Chapter 16: The First Time to Be Alone
The leaves rustle in the wind, thunder roars in the sky, and lightning breaks through the curtain of the night to illuminate the world.
Seeing that the storm was coming, Bai Shuqin was injured and couldn't move, Zhuo Jinxuan had to search everywhere for a place to hide from the rain, and finally found a tree hole not far away, barely able to accommodate two people. He spread his cloak in the hollow of the tree before he went to pick her up.
Bai Shuqin was injured internally, and he was afraid of hurting her again, so he gently held her in his arms. Her originally gorgeous face was full of exhaustion at the moment, and the scars on her forehead, which had been covered with fat powder, were also soaked with sweat to reveal her original appearance.
Zhuo Jinxuan still remembers the first time he saw her, he was attracted by her face, which was a beauty that the scar on her forehead could not hide. At that time, she was like a kitten, with a pair of clear eyes. Everyone laughed at her ugliness, even Bai Bingbin made fun of her.
At that time, he was young and did not want to be regarded as an outlier, so he went along with Bai Bing. Bai Shuqin heard their ridicule, and his angry expression and cowardice left his back, lingering in his mind for a long time. He hadn't seen her since.
Zhuo Jinxuan never thought that meeting again would be in his wedding room. Although he was angry at the time, he had a hint of surprise to see her again, these were secrets hidden in his heart, and he never mentioned them to anyone.
Bai Shuqin was awakened by the thunder, opened his eyes and saw that he was in Zhuo Jinxuan's arms, and his heart suddenly became more steady. She asked softly, "Why are you here?" What about the party? ”
At this moment, she was still afraid of affecting him, Zhuo Jinxuan's eyes were gentle: "You risked your life to save me, why can't I come?" ”
Bai Shuqin smiled: "I'm so bad, maybe I deliberately let Du Zijun lie to you?" ”
Zhuo Jinxuan stroked the hair on her forehead to the side: "I believe you." ”
When Du Zijun told him, his first reaction was to save her, and he didn't think if she lied to him. What's more, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened over the years, he was ambushed during the last hunt and almost died, and later it was not found out who did it.
As he spoke, the raindrops the size of beans fell. Even in the hollow of the tree, there was still some light rain falling in. Zhuo Jinxuan was afraid that he would get wet with Bai Shuqin and catch the cold, so he took off his coat and blocked it from the tree hole.
The cold wind blew, Bai Shuqin couldn't help but shiver, reached out to put his arm around Zhuo Jinxuan's neck, and buried his head in his chest. His chest was warm, she could hear his powerful heartbeat, and soon she was back asleep.
Zhuo Jinxuan gently hugged her with his hand, and the gentle body fragrance surrounded him, and at this moment she was like a wounded cat, putting away her usually sharp claws.
The rain gradually became lighter, and Zhuo Jinxuan was also tired for a day, and at this time, sleepiness hit, so he hugged Bai Shuqin to sleep.
At dawn on the second day, before the group of people arrived, he looked at Bai Shuqin's even paler face, and his gloomy face would explode at any time.
Seeing him like this, Bai Shuqin laughed at him: "You are so ugly." ”
Zhuo Jinxuan was not angry at her teasing, but asked her with concern: "How do you feel?" ”
"I couldn't have died, looking at your expression, I'm going to be ugly to death by you!" After she teased him, she said, "Last night, the forest road was not easy to walk, and it rained heavily, which must have delayed them." Wait, they must be in a more anxious hurry than you. ”
Seeing that she was still speaking for others at this time, she admired her even more, and at the same time felt blushing for her actions. If she was a man, I am afraid that it is not impossible to have this world, he was startled by his own thought, and shook his head to forget this ridiculous idea.
He didn't have time to ask her a lot of things last night, but then he remembered and asked, "Yesterday you knew that there was a lot of danger here, why did you come here to save me?" ”
Bai Shuqin raised his head and asked, "Then why did you come to save me?" ”
"You're in danger because of me, of course I'm coming to you. What about you? Why are you? Since you think that I am the same as the people of Baifu, shouldn't you want me to have an accident? Zhuo Jinxuan was puzzled.
