comeback [rebirth]

Cen Yuan pondered for a moment, and quickly chose the latter between walking back to the palace and riding the same horse with Yan Xuan.

He held Yan Xuan's hand in vain, and before he could stand up completely, he felt his hand being grasped suddenly, and then his whole body seemed to be lifted up, and he was led to sit on the horse's back.

Ge Ying carried the man who had teased him just now, as if unwilling to do so, he snorted several times with his nose "humming".

Cen Yuan didn't have the leisure to comfort him at all.

He subconsciously picked up the reins, and pressed his back against Yan Xuan's chest, and his whole body was surrounded by the other party.An aura that didn't belong to him was overwhelming, and even the heat of his body seemed to be able to ignore his clothes, permeating his body continuously.

He felt a little uncomfortable, and struggled a few times on the horse's back, but he still felt awkward.

"Don't move." Yan Xuan said suddenly.

Cen Yuan froze, tilted his body slightly and turned his head: "Then let me sit behind you."

"..." Yan Xuan remained motionless, holding the rein with both hands: "It's all the same."

But Cen Yuan thought, it's not the same at all.

This posture made the two of them stick too close, so that when Yan Xuan spoke, Cen Yuan felt a strange heat sprayed on his skin from behind his ears, with a tormenting numbness, and invaded his limbs together with the temperature behind him. Hundreds of skeletons give people the illusion of being together.

——But this is too ambiguous and too absurd.

Even on the day when he had just returned from rebirth, Yan Xuan grabbed him onto the horse and rode with him all the way, but he didn't feel anything, and was still struggling.But now, because of being tied with a red thread that is still unclear, even this simple contact has become more intriguing, so much so that he dare not even move now.

Seeing that he had calmed down, Yan Xuan only thought that he was finally being honest, put his legs on the horse's belly, lightly flicked the reins, and let Ge Ying slowly start to walk towards the palace.

Yan Xuan didn't rush, so Ge ​​Ying also walked slowly, as if he was taking a leisurely walk in the wild.

The frightened birds gradually returned to their nests, and the tree shadows left mottled marks on the uneven weeds.Everything seemed to have returned to calm, as if the soul-stirring assassination and the shadow of swords and swords just now had never existed, and just let the breeze blow slowly, it dissipated in the orange haze over the Bailu Forest.

- Whoops!

Suddenly, there was a messy sound from the grass not far away.

Cen Yuan was already in a trance, and his vigilance was not as good as before. At this moment, he was suddenly startled and looked in the direction of the sound.In the blink of an eye, the whole person tensed into a stone pillar, clutching the reins tightly, his nails almost digging into the flesh of the palm of his hand.

Who is it this time?

What will it be?

But in the next second, a rabbit jumped out from behind the sound.When it saw the person, it turned around and ran, rushing forward with all its strength, but before it ran far, it suddenly bumped into the fence set up around the Bailu Forest, rolled on the ground, rolled up and headed in another direction Lopsided.

Until all the movements gradually calmed down, Yan Xuan let go of the rein, and quickly grabbed Cen Yuan's hand.

"You're shaking," he said.

As if waking up from a dream, Cen Yuan looked away from the direction where the rabbit disappeared, and then pulled his hand from the other party's, pretending to be relaxed and said with a smile: "I'm fine."

He was just a little bit scared after knowing it...

Although when he first came back to this life, he thought that since he had died once, he had put his own life and death aside, as long as he didn't hurt the people he valued.

However, it wasn't until then that he suddenly realized that he was not as open-minded as he imagined.

If he hadn't been forced to strip off the prince's coat, he would be just an ordinary person made of flesh and blood who would also feel pain.

Yan Xuan frowned slightly, lowered his gaze, but heard Cen Yuan change the subject and asked, "By the way, it was that deer just now."

Yan Xuan stared at him silently for a long time, when the other party was puzzled and looked at him, the expression on his face was the same as usual, then he said: "I was taken back by the Northern Army."

Cen Yuan nodded: "The bows and arrows we used were allocated by the palace servants before the hunting started. Just now I saw that the end of the arrow was white. I am afraid that someone did it on purpose."

