Chapter XXVII
Xiusun met Xu Jingxing in his previous life, and as the grandson of the Empress Dowager's maiden family, the Duke of Wei, he occasionally came to Cining Palace to greet the Empress Dowager.
If they happen to bump into each other, Xiusun and Xu Jingxing will greet each other, say goodbye to cousin and cousin, and then there will be nothing to say.
Xu Jingxing is not in the list of Xiusun's friends in his previous life, he was sent to Zhongnan Mountain by Wei Guogong to learn martial arts since he was a child, and rarely returned to Beijing, because he is not familiar with the princes of the family in the capital, and he is not familiar with the princes and princesses in the palace.
In addition, he is a taciturn person, and he is still awe-inspiring and righteous when he goes there, so that the greenhouse flowers who are pampered and raised in the capital feel a little embarrassed, so everyone does not like to be close to him, and is even afraid of him.
The first time Xiusun spoke to him formally, she remembered it very well.
It was the Lantern Festival when she was seven years old.
Xiusun took advantage of the darkness to sneak out of the dog hole in the imperial garden, and made an appointment with Ke Xuan to meet under the big locust tree closest to the palace on Zhengyangmen Street to see the lanterns together.
She has never seen such a lively scene, the children in bright clothes, some are pairs, some are in groups, side by side slowly wandering on the most prosperous Zhengyangmen Street, some are holding lanterns in their hands, and some are holding colorful sticks in their hands to guess lantern riddles.
The street is full of lanterns, illuminating the whole street as bright as day.
Xiusun drifted with the crowd, looking at the dazzling array of lanterns, overwhelmed, and happy for a while, only to find that Ke Xuan was no longer around, and she was suddenly frightened.
At that time, Ke Xuan was still a little bean ding, a head shorter than her, and it was absolutely impossible to find it in the crowd.
She looked at the surrounding scenery in a blink of an eye, all of which were unfamiliar, and she was not very familiar with the streets of the capital, and she couldn't tell them under the dark night light.
What to do? She's lost, she can't stay here until tomorrow morning, it's cold, what if someone arrests her and sells her.
After a long time, it was Xu Jingxing who found her, she didn't know if Xu Jingxing knew that she was lost and came to look for her, or if she happened to meet her crying alone on the street corner and was about to die.
Ten-year-old Xu Jingxing stood in front of her, stretched out his big hand to stroke her forehead, and softly told her to stop crying.
At that moment, Xiusun felt that Xu Jingxing's figure was unusually tall, like a god who saved the world.
Her hands and feet froze, and the gods carried her on her back and walked down the deserted alley back to the palace.
The high courtyard walls on both sides of the alley clamped the dark sky into narrow strips, and the chubby round moon kept rolling in the narrow night sky, sending them all the way back.
The silvery moonlight stretched the silhouette of him carrying her on his back and imprinted it on the wall of the courtyard, Xiusun tilted her head and looked at it secretly, secretly sad that her ass was a little big, and buried her head in his back in frustration.
"Go back quickly, don't let anyone find out, I'll tell you that you've returned to the palace." In front of the dog hole, he crossed his arms and looked condescendingly at her as she was about to climb into the dog hole on all fours.
That tone, like coaxing his own pet.
Xiusun was a little annoyed and very weak-hearted, and finally got into the dog hole without saying anything.
Since then, she has always felt that she is a little shorter than him, and when she sees him, she always feels that his eyes are full of banter when she looks at her, and now that she thinks about it, she has never thanked him.
Xu Jingxing has always been mysterious, strict, and dangerous in the hearts of his friends in the capital.
And Xiusun still remembered the other Xu Jingxing, his hands were big and his back was warm.
This person, no matter what happens, Xiusun must save him.
The heat was hot, and the little magpie ran back and forth under the sun, and the clothes on his body were already dry, and the grass that had just been wet by the hot spring pool water was also quickly becoming dry.
