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    “He must live ……” Su Yan tried desperately to calm his agitated mind, murmuring softly in Jing Hongchou’s arms, “Altan, he must not die!”

    Jing Hongchu’s arm wrapped around Su Yan’s waist tightened. Intellectually, he knew the importance of Alertan being alive, could avoid a life-threatening dispute between the two countries, and could also follow the trail to uncover the black hand behind the conspiracy. However, hearing these words come out of Su Yan’s mouth and feeling the importance and determination in the words made his chest constricted, like swallowing a cold and hard stone with edges and corners.

    Su adults are right. Jing Hong chased the slight bitterness and dull pain in the bottom of his heart, said to himself, the adult heart of the world, to the well-being of the people of the family and the country as a priority, I must not be a little selfish jealousy for their own, delayed his major events.

    Alertan s death, the conspiracy of the Black Duo Great Witch, the complex situation between countries, the upcoming blood rain in the borderlands …… Su Yan was hit by wave after wave of waves, coupled with half a year of running around, thinking before and after, this pair of frail teenage body is inevitably not able to support the strength of the heart, which is why he lost his temper in front of the crowd.

    A few moments later Su Yan adjusted his breath and realized that the appearance of himself collapsing in the arms of his personal guards was really a bit ungainly. He patted the back of Jing Hongchou’s hand, signaling the other party to let go of himself, and after standing steadily, he scanned the circle with a bit of trepidation.

    The surrounding jinyi guards had cast concerned eyes, and even Huo and Yan Chengxue, who had been dismissed and imprisoned, didn’t have much gloating in their gazes; instead, they secretly harbored a few points of worry.

    Yan, Huo two people and him, there may be conceptual opposition, there is to each other’s way of disapproval, and even to him with dissatisfaction and resentment, but in front of the family and the national crisis, personal grudges were temporarily set aside to the side.

    Huo asked, “The Su Imperial Historian escorted Lao Yan and I to Pingliang, and after interrogating the case, what should we do?”

    Su Yan asked rhetorically, “What do you think I will do about it?”

    Yan Chengxue sneer, to Huo Dao: “is probably first shut up, and so Wala made a lot of noise, take you and me to suppress the fire, or exchange some benefits. Well, we violated the law of the land, or else to die, Gouli country to offer his head is no harm. Regrettably, another political achievement will be added to the Su imperial historian.”

    His attitude was sharp, and he didn’t know if what he said was the truth or the opposite. Su Yan, however, was not exasperated by him, but instead smiled and patted his shoulder, “Not bad, ideological awareness has improved quite a bit, it can be seen that confinement has an effect.”

    Yan Chengxue had a vicious chill and hurriedly shook the palm off her shoulder.

    “Since it’s effective, let’s continue to lock them up. Come on, send the two ‘former’ adults to the Pingliang government office’s cell,” Su Yan lazily commanded, intentionally biting the word ‘former’ clearly, “and order the jailers to take good care of them, not to be lightly insulted, and not to be treated favorably.” Not to treat him lightly, nor to treat him favorably.”

    Immediately, some of the brocade guards came forward and escorted Yan Huo and the two of them to the prison.

    Huo looked worriedly at Yan Chengxue.

    Yan Chengxue’s face was gaunt and pale, the bruised veins under her skin were clearly discernible, and she pursed her lightly colored and slightly mean lips.

    Huo opened his mouth toward him, a bunch of words surged to his throat, and finally swallowed back, only calling out lowly, “…… Old Yan.”

    Yan Chengxue turned her face sideways and returned an extremely faint smile.

    “Just, did not with the rich and powerful, is always a common suffering, even if the Yellow Springs can also be a companion.” Huo as if his heart is relieved, this bout of wrinkles wrinkled out between the eyebrows, slackened a lot.

    “…… Stupid.” Yan Chengxue lightly spat out two words and turned around to take the lead.

    Gao Shuo peeked at Su Yan and saw that he looked at Yan Huo’s back and “tsked”, seemingly calculating something.

    And see Jing Hong chasing eyes do not look away, full of eyes full of heart is his family adults, only hate to become Su adult body clothes, waist wear, to say that the two people do not have a personal love, killed him do not believe.

    He can not help but wrathfully think: old Yan old Huo this pair of bitter lovebirds …… is a duck, well at least can still be separated from the wall of the prison double dwelling. We on the official it, a few months can not see the face of the sweetheart, bitter guarding the cold kiln …… is the cold Yamaha, send a letter to the pigeons are fast flying bald hair, the results of people on this side of the busy, but also a variety of bees to attract butterflies, like words? I do not know what Shen Tongzhi figure!

    Probably just figure that Mr. Su is well born. In fact, who doesn’t have one nose and two eyes, nor does he, Su Qinghe–

    Su Yan had already taken a dozen or so steps out, and looking back at the brocade guards following him, Gao Shuo was the only one still standing frozen in place, so he called out, “Gao Shuo?”

