box of hearts

Chapter 214 Broken Marigold (2)
Qingtian played the fan with one side, and stroked Qi She's face on his knees with the other side, with a far-sighted expression, "I think power is to men, roughly like beauty is to women. Once in power, all eyes will be on you ;One day when you lose power, you will be inseparable from each other, no one cares about you, and you can only face yourself. And how many people in this world dare to face themselves? Everyone is using beauty, power, and attracting the whole world. I hope I don’t have to stay with myself for a moment. I am so annoying, or boring, or sad, or full of desires, or full of pain... I have faced this kind of myself day and night, and I know how difficult it is, so difficult that I I would rather be with death than myself. It is you who guard me and help me, and make me fall in love with myself little by little."

Her fingertips slid across Qi She's dense and hard eyelashes, and she could almost hear the sound of strings -- her heartstrings. "Little cripple, how could I look down on you? I have never seen you so brave. Only the bravest dare to remove all the glamorous skin and face the real self. Don't worry, although there is nothing to do, drink wine to drink Don't worry, I'm here. I promise you that everything will be fine, just like you promised me back then."

Qi She, who still had his eyes tightly closed, smiled slowly. He was savoring the most precious emotion between people, to be understood, and to be understood painfully.Qingtian's warm hand pressed against his face, and he covered it with one hand, "I never understood why I couldn't leave you so much, it's been several years, and it's awkward not to see you for a day, now I understand a little bit .Because you are the only one who can keep me down to earth and put everything in your heart in your hands."

Qingtian's eyelashes drooped, casting the shadow of a crescent moon, "You hurt me by saying that, I always thought it was because this girl is naturally beautiful, and she also has the ability to maintain beauty."

Qi She laughed more and more, twisting a roll of fine-grained beeswax bracelets on Qingtian's wrist with his hands, "But you really compared the master with the sisters in the brothel. Thinking about the past ten years, every day is not Stretched, every word I utter has to go through my mind several times first, and every word I hear has to go through my mind several times, my face is like a mask, pretending to be a person, pretending to be a ghost Damn, this is the time to wash your hands in a golden basin and become a good citizen.” He finally opened his eyes, and his eyes just fell on Qingtian’s half-made embroidery, and he took it and held it in front of his nose, “Come on, I Look at what kind of work we good women do. Don't tell me, it's really not bad, where is this going to be used?"

Qingtian let go of the Liuling fan, took the bamboo frame back from his hand, picked up the end of the thread with his fingernails, "Nothing, I'll embroider you a pair of winter socks."

"My dear, we are in the poisonous moon, are you embroidering winter socks?"

"My hands and feet are slow. It's not like you don't know it. If you don't move at this time, you may be afraid that it will be cold and you won't be able to catch up."

"Hey, I'm afraid that no one can make my master's shoes and socks? You can't even wear them. You don't like sewing, so why bother? Don't do it."

Instead, Qingtian pulled out the needle stuck on the satin surface, squinted his eyes and pierced it down again, and started to stitch closely, "Oh, who knows? Human feelings are cold and warm, and the world is cold and cold. Anyway, after you return to power, no one will send me off again." 20 taels of gold for a piece of material, I'm afraid your own clothes, shoes and socks are not as exquisite and diverse as in the past, you should plan ahead, and I will also practice my craft." Then she turned her eyes to Qi She, and moved him out of place angrily Looking at the five senses for the last time, he sighed sweetly: "My third grandpa, don't be so silly and angry, I'm giving you a chance to take care of me!"

Qi She held back her laughter, and flipped over as soon as she hit it hard.Qingtian stretched the embroidery stretcher far away with his hand, "Hey, needle, needle! Look, I'll tie you again!"

Fei Qing, who was under the beam, looked at the two of them with a pair of eyes like mung beans, and rattled the gold chain on his feet, "Ah! Fight, fight!"

Even if there is a room for ice, Qi She and Qing Tian still have a lot of trouble.In the end, he squeezed his body tightly and intertwined his eyes, with a smile in his eyes.The smile faded from Qi She's eyes first, he loosened his grip on Qingtian, his body relaxed accordingly, his pupils swam slowly for a few times, then lowered his eyelids, lowered his head, and lowered his voice , "Xiaonan, I really feel uncomfortable..."

Qingtian is still smiling, but his smile is no longer as bright as the bright summer sun at that time, but just a round of hairy sun emitting faint light and warmth in a certain winter day in the future.She straightened her upper body and circled Qi She, "I know, I know." She hugged him for a long time, stroked the back of his neck, and patted his back as thick as a city wall.Countless times, he had been buried in her arms like this, but this was the first time that what he needed from her body was no longer her soft and plump breasts, but her responsible shoulders.

So Qingtian felt very fortunate that he was a woman with good shoulders.

2.
The sun is sinking, and it is late to return to the crows.The fragrance of flowers in Beifu fades from the tip of the nose, and what rises is the fragrance of rice from thousands of households.