Bai Shuqin raised the corners of his mouth and said, "Because you are my person, it is not the turn of others to hurt!" ”
Zhuo Jinxuan's face flushed, afraid that she would see it, so he coughed twice to cover up.
"Are you shy?" Bai Shuqin asked him deliberately.
He looked away: "No! I am a dignified third prince, how can I be shy! ”
Bai Shuqin laughed, but his chest hurt again, and he coughed dryly. Zhuo Jinxuan heard the nervous past, saw that she was coughing up blood, and looked anxious: "You are so seriously injured, if you don't treat it, you will die!" ”
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth for her, and Bai Shuqin smiled: "Old genius won't let me die so easily!" It's okay. ”
Seeing that she was still reckless at this time, this appearance made him even more distressed. The corpses that I saw in the woods last night, and the people who fell not far from them, each of them can be a hundred. No matter how powerful she is, after all, she is a woman, how can he not know how dangerous it is to fight them.
He felt that even if she knew that he was in danger, she told the Guards that she was going to risk herself to save him.
What touched him even more was that even if she was in danger, she would worry about affecting him to attend the party. He didn't know how she did it.
Bai Shuqin looked at him looking at himself, his expression was complicated, and he teased him: "You have been staring at me for so long, should you be in love with me?" Empathize so quickly, don't fall in love, you really don't love white bet at all! ”
Zhuo Jinxuan gently hugged her into his arms: "Why are you so stupid." ”
At this moment, she suddenly felt a little weak, she saved him just because she miscalculated the strength of the other party. If she knew that the other party was so difficult, she wouldn't have come at all. Even if Zhuo Jinxuan died, she just started all over again, which was better than her own death.
Of course, she would definitely not say these words to Zhuo Jinxuan. Just let him be moved, in case she really kills Bai Bingbin's family in the future, maybe he will not come to hunt her down because of his old feelings.
There was a heavy rain last night, and it was already dawn when Qingfeng and them came out of the mountains and forests, and they picked up Imperial Doctor Li from the palace, and they delayed a lot of time. When the group arrived, they saw Zhuo Jinxuan hugging Bai Shuqin, with an intimate look, and he didn't step back for a while.
When Bai Shuqin saw them, he coughed lightly, Zhuo Jinxuan reacted, and immediately ordered Imperial Doctor Li to come forward to treat Bai Shuqin.
Imperial Physician Li examined Bai Shuqin's external injury, cleaned the wound with wine, and then re-applied medicine and bandaged it. He took her pulse, and his pulse was beating messily. He frowned and looked at her: "Third Imperial Princess, did you take any medicine that you shouldn't take?" ”
Bai Shuqin knew that he should be referring to the poison that Nangong Che gave her, but he couldn't tell them about this matter, so he shook his head and denied it.
When Dr. Li thought that she was too seriously injured and her pulse was messy, he stopped asking and asked her to be lifted on a simple burden and treated after returning home.
After returning home, Imperial Doctor Li prescribed a thousand-year-old ginseng to Bai Shuqin, and instructed Zhuo Jinxuan that she had serious internal injuries, and although the thousand-year-old ginseng could speed up her recovery, she would still have to stay in bed for at least half a month, otherwise she would fall ill.
When Bai Shuqin heard that he had to stay in bed for half a month, he regretted it in his heart. For Zhuo Jinxuan, take it in for half a month, no matter how this deal is calculated, it will be a loss.
Zhuo Jinxuan looked uncomfortable at her, thinking that the injury was serious, so he walked up to her and asked with concern: "Is the wound painful?" ”
She shook her head, the pain of the wound was nothing to her, she was just too tired, and closed her eyes: "It's okay, I want to rest for a while." ”
He covered her with a quilt, instructed Qingluan to take care of her, and after washing up, he went into the palace to meet the emperor.
Because Zhuo Jinxuan failed to participate in the party, the emperor awarded the gold medal hunter to Zhuo Qingyuan when the reward was awarded, which was already Zhuo Qingyuan's second consecutive gold medal hunter, and he was so unhappy at the party.
