rootless

Xu Mansion, in front of Xu Shu's room.One is inside and one is outside.

Xu Shu was inside, and Lin Xiyan was outside.

Xu Shu knew that Lin Xiyan was away, and Lin Xiyan guessed that Xu Shu must have known that he would come. After all, Xu Shu had made such a detour just to lure him to see him.

The reason why he refused Lin Xiye's company was also because of this. He thought that Xu Shu would prefer to meet him alone than to come with him and Xiye.

Just like that, here he comes.But the moment his fingers touched Xu Shu's door, he suddenly stopped.

Suddenly, he thought, what will happen after entering this door?

The self who was as dead-hearted as he was more than a month ago met Xi Ye after passing through that wonderful and strange passage.

What about this time?Will something good happen, or something bad?

All of this is unknown now, and he will have to wait until he goes in and meets Xu Shu to have the answer.

What kind of person is Xu Shu?At the beginning, he looked like a dandy in white clothes, then he ran inexplicably and escaped in the street regardless of his image, and finally he was mysterious after arriving at Dr. Qing's clinic.The more he thought about it, the more confused Lin Xiyan became.

However, what is certain is that from the beginning to the end, Xu Shu gave people the impression that he was full of kindness and consideration.Even now that his heart is full of self-loathing, which triggers a self-protective and reflexive disgust towards Xu Shu, he still has to admit that Xu Shu is not a villain, and it can even be said that he is better than the most horrible person he has ever seen. Much better for most people to come.

But now, this good man, after sensing his disgust, designed himself to come here to meet him.

Alas, Lin Xiyan sighed helplessly, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, as long as they are people, they cannot be free.However, sometimes he still can't help wondering if there really are people who do whatever they want and are at ease in this world.

Thinking of this, he didn't stay any longer, and with a strong hand, the door opened with a "squeak".

When he entered, Xu Shu turned his back to him, looking at something in his hand.

Lin Xiyan looked at his back and didn't speak, but Xu Shu turned around and said hello when he heard the voice, "Oh, Xiyan, you're here."

Xu Shu's tone was very natural, just like the day when Lin Xiyan met him and called him Xiyan by himself.

Lin Xiyan was slightly taken aback when he saw this, but he really didn't know how to answer, so he said silently, "Yes."

Xu Shu didn't seem to care at all, stood up and smiled at him, "Does Xiyan really want to know why I invited you to see me?"

Lin Xiyan nodded silently.

"Oh, don't be like this. Your lack of energy will make me feel that I bullied you." Xu Shu tapped his head with a fan helplessly, "Ah, that's good, Xiyan, I'll bring you You go to see something." As he spoke, he suddenly pulled Lin Xiyan's sleeve and ran towards the screens in another compartment in the distance.

His movement was too sudden, so when Lin Xiyan came back to his senses, it was too late to stop him, so he had no choice but to follow him to the back of the screen.

The screen was not too far away, and soon Xu Shu stopped.Lin Xiyan snatched back his sleeve immediately, "You do—" he yelled for a while before being forced to stop.

Because he saw the paintings on the screen, all of them were paintings by the same person, flower and bird paintings.

The reason why he was surprised was naturally not because of the large number of paintings, but because, those paintings were all drawn by him!

However, this is not what surprised him the most. What shocked him the most was that although he could see that those paintings were made by him, those paintings were not in his memory.

This is simply impossible.

How is this possible.While muttering this, he suddenly noticed the inscription date of a painting: the 60th year of Emperor Xiguang of the Taisho Dynasty.

"Emperor Xiguang's 60 years, 40 years later?" Lin Xiyan seemed to think of something, he suddenly turned around and pulled Xu Shu's collar, "Have you been there 40 years later? Have you seen me in 40 years?"

"Cough, Xiyan, you have something to say, cough, cough, can you not pull my collar every time I get excited?" Xu Shu begged with a bitter face.

However, Lin Xiyan acted as if he didn't hear, and kept asking, "What did the future me say to you? Why did you come back to me? What's your purpose in helping me find Xiye?"

