Chapter 94 – Even if it’s not going to happen again

Su Yan walked out of the cave, casually folded a branch as a hairpin, and pulled up a loose Taoist bun.

In the hollow of a nearby rock, he found quite a bit of accumulated rainwater, which looked clear and fresh because it had just fallen last night, so he leaned over and drank his fill straight from it, and picked a few large leaves to make a bowl, pocketing some of the rainwater to take back to the cave.

Jing Hongchou sat cross-legged on the rock, meditating with his eyes closed. He was bare-chested, and he rubbed his still-damp tunic into a ball to cover between his legs.

Su Yan guessed that because it was wet clothes were uncomfortable to wear – if he himself had a tendon body, it would be quite an achievement to show off his body so naked, but unfortunately, the white chopper would be better to keep the wet clothes on.

He examined Jing Hongchou’s complexion and felt that it was not too optimistic, his face was greenish white, his lips were almost bloodless, and the corners of his lips were still a little dry and peeling.

Su Yan hurriedly sat up on the stone bed, wanting to call Ah Chui to drink water, suddenly remembered that in the martial arts movies and films he had seen, when a person practicing martial arts was disturbed while regulating his breath, it might lead to a turn-off in the line of work and go off the rails, and for a while he didn’t know whether he should wake him up or not.

The water in the bowl of leaves was dripping down, and it looked like it was going to leak out, so Su Yan had to bring the tip of the leaf to his mouth to see if he could subconsciously drink some water.

As soon as the water touched his lips, Jing Hongchu opened his eyes.

Cold star glacier-like eyes close at hand, cold and beautiful, as if Su Yan was compelled by a nebula vortex-like gravitational force, unconsciously held his breath and stared. He couldn’t think, he could only be mesmerized, almost dazzled.

Jing Hong chased after his hand and drank the fresh water in the bowl of leaves bit by bit and opened his mouth to speak, his voice a little hoarse, “My lord, breathe.”

Su Yan suddenly came back to his senses and took a long sharp breath, the flushed red of oxygen deprivation floating on his cheeks, “Ah Chui your eyes are really-” he swallowed back the word “bizarre” and changed the word to. “Fantastic, almost gave me nightmares.”

“It’s caused by the gongfu I’m practicing. The Jianghu people call the Nightmare Charm technique a devilish evil technique, but in fact it’s not as exaggerated as they think, it’s just that it causes the other party to have a short-lived chaos of consciousness when their eyes meet, making it easy for the assassination to be successful.” Jing Hongchou explained unapologetically, “I didn’t control it well when I retracted my power just now, and my breath leaked out, startling Your Excellency, it was my subordinate’s fault.”

Su Yan shook his head, “I’m not scared, just ……” He lost his smile and laughed to himself, “Getting lost in it. If you come to kill me, just take your eyes and look at me.”

Jing Hong chased a frown, her cold face unable to hide the sadness in her tone, “Why do you say this, Your Excellency, could it be that you still think that I am an assassin who does not distinguish between right and wrong, and that as long as you give money, whoever you want can do it? Your Honor is still guarding against me to this day?”

Su Yan also realized that the joke had gone too far. Usually, when you make fun of a concubine or something like that, Ah Zhui will only shyly protest and eat Min Ren.”

Jing Hongchou took his paragraph seriously and advised, “The Lingnan area is even as barbaric as this, your honor should not go to that place in the future.”

“But I love to eat Lingnan’s toffee-smiling lychee, what should I do?”

“The subordinate went yonder to buy it, and sent it by flying horseback day and night.”

In the middle of the conversation, Jing Hong chased the snake section on the fire roasted, the big one gave Su Yan. No salt and no spices, naturally not as tasty as the roasted rabbit sprinkled with pepper and cumin powder, but the snake meat has its own slightly fishy and sweet flavor, Su Yan is hungry, eating very well.

The berries were tart with a sweetness that was still palatable, and the two padded their bellies to a half dozen percent full.

After Jing Hong chased after water and food, her complexion improved a bit, and her pale lips revealed a few shades of blood, and she said to Su Yan: “It is still necessary to work hard for your lordship, and delay with me in this cave for one more night, and tomorrow morning, I will be able to take your lordship out of here.”

Su Yan was concerned about the safety of Chu Yuan and the other guards and Xiao Bei and Xiao Jing, but at this time, he could only suppress his worries in the bottom of his heart, so as not to add to the psychological burden of Ah Chui.

Cave sunset afterglow disappeared, twilight again, lying on the stone bed rest, Su Yan and can not help but think, thinking of the capital, the emperor and the crown prince if he learned of the news of his disappearance from the cliff, I do not know what will be the reaction.

The emperor is steady and sensible, should still be calm. Prince that a little on the explosion of the little bully temper, I do not know whether it will make a fuss to send people to find him.

Let’s hope the brat doesn’t get into any trouble with his father.

And Shen Qi. This ruthless and ruthless, but the only one who is only soft on him and even protects him with his life, will the head of the secret service be scared because of his disappearance?

