Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! - Chapter 21

These days, Shen Xuan didn’t know what he was up to. She hadn’t returned to the house for several days, and the four chief officers had also taken out three of them. Only Wu Youfu stayed at home to make a decoction.

Xiao Changning lay alone on the sickbed for a few days, only to feel that this huge East Factory was extremely empty and lonely like never before.

A few days later, the harsh winter quietly swept the capital. In the middle of the night, I don’t know when the cold rain started, Xiao Changning hugged the quilt to sleep, and dimly heard footsteps and conversation outside the door.

She was awakened, rubbing her eyes and sitting upright, faintly seeing the shadows of people outside the window, with a faint light penetrating in, projecting a layer of orange-red tulle on the ground.

She shook the golden bell on the head of the bed and asked, “Who is making noise outside?”

The Xia Lu robe on duty entered the door and bowed and said, “His Royal Highness, it is Admiral Shen who has returned from Xuzhou.”

Xiao Changning was inexplicably relieved, as if the things he had been thinking about for a long time finally settled. She finally breathed a sigh of relief, lay down again and covered the bedding, determined to get up tomorrow morning to thank Shen Xuan.

My palace didn’t want to see him!

Xiao Changning thought in a daze: It’s just that he had taken care of him a lot before he was ill. The phrase ‘thank you’ has been suffocated without a chance to say it, which is really uncomfortable.

So, it went to dawn.

When I stayed in the early morning of the next morning, Xiao Changning sat at the front end of the dressing table and looked at himself in the mirror: After a few days of illness, his face became ruddy and his delicate eyebrows were full of aura. She specially changed into a new winter coat, which was faintly scented. The rabbit fur collar was wrapped in a slender and white neck, which made her face clear and beautiful without Fendai. She was very self-intoxicated.

She dressed up and rushed to the front hall, where breakfast had been arranged, but Shen Xuan was not seen.

Under questioning, Wu Youfu, who served food, smiled and replied: “Back to the eldest princess, the admiral did not go to bed until the fifth shift. She has just been lying down for less than two hours, so she has to get up until late.”

Xiao Changning was a little lost when he heard this, as if the table full of delicacies had lost the taste. Before thinking about where this loss came from, she asked: “What has Shen Xuan been up to these days? It’s so late at night, black and white are reversed.”

Last night, I heard Xia Lu said that he had returned from Xuzhou Zuoji, and the local officials of the Dongchang Administration inspected it as ‘Zoji’… In other words, isn’t Xuzhou Huo Jie’s site? If Shen Xuan can go to Xuzhou in person, it seems that the situation in the court is going to hurt again.

Wu Youfu still smiled with a good temper: “This, it’s not that his subordinates can make arrogant arguments.”

The upper and lower members of the East Factory united cautiously and got the expected answer. Xiao Changning was not too disappointed, but only ordered: “My palace knows, you go down.”

After breakfast, Shen Xuan still did not wake up. Xiao Changning went back to the room and sat at the desk at the west window to practice calligraphy, from the dignified and beautiful hairpin small script to running script, and then into the wild and arbitrary cursive script. Finally, he simply patted the pen and lay on his back in the soft and thick Persian. On the blanket, I rolled two times impetuously.

The rainwater dripped from the rubble overnight, stirring up the sound to pass through the stone in front of the steps. The colorful tortoiseshell cat leaped from the window sill and passed by leisurely. Xiao Changning grabbed it and rubbed it boredly in his arms.

I don’t know how long it took, a faint sound came from the opposite side of the courtyard, Xiao Changning let go of the cat that was rubbed meowing, sat up quickly, and when he listened carefully, the next door was calm again. NS.

Wake up? Are you going to see him?

However, it would be embarrassing to see him so dryly.

Xiao Changning hesitated for a long time, got up and opened the door and said, “Dong Sui, do you still have the rice dumpling soup and plum cake you made in the morning?”

Dongsui stretched out a head from the side room next door, carrying a feather duster in his hand, and replied, “There’s more.”

“Hot a copy, hurry up.”

“Hey.”

The sweet soup and pastries quickly heated up, and Xiao Changning personally delivered them to Shen Xuan’s bedroom.

Stepping up the steps, she exhaled a deep breath of white air, and then made up her mind. Then she raised her hand as if she was determined, and gently knocked on the open door.

“Come in.” Shen Xuan’s voice was still calm, without a trace of fatigue after a long journey.

Xiao Changning pushed the door in, and was caught off guard.

With long hair half scattered, Shen Xuan was sitting at the desk by the window wiping the knife, and beside him, beside the charcoal basin, the majestic **** dog was erecting his ear tips, and her green eyes stared unblinkingly. With Xiao Changning.

Xiao Changning looked at it too, and couldn’t help thinking back to the tragedy of the ‘baby’ being swallowed by this stupid dog in his mind.

Seeing Xiao Changning standing at the door holding a food tray, Shen Xuan’s mouth twitched, put down the snow-white sharp knife, and broke the silence: “It was injured and a little bit chilly, so he refused to leave by the stove.” With that said, Shen Xuan patted the black dog’s head, and said in an irresistible tone: “Go out and stay.”

The black dog gave an aggrieved ‘whoop’ and went out dejectedly.

Xiao Changning coughed uncomfortably, and came in with the food table, silently placing sweet soup and pastries on the table.

Shen Xuan returned the knife to its sheath and asked, “Why do you still cough?”

