The Melancholy of the National Teacher

The big witch frowned uncomfortably in his sleep.

In the dream, the vision was blurred by the steaming heat, the hot spring water with the smell of sulfur stirred up with the movement, the wet and slippery skin stuck together, the black hair tangled in the water, the uncomfortable rhythm in the body, and the uncontrollable panting...

... The scorching heat that washes over the body in the waves is like a thunderbolt on one's body.

And, also, the cold words sprayed in the ears along with the scorching breath.

"You don't want to leave me to die, Helen Zhaonatu."

Helian Yu suddenly woke up from his sleep, but before his mind was clear, he was provoked to groan by the soreness spreading from his head to his fingers.Having never exercised for a long time, the shoulders and waist were too tiring this time, which gave Da Wu the desire to never move for the rest of his life.

He screamed very softly, deliberately lowering his voice, but the slight pain caused by the airflow passing through the vocal cords still made him shut up immediately.

It was only later that he realized that he was fully dressed and wrapped in a thick cloak, and the body temperature of another person was transmitted through the thick clothes.When he raised his head, the light of the sky shone through the gap in the parted cloak, onto his eyes, and the breeze on his forehead told him that he was on his way.And the swaying of his body further showed that he was carried on the back of some bastard.

Under the furry cloak, Helian Yu raised his forehead with one hand.

In fact, the big witch was a little confused.

He didn't mention how long he slept, before it could be said to be blasphemy... During the field battle, how many things he said that should not be said and how many shameful things he did, now with the tumbling Memories came to mind one by one, making Dawu blush, not knowing if he should kill himself or shoot Fei Le Dao.

But he felt a little more relaxed.

Anyway, it's all spread out, it's up to you whether you want to be hanged or beheaded, Helian Yu thought to himself.

In a place he couldn't see, His Majesty the Emperor, who had been a vegetarian for 37 years and finally ate meat, had an indescribably satisfied face. He was in a good mood, so he felt the sound of the person on his back waking up, and pretended not to notice it. Give his big witch reaction time.

Wu Lun and the little Orion walked beside the two adults who were full of filth. The group of people relying on their own legs, had left the ice sea rift valley, and made a big circle around the Daxue Mountain to the south, towards the border of Bailu and Zhonglu. Go to Changchu Strait.They had been on the road for more than a day. Fortunately, the two teenagers were used to hard times. Even Wu Lun, who had been pampered a lot in recent days, never asked why he didn't go to a nearby town to buy livestock for leg strength.

Only Helian Yu was carried away in a daze, and he still doesn't know where he is.

The big witch let go of the hands wrapped around Le Dao's neck, supported His Majesty's shoulders and raised his body. Seeing the scenery along the road, he had an estimate of where he was at the moment.Then he deliberately ignored the matter of saying hello to Le Dao, and called Ulun.

"Uncle!" the young man said cheerfully, "Are you finally awake? Aunt... I mean, His Majesty suddenly came back with you in his arms. I thought that the witchcraft healing was wrong, and your wound collapsed?"

"I'm fine..." He Lianyu frowned and listened to his hoarse voice, and said slowly, "...you—"

Before he finished speaking, Le Dao gagged his mouth with a water bag.

He Lianyu choked, but didn't say anything, and silently took the water bag and started drinking.

After silently watching the interaction between the two, Wu Lun and the little hunter Jiang Bo whispered.

"That's not right, something must have happened between my uncle and aunt," the young Xiao Wu said firmly, "Usually my uncle has a very temper, and if my aunt dares to do this, he will definitely yell at my aunt. It's so weird to talk so well."

Jiang Bo, who was listening to Wu Lun, looked at the pale and slender hands of the great witch.That hand has been hidden in the wide sleeve of the leather jacket, and it was only exposed when he took the water bag just now. The wrist with introverted joints is thin and soft like a willow branch, and a string of dark red and light red marks spread on the back of the hand, like a A string of enchanting peach blossoms.

He Lianyu didn't notice it himself, but the young warrior who was a few years older than Wu Lun was already blushing.

After drinking the water, Helianyu felt that the bad condition of his throat had been relieved, and after asking Wulun a few words, he fell silent.Unless necessary, he is not a talkative person on weekdays. Ulun didn't find it strange at first, but it wasn't until they stopped to rest at night that Ulun realized that his uncle hadn't said a word to Le Dao since he woke up.

