Lei Yue Longmen

Cen Zhu bowed his head to her touch, pressing against her forehead as he had done countless times.Li Jingchen stretched out both arms from under the quilt, wrapped his arms around her neck, and asked pleasantly, "Why did you come?"

Hearing her hoarse and weak voice, Cen Zhu felt very distressed, raised his head slightly and said, "Yun Zai came to me and said that your illness has not recovered yet, I was in a hurry, so I changed clothes with her. Come to see you. I'm sorry I'm late, are you feeling bad?"

Li Jingchen shook his pale and sickly face, and tightly circled his arms, trying to get closer to her.Cen Zhu stretched out his hand to the back of her neck, lifted her up and leaned against her arms?Feeling the dampness of her whole body as if being steamed by heat, she quickly pulled the quilt up to cover her back.

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have snatched your quilt that night, causing you to catch a cold."

Li Jingchen leaned on her shoulders, turned his head wearily to look at Cen Zhuo's face, knocked her shoulder socket as punishment, then lowered his head wearily again, and said weakly: "I dreamed of you just now." , in a vast expanse of white snow, the snow is falling very deep, you walk in front, I follow behind, my knees sink into the snow, I can't walk anymore, I call you loudly, but you can't hear me, keep going Go up the mountain, cough cough!" As he spoke, his shoulders trembled violently, and Cen Zhu quickly patted her on the back.After she came to her senses, she comforted her and said, "The dream is fake, why would I leave you alone? You are sick and have no strength, so you can't walk! Don't rush to talk, I will pour it for you." glass of water."

Li Jingzhu sipped the bowl she brought, returned the bowl, looked her in the eyes and continued, "What if the dream is real?" Seeing Cen Zhu's hesitant gaze, she leaned on the bed Looking at the orchid lantern above my head, I said: "Before my mother passed away, I also had a dream. I dreamed that she went to a place far, far away in a big boat, and she was never seen again. The first I woke up the next day and she was gone."

Cen Zhu felt a little pain in his heart when he heard the words. She had heard about it? The former Empress Hai Shi died of illness, when Li Jingzhu was only eight years old.It must have been terrifying for a powerless child to watch his mother dying on the sickbed.

She said softly: "Master once told me that the more people are afraid of something, the more likely they are to dream about it. You are worried that your mother will leave you, so in your dream you are also afraid that she will leave you. Even if it really happened later Or not? Really, because it's an illusion woven in your mind by fear."

Li Jingchen said in confusion: "But, the night before my brother left, I also dreamed of my mother. She came back on the same boat, and this time brought her brother, father." After a pause, he turned to look at Cen Zhu: "And? Dai Whale."

Cen Zhu could not fail to understand what she was implying. Maybe there was indeed some kind of telepathy between the close relatives. Even though the assassination of the first prince was sudden, it still gave her some kind of enlightenment in the dream.Even the emperor Li Pinghong's illness later seemed to fulfill this intriguing dream.But all this can also be explained by coincidence.

"Didn't you say that your brother was assassinated on the way back from praying for your mother? That time coincided with the death day of the former queen. You must miss your mother so much, so you dreamed that she came back by boat." Look at you. If leaving by boat means death, then your father has already left ten years ago, and he will not live well. Also? Dai Jing, now I finally know why you care so much about her safety But she has always been safe and sound by your side, hasn't she? This further shows that it is just a dream, and everything in the dream is just a coincidence, so you don't have to take it too seriously."

Li Jingchen stared at her blankly for a while, then stroked his forehead as if realizing the absurdity of his thoughts, and said, "You're right, it's just a coincidence, I'm sick and confused, recently, I've always been thinking wildly."

Cen Zhu felt a little sad when she heard her self-denial, and comforted her: "It's okay, you may be too tired. Go to sleep first, and you won't be afraid of anything after you get enough sleep. I'll change your clothes for you first. All wet."

"Yeah." Cen Zhuo helped her change into the underwear prepared by the maid. Li Jingzhu kept stretching his arms in and out from the sleeves very cooperatively. After changing, Cen Zhuo helped her to lie down. Cen Zhu held his hand, and said persistently: "But I really dreamed that you were walking up the mountain in the ice and snow, getting farther and farther away from me, no matter how I called you, you didn't turn back."

Cen Zhu was quite helpless, so he lay down next to him, and repeated his promise to those wet eyes: "No, as long as it's me, as long as it's you. No matter when I hear your voice, I will definitely turn my head back." After finishing speaking, Printed a kiss on her lips, "Sleep, I will always be here tonight? Be with you."

