Qi Huang

It took Xie Xuan a lot of effort to drag Qin Ting from the tub to the bed. Looking around, the room was already in a mess.

Water seeped from the bathtub, then spread to the ground, and splashed everywhere on the screens on all sides.Xie Xuan supported the bed, panting from exhaustion.

After resting enough, he walked towards Qin Ting.

In order to prevent the injury from worsening again, Xie Xuan asked Qin Ting to lie on the bed with his back facing up.The black hair on his head was sticking to his neck wetly. Xie Xuan squatted down and brushed his long hair straight behind his ears.

Qin Ting in the silent moment is not as lively and warm as when he opened his eyes.When I closed my eyes, my brows seemed to be shrouded in indescribable sorrow. Because of the pain entering my body, I felt the temperature rise sharply before I got close.If you touch it with your hand, you will only feel that his forehead is even hotter.

Xie Xuan remained silent for a long time.

After a while, he turned around and looked somewhere in the void, calling out, "Ye Yi."

After evening, the warm colors fade, and the night brings frost to the branches.It was late autumn, when the autumn wind was bleak, Xie Xuan's voice was very clear in the silent night.

The post house is often used for passers-by to rest their feet, and it will also receive nobles from afar like Xie Xuan. They cannot be settled by the government for many reasons, so they let them stay here.

But the defense of the post house is ordinary, not as strict as the palace or the government.

Ye Yi, as the secret guard of the Qin family, should follow the head of the Qin family with good skills, listening to the six directions, watching all directions, and blocking all dangers.

The wind outside the window was like a guqin, fluctuating twice from time to time.The night is dark, and many hidden things are covered up in it.

Without a response, Xie Xuan's expression remained unchanged, but turned around and lifted Qin Ting's sleeve robe.I saw that there was indeed a short dagger hidden in the dark pattern of silver thread embroidered all over the place.

With a sound of "swipe", Xie Xuan pulled out the blade, and the snow-colored blade surface drew a smear of frost on Xie Xuan's face.

Immediately afterwards, he flipped his wrist downwards and stabbed the blade towards Qin Ting's neck——

The wind rustled, and the shadows of the trees flickered.

Xie Xuan moved quickly and steadily, without any intention of stopping, as if he was really aiming at Qin Ting's life.In an instant, there was only the sound of clothes flapping in the air, and a short but sharp sword suddenly stabbed towards Xie Xuan obliquely, but turned a corner quite restrainedly in the middle, and struck Xie Xuan's arm. wrist.

With a bang, the dagger fell.

The short blade was like a dancing silver snake, passing by like a shooting star, and the stern sword light lay across Xie Xuan's neck.

Xie Xuan didn't dodge or evade, just raised his eyes slightly: "Are you willing to come out?"

Ye Yi: "Your Highness." The sword in his hand did not retract.

Xie Xuan rubbed his wrists: "I have always heard that the 'Dark Pavilion' raised by the Qin family is loyal and loyal. Seeing him today, I think the world will not only spread rumors."

"Offended, I hope His Highness forgive me."

Ye Yi turned his wrist to retract the sword, and bowed to salute.

But as soon as the words fell, Xie Xuan, who was still leisurely just now, suddenly looked back, and his voice sank: "Of course you are guilty!"

Ye Yi paused.

"As a secret guard, I failed to protect the safety of my lord, this is one; after the Patriarch was injured, he concealed it and did not report it, allowing his injury to worsen, and almost lost his life, this is the second; Your lord shoulders the heavy responsibility of digging the canal, if As a result of the delay, I can't return to Beijing to return to my life, I'm afraid that Xiaoxiao who secretly stared at the position of the Patriarch of the Qin family will sneak in and disrupt your family's arrangements and shake the foundation of the Qin family, this is the third." Xie Xuan said coldly. , "All these things, you, a little dark guard, can afford it?!"

Ye Yi suddenly knelt down and slammed his head heavily on the ground: "Young one is guilty!"

In fact, Ye Yi is a qualified shadow guard.

The behavior of the master is the first to follow, and the order of the master is the first criterion.When he was in front of Qin Ting, he still had the joys, anger, sorrows and joys of being a human being, but if Qin Ting was not around, he would put away all his emotions and treat himself as a tool that could be manipulated at will.

Qin Ting told him not to talk about the injury, but he really didn't say a word, even though he saw the deep injury on Qin Ting's back.

Xie Xuan looked at him for a while, the coldness on his face faded, and he said slowly: "Since you are convicted, you must make amends."

Qin Ting, who is lying on the bed now, is half-faded, and the bloody wound on his back rises and falls with his weak breathing, and a strand of fabric is still glued to the wound. Just looking at it, one can feel it personally. pain.

Ye Yi's face, which belonged to the dark guard, dissipated, revealing a bit of human worry: "I don't know how serious your injury is..."

