"I see."
After saying this, his whole body seemed to collapse a little, and I even saw the light spots that flashed in his eyes also extinguished at this moment.
Then, he stood up.
At that moment, I clearly felt the pain of needle-like pricking that had been hit again. I thought that if I rejected him, I could forget this matter for the time being. I thought that if I separated from him, I could soothe the thorn in my heart, but I didn't expect it to hurt. Especially when I saw his dark eyes, I felt even more heartbroken.
But, I can't convince myself.
At this moment, I suddenly heard him speak and said in a hoarse voice: "We can be separated for a while, and I can wait for you to change your mind - but no matter what, Qingying, I will not let you leave me again."
“…”
"You can't leave me!"
“…”
A bitter heat surged from the bottom of my heart, and my eyes were burned red. I immediately closed my eyes to prevent the heat from falling in front of him.
After closing my eyes, I felt a hot kiss falling on my eyes.
The kiss seemed to have become hot and wet.
I didn't open my eyes, but only heard him sighing softly, and then the footsteps of slowly walking away came. After that, the door was gently closed.
I still didn't open my eyes, but just lay quietly in this quiet space.
A tear fell from the corner of his eyes.
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After that day, I felt a little fever intermittently. Because the wound on my body was treated too late, many places were ulcerated, so I almost never left that room. Yao Lao often brought medicine to see me and didn't say much.
I spent my life in a drowsy mood. The only thing that was clear was that every time I passed by my door, Han Zitong's resentful gaze always made me feel that there was a little coldness in the warm smell of the house full of fragrance.
It also makes me more sober every time.
In this slow torture, our ship finally entered the inland.
On this day, when the old man pulled the silver needle out of my wrist, he heard a cheer from outside. Although the sailors and boatmen outside had made many sounds before, the cheers this time were a little different.
I heard something, raised my head and looked at Lao Yao. He slowly put the silver needle back into his medicine box and said, "I'm in Jinling."
“…”
I was still a little stunned: "So quickly?"
He glanced at me and said, "You haven't gone out to see you these days?"
"Uh, I'm a little seasick when I go out."
"Oh..." Yao Lao looked at me, and said nothing, and said calmly: "Because Zhoushan Navy pioneered the way, our ship passed through all the way after entering the inland, without any obstacles, so--"
That's why it's so fast.
Pei Yuanhao said he wanted to "send us a ride", so it turned out that this is the way to give it to him.
I couldn't help but frown.
These days, I haven't been on the deck because I'm weak and seasick, because I don't want to see some people, and because there's no need to face some people and things, but it doesn't mean that those people and things will not churn in my mind, especially now, Pei Yuanhao and Pei Yuanxiu are almost within one shot of each other, at such a distance.
I have thought that the two people met at the meeting. One emperor and the other old prince, two forces that were completely in conflict, could meet in this way. Even if they were not shocked, at least there should be a duel.
However, at sea, the duel was forced to stop due to Pei Yuanhao's own appearance.
His going out to sea is a trick that is not very clever.
The question is, is Pei Yuanhao a good person to play bad chess?
He has gone from being a prince without a king to today, and it cannot be said that he is lucky. The step-by-step and meticulous thoughts in it are definitely not what I saw clearly by my side.
So, it is still hard to say how this incident will end this time.
It is still unclear whether he wants to send us this trip or has other intentions.
Just when my mind was full of thoughts, Yao Lao had already packed the medicine box. I also reached out and rubbed my arms, and then stood up with the table. In the words of Yao Lao, I have become a little weak and I have been poisoned, so my body has been damaged. Fortunately, I didn’t drag it into a serious disease, so I still made up for it. In addition, he treated me like this, so it was nothing serious.
After all this, he picked up the medicine box and looked up at me.
I looked at him, too.
He may not know what went wrong with Pei Yuanxiu. After all, he has been on the boat for so long. Although we usually talk and talk as usual, and even when I have a bad appetite, he will ask the kitchen to make some sour and spicy side dishes and come to coax me to eat in person, but no matter how long he stays in my room during the day and what the two of them talk about, he will leave my room and go back to his room when he rests at night.
There are no aunts and ladies on the boat. After all, they are familiar people in the Jiangxia Palace. Judging from their faces, they are born with the wall. The young master and his wife are sleeping differently at night, and everyone knows that something is wrong.
Yao Lao comes to treat me every two days, but he never asks a single question.
But at this moment, when I looked at him, I clearly felt that he had something to say, so I stood quietly.
I don’t know how long it took to be quiet like this, but Lao Yao finally spoke, but his expression and voice were a little sad: “Girl.”
"Um."
"The old man can't control you and Yuan Xiu - the matter between you and your wife, and you can't control it."
“…”
"But no matter what, you are already a couple, everything is up to you."
“…”
"You know, Yuan Xiu is still very caring about you."
"..." I listened quietly and nodded at the end: "I know."
