Chapter 20: Poison Hair
"Five tones, can pass through five elements; Six laws, you can know the six intestines," the music ended, Liu Ke raised his sleeves and said, "Please take a seat for Mr. Quan." ”
"The disciples of the poor road can know all things through music, or they can solve the doubts of His Highness and Niangniang." Xuan Shouzi raised his eyebrows, stroked his beard, and squinted at Liu Ke's side.
Liu Ke smiled faintly, picked up the tea cup, and blew the tea stalk floating on it.
Xiao Qiyun stretched out her arm, and Rong Yue hurriedly stepped forward to hold it, and followed her master a few steps forward. Through the veil as thin as a cicada's wings on the screen, it can be vaguely recognized that the man on the other side of the screen is handsome, but he has lowered his head and behaved restrainedly.
Rongyue really felt the abnormality of her master. Xiao Qiyun's hands were not only cold, but also trembling inexplicably. After taking two steps, even his feet were weak, and he almost fell down.
"Master, pay attention!" Rongyue couldn't help screaming, but fortunately, she reacted quickly and stabilized Xiao Qiyun.
It was at this moment that the man behind the screen raised his head defenselessly, and then lowered his head again. Only this was very soon, Xiao Yinke, who was sitting in the middle of the hall, happened to see the true face of Quan San through the wooden lattice crack by the screen. Quan San had suffered some injuries, especially the right half of his face, which looked like a beachhead blown by rain and wind, leaving some red, red and white pits. Genjuko is right, it's terrifying. Xiao Yin's heart tightened.
"I do have a question for Mr. Quan," Xiao Qiyun was very serious, as if she was carefully staring at the person behind the screen, "The old illness has recurred in the spring, I don't know if it can be cured?" ”
"Poor people only know the sound of music, and they don't understand medical science. However, Wu Qing, the senior brother of the poor Dao, may be able to diagnose the mother. It's just that," Quan San lowered his head, paused for a long time, and continued, "Master once said that the world is unpredictable, and sometimes there is no way for the doctor or the Taoist. Poor Dao only hopes that Niangniang can have a calm relief. ”
Quan San's voice was very hoarse and ugly, and what he said was a bit vain, and Xiao Yin couldn't figure it out. Looking at Xiao Qiyun again, it seems that he has solved his doubts. She stretched her eyebrows, smiled clearly and comfortably, turned her head, and said to Xuan Shouzi who was sitting in the banquet: "Thank you Heavenly Master, this palace should indeed be calm and relieved." ”
This strange Taoist priest Quan San, as well as his sister's abnormal reaction, made Xiao Yin feel a little incomprehensible in his heart, and he couldn't be calm until night, so he grabbed a small jacket and put it on, grabbed a book and read it under the lamp.
Seeing that she was up, Cai Ping came in from outside, cut the wick on the case, and asked with a smile: "Since Lord Weng came to Chang'an, he has worked harder than he used to work in Qilan, and he actually has some of the strength of the prince to study back then." ”
"You're getting bolder and bolder, and even I laughed at it." Xiao Yin threw a volume of the book in his hand at Cai Apple, and made a gesture to throw it at Cai Apple, so bluffing that Cai Apple begged for mercy, while saying that he would never dare anymore, he asked with a smile: "Lord Weng is so late, why don't you rest?" ”
Xiao Yin tightened the small jacket he was wearing, looked at the swaying lights, and was a little stunned: "I don't know what's wrong, I always feel a little unsteady." Let me ask you, do you think my sister is a little strange today? ”
"Mother?" Cai Ping's brows furrowed slightly, and the small silver scissors in his hand moved, and the light suddenly brightened, "The slave didn't think there was anything strange." The first lady seems to have something on her mind, but wasn't she explained by the Taoist priest later? Don't think so much, I think, it's all the rumors that make a fuss, and everyone thinks about it. Rest quickly and watch your body. ”
Xiao Yin didn't say anything more, just called the lights on the bookcase to go out, and went into the inner room. Cai Apple followed the past and put down the gauze tent, and inside and outside the warm pavilion, only a few glass lamps hanging under the eaves were left, glowing with a warm and groggy light.
