It doesn't matter what the lord is.

"Hey, you don't listen to me when I talk to you nicely... Help me go back to my room to rest!"

Reed glanced at Lord Yunhai, but there was no smile on Lord Yunhai's face.

Lid smiled at him, put Bai Huang's arm around his neck, and supported her out of the room. Alayya also stood up immediately, holding a sword to protect Lid behind him. The Lord of Yunhai watched them leave, sighed slightly, and did not stand up to see them off.

When Bai Huang was still here, he put 100% of his energy into eating and chatting, because no father would like to show his old and weak side in front of his children. After Bai Huang left drunk, Lord Yunhai immediately supported his painful forehead and leaned back on the chair to rest with difficulty.

The drunken Bai Huang reluctantly opened his eyes under Lid's constant urging. While identifying the scenery in the courtyard, he confusedly pointed in the direction to Lid:

"Here, here... Stop, it seems to be over there... Let me think about it carefully, it seems to be like this... Because when I was a child, I would go to that roof to look at the stars and the moon, it was so beautiful... Wow! Look, in the sky... there are, there are three moons! Hehehe, so many moons, one for my eldest brother, one for my second brother, and one..."

Bai Huang burped, patted Lid's shoulder lightly, and said:

"There is one more, and I will give it to you. Anyway, you are my younger brother, so what's yours is mine. If I want to see the moon, I will ask you for it... You have to take it out and watch it with me. You are not allowed to keep it for yourself. Do you understand?"

Bai Huang stretched out his hand towards the sky, as if he wanted to grasp the full moon, but his hand did not even rise above his head and fell limply.

She was muttering about the moon, her two brothers, and the Lord of the Sea of ​​Clouds.

As he was talking, he began to cry, and when he was tired of crying, he fell asleep.

Lide had no choice but to stop a maid from the Yunhai Lord's Mansion to find out Bai Huang's boudoir and personally sent her there. The room was as luxurious as ever, which was in line with her status as a lady from a noble family. Any piece of furniture in it could be exchanged for hundreds of acres of fertile land or a mansion in the center of a city that never sleeps.

Reed gently carried her to the large golden nanmu bed, covered her with a natural silk quilt, and then prepared to turn around and leave.

But just as he turned around, Bai Huang's hand stretched out from under the quilt and tightly grasped his wrist.

It's like holding on to the last straw.

18. That Night

Thousands of words are melted into one sentence: "Don't go."

In autumn and winter, when you lie down on the bed and cover yourself with a quilt, it is actually colder than being outside, so only wealthy families have the saying of "warming the bed". Perhaps the coldness stimulated Bai Huang, she half-opened her eyes, leaned forward, like a drowning person struggling to the surface of the water, and then vomited all over the floor.

The beauty's cherry-like mouth and sweet saliva have attracted countless heroes, but the spit of the beauty is just as bad as that of other people. In ordinary animations, this would have to be covered with thick mosaics to make people feel a little comfortable, but it's a pity that Lid can only face the bleak life.

The vomiting did not make Bai Huang feel very comfortable, and her complexion was still very bad.

This is also normal. If a person with a hangover can sober up again just by vomiting out the contents of his stomach, there would be no need for so many hangover pills and detoxification drugs in the world. Excessive drinking can only be left to the body to slowly metabolize. Judging from her condition, she will probably have a headache for a long time when she wakes up tomorrow morning.

Lid looked at Bai Huang holding his hand, turned around and said to Alayya helplessly:

"Lord Yunhai has prepared a guest room for us. You can go and rest first. I will stay with her for a while and then come to find you."

Alayya nodded slightly and retreated silently.

Lid sighed, went to the garden outside, shoveled some soil to cover the vomit, and then swept it all out with a broom. He also found a few silk handkerchiefs from Bai Huang's boudoir, wet them with water, and carefully helped her wipe off the splashed parts on her body. During this time, Bai Huang began to sweat and have a fever due to the alcohol. Lid helped her open her clothes and found a wet towel to cover her head.

After doing all this, Reed lit a stick of precious sandalwood to dissipate the smell in the room.

