CHAPTER XIV

I still live in the palace.

After dinner, I sat on the swing and read the medical book, which mostly recorded how to fight poison with poison.

"Hua Sheng, did the prince go to the side concubine?" Qi Yue was wearing a moon-white robe, which made her skin white and beautiful, and she was radiant.

Probably from the day Li Yan was injured, she stopped calling me "Ah Sheng".

There are things that don't need to be explained.

"I guess so."

I continued to flip through the book and left a little space for her. It turned out that we would all be sitting on a swing.

"The prince really loves Wang Lingyun." She called her full name. I was a little surprised. She didn't sit next to me, as usual.

She stood quietly by the swing.

"The two of them have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and the prince has always doted on her from that time to the present. She was jealous, and he didn't have a woman for her. It's really afraid of melting in my mouth, and I'm afraid of falling when I put it in my hand. I have never seen a woman who is so favored by the prince. ”

"Childhood sweetheart, there must be no guesses."

The moon is gone. I looked at the medical book at a loss, and the large and small droplets soaked the pages, slowly getting bigger, denser, and lighter in color.

Since you don't like me, why are you setting off fireworks for me?

I'm having insomnia again.

In the middle of the night, I sat on the roof and drank. There was silence in the city of Chang'an. Occasionally, there are people who go to bed late, lighting the lights, and the shallow roosters and dogs barking. The stars whispered in the sky, and I watched as the moon crept slowly from the willow tops to the horizon, and a fiery red cloud in the east stained the dark sky.

It's almost dawn.

When A-Niang was alive, she always said: As long as the day dawns, everything will be fine.

I had just come into the house and lay down, not for an hour. I heard the sound of Li Yan slamming the door.

"Hua Sheng, hurry up, I'll take you hunting."

I ignored him and went back to sleep, when he barged in.

This isn't the first time he's been in the house while I'm sleeping. Cold hands, reaching into my neck.

"Lazy worm, get up. I know of a place in the suburbs where there are a lot of birds. ”

"I'm not going."

"To go or not to go? To go or not to go? His cold hands came to scoop up my quilt.

......

Outside the city of Chang'an.

In the early spring, the wind is still very cold, and as soon as the horses run, the cold wind pours straight into the neckline.

Li Yan asked me: Is it cold or not?

I said: Cold.

He said, "I'm cold, too."

I sneezed several times in a row, and he hurriedly threw the mink jacket over to me.

I threw him back again.

"Put it on, or we'll ride the same horse. You choose. ”

......

It was a glacial lake with a lot of birds on the river, the most striking of which was a large flock of swans. They stand on the ice, two by two. Graceful like a princess.

"Hua Sheng, go back and make you some soup to make up for it."

Li Yan picked up the arrow, hid in the dry grass, and the first arrow shot out, and hit the swan in the middle of the lake.

The swan fell to the ice.

"Ah Sheng, you stand by the lake, I'll pick it up."

The lake was very large, and Li Yan had only reached the halfway point when a swan began to mourn, and the sound was poignant and long.

I watched blankly, it hung over the dead swan, hovering and circling, refusing to leave for a long time, and after flying low for a few laps, it suddenly spread its wings, rushed into the sky, screamed resolutely, flew into the air, suddenly turned and swooped towards the ice lake, and at this time, its wings never flapped again. In a resolute martyrdom, it smashed its head into the ice, and it died at my feet.

The whole head got stuck in the ice. The thick ice smashed out several intersecting cracks, and in a few moments, blood filled the cracks.

Li Yan looked at me blankly, and then at my feet. A look on the face of doing something wrong. I stood there, not daring to move, for fear of frightening their souls.

Li Yan and I coincidentally put the two dead swans by the reeds.

Buried them together.

The wind was still blowing, colder than when it came.

"It's nice to have a partner for life."

"A companion? So how can you have a full house of children and grandchildren? ”

I took off my clothes and threw them at him. Untie the horse from the tree. Mounted his horse and galloped back to the city.

"Flower Sheng! Flower fungus! ”

He kept calling me. I didn't look back.

My emotions come as they say. Tears seemed to freeze in the wind. I don't know what I'm crying about. Anyway, the tears just can't stop. Sure enough, girls are sometimes hypocritical.

When it was about two miles away from Chang'an City. Li Yan rode a horse and stood in front of me.

He didn't say anything.

Jump off the horse in one step, take my horse by the hand, and stretch out your right hand to me: Come down.

I sent God to dismount.

He draped the mink coat I had just worn over me. Hold me in your arms. I was struggling.

Hear his voice coming from my ears, with a demagogic magic.

"Good, let me hug."

I started crying again. I don't know when I became so crying. I want to cry when I see him, and I want to cry when I don't see him.

After a while, he seemed to feel it. Pulled me out of his arms and leaned down to look at me.

"Why are you still crying?" The louder I cried.

"I'm going to kiss you if I cry again." As he spoke, his face began to draw closer.

His lips pressed to my forehead and he nodded slightly. Squishy and icy. His gaze was inquiring and cunning, as hot as if it were about to breathe fire.

My face started to get hot, from my cheeks to my neck to my ears.

"Shy?" Li Yan smiled and wrapped me in his arms with a warm coat. "You'll have to get used to it sooner or later."

How nice it would be if time stopped at this moment.

At this time, I saw Li Chengmei again. He was dressed in a snow-white robe and held a sapling and hoe in his hands. Coming towards us.

"Ahem." He faked a cough. "His Royal Highness King Yingwang is really a model of romance. General Mu just sent you ten beauties, isn't it enough for you to hug, and now he's holding my Asheng? By the way, isn't your family's Wang Meiren jealous? ”

Hearing this, I immediately withdrew from his arms. looked at Li Chengmei.

"Ah Sheng, you love to eat peaches the most, I'll plant a peach tree for you in the bamboo house, and in three or five years, it will be able to eat."

I haven't answered yet.

Li Yan said: "Aren't there peaches in Yingwang's Mansion?" How dare you bother His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? ”

"I planted it myself, and Ah Sheng definitely likes it. Right, Ah Sheng? Li Chengmei looked at me and pulled out a smile that fascinated everyone.

Li Yan glared at him. "Let's go, let's go home."

I waved to Li Chengmei, but Li Yan saw it, with a black face all the way, and didn't say a word to me.