Chapter 59: A Guilty Conscience
Tong Yuqing felt a sharp pain in the back of her head, and for a while, the sky was spinning, and countless Venus stars were turning more and more rapidly in front of her eyes, and at the same time, she vaguely felt a trace of warmth on her lips......
Bai Qiaoxuan's pupils instantly dilated several times, and he was so shocked that he immediately straightened up and left the beautiful place that he shouldn't touch, but saw that Tong Yuqing seemed to be smashed and fainted, and hurriedly leaned down, picked up Tong Yuqing, and held him in his arms, "Yuqing, Yuqing......"
At this time, the person who caused the trouble also pounced, shouting: "Sister, sister......"
Tong Yuqing gradually woke up, she raised her hand and rubbed her sore head, Bai Qiaoxuan saw that her tears flowed out of her eyes, and said hurriedly: "Yuhao, why are you so reckless?" Why don't you go and ask a doctor? ”
Only then did Tong Yuhao react and hurriedly ran to invite Mo Fen. Bai Qiaoxuan said to Tong Yuqing again: "Yuqing, bear with me a little longer, the doctor will be here soon." ”
Tong Yuqing was smashed to the point that she didn't have any reason and strength left, and she had been lying lazily in Bai Qiaoxuan's arms, like an injured kitten.
Mo Fen quickly rushed over, took off Tong Yuqing's purple jade hair, gave Tong Yuqing a hot compress to the back of his head injury, and advised: "Miss Tong's consciousness is sober and she can see the things in the room clearly, so it should be fine." As long as you apply a warm compress twice a day and rest for 10 days, you can be cured. ”
Tong Yuqing said slowly: "I'm sorry for you." ”
Mo Fen smiled lightly, saluted the three of them, and left.
Tong Yuqing held the hot towel on her head, her consciousness gradually became clear, she slowly straightened up, and left Bai Qiaoxuan's embrace, Bai Qiaoxuan saw that she was going to get up, so she wanted to help her sit down, but she didn't expect Tong Yuqing to shake off his hand and sit down by herself.
Bai Qiaoxuan's hand hanging in the air was slowly lowered. Tong Yuhao suddenly exclaimed, which startled Tong Yuqing and Bai Qiaoxuan again, Tong Yuqing's head hurt again, and reprimanded: "Yuhao! When will you settle down? In the past, when you were at home, we didn't care about you, but now that you are in the Financial Secretary, why are you still so careless? It's me today, you can escape, if you lose your honor in front of your father today, won't you be able to keep this layer of skin? ”
Tong Yuhao was said to be pleasing to the eye, and Tong Yuqing didn't want to train again, so she asked: "Come to me in such a hurry, what is the 100,000 urgent thing?" If you can't say anything, see how I clean you up! ”
Tong Yuhao hurriedly waved his hand, went out again to glance at whether there was anyone outside the door, and after making sure that there was no one, he came back to lock the door, approached Tong Yuqing and Bai Qiaoxuan, and whispered: "Just now I was in my father's office and heard my father's secret agent report to my father, saying that Qiu Linghe rebelled in the frontier yesterday and had been suppressed and killed by General Dou Hong. ”
Tong Yu stood up suddenly, and exclaimed, "Qiu Linghe is dead?!" ”
Tong Yuhao nodded, Tong Yuqing figured out all the joints almost in an instant, no matter how confused Qiu Linghe was, he would not rebel when his strength was not yet mature, and it was still at the border, where the rebellion could not directly take off the head of the Overseer, and could only let the news reach the ears of the Overseer, wasn't this waiting for the Overseer to send someone to destroy him? Also, Dou Hong's station is thousands of miles away from Qiu Linghe's station, how did he get the news of Qiu Linghe's rebellion so quickly, and Qiu Linghe was defeated in just one night? The only explanation is that Qiu Linghe had no intention of rebelling at all, he fell into Dou Hong's elaborate trap and was killed by Dou Hong. And who else can make Dou Hong willingly serve him except Qiu Linghe's sworn enemy Qiu Lingjiong?
