Chapter 151 – Relationships are a bit complicated

It was night when the door to the Yu Wang Palace’s bedchamber shattered.

The Su mansion boy received a handwritten letter from his own lord “not going home tonight, no need to guard the door”. The personal guards stayed up all night and pinched the note left by a certain visitor, which smelled like marinated chicken claws, into powder.

Shenfu main courtyard main room lights on and off, out and on, the whole two days and nights no one out, meals only sent to the door, even the window prongs of the cracks are permeated with the aroma of wine.

The one year and ten month old child, Overdrive, was eating, playing and enjoying himself under the gentle company of his maid sister, seemingly not realizing that his own father had already abandoned him for two days.

On the morning of the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, Su Yan opened the door of his room and kicked on the threshold when he lifted his foot, almost falling backwards. Luckily, Shen Qi behind him was quick, and fished him out.

Su Yan complained, “It’s all because of you, now I’m getting weaker and weaker the more I fill up.”

Shen Qi lightly smiled and rubbed the back of his head, “It’s fine, slowly make up for it again.”

“Hands off, hands off! There are people coming and going, crazy you.”

“The first and foremost thing about anyone who can stay in my house is that they are tight-lipped and make sure that not a word leaks out.”

Su wanted face, some times face is even more important than chrysanthemums, sniffing the heart put down most of it, pushed Shen Qi away and slowly walked out.

Shen Tongzhi still wanted to pester him, “It’s New Year’s Eve in two more days, why don’t you stay for New Year’s Eve and return to your mother’s house on the second day.”

Su Yan deliberately sullen face, the corner of the eyes and eyes of the lazy and insatiable spring, but like the March willows silently fluttering. He reprimanded: “What mother not mother’s home, bullshit! Of course I want to go back, who spends New Year’s Eve in a brother’s house.”

When he got off the bed, his mouth was hard again. Shen Qi was so angry that his teeth were itching, and he couldn’t wait to take the silk belt and tie it to the bed, so he wouldn’t want to go out of the room in his life.

That dark thought flickered, and Gosaku’s words then popped back into his mind.

When Gao Shuo came to report to him on Shaanxi’s experiences over the past six months, he counseled, “Wine has been drunk together, sleep has been slept with, so in that case, what’s the difference between a ‘brother’ and a ‘maiden’? If Lord Su wants to keep the cloth of shame, let him do so.”

Shen Qi took a deep breath and felt better in his heart, so he stopped forcing himself to stay and made other plans.

Su Yan muttered, “There are only two days left, the New Year s greetings that I want to send to people have not been bought, I have to hurry home to open the list …… No, I have to send A overdrive back first, where is the maidservant at home to take care of him.”

“Whose baby is it anyway, I’ll deliver it for you?” Shen Qi said.

Su Yan shook his head repeatedly, and in his haste, he suddenly remembered an extremely suitable candidate. He slapped his thigh: “Why did I forget about Mr. Ying Xu?”

There were several teeth marks on his thighs, this slap hurt, he was so angry that he kicked Shen Qi on his calf, picked up A Zhaiyao and walked towards the door. Shen Qi ordered someone to prepare a carriage and wanted to personally send him, but was also directly rejected.

Su Yan bought a lot of New Year’s goods at the passing fair, and carried the same to Chen Shiyu’s medical lodge.

Chen Shiyu hanging pots to help the world, almost New Year’s Eve still open medical hut to receive patients, see Su Yan came in, slightly froze and then rose to greet: “Su adults from Shaanxi back? The road is safe and smooth.”

Su Yan smiled and placed the New Year’s goods on the table, “I came back a few days ago, don’t worry, I didn’t come to see the doctor, I came to see Mr. Ying Xu.”

Chen Shiyu stroked his whiskers and smiled: “Su adults generous, I am ashamed of the honor, turn back to send the annual gift to your house.”

In the middle of speaking, he felt that the doll in his arms looked familiar, and fixed his eyes on it, “Isn’t this the Yu Wang Shizi?”

Su Yan smoothly placed A Zhai on the ground, letting him climb the bar stool to play, and arched his hand at Chen Shiyu: “This matter still needs to work hard for Mr. Yingxu to send the child back.”

