159 Chapter 159
"Why don't I see your husband?"
“…”
In the quiet carriage, Xu Qinghe was stunned by this series of questions and didn't react for a long time.
When she came to her senses, the man had already reached out and taken off her stockings.
"hiss……"
I saw that the white and slender ankle suddenly became red and swollen to a height of about an inch, and the redness had spread to half of the instep, making it look like half of the foot was swollen.
Xu Qinghe didn't feel much pain before, but now seeing this situation, he started to feel pain without realizing it.
Before she could say anything, Xie Qi had already raised his hand and started rummaging through a box on the side.
When they were still in Kyoto, on the eve of the Ghost Festival, the two were assassinated in the woods. Xie Qi locked her in the carriage and did not allow her to come out, while he himself was covered in wounds in the rainy night.
Since then, whenever Xu Qinghe travels, he would habitually carry some medicines for bruises, injuries, bleeding and pain relief in the car.
But Xie Qi searched for a long time and found nothing.
"Don't look for it anymore." Xu Qinghe said calmly.
Xie Qi turned around and saw the girl's fair little face hidden in her messy hair. Her black hair made her face look as white as jade.
Now her eyes were red and her lips were white because of the pain, and her smooth forehead was covered with a layer of sweat, which made her look even more pitiful.
"I don't have that habit now."
The pitiful girl lowered her eyelashes and said in a cold voice.
Xie Qi felt a sudden pain in his heart.
It was as if what she said was not that she no longer had this habit, but that she had long been accustomed to not having him around.
He had finally managed to take root with her again, but now he was uprooted.
Seeing that he was lonely, Xu Qinghe didn't want to look at him closely. She turned her head to calm down and was about to call Indigo in.
But the next moment, her body flew into the air, and she suddenly cried out: "Xie Qi, what are you doing!"
The man who had been silent just now actually picked her up from the couch again, carried her horizontally, and walked out of the car with his head down.
The maids waiting outside the car immediately surrounded them.
Xie Qi stood on the shaft of the carriage, glancing at the alert crowd. He said with a sullen face, "There's no medicine in the carriage, and it's hard for the carriage to move on the muddy road. If you want her to continue to suffer like this, you can stop her."
The attendants looked at Xu Qinghe.
Xu Qinghe pursed his lips and said nothing.
This trip is of great significance. She needs to heal her foot injury quickly so that she can do her job well.
With the lady's approval, Indigo and the others slowly made way for him.
Xie Qi got off the carriage holding the person in his arms and called his mount.
Amid the sound of horse hooves, he spoke again in a deep voice: "Veil hat."
The maid holding the veil hat beside her came to her senses and immediately put the veil hat carefully on the lady's head.
The veil fell, completely covering the lady's stunning face.
At this time, a fine horse came with the sound of hooves.
Through a layer of gauze, Xu Qinghe looked up at the snow-white horse.
After a moment's identification, she subconsciously asked, "...Is this Cuiyun?"
Cuiyun was a birthday gift given to Xie Qi by his father when he first went to the battlefield as a young boy. It was an extraordinarily handsome horse that could travel a thousand miles a day.
Xie Qi named him Cuiyun, which means "the horse's hooves trample the clouds".
Holding her waist tightly, Xie Qi easily placed her on the horse, then he pulled the reins and lightly stepped on the stirrup, jumped up, and in the blink of an eye he was sitting on the horse's back as steadily as a gust of wind.
He first lowered his head to help Xu Qinghe hide her feet under her skirt, then tightened the reins and lightly squeezed the horse's belly, and the horse started walking towards the gathering place of houses.
Xu Qinghe sat sideways on the horse, leaning against his strong chest, and the sound of his answer was lost in the wind.
"no."
"Eleven years ago, the imperial court sent troops to attack. Cuiyun led me out of the siege, but he's dead now."
Xu Qinghe's hand on his forearm suddenly tightened.
At the same time, there was a dull pain in the chest.
That so-called siege was something he had never mentioned to him before. It killed Cuiyun and also killed the young general who had only wanted to go into battle and kill the enemy to make achievements.
Xu Qinghe bit her lip, secretly blaming herself for speaking too much.
A horse that carried their youthful years but has now passed away, left the two of them speechless throughout the rest of the journey.