"It's useless to talk, you can do things for me now." Xie Xuan said, "You have been to the bandit's den before, you should still remember the way, you go there again tonight, and you must bring back some things without alarming them." Objects that can prove their identity as bandits... remember, it is a must."

"...Why?"

Xie Xuan looked back at him: "When Qin Ting ordered you to do something, would you also ask why?"

Ye Yi: "..."

He looked hesitant.

Without Qin Ting's order, even if the person in front of him was Xie Xuan, he would not act rashly.

Besides, the head of the family is so injured, Xie Xuan really doesn't want to invite the doctor?Even if there is a reason, even... for the overall situation.Ye Yi bowed his head, the hand holding the sword loosened and tightened again.

Xie Xuan helped Qin Ting up, and gently stripped off his clothes while saying: "When you go out, remember to tell Tan Xia to ask her to invite a doctor."

Ye Yi suddenly raised his head: "But..."

"But the fact that you went to the thief's den must be kept secret?" Xie Xuan raised the corners of his lips slightly, "When things get to this stage, you don't have to stick to the old rules. The doctor will invite you tonight. The louder the noise, the better. It is best to let everyone in the post house Everyone knows that there are people in my house who are seriously injured and unconscious."

No one gave the order, but Ye Yi raised his eyes slightly to look at Xie Xuan's expression.In Ye's eyes, this little highness was clearly smiling, but for no reason it made people feel that he was angry.

Why is he angry?

Ye Yi couldn't figure it out.

Most of Qin Ting's loose clothes had been taken off by Xie Xuan.Perhaps the posture of picking clothes under the bed was uncomfortable, so Xie Xuan simply knelt on the bed and sat opposite Qin Ting.

On weekdays, Mr. Qin, who was elegant and elegant, let himself be manipulated, his jacket was faded to the waist, but Xie Xuan was still not satisfied.While embracing Qin Ting face to face, he tore off his robe to a deeper and more secret place.

Xie Xuan didn't think there was anything wrong with it. After all, if she didn't remove her clothes, the wound on her lower back would be stuffed inside, causing acne to breed.But Ye Yi looked at it from the side, his face was flushed red, his earlobe was almost bleeding red.

He turned his eyes away and said in his heart, since Master Qin and His Highness are so close, then...Your Highness should be able to obey orders... The rules and regulations of the Dark Pavilion did not include this...

Thinking like this, he focused all his attention on whether to leave or stay, and he didn't even notice that there was a shrewd glint in Xie Xuan's eyes.

Xie Xuan withdrew his gaze, and at the same time put away his smile.

He slowly brushed the edge of the sword wound with his fingertips, imagined that if this kind of pain fell on himself, his face would become more and more cold: "What are you doing in a daze, don't hurry up."

Ye Yi: "..."

After a long silence, he still gave in: "Yes."

Ye Yi put away the short blade, turned around and wanted to leave, but Xie Xuan called him again: "Wait a minute."

"...What orders does Your Highness have?"

Xie Xuan: "How long were you separated when you went to visit the bandit's den together?"

Ye Yi's pupils opened slightly, a trace of panic flashed across his face, but he was restrained with all his strength: "...What does Your Highness mean? Ye Yi doesn't understand."

"Martial arts practitioners are particularly accurate in judging injuries, and your secret pavilion has been dealing with wounds all year round. When you stab with a sword, you can tell how long and how deep the stab can be with just one glance." Xie Xuan released Qin Ting He fell down and combed his long hair carefully, "When the sword pierced Qin Ting, you were not by his side."

Ye Yi: "..."

He nana said: "It's small... I didn't see it clearly."

Xie Xuan snorted and said with a smile: "You are a secret guard, you prevaricate me with the reason that you don't see it clearly, do you think I will believe it? I don't argue with you, you just need to tell me that Qin Ting left you to act alone, intending to Why?"

Ye closed his eyes and turned his attention, knowing that he couldn't say no to Xie Xuan, so he hurriedly kowtowed and saluted, wanting to escape here as soon as possible.But Xie Xuan kept moving his hands, and he still had the time to use his brain when helping Qin Ting to scrub around the wound.

"It won't be about bandits. Otherwise, you don't need to hide it from me." Xie Xuan spoke calmly, "I sent you away to investigate, and he went to another place by himself. There are two reasons. One is for people, and the other is for business. .From what I can see, the Qin family and the Xiao family... Oh, by the way, you don't know that the Xiao family was responsible for this bandit rebellion, right?"

Xie Xuan faced the door sideways, raised his eyes lazily while talking, his blue eyes looked at Ye Yi, and kept staring Ye Yi in place, unable to move.

"Qin Ting never gets involved in things that don't benefit him, so it has nothing to do with this matter...then it's just people." Xie Xuan asked, "Is there someone in your Qin family who is in the bandit's den?"

