167 Chapter 167
◎Xie Qi felt like she was keeping a mistress outside.◎
Xie Qi ignored Indigo's obstruction and pushed the door open and walked in.
There was no one in the main room or the side room. It was really time for the girl to go to bed at this hour.
He rushed in, walked around the screen, lifted the curtain, and asked, "What did I do wrong today? Why did you let me sleep in the side room? You..."
The girl stepped onto the bed with her black hair loose, wearing only a thin undershirt, and holding a sleeping baby in her arms.
It is peace.
Ping'an was about to fall asleep, but was woken up by the noise.
She rubbed her eyes, looked at her stunned father, then at her slightly annoyed mother, and asked softly, "Mom, does Uncle Xie want to sleep with us?"
Under the girl's blaming gaze, Xie Qi touched his nose and felt embarrassed.
He didn't know that this chubby little girl was there too.
Xu Qinghe glared at him and said to her daughter in her arms, "No, he came in to blow out the candles for us. The candlelight was too bright just now, and Ping An couldn't sleep well."
After saying that, he looked at Xie Qi again.
Xie Qi sighed inwardly and had to accept his fate and blow out the lamp.
He stayed in her room these days, and they never turned off the lights at night.
"etc."
Xu Qinghe suddenly said.
Xie Qi was waiting to turn around, and saw her raise her chin towards the drawer at the other end of the floor.
He looked at the girl with a dowry-like look and opened the drawer suspiciously.
Inside is a night-shining pearl.
"Take it and use it, or you might break my expensive tables and chairs."
Xu Qinghe said.
That is a top-quality night-shining pearl that can illuminate the surrounding area as bright as day at night.
Such a good thing was obviously not easy to come by, but the girl spoke in such a light and even somewhat disdainful voice.
If there wasn't someone else around at this moment, Xie Qi would definitely hold her in his arms and give her a good kiss.
A warm feeling flowed through her heart. It turned out that she had known for a long time that she could not see at night, so she placed the glass lamp she had prepared in the most conspicuous place when she was in Caoqu Township. Later, she kept the candle lit even when she went to bed.
All to accommodate him.
That night, although Xie Qi slept in the side room, as soon as he saw the shiny and bright night pearl on the bedside, he couldn't help but smile.
It's just sleeping in a room for a day, no big deal.
She had been separated from her daughter for so long, so it was normal for her to be pestered by her all night.
However, what Xie Qi didn't expect was that the little girl, who had been separated from her mother for only more than half a month, actually monopolized the girl for five whole days!
Five whole days!
Not only at night, but even during the day, the girl had no time to pay attention to him and only hung around the little girl!
"She is very busy now and has no time to take care of me."
Therefore, when Fu Zongying asked him why he kept coming to his residence these days, Xie Qi said so resentfully.
Ever since receiving Xie Qi's letter some time ago, Fu Zongying immediately took his wife to Caoqu Township to check on the situation. Based on the antidote found on Nan Si, he developed a more potent antidote.
Xie Qi ordered his men to sprinkle the antidote into the river as well. Thanks to timely handling, the epidemic, which did not spread, did not cause much damage.
But since Fu Zongying came to Lanzhou with his wife, he decided to stay there for a while.
"Then don't you have other things to do? You are a marquis and a general, and the Nanyi Kingdom has not yet been pacified. You can't be so idle, right?"
Fu Zongying asked while sawing the wooden stick in his hand.
Xie Qi was lying on a lounge chair under a tree. The sun had already set, so it wasn't that hot anymore, and even the wind was cool.
"I'm only responsible for planning and making decisions. The rest of the trivial matters will naturally be handled by my subordinates. If I take on everything, wouldn't it seem that I'm not good at cultivating talents?"
Fu Zongying paused and felt that what he said seemed to make some sense.
After all, his parents' Yufeng Pavilion doesn't need the old couple to be in charge all the time.
"Besides, I only have one mission now."
Xie Qi said leisurely, "Then I'll quickly coax my daughter back and marry her to me. That would be good."
Fu Zongying acted as if he didn't hear anything and was still busy with his work.
Xie Qi poked his head in and asked him, "What have you been busy with these days? Why are you always fiddling with these pieces of wood?"
Fu Zongying raised the things in her hand and said with a smile, "Ruan Ling will give birth in another month. I plan to make some toys for my future child, such as a small wooden horse."
Xie Qi: ...
During the two years he infiltrated the Nanyi Kingdom, Fu Zongying married his childhood sweetheart Ruan Ling.
Last year, Ruan Ling had good news, and Xie Qi even sent some gifts.
Fu Zongying is five years younger than him. Now he is about to become a father, but he has only touched his wife's hand a few times.
There was no point in chatting that day, so Xie Qi simply got up and said goodbye.
After returning to Xu's house, he walked towards the girl's bedroom as usual.
Only when she reached the door did she remember that she probably didn't have time to deal with him today.
But since we are here, we might as well go in and take a look.
