Chapter 86
◎They are in the future of the past.◎
Before going to sleep at night, Ciying expressed her worry that the little tree would not survive.
Xie Huaijin had heard in a letter about Ci Ying's several near-fatal battles, and now he wanted to comfort her but didn't know where to begin. After a long pause, he simply said, "If it doesn't work, we can just plant another one."
"Is it also called Xiaoshu?" Ci Ying said with a smile.
The young man said calmly, "If it's thicker than this tree, it can be called a big tree."
Ci Ying smiled silently on Xie Huaijin's chest, the corners of her eyes gradually curved up, and the two people's hair had been entangled together without her knowing when, along with their warm breaths.
The sound of heartbeat spread in the ambiguous mood, the smile on Ciying's face gradually faded, and the feelings in her eyes slowly grew.
She looked at the person in front of her. They were cuddling together on the bed, so the distance between their hearts was only two warm bones, wrapping the two close hearts in a smooth and complex manner.
When the kiss came, Ciying closed her eyes.
She was immersed in such superficial intimacy, her hand was quietly held by the young man, and when his hand stopped at her neck, she rushed forward and hugged him like a wave.
Ci Ying's hot breath fell on Xie Huaijin's slender pale neck, leaving a faint red mark. She reached out and hugged him tightly, as if a river was embracing Xie Huaijin's entire body.
She never asked anything about sex again.
Just normally, using every intimate moment to silently express her indifference.
In mid-April, when Ci Ying returned, Xie Huaijin told her that the tree had grown new leaves. She held a lantern and took Xie Huaijin's hand to look at the newly grown leaves, using the lantern's light to illuminate the fresh green. "It's true!"
"Well, at least we can survive the spring." Xie Huaijin looked at Ciying's happiness indifferently, reached out and took the lantern from Ciying's hand so that Ciying could see more clearly.
That small, tender green leaf.
After looking at the leaves, the two did not go back directly, but walked hand in hand in the mansion.
They rarely met anyone along the way. Ci Ying smiled and talked about interesting things in the army, and complained softly about the tediousness of official duties. Xie Huaijin occasionally touched Ci Ying's head to comfort her, and occasionally laughed with Ci Ying.
"When summer comes, we'll go to Miannan to escape the heat. Yan Ji said there's the Yan family's villa there."
"good."
Ci Ying leaned on Xie Huaijin's arm and said, "The summer in Mobei is very hot, much hotter than Chang'an. You used to spend most of your time in Mobei during autumn and winter, so you didn't know."
Xie Huaijin chuckled and touched Ciying's face with the back of his hand.
The young man's hands were always cold. Ci Ying squinted her eyes comfortably and said with a smile, "It gets warm in the summer sun, but... well, it's not bad now."
The two men sat down in the pavilion, and the servants brought them a chessboard.
Ci Ying's chess skills are average, of course compared to Xie Huaijin.
She knew that Xie Huaijin would not let her lose badly, so she took risky moves every time. As expected, the young man did not take advantage of the flaws that were exposed, and did not block the roads that should be blocked. But even after giving in to this point, Ci Ying still only fought a draw with Xie Huaijin.
I wasn't discouraged, but I had a clearer understanding of Xie Huaijin's ability to control the game.
She took two chess pieces from Xie Huaijin's chess basket as if to cheat, and put them on the table with a frown.
Well, now she wins.
Xie Huaijin looked at him gently, and after a while he slowly took out two white pieces from his palm and placed them together with Ciying's two.
Ci Ying took one look, and couldn't help but take another, then looked around. Seeing that no one had seen this scene, she blinked, gathered the four chess pieces together, and put them all back into the chess basket: "No more, no more."
The person opposite is Xie Huaijin, she always wants to cheat.
The two of them walked back hand in hand. Xie Huaijin was holding a lantern, and the light reflected on his snow-white clothes as if it were flowing moonlight. But his face did not look like that of an ordinary person, and it looked as if it was born naturally.
Ciying often feels that she is the one in the human world.
It is the human world that keeps the moon.
Later, Ci Ying occasionally received some news. She didn't know whether she wanted to read it, but she couldn't ask Xie Huaijin.
Opening a letter about her lover's past, she felt that she should ask Xie Huaijin for his opinion, but she knew that there were some things she couldn't say.
After thinking it over, Ci Ying put it under the deepest mahogany box in the study.
Afterwards, Ci Ying put the original things in the mahogany box back one by one, pressing them down layer by layer. Human nature is stubborn, and the inherent desire to pry into other people's privacy was covered with a layer of concern, but the moment her fingertips touched it, Ci Ying still felt a strong discomfort in her heart.
Her fingertips stayed on the envelope for a long time before she slowly suppressed the strong desire to explore in her heart. The mahogany box was gradually filled with all kinds of things, and the letter was pressed again and again, until finally not even a tiny corner was left.
Ci Ying slowly buried the past that Xie Huaijin was always unwilling to reveal.
The mahogany box was covered and then put back in its original place. Except for an opened but unread letter at the bottom of the box, everything else was the same as before.
Ciying thought that the letter would probably never see the light of day again.
The situation in Chang'an changed again and again. The emperor ascended to the throne and then fell from it, and then ascended to the throne again. The supreme position in the world seemed like a child's play.
Ci Ying understood that Xie Huaijin was behind everything, but she didn't ask. She just observed the flow of power and silently gained benefits for Mobei and herself.
This is always the case when people are in power for a long time.
Perhaps because of this, because Ci Ying truly stood in Xie Huaijin's original position, she understood many things in the past.
Even though what she and Xie Huaijin have to face are so different.
