63 Chapter 63 Beautiful Spring
◎More lingering than the spring breeze◎
"Sister." As Yuliu put down the candlestick, he suddenly raised his eyelids and looked at Su Yunyue.
She suppressed her usual smile and asked seriously, "Do you want me to reveal the truth behind the flood and plague in Yangzhu County?"
Yuliu asked seriously, but Su Yunyue could only respond with a pale forced smile.
Didn't she know that her request was a bit unreasonable?
But now, the only person who can lend her a helping hand is probably Yuliu.
The warm red light from the candlestick fell on Yuliu's face from the side with its residual heat, silently creating a light halo.
Her long, slender eyelashes cast a fan-like silhouette, making her pale pupils appear darker. She stared at Su Yunyue's trembling lips, but just before Su Yunyue opened her mouth to plead, she interrupted, "I understand."
"...Ah?" Su Yunyue's thin lips trembled, and the words that had been brewing for a long time and had not yet reached her lips were suddenly interrupted by Yuliu's short words.
"I will investigate the matter concerning the Fourth Prince and the flood in Yangzhu County." Yuliu said, but she did not look at Su Yunyue. Instead, she lowered her head and slightly pressed the edge of her skirt with both hands. Only when she stood up and crossed her hands on her lower abdomen did she look past the warm candlelight to Su Yunyue's stunned face.
Su Yunyue had originally prepared for both soft and hard tactics. Even if she didn't ask Yuliu to take responsibility for this old matter on her own, she only hoped that Xiao Tianmin would be restrained by the evil consequences he had committed in the past, so that she would have a better chance of escaping successfully.
But she never expected that Yuliu would be like this...
Just agreed to it directly?
There were only three people at the table. When Su Yunyue saw Yuliu stand up, Yunhe also stood up. She suddenly felt embarrassed to continue sitting alone.
The movement of standing up was awkward and a little confused.
...What is the situation now?
Yuliu glanced at Yunhe from the corner of her eyes, and the corner of her mouth gradually returned to her usual smile. When her eyes swept over the wrinkles on Su Yunyue's clothes caused by her fingertips unconsciously hooked on her clothes due to nervousness, she chuckled, took light steps, and slowly walked around the wooden table towards Su Yunyue.
"Sister, you don't have to worry about me. I made this decision based on my own considerations. There are some things... I also want to take this opportunity to confirm them carefully." Yuliu took Su Yunyue's hand and spoke slowly while leading Su Yunyue to the half-closed wooden window of the outer room's side door.
At this time, the morning star is about to arrive and the dawn is just beginning to break, outlining the black figure standing outside the window in an especially eye-catching way.
Yuliu pushed the half-closed wooden window open completely with both hands, and as expected, she saw Jiang Jingmo, with his sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, looking at her through the window.
Unlike the first time they entered the palace, Yuliu and Jiang Jingmo were testing each other's origins and identities through Yunhe. However, this time, Jiang Jingmo's gaze went straight past Yuliu and looked directly at Su Yunyue who was standing gracefully behind her.
Yuliu's hands supported Su Yunyue's waist and back, and while pushing Su Yunyue towards Jiang Jingmo, she also gently turned sideways to give the space to the two people who were about to return home.
Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Yun He walking slowly and quietly towards her in the dim morning light. As he stood on her tiptoes beside her, Yuliu could smell the familiar, soothing herbal fragrance coming from him, which silently relieved her fatigue from running around all night.
While Yuliu was relaxing, she felt Su Yunyue push open the side door and look back at her with gratitude. However, she still stood with Tong Yunhe. She just raised her hand and waved, smiling and said, "Sister, your pick-up person is here. I won't keep you any longer to reminisce about the past. We have a long time to come. See you again if we are destined to."
Su Yunyue's eyes were slightly moist, and she nodded and replied in a trembling voice: "There is a long way to go, and we will meet again if we are destined to."
Yuliu did not answer, but just watched Su Yunyue's receding back with her eyes.
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Su Yunyue and Jiang Jingmo left and headed towards the border of Song State.
Yunhe quietly closed the side door that Su Yunyue had not completely closed when she left. As the last bit of morning light was replaced by shadows, Yuliu realized that this suburban villa was really located in a remote area.
It was already the morning hour of Mao, and the morning mist had almost dissipated, but the room was still silent.
During the heart-to-heart conversation between Yuliu and Su Yunyue, Yunhe, except for a few occasional words, kept a nonchalant attitude throughout the whole process, as if he didn't care whether Yuliu would do as instructed by the Fourth Prince Xiao Tianmin and the eldest son of the Su family, Su Yunyan.
Even after Su Yunyue had walked away, Yunhe did not ask any more questions. He just poured another cup of warm tea and handed it to Yuliu, who was sitting in the outer hall to rest, to moisten her throat.
Yuliu had been talking all night, and her throat was already a little hoarse. She took the teacup handed to her by Yunhe and, without paying any attention to the etiquette of women drinking slowly and shallowly, she tilted her head back and drank it all in one gulp. She breathed a sigh of relief and sighed, "I'm finally recovering. I can rest for a while."
Yun He took the empty teacup from Yu Liu with a twist of his thumb and index finger. With a slight movement of his knuckles, he brought the blue-green bamboo-patterned side of the white porcelain cup to his eyes. After lowering his eyes for a few seconds, he suddenly raised his eyelids to look at Yu Liu and asked, "Really?"
