WMSG Chapter 37
by VolareGong Xunwu thought for a moment, the Ye family must be scared out of their wits. These days, they have been running to the palace every day, begging the Emperor and the Empress Dowager. The Junzhu is practically living in the Empress Dowager’s Heyun Palace.
This kind of reaction couldn’t be concealed, Ye Yueshen could guess it, so he truthfully replied, “They are very worried about you.”
“I knew it…” Since he arrived, Ye Yueshen, who had been lifeless, finally choked and began to sob softly.
Gong Xunwu caressed his back: “Don’t you have anything to say to me?”
Ye Yueshen’s tone was a little bad, almost throwing a tantrum at him: “Aren’t you holding me?” But his voice was soft and pleasant, with a crying tone, and couldn’t scare anyone.
Gong Xunwu was silent for a while. Although he switched the poisonous dumplings for me, although he didn’t say a word of apology. But he doesn’t seem to think he’s done anything wrong.
Even Gong Xunwu himself couldn’t help but wonder: Did I remember it wrong? Did I actually switch the poisonous dumplings to him?
Gong Xunwu held down Ye Yueshen, who was about to push him away: “What are you doing? Do you want to fall again?”
“I don’t want to be held by you.” Ye Yueshen’s arms pushed against his shoulders, stretched straight between them.
Gong Xunwu didn’t dare to use any force, afraid of breaking his fragile arms, but he didn’t let go, always holding him neither lightly nor heavily: “Isn’t it you who are hugging me?”
Carefully getting to the bottom of it, Ye Yueshen was about to fall and was helped up by him, and hugged him in the process.
But it was Ye Yueshen who didn’t struggle and cried in his arms, so Gong Xunwu felt that Ye Yueshen had more responsibility.
“Then I won’t hug you.” Ye Yueshen followed suit, but Gong Xunwu didn’t want to. He held the person and didn’t let go, and compromised: “Hug, you be good.”
Gong Xunwu took the chopsticks: “If you eat well, I will let you see your brother.”
Ye Yueshen took the chopsticks, but there wasn’t much trust between them: “Really?”
Gong Xunwu couldn’t help but caress Ye Yueshen’s delicate face. He hadn’t seen him for a few days, and Ye Yueshen seemed to have never eaten properly, and was visibly thinner.
Eating was not a way to harm him, and Gong Xunwu’s nameless fire choked in his throat, and he even had to discuss it with him. It wasn’t his body, what did it matter to him if he ate or not and became thin?
Gong Xunwu closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, even he was surprised by the tenderness in his tone: “Really, don’t go hungry.”
Gong Xunwu’s speed slowed down unconsciously. Was this really what he said? After he finished speaking, he stared at Ye Yueshen. If Ye Yueshen dared to express any surprise at his tone, he would immediately throw Ye Yueshen onto the bed and bully him until he dared not have any objections.
Fortunately, Ye Yueshen didn’t have enough energy and didn’t care what he said. After confirming that he could see his brother, he lowered his head to eat.
The imperial food that Gong Xunwu took from Zhaoyang Palace, but Ye Yueshen seemed to be eating tree bark. He put a bite in his mouth after a long time, and chewed on it for a long time.
Gong Xunwu couldn’t help but take the bowl, scoop a spoonful of easy-to-swallow shrimp porridge and feed it to him. Ye Yueshen turned his head to the side and refused to eat.
As if suddenly remembering that he now had to ask for something from someone, Ye Yueshen had to take the initiative to ease the situation: “Does the Emperor already know about us?”
“It’s not the time yet.” Gong Xunwu said coldly: “I said it was groundless and perfunctorily passed it over.”
Ye Yueshen nodded, understanding Gong Xunwu’s attitude as not wanting to get involved with him. Playing around was okay, but it couldn’t affect his reputation.
He didn’t know whether he was relieved or ashamed, he nodded again and didn’t speak again.
Seeing that he didn’t speak, Gong Xunwu took the initiative to say, “Why are you so stupid?”
Ye Yueshen put down his chopsticks, his skin turned cold, his body trembled slightly, and he also wanted to know why the original book glossed over the process of his being hunted down. He traveled into this world, but what he knew were all the protagonist’s successful history.