Xiao Changning knelt aside, put the food plate on the small case, and whispered: “No, thanks to Chief Wu, who decocted medicine day and night, this palace is already well.”

Shen Xuan fiddled with the knives indifferently, ignoring the cakes. Seeing that the dim sum was about to get cold, Xiao Changning was a little anxious, and quietly reached out and moved the soup bowl and pastry a little bit. Seeing that he was not moving, he moved a little bit more.

Shen Xuan raised a pair of deep Ling Han eyes from behind the scabbard, seeming to finally understand her intention.

He glanced at the steaming cakes, then slowly moved his gaze to Xiao Changning’s pretendingly indifferent face, and for some reason he thought of the tortoiseshell cat raised by Xiao Changning. That day, he saved the tortoiseshell cat trapped on the ridge of the roof. On the second day, he heard the sound of a small paw scratching the door. After opening the door, the cat squatted on the threshold with a dead body in front of him. Xiaoyu meowed as a thank you.

That precious and timid appearance is exactly the same as Changning at this time.

Her eyes were moist and bright, and Shen Xuan looked at her sideways and asked, “What can I ask for?”

Xiao Changning was taken aback.

After marrying in Dongchang for more than two months, Xiao Changning did not take the initiative to step into Shenxuan’s residence, except for asking for a warrant from the mansion last time. It is no wonder that Shenxuan would misunderstand that she had something to ask for before she was courteous.

“Nothing to ask for.” Her voice was soft and soft, but her tone was firm. She looked at the raindrops dripping from the eaves of the window unnaturally, “My palace is here… to thank Admiral Shen.”

Shen Xuan put the thin knife aside, stirred the sweet soup with a spoon, and said casually: “Thank you. Didn’t Your Highness say it after waking up from the high fever.”

“It’s not the same. This time I am not thanking you for removing Qiuhong for me, nor for your cloak,” Xiao Changning pursed his lips, and said with his fingers around the sachet tassel on his waist, “but thank the admiral for not killing. Grace.”

Shen Xuan raised her eyebrows.

Xiao Changning couldn’t help but smile: “This palace is joking.”

Shen Xuan took a sip of the soft and waxy Yuanzi soup, her complexion was as usual, and she did not even give her the curvature of the corners of her mouth.

Well, she shouldn’t be joking with this unresponsive person. Xiao Changning rubbed the tip of the small and erect nose, and hummed out what he said in his heart: “These days, thank you for the admiral’s care.”

Shen Xuan drank the soup for a while, then put down the bowl, and pulled out a faint smile very slowly. He wiped his hands slowly and methodically, took out a cowhide booklet from his arms, then lifted his pen and ink in a very elegant manner, and started writing and drawing on the booklet at his own discretion.

Xiao Changning looked at the booklet, and his heart tightened: I heard that both Jinyiwei and Dongchang carried the’Impermanence Book’, which was specially used to record and monitor the words and deeds of hundreds of officials. If you are careless, you will be guilty of a word and cause death. Disaster.

Xiao Changning was a little nervous by Shen Xu’s posture, and couldn’t help but crane his neck to read his booklet, anxiously said: “My palace…but what did you say wrong?”

The corner of Shen Xuan’s mouth smiled unabated, and she made the last stroke of her mouth, and said in a serious tone: “The Governor has carried countless infamy since he took charge of the Dongchang factory. “

Admiral Shen’s belly was black.

Looking at the booklet of “Princess Changning Jinkou Yuyan, I would like to thank you for a certain year, month and day,” Xiao Changning came to this conclusion.

After holding back for a long time, she couldn’t help it anymore, pointing to Shen Xuan’s words and commenting: “Your words…” Halfway through, she abruptly swallowed the word’so ugly’ that came to her lips and changed her mouth. Said, “Like a student’s character.”

In the eyes of everyone, Shenxuan should write an arrogant cursive script, but on the contrary, Shenxuan’s writing is correct and correct. It is not ugly, but it is definitely not good-looking, at most Call it neat.

No wonder, how many of those who have been sold to the palace to be eunuchs have read books seriously? Xiao Changning finally found a little confidence. Although she has no power to bind a chicken, she is not as elegant as her ten Shenxuan on the dance and the ink.

Shen Xuan was successfully distracted by her, her eyes fell on her handwriting, her brows were slightly frowned, she seemed to be dissatisfied with the more she looked, she suddenly raised her hand to tear off the page, crumpled it and threw it into the paper basket. .

Xiao Changning was a little sorry: “Hey, isn’t it to encourage you? How did you throw it away?”

“I don’t write well, so I naturally want to throw it away.” As she said, Shen Xuan slowly closed the impermanence book, under her slanting sword eyebrows, a pair of bottomless eyes fixedly looked at her, “Jiu Wen Changning long princess painting and calligraphy pair Absolutely, can your Highness condescend to write a post for the superintendent to copy?”

In his field, Xiao Changning has always been generous. After chatting with Shen Yun, she became more courageous, and a sly gleam in her eyes, “The calligraphy of this palace is very popular.”

Shen Xuan sat opposite and smiled with her arms folded: “The Governor is not very human, he is the husband of His Royal Highness.”

The author has something to say: I’m just a child who has graduated from kindergarten for 20 years. Don’t always tell me about cars and cars. The flowers of the motherland mean that I don’t know what you adults are talking about…

One day the factory father was at home alone, took off his pants and shaved his legs, and was hit by the princess, so the eunuch’s vest was stripped off, and the princess was killed. The whole play ended… (excitedly rubbing his hands)