Born of Worry

Royal study.

"His Majesty."

"What's the matter?"

"Uh..." The little eunuch seemed to feel a little embarrassed about this matter, and after considering it, he said, "There is a woman outside the palace who wants to see His Majesty."

"Woman?" Li Xian stopped writing for a moment, took a sip of ink, and continued writing, "I don't know any women, so send them back."

"But Your Majesty, she is already outside the palace, why don't you..."

He stopped writing completely, and frowned slightly: "Who let her in?"

"She is holding His Highness Yuwang's jade pendant, and the servants dare not stop her..."

"My third brother?" Li Xian pinched the center of his brows, he had already guessed who it was, "What is she looking for from me?"

"This...she won't say it, and the slave doesn't dare to ask."

He sighed and waved his hands, "That's all, let her in."

"Yes."

When Li Xian saw Xiao Ruyue, he didn't think much of her. Mo Wen didn't wake up until now, which made him very upset, but his third brother still wanted someone to bother him... What a tacit understanding between brothers. No.

Ruyue stood aside, didn't dare to speak without getting permission, just looked at him quietly, obviously he was a young man who was not as good as a weak crown, but he really...had a temperament that was different from ordinary people, but he didn't seem to be an emperor Qi...

"What's the matter with you? I bumped into you accidentally yesterday, but I also apologized. What else do you want? Do you need me to compensate you?"

Ruyue was startled, and hurriedly said: "No, Your Majesty misunderstood, Ruyue didn't come here today for this matter."

"What's that?"

She gently placed the celadon bottle on Li Xian's writing desk, "This is the hangover medicine. If it's good as expected, that...he must not be awake yet. Give him this medicine to make him feel better." Some."

Li Xian frowned, and the doubts in his heart were instantly clear, "Who? Are you talking about Mo Wen?"

"... Exactly."

"He went to your Ru Yue Xuan to drink yesterday?"

"Yes."

"Drink 'mochizuki'?"

"Yes."

"Are you going in response to King Yu's bet?"

"……Yes."

Li Xian stood up suddenly, and the small regular script pen in his hand fell to the ground, spattering a small piece of ink.

Seeing his expression change, Ruyue hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, calm down!"

"Okay, very good." Li Xian looked at her, with no trace of his usual gentleness on his face, "You really did a good job, not only betting on me, but also betting on my people. You treat me as someone What? A plaything? In your eyes, I have become so cowardly?"

"No! Your Majesty misunderstood!"

"Misunderstood? Then tell me, what did I misunderstand?"

"His Royal Highness Yu Wang...he, he didn't mean that..."

"Don't mention him to me!" Li Xian's sudden yell made Ruyue tremble, "What does he mean, I will ask myself, I don't need you as an outsider to take care of it." He suppressed his anger forcibly, and said, " I don't want to see you anymore, get out...you go!"

Kisaragi knelt on the ground, but her mind was running fast.She couldn't just leave like this. If she left, she might never have a chance to come back in this life.

His Majesty the Emperor was angry... I'm afraid it wasn't King Yu, nor himself who had been betted, otherwise it would have happened yesterday.He was so angry...

She was determined, raised her head again, and stopped talking about King Yu, but said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Mo did come to Ru Yuexuan to drink yesterday, but Ru Yue thinks that he didn't come here for the bet! And Mr. Mo did not come here at all. Didn't mention it, just asked Ruyue for wine. Ruyue felt that he was probably just using wine to drown his sorrows!"

Li Xian sat down on the chair again, and pressed his forehead with his hand.He was really angry at those insignificant things, he thought that Mo Wen went to drink because of arguing with him, and he felt guilty at first, but when he learned that Mo Wen was only for the third brother's bet, he immediately felt very uncomfortable.Hearing Kisaragi's words now, the mood calmed down a little, and said: "You continue to talk."

"Yes." Seeing that he didn't make trouble anymore, Ruyue breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that what she thought was probably right, said, "When Mr. Mo came, Ruyue saw that he was very depressed, and asked him nothing. Dare to ask more questions, so I had to give him the wine. However, when he drank to the pain, he suddenly laughed, and suddenly..."

