Tanhualang

The two were chatting one after another, when the door was pushed open with a slam, and Zhao Heng strode in: "How is Miao'an?"

Xiao You wanted to salute Zhao Heng, but Zhao Heng raised his hand to stop him.When he first saw a pool of blood on the ground, his eyes darkened, and when he saw Shen Jing standing in front of the table, his voice became a little heavy: "Why are you standing here?"

Shen Jing supported her waist with her hands, her head was covered with beads of sweat, and her lips were bitten with bloodstains: "...I can't move my waist. Why did you alarm His Highness?"

Zhao Heng: "Wei Zheng happened to be at my place. He has gone to ask for a doctor."

Xiao You said softly behind him: "There is a knife edge that is more than a foot long on the back... I don't know what happened to the waist. I checked that there is no wound on the waist. Your Highness, is there...poison on the knife?"

Zhao Heng glanced at him: "Stupid. If it's really poisonous, why should they attack me with a few people?"

After speaking, he picked up the candlestick and walked behind Shen Jing, checked it himself, put down the candlestick again, and pressed his fingers slowly on Shen Jing's waist, "Here? Or here? Why does it hurt?"

The temperature of Zhao Heng's fingers penetrated through the clothes and burned on Shen Jing's waist. For some reason, Shen Jing felt a bit embarrassed: "... This is here... It seems like the flesh has been torn apart."

Zhao Heng pressed a few more times, straightened his waist, and put down the candlestick: "Go and lie down first, and bandage the wound. The waist is fine, it should be stretched."

Shen Jing: "..."

Xiaoyou: "... Stretched? Wasn't it poisoned?" Was it all because of scaring yourself just now?

"Help him to lie on the bed." Zhao Heng looked too lazy to talk to the two idiots, picked up the scissors from the table, and slowly roasted them on the candle, "Stop the bleeding first."

Xiao You hurriedly supported Shen Jing to lie down on the bed, then turned back to pick up the scissors in Zhao Heng's hand: "Your Highness, let me do it."

"You are weak and your hands are not steady." Zhao Heng had already walked up to Shen Jing, his face a little stern, "Light a few more candles. Ask the boy to fetch spirits and boiling water."

Xiao You didn't dare to say any more, first sent Xiao Tong to go, and then lit four candles and put them on the bedside.

Zhao Heng personally pressed Shen Jing's back, held up the scissors and cut off the clothes near Shen Jing's knife edge, took the towel and handed it to Shen Jing's mouth: "Bite."

Shen Jing opened his mouth and bit it.

Zhao Heng asked in a low voice, "Are you afraid of pain?"

Shen Jing didn't know if she was confused by the pain, but bit the towel and nodded.

Zhao Heng: "..."

He pressed his fingers on Shen Jing's waist with one hand, and tightly grasped the piece of clothes stuck to the knife edge with one hand: "Hold on."

Before he finished speaking, the piece of cloth was torn off the knife edge with a "swipe".

Shen Jing let out a muffled snort, and straightened his entire back in pain. The pain of tearing skin and flesh passed at that moment, and then he slowly lowered his face to the pillow, the towel in his mouth fell by the pillow, his face was as pale as snow Moaning, groaning and humming a word: "...it hurts."

Only now was the knife edge on his back fully exposed. There was a gap about a foot and a half long from the right shoulder blade to the right waist, and the flesh was turned out, looking extremely ferocious.But Zhao Heng threw the broken step with blood in his hand to the ground, but he seemed to heave a sigh of relief: "I didn't see any bones, so it's okay."

As soon as he finished speaking, he frowned again, raised his hand to push away the shredded clothes on Shen Jing's back, and looked at the dark vertical and horizontal welts on Shen Jing's back that had healed: "What is this?"

Xiao You looked at the shocking welts on Shen Jing's back, and remembered what Shen Jing told him just now about being slandered for cheating in the rural examination and was beaten into a trick. Just as he was thinking about how to tell Zhao Heng about this, a boy's voice came from outside: "Doctor coming!"

The doctor came in and saluted first, Zhao Heng and Xiao Youwei made way for the doctor.The doctor looked at Shen Jing's wound, turned his head and said, "It won't hurt the bones, and it won't endanger your life. But you have to use wine to clear the wound first, and you will inevitably be punished. Please avoid it, Your Highness."

Zhao Heng and Xiao You went out, Xiao You said: "It's getting late, why don't you rest first, Your Highness?"

Zhao Heng nodded, then walked back, Xiao You followed behind.After coming out of the courtyard, Xiao You thought about Zhao Heng's question just now, and slowly said: "The whip wound on Mr. Shen's back is probably caused by being tortured in Suzhou Prison."

"Punishment?"

"Didn't you mention it to Your Highness before? Mr. Shen got to know Yuan in the provincial examination, but was later cancelled." Xiaoyou paused, "It seems that it is not only because of his background. The state official seems to have decided that Mr. Shen was cheating and arrested him Sent to prison, interrogated and tortured."

Zhao Heng stopped and looked back at Xiaoyou: "Cheating? Quiet?"

Xiao You could only nod: "Probably that's what happened at that time..."

Zhao Heng turned around and strode down the corridor: "You ask someone to investigate. If Shen Jing is that kind of person, Prince Yu's Mansion won't be able to accommodate him."

After a pause, he said again: "If that's not the case, the people in the palace are not so easy to bully."

