Prince's Mansion.

Xia Yan was unconscious on the bed, her hair was curled up, her face and lips were pale.

Han Mengliu sat by the bed, with an empty medicine bowl in hand, and a row of one-foot-long golden needles spread out in front of her.As the candle approached, he picked up the needle and stared at it, stabbing steadily into the acupoint on Xia Yan's shoulder.

Xia Yan trembled subconsciously.

Cheng Xi stood with his hands behind his back, frowning in distress; Xia Zhao stood farther away, looking cautiously with his arms folded.

"The last injection." Han Mengliu let go of the golden needle and said, "This time the illness is so severe that it will take at least ten days to wake up. If there is another time, I can't help it." After a pause, he said in a low voice, " Probably no one else will."

Han Mengliu's talent is extremely high, and he has learned a lot. He knows almost everything from serious knowledge to heresy, and his literature, martial arts, and medical skills are even top-notch.

Cheng Xi became anxious when he heard it, and stepped forward and said, "Why is this happening?! What kind of disease is this? He is usually fine!"

The unbelievable panting suddenly echoed in the quiet bedroom. Han Mengliu glanced at the hourglass, retracted the golden needle on Xia Yan's shoulder, and said calmly, "Let's go out and talk."

When we came to the warming room outside, the night was dark, the attendant brought warm wine, Han Mengliu filled three cups, pushed one of the cups to Cheng Xi, and said: "Hot wine to warm up, use it a little, he poured it, you can't follow it , You need to support him in many things."

These words undoubtedly gave Cheng Xi great strength, his chaotic eyes finally shone brightly all night, he picked up the wine glass and drank it down, and said with a sigh: "Thank you, Your Highness, Concubine Side."

"It happened two and a half years ago." Han Mengliu filled Cheng Xi's wine glass again, "At that time, Xiao Zhao'er and I just got married, and I was in a bad mood..."

Xia Zhao on the side coughed seriously.

Han Mengliu smiled helplessly, "It's true that I'm in a bad mood. Sometimes I can't sleep at night, so I go out to relax. One night, it was raining heavily, and I was wandering around the empty streets when I suddenly heard a heart-piercing cough. I followed the sound to find , I saw a man hunched over and paralyzed in the rain. When I got closer, I found that he was vomiting blood, and the blood was in a puddle, winding continuously, and the rain turned red."

The candles were still burning, and neither Cheng Xi nor Xia Zhao spoke.

Han Mengliu said in a low voice: "That's him. He has just recovered his status and only returned to the palace for two months." His eyes showed sadness, "At that time, his complexion was several times paler than today, and he was struggling to breathe. To be honest , if I hadn't gone out that night, if I hadn't been nearby, if I hadn't insisted on seeing him, there would be no Xia Yan in this world today."

Xia Zhao was shocked when he heard that, Cheng Xi clenched his hands tightly, and said inhaling, "I coughed up so much blood, could it be a lung disease?"

"At first I also thought it was." Han Mengliu said, "At that time it was late at night and he couldn't enter the palace, so I brought him back to the Prince's Mansion. After the examination, I found out that it was actually stagnation."

"Sluggish?" Both Cheng Xi and Xia Zhao looked puzzled.

Han Mengliu nodded, "Stagnation is born from the heart, worry, lovesickness, regret, anger, fear... such emotions accumulate in the viscera and cannot be dispelled, and become sick over time. The disease is a hundred times more painful." His eyes looked inward with compassion, "And according to the doctors, this disease can only be alleviated, not cured."

"It can't be cured?!" Cheng Xi stood up as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer.

Han Mengliu raised his hand to signal him to be calm, "Most of the people suffering from this disease have delicate thoughts, fragile at one moment, and extremely strong at the other. For example, His Highness was so ill at that time that he was so unconscious that he could feel who I am and begged for help repeatedly. I don't want to send him back to the palace, and don't tell others. This shows that for him, not showing weakness to others is the most important thing, and it has even become an instinct." With a low sigh, "I obeyed him and asked Xiao Zhaoer to tell the emperor about his first return. There are some strangers in the palace who just hit it off with me and wanted to live in the Prince's Mansion. The emperor agreed, but Xiao Zhao'er was angry with me at that time, and she didn't want to see me when she left early and returned late, and she didn't see any clues about it."

