Beauty and Beauty: Adopted Daughter Becomes Concubine

Chapter 20 Promise to Elope to the End of the World (1)
"Brother Huang, there are so many beauties in the harem. There are so many women in the world. Brother Huang can be anyone he wants. Why do you put so much effort into your little niece? Although the little niece is beautiful, she is also innocent and cute. I always feel that I can attract Brother Huang." It's not that simple."

"You also think she is innocent and cute?"

"There are many innocent and lovely women, but Brother Huang treats her differently."

"Well, she is indeed different to me."

"Because her body was seriously injured?"

Murong Yuchi's expression was calm, and Murong Huaixiu suddenly said boldly, "Brother Huang, did you dote on her because of guilt, or do you really like her?"

Murong Yuchi cast a deep glance, and he felt a slight chill in his body.

"I should do my best for the physical injury, but I can't heal the wound in her heart." Although he had known his little niece not long ago, he obviously felt that she had become depressed, and he could still see her smile when he teased her before. , and now she sits there quietly, like a ray of soul.

"Huaixiu." Murong Yuchi called out to him who turned to leave, "Do you know what she belongs to the emperor?"

Murong Huaixiu was taken aback, and the aloof emperor brother spoke slowly.

"She is the emperor's life."

He was poisoned by his little niece, and there was no cure.

Turning around the Imperial Garden, deliberately bypassing Guanju Palace, Murong Huaixiu was a little afraid to see her little niece, especially her distraught appearance.

What are you really afraid of?Deliberately bypassed but still met.

Lian Yingtong was dressed in plain white, her hair was tied up in a simple bun, her face was pale, she walked slowly from the end of the corridor, she would definitely look like a flower fairy at night.

"Little uncle, are you hiding from me?"

"You know it's hard to be a little uncle."

Her eyes were red and she was about to cry. Murong Huaixiu couldn't bear to see it, but saw her bowing down to him.

"Uncle, please help me."

Tianyi Palace, after dinner, Empress Dowager Xiao sent out the palace servants to look through the list of banquet guests drawn up by the Ministry of Rites alone.

Ningshen fragrance, long fragrance, unknowingly slightly drowsy.

"Go to rest early if you're tired." A man's concerned voice came from the dark corner of Tianyi Palace, and Xin's long figure stood in the darkness, vaguely.

Empress Dowager Xiao frowned, "Why are you here?"

He probably heard that Empress Dowager Xiao was a little unhappy, the man replied softly, "It's been very hot recently, I brought you some cool medicine to relieve the heat."

"Please take care of Aijia." Empress Dowager Xiao stared at the banquet list again, studied it carefully, and casually ordered the man, "It's okay, you go back first."

The man's figure moved but he didn't intend to leave, "I heard that all countries have sent royal relatives to Nanming, what are your plans for the little princess's marriage?"

"No matter how you plan, it's better than keeping her in the palace. She always gets into trouble every day. Because of her miscarriage, Fang'er's child has to go to the desert because of her miscarriage. My Xiao family really doesn't know how to mess with her." There is no peace in the palace for this little villain."

"For Lan Xin's sake, think more about choosing a son-in-law for the little princess."

"The Ai family can harm her!" Empress Dowager Xiao said with a hint of annoyance in her voice, "If you really want to harm her, just keep her in the palace, sooner or later you will not be able to escape the palm of the emperor!"

"The emperor loves her very much, I think..."

Empress Dowager Xiao interrupted him with a sneer, her well-maintained face showed a stern look, "I do love her so much that I can't wait to be included in the harem, just like Murong Yicheng. A father who is old enough to be a man, but robs his niece to be his concubine , Murong's face will be completely lost by these two father and son!" Thinking of the past, the always calm Empress Dowager Xiao still couldn't help but get angry, she covered her heart and frowned slightly.

Seeing this, the man rushed out from the shadows, a scent of medicine spread, and approached the Empress Dowager Xiao, she picked up the inkstone on the case and threw it at him, the inkstone brushed the man's cheek, and the ink splashed all over the man's face. He paused, not daring to take a step closer.

"Don't get angry, take care of your body." His tone was full of concern and a hint of helplessness.

"What are you? It's not your turn to take care of Aijia's affairs."

