One touch and one silence

"Your Highness, please don't come to this cellar next time. You are not in good health. It is too humid here and it is not good for your health."

Nanzhi looked at Shuhua holding her little hand. She originally wanted to take the initiative, but now it was completely unnecessary.

Nanzhi let Shuhua hold her hand and gave her caring instructions.

In her mind, she saw images of calligraphy and painting, and suddenly she saw a scene that made her body tremble.

He looked back at the calligraphy and painting with disbelief on his face.

She...she just casually said something that killed her friend!

Looking back at the days when he had just returned to Beijing and had taken leave from calligraphy and painting to deal with the funeral of the little girl named Yuanyuan alone, Nanzhi felt a tightness in his chest and a feeling of shortness of breath.

She even felt a little regretful. When she saw her asking for leave, why didn't she ask more questions? Instead of being afraid of asking about other people's privacy and knowing nothing about this matter.

"Your Highness?"

Shuhua gently called out to Nanzhi who was distracted.

Nanzhi finally came back to her senses. When she looked up at the calligraphy and painting, her eyes were bloodshot and red.

Shuhua squatted down with heartache and looked into Nanzhi's eyes.

"Why are your eyes red, Your Highness?" Shuhua said as he took out a handkerchief and wanted to wipe Nanzhi's eyes.

"When I came out just now, I was blinded by the dust falling from above." Nanzhi rubbed his eyes feeling a little uncomfortable.

"Your Highness, are your eyes blurry? Let me help you!"

When Nanzhi looked at these calligraphy and paintings, she felt a sourness in her heart and a sense of guilt spreading in her heart.

Nanzhi lowered her head, wiped her eyes with her sleeve, and whispered, "It's okay, I was blinded by the dust when I came here just now. It's fine now, but it's a little red."

Nanzhi lowered her head and said sullenly, "Shuhua, I want to eat the chicken soup you made for me."

Nanzhi made up an excuse as a reason to come and find her.

When Shuhua heard Nanzhi say this, she immediately became happy, "Okay! I'll make it right away. Your Highness will be able to have it tonight. You can go back first and eat it when you wake up."

Nanzhi nodded, and Shuhua left happily.

Nanzhi just stood there, watching her back as she left happily.

She suddenly felt a little breathless. Someone died because of her, just because of a careless word she said.

How could she bear the responsibility of this innocent life?

Suddenly she felt a familiar pain and a fishy taste in her mouth. Nanzhi was afraid of being seen and worried, so she swallowed it down.

She was instantly disgusted.

After retching a few times, he left the place.

Just now she saw that Shuhua felt guilty towards Yuanyuan's family, so when she accidentally saw Yuanyuan's parents coming to the capital, she wanted to atone for her sins, but in the end...

Thinking of this, Nanzhi gritted her teeth. Since it was her fault, she would redeem it.

Nanzhi walked straight out the door, and Yishi followed quietly behind him. Feeling something was not right, he quickly asked someone to tell Lord Liuyue.

"Master Liu Yue, the master has left the prince's mansion. The master seemed to be unwell just now, and his expression was a little bad."

Liu Yue had just taken off his coat and was about to take a rest when he heard Bajiu coming over to deliver a message. He picked up the clothes he had just taken off and walked out quickly.

Along the way, she was worried that her master might have taken revenge on her.

When she followed, she saw her master was buying incense and candles and the like. She was about to step forward, but suddenly stopped and followed behind from a distance.

After buying incense, candles and paper money, Nanzhi headed towards the city gate. Following the scenes in her memory of calligraphy and painting, she stumbled along the path and went up the mountain.

Liu Yue followed all the way and felt more and more as if she had been along this road before.

By the time Nanzhi reached the top of the mountain, it was already getting dark.

What came into view was a very new grave. She looked at the name on the tombstone and knew she had found the right place.

She squatted down, lit the candle, and then lit the yellow paper and burned it in front of the grave.

Nanzhi's eyes slowly became moist.

"I'm sorry about your situation. I'm sorry! I didn't expect that you would lose your life because of this. I know it's too late to say anything now. As for your family, I will settle them down for you. I hope you... don't blame her."

"If you want to blame someone, blame me!" Nanzhi's tears fell like rain, her throat felt like it was stuck and she couldn't say anything.

She felt like the Zhongshan wolf at this moment.

Make light of the matter.

After burning the paper, she picked up three incense sticks, lit them, bowed three times to the grave, and placed the incense in front of the grave.

He knelt down again and kowtowed three times to the grave, each kowtow with sincerity.

Apart from kowtow and apologize, Nanzhi couldn’t think of anything else?

The person was dead and her apology could not be heard. Nanzhi kept blaming herself and regretting in her heart, and she even swore a vow in her heart.

Liu Yue did not show up, but quietly looked at his master who was kneeling in front of the grave with guilt.

She remembered that the people in this tomb seemed to be fellow calligraphers and painters. Why did His Highness feel so guilty and so distraught?

Is this person's death related to Your Highness?

Liu Yue's brows were twisted into a knot. She felt unhappy watching her master kowtow to a servant.

Nanzhi didn't know how she got back to the mansion. When she returned, she developed a high fever in the middle of the night.

Liu Yue picked up Doctor Xu in the middle of the night and quickly cooled down the palace.

If she hadn't felt that something was wrong with His Highness today, and had come to keep watch, she would have been awakened by the Master's mumbling, saying, "I'm sorry, Master, who am I sorry to?" What on earth had made her feel so guilty?

Liu Yue's temper always lingered on the edge of rage.

After tossing and turning for a long time in the middle of the night, Nanzhi finally fell into a deep sleep. The two maids wiped Nanzhi's body clean and replaced all the bedding with new ones.

Liu Yue woke up Yi Shi who was sleeping, and spoke to him in an extremely stern tone.

"Tell me everything His Highness did from the time he left the study until he left. Don't leave out a single detail."

Yi Shi just woke up and didn’t know what happened.

Yi Shi inexplicably told Nanzhi everything that had happened during this period, including that Shuhua held his hand, he wanted to drink chicken soup, and he retched.

"Retching?"

Liu Yue grasped the key point, turned around and left, returning to His Highness's bedroom.

"Shuhua, come out!"

Shuhua responded obediently and put down Nanzhi's clothes in his hands.

"What does the matter of your fellow countryman have to do with Your Highness?"

Shuhua had never seen Liuyue with such an expression before, and he became extremely furious.

"Your Excellency is saying that what happened to His Highness tonight is related to this?"

Calligraphy and painting are also smart, no wonder...

No wonder His Highness' eyes were red at that time, it turned out that he knew about this.

So that's why you came here specifically to find her?

When Shuhua thought of this, his eyes were filled with heartache.

"I did this. It has nothing to do with Your Highness. How could Your Highness be so…"

As Shuhua was speaking, he suddenly choked up.

Liu Yue's eyes became even colder, and Shu Hua finally calmed down and told him about that matter.

"When His Highness saw us being harassed by the people in Concubine Liu's palace, he went to help us. After he came back, he told us a secret the next day. It was related to the Imperial Concubine's child, and it had a slight relationship with Concubine Liu. So His Highness wanted Concubine Liu to stop thinking about the people around her all day long, and wanted the Imperial Concubine to make trouble for Concubine Liu, so that we can relax and leave the palace."

"Your Highness originally wanted Shuyue to go, but I was afraid that she would do something bad, so I went to do it myself and told Yuanyuan that I knew she had a secret and would tell others about it at night. I know that the maid who shared the same room with her is a big mouth."