Xia Zhao blushed, and coughed pretending to be calm.

Han Mengliu said again: "In this way, His Royal Highness became sick with me. Xiao Fang and I took care of him, and he gradually improved, and gradually developed trust in us, and then he spoke his mind."

Cheng Xi immediately became nervous, "What did he say?!"

Looking at the warm wine in the cup, Han Mengliu recalled, "He said..."

At that time, Xia Yan had just passed away, much thinner and haggard than now, and his temper was not as wanton as now. After waking up, he sat on the bed holding the quilt, carefully looked at Han Mengliu, and even expressed his thanks tremblingly.

Han Mengliu smiled gently, and asked half seriously and half jokingly: "To be honest, how long have you not eaten?"

Xia Yan was silent, her chin retracted into the quilt.

Xiao Fang who was standing at the side said: "His Royal Concubine, Your Highness the Fourth Highness has been ignoring food and drink since returning to the palace, often unable to eat a decent meal for five or six days."

Not long after Xiao Fang appeared at that time, Xia Yan was not yet familiar with him, so he just said: "Don't talk about it."

Han Mengliu said: "Your guard is very concerned about you. He has hardly closed his eyes these days in order to take care of you."

Xia Yan was taken aback, looked at Xiao Fang, lowered his eyes and said in a low voice: "I'm not worth it."

Han Mengliu raised his hand to touch the top of his head, and praised: "Your Highness is so cute, others naturally want to treat you well, how can it not be worth it?"

Immediately, Xia Yan's eyes glowed for a moment. Although he didn't say anything, his heart was already loose, and he let Han Mengliu and Xiao Fang in.

He didn't want them to worry about him, so he ate and recuperated very obediently, and finally couldn't help but confide to them the words that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time——

"In order to keep my identity secret, Tan relatives called me my granddaughter, but Tan's family knew it was not. They asked Tan Xiang, but Tan couldn't make it clear, so they had to ignore it. Over time, they even suspected that I was Tan Xiang's illegitimate son! Later, in order to help me Back in the palace, Prime Minister Tan kept the truth from me, and Cheng Xi and the others. He had made countless achievements in his life, but because of my failure at the end of the day, he was full of guilt towards Jing Xiang and Cheng Xi when he died...it was me, it was I killed Prime Minister Tan."

"And Cheng Xi, everything is fake. The marriage, the relationship between husband and wife, and the magnanimity of the official career have all been destroyed by me... How angry and sad he must be! But I, who should be hacked into pieces, are fine. Dihui Palace became a prince, and the high bed warms the pillow every day, and the delicacies are delicious!"

"I have been kept in the dark since I was a child, and now I still don't know who my mother's name is, who she is, what she looks like, and whether she is still alive...Although I know who my father is, but my father is high above me, and he doesn't treat me at all. care."

"It's so uncomfortable in the palace, I can't breathe every day."

"To live is to cause trouble for others, I don't want to live anymore."

"But when I escaped from the palace and was about to die, I was very scared."

"I'm such a waste!"

Xia Yan's eyes were red, and she hugged the quilt and hid in a ball at the corner of the bed, but Han Mengliu insisted on approaching, lifted the quilt and pulled his hands, and then pressed the top of her head, bringing him close to her arms.

Xia Yan had never felt such comfort before, her cold and stiff body instantly melted.The warmth wandered away, irritating his eyes, nose and throat, and he burst into tears with a "wow".

Han Mengliu let him cry, and said in a low voice, "When you recover a bit, I'll tell you my story, which is longer and more tortuous than yours." Laughing at herself, "I'm more than ten years older than you. For 26 years, [-] years I have been struggling between wanting to die and living desperately."

Xia Yan cried until he was out of breath.

"I also took the initiative to seek death, but I didn't die." Han Mengliu said, "Then I thought, let's live. There are thousands of people and thousands of things in the world. Let's see how they can torture me. Anyway, I, Han Mengliu, will never Admit defeat, never." The tone was refreshing, like a top swordsman swiping his sword, with a free and easy heroism, Wan Feng turned away.

Xia Yan was shocked, staring blankly at Han Mengliu with red eyes, Han Mengliu smiled and said, "By the way, I want to tell you a little secret."

