marry the princess

Chapter 169 I'm afraid of pain
Jiang Xiaozuo turned his back to her, and didn't say anything else, just took a few long and short soft silver needles, and heated them on the tip of the fire.

"I'm afraid of the pain."

Su Leyan's soft voice suddenly came from behind, as if muttering to herself, Jiang Xiaozuo's hand couldn't help shaking, the silver needle went too deep into the fire and touched the wick.

Jiang Xiaozuo took back the silver needle, put it aside, took out another silver needle, and continued to heat and sterilize it on the tip of the fire.

After all the things to be used were ready, Jiang Xiaozuo turned around and said, "I will give the needle for the princess."

Jiang Xiaozuo wiped Su Leyan's ankle with an alcohol-soaked towel, and then picked out the silver needle that had just been heated and sterilized.Su Leyan was sitting still, but her eyes were fixed on the silver needle in Jiang Xiaozuo's hand. She still couldn't keep her composure, and she couldn't help but shrink back.

She is afraid.Afraid of silver needles and pain.

Su Leyan lowered her head slightly, raised her eyes, looked at him with a very pitiful look, and didn't speak again, as if she just said that she was afraid of pain just in her heart, and she didn't say it.Seeing Su Leyan's involuntary expression of fear, Jiang Xiaozuo hesitated, unable to act calmly, and temporarily put down the silver needle in his hand.

"Acupuncture is the fastest way to recover the princess. If the princess keeps dragging on, the foot injury will only get worse."

Subconsciously, Su Leyan wanted to curl up, but in front of Jiang Xiaozuo, she couldn't do so. She timidly stretched out her feet and put them on the edge of the bed. Seeing the bruises on her feet swelled up, Su Leyan also felt that as long as she moved The pain is very clear.

This time, Jiang Xiaozuo took the silver needle and sat down at Su Leyan's feet, staring intently, holding Su Leyan's foot slightly, looking for acupuncture points on the swollen sprain, and preparing to give the needle.

Seeing his focused expression, Su Leyan's whole body's energy was also concentrated on her ankle, and the pain seemed to have come before the needle was applied.People have to avoid the known and upcoming pain, Su Leyan watched nervously, her body instinctively wanted to retreat.

"Le Yan, the silver needle won't hurt." Jiang Xiaozuo said in a low voice, without raising his head, he still focused on Su Leyan's ankle, "Trust me."

laughing...

Su Leyan looked at Jiang Xiaozuo's focused expression at the moment, lost her mind.

Le Yan.

He called his own name, and no longer deliberately called her "Wangfei" so distantly.At that time, he looked at himself with extremely indifferent eyes, saying that strangers are good to him and himself, but just now, when he called his name, it still felt so familiar.

Su Leyan just stared at Jiang Xiaozuo in a daze, completely unaware that he had given the needle for herself, until Jiang Xiaozuo finished everything, then slowly raised her head, her voice was still low, but unknowingly there was Feeling some distance, "After half a cup of tea, just pull out the silver needle and it will be fine."

At this time, Su Leyan's attention had completely shifted away from her foot injury, "Xiaozhuo..."

Jiang Xiaozuo dodged his eyes unnaturally, stood up and stepped aside.

"Smile..."

Seeing him rejecting her, Su Leyan was unwilling, but she didn't know what to say to him. She imagined that she could talk a lot with Jiang Xiaozuo like before, freely and easily, talking and laughing. She likes that kind of time, not As it is now, because you and I have different identities, we deliberately avoid each other and alienate each other.

"We made it very clear that day."

Jiang Xiaozuo's words still did not regress, making Su Leyan unable to persevere.To this day, Jiang Xiaozuo has been staying in the palace. Su Leyan doesn't know how he is doing. She hopes that he will be fine, and also hopes that Jiang Xiaozuo said that it is best for him not to disturb each other. She tried her best to restrain himself. Stay by yourself, don't disturb the peace that Jiang Xiaozuo wanted.

Su Leyan lowered her eyes and did not speak. Jiang Xiaozuo also stood aside, seeing that Su Leyan did not speak any more. The room was so quiet that one could hear the wind blowing the leaves outside the window. There was only a faint smell of alcohol in the silent air... …

"Is this really the best?"

It was Su Leyan who broke the silence, her gaze was staring straight ahead, without focus, and she couldn't see anything clearly.

"I only have one friend, and I never thought that my best and only friend would become like this. Standing in front of me, but like a stranger, not even friendly to strangers, Alienation, politeness, and careful maintenance of a safe distance between each other, but we all know that all this is just an illusion, we are all pretending to be very harmonious. I can't pretend that I don't know you, I have not forgotten you."

"Smile, can you forget me?"

Jiang Xiaozuo felt a dull pain in his heart, seeing Su Leyan's uneasy appearance, he hesitated.

"I think it's best for you and me."

"What's best?"

"I can stand by your side and look at you openly, no matter how strange the gesture is, I can still be by your side, and you can also be by his side."

Su Leyan's eyes regained their brilliance, and she raised her eyes to look at Jiang Xiaozuo. Jiang Xiaozuo looked at her with affection that was no longer concealed, "Leyan, I can stay with you in this palace now, It is already my greatest ability. You disappeared from my sight for a whole year, I knew nothing about you, I was uneasy, I blamed myself, of course, I also blamed you, blamed you for being able to I left without saying a word. I didn't know until the last time you returned to Caoluotang. In fact, it's not that you don't trust me. It's just because I'm too incompetent. I can't give you the protection you need. If you don't tell me, Instead, it is protecting me who has self-respect, who is easy to be brave, and who may be reckless."

"When you returned to the Fourteenth Palace, I knew that you and I were no longer on the same level. I couldn't keep you by my side a year ago, and I couldn't keep you by my side a year later either. I can only work hard to get closer to you."

"I know you will be surprised when you see me in the palace, but I also thought, will you be more surprised? No matter what, I came to you and tried my best. Only in this way can you Look at me one more time so I can stare at you again."

Tears flashed in Su Leyan's eyes, she looked at Jiang Xiaozuo's current appearance, deep and steady, with a faint smile on her face, she was satisfied but also helpless.

"I want to come to you, I want to know, are you willing to stay here or go with me. Le Yan, I want to give you what you want, even if I use up all I have. But I also know that now I am just a little imperial doctor, even if I give everything I have, I may not be able to give you what you want."

"If you stay in the palace, then I am not qualified to be friends with you as a princess. I don't want you to be in trouble, and I don't want me to be your burden and trouble."

(End of this chapter)