Father, Mother Escaped Again

Chapter 223: A Rare Initiative

In fact, the truth of the two people's fanciful situation is actually...

About half a time before the incense, Hua Nongying slowly stretched out her hand towards Xia Yuqing under Xia Yuqing's trembling gaze.

Knowing that she couldn't avoid it, Xia Yuqing simply closed her eyes, stalking her neck with a look of death, facing Hua Nongying.

"Puff...Puff..." Xia Yuqing clearly heard the beating sound of her heart disorder, and then...

"Little Junior Sister, what's the matter with the bruise on your neck? This is a cruel move!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

After seeing the jokes in his eyes, his small face sank, and he immediately realized that he was being tricked, and gave a speechless look at the flowers and shadows.

I just wanted to complain, but saw Hua Nongying approached herself a few minutes, and if she felt it, she said: "Also, I didn't feel much just now. I'll take a closer look. Junior sister, what's wrong with your lips? Why does it look a little swollen?"

"!" Xia Yuqing was taken aback, she suddenly remembered the sad experience not long ago, she pressed her lips, and found that her lips were indeed a little swollen, and she instantly felt...the whole person is not good!

Xia Yuqing, who was engrossed in dealing with her third senior brother, didn't know how her present posture with Hua Nongying was so fascinating.

Xia Yuqing shrank into a ball because of the shock she had just received. Hua Nongying covered her whole body, and the hand that had just stroked her bruise on her neck had not yet recovered, and her face was even more to see Xia Yuqing clearly. The red and swollen lips moved forward slightly, as if the whole body was pressed against Xia Yuqing's body and insulted him.

Xia Yuqing hadn't figured out how to fool her third brother, when she saw that the image of Huanong who had been in front of her was stabbed by something, she suddenly moved away from her body.

In the next second, an unusually sharp dagger flew under Xia Yuqing's eyelids with such bright spots, and plunged directly into the wall on the side of Xia Yuqing, making a loud noise from the boss. ring.

"What are you doing?" There was another question that implied anger and coldness following Xiangdong.

Xia Yuqing stared blankly at the cracked wall next to him, as well as Feng Tingye with a gloomy and murderous expression at the door. Later, she realized that she had just shadowed with Hua Nong and all sorts of behaviors, the general attack adults would Just saw them... so misunderstood, right?

Xia Yuqing's head was blank for a second, and then the villain in her head couldn't help but let out a long scream, it was over, it was over, the master general attack was very angry, and the consequences were serious!Sure enough, this world is going to be destroyed in advance!

Compared with Xia Yuqing’s pale face, Hua Nongying is not at all nervous about being caught in bed. She looks at someone at the door with ease, as if she was almost pierced by a dagger just now. It is not him who wears it.

"You can be regarded as coming, so slow, waiting for you to fall asleep."

"..." This kid was brave, and he just did something like that, this time he was able to talk and laugh like a okay person despite the killing intent of that god.I really don't know whether to praise him for his courage or to say that he is heartless.

"The emperor..." Xia Yuqing was messed up in the wind for a moment, and finally recovered, quickly ran down from the couch, and went straight to Feng Tingye, ignoring Feng Tingye's ugly face, and threw in. He grabbed his arms and explained nervously, "The emperor, don't get me wrong, Brother San is just... just helping me see the injury, not what you think, there is really nothing between us, you have to believe me !"

"Seeing hurt?" Feng Tingye's gloomy face changed slightly, and he couldn't care about his anger. He hurriedly straightened the person in his arms, wanting to see where Xia Yuqing was hurt.

The few people on the side were also shocked when they heard the words, one by one, they curbed the expression on their faces while frowning and leaning forward.

"It's on the neck." Seeing everyone's faces gloomy, Hua Nongying kept scanning Xia Yuqing with her eyes, and kindly reminded her.

The few people were startled, and suddenly remembered that when they first saw them, Hua Nongying's hand seemed to be on Xia Yuqing's neck. Is it possible...

In an instant, several pairs of eyes fell on Xia Yuqing’s neck, only to realize that there was a faint bruise on Xia Yuqing’s neck, and the shape of the bruise seemed to be used by someone. The traces left by the pinching hands.

Feng Tingye stretched out his hand and stroked the traces on Xia Yuqing's neck. Only such a deep mark can be imagined with how much effort the fierce person used at that time. That person... really wanted to kill Xia Yuqing!

