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Chapter 35 Communication

Song Song looked at steward Qi once, then turned his head to look at Li Xiao, and said finally: "Tell me the truth. Where did you hear this from?"

He wanted to know if someone was planning trouble behind his back again, just waiting for an opportune time to kill him and replace him. He definitely will investigate this clearly. He's not willing to unknowingly die again and become a lonely ghost who can only watch as someone else obtains and enjoys everything.

Steward Qi completely didn't know what's going on, however, Li Xiao remained silent, so he could only lie stubbornly: "This servant, this servant heard it many, many years ago. The person who said this is long gone."

He just finished when he heard wangfei order: "Go outside!"

He subconsciously looked at Li Xiao. The latter waved his hand. Thus, he quickly exited.

Li Xiao walked forward, grabbed Song Song's tightly closed fingers, and softened his voice:" Song-er feels like something isn't right?"

Song Song inhaled, suppressing the sudden anger and hatred in his heart. He said seriously: "I know your highness might not believe me, but I really do not have any brothers. My mother only had me. Unless someone used sorcery to change his appearance to look like me. Otherwise, in this world, there won't be a second Song Song!"

Li Xiao asked: "Who would use sorcery to pretend to look like you?"

"Maybe someone who's jealous." Song Song slowly calmed down and said: "Your highness, if one day you find out that I'm not me. Then someone definitely killed me and changed into my appearance. Please be sure to kill him and get revenge for me."

At this moment, Song Song really had a feeling that he might die. Face ashen grey, he turned, wanting to leave, but was abruptly hugged by the man behind him. Li Xiao's lips touched his slightly chilled earlobe. His chin rested on top of Song Song's shoulder as he promised softly: "That won't happen. I will protect you. As long as I'm alive, then no one will be able to harm you. Trust me."

Song Song pressed his lips together. His hands covered the pair of hands placed around his waist and he gradually felt somewhat better: "I trust you."

He said: "In my whole life, you're the person I trust the most."

Li Xiao asked: "Really?"

Song Song nodded strongly. His body was suddenly turned around. The man cupped his face, carefully examining him. His fingers poked at the corner of Song Song's eyes as he said: "Here I thought beloved was crying. Scared me."

Song Song furrowed his brows: "Does your highness feel like I like to cry a lot?"

"When you're reading, you like to cry a lot."

"... " Song Song pushed off his hands and said: "You, be more serious."

Seeing Song Song somewhat pacified, Li Xiao was able to relax. He turned and picked up those drawings. After rolling them up, he threw them in the fire and let them burn to dust. Song Song was surprised: "Why did your highness"

"Since they made Song-er unhappy, then there's no need to keep them." Li Xiao gazed towards him and said: "These days, I've seen plenty of commoners make snowmen on the street. Does Song-er want to make one?"

Song Song never thought Li Xiao would be this childish. He suddenly gained some interest. Li Xiao found a heavy, heavy coat for him to wear, then pulled him into the courtyard. The thick layer of snow completely covered people's boots. Li Xiao bent over to gather some of the snow together. Song Song held back for a moment, but couldn't resist joining him in the end.

The two rolled snowballs together in the snow. Careless, Song Song accidentally bumped into Li Xiao. Their eyes met. Suddenly, a handful of loose snow landed on Song Song's face, making him jolt. He shivered and stared somewhat dumbly at Li Xiao, clearly was not expecting him to do such a thing.

Li Xiao's lips rose. Taking advantage of his beloved's surprise, he grabbed another handful to throw at Song Song. This time, Song Song finally had a reaction: "Your highness! You, puu. Pei!!" While he talked, Li Xiao took the chance to smash another snowball in his face. Song Song spat out the snow in his mouth, finally reaching the end of his straw and returned fire. Li Xiao effortlessly dodged away, turned around and ran off to the side. Song Song grabbed two handful at the same time and chased after him, yelling angrily: "Who would have thought you were this kind of king!"

Not only him, the servants who were standing and watching from the corridor also have never seen wangye like this. What wangfei wore was heavy and also had wide sleeves. A furry cloak dragged behind him, a far cry less convenient than Li Xiao's tight sleeved activity wear. However, he still managed to hit the other man several times in a row. It was rare to see Li Xiao laughing and having a great time, a face full of indulgence as he dodged away.

Steward Qi watched this scene dumbfounded, mumbling: "Is there something wrong with my eyes?"

Beside him, Bai Yan quietly watched the two people running around in the snow, who knew which person his gaze was focused on. Only when steward Qi gave him a tug, did he abruptly return from his thoughts and reply: "En?"

"Our wangye has always been this lively?"

