Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! - Chapter 33

In the palace.

The lotus roots in the lotus pond were covered with a layer of ice and snow, and in the vast expanse of white, a few withered lotuses stood abruptly on the ice surface against the snow. On the rock next to the lotus pond, Xiao Huan held a fishing rod and sat alone on the cobblestone to fish, rubbing his fingers that were red from the cold from time to time, and let out a white breath.

Liang Yourong walked here with Yu Kou and saw this scene: a young man dressed in fox fur, sitting alone in the ice and snow, fishing.

The sky was freezing and the water was freezing, but he stared at the waveless fishing line without blinking. Liang Yourong thought: Is this a fool? ‘Lonely boat, Liao Li Weng, fishing alone in the cold river and snow’, this is the leisure and elegance unique to the hermits of the rivers and lakes, the prisoner in the palace, how can there be such unrestrained capital?

Perhaps curious, she motioned Yu Kou to stop and walked forward alone, stepping on the snow with clean deerskin boots, disturbing the young boy fishing by the pool.

Xiao Huan almost stood up, his eyes wide open, and he looked at the girl in red who broke in abruptly, with a flushed face.

Liang Yourong looked at Xiao Huan’s ornate red sandalwood-colored and gold-embroidered clothes, and almost recognized his identity at a glance. This young boy who is as tall as her, Yomo is her future husband… She is still very childish, as handsome as the younger brother next door, not like an emperor.

“Your Majesty is like this, you can’t catch fish. The sky is freezing, and the fish are hidden under the ice, and they are frozen.” She said, her tone was as cold and clean as the ice and snow, without the slightest emotion.

“I know, I’m just not in a good mood. I want to come up with something to calm my mind.” Xiao Huan hesitated and looked at the beautiful and capable girl in front of him curiously, and asked: “Who are you? I have never seen you… …”

“Although your majesty has never seen a courtier, he must have heard of it.”

“Ah, I see! You are the queen mother…”

“Hush!” Liang Yourong stretched out her index finger to press her lips, and said, “Quiet.”

For some reason, there was always a convincing power in her, Xiao Huan couldn’t help but stopped her mouth and asked her with his eyes.

Liang Yourong ignored his eyes, only took out a willow leaf knife from her arms, and her cold gaze tightly locked somewhere under the ice layer. The next moment, she shot like a gust of wind, and the willow leaf knife from her like lightning. The fingertips shot out, pierced the ice, and sank into the water with a grunt.

Not long afterwards, wisps of blood stained under the ice, and a red carp with a big tail turned its white belly and floated out of the ice-breaking water.

There was also a familiar lancet knife stuck in the fish.

Xiao Huan stayed for a while, took a step back, staring blankly at the girl in the red dress in front of him, his lips closed several times, and he couldn’t make a sound.

Liang Yourong turned to look at him, beautiful and deserted, and said in a voice that was still not wavering: “If catching a fish makes your majesty happy, then this fish will be given to your majesty.”

After that, she turned and left, and the scarlet cloak drew a gorgeous arc in the white snow, like a red plum blossoming cold and proud.

Xiao Huan looked at Liang Yourong’s back and then at the dead fish in the lake, tears falling down with a clatter of tears.

…This future queen is terrible!

East plant.

The distant mountains were shrouded in a hazy and cold snow and mist, and the top and bottom were white, with only a few petals of plum blossoms dotted with crow-blue eaves, as quiet as a timeless ink painting.

He couldn’t help pinching her chin, leaning in and kissing more passionately, with the spicy aroma of wine on his lips and tongue, just like his people.

After a long kiss, the two of them split their lips. Xiao Changning panted, his cheeks were hot, and even the ends of his eyes were stained with brilliant pink, staring blankly at Shen Xing’s face close at hand.

Shen Xuan stared at her, her meridian protruding hands could not help lingering around her waist and abdomen.

Xiao Changning had never seen such deep eyes, so deep that they seemed to swallow her whole person.

“Shen Xu, what are you… what are you doing?” Xiao Changning asked with a moist luster in his eyes, reflecting the vast snow.

“I’m kissing you.” Shen Xuan asked without evasiveness, and was frankly frightening. I don’t know if it was affected by desire or because of strong alcohol. Her always low voice was a bit dull, and asked, “You hate this. ?”

“No…” Maybe it was the drunkenness, or maybe he couldn’t bear such a warm and straightforward kiss from Shen Xuan. Xiao Changning felt that his whole body was panicked, his thoughts seemed stagnant, and he couldn’t find a way out for catharsis. She raised her hand in a daze, her slender and white fingertips with ink marks, gently stroking her moist lips.

His temperature still seemed to remain there.

Xiao Changning shook his head lightly, and asked dazedly: “My palace just doesn’t understand. If Admiral Shen does this kind of thing without saying anything, it will make my palace feel very confused…”

Shen Xuan held her face in one hand, brushed her blushing cheek with her thumb, and said in a deep voice, “What do you want me to say?”

Xiao Changning bit her lip to look at her, eyes filled with mist, and whispered: “There are some things, if you say it naturally, I will be happy; if you reluctantly say it in order to cater to me, even if I hear me I won’t be happy if I want to hear…Shen Xuan, do you understand?”

Shen Xuan frowned, as if thinking about the meaning of her words.

Xiao Changning adjusted his gaze, suddenly laughed hurriedly, and sucked his nose softly and said, “My palace is a little drunk and nonsense. If you are troubled by what you said just now, just treat it as if you didn’t hear it.”

Xiao Changning has always been too strong to drink. After drinking a glass of strong wine, the heat on his body was blown by the cold wind, and he felt a little bit of chills, and his eyelids were plump, heavy and sleepy. She swayed up, before she stood still, she was hugged in her arms by Shen Xuan and hugged sideways.

