204, extra: epilogue
I also knew I probably wouldn't get better.
I just couldn't see before, but now my ears are a little hard to use.
When Zhu Xiaoliu came back from the beach, he probably brought back a sack of seafood, and I smelled the smell of fish and shrimp. For a moment, I was in a trance, whether I was on the boat or on land.
I couldn't hear what he said to me, so I didn't respond.
I asked to myself, "Do you eat seafood hot pot again today?" β
He replied, babbling, I recoiled as usual, so I replied half-guessingly, half-guessingly, half-confused: "Okay, let's just seafood hot pot." You dilute the tahini with some water and add some vinegar, the sauce last time was too thick and the taste was very bad. β
Zhu Xiaoliu stopped moving.
After a long while, he leaned close to my ear, raised his voice and said, "Auntie, we have shrimp dumplings, shrimp balls, and shrimp soup today." β
"Oh, it wasn't seafood hotpot," I breathed a sigh of relief, "I want to eat meat." Dongpo elbows, taro steamed pork, fried meatballs, thousands of five flowers. β
Zhu Xiaoliu muttered a few more words, this time I heard it clearly, probably scolding me for not being good at serving.
It's not his fault.
Alas.
He is a child who grew up in the mountains, and it is good to learn to make shrimp dumplings, shrimp balls, and shrimp soup, what do I still count on?
It's just that I miss Shutong a little bit.
When I think of Dredging, I think of the Wei Period, although he is not as good as Dredging Tong in cooking, but fortunately, he can also change tricks from time to time.
But I didn't dare to think about him for too long, for fear that I would start thinking about him again, and that I would be nostalgic for this world when it was really time to leave.
Didn't I spend so much effort to escape just so that I could forget him and make him forget me.
It's just that even though I remind myself all the time, in the middle of the night, he can still arrive in my dream on time.
Half a year ago, in the Jinning War, I smashed the Immortal Cong and used a large-scale hatred planting technique, and the power of the 50,000 elite soldiers in the Wei period doubled, plus the original mediocre soldiers of the Jinguo, how much could they compete with the 400,000 army.
When the two stalemates and the war did not advance, Xing Ran personally led an army of 100,000 to support us, so in this battle, Ning Guo was defeated and retreated to Nanguo Mansion.
At that time, I was sick and bedridden, and I looked like I was in the middle of nowhere.
Zhao Mengqing came to me and told me that Wan Qishu led 100,000 soldiers and horses with him to Nanguo Mansion, and drove the remnants of Ningguo's defeated army back to the south bank of the Changlan River, and Jinguo was peaceful.
I couldn't believe it: "Aren't the couple of Dongqiguo quite indifferent, they refused to let go before, why are they suddenly so easy to speak." β
Zhao Mengqing glanced at me from afar: "This is going to ask you, Lord Qin." β
"Ask me?"
He laughed out loud, but his face was very cold: "Wan Qishu, who can't live to be twenty-five years old, why did he not pass away on the winter solstice, that is, on his birthday, but was able to lead his troops to fight with a dragon and a tiger?" Others don't know the inside story, don't you know? β
I looked at him in a daze: "I really don't know ......"
As soon as these words fell, the earlobe jumped violently, and the blood under the skin seemed to turn into a needle, piercing the earlobe one by one.
I raised my hand and touched my earlobe in trepidation, as if I understoodβcould it be because of that time, I was entangled with his spirit? The soul of his fingertips patched into my earlobes, and the fragments of my earlobes wrapped around his fingertips.
"He has an extra lifespan, I don't know how long, but he can't die for the time being," Zhao Mengqing bowed his head and said, "This was originally your lifespan." β
I laughed miserably: "Don't tell Your Highness about this kind of erroneous thing." Otherwise, he will murder me again. β
When Zhao Mengqing heard this, he threw off the sleeves of the lotus pattern, turned his head angrily and left.
Really, how can a person who is about to become an emperor still hold such grudges. He wasn't like this before, and when I was a squire under him, he was obviously so gentle that he didn't speak.
may not want to be the emperor, but he was abducted and deceived by Wei Qikeng to take on this great cause, and he was still angry in his heart, so he couldn't hear the word "His Royal Highness".
Although he had been instructed not to let the guard know about it.
But he himself is also smart, how could he not understand Wan Qishu's matter.
This time, though, he didn't blame me again.
Every night, every night, he hugged me tightly, rubbing my eyebrows over and over again, just like before the winter solstice last year. The difference is that this time, he still gently grasped my wrist from time to time, probing my pulse.
I know he's afraid I'm silently gone.
At that time, my ears were still good, and I heard his late-night sighs a few times, the kind with tremors.
"Envy, there will be a way."
Well, there will be a way.
Letting go is the best thing for us.
But I didn't dare tell him that.
The next day, he put on his clothes again and went into the palace to see Cheng Yu.