“I thought Lord Su had an old relationship with His Highness King Yu, what is the meaning of this?”

Su Yan smiled awkwardly, “There is old, but there is also a bit of disagreement, it’s not good to meet up nowadays. I also hope that Mr. Yingxu will not mind the trouble and help me make a trip to Yu Wangfu.”

Chen Shiyu agreed and said that he was willing to sell his old face to help him try to defuse the situation in front of King Yu.

Su Yan said repeatedly that there was no need to do so, as long as he returned the world’s son to King Yu’s hands.

Chen Shiyu was entrusted with the matter of loyalty, immediately closed the medical hut, took A overdrive in the car to the Yu Wang House, after informing the door.

When the nannies heard that the World Son had returned, they swarmed up to pick up Overgrowth and kissed and cried, distressed that he had suffered outside, and there was even a whispered scolding, “How did this father become a father!”

The Chief Historian, Cui Da Da, hurriedly greeted him and arched his hand, “Mr. Yingxu is truly a timely rain! I was just about to order someone to invite Mr. Na.”

Chen Shiyu was stunned and said, “What’s the matter Cui Changshi, but did something happen to your king?”

Cui Da Da said, “His Highness has been suffering from an illness for the past few days, he has not been sleeping well at night, he has nightmares constantly, and his temperament has become much more irritable. The medical officer in the mansion has prescribed medicine to calm the spirit and defeat the fire, but it is not effective, so I hope that Mr. Yingxu will go and take a look.”

Chen Shiyu for it: “I am a surgeon, not internal medicine, I am afraid that it is not symptomatic …… to see what the situation is first, not then find other doctors.”

Cui Da Da was overjoyed and led him to the back hall.

King Yu sat at the round table, holding his head, his elbows propped on the edge of the table, not moving. Only when he heard the notification did he raise his head, gave Chen Shiyu a weary glance, and said, “Yu Weng is here.”

“Fourth Highness.” Chen Shiyu went forward and sat down on the round stool next to him, observing his face and color. See Yu Wang spirit is a little depressed, the Hall of India is not light, under the eye socket through the black and blue, the white of the eyes are covered with blood, like the evil fire offenses the heart of the evidence of loss of sleep. And cut the pulse, restlessness.

“Where does Your Highness feel ill?”

“…… chest tightness want to vomit, dizziness, tinnitus, agitation is difficult to peace, the heart is always holding a fire, hate to storm out. There are times when not sober yea non yea, as if Zhuangzhou dream butterfly.”

“The Chief Historian said that His Highness had nightmares, what did he dream of?”

“Yuk Weng do not know?” King Yu looked at him with a pair of beast-like eyes, under the despair of heavy restraints flashed a fierce and sharp fierce light: “This heart will not change, this will is hard to take away, when the wind is a tiger, riding the clouds into a dragon – this is not exactly what you personally advised this king!”

Chen Shiyu sucked in a breath of cool air and seemed to have discovered the crux of the matter.

If King Yu’s face showed a muddy swamp, and his heart was a brooding and rushing river, the river was now muddy and surging, and the rolling flood was about to break the banks of sanity.

The river would not have suddenly become like this without days of heavy rain.

But after looking and sniffing, he had not yet found the point of excitation of this abnormal state.

Chen Shiyu frowned and stroked his whiskers for a long time, and finally said: “I am the first to administer needles for His Highness, lowering the evil fire of the offending heart, and then prescribe some sleep-aiding drugs. But these can only treat the symptoms can not cure the root cause. In addition to your own body, your highness can feel any abnormality in the outside world? For example, what you hear, what you see, what stimulation you have suffered.”

“The sound of the flute ……” Yu Wang pressed down the evil gas that was running in his chest and closed his eyes, “as if it was in a dream, and as if it was in reality; close to the ears, and far away from the sky. Wake up and listen again, nowhere to be seen.”

“Phantom hearing? What kind of flute?”

“An eerie, sharp trill that shakes the mind.”

