Chapter Forty-Six: Lost Soul
Chen Xinrou sat silently at the table all day long, looking out the window with a pair of big eyes, as if she was looking at something, but she didn't seem to be looking at anything, just staying in this posture and sitting quietly for a long time.
Outside the window, there were bursts of snow, and a cold air invaded the temple.
The palace maid Cui'er couldn't help the cold, shivered all over, and saw that Chen Xinrou was still sitting silently at the table in front of the window, staring at the snow, confused.
Cui'er felt pity in her heart, so she walked over slowly and asked in a low voice: "Princess Xinrou, the weather is very cold, and your serious injuries have not yet healed, so don't get typhoid fever and aggravate your condition." Close the window and go back to bed for a while! ”
Chen Xinrou was motionless, as if her soul was completely gone.
Cui'er felt sad, so she reached over and tried to close the window.
"Don't close the window!"
Chen Xinrou woke up as if she had woken up from a dream, and hurriedly got up to stop her.
Cui'er was startled and hurriedly took a few steps back.
Chen Xinrou came to the bed, looked up at the snowflakes that were flying in the sky as they got tighter and tighter, and said to herself in a distraught manner: "You...... Are you safe and sound? You...... Where is it at this time? You...... Are you as miserable as I am? ”
Cui'er was even more startled when she heard this, she didn't know who the "you" that Princess Xinrou was talking about? But seeing that she was seriously injured and returned to the palace, since she came back from the ghost gate, she suddenly seemed to be a different person, and she looked lost and depressed all day long, but it was completely different from the gentle, demure and cordial before leaving the palace, but it was like becoming another person, which made me really confused.
Although before, she always sat like this for a long time, as if she had countless things on her mind. But this time it was lifeless, as if it had lost its soul.
Although Cui'er and the palace maids in Qinxiangyuan tried their best to speculate, they still had nothing to ask for. At this time, I suddenly heard her words, although I still didn't know why, but I seemed to have a faint feeling.
"Could it be that this Princess Xinrou already has a beloved in her heart?"
Such an idea really startled Cui'er.
With the passage of time, within ten days, Chen Xinrou was in a daze day by day, and she had reached the point where her three meals were tasteless, and her diet was gradually scarce, until she pushed aside and was no longer willing to eat.
After two days of fasting, Chen Xinrou could no longer support it, so she had to lie down in bed.
Cui'er was anxious, so she brought the millet porridge carefully boiled in the back kitchen, brought it over, and softly persuaded her to drink a few sips.
Chen Xinrou closed her eyes and turned her head slightly.
Cui'er was stunned for a moment, but she had to take the plate out again, and her anxiety was even worse.
Hu Sheng has been passed into the palace several times.
The day before yesterday, he carefully called Chen Xinrou's pulse, got up with a solemn face, and wrote a prescription for her, and then sighed and said to the nervous Cui'er: "Although Princess Xinrou's internal injuries still have to be recuperated, they are no longer in serious trouble. However, her tasteless diet was not caused by internal injuries, but by heart disease. My prescriptions can only temporarily relieve her stagnant qi, but they can't cure the root cause. The so-called heart disease also has to be a heart medicine! ”
I boiled this prescription and fed it, but I really didn't see any improvement in her, but she looked even more emaciated.
On this day, Hu Sheng came to Qinxiang Garden again, and after seeing Chen Xinrou, his face turned blue, and he shook his head and said to Cui'er: "She is depressed in her heart, she doesn't want to eat, she wants to kill herself." At this point, I'm afraid that even if I find a panacea to feed her and drink, I won't be able to cure it! ”
With that, he shook his head and sighed and turned to leave.
Cui'er turned back with tears in her eyes and saw Chen Xinrou lying on the couch, her eyes were closed, she was already skinny, and she was dying.
She was very sad in her heart, and after thinking about it for a long time, she stomped her feet, turned around and went straight to the Hundred Flowers Palace.
"Princess Ke and my princess Xinrou went out of the palace together, and the two are sisters, I'll go to her to try and see if I can persuade my princess to feel better!"
She thought as she spoke, her feet like the wind.
When I came to the Hundred Flowers Palace, I saw that there was no one on duty outside the door, and the doors and windows of the entire Hundred Flowers Palace were closed, and there was no sound inside.
Cui'er wondered, and was about to step forward and knock on the door, but the door was suddenly opened, and Concubine Mei stepped out of it with a snort and almost bumped into Cui'er.
"Damn it! The slave maid greets Concubine Mei! ”
Concubine Mei just glanced at her, then kept her feet and drove away.
Cui'er looked at the figure of the group in the distance, and felt even more incredible. She turned around, but with a bang, saw that the palace door was closed, and hurriedly stepped forward and knocked on the door.
