This shadow guard is kinda nice

Chu Tanxi came to look for Chu Jiuxiao early in the morning, and waited for him to tidy up. The two left the palace together. Only then did Chu Jiuxiao tell Chu Tanxi that he had a...friend who was coming.

Chu Tanxi was obviously stunned, and it took him a while to ask him who it was.

In the past few years, he has never met anyone other than Zhong Mengze who can get closer to his elder brother. Even Zhong Mengze, Chu Tanxi also knows that he is not really a friend in Chu Jiuxiao's heart, just an acquaintance. Today Chu Jiuxiao told him that a friend is coming? ? ?

Friends, what a fresh word from Chu Jiuxiao's mouth!

Chu Jiuxiao looked calm, ignored his disbelieving gaze, and only said that he was a friend he met by chance.He didn't say how he met by chance.

Chu Tanxi lowered his eyes and said, "It's nothing if I don't say anything. Anyway, I will see someone later. He wants to keep his eyes open and take a good look. Who is the person who can make Chu Jiuxiao a friend?" .

Several people made an appointment to go boating on the lake. It was still early in the day, and there were only scattered boats on the lake.Zhong Mengze had already arrived and was standing on the shore waiting for them. When he saw the two people coming, he greeted them with a smile, greeted them, waved his hands, and said to the boatman, "Get ready to go."

Chu Jiuxiao stopped him with a loud voice, Zhong Mengze looked over suspiciously, Chu Jiuxiao ignored him, and only said to the boatman: "Wait a little longer, there is one more person coming."

The boatman nodded, "Okay."

Zhong Mengze's face instantly became unnatural, and there is one more person?He looked at Chu Tanxi, and seeing that Chu Jiuxiao had no intention of speaking, Chu Tanxi said, "Friend."

Zhong Mengze's first reaction was Chu Tanxi's friend, "Your friend? Who is it? Do I know your brother?"

Chu Tanxi shook his head, pointing his chin in the direction of Chu Jiuxiao, "His friend."

Zhong Mengze's face turned pale, and there was a storm in his heart, Chu Jiuxiao's friend! ! !

In the past five years of acquaintance with him, he has never seen anyone around Chu Jiuxiao who deserves to be called a friend.

Could it be a new friend you just made recently?Zhong Mengze thought about it, but during this period of time, since he went out of the city with him before, he never went out with him again, even if he went down to court and went to find him, Zhuo Yuan used various methods to find him. This kind of reason blocked the door, so counting carefully, after that day, they never saw each other again.

Chu Jiuxiao made friends during this period, so it's not unreasonable to have no time to see him again, but Chu Jiuxiao stays in the palace all day long, where did he make friends?Besides, with his indifferent temperament of rejecting people thousands of miles away and not getting close to strangers, he doesn't believe that someone can break through the defense line of Chu Jiuxiao's heart in just two months and become friends with him.

After a long time, Zhong Mengze suppressed the unexplainable sourness in his heart, and asked Chu Tanxi, "Do you know who his...friend is? Do we know each other?"

Zhong Mengze decided to take a side-by-side first to see if it was someone they knew well.

Chu Tanxi shook his head, he said regretfully: "I don't know, he didn't tell me."

Zhong Mengze groaned, stopped talking, and turned to look at the person who was standing aside, who never looked at him. After thinking for a long time, he made up his mind to ask himself.

It's just that before he could take a step, he smiled when he saw the man who had been as cold as ice.

That smile was so eye-catching, Zhong Mengze inevitably sank into it, he couldn't take that step, Chu Jiuxiao greeted him.

Zhong Mengze seemed to have been poured with a basin of cold water, and his heart was instantly chilled. The smile was not for himself, but for someone who appeared beside Chu Jiuxiao at some point and whom he called a friend.

Chu Tanxi took two steps, and saw that Zhong Mengze was still standing there, looking like a fool, he couldn't help urging: "Go, go and have a look, his friend is here."

Zhong Mengze finally came back to his senses, he wiped his face, forced a smile, "Yes, go see his friend."

See who it is, in just two months, he snatched Chu Jiuxiao away from him.

Chu Jiuxiao saw Xiao Yichen from a distance, the white clothes on him were so good that he saw him right away in the crowd.

