The red candle tent in Yuhua Palace is warm. Huo Xu tried his best to let out a smile, but when he stepped into the bedroom, he felt as if his feet were tied to a heavy stone... He sighed silently, and took a moment to walk in.
Shen Qingyan held up the fan, her heart beating uncontrollably.
- Until Huo Xu took the fan from her hand.
A pair of beautiful eyes were full of water, and her cheeks were pink with shyness. Shen Qingyan hurriedly lowered her eyes, not daring to look at Huo Xu, but she didn't want to miss every expression of Huo Xu. The two contradictory emotions intertwined, causing her to raise her eyes frequently and then lower them, and her hands on her knees were even more nervous and nowhere to be placed.
In comparison, Huo Xu was much more indifferent. With a gentle smile always on his face, he took Shen Qingyan's hand and walked to the wedding table—
Perform a salutation ceremony.
When she sat back on the bed again, Shen Qingyan's pink cheeks were already blushing. She wondered if she would go to the joy of cloud and rain with her husband, as her mother said.
"Are you tired?" Huo Xu sat down beside her and rubbed her head.
"It's... alright."
Huo Xu hummed softly and said, "Then have a good rest today."
…
It was so quiet that even the sound of breathing could be heard clearly.
The thick bed curtains blocked the warm light of the red candles, and there was only darkness inside the bed. Shen Qingyan opened her eyes in the darkness and listened to the even breathing of the person beside her. Now the person she loves is close at hand, but she feels that it is so far away.
Shen Qingyan lightly pressed her temples with her fingertips, trying to squeeze her thoughts out of her mind.
After a busy day, Brother Axu must be too tired, right? It must not have been deliberately snubbing her on the wedding night...
In fact, Huo Xu hadn't fallen asleep, but he really wasn't in the mood to pretend tonight.
—Especially after seeing Lezhi at the wedding banquet.
Apart from that, he was really not interested in Shen Qingyan. He likes Lezhi and Zhangli's appearance. Although Shen Qingyan is more than pure, she is only a small white flower, not to mention a delicate rose, even the rose flower she replaced is incomparable to her.
Thinking of this, Huo Xu thought of the nephrite jade Wenxiang this morning. Because he knew that he was getting married today, the people in his arms entangled him very tightly. Originally, he had already changed into his wedding clothes, but the delicate people snuggled up from behind and placed honey kisses on the back of his neck... In the end, he almost delayed the auspicious time.
I don't want to touch Shen Qingyan tonight because I don't want her to see the thick kisses/marks on the back of his neck, back and chest that haven't faded away...
All the guests at the wedding banquet dispersed, but none of the palace attendants outside the palace dared to enter the palace to clean up... They didn't know why His Royal Highness and the Crown Princess had not left, and they did not dare to ask, just quiet. waiting outside the temple.
Le Zhi felt as if he had fallen into chaos. Originally, she thought that those fears had already been forcibly suppressed in her heart, but the appearance of Yang Heng ripped apart the scene of that day bloody before her eyes again...
His body trembled uncontrollably, his eyes were sore but he couldn't cry. She covered her heart, her chest seemed to be blocked and she couldn't breathe.
- "If you want to be with me, this place can't be so fragile."
What Huo Du said to her a few days ago suddenly sounded in her ears. Shensi broke through the chaos in an instant, and the confused and sad eyes of the fox gradually injected vitality.
Don't be vulnerable and fall into grief.
When his thoughts returned, Le Zhi was shocked to realize that the wedding banquet had already ended. In the silent hall, the popularity dissipated, and the silver filament carbon in the heater was about to burn out, making people feel more and more cold.
Only Huo Du, sitting quietly beside her, looked indifferent and didn't say a word.
Le Zhi got up quickly, faced Huo Du and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I lost my mind."
Then handed him his hand, now Lezhi is used to helping him get up like this.
Huo Du didn't raise his eyes, just put one hand on Le Zhi's arm as usual, and stood up with a cane in the other. He was dumbfounded. In fact, he didn't need someone to help him at all, and now he seemed to be used to her handing her arm to him.
"Let's go back to the manor." Le Zhi whispered, watching Huo Du's expression carefully, for fear that he would be angry with her for delaying her time. Seeing that he had stood up, Le Zhi wanted to retract his arm.
But the hand lightly resting on his arm did not retract, but naturally moved forward slightly, holding her palm...
The two remained silent until they got into the sedan chair.
Huo Du didn't let go, and Le Zhi naturally let him hold it. It was freezing cold outside, two icy hands were clasped together, and there was a strange warmth between the palms...
But this little bit of warmth is difficult to perceive by two frozen hearts.
The sedan chair went straight into the Prince's Mansion and didn't stop until the bedroom.
Jing Xin was waiting outside the house, worried about the injury on the shoulder of the master, so he hurried to help him.
Seeing this, Huo Du let go of his hand, "You rest first, you don't have to wait for me."
After he finished speaking, he walked in the direction of the study.
After entering the room, Le Zhi was waited by Jing Xin to wash and change clothes, and then lay down on the soft slump. Her body seemed to have lost her strength. Jing Xin carefully covered her with the quilt, and then withdrew.
Suddenly, a group of snow-white jumped onto the bed and flexibly got into the quilt...
Le Zhi smiled weakly, the quilt on his body lifted a corner, and a snow-white head stuck out. Huo Xiaoli stared at Le Zhi with round eyes, as if she could see through her sadness.
Then it leaned on Lezhi's shoulder obediently, closing its eyes and sleeping peacefully.
Lezhi rubbed its soft white fur and closed his eyes next to its small head.
study.
An Xuan had returned to the mansion long before Huo Du. As early as when the wedding banquet was over, the Highness and the Crown Princess had not come out, so he knew that something must happen. Most of the wedding banquet was their eyeliner, and soon he knew about the episode between the Crown Princess and Yang Heng.
