What kind of bad thoughts can Mr. Xiao have?

Chapter 21: Chapter 21

Inside the hall.

"Wei Huai'en, an unfilial daughter, deceived your father and pretended to be the prince, please punish her."

Wei Huai'en knelt down on the ground without looking at Emperor Yonghe's face.

"boom!"

The jade pen holder was smashed not far to the right of Wei Huai'en, and the fragments hit her. Her face remained unchanged, and she repeated:
"Father please punish me."

A pair of dragon boots suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, and Emperor Yonghe's tired voice sounded above her head:
"Your brother, where are you buried?"

"Xinggong, back mountain."

Wei Huai'en paused for a while, so he didn't cry, but there was still a layer of mist in his eyes, which could not fall.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Emperor Yonghe didn't blame him, but Wei Huai'en looked up at him in disbelief.

Two pairs of similar tearful eyes met, and Wei Huai'en's suppressed resentment was released at once with sadness.

"Tell you? Telling you can bring my brother back! I told you and my brother to be careful, but my brother was still plotted!

My elder brother is dead, and you only have an adult son, King Duan. Would you appoint someone else to be the prince for us?Don't you want to save Dingyuanhou a dog's life just to save face for him?

My mother passed away, you told us two not to think too much, but I am grown up now!I want to avenge my brother myself! "

"Snapped!"

Wei Huai'en was drawn down on the broken jade, his palm was cut and he saw blood.

Seeing this, Emperor Yonghe quickly helped her up, trying to hold her hand to see how badly she was hurt.But Wei Huai'en retracted his hands into his sleeves, kneeled backwards and bowed down again.

"Please, father, punish me!"

"You! Do you really want to hurt your father's heart like this?"

Emperor Yonghe had already learned the cause and effect of today's accident, and he could no longer say a single word to beat Wei Huai'en's estrangement.

"When did the emperor say that he would punish you?"

He seemed to have aged a lot suddenly, and even stood up very slowly.

"I just found out what Yan Weiguang did to Huaide. He should be killed. But why don't you believe that Father will give Huaide justice?"

Wei Huai'en fell down on the ground, but her hands were clenched into fists. The wound was pulled deeper, but she felt no pain at all.

Because that would not be more painful than her heart at this moment.

"What if I didn't ask Xiao Qi to investigate? What if you knew from the beginning that your brother was dead?
I have no power, no strength, the truth of my brother's murder will never be revealed! "

Emperor Yonghe was speechless for a long time, staring at her as if he knew this daughter for the first time.

After a long time, Wei Huai'en heard his footsteps walking back to the back of the case.

"In the end, you are just resentful that you are a princess, and you are not qualified to enter and leave the court like your brother.

You look down on Duan Wang, I know.

Your other younger brothers are too young, your elder brother is gone, you are afraid that you will have no one to rely on, and I know that too.

In the past two months, you have done very well, even better than your brother, I even thought that Huaide had grown a lot after returning from the palace..."

Wei Huai'en raised his head and knelt on the ground, and looked at Emperor Yonghe when he hesitated to speak, and there was no need to say anything.

"If your mother knows that you are so outstanding, she will be pleased.

Go back to the palace, I will not take Xiao Qi's life, but he can no longer stay in Xuanyu Division. "

"Father..."

Wei Huai'en didn't expect his affairs to be put down gently like this, and he wanted to say something more, but Emperor Yonghe wiped away his tears and brought up the imperial pen again.

"My son retire."

She lowered her eyes and backed away silently.

Eunuch Le came in later, and just wanted to ask someone to come in to clean up the mess on the ground, when he heard Emperor Yonghe speak.

"How do you think Wynn is doing compared to Wyde?"

"Going back to the emperor, how does this old slave know about this, it's just that Xiao Qi, this old slave is said to have been pulled out by His Royal Highness Jiarou."

"In that case, let him live."

Le Gonggong looked at Emperor Yonghe's expression, and seeing that he didn't want to say anything more, he gestured to the outside.

The palace staff quietly cleaned up the debris and blood, and a new identical pen holder was placed on the imperial case, as if nothing had happened.

"Xiao Qi, let's go."

Another slap mark appeared on Wei Huai'en's face, Xiao Qi looked at her worriedly, but Wei Huai'en waved his hand and walked towards her Qingluan Palace.

Shui Jing still hasn't come back from Huang'en Temple, Xiao Qi saw the deserted Qingluan Palace, and asked Wei Huai'en if he wanted to send a letter to Shui Jing.

"No need, stay here tonight, and tomorrow we will go to Huang'en Temple."

