It wasn't just the gap of three years, six months and three days that had been filled, but also Gu Yuanbai himself.
He drifted with the swaying of the carriage, the bumps of the stones making even the soft carriages amongst them floating waves. Xue Yuan bent down and rose again, "Your Holiness."
Gu Yuanbai gave a hmmm, and Xue Yuan called out lowly again, "Gu Convergence, Yuanbai, Bai Bai ......"
What's the name for white?
Gu Yuanbai said with difficulty, "Call your husband."
Xue Yuan raised his eyebrows and didn't move, gently lifting the back of Gu Yuanbai's head so that he could look at the position where the two of them were intersecting, "Husband?"
Gu Yuanbai's feathery eyelashes trembled so much that he closed his eyes.
"Yuanbai, open your eyes and look," Xue Yuan pressed down, his fine kisses falling on the tips of his ears, "You're even whiter than you were three years ago, while I'm even darker, and look how pronounced this is when I'm pressed up against you."
Heat rose on Gu Yuanbai's face, his fingers tingling, unable to believe that he would lose to an ancient man. He barely opened his eyes to look at them for a moment, and then violently inclined his head under the shame, "...... Green veins are visible, where is it worth for me to look at?"
A smile swirled in Xue Yuan's eyes, and Gu Yuanbai feigned impatience again, "Are you still a man? If you don't want to move, then lie down and let me do it."
With a deep look in his eyes, Xue Yuan began to move, letting His Holiness know whether he was a man or not.
*
Allied to the road to the two Zhejiang, Xue Yuan to the saint raised into a waste of man, reaching out to wear clothes and open mouth to eat, no appetite coaxed, eat propped up someone rubbing the stomach. Just Xue Yuan worried about the saint stayed in the carriage all day will suffocate the body, every day must take the saint on horseback or walk slowly for a few moments.
Gu Yuanbai is getting lazier and lazier, and the only time he goes out to exercise outside of his daily administrative duties is always perfunctory. He was reflecting on himself, reflecting on the intimacy of the dirty talk, playing tricks than Xue Yuan's this thing, although Gu Yuanbai has not been in love in the modern era, but he knows a lot, so a comparison, he should be reasonable to tease Xue Yuan's heartbeat is the one that is.
One day, he thought long and hard and was about to lightly tease Xue Yuan with dirty talk when Xue Yuan suddenly pinched the soft flesh on his stomach. Gu Yuanbai froze and followed by pinching his stomach, his face changing instantly.
Xue Yuan comfortably said, "I finally will be the saint fattened." Although it is not fat how much, but at least there is some meat, Xue Yuan heart proud incomparable, than to do anything to get a strong sense of accomplishment.
Gu Yuanbai, however, couldn't accept it, he didn't say anything that day, but changed into a valiant riding outfit early the next morning and took the initiative to ride forward. Xue Yuan was beside him, holding the reins of the horse under him, slightly staggering half a step away from Saint, together side by side with the horse forward.
They conversed in a low voice, shoulders closer and closer, looked intimate. Along the way, Chu Wei is getting more and more silent, occasionally the line of sight from their body crossed, fixedly looked at a moment and then lowered his eyes.
If Xue Yuan was harboring ill will towards the Holy Spirit on the basis that the Holy Spirit did not understand the wind and moon, he could naturally boast that he was a righteous man and go up to stop him. Previously, when Xue Yuan was outside, he could still deceive himself and others, but this way, he already knew it by heart.
Lord Xue has been established, not married without a wife and concubine, alone, he accompanied by the side of the saint.
Those pride and self-esteem in Chu Wei's heart made it impossible for him to feign ignorance and insert himself between His Holiness and him again.
Unwillingness and pallor hidden in the bottom of the heart, do not want the onlookers to see the slightest, spine straight, do not want to show weakness and pity.
Just occasionally see the saint's smiling face ...... will still recall that he had a gentle smile at his appearance, remembered that night was tied into the palace, ambergris heavy, bright yellow sheet was the saint's slender fingers clenched up the folds of the beautiful scene, the saint spoke eloquently with his eyes as if glowing, Chu Wei had seen that kind of light, and then no longer able to forget. How many times as in the dream there is such a pair of smiling eyes, accompanied by flowers and leaves from nothingness.
Just thinking about it still brings some sadness that wants to shed tears.
