In the end, she didn't even dare to look at his face anymore.
The teapot at hand is still steaming, and the aroma of tea is mixed with the aroma of barbecue, as well as the aroma of herbs and the smoke of burning dry firewood. The mixture is very exciting.
But she didn't have any appetite, and she was eagerly waiting for his response.
The roasted and sizzling rabbit meat was covered in cumin and turned over and over on the iron net.
It seemed that what was on the fire was not rabbit meat, but her.
Wei Cheng slowly finished the rabbit meat on the plate, and picked up a piece of chicken breast. She removed the chicken breast, beat it, and marinated it overnight. The various fresh sauces were already very tasty, and the outside was charred on the inside. It's so tender that you can eat it in your mouth, and the skin is crispy and tender.
He seemed to be savoring it carefully. After his throat rolled, he nodded: "Not bad."
I don’t know whether to say that what she said was good or to praise her for her good barbecue.
There was no sullen look on his face, she simply felt brave, her throat was a little dry due to nervousness.
"I originally wanted to take my parents and leave together, but my parents didn't want to leave, so I planned to leave them in Youzhou. I would come back to see them during the holidays. If they are not in good health in the future, I will pick them up again, and I will return the two boxes of gold to the general. I still have some savings left, and I will send them money in the future. It will be enough for them to support themselves in their old age."
"Crack-"
The firewood burned and a spark exploded.
She trembled with fright and looked at him with lingering fear.
He still looked carefree, eating the meat on the shelf one bite after another.
It seemed a little salty. He picked up the cup and wanted to drink tea, but found that the tea in the cup had been drained.
Shen Yinxiao had been worried about his attitude and didn't notice that he hadn't poured tea for a long time. When she saw that his face was calm and he lowered his eyes to the bottom of the porcelain cup in his hand, she realized and picked up the teapot to pour tea.
He didn't know what he was thinking, but he raised the corners of his mouth and took a sip of tea.
"Finished?"
He ate almost all the meat alone.
After he finished, he picked up the handkerchief and wiped his mouth casually, threw it aside, put his hands on his knees, and looked at her with a cold line at the corner of his mouth: "Can you tell me again, why are you leaving?"
She subconsciously leaned back, wanting to get further away from the sharp gaze.
Seeing her resistance, the man's expression darkened and he suddenly sneered.
Shen Yinxiao hesitated and said those words again.
He kept listening quietly and seemed to be listening very seriously.
Finally, he nodded thoughtfully.
The man looked into her eyes.
The two of them had stared at each other countless times, and those eyes were always filled with all kinds of emotions, including fear, stubbornness, bad thoughts, dissatisfaction, and sometimes full of lust, which was so moving.
Today, there is only a slow longing.
The tip of his tongue touched his molar, and he suddenly wanted to ask her what she thought of their relationship.
In the impression, it seems that she has asked herself such a question?
How did he answer?
He couldn't remember clearly, but it didn't matter.
Today, her answer is important.
In his world, everything is in his hands, including Youzhou, Jizhou, and Chang'an, including her.
But it seems that she can always surprise him when it comes to things about her.
The porcelain cup holding the tea slowly rotated on his fingertips. He looked at the clear tea soup swaying in the cup playfully, and said slowly: "I have a question to ask you."
"Excuse me, General."
She sat up straight.
"What do you think our relationship is now?"
He looked up at her.
She pondered for a moment and replied: "The general is my benefactor and my nobleman. I am as humble as grass and grass. It is already a great grace to be favored by the general for a moment."
A long silence spread between their fingertips.
The smile on his lips froze.
Until the tea soup in the cup cooled down, he put down the quilt indifferently.
A scoff broke the silence.
The continuous muffled laughter was endless. He seemed to have heard something ridiculous, and his whole body trembled with laughter.
She looked at him with a pale face, who kept laughing.
After a while, the laughter gradually subsided, and he rubbed his brows helplessly.
"Benefactor? Noble person?"
As soon as he spoke, he couldn't help but laugh again.
But in an instant, that smile disappeared without a trace, replaced by an almost cold look on his face, and even his voice seemed to be mixed with frost, so aggressive that she subconsciously wanted to get up and retreat.
"What makes you think that I, Wei Cheng, would give alms to people like your parents for no reason?"
"I don't want you to give my family anything..." She quickly explained with a panicked voice: "I will return those things to you after I return to Youzhou!"
"Shut up!"
With a cold drink, the tea cup shattered in his hand, and the remaining tea soup splashed out, soaking his robe, leaving large water stains on the corners of the crimson robe.
"Why do you think I would put you in front of me for no reason?"
"I...I..." She opened her mouth, unable to speak.
The dark, obscure and indescribable relationship was like an invisible thread, pulling at her, tugging at her, pulling at her internal organs until she felt nauseous.
She didn't know what to say because she didn't know what their relationship was.
Finally, she endured the shame and whispered in a low voice with some uncertainty: "I am... the general's concubine... a prostitute?"
These four words were like knives, stabbed into her heart one by one. Each dagger made her tremble all over, her breathing trembled, and her heart began to bleed drop by drop.
"I know that the general is not a ruthless person. I don't want to do such a thing anymore. I can't do anything every day except...except serving the bed...I don't want to live such a life, I have nothing but gratitude for the general."
Wei Cheng stared at her motionless until he heard her say those four words.
Secret prostitution, outer room.
And those ridiculous words at the end.
He didn't even want to listen to her nonsense anymore.
It's all incoherent nonsense.
"So, that's what you think." His voice was low, as if he was talking to himself.
A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, seeming to be laughing at his own self-induced emotion.
His thin lips pursed into a cold line: "Since you know your identity, you should know that serving me well is what you have to do."
"Want to leave?" He casually wiped the water stains on the corner of his robe and laughed: "You will have to lie under me for the rest of your life and do the things you hate the most."
"Whether I'm tired of you or not, you don't want to go anywhere." His deep eyes stared at her closely: "You will die in my hands."
