The breeze is drizzling, and the morning light is shining.

At the top of the Lingquan Peak of Shikun Mountain, the small courtyard shaded by pine and bamboo is quiet, and only the sound of the wind passing through the forest can be heard.

Crossing the path was an attendant dressed in alien costumes, and he and another person were assigned by Jing Lan to take care of Xiao Chu in the retreat and healing stage.

Said to be taking care of it, but the man almost didn't go out, the spiritual spring in the backyard is a natural hot spring on Shikun Mountain, leading water into the hospital, the heat is steaming, which is very beneficial to healing.

The attendant patiently stood at the door of the house, and it didn't take long for there to be movement in the room.

Xiao Chu rarely pushed the door out and stood under the eaves.

The attendant bowed deeply, stepped forward and whispered, "Childe, the people in the tribe have sent herbs, and I have asked people to place them in the place where the medicines are stored." ”

Xiao Chu nodded, but the attendant's next sentence made him stunned: "Childe, the princess has come to you several times during your retreat. ”

In my impression, Jing Lan would never disturb at such a time, unless there was something very important.

Xiao Chu's eyes flickered, and he glanced at the attendant and said, "Jing Lan, did she talk about what?" ”

He used to call the princess by her name, and the attendant shook his head disappreciatively.

Xiao Chu thought for a moment and said, "You send a message to the bottom of the mountain and let Jing Lan come to me." ”

Clean up in the big kitchen and clean up all the borrowed dishes.

I walked to the most remote room at the end of the ground floor where the master lived, pushed the door in, and saw the master asleep on the pillow.

I quietly withdrew.

It was already nightfall, and the people in the infirmary were resting and sleeping in the carriages of the convoy.

I stood at the door and hesitated for a while, but I still thought that I would go and make some porridge for the master, if he wanted to use it, there would be ready-made.

With my mind set up, I turned back to my backyard along the empty ground floor walkway.

The door of the inn had fallen in the afternoon, and only a small door had been left open for me to get in and out.

In the lobby on the ground floor, even the shopkeeper who was guarding the tent was gone, probably the same as the young men in the store. They all went to rest.

Thinking about it, the guests upstairs didn't have any additional requirements for them except to be quiet.

Even the chef is brought by himself, and there is basically nothing to do with the people in the inn.

Not useful. Today's only guest has been received again, and there is really no need to stay in the store.

I felt a little tired for no reason, walked back to the empty stove, and went to the courtyard while the porridge was simmering on the small fire.

A lot of flowers and plants were planted in the backyard of the inn, and the shopkeeper also dug a pond to raise some small fish.

There are two wooden tables resting on the side of the pillars in the backyard, sitting here on a rainy day, listening to the sound of the rain and having a cup of tea and feeding the small fish. Not bad.

I rubbed my sore arms and sat down against the edge of the porch, my back pressed against the pillars.

My body is getting worse and worse day by day, and after a while, I can be so tired that I fall asleep unconsciously.

The body is light in the blur. The whole person was wrapped in warmth, and I comfortably turned sideways, and when I opened my eyes, I saw the smiling face above my head.

Before I could speak, he lowered his head, and a warm kiss landed on my forehead.

I woke up from my dream, my reaction slowed down for a few seconds, and the face in front of me instantly overlapped with that of another person. I murmured, and for a moment I suspected that it was a dream.

When I woke up, my face changed.

After breaking free, Xiao Ning picked me up and put me on the chair.

"Why are you here?" It was almost a unanimous sentence, but it made me forget the embarrassment of the previous misidentification and look at each other. Laugh.

I walked a few steps quietly, sat opposite him, and looked at him through a wooden table: "Xiao Ning, are you going to Jianghuai?" "The folds in the court are almost overwhelmed, and most of them are due to the Jianghuai flood." "So. You're here? You don't send civil ministers and military generals, come by yourself? “

Thinking of what Master Chen said to me, my heart tightened, and I asked. "It's strange, why is there no news along the road, you now have the power to supervise the country, and you can leave Yingtian to run Jianghuai without alarming the cities along the line." "Xiao Ning, you're really amazing." "Thanks for the compliment." He lowered his head, his long eyelashes flashed, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, "You guessed my whereabouts without me, and now, it's time for me to ask you." "Didn't I leave you a letter?" I avoided his eyes and said, "You bought Yingtian's mansion, don't you have the key?" "If you don't get the letter I gave you, your men will tell you about my whereabouts sooner or later."

Xiao Ning restrained his smile and looked at me and said, "Next time, you can't be so nonsense again, you have to leave Yingtian to Jianghuai, and you have to tell me no matter what before leaving." ”

I frowned and looked at Xiao Ning and said, "You're funny." ”

"It's serious, Xiao Ling'er, there's no next time, if there is more, I will send someone to follow you."

"I don't want to do that, so don't force me to do things I don't want to do."

