Thank you, Cocole, for the kofi ~
The bright moon was in the sky, and the evening breeze was blowing.
Wen Chan was sitting in the pavilion in the small courtyard, feeling a little drowsy and resting his face on his hands, struggling to keep his eyes open.
After Liang Yanbei finished taking care of Jiang Yueying, he came out to find Wen Chan.
As he walked, he was thinking about the strange thing that happened when he chased Wu Qi just then.
He obviously watched him climb out of the window. But when Liang Yanbei chased him out, there was no trace of a person’s presence there at all. He looked around everywhere and in all directions, but he just couldn’t catch sight of Wu Qi.
Even if he delayed in the house for a while, it wasn’t long enough for him to lose the person, unless the person’s qinggong was better than his.
This was simply impossible because Wu Qi was a cripple.
Liang Yanbei was just thinking this when he looked up and suddenly saw Wen Chan sitting in the pavilion, and all his thoughts were immediately forgotten.
Seeing his back revealing a sense of languidness and his head bobbing from time to time, Liang Yanbei knew that he was sleepy, so he deliberately walked lightly to his side.
However, just at that time, Dan Ke happened to be coming out of a nearby room and saw Liang Yanbei. So he strode over without saying a word and shouted, “Biaoge!”
This sound startled Wen Chan, and he rose up from his drowsiness. When he turned around, he found Liang Yanbei standing quietly behind him. He frowned slightly and asked, with a lazy look due to being sleepy, “What are you doing behind me?”
Liang Yanbei glanced at Dan Ke coldly and walked to Wen Chan’s side in two steps, “Are you tired?”
He stretched out his hands and stretched his body, “It’s nothing. I just feel sleepy after sitting for a long time. It’ll be fine if I take a walk.”
Liang Yanbei didn’t say anything but changed the subject and said, “Young Lady Jiang has been settled. She has not suffered any serious injuries. Zhoulan applied some ointment to her, and then she fell asleep.”
He nodded and asked carefully, “Then she……”
Wen Chan wanted to ask him if Jiang Yueying had also been defiled by Wu Qi. But he didn’t know how to ask, so he hoped that Liang Yanbei would understand.
However, Liang Yanbei didn’t understand what he meant at all and asked in confusion, “What?”
“It’s just……” Wen Chan hesitated for a moment and turned his mind around to find the right words, “Then her body is still undamaged?”
When Liang Yanbei heard this, he shook his head slightly.
He sighed, “As expected.”
It would be a miracle if Jiang Yueying could still keep her body undamaged after being kidnapped for a month.
Although in the previous life, Jiang Yueying heartlessly had an affair with a guard, and after giving birth to a son, she deceived him into conferring the title of crown prince on him. And then Wen Chan had also given her three feet of white silk1Which meant that he asked her to hang herself.
So it could be considered that the two didn’t owe each other anything.
In this life, Jiang Yueying suffered such a disaster from heaven. Although it was improbable for Wen to feel distressed, he still sighed. Leaving aside everything else, Jiang Yueying at this time was still a young and inexperienced girl2Yeah, no one deserves that..
“Biaoge, why are you ignoring me like this when I call you?” Dan Ke interrupted the conversation between the two and stuck to Liang Yanbei as soon as he came up, “I was looking for you.”
After saying that, he hugged his arm tightly, as he was afraid that Liang Yanbei would run away.
Unexpectedly, he didn’t make excuses to refuse and said to Wen Chan, “Today, I’ll check here first. So you can go and rest.”
“Didn’t you say that this is the right time to go there?” Wen Chan asked doubtfully.
The place he mentioned referred to the commelina benghalensis bush next to the yamen.
After asking, he responded very thoughtfully, “I can wait until you finish talking. It doesn’t matter.”
Liang Yanbei smiled when he heard this, “It will be the same tomorrow night. If you are tired today, you don’t have to go.”
