outside the imperial city

Chapter 28

"Yao Fanglan!"

Early in the morning, Yao Fanglan was awakened by a knock on the door.He didn't actually fall asleep, he just closed his eyes and rested his mind.However, the knock on the door still made his head ache.

The delicate eyebrows were pulled together, and Yao Fanglan yelled back: "Chu Jingqing, your uncle, you are called a soul!"

The hangover was terrible, but Yao Fanglan wasn't very drunk yesterday.The most terrible thing is the damn stomach pain, because I drank on an empty stomach, and now my stomach hurts beyond words.

For this self-inflicted evil, Sheng Dan is powerless.

Yao Zanglan struggled to sit up from the bed, thinking vaguely, wondering what happened to Jing Lishuo, did he have a stomachache?

"Who are you scolding?" Chu Jingqing did not stop, "Master Yao, can you see what time it is?"

Yao Fanglan pushed open the door rudely, her face pale.Before Chu Jingqing could say anything, she clutched her stomach and lay back on the bed.

Seeing his unlucky appearance, Chu Jingqing was too embarrassed to yell again.

"Hey, who told you to drink again last night?" Chu Jingqing walked to the bed and held out her hand to him.

Yao Zanglan covered her eyes with the arm of one hand, and when she heard the movement beside her, she moved her arm a little: "What?"

"Medicine. I'll take it for you to boil."

Yao Fanglan looked at him, without speaking for a long time, but his eyes lit up inexplicably.

"..."

"What are you doing? It's disgusting."

Yao Fanglan said in a very relieved tone: "My son, you have finally grown up."

"Get out!" To actually sympathize with this person is really taking the wrong medicine.

After drinking the stomach-warming ginger soup, Yao Fanglan finally recovered.

"Ah, I've come back to life." Yao Fanglan put down the bowl and licked her lower lip contentedly.

Chu Jingqing said: "Then, why did you think of drinking yesterday?"

Yao Fanglan was still holding the bowl with both hands, feeling the residual heat.

"Jing Qing, I think, I seem to understand your feelings a little bit." Yao Zanglan smiled sadly, "It doesn't matter whether you have intentions or not, it's because that person is so kind that I don't want to hold it in my hand."

"King Jinyuan?" Chu Jingqing was not surprised, and asked back without any doubts.

The two were silent for a while, and Chu Jingqing asked, "What did you say to Princess Qian... yesterday?"

Yao Fanglan closed her eyes and said while recalling, "I didn't say anything. I just asked her something."

He stared at Chu Jingqing very solemnly: "She may really follow you because she likes you."

"Tell me, you understand my feelings." Chu Jingqing smiled wryly, "Then, you know that person really likes you, have you accepted it?"

"We are different." Yao Fanglan raised her arm, folded up her white sleeve a little, and handed it to Chu Jingqing.

On it, the Yao family's family pattern was embroidered with white thread.

"Although you lost your arm, you are free." Yao Fanglan said, "With your aptitude, it doesn't matter when you start practicing sword again. You don't have to carry anything. As long as you want, you can If you can give her happiness, Qianling and I will help you. Besides, don't you even have the confidence that you are the person who loves her the most in this world?"

Chu Jingqing murmured, "Yes, yes."

"Then, let me ask you the other way around." Yao Fanglan put the sleeve back to its original shape, "Who else in this world loves her more than you? If no one loves her more than you, then who can give her happiness more than you ?”

"I can't always say no to you." Chu Jingqing raised her hands in surrender.

Yao Fanglan smiled and said, "That's because no matter what you look like, you will always be my little brother five years younger than me in my heart."

"Go away, who is your little brother?"

Just as he was talking, a clerk said softly outside the door: "Young masters, excuse me. There is a young lady waiting downstairs, insisting that she wants to see a young master surnamed Chu."

Chu Jingqing immediately lost her composure: "Bei Qianhan? How did she find this place?"

Yao Zanglan patted him on the shoulder to calm him down, and said loudly: "Understood. Go on. If she wants to wait, let her wait."

"Yes."

Hearing the waiter went downstairs, Yao Fanglan said: "Speaking of which, have you been staying in this inn for the past few months?"

"How is that possible?" Chu Jingqing said disdainfully, "In order not to let her find out, I moved to another place every few weeks. That's why I don't know why she came here."

"You are really cruel." Yao Fanglan didn't know what expression to use, "So, see you, or not?"

"Ask me?" Chu Jingqing pointed to herself.

"Don't ask you?" Yao Fanglan laughed, "Brother Chu, is this your business or mine? However, if you don't go, I'm afraid she will always stand below."

The implication is to suggest that he go.

"Look down and see you, look up, anyway, we always have to see each other." Chu Jingqing jumped up, pushed the door and left, "I'm leaving."

Yao Fanglan applauded from behind: "Brother Chu is mighty."

Yao Fanglan followed Chu Jingqing all the way, but didn't go down when they reached the stairs, waiting for a good show.

"It's none of your business, hang it high." Chu Jingqing cursed him a few words, but went downstairs by herself.

Although Bei Qianhan came here with the feeling that she would never go back if she didn't see him, she was still surprised when she saw him.

Chu Jingqing scratched her head helplessly, an imperceptible blush appeared on her wheat-colored face.

"What, what's your expression?"

Bei Qianhan waved her hand embarrassingly: "No, that's not the case. Well, thank you for willing to see me."

