Those who come can still be chased [rebirth]
Chapter 23
Every household in Longcheng seemed to be very lively, but Rongyan's room was exceptionally deserted.
There were not many servants in the mansion, Rong Yan asked the steward to seal the reward in advance, and prepared drinks and food for them, when everyone gathered together lively, he went back to the room alone.
UBS went to see it twice worriedly, and Rong Yan rushed to watch the new year with others on the grounds that he wanted to be clean.UBS didn't dare to disturb it too much, so it turned back and brought a few side dishes, some exquisite pastries, and a jar of wine before finally retreating.
The wine was poured into the jug and warmed on the tandoor. When Rong Yan saw it, his mind moved slightly, and he reached out and poured a glass for himself.
The entrance is spicy, but there is still a mellow taste spreading in the mouth, Rong Yan unconsciously raised his hand and drank it down.
In his previous life, he almost never drank alcohol, but Liang Ji liked it, especially spirits.Whenever the two of them ate together, Rong Yan would grab his cup and take a sip, and then spit it out in distaste, repeating it over and over again, never tired of it.
After rebirth, although Rong Yan still didn't like the taste of wine in his throat, he drank too much wine before he knew it.
It seems like this, he still maintains a certain relationship with the person he cared about in his previous life.
As the night deepens, you can occasionally hear the faint sound of firecrackers outside, it is time for family reunion, but now Rong Yan is incompatible with all this, after all—he has no home anymore.
When he was still in the Southern Wei Palace, the Chinese New Year was Rong Yan's least favorite day.
His father likes to be lively the most, and he often arranges a so-called family banquet on New Year's Eve, where people prepare wine and food, and arrange Nuo dances, which should be lively and festive.
However, his father had countless beauties in the Sixth Court of the Three Palaces, and only high-grade concubines could fill an entire palace room. Everyone was dressed in fancy clothes, and they tried every means to show off at normal banquets just to attract his father's attention.It was said to be a family banquet, but there was no warmth at all, Rong Yan would feel dizzy every time he sat in it, drinking tea there alone, and quietly observing his queen mother.
Although the queen mother never mentioned it, Rong Yan always felt that she didn't like such an occasion either.Sitting on the top seat without joy or sorrow, looking at these women who share husbands with him, just thinking about it makes Rong Yan feel sorry for her.
But now, even the most annoying occasions would never happen again.Those people he had hated all turned into dust following the fire, and he was the only one left with nowhere to go.
No, he also had a home before.
Although that period of time was short, it was precious.It was the first time that Rong Yan wanted to hold onto someone tightly when he grew up, and wanted to be with this person until his death.
In the end it was just in vain.
Rong Yan smiled wryly and poured himself another glass of wine. Before he could drink, someone knocked on the window. He got up and opened the window. Li Ye quickly entered the room with a food box in his arms.
Seeing him, the remaining sadness on Rong Yan's face dissipated, he closed the window, turned around and took out something from under the pillow and handed it to Li Ye: "I knew you would come tonight, so I made preparations in advance. alright."
Li Ye put down the food box and took the red cloth bag from Rong Yan. After opening it, he found a brocade box with a row of silver ingots neatly stacked in it. ..."
"Press the money." Rong Yan took another cup and handed it to Li Ye, and smiled at him, "If you accept it, it will ensure your health and longevity in the future, safe and smooth."
Holding the heavy brocade box, Li Ye subconsciously wanted to refuse.
"Take it, it's money from Xu Ren anyway." Rong Yan took a sip of wine, with a smile on his lips, but his eyes were extremely gentle, "If you can't be safe, you will leave me alone from now on Li Ye, how can you bear it?"
Li Ye bit his lip when he heard this, and finally stopped refusing, and put away the silver ingot.
Rong Yan seemed to be in a better mood. He poured a glass of wine and pushed it in front of Li Yingying, then reached out to open the food box: "Come all the way to hold such a thing, what delicious food did you bring me?" ?”
Li Ye took a sip of his wine and helped Rong Yan open the food box: "It's rice cakes made by the shopkeeper. I know Xu people don't eat these during the Chinese New Year, so I made a special trip to bring you some."
There is a small pot of exquisite pastries in the food box, the color is bright white, and you can smell the sweet smell when you get close to it. It is indeed what Wei people are used to eating.Rong Yan took a piece, thought for a while and smelled it: "Calculating the months, your lady shopkeeper is about to give birth, right?"
"Well," Li Ye responded, "There are still more than a month."
"Then remember to remind me to send a congratulatory gift." Rong Yan took a bite of the rice cake and smiled slightly, "The husband and wife are in harmony, and adding a well-behaved and cute child is really enviable."
Li Ye knew that on such a day, Rong Yan would inevitably fall in love with the situation. He wanted to persuade him, but he was not good at it. He was afraid that if he accidentally said the wrong thing, it would touch Rong Yan's heart instead, so he hesitated and could only give him another After refilling the wine, he whispered: "Wait, after finishing these things, and returning to the Wei Kingdom, His Highness also... This subordinate has put his life to the test, and will help His Highness find a suitable marriage."
Rong Yan couldn't help laughing: "How do you know what kind of marriage is suitable for me?"
Li Ye thought for a while, and his face became hesitant. He scratched his hair and looked at Rong Yan: "Then, what do you like, Your Highness?"
"Me?" Rong Yan lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head lightly, "I'll make it clear in a while."
He grew up in the palace. Although he was raised innocently, he was not ignorant of the relationship between men and women. Later, as he grew older, it was not that no one tried every means to send someone to him, and his mother found them all. There are various ways to refuse.
Although Rong Yan didn't like those people, he also felt curious why his mother was so decisive. His mother told him that although he was born in this emperor's family, he was destined to have many helplessness, but he didn't want his marriage to be one of them. The person who lies next to his pillow every day and will accompany him to his white head in the future should not be just a bargaining chip.
Rong Yan kept these words in his heart all the time, and then he came to Xu country and met Liang Ji. He finally confirmed that he had met the person his mother mentioned.
After being captured by Liang Ji, during those days locked in the cold palace, Rong Yan recalled the details of their acquaintance countless times, and became more and more convinced of one thing. In the face of the strong, firm and considerate Liang Ji, he is doomed to be unable to escape, that is his fate.
Rong Yan shook his head lightly, put down the half-bitten rice cake in his hand, took a sip of wine, and suddenly said: "That day I met Gao Cong, the crown prince of the Xu Kingdom... He saw that I was too close to Gao Chun, so he finally restrained himself. Can't stop."
Li Ye thought for a while, then raised his head and looked at Rong Yan: "Then what are you going to do, Your Highness? It is said that he is the prince of Xu Guo, and he has the support of the queen behind him. It is a good thing for us to befriend him, but that's it. Will he offend that King Ji? After all, he is now becoming more and more prosperous, and there are many courtiers who support him in the court. It is hard to say who will own the future throne of Xu State."
"What does it matter to me who sits on the throne of Xu State? The crown prince and King Ji... I'm really afraid that they won't be able to fight." Rong Yan tapped the cup in his hand lightly with his fingers, pondered for a while, and suddenly Said, "Tell me, if I ask to marry Princess Chengyang, will Emperor Shouguang agree?"
"Princess Chengyang?" Li Ye was surprised, "You and that princess..."
