What kind of bad thoughts can Mr. Xiao have?

Chapter 20

There was not much time left for him, but he didn't feel any fear or tension. Instead, he felt relaxed and happy like never before. Even the still hot sunset that slanted on his body made him feel happy.

As if he had never really experienced everything in the world in his life, even the sweat dripping from the black horse beneath him was cute.

He knows that his state of mind is completely different. This is a kind of freedom from death to life, and a kind of open-mindedness that has seen the end and will never be trapped by foreign objects.

He has completed his mission. He used his life to protect Wei Huaien and her family.

This was much better than what he originally thought he could do, and even, he felt that he was a hero.

Perhaps the hero shouldn't be an eunuch, but it doesn't matter, let him be an eunuch who has done all kinds of bad things, so that he can push Wei Huai'en cleanly into the vortex of revenge, and never have to look back.

The East Palace has arrived.

Xiao Qi no longer had his usual calmness and integrity, like any ordinary young man at this age, he couldn't hide any excitement and joy.

He was sweating profusely and ran towards the dormitory where Wei Huai'en was. He even bumped into several palace servants who were bowing their heads.

The East Palace, which was lifeless due to the poor condition of the master, was infected by Xiao Qi's abnormality. He was like a live fish thrown into a pool of stagnant water.

Even though they didn't know what happened outside, they all breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that today's matter must have been settled by Manager Xiao as usual every time.

But Xiao Qi's spirits were so high that he reached Wei Huai'en's closed bedroom door, he saw the palace servants who dared not go in standing in the courtyard, and heard the heart-piercing cries inside.

The memory of Wei Huai'en, who was surrounded by heartache in the afternoon, was like a basin of cold water extinguishing his excessive excitement. After a few breaths, he regained his calm.

The death of the enemy, how much can make her happy?

He heard the horror of the poison of cessation. Compared with burying his flesh and blood relatives who are still alive, the joy of revenge is not even worth mentioning.

But he didn't have time to be with her, watching her get out of all the haze, happy again.

Xiao Qiping retreated the overwhelmed palace people, and after hearing their brisk footsteps as if they had been pardoned and left completely, he took a deep breath and pushed open the door that closed all the sorrows.

Wei Huai'en didn't know how long she had been awake, or she couldn't wake up from the nightmare in the afternoon at all. She could only chew the phrase "nailed alive in the coffin" over and over again, draining all her tears and pain.

It seems that this kind of late torture can turn the guilt and self-blame that was about to drive her to death into the same feeling that her brother felt before his death. Except for crying and screaming, the only thing she can do to redeem her sins is death .

The mourning cries had long been hoarse, and when Xiao Qi pushed the door in, Wei Huai'en hugged the pillow and huddled up on the bed with his back facing outside, shouting loudly: "Get out!"

Xiao Qi closed the door carefully. If this was the last time he could recall with Wei Huai'en before he died, he wanted to remember all the details.

"Master, it's me."

He walked to the bed with light steps, fearing that Wei Huai'en would be irritated by too much movement, so he spoke softly as much as possible.

"Xiao Qi?"

Wei Huai'en suddenly turned around and sat up, hugged his waist eagerly before even pulling the curtain aside, and buried himself in his arms desperately.

Sadness and grievance will only become more violent once they find someone they can rely on. Her tears soaked his chest in no time.

"Xiao Qi...where have you been..."

Wei Huai'en cried so much that his eyes were red and swollen and he couldn't see. He could only draw some strength from him with a hug.

Maybe when she is sober, she will never show her weakness to anyone except herself, but today, Xiao Qi is the only one who can understand her without her explaining anything.

She didn't have to open the wound to be understood, she didn't have to say anything, she didn't have to do anything, because he knew everything.

"Why... why did you come back..."

Xiao Qi tore off the curtain that was in the way, sat on the bed and hugged Wei Huai'en, who was almost convulsed from crying, into his arms lovingly.

"Master, Xiao Qi is back, Xiao Qi is back..."

He patted her on the back, comforting her softly.

Regarding Yan Weiguang, he didn't say anything about the General's Mansion right away, because even he couldn't tell whether it was because Wei Huai'en couldn't listen to other words now, or because he wanted to be relied on by her more wholeheartedly without mixing anything Thanks and rewards.

It's very contradictory, he obviously went to revenge for her, and he rushed back in a hurry to tell her the good news himself, but at this moment he swallowed what he wanted to say, just to lie to her helplessness in pain help and dependence.

