Leisure days in the cold palace

Chapter 4 The Man in the Storm
Chunxi is ill, and a little seriously ill.

In fact, it was just a simple typhoid fever, but it was delayed because of untimely treatment, and the disease became more and more serious.

It was raining heavily outside, although I had closed all the doors and windows in the room tightly, the sound of the wind and rain outside could still be heard clearly.

Perhaps I should be lucky at this time, but fortunately this room is not leaking, otherwise Chunxi's condition would have worsened a lot this night.

As early as three days ago, I troubled others to invite the imperial doctor, but after dozens of questions and responses in three days, all I got was the answer that "the hospital can't spare any manpower".

I know that it's not that they can't find manpower, but that they are simply too lazy to come to the cold palace to treat people.

The most common thing people in the palace do is to add icing on the cake. As for giving charcoal in a timely manner, that is something only a fool would do.

I understand what these people are thinking, so I took out the remaining gold and silver jewelry and made red envelopes for the eunuchs and maids who sent the message, but I still got the same answer.

Looking at Chunxi's face that was abnormally rosy due to the high fever, for the first time since I was born again, I felt flustered.

I fed him a lot of water, but he still had a high fever.He kept shouting cold in a daze, so I had no choice but to cover him with all the quilts I could find in the room.

It was wind and rain outside the house, and the candlelight inside the house was also trembling because of the rolling thunder from time to time.

I suddenly remembered that I should feed Chunxi something nutritious, so I hurriedly opened an umbrella and rushed into the ear room, looking here and there, but I couldn't find anything except some vegetable leaves.

But out of the corner of his eyes, he caught sight of the fish basket that he had woven before, and with a move in his heart, he simply threw the umbrella aside and rushed out of the room with the fish basket in hand.

If Chunxi can drink a pot of fish soup, maybe his condition will get better.

The wind outside is too strong, and holding an umbrella has already become a burden.But wind and rain also have their advantages, one of which is that in such a night, the guards in the palace will not be too attentive on duty.

Sneaking out of the cold palace has already been done once, so this time I did it with ease.It's just that the bean-sized raindrops are pouring down, and I don't feel anything for a minute or two. After a long time, I feel that my skin is a little stiff and painful.

I walked through the path all the way, and the pouring rain almost formed a curtain across the sky and the earth in front of my eyes. Even if I squinted and looked hard, the visibility was probably only [-] to [-] centimeters.

Stumbling along the way, I couldn't help but think in my mind, poor peach blossoms that just bloomed, this storm may make tomorrow's sunset full of red.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help laughing at myself, how come people are reborn, but they still can't let go of the sourness of their brains?

I shook my head with a smile, and with the thunder rolling in my ears, I finally came to the pond in the imperial garden.

The advantage of fishing in the rain is that you are no longer afraid of getting wet.

When I entered the pool, I felt that there was water in all directions for a while, and because it was raining heavily, when I hit the pond, it would be bounced back partly, and then hit me in the face.

This reminds me of "Forrest Gump" I watched in the early years, in which Forrest Gump encountered all kinds of rain when he was in Vietnam.Now, I can be regarded as encountering rain from below.

Someone said in my previous life that the greatest advantage of me is that I can enjoy myself while suffering.To be able to think of these things under the current circumstances is probably a kind of joy in bitterness.

Calm down, I won't waste any more time, after all Chunxi is still waiting for my pot of fish soup, and I'm somewhat worried about leaving him alone in the room.

It's just that catching fish in the rain is much more difficult than I imagined, because at this time the heavy rain raises a thick layer of fog on the pond, I can't see the fish, and the fish can't see me.

There is no way but to judge whether the fish has entered the urn by the feel of the hand.I put the fish basket into the water, repeating the fishing action again and again, almost blindly.

The initial pain from the rain on my body has disappeared, probably because of habit.It was a bit uncomfortable for the clothes to stick to my body, but fortunately, I didn't wear much, and the wetness didn't affect my movement.

The occasional wind would make me shiver, and my body gradually became cold, and then I discovered that the pool water was the warmest existence.

And the mechanically repeated movements in his hands finally came to fruition at this moment.

I lifted the fish basket out of the water in disbelief, and I felt the weight deepening. I wiped the rainwater off my face and looked carefully. There was really a lively fish in the fish basket!

I was overjoyed and wanted to rush back, but suddenly felt a dangerous breath, and then a feeling colder than rain hit my neck.

"Who are you? What are you doing here at this time?"

He asked very calmly, and he couldn't find much emotion in his voice.

I could hear my nervous heartbeat for a while, but I also forced myself to calm down quickly.

"The servant is the maid of the Jingting Division. Because Mr. Wang thinks that the servant did not clean up the duckweed in the pond during the day, so I let the servant continue to work at night..." I made nonsense, hoping to deceive this person.