And Le Dao didn't say a word to his uncle.

clear!sky!clap!Thunder!

Although Wu Lun no longer had expectations of having a normal family, he didn't want the two to quarrel at all!

The young man had no choice but to observe silently by himself. He soon discovered that although the two did not speak, they communicated a lot...or because they were too tacit, they could immediately understand each other's meaning after subtle movements. In the past, they This point was not obvious during the conversation, but now they are silent, which instead highlights this tacit understanding.

...What about the quarrel?Uren felt like trying to pretend he didn't know the two of them again.

Wu Lun didn't know that what he was thinking in his heart was the feelings of those ministers in the court. It was normal for them to have a sudden and delicate atmosphere between the emperor and the state counselor. General Shiraishi Lang, all these enthusiastic people achieved defeat, so that in the end, they didn't care about these two people at all.

Anyway, they will find a chance to reconcile themselves, the blinded people thought angrily.

After walking awkwardly for a few days—taking down the map of Bailu in Ledao, Daxue Mountain—they reached the Changchu Strait on the tenth day.Le Dao found a way to take a black boat and crossed the strait on a rainy day with three-foot-high waves. The group boarded the land of Zhonglu wetly.

On Zhonglu's side, Le Dao was really laid out piece by piece, and he is very familiar with the terrain.The Changchu Strait is the border of Yungu County and Dongchu County. He didn't bring one big, two small ones to stay here for a long time. Four people and three horses circled the city and villages and ran directly to the imperial capital.

The more you go south, the more you can feel the revived spring breeze. The snow on the mountains changes from being covered in large areas to dots, inlaid with the new tender green shoots. Until one day, all the snow disappears. It turns into a stream with white waves, flows through the round rock gaps, and moistens the small yellow flowers swaying with the wind on both sides.

The poor horse was not easy to walk on the mountain road, so he was released at the foot of the mountain by a group of people, and was picked up by some lucky person.The four wore straw sandals and grabbed vines up and down the mountain. After a drizzle, the mountain road was wet and slippery. Compared to Jiang Bo, a little hunter who had never left Bailu, it was Ulun who grew up in Canglong Mountain. Adapted well to this.

Let Le Dao describe it, this kid is like a wild monkey who has finally returned to the forest.

The monkey was no big deal, if Ulun hadn't gotten too carried away, stepped on the ground, slipped down a small steep slope into a hole in the ground, and had to trouble Jiang Bo to pull him out.

As a result, the wild monkey turned into a mud monkey, and Ulun, who was surrounded by spectators, silently looked at the two adults with a smile on his face, thinking whether he should just turn around and go back into the hole.

"It's really like it, tell me," Le Daole said irresistibly, "Is this my nephew, Uncle Xiao?"

When these words were said, everyone present was taken aback, not because there seemed to be any hidden meaning in these words, but because Helian Yu was the only one standing beside Le Dao at this moment.Ulun's monkey trick was so effective that it actually broke the days of awkwardness between his uncle and aunt.

Even Le Dao himself was a little surprised by what he blurted out.

He Lianyu gave the two little guys a look, telling them to walk away, so the two little guys rolled away cleanly.After their backs disappeared into the forest, the great witch tucked her temple hair behind her ears and said calmly, "Am I also in that embarrassment at that time?"

There was still a little smile on the corner of his mouth not long ago, and Le Dao, whose face was not as gloomy as before, looked back at him.

The eyes of the two people looking at each other are full of temptations. They are testing each other's willingness to accept reconciliation at this moment.

Well, it seems that Le Dao has calmed down after lying to him, Da Wu thought.

I had a lot of fun that day, but Helian didn't seem to remember the words he yelled and scolded himself at the beginning. The key to decide whether he can eat well tonight or in the future depends on the present, and the emperor thinks so.

The two people whose thoughts were not on the same line at all looked away from each other.

"At that time, you were much more embarrassed than your nephew, Your Royal Highness." Le Dao teased in a relaxed tone, "Speaking of which, when we first met, it seemed that we were also in this kind of hills and ditches?"

"It's nearby." Helian Yu raised his eyes, looking at the boundless mountains.

For a moment, the minds of the two were let loose in the chilly spring breeze.

