ask willow

That night Wen Yan had just fed Liu Zhongyi the medicine when he heard the creaking sound of the wooden window of the inn. Originally, it was only opened a crack, but now it was wide open, as if blown by the wind, but now it was obviously nothing wind.

"Chirp."

A blue bird flew in from the window and jumped at Liu Zhongyi cheerfully.

"Xiaolan?" Although Liu Zhongyi couldn't see it, the cry was very familiar. He habitually raised his arm to let Xiaolan fall down, and then reached out to touch the little guy, but he didn't find any curled up. The small note, but the back of his hand was scratched a few times without pain.

While he was wondering, he only heard the sound of the window lattice, and a figure came in.

Naturally, Liu Zhongyi couldn't see who it was, Wen Yan raised his eyes and saw that person dressed in night clothes, with a slender figure, a beautiful face, and quite charming eyebrows.

The man also looked at him a few times, the corners of his lips curled slightly, and said: "So your husband is also here."

This was said to Liu Zhongyi.

"Ye Li," Liu Zhongyi also recognized who it was, "Don't talk nonsense."

Ye Li glanced at Wen Yan with a smile, "Really, the last time you came to see me, Master Wen was still following you."

Liu Zhongyi shook his head slightly: "You came here to say this?"

"That's not true," Ye Li walked over and said, "I came all the way to see you, aren't you moved?"

Liu Zhongyi stood still, and Yeli's footsteps were very soft. They had always demanded better lightness skills as assassins, and Yeli's lightness skills were the top among them, so it was a bit troublesome for him to tell the difference.He only heard the man stop in front of him, and the next moment Nephrite Wenxiang suddenly rushed into his arms, only to hear Yeli sigh lazily and comfortably like a kitten.

Liu Zhongyi was caught off guard, took a step back, and accidentally knocked over a chair beside him.

Yeli immediately raised his hand slightly, and shook it in front of his eyes. Seeing that he didn't respond, he immediately raised his eyebrows and said, "I'll just tell you what's wrong, what happened, and tell me the truth."

Liu Zhongyi said indifferently: "It will be fine after a while."

Seeing him like this, Ye Li got angry, turned around to look at Wen Yan, and said coldly, "Is it because of you?"

"It's not because of him," Liu Zhongyi tentatively raised his hand to hold him, "Stop guessing."

Wen Yan did not evade, and said bluntly: "Zhong Yi was indeed injured to save me."

"He is a fool," Ye Li snorted coldly, "If it were me, I would kill you first! Let me tell you, Liu Zhongqing left five years ago because he didn't love you at all. Why do you torture me so much? Zhong Yi, if you want to hate, hate Liu Zhongqing!"

"Ye Li!" Liu Zhongyi put a little force on his shoulder, signaling him to stop talking.

Ye Li broke away impatiently, with a bit of resentment: "Why, just to tell the truth, your heart hurts?"

"..."

"It's okay." Wen Yan was very calm, and said lightly: "You are right, it is my fault."

Ye Li glanced at him and nodded, "Okay, since that's the case, I'll take him away, and Master Wen doesn't have to."

"This won't work," Wen Yan shook his head: "Until Zhong Yi's eyes are cured, I won't leave him."

"Ye Li," Liu Zhongyi patted him on the shoulder lightly, and said, "Don't be angry, this time it was really just an accident. Tell me what's the matter with you here."

Ye Li clenched his fists, finally gave up, turned to look at him, and said, "Lord Xiao asked me to find you back."

Liu Zhongyi frowned and said nothing.

Yeli said: "You don't have to go back if you don't want to. I won't force you. I can tell you that I didn't find you. However, you and him had better disguise yourself. It's not easy to hide it. And, Xiaolan, take a while. Well, it can always find you."

The blue bird bounced on Liu Zhongyi's arm, looking very intimate, Liu Zhongyi nodded: "Thank you."

"I knew it," Ye Li sighed, "I'll help you change your appearance." He turned his head slightly to Wen Yan and said, "Master Wen, please go out first."

"Okay." Wen Yan didn't object, turned and left the room.

After staying outside the room for quite a while, Wen Yan thought about the fact that the poison on Liu Zhongyi's body hadn't repeated itself, and it would be inconvenient for him to share another room with him, so he went downstairs to the counter and asked for an extra room from the waiter in the original room. beside.

When I went upstairs, I saw Ye Li coming out, leaning against the door with arms folded, with a proud and lazy look on his raised eyebrows.