    Gao Shuo suddenly came back to his senses, subconsciously looked in the direction from which the greeting came, and saw Su Yan in a green lotus-colored straight body, covered with a fox fur piping cloak, under the curly cloud bundled hair crown, a jade white face with a light intake of light, snowy pearl-like Zhanran, the bottom of his heart could not help but panic, and the second half of his bellyaching steeply turned to – he Su Qinghe is not a fox fairy reincarnation, it seems that Shen Tongzhi ghost obsessed, it is not incomprehensible ……

    Jing Hongchou released a ray of cold wind-like sword intent from afar, piercing Gao Shuo to wince, hurriedly shaking off his distractions to follow the group.

    Su Yan walked towards the government office against the winter month’s north wind.

    Jing Hong chased after him and saw him frowning lightly, and asked in a low voice, “Your Excellency just said that Altan is the only chance to break the game?”

    Su Yan nodded slightly, ”But I couldn’t find him. In fact, after Altan was sent away, I was also a bit uneasy and ordered the brocade guards to track along the ruts of the carriage, wanting to see if they could fish out the person behind the scenes. As a result, when they caught up, they saw wolf corpses everywhere and a burnt carriage. They reported back that the wagon was stuffed with charred bodies, but none of them looked like Altan from their size. I thought at the time that the strategy of sounding out the east and striking the west had worked, and that Sharidan had escorted Altan on a different path and should be able to reach Wara safely.”

    “But three months have passed and Altan is still nowhere to be found.”

    “Yes, no matter where he went and whether he could be saved or not, Sharidan should have always sent a message back to the tribe, and it shouldn’t end up in this nowhere-to-be-seen situation today. So I doubt he will really ……” Su Yan sighed worriedly, unwilling to say the latter half of the sentence.

    Jing Hongchou hesitated for a moment, and as if he had made up his mind, he asked, “Does Your Excellency need to send someone to find it?”

    “Send who, the brood?”

    “My subordinate is good at hiding and tracking, if your lordship deems it necessary, my subordinate can ……”

    Su Yan stopped his steps violently and looked at him askance, “What, didn’t you say that you would guard my lord’s safety, and now you’re relieved to just walk away?”

    Jing Hong chased his head down and said, “Adults around thousands of jinyi guards, safe and secure. But adults are so worried, worry too much about the body is not good, why not let subordinates go to try to find.”

    “–The mouth is the heart! What’s the point of pulling this kind of back-and-forth maneuver to test my heart? Good you Jing Hongchou, I thought you were a solid heart, but it turns out that you are a natural black!” Su Yan poked Jing Hongchou’s chest with his finger and scolded, but his tone was not harsh.

    “Not a gimmick.” Jing Hong chased after him in mumbled defense, poked by that finger.

    Su Yan lightly snorted, “The northern desert is vast, the gravel beach is connected to the grassland, snowy mountains and forests, where can we find a needle in a haystack? Not to mention going to Wala, but also through the entire Tartar territory. I won’t send the Brocade Guards, and I won’t let you go.

    “If Altan really died, this is his life, but also my Daming and Warat’s calamity. At that time can talk to talk, can explain as much as possible to explain, the other side if dead or alive do not believe must start a war, then raise troops to meet the enemy. Soldiers of the country’s important weapon, can not be moved, move must be Yang Wei Zhen is also. I believe that the emperor is not willing to lightly start the war, but will never be afraid of war to avoid war!”

    Su Yan’s voice was as resounding as gold and stone. He glanced toward the northwest, and there was fuzzy snow foam drifting in the sky, so he turned his head to speed up his pace.

    “So what is your lordship going to do next?” Jing Hong pursued.

    “Write to sue the annual leave to return to the capital of the zhengbiao.” Su Yan with the wind and snow stepped into the government office, shaking off a drop of water, rubbing the frozen red hand, “the horse political reform of the framework are all set up, as long as the implementation of the order is not derailed, so that the Wei governor to sit on the town, I left for a month or two is no harm.

    “This year the snow fell early, the grassland is afraid of white disaster. Originally every winter is the Tartar looting period, in case of white disaster livelihood is difficult, these nomadic tribes are even more crazy. Ningxia, Datong, Liaodong and other important towns on the nine sides are estimated to be on standby, I am a handless civil official, why waste the guarding power of the Brocade Guards.”

    “The wind is rising and I have to get back to the court. Communication is so inconvenient in this day and age that an important decision from the court, screw it, I’ll have to wait until that decision is implemented, or even succeeded or failed, before I even know it exists. This won’t work.” Su Yan didn’t seem to realize that when he spoke these words, he had subconsciously treated himself as a member of the national decision makers, which could be said to be very much in the spirit of ownership.

    In other people’s ears, this is a naked ambition for power, the desire of almost all officials to be in the center of national power. But Jing Hongchu knew that Lord Su’s thoughts were not selfish, he really wanted to do something for the country.

    After Jing Hongchou used her internal power to cover his cold hands with heat, she took the hot tea from the handmaiden and handed it over.

    Su Yan holding the hot tea, even drank a few mouthfuls, only from the bones of the cracks warmed out, comfortable sigh: “In fact, the more important reason, is the capital of the hot pot delicious ah! The winter is to harbor in the home, eat hot pot singing, this is the New Year.”

