Xiao Qinghuan

On the carriage back home, Jiang Xiao was leaning against the soft pillow in cold sweat, feeling as though every bone in his body had been smashed, and there was no pain anywhere.

The Jade Lion has spirituality and knows its own way, so it can be pulled steadily without a driver.Sitting in the car with Jiang Xiaohan, Jiang Ying struggled to break away his clenched hands, and applied medicine to the fine wounds on his palms cut by nails.

"My lord." Jiang Ying endured and endured: "Your lord, do you know what that medicine is?"

"Know a thing or two, it's not a good thing after all." Jiang Xiaohan was trembling with pain, and it took a lot of effort to barely maintain his dignity in front of Jiang Ying.He took a breath intermittently, clutched the soft pillow under his body with his fingers, and the back of his hand was almost bursting with veins: "...do you recognize it?"

"In the early days of the establishment of the Shadow Guard, they used this medicine to control people's hearts." Jiang Ying said in a low voice: "Later, His Majesty abandoned it in order to show his benevolence. Only a few leaders still need this medicine to survive."

Jiang Xiaohan didn't know if he listened or not, but just snorted inexplicably.

"Young Master, how could you agree to him so hastily?" Jiang Ying sincerely regarded him as his master, so he couldn't help being a little anxious at this moment: "Young Master said that he wants to draw it slowly, is this the way to do it slowly?"

Jiang Xiaohan leaned on the soft pillow, his long eyelashes wet with cold sweat.The body convulsed by the pain curled up slightly, and the outer shirt on his body was rubbed into fine wrinkles.

"The opportunity in the court battle is fleeting. If I don't seize it, how can I make him let go of his guard." Jiang Xiaohan said: "... Will this medicine kill people?"

"That's not going to happen." Jiang Ying shook his head: "This medicine is only for control, and you can hang it with an antidote every month, and you'll be fine. It's not easy to train a shadow guard, so how can you just throw it away, if it's not in time If you take medicine, you will suffer a little bit...you will be fine in about an hour."

"Really..." Jiang Xiaohan raised his lips slightly: "That's good."

"That's good?" Jiang Yingying looked at him like a monster.

When Jiang Ying first joined the Shadow Guard, everyone in the Shadow Guard no longer needed to take this medicine, but he still saw a severe attack of this medicine once.At that time, he was still young, and he followed his leader to go on a mission in Shu, but there was a mudslide, and he couldn't get back to the capital from Shu in time.Jiang Ying still remembered that the leader of the Shadow Guard, who had always been as hard as a rock, was rolling and screaming in the muddy water without dignity, his eyes were swollen and red, and it took four or five people to press them together to prevent him from committing suicide on the spot.

This is true for a shadow guard who doesn't know what pain is, let alone Jiang Xiaohan, a pampered civil servant.

"Don't die, I have time to finish what I should do." Jiang Xiaohan seemed to have regained some strength, and took out the medicine box containing the so-called "antidote" from his arms.

Jiang Ying originally thought that he was using this medicine to suppress its medicinal properties, and was about to bend down to get the water bag for him, but Jiang Xiaohan took out the medicine and crushed it in his palm without blinking.

"Ning Yu thinks I'm an idiot." Jiang Xiaohan said with a light smile, "It's wishful thinking for anyone else in this world to manipulate me except Ah Qing."

He spread his hand, and the powdered medicine crumbs fell from his fingers.Jiang Xiaohan's eyes are bright and sharp, even if he is lying here half dead, he still looks rebellious and unruly, which makes people dare not underestimate him.

Seeing him like this, Ruo Ning Yu feared that she would never dare to trust him again in this life.

Speaking of which, this was the first time that Jiang Xiaohan mentioned Yan Qing since the separation of Pingjiang City, and Jiang Ying couldn't help but look back at him. Jiang Xiaohan's eyes were slightly absent-minded, and his brows were slightly frowned, revealing a sense of fragile beauty instead.But he didn't look embarrassed, and he was even confident, as if he had a chance to win.

