Second minister and thief

Chapter 115 Separation

When Chu Linqiu regained consciousness, he didn't need to open his eyes to know that he was lying in someone's arms, being hugged carefully by him.

Half of the man's face was hidden in the darkness, making it hard to see clearly.

"Are you awake? Don't move around, and let me see." As soon as the words fell, a hand with a little coolness covered his forehead.

"The fever is gone."

"Hou Ye." As soon as Chu Linqiu opened his mouth, the itching in his throat took the opportunity to make trouble, causing him to cough lightly once or twice, so that he was forced to swallow back the words he was about to say.

Just when he was coughing drowsily and unable to support himself, that hand appeared on his chest in time, stroking it up and down gently, and feeding him a sip of hot tea with difficulty.

Only then did Chu Linqiu feel as if he had lived his life again.

"Is it better? Master Tong Zhishu." When he said these words, Xiao Cen's tone was extremely calm, and it was almost impossible to discern any emotion, but Chu Linqiu instinctively sensed something was wrong.

Sure enough, Xiao Cen then said, "Now that it's done, let's go through the old scores together." This time his voice was more than a little bit colder.

"Your protégé of the trial court said that you stayed up all night to write this memorial, didn't you?"

"..."

"You were so tired that you fell over in front of that table, knocking over the candlestick almost caused a catastrophe, didn't you?"

"..."

"You asked that disciple to write in the notebook, 'Long nights and many dreams, it's better to set off early', right? So I'm leaving tomorrow, Master Tong Zhishu, is this what you want?"

"..."

"Didn't your lord usually say goodbye with a sharp beak? Why don't you say it now?"

"Master Hou, I'm sorry." Chu Linqiu knew he was wrong, so he didn't make much excuses, but simply apologized.He is able to bend and stretch himself, and he doesn't take the so-called "face" so seriously.

In fact, Xiao Cen's temper today, not only did not make him unhappy, but made him feel very ironed.Just because at this moment he would feel that he was cared about wholeheartedly.

"I'm sorry? Xiao can't afford to say 'I'm sorry'. Master Chu can control the overall situation without leaving home. No wonder the saint values ​​you so much. But what I want to ask today is, do you make decisions? Did you consider other people's feelings before? In other words, Master Tong Zhishu just did what he thought was right."

"Master Hou...cough cough..."

"You never told me... I never thought that I would be separated from you so hastily." Xiao Cen wanted to talk to him calmly, so that he would stop being self-righteous.Unexpectedly, since he opened his mouth, his own emotions seemed to be controlled by others, and he became more and more out of control.The more I talked like this, the more excited I became, and in the end, I even unconsciously turned up the volume, causing uneasy inquiries from outside the door.

"Do you really know what I want?!"

The feeling of grievance mixed in this voice made Chu Linqiu startled, and then he followed his words and said, "Then what does the Marquis want?"

"It's just asking for someone's well-being." Xiao Cen breathed a sigh of relief, "If I had known that you would torture yourself like this in Tianzi Prison, I would not have said something like 'self-proving your innocence'. Chu Jiu Shang, you are a heavy-hearted person who tends to think too much. Did Benhou ask you to do this?! Did you want to care about the innocence of Laoshizi Xiao and Mobei Army?! Do you know how long you slept this time? Do you know what the doctor said?"

"..." After arguing for a long time, it was still because of his body.This kind of cognition made the corners of Chu Linqiu's mouth rise unstoppably.Although he felt faint pain in his sternum and felt weak all over his body, and his eyes were dark, he still broke free from Xiao Cen's hand and "sat" up, adjusted his breath secretly and said seriously, "Master Chu, it's Chu who wanted to go wrong."

"Where did you go wrong?" Xiao Cen asked resolutely, in order to get angry with him, he even made up his mind to look away from him, even let go of the hand that was originally on his arm.

"Chu shouldn't have stayed up all night writing the memorial, and shouldn't have... added that sentence in the notebook without discussing it with you. It's Chu... who is self-righteous. I refuse to do it again. I still hope that Lord Hou...my lord does not remember the fault of a villain, so forgive Chu this time." After Chu Linqiu said such words in a slightly breathless voice, he fell back as if he lost his strength, and was caught Xiao Cen took it straight.

Seeing that his attitude of admitting his mistakes was acceptable, Xiao Cen dissipated most of the pent-up anger in his heart, but he still couldn't hold back his face and asked for peace, so he just let out a reluctant "hum".

"The emperor's order is really hard to break, let alone...Mo Beiqing's name belongs to me. But if I leave, what will you do?"

"The Hou's mansion has Uncle Ning and Shuping as patrons, and there are many students in the court, as well as many of my disciples. Why should the Hou worry about it? Besides, as long as Chu is a member of the Privy Council and commander of the Tongzhi Council for a day. ...that group of people dare not act rashly."

"If it's really like what you said, how did you end up in such a crooked situation?! Chu Linqiu, you really want to..." I'll forget the pain.

Xiao Cen didn't dare to confide a word to this man, the moment he rushed through the door this morning, he bumped into him curled up on the bed and vomited a few mouthfuls of blood.I'm afraid that he will think too much about his recuperation.

Jiushang, what the hell is...what's wrong with you?

In fact, it was his subordinates who finally forced Xiao Cen to make up his mind to go to war. Someone had seen a miracle doctor in the area of ​​Xichuan.

And Xi Chuan...... Intuition told him that there must be an even more astonishing secret hidden in that place.If you don't go there yourself, maybe these secrets will disappear completely with the loess burial.

Then, the real secret operations of the DPRK and the handle of the people behind the scenes will never be truly in your hands.

Isn't that the reason why Song Dog dared to be arrogant in the Zhizheng Hall without changing his face?

"Jiu Shang?" Xiao Cen was immersed in his own thoughts all the time, and he didn't realize that Chu Linqiu hadn't spoken for a long time. Looking down, he saw that he had closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep at some point.

That's fine... Xiao Cen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that if Chu Linqiu accompanied him to open his eyes until dawn, when it was time to say goodbye, he didn't know what it would be like.

After he supported Chu Linqiu's head and neck and slowly put the person back on the bed, he lowered his head and stared at the almost flawless sleeping face. After a while, he suddenly leaned over and bit down on the two pale thin lips.

"Although the road is long, this feeling can wait."