As long as you apply a little more force, or pinch for a while, the person in front of you can't wait for himself to appear or be rescued by Hua Nong Ying...

Thinking of this, Feng Tingye's heart throbbed, and he only felt that his heart was stung by something. At first, he felt a slight tingling, but it slowly spread bit by bit into an unbearable pain.

Looking at the ignorant appearance of the person in his arms, Feng Tingye once again felt what is called after fear, and clearly said that she would not be hurt a little bit more, but in the end...

Seeing Feng Tingye touching her neck, Xia Yuqing hadn't said a word for a long time, and her eyes gradually became dark and incomprehensible. Not knowing what she was thinking, she shrank her neck with a guilty conscience, and said timidly: "My lord, Brother Sanhuang and I really didn't do anything, you have to believe me."

Xia Yuqing's pleading pulled Feng Tingye back from her mind. Seeing Xia Yuqing's expression like a frightened bird, she knew that she had been frightened a lot this day.

With a soft heart, Feng Tingye sighed softly, stretched out his hand to completely take Xia Yuqing into his arms, and asked in a low voice, "How did the neck hurt? Who pinched it?"

Xia Yuqing did not resist, and submissively nestled into Feng Tingye’s arms. After smelling the familiar smell of this person, her nervous and uneasy heart settled bit by bit, and she reached out and hugged Feng Tingye’s waist. He muffled: "Brother Sihuang was angry... pinched."

As soon as Xia Yuqing said this, everyone clearly felt Feng Tingye's rare and quiet aura of the whole body, and suddenly became compelling again, but this time no one felt that he was making a fuss.

They had all seen Xia Yuqing's neck wounds, and at a glance at such a deep mark, they knew that the person was killed.Although I don't know how to close my hand later, if there is no time to close, then Xia Yuqing...may just disappear from the world.

When I thought of Xia Yuqing, what would happen to Feng Tingye?Everyone shuddered in unison, and couldn't imagine it.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay now." Feng Tingye's slightly rejoicing voice echoed in the room, and he didn't know whether he was comforting Xia Yuqing or comforting himself.

Xia Yuqing was silent for a long time before she seemed to calm down, lifted her head from Feng Tingye's arms, and looked at Xia Mingyuan and others.

As soon as he was about to speak, Yun Zhong Yue already saw her slightly swollen lips with sharp eyes, and said in doubt: "Little Junior Sister, why does your mouth look a little swollen? Is it stung by something?"

Xia Yuqing was agitated, glanced at Feng Tingye, who was still holding her with a guilty conscience, and smiled dryly: "No...nothing, I have gotten angry recently, toothache...yes, toothache!"

"Toothache? Shouldn't the toothache be the cheek? Which toothache is the lip?"

"Um... it's not a toothache, it's that when I woke up early this morning, I didn't pay attention. I accidentally bumped into the bedpost and knocked my mouth. Ahahaha..."

"Bumping on the bed post? Did you knock your mouth? Little Junior Sister, your knock is really cruel, it's all swollen!" The more Yun Zhong touched her chin, she couldn't help but looked at Xia Yuqing's lips. , Tsk Tsk exclaimed.

"But...Isn't it, it hurt me to death when I knocked it down! Cough cough, it's okay, don't talk about this, it's really shameful to say it, don't say it."

Xia Yuqing tried to maintain the expression on her face to make herself look less guilty, and she shook her hands harder towards the clouds, hoping that he could let go of himself and stop struggling with this issue.

Feng Tingye watched Xia Yuqing's every move calmly, as well as the small eyes that he cast at him from time to time. Her eyes flickered, knowing that this was Xia Yuqing's guilty conscience. This girl was obviously lying, but why did she want to Lie, could it be...

Without waiting for Feng Tingye to delve into it, one person jumped out unwillingly and interjected: "Miss Xia's swollen lips were forced to kiss by the four princes, tusk tusk... It's so terrible, it really makes me such a pure young man who doesn't understand human affairs... um um um..."

Everyone suddenly turned their heads, looking at Hu You who spoke out in disbelief, the expressions on their faces were completely frozen.

