It was night, Gu Qingwan sat in the small room facing south, was exposed to the sun during the day, and only added an ice bucket in the evening to cool down, compared with the main house, it was still a little hot.

Although Gu Qingwan was only covered with a thin blanket, the room was a little stuffy, and she couldn't calm down because she was unstable, so she stayed up until midnight to get a little cooler.

In the end, she didn't sleep well, and in a daze, she felt that someone was sitting on the edge of the bed, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on Gu Qingwan's back, and she was scared awake.

The man had the light on his back and couldn't see his face clearly, Gu Qingwan held her breath and looked at it fixedly, and vaguely recognized that the person next to the bed was Zheng Rui, so she breathed a long sigh of relief.

After the fright, she was more annoyed, and Gu Qingwan also forgot that she was treating Zheng Rui coldly now, and pushed him and said: "You don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing sitting on the edge of my bed without saying a word, do you understand that people are scary and scared to death?" ”

Zheng Rui turned against the light, and his eyes looked even brighter in the dark.

Outside, Jin Hai kept vigil, and when he heard Gu Qingwan's voice, the lights outside lit up. Gu Qingwan looked at Zheng Rui through the light outside, and saw that he was looking at herself a little stunned, his expression was a little solemn and serious.

Gu Qingwan had never seen Zheng Rui have such a look, and her heart beat a little faster for a while.

As soon as she wanted to speak, she heard Jin Hai ask through a screen, "Princess, do you want the slave and maid to come in and serve?" ”

Jin Hai looked over the screen and looked inside, and was a little shocked when he saw someone next to the bed, and when he saw that it was Zheng Rui, he hurriedly exclaimed: "Wang...... When did the prince come over......"

Jin Hai has always slept lightly, and she almost never slept during the vigil today, so Gu Qingwan only said one sentence and she woke up and asked. There is only one door in the small study, and you have to pass through the small couch placed by Jin Hai outside, but when Zheng Rui came in, she didn't hear any movement at all.

But the lights in Gu Qingwan's room were all blown out by her, and there was no one else in the room at that time, and for a while, Jin Hai wondered if she had slept halfway without knowing it. I'm a little apprehensive.

Zheng Rui lowered his eyes, didn't turn his head to look at Jin Hai more, his eyes were fixed on Gu Qingwan's face, and his voice was a little deep: "You don't have to come in." Leave a lamp, and you don't need a vigil tonight, so you go down first. ”

The affairs in King Rui's mansion have always been Gu Qingwan's final say, not to mention that Jin Hai is still Gu Qingwan's dowry maid, she just listened to Zheng Rui's words, and subconsciously glanced at Gu Qingwan.

Gu Qingwan's mouth moved, and finally nodded slightly.

"Yes. The slave and maid went down, and now that the time has passed, please ask the prince and the princess to rest early. Jin Hai put the red candle on the sour branch wooden table next to the screen, and then quietly retreated.

When she heard the sound of the door of the small study closing, Gu Qingwan also came back to her senses from her shock. She moved to the inside of the bed and sat up, wiped the sweat on her forehead again, and then looked up at Zheng Rui, who was still a little stunned. He looked back at him with a blank face.

But after waiting for a full quarter of an hour, and not seeing Zheng Rui say another word, Gu Qingwan's mood that had finally become noisy cooled down again. A little tired said: "It's late at night, I'm going to rest, please take care of yourself." ”

As he spoke, he rolled up a thin blanket and lay down again, with the meaning of rushing people between his words and deeds.

Zheng Rui didn't know what he was thinking, and stared at Gu Qingwan for a long time, Gu Qingwan closed her eyes and felt that his gaze seemed to be glued to her face, and she couldn't help but panic. When she finally ran out of patience and wanted to speak, she felt that it was dark in front of her, and the room was plunged into a night.

Gu Qingwan couldn't see anything for a while, she frowned and wanted to sit up. But he only felt a warmth on his body, but it turned out that Zheng Rui and his clothes were lying up.

The bed in the small study is a small couch three people wide, which is very spacious if it is one person, but it is a little narrow when one person is squeezed in.

Gu Qingwan only felt that Zheng Rui's behavior tonight was a little weird, but she had expectations in her heart. But the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. Disheartened, she thought that no matter how Zheng Rui tossed, she didn't care anymore.

Moved a little to the other side of the wall, Gu Qingwan rolled the thin blanket on herself again, even if it was stuffy, she couldn't care about it, she turned over and thought that it would be good to fall asleep.

The two were in a stalemate for a long time, Gu Qingwan was still asleep, only to feel that there was a fire in her chest that was burning more and more, and she wanted to turn over and kick the person next to the bed down, but now she could only nest in the corner and pretend to be calm.

After a long time, Gu Qingwan heard a sigh from behind, and her voice was heavy and seemed to be relieved. As soon as her heart moved, a pair of hands passed under her waist and easily made her turn over.

There was only one small window in the back of the small study, and most of the moonlight was blocked by the screen, and the light flowing in could only allow Gu Qingwan to slightly identify Zheng Rui's outline. The moonlight was ancient and long, and Zheng Rui's hand on her waist was so hot that it almost grabbed Gu Qingwan's heart through the thin brocade.

