It doesn't matter what the lord is.

He bowed to Lid, and Lid bowed back to him:

"No, no, even though the youngest brother is not very good at chess, his level of flattery seems to be better than mine. There must be a teacher among three people. I also need to learn a lot, learn a lot."

11. Have the opportunity to sleep together

As the few people got to know each other better, the topics they talked about became more diverse.

Reed generously taught Huangyan and the youngest brother how to play mahjong and Landlord. Compared to chess, playing mahjong is more entertaining and has a lower entry threshold. With the help of beginner's luck, both of them had a lot of fun playing.

The youngest one is more talkative, obviously a man who has traveled a lot. Huangyan rarely speaks, and only occasionally interjects a word or two when talking about the hardships of people's lives.

Even when he was sitting in the carriage, Huang Yan did not take off his cloak. However, when he sat down, his arms and legs were naturally exposed, and it could be seen that his attire was very different from the traditional loose robes. The sleeves and trouser legs were tied tightly to his body with silver-grey cloth belts, which did not get in the way at all.

As for eating, he would climb out of the car window to the roof when no one was outside, and sit on the roof to eat alone.

As a result, he found some delicious food hidden in the corner of the roof. He was stunned when he saw Xiluo's little head slowly poking out from the edge of the roof, looking at him vigilantly. Huangyan ignored Xiluo, and Xiluo ran over and jumped back into the carriage holding the food in the corner.

Later, Huang Yan found out that the rooftop was Shiloh's territory. Every time the car stopped in the city, Shiloh would secretly use his pocket money to buy some candied fruit, fried dough twists, sugar-roasted chestnuts and other snacks and hide them on the rooftop, thinking that one day when the night was good, he would pull Lid to the rooftop, treat him to food and watch the stars with him.

Huangyan suddenly climbed onto the roof without saying a word. Shiloh thought he was going to steal the winter food he had hidden, so he took the food and moved away first. Later, when Lid was chatting with Huangyan, he laughed several times, and he was obviously very happy. Shiloh saw it from the side. Once when Huangyan went to the roof to eat again, Shiloh climbed up without saying a word and put a few chestnuts in front of him.

Huangyan peeled the chestnuts and ate them. They tasted sweet. He didn't like sweets very much, but he ate them all anyway.

However, since we are in the same industry, we are bound to encounter some inconveniences. The first one is the problem of sleeping at night.

The youngest was a sensible man, and he knew that he should not sleep in the carriage, so he took the initiative to greet the two drivers from Lide. The two drivers from Lide were originally on a rotation basis, one working the day shift and the other working the night shift. When one was driving, the other would go to the cargo compartment at the back to rest. So the youngest also joined the rotation team. At night, he was responsible for driving the carriage, and the two drivers from Yuxi City would squeeze in the cargo compartment to rest.

The question is, where does Huangyan sleep?

Li De didn't know why the youngest brother cared so much about this issue, and even discussed it with Huang Yan for a long time. In the end, Huang Yan said that he could sleep in the carriage, and Li De didn't know why the youngest brother seemed to be hesitant when he said this. But Li De rejected Huang Yan very righteously, for a simple reason, he felt that I was sleeping with the girl I liked, why did you, a grown man, come and interfere?

What if Alayya gets sleepy at night and picks up the wrong person?

Oh, wait, it seems like Alayya wouldn’t take the initiative to hug anyone to sleep.

Let's take a step back. What if I, Lide, hug the wrong person and sleep with you all night? Then, wouldn't Lide be dirty? From now on, every time I hug Alayya, I will think of other men. How can I live like this? Okay, enough, don't do the gay-re-gay thing again. Now I often dream of He Yue's clothes being lifted to reveal two chest muscles and eight abdominal muscles, and his strong arms hugging me, saying something like "Brother trained his chest muscles if you still want to rely on them." I know it's a dream, but every time I wake up, I am covered in cold sweat.

