Xue Yuan remembered, this is a long time ago he and Chang Yuyin in the lake picked up the handkerchief, that day after the evening meal with the emperor from the palace reward meal, he casually took this in the soles of the feet ran over the handkerchief into the bath room, bathing casually to the side thrown away.
Only Xue Yuan and the cleaning boy came in this bath room, and this handkerchief was inexplicably left until now.
This is Gu Yuanbai's handkerchief.
It also has a dragon pattern on it.
The image of the handkerchief that was once carelessly crushed onto the handkerchief was vivid in his mind, Xue Yuan's face changed as he looked at the sludge on it, and he even forgot about the bath that he was halfway through. Taking big strides, he walked to the front of the tub and started washing the handkerchief.
Xue Jiuyao, he thought to himself, what are you stepping on that's so bad you have to go and step on a pajama?
As the weather grew hotter, fresh fruits for the changing seasons were placed on Gu Yuanbai's dining table.
Gu Yuanbai's body is not good, can not stand the cold, also can not stand the heat. Now the month went to June, wait until the end of June and the beginning of July, will be driving the summer palace, where to spend a whole summer.
Wan Tai Fei will move over early in the middle of June, the imperial physician has recently reported to Gu Yuanbai, Wan Tai Fei's physical condition is currently seen to be stabilized, as long as this summer does not have a serious illness, then it should be able to get through it.
Gu Yuanbai knocked down some of the people who served around Mrs. Wan, and after being instructed by His Majesty, this group of people were even more careful when serving Mrs. Wan.
It is very likely that the trade routes will be prepared until July or August, which will be the golden fall season. By the time the road reaches the border, it will probably be September.
Autumn was the harvest season for the Daheng Dynasty, but nomads often chose to attack the border in the fall.
Their warhorses were fat and strong then, and their cavalrymen were powerful, and they would take advantage of the autumn grain harvest of the Daheng Dynasty to invade the Central Plains and go and forcefully seize the grain throughout the winter.
The time control is just right, Gu Yuanbai ate the fruit while thinking, when he is in the palace to avoid the summer heat, the border should also start the war, so that the nomads do not have food for the whole winter, and can only take the good things to exchange with the caravan, this is the most ideal state of affairs.
Thinking of the border, Gu Yuanbai raised his head towards Xue Yuan, "Servant Xue?"
Xue Yuan didn't know what he was thinking before he sniffed and came back to his senses striding forward, "Your Holiness?"
"If I were to send you to the border, what would you do?" Gu Yuanbai asked.
Xue Yuan seemed to smile, never friendly, "Kill them all."
That's a little ...... bad.
Gu Yuanbai first had to consider the interests of the entire Daheng Dynasty, right now the cavalry of the Daheng Dynasty had no way to resist the nomads on the entire northern grasslands. Daheng had very few war horses, so the first step would be to get them back from the nomads, and after enough light and heavy cavalry were trained, and after transportation was made easy, then it would be time to kill them off and take over the northern border.
So right now, what Gu Yuanbai wanted was to beat them into fear, not to beat out a vendetta.
Now was not the time to take revenge, but only to make them stop violating the border and offending Daheng's people. If they really wanted to take revenge, it would be two or three years later at the very least.
At a time like this, it is better to send a sensible and big-picture general forward, just to promote the establishment of the border exchange market.
Xue Yuan, then he could be allowed to wait until he had conquered the Northern Frontier.
The same old general who was familiar with nomads, familiar with the border and still had a calm personality, Gu Yuanbai's mind flashed to General Xue.
Xue Yuan called out, "Your Holiness?"
Gu Yuanbai returned to his senses and said directly, "But I don't need you to kill them off right now."
Xue Yuan faintly said, "I know."
But this meaning of His Majesty, is he really going to send him out to the army?
Xue Yuan's heart jerked.
He was about to go crazy when he didn't see Gu Yuanbai for a day yesterday. Now just going to think about not seeing Gu Yuanbai for two or three months made him want to just fight Gu Yuanbai off as well.
