Chapter 9: The Wind Rises in Jicheng (1)

I'm so hungry, why can I always smell the smell of rice cakes? It's still osmanthus flavored. Arlene, Arlene, sister, I risked my life to save you, bring me a cookie. Arlene?

"What do you call me?" A cold voice came from my ears, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Chu Zhilan sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at me with a straight face.

I glanced away from him, "I didn't call you." ”

"You called, you called me 'Ah Lan'."

Hearing this, I instantly blushed and sat up excitedly. There was a pain in my chest, and I rubbed my chest as I stammered, "Who...... Whoever called you 'Ah Lan', my name is 'Ah Lin'! ”

"What did you tell Arlene to do?"

I didn't dare to look at his face, I looked down and muttered, "What to do?" I was hungry and called Arlene to bring me a cookie to eat. As soon as I finished speaking, Chu Zhilan held a plate of cookies in front of my eyes. I glanced at it and held out my hand hesitantly......

Chu Zhilan retreated, and the other hand holding the broken iris hairpin stretched out in front of my eyes.

"Just use this?" There was a bit of anger in his tone, "You just want to use this to kill the person who imprisoned you in a thatched house like a dumpling?" ”

I looked at the hairpin, the slender hairpin was folded into two pieces, and the blue iris petals on the hairpin head were also broken in two. Following the hairpin, I carefully looked at the hand holding the hairpin again: a pair of rough but powerful, jointed hands. Then I looked down my arm at the chest, shoulders, neck, face, and eyes of the man sitting in front of me.

I couldn't see anything clearly, so I lowered my head, sniffed and said, "It's been a long time, you're a lot uglier." ”

He didn't respond to me, just held the hairpin tightly and tightly, and finally relaxed and took the hairpin into his arms. "Forget it, I forgot, you are incompetent and cowardly, and you are finally brave once, and you are so stupid." Helpless laughter came from front of me to my ears. I was so aggrieved that I didn't care how ugly my face was, and yelled at him: "I don't need you to emphasize to me, I know what I look like." So what can I do? Seeing Arlene lying on the bed in disheveled clothes and despair, I was indeed stupid. Stupid enough to not know what to do, stupid enough not to know what you're doing, stupid enough to not know what you can do! I covered my face and cried until I was short of breath: "I am indeed a fool, the biggest fool in the world!" ”

My hands were dragged down, and a plate of cookies was stuffed in my palm, and I gasped in pain. Spread out his right hand, a slender wound was still oozing blood. It should have been accidentally injured by a hairpin yesterday.

Chu Zhilan immediately turned around and brought the medicine box, sat back on the side of my bed, and sighed, "Didn't you just shout that you were hungry?" Let's have a snack first, and I'll take care of it for you. He leaned over, took my right hand, and sprinkled some powder on my wound, which hurt terribly, but thinking that he had just buried me as a coward, I couldn't help but say nothing. He glanced up at me and frowned, "Does it hurt?" I hurriedly shook my head, he obviously didn't believe it, and said softly: "Then I'll light, you don't move." ”

When I heard this, I immediately stopped moving, he gently medicated me and bandaged me carefully. I felt the gentle touch of those rough fingertips on my right hand, and my face immediately burned.

In order to alleviate the silence that made me embarrassed, I asked, "Chu Zhilan, are you...... Where have you been for so long? "Of course, that's what I've always wanted to ask.

The hand that was bandaging me paused slightly, then continued, "Go to a place you don't know and do something that has nothing to do with you." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "If you don't want to say it, don't say it, I just want to know where you went, and I won't ......say hello without saying hello" And after going for so long, I thought you wouldn't come back, I thought I was going to be alone again......

"I wanted to say hello to you, but you weren't awake." He looked up at me, and then I could get a closer look at him: a clean chin, a scar on the left side of his face, and an angular face that looked extremely resolute and capable.

