White Hedge Dream

Chapter 264 Understand

Zhou Jingyun slowly opened his eyes.

When you feel unwell, there is always an unreal feeling when you fall asleep and wake up, as if you haven't slept and haven't woken up.

A pair of eyes flickered at him.

Zhou Jingyun suddenly woke up, and his chaotic consciousness was reunited. He felt calm as before.

"When did you come back?" He said with a smile, and then looked out the window, "It's midnight, why don't you go to bed?"

Bai Li smiled and said, "I came back right after lighting the lamp. I slept a lot during the day and I'm not sleepy anymore." After that, he stood up and called Dr. Sun, "Your Majesty is awake."

Imperial Physician Sun came in with his disciples, looked around, listened, asked, changed medicine, turned over, scrubbed, etc. After cleaning up, Bai Li came in again.

"The prince is recovering well." Dr. Sun said, "After taking the medicine, you can eat some ginseng porridge."

Bai Li thanked him: "Doctor Sun, please go and rest. I'll leave this place to me."

Behind her, Mrs. Zhuang was holding the child, and Chun Yue came in with medicine, and the small room became crowded.

"Mr. Sun," Chunyue said, "I have prepared a midnight snack for you."

Imperial Physician Sun thanked him with a smile and left with his disciple. Through the gauze curtain, he could see the young lady sitting by the bed, taking the child and showing it to Zhou Jingyun. The child was babbling and reached out to touch Zhou Jingyun's face.

The outside world doesn't know yet. During these days, Zhou Shizi, who was having a romantic affair outside and was not familiar with the King of Chu, was also not idle at home. He had a new love and gave birth to children.

"Why aren't you asleep yet?"

"She is sleeping."

The interior is noisy and cozy.

It stands to reason that with Prince Zhou in such chaos inside and out, coupled with his unknown injuries, the family should be in a state of despair.

But now it looks very warm, which is really weird.

When he looked back and saw his disciple looking towards the bedroom, Doctor Sun raised his hand and hit him.

"What are you looking at! Cut the medicine!"

"He's sick and can't hold you."

Bai Li picked up the girl from Zhou Jingyun and handed it to Mrs. Zhuang.

The child was about to cry as soon as he curled his lips. Mrs. Zhuang coaxed her: "I will hug you when the prince is well."

Bai Li pouted: "I hug her too much every day, and I'm spoiling her."

Zhou Jingyun smiled: "If you don't hug the child, should you let her run away on her own?"

Chunyue laid the handkerchief and brought the medicine bowl. Bai Li took it and said, "Here, take the medicine." She put down the medicine bowl when she thought of something, picked up the box from the bed and opened it, "I brought you snacks. "

Zhou Jingyun looked at a box of various kinds of mille-feuille cakes and listened to Bai Li's voice.

"I came out of Prince Chu's Mansion and passed through Dongshi to buy it. You have been taking medicine recently and your mouth is bitter. Eat something sweet."

Nannan saw the bright snacks and opened her hands to grab them. Bai Li quickly took them away: "It's not for you."

Mrs. Zhuang smiled and hugged the child away: "You can't eat this yet, come on, let's go breastfeed."

She went out with the baby in her arms, and the room became quiet.

Bai Li fed the medicine to Zhou Jingyun: "Tell me if it hurts."

Zhou Jingyun smiled and said hello before swallowing the medicine: "It's not that painful."

Bai Li smiled, and while feeding the medicine, he continued: "When I was buying snacks, guess who I met."

Zhou Jingyun said: "Zhang Ze?"

Bai Li smiled: "Your Majesty is so smart, he can guess all this."

Zhou Jingyun laughed and asked worriedly: "He didn't say anything, did he? Did he notice that you were different?"

Bai Li raised his eyebrows: "I'm also very smart."

Zhou Jingyun laughed again and then hissed.

Bai Li hurriedly put down the medicine bowl and subconsciously wanted to touch his chest, but he didn't dare to touch it.

"Are you involved in the wound? Don't laugh, don't laugh." She said, and then scolded, "What's so funny about what I said!"

Zhou Jingyun held back his laughter and said he would stop laughing.

Bai Li continued to give me the medicine, and then said: "Zhang Ze is very smart and already knows what kind of existence I am, so he is very respectful to me and completely regards me as Empress Chiang Kai-shek."

Zhou Jingyun understood what she meant. The special thing about Baili is that he changes according to the other person's thoughts, so Zhang Ze knew that Baili was Baili, but he wanted to treat Baili as Empress Chiang, and then get an Empress Chiang.

"Are you okay? You're not affected by him." He asked softly.

