Why do you want me to be the leader of the martial arts alliance?

"I didn't push away, I just didn't dare to approach, I was afraid I would destroy him..."

"But have you ever thought that if you blindly avoid him like this, you may also ruin him? What if he lives in such pain in this life? Do you want to see that ending?"

"I don't know, I really don't know what to do!"

Seeing that Liu Yutong was really in pain, Qiao Shuyu patted him on the shoulder, and said softly, "Yutong, you still have time, you can think about it carefully, I just hope you don't regret it."

On the other side, Pei Yao'an hooked Zhu Shiwu's neck and walked straight forward, looking around. He said that he was going to drink, so he should be looking for a tavern.

Zhu Shiwu asked nonchalantly: "Death thief, do you like my little dad?"

Pei Yao'an stopped in his tracks, looked down at him, and was silent for a while before asking, "How do you know?"

"Because you wanted to take Daddy's shoulder just now, but you stopped abruptly when you realized that your sleeves were wet, but then you hooked my neck without hesitation."

Pei Yao'an froze for a moment, then let go of his hand, only to realize that Zhu Shiwu's collar was wet.

"Sorry……"

"It's just a little wet collar, it's not a big deal, there's no need to apologize, don't you want to drink? Go to the pub I went to last time, I think the wine there tastes good."

Zhu Shiwu walked in front, and Pei Yaoan followed behind him. The two walked to the door of the tavern one after the other, but found that the door was closed. They went forward and looked at the hanging sign saying that the Lantern Festival is closed today.

They searched around again. Some pubs were full, and some were closed for rest. There were really too many people on the street tonight, and there were a lot of people drinking and celebrating.

"Sigh, I didn't expect that in such a big Chongming city, you can't even find a place to drink. Our Xiyin city is better!"

Zhu Shiwu complained a little speechlessly, and after he finished speaking, he found that the people around him didn't seem to respond, so he looked around with some doubts, only to see that Pei Yao'an seemed to be looking diagonally across.

"What are you looking at?"

"I have a place to drink, come with me!"

He took Zhu Shiwu to the opposite side, Zhu Shiwu was dragged in before he could see clearly, and he knew where it was as soon as he entered the door.

"Hey, isn't this Young Master Pei? What brought you here today?"

A flamboyant girl came up to meet her, but Pei Yao'an didn't even look at her, "Call your bustard out!"

Seeing Pei Yao'an's indifferent attitude, the girl turned around to look for the bustard, and after a while the bustard came over and said with a smile, "Young Master Pei, what do you want?"

"Arrange a room, be quiet, don't let people come up to bother me, prepare a few jars of wine, ask for the best, no extra ingredients!"

As he spoke, he threw a stack of banknotes to the old bustard, and the old bustard smiled from ear to ear after taking the banknotes, and quickly asked the girl to lead Pei Yao'an and Zhu Shiwu upstairs.

After entering the room, he sat there and waited for a while, and then someone brought some jars of wine and some side dishes, and then went out to close the door for them. Zhu Shiwu couldn't help but sneered and said, "A dog can't change eating shit."

Pei Yao'an, who was opening a drink, asked with some doubts: "Who are you scolding?"

"What do you think?"

"Could it be scolding me?"

"A dead lewd thief is a dead lewd thief, who visits brothels every three days."

"You've wronged me. I've been in brothels twice in my life, and you were there."

"Tch, those girls all know you, you are obviously a regular customer, who are you lying to?"

"What? Are you jealous?"

Zhu Shiwu squinted at him, took a jar of wine, opened it and smelled it, wrinkled his nose and said, "It's not bad." After speaking, he took a few sips first.

"Drink less……"

"Didn't you invite me to drink?"

"With your little drinking capacity, if you drink like this, you will be drunk in a short time. Who will accompany me then?"

"You can ask some girls or young ladies to accompany you—"

"Little boy? Isn't it you?"

"Death thief! If you dare to talk nonsense again, don't even think about drinking!"

Pei Yao'an smiled and drank a few sips. Last time he didn't pay attention, so he drank the wine with spices. This time, he drank it normally, but no matter how strong the wine was, it couldn't solve his worries.

Zhu Shiwu picked up some side dishes and tasted them, and they were quite tasty. He gloated and said, "Sad pervert, don't you really want to call some young men?"