Chen Shiyu nodded: ”The old immortal went back to ponder and look up medical books to see if there are any relevant records. This time first give your highness with the needle. By the way, does your highness want to temporarily go to the other courtyard to settle down for a few days? With a change of environment, perhaps the state of mind will be different.”

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When Su Yan returned home from the Medical Lodge, he was busy opening shopping lists and instructing Xiao Bei Xiao Jing to go buy holiday gifts for people.

And wrote a letter home, told his parents far away in Fuzhou, he is now in the capital to celebrate the New Year, three or two months later may have to go to Shaanxi again, so they do not have to worry, he is all right.

The few servants who brought the family letter had been staying at the inn for a month or so, and this time they just happened to bring the reply letter back to Fuzhou along with the New Year’s goods and gifts.

Everything else is good to say, is the mother Lin’s in the family letter, mentioned that he has reached seventeen, but also to the age of starting a family. Asked him whether there is a favorite object, parents can go to propose marriage. If not, the family will make the decision to give him a marriage.

Su Yan told his parents in his reply letter that it is the first priority for a man to build up his career, and he can’t be worn out by women’s colors, so he won’t consider marriage at least until he’s twenty years old.

He had half a mind to accept an arranged marriage and planned to put it off for a few years.

And inside and outside the dynasty, worry about a lot of things to go, the North Desert military, Wei’s stupidity, there are assassins in the dark on the East Palace eyeing, which have time to think about what to marry and have children?

Besides, if Shen Qi, Ah Chui, or even the Crown Prince knew about the marriage, how would they react?

He couldn’t help but float for a moment-

Ah Zhui: Your Honor is going to find a mother for me, do you think I’m not taking good care of you?

Prince anger: good wow! Originally stayed in the East Palace time is less, this married wife, can not day-to-day tenderness lie, the eyes are no small master!

Shen Qi coldly laughed: the maiden is still hard on women, it seems that my husband has not been trained enough ……

Stop, what the hell! Su Yan waved away the chaotic images in his mind, gasped in vain, and secretly said, it seems that one day when he has time, he’d better go to Rouge Hutong and take a walk, and figure out what kind of state he’s in right now …… Straight? Bent? Or is it a rubber mallet, being pressed by an external force to have no choice but to bend, that force once withdrawn, it can be straight as the beginning of the spring back?

After Su Yan sent the old family servant away, one side of his head was lowered as he walked under the corridor, one side of his head was still obsessing over his now floundering sexuality, and his soul bumped into Jing Hongchou.

He looked back up and saw his personal guard with a foul face.

“My lord hasn’t been home for two whole days, where did he go?” The guards interrogated, their tone flat but their faces cold and hard.

Su Yan coughed dryly, stepped back and stood firmly, copied his hands into his sleeves, and put up the stance of a lord of the house, “Where does the lord go that he still needs to report to you?”

Jing Hong pressed a step closer, ”Everyone in the family is very worried. If you don’t care about your family, don’t you care about your own safety? The streets of the capital are crowded with snakes and dragons, what if someone is unfavorable to you?”

“I go to …… visit friends and don’t hang out on the streets.”

“People’s hearts are not the same as their stomachs, what would your lordship do if he mistakenly visited a jackal in human skin?”

Such obvious hostility, could it be that he knew I went to Shen Qi’s place? Su Yan pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, “I’m not safely home, and I didn’t lose a piece of meat. A chase, don’t lose your temper, you and Shen Qi can’t always be so tit for tat, it’s very difficult for me to be caught in the middle. You don’t want to make things difficult for me either, right?

“I know that he cut you three times when he was chasing you, and you still have scars on your body to this day, but at that time, he was also following orders, couldn’t he help it. Besides, a few days ago . You did not give him a sword in the hot spring, stabbed quite deep, he did not say to retaliate back. Injustice should be resolved, even for my sake, you guys are even, don’t see each other again in the future to fight, okay?”

Su Yan moved to reason, hoping that the personal guards would give him some face as his lord.

As a result, Jing Hongchou’s face became even darker, and he gritted his teeth and asked, “That sword of mine stabbed him in the inner thigh – I originally wanted to waste his zigzag root, but unfortunately, he misplaced it a bit. And how did your lordship know whether the wound was deep or not, having seen it with his own eyes, or having touched it with his own hands?”

