As I cleaned up, I said to him: "If the emperor is tired, go to the house and rest."

Shen Xiyao smiled and looked at me: "How can I be tired with the queen by my side?"

I was confused, looking at his malicious gaze, hurriedly packed up the dishes and went to the kitchen. I borrowed washing dishes to get through time.

"I think the queen should be tired." Shen Xiyao's voice sounded abruptly from behind. I was startled, and the bowl in my hand fell to the ground and broke into several pieces.

I hurried to pick it up, panicked in my heart.

"Are you so afraid of me?" Shen Xiyao stood at the door with a trace of sadness in his eyes.

I shook my head: "It's a local woman who is not careful."

Shen Xiyao left with a "hum", and then I let go of my hanging heart. At this time, pain came from my fingertips, and I realized that my fingers had been cut by fragments.

Putting it in the mouth and sucking it, the smell of blood filled the mouth, the palm of the hand was so painful, with stinging pain, a narrow and long mouth, the flesh was half turned out, it should have been scratched by those fragments.

I gritted my teeth and picked up all the remaining fragments. Looking at a sharp piece of porcelain in my hand, I compared it on my wrist. I thought, if I just cut it down like this, or come to my chest, will it be in the future? Won't be tortured? Shen Xiyao, how could he let me go? Rather than being humiliated afterwards, it is better to stop yourself.

As soon as this thought appeared in my mind, I trembled. I can't die, Shen Xiyao said, if I die, he will definitely not let Xihe get better. And if I live, I will definitely have the opportunity to see Xihe again.

Thinking of this, I completely dispelled the thought of committing suicide and put my hands in the basin to clean. There was a burst of pain, but I didn't care. I still know the pain, which proves that I am still alive. What's more, how does this pain compare to the pain in my heart?

Finally I organized the kitchen and looked at the vegetable basket. I planned to set off in the past two days, so I didn't prepare much fruit, vegetables and fish. I don't know that Shen Xiyao will stay here for a few days. He is the emperor. He must not be used to the simple dishes today. He will have to go to the market to buy some tomorrow. I thought so, but suddenly shivered.

Without paying attention, he made another pot of tea and brought it to Shen Xiyao in the study. He sat under the window and read a book. When he saw me coming in, he gave me a faint glance, and then went to read.

I restrained the cold feeling on myself and put the tea in his hand. When I was making tea, I was surprised to find that I still remember Shen Xiyao's various preferences, as if the past year has never worn away any of the various cognitions of him in my mind.

"Is Shanqing?" Shen Xiyao took another sip and said, "It seems that there is something else."

I nodded and said with a decent smile: "There is no good tea in the country. Fortunately, there are more flowers, so the local women added some jasmine and rose buds."

Shen Xiyao nodded: "Yes. You are interested. I remember that in the palace, if you want, everything is top-notch."

"Thank you, the emperor for the praise." I blessed my body and filled his cup of tea. With a teasing look, he put the tea cup to my mouth: "You drink it."

I was stunned, thinking that there was something wrong, so I took a sip from his hand and sipped it, but found nothing wrong. In fact, there is nothing wrong with it. I often make tea like this for Xi He, and he likes it very much.

Suddenly, I looked at Shen Xiyao with guarded eyes and understood. He is afraid of me being poisoned. I sneered in my heart, he didn't believe me at all. However, why should I be worthy of his belief?

After that, there was nothing more, he kept reading under the lamp and occasionally wrote some notes. I am serving tea, and I am happy.

When I was sleeping, I finally couldn't help asking: "Isn't the emperor anxious to return to the palace? I don't know..."

He was holding a strand of my hair in his hand, and he suddenly yanked me when he heard what I said. I almost shouted out in pain, but I swallowed the cry from my throat.

"I suddenly noticed something." He seemed to have paid no attention to the strength of his hand and looked at the bed Weidao.

"What does the emperor mean?" My heart became nervous.

"Nothing." He stroked my hair as if touching a cat, and smiled slightly: "I looked at the decorations in the room. You were planning to go out?"

Knowing that I could not deceive him, I nodded, "Yes."

"How many days would I have to stay?" He smiled mysteriously.

I gritted my teeth: "Three days."

"Then I will accompany you through these three days." He whispered in my ear: "Three days later, I will send you to a good place."

I trembled, knowing he would not let me go, but still held a glimmer of hope. How silly I am, and how ridiculous the idea is.

"Why are you shaking?" Shen Xiyao suddenly stared at me and asked.

I looked at him in surprise, and then realized that I was indeed fighting a cold war.

"I feel... I feel a little cold." I said softly, then pulled the quilt and covered it. "It's nothing. It's cold at night, and the emperor pays attention."

Shen Xiyao did not agree. He suddenly grabbed my hand. When he saw the wound, his face changed slightly.

"When was it hurt?" he said solemnly.

"Dishwashing today."

"Why didn't you get medicine?"

"It's just a small injury."

Before I finished my words, Shen Xiyao had turned over and got up, and said in an angry tone: "Where is the medicine?"

I shook my head: "There is no equipment at home."

Shen Xiyao took a deep look at me: "I don't even have medicine for the injury? How can I be injured?"

I shook my head: "It's okay. It's not the first time I was injured. On such a hot day, I think it's harder to heal when wrapped up. Let it go."

Shen Xiyao laughed angrily: "Do you know how dangerous this is?"

I secretly said in my heart that he was born with good clothes, thinking that everything in the world is easy to come by, and he can get whatever he wants. He was born an emperor, so this recognition is natural. I used to think the same way, but since I came to the people, I learned that the people are suffering. Although it is Guotai and Min'an, compared with the emperor's family, the people still suffer a lot. Not to mention such minor injuries, they are more serious injuries, as long as they are not life-threatening injuries, most of them choose to heal themselves.

