CHAPTER XIII

Daddy died in the Yingwang Mansion.

Auntie had just been buried, and Daddy saw the white flowers on my head, and suddenly tears rained down.

Crying and crying and crying, he died.

His hands began to get cold, then his feet, and later, even his chest was no longer warm. I sat on the edge of the bed and clenched his hand tightly.

I suddenly realized: from now on, Daddy will never appear in my life again.

He also said yesterday: When my brother finds his daughter-in-law, he will take me and my aunt back to Lixi. There is no interest at all in Chang'an City. When we went home, we went to fish in the Mohe River in the autumn and went hunting in the back mountains; In the spring, I went to the field to set up a scarecrow, and then rented some land from Uncle Zhang's house to plant a large piece of peanuts for A-Niang. In winter, Lixi will not be very cold, Ah Niang is busy in the kitchen, and he cleans up the garbage and rice thrown by the guests. This year, I will find an honest and honest family, I don't have to be too rich but not too poor, and I will have a big fat grandson in two years, and he and my mother can help me watch the child......

"Daddy, didn't you say you were going to take me and Auntie home? How can you not talk without words? ”

My life is like the winter in Chang'an, cold and long. Li Yan never woke up. Wang Lingyun has been with him, and when he sees me, he lets people blast me out. I had to sit in the doorway and count the snowflakes.

The snow fell endlessly.

I had been sitting on the porch, and that day, after half a month of snow, finally cleared. I heard Li Yan's cough coming out deep and shallow.

"Where's the fungus?" I didn't expect the first thing he said when he woke up was looking for me.

Wang Lingyun came out of the room crying. I was too timid to go in. I'm still wearing filial piety, Li Yan has just woken up, so it's better to avoid it. She said he let me in.

I patted my numb leg and said, "Now that I'm awake, I can rest assured." I will pay back what I owe him. "I took a few steps into the courtyard.

"Hua Sheng, you fool with no conscience, Lao Tzu broke his arm once for you, and you didn't even look at me!"

I don't know when he stood behind me, but when I turned around, he was still wearing his underwear, and the blood on his left arm was clearly visible. Standing barefoot beside me, grabbed my hand. Embrace me in your arms.

"Where are you going? Don't go anywhere! ”

A warm smell of Chinese medicine surrounded me, and I didn't dare to move, for fear of touching his wounds. In his arms, my nose began to pantothenic, and my heart hurt as if it had been crushed. I want to tell him my aunt and daddy, I want to tell him, there are many, many sad, sad, and unbearable.

At this time, Li Chengmei walked in with a large group of people. "Your Royal Highness is not shallow, you just woke up surrounded by beauties."

He grabbed my hand tightly with his right hand, as if he was afraid that I would run away. He pushed me behind him and said in the posture of an eagle protecting a chicken: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, since you have come to my palace, you should call me uncle according to your seniority." ”

Li Chengmei laughed.

"Now, this is the medicine that the emperor ordered me to take."

At this time, I realized that it was the prince of the dynasty who was messing with me.

He gave the medicine to Qi Yue, turned around and left, and stopped halfway through, as if he was about to say something, but he didn't say anything. Since then, Lee Sung-mi, the crown prince of the dynasty, seems to have disappeared from my life.

Li Yan is like a different person since he was injured, he no longer pesters his baby Wang Lingyun, he always sticks to me like a child, asking me to feed him water, feed him, and dress him.

I knew that it must be well-intentioned, trying to distract me, afraid that I would not be able to stand the blow of the death of my parents, and I would look for a short-sightedness.

I thought about dying. It's true. But my parents' revenge has not been avenged, and I can't let them die like this. The whereabouts of his brother are also unknown, and his fate is now uncertain. And Li Yan, he sacrificed his entire left arm to save me, I can't let him down.

I'm still alive as before, and I've closed the Fumanlou. Every few days I went to the pharmacy on East Street, the master heard about me, and he would never be fierce to me again, and spoke softly, in fact, I hope he will be the same as before, so that I can deceive myself, the days are still like this, Daddy and Auntie are still there, I want to learn medical skills quickly, and support my parents in the future.

The sun still rises every day, and I am still alive every day as I was yesterday, countless yesterdays. Just to be alive. I'll never smile again, as if I've lost this ability.

Li Yan was finally able to get out of bed. He doesn't go to court now, and often hugs the little fox Thirteen, muttering and talking. The first thing I say when I see me every day is: Come, give me a smile.

She was polite and thoughtful to me, but a lot of things were quietly changing. Unspeakable, unspeakable.

In the blink of an eye, Chang'an's Chinese New Year's Eve came. On Chinese New Year's Eve in previous years, our family would always stay together to make dumplings and boil yellow croaker soup, Daddy likes to eat lamb the most, and we will also put a lot of seasonings and put a large handful of dried chili peppers to blanch lamb. At this time, we always drink some wheat wine around the fire. It was Daddy's wine made from the freshest wheat, and when he took a sip, there was a long fragrance in his mouth, and his body was warm like a hot quilt.

The Yingwang Mansion was lit up, and there was a burst of laughter and laughter in Wang Lingyun's courtyard, the silk and bamboo were pleasant, and the guzheng was murmuring. I heard Li Yan's voice coming from there. Everyone in the palace is wearing new clothes, like a lucky doll spoiled by the whole world. I was the only one dressed in plain white. It's as if abandoned by the whole world. Oh, not likely, it really is.

I pulled my little red horse out of the stable, and it put its head against me in a gesture of affection. I touched its head, "Qile, let's go find Mu Xin, okay." ”

I just led Qile to the door of Yingwang's mansion, and Shi Niang was standing at the door and was telling the gatekeeper to see me.

