The Taoist said that he wanted to regret the marriage!

Looking at the assassin slumped on the ground, Li Zhoumian felt a little bored.He drank the wine in the glass, stood up and sighed, and glanced at the other party lightly.

Disciple of Mingzong?Come here on orders?What kind of nonsense are they all making up.

Thinking of Lin Xunzhou, Li Zhoumian's expression softened a little.

This assassin is probably pretending to be a disciple of Mingzong... This person is full of lies and has bad intentions. Even if he is really a member of Mingzong, it is not too much for him to clean up Xun Zhou's family.

"Let's go." Li Zhoumian shook his head and walked towards the door.

"You..." The assassin still wanted to swear, but Li Erba who came up chopped him in the back of the head with a knife, and he fainted on the ground.

Li Erba lifted him up by the collar, and handed him to the side guard: "Send him to the dungeon, check his background carefully."

Clasped hands should be.

Li Zhoumian ignored the movement behind him, walked around the screen and walked downstairs.

The owner of the painting hall was running around in a hurry on the first floor. When he turned his head, he saw a man with a graceful temperament and luxurious clothes walking down the stairs slowly. He was so frightened that he couldn't help but pray: "My lord, forgive me!"

Li Zhoumian glanced at him indifferently, and sighed: "It's rare for this king to come to the painting hall, and he encountered such a thing. The assassin is your actor, what do you have to say?"

The owner of the painting hall saw sweat on his forehead, and said in a trembling voice: "It's the villain who didn't discipline well. I didn't expect to be mixed in by the thief! My lord, the villain was also deceived by the assassin, and he didn't know about the assassination!"

At this time, Li Erba happened to go downstairs, and when he heard the owner of the painting hall's excuse, he snorted coldly and said, "Whether it has anything to do with the assassination is not up to you. Can you afford it? It happened with you, even if you are really implicated, you cannot escape responsibility. "

The boss of the painting hall turned pale. The crime of assassinating King Yan was not a trivial matter. Maybe he would be killed, and even his family members would be implicated.

Now Li Zhoumian's power in Yunzhou is almost the same as that of the emperor, and he absolutely dare not disobey it.The owner of the painting hall felt a little desperate, and scolded the assassin ten thousand times in his heart for daring to implicate himself in the assassination.

"Okay," Li Zhoumian sighed softly, "The painting hall is a place of elegance, so it's better not to let blood stain it."

Li Erba answered yes, glanced coldly at the owner of the painting hall, and said, "Your Highness means that you don't want to commit more crimes, and you don't want to pursue innocent people more. After you find out what happened, if you really have anything to do with this There is nothing involved, so I won't embarrass you too much."

The owner of the painting hall was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he was overjoyed: "Thank you, my lord, for your kindness!"

Li Zhoumian didn't stay any longer, and said, "Let's go."

After getting out of the painting hall and sitting in the car, Li Zhoumian said, "I specially released the news that I will come to the painting hall to listen to the opera in advance. If there is someone who will come to assassinate me, I really attract people's attention."

Li Erba sighed: "They are all young people, the prince don't need to worry about it."

Li Zhoumian smiled lightly: "How many people have been causing trouble secretly recently? Have you checked them all?"

"Everything in Yunzhou has been purged," Li Erba replied, "some of them have been implicated in the imperial capital, and they have also passed on news to trustworthy people in the palace. Both inside and outside the court are secretly investigating. Some of them are implicated in Mingzong ..."

Li Zhoumian smiled: "Report this part of the situation to me, and I will talk about it."

Li Erba agreed.

"Give them a little opportunity to take advantage of, and they all can't help showing their heads," Li Zhoumian leaned on the cushion, "It's interesting."

Li Erba said helplessly: "Yes. Recently, there are quite a few people who have come to the Yan Palace, claiming that they are willing to serve as guests of the Yan Palace. I think most of them are speculators..."

Li Zhoumian listened quietly, closed his eyes and rested his mind, making occasional comments.

Li Erba reminded again: "Those people who fish in troubled waters in the dark can't see their hands, and I'm afraid they will have more means. Your Highness, you should pay more attention recently."

"Understood," Li Zhoumian smiled, "I want to see what else they can do. By the way, where is Li Sanqi?"

Li Erba immediately twitched the corner of his mouth: "He has been in a bad mood recently, where might he be depressed now?"

