long friend

The west hall of Tai Chi was filled with stoves, and Liu Wenyuan, dressed in black, pushed the door in, and was immediately frowned by the hot air.And he knew he shouldn't say anything, so he had to stand by the table.

"Your Majesty." Liu Wenyuan said softly, reminding the emperor who was writing at his desk that he had come.

Xiao Yan looked up to see him, and was about to speak when he suddenly coughed.Liu Wenyuan poured the tea in a hurry, and the strong medicinal aroma in the pot mixed with the incense lit in the west hall, forming a very strange smell.He watched Xiao Yan take a sip of tea, and breathed calmly again, and couldn't help saying: "Your Majesty, take care of the dragon body."

Xiao Yan sighed: "It's useless to take care of yourself, I'm getting old."

Liu Wenyuan's expression did not fluctuate, and his tone was as calm as ever. He has been like this for more than ten years: "Your Majesty is still in his prime, so don't say such depressing words."

Xiao Yan put the tea cup aside and said with a sneer: "Wen Yuan, you are in your prime. I know that when I get old, everyone I know will leave one by one—once a person gets old, he will think of many things from the past. , because there are only memories left, the people around me are strangers, and there is no hope for living.”

Liu Wenyuan smiled lightly. When he wasn't smiling, his eyes were like dry wells, but now he seemed to see the rain: "There are still many things worth seeing more, Your Majesty."

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Yan restrained his depression, and in a blink of an eye he became that unpredictable emperor again, "If you want to speak for those people in the court who shout 'Think twice and establish a prince' every day, then shut up."

Liu Wenyuan frowned, she didn't show any panic, but she said calmly, "Why should I speak for them? It's just that your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, if you are always tied up in the past, what should you do in this world?"

He has served Xiao Yan's side for many years, and he has already figured out his thoughts clearly.

Sure enough, the more he didn't mention it, the more Xiao Yan would say a few more words to him: "The position of the crown prince... is not because I don't want to let go and insist on setting up Qiming. It's about the other two. Qiyu is really useless. At this moment, the situation is dark and turbulent, and it will become even more chaotic if it is handed over to him. As for Qichen...every time I see him, I will remember my brother Huang back then, and I dare not take risks."

Liu Wenyuan said: "The first emperor? His reforms that year were actually quite effective. Didn't His Majesty feel very sorry when he died young? I remember that you even made a special trip to write a eulogy on the late emperor's birthday."

Xiao Yan nodded, and sighed again: "You are young, you don't know what happened back then. But every time I think about it, I still have lingering fears. If a person like Brother Huang is a king, he must be a wise king, but he... is too cruel."

It is not difficult for Liu Wenyuan to guess the meaning behind the words, and he also found that every time Xiao Yan mentioned the late emperor, there was always fear hidden in his heart, so he couldn't help but secretly remember this matter in his heart.

Liu Wenyuan was still pondering his words, but Xiao Yan suddenly asked about him: "Wen Yuan, I see that the secret guards seem to have lost a few people recently, so it shouldn't affect other things, right?"

"Everything is fine." Liu Wenyuan replied simply, clenched her hands in her sleeves—has he seen less of the sincerity of the emperor's family?It was all used to plot against my brothers.

Xiao Yan quickly explained what he wanted Liu Wenyuan to do, and he turned and left after agreeing.

Walking out of the Tai Chi West Hall, there was a faint sound of fighting in the palace in the distance.Standing in front of the West Hall, Liu Wenyuan suddenly thought in a daze, "What the hell am I doing?"

He pinched his palm, and quickly came to his senses. His body moved slightly, and he disappeared immediately. The speed seemed to disappear out of thin air, leaving the two guards stunned.

"You can't do this, go a little further to the left... Hey, that's right, don't move!"

Tianyou stood on the stool stiffly holding the horizontal batch of Spring Festival couplets, not even daring to move a finger, as if he had turned into a wooden man.Standing a few steps away behind him in green, he squinted his eyes to see if he was aiming at the center. After a while, he gave the order: "Okay, let's go here!"

Tianhui, who was carrying a plate of persimmons, happened to pass by, and kicked the stool Tianyou was stepping on without a trace.The man above moved his figure, tried his best to stabilize himself, pasted the banner quickly with his hands, and then rushed towards Tianhui, and the two immediately got into a mess.

Green Yi witnessed the whole process, sighed, and thought: "It's just that the two masters are getting more and more childish, how come these two adults who have always been prudent have become like children?"

This was the first time in the 33 years since Tongning that Su Yan stayed in Jinling for the New Year, and Xiao Qichen was naturally very happy.