"Oh." Li Jingzhu didn't react yet? Come on, the kiss is over.She grunted a few times, closed her eyelids quietly, thought of something, a sweet smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then fell into a dream?

But Cen Zhu couldn't fall asleep, and lay down with her for a while, remembering what Yun Zai had told her, he felt regretful and remorseful.If she knew that her decision would pay such a painful price, she would do everything she could to prevent it from happening.

Now, there are signs that the kings are competing for the heir. Let alone three years, even one year, what kind of earth-shaking changes will take place in the court? It is still unknown. If Li Jingyi is required to give up three years of precious time to cultivate with peace of mind, with her temperament Will there be? Is it possible?

Her heart seemed to be shrouded in a dark cloud, and she couldn't breathe heavily.Slowly lying on his side, seeing the orchid lantern on the top, his eyes were slightly startled, and he turned his head to look at Li Jingchen who was sleeping soundly by the pillow. He gently tucked in the quilt, and then quietly got out of bed.

When Li Jingzhu woke up, he found that the side of the bed was empty, he struggled to get up, and turned his head to look for Cen Zhuo.Hearing a scoffing sound not far away, she half-opened her eyelids and stretched out her hand to lift the bed curtain, and saw Cen Zhu sitting in front of the desk, holding a paper knife in his hand to cut white paper.The desk is a reading area specially set up by Li Jingzhu in his bedroom. It is also used to deal with some official documents at ordinary times, and there are all pens, inks, papers and inkstones on it.Two five-candle lamps are placed on each of the two corners for lighting at night.At the moment only the candles in the lamp in the left corner are fully lit.Under the light, Cen Zhu folded the rice paper in half vertically several times, cut it into long strips of the same size with a paper knife, and spread them on the table.

She asked confusedly: "What are you doing?"

Hearing the movement, Cen Zhu looked up and saw that half of her body had slipped out of the bed. He quickly put down what he was doing, walked out from behind the desk, walked to the bed, stuffed her back, and tucked in the quilt. .

Squatting beside the bed, he smiled and said, "I think the orchid lantern on the top of your bed is too monotonous. I was afraid you would get tired of looking at it, so I wrote something and planned to hang it below. Roll them into paper tubes and tie them with strings." , so that you can take it apart and read a volume every day, and you can read it for many days."

Li Jingchen blinked his eyelashes when he heard the words, pulled the tip of his chin out of the quilt, and asked curiously, "What did you write?"

Cen Zhu climbed onto the edge of the bed with both hands, keeping her eye level with her, and deliberately said: "Well, you need to see this every day, I can't tell you yet."

Li Jingchen said "Oh", as if he hadn't woken up yet, closed his eyes and hummed, "Then write it, and let me know when you're done." Caressing her white hair, and was about to close the tent for her, Li Jingchen said again: "No, I want to read your writing." Cen Zhu helped her hang it up again, returned to the desk lightly, and took the Pick up the pen and dip in the ink, and continue to write and draw on the strip.

Her fingers are slender and well-proportioned, and they look very nice when held on the vermilion penholder. Occasionally, she stops to look at the bedside, meets Li Jingchen's curious eyes, smiles mysteriously, does not know what she thought of, and continues to write vigorously .Li Jing was very curious about what she wrote, and felt that she was looking at him carefully, and became more and more curious in her heart.

After Cen Zhu finished writing a long strip, he dried the ink, rolled it into a tube, tied it up with the red string next to it, tied a neat slipknot, inspected it with satisfaction, and put it aside.Seeing that there were several thumb-sized paper tubes tied to the red string, Li Jingchen couldn't bear it anymore, so he said, "May I take a look at one first?"

"No." Cen Zhu refused without thinking, picked up the pen, and continued to write a note.Seeing her refutation so straightforwardly, Li Jingchen felt a little dissatisfied, turned over resentfully, looked up at the top of the bed, and kicked up the quilt a few times, trying to dissipate the stuffy heat in the bed.

Cen Zhu felt very helpless when he saw it, and said, "If you stay quiet and don't make trouble, I'll let you take a look."

Li Jingchen was satisfied this time, quickly covered the quilt again, turned over, leaned on the pillow, and justified himself: "I just want to read one, and you also said that I can read one every day, anyway, I also want to read today, right? Just one."

Cen Zhu shook his head helplessly, and was about to untie one for her to see, when there was a hasty knock on the door.

