"Chen Siru, you, you..." Lu Xiao stared at Chen Siru, his chest heaved violently, and his teeth were clenched.
His look, almost as if he wanted to eat people, was extremely terrifying.
Qiu Yutong was really afraid that the next moment, his little apprentice, someone would drag this desperate Mr. Chen out and chop him up.
Moreover, although Chen Siru scolded him like that, "little thing" and the like, Qiu Yutong didn't feel insulted, he just felt a little... embarrassing.
Uh, his current position is really embarrassing... Qiu Yutong thought about it for a long time, but still felt that no matter what his status is now, as the saying goes, "One day is a teacher and life is a father", he has the responsibility Persuade this little apprentice.
He was hesitating, not knowing what to say, but Lu Xiao said sharply, "Come on, drag Chen Siru down..."
Chen Siru twisted his neck, looking fearless.
Qiu Yutong was taken aback, coughed lightly, and softened her voice as much as possible, trying to calm down the irritable mood of the young apprentice a little: "Your Majesty, calm down. No matter what, Mr. Chen is also loyal."
Lu Xiao trembled slightly, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Why, do you want to plead for him? Do you... also think he is right? I should recruit a lot of talented girls, and spread the branches and leaves for the Lu family to be a perfect girl. The perfect emperor? Yes, it’s still the same sentence, everything is about state affairs, isn’t it?!”
He even forgot to call himself "I".
Qiu Yutong was stunned for a moment, but that's not what he meant.
"Your Majesty..." He hesitated for a moment, fearing that he would say the wrong thing again and make Lu Xiao even more irritable, so he pulled Chen Siru out and chopped him up, and then chose a vague compromise, "Your Majesty is still young, and he is at the peak of his age. At that time, this matter can be discussed in a long-term manner, and there is no need to force it."
Lu Xiao stared closely at his eyes, as if judging his intentions.
Qiu Yutong was almost terrified by him. After an unknown amount of time, Lu Xiao finally calmed down, lowered his eyes, and said softly, "Yes, don't force it."
Seeing that Lu Xiao's emotions finally calmed down, Chen Siru was not afraid of death. He raised his neck and said loudly: "The Chen family has been loyal for generations, Chen doesn't need a monster like you to plead for me!"
Qiu Yutong couldn't laugh or cry, Mr. Chen, you can shut up.
"Crack!!" With a crisp sound, Lu Xiao slammed the empty medicine bowl in front of Chen Siru, splashing pieces of broken porcelain!
"I won't kill you." He paused, "Get out."
Chen Siru stared at Qiu Yutong resentfully, as if looking at some wicked evildoer, a streak of blood slowly oozes from his thin and thin face.
He slowly got up, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, loyal words are harmful to the ears and good for deeds, and there is a knife on the head of the word, and this is all I have said. I will leave."
After Chen Siru withdrew, Lu Xiao remained silent.
Qiu Yutong was also very embarrassed, and there was silence in the bedroom for a while.
Qiu Yutong was silent for a while, then hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, otherwise, I'd better move back to the Emerald Courtyard, which will be more comfortable."
"... at ease?" Lu Xiao murmured.
His voice was very soft, almost talking to himself.
Qiu Yutong didn't understand, so Lu Xiao closed his eyes again, and said in a low voice: "Since you saved my life, you got cold and you still have injuries. You live in the Jingxin Palace, and I can take care of you conveniently. Chen Siru's You don't have to pay attention to those nonsense."
"Then I'll move back to the West Wing, right? I sleep in this place, it's really..."
"Let's talk about it after you recover." Lu Xiao interrupted him directly.
"Oh." Qiu Yutong was really helpless, his little apprentice was very stubborn since he was a child, and it was difficult for others to persuade him when he made up his mind, so he had to give up.
There was silence in the bedroom again, Qiu Yutong moved her body slightly, and slightly opened the distance between the two of them.
Lu Xiao raised his hand involuntarily, as if he wanted to pull him back, but he put it down again.
Qiu Yutong explained: "The medicine I drank just now seems to have too many hot and dry things in it, and I feel a little hot."
After the explanation, Qiu Yutong himself felt baffled, why did he explain such a thing? He was sick before, and when he was in a coma, he just hugged him to keep out the cold. Now that he has woken up, it was strange that the two big men hugged each other tightly.
Lu Xiao said sullenly: "Yes."