After I was reborn, I no longer have the memory of this body, so I don't know many things in the palace, and I don't even know if the former Li Shuangwu knew this person.

Because Jianfeng was right next to my neck, I didn't dare to look back at him hastily, but under such wind and rain and circumstances, I couldn't see his face and body, and could only hear his slightly cold words, and An inch of the blade next to my neck.

Now I have nothing to think about, I can only pray that this person does not know the original Li Shuangwu, and can believe what I just said.

"The maid of Jingting Division?" He repeated softly, his voice felt a little erratic in the storm, "A court lady can wear clothes made of green gauze and silk. I don't know when the palace changed the rules."

I was slightly taken aback, thinking that this dress should have been owned by Li Shuangwu in the first place. I don't know what kind of precious material it is, but after I was reborn, I found this dress comfortable to wear, so I seldom left it.But I didn't expect that my identity would be exposed tonight because of such a dress.

My thoughts turned like lightning, and I responded with a scalp: "The servant girl used to work beside Mrs. Li, and this dress was given to the servant girl by Mrs. Li..."

The Mrs. Li I am talking about is naturally myself. When Li Shuangwu gained power, it was not wrong to reward her servants with some good materials at will. Moreover, because Li Shuangwu was thrown into the cold palace, it is only reasonable that the servants who served her were mixed up to such a degree. Naturally, there are no flaws in the story.

But all of this is based on one premise, that is, the person behind me did not know Li Shuangwu before.

It is more likely that the guards in the palace can show the sword in the imperial garden at this time, and it is more likely that the guards in the palace don't know Li Shuangwu...

I sighed softly in my heart, thinking that tonight I might have violated the Tai Sui.

Sure enough, when the man walked around in front of me, he raised his eyebrows and said with a light smile, "Mrs. Li? Why are you in such a good mood to visit the garden when it's raining heavily?"

I smiled wryly, it was indisputable.

"Madam should know that if you leave the cold palace without authorization, you will be punished." He said.

I smiled casually and said, "I know, I just don't know what to punish."

He probably didn't expect me to respond like this, so he couldn't help being slightly stunned for a moment. I raised my eyes to look at this man in his early 20s, and I always felt that there was something heroic in his eyebrows and eyes that people couldn't dare to look at.

"The punishment depends on how the queen mother will deal with it. After all, it is a matter of the mother."

"Oh, the lord wants to hand me over to the Queen Mother?"

"You call me your lord?" He was stunned for a moment, then gave me a surprised look, "There are rumors in the palace that Mrs. Li hanged herself on a beam after she arrived in the cold palace, and became a little delirious after being rescued by the imperial physician. This thing is actually true."

"It's not delirious," I corrected with some displeasure, "it's just that I don't remember the past... If my words conflict with my lord, I hope you will forgive me."

Hearing the words, he looked at me carefully for a while, and then smiled lightly after a while: "It really has changed. If it was Mrs. Li in the past, how could she accuse others?"

Probably this man is very familiar with the former Li Shuangwu, so I started talking nonsense at this time, but I was too lazy to soak in the pool water, so I said directly: "My lord is going to hand me directly to the Queen Mother?"

He shook his head and said: "It's late at night, and the Queen Mother has gone to bed early. Even if I punish you, I have to wait until tomorrow morning. I will put you in the prison of the Department of Punishment first, and report to the Queen Mother tomorrow morning."

"So..." I looked down at the fish in the fish basket, "Can I ask this lord for favors?"

He looked up at me, his eyes were so bright in the deep rainy night that one would drown.

"I want to go back and make soup from this fish by the way. How about following you to the Department of Corrections after I finish my work over there?" I asked lightly, and added, "Of course, this During this period, you can follow me, and I will not escape."

I heard him chuckle in the rain: "It turns out that you are here to catch fish, and you catch fish to make fish soup... Is the life in the Leng Palace so poor? Why do you want to bother Mrs. Li to do it yourself? Think of Mrs. Li back then In the palace, one word can be promised by thousands of people, and no one can be ignored, but why is it now in such an unbearable state?"

I could hear the sarcasm in his words, but I didn't understand what the vague hatred was.But soon I was relieved, the original Li Shuangwu was domineering in the palace, and there were eight thousand people who wanted to offend, and this man was probably one of them.

Seeing that I didn't reply, he smiled coldly: "There has never been anything that is right or wrong in this palace. The key is, why should I help you like this, and what benefits can you give me?"

After finishing speaking, he put the sword back into its sheath abruptly, but at the same time, he also put his arms around my waist into his arms, gnashing his teeth in my ear and asking: "If I want your body like this, will you agree?"

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