The screen window was shining, I was woken up by a back injury, I didn't dare to move or call anyone, I didn't go home until midnight at the fourteenth century, I was sleeping soundly, I didn't want to wake him. I tried hard to close my eyes, trying to recall some pleasant things to divert my attention, but I couldn't, my waist seemed to be broken, and there was a dense pain that made me cry and moan inadvertently.

I didn't know that Fourteen was looking at me in the dark, and I was in pain, and he was in pain.

His big palm crossed my face and held up my neck with his backhand, and I was slightly startled, one of his arms was already pillowed under my neck. He didn't say anything, just leaned close to me and let me sleep in the crook of his arm, and he buried his chin in my hair.

In a daze, I fell asleep again.

When I woke up the next day, my side was empty, and the room was quiet, and it must be fourteen before entering the palace, and I ordered the girls to stay far away under the porch, and they were not allowed to make a noise to make me. I was a little hungry and shouted out of the window: "Minqiu" The curtain was lifted, and I said, "I want to get up, you can help me." It was Fourteen who spoke, and he took a few steps forward and said, "Can you sit up yourself?" ”

I stiffened my back, barely sat up, and wondered, "Why are you at home?" ”

Fourteen took my clothes from the truss, draped them over my shoulders, and said, "I went on a trip and came back, and the emperor was slightly ill, so I was spared the court." I said: "Huang Ama has always been diligent in court politics, small hair, never delay political affairs, today actually dropped out of the court, it can be seen that he is seriously ill, did you go to the Qianqing Palace to ask for peace?" "Minqiu led the girls into the house with warm water, towels, green salt, etc., blessed my body, and waited for me to wash and dress. Fourteen spoke to me next to me and said, "Go." He asked Min Qiu again, "When will the imperial doctor come to give Fujin acupuncture?" Min Qiu stopped what he was doing, and said in a proper manner: "Lord Qiyu, the imperial doctor Wang was already waiting in the side hall a quarter of an hour ago. Fourteen hummed and said to me, "After washing, come out for breakfast." ”

With that, he turned around and went to the outer room.

Dressed neatly, I went outside with one hand on my waist, and saw Fourteen sitting at a small round sandalwood dining table, on which were a plate of soy sauce elbows and two bowls of fried sesame tofu with sheep's tail oil, and four or five golden and crispy fritters and a large bowl of soy milk. I sniffed and swallowed my saliva and smiled, "You bought snacks?" "The delicious snacks in the capital are all on the street in front of Shoushan Academy, and the Fourteen Baylor Mansion is just in the middle of Shoushan Academy and the Forbidden City, so Fourteen should have been specially bought for me.

Fourteen held the official newspaper issued by the General Administration Department today, full of edicts, chapters, rewards, and court affairs of moving left and right, he slowly folded the official newspaper, put it on the dining table, and picked up the chopsticks and put them in the palm of my hand, and said: "Taste it, is it the one you like?" I laughed, "It tastes the same."

What does it matter who buys it? What matters is your heart.

I lost the chopsticks, gnawed two elbows with both hands, sandwiched the fritters, soaked them in soy milk, and then bit them into my mouth, which was crispy, sweet and soft, and it was delicious. Fourteen himself did not eat, but only watched me eat, and when he saw that I was happy, he was also very happy.

After the meal, the royal physician took his medical woman to prick me with needles, because I wanted to prick the acupuncture points on my back and take off my clothes, the royal doctor only guarded outside, and the curtain hung down in the middle, and the medical woman gave me needles. After administering the needle, I lay on my stomach for two quarters of an hour, pulled out the needle, put on my clothes, and went outside to have the imperial doctor Wang diagnose my pulse and prescribe medicine.

The bitter medicine of half a moon is inevitable.

Fourteen couldn't stay with me for a day, and before dinner, he went out to run errands. I sat stiffly on the kang, and occasionally walked around in the court, and I had to make a big move, which provoked Minqiu to go to the battlefield, and I was very nervous when I saw that I had the intention of moving.

In the evening, Eniang suddenly led her sister-in-law and sister-in-law to come, I straightened up to the gate of the hospital to pick her up, when she saw me, her eyes immediately turned red, holding my hand, worried. She brought a lot of ointment from home, and a large bag of pork kidney, cow kidney, and sheep kidney, saying that she was eating something to make up, and asked the kitchen to cook soup for me to drink, and sighed: "The old lady is afraid that it will not work, you have a bottom in your heart, maybe you will go tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." And said: "Don't be sad, there will always be a day when people are old, the old lady is a rich and noble person, she enjoyed pure happiness when she was born, and she is also happy when she arrives in the Western Heaven Elysium." ”

I hummed obediently and said, "I want to go back to the house to see the old lady." ”

Eniang said: "No need, your waist is not good, and it is inconvenient to move" and suppressed her voice again: "The dying person always has bad luck, don't mess with you." "I don't believe in ghosts and gods, and the relationship with the old lady is also good, E-Niang said this, I don't feel good to listen, but I know that E-niang did everything to protect me, and my heart softened again.

