In the end, I didn't die.

It was Du Rong who saved me.

I didn't expect him to come here.

The morning sunlight is always faintly jumping and blinding, even on a snowy winter day.

The plum blossoms outside the hut have bloomed, faint, elegant, and refreshing.

I've never tried so hard to smell the flowers, even though I'm so sick and slumped in bed that I have nothing to do.

With a slight "squeak", the door of the hut was pushed open, and Du Rong appeared at the door with a bowl of medicinal soup.

"Are you awake? Do you feel better? Du Rong put the decoction on the low table on one side, and then came to the bedside to help me.

I pursed my lips and shook my head.

After putting a pillow behind my back, Du Rong picked up the medicine bowl and sat on the edge of the bed, "Your injuries are very serious, especially the two swords that were scratched by Bai Wuxin, the wounds are very deep, and you have to take medicine today no matter what." ”

My head was still dizzy, and my mind was also a little trance-like, and when I heard Du Rong's half-coaxing and half-persuasive words, I could only nod my head along with it.

But before I take the medicine, I still have a question that I have to ask right away.

"I ...... How long was he in a coma? ”

Du Rong blew the medicine in the soup spoon cold and put it to my mouth.

"Two days, not too long."

The bitter and unpleasant smell of Chinese medicine rushed to the tip of my nose in an instant, and I subconsciously ducked back and turned my face away in disgust.

"Open your mouth." Du Rong handed the spoon to my mouth again, "If you swallow it in one bite, it won't be too bitter." ”

Looking at Du Rong's bitter expression, I could only hold my breath, close my eyes and swallow the spoonful of medicine.

"Du Rong, didn't you really deliberately boil the medicine so badly?" The stomach-churning taste of bitter medicine immediately spread in my mouth, and I began to retch as I lay on the edge of the bed, and collapsed as if I had fought a battle.

Until now, Du Rong finally sneered and slammed the bowl containing the decoction to the ground.

The bowl is an ordinary porcelain bowl, and when it falls like this, it shatters to the ground in an instant.

It was like a gentle smile on his face.

"You ......"

"Shen Qingzhi!" He was almost gritting his teeth and growling, word by word, "Do you know that if I go a little longer, you will die!" ”

"There is no place to die!"

"I ......"

I'm speechless.

"Shen Qingzhi, how much do you care about your life? Is your life cheaper than all men, and all of you are low? ”

These words seemed to have been hidden in Du Rong's heart for a long time, and today he finally couldn't help but burst out.

"In your heart, is there only Daqin, only the people, and only your Royal Highness the Prince?"

Don't you even have a place for me in your heart? If so, why would you be so willing to die?

Do you know how scared I was when I saw Bai Wuxin's sword on your neck that day? When I see you lying covered in blood by the red stream, how cold is the blood in my body?

My heart was beating almost still, my whole body was shaking, and I kept thinking, what would I do if you died? If you die, do I want to continue to live like the walking dead in this world?

However, he finally didn't have the courage to question these words.

Closing his eyes slightly, Du Rong clenched the hand in his sleeve and forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart.

"Shen Qingzhi, if you can be selfish, you won't be lying here covered in injuries today!"

After the last sentence of the hateful voice, he flicked his sleeves and went out.

"Hey, Du Rong......" Seeing him leave, I was in a hurry, and I was about to get out of bed to chase him, but as soon as I moved, the tearing pain all over my body instantly overwhelmed my consciousness.

"Du Rong ......"

Gray, green, red.

The high walls of the palace built the loneliness and fate of isolation, and also built the gray spire wall in his heart.

This was my first reaction when I was in the palace and knew his identity.

I'm a poor person, I must be a poor person, is there anything more pitiful in this world than me?

It wasn't until I met him that I finally admitted that there was a poor man in this world.

"Too ...... His Royal Highness the Prince. I kowtowed to him.

"Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and my father gave me a palace banquet, not to let you kneel to me." He sat coldly and indifferently on the stubborn rock behind the rockery, and his cold eyes only looked at the lake in front of him, as silent as death.

I looked at him in the moonlight, and somehow I felt a thrill in my heart.

"The Emperor...... The emperor asked me to come to you, saying that the banquet had already begun, and let you go. ”

"You're lying." He sneered, "Deceiving the prince, sin and the three clans, you can think about it." ”

My hands and feet were weak in fear, but I still insisted, "The emperor is looking for you, I didn't lie." ”

"Huh." He was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a sneer, as if he was very pity, "No one can lie in front of me, Shen Qingzhi, you are still too tender." "Fifth

A glittering silver knife rested coldly on my neck, and my face instantly turned bloodless.

