After receiving her telegram, her words of "miss you" almost killed him.
"...I thought it would be troublesome this time, but unexpectedly it turned out to be peaceful and peaceful."
Xi Lanting kissed her, "If I had known this, I would have taken you with me."
Yun Qiao indulged in his kiss.
He slid his hand along the hem of her pajamas and told her in a low voice: "I brought you something delicious."
Yun Qiao: "I! No! Greedy!"
Xi Lanting's other hand was already fumbling to untie the straps of her pajamas: "I'm greedy."
He's going to eat her.
Xi Lanting and Yun Qiao lingered all night and fell asleep at dawn.
Xi Shuangfu and Xi Rong went to the military government to report official business on behalf of their master; Xi Changan had a private matter there, and Xi Zun also asked him to come back in two days.
"Master Qi and his wife are in love, please don't disturb them."
Xi Zun said.
Xi Changan also left first.
Yun Qiao ate the snacks brought back by Xi Lanting at noon - most of the snacks that can be brought back from a long distance are not very delicious.
Even so, Yun Qiao still tasted everything and never let anything go.
She said "ordinary" and stuffed it into her mouth.
Xi Lanting was sitting on the sofa drinking water. Hearing this, he covered his lips with a glass of water.
Yun Qiao: "Why are you laughing?"
"It's nothing, I just think my wife is cute."
he said.
Yun Qiao: "..."
The two of them went out for a walk in the afternoon. Instead of going anywhere else, they went for a walk in the park.
In late spring, the tea plants are withered and there is thick shade everywhere in the park.
"You were not at home, and I suddenly remembered what happened a long time ago.
That time you came back from Beihai, do you still remember?"
Yun Qiao asked him.
Xi Lanting: "Remember, you stopped the heavy rain and won the love of the courtiers and the people."
Yun Qiao: "Yes..."
Apart from that, does he still remember what happened between them?
Xi Lanting suddenly said again: "That time, snowflakes fell on your hair, and your hairpin became crooked."
Yun Qiao: "Do you remember?"
"Remember."
he said.
Before he came back, the wind was so strong that Yun Qiao stood on the tower, her clothes and headdress being blown around.
A red hairpin slanted down her temples, very much like the way she fell on his bed when they were climbing Qingshan Mountain: a bit messy, extremely charming, and without her usual dignity and seriousness.
He wanted to kiss her.
At that moment, he could only see her.
Afterwards, he reflected and felt that human blood was swallowing him up bit by bit, making him as weak and greedy as humans.
Beauty is tempting him.
It was not until today, many years later, that he realized that it was not greed that was at work at that time, he was just... simply unable to control himself and crazy about her.
"You also brought me a box of pearls."
Yun Qiao said again.
When she returned from the Emperor's palace, he was waiting for her halfway and handed her a box of pearls brought back from the North Sea.
Everyone is saying that King Li brought back many precious pearls from the North Sea.
They are indeed very valuable. They are large and plump, rare in the world, and the pearlescent light is brighter than the light of snow.
It has already snowed, and the white snow covers the trees on both sides of the road, making everything covered with snow.
Yun Qiao took the pearl, opened it and looked at it, with an extremely cold expression: "Thank you."
He turned around and left, and she took them out one by one and threw them into the snowdrift.
At this moment, she raised her face and looked at Xi Lanting: "Why did you bring me pearls at that time?"
"You threw it away, why do you ask?"
He pecked her lips gently, "What do you think?"
"...I didn't think much about it, I just felt humiliated."
she said.
"Why?"
"It seems like I can use anything to get rid of my feelings."
she said.
She said, hugging him tightly, "Actually, I regret it very much. I always wanted to pick it up afterwards, but I don't know who picked it up."
Xi Lanting was speechless.
He still remembered standing in the ice and snow, picking up eighteen pearls one by one.
When he was so angry, the pearl turned into powder in his palm, fell into the white snow, and turned into soil with the snow, completely disappearing without a trace.
"Who knows, the palace people may have stolen it."
He patted her back casually and said, "I've never seen such good pearls again.