comeback [rebirth]

At that time, after Jiang Zhaoyi's accident, under the full moon, the Yixian Building was brightly lit, and the bustard was enthusiastically welcoming the guests at the bottom of the building.

In contrast, it was an upper room on the top floor. The whole room was as quiet as a cicada, only the sound of the wine gurgling, and the dull collision of the wine cup and the wooden table.

Today is the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, Lou Yuanbai stepped in lightly, and closed the door.

"Your Highness." Lou Yuanbai said, "Jin Shanggong said."

Cen Yuan half closed his eyes, and poured wine into the wine cup: "What did you say?"

Lou Yuanbai said: "She was the one who sent Bi Ling into the Jin'an Palace, and it was she who asked Bi Ling to put medicine into Jiang Zhaoyi's diet. After that, she quietly sent Bi Ling out of the palace, strangled to death with white silk on the way , pretending to commit suicide."

Cen Yuan didn't react obviously, just took a sip of wine: "Where's her illegitimate daughter?"

"The illegitimate daughter was poisoned and dumb since she was a child, and she worked as a handmaid in the Duan family. My subordinates found out that a few years ago, the girl fell into the lake when she was pushed by other servants, and she was dead when she was rescued. I'm out of breath."

Cen Yuan didn't speak for a while, and finished drinking the wine in his glass.

He stroked the edge of the wine cup with his fingertips, and asked after a while, "Does Jin Shanggong know?"

"I shouldn't know." Lou Yuanbai said, "She never mentioned that she had an illegitimate daughter, and put all the charges on her, saying it was..."

He was only halfway through.

Hearing that there was no sound, Cen Yuan slightly raised his eyes and glanced at him. Although there was no sound, Lou Yuanbai suddenly felt an awe-inspiring murderous aura.

"Jin Shanggong said..." Lou Yuanbai swallowed, and continued, "Jiang Zhaoyi usually acts hypocritically, and always looks like a bad person. She looks disgusted, so...that's why she took the murderous plan."

Cen Yuan didn't answer, the flickering candlelight imprinted a swaying division of light and dark on his dark face, he lightly put down the wine cup, and the corner of his mouth hidden in the dark suddenly twitched.

"Your Highness." Lou Yuanbai asked softly, "What are you going to do with Jinshang Palace?"

Cen Yuan stood up leisurely, walked to the window, raised a corner of the bamboo curtain, and asked, "Are you still alive?"

"I'm only half-breathed."

Cen Yuan's eyes fell on the restaurant not far away, and his expression froze suddenly.

After a long while, he said: "I pulled out my tongue. If you still have breath, please help the leader and let her reunite with her beloved daughter."

Lou Yuanbai said: "Yes."

After he replied, he saw that Cen Yuan was still looking out of the window, so he couldn't help but follow the other party's line of sight to look out.

——On the opposite teahouse, the Fifth Prince Cen Yi and General Yan Xuanyan sat facing each other.

Even with the blessing of the moon, it can still blur people's vision at night.Lou Yuanbai was not sure: "Is that General Yan Shao?"

"Yeah." Cen Yuan responded lightly, "With such a figure, who else can there be besides him."

Lou Yuanbai took another look, thinking why didn't he see anything special?

It's just that this question only passed for a moment, and it was quickly forgotten by him and replaced by more important things.

"General Yan Shao, including his father Yan Taiwei, has never made it clear whether he supports His Highness or the Fifth Prince." Lou Yuanbai said, "If the Yan family also votes for the Fifth Prince, then Your Highness..."

Cen Yuan sneered: "How do you know that Father Emperor won't convict Fifth Brother of forming a party for personal gain?"

"This……"

The smile on Cen Yuan's face gradually dissipated, leaving only the coldness like an ice cave.

"Who will kill the deer is still unknown."

He stared at the figure in black, and after a while, he said in a serious tone: "If he wants to follow Fifth Brother, let him follow. I don't need his support."

