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Before the Western Xia people left Daheng, their every move would be closely watched by the Inspection Office and the Dong Lingwei.

Gu Yuanbai had also inquired of the ambassadors who had sent the ransom note to Western Xia, asking them what kind of behavior the Western Xia Emperor had when he received the ransom note.

The ambassadors phrased their words for a long time and said, "After the Emperor of Western Xia ordered the book to be read, he was furious and furious. He ordered his guards to crush us, but fortunately we were stopped by all the ministers. We were worried and terrified, but in just a few days, when the Western Xia Emperor summoned us to the palace again, although we still looked unkind, we were ready to prepare for the reparations."

But if you ask them where Xi Xia prepared these things, they can not answer. Because people's own treasury things, only people themselves know best.

Gu Yuanbai is sure that there is a problem in Xixia, so the secret stalking and view is not indispensable, in this regard, there is no need to be concerned about humanitarianism, if it comes to the necessary degree, Gu Yuanbai is even ready to do not moral justice to directly detain all the people of Xixia's readiness.

Of course, Gu Yuanbai didn't want to break Daheng's credit and reputation diplomatically if it wasn't to the point where it had to be done.

February 25th, the Shangyuan Festival.

This day, lights and colors, the night is not curfew, Xue Jiuyao early in the morning want to ask for a decree to enter the palace, Gu Yuanbai did not allow. Until the evening, the sun's afterglow let the earth is still residual heat, the saint only changed a raven green regular clothes, draped in the silver woolen cloak sent up yesterday, the hair will be good in the cloak outside, this is with a leisurely pace, leisurely out of the palace.

As soon as he left the palace gates, he met Xue Jiuyao, who was standing upright not far away with his hands behind his back.

Xue Jiuyao was dressed in a reddish-violet robe, his posture long and straight. As soon as he saw Gu Yuanbai, his eyes seemed to light up, his gaze straight, unable to move away.

Gu Yuanbai approached and glanced at him, amused, "Return to your senses. Why do you look like this, could it be that you've seen some immortal?"

Xue Yuan restrained himself from trying to withdraw his gaze, but eventually gave up and muttered, "It was the sight of His Holiness."

Gu Yuanbai paused for a moment, goosebumps rising.

The Lantern Festival was so busy that the carriages couldn't enter the downtown area, and could only stay on the sides before and after the market. Gu Yuanbai didn't take the carriage to save time, and walked on foot, slower when he was tired.

Xue Yuan still remembers what he said, "Does His Holiness still feel weak in his hands and feet when he walks nowadays?"

Gu Yuanbai said, "It's okay now."

When Xue Yuan wanted to ask again, Gu Yuanbai reminded, "Don't say the wrong thing when you're on a private visit."

Xue Yuan changed his mouth, "Yuan Bai."

Gu Yuanbai: "......"

You're a real snake charmer.

After walking for a short time, the group saw the transparent lantern street. In the market, transparent lanterns were hanging high, large and small various kinds, the crowd was like a sea, the sound of laughter suddenly like water into a frying pan, Gu Yuanbai led the people to walk in, and it didn't take long to submerge in the people.

Right next to the street of lanterns there was a gurgling stream of water, in the midst of which bobbing lotus lanterns were floating. The young men and women in the marketplace are spaced a long way from each other, blushing and saying a few words from time to time.

Gu Yuanbai was looking at an old ox-like lantern, but his hand was suddenly held, and another person's hand was inserted between his five fingers, Gu Yuanbai looked down at his hand, and along the way he looked up and saw Xue Yuan's expression as if nothing had happened.

"Loosen up." Gu Yuanbai said.

Xue Yuan stiffened, "Not loose."

Gu Yuanbai's eyes narrowed, and when Xue Yuan's afterglow caught a glimpse of his expression, his scalp tingled as he added one more sentence, "It's crowded here, so I'm afraid you'll get lost."

After just a moment of holding, Xue Yuan's palms were already sweaty, sweaty and sticky, palms pressed against palms, pulses touching one another.

Gu Yuanbai was happy, "I got lost?"

