Chapter 46: Princess Li Guo
Su Huihui's hand stopped outside the door for a while, and there was no sound in the house calling her in, so she couldn't help but say:
"I'm coming for my grandmother, can I come in?"
There was still dead silence inside, and the only patience she had left was exhausted, and the moment she pushed the door, the strong smell of medicine came to her face, and she couldn't help but feel a tense in her heart.
The quiet room was very crude, with only a long table with incense tablets, a rattan chair, and a couch behind a white veil, on which seemed to be asleep, with his face facing the yellowed wall.
Su Hui's heart beat violently, and she walked over step by step, wanting to see what the people on the couch looked like, whether they were somewhat similar to the appearance of her mother in her memory, and whether they had become as indifferent as the people in this view during the ten years of isolation from the world. She wondered how the surviving crown would react to knowing that there were still relatives alive, or if she knew she had a granddaughter but never asked? It's like she never knew she had a grandmother and rarely felt lonely.
She stood outside the bed tent with curiosity and excitement, and summoned up the courage to call out to her grandmother. Finally, the dress on the couch moved, and her heart trembled.
"Grandma? Are you awake? The Lord said you woke up half an hour ago. ”
The man in the tent sat up slowly, and stretched out a hand from the snow-white veil.
Su Huihui looked at the weak hand, its shape was very beautiful, but it was too thin, the slender bone joints protruded under the thin skin, the blue-blue blood vessels floated on the back of the hand, and the nails were fragile and pale.
She suddenly felt sad, and subconsciously held this hand, wanting to make it warmer than it looked, but found that her hand was colder than it, and let go in an instant.
The tent was opened by her, and the birdsong in the afternoon began to be noisy, and she smelled a faint smell of incense and candles in the smell of medicine, which melted away from the clothes of the person in front of her.
The former princess's face was as beautiful and noble as she had imagined, but this beauty had aged and been dyed with wind and frost, and her noble temperament was also engraved with the pain that had been carved out of time.
A princess who was sent to the Western Regions thousands of miles away, has no blood relationship as an obligation, and no royal backer to rely on, but fortunately, her husband treats her well. However, her new family is separated from each other, and she travels south alone to ask for help, only to be greeted by the destruction of her brother's family.
Su Huihui found that he couldn't say anything, so he could only call softly, "Grandma? ”
The black robe made her body weaker and weaker, but her eyes had a calm and calm clarity. Su Hui warmed up and felt uneasy, and such a calm gaze looked at her, just like an unrelated passerby reflected in her pupils.
"My mother is Zhenya, she is the only princess of the Western Night, my maternal grandfather is Sijulin, and the current King of the Western Night, Ayando, is his younger brother."
Princess Li Guo still looked at her slowly, the white hair that had fallen down her shoulders and she casually brushed it with her hand, and the action rekindled Su Huihui's remaining memories. Her mother would have smoothed her hair so gracefully and gently, but not as black as she had been in her youth, nor as white as she had been at this time.
The princess took her left hand, stroked her fingers one by one, and spoke in silence: "Aya? I remember her...... She's my daughter. I'm old, I can't remember a lot of things, and I can't see clearly, son, come here. ”
Su Huihui bit her lip and sat on the edge of the couch, her hands climbing up to her face, tracing the outline carefully. The bitterness in her throat spread throughout her body, and as soon as she felt her movements stop, she heard the gentle voice of the wind say:
"Now I think of something...... What's your name? It's not like Aya. What about Aya? ”
Su Huihui held her hand, "Mom was separated from her family in the army and arrived in Turkic," before she finished speaking, the princess's body trembled suddenly, "Those people took her away!" Aya is only sixteen years old...... She's still so small, Turkic...... Turks! Her eyes burst into intense pain, and she coughed intermittently for a while, then gradually calmed back to her original empty state, leaning on the pillow without saying a word, but unconsciously clutching the corners of her robe.