He sighed.

The atmosphere fell silent, and the rain in the courtyard fell on the pond, constantly stirring up the splashing water, and my heart gradually sank.

It was easy to bring up the spirit, and I changed the subject.

His complexion today was worse than when I saw him in Yingtian, I hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr. Ge didn't come with you?" “

A thought flashed through my mind, the cook I had just met, he said at that time, cooking for the old and the rough, has never served such a noble person.

Such a noble man!

This person, of course, is the person in front of me!

After thinking about it, I said in a skeptical tone: "Xiao Ning, did you take the people in the Zihuan Palace on a trip?" “

That's a stupid question I asked! Enlightenment is realized only when it is exported.

If he is a person from Zihuan Palace, why do I need me, the cook of the three-legged cat, to cook for him. "Could it be that you have concealed your whereabouts, said that you were sick, and nested in the Zihuan Palace, in fact, you quietly left Yingtian, and the person who followed you" I crossed my fingers and paused in my voice, "Is it someone in the army?" Provisional? ”

That's right, a cook in the army. Serving the big and rough people, cooking roughly, can't compare to the people in Zihuan Palace.

Xiao Ning smiled and said, "I really can't hide anything from you." ”

"I'm just blindsided."

"That's right."

"But before leaving, I obviously heard the people in the Zihuan Palace tell me. The treatment that Mr. Ge did for you took several courses, so wouldn't it be a waste of all your efforts to leave in such a hurry? ”

"Xiao Ning, you're just messing around." I stood up and looked at him and said in a dull tone, "If you want to leave the palace, how can you not take Mr. Ge with you, you are like this, so the hardships you suffered in the palace before are in vain." ”

It took me a long time to squeeze out a sentence, and I sat down on the stool.

Just looking at his reaction when he was treated. I know how painful and abrasive the prescriptions that Mr. Ge used on his days to keep his days on.

Jianghuai's disaster is important, but he can't send his courtiers over?

At the very least, at least Mr. Ge should be allowed to accompany him, and he should be tired along the way. I'm afraid that if you are not careful, you will make the same old mistakes.

I looked at him with complicated eyes, unable to speak.

Xiao Ning kept staring at me, seeing my expression change, and finally turned into a worried gaze to look at him, and the smile on the corner of his lips slowly expanded: "Xiao Ling'er, you still care about me very much." ”

"No," I shook my head. "It's the same for everyone, the patients you have treated yourself, if you don't care about your body so much, a doctor will blame you."

I lay on the table, my face resting on my arm, and glanced sideways at Xiao Ning. He said weakly: "Do you know what I call this? ”

"You say." He asked me with a smile, his elbow on his cheek.

"I knew I couldn't do it, I took the doctor's words as the wind in my ears, and I didn't care about my body."

"It's the rhythm of death."

Xiao Ning was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly buried his head. I looked at him suspiciously, and it took me a long time to react, this guy was laughing.

He laughed before he said, "Do you know what I want to say most right now?" ”

"You say." I sat down at his table, like him, holding my elbow to my cheek.

"You went to the palace once, and sure enough, nothing has grown."

Xiao Ning raised his hand on my forehead as if he wanted to pop chestnuts, but changed his hand and landed on the back of my hand.

"Who gave you the guts to talk to me like that?"

Obviously, it should be a stern tone, but it's a pity that he can't be strict.

"And how am I going to talk to you?" I glanced at him and said, "Three kneels and nine knocks?" You are not the Son of Heaven yet. ”

"Look at the environment here, and then look at the only two people in this backyard, you and me."

"If you use the same set in the palace to treat you, aren't you tired of it?"

"I see them kneeling every day, and they don't really speak, so you like to get along like that?" "If you say yes, I'll bring the rules I've learned in the palace right away." "But from what I know of you, I'm sure it won't." "Do you want me to change?"

An hour passed, and the topic began to deviate unconsciously, and at this stall, I suddenly smelled an unusual smell. "What smell? It's like, it's like," I looked at Xiao Ning and reacted for a moment, "Oh, it's miserable, it's miserable, I'm still simmering porridge on the stove, ready for my master." "Isn't it burnt?"

Ran into the kitchen, looked at the sticky bottom of the burnt pot, I took it in my hand, looked at him speechlessly, and said: "Look at it, it's all your fault, I forgot to talk to you for a long time, what should I do?" "Your master doesn't eat the porridge you make, that's his luck." "What's wrong with the porridge I made?" "Are you embarrassed to say, how has the food served by the cook just now improved from what I ate on the boat before?" "I'm doing a great job." "What's so good?" "As soon as you eat it, you know that you made it, and you can't adjust the saltiness or lightness." "You are used to being served, pick your mouth, you ask my senior brothers, they have all eaten the dishes I made before, and even the plates are empty." "Are you sure it wasn't poured out?"

"Xiao Ning!"