Chapter 44: Forgiveness
"Your Majesty. Concubine Wen lost a son, and now when she sees the emperor, she will inevitably be sad. The slave believed that if the mother did something to hurt the emperor's heart, it must not be her intention, and asked the emperor to forgive her sins. After Ruxia bowed down to Cheng Qian, she got up and entered Mingyang Palace.
Cheng Qian was outside the Mingyang Palace and refused to leave for a long time.
Su Wenmei cried enough, wiped the tears on her face again, and went to Bing'er and Ruxia's room from the small door. Now, in Mingyang Palace, both of them are like first-class palace maids beside Su Wenmei.
At this time, Bing'er was lying on the bed to recuperate from her injuries, and when she saw Su Wenmei coming, she hurriedly knelt down and saluted.
"Don't move." Su Wenmei said, stepped forward to support Bing'er, and didn't let her go to the ground: "Let me see if the injury on your back is better?" ”
"Mother." Bing'er smiled, moving her hands, preventing Su Wenmei from looking at her injuries: "It's not a big deal, but let you worry about me." ”
"If you don't let me see it, I don't feel at ease, you used to be by my side every day, but today I don't see you for a day, I feel like something is missing." She said, taking Bing'er's hand: "Let me see your injuries."
Bing'er: "Niangniang, I wasn't a pampered girl originally, and I will be fine in two days." The slave also wants to be by your side every day, waiting for you. As long as the slave maid looked at the mother, she felt very happy. ”
"Then you need to take care of your injuries and get better soon." Su Wenmei pulled down one side of her dress and checked the injury. Bing'er couldn't resist Su Wenmei, so it was up to her.
"Niangniang, the slave's injury has scabbed, and it doesn't hurt anymore." Bing'er turned her back to Su Wenmei, but she could feel Su Wenmei's concern for her.
The whip marks on Bing'er's smooth back are now scabbed. Su Wenmei's hand stroked Bing'er's back, and when she thought of her silent appearance when she was whipped, she felt a little distressed: "Ruxia is on night outside today, you haven't been medicated tonight."
As she spoke, she took the gold sore medicine she brought, dipped her fingers in the ointment, and wiped it off Bing'er's back.
"Niangniang...... Bing'er felt a chill from the wound behind her, knowing that it was Su Wenmei who was medicating herself, her heart trembled, and she shouted: "Niangniang jade body, how can you medicate the slave maid, Niangniang ......"
"Bear with me, don't move." Su Wenmei rubbed the medicine for her: "In my heart, you are no longer just my slave." The title of the slave and maid master is just a rule to be followed in the palace. ”
"Ruxia is a careful person, but sometimes when you have to do things outside, it is inevitable that you can't take care of you. Tomorrow, I will arrange a girl to wipe the medicine for you every day, and you will get better soon. ”
Bing'er's heart moved, her eyes glistened with tears, and she didn't speak again. In fact, she has been worried about Su Wenmei since she was sent back to Mingyang Palace last night, and later heard Ruxia say that Niangniang shed a lot of blood, and then the imperial doctors came, but Niangniang's child was still gone.
She saw Su Wenmei today, and she also found the tears in the corners of Su Wenmei's eyes, and she wanted to ask her in person. However, at this time, Bing'er found that she couldn't say a word if she wanted to ask her and care about her.
Su Wenmei gave Bing'er medicine and gave a few more instructions. I went back to Mingyang Palace to wash and put out the lights in Mingyang Palace, but I couldn't sleep.
She thought of her parents, her grandmother, her cousins, and ...... Sun Yuan. It's too poignant for her to beg for her own appearance during the day. If the verdict is handed down early tomorrow morning, then Sun Ma will really be finished.
Tossing and turning and unable to sleep, she still decided to make a little effort for her, but I don't know if Cheng Qian is asleep at this moment. She hurriedly put on a cloak, didn't light the lamp, and opened the door of Mingyang Palace.
But when he saw Cheng Qian standing outside the door, when he saw her open the door, Cheng Qian looked at her with four eyes, and his heart moved: "Wen Mei." ”
Su Wenmei was surprised that he was still outside the door, stunned for a moment, and then blessed: "The concubine sees the emperor." ”
Cheng Qian took her hand: "The moonlight is very beautiful tonight, go out for a walk with me." He loved her so much that even in front of her, he rarely called her "I".
Su Wenmei wanted to refuse, but Cheng Qian undoubtedly took Su Wenmei's hand. He led her very slowly, his palms warm, warming Su Wenmei's pale fingertips. They walked a long way along the palace road, without saying a word all the way, but unconsciously came to the pear garden outside the Chonghua Palace.
At this time, the pear blossoms are gone, the pear trees are lush with green leaves, and there are small emerald fruits on them, which are very beautiful.
"The first time I saw you in the palace that day was in this pear garden. I once said to you, love at first sight, and my heart is beautiful. It was, and it is. He held Su Wenmei's shoulders and looked down at her affectionately. Su Wenmei looked at Cheng Qian's eyes, as if she saw the simple and sincere young man at the beginning.