Yuliu folded her arms on the wooden table, half-tilted her head, and when she looked back at Yunhe, her peach eyes couldn't help but slightly curve and her lips curled up. The pure color of her lips became even redder, with the light of water that had not yet dried after drinking. The morning light from outside the wooden window fell on her lips, like rippling waves.
Spring scenery on earth.
Yuliu didn't know what her attitude was. She just stared at Yunhe, breathing in and out softly, "Isn't it? I came here today to find Su Yunyue's whereabouts. Now that sister is well and has her own things to do, I can naturally rest assured, right?"
As she spoke, Yuliu tilted her head, the smile in her eyes undiminished, but her tone suddenly changed. She sighed deeply, like Xi Shi weeping, and asked in return, "Pity me, I've been running around day and night, and endured the whole night. If I hadn't sat down to rest for a while, I would feel so haggard and anxious now. Why do you think I shouldn't rest?"
Yun He took in Yu Liu's movements, and with his Adam's apple rolling, he glanced away. He then filled the white porcelain cup with half a cup of tea and handed it to Yu Liu before explaining, "It was precisely because you stayed up all night that I wanted to remind you to go back to Yuqing Courtyard early to catch up on some sleep and recuperate."
In fact, Yuliu had just drunk almost a full cup of tea and had recovered a lot. She didn't really want to drink any more at this moment, but she was already used to reaching out to take the things handed to her by Yunhe.
Yuliu took the teacup naturally, holding both sides of it with both hands. She lowered her eyes and saw that the side with the blue-green bamboo pattern was facing her. She gently moved her fingertips, turning it towards Yunhe, and smiled: "Oh, is that so? I thought..."
"...Are you dissatisfied with me letting my sister go like this?"
Yuliu could vaguely feel that although Yunhe never interfered in Su Yunyue's affairs, he actually did not agree with her approach.
As expected, Yun He frowned slightly upon hearing this. After a moment of silence, he sighed slightly and said softly, "I'm not dissatisfied."
"I'm just worried."
Yuliu looked at Yunhe in the morning light, and her light-colored pupils were full of the meaning of listening attentively.
"The Fourth Prince and the Young Master of the Su Family have both solemnly requested you to take the Fourth Prince's Consort out. Actually, even if you had already discussed this with the Fourth Prince's Consort, you could have easily chosen to leave with Su Yunyue through the main gate of the suburban villa. As long as you calculated the timing perfectly and had Jiang Jingmo appear at the right time, you could have taken Su Yunyue away from under their noses. In this way, you would have fulfilled their request, and the Fourth Prince and the Young Master of the Su Family would naturally not blame you for this. Secondly..."
Yun He was speaking, but his voice suddenly paused for a moment.
Yuliu blinked: "Second what?"
Secondly...
Su Yunyue had a lot of resentment towards the Fourth Prince Xiao Tianmin, which had been accumulated for a long time. If she and Jiang Jingmo escaped from under the Fourth Prince's nose in front of him, it would probably severely break Xiao Tianmin's arrogance.
In this way, while Yuliu completed the verbal promise, he could also follow Su Yunyue's wishes and slap Xiao Tianmin in the face to vent his anger.
Yunhe felt that doing so was the best strategy.
But when the words came to his lips, Yunhe suddenly couldn't say them.
——He didn't really want to analyze these complicated plots with Yuliu.
After all, in his eyes, although Yuliu was a little naughty occasionally, if the enemy did not attack her, she would not bother about others.
Yun He lowered his eyes to gaze at Yu Liu's pupils, which shone like light-colored glass. Suddenly, he lowered his eyebrows and smiled, swallowing his full calculations. He raised his hand to take the white porcelain teacup that Yu Liu was holding in his palm, placed it on the edge of the wooden table, and said in a calm tone, "Secondly..."
"You don't have to sit here right now, thinking about what to say to the people you meet when you go out."
Yuliu was sitting in the outer hall just now, not just to take a rest, but she was not annoyed at all when Yunhe touched her heart. Instead, she raised her hand to press down the sleeve that Yunhe had brushed off when he took the teacup from her hand.
The white fingertips fell on the light green sleeves of the bamboo-green robe, and the force on the slender fingertips was softer than the breeze.
But it is even more lingering than the spring breeze.
Yunhe's movements suddenly paused.
Yu Liu raised her eyebrows slightly, smiled, and said, "Who said... I have to think of a way to deal with the Fourth Prince and the eldest son of the Su family?"
As Yuliu spoke, her slender neck leaned forward towards Yunhe. When she stood up slightly, her movements were slow and gentle, but it seemed that as long as she held down Yunhe's sleeves with her fingertips, Yunhe would always stay in front of her and would not leave.
The fingertips under Yunhe's sleeves almost touched Yuliu's fingertips, and the slight friction made her feel like she was electrifying all over.
His expression was calm, and he stared at Yuliu motionlessly, watching the girl tentatively approach him little by little. As she spoke, her delicate breath fell on his eyelashes.
Thus, the calm surface of the blue waves was broken by the stone thrown by the naughty girl, and the ripples were layered and circled, just like the message revealed by the trembling of his long eyelashes, which suddenly added a bit of complacency to the girl's ambiguous smile.
The breath from the two people's noses seemed to be entangled together.
Yun He lowered his eyes, but Yu Liu only stared at Yun He's eyelashes and said with a smile: "I clearly..."
"It's enough to deal with one."
【Author’s words】
Guess the prize! Who is the "this one" that Yuliu is referring to?
A: Su Yunyue B: Jiang Jingmo
C: Xiao Tianmin D: Su Yunyan
E: Doctor Li F Yunhe
E:$%^@$%
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