Chapter 2: The Truth
"Bailing, she's the new Bailing." Thrush put down the comb and explained with a smile, "The princess said a long time ago that you should add some people to this house. β
"Oh." Sizhen seemed to remember that there was such a thing, and no longer asked.
Mama Qin and Thrush breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
Sizhen sat down at the table and picked up the small silver spoon.
As soon as the hand was weak, the silver spoon fell on the table.
"Gege is good, I don't have the strength, let the slave come." The thrush casually picked up the silver spoon on the table, tested the temperature, and handed it to Sizhen's mouth.
The warm and fragrant porridge was fed into his mouth, and Sizhen suddenly felt that his empty stomach and intestines were stretched.
"Thrush." She looked at the girl in front of her and shouted.
Thrush groaned, smiled at her, revealed two tiny dimples, and held a silver spoon to her lips again. It's good to wake up! Kong Sizhen thought in a daze while eating porridge.
Even the white porridge is so sweet!
It's not like in a dream......
Kong Sizhen's mind came up with the scene of the fire, and his face immediately turned pale.
She hugged her head and screamed in pain.
The silver spoon in the thrush's hand was empty, and it fell to the ground with a miss.
Oops, Gege is sick again!
"It's okay, it's okay." Mama Qin walked over quickly and hugged Kong Sizhen in her arms, "Don't be afraid, Gege, look, aren't we all here?" Don't be afraid, don't be afraid......"
Hearing the gentle and loving voice of the nurse, Kong Sizhen slowly calmed down, but the tears on her face fell down.
"Nurse, I'm having that dream again, it's so scary, I dreamed ......"
"Don't be afraid, don't say it, you will have a headache when you think about it, don't think about it again!" Mama Qin covered her mouth and didn't let Sizhen say any more.
It wasn't a dream, it was a scene so real that Mama Qin didn't dare to recall.
Every time Gege thought about it, she would faint, and the imperial doctor repeatedly told her not to let her think about those things.
In fact, for all this time, Gege has refused to face reality, always treating it as a dream.
How nice it would be if it was a dream!
Mama Qin secretly wiped a handful of tears, squatted down, looked at Sizhen and said solemnly: "Gege, let's say okay, those unhappy things must be forgotten, and that terrible dream must also be forgotten." Look, aren't we here? Don't think about it anymore. β
Sizhen looked at the familiar layout in the room, the smart and vivid maids, and a few familiar faces......
Everything was so beautiful.
Her mother, her father, and her brother are all here...... It's time to think about that dream anymore.
Sizhen nodded, "Nurse, I don't want to, I won't talk about that dream anymore, don't tell your mother, she will be worried." β
Mama Qin endured the sourness in her heart, nodded, and wiped the tears on Sizhen's face with a brocade handkerchief, "Okay, don't say it, Gege, you have to eat well, if you are fat, the princess will be happy......"
Another girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed like a thrush and a lark, walked in and said to Sizhen with a smile: "Yes, Gege, if you don't eat well, you won't be able to practice martial arts with Young Master Cousin." β
Sizhen's eyes showed surprise, "Skylark-"
Sizhen turned her head to look around, the nurse was there, the thrush was there, the yellow warbler was there, the lark was there, although there were a few strange maids, but they were dressed in her familiar clothes, and they were full of vitality between talking and laughing.
She suddenly felt inexplicably frightened, worried that it was a dream.
Sizhen secretly pinched herself, ouch! It hurts.
It's good that it's all real, not a dream.
She stood up and said happily: "Nurse, I've eaten, I'm going to see my mother'......"
Mama Qin was worried, but thinking of the imperial doctor's explanation, she didn't dare to tell the truth, so she had to stand up and pull Sizhen who was walking out, "Don't worry, Gege, don't worry, it's still early." β
Kong Sizhen's gaze turned to her, and said with a smile: "It's good to be early, if my mother sees me go so early, she will be shocked, and she will never say that I am a little lazy worm in the future, and she will definitely allow me to practice sword with my brother and them." β
Her tone was full of pride, and she lifted the curtain and walked into the outer room.
Sunlight poured into the room through the blue screen window, and the room was dappled with golden light and shadow, and a few golden chrysanthemums were obliquely inserted in the Ruyao beauty, lining the room with golden light.
In the midst of that light, she heard a voice, and Tarzan rolled down like a crusher.
"Don't live in fantasy anymore, your father and mother have been burned to death, how long will you deceive yourself?"
With this voice of implicit anger, a young man wearing a royal blue dragon dark satin costume with sword eyebrows walked in.
"Your Majestyβ" The people in the room knelt down.
Kong Sizhen stood up, oblivious to everything around her.
In her ears, all she could do was what the young man had just said, "...... Your father and mother have been burned to death......
The man said that his mother and father had been burned to death......
Burned! Burned! Burn......
Sizhen's eyes appeared in front of the skyrocketing light of that night.
On the fourth day of the seventh month, Li Dingguo, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, led the Ming army to break through the Wusheng Gate in the morning, the Qing army could not resist the enemy, the whole line was defeated, and the king of Dingnan was hit by an arrow in the forehead...... That night, in the city of Guilin, a fire broke out in the Dingnan Palace.
The fire soared into the sky, in the lonely night, it was particularly frightening, and the entire city of Guilin, because of that fire, printed half of the sky red.
And she, in front of the window of a private house outside Guilin, watched the fire burn......
The firelight, red, seemed to be right in front of her, and she could smell the strong smell of pine oil, and see the flames of the old high scurrying on the ground.
In the flames, there was her father and mother, who were devoured little by little and burned into ashes......
She shouted desperately, loudly, but couldn't make a single sound, they seemed to be separated from her by two worlds, unable to get close!
No, I'm going to save them, noβ
Kong Sizhen cried loudly, she fell to the ground, and crawled towards the firelight that appeared in front of her eyes......
"Gege?!"
The house suddenly became chaotic, and in the panic, Sizhen's cry was particularly poignant.
Fu Lin stood there, looking at Kong Sizhen, who was originally smiling, and after listening to his words, his little face immediately turned pale, and his eyes were amazingly large from fear to surprise to grief......
She pursed her lips stubbornly, and when her gaze touched his, her pupils shrunk and there was no focus, as if he were not him, and she was trying to crawl somewhere.
Perhaps, she wanted to climb into the sky-high fire that had long disappeared to save her father and princess......
Just like the imperial doctor said, Kong Sizhen's heart knot has not been opened, and she stubbornly believes that if she stayed in Guilin City at that time, her relatives would still be there, and the family would still live happily together......