"As a result, I just came back, but you were beaten and fell asleep." He chuckled: "Qingyi, you always surprise people. ”

I looked at him, unable to contain the slightest trace of emotion. This month seems to be separated by towering mountains and vast oceans, as if separated by hope and despair. I shook my freshly bandaged hand and muttered in a low voice, "That...... Next time, before you leave, will you say hello to me? ”

My cheeks ached, and one hand dipped the powder lightly on the left side of my face, and he leaned over and got so close that I could even feel his warm snort spraying on my face. He hummed inaudibly, his fingertips caressing the wound on my face, and said, "I promise you." ”

The sourness in my chest spread out for a while, and I squeezed his hand on my face, "You promised too quickly, what if I faint next time?" He let me hold his hand, and smiled at my words, "Then I'll have to wait until you wake up to say hello." ”

"Chu Zhilan, do you think you're too nice to me?" I said solemnly, "Can you please not be so nice to me." ”

He didn't react in particular surprise to my words, but just smiled faintly and asked me, "Why?" ”

Why? Because I will be greedy, because I will be reluctant, because I know that it is better to gain and lose than to never get in the first place.

I wasn't going to tell him about it, but I blurted out, "Can you hug me?" ”

Did I hurt my brain yesterday?!

The gentle smile on Chu Zhilan's face disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and I let go of his hand and leaned back to distance myself from him. I pounded my head and prepared to prevaricate: "Oops, I seem to have been hit on the head by Zhou Fa's bastard yesterday, it hurts so much." ”

The next moment my hand was pulled by him, and he pressed my back, and my cheek pressed against the delicate brocade robe in front of his chest, and the fire burned. At this moment, I feel like a little rabbit is trapped in my chest, jumping and jumping. The hand that had been pressing my back tightly was loosened, but I didn't dare to move. The hand that was shackled to the chest was loosened, and there was nowhere to put it. I felt my hair being gently rubbed, my back being warmly caressed, and the softness on my forehead was touching away. I gave up my last struggle, and my hands around his waist with nowhere to put them. In the end, I was still defeated.

Pressed against Chu Zhilan's chest, I could feel a slight concussion in his chest, he was laughing, laughing and saying, "Coward." "I took the opportunity to pinch his waist, because he was so lean, he didn't pinch the flesh, only the clothes, and he smiled even more...... I remembered the last time I saw him, and I was burned and dazed, and he held a dagger to my throat like a demon, and his tone of almost despair rang in my ears.

"Coward? You're really 50 steps and 100 steps of laughter. I scolded him in my heart, but my face also smiled.

"Disgusting or disgusting! Stick it in one piece in broad daylight and chirp me! ”

Hearing Chu Fengyu's voice, I was about to break free of Chu Zhilan's embrace, but I was held down tightly by him. I had no choice but to bury my face deep in his arms in despair. It's over, it's over, it's faceless, it's faceless.

"Xu Chaodui, you are really the same as the rumors outside, you are still a fool, no wonder you have killed the country!" Eldest sister, there's no need for such a blunt personal attack, right? It's too much! I blushed and poked Chu Zhilan hard before he let me go.

Then I remembered and asked them, "What about Zhou Fa's group?" How is Arlene? Are you alright? ”

"You finally remembered this?" Chu Fengyu yelled angrily. "Arlene is fine, Zhou Fa was killed by his senior brother, and the other accomplices were taken away by the second master of their rebel army."

I'm so informative! I never knew what else Zhou Fa, the rebel army, had in charge, and besides, the boss died, so the second one was just settled? Also, do you dare to call Chu Zhilan a senior brother again?

Chu Fengyu stood at the door with the sunlight on her back, I couldn't see her face clearly, I saw that she seemed to be a little shy, turned her face sideways and said, "Only this time, don't think about it in the future." After saying that, he turned around and left. This situation made me confused, and I was about to ask Chu Zhilan, but I saw his gentle smile. I blushed and fled. It's over, the tragic abandoned woman's heart sprouts, what face do you want, throw a few feet.