In addition to the knife wound, Xiaoyou invited two doctors to look at Shen Jing, and finally confirmed that Shen Jing's waist was stretched, saying that it was a muscle strain. Iron it, iron it, put some plasters on it, and let it rest slowly.

So during the June rainy season, there was heavy rain followed by light rain outside every day, and Shen Jing also began to lie on the bed to recuperate his wounds. The life was really boring.

While Shen Jing was recuperating on the bed, the rewards for King Yu's birthday were also continuously sent from the capital to Nanjing.Xiaoyou was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, and he didn't even have the time to visit him for two consecutive days.On the early morning of the third day, I brought a set of the Four Treasures of the Study and copybooks to the Shen Jing room: "His Highness read the gift list from the imperial court, and specially ordered this and this, saying that these two are for you."

Shen Jing lay on the bed and looked at the delivered things with Xiao You's hand, he was still very knowledgeable: "...too expensive."

Pen, ink and paper are fine, they can be bought with money, and the things in the palace are more dignified and exquisite than the ones bought outside.But Fang Shuiyan Duan inkstone and Yan Zhenqing's original rubbings on the inscription, let alone money, can't buy it, and it's hard for ordinary people to see it, let alone buy it.The Shuiyan Duan inkstone is only for use; as for the inscription, it looks like the seals on it are collected by famous masters of the past dynasties, which can be said to be priceless treasures, and the king of Yu actually handed it to him directly in such a big way.

"Take it away." Xiao You smiled, "Your Highness doesn't care much about these things. Except for those that His Majesty specially sent to Your Highness with special intentions, the things bestowed by the emperor were given away after they were handed over. From Gansu to Ningxia, the generals and attendants who followed him , who hasn’t got one or half of them? Not to mention you, Xiaotong also has them. But they are not as elegant as yours, and most of them are gold, silver and jade utensils.”

As Xiao You said, he put the things directly on the table, and looked at Shen Jing's wound: "Is it better today?"

"It's much better, the pain is less."

"How's your waist? I'll change the plaster for you." Xiaoyou took off the plaster from the table, and then remembered what he thought Shen Jing was poisoned at that time, so he laughed, "I thought you were poisoned at the time, but you Are you scared? Sometimes I am startled and like to think too much. His Highness was so angry that he called me stupid later."

Shen Jing is more embarrassed than Xiao You.Thinking that I even explained the funeral to Xiaoyou at that time, I couldn't lift my head up in front of him: "...Your Highness didn't just scold you. I was stupid. I was really scared at that time. Those stupid things I said, You must forget it."

"I forgot, I forgot." Xiao You smiled and patted the plaster on Shen Jing's waist, "Look at your willow waist, it's so thin and soft, no wonder it's stretched—but, that day How did you stretch your waist, and you didn't see you doing it?"

"Didn't someone hold up a knife to chop His Royal Highness's back vest at that time?" Shen Jing recalled carefully, and could only think of such a plot, "I lifted a tabletop from the ground and hit him. I was in a hurry, so I tried so hard I just moved it, and I didn’t think it was a problem. I must have tried my best at that time, right?”

Xiao Xiao nodded: "That should be it. Why does the table weigh dozens of kilograms? It must be difficult for your body to lift it up. It's no wonder if you don't stretch it!"

Lie on the bed, Shen Jing casually took the inscription on the table and flipped through a few pages, the more she looked at it, the more she liked it.Thinking of the gift he bought for Zhao Heng before, and wondering if King Yu would like it, he tentatively asked, "Your Highness gave away such a good thing. Although His Highness is rich and noble, it seems that there is nothing special about it." preferences."

"That's not it." Xiaoyou sat at the table and poured a bowl of tea, drinking it by himself. It seems that he is free today and wants to sit here for a while, "Other princes and princes, who doesn't have three or five hobbies?" Strange ones. Some love the Four Treasures of the Study, some love antiques, and some love decorations. Only our Highness, when we have free time on weekdays, we like to ride horses and play chess."

Xiaoyou sighed while talking: "Speaking of which, there is still a trouble in the emperor's gift list this time. Sigh."

"what happened?"

"What else could it be?" Xiaoyou's face was full of wrinkles, "The emperor bestowed four beauties on His Highness."

"..."

"Fortunately, the journey was far away, so I didn't send it to Nanjing, or His Highness might be unhappy again." Xiao You sighed again, "I heard that it was sent to the palace of the capital. How can I arrange it when I go back? "

"Speaking of it, I'm really a little strange..." It was a rare time for Shen Jing to gossip with Xiao You, "Why is there no maidservant in the palace?"

Xiaoyou frowned: "Firstly, there is no hostess in the mansion. Secondly, ah, you can't blame His Highness. There used to be a few maidservants in the palace. Later, once His Highness drank, there was a woman named Xuelian Serving in front of His Highness, thinking that His Highness was drunk, he took off his clothes and climbed onto His Highness's bed... That time His Highness was really furious, kicked him out, and ordered him to throw away all the mattresses and pillows in the room Go out and burn it! ——It’s a pity that the bed, the best rosewood, it’s hard to find such a good wood now.”

"..."

"Since then, no maidservants are allowed in the mansion. Even the maids who wash and cook have been replaced by old men." Xiaoyou sighed slowly while drinking tea, "Actually, there is no need for such trouble. If your Highness Marry a princess early and come back, and these things in the backyard will be peaceful."