My historian is dying every day

Chapter 61 [Like it or not]

Packs of salted egg pastries were stacked on top of each other on the table in the front hall. Li Gengnian held them in his arms, his eyes glazed over, and he felt a little tasteless after eating.

Uncle Sun brought the tea tremblingly, stood by the side, hesitated to speak several times, Qi Yu couldn't see it, so he simply asked him to go down and rest.The three of them were left in the front hall, Wen Yanzhi looked at Su in Li Gengnian's arms, and then at Qi Yu, expressionless.

Qi Yu only felt a sharp pain in his forehead.

——Obviously I am going on a tour, but it seems like I have brought two ancestors with me.

He stretched out his hand angrily, pulled out the unopened package below from Li Gengnian's arms, and put it in front of Wen Yanzhi: "Don't look at it, eat it."

Wen Yanzhi's expression finally eased a little, and he opened the oiled paper package, but saw that the pastry was crispy and bright, and he was about to pick up a piece, but Li Gengnian sighed and pushed the box away from his arms.

"Can't eat?" Qi Yu laughed mockingly.

Li Gengnian laughed at himself, "Yes."

Qi Yu asked again: "Did Shen Youfang hit you just now?"

"It's okay if we fight." Li Gengnian picked up the teacup sullenly, and took a sip in anger, "He came over with the ledger, full of murderous looks! I have my hands on the sword, waiting to fight He cut it, but he suddenly turned around and left, with a terrifying expression, tsk tsk... as if he was going to peel me alive." He sat up straight and looked at Qi Yu: "I stood at the door and waited for a long time, thinking he I went to call someone, but they didn't come back."

Qi Yu: "..." Still calling someone?Do you think Shen Youfang is a gangster or a black market thug?

Li Gengnian wiped the scum off his mouth, "Your Majesty, tell me, what does he like about me?"

Qi Yu sized up Li Gengnian from head to toe: "..." I was also very curious.

Li Gengnian was as anxious as an ant in a frying pan, almost felt his ass was about to burn, and said seriously: "I can change anything else I like, if I like my martial arts skills... Do I want to abolish my martial arts? Or is it because I am handsome? ? I can’t just tear my face apart for him?”

Qi Yu: "...???"

——God, it's really not easy for Shen Youfang.

——People spend money to take concubines, at least they are beautiful, delicate and considerate. Shen Youfang spent such a large amount of money, is he going to take home a tall and stalwart fool?

——It's also strange, why did Qi Zheng like this kid back then?

I really want to know.

Wen Yanzhi sat next to him, and after hearing what Li Gengnian had said for a while, he was finally not in the mood to eat crisps, so he drank some tea to moisten his throat, and asked abruptly, "Li Siwei, are you... different from us?"

Li Gengnian said he didn't understand: "Who? What's the difference?"

Wen Yanzhi pointed to himself, and then pointed to Qi Yu, "I, the emperor, and the Marquis of Zhenjun." He asked Qi Yu, "Does the emperor think that Guard Li... has broken his sleeve?"

Qi Yu looked at Li Gengnian: "It looks like it, but it doesn't look like it."

Wen Yanzhi also said: "I didn't see it either."

There is always an indescribable tacit understanding between the same kind in the world, if it is a broken sleeve, there are always clues that can be detected between the broken sleeves, like him, like Qi Yu, like Shen Youfang.But Li Gengnian didn't seem to have that kind of thing on him, and occasionally thought he had it, but it was gone again.

Li Gengnian was silent for a while, then said quietly: "Actually, I haven't thought about it myself, have I?"

"Back then..." Qi Yu leaned on the armchair with his chin propped on his right hand, "Where are you Qi Zheng?"

Li Gengnian sighed, buried his face in his hands, really didn't want to talk.But this was the second time Qi Yu asked this question, and there was no sign that he would just let it go without answering. Sooner or later, he couldn't avoid it.