Like a driftwood without roots, it accidentally became Wei Huai'en's life-saving straw in the turbulence. Although he was worried that she would not be able to go ashore, when he saw the land, he tried his best to spend the time cuddling together. extend.

He knew she would always leave and heal all wounds in the future.

But what he couldn't even see, only this bit of tenderness was all he could leave with repeated memories.

But he always has to speak, he can't let her continue to be tortured by pain.

"Yan Weiguang, has been killed by a slave."

Sure enough, the moment he finished speaking, Wei Huai'en stopped crying abruptly, moved his fingers holding his front, and she raised her head from his arms.

"What did you say? Say it again?"

Tears crisscrossed her face, and her red eyes blinked several times before they focused on his face.

Xiao Qi brushed the wet hair off her face, knowing that it was arrogance, but he held her back, looked into her eyes and repeated what he said just now.

"The slave killed Yan Weiguang and pierced his heart with a sword. He is already dead. If the master doesn't believe it, there is his hair in the front of the slave."

Wei Huai'en quickly reached into his clothes to search, Xiao Qi knew that he had put Yan Weiguang's hair deep, but he didn't make a sound to remind Wei Huai'en which floor or place to put it.

He looped her loosely, watching her anxious fingertips rubbing between his clothes, touching his skin from time to time, he felt... happy.

After all, he didn't force her to do anything, it's all... what a dying person deserves.

Wrapped in a veil, the blood-stained hair was spread out in Wei Huai'en's palm, and it was even more dirty from the dripping tears.

Wei Huaien realized something, supported Xiao Qi's shoulders, stood up and jumped out of the bed barefoot, the whole room was anxiously looking for something.

"Master, are you looking for this?"

Xiao Qi held a fire folder and handed it to her, she snatched it and held it tightly.

He didn't speak any more, picked her up and walked to the courtyard, sat down on the ground, let her sit cleanly on his lap.

Wei Huaien set Sipa and hair on fire together until they turned into a pile of black ash with an unpleasant burnt smell.

Xiao Qi didn't urge her, and slowly combed her hair with his slender fingers, allowing Wei Huai'en to look at the pile of ashes and sit in his arms in a daze.

As long as he is by her side, he can die at any moment.Xiao Qi's eyes fell on Wei Huai'en all the time, then he slowly approached and hugged her from behind.

The last gleam of warm light from the setting sun that climbed over the palace wall and fell on their shoulders disappeared, and Ming Feng hurried in.

"I have seen the master. Master... Director Xiao, the people from the Imperial Forest Army are waiting for you outside..."

After all, he didn't dare to look at Wei Huai'en and Xiao Qi who were embracing each other.

Xiao Qi didn't care about these anymore, he lowered his head, and before Wei Huaien wanted to turn his head to look at him, he rubbed his chin on her shoulder affectionately.

"Master, Xiao Qi is leaving."

He seemed to have a thousand words to say to her, but after finishing this sentence, he couldn't think of anything else.

"Who allowed you to leave me?"

Wei Huai'en's voice was still hoarse, but it had returned to its former majesty, without even a trace of fragile rhyme.

"I want you to live!"

She held on to his hand tightly, like holding on to some treasure that could not be lost.

"Mingfeng, tell Yulinjun about Xiao Qi, Jiarou will give Father an explanation, let them go!"

"Yes!"

Ming Feng ran faster than a rabbit, and disappeared without a trace without giving Xiao Qi any time to react.

"I know what you're thinking."

Wei Huai'en's cold eyes fell on Xiao Qi's face.

"Don't think that if you die, the affairs of Marquis Dingyuan are over, and I don't need to trade your life for my own safety.

What's more, do you really think Yan Weiguang didn't tell others about me?When a secret is known to the enemy, it cannot be a secret.

Carry me back, I want to change into the palace attire of the princess, and go to meet my royal father. "

Xiao Qi didn't move.He still felt that as long as he died, Wei Huai'en didn't have to get dirty.

As long as his death can bring her more security, then it's worth a thousand cuts to kill her bones and ashes.

"Don't you listen to me!"

Wei Huai'en's voice suddenly became shrill. She seemed to have completely lost her self-control in front of him, and she couldn't wear the mask of calmness and self-control for a moment.

She turned around and put her arms around his neck, beating his back hard with all her strength, and tears dripped into his clothes again.

"I don't want you to die, Xiao Qi, you can't die, I only have you, don't you even want me!"

Xiao Qi hugged Wei Huai'en who was on the verge of collapse. Compared with sober analysis, her words could defeat all his defenses.

