Chapter 26 Disappearance Wuhuan, oh Wuhuan, you have such a cruel heart. ...
The sudden pain was overwhelming, and Wen Zheliu was unable to breathe.
He gritted his teeth and silently fought against the dull pain in his abdomen. He lowered his head and relaxed for a long time before he managed to straighten his bent waist. He weakly exhaled some white air.
No joy.
He needs Wuhuan.
"Mr. Wen, are you okay?"
As soon as he heard the guard calling him, Wen Zheliu's brows, which were slightly furrowed in pain, immediately relaxed.
These guards were all Emperor Jingming's men. Although they had taken good care of him these days, that was only because Emperor Jingming had given the order in advance.
Emperor Jingming can bribe him today and threaten him tomorrow.
It's never good if she has any evidence against us.
Besides, He Jiuyue was not by his side, he was weak, and the fetus was unstable. Even if he kept silent and focused on protecting the fetus, it was still unknown whether he could keep the child.
If Emperor Jingming knew about this, ordering Wu Yang to abort the fetus would be a small matter, but forcing him to give birth to the child and threatening He Jiuyue with her own flesh and blood to make her do something she didn't want to do would be a serious matter.
He Jiyue would no longer have to worry if she took her father and younger brother back. Fortunately, Wen Zheliu was of humble status and did not become her weakness.
But the fetus in his belly is connected to her by blood, so she... should be worried, right?
That's why he couldn't let the child become a constraint on her.
"No problem."
Wen Zheliu was unable to see. He fumbled to straighten his collar and calmly shifted the blame onto Li Shijun: "I was just frightened, and the wind is a little cold. Please help me into the house."
The guard carefully helped him up and said, "I will report to His Majesty about Li Shijun's provocation and will definitely repay the young master's mother's kindness."
"Um."
Wen Zheliu responded lazily and ignored him. He just groped on the couch, trying to find the fox fur coat that He Jiuyue had been wearing when he entered the palace.
"Where is the fox fur?" He searched the bed all over but couldn't find it. He frowned and took the hand warmer handed to him by the guard.
"I saw you placing it on the couch this morning. I assumed you didn't need it, so I put it in the closet." The wardrobe beside me creaked. "However, although the material of this fox fur is good, the style is old-fashioned, and it looks a bit too big on you. Would you like me to report this to His Majesty and have the Imperial Household Department make you a new one?"
“No need.”
Changle Palace had been uninhabited for a long time, and there was a layer of dust in the cabinets. Wen Zheliu buried his head in the fox fur, his nose twitching, and he was choked to death by the dust blowing in his face.
"Ahem, where does the ahem ash come from?"
The night Wen Zheliu entered Changle Palace, he searched the inner rooms. He had a keen sense of smell and had already smelled the dust in the cabinet. He even knew exactly where the bedding items left by the palace maids of the previous dynasty were.
But these things are not something a blind man like him should know.
"My apologies, sir. I shouldn't have touched your things without your permission." Guard Captain Xiaobai hurriedly searched for the lung medicine Wu Yang had left behind, his tone regretful. "Please don't apologize to His Majesty."
Although Xiaobai had been nice to him before, he was not this nice.
After all, taking care of a blind person is indeed tiring.
"Why, were you, ahem, frightened by my knocking out Li Shijun?"
Wen Zheliu's cough gradually subsided, and Su Bai tapped the bed rails with her fingertips, making rhythmic muffled sounds.
"……yes."
It would have been fine if he didn't say anything, but as soon as he did, Xiaobai started shaking all over.
Li Shijun was as strong as an ox, with crude manners. When he shouted, the mountains shook and the earth trembled. He was domineering in the harem. Wen Shijun was frail and sickly, and was also blind. He looked like a weak willow in the wind. He was beautiful, but had a calm personality, as if he had no temper.
At first, Xiaobai thought Wen Zheliu was a stupid beauty who was easy to bully. Until just now, when he saw with his own eyes that Wen Zheliu overturned Li Shijun, whom he had deliberately put in, he realized that it was not the case.
