rainstorm
It was almost five o'clock in the morning, and the sky was gradually covered with morning glow, which was brilliant and colorful. As the saying goes, don't go out when there is morning glow. The other half of the sky was indeed covered by thick clouds. There were occasional flashes of lightning and thunder in the distance. The sky was half cloudy and half sunny, as if half of the boy's body was covered by the shadows of the trees and the other half by the morning glow. The light was mixed, and his face was as cold as ice. In addition, the haunted house with the howling of ghosts and wolves could be heard from time to time, just like the half-faced evil ghost described in the play.
Inexplicably, Su Xi felt a little frightened, and the leg that had just stepped over the threshold retracted again, but he saw Chen Yunqiu suddenly sneer, with the corners of his mouth raised, and his eyes without a smile seemed even more weird.
"You...why are you following me?" Su Xi realized belatedly that this person's presence was truly bizarre. "Could it be that you were following me all night? All the way from the Chen residence to here?"
"yes."
Shen Yunqiu answered, instantly meeting the girl's surprised and angry gaze. His tone was almost gritting his teeth. "If I hadn't followed you, how would I have known that the female knight had such skills? How dare you knock out the guards and sneak into the Qingzhou government office in the middle of the night, and even pick the lock? If that's the case, why stay in the Shen Mansion as a maid? Why not just become a bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? I, Mr. Lei He, have been away from home for a long time. Today, I really want to write a book for you, a biography of the two-faced female knight. What do you think?"
"Chen Yunqiu!"
Su Xi could hear the sarcasm in his tone and couldn't help but get angry. "How dare you say that to me! You're stalking a decent woman in the middle of the night, you lecher! How shameless! Besides, where I go is none of your business. Are you still trying to arrest me?"
"What does it matter?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Yunqiu could hardly suppress his anger. He wished he could immediately pull the person in front of him into his arms and shut up her mouth that would only hurt others.
It was just a pity that he couldn't stand up, couldn't reach her, and couldn't do that.
Shen Yunqiu clenched his fists tightly and panted rapidly, suppressing the inexplicable restlessness in his heart. After a long while, he finally calmed his breathing and raised his eyelids to look: "Did you find it?"
"What?"
"Yesterday, you went to Shen Wenzhao's room and didn't find anything."
Hearing this, Su Xi froze up and suddenly clenched the cloth bag in his hand: "You followed me yesterday?"
"yes."
"Why? Do you doubt me?"
"I had no doubts. It's just that you, a woman, got drunk and went out in the middle of the night. You are so bold. You were still wandering around the mansion yesterday, and you dared to go to the government office today. If I didn't stop you, would you dare to sneak into the palace alone tomorrow? Do you know that if you stay in Qingzhou Prefecture for another hour, I will have to use the identity of the young master of the Shen family to get you out? Can you do things in the future..."
"sorry."
Suxi felt a little guilty for a moment, and even didn't dare to look directly into the clear eyes of the boy opposite him.
At this point, no matter how stupid she was, she knew that she could no longer hide the truth. Keeping it a secret would only backfire and hurt both sides.
Su Xi was lost in thought and didn't notice that the morning glow in the sky had almost faded away. Layers of dark clouds covered the entire sky, so dark that it seemed as if they were going to swallow people up.
Suddenly, a purple light flashed across the sky, and then with a bang, a loud thunder exploded in his ears. Su Xi came back to his senses in an instant and lowered his head to look at the cloth bag in his hand.
"broken!"
Before Shen Yunqiu could react, the front of his jacket was suddenly pulled by the girl who came running over. He was panicked for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he found a cloth bag inside his jacket. His belly suddenly bulged out, and he looked like he was pregnant, which was extremely funny.
"what are you up to!"
Shen Yunqiu was furious, and the next moment, the wheelchair was pushed up.
"It's going to rain, and there's something important in here!"
The girl pushed the wheelchair so fast that the wooden wheels almost scraped against the ground and produced sparks. Shen Yunqiu shuddered and almost fell off the wheelchair. She hurriedly held the wheelchair armrest with one hand and protected the cloth bag on her belly with the other hand, just like a woman who was about to give birth and was being pushed by her husband to the clinic in a hurry to give birth.
Shen Yunqiu was extremely embarrassed for a moment. On the one hand, he regretted that he forgot to wear a mask when he went out, but on the other hand, he felt that it was extremely novel and exciting, as if dark clouds were pressing down on the city and the end of the world was coming. The whole world was empty, and there were only the two of them running wildly under the increasingly dense black clouds. The wheelchair was pushed faster and faster. He almost forgot that he could not walk. He just kept running forward, and his worries disappeared, and he was very happy.
Suddenly, raindrops as big as beans fell in an instant, quickly and densely. The waiter at Fu Yulou opened the door and was worried that the rain would affect business. Before he had time to sigh, a girl who was soaked all over pushed a boy who was also soaked in a wheelchair and rushed in, catching him off guard.
Under the waiter's extremely strange gaze, the girl hurriedly pulled out the cloth bag from the boy's jacket and examined it carefully. She looked left and right, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, I arrived in time and didn't get wet at all."
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After the fifth watch, the sky gradually brightened, but the rain continued to fall, showing no sign of stopping. In the farthest room on the second floor of Fuyu Tower, the waiter served hot tea and hurried off to clean and set up the first floor for the guests. Suxi was left to bend over and unbutton the front of Shen Yunqiu's jacket, taking it off and placing it in front of the smoking charcoal stove to dry. As she took off her own clothes, she caught a glimpse of Shen Yunqiu's evasive expression, looking a little uncomfortable. She turned to look sideways and saw that the young man's face was indeed red, no less red than the charcoal in the stove.