Xue Yuan said, "To put it poorly, it is I who will wander off, you have to keep an eye on me."

After that, no matter what Gu Yuanbai said he refused to let go, his palms were like iron brands. The steps are still getting faster and faster, and the people following behind are squeezed outside the layers of the crowd, shouting out to Gu Yuanbai: "Master wait for the little ones!"

Xue Yuan treated it as if he didn't hear it, holding Gu Yuanbai and scurrying east and west, quickly leaving the group of people ten paces away.

It wasn't until he saw a stall selling candy figures that Xue Yuan jerked to a halt.

Gu Yuanbai almost bumped into him and said with a black face, "Xue Jiuyao!"

Xue Yuan pointed at the candy man, "Want some?"

Gu Yuanbai took a glance and was tickled by the food, going up and asking, "Old man, what kind of sugar man do you make?"

The white-haired old man was quite proud of himself and said, "This gentleman, the old man knows a lot, if you want me to say it, I can't count it even after breaking my fingers."

Gu Yuanbai laughed and pointed at Xue Yuan, "Can he make it?"

The old man opened his eyes wide and looked Xue Yuan up and down for a moment, nodding his head affirmatively, "Yes!"

"Then make one of him," Gu Yuanbai pulled out a few coins and deliberately said, "Have a pig's ear."

Xue Yuan was stunned and couldn't help himself.

The old man took the money, hooked the caramelized sweet sugar wire in the bamboo stick up and down, but a few moments, the bamboo stick out of a tall horse with a pig's ear man.

Gu Yuanbai took the candy man and smiled grimly towards Xue Yuan before clicking and biting off the entire head of the candy man in one bite, "Not bad."

Xue Yuan felt a chill in his neck.

The two left the candy man stall, Xue Yuan listened to the cackling sound of him biting into the candy man one bite at a time, and his body gushed, "Your Holiness, don't eat it, it's sweet to the teeth."

Gu Yuanbai said, "What did you call me?"

Xue Yuan choked and changed his words, "Yuan--"

Gu Yuanbai looked at him with a smile.

Xue Yuan swallowed and lowered his head to whisper in his ear, "Master Yuan, Master Bai, listen to my words, please, stop eating."

Gu Yuanbai didn't want to eat it either as he glanced at the sugar man, "There's still half left."

Without saying a word, Xue Yuan immediately took it and sent it to his mouth, and after eating it, he threw the bamboo stick away, finally freeing his hand again. Not forgetting to change his other hand to hold Gu Yuanbai, "Why is this hand so cold?"

Gu Yuanbai struggled with his hand and didn't break away, so he simply used Xue Yuan as a hand warmer, "It's your hand that's too hot."

Xue Yuan giggled twice, "I'll cover you more."

After eating the sugar man, all the way to the fried goose, onion tea, deep-fried noodle soup, a variety of snacks aroma hook, Gu Yuanbai this is the real sense of the first time to visit the night market of the ancients, appetite, and went to eat the spring cake, Li Pozi meat cake and dunking dumplings, eat dunking dumplings carefully, thin skin and juicy meat, gently lifted up, a suction to eat, so fresh that Gu Yuanbai ate the whole of the two.

He only ate one or two bites of each to taste the flavor, and did not dare to eat more for fear that he would not be able to continue eating if he was full. Fortunately, Xue Yuan's appetite is incredibly large, all the way over, he solved eighty percent of the food, or a look of immobility, do not see the appearance of satiety.

After eating a four-colored steamed bun as small as the size of a baby's hand, Gu Yuanbai resigned himself to admitting defeat, "One last patty cake, I can't eat anything else."

Xue Yuan's face couldn't help but show a few regretful looks, with His Holiness this full, he wouldn't be able to eat what His Holiness had tasted.

The two went to buy patty cake, stood at the stall to the end of the street to take a look, Gu Yuanbai could not help but smack his lips, this all the way to half an hour's work, but it looks like they have not yet walked through a third of this street.

Xue Yuan received two patty cakes, this one patty cake is just the size of a finger, like rice cakes like soft, patty cake in the middle of a red jujube, with a light sweetness, not greasy, but it is a solution to the greasy taste of those things eaten before.

