Chapter 145: Corpse Poison
Under the light of the Ming ** people, Su Chunfeng, who was returning home from duty, expressed his warm welcome with joy after learning of the arrival of Zhou Zhao and Zhou Yaoguang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ Subsequently, after learning of Zhou Yaoguang's meager dowry, Su Chunfeng, who wanted to let her marry in style, even proposed that the Xiangyang Mansion add makeup to her.
There is no objection to how Su Chunfeng wants to dispose of the Su family's money, and Xia Shuanghan, who only wants to stick to his state of staying out of the matter. So, after the dinner with a harmonious atmosphere, she didn't plan to continue dealing with Zhou Yaoguang, so she quickly returned to her residence.
In the past few days, since Su Yixing dealt with the mastermind behind throwing hydrangeas to recruit relatives on his own, he has not returned to Xiangyang Palace, who has been busy running outside due to the official duties of the Criminal Department. Therefore, in the past few days, I don't need to deal with the summer frost and cold of my nominal husband, and I have lived a very happy life.
It's just that the days when you don't need to deal with Su Yixing are obviously impossible to last long, no, tonight, just when Xia Shuanghan put down the book in his hand that was looking at the picture for pastime, and was about to turn off the lights and rest, Su Yixing, who had not been home for several days, suddenly came back.
Originally, Xia Shuanghan, who was planning to go to bed at the beginning, didn't know about Su Yixing's return. It's just that Xie Shi, who hurriedly came to Tingtao Courtyard under the ring of the girls in the night, told her the news.
"Frost and cold, can you go to the outer courtyard to see Ochre Chen?"
Xie Shi, who was anxiously coming, had just stepped into the threshold of the main house, and he didn't even have time to sit down, and the moment he saw Xia Shuanghan coming out of the inner room, he pleaded with worry and concern: "Zhe Chen doesn't know if something happened in the process of investigating the case again, he has now sealed the courtyard, saying that except for Doctor Qin and Qinglan, no one else is allowed to enter, I really can't rest assured of him, so can you please go and see him for me?" β
"Auntie is serious." Through getting along with each other for nearly half a month, in the face of the Xie family, who treated her sincerely and kindly, Xia Shuanghan had unconsciously regarded her as an amiable and respectable elder. Therefore, in the face of the eager pleas of the elders, Xia Shuanghan, who thought that going to see Su Yixing was not a big deal, decisively decided to help her with this little favor.
"Don't worry, aunt, I'll go now, but if the privileges I have in Zhechen can't let me enter that courtyard as I wish, then I really can't help it."
Raising his hand to gather the coat that looked slightly disheveled because he was hurriedly draped on his body, Xia Shuanghan, who walked out of the house with his feet, quickly trotted to the courtyard where Su Yixing was now in what Xie told her.
Outside the courtyard that had been closed and locked, Xia Shuanghan, who raised his hand to pull off the hairpin on his head, intended to first pass through the narrow gap between the two doors, pick open the looming door bolt and enter the courtyard, and then after climbing the steps in front of the main entrance, he knocked on the door and asked Su Yixing in the house to enter.
It's just that before she inserted the hairpin into the crack of the door, Su Chunfeng, who obviously rushed here because she was worried about her son's safety, stopped her in a hurry: "Shuang Han, don't go in yet!" β
"Uncle? What's wrong? Why can't you go in? Like Xie Shi, he thought that Su Yixing should have suffered some serious external injury, and Xia Shuanghan, who was asking Doctor Qin to treat him at this time, turned around suspiciously and said, "I am not afraid of any hideous and bloody trauma, so you don't have to worry that I will cover my mouth and run out after I go in because I can't stand the strong bloody gas." β
"No, you misunderstood me." Unlike the women living in the inner house, Su Chunfeng, who has heard a little about the case that Su Yixing has been investigating in recent days, has already vaguely guessed the reason why his son is locked behind closed doors: "According to my estimate, Zhen Chen may have accidentally been contaminated with corpse poison in the process of investigating the case." Therefore, before Dr. Qin came out and informed us that we could enter, we would now blindly break in, which would only add to the chaos. β
"Corpse poison?" Xia Shuanghan, who had heard a little about "corpse poison", a thing that originated from a rotten corpse, put down the hosta in his hand and chose to listen to Su Chunfeng's opinion.
So, when she took a few steps back and moved to Su Chunfeng, who had a gloomy face and a worried face, she was hesitating to say something to comfort, and when she came, she was left behind by her.