After finishing speaking, he put down the bamboo curtain by the window and returned to the table: "Let someone bring another jar of wine."

"Your Highness, you have already..."

"Go get it!"

Even Lou Yuanbai had never heard his roar, so the latter could only keep silent and left the room.When Lou Yuanbai brought up a jug of wine, he waved his hand again and asked people to leave directly.

·

After Cen Yuan finished his drink and left Yixian Tower, he couldn't help but glanced out again, but the fifth younger brother and Yan Xuan had long since disappeared from the opposite teahouse.

The old bustard saw that he could barely walk in a straight line when he came out, and he was staggering when he went down the stairs, so he quickly helped him up: "Hey, Second Highness, you are so drunk, do you want someone to take you back?"

Cen Yuan pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, and was about to answer when he saw a familiar black figure opposite Yixian Tower.

"No need." He patted the bustard on the shoulder and gave him a look, "I'll come back tomorrow."

The old bustard immediately understood, and changed his face and smiled apologetically, "Hey, Second Highness, please go away, and my servant will definitely find you a better one tomorrow."

Cen Yuan smiled with satisfaction and said "Yes", then waved his hands and walked into the alley.

Sure enough, there was the sound of walking behind him not long after, and the person who came did not deliberately hide it, obviously for him to find out.

"General Yan, Lord Yan." Cen Yuan stopped, but did not turn his head, "If I were a woman, and you took advantage of the dark moon and the wind to sneak behind me at this time, I would suspect that your real identity is the flower picker. gone."

There was no response from behind.

"Tsk, annoying." Cen Yuan clicked his tongue, then turned to look, and saw Yan Xuan was wearing a black narrow-sleeved tight dress, with high buns, hidden in the shadow of the alley, with an indistinct expression.

"Didn't you go to have tea with Lao Wu today?" Cen Yuan said, "What are you doing here and following me?"

In the darkness, Yan Xuan frowned slightly: "Did you see it?"

"What?" Cen Yuan felt that the situation where the other party was in the dark and I was in the light was really uncomfortable, so he took two steps closer to the other party.

"Master Yan, what's the secret? You can't let me see it?"

As they got closer, Cen Yuan gradually saw the other person's expression clearly, with the annoyance he could see the last few times he saw the other person.

"His Royal Highness and I just met by chance, and we talked about the Huns in Mobei." After finishing speaking, Yan Xuan lowered his eyes, his eyes were undecided, "Besides, I have no secrets."

Cen Yuan snorted and laughed: "Master Yan, I would like to advise you, for a person like you who can't tell a lie, don't hide anything in the future, it will be exposed in an instant."

Yan Xuan was silent.

"Forget it, I'm not interested in what you said to Lao Wu, or your secret." Cen Yuan said, "Is there anything else?"

He paused, stretched lazily, and moved his upper limbs, his tone was full of frivolity: "I'm fine, I'll go home first, I've been tired all night, and I have to go back to sleep."

As if a certain emotion was aroused by his words, Yan Xuan suddenly took a step forward and approached him: "Cen Yuan, stop making trouble."

Cen Yuan leaned back slightly, took out the folding fan from his wide sleeve, and pressed one end against the opponent's chest.He suddenly smiled: "Then tell me, what's wrong with me?"

Yan Xuan asked, "How long are you going to do this?"

"How is this?"

"I've been wanton and wanton all day long, wandering around the Spring Tower." Yan Xuan tightened his sword hand, and even raised his voice a little, "He also tortured the people in the palace in private."

Cen Yuan didn't expect that he would even notice the Jinshang Palace incident, so he raised his eyebrows.

"And then?" Cen Yuan said, "So what?"

"So what?" Yan Xuan seemed to be gnashing his teeth even more, "Cen Yuan, why have you ever been such an unscrupulous person."

"Master Yan." Cen Yuan looked at the other party with a smile, "Today you call the prince by his first name and speak rudely here, do you really think I dare not touch you?"