Bai Huang was still twisting her body restlessly, and from time to time she wanted to kick the quilt covering her to the ground, but after kicking it off for a while, she would curl up and shiver with cold. Li De would always help her pull the quilt back in time, which would not only help her ventilate and sweat, but also prevent Bai Huang from feeling cold. This requires some experience, but Li De had no shortage of this experience in his previous life. At that time, his sister often caught a cold and had a fever during the transition from summer to autumn, and Li De often stayed by her bedside all night to take care of her.

After a while, Bai Huang looked obviously more comfortable, and his bitter little face relaxed again.

Bai Huang curled up in the quilt for a while, stretched out one hand from the quilt, and kept groping around the bed, as if looking for something. Lid stretched out his hand, and Bai Huang really stopped moving after holding it, and her breathing gradually became stable.

Bai Huang's palms were very hot, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared. Even so, she had no intention of letting go. Lid sat by the bed, and she kept holding Lid's hand, as if only this could make her feel at ease. Until late at night, Bai Huang opened her eyes dazedly with a dry mouth and said in a hoarse voice:

"water……"

Reed whispered in her ear:

"Let go, I'll catch it for you."

Bai Huang nodded, and her hands loosened a little. Li De went outside to get a glass of water, and when he came back, he found that Bai Huang had kicked the quilt to the ground again, lying on the bed with her legs spread out, rolling around, and her hands kept groping around. Li De hurried forward, first covered her with the quilt, and then held her hand, and Bai Huang calmed down like a puppet whose mechanism had stopped.

Reed brought the cup to her lips, and Bai Huang licked the water inside with her tongue like a cat.

Sometimes she would let out a whimper, as if she was in a tantrum because she drank water too slowly. Reed didn't feed her too fast, mainly because he was afraid of choking her.

After drinking about a third of a cup of water, Bai Huang stopped. Maybe it was because her thirst was relieved, or maybe she was just tired. Li De wiped Bai Huang's sweat again and found that Bai Huang's clothes were half taken off when she struggled, and her shoulders and lower abdomen were all exposed. She was still pulling at her clothes with her hands. Li De took a round fan from the side and fanned her gently, but after a while, he sneezed first.

After all, it was still cold after staying up all night, so Reed also drank a sip of water.

Bai Huang suddenly exerted force on his hand, but she was obviously not as strong as Reed. She did not pull Reed to her side, but let her turn over by herself. After swinging her other arm around, it rested softly on Reed's shoulder, and the sweater on her chest completely burst open.

Bai Huang's long eyelashes trembled slightly and she opened her eyes.

Because of crying and drinking, her eyes were red and dull.

Maybe he recognized that the person in front of him was Lid, Bai Huang showed a silly smile, panting hard, and said intermittently:

"I knew it... you are still good to me..."

Bai Huang closed the distance between herself and Lid, and the sweater that she had been tossing around with all night finally died and fell to the ground.

She seemed to want to take a closer look at Lid, and the hand on Lid's shoulder weakly lifted his cheek, but her body fell uncontrollably, and finally her pink lips pressed against Lid's jaw. Lid wanted to reach out to support her, but what he touched was Bai Huang's beautiful back covered with sweat, and his hand instinctively shrank back.

Bai Huang raised her little face and vaguely saw some residual water droplets on Reed's lips, so she stuck out her tongue and licked them.

A tingling feeling rushed into Reid's mind in an instant.

For a moment, he wanted to hug the person in front of him, but his outstretched hand eventually dropped.

Because Bai Huang was talking to himself in a very lonely voice:

"Growing up... is so hard. But Dad is getting old... I have to grow up too..."

Bai Huang sniffed, and his voice sounded a little sour again.

She turned over again and fell back onto the bed, lying with her back to Reed, her arms folded tightly across her chest.

Lid pulled up the quilt for her, and heard Bai Huang muttering:

"It's my turn to protect them this time..."

Li De helped Bai Huang take off the hairpin on her head and let down her long hair.

He hesitated for a moment, but still did not go back to the room to rest with Alaya, because he didn't know if Bai Huang would do anything outrageous again. Maybe she would get drunk again in the middle of the night, take off her pants and go to Tonghai River for a winter swim, then he would have to take half the blame. However, Lid was also an old master of time management. While Bai Huang was sleeping soundly, he went back to his room first, threw Alaya, who was sitting on the chair, onto the bed, and let Alaya go to sleep obediently.

