Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! - Chapter 43

In the Hall of Nourishing the Heart, Xiao Huan sat silently behind the case for a few moments, folded the secret letter in his hand and threw it into the charcoal basin.

The red sandalwood-colored clothes made him pale and straight, and his eyes were bright, but his eyebrows were as calm as an adult man, as if it were just a matter of overnight growth. He clicked on the case with his fingers, staring at the flame burning in the charcoal basin and said: “Go and invite Miss Yu Kou over, I have something to ask her.”

“Yes!” The unknown hidden guard clasped his fists and quickly disappeared outside the door.

The secret letter in the brazier burned out, and went out with a sneer, turning into black ash and floating in the winter wind.

There were rapid footsteps approaching, and then a young waiter bowed outside the door and said: “Report to your Majesty, the empress is awake.”

Xiao Huan was staring at the charcoal basin in a daze. Hearing the words, the condensed depth in his eyes disappeared, and a flash of joy flashed.

When Xiao Huan rushed to Kunning Palace, Liang Yourong, with a bandage on her shoulders, was bracing her body for a stay. She bit her pale lips, frowning her brows, and dripping sweat on her forehead. Several maidservants carefully supported her, and said worriedly: “Manny, your injury is still not healed. Let’s lie down and rest! What do you want, the maidservants will take it for you.”

Liang Yourong’s long hair is scattered, and his face is even more distressing. She shivered and stubbornly pushed away the maids who came to support her, gritted her teeth and said: “My palace wants to see your majesty.”

“Queen.” Xiao Huan turned out from behind the hidden screen and strode forward to support Liang Yourong’s slender figure. There was obvious worry in the slightly hoarse teenage voice, and said: “I am here, what can I say? You lie down and talk to me.”

As he said, he gently and forcefully laid the dazed Liang Yourong on the couch, carefully covered her with a bedding, and then instructed the maidservants who bowed to the ground: “Let the dining room cook a few bowls of medicated food, and then Prepare hot soup and dry clothes, and wait for the queen to bathe and change clothes.”

Liang Yourong stared at Xiao Huan quietly.

For some reason, she woke up in a coma, but found that her younger husband had changed a lot. He is still young and innocent, but he no longer hesitates to speak, and his eyes are no longer timid and evasive. He still smiles ignorantly, but besides ignorant, he has a little bit more impenetrable majesty…

The servants and maids around Xiao Huan all replaced a group, and the eyeliner of the original queen mother was completely pulled out. Now the minions in Kunning Palace are all new faces. They are quiet and obedient, but they are very strange.

“Queen,” Xiao Huan, sitting beside Liang Yourong, interrupted her contemplation, and said worriedly, “Are you okay?”

The serious injury was not healed, Liang Yourong opened his mouth, his voice as if polished with sandpaper, and asked dumbly: “Your Majesty, where is the Queen Mother?”

Xiao Huan did not answer her question, only asked: “Does the wound hurt?”

Liang Yourong looked at him and repeated it again: “Your Majesty, what happened to the Queen Mother?”

“Hey.” Xiao Huan sighed helplessly, and said aggrieved: “Why is Sister Rong always so persistent? The queen mother is suspected of rebelliousness. She has been under house arrest in the side hall of Ci Ning Palace and is watched every day. Don’t worry, I won’t move her until the Dongchang arrests Huo Que and brings her to trial.”

This was the first time Xiao Huan called her “Sister Rong”, she was very intimate, but Liang Yourong had no thoughts. She only knows: Xiao Huan said that he would not move the queen mother before he caught Huo Que, which does not mean that he would not move her in the future.

Liang Yourong has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she has an extraordinary sensitivity to danger. For example, at this time, she understood that Xiao Huan had a murderous intent, and his killing intent was hidden under a pure and harmless appearance. He was deeply buried and hated. It’s also very deep.

Liang Yourong suddenly felt sad.

She knows the truth of the tree falling and the hustle and bustle, and once the Queen Mother’s conspiracy is committed, the Liang family will completely fall, and even she will not be spared. She did not regret choosing to stand beside Xiao Huan at the last moment, but she was very guilty because she became a sinner in the Liang family.

Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to complete.

Liang Yourong knew that she was not qualified to ask for Xiao Huan’s forgiveness, but she still tried to plead with a faint voice, “No matter whether Huo Yan can be arrested and brought to justice, the concubines are willing to demote themselves to be useless and confine themselves to the cold palace with the Queen Mother. Remnant life.”

Confinement of the cold palace can at least save the life of the queen mother and fight for the Liang family’s chance to survive.

But Xiao Huan obviously disagrees.

He opened his eyes slightly, and then held Liang Yourong’s hand across the bedding, and smiled: “What is the queen talking about? The queen is good at saving, how can I have the heart to send you to the cold palace? Don’t talk nonsense, take care…”

“His Majesty.”

Liang Yourong interrupted him. Her eyes flickered, she struggled, lifted the quilt, got up, knelt on the couch, folded her hands in front of her forehead, and slowly bowed to Xiao Huan to the end, her weak voice already begging a little, and said: ” The concubine was born with the surname Liang and did not dare to survive, so he begged his majesty to abolish the concubine as a general, and wish the ancient Buddha of the blue lantern to pay for the sin of the Liang family.”

The light in the room was quiet and soft. Xiao Huan sat on the side of the couch, watching Liang Yourong’s soft black hair fall from his shoulders, and watching her trembling shoulders, falling into a long period of contemplation.

At that moment, his eyes were dark, and if thousands of thoughts flashed by, he slowly returned to peace.

“You don’t know, today is my birthday. Don’t say such things, okay?” Xiao Huan frowned, his eyes lit up, and he reached out his hand to support Liang Yourong who was bowing to him, and said aggrieved, “The queen will always be me.” The queen, you can’t go anywhere except by my side.”

Liang Yourong opened her lips, but before she could say anything, Xiao Huan stretched her fingers on her lips and said in a pitiful tone, “I like the carp that the queen gave me, and I like when I’m in danger. The queen held my hand tightly. Queen, you said you would protect me forever, did you forget?”

Xiao Huan’s fragile appearance seemed to have returned to the scene when he first saw it: lonely, helpless, and pitiful.

Thousands of words came to my lips, but I didn’t know what to say. Liang Yourong was stunned for a moment before she said dumbly: “However, your majesty no longer needs the protection of his concubines.”

“No, my foundation is not stable. It is when the queen is needed.” Xiao Huan looked at Liang Yourong expectantly, reached out and grabbed her cold fingertips, and said, “Now the situation is uncertain, sister Rong, you will always be with me. ,right?”

His eyes are too clear, as if there is no trace of impurities, but they are so deep, so deep that they can’t guess the true thoughts in his heart.

Liang Yourong was so at a loss for the first time, struggling to advance and retreat, struggling to move forward. She wanted to refuse, but she couldn’t bear to refuse. The first encounter ten years ago, the marriage ten years later, even if the blood and blood are cold, can this bond be broken?

There was a treacherous silence in the room, Liang Yourong turned her face aside, avoiding Xiao Huan’s sight, her eyelids drooped wearily, covering the wetness and struggle in the bottom of her eyes.

Xiao Huan wanted to persuade her a few more words, but her thoughts were interrupted by the voice of the waiter.

“Your Majesty, Miss Yu Kou is here, waiting in the side hall.” The attendant bowed outside the screen to announce.

“I know.” There was something serious to deal with at the moment, so Xiao Huan could only hold Liang Yourong’s fingertips comfortably, and whispered, “After the queen showers and changes clothes, remember to eat some medicated food, so you can rest. I will see you again, son.”

After that, he gently hugged Liang Yourong across the bedding and said, “Wait for me, Sister Rong.”

The day was hidden into the clouds, the wind was blowing, and the remnant snow on the glazed tiles fell with a clatter, and fell in front of the steps, and was stepped into muddy water in a flash.

In the side hall, seeing Xiao Huan’s figure appear outside the door, Yu Kou quietly bowed and bowed, and said in a low voice, “Slavery Yu Kou, knock on the emperor.”

