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Yuan Pinghou didn't stay in Jiankang for a long time. He came out of the Prime Minister's Mansion after having a long talk with Wang Hong that day. He took a deep breath and never felt that the world was so beautiful.

Meeting Cen Li was his salvation from heaven, and so is letting go.

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Zhao Ying in Ruyin County.

Cen Li carried him back to the couch, and said something. He didn't understand the language of the Huns, but he didn't have time to think about it. Soon someone took a slapped wooden box and handed it to Cen Li. Cen Li sat by the couch, opened the wooden box, dug out a piece of ointment and applied it on his face.

Half of his face was broken, the Huns stomped his head on the ground and rubbed it hard.Originally, those ointments were as uncomfortable as being pricked by a needle, but Ji Dong didn't feel much. Instead, he felt that Cen Li's hand touched his skin and felt itchy. The itching of the heart scratching the lungs.

After applying the ointment, Cen Li put down the wooden box and said to him, "You Liang people gave this to me when you came to our grassland. It will get better soon after you wipe it on. It won't hurt, right?"

What he said was Liang dialect, which made Lin Yi stunned for a long time before he realized it.

"Are you surprised?" Cen Li said, slapping Lin Yi with his hand, "Have you never seen a barbarian who speaks Liang dialect so fluently?"

Lin Yi retreated into the couch. Not long ago, he was abused by a group of barbarians. The fear had not yet dissipated. He subconsciously avoided contact with the barbarians, and did not answer Cen Li's words.

At that time, Cen Li was still the prince, he often laughed, treated people very well, talked a lot, and often teased the soldiers.

Lin Yi was unarmed and seriously injured. He couldn't escape from the prince's tent that was always guarded. He was thrown inside alone. I don't know what Liu Huaxin wanted to do. He wanted to wait for him to heal before continuing to torture him. ?Or just treat him like a pillow toy?

Ji Dong thought over and over again, his eyelids were heavy, he curled up, turned on his side, and fell into a deep sleep.

Ji Dong woke up from this sleep and was still dizzy. He stood up, looked at the sunlight coming in from outside the tent, and sighed secretly that he was so big-hearted that he slept until dawn in the enemy camp.

The wounds on his face had scabbed over, and his stomach was growling a few times, but Lin Yifu didn't care. If someone brought food at this time, he had to pay attention.

Just as Lin Yi sat up on the couch, Cen Li came in with food, heard his stomach growling, and kindly ordered his servants to bring another bowl.

Lin Yi: "..."

Cen Li sat on the table, took the bowl and started to eat by himself.

When someone brought the food, Cen Li had already finished eating. Seeing that the food was not too full, Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, but still brought it up and ate it.

-

Cen Li seemed to be very busy, and he barely saw each other for a few days. Lin Yi stayed in the prince's tent for half a month, and saw him three times in total. After half a month, his injuries healed a lot, and he walked on the ground. no problem.

Until one day, there was a civil turmoil in the Zhao army, and all the gatekeepers left. Lin Yi took the opportunity to escape.

After solving the beatings of nearly a hundred people, Cen Li returned to his tent and sat down. After reading the book of war for a long time, Jijilang walked in shyly, and said to Cen Li: "Your Highness, this subordinate has neglected his duty. That person escaped." gone."

Cen Li put down his military book and said, "Who?"

"That, the Liang man you kept in the tent, that one with a wound on his face..."

"Oh? I actually forgot that there was such a person." Cen Li waved his hands, and continued to immerse himself in the book of war, "It's nothing, I'm not a big shot, just leave as you go, I won't punish you."

The man holding the halberd thanked him again and again, and left happily.

-

Lin Yi returned to his barracks, successfully received the high-ranking aristocratic clans who went south, and soon returned to Jianjian to recover.

At that time, Lin Yi still had an official position. He went to Jianguo with General An Dong and the governor of Yangzhou's military, Chen Huai, and naturally got a moderate official position. This time he returned to Jiankang and told Chen Huai that he would resign. Although Chen Huai was not reconciled to such a talent as him living in seclusion here, but after listening to Yushi tell him about his experiences in the Zhao army, he agreed.

As soon as he walked out of the palace, he heard someone saying that King Yuhe had also arrived in Jiankang. Lin Yi paused, thinking that he had learned from the chaos of the Seven Kings, and he dared to mess without the emperor's summons Come on, it's really reckless.

Without his official position, Lin Yi lived in an inn, and soon Chen Cheyun came to look for him in person.

