comeback [rebirth]

Before Yan Xuan could respond, the girl let out an "eh".

"Aren't you from our Zheng clan?"

Her Chinese pronunciation was very standard, and she spoke very fluently, and the two of them immediately understood what she said.

Cen Yuan asked back, "Are you from the Zheng clan?"

Although Yan Xuan had half of the Zheng clan's blood on his body, but because his mother died young, he had only heard a few broken Zheng clan languages ​​from his father since he was a child, so he didn't recognize what the girl said just now.

And at this moment, he just glanced at the girl quickly.

Although it was getting late now and they were in the outer circle, they could still clearly see each other's faces with the light of fluorescent lamps.

The girl's appearance is indeed quite different from that of the Central Plains woman, with darker eyebrows, a straight nose, and fuller lips. Even her figure is thinner and taller than that of the Central Plains woman, and she is only about three inches shorter than Cen Yuan. .

The girl nodded: "I am indeed from the Zheng tribe, and my name is Mayena, which means the sun in the language of our Zheng tribe!"

"..." Cen Yuanxin said that I didn't ask these questions, and said, "Then just now..."

He didn't say a word, and the girl—Mayena smiled at him embarrassedly, and explained: "That's the etiquette when our people greet each other. Did it scare you?"

Cen Yuan couldn't help but said, "So you know it too."

"Sorry sorry!"

Mayena put her palms together in front of her lips, and she didn't know if the gesture used by the Zheng tribe to apologize was similar to that of the Central Plains, or if the other party finally went to the countryside to do as the Romans did.She apologized several times in succession, and said embarrassingly: "It's the first time I've come to Central Plains, and it's also the first time I've seen someone wearing the same jade pendant from the Zheng clan. I'm a little excited. I'm really sorry."

"Jade pendant?" Cen Yuan replied subconsciously, but in an instant, he and Yan Xuan looked at his waist——

Although the color of the object hanging there can almost blend with the clothes on his body, it can still be clearly seen that it is a strangely shaped jade pendant.

It was the one that Yan Xuan gave when he was begging for a coincidence.

Cen Yuan pursed his lips tightly, apparently not knowing what to say, and finally said after a while: "Don't you all confirm each other's identity before saying hello?"

Could it be that when you meet a person wearing Yupei, you go up and say hello by touching your forehead to the tip of your nose? !

Meyerna gave him a playful smile: "I will definitely not next time!"

It is said that you don't reach out to hit people with smiling faces. The other party said so, and this is the custom of others, so Cen Yuan can't criticize anything.What's more, meeting a fellow countryman in another country is a rare and exciting thing, and he can understand it after thinking about it.

Besides, he wasn't angry at all, it was just...

What if the little general has unnecessary misunderstandings!

So at this moment, he paused, and forcefully raised his voice to "cough": "Don't do this again in the future! If you meet someone with a heart, you will be the one who will suffer."

"Got it, thank you." Meyena smiled again, her eyes almost narrowed, and she turned the topic back to the jade pendant: "You are not from the Zheng tribe, so what's the matter with this jade pendant? "

Ever since Yan Xuan gave this jade pendant on the day of Qiqiao, Cen Yuan almost never let it go, and only took it off when he bathed and slept.As soon as he finished changing his clothes just now, he was the first to put the jade back on his waist.

——I can have nothing, except this jade pendant.

He held up the jade pendant, stroked the totem of the Zheng clan on the surface, and thought to himself: Although Yan Xuan had given the jade pendant to him, after all, the matter was related to Yan Xuan's private affairs, so he couldn't answer it on his behalf.So he only glanced at Yan Xuan.

The latter did not shy away: "I sent it."

Hearing this, Meyerna quickly turned her attention to him.

Perhaps because she didn't want the other party to come to greet her again, Yan Xuan took a small step back indistinctly after answering, but Meyerna didn't notice.

——The moment she looked at Yan Xuan, she took back the short playfulness just now, and immediately showed a shyness and embarrassment on her face, and even under the halo of the fluorescent lamp, she could see that her cheeks were slightly flushed crimson.

She didn't step forward to do anything without authorization, but lowered her voice: "But you didn't understand what I said just now, did you?"

Yan Xuan said succinctly: "There are relatives who are members of the Zheng tribe."

Meyerna said "Oh": "I see!"

Fortunately, her recklessness at the beginning was really just because she was too excited. Now she clearly knew that it was someone else's private matter to go deeper, so she knew it better and didn't ask any more, but for a moment, there was still a flash of regret on her face.

But this regret came and went quickly, and after a while, she returned to her original appearance, and even the gaze that wandered over the two became meaningful.

Immediately afterwards, she changed the topic: "Only when the people of the Zheng clan give tokens of love, will they give the jade pendant engraved with the totem of the Zheng clan—or the jade pendant engraved with their own hands, to each other. You..."

