Chapter 124 Coming out of her room
When Jiang Xue woke up, the morning light had already poured into the room, shining through the hazy curtains, looking exceptionally soft.
She was awakened by the sound of birds singing in the yard. When she opened her eyes slightly, she felt extremely dizzy.
She stretched out her hand to rub her swollen forehead, but found that her hand was held by something and she could not move for a while.
Jiang Xue lowered her eyes and looked beside her, and was horrified to find that there was another person lying on the bed - he was holding her left wrist tightly.
Memories of last night then flooded into my mind.
Jing Ye...didn't leave yet? Did he really sleep next to her all night?!
Jiang Xue couldn't remember what happened when she finally fell asleep last night.
She stretched out her right hand to pry open Jing Ye's palm, and her action woke up the person next to her.
Jing Ye opened his eyes, looking back at Jiang Xue indifferently with a bit of laziness as if he had just woken up.
Jiang Xue then noticed that the mask she had taken off last night was put on by him again without her noticing.
"Why are you still here?" Jiang Xue asked subconsciously.
"The princess fainted in my arms last night," Jing Ye's voice was calm and emotionless, "Does that mean I should just ignore you?"
Fainting?
Jiang Xue frowned, then slowly remembered.
She immediately stared at Jing Ye with sharp eyes.
"Don't look at me like that," Jing Ye said, "I've said that I'm not Xiao Qi. Stop looking for these groundless suspicions on me. Princess has also looked at my face carefully. Can you see any trace of disguise?"
"Xiao Qi is dead," he turned his eyes away, looked at the curtain, and said slowly, "He died three years ago. The dead will not be resurrected."
Jiang Xue was stunned for a moment, but she didn't give up and said, "But you haven't answered my question last night."
Jing Ye turned his head and looked at her again, and after a while he suddenly laughed softly.
"Isn't it strange?" he said, "The princess is useful to me. Helping the princess is the same as helping myself."
"You said something similar, but the reason is far-fetched," Jiang Xue said, "Would you do the same to other people? You have countless officials, soldiers, assassins, and guards under your command. Are these people useless to you?"
"Will you be so devoted to them? Let's not talk about other things, just talk about the feather guards beside you, will you easily give them the feather guards to use?"
"Then what reason would the princess like to hear?" Jing Ye said with a smile in his eyes, "If you really need a reason to convince yourself that Xiao Qi is dead, I can take the princess to his grave. His grave is in Qingzhou, and his body is buried under the loess. If necessary, I can have it dug up so that the princess can see it with her own eyes."
Jiang Xue didn't listen to what he said, and just continued: "You didn't answer me."
"The princess is too stubborn," Jing Ye suddenly released his hand that was holding her wrist, turned over and sat up, reaching out to lift the curtain, "She is so stubborn that I can't understand."
He took out the jade token from his bosom, placed it on the small table beside the bed, and said, "Isn't it good for you and I to each take what we need? Why do you have to dig into this matter?"
"What's the point of dwelling on the past and getting hung up on a dead person?" Jing Ye walked to the table in the middle of the room and sat down, reaching out to pour a cup of cold tea. He slept in his clothes last night, so his clothes were still clean and tidy.
Jiang Xue sat up and said, "You can't answer, is it because you can't give a reasonable reason, or because you don't dare to admit it?"
"What are you afraid to admit?" Jing Ye glanced back at her and said calmly, "I am not Xiao Qi, so I naturally don't want to accept this inexplicable title."
Jiang Xue said: "If you can't convince me today, I can only agree--"
"I advise you to put aside this thought," Jing Ye sneered, and said, "I am not a substitute for you to make up for your guilt."
"Xiao Qi is already dead. If the truth is revealed and it is confirmed that he was framed, your guilt, regret, and pain—"
Jing Ye's tone became more and more fierce: "You will never be able to repay me in this lifetime."
Jiang Xue just looked at him with complicated eyes and didn't reply.
The room fell into a long silence and stillness.
"I know." Jiang Xue suddenly spoke up and said, "If you say it's not, then it's not."
