At night, there was a tranquility under the window, a peach blossom tree fell silently, and from time to time it slipped through the deep night, and the dim candlelight cast a small figure on the window screen, sometimes lowering, sometimes rising.

In the room on the other side, there was a brightly lit scene, Zhu Yan wrapped in a cloak and nested in a chair, looking fixedly at the injured person who was "pretending to be dead" in front of him.

After a day of inquiry, she had understood what had happened.

Although Dou An is a child, he is very sensible, and he can suppress the grief in his heart more than an adult, and in just one morning, he can clearly explain what happened before.

Things have to start after his condition improved last year, at the beginning he proposed to follow Zhu Yan to study medicine, his mother was not allowed, Dou Sui did not express his position at that time, until later he met a few mysterious people who claimed to be the descendants of the Xiang family, Dou Sui tried his best to persuade his wife to send the child here. At first, Dou An felt very satisfied, but slowly, he realized that his father always asked him to keep an eye on the people who appeared around Zhu Yan, and even to note where Zhu Yan had gone—he didn't know that this was called "surveillance", but he vaguely felt that it was wrong.

Later, on the night of the fifth day of the new year, someone knocked on their door, and the next day, he saw a portrait of a scroll on Dou Sui's desk, and Zhu Yan taught him to know some of the seal characters, so he knew that it was the portrait of the former concubine, and she really looked very similar to Zhu Yan.

After Dou Sui took him home, the atmosphere at home was very terrible, and his mother just cried, crying until the night did not stop. He tossed and turned in his little bed and couldn't fall asleep until midnight. The mother's voice was hoarse, and Dou An was a little blurred at that time, and he didn't know whether he was awake or asleep. He vaguely heard his mother calling something, and when he woke up, someone seemed to be standing outside his door and whispering.

He had the courage to slip out of the house and into his parents, but his father was gone, and his mother was lying on the bed without words, only blinking a pair of bloodshot eyes at him. After a while, there was already more air coming out and less air coming in. He guessed that his mother had been poisoned, but he was so ignorant that he couldn't tell what the drug was. Not to mention treatment, I can only watch by the bedside, and I am afraid that someone will come back to extinguish my mouth, and wait until the sky is slightly bright. I hurried to find Zhu Yan.

The chill of the spring night was heavy. But it was far from the chill in his heart, and he didn't know how many times he had fallen along the way, and he stumbled to the outside of the bamboo garden......

Although his mother was an ignorant peasant girl, she was no different from mothers in the world in loving her children, and she never dressed up in order to cure herself for strange diseases. Always look like a dirty face. He used to think that if one day he could be cured. To be able to repay your mother like any other child...... How would you have known that this would be the case?

Zhu Yan sighed heavily, still raising his eyes to look at the person on the sickbed.

After Dou An said this, after crying a lot, his mood calmed down a lot, and Bai Ping took him to eat and bathe, and after that, he kept himself in that hut and copied the square book, from noon to the waning sunset, and on the way he came out to eat some pastries for dinner.

Yuan Rin was hurriedly called away by Guan He in the afternoon, I don't know what it was for, I saw that I was going to change now, but I haven't come back yet.

Maybe he's resting in Bien Fu tonight, but he should send someone to report it, right? Zhu Yan couldn't help but be a little worried, yesterday he calmly said that Yuan Rin would definitely not be injured, but now he is a little weak-hearted, after all, those who call themselves "descendants of the Xiang family" are too rampant, right? If something happens, what will happen?

Zhu Yan shook his head, trying his best to drive out these nonsense thoughts, his eyes fell on the person on the couch for the first time, his voice was a little hoarse, and he was very deep, "You are also a person sent by the Xiang clan?" ”

The man moved slightly, but there was no reply.

Zhu Yan bit her lip, after Yuan Rin left in the afternoon, she was idle, and it was inevitable that people would be cranky when they were idle, but in this cranky thinking, she strung together the recent things.

On that day, she went to Xu's mansion with Xu Suzhen to pay New Year's greetings, and it was about the moment of the dispute with the two sisters of the Xu family, and the painting of the axial concubine was stolen.

At that time, she met Yongwu, and later Xu Silk Zhen also saw Yongwu, but there was no surprise, it seems that they have known each other for a long time, and for the theft of Concubine Xiang's portrait, Xu Silk Zhen seems to be extremely bland, as if it was expected.

Such a discovery made her a little sad, although there is no conclusive evidence to prove that Xu Silk Zhen is really related to this matter, she still has some doubts about Xu Silk Zhen and ...... I don't want to know the truth more and more.

But the mysterious wounded man was tight-lipped and couldn't ask anything, so Zhu Yan stood up in annoyance and climbed the window lattice silently.

"Miss Zhu isn't worried about that son?" The man sighed gloomily.

