CHAPTER XLVI
It's night
It's deep
Fourteen and Seventeen knocked on my window and opened the door, and I was surprised, "Fourteen and Seventeen, why haven't you rested at such a late hour?" Seeing the two of them standing at the door, the whirring cold wind kept blowing, and he hurriedly invited the two into the house on one side.
Seventeen Shao's hands were red from the cold, and his ears were also red from the cold, so I handed him the stove and said, "Hurry up and warm up."
Seventeen young hands blocked, and said, "When is it, where is the mood." Looking at me, he said, "I guess you already know about the Turkic prince's request for marriage."
I didn't know what to say at the moment, so I just nodded.
Seventeen Shao asked, "What are you going to do, do you really want to marry the second prince?" ”。
I snapped, "Of course not."
Seventeen Shaodao said, "We have pleaded with the saint, but the saint has not expressed his position, I guess this matter is probably done, even the daughter of the saint's dear princess Arrow married Tuas Tusi a few years ago, not to mention you, if the two countries want to have a long-term relationship, harmony is the first choice."
I burst into tears and said, "Then what should I do, is there really no room for manoeuvre?" ”
The Fourteen Shaodao, who stood aside and didn't speak for a long time, said, "It's not that there is no possibility of maneuvering."
Seventeen Shao hurriedly asked, "Fourteen, have you thought of a way?"
Fourteen shook his head and said, "Not yet."
Seventeen looked at Fourteen Shao and said, "Then what did you mean by what you just said."
Fourteen Shao had a cold face, suddenly raised his head to look at me, and said, "Then it's up to her."
Seventeen Shao stared at me for no reason, pointed at me, and asked Fourteen Shao, "She, what can she do?"
Fourteen coughed lightly, "If you can drag it out, you can drag it out, but if you can't drag it out, you will fall ill, and it is best if you are sick and can't get out of bed."
Seventeen Shao bounced up from the stool excitedly, and said happily, "Yes, yes, what Brother Fourteen said is right, you can pretend to be sick, and you can tell them that you are sick when the Holy Lord sends people."
The smile on the face of the seventeen young man has not faded, and he was glanced at by the fourteenth young man on the side, and his resolute and cold face became more and more serious, and he said, "Seventeen, can you use your brains, in this palace, under the nose of the saint, deceive the upper and lower levels, is it that the head on the shoulder has not been wanted for too long."
Seventeen shrunk his neck, buried his head deeply, and couldn't say anything with a red face.
I stepped forward and said, "Thank you for today, Fourteen and Seventeen, you can go back for the time being, let me think about it."
As soon as the fourteenth and seventeenth young men left, Bai Xiaoqiu and Bai Yanleng came, I glanced at Bai Xiaoqiu, and saw that he was also looking at me in a daze, and his face was also sad that he couldn't hide it, his brows were tightly locked, and he must have been restless in his heart.
I looked at Bai Xiaoqiu, thinking of the attitude of fourteen and seventeen just now, there is no good way for a person who is so smart to be fourteen, he made me sick, but I am a good person, I am a good person, where does the illness come from. Not to mention someone else, somehow, I started crying.
Bai Xiaoqiu changed his previous attitude of cold admiration, gently pulled me into his arms, stroked my back, and comforted me softly, "Don't cry, with me, I will never let you marry the second prince of the Turks."
The more he said that I cried harder, choked up, shook his head and nodded, Bai Xiaoqiu just stroked my back and hugged me tightly.
Bai Xiaoqiu hugged me, Bai Yan stood coldly behind us, from the time he entered the door to the present, I didn't bother to look at him, the three of us stood silently like this, without saying a word.
Later, it was Bai Yan Leng who broke the silence in the house late at night, and he said, "Fourth brother, Feifei, don't be too sad, I think there is still a possibility of reversal in this matter, anyway, the Turkic prince said that if the saint does not give him an answer for a day, they will not leave Luoyang for a day, and we will slowly consume it, since they have this patience, let them wait."
Bai Xiaoqiu said: "The fifth brother has lived in the mansion for a long time and doesn't know it, things are far from being as simple as you think, if the two countries want not to go to war and get close to each other, it is the first choice, this is the traditional rule, don't you even understand this."
Bai Yan looked at me coldly, lowered his head, and looked worried.
Bai Xiaoqiu stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on my face, and still said softly, "Having said that, don't worry too much, I said that with me, if the soft ones don't work, the hard ones will come, and it's a big deal to tear your face and start a war with them."
Bai Yan exclaimed coldly, "Fourth brother, this is in the palace, not the White Mansion, be careful that the wall has ears, if the saint really agrees, we have no way at all."
I stayed up all night, got up in the morning, my eyes were red and I couldn't open my eyes under the sun, and I asked me, "Sir, what's wrong with your eyes."
Before replying, there was a palace maid with a child who was similar to Xuanxuan, and looked at it, it turned out to be the little emperor grandson of Emperor Jin, followed by the little Turkic prince, several children played happily as soon as they met, laughing and laughing in the courtyard, making trouble, and the palace maid smiled at me and took them to play.
Just sitting in the room, there was a palace maid who brought it early, I took a look, I felt that I had no appetite, and then asked the palace maid to bring it back.
