The world is heavy and late

Chapter 44 The Lantern Festival
Xu Li watched his senior brother staring at the box in front of him, his eyes were a little empty.

He felt that his head was a little big. In fact, for a moment in front of the imperial court that day, he felt that Miss Xia didn't seem like a good person.

It sounded more like she couldn't survive in the palace, so it was nothing to lure his senior brother to protect her, but she still took it out to tell others, and when he compared his senior brother's affection, he felt a little worthless.

Later, his senior brother also explained to him, and only said: "She usually doesn't say such things."

But he was even more curious about who this Xia girl was.

Seeing the entangled look of senior brother now, he said: "Today is the fifteenth day, those maids are fine, why don't senior brother go and have a look?"

When Xu Zhong heard this, he just glanced at Xu Li and sighed inwardly. All he wanted to do was wonder if she would be happy.

After seeing it, Xu Li thought for a while and thought, "Why don't I go on duty in the next half an hour, senior brother will replace me later."

Xu Zhong knew that this was Xu Li's good intentions, so he also nodded, but whether he should go to Gong Zhengsi to find her, and whether it would destroy her original plan, these hidden worries still lingered in Xu Zhong's heart.

Xu Zhong was entangled here, but Xia Qing wasn't entangled much. After a while in the dormitory, she still felt unable to calm down, so she changed her clothes and walked to Jinghu Lake. After all, there were few people there. You can avoid it if you want.

She thought it would be fate if she met Xu Zhong in Jinghu.

Xia Qing walked to this bridge that she had walked on many times. After standing on the bridge, she forgot to take a look at the rockery and saw no one.

Xia Qing was a little lost, but looking at the surface of Jinghu Lake, she unconsciously remembered many things.

Thinking of Xu Zhong who was still called Liu San at that time, thinking of Mid-Autumn Festival, thinking of Wu Xiaoyuan's letter, my thoughts were mixed for a while, and I gradually became calmer.

The taciturn one looked the same as before.

Xia Qing feels that she has changed a lot in the past two months. She used to not pay attention to others, and would think about what to do with herself in everything, but now she has also begun to change, even doing things more than before Rules, raising eyebrows and blinking these weird expressions are rarely done here.

She seemed to be making peace with the world.

Xia Qing just looked at the lake with a calm face. After watching for a quarter of an hour, Xia Qing was ready to go back to Gong Zhengsi.

She walked down the bridge step by step and saw Xu Zhong turning from the road there.

In the end, Xu Zhong's thoughts prevailed, but he did not dare to go to Gong Zhengsi, it was too eye-catching, and it was such an important festival as the fifteenth.

So he walked to Jinghu Lake step by step. He thought, the Mid-Autumn Festival is in Jinghu Lake, maybe it will happen tonight, so he came here with some expectations.

When he saw Xia Qing, Xu Zhong thought, as if since he met Xia Qing, he was like being remembered by a god, and he was gradually favored.

The two stopped, forgot to glance at each other, smiled at each other, and then walked slowly towards the back of the rockery. It seems that the two of them have reached a high degree of unity at this moment, but they don't want to be disturbed.

As soon as he stood still, Xu Zhong covered Xia Qing with the cloak he was wearing, and stretched out his hands to tie her. Xia Qing stared blankly at Xu Zhong, then lowered his head to look at his hands.

Xu Zhong didn't think about anything else at first, but when she lowered her head, there was warm breath on Xu Zhong's hands, Xu Zhong's hands trembled, and her breathing became disordered, now Xu Zhong felt The closer you get, the more you can't hold back.

After he finished tying, he turned around immediately, lowered his eyes to block the darkness in his eyes, his throat unknowingly rose and fell, he felt a surge of tide in his heart, and couldn't help but burst out.

He didn't speak for a moment.

Xia Qing leaned against the rockery behind her and saw Xu Zhong standing beside her with his back so straight.She suddenly recalled the scene of Xu Zhong tying her belt just now, and felt a little hot on her face.

Xia Qing looked at the frozen Mirror Lake, and thought of the feeling when he was waiting for him, and suddenly couldn't help sharing it with him: "Elder-in-law, I feel that I have changed a lot."

Xu Zhong also looked at the lake in the distance, hummed lightly, looked at the disappointed Xia Qing in front of him, and said, "Then do you think it's getting better or worse?"