Ye Sheng wanted to reach out and cover Hu You's mouth, but after all, he was still a step late.Facing everyone's shocked eyes, Ye Sheng smiled twice: "Children are ignorant and like to talk nonsense. Don't mind, don't mind, I will take him away, then I will take him away."

After speaking, Ye Sheng picked up Hu You and fled like a wind under his feet.

Xia Yuqing looked at the backs of the two of them going away, was stunned for two seconds, reacted suddenly, and burst out a foul language: "Fuck, you two were already watching at that time, and even I was almost pinched. I want to be indifferent when I die, and only show up slowly when people leave. You two bastards, don't run, today my aunt won't beat you all around looking for teeth, the aunt will give your surname!"

Xia Yuqing's angry roar was tantamount to indirectly acknowledging the truthfulness of Hu You's words.

There was dead silence in the room for a few seconds, and a low laugh suddenly burst out: "Puff..."

Everyone froze and followed the prestige, facing Shanghua Nongying's uncontrollable smiling face: "That, hahaha, sorry, it's really you..."

"..." Xia Yuqing instinctively felt the danger coming upon hearing Hua Nongying's burst of laughter.

"It turns out, Little Junior Sister, your lips were swollen by being forced to kiss!" Yun Zhong Yue's expression of admiration was really flat.

"Tian Lei is touching the ground, little emperor sister, you..." Xia Ming made a distressed look on his face, but if you look closely, you can see that there is a trace of gloat in his eyes.

"Ting Ye, you seem to be wearing a green hat right now." Of course, at this time, Shao Zitang is indispensable for fear that the world will not be chaotic. What is a good brother doing?The good brother jumped out and cut the brother twice at this time.

"..." Xia Yuqing looked at the men in this group of downhills, and once again felt the malice from the world, without such bullying!Those of you who are so fanatical and instigate the divorced relationship between husband and wife, are you not afraid of retribution?Can you still play happily?QAQ

Xia Yuqing was already desperate for the so-called friendship in this world, so she had to do her last self-help with a dying struggle, turning her head to face Feng Tingye and said pitifully: "The emperor, I really didn't volunteer, I...ah..."

Before Xia Yuqing had time to finish, she was carried out by Feng Tingye like a chicken. How familiar is this posture!

"The emperor... the emperor, what are you doing, let me down quickly, let me down! Nothing really happened to Brother Sihuang and I, that's an accident!"

Sure enough, I'm not afraid of opponents like gods, I'm afraid of teammates who are dragging their feet, , Hu You, this time you really hurt me, um...

Xia Yuqing screamed and surprised everyone in Yingge who were chatting not far from the yard. Yingge glanced at each other and said in amazement: "This voice seems to be the young man who wanted to visit your Royal Highness last time?"

"No, it's so terrible. Go and call your Highness over. Something has happened!"

A gang of girls rushed to find Xia Mingxi. When Xia Mingxi heard that her family, relatives and relatives were in trouble, she went straight to the scene of the crime without saying a word.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of the yard, he ran into the black-faced Feng Tingye. The ambition that he had originally promised to ask for an explanation for his junior sister was like a deflated ball and withered.

Feng Tingye glanced at Xia Mingxi coldly, and muttered, "Where is the nearest wing?"

"..." Whose home is this?!Although you are the emperor of the Kingdom of Ye, or the imperial brother-in-law of your Highness, do you really be a real man by arrogantly instructing your master in someone else's home?!

Xia Mingxi kept ranting in his heart, but still didn't dare to show it on his face, stiff body obediently pointed a direction for Feng Tingye.

Xia Yuqing, who was held in her hand by Feng Tingye, glanced at him with a grieving look on her face, and her face was full of sad accusations: , Brother Erhuang, wasting our brother and sister relationship for so many years, can you swell Can't save it!

Xia Mingxi received Xia Yuqing’s accusatory gaze, and made a heart-wrenching confession. Little emperor sister, it’s not the emperor’s brother who couldn’t save him, but the enemy is too powerful. The emperor’s abilities are limited and love cannot help !Besides, this is your housework, and you should solve it by yourself. I am such an outsider and it is really difficult to intervene, so you should ask for your own blessings, little emperor sister, emperor brother, I am optimistic about you!

Xia Yuqing watched Xia Mingxi waving a small handkerchief to bid farewell to her innocent appearance, and silently compared her middle finger to him from the bottom of her heart. Second brother, I can see you through, friends!

