Si Tian Guan

The sound of footsteps came from the opposite side, and someone shouted: "Who is it! Running around in the palace!"

Liu Chongming noticed that the body of the person holding him down tightened, and he leaned down and whispered softly: "Is it the Jinwu Guard? Don't worry, I have arrangements."

The man turned his face sideways, as if he was burned by his breath.

"Xiaguan, Captain of Jinxiu Camp," someone answered immediately, and the voice sounded like Liu Chongming must be from Jinxiu Camp on the way he came: "With the emperor's permission, I will enter the palace with my son, and welcome the concubine to give birth to my little highness safely." .”

Xu is rare to meet a person from Jinxiu camp who is so kind and polite, let alone the prince who brings people into the palace, Commander Bo has already given them orders.

The officer of the Jinwu Guard also came down kindly, and asked patiently: "What happened? Since you are entering the palace with the son, why are you not in the palace of the empress? You are not allowed to walk around in the palace!"

"Yes, it's just that someone suspected of poisoning the empress just now. The son ordered me to wait around and be on guard. He went after the thief."

Now the Jinwu Guard has encountered a difficult situation, even if he is the prince, he should not run around in the palace.

A group of people quickly discussed a few words, separated out a few people to report back to Commander Bo, a few people asked the thief's route, and began to search from all around, and the rest took the people from Jinxiu Camp back to Lijing Palace.

Liu Chongming raised his head slightly, looked at the scattered people from the gaps in the bushes, bent down to pick up the people under him, avoided the sight of the patrolling soldiers, and turned around close to the rockery.

There was a narrow gap in the back of the rockery. He shook hands with a thin waist, pushed the person in, and then squeezed in face to face with the person, blocking the mouth of the rockery with his back.

The person in his arms knew how to judge the situation and didn't struggle at all. He only twisted his body slightly after entering the cave, as if trying to push him away uncomfortably.

But the space was too small, they were stuck together with almost no gaps, and he could only feel the warm and humid breath scratching his neck.

Although the eyes were completely dark, Liu Chongming seemed to be able to see Qu Shenzhou tilting his head angrily and annoyed, and the long-awaited breath persevered in his nose.

"Shen Zhou," he leaned over slightly, touched the tips of his thin, hot ears, and whispered, "I'm so worried when I come out at night and run around."

The few Jinwu guards who were searching were still wandering around. They didn't dare to make too much noise. No one responded to his words, but they didn't dodge them either. This gave him great courage.

It's been a long time since I've been so close to someone, even though I'm very familiar with him, Liu Chongming is as happy as a young man who sympathizes with Dou Chukai.

"I'm worried, but also... so glad to see you tonight..."

In the small space, the sound of the heavy breathing on his chest was gradually amplified and fell in his ears, like a burning flame. He couldn't resist it, and felt that the space where the two were next to each other became even smaller.

The thin wrist turned over and squeezed him fiercely.

"Don't..." He snorted in pain, and had to beg for mercy softly: "It's not intentional, it's just that I'm so happy to see you."

Perhaps this dark place has a feeling of deja vu. Although he clearly knows that he is not the person in his previous life, he has already experienced countless times in his dreams in this hidden place.

Liu Chongming heard his heart beat faster and faster, and suddenly murmured: "Shen Zhou, I miss you so much."

The past few months have been tormented day by day, and he is more than just missing it.

But the damage done in the past was too great, he only hoped that the little fox would be fine, he didn't know whether to take a step forward or take a step back, it was the most suitable position for him.

Unexpectedly, these extremely restrained words made Qu Chenzhou's body tremble violently.

The breathing in his ears became heavy, talking to himself like sleepwalking, with low choked sobs.

"Miss me? Why do you miss me? Don't you hate me? You should hate me!"

"Did you forget what I did? I killed a lot of people! A lot of people...their blood flowed to my feet, and they looked at me when they were dying!"

"I... I have no shame! I am greedy for life and afraid of death! General Bai is dead! Sister Liu is also dead! I have lived for so long!"

"I know you hate me, but I still want to..."

Qu Chenzhou seemed to have forgotten the current situation, and suddenly sobbed.

"I still want to ask you—have you ever thought about me after all these years..."

"But I can't ask, I can't ask... Do you miss me, do you miss me..."

There was a pause in the footsteps on the Qingshi Road, and someone asked wonderingly, "Did you hear anything just now?"

The Jinwu guard who was being questioned was walking and looking to both sides. Hearing his question, he also stopped and listened for a moment.

"No, is it the bugs in the grass?"

