Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! - Chapter 61

Xiao Changning sat on the couch, shrugged his shoulders, and gently sniffed the cloak wrapped around him. The black cloak was big, like a night covering her whole body, and she smelled the faint smell of dust after a long journey.

Xiao Changning asked, “Is the matter that Bei Di did not settle yet?”

Shen Xuan did not answer. He just took off her cloak, put it on the side of the couch, and then sat beside her and asked, “Why don’t you tell me when you enter the palace today?”

Touching the concern in Shen Xu’s eyes, Xiao Changning felt a little guilty and replied in a low voice: “You have been so busy these days, why would my palace be willing to disturb you with these little things? I thought that there would be nothing to do for half a day. Who knew it would be.”

Hearing this, Shen Xuan stretched out her hand and hugged her into her arms, rubbed her cheek against her neck, and whispered: “Don’t be so careless in the future. Your business is more important than other things.”

Xiao Changning smiled and nodded obediently and said: “Okay, I must report to you in time when I go out for action in the future.” After thinking about it, she asked again, “You must have official duties to deal with. Let’s go back soon, OK? ?”

Shen Xuan was silent for a moment, then raised her head and said, “Changning, there is no need to go back to the East Factory today.”

Xiao Changning was stunned for a while before asking, “You don’t have to go back to the East Factory…what does it mean?”

Shen Xuan raised her hand to caress her cheek, traced her eyebrows and eyes with her fingertips like infinite affection, rubbing the silver iron wristband against her chin, causing a cool tremor. He called her name, “If you stay in Xibi Palace for a few days, someone will take good care of you.”

“What about you?” Xiao Changning asked almost subconsciously, in an urgent tone, “How long is’temporary’?”

“Maybe a few days, maybe a few months.” Shen Xuan kissed her lips soothingly, her eyes were deep, and she said as deep as possible, “I will visit you often.”

Xiao Changning suffocated his breath and pushed Shen Xu away abruptly.

“A few months?” As he spoke, Xiao Changning’s eyes gleamed, and his eyes were red, “Since he married you, my palace has never been separated from you for so long. At the beginning, my palace avoided you, but it happened. Can’t hide from you, now I don’t want to hide, you have to abandon me again…”

“You know that’s not the case, Changning.” Shen Xu reached out to touch Xiao Changning, but she avoided her again.

Perhaps she had already anticipated something from the moment she woke up in a coma. At this time, hearing that Shen Xuan wanted her to stay in Xibi Palace alone, confirmed her conjecture. The anxiety and perseverance in her heart are like floods. Breaking the embankment rushed her emotions to pieces.

With tears in his eyes, Xiao Changning pressed his lips for a moment, then gently put his hands on the flat lower abdomen, and asked: “You tell my palace, is there a child in my palace?”

“Yes.” Shen Xuan was calm, stroking her slender and clean palms along her waistline, and finally landed on her lower abdomen, clasping her five fingers tightly, her voice softened a lot, “Our child.”

“This month’s letter date has not come, this palace should have thought of this…” The conjecture in his heart was confirmed, and Xiao Changning had a hint of joy across his face, but soon, this line of happiness was replaced by deep worry.

After the ancestor worship at the New Year’s Pass, the palace has been turbulent, and the secret of Shen Xuan’s identity has been in danger under Xiao Huan’s suspicion. And this time she was pregnant unexpectedly, which undoubtedly put another layer of frost on the dangerous situation in Dongchang. Thinking of the way Shenxuan and Xiao Huan were talking in the waterside hall just now, and thinking of Xiao Huan’s somewhat gloomy face, Xiao Changning was even more flustered.

“That’s why you are eager to separate from me?” Xiao Changning clasped Shen Xuan’s hand back, “Shen Xuan, what did you say with Huan’er? The child in my belly will cause you trouble, right?”

“This is a happy event, not a trouble. As for my identity, the emperor knows that it is only a matter of time, you have to believe that I can handle it properly.” Shen Xuan reached out her hand to stroke the wet marks on the corners of her eyes, her voice calm and reliable, “As for letting you stay Washing the Bi Palace is a joint decision made by me and the emperor. The murderous spirit in the East Factory is too heavy, and there are few female dependents. The fan in the factory does not know how to take care of pregnant women, which is not good for your pregnancy.”

