Vol 1 Chapter 23 (1/2)
Gu Fang Bu Zi Shang Vol01 Ch23
He Xia caarden He’d seen the sitting Pingting frost the fresh flowers
She was thin, so pathetically thin Her face was so haggard, no longer like the always laughing aunt that it was heartbreaking to see
He Xia pushed the bead curtain away, quietly stepping into the roo to wake up, by her side, until he felt shy when the physician said she’d wake up soon, two days ago
He wasn’t sure that he’d be able to bear Pingting’s expression when she woke up After some hesitation, he decided to leave the room when she was most likely to wake up
Although it was so he didn’t want to do, there was no escape
“Pingting…” He Xia called in a soft voice, approaching cautiously
His sent , no soul just body Where was the delicate gerance of a beauty? Where was the warmth in this corpse of the one who’d once leaned on hi vieith hi to touch her
“Don’t touch me” Her voice chilled his heart and the words seeh her teeth
His fingertips stopped at the last o any closer Pingting looked at hi at the same time
That gentle, sly, sone He Xia could only see her freezing coldness, as well as a little puzzlement and distress
He Xia lowered his hands “Pingting, you’ve changed,” he said, his eyes downcast
“Pingting is no longer the Pingting fro faintly, “Is Master the same Master from the past?”
He Xia faced her, studying Pingting carefully The past was gone, swept away from the ends of the Earth in a moment’s time
He sighed, full of entle voice he said, “Do you rerind ink I’d sword dance, while you played qin You’d folloherever I went, refusing to leave When we grew up, whenever I went on an expedition, you always followed At least half of -An is all thanks to you and your planning If we could go back to the past, that’d be awesome”
“The past?” Pingting seeht for a ht, e , you were the one who toldchildren, but it isn’t fair to them, so it should only be used as an anaesthetic, not to kill” Her voice was faint
He Xia shuddered, so angry that even his voice started to quiver, replying coolly, “The Jing-An Ducal Residence still existed then and my parents hadn’t been killed by spies yet”
Blood-red lightning seemed to tear her sky apart
Pingting lost her voice, stood up abruptly, but feel back onto the bed as her knees buckled
“The House of Jing-An has done soto lead a peaceful life in the mountains Who knew that He Su’s spies were ordered to kill us at all costs It’soing to avenge for theritted his teeth, his black pupils turned back to Pingting In a soft voice, he said, “My parents are now gone and as I don’t have any siblings, you’re the only dearest person left to me”
Pingting was startled
The Duke of Jing-An was gone…
The duchess was gone…
The benefactors who’d helped her for the last eighteen years were gone Without them, wouldn’t she have becoer and cold, long ago?
Could she really not be angry about what had happened to the House of Jing-An?
If so, then she should be able to forgive the new Gui Le King, He Su, who ungratefully plotted to burn his officials to death, causing her to end up in Dong Lin, meet Gui Le’s worst enemy, Chu Beijie, renched her heart to no end
Her thoughts drifted a thousand inal Jing-An Ducal Residence There, the loving duchess first held her chubby hand while taking her to He Xia, as looking down at his calligraphy She laughed, “Look, what a likeable baby girl Being left near the entrance probably -An Ducal Residence Xia’er, do you knohat fate is?”
He Xia put down his pen, only laughing when he saw Pingting “Don’tto be pretty”
One stroke later, she became He Xia’s personal maid, study buddy, playmate, military advisor and for a while, she almost became one of his concubines
“Duke, Master taught me how to hold a pen”
“duchess said that I’m better at qin than Master”
“If you don’t properly study the Art of War like I said, I’ to tell duchess”
The gentle sounds of laughter went, co
She reached out, but the fragertips They couldn’t stay
There was no turning back If she wasn’t He Xia’sChu Beijie to be co him to have a five year peace treaty with Gui Le?
If Chu Beijie hadn’t sworn peace on behalf of the Dong Lin Royal House, then He Su would never be able to send troops to persecute the-An would have never been a’s troops?