Chapter 71: I’m Leaving, I’m Really Leaving (Next)

A green and black piebald steed soared down the wide Zhengyangmen Street, from north to south, and when it brushed past the carriage, Emperor Jinglong lifted the curtain to look at the rider, frowned slightly, and commanded to stop the car.

Lan Xi looked at the emperor’s face and came to the window of the car, “Your Majesty, that seems to be His Highness King Yu. The daytime downtown city longitudinal horse, in case of trampling on the people to cause a riot ……”

The emperor raised his finger, signaling that he didn’t need to say any more, “This fourth brother of mine, the art of riding and shooting is pure, so there’s no need to worry about that.”

Lan Xi heard the meaning in his words and asked again, “Which point should I worry about then? Slave girl is stupid, please show the Royal Master, so that the slave girl can make arrangements.”

The emperor was silent for a moment and said, “He is going out of the outer city. Is that boundary marker still there?”

“Yes.” Lan Xi busily replied, “It is still standing next to the Five Mile Stage, and the post master takes care of it every year, and it is as brand new as it was when it was first set up ten years ago.”

“…… Notify the Imperial Horse Supervisor, let the Tengchun four guards keep an eye on, if he dares to cross the stepping stone one step, capture him on the spot and escort him to see me.”

“The slave girl obeys the order.”

The carriage started up again and headed towards the Chengtian Gate, where the regular court was listening to the government.

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The Wuli Post was located in the capital city, about five miles south of the outer city, hence the name, and was the necessary route to and from the main south gate. Officials traveling out of the capital were required to sign a contract here in order to change horses and replenish food and provisions at the subsequent post stations.

Su Yan got off the carriage outside the post station, and saw the post minister in a green robe of practicing magpie patch standing outside the front gate, saluting him. Su Yan took the talisman deed to him, but the other party did not immediately survey the deed, but said with a somewhat odd expression, “Lord Su, this way please.” Leading him into a main house in the backyard, he then took the door and retreated.

Inside the house a teenager in scarlet trailing sands was standing by the window with his back to him, wondering what he was thinking in a daze.

Su Yan recognized him at first glance at his back and called out, “Little Master?”

The young man turned his head, and it was none other than Crown Prince Zhu Hailin.

Su Yan laughed, “I thought you were really going to cut me off and not see a single side in the future.”

Zhu He Lin tensed his face fiercely, but the roots of his ears flushed with annoyance as he grunted coldly, ”Father said that as the Crown Prince, you must have the grace to tolerate others. Little master, I’m being generous and sparing you one last time. If you don’t keep your word again, I’ll really cut you off – not only cut you off, but I’ll also beat your ass with a stick!”

When I was ass caning, I still don’t know who was angry and scolded, anxious to jump straight to the feet, full of medicine library looking for gold sores it! Su Yan muddy not put his threat in mind, mouth to make amends: “are the subject of the wrong, and will not dare to slow down the young master.”

“After ……” Zhu He Lin tone steeply low, “after at least a few months can not see each other, you want to slow down also can not slow down.”

Su Yan saw the young man’s flying color tinted with gloom, his heart was not too good, walked up to persuade: “Time passed in the blink of an eye, very fast …… When I first met the young master, the young master’s size was only up to me- “

He gestured at the tip of his nose, “Still a cockney voice.”

Zhu Hailin couldn’t help but show her teeth at him and made a “say bite you again” face.

Su Yan laughed, then said, “Nowadays, his size has already reached my forehead, and in another half a year, he might be as tall as me.”

“–Be taller than you in the future!” Zhu Hailin muttered defiantly.

“Yes, yes, the crown prince is still young and has a long future ahead of him.”

“–Why are you still calling me small? I’m not small anywhere!”

“Yes yes, the crown prince is big everywhere.” Su Yan endured a smile, “His heart is also broad-minded, and he came to see me off regardless of former suspicions, I am grateful.”

Zhu Helin secretly gritted his teeth, “You never had this attitude when you spoke to Father and Fourth Wangshu!”

“Oh? What’s that attitude?”

“To Father, you have never been respectful, looking at him as if you were admiring a celebrity’s portrait. To the Fourth Prince’s uncle, because he repeatedly molested you, your mouth is soft and humble, but in reality, you don’t have much of a good face, and there is always a hint of wariness hidden in the bottom of your eyes, but this also shows that you go all out when you face him, and you don’t dare to take it lightly. Only to Little Master me, you’ve never been casual about it!” Zhu Hailin slapped the corner of the table indignantly, “Speak for yourself, isn’t that so?!”