Gu Yuanbai in front of him suddenly sensed something, and as he turned his head thoughtfully, he saw that Chu Wei had inclined his head, his long hair blown up by the wind on the side of his face, his lower jaw taut, stoic and restrained.
But he didn't have to look away for long before Xue Yuan inadvertently turned his head, blocking the rest of the light out of the corner of his eye with the side of his shoulder.
After a short while, Gu Yuanbai forgot about that scene just now.
The road has been traveling is the official road, Daheng dynasty will have the official road in the past to repair, and will build the road is more well-connected. Such a road is convenient for this trip, Gu Yuanbai has personally examined the road situation many times, found that the official road even in the heat or under the cloudy rain also did not collapse, the Ministry of Public Works supervision is strong, should be credited.
Roads within the Daheng Dynasty have been constructed over the years, and the Ministry of Public Works has gone to great lengths in recent years to build roads in the newly annexed Western Xia lands, and the people of Western Xia, who are already Dahengs, are thrilled about this, and some of the new-born children in Gansu, Ningxia, and Shaanxi have long since thought of themselves as Dahengs since ancient times, and they learn Daheng language in the official schools, eat food grown on Daheng lands, and enter the Daheng official household register. Daheng official household booklet, the world is big, they only know Daheng.
With the imperial examination after a Xixia scholar into the dynasty as an official, the people of Xixia has long been peaceful, no longer mention the old country a sentence.
The country's monarch treats them equally and loves the people, and no one wants to be plunged into chaos after tasting the taste of a prosperous world. With the prolongation of time, the small chaos of Western Xia is like a stone falling into a pool, the ripples are calm and can no longer stir up the water splash.
When it came to road building, cement had to be mentioned. Gu Yuanbai only knows that cement is made of limestone and other materials calcined at high temperatures, limestone is now called greenstone, clay can also be easily found, but more he did not know. Can only be secretly handed over to specialized people to study, so there is no hurry, there are also ancient ways to build roads and houses in ancient times, cement has its best, no is not forced.
However, the remarkable achievements of the Ministry of Engineering in recent years have already made the people in the court vaguely aware of the importance of scientific and technological talents. Gu Yuanbai intends to slow down for another decade or so, and change the world's mind in a subtle way. If possible, Gu Yuanbai also wants to establish a "material knowledge" class in the official school, separate enrollment of interested scientific and technological research talents, as well as women's colleges .......
When he spoke to Xue Yuan, he was very interested, "According to this, those magicians with magical means are just knowing some grimoires that the others don't know?"
Gu Yuanbai nodded, "Exactly."
"I once heard of it," Xue Yuan said, "walking on fire with bare feet, licking the iron brand with a fleshy tongue; if not for Your Majesty's words, I wouldn't have known that there were traces of it, and Your Majesty knows so much."
"Your Holiness is amazing ......" He pressed in for another kiss.
*
A group of people through the northern part of Fujian, in passing through the Wuyi Mountain Gu Yuanbai deliberately stopped, ordered to rest here for half a day, deliberately let Tian Fusheng gave this place to grow tea farmers some silver, instructed the three thousand troops and ministers and courtesans who want to go to tea picking will go to tea picking, want to go to hunt for some meat by Qin Sheng led the team.
The three thousand men of the Dong Ling Wei raised their arms and shouted, leaving some of them to follow His Holiness, while the rest of them rushed into the dense forest together unannounced, ready to add some meat to the lunch.
The courtiers were reserved, and one by one took the cloth bags to pick tea. Xue Yuan also carried a wooden bamboo basket on his back, and walked into the endless tea fields with His Holiness.
"Hundreds of ships stop under Wuyi Mountain from time to time just to transport the tea from this place," Gu Yuanbai leisurely plucked a green leaf, "Now this is the right time of year when the tea is ripe. Lin Zhicheng also left with a whole fifty ships of tea, so I don't know how much will be left by then."
Xue Yuan was surprised, "Your Holiness isn't worried about not being able to sell it?"
"How can good tea not be sold?" Gu Yuanbai threw the tea into the bamboo basket on his back, "This is a big headache, when you traveled to the Silk Road, did the tea not sell?"
Xue Yuan sighed, "It seems like I'm the only one who can't eat the wonderful flavor of it."
Gu Yuanbai glanced at him in amusement and plucked another tea leaf to his lips, "Taste it?"
