Chapter 21: Crying in the middle of the night

"Ahh Duanyue woke up from her sleep, and before she knew it, she was already in a cold sweat. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info After he came to his senses, he looked around and saw no figure of Cuiguo.

I thought I slept for a long time...... She patted her chest in fright, and subconsciously lowered her head to check if there was a big hole, that sword was really extremely real, and Duanyue felt the wind raised by the sword on her face.

Cuiguo walked in with steaming rice balls, and saw that there were some beads of sweat sticking to Duanyue's forehead, and asked with concern. "County Lord, what's wrong? In the cold winter, how can you sweat. She put the glutinous rice balls in front of Duanyue, only to feel a gust of demon wind blowing and shivering, and scolding and scolding the window shut.

Oh, that sword aura turned out to be the wind outside the window.

Duanyue pulled the round and plump rice balls in the bowl, and was suddenly lost by the nightmare. She looked at Cuiguo in amazement, her face pale. "I just had a nightmare, and I had a terrible dream."

"It's probably because the county lord is tired, and I'll take a basin of hot water to soak the county lord's feet before going to bed later, it will be much more comfortable." Cuiguo replied, she pointed to the bowl of osmanthus rice balls, urging. "Eat it quickly, it's not the same when it's cold."

Duanyue looked at about eight or nine small balls in the bowl, her throat was tight, and she had no appetite. But feeling Cuiguo's kindness, she still smiled and reluctantly swallowed a few by herself. The teeth bit through the white and tender epidermis, and the delicate black sesame seed filling scurried around wantonly, filling the whole mouth.

On weekdays, such a bowl of glutinous rice balls, Duanyue can eat all in one go, and even drink the sugar water in it without dropping it, but after eating four today, he pushed it away painfully and shook his head. She explained slightly apologetically to Cuiguo. "It's not that it's not delicious, it's just that I've just been scared and have no appetite."

Cuiguo smiled slightly and said softly. "It's okay, if you hold on to it, it's not good for your body. But the slave thinks it's a pity, and it just so happens that my stomach is empty, so why don't you reward me? ”

Seeing that she opened her mouth to request, Duanyue nodded and agreed.

Seeing that her face was not good, Cuiguo was also very worried. She had a flash of inspiration, hurried out the door, and came back in a short time. She calmed down and handed the red wooden box she was holding to Duanyue. "This is a congratulatory gift from various families some time ago, I remember that I don't know who sent An Shengxiang, and it can come in handy today."

Duanyue opened the wooden box, and the fragrance of plum blossoms came to the face, accompanied by other slightly sweet and greasy smells, Duanyue was not good at recognizing fragrance, and only smelled one or two of them, but it felt very comfortable to smell, and the sore and swollen temples were alleviated a lot.

Seeing that her face soothed, Cuiguo was secretly happy in her heart: I thought that this thing was going to be thrown in the warehouse to be moldy and rotten, but I didn't expect it to come in handy. After seeing Duanyue nodding in satisfaction, she hurriedly lit the incense.

After the incense is lit, the taste will not become stronger, and it will still be the faint smell. After Cuiguo quietly finished eating the rice balls that night, she burped with satisfaction, and then went down to prepare foot soaking water for Duanyue.

Duanyue sniffed the cold fragrance of plum blossoms, and her mind was still in the dream just now. She really couldn't figure out why her brother would kill her.

Little by little, the sky was getting darker. Duanyue was lying on the bed after washing, the stove and soothing incense were lit, and the room was very comfortable.

"Blow out the candles, and go down and rest." Duanyue wrapped the quilt tightly. After Cuiguo received the order, she blew out the candle with a "whew", and the house was suddenly dark. With the little sparks splashing out of the stove on the ground, Cuiguo tiptoed out of the house and closed the door tightly, for fear of getting into a little wind.

Listening to the "crackling" sound in the furnace, Duanyue closed her eyes after a hard day. But as soon as she closed her eyes, there was that terrible picture in her mind, which frightened her heart and liver, and she felt uneasy. After tossing and turning for half an hour, there was a long sigh of "sigh-" in the room, and Duanyue sat up in annoyance.

