The wind on the lake blew through his ears and made a whirring sound. It took a few breaths for Jiang Shuyao to understand Xie Xun's question.
"What, what?" She was so surprised that she didn't know how to face the question.
Xie Xun's eyelashes trembled slightly, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he said with difficulty: "I ask you, have you ever been happy with me?"
If you ask the original owner, the answer is of course yes. Whether you like Xie Xun's talent or looks, you all like it.
But when asked Jiang Shuyao, she couldn't give a clear answer immediately, because Xie Xun's question came too suddenly, and she was not prepared at all. Even when she heard this question, her mind was pounding, and half of her head was numb with heat, unable to think.
Seeing that she hesitated, Xie Xun sentenced himself to death first. The urge on his blood just now was blown by the lake wind, and his cheeks were hot, unwilling and annoyed.
He gritted his teeth, "Why?"
His aura was too strong and aggressive, Jiang Shuyao was dumbfounded and took a half step back.
"If you don't really admire me, but just show my skin, why do you still ignore your reputation, entangle me in every possible way, and force you to marry me? That's your life. A man who cares about you?"
At first, his tone was fierce, as if he was questioning, and then his voice became lighter and softer, with Sother's sorrow, and the exit melted into the lake wind.
Seeing him like this, Jiang Shuyao hurriedly said, "No, it's not what you said, wait, let me think about it."
Xie Xun rarely leaked such emotions. He looks cold, but he is a gentle person inside, and even a little sluggish at times.
But now he is the side that Jiang Shuyao has never seen before. He is strange and strong, and even a little too strong and scary. She was at a loss for a while.
"You're not her, are you?"
She was thinking about her thoughts when Xie Xun suddenly opened her mouth, light and fluttering, but suddenly struck her like a bolt of lightning.
She raised her head and stared at Xie Xun with wide eyes.
Xie Xun took a step towards her and looked down at her: "You're not the one who fell into the water, right?"
In just a few words, Jiang Shuyao's whole body felt like a hole in the ice. She never thought that her secret would be exposed, much less that it would be exposed by Xie Xun.
She stepped on the board and took a few steps back in horror: "What are you talking about?"
"In this way, it's right, everything can be explained." Xie Xun stared at her and suddenly smiled, "Actually, I guessed it this way."
He just frowned and gritted his teeth, his expression was serious and cold, and his eyes were sharp, but at this moment, the corners of his mouth suddenly twitched, half of his face was plunged into darkness, and he couldn't see the smile and demeanor, only incomparably weird.
Jiang Shuyao had just been exposed to the biggest secret, and she was already terrified to the extreme. Now she was startled by his smile, "Ah", and backed away in a panic.
Seeing her doing this, Xie Xun suddenly stepped forward and stretched out his arms to grab her.
Jiang Shuyao was even more frightened, and hurriedly waved his arms to break free, turned around a few steps to dodge, slipped under his feet, and fell from the unrailed bow of the boat.
"Boom—"
The sound of falling water exploded, and huge splashes of water splashed on the blue lake.
Xie Xun didn't have time to hold her, and watched her fall into the water, instantly panicking.
Jiang Shuyao can't drink water!
When she fell into the water, he couldn't wait for the maid to jump into the water to save her, all because he didn't want to watch a big living person drown and die. But now she fell into the water again, and her mood was turned upside down.
Xie Xun plunged into the lake with a "bang", his mind was blank, and instinctively dived into the lake to find her figure.
The bright moon hangs high, and the lake surface is like a mirror with a white and blurry halo, but the lake is dark and dead, like an abyss where fierce beasts are dormant.
Xie Xun dived deeper and deeper, but he couldn't see her at all, and he couldn't even feel the struggling water.
Undercurrent grabbed his robe, trying to pull him to the heart of the lake.
The oxygen in the lungs was exhausted, and the pain was burning like a fire. Xie Xun resisted it, fought against the undercurrent, and swam forward.
He stayed in the lake long enough, dived deep enough, and still didn't find her.
He felt a pounding in his head, and his hands couldn't help shaking.
When he was dazzled by the lack of oxygen, he gritted his teeth, finally gave up, and swam to the top of the lake with his last strength.
