054 “Drunken Bones (Guyan 1v1 High H)” Old Friend

After Xie Ciyan’s injury was healed for a few days, most of it was already healed. Only the more serious ribs needed to be carefully nursed for a while, but it was nothing serious.

In the past few days, whether because of his withdrawn personality or because he deliberately avoided them, the old man was almost invisible. He pounded the herbs and placed them outside the door every day. He even placed the daily meals outside the door at regular intervals, but he never knocked on their door once.This made Xie Ciyan’s suspicion even more serious. If two strangers suddenly appeared in front of his house and were injured, the owner was not afraid at all. He didn’t even have the intention to drive them away, and he didn’t ask questions. He just let these two people live in his house.

The old man has never inquired about their identities, and has never probed them even through insinuations. Isn’t he afraid that the two of them are important criminals of the imperial court, or targets of being hunted, which will implicate himself?

Unless, he knew their identities from the beginning.

But how?They were all wearing riding attire that day, and they had nothing on them to identify themselves. The elderly would probably not recognize them from their clothing.

Yan Zhaozhao took two bowls of porridge from outside the door and put them on the table, then picked up a bowl of porridge and sat next to Xie Ciyan.As usual, she scooped up a spoonful of porridge, put it to her lips and blew it to cool it down before feeding it to the mouth of the man who was still thinking about something.

Xie Ciyan suddenly came back to his senses when his lips were touched lightly. After seeing her actions, his eyebrows softened, and there was a clear smile in his eyes.”Zhaozhao looks like this now…” He said teasingly, just wanting to tease her.”She really looks like a good wife and mother.”

Yan Zhaozhao wasn’t angry when he heard this, she just glanced at him and passed the spoon in her hand forward, gesturing for him to open his mouth.”The kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring of water. You saved my life, so I have to take the responsibility of taking care of you until you recover.”

“The kindness of a drop of water is repaid by a spring?” Hearing this, Xie Ciyan narrowed his eyes slightly, and a dangerous look flashed across his eyes, “So, if someone saves you, no matter who it is, will Zhaozhao repay his kindness?”

Yan Zhaozhao did not hear the other meaning in Xie Ciyan’s words. She thought he was implying something to her, so she obeyed.”Of course, since you have been kind to me, I must repay you in return. Otherwise, wouldn’t I become that ungrateful person?”

Xie Ciyan’s eyes darkened, he couldn’t help but hold her wrist and looked directly at her, “Whoever that is?”

She was a little stunned, not knowing why he reacted like this. After hesitating for a moment, she nodded lightly.

Xie Ciyan suddenly felt a bitterness in his throat. After looking at her for a long time, he finally sighed secretly and reluctantly let go of her hand.Just for a moment, he felt the urge to tell her that he was the one who saved her after she was drugged.But this impulse only surged for a moment and then completely dissipated.

He had kept this matter deep in his heart without telling her, but he knew that the person who saved her had a different meaning to Yan Zhaozhao.What he wanted was for her, Yan Zhaozhao, and even her heart to be happy with him because he was Xie Ciyan, not to be given such a heavy title as a savior, so he didn’t say it, let alone use it to tie her down.

At that time, Xie Ciyan never thought that he would meet the love of his life in this way.

That year, he heard that the tea at Yunlai Inn was very good, so he went to try it when he had nothing to do.But when passing by the wing of Tianzi No. 1, I suddenly heard a woman shouting fiercely. She shouted loudly, as if she wanted to use her voice to attract attention.But soon, her voice became weaker and weaker, still vaguely mixed with a hint of coquettishness.

Xie Ciyan suddenly paused, kicked open the door of the wing, and killed the two beggars who were instigated by someone unknown.There was no place where a beggar could enter the Yunlai Inn, and the woman had been poisoned with a charm drug. It was obvious at a glance that it was a conspiracy against her. If he didn’t kill the beggar, the woman’s reputation would be lost.

He stepped forward and patted her crimson cheek, trying to wake up the dazed woman, but her whole body was as soft as mud that couldn’t be lumped together, and she couldn’t even sit up.Xie Ciyan had no choice but to ask her which girl she was from, and wanted to notify her family to come and pick her up.

“I, I…I am not the daughter of the Yan family!”

She had been drugged and was in a state of confusion. Everything she said and did was based on instinct.When she said this, Xie Ciyan also knew that she was the daughter of Prime Minister Yan Huai. Every noble girl in this city wanted to be the daughter of the prime minister. Even if she was just a concubine, she was more valuable than the legitimate daughter of an ordinary family. But by chance, this daughter of the Yan family did not admit that she was Yan Huai’s daughter.

It’s interesting.