Gu Yuanbai ate slowly, finally freeing his eyes from his snack to look at the playthings on the side of the road.

But his afterglow glanced, but not far ahead of him to see Chu discussion. That little boy was being carried on his back, his face was rosy, smiling nicely and excitedly, with a mouthful of millet teeth and a gaping hole, he was looking around, suddenly his eyes lurched, his mouth opened wide in surprise, and he met Gu Yuanbai's eyes.

*

"Nephew," Chu suggested, unable to help pulling on the sleeve of the man beside him, "Nephew!"

Chu Wei looked back at him, his eyes soft, "What?"

Chu Zhi whispered incredulously, "I saw His Holiness! It's right behind us!"

Chu Wei's heart jumped and he subconsciously looked back.

But ten thousand people came and went, lanterns hung all over the sky, and between the heavy mountains, he did not see the shadow of His Holiness.

*

The scent of patty cake fills the dark alleys all around.

The street outside was incredibly noisy, and every now and then you could hear the sound of people from the palace cursing at Xue Yuan, but in the alley a few steps away, it was quiet, dull and dark, with only the sound of breathing and the gurgling of water.

Gu Yuanbai only felt that in the twinkling of an eye he was dragged into the alley by Xue Yuan, who was in front of him and shushed him, "Your Holiness don't go to Lord Chu."

Gu Yuanbai's voice dripped with fire, "When did I have to go to him?!"

"Calm down," Xue Yuan lowered his head and couldn't help but move closer to Gu Yuanbai's neck, coaxing in a low voice, "Getting angry when you're full is not good for your body."

Gu Yuanbai deviated his neck, and in the darkness, he only felt a burn on his neck, and a hand touched Gu Yuanbai's right ear, and Gu Yuanbai knew that he was touching the red mark.

The fire in his heart rose again, and Gu Yuanbai kicked him and sneered, "It's long gone."

Xue Yuan took this hit and paused, "Your Majesty knows that I did it?"

Gu Yuanbai's eyelids fluttered, "Now I know."

Xue Yuan didn't suspect anything and didn't have time to think about it. His head was full of Gu Yuanbai, and from the first moment he saw Gu Yuanbai today, he could no longer move his mind.

"The marks have been eliminated, now make up for it, okay?" His breathing grew thicker, his hot breath hitting Gu Yuanbai's neck, bringing up a numbing itch, "No one's here, peace and quiet."

Gu Yuanbai raised his neck and also seemed to be hooked by his suppressed desire and panting, his breath following hot.

The stars in the sky were so bright that it was impossible to tell which one was brighter than the other. Such a starry sky was rare in modern times, and Gu Yuanbai had once seen such a night sky on his way to the North Pole, where he lay on the deck, rolling and undulating with the waves, looking at the stars that seemed so big that they could smash into him.

Hands can pick the stars, those who have seen such a starry sky will never forget this image in their lives.

"......" Gu Yuanbai's eyes suddenly widened.

The earlobe was sucked, and someone pleaded hoarsely beside Gu Yuanbai's ear, "Your Holiness, I want to kiss you."

The deck was so cool that even wearing an assault suit couldn't stop the cold. Gu Yuanbai still remembers how he felt that night, the waves underneath him made his body seem to follow him as if he were flying, weightless up and down, up and down, the stars were close at one time and far away at another, and the humidity was thick, like a dream in a fairy tale.

Hot lips landed kiss after kiss on the side of the neck and ear, mixed with the sweet scent of patties drilling into the nose, Gu Yuanbai's throat moved and he spat out a short and vicious word: "Get out!"

Xue Yuan found his lips in the darkness, "Gu Convergence, Yuan Bai, Master Bai."

He clearly clutched both of Gu Yuanbai's wrists, clearly trapping the man between the wall and his own chest, but he said pitifully, "Master Bai."

Master Bai glanced at the brightly shining stars in the sky and hooked up a cold smile, "Just do it and be done with it, why are you so full of crap."