His mansion was so big, the border was so big, to raise a delicate little emperor, Xue Yuan counted his silver and salary, it seems not impossible.
With a charter in mind, Gu Yuanbai asked Xue Yuan to retire. Today's morning passed in the middle of work, and once lunch time arrived, Tian Fusheng was on time to wake up. Gu Yuanbai had to put down his political affairs and let people pass the meal.
While he was using his meal, Xue Yuan watched from the sidelines, and when the head guard saw his eyes, he carefully sidestepped and kindly said, "Lord Xue, if you're starving, why don't you go eat first."
Xue Yuan stared at Gu Yuanbai's oil-stained lips as he ate, his throat itched and he didn't hear, "Hungry for what?"
The head guard increased his voice a bit, "If you're hungry, then go ahead and eat."
"Going to eat?" Xue Yuan couldn't avert his eyes and mumbled, "Can we eat?"
Can you eat with your mouth?
"Then what can't you eat?" The head guard smiled a bit, thinking that Xue Yuan was a good person for reminding him to be wary of Chu Wei, "The meals in the palace are delicious and sufficient, you can eat as much as you want."
Eat as much as you want ......
Xue Yuan's breath was hot and steeply tightened, but he choked himself instead and let out a low cough when he tensed up.
Gu Yuanbai gave a beat and gestured toward the side, "Pour him a glass of water."
The palace attendant brought a cup of water to Xue Yuan, Xue Yuan took a sip and finished it, his remaining light glanced at this Gu Yuanbai, looking at his porcelain-white side face out of focus again.
How much silver is needed for a meal, the brain can not help but calculate it, a calculation, this money Xue Yuan can afford to pay, inexplicably, Xue Yuan himself picked his lips and smiled with satisfaction.
After lunch, Gu Yuanbai took a nap.
After waking up, he slept for exactly one hour. Gu Yuanbai lay on the bed and slowed down, there was a ringing sound coming from outside, lifting his eyelids to see that the door to his room was opened.
Tian Fusheng said, "Your Holiness, it's time."
Gu Yuanbai gave a muffled hmmm.
"What's it called out there?"
Tian Fusheng said, "When you were sick a few days ago, Lord Xue carried two small wolf cubs in the palace, and this day the palace people saw that you were well, so they came to ask if they wanted to carry the two wolf cubs to you to relieve your boredom."
Gu Yuanbai smothered a laugh, "I said I wanted a wolf, and I really brought it to me."
In a good mood, he lifted the covers and said, "Get up."
The two wolf cubs' fur was silver-gray, a very beautiful color. After they were carried over, they pulled up their voices and wailed when they saw Xue Yuan.
Xue Yuan walked over and personally grabbed the barking wolf cub in his hands before handing it over to Gu Yuanbai.
The wolf cubs were cute as can be when they were small, but they already had the wildness to attack people, and when Gu Yuanbai stretched out his hand towards the two wolf cubs, these two young wolves opened their mouths wide, stupidly wanting to stretch their heads to take a bite of the Holy Lord's finger.
Xue Yuan glanced down and choked the two wolf pups with his large palm, and the two wolf pups dropped their ears and tails and gave a timid wail.
Gu Yuanbai's fingers then settled on the top of the little wolf cub's head.
The fur was fluffy, and the saint obviously loved animals with such soft fur, and that red fox was kept in the palace last time.
The two little wolf cubs are quite smart and know what to look for in a dish. In addition to just wanting to bite Gu Yuanbai for a while, after that, they have been obediently by Gu Yuanbai to smooth the fur, and the milky voice of the wail is also extraordinarily pleasing to the eye.
This kind of fierce beast is always so cute and adorable when it's small, so adorable that it melts the heart, as for when it grows up, it's a completely different story.
Gu Yuanbai recalled the two wolves he had once encountered in the Xue Mansion, with dark fur, fangs exposed, and salivation sliding down from their sharp teeth, completely incomparable between when they were grown up and when they were small.