Xiao Changning always felt that things were not so simple. She stared at Shen Ying’s handsome face in a daze, at the hostility remaining between his eyebrows, and asked: “You have nothing else to hide from this palace?”

“No.” Shen Xu said.

“You swear?” With tears hanging from the corner of Xiao Changning’s eyes, he ferociously grabbed Shen Xu’s clothes, the tip of his nose almost matched his, and said seriously, “I’ll give you a chance to tell the truth. No matter what your difficulties are, I am willing. Take it with you. But if you lie to me, even for my own good, I will not forgive you in the future!”

Seeing her holding on to her momentum, Shen Xuan sighed, kissed the teardrops from the corners of her eyes little by little, and then moved down, putting the hot kiss on her lips. Xiao Changning was angry in his heart and bit his lower lip fiercely until he tasted a faint smell of blood between his lips and tongue.

Shen Xuan hummed lowly, instead of withdrawing, she kissed more passionately like a beast that had seen blood.

“Don’t cry, Changning.” He panted in her ears, his gentleness mixed with the arrogance of the first sight, “When did I lie to you.”

Xiao Changning asked aggressively, only to get such an ambiguous result. She felt bored, and she simply lay on the couch and covered half of her face with a quilt, and turned around to not see him, as if she was using her back to interpret her anger.

“Changning?” Shen Xuan shook her shoulder, Xiao Changning ignored.

“Madam?” Shen Xuan squeezed her palm, and Xiao Changning threw it away.

There was a low laugh behind him, and there was no movement for a moment. Xiao Changning lay on the couch with the quilt on her side, her eyes rolling and her ears catching the breath behind her. Seeing that there was no movement for a long time, she couldn’t take care of her anger. She thought to herself: Did Shen Xu leave?

After a while: I won’t really leave myself and go!

After a while, Xiao Changning finally couldn’t help it, turned over and sat up, calling out, “Shen…”

Then he was stunned. The handsome Dongchang admiral was sitting on the side of the couch holding his breath, and smiled triumphantly at her.

It turns out that he hasn’t left! Xiao Changning suddenly became angry, embarrassed and embarrassed. He straightened up and fell back on the couch, turning his back to not want to see him.

Knowing that if she really couldn’t see herself, she was afraid that she should be anxious again, so she also took off her soap boots and outer robe, and lay side by side on the couch with her, hugged her waist from behind, and sniffed her hair. Jian Xiang said in a low voice: “Are you not angry?”

For a long time, Xiao Changning said dullly: “I’m angry. I know you have concealed things from me.”

Shen Xuan just hugged her tighter, kissed her neck with hot lips, and said cautiously: “I may have a bad reputation in my life, but you alone, I don’t want to hurt anything.”

Xiao Changning’s heart moved, and most of the anger in his heart had disappeared, leaving only the melancholy, like fructose, sweet and sour.

She moved in Shen Xuan’s arms, turned around and hugged his strong waist, her face arched on his chest, and then she opened her mouth to bite on his heart, and cursed, “Asshole.”

Shen Xuan admitted in a low voice, “I am.”

At sunset, Ah Zhu made a hot crystal shrimp porridge, accompanied by a plate of glutinous duck letter and beef jerky. Shen Xuan and Xiao Changning had a meal together, and after waiting for her to freshen up, she leaned on the couch and chatted with each other. Before long, Xiao Changning yawned a long time, looked for a comfortable angle in Shen Xuan’s arms, drowsy, and let out long and steady breathing sounds shortly afterwards.

The darkness swept across the earth quietly, during which the maidservant warmly lit a candle in the temple, covered the lampshade, and then quietly retreated. Shen Xuan has not been asleep, only looking at Xiao Changning’s quiet sleeping face in her arms, her eyes indistinguishable from the light of the jumping candle.

After a long time, he kissed Xiao Changning’s slightly opened lips, and then slowly withdrew his hand and put on his clothes to go to bed.

