I am neither beautiful nor crazy

The light in the cave was dim, and there was a strong flame burning on the ground, but it still couldn't dispel the biting chill.

Shen Chen never thought that he would be alone with His Highness the Crown Prince under such circumstances, until now everything seemed so absurd and unreal.

"So you faked your death on purpose."

The two were silent for a long time before Shen Chen said these words slowly.

Previously, the prince insisted on going to northern Xinjiang for Jiang Yu, but repeatedly prevented Shen Chen from going together.

"From then on, I realized something was wrong." Shen Chen fiddled with the fire a few times to make the fire more intense, "I have been loyal to you since you were very young, and I still remember the first time I saw Your Highness, Did I say something?"

"You've said too much, let me think about it..." The prince leaned back against the stone wall, as if he had lost the strength to open his eyes, and curled his fingers tiredly by his side.

"When I serve you in the high hall, I hide my name for you."

"I have served His Highness for many years, half of the time in the palace, and half of the time in the rivers and lakes. It can be regarded as a homeless, no fixed place. I became a man because of His Highness, I killed people for His Highness, and it is also because of His Highness that it is difficult to be a human being."

"..."

The surroundings returned to silence, only the crackling of the flames remained.

"Jiang Chibin has indeed been trying to put me to death. Now that Jiang Yu has returned from the Western Regions, I also find that I can't face him at all because of what I did on the spur of the moment."

After a long time, the person lying on the side of the stone wall finally explained.

"I thought that I took good care of him and favored him enough to make us all feel better. But the more Jiang Yu thinks of me, the more ashamed I feel. This feeling of being stripped naked in front of everyone is really real. Not good. As long as I temporarily disappear for a while, I can solve the two scourges of Jiang Chibin and the internal chaos."

"What about after that?" Shen Chen stared at the other person, as if he was familiar enough to see through all the thoughts in that person's heart.

"After a while, what are your plans?"

"Then let me ask you first." The prince asked back, "Why are you loyal to me?"

"Do you want to wait for the day when I ascend the throne, I will be crowned with glory, or is it to repay the world's kindness, or is it never thought about it."

"Never thought of that."

The prince's finger pressing on the cuff suddenly stopped in place, but immediately put it down naturally as if nothing had happened.

At that moment, an inexplicable emotion suddenly flashed in his heart, like anxiety mixed with a little sadness, but it was so fleeting that it disappeared without a trace before he could distinguish it.

"After a period of time, maybe the situation is stable, and I can return to the palace to become the throne; maybe the situation changes, then I will always swim outside and be a carefree swinger, why not? If you are obsessed with certain things , it is better to find another master as soon as possible."

"Why does Your Highness think so?" Shen Chen was not annoyed by the attitude of the other party, but explained patiently, "Since you can keep your name anonymous, why would you care whether he ascends to the high hall or not, and whether you can enjoy What about glory and wealth?"

"I haven't thought about it because I don't need to think about it, not because I don't want to think about it."

"Since that's the case, why do you insist on following me to the northern border?" The prince stared at the other party and replied slowly, "You can be loyal, but you shouldn't cross the line."

This sentence expressed the thoughts in the other party's heart in an extremely cryptic way, but it was so subtle.

"Yes, Your Highness."

After a long silence, Shen Chen finally lowered his head and spoke.

On the one hand, Shen Chen planned to help the prince get rid of Jiang Chibin, and on the other hand, he wanted to create the phenomenon of the prince's fake death.He made a simple modification inside the natural dense-cave to make it more rugged and difficult to find, and an empty coffin was placed in it to prevent someone from visiting.

Until Jiang Yu and Xiao Xiangling came, and they designed to separate the two, and told Xiao Xiangling the truth about what he should not do.

The prince has told Shen Chen many times that the situation in the cave is not very safe, if there is an accident, he must try his best to keep Jiangyu.

In fact, Shen Chen is the same as Jiang Chibin. They both have more or less guesses and understandings about the prince's thoughts on Jiang Yu.

