Silent Lover 2 (Tanhua) - Chap 71
Chapter 71 He Never Says a Bad Word to Your Highness
Jun Qiyu pushed aside the snowdrift, and crawled out of the ice and snow with Song Liqing in his arms.
He took a few breaths and looked around.
This is a cave, to be exact, a space like a cave, with a very small exit, so no matter how much wind blows outside, all the severe cold and wind and snow are isolated, as if entering another quiet world.
Although the inside is not as warm as a spring breeze, the temperature is much warmer than outside. At least the environment is very different from the harshness outside.
Surrounded by smooth white stone walls, it must have been formed over many years. Jun Qiyu touched a pillar and made a crisp sound. He was surprised to find that this was not a stone wall, but a jade wall! In other words, the entire cave is a huge jade.
Jun Qiyu walked inside with Song Liqing in his arms, their shadows were projected on the clean jade.
A jade platform that looked like a bed appeared in front of his eyes, the surface was as smooth as fat. Jun Qiyu had seen countless treasures, but he had never seen such a big Nuanyu.
“This is the Cold Jade Terrace…”
Jun Qiyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, being able to find this place meant that the rumors were half true.
Jun Qiyu put Song Liqing on the Hanyu platform.
Song Liqing’s face was quiet and peaceful, as if he was usually asleep.
Jun Qiyu stayed here for a long time. He had to go down the mountain, but he was worried about Song Liqing. He was worried that there would be other dangers here, and he was also worried that the rumors were false. When he came back, Song Liqing had already become a dead bone.
Jun Qiyu sat beside the Hanyu Terrace, talking with Song Liqing.
“Liqing, I’m going to put you here, please be obedient and wait for me to come back, okay?”
“Liqing, are you afraid of being here alone? I’m worried about you.”
“I will definitely come back to pick you up.”
“Do you remember this? It was a gift from the father to congratulate us on our wedding. He said it was a custom in the southern country. Red bean dice represent endless love. Xiaodi said, our knots and hair have been burned by you, leaving only I always carry this piece of jade with me.”
“Li Qing, I should be the worst husband in the world, and I can’t find anyone more asshole than me.”
“I put the jade in your hand, you must never forget me, okay?”
Jun Qiyu grabbed Song Liqing’s hand and asked him to hold the jade.
Jun Qiyu leaned over and kissed Song Liqing lightly on the forehead.
“Miss Li, I’m sorry.”
After struggling for a whole day, Jun Qiyu finally chewed a piece of jerky, swallowed it with snow water, recovered some strength, and decided to go down the mountain.
…
Seven days later, in Loulan Kingdom in the east of the desert, Pei Xingxu stood in front of the bookshelf, flipping through ancient books one after another, searching for any information about cistanche.
However, there have been two in total throughout history, so there are very few records.
Pei Xingxu sat down on the ground dejectedly, leaning against the bookshelf.
The Loulan royal family has been cursed by blood exhaustion for generations. No matter men or women, they do not live long. Except for one ancestor who ate blood cistanche and lived to the end of his life, the rest lived forty or fifty years longer, and some died young.
His father died at the age of forty-five, already a long-lived man. In fact, he could live longer, but he gave Pei Xingxu, who was already suffering from blood exhaustion, all the medicinal pills made from cistanche deserticola, which is unique in the world.
Because he is the only hope for the Loulan royal family to pass on.
However, all those medicine pills have been consumed in order to save Song Liqing.
Thinking of Song Liqing, Pei Xingxu became worried.
He covered his mouth with a handkerchief, coughed violently, and when he took it away, the handkerchief was already stained with blood.
Pei Xingxu squeezed the handkerchief hard.
“Father, I am ashamed of you, my ancestors, and the people of Loulan… When I die, Loulan will be in danger, and the country will fall apart. Jingguo will not just sit idly by. Save! I am afraid that the hundreds of years of foundation will be destroyed in my hands… Cough cough—”
“But… I don’t regret it! If I had to choose again, I would still do it.”
Pei Xingxu thought of that seemingly cold and unkind person, but actually gentle and kind, he could never let go.
As much love as there is in his heart, there are as many feelings that are difficult to appease.
When Jun Qiyu came to Loulan to look for Song Liqing, Pei Xingxu did not forcefully stop them from meeting.
When Jun Qiyu kidnapped Song Liqing, he chose to withdraw his troops.
He had no choice but to let go.
Because his blood exhaustion has relapsed, he knows that he cannot escape the fate of generations. If anyone in the world can save Song Liqing, it may only be Jun Qiyu.
The door of the library hall was pushed open, and servants came in in a hurry.
“Wang, he…he insisted on breaking in.”
Pei Xingxu saw the person coming clearly, his eyes fixed.
It’s Jun Qiyu.
But the brocade robe and cloak on Jun Qiyu’s body are already in tatters, his face is full of weather and frost, and a blue beard has grown from his temples. The domineering look has disappeared from his face, and the whole person seems to have been hit and broken. A proud beggar without dignity.
What surprised Pei Xingxu the most was that his eyes were covered with cloth strips, and he held a stick in his hand instead of a cane.
Pei Xingxu looked behind Jun Qiyu.
He came alone.
alone.
Pei Xingxu’s heart suddenly became empty, and he asked difficult questions that already had answers.
“How could it be you alone… Li, where is Li Qing?”