E-Niang hurried back to serve the old lady, couldn't stay for a long time, talked for a while, and went back as soon as it was dark. In the middle of the night, I suddenly woke up from my dream, and suddenly pushed Fourteen, Fourteen sat up suddenly, and said in a panic: "What's wrong?" Does it hurt badly in your lower back? I'll ask someone to call the Imperial Doctor to take a look," I hurriedly reassured him, saying, "It's not that my back hurts, it's much better than yesterday." I just had a dream, and I was a little scared. Fourteen breathed a sigh of relief, retracted into the quilt, grabbed my waist, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here." I squeezed him in his arms and said, "I dreamed that the old lady came to me."

It should be the spirit of an old lady who came to me.

Fourteen closed his eyes and smiled, and said vaguely: "The old lady has been lying on the couch for two or three years and hasn't walked down to the ground, how can she come to you?" Besides, she feels so sorry for you, it's not a bad thing to dream of her, and the old lady won't hurt you" and said softly: "Sleep." I replied softly, my eyes looking at the dark yellow bedtop, remembering the old lady's loving and smiling face, and suddenly missing her very much.

I secretly thought: Ming'er took the car back to Yan's Mansion early in the morning to visit the old lady.

In the morning, I still couldn't get up from my back pain, so I asked Minqiu to pick out a festive crimson robe in the cabinet, wore a few bright jewelry, and casually ordered the little girl on an errand in the corridor when I went out, and said, "Lin'er, you go and cut a few peony flowers." Lin'er turned over and went into the house to find a pair of silver scissors, and promised to go to the yard to look for flowers.

After a while, Lin'er happily entered the house with a few white peonies, and said with a smile: "Master, look, the peony flowers are so beautiful" I frowned, and a bad premonition appeared in my mind, Lin'er looked at me with a bad complexion, and was so frightened that she didn't even finish speaking. Minqiu reprimanded: "Little hoof, the master told you to pick flowers, there are so many red and pink, who let you pick the white ones?" Lin'er reacted at this time, knelt on the ground and said: "The slave should die, the slave thought that the master was for fun, and didn't think about wearing it."

Min Qiu was so angry that he said to me in a half-loud voice: "Master, it is a slave and maid who is not strict in discipline, please forgive me." ”

My face was stunned, and I thought of the old lady's face last night, and my heart was indescribably flustered and anxious. I was about to ask Lin'er to fold the flowers again, but I saw Fourteen lift the curtain and enter the house, and said: "Weiwei" His voice was mellow, with a hint of sadness, I felt a sound in my heart, as if I had guessed something, and trembled: "What's wrong?" ”

Fourteen took my hand and said in a low voice: "Just finished the word from the Yan Mansion - the old lady is gone." ”

I used to think that although I had a relationship with the old lady, it was not too deep, and I hadn't dealt with it much over the years, so it became more and more weak. But after hearing the news of her death, my tears suddenly poured out like the Yellow River bursting its banks, and I cried: "I knew that it was going to be bad, I dreamed of her for no reason last night, and let Lin'er fold the flowers on her head, which were also white, and I also wore a red dress, and I wanted to go to the old lady's house to make a fuss and coax her to be happy" I cried non-stop, and I coaxed and persuaded again, and asked Minqiu to change into plain clothes for me, and most of the hairpins on my head were also removed. He carried me into the carriage and stood by me while wiping my tears and beating my waist. When I arrived at Wanyan Mansion, he also carried me all the way into the compound. Fortunately, the funeral has not been officially held today, and there are no guests in the house, otherwise, it will be rude.

When I arrived at the old lady's yard, Ama came out to greet me, a seven-foot man, when he saw me, tears welled up and he couldn't even finish his words, and said with a choked voice: "Weiwei, you came to kowtow to the old lady and kept thinking of you last night." I had just cried in the carriage, and I was already feeling better, but when I saw Amma crying, I couldn't help but cry along.

After all, Eniang is a daughter-in-law, and the relationship with the old lady is not as good as me and Amma, her eyes are red, and her spirit is fine, she handed a Jinpa to Ama to wipe her tears, and beckoned me again: "Are you better on your waist?" I endured the pain, not wanting to worry Ama Eniang, wiped my tears and said, "It's much better," and then led Fourteen into the house.

The room was dim, lit with a few arm-thick candles, the light was dim, several old ladies were waiting for the girl kneeling on the ground and sobbing lowly, there were funeral palace people walking back and forth, hanging white lights and white cloths around, still sad and gloomy. I was a little scared, knowing it was my grandmother, but I still felt scared. I knelt down at the pedal, glanced at the old lady's face, kowtowed, and helped Fourteen to go out. Fourteen knew that I had never seen a dead man, and he must have been terrified, so he took my hand tightly and did not let go for a moment.

When I arrived at the side room, I looked at a room of crying girls, and then I cried again.

The old lady is the lord of the Mongolian county, Kangxi is particularly preferential, and all funeral matters are handled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He also ordered the fourth, eighth, ninth, and tenth masters to pay incense and salute, and the ministers and wives of the court and the middle government went to the house to cry and mourn. The old lady's brother in Mongolia also came to the funeral, and the funeral lasted 7749 days. I followed Ama and Eniang to weep and mourn in front of the spirit, got up and knelt down, and my back wound never healed. After the old lady's funeral, I obediently lay in bed for more than a month before I dared to walk on the ground.

At this time, it was almost midsummer, and the scorching sun was rolling, forcing people to breathe.

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