He wanted a golden finger, and for a moment he wanted to be a parasite and hug the protagonist Gong Shengyin’s thigh. Anyway, Gong Shengyin regarded himself as his white moonlight.
But this was just an exasperated thought. Regarding who was responsible for his death in the original book and whether it had anything to do with Gong Shengyin, the author did not have a clear answer at all.
What’s more, he felt that he had not fallen to the point of having to sell himself…
He was stunned, looked up at Gong Xunwu, and suddenly felt his vision go dark. What selling or not selling, he had already been coerced.
Gong Xunwu, as Gong Shengyin’s later golden thigh, even if Ye Yueshen wanted to hug a thigh, he should rationally choose Gong Xunwu to save the “middleman’s price difference” of Gong Shengyin.
But he had already tested the waters, and Gong Xunwu was not reliable at all. He was still being held under house arrest in an unknown corner of the palace.
Seeing the resentment in Ye Yueshen’s eyes getting deeper and deeper, Gong Xunwu didn’t say anything more harsh, “Do you want to see Ye Yuanshen?”
Ye Yueshen quickly replied, “I want to.” His eyes and tone were very eager.
Gong Xunwu gave up arguing with him and got up and went out.
Ye Yueshen felt that he was going crazy in the midst of surveillance and isolation. Dealing with Gong Xunwu was already a very difficult thing for him, and now it seemed that he had screwed everything up.
He tried his best to hold up the still-warm porcelain basin, wanting to throw it on the ground and smash it to vent his anger, but he was too weak at this time. The porcelain basin weighed a thousand pounds in his hand. Just as he raised it, he heard his brother call him, “Little Yue!”
He was stunned, and only after hearing the sound of footsteps did he turn his head in disbelief. Ye Yuanshen walked quickly towards him, but his expression was very calm, without any sign of panic.
Ye Yueshen felt a force to rely on from his usual steadiness. He quickly put the porcelain basin back on the table, but his movements were unsteady, and some soup spilled on his fingers.
“Big brother…” Ye Yueshen wanted to stand up, but fell back into the chair halfway. He murmured in confusion, “I haven’t moved for too long, my feet have grown into the ground.”
Ye Yuanshen held his distracted brother in his arms, his eyes full of heartache.
After a while, Ye Yuanshen opened him up, knelt on one knee on the ground, and untied the strips of cloth that were wrapped around his calf countless times.
“Don’t be afraid, Little Yue.” Ye Yuanshen held his hand and wiped the soup from his hand with his sleeve without minding, “Big brother will take you away soon. Big brother knows that you didn’t want to kill Qi Wang.”
Ye Yueshen hummed, suppressing the urge to cry, and smiled at Ye Yuanshen: “I’m okay, it’s just too stuffy here. No one talks to me, and I miss my second brother. I miss the times when he nagged in my ear. I also miss you and mother…” He paused before politely adding: “I also miss father.”
Ye Yuanshen wasn’t in a hurry to ask him too much. Touching the porcelain basin, it was still warm, so he scooped a spoonful of soup into the porridge bowl, stirred it, and then scooped up a spoonful to feed Ye Yueshen.
The soup diluted the rice porridge, making it look easier to swallow. Ye Yueshen opened his mouth and ate it. Ye Yuanshen praised him like he was coaxing a child, saying he was really good and ate really deliciously.
Ye Yueshen was a little embarrassed, but didn’t want to disappoint his brother, so he finished all the porridge.
His emotions were stabilized a lot by Ye Yuanshen’s influence. Before, he felt that Ye Yuanshen was too dignified and more distant than Ye Lingshen.
But he was now very grateful for Ye Yuanshen’s reassuring warmth and kindness.
Ye Yueshen didn’t know where to start, and his brother didn’t force him to ask, but instead made him feel at a loss: “Has… has anyone from home been here?”
“Qi Wang has been there a few times.” Ye Yuanshen looked at him, “Do you want to ask if the princes have been to your home?”
Ye Yueshen didn’t react for a while, then he heard Ye Yuanshen say: “The Fifth Prince hasn’t been here. The Fifth Prince once came to your home under the pretext of thanking you, but only the two of you know the specific reason. Little Yue, brother isn’t interfering with your interactions with others, but… in short, don’t forget that you have a beauty that is better than your mother’s.”
