52 Chapter 52
◎I'm sorry for the mistake I made just now.◎
Wei Che chatted with his family without any strange expression on his face, but he had already blamed the girl countless times in his heart.
When he turned around and left the hall and walked back to the yard, he sighed heavily, thinking that he should put on a frown.
She is still sick, so don't irritate her anymore.
Thinking that Xu Qinghe had just arrived in a strange environment and was sick, Wei Che was afraid that she would have trouble adapting for a while, so he took bigger steps.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind -
"Third brother."
It was the eldest daughter of the Wei family, Wei Fu, who was dressed in plain white clothes.
Wei Che turned around and put on a smiling face, raising his eyebrows and said with a smile: "So it's my eldest sister. Such a pretty beauty, I thought she was some jasmine god who came down to earth."
Wei Fu looked even more gentle in her plain clothes. Her long hair was tied up with only a jade hairpin in her hair. She was standing in this colorful garden path in plain clothes, which was particularly eye-catching.
But it reminded Wei Che of Xu Qinghe.
She always liked to wear blue dresses. Today was the first day of her wedding and she finally changed into a bright red bridal dress. However, he didn't even look at her because he was holding his anger. Now he regrets it.
He should have taken the opportunity to take a few more glances.
After all, those were the clothes she changed into for him.
"Sister, you called me here. What instructions do you have?" Wei Che was anxious. He wanted to send the person away quickly and then go back to see her as soon as possible.
Wei Fu took a red lacquer and gold-painted food box from the maid and handed it to Wei Che. "I heard that the princess had injured her throat, so I specially asked the kitchen to stew kumquat and snow pear soup, which has the effect of moisturizing and protecting the throat."
Wei Che smiled and held the food box from below. After Wei Fu let go of her hand, he grasped the handle again.
"Sister, why don't you give me some more of this good stuff so I can enjoy it too?"
Wei Fu pretended to be slightly annoyed and said to him, "You are already married, why are you still competing with the Madam? This soup is for the princess. You must make sure that the princess finishes it. You are not sick or in any trouble, so you are not allowed to snatch it from others."
Wei Che responded with a smile, quickly said goodbye to her, and walked quickly back to the yard.
The latter stood in the breeze, watching his back slowly leaving, the smile on his face gradually faded.
**
Xu Qinghe was sitting in the pavilion enjoying the breeze.
For some reason, she felt a tightness in her chest when she woke up this morning, and she didn't feel any better even after staying outside for half an hour.
"Princess, the palace doctor said the ointment should be changed every hour. It's time to change it now."
Xu Qinghe came back to his senses from the book in his hand, raised his hand and touched his chest, but he still felt uncomfortable.
She took a long breath. There were several clumps of gardenias planted in the courtyard. The rich and sweet fragrance drifted into her nose along with the breeze, making her feel even more stuffy.
Let’s go back.
Just as the master and servant stood up and prepared to go into the house to apply medicine, Wei Che, dressed in a red robe, walked in with a food box in his hand.
He placed the food box on the stone table in the pavilion and asked her, "Are you going in?"
Xu Qinghe nodded, looked at the food box, and asked him with his eyes: What is this?
Wei Che: "My eldest sister asked the kitchen to make you some kumquat and pear soup."
She was the only daughter of the Nan'an Palace and had no brothers or sisters. But the word "elder sister" made Xu Qinghe a little stunned.
"My eldest sister's name is Wei Fu. She lost her husband last year and was not present at the wedding. I just happened to meet her when I went to look for my father and mother." Wei Che explained to her in detail.
Since it was a gift from family members, Xu Qinghe couldn't refuse it, so he simply sat down again.
Rock sugar is added to the soup, and the initial sweet taste seeps into the tip of the tongue, which really makes people feel comfortable.
But firstly, it inevitably caused pain when it slid down the throat, and secondly, the sweetness spread and gradually became greasy. After drinking a few mouthfuls of the soup, Xu Qinghe felt greasy and painful.
