The operas in the restaurant were performed one after another until late at night.

Baili Xuan got herself drunk and dozed off on the small table, half of the mustache stuck to her face fell off. Yu Shiqi sat on the soft cushion and looked up, while Zhong Lingqi was still sitting there.

But now I am alone. Teng Yining left alone half an hour ago.

The waiter came down the stairs with a smile on his face. He had just brought another bottle of wine to Zhong Lingqi's table.

Yu Shiqi looked at Zhong Lingqi's figure leaning against the railing, drinking alone, from afar, and suddenly felt sympathy in his heart.

Recalling Teng Yining's calm expression when he left alone in his mind, Yu Shiqi didn't know whether they were just talking and not talking about each other or if something else unhappy happened between them.

Maybe it was the opera that was being performed in this restaurant tonight. Yu Shiqi looked at the empty stage and thought to himself, it would be better if those actors and actresses didn't play such sad stories.

It was said to be a story, but in fact it only happened in the past twenty years. He had already understood the first half of the story when he was looking for the picture book called "The Romance of Zi Chen Kan Luan" for Xiling Yue at Youling Inn.

Today's opera seems to be about the second half.

Yu Shiqi suddenly understood why Zhong Lingqi seemed to be in a bad mood. It might not have anything to do with Teng Yining's departure.

Thinking of this, he got up and left the table, walked up the stairs to the second floor, and walked towards the lonely figure.

"What's the point of drinking alone?"

Zhong Lingqi, who was holding the wine flask, was stunned for a moment, turned back to look at Yu Shiqi, and smiled: "Why are you here? Where is Miss Baili?"

Yu Shiqi gestured to him downstairs with his eyes, and then sat opposite him, where Teng Yining had been sitting before. After he took his seat, he pushed the cup in front of him forward and said to Zhong Ling:

"Pour the wine."

The cup was still clean, and Teng Yining didn't seem to have the habit of touching wine.

While Zhong Lingqi poured wine for Yu Qiyi, he joked: "You just order me around so confidently? Has no one ever taught you the etiquette of filial piety and brotherhood?"

"That's for my respected master, master, and mother."

"It sounds a little sad." Zhong Lingqi still laughed, "I thought you came here because you wanted to try drinking together."

"Didn't we drink together when we were on the boat?"

"I'm not talking about drinking, it's about that feeling." Zhong Lingqi helplessly held his forehead, "When we were in Wuyue, your sister would drink with me. The little girl is very clever and can always make me happy."

"I don't have that ability."

"You look like your mother." Zhong Lingqi clinked glasses with him and sipped slowly, "Quiet, restrained, cold on the outside and hot on the inside."

"What's her name?"

"who?"

"Your daughter, a sister I have never met."

Zhong Lingqi finally showed a happy smile: "My first name is Zhong Xiaomeng, and my nickname is Yundong."

"Are you sure you didn't say anything against it?" Yu Shiqi raised his eyebrows.

"No."

"Does she look like Aunt Meng? So you want to give her this name. Or do you want to use this name to commemorate your love for Jin Jian?"

"Would you be angry if I said yes?"

This time Yu Shiqi took the initiative to pour him a drink and replied calmly: "No, it's not my turn to be angry if you want to be angry."

The two drank together, speechless for a moment.

Zhong Lingqi looked downstairs through the railing. The stage in the middle had not been cleaned yet. Colorful flags were scattered on the stage, as well as some fake swords, guns and weapons.

"Why are the people already starting to act like this while the emperor is still alive?" Yu Shiqi asked the question that had always puzzled him.

"Because there is no difference between him alive and dead now." Zhong Lingqi replied in a low voice, "He was the emperor only when he was holding a sword and standing among the soldiers loyal to him. Now he has just been pulled out.

Tigers with claws and wolves are waiting for his death."

"I heard that in the past twenty years, the emperor has used military conquests one after another, many people have died, and a lot of savings have been wasted."

"Yes, but the conquest also brought peace." Zhong Lingqi nodded, "Decades ago, the Xiongnu Chanyu unified all the grassland tribes and formed the Rongxia Empire in the north that could threaten Chen Lin. The emperor personally disintegrated it."

"You are his supporter."

"It was."

"What now?"

"Now I'm one of his few friends still alive."

Yu Shiqi paused temporarily, as he seemed to still need to slowly digest the newly acquired information.

"Why are you asking these questions?" Zhong Lingqi was curious.

"Since I plan to do that for you, I must at least understand who you and your emperor friend are." Yu Shiqi said his reasons, "I can't go willingly without knowing anything.

Imperial Capital.”

Zhong Lingqi hesitated for a moment and said slowly: "You'd better not go."

"Why? When we were in Xihuang, you repeatedly advised me to consider it, but now you don't want me to go?" Yu Shiqi didn't understand his change of attitude.

Zhong Lingqi's eyes were a little dodgey and he did not respond directly.

Yu Shiqi quickly guessed: "Because of my mother?"

"If I asked you to do that kind of thing, she would fall out with me." Zhong Lingqi smiled bitterly.

"But you said when you were in Xihuang that you would ensure my safety."

"That's right, but in your mother's eyes, what I did is bringing you into the whirlpool of right and wrong." Zhong Lingqi looked at Yu Qi's face carefully and said, "And after getting along with each other during this time, I

I also gradually feel that you may not be the right person for this matter."

A trace of disappointment flashed in Yu Shiqi's eyes. He did not expect Zhong Lingqi to give up this idea on his own initiative.

Why? Just because he now knows that he is his and Teng Yining's child, so he cares about himself and wants to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages?

"But I think I am suitable. I am qualified for the painting job, and I can also follow your arrangements and realize your and the emperor's wishes."

"Let's talk about it." Zhong Lingqi seemed to be unable to find a good way to refuse him, so he had to postpone the matter for now.

He reached out to grab the bottle, but Yu Shiqi beat him to it.

"Stop drinking. Drinking should be done in moderation. Otherwise, it will be bad for your health and will easily cause trouble." Yu Shiqi advised, "What happened in the past has already happened, so what will happen if you drink? You may not be able to survive even if you are drunk.

How happy you are, it will only make you feel more uncomfortable when you wake up."

Zhong Lingqi glanced at him in surprise and asked, "Where do you know so much? It sounds like you have a lot of experience."

Yu Shiqi smiled without explaining, stood up and left the table. He didn't want to recall his previous drunken experience at this time.

Zhong Lingqi sat there blankly, not knowing what he was thinking, smiling and frowning at times.

Going downstairs and returning to Bai Lixuan, Yu Shiqi found that she had woken up at some point. It seemed that this guy had a better drinking capacity than he thought.

"Is the father-son conversation over?" Baili Xuan stretched out, his eyes slightly tired.

"Not really a father-son conversation."

"Why, you still don't want to admit him?"

Yu Shiqi couldn't answer, and he didn't know clearly, because he felt that his feelings towards Zhong Lingqi had changed again and again as the time they spent together increased.

"Should we continue on the road tomorrow?" Bai Lixuan changed the question.

"Probably."

After going to Wuyue, will his mind change again? Yu Shiqi glanced in the direction of the final mausoleum, and suddenly found that at some point, his attitude towards Wuyue's trip had changed from the initial resistance to it.
Chapter completed!