"Go to sleep." I tugged at the quilt, yawned and turned over to sleep.

Shen Xiyao looked at me helplessly for a long time, and finally fell asleep next to me with a light on.

In the early morning of the next day, the wound from the previous day had no discomfort. When I got up to cook porridge, I suddenly heard the voice of Shen Xiyao talking with others, shocked me in a cold sweat and hurried out.

It's Aunt Huang. She was familiar with me and came in directly, not wanting to see Shen Xiyao in the courtyard in the morning.

"This son?" Aunt Huang looked at Shen Xiyao in doubt, and suddenly reacted generally: "You came to see this house." She thought that Shen Xiyao was planning to buy this house and kept talking about the benefits of this house. .

Shen Xiyao couldn't laugh or cry, and when he saw me came out hurriedly said, "Vil, this is?"

Aunt Huang heard Shen Xiyao's name for me very affectionately, and she looked at me with a little surprise.

"Auntie, why are you here?" I hurriedly stepped forward to hold her, looked at Shen Xiyao and said, "This is Yuhuan's eldest brother."

"Oh, I said, why is there a strange man here?" Aunt Huang looked at Shen Xiyao up and down, with unbearable admiration in his eyes. He turned his head and said to me: "How come I am so similar to Xie Lang? People." She smiled kindly at Shen Xiyao: "It was Yuhuan who found you in the southwest this time. It's great that the family can be reunited."

Shen Xiyao squinted his eyes, but the smile on his face was very kind: "Yes, it took a lot of trouble, we just got together."

"Where is Yuhuan?" Aunt Huang looked around and asked.

"Yu Huan, he's going back first." Before I had time to speak, Shen Xiyao had naturally accepted: "The elders in the family miss him very much. There are still things to do here, so let him go back first."

"I found all the elders too?" Aunt Huang's eyes flashed openly, and she looked at me and said, "Xie Niang, it's great. I will be a family again when I go back."

I nodded, but there was nowhere to say the bitterness in my heart.

"Auntie is here?" I quickly pulled to the topic.

"Didn't I think you are going to leave soon? Last time you promised to have a meal with my old lady. Today, your sister Bilian and Brother Zhang both returned and brought some things to you on the road. Today? I must come late!" Looking at Shen Xiyao again, said, "Big Brother Xie also come together."

I don’t know what to do, so I took a look at Shen Xiyao, who still had a gentle smile, nodded and said: “I will definitely come.” Then he glanced at me and his smile was gentle as a spring sun: “Vil, I’ll go for a walk in the mountains. You talk to Aunt Huang."

I am grateful for him so, so I nodded: "Brother be careful."

Seeing Shen Xiyao walk out of the hospital door, my heart was a little lowered, and I hurriedly pulled Aunt Huang into the room, "Vier, Xie Lang's eldest brother, isn't it an ordinary person." Aunt Huang looked outside and said to me.

I was putting a few pieces of sesame sesame biscuits into the plate, and I couldn't help shaking my hands.

"Why do you say that?" I calmly said with a panic in my heart.

"Obviously. I think in front of him, I don't even dare to pant loudly." Aunt Huang pressed her chest and said: "And talking to him, I feel very nervous."

I "pushed" and laughed: "Auntie, we are also juniors. I guess you felt this way because you saw my eldest brother for the first time and felt strange."

Aunt Huang shook his head: "It's not the first time I have seen a stranger. It's the first time that I feel this way. To say like this, I only saw the county guard once in Anyang, but it was not so uncomfortable."

I thought for a while and said: "Then, tonight, I still don't want Big Brother to go."

"Oh, auntie doesn't mean that." Aunt Huang waved her hands again and again: "Come together, we must come together." Aunt Huang stood up after speaking, "I have to go back, your sister Bilian is probably coming, we are ready to prepare . Come here early."

I nodded: "Aunty, I'm sorry to trouble you." Tears rolled in my eyes involuntarily while speaking. I know that maybe after tonight, I will never see Aunt Huang's family again.

Not long after Aunt Huang left, Shen Xiyao came back. I don't think he has gone far. Putting breakfast on the table, he threw me a handful of grass and said lightly: "Mash it and apply it on the wound."

I went out according to my words, and after applying the herbal medicine, I felt much more comfortable. I couldn't help but look at Shen Xiyao again. I don't want a noble person like him to know this.

"When I go to Aunt Huang's house to eat in the evening, I have to pretend to be my elder brother." I took off his outer clothes for him and said lowly, for fear that he would not be willing.

"I was originally Wang Yu's brother." He took the Xi He's robe from the shelf and put it on his body, which actually fits perfectly. I looked at him. Although they are half-brothers, they inherited the first emperor in appearance, and they looked like six to seven points. Especially from the back, it is almost difficult to distinguish. At this moment, I was in a daze, and almost recognized him as Xi He.

I used a little bit for lunch. In the afternoon, I was sitting by the window embroidering a handkerchief, which I planned to give to Bilian. On the lotus cyan silk and satin embroidered with shades of pink, Shen Xiyao stood by my side, watching my flying needles, and suddenly said: "Ville’s embroidery is really good, compared to the best embroidery Mother, they are all better."

I didn't say a word, only with a faint smile, occasionally grate the hair with a needle, and strive to finish the embroidery before going to Aunt Huang's house.

When the sunset was half slanting, Shen Xiyao and I were walking side by side on the mountain road. He walked briskly and even whistled, completely different from the unsmiling emperor in my mind.

"The emperor..." I hesitated for a moment: "Aunt Huang saved my life, and their family is good. I know that what happened before was the ugliness of the country, but they didn't know it, and I hope the emperor can forgive me. "

"Is that kind of person in your eyes?" Shen Xiyao seemed to be upset, the lightness on her face faded, displeased.