Bai Li smiled at him: "No, don't worry." He tapped his chest lightly with his finger, "Your injury cannot be in vain, I am very awake now."

Zhou Jingyun smiled, and sure enough, through the thin quilt and the cloth that wrapped the injury, he could still feel the numbness from his fingers.

"What did he say when he saw you?" he asked hurriedly.

"Let me ask you why you were injured. I told him that you wanted to stop me from marrying the King of Chu, so I stabbed you to teach you a lesson. He was very happy."

Zhou Jingyun smiled again.

While he was talking, he finished a bowl of medicine.

"You finished the drink so quickly?" Bai Li looked at the medicine bowl and then at the snack box beside him, "I forgot to feed you snacks."

Zhou Jingyun smiled and said: "It's not bitter."

Bai Li put down the bowl and took a brocade handkerchief to wipe the corners of his mouth: "Have a rest for a while and then eat ginseng porridge."

Zhou Jingyun hummed and asked her, "Have you eaten yet?"

Bai Li nodded, smiling with crooked eyebrows: "Chunyue prepared it for me, steamed chicken with lotus leaves. It's very delicious. I'll give it to you to try when you're ready to eat meat."

Zhou Jingyun smiled and said hello.

The room seemed quiet for a moment.

Zhou Jingyun looked at Bai Li, who lowered his head to adjust the candle, as if he was disgusted that the candle was not bright. He sighed softly in his heart. After saying so much, she didn't say the most important thing, so he should speak.

"How's it going with King Chu?" he asked.

Bai Li hummed and looked away from the candlelight.

"He." She smiled, as if she had just thought of something, "There is something I haven't told you all this time. He also has a somewhat special physique."

Zhou Jingyun said oh and waited for her to speak with a smile.

"He never dreams." Bai Li knelt down beside the bed so that he could look at him at eye level. "You know that people actually dream. Many people say they don't dream, but they actually forget about it, but he doesn't. He really does. There is a dreamless state.”

He told the story of the first time he entered the palace in a dream, alerted the emperor's bell, and broke into Li Yu's dream when he was on the run.

"Later, when I faked my death, I asked him to help because he could stay awake in the illusion and see things that others couldn't."

Hearing this, Zhou Jingyun suddenly said: "So, he has discovered that you are wrong a long time ago?"

Bai Li looked at him and nodded with a smile: "Yes, you were deceived by him."

Zhou Jingyun laughed: "I thought he didn't notice it, but he really did"

He had always been worried about what would happen to Li Yu when he found out that Bai Li had turned into Chiang Kai-shek.

It turned out that it didn't matter if I discovered it.

Maybe it's because I have been holding back since I was a child, pretending that I am not the emperor's eldest grandson, pretending that I am the concubine of Shangguan's consort, pretending that I am a dandy.

You can also pretend not to notice that Bai Li in front of you has turned into Empress Chiang.

"Then he proposed to get married." Zhou Jingyun thought of something and asked, "Did he do it on purpose?"

Bai Li hummed: "He wants to do what he did before. He thinks that taking me with him can help me come back."

Zhou Jingyun nodded: "That's really good. Not only is he not afraid, but he dares to risk his own life to get close." The room seemed to be quiet for a moment again.

"so."

The two said in unison again.

After the words came out, the two looked at each other for a moment, and then they both laughed again.

"So, what do you want to do next?" Zhou Jingyun asked with a smile.

Bai Li looked at him: "I want to continue the fake marriage with him." Without waiting for Zhou Jingyun to speak, he continued, "Although I woke up, the previous situation will not be the last, and my instability is getting more and more serious. "

Zhou Jingyun was silent, he had already guessed it from the moment Bai Li asked him to prepare the dagger.

"I am awake now, but I can't guarantee that I will always be awake." Bai Li whispered, "Because I have too many thoughts."

Zhou Jingyun looked at her and said softly: "Mrs. Zhuang said that you are born with a constitution that requires you to be pure and celibate, but since you entered the capital..."

In other words, since the Bai family's tragedy, although she left the Bai family, she could not leave the family.

Zhou Jingyun raised his hand, because Bai Li was kneeling beside the bed, so he didn't have to exert too much effort, and gently tapped her smooth and white forehead with his fingers.

The thoughts of her sister, the tragic death of her family, the thoughts of Zhuang Feizi, and the thoughts of Shen Qing

The people she met and the thoughts she had had left traces on her body, eroded and entangled her.

Bai Li looked at him: "I won't hide it from you. I don't know when I will lose myself or who I am."

She held Zhou Jingyun's fingers, held his hand, and placed it gently on her cheek.

