Part 1 - Yu Nu Jiao / Jade Slave / Enslaved By Love

Chapter 109 Dechun is not Simple

Xie Yun returned to the side hall, and the first thing she did was to wash her hands. She didn't even bother to add hot water, and immersed her hands in the cool well water.

Although it was spring, the temperature of the well water was still very low, so cold that her skin hurt, but she still didn't take her hands out.

She wanted to wash away the warm touch. Only when that feeling disappeared would the curse-like words in her mind stop.

She changed the water again and again, washed again and again, and rubbed her palms red.

"Aunt, are you back?"

Xiuxiu's voice came from the inner room, pulling Xie Yun out of her almost crazy thoughts. She stared at her hands that were so red that they seemed to bleed again and again, and then slowly responded and let herself go.

"Awake? Are you hungry?"

She wiped her hands and went into the inner room. Xiuxiu shook her head with a smile on her face. She originally wanted to wait for Xie Yun to come back and sleep together yesterday, but she didn't come back until midnight.

Although she was young, she had been in the palace for several years. She knew what happened and felt happy.

Xie Yun had been quarreling with the emperor recently. As someone close to her, she was aware of it even though she was half asleep due to recuperation. She was worried that Xie Yun would really anger the emperor and be punished and reprimanded.

But now, Xie Yun was in the emperor's bedchamber again. Although she still had no status, as long as she could serve the emperor, it proved that the emperor would not be angry with her.

She finally put her heart back in her stomach.

"Aunt, you and the emperor have reconciled, right?"

Xie Yun's fingertips curled up unconsciously. Reconciled?

Can this word be used between them?

Xiuxiu lingered on the bedside and looked at her eagerly: "What happened before is over. You and the emperor will not quarrel again, right?"

What has happened, even if it is over, will not disappear. It will be rooted deep in her heart for a lifetime, slowly corroding her flesh and blood.

But Xiuxiu was right about one thing, she would not make a fuss.

She pulled the corner of her mouth lightly: "Well, it's all over, and our lives will be much more peaceful in the future."

As long as she remembers her current identity firmly and doesn't think of herself as the special one, many things will become very simple.

But Xiuxiu didn't know her deeper meaning, she just thought that she and Yin Ji had completely put aside their past grudges, and couldn't help cheering.

"That's great, I've been dreaming recently, dreaming that we were driven out."

She covered her chest with lingering fear as she said this. She did dream that Xie Yun and the emperor broke up. Sometimes when she was dreaming, she connected it with the situation of being locked up in the Palace Administration Department. 

She dreamed that Xie Yun and she were locked up in that dark cell together, which scared her so much that she broke out in cold sweats.

She hugged Xie Yun's arm like a little beast for comfort.

Xie Yun froze instinctively, but didn't push her away in the end. In fact, thanks to the closeness of sleeping in the same bed with Xiuxiu every day recently, the sequelae left by Yin Ji's words were rapidly fading.

At least such a sudden touch would not make her tremble uncontrollably like the previous few days. She could control it completely. As long as it wasn't Yin Ji, otherwise she would have had a lot of trouble.

"Okay, I'll have someone bring the food over."

She endured for a moment, but still pushed Xiuxiu away and turned to walk out.

But Xiuxiu hurriedly chased after her: "Aunt, I'll get it. You've been tired all morning, so take a rest."

As they were talking, the door of the inner room was pushed open, and two girls aged fourteen or fifteen walked in one after another: "Why bother Aunt to get food? We sisters can go."

Xiuxiu was stunned. When did there become more people in the side hall?

Xie Yun was not polite: "Thank you for your help. You just arrived today, so I'll treat it as a welcome for you by ordering two more dishes."

"Thank you, aunt."

The two of them retreated respectfully. The door closed and Xiuxiu was startled back to her senses. She looked at Xie Yun, then at the door, and cried out, "Aunt, do you think I'm stupid and don't want me anymore?"

Xie Yun was stunned and a little helpless: "Why do you think so? That was sent by Eunuch Cai."

Xiuxiu was still crying hard, with a look on her face that said "Don't try to lie to me. I know, that's how it came. First, they were sent here to stay for two days, and then I left after two days."

Xie Yun pushed her back to the bed and shook her head with a headache: "No, don't think too much."

"Really? Aunt, are you really not planning to replace me?"

Xiuxiu covered her eyes and looked at me furtively through her fingers. It turned out that she had been crying for a long time without shedding a single tear.

Xie Yun laughed: "No, I'm not the master, how can I change people at will."

Xiuxiu was relieved: "Then why did Eunuch Cai send someone here? Aunt, do you have a new job?"

The remaining smile on Xie Yun's face faded. She didn't have a new job, but she could still guess why Cai Tianxi sent someone here. 

He wanted to keep an eye on her, because he was afraid that she would make trouble again and cause trouble to Qianyuan Palace.

"Aunt," Xiuxiu said in a low voice, changing her previous noise, "Are you in a bad mood? I felt that you seemed unhappy from just now."

Xie Yun was startled and subconsciously touched her face. Was her emotion so obvious? She thought she had hidden it well.

However, even if she was really discovered, she was not a person who liked to talk to others.

"Nothing, just a little tired, I'll be fine after a sleep later."

Xiuxiu  hurriedly moved him to another place, but accidentally hit her waist with something, and jumped up with a "ouch".

This scream was much more sincere than before. Xie Yun was startled: "What's wrong?"

Xiu Xiu made a bitter face and felt in the quilt, and took out an accessory made of rhino horn: "It's this thing."

She stared at the thing for a few seconds, as if she couldn't remember what it was. After a long time, she suddenly realized "Ah" and said: "Aunt, I forgot about this. This seems to be something of Eunuch Dechun. It got hooked on my sleeve when I was wiping my tears that day. I clearly wanted to return it, but I forgot it when I fell asleep. Aunt, please help me return it."

Xie Yun took it and was about to put it in her arms, but she paused when she glanced at the knot tied with rhino horn.

Why does this knot look familiar?

Officials with names in the court have some special features at home, such as the Xiao family's incense making and the Xun family's food. She happened to remember that there was such a family whose knots were very delicate, but they were never passed on.

But Dechun is an eunuch.

She couldn't help but recall the boy's occasional abnormalities over the years, and her eyes trembled slightly. He seemed to be someone special.

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