Xiusun spread one of the sheets on the grass beside Xu Jingxing, "You roll up yourself, I can't move you." ”
Xu Jingxing slowly lifted the curtain of his eyes, glanced at her, and then slowly rolled onto the clean sheets according to her words, and the red blood stains were immediately stained on the snow-white three-shuttle cloth sheets, which was shocking.
"You, why are you still bleeding?" Xiusun was terrified, and when she washed his wounds, there was no blood anymore.
Xu Jingxing seemed to have adapted to the pain, and said lightly, "Pour the wine on the wound, use the needle and thread to sew up these wounds, and then bandage them, if you slow down, I will bleed to death." ”
Xiusun was stunned, he was lying on his back at the moment, looking at her with his eyes down, very much like a condescending feeling.
Xiusun shook his hand and almost threw out the wine jar in his hand, but in that high-pressure sight, he calmed down.
She motioned for the little magpie to cut the sheets into strips, and untied the mud seal of the wine jar herself.
As soon as the mud seal was removed, the intoxicating aroma of wine hit his face, this was actually a good shochu on the altar, Xiusun washed his hands in the small barrel beside him, and caught a glimpse of Xu Jingxing closing his eyes in resignation, as if secretly holding his breath and preparing something.
He was still bleeding, and he had to hurry, so Xiusun poured the wine jar onto the wound on his chest.
Xu Jingxing, who had been forbearing, suddenly tensed up, his eyes were wide open, his eyeballs almost popped out, his lips were immediately bitten by his teeth, and a suppressed cry of pain came out from the depths of his throat. This wine is indeed a good wine.
The amber wine flowed through the white wound, mixed with blood and flowing onto the pure white sheets, but the sharp pain was endless, he slowly turned over by himself, his movements were sluggish, as if he was afraid of something, his intact right arm was slightly bent, as if he was protecting, but he did not dare to touch the source of the severe pain again.
Lying on the sheets, he seemed to have lost all his strength, and his voice seemed to float in mid-air, "How deep is the wound on the back?" ”
Xiusun poured some wine into his long wound with the jar, which immediately caused him to convulse, and she waited for him to calm down and said, "Six inches wide, half an inch deep." Xiusun replied very clearly and calmly.
He lay on the spot and didn't move, as if sighing, and said lightly, "Be careful when sewing," he reminded him, and remembered that Xiusun was just a five or six-year-old girl, and seemed to feel a little embarrassed for her, so he said again, "It's okay, just sew it, you can get a needle." ”
He obviously didn't have any strength anymore, and he spoke slowly, softly, and evasively.
"Don't worry," Xiusun ignored his questioning, and only knew to do as he said, she picked up the needlework basket, and there happened to be a long red silk thread on the embroidery needle, which Yingge had just recognized.
She took the small needle in her hand, soaked it in the wine with the needle and thread, and glanced at Xu Jingxing again, "Don't worry, I will sew well." This is her solemn promise.
Xu Jingxing didn't receive it at all, he had already closed his eyes, of course he knew that it was already good for a five or six-year-old child to know how to sew things together, and of course he wouldn't expect too much.
Xiusun did not dare to delay, and with the help of the strong sunlight, pierced the white embroidery needle into his white skin, at first he struggled twice in a depressed manner, and then gradually struggled to move, as if he was half dead lying on the spot.
Xiusun's heart became more and more nervous, but her hands did not tremble at all, the embroidery needle was flat, and it was not good to pick up the cracked flesh and prick it, she had to thread the thread first, and then tighten it little by little, she had made a rhinoceros skin soft armor for Ke Xuan with her own hands, using this kind of stitching, the stitching process was a little longer, the pain was more durable, but it would be much smoother.
For the first time since her rebirth, she contributed the real female red to this person's back.
She finally cut the stitches, poured some wine on the stitched wound, and sprinkled the powder, but he didn't move, not even breathe half a minute faster, but gradually weakened.
Xiusun was so anxious to pat his face, but still didn't move, she had to pinch the embroidery needle and pierce it into his person, his whole body trembled, and finally woke up, Xiusun and the little magpie worked together to finally bandage the wound under his guidance.
