Is this guy done yet? Is he really drunk or just pretending to be drunk? Zheng Xiu looked over doubtfully.
She saw that the blush on Xue Zhi's face had faded a lot, but his eyes were still out of focus. He just smiled foolishly, which didn't look like he was pretending.
None of the servants in the room dared to laugh, but they all had smiles on their faces. That's right, Xue Zhi was usually very upright outside, but now he became like a rogue child. No wonder people laughed at him.
Zheng Xiu sighed resignedly and asked Minghui and others to clean up the broken porcelain pieces. She made another bowl of honey water and told Minghui to go check on Xue Shao. Seeing that his father was drunk, the child didn't follow him and went back to the room to wash up and go to bed. She didn't know if he was asleep now. After explaining everything, she finally asked them all to leave.
Xue Zhi sat on the edge of the kang, as if he couldn't understand Zheng Xiu's dark face, and still smiled and said: "You promised to drink with me after I take a bath."
Zheng Xiu pursed her lips, and imagined the scene of putting a porcelain bowl on Xue Zhi's head...
"Ah Xiu, why don't you pay attention to me? I'm talking to you." Xue Zhi continued to mutter.
He was not a talkative person, but he became noisy when he was drunk, and his mouth kept chattering.
Zheng Xiu was headached by the noise, "Okay, I get it, I'll feed you, you shut up!"
Xue Zhi smiled and nodded, and opened his mouth.
Minghui also considerately put a spoon in the porcelain bowl, Zheng Xiu pushed the spoon away, and poured it into Xue Zhi's open mouth.
Xue Zhi really drank it in big gulps, and the whole bowl of honey water was finished.
Zheng Xiu was still worried that he would choke her, but she saw him smacking his lips and muttering, "How come this wine doesn't taste like alcohol at all, and it's a little sweet."
Zheng Xiu put the porcelain bowl down and said, "That's what it tastes like. Well, it's getting late, you should go to bed and have a rest."
Xue Zhi said "oh", walked to the bed, kicked off his shoes, and climbed up.
Zheng Xiu turned around and went to the bathroom. She was sweating from serving this guy just now, and she had been entertaining guests for most of the day, so she had to take a shower before she could go to bed.
"Ah Xiu, Ah Xiu." Xue Zhi called out again like a ghost, and got off the bed barefoot.
Zheng Xiu had a headache and said, "Be good and stay for a while. I'll take a shower and come back soon."
"Then I'll go with you." Xue Zhi smiled innocently.
Such shameless words could be said with such a harmless smile. Zheng Xiu glared at her and said, "I don't like being seen when I take a shower. Go back to bed. I'll be back soon."
She thought viciously that if Xue Zhi still insisted on going with him, she would not care whether he was really drunk or not, and would beat him up first!
Fortunately, Xue Zhi did not insist anymore and climbed back to bed obediently, just saying, "Then you'd better hurry up. If I can't find you later, I will go to look for you."
Zheng Xiu was also worried, so she asked Minghui and others to pay attention to the movements in the room before going to take a shower.
After giving the order, Zheng Xiu took the clothes to change and went into the clean room.
The clean room had been swept and the floor was cleaned. Fen Ge prepared hot water and served.
Zheng Xiu took off her clothes, entered the hot water, and rubbed her body with a bath towel. As she washed, she thought of the thing she saw between Xue Zhi's legs when she was bathing him - although there was a lot of hair there and it was pitch black, a red cylindrical object could still be seen. But that thing looked so small, and it didn't look like the shape that she held in her hand that night... As
Zheng Xiu thought about it, her face became redder, and then she shook her head. Was she drunk? What was she thinking about?
Seeing her unusually red face, Fen Ge asked, "Madam, is the water too hot?"
Zheng Xiu put away her wild thoughts and said, "No, it's just right. You go down first, I can do it alone."
Fen Ge replied, "Then I will wait outside, Madam, just call me if you have anything."
After the surroundings became quiet, Zheng Xiu started to wash herself. She was afraid that Xue Zhi would really make a fuss to find her, so she quickly finished washing and put on her clothes.
When she returned to the main room, the room was quiet and she thought that maybe Xue Zhi had fallen asleep.
Unexpectedly, Xue Zhi was dozing on the bed with the quilt in his arms. He sat up when he heard the noise, "Ah Xiu, you're back."