Wei Huai'en was very tired and didn't say a word.Xiao Qi was extremely worried, and even hoped that she could cry out the depression in her heart.

She didn't have dinner, she lay down on the bed after bathing, Xiao Qi knew he couldn't be persuaded, so he stayed alone in her bedroom to watch the night for her.

Wei Huai'en was abnormally quiet.

Xiao Qi has been guarding her all the time, after she went to bed, he only left her side for a while when he went to take a bath.

He didn't know what kind of conditions Wei Huai'en discussed with the emperor in the study room, and he didn't know how his life was brought back by Wei Huai'en.

Eunuch Le kicked him with all the strength, the slave can best guess the master's intentions, he knows that Emperor Yonghe must have murdered him.

Because as a slave, you can do wrong things, you can be not smart, but you can never be disloyal.

Everyone in the palace cannot be disloyal to the emperor.

But he, Xiao Qi, is only loyal to Wei Huai'en.

She saved his life again, but now, he can't even help her relieve her pain.

The only thing that can comfort him a little is that although he can no longer work as an errand in Xuanyu Division, he can justifiably stay by her side for a long time.

This is also good, without power, he will no longer be someone's thorn in the flesh, and he will not be stripped of his official uniform and thrown into prison because of the complicated relationship between Xuan Yu and Si Zhong.

She said that he was not allowed to leave her side, so does this mean that she already has a firm place in her heart?

As if he could still recall the feeling of being wet by her tears, Xiao Qi quietly walked to the end of Wei Huai'en's bed, and looked at a small round bag on the bed through layers of curtains.

He knew that Wei Huai'en had always slept well. Like most people who don't have any haze in their hearts, they like to lie flat with their limbs stretched.

But today was the first time he saw her sleeping so restlessly and guarded, as if she was still uneasy in this absolutely safe palace.

He understands why she is like this.

Killing Yan Weiguang, or killing all the people involved in the assassination of the prince, would not be able to erase the bloody words Yan Weiguang's poisonous snake carved in Wei Huai'en's heart.

There is nothing that can be remembered forever than guilt and self-blame. It is impossible for Wei Huaien to forget Yan Weiguang's words.Because that's an unverifiable pain.

It is impossible for Wei Huaide to come back alive and tell her to comfort her, to tell her that in fact, his passing was not painful at all, and he was not at all reconciled.

Because no one can come back from the gate of hell after experiencing the poison of cessation and tell the world whether there is such a feeling of death but not death, life and not life.

But the more relatives you are, the less you can listen to such weird things as a joke.

Stop, the poison is the hearts of the living and the dead.

Wei Huaien didn't fall asleep immediately.

She just blindfolded herself and wept silently because she didn't want to see anyone, and she didn't want anyone to see her pain again.

This conversation with Emperor Yonghe, she no longer wanted to be as eager to replay as any other time in the past, eager to recall what every word and look of Yonghe Emperor meant.

Not important anymore.

She is so tired.

She couldn't help imagining such a scenario: if she hadn't wanted to pretend to be her brother and become the prince, maybe her brother wouldn't have been buried in the palace behind the mountain without stopping.

How disappointed and resentful he should be to her.

Even in her perception that she didn't know whether it was a dream or a hallucination, she saw the pale brother with an arrow in his chest, spitting out black blood and questioning her:
"Why? Wei Huaien, why are you doing this to me? "

"Boom!"

A thunderstorm pierced the night, and lightning illuminated the room pale.

Wei Huai'en was brought back to reality from the nightmare, but the dark room could not bring her back from the lingering fear.

"Xiao Qi?"

She only showed her face, and yelled the only name she could trust in a random direction.

Her voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible, as if she was afraid of the nightmare monster in the dark, but she had to call for help from him:
"Where are you?"

"Master, the slave is here."

He came, and his voice was at the bedside closest to her.

Wei Huaien stretched out a hand and grabbed his fingertips with the help of another lightning bolt before being discovered by the unknown horror in the darkness.

"Xiao Qi, I'm afraid, can you sleep with me?"

Her tears today seemed to shed the weight of her entire life. The phoenix, whose brilliance flowed and looked down upon all things in the past, was so despondent in the wind and rain that she couldn't even survive a night of lightning and thunder alone.

Xiao Qi sighed, held her trembling fingertips, and sat down on the pedals.

"Have you had a nightmare, master? Don't be afraid, Xiao Qi is right here, and he won't go anywhere, master, rest assured and sleep."

