Xijing Chronicle

During the day, Xue Zinu dragged Gu Huaisheng to play chess with a stern look on his face.He was tired of studying the music all day long, and wanted to change his mood, but playing chess with Gu Huaisheng made his mood worse.

"No more, no more!" Xue Zinu stared at the chessboard bitterly for a long while, then suddenly dropped the pieces in his hand, messed up the pieces on the board, and said shamelessly, "Oh, I messed up the pieces by accident, I can play now!" No more, let’s count it as a draw.”

"It's okay," Gu Huaisheng smiled, and picked up the pieces slowly, "I can replay the game."

Xue Zinu choked and didn't speak for a while.

At this moment, Gu Huaisheng's ears moved slightly, and he heard someone knocking on the door of his room not far away.While thinking about it, he stood up calmly and said, "Okay, since you don't want to compose music or play chess, why don't I go back first."

As soon as he thought that he would be the only one left who was bored, Xue Zinu's face suddenly collapsed, "Okay, okay, let's continue playing chess, I won't play tricks."

"It's really meaningless to fight with you," Gu Huaisheng walked to the door unmoved, and hit him mercilessly, "It's better to sleep."

"You!" Xue Zinu jumped up, just about to argue with him, but Gu Huaisheng seemed to have expected it, and quickly disappeared outside the door without leaving him a chance.Xue Zinu stared angrily at the door panel for a long while, then went to the bookshelf to look through the chess records.

Of course, let’s not mention how Xue Zinu turned grief and anger into motivation to study chess records. Here, Gu Huaisheng walked through the atrium and happened to meet Jin Xuenian who was walking back.

Gu Huaisheng asked, "Come to see me?"

"Um……"

Just now, no one answered after knocking on the door for a long time. Jin Xuenian thought it was because Gu Huaisheng wanted to avoid suspicion, so he didn't see her. At the same time, she felt a little disappointed for no reason. With only the dignity left, he gritted his teeth, turned around and left neatly, but unexpectedly met Gu Huaisheng on the way.

Jin Xuenian looked behind Gu Huaisheng, and said hesitantly, "Do you still have something to do?"

"It's okay," Gu Huaisheng suggested, "Since you're here, come in and have a seat."

"No need," Jin Xuenian put his hand into his arms, as if wanting to dig out something, "I'm here to tell you..."

Gu Huaisheng had already passed him and walked towards his own room. At this moment, he pushed open the door and interrupted him. His tone was flat, even showing a hint of gentleness, but with an undeniable strength: "It's drying outside, let's talk slowly when we enter the room."

Jin Xuenian pursed her lips, with a complicated expression, and answered after a while: "...OK."

Gu Huaisheng was a little amused by him, and turned his head to look at him with both irony and laughter: "What kind of expression do you have? Could it be that my house can eat people?"

Jin Xuenian couldn't help being a little embarrassed when others thought that his goodwill was being questioned by him. He shook his head and explained, "It's nothing, I'm just... I'm just not used to it..."

How many years, how many years no one has smiled at him like this, how many years no one has invited him into the house like this.

How many years has he not felt this kind of feeling of being regarded as a "person"...

With his back turned, Gu Huaisheng paused for a while before walking forward again.

It's a pity that Jin Xuenian didn't notice his abnormality.He cautiously followed Gu Huaisheng into the room. He hadn't stepped on the clean floor like this for a long time, and suddenly he became a little nervous, not knowing where to move his hands and feet.In the past, when he was summoned to enter the house, he was not thrown on the floor. There was even one time when Quan Chengen asked him to kneel down and put on the most humiliating and humble posture, and crawl to his feet step by step...

He used to be the young son of the general's mansion anyway, but it was this identity that made him proud that made him fall into the abyss.Those people like to break his straight spine inch by inch, pry open his clenched teeth because he refused to speak out, and look at his proud and shattered appearance.The more embarrassing he was, the happier those people were.