Bai Yan looked again at the two people in the courtyard and said: "It's all thanks to wangfei"

Song Song was sweating profusely from all the running around, but Li Xiao just wouldn't allow him to take off his cloak, saying he's afraid Song Song will be chilled again. He plopped on the snowy ground on his butt, gasping for breath while glaring at the other. His snow white face gained a red flush from all the activity. Even his lips looked rippen. The man crouched down in front of him and allowed him to glare, expression gaining a bit of interest. Suddenly and without warning, he placed a quick kiss on Song Song's lips.

Startled, Song Song subconsciously looked towards both sides, the servants in the corridors had already purposely turned to look away. He bit his lips and said angrily: "This is still outside."

"That day at the department of justice, didn't Song-er also do the same?"

Wasn't that because you were all 'zhen' 'zhen'? Song Song grumpily got up and was about to go when he was abruptly pulled back by Li Xiao again. The man leaned close again and kissed him on the lips, carefully sampling the taste.

Under the broad daylight, Song Song didn't even remember when or how they seperated. He lowered his head and pursed his kissed lips. He watched Li Xiao grab a brush to draw eyes on the snow man, then use cinnabar to fill in the lips, and even end up giving the snowman a wisdom dot on his forehead. He pfft'd and laughed out loud. Li Xiao looked over and said with a smile: "How is it?"

Song Song applauded again and again: "Perfect!"

"Alright. Done playing. Let's go back inside."

"Let's sit a little longer. It's probably hot inside."

"Be good." Li Xiao grabbed his sweaty hands. Song Song couldn't resist when he used that doting tone of voice and obediently allowed himself to be pulled into the room where he sat down in front of the window looking at the snowman.

While playing, his body sweated a lot. Li Xiao still ordered someone to bring a bowl of warm brown sugar water for him to drink: "After sweating, the fever should go down."

He finished talking, then reached out to close the window.

Without the snowy scene to watch, Song Song used the spoon and drank the sweetened water little by little. He knew the other was purposely uplifting his mood just now, but his train of thought still returned back to the study. He asked: "Your highness, you still won't tell me where did you learned about my twin brother?"

He had a faint guess in his heart, but he didn't wasn't sure.

Li Xiao sat down across from him, poured some tea and said: "To be honest, this king had a dream."

"Wangye believed that I have a twin brother because of a dream?"

"What if the things that happened in the dream were all verified in reality?"

Song Song's heart rate increased a little. He gazed at Li Xiao: "What do you mean?"

"Did you finish your drink?"

"... " Song Song blew on it, then drank down the rest of the sweetened water in one gulp. He retrieved a handkerchief to wipe his mouth: "All done."

"Come here and let me hold you."

'Can you hurry up and explain!' was clearly written all over Song Song's face, but he still climbed over, impatiently throwing himself into Li Xiao's arms. Li Xiao held his soft body with both hands and gave him a full embrace, then asked: "Is the inside of Song-er's mouth very sweet?"

"I just finished drinking sweetened water. Of course it's sweet."

"Let me have a taste first?"

Song Song immediately pressed their lips together and let the other suck and lick all over until the man was completely satisfied. As soon as they seperated, Song Song said: "Hurry up and answer."

"A while ago, this king had a dream about meeting Song-er at the Song estate. The following day, it happened. I also dreamt that someone would burn the barracks. That was also confirmed. Then, recently, I dreamt you had a twin brother. So I thought, if there really is such a person, I should find him and bring him to you. So you can reunite with your relative."

Li Xiao spoke vaguely. Song Song's brows furrowed slightly. He couldn't really find any major faults to those words, therefore asked skeptically: "What did he say to you? Just what was happening in the dream?"

"It's Song-er's turn to exchange information with me." Li Xiao said: "You feel like someone will impersonate you, why is that?"

Song Song froze, he puffed up his cheeks and said: "I also had a dream. In the dream, someone killed me, pretended to be me. Then your highness carefully protected and cherished him everyday, didn't even realize that person wasn't me."

What an incorrect accusation. Li Xiao rubbed Song Song's cheeks and said: "If you were killed in your dream, then how do you know this much?"

"It's your highness' turn to talk." Song Song said: "The person in your dream, what did he say exactly? How did you meet him?"

"What a coincidence. This king's dream seems to coincide with Song-er's." When Li Xiao said this, his expression somewhat darkened. He continued in a low voice: "That person told me, Song-er would die because of childbirth and that before you died, you said."

An image of that hazy figure flashed by in his mind. He knelt crying in front of Li Xiao and said with tears: "I didn't mean to deceive you. My brother was the one who told me to do it. He wanted me to bring the child to find your majesty. He said that ever since that night, he never stopped thinking about your majesty. But he was also afraid because his status was lowly, that he wasn't worthy of your majesty. He really wanted to live a ripe old age with your majesty. He entrusted the child to me because he heard you were looking for him. He knew personally how painful it was to lose a loved one. Therefore, he wanted me to pretend to be him and accompany you. He told me to hide the truth from you!"

The veins on the back of Li Xiao's hands bulged: "Zhen has been searching for him since the beginning of the year. Why did he not reveal himself?"

