Ming Shan Xi (1)
The autumn rain is not heavy, but people feel a faint chill.
It's dripping and annoying.
From time to time, a few drops of rainwater leak from the dilapidated roof, which falls on the bonfire and turns into steam. The bonfire was almost extinguished, the firewood was soaked with rain, and the straw around it was moldy and rotten.
Hearing Lu Yi choking a few times, Chongzuo immediately poured out a glass of water, helped the person up and slowly fed it to her.
The warm sweetness of the water seemed to wake up his body, Lu Yi slowly opened his eyes, and Chongzuo was looking at himself with a happy face: "Are you awake?" Feeling cold? β
Lu Yi's face was still in the water, and his nose was filled with the smell of blood. She shook her head, surveying her surroundings. It was a dilapidated old temple, and she was now lying in a pile of straw, barely acceptable, with Chongzuo's clothes and her coat still hanging around the campfire.
"What the hell is going on?" As soon as Lu Yi spoke, her voice was hoarse like a crow in her last years, startling herself.
Chongzuo added a few new firewood to the bonfire and said, "It's nothing, I just happened to catch fish nearby, so I saved you by the way." β
"Chongzuo, don't treat me as a wronged person, okay?"
Realizing that she was annoyed, Chongzuo became serious: "I've affected you this time." Princess Yongle and her relatives are about to begin, and her guard Lu Yan found me and asked me to help bring an object to Wei Gongzi on the outskirts of the city. But when I arrived at the agreed place on the outskirts of the city, no one came to pick it up, and I opened it to see that it was the princess's phoenix crown, so they asked me to hold Princess Yongle hostage, which is why I have today. β
The phoenix crown used by Bai Shuo was made by the emperor after Bai Shuo's courtship, in order to show the noble status of this Yongle princess, not only from the queen, but also the only princess of the royal family. Princess Yongning escaped from marriage back then, so that after three years of confrontation and war, now building a phoenix crown is a will that has to be achieved by relatives.
These twenty-four gold beads and phoenix crowns, each gold bead is an agate heart, and the gold skin is thick and luxurious inside and out. And by each of the gold-inlaid god birds of the emerald process, a string of gold beads is spit out from the mouth, and the crown body is cloisonnΓ© twisted flowers, and its beauty is no less than the phoenix crown of Queen Zhao today.
Lu Yi was fortunate to hear Gao Shi talk about the essence of this phoenix crown from Gao Jiawei, that sketch was amazing enough, and he didn't dare to think that Chongzuo had taken it out of the city.
"This phoenix crown is not trivial, since they want you to take it out and hold Princess Yongle hostage, it must be Princess Yongle herself who has made the decision to escape from marriage." Lu Yi analyzed.
"Now there is another problem, Yin Hui seems to regard you as an accomplice."
"He can do whatever he likes." Lu Yi said, "But I want to ask you, why did you come back to save me?" β
Chongzuo smiled and raised the booklet in his hand: "You forgot, we are friends." But ......"
He flipped to the page that belonged to hers, and slowly tore off the paper, letting the tongue of fire devour it.
He continued: "This favor is repaid. I'm a tourist in the rivers and lakes, Miss Lu is everyone's best girl, or don't have to intersect, and if it's like this, I can't afford it. β
At first, he was just as usual, only as Lu Yi owed a debt. Unexpectedly, pulled her into a bureau. And she has always been reluctant to betray herself in this game, he has long seen a touch of smoke on the river, he thought she was still angry with Yin Hui, but he didn't expect her to jump into the river, which startled him.
So he also desperately went into the water to save her, even if it was exposed, even if Yin Hui would save her......
Chongzuo's back ached faintly, but he endured it.
Yin Hui is really ruthless, part of the reason is Lu Yi, right?
"Actually, it's okay to be friends with you, I'm just thinking about why Princess Yongle insists on running away from marriage, she should know that this marriage is related to the survival of the two countries."
She had already accepted the status quo that Yin Hui mistakenly thought that they were a nest of snakes and rats, and Chongzuo also opened the conversation: "Because she wants to fly away with Lu Yan." β
And the guards?
"Princess Yongning also ran away from marriage back then, and was finally removed from the royal family and went to the people, what is Princess Yongle now?"
"The main thing is that Lu Yan doesn't want to go with her." Chongzuo said again.
