Chapter 44: The Past
"Relax your body and just burn it directly at that teapot, don't be too careful." Qu Lisheng pointed out loudly, and then began to talk about business, "Miss Xia Guang refers to the time when the poisoning occurred that day?" I'm not hostile to Miss Xiaguang, so Miss Xiaguang doesn't need to care. ”
Xia Guang followed what he said, tried to use herself to relax her body, and then poured it on those tea sets, so that it was much easier, and there was no burden in her heart, her long eyelashes fanned like a fan, and she looked at the hot water kettle in her hand and the water splashing out when it was scalding on the cup, "Yegongzi, when you saw my poisonous hair, you didn't seem surprised, did you find out what was special about me when you fell off the horse before?" "It's especially natural to refer to the poison on her body.
Qu Lisheng covered the cuff of one of his hands to avoid touching those tea sets, stretched out his hand and floated up and down, signaling Xia Guang to return the kettle to him. Xia Guangguang did it, she tried her best to avoid her hands touching him, and the embarrassing thing that happened before.
Qu Lisheng hooked his lips when he saw this, he took the hot water kettle clearly, placed it on the charcoal basin next to the low table, picked up the teaspoon on the table, scooped a certain amount of tea leaves into the tea mill, and used a tea hammer to fully crush the tea into pieces, "I did know something about Miss Xia Guang, but it was not determined at that time, and it was only confirmed when you poured it in the study last time." ”
Xia Guang had been paying attention to his movements, and naturally he also saw the corners of his hooked lips, "Ye Gongzi has been so helpful along the way, is it because of the poison on my body?" ”
Pour the crushed tea powder on a small sieve and sieve it out a delicate powder, and when she asked, his action of sifting the tea powder was stagnant, but he continued his movements.
This slight pause naturally couldn't escape Xia Guang's eyes, and she sneered, sure enough, it was because of the poison on my body.
"Miss Xia Guang remembers asking me if I think you are anyone?" Qu Lisheng glanced up at her, and when he saw her clear look, he couldn't help but want to frustrate her spirit. "I do see you as a human being."
Xia Guang didn't expect him to mention the person who might have hurt him at this time, and she looked at him with a slight frown. I don't want to talk about your past romance right now.
Qu Lisheng poured the tea powder into a tea bowl, mixed it with some water, quickly mixed the tea and water into a paste with a tea whisk, and then put the tea cup on the charcoal fire to heat it.
Xia Guang felt hot when she looked at this action, it was already summer, it was already hot to sit here, and now there was a brazier to ride, she always felt that there was a heat coming towards her, but Ye Shengge still looked calm and relaxed.
He put the roasted tea paste into the pot, then poured water into the pot, washed the tea paste away, saw that it was almost done, and then stopped, he tilted the teapot down and lifted it up three times, and then poured the tea soup in the teapot into the teacup, and then put it in front of Xia Guang, put his hands together and stretched out, and said, "How about Xia Guang girl try this tea." ”
Although Xia Guang doesn't understand tea, but she is not in a hurry to enter, she observed, the tea color is rich and even, picked up the teacup and put it under her nose and smelled it, a mellow taste came to her nose, she blew gently, then gently took a sip, at first the mouth spread the astringency of tea, and when the astringency passed, it left the aftertaste of tea, Xia Guang didn't know how to describe, "Good tea." ”
Qu Lisheng has been paying attention to her expression, so every trace of her face is in his eyes, and he is very happy to see her say yes, "Miss Xia Guang doesn't understand tea, but she also understands that this tea is good, it seems that my tea making skills are still good." ”
Xia Guang put the teacup back on the table, "The eighth prince has nothing to do all day, so he naturally has time to study these, but the prince seems to have forgotten the purpose of our coming here today." ”
"Miss Xiaguang, why are you so anxious, this king treats guests with tea, just to have a good talk with you." Qu Lisheng resumed the previous action of making tea, and said in his mouth: "This story is a bit long. ”
Xia Guang didn't speak, but the expression on her face was listening intently.
