I crossed again? !

In the evening, after finally getting out of the woods, I arrived at a small town.Bai Ziyuan, who was screaming tired after driving all day, really became active at this time, walking in the front and looking for inns to eat and rest.

"Master, this place is not full!" Bai Ziyuan pointed to a small inn not far away, and ran into it excitedly. Several people followed him and went in too.

"Xiao Er, please give us some rooms!"

"Okay——" the waiter looked up at Bai Ziyuan and the four people who came behind him, and said apologetically, "Oh, sir, I'm really sorry. There are five of you here, but we only have four rooms. You see..."

Unexpectedly, before Bai Ziyuan could speak, Shu Yuanli from behind had already come over.He said calmly: "Four rooms are just right." Anyway, Chu Changxuan and Bai Ziyuan will sleep in the same room at that time, and it would be redundant to ask for five rooms.

"Wait a minute!" Bai Ziyuan stretched out his hand, stopped Shu Yuanli's hand who was about to pay, and said, "Who said four rooms are just right? Er, just give us three rooms!"

"Hey..." Shu Yuanli looked at the puzzled Bai Ziyuan, frowned and said, "Bai Ziyuan, there are five of us, how can we sleep in three rooms?"

"You're stupid!" Bai Ziyuan glanced at Chu Shangxuan and the other three sitting over there, leaned closer to Shu Yuanli and whispered, "I'm creating opportunities for you and Zexi! Master is with you, and you don’t have a chance to go there, so it’s nice to have a good talk in a room. Hee hee, you don’t have to thank me too much!”

Shu Yuanli pursed her lips, and said hesitantly, "This way, it's not very good..."

"What's wrong?" Bai Ziyuan sighed, with a look of hatred for iron and steel: "You are really a jerk! I said, the ice cube Shu Yuanli in front of me before, is not like this! Why are you so cowardly when you're in front of Ze Xi!"

After Bai Ziyuan finished speaking, regardless of Shu Yuanli's willingness or not, he turned around and said, "Master, what a coincidence, Xiao Er said that there are only three rooms here today!"

"Huh?" Hearing this, Xiao Er, who was lowering her head to settle accounts, raised her head to look at Bai Ziyuan with a blank expression.Just as she was about to speak, she was so frightened by Bai Ziyuan's look that she immediately shut her mouth.

"That……"

Before Yi Qingchen could speak, Bai Ziyuan said first: "Master, don't worry, when the time comes, I will be in the same room with Shangxuan, and Shu Yuanli and Zexi will be fine. Hehe, we are all from the same family, so there is no need to squeeze." It's related. Right, Zexi?"

"Huh?" Ning Zexi, whose name was suddenly mentioned, seemed to be distracted just now.After a while, he came back to his senses, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and said with a smile: "Of course, I can do it."

"Okay." Bai Ziyuan nodded, patted Shu Yuanli on the shoulder, and asked without hesitation: "Shu Yuanli is also okay, right? Okay, I understand, since you don't have any objections, let's go." !” After speaking, he went upstairs before anyone else could answer.

Chu Changxuan glanced over there, Yi Qingchen and Ning Zexi, who had been tricked but didn't know it, said again: "Master, this disciple will take you up."

"it is good."

As soon as the two left, suddenly only Shu Yuanli and Ning Zexi were left.Shu Yuanli didn't know what to say for a while, and Ning Zexi didn't seem to want to talk to him.

After a stalemate like this for a while, Shu Yuanli was finally ready to speak first.Unexpectedly, just after he uttered the word "Ze", Ning Zexi said first again: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, please go up earlier." After speaking, he saluted Shu Yuanli again, and then turned around up.

And Shu Yuanli, who was thrown at the end, looked at Ning Zexi's back and still didn't react.After a long while, he sighed helplessly, and said in his heart: "Shu Yuanli, Shu Yuanli, Bai Ziyuan said you are a jerk, but you are really a jerk!"

"Shuang—" Bai Ziyuan threw away the burden, walked comfortably to the bed and lay down.Afterwards, Chu Changxuan who had arranged for Yi Qingchen also walked in, seeing Bai Ziyuan's contented appearance, the corners of his lips could not help but bend slightly.

Chu Changxuan put down his burden, sat on the stool and poured himself a cup of tea.Bai Ziyuan turned to look at him, and said leisurely: "How about it, is Ze Xi and that guy Shu Yuanli together?"

"That's right." Chu Changxuan took a sip of tea from his cup, and said with a smile, "When I came back just now, I saw Yuanli go in. But you are really good, and you can think of this way."

Hearing this, Bai Ziyuan smiled triumphantly: "That's right, you don't even look at who I am! Young master's intelligence is not something everyone can learn! But I only hope that Shu Yuanli can live up to his expectations, don't I wasted a great opportunity."

"maybe."

Over there, Ning Zexi was sitting on a stool, drinking tea quietly, facing Shu Yuanli who was holding a historical story, and glanced at him pretending to be casual from time to time.But he watched it for a long time, and there were a lot of things he wanted to say, but he still didn't know what to say.