Opening the gate of Xibi Palace, a deep night came over the sky, and the steep night breeze rolled up Shenxian’s cloak, swaying a dark arc under the light.

Shen Xuan faced the fire, the warmth in her eyes faded, and she returned to her former cold aura. He stood in the hunting wind with the knife, his jaw slightly raised, and he looked at the more than a hundred Dongchang Fanzi who were waiting outside Xibi Palace.

The fans were all in dark black martial robes, and when the admiral went out, they knelt neatly. The fans were about to ask for peace, but Shen Xuan Shen Shen raised her hand to signal them to silence.

Xiao Changning was sleeping, and he didn’t want to wake her up.

“The factory superintendent, Jin Yiwei has taken the lead.” Fang Wujing, also in a black martial arts robe, tied his wrists with a red rope, and said with a fist towards Shen Xuan.

Shen Xuan nodded, and asked, “Several brothers who died in the factory, can they be buried properly?”

“It has been buried today. There are parents and relatives at home, and they each gave twenty taels of pension silver.” Fang Wujing said, “I heard that Jin Yiwei also folded a few elites, and they can assassinate them within the scope of Dongchang and Jinyiwei. It seems that this group of Beidi Xizuo has a clear picture of our personnel deployment.”

Shen Xuan twisted her long eyebrows, her narrow eyes brewing killing intent, and slowly said: “The barbarians who are thousands of miles away are so clear about the deployment of the Jingshi factory guards. There is only one possibility.”

Fang Wujing played with the knife between his fingers, and said clearly: “In Jinyiwei or Dongchang, there are traitors colliding with the enemy.”

Shen Xuan rubbed the handle of the knife with her thumb, and said: “Let Youfu stay in the East Factory to pick up and re-arm. In addition, Jiang will be transferred to Xibi Palace on duty. You and Lin Huan’s team leaders will go out with the governor to seize the work. .”

Fang Wujing said ‘yes’, and then opened his mouth, a little bit hesitant to say nothing.

“Say if you have anything.” Shen Xuan said casually.

Fang Wujing gave a dry cough and said cautiously: “You deliberately left the long-speaking officer Jiang with a speech illness by your Royal Highness Princess. Do you want to tell her that someone in the East Factory was assassinated?”

Shen Xuan was silent for a while, before Fang said: “The defense of the East Factory is leaked. It is already not safe. The Governor does not want her to risk staying there. It would be better to sell the emperor’s favor.”

On the day of pulse diagnosis, Wu Youfu said that Xiao Changning had suffered from frostbite when he was a child, and his body was a little weak, and he was pregnant at this time. Shen Xuan was afraid that she would know the random thoughts, so she wanted to hide it for a few more days, and waited for everything to stabilize before telling her, who knows the temporary accident…

Xiao Changning fainted, and the emperor knew that she was pregnant; Changwei was killed one after another, and both Dongchang and Jinyiwei were in an unprecedented crisis.

This fierce battle was even more dangerous and terrifying than the ancestral worship palace at the New Year’s Pass, because the enemy was hiding in a dark place that they could not see, and they knew their defense actions well.

“The subordinates are worried that the princess will misunderstand what, after all, you left her when she needed special care…”

“She can’t help with this. Knowing it will only add to worries and worries, and it will be very detrimental to her body recuperation.”

Hearing this, Fang Wujing said nothing more.

Shen Xuan calmed down, resisting the desire to look back at Xibi Palace, waved her hand and said solemnly: “Go!”

Xiao Changning woke up in the middle of the night, stretched out his hand to touch his side, the bedding was slightly cool, and the temperature of Shen Xi was gone.

The green veil of Xibi Palace was soaked in the deep night, and it looked vague and indistinguishable. Xiao Changning was no longer sleepy, lying on the couch with his eyes open, very angry in his heart.

Perhaps it was easy to hurt the spring and sad autumn during pregnancy, she was angry, and tears shed unsuspectingly.

Shen Xuan left again, without even waking herself up to say goodbye. Xiao Changning rubbed his wet eyelashes and thought: Never mind him again next time!