"Hey, I really don't know, I really don't know..." Li Gengnian's wry smile came out through the back of his hands, "In the past, the eldest princess was like a mother to me even though she was my master, and Lord Hou was more like a brother... It seems closer than my own brother. When I was brought to the Princess Mansion, I was only four years old. Master Hou looked at my name tag, but he still didn’t know the word “Geng” in the middle. I, Li Niannian...I got to know each other later, and I couldn't change my name. The leaders of the Kansai Army laughed at me for a long time...Now that I think about it, for more than ten years, he has never said anything weird to me, never I've never been embarrassed...but I was the first one to give me cakes, and the first one to reward me with goodies. He took me everywhere and treated me so well...until one time, I was still in Kansai. At that time... I was drunk and didn't know what to say. Master Hou suddenly said that he wanted to take me to worship at Yuelao Temple. You also know, Your Majesty, that Master Hou is used to joking all the time, so I really complied when I was drunk. In the end, I fell into the stone creek and woke up from the wine, only to realize that Lord Hou had dragged me for two or three miles to the Yuelao Temple... I almost died of fright! I hurriedly carried him back to the barracks... ..."

"Master Hou kept talking nonsense that night... for a while he dragged me to say that the eldest princess was miserable, and for a while he said he was useless... and later on, he talked about the bastard things we had since we were young...he kept drinking, and I He didn’t dare to drink any more, and was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, for fear of waking up and being in the Yuelao Temple again... When it was almost dawn, Hou Ye finally said that he was tired, and closed his eyes... At that time, I didn’t know if he was awake or not. Unconscious...Anyway, he called me and asked me if I ever liked him..."

"Then do you have any?" Qi Yu was a little impatient.

Li Gengnian paused for a long time, and finally said seriously: "I don't know."

——I really don’t know.

Maybe, have you?The princess mansion has been together day and night for more than ten years. Qi Zheng sleeps on the bed, and he sleeps on the beam of the house. He can remember seven or eight hundred volumes of small stories at night. Go out of the Western Regions.He has blocked swords, endured bayonets, and practiced his skills, all for Qi Zheng. Qi Zheng's safety is almost the whole meaning of his existence. with.

Don't you like it?

But this, do you like it?

This kind of liking has never given him the urge to drag Qi Zheng to worship at Yuelao Temple.But Qi Zheng has it, and what Qi Zheng asked was precisely this kind of liking to be able to worship.

That night, until Qi Zheng fell asleep, he didn't say a word.

He sat helplessly in the military tent, guarding Qi Zheng to sleep, and finally waited until the sky was full of fish belly, the morning glow was thousands of miles away, and he sat empty until the sun was three poles. Qi Zheng woke up, rubbed his eyes and asked him: "Li Niannian, are we not in the camp?" drink wine……"

Li Gengnian was in a trance for a moment, and then replied with a smile as if instinctively: "Well, you were drunk, and then I carried you back."

The word "then" skipped too many twists and turns for no reason.He remembered that Qi Zheng was half propped up on the couch at that time, looking at him with an expression that seemed to be funny, but at the same time seemed to understand, at the end he laughed, his voice was bitter, but he fell back on the couch, and only said: " Clean it up, tell the supervising army to find out, I'm afraid I'll have to read more than a dozen of our books..."

So I just opened this page and didn't mention it anymore, the two of them just drank and ate meat together as before, ordered soldiers to patrol the camp together, just pretending that what happened that night never happened.Probably Qi Zheng felt that since he was avoiding, he would naturally refuse. Maybe Li Gengnian was not a broken sleeve at all, but he himself, who would have misunderstood his intentions and expressed his affection.

But Li Gengnian's heart has turned into a huge wave. Every day when he sees Qi Zheng, he is full of panic, as if the world has taken on a different color from this moment, and everything is very different.

He suddenly began to think at this moment whether he had ever experienced the "like" that Qi Zheng said.

Think day and night, think night and day.He was very afraid, afraid that the liking would really exist.He knew that he was just an orphan, just a shadow guard. Qi Zheng was born so noble, like a cloud in the sky, and he was just a piece of half-yellow and not green mud on the ground. How could the nobles of heaven have any affection for him?But if he really didn't have one, he would be afraid again... From a young age, as long as Qi Zheng wanted something, he must get it in his hand. No one in the Princess Mansion ever told him to fail, and Li Gengnian would never let him fail.As long as the stars in the sky can be picked, if Qi Zheng says he wants to, he can spare to pick them for him.

What's more, is this kind of thing?

It would be great if he could also like Qi Zheng, he really doesn't want to let this love fail.But the superior and the inferior, the difference between clouds and mud, if the princess and the first emperor know this, how can he survive?How can Qi Zheng do well?The Princess Mansion is an orphan and widowed mother, so it can't bear any rumors and slanders. If it spreads, Qi Zheng will cut his sleeves, but it's a big joke that he actually fell in love with a shadow guard and a servant.At that time, when the thunder is furious, they are afraid that if they don't die, they will also be divorced. What kind of affection and liking will they mention? At that time, they will be invisible and invisible, and a piece of sleeve will not be able to be squeezed into the palm of the hand. Writing a letter will have to be sent hundreds of miles , Two or three sentences in one or two months, you can't be aggrieved to death, so what's the use of liking it?