Although Jiang Xiaohan didn't say anything about Pingjiang City, Jiang Ying could tell that he had always felt guilty.It seems that because of this, he deliberately avoided thinking about Yan Qing.It's just that today I don't know whether it's because he is really uncomfortable, or because he finally feels that he has the confidence to be upright, and he dared to speak up himself.

"...Young Master." Jiang Ying said: "You also know that the Fourth Highness cannot find Young Master Yan, and he is very safe."

Jiang Xiaohan said lightly: "I know."

Before Jiang Ying could speak, Jiang Xiaohan said again: "But imperial power is a terrible thing... It may not be fatal, but it can make people never have peace."

He lowered his eyes and chuckled, "I can't take the risk."

Jiang Ying was speechless for a moment.

"Besides, Ning Yu is suspicious... um." Jiang Xiaohan swallowed a painful cry, then gritted his teeth and said, "If I hesitated for a little bit at that time, he would feel that he can only feel at ease by holding my weakness in his hands... ...Only if I make Ning Yu feel that he can handle me easily, he can stop thinking about Ah Qing."

After saying this, Jiang Xiaohan closed his eyes as if he was extremely tired.The Jade Lion drove the chariot to the side gate of Jiangfu. Jiang Xiaohan naturally didn't want Jiang Ying to stay in the chariot, so he sent him to report to Xie Jue first.

That's all for other things, but Xie Yongming is gone, out of reason, Xie Jue at least wants to wear mourning for his father.

Fortunately, Jiang Ying was obedient. Although she was worried, she obediently got out of the car, and only asked the porter at the side door to keep an eye on the cars and horses.

Jiang Xiaohan heard Jiang Ying's voice go away, and the carriage suddenly became quiet.Slowly and with great difficulty, he took out a delicate porcelain bottle from the skirt of his clothes—it was the one that Yan Qing gave him earlier.

Whether in front of Ning Yu or Jiang Ying, he had to grit his teeth and swallow all the pain in his stomach.It seemed that until this moment, the expression on his face seemed to have cracked a shallow crack, revealing a little pain from it.

This huge capital city is full of human-eating traps, only in this small carriage can he feel the taste of "bitterness" unrestrainedly.

He is in so much pain.

The news of Xie Yongming's death was like a heavy hammer, slamming hard on his heart, mixed with the severe pain flowing in his meridians, it almost shattered his internal organs, and blood came out from his teeth Come.

He squeezed the bottle tightly, but he was reluctant to pour out a single grain to eat.

The pain seemed to never end. Jiang Xiaohan's pale fingertips sank into the hard wood. When the pain was extreme, he broke off a piece of the soft couch under him.

The pain made his mind blurred, Jiang Xiaohan seemed to finally curl up unbearably, his cold lips tremblingly pressed against the body of the bottle, and a low, inaudible raving came out from between his lips and teeth.

"Ah Ching..."

Jiang Ying said it took about an hour, but he didn't know if it was because Jiang Xiaohan was stubbornly resisting taking the medicine, or for some other reason. After waiting for two hours, Jiang Xiaohan got out of the carriage with the help of the door.

I don't know what Jiang Ying told Xie Jue, but just as Jiang Xiaohan entered the main hall, he was blocked by Xie Jue who was oncoming.

"Mingyuan..." Xie Jue grabbed his arm in a panic, as if he had caught a life-saving straw: "My father and brother... my father and brother..."

The boy was trembling and speechless, looking at him expectantly, trying to get a negative answer from him.

Jiang Xiaohan looked down, and found that Xie Jue was holding a piece of silk in his hand—it was the one in the previous copper seal.

He opened it anyway.

Jiang Xiaohan didn't speak. He took out the piece of silk from Xie Jue's hand and shook it away, only to find two lines written in blood on it.

"As a general, you can die to defend your home and country, or you can die for the country and the country."

"The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, only Jiang Mingyuan can be trusted."

The blood has dried up, and the original bright red has faded. Jiang Xiaohan brushed the handwriting with his fingertips, and felt that the words were as heavy as a thousand weights.

"It's suicide." Jiang Xiaohan said softly.

The light in Xie Jue's eyes went out in an instant, and he stared blankly at Jiang Xiaohan, his face turned gray in an instant.

