Xue Mu's heartbeat was strong and powerful, thumping, thumping, it seemed that even Liu Qinghuan's heartbeat also quickened.
He stood opposite, looking at him so intently, with a hint of emotion she couldn't understand.
Liu Qinghuan panicked and withdrew her hand abruptly. She always felt that Xue Mu...
No, she had to find a way to leave Hou Mansion again.
Seeming to see through her mind, Xue Mu's two heroic eyebrows were suddenly twisted together: "Are you still thinking about leaving the Hou's mansion?" He grabbed Liu Qinghuan with more force than before, "Isn't it? If you want me to move to the main house, can you settle down?"
Liu Qinghuan originally felt that his wrist was a little painful from his grip, but now she was shocked by the second half of his sentence: "What?"
Xue Mu smiled slightly and let go of her hand: "I will move to the main room tonight."
Liu Qinghuan: "..."
Wait, let's discuss it again!
There is no room for negotiation, Xue Mu's order, the maids have vigorously moved all Xue Mu's things by the lotus to the main room.
Liu Qinghuan was dumbfounded all of a sudden, these maidservants are indeed the maids of the Hou Mansion, all of them are well-trained like soldiers on the battlefield.
She is only fortunate that Xue Mu chose to live in the outer room with some conscience. There was no bed in the outer room, only a bed that Liu Qinghuan usually used to take a nap, barely able to accommodate one person. Fortunately, the weather is still warm now. If it were winter, General Xue might have frozen to death silently there.
With such a big commotion on the side of the main room, Ning's side of course received the news immediately. Two days ago, I heard that Liu Qinghuan was ill, and now I just use this excuse to find out the news.
Liang Chen stood at the door of the main room and kept poking his head in. Seeing that Xue Mu lived in the outer room, the corners of his raised eyes suddenly drooped down. After going back and telling Ning the news, Ning's flying mood fell to the ground with a "snap". Liang Chen was worried about her health, and quickly relieved that although the two of them still slept in separate beds, it was a huge leap from the side of the lotus to the main room. The young lady was young and beautiful, and Master Hou lived there, so he couldn't hold on for a few days.
When Ning thought about it, it really made sense, Mu'er was just at the age of youth and vigor, a man and a widow living together in the same room, wouldn't it just be a blink of an eye
Ning's heart instantly eased, and at night she dreamed of a big fat grandson.
On the other side, Xue Mu stood up and knocked on Liu Qinghuan's door after Liang Chen left.
Liu Qinghuan was immediately refreshed.
"Hou Hou Hou Hou! It's so late, let's talk about it tomorrow." Liu Qinghuan subconsciously shrank back on the bed and pulled the quilt to cover herself. Xue Mu seemed to chuckle outside the door, pushed the door open and walked in.
Liu Qinghuan looked at him incredulously: "How could you do this! How could you break into a woman's boudoir!"
"The boudoir?" Xue Mu looked at her with a half-smile, "I remember that you are the wife I am marrying, let alone entering your room, even if I want to do something else, it is only natural."
Liu Qinghuan looked up at him in surprise, how could a man be so shameless!
But on this matter, she has no position to refute at all, she can only curl her lips and whisper: "You know I'm not."
Xue Mu frowned, but didn't answer.
Seeing him standing beside the bed, Liu Qinghuan didn't speak and showed no intention of leaving, so she finally couldn't help asking: "What's the matter with you?"
Xue Mu sighed softly: "You are not at the house these two days, I told my mother that you are sick, and when I see her tomorrow, don't let it slip."
Liu Qinghuan froze for a moment, then nodded and said, "Got it."
Xue Mu looked at her for a while, then turned and walked outside the house. Liu Qinghuan breathed a sigh of relief looking at his back, but Xue Mu stopped suddenly at the door: "By the way, how did you escape from Nuo Yan?"
Nian Tang and Peng Peng will not talk about it, but Nuo Yan, he doesn't believe that she can escape from him so easily.
Liu Qinghuan blinked quickly, and said to him: "Aes sent his subordinates to meet me. Although Nuo Yan is strong in martial arts, he was always outnumbered by two fists. I took advantage of him being entangled and ran away secretly."
After Xue Mu listened, he didn't believe it or say he didn't believe it, he just nodded and went out.
Liu Qinghuan lay down on the bed again, Nuo Yan wanted to kill herself, he probably wouldn't take the initiative to mention it to Xue Mu, since Xue Mu didn't know it yet, she didn't want it to come out of her own mouth. It's not for revenge, she just doesn't want to make troubles.
Perhaps it was because he was not used to falling asleep, Xue Mu couldn't sleep all night. In the middle of the night, there was a sudden "pop" sound from the back room, Xue Mu suddenly opened his eyes, and sat up from the sleeping chair.
The bedroom door was still closed, and it was impossible to see what Liu Qinghuan was doing inside. He frowned slightly, maybe he wanted to run away again
Thinking of this possibility, he pushed open the door and walked in.
Liu Qinghuan was lying on the bed, breathing steadily and sleeping soundly. Xue Mu looked around the room for a week, and finally stopped on the opened window.
The moonlight poured down from the window, although it was not bright enough, it was just enough to see the person on the bed clearly.
