Born of Worry

The thin rope broke, leaving a red mark on Li Xian's neck.

He pressed his wrist and glared at Hu Lugu, who was looking at the pendant carefully. It looked like the scales of something, as black as ink, smooth and smooth.

He had never seen this thing before, so he naturally wanted to stay and play with it.

"give me back!"

Since Li Xian came here, it was the first time for Hu Lugu to see him get angry, and he couldn't help but find it very interesting. Seeing his angry and frightened expression, he wanted to play tricks on him, and retreated two more times. step, "Our Tahan has an unwritten rule, as long as you snatch something from others with your own strength, then this thing is yours."

Li Xian clenched his fists, "What a robber!"

"Yes, we are robbers, but you, a so-called 'honest man', what can you do to robbers like us?" He laughed heartily, "Don't you just swallow your anger?"

"You bastard!"

Li Xian stood up suddenly, picked up the inkstone on the table and threw it at Hulugu, but he grabbed his wrist again and put it next to his ear: "Why do you hit a stone with an egg? It seems that this thing is very important to you. , is really important."

He let go.

The ink in the inkstone flowed down Li Xian's hands and covered his arms, which was particularly glaring against his fair skin.

Hulu turned around and left alone.

There was an earth-shattering dragon roar from the deep pool.

Mo Wen stared at two dragon eyes, the dragon's beard swayed, air bubbles burst out of its nose, and its body arched, as if it wanted to eat people.

——He couldn't sense Li Xian anymore.

Hei Snake had already run to the side and hid, looking at him from a distance, thinking that he hadn't touched Ni Lin, why did he get angry for no reason...

I guess it's his little lover, something happened again?

The inkstone slipped from his hand.

Li Xian fell to the ground, his eyes were red and his eyes were loose.

dragon scales...

Mo asked, what should I do?

He stood up slowly and walked out of the tent. About two hundred steps behind the tent area, there was a stream flowing through it, which was also the farthest place he was allowed to go.

He walked to the creek.

The water in the stream was very shallow, the deepest part was only up to his knees, and the water was very clear and slow, probably a small branch from a nearby river. Hulugu set up camp here, so that he could get water at any time.

Li Xian squatted down, rolled up his sleeves, dipped his ink-stained arms into the water, and let the water wash slowly.

His own shadow reflected in the water.

Li Xian, you have to cheer up.

He stretched out his hand to shatter the reflection, looked at the ink spots splashed on his clothes, felt disgusted, took off his clothes and went into the water.

The water in summer was not particularly cold, but it still made him tremble, and he woke up instantly, only to realize that he hadn't brought clean clothes.

——But Mo Wen never came to help him.

He squatted in the water, rubbed his arms, and suddenly buried his face in the water, holding his breath until he couldn't hold it anymore, then raised his head and took a big breath.

His body was already very cold, and the place where his chest had been kicked began to ache again.

He reached out to the dirty clothes on the table, but at this moment, a neat stack of clean clothes was handed to him suddenly. He looked up the man's arm and saw a familiar s face.

—not the familiarity that I like, but the familiarity that I hate.

"What are you doing here?" He frowned.

Hu Lugu squatted in front of him, still holding the stack of clothes, "Of course I came to deliver clothes to you, I think, you must not want to go back in dirty clothes, right?"

Li Xian sneered, and took the clothes, "That's really bothering Khan." After a pause, "Please turn around."

"Why, they are all men, is there anything else to avoid?"

He clenched his fists, and suddenly splashed water on the opponent's face with one hand. Hu Lugu was caught off guard and was splashed all over his face. He turned around instinctively. Pants.

Hu Lugu wiped off the water from his face, quickly got up and clasped Li Xian's neck, pretending to be angry and said, "How dare you play this game with me?!"

Li Xian was restrained by him and couldn't move, because his clothes were put on too quickly and he didn't even have time to fasten them. His chest and abdomen were undoubtedly exposed. When Hu Lugu saw the bruise on his chest, he raised his eyebrows, and reached out to touch it lightly, saying : "Did I hurt you that day?"

"..."

Li Xian didn't expect him to be like this at all, he took a step back in shock, waved his arm away, and shouted: "Get out!" He hurriedly tightened his clothes.

Hu Lugu smiled lightly, paced beside him, and said with his hands behind his back: "I heard that Emperor Yin Li Xian has a habit of cutting off his sleeves, and he kept your good friend in the palace, am I wrong?"

Li Xian froze in place.

Hu Lugu smiled maliciously: "In that case, why didn't your good friend come to save you? Or did he run away early because he saw that your country was in trouble and was afraid of getting into trouble?"

"...Don't use the heart of a villain to save the belly of a gentleman!"

"Really?" He leaned closer to Li Xian, stretched out his hand to lift his chin, and whispered, "What if I told you that I also have a habit of breaking sleeves?"

Li Xian only felt sick for a while, and goose bumps all over his body, he pushed him away, "Please respect yourself!" He strode towards the tent.

Hu Lugu didn't catch up, but looked at his back and squinted his eyes.

The harder it is to get something, the more he wants to get it.

For example, in this world, and for example...

Ha ha.