"I've met you twice, she's a cute little girl, but it's a pity that she was born in this emperor's family, and she can't even make decisions about her own marriage." Seeing Li Ying's serious expression, Rong Yan smiled softly, "It's just a marriage proposal." , even if Emperor Shouguang really agrees, I don't know how long it will take from the engagement to the marriage, as long as there is a little mishap, the marriage will not come true."
Li Ye hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Arguably, my subordinates shouldn't interfere with your decision-making, but I think that if the empress is still alive, I definitely don't want you to use your marriage as a bargaining chip."
"But Li Ye," Rong Yan laughed, eyes rolling, "I'm also a bargaining chip myself?"
"Your Highness!"
Before Li Ye could finish his consoling words, he stood up suddenly, and the long sword on his waist was unsheathed, and the blade drew a cold light in the air, pointing directly at the closed door: "Who is outside!"
Rong Yan tightened his hand holding the wine cup, raised his eyes to look at the door, and by the candlelight in the room, a tall figure was imprinted on the door.He lowered his eyes, remained silent for a while, and said softly: "Please come in."
Li Ye stood in front of him, his eyes widened when he heard the words: "Your Highness..."
"I know who it is," Rong Yan said, "The guard is still outside, how could he let someone who doesn't matter in?"
Li Ye was silent for a while, and clenched the long sword in his hand, stepped forward and opened the door, and saw Liang Ji standing at the door.
Liang Ji was holding a food box in his hand, and walked into the room calmly under Li Ye's half-baffled and half-prepared eyes, put the food box on the table, turned his head and looked back at Li Ye: "It's considered a fight in the dark." Let’s talk, we finally meet today.”
Li Ye naturally knew who the tall man in front of him was. He glanced at Rong Yan and saw that he was still sitting where he was, drinking slowly. After thinking for a while, he put down his guard, put the long sword back into its sheath, and clasped his fists and said: "General Liang."
Liang Ji also raised his hand in return, and then turned his gaze to Rong Yan.
Rong Yan finally put down the wine in his hand and looked back at Liang Ji. After a long time, he turned his gaze and looked at Li Ye: "It seems that General Liang has something to do with me today, it's getting late, you should go back first. "
Li Ye was a little hesitant, and Rong Yan said again: "If General Liang wants to do something, it's useless for you to be here, go back."
Li Ye took a deep breath, looked at Liang Ji again, and then bowed his hands to Rong Yan: "Yes."
The door opened and closed, and there were only two people left in the room. Rong Yan turned his gaze and found that Liang Ji had already sat down opposite him, and couldn't help but snorted softly: "General Liang is really hardworking, this kind of family reunion day He even came to me specially, obviously because he has something important to do. Now that he has left, you might as well just talk about it.”
"I'm here to accompany you to watch the New Year." Liang Ji opened the food box he brought, and took out a steaming soup bowl from it. "I know that you southerners have different tastes, so I asked someone to cook glutinous rice balls."
As he spoke, he had already cleaned up everything else on the table, and put the soup bowl in front of Rong Yan: "I don't know if it suits your taste, just try it."
Rong Yan lowered his eyes slightly, just in time to see the white and tender glutinous rice balls in the bowl, I don't know if they were not wrapped carefully enough, or the journey was too bumpy, some of them leaked, and it was very obvious that they were floating in the soup, but It also smells sweet without even tasting it.
Naturally, Liang Ji saw it too, and raised his hand to touch the bridge of his nose. Rong Yan followed his movements and looked over, and saw the white glutinous rice flour stained on his black cuffs at a glance.
Rong Yan's eyelashes trembled, but they didn't pierce. He took a spoon and gently scooped one up and put it in his mouth. It was sweet and soft as expected, very similar to the one in his memory.
Rong Yan's first New Year's Eve in Xu State in his previous life was also spent with Liang Ji.
At that time, he and Liang Ji had not yet made up their minds, but they were already acquainted.
Since Liang Ji rescued Rong Yan from the sick bed in the post house, he took this little proton as his own responsibility as a matter of course. When he was still in the post house, he often went to visit with food. The regiment left, Rong Yan had a house, it was no longer his duty to protect this little proton, Liang Ji still went to his house as usual.
Over time, Rong Yan gradually became dependent on Liang Ji.
Then came New Year's Eve.
Although Rong Yan was young and innocent, he also knew that Liang Ji was born in the Taiwei Mansion and the leader of the Suwei Mansion. If he was not on duty during these days, he still had to go home for a reunion, so he had people close the courtyard early on, planning to Stay alone.
He was a bit cowardly in his previous life, and Emperor Shouguang ignored him, and even the servants in the mansion despised him.The steward asked for leave early to go home for a reunion, and the rest of the servants prepared some food for Rong Yan at random, and then got together to play cards and drink, leaving Rong Yan alone, listening to the bustle outside, couldn't help but quietly wipe tears.
At this moment, Liang Ji came in through the window. He was still tainted by the chill outside. When he saw Rong Yan's red eyes, he immediately frowned. His eyes swept across the empty room, and he immediately understood what was going on. thing.
Always being seen by this person like this, Rong Yan felt inexplicably ashamed. He buried his face in his palm, trying to quietly wipe away the tears on his face, but a big cool hand pulled his fingers away and wiped the tears for him. After shedding tears, she coaxed her to say, "Today is New Year's Eve, shall I make dumplings with you?"
Rong Yan opened his eyes wide and looked at the gentle eyes of the person in front of him. The loneliness and sadness that had accumulated in his heart just now disappeared, and he could only see the person in front of him in his eyes and heart. He pulled Liang Ji's hand and whispered Said: "I want to eat glutinous rice balls."
Seeing his smile, Liang Ji's face became more gentle, and he nodded in response: "Okay."
The servants in Rongyan Mansion were having a good time together, when the door was suddenly kicked open from the outside, and Liang Ji stood in front of them like a god with a cold face, the long sword in his hand was shining coldly, fighting with its master. The same with a strong killing intent.
Those little servants thought in a trance that they were going to die on the spot, but they were just kicked up one by one by this man and rushed to prepare the ingredients.
The kitchen is not big. After closing the doors and windows and adding a charcoal basin, it becomes warm. There is a huge table in the middle of the room. , lard, sugar.Rong Yan and Liang Ji stood in front of the table with their hands behind their backs, relatively speechless.
Liang Ji is a Xu person through and through, he has never eaten this kind of sweet and greasy food, and he doesn't know where to start with these things. Although Rong Yan loves to eat, he is always cooked and brought to him by others. I don't even know anything.
After a while, Rong Yan finally turned his head to look at Liang Ji: "Otherwise, let's forget about today."
Liang Ji saw faint disappointment in his eyes, and immediately said: "It's okay, just tell me the shape and taste of the glutinous rice balls, there is always a way to make them."
Liang Ji always had an aura of trustworthiness, and Rong Yan immediately cheered. He first found a piece of paper, drew circles one after another on it for Liang Ji to see, and then danced and described it.
Either Liang Ji was very talented, or he really didn't want to see disappointment in Rong Yan's eyes, so he really followed his description, turned those glutinous rice flour into dough, mixed black sesame powder with lard and white sugar into stuffing, Then fill it into the dough and wrap it into a round glutinous rice ball.
Rong Yan's eyes lit up immediately, he held the glutinous rice ball in his palm, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but praise: "Liang Ji, you are so amazing!"
A smile appeared on Liang Ji's face: "It hasn't been cooked yet, I don't know if it's the taste you want to eat."