For him, New Year's Eve is a dispensable ceremony. In the past, whether it was keeping the New Year's Eve in Chenglan Palace, or going to the Chu Palace for the New Year's Eve dinner, it was extremely easy to do.This year is different, Su Yan should go to Shanglin Garden to accompany him after going home for dinner on New Year's Eve, and there is no major event in the palace, Xiao Qichen has put in a lot of effort to decorate Shanglin Garden, the flavor of the year is stronger than ever before.

For Su Yan's convenience, the New Year's Eve dinner at Shanglinyuan will be held later.

Xiao Qichen didn't have many entourages around him, so he sat around for a week regardless of his superiority or inferiority. The maids and servants who helped in the kitchen were very familiar with Xiao Qichen, and they chatted happily about going to Linyuan.

Tianhui had a rare sip of wine, and as if reminiscing about the glorious past, she told Xiao Qichen about the training he and Tianyou had when they were young: "At that time, the commander was much harsher than Lord Liu, and he himself was a genius." , so we all have an expression of 'you idiots'... Tianyou was always scolded by him at the beginning."

"Master Xie scolded them all before." Tianyou explained awkwardly, and couldn't help exposing the other party's shortcomings, "Your Highness, one year Tianhui was punished to stand in the snow for a long time, and he picked out bird eggs."

The two started to confront each other again, Xiao Qichen rested his chin on one hand, squinted his eyes with a smile, and watched the fun with his friends.From time to time, he glanced outside the Luyun Pavilion. Across the pond and the gazebo, there was no one on the road leading to the main entrance.

After such a noisy New Year's Eve dinner, while Lvyi and the two maids were tidying up, she asked: "The servants will all go to the front to watch the new year. Your Highness, is the general still coming?"

"I don't know." Xiao Qichen said lightly, took a bite of the persimmon cake, and frowned at the sweetness, "I'll wait for him, you guys rest first, just leave someone to watch the door."

Lu Yi smiled and said: "After all, the general hasn't been home for New Year's Eve for several years, so he must have stayed a little longer."

After hearing her comfort, Xiao Qichen also showed a smile: "I understand, I didn't intend to force him. I was surprised that he promised to come over..."

In the middle of speaking, he stopped suddenly.

Xiao Qichen, who was leaning over the table, stood up abruptly, and he put the gnawed persimmon on a porcelain plate.Lu Yi was facing Xiao Qichen, turned around for no reason, and said "ah" like an epiphany.

After the snow in the south of the Yangtze River, everything is wet, and a bluestone road is paved from the pavilion to the gate of Shanglin Garden.At this time, the night was falling and the stars were shining in the sky. A person was wearing a plain long gown and an apricot white cloak, and he walked over the stone road. It was rare to see Su Yan wearing light colors in green clothes, and he was a little unrecognizable in a trance.

He entered the Luyun Pavilion, took off his cloak and put it on his arms, Xiao Qichen said: "Come here?"

The green clothes took Su Yan's cloak knowingly: "General, Your Highness, the slaves will go down first."

So there was no one else around, Su Yan glanced at the persimmons on the table, and asked, "Have you eaten it? I wanted to tell you not to wait for me, but Dad drank too much today, and I didn't leave until he fell asleep. "

Xiao Qichen said: "I think so too. I haven't been here for so long. There must be some delays at home, so I asked them to eat first. Tianhui and Tianyou revealed each other's shortcomings today. It's a pity that you didn't see it."

Seemingly able to imagine that scene, Su Yan couldn't help smiling.

The snow outside the house had stopped a long time ago, but it hadn’t cleared up yet. The wind was so cold that it seemed like a knife had cut him. He closed the door with his backhand. The warm colors of the lit candlesticks quickly filled the whole space. The light and shadows from the lanterns are indistinct.

Su Yan felt that the stove was too hot, so he even took off his outer robe. Seeing his inner clothes, Xiao Qichen casually praised: "This suit looks good, why are you wearing light colors all of a sudden?"

Su Yan buried his head in looking, and suddenly realized: "There are not many clothes left at home. These are made by my wife this year. I'm not used to wearing them, but I can't stop her nagging."

"Madam Cao still has this interest." Xiao Qichen said, he lowered the window frame, blocking even the wind outside.Walking around the screen, Xiao Qichen inexplicably felt that the footsteps behind him were stickier than usual, and he heard an indescribable nervousness in his ears, as if Su Yan was going to do something.

This thought was so bold that someone hugged her waist from behind, and Su Yan's chin rested on Xiao Qichen's shoulder.They got closer, and Xiao Qichen smelled a scent of wine.

He himself doesn't like to drink, and the amount of alcohol is naturally not very good. The smell is quite strong. Xiao Qichen asked: "How much did you drink? Did you come here on horseback? I'm afraid I'll catch a cold later, I'm looking for green Sister Yi will bring you some..."

