Chapter 54: The Demon of the Heart
April twenty-three, this is a day that makes Lu Shaoyun uneasy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info During the day, when he was on duty at the Jinwuwei Yamen, during the lunch break, in the sound of the wind and rain, Lu Shaoyun learned the news of the palace test list: Liu Zirun is in high school, not just a jinshi, but the first champion hand-picked by the holy royal pen.
After hearing the news of Liu Zirun High School, Lu Shaoyun, who had been troubled by the question of "whether Shuang Han is crying or laughing now", rode to the east of the city when he was on duty in the evening.
In the sound of horses' hooves, Lu Shaoyun, who was heavy-hearted, knew very well that no matter whether Xia Shuanghan was sad or happy now, the person who could share or share it with him was not him. However, even so, he still couldn't rest assured that Xia Shuanghan was still waiting for night to fall in his "murderous mansion", and then sneaked into Xia Shuanghan's bedroom to see if she slept peacefully.
It's just that, unexpectedly, when Lu Shaoyun had dinner in the main hall of the "Murderous Mansion", washed and changed clothes, and walked out of his room, Chai Hu and Hanxiao brothers and sisters came to tell him: Xia Shuanghan is coming, and he is currently in the water pavilion in the garden.
"Miss Xia doesn't seem to be in a good mood today," although I have seen Xia Shuanghan and Lin Xiran many times, but I still don't know what they and their benefactor Lu Shaoyun are planning together, Chai Hu said: "Just now I let Hanxiao take a look in the water pavilion and found that Miss Xia seems to be drunk. ā
"Drunk?" Hearing this, Lu Shaoyun raised his eyebrows in surprise, "What, did she drink?" ā
"No, no, Miss Xia didn't drink." He also adhered to his duty, never curious and never spread the news of the masters, shook his hand and denied: "Miss Xia just ate sweet wine in the water pavilion and got drunk. ā
"Sweet wine? Drunk? "Lu Shaoyun, this is really the first time I've heard that someone will use sweet wine to buy drunk.
"Yes, it's sweet wine." Xiaoxiao continued: "Miss Xia didn't make noise or make noise when she was drunk, she just fell asleep on the couch. In order to prevent Miss Xia from catching a cold, I closed the window and covered her with a bed blanket, but now it will be windy, and the water pavilion is not a warm place, so ......"
"Got it," Lu Shaoyun, who figured out the current situation of Xia Shuanghan from the unfinished words of Chai Hu and Hanxiao, ordered neatly: "Hanxiao, you go and clean up the room and come out, so that Shuanghan can rest for a while." Chai Hu, you go to boil water, and let Hanxiao wipe it with hot water for Shuang Han, so as not to catch a cold. ā
When the words fell, before Chai Hu and Hanxiao turned around to act according to the instructions, Lu Shaoyun, who was anxious to see Xia Shuanghan, strode towards the direction of the Water Pavilion.
In the water pavilion, lying on the couch, Xia Shuanghan, who was thinking about her thoughts while eating sweet wine, was originally crooked by the window looking at the lotus leaves in the garden in a daze, but she stayed and stayed, and after eating the sweet wine, she felt that her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and her body was getting more and more tired.
"I should have left as soon as I finished eating." This is Xia Shuanghan's last trace of wakefulness before falling asleep, and then, with the vague thought of "Actually, it doesn't matter if you sleep here", she likes to curl up in a ball when she sleeps, and she falls asleep.
"You fled here because you couldn't stand the noisy and lively atmosphere of the Liu family, right?" After entering the Water Pavilion, Lu Shaoyun, who closed the door, sat down gently on the vacant seat beside Xia Shuanghan. Looking down at this pair of eyebrows and a worried face between his eyebrows, Lu Shaoyun couldn't help but murmur in a low voice: "Liu Zirun High School and you are completely dead to him, this should obviously be something that makes me happy, but why, why can't I be happy now?" ā
"Childe," a soft knock on the door accompanied by a smiling voice sounded outside the door of the water pavilion, "the room is cleaned up, and the water has been boiled." ā
"Got it, come in." Lu Shaoyun, who stood up while answering, bent down and picked up Xia Shuanghan, who was curled up on the collapse, and turned around and said, "Lead the way ahead." Then, holding the person in his arms, he followed behind Han Xiao and walked to the bedroom that was cleaned up for Xia Shuanghan.
