Queen Mother's A Scientist

In the cold winter, a thick layer of snow accumulated on the narrow alleys and low eaves.

Although Hua Qingxue sat by the fire, she still felt very cold. She bowed her head and breathed in her hand, and continued to wash her clothes in the wooden basin.

Bang, bang, bang!

A quick knock on the door came from outside the hospital.

Hua Qingxue's face turned white!

She stopped and turned to look at the broken wooden door outside the yard. For a moment, she even held her breath.

... bang, bang, bang!

The knock came again. This time, there was a young voice in the middle——

"... open the door! It's me! "

The voice didn't seem to want to disturb others. The volume was very low. Rao was so clear that Hua Qingxue heard it.

Hua Qingxue felt that her heart fell slowly. She threw away her wet clothes, stood up and took a few steps to the threshold and came to the gate.

Creak——

Hua Qingxue opened a narrow gap in the courtyard door.

Outside the door stood a seven or eight year old boy. He seemed to be very cold. At the moment, he shrunk his neck and hugged his chest with both hands. His small face was blue and white with cold, but his nose was very red.

Hua Qingxue immediately reached out and dragged him in.

Bang! The gate was closed again.

As soon as the little boy entered the yard, he flew into the house. He ran to the stove and wanted to stick his whole body on it.

Hua Qingxue, who followed him into the house, without saying a word, picked up the little boy's collar and dragged him to the Kang. "Be careful that the stove will roast the snow on your clothes. Take off your clothes and go to the Kang first."

The little boy turned his head and looked. Sure enough, the snow on his shoulders and sleeves turned into water, and his clothes were wet.

With a flat mouth, he took off his clothes and complained, "this coarse cloth material is really useless. I have a pure white fox fur, which is worth thousands of gold! Rain and snow fall on it. As long as it blows gently, it will fall off! How could you wet your clothes like this... "

Hua Qingxue ignored him, turned and sat back by the stove and continued to wash clothes.

After the little boy took off his outer clothes, there was only one layer of single clothes left inside. He climbed onto the Kang, wrapped himself in a quilt and breathed comfortably.

"It's so warm... Where did you get the money to burn the Kang?"

Hua Qingxue shook her head, "if there is money to burn the Kang, it's better to buy a few kilograms of meat. I just wrapped the burned charcoal ash with broken cloth and stuffed it into the quilt."

When the little boy heard the speech, he stretched out his little hand and touched the quilt everywhere. Sure enough, he touched several soft packages across the quilt.

"There's still waste heat now. We'll replace the charcoal ash when it's cool." Hua Qingxue said, glancing at the small stove by the Kang.

The carbon they can buy now is limited, and it is only enough to burn this small stove. If they burn Kang, it is far from enough.

The little boy looked at the stove blankly, looking a little confused across the warm yellow spark.

Hua Qingxue looked at it and couldn't bear it. She was just a child. Where did she suffer such a crime.

Hua Qingxue shouted to him, "Li Jingnan Hey! Li Jingnan! "

Li Jingnan recovered and found Hua Qingxue calling his name. He immediately put on a fierce look and shouted: "bold! You wicked woman! How dare you call your Highness's name! "

When Hua Qingxue saw that he had recovered a little spirit, she was relieved. She just turned her eyes at Li Jingnan's scolding, and then continued to wash her clothes.

——Yes, at this moment, the little boy curled up on the Kang and wrapped in a quilt is his Royal Highness the crown prince with incomparable dignity.

As for how Hua Qingxue mixed up with his royal highness, it has to start from a month ago.

A month ago, the crown prince sneaked out of the palace and brought a group of dark guards to Panlong mountain at the junction of Daqi and Daliao. He sent someone to search the mountain for treasure. He didn't find any treasure, but found Hua Qingxue who was unconscious in the mountain.

However, the prince of the state of Qi made a lot of noise in Panlong mountain. In the end, he leaked the news and attracted Liao soldiers... The next development can be described as a narrow escape. Li Jingnan secretly left the palace with few people. Liao soldiers chased and killed all the way, and dark guards suffered heavy casualties. Finally, Hua Qingxue took the prince into Renqiu City disguised as sister and brother, Just escaped the pursuit of Liao soldiers.

Renqiu City belongs to mozhou. It was ceded to the Liao state a year ago. The Liao soldiers never thought that the crown prince of Daqi did not flee to the territory of Daqi, but fled to their territory.

However, it is precisely because it has been controlled by the Liao people that it is easier to enter the city than to leave the city. Now, Li Jingnan only hopes that the dark guards who narrowly escaped death can send his news to general Fu stationed at the border

If his news doesn't get out... Will he be the crown prince of a country and be trapped here all the time? How long will you be sleepy? two months? Three months Or a year

Li Jingnan couldn't help shivering.

