outside the imperial city

Chapter 43

Liman is worthy of being called the capital of rain. After crossing the border between China and Vietnam and Liman, it has been raining non-stop for a day.The three hurried on their way, and it took twice as long as expected before they finally reached the city gate.

Jing Junxi shook his head and shook his head: "Good rain knows the season, when spring happens. Sneak into the night with the wind, moisten things silently."

"Junxi," Yao Fanglan rode his horse and walked beside Juechen, "It's autumn now. You are writing a poem about spring rain."

"Ah, is that so?" Jing Junxi feigned surprise, "Master, what do you think?"

"Master?" Seeing that Jing Shuo didn't answer, Jing Junxi turned his head and looked up at him, "Master, your face is so pale?"

Only then did Jing Shuo come back to his senses: "It's okay. What did you just say?"

"Let me take a look." Yao Fanglan led the horse close to Jing Lishuo, and wiped his forehead with his hand, covered in cold sweat.

"Oh," Jing Lingshuo hastily grabbed his hand and wiped it on his sleeve, "You're not too dirty either."

Yao Fanglan found it funny: "Isn't it just sweat, what's the matter?"

Hearing this, Jing Lishuo stared at him for a long time, then turned his head away as if he couldn't concentrate: "Forget it. I'm fine."

"..."

Yao Zanglan let go of the rein, jumped onto Juechen's horse, wrapped one hand around Jing Lishuo's waist, and snatched the rein from him with the other.

"You?" Jing Lingshuo became a little panicked when he hugged him like this.

"You don't have a good rest." Yao Zanglan waved the reins, and Juechen spread his hooves and ran forward, "Qi deficiency. You sleep like this for a while, and I will ride."

"I said I'm fine." Jing Shuo grabbed Yao Zanglan's arm and tried to remove it from his waist, "I'll do it."

"Tsk. Troublesome." Yao Zanglan took away his arm, moved it up suddenly, grabbed Jing Shuo's neck, and pressed his head hard to his shoulder, "The doctor told you to sleep, you sleep, why are there so many?" nonsense."

"..." Jing Shuo knew how Yao Zanglan felt when he was pinched to the ground by his neck and forced to sleep.

Seeing Yao Fanglan being so rough, Jing Junxi didn't dare to do it again, forced himself to look straight ahead, and hummed an out-of-key song.

The three of them were quiet for a while, and Yao Fanglan whispered in Jing Lingshuo's ear, "Did you have a nightmare again? Why didn't you come to me?"

Jing Shuo cast a cold glance at Yao Fanglan, meaning "Brother, how can you make me talk when you pinch my neck like this".

Yao Fanglan said: "If you can guarantee that after I let go, you will answer the questions carefully and sleep well, then I will let go. Huh?"

Jing Lingshuo didn't want to talk to him at first, but when he heard the soft and seductive "Huh?", he just said "Huh" without thinking about it.

Yao Fanglan let go of her hand as she said.

Jing Lingshuo couldn't help it, and replied: "I'm not a child anymore, so I won't have nightmares and I need you to take care of them. Moreover, those dreams are not completely nightmares."

Yeah, it's not a nightmare, it's a memory.Yao Fanglan thought to himself, you must be very entangled now, you are entangled by these real dreams every day, suspecting that it is reality, but you don't want to accept them.Between dreaming and waking up, I can't make up my mind.

All the teasing and teasing that she wanted to say turned into a puddle of tenderness, and Yao Fanglan couldn't help feeling distressed for Jing Lingshuo.

"You can lean against me and sleep for a while." Yao Fanglan said, "We will arrive at the inn soon."

"Yeah." This posture was a bit girly, but Jing Lingshuo couldn't sleep well for a few days, so he was so sleepy that he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Yao Fanglan's arms are definitely not solid, but they make people feel at ease.In particular, the faint herbal fragrance on his body penetrated into his heart from the nostrils, blowing away all doubts.I really want to be like this all the time, holding him.

A pair of hands involuntarily climbed up Yao Fanglan's waist, Yao Fanglan trembled and lowered his head.Jing Shuo should be fast asleep, otherwise, with his haughty temperament, he would never have snuggled into his arms like this.

Yao Zanglan smiled dotingly, and hugged him back with one hand: "The dead duck has a hard mouth."

Jing Junxi, who had been crazily entertaining himself, stopped, and said in a reproachful tone, "It's not hard-talking."

"what?"

"Young master Yao," Jing Junxi turned around, "my master has worked hard for you like this."

Yao Fanglan was startled, and said: "Jun Xi, go on."

Jing Junxi has always turned towards Yao Fanglan, and rarely contradicted him like this: "Master likes you, you have always known it. You have your reasons for refusing, but since you have refused, why are you treating him so well?"

Yao Fanglan's face turned pale: "You mean..."

"Although I am young, I am a bystander, so I can see clearly than you. Why can't you see Master's pain?" Jing Junxi became more and more angry as he said, "If you are close, give him hope for a while, and reject him for a thousand miles at a time. In addition, let him be inseparable from you, and dare not expect too much. Didn't you ask him why he didn't go to you?"

"Being alone in the room with the person you like in the middle of the night, even a man can't help it!" Jing Junxi blushed and said, "But you always make him take one step forward, and you take ten steps back, he dare not go beyond the rules. Can't advance or retreat, do you think he worked hard?"

It turned out to be like this.Yao Zanglan looked at Jing Lishuo with countless sorrows in his eyes.It turns out that liking me is such a painful thing for you.

"Junxi," Yao Fanglan said quietly, "Did you peek at something behind our backs?"

