The Story of Yanxi Palace, Chapter 19: The Single Man and the Lonely Woman

   The Story of Yanxi Palace《延禧攻略》Yanxi Gonglue

   The Story of Yanxi Palace, Chapter 19: The Single Man and the Lonely Woman

   With a clang, the door to the utility room slammed shut.

   “It's too dark.” Wei Yingluo muttered.

   There was a clatter behind me, the sound of a firebrand cutting through.

   The candlestick on the table was lit, a flame waved on the wick and the warm yellow candlelight illuminated a handsome face.

   With his slender eyebrows, slender eyes and equally slender fingers, he was like a picture of an ancient elegant man drawn in white with a fine brush, noble and elegant, only with a melancholy hidden between his brows.

   This melancholy did not detract from his appearance but made him more distinctive in the crowd.

   “Earlier Uncle Wei said you were in the palace and I couldn't believe it.” He shielded the candle flame with his right hand until the wavering candle flame gradually stabilized and said, “I didn't expect to really see you today.”

   Of the six Royal Guards she met on the canal today, the one at the front was Fucha Fuheng and the one in second place was the man in front of us.

   “And then what?” Wei Yingluo asked without turning her head.

   “I am also very sad about Yingning's death.” The man looked up at her back and said with a gentle gaze, “But this is the Forbidden City, you must not fool around, it is better to listen to your father and leave the palace early, go back and find a good family and get married ...”

   “That's enough!” Wei Yingluo finally turned her head, her gaze as cold as snow and said, “Who are you to tell me what to do?”

   The other sighed and said: “By virtue of the fact that Yingning and I have been friends for a long time ...”

   “Don't you ever mention her name again!” Wei Yingluo interrupted him with a sharp voice, she hated many people, most of all she hated the man in front of her saying, “You were in love with my sister for a long time, why did you abandon her without hesitation when she needed you most?”

   The man's frown intensified and he said, “She is the Internal Affairs Ministry Bond Servant, sooner or later she will have to enter the palace, do you want me to wait until she is twenty-five?”

   “No, Young Master Qingxi...” Wei Yingluo said with a mocking laugh, “It is not that you cannot wait for her to come out of the palace but because my family is of inferior birth and even though my sister is beautiful and virtuous and intelligent, you, the high and mighty Young Master, will not officially marry an inferior woman!”

   Seeing that the other party was silent, Wei Yingluo took a few steps closer and pressed the question, “What? Have I spoken out of your mind? Your surname is Qijia, a noble Manchurian Qing noble and although my sister is not of high birth, she also has a backbone; since the knife is cut off, you will have no more relations!”

   Qingxi said with a deep sigh: “But I've been thinking of your sister ...”

   “Thinking of her?” Wei Yingluo said with a snort, “And then when something happened to her in the palace, you watched ... When you were the only one around her, when you were the only one who could help her, you watched!”

   Qingxi closed his eyes in pain and the painful past made him, a warrior with the strength to fight a tiger, shiver and say: “I ... I am, after all, a Royal Guard and cannot interact with court maids.”

   “I am also a court maid.” Wei Yingluo took his reaction in stride but was not at all moved by it, saying coldly, “We shouldn't interact either, so please move aside.”

   What else is there to come and go?

   He drew away when his sister needed him most.

   If he's just playing around with his sister, she hates him.

   If he really loved his sister, then she hated him even more, hated the coward!

   A sigh of relief came from behind Wei Yingluo as she brushed past.

   “Once every five days.” Qingxi's voice rang out behind her saying, “I am on duty every five days, if you have any difficulties, come and see me at the Royal Guard!”

   Wei Yingluo's footsteps paused for a moment, then she continued on, her hands just resting on the bolt, before she could open the door, there was a few thumps from outside, followed by Fang Gugu's voice saying: “Open the door! Open the door!”

   Wei Yingluo was taken aback and looked back at Qingxi.

   If a man and a woman are alone in the same room together, if someone really caught them, a hundred mouths would not be able to say anything.

   Qingxi's lips twitched and he was about to say something when a hand came from across the room, stopping him from saying anything else. Wei Yingluo spoke to him in a silent lip: “Do as I say.”

   Knock, knock, knock, knock, Fang Gugu was still pounding on the door but the next second the door suddenly opened and a bamboo basket came over her head, followed by a flurry of punches and kicks, accompanied by Wei Yingluo's slightly frightened and angry words: “I told you to stop following me, I told you to stop following me, shame on you, rascal! shameless, rascal!”

   “Stop! Stop!” Fang Gugu fled desperately, shouting like a pig, “Wei Yingluo, you're crazy! Stop it, stop it! Somebody, somebody, help!”

   A group of small court ladies rushed forward, you pulled the arms and I held the legs and finally pulled the two away.

   Taking the bamboo basket off her head, Fang Gu looked at Wei Yingluo with a blackened face and said, “Yingluo, you're crazy, how dare you lay your hands on me!”

   Wei Yingluo let out an ah, her face darker than hers and said, “Gugu, how, how could it be you?”

   Before Fang Gugu could make a scene, Wei Yingluo fell to her knees and cried out, “Gugu, please do something for me! I came out to look for a lost handkerchief but I didn't know that I was being followed and I didn't know which eunuch with six impure roots, or some Royal Guard with a bad heart it was.”

   “A little eunuch with six impure roots, or some Royal Guard with a bad heart?” Fang Gugu said in exasperation, “Listen to your nonsense, my voice, can't you hear it? Or do I sound so much like a man?”

   “I was really too frightened.” Wei Yingluo, her shoulders trembling slightly, as if she had been greatly frightened, raised her sleeve to wipe her tears and said, “For a moment I did not distinguish and I hope Gugu will forgive me ...”

   “Look at the bruise on my arm.” Fang Gugu rolled up her sleeve, revealing the bruises from her earlier pinching and said coldly, “How do you ask me to forgive you?”

   Wei Yingluo kowtowed to her and said: “May I be punished by Gugu.”

   Wei Yingluo was punished for beating Fang Gugu without her knowledge and because Fang Gugu was greedy for money, she was punished more severely in terms of money and after she was given enough money and goods, she received a symbolic punishment of two strokes.

   Better than being found in the same room with a young Royal guard.

   That's not something that can be solved with a few strokes of the board and a little money.

   “Fortunately, Qingxi is a Batulu, nimble enough to take advantage of the mess I made and escape unnoticed.” Wei Yingluo was lying on her back, the wound on her back had just been medicated and was still burning and hurting so much that she couldn't sleep and could only close her eyes and say in her mind, “But who had tipped her off ...”

   The moonlight folds in through the window and falls in a straight beam on the head of Wei Yingluo's bed; she slowly reaches into her arms and fumbles a lapel out of them, spreading it out in the moonlight to look at it quietly.

   “It wasn't without any luck.” Wei Yingluo eyes softened as she spoke to herself, “Sister, after being in the palace for so long, I've finally found a clue.”

   The old days are still fresh in my mind.

   It was a moonlit night, too, when she crouched on Wei Yingning's knee and watched her fingers flutter as an exquisite plum blossom lace took shape at her fingertips.

   That plum blossom complex went to the palace with her sister but did not accompany her out of the palace.

   Instead, it fell from Fang Gugu on the occasion of today's fight.

   “Fang Gugu ah...” Wei Yingluo snapped her five fingers together and fiercely gripped the plum blossom lace in her palm saying, “My sister's plum blossom lace, how could it be in your hand?”

  

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