The night is slightly cool, the night wind is blowing, and the leaves are rustling.
The moonlight projected on the ground, lengthening the shadows of the trees.
As time passed, the shadow moved slowly.
Inside the Yi Wang Mansion.
In the elegant room, it should be charming, but at this time there is a strange silence that is difficult to disperse.
When Xiao Hou and Pang Zhijing confronted each other frankly, the flames that ignited their emotions were extinguished in those elegant eyes.
It was only because he saw large and small scars on the white jade-like body. Although it had healed, he could still imagine how dangerous it was and how painful she was.
He straightened up and reached out to touch the bruise on her back.
Pang Zhijing, who was still surrounded by fire just now, felt the temperature drop suddenly, opened her eyes, and instantly met his bewildered gaze, she quickly guessed why he showed such an expression, Pulling up the quilt to cover the scar on her body, she pursed her lips and said, "Xiao Hou, don't look at it."
So ugly, don't look at it.
But the moment she grabbed the quilt, the back of her hand was covered by his hand, stopping the next movement. She was stunned and looked up at him.
He only heard him say to her in a very gentle voice, "Quietly, let me see."
In his voice, he was full of pity, and in his eyes, there was no disgust.
Pang Zhijing slowly loosened the quilt, lowered her head, and the black hair fell from her temples, covering her face, and at the same time revealing the large and small marks on her back.
Those who practice martial arts can see that those are scratches, some are only as short as fingernails, and some are spanning the entire back, as if they are going to cut off this beautiful woman in the middle, look up, shoulder armor. On the top, there were all kinds of wounds, and Xiao Hou's eyes were full of shock and remorse.
He raised his hand and slowly touched the scars, his voice suppressed his emotions, "These are all left over from the cliff that day?"
"Well, fortunately there was an old tree under the cliff at that time, I fell on it, and the impact was slowed by those branches and leaves. The scars on my back were scratched by the branches at that time, but these looked terrible, but they were not very serious. The more serious injury is that the hands and feet hit the rocks on the ground, the arms are broken, the hamstrings are also broken, and the internal organs seem to be displaced."
She didn't want to tell him, but in the future, the husband and wife will face each other day and night, and it will be difficult for him not to see it, so it is better to tell him at one time, so as to save him from worrying about it later, and then fall into self-blame.
However, she didn't know that her narration of this so calmly made Xiao Hou feel even more uncomfortable, and he wished he could suffer for her.
His hand caressed her shoulders, her arms, her feet, little by little, examining it with utmost seriousness. Facing the lost and found lover, it was a new marriage, and at a time when they were sincere and sincere, It was supposed to be hard to contain the love, but he restrained himself, his eyes were not lustful, and he kissed those scars carefully and sympathetically.
"Does it still hurt?" He stroked a scar on her ankle, seeing that the tendon was broken and reconnected, and his heart twitched.
She shook her head, "It doesn't hurt anymore. At that time, it was probably numb from the pain, and there were injuries all over my body. I couldn't tell where the pain was. It felt like my body was not my own."
After she finished speaking, she was pulled into a warm embrace, and she felt his fear, pain, and love and pity.
She knew that he would be like this when she came back.
"Xiao Hou, I was sober a year ago, but do you know why I didn't come back until today?"
"Why?" he asked in a low voice.
She leaned on his shoulder and said softly, "Because if I come back at that time, I'm afraid you will feel more distressed for me, so I plan to stay and recuperate and stand in front of you full of energy."
She pursed her lips, and her voice suddenly dropped, "But those days of recovery were so hard, so hard, and you weren't around, I could only support myself, I was like a child, learning to walk step by step, every time When I took a step, my hamstrings hurt like a knife was cutting. I gritted my teeth and told myself, if I don’t walk 1,000 steps today, I will postpone seeing you for another day, so no matter how difficult it is, I will try my best to finish it. , I'm not afraid of medicine no matter how hard it is, with the little ball and the memories you gave me, I feel both bitter and sweet."
This afternoon, he wanted to hear her talk about what happened in Yaogu, but she didn't go into such detail, didn't tell him how hard she had endured all the way.
He could imagine how painful it would be to have a broken hamstring to reconnect. The bones were broken, and there wasn't a single spot in the back that was intact, let alone how painful it was.
But at this time, he couldn't do anything, he could only listen to her, every sentence was like a knife cutting in his heart.
"Xiao Hou, I was not a strong-willed person before. Everything I did was hot for three minutes. When I encountered difficulties, I would take the initiative to avoid it. I never thought of using my own strength to solve it."
Pang Zhijing suddenly spoke in a serious tone, causing Xiao Hou to look up at her in a daze.
"But since I met you, I learned not to escape the true thoughts in my heart. You gave me the courage to face all the hardships, and it was you who gave me hope for life, otherwise living like that would be worse than death. In the case of pain, I will not grit my teeth and persevere." Those pains cannot be described in words, but at this time, what she wants to share with him is her growth.
It was he who taught her how to love someone, and it was he who taught her that there is sacrifice behind love.
"But in your most difficult days, I didn't accompany you." Xiao Hou stroked her face, his eyes full of annoyance.
Pang Zhijing shook her head, "No, you have been with me, in my dreams."
"In a dream?" He was surprised.
She nodded, "When I was pregnant with the little ball, I was still in a coma, and there were many times when I couldn't hold it anymore, I saw you appear in my dream, you took my hand and quietly Accompany me, I have strength, and sometimes I can see you, you can't see me, I see you depressed for me, I can't wait to walk up to you and tell you, I don't allow you to be me It cost you your life, maybe because of this, I survived again and again."
Xiao Hou was stunned, because in the past few years, the little rogue has appeared in his dreams countless times.
"It's incredible!" She couldn't help widening her eyes.
When longing overcomes distance, everything will be a miracle.
Xiao Hou hugged her tightly, "Maybe it's God trying to make up for the hardships we've suffered over the years!"
Pang Zhijing nodded, in fact, for those unbearable painful experiences,
She was even more glad that he was not by her side, because she didn't want him to see herself struggling on the edge of life and death. What she saw was more painful than what she heard.
To her it was pain, to him it was torture.
How could she be willing.