Aristocratic family's career in the Red Chamber

The side hall arranged for Tu Youhao is an empty courtyard of Qiongfang Hall on the westernmost side of the palace. It is said to be a side hall, but in fact, it is a dilapidated two-entry house with sparse vegetation. The paint on the beams is still there, so you can see There are still repairs, but there is a musty smell that has been unoccupied for a long time inside, which makes people frown when they enter.

Tu Youhao had already developed a high fever, Jia Hu and Han Yan were dizzy, although they still had sanity, but their status was not enough, how could they command the eunuch who was assigned to serve with resentment?But after a casual cleaning, the palace servants threw Jia Hu and Han Yan onto the bed, and hurriedly went to boil water to serve Tu Youhao——Tu Youhao is the prince, and if he died, all the palace servants would have to wait for him. Let him be buried with him. As for Jia Hu and Han Yan, if something happened to them, no matter how serious it was, they would not let them all die with him. The palace people knew the stakes.

A house that has been unoccupied for a long time has a chill that pierces into the bones, moist and cold, and penetrates directly into the cracks of human bones. It is obvious that the sun is still shining outside, but staying in the house for a long time is like coming early. In the middle of winter, it was so cold that the whole person was shivering.The quilt was brought in from outside, it was soft and dense, but after covering it for two days, it felt damp for a while, making sleeping very uncomfortable and not warm at all.

The imperial doctor often came to see the pulse, but he covered his mouth and nose with a white cloth, and whispered carefully to avoid the appearance of fear and fear, which made the children who were anxious and ill feel uncomfortable, and the atmosphere of fear and anxiety in the palace In a few days, Han Yan was the first to be unable to bear it, and burst into tears: "I want to go home, I want to go home! I don't want to stay here anymore! I want my mother, I want my grandmother..."

Han Yan was pampered and spoiled since he was a child, and he was always held in the palm of his mother and grandmother. The greatest suffering in his life was being reprimanded by his father for hitting the ruler. The house compensated him, never lived in such a simple house, ate such meager food, even took medicine, and no one coaxed him to do so.Not only that, but the symptoms of smallpox began to appear, fever began, the body was itchy, but I couldn't scratch, and small bumps began to appear on the chest and legs, little by little, which made people feel flustered.

Growing up in the gate of a mansion, smallpox is a disease that everyone hears, but Han Yan has heard of it, even one of his concubine cousins ​​died because of 'Jianxi', a child of a big family, born with They are much more sophisticated than others. The word death is never unfamiliar to them, and there are always some accidents. It can turn the person who played with them yesterday into a cold and immobile corpse today. .

Han Yan didn't want to die, and he didn't want to see such a remote and desolate house for the last time, facing the indifferent and impatient people in the underground palace.He wants to go home, he wants his mother to coax him to take medicine, he wants his grandmother to nudge him to give him something good, he wants his father to call him a 'brat' with a smile...

He doesn't want to stay here!

Smallpox was such a dangerous disease, Jia Hu was also beating drums in his heart, especially after he also developed a high fever and blisters on his body, he was alone in bed at night, tossing and turning, unable to sleep at night.Only those who have died know the horror of death. All ambitions become hopeless at this moment, and parents and relatives will never see each other again.Jia Hu could only tell himself over and over again that since God let him live again, it would not be so simple to let him die.

"Han Yan, don't cry. We are sick now and can't go out. Even if you go home, you won't be able to see your mother and grandmother. You can rest assured that you will recover from your illness first. Then who will return?" Dare to stop you from going home?!" Jia Hu persuaded Han Yan.Now this is a side hall, except for the eunuchs and maids who have already accepted their fate and have the will to die, only Han Yantu Youhao is Jia Hu who can talk to him, and he has been studying together for so long, and Jia Hu doesn't care. I hope that a child will be so scared that he will lose his will.

But the fear in Han Yan's heart can't be dispelled by just a few words. Hearing this, I cried even louder, wailing: "I'm going to die, why can't I see my mother and grandmother? I feel so uncomfortable. I am in so much pain, I want to go home, I want my mother and grandmother! I can’t get better, I don’t want to die in this cold yard where no one can see me!”

Jia Hu's heart skipped a beat at what he said, and she lowered her face and shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about? Who said you would die if you were to recover? Can you speak?!"