Tears shone on Han Mengliu's peerless face, and he smiled more and more, and said, "I have a little guy in my stomach, and no one in this world knows about it except you and me."

Xia Yan was shocked, "The prince brother..."

"Don't tell him." Han Mengliu said firmly, "I don't want to tell him, you keep it secret for me."

The small hall was warm, Xia Zhao's face turned even redder, and he whispered reproachfully, "Ameng, why are you saying this?"

"I've said it all, so I should understand it clearly." Han Mengliu looked at Cheng Xi, and withdrew his expression, "Later, I told His Royal Highness about my experience, and often enlightened him, and used medicine and acupuncture to suppress the backlog in his body. The stasis caused the soles of his feet to be blocked, and finally controlled his illness. Then, his original temperament was revealed little by little: lively and lovely, innocent and wanton, fearless of power, neither greedy nor crazy. Such a natural and unparalleled character , what a pity it would be if he really died."

"The soles of the feet?" Cheng Xi frowned and murmured, "What will happen if the bruises lead to the soles of the feet?"

"Slow down the flow so you don't hurt yourself, it's just that your feet get a little hot at times."

Cheng Xi suddenly realized, "No wonder."

Han Mengliu shook the wine in his glass, and said lightly: "Although he worked hard to recover, he still has a knot that cannot be untied. It's you."

Cheng Xi: "!!!"

"Thinking that if you know about revenge, it may affect you, those backlogs of depression and anxiety will break through the obstacles again, and the collapse will be out of control."

Cheng Xi's eyes suddenly turned red, and his eyelashes trembled slightly, "Why, why did he have to..."

"The enmity between parents is irreconcilable." Han Mengliu said firmly, "One of my parents committed suicide and the other died of illness. When they were dying, they repeatedly warned them that they had no complaints or regrets. They made me look down on them and let me let them go. I am deeply in pain. I am still like this, not to mention that the Fourth Highness has been ignorant and confused for nearly 20 years because of someone else's design, and my mother was forced to death?" Closed eyes and sighed, "Forget it. Your parents are healthy and the family is harmonious. , going smoothly and happily from childhood to adulthood, this section may be difficult to understand."

Cheng Xi shook his head, "I, I will try my best to understand, I will try my best to understand him and take care of him." He gritted his teeth heavily, as if he was enduring great pain, "At that time I walked away, so chic, but I don’t know if he already...why, why am I not by his side..."

"It's not easy for you, so you shouldn't be blamed." Han Mengliu got up and walked to the window, looking at the bright moon outside, "If you don't remonstrate in the past, you can catch up in the future."

Xia Zhao's complexion was deep, and he nodded, "Fourth brother... I used to be biased and blamed him."

After a moment of silence, Cheng Xi got up, knelt respectfully to Han Mengliu and Xia Zhao, and bowed to the ground.

Xia Yan was still in a coma and couldn't move, so he stayed in the Prince's Mansion.Han Mengliu took care of him, and Cheng Xi came to accompany him whenever he was free.

After knowing Xia Yan's real life experience and illness, Cheng Xi helped him plan a way of revenge, while visiting medical halls and pharmacies, inquiring about imperial physicians, and reading books at home. , he is also happy.

The Lantern Festival is approaching, and Cheng Xi's 24th birthday is approaching. He was supposed to hold a big event in his birth year, but he refused—under the circumstances, he has no intention of celebrating at all.

Touching the neckline with one hand, the protective pearl that Xia Yan gave him lay there quietly, and he suddenly felt guilty: If he hadn't worn this treasure, would Xia Yan not have another attack?

On the morning of the Lantern Festival, Cheng Xi ate birthday noodles with his family and went out to the street, where lanterns were hung everywhere, beaming with joy.

Xia Yan loves to play and likes cute things, so Cheng Xi bought a string of lifelike animal lanterns and prepared to hang them on Xia Yan's bedside, hoping that he would wake up soon.

Suddenly Xue Chenxing came running from afar, shouting eagerly: "Cheng Xi Cheng Xi——!" '

Cheng Xi put the string of lanterns on his arm, and grabbed Xue Chenxing, "What's wrong?"

Xue Chenxing bent down to pant, and looked up seriously: "I said, you have to calm down."

Cheng Xi's breath was stagnant.

Xue Chenxing said as if facing a formidable enemy: "The Fourth Highness is gone."

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