He nodded, then turned around and walked out. Seeing that he had already walked to the door, I suddenly said, "Father-in-law."
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This title is actually a bit surprising.
Because he had told me since he had just met them that his relationship with Pei Yuanxiu could not be made public, so I did not call him that on other occasions, but now he suddenly called him out and he looked at me in surprise.
I stood there, thought for a while, and said, "You are an elder. If I, as his wife, refuse to give birth to a son for him, come to see you, will I be my daughter-in-law be able to stay?"
Yao Lao was stunned for a moment.
Obviously, the emergence of this question was beyond his expectations. He looked at me with disbelief: "Don't you want to give birth to a son for him?"
“…”
"Why? Didn't you drink soup every day before you went to sea?"
“…”
I looked at his shocked expression and recalled the previous self who had been drinking bitter soup every day and was so bitter that he could not eat anything without appetite, and suddenly laughed.
I don't want to say anything anymore.
So, he smiled faintly and said, "Not that."
“…”
"I just asked casually."
“…”
Lao Yao was still a little confused, but seeing that I was no longer planning to continue this topic, I was a little hesitant, but when his hand stumbled on the door slid, the originally hidden door was opened.
He turned around and was stunned for a moment.
I also raised my head and saw Pei Yuanxiu standing at the door, looking at us quietly.
Yao Lao glanced at him, and said nothing, and walked away from him. He watched Yao Lao's back disappear at the end of the corridor, then turned his head to look at me: "We are going ashore."
"Um."
He stood at the door without moving, and stretched out his hand to me.
I looked at him for a while, but still reached out and placed his hand in the palm of his hand.
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These days, I haven't been on the deck, and I even saw less sun. When I suddenly walked out of the cabin, I saw the sunlight on my head, and the water waves on the river were gurgling. The water patterns reflected the sunlight reflected countless dazzling rippling waves, as if the stars in the river were shaking so hard that people couldn't open their eyes.
I subconsciously reached out to cover my eyes.
Pei Yuanxiu, who was standing beside me, immediately lowered his head and said softly: "What's wrong?"
"No, it's okay, it's just a little dazzling."
I said, rubbing my eyes.
When I looked up again, I saw that the ship that was parallel to us was also bathed in the sun. Perhaps because of the need to enter the port and dock, their hulls were washed, and some places were still dangling water droplets, reflecting colorful halos in the sun.
And in that halo, a somewhat thin figure came into my eyes.
There were many people standing on the boat, and everyone seemed to cheer for the fact that they were finally going to dock. Even Wen Fengxi, who was usually serious, showed a relaxed look, but only he had always had a faint expression. The half-silver mask also shone in the sun.
Beside him, the eldest princess who looked delicate and seemed to have been dressed up was gently leaning on his arm.
Liu Qinghan did not refuse her approach, lowered her head and said something softly. Pei Yuanzhen immediately raised her face and argued for a few words. Her face, which was deserted and even faint, showed a helpless expression. She shook her head gently, and Pei Yuanzhen immediately laughed.
The two of them have not yet married, so they have actually been a bit over doing this.
But the people around seemed to have not seen it, and seemed to be turning a blind eye. Only when Pei Yuanhao walked out of the cabin and everyone knelt down, the two of them separated and bowed down.
Pei Yuanxiu also saw the movement on the ship, and then he turned around and looked at me.
I held the fence, looked up at the shore, and murmured, "You said before, the news has been sent back. Do Li'er and the others know?"
"Of course I'll know."
"She, will she come to the dock?"
"Of course." He said, walking to me, reaching out and gently stroked my shoulder: "Li'er misses you very much."
...
I miss her very much, too.
It was early winter when we went out to sea, but now it was late spring when we returned to Jinling. The hot wind blew across our faces, and the fishy smell of the river water also penetrated into our noses at any time. The familiar touch and smell immediately made my soul, which was still floating on the boundless ocean, return to reality.
We are back.
Li'er, I'm going to see Li'er!
Thinking of this, my not-so-high emotions began to feel happy.
Slowly, our ship began to turn and sailed towards the dock where there was already a crowd of people. From afar, we saw countless guards and attendants on the dock lined up and waiting for us in an orderly manner.
Similarly, on the other side of the river, there seemed to be noisy sounds coming.
The emperor's ship and Zhoushan Navy arrived in Yangzhou was naturally the first major event in Jiangnan in recent years. It is not surprising that there are crowds of people there.
However, no matter how big the matter is, it cannot match this moment!
My breathing, which was not smooth, became even tense at this moment. As the boat slowly approached the dock like a mountain, it also blocked the sunlight. The huge black shadow threw inch by inch on the dock. In the crowd, I saw a slender and thin figure standing there, looking up at us motionlessly.
Although the haze had covered her weak body and also covered her face and eyes, I could even see the light flashing in her eyes. At this moment, it kept surging and almost falling!
