Chapter 444: What Phoenix Palace? It's just a golden cage
Ji Qingwu's words came out of nowhere. Zhao Mingyan was confused for only a moment, but he quickly realized what she meant.
His chest heaving, he asked, "What one hundred and twenty-four words?"
"The edict Your Majesty gave me to establish the empress contained a total of 124 words."
The words that rolled from her lips were wrapped in the bitterness of the northern sandstorm, but they were more intoxicating than the apricot blossom wine from the south of the Yangtze River.
Ji Qingwu was afraid that he would not believe him, so he said quickly: "I have memorized it, and I can also recite it from memory. I may not be able to recite it backwards fluently, but I think it should not be difficult."
"Awu."
Zhao Mingyan called out, with a hint of tenderness and relief in his voice.
Every word he pondered over and over in the Qinzheng Hall was firmly memorized by her, and this cherishing was enough.
"Don't talk yet."
Ji Qingwu stopped him again. She licked her dry lips, her eyes bright astonishingly.
"I haven't finished what I'm saying yet."
Zhao Mingyan's Adam's apple rolled, and for the first time she felt uneasy about what she was going to say, but because she couldn't figure it out, her eyes were tinged with anticipation.
Ji Qingwu took a deep breath and looked back at him.
"You never tell me what you are thinking or what you are going to do. I wonder why, it can only be because you think I am useless."
Zhao Mingyan didn't get the words he wanted to hear, but instead got words that were life-threatening.
He immediately denied it: "Of course not."
Ji Qingwu continued with his second guess: "That is, they don't regard me as their own."
Zhao Mingyan denied it even faster: "How is that possible?"
Ji Qingwu made a third guess: "That is, you are worried that I will be in danger and afraid that I will get hurt."
Zhao Mingyan did not deny it anymore and looked at her with his dark eyes.
Ji Qingwu pursed his lips again and said, "In the final analysis, no matter how you beautify it, it's because you think I'm too weak, so I get hurt easily."
Seeing that she was stubborn and unconvinced, Zhao Mingyan thought of the time he saw her again, when her body was covered with scars.
He said in a cold voice, "Isn't it? How did you show up in front of the granary? Your knees and hands were all injured."
Ji Qingwu's eyes fell on his neck and said, "Your Majesty is also injured, isn't he?"
Seeing the wrinkles between his eyebrows getting deeper and deeper, she said indignantly: "Accidents are inevitable. If you do nothing because you are afraid of getting hurt, what's the point of living?"
Zhao Mingyan was a little angry at her last sentence, that there was no point in living.
"Awu!"
This was the first time Ji Qingwu heard him call her in such a fierce tone, but the light in her eyes became brighter and brighter.
She pulled back her thoughts that were almost disturbed by him, bit her lip and said, "I not only memorized the imperial decree that His Majesty gave me to establish the queen, but also carefully understood its meaning."
Listening to Ji Qingwu's words, and returning to the imperial edict, Zhao Mingyan tightly grasped the imperial edict that she threw back to him.
The anger in my chest cannot be dissipated or expressed.
Zhao Mingyan turned his head to look at the door of the tent and said coldly: "What else can you understand with your wooden head?"
Ji Qingwu said: "The imperial palace of Beili is named Phoenix Palace, but without your Majesty's palace, what is the Phoenix Palace? It's just a golden cage!"
"My place of residence is beside you, not that damn Phoenix Palace."
Zhao Mingyan's pupils shrank.
Ji Qingwu hadn't finished speaking yet, as if he wanted to pour out everything in his heart.
"If I was afraid of getting hurt, I would stay away from you instead of trying every way to appear in front of you."
Ji Qingwu loosened his hand which was left with white marks from her nails.
"I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of anything."
She stared at him with wet eyes.
"I just want to stay by your side. Am I ignorant? Am I disobedient? Did I do something wrong?"
Zhao Mingyan was stunned, and after he came to his senses, he shook his head repeatedly.
He was speechless after being asked three questions by her.
Ji Qingwu took a step forward and stretched out his hand towards him. When Zhao Mingyan raised his arms, the corners of his lips also curled up.
But Ji Qingwu dodged his arm and picked up the imperial edict that fell on his legs.
"This is mine, I'm just lending it to you to take a look."
Zhao Mingyan completely lost his temper.
The patch of his heart seemed to be overflowing with juice that was sweeter than honey, and this sweet feeling enveloped him completely.
When Ji Qingwu turned around to put the imperial edict back into the luggage, he stood up and put his arms around her slender waist from behind.
"Whose am I then?"
Ji Qingwu was locked tightly in his arms, with his hands folded and held in his palms.
She felt that his palms were sweating, just like hers, with hot flashes.
Ji Qingwu tilted his head, and the hair behind his head brushed against his straight nose.
"It's not written in the decree. I don't know."
Zhao Mingyan kissed her naughty hair, and moved his lips to her earlobe. He coaxed her in a low voice, saying, "Awu, hold this imperial edict as if it were a treasure."
He sighed and said, "What a coincidence, I am also holding my treasure."
Even though Ji Qingwu tried hard to purse his lips into a straight line, they still uncontrollably curved upwards.
Zhao Mingyan felt her body softening, and her lower back began to relax and press against him.
He suddenly bit the lobe of her right ear and rubbed it with his teeth.
Ji Qingwu's right ear suddenly turned red, and the tip of the ear was as pink as a gorgeous peach blossom.
She turned her head to look at him, raised her chin, and said angrily: "Is this how you treat your treasure?"
Ji Qingwu proudly tapped his chest and said, "If it's broken, you have to pay for it."
Zhao Mingyan nuzzled her neck with his nose, and his hot breath sprayed on her delicate and sensitive skin.
"Pay compensation, and let you bite it back."
Ji Qingwu laughed out loud, both because he felt itchy and because he was amused.
The little wolf outside the tent heard her cheerful laughter, stopped digging the hole, pricked up his ears, listened to the movement in the tent, and his fluffy tail began to wag.
Li Yuzong let out a long sigh. He almost thought that Miss Ji was going to abandon her Lord again and run away with her bag.
He looked at the large freshly dug hole in front of the main tent that had been dug by the she-wolf, picked up a shovel, and went to bury the soil while humming a Wu tune.
When the mother wolf saw that the hole she had just dug disappeared, she immediately sped up to dig the next hole.
Inside the tent, the atmosphere heated up.
Ji Qingwu didn't stay in high spirits for long, as she soon discovered something was wrong, because her hands were tied with a belt that appeared out of nowhere.
"What is this?" she asked in surprise.
Behind her, Zhao Mingyan said with a gloomy expression, "Awu, does this thing look familiar to you?"
Ji Qingwu saw him conjure up another plain light green handkerchief.
Her eyes widened in panic and she stammered, "Yes, it's mine... why are you still keeping it..."
This strap is no ordinary strap either.
It was once tied to his hands and feet.
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