Chapter 7: Absurdity

It was dark in the room, and all the curtains were loose, blocking the light from the window. Qin Xi's eyes were still adapting to the darkness, and she thought to herself that Murong Ying had done a lot of this play, and anyone who walked in this scene could feel depressed. A woman whose husband died on her wedding day, grief-stricken with this appearance, spread the word, but it was able to restore her reputation.

Qin Xi found Murong Ying in front of the dresser, at that time her phoenix crown had been removed, three thousand green silks were scattered around her waist, there were no hair accessories, only a wedding dress was still worn, how sad and sad it looked to be, she saw Qin Xi in the bronze mirror, raised her lips and smiled, stared at Qin Xi's reflection in the mirror and sneered: "You also came to see a good show?" Before the worship ceremony, my husband died on the way to greet his wife, and now you are happy? ”

"But don't be too happy, I don't love him, he's just a pawn of mine. You are different, the husband you picked became the murderer of your father, and this end is much worse than mine, do you say yes or no? ”

She spoke viciously to each other, and she didn't look half sad. How could she, Murong Ying, be sad for a chess piece? That useless man, if it weren't for his deep family roots, she wouldn't have bothered to look at him more, let alone marry him. was assassinated on the way to welcome her relatives, and she died like this, which made her a commotion.

After thinking about it, it's okay, she hasn't passed the door yet, and there is no substantial loss, but because she has become his surviving person, she can more or less exchange for the love of the elders in that man's family, she is his wife who has not passed the door, and she has finally gained a little thin face.

Thinking of her dissatisfaction, there was no time that it was not related to Qin Xi: "If it weren't for your good husband who bravely killed the enemy on the battlefield and defeated the Southern Army, how would I have fallen into such a field?" You pretended to come here, but I won't shed a single tear for you. ”

Since she was a child, Qin Xi has been the proud daughter of the sky, she asked herself which one is worse than Qin Xi in terms of appearance and talent, but she went back to Qin Mansion to play with her, and her father had to tell her again and again, not to have a dispute with Qin Xi, to be humble in everything, and not to make Qin Xi cry. She got tired of hearing it, and gradually developed a wave of hatred. If it weren't for Qin Xi's straightforward nature and the squeamishness of golden branches and jade leaves, they wouldn't have become friends who talked about everything.

Later, Dugu Hao appeared, she had the idea of a little daughter, and her love was just beginning, because of the rules of her ancestors, she could only use Qin Xi as a pretext to ask Dugu Hao to meet each other to relieve the pain of lovesickness. Qin Xi's little girl knew that she loved Dugu Hao, even if she didn't like Dugu Hao, she was willing to endure the three of them staying together for her.

Qin Xi and Dugu Hao have always been at odds with each other, and they don't like each other, at least in her eyes. When she heard that Dugu Hao was going to marry Qin Xi, she went to the Qin Mansion to ask for marriage in person, and persuaded Dugu Shibo to come forward to propose marriage to the Qin City Lord, she panicked. She can let Qin Xi do anything, she can not care about anything, why did even Dugu Hao have to be snatched away by her?

She hated Qin Xi so much, first there was the noble Qi Ao, and then the handsome and incomparable Li Xuan, two men with extraordinary grace in this world have fallen in love with her, why does she still occupy Dugu Hao's eyes and heart?

"Qin Xi, this man didn't die for me Murong Ying, he died because of you, do you know?"

Qin Xi was very glad that before she came to see Murong Ying, she didn't have a trace of sympathy in her heart, Murong Ying was not worthy.

"Just pity this person who is willing to marry you, he died before he had time to see your true face, according to the customs of Qinzhou, you need to keep filial piety for 7749 days, you and play enough, don't let people see through, these days of eating and sleeping will be saved, haggard and a little those people will be convinced of you, think you are more calculating than me, even if I don't remind you, you will do well."

When Qin Xi left, the two maids had slapped each other fifty times, knelt obediently under the corridor, and did not dare to come out, she lowered her head and said: "Take care of your master, she will definitely not be able to eat or sleep these days, you guard this courtyard, don't let irrelevant people disturb her." ”

Walking out of Murong Ying's courtyard, Dugu Hao's men came to report, according to Qin Xi's previous guess, they found several suspicious people in a small inn not far from Murong Mansion, Qin Xi and Dugu Hao glanced at each other, and he very tacitly proposed to interrogate these people.

In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, people were ordered by Dugu Hao to be locked up in a remote courtyard, Qin Xi followed Dugu Hao into the underground cell, Sen Sen's torture equipment glowed with a cold light, she felt uncomfortable for a moment, and her temples hurt for a while.

