Chapter 41: Covering Up a Romance
The voice of the person who came was full of playfulness, and the breath he exhaled was also a little fiery, this voice ...... It's clearly Ji Gongzi!
Xi Shi's eyes grew in an instant, and he reached out to push him away. was about to open his mouth and shout "Someone is coming", but Ji Gongzi took the lead and reached out to cover her mouth.
"If you want to save your life, don't scream." Ji Gongzi said indifferently.
Xi Shi blinked, indicating obedience, and then Ji Gongzi let go of his hand.
"Y-What are you going to do?" Shih Tzu asked in a whisper.
Ji Gongzi smiled and said in a low voice, "I'll see if the rumors are true." ”
Hearsay? Xi Shi's first reaction was to think that he was talking about the rumor that "those who have Xi Shi win the world", so he asked again: "What is there to explore in the market, and you want to break into the boudoir in the middle of the night?" ”
Ji Gongzi leaned over and said, "I'm naturally not interested in those rumors, but I heard that you and Fan Li have a deep relationship, and I want to see if that's the case." When I saw him today, he rushed back from thousands of miles to see you, and I believed it. ”
Xi Shi's heart throbbed for a moment, but he still stiffened his mouth and returned: "Xi Shi was just taken care of by some General Fan's favor, so someone made a big fuss and misunderstood us. It seems that this trip to Ji Gongzi is going to be in vain. ”
Ji Gongzi returned with a smile: "Come in vain, you have to wait and see." ”
After that, Xi Shi didn't open his mouth to reply, only to hear the window being pushed open again, and there was a soft "squeak" sound.
Ji Gongzi smiled: "It's here." ”
Xi Shi guessed that the person who came must be Fan Li, and his heart couldn't help pounding.
Sure enough, it was Fan Li who turned into the window.
Fan Li quietly flipped in, not yet aware of the situation inside. It wasn't until I walked into the bedroom in the dark that I was stunned by the scene in front of me.
As soon as Fan Li came in, she saw Xi Shi lying on the bed wrapped in a quilt, and a man was sitting next to her bed.
Fan Li suppressed the restless emotions in his heart, and after coming back to his senses, he whispered to Xi Shi: "Miss Xi Shi, Ling Ci will explain to you that when you go to Wu Country in the future, you will return peace to your family from time to time." I just woke up to deliver the news, but I didn't know that Miss Shih Tzu had an appointment with someone and visited late at night, so I'm really sorry. ”
After that, Fan Li was leaving.
Xi Shi looked at Ji Gongzi, thinking that it would be better to let Fan Li go, and he would explain it tomorrow.
But Ji Gongzi chuckled lightly and called Fan Li.
"General Fan came in such a hurry, why did he leave in such a hurry?"
Fan Li paused when he heard the sound, and before he could reply, he saw the man get up and walk to the table and light the candle.
The candlelight changed from weak to strong, and Fan Li gradually saw that the man was the envoy and the princess.
Fan Li's expression darkened, and he returned: "Entrusted by others, I don't dare to slack off." I wonder why the envoy is here late at night? ”
Ji Gongzi calmly sat on the stool, and returned in a lazy tone: "I heard that Miss Xi Shi used to meet with a man late at night, so my king asked me to investigate this matter. Unexpectedly, it would be probed on General Fan's head. ”
Xi Shi clenched the corners of the quilt with both hands, thinking about how to deal with it in a hurry, and was also worried that Fan Li would be difficult to withstand Ji Gongzi's questioning.
But Fan Li sat on the stool opposite Ji Gongzi with the same calm and calm, and replied to Ji Gongzi's sharp question with a smile.
"It is Fan's honor to be able to spread such rumors with Miss Xi Shi. Miss Xi Shi is beautiful and fragrant, and there are rumors that she assists men to win the world, even my king does not dare to touch Miss Xi Shi, let alone Fan Moujiewufu. ”
Ji Gongzi looked at Fan Li with a smile and said, "Miss Xi Shi and the other two Yue girls, as long as they enter our Wu Palace, they will be the women of King Wu." No matter how they were in Yue before, King Wu didn't care about it, but from the moment they stepped into the land of Wu, they were the women of King Wu. General Fan, do you understand? ”
After listening to him, Fan Li's kind smile froze on his face.
