mtl008 Chapter 173 He Really Missed Her
Chapter 173 He Really Missed Her
Imperial Palace, Imperial Study Room.
Xiao Zhang was reviewing memorials. The surroundings were so quiet that the only sound he could hear was the sound of the pen hitting the paper.
This unusual silence made Xiao Zhang feel irritated and a little uneasy.
He hasn't felt this way for a long time since he ascended the throne.
He stopped writing, called Eunuch Qin, and said:
"What happened today?"
When the emperor asked this, Eunuch Qin knew that he must be asking about something important. He thought about it carefully and said respectfully:
"Your Majesty, everything is fine in the palace."
As for the affairs of the court, as a eunuch, he had no right to interfere.
Xiao Zhang waved his hand, signaling him to go down and call his secret guards.
"Is it safe for you to travel?"
"The Third Prince encountered a wave of assassinations, but he has escaped danger. Those people are from the underworld. I am still investigating who they belong to."
As soon as Ying'er left the capital, he was assassinated. Xiao Zhang tightened his grip on the pen.
"Who do you think it is?"
The secret guard had followed Xiao Zhang for many years, but his master rarely confided in him. Now, he was caught off guard by Xiao Zhang's words and felt a little panic in his heart. He said cautiously:
"I dare not speculate."
Xiao Zhang glanced at him, saw that he looked nervous, and waved his hand for him to leave.
Once Duke Lin left, he didn't even have anyone to talk to.
The Marquis of Xuanping now played riddles with him every day. He had to observe the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects, and it was stressful to talk to him.
Xiao Zhang rubbed his forehead, stood up, walked to a bookshelf, twisted a vase, and the bookshelf moved to both sides, revealing a secret room.
He stepped inside, and the bookshelf behind him slowly closed automatically.
He blew on the lighter in his hand and lit the oil tank.
Tongues of flame suddenly shot up and burned continuously, like a dancing fire dragon, spreading rapidly and instantly illuminating the entire secret room.
There weren't many things in the secret room, no confidential documents, no gold or silver treasures, only a few huge paintings.
The painting shows a woman who may be sitting, standing, holding her chin in her hand in a daze, or sleeping on the table with a pool of drool, looking extremely lively.
She was wearing plain clothes and had black hair. Her eyebrows were as dark as distant mountains. She had cherry lips and a beautiful nose. She was extremely beautiful. In terms of her eyebrows and eyes, Xiao Yun was three-quarters like her.
The one in the middle was how she looked when he first saw her.
He was being chased and mistakenly entered her territory.
At that time, she was wearing a strange outfit. The pants just barely covered her buttocks, revealing two long, white and slender legs. The clothes looked like a bellyband yet not like a bellyband. It was only tied around her shoulders with two thin straps. The cloth on her body just barely covered her two snow-white peaks, revealing her graceful neck and a small slender waist. Her seaweed-like black hair was casually scattered, her two arms were exposed, and one hand was holding a two-pound grass carp.
At first glance, he didn't dare to look at her at all.
But when she saw his face turn red, she blew a loud and unruly whistle.
"Hey, whose son is this? Why is he here in my fish pond?"
If a normal woman was seen like this by a man, she would probably be ashamed and angry to death. But she looked at him openly without any shame in her eyes, and even teased him.
"Sir, have you started a family yet?"
In his opinion, starting a family means getting married. In order to win over his subordinates and ministers, he accepted all the daughters and sisters they sent to him.
He himself could not remember how many concubines he had, but he never married.
So when she asked him if he had a family, he said no.
At that time, he was seriously injured and was completely defenseless against her who had no internal strength.
Later, the people who were chasing him caught up with him. They were like mad dogs, chopping anyone they saw.
It was he who brought this disaster upon her. When those men attacked her with knives, he subconsciously stood in front of her and took the blow head-on, with blood splattering all over her face.
He originally thought that he would probably die like that. Before he died, he apologized to her apologetically.
He thought she would be scared, but she just wiped the blood off her face, muttered impatiently that she hated dealing with big shots like you, and then dodged over. Before he could react, she had already twisted the necks of the five men with strange movements.
When he woke up, she had changed into a normal dress and just looked at him coldly, telling him to get out if he woke up.
The words were direct, without any euphemism.
Given his situation at the time, if he went out and was discovered, he would surely die, so he needed to wait for Duke Lin to find him.
Considering what she said about not wanting to deal with big shots, he guessed that she was afraid of trouble, and she also saved him, so she was definitely not a bad person.
He could only disguise his identity and say that he was Xiao Zhang's bodyguard. Due to the lack of food and grass at the border, Xiao Zhang sent him to collect food and grass. Those people wanted to arrest him to extract information about Xiao Zhang from him.
She was half-believing and half-doubting, so he could only pretend to be pitiful to gain sympathy.
The reason why he was able to stay in her paradise in the end was because of his beauty trap.
At that moment, he was grateful for the first time for his good appearance.
"Anything is fine, really? What if I ask you to marry me?"
He had never met such a straightforward woman. Every word she said made him blush.
Seeing him nod with a red face, she nodded with satisfaction and said okay.
She was horny and didn't hide it at all.
When feeding him medicine, she would take the opportunity to touch his hand, or stare at his face, and when wiping his body, she would "accidentally" touch his abdominal muscles.
She has a catchphrase, "I have done good deeds all my life, and this is what I deserve."
In addition to being lustful, she also had a lot of fantastic ideas in her mind, especially when it came to food and drink. He had never heard of things like hot pot and braised food, but after she made them, he only took one bite and felt like he had opened the door to a new world.
The instant noodles she developed can be stored for a long time and are delicious and filling. Nowadays, instant noodles have become a wartime daily necessity.
She didn't have any big ambitions, and didn't even have much desire for money. She just wanted to lie in the arms of a handsome man and wait for death.
If they had no money or no food at home, they would go up the mountain to dig some herbs and sell them.
She always said that life is so short, why not enjoy it, you might die one day.
Well, burp means death, those are her exact words.
He checked her out and found out that she was an orphan with no father or mother and was fostered in her uncle's home. Her uncle sold her to a notorious butcher in the village for half a pig. On the night of their wedding, she stabbed the butcher to death with a knife and was wanted, so she had to hide in the mountains.
However, the Ning Xi he inquired about did not sound like the same Ning Xi he knew.
Although she had become what she called a salted fish, she was smart and resourceful and would never allow her uncle's family to bully her like that.
The two months he spent recuperating in Taohuayuan were the happiest time of his life.
If possible, he really wanted time to stay at that moment forever, so that... maybe they could be together forever...
Xiao Zhang's hand gently stroked the face in the scroll, with deep attachment in his eyes.
"Ning Xi, I miss you so much."
He really missed her.
"Why don't you come into my dream once? Do you still hate me?"
"Maybe I'm really getting old. Lately I keep forgetting your face and what you look like."