However, I haven’t seen him for a few days, and Xiao Changning’s heart is empty again, as if he had been cut out by life.

The Xibi Palace was protected very safely by the men shot by Jiang, even the emperor had to pass through layers of barriers to come in to visit. Seeing such a battle, Xiao Changning felt the tension of the situation no matter how stupid it was, and gradually, he stopped asking about Shen Xu’s whereabouts.

On this day, Xiao Huan retired and visited Xiao Changning after washing the Bi Palace.

Xiao Changning sat by the window practicing calligraphy, watching the young emperor in a golden dragon robe lifted the bead curtain and walked in, and laughed: “Inadvertently, the emperor has grown so tall.”

A year ago, Xiao Huan was only as tall as Xiao Changning, only half a year later, he was actually two inches taller than her, and his stature was even more upright and handsome. If it were another two or three years, he would be a handsome and handsome man from Fengshen.

However, there was a trace of unbearable fatigue and worry in the eyes of this handsome young boy. He sat across from Xiao Changning and said, “Sister A’s body is getting better?”

“Thanks to the emperor’s blessing, it’s much better.” As she said, she continued to write, and then asked, “Where is the emperor?”

“I’m pretty good, too.” Xiao Huan ordered someone to present a brocade box, and when he opened it, there were two small cans of stone-colored paint. Xiao Huan said, “Give these two cans of dark blue to Sister A, and use them to dye the landscape, which can keep the picture scroll from color for thousands of years.”

Xiao Changning paused, and glanced up at the two precious jars of Dailan, “How did the emperor know that this palace is lacking this kind of stone color for painting?”

Xiao Changning only mentioned this pigment with Shen Xu a month ago. This extremely precious azure blue is native to Persia and is extracted from lapis lazuli. It is extremely precious. Although there have been a few taels in the palace, there are many impurities, far less pure than the two pots in Xiao Huan’s hands. .

Such bright and clean blue should be more precious than gold, and it can be met but not sought.

Xiao Huan was obviously stopped by Xiao Changning. After a pause, Fang smiled and said: “It happened that an envoy paid two tributes, and it was a waste to put it here. I remembered that A sister happened to be good at Danqing, so I sent it here.” As he said, he begged softly, “Sister, please accept it.”

Xiao Changning glanced at the exquisitely packaged precious paint again, the corners of his mouth raised imperceptibly, and said ‘um’, “Just put it aside.”

Xiao Huan put the paint on the case table, and heard Xiao Changning ask: “The emperor’s complexion is not very good, and his eyes are so tired, but what annoyance has happened?”

Since moving back to Xibi Palace in the past few days, Xiao Changning has broken contact with Shen Xuan. Jiang She is a boring gourd who refuses to speak. She has Shen Xuan in mind, but can’t help it. It happened that Xiao Huan came, and she wanted to take a side look at the situation in the East Factory. Who knows that Xiao Huan is also very strict, saying, “Everything is stable.”

Xiao Changning snapped a picture of the brush, stopped practicing, just looked at Xiao Huan and said, “You don’t want to lie to me, what did you say to Shen Xuan?” After a pause, she added, “Or say , What did you trade with him?”

“Sister…” Xiao Huan was a little aggrieved, and said weakly, “Is it in A sister’s eyes that I am such a person who disregards family affection and can attack his calculations?”

Xiao Changning looked at him without speaking.

Xiao Huan explained: “Admiral Shen entered the palace pretending to be a eunuch, and then occupied Auntie and did not return it. As a result, Auntie became pregnant. At the beginning, I was really angry. I was so angry that I could not wait to kill him.”

Xiao Changning took a breath.

Xiao Huan hurriedly raised his voice and said, “But I also know that A sister likes him very much. I have hurt you once, so I hate Shenxuan again, and I don’t want to hurt you a second time because of him. Besides, Bei Di Xizuo is a teacher in Beijing. The assassination attempted to dismantle Jin Yiwei and Dongchang. It was just at the time of employment. I would not be so stupid at this time…”

Speaking of this, Xiao Huan realized that he had missed his mouth, his voice stopped abruptly, and looked at Xiao Changning in a panic.

