Chapter 376 - Special Feelings (1/2)
Two days later, Mo Junyang and Shi Qingxue went out of the south gate of the city in the carriage with Wei Zichao and his brother as well as Dong Shuang and several guards, heading to Jiangzhou in the south.
Mo Junyang and Shi Qingxue were certainly sitting in the carriage. Because they went on a simple trip, the carriage was not luxurious but merely comfortable.
However, the two people in the carriage had suffered a lot, so they wouldn’t dislike it but were satisfied with such an arrangement.
Shi Qingxue bent over the window of the carriage and looked at the bright sun in summer outside, saying with a smile, “Junyang, we go out in this way. Is it like to travel?”
When she went on a long journey last time, she went to Qingluo Mountain alone to save her father and brother one year ago.
Although the way ahead was unknown, compared with her anxiety when she went to Qingluo Mountain, she was relaxed and free this time.
Mo Junyang seemed to be affected by her ease and rarely showed a smile on his cold face.
The man intentionally moved closer to Shi Qingxue and sat next to her, as if he tried to grab the window, with his handsome face approaching her.
They were so close and almost clung to each other.
In summer, the air around was like rising steam. Even though the temperature in the carriage was not as high as that outside, it was hot.
Shi Qingxue felt that a big fire ball got close to her seemingly, which could make her have sweat on her forehead.
She got unhappy and reached out her hand to push Mo Junyang’s chest away, complaining with a pout, “Why do you sit next to me? Go away, now. Don’t you feel hot?”
Mo Junyang seemed not to feel hot. He refused to back off yet held Shi Qingxue’s waist, getting closer to her.
They were so intimate, and their foreheads clung to each other.
The hot breath was on Shi Qingxue’s cheeks. “No, I don’t feel hot when I sit with you.”
Shi Qingxue paused for a moment and then stated, at a loss whether to cry or to laugh, “I am not an ice cake.”
Although she said that, she didn’t forcefully push Mo Junyang away anymore.
They leaned against each other and didn’t think that they were too close.
Shi Qingxue seemed to think of something and reached out her hand to push Mo Junyang’s face out, telling him to look out.
“It’s your fault. You make me almost forget what I am going to say. Look! If not, you will miss it.” Shi Qingxue pushed Mo Junyang’s face out of the window and looked out happily.
She pointed her finger to the bright and beautiful hibiscus flowers in rows outside, saying with a smile, “When I came out last time, I passed here and happened to find the hibiscus plants here, but there was no flower then, and only the green leaves were left, so it was not so beautiful.
“Now it’s time to see the hibiscus flowers. We can watch them together.”
When they stayed together and watched scenery last time, they were on Tan Mountain in the second lunar month, yet the snow at that time couldn’t compare with this scenery.
Shi Qingxue was born in summer and had special feelings for the hibiscus flowers in summer.
However, her Luotong Boudoir was not suitable to plant hibiscus, while there was a withered hibiscus in the courtyard of the Cold Palace.
When Shi Qingxue entered the Cold Palace, she was reduced to being imprisoned from the empress, and it was a small matter to suffer physically. The mental pain almost tortured her crazy. She could hardly sustain herself for several times, but seeing that there were beautiful flowers in the withered hibiscus, she gritted her teeth and endured it in the end.
Although the ending of the previous life was not good, the hibiscus flowers in summer were kept in her mind all the time.
So when she knew that they would go out of the city today, Shi Qingxue always remembered that she would bring Mo Junyang to have a look, while she almost forgot as he “pestered” her.
Mo Junyang heard Shi Qingxue’s whisper, and his heart got soft. He couldn’t help but move closer to her, saying in a low voice, “If you like, after we go back, I will move the hibiscus in the Cold Palace to the Love Xue House, and you can see it every day in the future.”
Shi Qingxue poked Mo Junyang’s nose tip with a smile and sighed with emotion. “It happened in the previous life. Even if I remember it, it was the hibiscus which shared my joys and sorrows in the previous life, not this one.
“Moreover, I have forgotten it and don’t want to be tainted with anything in the Cold Palace.”
At the mention of this, Shi Qingxue asked the question that she wanted to ask Mo Junyang since long ago. “Why do you make your residence the same as the Cold Palace?”
Fortunately, the people who could enter the Love Xue House had never seen what the Cold Palace was like. Otherwise, it might cause trouble.
Mo Junyang lowered his eyes and replied casually after a long time, “Nothing.”
“What is nothing?” In fact, Shi Qingxue had guessed Mo Junyang’s thoughts, but she still hoped that he could speak it out.
Otherwise, he would feel unwell if he kept it to himself.
“I…” Mo Junyang opened his mouth for a long time and made a confession in the end, as if to give in.
“It’s nothing, really. I just want to know how you feel after you live in the Cold Palace for so long. That’s all, and there is nothing else. Don’t worry too much.”
Shi Qingxue was speechless and looked at Mo Junyang in a daze.
“You…” Shi Qingxue licked her thin and red lips several times and tried to find proper words.
She wanted to ask Mo Junyang what he wanted to know as she only suffered hardships then.
She wanted to say that this life would be different and that it was pointless to know it.
Such words were in her heart, and she planned several times to speak out.
If she said that, every word would be reasonable and could make him speechless.
However, when Shi Qingxue had to say it, she found that her mouth was dry, and she couldn’t speak a word.
Would Mo Junyang not know the reasons?
He must be clear about these.
He knew that it was pointless, yet he did that.
Shi Qingxue thought that he must know what it meant.