When did Dou Hong begin to become attached to Qiu Lingxiong? How did Qiu Lingjian subdue Dou Hong? She didn't even know it! Qiu Lingjiong made a quick and accurate move this time, directly reversing the situation of Shuanglong winning the throne, how many things are there that she doesn't know, and what is about to happen? Thinking of this, Tong Yuqing seemed to fall into the boundless cold pool......
No way! Even if the Overseers had no choice but to do whatever Qiu Lingwei wanted, she couldn't just watch Qiu Lingqiao do whatever he wanted, she had to stop him!
"What are you going to do?" Bai Qiaoxuan suddenly stood in front of Tong Yuqing.
"I'm going to find Qiu Lingxi, I can't let him hurt the Overseers......"
Bai Qiaoxuan pushed Tong Yuqing back to her seat, held her hands firmly, and persuaded, "You are sober!" A moment ago, don't say that you want to find him a theory, even if you go to beat him and scold him, I won't stop him, but now Qiu Lingjian is no longer a dispensable person in Pudong, he is the undoubted future overseer, the lord you want to assist in your life, and the husband you want to accompany for a lifetime! Anyone can disobey him, but you can't. All you have to do now is wait for Dou Hong's battle report to return to Yejin in the open, and then wait for the Overseers to dispose of it, and then you can make a difference. ”
Tong Yuqing's beautiful eyes gradually closed into a layer of mist, and asked in a sad voice: "Qiu Ling's eyes are disrespectful, and he cruelly kills his brother, don't I even have the right to question him?" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan sighed secretly, "This day will come sooner or later, but now it's earlier." Could it be that if Qiu Linghe doesn't kill Qiu Linghe, Qiu Linghe won't kill Qiu Linghe? They are indisputable, so why are you so serious? Besides, your words and deeds not only represent yourself, but also represent Tong's attitude. If you accuse Qiu Lingjian at this time, isn't it against Uncle Tong's wishes? ”
Tong Yuqing's eyes were full of doubts, and Bai Qiaoxuan patiently explained: "Generally speaking, a secret agent would not allow a third person to be present when reporting extremely secret news to the lord, but today Uncle Tong actually allowed Yuhui to be present and allowed him to inform us of the news!" This shows that he still supports Qiu Lingjiong, so he will let us know the news in advance and be prepared, so as not to lose his temper in front of Qiu Lingji......"
Everything in front of her was covered with a light gray, Tong Yuqing knew in her heart, Bai Qiaoxuan was reasonable, her father was afraid that she would not agree to act rashly, things in this world are far from being as simple as black and white, even if she is not for herself, she must think about her family, and she must not make mistakes. It's just that......
"Wait a minute, sister, Brother Qiao Xuan, what are you two playing dumb riddles? What does Brother Ling He have to do with Brother Ling He? Tong Yuhao's words interrupted Tong Yuqing's thoughts.
Bai Qiaoxuan said: "Yu Hao, if you believe me, you can go back now, as if you have never heard of anything, what should you do, and when the official document on the disposition of Qiu Linghe's matter is sent to you, no matter what your father and sister say, in front of outsiders, you just nod your head." ”
Tong Yuhui looked at his sister and saw that his sister had promised him, so he left silently.
Bai Qiaoxuan saw Tong Yuqing holding his forehead with both hands, and said, "Let's go, don't think about it here, I can't figure out anything." It's over time, let's go to dinner. ”
Without waiting for Tong Yuqing to refuse, Bai Qiaoxuan took her black windbreaker, pulled her up and walked out, Tong Yuqing's mind was groggy, so she let Bai Qiaoxuan take her to Mavis Cafe.