Seeing Xia Yuqing hanging two rows of noodles in tears and being picked up by Feng Tingye, Xia Mingxi's face was slung, and he was about to let out a sigh of relief. Suddenly, he felt a slap on his back.

"Hey...Brother Big Emperor, don't scare me, scary people will scare people to death." Xia Mingxi turned his head to look at the person behind him, her face pale and complained.

Xia Mingyuan looked at Xia Mingxi up and down for a long time, and chuckled: "Isn't it said that you have been lying sick in bed and thanking guests behind closed doors? Why is this meeting house looking at you quite alive?"

Xia Mingxi suddenly stiffened, and he gave a shy smile and changed the subject: "Brother Emperor, why are you coming to my house free?"

Xia Mingyuan and Xia Mingxi were born by the same mother, and their relationship has always been very good. Whether it was before or after Xia Mingxi's crossing, Xia Mingyuan took good care of this younger brother.The two also moved frequently between the two. Xia Mingyuan walked Xia Mingxi's mansion as freely as his own backyard, but since Xia Mingyuan got married, there is less time and time to walk around Xia Mingxi's mansion.

At this time, his own big emperor brother suddenly appeared in his backyard. How could Xia Mingxi be surprised?

"It's not for the little emperor sister. I'll talk about this later." Xia Mingyuan swallowed as soon as he spoke. He knew how many catties the emperor brother had, and it was better not to involve him in this matter.

"Oh..." Xia Mingxi nodded, seemingly understanding, and then as if thinking of something, a little worried, "Well, brother Da Huang, sister Xiao Huang is really okay? We..."

Do we really need to help out?Looking at Feng Tingye's black face, how could it look like a domestic violence?!Pity my lively, lovely, innocent and kind-hearted little emperor sister, my only difficult friend in this world, is about to die young under such domestic violence, and I will die!

"Come out?" Xia Mingyuan raised his eyebrows, glanced at Xia Mingxi, and said in a low voice, "Are you sure you are here to help, not more and more? And you think that man will simply let go of bad things People?"

As soon as Xia Mingyuan said this, Xia Mingxi suddenly felt that his neck was chilled, and the little sense of justice that was finally born was pinched in the cradle.

"Good, let's take care of other people's housework." Xia Mingyuan patted Xia Mingxi's shoulder comfortably and persuaded him.

Xia Mingxi's face straightened, and he said firmly: "Well, I listen to the emperor's brother!"

"..."

Xia Yuqing didn't know that she had been completely abandoned by her unscrupulous second emperor brother. At this moment, she was being forced into the nearest wing like a chicken.

With a bang, the door closed, completely ruining her chance of escape.

"The emperor..." Xia Yuqing said timidly and wanted to ask for mercy. Before she could speak, she felt that she had been thrown into the soft bed.

Although Feng Tingye was furious, he still knew how to restrain himself.With this skill, Xia Yuqing won't get hurt at all.

After rolling around on the bed, before Xia Yuqing let go of her feet and escape, a black shadow masked her face, and quickly snatched her slightly swollen lips before she could react.

"Um..." Xia Yuqing widened her eyes and looked at the deep and deep eyes of the person who was pressing above her. For some reason, she always felt that she had seen a little bit of pain in the eyes of this blessed man. .

The movement that had originally wanted to struggle was so abruptly froze, and the outstretched hand became obediently wrapped around Feng Tingye's generous back.

Feng Tingye seemed to perceive Xia Yuqing's catering, a faint light flashed across his ink-colored eyes, and the lips that kissed Xia Yuqing became more unscrupulous, his tongue cleverly and hardly pried Xia Yuqing's teeth , I want to go deeper.

Unexpectedly, because of his action, Xia Yuqing, who was originally obedient, resisted with some discomfort, and even the hands that hugged Feng Tingye's back suddenly tightened, clutching Feng Tingye's clothes tightly. Snorted in pain: "Um, don't... hurt..."

Xia Yuqing's unclear muffled hum reached Feng Tingye's ears, causing him to shake all over, and hurriedly withdrew from Xia Yuqing's mouth.

Xia Yuqing got free, immediately coughed lowly, reached out her hand to touch her painful lips and turned her face away.

Seeing her like this, Feng Tingye frowned and became a little nervous: "Where does it hurt? I see."