After such a toss, Qiu Yutong felt that her body was a little sticky with sweat, so she said, "I want to wash my body, so call Xiaoxizi."
Lu Xiao was slightly taken aback: "What?"
"..." Qiu Yutong always felt that after waking up, it became more difficult to communicate with Lu Xiao, so she could only patiently explain, "I don't feel well, I want to wipe it off, and let Xiao Xizi serve me."
"You want to... wipe yourself?" Lu Xiao seemed to finally understand, and then frowned again, "Who is Xiao Xizi?"
"It's the little eunuch who took care of me." Qiu Yutong was so weak that she almost rolled her eyes, "My back hurts and I don't have the strength. If I don't let him serve me to wipe my body, should I let you serve me to wipe my body?"
As soon as the words fell, he realized that what he said was not only disrespectful, but could be dragged out and chopped.
Lu Xiao didn't get angry, he just sat stiffly for a while, then got up suddenly, and walked to the bathroom at the back.
Before Qiu Yutong could react, Lu Xiao had already walked into the bedroom with a basin of hot water.
Qiu Yutong: "..."
This kid brought a basin of hot water himself
Lu Xiao put the hot water on the small table next to the bed, then looked up at Qiu Yutong as if at a loss.
"You help me up first, I have to take off my clothes." Qiu Yutong said helplessly.
Lu Xiao stiffly helped Qiu Yutong up, and then stood beside him like a log. Seeing him like that, Qiu Yutong didn't expect him to serve him anymore. This kid has never served anyone before, so he can't be counted on at all.
He shook his head and began to take off his underwear with difficulty.
Lu Xiao turned his face away, not daring to look at him.
Qiu Yutong casually threw the underwear at the end of the bed, looking at the layers of snow-white bandages wrapped around her body, she couldn't help frowning.
How can this be wiped...
Lu Xiao was silent for a long time, sat down beside Qiu Yutong, and said in a low voice, "Lie down, I'll wipe it for you."
"Oh." Qiu Yutong obediently leaned over.
Lu Xiao hesitated for a moment, first soaked the water with a piece of fragrant soap, and then started from the shoulder and neck, and swirled slowly. He swirled all the way, and gently wiped off the excess foam with a hot towel all the way. A large expanse of snow-white skin was exposed.
Qiu Yutong sighed in comfort.
Lu Xiao seemed to froze for a moment, and his hands paused.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Lu Xiao said hoarsely.
I don't know how long it took, but I finally finished wiping my shoulders and backs. Lu Xiao frowned again, turned Qiu Yutong over, and wiped his chest and limbs stiffly.
"Okay, thank you, Your Majesty." After wiping her body, Qiu Yutong felt much better.
Lu Xiao didn't say anything, Qiu Yutong looked up suspiciously, and Lu Xiao immediately turned his head away.
Qiu Yutong was secretly amused, this kid is as pure and ascetic as a monk, even when he sees other people's bodies, he feels so uncomfortable.
Lu Xiao was silent for a moment, then said sullenly: "I will change your medicine."
Qiu Yutong's back was seriously injured, covered with layer after layer of bandages. Doctor Li ordered her to change her medicine every day.
Qiu Yutong nodded: "Alright."
Lu Xiao let him lie on the bed, and then carefully lifted up some gauze.
The gauze and the flesh of the wound were already a little sticky, and Qiu Yutong let out a soft "hiss..." from the pain.
Lu Xiao's hands trembled: "Does it hurt?"
Qiu Yutong was very speechless, and managed not to say anything disrespectful, just said: "That's eighty boards, my majesty."
Lu Xiao looked down at the layers of bandages on the snow-white back, clenched his fists unconsciously, his voice trembling: "I, I..."
He paused, barely having the courage to continue.
Qiu Yutong sighed: "Your Majesty, it's all over, let's change the medicine first."
Lu Xiao took a deep breath, as if trying to calm himself down, then picked up a piece of handkerchief, soaked it in the basin, wrung it out carefully, and then carefully moistened the edge of the gauze with the handkerchief. When soaking into the wound, gently uncover a little.
After repeating this for half an hour, Qiu Yutong finally took off all the bandages on his body.
A large number of unbearable wounds were exposed in front of Lu Xiao's eyes.
On that thin back, there was hardly a piece of complete flesh, and it was all a hideous bloody mess.
Lu Xiao sat on the edge of the bed extremely stiffly holding the golden sore medicine pot, his face was extremely pale, and he hardly knew where to start.
