I write a eulogy every day for the person beside my pillow

Xiao Lue did something crazy that night. He used to care about Li Li's feelings. Although Li Li always tried his best to restrain any expressions, Xiao Lue could always accurately detect whether Li Li was comfortable or uncomfortable, and adjusted accordingly. Rhythm.

Before Li Li fell asleep, Xiao Huan was holding Li Li's hand, enjoying and kneading it with a full face.

"Li'er, the way you talk about love today is really touching."

Li Li withdrew his hand indifferently. If his face can be measured, then this person's face is probably thicker than the bricks and stones of the city wall.

Xiao Huan grabbed Li Li's hand back without hesitation, and asked: "Do you only want to sleep with me, and not anyone else?"

"Xiao Lue, there is no difference between you and the people I want to kill," Li Li closed his eyes, and said in a tone without any ups and downs.

Xiao Luan choked for a moment, but it was obvious that he was not frightened, and his tone was quite arrogant, "But you can't kill me now, after all, I am the only person you can rely on here."

Li Li's speechless appearance made Xiao Luan very happy.

"Xutu said that seeing you, a beautiful man, pleases me so much, he also wants to try sleeping with a man," Xiao Lie said casually, but he was explaining what Li Li misunderstood at the banquet just now, "he He said that there are many beauties in the south of the Yangtze River, and in the future when his iron hooves flatten the south of the Yangtze River, he will ask me to be the host and invite him to experience a manly style."

"Xiao Lue," Li Li opened his eyes suddenly, and said silently with his mouth, "Xutu's ambition goes beyond the frontier. Jiangnan is a piece of fat in his eyes. Do you really think he will give it up?"

"Of course not, I understand his ambition." Xiao Lie leaned close to Li Li's ear, his lips brushed the fluff on the earlobe vaguely, "Being an alliance with him is like seeking skin with a tiger."

"It's good that you have self-knowledge."

Xiao Lue gave a lazily "hmm".

Li Li frowned, and was about to ask Xiao Lue when he would end his hypocrisy with Xu Tu, "Are you going to..."

The earlobe was suddenly caught and licked by Xiao Luan.

Li Li couldn't bear this kind of stimulation, he twisted his body to push him away, but his waist was tightly bound by that man, Xiao Lian hugged him so tightly, as if he wanted to rub him into his body.

"Li'er, remember to stay in your room these days and don't go out."

"...Why?" Li Li asked pantingly. Although his freedom is currently restricted, he can walk around within the watchful range of the defenders.

"You're so smart, you might as well make a guess." Xiao Pun kissed Li Li's lips.

The fatigue of the night left Li Li with no time to think. During the day, Xiao Lue was invited by Xu Tu to inspect the barracks, so Li Li had time to patiently ponder Xiao Lue's warning.

Xiao Luan told him not to go out of the room, because there was something outside the room that he was afraid of, or something outside the room was afraid of his appearance.

It had been more than three months since Li Li was arrested here, Li Li was already familiar with the layout of the barracks in the Xutu Fortress and the people who came and went, and there was nothing that scared him.

Excluding the former, the rest is close to the truth.

There is something or someone outside, and Li Li's appearance or not is very important to him, and in the end it is related to Li Li's own safety.

Chi Yue came to visit Li Li at noon, and she took care of Li Li's meals.

Chiyue is Xutu's concubine in name, so many guards here dare not do anything to her.

There are many concubines of Xutu, and Chiyue is not his favorite one, which gives Chiyue great convenience to visit Li Li.

"Chiyue, has anyone come to the city recently?"

Xu Tu ordered the city gates to be closed, and anyone without a warrant to open the city would not be allowed to enter or leave. Therefore, once someone entered the city, they should attract a lot of attention.

Chi Yue can walk around a wider area than Li Li, so Li Li tried to get some information from Chi Yue.

Chi Yue really had news that Li Li needed, she nodded excitedly and said: "Yes, there are... missions, slaves will take them and stay at the posthouse."

Chi Yue's Chinese has improved, but Li Li never taught her the word "stay".

"The mission from Lan Chao, do they want to see Xu Tu?"

"Yes, a truce," Chi Yue said with an innocent smile on her face, "Turn...fights into friendship."

This girl can speak more and more vocabulary. Li Li has taught her for so long, but she has not improved so fast.

"Well," Li Li glanced at Chi Yue, "Who do you have a good relationship with in the mission?"

"Okay?"

Li Li said helplessly, "Who talks to you the most?"

"A guest surnamed Deng," Chi Yue recalled with a smile, "about 20 years old, always bowing to slaves, talking gruntly, very cute."

According to Chiyue's description, this person should be Deng Pan, the son of Deng Ming, the speech official of the court. Deng Ming is an official of Huang Zhengqian's lineage.

