Chapter 025: Cocooning Yourself
Wiping the blood from the corners of his lips, Zhao Yi stumbled to the coffee table, poured himself a glass of water and rinsed his mouth, then went to lie down, and this sleep came the next morning.
"Sister Zhao, wake up, wake up!" Dizzy, Zhao Yi felt that someone was shaking her body, this eager voice was Xiaoli's, but wasn't Xiaoli there?
Zhao Yi felt it in his heart, and his mind was conscious, but he felt that his eyelids were extremely heavy and he couldn't open his eyes.
The childish voice began to sob, then whimpered, and then cried.
"Sister Zhao, Xiaoli has come to see you, you open your eyes to see if Xiaoli is okay!"
β......β
It sounded like she couldn't wake up.
"Sister Zhao, my mother is better, ask Xiaoli to come and see Sister Zhao, so Sister Zhao should wake up quickly!"
"Sister Zhao, if you don't wake up again, Xiaoli will keep crying, woo woo......"
β......β
This heartbroken cry couldn't have disturbed Zhao Yi's sleep, but it did wake her up.
Zhao Yi opened his eyes tiredly, his eyes were still a little dull, Xiao Li watched Zhao Yi wake up, and suddenly smiled, "Sister Zhao, you woke up, Xiao Li is about to die of worry!"
Zhao Yi only felt that his eyelids were heavier again, and he couldn't resist the eyelids from closing at all, "Are you going to fall asleep again?" The faint consciousness asked, and the eyelids were closed.
Xiao Li looked at Zhao Yi stupidly as soon as he opened and closed his eyes, as if he had left this world, fear was all over his body, Xiao Li cried out again, and shouted for help, which really made Zhao Yi frown.
I don't know where the strength came from, I quickly and accurately held Xiao Li's hand, Xiao Li was shocked, stared at Zhao Yi's hand, and then looked at Zhao Yi's face, Zhao Yi said weakly and tiredly: "Don't worry, Sister Zhao is a little cold, just let my sister sleep for a while." β
Xiao Li blinked his eyes and said obediently: "It must be the shopkeeper who went out just now and didn't close the door, Sister Zhao, you have a good rest, the shopkeeper has already gone to find the big brother"
Zhao Yi heard the words as if he had been pricked in the back by thousands of needles, his face was bitter, his nerve reflex rebounded and sat up, his pale face looked at Xiaoli in disbelief and helplessness, and asked urgently: "How long has Sister Peach Blossom been out?"
Xiaoli was stunned by Zhao Yi's appearance, and stammered in response: "Just, half, half a pillar of incense time......"
Zhao Yi panicked, lifted the quilt and hurriedly got out of bed, but Xiao Li was in a hurry but couldn't stop her.
"Sister Zhao, why are you going?" Seeing Zhao Yi running out in a white nightgown, Xiao Li hurriedly chased him out, only to find that Zhao Yi just went to close the door and ran back.
Zhao Yi hurriedly opened the wardrobe and took out a white brocade robe, turned to Xiao Li, who was already staying in place, and said: "Xiao Li, you go outside, if the big brother comes, say I'm changing clothes, don't let him into the inner room." β
Xiaoli nodded blankly and walked out. After Zhao Yi brought clothes to the painting screen, it was not really because she couldn't let Ye Tao in because she changed clothes, she had to recover, and the red smoke billowed behind the painting screen like a raging fire. Through the painting screen, Zhao Yi's slender figure was bathed in red smoke......
Outside the house, the peach blossom shopkeeper walked in a hurry, for fear that Zhao Yi would have something unexpected if he was late, Ye Tao followed closely, striding and unhurried.
The peach blossom shopkeeper pushed the door directly in, and Xiao Li, who was sitting on the couch, saw that it was the big brother who came, and a surprise appeared on his face, and he immediately laughed and jumped off the wooden couch.
"Big brother, Sister Zhao said you can't go in now. Xiaoli said that he felt a little pity, and finally looked forward to the big brother, but Sister Zhao didn't let him in to help her take a look.
Hearing this, Ye Tao's gaze swept lightly over the roller shutter that entered the inner room, and he was suddenly stunned, there was a thick true qi boiling in the inner room, but even if he opened his heavenly eyes, he couldn't see what it was, but he was sure that there was only Zhao Yi alone in the inner room.
The peach blossom shopkeeper took Xiao Li's hand to sit down on the couch, and Ye Tao also sat at the table and waited.
Xiaoli stretched his neck and looked inside, and sighed: "I don't know what's wrong with Sister Zhao, some time ago, I was sleepy because I gave the bed to Xiaoli, and my sister didn't sleep enough to be more sleepy. β
The peach blossom shopkeeper's face sank, and he suddenly became anxious, "Has Zhao Yi encountered anything bad recently?"
