comeback [rebirth]

Yan Xuan was calm on the surface, but his heart skipped a beat.

He subconsciously thought: Did he expose something again?

Although he paid off all the silver resolutely, the house deed cannot be completed in a short while, and it will take some time.Moreover, the mansion has not been tidied up yet, and he still has something to prepare first.

Obviously, now is not a good time to tell.

He thought for a moment, then took off the saber at his waist as if casually, put it on the stone table, sat down and said: "Well, what's wrong?"

Cen Yuan didn't respond for a moment.

He looked down at the other party, his eyes narrowed in a subtle arc.

— not right.

This little general is upright, and he has never been a person who can tell lies.

When I was young, whenever I got up and broke something, or accidentally made a mess, I would find ways to get Yan Xuan to help cover it up.However, every time this "accomplice" agrees, he agrees quite decisively and simply, and people can see the clues in a blink of an eye.

After all, as long as this little general wants to hide some secret on purpose, he will turn his eyes away and try to hide it like this, almost writing the words "I have a secret but I just won't tell it" on his forehead, no matter the source of the secret. Whether to be coerced or voluntarily.

Therefore, when Cen Yuan took a look at this moment, he knew that this person had a ghost in his heart, not to mention how this altar looked like wine for apologizing, and...

When he was just going out, he happened to see the other party coming out of the bank in a hurry.

After returning home, he went up to the roof, also in order to occasionally glance in the direction of the gate.Before he caught sight of Yan Xuan's figure, a long time had passed, even so long that he had finished eating a large plate of fruit by himself.

——It is a lie to say that you go back to your home directly after you come back from the school grounds.

However, if this is the case, Cen Yuan also knows that this little general will definitely not do anything illegal, and if it is a serious matter, the little general will definitely not hide it - this is what the little general has told him before passed.

It can only be a private matter if it is so concealed.

Cen Yuan didn't really want to get to the bottom of it, he and Yan Xuan were not inseparable, they had to be together all day long, and there was nothing wrong with each of them having private matters, not to mention that he still had the secret of rebirth in his heart .

In the past, such a trivial matter would not have caused him to have other emotions, or he would laugh it off, or jokingly uncover the cover of the other party's inferiority, but it will not be like this now——

He actually sensed a sense of distance.

Perhaps it was because he kept seeing the same dream recently, in which a familiar figure was always facing away from him, clearly within reach, but seemed out of reach.

This also reminded him of the scene in his previous life when the two were separated by horses and horses outside Chang'an City, at Anxi Bridge.

He felt dazed, and also felt unreasonable fear for a moment.

but……

Since they were not standing in the shadows, the sun was overwhelming and cast down, which soon caused Cen Yuan to squint his eyes.But even so, Yan Xuan's side face was always close at hand and clearly visible, unlike the hazy and fuzzy one that night.

Cen Yuan blinked, and moved his fingertips.

The next moment, he touched the opponent's with the wine cup, raised his head and drank the wine, and took a sip.

The wine has a mellow aroma, but he said: "I feel that the best wine I have drunk so far is millet."

Yan Xuan also drank a cup together, without saying a word, instead, Cen Yuan picked up his previous question: "It's nothing, I just thought that if you came back from the school directly, you must not have time to eat, I asked you to The chef has prepared some food, and it is a good time to pair with wine."

Yan Xuan said "Yes", and Cen Yuan simply asked the servants in the mansion to bring the dishes to the stone table.

After the food was served and everyone left, Yan Xuan asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Not yet." Cen Yuan said, "I'm thinking about waiting for you to come back."

Yan Xuan frowned, apparently disapproving of his approach: "Next time, eat first."

"It's not too late." Cen Yuan said nonchalantly, "I originally thought that if you didn't come back in a while, I'd eat first. Could it be that you still expect me to wait for you for dinner?"

Yan Xuan shook his head silently and smiled, but did not answer.

The pile of fruit was still in his stomach, Cen Yuan felt a little full now, and moved his chopsticks slowly, almost only drinking.He said frankly: "I went to Mingpanlou in the morning, and then went to the pier."