Yao Fanglan looked at it, amazed.A woman's heart, a sea needle.When I saw it yesterday, I still had an expression of wanting to swallow Chu Jingqing alive, how could I be so respectful when we really get along?

Is it because yesterday I was too impulsive, and when I wake up today, my mind is sober?

Chu Jingqing is a typical person who accepts softness and refuses to accept hard work.Bei Qianhan was so cautious, his attitude softened.

"You don't have to be so careful with me," Chu Jingqing walked to a table next to her and sat down, "You are a princess."

"Please sit down." Chu Jingqing poured herself a cup of tea, and filled the empty cup opposite her.

Bei Qianhan sat down opposite him.

"How did you find this place?" Chu Jingqing asked.

Bei Qianhan said: "Well, brother Shuo yesterday...Although the prince did not catch up with you, he also found out that you live here."

Chu Jingqing knew that Jing Lingshuo was letting her in on purpose, but his self-esteem prevented him from thanking Jing Lingshuo in person, so she said to Bei Qianhan, "That's really a thank you to him."

When he said this, he was sincerely thanking him, but to Bei Qianhan's ears, it turned into an insinuating accusation.

Bei Qianhan suddenly panicked: "No, no. I didn't mean to follow you. Well, I..."

"Hey, how did you say you became like this?" Chu Jingqing interrupted him with some distress.

I still remember that day when they first met in front of the palace gate.She was polite to him on the surface, but full of disdain in her heart.Since when did the lofty princess start being so careful with herself?It should have been closer than before, but Bei Qianhan used an honorific title for herself.I'm just a ranger, am I worthy of your treatment?

The two fell silent.

It's not that there is nothing to say, but that you can't speak, and you don't know what to say so that you won't hurt the other party.

"That," Bei Qianhan said after deliberating, "what's wrong with your arm?"

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Bei Qianhan wanted to beat herself to death for a second.Oh my god, has ten years of upbringing been eaten by dogs?

"You," Chu Jingqing's face was indeed much darker than before, "You came here just to ask this?"

Bei Qianhan nodded and shook her head, her petite face was flushed red and she was restless.

"If you came here to ask this question," Chu Jingqing said, "then after I answer you this time, you don't have to come here again. I broke my arm because of an order from my master, not because of you. "

He stood up and drew his sword from his belt.Although it is not his preferred hand, after several months of practice, holding the sword and even the most basic sword moves are no longer a problem, maybe even better than Yao Zanglan.Of course, the latter made too many petty moves, and it was impossible to lose to Chu Jingqing in comparison.

The sword was raised high, then lowered, sheathed.Bei Qianhan looked at him almost without blinking.

Then, she saw a shocking sight.

The sleeve that covered it was cut off by Chu Jingqing with a sword, so it can be seen clearly.Although the wound has healed, there is only a short part of the good arm left, and it will never be restored to its original state.

Trembling, Bei Qianhan covered her lips with her hands, tears slipping down silently.

"It's all right now." Chu Jingqing said, "So, go back. Miss, go back to the place where you should be. Lord Li is kind to me, because he ordered me to give an arm, I am willing, It has nothing to do with you. You don't have to feel guilty. I am a man of seven feet, and I won't die because of a broken arm."

"Let's go back."

Bei Qianhan walked out of the inn.

Jing Lishuo was sitting on the opposite eaves waiting for her.From that position, one could just see Yao Fanglan leaning on the railing to watch the play.Every expression and every movement of that person was received by him.

"How is it?" Jing Lingshuo came to her and asked.

Bei Qianhan shook her head, but the corners of her mouth curled up: "He is indeed a handsome man."

Jing Lingshuo also listened to the words just now.He thought for a moment, and said, "Do you want to go back to Jingyang?"

Bei Qianhan nodded and said: "Anyway, I am also his burden here. Originally, it was impossible for us. It's really funny. I don't understand anything, why do I like it so much?"

"Perhaps, it's just because," Jing Shuo said, "I see you right."

"Why bother?" Yao Fanglan looked at Chu Jingqing and the five jars of wine he carried upstairs, "One jar is enough to get you drunk."

Chu Jingqing took his words as a deaf ear: "Today, I'm going to get completely drunk! When I wake up, the past is gone!"

"Well, it's good that you can think about it." Yao Fanglan put the wine bowl in front of him aside, he didn't want to suffer again, "But, you can be regarded as escape."

"So what about escaping?" Seeing that he didn't drink, Chu Jingqing directly lifted a jar of wine with her one arm and poured it into her mouth, "I have no other choice."

"You still think she followed you because she was guilty of you, and you still don't believe that she really likes you."

"How do you want me to believe it?" Chu Jingqing heroically wiped the wine that leaked from the corner of her mouth with her sleeve, "I—"

He couldn't go on, holding his severed arm in pain.Sword eyebrows were tightly knit together, Chu Jingqing raised the wine jar, and seeing that another big gulp was about to come, Yao Fanglan held down the wine jar.

Yao Fanglan seemed to have finally made up his mind after a lot of struggle, and said: "In this case, I will help you, and you will be successful if you fail. But, you have to remember to me that no matter what the result is, you owe everything to me." It's a big favor for me."

There was no sign of a joke on his face: "If I die like this, or if I am divided into five horses, you have to bury me well and burn paper money for me every year. It's really such a mess, my family's revenge The great cause is also handed over to you."