Lying on the same bed and chatting, thanks to her being able to figure it out. Xie Xuanchen closed his eyes and said "um" lazily.
"How did you know that I was locked up today?"
This is too simple. Usually, as long as Xie Xuanchen opens his eyes, Mu Mingtang must be by his side. Even if he wasn't there, he made a random movement, and within two breaths, Mu Mingtang ran over.
Of course, the reason for this cannot be said, it seems that he is very happy with it. Xie Xuanchen put on an unremarkable tone and said, "When I woke up, the maids outside were extremely flustered, and the leading palace maid was also evasive, so she was mysterious. I guessed that they were hiding something from me, and I cheated at will, scammed."
"It can be deduced from just one face-to-face, and the insight is too keen." Mu Mingtang sighed sincerely, she did not doubt Xie Xuanchen's words at all, and admired Xie Xuanchen's meticulous observation and meticulous and fast reasoning ability. After Mu Mingtang sighed, he asked again, "Then how did you know I was in Jingzhai? If they hadn't taken me there, I wouldn't have known there was such a place in the palace."
"Just ask and I'll come out." Xie Xuanchen didn't care much, as if saying that the weather is fine today, "I found a sharp weapon and told the maids, if they didn't tell me, I would kill them, and I asked. came out."
Mu Mingtang was silent, she didn't think it was a casual question, presumably those maids who were compared by Xie Xuanchen's throat wouldn't think it was a casual question.
After talking for a while, Xie Xuanchen also remembered a question: "What did they ask you when they put you away on purpose?"
"Nothing, just asking when you woke up and how the lock was opened."
After Mu Mingtang finished speaking, she was quiet for a long time, and she quietly added: "I didn't say it."
"I know." Xie Xuanchen sighed, his tone seemed to be self-deprecating, "You don't need to insist that you don't know, these are all aimed at me, it has nothing to do with you, whatever you say should be right. I am in a coma. If it’s not easy to ask questions, they will implicate you. One person is responsible for doing things, and it’s not a skill to implicate female dependents.”
Xie Xuanchen's tone was very bad, Mu Mingtang didn't know what he was thinking, so he could only comfort him softly: "It's actually fine. Sun Daizhao said fiercely, but in fact she was just frightening me and trying to deceive me. Medicine, they dare not use the real thing."
Xie Xuanchen smiled very lightly, full of sarcasm: "Not necessarily. The needle may be to scare you, but the bowl of Juezi soup must be sincere. They really want me to die, not only want me to die, but also want to die. Watch me cut off my sons and grandsons."
These words involved the emperor and the empress dowager, and Mu Mingtang did not dare to take it rashly. After a while, she whispered, "No, you will live in good health and peace, with many children and grandchildren, famous in history, and live better than anyone else."
"Famous in history?" Xie Xuanchen mocked, "Notoriety is also in history. Reviled for thousands of years and stinky for thousands of years, it is not a waste of life."
When it comes to such topics, he becomes extreme and sharp, full of disgust with himself. Mu Mingtang felt uncomfortable, so he simply got up and looked at Xie Xuanchen with his body supported: "My lord, what happened back then... What happened? They all said that you killed your adjutant and personal guard, but when you went crazy a few days ago, You have indeed injured many guards, but none of them have life worries. You are not a person who will take the initiative to hurt people, and you will not kill innocent people indiscriminately. Will there be another secret about what happened in that year? "
Is there another secret? Xie Xuanchen was lying on the bed, his eyes were wide open, but there was no focus. After the incident, his father was furious when he heard the news, and scolded him for his unbelief and injustice to everyone, and that he had lost the virtue of being a man. He was already in extreme depression at that time, and after hearing those words, he lost control, and since then he has been reprimanded for committing chaos and intending to kill the king and kill his father.
Overnight, falling from the clouds into the mud, it would be fine if he just lost his power and status, but he couldn't even keep his dignity. His past exploits were wiped out, and everyone could justly accuse him.
His reputation was ruined, his former followers scattered in a hurry, and thousands of people followed him, but now, there is not even a single acquaintance beside him. It has been two years, Xie Xuanchen has been used to all this. Everyone is afraid of him and scolds him behind his back. No one has ever told him. Maybe there is something else hidden in the past.
Xie Xuanchen closed his eyes in disgust, his body was sharp, and said coldly: "What if there is a secret, what if you don't? Up to now, you still expect everything to be just a misunderstanding, and then you are like marrying into the Jin Palace, restoring the respect of the princess. Rong? Then you married the wrong person, you should go find Xie Xuanji next door."
"Look, you're here again." Mu Mingtang sighed, not angry with him, but said softly, "I knew from the beginning how I would be treated after I got married, but now, it's really better than I thought. It's so much better. I had already accepted my fate, but when I entered the door that day, I saw that it was you. I don't know how grateful I am for God's kindness. Fate treats me well. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be alive now. A marriage, I won't have the chance to let you know me."
Xie Xuanchen still closed his eyes, he was full of malice, and felt that Mu Mingtang must be rhetoric. People have to bow their heads under the eaves. She is most aware of the current affairs. Now that she is in the Qiyang Palace, it is not to say good things about him. In fact, she Ken regrets it.
Xie Xuanchen's heart was full of malice, and he obviously didn't want to hear it at all, but in the end, Mu Mingtang's words were passed into his ears word for word.