Su warmly held his forehead and said in a low voice: "Grandma, can't you remember it again?" Then don't think about it. My father's surname is Sue, and the name given to me is these two words. She spread out the princess's palm and wrote stroke by stroke, "Because it was spring, I was born in the barracks." Mom was rescued by him and went to Liang Kingdom, and they have been doing well. ”
The princess seemed to have problems with only her eyes and memory, but her thinking was unusually clear, and she shook her head and said, "It's not good, Aya has left me, it must be a bad life." She is a little girl, she can't do anything, the west night is going to die, Liang Guo ...... If people knew that her mother was a Qi person, would she be able to live well? ”
Su Hui was stunned for a moment, and she continued: "Forget it, I estimate that I will forget about it tomorrow, so let's believe it." Son, go down the mountain, you don't need to come to see me. All I remember is that I had a daughter who was gone and took my heart with her...... Her child, I can't see it clearly and I can't remember, you don't have to work hard in the future. I feel safe here, and I don't want to see a doctor or touch anything down the hill anymore. ”
Su Huihui's heart was suddenly knocked off, and he said a few words in a simple West Night Dialect, but the princess should not answer. She remembered the song her mother had sung when she was a child, and when she got up, the princess hummed along, her face wrinkled with a smile, as if she had returned to the scene when her little daughter was sitting on her lap listening to the music when she was young. But her daughter has been dead for many years, and the only living relative belongs to the world below the mountain, and she sits alone in the quiet room, guarding the little memories that remain, which is pitiful, even if she hurts someone, she can't blame.
The princess hummed and closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep, the corners of her mouth still slightly raised.
Su Huihui pulled a thin quilt on her, sat at the head of the bed for a while, and pressed her wrist pulse for a while, knowing that her time was short.
Before leaving, she sniffed the medicine bowl on the table, and recognized that the medicinal materials in it should be the kind that hangs on her life, and some of them are very valuable.
The early winter sunlight outside the house sprinkled the silent courtyard, maybe he didn't eat anything at noon, Su Huihui was in a trance. She walked towards her room with heavy legs, and after thinking about it a few times, she still couldn't stop feeling uncomfortable, so she simply didn't think about anything.
Soon after returning to the room, the two young female crowns brought a bucket of water for her to cleanse, Su Huihui's thoughts were in a mess, and when she saw that the water was finally better, she thanked her and unceremoniously went into the bucket to wash herself. Stretching out in the hot water, she buried herself in the still water, until the water was almost cold, she wiped it hastily, looked in the mirror, and felt that there was nothing unusual, so she changed her clothes and went out to find someone.
Su Huihui opened the door of the house, and the light filled the small space behind him with the shadows of the trees. Under the ancient tree not far away, stood the person she was looking for, dressed in a moon-white robe, and inside it was still the middle single that she had ripped off.
His eyes looked over, containing a quiet and cool smile, like the acacia snow fluttering in the wind in summer. She looked like she was familiar with it, and someone must have seen her like this from the same distance.
Where?
She couldn't help but walk under the tree and stare at his face in a daze.
Sheng Yunyi pointed to a shade of a tree, took a step closer, and said, "How can it still look like this after washing, you must know that it is cold now, and it is not very convenient to fetch water." ”
Su Huihui turned his head sideways all of a sudden, covered his face with his sleeve, and rubbed his eyes very quickly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for letting the female crown bring water."
He raised the corners of his lips and carefully examined it, she was obviously not in the mood to take care of it, her black hair was loosely pulled, and her sideburns were dripping with water, all the way to the white jade-like neck. It's really lazy, do you see that others are also so disheveled?
Su Huihui was uncomfortable by him, and said with his eyes in his eyes: "Is Your Majesty here to pay tribute to General Lu?" The people under the mountain and on the mountain are very secretive about this place, and it is also instructed by His Majesty. ”
Sheng Yunyi leaned against the trunk of the tree and said leisurely, "Doctor Su doesn't ask me how long I have been here?" Just thank me for preparing hot water for you? ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for informing the Lord and letting the keeper come down to pick me up."
He became more and more dissatisfied, suddenly laughed, and said in a low voice: "I'm not on the boat, Doctor Su is really crying?" My eyes are still red. ”
Su Huihui just didn't hear it, "Thank you for taking care of your grandmother all these years." ”
Sheng Yunyi looked at her delicate side face and said, "Su Huihui, if you are worried about other things in your heart, you don't need to thank me, I don't need someone who cares about him to express these insignificant thanks to me." ”
He suddenly wanted to touch her eyelashes as he had done two hours ago, and seeing the way she frowned, and the way she scolded, she had so much more to mind than she had revealed, and he didn't mind spending some time digging them out one by one.
