concubines

Chapter 354
Mammy Xi couldn't quite hear what she was talking nonsense, and felt that it was time to go back after staying here for a while.

The wind in the autumn night was very cold, and she drank wine again, in case she caught cold, she would be fine.

Just as she was about to help her stand up, she jumped into the lake and seemed to shout, "My lord, this servant is here to save you."

"Niangniang, Niangniang!"

Mammy Xi didn't have time to distinguish what she said, she couldn't squirt water herself, and asked the eunuchs behind her, they didn't know how to sip water either.Mother Xi was so anxious that she was at a loss, so she hurriedly asked someone to call for someone.I squatted by the water, trying to reach out to pull her, but I couldn't reach her no matter what.

Cold water covered the whole body, a bone-piercing chill, a feeling of deja vu.She seems to be still in the palace, she just came back from Zhaoyun Mountain, she jumped into the water to save Xu Meitang, she lost her first child.

how could be?

With her second child gone, it was impossible for time to stop there.Miao Li woke up completely and knew who she was.

Someone in my ear kept shouting, "My Lady, My Lady."

She is a noble concubine, and it has been a long, long time.The prince has not been at the bottom of the lake for a long time, and there is no prince for a long time.

What's so silly is her in the past, she who believed in it.

Feeling that she was sinking a little bit, her mouth and nose were filled with water, and she couldn't breathe anymore.She doesn't seem to have the instinct to survive, she doesn't want to struggle.

Life has come to an end, and she doesn't really want to look back on her own life.Walking over step by step, I feel that there is nothing to look back on.

In the end, she seemed to be vassalizing Fengya for a while, and she was also drunk, and fell into the water because of the moon.

Yueming wanted to be so worried and sleepless, she finally won't be unable to sleep because of her lover anymore, she will sleep forever, how happy she is.

Slowly, slowly closed his eyes.

The more Zhou Shuxuan thought about it, the more he felt that what she said was not quite right. He toasted him suddenly, and said so many weird things, which didn't seem to be said out of nowhere, but out of feeling.It was probably his illusion, and the illusion was too real, which made him unable to calm down.

Suddenly, he was in a trance, and he didn't even hear the toast of the person in front of him. He didn't know until Gao Fu reminded him.It seems that I can't sit still anymore, and my heart is scratching, as if something big is about to happen.

Zhou Shuxuan was always worried, and felt that it was better to go and have a look.She drank so much wine that she became a little crazy again.Not to mention anything else, even bumping on the way back is not good, she is in such a bad health, bumping and bumping must take a long time to take care of her.

Zhou Shuxuan left the meeting directly, and he must go to Qingquan Palace to have a look before he can rest assured.Just when he reached the intersection, he saw two eunuchs approaching in a panic. He was about to reprimand him for being so unruly.He heard the eunuch shouting to him from a distance, "Your Majesty, the imperial concubine has fallen into the water."

Zhou Shuxuan didn't sit in the sedan chair now, and ran away when he heard this.He didn't even have time to ask the eunuch what was wrong, so he just ran back with them, taking off his robe while running.

Running to the Liuguang Spring, seeing Mammy Xi crawling around, she asked, "Did it fall from here?"

"right……"

Before finishing a word, Zhou Shuxuan jumped in without any hesitation.

The place of Liuguangquan is not very big, and now the moonlight illuminates the water clearly, he can see things, and he can see the people sinking at the bottom of the lake at a glance.She obviously knew how to swim, but she let herself lie on the bottom.

Zhou Shuxuan couldn't think too much, and directly fished him up, as if it was a long, long time ago.

Almost in the blink of an eye, he was already ashore.Zhou Shuxuan kept trying to press the water out of her chest, as long as she spit out the water, she would surely come back to life.But he did spit water outside, but no one opened his eyes at all.

The imperial physician has already rushed over, and after taking a look at it, he wants to quickly carry him into the house.This is the closest to Longde Hall, so you can only go to Longde Hall.

Zhou Shuxuan didn't even have time to change clothes, he stayed by the bed all the time, holding her icy cold hand, and kept praying in his heart that he must come back to life, he must come back to life.

After the imperial doctor saw it, he didn't know what to do, and he couldn't prescribe any medicine, so he was struggling thinking about how to speak.Then I heard the emperor roar, "What's the matter? Hurry up and prescribe the medicine, or what do you want, hurry up and save the person."

So what else can be done?

For the sake of his own life, the imperial physician had to prescribe medicine if he could not prescribe it, "I will go right away."

What was prescribed was nothing more than some medicine to dispel the cold, and the person could no longer open his mouth, so he opened his mouth and poured it down.The mouth can still be opened, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope, but no one can say for sure how big this hope is.