After all, no matter how close the relationship between brothers is, and how ashamed and owed in their hearts, they are still people who have not seen much face to face except for the friendship they had when they were young.No matter how profound emotions are, they will fade with time, especially the long-term and persistent emotions and attitudes hidden in the bottom of my heart.

But only that kind of intense, impulsive, and even fleeting liking can make a person come to northern Xinjiang desperately for him.

The prince's expression was not as modest as before, as if he was indifferent and impatient when facing Jiang Chibin that night.

"It's not something you need to think about."

"Jiang Yu came with Xiao Xiangling." Shen Chen reminded.

The prince watched the flames in the cave without saying a word.

He knows the distance between himself and Jiangyu, perhaps it has never been opened because of barriers and gaps, and it has even gradually become closer due to his care and deliberate approach.

But the initial distance was so far that it was hard to see clearly. They seemed to be standing on the steles on the two islands, crawling close on the soil, but after all they couldn't withstand the vast waters between the islands.

The prince seemed not to adapt to the living environment in the cave, and soon fell seriously ill.

He didn't have any obvious symptoms, but he felt hot all over his body, and he felt cold even when he leaned against the fire.

Shen Chen has followed him for so many years and has learned a lot of skills.He drove his horse to a market far away and prescribed medicine for cold and fever, and then he took it back and fried it for people to eat.

The good medicine was bitter, and the man kept frowning while taking it, but he didn't say anything.And the next day, he found that the medicine had a little sweet smell, and when the bowl reached the bottom, he saw the undissolved sugar cubes at the bottom of the bowl.

He stared at the small cube, but didn't know what to say.

"Go back." After nearly a month of such days, the prince finally said to Shen Chen.

Shen Chen was taking back the freshly washed clothes and hanging them on the rock wall outside.When he heard this sentence, his movements were slow, and then he asked, "Why do you want to go back all of a sudden?"

"Then it's impossible to stay here forever, besides, it's too hard for you to take on multiple roles here alone."

Indeed, during this period of time, the Crown Prince didn't need to worry about basic necessities of life, food, housing, transportation, decoction and vigil. Shen Chen had arranged everything properly without knowing it.

"Okay." Shen Chen continued with his hands, feeling refreshed, "You can go wherever you want, just let me know in advance, and I will prepare my luggage."

"Do you really want to go back?" The prince couldn't help asking, "Here you can be free and unrestrained, but when you return to the capital, you have to continue to hide your name, worrying that the matter will be discovered at any time."

"It has nothing to do with me." Shen Chen responded, "Wherever Your Highness wants to go, I will follow. But... If that matter is indeed His Highness's heart knot, it is better to really open it."

He looked into each other's eyes, "Now that Jiang Yu has found out through clues, what he wants now is nothing more than a vindication to the world. However, things are different back then, and Jiang Yu needed a witness. Then let me go."

The relationship between the two is becoming more and more familiar. Even though they have been together for countless days and months before, they have never been alone like this. Perhaps compared to a purely superior-subordinate relationship, friends who can chat and confide more needed.

They returned to the capital, but did not return to the palace. It has been nearly a month since Shen Chen entered the palace to testify for Jiang Yu last time, but the throne is still empty and there is no news.

Until one day when they went to the market to buy fabrics to make clothes, they heard people talking in a nearby restaurant. It seemed that the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor would be soon, and the world would be pardoned that day, and the whole world would celebrate together.

The prince turned his head back and naturally joined their conversation, "Then you know the name of the soon-to-be emperor."

The group of people stared at him for a while, as if they felt familiar but didn't dare to confirm it, but they looked polite and gentle, and it was not a secret job to inquire about news.

"That must be the Seventh Prince Jiang Yu."

The crown prince nodded, turned around and said to Shen Chen, "This is quite to my liking."

He slowly drank the tea in the cup, and the nobleness of his gestures still attracted passers-by to look back frequently.

"This proves that he is very safe now, otherwise there would not be such a long interval."

The group of people behind seemed to be continuing to discuss this matter, and someone turned to him and asked, "Then, according to this young master, what about His Royal Highness Seventh Prince, and what about this matter?"