"We are married!" Cen Yuan immediately connected.

He was on the side just now, enough to have a panoramic view of Meyena's look when she looked at Yan Xuan, and it was not the first time he had seen that look - after all, Yan Xuan usually walked on the street in daylight, throwing flowers and flattering everything , The number of people who blushed secretly from watching them is even more uncountable!

He could see in an instant what this girl was thinking about his little general, and he felt so alert that for a moment, he didn't even consider whether his answer would reveal his identity.

However, Meyena obviously didn't know much about the Daning royal family's news, and she just looked surprised after hearing his words: "But you are all men."

"So what if they're both men," Cen Yuan said, "Da Ning has never stipulated that men who are both men cannot marry."

Mayena stared at them unabashedly for a long time, and suddenly said with emotion: "When I was at home before, I heard that the folk customs of Daning were open, but after entering Daning, I was chatting with people in the wine shop, and finally Knowing that most women in Daning live deep in their boudoirs, and don't even have the right to choose a husband in their own hands, I still feel a little strange."

She paused, and then said: "However, today I saw that everyone, regardless of gender, danced, drank and had fun together, and the same men were able to get married. It made me change my mind."

Cen Yuan knew very little about the Zheng Clan, and almost all of his knowledge came from Yan Xuan, so he didn't understand these things.His tense nerves relaxed a little: "If members of the Zheng clan are men, can't they get married?"

"That's right." Meyena leaned against the wooden railing erected on the side, she also held a wine bag in her hand, pulled out the cork and took a sip, "It is said that a long time ago, when our Zheng people belonged to multiple tribes, Before the reunification, there were men of the same sex who were discovered to be in an affair, were sentenced to the stake, and were burned to death... oh."

Cen Yuan was inconvenient to comment, so he didn't say much, and Yan Xuan habitually kept silent.

Meyerna immediately continued to spit on her own: "Bah, bah, bah, what a bad thing to say, but this unlucky thing."

Cen Yuan: "..."

"However, to be honest, although I am also against many customs of our clan, I have to admit that we are better than you." Meyerna said, "For example, men are not allowed to marry concubines, and for example ..."

She stopped suddenly, and moved closer to Yan Xuan who had been silent all this time, even her tone became gentle again, and she laughed heartily: "An Ge, what's your name?"

"An Ge" is a title in the Zheng language—and both Cen Yuan and Yan Xuan happen to know that it is a nickname for a Zheng woman's lover.

Two people: "..."

Before Yan Xuan could speak, Cen Yuan coughed heavily again, and pulled him behind him: "An Ge, what An Ge, he is not your lover!"

Yan Xuan was pulled back half a step, and when she lowered her eyes, her eyes just fell on the back of Cen Yuan's right ear, and the reddish ear tip of the other party could be seen at a glance.

He paused, temporarily swallowed back what he was going to say, only lowered his head and pressed his lips together, without making a sound.

Mayena wondered: "You don't understand the Zheng people's language."

"Don't let me just understand this word!" Cen Yuan said.

"Then you don't know much, this word doesn't just mean a lover." Meyerna laughed, and looked over Cen Yuan to look at Yan Xuan, "Zheng women are not as restrained as Central Plains women, if you fancy someone, I will directly use this word to address it, which means..."

She leaned forward and whispered, "She wants to pursue that man."

Yan Xuan: "..."

"..." The corners of Cen Yuan's mouth twitched, he couldn't get his hands on it directly, so he had to take a small step to the side to block Mayena's sight.

"First of all, he and I formally worshiped our parents, I forbid." He rolled up his sleeves and counted with his fingers, "Secondly, didn't you just say that Zheng clan men are not allowed to marry concubines!"

"Yeah." Meyena nodded her head as a matter of course, "But you are not from the Zheng clan, and I just don't mind."

"I—" Cen Yuan choked on her words, unable to answer for a while.In this gap, he suddenly caught a low laugh behind him amidst the continuous music around him.

He turned his head and saw that Yan Xuan had just put away the teasing on his face, and rejected Meyena flatly: "Sorry, I have no intention of marrying a concubine."

Meyerna said: "In case there will be one in the future."

Yan Xuan said, "Never."

Cen Yuan felt his heart skip a beat.

He vaguely remembered that he had heard Yan Xuan say similar things before, but at that time he still cared about teasing the other party, but now he only felt his cheeks were hot, his Adam's apple was moving, and he couldn't say a word .

After a while, he cleared his throat and turned to Meyena, but his voice was much louder: "In short, don't call me by that title again!"

