Chapter 46: The Marriage Contract
"Mother, Your Highness."
Lin Ximo, who was interrupted before he could finish speaking, finally found a gap to interject after seeing the reactions of the three people: "About Your Majesty's pulse, and let the people finish speaking." ”
Xiao Jingning was stunned for a moment, and then recalled what Lin Xi said before, since it was the first time she saw her, there would naturally be goodbye, but she was too anxious to care.
After stabilizing his mind, Xiao Jingning nodded and said, "Miss Lin, please speak." ”
Lin Xi said: "When the people made a decision, the pulse suddenly changed. The traffic is smooth and smooth, except for a little slowness. It takes a little longer to check the pulse, and I want to confirm it. The scattered pulse and the astringent pulse are extremely serious, and there is indeed a sign of absolute pulse, if it is common sense, there will never be a slow pulse, but these three pulses have been alternating, and it is a folk girl who will say that Your Majesty's pulse is very strange. ”
When the pulse is scattered, the pulse is astringent, and the pulse is obvious, but there is a slow pulse? It's not a problem of recurring illnesses anymore, it's a strange pulse. However, if it is said that the image of the current desperate pulse is a desperate situation, the current slow pulse is a glimmer of life, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a desperate situation.
Xiao Jingning straightened out his thoughts and asked, "So there is still room for His Majesty's illness to turn around?" ”
"In theory, so." Lin Xi paused and said: "But there is still a glimmer of life in the image of the absolute pulse, this situation has never been seen in the apricot forest, and it is not guaranteed by the people's daughter." ”
"No problem." Xiao Jingning smiled, it was good to have a glimmer of life, she looked at Xiao Xin and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine remembers that the Imperial Physician Department has the Codex of the Empress Dowager Jing, and the Imperial Physician Department holds it because the Empress Dowager Jingjing does not dare to look through it more, and she does not dare to study it in-depth even if she occasionally reads it." Miss Lin has the heart and skill to help the world, so it is better to give it to Miss Lin, if she can get something from it, it is also a blessing. ”
Xiao Xin glanced at her meaningfully, and said: "The queen is right, the reason why the imperial grandmother wrote down the codex was originally to help the medical Tao, but the imperial medical department was too awe-inspiring, and put the codex in the cabinet, but it was a disappointing piece of the imperial grandmother's heart." ”
After that, Xiao Xin summoned Gao Qin and ordered him to go to the Imperial Doctor's Office to get the Codex of the Empress Dowager Jing and hand it over to Lin Xi in person.
Empress Dowager Jing is very prestigious in Xinglin, but she is a harem woman after all, and idlers can't invite her. Therefore, when Lin Xi heard that it was her codex, she who had been calm and calm, her eyes lit up, revealing joy. She didn't shirk and took it respectfully.
Lin Xi prescribed a dose of medicine for Xiao Yuanshi, as for Xiao Xin's situation, she thought that the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor was symptomatic, and she needed to go back to discuss the lower pulse case with the old hall master Li and read the codex of the Empress Dowager Jing before deciding how to prescribe it.
After Lin Xi retreated, Gao Qin personally sent her to the gate of the palace, and after Lin Xi thanked Gao Qin, he turned around and saw Xiao Pingjing who had been waiting for a long time.
Xiao Pingjing walked up to her and took the medicine box in her hand, and said, "Lin Xi, you can be regarded as coming out." ”
Lin Xi looked at him with a gaze in his eyes and asked, "Have you been waiting here?" ”
On that day, the queen fainted, and the imperial doctor couldn't see anything when he checked the pulse, so he asked Li Qianzhi and Lin Xi to enter the palace. After finishing the pulse, Li Qian's words said that Lin Xi was already blue, and the queen mother was a harem woman, so he let Lin Xi stay, and it has been seven days until today. If Xiao Pingjing had been waiting here since she entered the palace, she really didn't know what to say.
