Chapter 146: Return to the Palace
Ten days later, Midsummer finally entered the homeland she had been thinking about day and night, and when she stepped into the capital of her homeland, she knocked on the quaint palace door by the force of her gravity in the night.
"Princess—"
The guards at the palace gate shouted, and soon someone went to report, and they followed one after the other to spread the word, and they shouted, "The princess is back—"
The lights that were not very bright were lit up row after row in an instant, and the deserted palace seemed to become lively and noisy in an instant, perhaps the return of the princess was a rare good thing in Xichu.
But when the words reached the main hall, the pen in Su Xiao's hand, who was still dealing with government affairs, fell with a "snap", and he ran all the way with a brisk step, still throwing the wide sleeves, and even the crown on his head was crooked, and his hair was scattered.
"It seems that I saw the king's previous appearance, and the king hasn't been so happy for a long time."
The big eunuch looked at the familiar and unfamiliar figure and said to the little eunuch beside him.
Everyone remembers that Su Xiao used to be a gentleman, and everyone also knows that Su Xiao is now the hard-working Emperor Wen of Western Chu, but it has been too long since he has seen such a happy and free Su Xiao, and the prince Su Xiao, who was close to everyone in the past, seems to have returned.
People couldn't help but stop because of the legislation and because of curiosity, although the palace maids, eunuchs, guards, and officials rushed to salute the king, although they were not ignored by the king, everyone still couldn't help but take a few more looks, because Su Xiao was no longer easy to see.
Millions of lamps lit up the darkness of the palace, the lamps were arranged like thousands of points of light, and people held lamps in their hands to look at their princess Xia from afar, and Princess Xia seemed to be much more haggard than she remembered, and automatically left a very open road, which was left for the king.
No, isn't that the king who is out of breath and running in?
Su Xiao, who was running, saw his sister's figure from a distance, slowed down and walked forward, running too close so he was out of breath, he walked very slowly, he wanted to see his sister but was afraid that he would be alienated from his sister.
And the moment Su Xiao's figure appeared in the eyes of midsummer, she ran towards her brother with all her might, the night wind blew her hair and tattered clothes, her bare legs were frozen red, she came to Xichu barefoot, and the original three-day and three-night journey was stunned by her for ten days.
The two of them ran in each other's direction, even if it was clear that the two of them had undergone earth-shaking changes in just a few months, Su Xiao would always be Xia Xia's brother, and Xia Xia would always be Su Xiao's sister.
Midsummer hugged her long-missed brother, who she had thought she would never see in her life.
"Brother, I miss you so much, I thought I would never see you again...... I'm sorry...... It was that I was useless and couldn't help my brother. ”
Midsummer leaned on her brother's arms and cried, just like her brother cried to her when she was a child, and finally one day she could finally rely on her brother as a younger sister.
"Don't cry, don't cry, it's useless for my brother, otherwise I wouldn't have made you suffer so much...... It's my brother who doesn't use it......"
As an elder brother, Su Xiao clumsily wiped her tears for Shengxia with her hands, wiped the ashes on Shengxia's face with her sleeves, took off her coat and draped it on Shengxia's body, and held Shengxia's hand into her arms to warm it.
Both of their hair was blown unkempt by the wind, and Su Xiao looked at his sister and only thought that Xia Xia was still so good-looking, but she was thinner and more haggard than before, which made him feel more distressed and pity.
It wasn't until he warmed up Midsummer's hand that Su Xiao was willing to let go of his hand, he lowered his head and looked at Midsummer's dirty feet mixed with mud and blood, knelt down on one knee and took out a handkerchief from his arms, and lifted Midsummer's feet and was about to wipe them.
"Brother doesn't need to be like this, brother is the king must be majestic, if you can't look like this, you will lose face."
Midsummer immediately opened her mouth and wanted to refuse, but now in front of so many people, and her brother is already the king, how can she kneel down for her? But midsummer still can't beat Su Xiao.
"No matter who Lone is now, who he used to be, whether he is an ordinary person or a king, he has always been your brother, and his brother is good to you, which is what he should be."
Su Xiao knelt down on one knee with his head down, and wiped Midsummer's dirty feet with a handkerchief very seriously, but he didn't dare to use a little more strength for fear of hurting Midsummer.
Midsummer listened to the words and thought, yes, my brother will always be my brother's kindness to her or there is no change as before, even if she has changed from Su Xia to Midsummer, even if my brother is no longer the brother he used to be.
"Come up, brother will take you home."
Su Xiao's voice was as gentle as a rabbit, and he wiped Shengxia's feet extremely carefully and carefully, then took the handkerchief into his arms, squatted down and waved at Shengxia.
He carried a very light Midsummer, and they walked along the road full of sunflowers in the palace, which was full of long lights, and hundreds of people stood on the side and watched their king carry his sister Princess Xia on his back.
"It's as light as a feather, it's my brother who made you suffer, I'm sorry."
