In the prison, Hua Qingxue fell into a nightmare again.
She closed her eyes tightly, showing pain on her face. There was no trace of blood on her pale face, and there were beads of sweat on her forehead.
In the dream... it was that rooftop again. She stood there, panicking inside, wanting to run away, but her feet seemed to be frozen, unable to move.
The woman appeared again. This time, her facial features were clearer. Hua Qingxue felt a headache for no apparent reason, with waves of dull pain when she looked at this face.
"I'll kill you... I'll kill you... I can't let you continue to harm others! Ah -" The woman's sharp voice was like a sharp sword piercing her brain. Hua Qingxue couldn't help but hold her head and curl up.
"No, don't... What did I do wrong?" Hua Qingxue was scared and painful.
The woman grabbed her neck and murmured crazily: "I'm going to kill you... kill you, you are a scourge, you are a scourge, you deserve to die! You deserve to die!"
She kept talking, and every time she spoke, Hua Qingxue's heart throbbed. She opened her mouth to refute, but no sound came out of her throat, and the feeling of suffocation almost overwhelmed her.
"...I want to cleanse you of your sins. Don't show up again, don't show up again! You devil!" The woman's voice was sharp, hysterical and on the verge of collapse.
Hua Qingxue held her hands, a tear slipped from the corner of her eyes, and she felt deep despair.
Her body was suddenly suspended in the air, and she fell off the rooftop!
"no, do not want!!!-"
Hua Qingxue woke up with a start. She sat up suddenly and gasped for breath. She looked around and saw that she was still in prison. She covered her chest and couldn't calm down for a long time.
"Hua Qingxue, why do you look so ugly?"
Li Jingnan happened to rush to see her. As soon as he came in, he saw Hua Qingxue struggling and mumbling in a nightmare. He quickly ran over and ordered the jailer to open the cell door.
The jailer opened the door and stepped back respectfully, but Li Jingnan knew that these people would not go far, and they would watch his every move in the dark. The Queen Mother really took great pains.
"Hua Qingxue, are you okay?" Looking at Hua Qingxue's pale and tired face, Li Jingnan's eyes were filled with worry.
"I'm fine." Hua Qingxue shook her head, gasping for air, still feeling frightened.
"When I just came in, I heard you yell, are you really okay?" Li Jingnan asked her again, a little suspicious. He always felt that Hua Qingxue was hiding something from him.
"I had a nightmare, so if I yell a few times, I'm really fine." Hua Qingxue twitched the corner of her mouth and forced a smile.
"You must tell me if you have anything to do. Don't tell me without telling me." Li Jingnan said seriously.
"I understand. You've said this so many times. You say it again every time you come here. Do you think I'm a child?" Hua Qingxue looked at Li Jingnan's little face and couldn't help but want to laugh. How worried is this little guy about himself
"Children are not as troublesome as you!" Li Jingnan rolled his eyes at her.
"That's what the emperor said!" Hua Qingxue looked at him, her heart filled with warmth, "But is it really okay for you to come see me like this every day?"
"Why do you care so much?" Li Jingnan changed the subject and asked, "Guess what I brought you?"
"What?" Hua Qingxue asked with a smile.
"Ouch, guess what!" Li Jingnan frowned, "What surprises can there be if I tell you the answer directly?"
"Drawings? Equipment?" Hua Qingxue couldn't think of anything else.
"No, guess again!"
"What is that? Shaowen has developed a new weapon?"
"...It's food! Hua Qingxue, is there nothing else in your mind besides weapons?" Li Jingnan held his forehead with a headache.
"Eat..." Hua Qingxue smiled bitterly, "You didn't give me any hint."
Li Jingnan no longer wanted to argue with her and directly took the food box behind him.
The food box has three layers. The first layer has two vegetarian dishes, the second layer has braised lion head and steamed sea bass, and the third layer has rice and snacks.
Fragrant and appetizing. Hua Qingxue hasn't had a serious meal for a long time. There are only two steamed buns distributed here every day, and the steamed buns are still cold and hard.
"Why two pairs of bowls and chopsticks? Haven't you eaten yet?" Hua Qingxue couldn't help but ask Li Jingnan when she saw him taking out two pairs of chopsticks from the lunch box.
"I've eaten, but I want to eat with you." Li Jingnan said calmly.
"You are really willful." Hua Qingxue pinched his face, feeling a little touched.
Li Jingnan picked up the bowl and chopsticks: "Eat quickly! It will be cold in a while!"
Tell her like an adult.
Hua Qingxue smiled, with a hint of loneliness in her eyes. The longer she stayed here, the more and more uncertain she became. Whether she could get out alive, and in the future... would she still have a chance to eat with Li Jingnan
She shook her head, stopped thinking, picked up the bowl and ate with Li Jingnan, just like they did in Renqiu.
But the temperature in Tianlao was too low. Before the two of them finished eating, the food was already cold.
Even so, Hua Qingxue finally had a full meal.
Li Jingnan was also seven or eighty percent full.
The two of them sat on the ground, leaning against each other, feeling comfortable in this cold prison.
Hua Qingxue recalled the past and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I remember when I was in Renqiu, you found it difficult every day, the food was unpalatable, and the bed was too cold. Even when you went to the toilet, you had to complain for a long time that the toilet paper was not soft enough. Now you feel comfortable sitting with me in this cold and cold prison, why don't you dislike it?"
