Chapter 62 Chapter 62 Hold me and sleep for one more night.
When Xie Helan stepped over the threshold and entered the main hall of Posa Pavilion, a strange feeling suddenly flashed through his mind.
Looking around, there wasn't a single palace attendant waiting in the hall, which was quite unusual. Even more odd was the messy arrangement of things, which seemed extremely hastily arranged.
When he walked around the screen, he saw several open picture albums scattered around the soft couch, and a half-open box tilted at the corner of the couch.
Ji Lian subconsciously clenched the quilt on her knees, causing wrinkles. Seeing that Xie Helan was far away and not moving towards the couch, the heart that had been stuck in her throat suddenly fell back to its original place.
Xie Helan's gaze drifted from the soft couch to Ji Lian, who lay on the bed, and then lingered several times on the bulge in the quilt beside Ji Lian. He frowned and said, "If you sprained your ankle, why is there no one to serve you in the palace? If you were thirsty, no one would even offer you a cup of tea?"
He raised his hand and pointed at the soft couch. "Look! Even books are scattered around the couch. How could the people in your palace be so negligent?" He walked over and leaned over to pick up a volume. However, as he flipped through it, his eyes froze, and his fingers froze.
Ji Lian's heart, which had just calmed down, suddenly rose to his throat again.
Suddenly, a few muffled laughs escaped from the quilt beside them. Ji Lian heard them clearly. Seeing that Xie Helan was still concentrating on the book in his hands, she quickly reached out to pinch the quilt and whispered, "What are you laughing at? It's all your fault."
Unexpectedly, the possessed demon grabbed his wrist and pulled him straight into the quilt. Ji Lian struggled a few times but to no avail. Not daring to make a noise, he gave up and pinched the man's hand as a warning.
Xie Helan had experienced the world, and before he got married, he would also be curious about the art of sex at some point in the dead of night.
He coughed calmly, closed the books, called the palace servants, and ordered them to put the books into the box. His tone was as calm as if he was just sorting ordinary books.
Xie Helan turned around, and when he looked at the quilt around Ji Lian's waist, there was a hint of depth in his eyes.
He glanced at the small box, and saw the blush on Ji Lian's face. His eyes looked at the boy's waist several times, and he knew what was going on.
Thinking that his son was shy, Xie Helan asked gently, "Are you thirsty?"
Although Ji Lian didn't understand what he meant, she responded, "Before Brother Xie said that, I didn't feel thirsty, but now I really feel a bit thirsty."
The tea poured, making a gurgling sound. Xie Helan handed the teacup to Ji Lian and said, "It's normal to feel thirsty after being alone."
Ji Lian held a mouthful of tea in her throat, neither swallowing nor spitting it out.
The possessed monster tried her best to laugh silently, and with shaking fingers, she lightly drew "My elder brother thought you were just committing suicide..." Before she finished writing the word "渎", Ji Lian grabbed her five fingers and stopped her from making trouble.
"Thank you, brother. It's not... I really wasn't..." Ji Lian was unable to defend herself. She wanted to say something but didn't know where to start. She could only stop talking woodenly.
Xie Helan patted Ji Lian's hand and said, "I understand, I understand. It's just human nature."
Ji Lian glanced at him dimly, her fingers hidden in the quilt exerting force, wanting to pinch her a few more times, her knuckles tense and white. He took a deep breath and made a final struggle, "I really didn't."
Xie Helan looked at him with a gentle smile on his face. "We're just the two of us right now, just chatting privately. Why are you so embarrassed?"
Ji Lian didn't show it on her face, but she pinched even harder. A barely audible gasp came from under the quilt.
"Although you are young and full of vigor, you must learn to be restrained." Xie Helan once again glanced at Ji Lian's waist with a pointed look. "It would be better to ask the kitchen to prepare more nourishing soups in the next few days."
The more he explained, the worse it got. Ji Lian simply remained silent and gave up on defending herself completely.
Xie Helan thought he was just embarrassed and turned to ask about the foot injury, "Did you get this foot injury this morning? Have you seen a doctor?"
"I haven't seen it yet, but I don't think it's a big deal."
"How can that be?" Xie Helan's lips tightened slightly. "Why are you so careless about your body? Let me see if it's red or swollen?"
As he spoke, Xie Helan was about to lean over and lift the quilt to check.
The quilt covering Ji Lian was only separated from Xie Tingyu who was hiding inside by a thin layer. If it was lifted, not only would his foot injury be exposed, but Xie Helan would also see Xie Tingyu inside, which would frighten him greatly.
