Frost shines on Qingcheng

"Where are people?" Luo Qi came back from Qingcheng, and the first thing he did was to go to Qingshuang Palace to look for Shen Shuangzhao.

Xiaotao was not very willing to talk to her, but due to Luo Qi's powerful position, she could only answer truthfully: "The city lord said he was sleepy in the afternoon, so he has been resting in the bedroom, and he should be asleep at the moment."

"I remember that she always sleeps less, sleeping for so long in broad daylight? Could it be that she is sick?" Luo Qi frowned, and walked in suspiciously.

None of the maids dared to stop them, only Xiaotao and Nanyan hurried in.

The sleeping hall was very quiet, only one window was open, and the gust of wind lifted the gauze curtain, further bringing out the tranquility of the room.Luo Qi stood still in front of Shen Shuangzhao's bed, looking at her sleeping face, his worry and suspicion quietly settled down.

Shen Shuangzhao was breathing heavily, as if she was in a deep sleep.Luo Qi signaled Xiaotao and Nanyan to back down. Although they were reluctant, they did not dare to resist.

Luo Qi stretched out his finger, hesitated for a while, but still couldn't satisfy the desire in his heart, and lightly tapped the tip of her nose.Shen Shuang trembled all over her body, frowned uncomfortably, turned over and resumed her deep sleep.

"Little thing..." Luo Qi only thought that she was so cute, and a smile overflowed on her face.Looking at Shen Shuangzhao's young and pretty face, Luo Qi touched his own face subconsciously, and a faint worry surfaced in his heart.

I am so much older than her, and she will be 30 years old in a year.Although she looks relatively immature and doesn't look like a person in her thirties, the age gap is there. In a few years, Shen Shuangzhao will still be young, and her face will age.She didn't like Shen Shuangzhao's favor, if even her appearance deteriorated, it would be even more difficult for her to catch him.

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. Luo Qi caressed her face, feeling more and more uneasy, even Shen Shuangzhao woke her up from her dream without realizing it.

"You're back?" Shen Shuangzhao wasn't surprised to see Luo Qi after waking up, and even rejoiced that she came back early.Otherwise, if she finds out that she has left the city, it will be troublesome.

Luo Qi came back to his senses: "Are you awake?"

Shen Shuangzhao rested her arms on her eyes, and said lazily, as if she was not fully awake: "You came back very early."

"It's getting late, the sun is almost setting." Luo Qi smiled, and liked to stay with her leisurely like this. She took away Shen Shuang's hand covering her eyes, and said in a doting tone, "Don't snooze any more. , If you continue to sleep, you will be a fool."

Shen Shuangzhao closed her eyes, and after leaving Lu Qingrong and returning to the city alone, she felt physically and mentally exhausted.Once Lu Qingrong's face appeared in her mind, her heart ached.For her, the best way to forget is to get drunk and fall asleep.It's just that the aftereffects of drunkenness are too uncomfortable, it's better to get a good night's sleep.

"Why don't you talk? Did you fall asleep again?" Luo Qi pinched her face, and said with a smile, "I remember that when you were a child, you also took a nap in the summer afternoon. You always fell asleep and refused to get up."

"I'm not a child anymore." Shen Shuangzhao wrinkled her face and turned her head to avoid her hand.She was extremely reluctant to recall the time when she and Luo looked forward to being together when she was a child, even though those memories in her mind were already blurred.

Luo Qi withdrew his hand, and said softly, "I have already sent someone to find the best doctor for your mother's illness, and I also visited her today. Don't worry, I will definitely cure her illness."

Compared to her enthusiasm, Shen Shuangzhao's reaction was quite cold: "Yes."

Being treated with such indifference, Luo Qi's heart was inevitably disappointed, but he had to comfort himself, no matter how patiently she waited, she would be able to watch the clouds and see the moon.

"Have you had enough sleep? Wash your face after you've had enough sleep, and have dinner with me later, how about it?"

Shen Shuangzhao rubbed her eyes, glanced at her lightly, and was silent for a while: "Okay."

It was rare to get her consent, Luo Qi was overjoyed, and held Shen Shuangzhao's hand: "Okay, I'll wait for you outside, and we'll go back to my place together after washing up."

"it is good."

It was another one-word response that couldn't be simpler, but the "accept" contained in it was enough to make Luo Qi excited.

After she went out, Shen Shuangzhao slapped her face with cold water suddenly, but she was thinking about another person.

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Lu Qingrong sat alone by the lake for an afternoon, thinking about it, and tried her best to search the corners of her memory, but she still couldn't find a trace of Shen Shuangzhao.However, the more clean it is, the more suspicious it is.

"There is only pain, no joy." Lu Qingrong closed her eyes, and Shen Shuangzhao's serious expression and voice appeared before her eyes again.

"Pain..." Lu Qingrong tasted these three words in a daze, what kind of pain was it?

The more she thought about it, the more curious she became. Even though Shen Shuangzhao had already warned her that what awaited her was pain, but in the end, she couldn't suppress her curiosity and insisted on finding out.

As it was getting late, Lu Qingrong faced the evening wind until the last light of the setting sun fell from the sky, and then she started to jump into the boat and headed towards the island in the middle of the lake.