Seeing that he was getting more and more agitated, Xu Shu, whose neck was starting to turn red, had no choice but to give up reasoning with him, and stretched out his hand gently.

The world is clean.

"Huh——" Xu Shu, who was saved, hurriedly stepped back two or three steps, opened the folding fan in his hand, and fanned the wind desperately.

After the heat on his face subsided, he looked at Lin Xiyan who was immobilized.

Lin Xiyan didn't look at him, but stared fixedly at the folding fan with sparrows in his hand, then he turned his gaze to Xu Shu's face, the expression on his face seemed to say: I just said I couldn't find this painting ,Oh it's you!You thief!

Xu Shu felt a little embarrassed when he saw it for a moment, "Hey, let's say it first, I'm not stealing."

Lin Xiyan looked at him suspiciously, expressing his disbelief.

Xu Shu tapped his fan on the head helplessly: "It's true. You promised me 40 years later. As long as I fulfill his wish, I can take some of your paintings at will."

Lin Xiyan's eyes turned cold, and he stopped looking at him.

Xu Shu looked at him in distress. Compared with the peaceful and incredible Lin Xiyan in his old age, this young Lin Xiyan was too sharp. He really didn't know whether he should give the silver needle inserted into his body. Pull it off to release his immobilization.

After thinking about it again and again, Xu Shu finally decided to let Lin Xiyan go. "Xiyan, as for me, I will let your body be free now, but you promise me that you will stop pulling on my collar, you know?"

Lin Xiyan rolled his eyes at him, but agreed with a blink of an eye.

After half an hour.

"Xu Shu."

"what?"

"Again, why are you doing this? What good is it doing you?"

"Benefits?" Xu Shu unfolded the folding fan in his hand, "That's the benefits, didn't you just say that?"

"What a joke," Lin Xiyan snorted, "you have painstakingly planned to take a group of us to the past for a while, and the future for a while, but now you say it's just for these few ruins that can't be sold on the street for a few cents. Calligraphy and painting?"

"So in Xiyan's opinion, what should I ask of you to be fair?" Xu Shu asked back.

"I—" Lin Xiyan stopped suddenly, yes, those who either almost died or lost everything, what else can they give?

"I finally understand something."

"Understand what?"

"I understand why I met Xiyan and you guys."

"What do you mean? Didn't you meet us first?" Lin Xiyan was puzzled.

"That's not the case." Xu Shu shook his head, "I came here suddenly one day without any reason. My name and surname are all fake."

"What's your original name?"

"No name, no last name."

"how come?"

"It's true. Where I first lived, there were no human beings there. Only flowers and plants and animals accompanied me. This kind of life continued until one day a person called me to come here."

"Someone called you?"

"En," Xu Shu nodded.

"Who is that person?"

Xu Shu didn't answer immediately, but just gave him a strange look.

Lin Xiyan was stunned, "Is that person me?"

"That's right, it's you." Xu Shu said with a smile, "Speaking of which, you were the one who got the name Xu Shu."

"really?"

"Well," Xu Shu nodded, "However, it wasn't this 'shu', but a 'drop in the ocean'. After you heard about my life experience, you said that I had no roots and no source, like a mayfly between heaven and earth, That's why I took the word 'su'. However, at that time, most of the servants in Xu's mansion were illiterate, and because of the local dialect, they always pronounced 'su' as 'shuzi', and they always asked me, 'Is it right? The concubine in the family is not welcome, so I ran out secretly', after being asked a lot, I simply acquiesced."

"Xu Mansion? After 40 years, did I really follow someone named Xu?" The expression on Lin Xiyan's face suddenly dimmed.

Xu Shu looked at his somewhat silent expression, and didn't know how to comfort him. He looked left and right, and passed the folding fan in front of Lin Xiyan, "Does Xiyan know why I like your paintings so much?"

Lin Xiyan shook his head, "I don't know, but Xiye also said that he likes my paintings very much, and that they are very vivid."

"That's what he said against his will." Xu Shu revealed bluntly, "Although your paintings are very full in shape, the flowers, birds, insects and fish in them are very rigid, and your eyes are stiff."