Deng Pan was much calmer than his father. He had been promoted by Huang Zhengqian in the past few years, and his official career went smoothly. This time he joined the mission probably to increase his political achievements.

Li Li has no extra opinions on Deng Pan, but he feels that Chi Yue seems to be overly enthusiastic about this young talent from the Lan Dynasty.

"Do you like him?" Li Li said bluntly.

"Don't talk nonsense." Chi Yue blushed and tried to deny it, "I think he is a friend, he can tell stories, there are many, many stories about Jiangnan."

In my impression, Deng Pan is a boring gourd, the legitimate son of other people, there are many people who marry wives and have children at the age of 20, no matter how bad it is, they should make a marriage early.

But because of Deng Pan's dull and reticent temperament, all the noble women in Beijing think he is boring, and they have not been able to talk about marriage so far.

Deng Pan will take the initiative to talk to Chiyue. Could it be that Deng Pan is interested in Chiyue first?

"Chiyue, when you get along with him, he has a way out, but you don't. You have to think about this clearly."

"I know." Chi Yue replied in a low voice, she just called Deng Pan a friend, but now it is a tacit gesture.

Chi Yue is not good at hiding herself, and Li Li sees that she also belongs to Deng Pan, and he only hopes that she will not suffer in the process.

Li Li stopped talking deeply, and asked instead: "The leader of the mission, have you seen his face clearly?"

While recalling, Chi Yue said slowly: "A middle-aged man with two beards, neither fat nor thin..."

These statements are too general, "What characteristics does he have?"

"That's right," Chi Yue suddenly remembered, "His left foot is difficult to walk on."

Li Li understood who she was referring to, Liu Shi, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry. This man fell from a horse and broke his leg when he was a child, and became disabled. He walked uncoordinated left and right.

But in the capital, no one dared to laugh at Liu Shi. First, Liu Shi's father, Liu Wengu, was the prime minister of the current dynasty, with power in the court and the public; Liu Shi is the mainstay of the Liu family, and also an important supporter behind King Rui.

In this mission, there are Huang faction that supports the crown prince and Liu faction that supports King Rui. Such a composition is in line with the usual style of Li Li's father.

Li Li's father, Emperor Lan Chaoheng, was obsessed with the emperor's mind, and he knew how to check and balance for many years. The struggle between the Liu family and the Huang family was already on the table, but Hengdi still pretended to be a peacemaker. In this way, his seat as the emperor is secure.

Even though the struggle between the two factions is constantly consuming the national power of the Lan Dynasty, Emperor Heng is still indifferent.

But from what Chi Yue said, the two factions in the mission got along well and there was no discord. Li Li felt that the purpose of this mission should be in line with the common interests of the two factions.

As a member of the royal family, how could Li Li fail to see clearly that although the Liu and Huang families said they were loyal to the emperor, they were actually planning for their own family.

Xutu's continuous invasion of the border and the retreat of the Lan Dynasty army made the two big families feel a sense of crisis. They had never paid attention to Xutu before, but this time they rushed to Xutu's territory eagerly. .

The so-called "truce" and "turning hostility into jade" are just nice words. Xutu is a wild beast, and he either raises his weapon to drive him away, or throws him a piece of fat to let him return to his lair temporarily.

How could the Liu and Huang families waste a lot of gold and silver to support Emperor Heng to purge the army.At present, the quickest and most effective way is to cut off the land and pay compensation to Xu Tu.

Li Li smiled mockingly, thinking that these people might not know that King Ning Xiao Lian is also a guest here at Xutu.

What a lively scene.

"Yuan Ke," Chi Yue's voice awakened Li Li's contemplation, and she hesitated for a moment, "Mr. Deng asked Nu about a person, and that person and his...companion got lost here, are you Yuan Ke?"

"Then did you tell him?" Li Li neither admitted nor denied, but asked back with a calm expression.

Chi Yue shook her head, "Don't tell, you agree, I'll tell."

After getting along for so long, Chi Yue never asked Li Li's name, and always called him "Yuan Ke Yuan Ke". She was not curious if Li Li didn't say anything.

She was such a considerate girl, so her answer was completely within Li Li's expectation.

"Don't tell him I exist."

"Relax, Yuanke."

Chi Yue stayed for a while and was about to go out. When she left, she said to Li Li nervously: "Young Master Deng asked for others, he is not bad."

Li Li waved his hand, "Got it, he's not bad."

Chi Yue breathed a sigh of relief, and gently closed the door for Li Li.

Li Li stayed in the room alone until the food Chi Yue sent was so cold that he didn't want to take a bite.

Deng Pan probably didn't know that the person he was investigating on his behalf was the fourteenth prince who had "died in battle".

