"I just-"

I lowered my head and looked at my hands on my knees. In less than a month, I knew that I had lost a lot of weight, and the high joints on the back of my hands seemed to be about to break my skin.

He got closer to me, and his hot breath blew through his ears.

"Just what?"

"I just feel a little bored."

"stuffy?"

"I, I want to go out and have a walk."

He raised his eyebrows again. This time he did not look at me in the mirror again, but turned his head to look at my drooping eyelashes. After a moment of silence, he chuckled: "Yes, I remember, you haven't been out for a long time."

“…”

"But I'm worried about your safety."

“…”

"It's too dangerous outside, I'm afraid you'll get hurt."

“…”

"Besides, we are on the river now. If something happens to happen-" His voice was slightly longer, as if he had hidden some unnecessary words in it, and then he smiled and said, "Even if I throw everyone into the river, I can't replace you. Aren't you?"

“…”

My face turned paler a little.

He was guarding against me, and he was so resistant that he could not leak.

When Pei Yuanhao forced me to jump into the river and commit suicide, it was said that I was from Shengjing. I also heard from Luo Shi that he was so painful and collapsed when he learned the news. So after he went to this ship on the night of the seventh day of the lunar month and imprisoned me in this room where there was no window, he did not let me leave here again.

He was afraid that I would end my life in the same way and escape from all this.

I didn't say anything anymore, just lowered my eyes and my head lowered.

He looked at me quietly for a while, held my arm and said softly, "In a few more days, in a few more days."

“…”

"You can get off the boat. I will be with you."

“…”

"Now, don't go out for now. OK?"

He almost coaxed my tone, so gentle that I couldn't be more than enough, and I really had no room for "badness", so I lowered my head and accepted his proposal silently.

A satisfied smile appeared on his face, and then he said lightly to the maid: "Go out."

"yes!"

The maid hurriedly retreated and when she closed the door, she breathed a sigh of relief when she heard her relieved.

When there were only two of us in the room, his hand finally let go of my arm, smiled at me in the mirror and said, "You are so simple and clean. Can I bring you a hairpin?"

After saying that, he reached out to grab a hairpin from the decorative box on the table and gently inserted it into my bun.

I was silent and lowered my head.

In a few days, it will be fine...?

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Although time has lost its meaning to me, in the blur, I can still feel that this war has been fighting for a while. A month has passed. Except for that day after hearing the battle situation that Xie Feng and Pei Yuanxiu mentioned in the nightmare that day, they have never talked about the situation outside in front of me.

Win or lose is unknown, and the outcome is unknown.

However, I could feel that the death and injury were no longer as heavy as before. Every time he left and returned to this room, he didn't have to take a shower and wash away the heavy smell of blood on his body like he had just started.

The war should have reached a stalemate stage.

As a military general, Wen Fengxi should be the best arrangement to stick to Yangzhou at this time.

I still remember Qinghan told me when he was poisoned that there would be no problem for him to guard Yangzhou for half a year. If there was no war in the northwest, Tu Shuhan could have freed up his hands.

But the premise is that under normal circumstances...

My mind was full of thoughts, and for a moment, too many things came up in a mess. When I woke up, I saw that the room I was in was like a cage, with nothing to do except for three meals and regular baths every day.

Now, I probably can't think of those.

At this moment, the hatch door was opened, and the dark-skinned child walked in with a basin of water, with a towel on his elbow. He knew at a glance that he was going to come in to clean the floor.

These days, except for those who come to serve, this child will enter my room from time to time. He rarely meets him when he is awake. Most of the time, I can only see him walking out with a broom and a basin of water rubbing across the floor.

When he walked in, he probably didn't expect that I would sit beside the bed and look at him. When he saw me, he was stunned for a moment.

"Why--"

As soon as my feet stagnated, the basin of water swayed and splashed onto the ground, and also splashed onto the corner of my skirt.

He was frightened and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

I only felt a chill in my ankle. Before I could react, he was already busy putting the basin of water aside, subconsciously going over and wiping it with the towel. But before he could get close to me, Huazhu outside the door had already walked in. When he saw the situation in the room, he immediately frowned: "What do you think you are doing?"

The child looked back at her and was frightened.

Hua Zhu continued, "Young Master asked you to do things well. Did you take everything your commands as a warning?"

"I don't, I dare not!"

He waved his hand in a hurry in fear.

Since I lived in Jinling Mansion and saw Hua Zhuyun Mountain, although I knew that they were extraordinary, I had never seen their temper and scolded others. Seeing that the child was so scared that he thought he would die, I immediately said, "It's not a big deal, don't blame him."

Hua Zhu looked up at me, then looked at the child, and hesitated: "But the young master gave the order. Anyone who alarmed Miss Yan would want--"

Before she could finish her words, I lowered my head and said lightly: "I was not alarmed."

“…”

"He's just a child, don't make things difficult for him."

Hua Zhu was stunned by my words, probably not able to make any decisions, so she stood there hesitantly.

Then I turned to look at the child, looked at the pool of water on the ground, and said, "You'll wipe it clean."

"yes."

He nodded quickly as if he was a pledge by the emperor, grabbed the towel and walked over, squatted on the ground and carefully wiped the floor. Hua Zhu saw him like this, and couldn't say anything, so she could only pursed her lips and retreated.

This child probably has seen how many people were dragged out of this room and killed in the past few days. He was so scared that he shivered. When he wiped the floor, his shoulder blades were all raised high.

Although she is thin, she can tell that she is used to living. She is probably from a poor family, so she is so diligent in working and has such a dark complexion.

I looked at him lowering his head, his long eyelashes covered his eyes, and said softly: "Are you from Yangzhou?"

He looked up at me and nodded immediately: "Yes!"

“…”

I was silent for a moment and said, "Don't look up, lower your head to do your thing."

"……?oh."

I asked softly again: "How did you come on this boat?"

"I was captured by them."

"You are also a soldier?"

"Well, Dad left early, and I was the only one big man at home, so I came to serve."

"Where is your mother?"

"My mother..." he said, his hands slowing down, and then he saw a drop of crystal tears falling from his eyes, and fell into the pool of water on the ground with a squeak.

He rubbed his eyes with his other hand: "My mother doesn't know me yet-"

“…”

"I'm most afraid of my mother thinking I'm dead."

“…”

"If that happens, she will definitely die of sadness."

“…”

"But now, the battle is like this, I don't know how long it will last for Yangzhou City. If the city is broken, then my mother and the others-"

As he said that, he started to cry.

I frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. After a while, when he cried himself gradually softly, I said, "Then you were captured by them, what did they say, let you come here to do things?"

He subconsciously raised his head and looked at me, his eyes brightened with red tears: "It's that - they called him Young Master. We were going to be taken to the shore, but when he saw me, he asked me to stay and said that I would do my job on the boat."

“…”

"I really want to hear him say, I'm useful."
To be continued...