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◎ "Ping An is going to get a stye!"◎
There was silence in the tent for a moment.
However, it was only a moment, Xie Qi quickly reacted and asked with a smile: "What did Uncle Fan tell you last night?"
Xu Qinghe snorted, "Don't you know what orders you gave Uncle Fan? Why are you pretending?"
The man who was full of energy when they met again yesterday and could clearly hold her up and down, suddenly developed a high fever and the clothes on his back and waist were soaked with blood.
Uncle Fan came to treat him and was about to take off his clothes, but he refused to let her watch him no matter what.
"Princess, please don't make things difficult for me. The general certainly won't want you to know this. If you have any questions, just wait until the general wakes up and ask him."
However, she had long discovered that this man never liked to take off his clothes in front of her since they met again.
The man who used to be so shameless as to ask for a bath with her, now always covered himself tightly when doing that. When she asked him about it, he said it was too cold.
But now it’s the end of June and the dog days are almost here. How could it be colder?
"So, what is it about you that I can't see?"
She didn't turn sideways, but just kept staring at the ceiling.
After a moment, a sigh came from the side.
"You insisted on seeing this, so don't blame me if you get scared."
Xu Qinghe let out a long breath through his nose and said he would not hide it at all.
Is she too timid?
So Xie Qi stood up and slowly took off his pajamas in front of her.
Before the girl looked over, he raised his hand to cover her eyes.
The thick eyelashes opened and closed in his palm, flickering, making him feel itchy.
"We agreed not to cry."
cry?
This guy is exaggerating again.
In fact, she could guess some of it. It was nothing more than that there were extremely ugly and horrible scars on his body, and he was afraid that she would be frightened and sad when she saw them.
She nodded.
The big hand in front of me finally moved away.
In the bright yellow candlelight, the strong body in my memory, from the lapels downwards, whether it was the shoulders and chest, waist and abdomen or back, was covered with crisscrossing scars.
Many of them were hidden under the gauze that wrapped the fresh wounds, but Xu Qinghe could vaguely make out that there were knife wounds, sword wounds, whip wounds, and even burns from fire.
There were also some wounds where the surrounding muscles were deeply embedded, forming a small pit.
It must have been pierced by an extremely sharp object, and the object was not pulled out for a long time, so the wound had no time to heal and formed a pit like this.
She stared at the scars, slowly sat up, moved closer to him, and raised her hand to touch them.
She has always had skin as smooth as cream, and even her fingertips are delicate. She stroked the scars inch by inch, as if she wanted to do something, which made people feel itchy.
Xie Qi then grasped her fingertips, placed them on his lips, kissed them, and deliberately teased her, "Look, didn't you agree not to cry? Why are your eyes red again?"
“…”
Xu Qinghe suddenly turned around and got off the bed.
"There are too many candles, and it hurts my eyes."
After a moment, all the candles were extinguished and the room fell into darkness.
Xie Qi was afraid that she would fall when she came back, so he went to touch the night pearl placed in the brocade bag next to the pillow.
"Don't move."
Xu Qinghe had already approached the bed and ordered in a cold voice, "I want to go to bed now. No light is allowed."
“…”
Xie Qi couldn't see anything in front of him, but he could vaguely hear her dull nasal sound.
He heard a rustling sound beside him. She got on the bed, wrapped herself in a thin blanket and lay down with her back to him.
Xie Qi also lay down, carefully avoiding the wound on his waist, lying on his side and hugging her from behind.
"Angry?"
His hot chest pressed tightly against her through a thin layer of silk clothes.
Xu Qinghe could even keenly sense the wounds he had just seen on his body, exactly where they were on his body and what they felt like.
There was nothing to be angry about. After all, she had never asked him before, but now that she asked, he did show her obediently.
So Xu Qinghe shook his head.
Xie Qi chuckled softly and lowered his head to suck on the back of her neck.
"So it's heartache?"
The ending tone rises, which is inexplicably captivating.
But Xu Qinghe now has no extra thoughts.
Thinking of the injuries just now, it seems that they were left two or three years ago.
There were so many strange injuries, and I don’t know how painful it was at the time.