Xie Jue suddenly couldn't figure out why his sister, father and brother all left him one by one in less than a month, and died without a sound, without even a splash.He suddenly felt that none of this was very real, as if he was still in a dream, and when he woke up, he would find that it was still midsummer, the fragrance of magnolias in Pingjiang was overflowing the city, and Cheng Yuan had dried the sour plum soup outside, ready to serve it He sobers up.

Trembling all over, he looked at the letter in Jiang Xiaohan's hand in disbelief.

——No, and this letter.

Xie Jue's fingers tightened, and he stared at Xie Yongming's hand letter, his eyes gradually became crazy and helpless.

It's all true, he thought.There is no magnolia flower in the dream, and there is no sweet sour plum soup.The late home letter from far away made a detour and arrived in his hands in a different form.Midsummer is already gone, and now he is in the bitter winter, and he is even unable to extricate himself.

"Jiang Mingyuan——Jiang Xiaohan, Master Jiang!" Xie Jue suddenly knelt down in front of Jiang Xiaohan with a plop, and said in a trembling voice, "I beg you to give me some advice on how to establish a foothold in this world, and how can I avenge the Xie family. "

The young man's spine seemed to be shattered inch by inch in an instant. He was kneeling on the ground, holding Jiang Xiaohan's clothes in his hands, looking like a bereaved dog—maybe we shouldn't say "like", a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy suddenly Sudden drastic changes, even his surname Xie had to hide it.The sky suddenly collapsed, and when I looked back, there was no support behind me.

Even if Jiang Xiaohan was so hard-hearted, he couldn't help but sigh.However, it is useless to be reluctant, the matter has come to this point, if Xie Jue can't stand up by himself, the Xie family may really collapse.

"Xie Jue! Do you still remember your surname!" Jiang Xiaohan gritted his teeth and slapped him hard: "Your father's surname is Xie, and your family is full of loyal and famous generals. All you want to think about is how to revitalize the Xie family. Tell Xie Jiajun to collapse!"

Xie Jue's head was turned to one side after being hit by him, and his fair side face suddenly became red and swollen.He spat out a mouthful of blood, and said bitterly: "What's the use, what's the use! My grandfather is loyal, he didn't die in a foreign country. What about my father, my elder brother, are they not loyal enough? Aren't they going to die in an unjust prison ——You can do it, why can’t I.”

"Who do you want to take revenge on?" Jiang Xiaohan made up his mind and sneered, "I tell you Xie Jue, if you want to take food from a fox, you have to become a fox before you can get close to them. Can you do it? With your virtue, Before you get close to people, you will be chewed and swallowed, and there will be no bones left for you."

Xie Jue knelt on the ground, crying while clutching Jiang Xiaohan's trousers.The youth's thin spine bent into a sharp arc, as if it would pierce the flesh and blood at any time.His cries were no longer as presumptuous as they were in Pingjiang before, he bit his wrist and swallowed the cries into his stomach with sobs.Only when he couldn't hold it back anymore would he let out one or two exhausted growls from between his lips and teeth.

Jiang Xiaohan bent down, grabbed him by the back of the collar, and dragged him into the yard mercilessly.Xie Jue couldn't resist him, so he staggered and threw him into the yard.

Jiang Xiaohan threw the bloody book in his hand on him, and scolded sharply: "Xie Jue, don't lower yourself here and humiliate yourself. You have the bones of the Xie family on your body, and your eyes should be fixed on the desert, on the foreigners, Looking at the military tents that stretch for thousands of miles, it’s not like they are going to stay in the middle of the capital to fight against such a villain.”

"My father and brother are gone, so there is no Xie Jiajun." Xie Jue roared, "It's gone, it's gone!"

"Your surname is still Xie." Jiang Xiaohan pulled him up by the collar: "Don't forget, your surname is still Xie—stand up straight for me!"

Jiang Xiaohan stared at the young man's red eyes, and promised word by word: "Your father and brother's affairs will be settled, and the Xie family's reputation will also be settled."

The author says:

Thank you for the salted fish, Alessandra, it’s floating flocs, and the fish food fed by aya1989~Thank you very much~