"Suddenly what?"

"Sudden……"

Ruyue agreed to Li Ye's bet, feeling somewhat uncertain in her heart, even though she knew "Watching the Moon"'s strength in drinking, it was indeed a bit of an exaggeration to say "no more than three cups".She didn't know who Yu Wang would find, but Yu Wang was a man who was promiscuous everywhere, had no virtue in his mouth, had a bad reputation, and he was also known as a broken sleeve.Although Dayin can't help being masculine, but this kind of thing... most people are still resistant, so he doesn't have many friends, and his connections are not too wide.

Thinking of this, Ruyue gained some confidence, and hoped that he could not find someone, or if he found someone, he would not be willing to help him.Her piano music... Although it is not impossible to play, it is just...

She walked outside before returning to Ruyuexuan. She still kept the jade pendant that Li Xian left close to her body, but... maybe she should return it to him sometime?Although she doesn't want to pay it back, in case it will come in handy in the future...

For her, Li Xian may be special.She has seen many men of all shapes and sizes, but she seldom meets someone who is indifferent to her, even unwilling to take a second look, just like... like the man from long ago.This made her feel fresh, but after she vaguely guessed Li Xian's identity, she felt a little scared and regretted her reckless behavior.

However, there is a kind of person, the more unknown and frightening things are, the more they want to get closer.Ruyue is such a person, she traveled north and south when she was young, probably out of curiosity and novelty.

She returned to Ruyuexuan, entered her room, just closed the door, when she turned around, she took a step back in fright.

The window facing the street was wide open, and a man was sitting on the window frame. When he saw her coming, he raised his eyes to look at her.

That person was dressed in black, with black hair and black eyes, and Ruyue subconsciously felt a little more awe.Apart from the emperor himself, the only person who dared to dress like this... was the person mentioned by the storyteller.

She suppressed her fear, took two steps forward, bowed her knees slightly and saluted, "Dare to ask this young master..."

Mo Wen interrupted her: "Do you have 'Watching the Moon'?"

Ru Yue was startled, so it turned out that His Royal Highness Yu Wang found this person?But this came too soon... They didn't agree on the betting period, why...

"Is there 'Watching the Moon'?" Mo Wen asked again.

"Yes." Ruyue didn't dare to neglect, and said, "Did you come here under the entrustment of His Royal Highness King Yu?"

Mo Wen frowned, didn't want to say anything more to her, and didn't want to ask Yu Wang anything, so he just answered casually: "Yes."

"Jiyue knows about it. But 'Watching the Moon' is not here, so Ruyue will go get it now, please wait a moment, my lord."

Although the moon-watching wine is unique to Ruyuexuan, it is not stored in Ruyuexuan. After all, this is the land of flowers and moons. If the wine is produced directly here, I am afraid that people will resist it. Therefore, all the wines of Ruyuexuan are produced from here. Not far away is a wine shop called "Moon Pavilion".

And in the underground wine cellar of "Moon Pavilion", there is an old and pure "Watching the Moon", and only Miss Ruyue has the key there.

Ruyue went to the Moon Pavilion to get some wine, and when she came back, two cups of tea had already passed, while Mo Wen was still sitting there, as if she hadn't even changed her posture.

She opened a jar of wine, and the strong aroma of the wine spread out immediately.She was about to pour the wine into the wine bowl, but Mo Wen had arrived beside her at some point, stopped her, put one hand on the mouth of the jar, and took the whole jar away.

He sat back at the window and watched all kinds of people pass by outside, but no one outside seemed to see him.

Kisaragi was almost startled by him, she had never seen anyone dare to drink "Watching the Moon" like this, she couldn't help feeling faintly worried for him.

Mo Wen took a few sips of wine, the mellow aroma and hotness scalded his throat together and burned into his stomach, the burning sensation made him feel pain, and the pain was excruciating.

"Good wine."