“Yes, Young Master Wen, just go to bed. If you wait outside, my biaoge won’t listen to what I say at all.” Dan Ke also helped, and without waiting for Wen Chan’s answer, he hurriedly shouted to the servant waiting in the courtyard, “Hurry and boil hot water. Once it is boiled, make it into lukewarm water and bring it to Young Master Wen’s room.”
Seeing Dan Ke’s anxious look, Wen Chan secretly found it amusing. It was as if he was so scared that Liang Yanbei would run away, and he said kindly, “Okay, I’ll go to bed first, and let’s check it out tomorrow.”
As he spoke, he yawned a little and walked into the room.
Dan Ke breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him go back. He dragged Liang Yanbei to leave, but unexpectedly, he didn’t move this time. When he turned his head, he saw him staring at Wen Chan’s back as he left.
It wasn’t until the person entered the room and closed the door that he took his eyes back.
“What are you looking at me for? Tell me if you have something.” Liang Yanbei shook his arm and pushed Dan Ke aside.
“Let’s go into the room and talk.” Dan Ke’s expression was quite serious.
Pulling Liang Yanbei into the room, he closed the door for secrecy. He turned his head and frowned. His first sentence was, “Biaoge, I found that something has been wrong with you lately.”
“When have I been right in your eyes?” Liang Yanbei asked amusedly.
“Really! I’m being serious!” Dan Ke paced back and forth in the room and said anxiously, “Don’t you feel it yourself?”
“What do you mean?” Liang Yanbei asked, “I think I’m quite normal.”
“Yes, you are fine at other times. But when His Ninth Royal Highness is around, you are not normal.” Dan Ke said.
Liang Yanbei gave him a look of warning, “Young Master Wen.”
“Look, look. It’s just a name, and there is no one else here. Aren’t you being a bit too protective of him?” Dan Ke felt sad, “You never liked to meddle in other people’s business before. But now, when you run into a matter related to Young Master Wen, you meddle in it again and again.”
“When that incident with the bandits happened a few days ago, we were obviously there to get Zhong Wenjin. But as soon as you saw him, you immediately threw Zhong Wenjin away and left with the other party.”
“Didn’t that kid from the Zhong family have Xie Zhaoxue?” Liang Yanbei sought justice for himself.
“Okay, okay, let’s not count this. But what about that incident with the carriage?” Dan Ke asked again, “I have no objection to you giving the carriage to Young Master Wen. But you know that Zhoulan was weak, and you still let her ride on horseback at night. We grew up together when we were young. When has she ever been treated like this?”
“You should be blamed for this. Who told you not to prepare two carriages?” Liang Yanbei said it seriously.
Dan Ke didn’t expect him to be so brazen. He held his breath and didn’t know what to say to refute. His fair face flushed, “You……”
“Biaodi,” Liang Yanbei said sincerely and earnestly, “I know you are distressed for Zhoulan. But isn’t she okay? Don’t feel distressed.”
“Stop talking nonsense and confusing right and wrong!” Dan Ke accused him angrily.
Liang Yanbei raised his eyebrows slightly and remained silent.
“Let’s talk about today’s incident. The Liang family is established in Jianghu but has never been involved in the affairs of Jianghu. Now, in order to protect Young Master Wen, you have started a feud with the sects of Jianghu. If gufu3father’s sister’s husband finds out, he will definitely criticise you.”
“My father has always been loyal to the affairs of the nation. If he knew that I was doing it for Young Master Wen, he would definitely understand.” Liang Yanbei vowed solemnly.
Dan Ke thought for a long time but couldn’t come up with a rebuttal. He thought that it would be impossible for him to notice it himself, so he could only say it directly.
He sat across from Liang Yanbei and lowered his voice, “Don’t you think you pay too much attention to Young Master Wen?”
“What do you mean?” Liang Yanbei’s expression was filled with confusion.
“You buy him clothes and shoes, give him yinpiao4(in former times) banknote with a value in silver and gold, take him out on carriages and horses, and let him sleep in a private room. Leaving aside these things for the time being, I found that whenever Young Master Wen appears in front of you, your eyes rarely shift and you only focus on him.”
Dan Ke stretched his neck and asked, “What’s so good about him?”
Liang Yanbei touched his nose and asked, “Is there such a thing?”
When he said this, the young man’s delicate face appeared in his mind. His eyebrows were neither too thick nor too thin. His eyes were as black as ink, and his white and tender skin was pampered. His lips were red, and his teeth were white. When he laughed, his eyes bent into crescents, and when he didn’t laugh, he looked elegant and smart.
Most of the time, he was quiet, with a calm look on his face. But a slight smile appeared in his eyes when he talked to others. When he was angry, the corners of his mouth bent down and his eyebrows wrinkled slightly, which made him look a bit cute.
His eyelashes were very long, and when he looked down, a dense row could be seen. His nose was straight, there was a small dimple at the corner of his mouth5Oh my god, he got dimples. I always feel like people with dimples are really cute., and there was an inconspicuous small mole near the earlobe.
Only then did Liang Yanbei realize he had been observing him so attentively and meticulously that he had astonished himself.
When he thought about other people, whether it was Zhong Wenjin, Qiao Yanci, or even Xie Zhaoxue, he only remembered a plain face. He didn’t know where they had moles or scars on their faces.
Liang Yanbei exclaimed, “He’s really amazing!”
“Amazing?” Dan Ke said in disbelief, “It was okay if it was a girl. You stare at him…… Stare at him……”
“What on earth are you trying to say?” Liang Yanbei’s heart suddenly started to beat a little faster. He was not sure if he was infected by Dan Ke’s crazy emotions.
“Biaoge, let me ask you.” Dan Ke asked, “Did you have any strange impulses when you were with Young Master Wen?”
“What impulse?”
Dan Ke was a little embarrassed to say it. But when he saw Liang Yanbei’s confused look, he gritted his teeth and said, “Like you just want to hug him, touch him, or…… Or kiss him.”
Liang Yanbei looked confused after hearing this, “Are you crazy? Why should I want to kiss him?”
Hearing his firm tone, the stone weighing Dan Ke’s heart finally disappeared, and his shoulders slumped with relief. He was about to say ‘thankfully, thankfully!’
But then he heard Liang Yanbei say, “But I still think of hugging and touching him. I won’t hide it from you. Sometimes I think he is really cute, and I always want to pinch his face. But he doesn’t seem to like me touching him……”
The big stone that had only disappeared for less than a moment reappeared, and together with Liang Yanbei’s slightly aggrieved tone, it almost made Dan Ke spit out a mouthful of blood, “Is he cute? Cute? I have lived with you for more than ten years, and I have never heard you say that someone in Jinling is cute! I’m afraid you’re going crazy!”
The only ones that could get Liang Yanbei to seriously praise them for being cute were some dumpling-like cats and dogs.
Liang Yanbei patted Dan Ke’s shoulder sympathetically, “I think you are the one who is going crazy. Go to Zhoulan and get some medicine.”
As he was about to get up, Dan Ke saw that he was leaving, hurriedly rushed forward to hug his waist, and cried loudly, “Biaoge! You are my aunt’s only child. Never in a million should you think about going astray!”
When Liang Yanbei heard this, he looked back, giving him a loud and clear knuckle on the head, “What nonsense are you talking about? Do you want a beating?”
Dan Ke saw stars from the strike, hurriedly covered his head, and backed away. He sniffed and said, “Sorry, biaoge. I forgot that I have a little biaodi6younger male cousin via female line.”
“That’ll teach you. Next time you talk nonsense, I will really beat you up.” Liang Yanbei pointed at him with his finger and warned.
As he spoke, he opened the door.
“Where are you going?” Dan Ke saw that it was getting dark outside and asked one more question.
“You can sleep alone tonight. Young Master Wen’s subordinates are all locked up. I will go guard him.” He replied without looking back.
Dan Ke wanted to slap himself in the mouth: Why did he ask? I knew I was going to choke myself up!
Translator’s corner
I always thought that Liang Yanbei had a crush on Wen Chan, but it looks like he has just entered the denial stage.
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