box of hearts

Chapter 198: Ji Xianbin (6)
Qi She stroked the crystal belt hook on his waist twice with his fingers, stood up, walked around the room a few times, and then settled down again, "If the mastermind is the Queen Mother, her brother Wang Zhengting must also be involved. Wang Zhengting is gloomy. There is a plan, if you really take the risk and frame this king, you must have a well-planned plan. Then, why is there no manpower other than the kidnappers, so that you need to hire a car to escape and leave tracking clues? Besides, if things fail, why not kill Duan Shi to silence him? Use her to alert me?"

"Perhaps he was afraid that there would be a risk of leaking secrets, so only one person was sent. This person was too flustered when he fled, and he didn't have time to attack the empress."

Qi She shook his head, "I used to go to the Ciqing Palace to pay my respects, and I have smelled the 'Golden Pot Treasure' many times. It was very strong. But when you and I first went down to the cellar this morning, the cellar door was closed tightly. Can you smell a scent?"

"Hiss—" Tangning thought for a moment, then nodded heavily, "My lord's doubts are reasonable. The cellar was originally used for storing summer vegetables in winter and storing winter vegetables in summer. It was sealed very well and airtight. Smoking, the smell of smoke must linger for a long time. I went down to the cellar first, and I didn't smell any peculiar smell. From this point of view, the kidnappers deliberately scattered the ashes in the cellar in an attempt to frame the Queen Mother and the Wang family? This is even more strange .First of all, what is the identity of this person to be able to obtain the "Golden Pot Treasure" used by Ouchi? Secondly, if the unique fragrance on the hem of the clothes he left behind is not the smell of hookah, where did it come from?"

Qi She stretched out her hand and spread her palm.Tangning immediately took out another small box from her body, lifted the lid and put it in her palm.Qi She took out a piece of clothing material about the size of a coin with torn edges from the box, put it in front of the tip of his nose and sucked it.All of a sudden, his expression was shocked, and he suddenly thought, "This is not the smell of 'Golden Pot', but I have smelled this smell somewhere before. Where is it? Where is it?" He put the piece of cloth Fist into the hands, eyes half closed, and lightly tap the forehead with the knuckles.After a while, his movements stopped and he slowly opened his eyes.

Tangning walked forward quickly and stretched out her ears.Qi She said a few words to him almost without moving his lips, which caught him off guard and made him lose his mind, "The prince means to say..."

"You leave immediately and go back to Beijing to handle this matter, and I will hurry back later." Accompanied by the sudden rush of rain outside the eaves, Qi She raised his decisive chin and ended the conversation .

When he pushed open the door of the bedroom again, he saw Qing Tian on the bed was huddled up and hiding in the corner of the bed through the curtain.

Qi She rushed a few steps, and just sat down on the bedside, Qingtian threw herself into his arms with tears in her eyes.He sighed and lowered his head, her new hair brushing his lips.The sound of rain outside was loud and rustling, no one could tell when, the two of them were already looking at each other with their eyes intertwined and holding hands.

Qi Sheyi has thousands of knots, but he only lightly put his hand on Qingtian's forehead, and ran her broken hair down to her eyebrows, "It's really a good spirit, but not a bad one. I was stabbed, but the result should be on you. Fortunately, you are lucky, otherwise, who can you live with in the new home that the master carefully prepared?"

As the candle shadows flickered red, Qingtian's suppressed expression finally lit up, "New home?"

"Well," Qi She's expression became more and more warm, "I have three residences in Beijing. In addition to the Regent's Mansion and Ruyuan, there is another mansion in the north of the Sanzhuan Bridge in Shichahai. It belonged to the old county king. It was my bestowed house when I made military achievements. After that, I was appointed as the emperor’s uncle and regent, and the court built a new palace with higher regulations for me. This is the old house on the Shicha seaside. It was called "North Mansion" by everyone, and it has been vacant for many years, and it has long since become an abandoned house. As for me, I didn't want you to live with other concubines from the beginning. If something like this happened in the garden, I also I feel flustered in my heart. It is not impossible to build a new place, but seeing that I should hand over power and return to the government, I don’t want to make too much publicity, so I simply asked someone to repaint and renovate the former Beifu, even though it is small Some, there are nearly 2 mu of land, and the old prince of Pu'an is good at managing gardens. For example, the beauty of the garden is not much different. I personally took care of the construction of our bedroom. I think your hair hasn't grown yet. Those heavy gold and silver heads can't be worn, so I asked the craftsmen to open up the front and back of the hall into an exquisite garden, planted with all kinds of flowers, four seasons, eight seasons of Changchun, for you to wear. I think of the name Alright, 'Famous Flowers Overwhelm the Country, Two Love Each other'[[-]], it's called 'Jiuhuaju', just waiting for you to write a big plaque."

The first smile after the meeting floated on Qingtian's cheeks, "The third master has a heart."

"You know that the third master has you in his heart." Qi She laughed loudly, "So don't blame me, I will leave in a while, and I won't be with you for long. Seeing that it is Qingming, the important officials of the royal family are all going Visiting the Imperial Mausoleum in Baoding, leaving in two days, I have to go back to Beijing to make preparations."