"I hit him, what are you afraid of?"
Hearing the willows being cut, I asked calmly.
"I was deliberately negligent and took your belongings without permission. I really shouldn't have done that! Please forgive me, sir. I won't do it again!"
Hearing the willows being cut, he remained silent.
He waited quietly for a while, until Xiaobai started crying for his mother and father again, and kowtowed and confessed his guilt, then he spoke.
"This won't happen again."
"Thank you so much for your forgiveness, sir! Your kindness is so great, I cannot repay you enough! I will go to the Imperial Study and ask His Majesty to redeem your mother. This Li Shijun barged in for no apparent reason and even spoke rudely to you..."
"No need." Wen Zheliu waved his hand.
"Why?" Xiaobai was puzzled. "Your Majesty values you so highly, and he loves beautiful women flirting with you. All you have to do is bow to His Majesty, and you will be blessed with wealth and glory."
Wen Zheliu slowly shook his head: "I have never desired wealth and glory, nor do I crave the honors and favors of the harem."
He grew up in luxury and had seen all kinds of rare things. But when his family was broken up and his relatives and friends died, he realized that all these gold, silver and jewelry were nothing but passing clouds.
Why bother to get something that you cannot bring with you when you are born and cannot take with you when you die?
"You can stay in the harem. If you don't fight for it, there are plenty of people who will fight for it. Position is like rowing against the current, if you don't move forward, you will fall behind. His Majesty treats you well now, but the king is always unfeeling..." Xiaobai tried to persuade him with emotion and reason, but Wen Zheliu remained unmoved.
"Who said I came to the harem to compete for favor?"
The corners of his mouth curled up into a faint smile: "It's just that the princess has to go on a long journey and entrusted me to the care of Your Majesty."
Wen Zheliu was smart. When he heard that Emperor Jingming used him as a bargaining chip to negotiate with He Jiuyue, he knew that it was just a superficial excuse.
It’s just that people who are in pain always like to deceive themselves.
If he didn't use the excuse of "He Jiuyue didn't abandon him, she just had to go on a long trip and entrusted him to relatives" to numb himself, his heart would always hurt like a needle prick, and his fragile lungs would suffer as well. He coughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back or breathe.
"This..." Xiaobai was hesitant to speak because he didn't have the courage to burst Wen Zheliu's fabricated dream.
Wen Zheliu knew Xiaobai was in trouble, but ignored him.
He slowly brushed off the thin layer of dust on the fox fur and buried his face in it again, trying to find the remaining scent of He Jiuyue from the delicate fox fur.
But I couldn't find it anywhere.
The once faint scent was like dewdrops lingering on lotus leaves, which disappeared without a trace when exposed to sunlight.
He couldn't find her again.
Wen Zheliu's heart tightened, and the string called reason in his brain stretched to the extreme and broke with a "snap".
That day, He Jiuyue rode her mount Qiyun and led her Red Armor Army to the south of the Yangtze River in a clean and efficient manner and disappeared.
The sound of horse hooves was crisp and continuous, never stopping for him.
"Go out and leave me alone for a while." He tried his best to hide the trembling in his voice.
"Yes." Finally, the door creaked shut and there was no more guards whispering in his ears. Wen Zheliu fell to his knees on the bed with a thud, and went limp as if he had no bones.
He placed his hands on his still aching stomach, unable to bear the pressure of catching his breath for a moment. However, he was afraid that if he relaxed for a moment, he would squeeze the unborn fetus in his belly, so he endured the grievance and slowly stretched his abdomen.
The pain was like ice in a river in spring, melting in an instant, rushing around and slapping the fragile banks.
Two lines of clear tears rolled down, wetting the soft fur on the fox fur.
Wen Zheliu's Adam's apple rolled and he kept swallowing back the sobs that were about to come out.
The captain of the guards, Xiaobai, was frightened by him and would not allow others to cause trouble again in the short term. However, there was such a large guard team, and there were other guards who took orders from Emperor Jingming. There was no one behind him, so he could not be wrong.