Jun Qiyu’s lips moved, but he didn’t answer.
Pei Xingxu stood up, rushed towards Jun Qiyu, grabbed his collar and pulled it hard.
“Let me ask you! Where is Qing Li! What about others?!”
Jun Qiyu’s body was shaken from being torn apart, this time he didn’t fight back.
“You talk! Jun Qiyu!” Pei Xingxu roared, “You took people away, but you came back alone…you came back alone! How do you have the face to come back?! The person who deserves to die in the desert is you!”
After Pei Xingxu was hoarse, he coughed and took a step back. Suddenly, he covered his mouth with a handkerchief and spit out a small mouthful of blood.
Regardless of the blood on his lips, he looked at Jun Qiyu with hatred, and then punched him hard.
This was the first time that Pei Xingxu was so angry that he took the initiative to fight with others.
Jun Qiyu didn’t make defensive preparations to resist, so he fell backwards, Pei Xingxu didn’t stop, rushed over and punched several times, Jun Qiyu’s cheeks immediately appeared bruised and purple, and the corners of his mouth were cracked.
“Hit! Hit hard!”
Jun Qiyu just said the first sentence.
The veins on his forehead popped out, but he was not angry with Pei Xingxu, but himself.
Jun Qiyu’s Adam’s apple rolled.
“He…he has no breath in my arms, no heartbeat…”
Jun Qiyu didn’t dare to think about that feeling of despair, as long as he thought about it, his chest was so stuffy that he almost suffocated.
“I really want to kill you with a single sword! Jun Qiyu!” Pei Xingxu yelled regardless of his physical discomfort, “Why do people like you exist in the world? When Li Qing was with you, I never enjoyed a day like a princess should have. Enjoy! He suffered from hemorrhage, all caused by you! Can’t you see that he is seriously ill? He is dragged down by you until he dies! Aren’t you powerful? Aren’t you arrogant? I want to come back!”
These days, Jun Qiyu came down from the sacred mountain, was stabbed in the eye by an ice edge, and walked across the desert alone, during which no one spoke to him,
He suffered and endured, as if he was a walking dead.
Pei Xingxu punched him, the pain made the numb Jun Qiyu feel alive.
Only the extremely suppressed pain has a channel to vent.
“Jun Qiyu, I told you at the time that the search for Cistanche cistanche cannot be done by one person alone! Now, you dare to come back alone?! Where did you leave him! I want to find him! ”
“He is in the cold jade platform on the top of the mountain, and he has a chance of survival with medicine. If he can find the blood cistanche, maybe… maybe he can come back to life.”
Pei Xingxu froze for a moment, the words “a glimmer of hope” at least gave him a little light.
He has also heard about the legend of the sacred mountain, but it is impossible to verify whether it is true or not.
“You… just left him there alone? Do you believe in such illusory things?!”
“What can I do?” Jun Qiyu’s lips trembled, “Tell me, what can I do?”
Pei Xingxu’s fists creaked, but he could only loosen them weakly.
Jun Qiyu got up from the ground and picked up the stick.
“I will go back to Jingguo and order all the Northwest Army to look for the cistanche. If it doesn’t work, I will send more people!”
Jun Qiyu turned around and left step by step.
Pei Xingxu stared blankly at his back, tears and blood mixed into his mouth, it was salty and fishy.
…
Prince Jing Guo returned to the capital from the northwest.
He didn’t bring back the concubine he had been looking for for a long time, and no one knew what happened in the northwest, only that Prince Jingguo was injured all over his body when he came back, even his eyes were injured, and he almost went blind.
For a crown prince, the eyes are extremely important, so the entire imperial hospital surrounded Jun Qiyu for half a month of treatment.
Prince Jingguo’s eyes were not fully recovered yet, so he stubbornly wanted to go back to the northwest, but Emperor Xuan couldn’t resist him, so he simply let him go.
When Jun Qiyu left, it was the Lantern Festival.
Lanterns are hung everywhere in the capital to celebrate the beginning of the new year.
Jun Qiyu brought an extra person in the carriage, Song Liqing’s former personal maid Xiaodi.
Xiaodi was young and hadn’t been out of the capital yet, so he was uneasy all the way.
“Your Highness, why don’t you go to the Western Regions after the Lantern Festival?”
Jun Qiyu’s eyesight was impaired, and the lanterns on the street were doubled and blurred, so he lowered the curtain of the carriage.
“I can’t see these red festive things, it always reminds me of him.”
The tone is calm, but the affection is deep.
“Why did you bring me with you?” Xiaodi said anxiously, “I have never left my hometown and traveled so far.”
“He is used to being served by you and treats you as a confidant. If he comes back one day, I hope you will be by his side.” Jun Qiyu paused, and then said softly, “Liqing, he… told you something in private… What? Can you tell me about it.”
Jun Qiyu felt a bitter taste in his heart.
He was gone, but he just started to get to know Song Liqing.
Xiaodi said in a daze, “There are a lot of things to say, what would His Highness want to hear?”
“I want to hear…about me.” Jun Qiyu licked his dry lips, “Did he say that I have a bad temper? Impulsive, irritable, and ignorant? Or when I treated him poorly, he Hate me, hate me? I want to hear what you say about me.”
“No.”
Piper denies it.
“Young Master, he has never said a bad word to His Highness.”
Jun Qiyu burst into tears.