"The emperor has been different from others since he was born, and after the imperial doctor at that time inspected it, he said that the poison brought by him in the womb of the beating mother will accumulate more and more as he gets older, until one day the body will not be able to bear the sudden death and die. The doctors all said that they couldn't be saved, and at that time, he was getting fatter and fatter because of the poison, do you know how fat he was in the end? ”
Although Qu Lisheng was asking, he gestured by himself, gestured and gestured, and even laughed, "You know that he was naturally not loved by his father in the palace at that time, but I am different, there are always a bunch of people around me, the imperial brother at that time always hides in the corner and looks at me, he is so envious of me, I am a twin son with him, if he doesn't have that kind of poison, maybe he will be loved by others like me, maybe he will be as handsome as me." ”
Xia Guang listened to him, although he said that he was the emperor today, but he felt that his words revealed a sense of depression, as if the feelings at that time had happened to him. Xia Guang thought that maybe their relationship at that time was very good, so good that they could empathize.
"He had not been treated well since he was born, his father did not like him, but his mother did not want to see him for other reasons, and he gradually became withdrawn and unwilling to step out of the palace. Sometimes I go to him, and he will just ask people to send me away. Naturally, I was so young that I never wanted to set foot in his palace again, and since then I have been strangers to the royal brother. The palace gradually became less and less inquired about him, as if there had never been such a person. Qu Lisheng told it unhurriedly, with a very indifferent expression, as if this story had nothing to do with him.
Xia Guang thought that the current Yesheng Song should feel guilty about the emperor at that time, otherwise he would not remember it so clearly.
"Until one day, the queen mother suddenly asked my father to let me and my brother go to the most prestigious Qingfeng Academy in the capital to study, at that time my father was unwilling to let me go with me, but after some persuasion from the queen mother, I finally agreed. At that time, the imperial brother was stubbornly reluctant to leave the palace, but when he heard that the queen mother said that there would be a way to cure the poison on his body, he obediently went to the academy. At that time, he and I went in without concealing our identities, so no one knew that we were the current princes, so naturally we didn't get any courtesy. When the imperial brother entered the academy, he was often ridiculed for his body shape and weight, but the imperial brother never paid attention to it, and sometimes laughed at the superficiality of those people. My treatment is the opposite of his, handsome, quick to learn everything, and kind to people, which is deeply loved by my husband and students. The people in the academy only knew that we were brothers, but they didn't know that we were actually twins. After staying in the academy for three years, the royal brother is low-key, and he is not inferior to studying, and he has no friends in the academy. Originally, he could find someone who could cure the poison on his body when he came here, but he never appeared. The royal brother didn't expect anything anymore, and told the queen mother that if the person didn't show up in another year, he would return to the palace. It's just that I didn't expect that that person to appear that year. It was a silly girl in the eyes of everyone, people were stupid, and she had a face full of pimples, and the students in the academy didn't want to associate with her, and at that time she only had her sister and the girl by her side. ”
Xia Guang listened to him, and she found that before talking about the appearance of the girl, he had been speaking very calmly, but when the girl appeared, his voice had ups and downs, and there was a sense of lightness in his voice. Xia Guang thought that he might really like that girl. But to fall in love with an ugly and stupid girl, that's really what Yesheng Song will do.
"From that time on, I would sometimes find that the Imperial Brother would pay special attention to that girl's affairs, and he would often pay attention to the friendship of that silly girl, such as what she did and what she learned today. Eventually, I realized that the silly girl was the one he was looking for. After Qu Lisheng said this, he didn't say any more.
At this point, Xia Guang realized that he told this story all about his imperial brother, and he was just telling it at the speed of a bystander, so he would be so calm. Xia Guang knew that the story was not finished, but maybe he didn't want to mention some things after that, so he finally asked a question, "Where is she now?" ”
When telling the past, Qu Lisheng has been making tea for Xia Guang, and he has brewed it a total of five times, warming the cup, taking tea, grinding tea, sieving powder, baking, and pouring water, these actions have been circulating.
When she asked this question, Qu Lisheng put down the things in his hand, and he looked up into her eyes, "She's dead." There was a sense of loneliness in his tone.
He's dead? Xia Guang had thought of this ending, but he was still shocked when he heard it at first. She wanted to ask her how she died, but Ye Shengge took the initiative to look away, presumably he was also very sad at the time, and finally he heard the words that shocked her, "Your eyes are very similar to hers." ”
That's why Yesheng Song does so many things, just because my eyes are like that silly girl? So what he did wasn't what he said he was? I felt a little uncomfortable, but I didn't have a table on my face.