Xi Shi originally thought that Fan Li would quickly adjust his state to respond, but he didn't expect that the smile on Fan Li's face would gradually fade after a moment, and it would be replaced by a cold, murderous look.
"You don't have to tell me that. Since it was the intention of King Wu, let him tell me personally. ”
Fan Li's tone was unyielding, and between the two competing against each other, Xi Shi was ready to solve the siege.
But the next moment, Ji Gongzi said, "Oh? He sighed, then slowly put his hand behind his ear.
Xi Shi suddenly woke up, remembering the first time he saw Ji Gongzi, and noticed that he seemed to be wearing a mask on his face. Don't...... His true identity is......
Ji Gongzi stretched out his hand behind his ear, and Fan Li watched his movements defensively.
I saw Ji Gongzi's fair-skinned and slender fingers gently pinching a layer of skin behind his ears, and then pulled hard, tearing the entire thin skin bag off his face.
Xi Shi sat behind Ji Gongzi, it was difficult to see his true appearance, and he could only see Fan Li's expression gradually change from defensive to frightened.
Wu ...... King Wu?! ”
This person who entered the Yue Palace twice as an envoy and talked and laughed with the King of Yue and the ministers turned out to be King Wu!
Xi Shi heard Fan Li call Ji Gongzi "King Wu", as if he had been hit in the head. Hurriedly knelt down with Fan Li and saluted.
"I've seen King Wu!"
Wu Wangfucha still sat there calmly, twisting the thin leather mask in his hand with his fingers, and said softly: "I didn't expect that General Fan, who has always been gentle and elegant, would be so aggressive. Since you think that a little envoy is not qualified to speak to you, is it enough for the widow to tell you personally? ”
Fan Li knelt on the spot and did not look up, and said in a muffled voice: "I don't know that King Wu is here, please forgive King Wu!" ”
King Wu chuckled lightly and said, "The widow really wants to forgive your sins. One forgives you for being involved with a widow's concubine, two forgives you for your disrespect to a widow, and three forgives you for lying and deceiving a widow. Can you plead guilty? ”
Fan Li was stunned, thinking to himself, whether he "pleaded guilty" or "did not admit guilt" was not the best choice.
In the gap of stunned eyes, the husband almost impatiently said, "Huh? He replied with a prompt.
Xi Shi looked at Fan Li, who was originally high and spotless to her, like an immortal, but now she was so humble and weak at the feet of King Wu, and she couldn't help but have some complicated emotions in her heart.
Looking at the tense atmosphere on the field, Xi Shi knelt on the ground and whispered: "King Wu is aware of everything, Xi Shi will no longer hide it from you." ”
Fan Li hurriedly stopped it when she heard the sound, and shouted "Xi Shi" to keep her mouth shut.
But Xi Shi turned his head and said to Fan Li: "General Fan doesn't have to worry, it was originally Xi Shi who admired and obsessed you when he was young." That's why you fell into gossip, and now in front of King Wu, Xi Shi will explain everything clearly, so that you don't have to explain it later. King Wu, what do you say? ”
Xi Shi's eyes looked at King Wu sincerely and firmly, and King Wu raised his eyebrows and said, "It's okay." ”
Although he had heard everything about Xi Shi and Fan Li clearly before, the husband still wanted to hear what lies this little woman could make up. I don't know how she will react when she sees Yin 13 become her staff.
Thinking about it, Fucha felt more and more interesting in his heart.
