168 Chapter 168
◎ “You feel sorry for me, don’t you?”◎
The luxurious carriage drove out of Xu's house, rumbled along the bluestone road, and finally went to the bamboo forest villa outside the city.
The weather in mid-May was already hot, and Xu Qinghe would rather have someone put ice in the carriage than lift the gauze curtains on both sides of the carriage for ventilation.
Xie Qi leaned against the wall of the car with his arms folded. He saw her leaning against a small table, reading a book with a round fan in her hand, looking immersed in it.
He raised his lips and smiled, his voice ambiguous: "Am I so shameful? That you'd rather spend money on ice than lift the curtain?"
Xu Qinghe was turning the pages of a book with one hand and fanning himself with the other.
The next moment, the man's big hand suddenly reached out, snatched the fan from her hand, and started fanning her.
Even though I said some sour words, I still did things that made her happy.
Xu Qinghe pursed his lips slightly, continuing to look back at the pages of the book. He said calmly, "I kept you at the Xu residence for a while because I thought you had some injuries when you were in Caoqu Township, and I wanted you to recover. Now that I see your injuries are almost healed, I'll find a day to leave. It's not convenient for a man and a woman to get along with each other."
Xie Qi was so angry that his teeth were itching. He stopped fanning himself and leaned over to grab the girl's waist tightly, then lifted her into his arms and held her in his arms in an instant.
Before Xu Qinghe could react, he grabbed her chin and pressed her, "It's only been a few days and you're kicking me out? Recovering from my injuries? Have you ever seen anyone recuperate in the master's bedroom? Xu Qinghe, I've been staying in your room for so many days that my reputation has long been ruined, and you still want to disown me? Huh?"
He was too close, and his breath and questions seemed to hit her face. Even though she was touching the ice, Xu Qinghe could still feel her cheeks quickly getting hot.
But he held his chin, revealing the blushing face of the beauty in front of him.
"What reputation do you need as a grown man? Besides, I only asked you to keep watch, and you didn't do anything else. Why should I be held responsible?"
"Just keeping watch, that's all?"
Xie Qi narrowed his eyes, leaned over and kissed her.
The air around suddenly became hotter.
Xu Qinghe discovered that the man's lips and hands were cold, and only the tip of his tongue, which was openly inserted, was warm.
Xie Qi wanted to vent his anger, so this time he was very gentle and slow, licking or sucking, which made Xu Qinghe's body soften in unbearable pain.
Even though his movements were so gentle, he still unreasonably robbed the air from her mouth and did not give her a chance to breathe.
In a daze, she held the man's hand that was holding her chin.
"hiss……"
Xie Qi felt pain and immediately pulled out of her mouth.
Xu Qinghe knew that her face was already too red to look at, so she took the initiative to climb up to him and hid her face in the crook of his neck.
The girl's sweet breath hit Xie Qi's ear, rapid and hot.
Xie Qi pinched her soft and white fingers while leaning on her shoulder to steady his breathing.
For a moment, the only sounds in the carriage were the intermittent gasps.
When the carriage was about to stop, both of them had recovered.
So when Fu Zongying saw the two of them, they both had calm expressions on their faces, as if nothing had happened in the car just now.
Fu Zongying exchanged a few pleasantries with his comrades, and then, following Xie Qi's instructions, took the two of them to find Ruan Ling to take his pulse.
Xu Qinghe then remembered that when they were in Kyoto, this Young Master Fu seemed to have mentioned that he had a childhood sweetheart.
Now that they met, he found out that his sweetheart, Ruan Ling, was pregnant. Judging from the curve under her skirt, she was probably about to give birth.
Xu Qinghe tugged at Xie Qi's sleeve, and the latter immediately lowered his head to listen to her.
She whispered, "I'm pregnant and it's a difficult time for me. Why did you have to bring me here at this time?"
It would have been fine if she was really feeling unwell, but after taking the medicine prescribed by Doctor Fan, she no longer felt any discomfort.
Xie Qi hadn't told her that his poisoning had worsened. He just coaxed her softly, "Ruan Ling is a skilled doctor. She's finally here, so why not let her take care of him?"
