Chapter 118 A Kiss
Watching her gradually fall asleep, Xie Tingzhou slowly raised his head.
"Xi Feng."
"Here." Xifeng immediately got off the horse and got into the carriage. He hesitated for a moment before lifting the curtain.
When Xi Feng saw Xie Tingzhou's red eyes, he felt horrified.
"Your Highness..." The words were stuck in his mouth. He had never seen Xie Tingzhou lose his composure like this.
Xie Tingzhou looked past him into the void: "Arrange a secret guard to escape from the palace."
Xifeng understood immediately. The palace was now investigating the assassin. If they couldn't find the person, they would probably suspect the people who left the palace. Then they would be able to trace the case back to Shi Yu.
"Yes, I'll arrange it right away."
Xie Tingzhou lowered his eyes again and looked at the person in his arms. After a while, he said softly, "You can go down."
Xie Tingzhou did not sleep last night. He forced himself to stay awake during the day, but once his tense nerves relaxed, he was overwhelmed by sleepiness.
After returning home, he leaned on the couch, holding Chen Yu in his arms, and fell asleep in a daze.
I don't know how many times the night watchman sounded, and the swaying shadows of the trees were reflected on the window.
Chen Yu opened her eyes dazedly.
There was a chair next to the couch, and Xie Tingzhou was sitting in it, staring at her face with his eyes lowered.
"woke up?"
Chen Yu opened her eyes half awake and half confused, nodded slowly, and didn't want to say a word.
She slept very well, as if she had not had such a sound sleep for a long time. She turned over and lay lazily on the couch, not wanting to move.
"What time is it?"
Xie Tingzhou leaned over and pulled up the quilt that had slipped down for her. "It's just past the hour of Chou."
He picked her up at 3 p.m., slept with her for two hours, and then woke up, but she slept until midnight.
In another hour, it will be dawn.
Chen Yu raised her eyes. When she closed her eyes in the carriage, she did not fall asleep immediately. She was aware of the fingers caressing her face and the soft touch on her forehead.
She stared at Xie Tingzhou intently, feeling that it was like a dream, yet clearer and more beautiful than a dream.
Xie Tingzhou suddenly asked: "Why are you looking at me?"
Chen Yu immediately closed her eyes, "Then I won't watch it."
Xie Tingzhou leaned closer and hooked her chin, "Chen Yu, look at me."
Chen Yu heard his shallow breathing, and her whole body seemed to be enveloped in a faint pine scent, and she couldn't tell whether it was coming from
From his bed, or from him.
She didn't dare to open her eyes. "Sometimes I can see it, sometimes I can't. What do you want..."
Shen Yu was stunned.
Suddenly, something soft touched my forehead.
This time it is much clearer than last time.
Chen Yu opened her eyes and could only see his jaw, with the tip of her nose less than three inches away from his Adam's apple.
His Adam's apple was rolling, and they were so close that they could hear each other's heartbeats.
The smell of pine wood became stronger, and seemed even more powerful than Jiang Lianzhi's incense. It made people addicted to it, and even the fingers that were clutching the quilt lost strength.
Xie Tingzhou slowly stepped back and closed his eyes tightly. "Now, can you look at me?"
Chen Yu had not yet recovered from the kiss and stared at his face blankly.
"Are you stupid?" Xie Tingzhou grabbed her hand, pried it open and held it in his palm.
"Silly girl." He whispered, "If someone treats you so lightly, you should slap him on the spot, or cut his neck with a knife. You can't let others bully you like this."
The palm of her hand itched slightly, and Shen Yu let his thumb stroke the row of crescent marks pressed by her nails, "I, I won't be bullied."
"Then why don't you hit me? Huh?" Xie Tingzhou asked again.
He knew that she was tenacious yet stubborn, and he tried to guide her to give herself an answer.
Chen Yu's heart was in turmoil, she bit her lower lip and kept silent.
On the way to Beijing, he could clearly tease Xie Tingzhou until he was speechless, but when the crucial moment came, he couldn't utter a single word.
Xie Tingzhou sighed, fearing that pushing her too far might make her back off.
He stood up and walked to the table and drank half the cold cup of tea. He tapped his fingers on the table a few times as if thinking about something, then took another cup and poured her a hot cup.
Chen Yu hugged the quilt and sat up from the bed, took a sip of tea, and asked: "Did you not sleep all night again?"
"Asleep."
"How did you sleep?"
Xie Tingzhou half-smiled, which made Shen Yu feel uneasy.
"Sleeping on the couch."
Chen Yu's heart beat wildly, then she thought, they had slept together countless times on the way to Beijing, so what was the point of sleeping together, so she calmed down.
"I found out something last night."
Xie Tingzhou looked at her and asked, "What did you find out?"
The incense made her sleepy.
She spent most of the day combing through the details and said, "When I was in the Dali Temple, the Jinyiwei came to pick someone up. It must be a problem that Emperor Tongxu brought Ge Liangji into the palace in the middle of the night, so I followed the prisoner cart into the palace."
"It's too risky." Xie Tingzhou said in a deep voice.
"I'll be more careful next time." Shen Yu said guiltily.
Xie Tingzhou raised his eyes and said, "We can slowly investigate the clues, but we can't take risks with ourselves."
Chen Yu opened her mouth to speak, but then closed it again, with a look of shame and anger on her face.
After a while, she pounded the edge of the bed, "Can you please speak properly!"
Xie Tingzhou was stunned for a moment, "Why didn't I speak properly?"
"You are..." Chen Yu paused, "Let's talk about business, why are you talking about so much nonsense?"
Xie Tingzhou was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed, "Okay, I'll explain it in detail."
Chen Yu felt something was wrong again. If she wanted to talk to him nicely, she could just talk to him nicely. Why did she have to use such a doting tone?
"Another question?" Xie Tingzhou asked when he saw her strange expression.
Shen Yu turned her face away, "No, let's talk now."
Xie Tingzhou nodded, with a smile on his face, and thought she looked so adorable.
"Have some tea first."
Chen Yu drank the tea in the cup and was about to put it on the small table next to her when Xie Tingzhou took it away.
Xie Tingzhou said, "Go ahead."
Chen Yu thought for a moment, and told the news she had learned from Ge Liangji in the Dali Temple prison, as well as the conversation between Emperor Tongxu and Ge Liangji.
Xie Tingzhou pondered for a while, "The life-saving talisman that Ge Liangji left for his children must be something that the other party is afraid of. It may be evidence that can take their lives."
Chen Yu nodded, "I thought so too. Later in the palace, Ge Liangji said that he was one of the termites, which means that he was indeed related to this matter, but there were other masterminds. Emperor Tongxu obviously also knew who those people were, but he didn't want to move or didn't dare to move."
Xie Tingzhou tapped the empty cup with his index finger. Chen Yu saw that he was thinking and didn't want to disturb his thoughts, so she waited quietly.
After a long time, the tapping fingers stopped and Xie Tingzhou put the cup on the low table beside him.
"What does Emperor Tongxu care about most?"
Chen Yu was stunned for a moment, and said uncertainly: "It should be... the kingdom of the Great Zhou."
"That's right." Xie Tingzhou said, "The battle at Yanliang Pass has damaged the foundation of the Great Zhou, but in the eyes of Emperor Tongxu, what could be more terrifying than eradicating these tumors?"
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