Wen Yan didn't mind, and pushed open the door to the side to invite him in.

After closing the door, Yeli looked at him for a while, took out a human skin mask from his bosom, and said, "I'm not in the mood to change your face, so let's just use this." After thinking for a while, he took out another mask. A pinch of beard that can be mistaken for real, "This is also for you."

Wen Yan smiled slightly and said, "Thank you."

Ye Li sat lightly on the table, with her slender legs stepping on the stool, her sitting posture was actually very elegant, "When I saw you today, Mr. Wen doesn't seem like an unreasonable person."

Wen Yan knew what he meant, so he didn't refute, "People will inevitably lose control and lose their judgment because of love."

Ye Li curled the corners of his lips in disdain, "May I ask, is Master Wen a little bit more judgmental now?"

Wen Yan didn't care about his ridicule, and responded lightly: "I know that Zhong Yi treats me well, and I will never treat him like before."

"It's best like this, but let me remind you again, if you can't let go of Liu Zhongqing, don't provoke Zhongyi, no matter if you are sympathetic, guilty, or anything else," Ye Li raised his eyebrows , said coldly: "I don't want him to hang on your tree."

Wen Yan smiled lightly: "Well, I understand."

Ye Li looked at him suspiciously, his beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, "I see you look like you are still in love with Liu Zhongqing to death."

Wen Yan sighed lowly: "As you said, Zhongqing doesn't love me. He told me five years ago from the very beginning. In the end he chose to leave, not just because of Zhongyi...I hated Zhongyi at the time, indeed I was angry. But the feeling of losing something when I was about to get it is really not good. Today, I am already very tired, so I don’t have the strength to love someone to death.”

"Oh?" Yeli's long and slender fingers gently stroked his chin, "Then... don't you like it at all?"

"I know you want to test me, but to be honest, if you say that you have completely let go, you really haven't yet," Wen Yan said lightly, "At least, I want to get a definite answer to why he left back then."

Ye Li nodded, and jumped down from the stool, his body was light, and he landed silently. He turned and walked to the window, pushed open the carved window, and said without looking back: "It's useless to talk, so I can do it myself."

After saying that, he raised his hand to gently support the window lattice, and the person rolled out and disappeared into the night.

Wen Yan slightly closed his eyes and sighed.

After calming down a bit, he went out and knocked on the door of the next room. Hearing Liu Zhongyi's answer in the room, he opened the door and went in. He saw the man teasing the blue bird. Although his face was expressionless, But it can be seen that the mood is not bad.

"I'll help you change your medicine."

"Oh."

Liu Zhongyi nodded, and began to take off his clothes. When Wen Yan found the medicine bottle and walked over, he had already untied his shirt, showing no signs of shyness.

Wen Yan raised his hand and parted his jet-black hair in front of his body, exposing his pale back, untied the bandage that was bandaged yesterday, and began to change the dressing.

The wound caused by the dart was not serious, and Wen Yan used the best wound medicine. Liu Zhongyi couldn't see it himself, but felt that the wound didn't hurt much, and there was no pain when the medicine powder was reapplied.

When Wen Yan re-bandaged the wound, Liu Zhongyi was about to pull up his clothes, but he heard him say: "Wait a minute."

"Ok?"

Liu Zhongyi waited for a while, then felt a slight chill on the shoulder on the other side, as if some ointment had been applied.

I only heard the person behind him ask: "How did you get this scar?"

"What scar?" Liu Zhongyi didn't know why.

"Like the burnt one."

"I haven't seen it before," Liu Zhongyi said nonchalantly, "It seems to have been there since I was a child. My brother told me. What did you paint on me?"

Wen Yan spread the ointment evenly, and replied: "The medicine will disappear after a few times of application."

Liu Zhongyi frowned: "I'm not a woman."

Wen Yan said helplessly: "You just treat it as my habit. I don't like to leave scars when I treat injuries."

"...as you like."

After the ointment was absorbed a little bit, Wen Yan helped him pull up the clothes behind him.

Liu Zhongyi raised his hand to tie his clothes, and said, "I remember there is a mark on the back of my brother's shoulder."

"Oh?"

"It's similar to cloud pattern, it seems to be a tattoo." Liu Zhongyi recalled for a while, and said, "I can draw it when my eyes are better."

Wen Yan put away the medicine and replied, "Okay, maybe it's also a clue."

