Chapter 15 Sleeping Together

"You can hand him over to Uncle Xing." Li Fu said.

"What?" Chu Ran looked up blankly.

Li Fu said: "Uncle Xing will find a way and will definitely not betray you."

Chu Ran looked at Li Fu anxiously and dazedly.

yes.

Although Li Fu is not favored, he is a prince after all, and he must have more ideas than himself. And Uncle Xing should also be a very powerful person. If I hand Guo Maoxue over to Uncle Xing, he will be able to come up with a solution, right?

"Just stay here and don't move." Li Fu stood up. Chu Ran was sitting paralyzed on the ground. His face was pale, but his eyes were red. Like a rabbit, he looked at Li Fu pitifully.

After a moment of unconscious silence, Li Fu said, "I'm going to find Uncle Xing. Wait for me to come back."

"good."

Chu Ran couldn't help but close his legs, subconsciously wrapped his arms around his knees, and then buried his head in them.

Like a turtle hiding in its shell, it seemed that only in this way could he temporarily escape from the situation that he could not cope with and gain a moment of peace.

It was not until the evening, when it was almost dark, that Li Fu came back, followed by a tall and strong middle-aged man.

Chu Ran kept the same posture as when Li Fu left, and sat for the whole afternoon. Li Fu didn't let him move, and he really didn't move at all.

The blood on the ground had dried up, and the back of Guo Maoxue's head was no longer bleeding, but he never woke up.

Xing Ji walked forward, glanced at Chu Ran, then bent down, and carried Guo Maoxue on his back as if he was dragging a corpse.

After everything was done, Xing Ji looked at Li Fu, Li Fu nodded to him, and Xing Ji went out without telling anyone. After a while, Xing Ji's tall figure completely disappeared in the hazy evening night.

Only after Guo Maoxue was carried away by Xing Ji did Chu Ran feel completely relieved.

It was like a huge rock pressing on his back was being moved away. Chu Ran moved his stiff and numb limbs and slowly stood up from the ground.

Li Fu said, "Let's wipe the blood off the ground."

"good."

Chu Ran fetched several buckets of water and wiped almost the entire floor thoroughly. Not only was there no visible blood stain, there wasn't even the slightest smell of blood. Only then did Chu Ran stop.

He was so tired that he sat paralyzed in the chair with his head lowered. In his hand was a wet rag that kept dripping with water. Chu Ran looked a little depressed.

He couldn't tell where the sadness came from, but he was just very sad.

Li Fu sat down on a stool next to him, looking puzzled, but also asking casually, "Are you scared?"

"It's... not so bad." After a pause, Chu Ran said with a stiff upper lip: "Actually, I'm not that scared."

But in fact, Chu Ran was almost scared to death.

Although Chu Ran was an average student, he always obeyed the rules and laws. He even tried his best to help his classmates when they needed help. He had never participated in any fights and had never bullied others. How could he not be scared when he suddenly encountered such a thing?

When he poisoned Guo Maoxue, he prepared himself for a long time before he dared to do it. But even after doing so, he did not regret it. Because Guo Maoxue had gone too far, everything he did was to get back the benefits that were originally his.

He did it to protect himself.

But I still feel very sad.

He didn't want to make things worse.

The moment Guo Maoxue found out that he had lied to him, Chu Ran was so scared that his heart almost stopped beating.

Li Fu glanced at Chu Ran. He saw Chu Ran's evasive and wandering eyes and his distraught expression, but he said nothing. He just stayed beside Chu Ran and sat quietly with him.

"I……"

I don't know how long I sat there in silence. Just when Chu Ran mustered up the courage to say something, Li Fu suddenly interrupted him.

"He deserves it."

"Ah?" Chu Ran was at a loss.

Li Fu looked at him, a shadow flashed across his dark eyes, and he said in a very light and slow voice: "Even if you die, you deserve it."

The news of Guo Maoxue's disappearance soon spread among the lower-level palace servants. The nobles in the palace naturally did not care about the life or death of a eunuch.

Someone came to ask Chu Ran once or twice, but Chu Ran said he didn't know and had never seen him. Guo Maoxue just suddenly disappeared.

As time went by, no one knew whether it was because there was no clue about Guo Maoxue's disappearance or for some other reason, but in the end, no one came to question Chu Ran again.

Chu Ran didn't know where Uncle Xing, who was beside Li Fu, took Guo Maoxue, and Chu Ran didn't want to ask more.

It was not until many years later that Chu Ran realized that Guo Maoxue was already dead the moment Li Fu threw the stone at Guo Maoxue's head.

But that is a story for another time.

However, Chu Ran suffered nightmares for several nights after Guo Maoxue was taken away.

In his dream, Guo Maoxue repeatedly strangled him until he could no longer breathe. Only then did he wake up from his dream and realize that he was having a nightmare.

But after waking up, Chu Ran didn't dare to go back to sleep.

He held the quilt in his hands, sitting alone in the darkness, quietly listening to the rustling sound of the night wind blowing through the leaves, until the moon was obscured and the sky outside the window was slightly bright.

Chu Ran immediately picked up the quilt, got out of bed, and ran out the door dragging his shoes.

In a drowsy state, Li Fu vaguely heard someone knocking on the door.

He got out of bed half asleep, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and went to open the door.

Chu Ran stood at the door, holding a thick quilt in his arms. He walked around Li Fu and turned around to go into the house.

Li Fu stood there in a daze for a while, closed the door, turned around and walked in.

As soon as Chu Ran entered the room, he put the quilt on the bed, and then began to make room for one person in the bed. Then he spread out his own quilt, kicked off his feet, took off his shoes, and quickly got into bed.

He tucked himself into the quilt, leaving only his two eyes and a nose exposed.

"Well, shall we sleep together tonight?"

The tone sounded like an invitation, and it was indeed an invitation, but since it was an invitation, there was a possibility of being rejected. But Chu Ran had already made up his mind, even if Li Fu did not agree, he would stay here stubbornly and would never leave.

Li Fu did not say whether he agreed or refused. He just went to bed without saying a word and told Chu Ran his answer with practical actions.

After Li Fu lay back on the bed, Chu Ran couldn't fall asleep for a while. He turned over and stared at Li Fu's face for a long time. Finally, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "Are you really not afraid at all?"