"Alas~ What a shame. Qiu Luoxue, Qiu Luoxue, I'm afraid your fate is tied to your feet. ”

Leaving the confines of the bamboo garden, Qiu Luoxue sat on a stone to rest at will, and the pain in her ankle made her unable to walk anymore. Thinking of the picture just now, she still felt very ashamed. It's not the person who loses himself, it's the person who loses Daqin, and he actually fell down in front of the people in charge of Nanliang and Beize, it's really a shame to throw it to grandma's house.

When Qiu Luoxue was worried about how to return to the plum garden, Xia Zimo appeared in front of her.

"Why do you sit here and not go back?" Xia Zimo asked.

Qiu Luoxue looked up at Xia Zimo and said with a look of grievance: "My foot is broken."

Xia Zimo hurriedly squatted down to check her ankles for Qiu Luoxue, and found that her ankles were slightly swollen.

"It's already swollen, Hanshan, find a medical officer to go to the plum garden." Xia Zimo said to Hanshan, then turned his head to look at Qiu Luoxue and asked, "Can you still go?"

Qiu Luoxue shook her head, if she could go, she wouldn't have been sitting outside just now. Seeing her shake her head, Xia Zimo picked her up and left without saying a word.

Although this move was heartwarming, Qiu Luoxue always felt weird. The relationship between her and Xia Zimo has already caused a stir in Daqin, and now she wants to continue to make trouble in other countries? If this is seen by others, it should be full of trouble in the city.

"Emperor, Emperor, let me go quickly, if this is seen by others, maybe what will you say?" Qiu Luoxue said in a panic.

Xia Zimo didn't care at all, and said, "Do you care so much about other people's opinions?"

"Of course, if you live a lifetime, you must care about what others say about you."

Qiu Luoxue saw a few people coming not far away, and in order to prevent them from seeing her face, she quickly buried her head in Xia Zimo's arms. Her move made Xia Zimo laugh heartily and look at her dotingly.

It's good that Xia Zimo doesn't smile, this smile is seen by others, which makes people even more misunderstood.

"Prime Minister Qiu's feet were broken a few days ago." The doctor said, more like a certainty than a question.

"Yes, not so long ago." Qiu Luoxue replied.

"The old wounds were not properly healed, and new wounds were filled. In addition, the weather is hot and cold, and the cold is deep into the bones, and it is easy to fall into the root of the disease. The doctor said, "The old man prescribes a prescription for the adult, boils the medicine into a soup and takes it orally, and then wraps the medicine residue in a hot cloth and compresses the feet." If you repeat this for a few days, you will get better. ”

"I'll be sorry for you." Qiu Luoxue said politely.

"Your Excellency is welcome. In the future, if you feel pain in the rain on a cloudy day, you can also follow this prescription for treatment. The medical officer admonished.

Qiu Luoxue lay on the bed to recuperate, and it didn't take long for Allure to bring the boiled medicine to Qiu Luoxue to drink, and after drinking, Allure planned to compress Qiu Luoxue's feet according to what the doctor said.

Xia Zimo had just gone out to run errands, and now he had arrived at Qiu Luoxue's room again, and said to Allure: "Leave it to me here, you go down."

"But......" Allure hesitated.

Xia Zimo didn't say more, took the medicine bag from Allure's hand, and said with a sharp look: "Go down."

Allure looked at Xia Zimo's eyes, didn't dare to say anything more, and went out obediently.

After Allure went out, Xia Zimo took the medicine bag and walked to Qiu Luoxue's bed and sat down, and gently put it on Qiu Luoxue's injured ankle.

His sudden move frightened Qiu Luoxue a lot. Who is Xia Zimo, the most powerful man in Daqin, and he is helping Qiu Luoxue to compress his feet at the moment. Although Qiu Luoxue didn't have any concept of status difference in her heart, seeing Xia Zimo, who had always been arrogant, was so humble in front of her made her overwhelmed.

Because she didn't adapt, Qiu Luoxue subconsciously shrank her feet. Xia Zimo felt her movements, looked up at her and asked, "What's wrong?" Is it hot? ”

"No, it's not, I'll do it myself." Qiu Luoxue said.

Xia Zimo didn't speak, and used his actions to tell Qiu Luoxue that this matter would be done by him. He not only helped Qiu Luoxue compress her feet with a medicine bag, but also gently rubbed the skin on Qiu Luoxue's ankles with his wide palms after applying it.

Qiu Luoxue felt that this was very inappropriate, and subconsciously wanted to retract her feet. But Xia Zimo's strength is very strong, and she is not allowed to move at all.

"Don't move, rubbing it like this is good for drug absorption." Xia Zimo said.

"But Your Majesty, I can do this kind of thing myself." Qiu Luoxue said.

Xia Zimo looked at Qiu Luoxue and said, "What you can do, I have to do it for you."

"Why?" Qiu Luoxue asked.

Xia Zimo hooked his lips and smiled, "Because I am willing."

Qiu Luoxue pursed her lips and said, "What kind of reason is this?"

After dealing with Qiu Luoxue's feet, Xia Zimo put the medicine bag on the table next to him, and when his eyes fell on Qiu Luoxue's feet, he found that her feet were very small.

"These feet really don't look like men's feet, they're too small." Xia Zimo stared at Qiu Luoxue's feet and said.