The two of them met for the first time 28 years ago, in the early autumn of the 25th year of Guangwu, among thousands of mountains.

After the ducks were put on the shelf, He Lianyu, who was dressed in a dazzling array of jewels, silk and satin, and painted with lead powder and rouge, pretended to be his younger sister, and was sent away from the cloud screen amidst the sound of horns.Trembling, he rode on a carriage as big as a palace, brought thousands of people to escort him, the jewels offered, the tall horses of Qinglu, spices, beauties, and followed the eunuch called Lord Wang, and traveled thousands of miles. Zuochuanguan, passing through Yungu Kingdom, came to the birthplace of Yunshui on the border between Yungu Kingdom and the Central Plains under the jurisdiction of Tianjing City.

There are also high mountains here, and there are local specialties in the high mountains-groups of bandits.

The bandits here are still daring bandits, they dared to rob the Qinglu envoy's team, the most eye-catching thing is that these bandits even succeeded in robbing.

Qinglu's team was completely annihilated, and the body of "Princess Helian Naren" was burnt black, and it was impossible to distinguish her face.

One day later, when Emperor Chong heard the news, he was furious. When he ordered a thorough investigation, Helian Yu, who had escaped from the team, was holding in his arms the lamb that was also sent as a tribute to Tianjing City, covered in blood and mud, huddled in a certain ravine In a burrow covered by vegetation.

His eyes were red and swollen, and he could vaguely guess that "he" was dead.

Of course, the nobles in Tianjing City would not know what happened on the night of bandit robbery, but the young Helian Yu could see clearly that before the bandits arrived in their carriages, the Qinglu warriors accompanying the team had already stabbed them. He knocked down Mr. Wang who was riding on the horse, and then rushed into the carriage with a knife raised. A screaming maid bumped into him, and he was decapitated the next moment.

...How can Emperor Chong not find out that he is not Naren?

The best thing is that he will never be in front of Emperor Chong.

He Lianyu fled, accidentally rolled down the ravine in the dark night, unable to climb out of the cave due to broken bones, he watched the fire light flickering through the gaps in the vegetation and the shouts in his ears, amidst the dampness and the rustling of snakes and insects, flowing Spending two days and one night with the lamb who stayed with him in the car all the time with tears in his eyes.

On the second day, the searchers dispersed, and Helian Yu, who doubted that he would really die in this corner, was dizzy, waiting for the most important fate in his life.

28 years later, Emperor Da'an broke off a small yellow flower and held it in his mouth.

"How did I know that my trap not only caught a lamb, but also brought a big living person along with it."

"So I was sent by the lamb?" Helian Yu's mouth twitched.

The big witch who said this didn't know that the eyes he was looking at Le Dao at the moment were extremely gentle.

Le Dao thought, that's right, that's the look in his eyes.

The nine-year-old emperor used his scabbard to push aside the withered grass covering the trap, and saw two panicked lambs inside. Although one of them was panicked, its eyes were still soft and harmless.

Of course, now that Le Dao thinks back, he can only sigh with emotion about He Lianyu's appearance when he was young, it is really easy to arouse people's compassion.At that time, Helian Yu had successfully deceived him, letting him escort him all the way to Tianjing City as a proton.When he arrived at the destination, he was confused by the news that the little girl he had a crush on was actually a boy, and the two broke off contact in embarrassment and silence.

Later, although he would pay attention to the news of His Royal Highness Yu and really meet each other, it was still three years later.

"It's delicious." Le Dao said, he didn't say the rest of the sentence, the two lambs caught in the trap were very delicious.

He Lianyu didn't know what Le Dao was thinking, but following Le Dao's words, he also remembered that when the two of them were in the mountains, they roasted the lamb that was supposed to be sent to Tianjing City with He Lianyu as a tribute. things to eat.It is a specially raised mutton sheep that is only supplied to the Khan. It grows up on wild onions, no seasoning is needed, and it has its own aroma after being roasted.

A little hungry, he thought.

Then the big witch heard a sheep cry.

"Uncle, uncle!" Ulun ran towards them on a sheep, "This seems to be the snow goat we lost in the black market in Sunita!"

Hearing that the emperor and the great witch looked at each other.

"Will it be baked?" asked the emperor.

"It's okay to cook soup." Da Wu replied.