"Did you come for me?"

His eyes flashed, and then he looked at me calmly and said, "If I say yes, do you believe it?"

“…”

I glanced around.

Since he reached out to hug me, the people around him had already retreated and avoided. Even Yao Lao and Butu looked at the side with a light cough and concealed look. The large number of guards seemed to have been ordered and immediately disappeared.

Only the other side of the boat was left, Han Zitong looked at us with red eyes.

I lowered my eyelids a little tired, and Pei Yuanxiu hurriedly said, "Qingying?"

"I, I'm a little tired..."

I said, reaching out to support his chest, pulling the distance between the two of them a little, and then looking up in his eyes: "I have not eaten or rested for a long time."

“…”

“I want to rest.”

“…”

"I want to be quiet."

He looked at me silently, and wanted to reach out to catch my shoulders, but I took a step back without a trace and avoided his hand. His hand brushed across my shoulders and fell down.

For a moment, neither of them moved again.

He looked at me for a while and finally waved his hand gently. Several maids rushed forward. After he gave a few instructions, the maids came over and bowed their knees to salute me, saying, "Madam, please follow us."

I turned around and followed them.

When I walked to the door of the cabin, I looked back. He was still standing at the bow of the boat, looking at me with complicated eyes. The wind was cold and the water was rushing, but he couldn't say a word, just looked at me like this.

I looked to the other side again, the ship that was almost parallel to us.

The man had already been protected by his eldest princess and entered the cabin.

No matter how strong the wind and waves outside were, they would not affect him. The deck was empty, only Pei Yuanhao and Wen Fengxi were left with the military generals standing in the wind without moving.

At this moment, the feeling of fatigue became even deeper, and I turned my head and walked in.

The ship is not too big, and the structure in the cabin is naturally not as huge and complex as the Feiyun Crossing the Sea. After a while, I walked to the door of a room, opened the door and walked in. I smelled some incense inside. Although the smell was a bit strong, I was tortured by the unpleasant smell in the mountain road for a night. My nose, which had been very uncomfortable all the time, finally felt a little more comfortable at this time.

I walked in and breathed a sigh of relief.

After sitting and resting for a while, the maid said that the hot water was ready.

I followed them to the bathroom and took off the blood-stained and mud-stained clothes on my body, but I saw that my body was covered with blood, mud-stained, and all kinds of scars were also covered with scars on my palms, arms, knees and calves. In the cold air, looking at myself like this, I was even a little dazed, not knowing what I had experienced along the way, and why I had come to this point, and I couldn't help but tremble.

It was not until my hands and feet were cold that I stepped into the bathtub.

The warm water ironed onto the cold skin, and at that moment, there was an illusion of suffocating and hotness, but immediately, the wounds all over the body began to hurt.

I saw a hint of pink slowly floating in the milky white bath soup... There seemed to be countless sharp needles piercing me in the water, but it didn't hurt too much, just a dense, as if a long, endless torture was being used.

I reached out to cover my face and slowly sank my whole body into the water...

I was so delayed in the bathroom that the last few maids called me at the door uneasy, and I put on my clothes and walked out. When they saw me, they all breathed a sigh of relief. After sending me back to the room, they wiped my hair and put on the mattress. The table was already filled with warm porridge and side dishes, as well as several plates of exquisite pastries.

"Madam, is there anything else to order?"

"No more, you guys go down."

I sat at the table and waited until they left and closed the door, but I still sat still and looked at the dishes on the table. After looking at them for a while, I picked them up and took a bite.

Although I wanted to eat something and knew that I should eat something, after eating this bite, I felt like my chest was blocked by a big stone, and it was difficult to swallow it. After swallowing it, I felt that the feeling of depression became even heavier and I almost vomited.

I frowned, took another bite, and finally put down the bowl.

Just as I was about to get up and walk to the bed, I heard a very light knock at the door.

I thought about it and walked to the door.

"who?"

"It's me."

"What's up?"

"I want to see you."

"I--"

"You still have any injuries on your body? I brought you medicine."

“…”

"Qingying, I want to see you."

His words were so gentle that they were about to flow in from outside the door, filling the room so that I had nowhere to escape, and even no room for breath.

I reached out and stroked the door and stopped for a long time.

The room was very quiet. Apart from my breathing, I could almost hear his breathing outside, one by one, long and distant, but not anxious or slow, as if I could wait forever.