He clutched the corner of the quilt tightly and said anxiously, "I forgot to tell you just now. I had someone apply a hot towel and rub some medicated oil this morning. There's no redness or swelling. I think it will be healed in two days."
Seeing Ji Lian's panic, Xie Helan became suspicious and unconsciously grasped the corner of the quilt. Ji Lian hurriedly pressed down on the quilt, her knuckles turning white from the force.
The two of them remained deadlocked, each holding onto a corner of the quilt, neither refusing to let go.
Familiar scene, but different people.
After looking at Ji Lian several times, Xie Helan let go of the corner of the quilt in his hand, but was attracted by Ji Lian's slightly swollen lips.
"Why are your lips so red?" Xie Helan's eyes were suspicious. As he slowly sat down, he added, "Why are they still a little swollen?"
Swollen? When was Xie Tingyu kissing her lips without swelling? She always bit his lips in various ways, and if he didn't let her bite, she would deliberately turn his face over and continue biting.
Ji Lian hurriedly picked up the teacup and took several sips. The edge of the porcelain cup made a slight sound between her teeth. "Maybe I was too hasty to eat the porridge this morning and got burned."
"Really?" Xie Helan stared at the suspicious bite marks on the plump lips with a sharp gaze, "Why are there still teeth marks on it?"
"I bit it myself..." Ji Lian's ears felt hot from his burning gaze, and she quickly changed the subject, talking about which flowers had bloomed in the garden recently, and the palace banquets in autumn and winter, and so on.
Although Xie Helan was answering, his eyes kept lingering on Ji Lian's face, and he looked at her a few more times with meaningful expressions.
This is so abnormal. Everything that happened today is really suspicious.
When his eyes fell on the bulge in the quilt beside Ji Lian again, an absurd idea suddenly emerged in his mind.
Could it be that Xie Tingyu climbed over the wall, pulled Ji Lian intimately, and then hid back in?
Recalling how Ji Lian had fiercely guarded her quilt, it wasn't entirely impossible. But on second thought, Xie Tingyu wouldn't be so bold as to sneak into the palace for a secret meeting this early in the morning.
...Wait a minute? How could he have such a ridiculous idea?
Xie Helan was shocked by his own thoughts. He hadn't even found any evidence of the two of them secretly giving or receiving anything, so how could he have automatically completed the plot of the second sister climbing over the wall to have a secret meeting?
Why why why?
Where does this inexplicable intuition come from?
Xie Helan pursed his lips and said nothing, staring at Ji Lian's lips for a while before leaving, saying that he had something to do in the palace.
After Guijun finally left, Ji Lian breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly threw back the quilt and grabbed the man's collar, "Guijun must have been suspicious just now." Her fingertips gently stroked her swollen lips, and her tone was somewhat accusing, "You kissed me, and you bit me. Look, it's all swollen."
Xie Tingyu had been huddled under the covers for a long time. His hair was now disheveled, and his cheeks were flushed from trying to suppress a laugh. Seeing that no one else was in the hall, he simply burst into laughter, laughing until tears welled up in his eyes, and his clear laughter echoed throughout the hall.
"You're still laughing!" Ji Lian was embarrassed and annoyed, and hit her on the shoulder a few times, "Do you know how difficult it was for me to deal with you just now?"
Seeing Xie Tingyu still laughing, Ji Lian's blood rushed to her head. She ripped open her clothes and bit down on her fair shoulder. When she let go, a clear, crescent-shaped tooth mark was left on it.
"Stop laughing!"
Ji Lian's fingertips gently stroked the tooth marks, and he recalled the intimate scene they had just shared on the soft couch. A wave of tenderness couldn't help but surge up between his legs. His eyes darkened slightly, and his Adam's apple rolled up and down. "You should go home tonight."
If it weren't for the sudden visit from the noble lord, everything would have already happened. Facing Xie Tingyu, the self-control he had always prided himself on crumbled, his heart completely out of his control. If he really let her stay the night, he was afraid that by the time she woke up, it would be too late.
"Why?"
"Your presence here is also very inconvenient." Ji Lian straightened her messy clothes, rested his chin on her shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "You can leave after dinner tonight."
"I'm afraid it's not possible to leave after dinner."
Ji Lian's eyes couldn't help but light up. She must want to stay tonight, and I also want her not to leave, but I can't, I really can't.
He was in inner conflict for a while before he spoke.
"Then if you stay tonight, you really are not allowed to sleep in the same bed with me."
"It would be safer to wait until the Jinwu Guards' shift is over before leaving."
The two said in unison.
