a pillow in autumn

The last ray of light at dusk fell silently on the steps carved with white jade. The little servant of Xixinsi walked in with his hands in his sleeves, bowed silently to the people in the hall, and took a pair of copper scissors to cut them one by one. Candles.

The candlelight was a little bit brighter, and it shone on everyone's faces, bright and dark for a while.

Pei Dongcheng finally came out of the room. Both Shen Xianxun and Shen Youtang went up to greet him. Before he could speak, he heard a shrill voice outside the room singing: "The Empress Dowager is here."

Everyone had to face the outside of the hall and knelt down.

But after a while, two servant girls came in with lanterns, standing on the left and right sides, Zheng Xuan walked slowly to the door, followed by a fifteen or sixteen year old girl.The girl with curved eyebrows was holding her wrist and said: "Empress Dowager, please step up, be careful that there is a threshold under your feet."

Zheng Xuan patted the back of her hand and nodded, the ground was covered with kneeling people.Zheng Xuan glanced around, and said in a rather anxious tone: "Get up. Aijia heard that Prince Rui was assassinated on the way back to the palace, how is it now?"

Pei Dongcheng took two steps on his knees, kowtowed and said, "Prince Rui's wound has just stopped bleeding, and he is still awake."

Zheng Xuan frowned, "Is there a serious problem?"

Pei Dongcheng said: "The crossbow (arrow) has barbs, and the arrow penetrates several inches into the skin, hurting five viscera, I'm afraid... I'm afraid it's dangerous."

Shen Xianxun, who was standing next to the nanmu chair, felt that the bluestone bricks under her feet were all vacant. She tightened her hand holding the armrest of the chair, and she just shook her head when Shu Yao held her arm.The light from the candles reflected on her magnolia flower-like delicate face, which turned pale.

Zheng Xuan's complexion immediately sank, and he said angrily: "No matter what dangers Aijia has, as long as Prince Rui can take this hurdle with great strides!"

"Yes yes yes." Pei Dongcheng kowtowed again.

The shrill voice of the servant outside came in again: "The emperor is here..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Muchen stepped into the hall with his dragon boots, looked at the people in the hall, and saluted his mother: "My son, send my respects to the queen mother, why is the queen mother here?"

"What? Can't Aijia come?" Zheng Xuan glared at him: "San'er is injured like this, you are looking at me for getting old, and no one came to tell me?"

"I don't dare. I heard that you haven't slept well these two days. I'm afraid that the third brother's injury will startle you."

Just as he was talking, the door opened with a "squeak", Pei Yue stretched out half of his body and shouted, "Princess, Concubine!" Suddenly seeing the emperor and queen dowager in the hall, he was stunned.

Zhou Muchen frowned slightly, and asked, "How is Prince Rui's injury?"

Pei Yue blinked, lowered his eyebrows slightly, and said respectfully: "His Royal Highness Prince Rui seems to be awake, and he is muttering the name of the princess."

Everyone's eyes turned to Shen Xianxun at the same time, Zhou Muchen coughed, and said: "Then please ask Princess Rui to go in and have a look at third younger brother."

Xian Xun let go of her grip on the armchair, unconsciously sweating.She bowed her knees to thank her, and was supported by Shuyao and walked towards the door.

Empress Dowager Zheng who was standing on the main hall frowned slightly.

Shu Yao accompanied Xian Xun into the house, helped her to sit down in front of the bed, saw Zhou Mu's pale face covered with water, she felt a sudden groan in her heart, turned back with tears in her eyes, and slightly closed the door.

"Mubai." Xian Xun sat on the edge of the bed holding Mubai's hand and said with restraint.

Mubai's shoulders were covered with a thin velvet blanket, and his waist was also covered with a brocade quilt, only the skin on his belly was exposed, wrapped in circles of white gauze scarves.Tiny blood oozes from the gauze, and the wound has been smeared with sore medicine. The strong smell of the medicine is mixed with the smell of blood, which makes people think of the battlefield in a trance.

She was talking vaguely, her voice was weak, and she leaned down (body) and put her face on her lips, only to hear her softly whisper in her ear: "Xing'er... Xun Er..."

