She raised her head absently: "Well, what's wrong?"
"This page of the book..." Leng Yi moved his gaze away, falling on the side of Xue Hu who was turning his belly in a daze, and said bitterly: "You have read it."
Qing Jiu lowered his head and realized that he had indeed turned the page wrong.
She originally turned the page upside down, but then turned it backwards.
"Well, I probably didn't see clearly."
"Li'er, do you want to go see him? He is in very bad health now. Zhu Chi said that when he was poisoned by the Double Love Gu, he kept vomiting blood. Now he is fine, but I accidentally injured him again. Although he was prescribed medicine, he was still vomiting blood.
My body is much weaker."
"……oh."
Qing Jiu responded casually, lowering his head and continuing to read the words in the book.
But those words seemed to have wings. No matter how hard she tried to concentrate, she couldn't catch them.
He simply closed the book and stood up, "Yiyi, I am very tired after reading for a day. I will go for a walk outside the hall."
After saying that, she didn't wait for Leng Yi to speak, and left as if running away. She didn't need to be so embarrassed, but Leng Yi's eyes were too empty, as if he could see her heart and her panic at that moment.
.She still cares, otherwise, she wouldn’t choose to escape.
She walked aimlessly, and in a few days, she grew a lot. From fourteen to twenty years old, it took others six years, but she only spent six days.
Talk about resentment?
Not entirely.
These days, I look at a different version of myself in the bronze mirror every day, and I feel better about it.
As I was walking in a daze, I bumped into a palace maid who was running towards me in a panic.
The palace maid knelt on the ground uneasily: "It's my fault that I disturbed the girl."
"Mu'er?"
Qing Jiu raised his eyebrows slightly, knelt down, raised the face of the maid, and saw a familiar face.
She panicked and raised her eyes to see Qing Jiu. She was startled for a moment, then looked at Qing Jiu's outline and tried to identify it. When she saw it clearly, tears immediately rolled down her face and her voice trembled: "Third Miss Third, it's...
…Is that you?”
Qing Jiu helped her up, "It's me, where have you been these days?"
"The emperor gave me a leave of absence. I just came back from the palace."
Mu'er wiped his face and raised his eyes, but when he saw Qing Jiu's height, he was stunned. Although he had heard some rumors from others outside the palace, but he actually saw it, his face turned pale.
Just now, the third lady was squatting so abruptly, but now it seemed that, just a few days later, the third lady actually... She couldn't help but cover her mouth, and the tears she had just controlled fell again.
Qing Jiu was stunned and realized: "Are you scared?"
Mu'er shook his head desperately and choked with sobs: "No... no, I don't have it. I know that the third lady did this just to save her. I feel sorry for the third lady..."
She didn't have to enter the palace right now.
But after hearing those rumors in the mausoleum city, she couldn't help but come to the palace.
When she woke up that day, the emperor didn't say anything, and just gave her two months' leave. He didn't tell her the reason, he just said that the third lady didn't need her to take care of her anymore.
She thought that the emperor was so angry because the third lady she had harmed saved her.
"Save you?"
Qing Jiu's hand stroking her arm tightened and then relaxed quickly.
"I have been feeling guilty these days. If I hadn't been caught that day because I was too stupid, I would not have given Concubine Yan a chance to threaten the Third Miss." Before she fell into coma, she heard that Concubine Yan and the maid were talking about harming the Third Miss. She was extremely frightened.
, fortunately when she woke up, the emperor said that the third lady was fine, so she left the palace with peace of mind.
Qing Jiu fell silent. Does she know the whole story?
So……
"Mu'er, you...come with me."
…
After breaking up with Mu'er and walking back, Qing Jiu couldn't explain her mood at the moment.
From her mouth, she learned many things that she had forgotten.
Xiao Qi had stayed in front of the temple day and night in order to see her, and she had maliciously made things difficult for him.
She listened but didn't remember.
But those things were like weeds, clinging to her heart, leaving her breathless.
"Miss Third? Why are you here?"
"..."
Qing Jiu raised his eyes and looked at Zhu Chi in surprise. He raised his head and when he saw the words "Royal Study Room", he lowered his head again and gave a wry smile. He had come here unknowingly?
"Third Miss, are you here to see the Emperor?"
Zhu Chi's face was overjoyed and he immediately stepped aside, "Your Majesty, he is inside. He hasn't eaten for a day. It would be great if the third lady is here."
Not eating for a day?
With her brows furrowed and her head lowered, she was only three feet away from the imperial study room door. She could see Xiao Qi in a few more steps.
But is she willing to see it?
Leng Yi said that he was in poor health, and Mu'er said that he had done a lot to beg her for forgiveness.
She couldn't see the former, and she had forgotten the latter.
But why didn't he explain?
No, he explained, but he had never heard it before.
He raised his feet and walked forward. He stood in front of the door of the royal study, raised his hand, hesitated for a moment, then pushed it open and walked in.
It was already dark in the royal study, and the twilight slowly shone in, hitting his face, half hidden in the shadows, and his eyes dim.
He didn't raise his head, but just ordered: "Zhu Chi, who asked you to come in? Get out."
The voice was very low, Qing Jiu said nothing and took a step forward.
This seemed to anger him, and he raised his head suddenly, but when he saw her with violent eyes, he was startled, thinking that he was hallucinating. After a long time, he tentatively called out: "Snake... Li'er?"
"……Um."
Upon hearing the answer, his eyes immediately lit up.
But the next moment, he immediately covered the brocade box in front of him in panic.
The sound of "pop" was very loud in the quiet imperial study room.
"What are you hiding?"
She took two more steps forward, and then she saw clearly in the faint light that it was a rather exquisite brocade box.
"No...nothing..." Her tone was so natural and not aggressive that Xiao Qi didn't notice it for a moment.
When he reacted, his eyes were astonishingly bright.
"Then open it."
"No." He shook his head quickly, but when he saw Qing Jiu frowning, he hesitated.
Snake's attitude towards him had just softened. Did he really want to disobey her? Actually, it wasn't impossible to show it to her, but he was afraid that she would be angry if she saw it.
"Do you really want to see it?" he asked tentatively again.
"What do you think?" Qing Jiu was curious about what it was that allowed him to hide it so tightly.
Xiao Qi lowered his eyes. After all, he couldn't bear to offend her and opened the brocade box, "Actually, it's nothing."
It's nothing. Why are you so protective of me?
Qing Jiu took a step forward and looked at the opened brocade box.