——"Why does it smell as good as you?"
Xie Hengwu was stunned by this question, and an unnatural blush appeared on his face.
"...Your Majesty, I am embroidering this sachet every day, so it is normal for it to smell a little bit."
Xiao Yanzhou raised his eyebrows, making a gesture to open it.
Xie Hengwu felt anxious and subconsciously reached out to hold him down.
This action was bold, and Xiao Yanzhou looked sideways, with a very evil look in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, in Nanliang, opening the sachet will bring bad omens." Xie Hengwu stumbled and made nonsense. Anyway, he was making up things about Nanliang, and Xiao Yanzhou didn't understand.
As if he saw her guilty conscience, he sneered: "Since this is what you in Nanliang say, it doesn't count in Beijiang."
"Ah Heng is so nervous. Is there something shameful hidden in the sachet?"
"Could it be..." He twisted his fingertips on the top of the sachet and said lazily, "It's some kind of poison that is harmful to people's lives. Are you afraid that being discovered by Gu will affect your plan with Nanliang?"
Xie Hengwu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he was shocked.
Xiao Yanzhou is really very sharp.
If she really planned to do what Nanliang Chuanxin did, she might really hide the medicine in the sachet.
She thought she didn't show any abnormality at all, and she didn't even know who the spies who followed were.
But this is how Xiao Yanzhou guessed it. Maybe it was just his paranoid intuition, but this intuition was almost inseparable from the truth.
This shows that... despite being so close to her, he has always been wary of her and has never trusted her.
Seeing that Xie Hengwu was stunned and didn't answer, the joke hidden in Xiao Yanzhou's eyes faded away, and his tone became subtly cold: "What, are you really being fooled?"
"You've been seeing Mrs. Cui lately. Could it be that Mrs. Cui is involved?"
Every time he spoke another word, his body temperature dropped by one point.
Xie Hengwu couldn't let him guess any more.
She didn't know if Queen Mother Cui made any small moves, but she really didn't do anything.
Xie Hengwu didn't feel anything, but Xiao Yanzhou became angrier the more he talked about it.
Seeing the tangled look on her face, he lowered his long eyebrows, his eyes as silent as a deep pool, and raised his lips to continue taunting her.
However, the beautiful face suddenly magnified in front of his eyes. Before Xiao Yanzhou could say anything, he was blocked by soft lips.
There was an obvious blank look on his face for a moment.
Like a dragonfly, Xie Hengwu straightened up quickly and murmured with a red face: "Your Majesty, what nonsense are you talking about? How dare I have such thoughts... It's just that I'm really embarrassed. If Your Majesty wants to see it, wait until I leave." Let’s see again.”
As expected, Xiao Yanzhou stopped talking, but instead stared at her with his eyes. When those narrow eyes look at people, they are full of aggression, making people suddenly feel like they are the prey of a poisonous snake.
Xie Hengwu's cowardly posture was fake, but when he saw him taking two steps back, it was sincere.
His eyes are really scary!
Even though this was not the first time I saw Xie Hengwu, I couldn't help but tremble in my heart.
But the corners of his lips were slightly raised, and his fingertips slowly stroked his lips.
Pale fingertips caressed the scarlet lips, and Xie Hengwu felt as if his lips were numb, as if he was caressing his own lips.
She composed herself, stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve, shook it slightly, and said in a gentle voice: "Your Majesty treats me well, I will definitely remember it in my heart, and I will not forget it. As for the murder, Even if you give me ten courages, I still don’t dare to do it.”
Xiao Yanzhou put down his hand and chuckled with unknown meaning.
"Don't you dare? It seems that Ah Heng is very courageous."
He looked at her with half-lidded eyes, his voice was lazy and sounded very happy.
"You can go and wait outside. You don't have to go back tonight."
Xie Hengwu lowered his eyes, and the ends of his upper eyes were sprinkled with gold powder to outline two crescents.
--
At night, Xie Hengwu and Xiao Yanzhou were lying on the same bed, but they could not fall asleep with their eyes open.
To be fair, after getting used to it, I always sleep very deeply when sleeping with Xiao Yanzhou.
