3 Chapter 3

In order to prevent assassination and facilitate the investigation, the medicine is in charge of special personnel and will not be in the hands of others.

Zhao Yu walked up to Liu with a tray, bowed slightly, and responded softly: "Mrs. Hui, the medicine is ready." ”

"Come in with me." Liu commanded.

Zhao Yu followed her into the hospital.

Jing'an small building is built for the children of the clan to go to school, An Guogong does not like the younger generations to develop extravagance, is not complicated by the courtyard furnishings, only a clock, a table, four corners around a few bushes of green bamboo, exuding vigorous vitality in the snow.

The cloister is full of calligraphy and paintings, and the ink is fragrant. Zhao Yu walked in the corridor, smelling the fragrance of Wen Mo, and couldn't help but imagine the scene of the warm spring day in his mind, and the old man led the children of the clan to sit in the courtyard and discuss learning, splashing ink.

Because of the kindness of a bucket of rice, Zhao Yu remembered An Guogong for many years, and often quietly described his appearance in his mind.

At this time, she really wanted to meet, but she was inexplicably a little nervous, and her fingers holding the medicine cup were secretly tightened.

"Here comes the medicine." Liu led Zhao Yu into the house.

There were also a lot of people in the house, except for the four rooms in Huizhou and the queen in the palace, An Guogong's children all came back, and the spacious room was crowded. When he saw someone bringing medicine in, he stood aside and made way for a passage.

When Zhao Yu walked in, Li Wenjian was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at An Guogong on the couch and said, "Ah Weng, I will accompany you for a few more days this time." ”

Zhao Yu was slightly stunned for a moment, how could His Highness's voice seem to have been heard somewhere?

The old man has been sick for a while, and a smile appeared on his clear face: "Lang'er has a heart, but you take care of state affairs on behalf of Your Majesty, and you are busy with general affairs, don't worry about everything for me, it's enough to have your uncle here." They're very nice to me, you don't have to worry about it. ”

When the crown prince was born, it coincided with troubled times, the first emperor was busy fighting the world, and his father, the queen mother, as the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law, followed the first emperor in the war field and had no time to be distracted to raise him. had to put him in foster care at An's.

Later, the first emperor entered Beijing and became the emperor, and the emperor naturally became the prince, and the prince also became the prince naturally.

But the prince grew up in the An family, which is no different from the trajectory of ordinary children's growth, and the blood is strong.

It is said that even blood relatives are distinguished and inferior, but Li Wenjian allowed the old man to call him by his name without formality.

Of course, Li Wenjian knows how filial his uncles are, and he will not let Ah Weng be treated coldly.

It's just that Ah Weng's health has deteriorated in the past two years, and he also wants to spend more time with him.

"Ong, it's okay." Li Wenjian tucked his quilt corner: "I've been idle lately, and I just have nothing to do." ”

An Guogong laughed all of a sudden, the old man just had a hard mouth, how could he not want to be accompanied by his beloved juniors?

Li Wenjian looked at the door: "Where's the medicine?" ”

As his words fell, the eyes of everyone in the room turned to Zhao Yu.

But Zhao Yu seemed to have been suddenly drained of his soul and stood there stiffly.

She was like a clay sculpture carved from wood, and she didn't dare to look at the couch just when she heard that voice.

Liu, who was standing beside her, coughed lightly and reminded her, but she still didn't react at all, and her mind suddenly went blank.

"Your Highness is calling you." Liu turned his face, but saw that her face was unusually white.

Seeing that the prince's rudeness could be big or small, Liu was about to reprimand, but suddenly remembered that she was a palace maid sent by the East Palace to serve the sick. Liu's daily housework, the intersection is high-ranking ladies, royal relatives, countless women have been seen, no matter how beautiful she has been, a small palace maid is not worth her attention.

But after a quick glance in the front yard that day, she still wrote her down.

It's just because she hasn't seen such an unpolished beauty for a long time. The slender figure of Pu Liu is wrapped in ordinary palace clothes, but she still does not hide her beauty.

Rao is a beautiful Liu, who has countless beauty, couldn't help but gasp quietly.

Since she is the person of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the East Palace, she is not easy to blame, so she only patted the back of her hand lightly and reminded her again. The fingertips touched the back of her rough hand, only to find that her hand was also so cold that she couldn't stop shaking.

Zhao Yu woke up from a big dream, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

After taking a deep breath, he dared to slowly raise his head and look at Li Wenjian on the side of the couch.

He was wearing a bright yellow brocade robe, even if he sat on a small stool casually, he had a kind of majesty that was not angry and self-imposing, and even the four-clawed golden dragon with angry eyes hovering on his robe was also majestic, and it seemed that he was about to fly out and tear her to pieces in the next moment.

After many years in the raccoon shop, she certainly knows that there is only one person in the world who is qualified to wear clothes of this material.

But that day, he didn't wear a dragon robe. Because of this, Zhao Yu regarded him as a dignitary who entered the palace to celebrate his birthday.

When the four eyes met, the demon-like person in Zhaoyu's mind overlapped with the face in front of her, and her heart was suffocated, and she seemed to stop breathing.

But Li Wenjian just glanced at her, as if he didn't even remember who she was, and then turned his face sideways and stretched out his hand to her: "Medicine." ”

Zhao Yu stabilized his mind, tried not to make any more mistakes, and walked towards him with a light step. Every time she took a step forward, the strength of her feet increased by one point, and the short distance of more than ten steps made her walk out of the meaning of mountains and rivers.

"Your Highness." Zhao stood in front of him, bowed, lifted the tray high above his head, and handed it over.

