Chapter Forty-Nine: Winter is Coming
"It's not easy for Mr. Gao, eh, this kind of illness is really helpless......"
"That's it, there is such a thing in the Gao family's stall, and Mr. Gao will go to Beijing to take the exam next year, isn't it going to be delayed again?"
"Huh...... It's really ......."
Ye Wan ran to the place where the townspeople lived in the temple in a panic, and found a group of people around the door, talking and sighing. Seeing this, Ye Wan panicked and pushed away the crowd and wanted to go in to have a look. After all, this little brother Gao really helped him a lot, and he was really a talent, and he also took care of the grandmother of the Gao family, and he did his best. Ye Wan really couldn't bear any changes in such a person, and his heart was in a mess.
happened to see that Yu Niang was also outside the door, Ye Wan hurriedly rushed over, pulled Yu Niang and asked, "Yu Niang, what's wrong?" What the hell is going on? ”
Yu Niang also looked at the room with a worried face, frowned and said: "Alas, we are chanting together in the hall today, and I suddenly fainted, and now, the doctor in the town is watching inside, it has been an hour, and just now a little master came out and said that he still hasn't woken up, and his life is hanging by a thread." ”
With a "hum", Ye Wan only heard the words "life hanging by a thread".
"How could it be, this tall brother has a very strong body on weekdays, why did his life suddenly hang by a thread." Ye Wan looked incredulous, touched his ears nervously, and didn't know where to put his hand.
"yes...... What, what do you say...... It's not Brother Gao, it's Grandma Gao! Yu Niang was sighing with Ye Guan, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, only to find that Ye Wan had heard it wrong in a hurry.
"Ah...... It's not Brother Gao...... Wrong! Grandma Gao's body should be fine, what the hell is going on! After Ye Wan heard that it was not Gao Lingyun, he first breathed a sigh of relief, and then suddenly found that it was Grandma Gao who had an accident, and pinched a handful of sweat.
Yu Niang glanced at Ye Wan, and then looked in the direction of the house: "I don't know either...... No, everyone who knows Grandma Gao and Brother Gao is gathered around here, so let's wait for the doctor to come out and say something. ”
"Good, good...... I don't ask......"
Hearing this, Ye Wan had no choice but to accompany Yu Niang to wait outside the door, waiting for the results of the doctor inside.
In the distance, two figures stood under a paulownia tree, looking at the crowd and talking from afar, standing on the left was Luo Qi, who was dressed in a dark purple embroidered silver silk robe, and a person standing on the side was hidden in the shade of the tree, looking down and not seeing clearly.
"Big brother came to see you the other day, what did he tell you?" Luo Qi's gaze was always staring at a point in the distance, his peach blossom eyes were squinting gently, the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, his eyes were deep and he couldn't see his emotions clearly, his hair was held by a jade belt, and his right hand was clenched into a fist behind him, and his demeanor was outstanding.
The man didn't look up, but moved back slightly, and replied, "He's just here to tell me not to go back, and it's still chilling." I guess it was a lie to my mother. ”
Luo Qi didn't reply to him, his eyes looked at the sky hidden by the branches, and the sparrows on the branches that had been weakening were shivering and crumbling in the cold autumn wind.
"Hehe, this winter is coming, and I don't know how long this bird will last. Probably, he should have died a long time ago. The man behind him sneered.
Luo Qi continued to squint at the bird, and suddenly a strong wind pulled out behind him, hitting the sparrow that was about to fall from the tree, and the sparrow couldn't catch the strength, so he screamed, flapped his wings a few times, and still couldn't control it and wanted to fall. Luo Qi's eyes were cold, and he sent the folding fan in his hand forward, and the folding fan unfolded lightly to catch the falling sparrow, and slowly fell to the ground in a spinning way. Luo Qi stepped forward and stroked the folding fan, gently put the sparrow on the ground, the fan surface vibrated gently, and there was a faint streamer flowing through the fan bone. After the sparrow fell to the ground, it trembled a few times, hooked its claws a few times, slowly stood up, and seemed to have a new vitality, stayed for a while, stretched its wings a few times, and flew up calmly.
Luo Qi got up and shook the folding fan gently, turned to look at the person under the tree, and smiled slightly, his smile was a little cold: "Virtuous nephew, where did you learn such ruthlessness." What do we owe you to you? Don't forget how I took you in the first place. ”
The man's figure trembled slightly uncontrollably, his right hand was spread under the sleeve, his knuckles were white from excessive force, and his exposed lips were bitten by his teeth: "I was impulsive......"
Luo Qi stopped looking at him, and cast his gaze in the direction of the crowd he was looking at before, and said softly: "Shen Yan is at Senior Brother now, why don't you take a look?" ”
The person behind him looked up at Luo Qi, glanced at the direction of the bamboo forest from a distance, and replied in a low voice, "I'll go back when I go." Then he turned and left.
Luo Qi didn't answer anymore, just closed his eyes lightly, and quietly listened to all the sounds in the ancient temple: the crisp sound of the wind blowing through the fallen leaves, the little master in the distant room preparing the lunch meal, the sound of the bellows pulling, and the "crackling" sound of the fire on the stove.
In such silence, Luo Qi's constricted brows slowly relaxed, and finally opened his eyes softly, and he regained clarity.
In the distant palace castle of Kyoto, the palace people all changed into autumn orange skirts, and calmly bowed their heads as in the past, and lined up in a line in the deep palace walls, day after day in the world within this wall, and worked hard to make a living.
Fengqi Palace is also prosperous in such a dead silence, as if to reflect the dead silence, the inside and outside have been replaced with orange lanterns, trying to create a kind of heat in this prosperity.
"I heard that the emperor's illness is a little more serious, and my mother got up early today to see it, and I don't know what happened."
"The queen's niece's temperament is also getting more and more eccentric, and now she is watched by that person in the side hall all day long, and she doesn't know what she is doing, and she doesn't see it. It doesn't look like it used to be vibrant. ”
"Shhh
Two palace maids ran by chance in the courtyard, poked their heads into the palace and whispered, one suddenly realized something and covered his mouth, pulling the other and running away.
In the side hall of the palace, there was a frightened girl, sitting in front of an embroidery frame, holding the desk with a desolate expression, the blood-red cuckoo embroidered on it, rubbing the cuckoo's lines with her fingertips, the corners of her mouth inexplicably hooked a strange arc, and whispered softly: "Auntie...... You think you're going to trap me......? ”