“Ah?” Ye Yueshen felt that he had lost some of his ability to think.
Ye Yuanshen’s tone was gentle, but it came with a teaching aura: “Qi Wang once said that the Fifth Prince lacks strategy but has more insidious intentions. I think relatives always know more than you do, so be careful not to suffer losses.”
Now Ye Yueshen couldn’t bear to hear anything about Gong Xunwu, and immediately looked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on: “He lives in seclusion and often goes up the mountain to hunt alone. Does he really think of himself as a prophetic hermit? ‘Their bodies and names will perish, but the rivers will flow forever.’ What does he know? What does he even count for?”
He simply subconsciously retorted Gong Xunwu, but Ye Yuanshen understood it as a bias towards Gong Shengyin, frowned slightly in disapproval, and couldn’t help but retort: “Looking back two years, Qi Wang was also ‘fought three thousand miles alone, and one sword once defeated a million soldiers.’ Compared to Qi Wang who has performed meritorious service in battle, do you value a young prince who condescends to a remote palace more?”
Ye Yueshen remembered the brief introduction of Gong Xunwu in the original book, but there wasn’t much detail. Moreover, he read through it quickly and didn’t remember how many tens of thousands of soldiers there were, but he intuitively felt that the number was quite large.
He mocked: “Da Qi is strong. Even if Gong Xunwu wasn’t the one leading the troops, even if a monkey was at the forefront, they could still win.”
Ye Yuanshen’s expression changed slightly, and his eyes looked around seemingly absentmindedly. He called out to him in a deep voice, “Little Yue.”
Ye Yueshen hadn’t reacted yet. Seeing that his eyes were empty, Ye Yuanshen had no choice but to remind him further: “Be careful what you say.”
Only then did he realize that he had called Gong Xunwu’s name, so he shrank down and didn’t speak or move.
Ye Yuanshen lowered his voice and said to him, “This is the palace. You can say whatever you want when we get home.”
“I’m sorry.” Ye Yueshen remembered Gong Xunwu saying that he was stupid. Now it seemed that he was indeed too careless.
Ye Yuanshen immediately retorted, “That’s not true. Have you been eating well these days? You’ve lost so much weight that your mother will feel sorry for you when she sees it.”
“I’m okay.” Ye Yueshen cheered up and said something nice, “It’s all your fault for spoiling me so much that I’m so delicate. I don’t want to eat when I leave home.”
He paused, then couldn’t help but add, “So you can’t leave me.”
Ye Yuanshen felt a little relieved after hearing him act spoiled: “When I saw you tied up just now, what was going on?”
“It’s nothing.” Ye Yueshen was a little evasive, “It’s just that I was too bored and couldn’t help but cause trouble. They were afraid that something would happen to me, so they… I’ve embarrassed the family again.”
“Why are you still acting like a child?” Ye Yuanshen felt that something was wrong and quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe the tears of his brother who would cry if he told him to. His tone had a bit of pleading, “I didn’t say anything to you. If mother finds out, she will think that I’m bullying you behind her back.”
Ye Yueshen didn’t know why he was crying. In the final analysis, it was still grievance. He was especially aggrieved after being comforted. Thinking of how he never had the feeling of being comforted before, he was even more aggrieved.
The feeling of having someone to rely on was so good that Ye Yueshen cried with joy.
Ye Yueshen found excuses in his heart. It must be that the pressure of these days had destroyed his will. He felt that he had been neurotic all day today, and he had no sense of reality about what he had said and done.
Ye Yuanshen comforted him: “The cook who poisoned Qi Wang has already confessed. Qi Wang has sent someone to interrogate him. It won’t be resolved in a moment. I didn’t plan to tell you today, because I was afraid that you would be anxious.”
Ye Yueshen nodded: “I understand, I will quietly wait here, I won’t make trouble.”
“I didn’t mean that.” Ye Yuanshen sighed: “I’m just afraid that you won’t eat or sleep.”
Just as he was speaking, the door was pushed open. Gong Xunwu’s face seemed to have an aura of unbearable gloom as he said coldly, “You get out of here today.”