Besides the whistling wind, the only sound in my ears was Xie Qi's cold questioning voice when they came to a fork in the road.
After giving him directions several times, the two finally arrived at Xu Qinghe's current residence.
Because there were no magnificent mansions in the countryside, she only rented a clean and tidy courtyard, and the upper room where she lived was facing the gate of the courtyard wall.
Xie Qi stepped inside and saw that the furnishings in the room were just as elegant and tidy, and even filled with a light plum fragrance.
There was a short couch in the next room, and he gently placed the girl on it.
Because of the incident with Cuiyun just now, Xu Qinghe's attitude softened somewhat. She no longer spoke to him about the differences between men and women. Seeing his eyes wandering around the room, she said, "I came in a hurry and didn't prepare any medicine."
Xie Qi pursed his lips, took off her socks and looked at the wound, then went out to the yard.
Through the blurry window paper, Xu Qinghe could vaguely see the man drawing water from the well in the yard.
Looking at his busy figure, she suddenly felt a little sad.
When she was pregnant with Ping An, she suffered much more than she does now.
It would have been nice if he had been busy with her at that time.
Xie Qi came back with a basin of cold water. When he looked up, he saw that the girl on the couch had a layer of mist in her eyes again. In order to prevent him from seeing, she deliberately turned her head and pretended to look at the scenery outside the window.
He didn't think much of it, just thinking that she was in great pain, so he moved faster, took out a handkerchief from his arms, soaked it in cold water in the basin, and then gently wrapped it around her ankle.
"Apply cold water to it for a while. Don't move. I'll get some medicine."
Xu Qinghe uttered an almost inaudible "hmm".
A quarter of an hour later, the handkerchief on his feet had been stained with her body temperature, but Xie Qi had just spoken so seriously that Xu Qinghe did not dare to move.
Fortunately, he came back soon, wearing a pure black robe with narrow sleeves and a round collar, standing at the door, looking very majestic.
But his clothes were covered in mud at the lapels and knees, making him look a little out of place.
When their eyes met, Xu Qinghe was the first to look away.
Xie Qi put down what he was holding, untied the scarf around her ankle, poured the medicinal wine into his palm and rubbed it, and when his palm was warm, he applied the medicine.
"It will hurt, can you bear it?"
He is not the type to exaggerate such things. If he says it hurts, it really hurts.
Xu Qinghe's face turned pale when she heard that, but because she didn't want to be exposed in front of him, she forced herself to stay calm and nodded.
After so many years of friendship, how could Xie Qi not see that this girl was just holding on?
He sighed in his heart. When he spoke just now, the medicinal wine in his hands had already cooled down, so he began to rub his hands again.
When he was about to apply the medicine to her ankle, he suddenly started talking to her.
"The night I left Lanzhou, I went to your house."
Xu Qinghe was stunned.
During the moment of daze, the man's warm big hand had already grasped her wound.
But after thinking about it, she realized that apart from meeting him on the street, she had not seen any trace of him since then.
Xie Qi gently rubbed her wound and said with a smile: "If I don't show up myself, of course you won't find out."
Xu Qinghe lowered her eyes and looked at his hands holding her ankles. One was snow-white, the other was a layer darker, but the boundary was clear.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
Following her gaze, Xie Qi also lowered his eyes.
After a moment, he spoke: "I took a sword and stood outside your house all night."
"Why are you holding a sword?" Xu Qinghe frowned, feeling something was wrong.
Xie Qi looked up, looked at her and smiled.
"I want to kill him."
The smile was a bit sinister, causing Xu Qinghe to shrink back involuntarily.
But the man held her hand tightly and wouldn't let go.
She would soon figure out who this "he" was.
Xie Qi continued, "I used to think that a girl as good as you was only worthy of me. The day I learned you were married, I wanted to kill you with my sword, but you warned me not to act rashly, or you would resent me for the rest of my life. I listened to you and did nothing."
"Later, I drank to drown my sorrows. The drunker I got, the more sober I became. The drunker I got, the more unwilling I became. You're such a good girl, why should I give you up to someone else?"
"You didn't like Wei Ming back then, and I could easily marry you back. Now, even if you really like that man, I could kill him and put the blame on someone else, and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Then I could coax you and eventually make you change your mind."
