CHAPTER 1748: CHAPTER 1755 LIU XI PERFORMS SURGERY (5)

Juhua listened, wiped the tear beads from her cheek, and turned her head to say to Cai Wei, "Cai Wei, thank you, if it weren’t for you, I would have been finished today...."

Cai Wei didn’t have the strength to say anything, just pulled the corners of her mouth into a pale smile. Her heart was still pounding wildly, and for some reason, she always felt like something was wrong, but she couldn’t figure out what it was!

Fortunately, the rain was heavy, and the fire did not spread. After burning down that house, it gradually went out. Such a big fire quickly attracted the neighbors around. Everyone didn’t bother to hold umbrellas or wear raincoats. They all ran to the Fate House to watch the bustle, exclaiming, "Oh my, it burned people into skeletons, four or five people, what a sin!"

"It must be Zhang Tiezui revealing the secrets of fortune-telling, and he was punished by heaven. Indeed, heaven’s secrets must not be revealed!"

"Look at this big locust tree, it’s at least a hundred years old, and now it’s burned to charcoal. It shows how angry the heavens were..."

...

The Fate House and the fortune-teller were both burned, so naturally, no fortune-telling could be done. Cai Wei sent Juhua home and returned to the palace alone.

As soon as she returned to her sleeping chamber, Cai Wei immediately entered the space. By this time, the man had finished reviewing the memorials and was in the kitchen cooking. The three children squatted on the ground around a water basin playing with fish.

At the moment she saw them, Cai Wei suddenly realized that due to her negligence, she had almost been separated from them forever, and couldn’t help but feel a surge of emotion. She walked quickly over and hugged the man from behind, pressing her face against his solid back.

"What’s wrong?"

Nangong Yi, with both hands covered in flour, could only turn his head and kiss her on the top of her hair. It wasn’t often that Cai Wei took the initiative to hug him, so something must be up, otherwise she wouldn’t be acting abnormally.

Cai Wei didn’t hide anything and told him about her experience today, "Yi, do you know? I almost didn’t get to see you all. Or, I almost killed you all..."

Upon hearing this, Nangong Yi was also taken aback—not out of fear for himself, but out of concern for them. In his heart, she and the children had long since become more important than his life.

"From now on, be more careful. Try not to leave the palace. If you have to go out, let’s go together. If anything happens, at least we’ll have each other. If something happens to you, how would I live?"

The man, not caring about the flour on his hands, turned his body and hugged her tightly, burying his face in her neck and murmuring to her.

"Mm, I understand."

Cai Wei nodded, unable to suppress a smile, and much of her fear dissipated.

"If something happens to you, how would I live?"

This line seemed more like something a woman would say. In her impression, it’s usually when something happens to the man that the woman, crying like a pear blossom with rain, uses this line to blame the man for being careless. For Nangong Yi, a monarch of a country, to say such a thing, it was truly amusing.

But beyond the laughter, it also made her feel a lot of emotions.

She didn’t doubt the truth in his words at all, because she could see and feel it. After hearing about her experience, he turned around and hugged her tightly, his arms trembling somewhat. It showed he was afraid of losing her, his heart was pounding so fiercely it seemed like it would leap out...

In fact, she now left the palace less and less, because inside the palace, there was him, there were the children, and nothing outside attracted her anymore. Unless as a last resort, she would never go out easily, and from now on, she would do so even less!