comeback [rebirth]

Cen Yuan exchanged a glance with the person behind him, and then they got off their horses one after the other.

At this time, another young child came to them, grabbed the other child's sleeve, and whispered: "Brother."

Cen Yuan squatted down, looked at the two children, pointed to the river lantern in their hands, and asked, "Who is this for?"

The elder brother of the two children was about to answer, when the other half-hidden behind him, the child already answered in a soft voice: "For mother, and younger sister."

Before he finished speaking, he lowered his head, and his voice was almost crying: "It's just that my sister has not yet come out of mother's belly, so we went to a far away place together."

The elder brother rubbed his head, and said solemnly: "Don't cry, Dad has already said, if we cry and set the river lanterns for mother and sister, they will feel it and worry about us."

He hurriedly said "hmm", and wiped away his tears with his sleeve.

With a slight smile on his brother's face, he turned to Cen Yuan again.

"Daddy said that if mother and the others receive more blessings, they will have more blessings, and they will be able to vote for a better family in the future."

He paused and asked, "So can the big brothers help me?"

"Why not." Almost as soon as the other party said it, Cen Yuan responded.

"Really?!" Both children exclaimed in surprise, the elder brother's careful maintenance of maturity just now was broken without attack.

"Why did I lie to you?" Cen Yuan raised his hand amusedly and scratched the tip of the noses of the two of them, then set his gaze on the river lantern in their hands, and asked again: "Did you make these yourself?"

After hearing this, the children all showed embarrassment on their faces: "Yes, but they are not well-made, and some of them can't hold candles..."

"It's okay." Cen Yuan said, "Is there any extra paper, I'll teach you."

The elder brother answered "yes" immediately, then took out a small stack of waste paper with handwriting from his arms, and whispered: "There are not many papers at home, only these..."

"It's okay, just use one sheet." Cen Yuan said with a smile, and took the paper from the other party.

At this time, Yan Xuan also tied Ge Ying's reins to the tree beside him, and walked slowly towards the place where they were.

He didn't deliberately suppress the sound of footsteps, so Cen Yuan knew it was him as soon as he heard the sound, and sat down on the weeds before turning around and taking a look.

"Don't stand there like a mallet," he patted the ground beside Yan Xuan, "If you stand like this, people who don't know will think you are my bodyguard."

"wooden club":"……"

"Balm" - Yan Xuan shook his head helplessly, and honestly sat down beside Cen Yuan, muttering softly: "Sitting on the ground, you don't look like a prince."

The children were all wearing shabby cloth clothes. In addition, this place was some distance away from Chang’an City, and there were only a few dilapidated thatched huts around. Obviously, they should be children living nearby, and most likely they had never seen them before. No matter what dignitaries, they have never even entered the gate of Chang'an City.

Therefore, when they heard Yan Xuan's words at this time, both of them showed a surprised and curious expression, and looked at Cen Yuan: "Prince...Prince?"

"Listen to his nonsense." Cen Yuan immediately elbowed to the side, shot Yan Xuan a look, and signaled him to shut up.Seeing that the two children were still cowering in fear, he said indifferently: "Shhh, don't say anything. I'm telling you secretly that my brothers are pretending to be housekeepers. He is now a great general who has galloped across the battlefield." .”

Yan Xuan: "..."

Hearing Cen Yuan's words, the eyes of the children instantly brightened.At the same time, as Cen Yuan expected, they immediately turned their attention to Yan Xuan, and the young brother asked with a look of longing: "Master General, will you smash a big stone in your chest?"

Yan Xuan: "........."

Even Cen Yuan was taken aback for a moment, and laughed out loud the next moment, and even couldn't support himself for a while, and lay on his back directly on the weeds on the ground.

Yan Xuan only felt a headache, so he pressed his temples, half-closed his eyes and glanced sideways at the other party.

"Hahaha!" Cen Yuan was afraid that the paper in his hand would be crushed, so he held it farther away with one hand, and kept the other hand hanging on the ground, "Break a big rock on his chest—he might really know how to do it. Placing him around to show you guys a show, just to let my brother see and see... Hey!"