Ye Yi smiled wryly and said: "Your Highness, don't ask, the little one is just a secret guard who is ordered to act, and only obeys the orders of the Patriarch, so he really doesn't know these facts."

Xie Xuan smiled and said: "Other people don't know, but you, Ye Yi, must know. Tell me, what kind of person is hiding in that bunch of bandits' nests? If you don't invite a doctor, your master will not be able to survive, why don't you explain it earlier?" gone."

Ye Yi: "...the little one doesn't know who he is."

"Oh." Xie Xuan nodded, and took out a can of wound medicine from under the pillow, "That means there is no such person."

He dug out some ointment with his knuckles, and carefully applied it on Qin Ting, with such a serious look with downcast eyes, it seemed that all his attention was on it.Just after Ye Yi thought he was fooling it, he suddenly heard Xie Xuan say: "You are looking for someone."

Ye Yi: "..."

"Okay, go, remember what I told you to do." Xie Xuan raised his head, and a strand of broken hair hung down messily from right to left along his forehead.There was still ointment on her hand, and she had no spare hands to clean it up, so Xie Xuan had no choice but to let it go.

This casual look gave people a bit of laziness and cunning.He raised his wrist, and on the inner side of that white wrist, a short and thin red mark was particularly eye-catching.

"If Qin Ting wakes up and knows that you have confessed everything and will punish you, then I have nothing to do. My wrist is still hurting."

Xie Xuan finally said.

Ye Yi's figure disappeared into the boundless darkness.

The last trace of smile on Xie Xuan's face, like the moon hidden behind the clouds, disappeared without a trace.

He only dared to apply some ointment for Qin Ting on the places where the wounds were not deep, and the places where the wounds were so deep that the bones were still visible, blood still seeped out intermittently.

It can be seen how ruthless the man was.

Xie Xuan has also concluded at this moment that the person who stabbed Qin Ting was Feng Jiuyuan.

He remembered when he met Feng Jiuyuan for the first time when he was more than ten years old.In that year, there were spring flowers, autumn moon, summer cicadas and winter snow in the palace, and there were many joys and happiness in the world.Feng Jiuyuan and Xie Xuan live together, are similar in age, and are always inseparable.

His ninth elder brother has a calm personality, orderly and reassuring behavior, and his words and deeds are extremely appropriate.

But at that time, Xie Xuan always heard people say that Feng Jiuyuan's father, Feng Yi, was in Beijiang, but he stayed in the palace with his biological mother because the Feng family was too powerful.

He lost his freedom, became a proton, and was trapped within the palace walls where the sun could not be seen all day long. He even lost the chance of a young man to ride his horse and sing.

There are many idlers in the palace, and there are also many courageous people.Occasionally, Broken Zuizi was bumped into by Feng Jiuyuan with his own eyes, and when he saw him, he would only salute perfunctorily and never plead guilty.

Feng Jiuyuan didn't care about these, his expression was still as bright as Qinghui.

But later, Xie Xuan never saw these familiar people with broken mouths in the palace again.

When he left the palace, it was not long after Feng Yixiu, Feng Jiuyuan's figure was still weak, and he was going back to Northern Xinjiang to succeed Huaiyuan King.

At the same time, his mother and concubine remained in the palace.

Before leaving, Feng Jiuyuan found Xie Xuan and made an agreement with him in the northern border.

"If there is a chance in this life, Xing Lan will stay in Northern Xinjiang."

"Why am I staying in northern Xinjiang?"

"Watch the snow, appreciate the moon, cook tea, listen to the rain, and do all the things that make you happy in the world."

"With you?" Xie Xuan at that time could not agree, "Could it be that you don't marry a wife and have children?"

The young King Huaiyuan was silent for a long time, and said softly: "It's not impossible."

After many years, Xie Xuan took this opportunity to think of his decisive but gentle arrow.

At that time, he already had the will to die. Everyone knew that he was so cruel, but they didn't know that he had been in office for several decades, and every year he lived was suffering.

For so many years, no one has seen that there is only Feng Jiuyuan, only Feng Jiuyuan.

Feng Jiuyuan is his elder brother, someone who loves and treats him like a relative, and was once an inseparable part of him.

But if he deliberately hurt Qin Ting because of this...

When the other party throws false feelings, he can act on every occasion and do a job with ease.But if someone puts his sincerity in front of him nakedly, Xie Xuan is not unwilling to stop his gaze and cast a gentle glance at him.

Xie Xuan shook his head, stretched out his finger to poke a dent in Qin Ting's side face: "Stupid or not, doesn't it hurt?"

He dares to love and hate.

So even Feng Jiuyuan had to give him a reasonable reason.

The author says:

Master Qin will never know what he missed