It was probably because he was warmer. With him in the bed, it was like putting a human-shaped heater.
But tonight Xie Hengwu was inexplicably awake, with a feeling of discomfort in his chest.
Xiao Yanzhou was annoyed by her tossing and turning: "What's wrong?"
His voice also sounded very awake, as if he had never fallen asleep.
Xie Hengwu was originally worried that his movements would disturb him, so he turned over very slowly and lightly. Unexpectedly, he would still notice him.
But realizing that Xiao Yanzhou wasn't sleeping either, she felt relieved for some reason.
"Your Majesty, I...can't sleep."
In the darkness, Xie Hengwu could only vaguely see Xiao Yanzhou's figure.
The bed beside her sank, and it was he who leaned over and held her tightly.
From a closer distance, Xie Hengwu could hear his heartbeat, just like she was nestled in his arms during the day.
"Why?"
She hugged him back, buried her head in his heart, and muttered: "I don't know, maybe I slept too much in the afternoon."
She leaned in his arms with dark hair and plain clothes, without any extra makeup, making her look more exquisite and delicate, like snow, as if she would melt at the touch of a touch.
Xiao Yanzhou's heart softened, and he stroked her back. The soft black hair passed through his fingertips, flowing like water.
He suddenly thought, why don't he take her with him too.
This thought just passed through his mind, there was no way he could take her away.
Firstly, this journey was not safe and it would be inconvenient for her as a woman; secondly, if she was not discovered in the palace, her whereabouts would not be concealed.
He could only think of himself as having such a ridiculous idea because of a temporary obsession.
So Xiao Yanzhou still patted her back gently and said nothing more.
However, Xie Hengwu seemed to have started talking. She was silent for a while and couldn't help but speak again.
"Your Majesty, I always feel very flustered."
Xiao Yanzhou said "Oh" and said, "If you go to bed earlier, it won't happen."
Xie Hengwu ignored his inhumane-sounding words and muttered to himself: "I just feel...as if I won't be able to see Your Majesty tomorrow."
Xiao Yanzhou's movements of stroking her back were subtle for a moment, then quickly returned to normal.
He asked as if nothing had happened: "Are you trying to curse Gu Bucheng?"
"That's not what I mean, it's just..." Xie Hengwu didn't notice his strangeness. She hesitated to consider the words, but couldn't find the right words for a while, so she finally gave up, "Anyway, that's not what I meant."
Xiao Yanzhou followed her words and asked, "What did someone say to you?"
Xie Hengwu was in a state between sleepiness and sobriety at this time, his mind was like a ball of mush. If not, she wouldn't have noticed that the hand that was still on her back before unconsciously moved closer to the back of her neck.
"I have been with Your Majesty for most of the day today. How can anyone say anything to me?"
Xie Hengwu moved her body into a more comfortable position, and Xiao Yanzhou's palm pressed against the side of her neck.
When he thought about it carefully, it was the same.
He detained Xie Hengwu in Zichen Palace. No one in Zichen Palace dared to say anything.
Xiao Yanzhou picked up a lock of hair with his fingertips and twisted it around again and again.
Xie Hengwu closed his eyes and looked calm, as if he was not aware of the killing intent that had just flashed past.
"You haven't answered Gu's question yet."
Perhaps realizing that Xie Hengwu was easy to fool, Xiao Yanzhou asked in a low voice while playing with her hair.
Seeing Xie Hengwu frowning, he asked in confusion: "What did your Majesty ask me about my body?"
Xiao Yanzhou lowered his head, almost touching the tip of her nose. His mute voice was inexplicably seductive.
"Do you know what the Queen Mother wants to do?"
In the afternoon, Xiao Yanzhou also asked such a question when he was using the topic to his advantage.
Xie Hengwu indeed did not answer.
Seeing her eyelashes fluttering, a gap opened slightly. Xie Hengwu half-squinted his eyes and said softly:
"I don't know...it's just that the Queen Mother treats me a little too well, and I feel uncomfortable."
Xiao Yanzhou didn't expect to be able to ask anything from Xie Hengwu. He and his biological mother were enemies, but they understood each other best.
