Chapter 3: Just a dream
In Lin Yunyan's memory, Xu Jian had a long, terrible scar on her right leg.
It was cut by Xiliang's saber, which was Xu Jian's military exploits, and it also cut off Xu Jian's path to continue from Rong.
When he was injured, Xu Jian was only sixteen years old, which should have been the age when a good son Lang's sword was unsheathed.
Together with his comrades, he killed hundreds of Xiliang soldiers, and when he returned to the camp, the military doctor was helpless against his bloody right leg.
The leg was saved, but it was also useless.
Since then, in Xu Jian's words, the leg has become a "decoration".
It's long to hold up a scene there, so that it won't leave the pants empty, and if you want to talk about any use, it's really nothing.
I still have to wait, brewing medicine, pricking needles, pressing, and beating every day......
Rao is like this, still shrinking month by month, losing his vitality, accompanied by that snake-like scar, looking more and more terrifying.
Somehow it affected his left leg, and he could still stand on one leg and walk for a while with crutches, but later, he couldn't use crutches anymore and was completely tied to a wheelchair.
Lin Yunyan set her eyes on Concubine Wen again.
The concubine carefully talked to the queen mother about what happened that day.
The more Lin Yunyan listened, the more confused she became, she had seen Xu Jian's leg with her own eyes, and when she saw the scar, it was obviously such a serious injury, why could Xu Jian still walk like a nobody?
Could it be that Hua Tuo Bian Que and his wonderful hands have rejuvenated?
Wen Taifei's words were full of regret, and Lin Yunyan was full of joy.
Compared to being in a wheelchair and being unable to stand up again, just a little inconspicuous lameness, doesn't it mean that you are fine?
Of course, she still has doubts.
Lowering her eyes, Lin Yunyan pretended to sigh: "Grandpa Guo is so badly injured? β
"Yes," Concubine Wen sighed, "that skill, like his grandfather, but ...... Speaking of which, that injury is also ......"
Lin Yunyan listened with her ears pricked up, and when Concubine Wen suddenly paused, and when she spoke again, she only sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity." β
Such a turn is not blunt, but Lin Yunyan heard it.
Concubine Wen should have thought of something, and swallowed the "reason for Xu Jian's injury" that had already reached her mouth, and even at that moment, her gaze moved slightly to the queen mother, and then withdrew it.
Why?
Lin Yunyan was puzzled.
Xu Jian was injured because of beating Xiliangren, it is a war exploit, and he is bright and bright, what can't be mentioned?
"Just talking, I forgot to sort out the cards," Concubine Wen's hands pressed on the horse, "Come on, come on, I'm going to take back a city." β
The tables are buzzing again.
Coral was resting on the Bogu shelf, the cicadas chirping endlessly outside, touching and playing cards on the table, and talking funny from time to time, no one mentioned the person who sent the coral.
After three rounds, Concubine Wen looked tired before she was over.
Concubine Wen got up and retired.
Lin Yunyan sent it out and left the main hall, she wanted to ask Xu Jian about it again, but after thinking about it for a while, she gave up.
Concubine Wen likes to talk about homely things, but she also knows the proportions of the topic, and she is very obedient to the queen mother.
All the way to the outside of Cining Palace, Lin Yunyan turned around and returned to the side hall.
The card table had been closed, and the Queen Mother moved to the Luohan bed by the window, leaning against the bed, and her eyes fell on one place.
Lin Yunyan looked along and saw the pot of coral sent by Xu Jian.
Did Niangniang happen to be looking there, or was she pondering Xu Jian?
Lin Yunyan couldn't eat for a while.
Sensing that she was back, the Queen Mother withdrew her gaze and beckoned to her: "Come and sit here for a while." β
Lin Yunyan answered and sat down on the other side of the bed.
"Do you have something on your mind?" The Queen Mother asked, and without waiting for Lin Yunyan to answer, she said again, "There is no need to deny it, the mourning family can see that you are more tense today than before." β
was broken like this, of course Lin Yunyan couldn't say anything about the scene.