Xiao Yin lay on the couch for an unknown amount of time, and in a daze, he felt that there was an extremely cold wind blowing in the courtyard, as if it had been poured straight into the warm pavilion of the wing. The bells hanging from the corner of the gauze tent rang endlessly, as if it was a little woman who had been wronged, crying endlessly.
Xiao Yin was in a daze, thinking in his heart, most of the time he was still dreaming, this wing room was not a tuyere, how could there be such a cold wind backing up? In a daze, he rolled over, intending to ignore it.
The groggy courtyard seemed to wake up. As if in the blink of an eye, the entire corridor around the meditation garden was brightly lit. The lights that were out everywhere were noisily lit up.
A bright light burned into the tent, and a maid from the main room ran in crying.
"The master is not good!"
Sister! Xiao Yin immediately sat up, turned over and got out of bed, and ran to the main room without caring about dressing.
Cai Apple hurriedly grabbed his cloak and shoes, and chased him out.
In the small courtyard, which was usually quiet, everyone was extremely flustered for a while.
In the main room, it was so quiet that it was frightening, and it seemed that between the beds and tents, only Xiao Qiyun's heavy panting voice could be heard. Xiao Qiyun leaned on the couch, her face was pale, her lips trembled, and her eyes seemed to be a little empty. A few maids stood quietly in the room, fiddling with the stove and cutting the wick. Only Rong Yue sat on the edge of the collapse, holding a small teacup in her hand, but her face was the same, and she swallowed her grief alive without making a sound.
The glass lamp shines through the red and green tents, casting a grinning twisted phantom into the room.
Xiao Yin was a little at a loss, grabbed a maid, and said urgently: "Quick!" Go over there and tell Your Highness that you will pick up Prince Xue Yu to help my sister diagnose her illness! ”
"Lord Weng, it's ...... I have sent someone over there to pay homage to His Highness, but there has been no reply. The maid was embarrassed, so she simply knelt on the ground.
Hurried footsteps sounded in the courtyard, and Xiao Yin hurriedly rushed to the outside to see that it was not Liu Ke, but Xiao Huan who lived in the side courtyard.
"Lord Shizi." Rongyue stood up and saluted, looking a little stunned. Later, when Xiao Yin remembered the events of that night, he was also a little suspicious, his brother lived in a remote courtyard far away from Jingxin Garden, and it was the middle of the night, how could he get in, and how could he come in so timely.
"Brother!"
"You get out!" Xiao Huan screamed at his sister.
Xiao Yin had never seen such an older brother. Xiao Huan has always been unrestrained in her eyes, and she is full of love and accommodation.
Mu Qi made an invitation behind Xiao Huan, and Cai Ping pulled Xiao Yin out of Xiao Qiyun's room. Those who retreated together were the maids in the house.
In the lifeless room, only the two sisters and brothers were left.
Xiao Yin looked at the roof of his sister's room, and his heart was extremely dazed.
The sky is still dark, I don't know what time it is, and I don't know how long it will be before dawn. The lights in the corridors around the small courtyard were all red and yellow, reflecting the dark red shimmer on the ridges of the main houses.
Xiao Yin couldn't hear the movement in the house, so he could only pace back and forth on the small pebbles in the atrium.
Suddenly, there was some movement in the inner room, and Rong Yue was the first to react, and ran in with Xiao Yin.
Xiao Qiyun exerted all the strength of his body, threw away an ivory carving on the bedside table, and said in his mouth: "Don't go quickly." ”
"Sister!" Xiao Huan's face was full of reluctance and sadness.
"In the middle of the night, Fei Chuan sneaked into the inner courtyard of the East Palace, don't you understand," Xiao Qiyun said with difficulty, "Have I said everything in vain?" ”
Xiao Huan stood outside, his eyes slightly closed, he took a long breath, shook his sleeves and turned to leave.
Through the flickering lights in the room, Xiao Yin saw a clear light shining in the corners of her sister's eyes.