AWB Chapter 393 Heartbroken
Chapter 393 Heartbroken
Xu Yingying's face was filled with black lines. She didn't expect Li Siqi would dare to play this trick on her. She suppressed her anger and waited for Li Siqi to come.
Li Siqi arrived quickly. After the palace maid told him that Xu Yingying had woken up, Li Siqi came over from the imperial study.
As soon as he entered the bedroom, he was greeted by the soft pillow thrown by Xu Yingying. Although it was called a soft pillow, it was still quite heavy and would hurt someone if it hit him. Li Siqi took the pillow and did not care about the pain in his body. Instead, he came to Xu Yingying with a smile on his face.
"Yingying, you finally woke up." Li Siqi came to Xu Yingying with a soft voice. Looking at the bruises on her body, he felt a little distressed.
"Li Siqi, look at what you have done, let me go quickly!" Xu Yingying was not buying into Li Siqi's gentle offensive and looked at Li Siqi with a gloomy face.
Li Siqi couldn't persuade Xu Yingying, so he finally let her go, and then he explained, "Yingying, don't be angry, I'm worried about you. You sneaked out before, but you were caught by Wang Jingrui. I don't want to see this happen again, but I can't stay by your side all the time, so I can only do this."
Seeing Li Siqi's pitiful appearance, Xu Yingying fell silent. She said nothing and just stared at Li Siqi quietly.
The two of them were speechless, and finally Xu Yingying compromised and said, "This kind of thing will not happen again, so there is no need for you to imprison me. I said, I don't want to be imprisoned."
Li Siqi nodded and said, "I understand. I won't do this again." Li Siqi decided to stop while he was ahead, and Xu Yingying didn't know what to say.
After that, Li Siqi no longer locked up Xu Yingying, but Xu Yingying never left Fengyi Palace unless there was something important. She didn't know what the outside world was like, so she simply stayed in the house and didn't cause trouble for Li Siqi.
Li Siqi also deliberately had someone hide the news of Wang Jingrui's death from Xu Yingying, but the truth could not be hidden. When Xu Yingying went to the imperial study to enjoy the flowers and relax, the sound of servants' discussion came from behind the rockery nearby. They were talking about Wang Jingrui.
Hearing them say that Wang Jingrui's head was still hanging on the city wall for public display, Xu Yingying's face changed immediately. Lian Qiao's face also turned extremely pale in an instant, and then with a grim face, they asked the guards to capture the two ignorant servants.
"How dare you! You dare to gossip in front of the Empress. Aren't you afraid that the Emperor will cut off your tongues?" Lian Qiao spoke first before Xu Yingying.
But Xu Yingying stopped Lian Qiao and stared at the two servants: "What did you just say? Wang Jingrui is dead?!"
The servant looked at Lian Qiao, then at Xu Yingying, and immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, but in the face of Xu Yingying's questioning, they still nodded tremblingly.
Xu Yingying's mind went blank, and she shook her head subconsciously, "Impossible, how is it possible?!"
As she spoke, she stood up and walked towards the palace gate.
Lian Qiao quickly sent people to follow. They did not dare to attack Xu Yingying, so they could only persuade her from the side: "Your Majesty, let's go back to the palace first. Your health is more important, Your Majesty..."
While Lian Qiao was persuading Xu Yingying, she also sent someone to find Li Siqi. Coincidentally, Li Siqi was not in the palace.
The servants were concerned about Xu Yingying's health and did not dare to stop her. Xu Yingying stumbled to the top of the city wall. From below the city wall, Xu Yingying saw from afar that there was something hanging on the top of the city wall. Xu Yingying's heart skipped a beat.
She quickened her pace and climbed up stumblingly. The closer she got to the thing, the clearer Xu Yingying could see it. It was clearly Wang Jingrui's head. Clearly not long ago, he was standing alive in front of her. Although they were opponents at that time, Xu Yingying had never thought of letting Wang Jingrui die.
When the soldiers standing guard at the city gate saw Xu Yingying rushing up, their first reaction was that they were going to be doomed, and they hurried forward to stop her.
"Empress, you'd better go down quickly. This place... isn't suitable for you to come here now." The leading general also looked embarrassed.
Xu Yingying just pushed him away, as if she didn't hear what he said.
"Who told you to put him here? Put him down!" Xu Yingying stared at Wang Jingrui's head with red eyes, and then yelled without turning her head.
The soldiers behind her looked at each other, but no one dared to move. Lian Qiao supported the shaky Xu Yingying and said worriedly, "Your Majesty, let's go back to the palace first. After all, Prince Wang is the leader of the rebels. This..."
"I said, put him down!" Xu Yingying broke free from Lian Qiao's support and shouted, tears streaming down her eyes unconsciously.
"Everyone, please retreat first." At this time, Li Siqi's voice came from behind.
Several people suddenly felt as if they had been pardoned, and stepped back a few steps to make way for Li Siqi.
Xu Yingying looked at Li Siqi with tears in her eyes. Li Siqi quickly approached, stretched out his hand and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of Xu Yingying's eyes.
"Why are you crying? You are not in good health to begin with. If you keep crying like this, all the hard work of Doctor Wang these days will be in vain." Li Siqi did not seem to intend to pursue the matter of Xu Yingying making a scene at the city gate.
"Li Siqi, Wang Jingrui is already dead, please let him go, okay?" Xu Yingying started pleading for Wang Jingrui.
Li Siqi felt mixed emotions. Anyone who heard other people's names from their lover's mouth would probably not be in a good mood.
But Li Siqi couldn't refuse Xu Yingying's request. After all, Wang Jingrui's body had been displayed here for many days, and there would be no harm in putting it down now. So Li Siqi agreed to Xu Yingying's request.
"Okay, I'll have someone put him down right away, and then you can do whatever you want with him, okay?" Li Siqi's top priority now is to stabilize Xu Yingying's emotions, and everything else will be easy to deal with.
After hearing Li Siqi's words and receiving his gaze, the soldiers quickly took off Wang Jingrui's head. In order not to irritate Xu Yingying any more, they wrapped it in cloth and placed it together with his body.
Seeing this, Xu Yingying was obediently taken down the tower by Li Siqi. Sitting in the carriage back to the palace, Xu Yingying leaned in Li Siqi's arms. After a long time, she said in a hoarse voice: "Li Siqi, I want to build a tomb for Wang Jingrui."
"Okay, I promise you, but not now. You need to rest now. How about waiting for a few days?" Li Siqi coaxed Xu Yingying, fearing that she would be upset.