"Just think of Lan Xin, she has always missed you the most."

"The Ai family was smart half her life, but she gave birth to this stupid girl. Not only did she not get any news from Lian Liyang, but she lost her virginity and had a child. Seeing her daughter and her uncle incest, she was afraid that she wanted to die. Yes, how can I think of Aijia."

The man blurted out in shock, "The emperor really wants to treat Tongtong..."

Empress Dowager Xiao squinted at him, then sighed, "Your Majesty, there is nothing you can't get. He is more patient than the late Emperor, and he has worked hard. If you can't send Lan Xin's daughter to get married this time, there is nothing the Ai family can do." I helped her. But having said that, as long as no one knows the relationship between their nephew and uncle, it’s fine to treat it as a secret of the Murong family’s palace. I’m afraid..." She stood up and took a silk handkerchief from her sleeve to wipe the ink-stained man. With a dark face, there was finally a touch of worry in his brows. "The Murong family can't cut off their children, but you know best how miserable the children born to incest are."

The man's hand lightly holding Empress Dowager Xiao's wrist could not stop trembling. This question obviously reminded him of the extremely painful past.

After a long time, the man slowly said to her, "I know what to do."

Empress Dowager Xiao smiled relievedly, "Come and help the Ai family to look at these list candidates. You have always treated them like Lan Xin's daughter, and you have to worry about her daughter choosing a husband to marry."

Empress Dowager Xiao's rewards were continuously sent to Guanju Palace, and Empress Kang Xinya and other concubines also sent gifts one after another. The purpose of Nanming's banquet this time was to choose a son-in-law for Lian Yingtong. Everyone in the palace was busy, so The lively scene has never been seen since the wedding of the emperor and empress three years ago.

Even Yingtong had to deal with the concubines who came to Guanju Palace during the day, after a whole day, she was exhausted, and she couldn't even whet her appetite for dinner.

"Little Princess, you've lost weight again." Li Xuan shook her head, the clothes sent by Sizhenfang were changed and changed, and even Yingtong continued to lose weight, and she couldn't even arouse her appetite for any food.

"I have to trouble them to change it again." She stared absent-mindedly at the dying roses outside the window. She was like a rack full of roses that gradually lost their vitality from their blooming splendor.

Li Xuan couldn't persuade her, she was on A Lin's side, even if A Lin was wrong and outrageous, her love for the little princess was unquestionable.

"Drink the medicine first, it will be more bitter when it's cold."

"Thank you, Aunt Xuan." She turned her head, looked at the bowl of bad-smelling medicine, and even Yingtong drank it without frowning.

It was late at night, and it was very stuffy these days, Li Xuan was afraid that she would get hot from the heat and opened half of the windows to let in the air.

When Lian Yingtong was taking a bath, she looked down to see that the bruises all over her body had faded a lot. She was restless and leaned against the window with her clothes on.It's rare that the wind is cool tonight, and after a while it gradually calms down the heat in my heart.

In the courtyard, there are two rose-shaped lamps carved from white jade. Candles are lit and placed in them every night. The lamp holders are cleverly designed to avoid wind. see.

It didn't exist before, Murong Yuchi somehow knew that she regretted that the roses would wither after the season, so he specially ordered someone to make this pair and place it in Guanju Palace.

At that time, she had just entered the palace at the age of 12, and she was not used to life in the palace at all, and she was not used to Li Xuan teaching her so harshly, and she didn't even like talking to Murong Yuchi.

Why did Murong Yuchi take a fancy to her?

She asked, but he said that he would spend his whole life to answer this question.

Why is it her?Why?
Confused, she took her face in her hands and buried it between her knees.

If she hadn't met Murong Yuchi, who would have bought her back then?What kind of life do you live?
I still remember the place where officials and maidservants were bought and sold. She and a group of similar girls were tied to a wooden stake, waiting for someone who came to ask the price.

It is said that if you can sell it to a good family, you can at least have enough food and survive.

Dad hoped that she would live on, not take revenge, and live the most ordinary life like ordinary people, as long as she could survive.

That day, her hands and feet were bound and numb, and she only drank a bowl of water from morning to noon.There was a girl around her who was bought away, and she couldn't help crying in horror, crying alone. The girls around her started crying one after another, but she looked into the distance, thinking that her sister was sold away, she cried for a few days, but crying was useless, they Still separated.

