The Gilded Shadows of Orion Ke Chapter 9

Sterling Mu moved out of the yard the next day.

When Orion Ke came back at noon, he saw the door of the west wing open and a few bookboys moving boxes in the yard. Sterling Mu was standing under a locust tree by the wall, his brows were light and his eyes were slightly lowered, as if he was looking at the people passing by on the ground. An ant, or a fallen green leaf.

Hearing the voice, he looked up, and through the light and shadow under the summer trees, he glanced at Orion Ke lightly, and then lowered his eyelashes, as if the moment of grievance and request last night had never happened.

Orion Ke inexplicably felt a sigh of relief in his heart. He frowned slightly and turned back to his room.

He was the one who threatened people, he was the one who gave the ultimatum, but he was also the one who suffered from insomnia last night.

He sternly wanted to drive the person out of the yard, but after lying on the bed, the coughing sound next door that had become a regular pattern for several months disappeared, and it was Orion Ke who fell into a mood that was more panicked than irritable.

He sat up without lighting the lamp. The stars are shining brightly on a summer night, and the moonlight shines through the screened windows on this small house.

Orion Ke looked at the head on the table in this weak light.

---The head he snatched back from the wild dog's mouth with his own hands.

In the twenty-fifth year of Yuanxing, the Great War broke out and it fell into a war that reached the extreme of chaos. Foreign enemies invaded the north and the vassal kings in the south revolted.

Prince Sheng Fuyuan went to the north, and Phoenix Sheng went to the south.

Everyone knows that the two highnesses are fighting a war that is destined to fail. The best outcome is to die for the country wrapped in horse leather.

Orion Ke had suspected before that they didn't know what was going on, so why did they have to die in vain?

But he understands it better than anyone else, and they know it very well.

They know there is no return, they know that the road ahead is their own death.

But where their responsibilities and missions lie, they must go.

So Orion Ke saw Phoenix Sheng again, and all he had left was a head brought back by Sheng Xuyan, the king of Qin in the south, to force the late emperor to commit suicide.

The events behind the war are rarely as official and orthodox as written in history, especially when one of the parties is now in charge of the Imperial Seal.

Royal secrets have never been easily accessible to ordinary people in the streets. Even the rumors that occasionally come out of Linyuan Academy are somewhat true or false?

It was autumn, and Orion Ke was standing outside the gate of Yujing City, watching day by day as the head on the city wall still had skin and flesh left on it, until it was pecked out and devoured by foraging birds.

In the end, the hemp rope broke, and the skull rolled down the city wall, and was pinned under the claws of a wild dog watching eagerly from the corner, surrounded by a circle of withered yellow weeds.

In such a miserable state, how can he look like Yu Jingzhuyu in the past? Orion Ke desperately held him in his arms.

The bloody skull that was almost eaten by wild dogs, he identified as Phoenix Sheng; now that the clean, simple and pure head had been by his side for five years, Orion Ke felt a little confused for the first time.

He told Sterling Mu that that was the person he longed for, but looking back now, he never said this longing to him once.

He pretended to be a widower and refused to bury His Highness in a dark coffin. With the most sober attitude, he lived like a madman.

Now I feel flustered because of a sudden intruder.

What is this? Orion Ke couldn't understand.

He sat all night, his thoughts so chaotic that he couldn't find a thread. Even he himself didn't know the meaning of thinking about these past events at this time.

...

The days have returned to the way they were every year before. The courtyard is quiet again, the summer is long and warm, and the season of using ice cubes to cool down has not yet come. Orion Ke sits behind his desk every day, studying and painting.

He doesn't go down the mountain that often. He says he seeks S3x, S3x, and wealth, but he's really not obsessed with it.

Caspian Li came to the courtyard to find him again. Orion Ke was finishing writing a policy paper and was about to send it to the president.

Young Master Li lay by the window and read for a long time, silently reciting the article on the paper word for word. He couldn't hold it back anymore. He clicked his tongue and sighed in a low voice: "Ke Hanying, Ke Hanying, how did your head grow?"

He can write beautiful parallel prose and discuss state policies.

People say that no one is better than a civil servant, but no one is second in martial arts, but when it comes to Ke Jia Hanying, at least Caspian Li, I have never seen anyone smarter than him in the past twenty years.

...That's not right, I've heard of one before.

On New Year's Eve that year, Songyuan Garden opened in the suburbs of Beijing, and he went to join in the fun with his father and brother at home. There are fireworks in the distance, lanterns are hung high in the garden, and someone is leaning on a dangerous building three feet away, smiling and drinking together in the distance.

Caspian Li actually didn't see what the man looked like, but a man dressed in fire-colored clothes unreasonably broke into the eyes of everyone present.

That was His Highness the Third Highness of the former Dynasty, a genius boy recognized by the whole world.

He looked at the essay written by Orion Ke, and out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the purple clothes this man was wearing today, which were equally strong and flamboyant.

Caspian Li thought about it more than once. In fact, he felt that Orion Ke and His Highness the Third Highness were quite similar. They were equally talented and romantic.

But he never said that it was the name of the previous dynasty after all. No matter how noble he was in life, he was extremely ugly after death. It is said that only one head was left and was brought back to the capital.

