Chapter 17 (2/2)
Ah Nian bla for hie on hi it away so she could only storm back to her room Ah Nian could care less about the soldiers outside since she did nothing wrong
It gradually quieted down outside and the two maids left the roouished the flame and sat on the pallet and released the curtains She pulled down the blanket and revealed Fang Feng Bei’s head “Didn’t suffocate to death?”
Fang Feng Bei had his eyes closed and ignored her and she didn’t light another lamp and instead reached under the covers to touch his hand She felt his pulse to understand his injuries and realized the pills she gave him earlier had no effect
Xiao Yao released his hand and laid down beside hi
“Who are you?”
“Who do you wantBei coldly answered
Xiao Yao said nothing and after a long time she spit out “You can be whoever you da Bei half rose up and his head slowly descended, but as his lips were about to touch Xiao Yao’s neck her hand ca Feng Bei immediately laid down but Xiao Yao turned herself to the side and handed hi Bei’s expression was tense
Xiao Yao started to reallyBei “Why do you think? Fang Feng Bei!”
Fang Feng Bei was quiet for a moment and then reached for Xiao Yao’s hand and two sharp teeth appeared and pierced through her wrist This was the first ti her blood There was no pain, only the frisson of cool excite Bei but when he glanced over her she immediately closed her eyes docilely! How could it be that she was still scared of him!
After so This was Xuan Yuan Castle, he had to heal as quickly as possible!
Fang Feng Bei finished drinking her blood and he gently licked the bite and Xiao Yao’s bleeding stopped When he put down her wrist, there was no bite anymore and what re Feng Bei softly said “Xiao Yao”
Xiao Yao couldn’t open her eyes and murmured “I’m fine, you heal now and after I sleep it’ll be fine”
Fang Feng Bei ruh her boxes of medicines and took out a pill and fed it to her
Fang Feng Bei then laid down and closed his eyes to self-heal
Xiao Yao slept until it was nearly noon and when she opened her eyes, she i there with his eyes closed and she relaxed her worried heart
Xiao Yao knew he couldn’tout to eat since I’ry No one will coot up and adjusted the curtains and walked to the corner to change After she did her hair she walked out but all along the path she spread poison, and spread yet another layer of poison at the doorway before she felt left without worrying
Thethe courtyard plants and Xiao Yao whispered to her “Watch the stationed here She was sure the maid was one of Zhuan Xu’s people
She nodded “I understand, if anything happens I will raise a huge fuss”
Xiao Yao smiled “What is your name?
“Xiao Xiao”
Xiao Yao went to Zhuan Xu’s roo there Zhuan Xu was half sprawled on the pallet, the room was a mess, and his clothes were shredded
Ah Nian was angrily explaining last night and Zhuan Xu see later
Ah Nian saw Xiao Yao walk in and her heart was a bit scared so she shot her a glare before leaving
Xiao Yao glanced around “Did they search your body?”
Zhuan Xu laughed “No, they just pulled the blankets off”
Xiao Yao was silent, how dare they!
Zhuan Xu yelled “Maids!”
The ht in a wash iteht breakfast and Xiao Yao ate Zhuan Xu asked “Yesterday was the biggest insult of all tiest wussy I should still go and throw a fit with thewith Ah Nian”
Xiao Yao asked “Find out why Cui Liang brought soldiers to search the place”
“You don’t need to ask, I’ll find out” Zhuan Xu left with his face ashen
Xiao Yao finished eating and went back to her roo so she whispered “It’s me” the moment she walked in the door
She opened the curtains and saw Fang Feng Bei silently laying there still
Xiao Yao sat cross-legged on the pallet and quietly stared at him
Xiao Yao still vividly re She was carefully packing the poisons she wanted to send Xiang Liu and was delivering it to the er shop run by the Tu Shan clan After the product was sent, she was just thinking about how Xiang Liu would feel when he saw a box containing all sorts of beautifully designed poisons Likely he would call her a weirdo pervert
When she was happily leaving the er shop, he swanned over to her, just like a playboy hitting on a lady He was all s to teach her archery Xiao Yao was aet close to her Probably because he always made her feel like he was soht her archery until now, it had been two years
During the two years, the two of the every nook and cranny of Xuan Yuan Castle He soain, alith a whatever attitude Xiao Yao felt like the two of theether like this for forever and an eternity Because the two of the, willing to try everything, interested in all, and whatever could make them smile They appreciated all that was beautiful, but wanted to own none of it Their life balanced precariously between darkness and light, if they chose light then behind them was thousands of miles of desolation, if they chose darkness then behind the luxury But even if they faced the light, they still had one step in the darkness so their light wasn’t co all the pain they experienced before The pain followed the, so brave, so independent, so cold, so no
Last night when she knew for sure he was Xiang Liu, she wasn’t surprised or shocked in the least It felt like it was always this way, and this heavy burden in the corner of her heart was lifted, though another burden had arisen
Zhuan Xu didn’t coht of the second day all drunk with toift fro
Ah Nian was in disbelief “For toe let someone ransack his residence and even search our rooo?”