In the middle of his speech, Yan Xuan pinched the back of his neck with one hand and pulled him back a little.

Yan Xuan said, "That's enough."

After all, he secretly hated himself for being quick to speak just now, but for actually lifting a rock to hit himself in the foot, unconsciously his face darkened, looked at the child, and said word by word: "I don't know."

The young child shivered.

"...Okay, enough, I'm joking with you guys." Cen Yuan's laugh was suddenly interrupted by Yan Xuan's action just now, he didn't even know where to put the origami in his hand, He only raised his hand to touch the back of his neck.

After a while, he spoke again, changing his joking tone: "Don't you still want to make river lanterns?"

The children came to their senses after hearing the words, stopped playing around, and followed Cen Yuan's movements to learn origami in a decent manner.Yan Xuan also asked for a piece of paper, and made river lanterns together.

The elder brother asked: "Brother is so proficient in folding, have you folded it many times before?"

"It was only folded once." Cen Yuan said, "Don't worry, it's very simple."

The children responded with "oh oh", and then asked: "Did that brother also give it to his relatives?"

Tong Yan said nothing, but Cen Yuan's movements were still almost imperceptible.

But he quickly adjusted, raised his hand and rubbed the heads of the two children: "Brother broke it for an old friend a long, long time ago."

He smiled, and with a few flips between his fingers, a delicate river lantern appeared in the palm of his hand, and the children were also attracted to it. Following his movements, two perfect river lanterns were folded out.

They each put candles in the center of the river lantern, and couldn't wait to get up and run to the river.

Cen Yuan shouted "be careful", and at the same time went to the river, put the river lantern into the water, closed his eyes, and prayed silently.

After a while, after praying, he opened his eyes and looked again, and saw that Yan Xuan had also finished setting off the river lantern, and happened to be looking at him.

As the night deepened, the moonlight became more and more prosperous, covering Yan Xuan's body, as if covering him with a hazy halo.

Suddenly, Cen Yuan turned to the two children, and asked them for two pieces of paper, and the children thanked Cen Yuan earnestly, and then ran a little further upstream.

Yan Xuan looked at the backs of the two children, and suddenly turned his gaze to Cen Yuan's hand, seeing him folding the river lantern again.

"The old man refers to..." Yan Xuan subconsciously opened his mouth to ask something, but the words he originally wanted to say were only twirled on the tip of his tongue before being swallowed back.

He turned around and asked, "Prince?"

"Prince?" Cen Yuan obviously didn't react, and he shook his head after a while, "No. How can anyone let this go in the palace, even if they let it go, they will be guarded before they float out of the palace wall with the current The soldiers at the palace wall have been fished out, how can it be passed to where it should go.”

He smiled wryly, and said, "This old man...it really happened a long, long time ago."

In fact, in the two lifetimes of Cen Yuan, he only let go of the river lantern once—that was after the death of his mother and concubine in the previous life, he let go of the river lantern alone outside the city.

Therefore, although the distance is not so far away, to him, it is already a different time and space, a long, long time ago.

Yan Xuan looked at the object in his hand: "What about this one?"

"This..." Cen Yuan elongated his tone pretending to be mysterious, and then did not answer, focusing on folding the river lantern.Not long after, two river lanterns took shape in his hands.

"Last time I was begging for a coincidence, I wanted to make a sword tassel for you, but you tied the concentric knot for me, and you gave me your mother's jade pendant afterward." Cen Yuan said, "I have taken up all the good things, but I I can't give you anything in return."

And there is a more important point, but it is the last thing to say.

No matter what the reason was for Yan Xuan, but if he hadn't recklessly led him out of Chang'an and out of the cage, I'm afraid he would still be tossing and turning alone in the mansion now.

Yan Xuan narrowed her eyes lightly: "I don't mind."

"But I don't mind." Cen Yuan said, "I don't want to always blindly accept your favors, that would be unfair to you."

Hearing this, Yan Xuan's expression darkened, and he opened his lips, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Cen Yuan had just poured down the whole jar of wine in one go, but now that the alcohol was getting stronger, he lost his original ability to react and observe. Coupled with the recent worries, he couldn't immediately detect the other party's attitude. Something is slightly wrong.