"As for how I will regret Xiao Qi in the future, I don't know why the prince is so persistent in pursuing this matter." She laughed at herself and said, "But the prince always has his reasons."
"Since the prince can't explain why he is so kind to me, why not let me guess."
"So you gave me Feather Guards, said you would teach me Qinggong, and sent me hidden weapons to protect me. Is it because you like me?" She suddenly raised her eyes and looked at the people in the room with a firm gaze.
Jing Ye's fingers holding the teacup suddenly tightened.
After a moment, he suddenly laughed softly.
"Does the princess attract every man like this and throw herself into his arms?" he asked. "I heard that the prince consort was also arrogant before he got married. Could it be that the princess used this method to win him over?"
Jiang Xue looked determined and said, "I am not like this to every man. I just want to ask Your Majesty, is it true or not?"
"So what?" Jing Ye raised his eyebrows and said, "Could it be that the princess wants to wait until after the divorce before concluding a marriage alliance with me?"
Jiang Xue smiled stiffly and said, "Okay, I understand."
"Please come sit in the main room behind the screen for a while while I change my clothes."
Her tone was indifferent, not like the timid joy that an ordinary woman would show after her feelings were confessed.
Jing Ye didn't comment, just stood up and walked out.
Jiang Xue sat on the bed, tears streaming down her face after a moment.
She knew that she would not have such an inexplicable trust in a stranger for no reason.
If it was Gu Lintan who wanted to sleep on the same bed with her last night, she would not have felt no disgust in her heart.
He said he was not Xiao Qi and that Xiao Qi was dead.
For some reason, a sense of hope suddenly arose in her heart.
After learning that day that Li Congde, who attacked Jiang Chen, had connections with people in the court, and after learning that day that Prince An and Xiao Qi were not biological father and son and that their relationship was more like that of enemies.
She had told herself countless times that she would not be wrong, would not hate the wrong person, and would not take revenge on the wrong person.
But all this collapsed with the mumbling of "Axue".
She thought that perhaps her heart had begun to believe it.
Believe that Xiao Qi was wronged and believe that I did something wrong.
She reached out and wiped the tears from her face, took a deep breath, closed her eyes and told herself.
It doesn’t matter. Gan Ning will be back soon, and she will soon know whether there is any problem with Feng Song, the Imperial Counselor who retired early.
It doesn’t matter. Soon all these mysteries will be solved. Soon, she will be able to follow the clues to find the person who conspired with Prince An to poison her eldest brother.
It doesn’t matter—she opened her eyes and looked outside the screen. It doesn’t matter, Xiao Qi might, might still be there.
Grandpa He used to love them so much. Maybe the medicine was tampered with and is not fatal?
Grandpa He, Grandpa He!
She suddenly burst into laughter as if she had found a life-saving straw.
Jiang Xue quickly got up and put on her clothes, then went outside and said to Jing Ye, "Are you free today?"
Jing Ye sat in the main seat and said lazily, "It depends on what the princess is going to do."
Jiang Xue nodded and said, "Then wait a moment. After I finish dressing up, you can accompany me to meet someone."
"who?"
"The grandson of the former Imperial Hospital official He Yuan, He Zhilin."
Jing Ye's eyes were dark, and he said in a deep voice: "The princess knows quite a few men in the community."
"Why did you let me go with you?"
"He Yuan was the only imperial physician who diagnosed the poison of our eldest brother back then," Jiang Xue looked at him with a firm gaze, and said, "If what you and I think is true, the events back then and now were caused by the same person, then the He family may be the only one who knows the origin of this strange poison."
"Sure." Jing Ye answered decisively.
Jiang Xue nodded and was about to turn around and go back to the inner room to dress up, but she saw Jing Ye suddenly stand up and walk to the door, stretch out his big hand and push the door open.
Jiang Xue was about to speak out to stop them but it was too late. She just stood there looking outside the house.
Fu Dong, Xiao Chun, and several guards who were on patrol all stood still with their eyes wide open.
"Look carefully," Jing Ye said with a smile, "the one who came out of her room was me."
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