"If I don't end these thoughts and make myself clean, even if you have nine lives and can save me nine times, what will I do on the tenth time?"

Perhaps because he was holding her hand and feeling the soft and delicate skin, Zhou Jingyun did not feel restrained and even smiled: "When the nine lives are used up, I will think of other ways?"

Bai Li looked at him angrily: "Once is enough."

Her eyes fell on his chest.

Once is enough.

She didn't want to see him lying broken like this again, with the desperate look in Mrs. Dongyang Hou's eyes.

She lowered her gaze.

"I will marry him and send my daughter back to the royal family."

"I want to make my sister's dream come true."

"I want to give comfort to the abandoned lives."

"Besides that, there are also her thoughts and the thoughts of those people."

Zhou Jingyun understood who she was referring to.

"Bai Li." He said word by word, "You are the victim, you don't owe anyone, and you don't have to be responsible for anyone's thoughts."

Bai Li smiled and looked up at him: "I know, I'm not doing this for other people, but for me."

Whether passive or active, those thoughts were hers, had existed, and had benefited from them. She couldn't pretend that they had nothing to do with her.

If she ignores it and blames it on others, she will become someone else sooner or later.

Zhou Jingyun looked at her, her face was calm under the candle, and there seemed to be a smile in her eyes. In a daze, he seemed to see that person.

"Zhou Jingyun, it is her will that makes me exist. How do you know that what I want to do is not her will?"

"Zhou Jingyun, don't forget, the first time you saw her, she was related to me."

She was pulled into a cage from the beginning.

She was also haunted by thoughts of his life.

Zhou Jingyun thought, it would have been better if he had not gone to the academy.

But if he hadn't gone, he and she wouldn't have known each other.

She was taken away by Shen Qing. When she was in danger, he was just a stranger, unaware and watching indifferently. In the end, Bai Li did not exist in this world...

That's not okay.

Let him miss her and meet her.

Zhou Jingyun sighed softly in his heart.

"Zhou Jingyun, don't worry, I know what I'm doing. This is my own choice and my own thoughts."

Zhou Jingyun said: "I understand what you mean, God will save those who save themselves."

Saying this, he smiled again.

"Don't worry, if God doesn't save you, I will still be there."

Bai Li looked at him.

Although it may have been given to him by others, from the moment he said he would marry her and protect her, he has always been protecting her, her name is Bai Li.

She nodded: "I know."

There was a moment of silence in the room.

"I'm here to tell my mother about this." Zhou Jingyun said.

Bai Li shook his head: "I'll do it, this is my business."

Zhou Jingyun looked at her and said hello.

"Then, have a couple of mouthfuls of porridge." Bai Li said, letting go of his hand, "You're still hungry."

In fact, she wasn't hungry either. Zhou Jingyun's hand stayed on her cheek for a moment and then fell back to her side.

Bai Li stood up and called Chunyue.

Chunyue came in with porridge, and Bai Li was about to take it, but Zhou Jingyun didn't let her feed it.

"My mother must be awake. You should tell her now." Zhou Jingyun said, "lest she will lose her temper again tomorrow when she finds out from others."

Then he looked at Chunyue.

"She just feeds me porridge."

Bai Li said hello and smiled at him: "Then I'll go."

Zhou Jingyun smiled and nodded: "Go ahead." He then warned, "Remember to tell her that it was agreed upon by us."

To prevent Mrs. Dongyang Hou from scolding her alone? Bai Li looked at him and nodded again: "Okay, I know."

Zhou Jingyun stopped talking and looked at her with a smile.

Bai Li also looked at him again, turned around and walked out.

Chunyue was a little nervous on the side, wasn't she going to see the lady in the next room? Why are the prince, young master, and Mrs. Bai so reluctant to leave?

"Your Majesty," she said softly, "I will feed you porridge."

Zhou Jingyun lowered his eyes: "Wait a moment."

Hold on? What are you waiting for? Chun Yue was puzzled, and then saw Zhou Jingyun turning his head to look at the bed.

"Give me a snack," he said.

Chun Yue looked at the mille-feuille cakes bought by Bai Li lying next to the bed, and hurriedly answered yes, but felt a little confused. She was about to eat porridge, so why did she need snacks?

The prince actually has no habit of eating snacks.

"It's too bitter."

Zhou Jingyun's voice came softly.

bitter? Is the medicine bitter? But after taking the medicine for a while, Chunyue thought to herself, does the prince just not want to take it, is he afraid that Mrs. Bai will laugh at him?

She held the snack in one hand, held it up in the other, and handed it to Zhou Jingyun's mouth.

Zhou Jingyun took a bite, and the sweetness of the pastry spread in his mouth.