"...It's embarrassing for him too," Li Zhoumian coughed lightly, "I'd better give him a salary increase."

Li Erba was full of sympathy.

..................

After nightfall, Prince Yan's Mansion.

When Li Erba came out of the study, the bright moon was already hanging high.

He glanced at the sky and wondered why Li Sanqi hadn't come back yet.While walking out while worrying, he suddenly passed by a figure.Li Erba glanced over and was slightly taken aback: "Sanqi? Are you back?"

The figure stopped abruptly, turned his head, and the moonlight fell on his face.

Only now did Li Erba see clearly that this figure was not Li Sanqi, but it looked very similar to Li Sanqi, and in the dim light, it was easy to mistake him at first glance.

"Sorry, I admitted the wrong person," Li Erba looked at him a few times, "What do you do?"

The man hurriedly bowed his head and saluted respectfully: "This is the new musician from the palace."

musician?Li Erba recalled it, and it seemed that such a thing happened.

Li Tianmian has always liked rhythm, and often listens to music in his spare time.There are also some musicians in Yanwang's mansion, mainly playing at banquets and entertaining guests, and the arrangement of noodles is indispensable.Could this be the new musician in the mansion recently?It's amazing that he looks so much like Li Sanqi. When Li Sanqi comes back, he must tell him.

Li Erba nodded: "Understood. What are you doing here at this time?"

The musician hurriedly said: "It's just that the moonlight is just right, and I fell in love for a while, so I went out for a walk, and then I went back."

Li Erba glanced at the flute pinned to his waist, said "Yes", and waved him away.Reminiscent of the assassination of an actor during the day, Li Erba thought to himself that the situation is tense recently, and he should arrange for people to investigate the musicians in the mansion and the like.

After a while, Li Erba suddenly heard the sound of a flute in the distance, and the tune was melodious.He froze for a moment, and couldn't help laughing, thinking that these musicians really had the mood of playing flute to the moon.

Li Erba didn't think much about it, and when the real Li Sanqi returned home, he asked why he came back so late today, and told him the matter.

"I wasn't on duty today. I just went out for a walk. I met a nice person and made friends, so I came back a bit late." Li Sanqi said curiously, "It looks like me? Are you sure you read it right? "

"That's right. At first glance, it's [-]% similar to you. What's rare is that the temperament is also similar." Li Erba said casually, jokingly, "The flute is also good."

Li Sanqi became even more curious: "I didn't even know that there was such a musician in the mansion! No, I'm going to see and see, I want to see how similar he is to me."

With that said, Li Sanqi pulled Li Erba along and walked out.Li Erba was reluctant, and being dragged by Li Sanqi, he had no choice but to walk to the other courtyard where the musicians lived.When he arrived at the place, Li Sanqi called someone to ask him, but the other person was full of doubts.

"Recently there are indeed new musicians who are good at playing the flute," the person who was questioned recalled, and said hesitantly, "but there is no one who looks very similar to you... I will not remember wrongly, if If there is such a person, I must be deeply impressed, how could I forget.”

Li Sanqi turned his head in doubt, and looked at Li Erba: "Did you read it wrong?"

Li Erba was also stunned: "How is it possible?"

"Where did you meet him?" Li Sanqi asked.

"Come out of His Highness's study, just left the inner courtyard..." Li Erba recalled.

The two looked at each other and suddenly realized.

Li Erba said anxiously: "Not good! I'll go find Your Highness."

Li Sanqi also hurriedly said: "I'll go too—don't worry, Your Highness is in the stage of transformation, what can happen? Don't panic."

The two hurried to the study room, the closer they were to the study room, the clearer the whistling flute sounded.The sound of the flute fell on people's ears, and it slowly aroused the sadness in the heart, making people addicted.Unknowingly, the pace of Li Erba and Li Sanqi slowed down slightly.

..................

The bright moon hangs in the sky, and the stars are thousands of miles away.

Before the sound of the flute, Li Zhoumian was reading at night with the lamp on in his study, and just picked up a pen to write something, when he suddenly received a voice transmission from Lin Xunzhou.

Li Zhoumian hurriedly put down his pen, feeling a little pleasantly surprised.

"Linzhou," Li Zhoumian couldn't help but put a smile on his face, "Are you all right today?"