Emerging from the lake, fresh oxygen filled his lungs, and the burning pain increased instead of decreasing, making him feel a soft numbness in an instant.
He wiped away the water that blocked his view, and looked at the dark lake, silent and without any waves.
He didn't want to believe everything that happened, and looked at the lake blankly.
When the lake wind blew, he snapped back to his senses, took a deep breath, and wanted to dive down to the lake again.
Just as he dived down, a soft force came from behind him, and before he had time to react, he was carried to the lake.
Xie Xun turned around instinctively, and the water splashed on his face, making him unable to open his eyes for a while.
"What are you doing!" Jiang Shuyao slapped the lake, panting, "Are you courting death?"
Xie Xun wiped off the water stains on his face and stared blankly at Jiang Shuyao in front of him.
She was breathing heavily, one was holding her breath, the other was: "Are you crazy, you haven't come up in the lake for so long, I went down to look for you and couldn't find you, how deep did you dive? "
Xie Xun was surprised and happy, and his mind was still in a state of numbness. Hearing this, he could only dumbly say: "You don't know how to drink water—" After speaking, he realized what happened now. Jiang Shuyao doesn't seem to know how to drink water. .
He said in surprise: "When did you learn to drink water?"
Jiang Shuyao was startled by Xie Xun's disclosure of the secret, and was frightened by his long absence from the surface. His mood was ups and downs, all his worries and hesitations disappeared, and his emotions poured out like a torrent that had opened a gap.
"Didn't you know? Didn't you guess it? When can I learn it, of course I would have! Why else!" She roared out, obviously agitated.
Xie Xun shrank his neck and said puzzled: "But I've only heard that after a dying person is rescued, their temperament will change drastically and their memory will be lost, but I've never heard of suddenly learning a skill... "
Jiang Shuyao wiped the lake water from his mouth, frowned and said, "What?" A tiny light flashed in his mind, Jiang Shuyao realized later, "When you say I'm not 'she', you mean I have a big temperament Can't they be counted as the same person after the change?"
"Of course, it's not you who loves me, it's not you who forcibly marry me, it's not you who flirts with beautiful men and is vulgar and vulgar. You are a brand new self, not the same person as Jiang Shuyao before."
"Then what's the matter with your smile?" Do you know that it is very strange and terrifying that a person with a cold face suddenly burst into a smile! !
"Because I'm happy."
Xie Xun said with a smile on his face again: "What I used to hate was the person who was rescued by me but turned to me and forced to marry me, not you, we didn't misunderstand before, and there was no barrier. , there is no calculation."
He looked at Jiang Shuyao, his eyes were firm, and his eyes were clearer and brighter than the moon: "I am happy, the one I want to spend the rest of my life with is you now, the one and only you."
His ears were red, his face was bright and lively like she had never seen before, his eyes and tone were extremely gentle, but he was full of childishness.
"Jiang Shuyao, I love you."
Jiang Shuyao was stupid.
Before she could express her temper, she was fooled by the sudden confession. She never thought that tonight would be so wonderful.
The moment that should have been shy, but was left in surprise and stunned by the unexpected direction.
"you like me?"
"Yes."
Jiang Shuyao stammered: "You... I..." She wanted to say what and what to do.
Xie Xun said: "I know you have concerns, and I understand." This is the first time he has seriously discussed these matters with Jiang Shuyao, "If you like to share, I will support you to open a restaurant and a restaurant; you worry about me Like my second brother, I will try my best to prove myself. You don’t have to give me a response until you are relieved; and my mother, she doesn’t like that you can teach me everything about you. I'll ask it to be released. You like going out of the house, you like the pier streets, you like the liveliness and fireworks of the world, and you will definitely like the wider world after you leave Beijing."
Before Jiang Shuyao said anything, he was gagged by his analysis.
She was indeed worried. She has never been fully integrated into this world since she wore it, and the looseness and freedom of modern people are always incompatible with this place, so she did not treat Xie Xun as a love object that could develop.
Later, when she got along with her, she gradually became tempted, and she began to worry about the ideological conflict between the ancients and modern people. She was afraid that he was a romantic hypocrite, an old-fashioned scholar-officer, but he proved by his actions that he was not.