Yan Xuan glanced at him: "Is it about Cui Yu'er to go to Mingpanlou?"

"Yes." Cen Yuan said.

After hearing from the Yue brothers that someone had seen Cui Yu'er in a restaurant before, they thought that if they had spare time, they would go to the restaurant to inquire about it.But thanks to the prince of Chu who loves singing and dancing, Danlin County is full of dancing and music venues, and singing and dancing must be accompanied by two pots of wine, so everywhere can be called "restaurants".

After roughly counting the restaurants here, Cen Yuan found that the number even exceeds Chang'an, not to mention there are some small towns that are not in the center of the county.

When it rained a few days ago, they were not happy to go to other places, so they randomly found two or three restaurants to hang out, but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, and they failed to find any clues.

Today, while Yan Xuan was going to the school grounds, Cen Yuan randomly picked another restaurant that had been open since the morning.

Yan Xuan asked, "Did you drink?"

This question...as if the peach wine in front of them fell from the sky!

"..." However, despite this, Cen Yuan still felt that he had been ridiculed.He said, "Why did you eat a whole plate of fruit when I came back?"

Not all for tea!

Yan Xuan laughed in a low voice, instead of holding on to this question, she took the initiative to pour a glass of wine for the other party, and then suddenly said: "It seems to be rewarding."

Cen Yuan had a half-smile, neither admitted nor denied, just said: "There were few people in the morning, and I happened to meet a foreigner who claimed to be traveling in Daning. He seemed to be drunk, and he grabbed me and complained about the people in this county. Singing and dancing are not enjoyable enough, they are not as addictive as restaurants in the suburbs.”

Yan Xuan paused, put the wine jar back on the stone table after an instant, and made a soft "boom", and at this moment Cen Yuan said again: "Of course I asked him which restaurant made Xiongtai do this. Lingering, he told me, it was a place called Qingbaolou in the suburbs."

Hearing this, Yan Xuan glanced at him.

"Don't look at me with that look." Cen Yuan immediately said, "The name of this Qingbaolou sounds like a brothel, but it is actually very serious. It is said that the old prince, who is the father of the current King of Chu, came to Chu after being entrusted. It was established in the time of the kingdom, which is older than you and me."

Yan Xuan said, "It should be more than that."

"Smart." Cen Yuan smiled suddenly, and while drinking, he continued: "Since then, Qingbaolou has been focusing on singing and dancing. Mothers, girls with no family and no place to go, taught them the knowledge of ritual and music from an early age, and let them practice singing and dancing."

Yan Xuan just kept silent after hearing this, but Cen Yuan knew that he must have understood the key point.

After a while, Yan Xuan asked, "Where is this Qingbaolou?"

Cen Yuan pointed behind himself: "Go out the back door of Changyou Mansion, a place with more incense sticks."

Yan Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly, and heard Cen Yuan add: "It's not riding a horse, it's walking."

As his voice faded, the surroundings fell into silence again.Suddenly, a wave of wild geese flying past appeared in the sky above the south of the Yangtze River, and their singing sounded through the sky.

Yan Xuan stroked the side of the wine cup with one hand, and said, "What a coincidence?"

Cen Yuan said, "What a coincidence."

They finished all the words in a few words, Cen Yuan drank a few glasses of wine, not only felt that his stomach was almost full of water, but also a little drunk, so he took the initiative to put down the wine cup.

"Anyway, I'm going to have a look." He said, "Now that someone has delivered it to us, why not do it."

Yan Xuan was noncommittal, and then asked again: "What about the pier?"

Naturally, there are several large and small piers in Danlin County. Except for one main pier, the rest of the small pier basically provide ferry services connecting with the mainland, as well as docking for some small pleasure boats.

But Cen Yuan went to the main pier.

He took out two small wooden plaques from his pocket and put them on the table, and saw "Nine Fourth" and "Ninth Five" respectively engraved in small seal characters.

