Chapter 32 (1/2)
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”What's this for? This Marquis caught you at the door of a prostitutes' land, so the Flying Dragon Guard has to kill the witnesses to keep them quiet?”
Fu Shen had been towed by hi his folding fan to hook the other's chin like a lecher Yan Xiaohan allowed his frivolity, staring at hi you quiet does”
Fu Shen's interest was piqued ”How are you planning on keep… mmf…”
Before he could finish, someone leaned over and blocked up his mouth
Needded yet forced to separate, to unexpectedly reunite in the present; sos could not be spoken and had to be divulged via action This kiss was even nant that the one froor As if to take revenge for the trick he'd played earlier, Yan Xiaohan nipped Fu Shen on the lips, neither lightly nor heavily
That hurt just a bit Fu Shen reached up and cla in cold air between his teeth, yet didn't scold him ”So petty Let up a bit, don't bite ret as soon as he drew in that breath, ently sucking at the place he had bitten ”Did it hurt?”
Fu Shen patted hiet to keep ribbing hi a brothel behind , yet you're the one who felt wronged first”
Yan Xiaohan got into a half-kneel before hiathered up both of his hands into the center of his own ”Are you jealous? Be honest”
Fu Shen sneered ”You believe everyone's just like you; a vat of vinegar”
”You're really not jealous? If I actually had gone to visit a brothel, ould you do?”
Fu Shen sht back at him ”Do you think I wouldn't move my raised blade, Brother Yan?”
In fact, he should have called to o that with how intense Fu Shen was, any ti or betrayal, the definite conclusion would be a complete severance that would only be cleared up on death Yan Xiaohan had already undergone that stumble onto his face way back when, and it was only because Fu Shen was still young then, his heart still too soft, that he got the opportunity to get close once more
He acted like he hadn't heard Fu Shen's last sentence, tactfully changing the subject ”How did you co pulled away, Fu Shen lowered his head to give a hinting look towards the fan in his lap ”There's a ba fans I had the proprietor make a few fans last year and just now remembered, so I came down to pick them up Who could've predicted that we'd have such a chance confrontation”
Though Fu Shen had long separated himself from the life of luxury he had in his youth, he still had a fondness for elegance in his bones, the clothing, accessories, and ite less than refined People of those times were most fond of wood-framed fans, and more luxurious ones used ivory or cow horns for the frahtweight ba the spotted ba as it looked clean and sleek, he'd like it
Yan Xiaohan vaguely recalled that in Fu Shen's occasional returns to the capital the past years, whenever they happened to meet on the streets, Fu Shen had never once been empty-handed
”What about you?” Fu Shen went on ”Wasn't the scene of the accident at E Hundred Warblers?”
”That Golden Crow Guard died at the Pavilion, but he had previously gone to Hundred Warblers the sa frouessing it ot dropped?” Fu Shen's question came entirely from his subconscious, and it was only after it caht it inappropriate ”Can I ask? If you can't say, then I didn't ask”
Yan Xiaohan squeezed his hand, no change in expression as he spoke ”Let me flaunt the reveal It's not that I can't say, but that I'ht to tell you” He looked around in every direction, grinning with some unclear implication ”It's quite a bit unsuitable to speak of here”
Fu Shen didn't understand his taste forthat he had to co to tell spooky stories? Did he take hiers to clasp Yan Xiaohan's palht be related to this case I heard Doctor Shen say – the Guard died of Acute Yang Dissipation? When I went into the store to get the fans just now, I could occasionally hear the shopkeeps chatting I caught that fro of the year up until now, in these brief two months, this district of brothels had already had several people hauled out of them Hasn't there been a bit too ht withover to kiss him on the cheek ”Leave Shen Yi'ce behind with me I'll fill you in on the rest of it when I'm back”
Fu Shen could tell that he knew the score, so he nodded and said nothinghim over to Xiao Xun As he made to turn around, Fu Shen suddenly called out to stop hi fan into the other's arms
When he took his hand back, the sleeve of his robe cut a full, round arc in the air With his dark clothes and black hair, even if all he could do was sit, the breezy char countless courtesans in front of the building to stick their necks out to take a peek It see him a little trinket, his words heedless ”It's for you Take it and go have fun”
Yan Xiaohan's eyes followed his silhouette as it disappeared into the er and thus opening the abnorht fan
The outer spine was made with black bamboo, the inner bones palm bamboo Heavy mica dusted the fan's silvery-starch surface Painted on the front was a freehanded bright moon above a tower, and inscribed on the back was a feords from an ancient poem
——I hope to become the Southwestern wind, so I may remain in your arms always
Wei Xuzhou slunk up close froue-clucking and bird-calling nearly caives the bearing of a first wife…”
Yan Xiaohan put the fan aith a sweeping ly ”The first wife's bearing does not require your feelings for the ti”
Even as it were, the smile on his face was a like a jar filled to the briht tap would have spilled it over
Wei Xuzhou stared at his back as he walked with the wind, unable to keep fro aa bachelor half his life?
Yan Xiaohan returned right when night hit, Fu Shen and his party having since settled down into the Yan Estate The bedrooain brightened with light, Fu Shen seated under a lantern as he read a book
His face was softly s in thefocused and preoccupied Even his serious expression no longer looked so lofty and out of reach, onlyto the eye
He focused on reading, and the other focused on watching hie money” Fu Shen placed the book upside down on the table, icily ht? Those eyes of yours are about to scrape a layer of h eye candy at Hundred Warblers today?”
”You said you weren't jealous, yet your words aren't straying from that place” Yan Xiaohan entered the rooed into house clothes, sat across from Fu Shen, and accepted the tea he handed over ”You ht, which is fine I don't want to use words like 'you're better-looking than the you on par with those people is a disrespect to you
You are set up high within my heart, and no one can reach you” Yan Xiaohan took a sip of tea, tone undisturbed ”These words are from the heart There's no jest in the confession caused Fu Shen pause