"It must be! I can smell it!" Rong Yan carefully put down the glutinous rice balls in his hand, turned his head and washed his hands, "Liang Ji, teach me, let's wrap it together!"
Seeing him jumping for joy, Liang Ji couldn't help but feel happy, and nodded in response: "Okay."
The snow-white glutinous rice dough was extraordinarily obedient in Liang Ji's hands, but in Rong Yan's hands, it became unruly.Perhaps because he grew up arrogantly, Rong Yan didn't know anything about this kind of thing. Although he watched Liang Ji's demonstration over and over carefully, he still couldn't make a decent glutinous rice ball.
But Liang Ji didn't care, just watching him grit his teeth and struggle with the glutinous rice dough or stuffing, he felt happy, a smile spread from the corners of his eyes and brows, and his whole body was filled with rare warmth.
In the end, it was Rong Yan who was discouraged first. Seeing Liang Ji's movements getting faster and faster, he got nothing at all. He was suspected of making trouble, hesitated again and again, and asked to boil the water.
Of course, boiling water was not as simple as Rong Yan thought. He finally cleaned the iron pot and added water, but encountered setbacks in the step of lighting the fire.After working alone in front of the stove for a long time, the flint was hot in his hands, and the firewood still kept the same state as before, without even a trace of fire.
Rong Yan looked at Liang Ji with disgrace.
Liang Ji had already wrapped the glutinous rice balls, and watched Rong Yan quietly for a while, then met his eyes asking for help, and immediately walked over, took the flint in his hand, and moved closer to the stove, the next moment, the stove A flame was ignited inside, and it became more vigorous when it encountered firewood. The tongue of fire licked the hearth, making people's cheeks burn.
The water in the pot gradually boiled, and the heat also spread in the narrow kitchen room, blurring the figure of the person opposite, Rong Yan stared blankly, unwilling to look away.
Liang Ji was naturally aware of the scorching gaze. He stood where he was, staring at Rong Yan motionlessly, as if he wanted to see what he was going to do.
Rong Yan made a move first, he suddenly took a step forward, stretched out his fingers and rubbed lightly on Liang Ji's jaw, only to find that he had rubbed his hands extremely dirty just to light the fire, not only failed to wipe the dirt on Liang Ji's jaw, The glutinous rice flour was wiped off, leaving a black gray mark.
Rong Yan rubbed his fingers lightly, and whispered, "Sorry."
Liang Ji stared at his fingertips, and couldn't help but turn his gaze to that face that had also been smudged at some point. In the steaming heat, those eyes were exceptionally bright, as if they could captivate people's hearts.
A thought that had been lingering in Liang Ji's mind for many days came up again, and slowly amplified.
He suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the finger that was still moving, Rong Yan froze on the spot, staring blankly at Liang Ji's slightly red eyes, his cheeks blushed inexplicably: "What's wrong?"
"Do not move."
Liang Ji's voice was extremely low, as if he was suppressing something, while Rong Yan was in a trance, a warm hand reached out to his face, rubbed it lightly twice, and then Liang Ji's voice sounded again: "Okay. "
Rong Yan looked down at his hands, saw the gray marks on his fingertips, and finally understood what he was doing just now, the corners of his eyes drooped unconsciously, and an unknown sense of loss rose in his heart.
Liang Ji took all this into his eyes, tightened the hand holding Rong Yan's finger, and suddenly said, "Rong Yan."
"what?"
Rong Yan raised his head subconsciously, Liang Ji's face slowly enlarged in front of his eyes, warm and soft lips covered his lips.
Rong Yan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he closed his eyes unconsciously.
It was actually a very shallow kiss, it didn't last long, but it made Rong Yan's hands and feet go weak unconsciously, he felt his whole face was burning hot, he couldn't help covering it with his hand, but Liang Ji pulled his hand Down, hold it tightly in the palm of your hand.
There was a smile like a spring breeze between Liang Ji's brows and eyes. Seeing Rong Yan's panicked look, he slightly lowered his head and touched his forehead, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know why I am like this?"
Rong Yan nodded subconsciously, then shook his head hastily.
Liang Ji bent his lips, and his smile became more and more obvious. He said, "Rong Yan, I am so pleased with you!"
Rong Yan raised his head and met Liang Ji's eyes, as if to confirm what he just said, Liang Ji didn't care about his doubts, and lowered his head to press a very precious kiss on his forehead: "It's like this."
A smile spread across Rong Yan's face, and in an instant, he felt blessed in his heart. He suddenly understood the reason why he was throbbing because of this person during this period of time. He remembered what his mother said to him that day, and stretched out his arms to hug Liang. Ji's waist, buried his face in his chest, listened to the strong heartbeat, and said firmly: "Liang Ji, I also like you."
Liang Ji patted him on the back lightly, hugged him a little tighter, and responded with a smile: "I know!"
The two hugged each other for a long time, and finally remembered the hot water in the pot, hurriedly put the glutinous rice balls wrapped by Liang Ji into the pot, and watched them rise to the surface one by one, just like Rong Yan's mood at that time .
It was the sweetest glutinous rice ball Rong Yan had ever eaten since he was a child, and it was very similar to the one in front of him.
Rong Yan regained consciousness from the memory, and stirred the bowl twice with a spoon.
Today was supposed to be their day of love.
As soon as this idea came up, Rong Yan only felt a pain in his chest, and the Yuanxiao in his mouth seemed to suddenly lose its taste. He hesitated for a moment, and slowly put down the spoon.
He ate slowly just now, and Liang Ji's gaze had been on him all the time. Seeing that he only took a bite and then stopped, he couldn't help saying: "What? Is it because the taste doesn't suit your taste? In the middle of the night, I also did it on a whim Finding such a person who can do it, maybe...the number of times I don’t do it on weekdays, that person is a little unfamiliar, so it’s a bit off-putting.”
Rong Yan raised his eyes, looked at him for a long time, and then slowly said: "I didn't expect someone in Longcheng to make this, the taste...it's actually not bad, but I ate a lot tonight, it's really a little tasteless." No more."
Rong Yan's eyelashes trembled slightly, poured a glass of wine and handed it to Liang Ji: "On New Year's Eve, General Liang was not at home for a reunion, so he came to give me glutinous rice balls. Can you buy the general a few glasses of wine?"
Liang Ji stared at the wine cup in front of him, stretched his fingers, and finally retracted them: "I don't drink."
Rong Yan raised his eyes, and then smiled softly: "General Liang doesn't drink now?"
Liang Ji heard the word "now", but just nodded, neither asking questions nor defending himself: "Yes."
"That's really a pity." Rong Yan took the glass of wine back in front of him, stared at the clear water, raised his wrist, and drank it down. "At first, I wanted to have a good time with the general."
"If you want to drink, I'll accompany you with tea instead of wine." Liang Ji said, "Anyway, I don't have anything else to do today, so I planned to watch the year with you."
Rong Yan's Adam's apple trembled slightly, with a smile on his lips: "It's good to have someone to accompany you."
The two were relatively silent for a while, but it was Liang Ji who spoke first. He glanced at the closed door and said suddenly, "That was your guard just now? I don't know the origin, but can you believe it?"
If it had been the past, Rong Yan would have sarcastically asked Liang Ji why an outsider should take care of his own affairs, but today he didn't say anything, he was silent for a while, and nodded slightly.