When the sun rose in the early morning, the dazzling golden light sprinkled on the world without hesitation, Chu Jiuxiao suddenly remembered a sentence, except for the three feet of snow on your body, no one in the world should wear white clothes.

This is the only person, Chu Jiuxiao thought, and greeted him.

While laughing, Xiao Yichen approached and touched his forehead, saying: "You're so impatient."

Chu Jiuxiao also looked at him and smiled, "I thought you weren't coming."

"No, I promised you, why don't you come." The two walked towards the shore while talking.

Seeing that Chu Tanxi and Zhong Mengze followed, Chu Jiuxiao introduced to Xiao Yichen, "By the way, this is me..."

Before Chu Jiuxiao could finish speaking, Chu Tanxi stopped in his tracks and stared blankly at the person talking to his elder brother. When he glanced at him, he ignored what his elder brother said and just Staring at that face that was prettier than Yu, he would still see this face occasionally when he dreamed back at midnight.

"Chen Ling, why is it you?"

Zhong Mengze's expression also darkened instantly, and he stared at Xiao Yichen with a worried face. He knew that this man was not a good guy, and he was actually Chu Jiuxiao's friend?

Xiao Yichen subconsciously glanced at Chu Jiuxiao beside him from the corner of his eye, afraid that he might misunderstand something, and looked a little guilty, but Chu Jiuxiao's face was calm, as if he was not surprised that he was called Chen Ling by his younger brother.

Xiao Yichen withdrew his gaze calmly, and said lazily: "Yes."

This arrogant and flamboyant young man turned out to be Chu Jiuxiao's younger brother. Presumably, only people in the palace could raise such a wanton and unrestrained temperament.

Chu Jiuxiao was not angry when he was interrupted, but was secretly surprised that his master and Chu Tanxi knew each other.

Then, he thought in a daze of what Chu Tanxi had said to him before, and recalled from a corner, that Chu Tanxi once told him that he was tricked by a man named Chen Ling when he was buying jade.

He couldn't help laughing, for some reason at that time, his heart was inexplicably raised, he only thought that it wasn't Xiao Yichen, and when he heard Chu Tanxi say it was Chen Ling, he breathed a sigh of relief.However, he hadn't recovered his memory at that time, and he forgot that Chen Ling was the name that the master babbled about when he met Ren Mingfeng and Yi Linglong when he went to the martial arts conference.

Now, going round and round, it is a similar scene again.

Chu Tanxi scratched his head, thought about it, and said dryly that you are my brother's...friend.

friend?Xiao Yichen turned his head and glanced at Chu Jiuxiao, but didn't say anything.Chu Jiuxiao coughed uncomfortably. He also said casually before that he didn't want to be friends with the master.

"This is my younger brother, Chu Tanxi," Chu Jiuxiao pointed to Chu Jiuxiao, trying to divert his gaze, "That's the son of the prime minister's family," Chu Jiuxiao raised his chin, "Zhong Mengze."

Zhong Mengze forced a smile, concealed his hostility, nodded to Xiao Yichen and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Chu."

Xiao Yichen ignored the man's gaze that seemed to poke a hole out of him all the time, smiled faintly, and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

"That's all right, let's all get on the boat, don't stand here." Chu Tanxi made a sound at the right time, Zhong Mengze turned around and boarded the boat first, followed by Chu Tanxi.

"Let's go?" Seeing that the two of them had boarded the boat, Chu Jiuxiao secretly reached out and squeezed Xiao Yichen's hand by his side.

Xiao Yichen lowered his head, concealed the thoughtfulness in his eyes, and said, "Let's go."

Xiao Yichen and Chu Jiuxiao went in together, and not long after they sat down, Chu Tanxi came up to the two of them and kept asking how they knew each other?

Chu Jiuxiao's movement of pouring tea on the side paused, but it was Xiao Yichen who put his hands on his lap casually, and he was lazy and casual. Chu Tanxi's heart moved, which was the same as when he suddenly approached him.

Xiao Yichen raised his eyes slightly, glanced at Zhong Mengze who was sitting across from him, he was almost crazy to care, and even pretended not to care, he sneered, and said casually: "When I climbed over the wall at night, I fell into your brother's yard."