Lin Xiyan became anxious for a while: "Then why do you still collect my paintings?"

Xu Shu smiled triumphantly, "Because I was born in a valley where every plant and tree has aura. It depends on when the mountain flowers are blooming. In addition, it is like spring all year round and there is no snow, so it is more vibrant As far as paintings are concerned, I prefer lifeless paintings."

Lin Xiyan: "..."

Lin Xiyan rolled his eyes at him and ignored him, thinking about his own concerns.

Seeing this, Xu Shu propped his chin quietly and was stunned.

a while.

"What happened to Lan Xin? Ziyao said he was drugged. Who did it? The general or the emperor?" Lin Xiyan asked.

"Neither of them." Xu Shu denied.

"Neither of them?" Lin Xiyan frowned.

"Yeah, neither of them. It was his family who gave the medicine." Xu Shu glanced at him, "Those two people didn't do anything because Lan Xin was no longer worth using in their eyes, while the general and the emperor In this game, the opponent knows exactly which bargaining chips. What Lan Xin knows is useless at all. But these Lan Xin's family members don't know. After Lan Xin went home sad, they wanted to get rid of it Kill him, but at that time Lan Xin still had the brand of "the emperor's man". They were afraid that if the emperor remembered Lan Xin and Lan Xin was gone, they would blame them. Drink the medicine to lose consciousness. This way, you can not offend the emperor, and you don't have to worry about Lan Xin getting into trouble or talking nonsense."

Lin Xiyan frowned after hearing this, and fell silent.

"Do you know? The reason Lingxian is here is because you asked me to save him."

"It's impossible." Lin Xiyan shook his head resolutely, "It was he who poisoned Xi Ye himself, no matter how many difficulties he had, Xi Ye really died, and died in my arms. I can't even forget Xi Ye's appearance when he died. Even if I am facing him now, I would--I don't believe you when you say that I begged you to save him."

Xu Shu didn't speak, just smiled.

"What are you laughing at?"

"No, I just feel that you and Zixun are really similar."

"Zixun?" Lin Xiyan was taken aback when he heard the unfamiliar name, "Who is that?"

"Qin Zixun, the well-known General Zixun in the Dazheng Dynasty 40 years later. He is also Ziyao's younger brother."

"Master Ziyao's younger brother?" Lin Xiyan inexplicably recalled Qin Ziyao's expression when he told the story about coaxing his younger brother to drink medicine, "Where is he now?"

"In the palace, marry the princess."

"Why? Didn't you say that he is a great general? Now that he is married to a princess, he is a son-in-law. How can he be a general? Could it be," Lin Xiyan guessed suddenly remembering what happened to him, "Could it be that you not only received me A person's call, and someone else? Is that Ziyao?"

"No."

"That is?"

Xu Shu shook his fan with a smile, and said with a smile, "Do you still remember what I said just now that Ziyao's younger brother is very similar to you?"

"You mean that person is Ziyao's younger brother, Zixun?" Lin Xiyan was a little puzzled, "Why would he do this? He would change his own life regardless of the general's life, because he loves the princess?"

Xu Shu shook his head again, "He doesn't love the princess, he did it for Ziyao."

"Zi Yao?"

"Well," Xu Shu stood up, "because in Qin Zixun's memory, his elder brother died today, on the night of his wedding with the princess. The reason why he didn't hesitate to be a general was because To keep his brother alive, even in places he doesn't know."

"How did Zi Yao die?"

"Zi Yao," Xu Shu paused, "Zi Yao fell in love with a man of the same sex before the emperor bestowed the marriage, so when the emperor bestowed the marriage, he quietly handed a note to the princess, writing on the paper Seeing that he already has his own heart, please let him and that person go away."

"The princess agreed?"

"Yes, I agreed. But she lied to Ziyao and asked him to agree to the marriage first, and then let her intercede with the emperor in private."

"and after?"

"Later, after Zi Yao arranged for the person he loved to leave the imperial city first, he bid farewell to the princess on the wedding night. But the princess mocked him in front of him, and ordered someone to hunt him down. Ziyao's sweetheart's order. When Ziyao rushed forward to stop him, he was accidentally killed by the princess' guards."