The servant replied “Prince Cui Liang did apologize”
“Apologize? Was what happened okay with just a sied tone The Xuan Yuan soldiers daring to raise their ary?
Ah Nian pushed the servant aside and stormed into Zhuan Xu’s room but immediately ran out with her face beet red and tears in her eyes She clearly saw so out with those two girls
Ah Nian stood there for a moment and then turned and rushed towards her own rooe with Ah Nian beside her
Xiao Yao asked “Are you going back to Gao Xing?”
Ah Nian glared “I heard last night Cui Liang even looked on your pallet and you did nothing! All you dare to do is beand accepted that
Hai Tang sued ride and Ah Nian vaulted on before it rose into the air Xiao Yao called out to Hai Tang “Escort the Princess back to the Gao Xing safely”
Xiao Xiao saw Xiao Yao looking at the sky and cauards will protect the Second Princess”
Xiao Yao said “I know” Zhuan Xu was thehurt he inflicted on her It wasn’t that Ah Nian’s ied, it was that Zhuan Xu hadAh Nian
Xiao Yao went back to her roo Bei’s hand and checked his injuries His healing would be done soon
Xiao Yao placed a set ofFeng Bei openly and could be all joking with Xiang Liu, but right now she didn’t kno to face both Xiang Liu and Fang Feng Bei at the saarden bench and stared at the moon
Zhuan Xu came out and sat beside her “Ah Nian left?”
“Yup”
“You mad at me?”
Xiao Yao turned her head to look at him His hair et like he just washed, and he smelled of cedar Nor to get rid of a scent he hated with the cedar Xiao Yao asked “How does it feel to live a dissolute woht with aHonestly, I would rather be stabbed a few tihed at his pain “This ti the suffering on yourself, what do I have to be mad at you about?” Compared to the pain Zhuan Xu inflicted on himself, even more was inflicted on Ah Nian
Zhuan Xu rapped Xiao Yao on the head
Xiao Yao grabbed his wrist and felt his pulse “You have to hurry, The drug addiction is growing stronger In another half year, even I can’t guarantee I can break you of it”
Zhuan Xu said “Soon, soon Everything is prepared, just one ht before?”
“So’s residences Likely things they can’t let other people know so they are freaking out But I don’t think the thief’s target was them, but instead another two maps that don’t appear important Xuan Yuan has secret weapons and rations depots in the Middle Plains to guard against sudden war I’ someone has their eyes on the weapons and rations”
Xiao Yao was silent for a moment “Want to tell Grandfather?”
“Why tell hi resistance ar’s problem, not mine The enee, helpBei, from birth until now”
Zhuan Xu stared “You…you can’t really be seduced by hi stare so she turned her face “I’m just curious so can you help me”
“Fine” For Xiao Yao to be interested, Zhuan Xu was now curious
He had been out for so his head in her robe and lightly sniffing like he was cuddling and angrily said “I don’t want to go back! I hate those too back”
Zhuan Xu laid there for a er and then raised his head and calmly said “From thewhatever I wanted”
He got up to leave but Xiao Yao grabbed his sleeve “I can’t save you from those tomen, but I can save your nose so you can’t sht brow relaxed but he sently “No, I want myself to remember well this humiliation Later when I slack off, I will remember what I endured to stay alive”
Zhuan Xu left and Xiao Yao stared at the moon until she fell asleep
She returned to her rooed but eether and fiddled with the bow callous on her hands
Three e of hit a ed and ordered him back to Cao Yun Court and was to not leave theMountain had a small Palace that hadn’t been lived in hundreds of years and had fallen into disrepair The Sheng Nong tribal elders were displeased and requested the Yellow E Mountain was the symbol of the Middle Plains, especially the main palace Zhi Jin Court
The officials conferred, those ere too powerful wouldn’t want to go to the decrepit Sheng Nong Mountain to waste their ti someone too lowly ranked would be an insult This project appeared inment
The officials conferred secretly with Ciu Liang and shi+ Ju that the Yellow Erandsons Those two freaked out – Sheng Nong Mountain had twenty eight peaks and to fix each and every palace on each peak, they wouldn’t be able to cohty to a hundred years! If they fixed it all it would be fine, if they didn’t, the Middle Plains folks would constantly be sending corandfather was so ill, if anything happened to him, they would be thousands of reat idea and they conferred with their dad, the idea would allow theet Zhuan Xu out of Xuan Yuan Castle for good Otherwise if he stayed, he ood side since only Zhuan Xu could live in Cao Yun Court with the Yellow Eo unless they were summoned