Xie Ciyan couldn’t help but feel teasing, and deliberately followed her words and asked, “Oh? Then whose daughter are you?”

Unexpectedly, the woman suddenly rushed forward, hugged his neck tightly, and rubbed her cheek against the side of his neck, craving the coolness that stuck to his skin.”I don’t want to be a daughter anymore…” Her voice was soft and waxy, and because of the love medicine, her tone was slightly flirtatious when she spoke.”I want to get married and be a wife and a lady!”

Xie Ciyan was even more puzzled. He had never heard of a girl who didn’t miss home so much and didn’t want to be favored by her parents. She actually wanted to go to someone else’s house to be a wife serving her parents-in-law and husband.”Who do you want to marry?” He thought, maybe it was because the woman already had a husband in mind that she wanted to marry.

The woman suddenly raised her head and smiled suddenly. Xie Ciyan lost her mind at that moment.Suddenly, there was a warm feeling on his lips, and a warm soft tongue swept across his lips, full of temptation.

Xie Ciyan’s breath suffocated and his pupils shrank.At that moment, he felt that his heart seemed to have missed a beat, and his eyes were full of disbelief.Xie Ciyan, who had always been decisive and decisive, became at a loss at this moment, his limbs stiff, as if he couldn’t even push her away.

“You!” The warmth left, and the woman didn’t seem to know what she had done. She smiled at him, her cheeks red, as if a shy girl was revealing her feelings to her beloved young man.”I’ll marry you, okay?”

Xie Ciyan was startled, he had clearly never seen her before, how could a woman suddenly want to marry him.Immediately, he saw the little scoundrel who had scorned him burying her face in his chest, muttering as if she was complaining, “I would rather marry you than marry that romantic and cruel emperor!” Her eyes became more blurred, hanging on him and shaking her head, “Master said that a drop of kindness should be repaid by a spring! You saved me, can I agree with my body?”

Only then did Xie Ciyan realize that the woman in front of him was Yan Zhaozhao, the legitimate daughter of the Yan family whom the Queen Mother wanted to marry to the Emperor as Queen.When he knew about this relationship, he should have pushed the woman away immediately, but he was reluctant to let go of the tenderness in his hands.

He looked at her eyes that were filled with stars, and his heart seemed to no longer belong to him. Every beat seemed to be caused by this woman he was meeting for the first time.The hand unconsciously raised to touch her cheek. The woman’s eyebrows gradually opened, her eyes were like autumn water. The tear mole in the corner of her eye added some charm to her charming appearance. Every time she smiled, the tear mole touched her, exuding a charming and pure aura.

Thanks to Ci Yan, by some strange mistake, he actually answered her, “Okay.”

He had been alone all this time, and it would be very interesting to have the rest of his life with such a little rascal by his side.Since she said she didn’t want to marry the emperor but wanted to marry him, then he took it seriously.

But Xie Ciyan seemed to have forgotten that the woman in front of him had taken a charm drug and what she said was unbelievable, and she would not have this memory after she woke up.

Xie Ciyan fed her the antidote, and then found a trustworthy person to send the comatose little gangster back to the Prime Minister’s Mansion.After that, Xie Ciyan entered the palace and went to the emperor to ask the emperor for Yan Zhaozhao.What happened at Yunlai Inn that day, wasn’t it because the emperor didn’t want to marry the daughter of the Yan family and wanted to destroy her?If the emperor doesn’t want it, then he will ask the gangster to come.

But before he could say anything, he was appointed by the emperor as General Zhenyuan to go to the enemy country, and promised him that if he came back victorious, he would grant him a request.Xie Ciyan agreed without hesitation. He thought that since it was a reward given to him, it would be more logical for him to want Yan Zhaozhao.

After that farewell, he never expected to see her again. She had already become a queen and appeared at the palace banquet when he returned in triumph.All the ministers in the court were congratulating him on his triumphant return. Even the little gangster straightened up and bowed to him respectfully and toasted him. He had completely lost the shyness when he said he wanted to marry him in his arms, and looked as if he didn’t recognize him.She thanked Yan Qing, picked up the wine glass on the table and returned her gift, but the wine that day was not a good one, and it actually felt astringent in her throat.

With one triumph, the emperor seemed to have a sharp blade at his fingertips. He was asked to go on expeditions again and again. He triumphed again and again, gradually establishing popular support in the hearts of courtiers and people, gaining a firm foothold in the court, and step by step from the empty-name General Zhenyuan to the position of regent with real power.Whenever the emperor asked him what rewards he wanted, he rejected them one by one. The emperor thought that he had no ambitions, and was even less wary of him.

It’s not like he doesn’t want someone.

However, what he wants may not be his in this life.