Su Yan was speechless, and finally borrowed Zhou Dao Zhou Zhifu’s thousand year old famous line, “Well …… well …… hey.”

Jing Hongchou was so angry that his heart and liver cracked.

Full of annoyance and murderous intent, to Su adults but seizure can not come out – Su adults have what wrong it, recruiting look is given by parents, to other people’s pay easy to soften the heart and touched because of his nature goodness. He put most of his time and energy on the political affairs, for the country for the people to do things, never carry the heart of the wind and flowers to approach who, seduce who, on the contrary, those who take the power of the rich and powerful to always come to mess with him, pester him.

Not only to remove those coveted adult wolves and tigers, but also can not trap adults in the dilemma of the left and right, not to mention the injury to the adult’s career prospects. If you can’t do it, it’s your own lack of ability, the empty worship of treasures and the inability to protect, and how can you blame the adults in the word of love on the soft ears and heart to live it?

Taking a step back, what qualifications does one have to meddle in His Excellency’s bed, do you really think that you are a concubine?

Jing Hong chased the corners of his mouth pursed into a sharp line and turned around without saying a word.

Prickly vinegar vat guards suddenly lay down, do not pursue, Su Yan heart in turn some uneasiness up, hesitation, chase up.

Jing Hong chased him quickly to his compartment, entered, and closed the door with his backhand.

Su Yan put his hand against the door and asked sardonically, “You’re angry. Really angry?”

Jing Hong chased without speaking, pushing the edge of the door panel to signal that she wanted to be alone.

Lord Su has never eaten a closed door here in his personal guard, this is so perverse that it makes him a little uneasy. He squeezed half a leg through the doorway and came in, explaining quite sincerely, “The …… relationship between Shen Qi and I is a bit complicated. He once nearly died for me–“

“So have I.”

“Well, I mean, he really does think of me as the most important person in the world-“

“Me too.”

“That’s different, I’ve, uh, done that with him after all-“

“Could it be that Your Excellency and my subordinate have never done that?” Jing Hong pursued the rhetorical question, remembering the scene at that time, his ears burned hot again without fail.

Su Yan’s old face blushed, “Accidents don’t count. You went off the deep end at that time, I don’t blame you.”

“At this moment subordinate did not enter the devil, drag the adult on ……” Jing Hong chased a stutter, but still tenaciously said down, “Dragged to bed, adults blame me?”

Su Yan was busy changing the topic: ”Don’t keep mentioning yourself, we’re talking about Shen Qi. I mean, brother or not, whatever else, anyway, nowadays this kind of relationship, he is happy and I can accept it, so just get along first. A chase you don’t block it, okay?”

A pair of glacier cold star like eyes staring at Su Yan looked for a long time, see his scalp a little numb, Jing Hong chasing party hand slightly make force, drag Su Yan into the room, bang bang button door.

“Squire or not, anything else, anyway, nowadays this kind of relationship, I’m happy with it, and please accept it, Your Excellency, so don’t mind my subordinate’s offense, okay?”

Su Yan choked on his breath, “No, why can’t you people understand–“

“My lord, my subordinate is offended.” Jing Hong chased after him and thanked him first, then relying on his long internal breath, he pressed Lord Su against the door panel and kissed him until he almost broke his breath.

Su Yan’s face was flushed with red, choking and gasping for air, his eyes filled with tears caused by near suffocation.

Jing Hong chased his cheeks even redder than he was, but it wasn’t a suffocated red, it was a blushing red. He guiltily said, “My subordinate forgot again that I had to let your lordship change his breath in the middle of the process, and I blame it on my skill being rusty. However, I will never forget this time, please give my subordinate another chance, my lord.”

“Come again? You’re getting too far ahead of yourself-“

Damn, can you let this adult say a complete sentence? Su Yan growled in the bottom of his heart, to hell with the cold-faced loyal dog, to hell with the well-behaved and mute, all pretending! The guard can’t stay, he’s more than a ghost, he’s a good boy!