I almost forgot to confess, after the great victory of Jinguo, Cheng Yu was placed under house arrest somewhere in the palace by Wei Qi and his subordinates, but he did it without me, and later, when the little prince of Lanzhou came to see me, he vaguely mentioned this.
"Why put her under house arrest? Want revenge? I was puzzled, "But the matter has been settled, she has already given up her seat to Lord Zhao, and then to investigate her fault, wouldn't it be bad?" β
Lan Zhou's little boy frowned slightly, and muttered: "It seems that I want to get something in her hand, and I don't know what it is." β
I froze.
Almost instantly, he understood: he wanted Cheng Yu's immortal in his body.
It's a dead end. Cheng Yu has spent more than ten years and worked hard to accumulate such a little lifespan, how can she let things out, besides, if she takes out Immortal, she will become like me, she will die.
Immortality is her obsession.
How can this be said to be put down.
It can't be like this anymore.
If he continues like this, he will be led by Cheng Yu again.
I sat up and pinched the sleeve of the little boy Lan Zhou, although I had been thinking about the plan in my heart for a long time, I still felt extremely difficult when I said it: "Lan Zhou, I once helped you leave Nanguo Mansion, can you also help me...... Leaving the Imperial Palace? β
He didn't convince me, but in the end he was persuaded by me with tears in his eyes.
The two of us changed their coats like this, then pulled up their hair, let the black ends cover the silver and white color of the center of the hair, put on his jade crown, reluctantly put on makeup, and then walked out of the Chong'an Palace.
Go to Dongyun Wharf, take a fast boat, and go all the way east to Weihai.
When I got off the boat, I couldn't walk, but Zhu Xiaoliu, who was carrying seafood on the dock, carried me off.
I saw that his work of carrying goods was really hard, so I paid him to hire him, and then found a house where I could see the sea when I went out.
He didn't know what to call me, and I didn't want to tell him my name, so he looked at my hair, which was almost gray to the ends, and said hesitantly, "Call you sister, your hair is gray, call you aunt, you look very young." β
I made the decision for him: "Big nephew, you can call me aunt." β
He nodded, "Okay," after a pause, he made his request for the housekeeper's job, "I can't accompany you every day, and every time the big ship comes, I still want to go and have a look." β
Naturally, I agreed: "You just go and see yours, you don't have to be by my side." I can't move, you just need to come back and make me something to eat. β
But he explained his motives to me: "I used to send a brother off the docks, and I remember him a little, and I don't know why, but I always feel like one day he will come off the big boat. β
I exclaimed, "What a brotherhood." β
He laughed twice and touched his hair: "My brother's name is Xiao Qi, he looks like you, he is very handsome, and his daughter-in-law is also very beautiful, like a fairy." β
"You've seen it?"
"No, he told me."
This made me laugh: "He said that if he is beautiful, he is beautiful?" Maybe it's a lie, maybe the real person is like me, my hair is gray, my eyes are dazzled in a few days, and my ears are deaf. β
Zhu Xiaoliu was silent for a while: "Auntie, you look like a fairy, your hair is gray, you look more like a fairy." β
This big nephew speaks quite nicely.
The days passed peacefully.
At the beginning, Zhu Xiaoliu pushed me to go outside to see the sea every day.
Later, my eyes couldn't see, so Zhu Xiaoliu pushed me to go outside to listen to the sea breeze.
I've been looking forward to it, when summer comes, take off my shoes and socks, walk into the beach, step on the soft sand, and feel the cool of the waves on my feet. What Wan Qishu said, I've been thinking about it.
But now, it's getting hotter, my eyes and ears are not working, and it's hard to get out of the wooden wheelchair.
However, it's hard to live by the sea, so why don't you give it a try? What if one day the soul returns to the western sky?
So, after laboriously chewing a shrimp dumpling, I said, "Little Liu, tomorrow will you push me to the beach first, and then go to see the big boat?" β
He leaned into my ear and replied, "Okay." β
I smiled at him.
The next day, the wind was calm.
Zhu Xiaoliu pushed me to the beach, and at my request, took off my shoes and socks for me.
My feet slowly stepped on the sea and the fine sand of the spring, and although the sea was still cold, the gentle waves rushed to my ankles one by one, and for some reason, I was so happy that I wanted to cry.
It's a great feeling that your wish has come true.
It would be nice if Wei Qi was by my side and we stepped on the beach together.
It would be nice if I could live a few more years.
Thinking like this, my feet became less and less able to feel the softness of the sand, and the coldness of the sea water became less and less apparent.
Mizusawa fell from his eye sockets and slid on his cheeks, and there was no more sound.
The wooden wheelchair that always stuck to my back became soft at this moment.
You say, am I crazy?
How could you feel that someone was running from the other side of the sea, how could you feel that your heart was being gently blown by the wind and rain, how could you feel that the cold jade broke through the blood and fell into your chest.
How could I hear someone calling meβ
"Envy."
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