Xie Zhang put his hands behind his back and walked unsteadily to Xie Muyun.
"Song Lianzhou is just a man, what should he be afraid of? Behind him there is only a general and a queen. What does the queen mean? Who is standing behind us? What can you do to restrain yourself?"
Xie Muyun avoided his eyes, and Xie Zhang took another step forward to approach him.
"If you don't dare to be reluctant, then go and shoot Shi Jing'an's blood. Choose that bastard or your legitimate son and daughter. You have to think clearly for yourself, but I don't have the patience to wait for you to make your choice slowly. You are My son, your life is given to you by me. If you don’t know how to be kind, I will naturally no longer need you as a son. You can also let go of the honor of being a Marquis. I think your brother is very promising."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Muyun's face became even more solemn.
After a moment, he said, "Son, I understand."
"Go away." Xie Zhang waved his hand, turned around and sat down on the futon.
Xie Muyun bowed his head and bowed, then slowly exited the room.
When I went outside the hospital, I happened to meet my younger brother, Xie Changde, who also came to see his father.
Seeing him, Xie Chang was visibly startled, his expression clearly nervous. He put down the porcelain vessel in his hand and hid it with his sleeves. He smiled ugly and went up to say hello, "Brother, I didn't expect you to come today. "
Xie Muyun was in a troubled mood, so he didn't pay much attention and just replied, "Yeah."
When he turned to leave, Xie Changde called him to stop him.
"By the way, brother, I heard that the child is back. She has been recovering from illness for the past two days and I haven't had time to see her. I have never seen her since she was born. After so many years, I don't know what she looks like. Is she more like her mother, or more like her brother?"
Xie Changde looked at Xie Muyun's back, his expression was a little nervous when he spoke, as if he was looking forward to Xie Muyun's answer.
When Xie Muyun turned around, he immediately concealed the nervousness on his face with a guilty conscience.
"When she recovers from her illness tomorrow, we will hold a banquet and you will be able to see her at the table." Xie Muyun replied coldly.
"Yes, what my brother said is true." Xie Changde had a smile on his face and continued to ask: "I just heard that uncle Song Guo asked for a marriage to marry the child. I don't know if my father knows about it. If he knows, my father should She would be very angry. Why did Uncle Song suddenly want to marry her? How could Uncle Song happen to meet her in Jiuyun Lane that day? After that..."
"what do you want to say in the end?"
"Brother, don't get me wrong. I'm just curious. What my father meant was to bring the child back quietly and lock her up. There is no need to let the outside world know her identity. How come she was suddenly rescued by Song Guojiu overnight? , the next day my brother went to the hospital with great fanfare to find someone to take her back to the house as his daughter. That’s all. Today, another imperial decree granting marriage was suddenly issued. As a result, the child..."
"You mean that I conspired with Uncle Song Guo..."
"That's not true. I just think, brother, you don't want father to take her blood? After all, when father wanted to send people to capture her personally, he was stopped by his brother. Brother volunteered to bring her back. On the surface, he wanted to I wanted to use this to get my father to let Jing Shi and Jing An go, but it was my duty to imprison the bloody man, and my brother never cared about it. But when she came, he sent so many guards to Jiuyun Lane. She said it was to increase her defense, but if you didn't know better, you would have thought that my brother was afraid that I would hurt her, so he sent someone to protect her."
"you……"
"Also, the child's daughter was also taken to the Hou Mansion by my brother. Why, is my brother afraid that something will happen to her if she falls into my hands?"
Xie Muyun's eyelids twitched, and his eyes flashed with a fierce and ferocious aura.
He stared at Xie Changde, the anger in his eyes suppressed again and again, and said for a long time: "I was afraid that your unscrupulous guards would not be able to see her. If I hadn't been there that day, she would have died long ago." She has run away. As for recognizing relatives, Uncle Song Guo has already met her, and her daughter and him... I will explain to you what to do. "
"Yes, brother, as long as he can explain it clearly to his father."
Xie Changde still smiled, but this smile always made people uncomfortable. Xie Muyun clenched his fists but finally quietly loosened them. He looked in from the yard, looked at the closed door, and finally fell back to Xie Changde's smiling face.
He retracted his eyes, turned around again and strode away.
Liu Xie stood there for a long time and grasped the blood container under his sleeve very tightly. The guilt on his face slowly emerged again, and he murmured a name, "Shen Zhixi... Shen Nanqiu."
*
Ningcheng Hou Mansion, Shi Xingyuan.
Shen Zhixi felt much more at ease when Fang Rouyuan and Yuanyang were taking care of him.
Wan Ying had just given medicine and was falling asleep after drinking it.
"Axi, is it impossible to avoid this marriage?"
Fang Rou and Shen Zhixi sat at the table together. After Wanying fell asleep, Shen Zhixi came back to her senses and drank her own medicine. She had the last sip left, and it was so painful that she couldn't swallow it anymore.
"Is your promise to marry him just a temporary measure, or is it true?"
Fang Rou asked questions one after another, but Shen Zhixi was too worried to speak.
"We only know that he went to ask for an imperial edict granting marriage. We don't know the twists and turns. But it is not that easy to get this edict. A Xi, you are so smart, you must understand better than me. Even if he wants to marry just an ordinary person, There is pressure for an ordinary civilian girl from a good family. After all, his status... he will always hope that he will marry a well-matched man. What's more, Axi, in the eyes of outsiders, you are a widow with a dead husband and a daughter, even if His father agrees, so the Queen and the Emperor must have their own considerations. He is the Queen's biological brother, and the kind of person he wants to marry is also related to the Royal Family's face."
As Shen Zhixi listened, his brows furrowed even more with sadness.
"But in the end, he still asked for this imperial edict. I don't know how many reprimands he received in the process, what kind of coercion or pressure he received, before he finally let them agree."
"I know what you want to say." Shen Zhixi held the medicine bowl in his hand, his fingertips turning white with force.
"I am the one in the game, so I have struggled the most in this. How could I not feel anything at all? It was like this when I was in the bamboo house. I watched him sink little by little, and kept saying I am happy, but in my heart, how much of the happiness in my heart is sincere. The most painful thing is that the more he sinks, the more awake I become. Whenever I want to take a step forward, I always... feel like I have committed a heinous crime. A big mistake usually means taking several steps back.”
The more he spoke, the tighter his brows became.
"My heart... is also made of flesh."
"But you don't know, every time I hold him, I always think about my mother's appearance before she died..."
Just as he was talking, Yuanyang came in from the door.
"Miss, a message came from the front yard saying that Uncle Song Guo is waiting for you outside the house and wants to... want to ask you out."