He can comfort her tenderly and considerately when she is sad because of the Lin family; he can only care about her comfort after she is kidnapped, and doesn't care about the taboos that hurt her innocence; he can assure her when she is worried He would not treat her like Xie Lang treated Zhou Shi.
He advises her, accompanies her to go out to play, comforts when she is sad, and persuades when she is worried... Xie Xun is actually extremely gentle in his bones.
It's normal for her to be tempted by such a person, and she can't find any reason to push him away and reject him.
When Xie Xun saw her looking at him silently, the smile on her face gradually faded, and she said uneasy: "Sorry, I was too sudden, as I said just now, you don't have to respond—"
Jiang Shuyao suddenly interrupted him: "Are you sure we will continue to soak in the lake like this?"
There are two people floating on the dark ink lake, soaking face to face, which is really funny.
Xie Xun immediately realized this problem, it was really embarrassing, he stretched out his arm and paddled, ready to swim to the painting boat: "Cough, let's go up."
He just swam for a while, but Jiang Shuyao held his chest down.
Not only can she swim in the water, but she is also very skilled, swimming like a fish, getting in front of him and blocking his way.
Her bun had long since loosened, and her ink hair was sticking to her porcelain-white face, enchanting and charming. The water droplets are crystal clear, sliding from the forehead to the feather eyelashes, and in a blink of an eye, when it drips, it shatters like a star, blooming in front of the eyes.
"Me too." She pursed her lips.
Xie Xun didn't react: "What?"
Jiang Shuyao's entanglements over the past few months were all dissipated tonight, and he suddenly became enlightened, as if it was poured by a hearty heavy rain.
Her smile was bright and dazzling: "I said I am too, and I am equally pleased with you."
thump-thump-
Xie Xun's heart suddenly jumped a few times, very slowly and heavily, and then a burst of ecstasy rushed into his heart, making him feel incredibly lucky.
"You said, you have the same mind as me?" he subconsciously confirmed.
"Yes." Jiang Shuyao smiled even more happily.
Jiang Shuyao was just a little confused just now, but Xie Xun was completely surprised. He never thought that Jiang Shuyao would respond like this, and he didn't even dare to dream of such beauty.
"I... you..." The stumbling man fell.
Jiang Shuyao said, "Then what?"
"What, what?"
"In terms of standard trends, are we missing something?"
"Varied-"
Before she finished speaking, she had already pressed Xie Xun's chest and dropped a kiss on his chin.
Warm and soft, with the wet coolness of lake water.
He felt the warmth of her breath, the fragrance on her face, like a dream, with a burst of numb electric current, rushing to the scalp and limbs, making him froze and unable to move.
Jiang Shuyao left him, seeing that his face was blushing to the point of dripping blood, looking like he was being molested, he laughed loudly, turned and plunged into the lake, and quickly swam away.
Xie Xun stretched out his hand to touch the ripples caused by her, and then touched his chin, frowning and thinking about whether it was a dream tonight.
"Bo Yuan—" A shout disrupted his thoughts.
The colleagues in the East Palace had a good time, ordered wine and confiscated them. All of them were drunk, staggeringly lying on the railing, and shouting to Xie Xun in the lake.
"What are you doing, why did you go to the lake?"
"I'm so hot too, I really want mallard water."
"But how can you go to the mallard water in the middle of the lake?"
"That's right, Bo Yuan! Come up! If you don't come up, we won't come down to accompany you!"
They roared in drake voices.
There was an echo on the lake, and before it dissipated, Lin Cheng's angry shout suddenly came from behind: "I-come-la-"
He was like a silly goose who had just come out of the cage, with his arms outstretched, he strode madly from a distance.
Every step is a big jump.
The body is like a gust of wind, giving the slow-moving drunken companions no time to react.
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
"Dong dong dong!"
One hit the other, like a bowling ball, was knocked into the lake, fluttering like dumplings, floating up and down in the lake, making strange screams of excitement.
"Who hit me! Ah ha ha ha!"
"It's so cool!"
"Oh huh-"
"… "
The next day, everyone in the East Palace caught a cold.