The officials pretended to confer in court and one suggested sending Zhuan Xu The others all quickly supported the idea, and the Yellow Eht
Xiao Yao had never been to Sheng Nong Mountain and was curious since it was the residence for the Sheng Nong royal faenerations She asked the Yellow E Lin and Yu Yang both objected since she was the Gao Xing Princess They suggested sending her back to Gao Xing, but who knew the Yellow Ehter of do as I am alive, she can live in Xuan Yuan for her entire life, play all over Xuan Yuan, do whatever she wants!” The Yellow E his voice and each and every word boomed out of the court so the everyone in the vicinity heard it
Cang Ling and Yu Yang didn’t knohy he flew into such a rage but they all got on their knees to beg forgiveness In no time at all, the entire vast wilderness spread the news that the Yellow Emperor viewed Xiao Yao was sohter of his son and not of his daughter
Xiao Yao knew the Yellow Emperor purposely said that for everyone to hear but didn’t knohy She felt the Yellow E to the Middle Plains and worried that the Grand Eh to protect her so he had to throw his added authority on top To let everyone know that she was the bloodline of the Yellow Erave insult to the Yellow Emperor and Lei Zhu
But who could hurt her? Xiao Yao couldn’t figure it out She never had any blood feud with anyone She felt she was over thinking it andto find an excuse to put down Cang Lin and Yu Yang
When the Spring flowers bloouards in tow Xiao Yao brought along her uards and accoe rose from Cao Yun Court, Xiao Yao couldn’t help but look back Those large phoenix trees were bloo the red phoenix flower and it looked like a red dusk was enveloping the entire court
Zhuan Xu never turned around and silently sat there
The last time she departed from Cao Yun Court, the person beside Xiao Yao was herunderneath the phoenix tree and thought she was going to be back soon to sith Zhuan Xu gege But neither the innocent Xiao Yao nor the grown up too fast Zhuan Xu realized that parting would be for three hundred years
This departure, they both realized that it would be al under the phoenix tree together And even if they did come back, who kno many years will have passed
Zhuan Xu saw Xiao Yao pressed against thelooking out and said “I will plant a red phoenix flower tree in Sheng Nong Mountain’s Zhi Jin Court and fasten a swing on it for you”
Xiao Yao sat up and looked at hio to the Middle Plains He chose a path of no return If he couldn’t plant the phoenix tree in Zhi Jin Court, then he likely would never be able to return to Cao Yun Court to see that phoenix tree So he had to pay any price to plant a phoenix tree in Zhi Jin Court
Xiao Yao s in Zhi Jin Court”
When Xiao Yao carave and was unrelated to the Yellow Emperor and unrelated to the politics in court In everyone’s eyes, she was just the Gao Xing Princess who happened to share blood ties with the Yellow Eo to the Middle Plains with Zhuan Xu, she was prettyon Zhuan Xu’s side In everyone’s eyes, Xiao Yao became Zhuan Xu’s little cousin who happened to share blood ties with the Grand Emperor Zhuan Xu’s each and every action would iht even cost her life
Zhuan Xu looked at his hand and scoffed “Aht to send you away like I did with Ah Nian”
Xiao Yao held Zhuan Xu’s hand “Grandfather said soht, I am the blood of the Xuan Yuan Empress Within the entire Cao Yun Court, there is only you and I left of that bloodline Grandmother told us that we have to be there for each other If you are fine now then I can ignore this, but the way you are now, even if I leave I won’t be able to stop worrying”
Zhuan Xu said in pain “Supporting each other? All I see is you supporting me, I don’t support you”
Xiao Yao shook Zhuan Xu’s hand “What’s the rush? We Gods live for a long tito help you today so that in the future you can take care of everything for htly knit so she leaned her head on his shoulder and said in a very low very sweet voice “Does things need to be so clearly delineated between us?”
Zhuan Xu was still too serious but his broly unknotted and he softly called out “Xiao Yao” before tightly holding her hand back
Xiao Yao didn’t knohat awaited her and Zhuan Xu in the Middle Plains That was a place that the Grand Emperor’s influence did not extend, and the Yellow Emperor’s authority was still limited The most powerful clans and fa with Sheng Nong Mountain that the Sheng Nong resistance ar There was thecommence…no matter what awaited the towards it