Chapter 295 When they interlocked their fingers, she felt some pain
Xie Guanlan clenched his hands.
No special feeling.
When he returned to the palace, Xie Yanchen was still making human skin masks.
He described the shape of the Gu worm, and Xie Yanchen raised an eyebrow and asked, "Jade Cicada?"
"Jade Cicada?"
"It's a kind of Gu insect from the Miao border. The word 'cicada' sounds like 'entanglement', meaning lingering and sad. After a man or woman is implanted with a jade cicada, they will yearn for each other when they are alone, and their feelings will be uncontrollable." Xie Yanchen explained, "The jade cicada in big brother's body must be the female Gu. I wonder who has the child Gu?"
Xie Guanlan was silent.
He remembered that Pei Lin came out from the direction of Mingzhu Palace.
He had a vague guess in his heart.
He then asked, "How do I get rid of the poison?"
"There's no cure." Xie Yanchen looked at Xie Guanlan hesitantly. "Although Jade Cicada isn't a powerful poison, it's quite unconventional. Both men and women must have sex within three days of being infected, or else they'll have to endure excruciating pain for 49 days. Of course, the pain isn't life-threatening, but it's incredibly torturous."
The room fell into silence.
Xie Shian, who had been eavesdropping outside, suddenly burst in. "Brother, you will maintain your innocence for Ningning, right?! Ningning has suffered so much for you, you must be worthy of her! You can't have concubines, concubines, or wives! I am Ningning's fourth brother, and I only recognize Ningning as my sister-in-law!"
Whenever he yelled, Xie Guanlan got a headache.
What fourth brother and sister-in-law? Their relationship is too messy.
He glanced at him and walked out with a cold face, "Shut up."
"I won't!" Xie Shian turned around and yelled at his back, "I will keep watching your dormitory forever! I won't allow any girl other than Ningning to appear in your dormitory, absolutely not!"
Xie Guanlan's brows lowered.
If this guy wasn't his younger brother, he really wanted to kick him.
I have seen brothers staring at each other in the fight for the crown prince, but I have never seen a younger brother staring at his elder brother's bedroom for his sister-in-law!
The other side.
Pei Lin returned to his residence with the small wooden box. A young man was already sitting in the room drinking tea.
Seeing him return, the young man quickly stood up and approached him a little awkwardly. "Eunuch Pei, you said you could help me see Princess An Ning, so I prepared a generous gift and came to you. I've been waiting here for most of the day, and I don't know when I can see her."
The young man was wearing a red robe and had a graceful demeanor. It was none other than Shen Yu.
Wen Xingluo has always had business cooperation with the Shen family. He has received a lot of dividends in recent years and has always been treated as a guest of honor by the head of the Shen family.
Last year in the autumn, Shen Yu luckily passed the examination and became a juren. This spring, he went to Beijing to take the examination, but failed in the joint examination.
He originally wanted to go home, but his father specially ordered people to escort a lot of Shu brocade over and asked him to present it to Wen Xingluo to strengthen their relationship.
These days he was staying in an inn with other scholars from other counties who were taking the imperial examinations. He had heard about Wen Xingluo's current situation. She was named a princess by the emperor, and her mother was canonized as the concubine of the emperor. The mother and daughter had both risen to fame overnight. He was afraid that he would never have the hope of marrying Wen Xingluo in this lifetime.
I don’t know whether Wen Xingluo still likes him and is willing to let him be her concubine.
Even if he had to be Xie Guanlan's substitute, he would be willing to do so.
Shen Yu thought about it and couldn't help but sigh secretly.
Pei Lin opened the small wooden box and handed the pill to Chen Yu, "I will take you to see her tonight. Keep this thing close to you or take it."
Shen Yu was curious, "What is this?"
Pei Lin was too lazy to tell him the truth and just lied to him lightly: "There are many rules in the palace. Don't bring dirty things in as an outsider. This is a pill used to dispel evil spirits."
"Oh!" Chen Yu responded and quickly took the medicine with water. "The capital city is indeed a big place. There are even elixirs specifically for exorcising evil spirits! This is a good thing. Pei Dajian, where did you buy it? I'll buy some to take home later!"
Pei Lin had no expression on his face.
He thought with some disdain that everyone Wen Xingluo knew seemed to be very noisy.
He looked outside again.
In late spring, the sky was covered with leaden clouds, and raindrops and winds blew through the deep palace courtyards. The flowers and trees seemed to be covered with a layer of damp haze.
A layer of petals fell from the bluestone tiles, deep red and light pink, looking extremely delicate and pitiful.
A trace of pity flashed across Pei Lin's eyes, but was quickly replaced by determination.
It was almost dusk.
Wen Xingluo had just taken a shower and returned to the bedroom, only to find Xie Guanlan sitting in front of her dressing table, playing with the golden butterfly hairpin.
She lit the candles and said, "This is a critical period. If you come to see me now and are discovered by Xie Zhe, won't all your efforts be wasted?"
The thin golden light illuminated the dim bedroom with a hazy warmth.
Xie Guanlan put down the golden hairpin and looked at her.
The thin and soft plain gauze middle dress vaguely outlines the girl's slender and delicate figure. Her long hair is casually tied up with a plain silver hairpin, and a few strands of hair hang down from her forehead. Her round almond-shaped eyes are filled with moisture and a blush from just bathing, and her little face is particularly delicate and charming.
His Adam's apple rolled, and he wanted to tell her about the Jade Cicada Gu worm, but he couldn't bear to open his mouth.
He could endure the torment brought by the poisonous insect, but what about Wen Ningning?
She is a little girl, can she bear that kind of pain?
Wen Xingluo walked up to him holding the candlestick and looked at him with his head tilted. "Why don't you speak?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly smelled a fragrance.
A very strange fragrance emanated from Xie Guanlan.
She had clearly already had dinner, but when she smelled the strange fragrance, she suddenly felt very hungry.
So she moved closer to Xie Guanlan and asked, "Have you had dinner?"
Xie Guanlan just looked at her silently.
The candlelight outlined the young man's deep and beautiful bone structure. Wen Xingluo's gaze slowly moved down until it stopped on his thin, pale red lips.
The "Spring Palace Avoiding Fire Picture" that she had read in the past was like being flipped open page by page by the night wind, and all kinds of secluded scenes floated into her mind for no reason.
Wen Xingluo's pupils darkened by two points.
Her voice was soft and gentle, her round amber eyes like those of a young, innocent animal, a bit dazed and bewildered. "You smell so good tonight... Did you use any special spices?"
Xie Guanlan's Adam's apple rolled.
A big hand gently took the candlestick she was holding and placed it on the dressing table.
The slender fingertips slowly inserted into her five fingers.
Wen Xingluo stared at his hand in a daze.
The young man's skin was rough and hard, but her hands were too soft and delicate. She felt a little pain when they intertwined their fingers.
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