Substitute thought

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It's been too long in silence.

Qin Gou's face was livid, with veins protruding from his forehead, and he clenched his fists, almost as if he was about to hit someone.

Fuyou stood in front of him, took a step sideways, and blocked Huaiyu behind him.

Fuyou turned back and said to Huaiyu: "Go back first, I'll be there in a while."

"Understood, then hurry up."

Huaiyu pursed her lips, took a step back, and suddenly stretched out her hand towards Fuyou's head.

Fuyou dodged subconsciously for a while, then he pressed Fuyou's head and took off the hairpin from his hair.

"Leave this to me for safekeeping, lest you lose it again."

Fu You whispered: "Understood, don't be angry all the time."

"come back earlier."

After Huaiyu finished speaking, she finally let out a "hum", turned around and went back to her room with her big and small bags.

Fuyou looked at Qin Gou: "Don't worry, he didn't do it on purpose."

Qin Gou looked at his face: "But you care."

When the phrase "shield" came out just now, Fuyou's face turned pale.

It's impossible to say you don't care.

Fu You pursed the corners of his lips, did not answer, and changed the subject: "What did you want to say just now?"

"Come in and tell me, it's cold outside." Qin Gou turned sideways, still not daring to touch him.

Fuyou walked into the room.

This was originally an inn room, but because it was the first room up the stairs, the space was compressed and it was a bit small.

The furnishings were all the original ones from the inn, and Qin Gou had very few of his own.

Qin Gou closed the door, walked to the desk, and arranged the cushions: "Fuyou, sit down."

Oh, the mat is Qin Gou's own, and the snacks on the table are also Qin Gou's own.

Fuyou sat down in his seat, Qin Gou sat down in front of him, and pushed the tea and snacks in front of him: "Here for you."

"No, just tell me."

"Yeah." Qin Gou bit his tongue before letting himself swallow the words "you eat a little, it's delicious".

He's trying to get over his bad habit of giving orders to Fuyou.

"Then put it here, you can take it if you want." Qin Gou looked at him, he could hide what he was about to say, but he couldn't hide his clingy gaze, "What happened last night was too dangerous, if I came later ..."

Fu You said lightly: "It doesn't matter, the emperor won't touch me, I remember there is a copper vase on the bedside of Yangju Hall."

There was a vase, which Fuyou knocked on Qin Gou's head.

Qin Gou suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head.

"I sent someone to check the matter, it's the one surnamed Liu..."

Wait a minute, Qin Gou is also trying to overcome his bad habit of swearing in front of Fuyou.

But Fuyou didn't know what he was doing, he frowned and said, "I know, it was arranged by General Liu. He probably suspected that I had something to do with you, and wanted to keep me in the palace, or simply cut the grass and root it out, and directly treat the disease. My sin of filth."

Qin Gou said softly, "The Empress Dowager Liu knew about it, and she sent someone to tell her to ignore it last night, so we can get away this morning."

"The empress dowager has been suspicious for a long time, but she is cautious and will not take action easily. General Liu is impatient, and he probably wants to kill him directly. It seems that the empress dowager temporarily suppressed him."

"But it doesn't guarantee your safety either."

Fu You unconsciously picked up the teacup and took a sip: "I know, so I plan to bid farewell to the Queen Mother before leaving to show my determination."

"It's hard for her to trust you."

"But she's also someone who's been trapped in the palace for many years."

The two of them paused again, and Fu You continued: "I have no other intentions. Last time I was a little anxious, and my mood was not right, so I swore a poisonous oath directly in front of her. Although I could get away at the time, it would make her worse afterward. Suspicion. I will go again in a few days, and I will go out to present poems in the next year, and I will not have any intersection with you or the emperor, so it should be fine."

Qin Gou said: "Fuyou, I think the Liu family siblings just think that we will rebel and threaten their status."

"So what do you think?"

"I can join hands with them and help them consolidate their position."

Fuyou didn't know what to say.

"I can help them control the emperor, let that fake Qin Gou stay here as a puppet emperor, and let them control the entire government." Qin Gou said seriously, "I don't want to be emperor this time, so they don't have to worry about it." Me. But don’t worry, I will still keep some people, if they have second thoughts, I will be the emperor again.”

As if he could do it if he wanted to.

Fuyou paused, still not knowing how to answer.

As expected of you, Qin Gou.

Although there seems to be no problem with this weird idea logically, the method he proposed is weird.