After the medicine was down, the emperor was still in wet clothes, guarding the bedside like he was going crazy.The imperial physician deeply thought that he should tell him, "Your majesty, your majesty does not have any desire to survive, and the chance of waking up is not high. Your majesty, please take it easy."

This sentence again, what else would this group of quack doctors say besides this sentence?
Zhou Shuxuan grabbed Miaoli's hand and yelled angrily, "How do you look away? How can you teach me to look away? Tell me!"

The people kneeling all over the ground did not dare to raise their heads.At this moment, Meng Runlin and the others arrived. Looking at the people in the room, they could understand the matter without asking too many questions.

The last time he was cheated, he had already experienced this kind of scene once, and now he could barely calm down, endured the pain in his heart, and said, "Your Majesty, my sister may need to rest to get better. Your Majesty, why don't you send someone out first. The emperor also went to change his clothes first. Otherwise, my sister will have to take care of the sick emperor when she wakes up."

Water was still dripping from his body, she should be very cold, and she couldn't be made colder.Zhou Shuxuan reluctantly let go and went out to change clothes.

After changing his clothes, he stood in the room and suddenly didn't dare to go out, afraid that he would face something he didn't want to face.He only dared to escape now, and he couldn't remember how many times, the imperial doctor told him to look away.Every time she seemed to leave, although she came back to life every time, he wasn't sure if she could still come back to life this time?
Gao Fu stood guard outside the door, fearing that something might happen to him, but he didn't dare to enter the door.The only one who could talk was Meng Runlin, so he stood outside the door and kept begging him to go in and have a look.

Meng Runlin wanted to guard Miaoli even more, but Gao Fu had no choice but to go in.When I entered the door, I saw Zhou Shuxuan sitting in the room with his head downcast, and the first thing he said when he saw him was, "I'm sorry, I really didn't take good care of your sister, I was wrong."

It's meaningless to say these words now, and Meng Runlin doesn't want to hear him say these words, "The emperor probably doesn't want to see this either, my sister fell into the water by herself, the emperor should not blame herself too much."

"I...it's because of me, I...it's impossible not to blame myself, I shouldn't let her drink so much alcohol. I'd rather lose ten years of life, as long as she can wake up."

Zhou Shuxuan forced himself to calm down, "Forget it, you don't have to come and see me, you go and see her. Talk to her, you are her younger brother, you are relatives, different from me. She will want to come back to life for you Yes. By the way, when you go out, ask the nurse next to you to come over."

There are some things he wants to ask.

Grandma Xi came in and knelt down in front of him, "I beg the emperor to give me a punishment, this servant did not take good care of my mother."

Zhou Shuxuan waved his hand, "Don't say such useless words, I just want to know how she fell into the water."

Mother Xi didn't dare to falsely report a word, "On the way back, my mother suddenly yelled that she wanted to go to see the moon, and she said a lot of heart-wrenching things. She said that her life was very miserable, and that she just wanted to see the moon. , and talking about Concubine Yigui, the servants really had no other choice, so they took her there."

This step is right, no one can stand her words.If it was him, he would take her there too.

Mammy Xi went on to say, "After she went there, she squatted down by the water, and then said a lot of words in a daze to the water."

"What did she say?"

"First, I looked at the water and asked who was in the water, and then I said don't be stupid, he doesn't want your help, and it is even more impossible to let you go free. Everything is what you think, it is impossible. What did you say that you are so stupid? I can’t help you either, but one day he will drive you out of the palace, and if you hear a man reading in a dilapidated house, don’t pay attention to it.”

When others hear these words, they may just feel inexplicable and think she is talking nonsense, but Zhou Shuxuan has another feeling when they hear them.

She was regretting, because she felt that she was stupid before, and she didn't want to make the same mistakes again.She should have seen the reflection in the water and remembered her former self before saying these words.

She negates everything from the beginning of the story, surely hoping it was just a dream that felt too real.So she jumped, and she wanted to wake up from the dream.

Zhou Shuxuan didn't know if she planned it or did it suddenly.But thinking of her life when she had to be drunk with wine, she felt that she had planned it.She still wanted to die, she had clearly promised herself that she would never look for life again, she was a liar.

Grandma Xi suddenly remembered something, as if she had said something before she fell into the water, "Your Majesty, the empress seems to have said something else. She said, my lord, this servant is here to save you."

Zhou Shuxuan only felt a buzzing in his head when he heard it, she didn't seem to have planned it, she was just drunk and remembered the past.Given another choice, she actually wanted to jump down to save him.

