Chapter 42: The Old Man
Smoke slowly rose from the maroon clay pot, and the fragrance of the herbs gradually dispersed and filled the air.
Jian Xiaozhu sat by the stove, and when the juice in the clay pot became darker and the water surface was blistering, he picked up the clay pot from the stove and slowly poured the medicinal juice into the white porcelain bowl. The hot liquid poured into the icy porcelain bowl, stirring up bursts of steam.
After the porcelain bowl was filled with medicinal juice, Jian Xiaozhu carefully picked up the bowl of medicine and walked towards the white condensation room.
Since Jasper's body was transported out of the palace, Bai Ningshuang has been locking herself in the room with a dazed look and not going out all day. During this period, Murong You also came to see Bai Ningshuang a few times, but when Bai Ningshuang saw Murong You, she would cry and complain that Jasper was innocent, and the Empress Dowager should not have let the guards beat her to death so indiscriminately that day.
In fact, Bai Ningshuang knew in her heart that the Empress Dowager had people kill Jasper before she arrived, but she actually wanted to give her a dismount. But Bai Ningshuang has always been empathetic, gentle and sensible in front of Murong You's eyes, and she didn't dare to directly accuse the Empress Dowager for the purpose of targeting her, so she could only keep crying for Biyu's death.
Murong You just comforted Bai Ningshuang at first, telling her that Biyu was just a palace maid, and he could find some more capable palace maids for Bai Ningshuang to come and serve her, so he didn't have to be sad about it all the time. But Bai Ningshuang rejected Murong You's proposal and resolutely refused to accept new palace maids into the Condensation Palace. Several times of crying and shirking made Murong You also annoyed: "Isn't it just a palace maid, Shuang'er, are you like this?" ”
"Jasper, she has been by my side since she was a child, she died so inexplicably, how can I ......"
I only heard the sound of the tea cup falling to the ground, and then the door of the house was opened, and Jian Xiaozhu saw Murong You walking out of it with a gloomy face. When he saw Murong You, Jian Xiaozhu was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head. After he left, Jian Xiaozhu crept into the room, and also saw Bai Ningshuang lying on the table crying bitterly.
Hearing Jian Xiaozhu's footsteps, Bai Ningshuang raised her head, and shouted to Jian Xiaozhu with red eyes: "You go out for me!" ”
So Jian Xiaozhu stepped back and wanted to leave, but Bai Ningshuang stopped her again: "You go and inquire, where did the emperor go." ”
Inquiring about Murong You's movements has always been Biyu's job, but now that Jasper is gone, Bai Ningshuang can only let Jian Xiaozhu do it. But Jian Xiaozhu, as a novice, didn't know how to ask, so he looked at Bai Ningshuang blankly.
"Forget it." Bai Ningshuang suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly, and then said to Jian Xiaozhu, "You go and close the door, and then come over and sit with me for a while." ”
After Jian Xiaozhu closed the door with his elbow, he went to the side of Bai Ningshuang and put the medicine bowl in his hand on the table: "Niangniang, the medicine is almost cold." ”
Bai Ningshuang looked at the medicine bowl in front of him, and suddenly picked it up and drank it all. The bitter taste extended from the tip of his tongue all the way to his throat, but Bai Ningshuang's face had a nervous smile: "Isn't it just that you dislike my origin, then I want you to see and watch a lowly person like me give birth to the blood of your royal family." ”
After that, Bai Ningshuang looked at Jian Xiaozhu and held Jian Xiaozhu's hand tightly: "Yunzhu, I only have you now." ”
Jian Xiaozhu only felt that Bai Ningshuang's fingers were cold, so cold that she was startled, and a cold sweat broke out behind her back. I was thinking in my heart, it's over, it's self-defeating now, Biyu is dead, and Bai Ningshuang is short of people around him, maybe he won't let himself leave the palace as soon as possible. It's really harmful to others and ultimately to yourself......
But on the surface, Jian Xiaozhu still smiled and said, "Guifei Niangniang, the slave will always do her best for you." ”
Bai Ningshuang smiled at Jian Xiaozhu: "I don't need you to do your best, but I need your loyalty." ”
Jian Xiaozhu suddenly had all kinds of thoughts in her heart, thinking that Bai Ningshuang didn't want her to inherit Jasper's job, be her confidant, and help her do all kinds of shady things. However, Bai Ningshuang just waved her hand: "I'm tired, you clean up here and go to sleep quickly." ”
"Yes, sissy."
