"Master Bai," Xue Yuan lowered his voice, his breath sounding weak, "play something?"
The she-wolf in the mansion is about to give birth.
Trying to bring His Holiness back to the Xue Mansion.
The mist on the teacup condensed into water, and the drops smashed between the tea bowls. After the water droplets dripped three times, Gu Yuanbai's side face had an additional layer of clear curling thin red.
He gave Xue Yuan a sidelong glance, "What did you just say?"
His Holiness pretended not to have heard, only a smile appeared at the corners of his lips.
This smile is like a ripe fruit behind the green leaves in the spring, hidden tightly and revealed a corner, love and spring color hidden, this smile is shallow, but more than the charm of a smile to Xue Yuan worried stunned.
This look was as if it was like Gu Yuanbai liked Xue Yuan as well.
Xue Yuan got up violently and probed across the desktop to clutch Gu Yuanbai's hand.
His movements were so large that the people on the surrounding tea tables looked here in surprise. Gu Yuanbai also raised her head to look at him, her lips slightly open in surprise.
"I," Xue Yuan's mouth was dry, he rubbed the soft hand among his palms, a thousand words clogged in his throat, so anxious that the winter also bubbled up the heat visible to the naked eye, "I ......"
Gu Yuanbai thought that he really wanted to do something ridiculous in public, and a fine bead of sweat broke out on the tip of his nose.
Xue Yuan, however, let go of his hand, turned around and ran down the teahouse like the wind, his back in a sorry state. The heavy footsteps gradually disappeared, Gu Yuanbai froze in place for a long time, looked down, Xue Yuan had already run downstairs, red-faced in the crowd of cranes.
Gu Yuanbai clenched her fist against her lips and let out a giggle.
The scribes in the teahouse whispered, "Is there something wrong with that man?"
"And there was such a commotion in the teahouse."
Gu Yuanbai smiled more deeply, the back of his shoulders shook slightly, and he realized how the blue sky and white clouds outside the window were so beautiful, and today was really a clear sky.
It was so wrong of him to bring Xue Yuan for tea on such a fine day to inquire about the attitude of the schoolchildren towards punctuation.
Someone at the table came over with soft footsteps and said with concern, "This gentleman, what's wrong with you?"
Heavy footsteps flew again, and when Gu Yuanbai raised his head, he saw Xue Yuan sullenly pushing away the scholar who had come over and tugging Gu Yuanbai to run out of the teahouse.
People came and went in the marketplace, and the guards guarding the teahouse's perimeter secretly followed. Gu Yuanbai intoned leisurely, "General Xue, what did you just run for?"
Xue Yuan didn't say anything and Gu Yuanbai tugged his lips wordlessly, "Are you trying to play something with me?"
Xue Yuan stumbled on the soles of his feet and almost fell.
He tightened his grip and feigned composure, "Don't talk nonsense."
Gu Yuanbai: "You're clutching and hurting me."
Xue Yuan's entire body stiffened, and he hurriedly turned around to take a look, there was nothing on the wrist he was holding, he hadn't hurt Gu Yuanbai.
Looking up, Gu Yuanbai was still smiling.
Xue Yuan gulped and slammed his arms around him.
Gu Yuanbai was startled and patted his arm hard. Xue Yuan reluctantly let go of his hand, and from time to time, passersby walked by around him, so he couldn't hug, but could only force himself to circle around Gu Yuanbai and follow closely.
Murmuring, "Yuanbai, you're so pretty."
Gu Yuanbai moved his mouth, his earlier anger extinguished before it could rise, and he held back his laughter, "Get lost."
The two men walked toward the bridge, the river gurgling, the grass long gone under the dead trees, and the people sparse, the snow melting into water and wetting their shoes among the cracks in the grass.
Xue Yuan said slowly, "I want to kiss you."
Gu Yuanbai subconsciously said no.
Xue Yuan's brow wrinkled, sweat stained the white collar, Gu Yuanbai and some heartache, lifted his arm, the sleeve upward, the slender wrist bone exposed, "Give you smell how?"
Xue Yuan clutched his wrist and sniffed around cherishingly.
Gu Yuanbai said as if he was rambling, "Why didn't you kiss me the day before yesterday?"
"No way," Xue Yuan thoughtlessly and forcefully, "Every single day I've kissed you."
Gu Yuanbai seemed to smile, "When I was busy, you kissed me too?"
Xue Yuan paused for a moment, surprisingly nodded and vaguely said, "...... kiss after falling asleep."
Gu Yuanbai froze, then pursued, "What else did you do?"
Xue Yuan didn't dare to speak.
Gu Yuanbai's voice was getting lower and lower, as if he was forcing someone, "Say it."
His appearance, and the appearance of the great anger in the courtroom is completely different. There is no anger, but a strong sense of frivolity.
Xue Yuan couldn't stand being pressed and said with a strained neck, "I just touched it."
Gu Yuanbai coolly said, "Where did you touch?"
Xue Yuan stiffly took up the air of leading his own troops into battle, pointing at Gu Yuanbai again and again with great bravado.
"At the expense of me still feeling sorry for you," Gu Yuanbai laughed coldly as he held his arms, his heart itching, "So it turns out that while I'm busy with my political affairs, my General Xue is having such a good time."
Xue Yuan's eyes lit up, "Your Holiness feels sorry for me?!"
Gu Yuanbai lightly chortled, "White heartache."
Xue Yuan did not hear his words, he couldn't help but mumble "you feel sorry for me", the corners of his mouth grinning up to his ears, so stupid that people can't bear to look at him.
