Chapter 23: The Heart Flower (20)
Shrouded in the yellow halo of sunset and dusk, the stream of time flowed in the gap between the bluestones, opening this long sleep.
Nanle was waking up from his dream, and when he lifted his eyelids, he reflected the gentleness and thoughtfulness of his eyes, and the sense of peace of mind also flowed into his heart.
Perhaps it was with such a heart and mind that Nanle opened her eyes and woke up from her dream, indifferently accepting the emptiness of the room where she was alone.
She has never been a dreamer, but if she dreams, she will only dream of her mother, and the long grinding of the years has made her unable to remember her mother's appearance, leaving only the warm voice and smile of her mother when she is still a baby.
And Yi Ci was the first person to appear in her dreams besides her mother, Nan Le thought, probably because she had too much contact with him in the past few days.
Nanle woke up and couldn't sleep, she got up and paced to the window, pushed open the window, the moonlight in the middle of the night was hazy, there was silence all around, she walked to the courtyard, and saw that there was no light left in the room.
When she returned to her room, there was a "click" and a small object fell at her feet.
Nanle bent down to pick up the jade mirror on the ground, and found that the lanyard was broken, and she re-tied the rope around her neck.
The carved heart flower drawn by the Ming Jade Mirror suddenly reflected in Nanle's brain, and the decision that evolved from an idea also followed.
Late at night, Nan Le changed into dark clothes, walked out of the small courtyard lightly, came to the outer courtyard, and saw that Jiang Qishu's room was still brightly lit.
It's normal, probably he's still obsessively tinkering with his own medicine jar.
In order not to be discovered by the servants guarding the door, Nanle came to a low wall and turned over and left the Jiang Mansion.
This was the first time she had gone out of Jiangfu in these days, and it just so happened that there were no people on the street now, so Nanle didn't have to worry about infecting others with the plague.
After a few streets, you will come to the Regent's Palace.
Nanle drove up from the foot of the low west wall and saw a dark blue maple garden.
Nanle pondered whether to splash a bucket of water directly to wake up the regent, and jumped off the roof of the west hall as light as a swallow and went straight into the west hall.
It was empty.
She didn't give up, and searched the entire Blue Maple Garden in the dark, but she still didn't find a single figure.
Although she didn't get the result she wanted, it was a good time to ransack the Regent's Mansion without realizing it.
If this situation had been changed before, Nan Le would definitely do this, but now that she had exchanged her one-month freedom for the promise given by the regent to the carver flower, then why should she be secret, she had to let him give the carve heart flower himself.
Nanle put aside the carving flower for the time being, and decided to come back when he had the opportunity.
On the way back to Jiangfu, she chose a quiet path and slowed down her pace and walked slowly.
I don't know when I'll be able to come out again this time.
Suddenly, like a whirlwind, a man jumped down from a tree on the side of the path, with his back to her, standing still in the cold wind, his white robe fluttering.
It's not his posture or the way he plays that matters is that he gets in the way.
Nan Le glanced at him, clasped his hands to his chest, no matter who he was, he always had to scold him first: "Good dogs don't get in the way."
Hearing this, the man in white slowly turned around, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.
Nanle looked at it, and it turned out to be Feng Chihao.
She wondered when Feng Chihao would return to the imperial capital, so she asked, "Why, you came to me so soon to beg for food?"
"......" Feng Chihao looked at her quietly, silent, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was a little helpless.
Nan Le took him as a tacit acquiescence and continued: "Didn't you just say that you came only after I flew the flute? Now I can't eat with you, to be honest, I was unfortunately infected with the plague when I was in Hezhou, if you are not afraid, I am happy to eat with you now. ”
The smile on Feng Chihao's face quietly faded, he twisted his eyebrows, and asked suspiciously: "Plague?"
Nanle said happily, "Yes."
Feng Chihao hung his head, pondering something, and asked with concern later, "Have you had a headache lately?"
Nan Le asked rhetorically, "Nonsense, isn't this a symptom of the plague?"
Feng Chihao looked at Nan Le quietly, thoughtfully, and then took out a small and delicate brocade box from his body and handed it to Nan Le.
He said, "I happen to have a medicine for the plague here, and it works, so take it."
Nan Le hesitated and glanced at the brocade box in front of him, but did not answer it, and said suspiciously: "How can you have a medicine to cure the plague, and you are also suffering from the plague?"
"No, a gift from a friend just in case."
Nan Le's eyes were quite sincere when he looked at him, anyway, no matter whether this medicine was effective or not, whether he could get better after taking it, Feng Chihao had no reason to harm her.
Feng Chihao said again: "This pill works very well, as long as you take it, you won't have any more headaches."
After thinking about the headache of not being able to survive and not dying, Nanle unceremoniously took the exquisite brocade box.
Flipping it open, she looked at the small black pill in the pit inside, and said, "Okay, thank you very much."
She was not in a hurry to eat, but put the brocade box into her arms.
Nanle asked Feng Chi Hao why he was here, and said, "Don't tell me that you are here specifically to wait for me and then beg with me."
Feng Chi Hao smiled and said, "If I have nothing to do, I will go around here, I didn't expect to meet you again by such a coincidence."
Nan Le nodded, he didn't plan to talk to him anymore, if Jiang Qishu found out that she had run away, he would have to nag her for a while.
Nanle closed the brocade box with a "snap" and said: "When I recover, I will release the flying flute to call you, don't worry, I Nanle promised others what I said."
Feng Chihao replied softly: "Okay."
Nanle clenched his fists, "There will be a period later." ”
As he spoke, he bypassed the wind and Chi Hao strode away.
