Chapter 84. Weakness
Although I thought about countermeasures, the events of that night still left a big shadow on me. I had the same dream this night as last night......
When he opened his eyes, he was caught off guard by a pair of dark eyes. I subconsciously ducked backwards. He frowned when he saw this, but he didn't make any more moves.
"You...... Don't you have to go to court? "My voice was a little hoarse.
"The emperor has been calling himself sick since he came back from Yuqiong Mountain, and he doesn't need to go to court in the near future." He explained in a low voice.
"Oh." The atmosphere suddenly froze.
He reached out to me, and as he saw it landing on my face, I subconsciously retracted again, and his hand unnaturally stopped in mid-air.
Remembering that he had shown weakness to him yesterday, he moved towards him again. He stroked the corner of my eye. "My eyes are swollen."
I cried for so long yesterday, it's no wonder it's not swollen. Thinking so in my heart, there was another set of words on my lips: "It's okay, just apply a cold cloth to it." ”
"Come here."
I hesitated and moved back to him. His fingers landed on my collarbone.
That night, he took a bite here in a frenzy, but no blood was seen, only bruises.
"Does it still hurt?" As he spoke, his fingers straining slightly.
"Sss I couldn't help but say something, "It's okay." ”
He smiled helplessly: "If you had put it before, you would have scolded it a long time ago." ”
"I don't dare now."
He slowly hugged me, lowered his head and kissed my injury, and said in my ear: "Yan Linxuan, listen: I Ling Niankong is indeed not a good person, but I am not a good person. You're good, I'll be good to you. Don't provoke me anymore, or ......" He gently rubbed a small patch of skin under my collarbone, where there was also a bruise, his masterpiece. "I don't know what I'm going to do to you."
"I won't, I'm scared......" I whispered.
"I thought you weren't afraid of heaven and earth. Looks like I really scared you that night. ”
He walked away some, stared into my eyes and asked, "What did you dream about last night?" I've been crying, and I can't wake up no matter how much I scream. ”
Last night? …… I dreamed of being ...... by you
I didn't answer, just avoided his gaze.
As if he had guessed, he slowly exhaled a breath and said softly: "Yan Linxuan, you can go against me, you can beat me, you can scold me, you can even hate me, but there is only one thing: don't be afraid of me." For if thou art afraid of me, thou shalt cast me a thousand miles away. ”
I didn't understand why he would mind if I was thousands of miles away, but I forced myself, "I'll do my best." ”
He touched my head. "If you want to sleep, you can sleep for a while, I have to go to the camp headquarters and come back at noon to eat with you."
"Don't bother, I can eat it myself."
"No hassle. Wait for me to come back. He tried to get up, but I suddenly thought of something, and put my hand on his shoulder.
He paused, looking at me with his left arm half-propped up. "Something you want to say to me?"
"Hmm...... I ...... "I want to say and stop."
He lay down on his side and took me in his arms, the tip of his nose gently pressed against mine. "What's wrong?"
I plucked up the courage to look into his eyes. Shen Fengyue ......" Hearing me say this name, his eyes darkened. Seeing him like this, I couldn't help but shrink a little. He noticed it and gently stroked my hair. "What's wrong with him?"
"He didn't touch me...... It's true......" There were tears in my eyes again, but I tried not to let them flow.
He looked at me for a moment and said softly, "I believe in you." ”
Hearing him say this, I smiled slightly, but tears also fell in time. Such tears should be extremely aggrieved in his opinion, right?
Sure enough, his expression was not as tense as he was, and he reached out to help me wipe away my tears. "Don't cry, I believe you."
"Hmm."
"I'm really leaving."
"Okay."
He kissed me lightly on the forehead, got up and went out into the outer room.
But I still lay motionless, and it wasn't until he was completely out of the house that I slowly retracted my right hand, which had been hidden behind me.
I pulled out the silver needle from the tip of my index finger as quickly as I could, but it still hurt and tears flowed.
I hid the silver needle, wiped the tears from my face, and couldn't help sneering: Ling Niankong, you are so proud, you would never have thought that my obedience to you now is all acting. You must think I'm really scared of you, right? You're terrible, but not so bad that I'm not out of my mind.
The tears just now are the result of my secret use of silver needles, and you have relented defenselessly.
Very good, what I want is for you to be soft-hearted, I want you to think that I am afraid of you to the point of being obedient to you, and then I can take advantage of your unpreparedness to leave......
Although the lock on the courtyard door has been removed, I still don't dare to go out, not because I am afraid of Ling Niankong, but because I don't know how many people have seen the arrest document, and I am afraid that there will be extraneous branches. Since Ling Niankong said that he would solve this matter, I might as well wait.
