The group's favorite little Fubao has become the most arrogant kid in the whole imperial city

Chapter 97 Just Treat Me As If I'm Free

Liu Yuan felt embarrassed and quickly went forward to chase Xu Qingcheng.

"Brother, the strange uncle is so happy~"

Xihe fell behind, staring at Liu Yuan's staggering figure with a smile, and couldn't help but be lost in thought.

"He used to be more... cheerful than he is now?" Xiao Mingxuan racked his brains to come up with a word.

His memory of Liu Yuan still remains on the day when he escorted him to Tianshuo five or six years ago. At that time, Liu Yuan was a rising star in the army, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was "riding high in the spring breeze".

"What if I say I want to save him?" The little girl grabbed the hem of her clothes and lowered her head, not daring to look at the back of the man in front of her again. If she looked at him again, it would be as if something was blocking her heart and she couldn't breathe.

"You want to cure him?" Xiao Mingxuan did not falter at all, as if he had expected it.

Xihe nodded, "People like Uncle Weird shouldn't stay here. I want to... take him back."

The light and shadows changed before my eyes, and a ray of light came in from the exit, shining on people's faces, warm and gentle.

"Xiao Xi'er, it's not that easy." Xiao Mingxuan knew that he shouldn't feel sympathy. He had experienced Liu Yuan's strength. As long as he allowed the other party to stay in Jiangnan, Tianshuo would inevitably lose a powerful general. This would be beneficial to him in every way.

But maybe it was because I had been with the girl for too long, my heart softened a little and I actually had the urge to help her.

"Even if you recover and return to the Imperial City, it will be useless. The Liu family is guilty of treason. No one in the Nine Clans can escape. Even if you want to protect Liu Yuan, the court officials will not allow someone who has been suspected of treason to go to the army."

"But it is the Liu family who is collaborating with the enemy and selling out the country, not the strange uncle." The little girl was almost crying.

Xiao Mingxuan wiped away her tears and said calmly: "Isn't Liu Yuan's last name Liu? You overestimate the empathy of those people in the court."

Their suspicion will never disappear, and they will wonder if this is a trap set by the Liu family to protect Liu Yuan.

I would rather kill by mistake than let go.

"We have to try, don't we?" Xihe looked at Xiao Mingxuan with a smile, with an unprecedented determination in her eyes, "We can't give up without even trying. As long as there is a slight possibility, we have to try."

Xihe thought of the lingering light in Liu Yuan's eyes when he was talking about the deployment of troops, and also thought of his sadness when his martial arts were completely wasted.

"Knowing it is impossible but still doing it." Xiao Mingxuan suddenly said this without any warning, which seemed absurd.

“Doing something knowing it’s impossible is my greatest sincerity.”

Xiao Mingxuan suddenly looked up at Xihe's smiling face and asked, "What if the ending is not worthy of the hardships you have gone through?"

"Little brother, not everything in this world has an ending, and not everything will go as planned. Despite this, shouldn't we just do it? I'm not afraid of failure, nor am I afraid of things not going as planned, because people are always forced to accept the gifts of fate, whether good or bad, but I'm afraid of regret." The little girl jumped forward two steps, pulling her skirt, and picked a flower from the crevice of the rock and put it in her palm. She didn't know how such a harsh environment could have grown. "I think if I think of this again in the future, my reaction shouldn't be regret and sigh. I've tried my best, and then I'll just follow my fate~"

Xiao Mingxuan had an unclear expression and didn't speak for a long time.

He led the little girl towards the exit. The sunlight shone through the overgrown branches, rustling on them. A man was leaning on the beam at the exit. The light blurred his face, only outlining his tall figure. The man was lazily playing with wild grass he had picked from somewhere in his hand, having a lot of fun. "Uncle Weird, are you waiting for us?"

Liu Yuan nodded without saying anything, and only helped the little girl remove the fallen leaves that had gotten stuck in her hair at some point.

He glanced at Xiao Mingxuan with a half-smile, then quickly turned his head away, took the wine jug from his waist, tilted his head back and took a sip of wine.

"Let's go. Qingcheng is waiting for us up ahead. We'll be at the bandit's camp in a little while."

"Great!" As Xihe came out of the underground, he was extremely happy. He let go of Xiao Mingxuan's hand and ran forward to catch up with Xu Qingcheng who was not far away.

Xiao Mingxuan and Liu Yuan fell behind, and had no intention of catching up. Xiao Mingxuan was not a talkative person, and Liu Yuan rarely spoke. An unspeakable silence spread between the two.

"Did you hear that?"

Liu Yuan took a deep breath and replied lazily, "Yeah."

"What do you think?" Xiao Mingxuan asked.

Liu Yuan muttered, "No feeling." Then he felt a little annoyed. The things that had been decided were out of his control. On the contrary, he had no desire to change them back. Instead, he was eager to try the possibilities mentioned by the little girl.

"You did it knowing it was impossible." Xiao Mingxuan suddenly lowered his head and smiled, with a hint of sarcasm, "You were so talkative when you advised me, but why are you so silent when it comes to me?"

Perhaps it was God's intention. Same scene, same people, just the identities were reversed.

Liu Yuan, who was trying to persuade people in a roundabout way, couldn't wipe his face. He took several gulps of wine, his face still hot, "Shut up, can my situation be the same as yours?"

Xiao Mingxuan has his own rules in mind. No matter how much others say, he will not change. At this moment, he is too lazy to fight with Liu Yuan to the death. "What do you want to do? Do you want to try?"

"This statement would be appropriate for anyone, but why does it sound so weird coming from you?" Liu Yuan remembered that the kid he took from Beili was a small ball, like a dough ball. Now, five or six years have passed, and the kid who couldn't even hold his legs has grown to his waist. "You, a prince of Beili, actually asked me, a general of an enemy country, whether I want to return to the battlefield. Don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Logically speaking, the person who wants him dead the most should be the person in front of him.

Xiao Mingxuan looked up and met Liu Yuan's meaningful gaze, then slowly looked away after a long time.

Liu Yuan was right, he really shouldn't have gotten involved.

As the prince of Beili, he should have killed the man in the secret room of Jiang Mansion at the beginning, destroyed the evidence, and watched Liu Yuan's three years of hard work go to waste, or let him fend for himself in Jiangnan after he was released.

But he did nothing. Instead, he helped him silently with a tacit attitude.

The memories of his youth are already very vague, and many people and many things have long since disappeared, but Xiao Mingxuan still remembers Liu Yuan who wrapped himself in a quilt under the yellow sand that year.

The young and high-spirited Yanagihara.

After a long time, he smiled and said, "Just think of me as someone who's free."