Su Xi tilted his head and looked carefully, making sure that the crimson color was not reflected by the fire from the charcoal stove, and suddenly burst out laughing.
"Chen Yunqiu, are you really that serious? Do you blush so easily?"
As Su Xi spoke, he placed the jacket next to the charcoal stove to roast. Seeing that Chen Yunqiu seemed embarrassed, he picked up a cup of hot tea and brought it to his mouth.
"We sleep under the same roof every day, there's no need to be so particular about gender separation. Besides, I only took off my outer clothes, not everything..."
With a "puff", all the hot tea that had not yet been swallowed into his throat sprayed out. Shen Yunqiu couldn't help coughing repeatedly, and his mind couldn't help but think of the large area of the girl's white back exposed when she was lying on the bed the night before.
"Drink slowly, don't choke!"
Shen Yunqiu dodged the girl's hand that was about to pat his back in panic, cleared his throat to stop coughing, and turned around to look at the confused girl in front of him with scrutiny.
"Now, you can speak."
"say what?"
Suxi asked.
"You said you were looking for something related to the Su family, right?"
"Did you guess it?"
"It's not hard to guess," Shen Yunqiu replied. "You've asked me several times before, and you said your father had business dealings with the Su family. So you're trying to find evidence to overturn the Su family's case, right?"
"Yes." Su Xi sighed inwardly that this man was smarter than he had thought. He paused, "But I lied to you before. I'm not the daughter of some wealthy businessman who has dealings with the Su family, nor am I a refugee from another place. I'm Su Xi, the daughter of Su Bingwen, the head of the Su family."
After the words fell, there was silence for a moment. Su Xi caught a glimpse of the boy's dark pupils gradually dilating, and the obvious shock gradually faded away. After a long while, she saw the strange color on Shen Yunqiu's face slowly fade away, but his eyes were still staring at her face without blinking, looking at her carefully, as if they were strangers meeting for the first time.
"Then... the scar on your face was left by the government officials and soldiers when they raided your house..."
"No, I rowed it myself." Su Xi said lightly, and for a moment he felt that this happened very long ago, as if it had happened several lifetimes ago.
"Because my father has a lot of contact with Shen Pingchang, he recognizes me. Otherwise, I can't sneak into the Shen family, and I can't even go back to Qingzhou."
For a moment, Shen Yunqiu was stunned for a long time, and suddenly he remembered what the old woman said to him in the dilapidated temple in the countryside of Pingchuan County that day.
It was not until now that he understood why she had gone to the remote Pingchuan County with great difficulty but did not treat the scar on her face, why other women were meticulous about their appearance but she did not care at all, and why the old woman was so sure that she did not know how to use the prescription to treat her face. So that was it.
It turns out the old man truly could foresee past events, understanding cause and effect. It wasn't that she didn't care about her appearance, but rather the deep, heavy blood feud she carried, forcing her to abandon everything a young girl should possess, living a numb life of revenge. The one who dragged her into the abyss, into darkness, and robbed her of everything she cherished, was none other than Shen Pingchang, his father. Due to their unbreakable blood ties, he inevitably became an accomplice to this evil act. Though seemingly innocent, his hands were already stained with blood and his crimes were numerous.
It's really ridiculous.
It's hard to believe that I'm still worried about my dying day by day, and I'm even trying to guess her true feelings and worrying about whether she will leave. It turns out that there is no possibility between them, even if I wasn't poisoned and my leg wasn't broken.
Shen Yunqiu could hardly control his increasingly rapid heartbeat. His chest heaved violently, and he couldn't breathe. It seemed that only the pain of his fingernails digging into his palms under his sleeves could make him slightly sober and able to think.
After a long while, he finally calmed down, but his voice still couldn't help but tremble: "So, Xiaoxi, am I also part of your revenge plan?"
Suxi didn't expect that this would be the first question he asked after knowing the truth.
Hearing the sound, she looked back and saw that the boy's eyes were bloodshot, and the blue veins on the sides of his face were bulging and hideous because he clenched his teeth. His eyes were filled with the same surprise as hers.
Shen Yunqiu didn't expect that he would ask this question.
He wanted to apologize, but as soon as he spoke, it went against what he had been thinking about in his mind for a long time, and it sounded like a question.
He felt as if he was secretly expecting something. But after a while, he didn't hear a response, and fear took over. Just as Shen Yunqiu was about to speak to ease the tense atmosphere, he heard the girl's voice echoing faintly over the sound of the drizzling rain.
"No," she said, "From the very beginning, I never considered you a member of the Shen family. I came to the Shen family not just for revenge, but to save you."
"So, Shen Yunqiu," Su Xi said, squatting down and holding the boy's cold hand, he continued in his astonished eyes: "You don't need to blame yourself, and there is no need to take the blame for Shen Pingchang's crime. This has nothing to do with you, and I will not be angry with you for it. The reason I kept it from you was just because I didn't want to make things difficult for you, and I didn't want you to be caught between me and the Shen family."
"Why?"
Su Xi raised his eyes and saw that there was mist in Chen Yunqiu's eyes.
"What why?"
"Why don't you blame me? Because I'm going to die anyway..."
"Of course not. Chen Yunqiu, I told you I've known you for a long time, much longer than you know. That's why I know you're different from them. You're very good, very good. Without you, I might not have survived that dark time."
Shen Yunqiu was stunned and speechless. Of course, even more than the surprise, he felt a surge of joy from the depths of his heart. He didn't want to question why she recognized him, or why she was so kind to him. He simply sat there in a daze, letting the girl's delicate white fingers caress his cheek, gently wiping away the tears that were about to fall.
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