Her mind was indeed tense.
The monstrous fire one moment, the next moment in Cining Palace, or for her, the Cining Palace a few years ago, so earth-shattering, even if she guessed her own situation, she couldn't deal with it calmly immediately.
Xu Jian's leg injury is different from what she remembers, so how much has other people and things changed?
Domino effect.
She needed some time to calm down and think about it and figure out what was going on.
Xu Jian said before that there is a premise for being idle.
Only when everything is under control can we truly be calm, relaxed, and strategic.
Otherwise, it can be hard to pretend to be out and deceive an unfamiliar person with three or five points of effectiveness, but in the eyes of discerning people, it is simply a papier-mΓ’chΓ© tiger.
And the Queen Mother, who has read countless people, is too familiar with Lin Yunyan.
At this moment, the situation obviously did not give her time to slowly sort out her thoughts, and considering the left and right, his method would only be counterproductive to the queen mother, Lin Yunyan lowered her eyes, and after the silence of "wanting to speak and stopping", she finally opened her mouth in a low voice: "When I was resting in the side hall before, I had a nightmare. β
When the queen mother heard this, she smiled: "It's not a five- or six-year-old child, why are you dreaming of such a bluff?" β
"The fire," Lin Yunyan said, "the house is on fire, the smoke is billowing out, I am trapped inside, and I can't get out at all......"
In just a few words, the Queen Mother's eyebrows twisted, and the smile on the corner of her mouth disappeared.
She reached out and hugged Lin Yunyan into her arms, and held her back one by one: "Good boy, it's just a dream, it's just a dream." β
Seeing this, Mama Wang hurriedly glanced at the others.
The palace maids and attendants came out lightly, and Mama Wang glanced at the two of them again, and also retreated, standing outside the curtain, and secretly chanted "Amitabha" with her palms together.
She could also see that the county lord was absent-minded at the poker table.
It's not that the county lord shows all the emotions on his face, but the queen mother looks at the county lord several times.
Mama Wang has served the Queen Mother for many years, of course, she will not miss a look and a look, and it is this dedication and caution that makes her taste the clues from the Queen Mother.
Yuan pondered, maybe it was the girl's family that encountered something unhappy, but I didn't expect it to be such a nightmare.
It's no wonder that the county lord is absent-minded, no wonder the queen mother will stop talking when asked, and even more so that the queen mother will be so heartbroken when she hears it.
That year, the first emperor was seriously ill, and the saint of the prince took the princess, the little highness, and several ministers and courtiers to the temple to pray for blessings. In the middle of the night, the fire under the mountain was soaring, and there were screams for help, and the saint insisted on leading the guards to the rescue. But she didn't want to, there was also a fire in the temple, and the princess, the little highness, and the county lord's mother were trapped in the palace......
When the bad news came, Mama Wang remembered it very clearly, and her mother was heartbroken.
For Niangniang, that is not only her maiden cousin's niece, she has been serving Niangniang in the palace since she was eight years old, and later she is a princess companion, no different from her own daughter.
After that, the conspiracy of the murderous love under the mountain was torn apart, and the government and the opposition were shaken, until the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, and it gradually stabilized.
The fire on the mountain was an accident, but the people who were trapped in the fire, because the saint took away the guards and monks, and they were unable to rescue, but they could never come back.
The mother of the princess and the lord of the county......
A total of nine people were killed.
The county lord was not in that calamity, Xu is mother and daughter, when he lived in Cining Palace as a child, he had several dreams of fires, and cried in the middle of the night, and was hugged by the queen mother to sleep. I asked Bofu there, and he said that he would have a dream two or three times a month.
Fortunately, as I get older, there are fewer nightmares, especially in recent years, and I have never returned the county lord's nightmares.
The queen mother is still the same, she can't hear words like "fire" and "water", and she will feel uncomfortable for a long time when she hears it.
Thinking of this, Mama Wang quietly glanced inside.
The queen mother comforted the county lord, and it was still the same as before.