Chapter 94 Chapter 94 Grinning: "I love you too"...
The bustling stall suddenly fell silent with the clear voice.
Shen Qingchen put down his bow and arrow and looked down at her.
The corners of the girl's eyes were already flushed with a faint red, and the sound of tears was obvious in her voice. She stubbornly repeated to the stall owner who had not yet recovered from his shock: "His archery skills are the best."
"Hexue." Shen Qingchen called her softly.
Jiang Hexue turned around and looked at him.
His arms were no longer shaking, but the blue veins on the cold white back of his right hand, which she was holding, were still bulging due to the sudden force, and each one of them made her feel heartbroken.
She suddenly remembered that last year at the hot spring inn, he could hold her up steadily with one hand and reach the small white flowers on the tree.
He also thought of the hares and snakes he could kill with a slightly sharper branch during winter hunting, but she had nailed Zhou Yiheng to the tree trunk with an arrow, forcing him to beg for mercy in embarrassment.
He also remembered what Jiang Heye had once told him: Chen Qingchen never missed a shot on the battlefield and turned the tide.
But now it is a night market with lights and crowds of tourists, not a vast battlefield in the northern suburbs.
His archery skills were not used to defend against the enemy, but to accompany her in harmless fun, and he was even ridiculed.
Jiang Hexue's eyes were filled with tears. She blinked hard, turned to the stall owner, and emphasized, "His arrows never miss their target, hitting the target from a hundred paces away. His archery skills are unparalleled!"
"You are a war bow, and you are also a soldier who has retired from the battlefield. Don't you recognize him? He is the commander who led you to many great victories, defeating the enemy with fewer troops!"
Shen Qingchen has always been low-key in his actions. He often showed up during floods, but everyone was in danger at that time, and not many people recognized him. When she shouted this, not only the stall owner, but also the people watching on the side were all stunned.
"The great victory in Liangzhou, the execution of the Liang family, was won at the cost of his own life." Jiang Hexue clenched his hand tightly, his emotions teetering on the edge of losing control. "I know you didn't mean it, but it was my fault for being so presumptuous. I can't bear to hear such words."
“I don’t want it anymore.” She pulled Shen Qingchen and strode out.
She walked in a hurry, and Shen Qingchen didn't dare to walk fast, so she had to follow her and mouthed a message to Xuezhu in the dark.
Xuezhu understood and paid double the money to the stunned stall owner before following.
"Hexue." Shen Qingchen was led by her and walked all the way, calling her.
She didn't respond, so he called out "Qiong Qiong", "Qingqing", "Maomao", and "Baby" in turn, but none of them responded.
"Princess." Shen Qingchen finally whispered. "...My wife."
I was led by her hand for such a long time, and we had passed through the busy city and arrived at the bank of Liang River. There were fewer and fewer tourists.
Jiang Hexue finally stopped, turned around, and looked him in the eye.
The girl's pair of soft and charming purple eyes were filled with tears. As soon as they looked at each other, tears began to fall in strings.
She bit her lips tightly, not wanting to let herself cry out, but she wanted to ask him with concern, so her lips loosened again, repeating several times. Shen Qingchen whispered: "If you bite it again, the skin will break."
"Does it hurt?" Jiang Hexue finally stopped biting and asked him with a sob. "Why didn't you remind me?"
“No more wandering around, let’s go back to the inn and let me see if it has collapsed…” Without waiting for Shen Qingchen to answer, she wiped away another tear and said hurriedly.
"No." Shen Qingchen pulled her back to him as she was about to take a step. "It doesn't hurt."
"How can it not hurt?" He couldn't help but tremble in his heart as he clasped his fingers together. Jiang Hexue held his hand tightly, unable to hide the worry and heartache in her voice. "It would have been better if you had said no earlier..."
Before she finished speaking, Shen Qingchen leaned over and gently held her in his arms.
The summer shirt was thin, with moon-white sleeves of the same color overlapping. His fingertips lightly touched her back, stroking it much more skillfully than before.