Chu Tanxi was stunned for a while, what the hell is this... He pouted, climbed over the wall, and returned to the night.

"The palace is so strictly guarded, you can also sneak in, and you just happened to sneak into my brother's courtyard?"

Xiao Yichen spread his hands, he glanced at Chu Jiuxiao, and said, "Yes, it's such a coincidence."

Chu Tanxi: "..."

Okay, pretend he didn't ask.

"And then you two developed a deep friendship?"

Chu Tanxi still couldn't help being curious.After all, it's not easy to be friends with someone like his brother, and he climbed over the wall at night, so it's good if he didn't get beaten to death.

"Yes." Xiao Yichen nodded, happy.

A deep friendship that can be kissed twice.

Chu Jiuxiao: "..."

Chu Tanxi was speechless again, let's do it, a deep friendship is friendship, maybe his elder brother likes to be friends with this kind of people who come in through the wall at night.

Don't say it, he really wants to.

A few people were chatting casually. After a while, Chu Tanxi wanted to go fishing outside. It just so happened that he could hand it over to the people on the boat to cook and eat. He secretly glanced at Chen Ling and wanted to go with him, but he was his brother's friend , After a little thought, I decided to save the country with a curve.

"Brother, do you want to go fishing with me?"

Chu Jiuxiao subconsciously glanced at Xiao Yichen who was sitting beside him, and saw that he didn't say anything, so he nodded to Chu Tanxi.

Chu Tanxi felt inexplicable. The way his elder brother looked at Chen Ling, he could see clearly that he was a very close friend, and he wouldn't ask his younger brother to go out to play. He had to take a look at the other party first, and wait for him to acquiesce before responding. Bar?

Are they really friends?Chu Tanxi was puzzled.

Before Chu Tanxi could say anything, Zhong Mengze also stood up and said that I would go too.

Now the eyes of several people were all focused on Xiao Yichen, he let out a lazy laugh, and his eyes flicked back and forth on the various expressions of these people.

"go."

Zhong Mengze's complexion sank visibly, Xiao Yichen smiled.

Chu Tanxi took the fishing rod pulled out from some corner, fixed the hook, hooked up the bait sent by the servant on the boat, and sat quietly at the stern of the boat, looking quite similar.

Xiao Yichen came out to watch the fun, so he was too lazy to do anything, so he simply stood aside and watched Zhong Mengze take the fishing rod graciously, fix the hook for Chu Jiuxiao, and then handed the rod back.

Chu Jiuxiao took it and put on the bait. Zhong Mengze watched his movements from the side, passing Xiao Yichen's line of sight, with a smile on his face all the time.

What a gentle and refined son of the prime minister.

Xiao Yichen turned his eyes away, and a sour feeling that he didn't want to admit began to appear in his heart again.

Chu Jiuxiao turned around, walked up to Xiao Yichen, and handed over the fishing rod, "Do you want to fish? It should be interesting."

Xiao Yichen didn't answer, he didn't want to take the things that Zhong Mengze touched, besides, he didn't like fishing in the first place, so it's so boring.

"No, go fishing, I'll just watch you from the sidelines."

Chu Jiuxiao let out a little disappointment, if the master doesn't like it, then don't like it, just fish for him later.

Chu Jiuxiao sat down beside Chu Tanxi to fish, leaving only Xiao Yichen and Zhong Mengze standing opposite each other.Zhong Mengze glanced at Chu Jiuxiao, seeing that he was focused on fishing and had no intention of looking this way at all, so he raised his chin slightly and smiled provocatively at Xiao Yichen.

He is the son of the Prime Minister of Southern Chu, who has been with Chu Jiuxiao for five years. This person who only appeared by Chu Jiuxiao's side for two months, how can he compete with him.

Xiao Yichen ignored his provocative smile, walked to Chu Jiuxiao's side, and sat down.

Zhong Mengze's face darkened again.

Later, except for Xiao Yichen who was empty-handed, everyone else returned with a full load. Chu Tanxi laughed at him from the side, saying that he would not have any fish to eat later.

Xiao Yichen smiled, and just as he was about to talk to the child, Chu Jiuxiao said beside him: "It's okay, I'll give you all the fish I caught later."

