70 Skirt (Big Overhaul)
◎Of course, forgive her.◎
Xu Qinghe was picked up by Wei Che and strode towards Fenghe Courtyard in the warm summer breeze. He walked too fast, so she subconsciously reached out and hugged his neck.
So the two of them pressed closer, so close that when she lowered her head, she could see the cold white skin wrapped in the slit of his clothes, hear the heartbeats that almost overlapped under their chests, and smell...
Xu Qinghe suddenly shrugged his nose, blinked, and asked him, "...Have you been drinking?"
Not only did she drink wine, she must have done something else as well. After all, mixed with the rich aroma of wine was the scent of cosmetics that girls usually use.
The entanglement is very annoying.
Wei Che shook his head at the right moment, his eyes finally clearing a bit. When he spoke, his voice was still hoarse, as if it had rolled through gravel. "A general in the Imperial Guards hosted a banquet for his colleagues, and I went along. There weren't many fancy things going on between the generals, it was just a drinking contest, so I drank a little too much."
Xu Qinghe lowered his head and said "hmm", without asking where the banquet was held or who was there.
This made Wei Che even more annoyed.
He had said so much, being evasive and throwing out clues, but she didn't ask any more questions, as if what he did outside had nothing to do with her.
She didn't even want to ask why he hadn't returned to the courtyard in the past few days.
Sometimes he really hoped that the girl would pretend to make a scene like she did on the second day of their wedding when he announced that he was going to take a concubine.
Unlike now, she was so indifferent and didn't care about him at all.
After that, the two of them said nothing more. They walked around the lotus pond in the backyard in the silent night and finally walked into their own yard.
Everyone in Fenghe Courtyard was suddenly scolded by the nanny beside the Duke's wife today. Now they were in a state of silence. When they saw the prince and the princess coming back, they hurriedly bowed and greeted them.
Xu Qinghe turned her head towards Wei Che's back, unwilling to see anyone. Wei Che just said "hmm" softly, and used his foot to hook open the curtain at the door and walked into the house.
"Watch your head."
She shrank her head in time so that her hair accessories were not caught by the curtain.
Wei Che placed her on the soft couch in the side room, and the hand that had touched countless wine glasses and countless people at the banquet reached out to the hem of her skirt.
Xu Qinghe quickly reached out to hold him down, but he only held his wrist through his robe, and looked at him with a somewhat wary look.
Wei Che twitched the corners of his mouth, with a hint of self-mockery, and uttered only four words lightly: "I'll apply medicine to you."
Xu Qinghe didn't give in. She pointed her chin at the wash rack in the inner room and reminded him, "Wash your hands first."
"Huh, there are so many things to pay attention to." Wei Che mocked her, but he still walked to the copper basin and turned around to face her so that she could see clearly how he scrubbed each of his ten fingers clean.
After washing his hands, he took out the anti-swollen medicine from the box, and now he was able to lift up her skirt without any hindrance, letting the thin summer skirt loosely pile on her knees.
Although he had indulged himself in many bad things these days, he had never been completely honest with the girl. Even though he had been to the battlefield and seen the seriously injured Major General Xie, he couldn't help but feel a little heartbroken for the old injuries on his sweetheart's knees.
Xu Qinghe had been spoiled since childhood, and her skin was naturally delicate and fair, a skin as white as cream that many people envy. But just above her knees, two bruises suddenly appeared, spreading all over her knees.
Because she didn't know how long she had been kneeling, there were two smaller and darker bruises on top of the two bruises.
Wei Che closed his eyes, his throat rolling slightly, and then sighed: "You silly girl, she punished you, and you didn't know how to resist? Where did all that bossing around me go?"
He took a dot of ointment from the medicine jar and smeared it on his palms, then rubbed his hands together until they became warm, and then placed them on Xu Qinghe's knees.
The warm feeling penetrated deep into Xu Qinghe's bones through his skin. He felt a sting at first and couldn't help but hiss. After recovering from the pain, he slowly said, "That's your mother. How can I resist?"
Should I just go up and slap him?
But to be honest, she really wanted to slap Wei Fu a few times, but it was not appropriate after all.
Only today did she fully realize that the things she would face after marrying someone were no less than those in the palace. At least in the palace, when provoked by Concubine Zhao or Yongyan, she could still fight back with the support of Queen Mother Wei.
Now, as Wei Che's wife, she is inferior to those elders in every way. She can only swallow her bitterness and cannot express her suffering.
Wei Che sat on the other side of the couch, placing his hands firmly on her knees, wrapping them tightly. He couldn't help but smile when he heard her, but it wasn't a big smile. He just said, "So, you are thinking about me?"
Perhaps it was the summer heat, and she suddenly lifted up half her skirt to show it to others. Xu Qinghe couldn't help but feel a faint blush creeping up behind her ears. However, she didn't want to discuss with him who she was thinking about, so she changed the subject and asked, "Why did you come back today?"
Not only did he come back, but he also came back at such a coincidence. If he had been a moment later, she would have really had to swallow her anger and kneel in the ancestral hall.
Wei Che's palms had grown cold, so he repeated the same action, first applying the medicine, then rubbing his palms to warm them up, and finally placing them on her knees.
This time the movement was much gentler, so Xu Qinghe didn't feel uncomfortable. However, when the man's hot palm touched the skin of her knee, she couldn't help but tremble.
After she had calmed down, Wei Che said, "It was your precious maid who sent someone to inform me when she saw you were in danger."
At that time, he was still drinking and chatting with others at the banquet, when he suddenly saw a servant from the mansion running towards him in a hurry and whispering in his ear that the princess had been wronged in the mansion.