Reed knew very well that if he didn't come, Alayya might just sit there and wait until morning.

Besides, Lid held Bai Huang's hand all the time. During this time, Bai Huang drank water twice, and once he hugged Lid like a pillow for a while. It was not until dawn that Bai Huang fell into a deep sleep, and Lid also fell asleep leaning against the chair.

The next day, Bai Huang jumped up from the bed and revived with full health.

19. Don’t leave after school

The next day, Bai Huang took Lid and resolutely said goodbye to Lord Yunhai.

Although he was very worried about his father's health, Bai Huang knew that he could not stay in the Lord's Mansion for too long. The situation in Yunhai had reached a point where the situation was changing rapidly, and delaying for even a day could cause irreparable losses.

This time when she returned to the Lord's Mansion, Bai Huang originally wanted to win her father over to her side and use his power to make the battle for the crown prince have a happy ending. But after a brief contact, Bai Huang realized that she would never be able to persuade Lord Yunhai to make this decision, which made her a little discouraged, but she had to cheer up.

After all, "I hope that Bai Feng and Bai Ye can both survive" has been her personal wish from the beginning. If even she backs down, this goal may never be achieved.

Before leaving, Lord Yunhai smiled and waved to Bai Huang, and the father and daughter talked alone.

After the conversation, Bai Huang walked out of the yard, tightly grasping her clothes, lowered her head, and quickly got into the carriage.

Lid asked her what Lord Yunhai had said, and Bai Huang smiled a heart-breaking smile and replied that it was nothing. At that moment, Lid had guessed that Lord Yunhai had most likely repeated what he had said to Bai Huang, perhaps in the form of a last wish.

He could reply, "It's none of your business," but Bai Huang could only answer, "I'll obey my father's orders."

Reed got on the carriage and looked back at the lord's mansion before leaving, with murderous intent in his eyes.

He didn't care who Bai Huang would end up with. It was possible that this girl would fall in love with any girl when she grew up. He just remembered what Liu Shi had said to him:

——"She (Bai Huang), I feel like she's the type who can't even tell what she likes. It's likely that it will take her a long time to realize that she likes someone, and by then it's already too late. Then she'll regret it, and miss the next chance to fall in love in her regret..."

That’s right, Bai Huang has always been vague about the feeling of “like”.

So her feelings towards Lid were vague, she just liked playing with Lid and liked the feeling of swinging her fist to uphold justice. But now the Cloud Sea Lord had to forcibly puncture this bubble-like dream and put the bloody facts in front of Bai Huang, especially during this period when she was already worried about her two brothers.

One can imagine how Bai Huang is feeling right now, not to mention that she had just spent a carefree night in Reed's company.

Reed stretched out his hand and shook it from a distance in the direction of the lord's mansion, then he got on the carriage.

The moment the carriage disappeared on the street, the plaque in front of the main gate of the Yunhai Lord's Mansion fell down and broke into countless pieces.

The top-ranking Yunhai Guards rushed out, but no one knew what had happened, so they could only stand there and stare at each other. After a moment, an old sigh came from the lord's mansion:

"Come back... and make a new one tomorrow."

Yunhaiwei then retreated.

In the carriage, Lid still shamelessly squeezed next to Bai Huang. He knew that Bai Huang was in a state of confusion and wanted to be alone. But according to his experience in the previous life, except for some more rational people, most people's "being alone" is actually just thinking about things alone, which is not as effective as chatting with others to restore their mood.

Lid yawned and said to Bai Huang:

"It's time to meet your two brothers next. Who do you plan to meet first, Bai Feng or Bai Ye?"

Bai Huang tried to calm down, but she still didn't dare to look at Lid, for fear that Lid would see something from her expression. She looked at the scenery outside the window, holding her cheek with her right hand, and said in a normal tone:

"I'm going to see my second brother first. I can't guess what my eldest brother is thinking right now, and I don't know where he is now... I want to see my second brother first and see if I can pry open a gap with him."