Xiao Changning had already figured out the cause and effect based on his words: Maybe it was because of the crisis in the Dongchang factory that Shen Xuan decided to send her to Xibi Palace to recuperate at this time?

The heartbeat was a bit fast, Xiao Changning tried his best to stabilize his mind, and said to Xiao Huan: “Whether it’s strategizing or winning a thousand miles, this palace doesn’t understand it. This palace only knows that people in this palace can’t have husbands and children can’t have fathers. .”

Xiao Changning gently covered Xiao Huan’s clenched fist, and said firmly: “So, after this turmoil is over, no matter what your chances are, please let Shen Xuan go, and let yourself go.”

Xiao Huan opened his mouth and stopped talking.

Xiao Changning seemed to have expected what he wanted to say, and interrupted him: “My palace knows what you are afraid of. Recently, there has been a lot of rumors in Korea. Some people say that the admiral of the East Factory is nine thousand years old, and the long princess is 1,000 years old. It is the Lord of Long Live. There will only be one Long Live in the palace, so you are afraid. In this turmoil, you want him to come back alive, but you don’t want him to come back alive, right?”

Xiao Huan was slightly lost, and then laughed at himself, the knuckles of his clenched fists turned white, “Sister, do you think of me that way?”

Xiao Changning just smiled, and slowed down his voice: “The emperor should know now, what kind of sad experience it is to be misunderstood and suspected?”

Xiao Huan was startled.

Xiao Changning looked at Dai Lan on the case table, and said softly: “No matter how the history books judge it, it also cares about thousands of years. It just wants to stay with him for a hundred years.”

Xiao Changning will always be like this. There is no harsh remarks, and he has never cried or cursed, but a light and fluttering sentence can always hit Xiao Huan’s heart directly, making him unable to hide. He should have known that this sister is just as weak and naive on the surface as he is, but in fact, her heart is more sensitive and delicate than anyone else.

“I’m sorry.” Xiao Huan lowered his head and whispered like a kid who did something wrong, “Admiral Shen asked me to transfer this paint to you. Although he doesn’t say anything, I know he misses you very much. .”

Xiao Changning smiled slightly and said calmly: “My palace knows.”

Xiao Huan opened his mouth, turned around his mouth, and was swallowed back into his abdomen, only to allow Xiao Changning to have a good baby, and then got up and left.

As soon as Xiao Huan left, Xiao Changning didn’t even bother to practice calligraphy, and his eyes were always uncomfortably attracted by the two cans of paint on the case table. She simply picked up a can of paint, supported her chin with one hand, and opened the lid with the other. She twisted the daisy powder with her fingers, as if the warmth of Shenxuan remained on her head, and she smiled at the corners of her mouth.

“Fool.” She whispered with her fingertips shining elegantly in the sun, “If you send it by yourself, this palace will be happier.”

Xiao Changning stayed in a daze, until the knock on the door sounded, Jiang She’s clear voice rang out, and said with difficulty, “Yue, Yao.”

Jiang She was inconvenient to speak, and Xiao Changning guessed: “Is Yue Yao here?”

Outside the door, Jiang She nodded, and then feared that she would not be able to see, and said in a low voice: “Yeah.”

Xiao Changning hurriedly put away the paint, patted the powder on his fingertips, and said with joy: “Let her in quickly.”

Yue Yao wore Jinyiwei’s official uniform, with her long hair tied into a black gauze hat, and when she entered the door in the sun, she was still muttering: “Hey, now I am coming to Xibi Palace to visit His Royal Highness, and I have to be freed.”

Xiao Changning knew that Yue Yao had a special status, and the Emperor Xian made a benevolence, allowing her to kneel down and remove the knife. Now that she comes to Xibi Palace, she has to search for sharp swords. Most of her heart is not happy. She said: “Chief Jiang was also ordered to act. For the sake of the face of this palace, the more sister, don’t hate him.”

Yue Yao saluted and sat across from Xiao Changning and said, “How come you are a magnificent warlord?”