Lan Xiang, the palace maid of the Hundred Flowers Palace, opened the door in response, probed out, and saw that it was Cui'er, who she knew well, so she hurriedly waved her hand and shook her head, and said softly: "What are you doing here?" Don't make a sound, be careful about our family who gets angry and then drops things! ”
Cui'er stuck out her tongue in fright, pulled Lan Xiang, and asked in a low voice, "Your family has a hot temper since he was a child, so what's all the fuss about dropping something?" It's just that your Hundred Flowers Palace is the most lively place in the palace, but why is it so quiet and silent? ”
Lan Xiang shook her head helplessly, came closer, lowered her voice and said, "We also feel really puzzled. Although this master has a bad temper, he is free by nature, loves to be lively, and is the most unbearable lonely person, who will sneak out of the palace from time to time to play for a day or two, and will never close himself off. Therefore, our Baihua Palace is the most lively place.
But this time, after she came back from the palace, her temperament changed greatly, she locked herself tightly in the room and didn't say anything, and she kept nightmares and screams every night, and always held herself and sat quietly until dawn. Naturally, I will not wake up during the day.
We weren't allowed to make the slightest noise, and if we disturbed her, we'd lose our temper like crazy.
No, in the past half a month since I came back, everything in and out of this palace has been smashed by her. You saw it just now, and even Concubine Mei can't bear her. ”
When Lan Xiang said this, she sighed again and again, and suddenly remembered something, so she hurriedly asked, "Why did my sister come to us today?" Your princess Xinrou is much better now? ”
Cui'er's heart was already half cold, she shook her head and sighed: "Don't mention it, the one in our family, if he can make a lot of noise like your princess Ke, it will be fine!" These two sisters are really temperamental, it's really worrying! Our one who had been silent all day long had been without food for two days! ”
Lan Xiang was curious, and wanted to continue to ask a few more words, but suddenly there was an angry roar from the palace: "Lan Xiang, who are you and talking with outside?" ”
Lan Xiang was immediately frightened and pushed Cui'er away, hurriedly turned back and entered the door, closed the palace door, and entered the palace lightly.
It turned out that since he came back from outside the palace, Chen Ke has been having nightmares every night, and he is always so frightened that he wakes up from the nightmare.
In that day-to-day dream, which kept repeating itself, Liu Yuxuan floated in front of him, covered in blood, gurgling and dripping blood.
Blood poured out of his lifeless eyes, staring at her so much that she was so frightened that she reached out to cover her eyes, not daring to look at him again.
"Chen Ke, you hurt me so hard!"
Chen Ke suddenly heard Liu Yuxuan's lifeless questioning of her, and was so frightened that he peeked through his fingers, but Liu Yuxuan didn't know when he had floated in front of his eyes, only a ** away from him, and the cold air came to his face.
"Ah...... Liu Gongzi! I...... I don't know what you're talking about? ”
Chen Ke shook his head again and again in fright, and wanted to take a few steps back, but his body couldn't move, and his heart was immediately broken, and his scalp was numb.
"You have known that Princess Xinrou has a deep affection for me, but you are still selfish and want to take her love! Haven't you repented? ”
Chen Ke had a bang in his head, his hands fell unconsciously, tears rolled out of his eyes, and he nodded and replied: "Liu Gongzi is right to blame, I am a selfish person, as early as when I was in the bamboo forest, I already doubted whether my sister fell in love with you at first sight." It's just that I'm deceiving myself and pretending not to know.
Later, after you were left in the Black Tiger Cottage for my imperial brother, my sister suddenly fainted, and during the three days I took care of her, I always heard her murmuring your name clearly, until that, I already knew in my heart that my sister not only fell in love with you at first sight, but also was affectionate.
Since then, I have been jealous in my heart, and I have a sense of jealousy and resentment towards her, and I am angry that she knows that I have such a heartfelt affection for you, but she still wants to rob you with me.
In that juxian hug, I overheard the words of the two of you, and then I guessed that my sister was not just in love with you, the two of you had already secretly fornicated and had ill feelings. At that time, I was really mad with rage. I'm going to force my sister to reveal herself to you, so that you know my true feelings for you.
However, at the martial arts recruitment conference that day, in order to save the people, you did not hesitate to use your body to block the hidden weapon of Ye no return, and when you fell down from the high platform, I just looked stunned and at a loss, but my sister did not hesitate, so she gave up her life and used her weak body to block the path for you, so that she almost died.
It was only then that I finally woke up to the fact that my sister is really the one who loves you with her life!
Liu Gongzi, to this day, I really regret it! If I knew that the two of you would be so separated today, it would be better to boldly identify each other and accompany each other for the rest of your life! ”
Chen Ke said this, tears were already raining down, and he couldn't cry anymore.
"You're still wrong! Even if the two of us really fall in love, what happens after we find out each other's identities? Can the two of us really stay together? ”
When Chen Ke heard this, he immediately recalled that day, Chen Yusheng tried his best to say to himself and Chen Xinrou, his heart was cold, and he couldn't even shed tears in his eyes.