Chapter 6: Nightmares
Ye Chu walked into Jin Xuanchen and stood beside him.
"The princess's handwriting is really good, but it's a pity that ......"
"What a pity?"
It's a pity that I only feel weak in my wrist, this word is a little light and has no strength. ”
Xuan Chen smiled and put down the pen.
"What is the princess laughing at?"
"You and my father speak the same thing. Xuan Chen's eyes were covered with a layer of sadness.
"Yes? It makes the princess sad. Bitterness gathers and destroys the way. The princess believes in Buddhism?"
"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, but just think about it. People always have to believe in something in order to be sustained. Xuan Chen put away the sheets. "It's already the second watch, Master Hou, please. ”
Xuan Chen took care of himself and lay down on the bed, and Ye Chu extinguished the candle in the room.
Xuan Chen sighed softly.
"Master Hou, it doesn't have to be like this. I think he heard Lian Bi's words a few days ago.
"It doesn't matter. After fighting abroad for a long time, I always have the habit of keeping a candle around me. You don't have to do it at home. ”
"What does the battlefield look like?" Xuan Chen didn't know why in his heart, so he asked this sentence.
"Huh?" Ye Chu was a little stunned,
"The battlefield is a place where blood is buried, why does the princess ask this?"
"I thought of it, so I asked. ”
Xuan Chen looked at the moonlight through the window, this hot June, but he only felt cold.
A night of deep thought, tossing and turning, sleepless.
"Chen'er, Chen'er. ”
"Mother, are you calling me? It's so foggy here, I can't see you. Xuan Chen anxiously looked for the voice.
"Chen'er, save your mother, come and save your mother. ”
A mournful cry pierced through the thick fog.
"Mother, why are you here? Mother!"
"Mother, I'm afraid, it's all blood, it's all dead. Xuan Chen hugged Ling Xueji, who had a white silk wrapped around her neck, and Xuan Chen tried hard to untie it.
"Chen'er, don't be afraid. Chen'er, don't be afraid, good. ”
Slowly the fog came up again,
"Mother, Mother, don't leave me, Mother!"
Rising from a dream, Xuan Chen was sweating.
"Princess, you're awake!"
Xuan Chen was furious, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Lian Bi was just busy wiping it, and Ye Chu hurried over with the imperial doctor late at night. Xuan Chen couldn't wake up in his dream, so he called Lian Bi, and Lian Bi cried anxiously.
The Imperial Physician shook his head.
"How has the princess slept lately?"
"The princess is already shallow, and it is excellent to be able to sleep for four or five hours a day, but she sleeps less these days, and at most two or three hours a day, and she wakes up at the slightest movement, and it is difficult to fall asleep again. ”
"Is the diet good?"
"The diet is still the same, so it hasn't changed much, but I have been eating less. ”
"The princess's pulse is slippery and weak, her heart is worried and tangled, and her fear is too much, remember that it is useless to think too much, according to these prescriptions to recuperate, and go out more to relax. ”
"Thank you Imperial Doctor, Imperial Doctor, please here" Ye Chu Haosheng sent the Imperial Doctor.
Outside, the Imperial Physician knelt down at a corner.
"Imperial Physician Zhang?" Ye Chu stroked Imperial Physician Zhang.
"With all due respect, Mrs. Hou is afraid that she will not live a long life, and she will have to recuperate. "Doctor Zhang said tremblingly.
"Ben Hou knows, thank you Doctor. ”
Xuan Chen drank the tranquilizer and fell asleep, and Lian Bi stayed by the bedside.
Ye's father and Ye's mother took turns to visit on the second day, and Beigong Mingye and the national teacher also came.
"Go down, all of you. ”
"Brother Wang, national teacher. Xuan Chen leaned on the bed, weak.
"You can rely on drinking medicine, and the ceremony will not work. ”
"Thank you, Brother Wang. ”
"Why is this illness so sudden?"
"Brother Wang, I dreamed of my mother, I dreamed of her for the first time. ”
Beigong Mingye frowned, calmed his expression again, and softly reassured, but actually interrupted, "Take care of it, don't think too much." Lone brought a national teacher to diagnose your pulse. ”
"I'm tired of the national teacher. ”
Yan Qing looked at Beigong Xuanchen's pale face, and frowned tightly on the pulse of Qianling.
"The princess is just a little frightened, just take some medicine. "Yanqing has written the prescription, Beigong Xuanchen's body is very weak, it is not suitable for the primordial spirit of a thousand spirits, or Beigong Xuanchen is still going to strengthen the original and strong yuan, the prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor pays more attention to the aspect of calming the nerves, and it is not of much use to the recuperation of the body.
"You take care of it, don't think about it. Lone went back to the palace first, so he didn't have to get up. ”
Yanqing also followed, but he couldn't help but glance back at Qianling.
The night was getting deeper, and the wind in the summer night seemed to be cool blowing from the window, Ye Chu walked to the window and closed the window.
"Let's go. Xuan Chen's voice was weak and hoarse.
Ye Chu didn't answer or open the window, and walked back to the soft collapse on the side of the screen.
"You've been calling Mother when you're dreaming. ”
"Hmm. ”
"The queen and the princess are really mother-daughter lovers. Ye Chu teased with some sarcasm.
"Well, my mother treats me very well. Xuan Chen pretended not to understand.
As soon as the words came out, Ye Chu regretted it, and he didn't know how to take it back.
At the third watch, Ye Chu went out softly, went to the study to get a book, and then returned to the outer room of the dormitory to watch.
Before dawn, Xuan Chen woke up completely.
"Lianbi, Lianbi. Xuan Chen shouted hoarsely.
"What's wrong?" Ye Chu walked over and asked, helping Xuan Chen get up and lean on the bed.