In the end, he only drank a few spoonfuls and put the spoon down in the bowl.
"...You don't want to drink anymore?" Wei Che looked at her in surprise.
She didn't eat much of the porridge in the morning, and now she only drank a few mouthfuls of the soup. No wonder she was so thin.
I finally managed to feed him enough to make him gain weight some time ago, but now he can't eat anymore.
Wei Che lowered his eyes and took a look. There was still most of the soup left. The golden kumquats mixed with the pulp were soaked in the soup, emitting bursts of sweet fragrance.
He asked again, "Are you really not going to drink anymore?"
Xu Qinghe nodded, sighed, and simply picked up the half cup of pear soup and drank it all.
Nanzhi stood aside, stunned.
When did the Prince of Fuguo's Mansion become so frugal even with a bowl of pear soup?
But this soup was sent by the eldest daughter of the Wei family. Afraid that the prince would misunderstand, Nanzhi quickly explained: "Please don't misunderstand, prince. It's not that the princess intentionally offended the eldest daughter. It's just that the princess can't eat anything right now. Her throat hurts when she eats."
Of course Wei Che wouldn't think too much about it, and even if she really didn't want to drink, he wouldn't force her.
He responded casually and ordered someone to take the food box away.
Although Xu Qinghe was slightly surprised by his action, she was not as shocked as Nanzhi.
After all, when he was in Migu Town a month ago, he also ate the remaining half bowl of rice with vegetables in the same way.
Such a rich young man always has to pick up the leftovers of others and eat them.
...Could it be that he has some unknown hobbies?
Xu Qinghe's mood suddenly became complicated, and he got up and went into the bedroom.
She was going to go into the house to change the medicine, but now Wei Che had returned to the yard, so it was no longer possible to do so.
After all, she fell asleep on their wedding night yesterday, and they didn't do anything. They were husband and wife, but it was just in name only. Xu Qinghe couldn't change the medicine in front of him so openly.
She originally thought that she could delay it as long as possible. She didn't believe that Wei Che could stay in this room for the whole afternoon. She would just change the medicine after he left.
Who knew that after waiting for a long time, Wei Che really didn't leave. He didn't do anything, but sat on the couch and stared at her.
The effect of the medicine on Xu Qinghe's body had worn off, the cool feeling gradually disappeared, and the itchiness returned.
She resisted the urge to scratch it, and sweat broke out on her forehead.
"Did the princess change the medicine just now?"
Wei Che had noticed her abnormality a long time ago, but she was unwilling to talk to him, so he did not take the initiative to care for her.
Looking back, when was it not that he took the initiative to pursue her but retreated step by step?
He always takes the initiative, but this time he is not proactive and wants to see what the girl will do.
But at the end, seeing her furrowed brows and the sweat on her forehead, he couldn't help but speak first.
——Lost again.
He sighed quietly in his heart.
He was clearly still resentful that she would rather take peanuts and pretend to be sick than believe him, but as soon as he saw her in pain, he would be defeated first.
Xu Qinghe was speechless. Nanzhi glanced at the princess and spoke for her, "Sir, it's time to change the princess's medicine."
Wei Che nodded: "Go get the medicine."
Xu Qinghe went straight back to the inner room. She sat beside the bed, thinking that Wei Che would probably avoid her.
Who would have thought that not only did he not avoid her, but he followed her directly into the inner room.
Xu Qinghe looked over warily, her whole body tense. Wei Che smiled when he saw this, but the smile didn't reach his eyes: "What are you afraid of, Princess?"
He walked over step by step, and his black boots made a "clacking" sound as they stepped on the floor of the step-out bed.
"Are you afraid that I might do something bad to you?"
He was getting closer and closer, so close that the scent of spring in the snow on him overwhelmed the morning fragrance of lotus in the bed curtains.
"But my lady, have you forgotten that you and I are a proper married couple who have sworn homage to heaven and earth?"
Wei Che finally came over and stood in front of her, holding a box of ointment in his hand, looking down at her condescendingly, with a dark look in his eyes.