Bai Huang twisted his fingers together, paused, and continued:

"I remember when we were in Yuxi City, you told me that if my eldest brother won, he might let my second brother go; but if my second brother won, he would definitely kill my eldest brother... I understand the reasoning, but I still want to ask him. The winner will be the king and the loser will be the bandit. Does it have to go that far?"

Reed stretched and deliberately placed his hand next to Bai Huang's hand.

This time Bai Huang hesitated and moved his hand aside.

Lid asked calmly:

"Actually, what I'm more curious about is, Bai Ye is already at the tenth level, right? I have the impression that there shouldn't be anyone at the tenth level around Bai Feng. Theoretically, Bai Ye could just tie him up. Why did he only injure the people around him several times? In my opinion, this has no substantive effect other than intensifying the conflict."

Bai Huang replied:

"It may be because my father released the Yunhai Guards. My father said that the competition for the crown prince is about connections, skills, bravery, etc. He gave up the power of Yunhai, and how much my eldest brother and my second brother can grab depends on their abilities. In terms of personal strength, there is indeed no one around my second brother who can stop my eldest brother, but at least two-thirds of the senior generals of Yunhai stand on my second brother's side and protect him very well."

Lid nodded:

"That is to say, with the army protecting Bai Feng, Bai Ye doesn't dare to force his way in. But isn't the situation at a standstill here? Bai Feng can't kill Bai Ye either. Just lying there will only cause Yun Hai's overall strength to decline day by day. If it drags on for a year or two, even if a victory is decided, it will be meaningless."

Bai Huang knew only limited details, and she was also frowning and thinking.

Reed guessed that Bai Feng should still have a backup plan. He had been planning for so many years. If Bai Ye's promotion to the tenth level would leave him powerless to fight back, then he should have used all means to fight desperately a few years ago and tried his best to kill Bai Ye before the threshold of the tenth level.

But for now, Reid couldn’t guess Bai Feng’s thoughts, so he could only wait and see after they met.

Bai Huang found the general of the nearby army and revealed her identity. The general said that he would inform the people above, but it was not clear whether Bai Feng was willing to meet them. Bai Huang could only circle around anxiously waiting, and Lid also walked with her hands in his pockets, and the two of them performed a duet in front of the army gate.

Not long after, a general in silver armor came over and told Bai Huang that he could go in.

This is already the outskirts of the Never-Sleeping City, and a large number of troops are stationed in the mountains and forests without showing any signs of being there. While walking on the path, Lid roughly sensed that the number of troops around him was estimated to be more than 200,000, and the number of masters was as high as several thousand. Although there were obviously fewer people who could reach the eighth or ninth level, Bai Ye probably didn't dare to force his way into this lineup.

Bai Ye's greatest strength is his martial arts attainment. Martial arts is to him what fame is to Bai Feng. Once Bai Ye breaks into the army and gets injured, most of the people following him will surely disperse overnight, which is why he dares not take risks.

"This is it."

In front of the military tent, the silver-armored general lifted the curtain with his hand and spoke to Lid and others.

Bai Huang entered the military tent, followed closely by Lid.

As soon as they entered, the two saw the familiar handsome young man in a cloak.

Bai Feng held a pen in his hand, and seemed to have been processing the documents on the table until just now. When he saw Bai Huang and Li De, he smiled and nodded, and said:

"coming?"

Bai Feng stood up and invited her sister and Lid to sit aside.

Then, he walked back to his original position and continued to process the documents in front of him without looking up:

"Now that you're here, take a good rest. You guys stay here for the time being and don't run around anymore."

As soon as he finished speaking, the military formation outside changed instantly. The big tent was locked up layer by layer, making it impossible to escape.

20. People’s minds are unpredictable and changeable

Bai Huang looked at his brother steadily, and after a while he asked softly:

"What do you mean?"

Bai Feng didn't look at her, but raised his head to look at Lid.

The almond-shaped eyes narrowed, and the long eyebrows were raised. Bai Feng's tone was rarely filled with a bit of complaint:

"Li De, I sent my sister to Yuxi City to let her avoid the turmoil and conflicts here. She is immature, are you also immature? I know you took a big risk to come to Yunhai, but have you ever thought that there are many things in the world that are destined not to end properly? If the conflict between my brother and I could be put aside just like that, why would I have to persuade him again and again over the years?"