Han Yan didn't pay attention to Jia Hu, and wept bitterly, "Those eunuchs and maids said they were going to die? Yesterday, Fengya got blisters and didn't even do any work. She said she wanted to relax for two days before she died." , the father-in-law didn’t talk about her, and turned a blind eye to her. Didn’t he just let her go because she was dying? I have so many blisters on my body, I must be dead !" The child who was coddled and coddled with fear of suffering, in this strange environment, dragged Jia Hu, the only one who had a good friendship, and threw all the etiquette and norms he was taught to the back of his head, crying like an ignorant child.

Jia Hu was very angry and funny, facing a child who was a head taller than him but dragged him to such a "little guy" and cried, Jia Hu could only helplessly say: "You, you compare yourself with a slave , I don’t even think about it, are you the same as that slave? The imperial doctor can see you every day, the best medicinal materials, and I will accompany you, you will always get better, it’s not like you haven’t seen the blisters on my body, 01:30 less than yours? I'm not even afraid, but you were scared out of your wits first."

Jia Hu was indeed calm and composed, not flustered or flustered, as calm as usual, without any anxiety or fear in his body, as if he was not worried about the smallpox disease on his body at all.Han Yan looked at Jia Hu like this, looked at him suspiciously, choked up and said, "You, are you really not afraid of dying? This is smallpox, and people will die. Everyone said that if you get this disease, you are close to death."

Jia Hu crossed his eyes at him: "It's lucky that you have been studying books for a long time in the study room. You have narrowly escaped death, so there is still a chance of life? If you get smallpox, you must die. Throughout the ages, how many people have been infected with smallpox, and they all died. How much? Then what kind of diagnosis did the imperial doctor come to see me? What kind of medicine? Wouldn’t it be better to just let us die early and be reborn early, so as to avoid suffering?” The last sentence was a bit of a helpless ridicule, he was really confused by Han Yan’s entanglement I can't help it.

Han Yan didn't think about it so much. If he thought about it carefully, he would die if he got smallpox, so what kind of diagnosis would the imperial doctor give them?What medicine do they take?There must be cures.But the eyes brightened only for a while, and then dimmed instantly, glanced around, and said in a low voice: "But since we came here, the imperial physicians have paid attention to the pulse, and they all value the fourth prince. We are so careless here. Neglect, even if you really have something good, can you still come to us?"

Jia Hu stared at Han Yan for a long time, only to see that the smile on his face froze, and then said with a smile: "There are differences between monarchs and ministers, what can I do? You ask me, and I can't help it."

Han Yan was in a hurry: "Then you just let us be thrown aside? Good medicine is not on the wheel, and neither is good food and good food? If things go on like this, the disease can be cured, but we are not cured, so what? What can I do?"

Jia Hu spread his hands, expressing his helplessness: "Then what can we do, it's just our bad luck."

Han Yan was so anxious that he was sweating on his head. He was already feverish, and his face was flushed red. Hearing Jia Hu's words, he stomped his feet on the ground anxiously. When he looked at Jia Hu several times, he hesitated to speak. Seeing that Jia Hu lowered his head and didn't look at him, he couldn't help it, he hesitated and said: "Jia Hu, you have always been courageous, why don't you go and talk to the fourth prince, okay?"

Finally said it out.Jia Hu looked at Han Yan who bowed his head and toes in embarrassment as soon as the words came out, and unconsciously mingled his hands together, not daring to look at him, shook his head and laughed, and felt a little disappointed.When I first met Han Yan, he was still a spoiled child. He only thought that he was the number one in the world, and everyone should let him.But a few months of court life made him taste the harshness brought by the words "the difference between the monarch and his subjects", and it also made a simple child grow his mind, knowing that he was being urged to stand out and leave himself out. up.

Unfortunately, it's still too tender.I was afraid in my heart that I felt unkind, so I didn't dare to look at him.

But what does it matter? In life, who dares to say that he will not take advantage of others in his life. After all, everyone has to grow up. Except for newborn children, who can say that they are innocent?Born in a big family, you have to go through these things anyway.

These days when he was thrown into the side hall, Han Yan was probably frightened.Jia Hu sighed once, but she didn't follow Han Yan's words, she just smiled and said, "I'm not brave enough, you are the one who laughs and laughs in class on weekdays, why now, you say I'm brave big."

Han Yan laughed: "What am I? I still remember the fight between you and the fourth prince when we first came to the study. I still remember clearly. You are not even afraid of the fourth prince, and you dare to go up and fight, what is it if you are not brave?"

Jia Hu rolled his eyes, and said angrily, "You still say, how was I beaten up that day? It's just you, it's just a little bit of skin scratches. Later, it's free. You got ten days off."

