Chapter 1065: Bones Still Hard
Baoqin shook her head: "No, after the imperial concubine sent me away last night, she has been staying in the bedroom with you and has not come out again. The imperial concubine also told me to send away everyone near the bedroom and not let anyone disturb her."
It was also because everyone was sent away in advance that everyone guessed that they would arrive at the scene so late.
Luo Qinghan: "According to what you said, the imperial concubine deliberately wanted Yu Jiu to capture her?"
Baoqin couldn't answer and could only speak dryly.
"Please forgive my ignorance. I cannot figure out the Imperial Concubine's intentions."
Luo Qinghan didn't expect her to give a correct answer.
He drove everyone out with an expressionless face.
As for the punishment of those guards, it changed from beating with a stick to fining one month's salary.
Compared to a hundred lashes, this punishment is nothing.
Zhao Xian felt relieved and left obediently.
After everyone had left, Luo Qinghan was the only one left in the imperial study.
He ignored the mess in front of him, strode around the screen and walked to the couch.
Usually Xixi likes to lie on this soft couch the most.
Because she came here so often, there were two soft pillows on the couch. She specifically asked Zhezhi to help make them, and they were embroidered with cute kitten patterns with colorful silk threads.
If you take away one of the pillows, you can see a storybook.
There was a bookmark in the storybook, indicating that she had read half of it.
She picked up the bookmark from Luo Qinghan's bookshelf.
Luo Qinghan originally wanted to wait until Xixi’s next birthday to make a set of bookmarks for her personally.
But now she was gone.
He could only stand in this empty house, guarding a pile of things she left behind, not knowing where to find her?
…
The carriage was still moving forward.
As the sky gradually darkened, the surroundings were still desolate and wild, and nothing could be seen except trees and wilderness.
Xiao Xixi was so hungry that her chest was sticking to her back.
She leaned against the wall of the car and asked weakly.
"Are you going to take me to see the leader of Tianmen?"
Yu Jiu replied without even turning his head: "Yes, my father is very interested in your Heavenly Eye and has always wanted to meet you. I failed to kill the emperor this time, but if I can bring you back, I should be able to atone for my sins."
Xiao Xixi: "Is your father trying to dig out my eyes and put them back into his own eye sockets?"
Yu Jiu: “I don’t know about that.”
Xiao Xixi stopped talking.
When the night fell completely dark, Yu Jiu finally found a dilapidated temple located beside the mountain road.
He parked the carriage in front of the gate of the dilapidated temple, then carried Xiao Xixi on his shoulders and threw her into the temple.
His movements were quite rough, and Xiao Xixi's back hurt from the fall.
Yu Jiu picked up some firewood in the temple.
He lit the firewood, then took out two cakes from his bag and put them on the fire to bake.
The bread was baked until both sides were golden brown, exuding the unique aroma of wheat.
Xiao Xixi was already extremely hungry, and when she smelled the aroma of the food, she was almost going crazy with greed.
Her mouth was drooling profusely and her stomach was raging with hunger.
Yu Jiu glanced at her and asked with a smile.
"Do you want to eat?"
Xiao Xixi kept her mouth shut and said nothing.
Yu Jiu shook one of the pancakes in front of her and spoke in a deliberately coaxing tone.
"As long as you sincerely apologize to me and promise not to get angry with me again, I will feed you this pancake."
Xiao Xixi simply turned her head away and pretended not to see it!
Yu Jiu sneered: "Your bones are pretty tough."
He picked up the fragrantly baked pancake and took a bite. The crispy layer on the surface of the pancake made a crackling sound.
Even if Xiao Xixi deliberately didn't look, just by hearing the sound, she could tell how delicious the pancake was!
Her stomach suddenly growled even louder.
Yu Jiu said as he ate, "It's not pleasant to be hungry, right?"
Xiao Xixi pursed her lips and said nothing.
Because she had spent a long time in an orphanage, she knew better than anyone how painful it was to be hungry.
Yu Jiu deliberately bit the cake hard: "This cake is so delicious!"
Xiao Xixi lowered her head and tried to imitate the posture of an ostrich, putting her head into her knees to block out all outside sounds.
Yu Jiu was talking nonsense while eating.
But no matter how he acted, Xiao Xixi ignored him.
After a long time, he found it boring.
He finished the remaining bread in a few bites, drank two sips of water, turned his head and saw Xiao Xixi still maintaining the ostrich posture with her head buried in her knees.
Yu Jiu asked: "Why are you ignoring me?"
Xiao Xixi raised her head slightly and glanced at him.
"You know why I don't want to talk to you? It's not because I can't curse, but because I only know how to curse."
Yu Jiu pondered for a moment before coming to his senses: "Are you indirectly calling me a non-human?"
Xiao Xixi curled her lips, turned her face away and continued to ignore him.
Her face was facing the gate, and she caught a glimpse of an orange figure flashing by.
Looking more closely, there was nothing but pitch black outside the door.
Yu Jiu stood up and walked out, then turned back after a moment.
There was an extra quilt in his hand.
He wrapped the quilt around himself, sat down by the fire, leaned against the pillar, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Winter nights are already extremely cold, and this dilapidated temple is even colder because it is windy on all sides.
As the firewood gradually burned out, the flames became smaller and smaller.
Xiao Xixi felt that the temperature around her had dropped a lot.
She tugged at her cloak, wrapping herself tighter.
Fortunately, her internal injuries have healed, and she has internal strength to rely on. Coupled with the thick cloak on her body, she should not be frozen to death.
At this moment, hunger was far more unbearable for her than the cold.
She is really hungry!
She raised her head and looked around, trying to see if there was anything to eat nearby.
At this moment, Yu Jiu opened his eyes.
Xiao Xixi's gaze suddenly met his and she was stunned.
Yu Jiu asked with a smile.
"What are you looking for?"
Xiao Xixi: "I want to find something to beat you to death."
Yu Jiu reached out and added two pieces of firewood to the fire, making the fire burn more vigorously.
As if by magic, he took out a pancake from his arms.
"Want to eat?"
The moment Xiao Xixi saw the pancake, her eyes lit up.
But she quickly forced herself to look away: "I won't bow to you, so just give up on this idea."
Yu Jiu chuckled: "Don't worry, I don't mean to force you to bow your head. I can give you this noodle cake to eat."
Xiao Xixi turned back and stared at the pancake in his hand.
Yu Jiu handed the pancake to her.
At this distance, she only needed to lean forward slightly to bite the pancake.
Faced with such a huge temptation, she gritted her teeth and resisted the urge to bite down.
She said, "I don't want you to feed me. Just help me untie the rope and I can eat by myself."
(End of this chapter)
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