"Wartime is always intense. Even if a unit has seven or eight doctors, it's not enough. If they get stranded somewhere during a battle and don't return to camp for months, it's not uncommon. Without food, where would they get doctors and medicine? Even during a truce, bumps and bruises are inevitable in the camp. You can't always rely on others, and if someone is causing trouble for you, you can't speak out..."
She was originally going to talk about the bad things that Xu Shu had done in Subei in the past, but when the words came to her lips, she realized that she had said too much, so she stopped talking abruptly, but it seemed a little too late.
"Xu Tingwei's second son."
"Huh?" Xiao Nanhui's mind was a little confused for a moment.
"The one who's causing you trouble is Xu Zhi's second son, Xu Shu?"
"yes......"
Wait, how did he know that?
Xiao Nanhui looked up suddenly and met Su Wei's unexpected gaze.
"Of course I have a list of allies and enemies among the civil and military officials in the court. What do you think?"
She thought that he cared about her situation, so...
Xiao Nanhui suppressed the self-deprecating smile on his face.
How could she, a mere sergeant, have attracted his attention? It was only because of the Xiao Mansion that her every move was watched.
But he knew that the Xu family and the Xiao family had a feud, and he still acted in accordance with the other party's malicious intentions in the palace that day. Could it be that for him, the only thing was to check and balance the interests, and there was no friendship between the monarch and his subjects, or... anything else?
The bitterness that she had just suppressed rose to her heart again. Her fingertips unconsciously shrank, and the gauze in her hand tightened. The wound that had just healed suddenly began to bleed.
The emperor gasped, his dark eyebrows raised.
"Xiao Yingwei was the first one to bandage someone. Is the grass on his grave already three feet tall?"
Xiao Nanhui suddenly came back to his senses, looked down, and was so scared that he almost threw the half gauze in his hand at the emperor's head.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me! I was a little distracted just now. How about calling Chief Steward Shan over..."
"He's very busy. Do you think everyone is as free as you?"
Su Wei lazily withdrew his hand, as if he didn't care about the wound at all. He tied the fallen gauze into a knot with one hand, and his technique was so skillful that Xiao Nanhui was stunned.
If she didn't know the character of the man in front of her, she would almost suspect that the king had regarded playing tricks on her as one of the greatest pleasures in life.
The man ignored her reaction and stretched out his other hand to lift up the small incense burner with a big red copper belly placed on the small table. At the bottom of the burner was an incense stick, which had been mostly burned out and its original appearance could not be seen.
Xiao Nanhui was looking up when his stomach suddenly made a rumbling sound.
She got up earlier than usual today to wait for Aunt Dai's medicine and didn't eat much, so it was normal for her to feel hungry now.
If you were standing in a busy street, this noise might not be a big deal, but in this place where it was so quiet that even the sound of the wind could be heard clearly, the rumbling of the stomach was like a bolt from the blue.
She lowered her head and wanted to jump off the railing of the tall building for the second time.
She couldn't see the expression of the person opposite her, she could only hear his voice.
"It's still early. An empty stomach will do you good."
Benefits? What benefits?
It was the first time she heard that being hungry could have benefits.
"Jiang Fei must have delivered the swords to your residence. In consideration of your sincerity in fulfilling your promise, I will allow you to ask three questions today."
The scent of agarwood drifted into his nose, slightly alleviating the anxiety brought on by his appetite. Xiao Nanhui calmed himself down and pulled himself together again.
"Any questions are fine, right?"
"Of course." The emperor paused cunningly, "But whether to answer and how to answer is up to me."
Xiao Nanhui tried hard to restrain the urge to roll his eyes, wondering how he could take advantage of this opportunity to get some advantage.
But she was not stupid. She did have many questions, about the secret seal, about the bloody incident thirteen years ago, and about Puhuna. But she also knew that these questions might not be answered.
She wanted to ask why she was called here today, but when the words came to her lips, she felt that this was a stupid question. Because if the emperor wanted to tell her, he would reveal it to her in a moment, and if he didn't want to tell her, there was no point in her asking.
Thinking of this, she suddenly felt that these three questions were a bit boring. She no longer had the motivation to think about them carefully, so she simply asked the most irrelevant question.
"Where exactly is this place?"
The man looked into the distance, his eyes clearly showing some emotions, but his voice was as calm and cold as ever.
"This building is called Jingbo Tower. It was the residence of my mother, the orphan concubine, when she was alive."
As expected, if he was not a member of the royal family, it would be impossible to build a pavilion so close to the palace wall, and it would be even more impossible to let the Black Feather Battalion, which trains royal guards, provide cover for him.
But shouldn't the emperor and his concubines be in the palace? Why do they live outside the palace walls?
Su Weiyi withdrew his gaze and glanced at the dazed woman in front of him.
She was so easy to understand, her emotions and thoughts were written all over her face.
She didn't ask any further questions, but he suddenly wanted to say something.
"Before my mother married, her name contained the character 'mirror'. My father, hoping to make her smile, even collected the most beautiful bronze mirrors in the world. However, my mother refused even a glance at them, remaining unhappy and unsmiling day after day. Finally, my father ordered the construction of this wind-proof pavilion for my mother, and then he created a lake within it. The lake was empty, with only a tranquil surface. Hence, the pavilion was named Jingbo Tower."
There was a brief pause in Su Wei's voice.
He hadn't spoken of the past in a long time, and had intended never to. But today, for some reason, these memories seemed to have a consciousness of their own, flowing out of his mouth like an unstoppable hot spring, overflowing from an unknown corner.
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