After a long silence, Fuyou took a sip of tea and said, "Can you convince them?" "Yes." Qin Gou paused, "Fuyou, I actually have selfish intentions."

"Ok?"

"I'm the same person as that fake Qin Gou. I know him very well. In the end of this world, only one of him and I can survive." Qin Gou lowered his head, "Fuyou, you want me to die, Or let him die?"

This question is not difficult to answer, Fuyou said: "Can you disappear together?"

"..." Qin Gou lowered his head even more, "Anyway, I won't die. If I'm alive, I'll always have a chance, right?"

Fuyou didn't want to answer, of course he didn't want to give Qin Gou a chance.

Qin Gou continued: "I didn't mean to interrogate you, I just wanted to ask, are you and Huaiyu together?" He quickly added: "You don't have to answer me."

Fuyou really didn't answer: "Have you finished talking about Empress Dowager Liu? Go to bed early, I'm going back."

"I haven't finished talking..." Of course, Qin Gou refused to let him go in this rare opportunity to be alone, so he racked his brains and thought of something to tell him, "When I came last time, Empress Dowager Liu was positioned as a villain. What is her position in your place?"

"Ordinary character."

"It should be that the mission has changed, so her role has also changed. Since she is an ordinary character, she shouldn't pose a great threat."

"Ah."

"I had a lot of tasks last time, but I didn't use you as a shield."

After all, the topic returned to the "shield" mentioned by Huaiyu just now.

"I know." Fuyou replied, "You have to do the task of reciprocating, so you have to protect Yan Fuyun. You have a simple idea, and you don't think of the idea of ​​a shield, and you just didn't bother to explain it later, because you don't know how to do it here. kind of useless thing."

"no……"

Well, it is true.

Qin Gou said again: "I really liked you at the time, but I didn't want to admit it. I always felt that you were not a real person. I know that it is written in the manual that every tasker enters the control center, but..."

"I can't read." Qin Gou whispered.

Fuyou was stunned for a moment, and Qin Gou was afraid that he might not have heard clearly, so he said it again: "I didn't graduate from elementary school at that time, so I couldn't read. Later, in the small world, I learned a little bit slowly, and I didn't even read the manual."

With a puff, Fuyou suddenly laughed out loud. Qin Gou looked at his smiling face and suddenly stopped breathing.

Qin Gou also hooked the corners of his lips and said again: "I don't know how to read, so I didn't understand."

Fuyou looked at him: "I understand, you don't have to keep talking."

"I want to see you smile."

Fuyou restrained his expression, and stood up: "If there is nothing else, I'll go back first. If you think your method is feasible, you can go ahead and do it. Don't ask me what I mean."

Qin Gou also hurriedly stood up: "Don't you want some snacks? You didn't eat a single bite."

"No, I ate outside."

Fuyou walked towards the door, Qin Gou took a big step to follow.

Fuyou subconsciously thought that he was going to stop him, so he took a step back and made a defensive posture: "Huaiyu is still waiting for me."

"I know." Qin Gou responded aggrievedly, and then opened the door, "I just want to open the door for you."

Fuyou breathed a sigh of relief and walked out.

Qin Gou watched him return to the room, and stood there for a while before closing the door.

Qin Gou sat down on the soft cushion that Fuyou had just sat on, held up the cup of tea that Fuyou had drunk with both hands, lowered his head, and took a sip himself.

The tea was cold, passing through Qin Gou's throat and viscera.

But he felt that his heart began to beat wildly, as if he was alive again.

In fact, Fuyou would not drink his tea, he knew it.It's just that when they were discussing things just now, there was a moment of harmony in the atmosphere, and Fuyou picked it up unconsciously.

Just like in the three years of his previous life, when the Liu siblings were in power, he and Fuyou were discussing matters in the Yangju Palace.

They were like little mice in the dark, and the old cat was guarding the door. They hid in the Yangju Hall, sitting close together, discussing how to win over courtiers and how to cultivate cronies.

Fuyou was the same then as now, only 15 years old, Qin Gou thought he was stupid.

Let's do it again, now Fuyou is no longer stupid, and Qin Gou completely lost the opportunity to sit with him crowded together.

This morning, Fuyou opened the window to let the sun shine in.

He sat by the window, taking advantage of the sunlight, to mend his bookcase with willow rattan and oilcloth. There was a stove and bamboo slips beside him.

Then Huaiyu woke up and said he wanted to play the piano for him, so he started playing the piano ping-pong-pong.

Fuyou sighed, and leaned against the wall with a crooked body: "Huaiyu, when I first met you, you didn't play the piano like this."

