The two maids happily arrived at the main hall. Seeing that Kui Ke, Tan Tan and Qing Ru were still at the table, they came forward and bowed, thinking for a long time and said: "My lord, the king said that he would go back after sending the girl off. He said it was The imperial concubine is unwell!"
The few people who were originally with King Yong asked after hearing this: "Your Majesty has returned?"
"yes!"
"Then Mr. Li, we will go back first!" The waiting people bowed and resigned.
Not long after, Qingru also left quietly. When Li Shi saw her standing up, he wanted to say a few words to her, but she didn't miss him and resigned without a face. Kui Ke burped, looking cute and naive, and stood up unsteadily holding on to his full belly. Tan Tan saw him and quickly went over to help him.
"Madam..., hiccup...make me a bowl of sobering tea!" He quickly wrapped his arms around his wife's waist and fell onto her shoulder with a blushing face.
Tantan saw Li Shizai, blushed and supported him. When Li Shi waved, she and the maid helped him down.
Looking at the table full of leftover wine and cold food, Li Shi took a deep breath and looked back. Xian Ke was quietly eating the last bean in the bowl with a spoon, and then took a napkin to wipe it with himself. Wiping his mouth, he blinked his big eyes and looked at Li Shi at the opposite table.
"Has Xian'er eaten yet?"
He nodded.
"Then go back to bed early!" Li Shi pulled him over.
"When I came here, I still had an article to finish. Dad, I want to go back to my room to write after I visit my second sister!"
His calm and courteous look made Li Shi nod in greeting, then he gently stroked the agate red band on his forehead and said, "My sister is not feeling well, so I won't disturb her!"
"Now that my father is back, I will allow my son to practice one less chapter. The night is deep and it is raining heavily outside, so you should take a rest early!"
"But Xian'er always has an indescribable feeling, feeling that my second sister will be in trouble!" He pursed his lips and looked a little solemn.
"Silly, what could be wrong? My sister will be taken care of, so be good and go back to the house! Someone, take care of the young man!" After Li Shi finished speaking, a sister-in-law with a bun in a bun came forward and said, He hurriedly came over and pulled him away. He kept looking at his father's uneasy eyes tonight, and only moved his head forward when he reached the threshold.
The sound of pattering rain came from outside Jinlan, and a gust of cool wind blew up, making Li Shi shiver. He poured out the last glass of turbid wine with one hand and put it into his mouth. He looked up to the sky and sighed, and then threw the cup on the table.
"Tomorrow... the girl wakes up. Comfort her well. Don't forget what I have arranged for you to say!" A trace of tears flashed in his eyes.
"Yes, my lord!"
He sat blankly on the chair, looking at the messy table in a trance. The table full of delicacies in front of him was in ruins, the pot of wine had been drunk, and the tea and cigarettes were scattered and empty. On the table not far away, , the flowers in the tube are bright, a few branches of golden osmanthus accompany the green bamboos, and the moss is mixed with fine stones. This is specially inserted for him by Qingya.
"That tube of flowers is beautiful!" He raised his hand and pointed at it.
"Did Qing Ya do it?" He asked again.
"Yes, the girl said goodbye to the cinnamon twig herself,"
He lowered his head again, feeling very guilty. He stared at the bunch of tube flowers under the curtain in trance. When he tasted the flowers again, there were traces of bitterness after drinking in his mouth. He sat in front of the remaining banquet for a long time.
When Cui He returned regretfully, two lights had already been turned off in all the gardens, and the rain had subsided a little. She held an umbrella and returned to the corridor of the Nuan Pavilion, looking at the small window of the quiet embroidered building.
"That slave couldn't even tell the way. He went around in a long circle before he came back. The girl even fell asleep!" Xiyi patted the water drops on his cloak.
"It's easy to go the wrong way when the rain is so heavy! Now that we're back, the girl has rested. Let's go to bed quickly!" Cui He said as he walked into the small room behind the bunker with her and wiped her with a towel. Water droplets on hair.
"No need to wipe. I'm going to take a shower later and just change out of these clothes." She took off the knife from her waist and placed it on the table, then took off her cloak.
"I was thinking, if the girl wants to kick off the quilt tonight, I will go to one end first and then come back!" She turned around and left the wing, then followed the stairs to the elegant embroidery building.
He met one of the two maids, named Xiaoci. When she saw Xiyi, she quickly came up to her and said softly:
: "Sister Xiyi, I drank some wine and fell asleep. Now I'm sleeping soundly. Let's go back and sleep too!"
"Hey, sister Xiaoci, did the master ask you to serve?" Xiyi was a little confused, standing by the railing and looking at the closed door.
"My lord and queen asked me to come, don't worry!" She patted Xiyi's shoulder and said. ..
Seeing her chuckle, Xi felt relieved, and followed her hand in hand, and went down to the embroidery building. When she returned to the wing, Cui He was already sitting in front of the bronze mirror, taking off the jade jade and pearl hairpins. When she saw it, she didn't bother him and just sat on her side of the couch, minding her own business.
"Cuihe, I don't know why I feel uncomfortable..." Xiyi held up her arms and looked at her.
"What's wrong? Is there anything else that makes you, Nvwei Liang, uncomfortable?"
Xiyi stood up and turned around again: "Just now I saw Xiaoci coming down from above!"
"That's normal! If you and I are leaving, there must be someone to take care of the girl!"