"With just one arrow, His Majesty is not so stupid."

Emperor Ning is not in good health, but not in a bad mind.

Now there are fences erected around the hunting ground, and the prey in the field are specially selected. There shouldn't be deer in the first place, and there is no reason to miss it.

This is how confident he must be that he can cut off his neck continuously, so he dared to shoot a deer in the White Deer Forest in a grand manner, without covering up the marks?

Cen Yuan smiled wryly: "I just don't know if my father's temper that would rather kill by mistake than let go is suitable for me."

Yan Xuan said: "Not at all."

Hearing this, Cen Yuan smiled ironically for a moment, and slowly closed his eyes, but unconsciously leaned back.

After a while, he softly changed the topic back to the main topic: "The deer and arrows are probably just props to attract our attention. Their real target is me after all."

Yan Xuan didn't answer, and tightened her arms indistinctly.

This time Cen Yuan didn't struggle, or it was because he finally relaxed his tense nerves completely after being in shock, so he didn't notice the movements of the people behind him at all.He let out a long breath, and sighed: "It's been four years, I didn't expect that I almost followed in the footsteps of big brother."

"No." Yan Xuan said quickly, with a rare hasty tone.

But after he finished speaking, he realized that his reaction was inappropriate, and then returned to Cen Yuan's two short sentences: "Do you think that the incident today and the murder of the crown prince four years ago were done by the same group of people?"

"So what do I think?" Cen Yuan had a pale smile on his lips, "Even if you and I had doubts about the truth back then, we were still helpless in the end."

……

Four years ago, in the 19th year of Ning Huan, the prince died in Bailu Forest.

It was winter hunting at that time, and the White Deer Forest was covered by heavy snow into endless white, with dead branches forming a shocking desolation. Many prey fell into hibernation in this cold season.

Cen Yuan remembered that he did not go with Yan Xuan during that hunt, and went deep into places where there were many traces of wild animals, but after half an hour, he had only hunted four prey in total, which was much better than before when he competed with Yan Xuan for the prey. When the grades are less than a cut.

At that time, he accidentally met his elder brother, the then prince.

—and a grizzly bear that shouldn't be in the White Hart Forest.

"Big brother had just passed his 16th birthday. He was still a young man, but his body was dripping with blood. One arm was still bitten by the grizzly bear. When I rushed over, I could almost see the torn flesh. The exposed bones." Cen Yuan's words trembled visibly, and the backs of his hands gripped the rein tightly with blue veins, "But even so, when the eldest brother saw that I was going to rescue him, he devoted all his energy to restraining me. Put me on horseback, and let the horse lead me away from that dreadful place."

The dazzling snow seemed to appear before his eyes again, and the blood turned the white snow into red blood, making it even more dazzling.

Cen Yuan murmured softly: "I feel that as long as I open my eyes now, I can see the scene at that time."

As soon as he finished speaking, his vision suddenly turned black, and the hands covering his eyes had a temperature different from that of that scene—it was as hot as the warm sun swaying on his body from the cracks in the trees at this time.

"Then don't read it." Yan Xuan's deep voice came from behind his ear.

Cen Yuan reflexively wanted to push the opponent's hand away, but when he heard this, he paused, and his fingertips were barely pressed into the opponent's palm.

Logically speaking, when the vision is blocked, the rest of the senses will be multiplied.But all of a sudden, Cen Yuan couldn't even hear the slight sound of Ge Ying stepping on the branches and leaves, his ears were buzzing, and Yan Xuan's concise words seemed to have an aftertaste, entangled in his ears together with the breath .

The snow in my memory gradually melted, and green shoots grew everywhere.

After a while, Cen Yuan felt his Adam's apple slipping up and down, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you."

This time, without waiting for him to let go, Yan Xuan first put down the hand that covered the other's eyes, and said, "You don't need to say thank you."

Cen Yuan took the rein again, even though the rein had never been manipulated by him.

He coughed lightly and brought the topic back to today's events: "Do you remember the costumes of those assassins?"

"Yes." Yan Xuan replied, "Although I don't have a deep impression, it is indeed a unique costume of the Exian nationality."

