into the bosom

Chapter 21

Xu Jiao's whole body was tense, the same sentence kept echoing in his blank mind, it's so sad now.

"Officer!" At this moment, a laughing voice suddenly sounded, it was Su Le's voice.

Xu Jiao widened his eyes, watched a figure approaching through the curtain of the car, and whispered a few words in the ear of the person outside the car, but he didn't know what he said, and while talking, he put the man's shoulders on the person's shoulder. The gate guards led the carriage away.

After a while, no one came to inspect the carriage, but let it go.

Only then did Xu Jiao let out a long sigh of relief. He had been holding his breath just now, and his chest was aching.

The handlebar flicked the whip lightly, and the carriage kicked and ran, but Helian Shu's cold and indifferent voice came from outside the carriage, "Wait! Can you give me a picture of this portrait?"

"What? Have you ever seen the person in the painting? This is a criminal of the imperial court. If you have seen it, you can report it to the government. You may get a huge reward!"

"Really?" He Lianshu's voice was lazy, "Then I have to take a good look..."

The sound was gradually drowned out by the hooves of the horses, making it inaudible. Xu Jiao's face was drained of blood, and it was as white as paper.

"Dong dong dong" the door was knocked lightly, and He Lianshu and Su Le who were talking in the room looked at each other and said solemnly, "Come in!"

The person outside the door hesitated for a moment before pushing the door open with a "squeak".

"Mr. Helian!" Xu Jiao stood outside the door with a worried expression, a slightly forced smile on his shiny face.

He Lianshu just glanced at her, then didn't say a word, and then whispered about Su Le, leaving her aside.

Xu Jiao didn't dare to say anything, and stood aside with lowered eyebrows, her plain fingers twisted in one place.

"Cough cough!" Su Le's throat was itchy, and he coughed twice. Xu Jiao raised his eyes and saw him smiling at He Lianshu, "I can't make arrangements for you to tell me these things one by one? Let's go first!" After saying that, he turned around hastily.

He Lianshu didn't keep him, but rubbed the sheepskin wine bag in his hand with half-closed eyes.

Su Le winked at Xu Jiao, passed her and left, and closed the door behind her back with a considerate hand after going out.

The room is quiet, as if the wind is stagnant, making people feel uneasy.

Xu Jiao bit her lower lip lightly, took two deep breaths, and then walked over.

He Lianshu was sitting at the table, focusing on the half-worn wine bag, without glancing at her.

Xu Jiao plucked up the courage to raise his eyes, and saw the two portraits spread out on the table beside He Lianshu's hands at a glance. The imperial court specially used the technique of painting documents captured by the sea. The painting skills are not very good, but the facial features are very clear. At least it is easy to recognize, especially for familiar people, it can be recognized at a glance.

And one of those two portraits is very familiar, it is the one she looks at herself in the mirror every day, the one that can be seen from the mirror, it belongs to her face.

She can recognize it, but how can He Lianshu not see it?But he asked for the portrait, and after he settled down in this mansion, he didn't come to ask her for a long time.

The more she sat in the room, the more panicked she became, and then she mustered up the courage to say that if the mountain doesn't come, I will come, and if I come, I will go to the mountain.

With a "plop", Xu Jiao's knees softened and he knelt down suddenly.

She knelt so suddenly that Helianshu's half-down eyelashes couldn't help trembling, and then finally turned his eyes to look at her, with suspicion and discrepancy in his eyes.

What came into my eyes was her pair of beautiful eyes looking at him, with crystal tears in them.

He Lianshu raised his eyebrows with a smile, "What is Second Lady Xu doing?"

He smiled... Xu Jiao's tears did not need to be pinched quietly to force him, they burst out of his eyes in an instant, "Mr. Helian, I was wrong!" The soft voice, with a crying tone, coupled with a sincere expression, when I really feel sorry for you.

He Lianshu's smile faded, Meifeng still raised his eyebrows, and he didn't reach out to help her, but just looked down at her and said, "Oh? What's wrong with the second lady?"

Xu Jiao took two steps on his knees, stretched out his hand timidly, hesitated, and slowly grabbed He Lianshu's robe, timidly raised his head to look at him, his eyes were admiring but pitiful, "I was wrong everywhere."

"My mistake was that I shouldn't have concealed my real identity from my lord, but I was afraid that I would implicate him, and I was also afraid that he would despise me if he found out." Xu Jiao tilted his body, almost clinging to Helian. Shu's lap, weeping bitterly.

He Lianshu didn't push her away, but just looked coldly at her trembling shoulders from crying, and said lightly, "Afraid of hurting me? Tell me, how can you hurt me?"

Xu Jiao froze, and after a while he raised his wet red eyes and saw his fingers tapping on the table, and there was her portrait under his finger.

She didn't dare to take chances as before, her eyes turned red, and tears fell down again, "Mr. Lang naturally recognized it. The one painted in this portrait is exactly me," said the guards at the gate of the city. I am a prisoner of the imperial court, and I don't know what happened, but something must have happened to my family. In fact, a fire broke out in my other courtyard in Baijiang County at that time, and all the servants who came with me died , and alarmed Zi Yiwei, I knew something must have happened. I am a daughter, timid and incompetent, so I dare not tell Lang Jun, who knows...but Lang Jun wants to come to Pingliang City."

The volume of the following sentence gradually decreased, full of grievances.

"Hearing what you said, is it still my fault?" He Lianshu asked with a sneer.

"No, no, no! No matter how wrong Mr. Lang is, it's all my fault, it's all me." Xu Jiao said hastily.

He Lianshu snorted lightly, "So you have been lying to me since you were in Baijiang County, the house that caught fire was yours?"

Xu Jiao's throat was bitter, she had thought about these things over and over again in the room just now, she thought she was smart, but she was afraid that she hadn't fooled this pervert at all.He had long been suspicious of her, but he didn't show it at all. Instead, he watched her trying her best to lie to him with cold eyes. It might be more exciting than watching a play!
But... she didn't dare to say these words, and she cried even more sadly, "I... I didn't lie to Mr. Wang, but I just don't think I can say... the place where the fire broke out is my house, and the Pingnan Palace is the one. My family, I am the youngest daughter of King Pingnan..."

"Princess Mingyue of Pingnan Palace?" He Lianshu asked lightly, without any surprise.

Xu Jiao nodded while sobbing.Either she is too famous, or this girl really suspected her a long time ago.

"Princess Mingyue of Pingnan Palace..." He Lianshu twitched the corner of his mouth suddenly and smiled, but his eyes like cold stars glanced at her without the slightest warmth, "You say yes, that's it?"

What's the meaning?Xu Jiao's heart sank suddenly.

However, He Lianshu stretched out his hand and forcefully broke away her hand that was holding onto the hem of his robe, pushed her away, and stood up.

"Mr. Helian..." Xu Jiao panicked.

"Since you said that you are the little princess of the Pingnan Palace, how about you prove it to me?" He Lianshu leaned over and approached her with a soft tone, but it was like a gust of wind, chilling people's hearts.

(End of this chapter)