Brother Donggong

At the beginning, because I was really going to die, I stayed in the palace, where my mother and I used to live.The walls of the palace were dilapidated, and the beds, curtains, tables, chairs and benches, and even the stove were barren, full of ghost foxes.

It was raining heavily outside.

The branches shook violently against the window lattice, and the damp breath seemed to crawl in through the one-foot-thick wall.

After being seriously injured, I was afraid of such weather.

The icy cold moisture lingered along the cracked skin and entwined along the seams of the bones. The pain made the bones tremble. The medicine bowl was smashed, and I was about to stab myself in the neck. Someone grabbed the fingers and snatched the fragments, and pushed them down on the bed. Lie there like a dead dog, motionless.

"Chengyi, if you dare, I will..."

But then I can't hear it.

I don't know if I fell asleep or passed out, anyway, I just couldn't hear the sound.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, autumn is almost over. As the old saying goes, one autumn rain and one cold, the autumn rains become colder every time, even if you get into the deepest part of the quilt, you still shiver with cold.

cold...so cold...

Just when I thought I was going to freeze to death, suddenly a fire was lit in the house, and then I was covered with a soft quilt, and a pair of women's hands patted my back like my mother, With a soft voice, "It's okay, it's okay..."

Afterwards, I was always in a daze, feeling like I had changed the house, there was no curtain outside, the tables, chairs and benches were all changed, it smelled like new pine wood, it smelled very good, and there were those hands like my mother’s, always holding on to me. around.

"Be obedient, open your mouth, and drink the medicine."

The sound is also very nice, soft and soft, like freshly steamed rice.

I finally survived, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that the outside of the window was bare, and the leaves had long since fallen. A gust of wind came, and the dead branches were shaking.

The sound of someone talking in the house.

It was Yin Qiluo's voice.

"Doctor Lin, thank you for your thoughtfulness. My husband's injury healed so quickly and he didn't hurt his internal organs. It's thanks to your superb medical skills. Our whole family should be grateful to you, and even opened the middle door to set up a A big feast for you, but in the current situation...there are people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate outside the gate of our house. They squat outside a few times a day, thinking about finding out something about us. If we don't do it, our family will be ruined. The posture of swearing not to give up. So please take care of Mr. Lin, if there is anything, you can enter and exit through the back corner door, although it is not respectful to you, it is also for the good of us."

What Lin Ruoqian had in hand was the smell of Liaodong wild ginseng.

He said, "Mrs. Zhao, the lower officials know. These medicinal materials are all from the empress, and it's the emperor's intention. Even if those people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate have the intention to set up a trap, they don't have the guts to do so."

Yin Qiluo, "We all know the emperor's intentions to protect my husband. But now it is not what it used to be. My husband's status is different from the past. After all, the common people who have been deprived of titles are not princes. From the court's point of view, we are just the ones on the chopping block." It's just fish and meat. Besides, my husband was a bit reckless before and caused a catastrophe. If the emperor hadn't defended it, the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate could have given him a personal relationship with Gao Chang's remnants, broke into the palace, robbed and killed the guards, and murdered the Seventh Prince Yuezheng, and other felony crimes of treason. The Metropolitan Procuratorate is only monitoring, but not taking action, which is already very good."

Lin Ruoqian nodded, "It's good for Mrs. Zhao to know. After all, the country has the laws of the country, and no one can escape the blame for breaking the laws of the king. Even if His Royal Highness wants to protect it, it must be done in moderation."

No one spoke for a long time.

With the sound of light footsteps, they reached the door, raised the curtain, and heard Yin Qiluo's voice, like the water flow in winter, "If His Royal Highness the Prince maintains less, we will be more grateful."

Not long after Lin Ruoqian left, Cui Bicheng came.

He also brought ginseng over, my house made by them always has a medicinal smell, it is scented with epiphyllum, and it can't be covered.

"are you awake?"

He didn't seem to say anything to me, then Yin Qiluo came over, wiped my forehead with soft fingers, and replied, "Well, I'm probably awake, but I just don't have much energy."

As he said that, Cui Bicheng also sat on the edge of the bed, brushed my hair away, and pressed the quilt for me again. I stretched out my hand vigorously and poked it out from the quilt, and he held my hand.His hands are hard bones, and there are some small calluses on the palms because of holding the whip. In addition, he doesn't know the severity, but only knows how to hold my hand, like Zhu Bajie's big rake.

I looked at him, opened my mouth, my throat was dry enough, so I didn't speak anymore.

He said, "I just came out of the palace, and I met my empress. She always cried, saying that she beat you at that time, and she couldn't explain it to you because the prince was there. In order to save you from being poisoned, the emperor followed the law of the ancestors , Those people are so ruthless that they can tear you apart. It is better for her to beat you than others, for her pain hurts, and others hurt even more. "

After I listened, I shook my head.

I don't blame her at all.

She hit me for my own good.

Even Wen Zhan's whipping at that time may have been for my own good.

If they don't do it, someone will naturally do it.Moreover, the punishment was more severe, and the involvement was more extensive, which made me die more completely, or in other words, let my family and I die more thoroughly.

I don't blame her, and I don't blame him either.

I don't blame anyone.

In this world, the only thing I can complain about is myself. I am the one who deserves to die.

"The kite..."

I only said two words, Cui Bicheng quickly pressed my lips lightly, and he said, "I just woke up, don't worry about talking, just listen. Don't worry, he's fine, he's fine, maybe, better than you. It's just ,... The crown prince has ordered you not to enter the palace anymore, and not to let him see you again, otherwise,... see you once, kill once. You are not a leek, can you still cut a crop and grow another crop? "

After he finished speaking, he himself thought it was funny, and laughed for a while, but immediately held his breath again.

I closed my eyes and fell asleep again.