Knowing that if it weren't for Su Chunfeng to stop it, Xia Shuanghan, who hastily opened the door and rushed into the hospital, was likely to be sick, and he was afraid but fortunate to pull Xia Shuanghan and talk for a long time. And Xie's Xia Shuanghan, who was tired of dealing with the emotional at this time, waited for the opening of the courtyard door after blowing the night breeze with everyone for a long time.
Dr. Qin, who came out of the courtyard door with a medicine box on his shoulder, described Su Yixing's situation at this time to the nominal family of three waiting outside the door: Now, Su Yixing, who has soaked in medicinal baths and drank decoctions, is no longer in much trouble. However, even though the clothes and shoes and socks contaminated with the poison of the corpse had been burned in the courtyard, the house, which had only been roughly treated with incense, was not suitable for visitors to enter.
"The pills I have left here are only enough for one person, so the prince, princess, and princess, how to distribute this pill, you can decide for yourself!"
The small porcelain bottle that Doctor Qin took out from the wooden medicine box to resist corpse poison, and the small pills contained inside were already only one-third of them because of his own and Li Qinglan's use. Therefore, before the new pills are made tomorrow, there will obviously only be one person who can enter to visit Su Yixing tonight.
"It's still frost, you go! The person Zhen Chen wants to see most now must be you. As for me and your aunt, it's the same if we go in again tomorrow morning to see him. The moment he took the small porcelain vase from Doctor Qin's hand, Su Chunfeng, who had immediately made a decision, turned to Xia Shuanghan and said, "You go in and see him now, as soon as he is happy, he will recover faster if he has a mental head." β
"......" Xia Shuanghan, who took the small porcelain vase under the eager gaze of the prince and the princess, wanted to say more: "Actually, I don't want to see him, so if you want to see him, go in quickly!" β
It's just that Xia Shuanghan couldn't say it in front of a pair of parents who remembered their son, so she helplessly pulled out the cork of the bottle, raised her head and took all the small pills in the bottle, just crossed the threshold, climbed the steps and walked into the house.
In the candle-lit inner room, the rising incense exudes a fresh and refreshing smell. Li Qinglan, who was about to exit the house with the empty medicine bowl, raised her eyebrows in surprise when she turned around and saw Xia Shuanghan, and then clasped her fists and saluted.
"Thank you for your hard work." politely returned a salute to Li Qinglan, and then passed by him and walked to the bedside of Xia Shuanghan, who quickly saw Su Yixing, who was a lot haggard.
Su Yixing, who was pale and leaning on the head of the bed with a solemn expression, originally thought that the person who took the pills provided by Dr. Qin and then walked into the house to see him must be his stepmother Xie. It's just that just as he was tired and closed his eyes to recuperate, the sound of Xia Shuanghan that suddenly drifted into his ears completely subverted his initial prediction.
"You...... There you are? He opened his eyes in disbelief and looked at Su Yixing, who was coming to him little by little, and smiled weakly: "I thought that with the current relationship between you and me, even if I died, you wouldn't come to see me." β
"How could I hate you so much?" Xia Shuanghan, who wanted to sit on the round bench in front of the hospital bed, couldn't help but take a step in surprise while hearing Su Yixing's words. It wasn't until she stabilized her body and sat down firmly on the stool that she raised her eyes to observe his complexion, and then further explained: "Actually, judging from the fact that you saved my life, as long as you don't touch my bottom line, it is impossible for me to work hard to hate and hate you." β
"yes, that's good." Su Yixing, who got some comfort from Xia Shuanghan's words, raised his hand and gathered the quilt that was half covered on his body. Between the quilt pulling, an object that he had unintentionally placed at the foot of the bed after soaking in the medicated bath suddenly fell to the ground with a "click", and then rolled to Xia Shuanghan's feet with a "gurgling".
"Don't move, I'll pick it up for you." Xia Shuanghan, who bent down as she spoke, only felt that the thing in front of her was extremely familiar when she reached out, and when she picked up the object and looked at it in the light, she found that what was pinched on her fingertips was actually the seal of the "Clear Frost Monk" that she had lost in May last year.
"How did this thing end up with you?" Xia Shuanghan, who had always thought that this seal had long been lost in Sanqingguan, quickly understood the reason why Su Yixing took it with him while he was puzzled.
