When he saw Shen Jiu again in the evening, Qi Zhifeng felt that his brother seemed to have something on his mind. He tentatively asked a few questions, but he didn't find out why. The other party made it clear that he didn't want to say anything, so he wouldn't force it. All he can do is say more words to make his brother happy.
After the reception banquet at the Duke's Mansion, Shen Jiu personally sent Qi Zhifeng back to the post house, saying that he wanted to talk at night by candlelight, but it was only at the scheduled time that Qi Zhifeng was already swaying sleepily, holding a roll of quilt and starting Talking in sleep.
Shen Jiu waited for him to fall asleep before leaving the house, instructing the guards guarding the door to guard him carefully and report anything as soon as possible.
After checking around the post house to make sure everything was in order, Shen Jiu was about to leave. Unexpectedly, he met the person he least wanted to see at the door. Seeing this person coming in from the outside, he subconsciously turned to the side to avoid him, but he didn't see a stone on the ground. He stepped on it and threw himself directly forward.
"Little General Shen!" Seeing that Shen Jiu was about to fall, Yelu Heyi was startled. He hurriedly reached out to catch it and let Shen Jiu fall on him. "Is your foot okay? Let me take a look!" As he said that, he squatted down to check Shen Jiu. Shen Jiu wanted to avoid it, but he pinched his ankle. "Don't move!" He touched it twice carefully, "Fortunately, the bones are fine and the tendons are not twisted."
"I understand. Thank you, Guard Yelu. Can you let me go now?"
When Yelu Heyi stood up straight, Chen Jiu silently took a step back, and then looked at the person in front of him seriously in the night.
Although they have met several times before, since Yelu Heyi always minimizes his presence, basically no one will notice him when Yelu Nan and Qi Zhifeng are around. Apart from Yerunan's entourage, there are no others. At most, they think this person is quite pleasing to the eye, that's all.
Chen Jiu smiled bitterly in his heart. If his sister hadn't told him, he would never have imagined that the person he had been thinking about for so many years had been hanging in front of his eyes all these years, but he didn't know it. He looked at Yelu Heyi's face seriously, and gradually it overlapped with the face of the brother he liked when he was a child. He suddenly felt that they had not been separated for so many years.
Seeing Shen Jiu looking at him from head to toe with a scrutinizing gaze, especially staying on his face for a long time, Yelu Heyi felt even more strange. He stretched out his hand to touch his face, but found nothing strange. s things.
"You..." Sensing something was wrong with Shen Jiu, he sighed softly, "You... have something to say?"
Chen Jiu stared at Yelu Heyi's face and shook his head. He wanted to say something to ease the awkward atmosphere, but he didn't know what to say. He had an impulse to tell the person in front of him all his grievances and longings, but the remaining reason told him that he should say goodbye politely now, go home, take a nap, and tell all the things he heard today. Throw it into a corner and welcome a new day. It would be better for both of them.
"I..." Shen Jiu coughed slightly and blinked, "I..."
"It's getting late, General Shen. It's time for General Shen to go back, otherwise Mr. Guo and General Shen will be worried." Seeing that someone was paying attention to the two of them, Yelu Heyi turned slightly to one side and made a gesture of invitation, " I'll take you back."
"No need, I can do it myself!" Shen Jiu also saw those guys poking their heads and barely suppressed the impulse in his heart, nodding slightly towards Yelu Heyi, "Yelü guards, please stay!"
He walked past Yelu Heyi, walked out of the door of the post house, stopped, and once again laid his eyes on Yelu Heyi.
"Please escort Yelu to tell Xiaofeng that I, the general, will not be able to send him out of the city tomorrow. I wish him a safe journey." He paused for a while, "You too!"
After saying that, Shen Jiu left without looking back.
Yelu Heyi stared at his back for a long time, and couldn't figure out why this person was so abnormal tonight. It was just that he looked like a child who wanted something but was embarrassed to say it.
He stood there for a while and recalled the time that was treasured in his heart. When he looked up again, the figure of the other party completely disappeared from his sight. He sighed softly and then slowly walked back to the post house. .
As Shen Jiu himself said, the only ones who came to see Qi Zhifeng and Yelu Heyi off early the next morning were Shen Cha and Jin Jing. It was said that Shen Jiu himself went back to the military camp early.
"Hey, it's all my fault." Qi Zhifeng yawned, "I went to bed too early yesterday and didn't even say goodbye properly!"
"It's not like you don't have the chance to meet each other. Why do you say goodbye properly?" Although the words were addressed to Qi Zhifeng, Shen Cha's eyes were always fixed on Yelu Heyi, "There will still be a long time to come, so there is no need to be so reluctant to say goodbye. .”
Yelu Heyi, who understood what she meant, nodded slightly and looked at Qi Zhifeng, who still didn't want to leave, "Sir, it's getting late, we should leave!"
"Okay!" Qi Zhifeng waved his hands towards Shen Cha and Jin Jing, "Sister Xiaocha, let's go!"
Shen Cha and Jin Jing took two steps back at the same time and watched them leave. After they were far away, the two of them slowly walked towards the city.
"What kind of riddles are you and that boy Heyi playing?" Jin Jing glanced at Shen Cha, "That guy Xiaojiu obviously had nothing to do today, but he didn't come to see his good brother off. This is so abnormal! Last night, Didn't the two of them talk well?"
"No, it has nothing to do with Xiaofeng." Shen Cha smiled, "Jiu'er doesn't know how to face Heyi. He needs some time to adapt."
"Oh?" Jin Jing raised an eyebrow, "He knows?"
"Yeah!" Shen Cha nodded. When he saw Jin Jing running to the roadside to buy candied haws, she walked over to accompany him. "Eating this in the morning will hurt your stomach."
"I won't eat it. It's for Miaomiao. I started talking about eating this yesterday." After buying the candied haws, Jin Jing followed Shen Cha towards the Duke's Mansion. "Now that he knows about it, what's his special reaction? Yes." Aren't you so excited? After all, he is someone who has always been at the forefront of his heart. He has talked about it a lot in the past few years, but he has rarely mentioned it in the past two years. "
"I was very excited, but more importantly, I was surprised. I was even complaining to my brother and me about why we sent people away at such a young age." Shen Cha sighed softly, "When he said this, I felt a little sad. .”
"How does it feel when the cabbage you have raised for many years was eaten by a pig?" Seeing Shen Cha nodding, Jin Jing patted her arm, "Xiaojiu is not the kind of child with white eyes. It's just that that guy left silently. It was so sudden. He has always been brooding over it, so he kept it in his heart. Now that he knows that he is fine and living a good life, he will probably let it go completely."
"I hope so, he told me and pretended not to know about it, but when he came back from the inn yesterday, he felt a little bit out of place."
"As long as they don't meet, everything will go away."
Shen Cha and Jin Jing looked at each other, they both smiled at the same time, and walked into the gate of the Duke's Mansion together. From a distance, they saw Shen Jiu waving to them happily, and they both sighed at the same time.
"Our worries are really unnecessary!"
"Yes, this kid has returned to his previous heartless self. It's good. This look suits him."