Ruyue watched him drink, but didn't dare to talk to him, let alone tell him to drink more slowly.This person just drinks for the sake of drinking, and drinks for the sake of getting drunk. She doesn't know why he is like this, and she can't ask.

Mo Wen opened the second altar, but he didn't have the slightest intention of getting drunk.With his back facing Ruyue, he drank heavily and didn't speak, so Ruyue didn't dare to speak, just thinking silently: Is this person really found by His Royal Highness Prince Yu?

She suddenly saw his shoulders trembling slightly, thinking that he was crying, but she didn't want to hear his low laughter, and then it turned into a loud laugh.But the people outside the window still didn't notice the strangeness here, not even the people inside Ruyuexuan.

Mo Wen laughed for a while, drank the second jar of wine, and jumped out of the window to get the third jar.But Ruyue clearly saw tears in the corners of his eyes, and even...

"You...you are bleeding!"

Mo Wen was startled, as if he had been fixed in place by something, and after a few seconds, he slowly stretched out his hand and touched the center of his brow - there was an extra wound at some point, oozing blood, the shape of the wound was very strange , it didn't look like it was caused by any sharp object, but rather... as if something had been pulled out from there.

He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly wiped off the blood between his eyebrows roughly, then continued to open the wine jar, Ruyue pressed his wrist, and said: "You can't drink any more."

Mo Wen frowned: "Take it away."

"You...don't drink anymore..."

"take away."

Ruyue withdrew her hand, not daring to stop him again, and took a step back.

Mowen drank the last jar of wine very slowly, at the end he was three points drunk, he drank the last sip, shook the empty jar, and said: "Is there any more?"

"Sorry... Ruyue only brought these here, if you want more, Ruyue will go get a few more altars..."

"No need." Mo Wen closed his eyes, but his mind was still clear, "That's it."

He got up, put his hands on the window, and jumped down from the second floor, Kisaragi was startled, hurriedly went over to look, and saw that he had landed on the ground, probably shaking slightly due to the surge of alcohol.None of the pedestrians on the street noticed him, as if this person didn't exist at all.In the blink of an eye, the black clothes had disappeared into the crowd.

After listening to her, Li Xian was silent for a long time, as if the thorn in his heart had been quietly pulled out again.He didn't know what to say, so he picked up the celadon bottle on the desk, stroked the pattern on it, and said, "Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ruyue stood up, knowing that his mood had eased, so she dared to raise her head to face him squarely.

Li Xian pulled out the stopper, and there was some light blue liquid in the bottle, "This thing...how do I drink it?"

"You can drink it directly."

He called a little eunuch to come in and asked him to get a bowl, then poured a little of the liquid in the bottle into a spoon, took a sip, it was sour, and tasted like green plums, after a careful taste, it was a little sweet , It's too sweet, it seems to be a bit bitter.

"Your Majesty..." Ruyue's heart skipped a beat, "If you are worried, just send someone to taste it, or let Ruyue try it, why do you have to taste it yourself?"

Li Xian didn't answer her, but frowned, because the taste was really not good.He put away the bottle and said: "You wait here first, there are chairs, you can sit wherever you want."

"Yes."

He returned to his bedroom with the celadon vase and white porcelain bowl. Mo Wen was still asleep on the dragon couch, but he had recovered his human form, but he hadn't fully recovered, and there were still two dragon horns protruding from the top of his head.

To be honest, it was also the first time Li Xian saw Mo Wen like this. Usually he was either a man or a dragon. He had never been half-human and half-dragon. It is probably rare to see him like this now because he was drunk.

Li Xian poured the light blue liquid into a bowl, and fed him spoonful by spoonful. Mo Wen frowned, as if resisting that the thing was hard to swallow.

Li Xian stretched out his hand to brush away the broken hair on his forehead, there was indeed a scar there, it should be left when he pulled out the dragon scale, but it was so shallow that he couldn't find it for three years.But... this scar is obviously an old scar, and it seems to be a few years old, and the dragon scales there have grown well, so why did it suddenly split open yesterday?

Forget it, let's wait until he wakes up to ask.

Li Xian tucked him in the quilt and returned to the imperial study.