Cui's Buddha is a snake-hearted person, and all the benefits she pays must be paid a hundred times.
After becoming the Queen Mother, she worshiped Buddha all day long and acted compassionately, almost making people forget her methods when she was still a concubine.
Cui's attitude towards Xie Hengwu only made Xiao Yanzhou feel that he was uneasy and well-intentioned.
"Why don't you feel comfortable?"
Xie Hengwu whispered: "I am not related to the Queen Mother, nor are I a native of the same country. Logically speaking, the Queen Mother should stay away from me."
Xiao Yanzhou sneered: "Not too stupid."
The man in his arms muttered dissatisfiedly: "I'm not stupid to begin with..."
It seemed that he was so sleepy that Xie Hengwu couldn't even think about claiming himself.
Xiao Yanzhou naturally noticed it. He placed his palm on the back of her neck and rubbed it gently: "Go to sleep if you feel sleepy."
As he spoke, he pinched the back of her neck. Xie Hengwu's eyelids sank and he suddenly fell into a deep sleep.
--
When Xie Hengwu woke up early the next morning, Xiao Yanzhou was no longer around.
She was accustomed to this. Xiao Yanzhou always got up early in the morning, and often went to the imperial study after going to court, and usually came back after lunch.
She slowly sat up and felt a soreness in the back of her neck when she raised her head.
Xie Hengwuwu muttered to herself that the noble girl's training she had received since she was a child allowed her to sleep in the same position overnight, and she had always been very stable. For so many years, I have felt nothing when I wake up every morning. Why did my neck feel sore just after last night?
Is it because I wasn't sleepy last night?
Xie Hengwu suddenly thought of what Xiao Yanzhou had asked him before falling asleep.
She thought about it silently and realized that she couldn't remember when she fell asleep.
Maybe I didn’t remember it because I got sleepy later...
Xie Hengwu didn't think about it any more.
After briefly freshening up, she walked out and met Zhao Quan who was coming back.
"Why is Eunuch Zhao back? Where is Your Majesty?"
Zhao Quan's eyes flickered for a moment, then returned to normal.
"Reporting to the young master, your majesty has asked the slave to come back to get something." He said with a smile, his smile was as usual, "By the way, your majesty said that the young master does not need to wait, just go back."
Xie Hengwu did not doubt that he was there and thanked Zhao Quan softly.
At the same time, an unpretentious carriage slowly left the capital.
The minister of the Ministry of Industry was so frightened that he sat in the corner of the car and wanted to shrink into a ball.
Opposite him was Xiao Yanzhou in disguise.
Xiao Yanzhou's identity now is that of Shangshu's staff.
The Minister of Industry did not dare to look at Xiao Yanzhou and only stared at his sleeves.
After staring for a long time, he quietly moved his gaze away and looked to the opposite side.
I saw the back of Xiao Yanzhou's hand resting on his knee, and he seemed to be playing with something in his palm.
He couldn't see clearly, but he felt vaguely familiar, as if he had seen it from his wife.
Is it a sachet?
The Minister of the Ministry of Industry quickly gave up the idea. His Majesty did not like incense. Everyone knew that. How could he carry a sachet with him?
He didn't look at it any longer, he retracted his gaze and continued to stare at his sleeves.
But what Xiao Yanzhou was holding was indeed a sachet.
The one embroidered by Xie Hengwu.
On it, the raccoon slave is cute and naive, holding a pom-pom and playing with it. Xiao Yanzhou's fingertips were pressing on the pom-pom, and it looked like a raccoon slave holding his finger.
Wisps of delicate fragrance came vaguely, and Xiao Yanzhou's brows relaxed happily.
But with the disguise mask, this subtle expression is not obvious.
He thought that Xie Hengwu really understood him.
Without this sachet, it would be really troublesome if I had a headache during the few days after leaving the palace.
Although Zhou Qi also had medicine to suppress it, it was not as direct as her fragrance.
As for what was inside, he had already seen it.
A small piece of cool and smooth silk satin, embroidered with lotus petals, with neat corners, as if it had been cut.
Xiao Yanzhou met him once.
On Xie Hengwu's clothes.