In the end, Mu Mingtang said that if it wasn't for this marriage, they wouldn't have a chance to know each other, and Xie Xuanchen seemed to have been lightly tapped with a hammer. She really has no regrets, is she looking forward to their future
In the darkness, Mu Mingtang couldn't see Xie Xuanchen's expression, she just saw that Xie Xuanchen didn't speak, so she took it on herself: "Right is right, wrong is wrong, good people make mistakes, and bad people are not unacceptable. It's only right or wrong, right or wrong. If you haven't done it, then you haven't, and no matter who you are, they shouldn't wrong you."
After a long time of silence, Mu Mingtang felt that Xie Xuanchen would not answer, and suddenly heard a soft sigh: "I don't know."
He didn't know, he woke up with scarlet hands and everyone he could see was in a pool of blood. He walked out of the tent, and everyone saw him like a ghost.
He also didn't know whether the comrade-in-arms who followed him, blocked swords for him, led war horses, and died several times with him, who could die for him with a single word, died in his hands.
After Xie Xuanchen finished speaking, he didn't move for a long time. He recalled the blood red that day, the color of the blood piercing his eyes. Every time Xie Xuanchen thought of the scene of that day, he would lose control and go mad, but this time, in the blood-red stun, he suddenly felt a hand covering his arm. The hand was soft and slender, with a delicate temperature, as if he was groping, and finally found the position of his hand: "I believe in you. You have only known me for a month, and you can do it for me, regardless of your body. Get ahead, let alone the cronies and lieutenants who have followed you for many years. You won't."
Xie Xuanchen closed his eyes, and there was a dark, hopeless darkness in front of him. But on the back of his hand, there seemed to be a cluster of fire that jumped in the abyss.
I don't know if it was Mu Mingtang's hallucination. After she groped for Xie Xuanchen's hand, she vaguely felt that his fingers flicked, but then returned to dead silence, as if nothing had happened. Mu Mingtang held on for a long time, and now the half arm that supports her body is a little numb. She slowly lay back on the bed and asked, "My lord, today I don't think you like the queen mother very much. What is her relationship with you?"
"She?" Xie Xuanchen snorted obviously, "She was the outer room that my father bought when he was stationed in the army. When my mother was still there, she was not even qualified to greet my mother every day."
Mu Mingtang understood that she had heard before that when the emperor and Zhou Wu revolted, they used the banner of the emperor's immorality. Combined with Xie Xuanchen's words now, she can probably guess the whole story.
After the death of the first emperor, the throne was passed on to his younger brother. The current queen mother is actually the emperor's sister-in-law. It turned out that the empress dowager was not the first wife of the first emperor, not even the wife. Xie Xuanchen, as the direct-born young master of the family, really won't have a good face when he meets his former mistress.
No wonder Xie Xuanchen dared to be so rigid to the Queen Mother, and the people around the Queen Mother did not dare to refute a word.
These topics are too heavy, Mu Mingtang didn't touch Xie Xuanchen's sore spot, but changed the topic and said, "My lord, if I'm locked up next time, you don't have to hurt your body to save me. It doesn't matter much. I'll be closed for two days and starved for a meal or two. It's really painless. Your forced walk today will do more damage to your own body than mine."
"Will not."
"Why not, I can run and jump, but you look so weak when you come back. According to the businessman, it's actually worse for you to do so."
"There won't be a next time."
In the darkness, Xie Xuanchen's voice was also faint, as if he was too lazy to speak. Mu Mingtang was suddenly speechless. She thought Xie Xuanchen was talking about her body, but what he said was that there would be no next time she would be locked up again.
Mu Mingtang had prepared a lot of great truths, but at this moment, she felt as if everything was unnecessary. Xie Xuanchen, sometimes he was so angry that he wanted to kill him, and sometimes he felt that he was very gentle.
"Thank you." Mu Mingtang lay in the quilt, and after a while, he whispered, "Good night."
Xie Xuanchen was disdainful of these disgusting words, he lay on the bed with his eyes closed, and after a while, he still couldn't fall asleep. Xie Xuanchen moved, and said hard, "Hello."
However, there was no movement on the other side of the bed. After waiting for a long time, Xie Xuanchen couldn't help but open his eyes and looked back at Mu Mingtang. Mu Mingtang was lying on his side on the bed, his face turned in his direction, and his eyes were closed. Xie Xuanchen stared for a while, then stretched out his finger and poked Mu Mingtang's forehead: "Are you really asleep?"
Mu Mingtang didn't respond when he was poked. Xie Xuanchen saw that his mood was extremely complicated, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
"I really fell asleep, how big of a heart you have." Xie Xuanchen didn't know whether to be moved by Mu Mingtang's trust in him, or whether he should be worried that this heartless guy would kill him. Xie Xuanchen lay back in his position, stared at the bed tent for a while, but didn't feel sleepy at all.
Since the onset of the disease, he has been unconscious at every turn, even after walking two steps, and even in the middle of speaking. This was the first time that Xie Xuanchen wanted to sleep but couldn't.
Xie Xuanchen didn't know what was going on, but the mandarin ducks playing in the water on the pillow suddenly appeared in front of him, as well as the dirty words he had heard when he was in the military camp.
It's really bad, Xie Xuanchen thought silently, which bastard came up with the idea to marry him when he was sick