box of hearts

Chapter 243
More than a dozen eunuchs stayed outside the curtain, only Zhou Dun and Xiao Xinzi entered with them.Qi She walked among them, wearing a royal royal uniform with a big dragon in lacquer and gold, with his shoulders slightly turned inward, and there was no expression of joy or anger on his face.

The maidservants rushed up to raise their crowns and unload their gowns, Tao'er took a few steps and bowed her knees to salute.Qi She yawned, "Get up."

Tao'er straightened her body, the spring breeze seemed to blow away all of a sudden, and brought a strong sense of autumn, she folded her hands silently, desolate and melancholy.

"Why, you're not happy?" Qi She glanced at her, and raised his hands away from the left and right.Before taking off the pendant, saber, and riding whip at his waist, he held out his hand to Tao'er, palm facing up.

Tao'er put her hand in, and was slightly pulled, and fell to his chest. The Di Qing soft gauze pajamas were half-opened, revealing her eye-catching white snow chest.Qi She's eyes brushed lightly from above, showing a little smile, "What wronged you?"

Tao'er brushed her ears and temples, looked up first, and then said softly: "Tao'er has no grievances, Tao'er is only wronged for the prince."

A smile spread across the corner of Qi She's mouth, "Where do we start?"

Tao'er clasped her hands under his collar, stroking the golden colored silk and threads with her fingers, "Prince probably also knows that an old servant girl of the Duan family in Beifu died of dystocia last month, and the Duan family didn't care about the difference between master and servant. In the name of a sister, I came to attend the funeral for this maidservant. That’s fine, I only heard that she actually moved to live with her husband’s house, took care of the funeral herself, and stayed with the widower every day. Sleeping together in the mourning hall, it is extremely indecent, and the comments outside are already unbearable. Tao'er thought about it, this matter really hurt the dignity of the prince, so today she decided to persuade Duan Shi, tell her to restrain herself. I didn't expect her to yell at me when she saw me, saying that it was all my fault that the prince ignored her, and she also asked me to send a message to the prince, threatening to say something, 'Don't think that there are only women in this world, two Men with legs also walk all over the place', 'there is no food in the east, and people in the west can't die of hunger'... I heard her talk more and more shameful, and I got angry for a while, so I quarreled with her a few times, which I didn't expect That widower surnamed Zhao rushed forward and wanted to beat me! If the people around me didn't persuade her, I don't know if Tao'er would be able to see the prince alive! After I came back, I was so angry that I was crying alone. I am no longer worth it What, after all, she is also your prince's man, so isn't the Duan family also one of your prince's people? In this way, in the public, if you ask a random low-level businessman outside to beat the concubine Wang in the palace, even if she doesn't care about me, she won't It's time to take care of the prince's face. Thanks to the prince's treatment of her all these years like a queen empress, she doesn't miss the old love at all, why doesn't Tao'er feel wronged for the prince?"

Tears gushed out bit by bit, soft and bewitching, it was the illusory fishing fire that seduced the lost ship on the sea, and there were floating corpses and sunken ships floating around.

So, something floated on Qi She's face, and something sank.He was completely silent for a moment, and at this moment, Zhou Dun coughed very loudly and unnaturally.

Tao'er turned her face to the side, her teary throat suddenly clear and sharp: "Zhou Dun, what do you want to say?"

Zhou Dun lowered his face, neither looking at Qi She nor Tao'er, so others could only see the crown and beads of his hat. "What I heard from this slave is quite different from what my young master has heard. According to what my slave heard, Niang Niang Duan went to the Zhao Mansion to cry and mourn alone at the time of Mao every day, and then went to the back hall to be a council member. She was always cautious in her words and deeds. I didn't see any worshipers, and I set off to go back to Shichahai after burning the evening paper, without exception. Today's May [-]th has passed, and there has never been a single mistake in the grand ostentation. The visitors not only admired the empress's good management, but also praised the empress Know the etiquette and keep yourself. As for the funeral of the master for the slaves, it is just a matter of opinion, as many people laugh at the empress for degrading her self-worth, as many people admire the empress for her kindness."

"Yo, Zhou Dun," Tao'er's tone was full of provocation and sarcasm, "If I didn't know that you were serving the prince, I would have thought you were Duan Qingtian's slave. I don't know what benefits she gave you, in exchange for you Speak good things to her like a blind donkey is turning a millstone."

Zhou Dun still bowed his head deeply, "My lord, I dare not deceive you, but tell the truth."

"You are telling the truth, that is to say that I deceived the prince?" Tao'er looked up at Qi She again, her clear eyebrows were filled with hostility, "Prince, don't listen to this slave. The eunuch was originally Those who have been exiled have no roots, what can they rely on? The prince only looks at this servant. I am talking to you here, but he is talking too much. Who gave him the courage? That Duan Qingtian, didn’t she get along with her? Relying on the power of the prince, he came to demolish the prince.”