So until the army was transferred to northern Xinjiang, he still hadn't figured out whether he liked it or not.

In other words, he didn't dare to think about it at all, he was afraid that if he thought about it, one step away would be a cliff and an abyss.

— Isn’t it funny to think about it?The seven-foot man didn't even dare to fall in love with someone. If he said it, he was afraid that the whole world would laugh out loud.

What Shen Youfang said is so right, even if he can kill Shen Youfang and kill the people in the world, he is cowardly, but he is still so cowardly, and he is useless, and he is still so useless.

But all my life I've been a coward!

He was very envious of Wen Yanzhi, at least... at least he was the son of the Minister of Honglu Temple, the Wen family, with a prominent family background, even if he lost his sleeve with the emperor, he could barely look up to him.But he can't do it himself, he is nothing, he doesn't even have parents, let alone any status.Still like what Shen Youfang said, he is just a loyal dog for the princess's house to enjoy.

"No wonder I can be so angry," Li Gengnian sighed weakly, "Shen Youfang's mouth is really poisonous."

"You haven't read King Yu's letter yet?" Qi Yu teased lightly, "The youngest son of the Zhao family in Xuzhou City is still paralyzed on the bed, and he almost suffered a stroke from what Shen Youfang said. I must have left you behind." love, or you might have a stroke.”

Li Gengnian was annoyed: "Your Majesty, are you still looking forward to a stroke?" Which side are you on? !

Wen Yanzhi suddenly said coldly: "If the emperor wants you to have a stroke, you should go to Zhuxiang with me now."

"What are you doing in Zhuxiang?" Li Gengnian's mind jumped again, and the corner of his mouth grinned: "Go to play?"

Qi Yu almost wanted to splash the tea on his face, "Are you in control now? Shen Youfang will be back in a while!"

"Guard Li, you should apologize to Mr. Shen." Wen Yanzhi couldn't come up with an idea, "After all, what you said was angry."

Li Gengnian grimaced: "He poked my sore spots and didn't apologize to me, why should I apologize!"

Qi Yu was about to speak, but Wen Yanzhi beside him laughed again, and rushed ahead of him and said, "Young Master Shen poked your sore spot for your own good, to make you look away, why did you poke his sore spot?"

Li Gengnian paused and thought about it for a while, as if at that time... he just wanted to get revenge.As long as Shen Youfang can feel his own anger and pain, he doesn't care much about the others.

Qi Yu looked at Li Gengnian's expression, then looked at Wen Yanzhi with a smile, and couldn't help shaking his head with a smile. Only this idiot's thinking can match Li Gengnian's, and he is not an ordinary person.

Wen Yanzhi rewrapped the salted egg pastry in front of him, tied it up, and then looked at Li Gengnian seriously, "If you don't like Mr. Shen, why bother to abolish your martial arts and self-destroy your appearance. A handsome man, if you don't like it, just say no." I like it. If you want him to be sad, just reject him, it's not that complicated, and it will save the emperor from worrying."

Li Gengnian doubted: "...for Shen Youfang, will this be useful?"

"If you don't try, how will you know." Wen Yanzhi said, "And..."

"What else?" Li Gengnian listened attentively.

Wen Yanzhi grabbed his robe and stood up, standing in front of Qi Yu, and said with a straight face: "What's the matter with you, come to me in the future, not the emperor."

Li Gengnian: "...?!!"

——Is this an oath of sovereignty? !

——Wen Wen Wen Wen's face suddenly became so scary...

After being disturbed by Li Gengnian all afternoon, Zhu Xiang would never be able to go again.Wen Yanzhi was not in a good mood, and kept a stern face when he came out of the front hall.Qi Yu coaxed him to go early tomorrow morning all the way, Wen Yanzhi just said "oh", and sat down on the porch sullenly.

Qi Yu also sat next to him, and bumped Wen Yanzhi with his elbow: "Wen Yanzhi, just now, were you jealous of Li Gengnian?"

Wen Yanzhi looked straight ahead and said calmly, "No."

"You think I care too much about him?" Qi Yu smiled and rolled his eyes.