Rebellious teenagers, more and more bad hair ah. Su Yan sighed lightly: “Saying ‘fooling around’ is an overstatement, some ‘casual’ is true. When I get along with the little master, I don’t have to face the royal master like that like walking on thin ice, also don’t have to face the Yu Wang like that like day and night vigilance. Only when I’m facing you, I can be relaxed and speak and act according to my nature, because I know that you not only treat me as an attendant and a playmate, but also as a close friend who can make friends with you. That’s why in the East Garden’s side hall, I made a promise to you that I would ‘cut through the waves for you with my little strength’…. -If you think that this promise of mine is also randomly fooled, not from the heart?”

Zhu Hailin was made to feel a little palpitating by the awe-inspiring meaning in his last question, he couldn’t help but hold his hand and press it on his chest, asking rhetorically: “How does my master treat you, do you still have doubts? I said to you ‘will never lose’, but you refuse to believe, said what ‘idle change but the old man’s heart, but said the old man’s heart is easy to change’, is not because I think I am young and unsettled, do not dare to trust with the whole life. I’m not sure what I’m going to do to win your trust, but I’ll tell you. To dissect out this heart and show it to you!?”

Su Yan was dumbfounded by his question.

After a long time, he said, “I have underestimated you. I always think that you are still young, the so-called promise is just a whim, and I think that no one can tell what will happen in the future. I hope that you will not indulge in fun and games, but will learn to handle political affairs with the Emperor, so that you will be able to take up the responsibility of the whole country in the future. I am worried that I occupy too much of your time, miss your studies, this period of time deliberately less to go to the East Palace, but also a few times three times to let you pigeon, do not want to really cause you to be sad …… are my bad.”

Zhu Hailin eyes reddened, hard to ring around the back of his shoulders, and his forehead against, said in a deep voice: “It is the little master is not good enough, so that you can not wholeheartedly trust me …… Qinghe, I will grow up, after you leave the capital, in the place where you can not see, I will grow up as soon as possible, and so on when you come back you will be able to see A mature and responsible man. You give me some more time, you wait for me more, okay?”

Su Yan’s heart is hot at the moment, the blood is also hot, and the place in contact with him is even hot as juvenile sentiment, pure and fiery.

Considering so long and complicated to do what, Su Yan thought, who can guarantee that after ten or twenty years of things? Who can guarantee that after they give their heart and soul, they will be cherished or let down in the future? Isn’t it good to live in the present? At least at this moment, the future son of heaven, this is called Zhu He Lin’s teenager, to him has already been out of his heart and lungs, all unreserved.

Zhu Hailin embraced him tightly, nose and breath mingled between the blood boiling, obviously intimate limbs, but still do not feel close enough, as if there is a deep ravine in the bottom of the heart is always not enough to fill.

How can I let this burning desire completely calm down? Zhu Helin, a little frightened and vaguely enlightened, tried to probe forward to touch Su Yan’s lips.

Su Yan was about to speak, cold suddenly the other side of the mouth to come over, come slightly fierce, “knock” sound, the two incisors knocked squarely, even the skin of the mouth are knocked through.

The two covered their mouths and each took a half step back, looking at the other with tears of pain in their eyes.

Zhu Hailin said vaguely, “Mud left even sudden dye speak!”

Su Yan similarly said, “Mud left very sudden dye play over!”

The two glared at each other for a moment, and unanimously snorted a laugh, which was a complete release of suspicion and repaired.

Zhu Hailin wiped the slightest trace of blood from his lips and exhorted, “When you go to Shaanxi, you must remember to write to me. The post will have someone at the post to send the submissions submitted by the governor and imperial historian, and for every letter you write to father, you must also write one to me.”

Suyan nodded and said, “Good.”

Zhu Hailin thought for a moment and added, “Even if you have nothing to report and don’t write to Father, you must still write to me, and write whatever content you want.”

Su Yan smiled and nodded, “Good.”

Zhu Helin still wanted to explain something more, Su Yan curled her finger and knocked on his head, “Say it again, it’s going to be dark, am I still leaving? Shivering ghost.” Zhu Helin grabbed the offending finger and bit it in his mouth, “Little master is not a shivering ghost, you’re a miser, you can’t afford to spend a little more time here with me.”

