Si Shuo half-sat up and lay back down. He tilted his head and looked at her speechlessly. Shi Qingmiao explained, "I didn't mean to do that. I was about to go to sleep when I suddenly heard a knock on the wall. I ran out to see what was going on. Just now, I actually saw someone in white clothes walking past outside. She almost caught me! The maids said that female ghosts look like that!"

"So?" Si Shuo continued to look unhappy after being woken up. "Are you scared?"

"Me!" Shi Qingmiao wanted to pat her chest and say that she was not afraid. How could she be afraid? She had been in the palace for more than ten years, but she was indeed afraid. Her voice softened: "I am afraid."

Si Shuo looked down on her. Shi Qingmiao didn't want to be looked down upon by this annoying regent, so she added stubbornly, "Everyone is afraid of ghosts, right? I'm not the only one who's afraid. Aren't you afraid too?"

Si Shuo curled his lips: "I'm not afraid."

He lit all the candles in the room, and the dark areas around him gradually became brighter. He said, "Because I don't believe in ghosts and gods. The more you believe in them, the more afraid you become. But if you don't believe in them, then they don't exist."

Finally, the whole room became brightly lit. Shi Qingmiao's eyes were moist and hot. She said, "But I really saw a female ghost in white clothes just now!"

Si Shuo walked up to her, not knowing how to properly express his speechlessness so as not to hurt Shi Qingmiao. "If I remember correctly, Fanxing had a white nightgown. The female ghost you saw might be him who got up to go to the toilet at night."

Shi Qingmiao still didn't believe it, so she asked again, "How do you explain the 'dong dong dong' sound?"

Si Shuo didn't hear the "dong dong dong" sound, but he guessed it. He said, "That might be the sound of Fanxing snoring at night."

Fanxing's residence is right next to the main hall, very close to Shi Qingmiao. Si Shuo knows very well how loud the snoring of his little follower Fanxing is.

Shi Qingmiao: "..."

"Who knows if you're kidding me? Who snores like that?"

Si Shuo was both angry and amused: "Do I need to bluff you? I just told you everything I know, but now you're sleeping in my bed and questioning me. Who is the victim between us?"

"Sorry, I'll get up right away!" Shi Qingmiao looked down and saw that she was indeed in his bed. She knew that she was the one who was being unkind. She immediately prepared to get up, but Si Shuo said, "No need. I can't sleep anyway. You go to sleep."

After saying that, he walked out. Shi Qingmiao fell into a deep sleep under the quilt that had his body temperature and scent.

Shi Qingmiao still hadn't woken up until Si Shuo came back from a walk, and he found it quite funny.

This girl doesn't look like a palace maid at all. She can sleep so soundly in his bed. It's not an exaggeration to call her a princess.

"Get up." Si Shuo shouted mischievously in Shi Qingmiao's ear. He couldn't sleep and didn't want to let others sleep.

After waking up in shock, Shi Qingmiao looked at the person in front of her with sleepy eyes, narrowed her eyes slightly, and slapped Si Shuo in the face.

Si Shuo was knocked unconscious by the slap. What’s wrong with this little girl?

"Shi Qingmiao?!"

The lazy sleeper who was called out angrily chuckled twice, then fell back into a deep sleep with his eyes closed.

Si Shuo was so angry that he had no place to vent it, so he could only swallow it back. It was still dark outside, and he guessed that the little girl might have been sleepwalking.

However, he had heard of sleepwalking while eating and sleepwalking while dancing, but sleepwalking and hitting people, was this serious?

Si Shuo sat quietly at the head of the bed, watching the faint sunrise rising outside, then shifted his gaze to the face of Shi Qingmiao who was still sleeping, thinking that if he married this little girl home, the family would be in an uproar.

Shi Qingmiao's biological clock has always been very punctual. When she woke up, she saw Si Shuo sitting at the head of the bed, with dark circles under his eyes that were bigger than his own.

"You, you, why are you in my room!"

Well, it seems that he was confused after sleeping.

Si Shuo resisted the urge to scold her: "This is my room."

Shi Qingmiao ruffled her frizzy hair and looked around, "Ah? Yes."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She dared to stand up straight on the bed, and her head hit the wooden top of the bed, and she screamed "It hurts!", which even made Si Shuo laugh.

"Why do my hands hurt so much?" Shi Qingmiao rubbed his head and his red and swollen palms.

Si Shuo took the initiative to put his swollen face next to her hand and said with a smile: "Does your palm look like the mark on my face?"

Shi Qingmiao looked at her hand, then at Si Shuo's face, and boldly put her hand on Si Shuo's face, and came to a horrifying conclusion - it was a perfect match!

Shi Qingmiao ran for her life without even having time to put on her shoes, and ran out of the side hall like a gust of wind.

It seemed as if in the next second, Si Shuo would skin her alive, pull out her tendons, and then dismantle her into his stomach.

But in fact, Si Shuo’s idea was very simple. He just wanted Shi Qingmiao to apply some medicine on him.

His romantic imagination was defeated by the girl's desire to survive.

***

East Palace.

Jin Suting's prudence in doing what she said was particularly touching. As soon as the sun came out a little, she rushed to the East Palace with great enthusiasm.

Last night Helan Ruizhe told her that he would come early because he had something good to teach her. Jin Suting was so excited that she didn't sleep all night waiting for Helan Ruizhe to teach her the martial arts secrets.

But when she was doing horse stance under the tree at the entrance of the East Palace study, she knew that all her fantasies were shattered.

When Zhan Shaoang taught her in the past, all he did was horse stance.

It’s still the same now that Helan Ruizhe is here. She really wants to learn something real!

But Helan Ruizhe said: "If the foundation is not laid well, there will be no stability."

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