hen stopped singing.

Chen Hen was probably also drunk, sitting on the couch with his head propped up, looking slumped.

I don't know who touched his face with a cold hand, Chen hated it or not, and turned his head to avoid it.

He rubbed his face and said in a low voice, "Brother, I don't complain."

Chen Wen responded, "Yes."

"Brother is kind to me, I remember." Chen Hen thought for a while, and continued, "In the past, Li Tan was difficult for me, but my elder brother always helped me out. At that time in the Hall of Harmony... I was cruel It was my brother who saved me when I stabbed myself. My brother has feelings for me, so I dare not..."

"I don't dare to hold grudges, but to Li Tan..." He lowered his head and sniffled, "I'm sorry, I can't, I can't... I can't go back..."

He sighed heavily and stopped talking.

The old doctor Zhang just said that they were asked to have fun, but in fact they couldn't play at all, and they couldn't play again.

The candles flickered, and the four of them sat silently for a while.

Li Tan got up first, and Chen Wen grabbed his sleeve, and Li Tan brushed his hand away: "Chen Liting is right, I can't go back. The old doctor Zhang said that each has its own difficulties, but in fact, each has its own needs." pay off the debt."

After he left on crutches, Chen Hen also got up, kicked his shoes and walked out: "I'm going out to blow some air."

Only Chen Wen and Xu Xing were left behind.

"It's all their own destiny. No matter how well they played when they were young, it can't be changed." Chen Wen sighed quietly, facing Xu Xing, but asked him, "Why... didn't you tell him?"

Xu Xing took back the bamboo chopsticks that Chen Hen had just used to knock on the rim of the cup, and made a pair with the one at hand. He lowered his head and fiddled with it for a long while, without taking a bite, he just asked, "What did you say?"

"Just say..."

Just say that you drank the Zhiyun cup of Xingsi a few years ago for him, and the root cause of the disease was for him.

In the past in the palace, you were always the one who helped him solve the siege. When Li Tan made things difficult for him, he always kept it from Chen Wen. It was you who received the news first and called Chen Wen to help him.

At the Lantern Festival banquet in the Hall of Harmony, no one cared about him when he stabbed himself, and Chen Wen didn't have time to take care of him. It was you who wrapped his wounds, put on his clothes, and stuffed his hand stove.

"There's nothing to say." Xu Xing coughed twice, "It's no fun to ask for favors, and I don't like it..."

"in this way."

"Listening to him singing today, I suddenly understood." Xu Xing coughed twice, swallowing all the pain in his stomach with the sound of coughing, "I just like the way he sings. I am with him, There was no intersection at first, and we didn’t even say a few words.”

"If he could save him because of me, when he saved him in Jiangnan last time, he should...he visits me every day, he is very grateful to me, but it is very difficult for him to be emotional."

"In the final analysis—" Xu Xing rubbed the bamboo chopsticks with his fingertips, "After all, I was late."

Chen Wen remained silent, and after a while, he only heard Xu Xing say: "Actually, I sometimes... regret it, because I followed the third master at that time."

"Why did you say that suddenly?"

Xu Xing chuckled: "Look, the third master himself has become like this, and you and I have also become like this. I regret it."

The banquet broke up long ago, and the first one to leave was Mrs. Zhang, followed by Li Tan and Chen Hen. At this time, Xu Xing also got up.

"I haven't taken the medicine for the night, so I should go back."

"Okay." Chen Wen said, "You should never hide your thoughts so deeply. Sometimes even I don't understand what you mean."

And Xu Xing was reaching out his hand at this moment, wanting to pick up the cloak that Chen Hen had casually left on the couch—Chen Hen forgot to wear it when he went out to relax.

He slowed down his movements, put the cloak on his hand, and said softly: "I'm going back."

Chen Hen was sitting on the railing in front of the porch, blowing the wind, and the cold wind rolled snow particles onto his face and hair.

Xu Xing handed him the cloak, but said, "Awen wants me to give it to you."

