There was a knock on the door, and Xingchen's face was full of anxiety. However, the gate did not move, and it was clearly locked.

"Mingyue, you open the door. What are you doing here? Xingchen banged on the door and yelled out.

How could Mingyue, who was squatting at the door, not be able to hear it, but she couldn't cry for a long time, and she couldn't speak anymore, and she couldn't breathe.

"Xingchen, I'm sorry......" she said in a choked voice, "I can't harm you for not having an heir and taking your place as a lady." Wan Tao is in it, you ......" The next words, she couldn't say anything.

The red and swollen eyes that were crying were full of pain, and let him touch other women, how could he not feel uncomfortable, it was like scraping his own flesh, and it hurt and hurt.

But she desperately told herself that she couldn't be so selfish, she couldn't be so selfish and let him have no queen.

"Mingyue, are you crazy?" Xingchen has not been as angry as he is today, he is angry that Mingyue still doesn't understand his mind, and he is angry that she actually makes such a foolish thing to assert.

"Hey!" Angrily kicked the door panel, and immediately a cone pain came from his toes, and he cursed in a low voice: "Damn it." ”

Then he saw Wan Tao lying on the bed, and he suddenly felt the urge to strangle her, but he knew that she was just a victim.

"Mingyue, if you let me out, you will be willing to push me into the arms of others."

Mingyue shook her head violently, and couldn't hold back her crying anymore, the sad crying sound was all telling of helplessness. Hearing this, Xingchen's heart throbbed for a while.

"No, how can I give up, but, but I can't be so selfish! You have so easily risen from a small hermit guard to the status of a hereditary candidate, how can I bear to ruin your future, how can I be so selfish to swallow your love! Ah......h

"You ......" Xingchen was shocked by her words, speechless, what status, what is right, what is selfish or not. For him, it's all just a passing moment.

She thought about herself, but she didn't know she didn't care.

There was suddenly no sound in the room, Mingyue suddenly stopped crying, and glanced back at the door, the lock on the door did not move at all, and there was no sound inside.

Isn't it...... She couldn't imagine that. simply turned around and ran away, hiding under the old tree and weeping secretly. There seemed to be the intertwined voices of the two in her ears, and she couldn't breathe in pain.

"Bright moon, bright moon." Xingchen called anxiously, but there was no sound outside, and her heart-wrenching cry could not be heard. Weakly lowered her hand on the door, and without thinking about it, she knew that she must have run away.

So sad, so unhearable, so invisible, why do such stupid things.

Xingchen walked into the bed with a helpless face, and Wan Tao was lying asleep on the bed, and after only looking at it for a while, he shook his head and walked away, sat on the side, and sat quietly.

In the middle of the night, Wan Tao woke up leisurely after the drug had taken effect, and when she opened her eyes, she was terrified, and she suddenly found herself lying on Mingyue's bed, which was an unacceptable thing, so frightened that she immediately fell out of bed and prepared to leave. I ran to the door, but I couldn't open the door. He was sweating profusely.

"No need to try, the door is locked and won't be opened." From the corner of the darkness came the cold voice of the stars.

Frightened, Wan Tao leaned against the door and continued to explore in the night, and asked in a low voice, "Who?" ”

"It's me."

This time she listened carefully, it turned out to be Xingchen, her own master. Immediately breathed a sigh of relief and put down his mind: "Master Hou, why is the door locked." ”

"It's the lady who locked it, you come first, find a fire fold, and light the candle."

Wan Tao nodded blankly, looking for the candlestick in the dark, and finally lit the candle flame, and by the light, she found the stars who had been sitting on the soft couch.

His face was a little haggard, and at a glance he knew that his companion had not closed his eyes.

Wan Tao cautiously leaned to the opposite side of the star and asked, "Why did Madame lock the door?" "Actually, she has already probed in her heart, and she estimates that it is for the sake of the child, so she ......

There was a moment of helplessness on her little face, but there was also some joy.

"Wan Tao. You're not stupid, you should be able to guess somewhat. ”

Wan Tao was slightly stunned, glanced at Xingchen with a little embarrassment, and lowered her head shyly: "Yes, Mrs. and Hou Ye, you don't have children, and Madam She is so virtuous, so for Hou Ye, you are a little eager to have a child." I ......"

"What are you?" The stars interrupted her and stopped. raised his eyes and looked at Wan Tao coldly.

Wan Tao was so frightened that she took a step back, shook her head, and didn't dare to say those presumptuous words anymore. A sentence came out of his mouth: "It's nothing." ”

"Hmm!" Xingchen replied lightly. He didn't blame her for having such thoughts, after all, everyone has the delusion of flying on a branch and becoming a phoenix.