Recently, Lin Xunzhou has been devoting himself to practice, and often loses contact with him for several days, and occasionally comes to him suddenly.

At the level of Lin Xunzhou, sitting in seclusion without listening to things outside the window is not very useful for practice, but doing as one pleases is more helpful for understanding the state of mind.So sometimes Lin Xunzhou would sit in the shrine for several days without hearing from him, and sometimes he would walk freely in the world, tracking down the movements of the Great Elder and the demons... Sometimes he would think of Li Zhoumian.

When communicating with him, Lin Xunzhou often talked about the things he encountered and his recent insights, and Li Tianmian would listen quietly.Whenever this happens, Li Zhoumian feels that the years are peaceful, those dark tides, winds and frosts, swords and intrigues don't seem to exist, they are far away from him, only Linzhou is very close to him.

In Mingzong, Lin Xunzhou sat cross-legged under the window of the Shengong, surrounded by high bookshelves, extending layer by layer, and the surroundings were quiet and dark.Only the silvery moonlight fell on him through the pane, casting a long shadow.

Lin Xunzhou looked up at the bright moon outside the window.He sat in this place and became enlightened, and several days had passed before he knew it.When he came back from the mysterious realm when he realized the Tao, what he saw was this bright moon.

Seeing the moon and thinking about people.

"I was reading a book just now, and I suddenly thought of you. I wanted to hear your voice, so I sent you a voice transmission, and it's nothing important." Lin Xunzhou closed the open book, put it aside, and said softly, "You What are you doing? Did it bother you?"

"I hope you will bother me more, but unfortunately you often have no news for several days after practicing recently, I thought you would forget about me." Li Zhoumian's lips curled up, "I am dealing with some trivial matters in the Yan Palace. I also met something related to you today, do you want to hear it?"

"What?" Lin Xunzhou was curious.

Li Zhoumian smiled and recounted what happened in the painting hall during the day, and said: "Recently, there are a lot of people taking advantage of the chaotic waters to fish for fish. I plan to follow the vine to investigate and take this opportunity to clean up these hidden dangers in the cultivation world."

After Lin Xunzhou listened quietly, he sighed, "I did this assassination again?"

This is not the first time someone has troubled Prince Yan's mansion in the name of Mingzong.

Li Zhoumian couldn't help laughing out loud: "Yes, you did it again. I have been targeted badly recently, and people come to look for me at the order of Sect Master Lin every now and then—Sect Master Lin, I'm emotional. Do you want to comfort me?"

"Don't make trouble," Lin Xunzhou said helplessly, "Are you injured?"

"No," Li Tianmian blinked, "It's just an ordinary assassin, it doesn't matter."

"Be careful." Lin Xunzhou thought for a while, and then said, "I didn't send this assassin, you just have to deal with it with peace of mind. I am also rectifying the Mingzong's internal affairs recently. Anyone who has a different opinion will not be tolerated. The Great Elder is in Mingzong. I have been in power for a long time, and I am also having a headache how to deal with some hidden dangers left by him."

Li Zhoumian raised his eyebrows slightly: "Is it inconvenient to deal with it? That's easy to handle, just leave it to me."

"Leave it to you?" Lin Xunzhou tilted his head slightly.

"Is there someone who is inconvenient for you to deal with but you really can't keep? Send him to assassinate me." Li Tianmian touched his chin and smiled slightly. "Is it reasonable for me to deal with a few assassins? Anyway, with Mingzong’s relationship is so bad.”

"..." Lin Xunzhou was silent for a moment, "It might be a way."

"Just send them here," Li Zhoumian said with a light smile, "Someone will come to kill me in your name every now and then, and the blame has been taken, so there is nothing to worry about."

Above the shrine, the night wind was slightly cold.Lin Xunzhou sat in front of the window, quietly listening to Li Zhoumian's words, his brows and eyes gradually softened.He smiled lightly, and was about to speak when he suddenly heard the faint sound of a flute floating from a distance.

Lin Xunzhou was slightly taken aback, listened attentively, and asked curiously, "Is there someone playing the flute over there?"

In Yanwang Mansion, Li Zhoumian also heard the sound of the flute in the night sky, got up and opened the window, and listened attentively.

"Maybe it's the musician in the mansion," Li Zhoumian thought for a while and said, "This piece is pretty good."