"Hey, can you please stop exposing me?" Li Jingnan pretended to be angry.
Hua Qingxue laughed.
"Didn't you feel the same way back then? When I asked you to cook, you hated the fact that there was no natural gas. When you went to bed at night, you said there was no air conditioner. When you were doing laundry, you said there was no washing machine. You said a bunch of incomprehensible words every day!" Li Jingnan retorted.
Hua Qingxue couldn't stop laughing: "Why do you still remember those embarrassing things?"
"Of course I remember." Li Jingnan snorted, "I have a good memory and will never forget it!"
Hua Qingxue was slightly startled when she heard this. She was silent for a long time and called him softly: "Li Jingnan."
"What's wrong?" Li Jingnan looked at her sideways.
"I think you are very good the way you are now." Hua Qingxue smiled gently and said softly, "You are well-dressed and well-off, and you are high up. I really hope you will never live such a hard life again in the future..."
Li Jingnan looked at her with bitterness in his heart.
"I don't feel bitter at all." Li Jingnan said in a low voice, "That was the happiest time in my life."
Dependent on each other, enjoying hardships, even though they don't have enough food and clothing, they trust each other and cling to each other. Who else in the world can treat him with such care and attention except Hua Qingxue
Gone…
Not even his queen mother.
"Haha, how old are you? A lifetime? A lifetime is a long time. Li Jingnan, you still have many good days ahead of you!" Hua Qingxue said with a smile.
Li Jingnan looked at her smiling face, feeling warm in his heart, and the gloom was swept away.
"We will both live a good life in the future." Li Jingnan said, "Hua Qingxue, just wait for me, I will definitely rescue you from this place!"
Hua Qingxue felt warm in her heart when she heard this.
But, can Li Jingnan really rescue her? Although she was ignorant, she also noticed that Li Jingnan's power was not as great as she imagined. Sometimes, he could not even control the jailers here...
Hua Qingxue's heart was heavy, worried about herself and Li Jingnan's situation.
"You have to believe me!" Li Jingnan felt very uncomfortable when he saw her silence.
"Well, I believe you! You are the most powerful emperor." Hua Qingxue touched his head and smiled.
"That's right, I'm very powerful!" Li Jingnan was proud.
"What kind of behavior are you doing?!" A sharp voice suddenly sounded.
"Mother?" Li Jingnan turned around and looked, surprised.
Zheng Shuwen was supported by Zi Wan and walked over, staring at the two of them with a pair of sharp eyes. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't have known that the two of them were so close!
Hua Qingxue knew that she had violated a royal taboo, so she hurriedly knelt on the ground, lowering her head and not daring to speak.
"Mother, why are you here?" Li Jingnan did not expect Zheng Shuwen to appear here.
"What? Is it possible for you to come, Your Majesty, but not for me to come?" Zheng Shuwen said with a thorn in her tone.
"My son, that's not what I meant."
Hua Qingxue heard the displeasure in the Queen Mother's voice and became even more embarrassed.
"Collaborating with the enemy and treason, not repenting, and now he is still instigating the emperor all day long, and deceiving the emperor's heart. It is a capital crime under all circumstances! Hua Qingxue, do you know the crime?!" Zheng Shuwen scolded sternly.
"Mother! Hua Qingxue has never collaborated with the enemy or treason! She has never instigated me!" Li Jingnan quickly protected Hua Qingxue behind him, trying to explain clearly.
Zheng Shuwen ignored it and glanced coldly at the food box on the ground, the hatred in her eyes getting stronger.
Seeing her son protecting Hua Qingxue so well in front of her, Zheng Shuwen was filled with anger and finally burst out: "Hua Qingxue deserves death for bewitching the emperor! Come here, drag me down and beat her twenty times! Look at her old age. Dishonest!"
Hua Qingxue was shocked. She didn't expect the Queen Mother to hate her so much. She thought she was imprisoned because of Xiao Han's frame-up. It turned out... It turned out...
"Queen Mother!" Li Jingnan exclaimed. He protected Hua Qingxue and prevented Hua Qingxue from being taken away.
However, no matter how advanced Li Jingnan's martial arts skills are, he is still just a child, how can he stand up to two strong bodyguards!
"Li Jingnan!" With a look of panic on her face, Hua Qingxue was pulled up by two guards and dragged out of the cell.
Li Jingnan's pupils suddenly narrowed, and he was covered in cold sweat!
Hua Qingxue's body is weak and she is now very weak after being imprisoned for a long time. How can she withstand twenty big boards? !
He immediately looked at Zheng Shuwen with a pleading look on his face: "Mother! It's all my fault. Hua Qingxue really didn't instigate me! It's because my son is playful that he came here to see her!"
"Then the emperor means that you want me to add twenty more boards?" Zheng Shuwen raised her eyebrows and looked at him, her cold eyes without a trace of warmth.
Li Jingnan's body swayed and he almost couldn't stand. He looked at Zheng Shuwen in disbelief for a long time, and finally stopped talking...
Zheng Shuwen looked at his silent expression and curled her lips with satisfaction.
"ah!-"
Hua Qingxue's hoarse scream suddenly came from outside.
Li Jingnan lowered his eyes and clenched his hands tightly into fists, like a stone statue, standing motionless on the spot, with a deep chill emanating from his whole body.
Zheng Shuwen felt much relieved when she heard the screams. She wanted to use this to tell Li Jingnan that Hua Qingxue received these twenty blows because of him.