Pei Yao'an looked at him with some puzzlement, and Zhu Shiwu smiled and said, "You will get married in ten days. After you get married, you won't be able to go to Qing/lou to find/have fun in such a fair way. You should take advantage of this opportunity now—— "

After Zhu Shiwu finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of Pei Yaoan taking off his clothes belt, he stood up in surprise and cursed, "What do you want, dead pervert?"

Pei Yao'an gave him a speechless look, "The clothes are all wet, it's too uncomfortable to wear, it's better to take them off."

"You are not allowed to take off!"

Pei Yao'an smiled: "Everyone is a man, what are you afraid of?"

"I...you can take off your clothes, but wouldn't it be weird if you sat here drinking all naked? It's really perverted!"

Pei Yaoan threw his outer shirt on the chair, then got up, took off his inner shirt and put it on the other side, muttering: "Let it dry..."

Zhu Shiwu looked at him defensively, seeing that he actually started to take off his pants, he felt that he might really have encountered a pervert!

But Pei Yao'an just picked up his belt, then smiled and glanced at Zhu Shiwu, went back to the table and sat down to continue drinking, Zhu Shiwu was finally relieved to see that he didn't take off his pants, and sat down again.

"Zhu Shiwu, haven't you eaten for a few days? People from the Ye family won't abuse/treat you, right?"

Seeing that Zhu Shiwu was eating vegetables all the time, Pei Yao'an was a little weird, Zhu Shiwu swallowed the chicken in his mouth and replied, "I just think the food here is very appetizing."

"Just a few small dishes can be delicious. Remember to eat more for my wedding banquet in a few days. It will definitely taste much better than this."

Zhu Shiwu turned his head to look at Pei Yao'an, but saw him drinking wine with a calm expression on his face. After thinking for a while, he said, "I can understand your feelings, you are always being forced to do things you don't like. It's really annoying."

"So what's annoying, it won't solve any problems."

"Are you really planning to listen to them and marry a woman you don't love? I don't think you are such an obedient person?!"

"Anyway, the one you love can't be obtained, so it doesn't matter who you marry? If you marry, you will be clean, otherwise, if you cry every day, make trouble and hang yourself, who can stand it."

"Your parents are really strange. Although I don't like my father, my mother treats me very well. She never forces me to do things I don't like. It's a pity..."

It's a pity that his mother has passed away.

Thinking of his mother's matter, Zhu Shiwu's mood suddenly turned bad. Just now he felt that the delicious side dishes were tasteless. He dropped his chopsticks and picked up the wine jar, and took a few sips of wine, but he choked and coughed. non-stop.

Pei Yao'an stretched out his hand to pat him on the back, and said, "Why are you in such a hurry to drink? No one will snatch it from you. Don't worry, I have plenty of money. I'll let them drink it later."

"My mother is gone, and your mother is forcing you to marry someone you don't like. The two of us are in the same boat. Come, don't go home until you're drunk!"

Pei Yao'an smiled, and replied: "Okay, if you don't get drunk, you won't return—"

The two of them drank desperately like a competition, this time the wine was stronger than before, Zhu Shiwu fell unconscious on the table after a while.

Pei Yao'an shook his head helplessly, and continued to drink his wine.

Qiao Shuyu and the others didn't go shopping because Liu Yutong was in a bad mood. They just looked around and went back to the Ye Mansion. They sat in the room and said worriedly, "I don't know where Pei Yao'an and Xiao Wu went."

"Since you said you want to drink, you should have gone to the tavern."

"Do you want to send someone out to look for it?"

"also may."

Ye Tingyuan called Zhu Ze, and asked him to go to the tavern in the city to look for it. After Zhu Ze took the order, he went down. The maid brought hot water, and Qiao Shuyu and Ye Tingyuan washed up.

After lying on the bed, Qiao Shuyu didn't feel sleepy either. Remembering what the old lady said, he asked Ye Tingyuan, "Ye Tingyuan, so your Ye family has so many generals, it's really amazing!"

Ye Tingyuan put one hand on the back of his head and Qiao Shuyu on the other arm, and replied, "Wenwu Shuangye, our Ye family is famous for its generals."

"Futaba Futaba? What does this mean?"

"There are two well-known Ye families in the imperial city. One is our general's mansion, which has served as generals for generations, and went to battle to kill the enemy; the other is the prime minister's mansion. Their surname is also Ye, but they are civil servants from generation to generation."

"Are the two Ye families related?"

Ye Tingyuan shook his head, "No, if there is any relationship, the Wenye family could not have escaped that catastrophe at the beginning, and now only the Wenye family is left in the imperial city. After so many years, everyone has probably forgotten the Wuye family .”