Lin Yi saw Chen Cheyun, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and asked with a smile if he wanted tea or wine.Chen Cheyun's expression was not very good, he sat down on the desk, leaned over to approach Lin Yi's face, and stared at him.

"No more, no scars at all." Lin Yi straightened his back.

The scars are all in my heart, I can't see them.

"Go back to Runan with me right away." Chen Cheyun said dissatisfiedly: "You said you stayed well in Runan, what are you doing as an aide of King Langya? You went to war, and you followed him for at least two years. Is the life of blood licking on the battlefield and official intrigues good? Is it better than chatting and fishing with me in Runan?"

Lin Yi thought for a while, and it was indeed the case. Without a word of rebuttal, he followed Chen Cheyun back.

-

In November of that year, there was a news that shocked the whole dynasty.

Chongyan rebelled, killing the king and usurping the throne.

Chen Cheyun laughed loudly after hearing the news, saying that the way of heaven is reincarnation.

All the diners followed suit.

Only Lin Yi lowered his head, and the veins in Yu Wei's hands were exposed.

-

In Jingyi Restaurant, the predecessor of Baixianglou, a girl holding a pipa is walking around with her waist twisted. Her name is Bai Fu, and she is the real behind-the-scenes shopkeeper of this restaurant.

She plans to hold a grand slave auction, and the slave is naturally the exiled Huns.

Everyone said that this was a woman who risked her life to make money.

At night, Jingyi Building was not quiet.Because Yu and Wang also appeared, and Ji Dong was by his side.

The women in the Hongchen restaurant had already cultivated a pair of snobbish eyes. Bai Fu knew that the two were either rich or noble, and immediately went up to greet them enthusiastically and said: "This way please, two gentlemen, the two young masters look at each other, concubine The best location has been prepared, and you two will be satisfied, come."

There were two shadows under Lin Yi's eyes, his eyes were half downcast, and he looked listless and repelled others.

Chen Cheyun was much more natural, nodded his head, glanced at the people around him secretly, and said to the girl twisting her waist, "Prepare more lychees, I will get drunk on the building."

Bai Fu smiled and said: "The wine is ready, let someone go to Bingjian to fetch the lychee. I will guide the two young masters."

"Don't pay too much attention to these people, you have the right to come out to relax. There will be a good show here later." Chen Cheyun said to Lin Yi, "You have been bored in the mansion for a few days, and you still look like this when you come out with me? "

In fact, Chen Cheyun brought him here because of Lin Yi's insinuations and sarcasm from time to time during the talks, and it was Chen Cheyun who helped smooth things over for him. Later, Lin Yi simply didn't participate, and stayed at the house by himself. Sitting, sometimes for a whole day at a time.Chen Cheyun grew up with Lin Yi, and it was the first time he saw him as if he had lost his soul, so he had to think of other ways to enlighten him.

Recently, the Xiongnu Zhao State was overthrown by Chongyan. This is a good thing that in the eyes of Liang people, evil will be rewarded with evil.The bandits who occupied their land were killed by another man, even though this other man was also a Yidi.

Chen Cheyun heard that there was a slave auction here, and the auctions were all Huns. The atmosphere of celebration would definitely infect Lin Yi and make him happy.

Everything is distorted, all people are exulting in the pain of unrelated people, and then say that evil comes around.

Lin Yi turned a deaf ear to it, and subconsciously avoided the woman who bumped into him head-on, frowned, and was about to turn around and leave.

Chen Chen Cheyun quickly went to hold him back: "Hey wait a minute, Ziyou, don't go, there is a big show here today, you will definitely like it! Trust me."

Lin Yi frowned, and turned to look at him.

"Come on, come on, I really didn't lie to you, you will be happy when you see it!" Chen Cheyun thought: You were captured by the Huns in Ruyin before, and you will see the slaves of the Huns being auctioned off on the stage as if they were objects. It will be very hating!

Ji Dong: "When will it start?"

Seeing that he finally didn't resist him, Chen Cheyun pulled him inside and said, "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! Let's go have a drink first, and ignore these poor women, let's go."

The scale of the auction was unprecedentedly grand, and the audience was crowded with red-eyed crazy people who kept holding signs and shouting for bids. Amidst waves of cheers, the finale was ushered in.

The crowd suddenly became quiet, even breathing cautiously, everyone clenched the signs in their hands eager to try, keeping their eyes on the stage, for fear of missing something.