She is afraid of water, and she is blind, and she is really afraid that if she accidentally capsizes the boat, she will fall into the river.There is no Shen Shuangzhao around tonight, if she falls into the water, no one will save her.

Fortunately, in the end, Lu Qingrong managed to land safely in a small boat.

After landing on the shore, Lu Qingrong recalled that day when Shen Shuangzhao fished her out of the water and kissed her secretly while laughing.

Shen Shuangzhao's lips, Shen Shuangzhao's eyelashes stained with water, and her sparkling eyes... At that time, I was only concerned with surprise and anger. Looking back now, did I forget the gentleness in her eyes that was as warm as the lake water that day?

That kiss... Lu Qingrong couldn't help touching her lips, which seemed to still have the feeling of Shen Shuang shining on her lips at that time - cold and soft.

The more he thought about it, the more addicted he became. Lu Qingrong felt like he had been poisoned by Shen Shuangzhao, and whenever he was free, his mind was filled with things related to her.The good and the bad, the happy and tormenting ones, piled up one after another, constantly sapping her determination to go back to Shahai immediately.

Where is it?Where will the answer she wants be hidden?The door on the first floor of Huxin Xiaozhu was locked tightly, Lu Qingrong looked up at the second floor, and jumped up to the balcony on the second floor with a kick with her light body.

The door on the second floor was locked, Lu Qingrong tried to push the window, and found that one of the windows was not locked, so she entered the room through the window.

The moonlight was not too bright tonight, a beam of light from outside the window fell on Lu Qingrong, and he could only vaguely see the blurred shadows of the surrounding things.

"As for the answer you want, it's actually on the island in the middle of the lake." Lu Qingrong stood alone in the quiet study room, constantly thinking about Shen Shuangzhao's words.If so, where is the answer?

The moonlight only illuminated one side of her face, and she stood silently for a long time, frowning and thinking about the answer she wanted.

"The answer..." Lu Qingrong closed her eyes, slightly parted her red lips, and whispered these two words.What answer does she want?Is it just to clarify the "entanglement" she had with Shen Shuangzhao?Or... She was looking forward to what was in the so-called "entanglement".for example……

When she was in a daze, Xixi Yefeng learned from Lu Qingrong and sneaked into the room through the window.The window was facing Shen Shuangzhao's usual desk. Under the cool moonlight, the night wind gently opened the book on the desk.

One page, two pages, three pages... Only the sound of pages being turned could be heard in the originally quiet room.

Lu Qingrong followed the prestige, and the pages of the book were still turning under the faint halo.She paused, and hurried over.

With a "snap", Lu Qingrong's open palm pressed hard on the page.In just a split second, the pages of the book stand still.

Lu Qingrong lowered her eyes, slowly raised her hand, and then carefully pinched a corner of the page with her fingers.Turning over a page, it’s just a picture of a certain medicinal material; turning over another page, the light is too dark, you can only know that there are dense words written on it; turn over again... turn over again...

Her slender fingers had begun to tremble uncontrollably, and the almost suffocating tension made her feel as if someone was tightly grasping her heart.Finally, with a flick of her fingertips, the pages of the book were easily turned.

In this way, her gaze fell to the next page. No, what she saw was not a book page, but a few pieces of paper that were finally torn apart.The scraps of paper were crookedly squeezed together after being stuck in the book for a long time.Lu Qingrong moved her fingers to the ground to remove the overlapping parts, and through the faint moonlight, she saw the three words she was most familiar with.

"What is this?" Luo Qi yelled at Shen Shuangzhao frantically and sharply, and then she heard the sound of paper being torn apart while hiding in the dark.

"You still think about her!" Even just listening to the voice, Lu Qingrong could feel how angry and jealous Luo Qi was about the "her".

Lu Qingrong's brows became more and more wrinkled. Some pieces of paper were probably missing, and the three characters put together by the pieces of paper were actually incomplete - "clear" lacked a little water, "rong" lacked "mouth" the two corners.She didn't know how many years ago Shen Shuangzhao wrote these three words, and most of the original black and bright ink stains faded to a faint black; the white paper also turned yellow with the passage of time.

The answer... Shen Shuangzhao, is this the answer you said?

Lu Qingrong clutched her chest, the way Shen Shuangzhao smiled at her, looked absent-minded towards her, and drank wine in front of her sad and lonely look, all intertwined and intertwined chaotically in her mind in an instant, torturing her in turn.

"Luo Qi seems to love you very much." She still remembers that she once teased Shen Shuangzhao about it after Luo Qi left. At that time, she could see the strange emotion faintly revealed in Shen Shuangzhao's eyes, but she still didn't quite understand it. .But now, if everything she thought was true, then she really did something extremely cruel to Shen Shuangzhao.

Lu Qingrong stood there dumbfounded, feeling extremely sour in her heart.I understand the pain you mentioned.She closed her eyes, and a drop of clear tears fell down her cheeks, just falling onto the smeared handwriting on the shredded paper.

Lu Qingrong put her fingertips on the paper wet with her tears——Shen Shuangzhao, when you were crying, did you feel the same as I do now?