The joy in Qingtian's eyes that had just been raised was removed, replaced by a touch of anxiety and sadness, "Leave in a while?"

Qi She gathered the coat on her shoulders, "Visiting the Mausoleum during the Qingming Festival is a national ceremony, and I cannot be absent."

"Then take me with you, I will not show up quietly, so as not to cause you any trouble."

"This time, Ye Ling is also in charge of the emperor's big wedding at the end of the year. He wants to offer a big feast to the ancestors. The empress dowagers of the two palaces, the emperor, and a thousand clan courtiers will all go together. Just make a quick call back and forth. There will be a military parade at Zhengyangmen on the sixth day of March, and the next eighth day will be the first Enke Examination this year. The examiner has to enter the house one day in advance and has to send examiners. Both civil and military are waiting for me Manager, I'm so busy that I can't even take care of you when I'm by my side. What's more, your body is getting cold, and you've been frightened so much. The horse is bumpy, I'd better recover from the injury in Yanjiao first, and then return to Beijing leniently, so I can rest assured. Be obedient."

Qing Tian didn't listen to Qi She's finished speaking, tears were streaming down again, "Don't! You are not allowed to go, you stay with me, you are not allowed to go!"

He hugged her anxiously, and comforted her, "Don't go, don't go, don't go, ah, I'll stay with you here, I won't go anywhere, don't cry, be good, don't cry, I won't go."

She lay on his shoulder and sobbed for a moment, her eyes raised with tears.Through the tears, Qi She can clearly see the eyes full of tendons and the temples full of stubble.Qingtian could feel that thousands of arms were stretched out in his heart to pull him, but it was clear that he was already being pulled by the reality of thousands of arms.In the end it was he who wiped away the tears, squeezed the corner of the quilt with both hands, choked with sobs and said, "Let's go."

Qi She sighed helplessly, "I can't let you go, but I really can't help it."

Qingtian nodded, with tears in his eyes, "I understand."

He covered her wet face with both hands, "I have already sent someone to pick up Mu Yun and the others, and they will arrive soon, and let them serve you to drink the stewed soup outside. There are officers and soldiers guarding here. I will leave the guards to guard you again, nothing will happen, don't be afraid."

She said "hmm", the tears in her eyes were still on the verge of coming out.

Qi She sighed again, and pressed her forehead against her burning forehead, "Does your hand still hurt badly?"

Qingtian pursed one corner of his mouth, but he was depressed and resentful, "It's okay."

"I have put a plaster on you, and the wound will heal in a few days. Also, you have a little frostbite on your feet, and you have applied the medicine, and you will soak it in the medicine at night." He shook her gauze-wrapped left hand, Sticking to his own face—a young but weather-beaten face, the corners of his cheeks bulged, "You too, the thief asked you to write, so you write, the left and right are just a piece of paper, what can I do?" ?”

"Politics is never a trivial matter, no matter how stupid I am, how can I not understand this?" Qingtian was still sniffling, and then used the back of his right hand to seal his swollen eyes, "Don't say that the letter was created out of nothing, Blood spurting people, even if the words are true, you are really harboring evil intentions and plotting evil, and the person who reported you should never be me."

Once again, Qi She looked at Qingtian carefully: her lower lip had deep blood marks from biting teeth, her wrists were covered with black and blue bruises left by knots, and the white gauze on her fingers—he had seen the battlefield There are dead people and remnants that stretch for hundreds of miles, but you can't look squarely at the wound that is an inch below the gauze.He imagined what kind of pain that would be, perhaps like climbing a mountain of knives or a sea of ​​fire, but she also braved the sea of ​​swords and fire for him.This kind of chastity is the best reward for a woman's love for a man, but this kind of reward is like Ziqi's death and Boya's broken zither, the price is too high, so high that he would rather not have it.

"I'd rather you denounce me ten thousand times than see you suffer such torture..."

Only halfway through, Qi She couldn't continue, she just grabbed Qingtian suddenly, and refused to let go in her arms for a long time.

Qingtian broke away from his arms and looked up, "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing." Blinking quickly and quickly, dodging.

"Are you crying?"

"No."

Her tearful pupils rolled on both sides, and there was a little light, "Lie, you are crying!"

Qi She's complexion remained constant, but there was an imperceptible hoarseness in her voice: "I'm crying, why are you so happy?"

She stared at him, suddenly a happy smile spread.This is his reward for her, making her the softest and most untouchable corner of such a persevering heart.She wiped Qi She's sharp nose and slightly damp eyelashes with her fingertips, "If I really died, wouldn't you cry like a river?"

"If you are really dead," Qi She finally raised his eyes, his eyes were bright red, but they were not tears, but scorching hot like a soldering iron, "I want this world, blood, flow, Cheng, river."

In an instant, the sky and the ground, the torrential rain in the empty courtyard, sparse and dense, low and high.

(End of this chapter)