"Shopkeeper Peach Blossom, do you think it will be that curse??" Xiao Li also suddenly shouted in fear, the two of them sang and harmonized, attracting Ye Tao's attention, and he didn't notice that Zhao Yi came out of the inner room.
Until her soft, soft and somewhat lazy voice sounded, "What kind of curse is so terrifying?
"Sister Zhao" and "Zhao Yi" almost at the same time, Xiaoli and the peach blossom shopkeeper both looked at the roller blinds, Ye Tao also looked over, only to see Zhao Yi in white clothes Shengxue, ruddy complexion, exquisite makeup, a seductive smile at the corner of his mouth, lazily yawning, at first glance, it looked like an angel who had fallen into the mortal world, which made people surprised.
Xiaoli stood up and said in surprise: "Sister Zhao, are you okay?"
Zhao Yi walked over with a smile, "I told you, I'm just a little cold, and you called Ye Shaoxia over to delay him more." Saying that, Zhao Yi didn't forget to apologize to Ye Tao.
Ye Tao's eyes were sharp, and he still couldn't see Zhao Yi's original form, but his heart was transparent, and he got up and said, "It's okay, Miss Zhao's health is the most important thing,"
"I'm fine!" Zhao Yi said eagerly, as if to hide something, but the calm and elegant smile on her face was elusive.
"In that case, I'll go back, the weather is cold, Miss Zhao has more clothes. Obviously a very heartwarming sentence, but Ye Tao said it coldly, Zhao Yi smiled bitterly in his heart with a smile on his face.
"Okay, Ye Shaoxia go slowly!" Zhao Yi said gently, Ye Tao quickly walked out of the room, Zhao Yi looked at Xiao Li, his eyes were sharp, and he trembled in his heart.
"Sister Zhao, don't look at me like this, I'm afraid!" Xiao Li shrunk his neck, looking frightened, Zhao Yi chuckled, "Xiao Li, you mentioned the curse of Yongle City in front of me twice, now you can tell me well, what kind of curse is this." β
Zhao Yi said and sat down on the stool next to the table, lowered his eyes and stroked the corners of his skirt, which was very graceful and leisurely.
Xiao Li sighed in a good way, and said sadly, "My mother said that this curse is a nightmare that all girls of the same age as Sister Zhao in Yongle City are afraid of," Xiao Li paused as he spoke, hanging Zhao Yi's appetite, but Zhao Yi took a sip of tea very calmly, with a look of "You continue to say and I listen".
Xiao Li couldn't help but shake his head lightly as an adult, and sighed softly.
Zhao Yi pretended to scare Xiaoli, "Xiaoli, if you can't finish talking before I finish drinking this cup of tea, I'll leave!"
Xiao Li seemed to be in a hurry, got up and said very seriously: "The curse of Yongle City is that seventeen or eighteen-year-old women to be married cannot be alone in a house, if you are a match, you have to live with your fiancΓ©, if not, there must be an old man by your side." β
Zhao Yi was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and laughed out loud, not seeing Xiao Li's little face that was swollen red because of anger.
Even the peach blossom shopkeeper covered the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and laughed softly, his eyes narrowed slightly. Wen Sheng said: "Xiaoli, it's too easy for you kid to believe these words,"
Zhao Yi put down the teacup in his hand, held his chin in his hand and looked at Xiaoli with interest, "These are all what the eldest lady told you?"
"Well, my mother won't lie to me. Xiaoli nodded firmly with a small face. The peach blossom shopkeeper suddenly poured a basin of cold water, only to hear her say: "This is just a lie to the child, what kind of curse,"
Xiao Li blinked, and suddenly she was so aggrieved that her eyes were teary, Zhao Yi and the peach blossom shopkeeper called her like this, and they panicked all of a sudden, and they all came to comfort and comfort the child.
The shopkeeper of Peach Blossom immediately said: "But it's not that such a thing happened,"
Saying that, Xiaoli's eyes were really green, and there were no tears.
Hurriedly pulled the peach blossom shopkeeper to listen to the story, the peach blossom shopkeeper returned to sit on the couch, Xiaoli followed, and Zhao Yi also sat next to him and listened carefully.
The shopkeeper of Peach Blossom was full of emotion like a storyteller: "When my mother-in-law was young, Yongle City was not called Yongle City, but a small town, and the people in the town believed in true feelings, Changji and Qinrou were also one of the hundreds of thousands of couples in this town, but they had ups and downs.
Qin Rou is the daughter of the mayor's family, she has been knowledgeable since she was a child, and she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she often stays at home, and when she was sixteen years old, she went out to save a boy covered with scars, and she was inexplicably moved by him, and she took care of him meticulously.