Where did Xi Shi guess that Fu Cha had already found out everything through Yin Shisan, and thought that he had just listened to the words of the market, so he began to explain "conclusively": "Xi Shi was originally just a wild girl in the village, and thanks to General Fan's refusal to give up, he could have the opportunity to get out of that small village." Therefore, she also has many girlish feelings for General Fan. But at that time, he was still young, and he was only in his prime, and he didn't know what male and female love was, but he had admiration for General Fan. And General Fan has always been careful to abide by his duty, and while taking care of Xi Shi, he still keeps his distance from Xi Shi. As Xi Shi got older, he really understood that his mission was to go to the Kingdom of Wu to serve King Wu, and he also understood that his feelings for General Fan were just admiration. Therefore, these rumors are nothing more than Xi Shi's wishful thinking towards General Fan when he was young. Xi Shi is careless, General Fan abides by etiquette, and hopes that King Wu will not blame General Fan, it is Xi Shi's rudeness first. ”
Xi Shi "Let's go, let's go" a big push, and the husband was a little dizzy, so he couldn't help but support his forehead, and waved his hand: "Let's get up and talk back first." ”
Only then did Xi Shi and Fan Li stand up, and the atmosphere in the room was instantly much more relaxed.
Fucha raised his eyes and looked at Xi Shi, Xi Shi blinked, and innocent and beautiful appeared on his pure face, which made people unbearable to blame.
Although the husband knew that Xi Shi was talking nonsense, he thought that Fan Li had not seen Xi Shi for a year, and the relationship must have been broken. A simple girl in a village meets a gentle general, and it is not strange to be unmoved. The left and right are just a thing of the past, so why bother so much about being a big husband. Looking at Xi Shi's innocent and healing face, Fucha's tone became even more difficult to harden.
"Okay, the past will no longer be pursued. Fan Li, you don't have to send it off, go back to your family Yue Wang, and thank you for the three beauties he sent. ”
Fan Li and Xi Shi tightened their hearts when they heard the last sentence, and thought: Could it be that Fucha already knows about the existence of the beauty scheme? Isn't that Shih Tzu's safety......
Fan Li replied "yes" in a daze, and then took a look at Xi Shi and retreated.
The guard at the door watched Fan Li come out of the house, and he was not surprised at all, and closed the door for him.
Only Xi Shi and Fu Cha were left in the room, and Xi Shi felt that the atmosphere was gradually becoming awkward again.
Xi Shi was thinking about how to set King Wu's words, but King Wu himself said: "When King Yue and Fan Li were my slaves, they were extremely deferential, and the widow knew that they were for life, and with the strength of the widow, they couldn't really kill them. However, they are still very sincere, and after returning to China, they also searched all over the country, and found a few of you intimate beauties for the widow, which is also rare. ”
When Xi Shi heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that King Wu didn't know their plan. It seems that the beauty plan can still go smoothly.
When Yin 13 reported the information to his husband, he didn't tell his husband about this beauty plan, because he knew that if this plan was known to King Wu, it would harm Xi Shi.
After Xi Shi relaxed, he was no longer so nervous, and he replied a little more casually.
"But Shi'er is very curious, King Wu is not afraid that they will see that it is your pretending envoy?" Shih Tzu asked curiously.
The husband spread out the thin skin mask, placed it on the table, and said, "I made this skin casually, and they can't see it." It was the first time I saw you at the incense burner peak, and I saw the flaws by your close contact. ”
Xi Shi remembered the first encounter with King Wu at the incense burner peak, when he was dressed in a dark green robe, hiding among the trees and laughing with her, but he really couldn't see that there was a king's shelf. But when King Wu spoke to Fan Li just now, he was full of majesty and frightening.
Thinking of the glance Fan Li looked at her when he was leaving, Xi Shi fell silent.
When the husband saw that she did not speak, he said again: "I have heard that your Yue people say how wise and brave your general Fan is, but I only admire his loyalty to his king. You should be glad that your relationship with him ended in time, otherwise, I am afraid that you will be disappointed in a deep relationship. ”
The words of the husband hit the nail on the head, and it also happened to sting the weakest part of Xi Shi's heart.
She put her happiness on Fan Li because of a bet she made, but she didn't expect a rumor to shatter her happiness.
Xi Shi smiled bitterly and said: "Fortunately, King Wu did not complain, so that Xi Shi could not be spurned by others, but became a symbol of Wu Yue's friendship." ”
King Wu smiled without saying a word, stood up with his mask, and said, "It's not early, let's rest." ”
With that, the husband extinguished the candle with a wave of his hand, and then steadily left the place.