The entrance and exit of Akiba Mountain inside and out, even a dog hole under the wall has been tightly blocked. The carriage that drove out of Miyagi stopped in front of the door of the house, Chu Mingxiu jumped down from the carriage with someone in his arms, and the crow-like subordinates at the door immediately surrounded him and covered the person in his arms with an umbrella.

"Call the medic here." Chu Ming ordered without looking back.

On the way out of the palace, Chu Mingxiu listened to Yuzhu intermittently about Chu Zhixia's illness. Chu Mingxiu had an indescribable feeling in his heart, and he was even more afraid that Chu Mingyan would not be able to stand it if he knew it.

Chu Zhixia was placed in the splendid bed, and the room was covered with charcoal. Her pale and sharp face looked particularly fragile against the golden embroidery, and the blue and purple veins on her wrists were like spreading branches, which was shocking.

The military doctor around Chu Mingxiu is the best at knife wounds and insect poison, and he was also a well-informed figure who traveled south and north before he joined the army. As soon as he heard that Yuzhu said that it was a blue-eyed snake venom, he immediately decided to release serum poison to Chu Zhixia.

"The Hundred Poison Pill is just dealing with ordinary snake venom, how can it solve the poison of the blue-eyed snake gallbladder? It's just a slight delay. The medic placed the silver knife on the candle flame and burned it until the blade was as bright as snow.

"But it's just a snake gall." Yuzhu couldn't help but say.

It was precisely because it was just a snake gall that Yuzhu relaxed her vigilance and let Chu Zhixia touch it. If he knew that this would be the consequence, Yuzhu's death would not have allowed Chu Zhixia to touch the blue-eyed snake gall.

"The venom of the blue-eyed snake, which penetrates through the skin, is just a little bit of toxin. But the eldest lady practiced martial arts freely, and her blood was stronger than ordinary people, and she suddenly encountered an accident, and her blood attacked her heart, which caused the snake venom to go through her heart. The military doctor didn't raise his head and submerged the silver knife into the sake, and said expressionlessly, "The general should be glad that it's just a snake gall, otherwise he can only collect the body of the eldest lady at this moment." ”

Chu Mingxiu couldn't hear this, and scolded lightly: "Shut up." ”

The military doctor prefers not, "Go and prepare a bowl of medicine that nourishes qi and blood, the stronger the effect, the better, otherwise the eldest lady may not be able to survive." ”

Yuzhu nodded hurriedly, picked up the hem of her skirt and ran out - the fine work of Akiba Mountain Curie had not been caught yet, she had to keep an eye on it herself, and she couldn't fake it for a moment. Yuzhu was in a panic, and when she went out, she bumped into a person's arms, and the water agarwood was pungent in her nose.

The man stood firmly, holding her wrist and telling her to stand, his fingers as white as ice, the result of years of weakness and chills.

Yuzhu froze in place.

"Don't know me anymore?"

"Lord Wang......" Yuzhu's eyes widened in disbelief.

Chu Mingyan unveiled the blue-gray hood that covered his appearance, revealing a haggard and thin face that was still handsome. Compared with when he left the clouds, Chu Mingyan lost a lot of weight, and he had a sense of tiredness.

Chu Mingxiu heard the movement, closed the door and withdrew, blocking Chu Mingyan's movement to go inside.

"Don't look at it, brother." Chu Mingxiu comforted softly, "You can't stand it." ”

When she was a child, Chu Zhixia learned to walk, and those warblers and warblers in the yard deliberately didn't look at her, which made her fall so that her chin was broken, and Chu Mingyan rarely got angry; She began to learn swords with Li Qingbai at the beginning, and her body was also inevitably beaten, Chu Zhixia and Chu Mingyan were coquettish, he pretended to be nothing during the day, but at night he was so distressed that he secretly rubbed medicinal oil for her.

If he wanted to watch Chu Zhixia being cut open and releasing poisonous blood, how could he stand it.

Chu Mingyan's outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, and it didn't land on the door for a long time, and it was finally stifled by timidity. His dark eyes were rolling dryly, and he looked up stiffly: "What's the matter?" ”

"It's snake venom, and I'm stuck in the palace and delayed." Chu Mingxiu said what he could accept.

"Good and dignified, how can you get snake venom?" Chu Mingyan gasped a little, "It's only been a year...... Chang'an, only one year. ”

Chu Mingxiu comforted him, "It's going to be fine, the military doctor said it's not very serious." ”

Chu Mingyan took a deep breath, and suddenly there was a sound of the water basin being knocked over in the room. Chu Mingyan didn't spit out in one breath, and coughed in a panic. Chu Mingxiu was taken aback and hurriedly straightened out his breathing, but he pushed open the door regardless of it.

Black blood mixed with water sprinkled on the ground, and the medic stood up from the bedside at a loss. Chu Zhixia leaned down from the bed with half of his body, his wrist with almost transparent skin hanging down, and a slender and long blood mark on his wrist was dripping and oozing blood.

Like a dying white snake.