Soon he changed the subject again, proudly said: "However——I can play the piano better than him."

Lin Xunzhou couldn't help chuckling.

"I'm serious," Li Tianmian said confidently, "I think if I hadn't been born in the royal family, I would be able to support myself as a musician."

"Yes, His Highness King Yan is the best at everything." Lin Xunzhou said with a smile.

Li Zhoumian felt that his tone was perfunctory: "If you don't believe me, I will play konghou for you."

Speaking of which, Li Zhoumian excitedly wanted to hug Konghou, but just as he turned around, he suddenly stopped and raised his hand to rub his forehead.

"What's wrong?" Lin Xunzhou noticed something was wrong and asked aloud.

"My head is a little dizzy." Li Tianmian frowned slightly, "It may be that the old injury has recurred."

Lin Xunzhou immediately said: "Stop playing the piano, you should have a good rest and listen to me."

Li Zhoumian sighed regretfully and leaned against the window sill.The evening wind blew the sound of the flute, which was more tactful and lingering than before.

Gradually, Li Zhoumian frowned deeper.

"I feel something is wrong, it doesn't look like an old injury." Li Zhoumian raised his hand and pressed his heart, "It doesn't hurt, but it feels a little... strange."

Lin Xunzhou asked doubtfully, "Strange?"

Li Zhoumian pursed her lips tightly, thinking to herself, it's like the feeling of heartbeat when seeing you.

There is still some heat on the body... Li Zhoumian touched his face and felt a little hot.

Lin Xunzhou waited for a while, but he didn't hear Li Zhoumian's answer, only heard the faint sound of the flute, and he was even more worried.

"..." Lin Xunzhou felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell.While he was frowning and thinking, Li Zhoumian's voice finally came: "The sound of the flute is not quite right, I'll go and have a look."

Lin Xunzhou's expression was slightly cold, and he said in a deep voice, "Shall I go over and have a look?"

"No, it's not that serious," Li Zhoumian said, "Besides, it's not convenient for you to come to Yan Palace now."

In view of the current relationship between Mingzong and the Yan Palace, it is really inconvenient for Lin Xunzhou to go to the Yan Palace frequently, and it would be troublesome if he was accidentally bumped into by outsiders.So the two don't meet much now, and most of the time it's just voice transmission.

——Of course, there are other subtle reasons, neither of them said.

The more I miss, the more timid I feel.Don't dare to meet each other, afraid of feeling hard to restrain yourself.

Li Zhoumian got up and walked out of the study room, being blown by the cool night wind, he barely regained consciousness.He walked along to the sound of the music, and saw under a willow tree not far away, a man in plain clothes holding a flute, playing softly.

The surrounding light is dim, only the cold moonlight.Li Zhoumian glanced over and was taken aback for a moment: "...Li Sanqi?"

When will Li Sanqi play the flute?Li Zhoumian couldn't help but raised his hand and rubbed the center of his eyebrows.

... No, not Li Sanqi.

The music stopped, the flute player raised his head, saw Li Zhoumian, and saluted him in surprise: "I have seen Your Highness. Why did Your Highness come here..."

Li Zhoumian's face darkened slightly, and he already had a guess in his heart.

"Are you a musician in the mansion?"

When Li Zhoumian opened his mouth, he found that his voice was a little hoarse.

The flute player replied softly: "Yes, Cao Min is a new musician. Seeing the moon tonight, I was deeply moved and couldn't help playing a piece. I didn't expect to disturb His Highness."

While speaking, he raised his head slightly, and his eyes fell on Li Zhoumian, with a faint trace of tender affection.Under the moonlight, the atmosphere is just right, and there is a vague fragrance floating around, which makes people feel more dry and hot, and I don't know when it will be.

It turned out to be from the recommendation pillow seat.

Deliberately imitating Li Sanqi's appearance, it was aimed at him, it can be seen that it was premeditated——

It's a pity that he really has no feelings for Li Sanqi!Li Sanqi is innocent!He is also innocent!

The strange smell around him became more intense, and Li Zhoumian felt a little parched.His eyes dimmed a bit, and he looked at the piper quietly: "Who sent you here?"

The musician was a little flustered, and said weakly: "I don't understand His Highness, I just came here by chance..."