Xia Qing felt Xu Zhong's eyes turned and said, "I think it's getting better."

Xu Zhong said, "That's something to be happy about, isn't it?"

Xia Qing looked at Xu Zhong looking at him tenderly, tolerant and firm, and couldn't help but slowly laughed.

As soon as Xia Qing regained her mood, she wanted to talk to Eunuch Xu, and said, "Does Eunuch like me after the change?"

Xu Zhong didn't answer after hearing this, but turned his eyes to the distance.

I like it, I like everything, I like the unruly and sleepy look before, I like the lively look, I like the quiet look, I even like the dazed look when I am thinking wildly.

He has seen her bad moments, and also seen her bright moments, he likes them all, and he can't hold back his liking.

Xia Qing didn't hear the answer as expected, and thought that there was indeed a long way to go.

So Xia Qing was not obsessed with this answer, but saw the box in the father-in-law's hand and asked, "What is the father-in-law holding?"

Xu Zhong smiled and handed the box to Xia Qing's hand and said, "Open it yourself."

Xia Qing thought, except that her father-in-law doesn't like to express his love, he really cares about everything and prepares small holiday gifts.

Xia Qing opened it sweetly, and saw a clay doll that fit her own aesthetics.

Xia Qing happily picked it up and played with it for a long time. Looking at this cute girl, she reached out and gently hugged Xu Zhong beside her.

Xu Zhong's body froze, and his hands were hanging by his sides and clenched a little bit. He looked down at the head on his chest. She was really not that tall.

Xia Qing naturally also felt the stiffness of Xu Zhong's body, but she didn't care. She rubbed her head against Xu Zhong's chest, and asked, "Does father-in-law like children?"

Many thoughts in Xu Zhongxin seemed to be frozen, and then shattered with a light tap.

He just felt a sharp pain in his heart, as if it was in his stomach or in his chest, he couldn't tell the difference, he could only feel his soul tremble, his ears began to roar, he couldn't even hear the howling wind today, and his eyes couldn't tell. There is no obscurity, only some obscurity.

His throat heaved violently several times, then he raised his head and turned slightly to the side, tightly closed his eyes, and kept clenching the hands beside him, but he felt as if he had lost all strength, and thought in his heart: Xu Zhong, Your distraction just now is really ridiculous.

He didn't know why she asked this suddenly, when they only met each other in half a month, when the Lantern Festival was so special, after playing with the clay doll he carefully prepared, when she was hugging him.

But it didn't prevent the self-loathing that Xu Zhong had reached its peak in an instant.

His voice was a little trembling, but he still stuck his neck and said stubbornly: "I don't like it."

I don't like children, I don't like her leaving, but I just don't like it.

Leaning on Xu Zhong's chest, Xia Qing listened to his heartbeat and said, "That's great, I don't want to have one either. But we can adopt one in the future. I like to pinch children's faces."

Thinking of the butt of His Highness the Crown Prince who accidentally pinched that day, Xia Qing smiled and said, "I also like to pinch their little butts, they are so soft."

Xu Zhong wanted to cry at this moment, he finally understood the feeling of the cold wind in one second and the spring breeze in the next.

He thinks enough is enough, he does not expect more, this is enough.

He knew that she longed for someone to love him, and he would always guard her.It doesn't matter whose wife or mother she will be in the end.

He let go of his clenched hands, slowly put his hands on the back of Xia Qing's head and gently rubbed his chin on Xia Qing's head. He only hummed lightly and didn't speak again. There is choking.

The two of them hugged each other quietly for a while before Xu Zhong calmed down and said to Xia Qing, "How about what you are going to do?"

Xia Qing said: "Hurry up, I will be very careful. Do you know where the emperor's Qinzheng Hall and the East Palace must pass?"

Xu Zhong thought for a while and said, "Taiye Pond."

Xia Qing nodded, and after thinking about it, he still warned: "Eunuch, you must also be careful, they say that accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger."

Xu Zhong said, "Well, you too."

After finishing speaking, he touched Xia Qing's head with his hand, and obviously felt her rubbing her head against his chest.

Xu Zhong enjoyed such tenderness, and gradually some broken joy filled his heart.

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