Li Er!
I could hardly suppress my excitement and walked to the side of the boat, looking anxiously at the small figure. She seemed to feel something, and her two little hands were stretched over her head to block the sunlight, and she also walked anxiously here.
But immediately, the person behind her grabbed her arm.
Although my whole spirit was on Li'er, I immediately recognized the thin and weak figure.
Han Ruoshi held Li'er's shoulder with one hand and raised the other hand above her head, blocking the dazzling sunshine. I vaguely saw a faint smile on the corner of the slender lips.
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Pei Yuanxiu turned his head and looked at me.
Next, no one spoke. After a violent shock, the boat finally steadily landed. When the sampans on both sides were mounted, I couldn't wait to walk over. Pei Yuanxiu couldn't stop him, so he could only hold my hand and prevent me from running too fast. But I still stumbled over. The moment I stepped onto the solid land, I staggered and almost fell.
Just as I could barely stand firm, I heard Li'er crying shouts coming from the front--
"mother!"
As soon as I looked up, a soft, small body had already plunged into my arms.
I almost fell down by Li'er's hit, but immediately reached out to hug her, feeling that my small, warm body filled my entire embrace, and felt her constantly twitching shoulders and her little face buried in my chest. After a while, the wet feeling soaked my clothes.
She cried and shouted, "Mom, mom..."
“…”
I couldn't speak, so I slowly tucked her back with both hands and hugged her hard into my arms.
At this moment, I no longer cared about how many people were landing on the big ship behind me, nor how many people were watching us on the pier, nor how many people were watching us, nor about Han Ruoshi, who was standing not far away, with a slightly stiff smile on her face. Especially when I saw Han Zitong and I both walked down, she seemed to have no strength to walk over... And all this was nothing to me. As long as I felt the breath of this child in my arms and knew that she was still fine, then everything around me, and any suffering that had happened was nothing.
I don’t know how long it took, Pei Yuanxiu stood by our side silently, and at this time he finally spoke: “Qingying, we——”
Before he could finish his words, he saw me raise my hand and hit Li'er hard.
The bang was not light, but it shocked the people around.
Li'er was trembling with me, but he still held me with both hands and refused to let go.
I gritted my teeth and raised my hand to hit her again.
After several consecutive blows, I didn't know whether she was in pain or not, but I was so painful that my heartbeat began to twitch. When the Han sisters next to me finally couldn't stand it and walked up to pull the child out of my arms, Li'er was already crying and her eyes were red.
Han Zitong shouted at me in anger: "What a big deal to kill Li Er like this?"
Pei Yuanxiu also held my hand: "Qingying, don't be angry first, if you have anything to say when we go back."
Li'er was already crying a little too breathless, her face was flushing, and she kept crying, holding the corner of my clothes in her hand, feeling aggrieved and pitiful. Han Zitong obviously had never seen her cry like this before. She felt uncomfortable first and turned around and stared at me: "You have the strength to beat your daughter now, what did you do in the past? If you, the one who is a mother, were not responsible, would Li'er be lost?"
At this time, Han Ruoshi walked up, pulled her arm, and said softly: "Zitong, don't say that."
“…”
"It's because I'm not good, it's because I took Li'er out, but I didn't pay attention to her."
“…”
"It's all my fault."
"What's wrong with you?" Han Zitong was so angry that she even became sarcastic, and she said fiercely: "You are still a girl, and you haven't had a child. Humph, when Li'er followed us before, nothing happened, but when her mother came, something happened to her.
"Don't scold my mother!"
Just as I gritted my teeth, but didn't say a word, I just stared at their sisters coldly - to be precise, she stared at Han Ruoshi. When she looked up and met my gaze, her pale face disappeared without even a trace of blood. It seemed that she had seen something terrifying. She hurriedly lowered her head to avoid me. At this time, Li'er broke free and threw herself into my arms again, crying: "It's Li'er that is not good, Li'er is making mother worried!"
I was panting. If Li'er hadn't hugged me like this, I would have even suspected that I would be unable to stand firm. After a while, I reached out and gently stroked her arm.
Tears wet my clothes again, and a chill on my chest made me shudder.
And at this moment, everyone around them exclaimed panic.
I looked up, and I couldn't even come back to my senses. I saw all the people staring behind us with wide eyes, as if they had seen something incredible, and even some of the guards and servants who were closest to the outside of the dock were shouting and retreating.
The river water, the wind, and the gusts of bitterness.
I felt a huge shadow covering our heads, slowly covering us and covering the entire dock.
“…”
After a moment of stuttering, I slowly turned around.
I saw that the huge dragon boat, which had been parallel with us, was turning its bow on the river and heading towards the dock on our side, as if a huge mountain was standing in front of us, directly approaching the sky.
As soon as I looked up, I saw the Nine Five Supreme above ten thousand people on the bow of the boat, looking at us with both hands in front of us.
Chapter completed!