Xu Qinghe had just taken a bath and was sitting on the couch reading a book. Two maids surrounded her, one on each side, and were wiping her hair with clean towels.
"Why are you alone today?"
Xu Qinghe knew it was him without even raising his eyes.
"I took Ping An to the horse race today. She was tired and her wet nurse put her to sleep."
Xie Qi's eyes lit up, and he went to wash his hands in the basin first, and then took the towel from the maid.
The two maids looked at the lady.
Xu Qinghe nodded: "Go down."
After five years, Xie Qi finally regained the right to dry the girl's hair.
Now that summer has arrived and the weather is hot, the girl has changed into a thin silk dress, revealing a large area of fair skin at the neckline.
As long as Xie Qi lowered his head, he could see the white snow and ravines underneath.
His eyes darkened as he thought of Fu Zongying, who was about to become a father, and himself, who had made no progress at all.
"So, I don't have to sleep in the side room tonight?"
After a while, he spoke in a hoarse voice.
After all, he was the one who had wiped her hair for a year. Xie Qi wiped her hair with just the right amount of force, neither too light nor too heavy. Xu Qinghe squinted her eyes in comfort and even put the book in her hand on the table.
"Whatever you say. Hiss...be gentle..."
The sound was so soft and gentle, it was originally a complaint that he hurt her hair, but in such a dim candlelight night, it reminded people of those hot and humid nights five years ago.
Her silky hair was almost dry. Xie Qi threw the towel on the shelf beside him, picked up the girl's legs and carried her horizontally.
"What are you doing?!"
Xu Qinghe was startled, and when she opened her eyes again, she found herself being placed on the soft bed by this man.
Xie Qi's Adam's apple rolled slightly, and his pair of affectionate eyes seemed to contain two handfuls of leaping fire.
"I've been your night watch maid for almost a month. Isn't it time to pay me some compensation?"
No one knew better than Xu Qinghe what his increasingly heavy breathing, his fiery eyes, and his hot hands on her waist meant.
She couldn't help but think of those passionate nights five years ago, and her body subconsciously softened.
But he turned his head away and said stubbornly, "If you want your reward, go to the accountant."
She didn't refuse, so Xie Qi came over with both hands, followed her eyes, and said with a smile: "I don't want money, I just want you."
"Don't push your luck—well…"
The hot lips came close to mine.
Xu Qinghe's body softened even more. Noticing his impatience, she couldn't help but laugh in her heart.
During the time he had been staying here, she hadn't even held his hand a few times, let alone anything else.
Every time she went to bed, she could see that this man was filled with resentment.
But the more uncomfortable he felt, the happier she felt, and even her sleep improved a lot.
However, today, as they were kissing on the bed, his hands gradually found the belt around her waist, and Xu Qinghe suddenly felt that it might be a little too fast.
It had only been four months since they'd reunited, and was she really going to forgive him like this? Was she going to give it to him like this?
While she was hesitating, the man had already bit her lightly.
"What are you thinking about? Why are you so distracted?"
The hot breath hits your face, making your whole body turn pink.
She looks so absent-minded, could she be thinking about the man next to her?
Xie Qi panicked and kissed her again quickly, fearing that if he gave her a moment to breathe, the girl would really think of someone else!
The wet lips moved all the way down, lingering on the neck and collarbone.
Large areas of snow-white skin immediately turned pink.
And those bony hands had already untied the laces and reached into the small clothes.
“Dongdongdong——”
Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door.
"Madam, I see the light is still on. I wonder if you are asleep?"
"The young lady had a nightmare just now and was crying and looking for the lady."
Xu Qinghe pushed the shoulder of the person on top of him and asked him to get off.
“…”
Xie Qi reluctantly stood up and reluctantly helped the girl put on her clothes that were about to fall apart.
"Get out quickly and go through the back window."
For some reason, even though he was in his own house and his confidant was outside the door, Xu Qinghe felt subconsciously a little nervous.
Xie Qi suddenly felt like he was the girl's mistress who was kept outside in secret.
After Xie Qi climbed out the window and left, Xu Qinghe straightened his clothes and let the wet nurse in.
She had suffered from nightmares before, so she knew how helpless she felt after waking up, not to mention that her daughter was only a child under five years old.
As soon as she saw her mother, Ping'an's crying, which had finally stopped, became louder again. She held her mother's arms tightly with her short little hands, buried her head in her mother's neck and sobbed.
Seeing his daughter like this, Xu Qinghe no longer had any of his previous romantic thoughts. He just patted his daughter's back gently and coaxed her.
After a quarter of an hour, the daughter in her arms finally tired out from crying and fell asleep unknowingly.
Xu Qinghe herself likes cleanliness, so naturally she would not allow her daughter to sleep with a dirty face.
But she had just sent all the servants to bed, and now she had to go down to fetch water herself.
Suddenly I missed the days when Xie Qisu was in this room.
However, at this moment, there was some noise coming from the rear window.
"who?"
She was startled and immediately hugged her daughter tightly in her arms, while also picking up the dagger under the pillow.