The sun was shining freely, and the light was a little glaring. Lian Yingtong squinted her eyes slightly. At this moment, the man's figure slowly came into her sight. He wore a jade belt and purple clothes, and his whole body was shrouded in golden light and shadow like broken gold. I can't really see his facial features, I just feel that his beautiful lips are slightly curved.

The next moment, he untied the rope on her body, picked her up and left without saying a word. She looked up at him, and he noticed that when she lowered her head and glanced, the smile on the thin lips deepened, and the coldness in her eyes dispelled. , He has an aura of looking all around, as if everything in the world is under his control.

He had a very nice smile, at least it surprised her.

For the first time, she believed that there really was such a soul-stirring man in the world.

"I am Murong Yuchi."

In an instant, Lian Yingtong took a light breath, almost instinctively reacting to take a few steps away from him.

It turned out that he was Murong Yuchi, the murderer who gave his father to death and wiped out the Lian clan.

"I am the daughter of General Xuanwei Lian Liyang."

"I know." He smiled lightly, his dark eyes were bottomless.

"..."

"I destroyed the Lian clan, why did I buy you? Did I want to torture you or kill you?"

He saw through what she was thinking at a glance, Lian Yingtong's expression changed, and she thought to herself, isn't it?
"Of course not?" He seemed to be able to hear her voice, "Tongtong, you were bought by me, and your life belongs to me from now on." He smiled and called her Tongtong, and held her up in surprise s face.

With her head lowered slightly, the hot and humid breath slowly caressed her cheeks, her gorgeous face smiled coquettishly, she wanted to move back a little, but his posture was so forceful that she was not allowed to move, and his fingers stroked her slightly parted lips.

The tenderness in his eyes was so deep that it captured her soul bit by bit, as if he wanted to drown her in it.

"Your mine, you can never leave."

Alas, her head was in a mess again, these memories were so vivid and deep, she tossed and turned on the couch, restless.

"Tongtong, what's wrong with you?"

The familiar voice was close to her ears, so real and powerful, Lian Yingtong opened her eyes, and in the cloud of light and shadow, she gradually saw the handsome face looking down on her with utmost concern, and was shocked for a while.

She stretched out her finger to touch it carefully, but retracted it abruptly at the moment it was approaching. If it was a dream, she would not wake up, and if it was not a dream, she would not dare to get any closer.

The visitor's dark green eyes sank, and he held her flinching wrist tightly, "Are you hiding from me?"

"No." She answered so guilty that even she couldn't believe it, and Xuanzhi certainly wouldn't believe it either. She sneaked a glance at him, and sure enough he was staring at her non-stop.

Murong Bixiao would never believe what she said, "I asked someone to bring me several times to see you, why didn't you reply or come?" He questioned a little.

She couldn't break free even after trying hard, so she just let him go, turned her face away and didn't even make a sound for Yingtong.

"Tongtong!" He stretched out his hand to turn her shoulder, "You didn't come as promised, I'm afraid you have something to do in the palace."

She stubbornly refused to turn around, he didn't dare to use too much force and had to give up.

"I'm fine, you go quickly." She muffled.

"It's so rare to see you, can you talk to me?"

"I'm so tired and want to sleep, I'll talk about it later, Xuan Zhi, okay?" Her voice became lower and lower, her head was buried in the quilt and she refused to turn around.

He sighed, his personality has not changed at all, every time he has something on his mind, he would hold back and refuse to speak.

"I'm leaving."

"Ah."

She simply responded, her petite body curled up into a ball, weak and pitiful.

The sound of footsteps walking away behind her, Lian Yingtong couldn't hold back the tears she had been holding back for a long time, she bit her palms and her lips for fear of being heard when she cried, and tears were wanton.

She chased away Xuanzhi who ventured into the palace, he came for her, but she hardened her heart and let him say all the nice things but he didn't see him.

After receiving the message he entrusted someone to bring, her heart flew to see him long ago, but she couldn't ignore Murong Yuchi's warning.The little uncle told her not to provoke Murong Yuchi's patience easily.

