On the long table, the small cauldron cooks the clear smoke from the long spring, and the feet gradually cast long and slender shadows in the window.
Lu Shenyu stood up and went out to cook the medicine. In the room, there was only Baili Fengjian sitting next to Jingche. In the silence, the long sunlight burned the dust, and thousands of words were turned into silence when the eyes collided.
Jing Che wiped his face haphazardly, and the salty wet tears stuck to his hair and stuck to the red and swollen corners of his eyes. She resisted the twitching of her shoulders, but the tears became more and more wiped and she couldn't stop them.
he came.
After she suffered so much, after they misunderstood each other deeply and fought each other until each other died, after she loved the most intensely and was hurt the most deeply, the years still moved on slowly, as if nothing had happened.
to cover up traces of the past.
He walked towards her from a distance, passed through the shadows and then through the sunshine, and sat next to her.
She just cried. Once she became weak, she lost control, just like a person who fell off a cliff and couldn't control his whereabouts. She should have been restrained and shouldn't show any clues in front of him. But she couldn't stop the habit after too long.
Due to his inertia, she has always regarded him as the person she trusts the most, and she can expose her emotions to him without hesitation.
His expression was a little pitiful, and his sleeve brushed past her hand, and finally he put it on his shoulder.
The comfort of familiarity.
"It's all over," Du's voice was light and smooth, without any sloppiness or extraneous details. It seemed to be comforting, but it seemed to be just a calm statement, "Follow me back to Yunqin Peak."
She was suddenly stunned after hearing his words. If the tears weren't still flowing, her whole body would be like a solidified statue.
It's in the past?
Yes, it was like this for him, because he would always look down on him from above. Those seventy-two hours had passed, and her punishment was over, but she still had to live in this place with shame as a sinner.
What's even more cruel is that from now on, she can no longer feel the pain of her skin, taste the taste of food, or smell the fragrance of birds and flowers in the world.
She still yearns for his comfort from the bottom of her heart, but what she wants to hear is not that everything is over, but that the master is here and you can give your hand to me.
The collapse of trust is ultimately irreparable.
Jing Che smiled, tears seeping into the corners of his mouth, which was extremely salty. He just nodded obediently and was unusually distant: "Okay, I'll go back."
The day was finalized with those words.
Rather than returning to Yunqin Peak, it would be better to say that he was under house arrest in Yunqin Peak.
Jingche was still guilty, but the sin itself was covered up by the horror of the Nine Heavens Holy Fire. Jingche did not defend himself any more, because the posture of his defense was not elegant enough in any case, he was just stooping to beg others to believe him.
, she is unwilling to do this.
When I went back, the bones of the white horse fell silently. It was as if I hadn't seen them for hundreds of years, and I felt that things are right and humans are different.
It was only the first day, and Yu Xi came to see her in person with a big belly and a gentle face.
Jing Che watched with cold eyes as she put down the delicate food box in her hand and took out the contents. She smiled brightly and said as if they were very friendly: "Ah Che, you must not have imagined what this is."
A small jade porcelain plate was placed on the table, with six pastries on it. They were not exquisitely made, but they looked crisp and soft, so they should be delicious.
Seeing Jing Che tightening his lips and saying nothing, Yu Xi smiled kindly and said: "Ah Che, your master spent three or four days thinking about making this chestnut cake, and he didn't let me step in to help. I heard it was you.
My favorite food, I’ll bring it to you right now.”
"Ha," Jing Che's face turned extremely cold all of a sudden. His fingertips dug into the flesh of her palms, but she could no longer feel the pain: "Are you a husband and a wife?"
Yu Xi was startled, with pitiful eyes: "Ache, I know you don't like me, but this is your master's wish. He knows you have suffered -"
With a "bang", your porcelain lid shattered into pieces, leaving dust and a mess on the ground.
"Chestnut flower cake? You made it with your own hands to humiliate me?" Jing Che's chin trembled slightly, trembling with anger, "Get out!"
Yu Xi held her stomach and her eyes filled with pink tears: "Ache, you can't be so unreasonable, your master for you -"
"If you don't go out, don't blame me for attacking pregnant women."
Yu Xi consciously closed her mouth, picked up the food box and exited the door in grievance.
The room was quiet and lifeless. Jing Che slowly squatted down and stared at the chestnut flower cake that had been smashed and shapeless for a long time. He suddenly picked up a clean piece and put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it. There was no smell. He was unwilling to accept it.
When you put it in your mouth, it feels like a ball of soft mud and tastes like chewing wax.
After a while, tears burst out of my eyes in the sunshine, and my sobs overflowed despite my efforts to restrain them.
Outside the room, Yu Xi returned to the kitchen to put the food boxes. Unexpectedly, Baili Fengjian was sitting in the kitchen at some point.
He was probably in a daze, but when he saw someone coming, he raised his eyes slowly and gave his usual loose smile: "Axi."
"Uh, Sword Master." Yu Xi walked over lightly.
"All the chestnut flower cakes I made a few days ago fell down?"
Yu Xi slightly opened his eyes, nodded, and said angrily: "It's been a long time and it's a pity to lose it."
Shaking his head helplessly, Baili Fengjian didn't notice Yu Xi's strangeness: "I didn't know she lost her sense of smell and taste before, but it was self-defeating. Fortunately, I didn't send it away, otherwise with A Che's proud temperament, I would have thought it was a humiliation.