Xia Yuqing also forgot Feng Tingye's anger when she heard the sound. She looked at Feng Tingye with tears and said aggrieved: "The pain in her mouth."

Feng Tingye was taken aback, and carefully reached out and touched Xia Yuqing's lips, and when he looked closer, he discovered that there was a very deep hole on Xia Yuqing's slightly swollen lips, almost visible flesh.

Feng Tingye seemed to have thought of something, his face solemnly said, "Xia Mingxuan did this too?"

Xia Yuqing was startled, her face flushed and shook her head: "No, when I wanted to bite him... I accidentally bit myself."

Feng Tingye was stunned, looking at Xia Yuqing's pitiful appearance covering her mouth, and tentatively asked: "You bite him?"

"Yes!" Xia Yuqing said angrily, "I'm not willing, he's...like that, can I not bite him?"

Feng Tingye looked at Xia Yuqing's aggrieved look and stopped asking, but stared at Xia Yuqing's small face without saying a word.

Xia Yuqing was frizzled by him, moved a little uneasy, and took the initiative to explain: "At that time, I just wanted to escape, but I didn't expect to be caught righteously, let alone the Fourth Emperor, he would say... …like me."

Having said that, Xia Yuqing keenly sensed the change in Feng Tingye's body, and she shrank her neck again in fright.

Feng Tingye narrowed his eyes dangerously, and asked in a dull voice, "He said he likes you?"

Xia Yuqing pursed her lips, hesitated and nodded faithfully. If she can't trust the person in front of her, then who else in this world can make her believe.

Although I have always known that Xia Mingxuan's thoughts on Xia Yuqing are not simple, but now I am a little surprised when Xia Yuqing said it herself: "You are brothers and sisters!"

"But... Brother Sihuang said..."

"Ok?"

"He said... we are not really related by blood."

Feng Tingye was stunned again when he heard this, and took a deep look at Xia Yuqing.What Xia Yuqing said... If Xia Yuqing wasn't Xia Haotian's blood, it would be...

"He really said that?"

"Well, I personally heard what he said to the Royal Concubine Roujia, and the Royal Concubine didn't refute it after hearing it. It should be true."

When Xia Yuqing said this, Feng Tingye's eyebrows wrinkled more deeply.

The Royal Concubine Roujia did not refute, that is to say... this person is not a person with the blood of the royal family of Xia, ten of them* are... Xia Mingxuan.

Thinking of this, Feng Tingye's face suddenly became dark and difficult to understand, thinking of Xia Mingxuan's face similar to that of the Royal Concubine of Roujia, and excluding Xia Mingxuan from stealing the beam and replacing the pillar, and the civet cat in exchange for the prince, it is extremely possible. It was... a child born outside of the Royal Concubine Roujia and Xia Haotian.

This kind of thing is not uncommon among the royal family. In order to regain the honor and favor, many concubines who have fallen out of favor took risks, had relationships with people other than the emperor, and gave birth to children.If this kind of thing is found out with bad luck, it is a serious crime of confusing the royal blood, putting a green hat on the emperor, and deceiving the emperor.But if you are lucky, you can hide it from the mother, and you will be expensive for the whole life.

Feng Tingye's heart went back and forth, but he didn't show it at all.Xia Yuqing saw that Feng Tingye hadn't spoken for a long time, and she couldn't understand his thoughts for a while, and cautiously called out: "The emperor?"

Feng Tingye returned to his senses, looking at Xia Yuqing eagerly at herself, remembering what she had just said, her eyes sank again, reaching out to touch Xia Yuqing’s neck, and rolling jealously: "Since he likes you , Why hurt you again?"

Xia Yuqing touched the scar on her neck, and lowered her head and said, "Well, because I bit him, he was very angry, and then she thought...Of course I couldn't resist, but I didn't succeed in hitting him, but was irritated. He, he ended up pinching my neck..."

Xia Yuqing's intermittent narration made Feng Tingye guess the situation at the time, and his face instantly became a little gloomy.However, Feng Tingye is more concerned about Xia Yuqing's slightly dodging eyes. With his understanding of Xia Yuqing, this is definitely Xia Yuqing's guilty conscience. She must have something else... she didn't say anything.

"Ai Concubine, are you hiding something from me?"