Xu Qinghe raised her eyes to look at his face and caught a trace of guilt that she had no time to hide.
Fu Zongying and his wife were very kind, and Ruan Ling also called her "Third Sister-in-law" with a smile.
Xu Qinghe extended her wrist and smiled gently, correcting her: "I am single now and not married, so I cannot bear the title of sister-in-law to you, Madam."
Ruan Ling looked behind her and saw that Xie Qi's face had turned dark.
After taking her pulse, Ruan Ling smiled and said, "Don't worry, Sister Xu, you're fine. It's just that you seem a little worried these past few days."
Xu Qinghe nodded and said half-seriously, "Some business issues have arisen recently, and it has really taken up some of my attention."
But Xie Qi didn't know about this.
Just as I was thinking about asking her about it later when we were alone, I heard the girl say again, "It seems like this man has an injury on his wrist. I wonder if you could trouble Madam to take a look at him."
Xie Qi stood with his hands behind his back, refusing guiltily: "It's just an old injury, there's no need to see it. It's getting late, let's go back first. Isn't Ping An about to finish school? Let's go back and pick her up."
Xu Qinghe stood still. Just now, when she faced Ruan Ling, there was a faint smile on her lips, but now, that smile was disappearing little by little.
A chill also crept up Xie Qi's back little by little.
In the silence, Fu Zongying was the first to lose his temper. He grabbed his brother's forearm and put it on the table: "Why are you dawdling like this? My wife needs to rest. Hurry up."
However, when the wrist guard was removed, what was revealed was a piece of dry, soft cotton cloth soaked with blood.
“…”
He quickly looked at his other hand and saw the same scene.
Fu Zongying was puzzled: "What's going on? Brother, I remember that you no longer have the habit of self-harm."
When Xie Qi looked up, he saw the girl's frosty face.
He swallowed guiltily, knowing that telling the truth was the only way out at this moment.
"Your sister-in-law accidentally took the antidote that Uncle Fan prescribed for me, and some poison accumulated in her body. I used poison to fight poison and let her bleed as a guide for the medicine."
"For the past half month, have you been taking medicine three times a day? Has it always been like this?"
Then I heard the girl ask in a cold voice.
Xie Qi lowered his head guiltily: "Except for those few days when I didn't know if I had contracted the plague, it has always been like this."
At that time, I thought that if I contracted the plague, giving her medicine would inevitably infect her as well.
However, he didn't expect that Nan Si's antidote contained herbs that silently aggravated the poison in his body. He was afraid that the medicine he had given her in the past few days had also been mixed with new poison, so he immediately pulled her over to check Ruan Ling's pulse.
But it was obvious that the concealment of this matter made the girl angry.
On the way back home, Xu Qinghe didn't even want to ride in the same carriage with him.
Xie Qi leaned over to massage her shoulders in a flattering manner, but was swatted away by Xu Qinghe with a fan.
He immediately pretended to be hit on the wrist, grimacing and crying out in pain.
Xu Qinghe didn't fall for it and gave him a cold look: "Isn't it possible to use your blood as medicine every day? I thought you wouldn't feel any pain at all."
"We're all made of flesh and blood, how can it not hurt? It's just for you, so this pain is nothing."
Langjun Ruyu still had a flattering smile on his face. Although it was not flattering, Xu Qinghe felt annoyed at the sight of it.
I simply closed my eyes and ignored him.
After returning home and entering the room, he slammed the door shut, blocking the person outside.
Xie Qi was disappointed and stood outside the door, not knowing what to do.
"Hey, Uncle Xie, why are you standing outside the door?"
When he lowered his head, he saw a small green ball, not even as tall as his thigh, smiling at him with its head tilted up.
Xiao Qingtuan could laugh, but Xie Qi couldn't.
He thought, it's all because of your father. If it weren't for your father who took advantage of the situation, there would be no you. If it weren't for you, the girl wouldn't have to worry about whether having him as her stepfather would make the child unhappy. If it weren't for these worries, he should have coaxed the girl long ago.
They should have been married long ago, and today Ruan Ling could proudly call her "Third Sister-in-law".
