Chapter 17: Sympathy
Zhao Si was in Zhao Zhi's room, chattering about many legends about the Qiankun Heart Sutra, and calling Mrs. Mingzhu the spirit of the sky, blessing the success of the four princes in seizing power and unifying the Wuguo Sheji.
"The fourth prince, this is really a godsend, this is the first lady in the sky to manifest her spirit, give you a deputy general, as long as you take that Fang Qing, you can see the territory of the country, as for that Fang Qing, she was born as a concubine, and when the time comes, the fourth prince will give her a seat in the three palaces and six courtyards, so that she can enjoy all the glory and wealth in this life, and it will not be in vain for her to pay for the four princes." Zhao Si's eyes were full of excitement, and his eyes flashed with incomparable brilliance.
"Fourth Uncle Zhao, it's not early, Ming'er still has to meet with the rich people in Yunzhou City, let's rest early." Zhao Zhi privately would call Zhao Si "Uncle Zhao Si", which made Zhao Si feel very pleased.
Zhao Si realized that it was indeed very late, and nodded again and again, "Yes, tomorrow I have to deal with the rich people and get their financial support, after all, war is to burn money." ”
Zhao Zhi lay quietly on the bed, letting the spring breeze outside the window squeak the window lattice, but Fang Qing's thin and sleek-yellow face always floated in front of him, sometimes frowning, sometimes calm as water, sometimes frightened, sometimes hateful in his eyes, Fang Qing, Fang Qing, Fang Qing...... Turning over and over, upside down, or Fang Qing, Fang Qing, Fang Qing......
"Ah...... It's annoying! Zhao Zhi couldn't stand Fang Qing's appearance dangling in front of his eyes anymore, so he simply pulled the quilt and sat on the bed.
"Why is my mind full of this yellow-haired girl of unknown origin, sloppy, and mediocre." Zhao Zhi shook his head helplessly, trying to sober himself up, it is strange to say, in the past, he lived in the palace, how many beautiful women were beautiful, jade and charming, and they never disturbed his mood, the eldest brother Zhao Wei in order to bewitch himself to indulge in women, but also searched for all the beauties in several cities of Wuguo to dedicate to himself, and they were all sent to his subordinates as wives and concubines, so that his father thought for a while that he was not familiar with men and women, and could not reproduce the royal family.
Bang!
Zhao Zhi only felt a muffled sound coming from next door, like the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
"Could it be that you are sleeping and rolling to the ground?" Zhao Zhi pondered and got up, put on a soap-colored coat, and walked out of the room in the night wind.
As soon as he stepped out of the door, he saw a black shadow flash out of Fang Qing's room, dragging a sack behind him.
"Not good!" Zhao Zhi was shocked in his heart and shouted, "Where did the thief escape?" ”
The black shadow was startled, and looked back at Zhao Zhi in the night, his body was like a dragon, his face was like a clean moon, and in the evening breeze, the big wind was blowing and swaying and falling, and he was only afraid that there were few men in the world.
Zhao Zhi glanced at the sack that was dragging on the ground, there was a whining sound inside, and he kept writhing trying to open the hemp rope, presumably Fang Qing was trapped inside.
Zhao Zhi only felt angry, flew up, and slashed at the black shadow, "Look at the move!" ”
Seeing Zhao Zhi's ferocity, the black shadow threw down the sack, dodged sideways, and the whole person stuck on the corridor, raised his hand to fight back at Zhao Zhi, on the black scarf, a pair of somewhat cloudy eyes revealed gloomy and cold, and the urn said in a muffled voice, "Boy!" This has nothing to do with you, this slut is a scourge, stay by your side, there will be endless troubles! ”
"It's your business!" Zhao Zhi closed his palms into fists, and his arms were forced, resisting the midrib of the black shadow man, and hitting back at the black shadow's chest.
The black shadow was caught off guard and was pushed two or three meters away by Zhao Zhi.
At this time, Zhao Si heard the sound of fighting upstairs, closed his underwear, and rushed up with someone.
Seeing that the momentum was not good, the black shadow left a sentence viciously, "You keep her for a while, but you can't keep her for a lifetime, so you can do it yourself!" ”
With that, he leaped and disappeared from the roof into the night.
"Four sons! Four sons! …… Fourth son, are you alright? Zhao Si ran upstairs with everyone, and saw Zhao Zhi standing alone in the cold wind, hating himself for being sleepy for a while, and almost took the life of the fourth son.
"I'm fine, look at her." Zhao Zhi frowned, under the white and cold moonlight, his handsome face looked more and more pale and weak, and he was very melancholy.