He took a sip of wine, and patiently told Liang Ji about Li Ye's background.
"His mother was my mother's personal maid before entering the palace. She stayed by my mother's side for many years. After entering the palace, she secretly communicated with a guard. After my mother found out, she decided to give her a dowry for her and that The guards made a marriage agreement. Later they gave birth to a son, Li Ye."
While playing with the wine cup in his hand, Rong Yan said, "Li Ye learned martial arts from his father since he was a child, and he also entered the palace as a guard after he finished his studies. Perhaps he was influenced by his parents and was loyal to my mother. I grew up in my mother's harem since I was a child, so I got acquainted with him."
"That day when the imperial city fell, he wanted to save my mother and my son from fleeing, but at that time..." Rong Yan closed his eyes, forgetting the red light that inexplicably appeared in front of him, "There are too many rebels, and he alone can't help it." Unable to protect the two of us, my mother entrusted me to him and asked him to take me to escape alone. We naturally disagree, my mother..."
He drew Li Ye's saber and killed himself on the spot.
Li Ye endured the hot tears in his heart, and dragged Rong Yan who was crying bitterly, and took him out of the imperial city step by step with bloody footprints.
At the end, Rong Yan's voice trembled faintly, and pain appeared on Liang Ji's face, and he subconsciously pressed Rong Yan's hand.
Rong Yan lowered his eyes, stared at the warmth on the back of his hand, slowly raised his hand and pulled out his palm, calmed down and continued: "So Li Ye and I are close friends, if he I can't even believe it, and there is no one in this world who can be trusted."
Liang Ji opened his mouth, and swallowed back the words that came to his lips.
Rong Yan noticed his hesitation, raised his eyelids to take a look, and looked away as if he didn't notice.
The room became quiet again, Rong Yan was drinking wine quietly, Liang Ji was sitting opposite him, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand.
Liang Ji actually wanted to ask what Rong Yan said when he met the crown prince that day, how the third son of the Qi family, the drug boy who was taken away by the crown prince, is doing now, but he knew very well in his heart that once he opened his mouth, what would happen now? This rare harmonious atmosphere will disappear.
Why don't you just sit down like this and act as if nothing happened, and the person in front of you is still the young master whom he cared about in the previous life.
Liang Ji was silent, and Rong Yan didn't know what to say. Ever since he was reborn, he was always sensitive and mean when facing Liang Ji. I don't know how to speak.
After all, the relationship between him and Liang Ji spans the past life and the present life.
Rong Yan glanced at Liang Ji several times, and finally picked up the wine cup in front of him, and took a big sip.
"I didn't know you were so good at drinking before." Liang Ji finally spoke, but his gaze was on the wine cup in Rong Yan's hand.
"I didn't know that General Liang wouldn't drink at all." Rong Yan smiled lightly, "Something is always different from what we expected."
Liang Ji pursed his lips slightly, then nodded: "Indeed."
He hesitated for a moment, put some side dishes on Rong Yan's plate, and put some pastries in front of him: "Eat something too so as not to hurt your stomach." Even so, he didn't speak to dissuade Rong Yan drink wine.
Rong Yan smiled, and pointed to the plate of rice cakes before: "The rice cakes brought by Li Ye just now, I know you people in Xu don't eat them often, General Liang can try it, we Wei people have a saying 'Nian Gao, New Year's Cake Gao, this year is better than last year', eat a piece, good luck."
Liang Ji glanced at him, nodded slightly, stretched out his hand, but picked up the leftover half of Cai Rongyan, and put it into his mouth without hesitation.
Rong Yan stared blankly, and said after a long time: "General, you don't have to be so frugal."
Liang Ji swallowed the rice cake in his mouth, took a sip of tea, looked at Rong Yan and said slowly: "I have eaten it. I hope you and I will be better this year than last year."
In this short period of time, Rong Yan had already drank a lot of wine, his head was dizzy, and drunkenness was faintly visible.But because Liang Ji was in front of him, he managed to pull himself together, and replied with a smile: "General Liang, the child's hour hasn't arrived yet, and it's not a new year yet."
Liang Ji looked at him for a while, then said: "Then I hope that every year will be better than the past year."
"General Liang is really greedy."
Liang Ji smiled and shook his head: "What I want... is actually not much."
Rong Yan met his eyes, with an inexplicable emotion in his heart, he shook his head and waved his hand gently: "Sometimes the less people want, the harder it is to get what they want."
Perhaps the charcoal pot in the house was burning too hot, which made Rong Yan feel hot and stuffy. He got up and went to the window, opened a gap in the window, and the sound of howling wind swept in, bringing in the sound of firecrackers in the distance, and Not far away, there was a noise from the servants who were keeping watch at night in the side courtyard.
Liang Ji walked up to Rong Yan without saying a word, put a robe on him, looked out through the open window, and saw two snow lions, one big and one small, in the middle of the courtyard.
Although the weather has been very cold during this period of time, there are plenty of sunshine in the daytime. The two snow lions have already changed their appearance after thawing and melting.
"Next time when the snow falls, I'll make a few more for you." Liang Ji looked sideways, seeing Rong Yan staring at the two snow lions through the moonlight, and couldn't help but speak.
Rong Yan closed the window back: "No need, Liang Ji."
Maybe it was because he drank too much alcohol, so he called out the other person's name directly.
Liang Ji was stunned when he heard the other party continue: "I don't like snow lions anymore, so you don't need to waste your time."
Seeing that the other party was silent, Rong Yan just shook his head, and sat back at the table to drink again.
Liang Ji was still standing by the window, but his eyes were always on Rong Yan, watching him drink a glass of wine, and finally fell down on the table because he couldn't drink anymore.
Liang Ji thought, maybe Rong Yan, like himself, also has a lot of other things to say, but he can't bear to break this rare atmosphere.
He gave a wry smile, stepped forward and glanced at the drunk lying man, stretched out his hand to gently loosen his frowning brows, then picked him up by the waist, and placed him lightly on the bed.
Compared with the last time, Rong Yan slept in a particularly uneasy sleep. After a while, his brows were furrowed again, and one hand was unconsciously raised to cover his eyes.
Liang Ji lowered the bed curtain to cover the candlelight outside, then gently put his arms back into the quilt, and tucked the corners of the quilt.
As the night deepened, the outside gradually became quieter. Liang Jiku sat in front of Rong Yan's bed, and didn't move until he heard the faint sound of a watch.He glanced at the person who was still sleeping, and said in a low voice: "Anyway, it can be regarded as keeping the New Year's Eve together."
He stared at Rong Yan's sleeping face and hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but leaned over, planted a light and shallow kiss on his forehead, got up and blew out the candle in the room, in the deep night, almost reluctant to part He glanced at the bed, turned around and went out the door.
The door opened and closed with a soft sound, and the person who was sleeping peacefully on the bed slowly opened his eyes.
Rong Yan raised his hand and touched his forehead very carefully. He thought of the precious but cautious look of that person just now, and felt inexplicably sore in his heart.
Ever since he was reborn, his sleep has been very shallow, and he drank too much wine tonight, and his headache was unbearable, Liang Ji just moved him to the bed, and he woke up.
But he didn't open his eyes. As long as Liang Ji guarded him, he lay down for as long as that kiss fell. His heart, which had been dead for a long time, seemed to have ripples again.
Anyway, another year has passed, so I should leave a thought for myself.