In the silence, Xie Qi laughed again: "If you don't say anything, I will think you are heartbroken. Okay, I won't lie to you. It hurt a lot at that time, but it's all over now. We have to look forward to everything, right?"
"How have you been spending the past five years?"
Xie Qi pretended not to notice the sob in her voice and told her about the past in a light tone.
"A year after returning to the Southern Territory, I first had to clean up the mess left behind by the bandits in the army. Nan Yi suddenly attacked, and I was actually prepared. I just pretended to be defeated and even got injured in order to buy time."
"A year later, when most of the corrupt officials in the army had been eliminated, I followed my agreement with Nan Mingzhao and went to Nanyi Country to hide and assassinate Nan Da."
"Nanda is very suspicious. If you want to become someone useful to him, you will naturally have to go through a lot of struggle and hardship. In fact, it's nothing special. It's just a group of people fighting and killing each other, using tricks to survive, and then become his secret guard."
"Of course, the one who survived in the end was naturally me, your husband."
Since he went in to ambush under a false name, he naturally could not use his own martial arts.
Everything he learned when he was pretending to be Wei Che became a help.
"I stayed in Nanyi Kingdom for two years and finally gained Nan Da's trust. Later, I found an opportunity to kill him and the Southern Emperor. Under heavy siege, guess who helped me?"
Xu Qinghe's nose was blocked at the moment, and if he opened his mouth, he would be exposed.
She didn't want to talk.
Xie Qi raised his lips and continued talking to himself.
"It was Feng Yao, the sister who made Jin Yao willing to stay in the Fuguogong Mansion. She was grateful for your kindness in avoiding Jin Yao and her daughter, so she helped me escape from the palace. Once I leave the palace, Fu Zongying will come to pick me up."
"I was seriously injured, and then I lay half asleep and half awake in the army for a year. Less than a year into my recovery, Nan Si and Nan Mingzhao started fighting, using who would be the first to capture the southern border as a bargaining chip for the throne."
"I had originally intended to crush Nanyi in one fell swoop, but I discovered that the spies from Yingzhou and Lanzhou, who had been eliminated long ago, had resurfaced and sent a large number of weapons and fine horses to Nanyi. More importantly, there were spies among the army as well."
"I didn't know who the spy was, where he was, or how he would affect the war. After some thought, I took the initiative to seek peace."
"After that, he used the excuse of raising military funds to march to Lanzhou with his men."
"You know everything that happened after that."
After saying this, he kissed the girl's small earlobe and said with a smile, "See, I wasn't lying to you. It wasn't a big deal. I'm back safe and sound now, right? Hmm?"
Xu Qinghe's sleeves were wet. She didn't want to speak, so she wrote the word "poison" on Xie Qi's palm.
This is asking what happened to the poison in his body.
Xie Qi leaned over and rubbed her neck, saying lightly, "Nan Sixia."
At that time, he had no connection with the Fourth Prince who was found among the people. For some reason, this person always made things difficult for him in secret, causing him to almost reveal his identity several times. In the end, he even poisoned him unknowingly, and almost no one could solve the problem.
Later, when I met this girl again, I knew why.
It turned out that it was because she was too attractive.
Yet when she was pregnant with their daughter, she was surrounded by such people.
Xie Qi hugged her tightly and put his hand on her lower abdomen again.
"When the Southern Border Army was ambushed, I deliberately lost the battle in order to preserve my strength and buy time. But I didn't expect... this news to harm you."
He had never seen her struggling to give birth, but the screams in the nightmare were like devilish sounds that lingered in his ears, keeping him from recovering for a long time.
"Qinghe, I'm sorry for you."
“…”
Xu Qinghe curled up and didn't respond.
Xie Qi didn't expect to get her response.
This girl has always been soft-hearted. Even if he brought up the past so lightly, the wounds on her body alone were enough to make her cry for a long time.
She had thought that since she had some new wounds in the past few days, the cotton cloth she used to apply to the wounds would be able to cover up most of the horrible wounds, but she didn't expect that it would still scare her.
**
The next day, Xu Qinghe opened his eyes first and found that the things in his field of vision seemed to have become smaller.
It took me a moment to realize that my eyes were swollen from crying last night.