He walked outside the hall and waited for Huo Du's instructions.
Huo Du didn't say anything, just glanced at him, and he knew what His Highness wanted him to do...
"Have you checked everything out?"
The study door was pushed open, Huo Du walked in slowly, sat on the armchair, and asked with a blank face.
An Xuan nodded and said yes, and then replied clearly.
To find out what Yang Heng did on the day of Dali's destruction, it was actually very simple. The Divine Wing Army had already installed someone from His Royal Highness. Besides, what Yang Heng did was in broad daylight...
As An Xuan explained, Huo Du's lacquer eyes became more and more gloomy. Whether it was because his insider explained the details too clearly, or An Xuan's words were too precise, Huo Du felt that the scene of that day seemed to unfold clearly in front of his eyes—
On the day when the capital of Li Kingdom was destroyed, both the emperor and the empress committed suicide, and the crown prince was killed... Huo Xu took the Divine Wing Army and took Le Zhi, whose clothes were soaked in blood on the emperor's corpse, away. …
Regardless of her struggles, he carried her onto the horse's back and hooped her firmly in front of him.
Then, everyone saw that Dali's most beloved little princess broke free like crazy, and the fox eyes that were already amazing were dyed the most dazzling red.
The two people with great disparity in force were beaten by Le Zhi desperately, leaving a gap.
As soon as his waist loosened, Le Zhi jumped off his horse and fell to the ground. The battlefield was a mess, with corpses everywhere. A half-broken dagger just happened to be in her hand.
She pressed the sharp blade to her neck, hatred in her eyes overflowing, she shouted to Huo Xu: "Shameless villain! Ingratitude! One day you will have to die!"
One word at a time, shouting hoarsely. After she finished speaking, she resolutely prepared to die.
"Zhizhi!" Huo Xu called out to her, terrified in his eyes, and gritted his teeth: "If you dare to commit suicide, your imperial sister will be worse off than dead!"
Hearing this, the knife clenched in his hand stopped, and only a faint blood mark was cut on the fair neck, and a few blood beads appeared...
Immediately afterwards, Le Jin, the second princess of Dali, was dragged up by several soldiers... In an instant, everyone understood Huo Xu's intention. He took Le Jin as a pledge, threatened Le Zhi and asked her to beg her to die. can not.
However, as a princess, Le Jin's blood is the same as Le Zhi's.
The country is destroyed, why is she afraid of death
"Zhizhi! Leave me alone, we'll see you in Huangquan!"
Her vision was blurry, and Le Zhi couldn't see the expression of the emperor's sister, but she could hear the meaning of the emperor's sister clearly. She couldn't make a sound, so she could only silently tell the Queen with her mouth—
"Okay."
The tacit understanding between the sisters made Huo Xu's heart stagnate. After more than ten years of getting along, until today, he suddenly found that he didn't seem to know them...
In the panic, his eyes flashed fiercely, "Lezhi! You are not afraid of death, but are you afraid that your imperial sister will be tortured?"
torture
Le Zhi laughed bleakly, aren't they suffering now
Obviously, she underestimated Huo Xu's shamelessness.
Standing beside the dark horse, Yang Heng, after receiving Huo Xu's gesture, walked towards Le Jin with a few fierce generals...
The sound of the fabric being torn, and the screams of the royal sister, instantly stinged Le Zhi's eardrums. The remnants of Li Guo's captured soldiers, watching the princess's humiliation, roared and tried to rush forward, but their hands and feet were locked by iron chains and could not move forward. Even some Qi soldiers couldn't bear it, they turned their eyes away and didn't want to see...
On the other hand, Yang Heng and his subordinates had wicked smiles on their faces, and continued to tug at Le Jin's skirt.
Her clothes were shattered, and the elder sister's arms and shoulders were exposed. Le Zhi bit his lip, letting the blood flow into his mouth, and tasted a fishy sweetness in his mouth.
Soon, she let go, and the broken knife fell to the ground. Then she dragged her injured leg and moved to Huo Xu's horse... It was easy to ask for death, but she couldn't watch her sister being humiliated.
Then, everyone saw with their own eyes that the little princess who had been holding her head up lowered her head—
He bowed his head and admitted defeat.
"stop!"
Huo Xu got off the horse, lifted Le Zhi up, took off his cotton cloak and wrapped it around her. Le Zhi hurried to Le Jin's side, and Yang Heng and the others stepped aside.
Lezhi wept silently, and covered the exposed skin of the emperor with a cotton cloak. Although he has not been substantively insulted, such a thing happened in front of everyone's eyes, which has drained all Le Jin's anger.
"Sister Huang, elder sister?" Le Zhi called out twice cautiously, Ke Lejin was motionless and her eyes were empty.
Then several soldiers dragged Le Jin up and took her away.
"elder sister!"
Le Zhi wanted to chase, but was pulled from behind by Huo Xu, so she had to turn around and face him.
"As long as you are obedient, your sister will be fine."
…
An Xuan had been away for a long time, and Huo Du was sitting by the window, blowing the biting cold wind. There was no emotion in his face and eyes, he just sat there, not knowing what he was thinking.
It wasn't until he was ugly that he got up and walked to the bedroom.
After stepping into the dormitory, he saw Huo Xiaoli staring at him with round eyes, "Meow..."
There was innocence and cowardice in the cry.
Huo Du frowned and walked to the bed—
A faint smell of blood drifted to the nose.
The sleeping man trembled slightly, his shoulders shrugged. Tears flowed silently from the corners of her eyes... Huo Du didn't know how long she had been crying, and even her long crow's eyelashes were dyed wet.
The wound on the shoulder that had begun to scab, now oozing blood again.