Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! - Chapter 51

The strong wind that blew all night last night stopped a lot this morning. The rare winter sun poured from the clouds and passed through the bare pear branches in front of the court, casting a mottled shadow by the window.

Sitting in front of the bookcase, Xiao Changning spread out a piece of pure rice paper, moistened the ink with the wolf’s pen, and sketched on the paper little by little. First, there is a pair of flared sword eyebrows, the peaks of the eyebrows rise, like a short sword folded sword, and the heroic spirit is pressing. Some people say that such eyebrows are the main culprit and are sexually violent, but Xiao Changning felt infinite tenderness in it.

Under the slanting sword eyebrows, a pair of long and narrow eyes are low and low pressure. The pupils are indifferent brown in the sun, but they are extremely black in the night. Xiao Changning still remembered that last night, Shen Xuan stared at herself with such deep eyes, with desires in her eyes, like a monster that can bewitching people at night.

Under the eyes, there should be Ying’s nose and slightly thin lips. Those two lips should be hot, strong, kissing themselves desperately, devouring all reason…

The tortoiseshell cat leaped onto the book case and stepped on its paws from the inkstone, leaving a line of small plum blossoms on the rice paper.

Recalling the scene yesterday, Xiao Changning’s wrist was shaking a little, and his palm was hot, as if the temperature and touch of Shenxuan’s secrets still remained there. The pen was unstable, and she was afraid that it would ruin the appearance of a man, so she simply put the pen back, blushing and staring at the eyebrows in the painting on the table in a daze.

Shenxuan, Shenxuan, Shenxuan is full of hearts and minds.

“What are you thinking?” A deep voice came from behind, and then, a pair of long arms stretched out her hands to embrace her, and the end of her nose smelled the familiar clean male breath. Shen Xuan put her chin on her neck and chuckled softly, “Draw me?”

Xiao Changning returned to his senses, not even knowing when Shen Xuan appeared behind him, he couldn’t help rolling up the unfinished portrait in a panic, and turning around and said: “I was scared to death…Um!”

Before she finished speaking, Shen Xuan had accurately blocked her lips, and asked vaguely between her breath: “Miss me?”

Xiao Changning panted lightly, with crushed sunlight in his eyes, and said with a low smile: “Think a little bit.”

Shen Xuan looked at her half-empty, her thick eyebrows slightly raised.

Xiao Changning stood up and looked at him, and asked, “How about you? Do you miss me?”

Shen Xuan learned her tone and said, “A little bit.”

Xiao Changning was angry and funny, but even with such a meaningless conversation, she was filled with sweetness. Thinking of business, she asked Shen Xuan’s waist, “Is everything done?”

Shen Xuan said ‘um’, her expression remained unchanged, and it seemed that the wind and rain would not be feared in the future.

“You said, when will Huo Wei choose to do it?”

“If you count on the nearest time, New Year’s Eve or Lantern Festival, these two days are the time of the palace banquet. People come and go, and it is easy to mix in one or two people with unpredictable hearts.”

Xiao Changning nodded approvingly.

Shen Xuan was staring at her, rubbing her lips slowly with her thumb, and suddenly asked, “When will you be better?”

The topic changed suddenly, and Xiao Changning was stunned for a while, only to realize that he was asking when Kui Shui was finished, and he couldn’t help but blush, and said, “It’s over… three, four, five, or six days.”

She said vaguely, Shen Xuan frowned, and said with dissatisfaction: “The Governor will do a routine check every night until your Royal Highness is well.”

It’s probably an unscrupulous ‘check’, Xiao Changning said in embarrassment: “You’re enough.”

Shen Xuan smirked and twisted her hand behind her back, before pressing her on the case table for a long, deep kiss. Since the two opened their hearts, the deep smiles in private have increased. They are not as cold and terrible as before, and they have become more naive and unreasonable.

Two days later, it will be New Year’s Eve. According to the old rule, there will be a banquet for ten tables in the palace to entertain the relatives and wives of the emperor. Xiao Changning and Shen Xuan are naturally among the guests.