Rong Yan's eyelashes trembled, he closed his eyes again, rubbed his forehead, and slowly fell asleep.
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There were not many servants in the mansion, Rong Yan asked the steward to seal the reward in advance, and prepared drinks and food for them, when everyone gathered together lively, he went back to the room alone.
UBS went to see it twice worriedly, and Rong Yan rushed to watch the new year with others on the grounds that he wanted to be clean.UBS didn't dare to disturb it too much, so it turned back and brought a few side dishes, some exquisite pastries, and a jar of wine before finally retreating.
The wine was poured into the jug and warmed on the tandoor. When Rong Yan saw it, his mind moved slightly, and he reached out and poured a glass for himself.
The entrance is spicy, but there is still a mellow taste spreading in the mouth, Rong Yan unconsciously raised his hand and drank it down.
In his previous life, he almost never drank alcohol, but Liang Ji liked it, especially spirits.Whenever the two of them ate together, Rong Yan would grab his cup and take a sip, and then spit it out in distaste, repeating it over and over again, never tired of it.
After rebirth, although Rong Yan still didn't like the taste of wine in his throat, he drank too much wine before he knew it.
It seems like this, he still maintains a certain relationship with the person he cared about in his previous life.
As the night deepens, you can occasionally hear the faint sound of firecrackers outside, it is time for family reunion, but now Rong Yan is incompatible with all this, after all—he has no home anymore.
When he was still in the Southern Wei Palace, the Chinese New Year was Rong Yan's least favorite day.
His father likes to be lively the most, and he often arranges a so-called family banquet on New Year's Eve, where people prepare wine and food, and arrange Nuo dances, which should be lively and festive.
However, his father had countless beauties in the Sixth Court of the Three Palaces, and only high-grade concubines could fill an entire palace room. Everyone was dressed in fancy clothes, and they tried every means to show off at normal banquets just to attract his father's attention.It was said to be a family banquet, but there was no warmth at all, Rong Yan would feel dizzy every time he sat in it, drinking tea there alone, and quietly observing his queen mother.
Although the queen mother never mentioned it, Rong Yan always felt that she didn't like such an occasion either.Sitting on the top seat without joy or sorrow, looking at these women who share husbands with him, just thinking about it makes Rong Yan feel sorry for her.
But now, even the most annoying occasions would never happen again.Those people he had hated all turned into dust following the fire, and he was the only one left with nowhere to go.
No, he also had a home before.
Although that period of time was short, it was precious.It was the first time that Rong Yan wanted to hold onto someone tightly when he grew up, and wanted to be with this person until his death.
In the end it was just in vain.
Rong Yan smiled wryly and poured himself another glass of wine. Before he could drink, someone knocked on the window. He got up and opened the window. Li Ye quickly entered the room with a food box in his arms.
Seeing him, the remaining sadness on Rong Yan's face dissipated, he closed the window, turned around and took out something from under the pillow and handed it to Li Ye: "I knew you would come tonight, so I made preparations in advance. alright."
Li Ye put down the food box and took the red cloth bag from Rong Yan. After opening it, he found a brocade box with a row of silver ingots neatly stacked in it. ..."
"Press the money." Rong Yan took another cup and handed it to Li Ye, and smiled at him, "If you accept it, it will ensure your health and longevity in the future, safe and smooth."
Holding the heavy brocade box, Li Ye subconsciously wanted to refuse.
"Take it, it's money from Xu Ren anyway." Rong Yan took a sip of wine, with a smile on his lips, but his eyes were extremely gentle, "If you can't be safe, you will leave me alone from now on Li Ye, how can you bear it?"
Li Ye bit his lip when he heard this, and finally stopped refusing, and put away the silver ingot.
Rong Yan seemed to be in a better mood. He poured a glass of wine and pushed it in front of Li Yingying, then reached out to open the food box: "Come all the way to hold such a thing, what delicious food did you bring me?" ?”
Li Ye took a sip of his wine and helped Rong Yan open the food box: "It's rice cakes made by the shopkeeper. I know Xu people don't eat these during the Chinese New Year, so I made a special trip to bring you some."
There is a small pot of exquisite pastries in the food box, the color is bright white, and you can smell the sweet smell when you get close to it. It is indeed what Wei people are used to eating.Rong Yan took a piece, thought for a while and smelled it: "Calculating the months, your lady shopkeeper is about to give birth, right?"
"Well," Li Ye responded, "There are still more than a month."
"Then remember to remind me to send a congratulatory gift." Rong Yan took a bite of the rice cake and smiled slightly, "The husband and wife are in harmony, and adding a well-behaved and cute child is really enviable."
Li Ye knew that on such a day, Rong Yan would inevitably fall in love with the situation. He wanted to persuade him, but he was not good at it. He was afraid that if he accidentally said the wrong thing, it would touch Rong Yan's heart instead, so he hesitated and could only give him another After refilling the wine, he whispered: "Wait, after finishing these things, and returning to the Wei Kingdom, His Highness also... This subordinate has put his life to the test, and will help His Highness find a suitable marriage."
Rong Yan couldn't help laughing: "How do you know what kind of marriage is suitable for me?"
Li Ye thought for a while, and his face became hesitant. He scratched his hair and looked at Rong Yan: "Then, what do you like, Your Highness?"
"Me?" Rong Yan lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head lightly, "I'll make it clear in a while."
He grew up in the palace. Although he was raised innocently, he was not ignorant of the relationship between men and women. Later, as he grew older, it was not that no one tried every means to send someone to him, and his mother found them all. There are various ways to refuse.
Although Rong Yan didn't like those people, he also felt curious why his mother was so decisive. His mother told him that although he was born in this emperor's family, he was destined to have many helplessness, but he didn't want his marriage to be one of them. The person who lies next to his pillow every day and will accompany him to his white head in the future should not be just a bargaining chip.
Rong Yan kept these words in his heart all the time, and then he came to Xu country and met Liang Ji. He finally confirmed that he had met the person his mother mentioned.
After being captured by Liang Ji, during those days locked in the cold palace, Rong Yan recalled the details of their acquaintance countless times, and became more and more convinced of one thing. In the face of the strong, firm and considerate Liang Ji, he is doomed to be unable to escape, that is his fate.
Rong Yan shook his head lightly, put down the half-bitten rice cake in his hand, took a sip of wine, and suddenly said: "That day I met Gao Cong, the crown prince of the Xu Kingdom... He saw that I was too close to Gao Chun, so he finally restrained himself. Can't stop."
Li Ye thought for a while, then raised his head and looked at Rong Yan: "Then what are you going to do, Your Highness? It is said that he is the prince of Xu Guo, and he has the support of the queen behind him. It is a good thing for us to befriend him, but that's it. Will he offend that King Ji? After all, he is now becoming more and more prosperous, and there are many courtiers who support him in the court. It is hard to say who will own the future throne of Xu State."
"What does it matter to me who sits on the throne of Xu State? The crown prince and King Ji... I'm really afraid that they won't be able to fight." Rong Yan tapped the cup in his hand lightly with his fingers, pondered for a while, and suddenly Said, "Tell me, if I ask to marry Princess Chengyang, will Emperor Shouguang agree?"
"Princess Chengyang?" Li Ye was surprised, "You and that princess..."