He wanted to put Wei Huai'en's hand back into the thin quilt, but Wei Huai'en arched in his direction, squeezed to the edge of the bed and pressed against his shoulder through the quilt. He could even lean on her as long as he lowered his head.

"Would you take my hand?"

Her slender fingers were somewhat sweaty, and she stubbornly inserted them between his fingers and clasped them together, then took his hand and retracted it into the quilt, as if holding something that could make her feel at ease.

"it is good."

Xiao Qi didn't dare to move his left hand anymore, so he used his right hand to push aside the hair sticking to her side face.

His eyes are very used to the dark, so he couldn't refuse the panic and attachment in Wei Huai'en's eyes.

"Xiao Qi..."

Wei Huai'en was extremely fragile tonight, which made Xiao Qi's heart soften, wishing to bear all the pain for her.

"Ok?"

Xiao Qi pulled down the quilt that covered her face, allowing her to breathe freely and allowing him to see her more clearly.

"I was not afraid of thunder before. My queen mother said, I am the bravest girl in the world."

Perhaps it was the sleep during the day that replenished her energy, although she was heartbroken, it was rare for her to let go of her usual vigilance and start chatting with Xiao Qi.

"But tonight I was so scared, I dreamed, I dreamed that my brother vomited blood and asked me why I did this to him..."

She started crying again, Xiao Qi didn't care about the rules, he gently rubbed the top of her hair and said warmly:
"That's fake. His Royal Highness will not blame you. It is Yan Weiguang who should go down to make amends. Master, don't blame yourself, okay?"

"No, no, it's my fault, it's all my fault!"

Wei Huai'en shook his head vigorously.

"I really want to prove that I am better than my brother, even if my brother is gone, I can do better than him.

But I was wrong, why should I compare with him, why don't I tell him more about the books he likes to read and the things he likes to do.

I've always known that he forced himself to live such a depressed and unhappy life in order to be a prince who would make both his father and queen proud.

But I know all this clearly, but I still feel that he is not doing well enough.

Anyone can ignore these things, but I can't, I... I am his sister! "

Speaking of emotion, Wei Huai'en's voice became more and more shrill.

"Why didn't I treat him well when he was alive? I regarded him as a target, as an opponent, but I never regarded him as an elder brother for a moment.

Xiao Qi, I can't forgive myself, I can never forgive myself! "

Xiao Qi stretched out his hand and hugged her into his arms, his suppressed crying was muffled on his chest, he didn't need to look, he also knew that the front was wrinkled like it was in the afternoon, soaked with tears.

But what else could he do, he looked at the torrential rain outside the window, and it started to rain heavily in his heart.

"Master, Xiao Qi will accompany you, no matter what you want to do, no matter who you are, Xiao Qi will accompany you..."

I don't know if it was his hug or which words made the difference, Wei Huai'en's crying gradually subsided, and then he lay back on the bed, relaxing his limbs and no longer shrinking into a shivering ball.

"Can you hug me to sleep, Xiao Qi?"

She looked at him with bright eyes washed by tears, as if she was afraid of being rejected by him, she clenched his left hand tightly.

"I want you to hug me, just like when my mother was still there, okay?"

"Master, this is inappropriate..."

Xiao Qi rejected her request without even thinking about it, this was already the bottom line he could not touch.

"Why? Why isn't it appropriate?"

Wei Huai'en was very naive in this kind of thing, because she grew up surrounded by only female officers, she didn't understand that Shui Jing would agree to sleep with her, but Xiao Qi couldn't.

Xiao Qi opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.

He didn't know what to say to make his master give up this ridiculous idea, because he didn't know how to explain "inappropriate".

So he took his left hand out of Wei Huai'en's hand and encircled her body through the quilt.

"The servant will sit here with the master tonight, don't worry about sleeping, the servant will not leave."

This can be regarded as sleeping with her in his arms. Wei Huai'en touched his face and agreed to this compromise.

"Then, if you're sleepy, you can lie down on the side of the bed and sleep."

"Okay, go to sleep, master."

The weight of an arm felt on her body allowed Wei Huai'en to clearly feel Xiao Qi's company even in her sleep. In the second half of the night, she was never awakened by the nightmare again, but slept peacefully until dawn.

　Leaving Xiao Qi to Wei Huai'en is the last indulgence of the emperor (if you don't condone, you will indulge many times in the future hahaha)
　　Still Wei Huai'en: The person I want to kill, even Jesus can't save him (referring to Yan Weiguang)!I said!No one wants to steal my Xiao Qi!
　　Or Xiao Qi: Today's Ruanfan is extraordinarily delicious...

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