Long ago, Yue Yao and Jiang She led the twenty-four factory guards to clear the way in front of the hall, and Shang Baosi arranged a table and wine and food. When he arrived at the Fengtian Hall, Xiao Changning asked Dong Sui and Xia Lu to wait outside the gate. He and Shen Xuan walked side by side and bowed to the young emperor sitting on the dragon chair. Then, under the guidance of the inner servant, he took a seat with the upper seat.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Huan invited Liang Yourong to come today. The so-called’tree down the hoop scattered’, the Empress Dowager Liang controlled the court for several years and accumulated a lot of grievances. Since the fall of the queen dowager, the hundred officials were quite dissatisfied with Liang Yourong. After several letters to Xiao Huan, he was suppressed. Liang Yourong invites you to the hall in an imposing manner, and you can imagine the subtlety and embarrassment of the atmosphere.

“Please see your majesty, long live your majesty!” Baiguanshan called Long live, but turned a blind eye to Queen Xiaoliang on the left side of the emperor.

Liang Yourong’s pale face became even more white. Although he didn’t say anything, he could see that he was uncomfortable.

Xiao Huan shook Liang Yourong’s hand calmly, and whispered something to her. Liang Yourong lowered his eyes and pressed his red lips, his face finally not so pale.

“Admiral Shen.” On the dragon chair, Xiao Huan’s appearance of sitting upright with his back is indeed a bit of the majesty of an emperor. He asked, “According to Qing’s opinion, what should I do with Xiao Wanan, the daughter of the Liang family who is abolished empress dowager?”

Shen Xuan got up and walked out, clasped her fists in salute. He raised his eyes, met Xiao Huan’s eyes, and then said: “This matter is not in the scope of the East Factory, and it is entirely up to the emperor to deal with it.”

Xiao Changning nodded slightly. Xiao Huan mostly used this to test Shen Xuan’s ambition, and Shen Xuan’s answer was indeed the most appropriate.

“Princess Wan’an originally had a marriage contract with Yu Yunqing, the Fusi Fusi of Jinyiweinan Town, and now Yu Yunqing is dead. As his survivor, Princess Wan’an must abide by her virginity.” After a pause, Xiao Huan squinted his eyes and smiled: ” Why don’t you send it to Ganlu Temple for practice?”

Xiao Changning was surprised in his heart. Where is Ganlu Temple? Poor and arduous, remote and barren, with many precepts, where it is clearly said that it is practice, but it is actually imprisoned. It is really better to die for a pampered princess.

However, she deserved it.

Just as he was thinking, there was an old official from Yushitai, and he bowed and remonstrated: “Your Majesty, the queen is also a party of the Liang family, this…”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Huan faded his smile, and interrupted Yu Shi in a deep voice: “The queen will always be my queen, this will not change, Aiqing needn’t say much.”

Xiao Chang quietly stared at the seemingly innocent little emperor on the dragon chair, thinking: With a word of life, a word of death, this is Huan’er’s true ability.

“I don’t know what the emperor thinks. I would rather withstand the pressure of the ministers and keep the enemy’s niece by his side.” Xiao Changning stared at the delicacies of the mountains and seas on the case table with interest, and said, “So, my palace is down. Some pitiful Liang Yourong is a wild crane soaring freely. He has become a canary who cannot be free in this deep palace.”

Shen Xuan on the side pressed her knees, holding the glass cup with one hand, and slowly said, “After playing a game of chess for a long time, she has been moved by the chess pieces. It’s a pity to kill, but it’s a pity that she can only stay so embarrassed. By your side.”

Outsiders can’t interfere with other people’s stories. Xiao Changning sighed, changed the subject and said, “In a moment, shall we go out to watch the fireworks?”

I thought that Shen Xuan was not interested in these beautiful things, but who knew he deserved it and said, “Okay.”

Because it was the first three years of the new funeral of the first emperor, there was no sound of singing and dancing in the palace, only the pyrotechnics that lasted for a quarter of an hour. In an instant, a patch of red, yellow, green and purple rose up around the palace, like pear blossoms and stars, illuminating half of the night sky lively and beautifully like a fairyland.

The fireworks seemed to fall into Xiao Changning’s eyes, bright for a while and dark for a while. She quietly grabbed Shen Xuan’s sleeves, turned her head and said, “Shen Xuan, happy Chinese New Year.”

The corners of Shen Xuan’s mouth rose slightly, and she looked down at her, her meager lips opened and closed slightly, and she uttered a few words.

