For the extremely bitter medicine, Xiao Jingxian, whose body was like rags, had no feeling anymore.

He knew very well that because of his capriciousness on the battlefield under Bazhou City, coupled with the fact that he had forcibly acted after seeing Yue Qianqiu and the little fat man before, he almost killed the two imperial doctors, and they were resentful, even if they didn't dare to change the way to toss him, but in his medicinal soup, he became more and more unscrupulous, not only extremely bitter, but also made him almost unable to use a little strength.

If it was when he had no ambition to live and was bent on death, Xiao Jingxian would not care about these insignificant little things. However, Yue Qianqiu's words aroused his unprecedented desire to survive, even if he never thought that he would have any children, he didn't feel that he would hear someone call him Daddy or father in this life, but he couldn't imagine what it would be like for a child to be born fatherless.

Now, the aura of the demon king in Beiyan in the past has faded, and the two imperial doctors are no longer afraid of him, and even often discuss his injuries and body where he can hear, but he is no longer the kind of angry appearance that is prone to anger, but often uses the appearance of lethargy to patiently listen to the information they reveal when they talk.

Although the unsuccessful riot only revealed a half-claw, the experienced Xiao Jingxian easily pieced together a rough idea. As for the changes in the situation in Beiyan, although he was not sure if it was deliberately said to him, he still secretly remembered them one by one, and at the same time tried his best to remember the changes of day and night and the date.

For eleven days, no one came to see him, as if he were a forgotten corner. If it weren't for the fact that the two imperial doctors were still attentive in the rest of the place, except for changing their methods to make the medicinal soup more bitter and at the same time ensuring that he no longer had the ability to go violent, Xiao Jingxian would even think that the emperor who had always shown a benevolent side had finally lost his patience.

And he himself has always been a very patient person, even if he is now like a real waste, he can only lie in bed, no one can talk, and there is no pastime, but when he closes his eyes, it seems that he can see the last letter that his sister left for him - it was at the last moment of the battle in Bazhou, Xiao Qingqing took advantage of the unpreparedness to receive Kang Le and handed it to him when he was in the final chaos.

He swallowed the letter after reading it, but he remembered every word in his heart. He knew his sister's handwriting and style best, so he could easily determine that it was not forged. But because of this, seeing the two words of the final payment, the last strength that has supported him for more than ten years has almost been lost, so that he didn't want to live at all before.

But now that he got the news of Yue Qianqiu and knew that he might have children, Xiao Jingxian only felt that he seemed to have been injected with a force that had to live. He can't help but wonder if the child is male or female, who he looks like, and will calculate when the child will be born...... Thanks to these small and incomplete thoughts, the mania that had plagued him faded away.

He finally had enough patience and time to break down and analyze the last letter, word by word. In just a hundred or so words, he didn't know how many times he had arranged and combined them in his mind.

Little Four, it's been 16 years since I went west, I don't know if you're okay? Xiao's branch died early for several generations, if the spell is unbreakable, although I am the queen, it is inevitable, leaving you alone in the world, I really can't stand you. Since the ancestor, the ornament is different from that of other tribes, with the blood wolf as the name, and the male is not passed on to the female. However, when I saw you tattooed when I was a child, I was curious and asked my father to leave the same tattoo on his shoulder. If he sees someone with the same tattoo one day, I hope you will see it as a son.

After a silent sigh, Xiao Jingxian remembered Xiao Qingqing's judgment again - the person who sent a child to Emperor Nanwu was Ding An, and the person who rescued Yue Qianqiu from the sea of fire to the point of his own death was his sister. He didn't think that his sister might sacrifice her life to save an adopted son.

From the beginning, when he met Yue Qianqiu's delegation from the Southern Wu delegation in Beiyan, he had a whim and hoped that Yue Qianqiu would pretend to be his nephew, did he already have that kind of premonition?

Crunch –

The sudden sound of the door opening at the gate interrupted Xiao Jingxian's thoughts. However, thinking that the two imperial doctors tried to keep their voices as low as possible when they came in and out on weekdays, as if they wanted to come and go like ghosts, he judged that it was not those two people. Sure enough, the next moment, he heard the voice of one of the older imperial doctors.

"Nine Princes. You know the character of King Jin, although we do our best, but if he has any tricks, we may not be able to restrain him......"

