After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

The ones who were sent to explore the trade routes were naturally the team that was sent to Yunzhou to the west a few days ago.The emperor thought for a while and said, "A few days ago there was news that they were almost arriving in Yunzhou. A new letter was delivered last night, so it must have been connected with Ma Yi. But I didn't If you have time to see it, then..."

Zhou Xun: "Just?"

emperor:……

...Okay, no more questions.Zhou Xun silently swallowed the next sentence in his heart.

...It seems that the emperor just got the letter and didn't have time to read it, just because he heard that he was going to leave for the night...then hurriedly followed him out of the palace.

As for what happened after leaving the palace, especially what happened in Yanyunfang, it's worth not mentioning it.

The two watched their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses, and stopped talking, and the scene was extremely harmonious for a while.The lecturer downstairs has left, and the lunch break has passed.The emperor wiped his hands and said, "There is still a schedule to catch up in the afternoon, shall we start first?"

Zhou Xun nodded, and he didn't mention what he said about the emperor's anxiety.However, at the moment when he was about to walk out of the box door and just closed the door, the emperor who was walking in front of him turned around.

... As soon as he turned around, he directly "blocked" Zhou Xun in the gap between his body and the door panel.

Zhou Xun: ...

... To be honest, this posture is too ambiguous and too close, he is a little uncomfortable and flustered.

The emperor didn't realize how strange this posture was at all.He was walking in front of Zhou Xun, and when he thought of something, he wanted to turn around and talk to Zhou Xun, so he just turned around.As for the fact that Zhou Xun just closed the door at that time, and was caught in the narrow gap between the emperor and the door... For him, it was just a small matter with a clear conscience.

"Actually, you said just now that I was too impatient...you were right." The emperor's warm breath hit his ear, Zhou Xun couldn't hold back, and tried his best to stick himself on the door panel like a quiet pot helmet , "I... I... Do you know what it feels like when I come to this world?"

"...It's a sense of gap. I have too much knowledge beyond this era, what I have seen and heard beyond this era-they are like waterfalls, like potential energy differences, like huge gaps on both sides of the membrane. Osmotic pressure difference - this is the gap between the two eras. It's like a river flowing to a high place. Looking at the lake below the cliff, you can't help but want to pour yourself all down and fill it up under the pull of huge potential energy. Going in, flying straight down. There are many places in this world that I want to change, but I am just an ordinary person, looking at them, I am very powerless..."

The emperor's voice entered his ears, and Zhou Xun, who was not used to this posture, gradually stopped sticking himself into a pie.

...the Emperor is lonely.

This was Zhou Xun's sudden thought.

No matter from which external point of view, the emperor has nothing to do with loneliness.He is always so cheerful and optimistic, full of enthusiasm and happiness all over his body.but……

He remembered a poem.

——A stranger in a foreign land alone.

The emperor is a stranger in this era.Zhou Xun didn't know what the world the emperor came from was like, but he knew it should be very beautiful - full of flowers, sunshine and the emperor's past relatives and friends.

——He will love that era very much.Although he has become a stranger in this world.

Zhou Xun thought.

——No one will know what the emperor once owned, no one will know what shaped him, what was regarded as common sense in the emperor's era has become deviant here... He is a misfit in this world Special color blocks.

This kind of loneliness that is incompatible with the world is a kind of loneliness that will be hidden in the deepest part of the emperor's heart, and even he himself is not clearly aware of it.

But Zhou Xun felt it.

——In a sense, he also felt a similar loneliness during the time when he was locked up in the palace, betrayed by all relatives, and even lost his career.In that situation, he either chooses to die, or he can only sit back and watch himself reduced to an impersonal object.

——Until the emperor pulled him up from the ground in the royal study.

That was the first connection he re-established with this world that had already abandoned him.

"I know." Zhou Xun said softly.

He looked at the emperor, thinking so.

A stranger in a foreign land alone.

It's just that Zhou Xun didn't know another sentence until many years later.

"This place of peace of mind is my hometown."

"...Actually, there is one more thing I want to say, why do I always feel that when you are in front of me, you are very... careful?" The emperor continued, his eyes looked at Zhou Xun who was in the gap between him and the door, "I don't know why, but I always have a feeling that...you don't think you have the right to say...a lot of things to me?"

Zhou Xun was stunned.

He grabbed his hand and heard the emperor continue: "I don't quite understand, sometimes..."

The emperor himself was hesitant to speak, and he finally said: "When I looked at you, I clearly felt that you wanted to say something to me, but in the end you didn't say a word. Including just now, you Said that I was too radical, and you hesitated for a long time before saying this... It's like, you think you are not qualified to say this. I don't like this. Obviously there is a mistake in what you really want to say nor."

His throat was a little dry, and it took Zhou Xun a long time to say: "You are..."

"But if you don't even want to tell me the truth, I won't be able to find anyone else who will tell me the truth." The emperor scratched his head a little annoyed, "I don't think I did something wrong, but no one People dare to remind me. And you and others should be different."