Zhou Dun raised his face very slowly, "I dare not."

Tao'er immediately raised her voice even higher, "Look, are you still afraid? Before the master finished speaking, he was busy talking back!"

Only those who have known Zhou Dun for many years can see how angry he is now. The arrow marks on both cheeks are tightened inward, the neck and limbs are all tense and do not move a little, only a pair of flexible eyeballs slammed horizontally, staring at him. Lived in Qi She, "My lord—"

"Zhou Dun go out." Qi She was obviously annoyed, even though his voice was not loud at all.

Zhou Dun stopped talking immediately and swiped his hand in front of his chest. Xiao Xinzi and a group of maidservants all retreated outside the hall with him.

Seeing that she was repelled, Tao'er became more and more attractive, and her voice became more and more coquettish: "My lord, don't listen to that servant fooling you. I can see it with my own eyes today. The Duan family and the widower went out together. The man's filial piety clothes Still on the body, the two of them were standing shoulder to shoulder and holding hands, oh, the person surnamed Zhao still called Duan 'Sister Qing', tsk tsk, I don't know a taboo in front of the servants of the Mansion. I heard it a long time ago The two of them are also old friends from childhood acquaintances. I only advise the lord to control that Duan family, don't let her go wild in Shichahai, and then make out with that Joe—————— Joe? —”

"Shut up." Before the other party had finished speaking, Qi Sheye had already taken a few steps aside and turned his back.Hearing this, he finally interrupted her.

Tao'er obviously didn't know her master well enough, she still held her hands behind his back, and stomped the cirrus-embroidered pearl shoes on her feet, "Tao'er knows that mentioning Duan Qingtian will make the prince angry, but—— "

Her words were "broken" again.

It was a horsewhip, the wind from the whip brushed against Tao'er's ears, the force was so strong that it rolled her to the ground.She fell to the edge of the big kang in the corner of the room, her eyes full of horror.

The brass-handled leather whip was in Qi She's hand, and she had turned around to wrap the whip tip twice.All the expression on his face had crept into his black, bushy mustache, as if the last ray of sunlight had crept into a dark forest.

"Since you know that mentioning Duan Qingtian makes me angry, then don't mention her. One Duan Qingtian is enough to make me angry, and all the other women are used to make me happy. The first thing that makes me happy is Be obedient. My mouth only says it once, and the second time I say it with a whip. Believe me, a delicate girl like you will never want to hear it a third time. So when I tell you to shut up, you just say it Shut up, understand?"

He walked around her while talking, spread his legs and sat down on the edge of the kang, buckled the whole bundle of leather whips upside down into the palm of his left hand, and tilted Tao'er's face with the copper handle of the whip.Tao’er was obviously frightened, like an ignorant toddler learning for the first time that fire can burn people, and blades can cut hands. Her expression deeply shows that she has firmly remembered what should not be touched. of.First, there were strings of teardrops rolling down, and then there was swelling and oozing blood, which smeared on her almost transparent skin.

Qi She looked at her from above, and suddenly lifted up the long gown that was entangled with the giant dragons, and stretched it into his free other hand.After some rubbing noises, he spread his legs further apart to create a space for himself, "Now, open your mouth."

The horn inlaid on the copper handle of the whip was still coldly pressed against Tao'er's chin, she was stunned for a moment, but her wisdom as outstanding as her appearance immediately made her kneel up straight and opened her mouth.The color of the lips is charming, and the warm and slightly sweet breath is constantly exhaled, like a good quilt embroidered with red thread and warmed with incense, which is enough to contain the greatest desire in the world and the deepest and most serious exhaustion.

Qi She held his whip all the time, looking down at the girl and all her movements without blinking, like a middle-aged man who has everything he needs to examine his aging naked body in front of the mirror, weighing the relationship with death. distance.

After some time, he tilted his head back and closed his eyes.

8.
That night, the kind of extremely sweet and deep sleep that is unique to young people did not fall on Taoer's head.In the dark night, her injured eardrum kept humming, like a war drum on a battlefield; her head was resting on a soft pillow of corn cores and golden threads, and it was a soldier waiting for the battle.Tao'er realizes that this battle is far more arduous than she imagined.

She caressed the welts on her cheeks that had been pulled out by a middle-aged man, and vowed to make a middle-aged woman pay the price she deserved.

In the next few days, Tao'er behaved extraordinarily well-behaved in front of Qi She, but once she was alone, she locked her two emerald eyebrows tightly, and her only obsession was how to get rid of Duan Qingtian.Just when she was thinking hard and got nothing, the opportunity came to her door automatically.

A eunuch came this day, claiming to be from Shichahai North Mansion, and said that Madam Duan and Boss Zhao of Baoqixuan offended Concubine Wang in a moment of confusion that day. The diamond necklace is presented, and Boss Zhao also has the best treasures to present. I hope to apologize to Concubine Wang in person.

(End of this chapter)