"I've met you twice, she's a cute little girl, but it's a pity that she was born in this emperor's family, and she can't even make decisions about her own marriage." Seeing Li Ying's serious expression, Rong Yan smiled softly, "It's just a marriage proposal." , even if Emperor Shouguang really agrees, I don't know how long it will take from the engagement to the marriage, as long as there is a little mishap, the marriage will not come true."
Li Ye hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Arguably, my subordinates shouldn't interfere with your decision-making, but I think that if the empress is still alive, I definitely don't want you to use your marriage as a bargaining chip."
"But Li Ye," Rong Yan laughed, eyes rolling, "I'm also a bargaining chip myself?"
"Your Highness!"
Before Li Ye could finish his consoling words, he stood up suddenly, and the long sword on his waist was unsheathed, and the blade drew a cold light in the air, pointing directly at the closed door: "Who is outside!"
Rong Yan tightened his hand holding the wine cup, raised his eyes to look at the door, and by the candlelight in the room, a tall figure was imprinted on the door.He lowered his eyes, remained silent for a while, and said softly: "Please come in."
Li Ye stood in front of him, his eyes widened when he heard the words: "Your Highness..."
"I know who it is," Rong Yan said, "The guard is still outside, how could he let someone who doesn't matter in?"
Li Ye was silent for a while, and clenched the long sword in his hand, stepped forward and opened the door, and saw Liang Ji standing at the door.
Liang Ji was holding a food box in his hand, and walked into the room calmly under Li Ye's half-baffled and half-prepared eyes, put the food box on the table, turned his head and looked back at Li Ye: "It's considered a fight in the dark." Let’s talk, we finally meet today.”
Li Ye naturally knew who the tall man in front of him was. He glanced at Rong Yan and saw that he was still sitting where he was, drinking slowly. After thinking for a while, he put down his guard, put the long sword back into its sheath, and clasped his fists and said: "General Liang."
Liang Ji also raised his hand in return, and then turned his gaze to Rong Yan.
Rong Yan finally put down the wine in his hand and looked back at Liang Ji. After a long time, he turned his gaze and looked at Li Ye: "It seems that General Liang has something to do with me today, it's getting late, you should go back first. "
Li Ye was a little hesitant, and Rong Yan said again: "If General Liang wants to do something, it's useless for you to be here, go back."
Li Ye took a deep breath, looked at Liang Ji again, and then bowed his hands to Rong Yan: "Yes."
The door opened and closed, and there were only two people left in the room. Rong Yan turned his gaze and found that Liang Ji had already sat down opposite him, and couldn't help but snorted softly: "General Liang is really hardworking, this kind of family reunion day He even came to me specially, obviously because he has something important to do. Now that he has left, you might as well just talk about it.”
"I'm here to accompany you to watch the New Year." Liang Ji opened the food box he brought, and took out a steaming soup bowl from it. "I know that you southerners have different tastes, so I asked someone to cook glutinous rice balls."
As he spoke, he had already cleaned up everything else on the table, and put the soup bowl in front of Rong Yan: "I don't know if it suits your taste, just try it."
Rong Yan lowered his eyes slightly, just in time to see the white and tender glutinous rice balls in the bowl, I don't know if they were not wrapped carefully enough, or the journey was too bumpy, some of them leaked, and it was very obvious that they were floating in the soup, but It also smells sweet without even tasting it.
Naturally, Liang Ji saw it too, and raised his hand to touch the bridge of his nose. Rong Yan followed his movements and looked over, and saw the white glutinous rice flour stained on his black cuffs at a glance.
Rong Yan's eyelashes trembled, but they didn't pierce. He took a spoon and gently scooped one up and put it in his mouth. It was sweet and soft as expected, very similar to the one in his memory.
Rong Yan's first New Year's Eve in Xu State in his previous life was also spent with Liang Ji.
At that time, he and Liang Ji had not yet made up their minds, but they were already acquainted.
Since Liang Ji rescued Rong Yan from the sick bed in the post house, he took this little proton as his own responsibility as a matter of course. When he was still in the post house, he often went to visit with food. The regiment left, Rong Yan had a house, it was no longer his duty to protect this little proton, Liang Ji still went to his house as usual.
Over time, Rong Yan gradually became dependent on Liang Ji.
Then came New Year's Eve.
Although Rong Yan was young and innocent, he also knew that Liang Ji was born in the Taiwei Mansion and the leader of the Suwei Mansion. If he was not on duty during these days, he still had to go home for a reunion, so he had people close the courtyard early on, planning to Stay alone.
He was a bit cowardly in his previous life, and Emperor Shouguang ignored him, and even the servants in the mansion despised him.The steward asked for leave early to go home for a reunion, and the rest of the servants prepared some food for Rong Yan at random, and then got together to play cards and drink, leaving Rong Yan alone, listening to the bustle outside, couldn't help but quietly wipe tears.
At this moment, Liang Ji came in through the window. He was still tainted by the chill outside. When he saw Rong Yan's red eyes, he immediately frowned. His eyes swept across the empty room, and he immediately understood what was going on. thing.
Always being seen by this person like this, Rong Yan felt inexplicably ashamed. He buried his face in his palm, trying to quietly wipe away the tears on his face, but a big cool hand pulled his fingers away and wiped the tears for him. After shedding tears, she coaxed her to say, "Today is New Year's Eve, shall I make dumplings with you?"
Rong Yan opened his eyes wide and looked at the gentle eyes of the person in front of him. The loneliness and sadness that had accumulated in his heart just now disappeared, and he could only see the person in front of him in his eyes and heart. He pulled Liang Ji's hand and whispered Said: "I want to eat glutinous rice balls."
Seeing his smile, Liang Ji's face became more gentle, and he nodded in response: "Okay."
The servants in Rongyan Mansion were having a good time together, when the door was suddenly kicked open from the outside, and Liang Ji stood in front of them like a god with a cold face, the long sword in his hand was shining coldly, fighting with its master. The same with a strong killing intent.
Those little servants thought in a trance that they were going to die on the spot, but they were just kicked up one by one by this man and rushed to prepare the ingredients.
The kitchen is not big. After closing the doors and windows and adding a charcoal basin, it becomes warm. There is a huge table in the middle of the room. , lard, sugar.Rong Yan and Liang Ji stood in front of the table with their hands behind their backs, relatively speechless.
Liang Ji is a Xu person through and through, he has never eaten this kind of sweet and greasy food, and he doesn't know where to start with these things. Although Rong Yan loves to eat, he is always cooked and brought to him by others. I don't even know anything.
After a while, Rong Yan finally turned his head to look at Liang Ji: "Otherwise, let's forget about today."
Liang Ji saw faint disappointment in his eyes, and immediately said: "It's okay, just tell me the shape and taste of the glutinous rice balls, there is always a way to make them."
Liang Ji always had an aura of trustworthiness, and Rong Yan immediately cheered. He first found a piece of paper, drew circles one after another on it for Liang Ji to see, and then danced and described it.
Either Liang Ji was very talented, or he really didn't want to see disappointment in Rong Yan's eyes, so he really followed his description, turned those glutinous rice flour into dough, mixed black sesame powder with lard and white sugar into stuffing, Then fill it into the dough and wrap it into a round glutinous rice ball.
Rong Yan's eyes lit up immediately, he held the glutinous rice ball in his palm, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but praise: "Liang Ji, you are so amazing!"
A smile appeared on Liang Ji's face: "It hasn't been cooked yet, I don't know if it's the taste you want to eat."