She...is already in such a bad state, so don't make it self-defeating."
"Then the Sword Master was not allowed to talk about the fact that A Che was tortured on her behalf at the Phantom Fire Burning Ground? A Che is still misunderstanding the Sword Master, isn't the Sword Master not worried at all?" Yu Xi felt a little aggrieved.
"What's there to say? It's like asking for credit, not to mention Ah Che won't buy it." He stroked his stubble with his thumb, and he became wanton again after not grooming it for a few days. He changed the subject and asked, "By the way, Ah Xi, recently
Is there anything strange about the fetus in your belly?"
"It's always been bad," Yu Xi wiped the corners of his eyes with his handkerchief, and said in a sad tone: "Sword Master, I don't want this child anymore. You and Mr. Lu have already put so much thought into it..."
"What are you talking about?" Baili Fengjian refuted her words unhurriedly.
"But this is not the child of the Sword Master..." She burst into tears again, and choked up before she could finish her words. She lowered her eyes to wipe away her tears, looking even more pitiful, "Why should the Sword Master be so... troublesome?"
"Anyone's child is not a life. What's more, losing the child will not be good for your health." Baili Fengjian was obviously not interested in this topic. He didn't want to talk about it anymore, so he stood up and walked out.
Yu Xi timidly blessed his body.
Baili Fengjian went straight to the main peak. Now those messy things have come to an end, but the fire of the Nine Heavens Holy Fire was mixed into the phantom fire and almost burned his apprentice to death. He would never let this matter go.
Yu Wenwei was not someone who blindly protected Gong Lin, so he was determined to find out why Gong Lin was always allowed to go unpunished.
"I've been waiting for several days, and I knew you would come." Baili Fengjian just stepped into the hall. Yu Wenwei was not surprised at all and said first.
"Sister, is there anything you want to say to me?"
Yu Wenwei looked at him and said slowly: "This matter has something to do with Sui Sheng. If junior brother is interested, I will tell you from beginning to end."
"Just tell me, I'll listen." Baili Fengjian found a chair and sat down, crossing his legs diagonally.
"Zhenyi's last emperor, Emperor Zi Jin, was the uncle of our senior sister Sui Sheng. You must be aware of this relationship. When Sui Sheng first joined the Nanqiong Sect, Emperor Zi Jin personally sent her to the mountain, but what happened that night
Something happened."
Countless thoughts flashed through Baili Fengjian's mind. Did she know about Sui Sheng and Emperor Zi Jin? Impossible. Sui Sheng was only thirteen years old when she went up the mountain, but she said she had sex with her uncle when she was fifteen.
It was about incest, so something else happened that night——
"Emperor Zi Jin was drunk by Sui Sheng. The wine may have been mixed with some medicine, but this is just my guess. Otherwise, even if an emperor was corrupt and messy, he wouldn't find a young disciple of the Nanqiong Sect to do it.
Those things."
"You mean-" Baili Fengjian's voice suddenly became condensed, and all the looseness was gone.
"Yes, that female disciple died quietly after giving birth to a child, and the child was sent to Yizhao Town to be raised. She was not worshiped at the Nanqiong Gate until a few decades ago. She is Gong Lin. This
This is the reason why I protect her. All the descendants of Emperor Zi Jin in the world have been slaughtered. Gong Lin has the blood of the Lord in her body. She is the last hope for the restoration of the country, so she must live, no matter what she has done.
"
"So you allow Gong Lin to harm Jing Che without punishing her, and even find a scapegoat for her to die?" Baili Fengjian asked.
They also have the blood of the Lord flowing through them. Gong Lin could do whatever he wanted because of Yu Wenwei's extreme favoritism, but Jing Che suffered so much because of his inaction, and now he has lost three of his seven souls.
Is this because he is not selfish enough, or is Yu Wenwei too partial? But he has his own sense of proportion in his heart. He will definitely protect A Che, but he will not cover her up without any reason, or even ask others to do it.
She took the blame and died for her.
"This may sound despicable, but in order to preserve the blood of the Lord, I have no choice but to do so."
"Oh, do you know that A Che also——"
The words almost reached his lips, but they were swallowed back. Even though Baili Fengjian was angry, he didn't lose his mind. He still remembered his original intention.
Find all six divine seals and take Ah Che to the bottom of the imperial mausoleum.
But the inheritance of the Lord's blood has never been able to coexist. Gong Lin and Jing Che are already incompatible with each other. If it comes time to choose one of the two, Baili Fengjian is afraid that Jing Che will encounter a murderous hand, so he will continue to protect her in the dark.
at.
"Senior sister, you really think about the overall situation." He snorted coldly and walked away with a puff of sleeves.
Returning to Yunqin Peak, I heard a ping-pong-pong-ranging sound and felt something bad. I hurried to the palace and looked for the place where I heard the noise was in Yuxi's room.
Several bundles were placed on the table. Jing Che stood there with his head bowed, his face expressionless, while Yu Xi looked embarrassed.
"Did you take the wrong medicine?" Baili Fengjian frowned and scolded impatiently.
Jing Che smiled faintly, and his calm and slow tone sounded heart-wrenching: "Master, doesn't Yu Xi want a house with lots of sunshine? Let her live in my room. How can I, a crippled sinner, deserve to live in such a nice house?"