Qiu Luoxue was afraid that he would arouse suspicion after thinking about this question, so she quickly covered her feet with a quilt and said, "What's wrong with Xiao?" I'm short. ”

It's okay if she doesn't say it, but when she says it, Xia Zimo is even more suspicious, he looked at Qiu Luoxue with an inquiring gaze, and said: "Whether it is height and weight, or appearance and tone of speech, it is the standard for women."

Qiu Luoxue learned Xia Zimo's tone of speech and said: "Whether it is a position of power, or appearance and connotation, Your Majesty is the best among men."

"One less." Xia Zimo said.

Qiu Luoxue looked at him with a questioning expression, she couldn't think of anything missing, but Xia Zimo said, "My figure is also very good."

"Haha...... That's right, too. ”

His prominent boasting made Qiu Luoxue laugh. Xia Zimo saw her laughing so happily, and laughed too.

"Your Majesty is so good, no wonder the ladies of the harem have to go to great lengths to compete for favor." Qiu Luoxue added.

"What about you?" Xia Zimo asked Qiu Luoxue, "If you were a woman, would you be as infatuated with me as they were?" ”

"No, it won't." Qiu Luoxue replied decisively.

"Why?" Xia Zimo asked.

"I like a couple for the rest of my life, but Your Majesty can't give it, so if I were a woman, I wouldn't be tempted by Your Majesty from the beginning, because you are not destined to be the person I am looking for."

Qiu Luoxue looked at Xia Zimo's eyes and replied seriously, just when she said these words, why did she feel heartache? Even though she said that, she was still tempted, even if Xia Zimo was not destined to be the person she was looking for, she was still tempted from the beginning.

Their conversation ended here, when Xia Zimo left Qiu Luoxue's room, the wind and snow were tight, and the scene of snowflakes and plum blossoms intertwined and flying was very beautiful. But Xia Zimo has no intention of appreciating it, and his mind is now full of Qiu Luoxue's sentence "You are not destined to be the person I am looking for".

"Well, in that case, let's stop here." Xia Zimo looked at the snowflakes flying in the sky and said.

The doctor was right, Qiu Luoxue's ankle was more likely to hurt on cloudy days. It was a snowy day, and she felt that pain for the first time. Faintly, not intensely, but starting from the ankles and spreading throughout the legs, she couldn't move. So, driven by this pain, she actually cried.

"Childe, what's wrong with you?" When Biyu came in, she found Qiu Luoxue lying on the quilt crying, she was startled, and hurriedly ran over and asked.

"My feet hurt." Qiu Luoxue said while crying, very much like a wronged child, it makes people feel distressed when they look at it.

Does it really hurt that much? Qiu Luoxue thought about it later, maybe it didn't hurt so much. It's more likely that he is distressed, because he said something like that to Xia Zimo. That was not only to Xia Zimo, but also to warn herself. They couldn't have been from the start.

Even if Qiu Luoxue didn't dress up as a man to be the prime minister of Daqin, it would be impossible for him and Xia Zimo. He couldn't give her the life of a couple for the rest of her life, and she couldn't stand to share her lover with other women. Among them, it is not that there is not enough love, not the eyes of others, and not her behavior of disguising herself as a man, but the entire era.

Qiu Luoxue didn't have the courage to confront the entire era, and she didn't even have the courage to confess her identity as a woman to Xia Zimo. Her courage was used to escape, avoiding Xia Zimo's overtures again and again, turning a blind eye to his love again and again, and even pretending not to understand her feelings again and again.

But why is it so distressing? Didn't you pretend you didn't see it? But why Xia Zimo was kind to her, she remembered it so clearly. Didn't you feel his love? Why is he so attached to his kindness to himself?

"Jasper, I'm so pitiful." Qiu Luoxue looked at Jasper and cried.

"Childe, what's wrong with you?" Biyu watched Qiu Luoxue cry, although she didn't know why she was crying, she also felt very pitiful.

Qiu Luoxue sat up from the bed and threw herself into Biyu's arms and cried. Jasper kept patting her on the back to help her get better.

After a long time, Qiu Luoxue was tired of crying and fell asleep on the bed. Jasper helped her cover the quilt and left. The candle flame shone on her face, and her eyes were reddened from crying.

Xia Zimo stood at the head of Qiu Luoxue's bed and looked at her, his eyes were complicated. There is distress, nostalgia, and a trace of sadness. A variety of emotions were mixed in his heart, and the eyes that looked at Qiu Luoxue became complicated.

He sat on the edge of the bed and gently lifted the quilt at Qiu Luoxue's feet, her broken foot was still a little swollen.

"The Prime Minister didn't treat his foot well when he broke his foot last time, and he walked a long way, and although he was fine at the time, he left the root cause of the disease. It's likely that you'll recur in the future, and weather like this is the most likely to recur, and applying a hot towel to it will relieve the pain. Xia Zimo remembered what the medical officer said to him.

Xia Zimo sighed, got up and washed a hot towel in the hot water basin next to him, wrung out the water and applied it to Qiu Luoxue's feet.

Qiu Luoxue felt that the injured foot was hot in her dream, the pain didn't seem to be so intense, and her frowning brows also stretched. It's just that she doesn't know that it's all because of Xia Zimo. Otherwise, I will be so moved that I will forget what I said today. It would be nice if it was then, but unfortunately there was no if.