Returning to the Clouds

The long clear water stretches to the sky; the lotus flowers cover the entire water surface, and the calm water surface is exposed among the sparse lotus leaves.

In the distant sky, the water and the sky are in a line, making it difficult to distinguish each other.

A small boat dangled among the lotus, and the fish at the bottom sometimes sank and floated. When the pieces of fish food fell from the boat, the sunken carp came out of the water one after another, scrambling for the fish food.

Gui Yun lay on the side of the boat, watching the fish fighting for food, listening to the sound of running water, smelling the fragrance of lotus leaves in the pond, his delicate face reflected in the slightly turbulent blue water, the color of pink lotus.

Turning his head to look at the person sitting cross-legged beside him, Gui Yun said softly, "Sir, where are we going?"

Taking a boat south from the capital city, they spent a total of several days swinging on the river. Gui Yun had no idea where they were going now.He lost all his direction, so he could only drift east and west along the river, without a fixed place.

Gui Yun didn't remember Jiang Pan at first, but when he held his hand and said he wanted to take him away, he remembered who Jiang Pan was.

His father's friend, someone he met a long time ago, someone who is full of nobility, no matter whether it is him in the past or the current him, he is incompatible with him.

"I'm your uncle, of course he's coming home with me now." Jiang Pan answered repeatedly as a matter of course.

Jiangpan now feels that the boat is shaking lightly on the water, but it would be even better if he could lie on it.It's a pity that there was an extra Guiyun on board, and when he lay down, Guiyun could only cringe, so he just sat like this.

The boat was going down the river automatically. There was no boatman on the boat, but Jiangpan didn't worry about it at all—his servants on the shore saw the boat and would naturally find a way to pick it up.

It's just that what he knows, Gui Yun doesn't know.

"But you don't look carefully at the shore, what will we do if we pass your house?" Gui Yun looked at the endless river, feeling a little distressed.

Gui Yun is not a person with good water skills, looking at the boundless river surface, he always feels that it is frighteningly precarious.It happened that Jiang Pan thought it was interesting, and when he took him to the boat again, he chose this way, saying that his home was not far away, and it was more comfortable to take the boat this way.

Gui Yun felt that he had no choice, so he never resisted, and spent these days on the boat.Fortunately, although he was not very good at water, he was not that fragile, and he didn't get sick or vomit because he didn't adapt to it on the boat.

What's the fun in sailing so slowly?

Half of the body leaned out from the bank of the river, and even the boat tilted up.Stretching out his hand to hook a lotus pod, he took it off with a slightly rough movement, and Jiang Pan quickly peeled off a few lotus seeds.

The fresh lotus pods smelled fresh, so he threw two into his mouth, and Jiang Pan chewed contentedly: "Xiaoyun, do you want to eat?"

Good things cannot be enjoyed alone. Although compared with delicacies from mountains and seas, lotus pods can only be regarded as ordinary here, but fresh ones, picked by him, are naturally completely different.

"Thank...thank you." Gui Yun carefully took a lotus seed from Jiang Pan's palm, and tried to chew it in his mouth.

This cautious appearance is like a kitten.

The strange taste in his mouth caused Gui Yun to wrinkle his steamed bun face. The bitter taste mixed with the sweet and fragrant taste, intertwined a strange and complicated taste.

"Hahahahaha!" Jiang Pan laughed gloatingly as he watched Guiyun frowning in pain, and forced himself to choke the lotus seeds.

Being teased, Gui Yun swallowed the lotus seeds with tears in his eyes, then turned his back and ignored Jiang Pan.

There was no other movement for a long time, Jiang Pan turned his head to see Gui Yun sitting with his knees hugged and his back facing him, looking like a small ball, as pitiful as a homeless stray cat.

"Are you angry?" It was the first time Jiang Pan had seen someone flirting with him like this.

Gui Yun ignored him.

"You are young, but you have a good temper." Jiang Pan didn't have the elegance of the patriarch of the aristocratic family at all. He turned around and stretched out his hand to pinch Gui Yun's little bun face, "It's better to have a big temper, so you won't be bullied."

"..." Gui Yun knocked off the evil hands that bothered him, and refused to talk to him.

Jiang Pan chuckled again.Gui Yun felt that this person could laugh at everything, as if he had never seen anything before.

"The lotus heart is bitter, you have to peel it off to eat it. If it's unpalatable, throw it up."

"...I..." Gui Yun's eyelashes were stained with fine tears, and he couldn't speak.I am used to forcing myself to please others, so that I can live a more comfortable life.Even if you don't think so, you have to smile and force yourself to do it.

Even after leaving there, these habits of his still remained, as if the shadow never dissipated.

Jiang Pan reluctantly hugged the little baby from behind, feeling his thin body froze for a moment, and then gradually relaxed, because of his young age, his body was still soft.

His chin rested on the top of Guiyun's head. Not only did the child look good, but his hair was also pretty good, black and shiny. These days, he didn't lack food or clothing when he was with him, and it was even more shiny.I personally washed it for him the night before boarding the boat, and it still smells like soap locust.

"I have no experience in serving people. The slightly bitter taste of lotus heart is fine for me, but you just vomit if you are not used to it. From then on, you are a child of my Jiang family, and no one can force you to be yours." What you don’t want to do, let you eat what you don’t like. From the moment you are brought out by me, you don’t need to rely on others to live.”

"...What about you?" You don't need to rely on others, but no matter how wanton he lives, it is because of Jiang Pan's identity.Don't look at other people's faces, what about Jiang Pan's face?

"Well, at least you can't be ungrateful. If you don't take me too seriously, I will be very sad. But you just treat me as your relatives. How can the help of relatives be called relying on people's nose and looking at people's faces? ,Right?"

Jiang Pan was originally an arrogant and willful person, but when it came to children, his bad temper was restrained a bit.

That is to say, recently, because the Ming Dynasty is here, the world is not bad, so he can be so leisurely.If, as he expected, Mingshi Yue must die within five years, it will be time for chaos again.

It is still time to prepare early, but taking children is also a kind of fun.That is to say, Gui Yun is still very wary of him now and refuses to get close to him. If he had been by his side earlier, there would not be so many troubles.

I couldn't see Jiang Pan's expression, but I could guess how proud this person must be. It wasn't the first time I heard sophistry, but it was inevitable that my heart warmed up.

"...Yes." Gui Yun felt that Jiang Pan hugged him, and his limbs and bones were warmed by him.

Jiang Pan originally wanted to say something more, but he vaguely heard his family members calling his name again, and told Gui Yun to sit still, so he got up and shouted.

Knowing his location, the servants of the Jiang family came here by boat one after another.

It wasn't until Guiyun saw the tall buildings on the bank that he knew what kind of aristocratic family Jiang Pan was, and his future life was destined to be entangled with the Jiang family.

The author has something to say:

I checked the map of the so-called Tongzhou, it is just downstream of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal

But this is fiction, so even if my fictional place name coincides with the real place name, don’t take it too seriously

_(:з」∠)_I wish you all a happy reading