What the? Is it a princess's unrequited love?
The princess carefully planned to escape from the marriage, and even Lu Yan was kept in the dark. Now Chongzuo and he are hiding in the villa with the princess, he only showed up yesterday when he heard that Lu Yi was going back to Huachen, and now in the villa, the two are probably still deadlocked, one has to leave and the other has to stay.
After listening to Chongzuo, the situation is still very serious. Once they are caught, it is a capital offense. There is only one way, and that is to persuade the princess to go and kiss.
Lu Yi fell into the water, and Chongzuo was inconvenient to change her clothes, so he warmed up on the fire. Chongzuo's coat was still draped over her.
Lu Yi roasted for a while and then wanted to leave, although this place was remote, but once Yin Hui found it, they would be finished. Just as he was about to set off, the injury on Chong's left back flare-up. Fang Qi's movement was too big, and the wound seemed to crack open.
Seeing that he was stunned, Lu Yi hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" β
There was faint blood oozing from his back, and without the dark blue shirt, the blood-stained white shirt was even more prominent. Lu Yi was taken aback: Yin Hui ...... River Jumping......
"I saved you by the way."
Chongzuo's words echoed in his ears again, and Lu Yi hurriedly got up, only to see that the blood was seeping more and more, and he grabbed the clothes on the side, and the two coats were still wet.
"It's okay, it's just a skin injury, let's go first, and there is Lang Zhong when we get to the villa."
"Nope." Lu Yi resolutely disagreed, it was still raining outside, and the wound infection would be troublesome. What's more, he only took off two coats on his body because of the relationship between men and women, and one was dried and covered on Lu Yi's body.
The wet clothes inside were sticking to the wounds, and it was uncomfortable to think about.
"It's late autumn now, and there should be some crane grass outside the temple."
She was about to look for it without saying a word, Chongzuo stood in place stunned, she stopped and said, "I won't be able to find it for a while, you can change your clothes." β
After saying that, she also blushed, and ran away as fast as she could.
It's all to blame for the rain.
She pulled out two clumps of crane grass in a daze and washed them by the river. Since I was a child, I liked the white crane, and I learned that the dragon sprout grass is also called the crane grass, Zhong Yinyi said again, this grass grows everywhere, and it can be applied externally and internally to detoxify and stop bleeding. It's okay now, Chongzuo is just using it.
In order to avoid embarrassment, she specially lingered outside for a while. Chongzuo didn't dare to change out of her wet clothes because she was afraid that she would be rude and indecent when she woke up, which would make it even more rude for her to break in. But judging from his temperament, aren't these superfluous moves? He could have appeared shirtless with her in the ruined temple......
It's still not good, although the first time we met, she thought he was a disciple......
However, he is still very careful.
About the end of the day, she looked in, only to see his underwear burning on the fire, and on his straight back, there were several bloody scars. She had noticed that there was a shallow scratch under Chong's left and right eyes, probably a scar that could even be ignored by a weapon such as a knife. But what we saw today was different, those scars had not yet scabbed, and the flesh was visible.
He was so badly injured?
"Chongzuo......" she whispered behind her back, "I'm here, you don't have to move." β
He rubbed the crane grass paste he had just prepared, and slowly rubbed it on his wound.
"Miss Lu is not very good like this...... he didn't expect her to get started, the last time he saw her, she still regarded herself as a disciple.
"Okay, so many girls in your book haven't medicated you? You don't have to pretend to be ......," she said, on the one hand, to alleviate the situation that is not embarrassing.
Chongzuo smiled: "People go to the rivers and lakes, how can there be no knife who is not stabbed." However, you are still the first girl who is willing to drug me. β
The problem of gibberish in his mouth has not changed, Lu Yi drugged him, and he was in a trance.
Chongzuo tore off a piece of fabric from his shirt and bandaged it with Lu Yi. By the time he put on his coat, the rain had almost stopped.
"How?" "If you can't go, stay a little longer," she asked. β
Chongzuo shrugged his shoulders: "Miss Lu is good medicinal, I should take it internally and externally to apply it faster." β
As he spoke, he tasted the leftover medicinal paste: "It's a bit like the nectar of Sydney osmanthus in the rain." β
"You haven't drunk it again." Lu Yi said, already walking into the mud.
No, I drank it before Yin Hui.
Chongzuo secretly thought in his heart.