When Shen Qi left the capital, he didn’t come to see him off, so he was inexplicably lost for a long time. When he asked Gao Shuo about it, he only said that the Commander of the Commander’s Office had a lot of business to attend to, so he couldn’t find the time. He was even more frustrated to hear this, and even developed an unspeakable resentment and sadness, but could not figure out why he was sad, and finally simply put this idea behind his head and did not think about it.

When he used the fire scythe just now, he couldn’t help but think of Shen Qi again, and lost his hand and swelled his finger.

The finger had been soaked with cold rainwater, and it was still vaguely painful at this moment, Su Yan was in a trance as he took the finger into his mouth and sighed silently.

Jing Hongchou suddenly spoke out, “Your honor doesn’t need to worry too much, close your eyes and have a good sleep, it will be tomorrow. When we get out of the valley, we’ll go back to Yokoliangzi Town, and we’ll be able to rendezvous with Chu Yuan and the others.”

This was said with some weakness. When he left after Lord Su, there were only two boys left in the carriage in the field, as well as Chu Yuan, Gao Shuo, and so on, less than ten brocade guards. And the Tartar cavalry still left at least sixty or seventy people, if they can not break out in time to escape, I’m afraid that the fate is very bad.

— know it all, but on the mouth can only say it in a good way, try to comfort Su adults, so as not to worry about him sad.

Su Yan actually also know that the situation was very bad, do not dare to think about the results, for fear of thinking too much of their own depression, can only pray that the lucky man will have heavenly blessings.

He patted the rock beside him and whispered, “Chase, come up and sleep.”

Jing Hong chased after the scene he saw when he woke up in the morning, triggering the fear and secret hope of “offending Lord Su”, and the latter caused him to have even more lingering fears. Hearing this, his heart skipped a beat and he stiffly refused, “No need, I’ll just meditate against the stone wall.”

Su Yan ordered, “Come up! Don’t make me say it a third time.”

Jing Hongchu had to move over and take a half-assed position on the edge of the stone bed.

“Lie in a little, sleep on your left side or on your stomach, don’t put pressure on the wound.”

Su Yan saw him half-hanging over the edge without moving, his body tense, thought he was not accustomed to sleeping with others, so he got up and said, “The wounded will lie here honestly, I’ll go and sleep by the fire, it’s warmer to roast the fire.”

Summer night need to roast what fire, and the ground insect bites, Su adult noble, where can sleep. Jing Hong chased busy pulling his sleeve, softened: “This stone bed is wide enough, adults sleep, I also lie is.”

Su Yan lay down again. Jing Hong chased to the left side to lie down, the line of sight can not avoid to see him, surrounded by dim firelight enveloped, like a jade carving gilded with a layer of hazy golden light.

“Sleep.” Su Yan closed his eyes and said, “Nurture your energy, there is still a long way to go after leaving the valley tomorrow.”

After he had said this, he ceased to make a sound, and after two quarters of an hour, his breathing gradually calmed and lengthened, and he fell asleep.

Jing Hongchou looked at his Lord Su for an instant, the intense emotions that were churning in his chest almost breaking out of his cavity. After a long time, he boldly reached out, his fingertips gently touching the back of Su Yan’s hand.

He originally wanted to use this bit of skin-to-skin contact to quell the fire of delusion in his heart that shouldn’t be there, but he didn’t want it to be like pouring oil on the fire, burning hotter.

His whole body was on fire from the inside out, tormented by thirsty lust, wanting to touch just a little bit more, just a little bit more, and he’d be satisfied.

His rough, calloused fingertips warred against the back of Lord Su’s smooth, warm hand, as if he were facing an abyss, knowing that he would be doomed, but all the time urging the impulse to take a leap of faith.

This urge to lay down his life and the strong sense of guilt were like two beasts with sharp teeth and claws, tearing at each other’s spirit and flesh, and he felt the pain of being torn alive.

Yet more unbearable than the pain was the panic–

Jing Hongchou, what exactly do you want to do to your benefactor and allegiance? More than just a light touch, more than just an overbearing caress, more than even a wanton kiss. You want to tarnish His Excellency’s innocence and leave him in the dust, moaning and pleasuring under another man, just like what Shen Qi, the dog Qianhu, whom you dislike the most, has done?

Fingers retracted like fire, and Jing Hong chased after him, plummeting backward and nearly falling off the stone bed.

The rock was too narrow to accommodate a greedily expanding obsessive heart, so he might as well roll off to the corner of the cave and abandon himself to introspection.

Su Yan gave a vague dreamy cry and turned to lie on her side, burying her face in the position of his collarbone.

Jing Hong chased after the stiffness for a long time, but in the end, he still didn’t bother to get up, sniffing the faintly warm scent of Lord Su’s hair, he couldn’t help himself but lower his lips and lightly imprinted a mark on the other party’s full and glossy forehead.

Heart drumming like it was going to pop out of his throat, he closed his eyes and waited for the punishment to come, whether it came from the other side, or the gods.

However, the punishment took a long time to come, and Jing Hong chased his eyes open.

In the shadows where the firelight couldn’t shine, he gazed down at Su Yan’s sleeping face, his eyes devout and deep, as if a dark fire was burning under the ice.