"Little niece, it's not that my uncle won't help you. You'd better not do unnecessary things. Brother Huang can pamper you now, but it doesn't mean he can continue in the future. If he really wants to do something, he has planned it carefully. Tell people in advance that once you know the result, Brother Huang has already dealt with everything, and you won't even have a chance to regret it."

Even if Murong Yuchi breaks her legs and breaks her wings, she is not even afraid of Yingtong, she is only afraid of Murong Yuchi dealing with Xuanzhi.When he became crazy, he was desperate and didn't care about a human life.

If you like someone, you must do your best to protect the other person.Her strength is too small, but she still has to try her best to protect Xuanzhi.That was the man who lived in her heart for nine years, who brought her warmth and cared for her lover.

I'm sorry Xuanzhi, the only thing she can do is avoid him.

For his life, and for the purest relationship between the two of them, she couldn't bear the fact that the relationship between herself and Murong Yuchi was discovered by Xuanzhi, and she would be so ashamed at that moment.

Her shoulders were turned by a force, and her body was turned over immediately. She stared at his green eyes dimly with tears.

Murong Bixiao was shocked, he suddenly turned around and came back, just worried about her, she cried silently, in order not to be heard by him, she bit her lips to death.

"Xuanzhi..." She choked, staring into his clear and deep eyes, raged.

Murong Bixiao was silent, her face was tense and her expression was cold and hard, just like when she first met her.

"I didn't mean to drive you away, don't be angry."

He didn't speak, and held the palm bitten by her. The two rows of small teeth marks were so deep that they almost saw blood.The delicate and obsequious little face is obviously thin, the chin is pointed like an apricot stone, and the eyes are cautiously staring at him.

Murong Bixiao twitched violently in distress, she must have been wronged so much.

"Xuanzhi, Xuanzhi." She called him softly a few more times, seeing him staring at her coldly, even Yingtong was embarrassed and didn't know what to say.The little hand slowly stretched out to grab his robe, but he froze when he raised his eyes and did not dare to continue easily.

In the past, Xuanzhi was very kind to her, she was very violent sometimes, he would never care about getting angry with her, but once he got angry, his whole body would be colder than ice.

Murong Bixiao lowered his head and kissed the tooth marks on her palm, kissing carefully and gently, then took out the medicine bottle and carefully poured some medicine powder on it, when he was bandaging her wound, something fell from his arms.

The red brocade purse, the color is a little old after a long time, and the lower end is embroidered with the word pupil, which has faded very badly due to years of rubbing.

"You still have it?" His nose was sour.

"Who is like you, and almost lost it."

"I..." It was true that I almost lost it, and she immediately realized, "By the pond in the palace, you were the one who picked up my purse."

Murong Bixiao nodded, and asked again, "Do you still remember how we met?"

"Remember, always remember." She dropped the stone her father gave her, a small and inconspicuous piece, but it was her only treasure. "You picked it up in the backyard of Lianfu and returned it to me."

Looking back on the past, she felt that everything was so beautiful when she was a child because of Xuanzhi.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have thought that the Lian family had a second lady." In the most remote house in the backyard, there was only an old servant to take care of her, and Fang Xiaotian carried all her happiness.

Happiness, in fact, only she thinks so.

The six-year-old child was locked there and could only come out occasionally to have a look, and was not allowed to step into the front yard.

"I've been sick all the time, so I can't go out often. When I ran out, I lost something. If you hadn't picked it up and returned it to me, I would have cried to death." She was a little embarrassed when talking about the past.

Murong Bixiao turned around and half-kneeled in front of her bed, raised her head and rubbed her face with both hands, "I'm more than ten years older than you, but you're still a little girl who doesn't understand anything, do you know why I get close to you?"

She shook her head and couldn't help asking, "Why?" When he said it, her curiosity was aroused, Murong Bixiao came to see her almost every day, told her stories, played games with her, and sometimes took her to jump on the roof, even Yingtong was six years old, seeing the outside world for the first time, it turned out to be so beautiful and lively.

His eyes dimmed, "We are all equally pitiful, without a mother to protect us, seeing you is like seeing me in the past, you are trapped in a small courtyard, and I am trapped in a palace without the sun. I want to give You are warm and make you smile happily, only when you smile can I feel warm, because I have already forgotten how to smile happily."

(End of this chapter)