Chapter 8: A Late Night Visit
Xiao Yunmi bent down to pick up the sword on the ground and withdrew the scabbard. walked out without saying a word, the cold wind gusted in the night, her clothes were wet with tea, and the cold night was even colder.
She held Mingyun Sword tightly in her arms, she remembered that in the previous life, when she was punished by her father and the emperor to kneel, Liu Mingxuan held her in her arms to keep warm.
The cold sword pressed against the skin, stirring up a layer of tiny goosebumps. It's not like the sword is warming her, it's her body temperature that warms the sword.
She remembered the figure of the man she saw in the Treasure Pavilion today, and the person behind the curtain was probably Liu Mingxuan.
But she didn't have the courage to take a step forward, she wanted Liu Mingxuan to hate her so much, and she wanted her to die. He didn't want to see himself, the only thing she could do for Liu Mingxuan was to stay away from him. does not appear in his life, so that those blood feuds are scattered in the wind with the ending of the previous life.
Mother Li soon walked into the house with the doctor, and it was Dr. Wang, who was very famous in the capital.
Dr. Wang was followed by a medicine boy carrying the medicine box for him, he took out a small porcelain bottle from the medicine box after taking the pulse, opened it and put it under Xiao Li's nose and sniffed it, Xiao Li gradually woke up.
"Madame's fainting was triggered by the stimulation and the upsurge of blood and qi. I'll prescribe some calming medicine for my wife, and you go back to Jirentang to get the medicine. Madame was weak and could no longer be stimulated. ”
"Okay, I'll pay attention, I'm sorry for Dr. Wang. ”
Dr. Wang picked up a pen and wrote a prescription on a piece of paper and handed it to Xiaoyunmi.
"This, what's going on? How could I faint when I'm so good?" Xiao Li woke up and saw everyone surrounding her, and Dr. Wang was still prescribing medicine to her, and asked inexplicably.
Xiao Yunmi handed over the prescription to Li's mother and ordered her to follow Dr. Wang to Jirentang to get the medicine.
"Mother..."Xiao Yunmi's eyes looked at Xiao Li with deep eyes, her lips moved and she was about to speak.
At this moment, Xiao Li remembered it, she grabbed her son's hand and kept shaking, gritted her teeth and said: "I remember, I saw that slut today! It's that slut! Yunya, you can stay away from her, don't let her hurt you." ”
Xiao Yunya quietly pulled out his hand and picked up the quilt that had fallen on the side of the bed and covered it for her.
"Mother, Dr. Wang said that you should not be angry at this time, and you must take care of yourself. ”
Seeing that his son didn't answer him, Xiao Li said angrily: "I'm talking to you, let you stay away from that slut!"
Xiao Yunya frowned and stood up from the bed: "Yun Mi is not a slut, she is my sister, and like me, she believes that Xiao is a person from Xiaofu." They are all mother's children, please be cautious about mothers!"
There was some anger in the words.
He looked at the angry Xiao Li on the bed and felt a sense of sadness, and he knelt in front of the bed and held Xiao Li's hand tightly.
"Mother don't be blinded by hatred, you can see clearly. Who is the person standing in front of you today? It's none other than my sister! She will be as filial to you as I am, so don't think about the past anymore. ”
Xiao Li's shoulders stiffened, and he broke free of his son's hand. Then his shoulders shook slightly, and he hid his face and wept, and his cry revealed countless desolations.
"I know... I know everything... But who knows the bitterness in my mother's heart! Who made Xiao Yunmi give birth to a face exactly the same as 'her'! Xiao Yunmi's expression today is the same as that person. As soon as she saw the clouds, the past rushed into her head like a tide.
Xiao Li couldn't help but cry bitterly.
Xiao Yunya remembered that when he was a child, his mother would take him to pick the apricots on the tree in front of the door, and after picking them, he would always give the largest one to himself, and then his mother would look at him gently and smile.
His mother was born into a famous family and was the most elegant and beautiful woman in his memory.
But at this time, he didn't dare to associate the woman who was hiding her face and crying bitterly with the mother in his memory.
He took out an apricot from his bosom and put it in Xiao Li's hand. Xiao Yunya smiled with red eyes: "I still remember that when I was young, I liked to eat apricots very much, and I just cried." As soon as my mother coaxed me with apricots, I immediately stopped crying. ”
After speaking, he put the big apricot in Xiao Li's hand, and said with a smile: "This is what my son picked from the tree outside the court, you taste whether it is sweet or not, but it is still the taste of the year." ”
"Mother should not be sad, although father is gone. But you still have a son and a daughter, and my sister and I will take care of you. ”
Xiao Li looked down at the egg-sized yellow apricot in his hand, and finally stopped his tears.
She gently stroked Xiao Yunya's face, her heart was very uneasy, and she grabbed her son's hand tightly. muttered: "Yunya, Yunya..."
"Yes, my son is. ”
The night was long and cold. On summer nights, crickets hide on the grass outside the house, chirping and not listening.
Xiao Yunmi returned to the house, changed her wet clothes, and fell asleep. When I woke up in the middle of the night, the place where the collarbone was scalded by tea was hot and painful, and the wind in the night blew the window with a bang.
She got out of bed and was walking to close the window. In the dark of night, a dark figure stood outside the window, a pair of eyes glowing in the moonlight. He straightened up, staring straight at the clouds.
Xiao Yunmi's courage is greater than that of ordinary boudoir misses, but she is indeed taken aback at this moment.
"Yunmi, don't be afraid. It's me, Min Yi. ”
Standing outside the window was the Min Shizi who was left in the Treasure Pavilion by Xiaoyun during the day.
"Min Shizi doesn't sleep in the middle of the night, and likes to come out and pretend to be a ghost and scare people? Xiaoyunmi was startled in the middle of the night, and closed the window with a black face.