"You know, do you know him, or am I familiar with him? I've been cheated by him more than once or twice! ”

With this voice, Yue Qianqiu strode in front of Xiao Jingxian. He glanced at the two imperial doctors who refused to take half a step away from the left and right, and said a little angrily: "I came to talk to Xiao Jingxian on the orders of the emperor, can you avoid it?" Don't worry, if he breaks out and kills me, it's none of your business! ”

The two imperial doctors originally wanted to persuade and fight again, but when they heard the last sentence, the two looked at each other, but they still didn't insist anymore, but when they left, they had to pull Yue Qianqiu aside and stuff something into his hand. Xiao Jing first saw all this scene in his eyes, knowing that it was nothing more than some medicine that restricted him, the corners of his mouth hooked, and he only made a sound quietly.

It wasn't until the two of them quietly retreated that he asked, "What, what kind of fast-acting drug did they give you?" ”

"Although I've just regained three points of strength, it's enough to deal with you, a guy who is worse than me! There's no need for this mess. Yue Qianqiu said while throwing the small paper bag in his sleeve directly behind him, and then said bluntly, "Xiao Jingxian, I only want to ask you one thing, what is the matter with the blood wolf tattoo and your Xiao family?" ”

Xiao Jingxian only felt that his heart twitched violently, and every word and sentence in the letter with the last pen suddenly reappeared in his mind, so that he actually felt a little dizzy. He stared at the young man in front of him who was standing with his hands crossed, his eyes were still as clear and translucent as before, and he said lightly for a long time: "That is the ornament that my Xiao family has passed down from generation to generation." ”

Yue Qianqiu's speed of speech unconsciously became a little faster: "You also have it?" ”

"On the back." Xiao Jing smiled first, and then said with some confusion, "Because it is not easy to appear, no one else has seen it except for my sister who once watched the tattoo artist tattoo it with her own eyes." Of course, I haven't seen it myself. When I was a child, I suffered a lot in order to tattoo such a big pattern, so I didn't like this thing very much, but I didn't expect my sister to be curious about this, and I also stabbed one on the shoulder. ”

Yue Qianqiu took a deep breath, and then said in a calm tone as calm as possible, "Show me!" ”

Xiao Jingxian didn't move, but looked at Yue Qianqiu with a smile: "The tattoo on my back is not the same as the one on Zhen Rong's shoulder, and I don't need some special methods, ordinary people can't see it." Do you know what to think? ”

"You don't talk nonsense!" Yue Qianqiu said very unceremoniously, and then said stiffly, "Since I want to see it, of course I know the method!" If you waste my time by procrastinating, don't blame me for being rude! ”

Xiao Jing first looked directly at Yue Qianqiu's eyes, and finally turned over with difficulty, and said lightly: "See for yourself." ”

At the beginning, he had bandaged Xiao Jingxian's wound countless times and changed the medicine, but at this time, Yue Qianqiu naturally didn't feel uncomfortable. He did not do it at once, but turned and walked to the door, and told the two royal physicians who were there to prepare a basin of hot water and a basin of cold water, and when the water came, he let them into the house and put the copper basin on the basin rack, but he undoubtedly held them back.

Throwing two soft towels in the basin, he glanced at Xiao Jingxian lying on the bed again. Seeing that he didn't look at himself, as if he was closing his eyes to recuperate, he rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward, lifted the quilt, and lifted Xiao Jingxian's shirt. I saw that there were several deep or shallow scars on his back, obviously, behind the reputation of the demon king in the past, Xiao Jingxian was born and died.

These are all things that have been seen before, Yue Qianqiu shook his head, forcing himself not to think so much, but asked coldly: "Where is the blood wolf pattern?" ”

Xiao Jingxian smiled: "If I'm not mistaken, it's probably in the place where the back is against the heart, right?" ”

Yue Qianqiu didn't speak again, he didn't care about the hot hands, quickly wrung out a hot towel from the hot water basin, and then folded it and put it on Xiao Jing's heart. But after a while, he saw that Xiao Jingxian's forehead seemed to be burned with a thin layer of sweat, but his face was still unmoving, and when the hot towel was taken away, the skin that had been covered before was already red and red.

Without hesitation, he tossed the cooled towel back into the hot tub, took another towel from the tub and did the same, and then changed the hot towel again. When he finally took off the hot towel, he found that under Xiao Jingxian's seemingly smooth back skin just now, an unexpected pattern was displayed - a hideous and ferocious blood wolf with a long roar!

Although this was something that had been expected before coming, at this moment, Yue Qianqiu still felt that his breathing had stopped for a moment. Soon, he regained his composure and casually threw the towel into the basin. He put down Xiao Jingxian's shirt a little roughly, and when he pulled the quilt again, he sat on the edge of the bed and said a sentence bluntly.