Jiang Hexue's tears, which she had held back, began to fall again when he hugged her like this. She stubbornly but carefully pressed against his chest, not wanting to wet his clothes, and even more afraid of touching his wound.
Shen Qingchen exerted a little force on the arms behind her, hugged her tightly in his arms, and rested his chin on her shoulder.
His fingertips moved up, through her loosely tied hair, and gently stroked it.
The cold scent of cedar mixed with the bitter taste of medicinal powder filled Jiang Hexue's nose. She sniffed, barely stopped crying, and looked up at him.
The full moon cast its shadow on the rippling water of Liang River, and his eyes were also caught in the platinum moonlight, gentle and transparent like the finest amber.
Her eyelashes are thick and straight, with tiny dots of light on the tips.
Shen Qingchen loosened his grip slightly at the right time, took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve pocket, and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"Don't cry." He wiped it bit by bit, speaking softly.
Jiang Hexue nodded with sobs.
"Let's go shopping again?" Shen Qingchen carefully considered his words and asked slowly. "We didn't spend much for dinner, do you want to buy some snacks?"
Jiang Hexue nodded, he straightened up, and then he remembered to tiptoe to touch his beautiful eyelashes.
Shen Qingchen leaned down indulgently again, so that she didn't have to stand on tiptoe and tired. She let her fingertips touch her eyelashes like playing a piano, and then she said softly: "I'm not sad anymore."
"I just feel bad for you..." Jiang Hexue held his face, rubbed the corners of his eyes, and then rubbed his cheeks, her voice muffled. "You must tell me next time."
"Okay." Shen Qingchen responded gently.
"You've really gained some weight." Jiang Hexue touched his face, then pinched his cheek with her fingers. "It's all thanks to me."
"Yeah." Shen Qingchen raised her lips slightly, the corners of her lips were pointed, forming a beautiful arc, and her lips were a light crimson.
Jiang Hexue kissed his lips with a slight itch in her heart.
Shen Qingchen raised his hand and held her close, then turned slightly to the side and hid her tightly in his arms, avoiding the sparse tourists.
"Zhaohua, you look so beautiful when you smile." Jiang Hexue kissed him, and suddenly something clicked in her mind. "Can you smile with your teeth showing?"
She curled her lips, revealing her white teeth, and demonstrated a standard toothy smile to him: "Like this."
When she smiled, her eyes curved, her head tilted, her hands behind her back, looking at him expectantly.
The soft tip of the tongue is barely visible, and it looks like the teeth are visible but the eyes are not.
"Do you want to see it?" Shen Qingchen only asked, and when she nodded vigorously, she agreed. "I'll give it a try."
He should do it without any reluctance, but this was indeed unfamiliar to him. He first carefully observed Jiang Hexue, whose eyebrows and eyes were curved, in front of him, then imitated her angle of tilting his head, and then imitated putting his hands behind his back.
Then, imitate her smile...
Shen Qingchen opened his mouth awkwardly, showing his teeth and raising the corners of his lips.
"That's not it." Jiang Hexue was amused by his stiff appearance and thought for a moment. "Just imitate my way of speaking."
"Open—" she dragged out the last word.
Shen Qingchen didn’t understand why, but did as he was told: “Open.”
"Draw out the tone and open—" Jiang Hexue demonstrated to him again. "This way you'll laugh naturally."
"open……?"
The two looked at each other. Jiang Hexue didn't understand why Shen Qingchen couldn't drag out the sound, and Shen Qingchen didn't quite understand why she could drag out the ending sound so long and so naturally.
But when the fragrance of water chestnuts drifted into Jiang Hexue's nostrils and made her feel her stomach was empty, it didn't matter much.
"I'll go get one." She touched her belly. "It's a bit crowded there, wait for me here."
Shen Qingchen watched her disappear into the crowd protected by Xue Lan in the dark, and then opened his mouth: "Xue Zhu."
The guard in black appeared from the shadows, saluted with his hands, and the next moment, there was a heavy purse in his hand.