Li Xian returned to the tent, almost slumped in front of the desk, drinking a cup of tea to calm his breathing.

This Hulugu...he wants to stay away from him.

However, it depends on him to decipher Tahan's characters.

What to do? What to do? What to do!

Mo asked, where are you...

He suddenly grabbed a piece of writing paper and tore it to shreds, then swept all the Tahan books on the table to the ground, stepped on them hard a few times, vented his anger, and then slowly calmed down.

Li Xian, you are not for yourself.

Don't forget what you are here for.

He closed his eyes hard, took a deep breath, picked up the books one by one, tried to calm himself down, re-studied the ink, and began to write slowly.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

He must endure, no matter what happens, it must not affect the overall situation.

Hu Lugu took the dragon scale to find Xie Yan, Xie Yan was very surprised after seeing it, and asked, "Where did you get this thing?"

"It belongs to Li Xian."

Xie Yan nodded, "No wonder..."

"What exactly is this?"

Xie Yan didn't answer, just put the dragon scale in his palm to play with, and said after a while: "You tore it off him, right?"

"how do you know?"

"Of course he won't take the initiative to give you such an important thing." He took two steps, "But I advise you, it's best to return this thing to him quickly."

Hu Lugu was very puzzled, frowned and said: "Why? You tell me what is this?"

"This is a dragon scale."

"Dragon scale?" Hu Lugu was a little surprised, "Is it the supernatural thing in your Han legends, the dragon?"

Xie Yan nodded, and put the dragon scale under the light. After the light, the black dragon scale was very clear, "That's right, it's the dragon you understand. Do you still remember... the great drought in Dayin before?" Is it?"

Hu Lugu snorted: "Of course I remember, you and I originally discussed to take advantage of the severe drought to weaken their strength. According to people's calculations, the severe drought and flood should have lasted for several months to a year, but who It’s a great pity that I was not able to continue going south because of the inexplicable sudden solution, which caused me to raise troops hastily and only gathered 5 people in a hurry.”

"Then do you know who solved the drought and flood?"

"Didn't you Han people hear the rumors that Emperor Yin went to Yingzhou to pray for rain in person, so God was relieved?" His tone was [-]% disdainful, "Hmph, but I don't believe it. It's really so easy to be moved, how can the common people suffer in this world?"

Xie Yan shook his head, "Of course it's not something that moved God." He turned around and faced Hu Lugu, "That's the power of the dragon. It was the dragon that moved the soaring Wei River to the Huai River by moving the rain, so that the stagnant Huai River could be restored. Flowing. Later, Dayin changed his year name to Shenlong, also to commemorate this event."

"You... are you serious?"

"Why not take it seriously?" He picked up the dragon scale, "If my prediction is correct, this scale belongs to that dragon, and the so-called Li Xian kept his lover in the palace, but in fact that lover, That's the dragon."

Hu Lugu was momentarily speechless, "This..."

"That's why I advise you to return this dragon scale. You also know that dragon's mighty power. If it really comes to avenge Li Xian one day, I'm afraid your entire tower will be in a desperate situation."

Hu Lugu snorted coldly, "What kind of dragon is not a dragon? If it really dares to come, I really want to see it! I want to see how many heads and legs have grown in your Han people's apotheosis! I, Hulu, do things alone, and I have never regretted it! Now that this dragon scale has already been obtained, there is absolutely no reason to return it. Since you love it so much, I will give it to you, and you will be the one who advises me. It's been so long, let me give you a little thank you!" After saying that, he left in a huff.

"Ugh……"

Xie Yan let out a long sigh, and murmured: "Shenlong, oh, Shenlong... What's the use of a Shenlong? The real dragon emperor has fallen into my Xie Yan's hands. Are you still afraid of a four-legged insect?"

Jinyang City, military tent.

Li Ye sat in front of the case in a daze.

"Your Majesty, you have lost your mind again." Shen Xin stood by his side and refilled a cup of tea for him.

Li Ye himself was not a tea-drinking person, but in order to imitate him, he also learned Li Xian's living habits.He took a sip of tea lightly and said, "What information is coming?"

Shen Xin put a stack of information on the table, "Please look over it, Your Majesty."

The corner of Li Ye's mouth curled up, but it was full of self-mockery.Looking over, it was indeed just looking over, looking for information, but pretending, the one who really made suggestions was the woman beside him.

Who would have thought that Li Ye was just pretending to be the emperor's skin, and it was this "handmaid" who really replaced the emperor's mind.

He was not in the mood to read the information, and lowered his voice: "Is there any news from him?"

Shen Xin smiled, "The agreed time is January, and it's only halfway through now. Don't be impatient, Your Majesty. When the time comes, you will naturally get in touch."

Has it only been half a month... But it seems like half a year has passed...

This kind of marionette-like life is really difficult.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?" Shen Xin called him, "This is a letter from the capital, Your Majesty please reply."

"Oh……"

Li Ye picked up the pen and began to write slowly on the blank paper.

Small script, neat and round, handsome and elegant.

In half a month, he has learned ten percent of Li Xian's handwriting, which is enough to confuse the real ones with the fake ones.