One after another smoke color, cooking later than the house.

The dinner time in the Forbidden City was earlier than usual, and the Qianqing Palace had already served dinner before You hour.The eunuchs were busy packing up the delicacies, while the young emperor Qi Hong was sitting idle in the inner hall, drinking a cup of Pu'er tea boiled with ginger to digest his food.Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, I saw my queen mother, Xi He, walking silently by herself.

Qi Hong was shocked, and hurriedly put down the teacup to pay respects, "I greet the queen mother. Why didn't the queen ask someone to pass it on, so that the minister can go out to greet her?"

Xi He had never put on makeup, she had a dry face, her slightly pale lips seemed to be stuck on both sides, only the middle part moved, "Ying Xi, you take people back outside and don't come in."

After a sound of shredded clothes and shoes, there were only two quiet shadows left in the hall.

Xi He sat down on a small table, pointed her sharp jaw towards Qi Hong, "The emperor, come and sit down, the queen mother has something to tell you."

Then she leaned close to Qi Hong's ear and said one by one.

After finishing speaking, all the light from the three-foot-high palace lantern hanging from the ceiling shone on Qi Hongdong's open mouth.After quite a long period of time, Qi Hong swallowed the unbearable shock forcibly, and rolled two mouthfuls of saliva, "This is the queen mother, this is to ask the son to harm the uncle?"

With a murderous look on his face full of joy, a gemstone pendant hangs from the emerald curled lotus hairpin on his sideburns, hanging in the air like a will-o'-the-wisp, "It's not 'injury', but 'prevention'."

Qi Hong turned his body back and made a mistake, "No, I don't believe it, I don't believe that the emperor's uncle is rebellious."

Xihe leaned forward with her upper body threateningly, and the pipa sleeves of Liucai Yunjin palace clothes limply climbed up the hardwood table, "Your uncle is not only rebellious, but also has obvious signs of rebellion. Don't say anything else, just One, the battle has been going on for a long time, and the talisman of the dispatched troops should have been handed over and sealed long ago, but he has been holding on to it, supporting the soldiers with self-respect, why?"

Qi Hong stiffened his voice: "To deal with the Wang family!"

"The Wang family?" Xi He flicked his sleeves, sweeping away the statement like dust, "Today's Wang family is just lingering. Even in its heyday, it is nothing compared to the power of your uncle today. Military affairs, government affairs, etc. , Personnel, and three-point power are all held by him alone. Besides, compared to the Wang family, he doesn't even have any worries about his status, and it's easy to get a yellow robe."

"The queen mother is alarmist. If the uncle harbors evil intentions, how can he wait until today?"

"Even if he doesn't rebel and allows you to be in charge on the surface, it's just treating you like Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Hui of Jin[2], making connections behind the scenes and taking whatever you want."

"No, no, Uncle Huang is not such a person."

"Hong'er, don't be stupid, how old are you? You have been living in this corner of the imperial city since you were born! But your uncle lived in the Tatar army camp when he was ten years old, and other princes enjoy the honor. He has been beaten. All these years of implementing the new law and reforming the bureaucratic system, what kind of dangerous human relationship has he not experienced? He can survive the bloody battlefield on the tip of the knife and the officialdom with ghost tricks. This shrewd and capable Using it to lie to you, isn't it the same as playing?"

Qi Hong was finally aroused into a rage, and beat the case, "Don't talk about it, mother, I don't want to hear it! The emperor's uncle never regarded the son as Han Xian and Jin Hui, and the emperor said that the son would be a saint." Master Mingjun, the emperor said that he is the Duke of Zhou, and the ministers are King Cheng, and the ministers believe him."

Xihe leaned back against the back of the chair covered with piles of satin drape, and then kicked the leg of the chair with the silk silk shoes on her feet, and said in a strange way: "You, believe, him. Why do you believe him?"

Qi Hong clenched his fists tightly, and said loudly: "It's just because the emperor has never lied to me!"

Xi He stared straight up with two black eyes on her skinny face, she finally smiled coldly, took something out of her sleeve and threw it to the side of the coffee table.

When Qi Hong, who was originally proud and proud, saw this thing, he was immediately struck by lightning: this thing should have been wetted by his sweetheart's tears, wrinkled by her hands, and every word was carved on her heart by the tip of her tongue ?Why didn't even take off the cover, and bite it tightly like a dead end?It wasn't the emperor's uncle who personally promised to hand it over—a white mist floated in Qi Hong's vision, fading away the inscriptions on the envelope—Jinsha's elder sister Fangqi.

"Dead, died long ago, there are no ashes left, you are still dreaming!" Xihe's tone was no longer that of a mother, full of malicious and harsh sarcasm, "See? , I’ll play you around. He even dared to commit minor crimes of deceiving the emperor, what else would he not dare to do?”

(End of this chapter)