Chapter 49: Humility

The man struggled to stand up, Zi Ning thought to herself: "I'm eating here secretly, I can't be discovered, in case Mama Qing knows, I'll be unlucky." This man may have stumbled into the dining room by mistake, or he should not make any extraneous trouble, and send him away quickly. Hurriedly sent the lantern forward, and said: "I don't care about you, you can go quickly, this lantern is lent to you, the road is shining brightly, and it is already covered in blood, don't fall and get hurt again." ”

Zi Ning saw that the man's lips were white and cracked, and he was whining in his throat, and he couldn't speak for a long time, so he waved his hand and said: "Don't make excuses, this Dongyuan is where Lord Su lives, and I am Lord Su's daughter-in-law, and I am half a master." I now command you, whence you come from, and go back quickly. Master Su's guards are guarding outside, and as long as I shout, you won't be able to escape. was caught by Master Su and said that you seduced his daughter-in-law and wanted to skin and cut off her head!"

The man was slightly stunned, snorted for a long time, and barely made a hoarse voice: "I...... I'll boil the medicine......" he said and turned slowly, laboriously raising his hand wrapped in a rice dumpling and pointing to the stove. There was a fire in the stove, and a stoneware pot was placed on the stove, and herbs were sprinkled around it.

Zi Ning put down the lantern, looked at his clumsy appearance, a little unbearable, and thought: "He is so badly injured, he walks shaky, and he has to boil his own medicine, if I drive him away, is it too cruel." ”

Walked to the stove, raised his hand to lift the lid of the medicine jar, stirred it twice with a wooden spoon, squatted down and picked up two pieces of charcoal, pressed the fire down, turned to him and said, "Okay, let you boil the medicine first, and leave quickly when you are ready." Seeing that the man didn't react, he sighed and said, "This girl is merciful tonight, so I won't drive you away first." ...... This medicine cannot be boiled over high heat, only slowly. ”

The man whined in his mouth and gestured, Zi Ning pondered for a long time, and finally understood what he meant, which was to boil out a bowl of medicine with five bowls of water. She squinted at him, rolled her eyelids upward, and said angrily: "You are so seriously injured, don't you have anyone to help you, you secretly come to the dining room to boil medicine, like a thief!"

The man shook his hand with great effort, and then pointed to the medicine jar, meaning that he could not let anyone know about it.

Zi Ning didn't understand what he wanted to hide, and thought to himself: "Probably he is hindered by the majesty of Lord Su, after all, except for Lord Su and those guards in this East Garden, no man is allowed to enter the Lei Chi, if a man sneaks in in the middle of the night, Lord Su is afraid that he will have to cuckold." ”

Putting the medicine jar back on, Zi Ning moved a small wooden stool to sit on, and found that she was already so hungry that her chest was close to her back, so she looked up at the man and said, "I won't expose you, and you don't sue me, Mama didn't give us enough food, so we were hungry like this." ”

Immediately bring the food you had left in front of you and take a big bite of it. The yellow rice emitted a fragrant smell, Zi Ning chewed a bite of shrimp and fried meat, only to feel extremely delicious, and then drank half a bowl of warm vegetable soup, and suddenly had a feeling of being a fairy.

The man said nothing, and sat down on the straw pile beside him, staring at her intently, watching her eat. Zi Ning was half full, and suddenly heard the soft sound of "cooing", and it turned out that the man's stomach was screaming with hunger.

She put down the dishes and chopsticks, licked her lips with her tongue, turned her head and asked, "Didn't you have dinner?" There are still some meals here, if you don't dislike it, let's eat together." As he spoke, he helped him fill half a bowl of yellow rice and handed him the rice bowl.

The man couldn't help but look stunned when he saw her licking her lips, and then he turned his gaze twice and smiled. Nodding, stretching out his hand wrapped in a dumpling, he gently held the rice bowl in front of him, the fragrant smell of yellow rice wafted out, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Zi Ning handed over a pair of chopsticks, the man stared at the chopsticks, his brows furrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but be a little worried, his hands were wrapped in a heavy white cloth, and he couldn't hold the chopsticks. Zi Ning blinked at him, the more she looked at it, the more interesting it became, she couldn't help but laugh, pinched a shrimp with her chopsticks, slowly handed it to his mouth, and said with a smile: "Count yourself lucky, this girl will feed you personally." ”

The light in the dining room was dim, the flames in the furnace flickered and went out, the candles in the lantern were almost burned out, and the dim red candle light illuminated the two of them, and their vision was very blurred. There was an ambiguous warm current in the air, and the man lowered his head slightly, his face turned red, and took the shrimp into his mouth.