“Slow down, Shen Xu!” Xiao Changning shrank into Shen Xuan’s arms and said with red eyes, “My palace is dizzy.”

Shen Xuan couldn’t help her, Yiyan slowed down, and a smiling voice steadily heard from the top of her head: “Since the amount of alcohol is so bad, don’t be arty with the minister.”

Xiao Changning hummed feebly, “Well, this palace knows that he is useless.”

Shen Xuan’s mouth twitched, and she just hugged her out of the pavilion without comment. As he walked around the corridor, he said: “Although I don’t know what your Highness is worried about, I will thoroughly understand your highness’s problems. Now, I will send you back to the room to rest first.”

In the future, Xue, the Governor will accompany you to reward you, and the Governor will drink for you. And you, just need to be with me forever like now…Shen Xuan stared at Xiao Changning in her arms, thinking so.

No one knew that the obsession in his heart had already grown quietly in an unknown corner, flooding into disaster.

Shen Xuan killed all her life, and didn’t understand this obsession. It was also the embodiment of love…

When Xiao Changning woke up, it was dusk, the light outside the window was dim, the snow was clear, and it was white again.

She rubbed her temples and got up, suddenly seeing the figure beside the couch, she was stunned, and said: “So you are still here.”

Shen Xuan was sitting at the desk with her back facing her. She was wiping the blade with a clean cotton cloth. Hearing the movement of her getting up, she did not turn around. She focused on the work in her hands and whispered: “The chicken soup is hot on the stove. Get up and drink a little.”

Xiao Changning still looked ignorant after going to bed, and slowly said “Oh”, and asked, “Today, don’t you need to take Fanzi out to monitor?”

Shen Xuan put down the sharply wiped knife, and replied: “It’s snowing, I gave them a half-day vacation.”

Xiao Changning leaned back on the couch, rolled around with the quilt, and said sullenly: “Stolen a floating life for half a day, it is the tranquility before the blizzard.”

Shen Xuan knew that she was referring to the Taimiao ancestor worship at the end of the month, and she couldn’t help but chuckle, put down her blade and looked back and asked, “Is your Royal Highness afraid?”

“With you by my side, I won’t be afraid, but I’m a little nervous.” Xiao Changning lay on the couch and looked at him, eyes black and shiny, and said, “I have never seen such a big scene in this palace.”

Shen Xuan seemed to be dissatisfied with this answer, slowly bending a leg, propped her right hand on her knee and said, “His Royal Highness, remember what did your Highness warn your Highness when you taught you self-defense moves?”

Xiao Changning thought about it for a while and replied: “Don’t trust anyone credulously.”

“Yes. Everyone in this world is untrustworthy except you. Your Royal Highness trusts the minister too much.” The corner of Shen Xuan’s mouth was hooked, but her eyes were unexpectedly serious, and she slowly said, “The so-called powerful is just because of me. Know more about making choices than ordinary people.”

“What’s the meaning?”

“Those who make great things will kill those who deserve to be killed, and abandon those who should be discarded before they can sit on this high platform built of heavy bones. Your Royal Highness will understand it sooner or later.”

There was a dim light in his eyes, reflecting the cold light of the knife, as if he had returned to his blood-soaked appearance when she was married. Before the arrival of a melee, Shen Xuan always seemed so majestic and powerful, as if standing on the top of ten thousand people, only allowing the world to look up as an ant.

Xiao Changning thought for a moment, but a thought flashed through his mind.

Suddenly she sat up and said seriously: “At the end of the month, you will be worshipping your ancestors, and this palace will go with you.”

Shen Xuan seemed to have anticipated this earlier, and did not make an evaluation, but only asked: “That must be a dangerous journey, can your Highness figure it out?”

“There are many traps for ancestor worship, and it is indeed dangerous, but it will only be more dangerous if this palace stays.” Xiao Changning paused, then analyzed, “As the emperor’s attendant, Dongchang will definitely come out when worshipping the ancestor, then Dongchang The factory has become the most defensive place in the capital. A person in this palace who has no power to restrain the chicken will stay. Not to mention the danger, it is very likely to become a burden for you. If you go back to the Bi Palace, you will inevitably fall into it. Under the control of the Queen Mother, thinking about it, it’s safest to follow you.”

Shen Xuan’s eyes moved, and she smiled and said, “When has your Highness been so smart?”

“Don’t make fun of me.” Xiao Changning put on his clothes and socks, then went to the bed and knelt down beside Shen Xuan, “What should you do?”

Shen Xu was silent for a while, and continued to pick up another thin knife to wipe, and said casually: “When the time comes, your Royal Highness will follow the emperor’s chariot, and protect yourself when necessary.”

“I’m asking you what should you do?”

Shen Xuan did not speak.

After a long while, he lifted his eyes, a flash of chill flashed in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: “Your Majesty, please worry about it, the governor has never been defeated.”

Just this one word, utterly loud.

The wind blew the window sashes, and a gentle sunset came through the snow-covered branches and through the window lattices, hit Xiao Changning’s body, and brightened her eyelashes.

She looked sideways at Shen Xuan, her lips opened, and then calmly said: “After the sacrifice to the ancestor, can we have a good talk?”

Shen Xuan wiped the sword and asked, “Can’t we talk about it now?”

“Not now.” Xiao Changning squinted his eyes, his pupils were plated amber by a ray of sunset, like that expensive tortoiseshell cat. She propped her chin and said, “The war is coming. Don’t be upset. When you and I return safely, I will leave everything to you.”