Chapter 10: Forget Your Worries
The night was cold and dewy, the cold was pressing, I knelt alone on the long palace road, for a while I shivered straight straight, my lips were bruised, my teeth trembled, and my legs hurt even more, I gritted my teeth and rubbed my painful knees with my hands, and my eyes were sore and unbearable after crying.
I knelt here for about an hour, feeling sleepy and tired, but awake from the cold and pain.
I didn't eat much at the palace banquet, I was hungry, I screamed with hunger, and I could only lament the bad luck when I went to find food in the middle of the night. What kind of person did I bother to pull Li Xuan's tiger whiskers, and as a result, I suffered and suffered, if I returned to King Xuan's mansion, I would definitely shrink into Aunt Yun's warm quilt for me and sleep at this time, how could I still kneel in this ghost place and starve and freeze?
I let out a long sigh of dejection, but I still straightened my back and knelt down, not daring to relax. Li Xuan's wife has always had a lot of flowers, and there is his eyeliner in the palace, if someone sees me perfunctory, it will be a twist and turn to his ears. God knows how hard it is to please him!
This is the first time Li Xuan has severely punished me, no matter how big a mistake I made in the past to annoy him, he only punished those who served by my side, it was nothing more than killing chickens and monkeys, but this time he didn't show any mercy, it seems that his patience with me has reached the limit. In the future, I will definitely be more careful about what I say and do.
That's okay, with this first time, there will be a next time, I won't involve Xiao Ye Ashi and them, in the past, they were punished by Li Xuan, and I have always been very upset in my heart.
Thinking about it this way, I feel much better, and the grievances I had before have been thrown away by me, and I am no longer depressed.
The night in the palace was really cold, and the cold wind blew on me one after another, and I subconsciously tightened the cloak that the queen mother had prepared for me, and now I only relied on this cloak for warmth.
Looking around, the guards guarding the city had changed shifts half an hour ago, and they didn't even look at me, they all regarded me as a transparent person.
I laughed at myself, I thought too much, who in the palace didn't recognize me as Princess Xuan, the guards just didn't expect Li Xuan to love me so much in front of people, but the queen was so indifferent to me, and even punished me. In fact, it was not only them, but even I didn't understand why Li Xuan's emotions fluctuated and his mind was unfathomable when facing me, and dealing with him always made me exhausted.
He made me wonder what my past had to do with him, what had happened between us before I forgot about it. I intuitively felt that Aunt Yun didn't tell me all the reasons, she always had reservations, but she treated me sincerely, and I couldn't continue to ask and embarrass her. Aunt Yun is reluctant to tell me the truth, it is about Li Xuan's meaning, with Li Xuan blocking it for a day, the mystery of my life experience will be difficult to solve.
When I was ruthless about Li Xuan's heart, I didn't know that although Li Xuan went out of the palace gate, he didn't get on the carriage back to the palace, he walked a long way on foot, impatient, irritable and depressed, after all, I couldn't rest assured that I walked back again.
He stood in the corner of the palace gate and looked at me kneeling on the ground from a distance, his figure was as lonely as a crane, and his eyes were as dim as mist. His heart was tormented, but he could not reveal even the slightest bit in front of me, for the truth I wanted to know was cruel and would surely push us further and more devastated.
After a long time, I recalled all the things I met Li Xuan in Qinzhou, and I only felt that the old dreams of the past were like seeing flowers in the fog and looking at the moon in the water, gaining and losing again and again. I once gave him a full love, but he was hurt to the point that I was desperate, and I did not hesitate to take "forget my worries" and destroy all my memories of the past. And Qi Ao, I am destined to fail him, childhood sweetheart, and eventually become a stranger, only gloomy.
For no reason, a strange and intense chill appeared on my body, spreading from the soles of my feet to the hundreds of bones in my limbs, the cold sweat on my forehead did not stop, and the beads of sweat slipped down one by one, and my eyes were suddenly blurred, and before I could cry out for pain, the pain in my chest swept in, slammed into my heart, and tore the flesh and bones of my body.
Fang Jue's throat was fishy, and a mouthful of blood gushed out, splashing on my purple cloak, as dazzling as a blooming red lotus, and then I lost my residual consciousness and fainted and fell to the ground.
In the fog, there was a vague urgent call in my ears, someone rushed to pick me up, hugged me very tightly, my face was pressed against the person's chest, the faint fragrance of the breeze and bitter bamboo lingered between the wings of my nose, I could smell that it was Li Xuan's unique breath. I fainted for no reason, was he so nervous?
For some reason, my heart was astringent and swollen, and then I fell into a complete darkness and fell unconscious.
When I opened my heavy eyelids, the first thing that caught my eye was the swollen walnut-like leaflets, this girl had a pitiful virtue, but it made me feel warm. It's a shame that she still has a little conscience, and I'm so nervous, it's not in vain that I stuff a lot of delicious food into her on weekdays.
I tried to comfort her, but I found that my voice was hoarse after falling asleep, and I couldn't even speak. After drinking a few sips of water to moisten my throat, I smiled at Xiao Ye, who knew that this girl was crying more fiercely, the tears fell down, the voice was so loud that my ears were not clean, but fortunately, Aunt Yun came over in time to persuade her.
"Xiao Ye, the princess just woke up, and you cry so loudly that you will make a noise for the princess." Aunt Yun was considerate, bent down to help me sit up, and took a soft pillow to cushion behind my back, my consciousness became sober, and I lost the drowsiness just now.
Xiao Ye hurriedly covered her mouth when she heard this, and choked for a while before she stopped crying, she wiped her tears with her cuffs, and said: "Princess, you are scared to death of the slave maid, so you can go to the palace for a banquet, why did you come back like this, if it wasn't for the princess carrying the princess all the way back to Moyuan, the slave and maid would not know that something happened to the princess." ”
I was stunned, inevitably a little surprised, I didn't expect that it was Li Xuan who brought me back to the palace from the palace, the smell of the breeze and bitter bamboo I smelled that night was the smell of his body, it seems that he is not too ruthless, at least he didn't leave me alone in the palace.
I looked outside, it was dark and it was late at night, Aunt Yun seemed to notice my expression, and explained: "The princess is waiting for the princess, in fact, the princess has been staying in front of the princess's sickbed for the past few days, and after dinner tonight, several ministers came to see the prince, and the prince went, and it is estimated that he is still in the study at this time." ”
I cried out, "Where am I waiting for him, aunt don't guess." ”
Who would have thought that Li Xuan was a fighter, if he hadn't punished me to kneel on such a cold ground, would I have fainted suddenly? After all, I was born to fight with him, and I couldn't get together. He doesn't like me, I don't like him, and I suffer from each other, the difference is that it's me who is at a disadvantage every time.
Aunt Yun laughed, a little kind: "The princess said that she didn't think about it, then she didn't think about it, and the slave said a lot." ”
Aunt Yun looked at my expression as if she knew everything, and I felt weak for no reason, so I changed the topic and said, "Auntie, I'm hungry and want to eat." ”
Since I was punished that day, I have never eaten a meal properly, and I am very hungry at this time, Aunt Yun's cooking skills are the best in the palace, and the dishes she makes are the most suitable for my appetite.