Queen's New Clothes

Chapter 106

Long'an Mountain in the western suburbs has beautiful scenery and is a treasure land of geomantic omen.Only the top of the mountain can't be bought with any amount of money, and it's a place where the royal family and nobles can live.Usually, when Su Xi came here, she always lived in the Su family's other courtyard halfway up the mountain, but it was the first time she came back to the top of the mountain today.

The other courtyard of Prince Jin's Mansion is spacious, with five entrances and five exits, and there is a large lake behind it.At this time, in the middle of winter and the twelfth lunar month, the lake is covered with a thick layer of ice. Looking at it from a distance, the rime is thick and covered with silver.

The eldest girl Wei Xin came with her.The second girl, Wei Zhaozhao, talked with Jin Prince Wei Liankun, and went to Jingyuan Temple to visit Yuan Shi.Now Yuan's spirit is not normal, good times and bad times, and there are only two maids around her. Wei Zhaozhao is worried about her physical condition, and often sneaks to Jingyuan Nunnery to see her without telling King Jin.

Wei Zhaozhao didn't say a word to Su Xi now.Even if they met in the mansion, they avoided it from a distance.

Su Xi didn't think there was anything wrong, Yuan Shi left, and the government's middle income fell into her hands. She was busy with checking the accounts and dealing with Wei Yan every day, so she was already very busy.Even when he came back to the other courtyard, he did not forget to bring the account book with him. As soon as he settled down, he called the steward to ask about the expenditure of the other courtyard.Before getting married, the Yin family had taught her to read accounts for two months, and now it finally came in handy.

After asking about the other hospital's expenses, Su Xi dismissed the steward, and sat on the warm table while holding a small enamel-colored hand stove, with a book of the other hospital last year in front of him.Her chills were still not recovering, her mind was dizzy, and she read very slowly. It took her a long time to turn a page.

When Wei Yan came in from the outside, she saw that her whole little head was about to hang down on the ledger, how pitiful she was.His heart softened, he stepped forward to take the account book and threw it aside, he hugged her delicate and small body horizontally, and walked into the house.

Su Xi was awakened by his movement, rubbed her eyes, and said sleepily: "What are you doing?"

Wei Yan put her on the bed, rubbed the tip of his nose against her brow, and said distressedly, "You're already so sick, why are you looking at the books?"

Su Xi grunted, her eyes too drowsy to open, "I want to finish it earlier... Anyway, there's not much left."

Wei Wei bent his thin lips, and coaxed in a low voice: "Guard Xu is a seasoned and experienced person, and he is fair. He has been a steward for 20 years, and I have read all the account books. There is no problem. But you, take care of yourself first. , is it done?"

Su Xi closed her eyes, she didn't know if she was asleep, or if she ignored him on purpose.

Not long after, Xueqing brought the fried medicine into the house, Wei Yan took it, and fed Su Xi the medicine himself.She was afraid of suffering, and refused to drink the medicine when it reached her mouth.Wei Yan couldn't do anything with her, so he repeated the old trick, took a sip by himself first, then covered her small mouth, and put the medicine into her mouth.

Wei Yan was about to feed her candied winter melon, when he saw the little girl's mouth was flattened, tears flowed from her eyes, and she burst into tears.She cried silently, only weeping silently, her appearance was heart-rending.

Wei Yan was startled and coaxed, "Baby, why are you crying?"

Su Xi tilted her head, wiped her tears on the pillow, pursed her pink lips, and said nothing.

Wei Yan couldn't see her crying, so his heart was in a ball, and he sent Xueqing out, half lying on the bed, hugging her back, "Well, you, why are you crying? Is there something uncomfortable?"

Su Xi buried herself in his chest and muttered, "It's hard."

Wei Yan followed suit and asked, "Why do you feel uncomfortable?"

I don't know if it's because of illness, people tend to become vulnerable.Su Xi thought of the incident with Fu Shaoyun a few days ago, and kept holding her breath in her heart, and now she finally found an outlet.She cried and complained: "You don't trust me."

Wei Yan wiped away her tears with his thumb, she cried fiercely, and after a while her little face was covered with tears."Why don't I trust you?" he asked.

Su Xi's eyelashes were wet, like a bald cedar after it rained. "I said I have nothing to do with Cousin Shaoyun... You don't believe me, you still treat me like that." He choked up for a while as he spoke, perhaps because he was wronged, and the tears flowed even harder, "I hate you."