"You take care of the frost and rest." After taking off Xia Shuanghan's coat and boots and stuffing her into the quilt, Lu Shaoyun turned around and said with a smile to the person who came into the house with a hot water basin: "Wipe her face and hands, and don't forget that she likes to drink warm water if needed." ā
"Yes, I know Childe." In response, Han Xiao put the basin on the shelf, twisted the handkerchief in the hot water basin and was about to come forward, but Xia Shuanghan, who was sleeping, reached out and firmly grabbed his sleeve when he felt Lu Shaoyun's breath leave her.
"Hey, forget it, I'll do it." Looking back at Xia Shuanghan's hand that grabbed his sleeve, Lu Shaoyun, who originally wanted to stay by her side for a while longer, took the handkerchief in Hanxiao's hand and said with a smile: "Hanxiao, you go out first, I'll take care of her." ā
"Yes, Childe." Although he felt that something was wrong, he resolutely did not smile at the master's affairs, and still withdrew according to his words: The son is happy with Miss Xia, what is wrong with him wanting to stay with Miss Xia for a while?
"You're a fool too, do you know who you're dragging right now?" Shaking his head helplessly and looking at Xia Shuanghan who was sleeping, Lu Shaoyun let out a long sigh and wiped his face for her. "You still call me stupid, but I think you are the stupidest, you know that you can't get together with Liu Zirun, why don't you still refuse to put him down in your heart? You know that the fire in the teahouse that day might kill you, why did you rush in and bruise yourself? ā
"Hmm......" Xia Shuanghan in her sleep didn't hear Lu Shaoyun's whisper clearly, because the constantly changing dreams were haunting her in her sleep, making her more and more uncomfortable and desperate.
At the beginning of the dream, the summer frost and cold sedan chair of the phoenix crown and the smiling Lu Shaoyun were married, but when she finally persevered until the day of delivery, she was arranged by the midwife of the Xu family to leave her mother and child, and since then she has been separated from her child forever.
The dream changed, and she didn't want to die unexpectedly, she cut off her love thread, dissolved the marriage contract and left Lu Shaoyun, but then, Pei Huanting, who married into the Dingguo Mansion as she wished, became Lu Shaoyun's wife in this life. So, for the rest of her life, Xia Shuanghan could only watch the femme fatale who killed her in her previous life stay by the side of the man she loved the most, while she herself was unmarried and lonely for the rest of her life.
The dream changed again, on the barren mountain in the bitter cold land outside the northwest, in front of the lonely grave was a tombstone with the book "The Tomb of the Beloved Wife Xia Shuanghan", and in front of the tombstone, there was Lu Shaoyun, who came to sweep the tomb for her, who was alone and had gray temples......
One tragedy after another in the dream is constantly staged in different ways, but the different life directions and corresponding endings seem to block all the paths that Xia Shuanghan can choose in this life, why? Why doesn't it matter if she leaves Lu Shaoyun or stays by Lu Shaoyun's side, the two of them just can't get a bland happiness?
"Hmm......" Xia Shuanghan in her sleep couldn't bear the pain brought to her by the dream, so she sobbed and let out a whimpering sound like a kitten. But her fragile and helpless appearance made Lu Shaoyun beside her feel sour in her heart.
"If I bring Liu Zirun, won't you be so uncomfortable?" Putting down the handkerchief and raising his hand to gently wipe away the tears from the corners of Xia Shuanghan's eyes, Lu Shaoyun said softly: "But in order to fulfill your happiness and help you come together, then what should I do?" Frost, I don't want to leave you, and I don't want to lose you. ā
"Hmm...... Hmm...... "Xia Shuanghan, who was still trapped in all kinds of tragic nightmares, sobbed more and more, she trembled helplessly, clenched her fists and clenched the sleeve of Lu Shaoyun in her hand, as if that thin piece of fabric was her only salvation.
"Don't cry, don't you cry, okay?" Seeing his sweetheart whimpering helplessly like an abandoned kitten, Lu Shaoyun, who couldn't stand it, took off his boots and got into the quilt, and took the still shivering Xia Shuanghan into his arms.
Lu Shaoyun's warm embrace and familiar breath gradually calmed down the summer frost trapped in the nightmare. Rubbing her head, she found the most comfortable place to sleep in Lu Shaoyun's arms, and the sweet smell of sweet wine slowly drifted out between her and him.
"I know the person you need now is not me," Lu Shaoyun, who was depressed in his heart, and every breath was like a bellows from the hollow of his heart to the cold wind sighed: "But I am willing to stay by your side for the rest of my life, and provide you with a warm embrace when you need comfort, will you feel better in this way?" ā