Seeing her answer so straightforward and clear, Ji Lian's face froze. He suddenly sat up, leaving her with only his back. "Then you can leave tonight. Don't sneak into the palace to look for me again."
His waist tightened, Xie Tingyu rested his chin on Ji Lian's shoulder and blew gently into his ear.
"What are you doing?" Ji Lian covered her earlobe with her fingertips, "Stop blowing."
"I'm still drunk from last night, Lianlian, stay with me for a while longer."
The curtain fell and the two of them fell on the couch.
As soon as Xie Tingyu's head hit the pillow, the lingering drunkenness washed over her like a tide. In a daze, she placed her hand on Ji Lian's waist, prompting a gentle rebuke from her pillowmate, "If you want to sleep, go to sleep. Don't touch me."
"I'll listen to Lianlian." She responded vaguely, but her arms were tightened. Her warm breath brushed past Ji Lian's ears, and she fell into a deep sleep.
When Xie Tingyu slowly opened her eyes, the person in her arms had disappeared. She lifted the curtain and looked outside. The sky was filled with purple clouds, and it was obviously still approaching the evening hour.
"Lian Lian."
As soon as she called out, the man came out from behind the screen, holding the palace sash and outer robe on the clothesline. "Are you awake? Hurry up and get up for dinner."
"Ah? I slept for so long?"
Ji Lian murmured, lowering her eyes as she tied the sash around her waist. "You even missed lunch. Eat more later. Everything is prepared according to your taste."
After they sat down, Ji Lian personally served her the dishes and poured her some appetizing bayberry juice. Seeing Xie Tingyu eating heartily, she herself had no appetite.
It was clearly he who insisted on her leaving, but as the time for the Jinwu Guard's shift change approached, he became the one who was most reluctant to let go.
Ji Lian finished her meal in a distracted state. After the table was cleared, Xie Tingyu asked her to play backgammon. Before she knew it, she lost seven or eight rounds in a row.
The candle on the small table suddenly burst into sparks.
Ji Lian suddenly woke up and looked at the thick night outside the window. Is it time?
Xie Tingyu had already packed everything, even wearing his boots and shoes, and looked ready to go.
She gently pushed open the window frame, and without a word, she flashed out. Before Ji Lian could grab a piece of her clothes, the person had disappeared into the soft moonlight.
Ji Lian unconsciously chased to the window, muttering to herself, "You're leaving without even telling me? Are you in such a hurry to leave? Don't you want to stay with me a little longer?"
As soon as he stuck his head out, he saw the man leaning against the window, looking at him with smiling eyes.
"Why don't you leave?"
"I remembered there's something I haven't done yet."
Xie Tingyu came over and, while Ji Lian was stunned, he opened his arms and hugged him, forehead touching. "Can I kiss you for a while before I leave?"
“You, you…”
Why don't you stay tonight and hold me in your arms for another night.
Ji Lian bit her tongue tightly and swallowed the rest of the words.
"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent."
Xie Tingyu gently held Ji Lian's cheek, and after their lips touched for a while, she really turned around and left without looking back.
Ji Lian stood by the window, following Xie Tingyu's figure with her eyes until she turned into a blurry black dot in the sky.
The candlelight flickered in the hall, its dim light illuminating half of Ji Lian's face and casting his shadow against the wall, a lonely and forlorn figure. His fingertips unconsciously caressed his lips until his robes were drenched in cold dew, and only then did he close the window.
Ji Lian lay on the couch, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep for a long time. His fingertips stroked the empty blanket beside him, where Xie Tingyu had slept last night.
He turned over and buried his face deeply in the pillow, greedily absorbing the faint scent of agarwood that remained there.
Mingming used to be able to fall asleep quickly when sleeping alone, but tonight, without the hand that usually rested on his waist, he tossed and turned restlessly, feeling unbearable pain.
A barely audible sigh escaped his lips, and Ji Lian drew aside the curtains, stepping barefoot on the cold tiled floor. Without lighting a candle, he walked through the dim hall with familiarity, heading straight for the chest in the corner.
He opened the box and took out a set of pajamas from the innermost layer. He had put them in after Xie Tingyu changed out this morning.
My whole face was buried in my pajamas, and the smell there was much stronger than the smell on the pillow.
With a rustling sound, Ji Lian's nightgown slid to the floor. Moonlight streamed through the window, casting a silvery veil over his fair, beautiful figure. Gently twisting and twisting it, Ji Lian wrapped the nightgown, scented with Xie Tingyu, around him. He lay back on the couch, the scent of agarwood lingering on his nose, giving him the illusion that she was lying beside him.