Then, Ci Ying began to understand that Xie Huaijin and Ci Ying were unable to fall in love with each other in the past, and those hugs and temptations were just their greed for love.
Fortunately, they are in the future of the past.
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The chaotic situation in Chang'an did not end until late June, when a younger clan member came to power. On the surface, he was still from the Yuwen family, but no one could tell whether he was really the real one. After several rounds of rotation, both the aristocratic families and the clans were exhausted, and now they could only grit their teeth and swallow their blood.
Ci Ying knew the new person. Xie Huaijin had told her about him a few years ago.
She was already very talented, but at certain moments she would still silently look at the low-key young man. Xie Huaijin was not a flamboyant person. He became famous because of his poetry and prose. Even when he was at the peak of his power, he always used the Xie family as a cover. Except for the Water Pavilion Tragedy and the palace banquet where the emperor launched an attack, the young man was always terribly low-key.
It was at this moment that Ci Ying slowly understood the jealousy that Su Xueruo mentioned.
But is she jealous?
Ciying seemed to think not.
She seemed... only heartbroken.
When Zhu Guang was still alive, Ci Ying could not hide her silence after mentioning the matter several times. Until Zhu Guang's death, Ci Ying was unable to really hear anything from Zhu Guang.
Ciying didn’t know what was so difficult to describe.
The only thing she remembered was Zhu Guang's always furrowed brow.
That day in the hall, Su Xueruo called Xie Huaijin a "monster".
Ci Ying thought that she was biased after all.
The moment Su Xueruo said the word "monster", instead of agreeing with him, she felt a secret pain in her heart. Even though they didn't have a sympathetic connection at that time, she was even trying to find a way to escape from him.
The heart is the most deceptive, but also the most vulnerable to deception.
One day, those dull sour feelings made Ciying's heart ache, and the pain that grew and spread because of one person was more honest than the heart and the mouth.
After returning, Ci Ying hugged Xie Huaijin.
At that time, Xie Huaijin was watering the trees in the yard. When Ci Ying hugged him, he reached out and put the kettle on the table beside him: "I've only been watering for a while. It's hot, I think I need to water it more."
Ci Ying smiled softly and looked at the young man.
At the beginning, it was Xie Huaijin who was even perfunctory about the name, but in the end, it was also Xie Huaijin who cared the most.
She took the kettle and finished watering the rest.
Xie Huaijin watched quietly by the side. After Ciying finished watering, he wiped the tiny beads of sweat from Ciying's forehead with a clean white handkerchief. Ciying leaned in to take a closer look and was surprised that Xie Huaijin hadn't even sweated in such a hot day.
Ci Ying talked about the Summer Resort: "I have agreed with Yan Ji that we will set off in half a month."
"Is General Yan going too?" Xie Huaijin asked.
Ci Ying shook her head: "He said he didn't want to go, and felt the journey was too tiring."
"How clumsy." The young man looked at Ci Ying and said softly.
Ci Ying laughed heartily. "I think so too. He racked his brains for a long time to come up with an excuse. He probably just wanted to stay and keep Ling Shuang company."
"Are you together?" Xie Huaijin asked.
Ci Ying shook her head: "No."
She didn't know how to describe what happened between them, so she said softly, "We'll see what happens in the future."
After watching for a year or two, Ci Ying felt that it would not be her time to take action.
Yan Ji has always pursued her with great respect.
She thought about it and asked Xie Huaijin: "Do you think they will be together?"
Xie Huaijin looked into Ciying's eyes and shook his head.
What he said came true.
In early July, when Ciying and Xie Huaijin were about to leave for the Mountain Resort, Yan Ji suddenly came up to them with a package on his back: "Ciying, I want to go too."
Ci Ying and Xie Huaijin looked at each other, then lifted the curtain to let Yan Ji come up.
Yan Ji has become much calmer. Ci Ying sometimes thinks that Yan Ji can still be so naive at such an old age thanks to her father who doesn't want Yan Ji to be cunning.
Ci Ying asked carefully, "What's wrong?"
Yan Ji lowered his head and said after a long while, "Nothing."
Xie Huaijin quietly took Ci Ying's hand, tilted his head and shook his head lightly.
Ci Ying took out the leaf cards and asked two people to play with her.
As the fight went on, Yan Ji became more talkative, and all he said was the same thing: "Ling Shuang doesn't like him."
Ci Ying was unable to comfort herself, and neither she nor Xie Huaijin could answer this question.
Their tortuous love is filled with endless mountains, imperceptible love, silence and retreating hesitation.
No, there has never been love from the beginning.
Carrying Yan Ji on his back, the two of them held hands, and then he gave Yan Ji many games. Yan Ji won more than ten games in a row, but he didn't notice anything unusual. He just kept shouting "fairness" and "successful in love but successful in cards", and as he spoke, tears fell again.
To be honest, Ci Ying was a little scared, but when she went up to comfort Yan Ji, she cried even harder.
She patted Yan Ji's back and watched Yan Ji, who usually smiled even with a broken leg, hunched over with tears, saying, "I don't know either..."
Don’t know what?
Ci Ying didn't ask any more questions. She placed all the very sweet cakes in front of Yan Ji. Yan Ji ate one and his throat was choked. He couldn't cry and just stared at Ci Ying.
As a junior, Ci Ying "respectfully" handed over a piece of cake.
Yan Ji took it with resentment, lowered his eyes and began to eat. Tears fell on the table and he said in a choking voice, "It's disgusting. Ciying, can you bring some delicious food for the journey?"
Ci Ying felt wronged, but still said, "Then I'll change next time."
As he was speaking, the wind lifted the car curtains, and the foxtail grass was swaying in the wind.
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