229. Where to perch
The room was empty except for the familiar faces in front of them, and the bright sunlight shone through the window paper on the tables and chairs, and the soft and golden halo was plastered. It seems that the white frost and black to the point of penetrating qiē is just my delusion, or a dream.
Yin Zhen sat on the edge of the bed and didn't say a word, but the corners of her lips were different from the past, with a rare warm arc. The dark eyes were like the sea, looking at me quietly with a faint light.
His hand was held in the palm of his hand, as if locked in a corner where the sun could not shine, a little cold, a little shivering, I don't know if it was because he was still me.
I looked back with the blinding light, and my eyes were itchy and I didn't dare to touch them. The trembling of his fingertips felt unreal, and he tried to control it and slowly froze.
Yin Zhen suddenly bent down and approached, stopped in front of me, and his breath was gently blowing on my face, blowing on my fingertips that were still stroking my tears, like blowing the warmth of frost.
"You don't know me anymore...... Forgot? ”
Rare doubts, self-denial. I felt that I was not sober enough, and I was afraid that I would mistake the love between his words.
The words didn't seem to be finished, and he didn't continue after a long time, but just looked at me for a moment, fixed at a distance not far away. The voice was very hoarse, maybe I hadn't spoken for too long, and the eyes that reflected my face condensed the incomprehensible pain and reluctance, as well as the love that was so thick that I couldn't disperse, which made me suffocate suddenly, and the feeling of throbbing pain was the tip of my heart.
Shaking his head and touching his cheeks, he drew the eyebrows and eyes that had been unreachable for many days, and the hair and beard that had been neatly trimmed by his women...... So sleepy, so quiet, so surrounded by people, can he rest assured?
Now, wake up and come see me.
I don't guess when he woke up or what time it is, but he kept crying. After enduring it for so long, at this moment when I struggled day and night without shedding a single tear.
"What about them?"
Yin Zhen was stunned and got up and sat down at the head of the bed next to the pillow, asked softly if it was better, saw me nodding and smiling, and held up my soft back with my arms under my neck and let me lean on his chest.
The brown juice was shaken in a white porcelain bowl and reached the lips, it had no taste, and the color was dark and black. There was still no blood on his lips, and his face was even paler with a little dark brown.
After drinking it in one go, I endured the protest of my taste buds, and the hand that had just placed the medicine bowl had reached my chest, which calmed my restless heart. "The eyebrows and the words are outside, and the ruyi is still in your room. Sleep a little longer, you're tired. ”
I was confused and quiet for a while, only to realize that he was replying to my words, but why did it be the three of them that I asked.
Whether he didn't understand or deliberate, I can't guess, and I don't have the strength to think about it. The bitterness of the medicine that I had barely swallowed was disgusting sweet, and it was so surging that I couldn't bear it anymore, but I still grabbed his hand and leaned over to the bed.
No one paid attention to the sound of the fourth master outside the door, and I looked at the still door curtain in a daze, and the sweetness in my throat turned into bitterness. His head shook drowsily, as if the curtain was swinging, bringing a cool breeze.
Lying back on the bed and looking at the large stains on the chest of Yinzhen's white underwear, he wanted to sit up and was gently pushed back onto the pillow.
The room was full of sunshine but still cold, moving into the bed and pulling the quilt over his discarded body, the brocade quilt covered by loneliness every day was always cold, and now it seemed to be hot because of his existence.
I heard myself laughing, "Woke up and still asleep?" Don't be a squirrel who has learned the Hongli and wants to hibernate. ”
I whispered in my ear and said no more, and the hand behind me patted gently, obviously leaning against him to feel the temperature of the body, but it was different from the previous tightness, and the warmth and comfort were even more unreal.
Those words that were held in his heart seemed to be covered by his body temperature, and they were about to explode as they became more and more blocked, and they were so entangled that they had no clue, and finally turned into the names that were often called in the bottom of their hearts overflowing their lips.
I don't know how long I've waited since the moment he fell asleep. At this time, I don't know how long I hugged him and cried. Don't say a word, the bitterness and fear all quietly retreated from their hearts, leaving only tears, not afraid to show him.
Yinzhen didn't persuade him, because I cried so much that he wet his shoulders, neck and cheeks, and stroked my back lightly, as if he had gone back to many years ago. At that time, when we were still young and could control our temperament, it seemed that we could no longer think about the past.
Tired of crying, he shrunk to his chest and wrapped his arms around his waist tightly. The teeth in his heart hurt, but he tensed his body and didn't snort. I was so angry that I thumped his back, poked my fingers on it and whimpered, "Does it hurt? It doesn't hurt! If it hurts, just say it. There's a heart here, it's hot, it's beating. It's not that you don't feel it, how can you not feel it. ”
"Smile." The same was hoarse, and the arms behind him suddenly tightened. The deep voice buried above my head and the words clearly penetrated into my heart and lungs, and the blood swam through my limbs with the gradually hot blood. "I'm back, no matter what happens, I'll leave you alone."
Through the broad chest and the bright red brocade quilt, I can still feel the blazing sun, and it seems that there is always a glimmer of light shining around me, warm and bright.
Perhaps, winter has really passed.
There seemed to be someone still talking in the quiet room, but I couldn't hear it clearly. Maybe I'm really tired after so many days, and I can finally sleep peacefully, and I don't have to worry about tomorrow today.
