How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Chapter 282: Bones in the Poetry of Buddha, the Albizia Julibrissin and the Acacia Ant

Shen Yuan is indeed the most talented person in the capital.

He was good at composing lyrics and poems, using all kinds of sour and gorgeous words. He first praised his intelligence, then his excellent cooking skills, then his kindness and gentleness, and finally his strong character.

After praising his strengths and demeanor, they began to praise his appearance, saying that his face was like a crabapple, his skin was like cream, his lips were like red plums, and his eyebrows were like willow leaves.

After praising his facial features and limbs, I continued to praise his hair, eyelashes, fingernails and palm lines.

In the end, it was even so outrageous that they started praising his bones as being very strong, saying they were rare bones in the world and the bones mentioned in a certain Buddhist poem. They hoped that after hearing this, the bones would grow well quickly and that their owner would not have to take medicine anymore.

Xie Chengze: ...

Xie Chengze wanted to laugh but didn't dare to. If he laughed, his bones and internal organs would hurt.

He looked up at the sky with a look of despair, listening to Shen Yuan praising him for a full hour without even repeating a word. Finally, he was tired of all the compliments in his life.

Alas, men, it turns out that the best is still what you can’t get.

I don't want to hear compliments anymore.

Xie Chengze sighed inwardly, and finally changed the subject while Shen Yuan was drinking water to moisten his throat, "By the way, Shen Yuan, you know..."

He paused, "Is Jin Yu also reborn?"

Shen Yuan paused while holding the bowl of water, then nodded, "Yeah."

"Since he has also been reborn, then can the Pingcheng earthquake... be resolved more smoothly?"

After all, he and Shen Yuan were not the ones who truly held power. If they wanted to relocate more than 200,000 people, it would obviously be very difficult without the support of the court.

Originally, it was thought that Emperor Jian and Xie Jinyu would definitely not take out hundreds of thousands of silver from the national treasury just because of a word from him and Shen Yuan. After all, the Pingcheng earthquake was not like the snow disaster in the north, which was predicted by the Astronomical Bureau.

But things are different now. Xie Jinyu is a reborn man. He knows that a major earthquake will definitely happen in Pingcheng. Once he gets the imperial seal, he can go against all objections and take money from the national treasury to support the earthquake-resistant migration of the people in the surrounding states centered on Pingcheng.

Seeing the expectant look on Xie Chengze's face, Shen Yuan couldn't help but feel a little pain in his heart.

He leaned over and gently ruffled his hair. "Your Highness, don't worry about these things. The doctor said that you should not worry too much in the future."

Xie Chengze blinked and couldn't help but whispered back, "I'm not too worried..."

"Chengze." This was the first time Shen Yuan called him that. "I'm scared."

Xie Chengze always felt that he did not belong here. Only the reborn Shen Yuan and he were exceptions and unique. They could rely on each other and relieve each other of the anxiety and worry about the known future.

Shen Yuan felt the same way.

He looked at the familiar faces who had fought alongside him, but what flashed through his mind was not their voices and appearances when they were laughing, but their tragic appearances of being hacked to death by swords, beheaded by guillotines, and pierced by thousands of arrows, and their cries of disloyalty to their subjects and unruliness to their kings.

There were also their angry voices in the dream, questioning and blaming him for his incompetence.

The guilt of not being able to save them made Shen Yuan dare not look at them again. He was also a human being. No matter how powerful he was, he had incurable nightmares that troubled him so much that he woke up in the middle of the night with a cold heart.

After his rebirth, he had nowhere to talk and nowhere to vent.

I can only bear the heavy past alone.

He thought he would have to keep this secret for the rest of his life, until he discovered that his former enemy had another soul in his body.

He understood his ambition and his state of mind. When he did not recruit any of his former comrades and was in trouble with no one to save him, he would come alone in the snow, put on women's clothes and climb up the bandit mountain, just to make sure he was safe.

He is Shen Yuan's medicine, the medicine that makes Shen Yuan smile inexplicably when he wakes up in the middle of the night and then continue to sleep soundly when he thinks of him.

Xie Chengze couldn't accept that Shen Yuan died before him, and Shen Yuan couldn't accept that Xie Chengze died before him.

Like the acacia tree and the acacia ant.

When Shen Yuan saw Sheng Shihuai condensing his inner strength to kill Xie Chengze, he was really panicked. He hated himself so much that he was almost a step late and almost lost Xie Chengze.

He wanted him to live long.

At that moment, Shen Yuan finally understood Emperor Jian's feelings.

He did not ask Xie Chengze to rule the world or for all his family to become Buddhas. He only asked for peace and longevity for Xie Chengze.

Suddenly, Shen Yuan felt a cold little hand touching his cheek. When he came to his senses, he realized that he was crying.

The young man wiped his tears with a look of surprise, looking flustered and uneasy, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm fine, aren't I?"

He tried to make the man laugh. "You may not know that over there, people like me who can travel through time and space are the protagonists! No matter how terrible the things are, we will definitely survive!"

"You are also the protagonist." Xie Chengze whispered mysteriously, "So, neither of us will die."

Seeing his smug look, Shen Yuan couldn't help but laugh. He clenched the cold hand on his face and used the warmth of his palm to warm it up little by little. "Yes, you won't die, but you will grow old and become bald."

"Your Highness, don't you want to be the most beautiful woman in the world?"

Xie Chengze blushed and muttered, "What I said were just..." I was just saying it casually.

"Promise me, don't worry about it anymore."

Shen Yuan half-knelt on the ground. The handsome man in noble white clothes covered his cheek with the back of the young man's hand with his right hand, and looked up at the master he was determined to follow in his life. His humble and pious eyes met the young master's gaze in the vast blue sky.

"The rest of the matter will be left to me and the Crown Prince."

Xie Chengze's lips moved, and finally, unable to resist the man's passionate gaze, he nodded slightly.

My ears couldn't help but blush secretly.

Why did Shen Yuan suddenly act so sentimental and sincere? He was almost dying of irritation and was really about to explode with shyness!

……

The next day, Xie Jinyu came to visit the patient.

Maybe he had been warned by others, for when he came to visit Xie Chengze, he did not look dark and crazy, but sat quietly by the side, resting his head gently on Xie Chengze's thigh.

Xie Chengze didn't know what to say, he just raised his hand and touched Xie Jinyu's head, which was full of dark circles under his eyes, again and again. Just like when he was a child, hugging his younger brother, the prince, to sleep, he gently touched the back of his head, telling him in this way that he was always there.

The weight on his legs was getting heavier and heavier. By the time Xie Chengze noticed it, Xie Jinyu had already fallen asleep with her head resting on his thighs.

The gloomy young man frowned tightly when he fell asleep, as if he was trapped in an inescapable nightmare, his finger bones were clenched so tightly that they turned blue and gray, and he trembled all over as he muttered to his second brother, with crystal tears welling up in the corners of his eyes. It was not until Xie Chengze stroked the back of his head and kept saying to him, "Second brother is here", that the gloomy young man slowly stopped shaking and fell into a deep sleep.

Xie Chengze looked at his exhausted sleeping face and couldn't help thinking.

After the second prince was stabbed to death on the dragon throne.

Did Xie Jinyu have a good sleep during the day?