Ninefold above

Chapter 43
Fan Jie's speed was faster than Lu Chengfeng expected.

Early the next morning, the Xie family's carriage stopped not far from Dali Temple, Zhou Lihua was in the carriage, Xie Jiuxiao was outside the carriage, and Shi 39 waited beside him.

When receiving Xie Yunqian, Xie Jiuxiao didn't say anything, and helped him to go to the car, but when Zhou Lihua saw Xie Yunqian who was tortured and bruised, she couldn't help but shed tears. She supported him carefully, for fear that it would hurt him : "...they! They dare to torture you!"

Xie Yunqian snorted, and said soothingly: "...Don't talk about this, are you pregnant?"

Zhou Lihua didn't expect him to be the most concerned about this matter, she nodded with tears, "It's been more than a month."

Hearing this, Xie Yunqian stretched out his hand to touch it, but when he saw the dried blood on his hand, he stopped again. Zhou Lihua pulled him over with a smile while hesitating, and said, "It's still early, there is no movement."

Even so, Xie Yunqian was still overjoyed and didn't care about getting hurt. He felt it with his heart for a while, then smiled and closed his hands. He turned to look at Xie Jiuxiao, didn't say anything, just patted his shoulder hard, He said with relief, "I've grown up."

Xie Jiuxiao smiled, with a bit of joy, and said, "It's good that brother is fine."

Xie Yunqian saw that his eyes were normal, and he was secretly surprised. If it was in the past, his younger brother would make such a fuss when he saw his injuries.

Xie Yunqian noticed the subtle changes in Xie Jiuxiao, paused for a while, and finally didn't ask any more questions, patted his shoulder reassuringly, leaned to the side and closed his eyes to rest.

Xie Jiuxiao looked at the two thoughtfully, and sat silently.

Chen Shou retracted his confession and took all the charges, and the disaster relief money has been recovered. After the matter came to an end, Xie Yunqian recuperated for several days, and kept saying that he was unwell and did not go to court.

At night, Xie Jiuxiao was holding a teacup and eating some fresh snacks. He squinted his eyes and turned to look at Lu Chengfeng. She was sitting under the chair of the bookcase, concentrating on reading a book.

The house is brightly lit.

Xie Jiuxiao called out: "Sister..."

Lu Chengfeng looked up, then lowered his head, and said, "En?"

Regarding Lu Chengfeng's act of reading books, it started the day before yesterday. Xie Jiuxiao had never seen her study hard, so he couldn't help asking. Sir, next time he visits the mansion, he will test my knowledge."

Xie Jiuxiao was choked for a long time and couldn't speak.

Inside the room, Xie Jiuxiao was wondering what he was thinking, Lu Chengfeng waited for a long time before there was any movement, raised his head, and said in deliberation, "Are you worried about your elder brother?"

Xie Jiuxiao was thinking about whether he should go with her next time when she came to the door, when he heard this question, he nodded indiscriminately: "I just don't know when the elder brother is willing to go to court."

Lu Chengfeng put down his book, took out a handkerchief and walked over, handed it to him to signal him to wipe it off, and said: "Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, wait for the emperor to come to invite him in person."

"Oh...ah?" Xie Jiuxiao's reaction was inexplicably surprised.

Lu Chengfeng sat down and glanced at the red bean peach blossom cake made by Sanniang on the table. She tasted it once and found it a little too sweet, but Xie Jiuxiao is sweet by nature, so she just spent time in her room drinking tea. I ate three pieces.

She shook her head slightly, smiled inexplicably, and said: "Your elder brother and the new emperor have a fateful friendship. Now that they have become like this, your elder brother must be hard to let go, but this is the way things are in the world. After becoming a monarch and minister, the past That’s all there is to it.”

Xie Jiuxiao said, "I know."

Lu Chengfeng said: "Your elder brother justified that he was unwell and insisted not to go to court. He just showed it to the emperor. Let him see. You see, I still remember our friendship. The new emperor will always have a little touch. What your elder brother wants is This touch."

Xie Jiuxiao lowered his eyes and did not speak. When he silently picked up the fourth piece of cake, Lu Chengfeng pressed his hand and said, "Food accumulation."

Xie Jiuxiao had no choice but to turn to serving tea. He swallowed the tea, thought for a while, and said, "...Actually, I envy elder brother."