"It must be! I can smell it!" Rong Yan carefully put down the glutinous rice balls in his hand, turned his head and washed his hands, "Liang Ji, teach me, let's wrap it together!"
Seeing him jumping for joy, Liang Ji couldn't help but feel happy, and nodded in response: "Okay."
The snow-white glutinous rice dough was extraordinarily obedient in Liang Ji's hands, but in Rong Yan's hands, it became unruly.Perhaps because he grew up arrogantly, Rong Yan didn't know anything about this kind of thing. Although he watched Liang Ji's demonstration over and over carefully, he still couldn't make a decent glutinous rice ball.
But Liang Ji didn't care, just watching him grit his teeth and struggle with the glutinous rice dough or stuffing, he felt happy, a smile spread from the corners of his eyes and brows, and his whole body was filled with rare warmth.
In the end, it was Rong Yan who was discouraged first. Seeing Liang Ji's movements getting faster and faster, he got nothing at all. He was suspected of making trouble, hesitated again and again, and asked to boil the water.
Of course, boiling water was not as simple as Rong Yan thought. He finally cleaned the iron pot and added water, but encountered setbacks in the step of lighting the fire.After working alone in front of the stove for a long time, the flint was hot in his hands, and the firewood still kept the same state as before, without even a trace of fire.
Rong Yan looked at Liang Ji with disgrace.
Liang Ji had already wrapped the glutinous rice balls, and watched Rong Yan quietly for a while, then met his eyes asking for help, and immediately walked over, took the flint in his hand, and moved closer to the stove, the next moment, the stove A flame was ignited inside, and it became more vigorous when it encountered firewood. The tongue of fire licked the hearth, making people's cheeks burn.
The water in the pot gradually boiled, and the heat also spread in the narrow kitchen room, blurring the figure of the person opposite, Rong Yan stared blankly, unwilling to look away.
Liang Ji was naturally aware of the scorching gaze. He stood where he was, staring at Rong Yan motionlessly, as if he wanted to see what he was going to do.
Rong Yan made a move first, he suddenly took a step forward, stretched out his fingers and rubbed lightly on Liang Ji's jaw, only to find that he had rubbed his hands extremely dirty just to light the fire, not only failed to wipe the dirt on Liang Ji's jaw, The glutinous rice flour was wiped off, leaving a black gray mark.
Rong Yan rubbed his fingers lightly, and whispered, "Sorry."
Liang Ji stared at his fingertips, and couldn't help but turn his gaze to that face that had also been smudged at some point. In the steaming heat, those eyes were exceptionally bright, as if they could captivate people's hearts.
A thought that had been lingering in Liang Ji's mind for many days came up again, and slowly amplified.
He suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the finger that was still moving, Rong Yan froze on the spot, staring blankly at Liang Ji's slightly red eyes, his cheeks blushed inexplicably: "What's wrong?"
"Do not move."
Liang Ji's voice was extremely low, as if he was suppressing something, while Rong Yan was in a trance, a warm hand reached out to his face, rubbed it lightly twice, and then Liang Ji's voice sounded again: "Okay. "
Rong Yan looked down at his hands, saw the gray marks on his fingertips, and finally understood what he was doing just now, the corners of his eyes drooped unconsciously, and an unknown sense of loss rose in his heart.
Liang Ji took all this into his eyes, tightened the hand holding Rong Yan's finger, and suddenly said, "Rong Yan."
"what?"
Rong Yan raised his head subconsciously, Liang Ji's face slowly enlarged in front of his eyes, warm and soft lips covered his lips.
Rong Yan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he closed his eyes unconsciously.
It was actually a very shallow kiss, it didn't last long, but it made Rong Yan's hands and feet go weak unconsciously, he felt his whole face was burning hot, he couldn't help covering it with his hand, but Liang Ji pulled his hand Down, hold it tightly in the palm of your hand.
There was a smile like a spring breeze between Liang Ji's brows and eyes. Seeing Rong Yan's panicked look, he slightly lowered his head and touched his forehead, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know why I am like this?"
Rong Yan nodded subconsciously, then shook his head hastily.
Liang Ji bent his lips, and his smile became more and more obvious. He said, "Rong Yan, I am so pleased with you!"
Rong Yan raised his head and met Liang Ji's eyes, as if to confirm what he just said, Liang Ji didn't care about his doubts, and lowered his head to press a very precious kiss on his forehead: "It's like this."
A smile spread across Rong Yan's face, and in an instant, he felt blessed in his heart. He suddenly understood the reason why he was throbbing because of this person during this period of time. He remembered what his mother said to him that day, and stretched out his arms to hug Liang. Ji's waist, buried his face in his chest, listened to the strong heartbeat, and said firmly: "Liang Ji, I also like you."
Liang Ji patted him on the back lightly, hugged him a little tighter, and responded with a smile: "I know!"
The two hugged each other for a long time, and finally remembered the hot water in the pot, hurriedly put the glutinous rice balls wrapped by Liang Ji into the pot, and watched them rise to the surface one by one, just like Rong Yan's mood at that time .
It was the sweetest glutinous rice ball Rong Yan had ever eaten since he was a child, and it was very similar to the one in front of him.
Rong Yan regained consciousness from the memory, and stirred the bowl twice with a spoon.
Today was supposed to be their day of love.
As soon as this idea came up, Rong Yan only felt a pain in his chest, and the Yuanxiao in his mouth seemed to suddenly lose its taste. He hesitated for a moment, and slowly put down the spoon.
He ate slowly just now, and Liang Ji's gaze had been on him all the time. Seeing that he only took a bite and then stopped, he couldn't help saying: "What? Is it because the taste doesn't suit your taste? In the middle of the night, I also did it on a whim Finding such a person who can do it, maybe...the number of times I don’t do it on weekdays, that person is a little unfamiliar, so it’s a bit off-putting.”
Rong Yan raised his eyes, looked at him for a long time, and then slowly said: "I didn't expect someone in Longcheng to make this, the taste...it's actually not bad, but I ate a lot tonight, it's really a little tasteless." No more."
Rong Yan's eyelashes trembled slightly, poured a glass of wine and handed it to Liang Ji: "On New Year's Eve, General Liang was not at home for a reunion, so he came to give me glutinous rice balls. Can you buy the general a few glasses of wine?"
Liang Ji stared at the wine cup in front of him, stretched his fingers, and finally retracted them: "I don't drink."
Rong Yan raised his eyes, and then smiled softly: "General Liang doesn't drink now?"
Liang Ji heard the word "now", but just nodded, neither asking questions nor defending himself: "Yes."
"That's really a pity." Rong Yan took the glass of wine back in front of him, stared at the clear water, raised his wrist, and drank it down. "At first, I wanted to have a good time with the general."
"If you want to drink, I'll accompany you with tea instead of wine." Liang Ji said, "Anyway, I don't have anything else to do today, so I planned to watch the year with you."
Rong Yan's Adam's apple trembled slightly, with a smile on his lips: "It's good to have someone to accompany you."
The two were relatively silent for a while, but it was Liang Ji who spoke first. He glanced at the closed door and said suddenly, "That was your guard just now? I don't know the origin, but can you believe it?"
If it had been the past, Rong Yan would have sarcastically asked Liang Ji why an outsider should take care of his own affairs, but today he didn't say anything, he was silent for a while, and nodded slightly.
He took a sip of wine, and patiently told Liang Ji about Li Ye's background.