"I hate it," Jing Junxi blushed even more, "I'm talking about business here."

Yao Zanglan smiled, lowered his head and kissed the corner of Jing Shuo's mouth: "I see. Thank you, Jun Xi." Then he said seriously: "But you can't read that kind of book anymore. You are still young, you haven't arrived yet. when."

"I hate it!" Jing Junxi turned his head away, "Don't tell my master."

Yao Fanglan pulled the rein and stopped in front of an inn: "It depends on my mood."

Yao Zanglan got off the horse with Jing Lingshuo in her arms, and entered the inn swaggeringly.The guests and servants in the hall stopped what they were doing one after another, looking in surprise at a big man hugging another big man.

Jing Junxi cleverly ran to the counter, took out the broken silver that Jing Lishuo gave him from his small coin pocket, and shouted in a dignified manner: "Shopkeeper, three... no, two rooms."

Surprised all four.

Yao Fanglan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and made amends: "I'm sorry, I made everyone laugh. It's because we don't have enough money, so I'll take this child to bed."

Then everyone withdrew their searching gazes.

When Jing Lingshuo woke up, night had already fallen.He sat up suddenly: "I've been asleep for so long?"

"Not long." Yao Fanglan's voice came from the corner, "You are too tired."

He looked as though he had just taken a shower, wearing only an undershirt, and his long hair was freshly dried and softer.

"You..." Jing Yanshuo couldn't take his eyes off, "It's autumn, you put on your coat."

"I don't get sick as easily as someone else." Yao Fanglan walked to the bed and sat beside him, "Hold out your hand, let me see."

Perhaps because he had just taken a bath, the fragrance on his body was stronger and more refreshing than ever.Just by sniffing like this, Jing Lingshuo felt like he was going to get drunk.

"You're so weird today." Jing Shuo watched him undo the bandage on his hand, "Did you take the wrong medicine, or am I dreaming?"

"Dream and reality, can't you tell the difference?" Yao Fanglan smiled lightly, "Your hand is already healed. But the scar on it may never fade away."

Yao Zanglan stroked the back of Jing Lishuo's hand with his fingers.The back of the hand is smooth, the fly in the ointment is that there is a round pink mark on it.He was injured because of Yao Fanglan.

Yao Zanglan took his hand and branded a kiss on the mark.

Jing Lishuo trembled all over, trying to pull his hand back, but Yao Zanglan held it tightly, and then bit his finger.

Jing Lingshuo took a deep breath: "Kiss and bite, what do you want?"

"Let you know that this is not a dream." Yao Zanglan stretched out her tongue and licked the scar on Jing Shuo's hand.The back of his hand was warm and cold, and Jing Shuo's heart beat wildly.

Yao Zanglan raised his eyes to look at Jing Lishuo, there was some inexplicable meaning in his black and white pupils.

"Zi Shuo, do you want me?"

Ruifeng's eyes widened suddenly, Jing Lingshuo said in disbelief, "What did you say?"

"I said," Yao Zanglan clung to Jing Shuo's ear, and said it again in a deeper voice, "Do you want me?"

Something disconnected in an instant.

Jing Shuo clasped Yao Zanglan's shoulders, and pressed him on the bed somewhat roughly, and pressed his long-awaited lips.

Yao Zanglan's hands wrapped around the back of Jing Lingshuo's neck, bringing him closer to her, and there was no gap between the intertwined lips and teeth.

Jing Lingshuo held his ear with one hand, and walked around his body with the other hand, and the white skirt opened little by little under the caress.

The black hair fell on Yao Fanglan's chest, Jing Shuo raised his head suddenly, put his hands on Yao Fanglan's waist, but did not make any further moves.

"I don't know why you are acting like this all of a sudden. But I don't need pity." Jing Yushuo's voice was icy cold that shouldn't be in a love affair, "Have you thought about it?"

Yao Fanglan's eyes were filled with water, but she was still sane: "Yao Fanglan can't repay the prince's affection. After this night, I hope the prince can let go of everything and stop suffering because of me."

It started a long time ago.

It's not that he doesn't know what Jing Lingshuo has done for him and what he has suffered.However, he pretended not to see it because he was greedy for that tenderness.

Even Jing Junxi noticed the pain, how could he ignore it?

Let all his expectations and all his pain be buried in the night.Since then—

"Oh, it's Jing Junxi talking too much again." Jing Junshuo withdrew his hand, "Yao Fanglan, you've really improved."

Should it be true?Jing Lishuo only felt that he couldn't laugh, cry, or get angry now, his chest was empty, and there was only desolation and fiasco left.

"But," Jing Lingshuo closed his clothes, "you never know how much I love you."

I don't need anything in return, I can give you everything, just want to be by your side and take a look at you.But now, you even want to take away the right to love you.

"It's late at night. You should rest." Jing Lingshuo got up from him, hurriedly put on his boots and put on his coat.Then he jumped and disappeared into a round of bright moon.

Yao Fanglan covered her eyes with her arms.For a while, the words that many people said flooded into his mind like a tide.

At first, it was Chu Jingqing's hint; then, it was Jing Junxi's answer; then, it was Jing Shuo's declaration; finally, it was Bei Qianling's advice.

"You are not me, after all there is no need to force yourself to carry the world."

"Besides revenge and gratitude, you should have other hopes in your life."

What are you resisting?What exactly are you longing for?With the smell of that person still on her body, Yao Zanglan slowly closed her eyes.

Finally the rain started to fall again.

Wuhen lay comfortably on the table, reflecting the beautiful candlelight.