Xiao Pingjing walked with the medicine box, touched the back of his head and replied: "It's not like waiting all the time, I'll let people help me keep an eye on it, most of the time I sit in the teahouse over there, sometimes Yuan Qi will come to accompany me, and occasionally I will come over to have a look." ”
The edge of his lips curled slightly, Lin Xi raised his hand and quietly pasted it to the silver lock, and asked softly, "Why are you waiting for me?" ”
"Lin Xi, do you still need to ask about this?" Xiao Pingjing ran to Lin Xi and stepped back in front of her, and said seriously: "I told you before that I liked you, although you didn't reply to me, but I think you actually like me, right?" Lin Xi, I don't know what your concerns are, maybe I'm not sincere enough, or maybe I haven't been able to reassure you. But I Xiao Pingjing has decided on you in this life, even if you don't agree, I will follow you. You practice medicine to help the world, I will walk with you, you will go into seclusion safely, and I will live with you. ”
Lin Xi was silent and asked, "What do you think of the woman who made a marriage contract with you?" ”
Xiao Pingjing didn't think much about it, pulled the thin line on his neck and took out the silver lock to look at it, touched the outline on it and said: "This is the token that my father and third uncle made a marriage contract for me and Miss Lin, I am the same age as her, and I have never seen it." It stands to reason that we should get married when we are eighteen years old, but after the third uncle died, the third aunt took Miss Lin and disappeared, thinking that she did not want to agree to this marriage contract, but I still waited for another three years, the girl's family is twenty years old, and she should have been married to a woman. Keeping this silver lock is just a souvenir. Now that I am twenty-two, Your Majesty also told my father that he would marry me, but I was pleased with you, so I told my father, Lin Xi, don't worry, Your Majesty will not force me. ”
Lin Xi said: "Have you ever thought about what you would do if that girl came back to you and asked you to fulfill the marriage contract?" ”
Xiao Pingjing was stunned, instinctively felt that this question was very dangerous, if he didn't answer Lin Xi well, he would run away, he didn't answer immediately, but stopped and thought carefully before answering: "If Miss Lin comes back to me to ask me to fulfill the marriage contract before I meet you or before I explain my heart to you, then even if I am interested in you, I will restrain this feeling, that is, you and I have no chance." But now that I have explained my mind to you, even if you don't respond, Lin Xi, I have already made a choice, because this heart can no longer tolerate anyone except you. If Miss Lin comes back at this time, then she will be the third girl of Changlin Palace, and as a brother, we will find a good home for her. Lin Xi, are you worried about Miss Lin, so you didn't respond to me? ”
Xiao Pingjing glanced at her face, and couldn't see anything for a while, so he took off the silver lock and said, "Originally, this was just a souvenir, if you mind, I won't wear it." Lin Xi, since I have explained my heart to you, I have made a promise that I will never abandon you, and our family motto also requires a lifetime of a couple, if I dare to go out to mess with flowers and grass, I don't need Lin Xi to say anything, my father and eldest brother will break my leg first. Lin Xi, if you don't like these court twists, then I can accompany you to walk the rivers and lakes and practice medicine to help the world, but I am the second son of Changlin Palace, if the court and the palace need it, I will still come back, and I will come back to look for you when things calm down. ”
Lin Xi looked at him for a long time, and suddenly smiled, this smile was like a sunny light reflecting snow, hitting his heart, Xiao Pingjing was stunned, and sent the person to Jifeng Hall in a daze, and when he was about to leave, Lin Xi suddenly stopped him.
"Pingjing."
Xiao Pingjing turned around and looked at Lin Xi in amazement as he took out a familiar silver lock from her neck, and he took out the silver lock he had just put into his arms, which was exactly the same as that pair.
The tongue that could speak well in the past suddenly knotted: "Lin ...... Forest...... Lin Xi...... Servant...... You, you are...... It's ......"
Lin Xi nodded slightly: "Yes, my father Lin is very profound." ”
"That'...... Then why are you ......?"
"Life and death on the battlefield are involuntary, and I am worried all day long, and my mother doesn't want me to suffer this, so I promise not to marry into the general."
Xiao Pingjing was silent for a while, and muttered: "No wonder you said in your illness at that time that you imagined what I looked like." ”
Then he suddenly flashed a thought, if Lin Xi was unintentional to him, he would never take out this silver lock, so what would she take out now...... looked at Lin Xi fiercely: "Then Lin Xi, what do you mean now?" ”
Lin Xi said: "Pingjing, I don't want to disobey my mother's will, and I am also an informal son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, and I don't like the red tape of officialdom, so even if I like you, your identity as the second son of Changlin Wangfu still worries me." Just now you said that you are willing to walk with me in the rivers and lakes, and I am very happy that you are willing to pay so much for me, so I want to obey my heart. Pingjing, my ambition is to complete Shennongzhi, before the completion, I will not stay with you in Changlin Palace, but if there is a real need, you are willing to accompany me and I will not abandon you. ”
Xiao Pingjing was like in a dream, his eyes lit up: "Lin Xi, did you promise to marry me?" ”
Lin Xi nodded slightly, and a hint of color crept up to the root of his ears: "Hmm." ”
"Ahh I'm so happy! ”。
The smile is dazzling, and the years are quiet.