Lu Chengfeng looked at him suspiciously, suspecting that he had heard wrong.

Xie Jiuxiao said he envied his elder brother?
"...En? Envy your elder brother? What do you envy him for?" Lu Chengfeng was quite puzzled: "Envy him for going to bed early every day before dawn? Or envy him for his endless business affairs? Or envy him for giving Are you going to take care of what happened?"

Lu Chengfeng snorted softly, mostly as a joke: "Your elder brother should envy you, you don't know how to be blessed when you are blessed."

Xie Jiuxiao curled his lips and said in a low voice, "I'm just envious..."

Lu Chengfeng raised his eyebrows, and didn't even drink tea: "Then why do you envy him?"

Xie Jiuxiao lowered his head in a vague way: "... I went to pick up my eldest brother that day, and saw the picture of my eldest brother and his sister-in-law loving each other... They have a child, and my eldest brother will no longer indulge me in the future."

Lu Chengfeng paused, thinking that it was because of this, but after thinking about it, Xie Jiuxiao's loss did not come out of thin air.

Lu Chengfeng thought about it for a moment, then said carefully: "... According to you, do you want to get married?"

Xie Jiuxiao looked at her suddenly, with a powerless and extremely wordless sorrow.

Why do you think he wants to get married?

Why do you think so?

Fortunately, Lu Chengfeng sensed his inexplicable emotions, frowned and said, "Didn't you want to get married?"

Xie Jiuxiao said weakly: "...No."

Lu Chengfeng didn't need to talk softly like this in the past, but his father used to tell her to be patient with his younger siblings... Lu Chengfeng had to develop a lot of patience, thinking quietly, she slowly Picking up a teacup to drink tea, thinking about it, he said, "...Do you think that after your eldest brother has a child, they are a close family? Do you think you... huh?"

Lu Chengfeng didn't finish speaking, and she even felt a little ridiculous, but Xie Jiuxiao nodded to her awkwardly, seriously, and slowly.

Lu Chengfeng was amused: "...Well, do you know how old you are? Sometimes I wonder if you have only grown your head but not your brain these years..."

Others wouldn't have dared or wouldn't have said these words, but if it was Lu Chengfeng, Xie Jiuxiao just blinked slightly: "...are you calling me stupid?"

Lu Chengfeng suddenly became serious: "No."

Xie Jiuxiao complained: "...you have!"

The smile in Lu Chengfeng's eyes betrayed her, Xie Jiuxiao pretended to be furious: "Okay...you think I'm stupid!"

He pinched her with an annoyed smile, but Lu Chengfeng blocked her, and he strangled his neck with a gesture. Lu Chengfeng grabbed his forearm with one hand, as if wanting him to stop making trouble, but he couldn't help laughing. He smiled and said: "...It's not big or small, let me loose..."

Naturally, Xie Jiuxiao didn't dare to use real force, and wanted to let go when he touched it, but when he heard Lu Chengfeng's laughter, he couldn't help tightening his hand, and completely touched a warm skin.

His eyes changed, and he quickly covered them up, threatening: "...don't laugh!"

After laughing enough, Lu Chengfeng pushed the next person. The push failed, and then he noticed that something was wrong. She was already pressed against the wall behind her. Xie Jiuxiao stood halfway, pinching her with one hand, and pinching her with the other. But he supported her so as not to fall, and looked down from her very close.

Lu Chengfeng slowly stopped laughing, and said, "Stop making trouble, let go."

Xie Jiuxiao silently withdrew his hand and went to serve tea silently.

Lu Chengfeng got up on his own, and continued what the two of them said just now: "Don't think too much, your elder brother loves you so much, how could it be because you have a child?"

Xie Jiuxiao said: "...I know."

Lu Chengfeng said: "Okay, even if one day you are really neglected because of this, I will take you in."

Xie Jiuxiao looked up at her upon hearing this.

Lu Chengfeng thought for a while, and added: "As long as I'm still in Beijing at that time."

Xie Jiuxiao didn't speak.

He naturally knew the meaning of this sentence. Wu Lao had reminded her long ago that Lu Chengfeng did not belong to Yanjing City, and Subei was her destination.

Destination...

Xie Jiuxiao silently repeated these two words repeatedly, not knowing what it was like.

(End of this chapter)