Chu Mingyan was dizzy for a while, as if he had been shattered by a hammer.

How could it be like this? How did it come to be like this? His sister is only less than sixteen years old, why should she suffer such a hardship.

Chu Mingxiu didn't scold a swear word, and the military doctor preemptively said: "The blood hasn't been released yet, the general should hold her down." ”

"I'll come."

Chu Zhixia, who was in a coma, seemed to struggle violently in his sleep, his body spasmed uneasily, and he knocked over the basin of water. Chu Mingyan strode to the side of the bed and scooped Chu Shixia up. Chu Zhixia's back was against his chest, and the top of her hair was next to his chin, as if she was holding her in her arms when she was a child and knew how to read.

The heavy smell of blood lingered on the tip of Chu Mingyan's nose, like a lingering nightmare.

Chu Mingyan held her bleeding wrist and gently rubbed Chu Zhixia's soft hair with his chin. I don't know if it was because of the familiar embrace, or because the smell of water agarwood reassured her, Chu Zhixia was surprisingly calm.

"Changle is not afraid, my brother is here."

"Brother will take you home, let's go back to the clouds, this imperial capital, and we will never stay again. Let the second brother take you back to the snow to run the horse, and when the spring flowers are blooming, go hunting on the hunting ground. ”

"Hurry up and get better, don't scare my brother. Brother is not in good health, don't you know? ”

Chu Mingyan's fingertips rubbed against the hot blood, he trembled involuntarily, and crystal tears rolled down under his eyelashes.

——

The blue-eyed snake gallbladder, eating it can communicate yin and yang.

Chu Zhixia was dazed, thinking of this sentence, he couldn't help but think from the bottom of his heart that this was a hallucination of a person who accidentally ate snake gall when he was dying. Hallucinations are the most beautiful and vicious things in the world, and one willingly indulges in them.

Chu Shixia recalled that the happiest time of his life was in the ice and snow in the clouds.

It was Chinese New Year's Eve, the day was shining, and everyone in the Zhenbei Royal Mansion could receive a red paper envelope of the year. Red lanterns were hung in the cold and cold house, adding a little joy. The snow pressed down on the pine roof, and the cold air was mixed with the smell of burning firecrackers.

Xiao Chu Zhixia jumped up and down a snowball and smashed it on Chu Mingxiu's head, and hid behind the bushes with a smile.

The child's eyes are clean and translucent, and the whites of the eyes are slightly blue, like a clear sky. Xiao Chu Zhixia was not afraid of this second brother who was not stingy at all, and he held a snowball in his hand and was ready to stuff it into his neck.

Chu Mingxiu wasn't angry at all, he squatted in front of little Chu Zhixia and threw the snowball with a smile.

"Changle, the eldest brother is busy with official business and hasn't eaten, can you go and urge him? Tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, and it would be pitiful for the eldest brother to sleep in the study again. Chu Mingxiu was wearing a ridiculous red robe, with a plain white grass stalk in his mouth, and he looked like a ruffian with a child.

Xiao Chu Zhixia held a pool of cold snow water in his hand, and said loudly: "Okay! ”

"The second brother knows that Xiao Changle is the most obedient, go!" Chu Mingxiu hugged her in the crook of his arm and ran to the study in a hurry. Little Chu Zhixia burst into laughter when he was mad, grabbing Chu Mingxiu's hair and not letting go.

The two of them ran to the door of the study, Chu Zhixia was lying on the door panel, and his little cold red hand slapped the door and shouted loudly: "Brother, it's time to eat!" ”

Chu Mingxiu also lay on the door panel, pinched his throat and said, "Brother, it's time to eat!" ”

Through a thin door, the study was full of blood.

Chu Mingyan sat behind the bookcase of Huanghuali and wiped the blood from his hands with a clean silk handkerchief. On the stone bricks in front of him lay several inhumanoid people, their skin peeling and flesh, blood flying, and the frost flowers on the ground were dyed red.

The childish voice sounded outside the door, incompatible with the killing in the study.

"That's all the traitors in this leak?" Chu Mingyan asked expressionlessly.

"Yes."

"Drag it down, clean up this place, and don't let the eldest lady find out." Chu Mingyan lowered his eyes and said, "She likes to draw chessboards on the ground and play chess." ”

Covered in layers of blood were shallow scratches carved out of stone. If Chu Mingyan didn't say it, his subordinates wouldn't even be able to see that those crooked lines were chessboards.

The subordinates were silent and dragged the apocryphic traitor out the back door, and brought out buckets of clean water to scrub the ground diligently. The big and small voices outside were persevering, Chu Zhixia called his brother softly, the more he shouted, the more aggrieved he became, his fingers clasped the window paper, and he almost cried.

Chu Mingyan's heart jumped, he stood up and opened the door.

"Big brother, why don't you ignore me?" The little girl looked at him with wet eyes.

"The eldest brother is asleep, and I didn't hear Xiao Changle call me." Chu Mingyan took her over and said softly, "I'm sorry." ”

"Have you eaten?"

