Chapter 23 Chapter 23 The palm of my hand has no mercy

"Mr. Xiao? Didn't the master say long ago that he is good-looking?"

Shui Jing checked to see if her hair was still untied and there were no outsiders around. She also liked the atmosphere where she could chat with Wei Huaien as if she were her younger sister.

"Yeah, I always thought he was good-looking, but why do I think he looks better recently? It's just..."

Wei Huai'en hugged Shui Jing's waist and arched her body, thinking for a while before continuing:

"I just think he looks good everywhere."

"General Manager Xiao has one of the best looks among the chamberlains. What's more, he went to the Xuanyu Division for training before. Shui Jing also feels that he is no worse than those Imperial Guardsmen."

"The Royal Guards?"

Wei Huaien wrinkled his nose.

"Those people are worthy of being compared with my Xiao Qi. I will get angry when I see them. Sister Shui Jing, don't mention them anymore."

"Okay, don't mention it."

Shui Jing smiled and rolled his eyes, coaxing Wei Huai'en to act like a baby, which is rare since he grew up.

"Sister Shui Jing, tell me about those things."

Wei Huai'en's words had no beginning or end, but Shui Jing's expression was stern and he understood immediately.

Wei Huai'en once forbade them all to mention the matter of King Duan's lineage in front of her. She only looked at the news on Chao Zhongming's side and refused to listen to the news that Xiao Qi and other secret agents detected, but she did not let them stop either.

Now that she has taken the initiative to bring it up, is it because she wants to...

Shui Jing stopped his thoughts, cleared his throat and started from the beginning.

"After Dingyuan Hou executed him, he was convicted of forming a party and being corrupt.

Today, King Duan's faction was severely beaten, and several families who had close contacts with Marquis Dingyuan were either reprimanded or fined.

King Duan was suspended from his duties in the Ministry of Rites and was not allowed to go to court to observe government affairs. He has not yet recovered.

But those families who were implicated are not people who can catch the eyes of the master, except for the family of Cheng Meng, the censor."

"Meng family?"

Hearing the familiar name, Wei Huaien sat up straight and motioned for her to elaborate.

"Yes, Yushi Meng has never had a good impression of either party in the past, but he didn't expect that he would propose marriage to Marquis Dingyuan and his own daughter in private.

Manager Xiao had a hidden clue in Dingyuanhou's Mansion, which was the male favorite Li Kong. After Dingyuanhou's death, he joined the Xuanyu Division and revealed many good deeds that Dingyuanhou had done before.

Not only Meng Yushi, his only son has also been doing evil in the capital for many years under his banner. He has also forced several girls from good families to death, and colluded with the Marquis of Dingyuan. Today, his family has been completely degraded and the whole family has been exiled.

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Wei Huai'en remembered what Xiao Qi had said about Li Kong's admiration for Miss Meng's family, and asked:

"Exile to where?"

"Nanlin Mansion."

"What? Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. Manager Xiao also said that Li Kong is quite capable and dares to interfere in the affairs of the Criminal Department."

"That's all, go on."

Shui Jing considered the words and then carefully continued:

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince... is being raised in the palace. Grand Tutor Yu and the others have never known the truth, and they occasionally send letters to the palace. The people of Xuan Yu Division received instructions from above and all sent the letters here... Master, do you want to see it?"

"Ha, as expected, as expected. How could my good father forget me?"

Wei Huaien's conjectures were all confirmed by Shui Jing, and he lay down on the couch with a wry smile.

"Light the lamp, and burn all those letters. Don't leave even one behind."

Shui Jing didn't know that those words made her sad, so she had to ask Qiong'er to come in and light the lampstand together. Wei Huai'en asked them to sort out the newspapers from this period and bring them to her, and then asked them all to leave.

go out.

Qiong'er followed Shui Jing out and asked puzzledly:

"Sister, isn't the master unwilling to see those things? Why do you want to see them all of a sudden today?"

Shui Jing sighed, looked up and saw Xiao Qi coming from the kitchen path carrying a tray from a distance. She turned to Qiong'er and said:

"No matter what the master wants to do, we just have to obey his orders. Our master is different from anyone else."

Qiong'er nodded and followed Shui Jing to salute Xiao Qi. She looked at Xiao Qi's back as he hurried into the courtyard and said something more:

"Can Mr. Xiao really serve the master well without our help? The master used to have at least three people around him as errands."

"Hush. Don't talk too much about Master's matters."

Shui Jing pulled her and turned her curious eyes back.

He is just a eunuch, and it is his credit to be able to please his master at this moment. When the master doesn't like him anymore, he will just kill him.