"Okay, since you said that, I won't shout." Meyerna was kind and spread her hands indifferently: "But I have already told you my name on my own initiative, and you people from the Central Plains often say courtesy, so you have to report it Let’s name it. Although we had some oolongs today, we will be friends when we meet again in Jianghu.”

Seeing that the other party was so forthright, it seemed a bit pretentious to refuse, so Cen Yuan replied: "My surname is Yuan, he..."

Meyerna was waiting for the second half of the sentence, when she saw him stop suddenly, she tilted her head in doubt.

"His surname is also Yuan." After a while, Cen Yuan said, "After all, we are married, so I have my surname."

Yan Xuan: "..."

Meyerna froze for a moment, and immediately said "Wow", she didn't know what she was sighing.

She leaned back against the railing, tilted to the side to avoid Cen Yuan who was blocking her view, and winked directly at the person behind him: "Then Yuan Lang, if you change your mind, come to Nanxi Restaurant to find me. Live in a Tianzihao room."

Cen Yuan: "..."

farewell.

Out of politeness, he finally said goodbye to the other party, and without further ado, he grabbed Yan Xuan and left.

Behind Meyena laughed twice, satisfied, and then took another sip of wine, and returned to the crowd that was still singing and dancing.

·

Now that the time has passed, there are obviously fewer people on the outskirts of the downtown area, no longer jostling each other, and there are fewer obstacles in walking.

Yang Qi, who was stationed at the entrance, was talking to another soldier to refresh his mind. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw two familiar faces passing by. Before he could call for someone, he couldn't even see his back.

Yang Qi: "?"

It wasn't until the soldiers at the side called him that he suddenly looked away, thinking that he might be a little sleepy, as if he saw someone who looked like the Second Highness and Lord Yan flying past.

The Second Highness, who flew past, was not sleepy at all.

It was only one street away from the busy city, and there were only watchmen on the road gradually, and wild cats and dogs who sneaked out to fetch food in the middle of the night.

When returning home at night, if Cen Yuan saw him, he would often go to a nearby restaurant to buy some food to feed him, but now he seemed to have no time to take care of it.

Yan Xuan exerted a little force on his hand: "What's the rush?"

Cen Yuan was slowed down by him all of a sudden, seeing that the lights projected from the busy city were already far away, he let out a sigh of relief: "Hiding ghosts."

Yan Xuan closed her eyes halfway, and then smiled silently.

"You're still laughing, why haven't I seen you laughing so much before?" Cen Yuan narrowed his eyes at him, "Is the girl from the other family very happy?"

Yan Xuan didn't say a word, just moved her fingers slightly, and dunked them into the opponent's fingers one by one.

He rubbed the back of Cen Yuan's finger with the pulp of his thumb, his tone was completely different from the strict one just now.

"Not for someone else's girl."

——I am very happy, but not for someone else's girl.

Cen Yuan snorted slightly.

He was led by Yan Xuan to walk step by step, whispering: "Is it fun to tease me?"

Yan Xuan gave him a squinting look: "Your Highness, this is confusing right and wrong."

"If you want me to say..." Cen Yuan turned around and rubbed his face, "You are just arrogant."

Yan Xuan let the other party eat a handful of tofu, eyes slightly curved, but did not speak.

The lanterns on the side of the road are not as dazzling as fluorescent lamps, but only emit a circle of dim yellow light to the adjacent area.The edge of the aperture casts a shadow on Yan Xuan's half-covered eyes, making the eyes at the intersection of light and dark look more meaningful than usual.

Cen Yuan curled up his pinched fingers.

He muttered something in a low voice that he couldn't hear clearly, and turned his eyes away.

After a while, after crossing a bridge, he said: "It's so late, Uncle Liu should have rested long ago."

"Nine times out of ten." Yan Xuan said.

Cen Yuan stopped slowly, and pointed to the courtyard wall beside him: "Then don't bother, let's go in by ourselves."

Yan Xuan: "..."

After a while.

Cen Yuan sat on the top of the wall and waved to the outside: "Little General, do you want me to pull you up?"

His voice was extremely low, as if he was secretly connecting with someone.

"..." Yan Xuan, who was "connecting", cast a helpless look at him, then lightly touched the ground, and the next moment passed Cen Yuan and appeared in the courtyard, only the branches and leaves standing on the courtyard wall moved a little bit.

Cen Yuan made a "tsk", turned around and said, "Then follow me."

As soon as the words fell, he jumped up.

Compared with when he was a child, now Cen Yuan can land on the ground steadily without being picked up by anyone, but now he said that on purpose, Yan Xuan also stretched out his hand directly towards him.

Almost at the moment when he grasped that hand, Cen Yuan moved his fingertips slightly, and in the blink of an eye, he heard a piece of cloth rubbing against each other—the two exchanged positions, and Cen Yuan directly pressed the other party against the wall, and raised his head to kiss him.