Xiao Yichen turned his head to look at his eyes like presenting treasures, couldn't help but reached out and rubbed his head, and in the astonishment of Chu Tanxi's face, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Did you hear that?"

Chu Tanxi was silent, okay, friends are great, and they are much more favored than his younger brother.Not only give the fish to eat, but also let him touch his head, if he touches Chu Jiuxiao's head with his own hands...

Chu Tanxi shuddered, it would be strange if his brother didn't kick him eight meters away.

A few people talked and laughed and went back to the boat. Zhong Mengze was a step behind. He saw Chu Jiuxiao's defense of Chen Ling and clenched his hands tightly. If he didn't know the situation of the Nanchu royal family, he would almost If you want to wonder if Chen Ling is his brother or something, why do you care so much about a friend?

After a while, the whole fish feast was brought to the table, and there were various small desserts. Zhong Mengze glanced at Chen Ling, stood aside and said, "Jiu Xiao doesn't like sweets very much, how about you? If you don't like it, just take it away." Bar."

Chu Jiuxiao's expression turned cold in an instant, Chu Tanxi frowned, what happened to Zhong Mengze today, he has been acting strangely, although his elder brother really doesn't like sweets, but that's not the case, right?

"Come on, does Chen Ling like it?" Chu Tanxi raised an eyebrow at Xiao Yichen who was sitting opposite, "Really?"

Xiao Yichen let out a cry, he leaned back and raised his eyes, although he was looking up, he didn't mean to be at a disadvantage in the slightest, and even pushed Zhong Mengze down.

"Yeah, I really like it."

Who doesn't know what Chu Jiuxiao likes?You know him well, right?five years?Is it long?

Xiao Yichen's teeth itched in anger.

Chu Jiuxiao squeezed his hand on his lap, and patted it lightly, Xiao Yichen felt a little more relieved.

Zhong Mengze just wanted to show off in front of Chen Ling, so that he would know how much he knew Chu Jiuxiao, but it seemed that he had done something wrong and made Chu Jiuxiao unhappy. He sat down dejectedly, listening to Chu Jiuxiao waving Withdrew the servant, saying that there was no need to withdraw.

After the whole fish feast, which was neither good nor bad, Chu Jiuxiao was so bored in the boat that he wanted to go outside for a while, Zhong Mengze got up and said, "I'll go with you."

Chu Jiuxiao waved his hand and said, "No need." He was polite and distant.

Xiao Yichen stopped chatting with Chu Tanxi, glanced at Zhong Mengze whose face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhong, please talk to Tanxi for a while, I'll just go with him."

Zhong Mengze just watched Chu Jiuxiao helplessly and followed Chen Ling out without saying a word.

He clenched his sleeves tightly and stared at Chen Ling's leaving back for a long time.

Chu Tanxi was not annoyed that Xiao Yichen left him and went out with his brother, his brother's friend should also be towards him, he smiled and beckoned Zhong Mengze to sit down, and continued chatting with him.

Zhong Mengze didn't listen to what Chu Tanxi said at all. What went back and forth in his mind was Chu Jiuxiao smiling at Chen Ling, and the back view of him coldly rejecting him just now, but following Chen Ling out.

He got up suddenly, and in the eyes of Chu Tanxi, what are you doing, he left a sentence, "I'm bored in the boat, I'll go out and have a sit, and then leave."

The boat was empty at once, only Chu Tanxi was left. He looked at the leaving figure mockingly for a while, and then smiled.

Zhong Meng's face was sullen, he didn't know what he was going to do, he was unwilling to find Chu Jiuxiao, and asked him personally, how could he be inferior to the person who had only appeared by his side for two months?

He walked quickly, not knowing where he was going, he turned angrily, but quickly retreated, his body was hidden behind the boat, shaking slowly, his eyes were bloodshot, and his hands were bruised. rise.

With that quick glance just now, he only saw that Chen Ling was pressing down on the person he had been thinking about for a long time, kissing.

The author has something to say: Xiao Yichen: I'm so angry!!!

Mo Ran stood on tiptoe, kissed Xiao's lips, comforting him silently

Xiao Yichen: I'm fine again^^