She looked up at the sparkling eyes on the pillow, and a sour feeling rushed into her sockets.

She felt that the grievances she had never felt had swept over the world, even if she had been lingering on the sickbed for more than half a month instead of Gu San, even if the people of the Gu family were very cold to her, even if Gu Mingli and Xiao Sun jointly calculated her, she never felt wronged.

Because for the Gu family, Gu Qingwan has no sense of belonging.

But Zheng Rui is different, the marriage was forced by the situation, but it was also something that Gu Qingwan made up her mind after struggling. Since entering the Rui Palace, she has taken the mentally deficient Zheng Rui as her responsibility, because she knows that she has to be tied to Zheng Rui for the rest of her life, coupled with Zheng Rui's simple nature, she never defends, and Gu Qingwan has become accustomed to this kind of life in just over a month.

Even if Zheng Rui is mentally insufficient, he is not stupid and stupid, sometimes Gu Qingwan also thinks that it may not be bad to live like this.

From beginning to end, this family affair was Zheng Rui's plan, and when Zheng Rui was killed by Gu Qingyan in Huaiwang's mansion, Gu Qingwan stepped into the trap.

Zheng Rui can't keep pretending to be stupid, and when King Jing becomes a big deal, he can make up any reason. She and Zheng Rui were married by Emperor Yufeng, and the position of Princess Rui will always be hers as long as she is alive, but at that time, the relationship between her and Zheng Rui only stopped there.

"You...... Is there anything you want to ask me? A slightly hoarse voice sounded in the quiet night, Zheng Rui lowered his head against Gu Qingwan's forehead, close enough to hear each other's breathing.

Gu Qingwan's heart was beating like a drum, but she still separated the distance between each other with her hands, and asked rhetorically, "Then what do you want to say?" ”

"Didn't you guess it all? I was burned that night, I'm afraid I said a lot of nonsense, and you left the maid in the house to guard me alone, so you must have some scheming in your heart. Zheng Rui was slightly relieved when he saw Gu Qingwan's response.

Gu Qingwan hesitated for a long time before she said in a muffled voice: "It's one thing I guessed, and it's another thing for you to say it." ”

Zheng Rui was silent, and only after a while sighed and said, "You have been cold to me every day for the past month, just because of this incident?" ”

"What do you mean by just this thing?" The smile on Gu Qingwan's face disappeared in an instant, she pushed Zheng Rui, and when she saw that she couldn't push, she could only lean back by herself, "If I hadn't noticed, had you ever planned to confess?" Are you ready to hide it from the public? ”

Zheng Rui didn't speak, and Gu Qingwan sneered: "I guess I'm not wrong." ”

After saying this, she was stunned, but she felt that she was so calculating, as if she had drilled the tip of a bull's horns. The sharper Gu Qingwan's tone became, the calmer her mind became.

Zheng Rui noticed that Gu Qingwan's attitude was a little colder, so he leaned in Gu Qingwan's direction, and said without a preface: "The maids who used to serve by my side were Shuangxi and Shunxi, and later changed to Dongzhu and Nanyu, and they all set up beds in the back room for vigil, and only after lighting benzoin did I dare to sleep with confidence." ”

This benzoin Gu Qingwan has also heard, it is a colorless and odorless incense that is easily imperceptible, it is said that as long as you inhale it, you will fall asleep [The polycer is very gentle, and it is not harmful to the body, and it is best for people with insomnia or light sleep. But this incense is very precious, although it is not priceless, but it is also very silver-burning.

Gu Qingwan frowned and glanced at Zheng Rui, and then listened to him: "Since I moved out of the palace at the age of fifteen, the people who have served by my side are not necessarily all people who can be trusted, and such days have passed intermittently for four years. ”

"You let the maid go to the outside to keep vigil, but I really like it, but a month after the wedding, I hardly slept at night." Zheng Rui pressed his forehead against Gu Qingwan's again, and said in a deep voice, "In the study in the outer courtyard, there is still a box of benzoin. It's not like I didn't want to go on any longer, but it didn't work for you. ”

Benzoin is different from drugs, although it can make people fall asleep, but if there is a lot of movement in the outside world, it will still wake people up. If Zheng Rui used benzoin on her, she would probably not be able to detect it.

Zheng Rui only said that he didn't sleep for a month after the wedding, and in the next few months, he didn't dare to sleep with her even though he didn't have benzoin, but he didn't know what other means he used.

"I just know that you want to be left." Zheng Rui sighed and covered Gu Qingwan's eyes with his hand. Gu Qingwan was facing the light, but Zheng Rui could see her expression clearly through the faint light that flowed in.

"Even from Zou Simin's behavior, you should be able to see some clues." Zheng Rui's hand never took off Gu Qingwan's eyes, and he raised his other hand and groped by the pillow to hold Gu Qingwan's long hair together.

Gu Qingwan was surprised by the meaning of Zheng Rui's words, her eyes that were slightly closed suddenly opened, and her eyelashes brushed over Zheng Rui's palm, which made his fingers move.

"This matter is not only related to me, but even the imperial sister-in-law doesn't know, I don't want to hide it from you, but I can't tell you." He smiled a little strangely, "If you see the clue yourself, it's none of my business." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )