Chapter 67 Sleepless Nights
byLiang Zhen didn't come back until noon. Zhu Yunxuan and Xu'er were already having lunch. He sat directly on the table and asked someone to add an extra pair of tableware.
Zhu Yunxuan raised his eyes and glanced at him, without asking anything, he lowered his head and continued to eat. Xu'er blinked and looked at Liang Zhen, and asked him expectantly, "Can Xu'er go out to play with his father again when he is full?"
Liang Zhen smiled and stretched out his hand, wiping away the oil stain on the corner of the child's mouth with his thumb: "Not today."
Xu'er pursed her lips in disappointment, "Why?"
"Don't go anywhere today, wait until tomorrow, father will take you and daddy to another island to play."
"Really?"
Liang Zhen smiled softly: "Of course it's true. How often did my father deceive the little baby."
Only then did Zhu Yunxuan speak out slowly: "Has the matter on the island not been settled yet?"
Liang Zhen didn't let them go out, it must be because the outside was not clean, and Zhu Yunxuan could probably guess the reason.
Liang Zhen's mouth curled slightly: "The main event has not yet appeared. His Majesty's appearance is just to advance their plans. The dog is about to jump off the wall. Let's watch tonight, Your Majesty."
Seeing Zhu Yunxuan frowning lightly, Liang Zhen smiled and blinked at him: "Why didn't your majesty ask me how I dealt with the person who released the news."
Zhu Yunxuan looked at him lightly: "What's there to ask?"
He didn't care how Liang Zhen dealt with people, and he was even less interested in knowing whether the other party made a mistake intentionally or unintentionally. He only knew that no one would appear in front of them again in the future.
"Don't ask?"
Zhu Yunxuan shook his head slightly: "However, if you really deal with people, you won't worry about your subordinates leaving your heart?"
"What's there to worry about?" Liang Zhen disagreed. "If he is such a person who can't handle it clearly, I don't need a subordinate like him."
There is no need for Zhu Yunxuan to worry about Liang Zhen's affairs. He didn't ask any more questions, he hugged Xu'er to his body, and coaxed the child to eat more.
Seeing that the three-year-old child was still feeding, Liang Zhen raised his hand and pinched the child's nose in a funny way: "Your father raised the little brat to be more squeamish than the princess, what will happen in the future?"
Xu'er looked up in confusion and asked Zhu Yunxuan: "Dad, what is the princess?"
Zhu Yunxuan smiled and rubbed the soft hair on the top of his head: "Good baby is not a princess but a prince, you will know later."
The child blinked blankly, what is the prince? Is it delicious?
Liang Zhen smiled meaningfully: "Prince? How does His Majesty plan to explain the origin of this little prince to others?"
Zhu Yunxuan thought for a moment quietly, and a faint smile slipped in his eyes: "It popped out of the cracks in the stone."
Liang Zhen: "..."
After that, all afternoon until nightfall, the three of them never took a step out of the door. Liang Zhen taught Xu'er to make bamboo toys hand in hand. wished Yunxuan to be so comfortable reading books and playing chess. Occasionally, he looked back and saw a big and a small beside him. Similar smiling faces are always a little trance, for a moment, he even hopes that this time can be longer.
After dinner, Liang Zhen still had no intention of leaving, and played chess with Zhu Yunxuan in the room until Hai, when Xu'er was already sleepy, lying in Zhu Yunxuan's arms and slept like a little pig, when Liang Zhen saw Zhu Yunxuan He maintained a posture for fear that he would be tired, so he approached and carefully carried the child into his arms.
Staring at the child's sleeping face for a moment, Liang Zhen's fingers lightly touched the child's red face after he was asleep, and whispered: "At first I thought this child would be a pig, but I didn't expect him to be born a month prematurely. , turned into a puppy, and looks like a little piggy now."
Zhu Yunxuan frowned: "...Who are you scolding?"
"Scolding myself," Liang Zhen chuckled, with a fleeting sense of disappointment in his eyes, "I really thought this child was gone, as if the last connection between me and His Majesty was cut off... On the way to the south, I happened to meet the team of Duke Dingguo’s mansion. I didn’t give up and sent someone to check. I never thought that Xu’er had been taken to the southern border at that time, so I missed it.”
Zhu Yunxuan lowered his eyes and rubbed the chess piece in his hand, speechless, Liang Zhen shook his head and sighed softly: "The first time I saw this child, I knew that he must be His Majesty's son, he and His Majesty look almost the same. He has the same temperament, and I like him as soon as I see him."
After being relatively speechless for a long time, Zhu Yunxuan muttered, "Isn't he also your son."
"Yes," Liang Zhen squeezed Xuer's hand and nodded with a smile, "it's my son."
Zhu Yunxuan felt a little uncomfortable, took the child back, and reminded Liang Zhen: "Okay, I'll take Xu'er to sleep, you can go back to the house to rest."
"Go to sleep, Your Majesty, I'll watch over you."
Zhu Yunxuan looked at the pitch-black night outside the window, his eyes were slightly dim, and there seemed to be a faint cluster of fire beating in the distance.
He carried his son to the bed, Xu'er was woken up in a daze, and Zhu Yunxuan patted him: "My dear baby, you continue to sleep."