But after just a short separation, I miss her so much.
After a while, Ji Lian fell into a deep sleep.
On this side, Xie Tingyu sneaked along the wall, and took advantage of the time when the Jinwu guards were talking with their heads down, hid in the bushes, made a few light leaps, stepped on the green tiles on the eaves to gain leverage, and successfully escaped in a few jumps.
When he came here, he had the Step Moon Horse to carry him, so he didn't feel the journey was long. But now that he had to measure the distance on foot, Xie Tingyu truly realized how long the road from the palace gate to Xie Garden was.
She looked up at the bright moon in the sky, then walked along the official road, using the clear light all over the ground. As she walked, she suddenly felt that walking on land was too slow, so she jumped onto the eaves of the houses, using the uneven roof ridges to move around, taking a shortcut and traveling faster.
In her eyes, this was a shortcut, but in the eyes of others, it was like a thief.
Just then, two lines of Jinwu Guards patrolled the area, their armor clanging. The leader spotted a dark figure leaping recklessly from the eaves, and immediately drew his bow in a warning, "Who is it? Get down here!"
"That sneaky little thief on the roof, stop it now!"
Seeing that the black shadow was unmoved, the leader shot an arrow at its feet, and the tiles broke with a sound, and debris flew everywhere.
Only then did Xie Tingyu realize that it was him who was being called.
What little thief? Xie Tingyu was puzzled. She was clearly walking openly, so how could she be sneaking around?
Before it could hit the ground, a third arrow had already broken through the air, heading straight for his heart. At the same time, two lines of Jinwu Guards quickly surrounded him.
As she dodged sideways, the fourth arrow came at her like a black lightning, but she caught it with her backhand and held the arrow shaft firmly.
Huan Zheying stared in amazement as Xie Tingyu jumped off the eaves while playing with arrows.
"No? Captain Xie, why are you crawling on someone else's roof at night?"
"Crawling?" Xie Tingyu shook the feather arrow in his hand. "Didn't I walk on my feet?"
Huan Zheying looked at Xie Tingyu with a puzzled expression, "Does it feel fun for you to stay awake and crawl around outside in the middle of the night?"
"It's not fun." Xie Tingyu shook his head, "That's why I thought of taking a shortcut home."
Suddenly remembering Cui Yuanying's private request to find someone, Huan Zheying hurriedly said, "Captain Xie hasn't had any news since she parted ways with Cui Yuanying. She was so anxious that she even came to ask me if I could lend her the Jinwu Guards to help her search."
Xie Tingyu waved his hand nonchalantly and tossed the arrow back to her. "Why are you looking for me? Captain Huan, lend me a horse and I'll hurry back to Xie Garden."
The Cui family's spy who had been waiting in Xie Garden saw Xie Tingyu riding his horse back at night, and immediately rushed to report the news.
Not long after Xie Tingyu returned to Changhaoyuan, a servant from the garden came hurriedly to report that Cui Yuanying and Yuan Wangshu were waiting outside and wanted to come in to see him.
"Ah?" Xie Tingyu looked at the night outside and couldn't help muttering, "You still want to see me at this hour? Do you miss me that much?"
"Then let them all come in."
Before he could finish his words, a crimson figure rushed in. Cui Yuanying's boots clattered as he entered the room, seeing Xie Tingyu lazily leaning on a table. He immediately called out, "Xie Er! Where have you been? You haven't come all day, and I'm so worried!"
"Please keep your voice down. It's so late." Xie Tingyu put his index finger between his lips and reminded him kindly.
As soon as Cui Yuanying walked in, Yuan Wangshu followed in with a cane.
Xie Tingyu glanced at the two people's neatly dressed robes and knew that they had not risen in a hurry. She raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "Are you two waiting for me to come back?"
Yuan Wangshu snorted coldly, "What do you think? It was Cui Yuanying who insisted that I was also responsible for your disappearance, forcing me to send someone to search for you with her." She sat down at Xie Tingyu's feet. "Do you think I really want to wait for you?"
Cui Yuanying poured himself a cup of tea and glanced at Xie Tingyu. Seeing that she was still dressed as she was the night she went to Chunzhenlou, he immediately understood. He nudged Xie Tingyu with his elbow and said with a wink, "Hey! Why haven't you changed your clothes? Did you go out to have an affair with some young man?"
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The author has something to say: Hahahahahahahahahaha, it’s finished! ! ! !
I really laughed at myself. Last night I dreamed of Wanshou (I love to have sweet dreams every day). I got up at 5 o'clock in the morning to write. Hahahahaha
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