Huaiyu smiled: "I am willing."

Fuyou was a little helpless, looking out the window, just in time to see Qin Gou going out.

Qin Gou seemed to have sensed something, and when he turned around to see him, his eyes lit up.

Fuyou raised his hand and closed the window.

Not long after, Fuyou ran out of tarpaulins, and he was going out to buy some more.

Fuyou and Huaiyu were standing in front of the stall, when suddenly someone behind him shouted his name angrily: "Fuyou!"

He turned around, saw someone coming, and called out, "Uncle?"

Fuyou's parents died young, and he grew up with his uncle. The year before last, Fuyou's grandfather also passed away, leaving him, his uncle, and his cousin in the family.

Fuyou's uncle is quite famous in his hometown, and others respectfully call him "Master Fu".In his forties, he has a fat body, slightly small eyes, and a sparse beard on his chin.

Last year the imperial court recruited poetry collectors, but my uncle and cousin refused to go, so Fuyou had to go.

Fuyou didn't know why he came to the imperial capital.

Master Fu stepped forward quickly, grabbed his hand, and yelled at him in a low voice: "Fuyou, what's the matter with you?"

Huaiyu hurriedly protected Fuyou and pulled his hand back: "Who are you?"

Fu You asked, "Why is Uncle here? But what happened at home?"

Master Fu looked around and said in a low voice: "Come here."

They found a remote alley with few people, and Huaiyu waited outside with arms folded.

Master Fu said to Fu You: "General Liu asked me to come. His Majesty likes you, and wants to keep you as an attendant, how can you refuse? Do you know that your brother and I are both To be implicated by you."

It turned out to be for this matter.

Unexpectedly, General Liu even moved out with his uncle.

Fu You's face turned cold, and he said seriously: "Uncle, I didn't resist the order. The Empress Dowager asked me if I would like to stay, but she didn't give an order directly."

"You idiot, isn't the Empress Dowager's meaning obvious enough?"

"It seems that uncle really wants me to enter the palace?"

"What's wrong with you entering the palace? In the palace, if you are liked by His Majesty and the Queen Mother, life will be much easier in the future, do you understand? Is it possible that you still want to spend your whole life outside collecting poetry?"

Fuyou interrupted him, and asked back: "What if I am hated by His Majesty and Queen Mother? Will uncle and cousin save me? Will they intercede for me?"

"This……"

Naturally not.

In their previous life, when Fuyou entered the palace, they did the same thing. They wrote a letter and told Fuyou to serve him carefully.

Before he died, he didn't see each other.

Fu You continued to ask: "If I offend Your Majesty and His Majesty wants to punish me from the Nine Clans, does Uncle think that he and his cousin are not in my Nine Clans?"

Master Fu stopped talking.

Fu You asked, "You didn't promise General Liu anything, did you?"

"Of course not. Do you think uncle is a three-year-old child?"

"That's good. I don't know what you think, but I can tell you clearly that not entering the palace is the best choice. If you don't want to cause trouble, go and say goodbye to General Liu right now and go home immediately. Blending in the imperial capital."

Master Fu became angry from embarrassment: "You little bastard, your wings are stiff, aren't you?"

Fuyou turned his head helplessly, not looking at him.His uncle is a good face, he obviously thinks what he said is right, but he just refuses to admit it.

At this time, Huaiyu suddenly said: "Fuyou, someone is here."

Fuyou glanced outside the alley, it was obvious that it was General Liu's man.

It is impossible to run away, and in a blink of an eye, people are in front of them.

"Mr. Fu, the empress dowager heard that something went wrong in the Yangju Hall during the New Year's Eve banquet, which shocked Mr. Fu. The empress also heard that Mr. Fu's uncle came to the imperial capital, so she asked me to come and invite Mr. Fu and Mrs. Fu." Help the young master into the palace and talk."

Fu You pursed the corners of his lips, and looked back at his uncle: "Please, uncle."

Master Fu knew he had done something stupid, so he couldn't hold his head up in front of him.

The Empress Dowager's people brought the carriage over, and Fuyou sat in the carriage, thinking about countermeasures.

The carriage directly entered the palace gate and stopped in front of Changle Palace.

When getting off the carriage, Fu You said to Master Fu: "Just pay your respects and don't say anything else. If you let me stay, just say that I was born in the mountains and I am not suitable for entering the palace."

Master Fu kept a straight face and didn't answer.

Fuyou reminded him: "You and your cousin are both within my nine clans."

