Du Gu Luanyue turned her head and her mind became a bit chaotic. She frowned slightly. "What does he want to do again?"
Shen Guilan shook her head and said angrily, "He said he wanted to ask you what exactly you were up to. That crazy man! It was time to change his dressing, but he said I couldn't look at his body. He insisted that the person who had been changing his dressing before should do it now."
She hadn't had time for lunch, and had only taken a couple of bites for dinner. Last night, because of the matter of allocating supplies and deciding how to distribute them in the city, she had hardly slept at all.
When Du Gu Luanyue heard that it was about changing Huo Wei's dressing, she didn't delay any longer and walked towards Huo Wei's tent.
But her temper flared up. When she got into Huo Wei's tent, she endured her inner annoyance and changed his dressing first.
Then she stared at him with a straight face.
"Are you a child? Can you stop being so childish!
It's your own body. If you don't even love yourself, who else will care about you? Huo Wei, are you out of your mind?"
Huo Wei blinked his eyes. The killing intent in his pitch - black eyes faded away, leaving only grievance. His voice was a bit weak as he said,
"I just wanted to see you. You didn't come to see me all day. You're deliberately distancing yourself from me.
Du Gu Luanyue, what did Mu Rong Jue say to you? He's just a little brat. You don't have to mind."
Du Gu Luanyue wasn't a gentle - tempered person in the first place. But seeing Huo Wei soften, her hostility seemed to dissolve.
She pursed her lips and said calmly, "You should rest first. We'll talk after you've rested."
Huo Wei could sense her attitude towards him. His cold and fierce eyebrows sank. "You're deliberately distancing yourself from me. Explain."
Du Gu Luanyue stood beside his bed and took a step back to keep a distance.
"Huo Wei, I was able to get out of the Cold Palace all because of you. Even the Phoenix Seal was retrieved from Concubine Wei by you.
But because of me, you've offended the Wei family. Do you know what status the Wei family has?"
Huo Wei sneered. "If you're worried about me, just say so."
Du Gu Luanyue got angry. She frowned tightly and stared at him.
"Are you crazy? Why did you offend the Wei family!
Your layout in the court has just started, and you've already offended the Wei family. Huo Wei, what will you do in the future!
Moreover, you did all these things without saying a word to me. Why did you hide them from me?"
Huo Wei tightened his jaw and leaned back against the soft pillow.
"It was the Wei family who framed you in the first place. If I don't deal with them, who else should I deal with? How could I rescue you otherwise?
If the Wei family wants to take revenge, they'll target me. Why are you yelling at me! If I'd known, I'd have let you stay in the Cold Palace for the rest of your life!"
One of them had just returned from the battlefield, with a violent and straightforward personality, and the other was a person who had been giving orders at the top of the empire for a long time. Neither of them had a gentle temper.
Du Gu Luanyue and Huo Wei were both losing their tempers at the moment. Their faces were red and their eyes were glaring angrily.
Du Gu Luanyue gritted her teeth and shouted, "I'm not yelling at you!"
Huo Wei threw the soft cushion behind his waist on the ground and shouted, "You can leave now!"
She looked down at the soft cushion on the ground. For some reason, her eyes started to feel sour. "Sorry, it's my fault. I shouldn't have yelled at you."
Du Gu Luanyue quickly calmed down. She knew it was her attitude that was wrong.
But for some reason, she just got anxious.
Huo Wei was in a weak position in the court now. Offending the Wei family would bring him no good. She began to worry about Huo Wei's safety.
Huo Wei stared straight ahead with his deep black eyes, saying nothing. But he felt a soft cushion being stuffed back behind his waist.
Du Gu Luanyue didn't say anything else and left his tent.
Aunt Mei Jiang came in with the meal a while later. She knew the two of them had just quarreled again, so her voice was especially gentle at the moment.
"My lord, this is the meal the empress ordered to be made especially for you. It will help your wound heal. Remember to eat it later."
Huo Wei didn't say a word. His cold and proud chin remained firm in the dim light, and his body didn't move at all.
Aunt Mei Jiang felt that the air in the tent was cold and heavy. She didn't dare to say another word and had to leave silently.
Just then, Huo Wei suddenly spoke. "Where is she?"
Aunt Mei Jiang said, "The empress has gone for a walk by the small river behind the mountain. She has just discussed and decided with the military generals how to distribute the supplies when entering the city tomorrow. She's finally got a bit of free time.
My lord, you don't have to worry about these matters. The empress has already taken care of everything.
The vice - general under your command also cooperated very well with the empress. Please don't worry and just recuperate well."
In the past few days, Du Gu Luanyue had been extremely busy. On the one hand, she was thinking about the situation in Danyang City.
On the other hand, she was also worried about whether Huo Wei's position in the court of the Northern Yan Dynasty had been taken by others.
Moreover, she was worried about how the Wei family would deal with Huo Wei in the future.
Aunt Mei Jiang had privately asked her what was going on. Du Gu Luanyue looked at her in confusion and asked why she had started to lose control in front of Huo Wei.
Aunt Mei Jiang felt that things were getting out of the empress's control. But the person the empress clearly loved was Sheng Yunqi. What was going on?
Huo Wei nodded. "I see... Has she had dinner?"
Aunt Mei Jiang replied, "Not yet. The empress said she had no appetite."
After Aunt Mei Jiang left, Huo Wei got up. But when he exerted force to get out of bed, he let out a muffled groan as his wound was pulled.
Huo Wei slowly propped himself up and stood up. He casually put on a robe and walked out with a wooden tray containing four dishes and a soup in one hand, heading towards the small river.
The small river was not far from the camp. It only took a few steps to get there.
The afterglow of the setting sun fell on her slender and somewhat lonely back, making it look a bit desolate.
Du Gu Luanyue was facing the small river, wearing a dark green long dress. She stood quietly by the river.
She didn't know what was wrong with herself. Huo Wei had always said before that she was being self - indulgent and that he had no feelings for her at all.
But he had silently done things to save her and also done some childish things to attract her attention.
She was touched, angry, and a whole lot of emotions were mixed together. These were things she had never experienced before.
Sheng Yunqi had never made her so confused.
After her plan was successfully completed, she would still go back and marry Sheng Yunqi. They were the ones who were going to be husband and wife.
Du Gu Luanyue looked up at the setting sun that was gradually sinking behind the mountain peak. Her thoughts came back. It was almost time to go and change Huo Wei's dressing. The wound couldn't be delayed.
At this moment, Du Gu Luanyue didn't even realize that after just having a fight, she was already calculating the time and remembering to change his dressing.
When she turned around, she found Huo Wei standing behind her, wearing a black long robe and looking a bit pale.
He was holding the food tray, and the food on it was untouched, neatly arranged.
But Huo Wei still looked at her coldly with his handsome face. His sharp thin lips uttered a sarcastic remark.
"You were angry just now. Were you going to jump into the river?"