He wanted to die countless times, but when he thought of his sister who was still in Jiaofang, when he thought of his father and brother's unwillingness to cry before they left, and the grievances and blood debts of the Jin family, he could only grit his teeth and continue to live.

I remember that on the execution ground, the elder brother who always dismissed me looked at me with tears in his eyes, and told himself, live!The grievances of their Jin family will be made known to the world one day, and there must be a son of their Jin family who will live until that day, to take care of those who died unjustly, and to see the world's repentance towards them!Watch the Jin family regain their glory!

He said yes.He couldn't refuse.

Since then, his world has turned upside down, as if the gods have drawn a clear line in his destiny. On the other side of the line is the longing for fearlessness and glory, and on the other side of the line is endless suffering and boundless abyss.So many days and nights of enduring humiliation, the burden on his shoulders almost crushed him, and the darkness that grew in his heart almost swallowed him...

Gu Huaisheng was like a strange person who broke in suddenly. He healed himself, talked to himself, and invited himself into the room... In fact, he didn't give anything, he just treated himself as a "person".

But now such a small request is so precious to me.

When Gu Huaisheng turned his head, he saw Jin Xuenian in a daze. His heart ached and he couldn't help taking a step back. When he realized it, he had already held Jin Xuenian's hand.

Jin Xuenian froze all over, and slapped his hand away reflexively, the crisp sound of "pop" was especially loud in the silent room.

"I..." Jin Xuenian finally came back to his senses, frowned slightly, his lips twitched slightly as if he wanted to explain something, but he didn't say it.Gu Huaisheng looked at his defensive appearance, and secretly sighed that he was too aggressive just now, but he didn't show any signs of it on his face. He still had that indifferent and calm appearance, and pointed to the chair: "Please sit down."

His expression as if nothing happened just now made Jin Xuenian feel a lot easier.Jin Xuenian sat down on the chair, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I'm sorry..."

Gu Huaisheng shook his head: "It's my fault. I wanted to comfort you, but I didn't take your feelings into consideration. By the way, do you want to eat something?"

"No..." Jin Xuenian started his refusal, Gu Huaisheng had already walked over with two plates of pastries, Jin Xuenian had no choice but to swallow the rest of the words, and reached out to take the two plates of pastries, always expressionless Confused for the first time, "Thank you, thank you."

There were two plates of pastries, one was candied fruit and the other was lychee paste. Jin Xuenian hesitantly squeezed one and put it to his mouth and took a bite, his facial features distorted for a moment.

It is too sweet……

It is rare for Gu Huaisheng to feel a little embarrassed, but a big man's room is full of such sweet mouths... He said: "Sorry, there are only these in the room. If you don't like to eat, just put them there."

Jin Xuenian shook his head, and finished the piece of lychee paste one bite at a time.

He couldn't tell what it was like, he obviously didn't like sweets, but this piece of lychee paste was softer and more delicious than anything he had ever eaten. The long-awaited heart seemed to feel a little warmth.

After eating this piece of lychee cream, Jin Xuenian just sat there and walked away. Gu Huaisheng looked at his somewhat bewildered expression and slack pupils, and suddenly felt that he was much more pleasing to the eye than the previous cold appearance. up.

I don't know how long it took, but Jin Xuenian finally came back to his senses. He pursed his lips and looked at Gu Huaisheng who had not called out to him all this time, feeling a little guilty in his heart: "I haven't eaten sweets for a long time. It's something that made the young master laugh."

"It's okay." Gu Huaisheng paused, stretched out his hand to pour a cup of tea for each of them, and used this action to hide his expression, and pretended to be casual, "You said before——did you also like to eat this before?"

"No," Jin Xuenian's eyes softened for a moment when he mentioned the past, "When the second prince came to look for his elder brother, he always liked to bring him some food that he liked. The elder brother doesn't like sweets, but the second prince always Staring at him, he couldn't save the second prince's face, he could only eat it slowly, that look is really interesting... I just ate the lychee cream you gave me, and I remembered the scene at that time."

