Shen Dingzhu looked at his stern face close at hand.
At that moment, her heartbeat was pounding, and the days after leaving Beijing turned into bitter words stuck in her throat. Before she could say them, tears fell.
Her tears have always been Xiao Langyan's weakness. Seeing her cry, his heart sank.
"You have something to hide from me, right?" He held her face and asked again and again.
The big palm scraped away the tears on her pretty face, anxiously, but also filled with love and pity.
Shen Dingzhu choked and sniffed: "I..."
Suddenly, she felt a stream of heat flowing down her nose, touching her lips and sliding into her mouth, leaving her mouth full of fishy sweetness.
Xiao Langyan was startled at the same time as her, and Shen Dingzhu quickly wiped the nosebleed with her hands.
He held her head and said, "Leave her head up for now. I'll send someone to get water to wipe it."
Xiao Langyan yelled and called Chen Heng outside to get some water, not forgetting to ask them to send the Yang family and his son over.
Shen Dingzhu wiped the nosebleed in embarrassment, and half of his face below the nose was red with blood from her rubbing.
"Don't touch it." Xiao Langyan pressed the handkerchief to her nose. He frowned, "You didn't take good care of yourself when you left me. How could you have a nosebleed?"
Shen Dingzhu said silently: "It's happened several times. It's okay. I asked the old doctor and he said it was because the pregnancy-preserving medicine stimulated internal heat, and my health is not that good."
But Xiao Langyan thought of the way she looked when she was eating chili peppers. It was strange that her internal fire was not strong.
Chen Heng brought water, and Shen Dingzhu was about to reach out to wash his face, but Xiao Langyan pushed him down on the chair.
"If you sit still and move around, I won't care about you." Xiao Langyan said coldly, then he rolled up his dragon sleeves and threw the handkerchief into the copper basin.
After twisting twice, he pressed her chin with one hand and gently wiped the blood on her face with the other.
Shen Dingzhu was forced to tilt her head. The nosebleed had not stopped and started to flow out bit by bit. Her pretty white face was full of crimson illuminated by a candle.
Xiao Langyan's gaze involuntarily fell on her slightly opened red lips.
The blood-stained lips were warm red in color. He still remembered how plump and soft they were when he bit them, like water cherries. When they were in love in the past, he couldn't get enough of them.
Thinking of the past, Xiao Langyan was slightly startled, and the darkness in his thin eyes sank involuntarily.
Shen Dingzhu didn't notice that his gaze was getting hotter and hotter, she only felt that his movements slowed down.
She thought Xiao Langyan had exhausted his patience, so she pressed her slender fingers on the back of his hand: "I'll do it myself."
However, before she could take the handkerchief away, Xiao Langyan suddenly held her cheek and kissed her on the lips.
Shen Dingzhu's whole body was shaken, and his beautiful moist eyes widened.
His kiss stopped at the lips and teeth, biting the soft edge of her lips repeatedly, leaving the blood on the corners of her mouth that he had not yet had time to wipe away.
Shen Dingzhu felt Xiao Langyan's heavy breathing on his face.
As if she was electrocuted, she came to her senses and hurriedly pushed him away.
"You, you are crazy! I just had a nosebleed, and you don't mind being dirty." Shen Dingzhu's delicate face turned red, as if a plate of rouge had been sprinkled on it, and her watery eyes were full of shame and panic.
She wiped her soft lips with the back of her hand, and saw Xiao Langyan's thumb slightly wiping away the water marks on her thin lips.
His thin eyes, as deep as the sea, were burning with intense emotion.
"How have I ever disliked you? Haven't you always abandoned me repeatedly?" Xiao Langyan scolded him coldly, with an imperceptible complaint.
Shen Dingzhu turned her head sideways and lowered her head to straighten her messy black hair to cover up her pounding heartbeat.
Xiao Langyan has regained his composure, as if the lust that burned just now was just an illusion. He has restrained himself very well. His handsome and fair face is now only cold and stern.
He sat down next to Shen Dingzhu: "After dinner, you have a good night's rest and tell me the truth tomorrow. If I find you lying again, I will let you know what it means to be really crazy."
Shen Dingzhu's heart trembled, she pursed her red lips and stopped answering.
Xiao Langyan took the wooden figure away and asked, "Where is the 'you' I carved?"
"Put it away. I forgot where it was for a moment. I will tell the emperor when I remember it." Shen Dingzhu said in a dull voice.
If you tell him, I'm afraid he will take the other one too.
Xiao Langyan's sword eyebrows were lowered, and a pair of heavy thin eyes revealed a stern aura, making his entire expression look ashen.
Neither of them spoke again.
After a while, A Liang carefully brought the prepared meals.
Xiao Langyan glanced at him with a straight face.
Spicy duck leg slices, spicy and sour white meat, and red water and green vegetables.
It’s all spicy!
"You can't make two light dishes for her to eat together?" Xiao Langyan's cold voice just spoke, and the timid A Liang knelt on the ground in fright.
He begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, forgive me, this, this... this villain has always cooked for Miss Azhu like this."
"What girl!" Xiao Langyan shouted angrily, "She is mine..."
Before he could say the word queen, he stopped himself.
Xiao Langyan's face turned livid, his lips pursed, and he remained silent for a long time.
Shen Dingzhu reconciled herself: "My taste is now sour and spicy. I don't blame A Liang. A Liang, please step aside first."
Xiao Langyan did not refute, which meant he acquiesced, and Aliang resigned with great gratitude.
Looking at the duck leg meat in front of her, Shen Dingzhu ate it silently.
In the past, when Xiao Langyan was not around, she didn't feel anything wrong. Now when she saw this dish, she inexplicably remembered it many years ago.
At that time, she was just a concubine, and news spread in the court that she was the only one favored. It was said that the ministers were dissatisfied.
Concubine Du Shu's grandfather was once invited to the palace to have a private banquet with the emperor. What was unexpected was that Xiao Langyan took her with him.
During the dinner, Mrs. Du kept trying to talk to Xiao Langyan about not being his only favorite, but Xiao Langyan tried to resolve the issue with a few words. In the end, Mr. Du could only talk about government affairs with Xiao Langyan obediently.
Shen Dingzhu couldn't interrupt, so she kept her head down while eating in silence. She remembered that the dish also had duck meat, but the imperial chef didn't handle it well. There was a hair on the duck skin, and she immediately lost her appetite.
The vegetables in the bowl were all pushed aside, and the golden porridge had lost its appetite. Xiao Langyan noticed it somehow, and he picked up the spoon to feed her. Although he was still talking to Mrs. Du, he was focused on On Shen Dingzhu's body.
Finally, she couldn't eat anymore, so he naturally used her bowls and chopsticks to eat everything she didn't finish.
Shen Dingzhu still remembers Old Master Du's surprise and astonishment that the emperor of a country ate her leftovers and couldn't hide it.
Xiao Langyan also said calmly: "Every grain is hard work. The noble concubine can't eat it. I cherish the food for her."
Later, when Mrs. Du returned home, he probably realized what he was doing and never mentioned the matter of being his only favorite again.
Shen Dingzhu remembered the past, when she and Xiao Langyan had not yet known each other, but he had already silently shown great kindness to her.
"Still distracted while eating." Xiao Langyan's cold scolding came to his ears, bringing Shen Dingzhu's thoughts back to the present.
As soon as she came to her senses, she heard a "bang".
Xiao Langyan got a bowl of warm water from somewhere and put it in her hand.
"Don't eat something so spicy. You're going to get angry. Just rinse it before eating it and taste it." His words were cold and indifferent, but with an imperceptible concern.
Shen Dingzhu held the rice bowl, raised her eyelashes, and stared at him with watery eyes, as if she was about to shed tears.
Xiao Langyan said coldly: "Don't say thank you to me, you know that's not what I want to hear. After eating, rest, I'm waiting for your answer."
Shen Dingzhu nodded slightly. Later, for some reason, the food felt particularly delicious when he ate it in his mouth.
She used to think that she only ate when she was hungry, but now she felt that the food in front of her made her feel happy.
Is it because Xiao Langyan is here?
Was it because of his appearance that her heart, which she had been worrying about, suddenly calmed down?
After eating, the Yang family's father and son were also called over. They checked Shen Dingzhu's pulse and said that her deficiency fire was too strong, but it was impossible not to take the pregnancy-preserving medicine. She was already more than seven months pregnant. It's a critical moment.
Shen Dingzhu didn't want to let this child be born before a month old. Her son Cheer was blessed with great fortune, but she also felt that she owed her son a lot.
So this time, whatever the doctor said was true, she was extra careful.
Xiao Langyan, however, suspected that the Yang family's father and son's medical skills were not good enough. He asked Chen Heng to send someone back to Beijing to quickly bring Dr. Cen and the others back.
Fortunately, the capital is very close to Chengzhou.
After taking medicine and soaking her feet, Shen Dingzhu finally fell asleep at the second watch.
Xiao Langyan clearly left after watching her fall asleep, but as he walked into the yard and looked at the shadows of flowers in the courtyard illuminated by the moonlight, the wind whistled by his ears.
New Year's Eve also seemed quiet, but his heart was in turmoil and noisy.
As long as Shen Dingzhu appears, his heart will not let him leave her range, otherwise it will make him feel uncomfortable and restless.
He stood in her yard for a stick of incense, so long that his sword eyebrows were covered with frost, thick fog came up, and dark clouds blocked the moonlight.
Xiao Langyan was like a mountain shadow in the yard, tall, deep and cold.
Chen Heng reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, please take care of your dragon body."
The implication was to ask him to come back to the house.
Xiao Langyan nodded: "Yes, it's late at night."
It was time for him to go back to the house.
I saw him turn around, go directly back to Shen Dingzhu's house, and then close the door naturally.
Chen Heng:......