I had insomnia yesterday, but I still can't sleep well today. She flapped her legs under the cover in anger, and the bed board thumped. Only then did I find out that I really couldn't sleep.

She stared indignantly at the slightly glowing soothing incense in front of the bed, her silver teeth gurgling. What a soothing! It doesn't work at all!

Duanyue turned over and got out of bed by the moonlight outside the window and the faint orange-red warm light in the stove. Catching a glimpse of the flickering shadows on the window paper, she opened the window curiously, the heavy snow began to fall at some point, and the vegetation in Murong Mansion was already covered with fingernails of snow. The moonlight shone on the snow, sweeping away the chaos of the night, and the sky and the earth were clear.

She put on a heavy dress and did not forget to put on her cloak. I thought that since I couldn't sleep, I might as well go outside for a walk.

Feet on top of the snow make a "squeak" sound. Duanyue raised her head, letting the snowflakes fall on her face and her hair, and her slender eyebrows were covered with small sparkling beads. She couldn't help but think of the heavy snow that almost killed the brother and sister when she was in Chenzhou, and Qichun said that it was the first snow in Chang'an.

Duanyue thought of the graceful figure of Qichun, and felt bitter in her heart.

After almost a month of getting along day and night, Duanyue will never forget the face of Qichun. When I parted that day, I said that I would go back to visit her, but Chang'an didn't say anything about the tiring travel to Chenzhou, and Uncle Murong didn't allow him to go out alone. Duanyue's longing for Qichun is really increasing day by day.

She heard a slight sobbing sound in her ears, and she couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman, just a low whimper. Duanyue retracted her melancholy thoughts, and her attention was drawn to this person. Follow the sound, step by step.

Duanyue guessed, it was the descendants of Murong Mansion who were wronged and crying here, right?

The voice became clearer and clearer as the footsteps approached, and after walking for a while, I realized that it was a man's voice. Duanyue frowned with a sneer, if you want to say that the man has tears and doesn't flick, this person is still crying so loudly, I don't know who it is?

The sound came from behind a Taihu Lake stone in the corner of the garden, and Duanyue shook her head, shaking off the snow above her head. Without fear, she walked around the Taihu Lake Stone and walked towards the weeping man. was originally a disdainful face, but when I saw the person leaning on the Taihu Lake stone and crying, it turned out to be Xu Xiachu!

I don't know how long he's been here, but there's a thin layer of snow on his body, and if he stays a little longer, he'll melt into the snow. There were five, six, seven, and eight jars of wine rolling at his feet, and the unnatural flush on his cheeks made him know that he had already lost consciousness when he drank it. What's even more strange is that he has purple bruises on his face and hands, and the cotton clothes he wears are also scarred.

Duanyue squatted down curiously, Xu Xiachu suddenly sat up, looking at her with half-open eyes.

"Is that you?" When he speaks, his tongue is already big, and he has to listen carefully to understand what he is saying. When he spoke, a foul smell of wine came to his face, and Duanyue, who was rushing, quickly stood up and took a few steps back.

She frowned and pinched her nose, and asked Xu Xiachu, who was drunk into a puddle of mud on the ground. "Big night, are you crying?"

He nodded calmly, with a blurred smile on his face, and the next second he immediately changed his face and cried like a child. While crying, he muttered the word "Lingzuo", which sounded like a personal name, and it was a woman's name. Duanyue's heart was like a mirror, it turned out that Xu Xia was trapped by love at the beginning.

"Trivial ......? Is it the girl you like? ”

He laughed miserably, and the tears in his eyes were like a waterfall, and he couldn't stop falling down. "Yes, Lingzo is my favorite girl, she is so good-looking......" His eyes gradually blurred, and the paralysis of wine was that he saw the person he loved in the illusion.

Xu Xiachu's crying became more and more miserable, and he talked more after drinking, and without waiting for Duanyue to ask, he confided in a series of words. "Lingzuo, why don't you wait for me and marry someone else...... What about someone else? He sniffed heavily as he spoke, not looking like a teenager in the past.