"I used to be afraid that others would be jealous of you and hurt you, so I suppressed my feelings and grounded you, and even didn't see you for half a month."
"But do you know how hard I am? Wen Mei, you don't know how sad I was when I saw that dead body in Jinyun Palace. Later, when I learned that you were not dead, I was happy and angry, angry that you did not say goodbye, angry with you, and angry at you for ignoring my concern for you. ”
"I didn't control myself last night, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for you, and our first child......" He clenched Su Wenmei's hand and felt a little distressed. Su Wenmei faced Cheng Qian's confession, and her heart gradually softened.
She also understood Cheng Qian's impulse yesterday, and cried again: "But our first child is still gone......"
"Don't cry." Cheng Qian stretched out his hand to wipe her tears: "Your tears are the stars in the sky and the pearls in the sea, if you drop a tear, my heart will be uncomfortable." If it hadn't been for Bing'er last night, I wouldn't have known that you had suffered such a grievance in Jinyun Palace. ”
Jinyun Palace?
Su Wenmei raised her head when she heard this: "Your Majesty, what are you going to do with the concubines?" ”
The light in Cheng Qian's eyes gradually dimmed, he thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "She harms you, I naturally can't spare her easily." I'll show the servant tomorrow what kind of femme fatale daughter he has taught. Sun Xiao's case, even if the capital crime can be avoided, it is impossible to escape the living crime. ”
"This time she hit the knife, I want them to know that no one can touch you in the palace, otherwise you will be against me."
"Your Majesty, I am a concubine with Sun Yuan, and the emperor's approach is inevitably a little biased. If this is the case, I am afraid that the concubines will become the target of public criticism in the palace. Besides......" She looked at Cheng Qian's eyes and slowly moved her gaze down.
Su Wenmei looked down at the flat lower abdomen: "Besides, our child died in the womb, and the concubine didn't want to create karma at this time." So the emperor, let's take the concubine lightly. ”
Cheng Qian held her hand: "It's been harmed like this, you still speak for her!" ”
Su Wenmei clenched her hands a little weakly: "The concubine didn't speak for her." The concubine thought that if the concubine could take the initiative to admit her mistake in front of the emperor, she must be truly repentant. Knowing that mistakes can be changed, good is great, the emperor might as well be light, let her live. ”
"Then let me think about this matter again." It was night, Su Wenmei's knuckles were cold and cold, and a gust of evening wind blew, Su Wenmei felt a chill and shivered involuntarily.
"Is it cold? I'll send you back to the palace. Cheng Qian said, unoff the robe on his body and wrapped it for her. Regardless of her resistance, he picked her up horizontally, and carried her all the way back to Mingyang Palace, the long road was long, and he walked very steadily.
She let her guard down and rested her head on his solid arm. When I first met him in Pear Garden, he looked like a somewhat silly scholarly boy. But in just half a year, he has grown into the handsome, solid and reliable appearance he is now.
After losing the child and feeling a little weak, she leaned on Cheng Gan's shoulder and fell asleep unconsciously. When she woke up again, she didn't know what time it was, and Cheng Qian was lying beside her. The corners of her eyes were wet, as if she had been kissed.
Cheng Qian looked at her without blinking. Seeing her wake up, looking at him with a pair of watery eyes, his heart moved, and the suppressed evil fire in his body seemed to be even stronger. He took her into his arms: "I said earlier, don't look at me with such eyes, I'm afraid I can't help it......"
Su Wenmei raised her head, her eyes were like a goblin that hooked her soul. She looked at him and put her hands around Cheng Gan's neck: "Are you afraid that you can't help but become a beast?" ”
She looked at him like this, and he couldn't help but kiss her on the lips. He put his arms around her and kissed her like a storm, but in the end he cared about her body and didn't take a step closer.
He put his arms around her sideways, and when he was about to take it anymore, he rested his chin on her head and stopped all movements: "Don't move." ”
He hugged Su Wenmei and told her about his lovesickness for days. She realized that he was not disgusted with himself, but he was the king of a country, and there were too many things to worry about. Su Wenmei even hated his status as a king.
Cheng Qian took a long time to say, and Su Wenmei listened patiently. After he finished speaking, his hand stroked Su Wenmei's delicate and fair face, and looked at her bright eyes in the dark: "Wenmei, yesterday I was too afraid of losing you, it was my impulsiveness, and it was my bad that made you hurt." Do you still blame me? ”
Su Wenmei looked at him and didn't move, didn't speak, and leaned on his shoulder after a while. It's a little uncomfortable, but he always has his own in his heart, so that's enough.
Thinking about the joy with Cheng Qian in the past, and the happy time with her father and mother in Su Mansion, she fell asleep again, and gradually, Cheng Qian heard a faint breath in her ears. She sleeps like a well-behaved cat, and he loves it very much.
Not long after she fell asleep, she had a dream in which she seemed to have fallen into a bottomless ice cave, and the cold water poured into her mouth and nose, and she struggled, as if she was going to drown in this endless despair in the next second.
"Brother, I'm so cold, brother......" she muttered.