Repeatedly, only this sentence.

Xian Xun raised her head to look at her blurry outline in her eyes, and softly replied: "I'm here. Mu Bai, I'm here, waiting for you to wake up." She sniffed and put her The warm palm rubbed against his cheek, a crystal clear and round tear slipped from between the eyelashes, and silently melted into Mu Bai's warm palm.

Zhou Muchen told Pei Dongcheng not to go to the imperial hospital for treatment, but to concentrate on Prince Rui's injury.

The day passed quickly, and at dusk of the next day, Zhou Mubai still had no signs of waking up, but he developed a fever intermittently.

Shen Xianxun really wanted to stay in the room, but she was afraid of hindering the imperial doctor's diagnosis and treatment, so she had to wait in the hall. The maids brought exquisite meals, but she didn't want to drink them. Shuyao persuaded her a few words, and then she reluctantly ate half a bowl of hot water. Soup.

In the courtyard outside the palace, it is the waning of spring, the birds are chirping on the branches, and the pure white (pink) red of the syllium is blooming.Shen Xianxun stood in front of the window leaning on the railing and looked out, the breeze was blowing on his face, the scenery in front of him was still covered with a subtle layer of light blue.

At night, Zhou Mubai gradually began to talk nonsense, his words were lingering, and the medicine stone did not enter.Pei Dongcheng looked at her pulse more and more solemnly, Pei Yue stood aside and looked at his father, Pei Dongcheng frowned and said: "The heat is full of body fluid, and the body is like burnt coal. Prince Rui's pulse condition is vain and disordered, I'm afraid the injury will be compounded." hurt."

Pei Dongcheng pondered for a long while before the sick bed, then asked Pei Yue to go to the imperial dining room, brought a jar of mellow and strong wine, patted off the mud seal, took it out with a thin towel, and wiped Prince Rui's palms and feet.

Shen Xianxun always set off from Prince Rui's Mansion before dawn, and stayed in the palace for a whole day, and was escorted back to the mansion by the Shen brothers and the personal guards of the palace when the key was locked at the palace gate.

Both the Empress Dowager and the Emperor visited several times, and Zhou Mubai's high fever slowly subsided on the fourth day.Pei Dongcheng breathed a sigh of relief, not daring to leave without authorization.

Sure enough, around the hour of Hai, Zhou Mubai really woke up leisurely.The first thing she said when she woke up was still: "Where's the princess?"

At the first moment of Mao shi, the palace gate opened, and the two-four-horse carriage of Prince Rui's Mansion stopped at the north gate of the palace, Xiao Tuanzi put the footrest on, Shen Xianxun got out of the car with the help of the girl, and walked to the palace in normal times .When she walked to the white jade steps, she suddenly felt that there was no sound in the hall, and her heart shook violently. Sijin, who was with her, saw that her face turned pale suddenly, and hurriedly raised his hand to support her.

She collected herself and walked up the first step.

"Prince Rui!" A clear voice sounded from the side, and Pei Yue walked over quickly: "Greetings to Princess Rui. Prince Rui woke up last night, and the Empress Dowager took Prince Rui to Jinyu Palace to rest. My father and I are waiting in the side hall of Jinyu Palace, and my father said that sooner or later you will definitely come to see Prince Rui, let me come here and wait." The two of them walked towards Jinyu Palace while talking, Pei Yue rubbed the back of his head, and said shyly, "I never thought you would arrive so early, and thank you for waiting so long."

Shen Xianxun made a false alarm, at first hearing that Mu Bai's injury was improving, how could he blame him, she just pursed her lips and asked how Mu Bai woke up last night, and walked quickly with him.

When we arrived at Jinyu Palace, it was still very early, Shen Xianxun greeted the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager nodded, pointed to the girl who was accompanying her and said: "Qi'er, take Princess Rui to the side hall, look at the three Son."

Her tone was a bit cold, Shen Xianxun was slightly surprised, but she didn't think much about it, and let the girl lead the way.