Hearing the sound of footsteps outside the rockery, Liu Chongming separated and walked away. The pathfinder saber hit the stone outside, and he tightened his arms calmly, and his lips tightly closed the unstoppable sobs.

The person in his arms trembled from his kiss, and kept sliding down, only relying on his strength to barely stand.

They were so close, the tears from those eyes also wet his cheeks, the pain all over his body turned into salty bitterness, flowed into his mouth along the slits of his lips, and tangled on the wet tip of his tongue.

Qu Shenzhou's gaffe gave him a glimpse of those thorns.

The blood debt from the previous life became a siege, and the guilt and self-blame were turned into thorns. The little fox trapped himself inside, afraid of touching those thorns, so he couldn't get out.

And that glass of wine, unwilling to hear any explanation, completely shattered the little fox's courage.

Liu Chongming was torn to pieces by the suppressed crying, wishing he could cut his heart out, so that people could see himself who was soaked in pain and regret and was about to rot.

The sound of knocking on the rocks stopped, and the two Jinwu guards outside were unwilling to step into the dense bushes, and it was too dark to make people feel uncomfortable.

The man impatiently beckoned to his companion to quicken his pace.

"Don't look for it. The thieves won't stop here. Hurry up to Lijing Palace. Commander Bo will pass by in a while. If you don't see our brothers, you should be lazy."

The footsteps on the bluestone slab hurried away, and when he couldn't hear the sound anymore, he raised his head and breathed in relief, the legs in his arms were shaking, and he was so weak that he couldn't stand, and he finally reached out and grabbed the hem of his clothes.

The cave was filled with the sound of gasping after a suffocating deep kiss.

Before Liu Chongming could catch his breath, suddenly there were hands around his neck. He was suddenly pressed down and his head was lowered, but what he touched was biting like a storm, and he was not released until he tasted the blood on his mouth. open.

"Liu Chongming!" Qu Chenzhou choked up, and suddenly called him.

"Shen..." Just as he had time to respond, he slapped his cheek with a slap. There wasn't enough space. The slap was gentle, neither painful nor itchy, but warm and soft. He pressed his hand on his face.

"Liu Chongming! I want you to live! I want you to live well!" Qu Chenzhou didn't break free, sobbing in a low voice: "Why do you want to kill yourself, I don't deserve it...I don't deserve you..."

Liu Chongming was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted.

Now that he has never had his family broken up, he almost collapsed when he dreamed of those bloody past events. At first, he even had to blink to see Qu Chenzhou's hanging corpse.

Even when I fall asleep, I wake up crying in a nightmare.

Those experiences were even more painful to me in the previous life, and if it were him now, I am afraid that he would also be crazy.

With just this one sentence, he suddenly faintly connected the causes and consequences that he couldn't figure out—why Qu Chenzhou was reborn back to the age of 14.

——Why did Qu Chenzhou offend Pan He twice in a row at first, and even wanted to irritate himself, wishing to die.

Because the little fox never thought that he would live again, and it was not the little fox who wanted to live again, it must be something he did in the past.

"Shen Zhou, don't cry." No matter what he had done for Shen Zhou, he was a little relieved, and realized that he seemed to have thought wrong before.

The little fox's various obsessions are all because of him, but he often dare not face people directly because of guilt. If he does this, will Qu Chenzhou really live well?

He finally found the way to go, and he couldn't retreat.

If those thorns were not cut open, Qu Chenzhou might go the same way again—the only way the little fox could think of to get rid of the pain was to perish.

In the darkness, Liu Chongming held a hand in time and pressed it to his chest.

"I miss you, I miss you every day."

Since the little fox failed to ask back then, he is willing to tell people all his thoughts.

"I miss you day and night. I know you saved my life by sending me to the flower shop, but then... I am sorry for you."

"I'm really happy that you survived and are willing to meet me again. I came too late and made you suffer."

"Also..." He groped and pressed the other hand: "I miss you too, I miss your days in the other courtyard, and I always feel that you are still there."

"I'm sorry for you, I didn't believe you."

"I hope you hate me and hate me. You can do whatever you want, as long as you can be good."

One past life and one present life, he clearly knows who he is, but the debts of his two lives are all knots in Qu Chenzhou's heart that cannot be untied.

His hands ran along the silky black hair to the top of his head, and gently pressed to his chest.

"Shen Zhou, don't cry, no matter before or now, I am willing to do anything for you, even to die."

The front of the front was wet, and the sobbing and trembling in his arms slowly stopped after a long time, and he was pushed out of the rockery.

It took a while for the people inside to get out slowly.

