Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Want to bite her and suck her blood...
Chen Qing had just half-dried her hair when she placed the Green Lotus Jade Crown on the table.
Li Daoxuan looked at her familiar appearance as she walked through the door. If someone didn't know her, they would think this was her own home.
He walked over to sit across from her, rolled the dice in the dice cup, and said, "The day is long, why not find something fun to while away the time?"
Li Daoxuan glanced at the chessboard and asked, "What are you playing?"
Chen Qing said, "Go is a game that demands a lot of ingenuity and planning. In terms of strategy, I'm definitely no match for Your Highness. It just so happens that there's a ready-made backgammon game here, so why not play that?"
Li Daoxuan twitched his lips and said, "Mrs. Shen is too modest. When it comes to calculating people's abilities, you are no less capable."
Chen Qing smiled and took out the jade dice from the dice cup. The two dice were small and shiny, making Chen Qing's palm look even whiter and more delicate.
She held her chin, looking carefully at the pearwood chessboard in front of her, while her other hand unconsciously played with two dice. Li Daoxuan lowered his eyes and watched her movements quietly.
At this moment, Chen Qing had her hair loose like him. A strand of fluffy hair followed her temples and stuck to her cheeks and eyebrows. She seemed to sense something and tucked the loose hair behind her ears, revealing her smooth forehead.
The scene between the two of them is like that of a newly married couple, and the "husband" cannot resist his naughty bride and has no choice but to play chess with her.
Chen Qing slowly took out the backgammon chess pieces from her chess box one by one and placed them on the chessboard first. When she had almost occupied the left position, she smiled and stretched out her hand to signal Li Daoxuan to put down the chess pieces.
The chess pieces were carved from precious agate. The round, conical, teardrop-shaped pieces were on the left side of the chessboard, like a few drops of clear, emerald green water, unceremoniously occupying a position close to her, just like the person who was supposed to be in front of her at this moment.
Li Daoxuan took out the chess pieces from the chess box and placed them slowly, arranging them one by one in seemingly no order.
Soon the brown and green chess pieces occupied their respective sixth, eighth and twenty rows.
Chen Qing said with a frown, "Why don't I roll the dice first?"
Li Daoxuan stared at the glass heart hanging around her neck and said impatiently, "It's up to you."
Chen Qing: "Then thank you, Your Highness."
She rolled the dice and moved her chess pieces according to the number.
Li Daoxuan randomly cast a number, and the chess piece after moving happened to be side by side with one of Shen Qing's chess pieces.
Only then did a smile flicker in his eyes, and he "ate" her chess piece without mercy.
The careless smile on Chen Qing's face disappeared. She slowly sat up straight, took the dice, and silently said to herself, "Brother, bless me, Mother, bless me." Then she rolled the dice.
The two of them exchanged blows for a while, and then they both lost their focus at the same time. They seemed like chess friends who had met too late, and they were trying their best to beat the other.
When servants came to bring hot water during the journey, Li Daoxuan just responded with a few words and dismissed them.
When Chen Qing successfully sent the first chess piece out of the Moon Gate, she excitedly slammed the table and stood up, "Li Daoxuan, you are going to lose!"
Li Daoxuan said, "Don't judge victory or defeat by appearances. There are still many chess pieces left. It's still unknown who will win, Madam Shen."
Seeing the atmosphere at this point, Chen Qing took the opportunity to ask, "Really? Then if I win, could Your Highness promise me one thing?"
Seeing the fox finally reveal its tail, he pinched the brown chess piece with his fingertips, raised an eyebrow and asked, "What's the matter?"
Chen Qing: "Take me to get rid of the evil creature that is causing harm."
Facing Li Daoxuan's slightly puzzled gaze, Chen Qing found a rather reasonable excuse and said, "When I was at home, although my mother doted on me, she also didn't want me to get involved in dangerous things. In Xuanji Pavilion, although my senior brother took good care of me, he was never willing to take me with him to eliminate the great demon because of my lack of talent."
Therefore, although Chen Qing had eliminated many evil spirits, they were all walking corpses and ghosts with little lethality. Although this thing looked frightening in appearance, it was a soft ball that could be broken with a single poke.