Su Huihui went through it in his mind several times, and said: "Since Your Majesty knows that I came by boat the night before, you sent someone to keep an eye on me, so I know what I want to do." I'm going to cross the river, I'm going to take me halfway, I'm going up the mountain, I'm going to let someone come down to pick me up, and then, is what I'm going to do what I want to do, or what does I want to do? ”
Sheng Yunyi's smile faded, brushed off the dead leaves on his clothes, and turned around and said, "Keep up." ”
Su Huihui felt reasonable, so he trotted with him to the second wing room in the east, next to the one arranged for her, the tables, chairs and stools were not much exquisite, but they were clean and tidy.
As soon as the door was closed, he threw a handkerchief and said, "Dry your hair, and don't let the water drip on me." ”
She pinched the handkerchief and was a little embarrassed, but she reacted.
Sheng Yunyi said in a timely manner: "You said so much, don't you ask how my injury is?" What you have to do is the duty of a doctor, and what I want you to do is to let you fulfill your obligations, is it possible that I have wronged you? ”
Su Huihui saw that his face was whiter than usual, startled, and without waiting for him to do it himself, he ran to the couch and untied his belt three times and divided five by two, and pulled a dead knot in a hurry. She was anxious by his solemn tone, pinched the time and tore it away, and when she saw that the cotton yarn was soaked in water, she was about to catch fire, and she looked up and asked:
"Did you bring any medicine?"
Sheng Yunyi pointed to the burden that he had left on the table, and Su Hui shook it open, and a small bottle and a stack of clean cotton yarn appeared in front of him. She paused abruptly and asked grimly:
"Are your injuries healed?"
Sheng Yunyi was surprised: "How do I know." Isn't that what you should calculate? ”
Su Huihui took a deep breath, walked over and steadied his hand to uncover the water-soaked veil, and threw it on the table like a stone, revealing the healthy texture and knife marks that had been born for more than two months. The medicine she left behind was replaced halfway through, which was another one that worked better and faster, and I don't know where he found it.
She felt her ears being rubbed, and when she looked up, Sheng Yunyi was taking the handkerchief in her hand and sucking the water droplets on her hair, wiping it and stuffing it into her hand, and said calmly:
"Enough of it?"
Su Huihui gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, do you feel that you have been swimming in the river for a while, and you are very refreshed?" ”
He pulled on the middle coat that she had torn apart twice in a day, and a slender hand leisurely tied the belt, just like the lazy description of the early morning when she first got up.
Su Huihui realized that something was wrong, and quietly looked away, and the brocade in his hand was clenched into a cool ball.
Sheng Yunyi sensed her complaint, and said with a smile: "Doctor Su just came in and asked me what bad intentions I had, if I said no, you wouldn't believe it, so why ask again?" ”
Su Hui frowned and said, "Although I don't believe it, I can listen to it." ”
He was intrigued by her arrogant tone, "Doctor Su, who gave you the confidence to speak like this?" ”
Su Huihui almost forgot that the person in front of him couldn't resist the most, and said sorry gloomily, and put things away for him as they were. She is not used to cleaning up things, and seeing him pointing and asking for so many things that it is unpredictable, she really has a reputation for being difficult to serve.
Sheng Yunyi sat quietly, from this angle you can clearly see her fluttering thick eyelashes, her eyelids are covered with a light layer of red, the corners of her cherry-colored lips are pursed, her facial features have the delicate air of the Central Plains, and the outline is slightly deeper, and all the foreign blood is reflected in the light brown pupils.
Xiye gave birth to good horses and beautiful women, and most of the Lu family's appearance was outstanding, and her father's skin had always been very good. As for her, she looks good, but she's too detached, he just can't get used to her pretending, and he can't get used to her hiding her guard under his nose.
So he raised his finger to her shoulder, and Su Hui understood it, and immediately wiped it twice with a handkerchief, and when he turned his head to look, he didn't find a trace of water.
He felt much more comfortable in his heart, ignoring her anger: "Your current state is not suitable for discussing with me, go back to rest first, and come back in the evening when you think about it." Are you afraid of being on the river today? ”
As soon as he finished the last sentence, Su Huihui turned around and left, almost kicking the threshold.
Sheng Yunyi leaned against the bedpost and stared at her back for a long time.
What she wanted to ask was blocked by him, he was actually not good at changing the topic, but every time he faced her, he naturally had a lot of words, changed three identities, several locations, and even he felt that it had become a habit for granted.