He was startled and the drunkenness in his head immediately dissipated. He was too lazy to explain to everyone, so he hurried downstairs, jumped on his horse, and galloped all the way to the Prince of Fuguo's Mansion.
Fortunately, we arrived in time.
As soon as he finished explaining, silence returned between the two of them.
When the two of them were together in the past, Wei Che always talked more, and most of the time he was just trying to make fun of her.
Now that Prince Wei was holding back his anger, he was unwilling to bow his head first. He just lowered his eyes and applied the medicine to her seriously, gritting his teeth and refusing to speak.
Xu Qinghe looked up and could only see his handsome and familiar eyebrows, straight nose, tightly pursed thin lips, and even the slightly visible bulge on his cheeks.
She suddenly remembered that once, when she hurt herself because of being naughty, someone gritted his teeth and angrily applied medicine to her.
Another wave of warmth came over Xu Qinghe's knees, and he suddenly came back to his senses. Only then did he realize that he was thinking of his old friend again.
In front of Wei Che, she always thought of the old friend whom she could not forget.
"...Did you really see me in Zhuming Pavilion today?" She had no choice but to speak to distract herself so as not to fall into the memories of the past and be unable to get out of it.
Wei Che snorted softly, "Of course not. I work in the palace during the day, and then I go to a banquet after my shift. I'm not as idle as your eldest son Wei, who can always go to the teahouse when he has nothing to do."
Without deliberately correcting the mistake in his words, Xu Qinghe simply asked, "Then why did you say that in front of the Duke's wife just now?"
He also indirectly accused Wei Fu of having bad intentions and leading her mother to believe in slander, which almost made the Fuguo Mansion a laughing stock to the outside world.
Wei Che finally looked up, but he was laughing at her: "Do you think they'll believe me just because I said that? I've told countless lies since I was little, but they can't tell the truth from the lies, so they just treat them all as lies. Princess, next time you meet someone, be more careful, don't pick on one thing and keep picking on them."
I met him there a month ago, and now a month later he still hasn't moved. Isn't he just waiting for others to take advantage of him?
Xu Qinghe didn't say anything, but he felt a little resentful.
How could she know that Wei Ming happened to go to Zhuming Pavilion today, and even went in and left one after her? Add to that the previous rumors about the two of them, it would be hard not to cause misunderstandings.
If it weren't for him, she would at most be charged with disrespecting her mother-in-law and not reporting her departure in time. How could she be falsely accused of having an affair with someone?
"I didn't meet anyone else. If you don't believe me, go check. The only one with me was Jing'an." Looking at his angry handsome face, Xu Qinghe somehow started to explain.
After he finished speaking, he felt like biting off his tongue.
She had originally intended to lead Wei Che to believe that she still had feelings for Wei Ming, so why did she deny it so confusedly tonight?
Xu Qinghe was still regretting it, but Wei Che's lips slowly curled up into a smile.
He applied the medicine back and forth about six or seven times, which took about two quarters of an hour. Just as the medicine was applied, Xu Qinghe put her dress back on, and Nanzhi had already brought out two bowls of hot red silk dumplings.
The steamed buns just out of the pot are steaming with fragrance, with a layer of sesame oil drizzled on the surface and a few fresh chopped green onions and coriander floating on them. Because there are a few river shrimps mixed in, the whole bowl of noodle soup has a light pink color, which makes people even more hungry at the sight of it.
"The princess hasn't had dinner yet. It's getting late now. I can only knead some dough to make dumplings for her."
Nanzhi placed the two bowls of steamed buns on the table one by one, glanced down at Wei Che, and moved his bowl closer: "This bowl is for the prince."
No matter what, she still wanted to thank Prince Wei for his timely rescue tonight. Even though it was his biological mother and sister who deliberately made things difficult for the princess, Prince Wei still stood on the side of the princess.
Unlike the eldest son of Wei in the past, whether he really didn't know or was pretending not to know, he just let the Queen Mother Wei torture her princess like that.
After this incident, Nanzhi's opinion of Prince Wei improved a lot.
Wei Che glanced down at the layer of shrimp oil floating in the bowl and curled his lips: "I don't want to eat it."
Then he looked at Xu Qinghe and asked her, "You've been busy all day, and you didn't even have time to eat?" There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice for some unknown reason.
The aroma of the steamed buns did indeed arouse Xu Qinghe's hunger. She just said "hmm" lightly and had no time to pay attention to Wei Che's strange attitude. She just picked up the spoon and scooped up some soup to drink.
The hot noodle soup went down his throat all the way to his stomach in one gulp. It was extremely comfortable for Xu Qinghe, who had only eaten a few bites of breakfast all day.
Wei Che sat beside her with his chin supported. From his angle, he could just see the crescent moon behind the girl.
A bright light shone on her, softening the girl's usually cold eyebrows and eyes. At this moment, she was like a well-behaved rabbit, just lowering her head to enjoy dinner, her thick and long eyelashes drooping, and she looked extremely obedient, not as irritating as usual.
Just like this, as he tilted his head and looked at her in the quiet environment where they were alone, he felt an infinite sense of happiness in his heart.
No matter whether she broke up with Wei Ming or not, it was good that the girl was still by his side now. It was better than the past five years when she was out of reach and could only watch her walk shoulder to shoulder with others.
The resentment that had accumulated over the past few days due to her inexplicable cold treatment dissipated in just the time it took to eat a bowl of noodles.
Forget it, he has a good temper, so just forgive her.
【Author’s words】
I don't know what got me into it yesterday, I wrote so badly
Today I will make up for it, and make a big improvement.
I'm so sorry qwq
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Bug fixing and plot modification [pat on the head]
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