Prince is a slave

does not exist!He has proved countless times that the beauty in the world is all fake.

But in that battle five years ago, how good was Princess Xiao Na to him?Why did he refuse to take advantage of it, but insisted on burning her to death, leaving only charred bones?

With such confusion, Su Yue closed his eyes, and a bronze door deep in his memory slowly opened.A beam of autumn sunshine from 12 years ago shone into his dark heart.

Twelve years ago, the Kingdom of Shang did not have a crown prince. The king of Shang had three sons. Su Yue was the son of a concubine, and he had an elegant and steady elder brother.

The elder brother is far-sighted, knows etiquette and justice, and won the favor of the king of Shang. The civil and military officials of the whole court believed that he would be crowned prince in the near future, so they gathered around him with flattering smiles.

That's right, since ancient times, companions are like companions to tigers. If you make a mistake in this move, you will lose your head. In such a situation where the situation is settled, who will care about that poor second son?

At that time, Su Yue was still young, a 15-year-old boy.Ordinary or even ugly looks, low-key style, let Su Yue live in a corner of the palace, no one cared about him, including his father.

The King of Shang seemed to think that Su Yue, a worthless son, was useless, so he pushed the difficult battle to the young Su Yue. In the court hall, will the middle-aged man sitting on the throne shed a few tears in a hypocritical way, or will he just laugh without pretending?

It's really sad, that is obviously my father, but I haven't seen him once in five or six years.As a son, but he is always on the alert all day long, not thinking about the day and night, living a life that is not as good as those flattering officials.

Su Yue doesn't like to look in the mirror, he doesn't want to see his useless appearance, King Shang doesn't look like a king, but looks like a coachman outside the palace gate, Su Yue unfortunately looks like his father.In fact, Su Yue was very curious about what his mother looked like. In his memory, there was no fragment related to his mother at all. The woman seemed to be very weak. She passed away shortly after giving birth to Su Yue. For some strange reason, There is not a single portrait of the mother in the palace.

However, curiosity is curiosity. Mammy told him not to ask about his mother, so after a long time, Su Yue gradually faded away from this thought.

Autumn is here, the mountains are full of red maples like blood, and the sky is bursting with fiery clouds, like reflections in the water, reflecting each other with the maple trees on the slopes and cliffs.

Su Yue's life took a turning point on such an autumn day.In the autumn of this year, another boy finally walked into Su Yue's originally careless and uninhabitable chest.

That day Su Yue led a light cavalry raid on Yi Bei's granary, but unexpectedly fell into an ambush by Yi Bei, and the poisonous arrow sank into it. He fell off his horse and fell into the wildly growing reeds beside him while fleeing in a hurry.

Pull out the arrowhead on the arm forcefully, the arrowhead is a lotus hook claw, and when you pull it hard, there will be a large amount of blood stains, and a sticky mess of flesh and blood will be left behind.

Su Yue's face was pale, his lips were purple, he closed his eyes, and put aside the poisonous arrow wrapped in his own flesh and blood. Although his head was covered in cold sweat and his muscles were convulsed by pain, he still kept silent and refused to shed a single tear. .

He didn't like to cry since he was a child, because when he cried, no one would feel sad or feel distressed, so crying was for nothing, who was crying for?Who cares about his tears?

"Search! Search inch by inch! That kid is injured! He can't run far, he must be near here!" Not far away came the thunderous trampling of subway hooves, and the people of Yibei Kingdom shouted loudly.

Su Yue shrank subconsciously into the reed grass.

He knew that it would be very difficult for him to escape this catastrophe. Except for the reed grass and a shallow puddle next to it, the rest is a road. Behind the reed grass is a steep cliff. He has no way to retreat, just waiting for the Elbes to find him , sit still.

But at this moment, he suddenly heard a sound of rapid crawling from the depths of the reeds, and he turned his head with great effort, only to see a young man about his age squatting, his movements were quick but very small Move over quickly.

"you……"

"Hush, don't make a sound, keep this in your mouth." The young man moved to Su Yue's side, and handed a willow-like grass to Su Yue's mouth.

The situation was urgent, Su Yue had no choice but to trust this young man whom he had never met, so he did as he said.

With the help of the young man, Su Yue climbed to the edge of the reeds.The boy said to Su Yue: "You jump down, and I will deal with them."

"Below is a cliff!" Su Yue said vaguely with a grass vein in his mouth.

"Tsk, jump if you tell me to, don't worry about dying." The young man said to Su Yue.

The Elbe cavalry had dismounted and began wading into the grass for a rough hunt.

The young man looked back anxiously, seeing that Su Yue hadn't moved yet, he simply pushed him. Su Yue only felt that his body was light, and his whole body began to fall.

"what!"