But these were just thoughts. The child was innocent, so how could he really blame him?
Xie Qi sighed, picked up Ping An who had just finished school, and said to her softly, "Uncle Xie accidentally made your mother angry. Can you take Uncle Xie in to apologize to your mother?"
"No peace!"
The little girl's face suddenly darkened and she struggled to get off him.
"You've made my mother angry again! Ping An doesn't want you anymore!"
After saying that, he slammed the door shut again, also refusing to let him in.
Xie Qi: ...
Both mother and daughter are difficult to coax.
That night, Xie Qi was not eligible to stay overnight, but Xiao Qingtuan also went back to his own yard to sleep.
He thought for a moment, and finally put the night pearl given to him by the girl into his pocket and climbed in through the window as if he knew the way.
"What are you doing here? Get out!"
Xu Qinghe was not asleep at that time and was fiddling with an abacus under the candlelight.
Xie Qi shamelessly walked over and sat opposite her.
He glanced at the densely packed account book, then at the girl's tired eyes, and said distressedly: "Have you really encountered such a big trouble in business? You are not sleeping at this time."
Xu Qinghe snorted and continued to fiddle with the abacus with his head down.
"You're the only major trouble I've ever encountered in my life."
Being able to joke with him like this means that you are no longer angry.
Xie Qi was extremely happy. Since she dared to give him a good look, he dared to go ahead and sit next to her.
Seeing that she just moved away in disgust, after a while, Xie Qi became more aggressive and directly took the girl into his arms and sat her down.
Xu Qinghe was still holding a pen in her hand, so she looked up and glared at him.
Xie Qi apologized in a gentle voice: "I was wrong, ancestor, I really know I was wrong, please don't chase me away, okay?"
Xu Qinghe snorted coldly: "What's wrong?"
Xie Qi put the pen in her hand back on the table and put her arms around his waist.
He hugged her tightly and said sincerely, "My mistake was that I told you back in Caoqu Township that we would be honest and honest with each other and never lie again, but I kept it from you that I was using blood in medicine."
"I know you still commit it!"
Xu Qinghe took the opportunity to pinch his waist, but his waist was as hard as a rock and he couldn't turn it at all.
She simply opened his collar and bit his neck hard.
"hiss……"
Xie Qi took a breath deliberately.
After a while, Xu Qinghe let him go.
Xie Qi thought that there must be a row of neat and delicate tooth marks on his body.
"I'm not hiding this from you on purpose, but it's really hard to explain. If I rashly tell you, 'Did you know your antidote uses my blood as an ingredient?' Wouldn't that be like me blatantly taking credit for it? How embarrassing."
Xu Qinghe glared at him, "Do you want to save your face or your life? If the poison in my body isn't cured, are you going to just bleed three times a day?"
Xie Qi smiled at her: "You feel sorry for me, don't you?"
Xu Qinghe hugged him tightly, buried her head in his arms, and said nothing.
Xie Qi was overjoyed.
If you don't say anything, it means you feel heartbroken.
She has now gotten over the time when she was always cold and rude to him, and she is even willing to admit that she does feel sorry for him.
If Xu Qinghe looked up, she would see that he was smiling from eyebrow to eye, and he was happier than when he had won a battle.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. Didn't Ruan Ling tell me today that the poison in your body is gone? I'll take good care of myself and the wound on my hand will heal. It's nothing serious."
Xu Qinghe didn't respond, but he was thinking that he would have to instruct the kitchen tomorrow to prepare some food for this person.
"Besides this, are there any other things you are hiding from me?"
She suddenly raised her head and looked straight at him.
“…”
Xie Qi suddenly felt a chill on his back.
Xu Qinghe's gaze towards him suddenly became sharp.
After a moment, he lowered his head and rubbed her neck, whispering, "It's gone, it's really gone. I was just checking carefully just now, afraid that I might have missed something. If you find it in the future, won't it cause another attack?"
He cast his eyes on the densely packed account book on the table and thought, it would be better to wait until she was done with her busy schedule before telling her about the poisoning.
【Author’s words】
The next chapter is about father and daughter + old love rival [狗头]
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