a pillow in autumn

The scorching summer is finally coming to an end, and the chrysanthemum banquet in Qiongzhou is in full swing. The literati come here to enjoy flowers or compose poems, or shake paper fans and drink a cup of aged flower wine.

Due to the war and disputes between the two princes this year, even Dongli's hometown, which is a quiet corner, is more deserted than in previous years.

A girl wearing light green clothes that are not old, came out from a medicine shop in the west of the city. She tightened the herbs in her hands, hurried past the bustling long street, and walked into an inconspicuous inn with her head down.

From the Foguang Temple on the outskirts of Ruijing to the west, a group of people hurried on the road non-stop. A heavy rain the day before yesterday trapped everyone in the mountain temple. Maybe they felt the cold. Shuyao started to have a fever at night. At first, he was just weak. Shuyao Not wanting to drag down the convoy, she said that she could hold on, but there was not even a barefoot doctor in the villages along the way, and at the next night, Shuyao became a little groggy.

Shen Xianxun took the initiative to go to the city to rest for a day, and asked Siyuan to find a shop assistant to invite a doctor to come and get Shuyao's pulse. Siyuan followed the doctor back to the pharmacy to get medicine, and quietly wiped tears while walking.The doctor comforted and said, this is an emergency of typhoid fever, after taking the medicine and recuperating for a few days, it will recover, so don't worry.

Siyuan shook his head, but couldn't tell the difference.Holding the medicinal herbs, he paid the silver taels and walked back, walked to the door of the inn, wiped away his tears, and then went in.

Because of the large number of female relatives, and in order to avoid unnecessary disturbance, they asked for a small independent courtyard and lived in the east and west rooms.

"Miss." Siyuan knocked on the door of the small guest bedroom in the east wing.

Shen Xianxun opened the door, and Siyuan came in with a few packs of medicine.

"Is Shuyao awake?" She asked anxiously.

Xian Xun shook her head, looking back at the bed, also a little worried.

Siyuan put the medicinal herbs on the table, and walked quickly to the bed, Shuyao closed her eyes tightly, her breathing was slightly heavy, her cheeks showed a sick red color.Siyuan's eye circles were red again, she wiped her eyes, and said in a low voice, "I'll go to the kitchen to make medicine." She got up as she spoke, and walked out the door with the herbs on the table.

Another day later, Princess Bao, who lives in the West Wing, came to visit, first she said a few words of relief, and then pulled Xian Xun to stand in front of the window.Shuyao has become a little more sober, and vaguely heard Princess Bao talking about "a place of right and wrong", and saying "it is inconvenient to stay for a long time", "for fear of changes" and other words.

Shen Xianxun is also in a dilemma.

When Siyuan came back from the kitchen with the fried medicine, Shuyao asked her to beg the princess to leave as soon as possible.

"Why?" Siyuan asked anxiously, "You have just started to improve, and the doctor told you that you must not make you feel angry anymore."

Shuyao grabbed her hand and comforted her: "We are fleeing to Your Highness. You see that Qiongzhou is relatively stable, but there are already so many refugees fleeing for refuge. If we drag on, the road will be even more difficult."

Siyuan opened his eyes in surprise and said, "Aren't you sick all the time? How do you know so much?"

Shuyao gave her a contemptuous look, "The guys in the store came to deliver hot water just now, didn't they all keep complaining?"

Xian Xun sighed, looked at them and said: "Do you remember that a few days ago, when we were in the last city, those passing merchants talked about the Battle of Chonghai County, they said that the Red Wing Army was defeated."

Siyuan turned to look at her young lady, and nodded with a vague understanding.

"The Red Wing Army is the Prince's team. Our Highness is with the Prince. The Black Wing Army that fought against them is Prince Min's team. If Chonghai County is used as the boundary, the Crown Prince and His Highness are west of Chonghai, Prince Min , east of Chonghai."

Siyuan was stunned when he heard that, and blinked his big eyes.

"Master, what do you mean, we are now...in Prince Min's sphere of influence?" Shuyao thought for a moment, then asked worriedly.

Shen Xianxun nodded helplessly.

Siyuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly jumped up: "Then...then...then..."

Shen Xianxun lowered her eyebrows slightly, "That's why Princess Bao is thinking a lot, and she advised us to set off as soon as possible, just because she was worried about the long journey."

"Master!" Shuyao supported Siyuan's arm and said anxiously: "Let's set off immediately!"

Shen Xianxun bit her lip and thought for a while, "Forget it." She told Siyuan, "Go to the pharmacy to get the medicine for three days, then buy a pot of decocting medicine, take a pair of medicine to the kitchen, and let someone decoct it for use." The jars are packed and taken away, and the other two pairs are boiled by ourselves on the way.”

Siyuan agreed to go.

Shen Xianxun went to the West Wing to discuss with Jiang Xueran, and Xue Ran naturally said goodbye.Hastily tidied up and saluted, and asked the girl to call the servant Congren to the front guest room, and the group set off on the journey again.

After the heavy rain, in the suburbs of the city, the grass is fresh and fragrant. More than a dozen servants escorted two carriages and galloped westward along the avenue.Jiang Xueran, who was sitting in the front carriage, was pale, and couldn't help retching while clutching her chest. The girl next to her was so anxious that she burst into tears, and begged her to rest for a while, but she just shook her head stubbornly.