The child rubbed his eyes, saw Liang Zhen who was still sitting on the couch, and asked Zhu Yunxuan in a low voice, "Don't father sleep with Daddy and Xu'er?"
Zhu Yunxuan bowed his head and kissed the child's soft face: "Father will go to bed later, you go to bed first, darling."
Zhu Yunxuan lay down, turned his back to the direction outside the bed, patted his son lightly, and coaxed him to sleep again. He closed his eyes but couldn't fall asleep, the gaze that fell on his body from time to time behind him could be felt without even looking at him.
In the middle of the night, the faint shouts from outside suddenly shattered the tranquility of the night. Liang Zhen put down the book in his hand, walked to the bed and sat down. Zhu Yunxuan immediately opened his eyes, and his bright eyes in the faint candlelight looked at him. Liang Zhen, Liang Zhen lowered his eyes and smiled, and helped him tuck the quilt: "Is Your Majesty still asleep?"
Listening to Liang Zhen's low and gentle voice, Zhu Yunxuan was in a trance for a moment: "...Are you going out?"
"It's not time yet, just wait."
Zhu Yunxuan suddenly recovered, frowned and nodded, only reminding him: "Don't scare the child."
"Don't worry, it's fine."
Zhu Yunxuan closed his eyes again, but he still had no sleepiness. Liang Zhen's fingers tugged up his loose long hair and twisted it around his fingertips, bullying his lower body and placing a kiss on the side of his face. Eyelashes trembled slightly.
The screams of fighting and the sound of swords getting closer and closer, as if someone had already rushed into the general's mansion, for no reason, Zhu Yunxuan remembered the Ganlin Palace that night again, and the two of them were shouting and killing blood and rain outside. But it was unprecedentedly peaceful, and after talking all night, for the first time, they were honest with each other.
I once thought that there would be no future, but the times have changed and now, the world is always so unexpected. Zhu Yunxuan closed his eyes and laughed silently, Liang Zhen's voice was in his ear: "What are you laughing at, Your Majesty?"
"……nothing."
Zhu Yunxuan refused to speak, Xu'er rolled over in his arms, sobbed and cried in his sleep, Zhu Yunxuan hugged the person tightly and coaxed gently, "Don't be afraid, dear baby, Daddy is here..."
After a few sobbings, the child fell asleep again, and Liang Zhen sighed, "It's not easy to have a child."
"Just get used to it," Zhu Yunxuan murmured, "I will supply him what I owe him."
Liang Zhen didn't say any more, and helped their father and son tuck the quilt again: "Go to sleep."
After about half an hour, the noise outside gradually subsided. Liang Zhen blew out the last candle, got up and walked out the door.
Zhu Yunxuan glanced back, only to see a blurred and distant back, stunned for a moment, closed his eyes, and then gradually fell asleep.
When Liang Zhen came back, it was already dim light. He took off his shirt, lay on the bed and gently embraced Zhu Yunxuan from behind. Zhu Yunxuan moved his body, and he woke up when he heard the movement. He just didn't want to open his eyes. He smelled the faint smell of blood on Liang Zhen's body, and asked him in a hoarse voice, "Is the matter settled?"
"Well, everyone who should be dealt with has been dealt with. I'm a little tired. Your Majesty will let me lie here for a while."
Hearing the exhaustion in his voice, Zhu Yunxuan didn't move, he squeezed the hand he put on his waist lightly, Liang Zhen put it up, hugged his ears and rubbed it, and after a while, Zhu Yunxuan asked him again: "You injured?"
"No, I have some other people's blood on my body."
Zhu Yunxuan snorted lightly, but his tone subconsciously relaxed a little: "How long have you planned this?"
"It's just a plan, Rong Bo colluded with Lao Chen, and pushed a few other people to seize power from me. I didn't want to bother with them, they just wanted to give it to them, but now Your Majesty is willing to let these people on the island return Dayan, I naturally have to get rid of those who have ulterior motives first, so as not to cause trouble to Your Majesty in the future."
He said with a low smile: "If it wasn't for the identity of His Majesty being discovered by them, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly. Originally, I was worried about how to take care of them as soon as possible, so I brought it to my door."
"You're sure they'll act tonight?"
"I was forced to wait, so naturally I couldn't wait any longer."
Zhu Yunxuan sighed lightly: "You are always like this, as if you are sure of winning everything..."
"That's not necessarily true," Liang Zhen leaned close to him and kissed the hair behind his ear, "I've never been able to calculate your Majesty's heart."
Zhu Yunxuan didn't say any more, as if he fell asleep again, Liang Zhen hugged him tighter and whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, I promised Xu'er yesterday to take you to another island. Play, go and open your eyes, do you want to go?"
After a while, Zhu Yunxuan murmured and asked, "Going today? Aren't you afraid of another mutation on the island?"
"No, just leave the rest to the people below. A day's walk south from here, there is a Rainbow Island, which is very beautiful. Your Majesty and Xu'er will like it there."
"Well... let's go then."
Liang Zhen smiled softly: "Okay, then sleep for a while, and we will leave when Xu'er wakes up and has breakfast."
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