"Because he was worried the sight of his large belly would scare your majesty, afraid you would dislike seeing it He originally planned to see you after he gave birth to the child, but never expected a mishap would occur!"

Li Xiao shook all over, the desire for violence and destruction surging within his blood. He stood up in a flash, yelling: "Then why did you only find your way here now?!"

"I heard that after your majesty ascended the throne, you still couldn't stop thinking about him. Originally, I was going to raise the child and guard his secret for the rest of my life!"

He heard a huge beast inside his veins howling, urging him to shred everything within his sights.

"Your highness, your highness?" Song Song rubbed at Li Xiao's chest and said: "If you can't remember, then you don't have to say it, your highness. "

He didn't think his brief inquiry would cause Li Xiao to become unstable. He watched the other remain dazed, and started feeling apprehensive when he unexpectedly felt the arm around his waist tighten. Li Xiao used a crushing strength to hug him. Breathing ragged, it took the man a while before finally replying: "This king's dream stopped here. Wait a few days when I dream again, then I'll tell Song-er more, okay?"

Song Song immediately nodded. He stroked Li Xiao's head and said softly: "No worries. It's only a dream. Everything in dreams are not real. Don't be angry."

He vaguely had an answer in his heart. There once was a time when the little prince still hadn't been removed from Song Ge's side. One day steward Qi--- at that time he had become Qi gongong, received a decree to summon Song Ge to Yangxin palace. Not long after, he heard Li Xiao went crazy again.

(Note: Gonggong if you remember is the title for eunuch in charge of managing the palace. Now Idk if steward Qi was / became a eunuch? But that's not important right? It's just saying after Li Xiao became emperor, he went from managing his estate to managing the palace. Yangxin palace is where the emperor lives.)

That day Li Xiao killed many people. Everyone that appeared at Yangxin palace, other than Song Ge who was wearing his face, all died.

Song Song followed the wind and floated over, and discovered Li Xiao's pitch black eyes staring straight at him.

This was probably the first time he properly experienced Li Xiao having an outburst.

Li Xiao passed right through himself.

Song Song faced away from him, heard Li Xiao's sword release a quivering wail from behind him, and heard Li Xiao's even more frenzied screams: "Song-er--!"

Nothing could be undone. He stared at Song Ge who staggered out from under the table, his face white as a sheet looking this way. His gaze also passed through Song Song. Full of horror, as if he was training some wild beast yet at the same time terrified of being bitten, Song Ge carefully moved closer saying: "Song-er is here Your majesty. He's here. "

When Qi gongong brought a group of guards over, he only saw 'Song Song' crouching next to Li Xiao, saying something quietly to him.

But Li Xiao had his face raised, his gaze looking straight at Song Song who was standing to the side.

At that time Song Song thought, maybe Li Xiao really could see himself.

Song Song felt that in these last two days Li Xiao's episodes have been a bit frequent. He helped support the other onto the couch to lay down and lit some incense to sooth his nerves. Giving him a massage to help him relax, Song Song continued to softly converse with him.

Li Xiao purposely lowered his voice to reply. Because of being unable to hear, Song Song could only move his face closer. After a while, he was taken advantage of several times but completely didn't realize at all.

It was rare to pass the year so peacefully. The man smiled.

Outside suddenly came Ji Ying's voice. Song Song had instructed steward Qi to send him over. The other was wrapped in a large winter coat, his plain intelligent face full of displeasure: "In this kind of cold weather, you should just stay in bed quietly.. Haa, you guys actually have the mood to play in the snow?"

He looked at the snowman outside. This guy basically clung to the bed and refused to get out of it as soon as it started snowing. With such a lazy personality, it's a wonder how he learned medicine.

Song Song said: "Sorry to bother but can you check wangye's pulse?"

Ji Ying moved in front of Li Xiao, meeting his pitch black eyes. He could discern a slight foul mood from Li Xiao just by examining his eyes, and said: "He seems pretty normal to me?"

"He almost had an episode just now."

"Very well. This skilled doctor will take a look." Ji Ying adjusted his clothes. Steward Qi quickly brought him a stool to sit on. However, Li Xiao suddenly withdrew his hand, closed his eyes to rest. On his face clearly wrote: 'Send him away.'

Song Song could only grab his hand and say with a warm tone: "Your highness, just let him take a quick look. Otherwise, what's the point of hiring him? This winter he's used plenty of food and clothing costs."

Ji Ying raised his eyebrow. In such a short time, he couldn't think of a way to assault Song Song, so purposely mocked Li Xiao instead: "Yeah. Just let me take a quick look. Normally I never see you with this kind of childish temper. Have you been spoiled rotten now?"

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The writer has something to say:

Cray Cray: I'll kill you. [reveal sword]

Dumb Dumb: . No, don't, that's our big grandson.