There was a wound on Su Huaijing's index finger. It was narrow but deep enough. When the medicine powder was poured in, it seeped in quickly.
Rong Tang had a cold face and sat on the beauty couch, watching Su Huaijing apply medicine to himself without saying a word the whole time.
After applying the medicine, Su Huaijing came to him to be nice, raised her pretty face and smiled at him, and put her finger horizontally in front of Rong Tang: "Tangtang, look, there's no bleeding."
Rong Tang glanced at him and said nothing.
He actually likes Su Huaijing's hands and appearance very much.
In terms of appearance, the big villain can definitely be ranked in the top three in this world; in terms of intelligence, Su Huaijing is unlikely to lose to anyone.
It is easy to be moved when a beauty as bright and beautiful as spring flowers and autumn moon stands in front of you, not to mention that behind this beauty's plain hands, she is stirring up the whole world's affairs.
The strong contrast is concentrated in one person, and all the beauty and handsomeness become his weapons, which is particularly gripping.
Readers look at the villain, book fans look at the paper man, confidants look at confidants, opponents look at opponents, and even homosexuals look at homosexuals. No matter from which perspective, Su Huaijing definitely has a skin that Rong Tang likes, and a soul attached to the skin.
Then Rong Tang didn't want to see him get hurt.
Perhaps it was because the first time they met in this life was in Fengyue Tower. In the previous two lives, the villain who was powerful and calm had to look down on everyone. His clothes were torn, his feet were chained, and he was tied to the small space between the bed and the table and chairs, unable to move. Rong Tang instinctively felt a little more protective and sympathetic towards him, so he was particularly reluctant to see wounds on his body.
But it always appears.
Before going to the flower-picking party, I was cut by grass leaves while collecting dew; when I went to the south of the Yangtze River, I was scratched by stones while rushing to the disaster area. There were always some strange wounds on my body, which were not fatal, but very glaring.
Considering that Su Huaijing had his own things to do, most of which were very dangerous and required him to go into danger personally to achieve his goals, Rong Tang felt distressed but was very self-aware and never asked about it.
But this time the wound on his hand was outrageous. It was clearly a mark that could only be caused by pinching himself.
Rong Tang couldn't figure out how big of a grudge the man had against him that he seemed to feel no pain at all and left such a deep mark on his hand.
Rong Tang was very annoyed and didn't want to pay attention to him, but Su Huaijing insisted on getting closer to him, raised his head and blinked, and called out in a tone like a ghost: "Tangtang—"
"Brother Tangtang—"
"Husband—"
"Husband—"
"Are you annoying?" Rong Tang interrupted Su Huaijing and looked down at him.
Su Huaijing smiled immediately and shook his head in a very obedient manner: "Not annoying."
Rong Tang choked and asked unhappily, "Do you have a tendency to self-harm?"
Su Huaijing: "No, Tangtang wronged me."
Rong Tang: “?”
He stretched out his hand and lifted up Su Huaijing's wrist, and put the dirty fingertips on his hand that had just been powdered under his eyes: "Is this called no?"
"Ah—" Su Huaijing was stunned for a moment, as if he had just seen the injury here, and nodded seriously and solemnly: "Then there is."
Rong Tang: “?”
He was almost mad at Su Huaijing's attitude. He put down his hand and turned away, not wanting to see him.
Su Huaijing lowered his head and poured him a cup of hot tea. He placed it aside to let it cool to a suitable drinking temperature before he scooped it up with both hands and handed it to Rong Tang.
Rong Tang didn't want to pay attention to him at first, but Su Huaijing was very deliberate. He held the hot cup wall with his hands covered with medicine powder. He couldn't pretend not to see it.
Rong Tang didn't waste a second and quickly took it. He didn't know whether to put it down or take it. He drank most of the cup in one breath, put the cup on the low table, and looked at Su Huaijing: "You are really annoying."
"Brother Tangtang dislikes me?" Su Huaijing asked.
Rong Tang was stunned, thinking that this person was really good at changing the concept. He pursed his lips and glared at him without saying anything, using his expression to express that he was very angry.
Su Huaijing looked up, smiled, added a piece of charcoal to the stove, and finally answered in a serious tone, "I don't have any self-harming tendencies, and I didn't mean to hurt myself. It's just that something confused and angered me at the time, and I lost my mind. When I came to my senses, my finger looked like this."
He said flatteringly: "I really didn't mean it, Brother Tangtang, please forgive me."
Rong Tang's thoughts were still on Su Huaijing's previous words.
He thought carefully about what could have happened since he returned from Ke Hongxue's residence yesterday until this morning that could have confused and angered Su Huaijing.
It can't be that he said that even zombies wouldn't eat his brain.
Rong Tang couldn't think of anything, so he just asked directly: "What is it?"
Su Huaijing was a little surprised by these, and raised his eyebrows: "Tangtang never asked me these things before."
He didn't ask Rong Tang how he knew he was helping Sheng Chengming, and Rong Tang wouldn't ask him what he had done. They all maintained a tacit understanding with each other and didn't need to talk about these things deliberately.
Rong Tang was stunned for a moment, frowned slightly, and asked back: "Didn't you tell me the truth yourself?"
He didn't ask before, firstly because he didn't have much energy to get involved, and secondly because he wanted to give Su Huaijing absolute freedom. But this time, it was Su Huaijing who brought up the topic himself, and it was natural for him to ask, and it actually resulted in a question from the villain, which Rong Tang found very strange.
He asked back incredulously. Su Huaijing was rarely stuck. He paused for a while before replying, "Qin Pengxuan hasn't been here for a long time."
The answer was too irrelevant, and Rong Tang couldn't tell for a moment whether he was trying to change the subject or answering seriously.