After playing with the wolf cubs for a while, Gu Yuanbai was about to withdraw his hand and turn to his work, but Xue Yuan suddenly threw the two wolf cubs he was holding in his arms to the ground, and the two wolf cubs were thrown so violently that they were almost blinded by the fall.
Xue Yuan clutched Gu Yuanbai's hand, and before Gu Yuanbai frowned, he smiled slightly and pulled out an emerald jade wrench from his pocket, giving it to Gu Yuanbai to wear on the thumb of his left hand.
His Majesty's fingers were long and white, the most pampered hands under the sky. When such a hand puts on the green jade trigger that is solid and transparent, it seems to suddenly come to life, the white is set off even whiter, the green is set off even greener, and the two are intertwined, making them even more exquisite and exquisite.
Xue Yuan liked it so much that he wanted to lift it up on his lips and kiss it, he smiled, "My minister's vision is not bad."
Gu Yuanbai withdrew his hand and looked at this jade trigger, he turned it around in his hand and it was somewhat surprisingly fitting.
The Holy Lord's face softened slightly, and his light lips hooked into a smile, "Servant Xue has put his heart into it."
How can it be called a bother when you're willing to wear it?
Xue Yuan opened his mouth and spoke, he thought it was just an ordinary sentence, but when his ears heard his own voice, he himself felt that the tone was soft and a bit unbelievable, "Your Majesty, tonight is the first day of the Lantern Festival, would you like my minister to accompany you to have a look?"
If those subordinates of Xue Yuan and the gatekeepers of the mansion saw that Xue Yuan also had such a gesture, they were afraid that they would be shocked out of their wits.
The two wolf cubs were lying on Xue Yuan's black boots, tugging at the official robes to climb up, Xue Yuan kicked the two cubs far away, his eyes staring at the person without letting go, "Your Holiness?"
Gu Yuanbai drifted off, "Today turns out to be the Lantern Festival already."
He was excited, "That must be the way to go, the lanterns I made some time ago, aren't they reserved for today?"
Lantern Festival lasts three days, these three days the capital curfew is no longer, to the evening, the drums sound, each household lit lanterns, the whole capital as if the night in the middle of a bright light.
Families are smiling, young and old are laughing.
A scholar stood on the bridge and said in a loud voice: "Jinli opened a fragrant banquet, Lan Hongyan early years. The reddish colors are distantly divided into the earth, and the complicated light is far from decorating the sky. 1"
The others laughed and laughed, and in addition to these poetic scholars, there were quite a number of people who were holding the Dahangguo Newspaper in their hands, standing in twos and threes, laughing and talking about something.
The lanterns were so colorful that they dyed the sky in a multicolored pattern. Ten thousand empty alleys, everyone is laughing, between the young men and women, in the blush of the face to tell each other their love.
Daheng prospered.
The sea is calm and the river is clear.
Gu Yuanbai was in the middle of this city that never sleeps, and his heart was softened by such images.
He led his men through the streets brushing past crowds of people, and every now and then he could see patrolling soldiers in full body armor with great swords at their waists. Every year, when it came to such a joyous festival, the Capital Prefect would send people to strictly guard the city, forbidding the presence of thieves and flower patrons.
Gu Yuanbai carried that simple lantern of his, reflected in the darkness of the night, with Xue Yuan following closely at his side.
He was like the tallest wolf beside Gu Yuanbai, who had almost fallen into Xue Yuan's arms several times because of the crowd in front of him, but was helped up one by one by Xue Yuan. Compared to that day's unauthorized stripping of his pants, today's Xue Yuan could be described as disciplined.
Gu Yuanbai laughed and joked, "Servant Xue, how do you feel about doing things with Chu Ziguo these days?"
Xue Yuan's face did not change, "Your Holiness, Chu Zi Guan this person can't."
Gu Yuanbai raised an eyebrow, "Oh?"
