Returning to you in the depths of the white clouds

After the crowd dispersed, Qiu Shu sat for a while before slowly getting up.

The attendants put on a coat for him, held an umbrella, and escorted him all the way from the lobby back to the bedroom.

Qiu Shu has his own mansion in name, but he has never lived in it for a day—it is just a decoration, a symbol of the royal family's favor; he has often lived in the palace for many years, but there is everything he hates there; he There used to be a real home, but since he chose to enter the palace, there was no place for him there.

He is now a man without a home, and it is just right for him to live in this cold guard.

Rainy days affect internal injuries, and it's only autumn, and he wants to light a brazier in the house.The servants brought him hot water to bathe his feet and warm his body.

Because he rarely stays in the palace now, he has to send letters to him every day from Ouchi's cronies, reporting on the important affairs of the palace within a day, so he reads page by page just as he takes a foot bath.After only watching for a while, I felt my blood surge and coughed again.

The letter paper was crumpled into a ball in his hand, and the words "Concubine Yuan... bodyguard..." and so on could be vaguely seen.

Seeing this, the attendant wanted to step forward, but he waved his hand, but was speechless, dismissed the people, and sat quietly in the chair until his mind calmed down.

Without him, what the letter said was that Concubine Yuan killed a maid and a guard in the palace again, on the grounds that the two had an affair and raped the palace.

□□ Palace... Qiu Shu sneered.That guard, as early as in the letter a few days ago, he already knew that he was the servant of the new concubine Yuan.

I'm afraid Concubine Yuan just found an excuse to get rid of the hidden dangers that she was already tired of.

When did it start that the woman whom I loved wholeheartedly when I was young, and even dedicated my whole life to her, became like this?

"I don't want to enter the palace...I'm so scared...Can you take me away?"

"Why did you lie to me? Didn't you say you would take me away? I hate you forever!"

"My heart is dead. In this deep palace, there are traps everywhere, and concubines who are not favored are even more precarious..."

"I'm pregnant."

"You said you would help me. Since you didn't take me away, you have to help me reach the highest position in this deep palace. Otherwise, how can I gain a foothold? What should I do with my child?"

"You have to help me..."

………………

Those words and letters were stuck in his heart like a curse.It was obviously an unstoppable cough, but it caused him to have headaches and even nausea.

He couldn't even judge which of what the woman said to him was true and which was false.

When she was young, the bright and smiling girl was enthusiastic and self-willed, her heart was higher than the sky, no rules could hold her back, every frown and smile was a great temptation to the young man.

If he hadn't been tied down by the family back then and had really taken her away, wouldn't it be what it is today...

Embarrassed.

After sitting until the candle was about to go out, he realized in a panic that the water in the basin was already completely cold.

The wooden box was opened with a "click", and Xu Yuqing was still in a daze for a while.

After confirming that he did not touch any mechanism by mistake, he carefully opened the inner interlayer.

The elongated wooden box has a small capacity, and inside it is indeed the most precious "lifeblood" of the eunuchs. Besides, the things hidden in the interlayer are really a few letters, but the content makes Xu Yuqing somewhat unexpected.

I thought this would be the evidence of Concubine Yuan and Qiu Shu's affair, but I didn't expect...

This is a stack of love letters, or in other words, a love letter written by Concubine Yuan to Qiu Shu unilaterally.The replies may all be with Concubine Yuan, and only the last letter in this box contains Qiu Shu's response.

There are not many letters left, and it is estimated that they are all the key ones, and the information revealed is surprising.

The first letter should be a letter secretly asking Qiu Shu for help before Concubine Yuan entered the palace.At that time, the two should have had a skin-to-skin relationship. Concubine Yuan was terrified, crying and begging for help in every word, but she wanted to go far away with Qiu Shu, but she didn't succeed for some reason; the second letter was from before entering the palace. Farewell, every word of crying blood and accusation, seems to be a clean break; the third letter seems to be the fear of entering the deep palace for the first time, and I don't know how she passed this letter. The words make the man feel distressed after reading it; the fourth letter ...

In the fourth letter, she was uncharacteristically, with very little content, and only said one sentence——

"I'm pregnant."

In this letter, there is a response written by Qiu Shu: "The love of this life, I swear to protect it."

This response must not be sent to Concubine Yuan, and I don't know if he has promised it in person since then, but judging from Qiu Shu's various actions after that, he has done it.

Regardless of whether it was because of this letter that he believed that Concubine Yuan's belly was his own blood, he really did it: protect Concubine Yuan's mother and child well.

Xu Yuqing and Bai Wuzai have been investigating Qiu Shu for a long time, so they naturally know his later experience: he was eunuched into the palace and became an eunuch; because of his proficiency in both civil and military skills, he was quickly appreciated by the emperor, and he became the leader of the pylorus hidden guards.For many years, he has been a staunch member of the Chenwang Party, acting aggressively and blatantly suppressing the prince's lineage...Among the many verbal criticisms and folk rumors, he was even crowned as a "male favorite" because of the excessive favor he won from the emperor. title……

The things in this box are, in the true sense, the two most "precious" things of Qiu Shu.

The moment he put down the letter, Xu Yuqing felt sorry for him a little bit.

He was vaguely convinced that his and Bai Wuhai's previous guesses were true.

"If that's the case," Xu Yuqing said to himself, "this truth can 'kill you'."

Xu Yuqing thought, how to let those who died because of your entanglement rest in peace?

Let such a steadfast and proud person know that all his life's sacrifices are due to the deceit of the person he loves the most——

Life is better than death.