"Go get that paperweight, the flower vase, and..." Shen Qingchen recalled the items in Jiang Hexue's set and added a few more. "Buy them all."
Xue Zhu was stunned for a moment, looking at the purse in his hand, which he thought was a little too fancy for Shen Qingchen.
The latter took it back, poured all the silver ingots inside into his palm, and put the purse with only small change and copper coins left into his sleeve pocket.
"Your Highness, I'm worried that those are just prizes from the stall owners, and they may not be willing to sell them." Xuezhu said, holding a handful of silver ingots.
"Let him name his price." Shen Qingchen thought for a moment, and his voice softened slightly. "Or if you want to talk to him about love, then say..."
"If a girl loses the thing she loves, she will miss it for a long time. Please let her go."
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The freshly cooked water chestnuts were placed in a small basket woven from thin bamboo strips, a big handful full of them, with milky white steam rising from them.
Shen Qingchen skillfully took it over and peeled it for Jiang Hexue, put it to her lips to cool it down, and then fed it to her lips.
The water chestnuts were sweet and soft. She ate a few and squinted her eyes in satisfaction: "Thank you, husband."
While eating water chestnuts, he strolled around and bought a rabbit lantern and a moon lantern. Jiang Hexue lost interest and returned to the inn with Shen Qingchen.
Although he could walk normally, Jiang Hexue knew very well that his sleeping posture was terrible, so she still didn't sleep with him. You sent me off, and I sent you off. We stayed together for a while before saying "good night" to each other and going back to our rooms to take a shower.
After bathing, Jiang Hexue asked Xuemei to wipe her hair and talked to her about the paperweight.
"I remember His Highness has always used a ruler, so I thought of getting one to give him. I'll try my luck tomorrow with Jiang Heye. There's also an ivory flower pouch, exquisite and unique. I originally wanted to use it to hold the lotus flower that Ah Xian gave me..."
But she walked out of the clean room slowly, fiddling with the ends of her slightly wet hair. When she looked up, she saw a few more ornaments on the table.
It was the paperweight and flower vase she had just been talking about, as well as an enameled porcelain candlestick that had caught her eye at the time.
She knew who did it in less than a second, and without even glancing at the items she liked, Jiang Hexue pushed the door open and turned into the guest room next door.
The young man was sitting at the table in his pajamas, holding a bronze mirror, and concentrating on practicing the long tail sound of "kai" while smiling naturally.
He caught sight of her out of the corner of his eye, put down his bronze mirror, and pursed his lips uncomfortably: "Qiong Qiong."
Jiang Hexue swallowed what she wanted to say, then smiled at him and said, "I just thought of a new way. We don't have to practice prolonging the sound."
"Try saying 'I love you' more slowly."
Shen Qingchen didn't doubt him and said slowly: "I love you."
This method was indeed easier for him. He tried it a few times in front of the mirror and found that his smile became much more natural.
It just looks a little strange to me.
He practiced diligently many times, and finally got used to it. He stood up and looked at Jiang Hexue: "I should be able to do it."
He imitated her posture in his memory, put his hands behind his back, tilted his head slightly, and said slowly: "I love you."
The bright moon was hanging high in the sky. The young man, who usually had a cold face, raised the corners of his lips, revealing his white and neat teeth. His peach blossom eyes curved slightly in a soft arc, and his not-so-obvious bags under his eyes became fuller and more puffy, making his eyes look brighter and clearer.
His black hair after bathing still had warm steam on it, which made his cold eyes and brows look soft and gentle. He stood in the moonlight, and his whole body was so beautiful and pure that it was astonishing.
But Jiang Hexue stared at him without blinking, and her nose felt slightly sour again.
She walked forward and hugged him tightly.
Shen Qingchen was slightly startled, and the next moment after he hugged her back, he heard her speak softly.
"I love you too."
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The author has something to say: I found this "kai——" toothy smile method on station B, and it works very well in my personal experience [shy]
But I remember I saw a video somewhere before where different face shapes and grins should have different sounds, but I can’t find the video anymore [changed]
As for "I love you". [Starry Eyes] invented by Ye
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