The person who was dragged to the stage was not in a panic, probably because it was the finale of a big show, so he cleaned it up specially, but it was a man, which inevitably disappointed the audience, and the sound of sighing and cursing sounded like a frying pan.

Chen Cheyun watched the audience's reaction with great satisfaction. They were in the upper room upstairs with a window, admiring the ugly behavior of all living beings from above.

"It's disgusting." Chen Cheyun couldn't help shaking his head and sighed, then looked at Lin Yi opposite him: "You mean... Ziyou?"

Later, Ji Dong bought Cen Li back with a moderate amount of money. He didn't know that the slave would be branded with the buyer's name after being confirmed as the buyer.

He will never know.

After that day, Lin Yi moved out of Yuhe Prince's Mansion. Although he lost his official position, he was still Yuan Ping Hou and never lacked money.He bought a thatched cottage in a not-so-prosperous area of ​​Runan, and lived in it with the newly bought slaves, just the two of them.

"Do you still recognize me?"

This was the first sentence Ji Dong said to Cen Li, and it was also the sentence he repeated the most times.But Cen Li didn't respond to him, or since he was brought to him by the people of Jingyi Building, he kept his eyes down and didn't speak.

Ji Dong found a doctor to heal his wounds, but the old doctor saw that he was a Hun, so he scolded Lin Yi bloody and left in awe.

Cen Li still lowered his head and didn't look straight at Ji Dong.Lin Yi sat down beside him and stayed together in a daze until dusk. When Lin Yi was hungry, he cooked the meal himself and handed it to Cen Li. Cen Li took it and ate it mechanically. Looking at Ji Dong, he didn't say anything.

At night, Lin Yi spread the couch, lit a fire in the room, handed him a hand stove, looked at him worriedly, and slowly exited the room.

That night Ji Dong slept very restlessly, he had to get up every half an hour to secretly take a look at Cen Li, to make sure he was still alive before he dared to go to sleep.

Lin Yi gave up on explaining his identity to him. They had to start talking about when Cen Li was the prince when they met. He was afraid that Cen Li would be sad.It's just like this, take care of him with a new identity, he has no official, Cen Li is not the prince, it's quite good.

On the third day, when they were having dinner together, Cen Li suddenly said, "My name is Cen Li."

Lin Yi ecstatically talked to him a lot about some interesting things in the past, and Cen Li occasionally said "um" or "oh", but still didn't look at him.

The happy days are always short, until the fourth day of their relationship, Chongyan called to Runan, and it was Chen Cheyun who personally rushed to the thatched cottage to tell him the news.

Lin Yi was helping Cen Li wash his clothes. It was freezing cold, and his fingers were red from the cold.

Chen Cheyun: "You... what are you doing?"

"It's nothing." Ji Dong stood up, found a cloth to wipe his hands clean, and motioned him to talk elsewhere.

The two sat down in the appallingly cold side room. Chen Cheyun quickly passed the stove over to Lin Yi, and muttered, "You have moved out for many days and you haven't visited me. I really don't understand. Help me!" When a slave washes clothes, do you serve him or he serve you..."

"He's not a slave." Ji Dong said solemnly without taking the stove.

Ever since he came out of Jingyi Building that day, Lin Yi has changed. He moved out and devoted all his attention to a slave who was bought with money.Chen Cheyun grew up with him, knowing that Lin Yi was serious this time, although it was very uncomfortable, he didn't say anything.With such a big body, he can fulfill all the things this person does, which is something more rare and precious than love.

Lin Yi broke the embarrassing atmosphere and said, "So Chongyan's soldiers and horses have set up camp near Yingshui? What about the court's movements?"

"Yes, Lord Inspector has reported to the court a long time ago, but he has not received any news." Chen Cheyun sighed, and said, "Do you think Brother Huang...will give up Runan?"

Ji Dong fell into a long silence. Both of them knew the answer to this question, and it was useless to say it. It was much better to rot in the stomach.

Chen Cheyun was still holding the hand stove, he hesitated a few times but retracted his hand, forced a smile and said: "I will not give up here, this is my home, this is not only Runan, but also our home, right Ziyou? You will guard Runan with me, right?"

Ji Dong looked at him and nodded slowly.

Only three days later, when Cen Liken finally looked at Ji Dong, suddenly the sound of war drums sounded outside the city, frightening Lin Yi so much that he knocked over a plate and broke it on the spot.

He comforted Cen Li, locked the door before leaving, and ran to Yuhe Palace to find someone.