Qu Chenzhou, who appeared in front of him again, had already wiped off his fragile appearance, and resumed his calm breathing, but there was still a trace of unevenness in his voice.

"follow me."

Liu Chongming followed him from the rockery back to the Qingshi Road, and then got into the small road opposite, in the mottled cast by the faint moonlight, he suddenly grabbed his sleeve.

"Go slowly, I can't keep up."

Qu Chenzhou was dragged for a moment, looked at him sideways, did not pull out his sleeves, but slowed down, and asked after a while: "Did you break your leg?"

"Flesh and flesh wounds, no tendons or bones, just pretend, it's almost healed, don't worry."

Liu Chongming explained patiently, and heard that he was spat on without any surprise, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his lips.

They still had the best tacit understanding, even if he didn't get the news in advance, he guessed that Qu Shenzhou would come tonight, even if he didn't say it, Qu Shenzhou understood that he needed a place to go most now.

——He chased the "thief" out of the Lijing Palace, running around in the palace like a headless chicken, and it was unseemly. People should know where he went.

If he returned to the Lijing Palace quietly, the process in the middle would leave room for people to manipulate.

Qu Shenzhou walked smoothly along the way, as if there was an eye looking down from the sky, leading him to avoid bends.

Liu Chongming leaned against the wall, watching the night patrol soldiers passing by in a row ten feet away, suddenly leaned forward, and whispered: "Thank you."

——Thank you for sending away my sister's child.

As if he immediately understood what he was talking about, Qu Chenzhou's shoulders trembled, but he didn't look back: "You...not him."

"I understand." Liu Chongming replied frankly, leaned over and bit the tip of his soft ear again: "I thank you too, thank you for coming tonight."

Qu Chenzhou covered his ears, turned the corner silently, and asked, "How did you know I would come?"

"Guess. If you are so worried, you must be worried about suspicious people coming in and out, and you are afraid that I will not even find out, so you are not far away from the wall, right?"

Liu Chongming was still tugging on his sleeves, feeling that his hands were full of fragrance: "Don't do such a thing in the future, if someone finds out, it's too dangerous."

"When the man went in, you didn't see any abnormalities. Later, when you heard your aunt shouting, you didn't have time to react, so you chased after him, didn't you?"

Qu Chenzhou pursed his lips and asked, "Is that woman yours?"

As early as when the woman called out "Shizi", he had noticed something was wrong, now that Liu Chongming was calm and composed, how could he not be able to figure out the key point.

"You deliberately exposed your flaws to others?"

Liu Chongming smiled.

"That's right, I'm very strict at the door, and those who want to mess with it won't be able to get in. But they worked so hard, I couldn't live up to it, so I came out by myself."

They had already circled outside the wall of the Star-Guarding Pavilion, avoiding a night watchman. He hugged the man by the waist, stepped on the rocks, jumped from the wall to the cornice, and got in through the window.

Qu Chenzhou turned to change clothes behind the screen, and asked after a while: "If you let the mother-in-law lure you out, his people will try to sneak in, and those who are ambushing in Lijing Palace will catch them. "

"Not only that, but you also intentionally alarmed the Jinwu Guard, and even lured Bo Yan away, giving Bo Yan the credit."

"Since it was Bo Yan who caught him, no matter who is recruited, the emperor will not think that you are suppressing and framing any prince."

His voice returned to its usual calm, and even had the same frivolous and seductive smile as before.

"The son is really impressive."

"Excellent reputation." Liu Chongming looked at the blurred figures on the screen, as if they were starting from scratch.

Once again standing in the Guanxing Pavilion, the past and the present seem to overlap, revisiting the old place, this place is an unforgettable pain for him, but Shen Zhou wants to live here every day.

"Shen Zhou," he said softly, "If you have a way to go out, I will definitely cooperate with you."

Qu Chenzhou didn't seem to hear the whisper, but said slowly: "In this way, the son will really have enmity with that one."

"He provoked me first, and it's not up to me to decide whether to end his hatred or not. I always want to be a bedbug in the gutter, biting people in a sneaky way. How can there be such a good thing? It's either someone, or Mu Jingyan."

The name was mentioned here, and the rustling of the cloth behind the screen stopped.

Liu Chongming went around and saw that Qu Shenzhou was holding the hem of his silk robe still, and his long, slippery hair fell down and scattered all over his body, like a ghost that would disappear in the morning.

"Shen Zhou, I'm the one who's sorry for you," he touched his shoulders very lightly, and slowly embraced him in his arms: "Don't hold on alone, don't do dangerous things without authorization, can you... let me protect you ?”