"No need." Su Yan rubbed against his neck, leaning his whole body towards him, "I came here. Don't talk, stay with me for a while."

Xiao Qichen was indifferent to this candy, and said indifferently: "What's wrong with you?"

The warmth of the room like spring successfully collapsed Su Yan's sober mind in the cold wind, he shook his head, and replied obediently: "I went to see Rong Niang in the morning, and I met Li Xu on the way back. They generally targeted me, and even said something to me, which made me feel a little bored."

Xiao Qichen: "What did you say?"

Su Yan seriously recalled: "He said, 'You should let it go too.'"

After a moment of silence, Xiao Qichen pushed his head away, helped Su Yan to sit on the side of the couch, got up and poured him a cup of hot tea.Holding the warm teacup in his hand, Xiao Qichen looked at the screen a few steps away, which depicted the Jiangnan landscape.

He couldn't help but think of what Li Rong said that year. At that time, he deliberately hid Su Yan from Su Yan, thinking that it would be better for him. However, it didn't take long for Su Yan to find the key point from this suddenly unbalanced relationship.

Some things cannot be kept secret for a lifetime, so some responsibilities cannot be carried for a lifetime. It is the best way to break it when it is broken.

Xiao Qichen followed the Yangtze River on the screen with his gaze, and sighed slightly: "He's right."

After waiting for a long time without waiting for a response, he turned his head suspiciously and found that Su Yan was lying on the couch, already asleep.Xiao Qichen laughed dumbfounded, drank the tea in the cup slowly, went outside and turned off the lights.

With a little candlelight like a firefly on the bedside, Xiao Qichen took off Su Yan's shoes and socks without complaint, and took off only his coat.He wanted to squeeze him into the bed, but Su Yan didn't move for a while, so Xiao Qichen had no choice but to step over him and lie down on the inside.

The plan of keeping the year old was in vain, and the candlelight talks could not be realized.

He lay next to Su Yan, wrapped them both up with a quilt, and rubbed his toes against Su Yan's naked ankle. The other person's body temperature was higher than his, and because of drinking, he slept soundly. Very heavy.Xiao Qichen suddenly got up, hugged him, put his ear on Su Yan's chest, and adjusted his breathing according to the frequency of his heartbeat.

He couldn't sleep, and he didn't want to do other things, so he looked up at Su Yan's face carefully with a little light.

Sometimes Xiao Qichen would regret that they knew each other too early, and then they fought back and forth again and again, and finally recognized each other's hearts, all because they were young and did not know love and hate.But he thought again, Su Yan has such an elm head, thanks to the fact that they knew each other when they were young, otherwise he wouldn't be enlightened even in the year of the monkey.

Just as he was thinking wildly, and after an unknown amount of time, Xiao Qichen stared at the other party intently, but Yumu's head suddenly opened his eyes.

Su Yan, who had taken a nap for a while, seemed to be much more awake. He sat up from the bed and put his clothes on the rack. Xiao Qichen looked at him innocently: "Have you slept enough?"

His collar was slightly open, revealing a beautifully shaped collarbone and a small piece of white chest. Su Yan was distracted for a moment, thinking of some messy picture, and his face turned red: "...um."

Xiao Qichen sat up with him, leaning against Su Yan very consciously, relying on each other through two layers of shirts.The thick night outside leaked through the window grilles, and the scent of wintersweet blossoms lingered unrealistically. This icy scent reminded Su Yan that it was late at night. He grabbed Xiao Qichen's hand as if remembering something important. .

Thinking that he wanted to say something important, Xiao Qichen immediately adjusted his brows and eyes, but he didn't want Su Yan to just seriously say to him: "This seems to be my... first time to celebrate the New Year with you."

He hugged Su Yan with a smile, and stretched his hands along the cuffs of the large jacket until he touched his shoulders, fanning the flames everywhere, but he didn't answer the hidden "Happy New Year".

In this kind of matter, Xiao Qichen has always asked for anything, and it is rare that he takes the initiative once and is always suppressed.Su Yan was used to being a commander-in-chief, and it's still the same in this way. Xiao Qichen just pulled his shirt open, Su Yan turned over like a conditioned reflex, pinched the other side's waist and pressed Xiao Qichen on the couch.

The thick quilt barely covered his lower body, Su Yan didn't know where he touched Xiao Qichen, he flinched suddenly, then laughed and yelled, one leg lifted slightly, Su Yan pressed it down again.

He was sitting on Xiao Qichen's waist, kissing his lips and neck non-stop.Xiao Qichen always felt that Su Yan was still drunk, but he was not only too lazy to struggle, but also cooperated with him, stroking his lower back and back.They were already proficient at caressing each other's bodies, Xiao Qichen thought that it was about being together, so he didn't think too deeply.