“He is not dumb, but he is not very good at talking.” Xiao Changning grabbed Yue Yao’s hand, “You just came here, I have something to ask you.”

Yue Yao said generously: “His Royal Highness, please.”

“What the **** is going on with you Jinyiwei and Dongchang? Shen Xuan put me in Xibi Palace and haven’t shown up for several days.” Xiao Changning asked, “But what happened?”

Yue Yao smiled and said, “Your Highness, don’t worry, the evil is left for a thousand years, and Admiral Shen is very good.”

Seeing her saying that Shen Xuan was a ‘scourge’, Xiao Changning raised his eyebrows pretendingly, and patted Yue Yao’s forearm lightly: “Nonsense again.”

Yue Yao let out a cry, her eyebrows were frowning with pain. Xiao Changning was used to jokes with her, and was taken aback by her unexpectedly, and hurriedly said: “My palace is not working hard! Why is it so painful?”

“The minister is injured.” Yue Yao unwrapped her wristbands, revealing the bandage on her forearm, frowning bitterly, “There is still a hole in her shoulder, otherwise the minister would have time to visit you on vacation?”

Xiao Changning said: “Why do you get so badly injured?”

“It’s not because of those Beidi Assassins who appeared inexplicably.” Yue Yao summed up what happened the past few days in a few words.

On that day, Yueyao and Wen Lingyin followed the Beidi guys in the band in plainclothes. They found the informant who had responded to them. They were the steward of a certain scholar. The two sides fought, and Beidi committed suicide by taking poison. This is the clue. Interruption… This was supposed to come to an end for the time being. Who knew that that night, Yue Yao was assassinated while reporting to the Jinyiwei General Mansion! If Wen Lingyin hadn’t arrived in time for the shot, she might not have escaped.

“Later we learned that there was someone in Jinyiwei who had collided with the enemy.” Yueyao omitted the strong kiss of Commander Wen in the band, and only picked up some thrilling details and said, “I heard that Dongchang will not stop. Several people have been assassinated.”

Xiao Changning was shocked, and the five fingers on the case table curled up unconsciously.

For a moment, she calmed down a little, and made a cup of hot tea for Yue Yao, her eyes fell unconsciously on the bandage wrapped around her arm, and smiled: “Whoever bandaged your wound, this knot is very special. Listen to Shen Xuan. It seems to be the usual way of dressing in military camps.”

“Really?” Yue Yao raised her arm to look at the wound and smiled, “Master Wen bandaged me.”

“…” Xiao Changning looked at Yue Yao a little inexplicably, “Do you think Wen Lingyin is a little weird to you?”

“Yes!” Yue Yao slapped his thigh and said, “He always follows the surveillance minister!”

Yueyao recalled the past few days. Since the Lefang incident, Wen Lingyin has appeared in front of her more and more times. After she returned from the inspection, Wen Lingyin stood at the door of Fusi in Beizhen and called her coldly: “The more you caress.”

When she came back from drinking over the wall in the middle of the night, Wen Lingyin stood at the door and called her gloomily: “The more you caress.”

She was assassinated and wounded, Wen Lingyin strongly pulled her arm up to dress her with medicine, while calling her with complicated eyes: “The more caresses…”

Zhu Ying shook, Yue Yao finally couldn’t help it, and cautiously wondered: “Did the humble job do something wrong, Master Wen?”

Wen Lingyin’s pale lips opened, and then she lowered her cold eyelashes, tied a strong knot to her bandage, and whispered: “No, just call you.”

The more you caress, the more you caress…

Yue Yao simply fled and went to Xibi Palace to find a clean.

After listening, Xiao Changning laughed so badly.

Yue Yao looked at her with an inexplicable smile, and asked, “What is your Highness laughing at?”

Xiao Changning said: “Double happiness is here, shouldn’t this palace laugh?”

Yue Yao took a sip of tea, confused and said, “What is double happiness?”

“One is Xiyue sister finally found a beloved, and the other is Xi…” She put her hand on her lower abdomen and smiled, “My palace is pregnant, you are going to be an aunt.”

“Puff!” Yue Yao almost spewed a sip of tea, she didn’t know where to start in shock.