Su Yixing's paintings of her that were collected in his study were not undiscovered by Xia Shuanghan. Since she married into the Xiangyang Palace, Su Yixing's efforts to make her live a more comfortable and comfortable life are not unseen. It's just that she knows very well that when she clearly belongs to her, all the things Su Yixing does for her will only make him fall deeper and deeper on the road of emotion in the wrong place.
"Su Zhenchen, have you ever seen a person who wishfully gives everything he has for the person he loves, but loses his mind and rises up to kill people after finally failing to get the person he loves? I've seen it, and I don't want that in my life. So, this seal and those calligraphy and paintings, I'll help you destroy them! β
Raising his eyes and looking at the man in front of him who obviously had true feelings for her, he only hoped that he could get together and disperse in three years, and Xia Shuanghan, who was unwilling to turn the passer-by of his life into a lifelong enemy, sighed long. It's just that before she stood up and turned to leave, Su Yixing, who raised his hand to hold her forearm, pulled her down on his chest.
"I never think that I am inferior to Lu Shaoyun, so I believe that as long as I make good use of these three years, and you are willing to open the door of your heart and give me a chance, then we can also have a relationship of mutual affection and life and death."
The reason why the three-year contract was made was because Su Yixing, who believed that he could take advantage of this opportunity to catch up and turn the tables in adversity, didn't want to hear Xia Shuanghan's categorical refusal when his attempt had just begun.
So, he lowered his head and gently dropped a kiss on Xia Shuanghan's forehead, and soon before she could refuse again, he took back the seal, called Li Qinglan into the house, and assigned him to send Xia Shuanghan straight back to Tingtao Courtyard.
On the third day of the fifth month, this is the first time since Xia Shuanghan married into the Xiangyang Palace, he went out with the Xie family.
Faced with the situation that Su Yixing had cultivated for eight or nine days due to the poison of the corpse before he finally got better, Xie Shi, who was devoted to the Buddha, decided to go to the Guanyin Temple of Lotus Mountain outside the city on this day to pray for blessings and incense, so as to ask for a smooth and peaceful peace for the whole family.
Slowly driving in the carriage on the official road, sitting by the window, looking at Zhou Yaoguang, who was riding a horse outside the carriage through the slightly fluttering curtains, was called back by Xie's soft call.
"'Compared to the Han women of Daxia, the princess is like a person living in two different worlds', you must think so, right?"
Xie Shi, who clearly remembered the impact that Xia Shuanghan caused to her and her grandmother on the day Zhou Yaoguang came to the door, smiled lightly and said to the young woman in front of her: "But the truth is indeed as you think, Shuanghan really lives in a completely different world from us noble girls. β
"What my aunt said is that if the princess and sister are confined to the inner house like us, it will be impossible to become a loyal and righteous countryman named by the Holy Lord." Zhou Yaoguang, who had admiration for Xia Shuanghan on her face, although she echoed Xie's words on her lips, in fact, she didn't think so at all in her heart.
In the past few days, Zhou Yaoguang, who has lived smoothly in the Xiangyang palace with his grandmother Zhao, has learned about the uncomplicated interpersonal relationships in the palace and the status of the masters through the introduction of the girls.
In her opinion, the honor and favor that Xia Shuanghan received from Su Chunfeng, Xie and Su Yixing were too much and too generous.
Wealthy and carefree material life, a handsome and dedicated healthy husband, and amiable parents-in-law are all things that Zhou Yaoguang has never had in the past, present, and future.
The withered and depressed family, the weak and sick fiancΓ©, and the scathing future mother-in-law who had met once, Zhou Yaoguang, who had to bear all these people and things that she didn't like, really couldn't have a normal heart of not jealousy and jealousy for Xia Shuanghan after hearing what the maids said, "As long as the princess is happy, the princess is willing to do anything for her".
"I don't know what I am blessed to be in the midst of blessings, everything that a woman longs to have after marriage, you already have it all in Xia Shuanghan, but why can you still be so shameless as you are now, and you have to pretend to take Qiao?"
Although all the subordinates in the Xiangyang Palace's palace have been given death orders, asking not to talk about the matter between Xia Shuanghan and Lu Shaoyun. But judging from Xia Shuanghan's title of "uncle, aunt" and her cold attitude towards Su Yixing, Zhou Yaoguang still effortlessly came to the conclusion that "Xia Shuanghan doesn't want to be the princess of this world". (To be continued.) )