Wen Yanzhi pursed his lips, and after a while, he said bluntly: "...the emperor takes care of everything every day, and my humble minister is just sharing the emperor's worries."

Qi Yu laughed in his heart, and he didn't expect Wen Yanzhi to say any love words, this sentence could already make him happy.There was no one around, so he quickly kissed Wen Yanzhi's ear, smiling contentedly as if he had stolen candy.

As expected, Wen Yanzhi immediately turned his head with a blushing face, angrily and restrainedly said: "If someone sees—"

"I can't help it, people will see it when they see it." Qi Yu looked at him calmly, no matter how he looked at him, he felt cute.

Wen Yanzhi asked him: "Do you think it's inappropriate for me to persuade Li Shiwei to reject Mr. Shen?"

Qi Yu looked down at the grass in the garden and thought for a while, "It's not wrong, I just feel that it's a pity... Zhennan Huanggu, Qi Zheng is gone, I want someone to decide Li Gengnian in my heart." Come down, tell him not to go to the northern border, as if he can leave something like this... Shen Youfang is quite suitable, he doesn't have to think about his status... But if he really doesn't want to, he really can't force it, after all, I I can’t choose for him for the rest of my life.”

"I don't know what will happen in a while," Wen Yanzhi sighed, "Mr. Shen arranged all the trips. It's really troublesome and needs to be reorganized."

Qi Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "What are you worrying about, when the time comes, I will naturally have a way out."

Speaking of this, Wen Yanzhi suddenly asked: "If Li Shiwei really refuses, Mr. Shen will not withdraw the capital for water control?"

"Why, do you feel it's a pity now?" Qi Yu laughed, "When I thought he had bullied Li Gengnian, who said that it doesn't matter how much money he has?"

Wen Yanzhi touched his nose, and said with a guilty conscience: "Forget it, for the sake of Guard Li, don't use it if you don't need it, but look at the blueprint again, think of a way to save money."

"Do you still have time to love Li Gengnian?" Qi Yu jokingly said, "There have been so many things that happened before we reached Xingzhou, and it's not sure what could go wrong, so you should take care of yourself first. Water control is not a trifling matter, if Shen Youfang's divestment not only discredited me, but also made it difficult for him to run his own business. I guessed that he is not such a short-sighted person."

The wind in the garden made Wen Yan's hands cold, he rolled up his sleeves and asked: "The flood control case will be completed next month, the year is approaching, the affairs in the palace are complicated, and the emperor has not returned, will something happen? "

"How can we get to Xingzhou before next month?" Qi Yu replied, "It was decided before that all the papers will be sent to Xingzhou. It's just for review. Where can people not approve? The piled up things are about the same In the coming year, Enke has something to do with it. Before the southern tour, there was a fraud in the local tribute court. Every time the imperial examination year comes, it is these broken things. The Ministry of Criminal Affairs must have been investigating, but I just want to nod. Petty theft, robbers and dealers During the Chinese New Year, Jingzhaosi and Dali Temple were also very busy. The King of Koryo also handed over a letter saying that he would come to see him during the new year. I don’t know what happened. The Ministry of Rituals is very busy. When the time comes, your father will have to rush back from Shulang Kingdom -"

"Why do you have to hurry back with my father?" Wen Yanzhi said indignantly, "There are many people available in Honglu Temple. The Chang Cheng Cui Pu and the Ministry of Rites Xue Yi are also known as Fen Dai in the current dynasty. Feng and Guo Yuan are also resourceful and resourceful people. They were all carefully cultivated by my father, so the emperor can rest assured in employing them. My father is already old, and he has traveled far away. Even a young man can't bear to travel back and forth in a short period of time, let alone my father is 65 years old. old age..."

"Okay, okay," Qi Yu interrupted him again and again, smiling a little inexplicably, "Can you listen to what I have to say before you talk. Your father told you about the many people in Honglu Temple, but he didn't tell you about himself. If the old Koryo monarch came and didn’t see your father, he would probably cry to death in the Zichen Palace. I always feel that the old Koryo monarch insisted on coming once a year just to see your father, and he couldn’t say a word to me in the hall. , turn your eyes on your father."

Wen Yanzhi felt a chill down his spine: "...What? Why?"

Qi Yu also wanted to tell him why, but...

"I don't know." He said truthfully.