"Say it, I'll give you a chance to leave a last word." He finally set his gaze on me, but it was too cold, colder than the moonlight tonight, and it was cold to my heart.

I shook my body, and I couldn't even say something that was too ...... His Royal Highness the Prince, the lake is very cold, and the lake is ...... The lake is humid and heavy, you ...... You'd better get out of there, it's too high. ”

I felt like I was going to cry when I spoke, and although I tried to hold back the fear in my heart, my body had to be more honest than my brain.

Just as I closed my eyes and was about to be generous, he suddenly fell silent.

I felt strange in my heart, but I didn't dare to look up at him, so I could only kneel on the ground covered with soft stones, and wait quietly for him to fall.

"You think I'm trying to die?" After a long time, he asked me suddenly.

The knife on my neck somehow shook, and in an instant, I bit my lower lip and held back the pain without making a sound.

Cold sweat poured down my forehead, and my face turned pale and pale, and it took a while to ease up, but fortunately his patience seemed to be good, and he did not blame me for my delay.

"I didn't ...... No, I don't dare think so. ”

He squinted at me, and there was an indescribable chill in the cold moonlight.

"No, that's what I thought, since you found out, then you can stay with me, how about it?"

"Your Highness!" The person behind me suddenly spoke, his words full of surprise and worry, "Please think twice!" ”

He didn't speak, his eyes were fixed on me, just waiting for my answer.

I didn't dare to look at him, so I could only bow my head.

I want to run away, I don't want to go crazy with him, my mother is still waiting for me to go back Even if ...... Even though she is gone, I still have a father, but she ...... She'll still be heartbroken for my death.

But......

"Okay, I'll accompany you, whatever you want to do, I'll accompany you." I got up from the ground, pushed away the little guard with the knife around my neck, grabbed the raised rockery with both hands, and carefully climbed to his side.

"You ......" He was so stunned by me that he couldn't speak for a long time.

"Your Highness, you command, I am ready." I took a deep breath and waited for him to speak.

"You really ......" he looked at me, trying to say something, but suddenly stopped.

"Okay, since your consciousness is so high, let's jump." He pointed to the lake below, a sarcastic smile evident in his eyes.

He knew I didn't dare, and my eyes had betrayed me a long time ago.

But I don't know where the evil spirit came from, I just carried it with him, and I didn't admit defeat, and jumped down.

"Plop!"

The water splashed everywhere, and the icy water of the lake instantly disappeared past my forehead, and I tried my best to hit the water, but my body kept sinking.

"Plop!"

"Your Highness!"

"Shen Qingzhi!"

In a daze, I saw him struggling to swim towards me, his pale face full of anxiety.

"Shen Qingzhi, wake up, don't close your eyes." He shouted my name aloud, one hand around my waist, the other paddling the water, and tried to drag me to shore.

The night was bleak, the moon was cold, I don't know how long he dragged me to the shore with me, maybe not for long, maybe it had been a long time, and when we got to the shore, the little guard shouted just in time.

"Shen Qingzhi, wake up!" He patted me on the cheek.

"Gross!" I spat out a mouthful of water from the lake, and my whole body collapsed.

"Are you stupid?" When he saw me wake up, he breathed a sigh of relief, and he actually laughed, gently and gently, with the unique softness of the moonlight.

I looked at him and was stunned.

But whether I'm stupid or not, the next thing is really not to think about it.

The next day, when the emperor learned of tonight's incident, he was furious and punished me to kneel with him in front of the statue of Taizu in Zhengyang Hall and think about it, and I was not allowed to eat for a day.

And, of course, the little guard, who was punished for kneeling outside because of the disadvantage of the protector.

"Are you feeling better?" When he saw that I was depressed, he actually cared for me with kindness.

I recalled that after returning home last night, I was punished by my ancestors to kneel in the ancestral hall for one night, and I only felt that my knees hurt so much that they were about to look like my own.

"Much better, Your Highness Lao is worried." I didn't dare to show any dissatisfaction or resentment, so I could only stiffen my face, smile reluctantly, and reply to his words.

"I know you're not happy, and whoever is forced to jump into the lake will be unhappy." He looked at me and turned his head, "Originally, yesterday I just wanted to be alone for a while, but who knew that you would break in without a head, and I would naturally be angry." ”

...... "Dare to love, it's all my fault?"

"Your Highness...... Is there something on your mind? I asked him.

He was silent for a moment and said to me, "Last night was my mother's death day. ”

I was stunned.

He laughed in a low voice, "Qizhou City, thousands of miles away, is where she died, but now, I can't even go to see it." ”

"Someday, someday ......"

Someday, I don't know, but I can guess.