"As for that child named Ping'an, she's innocent. I won't transfer my hatred for her father to her. For your sake, I will treat her as my own. Then, we'll be a happy family of three."
"Qinghe, you should know that I can do everything I say."
“…”
Xu Qinghe was shocked when he heard this and was unable to recover for a long time.
It wasn't because of the non-existent "husband" who might be stabbed to death by him, but because this person was an official, so how could he have such a thought of taking human life lightly?
If that's the case, will he still have a good reputation?
After a moment, Xie Qi smiled and said, "I was just kidding, why did you take it so seriously?"
He stood up and washed his hands in the basin.
Xu Qinghe came back to his senses and was surprised to find that while he was talking, this person had already applied the medicinal wine to her.
“…”
Amidst the sound of rushing water, his teasing voice could be heard: "I see you're afraid of the pain, so you're saying that. After the banquet that day, I went back to the governor's residence, but I didn't go anywhere."
Looking at his back, Xu Qinghe squeezed the soft cushion under her body.
He did not go back to the governor's mansion directly that day, and she did not think that he was just joking with her.
Xie Qi knew what she was thinking, and he also knew what kind of thoughts his words would cause her to think, or in other words, this was exactly what he expected to see.
Let it be, no matter what she is thinking about him, as long as she still thinks about him.
Even when she was with her loving husband.
When he went out to buy medicinal wine just now, he bought some snacks as well. After washing his hands, he opened the oil paper package and placed it on the small table in front of her.
He looked up at the girl opposite him. Even though she didn't look at him, he still smiled and said, "This place is poor and not rich. There's not even a decent snack. Are you making do with a couple of bites?"
Xu Qinghe was indeed hungry.
Since she had just let him bring it back and applied the medicine, she naturally would not continue to be shy and instead starve herself.
But from the time she left home in the morning until she came back, she hadn't washed her hands.
She looked at Xie Qi.
Xie Qi pursed his lips and smiled, secretly pleased with himself for being able to understand her meaning instantly.
He resigned himself to his fate and went to pour her some water and wet the towel, but while doing so, he was thinking in his heart.
Could her loving husband be as empathetic with her as he was?
I guess not. The affection they have had since childhood cannot be compared to that of others in just five years.
Xu Qinghe was about to take the wet wipes he handed over, but he grabbed her hand and wiped it for her.
She looked up at him, slightly annoyed.
Xie Qi acted as if he wasn't watching, continuing with his delicate work, wiping each of the girl's water chestnut-like fingers, even the spaces between them.
Finally, she wiped the pair of hands as smooth as cream clean, and the girl's cold and pure face turned red with anger.
Even though she was angry, her posture was impeccable. She picked up a piece of dessert gracefully and ate it in small bites.
"Why are you here?"
Xie Qi sat across from her across a small table, his chin supported by his hand as he looked at the girl who was eating.
Xu Qinghe glared at him.
Knowing that she didn't like talking during meals, he still insisted on asking at this time.
She didn't answer, and Xie Qi didn't get angry. He just felt as if he had returned to Kyoto six years ago. At that time, he also watched her eat with a smile on his face, as if he could never get enough of watching her.
The snacks in the countryside were indeed rough. The girl ate one of each and then stopped moving. She even took only one bite of the last bag of snacks and put it down with a frown.
She looked at Xie Qi again, and Xie Qi stood up again to wash her hands with a towel and help the girl rinse her mouth.
After finishing his work, he put the bitten dessert directly into his mouth, but his eyes were fixed on the girl opposite him.
Xu Qinghe: ...
She turned her head to look out the window, and suddenly remembered that when they first went to Ting'an Town, this man did the same thing, eating her leftovers without any consideration.
But the person who didn't care about anything didn't think that he was unpretentious. Instead, he enjoyed the meal very much.
As soon as he saw Sister Yueying's letter this morning, he got on his horse immediately and didn't even have time to have breakfast. Now he was starving and ate up all the snacks that didn't taste very good in the blink of an eye.
He raised his eyes and found that the girl opposite him had changed her direction of look, but was not looking at him.
But Xie Qi insisted on staring at her. Not only did he want to stare, he also wanted to ask, "Aren't you and your husband very much in love? Why didn't you bring him with you this time?"
【Author’s words】
Nine minutes late [burst into tears]
I lost one of my collections, the sky is falling [burst into tears]
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