"That's right." Cen Yuan said, "It's the Exian clan that was exterminated because of the big brother."

Four years ago, the Exian nationality was a hunting nation living in the Bailuyuan area, and there were only more than two hundred people in the whole family.

In the civilization of the Exian nationality, they use the appearance of a bear as a totem, worship the bear incomprehensibly, and even offer food to them continuously throughout the day.There is also a saying that the Exian people are born with the ability to communicate with bears in a special language and have the power to manipulate bears.

Therefore, when a bear attacks a human being, especially when the human being is the prince of a country or the son of an emperor, the neighboring Exian people will bear the brunt.

The anger of the Son of Heaven is like a raging fire starting a prairie fire.

"I still remember that after the head of the Exian tribe was arrested, he insisted that the rumors of manipulating bears were not true. He also said that even their tribe had not seen a real grizzly bear in Bailuyuan for more than ten years. That's it." Cen Yuan said, "Of course, whether this is the truth or a lie, you can only prove it freely."

After pondering for a moment, Yan Xuan said: "I remember that the one who killed the grizzly was..."

"Duan Meng." Cen Yuan sneered, "At that time, I was driven away by my elder brother on a horse, and I was not rescued until I met you. Later, when we found the soldiers guarding nearby and returned to the place where elder brother was killed, he had already killed me with his own strength. dealt with that grizzly bear."

Yan Xuan remained silent, and Cen Yuan went on to say: "At that time, he was only at the middle base, and he should have been accompanied by other soldiers, so why did he appear in that place alone? Besides, he was only average in skill, so how did he subdue the brutal man?" Grizzly. And..."

He paused, and the snow field appeared in front of his eyes again, but for some reason, he no longer resisted as before.

"I remember that there was obviously a wound on the grizzly bear's body that was pierced by a gun, and the snow around the big brother was different from other places, and it was obviously turned over by someone. You and I saw it."

Yan Xuan nodded, and then realized that the other party couldn't see, and said "hmm" again.

"If it weren't for the fact that my elder brother died of serious injuries, I couldn't ask what happened after I left, and it snowed very quickly, and all the evidence was completely buried, maybe similar things wouldn't happen now " Cen Yuan looked down at his hands, clenched into fists, "Duan Meng..."

"Woo--" Before Cen Yuan could say anything, Yan Xuan reined in his horse and stopped, raised his hand to hold the opponent's fist, and called out in a deep voice: "Cen Yuan, don't act impulsively."

Cen Yuan was taken aback when he heard the words, then let go of his hand and teased with a smile: "What can I be impulsive about?"

However, after these words, Yan Xuan's face did not return to calm, but Cen Yuan sat in front of him and didn't notice it.

"If those people today are indeed Exian people, then today's matter is worth pondering." Cen Yuan said to himself, "Why did they suddenly attack at this time after so many years?"

And in his last life, this incident never happened from the beginning to the end. Why did those Exian people make different actions in this life?

Yan Xuan analyzed, "Maybe there is someone to help."

Cen Yuan didn't decide whether he was right or wrong, and said: "But logically speaking, it was Emperor Father who ordered the killing of the Exian family back then. If they wanted revenge, they must also go to Emperor Father. But it was obvious just now that their The target is me."

And this was also the reason why he doubted Duan Meng.

In the last life, it was not a day or two since the Duan family regarded him as a thorn in their side. At that time, he used some improper methods in private to find out that the court lady Bi Ling who poisoned Jiang Zhaoyi's diet was exactly the one who was poisoned by Duan. Instigated by the family.

I'm afraid that in this world, no one else wants him to die more.

Yan Xuan rode the horse again, guessing: "If there is really someone behind the scenes, this may be his condition."

"It's better to say that it's the main purpose of the people behind the scenes." Cen Yuan murmured, "The key is, why did those Exian people agree?"

Yan Xuan followed his question and answered: "The person behind the scenes assured them that they can get close to His Majesty."

"Royal father... the palace..."

Enlightened, Cen Yuan grabbed Yan Xuan's arm and shouted, "Hurry up, go back to the palace!"