Min Yi reached out and grabbed the window, and Xiao Yunmi pressed the window hard. She thought Min Yi would dodge, but who knew that he wouldn't. Xiao Yunmi coldly spit out two words: "Sick." ”
She ignored Min Yi and turned to walk to the bed. Min Yi doesn't sleep and goes crazy in the middle of the night, but she wants to sleep.
Min Yi climbed in through the window and grabbed Xiao Yunmi's shoulder. The move involved a burn on her collarbone, and she frowned faintly.
"Let go. ”
Her voice was cold, and it seemed that she would fight him if she didn't let go.
"I'm going out tomorrow!"
Xiaoyun was stunned for a moment and froze in place.
Min Yi withdrew his hand, and he stood outside the window for half the night. The dew drenched his hair, and a few strands of ink stuck to his face. The cold night wind blew on his back through the window, and his lips turned purple from the cold, but he didn't know it. Min Yi said in a trance: "The Beiyan army has repeatedly attacked our borders, and the people on the border are struggling to make a living. After discussing with the important ministers, the emperor decided to send an army to attack Beiyan. Named me General Pingyan, the holy decree of the dispatch is already on the way to the Minhou Mansion at this moment. ”
"This expedition is as fast as a year. Slow for two years, I... I came tonight to see you again. ”
Min Yi's eyes fell on Xiao Yunmi's face, and his words were sincere.
Xiao Yunmi's long eyelashes drooped, and her whole body was immersed in the night, making it impossible to guess what she was thinking.
"General Pingyan?" is the meaning of pacifying the northern geese, it seems that the emperor and courtiers have high hopes for the prince of Min. The courtiers wished the prince to quell the rebellion of the Northern Wild Goose as soon as possible and return triumphantly as soon as possible. ”
Xiao Yunmi's words were not leaky, but there was no emotion. Min Yi's face was changeable, and his low, magnetic laughter could be heard in the cold night.
He wanted to question the woman in front of him why he kept keeping him away from thousands of miles away. Min Yi wanted to ask himself even more why he still wanted to get close to Xiaoyunmi after Xiaoyunmi's countless rejections of him. Min Yi even put a sword on her neck and asked her fiercely what poison she had given herself.
Min Yi took a deep breath, his expression seemed to be lost, and he raised his hand to gently touch Xiao Yunmi's indifferent eyebrows.
Xiao Yunmi felt the warm hand of the man on her face, sliding down her forehead to her eyes and then to her lips. Perhaps he was shocked by the complicated emotions in Min Yi's eyes, and he forgot to dodge.
She exuded a chill all over her body, and her narrow eyes glistened sharply.
"Min Shizi, you are more and more arrogant. ”
"Min Shizi is the prince of Houfu, and he should know more about the rules than me. There is a provision in national law that a forcible break-in of a house should be held in prison for 10 days as a warning. You are a prince, and those ordinary laws and regulations can't help you. But I'm not an ordinary woman who is easy to handle, and you have snuck into my courtyard three times and twice, do you treat me as a street market that comes and goes freely?"
Xiao Yunmi slapped the hand in front of him away, and the back of Min Yi's hand instantly turned red.
She pursed the corners of her mouth, pulled out the Mingyun Sword at the head of the bed, and pointed it at Min Yi.
Min Yi leaned to the side and reached out to hold Xiao Yunmi's hand holding the sword. With a hard squeeze of her joints, Xiaoyun's hand went numb, and the sword fell straight from his hand to the ground. Min Yi kicked the sword into the air with his foot and took it with his other hand.
He stabbed his sword hard at Xiao Yunmi, and the blade of the sword grazed past Xiao Yunmi's ear. A handful of green silk fell from his ears, and the sword was inserted into the bedframe behind Xiao Yunmi, shaking the bead curtain on the bed down.
Crackling, the glass beads fell to the ground.
Since today's battle, Min Yi has been prepared against Xiaoyunmi. So when Xiao Yunmi pointed his sword at him, he quickly reacted.
Min Yi stood in front of her with her hands behind her back and her head held high. There was arrogance on his handsome face, and he snorted coldly.
"Don't try to provoke me. ”
Min Yi's words were full of anger, and he condescended to this point in his life. And the girl in front of him didn't take him in her eyes or say anything, but also trampled on his self-esteem under her feet, challenging his bottom line countless times.
Xiao Yunmi's face was gloomy, and he looked at the fluorescent beads on the ground. He sneered and said coldly: "Did the courtier take the initiative to provoke the prince? The courtier was very curious about how the prince brazenly said such righteous words. ”
Min Yi's body was covered with a layer of silver mist, his eyes were as cold as ice, and he flicked his sleeves angrily and left.
Xiao Yunmi turned around and pulled out the Mingyun Sword on the bed frame, only to see that there was an extra hole in the fine carved pineapple wood bed frame.
She retracted her sword into its scabbard, her voice crisp and hoarse, like a bamboo leaf in the winter wind. She called out to the courtyard, "Ning Yan." ”
Ning Kai, dressed in black like a ghost in the dark night, jumped down from the tree in the courtyard and quickly appeared in front of Xiao Yunmi. Bowed his head and knelt down and saluted: "Without permission, let Min Yi in privately." Go and kneel in the courtyard yourself. ”
Ning Kai whispered to defend himself: "The subordinates just watched Min Shizi send a sword to the young lady again, and he was courteous many times. It seems that he is interested in Miss, and the young master said, don't stop Min Shizi from communicating with Miss, his subordinates..."
Xiaoyunmi's snow-white face was dyed a touch of red because of his momentum. She sharply interrupted Ning Yan's words: "Cai, what's it?Who is your master!?Go and kneel in the courtyard with the water tank outside, and you are not allowed to get up without my order!"