Chapter Seventy-Four: Warmth
When Yu Ruoxu woke up, it was already dusk the next day.
The spring is cold, and light snow begins to fall in Liaodong again. Yu Ruoxu looked at the snowflakes outside the window in a daze, feeling that there was an illusion of being in a different world.
"Ruoxu?" Liang Jin's voice came, Yu Ruoxu raised his eyes, and saw him staggering up from the chair, his eyes were still a little foggy, as if he had just woken up from a nap.
"Great, you're finally awake." Liang Jin walked over and tested her temperature with the back of his hand, "The heat has also subsided...... The doctor said that as long as the fever subsided, there would be no major problem. ”
Yu Ruoxu's voice was a little hoarse, "How long have I been asleep?" ”
"One day."
"That's fine." Yu Ruoxu smiled in a low voice, "I thought I would be unconscious for two or three days." ”
When Liang Jin heard this, his heart felt as if he had been twisted, "I'll help you get up and drink medicine." ”
Yu Ruoxu nodded softly, Liang Jin gently helped her up, put a few pillows behind her, and brought the medicine bowl and blew it gently, a series of movements were extremely familiar, Yu Ruoxu was a little surprised, "When did you become so good at taking care of people?" ”
"Practice makes perfect." Liang Jin feigned anger and said, "Shouldn't you praise me? ”
Yu Ruoxu smiled slightly, took the bowl in his hand and drank it all, "Thank you, Lord Shizi." “
Liang Jin saw that she was holding back the bitterness, and hurriedly handed over a candied fruit, "This is the dried apricots just sent from the capital, it is very sweet, you can taste it." “
Yu Ruoxu took a bite gently, narrowed her eyes sweetly, and most of the bitterness in her mouth disappeared suddenly, "Really...... It's so sweet. “
Before the words fell, Liang Jin's face leaned over and gently licked the icing off the corner of her mouth, "Well, it's sweeter than the last time I ate it." “
Yu Ruoxu's hands were soft, and the dried apricots almost fell on the quilt, and he couldn't say a complete sentence, "You ......"
Liang Jin looked at her, with an expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, obviously it was the face of a disciple, where was there still half a point of the breeze and moon when they first met? !
"When I came back from the barracks that day, Pei Changchang told me that you had been taken captive." Liang Jin lowered his eyelashes and said in a low voice, "At that time, there was an urgent report, saying that Tuoba Gui had captured Bingzhou City, and General Yang asked me to rush back to help, and finally drove the Xianbei people out of Bingzhou City, but you were gone." “
"I've been looking, I've been looking, but I can't find you."
"Later, someone found your earrings, and we guessed that you may have fallen into the hands of the Xianbei people."
"I promise to protect you...... But it never did. “
Yu Ruoxu quietly listened to him tell this qiē, and couldn't help but gently hold his hand, "Do you know how much the Xianbei people hate you?" ”
"What?"
"From the Xianbei royal family to the ordinary people, everyone gritted their teeth when it came to you." Yu Ruoxu smiled, "Said that you were originally a scholar and had never been on the battlefield before, why could you be so invincible, from Changbai Mountain to Bingzhou City, and let them suffer heavy losses." ”
Looking at Liang Jin's puzzled expression, Yu Ruoxu said softly, "You saved Bingzhou City, saved the entire Liaodong, and protected so many people, this is a greater achievement than protecting me alone." ”
Liang Jin stared at her intently, speechless in a daze.
"I've seen Pei Changchang...... Yu Ruo suddenly remembered something, and his eyes became gloomy, "Did you send him?" “
Liang Jin nodded and said urgently, "Did you see him?" Then he ......"
"He's dead." Yu Ruoxu said in a low voice, "He was captured by Tuoba Hong, and he was framed as a fine work sent by you, and he didn't even save his whole body." ”
Liang Jin was startled and sighed, "He insisted on going to the grassland to find you, and secretly rode out of the city in the middle of the night, and then there was no news at all...... General Yang said that he had not heard from him for so long, and he was afraid that it would be more than lucky, and sure enough, it ......"
Yu Ruoxu's heart throbbed, and she told Liang Jin about her experience in Xianbei with more and less information, but she omitted the passages where she was almost humiliated, and when she talked about Princess Jiangcheng and Tuoba Yu, she was very careful with her wording.
But Rao is like this, Liang Jin seems to have discovered something, and when he heard Tuoba Yuan's name, he hurriedly asked, "He is a famous pervert, what about you not being beaten by him, right?" ”
"Fortunately, he doesn't seem to be interested in a weak Han girl like me." Yu Ruoxu pretended to be relaxed and said, "And I always make him angry, so he will do anything to me at most, and he won't do anything else." ”
"Do it?!" Liang Jin gritted her teeth, her eyes revealing a fierceness she had never seen before, "Where did he hurt you?" ”
Yu Ruoxu hurriedly comforted him, "It's nothing more than pinching your neck or something, it's no big deal." “
Liang Jin was silent, pursed his lips tightly, and Yu Ruoxu hurriedly changed the topic, "Tuoba Yu made it clear that he wanted to win the heir, I was thinking, if he can really become a khan, it will be a good thing for us." “
"You have a point." Liang Jin nodded, "His biological mother is the maid of the eldest princess of Jincheng, and she has a lot of connections with the Han people, and it is said that he is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and he has studied Sinology very thoroughly. If he is the next khan, there will be at least ten years of tranquility on the Liaodong border. “
"What Tuoba Yu lacks now is troops." Yu Ruoxu thought for a while, "He is good at internal affairs and manages the tribe in an orderly manner, so he has won the support of many people. It's a pity that compared with his two elder brothers, he still lacks the support of the army and generals. Xianbei is also a martial nation, if he can have an army that obeys his orders, he will definitely be like a tiger. “
Liang Jin stroked his chin, "Strength, ......"
"If we can borrow his strength...... Yu Ruo said thoughtfully, "After this war, the imperial court and Xianbei have been greatly damaged, Tuoba Gui is already old, Tuoba Yuan and Tuoba Hong have had accidents one after another, I am afraid that it has shaken Tuoba Gui's idea of establishing a prince." We can try to talk to Tuoba Yu in secret......"
Liang Jin nodded, "I understand what you mean, I will think about it carefully, you need to rest well now, don't worry too much." “
Yu Ruoxu let out an "um", and seeing that Liang Jin was still frowning, he asked cautiously, "Don't you ask about Princess Jiangcheng?" “
Liang Jin raised his eyes, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes, "Didn't you sue me just now?" “
"But......" Yu Ruoxu was a little annoyed, she didn't know how to speak.
"It's all over, Ruoxu." Liang Jin sighed, "Why do you care more than me?" ”
Yu Ruoxu was speechless for a while.
Princess Jiangcheng also said that this is already a thing of the past, only she still holds on to the past and never forgets it.
She looked down and smiled bitterly, "Really? ”
Liang Jin looked at her and said slowly, "I know you're a nostalgic person...... But you can also look at me once in a while, okay? ”
Yu Ruoxu was stunned for a moment, and raised his head, "You ......"
"You can rest a little longer." Liang Jin saw her awkward, so he reached out to help her lie down, "I'll call you when I have dinner later." “
Seeing that he turned around and wanted to leave, Yu Ruoxu grabbed his cuffs and said in a low voice, "I've been watching you all along...... Since a long time ago, that's it. “