Master Fu responded coldly: "Understood."

The carriage directly entered the palace gate and stopped outside Changle Palace.

The two got out of the carriage, and the attendants led them to the main hall door and pushed the door open.

Empress Dowager Liu is at the head, and General Liu is at the bottom.

There is already a person standing in the hall——

The King of Southwest, or Qin Gou.

He had just arrived, and his voice was very calm, as if he was negotiating with them.

Qin Gou only had a very simple concept of strength and weakness in his mind. As long as he had enough bargaining chips in his hand, he could negotiate, no matter who the other party was.

He said: "You are just afraid that the emperor will rebel against me. I can help you suppress the emperor. If you don't want to do it, I can do it."

Empress Dowager Liu glanced at Fuyou standing in front of the door, and asked Qin Gou, "Then what do you want? Do you want Fuyou?"

"I want to be with Fuyou." Qin Gou nodded and admitted boldly, "But I don't have time to be emperor. I want to go collect poems with Fuyou. Fuyou is leaving soon. Everything has been taken care of. Let the emperor settle down, let you stop staring at him, and let him be completely safe. But you can't fight, if there is a war, he won't be able to go out to collect poems."

Qin Gou is the only person in the world who can say "I don't have time to be emperor".

No one can guess his thoughts.

The purpose of uniting Liu's sisters and brothers to suppress the puppet emperor is to create an environment for Fuyou to collect poetry with peace of mind.

Empress Dowager Liu smiled, and asked again: "What is the relationship between you and Fuyou?"

Qin Gou said sternly: "I like Fuyou myself. I liked him at first sight. But he doesn't like me because I'm self-righteous and self-willed, but I've been pestering him and have nothing to do with him."

"What about the emperor and Fuyou?"

"The emperor doesn't like Fuyou. He deliberately got close to Fuyou because he didn't like me and wanted to rob me."

It was rare for Qin Gou to answer every question, and even said so many things.

Empress Dowager Liu smiled and clapped her hands twice: "So that's the case. I didn't know that the Qin family had a love affair." She looked at Fuyou in front of the door, and said loudly, "Fuyou, the Southwest King loves you so much. , why don't you answer him?"

Qin Gou turned his head, and when he saw Fuyou, his serious and gloomy face instantly became tense.

Fu You glanced at him, then walked slowly into the hall.Master Fu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed.

After saluting, Master Fu opened his mouth according to what Fu You taught him: "Queen Mother, my nephew was born in the mountains and has a weird temper. He is really not suitable for entering the palace. I have lost my mother's love, and I am ashamed."

Fuyou breathed a sigh of relief, thanks to his uncle not turning his back on the spot because of Qin Gou's words.

Empress Dowager Liu wanted to test it out, and asked Fuyou again: "Fuyou, do you really not like King Xixi at all?"

Fuyou said: "The king of the Southwest has a dragon and a phoenix, and the minister has no virtue and talent, and his heart is devoted to collecting poems. I'm afraid it's not good to serve the King of the Southwest."

"You don't want to stay in the palace at all?"

Fuyou raised his head, and asked firmly: "The empress has been in the palace for decades, is the empress willing to stay in the palace?"

As soon as he finished speaking, General Liu slapped the table and said, "Bold!"

Empress Dowager Liu waved at him: "That's all."

She looked at Fuyou, pondered for a while, and finally said: "I don't want to stay in the palace at all."

Fuyou said: "The minister is the same as the empress."

Empress Dowager Liu finally let go and let Fuyou go.

She also complied with Qin Gou's proposal. Someone helped her take care of the emperor without her having to do it herself, and this person didn't want to be emperor herself, so why not do it.

Coming out of Changle Palace, Fuyou walked along the palace road with his uncle.

Fu You said: "Don't stay in the imperial capital for too long, go back in a few days."

Master Fu responded angrily: "Understood. How on earth did you provoke the Queen Mother and the King of the Southwest? What kind of stunning beauty has the King of the Southwest never seen? You look like a little chick, how could he fall in love with you?" ?”

Fuyou didn't speak, but suddenly, someone behind him called out: "Fuyou."

Qin Gou strode forward to catch up, and Master Fu strode forward to block Fuyou.

"What is the king of the Southwest doing?"

Qin Gou looked at Fuyou: "I was in Changle Palace just now, I actually knew you were here, and I said those words to you on purpose."

Fuyou nodded: "I understand."

"I don't mean to threaten you, I just want you to feel at ease to collect poetry."