If he went to the border, he wouldn't be able to return to Gu Yuanbai's side for a few months, leaving behind that Chu Wei who had bad intentions towards Gu Yuanbai, how could he look at it? Xue Yuan said in a serious manner, "He has the Dragon Yang's favor."
Gu Yuanbai froze, then his face looked strange.
Xue Yuan fake said as if it were true: "looks like a man, the actual do not know how dirty. Your Holiness, this person has a deep mind, you must not be compelled by him."
Gu Yuanbai felt something subtle.
It is reasonable to say that Chu Wei seems to like men is normal, but look at Xue Yuan now this demeanor tone, as if Chu Wei like men is a disgusting thing.
Moreover, Xue Jiuyao was really the first to smear others so bluntly in front of the Emperor.
Gu Yuanbai was curious in his heart, and he also asked directly, "Then do you like men?"
How is that possible.
Xue Yuan wanted to say no.
Men? Like what men?
Since ancient times the combination of yin and yang is the way to go, they are all men, what is there to like about hard men.
He wanted to say it, wanted to say bluntly, "How could I like a man?", but the words were suddenly blocked when they reached his throat.
Why can't you say it?
Xue Yuan opened his mouth, but the words were always smothered under his throat, and his slowly beating heart sank the words, making it impossible for Xue Yuan to say anything.
The young men and women around them smiled at each other, and the colorful lanterns along the street glittered with all colors of light.
In the capital, in recent years, although the wind of dragon and Yang is prevalent, but today, at a glance it is only men and women of similar age. Everywhere so lively and prosperous, but Xue Yuan can not say a word.
He got stuck in his throat and could only look at Gu Yuanbai, at the dark night and the sparkling water, and then ask himself, Xue Jiuyao, do you like men?
Heh.
With so many men in the barracks, Xue Yuan was sick to his stomach just thinking about it, and he didn't like men.
But if--
What if it's Gu Yuanbai?
"Boom."
The slow beating heart steeply began to get faster.
Xue Yuan opened his lips with difficulty, "I--"
Gu Yuanbai had already forgotten about that casual question, he looked at the scenery around him with interest and turned his head sideways towards Xue Yuan with a slight hook of his lips, "You what?"
Xue Yuan was silent.
He looked at Gu Yuanbai, his eyes obscure.
Gu Yuanbai's face reflected the light, the little emperor's skin was very good, but even the best skin was just a man.
Gu Yuanbai this night is just a walk, but also a full eye, back to the palace is very satisfied.
Xue Yuan also returned to the mansion. When it was late at night, Xue Yuan lay on his bed, his mind once again ringing with the words that Gu Yuanbai had asked.
"And do you like men?"
Even after Xue Yuan fell asleep, these words were all in his sleep.
He was violently awakened in the dead of night.
The bed slammed, Xue Yuan sat up expressionlessly and walked quickly to the bath room taking half a bucket of cold water and hurriedly pouring it down from the head.
Cold water sloshed down and his mind cleared.
Xue Yuan looked at the cold water, his head down, the water on his hair running down his body.
Gu Yuanbai doesn't like men.
The little emperor didn't even like men, so why should he, Xue Jiujiuyao, a man of iron and strength, like men?
Breathing was ragged, and the cold water running over his mouth turned bitter. Xue Yuan straightened up expressionlessly and walked towards the room. The moon in the middle of the courtyard was very bright and full, the stars in the sky seemed to be ready to be plucked from the sky, Xue Yuan's afterglow made his footsteps pause in place.
He couldn't help but think how nice it would be if Gu Yuanbai could also see such a beautiful moon.
Xue Yuan, who had returned to his senses and realized what he had been thinking about, sank his face violently and took large strides towards the bedroom.
A few wolf howls burst out.
Xue Yuan sat down on the edge of the bed, but completely lost his sleepiness.
The moonlight outside was fading, and the sky gradually brightened, the light shone into the room, illuminating the greenish blackness under Xue Yuan's eyes.
