One day when Kita Yuliang also returned, the sky was clear.

The Queen Mother and the concubines set up a banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust, but his face was a little pale, and there was no trace of blood on his originally fair complexion, which made people feel that it was fine porcelain that would be broken when touched.

In the end, he pushed down the banquet, and the concubines' elaborate costumes also lost their color and broke up unhappily.

Originally, the fifteenth day of the new year of each month was to sleep with the queen, but he made an exception today and insisted on staying in the Longcheng Palace.

The secretary's room sent a new incense - Xia Feng Pavilion, with peony, peony, rose stamens as the main ingredients, with tender lotus leaves to boil water and it, and finally put these raw materials into the unopened lotus buds, and take them out when the flowers bloom. It's a warm fragrance, and it smells too beautiful and lingering, but it's not as good as listening to the snow around the fireplace in the mountains that day.

I remember Yinyue once inadvertently said that she liked the peony roses in the summer, and she didn't dare to be so flamboyant. If she knew that the secretary's room had developed such a warm incense, she would definitely like it.

Li Mingquan paced around the room, looking a little impatient. I asked him, but he refused to say, and it wasn't until the moment Bei Yuliang also entered the door that he greeted him as if relieved.

"Your Majesty...... The old slave went to call you Imperial Doctor Lu. ”

Bei Yuliang also nodded tiredly, and slowly sat on the soft couch, with fine beads of sweat on the straight bridge of his nose.

"What are you doing? Hurry up and get some hot water! Li Mingquan reproached, although I was puzzled, I didn't want to ask too much, and I came back with a basin of hot water.

When I came in, Bei Yuliang was also taking off his shirt, and his abdomen was hastily bandaged with gauze, and blood was already oozing out. Imperial Physician Lu frowned, staring at his finger-long wound.

Judging by the shape of the wound, it should have been wounded by a sharp weapon such as a dagger, and the flesh was turned outward, and there were already signs of suppuration.

As the doctor stitched up the wound, he looked sideways out of the window as if he didn't feel anything, but the fist clenched on the armrest betrayed his indifferent expression.

I really can't imagine how he could deal with the Queen Mother and the concubines with such a wound.

The imperial doctor cleaned the utensils, glanced at me, and shouted, "Why are you standing still, come over and take a hand, and wrap it with gauze!" ”

The snow-white gauze was wrapped around his waist one by one, and he didn't dare to use force when he knotted it, looking up at his expression, he saw a warm smile that he didn't have time to take back.

"Change your medication once a day." Imperial Physician Lu handed over the things to me and left under Li Mingquan's guidance.

"Your Majesty, isn't it just a broken jade pendant? If you rob it, you rob it, you still use your life to snatch it back, if there are three long and two short, how can the old slave explain to the first emperor?! Li Mingquan muttered, his tone full of dissatisfaction.

I gathered my things and didn't pay much attention to their conversation.

When Li Mingquan retreats, it's almost time for me to rest, but he is injured, and I should stay and take care of him.

The main hall is full of the smell of the summer wind pavilion, and there is a feeling of Qiluo fragrance and warmth.

In order not to let himself be idle, he wiped the floor for a while, added fragrance for a while, and was so busy that he was sweating profusely.

Bei Yuliang also sat there, motionless, as soon as I raised my eyes, I found that he was looking at me, his light gray eyes were faint and warm, as if there was an indescribable emotion.

"Come here." He said.

I pointed to myself, looked around at no one else, and then moved to him.

He handed me a ring, the jade color was gentle, the soft white combined with the light green, and the candlelight was like a graceful lady.

This ring is the one I shot through with an arrow in the paddock, and it was he who won me a lot of money, and it was because of this that I became the target of public criticism.

"I'm afraid of losing it again, I'm afraid that I won't be able to get it back, so let's return it to its original owner." He spoke calmly and with a natural expression.

The ring was quietly placed in the palm of my hand, and the concentric knots on it had faded a little.

"After you left, I tried my best to redeem it, just waiting for the day when I handed it over to you personally, but I didn't expect it to be many years in a flash." He said to himself.

"That's what you're protecting with your life?"

"I've tried a lot to find you, but I haven't heard from you again." He didn't answer the question, just gently smoothed the broken hair on the side of my ear. "I thought I would never find you again. Maybe people's faces will change, and their mood will change, but I'm still glad to meet you again. I owe you a life, and I don't know how to make up for it, so I can only do my best to keep you from being hurt and wronged. ”

Slowly clenched the ring, and the ice broke at the bottom of my heart.

"The first time I saw Mu Han, it was very similar to the scene when I first met you, I don't like to let the concubine wear pink clothes, because the first time I saw you, you were pink clothes. But Mu Han did the opposite, and her coquettishness was very much like you at that time......"

It's been with him for so long, and it's the first time I've heard him say so much. Each sentence can bring back a piece of the past.

"Jin'er, I'm really scared, you'll disappear again." He cautiously reached out and took my hand, his fingertips cold.

"Squeak-" The door was pushed open, and I quietly withdrew my hand, and turned around to see Li Mingquan coming over with a bowl of hot porridge.

I quietly retreated to the side hall, and hung it on my index finger, the thin spike at the bottom swaying gently.

The table was littered with scrolls, and only one neatly rolled was placed on one side.

Open the picture scroll, the pink clothes, the hibiscus flowers on the shoulders are blooming, this is the picture scroll I saw when I was delivering things to Mu Han a few months ago, when I knocked down the lotus seed porridge because of panic.

Unfolding the picture scroll little by little, the girl on the painting is beautiful and pretty, with some immaturity that does not know the world between her eyebrows, the corners of her lips are curved, and she smiles at the city.

Countless pieces poured into my mind, slowly putting them together.

The scene in front of me suddenly changed, and I seemed to go back to that year, that day in the bluestone alley.

The girl held an umbrella and passed by, and the rain wet the lifelike hibiscus flowers on its shoulders.

The river swelled, placing against the shore.

The sound of the horse's hooves reminded her and she hid behind a tree.

The brigade of men and horses chased a weak teenager, the boy ran desperately, and the people behind laughed and chased.

The long arrow pierced his chest, and the boy fell sideways in the rushing water.

When the sound of horses' hooves faded away, she came out from behind the tree in fear, and there was blood stained on the shore, and she remembered her mother's teachings and did her best to be kind to others.

She jumped into the water without hesitation and desperately rescued the boy.

The boy still had breath, and when he opened his eyes, he pushed her away indifferently. "Fuck off."

"Do you think I'm willing to save you!" She huffed and walked in the opposite direction, only to see him lying straight on the ground. She panicked, ignoring the soaked clothes on her body and her exhausted strength, and carried him to the hospital.

But she had no money, and the eldest lady never gave her pocket money, so she saved his life by replacing the silver money with the ring pendant left to her by her mother.

The picture is blurred, and the mind turns back.

I thought, I forgot, and he forgot. But the truth is, we all remember this memory.

On that day, it was the day of my mother's birth, and the eldest lady implemented family law on the grounds that I did not abide by filial piety and did not understand the rules, in fact, she did not want to find a midwife to give birth to her mother, and she did not want her mother to give birth to a son to shake her status.

I held her leg and begged her, begged her.

But by the time the midwife came, the mother had already died of blood, taking away her unborn brother.

I saved the son of heaven, but I couldn't save my mother or save myself.