"His mother was my mother's personal maid before entering the palace. She stayed by my mother's side for many years. After entering the palace, she secretly communicated with a guard. After my mother found out, she decided to give her a dowry for her and that The guards made a marriage agreement. Later they gave birth to a son, Li Ye."
While playing with the wine cup in his hand, Rong Yan said, "Li Ye learned martial arts from his father since he was a child, and he also entered the palace as a guard after he finished his studies. Perhaps he was influenced by his parents and was loyal to my mother. I grew up in my mother's harem since I was a child, so I got acquainted with him."
"That day when the imperial city fell, he wanted to save my mother and my son from fleeing, but at that time..." Rong Yan closed his eyes, forgetting the red light that inexplicably appeared in front of him, "There are too many rebels, and he alone can't help it." Unable to protect the two of us, my mother entrusted me to him and asked him to take me to escape alone. We naturally disagree, my mother..."
He drew Li Ye's saber and killed himself on the spot.
Li Ye endured the hot tears in his heart, and dragged Rong Yan who was crying bitterly, and took him out of the imperial city step by step with bloody footprints.
At the end, Rong Yan's voice trembled faintly, and pain appeared on Liang Ji's face, and he subconsciously pressed Rong Yan's hand.
Rong Yan lowered his eyes, stared at the warmth on the back of his hand, slowly raised his hand and pulled out his palm, calmed down and continued: "So Li Ye and I are close friends, if he I can't even believe it, and there is no one in this world who can be trusted."
Liang Ji opened his mouth, and swallowed back the words that came to his lips.
Rong Yan noticed his hesitation, raised his eyelids to take a look, and looked away as if he didn't notice.
The room became quiet again, Rong Yan was drinking wine quietly, Liang Ji was sitting opposite him, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand.
Liang Ji actually wanted to ask what Rong Yan said when he met the crown prince that day, how the third son of the Qi family, the drug boy who was taken away by the crown prince, is doing now, but he knew very well in his heart that once he opened his mouth, what would happen now? This rare harmonious atmosphere will disappear.
Why don't you just sit down like this and act as if nothing happened, and the person in front of you is still the young master whom he cared about in the previous life.
Liang Ji was silent, and Rong Yan didn't know what to say. Ever since he was reborn, he was always sensitive and mean when facing Liang Ji. I don't know how to speak.
After all, the relationship between him and Liang Ji spans the past life and the present life.
Rong Yan glanced at Liang Ji several times, and finally picked up the wine cup in front of him, and took a big sip.
"I didn't know you were so good at drinking before." Liang Ji finally spoke, but his gaze was on the wine cup in Rong Yan's hand.
"I didn't know that General Liang wouldn't drink at all." Rong Yan smiled lightly, "Something is always different from what we expected."
Liang Ji pursed his lips slightly, then nodded: "Indeed."
He hesitated for a moment, put some side dishes on Rong Yan's plate, and put some pastries in front of him: "Eat something too so as not to hurt your stomach." Even so, he didn't speak to dissuade Rong Yan drink wine.
Rong Yan smiled, and pointed to the plate of rice cakes before: "The rice cakes brought by Li Ye just now, I know you people in Xu don't eat them often, General Liang can try it, we Wei people have a saying 'Nian Gao, New Year's Cake Gao, this year is better than last year', eat a piece, good luck."
Liang Ji glanced at him, nodded slightly, stretched out his hand, but picked up the leftover half of Cai Rongyan, and put it into his mouth without hesitation.
Rong Yan stared blankly, and said after a long time: "General, you don't have to be so frugal."
Liang Ji swallowed the rice cake in his mouth, took a sip of tea, looked at Rong Yan and said slowly: "I have eaten it. I hope you and I will be better this year than last year."
In this short period of time, Rong Yan had already drank a lot of wine, his head was dizzy, and drunkenness was faintly visible.But because Liang Ji was in front of him, he managed to pull himself together, and replied with a smile: "General Liang, the child's hour hasn't arrived yet, and it's not a new year yet."
Liang Ji looked at him for a while, then said: "Then I hope that every year will be better than the past year."
"General Liang is really greedy."
Liang Ji smiled and shook his head: "What I want... is actually not much."
Rong Yan met his eyes, with an inexplicable emotion in his heart, he shook his head and waved his hand gently: "Sometimes the less people want, the harder it is to get what they want."
Perhaps the charcoal pot in the house was burning too hot, which made Rong Yan feel hot and stuffy. He got up and went to the window, opened a gap in the window, and the sound of howling wind swept in, bringing in the sound of firecrackers in the distance, and Not far away, there was a noise from the servants who were keeping watch at night in the side courtyard.
Liang Ji walked up to Rong Yan without saying a word, put a robe on him, looked out through the open window, and saw two snow lions, one big and one small, in the middle of the courtyard.
Although the weather has been very cold during this period of time, there are plenty of sunshine in the daytime. The two snow lions have already changed their appearance after thawing and melting.
"Next time when the snow falls, I'll make a few more for you." Liang Ji looked sideways, seeing Rong Yan staring at the two snow lions through the moonlight, and couldn't help but speak.
Rong Yan closed the window back: "No need, Liang Ji."
Maybe it was because he drank too much alcohol, so he called out the other person's name directly.
Liang Ji was stunned when he heard the other party continue: "I don't like snow lions anymore, so you don't need to waste your time."
Seeing that the other party was silent, Rong Yan just shook his head, and sat back at the table to drink again.
Liang Ji was still standing by the window, but his eyes were always on Rong Yan, watching him drink a glass of wine, and finally fell down on the table because he couldn't drink anymore.
Liang Ji thought, maybe Rong Yan, like himself, also has a lot of other things to say, but he can't bear to break this rare atmosphere.
He gave a wry smile, stepped forward and glanced at the drunk lying man, stretched out his hand to gently loosen his frowning brows, then picked him up by the waist, and placed him lightly on the bed.
Compared with the last time, Rong Yan slept in a particularly uneasy sleep. After a while, his brows were furrowed again, and one hand was unconsciously raised to cover his eyes.
Liang Ji lowered the bed curtain to cover the candlelight outside, then gently put his arms back into the quilt, and tucked the corners of the quilt.
As the night deepened, the outside gradually became quieter. Liang Jiku sat in front of Rong Yan's bed, and didn't move until he heard the faint sound of a watch.He glanced at the person who was still sleeping, and said in a low voice: "Anyway, it can be regarded as keeping the New Year's Eve together."
He stared at Rong Yan's sleeping face and hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but leaned over, planted a light and shallow kiss on his forehead, got up and blew out the candle in the room, in the deep night, almost reluctant to part He glanced at the bed, turned around and went out the door.
The door opened and closed with a soft sound, and the person who was sleeping peacefully on the bed slowly opened his eyes.
Rong Yan raised his hand and touched his forehead very carefully. He thought of the precious but cautious look of that person just now, and felt inexplicably sore in his heart.
Ever since he was reborn, his sleep has been very shallow, and he drank too much wine tonight, and his headache was unbearable, Liang Ji just moved him to the bed, and he woke up.
But he didn't open his eyes. As long as Liang Ji guarded him, he lay down for as long as that kiss fell. His heart, which had been dead for a long time, seemed to have ripples again.
Anyway, another year has passed, so I should leave a thought for myself.
Rong Yan's eyelashes trembled, he closed his eyes again, rubbed his forehead, and slowly fell asleep.
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