If you don't go to the house, you are not a gentleman

"It's really not like you to say that you go on the road alone."

A crisp voice came from where Fan Xi left.

The corner of An Le's lips twitched suddenly.

"It came earlier than I thought."

A slender and short figure came out of the darkness, with black clothes and black hair, bright eyes and a thin waist.

An Le glanced at the figure's back, the long knife was very abrupt, and said with a smile, "Did you get the thing?"

The sword ghost snorted coldly, pulled out the branch of the plum blossom stuffed in the scabbard, and threw it in front of An Le.

"I really don't understand why you want plum blossoms?"

An Le picked up the plum blossom branch and said, "Well, is it still early? Some buds haven't opened yet."

Dao Gui raised his eyebrows.

An Le caressed the petals of the plum blossom absent-mindedly, and said with a smile: "This is something I promised to others, of course I have to do it."

"Your magistrate?"

An Le smiled.

Dao Gui was suddenly speechless, "You just gave him a plum blossom? Or did you pick it from his county mansion?"

An Le touched her nose, "Well, it's not a loss."

"..."

"Make him a cup of tea."

"...You just take a cup of tea as a betrothal gift?"

Now it's An Le's turn to be speechless, "Bowage gift?"

Sword Ghost thought about it carefully, "Oh, that's wrong, it's a dowry."

The corner of An Le's mouth twitched, and he said sarcastically, "I don't know what the dowry you gave to the ghost doctor will be like." He especially pronounced the word "dowry" very seriously.

The sword ghost didn't care, shrugging his shoulders and said: "At least my scabbard is very valuable." It was almost covered with jewels, gold and silver.

An Le recalled the scabbard that could blind the eyes in the sun, and decided to avoid this topic.

After a moment of silence between the two, Dao Gui said, "Your punishment has already come down."

An Le raised her eyebrows, "Oh? What is it?"

"Beheaded."

"How many days?"

"Three days later."

An Le thought about it seriously, "This shouldn't hurt. But, since you know I'm going to go to Huangquan Road, why are you alone to see me off?"

"Who said he was the only one?"

The clear and bright voice came, as if washing people's hearts like the sound of a flute.

The corner of An Le's mouth twitched, "Sure enough, wherever there is a sword ghost, there is a ghost doctor."

Holding a bright red oil-paper umbrella in his hand, the ghost doctor smiled and said, "You're talking the wrong way."

An Le shrugged, "Where's Baili?"

The ghost doctor thought for a while, and said as tactfully as possible: "The news about Baili in the capital seems to have spread..."

An Le nodded knowingly, "Hide him well."

The ghost doctor smiled slightly, and started to get to the point, "Are you really going to die generously like this?"

"of course."

The knife ghost snorted coldly.

The ghost doctor smiled gently, "The An Le I know is not a kind person who sacrifices himself for others."

The corner of An Le's mouth lightly raised, "Well, you're right."

"So what are you planning? Or, what are you planning?"

"It's nothing," An Le said with a slight smile, "It's just that I thought of a way to get the best of both worlds."

"Oh?"

An Le played with the red plum in his hand, "Although His Royal Highness the Third Prince has gotten rid of this scapegoat, his suspicion cannot be removed so easily. Since the people behind him can frame him, they can also keep him from being stained." , Therefore, on the day of execution, I will find a way to escape, and I will be wanted thousands of miles away, and I will no longer be able to pay attention to the third prince."

The ghost doctor listened to him quietly, but smiled meaningfully: "Is it really just for this?"

An Le froze.

"An Le is not a person who is willing to dedicate himself to others, and there is more than one way to do it, right?"

An Le looked down at the plum blossoms and said nothing.

The ghost doctor finally said, "You want to owe the third prince a favor? Does this really make him feel guilty, or is it something he can't forget? Oh, what a trick."

Sword Ghost looked at An Le's side face, An Le raised his eyes and said, "If you owe a lot, it will become like this, but this is indeed what I came up with, the only way to protect him."

"Anle, we have warned you many times, don't go into this muddy water - you are too deep."

"Oh, really? What a coincidence, I know it too. By the way, remember to bring something to make tea tomorrow, otherwise how can I make plum tea?"

"...An Le, you are hopeless!"

……

The next day, Fan Xi came again to tell him his punishment.

Unexpectedly by Fan Xi, An Le was surprisingly calm. She took out a red plum blossom that was in full bloom from somewhere, and asked him with a smile—"Would you like a cup of plum blossom tea?"

Fan Xi was suddenly a little annoyed.

"Aren't you worried about your own safety?"

An Le smiled and said, "What's there to worry about? Even if my head is severed, I'm still worthy of death."

Fan Xi was so angry that he couldn't even speak: "..."

An Le raised his eyebrows and looked at Fan Xi's angry expression, and teased, "Could it be that you want me to plead with you?"

Fan Xi, who was distracted: "..." The target is too smart, he can't play!

An Le restrained her laughing attitude, "There is a kind of person in the world who sacrifices himself to benefit others, which is called a 'gentleman'; Which one?"

Fan Xi didn't understand the meaning of his sudden change of topic, and was speechless for a moment.

An Le continued on her own, "I'm not of any kind. Self-denial hurts him, and helping him is selfish. I'm nothing but a gentleman—"

"What do you mean?"

An Le took a deep breath, and said seriously: "It means, 'Let's do it like this'."

Fan Xi was stunned.

An Le held up the red plum and smiled brightly, "Your Highness, don't you still believe that I am innocent?"

"..."

"Too naive, isn't it?"

"..."

"However, the plum blossom tea promised at that time, I can be regarded as fulfilling it?"

"..."

"If His Highness pushed me on the road, I would also smile and step on the road to Huangquan."

Fan Xi stared at the bright red plums, then glanced at the wound on the corner of An Le's mouth, his unfeeling words echoed in his ears, and his anger engulfed him like a huge wave!

In the end, he walks away.

An Le gradually suppressed the smile on the corner of her mouth, gradually put down her hand holding the red plum, and finally sighed in a low voice after a while: "I really don't want to owe him anything."

……

Three shifts.

As expected, the ghost doctor came with a teapot and helped An Le light a fire by the way.

The faces of the two looked dull in the flickering firelight.

Dao Gui half squatted looking at the teapot, and asked absent-mindedly, "An Le, I realize that I really can't read you."

"kindness?"

"Since you want the third prince to never forget, why do you say those things?"

An Le raised her eyebrows, "Are you eavesdropping?"

"...that's not the point."

"When did I say I wanted him to remember me?"

"...That's not the point."

An Le shrugged and said, "Then I really can't find the point."

"..." No one can wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, so no one can get anything out of a person who is pretending to be stupid.

So, until the water in the teapot was boiling, the ghost doctor didn't ask An Le any more questions.

The ghost doctor patted the dust on the corner of his clothes, smiled at An Le and said, "It's time for me to go back to accompany that little ghost." He smiled very complacently.

Even if he still can't beat An Le in the quarrel, at least he can beat An Le in this point.

Anle's mouth twitched.

"Walk slowly, don't send!"

An Le poured himself a cup of plum blossom tea sullenly, stared at the ghost doctor's back, and took a sip angrily.

"Hiss! It's hot!"