335 The Cold of the High Places (3)
"Young Master ......" Liu Siren carefully served the teacup and handed it to Chu Tao in front of the table, just waiting for Chu Tao to take it inconveniently and drink it slowly.
is as stubborn as him, even if the tea cup falls to the ground, he will not allow others to help him. Liu Siren shook his head slightly, so he had to let him do whatever he wanted. Both of them knew that these hands were originally healable, but Qi Heng was in the way at the beginning, so that he could not be healed for a few days, and this delay made the hope of recovery extremely slim. But no one said anything, one healed his injuries as usual, and the other received them all.
Chu Tao said: "Uncle Wang wrote that there is no news from Xuehai and his party. What is Junhe doing?"
Liu Siren shook his head: "He has always made his own assertions and must not be restrained." The young master doesn't have to worry, Xie Daxia will not ignore the life and death of the young lady. ”
Chu Tao didn't refute, but he clearly disagreed: "The sea of snow is outside, I have to be cautious." ”
Raising a glass and taking a sip, Chu Tao frowned instead. The cup was put into the plate, and his sharp eyes smiled at Liu Siren, looking up and down for a long time.
"Who made this tea?"
Half a spoonful of rock sugar orange honey was placed in the bitter tea.
Liu Siren also smelled this elegant sweet fragrance. Immediately, he hid the horror in his heart, and pretended to be calm: "Isn't the young master used to drinking......?" When the words flickered, Chu Tao had already raised his voice: "Seniors know, I have never liked the damn sweet fragrance in tea." The whole house knows about it!"
Indeed, the entire mansion knows that rock sugar orange honey will only be ordered to be added to the tea when Chu Tao entertains a guest, and the name of this guest is forbidden by the entire Chu Mansion. Leng Fengyi, this name makes people tired when they think about it...... Drinking such tea suddenly was enough to make him angry.
Liu Siren stepped forward in fright: "Old decay...... This allows the next person to replace. ”
Chu Tao pressed the cup, and there was a cloudy smile on his face: "Senior, I want to know, whose idea is this?" Liu Siren hesitated for a long time, as if he wanted to hide something, but honest people usually don't lie, and they blushed, and they couldn't make up a whole sentence.
"It's Veran. Chu Tao sighed, "If there is still someone in the mansion who doesn't even know about this, it can only be her." ”
"Young master......" Liu Siren bowed his hand, "The young lady is just out of concern, and has no other intentions......"
Chu Tao shook his head with a wry smile, and said after a long time: "What a stupid ......" He drank the fruity tea in the cup in one go, and whispered to Liu Siren, "That's it, don't tell her." ”
Liu Siren breathed a sigh of relief, and saw that Chu Tao continued to bury his head in the letters on the table, and had no intention of blaming, so he withdrew. It seems that this is the greatest gift to Veran.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived at the door, I heard a serious voice behind my back: "Wait...... Did Veran come into my study today?"
There's no way to hide it. All the letters to be replied to on the desk have been sorted by date and content, and old letterheads from the past have been neatly arranged in the corner of the shelf. These things that Chu Tao never allowed others to turn suddenly became orderly, which was really suspicious.
"How did she get in?" asked more, Chu Tao, the key to the study, never left his side. Only this morning, when Liu Siren said that he wanted to take a few account books, Chu Tao handed them to him and returned them in less than a moment.
"Young Master...... If you want to blame this matter, blame the old man...... "Liu Siren is quite helpless, if he can block it, he will block it for the poor young lady for a while, "It's the old man who is good at advocating......"
Chu Tao immediately interrupted: "The seniors are too worried, I don't plan to blame anyone." It's just that there are too many secrets in this house, and if someone with ulterior motives takes advantage of the loophole, the Chu family will be in big trouble. ”
The more Liu Siren listened, the more unpleasant he became: "What the young master said...... The young lady will never be ......"
"I'm certainly not talking about her. Chu Tao felt quite funny, but also felt a little sad, he and Wei Lan, are they still like a couple? He waved his hand and explained: "The defense of the Chu Mansion must not be relaxed. That's all. ”
Liu Siren went out suspiciously.
But Chu Tao no longer had the heart to look through the letters on the table. The jumbled text actually bores him. Looking at the green smoke slowly rising from the incense burner, he turned his eyes to the moonlight outside the window. All I could think of was Veran's slightly pale smile. I don't understand, no matter how deliberately he tries to avoid it, why can't he avoid her warmth?
He had to throw in the towel.
He looked at the cup of tea on the table that made people laugh and cry, and he couldn't take his eyes off it. I don't know whether to say that she has no scheming, or whether to say that she is stupid and cute. How could she not know the secrets that everyone already knew? Did she know about the entanglement between him and Leng Fengyi? Did she know that he married her only because of the scroll that he picked up when he was resentful? Does she know that he is a Jianghu man who will one day bring her death?
Only when facing her, Chu Tao couldn't feel at ease.
He thought it would be better to let her go than to live like a prisoner bird in a small courtyard. But where can she go? He also thought about treating her well, but every time he saw her, he always remembered those heart-wrenching pasts. So he could only punish himself with indifference, and he was also punishing her.
If so, more than four years.
I suddenly wanted to go and see her, to see Yunyi.
She got up and walked to the atrium before remembering that it was late at night, and maybe she should rest. But he couldn't stop himself.
The flowers and plants of Zhilan Garden have withered half since he was injured. Now it seems that the once blossoming flowers are actually a little sluggish. She sat empty in the cold courtyard, and the silver light sprinkled around her without realizing it, not knowing what to meditate. So much so that he stood in front of her for a long time before he came back to his senses. "Husband, I ......"
When I saw him suddenly, I was a little stunned.
I don't know whether she is surprised or delighted, but I see that she is restless and at a loss, like a child who has done something wrong. Suddenly choked on the cold wind, she covered her mouth and coughed for a while.
I vaguely remember that she was always susceptible to wind chills. Touching her palm, lonely and cold. She always took care of him day and night, endured his cries, but no one asked her whether she was warm or cold. "It's cool at night, go and sit inside. He wrapped his around her, took her by the shoulder, and helped her into the house. She seemed flattered.
"I ...... I'm going to make some tea......"
"I've drunk it. ”
But she still tinkered with the rack for a while, picked out a piece of incense, lit it for him, and quickly made his favorite tea. Seemingly, she was waiting for him to come.
He tugged at her sleeve and sat her down beside him, "Are you waiting for me?"
Her eyes lit up, but she shyly avoided his gaze: "The husband is entangled in everything, so you don't have to take care of Wei Lan." ”
The answer was not asked, but he knew that this night's cold waiting always ended in disappointment. He took her cold hand and covered it gently, just like she held his scarred hand in her sleep, unwilling to let go.