"Very good." He replied without hesitation, as if he said it casually, but also seemed to have thought about the answer for a long time, "It couldn't be better."

On the day of the enthronement ceremony, the people blocked the roadside. They got up early and wanted to squeeze in front, but they were still blocked by dense crowds of heads.

"How about I lift His Highness up?" Shen Chen said with a smile.

The other party rejected the proposal half-jokingly, "You don't have to keep calling me Your Highness."

"After so many years, I have long been used to it." Shen Chen responded, "His Royal Highness is not a title for me, but a title worthy of respect. If you don't like it, I will change it."

"That's not necessary." He turned his head away and said with lowered eyes, "Just call it like this."

Ordinary emperors like to ride a golden chariot around the road, but Jiangyu came here on horseback.He was wearing a golden dragon robe, with a snow-white long gown over it. The golden color made his pale complexion a bit warmer, and the white coat complemented the black silk all over his head, bringing out a somewhat independent look. The refined beauty comes.

Most of the girls who rushed to the front row today were girls. It was said that Jiangyu was handsome in the Western Regions and spread in the capital.Now that I can see a real person, I just feel that the appearance of being a celestial being is a bit more noble than the image imagined based on rumors.

And half a horse's body behind him, followed by a pure black horse, on which sat another tall and handsome man.He held a long weapon and did not wear a mask.

Although Xiao Xiangling and Jiang Yu both had handsome faces, they were different in style.Jiang Yu's eyebrows are stretched but narrow and long. At first glance, he has the calmness of a literati and the cold detachment of a hermit in the mountains; while Xiao Xiangling's facial bones are sharp. A sense of oppression.

He is still dressed in black today, but the collar and cuffs are embroidered with crimson lace.At first glance, it looks vaguely similar to Jiang Yu's clothes design, and the two of them walk side by side, and they feel a bit like a couple.

"Look, look!" The person standing in front of Shen Chen suddenly said, and then realized that the volume was too loud and blocked his mouth, and whispered to the friends beside him, "Look at their hands!"

Many people looked up.

On Xiao Xiangling's inner wrist, there was actually a crimson ribbon trembling around, but it collided with the color of the cuff so that it couldn't be seen at first glance.

This is irrelevant, but the other end of the silk thread hangs down, hooking and extending between the two horses that are extremely close to each other, and the other end unexpectedly falls into Jiang Yu's slightly longer cuff.

With the bumpy movement of riding the horse, the white wrist under the cuff was revealed, and the other end of the ribbon was impressively tied on that wrist!

The person who first raised this point looked at his companion in blank dismay, and then blushed instantly.

"Father and Mother." A child who was sitting on his father's shoulders shouted, "Is that getting married... eh."

In the middle of speaking, he was hurriedly gagged by his parents, but the child's high-pitched voice still reached Jiang Yu's ears.

To everyone's surprise, he didn't seem to be angry at the child's rude words, but instead glanced over with a smile.

"Brother is so pretty." The child took the opportunity to say something again.

But Jiang Yu didn't look back immediately.

The crown prince and Shen Chen were standing not far behind the child.

He wasn't sure if Jiang Yu really saw him from such a long distance, but Jiang Yu's eyes did freeze here for a moment.

He also smiled at Jiang Yu, and in that short look at each other, it seemed that some kind of solid ice was broken.Two distant islands float slowly towards each other along the current.

Jiangyu quickly walked away, gradually disappearing at the end of the road.

"Let's go now, it will be crowded later." The prince turned his head and said to the people around him, "What's for dinner?"

"I want to eat roasted goose, fried noodle fish, and the rice wine in the alley." He first asked himself and answered.

They walked towards the distance, and the crowd around them dispersed soon after, and each disappeared in their own direction in a blink of an eye.

The distance between the two's backs is extremely close, and at first glance it seems to be a very intimate posture.The surroundings are full of noisy human voices and lively shouts, showing a sense of peace and tranquility.

"The two guest officers, please!"

Shen Chen still habitually opened the door curtain for others, and the mellow fragrance came out from it.

Leaning shoulder to shoulder, they walked through the door of the tavern together.