Yan Xuan was silent for a while, before she opened her mouth: "If you try to make the Second Highness stop, then I implore the Second Highness, don't show mercy."

After he finished saying this, Cen Yuan didn't respond for a long time, just stared at him quietly, the corners of his mouth that were originally raised gradually fell down.I don't know how long it took, but it was so long that even the dark clouds covering the moon dissipated, and the bright moonlight shone on the two of them overwhelmingly.

Cen Yuan raised his head and glanced at the sky, and then casually turned his eyes back to the other party's face.

He slowly raised his hand and applauded for the other party.

"On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lord Yan did not accompany his family to enjoy the moon at home, but instead came to give me a sincere heart. It really took a lot of trouble."

As soon as Yan Xuan heard this, he knew that what he said today was useless again, so he stretched out his hand towards the other party.However, Cen Yuan suddenly took a step back, and with a sweep of his hand holding the fan, he just hit the opponent's wrist.

The sound of the fan hitting the wrist was so loud that it almost made people wonder if it could break a person's wrist, and because it was so close, Cen Yuan quickly saw a blush on the opponent's wrist bone.

He frowned, and tightened his hand holding the fan, but he still didn't say anything. After a while, he put his hand into the sleeve on the other side, turned away his face and calmed down.

The two stood in a stalemate for a long time, and there was a glint of light around them, as if shrouded in the light refracted by the needle tip of the wheat.

——But those confrontations are clearly formless, and what really falls on them is just pure moonlight.

"Master Yan, let's go back to the residence earlier." After a while, Cen Yuan finally spoke first, "While the moonlight is still beautiful tonight."

After finishing speaking, he turned and left without looking at Yan Xuan again.

However, before he could take a few steps, he suddenly heard another soft call from behind.

"Cen Yuan."

Listening carefully, the voice was not as tense as before, but it made people taste a hint of spring breeze.

Cen Yuan stopped unconsciously, but did not look back.After a brief silence, he heard Yan Xuan's voice: "The full moon in Shangyuan next year... Chang'an still has a lantern market, I'll watch it with you."

Cen Yuan tilted his head, reflexively wanted to say "no need", but for some reason, he opened his mouth and muttered for a while, but finally he couldn't say these three words, and strode away.

·

In the 24th year of Ninghuan, the second day of the first lunar month.

At the beginning of the new year, the city of Chang’an is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the lights of thousands of families flicker among them, creating a happy family atmosphere everywhere.

For three consecutive days, the gates of the city were opened all night and the curfew was lifted, so Cen Yuan rode out of the city with a jar of millet and wine.

He went to Jiang Zhaoyi's mausoleum.

The night wind was blowing, which made this quiet land a bit desolate, but Cen Yuan felt that this place was more peaceful than the lively Chang'an City.

He tied the horse rope to the tree, sat on the ground, and poured wine into the two wine cups.

Since Jiang Zhaoyi was buried, he hadn't been to this place again—he hadn't spoken to his mother and concubine for a long time.

Therefore, he said a lot that night, saying that the millet wine was indeed as mellow as in the legend, that his father's health had deteriorated a lot recently, and that he would be Shangyuan soon...

It seems to be a subconscious reaction, or it may be because Su Li has a strong aftertaste after drinking alcohol, he gradually became a little delirious, so he couldn't help muttering: "I don't know if Mr. Yan still remembers the promise he made at that time..."

After just blinking, he shook his head mockingly, and changed to the rest of the topic.I kept talking until my mouth was dry, my throat was dry and the alcohol stimulated me so hot that I finally stopped.

"Mother." His voice was hoarse, "I'll come to talk with you again when the Lantern Festival comes."

After finishing speaking, he poured all the remaining wine in front of the tomb, threw the wine jar away, and drove his horse back to the city.

Unexpectedly, he ran into Yan Xuan before entering the city gate.