Zhuo Jinxuan also has the heart of winning this time, according to his gains, as long as he participates, then this gold medal hunter must be his, but it is insignificant compared to Bai Shuqin's safety. When the minister at the bottom talked about this, he only said that one title was nothing.
He lied to the emperor that Bai Shuqin was seriously infected with wind and cold, and he went back to take care of him in advance, and the emperor did not blame him.
He didn't tell the emperor that someone was going to assassinate him, there were too many people who wanted his life, and there were too many other people with interests involved besides Zhuo Qingyuan.
Since Zhao Linlang heard that Bai Shuqin was seriously ill, he wanted to visit him as soon as possible. Seeing that she wanted to go so much, the queen arranged for the second prince Zhuo Linfeng to take her with her. On the one hand, she took care of her, and on the other hand, the emperor wanted to match the two, so she pushed the boat along the way.
The emperor knew that she was going, so he asked her to bring some ginseng and deer antler velvet to Bai Shuqin from the palace. She prepared some extra supplements for herself, and loaded a whole cart.
Zhuo Jinxuan saw Zhuo Linfeng and Zhao Linlang coming, and brought a lot of supplements, so he said: "Second brother and Princess Linlang came here, why do you still bring so many things?" ”
"These are the hearts of the father and the princess. How are the younger siblings doing now? Zhuo Linfeng asked politely.
Zhuo Jinxuan invited them into the house: "It's just typhoid fever, it's not in the way." Just took my medicine and is resting now. ”
Zhao Linlang wanted to meet Bai Shuqin, and walked up to Zhuo Jinxuan and looked at him: "Is it convenient to visit?" ”
Although Zhao Linlang is the princess of Zhao Kingdom, Bai Shuqin's appearance is not convenient to meet guests at this moment, and the wounds on her body are not easy to explain when they see them, so she said: "Typhoid fever is easy to contagious, let's wait a few days for her to get better, goodbye princess." ”
Zhao Linlang hurriedly said: "Don't get in the way, I'm in good health and won't be infected." ”
Zhuo Linfeng naturally understood what Zhuo Jinxuan meant, so he said to her: "Let her have a good rest, and there is no hurry to visit." After a few days, my brother and sister will be better, and I will bring the princess to visit. ”
Zhao Linlang saw that both of them said this, thinking that it was a special custom of their country, although she couldn't understand it, she still respected it.
Du Zijun told Bai Shuqin that Zhuo Linfeng and Zhao Linlang came to see her, and brought a lot of things over. Bai Shuqin's appearance at this time is definitely inappropriate to see people. Hearing Qingluan say that Zhuo Jinxuan had sent people away, she breathed a sigh of relief.
After Zhuo Jinxuan sent Zhuo Linfeng and Zhao Linlang away, he came to Bai Shuqin's room.
Bai Shuqin saw Zhuo Jinxuan come in, and smiled wickedly: "The things they brought just now, you gave me a discount of money, and sold it to you at a price two percent cheaper than the market price." ”
Zhuo Jinxuan heard her say this, and asked angrily and funny: "Then you used my thousand-year-old ginseng, how much money are you going to give?" ”
She didn't expect him to be so stingy, and rolled his eyes: "I can be regarded as saving you, isn't your life worth a ginseng?" I don't want too many of those things, just give me a thousand taels. ”
"You know what they gave away to make such a high price?" Zhuo Jinxuan looked at her in surprise, ordinary people only bring some fruits and other things when they visit, but she dared to open her mouth for a thousand taels.
Bai Shuqin knew that the matter of Zhuo Jinxuan going to the palace to find the imperial doctor must have spread, and there was Lang Zhong who could be treated in the ordinary hospital, and those who needed to go to the imperial doctor must be seriously ill. Since it is a serious illness, then what they bring must be expensive supplements.
After listening to her analysis, Zhuo Jinxuan gently knocked her head: "You are so smart, it's a pity not to go out and cheat!" I've arranged for someone to make these supplements for you to eat every day, so don't mention the matter of selling them for money. ”