It coincided with a series of fireworks blooming, and the world was full of deafening bangs. Xiao Changning did not hear clearly what he was talking about, and could not help raising his tone: “What did you say—”

Shen Xuan did not want to say it a second time. She only pressed her under the red lacquered pillars that no one could see, raised her black cloak to cover her face, and kissed her gently among the fireworks and flowers under the cover of the cloak. Her lips.

The kiss broke away at the touch of a touch, because there were attendants coming and going not far away, which gave birth to a bit of escort-like tension. Xiao Changning really had nothing to do with him, clutching his hot lips and said: “Don’t make trouble, go back…”

These words sounded like begging for joy, Xiao Changning’s face turned red, and his mouth was dumbfounded.

Shen Xuan nodded and teased her solemnly: “Okay, go back and continue.”

It just so happened that the fireworks were coming to an end, Xiao Changning couldn’t look directly at Shen Xuan’s hot sight, so he turned his head and left. After only two steps, he found a person rushed out of the flowerbed at the end of the corridor.

Taking a closer look, it was Liang Yourong who was wearing a golden phoenix robe.

Liang Yourong’s complexion was not good, so he hurried forward without paying attention to Xiao Changning and Shen Xuan hidden in the shadow of the corner. Xiao Changning didn’t know what was wrong with her, just about to step forward to say hello, and heard a few rustling noises from the path of the flower garden, she had to stop, and she hid in the corner of the corridor with Shen Xuan.

Over there, Xiao Huan, wearing a vermilion-embroidered golden dragon robe, ran all the way, grabbing Liang Yourong’s hand and calling out, “Queen, what’s the matter with you?”

The worry in Xiao Huan’s tone didn’t seem to be a fake, but Liang Yourong seemed to be stimulated. She asked calmly and sadly: “Your Majesty specially brought the concubines to the banquet, is it to humiliate the concubines?”

Xiao Huan was taken aback.

About Mo was afraid of hurting Liang Yourong, he finally let go and said weakly: “I don’t have any, I just want to be with you…”

“You have.” Liang Yourong said, “After I am a criminal minister, I shouldn’t be here. Your Majesty deals with Princess Wan’an in front of me, isn’t it just to humiliate my self-esteem?”

Xiao Huan’s lips moved, and a dazed expression appeared on his face. Then, this dazedness gradually faded and turned into sadness in his eyes.

“Sister Rong thinks of me that way?”

“The emperor, because the concubine once helped you, please give me a good time. After the abolition, relegation, or death, it’s up to you, as long as you don’t stay here…”

“Impossible.” With tears in his eyes, Xiao Huan paced helplessly for two steps, and said in a choked voice, “Impossible. You are my queen, and you said you want to protect me!”

“I can’t protect you, the emperor.” Liang Yourong had tears on her face, reflecting the clammy light in the moonlight, and said, “Let me go.”

“You can’t go!” Xiao Huan’s eyes were red, like a child who lost his candy, only repeating, “You can’t go, Sister Rong. To me, you are never the same, do you know differently from them? , I have…”

Bang, bang—

The last batch of fireworks bloomed, covering up Xiao Huan’s trembling voice. The night sky was like ink, and in the fireworks that changed from purple to yellow, the young couple looked at each other from a distance of ten feet away.

After listening to people’s corner, Xiao Changning sighed, took Shen Xu’s hand and walked back, sighing with emotion: “Suddenly I feel that this palace is a very lucky thing to be with you.”

Shen Xuan did not speak, but held her back tighter.

Squeak-bang!

The dazzling red light suddenly appeared, turning half of the sky into a **** sunset.

Xiao Changning’s eyes were stung by the sudden red light, so he turned his head away, squinted and said, “What kind of firework is this? It’s red as blood.”

“It’s not the fireworks, it’s the signal of the East Factory.” Shen Xu’s eyes drenched, and she said coldly, “Huo Wei has come to rescue her.”

“He really came? Then you…”

“It’s just catching turtles in the urn. The minister first sent the hall to the Fengtian Hall.” Shen Xuan dragged Xiao Changning around the corridor, passing through the palace people, and handed her to Lin Huan, who was standing outside the hall.

Shen Xuan touched her cheek, and said in a low voice: “His Royal Highness waits for a while in the palace. Don’t leave Lin Huan no matter what happens.”

Xiao Changning nodded, holding a thousand words in his throat, only one sentence in his mouth: “You have to be careful, I’ll wait for you.”