"Although I don't know if the Zheng people have the custom of releasing river lanterns, they do as the Romans do after all." He said to himself, and at the same time held Yan Xuan's hand, and put one of the river lanterns into the other's palm.

Immediately afterwards, he gently placed another river lantern on the river.

"The paper boat is simple, but I was absolutely sincere when I made it." He suddenly smiled, "Although your mother may have been reincarnated a long time ago, I still hope that the river lantern can hold me. My blessings and your thoughts are conveyed to her together."

Yan Xuan looked down at the river lantern and didn't speak for a long time.

He was not a person who would express his emotions excessively, so he quickly suppressed the inappropriate emotions just now, and then meditated for a moment in front of the river lantern, and placed it on the river.

The water waves immediately carried thoughts and blessings, and drifted away towards a place where there was no end in sight.

Cen Yuan followed Yan Xuan and knelt down with his knees hugged, watching the river lantern drift further and further away.Gradually, his gaze shifted from the river lantern to Yan Xuan's side face, and he saw the distant candlelight reflecting the other's quiet expression with thin strength, combined with the white moonlight, it seemed to outline a soft and gentle face. Zhigang's landscape painting.

Cen Yuan stared blankly for a long time, then suddenly remembered something, reached out and poked the opponent's arm.

Yan Xuan withdrew his gaze and looked at the other party.

"I still remember what you said before." Cen Yuan said, "When your mother was not giving birth to you, she would sing a song to you every day to pray for blessings?"

"En." Yan Xuan responded.

Cen Yuan asked: "Then can you sing?"

Yan Xuan nodded, and immediately shook her head sideways: "That song is sung in the language of the Zheng tribe, I don't understand it. My father sang it when I was young, but he only memorized a few lines subtly, and..."

"and?"

Yan Xuan pursed her lips, as if she didn't know what to say, before she decided to speak bluntly after a while: "Father sings very hard."

Cen Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing again.He sat down on the weeds again, pulled a blade of grass, and flicked the opponent's neck a few times.

"Little General." He called, "Then teach me how to sing."

Yan Xuan glanced at him, eyes drooping slightly: "I also sing badly."

"Do you think I would mind?" Cen Yuan smiled, "Since it is a blessing, then today is the perfect day."

Seeing that the other party's face was still sullen, Cen Yuan moved his body a few more times, sticking directly to Yan Xuan's side, tilting his head and staring at him from bottom to top, with the corners of his lips raised.

"Little General, are you okay?"

Perhaps it was because of the alcohol that even his voice became softer and softer, which made people hear a hint of coquettishness.

Yan Xuan: "..."

He sighed almost inaudibly, turned his head to look at the river lantern that had drifted far away, as if struggling for a long time, he opened his mouth slowly.

Although the surface of the river was not completely still, there was hardly any sound, and Yan Xuan's gentle singing was like gurgling water, flowing lightly.

At that moment, Cen Yuan suddenly felt as if his heart had been teased.

He couldn't understand the meaning of the lyrics, and he didn't understand the theory of music, but he simply thought that every character sung from Yan Xuan's mouth was extremely sweet, even better than the rituals and music in the palace.

——The little general is too self-deprecating, how can this be considered ugly?

He stared at the other party blankly, not even noticing that his hands were involuntarily clutching the other party's sleeves.

After singing a few words, Yan Xuan stopped, looked at the sleeves, and then glanced to the side.

"The father behind doesn't remember, and neither will I."

Cen Yuan just woke up like a dream, but there seemed to be singing echoing in his ears.

He intended to learn, but maybe the moonlight and the singing were too intoxicating, making his ears and brain buzzing and swollen so badly that he still couldn't remember his original purpose.

For a moment, he didn't know whether he was drunk or not, and why he was drunk.

The wind is clear and the moon is bright, but the temperature in this world suddenly rises, and you can feel the stuffiness of the air when you breathe.

Cen Yuan looked at Yan Xuan quietly, and suddenly, he stretched out his hand and pulled Yan Xuan towards him.