After walking a few steps, I heard an inexplicable command from behind me - "Remember to take medicine!" ”
Nan Le waved his hand to Feng Chi Hao behind him without looking back, signaling to him that she knew.
Soon, her back was once again slowly hidden in Feng Chihao's eyes.
Feng Chihao was alone in place for a long time.
When Nanle returned to the Jiangfu compound, Jiang Qishu's room was still brightly lit, the door was half open, and the sound of conversation faintly came from inside.
Nanle clearly captured the sound of Yi Yi.
She snuck like a little mouse to the doorframe, eavesdropping on them once more.
"How long will it take you to develop an antidote?" The voice of easy words.
"So far, there hasn't been any progress." Jiang Qishu sighed and said.
"We can't wait, when she has a headache today, I will think about it, take someone into his lair, no matter what, we have to get the antidote." Easy to say firm voice.
Antidote? Can't be developed? Isn't she a plague? Aren't the people of Hezhou all fine? So why can't she get better...... Or is it not the plague that she has at all?!
Nan Le's body was huge, and his heart was suddenly shocked, and he guessed something.
She kicked open the other half of the door and burst in front of them.
"What are you talking about!"
Hearing this, Yi Ci and Jiang Qishu were stunned.
Yi Qi came back to his senses, walked over to her, tried to prevaricate, and said, "Woke up so soon? Is it better? Does your head still hurt? ”
Nan Le opened his outstretched hands heavily, and a pair of flaming eyes under the tightly gathered eyebrows forced Yi Ci to look at him.
"I, I, ask, you," she repeated aloud word for word, "what are you talking about?" ”
Yi Yi was silent, and it seemed that she heard it all.
Yi Ci stared at her, was silent for a long time, and then reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said, "What we said is another thing, it has nothing to do with the plague, don't think too much."
Nanle didn't believe a word, and turned a deaf ear to his prevarication.
She stared at him for a moment, and said in a wordless way, "It's never been a plague, is it?"
There was no doubt in the tone.
She had already guessed it.
Seeing her like this, Yi Ci simply stopped dodging in his eyes.
"Yes." The voice was heavy.
He thought that Nanle would collapse and make a fuss after he knew about it, but she was calmer, calmer, and calmer than he imagined, she just looked at Jiang Qishu and asked quietly: "There is no cure, is it."
Jiang Qishu bowed his head and was silent.
Nan Le had a rough idea in her heart, she was silent for a while, and asked indifferently, "How long can I live?"
Yi Ci was not calm when he heard this, he held Nan Le's hand and comforted: "Don't think so, there will definitely be a way."
Nanle didn't talk about these comforting nonsense, he was silent and his expression was indifferent.
She looked at Yi Ci, with a hint of guilt in her eyes, and said to Yi Ci: "I hurt you."
Obviously, she infected Yi Ci with the disease, but Yi Ci not only resented her and hated her, but also accompanied her indefatigably, hiding her from her in order to make her feel at ease, and bearing the pain of death alone.
Yi Ci was silent and stared at her for a while, the expression on his face was mixed.
Suddenly, he let go of Nanle's hand and told her seriously, "No, I hurt you, I'm sorry."
Nan Le was confused and frowned suspiciously.
Yi Ci continued: "Cen Huaiyao is a person from the Sect."
Then Yi Ci said another thing: "It is a transmissible virus, and it is very easy to contag, just touch it."
Therefore, everyone didn't even dare to get close to her, only Yi Ci was always by her side.
That's because he was already dyed when he knew it.
Yi Ci continued: "But it is not easy to be the first to be infected with this poisonous epidemic, and it takes seven consecutive days to take this poison before it will slowly spread in the internal organs, and it is impossible to miss a day. And, without an antidote, there is no doubt about death. ”
Nanle repeated the familiar number: "Seven days?"
Yi Ci said: "And you disappeared in the secret room for exactly seven days."
Chamber......
Nanle suddenly realized, is there a problem with the food in the secret room?!
She thought it was unlikely, "But ...... But someone offered me food, and no one forced me to eat, what if I fasted for a day, or went out of the secret room a day earlier? Isn't that going to be fine? ”
People don't have brains, do they?
Yi Ci said categorically: "Impossible, the person who planned all this has already thought about these questions, have you forgotten that there is another person in the secret room?"
Nanle was in a trance.
Wind...... Chi Hao? He is also one of the masterminds behind it??
After thinking about it, she felt incredible again, so she said, "What...... Will it? He's just designed for the same thing as me. ”
"Don't you understand it to this day? The stone building you have always wanted to raze to the ground is the Liaoshengmen of Hezhou, and that Feng Chi Hao is the master of the Liaoshengmen who planned all this! ”
Nanle was stunned and fell into the memory...... No wonder, no wonder!
No wonder he can protect her in time when she is in danger every time, no wonder he can feed her every time she is anorexic and fed her with clever words, no wonder he has eaten it for seven days, but he is safe and sound when she is poisoned, because he already has an antidote!
But Nan Le was still confused: "But why did he do this, I have no grievances with him, what reason does he have to harm me!?"
Yi Ci sighed and said heavily: "It's not you who he wants, but me, maybe he has already found out that you and I know each other, so he used you to spread the poison to me."
He paused, gave Nan Le a buffer time, and then continued: "Le'er, you're not wrong, you're just ......" The victim mixed in between us.
"I'm just a victim between the two of you!" Without waiting for Yi Ci to finish the comforting words, Nan Le was atmospheric and shouted out the words behind, "It's basically a grudge between the two of you, but the retribution is on the old lady!" ”
She Nanle can accept others harming her, but she can't accept others using her to harm others, why!
She is the protagonist, and the key point is directly to harm her! I'm scared!