This answer was even more sad than the jump she had planned.

The last trace of strength in Zhou Shuxuan's body was drained, and he waved his hand at Mammy Xi, "Go out, let me stay alone for a while."

Across the wall, Meng Runlin was sitting beside Miaoli's bed, feeling equally heavy.Zhou Shuxuan asked him to come and talk to Miao Li, but he really didn't know what to say.After thinking for a long time, I opened my mouth.

"At the beginning, my family was defeated, and I was exiled. As a coolie, I wondered why I wasn't a woman, so I could stay in the capital without being exposed to the wind and sun. When I came back, I saw you in fine clothes and fine food, and was happy for the reunion. I also complained about you for a while. You obviously had such a good life, why didn’t you come to us earlier. Then I realized how lucky I am not a woman. It’s just a little pain of flesh and bones, unlike you, everywhere It hurts in my heart. You are my sister, I hope you can come back to life. But it is also because you are my sister, and I don’t want you to come back to life. I know you don’t want to live anymore, don’t do anything for us, this Time can be a little more willful."

Meng Runlin was choked up with sobs, unable to say anything, walked out slowly, and closed the door gently.Everything is up to her to decide.

Not long after Meng Runlin went out, Miaoli suddenly opened her eyes on the bed, and for some reason, she just woke up.Thinking that there was nothing left to love, she really opened her eyes.

He was almost sober from the wine, and he didn't feel alive at all, and his mood was still very calm.The curtain embroidered on the bed is not a carp playing in the water but a dragon and a phoenix showing auspiciousness. This is not Qingquan Palace but Longde Palace. This is Zhou Shuxuan's bed.

She could recognize it at a glance, and the embroidery should be newer in her memory.The phoenix tail is embroidered with gold silk, and under the candlelight, it can emit a little golden light.She used to have this embroidery flower when she lived here, but she didn't expect that it hadn't changed after several years.

I used to say that he was stingy, but I didn't expect to be so stingy, and I couldn't bear to use the things I used better.

The same goes for the quilt, which is already turning slightly white.The pillows and everything are still exactly the same as before.All can see the traces of the years, the old ones don't look good, as if they have never been replaced.

Miao Li turned around and glanced at the furnishings in the room, all of them were exactly the same as in her memory.This place, it seems, has not changed since she moved out.

Miao Li suddenly had some inexplicable feeling in her heart. If the stinginess was replaced by a long-term love, what she just said could still be true.

He turned over and touched the pillow next to him.I don't know what Zhou Shuxuan was thinking while lying on the bed.I touched it casually again, and found a small bundle under the pillow.

Miao Li pulled it out carefully, and gently opened it, it was some small gadgets.She recognized every one of them, they were small things that she came to carve in the past, and she just threw them away when she was not interested in carving, thinking that they were lost by the slaves, but she didn't expect all of them to be here.Each of them is translucent, and he should often play with it in his hands.

There was an indescribable feeling in her heart, and she felt that in the past few years, she seemed to have walked some wrong roads.

After thinking about it, suddenly the door rang, as if someone had come in.

Miao Li quickly lay down, she still needs a little time to figure out what she is thinking.

Zhou Shuxuan still mustered up the courage to come over, prepared a lot of words, and wanted to tell her, maybe she can still hear it now, maybe it's still useful.

"Sorry for delaying you for so many years. From now on, you are free. As long as you wake up, you can go wherever you want. Go and see the moon in Liangzhou, the rain in Jiangnan, or you want to go back You can listen to the sound of apes on both sides of the strait. Lu Guangbai and the others are still in Zhaoyun Mountain. I don’t know if you are still willing to go to them, but I think you go to them. Because I will be more at ease, they will take good care of you, for sure will take better care of you than me."

The facts were right in front of his eyes, he had to believe no matter how unwilling he was.With her by his side, happiness will always be a minority, and discomfort is the norm. He admits his failure.

Zhou Shuxuan laughed at himself, "You may not like the snow in the capital city very much, but I like it very much. I always remember, what you said to me before that snowy night, you said you liked me more than once. Every time it snows , this sentence will ring in my ears, it is the sweetest sentence you said to me. Knowing that I will never go back to the past, I will treasure them carefully. When I am old, I will take them out Think about it, as long as I think of this sentence in my heart, I am not alone."

Zhou Shuxuan reached out to touch her hair, but his hand froze in the air for a moment and then retracted. She probably didn't like intimate contact with him.He stood by the bed and looked at her for a while, then turned and walked out.Whether you wake up or not, it's a farewell.

Suddenly, a hand reached out from under the quilt and grabbed his hand.

(End of this chapter)