One mistake and you will be shattered to pieces.
Faced with overwhelming pain, Wen Zheliu forced himself to fall asleep, using coma to cure the pain.
In a daze, the scene of He Jiuyue being woken up by him at night, not minding his noise and awkwardness, patiently coaxing him, and wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes with her own hands came to his mind again.
She doted on him so much at that time.
He took him to the street to buy him hundreds of different new clothes. Knowing that he liked sweet things, he bought a table full of candies just to make him happy.
Emperor Jingming's words, "I'm so good to you on ordinary days, but at the critical moment..." were like a vicious and unfortunate curse, entwining around his ears like vines around a wall. Wen Zheliu suddenly opened his mouth and gasped for breath, but still couldn't breathe.
Although Emperor Jingming's words were intended to sow discord, they were not wrong.
He Jiuyue personally brought him out of the sky prison, and calmly pushed him into the abyss of the harem.
If He Jiyue had no intention, why did he not use Xiaoqing, who was already in the mansion, and instead went to the extent of turning against Emperor Jingming to take him out of the Heavenly Prison?
But if He Jiuyue really wanted to, how could she abandon him so cleanly?
Wuhuan, oh Wuhuan, you have such a cruel heart.
"A-choo!"
He Jiuyue sniffed and realized that she, who had always been healthy, was showing signs of catching a cold.
Strange, the wind is not cool.
Chen Jin was studying the map with his head down. When he heard the sound, he hurriedly handed her a handkerchief.
"My Lady, we've been traveling south, and it feels like we're getting hotter. The alternation of hot and cold weather makes it easy to catch a cold. You haven't been getting enough rest lately, and you might get sick if you catch a cold. You're the commander-in-chief, and we're all counting on you."
"Hmm," Emperor Chen Jin was not in a hurry, but the eunuch was. He Jiyue kept nagging, but He Jiyue didn't take it seriously. She wiped the tip of her nose and said, "According to the map, how long will it take to get to Jiangnan County?"
She really hasn't had a good rest recently.
Every time I wake up in the middle of the night, I always see that thin figure kneeling alone on the snow.
Wen Zheliu's eyes were empty, showing no surprise, but he looked towards her resolutely, with two lines of blood and tears falling straight down. It was clear that Wen Zheliu's lips were tightly pursed, and he didn't say a word.
But she knew that he blamed her.
"It will take five more days."
Chen Jin leaned closer to He Jiyue and said, "My Lady, the effectiveness of the jade talisman His Majesty gave me is still unknown. Do you need me to send a group of people with the jade talisman to Pingyang County to verify it and bring back Master Zhong and Master He first?"
Yes, Yufu. She abandoned him for Yufu.
But the matter is done, so what is there to worry about?
Since she had already exchanged Wen Zheliu for the jade talisman, she naturally wanted the jade talisman to be worth the money.
He Jiyue shook her head lightly, throwing away the pair of resentful eyes in her mind, and nodded: "Okay, you send someone."
Her original intention was for the entire team to quell the banditry, and on the way back, she would personally go to Pingyang County to pick up her father and younger brother, but Chen Jin's worries were not unreasonable.
Emperor Jingming was a cunning old fox.
The jade talisman she gave may not be real.
Send a team to check it out. If the jade talisman is real, we can confirm the situation of my father and younger brother sooner. Even if the jade talisman is fake, knowing it in advance will allow us to make plans early.
"But don't alert the enemy. If you find something is wrong, don't act rashly. Execute first and report later."
"Understood. I'll pick out a few smart ones."
"How's the bandit situation going? Has it changed since the previous investigation?"
“No changes at this time.”
"Then proceed as planned. First, send a few teams to infiltrate and sow discord, and then rescue the innocent villagers depending on the situation."
"Understood." Chen Jin turned to leave, but He Jiuyue stopped him again: "Slow down."
"What else do you want, Princess?"
"...How's he doing?"
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