DS Chapter 5

Yu Lin just quietly held the wine glass, and after Chu Yi finished speaking, he drained the cup of Drunken Spring Breeze.

“No need for you to repay.” He threw the empty wine glass aside, saying softly, “What we owe each other has long been unclear, and I don’t want to calculate it so clearly with you, it seems very estranged.”

“Why can’t you be more bold?” He glanced at Chu Yi, but there was no blame in his eyes, “Eight years ago, the night before I left Yunmeng Ze, you kissed me under the influence of alcohol, but you pushed me away and ran without saying a word. What could admitting that you like me do?”

“I…”

“Don’t talk yet.” Yu Lin raised his hand to cover his mouth, he was already not good with alcohol, and now he was somewhat drunk, “The Qi Country God of War I know should not be as timid as you are now, what are you worried about?” He leaned into Chu Yi’s face and asked again, “Shaoze, what are you afraid of?”

Chu Yi took his hand off his mouth, lowered his head and kissed his palm, his voice without any unusual emotion: “When I was a child, I only remembered one relative. Although he was not close to me, I still plucked up the courage to ask him who my parents were and where they went. But he told me that my parents had died a long time ago, and they were killed by me, the disaster. He said that people like me don’t deserve to have anything, because in the end, everything will be lost.”

He was right, even you, in the end, also left.

“Bullshit, the death of the Princess and the Prince Consort has nothing to do with you! Don’t listen to Qi Huan’s nonsense, he wishes you were dead sooner, so he can sit more comfortably in that position.” The drunk Yu Lin was so angry that he started cursing the King of Qi, “Which normal elder would instill such thoughts in a child from a young age? He just wants to ruin you.”

Chu Yi was extremely surprised in his heart, he had been investigating for many years and only found out a rough idea, but Yu Lin knew everything.

Seeing that he didn’t speak, Yu Lin pounced into his arms and hooked his neck, snorted coldly, and said with a big tongue: “Although Shixiong’s martial arts are not as good as yours, the others are passable, with Shixiong covering you, if he Qi Huan dares to find your fault again, Shixiong will make him suffer.”

As Bai Xiaosheng’s disciple, his power is also not to be underestimated. After Yu Lin left Yunmeng Ze, the first thing he thought of was to wait for Chu Yi to return to Qi country after his apprenticeship and live a peaceful and worry-free life, so he started to insert eyes in Qi country and by the way, he checked out the things of that year clearly.

The death of the Princess and the Prince Consort was just an accident, it had nothing to do with anyone, but Yu Lin didn’t expect that the shameless King of Qi would push all the faults onto a child. No wonder when Bai Xiaosheng brought Chu Yi back to Yunmeng Ze, he was always timid, no matter how he teased him, he was always quiet and shrinking in the corner, as if he was afraid that he would infect someone with malaria.

Chu Yi hugged the indignant drunk into his arms, his heart was ironed and hot, he couldn’t help but gently kiss his temples, and a rare smile appeared on his face. After eight years, he finally called out that title again: “Then… thank you, Shixiong.”

Yu Lin rubbed his chest somewhat restlessly, mumbling and asking: “Shaoze, what did you just call me? I didn’t hear clearly.”

Chu Yi smiled and touched his hair, repeating: “Shixiong.”

“Ah.” Yu Lin responded cheerfully, his speech was a bit floating, “Shidi, say it a few more times, I haven’t heard you call me like this for a long time.”

Chu Yi: …

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Chu Yi later went to the palace to see Qi Huan.

Qi Huan was slumped on the couch, holding a long, thin pipe, with smoke swirling around him. His eyebrows were drooping, and he didn’t ask Chu Yi’s intentions, just asked: “Have you thought about it?”

Chu Yi didn’t beat around the bush with him: “I want to marry him.”

Qi Huan sneered at the news, slowly sat up, and knocked the pipe on a small porcelain plate on the side: “Your family property is all on the auction, what are you going to use to marry him?”

“This is not for the king to worry about, I have my own arrangements.”

“Do you deserve it?” Qi Huan flipped his eyelids, still not looking at him, and asked strangely.

Chu Yi was not as gentle and easy to talk to others as he was to Yu Lin. Hearing these familiar words, his face sank: “If I don’t deserve it, who else does? You?”

“Presumptuous!”

The pipe was thrown at him, Chu Yi just slightly dodged and avoided it.

“Don’t think that helping me fight will make me dare not move you.” Qi Huan was somewhat irritable, pacing back and forth in front of him, “Chu Yi, you’d better respect me.”

In fact, Chu Yi is already a war god in the hearts of the people of Qi country, if he acts rashly, it is very likely to cause instability in the people’s hearts, Qi Huan really dare not do anything to him for a while.

Qi Huan suddenly thought of something, stopped, and showed him a strange smile: “Since you want to marry him, does it mean that your impotence is cured? How does the most beautiful man taste?”

When Qi Huan proposed marriage to him, he just wanted to insert a spy next to him. Chu Yi was not stupid, naturally understood Qi Huan’s intentions, the sentence “I am impotent” just strangled the possibility of stuffing men and women into his room. However, this conversation was only between the two of them at the time, so why was it spread to everyone in the end, even without using his brain, he knew it was Qi Huan’s doing.

After the Prince Min learned about this, he specially called several imperial physicians to take his pulse for him, and the conclusion was that he was really impotent.

Thanks to Xiao Mianzhi for preparing the medicine in advance, it would have been difficult to deal with this lie if it had been exposed.

But Qi Huan’s words were too naked, with a hint of insult to Yu Lin, and contempt for Chu Yi.

“Your Majesty, the one who bid for him is me, according to the rules of the auction, he already belongs to me, no matter what, it has nothing to do with you. I came to the palace today just to inform you, not to seek your opinion.”

Qi Huan was so angry that his hands were trembling, and his voice couldn’t help but rise a lot: “Chu Shaoze! Look at what you are like now! Dare to threaten me? Really think that Bai Xiaosheng will still protect you after you left the sect?”

“Whether the Master protects me or not, it’s his choice. I will always respect him, love him, and be grateful to him for saving me from the fire and water,” Chu Yi suddenly raised his head, looking at him coldly, his gaze sharp as a newly unsheathed blade, “But the reason I have become what I am now, isn’t it all thanks to you… my good uncle.”