He walked into the wind and snow, Chen Hen put on the cloak, and when he lowered his head, he could smell the faint ambergris on the clothes he had washed several times.

The night of the New Year's Eve was not happy, everyone has their own difficulties, everyone has their own debts to repay, and everyone has their own——

Anxious.

In winter and spring, Xu Xing fell ill and became lethargic. He went home at night and took medicine, and slept until the afternoon of the next day.

After getting up, I flipped through two pages of the book, but I was still very annoyed, so I went out to talk to Chen Wen.

Passing through the flower corridor, I saw Chen Hen standing in front of the door with his hands folded from a distance, stomping his feet on the spot in the cold and refusing to go back.

He took two steps forward before he remembered that Li Yan was coming back today.

We met, let's go over and say hello.Xu Xing thought so, and approached with steps.

"List……"

Still didn't know how to call him, and before he could say anything, Chen Hen turned around: "Mr. Xu."

"Ah."

Standing together for a while, Chen Hen saw that he had no intention of leaving, so he smiled at him and explained: "I'm waiting for the emperor, you are not in good health, go back quickly."

Xu Xing pursed his lips, and finally said hello, said goodbye, turned and left.

It has been snowing since yesterday evening, and it hasn't stopped until today. The weather is so cold that Chen Hen sniffs his nose.

He received the message from Jiangzhou in the morning, and He Xing had already caught it.

He reckoned that if Li Yan had come from Jiangzhou early in the morning, he would have arrived by now, so he waited in front of the door, where he could see Li Yan as soon as he came back.

Ashamed to say it, he picked out all the scarlet cloaks at the bottom of the press box and put them on.

After waiting for a while, there was the whistling wind in his ears, Chen Hen was in the middle of the wind and snow, and suddenly heard the system's notification tone.

He thought, probably to remind him of the task of countering the rebellion...

Before he had time to see the task completed, Chen Hen's eyes suddenly went dark, and the familiar feeling almost made him fall to his knees on the snow.

I had a headache that exploded in an instant, exactly the same as when I changed the system in Chang'an last time.

Chen Hen subconsciously wanted to call the emperor, but the remaining rationality told him that the emperor was not there, so he called out: "Xu..."

He shouted softly, and he didn't know how Xu Xing heard it.

Xu Xing stepped forward to help him: "Li Ting?"

"It's okay..." Chen Hen stood against him, took a breath, but his eyes were still dark, "Old disease...just a headache."

He endured so much, and spoke softly, Xu Xing rubbed the center of his brows for him, and held his hand to hug him: "Let's go, the emperor will always come back, let the old doctor Zhang take a look first." .”

"No need..." Chen Hen leaned against the wall and bumped his head twice, but he didn't slow down, but seemed to hear something.Not knowing where he got the strength from, he pushed Xu Xing's hand away, staggered two steps, and fell to his knees on the snow.

hooves.

It was so painful that he couldn't see anything clearly, but he could hear Li Yan's voice coming back.

The sound of the horse's hooves became more and more clear, and it was indeed Li Yan who had returned from Jiangzhou.Before Xu Xing could help Chen Hen up, the horse neighed, and Li Yan fell off the horse and picked Chen Hen up from the snow.

It seems that it was the same situation in the Hall of Harmony more than a year ago. Chen Hen fell into the snow and cried to Li Yan.

What a fucking resemblance.

This time Chen Hen still called him the emperor aggrievedly.

Li Yan walked in with him in his arms, touched his forehead with his forehead, and replied: "The emperor is here."

But he didn't dare to cry anymore.

When his brain was in severe pain, he realized that the dream he had last time was not a dream, it was a previous life, a previous life where Li Yan had not been reborn, it was something that happened in the past, the system asked him to go to the previous life for a while.

In the past, he died in the Jiangnan counter-insurgency, and it is the same this time.

"I deserve to die in Jiangnan..."

"No." Li Yan said firmly, "If you die, I'll still look for you."

go back.

The system prompt sound urged Chen Hen to go back.