Bai Qiaoxuan ordered a good meal and sent out the few people in the store, closed the door of the store, and rolled up green silk for Tong Yuqing, who was stunned and silent all the way, and after settling her, she opened a bottle of dry red wine from Castle Nefe, and just wanted to pour wine into Tong Yuqing's cup, he remembered something again and asked, "How does the wound on your head feel?" Can I drink alcohol? ”
Tong Yuqing took the red wine bottle and poured wine into Bai Qiaoxuan and her own wine glass without saying a word, Bai Qiaoxuan didn't raise her glass, Tong Yuqing had already drunk a glass by herself, Bai Qiaoxuan was helpless, put down the wine glass and looked at Tong Yuqing quietly, until she drank five glasses in a row before snatching the red wine bottle, and said: "I know you are sad, but wine is not drunk like this." ”
Tong Yuqing's tears were like rain, and her voice was like broken jade: "What do you still want me to do?" Do you know that since I was sensible, I have been terrified that my missteps would cost my relatives their lives, so I have not been trembling for a moment. As long as it is not beneficial to the country, I will never do it by my own temperament, just like I will never shirk my marriage contract with Qiu. But there are some things I don't dare to think about at all, back then, Qiu Lingzhe was jointly exposed by Qiu Linghe and Qiu Lingwei for collusion and external humiliation, Qiu Lingzhe did have correspondence with Lu Tiansheng, but how did such a secret letter fall into the hands of Qiu Linghe and Qiu Lingjiong? Is that Qiu Lingzhe's incriminating evidence or Qiu Linghe's and Qiu Lingxi's perjury? How similar is the situation today to that day? I really can't figure out if the one who survives won't be haunted by nightmares if their brothers fight to the death for the position of Overseer. Are we people who are deaf and dumb about their actions really for the sake of the country? Are you for the country? ”
Bai Qiaoxuan raised his head and drank all the wine in the cup, and replied without thinking about it: "Of course not, I am for myself and the lives of more than 100 people up and down the Bai family." ”
Tong Yuqing sneered, and she didn't know whether to laugh at herself or Bai Qiaoxuan, "Me too, I am here to save my life and the glory and wealth of my life." The rivers and mountains are so far away, and there are so many people, can I protect them? What does their life and death have to do with me? Besides, Qiu Lingzhe and Qiu Linghe are not my Pudong's people? Didn't we also abandon them for the sake of the so-called country? So...... We are just giving up less and taking more, and this country cannot be intact at all......"
Tong Yuqing's face was red, and she poured herself a large glass of wine fiercely, and stood more and more unsteadily, "Look, what an excuse I made for myself...... There was not even a trace of hesitation when he said such shameless words. I can imagine that if this kind of thing happens again, the only bit of guilt left in my heart will be gone, and I will smile and sit upright next to the victor, and say with righteous words that whoever is disloyal, unfilial, and rebellious, and deserves to be beheaded by all over the house. Then I will inform the people of Pudong about his crimes, so that my image in the eyes of the people will be even more brilliant...... Hahaha......"
Bai Qiaoxuan saw her laughing and leaned back, and was about to fall, so she hurriedly stepped forward to help her sit down, but she didn't expect her to cry again: "Ling He must have hated me very much before he died, he said that he loved me, he really loved me, and he wanted me to believe him, but I refused to tell him even a word of faith...... Why is my heart so hard?! He is going to die, but I don't even want to say a word of comfort to him, why did he die quietly like this......" Tong Yuqing couldn't cry.
Bai Qiaoxuan didn't have any feelings for Qiu Linghe, for him, Qiu Linghe and Qiu Lingxi were the same in life and death, but seeing Tong Yuqing's death for Qiu Linghe's death like crazy, he couldn't help but feel desolate. Life is just a rush for decades, if even relatives and friends don't care about their own life and death, then what is the difference between rich and poor in life?
However, the Si people have passed away, and these living people still have to move forward, so he didn't care whether it was annoying or not, stepped forward and grabbed Tong Yuqing's tear-soaked jade hand, stared at her and said: "You are sad not because you have to do something against your will, but because your beloved has passed away." Don't you know that you shouldn't fall in love with Qiu Linghe at this time? ”
Tong Yuqing was so angry that she slapped her palm on him and shouted angrily: "It turns out that I said that I was playing the piano to the cow for so long!" Which eye did you see that I was in love with Qiu Linghyuk?! ”
Bai Qiaoxuan deliberately pointed to his eyes and replied, "I can see both eyes." ”
Tong Yuqing wanted to cry without tears, and she didn't want to stay with this kind of person with eyes and beads for a moment, so she got up and was about to go out, Bai Qiaoxuan hurriedly stopped her and said with a smile: "Miss Tong is angry...... I've seen you cry here for so long, but I just want your pain to vent out, the body has a limit to bear, and any more tears will hurt the body, so I deliberately got angry with you, so you turned all the embers into anger and vented it on me. You see, isn't it a little unkind for you to use me as a punching bag, and then turn around and leave? ”
Tong Yuqing was about to have another seizure, Bai Qiaoxuan hurriedly said: "I'm going to leave for Chengyang tomorrow, what kind of fire do you have, wait for me to come back, okay?" ”
Tong Yuqing was instantly annoyed, only worried, and asked softly, "How many days are you going?" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan rubbed Tong Yuqing's head and said with a smile: "This is drunk, isn't it, how do you know how many days you have to go now, doesn't it depend on the disaster?" ”
Tong Yuqing also shook her head, "It's confused......"