Su Yan pretended to be disgusted as she drew out her fingers and wiped them on his lapel. Zhu Helin grunted in anger: “Good wow, you still dare to suspect my saliva!” Said up and pocketed Su Yan’s back of the head, in his cheeks nose tip lips lick a mess. Su Yan raised his sleeve to wipe his wet face, laughing and scolding: “Puppy-like! Do not play with you, I have to go!”

Zhu Hailin opened his mouth to speak, and finally said, “Then I’m going to leave first and go back to the palace first. I don’t want to look at your back, you look at me!”

He held Su Yan’s hand, pushed the door out of the house, walked to the front yard entrance, untied the reins tied to the stone stakes and rolled onto the horse, twisted his head and said, “I’m leaving! You watch me well and remember my appearance.” Then he raised his whip and spurred his horse, galloping out of the post.

Su Yan stood still, looking at Zhu He Lin’s gradually fading back. The horse’s hooves raised smoke and dust on the loess road, shrouding the two of them like sorrow.

That Heaven’s Pride was finally so far away that there was only a small dot left, a bit of scarlet like a mole in the heart, and it was as if the other party’s plea was still lingering in his ears, “Give me some more time, wait for me a little longer, will you?”

Su Yan couldn’t help his eyes from heating up, and murmured an answer, “Good.”

The postman handed over the surveyed rune deed to Su Yan. Su Yan wiped his face with his sleeve, took it, dragged his feet onto the carriage, and commanded, “Depart.”

The two carriages continued on their way, escorted by the Tee Riders.

–

On the roadside outside the five-mile post, there was a huge stone monument, on which four big characters were engraved in seal script: “The Heavy Land of the Capital”.

King Yu strangled his horse in front of the stone monument, and looked at the carriages and Tee Riders that were distantly visible on the far side of the official road, his face sullen.

The royal guards caught up from the rear, and the leader gasped, “Can t catch up, Your Majesty …… go back.”

King Yu said in a cold voice: “It’s only a stone’s throw away, it takes only a moment to get there on horseback, how can I not catch up?” He raised his whip, but the tip of the whip was tugged tightly, and he immediately shouted across his brow, “How dare you! Let go of me!”

The commander of the guards rolled over and stopped him on his knees in front of his horse’s head, pleading, “Go back, Your Majesty! Have you forgotten what the Emperor said ten years ago when he erected this boundary marker?”

King Yu’s face was as cold as frost, and he squeezed out word by word from between his teeth, “No, may, cross the border, half, step!”

The commander of the guards kowtowed, “Your Highness must take care of yourself, don’t jeopardize yourself by impulse!”

King Yu’s heart was so hateful that he swung his whip and hit the stone monument so hard that the whip was infused with internal energy, which actually cracked a corner of the hard granite. He stared at the farther and farther away carriages with great unwillingness, gritted his teeth and said: ”I don’t want to go back to the border military town! I don’t want to lead the army again! I just want to send him off and see him once, can’t I do that?!”

“But Your Highness, the Emperor won’t care about this much, he only knows that you broke your oath back then and crossed the border out of the capital without authorization!”

“Then does he remember the oath he made to me!” King Yu growled, almost eyeing me, rolling tears of blood from the corners of his eyes, “When I blocked a halberd for him in the Border Castle Rebellion in the year of Gengchen, and nearly died, what did he swear to do? He begged me not to die, saying that as long as I could survive, the world would be ruled with me! And then, did he do it? No! Not only did not, he also took away my military power and trapped me in the capital …… for ten whole years!

Ten years, Han Ben! I’ve gone from being eighteen years old, full of passion, to being nearly a man, with all my good years locked up in this golden birdcage! What have I done wrong? Just because I have the same blood as him in my veins, because of my scary reputation in the army, should I be betrayed and humiliated like this?”

“‘Yu’ King, heh heh heh, ‘Yu’ King!” His mournful cold laughter was chilling, “My nine-to-five emperor brother, do you know how much I hate this title! Every time I’m called up, it’s as if I’m stabbing a halberd into that old scar on my chest!”

Han Ben was in tears, stopped in front of the horse and refused to get up, begging in a trembling voice: “Your Majesty, go back to …… your highness …… general!”