She raised her eyes, her gaze filled with rebellion. "But I, Shen Qing, absolutely refuse to be a dodder in a greenhouse. The more they forbid me to do something, the more determined I become. Now, I will slay a few evil creatures, act chivalrously, and prove myself."
As soon as these words were spoken, no matter how you looked at them, they sounded like the nonsense of a pampered girl who was ignorant of the sufferings of the world and was rebellious and ignorant.
Upon hearing this, Li Daoxuan simply said, "Oh." He didn't believe a word of it.
Soon she smiled again and said, "If Your Highness is willing to take me with you to exorcise the evil spirits a few more times, let alone Liuli Xin, I am willing to offer you my love. Even if you want to divorce me, I can do that."
Li Daoxuan raised his eyelids and looked at her steadily.
Although only a few people knew that he was looking for Liuli Xin, it was not difficult to find out.
It just so happens that the owner of this glass heart is Chen Qing, a man with unclear motives and full of evil intentions.
He asked the question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time: "If you want to eliminate the demon, just come to me with the Liuli Heart. Why agree to this marriage?"
To say that the girl opposite him is in love with him is as absurd as saying that Gu Yun has a preference for Longyang.
Chen Qing couldn't possibly tell them that she had to stay with Li Daoxuan for three months in order to survive. She only said, "Wouldn't this make it more convenient for the two of us to be chivalrous and punish demons and eliminate evil?" Her eyes were rather wandering and uncertain.
This reason is indeed far-fetched, but it is irrefutable.
Li Daoxuan gnashed his teeth and said, "Are you willing to sacrifice the rest of your life just to get rid of a few monsters?"
Chen Qing said with a sweet smile, "Your Highness is handsome and capable. If I marry you, how can it be considered 'sacrificing the rest of my life'? Your Highness, please stop joking."
She changed the subject and suddenly said, "I passed again!"
Li Daoxuan looked down and found that Chen Qing only had five "horses" left on the chessboard, while he still had eight.
He immediately focused and started throwing the dice seriously.
However, Li Daoxuan was a master at Go, and in the game of backgammon, which relies on both intelligence and luck, his luck was always a little worse than Chen Qing's. Whether in the past life or in this life.
I don’t know if it’s because of their auras, but in their previous life, when the two of them played backgammon, Chen Qing never lost to him.
This is also the reason why she chose to play backgammon instead of Go.
In the end, Chen Qing won by being the first to send the last chess piece out of the Moon Gate.
She smiled cunningly, her almond eyes filled with broken stars, "You lose."
Li Daoxuan was also straightforward and said, "I lost."
After a game, Chen Qing's hair was still half wet. She suddenly remembered something, so she pointed to the place where Li Daoxuan was stabbed by her, "Your wound——"
Li Daoxuan: "Thanks to Madam Shen, I have already dealt with it."
With half of her worries solved, Chen Qing was in a very good mood. She smiled and said, "That's good! Your Highness, please do me another favor."
Li Daoxuan: "What?"
"There's a girl named Cui Ya in the teahouse across from your house, dressed as a servant girl. Could you please bring her in and tie up my hair?" Chen Qing pointed at her loose hair. "Your Highness, please help me dry it. I have to go back."
Li Daoxuan snorted coldly and then pushed the door open and walked out.
It was unknown how long it was before he turned back, grabbing a bath towel in his hand.
As Chen Qing raised her head, a white veil came towards her. She was about to raise her hand to remove the towel from her head when she heard a clear voice say, "Don't move."
She immediately understood that he was going to dry her hair, so she stopped moving.
Li Daoxuan's big hand firmly covered her head and slowly channeled his internal energy into her.
Chen Qing only felt a comfortable warm current pouring down on her head, and her whole body felt as comfortable as lying on the grass in spring, enjoying the warm sunshine.
She simply lay down on the table and let Li Daoxuan serve her.
Li Daoxuan couldn't stand her no matter how he looked at her, but because of Liulixin, he had to temporarily go along with her. He curled his lips and silently uttered two words: "Lazy pig."
In a place where he couldn't see, Chen Qing raised the corners of her lips and said, "Your Highness, please don't scold me in your heart. I will be sad."
Judging from Li Daoxuan's character, this person must be teasing him behind his back at this moment.