"By the way," Liu Zhongyi seemed to think of something suddenly, and turned his head slightly, "You know that brother..." After speaking here, it seemed that he couldn't say the rest, Liu Zhongyi lightly closed his eyes, suddenly he didn't want to ask.

Wen Yan recalled what he said when Yeli was around, and understood what he wanted to ask, so he stood behind him and said in a low voice: "Well, I always knew that Zhongqing doesn't love me."

Liu Zhongyi nodded, as if he didn't intend to say anything more.

Wen Yan raised his hand and pressed lightly on his shoulder, "Zhong Yi, did you know this all along?"

"I didn't know at first," Liu Zhongyi replied, "Later, Yeli told me. He was a partner with my brother before, and he was familiar with him. He told me that he once saw my brother with someone else by accident. I gave my brother a piece of jade pendant."

Liu Zhongyi paused for a moment, Wen Yan realized something, and asked, "Is it the broken piece?"

"Well, that's it."

"Favorite."

"Ok?"

Wen Yan sighed softly, and said, "Since you found out about this later, why didn't you come and question me?"

"To question you?" Liu Zhongyi repeated in doubt.

Wen Yan said: "Just like Ye Li, asking me why I have the right to hate you."

Liu Zhongyi shook his head: "Is there any result for questioning you? At that time, I said... I never told my brother that I like you, and you didn't believe me either."

"Favorite..."

"There is no need to mention the past."

Wen Yan turned to him, looked at him and said, "I believe you now."

Liu Zhongyi seemed to feel his gaze, raised her head slightly, the corners of her lips were slightly curved, her smile was weak, but she did smile, "Yeah."

Wen Yan was flickered by that smile, and then noticed the change on his face - a very handsome and beautiful face, like a rich young man who is ignorant of the world, without any charisma.Originally, Liu Zhongyi's disguise was an inconspicuous face, but his eyes were still cold, and there were swords and swords in between, but now Yeli deliberately modified his eyebrows and eyes, and deliberately sculpted them to be delicate, so that the coldness in his eyes Although there is no spirit in those eyes now, there is a sense of freehand and romantic inexplicably flowing in the light and shadow of the candlelight.

"your face……"

"What?" Liu Zhongyi raised his hand subconsciously to touch it, and the skin under his finger was not a normal touch, "What happened to Yeli?"

Wen Yan couldn't help smiling, and said, "It's... pretty pretty."

Liu Zhongyi frowned upon hearing this: "I understand."

Wen Yan was a little puzzled: "Huh?"

Liu Zhongyi had no choice but to say, "Ye Li..." If he changed his face to look good, he would definitely turn into a flirtatious son or something, but since he can't see it now, forget it, so he changed the subject when he thought of this: "When do we leave here?"

"Let's go tomorrow, and go back to Jianmen first." Wen Yan told him about meeting Yuan Qingfeng, and then said: "I think maybe Senior Yuan can know something."

Liu Zhongyi nodded slightly: "Alright."

"You rest, I'm going back to my room."

"Ah."

After Wen Yan returned to the room next door, he couldn't fall asleep for a while, so he stood by the window and watched the night outside quietly, only then realized that it started to rain at some point, thin, dense, with a little Chill spring rain.

Such weather can easily bring back memories, and he has always been very laissez-faire with memories.

He remembered Liu Zhongqing standing under the pear tree back then, so he asked him so coldly: "Even if I don't love you, do you still want to marry me?"

The man's face was a little pale, looking like the pear tree full of trees, cold and fragile, so he replied: "Well, but I will never force you."

Liu Zhongqing just shook her head with a smile, and said: "I know you are very good, and I know you love me. It's just my friendship with you. If you want it, why don't I want to?"

"Love, have you ever loved someone else?"

"Yes, but he and I will never be together. This is... destined."

At that moment, he saw a little sadness in that person's eyes, but in an instant, those eyebrows and eyes returned to cold and sharp. It seemed that the expression just now was just an illusion, and there was a continuous drizzle from the sky. A few pear blossoms fell from the tree.

At that time, although he got Liu Zhongqing's affirmative answer, he was not as happy as he imagined, and seemed to be infected by his emotions, a little... disheartened.

On the contrary, Liu Zhongqing seemed to be freed from that emotion, and said lightly: "It's raining, let's go back."

In fact, that person may be... the most ruthless.

Wen Yan smiled faintly, closed the window, and blocked the sound of the rain from the window.