"Don't think about it. The more you fear, the more you come." Hua Qingxue said faintly.

Li Jingnan angrily stared at Hua Qingxue, "you woman! Even if you have a strange accent, you can say some crooked theories all day! "

Hua Qingxue rubbed the clothes in her hand and replied, "it's not crooked theory, it's Murphy's law, Edward Murphy's famous thesis."

"What does that mean?" Although Hua Qingxue always has some nonsense in her mouth, Li Jingnan is curious about it because of the child's nature.

Hua Qingxue smiled casually, "in fact, it doesn't have any special meaning. This sentence just explains a life phenomenon. For example, some things are always useless, but once you lose it, you often have to use it. For another example, the more you fear what will happen, the more it will happen in your life... "

Li Jingnan nestled on the Kang without saying a word. He thought for a while before he said, "when I want to use something, there will be palace maids and bodyguards to find me... But once my father asked me to endorse. I only had one paragraph of the article I didn't recite, but my father just drew that paragraph of the article for me to recite... This is somewhat the same as what you said."

After Li Jingnan said that, he seemed to think of something interesting. His face showed a sweet smile that only children can have. "Another time, my sister and I sneaked out of the palace to play in the street. We were always worried about being recognized, but in our heart, we thought it was unlikely. After all, Shengjing city is so big, how could it happen so coincidentally As a result, I finally met uncle Sanhuang in a shop... At that time, uncle Sanhuang's eyes were scared to fall off... Ha ha... "

Smiling, Li Jingnan's expression slowly cooled down. He stared at Hua Qingxue's hands and suddenly said, "don't wash them. Your hands are going to rot. they're so ugly."

Hua Qingxue was stunned. She looked at her hands. Although there was a stove baking, she had to wash several pots of clothes every day, and her hands were already red and swollen with cold.

However, it's just red and swollen. It's not ugly

Hua Qingxue looks at Li Jingnan and thinks that what he is afraid of... It seems that he has heard bad news outside today.

"What happened when you went out today?" Hua Qingxue asked him.

Li Jingnan's small face tightened tightly and said for a long time: "... The bodies of old seven and thirteen were hung on the city gate."

Hua Qingxue took a breath.

"Sooner or later they will find me... I will die... They will also hang me up like them..." the eight year old child had only dead despair on his face.

Hua Qingxue looked at Li Jingnan's numb little face and felt that she had to pull up her heart.

She went over and took Li Jingnan into her arms and patted him on the back. "There are still sixteen. Don't you often show off with me? You said that although sixteen is the youngest, it is the most clever one... As long as sixteen sends out the news of you in Renqiu City, someone will come to save us. "

Li Jingnan didn't refuse Hua Qingxue. He buried his whole head in Hua Qingxue's arms, and his voice was choked: "I killed them... I'm too naive. The Panlong mountain is so big. It's not easy to find a weapon all over the mountains and fields with more than a dozen of them... I killed them..."

Hua Qingxue knows that Li Jingnan must be crying. She just doesn't know and continues to pat him on the back.

His Highness the crown prince has maintained his identity and has been trying to be calm for a long time. In fact, he has long been frightened... This is not wrong. After all, he is only a child, but he is such a precious identity that he dare not drop a tear. Now he finally vent his emotions, but Hua Qingxue is relieved.

Hua Qingxue didn't want him to continue to think about the dead dark guards, so she led him to think elsewhere and asked, "what kind of weapon is it? Are you sure it's on the Panlong mountain? "

Li Jingnan shook his head in Hua Qingxue's arms and said in a stuffy voice, "I don't know. This is... It was divined before my father was ill. He said that there was a weapon hidden in Panlong mountain, which is very powerful and can be used as a sharp weapon of the country. He also said that this weapon must not fall in the hands of Liao people and asked me to find it."

Hua Qingxue was dumb. She didn't expect that the little prince fell to this field just for a divination? A prophecy?

But she turned to think that although the divination was unreliable, it saved her life by mistake. Speaking of it, she really had to thank the emperor of Qi. Otherwise, she would have frozen to death on the mountain

Li Jingnan suddenly raised her head. Her black eyes looked straight at Hua Qingxue, and there were semi dry tears on her face. "You must think I'm ridiculous now, don't you?"

Hua Qingxue shook her head quickly.

Li Jingnan snorted coldly. Obviously, he didn't believe it. "It's normal if you don't believe it. The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty don't believe my father. Even the empress mother said that my father was full of divination and was stunned... Once I heard ministers say that if my father hadn't been addicted to these side roads, Xi, he and Mo would not have been ceded to Daliao."

When Li Jingnan said this, he looked very sad, "but that's my father. People all over the world can't believe him, but I can't believe him! My father said that there must be weapons in Panlong mountain! Panlong mountain, the sharp weapon of the country... I must find it! "