"It's not like there's no one around the girl, so why bother calling daddy's attendant? It doesn't make sense."
Cui He got up from the dressing table, walked over to her and held her hand: "Just think about it too much. What can happen to the girl? Go to bed quickly, I have to get up early tomorrow."
Seeing Cui He's relaxed posture, she paused for a long time. You looked at me and I looked at you, without saying a word.
At dawn, the rain outside stopped for a while, and I could feel the humidity in the air inside the room, with a hint of coolness coming over me. Xiyi stayed awake all night, tossing and turning in the quilt, pressing her arms for a while, then sitting up and leaning on the bedrail.
"Cherish..."
"Xi Yi..., aren't you asleep too?" It sounded like Cui He's voice, and she quickly opened the bed curtains after hearing it.
"You can't sleep either?" Xiyi asked as she sat up.
Cuihe, who was sitting on the couch next to her, was talking to her through the brocade screen, and her uneasy eyes were vaguely visible in the blurry curtain.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I feel that many things today are very strange! Why do you think my lord asked you and me to give gifts to my uncle so late? And he sent an unfamiliar person to drive the horse, which caused chaos all over the city. run,"
"Yeah! I was wondering too," Xiyi sat cross-legged.
"Xiao Ci said that the master and the eldest lady sent her here, but you and I both know that this Xiaoci was the wife's predecessor, and the eldest lady would never agree to her taking care of the girl!" she continued.
"Let's go see the girl! If I don't look at her, I won't feel at ease."
Today, all kinds of doubts could not be solved, so the two of them got out of bed in a tacit understanding, put on their cloaks and carried a lamp and went out. As soon as they came out, there was a drizzle in front of them, which wetted their clothes and belts, so they walked faster.
"Hey!" I pushed the door lightly and stepped inside the house. As soon as I entered, I smelled a strong fragrance that stung my nose. I covered my nose and mouth with a sigh: "This fragrance is too strong!"
She skillfully pushed aside the curtain, only to see clothes all over the floor. Even Qingya's bellyband was casually draped on the low case. She turned on the lamp and moved forward. She picked up her clothes with some doubts and went back. Explore the bed. She opened the bed curtain and took a look with the lamp. The scene in front of her made her head go blank and the lamp suddenly fell to the ground.
"Girl!" She was about to cry.
It was at that time that Cuihe heard the shouting and came over. She saw the girl who was only in her teens, with fair and slender shoulders exposed and black hair lying on the couch, and lying next to her. It was the majestic prince. He exposed his upper body and put his hand on the girl's back. He fell asleep comfortably, with the blush on his face not fading away.
"Girl!" Cuihe fell on the ground in fear, crying.
"Huh?...What's wrong," Qingya was awakened by the two of them in her sleep. She answered in a daze, raised her head, and rubbed her eyes.
Through the faint and dim light, she saw the scene in front of her. In the dim tent, he was close to her without covering his clothes. She became more and more confused, her head seemed to have been shaken. After struggling for a long time, she pulled the quilt to cover her, and felt waves of pain spreading under her body. She trembled and bent her head to peek under the quilt with red tears hanging down. She saw Qian Su A few drops of blood were left on the mattress sheet.
Her head was empty and she cried bitterly
: "How could this be? No... this is a dream..."
She suddenly became terrified, her slightly messy hair stuck to the tip of her red nose, and a stream of cold water flowed down from her bright eyes.
"Girl! Please put on your clothes before I serve you!"
Cuihe brought her jacket, and she panicked, grabbed it, pushed it around, tied up her skirt and tied it up with tears.
"No..., this is not true. I want to leave here, I want to go!" She got out of bed and stepped barefoot on the cold ground. After taking a few steps, her legs went weak and she fell down. .
"Girl!" Xiyi came forward to help her. She was already crying. She looked at the man on the bed and shed tears.
"I want to leave here, I want to see my sister, I want to see my father..." She was helped up, sobbing uncontrollably, holding back the pain in her heart, only the crystal clear tears fell down in large pieces, and she was still There was that unstoppable trembling.
When she went out, it was drizzling. She held on to the railing and moved forward. After taking a few steps, her slender and frail figure fell to the ground again. She struggled to get up, looked down and saw that the rose pendant on her neck had fallen off, so she put it away. Picking up the heart-wrenching cry held in the palm of her hand, the voice was like a warbler's warbling, ethereal and sad. Xiyi and Cuihe supported her, looking at her like a broken flower, their hearts were about to break.
"I want to see my father. Where is my sister? Where is my sister?"
She cried like a helpless child. When she went down the stairs, she somersaulted and rolled down the stairs.
"Girl!" The two of them quickly went downstairs and helped her up.
There were bruises all over her wrists and arms, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth. The bra slipped off her shoulders, and four or five sucking marks could be seen from her shoulders to her neck.
It was dawn, and mist was gradually rising everywhere. The continuous drizzle lightly covered her head with crystal water drops. She lay there for a long time under the plum tree with fallen leaves, and the sound gradually echoed in her ears. What Wan Yanliang said to her on the grassland in the south of the city before leaving in April.
——"Qingya, if I leave, I won't be able to return to Beijing until winter. I'm afraid you will already be Wulu's wife by then!"
She had been waiting for his return for nearly four or five months, but she had been waiting for this end. In this most familiar and safest place, she was tortured and lost the most precious thing as a woman, as well as the love in her heart. of beloved.