"Woke you up?"
Xuan Chen shook his head.
"Hmm. ”
Ye Chu handed over the tea on the side.
"Thank you. ”
There was no candle in the house, only by the moonlight outside, with this faint light, Ye Chu looked at Xuan Chen intently, and became more and more unable to see through the person in front of him.
Xuan Chen's heart was a little hairy, and he was afraid that he would see something.
"What's wrong?" asked Xuan Chen cautiously.
"It's a good life to cultivate for a few months, and in a few months, it's time for the autumn whistle deer. ”
"The days go by so fast. ”
"Most of these days I am not in the house, and I have to go to the battalions to reorganize the army. ”
"Good. ”
Ye Chu took the empty teacup, it was cold, he couldn't do this well, and he was annoyed while thinking about why he was annoyed. couldn't help but reach out and want to comb Xuan Chen's loose forehead hair, but Xuan Chen dodged it.
"In the past few months, I will ask you to take care of Cong'er more. Ye Chu's hand that stopped in the air was retracted.
"Don't worry, I will. ”
On the morning of the second day, Xuan Chen went to the Lin Mansion to set up his own school, which was specially set up for the Lin family's inner sect.
Xuan Chen signaled to the people on the left and right not to report, and asked people to pass the word that they didn't have to come over to visit. Sit down under the gazebo not far away, waiting for Li Cong to get out of class.
"Princess, your complexion is much better today, and the medicine of the national teacher is too good. ”
"Lian'er, weren't you there last night?"
"Didn't you let me go back to the house, princess? Lian Bi said in wonder.
"Oh, it's okay, I forgot. "Xuan Chen has a long wooden handle silk flower and bird round fan.
"Mother, Master said that you are here to wait for me to finish my class. I thought he lied to me. ”
Xuan Chen took Li Cong's little hand.
"You're only over three years old, why did you come to the school?"
"Daddy said, go feel it, huh?" Li Cong tilted his head and couldn't remember.
"Edification?" Xuan Chen guessed.
Li Cong covered his mouth in surprise, "My mother is so smart! Daddy said he didn't have much time to teach me." ”
"What are you going to study in the afternoon?"
"When I didn't come in the afternoon, my father said that I would be able to follow the classes at the age of nine. ”
"What did you study this morning?"
"I don't know, I don't know all the words in the book, and I don't understand what the master teaches. Li Cong hung his head and sighed, "I fell asleep again in class today." ”
Xuan Chen covered his fan and smiled, and when he looked back at Lian Bi, he couldn't laugh.
"But when my dad was at home, he would teach me to read and write in the afternoon or evening. ”
"Shall I teach you?"
Li Cong jumped up and applauded happily, "Okay, okay." ”
Xuan Chen fanned Li Cong.
"What's for lunch?"
"Crystal shrimp dumplings?"
"What else?"
"Ham lotus seed soup and pancakes, and I want to drink mushroom soup. ”
"Little gluttonous cat. Xuan Chen smiled dotingly, he liked this child very much, thinking that when he was so old, he was also so carefree flying kites in the palace courtyard, Brother Wang practiced throwing pots and archery on the side, and his father and mother were watching from the side, it was really quiet and difficult to stay.
"It's ready, let's eat it, little hairy boy. "Xuan Chen has been cooking for Li Cong, and he has eaten a lot of food unconsciously.
"Mother, when can I marry the same girl?"
The maidservants on both sides couldn't help but laugh quietly.
Xuan Chen was a little embarrassed, this Ye Chu usually taught Li Cong something!
On the first watch in the evening, in the north camp, Ye Chu was still discussing with several generals about the conscription and restructuring. It was really difficult to complete this matter in front of the autumn whistle deer. The first is that the original establishment has existed for nearly 50 years, and various forces are intricately intertwined, and the second is that it involves the reorganization of the Northern Flame Army, which is the first army of the Northern Lonely Dynasty to deter all parties.
"General Ye, I think I'll be here tonight, it's going to be the second watch soon. ”
Lin Chu tightened his eyebrows, "Okay, the generals will have a good rest tonight." ”
After everyone retreated, Ye Chu asked Bai Yuan.
"Bai Yuan, how is that investigation?"
"Still investigating. ”
"Remember not to alarm Xuan Chen. ”
"Yes. ”
Lin Chu looked at Bai Yuan's expression, "What else?"
"The subordinates want to ask, is it really important to find out this matter?" Bai Yuan has always understood Ye Chu's mind the most.
Lin Chu's eyes instantly became deep and unfathomable, "I just want to know the facts, as for the result, it doesn't matter." ”
"The subordinates have said more. ”
"No, you go out first. ”
Before you know it, more than half a month has passed, and the weather is slowly starting to fade from the heat.
"Mother?"
"Huh?"
"Cong'er hasn't seen her father for a long time, can you come to me to see him?" Li Cong said pitifully.
Xuan Chen was holding Li Cong's hand and teaching him to practice calligraphy.
"Concentrate on writing this word first. ”
"Well, it's getting more and more presentable. ”
"Mother?"
"Let me ask you, when Daddy went to the battlefield, didn't Cong'er not see Daddy for a long time?"
"But my father took me there. Li Cong muttered quietly.
"Cong'er, what are you talking about?" Xuan Chen didn't expect Ye Chu to be so bold.
Li Cong pursed his mouth and shook his head.
"But I just heard it all. Xuan Chen coaxed.
"Mother!" Li Cong pouted angrily.
"Okay, in a few days, when Daddy's side arranges it, I'll let you go, okay?" Xuan Chen pinched Li Cong's nose dotingly.
Li Cong happily hugged Xuan Chen and kissed him several times.