Su Xiao looked at the road ahead with his back to Midsummer, and lowered his head from time to time as if he blamed himself for something, and people also stopped and went.
"Brother, the sunflowers are blooming really well, just as well as they were before I left Xichu."
Midsummer shook his head and said, his head snuggled on Su Xiao's broad shoulders, raised his head and looked left and right, the sunflowers in the palace were still blooming so luxuriantly, even in the dark night, he could catch a glimpse of the tide shadow.
Su Xiao didn't speak, in the past, those sunflowers had been in the palace since the day of the midsummer and kiss, and the heavy rain in the palace directly annihilated all the sunflowers, and now these are all newly planted by him recently.
"Brother, I remember the first time I saw you, it seemed like I was as embarrassed as I am now."
Midsummer was carried by Su Xiao and remembered her first meeting with Su Xiao.
When she was starving on the streets with nothing, Su Xiao suddenly appeared in her lifeless life like a light, and now she seems to be as embarrassed as she was then, but fortunately, her brother is still that brother, he never dislikes her in the slightest, and he still treats her as well as before.
"Well, but they're all cute little sisters, they used to be like that and they are like that now."
Su Xiao has changed a lot compared to him before, and even speaks a lot less, but when he speaks to his sister Sheng Xia, he is still as gentle as before.
"Isn't this ring Gu Jing's? Why didn't you run here, why didn't you see him come back with you? ”
Su Xiao noticed the extra jade ring on Sheng Xia's hand, he still remembered that it was left to Gu Jing by Gu Jing's mother, but he didn't know why he wore it on Sheng Xia's hand.
"Brother, Gu Jing, he ......"
Sheng Xia couldn't finish her words, so she buried her head in Su Xiao's shoulder aggrieved and sad.
Su Xiao felt a warm wetness on his back, and immediately understood, it turned out that even Gu Jing had left, and now he and Sheng Xia really had nothing, and he wanted to comfort his sister, but he still didn't say a word of comfort, and Su Xiao was still speechless and choked.
Su Xiao was still wearing the sword used to protect himself at his waist, and when his hand accidentally touched the sword, a trace of self-evident melancholy crossed his eyes again, it was the sword that stabbed Nameless, and it was also the sword that Nameless gave him.
"Apprentice, your martial arts are so poor, and you can't protect you every day as a teacher, so this sword is for you, this is a sword made of thousand-year-old cold iron, and it is also a sword used by the master of the martial arts alliance for a while."
It was useless to teach Su Xiao to Nameless, only to blame Su Xiao's poor comprehension and even broke several swords, so he sent out the sword he had used before, this is still Nameless's best sword.
But Su Xiao didn't use this sword to defend himself, but stabbed the person who cared about him the most, and the person he loved the most.
Later, I learned that the sword was actually called severing, which means cutting off all enemies, but I didn't expect Su Xiao to use this sword to cut off bonds and emotions.
Maybe after losing it, I will miss it more and more, obviously I just inadvertently touched the sword, and I remembered the nameless.
"Brother, you've been unhappy lately, haven't you? Did you encounter something uncomfortable? ”
Midsummer saw through the loneliness and sadness in Su Xiao's eyes, so she couldn't help but ask.
"It's nothing, it's just an old man, an irrelevant person."
Su Xiao faintly flashed a slightly bitter smile, he said that it was okay, but his eyes could speak.
"Brother, if you don't say it, then I don't know anything."
Midsummer's hand around Su Xiao's neck was tighter, and she didn't know anything about it when she caught a glimpse of the word nameless engraved on the scabbard, but she didn't know what happened to Su Xiao and Nameless.
And Midsummer clearly remembers what my brother said.
"I used to think that my sister was the best-looking beauty in the world, until I met my father to find the master for this prince, it was really good-looking, the first beautiful in the world and the first beautiful in the sky!"
Su Xiao said with great certainty that although he loved beauties to the bone, he had never been so nervous and excited, and it was only then that he had a bad relationship with the nameless resume.
"Is it a beautiful sister? I'd love to see it. ”
At that time, Su Xia heard those words, and a figure like a fairy really appeared in his mind, who knew what Su Xiao's next words were......
"It's not that the beautiful sister is a first-class beautiful man, as long as the prince likes it, whether it's a man or a woman, it doesn't matter as long as it's him."
Su Xiao shook her head and explained to her naïve sister.
Sheng Xia didn't know why her brother broke off with Nameless to this point, but she could still see that her brother Su Xiao had true feelings for Nameless, and her brother had always seemed to be affectionate but was actually ruthless, but since he met Nameless, he had never been to the Qinglou and had never praised any woman for being good-looking.
Su Xiao carried Midsummer back to the princess's mansion where Midsummer used to live, and the furnishings on the house were still as good as before, and there was not even a trace of dust, obviously someone went to clean it every day.
The grandmother who had been serving the princess in the past had been waiting for her, sending her to bathe and change her clothes, while Su Xiao was still waiting in the room of Midsummer.