Reed really didn't want to sleep with another man, especially when there was a girl next to him. He was afraid that he would accidentally hug Huang Yan. After seeing this, Alayya was extremely shocked and broke through in the opposite direction, falling directly back to the sixth level of perfection.

After being rejected, Huang Yan didn't say much. He turned over and went to sleep on the roof of the car.

This method worked well in the early stages, but as the carriage traveled north for a while, something started to go wrong. The weather was getting colder and colder, and although it wasn't snowing yet, the temperature started to drop lower and lower in the middle of the night.

Huang Yan just held on from the beginning, wrapped in a cloak and stayed in the cold wind for a whole night, and was so cold that he couldn't sleep at all. People who have been through the Xiao know that the coldest time is not in the middle of the night, but in the early morning. If you don't sleep all night, you will shiver with cold in the early morning no matter how many layers of clothes you wear.

Finally, one day, Huang Yan saw that it was almost dawn and couldn't help but go back to the carriage and found a corner to lean against and rest.

Because he hadn't slept well for several days, Huang Yan fell asleep while sitting. As the carriage turned, he unconsciously fell to the ground, his head just a few centimeters away from Lid's chest. Lid woke up at this time, not for anything else, just because every adolescent boy has an inexplicable impulse in the morning.

Reed glanced at Huang Yan.

Huang Yan was still sleeping soundly.

Reed thought for a while, climbed up from the plush blanket, covered Huangyan with the quilt, found a place to sit down, and still stood vigilantly between the sleeping Alayya and Huangyan. As soon as Alayya showed signs of turning over, Reed would tiptoe over and turn her back to her original direction.

When the youngest brother finished his shift and looked back, he saw Huang Yan sleeping soundly wrapped in Lid's quilt. Lid was sitting cross-legged beside him, looking tired.

The youngest was stunned at that moment, but he dared not say anything or ask anything. He packed up his things and went back to the cargo compartment to sleep.

Huang Yan slept until mid-morning and felt warm all around him. He looked at the quilt on his body, got up, and looked at the people sitting in the carriage chatting and enjoying the scenery. He folded Lid's quilt and put it back under the seat, then said thank you to Lid with the same tone as before, without any emotion.

Li De also thought it was a small matter. He thought it was no big deal for boys to lie together. He had slept with Fang Yuan before when he went to Yunhai. Fang Yuan was a heavyweight player. When he turned over at night, he could wake Li De up with an elbow. Besides, the weather was quite hot at that time. The two of them were squeezed together and sweated all over in the middle of the night.

The next night, Huang Yan didn't go to the roof of the car again, but just leaned in the corner to sleep.

Lid also acquiesced to this, but he couldn't sleep. He was always worried that Huang Yan would secretly go and tease Alaiya after he fell asleep. The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep. After thinking about it, Lid felt that there was only one way to solve the problem, sacrificing the small self to achieve the big self. So he slowly sat up, opened the quilt a little, looked at Huang Yan, showed a kind smile, and slowly said:

"Shall we sleep together?"

12. I can’t sleep tonight

Two people were covered by a golden quilt.

Lid couldn't sleep, and Huangyan couldn't sleep either.

There are many ways to judge whether a person is asleep or not. For example, swallowing saliva is usually a sign of not falling asleep. Frequent tossing and turning or frequent movement of hands and feet also indicate that the person is basically awake. However, Li De actually has a simpler way to judge, that is, Huang Yan's vigilance has never been relaxed, and Huang Yan's tense body can bring a kind of subtle pressure to Li De, making it impossible for him to fall asleep.

Theoretically, after Reed falls asleep, Huangyan will stop being on guard and fall asleep with him, but in fact, Reed has to wait until Huangyan falls asleep and puts down his guard before he can fall asleep smoothly.

The two people were stuck in a vicious circle.