Brother Huang committed the scandal of betraying his own brother, wishing that as few people as possible would know about it, it would be impossible to disclose it to Deng Pan who was outside the core.

But Brother Huang must be eager to know whether his brother is dead or not.

It would be best if he died. If he didn't die, then Deng Pan's task is to give himself a knife.Even if Deng Pan recognized him at that time, he would kill Li Li for the sake of His Royal Highness's reputation and future career.

Li Li was not worried that after Deng Pan asked Chi Yue, he would ask other people.With Liu Shi present, Deng Pan was afraid of being caught by the prince, so he would not dare to publicize it.

Li Li considered for a while whether he should contact Liu Shi secretly. Liu Shi would be very happy to see him and help him get out of here.

His existence is bound to deal a heavy blow to the prince's party. If King Rui makes good use of it, the court may be turned upside down.

In the end, Li Li gave up this option.

He is not interested in being King Rui's pawn, nor does he want to die with the prince.

After calculation and calculation, the result is exactly as Xiao Luan said, it is the most appropriate for Li Li to stay in the room and not go out.

Li Li suddenly had the illusion that Xiao Lue was prying into his heart, and he couldn't help wondering whether this guy only saw the surface layer, or really figured out his thoughts so thoroughly.

Thinking of this, Li Li felt extremely annoyed for no reason.

Xiao Luan didn't return for ten days, the guards were very strict and couldn't find any information at all.

Perhaps Xiao Luan had already been slaughtered by Xu.

When trapped in the room, this thought flashed through Li Lixian's mind.

It's really cheap for him.Li Li smiled lightly.

The food was removed after an hour, and Li Li only took a few mouthfuls.

Ten days later, Xiao Luan still had no news, but Chi Yue came to Li Li hurriedly and nervously.

"Yuan Ke, the mission is leaving the day after tomorrow, Mr. Deng said that there is a way to take this slave away, so you can go with this slave."

Chi Yue speaks Chinese very fluently.

Li Li thought for a while, but did not directly answer whether he would go with Chi Yue, but asked: "Deng Pan treats you sincerely?"

"Yeah." Chi Yue's eyes were red, "He knows everything about this slave, he promised to marry this slave, and take him to see the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River."

"What's his plan?"

"I know that Xutu is very busy these days, and I don't have the mind to take care of it. We can take advantage of the chaos and go out of the city with the entourage of the mission. No one will find out."

"Do you believe Deng Pan's promise to you?" Li Li still didn't say his answer, but persistently asked Chi Yue's true intentions.

"Except for Yuan Ke, he is the man I trust the most in my life." Chi Yue swore, and even knelt down in front of Li Li.

Li Li helped Chi Yue up. Now that the matter has come to an end, he has nothing to say, "Since you trust him, then I will trust him once. Chi Yue, protect yourself on the way."

"Guest, don't you want to go?" Chi Yue asked in a daze.

Li Li said nothing, not saying was his answer.

"...Guest, take care." Chi Yue knelt down again, kowtowed three times, wiped away the tears on her face and left.

That night, Li Li was disturbed by a nightmare, and when he woke up, he found that the candles in the room were still on, and Xiao Luan was sitting by the bed, staring at him with a smile on his face. The whole body is full of dust.

Oh, it turned out he wasn't dead.

Li Li glanced at him, rolled up the quilt and turned his back to him, closing his eyes.

"Li'er is so good," Xiao Huan said to himself, "I have stayed in the room for the past few days, so I missed the chance to escape."

Li Li opened his eyes again and sat up, "What do you want to say?"

"I want to reward you." Xiao Luan pulled Li Li closer and pressed his forehead together. He took off a wolf tooth hanging around his neck and handed it to Li Li.

The wolf tooth was still warm, Li Li's hand was held, only to hear Xiao Lun say: "My mother is not a good person, but my father has remembered her all his life, are you?"

"No." Li Li said bluntly.

As if hearing something interesting, Xiao Luan laughed for a long time, then he put away his smile and said to Li Li: "The night after tomorrow, take this wolf tooth to the owner of Chengdong Restaurant, and someone will give it to you. To the palace of King Ning in southern Yunnan."

Li Li's heart stirred up waves, he pretended to be calm and said, "What if we meet the guards?"

"There won't be a single one. They received an order to gather at Xutu's main camp the night after tomorrow."

Li Li noticed something hidden in Xiao Huan's words.

Xiao Lue was "invited" to this city by Xutu by accident, so it is impossible to establish the line of restaurant owner in just a few days. a way out.

But now, he doesn't want this retreat.

Li Li suddenly raised his head and stared into the man's deep eyes, "Xiao Lue, you really intend to form an alliance with Xutu."