He wiped his face and thought, "It's over, Xue Yuan.
You've taken a liking to the little emperor.
It's not loyalty.
You're the one who wanted him.
Day two.
Gu Yuanbai was in the middle of reviewing the zhengfu, when he felt a seeming line of sight.
He raised his head along with his senses, and saw Xue Yuan smiling perfunctorily at him with greenish-black eyes, "Your Holiness, you should rest and take a break."
In Tian Fusheng's absence, the task of watching the saint to allow him to rest in a timely manner was given to Xue Yuan. Xue Yuan is bold, daring, and uses his life to challenge Gu Yuanbai's bottom line, and Tian Fusheng thinks highly of him.
It just so happened that Gu Yuanbai's eyes were a bit sore, and he stopped writing, "Good."
Xue Yuan was uncomfortable liking someone for the first time.
He hadn't slept a wink last night, and had gone to think about Gu Yuanbai.
Thinking about the little emperor's dislike of men.
Xue Yuan still remembers the expression on Gu Yuanbai's face when he took his foot and stomped on his cotyledon root, the look in his eyes and the bad feeling that rose up from the bottom of his heart, as if as long as Xue Yuan's heart was not right, he could immediately be scrapped.
When you think about it that way, it seems like you have his old man's unreliability to thank for it.
Squire Xue's expression changed and changed in a wonderful way.
The people around him looked at him as if he were watching a play, and the fellow guards held their laughter between themselves.
Look at this, is this person with a silly look on his face their Marquis of Du Yu, Lord Xue? Why does he look so funny.
As soon as the saint closed his eyes, there are hands flexible eunuchs came forward, for Gu Yuanbai pressed up the head, the temple incense gently soft, I do not know whether the saint slept or not.
After waiting to rest for a while, Tian Fusheng came over from outside. He walked over to His Holiness and pulled out a secret letter from his sleeve.
The little eunuch avoided it, and Gu Yuanbai unfolded the secret letter, lifted his eyelids, and laughed after reading the content on it.
This is a letter from Jinghu South, news reported by an official of the Inspection Division who goes by the alias Liu Yan. Gu Yuanbai's gift to Lu Feng's clique in Jinghu South and Jiangnan - that long line of prisoners - had frightened the group when it was delivered to their stronghold.
Under Gu Yuanbai's expectation, and with Liu Yan's push and pull, happily and congratulatively, they had finally risen to a few moments of crisis, and were planning to give Gu Yuanbai an assassination to see.
Gu Yuanbai laughed, "How nice."
Only a few days ago he felt that he was not going to live long, he might not be able to wait for the rebellion of Lu Feng's remnants, he didn't expect his opponents to give so much energy, they directly planned to send someone to assassinate Gu Yuanbai.
Gu Yuanbai had buried a handful of chess pieces when he drove the rebel army to both Jinghu South and Jiangnan, and now there was finally a chance for them to come into play.
The assassination will not be delayed, from Jinghu South to the capital, fast horseback whip also have to be more than half a month. Gu Yuanbai was in a good mood waiting for the assassination. He put away the secret letter and said softly, "A trick will be a trick."
After Daheng's Emperor had been successfully stabbed by their group of rebels, giving them a feeling that the Emperor would not have long to live, it was thought that this group of rebel army would be overwhelmed by the joy of success.
They will revolt.
It's finally time to rebel.
The news that the A-Shen Society was going to send someone to assassinate Gu Yuanbai was thoroughly concealed except for a very small number of people who knew about it.
Even the guards who were close to protecting Gu Yuanbai were only known to a group of people who were extremely trusted by Gu Yuanbai, not to mention Xue Yuan who was a vassal.
After fifteen or sixteen days of this, Gu Yuanbai guessed how the people sent by the A-Shen Association could arrive, so he gave them a chance himself, taking a few talented and renowned scholars from the government school to personally go to the fields to see the grain planted by the farmers.
Xue Yuan got up early in the morning and after practicing, he went to take a bath with a head of hot air. After changing his clothes, he equipped his sword and waited at the front door of his house.