Chen Cheyun was not around, so he ran to the gate of the city. Sure enough, King Yuhe, who was extremely noble as a relative of the emperor, was standing on the gate tower directing the soldiers to defend the city.

Lin Yi went up to the tower to watch the situation. Chen Cheyun turned to look at him, and said with a smile, "Why are you here? The emperor didn't send anyone, so you want to wrap your body in horse leather with me?"

Lin Yi: "Stop talking nonsense, the most important thing is to guard the city gate. Chongyan's offensive is so fierce, is it okay?!"

Chen Cheyun: "To be honest, I didn't know what to do before, but once you came, I have no idea..."

It happened that a boulder fell down, and Lin Yi couldn't hear Chen Cheyun's next words clearly. He was about to ask him what to say, but saw that the situation on the battlefield had changed. forget.

At night, Chongyan finally stopped attacking the city.

Chen Cheyun walked into the tower, he was so tired that he couldn't open his eyes, he ordered his servants to bring some wine, and wanted to chat about some interesting things before he wrapped his body in horse leather with Lin Yi.

The moonlight is dim, the lights are like beans, and the night is biting cold. The outside of the city tower is very dark. There are countless corpses lying on the ground. The night wind blows the dilapidated flags on the tower. Only the world illuminated by this light is warm. .

"Swear to live and die with Runan County."

As Chen Cheyun said, he raised his wine bowl and touched Lin Yi.

-

In the middle of the night, Chongyan suddenly launched an attack, the city wall trembled in the dark night, and the broken "Liang" flag was blown off by the strong wind.

That night, Xuanhu City was broken, and Runan County fell.

After all, Chen Cheyun had a noble status and was surrounded by many master guards. He escaped safely, but Lin Yi disappeared.

Lin Yi left.

Alone, Chen Cheyun watched the flag being broken by the wind and the gate of Xuanhu City being knocked open by Yidi.

No one shrouded his body in horse leather with him, so he had no idea of ​​being buried with Runan County.

-

Ji Dong was sitting in the carriage with Cen Li inside, and the carriage went all the way south, leaving the flames of war behind.

Cen Li wanted to get out of the car several times to fight Chong Yan with his own strength, but Lin Yi violently stopped him. He held the struggling Cen Li in his arms and told him that everything was over.

It was at that time that everything developed to an irreversible place.

Cen Li didn't hate Ji Dong, he hated everyone at that time, when Lin Yi took him away from Runan, what he was thinking at the time was not how to thank Ji Dong for saving his life, but that this time he would be resold as an item To whom, even though Lin Yi repeatedly explained to him that he was going to take him to a safe place, Cen Li didn't believe it.

If someone tells you that he will treat you well after being reduced to a subjugated slave, everyone will be suspicious.

And there was still a dull pain in his chest, and the wound branded with the word "Yi" kept reminding him that this was the person who bought him back with money.

Lin Yi did his best to take care of Cen Li all the way, but Cen Li didn't give him any response. A few times, Lin Yi secretly held him in his arms while he was asleep. After a few moves, they were all defeated due to being outnumbered.

Ji Dong sent him to his home in Shanyin, Kuaiji. This was the safest place he could think of, far away from war and power centers. Here the mountains were high and the water was clear. He and Cen Li could live in seclusion and ignore world affairs.

The news of Runan's fall reached Chen Huai's ears, and he was summoned to Jiankang by the emperor's decree, and separated from Cen Li again.

And after this farewell, seeing each other again, things have changed.

-

Lin Yi didn't bring any servants with him when he went out this time. He came to Runan alone. His second home was once abandoned by him ruthlessly and taken back from the thief by Chen Cheyun.

He didn't intend to see Chen Cheyun, and he couldn't think of any other good reason to tell him that he left that night because after he woke up, he found that Chongyan had shot an arrow into the pillar of the tower with the words "Hand over Cen." Retreat immediately."

Lin Yi got off the boat, thanked the boatman, and headed in the opposite direction to Xuanhu City. There are too many good memories in Xuanhu City, and too many pasts that he dare not think of.

Now that he has no official position and a light body, he can go wherever he likes, no one stops him, even if he wants to go to the Huns' lair to find Cen Li, but he knows that Liu Huiye's ascension to the throne means that Cen Li is no longer in Pingyang.

Where should I go?The world is big, but there is no home, which can accommodate a man like him who is eight feet long.

While hesitating, a person suddenly came over, looked at his face carefully for a while, and said ecstatically, "I found it, this is the person His Highness is looking for!! I found it!"

Lin Yi: "?"