In fact, at the beginning of each year in the past two years, seeing Wen Jiuling and the old Koryo monarch walking into the Zichen Palace arm in arm and smiling, as the emperor, he was also in a very complicated mood.I don't understand Korean dialect, and I don't know what they are talking about. They chat so happily that when I ask, they say that there is nothing to talk about.

Qi Yu looked at the sky, shook his head and sighed: "Being an official like your father is considered the best."

Best?Wen Yanzhi looked at him and said with a smile, "Is this a compliment or a sarcasm? I'll remember it."

Qi Yu also laughed, and asked him: "Tell me, if your father knew that you were with me, would he ask Gao Li to beat me?"

Wen Yanzhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You think too far, my father is also an official of the court, how can there be treason?"

"Then what will happen to him?" Qi Yu has been thinking about this question for a long time. He has lived for more than 20 years, and there are very few things that make him so confused, but Wen Jiuling is one of them. He is always glad that Wen Jiuling picked him up at the beginning I chose him when I was a child, otherwise the outcome of the battle for the title would be really unpredictable.

Wen Yanzhi thought for a while, and said seriously: "Probably, let my second brother bring someone to beat you."

Qi Yu was still thinking about it seriously at first, but when he heard this sentence, he finally burst out laughing, and stretched out his hand to pinch Wen Yanzhi's ear: "You idiot, you can still tease me."

Wen Yanzhi put his hands in front of him, and laughed muffledly: "It's you who want to dream, I'll just follow you."

The two smiled like this, Wen Yanzhi looked at Qi Yu, and slowly responded to what he said, but he put it away a little bit in his heart.

That's right, when Zhishui returned to Beijing at the beginning of the year, he met his father, and everything was about to begin.

Shen Youfang came back when he was lighting the lamp, and when he was going to get things in the backyard, he ran into Gong Zhiyuan who had just woken up.

Gong Zhiyuan fell into a drowsy sleep. Seeing that the servants in the mansion were moving things outside, he rubbed his eyes and said, "Young Master Shen, what are you doing?"

Shen Youfang said: "During the three days in Qingyang, Mr. Shen had an offer, and there were many visitors. Living in the mansion was afraid of disturbing the cleanliness of the imperial envoys, so he moved to the outer house."

At this moment, Wen Yanzhi and Qi Yu also heard the noise and went out to look, but they didn't expect that it was Shen Youfang who wanted to move out by himself.Seeing this posture, Qi Yu reckoned that he was about to give up on Li Gengnian, so he said: "Since there are many guests in the Shen residence, it is reasonable for us to move out. Mr. Shen doesn't have to do that."

Shen Youfang looked down at the blue bricks on the ground in the backyard for a while, hesitated for a while, and finally said with a smile: "Liu Shilang, the bird you told about with Shen is probably not willing to live on this tree of Shen. Why do you have to force it. Liu Shilang doesn't have to worry about it, and Shen will be responsible for the flood control party to the end."

He turned around to leave, but he saw Li Gengnian standing on the corridor leading to the front hall, looking at him with shame on his face.

Shen Youfang got angry and wanted to go around, but Li Gengnian suddenly said: "Shen Youfang, why don't I apologize to you, I really don't know your brother—"

"Stop talking." Shen Youfang interrupted him, opening his mouth not only to be cruel to others, but also to himself: "It's Shen who is being sentimental and meddling in his own business, thinking that his teacher is famous, why is Guard Li guilty? , It’s just an eye for an eye, and everything up to now is Shen’s own fault. It’s Shen who’s sorry for guard Li, and the apology has already been sent to the guard’s mansion in Beijing. It’s probably useless to say more, and I’ll pretend it never happened in the future.”

Li Gengnian said: "Apologize? Have you passed birth? If you are unhappy, I will let you beat me up. Let's just talk about it!"

Shen Youfang looked at him and smiled, "If I want to beat you, I'll beat you this afternoon, why bother to go through this?" After speaking, he sighed and walked past Li Gengnian without further delay.Someone outside called Qi Cheng, and Li Gengnian was dumbfounded for a long while.

He laughed, "This Shen Youfang speaks so viciously, what's wrong with hitting me and still thinking he's dirty?"

Gong Zhiyuan stood beside him, looking at him with a troubled expression: "Which of your ears can tell that Mr. Shen despises you, Guard Li!" Are you out of your mind?

Li Gengnian frowned: "Then what else?"

Gong Zhiyuan Qi Yu Wen Yanzhi Qi Qi: "He is reluctant to beat you! Idiot!"