He said to the last two words, has been hissing, as if the battlefield jingo strike each other, even if the edge of the blade broken, but also to send out the last wail. He choked: “General, you do not for yourself, but also for the Jingbei army 60,000 brethren to consider, military system and flag is not in, but people are still there, the heart is still there, if they know that the general so do not cherish their own, for the sake of a small thing to go to the trouble of the light, how sad and painful it would be! If you do not want to cross this monument, step over my body!”

As if he had been poured a pot of cold water over his head, King Yu was shaken and muttered, “This is not a small matter, you don’t understand ……”

He looked at the distant wagon procession that had become two columns of dots, gradually disappearing into the remote and verdant wilderness, as if heaven and earth were empty, leaving him alone with one horse and one man, standing in the endless coldness of the void.

Ten years, he thought detained in the capital, just a wandering walking corpse, his heart has long left the body, flying over the mountains, in the horse galloped to the border, in the blood shedding sand field wandering not.

But who would have thought that in this long-silent body, there is a weak heartbeat, because of the providence of the young man put in front of him, born a little ethereal hope and a strong thirst.

–It is precisely because of this self-contradictory ethereal and intense, so that he has never dared to look directly at his own true heart, more difficult to completely remove the mask of levity, to the true nature of the people.

–This mask he has been wearing for ten years, unknowingly bonded to the skin and flesh in one place, if it is suddenly torn off, it must be a blood-soaked misery.

–In front of that teenager, he was willing to try to endure the pain of tearing it off, yet …… he couldn’t even see it!

Even if we meet again after half a year, I don’t know what kind of thoughts will change, things are different. The state of mind at this moment, just like the wind at this moment, over and over.

The wind in the wilderness blew the gorgeous robes, hunting, King Yu’s figure standing on horseback, as if also with the stone monument together solidified like, stolid and motionless.

In the carriage, Su Yan suddenly moved, once again lifted the curtains, probed towards the back of the road, only to see a pale, distant mountains, long muted under the blue sky.

“I’m leaving …… really leaving!” He murmured to the figure that hadn’t appeared in his heart for a long time, “You’re really not coming to see me off?”

–

The carriage bumped along on the compacted dirt road, and after traveling less than two miles, it stopped again. Chu Yuan, the leader of the Tie Riders, droned towards the front, “What kind of people are blocking the center of the official road, hurry up and make way!”

The man didn’t even hear it, still standing straight in the middle of the road.

The Tee Riders glanced at each other and unsheathed their swords. When Su Yan heard the commotion, his heart palpitated, lifting the curtain to look out, his gaze dimmed again.

He voiced, “Don’t do it, I recognize him. Let him come over.”

The Tee Rider withdrew his weapon and forced himself to watch as the man approached the carriage step by step, dropping to both knees in front of the open door and bowing in salute.

Su Yan busily got out of the car to help him: “What are you doing with such a big salute! Quickly get up, where are your clothes?”

Wu Ming was not helped by him, bare-breasted, carrying a bunch of thorns full of thorns, crouched on the ground and said: ”I came to ask for forgiveness from Your Excellency. If it wasn’t for my willfulness, Your Excellency wouldn’t have been implicated by me and been demoted from the capital. The kindness of saving my life is not yet repayable, but instead I repay kindness with grudges again and again, I am so ashamed in my heart that I don’t know how to atone for it, so I can only learn from the ancients and ask for forgiveness with thorns, and let your father be flogged as a warning to others.”

Su Yan looked down and gazed at his tightly muscled bronze colored back, with the tiny and numerous oozing blood scratches on his back, and inhaled, “Where is it so serious! I offended Wei family, sooner or later there will be such a day, you just accidentally crossed paths with me in this matter, but you can’t rely on you for the reason.”

Wu Ming obstinately refused to get up, “Eun Gung is merciful, I can do it myself.”

Su Yan helplessly stretched out his leg, kicked twice towards his bare arm, and said: ”Alright, you’ve been punished, get up. If you don’t get up again, I’m going to get angry. Tell me, where have you been running around these past few days, what have you been doing?”

Wu Ming rose with a shameful face and bowed his head, ”After the assassination attempt at Lingguang Temple, I was wanted by the government and had to leave the capital and go to the suburban counties to take shelter for a while. Last night, when I wanted to sneak into the inner city, I heard that Lord Su had been demoted for harboring an assassin who had seriously injured a state relative, and that he would be leaving the capital in the next few days. Thinking about it, I decided to wait for His Excellency’s carriage on the official road near the Wuli stage, and fortunately I waited.”