Changji is not only that he doesn't like to talk in front of people, but he also doesn't like to laugh in front of Qin Rou.
Qin Rou later learned that Changji was an orphan in the village, and had lived a lonely life since she was a child, so Qin Rou wanted to give him a home, and at the age of seventeen, she begged her father to marry her to Changji.
"It stands to reason that Qin Rou would not have succeeded so smoothly, otherwise it would not have become a legend. Zhao Yi joked leisurely, and the peach blossom shopkeeper was also happy to listen, and continued to speak.
Indeed, Qin Rou was rejected, and the mayor of the town also kicked Changji out of the house because of this incident, but Qin Rou was determined to follow Changji, so she, a girl who grew up in the boudoir, ran away from home.
Of course, it was found in the ruined temple, and that time Changji was beaten to death by the merciless people. β
When the peach blossom shopkeeper said this, Zhao Yi and Xiaoli gasped, Xiaoli's white and tender little hands slapped on the coffee table, and said hatefully: "These people are too bad!"
Zhao Yi sighed and sighed: "People often say that people's hearts are not ancient, maybe that's it!"
The shopkeeper of Peach Blossom listened and ignored their little emotions for the time being, and she looked at the shopkeeper of Peach Blossom again after she finished her breath, looking forward to her next words.
Qin Rou was brought back to house arrest, and soon after Xu was married to a scholar in the town, the mayor thought that the matter was over, and held a wedding for her on Qin Rou's eighteenth birthday, but no one thought that the soul of the long jealousy turned into a male witch and came back, and he had to take Qin Rou away, Qin Rou's heart melted, and she cried vigorously.
The people who came to drink the wine were afraid and noisy, and only a few family members listened to the old man's words and trembled and held torches, insisting on burning the soul of Changji.
Qin Rou saw that the situation was not good, so she asked Chang Ji to leave quickly, Chang Ji said affectionately, "I don't dare to be with you when I live, and I can't be at ease when I die, I want us to be together when I come back this time", saying that, he hugged Qin Rou tightly and did not let go, the two of them became tighter and tighter, as if they were about to merge into one body, and the dazzling light around them kept shining...... "The peach blossom shopkeeper stopped talking, but paused.
"Are they also butterflies like Liang Zhu?" Xiao Li's curiosity swelled, and he looked at the peach blossom shopkeeper with bright eyes, looking forward to her next nod, Zhao Yi waited quietly for the peach blossom to clear the result, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and his smile was shallow, which was very charming.
Peach Blossom smiled lightly and shook her head, the smiles of the two suddenly froze, and the Peach Blossom shopkeeper said regretfully: "In the Xuanguang, people saw their figures floating to the tree, the Xuanguang disappeared, and people took a closer look, it was two connected silkworm chrysalis......"
The air was so quiet for a while, Zhao Yi didn't speak, and Xiao Li also blinked and looked at Peach Blossom and then at Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi lamented softly and asked tentatively, "Is this because their identities are inappropriate?"
Although the shopkeeper of Peach Blossom has known about this for a long time, he still sighs.
Later, in order to make their daughters willingly obey their parents' orders, some mothers made up some stories, so that seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls were anxious to get married. β
Xiaoli seems to understand whether he understands or not, and opens his mouth wide to make an "oh" mouth shape.
Peach Blossom sighed again, "Actually, some feelings are wrong, just cocooning themselves." β
When Zhao Yi heard this, her heart suddenly seemed to have been drained of blood, her lips trembled, she pretended to be calm, stood up and teased: "Forget it, the story that Sister Peach Blossom told me today makes me unhappy, I'd better go to Jishitang to find the little fairy who has no thoughts!" In fact, it was to escape, Zhao Yi was afraid that such a thing would end up for her.
On the way to Jishitang, Jingyuan's experience kept resurfacing, and Jingyuan once said that she would never make such a serious mistake again in her life.
Zhao Yi still looked depressed, and the patient who asked for the consultation walked in front of him before he came back to his senses, looked at the figure of others leaving in confusion, and only entered the consultation room for a while.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Yi saw Ye Tao holding a pestle for pounding medicine in one hand and rubbing his eyes with the other, Zhao Yi's heart tightened, as if a needle pierced into the skin, the wound was sometimes too small to be seen, but the pain was all over the body, was he deeply hurt by last night's nightmare?
Zhao Yi walked over, looking a little at a loss, not knowing how to talk to him, and after a while, he said very gently, "Ye Tao, don't cry, if you have any sadness in your heart, tell me okay, don't cry, okay?"
Obviously Zhao Yi was so flustered, Ye Tao's lowered head summoned a chuckle, he was rubbing his slightly red eyes and laughing so bitterly, what happened?