The person behind her was still asleep, so she quietly got up and planned to go out and ask the maid to apply some compress on her.
However, as soon as he moved, the person behind him caught up.
"It's still early, why don't you sleep a little longer?"
Xu Qinghe pushed him and said, "You're still injured. Don't sleep around. Go lie down."
Xie Qi closed his eyes and lay down obediently.
When he finally woke up, Xu Qinghe was no longer by his side.
After changing the medicine, he was about to go find the girl to have breakfast together when he saw her walk in wearing a veiled hat.
The veil on the brim of the hat hangs down to the shoulders.
Xie Qi narrowed his eyes and recalled some old things.
"When we parted in Kyoto, I seemed to have seen you once in Nianxiangju."
Xu Qinghe went in and sat in the side room, still wearing her veil.
"Yes, it's me." She said calmly.
But why didn't he recognize her then?
Xie Qi thought about it and it seemed that it was because there was a man next to her who was behaving intimately with her.
That person was Nan Si.
He recalled the smug and mocking look in Nan Si's eyes before his death.
It makes your scalp tingle.
Seeing him stunned, Xu Qinghe urged him: "Eat quickly, and then we'll go see Jing'an and the Prince Consort together."
Xie Qi finally started eating, but raised his eyebrows: "You don't want to join?"
Through the thin veil, he could vaguely see a face as pretty as a lotus, rosy lips, and eyebrows like distant mountains.
Xu Qinghe shook his head and took a book to read under the veil.
"I've eaten."
She was so engrossed in reading that she didn't notice the noise coming from the other side of the table.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly the scene in front of me became bright.
It was her veil that was taken off.
She quickly grabbed the round fan on the small table and held it in front of her eyes.
"Thank you Qi!" Xu Qinghe said with a little annoyance.
Xie Qi ignored her anger and grabbed her wrist with a smile.
With that little strength she had, she could easily push someone's hand away.
Beneath the satin embroidered fan with flowers and birds, there is a pair of beautiful, slightly red and swollen eyes.
Even though they were swollen, like two little peaches, in Xie Qi's eyes, coupled with her slightly angry face, they made her look even more cute and innocent.
"You cried for me last night?"
Xu Qinghe didn't want to answer, so she pushed him away and put on her veil again.
"Leave me alone."
But he didn't deny it.
Xie Qi was happy at first, but then felt melancholy.
When I came to my senses, Xu Qinghe was already at the door.
He took two steps forward, hugged her from behind, lifted the veil of her hood, went inside, and buried his head in her neck.
"Don't cry for me anymore, okay? You've been alone for the past five years, and it's obviously harder than mine. I haven't even shed a few tears for you, but you've already cried your eyes out for me. This is so unworthy."
"What's more, all of this was caused by me."
He was expressing his feelings, but Xu Qinghe actually laughed.
"The night before yesterday, I don't know who was crying on me, and I wet most of my hair at the back. I almost washed my hair with my tears.
“…”
It is said that men don't shed tears easily. After being exposed like this, Xie Qi felt a little embarrassed.
"Xu Qinghe, that's too much."
He raised his hand and turned the girl's face, intending to let her see his angry expression and stop talking, but he didn't expect that he saw her smiling face first.
Xu Qinghe doesn't smile often, so this sudden smile seems extremely precious.
When she smiles, she looks more like a little girl.
Xie Qi's heart fluttered, and he pinched the girl's jaw and kissed her.
The space inside the veil was cramped, not to mention the two of them were kissing each other. In the weather at the end of June, the air around them suddenly became hotter.
After kissing for a while, Xu Qinghe's body softened and she leaned into the arms of the man behind her. She only managed to stay in place because he held her waist with one hand.
The doors of the courtyard were naturally wide open early in the morning, but since there were usually few people in the Xie Mansion, Xie Qi didn't care.
Unexpectedly, the little girl got up early today to look for her mother.
I had just stepped into the moon-shaped door and had not walked for long when I looked up and saw two people standing in the main hall at the entrance.
It was so tangled and I didn't know what was going on under the veil.
She cried out "Ah" and subconsciously covered her eyes.
"Ping An is going to get a stye!"
The two people at the door froze.
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