The dream is no longer dark, a ray of sunlight shines on the pink and white rose wall, lined with tall and majestic red bricks and gold tiles. It seems that I can smell the fresh smell in the air again, like the acidity of grapes, and a faint sweetness.
On a summer afternoon, the autumn breeze is cool, and there is always a sound that keeps echoing and lingering in the ears. I don't remember what year it was, what month it was.
- You are angry with me, you blame me, you cry, you laugh...... We said good things, I did everything, how do you seem not to remember, how can you not remember.
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Time seems to have returned to the days of flying fast, and in a blink of an eye, spring has passed, and Yinzhen followed Kangxi to Saiwai again. But I stayed in the house all day and was no longer busy.
Except for all the women of the Nian family who were sent to the Old Summer Palace, I didn't watch them go out with my own eyes, because when I knew, they had already left the mansion with the children under Yinzhen's arrangement.
It seems to be a reward, and he took good care of Prince Yong during his illness, and specially arranged to go to the other garden. For the sake of which case, even if everyone knows it, no one will say it.
I don't know how Yinzhen solved the matter of Hongwan, he and Yinxiang went to see it once, and went home alone.
On the night he returned, he sat in the red room all night, his clenched fists on his legs and he was white and trembling, and instead of his expressionless face, I understood the pain in his heart. I changed and changed the candle until I pretended to be unable to hold it on his shoulder, and then went back to my room and went to sleep.
He still didn't mention it in the days that followed, and when we went to see Honghui again, we didn't see the daughter who was always pestering Ama Sajiao, no one mentioned it, as if she had never lived in that small courtyard.
Jingshu is still sick, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Nian held her every day, sometimes sitting in front of the window and sometimes dangling in the courtyard, looking at her beautiful eyes always with mist, sometimes smiling stupidly. She would always kiss and scream quietly on that immature little face.
Seeing Yinzhen's figure passing by the courtyard gate, her eyes would light up, and she soon darkened and pasted back the little face that looked like her, turned around and whispered: "Jingshu, you grow up quickly, it's good to grow up." ”
The feet that were about to enter the courtyard gate always stopped, and I stood outside and retreated far away, letting Yinzhen take Imperial Doctor Su in.
Imperial Physician Su often came to check the pulse, left a prescription and left, and just shook his head when he saw me.
I know that Jingshu's condition is really bad, and it seems that no matter how hard she tries, she can't cure this disease. No matter how much she takes care of her, she is still sick like a weak cat. survived the long winter, but became more seriously ill in the spring when everything was recovering.
After Yinzhen went to the outside of the Saiwai, the anger in the house became less and less. Nian Shi no longer took a step out of the hospital, and even refused to allow Imperial Doctor Su to consult Jingshu, but I couldn't persuade him to simply leave himself in the small courtyard. Prince Yong's mansion, which has only two women, is unusually quiet.
Mo Han came to accompany me every day, sometimes talking, sometimes sitting quietly in the sun. Her belly grew day by day, and her petite body always walked upright, like a proud little woman, and her little palms kept caressing it.
I always want to laugh when I look at her, maybe I was like this back then, as if only that belly is the most important thing in the whole world, as long as I touch it, I will feel at ease.
Hongwan came to pick her up every time, and the two looked at each other without speaking. One smiled as if the sun had stopped on his face, and the other held it carefully with his head down. The figure walking out of the courtyard gate side by side, familiar and unfamiliar.
I haven't seen what Yinzhen looks like when he helps me, I just think maybe this is the picture.
Life is sometimes so magical, children are not necessarily the continuation of love, but there will always be the shadow of two people, as if the days were repeated again, and the scenes were played back in front of you. inadvertently saw the former self from them, but time has long passed, babbling, reading, literacy, marrying a wife and having children.
The eyebrows and the others sat around with a smile, and the brocade in their hands turned into small clothes and hats under the multicolored silk line. Xie Yu held his small clothes and pants to his legs, and smiled very meaningfully worth chewing. "Fujin can take a look at this?"
I opened the corner of the needle and touched the softness on it and nodded, she had turned back to Meiyu and Ruyi, "Did you hear that, okay...... Let's sew it again. Remember, it's the same. ”
"Why do you do so much? With this spare time, you might as well make more different thicknesses and sizes, which is also the heart of you girls, and also saves the wages of embroiderers. ”
"Look, this is the master, and I think differently from us girls." Xie Yu covered his mouth and smiled, took back his clothes and still stared at me, sighed and laughed again, "Fujin's mind is all used in the fourth master's house, say that you are careful, and can't help but nag you twice, the second lady's belly is as big as you were back then, why don't you say more preparations." In case you and the fourth master add two little masters at the same time......"
As soon as I heard her speak, I woke up and looked at the empty courtyard gate, and it took me a long time to retract my gaze and touch the little clothes. The sun illuminated the red satin, and the flowers on it were all laughing.
The sky was as blue as the sea, and the white clouds fluttered with the wind. It's like the blue sky outside the plug, but there's always something missing.
I closed my eyes and leaned back in my chair, and faces that I hadn't seen for a few days clearly appeared, as if they had never been separated.
Yinzhen, I miss you, when will you come back?
Outside the plug, year after year, the beautiful scenery is better than back then?
I miss the girl in red that year, I miss the maple forest stream that year, I miss the year I sat under the tree and snuggled silently, and I miss the small yard I had my heart to cover......
Separated by a wall, in another world, there are only the two of us.
In just a few days, it seems that you have stolen a home in the staggered time and space.
And you, I am alone.