"You... uh—"
Xu Qinghe finally squeezed out a word from his red, swollen and dry throat, but the next moment he swallowed it up with the tail end.
The man who was standing in front of her just now, in the blink of an eye, grasped her waist with one hand and held her in his arms.
He sat down on the edge of the bed and pressed his hot lips against hers. He sucked gently at first, but when he saw her pushing his shoulders in slight resistance, he held the back of her head and sucked harder.
As if he was deliberately going against her, the harder she pushed him away, the harder he sucked her with his lips, even deliberately making sucking sounds that were particularly harsh in the quiet inner room.
This made Xu Qinghe think of the incident more than a month ago.
He was drugged, and when she came close to him, he kissed her without hesitation.
She thought he was already eager that time due to the effect of the drug, but she didn't expect that his actions today would make her feel suffocated.
He seemed to be even more furious than last time. He pressed her face hard against him, pried open her teeth regardless of anything, and forcefully thrust his flexible tongue in, hooking her in a lingering kiss.
She even tasted the same sweet taste of the kumquat and pear soup in his mouth as she did in hers.
His breathing became heavier, and his tongue had already reached every part of her mouth, yet he still stayed close to her.
He had already explored every part of her lips, so where else did he want to go?
Xu Qinghe doesn't know.
She already felt chest tightness, and now she felt suffocated by the inability to breathe normally. She gradually lost strength in his arms and let him do whatever he wanted.
Strangely enough, the more she resisted, the stronger Wei Che became. Now that she let things take their course, he stopped instead.
He let go of her lips, rested his forehead against hers, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Why don't you believe me?"
Xu Qinghe didn't want to bear his hot breath, so she put her hand on his chest, trying to push him away.
But someone grabbed his hand and pressed it against his heart.
"Why don't you believe me?" he asked again.
Xu Qinghe opened his mouth, but although no sound came out, the shape of his lips was clearly discernible.
She asked: What do you believe in?
Wei Che raised the corner of his mouth in self-mockery: "I said I wouldn't touch you without your permission, why don't you believe me?"
Xu Qinghe's expression turned cold, her pink lips were now red and swollen, and there was a blush on the corners of her eyes, but there was mockery in her eyes.
She moved her lips, her gaze shifted from the tip of her nose to the face of the person in front of her, and she sneered: Is this what you mean by not touching?
Wei Che also smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes: "If you hadn't deliberately eaten peanuts to pretend to be sick last night, this wouldn't have happened today."
Xu Qinghe was stunned for a moment, and the coldness on his face suddenly disappeared.
It took a moment to realize that he thought I had eaten peanuts and pretended to be sick last night in order to avoid the bridal chamber.
Wei Che naturally noticed her reaction, and the heat in his body suddenly cooled down, and even his back suddenly felt cold.
"Those peanuts... weren't you planning to eat them on purpose?"
Xu Qinghe glared at him: Of course not!
Noticing that the man holding her had stiffened all over, and that his tension had gone from one extreme to another, she quickly kicked his legs, broke free from his restraints, and sat on the other side of the bed.
The two were silent for a moment.
Xu Qinghe was angry, and Wei Che was of course regretting it.
It turned out that he had misunderstood.
She did not disbelieve him, nor did she eat peanuts without caring about her own safety.
She didn't take her body lightly.
On the contrary, he grabbed the person in his arms and kissed him forcefully without asking the reason. If he had not retained his rationality, who knows what stupid things he would have done next.
"I just made a mistake... I'm sorry..."
Xu Qinghe turned his head away with a cold expression, not accepting the apology.
This wasn't the first time the man had done this, nor was it the first time he had said this.
All men in the world are the same. When those primitive needs in their bones come up, they ignore them. Where is their rationality and respect for others?
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment, but suddenly they thought of the same thing.
——Where did the peanuts in last night’s meal come from?
Since Wei Che had already ordered the princess in the mansion not to eat peanuts, and Xu Qinghe herself did not take the initiative to eat them, then who was deliberately trying to harm her?
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