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When Fang Qing woke up again, it was already noon on the second day, and she felt hungry and thirsty in her stomach and weak all over.
"Why did you sleep for so long, and your body was so weak." Fang Qing rubbed her somewhat sore head, carefully recalling the various situations of the previous day, but she couldn't think of anything.
The more I tried to think about it, the more my head exploded, and the pain was unbearable.
"Squeak!" The door opened, and Zhao Si led a little girl who looked fifteen or sixteen into the room.
Seeing that Fang Qing had woken up, but he just rolled his eyes and didn't speak, Zhao Si stepped forward and touched his pulse, checked his head again, and saw that there was no big problem, so he politely greeted Fang Qing.
"How does Miss Fang feel today, yesterday her qi and blood were too weak, and she fainted in her heart, as long as she has been recuperating in recent days, I will take a few more medicines for the girl to nourish her heart and calm her qi, and the prescription to nourish yin and replenish yang will be greatly improved in a short period of time." Zhao Si saw the golden cicada needle on Fang Qing's head, and saw that there was nothing intact, so he really breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you, Fourth Uncle Zhao." Fang Qing thought to herself, this Zhao Si is really interesting, he is obviously very good at medicine, but he wants to take some irrelevant prescriptions and use health preservation methods to dismiss himself.
"Cardamom. You come here, you have seen this Sister Fang, in the future, you will be responsible for serving her, if there is anything you don't understand, just go downstairs to find me. With that, he guided the cardamom master from behind.
Cardamom is also obedient, she doesn't cry or make trouble, she quietly listens to Zhao Si's instructions, and nods her head in everything.
Wait for Zhao Si to go out. Fang Qing hurriedly moved the place, leaned cross-legged on the bed, patted the position beside him at the cardamom, and kept feeling that time was like a shuttle, and 20 years had passed in a flash.
"I don't dare sit on the same bed with the girl." Cardamom said timidly.
"Where do you dare to say this, I'll let you sit down, you just sit down." Fang Qing looked at the cardamom in front of her, which was smaller than herself, and couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, like a melting glacier, flowing with bright air.
Cardamom sat timidly on the edge of the couch, half of her ass hanging in the air.
"How could they let you take care of me?" Fang Qing looked at Cardamom's little face, with yellow skin and thin skin, and yellow hair, and at first glance, he looked like a child who grew up in the hungry people.
"Steward Zhao bought me from my father and mother, and asked me to take good care of the girl. I'll do anything, girl, even if I send cardamom. Cardamom's voice was still slightly green, and a sensible face was still flashing childish.
"Your father sold you?" Fang Qing suddenly felt a tight pain in his heart, as if an invisible claw was tearing at his heart, "Sell, sell......"
"Yes. My father and mother said that only by selling me can I marry my younger brother a daughter-in-law, and my family can have a queen. Cardamom muttered, choking in her throat.
"I don't want you to serve, I'll go to Zhao Si's housekeeper to intercede and ask him to return you to your father." Fang Qing only felt a heavy hammer smashing into his heart, how could the sins he had suffered bring to this cardamom who didn't know anything about the world for no reason.
"Don't!" As soon as Cardamom heard that Fang Qing was going to retreat, she knelt on the ground with a puff and looked at Fang Qing with tears in her eyes, "Please, girl, leave Cardamom, Cardamom can do anything, don't pick Cardamom, I don't want to go back to my father." ”
"Why? Where is the warmest by my father's side. ”
"The girl didn't know, Cardamom's mother died early, and the current mother is the aunt who remarried her father, she said that Cardamom was a disaster star, and she killed her own mother. My aunt scolded Cardamom every day, and it was common for her to be hungry, and my father only loved my younger brother and didn't care about it at all. If it weren't for Zhao Si's housekeeper to buy Cardamom, the aunt would have sent Cardamom to the boss of Yixiangyuan in the city as a concubine, and Cardamom would rather die than be the concubine of an old man in his sixties. ”
After that, Cardamom cried even more silently.
Fang Qing only felt the sharp pain in his heart spreading in his body, devouring himself one bite at a time, his two fists clenched tightly, his teeth clenched hatefully, "Sixty years old, disaster star, hehe, I really didn't expect that in the world, you and I would actually have the same fate!" ”
"Sympathy?!"
"Cardamom, from today on, you will follow me, I have a bowl of rice to eat, you will have half a bowl of yours, you and I are not the evil stars who are bullied by others, we must work hard to live, live better than them."