    …… Well, there is actually still selfishness. Jing Hong chased the corners of his lips swept a light smile, but this selfishness, actually a little cute.

    Lord Su is honorable, admirable, touching, and lovely. I just don’t know when I will be able to kiss you again. Will not, this life really only take him as a bodyguard, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is no more opportunity to serve adults in bed! Jing Hong chasing thought here, and feel sad and helpless.

    But Su adults do not move, young and live like a great monk, what can he do, can not intentionally force himself to go into a fire. Besides, even if the real and go mad, which is afraid that this time the adults have some defense, will order people to tie him up, buried in the snow to wake up.

    “Ah Chui, you don’t want to return to the capital with me for the New Year?” Su Yan scrutinized Jing Hongchou’s complexion, “Is it because …… Wei Jun is still alive? Because there is still a wanted notice for you hanging in the capital?”

    Jing Hongchou’s face sank, ”No, I want to go back to the capital with His Excellency. There is no pictorial image of me in the wanted notice, not even my real name. The old Wei thief is even more despicable, I’ll have to cut his head off sooner or later.”

    Su Yan nodded: “Wei Joon old dog thief, sooner or later, we have to make a break with him. And I also have something to hang on to, about the creation of the Heavenly Engineering Institute, from my proposal so far also past half a year, I do not know how the current progress ……”

    Speaking of the founding of the Heavenly Academy, it is difficult to avoid thinking of the Yu Wang who is responsible for this matter – this guy is really unreliable, probably ten years of drunkenness and dreaming of death to the brain watt, so difficult to send a letter out, but did not mention the matter of the Heavenly Academy, and talk about what the wind and snow …. A rogue sex maniac! Su Yan grinds her teeth in hatred.

    No, Yu Wang this son of a bitch is afraid to put his pre-bet heart and blood, spoiled to a drop! Really can’t, he has to find the emperor, to the heavenly engineering hospital’s errand to discuss over, and then find a few real full of knowledge and insight, to pick up this vice science and technology to develop the country’s heavy burden.

    The more Su Yan thought about it, the more she felt that she had to cut herself into eight parts in order to do all the worrying personally.

    God pity, when he just crossed over, he obviously only wanted to be a playboy! Later, became a scholar when the official, just want to mix a pen and ink idle, easy to live. And then later …… how to worry about the world first?

    There is no good end for this kind of loyal officials, either to work hard and die of overwork, or to be persecuted for offending the powerful and the rich. How easy it is to be a traitor and sycophant, as long as the emperor is happy, what do you want? How is it that he does not take the straight road, must be ten miles of rugged and half a mile flat, a peak before sending a peak to welcome!

    Su Yan sighed as he wrote the zhengbiao, feeling that he probably had his brain wattled as well.

    Jing Hongchu stood behind him, indifferent and serious on the surface, but in fact quietly stretched his neck to steal slanting eyes to scrutinize Su Yan’s writing stroke by stroke, more serious than reading the secret books of martial arts.

    After Su Yan put aside his pen, he turned his head and asked with a smile, “Ah Zhui wants to learn characters?”

    Jing Hongchou pretended that he didn’t care and replied with a flat voice, “Subordinate can write, it’s enough that the words can be read.”

    He thought of the two handwritten letters he left to Su Yan: a farewell note, a letter of death. The words were all pig touching and unpleasant to look at, but Lord Su still kept them, and even brought them with him when he left the capital. When he snatched the envelope back from Mr. Su’s hands, he was ashamed of his face.

    Su Yan nodded in agreement, “That’s right, there are specialties in the arts, you’re a martial arts expert, the sword makes it good enough. The words can be read, there is no need to care about the minutiae.”

    Jing Hong chased his head down, looking at the straight nose hidden by the eyelashes and feathers, as well as the two lips under the bridge of the nose with the corners of the mouth slightly curved, and thought to himself, “How can Lord Su be so good? So good that he was ashamed of himself and at the same time couldn’t help but want to devour him.

    “My lord ……,” Jing Hong chased dryly, “my subordinate is going to offend your lordship.”

    Su Yan was stunned, startled, and before he could have a moment of anger, his lower jaw was pushed upwards by the pitch-black hilt of the sword, and his entire face was tilted up with it.

    Thorn Red Chase leaned his face down from behind and tackled his lips upside down.

    The skin at the knot of Su Yan’s throat was taut and slightly painful, the corners of his lips squeezed out a muffled “uh-uh” sound, and he was still holding the water onion-like pen barrel between his fingers.

    The barrel of that brush first shook haphazardly, flinging ink stains all over the ground; then the movement weakened, the outline was lost; finally it slipped from between the fingers, snapped to the ground, rolled a few times, and did not move.

    After a long time, Su Yan coughed violently, “The saliva …… choked the trachea ……”

    Jing Hong chased guiltily, “My subordinate’s mouth is clumsy, and I still need to practice often, striving for practice makes perfect.”

    “…… That’s not how ‘awkward mouth’ works!”

    “Yes, subordinate Lower Life.”

    “…… Hands take it out too! Asshole!”

    “Egg-“

    “Shut up! One more word and I’ll tear you alive!”

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