Cen Zhu went to open the door, but just as he pulled the latch, the people outside said in a panic: "Don't open it, hide quickly, don't be discovered." It was Yun Zhong's voice.Cen Zhu felt really strange, this was in the East Palace, why he was in such a panic.Listening attentively, it seems that a group of footsteps are striding towards the bedroom.

Realizing that something was wrong, she hurriedly backed away from the door, turned around the screen, exchanged glances with Li Jingxuan, made a quick decision, went to the desk next to her and picked up the tied paper tube, and when she heard the door creak open, she immediately put the paper away. Throwing the canister to Li Jingchen who was on the bed, he crawled under the bed with a short body.Li Jingchen sat up with his arms propped up, and just now he hid the paper tube under the quilt? The visitor had already turned the screen, revealing that slightly frowning face.

Li Jingchen was about to throw off the quilt and get out of bed to salute, he pushed his hand to signal no need, looked around the whole bedroom, and said coldly: "Why is there no one in the room to take care of you? I don't know if the empress dowager needs someone to take care of her when she is sick?"

The extremely intimidating voice came to the bottom of the bed, Cen Zhu was shocked, and finally understood why Yun Zhong was so nervous.

"This servant deserves to die, I beg the emperor to forgive me." Chang Qin, the head of internal affairs, was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he fell to his knees with a plop.

Li Jingxuan hurriedly said: "Father calm down, I told them not to come in to serve, they dare not disobey my order."

"You are kind-hearted. You only pampered these slaves, and you became more and more ignorant of the rules. This time, for the sake of the empress dowager, I will forgive you for the time being. If you dare to neglect your duties next time, I will never forgive you lightly. Get out."

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty, for your forgiveness." Chang Qin retreated to the door as if fleeing for his life, and Li Pinghong ordered: "Close the door!" He hastily closed the door trembling again.

Four Ouchi guards in casual clothes guarded the door, and there were only father and daughter left in the house.

Li Jingchen asked nervously: "Why did the father come to the East Palace late at night? My son and minister failed to meet him from afar, and I hope the father will forgive me."

"It's okay. I heard that your condition is getting worse, so I came here to take a look."

Seeing that the light was still on on the desk, Li Pinghong said, "Why, do you have to critique papers late at night?" He walked over, picked up an official document on the table, and flipped through it.

"It's all official documents that have been backlogged for a long time. My son was afraid of being delayed, so I dealt with some of them when I woke up."

Li Pinghong gave a "hmm", put the official document back, and walked to the bed.Not only Li Jingchen wringed his fingers subconsciously, but Cen Zhu under the bed also nervously used his elbows to move his body desperately.She saw Li Pinghong's soap cloud boots approaching step by step, and finally turned around and stopped at the edge of the bed, guessing that he was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"This lantern is very beautiful. I remember that orchids were your mother's favorite back then." It was rare for Li Pinghong to speak in such a soft voice, and Cen Zhu was slightly taken aback.It turns out that the Queen of the Sea likes orchids, no wonder Li Jingchen looked at this lamp for the longest time under the tree that day, it seems that he chose the right one.

"Is your body better?"

"I'm tired, my father is worried, and I'm already much better. Doctor Xu said that I'll recover after taking two more days of medicine."

"That's good." The atmosphere was silent for a while.Even Cen Zhu, who was on the sidelines, could feel that sense of unease. It seemed that what he had expected was correct, the father and daughter were really not very good at getting along in private.

Fortunately, Li Jingchen broke the silence first, "My son heard that the third brother fell off a horse a few days ago and was injured, and he has not been able to visit him in person. I wonder if he is feeling better now?"

"Don't worry, he just sprained his foot, and he will recover after a month of rest. You are bedridden, and it won't be too late to see him when you recover."

Li Jingchen nodded: "Yes. The third brother fell off the horse and was injured because he gave up the sedan chair to my son. My son is both grateful and sad. I hope he can recover soon."

"You have it? It's good if you have this heart." Li Pinghong's voice sounded really gratified, but then he paused: "I plan to wait for him to recover, and bring him to the Shenwu Army for training. What do you think?"

Li Jingchen was startled for a moment, but quickly regained his composure, and said: "The third younger brother has been proficient in archery and bow since he was a child, and he puts more effort into it than other younger brothers. It is naturally great to be able to experience in the Shenwu Army."

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Sorry, I've been busy after Chinese New Year and haven't updated it for a long time.Make up a chapter first, there will be more today.