Xiao Huan condensed the warmth in his eyes, and his gaze fell on the ugly maid, as he entered the room and said: “The girl is calm and has merit, don’t be polite, just get up and sit down.”

Yu Kou stood up obediently, but did not take his seat. He only stood on one side with his head down, waiting for Xiao Huan’s hair to fall.

Soon a maidservant brought up tea, Xiao Huan personally handed a cup of tea to Yu Kou, smiled gently and asked, “Is the girl from Hanoi?”

Yu Kou took the tea cup with both hands and replied: “My Majesty, yes.”

Xiao Huan continued: “The girl has done a great job and should have been rewarded. I am thinking about making the girl a homeowner and allowing you to return to the river to build a mansion to support your parents, how about?”

This reward is too heavy for the mere palace maidservant. Yu Kou quickly raised his eyes and glanced at Xiao Huan, then lowered his eyes quickly, and said calmly: “The slave and maid’s parents are dead, and the poor don’t dare to receive this gift.”

“Sorry, I don’t know that the girl’s parents passed away.” Xiao Huan blinked and asked like a usual chatter, “That night when the Queen Mother Palace changed, when the girl stood up and uniformed the Queen Mother, she mentioned a sweetheart…the girl doesn’t need to mind. I don’t mean anything, but I don’t know something and I want to ask the girl.”

Xiao Huan paused, and curiously said: “That night you said that your sweetheart died at the hands of the queen dowager, so you gave up your life and took the queen dowager with a knife, using this as the lover of Jiuquan who hated Jiuquan. I was touched by the girl and that ignorance. The man’s affection led people to find out who the girl’s sweetheart was, but I was very puzzled: the girl’s sweetheart was called Shen Qi…”

Hearing this, Yu Kou’s hand holding the tea cup shook slightly, and the tea rippled in the cup.

Xiao Huan didn’t seem to notice her little gaffe. He was still full of doubts and naively said: “But as far as I know, Shen Qi is the old name of Dongchang Admiral Shen Xuan, and Admiral Shen is still alive and well? May I ask. Girl, why did you die by the hand of the Queen Mother?”

In the east factory.

Xiao Changning was full of doubts, and he didn’t have to have a younger brother. She stared at Shen Xi as if she didn’t know him, and said in a daze: “My palace always thought that Shen Qi was your old name…”

She paused for a while, apparently remembering something, and muttered to herself: “I remember. Yueyao said that seven years ago, Shen Qi, who was the supervisor of ceremonies, served his father and went out of the palace in Qiu Shou. After returning, she seemed to have changed. It’s like a person… After returning from Qiu Shou, you swapped identities with Shen Qi?”

Speaking of this, Xiao Changning shook his head with a headache, his thoughts knotted, and ignorantly said: “But if you are not Shen Qi, where did the real Shen Qi go?”

That is definitely not a good memory.

Shen Xuan’s long eyebrows were slightly twisted, her eyes cooled down, and she said for a moment: “He’s dead.”

“Dead?” Xiao Changning was taken aback, his expression could not be described as shock. She stretched out her hand to stroke the outline of Shen Xuan’s cheeks, stopped her fingertips on his sharp eyebrows, and whispered, “So, you replaced him and entered the palace for him?”

It’s too unbelievable!

Xiao Changning said, “But, how did you do it? Before you replaced him, he had been an **** in the palace for more than three years. Many people knew him, met him, and just looked at him… you are How to hide it from everyone?”

Shen Xuan sighed softly, leaning into her ear and said: “Changning, Shen Qi and Shen Xuan have the same surname, don’t you understand?”

With a word awakened the dreamer, Xiao Changning’s pupils shrank: “You…”

Tuk tuk ——

The sound of a rapid knock on the door sounded especially abrupt in the quiet afternoon.

Xiao Changning was taken aback, looking for fame, and heard Fang Wujing’s feminine voice sound outside the door, very solemn: “My lord, a letter from the palace, Yu Kou was taken away by the emperor!”