"The number plate of the cruise ship." He said, "When I came out of Mingpan Building, I just heard the shopkeeper mention that this cruise ship can only carry a hundred people a day, and the number plate is issued at noon every day. I looked at it. It turned out that it was a quarter of noon when I got there, and found that the number plates were almost sold out, so I quickly got two yuan."

They thought before that since the King of Chu specifically mentioned the cruise ship during the dinner, and they also came here under the pretext of traveling, it seemed unreasonable not to go there.It's just that it rained a few days ago, so they didn't go, it's a coincidence today.

Yan Xuan glanced at the sign: "Can one get two yuan?"

"Of course not." Cen Yuan said casually, "I had a hard time with the person in charge at the pier, and threatened that if I didn't give it to me, I would jump into the river on the spot, and turn into a ghost at night to go to them to settle accounts. They gave it to me only when they were afraid. "

Yan Xuan: "..."

"I was just joking with you, so I believe it?" Cen Yuan couldn't hold back his smile, while reaching out to lift one corner of Yan Xuan's mouth, "Well, so I am like this in your heart."

Yan Xuan tore off his nonsense hand, and replied without changing his face: "If you really succeed in fooling me, I'm afraid there will be many more souls at the bottom of the Yuanhe River."

The implication is that this kind of words can be known as nonsense as soon as you hear it, and it is impossible to believe it, at most it is just speechless.

Cen Yuan was taken aback for a moment, and immediately laughed even more presumptuously.

"I didn't see it, little general." He said between laughter, "You can still joke."

Yan Xuan didn't reply to his teasing, only the ends of his eyes and brows slightly curved.

"Okay, okay, I won't play with you anymore." After a while, Cen Yuan laughed enough, and confessed honestly: "It is estimated that the king of Chu has already said hello to them, I just told them their names and looked at their badges. It’s just that the person in charge originally said that we should go directly when the time comes in the afternoon, but I said I wanted to keep the wooden sign as a souvenir, so I took two yuan.”

Yan Xuan's guess is also close to ten.

"Then how about you going to the school grounds today?" Cen Yuan turned to ask, "But since it's all released for you to see, I guess there won't be any problem."

Yan Xuan said: "Looking at the list in August, there are already a few more people than in July."

Cen Yuan didn't understand what was going on, so he asked, "What's the normal situation?"

"Normally, there is a peak period in the first one or two months, and then it gradually decreases." Yan Xuan said, "But there are occasional exceptions."

"That's where there's no clarity."

Cen Yuan simply ate a few more mouthfuls and didn't even want to move his chopsticks. He moved his seat and lay down on the rattan chair, continuing to cook a salted fish basking in the sun.

"What's the situation of the extra people?" He even felt a little overwhelmed, and even his brain was a little savvy, and it took him a while to realize, "Oh no, I don't know who the 'extra' people should be."

It's a pity that he didn't intervene in this matter in his last life, let alone check the list, otherwise he could still serve as a reference now.

At the stone table, Yan Xuan had almost finished eating, put down his chopsticks and said, "Among the people in August, there are a few people with outstanding qualifications."

Cen Yuan turned his head to look at him: "What about the first few months?"

"Compared with previous years, it is more ordinary." Yan Xuan said.

Cen Yuan thought to himself, the issue of each individual's aptitude is the same as the increase or decrease in the number of soldiers every month, there are too many unstable factors, it is difficult for anyone to say whether this is man-made or accidental.

But it has been like this for several months, isn't it a bit too coincidental?

He thought about this question and didn't speak for a while, and because he was a little drunk, he could almost fall asleep while lying down.

After a while, Yan Xuan over there suddenly asked: "You said just now that it's time to go directly in the afternoon... what time is it?"

"It seems to be uncorrected." Cen Yuan was startled awake, "What's wrong?"

"..." Yan Xuan cast a helpless look at him, "It's the third quarter of the hour."

In other words, there was only a quarter of an hour left before the cruise ship had to set off.

Cen Yuan: "..."