Everything that could be done was done, Xu Jingxing left a sentence that he would never ask for a doctor no matter what, and finally fell asleep with peace of mind.
In fact, the time was not long, but Xiusun and Little Magpie were sweating, on such a hot day, it was not hot sweat, but cold sweat.
"Clean up this place." Xiusun said to the little magpie,
looked at Xu Jingxing's face covered with mud and blood, and picked up a handkerchief to wipe his face.
The little magpie put away the basket and the wine jar, and looked at the lying man, "Miss, what should he do?" "You can't just lie here all the time.
Xiusun thought for a moment and said, "Let's put it here first, I have my own way, don't let anyone know about it." ”
Most of the flowers and trees around the hot spring pool can repel insects, don't worry about him lying on the ground being infested by snakes, insects, rats and ants, not to mention that Xiusun and they can't move him, the situation is unknown, the more people know, the more dangerous it may be.
As soon as it was cleaned up, Yingge brought back the yam and jujube mud cake, and the pastel-colored plates of flowers and birds were still steaming when they came out of the food box.
Xiusun looked at the plate of yam and jujube mud cake, and told Yingge, "Go and see if my mother is done," and then instructed the little magpie, "Give me a change of clothes, I will go to my mother." ”
Yingge was blessed and went to Ruan's courtyard again, and Xiusun took the little magpie to change her clothes and went to Ruan's yard.
Before she left, she put the plate of yam and jujube paste cake and a pot of hot water on Xu Jingxing's right hand, "Don't worry, I will definitely save you." ”
She didn't know if she was saying it to him, or to herself.
There are only five entrances to this courtyard, and the courtyard where the female relatives soak in the hot springs is in the fourth, and the Nguyen family lives in the third, and Xiusun takes the little magpie from the room where they have just made tea to the front yard, and along the corridor they enter the corner gate of the third courtyard.
Yingge stood under the porch with her head down, obviously the matter on Ruan's side had not been dealt with yet, Xiusun was anxious, only to see the door of the hugging house happened to open from the inside, and several stewards came out of the house.
So Xiusun went into the house.
Ruan was sitting on the Luohan bed by the window drinking tea, and when he saw Xiusun coming in, he was about to beckon her to come over for a snack, but when he saw Xiusun slipping in front of her, he knelt down in front of her.
"What's going on?" Ruan Shi was puzzled, looking at Xiusun's round little body and dignified little face, it was the first time she had seen Xiusun with such a serious appearance.
"Mother," Xiusun glanced at Chen's mother and glanced at her, Chen's mother didn't know what was going on, but she understood that Xiusun meant to let her clear the scene, she glanced at Ruan's and retreated with the little maid.
Xiusun continued, "Mother, I saved someone just now. ”
"What?" Ruan Shi didn't understand, put down the tea cup in his hand, and his fingers were held on the edge of the waist kang table, and his fingertips were faintly white.
Xiusun couldn't stand Ruan's uncertain and shocked eyes, so she had to hang her head and recount the experience, she soaked in the hot spring and was about to come to Ruan, but she saw a person falling from the sky in the courtyard of the hot spring, she heard the sound and went to check, the person was covered in blood and dying, so she helped him bandage his wound, and now the person is still lying in the hot spring courtyard.
"What did you say!" Ruan Shi was very shocked, slapped the kang table hard, and bounced up from the Luohan bed at once, shocked and afraid, her already white face turned blue, she took two steps forward and grabbed Xiusun's ear, and dragged the dead girl up from the ground, "You tell me again!" Are you stupid? The people who are waiting around you don't know how to stop them, they are all dragged to the yard and killed, and that person, Mother Chen! Nguyen Thi raised his voice and called Chen's mother in.
How can this be done, there is a person in the courtyard of the hot spring pool, what will be the consequences, she doesn't dare to think, are the guards on the Zhuangzi dead, and it is strange that she doesn't pick the skin of the rice bucket.