The wind gently lifted the curtains, and by the faint light of the candles, he could see two women, one old and one young, whispering outside the door.

“…… Old Slave ...... Didn't let anyone call the girl......"

Faintly like hearing this.

The moonlight was cool outside, and the ground was white with snow.

He barely supported himself and drank the medicine that his mother-in-law had just brought him. Holding back the feeling of grogginess and soreness, he looked around carefully.

Although the room is not small, the furnishings are quite basic. There was a bowl of medicinal soup on the red table, a few notebooks, a red candle, and a few low stools scattered around the table. A copper basin is placed on a basin stand next to the door. Looking inside, there was a simple yellow wood couch, with a soft smoky gray curtain half-hidden.

The young man rubbed his head, and Qingling's eyes were bright.

He only remembered that he was inexplicably infected with the plague, and it was clear that he was grounded and never went out.

After that, he was groggy and dizzy and nauseous. I lay in bed all day long, and I couldn't get up.

Vague and hazy, the woman seemed to come.

She led several chamberlains and grandmothers to rush into his palace, and she looked at him with a smile, eerie and cold.

Her eyes were shallow, like snakes lurking in the dark, and they made his heart palpitate. From childhood to adulthood, it has always been.

"The seed left by the fox is really unlucky!" She stretched out her slender nails, scarlet and shiny. She seemed to turn her head and say to the inner maids: "There is a plague in the north, and the emperor is going north to inspect the people's situation, who would have thought that not long after leaving, the fourteen princes in the palace were also infected." ”

Leng snorted, she continued: "Few people enter the cold palace, and when you open the door again, you find that the fourteenth prince has already died of serious illness...... Do you remember every word of what I said......

He was exhausted, and before he fell asleep again, he heard the attendants and grandmothers respond in unison.

And later?

He forgot. It was as if he had been woken up by freezing once, and a snowflake fell on his nose slowly, and he shivered, and he was awakened by freezing.

It was snowing, and a pair of hands that were already purple and stiff were next to his face.

He lifted his eyelids and glanced over his head--

One head was covered in snow, and the eyelids on his face were faintly open, but the eyeballs were cloudy and gray.

It's a dead body! Are you dead?

It seemed to be a man's rough voice and a child's scream, and he rolled his heavy and weak eyelids, and looked to the side with his eyes half-raised.

It's like a mass grave.

A black and rough man held a child like a chicken, and the child hung down powerlessly without resistance.

He didn't know where the strength came from, and he was already so uncomfortable that he was going to die.

He struggled to his feet and staggered over to them.

Maybe the black man didn't think that there would be a living person here, maybe he relaxed his vigilance because he was a weak child in his hands, anyway, the black man didn't notice that someone was approaching behind him.

Until the blade he stabbed at the boy was tightly grasped by him, and the bright red blood fell on the clean snow along the tip of the knife, and the warm red blood burrowed into the cold white snow, merging with each other like a beautiful flower.

The black man stared back at him in horror with his slender eyes, as if frightened by the ugly red spots on his face, and he threw the boy down and staggered into the nearby woods......

The timid are like chickens, and learn how to be wicked from others......

———

Mother-in-law Chunzhi entered the house with Lu Shutan with a dark face, and she had already figured out what was going on.

As soon as Shu Tan entered the door, she looked at the red-spotted young man with his upper body half-propped up and stunned, judging the two of them with a ruthless and rough appearance just now, she snorted coldly in her nose.

"The girl will apply this medicine to him again, and I will go and clean up the firewood room for him to sleep." Mother-in-law Chunzhi asked Lu Shutan.

There are only two rooms and a firewood room in the side courtyard, and the master and servant have one room, so naturally there is no superfluity.

scold

She's a small-bellied person!

Feeling that there seemed to be some pain in his neck, Lu Shutan moved his hand bones, buckled a finger of ointment, and walked to the red spot boy.

"Do you want me to paint your back?" Her tone was hard and cold.

The young man recalled what he had just done to others, lowered his eyes, nodded slightly, and said as if ashamed: "Trouble girl." ”

Shu Tan snorted coldly and lifted the thick quilt covering the young man's body.

The young man's thin back was displayed in front of Shutan, and there were big red boards on his back.

Aiming at the red spot, Shu Tan secretly poked and increased the intensity.

The place where he was smeared was sore and itchy, as if there were small ants gnawing on his back.

The young man on the bed opened his mouth with difficulty, gritted his teeth and squeezed out three words: "Hemp...... Annoying girl, light ...... Lighter ......"

Shu Tan raised his eyebrows, thinking about hearing the details of this person: "It's not like Chen Guoren...... Who are you and who are you? ”

The burning and stinging sensation was even worse, and the erythema was itchy and painful due to the effect of the ointment, and the boy's body was trembling even more at the moment.

After being silent for a while, he pursed his chapped lips and replied in a weak voice: "A small peasant family in the Chu State, Song Shuyu." ”

His voice was like a wisp of smoke, and his head was dripping with sweat.

“…… Song Shuyu...... Happen! My name is Shutan, and we all have the word 'book'! At this time, she also forgot that she had just been frightened by the fierce and vicious appearance of others.

But the boy didn't pay any attention to her, and stood up straight like a dead fish, lying on the ground with half-closed eyes and looking at the straw mat below him.

Shutan wanted to ask him a few more words, but when he saw that he looked tired and weak, he stopped talking again.

People are still in mass graves before they are dead, Lu Shutan is a little sympathetic, life is like mustard, people are lighter than soil.

Granny Chunzhi came back after a while, and together with Shutan, she took Song Shuyu to the firewood room.

A simple and cold room, neatly stacked with firewood and a stove. The straw mat was spread next to the stove, and Granny Chunzhi felt that the firewood room was cold, so she put a few more bedding for him.

A smoky charcoal basin was next to a straw mat, and the red light of the stars was faintly shining in the basin.

Mother-in-law Chunzhi brought another bowl of porridge, steaming hot: "It's cold, and the firewood room is leaking, drink some hot to warm up your body!" ”

In fact, Shuyu didn't feel cold at all, maybe he couldn't feel it anymore because he was drowsy, maybe he was cold all along.

The porridge is very sweet, and it turns out that the sweet one is also quite delicious.

The coals were burning heavily, and the room was a little choking, but the faint warmth made him feel very comfortable.

He looked up at the ceiling above, and it seemed that he was about to fall asleep.

--

"What the hell is going on?" Liu Shi took a cup of hot tea and poured it on Xiangyun, and Chunzhi's mother-in-law was shocked to watch from the side.

Xiangyun didn't react much, and still stood there honestly with his head down. The wisps of heat were steaming on her clothes, and her delicate face was quickly flushed by the hot water.

"Madam, that Wang Guide said that he saw a ghost on the mass grave, and he was frightened, so he ran back."

The hair was sticking to her cheeks, and a few tea leaves were also sticking to Xiangyun's eyelids, and she wiped her face with her hand.

Liu shouted angrily: "What nonsense! People are five big and three thick, but they are so unreliable in doing things! You go and tell the Wang family that her family's lands want to be taken back again! ”

"Yes, ma'am." Xiangyun lowered his head and leaned over, and said, "But madam, the slave maid heard Wang Guide say that it seems that there is really such a person who saved the little young master......

"Well, I'll keep an eye on it. Lu Shutan's sister and brother also saw your face, you should pay attention in the future and don't cause any unnecessary trouble. Let's go down~"

"Yes."