Ning Zexi put down the teacup, was staring at Shu Yuanli, and immediately shifted his gaze to the history.Naturally, he had already noticed it, Shu Yuanli cast his gaze on him.But he didn't say anything, and continued to drink the tea in his hand.

Shu Yuanli held the historical events in his hand, but he kept thinking about what Bai Ziyuan said during the day: "Be thick-skinned, thick-skinned, thick-skinned!"

"Zexi!" Shu Yuanli slapped the history on the table suddenly, raised his head and looked at Ning Zexi seriously.The latter just put down his teacup and said calmly: "The minister is here, what is the emperor's order?"

"I... you, can you, stop calling me the emperor?"

"No." Ning Zexi thought for a while, and continued: "My father taught me before that the emperor is the emperor and the minister is the minister, and the status should not be confused. In the past, the emperor was His Highness the third prince, but now, the emperor is like this. The king of the entire Qi Ming country. How can a minister break the rules and call the emperor by his name."

"But Bai Ziyuan and Changxuan, they don't care about my status as emperor, and their attitude towards me remains the same as before. Why has it become an insurmountable dead rule when they come to you?"

"I don't know what other people are like. But these are the rules of the Ning family. As the younger generation of the Ning family, you should abide by them."

"Ning Zexi, you!" Shu Yuanli couldn't resist Ning Zexi's attitude, but he didn't know what to do with him.Reluctantly, he pursed his lips, leaving only one sentence: "You can rest in the room alone tonight." He took the sword and left.

After leaving the room, Shu Yuanli looked at the long corridor, not knowing where to go.I simply went downstairs directly. Although it was night, there were quite a few diners downstairs.As soon as Shu Yuanli put down his sword, he wanted to drink, but thought that he couldn't drink well and had to go on the road tomorrow, so he switched to tea instead.

Over there, Yi Qingchen didn't know when she left the inn, and now she came back and passed by below, and happened to see Shu Yuanli sitting there alone.He paused, then walked behind Shu Yuanli and coughed lightly.

"Huh?" Shu Yuanli came back to his senses, turned his head to look at the person who came, "Master, Master."

Yi Qingchen nodded, walked to Shu Yuanli and sat down.Shu Yuanli took another teacup, poured a cup of tea and put it in front of him: "It's so late, why did Master come down?"

Thinking about it, Shu Yuanli was distracted just now, and he didn't see that Yi Qingchen came in from outside.He smiled and said, "Aren't you here alone too? You can't sleep after a long day's driving today?"

"No...not." Shu Yuanli paused for a moment, and continued: "It's just that it's a bit stuffy in the room, so I just came out to get some air."

Hearing this, the corners of Yi Qingchen's mouth couldn't help but twitched slightly, he took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Actually, you haven't reconciled with Zexi yet, have you?"

"Master...Master?" Seeing Yi Qingchen's knowing expression, Shu Yuanli still hadn't reacted.After a long time, he just gave a wry smile, nodded and said: "Sure enough, there is nothing you can't hide from Master."

Yi Qingchen put down his teacup, was silent for a while, and then said: "Actually, Ze Xi doesn't want to call you by your name, and insists on treating you like a monarch and minister. This is because of family rules and etiquette, but in fact, it is also because of his own heart. "

"Before the first emperor ascended the throne, he made good friends with General Ning, and when he attacked Yu Mou, General Ning fought bloody for the late emperor. After the first emperor ascended the throne, just like you, although General Ning did not have to care about the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers , but General Ning is unwilling to do so, he believes that a ruler is a ruler and a subject is a subject."

"As the son of General Ning, Ze Xi was instilled with these thoughts by General Ning since he was a child. Although the dead rules of family rules and etiquette can be discarded, the thoughts that have been engraved in his heart since childhood are not easily shaken."

"And now that you are the emperor, no matter how good your relationship was before, do you think Ze Xi will feel better if there is a barrier between the monarch and his subjects?"

"I..." Shu Yuanli's hand holding the teacup slightly tightened.It turned out that it was because of this, but... He raised his head again, looked at Yi Qingchen and asked: "Master, I don't understand these things, how can you know?"

"...Ze Xi said it." Yi Qingchen took another sip of tea from his teacup, looked away and said, "At first, Ze Xi didn't let me tell you. Say, it will really be like the former emperor and General Ning."

Hearing this, Shu Yuanli just smiled helplessly, and murmured: "But even if I know, what can I do..." Just like what Master said, after all, it is something that has been deeply rooted in my heart since childhood. How can it be easily shaken.

"Think for yourself." Yi Qingchen only finished one sentence, then stood up and went upstairs.Anyway, all he can do now is this.Specifically, he still has to figure it out by himself.

When Yi Qingchen's figure walked away, Shu Yuanli became depressed again.The master is gone, what should we do next? It's all Bai Ziyuan's fault. He has such a thick skin and such bad ideas!

"That..." Shu Yuanli was drinking tea when a voice suddenly sounded behind him.He froze for a moment, turned his head, and met Ning Zexi's eyes.

"Zersi? Why are you here?"

"Master said you are here, let me come over and tell you to go back and rest."

"……Oh, I see."