It was a face that Xue Mu was very familiar with, from three to seventeen years old, from a pink and tender little dumpling to a slim young girl now.
In the first few years, they met often, and Xue Mu had seen almost all her expressions—happy, angry, crying, wronged, proud, shy...
Later, they became more and more distant, but he still secretly visited her whenever he was free, but the expression on her face was only indifference.
"Qingqing..." He walked to the bed and sat down, calling her name in a low voice. The sleeping person didn't give him any response, Xue Mu just looked at her for a while, then suddenly lowered his head and kissed her lips.
Liu Qinghuan's toes were stiff.
She woke up when the wind blew the window open just now, but when she was about to get up and close the window, she found Xue Mu walking in, so she lay dead on the bed without moving.
As a qualified liar, she thought she was good at pretending to be asleep, but she never expected that the great General Xue would attack at night!
The touch on her lips is soft and hot, just like her favorite dried hawthorn and grapes, sweet and intoxicating. But the person on her body kissed more and more wantonly, as if she was not afraid of waking her up at all, so Liu Qinghuan had to think about whether to kick him away.
But she couldn't help worrying, would this stimulate his animal nature instead
Just when she was hesitating, Xue Mu finally let go of her lips, and buried her head on the side of her neck instead.
"Qingqing, Qingqing..."
He gently stroked her hair with his hand, calling her name over and over again, as if he wanted to engrave these two words into his bones and blood.
The breath next to her ear was hotter than the kiss just now, and the body temperature coming through the material of the clothing was about to ignite her heart. Liu Qinghuan almost hugged the person on her body.
It's a pity that it's always a little bit worse.
In the end, she just moved her hand, then closed her eyes and said, "I'm not her."
Xue Mu's eyes darkened for a moment, and he slowly tightened his hands on Liu Qinghuan's side, wrapping her in his arms: "Why?"
"what why?"
Xue Mu pursed his lips and didn't speak any more.
After hugging her silently for a while, Xue Mu finally got up and left the room. Liu Qinghuan looked at the door that was closed again, and her heart gradually sank.
When Liu Qinghuan got up the next day, Xue Mu had already gone to court.
In the Hanyuan Hall, the envoy of Dongganluo, who had gone back and forth, told the emperor intoxicated that the scenery of Dacheng was so beautiful that he was greedy for it and wanted to stay for two more days.
The emperor said to him with a hehe expression, "Dacheng welcomes you."
The ministers who got up early in the morning to watch the two practice Tai Chi were quite constipated. Xue Mu was the only one who looked at Aes coldly from the beginning to the end, allowing him to enjoy the coolness of the end of summer.
In the Hou Mansion, Liu Qinghuan was also practicing Tai Chi with the Ning family. However, after getting along with the old lady for a long time, Liu Qinghuan was quite comfortable with it. The old lady made indirect comments all morning, but she didn't ask if the two of them were out of control last night.
I just heard that after Liu Qinghuan returned from here, he ordered his servants to put an extra lock on the bedroom door.
However, in the eyes of General Xue, there is no difference between having this lock and not having it - you can tell from the chuckle he gave to the lock when he came back.
After Xue Mu laughed at the overwhelmed lock, he ordered his servants to move the sleeper to the side, and added a new small bed in the outbuilding. All thrown out.
Is he planning to stay in the outhouse for a long time
Liang Chen stopped Ning Shi who was about to rush out to grab Master Hou's ear, and kept persuading her to calm down, calm down.
A whole morning passed by in such a hurry, and in the afternoon, Xue Mu finally found time to find Nuo Yan to have a heart-to-heart talk.
Nuo Yan had a heart that was up and down, and didn't know how to talk about it.
The lotus in the lotus pond has withered, only some lotus leaves are still floating on the surface of the pond. On the lotus pavilion, only Xue Mu and Nuo Yan were rare. Xue Mu was still sitting in the middle of the pavilion, dividing up the brewed tea one by one.
Nuo Yan looked at him from the side, vaguely guessing what he was going to talk to him about.
Xue Mu looked at the steaming celadon tea bowl in front of him, and asked Nuo Yan, "I was busy looking for someone before, and I didn't ask you, how did she escape from you?"
Nuo Yan frowned, and tentatively asked: "Could it be that Madam said something?"
Xue Mudao: "She didn't say anything, how about you?"
Nuo Yan was silent for a long time, and finally knelt down directly on the ground: "This subordinate lied to her that he would send her away, but he actually wanted to take the opportunity to kill her."
Xue Mu clenched his hand on the table into a fist, and after a while, he asked, "Why?"
Nuo Yan said: "When Lord Hou rescued me from the battlefield, my life belonged to Lord Hou. Her purpose in sneaking into the Hou's mansion was not pure, and none of what she said was true. I can't keep this kind of person. By Lord Hou's side." He paused, and then said, "Even if Lord Hou kills me today, I have no regrets."
He knew that Xue Mu would find out about this matter sooner or later, and if he hadn't been guilty of guilt, he wouldn't have let her run away so easily.
Xue Mu slowly loosened his clenched fists and stood up from the futon. He lowered his head and glanced at Nuo Yan, who was kneeling beside him, his voice seemed to be immersed in a pool of water, and he couldn't hear it clearly even though he was close at hand.
"If you really killed her, then it won't be you who died today, but me."