He knew that he wanted to live, how could he bear to push Wei Huai'en away from his arms, the imperial prison was so dark and bitter, it's not that he wasn't afraid, but she didn't even want what he wanted.

She just wanted him to stay with her.

Xiao Qi can no longer deny the real love between them who does not know when, let alone stop the tears from rolling down.

He was pulled back from the dead end by her, and she told him plainly: "I only have you."

Although he knew it wasn't true, she had much more than him, but he still couldn't help but be moved by this sentence.

This sentence is enough, even if she can't really save his life in front of the emperor, he still thinks this life is worth it.

"Don't go, Xiao Qi won't go."

For the first time, he did not call himself a slave, and secretly replaced that humble self-proclaim with his own name.

Just because it was an oath to him.Regardless of the shackles of identity, no matter who he is, he is willing to stay by her side forever.

There were only the two of them in the bedroom, Wei Huai'en didn't want to ask others to serve, so he went behind the screen and changed into the inner skirt of the palace dress.

"Xiao Qi?"

Xiao Qi, who was looking at his wrinkled front and trying to straighten it, heard Wei Huai'en's call from the outside, and hurriedly responded and walked a few steps inside.

"Yes, the slave is here, what is the master's order?"

"No, you just wait for me here."

Wei Huai'en is like a frightened bird, from time to time he needs to confirm whether his nest is safe or not. She is too worried that Xiao Qi will leave when she is not paying attention, so she uses her voice to confirm his existence.

Soon Wei Huai'en came out from behind the screen, sat in front of the mirror, and Xiao Qi tied her hair in a bun.

When Xiao Qi opened the dowry and wanted to put on makeup for her, Wei Huai'en stopped him.

"No need."

Wei Huai'en's current appearance can't be said to be haggard. The always radiant portrait seems to have collapsed all of a sudden, which makes people feel unbearable even at a glance.

"That's it, you go with Bengong."

Xiao Qi tidied up the outermost complicated skirt for her, and said hesitantly: "Master, this slave has to change clothes."

He ran all the way, his black robe was covered with dust, the front was still soaked by Wei Huai'en's tears, and he was pulled and grabbed until it was unsightly.

Not to mention going to see Tianyan, it's not appropriate to even walk out of this yard.

Wei Huai'en glanced across his whole body, and then looked at himself in the mirror.

One looks haggard but is dressed in fine clothes, and the other is dusty but has a handsome face.

She stretched out her hand to pinch his cheek, tracing his eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips with her fingers.

Xiao Qi closed his eyes obediently, bent his knees slightly to be at her height, and heard her say:
"There is no need to change, you will be waiting for me outside the palace.

I'm afraid you won't be able to keep your deputy chief envoy, but I will let you continue to be the chief steward by my side. "

The words have come to this point, Xiao Qi no longer entangled, after her warm fingers left, he bent slightly and followed her step by step, walking towards the imperial platform step by step.

The master said that he would save his life, so he was no longer afraid of anything.

Wei Huai'en's figure was walking in front, with evening light lingering on her shoulders.In his eyes, she was shining.

"Unfilial daughter Wei Huai'en, please see my father."

Just as Eunuch Le stepped out from the threshold of the upper study room, Wei Huai'en led Xiao Qi and knocked heavily on the ground.

He was so frightened that he hurriedly let his round body jump away from Wei Huai'en, and kept saying: "Your Highness can't do it, you can't do it..." He wanted to pull Wei Huai'en up.

"The emperor is waiting for you inside, hurry up and go in with the old slave."

Eunuch Le saw Wei Huai'en's swollen eye sockets and pale face, and wanted to say something, but his eyes moved slightly, and he swallowed the words back.

His eyes swept over Xiao Qi who was kneeling beside him, and Eunuch Le gave him a disgusted look.

"Wait for me here."

Wei Huai'en turned back and said to Xiao Qi, then patted Eunuch Le's hand, and walked into the hall alone.

Only Eunuch Le and Xiao Qi were left outside the hall, as well as a few imperial guards who were as silent as wood.

Eunuch Le didn't need to be scruples, he kicked Xiao Qi hard when he came up, kicking Xiao Qi to the ground directly.

Xiao Qi received the kick silently, endured the pain in his shoulder, and knelt down again under his sword-like gaze.

　Dying people do whatever they want

　　I feel that the behavior of the two of them today is very contrasting hahaha.

　　Xiao Qi: I ran around all afternoon, killed Yan Weiguang, and was mentally prepared to be killed

　　Wei Huai'en: Woohoo, I cried all afternoon, where is Xiao Qi?Why hasn't he come back yet?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)