Han Yan obviously also thought of that rest time, and smiled embarrassedly. If he said that he was really ashamed that time, there was nothing serious about it, but he cried more miserable than Jia Hu, who had a bruised nose and a swollen face. fever.Simply, Jia Hu didn't mention this, Han Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "That's why I said you were brave. When we went to meet His Majesty, you were calm and composed. Your courage is no worse than I am a hundred times stronger? You can ask the fourth prince, even if he can help reprimand the palace servants."

Jia Hu shook his head but refused to agree: "The fourth prince's condition is more serious than ours, I'm afraid he's not feeling right now, how can I bother him."

Han Yan said dissatisfiedly: "Those imperial physicians, maids and eunuchs circle around him every day. Even if he got sick earlier than us, his condition should have stabilized by now. We, who are itchy and feverish, didn't say anything. He didn't even say a word. No time to talk?"

The side hall is not big, except for the side room for the palace people, there are only two wing rooms in the east and west, separated by a small patio, through the window, you can clearly see the movement of the opposite door.When Han Yan felt uncomfortable, he looked outside to divert his attention. These days, although the East Wing where Tu Youhao lived was also sparsely populated, there were still people who delivered medicine and meals on time. Sometimes when Tu Youhao was cold, someone went in to serve him. .In contrast, on Han Yan’s side, it’s easy to call someone and no one responds, and the most frightening thing is that the medicine is not delivered in time, not to mention that sometimes the medicine is warm and cold, and Jia Hu is the last one. Someone took a small stove and put it in the house, but it was really hard to call people, so they took down the curtains and burned them to heat up - the people who confronted them every day were lifeless palace officials, gloomy and depressed. The atmosphere made Han Yan feel like he was going crazy, and he hated Tu Youhao who made him look like this.

Why are you so much better than me when I have such a miserable life?No matter how he thought about it, Han Yan just couldn't swallow this breath.But Tu Youhao's identity is still there, and he can't fight against him openly. Han Yan is so angry that he grabs Tu Youhao and beats him in his dreams, and he is even more rude when he speaks in private.

Regarding this, Jia Hu could only say: "He is the prince after all, so the palace servants should rush him to come first?"

Seeing that he couldn't move Jia Hu, Han Yan had no choice but to do so.After a few more days like this, the two of them became more and more uncomfortable, with more and more blisters on their bodies, and white pus began to appear. The itching was like a bug had penetrated into the cracks in the bones, which made people want to Scratching all the skin off his body, it's fine if he can't scratch it, even if he rubs it a little, he's afraid that the clothes will wear out the blisters and leave a scar in the end, Jia Hu is determined not to be able to bear his own pockmarked face in the future Yes, no matter how painful it was, Han Yan didn’t have the stamina. He cried and shouted after being restrained by Jia Hu. In the end, when Jia Hu didn’t pay attention, he broke a lot of blisters and had a high fever that made him dizzy all day long. Feeling dizzy, two more of the palace servants died and were carried out. The waiters became more and more inattentive. Their West Wing was deserted and quiet, and only Han Yan's crying could add more joy to the room. Little bit of popularity.

Not to mention that Han Yan couldn't stand it anymore, Jia Hu also began to doubt, if this continues, can he really leave the palace alive?

The imperial doctor came to check the pulse again.Still wearing a mask and cautiously daring to say a word, Jia Hu waited for him to ask a few questions before he broke his pulse and was about to prescribe a prescription, so he stopped him and asked, "I haven't seen the fourth prince for a long time. , I wonder how the Fourth Prince is doing now?"

The imperial physician was not very happy with Jia Hu's question. Although the white cloth covered his mouth and nose, his brows and eyes drooped clearly, and said: "The fourth prince is still not comfortable, and the fever is not very severe after all." Throwing down the In one sentence, I hurried out to open a prescription.

Han Yan raised his eyebrows with anger, and cursed in a low voice: "What, I invited them to my house in the past. It was not polite that time, but now it's like this... When I get better and go home, let's see what I tell my grandmother. !"

Jia Hu ignored him, thought for a while, pulled himself together, put on his clothes, struggled and fell to the ground, Han Yan yelled at the back and asked what to do, he ignored him, the thirties who brought the eunuch to prescribe The eunuch An Yi had a gloomy face, and he bowed and begged with an uncomfortably dead breath all over his body: "Young Master Jia, don't embarrass me. You are not in good health now, and if you walk around and make your condition worse, this responsibility is my responsibility." Sorry."