"Ah Sheng, it's the New Year, your master and I are lonely, and I want you to accompany us." My sister was always so understanding. She didn't say I was pitiful, but kindly took care of my concerns, my sensitivity. My tears came as they spoke. She took me into her arms, she was a little short, but enough to give me all the security.

Shi Niang led me, I led Qile, and walked on the streets of Chang'an. Many of the shops on the street are closed, and there is one that sells tea and eggs, one sells sorghum wine, and one that sells steamed buns is not closed. The street is a little deserted, and the lady who sells steamed buns is shivering from the cold.

"Does Ah Sheng eat steamed buns?"

I nodded.

"Wait, Shi Niang will buy it for you."

I was holding the hot bun and was reluctant to eat it. At the corner of the road, I turned around and found a person standing at the door of the Yingwang Mansion, he was wearing a single coat, and the snow white seemed to be integrated with this winter.

East Street to the door of the pharmacy, the master's thin old man, standing at the door, at this time the night has gradually thickened, the light at the door of the pharmacy is on, the halo stains the ground under his feet, looking at the eyes are warm.

The master took the horse rope and patted me on the back: It's good to come back, it's good to come back. The master made you yellow croaker, and the master made dumplings for you...... We had a good family reunion dinner.

"Master."

"Crying for what? On such a good day, I was already ugly and cried, and when I cried, it was even uglier. ”

I didn't want to grow up, but everything forced me to grow up in an instant.

All the willing, unwilling, filled my mind in an instant, lingering.

My brother is gone. That's what I'm most concerned about right now.

My sister persuaded me to ask Li Yan for help. But I didn't do that. I already owe him my life, and in this world, the thing I fear the most is to owe favors.

Moreover, I have made my position clear a long time ago, he is a prince and nobleman, I am a small citizen of the market, and some things are better to settle at the beginning.

I was picking up medicine at the pharmacy that day. He suddenly appeared, and I didn't raise my eyes, "Give me the prescription!" ”。

There was silence for a while.

As soon as I looked up, he was standing in front of me. He is getting thinner and thinner, still handsome, and still can't take his eyes off.

"My arm hurts."

"The imperial doctor in the palace must be higher than the master's medical skills."

"My arm hurts."

"In this case, you go to the master to prescribe medicine first."

"My arm hurts."

"That's what you're going to say?"

"My arm hurts."

“......”

It was the first time I saw him since the Chinese New Year. I dare not say that I am as calm as a mirror, for the next time I see him, my whole body trembles, and I both longs to be near him and admonishes myself to stay away from him. Two forces tore through my mind, and I had to surrender and leave it alone.

"Why don't you go home?"

He asked me.

"That is your home, the home of you and Wang Lingyun."

"You conscienceless." Li Yan looked indifferent, angry and wanted to leave, and suddenly came back, "Oh, I know, you're jealous, right, yes, that's it." ”

"Doctor, can't catch the medicine yet, my daughter-in-law is still waiting for the herbs to give birth?"

"Scratch. Right now, right away. ”

And he was there saying, "You're just jealous." ”

He had been sitting on the small bench in the doorway, waiting for me to grab my medicine. It doesn't look like a prince at all. For a moment, I thought he was really cute.

Finally, the door is closed. It's already dark now.

Li Yan is a prince who is not a picky eater, he also eats big fish and meat, and pickles and steamed buns. After we ate the meal cooked by Shi Niang, he threatened me with a sore arm and asked me to accompany him to the highest place in Chang'an City.

By the time we walked up the walls in the cold wind. He told me with a mysterious face: Hua Sheng, you give me a smile, and I will show you something.

I think he's nervous. And I don't seem to have laughed in a long time, and I doubt I can laugh anymore.

Suddenly, the fireworks exploded very close to us, and the brilliant beams of light flew in the dark night, and the falling fireworks rushed up again halfway, blooming lilac-like flowers. Brilliant and brilliant. From time to time, the sky is dyed red, green, blue, purple......

"Can you laugh at one?"

"What do you want to laugh and cry about?"

.....

I live in the pharmacy, and every few days Li Yan will bring me delicious food, either my favorite bun on East Street, or the glutinous rice crisp and osmanthus cake made by their cook.

Little fox Thirteen was also fed round by it, like a ball. It's always like Qile at that time.,Love follows the master.。 However, it loves to follow Li Yan the most. Li Yan held it every day during the recuperation period, the little guy is a tsundere master, Li Yan is so used to it, it is very close to him.

On this day, I followed Li Yan back to Yingwang's Mansion. I still have a whole bunch of stuff left there.

When I was packing up, Li Yan looked at me without saying a word. Follow me in and out with a black face.

"Hua Sheng, I found that you really have no conscience."

I didn't answer.

"Isn't the original contract counted? You, aren't you looking for your favorite Seven Pleasures? ”

"Seven Pleasures." I put down my baggage: "If you have a fate, I'm sure we'll see you again." ”

"Then you won't take revenge? Do you think you alone can deal with them? ”

"Do you know what they're all about?"

"You live in the palace tonight, oh, no, from now on, and I will take you to them."

"Li Yan, can you not always threaten me."

"It's not a threat." Li Yan suddenly grabbed my hand: "Before my uncle died, he told me to take good care of you. ”

"I don't want anyone to take care of me."

"Then I need someone to take care of me."

"There are so many people in your palace."

"Do you have a conscience?"

Every time Li Yan asked me this sentence, I really didn't have anything to do.

I was not afraid of him being fierce to me, but as soon as he put his injured arm in front of my eyes and asked me if I had a conscience. All his requests, I seem to be satisfied without thinking about them. And willingly, willingly.