When he returned to the house, Jian Xiaozhu was still thinking that after the death of this jasper, the relationship between Bai Ningshuang and Murong You would have a small rift. However, in the novel, before Bai Ningshuang's true face was revealed, he had always been a gentle and empathetic confidant in front of Murong You.
So when Murong You found out that Bai Ningshuang also had a side that would make him petty, he suddenly became angry. Just like in the novel, when he found out that Bai Ningshuang was not the kind Bai Yueguang in his heart, he hated Bai Ningshuang in every way, sent her into the cold palace, and never saw her again.
Oh, man!
Jian Xiaozhu instantly had an endless sense of disdain for the male protagonist he had written. She looked at the other empty bed in the room, where Jasper had slept not long ago. And now that Jasper has been buried in the ground, even Bai Ningshuang can't go out of the palace to watch her enter the earth in person, so she can only ask someone to handle her funeral.
Before going to bed, he silently recited the core values of socialism, and Jian Xiaozhu fell asleep peacefully.
Just came to the palace, Jian Xiaozhu, who hadn't dreamed for several days, saw Yu Wanwan in a dream.
That was the first time she saw Yu Wanwan in high school.
At that time, Yu Wanwan sat in the corner of the back row of the classroom. She was tall, her skin was snow-white, and her waist-length curly hair was dyed chestnut, and her dazzling beauty seemed to be out of place with the atmosphere of the whole classroom.
Soon after Jian Xiaozhu entered high school, he peeked at an online novel during self-study one night and was confiscated by the teacher. The teacher who stubbornly loves traditional literature in his lecture to Jian Xiaozhu, and his disdain for online novels made Jian Xiaozhu contradict the teacher in a fit of anger, and then moved his seat to the last row and became the same table as Yu Wanwan.
Two people who seemed unlikely to intersect became friends just like that.
When he woke up, Jian Xiaozhu only felt that his brain was in a trance. The sky outside the window was already bright, and Jian Xiaozhu looked at the simple room and the empty bed next to it, and only felt a sense of amazement in her heart. Here, she can't sleep in. This reminded her of when she was in high school, occasionally being late with Yu Wanwan, which made the head teacher so angry that she wanted them to go to the corridor to punish them. But for fear of delaying Jian Xiaozhu's early reading time, he could only let them into the classroom with hatred.
Jian Xiaozhu sighed, and after washing, he went to dress up the white condensation. It's just that Jian Xiaozhu doesn't have Jasper's ingenuity after all, so Bai Ningshuang asked Jian Xiaozhu to simply pull her hair up with a beaded hairpin.
Looking at the white condensation cream in the bronze mirror without powder, and only wearing a plain long dress, Jian Xiaozhu felt that she was surprisingly beautiful in such a state. At this time, the voice of the guard sounded outside the door: "Guifei Niangniang, Ling Zhaoyi asks to see you." ”
"Yunzhu, go and bring her in."
"Yes!"
Jian Xiaozhu remembered that she had heard Qiulan say that Ling Zhaoyi was the newly selected concubine in this show girl selection. After all, Zhang Ruohe, who was supposed to enter the palace, did not enter because of the wind and cold, so this place was topped by Ling Zhaoyi.
Before meeting Ling Zhaoyi, Jian Xiaozhu had no interest or expectation in this person. After all, he is a substitute, and his appearance is definitely not as good as Zhang Ruohe's. It's just that when Jian Xiaozhu saw Ling Zhaoyi, the whole person was stunned.
I saw Ling Zhaoyi wearing a lilac dress, and the exposed skin was as soft and delicate as warm jade. Her eyes are full of spring water, her cherry mouth is delicate, her face is delicate and flawless, and she is even a little more beautiful than Zhang Ruohe.
But what surprised Jian Xiaozhu was not the thrilling beauty that Ling Zhaoyi had.
Jian Xiaozhu was surprised that Ling Zhaoyi's eyebrows and eyes were too similar to Yu Wanwan.