"This blood wolf pattern, I also have one on my back."

Seeing that Xiao Jingxian had already opened his eyes, the beads of sweat on his forehead that had changed from small to large because of the stimulation of the hot and cold and hot just now, and the expression on his face became very subtle, Yue Qianqiu continued: "I only found out after I had a fight with Ying Xiaopang in the bathhouse of your Jin Wangfu that day, and later I went home and asked my grandfather, saying that it was when he picked me up." ”

Xiao Jingxian's eyes had changed from the initial blandness to extremely sharp, he didn't turn over, but asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you finally willing to admit it?" ”

"I didn't admit anything." Yue Qianqiu smiled and said lightly, "Grandpa arrived today, and he finally said some things in front of the emperor." It's a long story, you have to listen to it, and I can tell it to you slowly when you're well, but not now. ”

He supported the bed board with his hand, lowered his head slightly, narrowed the distance between himself and Xiao Jingxian, and said word by word: "Xiao Jingxian, I said before that you were pregnant with Liujia in that side room, which was casual nonsense. For this reason, the emperor did not hesitate to use the flying pigeon to urgently inquire about Jinling, but of course there was no such thing. For this reason, the emperor wants me to be responsible for what I said, so I will come here today. ”

"If it weren't for that, I wouldn't be too lazy to see you who cheated me again and again." Yue Qianqiu stood up as he spoke, took a few steps forward and said without looking back, "By the way, no matter what my relationship with you is, I won't change my surname to Xiao." ”

Seeing that Yue Qianqiu went out in a moment, and those two doors could not cut off the people from the two sincere and fearful imperial doctors outside, Xiao Jingxian listened and listened, and couldn't help but squint his eyes in a daze. In the end, his sister regarded it as a child, and Yue Qianqiu's words that he would not change his surname Xiao just now rose and fell in his mind, and finally converged into a thought that made him frightened.

Could it be that he was going in the wrong direction from the start?

When Yue Qianqiu had pacified or intimidated the two imperial physicians and returned to the emperor again, his face was undoubtedly as gloomy as the eve of a storm. The emperor, who had expected it for a long time, did not beat around the bush and asked straight to the point: "How?" ”

"Your Majesty, didn't you ask knowingly?" Yue Qianqiu asked rhetorically with some irritation, and then knew that his attitude was wrong, so he simply lowered his head and said, "He does have that thing on his back...... Anyway, I've already made it clear to him, I lied to him when I said that Pei Bao'er was pregnant with Liujia, and besides, I won't think that I have anything to do with him based on this thing, don't think that I changed my surname to Xiao! ”

"Hehe, I don't know if someone as smart as Xiao Jingxian won't understand you this time." The emperor was in a good mood and teased Yue Qianqiu, but then his eyes deepened.

After all, even if the old lady Yue said that Yue Qianqiu's greatest possibility was the bloodline of the Xiao family, after all, there was a little bit of it that could be the son of Xiao Lele and Emperor Beiyan, and it was also a little bit likely that it was Xiao Lele and his son. If the young man in front of him has always been ambitious, for him, he has to face a complex and difficult choice.

Thankfully, Yue Qianqiu is really a little less ambitious.

He bowed his head slightly, and said lightly: "You were born and died in Beiyan this time, and your merits are not small, and when you return to Jinling, I will never erase your merits." After you have chosen the crown princess, you will be the concubine for a while. ”

Yue Qianqiu couldn't help but be stunned, and then instinctively opened his mouth and asked, "Does Ying Xiaopang know that he is going to marry a wife?" ”

The emperor couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "You are quite considerate of him!" Don't worry, I have already mentioned to him and asked him to choose for himself in the list I gave him, and he agreed, but in turn put forward a condition to me, asking you to help him check it. ”

Yue Qianqiu suddenly secretly scolded the little fat man for being troublesome - my own affairs are already annoying enough, and I have to check for your life's events? If there is a conflict between the young couple in the future, will they still come to blame me? He was thinking about how to find a way to get rid of it, but he didn't expect the emperor to suddenly cough lightly.

"Chiaki, Shiro has no brothers, and sisters are not close, so I don't know how long I can take him by hand. Since the two of you have been entangled in fate since birth, it is naturally impossible to get rid of it now...... What your grandfather said before, I will keep silent and will not tell Shiro, you might as well have some reservations about Xiao Jingxian. As for Zhen Rong...... Don't tell him anymore. ”