“I, little man, I want to say,” he stuttered, mumbling, “If Your Excellency doesn’t mind, little man would like to follow around and witness Your Excellency take down the Wei Clan one day, as well as the unlawful dignitaries that oppress the people like the Wei Clan. Your Excellency can use me as you wish, I will go through fire and water without complaint.”

Su Yan boarded up his face and said, “Are you a ‘villain’? If so, is it appropriate for me to have a ‘villain’ follow me around?”

Wu Ming became even more ashamed, “No. It’s not appropriate.”

The corner of Su Yan’s mouth hooked up a hint of a smile, “You ah, it’s better not to be overwhelmed by guilt, how to speak how to speak, how to do how to do, just like before when I lived in my house, I’m still more accustomed to it.”

Wu Ming couldn’t help but raise his head and chest, looking him squarely in the eye, “Your Excellency is agreeing to let me follow?”

Su Yan said, “If I don’t agree, you won’t follow?”

Wu Ming shook his head honestly, “I will secretly follow.”

“That’s not over, instead of hiding as a fugitive, why don’t you travel with me and take care of each other.” Su Yan urged, “Although my carriage is not big, more than one concubine can still sit down.”

Being teased in front of so many people, Wu Ming’s cheeks reddened to the point of dripping blood, and he called out in embarrassment, “My lord!”

Su Yan laughed loudly, “The capital has been rumored, saying that I, Su Yan, was taken away by Wei Joon’s concubine, and in a fit of rage, only then did I cut off one of his arms. The rumors are all over the city, didn’t you hear it?”

Wu Ming blushed to the extreme and was almost faceless.

Su Yan reached out to his chest, her fingertips touching his firm pecs.

Wu Ming shuddered violently and made a backward dodging stance, but in the end, he did not avoid it and allowed him to untie the cloth belt that bound the thorns.

Su Yan patted his arm, not lacking in envy and lamented, “Wearing clothes shows thinness, taking off clothes to see meat, the body is really good ah …… Get on the car, I will get you an outer shirt.”

He turned around and returned to the car, and Wu Ming followed him into the compartment, sitting in the opposite seat in a regular manner, the blush on his face still not faded.

Su Yan pulled out a piece of her own trailing sa from her baggage and put it on his shoulder, smiling, “We are about the same height, this one is slightly loose for me to wear, and it should be just right for you to wear.”

Wu Ming hurriedly dressed, Su Yan also found a suitable crown hat to him to wear in the bun, so look, it is very some serious guards look.

Su Xiaobei poked his head in from the front of the carriage and asked, “My lord, can we go now?”

Su Yan replied, “Let’s go.”

Su Xiaobei whip lightly whip horse buttocks, heart: really is “not how outstanding, all rely on peers to set off”, with the outside of this one crooked jinyiwei ride compared to, Wu Ming looks pretty good.

Inside the carriage, Su Yan smiled and said, “Can you tell me your real name now?”

“It turned out that the adults had seen it …… ‘Nameless’ was my code name when I was an assassin, so naturally I can no longer use it, and my real name is Jing Hong Chase. Duplicate surname Jing Hong, name chase.”

“That’s a rare last name. What is your sister’s name? When the surname Wei is completely played out, we’ll rebuild her tomb and erect a monument.”

“Thorn Red Peach, the peach of peaches.”

“One chasing and one running away? Your father and mother named the child quite interestingly.”

“不是，是桃……桃之夭夭，灼灼其华，之子于归，宜其室家……的桃。”

Su Yan teased him again, “Isn’t this lord a concubine who is suitable for his family?”

The opposite man’s face, which had already calmed down, then reddened once again, and he said in a low voice, “Your Excellency don’t jab at me again!”

“Since you are disguised as an official’s guard, you should refer to yourself as ‘subordinate’ or ‘humble servant’ so that no one on the sidelines will see anything fishy.”

“It is not a disguise, I am …… subordinate to the Lord sincerely want to follow the Lord, not to avoid trouble, the Lord does not believe?”

“Depends on your performance.” Su Yan smiled and threw a melon over, “Peel a melon for this lord to eat first, but don’t peel the skin off.”