"It's me, don't be afraid."
Xie Qi walked around the screen and saw the dagger in the girl's hand that she had not had time to put away.
"Is this the one I gave you?"
Seeing that it was him, Xu Qinghe's tense body suddenly softened.
She hid the dagger back under her pillow and denied it, "No."
Xie Qi stretched out his long arm and took the dagger back in one go.
"Even the patterns on the scabbard and the gems inlaid on the handle are exactly the same, how can it not be?"
Xu Qinghe said: "If I say it's not, then it's not."
Xie Qi smiled meaningfully: "If it's not him, then why did Boss Xu go to so much trouble to find a dagger exactly like the one he used back then? Could it be that he was trying to evoke memories of the person he had?"
Xu Qinghe fell into his trap and felt that he had lost face, so he was not in a good mood.
"Didn't I tell you to leave? Why are you back?"
Xie Qi decided to stop while he was ahead, walked to the main room, poured water into the basin, and took out a clean towel.
He coaxed softly, "Isn't this my duty as a night watch maid, to help the Madam and the young Miss sleep peacefully?"
He's smart.
Xu Qinghe's expression softened a bit. He wiped his hands and was about to wipe his daughter's face when his eyes suddenly shifted. He handed the towel to Xie Qi, "I held my daughter for too long just now. My hands are sore. You wipe Ping'an's face. Wipe it clean."
Xie Qi: ...
This little girl is here to collect debts on behalf of her biological father!
Not only did I ruin his good deeds, but I also had to make him serve me well!
Seeing him wiping his sleeping daughter's face gently with an indignant look on his face, and even carefully wiping the little girl's chubby hands, Xu Qinghe felt refreshed.
She just likes to see this reluctant yet helpless look.
After Xie Qi finished serving the young lady, he looked up and found that the lady had fallen asleep without him noticing.
He stared at the little girl in his arms fiercely, and finally tried to put her gently into her mother's sweet and soft bed.
Just as he was about to let go, the little girl suddenly hugged his neck tightly and called out "Daddy" softly.
Even though he knew that the little girl had called the wrong person out of sleep, Xie Qi still tossed and turned in the room because of the call of "Daddy" and didn't sleep well for several days.
When Fu Zongying saw him again, it was his brother's handsome face with dark circles under his eyes.
"Brother, why do you look so bad?"
Xie Qi yawned lazily, lay down on the recliner, and swayed as if he was about to fall asleep.
"I haven't slept well these past few days."
Fu Zongying felt something was wrong. He asked cautiously, "How's the poison in your body? How about letting Ruan Ling take your pulse?"
It was just a pulse check, it wouldn't be a big deal, so Xie Qi agreed.
Ruan Ling is now almost nine months pregnant. Fu Zongying didn't dare to let her move easily, so she asked Xie Qi to go into the house to take her pulse.
As far as Xie Qi could remember, this was the first time he saw a pregnant woman.
She had seen Ruan Ling when she was a teenager before. The girl was thin, and now that she was pregnant, she had more flesh on her face, but there was a dark spot under her eyes, and she looked like she had not slept well.
Ruan Ling smiled and explained, "I've been having leg cramps at night for the past few days. I've taken medicine and had acupuncture done, but it hasn't helped."
"Yeah, it made me sleep poorly at night, and I had to get up to massage her legs. Look, there are dark circles under my eyes too."
Fu Zongying seems to be complaining, but in fact he is showing off.
But Ruan Ling still glared at him.
Xie Qi wondered if Xu Qinghe had felt the same way when she was pregnant with that little girl.
Seeing how Fu Zongying was so attentive to his wife, he wondered if the little girl's father had also taken such careful care of her when she was pregnant, and had also been looking forward to preparing gifts for the birth of his future child?
"Third brother..."
When he came back to his senses, he was met with Ruan Ling's increasingly solemn face.
Xie Qi immediately frowned: "But what's wrong with the poison in my body?"
Ruan Ling said worriedly, "The poison in Third Brother seems to have gotten worse."
Xie Qi: "How could that be? I've been taking the medicine you prescribed for me regularly over the past year, and I've clearly gotten much better recently."
Ruan Ling had just checked Xie Qi's pulse around the end of the year, and at that time he had indeed shown improvement. As long as he had taken the medicine on time, he should not be in his current condition.
She thought for a moment and asked, "Has Third Brother taken any other medicine in the past few months? Or has he accidentally ingested anything poisonous?"
Xie Qi remembered a lot in an instant.
For example, the inappropriate medicine he drank at the Governor's Mansion, the time he waded in a river poisoned with plague, and...
For example, the antidote that Xu Qinghe had fed him was found on Nan Si.
His expression suddenly darkened.
The pride and mockery that remained in Nan Si’s eyes as he lay dying flashed before his eyes.
He had clearly anticipated this.
【Author’s words】
The next chapter is about Qinghe getting drunk and General Xie getting what he wanted [evil smile]
I want to see when I can break through the 200 collection mark [burst into tears]
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