The weather was getting warmer, and after a few days, Fuyou prepared all the things he needed to go out to collect poems, and he could go out to collect poems at any time.

The day before his departure, the waiter in the inn handed him a package.

"Just now a master entrusted me to pass it on to the young master."

Fuyou opened the package, and inside were some silver taels and two or three volumes of books.

He ran to the window, looked outside, and saw a carriage waiting below, Master Fu waved at him without looking back, and got into the carriage.

Fuyou had a lot of emotions, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Early the next morning, Fuyou packed the bookcase on his back and prepared to leave the city.

He bought two horses and tied the reins together. He rode in front, and Huaiyu, who had just learned how to ride a horse, followed behind holding the neck of the other horse.

Not long after walking, Huaiyu acted coquettishly: "My legs are sore, I can't ride anymore."

Fu You turned around: "Then you turn around and lie on the horse's back."

"No." Huaiyu blinked at him, "I want to ride with you."

Fuyou said seriously: "No, our horses are not good horses, they can't fit two people."

"I'm light, I'm weak and boneless."

Huaiyu reined in his horse and stopped, then without any explanation, climbed onto Fuyou's horse, wrapped his arms around his waist, and sat with him.

Fuyou was a little helpless, Huaiyu said pitifully: "Please, I really can't ride anymore. In order to let the young man walk, the willows and Fufeng in the flower building are so weak that our feet are... please, Fuyou tour."

Fu You glanced back at him: "Okay, if you feel uncomfortable, just say it."

"Hmm." Huaiyu hugged him, held the rein with a smile, and shouted angrily, "Drive!"

Fuyou was taken aback by him, he was so confident even though he was injured?

Huaiyu smiled, pretending not to see his puzzled expression.

Hualou also trained them in how to please men. Fuyou is still young, but Huaiyu is very willing to please him.

After a few days, they settled in a small town.

Here, Fuyou learned about some things that happened in the imperial capital.

His Majesty, who had just recovered, fell ill again. The imperial doctor said that he should go to a clean place to recuperate, so the Empress Dowager asked someone to clean up the palace and let His Majesty go to recuperate.

The king of the Southwest, Zichen, did not want to participate in the government, so he wandered alone.

Now only Empress Dowager Liu and General Liu are left in the court.

Fuyou knew that the matter of the emperor's going to the palace to recuperate was probably the work of Qin Gou.

As for why the emperor fell ill, Qin Gou may have used the most direct method, such as poisoning him, or directly threatening the emperor to make him "automatically fall ill".

The only thing that is certain is that Qin Gou will not endanger the emperor's life. After all, if the emperor dies, this small world will not be able to function normally.

Fuyou didn't want to think about these things anymore, turned over, pulled the quilt over his head, and was going to sleep.

He slept in the wild, and Qin Gou, the king of Southwest who was "going out on a cloud tour" caught up early the next morning.

"I didn't mean to follow you, I just...passed by, happened to meet you, and gave you something to eat."

Qin Gou put the breakfast beside Fuyou, and then retreated far away.He always followed from afar, and happened to meet Fuyou again.

Fuyou can't drive him away, after all the road is here, anyone can walk.

Two months later, Fuyou arrived at a small town in the northwest border.

At noon, the high-spirited Confucian general in silver armor led people to meet him at the gate of the city. When he saw him coming, he walked towards him quickly.

Fu You also dismounted and waved at the man: "Brother!"

He carried the bookcase on his back and ran towards Yan Zhi.

Huaiyu was not very happy, frowned, pursed her mouth, and walked forward.

Fu You stood still in front of Yan Zhi, and called again: "Brother."

Yan Zhi pinched his shoulder: "It's grown taller."

Fuyou nodded: "Yeah."

Huaiyu on the side opened his mouth sourly: "Fuyou, is this your friend?"

Fu You smiled and said, "Well, this is my good friend."

Yan Zhi also smiled, stroked Fuyou's hair, pulled him to his side, imitating his words: "Well, this is my little friend."

The smile on Huaiyu's face gradually disappeared. Qin Gou, who was far away, didn't hear what they said. Just seeing Yan Zhi, his whole body exuded a grumpy aura.

That's right, Yan knew that gentleman Pian Pian had missed the opportunity in his previous life, and when he came back, Fu You had already entered the palace.

How can this life be the same?Nothing happened in this life.

Qin Gou gritted his teeth, like an angry wolf, ready to rush up and bite people anytime and anywhere.

The number one enemy, his confidant's serious trouble, finally came.

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