Gu Yuanbai's feigned anger was completely shattered by this silly smile, muttering to himself, "What a silly fellow."
*
At night, Xue Yuan still used the she-wolf giving birth to abduct the saint to the Xue Mansion. After taking a bath, Gu Yuanbai had small dishes and sake laid out, waved off the accompanying palace guards, and sat alone in the courtyard to drink under the moon with Xue Yuan.
The fireplace is warm and melting, this is around the 15th, the moon is very complete and bright. A few cups of wine, Xue Yuan finally said a few days ago, his own nonsense.
"You are busy with the matter of punctuation, for a long time did not say anything to me," Xue Yuan laughs to himself, "I used to see my mother in tears, originally thought that only she would be so affected by the loss of life, and now I realize that I was wrong. Originally, as long as you look at you are good, January past, I can still endure. After two months, began to think, March, I even sad autumn sadness. There is a flurry of disturbances, asking for their own mess."
Gu Yuan pursed his lips, suddenly feeling that he was not a very good other half in a relationship, "Are you tired of being with me?"
Xue Yuan wondered, "What makes you say that?"
Gu Yuanbai sipped a mouthful of sake sullenly, "Three months without regard for you."
"I'm willing," Xue Yuan confessed, after a pause, "Only occasionally, I feel like I'm no better than that. I don't know enough about governing to help you."
Gu Yuanbai was silent for a long time, the sake wasn't good, and the small dishes weren't good either, "It's a pity that you're by my side after all, you should go and walk your great path. General and commander, civil and military, let the world know how great you are, so that the history books can also call you a hero. Xue Yuan, there is no need for you to trap yourself in the palace."
Xue Yuan stiffened, "What do you mean?"
Gu Yuanbai said it again.
Xue Yuan finally understood, he couldn't believe it, as if he was a wounded beast roaring low, "You want to transfer me away again?"
Gu Yuanbai gripped his wine glass heavily, "I just don't want to detain you from running towards a great future."
Xue Yuan almost went crazy.
He was about to stop his protruding veins from wanting to get up and rage, but the candlelight shifted slightly, revealing the look on Gu Yuanbai's face.
Xue Yuan's heart full of fire suddenly turned into water, he walked around the stone table and squatted in front of Gu Yuanbai, carefully lifting his face, "Hard to bear?"
Gu Yuanbai didn't admit that he was having a hard time, he was just a little frustrated, he looked at Xue Yuan's worried face and raised his hand to smooth his cheek, "I'm sorry."
Busy again, Gu Yuanbai should not have neglected him for so long, in his heart Xue Yuan will not care about it. But really will not care about it?
Since you have decided to stay together, you have to pay your responsibilities. Gu Yuanbai's actions in the past three months have been based on Xue Yuan's deep love for him, and he knows that Xue Yuan will not leave him, so he feels that Xue Yuan should be sympathetic to him and understand that there is an urgency to things.
Taking such thoughts for granted is really a bit hurtful.
Nasal voice heavy, "Did I hurt you?"
Xue Yuan smelled the scent of wine from between his lips and teeth, he took a look at the cup and got a headache, "How come what Chief Tian brought you is also wine?"
Gu Yuanbai hadn't drank alcohol for a long time, for the sake of his body, he had crossed over for seven years, but the number of times he had dipped into alcohol could be counted on one hand. At this point, he was already intoxicated, but he was blissfully unaware of it.
It just feels depressing and chesty.
Xue Yuan carefully held him in his lap and sat down, "Where are you uncomfortable?"
Gu Yuanbai frowned and touched his chest.
Xue Yuan followed and touched it up, gently rubbing it, "Your Holiness can stop saying such things, everyone under the sun is at fault, and your Holiness is not wrong."
"There is a mistake," Gu Yuanbai looked at the bright moon, as if he was so calm that he never drank any wine, "Your father once said to me, even if you are just a small pre-templar marquis, he does not feel that he has insulted you. I was still in the heart reprimanded him for you too heartless, your talent is outstanding, should have been in the battle of Western Xia will be famous in the world, but you see, you in Western Xia have done what."
He grasped his hand, his fingers deeply pinching the flesh of his palm, "You were protecting me, not a moment too soon! The other generals rush to the battlefield to force their way to military success, but you, you wasted time after time, you clearly-"
Obviously a lot better than those guys.
All because of Gu Yuanbai.
His spine was trembling with emotion. Xue Yuan followed his back and suddenly lowered his head against Gu Yuanbai's black hair.
"Your Holiness," his voice was low and soft, "isn't it important to protect you?"
Gu Yuanbai thought to himself, "It's really because of me.
His trembling brow closed.
Xue Yuan continued to speak in a low voice, "My duty is to protect your safety on the battlefield. This is much more important than going into battle to kill the enemy, I don't feel comfortable leaving it to someone else, only by leaving it to myself can this heart of mine be put at ease."
"Next to all the generals who lead their armies into battle, what they do is not as important as what I do," he, "I am willing and do not have to go for military honors. As long as you are well, I feel that it is enough."
"Men are but pursuing the four words of building a career," Xue Yuan said, suddenly having some realization himself, his look gradually composed and mature, softly, "But I have something I value more than building a career."
It would be nice to help make it easier for you, to stop gawking and only watching you negotiate politics with other young talents.
The fish and the bear's paw.
Xue Yuan subconsciously hugged Gu Yuanbai tightly, a flash in his eyes.
Chaodang ah, if you can let Gu Yuanbai handle political affairs and also watch him ...... then it is the best.
Is it true that after turning his hand to the clouds and his hand to the rain, His Majesty is tired of him and cannot abandon him?