Hearing this, Lin Xiyan was surprised that Xu Shu kept using 'that person' instead of the person Qin Ziyao liked, and couldn't help asking, "Who is that person Ziyao likes?"

"You also know that person." Xu Shu blinked mysteriously.

"I know you?" A vague image flashed in Lin Xiyan's mind, "You mean Lan Xin?"

"Yes, it is Lingxian. Once Lingxian went to Ziyao's residence adjacent to Zhen's mansion by drilling a dog hole for fun. He happened to be seen by Ziyao who was painting in the garden. After Ziyao's death, first The spirit fairy who stepped out of the imperial city was sent by Zi Yao to the next door to your Xu Mansion. There, he lived next to you and spent the rest of his life foolishly."

"That's really a coincidence." Lin Xiyan sighed.

"It's not a coincidence, it's a destiny in the dark."

Lin Xiyan didn't refute, "So, Doctor Qingqing and Steward Yuanbao, Yici and Feng Meici are also like this, is it because of someone's wish that they become what they are now?"

"Yes, Qingqing's heart has belonged to Yuanbao since she was a child, but Yuanbao is a piece of wood and a filial son. She didn't understand his hints and made a marriage with someone else. Qingqing went to take the civil and martial arts exam in anger, thinking about getting He became famous and married a lot of beauties. Unfortunately, before the beauties fell into his arms, he was favored by the emperor and became the emperor's official document and secretly male concubine. Yuan Bao also did it voluntarily for Qingqing The Minister of Finance, thinking that he can take care of Qingqing. Yici and Meici, because Yici had a bully who liked to abuse handsome boys when he was a child in school. Although Yici escaped many times with his cleverness, in the end There was still a mistake blocked by the bully. Just when the bully broke his legs and wanted to insult him, the prince Feng Meici who happened to pass by rescued Yici and sent him to the hospital. Many years later, the former dynasty was destroyed, and when the prince was fleeing, he was betrayed by his most trusted bodyguard—it turned out that the bodyguard was a serious pedophile wanderer in his early years, because he saw the cute little prince Yuxue when he was a child , stayed with him as a bodyguard, waiting for an opportunity. Later, the prince was imprisoned and was humiliated to death by the bodyguard. After growing up, Yici accidentally heard the news from a crazy palace guard. , went crazy on the spot.”

According to Xu Shu's words, Lin Xiyan made a judgment, "It is Qingqing and Yici who made a wish to you?"

Xu Shu shook his head, "Yici is right, Qingqing is wrong."

"It's the steward Yuanbao?" Lin Xiyan was a little surprised, "Why? Doesn't he not like Qingqing?"

"I don't know about this." Xu Shu shook his head, "However, the reason why Yuan Bao was determined to live up to his parents' expectations, not to marry a wife and have children, and to go back to the past to change Qingqing's fate was a will from the late emperor after his death. "

"What will?"

"He specified that Qingqing should be buried for him."

"Ridiculous, has the late Emperor's brain been eaten by a dog? How could he do this? Doctor Qingqing is not his real concubine?!"

"Who said it wasn't. But the first emperor said that he has been used to Qingqing's company for many years, and hopes that Qingqing can go down and continue to serve. The will must not be violated, and the new emperor has no choice but to do so."

"Xu Shu," Lin Xiyan said after being quiet for a while, and suddenly thought of a question, "You brought me here ten years later, and then went to the past to save the prince and Yici, as well as Doctor Qingqing and Steward Yuanbao. What will happen? Also, Ziyao’s younger brother has gone to that vicious princess instead of Ziyao, what will he do after that?”

"This is-"

"Hey, it seems that I came at the right time. Come on, Xu Shu will follow."

It was an extremely hearty male voice, and as the voice fell, a red shadow flew towards Xu Shu and Lin Xiyan from outside the window.

"Zhong Zizhou! You idiot, can't you walk through the main entrance every time you come?" Xu Shu took the red figure and put it on the table, glaring at the visitor angrily.