After waiting for a long time, Qiu Yutong couldn't help urging: "Your Majesty, can you hurry up? It's cold."
Lu Xiao reluctantly responded, dug out a little ointment, and wiped it on as gently as possible.
He was very unskilled in applying the medicine, his fingers were shaking all the time, and his body was very delicate. Qiu Yutong suffered so much pain that his eyes turned black several times. Scolded ten thousand times.
This kid was sent by Heavenly Dao to torture him!
After finally applying the medicine, Lu Xiao picked up a new bandage and gently wrapped it around it.
After such a lot of tossing, when it was finally finished, Qiu Yutong was already in a cold sweat from the pain, and Lu Xiao was not much better. There was no trace of blood on his face, and his whole body was lost.
Qiu Yutong was lying on the bed very decadently, like an eggplant beaten by frost, he thought weakly, in this state, can he climb over the wall and go out to find the third senior brother
…
The days passed quickly, and half a month passed in a flash, and in a blink of an eye, it was the first month, and it was the Chinese New Year.
Lu Xiao has always been diligent and frugal, and he doesn't like festivals, and the Daning Palace has no decorations, except for a few court ladies who cut some window grilles and pasted them on the windows, there is almost no New Year atmosphere.
It was a sunny day, and the sun was exceptionally warm.
Qiu Yutong was leaning on the low bed next to the window of the bedroom, basking in the sun while reading a dog-blood storybook. The content was probably about how a chivalrous man sneaked into the palace by flying over the eaves and walls, rescued his childhood sweetheart concubine, and beat up the dog emperor and so on. and so on.
When Qiu Yutong saw the emperor beating the dog violently, Qiu Yutong felt amused, and couldn't help but glance at Lu Xiao next to him.
Lu Xiao was behind the desk, lowering his head and grading papers, not knowing that Qiu Yutong was slandering him. Recently, he didn't go to the study room when he went to court, but brought the memorial over and reviewed it in the bedroom.
Qiu Yutong secretly smiled for a while, then felt a little bored again, threw the script aside casually, and sighed listlessly.
Lu Xiao immediately stopped writing: "What's wrong?"
Qiu Yutong really can't say, he has read a lot of scripts recently, there are many jokes about knights and thieves sneaking in and out of the royal palace, but none of them he can learn from.
For example, the chivalrous man in Cai Cai's storybook used his superb lightness skills to get in and out of the court, but although Qiu Yutong's injuries were a little better, he could barely walk, and it was still impossible for him to fly over eaves and walls.
And other methods are not very reliable, such as dressing up as a court lady, bribing eunuchs, hiding in a dung vat... Bah bah bah, the last one is fine.
Lu Xiao asked again softly: "Does the wound hurt?"
"Not really." Qiu Yutong suddenly had an idea, "It's just that I've been in the room for a long time, and I feel a little bored."
Lu Xiao thought for a while: "Why don't I accompany you to go boating on Bihe Lake? Or go to Qingshuang Yugui Garden to enjoy the snow?"
Qiu Yutong licked her lips and said tentatively: "Your Majesty, I want... I want to go to Longmen Street to watch lanterns during the Lantern Festival, okay?"
The third senior brother lives in Juanlian Hutong. Longmen Street is the busiest street in the capital. It is only a few alleys away from Juanlian Hutong, and you can get there in a quarter of an hour.
Qiu Yutong felt that his idea was simply wonderful.
In the recent days, Lu Xiao seemed to feel very guilty because he beat him eighty times, and he saved him on the Qixue Platform, and he often greeted him with care.
From this point of view, Lu Xiao probably would not refuse such a small request from him. As long as he leaves the Daning Palace, there are so many people on the street during the Lantern Festival.
Lu Xiao stared at him for a moment, then said softly, "Just want to see the lantern?"
Being watched so silently by those pitch-black eyes, for some reason, Qiu Yutong suddenly became a little nervous, and somehow felt that the demon cultivator was covered by the demon mirror and had nowhere to hide.
But the words had already been spoken, and riding a tiger was difficult, so he could only bite the bullet and forced a dry laugh: "Of course. Otherwise, what does Your Majesty think I want to do?"
Lu Xiao lowered his eyes lightly, and didn't say anything for a long time.
Just when Qiu Yutong thought he would not answer, Lu Xiao suddenly said: "Okay, I promise you. But before that, I will take you to a place."