I came to Arlene's door lightly, ready to sneak a look, but before I went in, I heard a man's low voice: "Jicheng can't stay any longer, I've prepared a back road for you, let's go quickly." I froze outside the door, and suddenly I felt as if I had overheard something terrible. Although I feel that eavesdropping is not good, my body is very honest and I don't want to move away at all!

I only heard Arlene's voice weak, with tiredness and rare true sadness: "I'm not leaving, where is the boss, I'm there, besides, you don't want to go with me at all, right?" I know, how long do you think you can fool me, let me wait for you, look forward to you, and hope that your spring and autumn dreams will come true? Oh, why? The man spoke again, with a stoic emotion in his voice: "You know I'm not, I really love you." "Good sister, don't believe him, a man's mouth is a deceitful ghost! I danced excitedly outside the door, only to hear a low roar from the man in the room: "Who? I turned to run, but the door opened, and a man glared at me with anger on his face. I know him, he is the man in the dark clothes that Arlene pestered on the first day I came to Feng Accord.

"Is it Qingyi? Come on in. "Before the man could have a seizure, Arlene called me in the house. I patted my clothes, pretended nothing had happened, and swaggered in.

"You go, either you can really be with me, or you will never come to me again." I heard the man's resentful footsteps go away, looking at Arlene on the bed with a haggard face. I shook her hand and smiled, "You man? She pulled out her hand, pinched my chin, and smiled: "Girl, I have such a bad eyesight? I snapped her hand away: "Just kidding! Looks so handsome! ”

"Did you send it to you?"

"Sister, I don't have a man, you don't know!"

"No, who doesn't know that Princess Chaodui is the most popular man, the concubine has changed three, and the male pets are said to be numerous, even if she is so down......" She hooked her fingers around the belt on my skirt, "Isn't it still to hook up with a cold young knight?" She smiled and pushed me away, "There is going to be a big event in Jicheng today, Feng Yage's life is exhausted, and if I don't know Jicheng's life, we don't have much time, Sister Feng Yu has already planned, today may be the last time dozens of girls in our pavilion are together." I was inexplicably surprised, she only took my hand and said solemnly: "Qingyi, thank you." ”

I suddenly remembered the man's words just now, as if something had turned white: "Then why don't you go with that man, I can see that he really wants to protect you, and his position is more than enough to protect you." She smiled helplessly: "Qingyi, if our king still wants you to return to his side, are you still willing?" I was stunned, I knew she was Qi Yucheng.

"This is different, I am the enemy of killing my father and the hatred of seizing the country." I explained.

"But the most important thing is that he deceived you, didn't he?" I can't answer. She continued: "Kill your father, seize the country, all you want is to find ways to kill him and take revenge on him." However, deception, the emotions that seem to be true and false, make people unable to cut it off, and shackle it. ”

"Arlene, there's only one thing I regret right now, do you know what?"

When she saw that I suddenly said something incomprehensible, she was a little confused and asked, "What is it?" ”

"I didn't even try to raise a male pet to confirm the rumors of my 'male pets' at the beginning...... "I haven't enjoyed the stigma yet, this is the most infuriating!"

"Qingyi, come here." The cold voice at the door lifted my spirits, and Arlene couldn't stand up with a straight smile, and lay down on the bed.

I smiled awkwardly at Chu Zhilan at the door, and walked over tremblingly. He reached out, touched the wound on my face, and asked, "Does it hurt?" I immediately pretended to be in pain and pitiful, and nodded aggrievedly: "It hurts, it hurts me." ”

"If you heal the scar and forget the pain, let the wound crack all the time, and you won't forget it." As he spoke, he poked me hard in the face, and I gasped in pain.

"I can't forget it, the wound is still dripping blood, I can't forget it." I covered my face and said.

"Then go back to the house, the medicine is not finished yet, I will give you the medicine."