"Trivial ...... "He wept and cried, without any manliness......

It turned out to be the woman Xu Xiachu liked, and she was going to marry someone else.

Seeing his heartbroken appearance, Duanyue felt sympathy in her heart. She asked, pointing to the wound on Xu Xiachu's face. "And where did you get this injury?"

He pointed to his wounds, drunken pleasure. "Of course...... Of course it's with that stinky boy! Hahahaha! Xu Xiachu cried and laughed for a while, and Duanyue felt furious when she saw it.

"Looking at you like this, you must have lost."

When Xu Xiachu heard this, she immediately jumped up from the ground, and the one who was poked in the sore spot immediately quibbled. "What do you mean by 'for sure'!" Seeing his thunderous appearance, Duan Yue was afraid of hurting himself by mistake, so he took a step back. But Xu Xiachu didn't do what Duanyue thought, but squatted down with her face covered, sobbing.

"That stinky boy is five big and three rough, I really can't beat woo woo woo"

On weekdays, the people of Murong Mansion call Xu Xiachu "Vice General Xu", Duanyue still thinks how powerful he is, he can be a deputy general, but when I see it today, I just feel that I have lost my eyes. His decadent appearance, how can he have the appearance of a general galloping on the battlefield, but he is extremely like a drunkard drunk in a wine shop.

Duanyue sighed, she hugged her chest in front of her, and she didn't know what to do with Xu Xiachu who fell to the ground and played tricks. If you leave him here, I'm afraid that it will be a big problem if you freeze overnight. But as he is now, it is not appropriate to rush back to his own house.

She looked at Xu Xiachu's injury, and finally her heart was still soft. Duanyue glanced at him and asked. "Can you go on your own?"

Xu Xia was estimated to have been frozen by the weather and sobered up a little. He nodded at Duanyue, then stood up. It's still staggering, but it's better than being paralyzed there at the beginning.

"You can't let anyone see you like this, our dignified Deputy General Xu is so down-and-out, it's Uncle Xu's face to lose when you say it." She scolded Xu Xiachu as soon as she opened her mouth, and walked up as she spoke. "Don't want to follow me?"

At this time, Xu Xiachu's brain was paralyzed by alcohol, and he had no thoughts of his own for a long time. He listened to Duanyue let himself follow, and walked behind her silly, like a large pet.

Duanyue glanced at the courtyard with a weak heart, Cuiguo's house was already dark, calculating the time, and he was also asleep at this time. She pulled Xu Xiachu and walked to her room. The stove in the house was never extinguished, and when I stepped into the house, it was as warm as spring, and the snow on the cloak instantly turned into droplets, and the blanket on the ground was wet as soon as I moved.

She lit the candle, pressed Xu Xiachu on the stool with great difficulty, did not let him move, and ran out of the house to find something. I still remember that I still had medicine left when I was injured.

When Duanyue came back with a few medicine bottles, Xu Xiachu was already asleep on the table in a warm environment, and the snoring sound was also coming and going. Duanyue shook the kettle in the corner of the wall, although there was still some water in it, it was warmer than the snow outside the house. She glanced at Xu Xiachu, who was asleep, and thought to herself that she was asleep anyway, who could feel that the water was cold and warm.

Duanyue soaked the veil, and when her hands touched the water in the copper basin, she trembled, trembling so much that her upper and lower teeth collided together. She hurriedly wrung out the handkerchief and wiped Xu Xiachu's face indiscriminately, but the force was neither light nor heavy, but it didn't wake him up.

Xu Xiachu, who was asleep, was like a puppet, fiddling with people at will. After Duanyue gave him the medicine, this kid opened his eyes as if he knew. He rubbed his eyes and muttered to himself. "I'm going back." Without saying anything, he opened the door and walked out.

Duanyue looked at his back suspiciously. Is this man awake or not?

She looked at the messy bottles on the table, and the wet patches on the ground, and worked hard for half the night, but she didn't catch a word of thanks, and Duanyue closed the door angrily. Such a toss made Duanyue, who was originally sleepy, feel tired again.

This night, she fell asleep while secretly cursing Xu Xiachu.