Xia Yuqing became stiff, turned her head to look at Feng Tingye's face with a smile but a smile, then gave a dry smile, raised a white flag and surrendered: "I said...I said... Brother Sihuang said...I, Uh, no, it’s the former Xia Yuqing. When I was a child, I said I would marry him, be his wife, and become his person. But I can’t really blame me for this. It was the former Xia Yuqing who did it. I really I don’t know anything about it. I swear by the sky, I’m really the only one in my life, the sky is the proof, the sun and the moon are the mirror, I..."

Xia Yuqing was busy showing her heartfelt heart, Feng Tingye looked at her tight little face with an extremely serious expression, and couldn't help but laugh in a low voice.

Xia Yuqing heard Feng Tingye's voice stiff, and before she was angry, she felt that she was wrapped around her waist from behind, and a slight warm breath came from her ears, which made her ears itchy. .

"Well, I believe in you." Feng Tingye's low and soft voice came from behind him, causing Xia Yuqing to tremble slightly, but her heart was a little suspicious. Why did Master Attack say that today?

Xia Yuqing didn't know how to answer the conversation, Feng Tingye didn't speak any more, and the room fell into a moment of awkward silence.

Xia Yuqing shrank into Feng Tingye's arms a little uncomfortably, and the two of them stayed one after the other, lying motionless on the bed in a tightly touching posture.

After a long time, Xia Yuqing seemed to have made up some kind of determination, and asked in a low voice: "The emperor, what just... do you want to continue?"

"Ok?"

Xia Yuqing took a deep breath, mustered up the courage and repeated it again: "I said, the one we just had, do we have to continue?"

With the moonlight, Feng Tingye could see Xia Yuqing's slightly red ear tips, and the corners of her lips slowly curled up.

Seeing that the people behind him were not moving, Xia Yuqing became so ashamed that she wanted to find a hole on the spot and bury herself in it. Why did she say this on impulse?

Just when Xia Yuqing regretted not, the person who was holding Xia Yuqing's waist suddenly turned over and pressed directly on Xia Yuqing's body. Under Xia Yuqing's surprised eyes, she reached out and touched her slightly swollen lips, and whispered. Said: "Doesn't it hurt?"

Xia Yuqing was stunned, and then she realized that Feng Tingye was sympathetic to her injury, so... but today...

Xia Yuqing shook her head gently, and for the first time since crossing, proactively stretched out her hand towards Feng Tingye at such a time, wrapped his neck, and said uncomfortably: "I...I want you."

Feng Tingye was stunned by Xia Yuqing's rare initiative, bowed his head and kissed Xia Yuqing's cheek with pity, and whispered, "Well, I will be careful."

"Ok."

The clothes were unwrapped bit by bit, obviously the same action, but because it came from different people's hands, it gave Xia Yuqing a completely different feeling, just because it was this person...only this person is different!

Xia Yuqing took the initiative this evening, because she wanted to prove that she existed and that she was still alive in this world by the temperature of the person in front of her.

What Xia Yuqing didn't tell Feng Tingye was that the moment Xia Mingxuan pinched her neck, his figure appeared in her mind.Somehow she suddenly remembered the words Feng Tingye said to her at that time, and the one that remained was the most painful.

She didn't want to be the painful one, nor did she want to see this person suffering.It wasn't until that moment that she understood how much she didn't want to leave this person.

The red account is swaying, and the account is warm, perhaps because of the rare initiative and too devotion, or perhaps the day's tossing is too tiring, and Xia Yuqing is over only once, and then I fell asleep.

Using the moonlight outside the window, Feng Tingye stroked Xia Yuqing's sweaty hair, his eyes hovering for a while at the hard-to-dissipate bruise on Xia Yuqing's neck, and then lowered his head and kissed Xia Yuqing's forehead lightly.

There was a cold flash across his eyes. Since someone dared to bully him so blatantly, if he didn't send a gift in return, it seemed a bit unreasonable.

In the middle of the night, a cold wind blew outside the window, and Xia Yuqing hid in Feng Tingye's arms a little bit shivering.Feng Tingye glanced at her dozingly, stretched out his hand to pull the quilt up on the two of them, and took her into his arms.

The light and shadow outside the window flickered, mixed with the flying gauze tents inside the house, covering the warmth of the room.