General Xue rode by his side and looked at him and let out a cold snort, "Why aren't you wearing official clothes today?"
Xue Yuan stood straight and glanced at him lazily at his words, "Go to the fields with His Holiness."
General Xue bitter words, "the saint treats you so well, you can protect the saint, our subjects of this a loyal heart of the king, should be in the heart and eyes loaded with the saint."
Xue Yuan said, "The old man's heart and eyes are already filled with him."
He had not slept a peaceful sleep for several nights, and as soon as he woke up, he had to go to a cold shower in the middle of the night. When Gu Yuanbai smiled, he was so mesmerized that he couldn't tell east from west.
The Great Duke Xue, who everyone in the Northern Border was afraid of, couldn't stand the mesmerizing soup even now.
General Xue was talking a great deal and didn't hear, "What?"
Xue Yuan, however, ignored him and gazed past General Xue to see His Holiness' carriage. He grinned and took big strides towards the carriage, telling General Xue, "Old me is leaving."
Before General Xue could get angry, he saw Xue Yuan suddenly fix his footsteps and sidled up warningly, "General Xue, this loyalty to the king can only come from me, and can only come from me. Do you understand?"
After saying that, Xue Yuan took big strides and walked towards the carriage with great vigor.
The head guard was also holding a fiery horse with dazzling brownish-red fur all over its body, the very same sweat-blooded BMW Red Cloud that was left for Xue Yuan to use as a mount.
Xue Yuan rolled onto his horse and drove it to the carriage window, smiling suavely, "Your Holiness, are you well today?"
Gu Yuanbai's voice was still sleepy and lazy, "It's okay."
Xue Yuan smiled faintly and said meaningfully, "Did His Holiness have any dreams yesterday?"
Gu Yuanbai paused for a moment and wondered, "What does Servant Xue mean by that?"
Xue Yuan frowned, it couldn't be that the little emperor didn't dream of him last night?
Fuck him.
Xue Yuan's brows instantly clouded over, his tone unchanged, "Nothing, I casually asked."
How dare someone come to cheat him, Xue Jiuyao?
Is it a death wish.
Xue Yuan met a Taoist priest yesterday when he was off duty, and the Taoist priest sold a kind of talisman that could make other people dream about him. Xue Yuan was obsessed and spent a large sum of silver to buy it, and before going to bed, he followed the words of the Taoist priest and recited the little emperor in his heart a hundred times. When he fell asleep, he put the talisman next to his pillow, and the Taoist priest said that this would make the person who meditated in his heart dream about him.
Xue Yuan held the idea of not being able to be seen by outsiders, but also washed himself clean, and his robust body did not wear a single piece of clothing, lying on the bed and sleeping all night.
It turned out to be a fucking rip-off.
Gu Yuanbai propped up his face within the carriage, speechless for a moment, lifted the curtain at the window and saw Xue Yuan outside the window with a cloudy face, as if he was going to kill someone, looking oozy.
With such an expression, if someone really came to assassinate him, he was afraid that he would be scared at a glance.
Gu Yuanbai's arm was propped up on the car window, his eyes slightly narrowed, smiling like the playboys in the capital who molested young women from good families: "Squire Xue's face is so ugly, is he unwilling to go with me to the countryside to have a look?"
Xue Yuan said, "Any way you like."
Gu Yuanbai felt that this was a bit strange, "If I were to ask you to serve me as a slave, would you be willing to do so?"
Xue Yuan glanced at Gu Yuanbai and thought Even if you want to touch Lao Zi ...... it s not impossible.
He hooked his lips in a lazy smile and asked, "What does Your Majesty want me to serve you?"
Instead of looking angry, he looked stupid. Gu Yuanbai pondered for a moment and said, "Just keep a good face."
Xue Yuan's heart began to thump in his desire for the dragon's bed. Want to see him look good?
See him smile?
Little Emperor.
It's kind of fun.