Yan Cigui.

Chapter 3 It's Just a Dream
In Lin Yunyan's memory, Xu Jian had a long and terrible scar on her right leg.

It was cut by Xiliang saber, it was Xu Jian's military exploits, and it also cut off Xu Jian's way to continue serving as a soldier.

Xu Jian was only 16 years old when he was injured, which should have been the age when Hao Erlang's sword was unsheathed.

He and his comrades killed hundreds of Xiliang soldiers, and when they returned to the camp, the military doctor was helpless to his bloody right leg.

The leg was saved, but it was also useless.

Since then, in Xu Jian's words, this leg has become a "decoration".

Long there to support the scene, so that the trousers will not be empty, and if there is any use, it is really useless.

I still have to wait, soaking medicine, pricking needles, pressing, beating every day...

Even so, it still shrank and lost its vitality month after month, and accompanied by that snake-like scar, it looked even more frightening.

Somehow, the left leg was affected, and I was able to stand on one leg and walk for a while with the help of crutches. Later, the crutches were no longer needed, and I was completely tied to the wheelchair.

Lin Yunyan set her eyes on Concubine Wen again.

The concubine talked carefully to the empress dowager about the clues that day.

The more Lin Yunyan listened, the more confused she became. She had seen Xu Jian's leg with her own eyes, and saw the scar. It was obviously such a serious injury. Why is Xu Jian still walking like a normal person?
Could it be that when he met Hua Tuo, Bian Que and his wonderful hand rejuvenated?

Concubine Wen's words were full of regret, while Lin Yunyan was full of joy.

Compared with sitting in a wheelchair and never being able to stand up again, just a little inconspicuous lameness, doesn't it mean that there is nothing wrong?
Of course, she still has doubts.

Lowering her eyes, Lin Yunyan pretended to be emotional: "Master Guo was injured so badly?"

"That's right," Wen Dowager sighed, "That body ability could have been just like his grandfather's, but... After all, the injury is also..."

Lin Yunyan listened with pricked ears, Concubine Wen suddenly paused, and when she spoke again, she only sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity."

Such a turning point is not considered blunt, but Lin Yunyan could hear it.

Concubine Wen must have thought of something, and swallowed the "reason for Xu Jian's injury" that had come to her lips. Even at that moment, her eyes moved slightly towards the empress dowager, and then looked back.

why?

Lin Yunyan was puzzled.

Xu Jian was wounded for beating the Xiliang people. It was a military exploit and he was aboveboard. What can't be mentioned?
"Just talking, I forgot to deal with the cards." Concubine Wen put both hands on the horse sling, "Come, come, I want to win back."

The poker table became lively again.

The corals were placed on the antique shelves, and the cicadas were singing outside. On the table, they were picking and playing cards, and talking some fun words from time to time. No one mentioned the person who gave the corals again.

After playing for three rounds, Concubine Wen showed tiredness, so it was over.

Concubine Wen stood up and left.

Lin Yunyan sent it out and left the main hall. She wanted to ask about Xu Jian again, but after thinking about it for a while, she decided to give up.

Concubine Wen likes to talk about family matters, but she also knows the appropriateness of the topic, and she is very obedient to the Empress Dowager, since she swallowed her words back before, she would never say it no matter how much she asked.

All the way to the outside of the Compassionate Ning Palace, Lin Yunyan turned back to the side hall.

The card table has been put away, and the Empress Dowager moved to sit on the Arhat bed by the window, leaning against the bed table, her eyes fell on one spot.

Lin Yunyan looked along and saw the pot of coral that Xu Jian gave her.

Did the empress happen to be looking there, or was she thinking about Xu Jian?

Lin Yunyan was uncertain for a moment.

Noticing that she was back, the empress dowager looked away and waved at her: "Come and sit at Ai's house for a while."

Lin Yunyan agreed and sat down on the other side of the bed.

"Do you have something on your mind?" the Empress Dowager asked, and before Lin Yunyan could answer, she said again, "You don't have to deny it, the Ai family can see that you are more tense today than in the past."