Thinking of this, Caspian Li's eyes shifted unconsciously and glanced at the clean, almost shiny skull on the desk.

"Da da---" The sound of the pen barrel tapping sounded. Caspian Li came back to his senses and looked into Orion Ke's eyes with a half-smile but not a smile. He was horrified and pretended to smile calmly, pretending that he I have never stared at that head.

People say that Ke Hanying is romantic, but in his opinion, the look in Orion Ke's eyes when he looked at the girls in the flower house was not even one thousandth as deep as when he looked at the skull.

Caspian Li changed the topic and asked with a smile: "Do you know where Senior Mu has moved?"

However, we haven't seen each other for a few days, so we should be very accustomed to it. When Orion Ke heard the name, he was still inexplicably startled for a moment. The tip of his pen stopped slightly, and he paused in the air for a moment before continuing to write. He naturally asked: "Where?"

"In charge of the courtyard!" Caspian Li looked a little excited and regretful: "It's just that there are people in the mansion who have speculated that Senior Mu has an unusual relationship. Now that this is happening, I'm afraid the gossip will increase again, which is not a good thing for him. "

Orion Ke frowned and said, "It's just gossip, so why bother paying attention to it? It will be fine after the quiz in two months."

Caspian Li was slightly surprised and found that he really couldn't understand what this man's attitude was towards Sterling Mu.

He made jokes and chatted a few words casually. Orion Ke wrote the last chapter of a policy essay, took out his private seal and stamped it.

Caspian Li looked at the seal with envy and marveled: "The private seal made of mutton-fat white jade is worthy of the Hanying of the Ke family."

Orion Ke chuckled lightly and said politely: "I'll give you a piece some other time."

Caspian Li naturally responded with a smile, but turned around and saw Orion Ke had collected the strategy, put it in a box and handed it to him.

Caspian Li: "?"

Orion Ke: "Brother Li, please run over and help me deliver it to Mr. Zhangyuan."

Caspian Li almost blurted out "Why don't you go", and in a flash, he felt blessed and remembered the news he had just told him.

Caspian Li: ...

I really can't understand it at all.

He drove the person out of the yard and spoke more protectively. He didn't want to see the person, so he gave him a piece of mutton-fat jade as a reward for running errands.

This is outrageous, Caspian Li thought.

But he had to go. After all, although mutton-fat white jade was not difficult to find, the price was not something he, the son of an ordinary merchant, could easily buy.

There is a plum grove in front of Mr. Zhangyuan's yard, with bright red flowers. It is not in season yet, otherwise students would come here every day to break branches and enjoy the flowers.

One good thing about the hot weather in summer is that everything is quiet and no one wants to go out.

Caspian Li knocked on the door and stepped into the courtyard with the respect and restraint of an ordinary student meeting his husband. He took a quick look but did not see his husband.

Camphor trees are planted in the courtyard, the branches and leaves are thick, and summer cicadas are chirping among them.

There is a person sitting behind the stone platform under the tree. He is tall and elegant, and he is studying an ancient book on the platform with his head lowered.

When Caspian Li took a closer look, he didn't recognize a single word and felt like an illiterate.

The man raised his head and blinked slightly when he saw him. He seemed to be thinking about who this man was. But he quickly put on a faint smile and spoke proactively: "Brother Caspian Li."

Caspian Li: "!"

This is simply a strange thing!

When Sterling Mu first entered the academy, countless people lined up in front of his courtyard just to see him. Only a few people had seen him smile, let alone call people by their names with such a warm smile!

It's a first name, not a last name!

It's Brother Caspian Li, not Brother Li!

Caspian Li was extremely excited for a moment, and an unparalleled sense of honor rushed to his head instantly, making him even a little elated.

Sterling Mu's eyes turned to the wooden box in his hand and asked warmly, "Is it for Mr.?"

Caspian Li nodded: "This is a policy paper written by Ke Hanying. Let me give it to Mr. Zhang Yuan."

"That's it." Sterling Mu nodded, spread his palms and smiled softly: "Sir, I went down the mountain this morning, and I probably won't come back until the evening. If Brother Caspian Li can trust Mu, I'll pass it on to you. "

The smiles of cold people are always particularly captivating. It was the first time that Caspian Li discovered that Sterling Mu had a pair of overly beautiful peach blossom eyes, and a slight smile was like a hundred flowers blooming.

By the time he reacted, the wooden box had already been handed over to Sterling Mu.

Sterling Mu put it aside casually and looked at Caspian Li with a gentle expression that made people dare not look directly.

But after a moment, Caspian Li's ears turned red and he said a little shyly: "Then there is Senior Brother Lao, so I won't bother you."

Sterling Mu nodded: "You're welcome."

Caspian Li walked out of the yard with graceful steps. When he stepped out of the moon gate, he couldn't help but glance back secretly.

I saw that the man under the tree was still as motionless as a mountain, as calm as an orchid and as pine, looking like a gentleman no matter what.

But Caspian Li had an inexplicable illusion that he had just been bewitched by a mountain spirit.

A gray rabbit ran across the mountain road. Caspian Li shook his head, secretly thinking that it was indeed an illusion.

Then he couldn't hold it back anymore and laughed out loud.

Brother Caspian Li!

Hey! Brother Caspian Li!