"No, the eldest brother will eat with Xiao Changle." Chu Mingyan glared at Chu Mingxiu, who had a hippie smile, and knew that it must have been his bad idea. He held Xiao Chu Zhixia's cold little hand, and the three brothers and sisters walked out together.

"Big brother, why do people still wipe the floor on such a cold day?" Chu Zhixia leaned on his shoulder and looked back. She knew that her brother was not a harsh person, so she thought it was a little strange, but she couldn't understand it because she was too young.

"Because the eldest brother accidentally knocked over the cinnabar and soiled the ground." Chu Mingyan lied without blinking.

"But it was so cold, and there were long ice skates under the eaves. Big brother, don't let them wipe the floor, otherwise they will get frostbite on their hands. Xiao Chu Zhixia opened his round eyes and said, "Big brother, I beg you." ”

Chu Mingxiu opened his mouth first and said, "Since it is Chinese New Year's Eve, it is okay for the eldest brother to take a few days off and not deal with official business." The floor of the study will not be wiped for the time being, and we will talk about it when the weather is warmer, how about it? ”

Chu Mingyan didn't speak, and Xiao Chu Zhixia took the initiative and hugged his neck coquettishly, "Big brother, I miss you so much, you haven't eaten with me for a few days." I've learned a new article, can I memorize it for you? ”

Chu Mingyan compromised: "Okay." ”

Chu Mingxiu was satisfied, and raised an umbrella to cover the three brothers and sisters. Xiao Chu Zhixia struggled to pull his hand out of Chu Mingyan's hand, afraid that it would freeze him. She rolled her eyes, smiled evilly and stuffed her hand into Chu Mingxiu's neck.

"Chu Zhixia!"

——

"Chu Zhixia...... Wake up. ”

"Are you going to die like that?"

"The fate of your brothers has not changed, and the fate of the Chu family has not changed. At the beginning of the fourteenth year of Xiangfu, the snow pass was broken, the Great Zhou perished, and the blood was drifting, and the lives were ruined. You are the general of the Snow Pass, and you have the responsibility to save them. ”

"And one more person...... He's still waiting for you. ”

In the backwater-like darkness, the ancient bell of the Buddhist temple rang for a long time, splitting a clear light on her chaotic spiritual platform. The relics fell from the charred corpse of the monk, crackling, and falling into the sea of fire like spring rain.

Chu Zhixia opened his eyes suddenly.

She looked at the tent in horror, gasping for breath.

"Changle, are you awake?"

A familiar and unfamiliar face of Chu Zhixia appeared in front of him, as if he was in a different world.

Chu Zhixia muttered, "...... Eldest brother? ”

Without waiting for Chu Mingyan to agree, Chu Zhixia covered his eyes and said to himself weakly: "I must have woken up too suddenly, how could my eldest brother be in the imperial capital?" Let me brew a little more and wake up again. ”

Chu Mingyan saw that she still had time to think, knowing that this person was safe and sound, and then picked up the eldest brother like a father, and said, "You wake up a hundred times again, and the person standing in front of you is also your eldest brother, not your father." ”

Chu Zhixia coughed, put down his wrist wrapped in gauze, and looked at him weakly, "Big brother, why are you here?" ”

"Flew here." Chu Mingyan's face did not change.

"Don't you have to deal with military affairs in the cloud?" Chu Zhixia said weakly.

"There's a staff member, so you need to worry about it?" Chu Mingyan glanced at her, "What did I say when you left the clouds?" Cherish yourself. Do you hear the dog go in the belly? Make yourself like this. ”

Chu Zhixia was still reminiscing about Fang Cai's dream, that dream was too real, so real that every grass, tree, word and deed was exactly the same as what she remembered, and it fit together seamlessly, synthesizing the appearance she missed the most.

Chu Zhixia looked at Chu Mingyan quietly, the extra silver threads on his sideburns, the dark blue under his eyes, and the heavy tiredness in his eyes.

"Big brother, I'm sorry." Chu Shixia said softly, "I'm worried about you." ”

"It's not me you're sorry for, it's yourself." Chu Mingyan's face was cold, as if he wanted to scold her, but he couldn't open his mouth, he raised his hand heavily, but it only fell on the side of her hair, and the curled knuckles rubbed it.

Chu Mingyan originally had a lot to ask.

The self-taught overlord gun, the Hundred Poison Pill secretly sent by His Royal Highness the Fourth Highness, and the waste prince who is now in the cold. How much did Chu Zhixia participate in it, how deeply did he participate, and why did he get involved in these things.

She is not a person who causes trouble, she has always put the overall situation first and the Chu family first.

What forced her to participate in the intrigue of the imperial capital?

But Chu Mingyan couldn't ask anything.

He unexpectedly felt a trace of happiness, thinking that as long as Chu Zhixia was still alive, it would be fine.

Chu Mingyan sighed heavily, stretched out his palm to cover her eyes, covering the dazzling sunlight outside the window.

"Sleep, big brother is guarding you."