Wei Yanpo rolled her eyes and sighed silently.Because of this incident, she had been angry for several days, and she refused to take medicine, talk to him properly, and let him get close.

But she probably didn't know it herself. When she mentioned Fu Shaoyun, she was different from others. She got close to him and trusted him.What's more, they are childhood sweethearts, and they grew up together since childhood, and their friendship is beyond comparison.

Wei Shizi lived to be 23 years old, and for the first time realized what jealousy is.

Wei Yan stroked the back of Su Xi's head and stared at her blankly until her crying gradually weakened, then kissed away the tears on her face little by little, and said inaudibly: "Silly boy, I don't trust you." You, I just care too much about you."

The little girl in his arms didn't respond.

Wei Yan looked down and saw that Su Xi's eyelashes were drooping, her nose fluttered slightly, her breathing gradually calmed down, and she was already asleep.He slightly bent his lips, raised his hand and scratched her nose, "Little grinder."

Perhaps it was because the air in the suburbs was fresher and quieter than the capital city. Su Xi slept for six or seven hours until the next morning.

I took medicine last night and woke up sweaty. Although my nose was still stuffy, it was much better than yesterday.There is a hot spring pool at the back of the other courtyard, built in the open air, surrounded by twelve evergreen screens of red sandalwood inlaid with eight treasures and bamboo rhyme.Su Xi remembered that Dr. Zhou said that soaking in hot springs can cure wind and cold, so while Wei Feng was going to the study, she took Ting Yan, Ting He and other maidservants to the back.

Emperor Zhao Yuan wanted to test Wei Feng, and handed him several difficult cases, one of which was the embezzlement case that caused a sensation in the court ten years ago.Many people were involved in this case, and in the end more than a dozen officials were beheaded and hundreds of people were exiled. Now Emperor Zhaoyuan asked Wei Feng to investigate the case again. .

Su Xi knew that he was busy, and this time she planned to come to another hospital by herself, but he insisted on bringing the case with her.

Su Xi took off her clothes and only wore a delicate green bellyband embroidered with butterfly and love patterns, and sank into the hot spring.Warm water came from all directions in an instant, wrapping the skin and diluting the soreness and fatigue all over the body.She was leaning against the hot spring pool, a little absent-minded. In fact, she heard the last sentence Wei Yan said yesterday, but she was too sleepy at the time. She wanted to answer, but she couldn't open her mouth.

Can he treat her like this if he cares about her?scoundrel.

Su Xi recalled the helplessness that night, her eyes were pitch black, she could only feel a pair of big hands twisting her waist, the movements were so ruthless, as if they had penetrated her.His voice was deep and hoarse, like dry gravel in the desert, asking over and over again: "Youyou...do you love me?"

Su Xi blushed and dived into the water.I can't think about it, I feel ashamed when I think about it.

Forget it, he still forced himself to call him "good brother, good husband".If he didn't agree, he mostly used means to make himself open his mouth.

How can there be such a bad person.She doesn't want to forgive him.

Su Xi soaked for more than half an hour.During the period, I heard that the geese brought a small altar of plum blossom wine, which was brewed by people from other courtyards.The cleanest layer of snow from the branches of plum blossoms is used, and one or two jars are brewed every winter. The wine is not strong, elegant and sweet, and is most suitable for drinking while soaking in hot springs.

Su Xi is not usually an alcoholic, she doesn't drink too much.I don't know what happened this time, after drinking a small cup, I felt that it tasted good, so I couldn't help but drank a few more cups.

After a while, I saw her flushed face, hazy almond eyes, a little blurred, but she was still clear-headed.She shook her head, seeing that the soak was almost done, she crawled out of the hot spring pool.

It was cold outside, and she suddenly came out of the hot water. Ting Yan was worried that she would be freezing, so she hurriedly took a thin blanket and put it on her body.

There was a lot of water by the pool, Su Xi was about to change clothes behind the screen, but her feet slipped and she fell to the side.Just when she was about to fall into the pool, a pair of arms grabbed her waist in time, and Su Xi leaned back, hanging in mid-air, trying to see the face of the person with her eyes wide open.

But the next moment, the other party seemed to have changed his mind, leaned over, and fell into the hot spring pool with her.

(End of this chapter)