In the evening, when Jing Chen found Wang Ji Tower, Yu Shu was taking care of Xue Rui, who was drunk, in his room in the backyard.
In the afternoon, the two of them came back from work and bought a table of dishes. They were supposed to talk about business, but later on, he was in the mood to drink. Drinking Hua Diao did not satisfy his craving, so he asked someone to bring two jars of twenty-year-old Frozen Jade Marrow from the wine cellar. As he drank, he became intoxicated. When he insisted that she sit on his lap and feed him, she finally realized that he was drunk.
Xue Rui had always restrained himself and rarely indulged himself. This was the second time she saw him drunk. The first time was when he pretended to be crazy and took advantage of her. Thinking back to that time, she was still in love with Jing Chen and turned a blind eye to his attentiveness. She lied to herself and called him brother and sister, so he did not dare to easily express his feelings. That was why he drank to drown his sorrows.
What was it for this time?
Yu Shu sat on the edge of the soft couch and covered him with the blanket that he kicked off. She patted him gently with one hand and looked at his slightly red eyes. His thick eyebrows were furrowed. He had just fallen asleep, but he looked restless. She felt a little distressed and a little puzzled.
As she was thinking, she heard Xiao Qing reporting in a low voice that Jing Chen had come.
Yu Shu stopped thinking and asked Gui Qi to guard outside the bedroom. She went out to the tea hall in the backyard to see Jing Chen.
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"You just came out of the palace?" Yu Shu handed the tea to Jing Chen and sent the maid out.
"Yes." Jing Chen nodded and said, "The emperor asked me to go over for questioning. The emperor was there as well."
Yu Shu immediately became spirited. "What did he ask you? You didn't spill the beans, did you?" The three of them had agreed to keep the fact that they met Yun Hua in the outskirts of An Xian a secret and would never mention it to a fourth person.
However, Jing Chen was not good at lying, which made her very worried. If he spilled the beans, she would be the unlucky one in the end.
Jing Chen hesitated and told her uncertainly, "I told them according to what you made up, but I don't know if they believe me or not."
Hearing this, Yu Shu was relieved. She waved her hand and smiled. "As long as you didn't spill the beans, it doesn't matter if they believe it or not. Let them guess. As long as we don't say anything, they won't believe us even if they guessed something."
This lie was made up by her. After they met Zhao Xiaozhu in the An Xian Restaurant, the emperor said that they entered a hermit's residence. The hermit was an old man in his sixties with a white beard and was good at disguise. He asked them to stay for a night, and the next day, and kindly asked his disciple to show them the way to the princess's tomb. Yu Shu Yu Xiaozhu did not make it, Shu, so she stayed. Yu Yu Yu Shu.
Later, when Zhao Xiaozhu escaped underground, he explained that the hermit had sensed that they were related to the Imperial Court and didn't want to be involved, so he left.
Because Yun Hua left cleanly, everything that should be taken away was packed away. What was left behind was not enough to be used as evidence. Yu Shu did not have any psychological burden to instigate Jing Chen to deceive the emperor.
Anyway, that was his father. He knew that the emperor wanted his father's life. If he did not lie, would he kill his father?
Yu Shu looked at Jing Chen. During this trip, she realized that he was more humane. He was not as aloof as he used to be.
"I am worried that the Emperor will ask you again after giving me some advice. You better be prepared." Jing Chen saw Emperor Zhao Qing when he entered the palace today. He could see that the emperor was not very happy. He had asked him to take the risk to leave the capital with the soul-breaker, but he had gained nothing.
He grew up in Dragon Tiger Mountain Taoism, so he was not sensitive to the relationship between the emperor and his subjects. After he met Emperor Zhao Qing, he felt that he had one more relative in the world and was secretly happy.
Emperor Zhao Qing had always treated him well, but as he learned more and more of the truth, he became more and more aware of the reason he treated him well. It was not because he was the only child left behind by his twin sister, but because he had the unspeakable fate of being a great calamity.
This caused his heart to feel a bit cold.
"You don't have to worry about me. I won't say a word that I shouldn't say." Yu Shu raised an eyebrow. The difficulty of prying words out of her mouth was the same as trying to pry open a clam with your bare hands.
Jing Chen lowered his eyes and swept over the unnaturally raised pinky of her left hand that was holding the cup. He didn't know what to think, but his eyes suddenly became guilty.
Yu Shu was not blind. She found that the way he stared at her was not right. She became vigilant and glared at him, exasperatedly saying, "What are you looking at?"
This boy, did he know that they did not need to be married and have children to break their fates, so he still did not give up on her?
Being stared at, Jing Chen unnaturally turned his head and stiffly changed the topic, "I want to say, why don't I see Brother Xue? Is he not here? "
"Oh, my brother didn't sleep well last night. He is catching up on sleep in his room." Yu Shu subconsciously concealed the fact that Xue Rui was drunk.