He thought he would fall off the cliff, but he didn't expect to hit the ground soon, his back hit the hard stone, and Su Yue almost vomited blood.

With the grass in his mouth, Su Yue struggled to open his eyes. There was a lot of miasma lingering here, but the medicinal herbs in his mouth gave off a pleasant and cool aroma on the tip of his tongue. Su Yue was not affected by the miasma.

It turns out that under the misty cliff, there is actually a small protruding stone platform. Because of the dense weeds growing around the cliff, it is difficult for ordinary people to find its existence from above.

Su Yue was lying on the stone platform, and he could clearly hear every sentence of the conversation above.

The cavalry had spotted the young man who helped him just now, and they were interrogating him harshly: "Boy, did you see a man riding a bay red curly mane pass by here? He is about this tall, about the same age as you, with with injuries?"

"I've seen it." The young man replied, Su Yue's heart twitched suddenly, but he heard the young man continue, "But he ran to the front."

"But it's true? You kid, don't lie, be careful not to keep your head!"

"Speak the truth." The young man replied, "I'm just a mountain man who went up to the mountain to collect herbs for my father. I only hope that there are as few right and wrong things as possible, so why bother to lie to some military lords. But that man has been running away for a while. If the military lords don't chase after him, it will be hard to find him if he sneaks into the mountains."

Perhaps it was his last words that frightened the cavalrymen. They hesitated for a while, still fearing that Su Yue would run further and further away, cursed a few words, and finally said: "Get on the horse! Get on the horse, hurry up and give chase!"

Su Yue, who was lying under the cliff stone platform, finally relaxed his tense body. He sighed deeply, and closed his eyes tiredly.

3. People in the sea...

"It's fine, what kind of battle do you want to fight, just make yourself suffer." The young man walked out of the pool, his trousers rolled up high, revealing his white calf, he walked up to Su Yue, wrung out the towel, and bent over Squeeze the poisonous blood from Su Yue's wound, let go of the black blood, then spit out the chewed herbs in his mouth, and patted Su Yue's arm.

"..." Su Yue moved his body slightly, and immediately frowned.

"It hurts, doesn't it?" the boy looked at him with bright eyes and asked.

"...It's okay." Su Yue said dryly, but cold sweat unconsciously covered his forehead.

"This can only be a temporary drug production, you have to see a doctor again." The young man said lightly, "After you go back, escape as much as you can. Things like fighting are thankless, so don't do it again. If you are killed today If they kill you, your parents will definitely be sad."

Su Yue pursed her thin lips, staring carefully at the young man's face for the first time, the young man was concentrating on treating his wound, only his profile could be seen, the bridge of his nose was straight, his eyelashes were thick, and the curvature of his face was soft, is a handsome boy.

For some reason, Su Yue, who likes to destroy beautiful things beyond recognition, didn't even have the slightest feeling of wanting to destroy him this time.

"...He won't be sad." Su Yue sighed and said softly.

"What?" The boy turned his head in doubt, and asked with a frown, the sunlight painted a nice golden border around him.

"...It's nothing." Su Yue smiled faintly, looked at the young man, suddenly felt the feeling of being scratched by a furry paw, and asked without thinking, "By the way, where are you from? Where do you live?" place?"

"Me?" the boy said, "I'm from Shang Country and live in the suburbs of Shang Country. My name is Lin Ruizhe."

When he spoke, he habitually raised the corners of his mouth and raised his brows slightly, with a very gentle and delicate feeling.

Many, many years later, when Su Yue thought of his eyes, he would still feel the warm golden sunlight of that autumn day slowly falling down, falling on his blood-stained body, falling straight from the hole in the wound where the herbal medicine was applied. Into the bottom of my heart.

"Well... If you... If you want to see me, come and find me in Fenglin outside King Shang City." Su Yue still remembers what he said when he said goodbye to Lin Ruizhe, "I can go out of the palace every Mid-Autumn Festival... er , No, I will be there every Mid-Autumn Festival..."

Meet by chance, and then say goodbye.

Leave a promise to meet in Fenglin, Wangcheng during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

He remembered that Lin Ruizhe was standing on the bloody hillside at that time, his trousers were still rolled up high, and his legs were slender.Lin Ruizhe smiled at him against the sun, gentle and calm, the corners of his mouth curved just right.

He remembered that Lin Ruizhe nodded to him at that time, saying that if there is a chance, he must go to Wangcheng to find him.Lin Ruizhe also asked him what his name was, so he also laughed, and told him, if you go to Wangcheng, you will know.

and then?

No then.

Su Yue sat in the empty red maple forest, looked at the golden full moon in the sky through the blazing sea of ​​maple, year after year, he was alone indulging in the bark woven by autumn maple.