After tossing and turning until midnight, Li De finally felt that this was not a solution, so he cleared his throat and planned to chat with Huang Yan to make him relax a little:

"Huang Yan, do you usually wear perfume?"

"perfume?"

"Oh, it should be called a spice, like incense or something like that."

"No."

"Really? But I clearly smell a fragrance on you."

"..."

"..."

Lid originally wanted to discuss the perfumes Huang Yan usually used. After all, the perfume industry in Yuxi City is no longer limited to the female market, but also suitable for men. Lid brought some with him this time. If Huang Yan doesn't mind, it's okay to give him two bottles. This will quickly shorten the distance between the two people, and Huang Yan will probably not be as wary of him as he is now.

I didn't expect that after asking this question, the atmosphere became even more tense for some reason.

Lid raised his hand and smelled himself, and was sure that a delicate boy like himself did not have a natural body fragrance. So he judged that Huang Yan must have lied, and he must have secretly used perfume behind his back, but was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Thinking of this, Lid felt relieved again. He patted Huangyan's shoulder and said with the tone of an experienced person:

"It's okay. Everyone has some habits that they can't tell others."

Huangyan remained silent, and Lid took it as his consent.

Thinking of this, Lid couldn't help but change the subject:

"Huang Yan, you wear that cloak all day long, and you never take it off when eating or sleeping. Aren't you hot?"

"It's hot too."

"You're still wearing it when it's hot?"

"My godfather said I should wear it."

Huang Yan paused and said firmly:

"My godfather said that no one should see my face unless it is a special occasion."

"Is it because you owe money and are afraid of being recognized? No, why do you sound so handsome? Isn't it just to escape debt anonymously?"

"..."

"..."

Reed felt that the atmosphere had become much more tense.

He was a little confused, feeling that this was not right. If they continued to talk like this, they would fight by dawn. So Lid simply stopped talking and lay on his back looking at the ceiling of the carriage. Except for a small gap in the curtains, there was actually no light in the carriage.

At this time, they happened to pass a slightly bumpy land. Although the shock-absorbing facilities were well installed, they could still feel slight vibrations when they lay down. Lid liked this feeling of traveling. He liked leisure time and the feeling of being on the road.

At this time, Huang Yan asked:

"How old are you?"

Lidd replied:

"Just had my eighteenth birthday."

In fact, his age in his two lives combined is more than this, but Reed is indeed just eighteen years old this year.

What he didn't expect was that there was a hint of envy in Huang Yan's voice for some reason, and he whispered:

"so good."

After Huangyan said this, he immediately kept silent, so Reed was very gentlemanly and did not ask why.

Huang Yan probably realized that it was not appropriate to leave the topic at this point. The whole atmosphere became a little awkward, so he hesitated for a long time and took the initiative to ask Lid a question:

"What do you want to do in the future?"

"I don't know. I don't have any idea at the moment. I want to live comfortably every day and do whatever I think of occasionally."

Huang Yan also lay on his back, looking at the roof of the car. After a while, he said:

“Luxury dream.”

Reed asked back:

"What about you?"

Huang Yan replied:

"I want the homeless people in this world to have a better life."

Lid smiled and said:

"There's a man named Wumi in Wangdu who thinks the same."

"It's different. He can't do it. My foster father said that the White-robed Minister has existed since its establishment to maintain the rule of the royal family. However, the current Yongtian Kingdom can no longer be improved by patching up. Civil strife is a means for various lords to seek power. Wumi is essentially no different from them. The royal family does not have more justice than the territories. They are all the same kind of people who drink human blood."

He said it seriously, and Lid also turned his head seriously and asked:

"If it were you, what would you do?"

Huang Yan's voice suddenly became a little cold:

"Kill. If the lord is in the way, kill the lord. If the king is in the way, kill the king."

Lid smiled lightly. He was not disturbed by the fierce aura that Huang Yan unintentionally released. He did not comment too much on his thoughts. He just patted him on the shoulder and said:

"When the time comes, please spare my life."