After being pointed out like this, Lin Yunyan certainly couldn't talk about the scene.

Her mind was indeed strained.

There was a huge fire at one moment, and she was in the Palace of Compassion and Peace at the next moment. For her, the Palace of Compassion and Peace a few years ago was so earth-shattering. Even if she guessed her own situation, she couldn't immediately deal with it calmly.

Xu Jian's leg injury is different from what she remembered, so how much have other people and things changed?

Pulled around and moved the whole body.

She needs some time to calm down and think about it carefully to figure out the current situation.

Xu Jian said before that there is a prerequisite for being calm.

Only when everything is under control can we truly calm down, relax, and strategize.

Otherwise, pretending to be fake and deceiving someone who is not familiar with it can still be effective, but in the eyes of a discerning person, it is simply a paper tiger.

And the empress dowager, who has seen countless people, is too familiar with Lin Yunyan.

The current situation obviously did not give her time to slowly collect her thoughts, and Gu Zuo said that his method would only have a counterproductive effect on the Empress Dowager. He opened his mouth in a low voice: "When I was resting in the side hall, I had a nightmare."

When the empress dowager heard this, she laughed: "It's not a five or six-year-old child, what kind of dream is so bluffing?"

"Big fire," Lin Yunyan said, "The house is on fire, thick smoke is billowing, I'm trapped inside, I can't escape at all..."

After only a few words, the empress dowager's brows furrowed suddenly, and the smile on the corner of her mouth disappeared.

She reached out and hugged Lin Yunyan into her arms, and supported her back: "Good boy, it's just a dream, it's just a dream."

Seeing this, Wang Momo quickly winked at the others.

The maids and servants filed out lightly, Wang Momo glanced at the two of them again, then retreated, stood outside the curtain, put her palms together and muttered "Amitabha".

She also saw that the princess was absent-minded at the poker table.

It's not that the princess showed all her emotions on her face, but the empress dowager looked at the princess several times.

Wang Momo has served the Empress Dowager personally for many years, and of course she never misses a look or a wink. It is this kindness and caution that allowed her to get clues from the Empress Dowager.

Yuan wondered, maybe something unpleasant happened to the girl's family, but he didn't expect it to be such a nightmare.

It's no wonder the princess is absent-minded, it's no wonder the empress dowager hesitates to speak when asked, and it's no wonder the empress dowager feels so heartbroken when she hears it.

That year, the late emperor was seriously ill, and the prince's majesty took the prince's concubine, His Royal Highness, and several ministers and ministers' wives to the temple to pray for blessings.In the middle of the night, the mountain was ablaze with flames, and there were screams for help. The Holy One insisted on leading the guards to rescue.Unexpectedly, a fire broke out in the temple, and the concubine, His Royal Highness, and the mother of the princess were trapped in the temple. After saving His Highness, she went to rescue the concubine again...

When the bad news came, Wang Momo remembered very clearly that the empress was heartbroken.

For the empress, that is not only the niece of the natal family, she entered the palace to serve the empress since she was eight years old, and then accompanied the princess to study, no different from her own daughter.

After that, Yamashita's murderous conspiracy was torn apart, and the government and the public were shaken. It was not until the Holy One ascended the throne that it gradually stabilized.

The fire on the mountain was an accident, but the people trapped in the fire, because the Holy Majesty took away the guards and monks and was unable to rescue them, but they could never come back.

The concubine, the mother of the princess...

A total of nine people were killed.

The princess was not in that catastrophe, maybe it was the mother-daughter bond, when she lived in the Compassionate Ning Palace when she was young, she had dreams of fire several times, crying in the middle of the night, and was hugged by the empress dowager to sleep.I asked about the uncle's house, and it was also said that I would have two or three nightmares in a month.

Fortunately, as I grow older, there are fewer nightmares, especially in recent years, and I have never reported the princess's nightmares.

The empress dowager was still the same, and she couldn't hear words like "fire" and "water", and she would feel uncomfortable for a long time after hearing it.

Thinking of this, Wang Momo quietly glanced inside.

The empress dowager's appearance of comforting the princess was still the same as before.

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