I didn't go out, but an uninvited guest came to me. I looked at the woman in white sitting on the chair of the Taishi in the flower hall, and I couldn't figure out the situation, so I could only look her up and down.
Although she is wearing a skirt, she feels quite capable, and then she should have something to do with Ling Niankong, so I guessed that she should have martial arts. Looking at her appearance again, she is a little flamboyant in the ointment, and she should not be a simple character.
She took a sip of her tea and placed the cup back on the table. "The girl is really a noble and forgetful, obviously I have met before, but I can't imagine that I won't remember me in January?"
I frowned. Have I seen her? I looked her up and down again, but I still couldn't remember.
"Ugh." She sighed helplessly. "Qianyak, do you remember the girl?"
Qianyak? Isn't that the restaurant that Ling Niankong took me to on the day of the Zhaoyuan Festival? It occurred to me who she might be. "You...... Are you Luo Chen? ”
"Yo! It's rare for a girl to remember my name. She seemed very satisfied.
Of course I remember her name. She was the woman in white who flew out of the window and jumped into Qianyake's private room that night. Although she was also dressed in white at that time, she exuded the debauchery of a woman in the Qinglou all over her body, which was very different from her current capable image, no wonder I couldn't recognize it.
I remember that she had another reason, that is, at that time, she said that I was a "dove occupies the magpie's nest", that is, she is a person who knows my true identity in addition to Xiu Li, Ling Niankong, and Xiao Jifeng.
So what did she come to me for? No matter what the reason is, I'm afraid it can't be separated from Ling Niankong.
"I wonder what Miss Luo is looking for me?"
"I'm looking for you?" She touched her chin. "I just want to see what kind of person Ling Niankong personally entrusted to me."
Ling Niankong entrusted me to her? I don't understand it even more.
She continued: "Ling Niankong said, your current situation is not suitable for the people in the mansion to take care of you, so please leave it to me...... Take care of you......" The last three words, she said meaningfully.
"Girl Ken?" I tried to guess what she meant.
"Oh?" She seemed very interested. "How do you know I won't?"
I smiled. "There are only two kinds of people that Ling Niankong trusts, one is his subordinates, such as Xue Rang. One is his troubled brothers, such as Xiao Jifeng. Miss Luo didn't look like a subordinate. ”
"Huh." She chuckled twice, stood up, walked over to me, and said condescendingly, "You're right, but you're not right." I am not his subordinate, but I am not his brother either. ”
Based on the ambiguity in her tone, and then recalling the frivolous words she said to Ling Niankong on the night of the Zhaoyuan Festival, plus she also mentioned Shen Yan at that time, I can basically be sure that she should have also lived in Yunhua Mountain.
That's when they probably met. As to why Shen Mu, who has always only searched for children, has left her by her side, I don't know. But her experience must have been extraordinary.
She suddenly took my hand, I didn't know what she wanted to do, but I didn't panic, and obediently let her caress the thin calluses on my fingertips.
"It's a pity!" She sighed, "It's a pity that the owner of this hand died too soon, otherwise I would have liked to have a fight with her......," she said, putting down my hand. "Playing the piano ......"
I knew she was talking about coldness, so I didn't answer.
"Okay, I'm done with you, but you're just a smarter woman, nothing special. You tell Ling Niankong, his people, he takes care of himself, I'm gone! Saying that, she walked out, and said to herself as she walked: "Ling Niankong, put that woman's skin here, and locked that woman's girl in Qingyuan, I really don't know what to think......"
It turns out that Ling Niankong also locked up Qingdai and locked it up in Qingyuan, right?
I had been thinking about escaping before, but I forgot about Qing Dai, because she took care of me like that before! I felt sorry in my heart, so I made up my mind to go to Qingyuan to see her.
Because Qingyuan was built by Ling Niankong for the original owner, it has always been locked. However, I remember the last time I stumbled into the Qingyuan, I entered through a side door, so I wanted to see if I could find that side door again, and go in to see the situation of Qing Dai.
Avoiding people as much as I could, I managed to find the small door, and it was still unlocked. Overjoyed, I slighted myself through the door.
Qingdai was sitting under the porch in a daze, and she saw me as soon as I walked into the courtyard. She hurried up to me and took my hand. "Miss, why are you here? Didn't you run away? Was it caught again? How are you? ……”
As soon as she came up, she asked such a series of questions, obviously very worried about me, and I was even more ashamed.
"I'm fine. Qing Dai, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left you alone, Ling Niankong did he embarrass you? ”
Qing Dai shook her head. "Don't say that, if you say so, then Qing Dai was not by Miss's side for four years before, and Qing Dai was even more embarrassed. Qingdai is fine, but she is locked up here, and there is no shortage of drinking water. ”
I hugged her and said, "Qingdai, I don't have much time, you have listened carefully to what I said next." ”