Bai Qiaoxuan looked at her expression, as if he had calmed down a lot, and asked tentatively, "Shall we eat something?" ”
Tong Yuqing nodded listlessly.
They said they were eating, but neither of them had much appetite, and only ate two desserts, blue plum vanilla cream cake and longan rose dew coconut milk gel, and spent the rest of the time in the flying offerings.
Two thousand cups of people drank more than ten bottles of wine, but the more they drank, the more sober they became, Tong Yuqing felt bored, put down the wine glass and said: "Sometimes a thousand cups are not drunk is not a good thing, and there is not even the blessing of borrowing wine to drown sorrows." ”
The corners of Bai Qiaoxuan's lips raised slightly, "It's better to be sober and ...... to drink your sorrows through wine" He shook the red wine glass in his hand as he spoke, and through the enchanting red, he seemed to see the figure of Tingting, and he smiled lazily: "Yuqing, if you don't live for the family, what do you want to do most?" ”
Tong Yuqing's eyes that had just cooled down warmed up again, my beloved ...... If I had a choice, I would certainly say I love you without hesitation......
"I haven't thought about it, I don't dare to think about it, and it's wishful thinking if I think about it."
Bai Qiaoxuan's eyes were like cold stars, and his voice was low and magnetic: "It's boring." I thought about it, if there is no restraint, I will be slashed and fast, regardless of life and death, to defeat the entire Puxi Prefecture, what Pudong overseer, Puxi overseer, all no longer exist, Puxizhou is the only one overseer, I want to hold the entire country to the feet of my beloved, let her take it. ”
Tong Yuqing laughed clearly, "It's really all unrealistic fantasies, but it's not surprising that a man has such ambitions." If there really is such a day, how about I be your first minister? ”
Bai Qiaoxuan said with a smile: "Naturally, it's good, if you take care of government affairs, I can live freely and travel all over the world." But with Yiyou's friendship with you, I'm afraid she won't bear to let you work so hard. I'm going to have to work hard. ”
Tong Yuqing didn't know what to think of, and laughed out loud, "Will you be tortured by us into a hunched and bent little old man then?" ”
Not to be outdone, Bai Qiaoxuan said, "Then don't you have to be fed two gilts by me?" ”
Tong Yuqing was so angry that she wanted to beat him, "Who do you say is the sow?!" ”
Bai Qiaoxuan laughed breathlessly, but still said, "You ......"
"Okay! If I don't give you some color, you're really a sick cat! As he spoke, he went to catch Bai Qiaoxuan's "death hole". Bai Qiaoxuan couldn't resist begging for mercy again and again, Tong Yuqing not only ignored it, but grabbed it more fiercely, Bai Qiaoxuan was forced to be anxious and grabbed Tong Yuqing's itch with his backhand......
I don't know who stopped first, both of them were lying on the fluffy carpet exhausted, Tong Yuqing stared at the magnolia lantern hanging on the roof in a daze, and faintly heard Bai Qiaoxuan's heavy snort, he actually fell asleep! Tong Yuqing hurriedly turned over quietly, holding her chin with both hands, and quietly looked at Bai Qiaoxuan's sleeping appearance. Obviously leaning up, but the legs have to be tilted to the side, how awkward this posture looks, but this appearance is still the beauty of Zidu, the sword eyebrows are thick like peaks, and the bridge of the nose is as angular as a carving, but the thin lips are tightly pursed, as if there is anger hidden in a dream.