And why did he... learn so quickly...

Because he and Li Xian actually came from the same school.

Eighteen years ago, five-year-old Li Xian and eight-year-old Li Ye were writing face to face at the same table.

The teacher is also a master of calligraphy. Emperor Li Zhang sent him to Hangzhou specially from the capital to teach his two sons to read and practice calligraphy.But Li Ye was too playful, and refused to listen to any teachings. He was three years older than his younger brother, but he was still at the same level as him.

The gentleman knocked on Li Ye's table with a ruler, with a look of resentment: "How many times have I told you that what I teach you is regular script, regular script! Not cursive script! Look at you, look at you! Why do you write more and more messy?"

Li Ye simply threw away the pen, raised his face, and pouted: "I don't want to write anymore! I'll write tomorrow!"

"Write again tomorrow! Today you say you will write it tomorrow, and tomorrow you say you will write it tomorrow! Count yourself, how many words do you already owe me?"

"Hmph! If you don't want to write, you don't want to write!" He stood up suddenly, pushed his husband away and ran out the door. Just as he ran out of the door, he bumped into his mother, who twisted his ears and carried him back.

Wen Yan pushed him back on the chair, "Xiaoye, what did mother tell you yesterday?"

Li Ye was furious and refused to answer.

"Did mother tell you that you are not allowed to push Mr., and you have to listen to what he says? Mr. is old and can't bear you to push. Hurry up and finish writing today's words. If you don't finish writing, mother won't give you dinner."

"Humph!"

Mr. Wen Yantong left the room together, leaving only the two children to continue writing.However, Li Ye couldn't calm down. It was too slow and time-consuming to write this small script. He didn't want to learn it at all, but his mother still forced him to learn it.

The more I thought about it, the angrier I became, and I couldn't help but vent my anger on my younger brother. Why would he be praised by his husband every day and rewarded by his mother?

Seeing that he had finished writing today's words and put down the pen, he felt even more angry. Suddenly, he had a bad idea, picked up the brush, dipped a mouthful of ink in the inkstone, and then flicked it vigorously, the ink splashed on the inkstone. Li Xian's handwriting that he just wrote is full of it.

Li Xian was stunned for a moment, and it took several seconds to react. His eyes were red, and he looked at Li Ye: "You..."

"Hmph," Li Ye picked up the inkstone with a gloating expression, and poured all the remaining ink on the other party's paper, "Let you write, let you write, let you write!"

Li Xian's eyes became even redder, tears welled up in his eyes, he bit his lower lip and lowered his head, trying hard not to cry.

"Little crying bag!" Li Ye put his hands on his hips, "You will cry! You cry, and when you cry, mother will come to save you! Cry quickly!"

But Li Xian suddenly raised his head, glared at him, suppressed his tears, threw the discarded paper on the ground, spread out a new one and started writing again.

"you……"

Li Ye also seemed to feel that he was wrong, so he sat back in the chair, but he refused to apologize.

After a while, the master seemed to sense something was wrong, and went back to the room. He saw that Li Xian had only written a third of the paper, and asked doubtfully, "Xiao Xian, didn't you almost finish writing just now?"

"I……"

He suddenly found the ink-stained piece of paper thrown on the ground, unfolded it, and immediately understood, and angrily said to Li Ye: "Li Ye! You did something good again! Why did you bully my younger brother again for no reason! Stretch your hand!" come out!"

——Li Ye resolutely didn't eat dinner that day, and was even beaten by a ruler.

The next day, it was Li Xian who finished writing first, and he wanted to repeat the same trick, but was stopped by the other party. Li Xian took the written paper and handed it to him: "Here."

Li Ye didn't understand, so he asked, "What are you doing?"

"Here you are, and you can tell Mr. that you wrote it."

"Uh?"

Li Xian ignored him and started to write the second copy.

In this way, Li Ye didn't make trouble anymore, and Li Xian would write a copy for him every day.However, the good times didn't last long, and he was soon discovered by Mr.

That day, Li Xian was punished by his husband to kneel for the first time, with his hands outstretched, palms up, and his head bowed, waiting for him to hit him.

The husband shook his head and sighed, "Xiao Xian, what should I say to you? Do you know what you are doing? This is helping others to cheat! You will harm Xiaoye, and you will also harm yourself!"

Li Xian buried his head even lower, his lips turned white from being bitten by himself, and his whole body trembled slightly, "Sir, Li Xian knew he was wrong."

"I hit you today to make you remember! Don't blame Mr.

The ruler fell on his palm, leaving a red mark, his whole body trembled, but he didn't make a sound.

When it fell for the second time, a strange thing happened, the ruler somehow broke in two out of thin air and fell to the ground.

"This..." The gentleman was dumbfounded, he obviously didn't use any force, how could this fine ruler break...

At this time, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Li Ye rushed in angrily, waving two fists, and hit the husband: "Why did you hit my brother! Who allowed you to hit my brother! My brother! Only I can hit him! If you dare to hit him, I will kill you! Kill you!"

Li Xian withdrew his hands, raised his head, looked blankly at Li Ye, and then at the red mark on his palm.

What is going on?