"……it is good."

Zhou Xun said softly, "I see."

emperor:……

For some reason, why did he feel that there was a murderous look in Zhou Xun's words?

Just as he was about to say something, something warm suddenly touched his shoulder.

It was Zhou Xun's forehead.

Zhou Xun hugged him.

emperor:……

He didn't move, for a long time, after maintaining the hugging position for a long time, the emperor finally stammered: "Why hug me all of a sudden?"

Zhou Xun: ...

...Does the emperor really want to spoil the scenery like this?

"A hug from a great friendship," he said offhandedly, and a little more ominously.

Emperor: "...Oh."

For some reason, he felt a little lost in the emperor's voice, but his heart was beating fast.

Some people passed by in the corridor and saw the pair of men...friends hugging in front of the door, and cast strange glances at each.

"Let's go, let's go to the next place." Seeing that the emperor was still in a daze with a lost face, Zhou Xun pushed his shoulder with his hand, "Didn't the emperor... say there is another place to go?"

Emperor: "Wait!"

As if waking up from a dream, he said to Zhou Xun: "Now you are outside, call me directly... Isn't it too unsafe for the emperor?"

Zhou Xun: "It seems to be a little bit."

Emperor: "Why don't you... use a pseudonym? For example, Master Huang, Young Master Huang, etc..."

Zhou Xun: ...

"Okay," he smiled, looking at the emperor who was thinking hard, "but there's no need to think about it, isn't there a ready-made alias?"

Emperor: "? What."

"Brother Haoyu?"

emperor:……

At that moment, Zhou Xun thought he saw a red heart salted duck egg that burst in an instant.

Zhou Xun: "Can't you?"

Emperor: "Goose, goose, okay, okay."

... For some reason, he felt that the emperor was very weak and did not dare to look at him.

The two turned around and went downstairs.As soon as Zhou Xun walked into the corridor, he heard the sound of the box door being opened behind him.

...and two guards came out.

Zhou Xun: ...

Oh, he, who has the habit of closing doors casually, accidentally locked the guards who followed them in the room just now.

Then during the time when the emperor pressed him on the door to chat, the two guards did not dare to open the door.

...you can only come out after they leave.

Zhou Xun: ...

He turned around to apologize to the two, but his hand was held by another hand.

...the kind that almost interlocks fingers.

Zhou Xun suddenly turned his head, facing the emperor with the same sudden expression, he seemed to be burned the moment Zhou Xun looked over, and quickly changed the position of his hand from Zhou Xun's hand to Zhou Xun's arm.

Zhou Xun: ...

Emperor: "Hahaha, let's go quickly, we won't be able to make it back to the palace in the evening."

Zhou Xun: ...Oh.

He let the emperor pull him into the carriage.

The boyfriend who had accidentally imprisoned the two guards just now boarded the carriage traveling through Beijing again.This trip was longer than before. The two left the city gate from the south and walked all the way to an extremely remote valley.

The mountain road was a bit bumpy, and Zhou Xun was a little bit carriage-sick.Halfway through the journey, he felt a little uncomfortable and dizzy.

But seeing the emperor's high spirits along the way, he didn't say anything.

When he closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the carriage, trying to get through this for a while, someone suddenly pulled him and leaned against him.

"If you don't feel well, just lie down in the car and take a nap, and you will feel much more comfortable afterwards." He heard the emperor say.

Zhou Xun nodded. He leaned on the emperor's shoulder and fell asleep in a daze.

When he woke up again, the carriage had already stopped.Zhou Xun found that he was still leaning on the emperor's shoulder. When he turned his head to look at him in this posture, he saw the emperor sitting beside him with his back straight, looking up at the sky with his neck up, and holding his hands in front of him. It was neatly placed on the knees, like an unyielding steel statue.

Zhou Xun:?

The emperor's overly upright posture seemed to have done something wrong while he was asleep.

He got up from the opponent's shoulder, and the emperor said to him: "We have arrived."

...still didn't look at his face.

Zhou Xun: ...What is this?Why does it feel like the emperor is suddenly afraid of him?

The emperor always had fits of convulsions, and Zhou Xun didn't take this weirdness seriously.He got off the carriage with the emperor, and the destination was a heavily guarded base surrounded by mountains.

The base is guarded by many guards, and anyone who enters or exits must be checked and certified.Seeing that the emperor had arrived, the guards saluted and let him go.

"This is..." Zhou Xun said.

"The place where firearms, bombs, chariots and knives are smelted." The emperor whispered, "There is also a war horse research institute on the other side."

Zhou Xun: ...

The Emperor never looked at him as he spoke.

"Is your majesty planning...to conquer the world with these weapons?" He looked at the smoke in the base and whispered.

"No," said the emperor heartily, "I only intend to convince others with the truth."

The author has something to say: Zhou Xun thought, being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, the emperor must be very lonely standing in a strange era.

But at that time he didn't think of another sentence.

"This place of peace of mind is my hometown."