She lowered her eyes, and in the corner of her eye, a pair of bony hands held the medicine cup, and the crimson grain in the palm of her hand was particularly dazzling.

Her face and voice may become blurred over time, but she can't mistake the red mole on her palm.

He didn't like to see her tears and reached out to cover her eyes.

Before darkness fell, she saw the mole clearly.

"You're from the East Palace?" Li Wenjian asked suddenly.

Zhao's heart was raised to his throat again, and his voice was dry and replied, "Yes." ”

"What's it called?"

This was the second time he had asked her name.

It's just that he just woke up from a hangover at that time, and the whole person was still in ignorance and confusion, so Zhao Yu deceived him with a name: "Chunmei, my name is Chunmei." ”

"Slave and maid." Zhao Yu could barely hear his own voice.

Li Wenjian turned around to feed the old man medicine, and Zhao Yu stiffly stepped aside, finally able to catch his breath for a moment.

The liveliness of the house was restored, and Li Wenjian was feeding the medicine while greeting An Guogong.

After this toss, Zhao Yu no longer had the mind to look at An Guogong, and now she just wanted Li Wenjian to finish feeding the medicine quickly, and she had to flee from here earlier.

"Why don't you see Ah Lin today, isn't he the most lively?" An Guogong looked around, didn't see his favorite great-grandson, and said with a smile: "He has always liked you, if he knew that you were coming, he would have come early." ”

"He is now running to the East Palace twice in three days, and he is going to trouble His Highness." An Yuanqing said: "A few days ago, he said early in the morning that he was going to ask His Highness for homework, but I stopped him, and he also said that His Highness allowed it, so that he could ask if he didn't understand." ”

Li Wenjian smiled: "Ah Lin has made great progress in the past few years, and next month he and Mrs. Ye will go south to patrol the salt, and after he comes back, I plan to send him to the Hanlin Academy for training." ”

An Yuanqing and the Liu family were overjoyed when they heard this, and immediately kowtowed to thank him: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your grace." ”

"It's not all grace, in the past few years, he has been at the top of every subject in Guozijian, far surpassing his classmates, which shows that he is a material that can be made. It's just that the Hanlin Academy is bitter, and he may have to suffer some hardships. ”

An Yuanqing hurriedly said: "My An family is a military general, and the blood of a military general flows in my bones, a manly man, I don't carry a knife or a gun, what kind of hardship is it to go to the Hanlin Academy to get a pen!" ”

The old man pinched his forehead, and the An family was at most a half-hung military general. At the beginning, the army of the first emperor was trapped in the Huaixi Valley, nine deaths, in the absence of any reinforcements, the six sons of the An family gathered the countryside warriors, helpless to follow Rong. It was really difficult for them to be a group of weak scholars, forced to get on the horse with knives, and rushed to Huaixi Valley with 30,000 mountain villagers with kitchen knives and axes in their hands.

Li Wenjian said: "Since my uncle is not distressed, then I will let Mrs. Ye rest assured that he will be trained." ”

An Yuanqing said sincerely: "His Royal Highness Lao bothered. ”

Li Wenjian bowed slightly.

"Ah Lin is thanks to you." An Guogong sighed.

Li Wenjian's hand feeding the medicine paused: "The original thing was all started by me, and he suffered so many years because of me." ”

An Guo said: "What is it about the past so many years, what do you still mention it!" ”

"By the way, Your Highness, has the assassin who stabbed you a year ago caught?" An Yuanqing hurriedly diverted the topic.

An Yuanqing's words immediately made Zhao Yu's mind buzz.

"Nope." Li Wenjian said.

An Yuanqing said indignantly: "What a bold act! dared to poison His Royal Highness in the palace on the day of Wanshou Day, and after being caught, he must cramp and peel his skin, and divide the corpse of five horses to set an example. ”

Li Wenjian bowed his head, his eyes fell on Zhao Yu intentionally or unintentionally, and said, "It should be punished heavily." ”

Zhao's heart was completely cold.

She knew that she was the assassin who should be cramped and skinned and torn apart.

At that time, Li Wenjian held her wrist tightly, without the slightest intention of letting go, and asked her identity. In order to escape, she took advantage of his confusion and picked up the plum bottle on the desk and knocked it on the back of his head......

The distant plum bottle smashed flowers into her brain through time and space, and Zhaoyu's ears were full of buzzing sounds, and the blood all over her body rushed to the eardrums, isolating the sounds of the outside world.

She stood there stiff, not even having the strength to hold the tray.

Seeing that her slender figure was crumbling, and it seemed that she was going to fall down in the next moment, Liu asked, "Is the medicine room too busy?" Tired? ”

Zhao Yu reluctantly bowed his body towards her, cold sweat broke out on his back, and said, "Thank you Madame for your concern." ”

I wanted to deny it, but I nodded subconsciously: "There is a little." ”

Liu has always been gentle and compassionate, especially to the palace maids in the East Palace, and said gently: "If you are tired, go back first, and I will send the medicine bowl to the medicine room later." ”

Zhao Yu has always followed the rules, and if it was usual, she would definitely not dare to fake her affairs to others. However, she really didn't want to stay here any longer, and every moment she felt a sense of fear on her back.

She bowed to Liu with a pale face and weakness, and when she saw that no one noticed her anywhere, she pinched the tray and retreated around the crowd.

Their voices were low, but Li Wenjian heard them, and he stirred the remaining decoction at the bottom of the bowl with a spoon, and the small and delicate handle of the spoon gently turned around his fingertips.

Li Wenjian's gaze moved away from the pitch-black medicinal juice, looked in the direction where Zhao Yu disappeared, and suddenly smiled instead of being angry.