Zheng Xiu nodded, wiped the ends of her hair casually with a dry towel, and asked him, "Are you feeling uncomfortable? Do you want to vomit?"
Xue Zhi shook his head, "No, I don't want to vomit, I'm just very sleepy."
If he is very sleepy, then it's easy to deal with. Zheng Xiu wiped the sweat off her face, blew out the gauze lamp on the table, and went to bed, saying in a gentle voice, "Then go to sleep."
Xue Zhi said "hmm" and lay down beside her.
It was almost summer, the weather was getting hotter day by day, and there were only two thin quilts on the bed. Xue Zhi was not familiar with his own quilt, and insisted on squeezing in with Zheng Xiu.
Zheng Xiu let him do what he wanted, but secretly thought that she must not fall asleep, to prevent him from doing it again like last time... Now her pajamas were thin, and he could tear them with one hand if he got crazy.
Xue Zhi's breathing soon became even. Zheng Xiu waited for a while, thinking that he should be asleep, so she thought about moving to the other side to sleep. Who knew that as soon as he moved, Xue Zhi turned over towards him, half of his body pressed on her, making him unable to move.
Zheng Xiu got up before dawn to prepare that day. She was busy for so long during the day, and she had a battle of wits and courage with him at night. Although she took a nap for an hour in the middle, she still felt sleepy. She wanted to hold on for a while longer, but a voice in her head kept saying: Think about it, what is supposed to come will come sooner or later, just go to sleep...
She moved to the side and really fell asleep quickly.
However, because she was afraid that Xue Zhi would do something stupid again while drunk, she was still on guard and did not sleep well at night.
In the middle of the night, she felt her cheeks were wet while she was half asleep and half awake, and there seemed to be sobbing in her ears.
She thought something had happened and opened her eyes with a start.
When she woke up, she found that the room was quiet and Xue Zhi was still sleeping on his side facing her, with half of his head resting on the pillow and half against her shoulder.
The sobbing sound came out of his mouth intermittently, and her face was wet with nothing else but Xue Zhi's tears.
Zheng Xiu's heart skipped a beat. Xue Zhi had always left her with the impression of a generous and cheerful man. At that time, he was seriously injured in order to save the prince. The imperial physician said that he had saved his life from the brink of death. He was cheerful every day and didn't take it seriously at all... How come he was crying in his sleep now...
"Azhi, Azhi, wake up." Zheng Xiu pushed him gently and called him softly.
Xue Zhi was haunted by a dream. He saw her in a half-awake state and said with tears in his eyes, "Ahxiu, I feel so bad..."
Zheng Xiu quickly asked, "Where do you feel uncomfortable? Are you feeling unwell after drinking? Or is there something wrong with your body?"
Xue Zhi hit his chest with his fist and said, "I, I feel uncomfortable here..."
The chest was where he was injured before. As she spoke, she was about to get out of bed, "Don't worry, I'll ask someone to call a doctor."
Xue Zhi grabbed her and said, "No, I feel uncomfortable in my heart. Today is April 15th, April 15th, Ah Xiu. In half a month, it will be my eldest brother's 38th birthday..."
He stopped crying, but his tone was even more sad.
Zheng Xiu felt sad after hearing this, and gently hugged his shoulders, "Did you have a nightmare? Isn't uncle fine? Okay, don't think too much." Then she patted him on the back slowly and gently, coaxing him, "It's okay, Ah Zhi."
Xue Zhi became confused again, and said, "Big brother shouldn't have gotten into trouble... It's me, it's all me..."
Zheng Xiu stayed by his bed for a while, listening to his intermittent nonsense, repeating the same sentence over and over again. No wonder he got so drunk today, it turned out that something was on his mind...
Xue Zheng, the Duke of Qing, had an accident about ten years ago, and Xue Zhi left home at that time. Looking at Xue Zhi's current state, he should have a deep relationship with his elder brother. Why would he choose to leave the Duke of Qing's mansion under such circumstances? Could there be some hidden story behind this?
Zheng Xiu frowned, her mind turning over and over. Suddenly she thought of something. Calculating Xue Shao's age, he should have been born around the time Xue Zhi left home? But the servants in the mansion knew nothing about his background, and Minghui only knew that she was born to Xue Zhi and someone else. Minghui would not lie to her.
Xue Zheng got into trouble, Xue Zhi left home, and Xue Shao was born. It was too coincidental that everything happened at the same time ten years ago.
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