This is the person I love...... This moment is so close to me, but it doesn't belong to me after all. Qiao Xuan, do you also have me in your heart?
Tong Yuqing bowed her head slowly, her breath gradually became entangled with his, and the contours of the two thin lips became clearer and clearer, but at the moment when her cool lips were about to cover his thin lips, his thin lips opened slightly, and he murmured: "Yoyo......"
Tong Yuqing's dream was shattered in an instant, and at the same time, there were crystal clear teardrops that broke off, Tong Yuqing hurriedly got up and turned her back to Bai Qiaoxuan, ran to the corner not far away and shrunk herself into a ball, looking out the window at the snowflakes that were falling silently, and crying silently like snowflakes......
Tong Fengyi rushed to the Overseer's Mansion at night, but saw Steward Hu cleaning the fragments of a vase in the study, he saw Qiu Zeyuan standing by the window and didn't know what he was looking at, so he coughed lightly, Qiu Zeyuan saw that Tong Fengyi had arrived, so he told Steward Hu to clean up quickly.
Steward Hu can stand out among the others, he has never wavered in the position of housekeeper for more than ten years, and he is naturally not an ordinary person, listening to Qiu Zeyuan say this, he immediately cleaned up the mess, and closed the bronze door by the way before going out, and closed the door of the study tightly.
Tong Fengyi sighed: "What are you doing with a vase?" The green glaze secretly engraved entwined flower vase was found by me for five years for a thousand taels of gold, and you said to smash it, and I knew that it was better for me to keep it myself. ”
Qiu Zeyuan said impatiently: "If you are distressed, I will pay you a thousand taels of gold, what are you doing with all this nonsense?" I ask you, did you follow your tail along the way? ”
Tong Fengyi glanced at him, "Cheesy!" Can antiques be measured by price?! Besides, with his current ability, can I find out about his tail? ”
Qiu Zeyuan was still angry, and scolded: "This beast is not as good as a thing! He really thinks he can cover the sky with one hand?! He still dares to cut off our eyes and ears, does he want to rebel?! ”
Tong Fengyi sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and said slowly, "Yes." ”
Qiu Zeyuan was already angry, but when he saw Tong Fengyi's disappreciative appearance, he was even more angry, and said angrily: "What do you mean by this?" He's rebellious, aren't you happy? What the hell do you think?! ”
"What else could I think? He let Qiu Linghe die quietly on the frontier on the charge of rebellion, which shows that he already has the ability to detect and cut off the enemy's eyes and ears or take them for his own use, then the people around us are probably not clean, at this time, who do you want me to send to check whether he is following me? Even if you check it, the answer you get can only be no. Isn't that a scareless snake? And this time, he did not shy away from killing all of our people in the frontier, which shows that he is not afraid of offending us at all, and he is ready to turn against us at any time. ”
Qiu Zeyuan asked: "You understand, why are you still so calm?" ”
Tong Fengyi replied: "Since the situation is irreparable, why should I be so idle? Anger also hurts the liver, and isn't it even more worthwhile to be angry with what you say is inferior to beasts? Now what we have to do is to stabilize him first, and then find an opportunity to arrange a marriage for him and Yuqing, convey our goodwill to him, and make him feel that this position is his sooner or later, and it doesn't matter if he takes it or not, so that the country can be stable, stable, and prosperous. ”
"You mean that this matter is just a passing away, and we don't care about him killing his brother at will? And you want to slap your head to please him?! ”
"If you don't please him now, who else can you please him? Do you have any other options? Besides, one of them will die sooner or later, Ling Wei started cleanly this time, and did not leave us any handle, which means that he is not the swaying wall grass in your eyes, he knows very well what he needs. Besides, since the position of Overseer should be held by someone who is hard-hearted to the enemy, kind and generous to the people, and able to withstand the bloodshed, is he more suitable to be the Overseer than Linghe? When you were demanding of him, did you ever think that we have such clean hands and no blood? Why do you care so much about things that don't get in the way? ”