Xue Yuan obediently opened his mouth, his warm tongue touched His Holiness's fingertips, and hooked his lips insatiably after swallowing the tea into his stomach, "It tastes very good, worthy of His Holiness."
"...... "Gu Yuanbai said in his heart, it's starting again, summer is about to pass, how come Xue Yuan is still one to spring, he rubbed his finger on Xue Yuan's shoulder and smiled as well, "It's good that Princess Xue likes it. "
Xue Yuan froze, and Gu Yuanbai patted his face, humming a tune as he continued forward picking tea. Xue Yuan came back to his senses, laughed silently, and quickly followed His Majesty, "Your Majesty, when will I be able to take a step further?"
"What other step do you want to take?"
"Mother of a Nation ......"
The words faded away.
At midday, the Dong Ling Guards who showed off their skills with their 100-pace archery skills made everyone eat meat. They also hunted a young deer, and the tenderest piece of meat from the young deer went into Gu Yuanbai's mouth. The general who led the soldiers came to Gu Yuanbai to beg for an order of grace, allowing the soldiers to drink some wine appropriately, the soldiers were elated, the flavor of the wine spread all around, and many of the civil ministers also came to the side and laughed and drank wine with them while eating the meat.
After eating and drinking, the soldiers put out the fire, disposed of the remaining debris, and set off again in high spirits for the Generalissimo's office on the Fujian coast.
The further along the coast they went, the more the diet and the people's style of dress changed, and Gu Yuanbai paid special attention to the issue of seafood allergies, but fortunately, everyone, including himself, didn't have any symptoms of being allergic to the diet.
At the beginning of September, His Majesty's imperial chariot drove to Fuzhou, Fujian Province, Fuzhou people showed no less than any place of enthusiasm. Gu Yuanbai field visits to several provinces and counties, but found some of the ugly end of the local government.
Fujian and the capital is too far away, the emperor is far away from the drawbacks of the mountains and how to cover up can not be hidden. Gu Yuanbai could not tolerate these, he personally sat down in Fuzhou, thunder and lightning to rectify these shortcomings, for a moment, the Fujian states are in a state of panic. Gu Yuanbai a decree to go to the capital, so that the Hall of Government to transfer a cold and hard not to eat the strong character of the officials to govern this place.
His bold means quickly out of the effect, the local government began to order, the statutes re-implementation is in need of manpower, Gu Yuanbai see the capital transferred to the officials have not yet arrived, the first around the young officials to try their hands, as a way to sharpen the ability of these people.
It wasn't until the middle of October that Gu Yuanbai intended to depart and return. When his order came down, the prefect of Fuzhou Prefecture wiped his cold sweat, finally recovering from his state of trepidation.
Luckily, he is the governor of the rules and regulations, usually is also considered to be diligent, otherwise it really is a tragedy.
The return time than expected to be half a month later, the road to step up the time, because if it is late, afraid to go back to Kyoto to winter, frost and snow fall, the road by the wind and cold that can not be good.
The return trip is more waterway, I do not know if God also take care of a line of people, this journey is safe and smooth, day after day is good weather, the cold did not notice how much.
Finally, on a blazing sunny day in December, Gu Yuanbai returned to the capital amidst the cheers of the people on the pavement.
The imperial chariot was slow, the horses followed, the people, the soldiers guarding the imperial chariot, the people were crowded, the people were boisterous.
In front of them were clean and spacious avenues, and behind them were neat houses lined up on both sides of the road.
Everyone is covered in cotton and has a rosy face. Young children ran among them with reverent eyes.
Gu Yuanbai raised his head and looked at the magnificent Daheng Palace under the blazing sun. The tiles were bathed in light, reflecting a brilliant luster like gold.
"Xue Yuan," Gu Yuanbai suddenly said in a slow voice, "I've heard two words in the past, and that's what a very backbone country has done since the beginning of time, and that's what I'm pursuing now for the rest of my life."
Xue Yuan was driving his horse beside the imperial chariot, and he asked, "What is it?"
Gu Yuanbai laughed, "No peace, no reparations, no land cession, no tribute." ①
His gaze slid over the people and elevated from the gilded Daheng Palace.
"The Son of Heaven guards the gates of the country, and the King dies for the gods."
I, along with my Daheng descendants, have worked hard because of this.