I finally opened the door.

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I leaned against the head of the bed, my wet hair that was not dry yet was pressed against the pillow behind me. It was a little cool and wet. The smell of medicine was filled with the small room, which soon covered up the incense and the aroma of food on the table.

He held my hand in the palm of my hand and gently applied ointment to several scratches on the back of my hand.

The medicine should be prepared by the old medicine. The taste is different from the smell from those slapped shops. It is not pungent and has a faint fragrance. When applied to the wound, there is no pain. Instead, it is cool and even the tiny pain becomes faint.

When his fingertips gently stroked my wound, the little bit of pain on his face was about to disappear.

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Although I could feel his eyes were always looking at me.

That kind of gaze was not hot or cold, but it was inexplicably suffocating me.

I don’t know how long it took, all the wounds were medicineed by him, and some places were even wrapped in gauze. After he treated the last injury on my ankle, I finally let out a long breath and hurriedly retracted my calves and ankles back into my skirt.

But just as I was retreating, his hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed my ankle again.

I was shocked and even my breathing was in chaos.

"Qingying..."

His voice was a little hoarse in his eagerness, and the hand holding my ankle was particularly hot. Even when I was exerting a little force, I struggled for a while, but naturally I didn't break away.

He called out again: "Qingying!"

The quietness in this small room was finally completely pierced at this moment. His anxious voice, eager eyes, and even anxious breathing were like a fine net, which imprisoned me from head to toe as soon as it was sprinkled. I wanted to retreat again, but found that I had nowhere to retreat. My ankle was still in his hand, and the other hand had already stroked my cheek.

The same hot temperature made me tremble.

At this time, he had leaned over and his hot breath blew on my face. When I turned my head and avoided his gaze, the breath brushed on my neck and collarbone, as if he was also touching me.

"Qingying..." He had already come to me and said softly: "I--"

"I want to rest."

I gritted my teeth and interrupted him.

He was stunned for a moment, looking at my eyes that obviously avoided his gaze. He was silent for a while before he said "Okay", and then he held my shoulders and arms with his very gentle hands and let me lie down. Then he sat by the bed and leaned down...

"I want to rest alone."

I turned my head, looked into his eyes, and said, "Yuan Xiu, we should not have sex with each other during this period."

When I said this, he was obviously froze: "What did you say?"

“…”

"You want to divide the room with me?"

"yes."

"Why?"

I took a deep breath: "Because, I thought about it, I was still not ready to have another son."

His eyes suddenly sank.

The atmosphere in this room seemed to slowly sink with his emotions.

The already stuffy air seemed to solidify at this moment. I even felt a stone pressing on my chest, making it very difficult for me to breathe.

Listening to the heavy breathing from him in front of me made me feel more and more depressed.

After a long time, he finally let out a long breath, then reached out to hold my cheek and said, "Okay, we can don't have children first, we ＿＿"

"Yuan Xiu," I interrupted him, looking at his already anxious eyes, I took a deep breath and said, "Let's separate for a while."

“…”

When he spoke again, his voice was completely hoarse: "Didn't you say that this time I went to sea, just let us separate and think about it?"

"Yes, that's what I planned."

"So this is what happened after you think about it?"

I nodded: "Yes."

His hand holding my cheek still did not put it down, but his fingertips were trembling slightly, as if suppressing something: "Did you make this decision before going to sea, or did you change your original intention after going to sea?"

“…”

For some reason, he asked such a question.

But at this moment, my mind was also confused for a moment.

Have I ever made such a decision?

No, I don't.

The fate of a woman has been destined from the day I saw that the day of our wedding was "averse to marriage"; even if the divorced son ran away from home on the seventh day after the marriage; even if he was not recognized by the Yan family in Xichuan; even if... he once joked at that time, it was not a good joke to say whether we would "divorce"... Even if so many things happened, I never thought that I would really separate from him.

But now, facing such a gentle man, I really told him that I would be separated from him for a while.

I thought that everything in the past would end in the moment when I leaned in his arms.

It turns out that there isn't.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Pei Yuanxiu immediately said: "It's after going to sea, right?"

“…”

"You only had this idea after going to sea?"

I remembered that night, after Han Zitong said those words, I felt like I was stabbed with needles and didn't say anything.
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