"How could it be? When I went to Xilan City to attend the wedding banquet of Li Shumen last year, didn't I hear that group of people discussing the general's mansion?"

"Oh, that's just because General Cao couldn't put down the border chaos."

"A companion is like a tiger. In fact, it's good to live a peaceful life away from court disputes like this."

"Um……"

It's just that the price paid is a bit high.

"I heard from grandma before that the emperor is critically ill and the crown prince has not yet been established?"

"The emperor dotes on Concubine Yin Gui, and wants to make the eldest prince born by Concubine Yin Gui the crown prince, but many courtiers in the court are arguing endlessly about whether to establish the eldest son or the heir. , and the queen is also the niece of the queen mother, so the prince has not been established for a long time."

"Since the emperor loves Concubine Yin Gui the most, why didn't he make Concubine Yin Gui his queen?"

"Before the emperor ascended the throne, if it weren't for the help of the Murong family, he might not have been able to sit on the throne. The reason why the Murong family was willing to help at the beginning was because the emperor promised the successor, but after the emperor ascended the throne, he only conferred the current throne as Jingfei. It caused a lot of controversy.”

"In the end, the emperor still compromised?"

"The foundation of the new emperor's ascension to the throne is not stable, and it is his own promise, so naturally he has to keep it."

Qiao Shuyu sighed. Things in the palace are really complicated. Fortunately, he was not in the palace when he crossed over. Otherwise, with his IQ, he would have been killed long ago.

"Concubine Yin Gui gave birth to the first prince, what about the queen?"

"The empress's seventh prince, Xiao Ruifeng, and ninth prince, Xiao Luofeng."

"Ninth Prince? Isn't it the one who came to see us last time?"

"Ah."

"I heard that the Ninth Prince is also one of the Five Young Masters of Jianghu, and he is also with a member of the Sishui Sect?"

"Yes."

"I really want to see you."

When Qiao Shuyu talked about the affairs in Jianghu, he suddenly remembered the note that Situ Ruotao gave him before, and he got up and got out of bed to find the clothes just now.

"what happened?"

"Didn't we meet Situ Ruotao when we were going out just now? She slipped a note to me secretly, and I forgot to read it."

In fact, Ye Tingyuan also knew what happened just now. Although he couldn't see it, he could guess that Situ Ruotao's appearance must have a purpose, but Qiao Shuyu didn't say anything, so he didn't ask.

"found it!"

Qiao Shuyu took the note to the bedside and spread it out for a look, "Oh no, I can't read, and you can't see, how do you know what's written on it?"

"A lot of words?"

"No, it's just a few, but I can't recognize them very well. Alas, I should have learned more characters earlier."

Ye Tingyuan stretched out his hand suddenly, and Qiao Shuyu said with some puzzlement: "It's useless to give it to you, can you still feel it?"

"I want you to write it in my hand following the words on it."

"Ah, that's right, why didn't I think of it, you still have a way!"

Qiao Shuyu looked carefully at the words on the paper, and then used his fingers to draw the first character in Ye Tingyuan's palm. Ye Tingyuan muttered: "Ming..."

Qiao Shuyu drew a second character.

"day……"

"What about this?"

"unitary."

"Then you don't need to guess that the next word must be "time". Well, you can skip this word, and the next word is like this. "

"one……"

"Why is a page so complicated? What kind of text are you writing..."

Qiao Shuyu couldn't stop thinking about it. In fact, he had read books for a few years in modern times, but in ancient times when the script was different, he became a complete illiterate. This feeling is really entangled.

"carve……"

"The last word..."

"See……"

"Then we will see you tomorrow at the same time... What are you seeing? Where are you meeting?"

"Since Situ Ruotao gave it to you, naturally I met her at her gambling shop."

"Right……"

After hesitating for a while, Qiao Shuyu went to the table and lit the note on the candle, then walked back to the bed, thought for a while and said, "Ye Tingyuan, there is something I want to confess to you. "

"what's up?"

"Actually, I don't have amnesia at all."

Ye Tingyuan was stunned for a moment, Qiao Shuyu continued: "My memories from childhood to adulthood are all in my mind now, but those are not Qiao Juan's memories."

"What do you mean by that?"

"It means that I'm not Qiao Jue at all!"

Ye Tingyuan didn't seem to expect to hear such words, and for a while didn't know what kind of expression to give, but Qiao Shuyu breathed a sigh of relief, today he must tell this secret that only he knows of.