Chapter 69 Chapter 68 The White Rabbit

While Wei Huaien was still talking, Xiao Qi's eyes had moved away from the two memorial tablets and fell on her profile.

"...He is very, very good to me, maybe a little bit worse than you."

She pinched the index finger and thumb of her left hand and made extremely small gestures. It was very childish, as if she was showing off her treasure to her family.

"...I love him very much."

She said something very ordinary that made his heart beat almost out of control.

She was introducing him to her most important relatives.

Xiao Qi squeezed her hand nervously, and for some reason he felt more uneasy when he looked at the tablet, as if he was being scrutinized by two eyes.

He seemed to have experienced this feeling before. He remembered that he felt it when Wei Huai'en took him to the peak behind Huang'en Temple.

"Don't you say something, Xiao Qi?"

She pulled him to the center, ignored his nervousness, let go of his hand and turned around to get the futon.

"I……"

He was left in front of two memorial tablets by her, and nothing he said felt sincere enough.

"I'm Xiao Qi."

The deputy commander of the Xuan Yu Department, who could confuse right and wrong with his bright tongue, was so stupid that his tongue was tied. Even Wei Huaien chuckled behind him.

"...I love her very much too, although I know I'm not worthy of her."

His voice was low, like a piano string slowly playing a heartbeat that couldn't bear to be interrupted.

She silently knelt beside him and held his slightly curled fingers.

He deserves it, she refuted him in her heart.

Anyway, the soul has knowledge and can definitely hear her thoughts.

"...But I will definitely be the best person for her in the world. No matter what she wants to do, I will be with her. Even if I have to use my life to protect her, Xiao Qi will never regret it.

Madam, Your Highness, the fact that I am a slave cannot be changed, but..."

He knelt down beside her and looked into her eyes before he finished the last sentence.

"But I want to stay with her forever."

The candlelight in the room danced in his eyes, like the pious love that finally jumped out of the deep lake in his eyes.

"May I?"

He was asking all the souls who were guarding her, and he was also asking Wei Huaien.

"Can."

She kissed the back of his hand, as if he were some kind of fragile treasure, and he couldn't help but sink in her treasure.

"Mother, brother, you saw it.

I found the person you were looking for."

Mingzhou Mansion, Li Kong Residence.

"My boss, the eldest master has not been back for several days. Otherwise, let's run away at this time."

Pinyan put his hands together into a tube and whispered in Meng Keshu's ear.

Meng Ke Shu leisurely dropped a white stone on the chessboard and looked at Pinyan with a neutral look.

"Play this game well."

"Oh, my boss, you've been teaching me for many days, but still can't you see that I don't have the brains to play chess?"

Good words and tricks can't work out, so you have to cheat.

"I'm doing this for your own good."

Meng Keshu pushed a plate of Spring Festival cakes in front of Pinyan. Pinyan twisted a piece and stuffed it into his mouth with a depressed look on his face.

"Master Cheng won the scholarship this time and will continue to take the exam. There are not many people in the government schools who are as motivated and eager to learn as him. As long as he works hard, his title on the gold list will not be illusory."

Pinyan just wanted to wipe the pastry residue on his lips with his sleeve as usual. Suddenly he remembered something, took out the handkerchief from his arms and pursed his lips.

"I know, boss, although he is a bit dull, he will definitely make a difference."

She let out a sigh of relief and simply told the truth to Meng Keshu.

"But I don't want him to work so hard. This time he won the title of scholar, and many daughters of people who had looked down on him before gave him sachets. It almost pissed me off."

"Then you tell him not to take the exam again. Didn't you tell him that he will listen to you in everything?"

Meng Keshu took a sip of tea.

"Hey, hey, this can't be done, boss."

Pinyan looked at Meng Keshu seriously with a straight face.

"He only listens to me because he likes me, but how can I delay him? Then I'm too bad. I'm not actually angry with him, I'm just a little afraid that he will dislike me in the future.

I've seen too many heartless guys in storybooks, and although he looks good on me now, if he meets a better girl than me in the future, he might completely forget about me."

"Then why do you think I should learn chess and calligraphy from you?"

Meng Keshu helped her put a piece of loose hair behind her ear and asked her softly.

"I don't know. Maybe my boss is too bored here, so he wants to find me to relieve his boredom."

Pinyan stuck out his tongue and winked at her.

"If you think so, then I won't make it difficult for you. You can go and play by yourself."

Meng Keshu pretended to be angry and turned his head away from looking at her.

"Good owner, good owner."

Pinyan immediately jumped to her side, leaned on her shoulders, held her arms and shook her vigorously.

"I know you are doing it for my own good. What do you want me to become, a lady? Yes, a lady, so that I won't be forgotten by that heartless man. You know what you say, don't be angry, boss."

"It's not just for this, Pin Yan."

Meng Keshu shook her hand, and the rough scar on the back of her hand was almost invisible.

"If he is such a person with evil intentions, no matter how good you are, he will sit on this mountain and look at that mountain, and sooner or later he will betray you for someone better.

But if you like him and want to be with him for a long time, you can't just stay where you are and watch him grow up alone.

I'm not teaching you this to make you a master, I just want you to understand his world and know what he likes, so that you can have more topics to talk to him."

Pinyan listened to her words quietly, not wanting to get up from her shoulders at all.

"You can't just buy and eat together all day, right? He always takes care of you. After school, in addition to studying, he goes to buy your favorite candy.

But you also have to be nice to him, you can't always bully him just because he's dumb, right?"

Meng Keshu made a rare joke, Pinyan bowed her head and defended in a low voice: "That's not true. I didn't bully him all the time."

"I know that even if you are fierce all day long, he still thinks you are cute. But if you want to be long-term, you can't rely on this. Who knows if he will change one day?"

"Now that I know my boss, I will study hard."

Pinyan sat back across from him, picked up a sunspot, and continued to frown and think about where to go next.

"here."

Meng Keshu pointed at a vent.

After finishing his words, he raised his head again and asked Meng Keshu.

"But boss, the eldest master likes you and loves the piano as much as you do. Why are you still at odds?"

Meng Keshu failed to hold the black piece and smashed it on the chessboard.

The fighting black and white pieces were in a mess. Pinyan knew that he had said something wrong and wondered whether he should collect the pieces and start the game again.

But Meng Keshu slowly reset the scattered chess pieces as if nothing had happened.

"It's different, Pinyan."

She continued to wait for her move.

"He and I are like this chessboard. One wrong step, one wrong step after another, even if there is a chance of reversal, we have to sacrifice countless things before we can make peace."

She turned her head and looked out the window at the beautiful spring scenery.

Princess Jiafu's Mansion.

Compared with the singing and dancing in the past, the house was as quiet as a tomb tonight.

In the afternoon, Jiafu received the letter from Pei Yi and went into the palace to visit Wei Anxing. After a long delay, he hurried out of the palace before the keys were locked.

Seeing that the original guards outside the palace gate had been replaced by people from the Duke Fuguo's palace, Jiafu secretly yelled something bad, and the hand that helped Qingyun get out of the carriage tightened unconsciously, and Qingyun also shook hers.

The visitor was unkind, so she held her emerald crown in her hands and walked in with her chin held high without losing her momentum.
To be continued...