Li Zhoumian was having a headache and was too lazy to talk nonsense: "Oh, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it."

After speaking, Li Zhoumian gave him a cold look, and suddenly the wind stopped, and everything was silent.The musician couldn't bear the coercion of the stage of transformation, and trembled all over. He couldn't help kneeling on the ground, and the flute in his hand fell with a "bang", rolled in a circle, and a thin blade fell out of it.

"..." Li Zhoumian glanced over.

Another assassin.

He only said during the day that he wanted to see what else he could do to meet these people, but he saw it at night, which is very good.

"At this level, you also want to assassinate?"

Seeing that the performance couldn't go on anymore, the musician's expression gradually turned cold, and he said, "You didn't even take the bait."

Li Tianmian raised his eyebrows: "Why do you think that a person in the transformation stage will be so confused by the mere sound of a flute that he loses his mind?"

The musician sneered, "Not only the sound of the flute, but also the cup of 'A Cup of Wind and Moon' in the Bairi Painting Hall, and the spices here... I know it's difficult to calculate a person who is a god, and it's even more difficult to make him not notice it. So it's been planned for a long time."

...I didn't expect that.Li Zhoumian thought to himself, could this be the same as that assassin in Bairi?Did he also come to kill him "by order of Sect Master Lin"?

Li Zhoumian couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth.

"I just didn't expect that you really didn't have feelings for Li Sanqi." The musician raised his head reluctantly and looked at Li Zhoumian, "I don't believe that in this situation, it is really true that you see the person you really like. Can bear..."

Before he finished speaking, he fainted to the ground.

"..." Li Zhoumian did not speak.

Maybe so, Li Tianmian lowered his eyes slightly.If Lin Xunzhou was in front of him, would he really be able to bear it?In a daze, he didn't know what he would do.

Lin Xunzhou... Li Zhoumian was taken aback suddenly, and remembered something.

He has maintained the sound transmission with Lin Xunzhou and has not disconnected!His head hurt so much that he forgot about it.

... Li Zhoumian's breathing was stagnant, he was already dizzy, but now he was stunned.He subconsciously began to think about whether he had said something inappropriate just now, while cautiously probing: "Lin Zhou? Are you there?"

Li Zhoumian felt lucky, thinking maybe Lin Xunzhou wasn't listening.

"I'm here."

Li Zhoumian: "..." Li Zhoumian felt his whole face was burning hot.

But soon he realized that the sound just now didn't sound like a voice transmission from afar, but sounded right behind him.

Li Zhoumian turned his head subconsciously, and saw a man in white standing in the gentle moonlight.

It was the person he was thinking about and secretly liking for.

Not a hallucination.

Li Zhoumian didn't know how long Lin Xunzhou had been standing there, he only knew that at this moment he was dizzy and could only hear his own violent heartbeat.He said in a hoarse voice: "Linzhou...why are you here? Didn't I tell you not to come?"

As soon as the words fell, Li Zhoumian regretted it again.It sounds like there is a ghost in my heart.

Lin Xunzhou looked at him quietly, starlight fell in his eyes, his eyes were clear and cold, but he seemed very focused.

"I'm really worried about you. I thought that since this is the case, I might as well follow my heart," Lin Xunzhou said, "That's why I'm here."

"Although it is true that cultivating the Tao first cultivates the heart," Li Zhoumian muttered in a low voice, "I didn't say that following the mind is so smooth..."

"Are you okay?" Lin Xunzhou blinked and walked towards him.

No, not good.Li Zhoumian took a step back, feeling his throat was dry.

Lin Xunzhou paused slightly, then continued walking towards him.The closer he was to him, the more Li Zhoumian felt like his heart was beating like a drum.

Lin Xunzhou finally stopped in front of him, looked down at the fainted assassin, thought for a while and said, "I didn't send it here."

When Lin Xunzhou spoke, Li Zhoumian was looking at him.Under the moonlight, Li Tianmian felt that the more he watched, the more disturbed he became.His eyes fell on Lin Xunzhou's lips, and then moved away again.

Seeing that Li Tianmian didn't speak, Lin Xunzhou smiled softly: "I'm emotional, do you need me to comfort you?"

