Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 891 The broken window paper
The crescent moon hangs on the treetops. The broken snow is dotted with stars. This should have been the gentlest night scene in the northern capital.

When the little girl looked up, her eyes were calm, her expression was calm, and even her voice was calm. She said, "But the medicinal ingredients haven't been gathered yet..." She was worried, but it sounded like she was just talking about not having the steamed seabass she liked for dinner.

But Ning Xiuyuan knew that the calm at this moment was suppressing some turbulence that might explode at any time... He suppressed the anxiety in his heart and persuaded in a low voice, "Brother Chu is already looking for me, and I have also sent some troops over there. We have found someone, and now Li Yiwei is also looking for him. I believe there will be a result soon.”

After saying that, he asked softly, "Don't ask me what's going on over there in the East Palace? When your Majesty heard about this, he almost jumped up with anger. The disease is about to be cured... Tomorrow morning, Pingyang County Prince You should be able to receive an imperial edict demanding severe investigation and punishment from Donggong, so don’t worry.”

His voice was as gentle as ever.

Ji Wuyan didn't speak, just nodded silently, and after a while, he brought the topic back. The silver moonlight shone on her face, making her calm look distant and indifferent. She said, "Third brother. I plan to set off tomorrow to find the snow toad myself."

Ning Xiuyuan was startled, "What?! Are you going in person? How could you-" He was about to stop him directly, but suddenly thought of Xu Siniang's incident again. He quickly swallowed the rejection on his lips and softened his voice to persuade. , "Ning Ning, many people have been looking for this Snow Toad. Whether it's Brother Chu or me, we will do our best. I know you are anxious, but Snow Toad is just looking for an opportunity. Even if you go there in person, It doesn’t mean it will be more possible.”

He opened the window a little, raised his hand and retracted it, placed it on the window sill as if nothing had happened, and then gently persuaded, "Ning Ning, promise me not to go, okay? Let's just wait here patiently. As soon as there is a clue, we will send it back as soon as possible, okay?"

"But... I promised Xu Siniang and Lord Shen that I would take good care of her." Ji Wuyan insisted, "I can't just sit here and wait for news... Mr. Chen said that she is so poisonous. "

"I know. But...I'm more worried about you. Don't go, okay?" He almost begged, "Be obedient."

Ji Wuyan didn't speak, just shook her head in almost silence, gentle, calm, and stubborn. The dim light of the candle came from behind her, and the girl's eyes were filled with moonlight. The contrast between one warm and one cold, It gave her whole person a sense of contradictory fragmentation.

Snowflakes are drifting in from outside. The wind on the winter night is not strong, but it is very cold. It is like the coldness of ice slag, seeping into the bone marrow, so cold that the whole body is chilled.

At least, Ning Xiuyuan had never felt that the winter in Yanjing City had been so cold. He avoided the other person's overly complicated eyes, lowered his eyes and looked at his fingertips digging at the wooden frame of the window. After a long while, he sighed softly, and once again surrendered in front of this person. He said, "Ning Ning, don't go. If there is no news about the snow toad, we at least have one last pill that can cure hundreds of poisons."

After finishing speaking, he sighed again, a sigh that was helpless and long, just like the whimpering sound of the wind on this winter night passing through the long corridor.

After all, he was the first to pierce the window paper.

No one speaks.

When their eyes met, even their breathing was held back. The courtyard on a winter night was quiet with only the crackling of candle wicks and the gentle sound of wind. Only then did Ning Xiuyuan realize that there was not even a charcoal fire in the room with the window open, and the little girl was sitting under the window wearing a thin blanket... He felt heartbroken and opened his mouth, but no sound came out. At this time, the topic has been brought up, and any interruption would be inappropriate.

Before he was sentenced, his concern was also somewhat inappropriate. In the almost suffocating silence, he opened his mouth and called softly, "Ning Ning..."

Ji Wuyan withdrew her gaze and looked down at the closed book in her hand. She rubbed the spine of the book and sighed softly... The calmness she had tried so hard to maintain throughout the night showed obvious cracks. She whispered softly, "Before this, I never understood why Xu Siniang had to choose such a way to protect Luo Xin and protect me... I obviously told her that it's okay. I'm here, it's okay."

"This problem has bothered me for a long time, until Shen Luoxin woke up and fell asleep, until Mr. Chen found out that she was poisoned." Her voice was low, sounding a little confused, but her words were smooth, and it was obvious that these words It had been lingering in her mind for a long time until now she had to say, "Before you came here, I have been sitting here thinking, if you never mentioned that medicine from beginning to end, I would just pretend that you didn't know anything about it. I went to find snow. Toad, save Luo Xin, this matter has been revealed... As she said, the dead are the most important, but the living must always move forward..."

She lowered her head, her expression invisible, but her voice seemed to be choked.

Ning Xiuyuan felt his heart twitching as he listened. He frowned for a while and asked softly, "I have hesitated. I have been hesitating all the way and I am hesitating when I stand here. But if I don't say it and you don't mention it, this matter will still be there forever. If it's not mentioned, it can't be put down. Even if you blame me, it's better than letting it go and blame yourself in your heart." He raised his hand, then slowly lowered it, and sighed softly for a while.

"Ning Ning." He called, "Maybe at this time, no matter what the explanation is, it seems to be a cover-up... But there are some things I still want to say. You may call me selfish or callous, but in this case No one here is more important than you. At that time, we all thought that it was an epidemic, and that what was waiting for Yanjing City was probably corpses everywhere, and this medicine was the last life-saving talisman. You made me blinded by such a thing. I can't help but watch you hand it over."

The night is getting darker little by little.

Both of them were silent.

One person spoke righteously on the surface and was anxiously waiting for the trial, while the other person lowered his eyes and rubbed the spine of a book, seemingly absent-minded, but in fact he was really upset.

Even if Ning Xiuyuan didn't say these words, Ji Wuyan knew them.

It was precisely because I knew Ning Xiuyuan's personality and temperament that I realized that no one was at fault in this matter, it was just... a mistake. So she didn't blame anyone, she just blamed herself and felt sad.

No one is wrong, the only one who is wrong... is the self-righteous one who thinks he can avenge his sister, the one who thinks he can protect Xu Siniang, the one who thinks he can settle everything...

"Third brother." She called in a low voice, "It's getting late. You should go back and rest first... I'm still busy tomorrow." She didn't know how to face Ning Xiuyuan, so she could only issue an eviction order and avoid seeing him. .