In fact, the expression of Gu Huaisheng just now is very similar to that of the second prince back then, with that kind of eagerly looking forward to his eyes, as if he committed an unforgivable sin just to say that it tastes bad.

"Cough-cough-"

He even forgot that he had done such a stupid thing. Gu Huaisheng almost choked on the tea in his mouth, and coughed twice before recovering. Facing Jin Xuenian's confused and worried gaze, he quickly changed the subject: "You still don't know what to do?" You didn't say you came to see me for something."

"Oh, right."

After his reminder, Jin Xuenian remembered his purpose of coming, hurriedly reached into his arms, took out a piece of folded coarse cloth, opened his mouth and was about to say something, but Gu Huaisheng had a premonition of what he would say next , made a gesture to signal him to stop first, and then opened the doors and windows by himself to ensure that if there was something strange outside the house, he could hear it as soon as possible, and then Jin Xuenian continued to speak.

"That night you said that Quan Chengen hid an important thing, and asked me how much I knew about Quanfu. I will tell you everything I know, but just two days ago, I found a Chamber of Secrets—”

As Jin Xuenian spoke, he unfolded the cloth in his hand, and a very complicated pattern was drawn on it.

"The switch to open the secret room is on the Duobao Pavilion next to his bed. This is the pattern of the switch," Jin Xuenian pointed at the pattern, "You need to get the puller on Quan Chengen's thumb and insert it into this groove , and then press these two buttons and turn them around in this direction. There are still a few buttons here, which should be used for confusion. If you want to break through, don't press the wrong button."

He spoke seriously, without noticing Gu Huaisheng's furrowed brows and eyes full of anger.

After saying this, he took out another piece of dried clay from his arms, and turned it around to show Gu Huaisheng the very flat side. There was a pattern engraved on it, which seemed to be rubbed off on something.

"I rubbed this on Quan Chengen's finger when he was unprepared." Jin Xuenian put the clay on the table with great care, "You can make a new one with this."

Unexpectedly, when Gu Huaisheng stretched out his hand, he grabbed his wrist. Jin Xuenian couldn't dodge it, and was caught by him, and immediately said angrily: "What are you doing?!"

While talking, he was still struggling desperately, Gu Huaisheng frowned, his hands became more and more forceful, and he looked at him without avoiding: "Let me see your injury."

Jin Xuenian froze, her eyes dodged, and she was still denying: "What injury? I don't know what you are talking about..."

"Stop lying!" Gu Huaisheng was simmering with anger. He was angry at the old thing Quan Chengen for making a move again, and at the same time angry at himself for not being able to protect Jin Xuenian. He didn't even know when he was injured. "If you know such details, it's as if you saw it with your own eyes. You must have been to Quan Chengen's room, and he wouldn't be careless enough to open the secret room in front of you. Then you must be sure, sure," Gu Huaisheng failed. He continued to speak, paused, and the next few words seemed to be squeezed out between his teeth, "He must have thought you had passed out, and you must have been seriously injured."

After finishing speaking, seeing that Jin Xuenian was still sitting on the chair stiff and unwilling to cooperate, Gu Huaisheng's heart suddenly burned even hotter, and he dragged him to the wing.

Jin Xuenian followed him silently, and then sat down on the bed silently by him. The quilt under her body was so soft and clean. This is Gu Huaisheng's private domain, and the smell of Gu Huaisheng is everywhere, very light, as if Really want to describe, like frozen wine, clear and intoxicating.

Gu Huaisheng knelt down/cautiously untied his belt, this time Jin Xuenian did not resist, he lowered his eyes, and suddenly asked indifferently: "Why?"

Gu Huaisheng paused: "Why?"

"I'll give you what you want, why do you still care about how to get them?" Jin Xuenian didn't have a trace of expression on his face, and his tone was calm, "Why do you still have to worry about... me?"