Xiao Qi placed the prepared dishes on the table one by one, put down the tray and walked to the couch, half-kneeling on the ground, picked up the embroidered shoes that Wei Huai'en had kicked off, held them in the palm of his hand and raised his head and asked:

"Master, it's time to eat. May I help you put on your shoes?"

He didn't know what answer he was expecting. He wanted to touch her bare feet by wearing shoes, but he didn't want to give up the possibility of carrying her to the table.

So what will Wei Huaien choose? Xiao Qi felt the smell on his body and had already changed his clothes. There would be no smoke smell from the kitchen, so...

These thoughts only caused his clear gaze to lose focus for a moment, but his unintentional actions had nowhere to hide in the eyes of those who were interested.

Wei Huai'en deliberately swayed his ankle, and sure enough, he saw his eyes moving with her movements. What else didn't he understand?

The embroidered shoes in his hand were kicked to the ground by her feet, and Wei Huaien sat on the edge of the couch and stepped on his palms.

His thin callus tickled her, and she lifted it subconsciously, but Xiao Qi quickly grasped her delicate hand, and after realizing that it was inappropriate, he flattened his hand and raised his head in confusion when he heard her laughter.

"Xiao Qi, why did you touch my shoes? Your hands are dirty. How can you hold me?"

Although she said this, the sole of her foot slipped in his palm.

Xiao Qi's cheeks were hot and he didn't dare to look at her anymore. After she retracted her feet, she immediately stood up and washed her hands carefully before coming back. Wei Huaien opened his arms to him and was carried to the chair next to the table obediently.

Seeing that she was no longer pestering him, Xiao Qi stood aside, slightly disappointed. But when he discovered this emotion in himself, he was horrified, because this greed that should not have appeared in him made him feel scared and helpless.

help.

It was in this imperial temple outside the isolated city that I was able to steal the right time, place, people and people, and it was the time I spent with Wei Huai'en day and night that gave rise to this kind of greed.

It was Wei Huai'en's unpredictable inseparability that made him sink so deep in the mud that he couldn't get out.

There wasn't much intimacy every day, but day by day he became more and more unsatisfied and couldn't stop.

The human heart is insufficient, not only because we ask for too much, but because after we get the beauty beyond our imagination, we can never let ourselves go back to the days when we could be happy for a long time with just a look in our eyes.

He wanted to be close to her, he wanted to hold her, he wanted to go back to that thunderstorm night that shattered the barrier and agree to her request to embrace her and fall asleep.

He wanted to smash all the self-control he had in the past, throw his former self to the ground, punch and kick him, then pinch himself by the neck and force himself to tell the truth from the bottom of his heart:

"I, Xiao Qi, have always loved Wei Huai'en.

I want her, no matter what kind of lowly existence I am, I just want her."

If he imagined the possibility that Wei Huai'en would stay in this Zen courtyard of Huang'en Temple forever and never return to the capital, then he could leave only the two of them in this small courtyard forever.

They could last forever, and he longed for this possibility.

As long as he is given time, as long as she never sees anyone else, as long as she stays in this small world, he is confident that she will not need anyone.

In the past, he envied her vast world, and he tried his best to walk out of the palace wall and crawl around in Xuanyu Division, just to become her most powerful arm.

But how could he forget that she is a genius, no matter she is a prince or a princess, she will never be someone he can side by side with. She is standing on a peak that he cannot climb, and he can only look up to her for the rest of his life.

So... if you want her to only have him in her eyes, why not lock her into her own world, break her wings, block her sight and hearing, and make her dependent on him and never be able to leave him again?

Isn't this how Li Kong locked Miss Meng San in his house?

When he was going down the mountain, he saw the thin golden chain on Miss Meng San's ankle, which was specially made by Li Kong to smooth her edge.

Although he despised what Li Kong did, he could not help but imagine what it would be like if Miss Meng San's stubborn and unwilling look appeared on Wei Huai'en's face.

Even just imagining that possibility made him tremble all over. If he were in his own room, he might not be able to control his excitement. He would have to bite his wrist to keep himself like every time he warned himself to keep distance from Wei Huai'en.

calm.

But now, he quietly approached Wei Huai'en, squinting his eyes behind her invisible back and greedily smelling the fragrance of her body.

It was the same spice specially prepared by him. She finally got used to the smell, so that even if he closed his eyes, he could still confirm her direction through smell.

"Isn't there any osmanthus honey in the red bean paste?"

Wei Huai'en took a bite and felt that the taste was different from before. He put down the spoon and turned his head to look for him.

Xiao Qi quickly calmed down his expression and replied warmly:

"Yes, I replaced the osmanthus honey with tangerine peel."

The reason is self-evident, if she said she didn't like it, he wouldn't do it again, and it even tasted better than before.
To be continued...