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Chapter 108: Earth Shattering Secret (Part 1)
Ever since the last drunk moment, Yan Hong Tian did not go to Qing Feng Hall for half a month. Tonight when Hais.h.i.+ (modern timing: 9 – 11 pm) had pa.s.sed, Ru Yi came over informing him that Qing Feng invite him over. Worried that something had happened to her, Yan Hong Tian quickly rushed over there. When he pushed open the door, he saw Qing Feng sitting on the swing under the tree with her ends of her dress and black hair fluttering inseparably.
Yan Hong Tian was instantly in a trance, as if he had seen the her a year before. That time she was also like this, with a smile on her lips and she sat quietly on the swing.
When Qing Feng saw him, she raise her hand slightly to call him over and said smilingly, “Tonight’s stars are very beautiful. Sit down with me for a while.”
He had not seen Qing Feng smiled like that for a long time. Like a spell that was put on him, Yan Hong Tian walked to Qing Feng and sat down. Qing Feng’s head was stretched up as she watched the skies infatuatedly. After a long time she then whispered a question, “Heard that when one dies, one will become a star in the sky. There are so many stars in the skies, do you think if one of it is Zhi-er?”
Yan Hong Tian’s heart suddenly throbbed in pain and he also profoundly knew that this moment was not like a year ago.
“Is there?” Qing Feng persistently asked.
“There should.” Yan Hong Tian answered chillingly.
“Which one?”
Yan Hong Tian’s hand that was holding the swing slightly tightened. This time Qing Feng did not wait for his answer and softly said, “That brightest one should be it. Don’t know if I would also become a star if I die. It would be good to be one near Zhi-er’s star.”
“You have too much words tonight.” In the past, she never mention Zhi-er in front of him and he was also reluctant to mention him in front of her. Zhi-er was both of their forbidden area, by not touching it, they could maintain the calm on the surface. Qing Feng was being strange tonight.
Qing Feng sure enough did not speak more and swung slightly on the swing. Qing Feng only slowly lowered her head when her neck start to hurt. After a while she then said, “There is something that I want to tell you.”
Indeed there was something. Yan Hong Tian was silent as he waited for her to speak.
“I am pregnant.” The light voice did not show any signs of joy or change and there was even a sigh in it. Yan Hong Tian thought that he hearing it wrongly. She said, she was pregnant? Yan Hong Tian initially had made the decision to get Qing Feng pregnant again with their child but he did not think that it would be this fast. He had not yet deployed…
“Fu Ling said that it is almost four months.” From the start when she knew that she had this child, she only felt fear because she felt that she was not able to protect him and that fear was a torture. She even thought about not bringing him to this world so that he will not suffer. But when the familiar foetus moment was felt in her abdomen, she could not bear and was truly reluctant.
After recovering to his senses, Yan Hong Tian hands went directly to Qing Feng’s abdomen and indeed the place where he touch was a little warm. This feeling was both familiar and yet unfamiliar.
Once again Qing Feng felt the warm that was emitted from that large hand. It was as warm as the last time but previously her heart throbbed when it happen, now that warm was unable to disperse the anxiety and fear of the future.
“How nice would it be if our child is able to grow up in an ordinary family and not as a Prince or Princess?”
Yan Hong Tian’s hand that was on her abdomen paused. That concealed wish and aspiration was like a needle hidden in the midst of cotton, p.r.i.c.king one who cannot see with pain. As his heart was stabbed heavily, his voice sounded much colder, “You obviously know it was impossible, why still think about it.”
Impossible… Qing Feng laughed again, “Yes. It’s impossible.”
That that, both of them did not quarrel and there was no tense atmosphere. Yan Hong Tian and Qing Feng did not have the heart to destroy the rare calmness. Both of them sat on the swing as it gently moved.
*****
The moonlight was particularly bright in the late summer nights and in the flower cl.u.s.ters, the flower branches were quivering from time to time as if something inside was moving. Yi Yue was very depressed. She just wore this pair of earrings that she requested someone to buy for her in the morning. The earrings was still on her ears in the afternoon but after a few s.h.i.+chen (1 s.h.i.+chen = 2 hours) it was gone. She came to this garden in the afternoon to pick some flowers back and afterwards stayed at Yi Lan Palace. She had already search several times in Yi Lan Palace and the road here and if she was unable to find it here then it was truly lost.
The night had gone later and Yi Yue feet was already numb from the squatting but she was still unable to find it and could only give up. Just as she was ready to get up, she saw a male and female figure walking over. She heard vaguely a male voice calling older sister Shui Xin’s name and both persons seemed to be quarrelling. Yi Yue quickly bowed down and shrink her neck back and held her breath, waiting for them to leave before she slipped away.
Both person walked till they were seven or eight zhang (1 zhang = 10 feet) away from Yi Yue before stopping. Yi Yue was secretly relieved and shrink her body even smaller and lower.
“Shui Xin, I only want to pa.s.s a message to the old master. If you have any anger then vent it on him, why direct it to me!”
That male voice was somewhat loud and his tone was very forceful. Yi Yue looked up curiously. Even though the facial features of the male was not very clear, seeing the clothes that he was wearing and hearing his voice again, it seemed to be Guo Daren of the Imperial Guards. Could it be that… Older sister Shui Xin and Guo Daren had a relations.h.i.+p?! Yi Yue’s heart suddenly jumped, making her surprised and nervous as she kept her eyes on the other side.
“There are some things that you should speak and some things that would not have your turn to speak.”
Shui Xin’s voice was suppressed till it was very soft but it was as cold as an ice fountain with a trace of a demonic air. Yi Yue had never seen her like this and her heart became timid and at the same time it also aroused more curiosity as her ears p.r.i.c.ked up.
“…”
“…”
Both voices were suppress very lowly when suddenly for some reason, that male could not control his anger stared at Shui Xin as he cursed, “What so great about you, you are just a b.a.s.t.a.r.d…”
“PA!”
There was an murderous look in Shui Xin’s eyes and she gave a heavy and fierce backslap to Guo Yi’s face. The strength was so large that a strong man like Guo Yi took two steps back and the ringing slap sounded extraordinarily loud in the silence of the night. At the same time, a gasp was heard from the flower bushes from a distance.
Shui Xin quickly turned her head and stared at the bushes of flowers to shout, “Who?!”
Yi Yue tightly covered her mouth. Her face was already pale and tears were already streaming down her face as fear tightly wrapped around her. Her mind was totally blank. What she heard just now… She did not believe her ears but she cannot not believe. Even though their voices were suppressed, she was sure that she heard it. She knew of Shui Xin’s methods, for her to know this secret, she… She had to die!