Chen Qing really guessed it right.
Li Daoxuan turned his head away and increased the speed of channeling his internal energy.
But in just a moment, he felt a dull pain in his heart and a gnawing pain came from deep in his bone marrow. Li Daoxuan's body was unstable for a moment.
His eyes fell uncontrollably on her slender white neck again. A burst of piercing and tempting fragrance rushed into his nose. Li Daoxuan felt his mouth dry and he wanted to bite it, suck her blood, and grind her flesh.
Slowly, he resisted the desire deep in his heart, put one hand on the back of her neck, and a light snort came from his throat.
The pain all over the body became more and more intense. I could even hear the sour sound of bones crackling, as if the skeleton was constantly breaking and growing. The immense pain seemed to hammer me into the ground.
He was already used to this kind of pain.
The moment before Li Daoxuan's internal force disappeared, Shen Qing's wet hair, which was originally in strands, became smooth as silk and spread behind Shen Qing.
Li Daoxuan stopped, but after waiting for a long time, she still didn't get up. He listened carefully and found that her breathing was long and light. It turned out that she was asleep.
He actually laughed out of anger.
Just then, a servant called out from outside the house, "Your Highness, the person has been brought to you."
Li Daoxuan walked to the door. Every step he took felt like knives were stabbing into his bones. He lowered his eyes and said, "I understand. I'll leave."
"Yes." The servant obediently left the yard.
Li Daoxuan opened the door and saw Cui Ya dressed as a servant.
Without even looking at the person, he said, "There's someone inside, move faster."
Cui Ya's lips and teeth trembled, "Yes, yes——Gu, His Royal Highness Prince Cang!"
Fortunately, the future son-in-law who seemed "ferocious" did not make things too difficult for her. Cui Ya kept her head down and walked into the house tremblingly.
Li Daoxuan did not follow him, but went to sit in the yard and endure the pain alone.
Fortunately, the thing hasn't attacked yet, and the pain today only lasted for less than an incense stick.
As soon as Cui Ya entered the room, she saw her wife sleeping on the table with her hair disheveled. She quickly stepped forward and woke her up, "Madam, Madam!"
Chen Qing raised his head sleepily and saw Cui Ya appear in front of him without him noticing.
She rubbed her face and asked, "Where is Li Daoxuan?"
Cui Ya was about to cry, "My dear, what happened to you? Why, why is your hair loose again? Are you okay?"
Chen Qing comforted the girl and said, “Don’t worry, your wife has not suffered any loss. I just came to discuss something with Li Daoxuan. There will be no accidents.”
Cui Ya still looked worried.
Shen Qing sighed and said, "Tie my hair first."
She placed the hairpin and jade crown together on the table.
Cui Ya had no choice but to obey the order.
Although she lived two lives in the Li Dynasty, the habits of a modern person in her previous life were already deeply ingrained in her bones. She believed that it was not a big deal for men and women to be in the same room.
However, even though the people of the Li Dynasty were open-minded and the status of women was not low, and the rules and regulations for them were not so strict and harsh, it was still a feudal dynasty after all. Although men and women could sit at the same table under normal circumstances, it was detrimental to the reputation of an unmarried woman to live in the same room with a man.
This is also the reason why Cui Ya is always frowning. She is afraid that her wife will be hurt.
For Cui Ya, who grew up immersed in the Li Dynasty, Chen Qing can only do her best to enlighten her.
"My hair got messed up accidentally, and I came here today to discuss something important with Li Daoxuan. This matter is very important to me, and only he can help me."
She patted Cui Ya's hand and said, "Think about it. Li Daoxuan is your future son-in-law and the closest person to your wife in the future. It's understandable that I'm asking him for help now. Besides, if it were someone else, I would definitely not act like this today."
Chen Qing promised, "I will never be so reckless as this and barge into a man's yard again. Don't worry about me anymore."
Cui Ya didn't know whether she believed it or not. She quickly tied the crown on Chen Qing and fixed it with a hairpin.
Finally, she managed to whisper, "If what my lady is asking for is truly difficult, it is perfectly understandable to seek help from His Highness Prince Cang. I will not interfere."
"I ask for nothing else, but only for you to be happy and peaceful, without any troubles."
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