The reason why Qin Pengxuan was going to Ningxuan Palace was because of the Zhehua Club. He said the wrong thing at that time and offended Rong Tang. It happened that Sheng Chengming supported Rong Tang and Su Huaijing. After several operations, they decided that Qin Pengxuan needed to come to Ningxuan Palace to apologize after the Zhehua Club.
But Rong Tang fainted on the last day of the flower picking party, and then stayed in Yong'an Lane for a long time. Then he went to Jiangnan without stopping. During this period, he almost never returned to Ningxuan Palace, not to mention meeting Qin Pengxuan who happened to come to visit.
Rong Zheng did say that Qin Pengxuan often came to his house with gifts at the beginning, and he accepted them all and piled them up in the warehouse of Tanghuayuan. But after Rong Tang came back, he never saw Qin Pengxuan once.
He almost forgot about this person, but Su Huaijing brought it up seriously, so Rong Tang asked, "And then?"
Su Huaijing brewed tea and said, "I am a little confused. Is it that the prince of Wukangbo is unwilling to come, or that the palace rejected his visit? Or maybe both are possible."
Rong Tang was stunned for two seconds, and after a moment of thinking about his words, he was shocked.
Su Huaijing was not just making up an excuse to fool himself, he was really wondering about this matter, and he would even find out a bigger conspiracy behind this insignificant little thing.
In the original novel of "The Emperor's Journey", the first head-on confrontation between the villain Su Huaijing and the hero Sheng Chengli happened to be related to the Wukang Earl's Mansion.
Wu Kangbo was executed for treason. Sheng Chengli had moved out of the palace and lived in Duke Xianguo's mansion. He went to search the house with the third prince Sheng Chengxing and saw Su Huaijing in the crowd gathered outside the door.
When a noble family fell into desolation, people from nearby streets came to join in the fun. It was normal for anyone to sneak in among the huge crowd, and it was not worth paying attention to. But Su Huaijing had such a face, and he had a temperament that was almost incompatible with the mundane world.
Just by standing there without saying anything and with a slight smile on his lips, he was able to divert other people's attention.
Sheng Chengli looked at him a few more times, and at that time he had no idea that this would be his lifelong enemy.
That was in the autumn of the tenth year of the Qingzheng reign. The case of Wu Kangbo's rebellion was exposed, and Sheng Chengming was stripped of his title and exiled. In the same year, the Southwest Governor Zhang Baoshan was implicated in the embezzlement of military pay.
This is the historical trajectory stipulated in the original work.
And now that Su Huaijing is not in the Wukang Earl's Mansion, even if the other party really has the intention of rebellion, he should not start to suspect at this time.
Rong Tang's heart tightened slightly. The system restricted him from saying some things, so he could only continue with Su Huaijing's question: "Is there any difference between these two possibilities?"
"Nothing is different." Su Huaijing glanced at him and said, "Essentially, Qin Pengxuan can just ignore Sheng Chengming's words, but I still don't understand what his confidence is."
He changed the subject and asked Rong Tang casually, "Does Tang Tang know?"
Rong Tang subconsciously wanted to clench his fist, but quickly loosened it and shook his head: "I don't know."
Su Huaijing stared at him deeply for a long time and said with a smile: "I guess so."
Rong Tang was afraid that he would ask further questions, so he immediately changed the subject: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen the Second Prince for a long time."
Su Huaijing disagreed: "Your Highness has made great contributions to disaster relief, and His Majesty has high hopes for him. He has been assigned many tasks in the court, and he is already too busy to handle them. It just so happens that the Third Prince's party would trip him up from time to time, and Zhang Ge Lao was full of resentment towards this grandson because of Lu Junxian's execution. Concubine Yi is pregnant, and he is looking forward to having another obedient and sensible grandson so that he can control him from an early age. He has become less and less concerned about Sheng Chengming. Sheng Chengming is now under attack from all sides and is too busy to come out."
Rong Tang was shocked: "You won't help him?"
Su Huaijing said with a smile: "I haven't helped him yet?"
He said: "If I hadn't helped him, he would have been eaten by those old foxes a long time ago. How could he have had a chance to run between the six ministries of the imperial court?"
Whatever Sheng Chengming does now will easily arouse the suspicion of Emperor Renshou. It would be enough for him to stay alive, so as to avoid dying in obscurity due to the emperor's fear and the betrayal of those around him.
Rong Tang frowned, feeling it was a pity. He actually felt that Sheng Chengming was more or less a mediocre candidate among Emperor Renshou's children, and he did not want him to be corrupted by the fight for the throne.
Su Huaijing looked at Rong Tang's expression and guessed what he was thinking. He sighed silently and said comfortingly, "It will be New Year's Eve in a while. I have to go to the palace with my grandmother for a banquet. When I see the Second Prince, I will remind him a few more times. Don't worry, Tangtang."
"Okay." Rong Tang agreed, but was puzzled: "I don't quite understand why Lord Zhang thinks that Concubine Yi must be pregnant with a boy?"
Just like Rong Mingyu was certain that Qian was also carrying a boy.
Although the plot line does develop in this way, how did they do it in an era with such low medical standards
Su Huaijing smiled and said, "It's not 'definitely', but expectation, for the sake of the imperial power and family business they want to hold in their hands—"
He paused as he spoke, and Rong Tang looked at him: "What's wrong?"
Su Huaijing came back to his senses, looked at Rong Tang inexplicably, and shook his head: "Nothing."
He almost forgot that Qian's baby was clearly carrying a congenital defect that would mean the fetus would die in the womb before three months. Now it's already five months, why hasn't he heard any news of the death
(End of this chapter)