In the last carriage, Siyuan knelt on the floor of the carriage, hugging Shuyao's head and letting her rest his legs.Shuyao's cheeks were burning red, the road was bumpy, and she vomited out the medicine she had taken earlier.

Shen Xianxun straightened her back and sat on the seat cushion, unable to touch the car wall at all.The car turned a corner sharply, Xian Xun swayed accordingly, she grasped the edge of the seat cushion tightly with one hand, and pressed the center of her eyebrows with the other.

"Shuyao... Shuyao..." Siyuan hugged Shuyao tightly, his voice flustered.

The carriage was jolting so violently, but she didn't open her eyes. "Miss..." Siyuan raised her head and looked at Xianxun, big tears rolled down from her eye sockets.

Shen Xianxun also knelt down on the floor of the car, and reached out to touch Shuyao's forehead.The hot temperature made her feel a chill.She climbed on the door, wanting to ask the groom to stop, but before she could speak, the carriage seemed to have encountered some accident, and suddenly slowed down abruptly.Fortunately, she was holding on to the car door tightly, otherwise she would have fallen out.

"Which friend is the one in front of you? Our merchants passed by the precious land. If you offend me, please forgive me." The leader among the people sat on the horseback, said loudly the words on the scene, and offered a few ingots of pure silver , "There is some entanglement here, it is not a respect. Please drink and drink, brothers."

There was silence in the distance, not a single human voice could be heard.

Shen Xianxun lifted the corner of the curtain and took a look, her heart tightened immediately.

A few feet away in front of the convoy, a row of cavalrymen in black and black light armor stood in the middle of the road with bows and arrows in their hands.

The leader brought the horse close to Princess Bao's carriage, bowed his head sideways and said a few words, Jiang Xueran seemed to have said something, the leader sat up straight, cupped his hands and said: "Since this road is blocked, I will take a detour. "He turned his horse's head as he spoke, and wanted to go back, but his face suddenly changed, and he saw that the way he came had been blocked by a group of cavalry in the same costume at some point.

A young man in Chinese clothes rode a white horse and walked out slowly from the side. He had a slight smile on his face, rode the horse with one hand, and held a pewter gun in the other. Stay, you guys, I don't even bother to do it!"

The leader made up his mind to protect his young lady, and said in a deep voice, "So arrogant! Who is here!"

The young man laughed loudly: "You are not worthy to know the name of the young master! But Princess Bao and Princess Rui are here, please be respected by this minister." He pointed his gun to the ground as he spoke, his face still frivolous Smiling: "I am Meng Qibin, the son of General Guide Meng Xiang. I was ordered by Prince Min to invite the two concubines to the Xuanyi barracks as guests. I have been waiting here for a long time."

There was no movement in the two carriages, only more than a dozen servants glared at them.Meng Qibin turned his head to the side and raised his hand as a gesture.

Dozens of archers fired their arrows together, and there was endless chirping.The first round of swords was nailed to the front and back of the carriage.Several horses in the convoy were frightened, neighing and kicking their hooves.Jiang Xueran screamed in the car.

People from the Jiang family pulled out their swords one after another. Meng Qibin smiled coldly and gestured again. The second round of arrows flew out. There were several screams from the convoy, and someone fell to the ground with injuries.

"Stop!" Shen Xianxun got out of the carriage, gritted his teeth and stared.

Meng Qibin sized him up and down, but he didn't get off his horse, he just smiled and said: "This must be Princess Rui, she really is the most beautiful, no wonder Prince Rui wants to kill Tu's army for you."

Shen Xianxun looked around, knowing that today would not be a good day, and said coldly in a flash of thought: "You force us to stay in the Xuanyi barracks, but you want to use us as hostages to contain the Xuanyi army. But Prince Bao never participated In the midst of the war, Princess Bao is pregnant with Liujia, but you want to take her back to the camp by force, do you still want the reputation of Prince Min?"

Meng Qibin was stunned for a moment, with a thoughtful look on his face, he couldn't make a decision yet.

Shen Xianxun's face was like autumn water, and she said calmly: "You can take me away. But you must let them go."

"Sister!" Before she finished speaking, Jiang Xueran had already lifted the curtain of the car and shouted urgently: "It must not be like this!"

Shen Xianxun didn't look at her, but only stared at Meng Qibin.

Meng Qibin looked at Shen Xianxun, then at Jiang Xueran, and saw her belly bulge.Although he followed Zhou Muye, he was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy after all, and he was not a villain. He hesitated at first glance, and heard Shen Xianxun say again: "Prince Bao is sending the little princess to marry. If you are not around the prince, Prince Min must also want to win him over, and if you treat Princess Bao kindly now, then Prince Ribao must be grateful to you."

Meng Qibin rode his horse around in a circle, then shouted decisively: "Prince Rui stay here, and the rest leave here immediately!"

"Sister! If you don't leave, I won't leave either!" Jiang Xueran tugged on the door of the carriage, her voice was mournful, like weeping.

Shen Xianxun took a few steps forward, shook her hand, and gave her a look. Jiang Xueran suddenly understood, and in those bright eyes was written: Move to the rescue!

The author has something to say: I was on a business trip today, and I sat in the car for seven or eight hours intermittently (I wanted to cry but no tears), and I finally got a computer and rushed to update this chapter.

It is really too late to count the landmines, thank you in advance, and we will count them together in the next chapter.

Well, I can sleep for nothing with peace of mind. (make a fist)