There were three people tied to a high wooden stake, they looked like they were ordinary, hidden in the sea of people, it was difficult to notice with her acumen, and she was just lucky to be able to find these three people.

Dugu Hao sat down very comfortably, raised his eyebrows and asked her, "How are you going to interrogate?" Since they were picked by the Southern Emperor, their tone must be very tight, and it is impossible to pry their mouths open without being punished. ”

This Qin Xi understood that it was just Xiao Ye's matter in front of her, she was really resistant to the torture, and she didn't want to bend into a trick unless she had to, so she coldly ordered the jailer: "Go and take off the clothes of these three people." ”

Dugu Hao hooked his lips and smiled, very uninhibited: "Qin Xi, what kind of bad taste are you?" Could it be that it is not enough for me and Qi Ao to have a beautiful man in front of you, you still have to look at the figures of these people? What vision do you have? ”

Qin Xi didn't bother to pay attention to him, and continued to explain to the jailer: "Let's go and see if there is a dragon pattern tattooed on these people's bodies, check carefully, if you find it, cut the skin and flesh next to it, if I guess correctly, the pattern will die in blood." ”

Seeing her so sure of her appearance, the jailer didn't dare to slack off, and did as he pleased, her daughter was so inconvenient that she had to turn her back to the past, and after a while, the jailer's surprised voice came from behind him: "Back to the city lord, as the city lord expected, these three people have dragon patterns tattooed on their armpits, inner thighs and soles of their feet, and the small one is under the knife according to the city lord's words, and the tattoo is blood-stained and disappears in the blink of an eye." ”

Dugu Hao was suspicious, seeing Qin Xi's determined appearance, he couldn't resist his curiosity and went to see it for himself, the first time he had encountered such a strange thing at this age, he waved his hand, and the jailer dressed the prisoner with all hands and feet, and stepped aside, Qin Xi stopped when he heard the rustling, and turned around: "The strips of cloth tied to their mouths can't be loosened, and before they ask for something useful, if one of them commits suicide by taking poison, I will ask you." ”

The killer or dead soldier raised by the royal family, once exposed and captured, will definitely bite through the poison hidden between his teeth and commit suicide when he gets the opportunity, and finally catch someone, and die like this, it is too cheap Chu Hong.

Dugu Hao's bewitching eyes showed a fierce light: "Actually, why bother with you, the simplest thing is to dislocate their jaws, and they won't have the strength to bite their tongues or take poison." ”

She glanced at him coldly and said firmly: "If I do that, what is the difference between me and Chu Hong?" "She never likes to use force or coercion to solve problems, she wants to protect the stability of Qinzhou, not to become a tyrant.

She couldn't stay in this angry place for a moment, and she almost escaped before Dugu Hao caught up. Back on the ground, she sniffed the waking air and felt as if the blood was still around her. She was very uncomfortable, every inch of her body was rejecting, and the tips of her nose were densely beaded with sweat, and she was almost out of breath.

Dugu Hao noticed that something was wrong with her, followed her over, saw her eyebrows deep, broke out in a cold sweat, and grabbed her arm: "What's wrong with you?" ”

Her voice was already very weak, and she forcibly said, "I'm fine." ”

"You're clearly not fine."

Dugu Hao's face softened: "Qin Xi, it's nothing for a person to be weak, why do you bother to stand alone?" ”

For the past few months, she has not let anyone see her pain, but a person who buries all her pain in her heart, and after a long time her heart will get sick, how old is she to learn to drink heavily.

Qin Xi's eyes were red, but she couldn't help but let the tears fall, the crystal tears swirled in her eyes, and she forced her to go back, Xiao Ye's matter was a scar on her heart that was difficult to heal, she thought she was hiding it well, but when she saw the terrible torture instruments with her own eyes, she thought of Xiao Ye's tragic death for no reason.

No more innocent people can die because of her, she will definitely find a way to curb Chu Hong's conspiracy.

She was accompanied by Dugu Hao back to the Qin Mansion, and when she arrived at the gate of the mansion, she said to him: "You go back, Murong Ying still needs you." "After this incident, he stayed by her side, which was not beneficial to the overall situation.

He didn't care and said, "She has to lock herself in the house for at least ten days, otherwise how can people feel the pain of her losing her husband?" I'm not one of her, but it's suspicious to go. ”

"So, you have nowhere else to go?" He can go wherever he goes, as long as he doesn't follow her anymore.