“…… What did you say? Zhu Yan suddenly came back to his senses, a little unable to believe that the person who had ignored him all afternoon could speak.

"Now it's going to be changed, but that son hasn't come back yet." The man smiled darkly, but he inhaled briefly from time to time because of the wound, "Tsk, I seem to remember that a lady said that as long as she can keep her daughter from going to Beijing, she doesn't mind that her hands are full of blood." ”

Zhu Yan's heart tightened suddenly, and for a while, she didn't have to distinguish whether she was disappointed in Xu Suzhen or worried about Yuan Rin, she just suddenly had such an idea, she wanted to leave here, go far away, and go to a place where there was no conspiracy and trickery.

"Ah Yan, are you here?"

This sound came too timely, Zhu Yan stumbled out, and saw Yuan Rin standing under the porch, still dressed in clean blue, and pounced on him without thinking about it, hugged him tightly, and choked out tears in his eyes.

Yuan Rin was slightly stunned, but she hadn't seen her for a long time, what was wrong with her?

Guan He stood behind and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then smiled gently and turned his back.

Zhu Yan realized that he was out of shape, so he hurriedly let go of his hand, stretched out his hand to cover his cheek, and his voice was thick nasal, "Xuanqing, are you okay?" ”

His waist suddenly tightened, and he hugged him back, and his hands were gently brushed away, and he looked at the smiling eyes in front of him.

"Ah Yan, what's wrong with you?" Yuan Rin was a little curious, she actually cried, and reached out to wipe the tears on her cheeks that hadn't had time to drip down, "Could it be that Xiao An was crying?" ”

Zhu Yan glared at him, he was worried about being like this, he was still in the mood to joke, and he reached out to push him angrily, but he couldn't push it away, so he had to complain in a low voice, "You let go!" ”

"If I'm not mistaken, it was you who pounced on yourself." Yuan Rin hugged her tightly, although it was only for a while, the aroma of peppermint and peilan on her body was still so refreshing, I really wanted to smell it for a while.

"I didn't ......" Zhu Yan saw that he was really fine, so he immediately turned his face and refused to admit it, supporting his shoulders with both hands, struggling in every possible way.

"That's it, I won't fight with you." Yuan Rin smiled lightly, withdrew his hand, and pulled her towards the courtyard, "Come over and tell me, what's wrong?" ”

Zhu Yan reluctantly flattened his mouth, Yuan Rin really didn't have anything, he should have really been thinking nonsense just now, right? But what that person said doesn't seem to be false, does Xu Suzhen really want to do that?

"What did you do?"

"I went to find Dou Pingyuan and told him about Xiao'an." Yuan Rin looked at the sky lightly, he did go to find Dou Sui, but after that, he had no appointment with Yong, they talked a lot about things, and those were not something that could be sued by Zhu Yan...... At least not yet.

Zhu Yan held up his chin, looked at him carefully, and let out a long breath, "I thought something was wrong with you...... Things have been a little strange lately, and I always feel like something bad is going to happen, and I'm worried. ”

"Don't think about it, nothing will happen again." Yuan Rin suddenly took out a stack of things from his sleeve and a small wax.

"This is ......" Zhu Yan took it and unfolded it, a delicate wooden shelf was covered with a thin and tough plain white paper cover, looking at this shape, it should be a sky lantern.

"When we mourn our loved ones, we put up sky lanterns." Yuan Rin gently brushed a lock of hair behind her ear, "Let's go and accompany Xiao An, after all, it's still a child." ”

Zhu Yan was silent, no matter how calm Dou An looked, he was still a child, which was indeed his own concern.

"So, you're going to bring him back to Beijing to be raised?" Zhu Yan turned his head and raised his eyes.

"Yes, that kid is very talented in medicine, and I like it myself, I will send him to Shizun." Yuan Rin smiled with relief, "Shizun is the most comforting, Xiao An grew up beside him, and he will definitely not have any knots in his heart because of the past." ”

The small shadow in the shadow of the lamp is still slightly lying on the bookcase, because the spring night is still a little cold, the ink in the inkstone will freeze from time to time, Dou An raised his head from time to time to melt the ink, and a little face that was red from the cold was immersed in the white breath exhaled, looking so pitiful.

"Why don't you catch fire?" Zhu Yan stepped forward to hold his little hand, took off the cloak on his body and wrapped him tightly, and patted him with some concern, "Xiao An, go out for a walk, right?" ”

Dou An put the pen on the pen stand, buried his little head in the crook of his arm, nodded after a while, and followed her obediently into the porch.

Yuan Rin handed him the sky lantern that had been lit, "Your father has agreed for you to go to Beijing. ”

“…… Thanks a lot. Dou An took the sky lantern, slowly held up the little point of light that was about to fly in the air, his eyes narrowed, and he looked up at the sky, "Mother will always watch me from the sky, right?" (To be continued......)