When Su Yan's hand went down his back and touched somewhere, Xiao Qichen was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly pushed him: "What are you doing?!"

Su Yan raised his head innocently, and the person lying under him was blushing at the moment, and there was a trace of bewilderment and sullenness in his expression.Su Yan smiled, didn't answer, sat up again, and reached out to find something from the small drawer on the side of the bed against the wall. He licked under Xiao Qichen's collarbone, and said to his trembling: "Good boy!" .”

This word is too lethal, Xiao Qichen's waist became weak again, he lay back weakly, pinched Su Yan's hand touching his leg in vain, and complained: "What are you taking? It's not the medicine you left here last time." Is it?"

"Yeah." Su Yan unscrewed the square box. The ointment inside was usually used to reduce blood stasis and swelling. It had a unique bitter fragrance of traditional Chinese medicine. Get on your fingertips.

Every time Su Yan made a movement, he would look at Xiao Qichen, and occasionally kiss his forehead, as if to comfort him.

The candlelight on the bedside was reflected in his darker pupils, he looked at Xiao Qichen confused and nervous, and was about to ask a few words, but Su Yan slowly rubbed the narrow entrance under him with his fingers, Then squeezed in greasy.

Xiao Qichen: "!"

The sense of foreign body invasion was too strange, Xiao Qichen frowned impatiently, Su Yan pressed against his ear and asked softly, "Does it hurt?"

Xiao Qichen embraced his neck, bit Su Yan's earlobe as if to vent his anger, and said, "It doesn't hurt, it's just...you...!"

As soon as the answer of denial was uttered, the fingers buried in the body went deep again, and they had to be stirred and pulled out, and the feeling of soreness quickly climbed up the back of the head along the tailbone, Xiao Qichen said "hmm" twice , the following words are swallowed by themselves.

He seemed to understand what Su Yan wanted to do, and it didn't feel too uncomfortable to go all the way step by step. He raised his waist slightly, raised his left leg, rubbed his knee against Su Yan's waist, and moaned twice from time to time. After getting used to it, he gradually Feeling a bit of fun.

The speed of twitching | sending fingers gradually increased, and occasionally when they brushed against a certain place, Xiao Qichen's voice changed its tone.The lower body was completely opened, the ointment melted behind him and made a mess, Su Yan's breathing became heavier, he lowered his head and kissed Xiao Qichen, whispered something between his lips and tongue, and then withdrew his fingers.

He slowed down the speed of entering, and repeatedly asked if it hurt, Xiao Qichen kept shaking his head.The quilt was completely kicked aside by him, and his bare skin was pressed against it. On the winter night, Xiao Qichen was so hot that he was sweating profusely.

The feeling of being filled is not too bad, but it is not beautiful either. What is more impressive than this is Su Yan's constant kisses and the whispered love words in his ear.It was as if he was finally willing to let go of his straight light armor at this time, revealing his soft insides, repeatedly expressing the deepest feelings in his heart.

Admiration, joy, and love are all expressed incisively and vividly with his actions and words.

At the last peak, his heart suddenly felt a little empty, and he stretched out his hand to grab something, Su Yan clasped his fingers just right, together with the warm touch and the joy of union, Xiao Qichen buried Su Yan's neck, and gently bit him A small piece of skin was sucked, followed by the dim candlelight and night, there was a dark mark left there, like a symbol, reminding him very definitely that this person belongs to himself at this moment.

Staying together forever, growing old forever... The word "life" is too heavy and full of unknowns, Xiao Qichen couldn't speak, so he had to call Su Yan's name loudly.

When he shouted, Su Yan kissed him patiently until both of them gradually calmed down.

Before the candle was burnt out, Su Yan came back from the outside with a basin of water, scrubbed off the traces on Xiao Qichen's body, and then hugged the tired man to sleep, dreaming of the vast snowy field, and the silence of everything.

On the first day of the new year, Xiao Qichen was woken up by Tianhui's anxious voice outside.

His lower back was so sore that he wondered if he could still walk. The culprit was fully dressed and stood by the bed with a solemn expression.Xiao Qichen immediately restrained his joking thoughts, sat up and covered his waist: "What happened?"

"Ashina committed suicide in prison. Last night on New Year's Eve, the Turks invaded Yunmen Pass." Su Yan put on a large apricot white cloak heavily, and seemed to be going out soon. Xiao Qichen was shocked and continued, "Jin General Yi died in battle... Yunmen pass was lost, so Fangzhi led the army to retreat to Yuyang."

Xiao Qichen immediately forgot about the pain in his body, and immediately began to change his clothes: "Chaoshang must be a mess, I will go to Taicheng with you."