Jing Chen glanced at the dark sky outside the window and said, "It's already so late. It's not good for health to sleep too much. Wake him up and eat dinner. He can sleep after digestion."
In the face of Jing Chen's unintentional concern, Yu Shu was confused. She always felt that the relationship between the three of them had become subtle after the trip. Xue Rui did not seem to dislike Jing Chen that much, and Jing Chen did not seem to treat Xue Rui as a stranger.
Was this a good sign?
"No need. Let him sleep until he wakes up. He has a bad temper when he wakes up. If he doesn't sleep well, he will have a long face. I don't want to see his face." Yu Shu made up a story.
Jing Chen frowned and said, "Bad temper when he wakes up? That's a symptom of kidney and spleen insufficiency. How long has it been? Have you seen a doctor? "
"…" Why didn't she realize that Jing Chen could be so long-winded?
Xue Rui's sleep was extremely restless. He had a dream for the entire night. Sometimes, he dreamed of the time when he was very young. His father, Xue Zao, was still alive. His father's face was blurry, and he held Xue Rui under his armpit and lifted him up high. His hearty laughter seemed to be echoing in his ears.
"My good boy, don't be afraid. I'm here!"
Sometimes, he dreamed that in the mourning hall, his mother was holding the coffin and crying.
Sometimes, he dreamed that he was doing his homework in the small study in the East Courtyard. His grandfather sat opposite him with an expressionless face and scolded him coldly.
"Your mother is not in good health. Don't go to the backyard and disturb her recuperation. If you don't practice diligently, it's unfilial. If I find out that you sneak into the backyard while studying in the morning, I'll punish you by copying the first chapter of Mencius five hundred times. You're not allowed to step out of this room until you finish."
He struggled to wake up, but the nightmare would not let him go. Twenty years had passed, and the most unbearable scenes replayed one after another, until he dreamed that the Tenth Princess fell from a building and died of illness. The Emperor was furious and blamed the Xue family. His grandfather could not bear it anymore and exposed his unknown identity.
"Because of you, my poor son lost his life so early. If I knew that you would bring trouble to my family today, I would have killed you myself!"
Xue Rui panted heavily as he struggled to break free from his dream and woke up while drenched in sweat. The window reflected the clear white sky, and the sour and sweet smell of the hangover soup lingered at the corner of his mouth. There was a cold fragrance drifting in the room, and it wasn't the warm fragrance that he was used to. At this moment, when he smelled it, there was a kind of refreshing and comfortable feeling that allowed him to slowly calm down from his dream.
After sitting quietly for a while, he did not call anyone in to serve him. He put on his clothes and got out of bed. He went to the basin and wet a towel with cold water and put it on his face. He shivered and let out a long sigh of relief.
At this moment, he heard some movement in the quiet courtyard. He did not want to stay in the room alone at this time. Perhaps it was because of the nightmare, but he always felt that his chest was stuffy.
Xue Rui put on a long gown and casually tied his hair into a bundle, draping it over his back. He poured a cup of cold tea and walked out of the bedroom. He pushed open the door of the hall and saw a figure waving a sword in the middle of the courtyard.
The unstained white clothes and the elegant posture were very pleasing to the eye.
He stood in the corridor and watched quietly without making a sound. His mood fluctuated along with the simple and unadorned sword movement until a long yawn came from upstairs.
"Oh … Ah, you're disturbing my sleep so early in the morning. If I knew this earlier, I wouldn't have let you stay here. Eh, brother, you were also woken up by him? "
Xue Rui raised his head and Jing Chen made a kung fu to retract his sword. Both of them looked upstairs and saw Yu Shu lying lazily on the railing. She raised a hand to greet them. Her sleepy eyes were smiling, revealing her white teeth. She was heartless, but inexplicably brightened people's mood.
"Good morning."
The heaviness in Xue Rui's chest was swept away, and he splashed the cup of cold tea that he hadn't touched before. He looked at Jing Chen and smiled as he greeted him, "When did Brother Jing arrive?"
Jing Chen answered honestly, "Yesterday evening."
Xue Rui said embarrassedly, "I went to bed early. Shu didn't wake me up when you came."
Jing Chen observed his face and explained for Yu Shu, "She knows you are angry when you get up, so she didn't dare to wake you up."
Xue Rui blinked his eyes. Angry when he got up? Why didn't he know he had this problem? He looked upstairs and saw Yu Shu sticking her tongue out and making a face at him.
While Xue Rui and Yu Shu were winking at each other, Jing Chen couldn't help persuading them.
"Brother Xue, I have to say one more thing. You are angry when you get up early. It should be a symptom of kidney deficiency and spleen weakness. After the meal, I might as well take your pulse and write a prescription for you to adjust. "
Xue Rui's face darkened when he was suddenly called kidney deficiency. But he heard a burst of laughter from upstairs.
"That's right. Big Bro, just let Jing Chen give you a prescription to nourish yourself."
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