The girl was wearing a snow-white brocade gown, with complicated (pink) red fretwork piping slightly rolled at the lapel, reflecting her young and pretty face.

Xian Xun couldn't see clearly, but looking at her figure, she should be the girl who accompanied the Queen Mother to visit Zhou Mubai in the palace a few days ago.

Zhou Mubai was still asleep, the smell of blood faded away, leaving only the smell of medicine in the room.

Xian Xun sat quietly in front of the couch, and the girl retreated out tactfully.Mu Bai's face was still pale, but it was no longer the gray mist of before, Xian Xun stretched out his hand and touched Mu Bai's forehead.

She didn't wake her up, but just took her hand, put it next to her temple hair, and stroked her cheek for a while. "Mubai." She said very lightly: "Get well soon. I'll wait for you to recover and take me back home."

Going out of the room again, Sijin and the girl named Qier were waiting in front of the door, the girl smiled slightly and led them to the Queen Mother's bedroom.

Seeing them coming back, Zheng Xuan asked a few words about Mubai's situation, then looked at Shen Xianxun and said: "San'er has not been completely cured of injuries, big and small, since he went to the western frontier two years ago, this time he was almost at the gate of hell. After walking around, my heart is really hanging."

Xian Xun nodded obediently, and Zheng Xuan said again: "I'm just afraid that she encountered something unclean in the blood light, and I was thinking of praying for her to get rid of the disaster. After much deliberation, only you are the last Sure. Go to Jialeng Monastery tomorrow and transcribe the Seven-Day Medicine King Sutra for San'er. In front of the Bodhisattva, you can fulfill your wish."

Xian Xun hesitated for a moment, finally lowered her eyelashes, and replied: "I would like to obey the Queen Mother's will."

The court meeting in the Chengjin Palace was over, Zhou Muchen went back to the imperial study, and the emperor approved a few memorials, then changed into a slightly more comfortable ordinary clothes, and walked towards the Jinyu Palace.

Last night he had heard the news that Zhou Mubai had woken up, Pei Dongcheng said, this catastrophe is more than half over.Quanqing Palace packed up properly early in the morning, but the queen mother insisted on taking Mu Bai to Jinyu Palace to rest, Mu Chen had no choice but to let her go.He just turned around and told the Pei family father and son again and again that Prince Rui's personal daily life should not be handed over to anyone.

So that day in the side hall of Jinyu Palace, he was really surprised to see a fifteen or sixteen year old girl wiping Zhou Mubai's sweat with a soft towel.

"The queen mother is well." Zhou Muchen watched Zheng Xuan walk in, and greeted him slightly.

Zheng Xuan was taking a nap, but when he heard that the emperor was coming, he came over with a few maids.She looked at her son, then at the girl in brocade clothes who was kneeling on the ground, and said gently, "Qi'er, come and see Your Majesty soon."

Kneeling, the girl turned slightly, and saluted Zhou Muchen: "Sun Qi, daughter of the people, greet Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty." Her tone was delicate and sweet, her voice was clear and sweet, every sentence was like an oriole coming out of the valley.

The author has something to say: This chapter is to make up for yesterday.I am really a model worker.

Someone asked me why the emperor's psychology and behavior changed from moment to moment. I think this is quite normal.Isn't he always in the same state of mind towards Zhou Mubai, or in other words, the emperor towards ministers who have made great contributions?Not to mention far away, it means that Zhu Yuanzhang killed more than 30 courtiers in the [-]th year of Hongwu, and almost all the founding heroes were killed.Besides, Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, after nine kings seized his heir, killed all those who should be killed or not (the last one left, who was for others to see, also closed the clan mansion for life.) So, I think, Zhou Muchen should be After becoming an emperor, the mentality will change, which is really the psychology of the emperor.If he can hesitate between killing and not killing, he is already a brother Gu Nian.

Fourteen dropped a mine;

Mo Fang hugged me tightly and threw a landmine;

25245691 dropped a mine;

At the end of July, a hand grenade was dropped.

thank you all.very grateful.Why repay it?Try to add another chapter today. (All I can say is do my best.)