This was originally a joke between the two just now, but it fell into Li Zhoumian's ears at the moment, but it seemed to scratch his heart lightly.Lin Xunzhou was too close to him... Finally, Li Zhoumian couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed Lin Xunzhou's wrist, and pressed him against the willow tree behind him.

The green willows are fluttering lightly, and the night breeze is slightly drunk.

Li Zhoumian held Lin Xunzhou's wrist with one hand, and supported him with the other.Li Tianmian is really unconscious now, leaned close to Lin Xunzhou's neck and rubbed it lightly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Need."

Lin Xunzhou breathed lightly, his heart beating like a drum.Surrounded by Li Tianmian's aura, it brought a faint sense of oppression.

Lin Xunzhou suddenly regretted that he deliberately teased the person in front of him just now.

He just couldn't help it.When the person you like is teased by others in front of you, it is inevitable that you will be a little bit unhappy.Perhaps I was somewhat affected by the strange aroma around me, so I was a little impulsive.Lin Xunzhou thought.

In fact, if he wanted to, he could break free... Lin Xunzhou flashed this thought, but at the same time raised his hand, and gently wrapped his arms around Li Zhoumian's waist.

It seems that he was really affected by the fragrance, Lin Xunzhou thought to himself, and hugged him a little harder.

Li Zhoumian felt as if he had been encouraged and became more courageous.He rubbed against Lin Xunzhou's earlobe and the side of his neck, and finally bit Lin Xunzhou's lips lightly.

——He has wanted to do this for too long, and it is really hard for him to be himself at the moment.

Lin Xunzhou's eyelashes trembled slightly, his whole body seemed to be frozen, his fingertips moved, but he didn't stop the opponent's movement.

Li Zhoumian was keenly aware of this silent connivance, so he pushed forward.

Lin Xunzhou could feel the enthusiasm of the other party, and couldn't help thinking in his heart, what is Li Zhoumian thinking now?Was it the influence of drugs and flute that made him impulsive, or...

Still, he kind of likes him too.

Can't think deeply, for fear of being passionate.Lin Xunzhou simply closed his eyes.In any case, he does not regret what has been done.It was his indulgence, not Li Zhoumian's fault.

Li Zhoumian's current actions are due to "being plotted against by others, and he is out of his mind", but he is mostly awake and has no excuses to find.

The moonlight is gentle and exciting.

Suddenly, an anxious voice came from not far away: "Your Highness! How are you... um..."

Lin Xunzhou suddenly opened his eyes, and pressed Li Zhoumian's shoulder.

"……excuse me."

Not far away, Li Sanqi silently closed his mouth, pulled Li Erba by the way, turned around and left.

He was wrong, he shouldn't have come, he didn't see anything.

What assassin?Your Highness is in the stage of transforming gods, what assassins are you afraid of?What's his hurry?

He shouldn't be here today!

Li Sanqi reviewed himself heartbrokenly, and ran away without stopping.

..................

Under the willow tree, Lin Xunzhou was completely awake. He pressed Li Zhoumian's shoulder, turned his head and said, "Calm down."

Li Zhoumian still hugged him and refused to let go. When he realized that Lin Xunzhou wanted to push him away, he felt aggrieved and dissatisfied, so he hugged him even tighter.

Lin Xunzhou: "..."

Lin Xunzhou took out a pill and stuffed it into Li Zhoumian's mouth when he was unprepared.

Li Zhoumian looked confused, but he did not refuse the pill that Lin Xunzhou gave him.

"Lingpo Pill." Lin Xunzhou patted him on the shoulder.

The Lingpo Pill can nourish the soul, so there is always no harm in giving Li Zhoumian one if you have something to do.The most important thing is that the Lingpo Pill can make people fall asleep... When they wake up tomorrow, they will probably wake up, Lin Xunzhou thought.

Li Zhoumian blinked, and simply closed his eyes and lay on Lin Xunzhou's body, as if he had to hold Lin Xunzhou while sleeping.

Lin Xunzhou: "..."

Lin Xunzhou sighed slightly, tried his best to remove Li Zhoumian's hand, hesitated a little, and helped him to the nearest study.

It is not good for Lin Xunzhou to stay in Yanwang Mansion for too long.He quietly looked at Li Zhoumian for a while, then turned and left.

After Lin Xunzhou left, Li Tianmian opened his eyes slightly, remained silent for a while, and then closed his eyes again and went back to sleep.