He guessed what she was thinking: "I haven't been here once or twice in this Qin Mansion, I've long been familiar with it, you won't let me in, unless- you want to drive me away." ”

She had to have the heart to chase him, he thought he could still stand here and talk to her? She was short of energy, and she didn't bother to entangle with him more: "Come if you want." ”

He understood that she didn't want him to follow, so he said with a joke: "I'll go to Qi Ao to kill two games, I heard that you have a chess piece made of cold jade, wait for me to pull him to your place, you let people put the chess game in the gazebo, and then make a pot of good tea, how about it?" ”

She felt tired even when she looked at him, what was he doing? Worried that something will happen to her and stay with her? When was she so vulnerable?

"Dugu Hao, Chu Hong won't attack me so quickly, you are too nervous, besides, I am not a child anymore, I don't need your protection."

She threw down this sentence, didn't look back, and left Dugu Hao behind her without a smile, she only knew that Qi Ao was ashamed of her, where did she know his guilt for her, if he insisted on marrying her again and again, only Qin Cheng nodded, how could she suffer those grievances later? It was better for him to force her to stay by his side in the name of husband and wife than to let Li Xuan's bastard hurt her like this.

Qin Xi retreated left and right when she entered the house, and the maidservants were all driven by her to serve the two people who were preparing to play chess in the pavilion outside, and she was stuffy in the room, drinking wine arbitrarily, and from today, she also began to drink during the day, a person's heartache will become hard after a long time, and the pain buried in the bottom of the heart fermented, and the deeper she hid, she hurt herself without knowing.

In the past, Qi Ao didn't care about her drinking, but now it is very abnormal, she only drank two pots of wine, and she was far from drunk, so he knocked on her door, she deliberately ignored it, and still poured wine into her mouth one by one.

He lost patience and pushed the door open with one palm, and the wind outside poured into the room, blowing the corners of her skirt. Looking drunk, he seemed to be angry, and stared at the wine jug in her hand fiercely: "How long do you want to be depressed?" ”

Who was he to question her?

"Presumptuous!" She grimaced: "Where did you get the guts to break into my house?" ”

"If Master sees you like this—"

She smiled like stars, decadent and sad: "Qi Ao, what do you always do these days when you mention a dead man?" Do you still have to tell me, you don't know that Qin Cheng and I are not biological father and daughter? ”

Qi Ao was shocked, his face turned from blue to white, and he almost trembled: "How do you know-"

She was finally willing to put down the flask in her hand, but she threw it at his feet, and the flask cracked, and the wine smashed out, splashing the hem of his clothes. Dugu Hao, who was waiting in the pavilion, heard the movement, strode into the room, and saw a chaotic situation, Qin Xi sat on the chair with red cheeks, a pair of eyebrows and eyes were rare and sharp, and Qi Ao looked depressed.

Qin Xi saw him appear, and then smiled: "You came just in time, I am going to tell you a ridiculous thing." ”

Dugu Hao looked at her appearance and had a premonition.

"Do you know that during the years I was in Qinzhou, I called Qin Cheng Daddy, but he was not my biological father? Tell me why a man who has nothing to do with me thinks of me as his daughter, and who has to give me the burden of a city? ”

After she said these words, Dugu Hao's face was not much better than Qi Ao's.

"Therefore, every one of you knows why, but I am the only one who has become a fool."

So her father exchanged death for her livelihood, he died, Long Xiao had no threat, so he disdained to kill her, a small character who couldn't set off the storm. Therefore, Li Xuan knew that she and Long Xiao were enemies, and brought her back to Daqi in a grand manner. That's why Qi Ao didn't come to the rescue, he originally knew that Long Xiao would not kill her. So she forgot about her future and stayed in Daqi for two years, and Dugu Hao never tried to pass on the word to her.

How ironic, as soon as she was born, it was a mistake. Who would have thought that she was the youngest daughter of the Emperor of Great Qi, the sister of Long Xiao, and the emperor of the most powerful country in the Kyushu continent?

Every word she said slammed into Qi Ao's heart. He always thought that she couldn't accept Li Xuan's deception, and felt that she caused Qin Cheng's death, so he indulged in drinking, and now the situation is developing in the worst direction, she knows her life story from somewhere, and from then on, he can't find a way to comfort her heartache.

Dugu Hao still has a trace of reason: "We don't want to hide it from you-"

Qin Xi didn't want to listen to a word, grabbed the inkstone at hand, and smashed it at them, in a hurry, Dugu Hao used his hand to block it, and the back of his hand was smashed out of a long bloody hole, she roared with red eyes: "Get out!" ”

She never wanted to see them again.

Qi Ao's heart was like ashes, and he didn't know how he stepped out of her house, and after many years, he had completely lost her. At that time, she was already extremely disappointed in him. This time, she hated him so much.