She can still stand calmly in front of herself now, and it is already very good not to seduce herself. At least it shows that she is not the kind of woman with bad intentions.

"Then Hou Ye, what should we do now, it is always inconvenient for this lonely man and widow to live in the same room, besides, the people in the house know, then I will ...... in the future" It is not reasonable for her to worry, after all, she is a yellow flower girl who stays in Hou Ye's room for one night, and anyone will want to be crooked, and it is not so easy to explain.

Xingchen thought for a while and then said, "It's going to be fine, I'll prove it for you, but you can't stay in this Hou Mansion anymore." ”

"Master Hou, don't dare me to go, it's okay, I'm willing to bear it. If you drive me away, you will let me go there. As soon as Wan Tao heard that he was going to drive herself away, she quickly knelt down and kowtowed to him repeatedly.

Seeing her so timid, Xingchen rubbed his temples a little irritably, raised his hand and waved, signaling her not to knock again, and then said to her: "Don't worry, I won't treat you badly, I will give you enough silver to return to your hometown, you can go wherever you want." Just don't go back to the Hou Mansion, go back to Pingyang. ”

He's already said that. Wan Tao didn't want to say anything more, thanked Xingchen, and silently stepped aside, standing on the side and not daring to doze off.

The two of them remained silent to each other and stayed in the room for the whole night.

And the bright moon outside could be better there, and she didn't sleep all night, crying all night, until the sky was bright, and the sun stung her red and swollen eyes. She couldn't open her eyes a little.

"It's dawn." She muttered to herself. Struggled to get up and prepare to open the door. But when I walked to the door, my hands trembled and I couldn't help lock the door. She was terrified of that.

In pain, he turned around and handed it to his subordinates to open the door, while he hid far away.

With a creak, the door opened.

Wan Tao's legs were numb after standing all night, and she wanted to go out immediately, but was stopped by Xingchen.

"I'll go out first and see if it's Madame. If not, you'll come out later, and it's best to take advantage of no one, understand? Xingchen commanded. According to his understanding of Mingyue, she definitely didn't dare to open the door in person, not because she was afraid that she would be angry, but because she didn't dare to face this matter arranged by her own hands.

Sure enough, after going out, he didn't see Mingyue, but a subordinate. glared at him and ordered him not to say what he saw, and then strode to find Mingyue.

searched the entire Hou Mansion, only to find Mingyue's curled body in the corner of the back garden, trembling slightly, obviously still crying.

looked at her and said distressedly: "Since you are so sad, why do you want to do this?" ”

Mingyue was shocked, turned around blankly, and looked at his disappointed eyes, extremely guilty.

After a sleepless night, her lips were frighteningly white, her eyes were red and swollen, and her whole eye socket seemed to be deeply sunken. Haggard, as if ten years old.

Xingchen really wanted to rush over and hold her in his arms, but after thinking about it, it was better to take advantage of this time to let her see her heart.

"You like to watch me with other women so much?"

"No, no. I don't want to. Mingyue hurriedly explained in a panic. Lest he didn't believe it, he turned around and clutched his sleeve tightly.

Xingchen shook his head helplessly, this wayward little woman. Obviously so nervous about yourself, and still like this, isn't it pure blind torture?

"Then why are you doing such a stupid thing?" He was still cold.

"I, I'm sorry, I just feel sorry for you for not being able to have children."

"Fool, I've said it all, children are not as important as you, don't you believe me?"

"Faith." At this moment, Mingyue regretted it a lot, and after torturing herself all night, she suddenly realized how outrageous her mistake was, but the mistake had been cast and could not be reversed, "But, now that it's like this, it's useless for me to regret it." It's too late. ”

Mingyue rushed into his arms and cried loudly.

Xingchen reached out to put his hand on her trembling back, and finally smiled with relief: "Nothing is too late, everything is still in time." ”

"What?" Mingyue looked up at him with teary eyes, and her eyes couldn't believe it.

"Fool, I'm so easily confused, I only have you in my heart, how can I touch others."

"Don't you?"

"Nope." Xingchen shook his head lightly and smiled at her.

Mingyue didn't know whether to cry or laugh, so she stuck tightly into his arms and refused to come out again.

Xingchen patted her on the back and coaxed her quietly, waiting for her mood to calm down before she said slowly: "Mingyue, I haven't slept all night, I'm tired, you go back to the room first and have a good rest." I'm going to the palace. ”

"What are you doing at the palace?"

"It's nothing, you'll know when you get back."

Xingchen smiled mysteriously at her, which made Mingyue's heart a little flustered.