Huang Yan nodded and said:

"I will...but I'm just a poor young man who owes a lot of money. I'm not qualified to talk about these things now."

Lid stretched his body, yawned for more than ten seconds, patted Huangyan's shoulder, and said:

"I am just a businessman you can see everywhere. So go to sleep. In life, you have to play your role at each stage."

After saying that, Lid withdrew his hand and closed his eyes. He could feel that Huang Yan was still awake and was lying beside him in a daze, but this time Lid did not feel the vague vigilance coming from him. And for some reason, Huang Yan smelled good, like the fragrance of some unknown flower from the south. Lid fell asleep quickly in this atmosphere.

Noticing the snoring coming from beside him, Huang Yan turned his head towards Reed and stared at him for a while. After making sure that Reed was asleep, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After relaxing, Huang Yan stared at Lid's profile and whispered in an inaudible voice:

"Eighteen years old..."

He turned his head and continued to look at the roof of the car, not knowing what he was thinking about. After a long time, Huang Yan slowly fell asleep.

The next day, when the youngest changed shifts, he found that Lid and Huangyan were sitting together, with Alaiya and Shiloh sitting opposite them. Lid was telling a story to everyone. The youngest rubbed his eyes, not knowing why he always felt that the relationship between the two was much better than before.

No, it is more like who his young master would sit side by side with, which is itself an extremely rare thing!

In such an atmosphere, the group's journey gradually came to an end.

After more than a month of non-stop journey day and night, the carriage from Yuxi City finally arrived at the territory of Lingwu.

13. Even though we have been traveling thousands of miles apart, we will eventually have to say goodbye.

Directly south of Lingwu Territory is Gu Ye Territory. This territory is not very strong, and it happened to block the way of Lingwu Lord to go south, so the life in the past few years has been miserable. In recent years, Lord Gu Ye has figured out that Lingwu is going south, and no one can stop it. The beasts of the royal family are counting on him to be the vanguard, and the benefits he gives are completely disproportionate to the risks he has to take. So one day, Lord Gu Ye left the Lord's Mansion and took the envoys to Lingwu in person.

After that, life in the Gu Ye Territory became much better.

At this point, we have basically reached the north of Yongtian Kingdom, but not the northernmost part. According to legend, before Yongtian Kingdom, there was no Lingwu Territory. Guye Territory was the northernmost territory. At that time, people built a fortress at the northernmost part of Guye Territory to resist the invasion of giants, which is the famous [Reject North Fortress] in history.

The ruins of the Jubei Fortress can still be seen, but in the hundreds of years of Yongtian Kingdom, this once legendary fortress has long since left the stage, and Lingwu has taken over to guard the northern border of Yongtian Kingdom. Lingwu not only prevented the giants from invading from the south, but also gradually encroached on and expanded its territory over hundreds of years, becoming a powerful existence that Yongtian Kingdom cannot get rid of today.

"We're almost at Saibei."

The youngest looked at the tall and majestic ruins outside the carriage and said with emotion:

"You said these things, you spent a lot of money on them, and now they are lost just like that, it makes me sad."

After Lingwu Lord established his foothold, Jubei Fortress became a symbol without any practical use. Yongtian Kingdom did not allocate funds for its maintenance, and Guye Territory naturally would not be idle to repair it for fun. Even the most powerful buildings would be dilapidated after hundreds of years of wind and rain, not to mention that many people went there at night to steal bricks to build houses.

"There's nothing to feel bad about. If the Lingwu territory collapses, we can still rely on these things to stop the giants. Besides, if I were Lord Guye, I would have to tear down the wall secretly even if it was intact. Otherwise, what would happen if Lord Lingwu saw it? She has held up the north side, and the wall on the south is still standing tall. Is this wall to protect against the giants or against her? Licking others' inability to lick, this is the ultimate secret of a dog licker."