Lying in front of the window and looking out of the window, carefully analyzing the attitude of Emperor Jin who he saw in the Chengyan Hall yesterday and what the major generals said, he suddenly felt that there was no hope in this matter, especially what Bai Xiaoqiu said in the end, it was a big deal to fight them. How to fight, for the sake of my two countries to go to war, how is it possible, do I have so much influence, even the daughter of the Holy Majesty can go and kiss, what am I, will the Holy One agree. If it really comes to that point, what kind of actions will Bai Xiaoqiu make, and there are still seventeen young people, as long as he jumps up and down on weekdays, acts recklessly, and has no words, I really can't imagine how the saint will punish them if they do something unruly and annoy the saint. Locked up, whipped with a whip, or cut off their heads. My heart trembled at the thought of this, I couldn't be so selfish as to let them risk it for me.
Another day passed, and I heard that the second prince had taken three days as a deadline for the saint to consider, and seeing that time was slowly slipping away between my fingers, I was anxious, so I asked Xuan Xuan to go to sleep first, help cover him with the futon, and paced to the window alone, looking at the mutilated cold moon in the night sky, radiating a vague halo, could it be that this cold moon is also pretending to be strong, and endure the desolation of the situation with tranquility.
The small tree in front of the door, blown by the cold wind, began to sway from side to side, as if whispering, mixed with a trace of heartache and sadness, always so natural and unwilling, the ice formed in the pool water in the moonlight, bright and extremely reluctant. At such times, everything around him, along with himself, mourns silently like a stone on the ground.
Pushed open the door, walked slowly to the yard and put his hand into the pool, touched the thick ice, and suddenly the biting cold reached my heart and spleen, didn't the fourteen young say that it was best for me to get sick.
At this moment, I had no other way, I picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it violently at the ice, watching the ice block be smashed open by me, and then slowly dissolved in the water until it completely melted into ice water, and then plunged into the pool water, so cold that I couldn't breathe, after a few breaths, the whole person in addition to the heart and mouth there is a pulse beating, the whole body is frozen up and down and has long lost consciousness.
I'm afraid that this won't work, what if my body is hard-boned, so I had to bear a wet head of ice water, and the cotton jacket on my body was removed, so I sat on the stone bench in the yard and faced the cold wind, at this time my body did not shake, stiff like an ice sculpture, I have been sitting upright, I didn't expect to fall asleep like this.
When I woke up, it was still dark, and it wasn't hot at all when I touched my forehead, I didn't have a fever, and I was still in good spirits, what should I do, I can get sick if I have a wind and grass on weekdays, this will be surprisingly vigorous, since I have done it, I will do it thoroughly, if this doesn't work then I really can't help it. I got up and lifted my moonlight legs, jumped into the pool with a pop, smashed the ice that had just formed into pieces, and didn't get up from the pool until it was almost dawn, my feet were so cold that I couldn't walk, and I almost crawled back to my room.
Xuan Xuan was still asleep on the other side, so I hurriedly wiped my hair, changed into clean clothes, and lay down on the bed to sleep.
I don't know how long it took to feel unbearably hot, I was shivering in bed, hot and cold, obviously I heard Xuan Xuan calling me, but I couldn't respond to him, I curled up in bed.
Xuan Xuan ran to my bed and shouted at me, I watched Xuan Xuan open his chapped mouth, his throat was dry and he couldn't speak, Xuan Xuan reached out and touched my face and head, turned around and ran out of the house.
Everything is as I wish, as I wish for the fourteenth youth, I am really sick, and I am not lightly ill, hot and cold.
The Holy Imperial Physician came to see me, I resisted in my heart, but I didn't dare to resist, and I didn't dare to resist the medicine brought by the palace maid.
Because my current situation is more complicated, although the saint did not express his position directly, but the second prince personally opened his mouth, and now he suddenly fell ill, although the saint did not blame me, but instructed the imperial doctor to be sure to treat me as soon as possible, the palace maid boiled the medicine and sent it to me every day and watched me drink it, and it didn't matter whether I ate or not, the meals and drinks were sent to me, no matter how big or small, and the care was quite thorough.
During the day, someone watched me do nothing, but at night I coaxed Xuan Xuan to bed, and when I saw him fall asleep, I jumped into the ice pool and soaked in the water, and so on for four or five days.
Eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, Bai Xiaoqiu and Bai Yanleng heard that I was sick, and they all rushed to see me, and everyone seemed to be relieved by the timely arrival of my illness, and they didn't care as much as before, and they didn't even say a word about taking care of me.
Seventeen rarely saw my face crimson, and said with a smile and joked, "Say that you are sick, you are really sick, as if this disease is coming to you at any time, as long as you summon it, it is really evil."
Fourteen Shao glanced at Seventeen, and Seventeen Shao immediately covered his mouth and said, "I won't say anything, I won't say anything."
Fourteen Shao looked at me again, the corners of his mouth moved to say something, but he didn't say anything.
Eleven Shao's face was as usual, as if he didn't know what had happened recently, so he just looked at it and didn't say anything.
Seventeen Shao looked at Eleven Shao and said, "Brother Eleven, you really cherish words like gold, you are everywhere, I have never heard you speak anywhere, like a transparent person, how did you live until now, what a weird person."
The general on the side scolded the seventeen young man, "Little seventeen, are you still a little inferior in your eyes?"
Seventeen Shao hurriedly lowered his head and retreated behind Fourteen Shao, so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything.
The general, Bai Xiaoqiu, and Bai Yan Leng just looked at me, and several of them frowned slightly, as if they were thinking about their own thoughts.