Jia Hu looked at the eunuch who was temporarily assigned to take care of him and Han Yan. Since he entered the palace, he seemed to have given up on his life plan, and he did things like a wooden man every day. Then Mu Leng stared at the sky and looked at the calluses on his hands. I'm afraid he didn't have a good life before. Otherwise, he would not be assigned to this kind of drudgery when he was in his thirties. Hanging on the tip of the knife.

Jia Hu didn't want to embarrass him, no matter how much he neglected his errands, he finally delivered the food and medicine to their room, which was much better than the cleaning eunuch who hadn't come for several days: "I just went to see Look at the fourth prince, don't worry, but it's just a few steps away from death, nothing will happen. The emperor asked us to stay in the palace at the beginning because he hoped that we could be companions for the fourth prince. We have never seen the two of us recuperating in the wing. If this goes on like this, isn’t it a failure of the emperor’s life? The imperial physician also said today that the fourth prince’s fever is not very severe, so I’ll go and have a look.”

The emperor's orders were carried out, An Yi didn't dare to persuade him anymore, his eyes turned around Jia Hu, and he lowered his head to get out of the way. Seeing that Jia Hu was really going to leave, Han Yan hurriedly put on his clothes and chased after him .

Tu Youhao's room is not much better than the West Wing. The windows are tightly closed, and the dim light shines into the room, making the dark red and old furniture look even more gloomy. The smell of medicine and musty smell from the nose is mixed together, making it cold. It was as cold as if the water had frozen.Tu Youhao was lying on the bed, the whole room was so quiet that even the sound of water dripping on the ground could be clearly heard.

When Jia Hu pushed the door in, Tu Youhao glanced at it with his dull eyes, and it took him a while to realize that the eunuch who came in was not the eunuch delivering food and medicine. His eyes finally had some brilliance, and he struggled to half-hold up. Leaning against the head of the bed, he said in a hoarse voice, "Jia Hu, what are you doing?" His voice was a little vague at first, and he didn't know how long he hadn't spoken.

Jia Hu smiled, and found a stool to sit on the edge of the bed: "We recuperate together, and the emperor even told us to accompany you, but since we came here, we have been staying in our own rooms, no matter what you think, it's okay." I can't stand the emperor's order, so come and have a look. Are you feeling better now?"

Jia Hu spoke very sincerely, but Tu Youhao didn't appreciate it.If you really wanted to see him, you wouldn’t come here after such a long time. There is such a small courtyard between the two wing rooms. Although Tu Youhao was recuperating, he had paid attention to the opposite side. Although Jia Hu and Han Yan were ill, they could Talking from time to time, occasionally when he was lying on the bed, he could still hear laughter coming from the opposite side-at that time, why didn't they think that he was alone and ignored?Palace people avoid like poisonous snakes and beasts?

"It's nothing to look at, there are more blisters on your face than yours, and you have a fever, and you're not dead yet, so I dare not bother you." Tu Youhao said almost sarcastically, snorting coldly.

Jia Hu felt guilty and said: "These days, Han Yan and I were also negligent. First, we were worried about our own illness, and then we managed to regain our energy, but then we had a high fever...Those palace people didn't look smart, and the four The prince doesn't have anyone to talk to... After all, it's all my fault and Han Yan's."

Tu Youhao snorted coldly: "Do you think I'm a three-year-old child? If I'm sick, I need someone to talk with me to relieve my boredom? If you and Han Yan don't come, it's just that I'm free and at ease. It's no big deal."

Jia Hu apologized to him again: "It's true that I can't speak, but my intentions are true. Now that we have smallpox and are isolated in this side hall, I don't know how trembling those palace people will look like in the future. It's annoying. Although Han Yan and I are not talented, we are still the fourth prince's companions. It's better to talk with you than to be alone, isn't it? I know that Han Yan and I didn't like the fourth prince before, but now It is a difficult time, and we have the heart to accompany the fourth prince, and please forgive us for what happened first."

Tu Youhao swept Jia Hu several times from the beginning to the end, and suddenly laughed: "Jia Hu, what you said today is different from what you said before. Could it be that you have a fever and burned your brain?"

The smile on Jia Hu's face couldn't hold back anymore, and he said, "Why did the Fourth Prince say that?"

However, Tu Youhao didn't give any face, and directly mocked: "Mr. Jia Hu, who was so bold and dared to fight with me in the past, is actually humiliating me now. Jia Hu, what is your purpose? Just put it bluntly, don't Beating around the bush here, I saw it, annoying!"

The smile on Jia Hu's face faded...