Zi Ning approached him, and put shredded meat for him to eat, only to feel a pungent smell of medicine wafting in, she withdrew her head back, frowned and said, "Are you covered in injuries, have you used so much medicine?" The man's eyes flashed, and there seemed to be a wisp of tenderness like water, but there was no sound in his mouth.

Zi Ning sighed helplessly, took back the rice bowl from his hand, put it firmly in his hand, and fed the green vegetables to his mouth, saying: "You eat slowly, don't worry, I don't care about you if you choke." The man nodded slightly, the muscles of his cheeks squirming heavily, chewing the food carefully, and staring at her face with a pair of eyes that were a little moist.

The herbs were slowly boiling on the stove, and the white air was curling around the lid, and the roasting was warm, and the cold dining room gradually became warm. Zi Ning's eyes were smiling, her face was slightly ruddy, and the firelight shone on the small clothes she was clinging to, outlining a delicate and slender shadow.

The two of them ate the food well, Zi Ning finished feeding, saw that he was seriously injured, and was even more curious about his identity, and couldn't help asking: "Who are you? This is Lord Su's place, how dare you come to the dining room at night to boil medicine?" He lowered his head and was silent, pointing to his throat for a while, Zi Ning suddenly realized and said: "It turns out that your throat is also injured, and you can't even speak, it's so serious!"

The man bowed his head, Zi Ning smiled and said, "The soup I boiled can moisten my throat, you can drink a bowl and try it." Carefully feed him the soup with a small wooden spoon. The man seemed to be very moved, and did not refuse, but drank obediently.

After drinking half of the bowl, he coughed twice suddenly, hissed in a hoarse voice, and reluctantly said, "I...... My name is Qianli, and I am Lu Gongzi's companion ......" coughed violently again, and two strands of blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.

Zi Ning was taken aback, hurriedly pulled out a handkerchief, helped him wipe the blood from his mouth, and said urgently: "Don't speak, beware of vomiting blood." I thought that this person was not only suffering from external injuries, but also suffered serious internal injuries, and I wondered if he could be saved. Although there were many things to ask in her heart, he couldn't speak, and she couldn't help it.

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, he took a leftover charcoal strip from the stove, handed it to him and said, "Since you are the companion of some son, you must write, you can write to me." He put the carbon strip into his hand covered with fine linen, and when he saw that he couldn't hold it tightly, he couldn't help but sigh: "You can't even hold a pen, how can you write?"

The man turned his head slightly, raised his hand and dipped some water from the copper basin in front of the stove, which was moistened by the white cloth, and then wrote two words slowly on the bluestone slab floor.

"Qianli?" Zi Ning squatted beside him, lifted the lantern and looked at it carefully, fortunately she recognized the traditional characters of these two words, read them twice in her mouth, and said with a smile: "Qianli, a good name." My name is Zi Ning, purple purple, peaceful Ning. ”

Qianli nodded, and wrote the word "Zining" on the bluestone slab with water, the handwriting revealed a free and easy style, Zining admired it in his heart, clapped his hands and smiled: "It is worthy of being a son's companion, his hand is injured, and his writing is so good." ”

Suddenly, his childlike heart rose, and he dipped his fingers in a little water, imitated the handwriting strokes, and wrote down the word "寜" crookedly, but it was very ugly, and he couldn't help but pout in frustration and sighed: "It turns out that my Ning character is so difficult to write." ”

Qianli turned her head awkwardly, looked at her deeply, and after a while, wrote a line of words on the bluestone ground: "Can you read and read?" Zi Ning secretly stuck out her tongue, this is her big secret, and she can't be known. hurriedly disguised: "I have read a little book, but a lot of words...... I don't know, and I can't write ......" Then he smirked twice, she never thought that when she came to the Great Jin Kingdom, reading and writing would become a hard injury.

One of the two of them talked, the other wrote, after two sticks of incense, the medicine jar made a hot sound of "goo, goo, goo", Zi Ning hurriedly took the rag and opened it, tried the water line, and said, "Wait a little longer, your medicine will be boiled soon." As soon as the medicine jar was stirred, the aroma of medicine wafted into the dining room, Zi Ning sniffed deeply, and said with a smile: "After staying up all night, I am full of the smell of medicine." ”

Qianli raised her eyes and saw her hair in a high bun, smiling when she spoke, and a pair of silver ear pendants trembling, extremely delicate and moving. The small clothes on the body are tightly wrapped around the waist, with narrow shoulders and thin sleeves, a graceful figure, and a white neck exposed at the neckline.

Not paying attention to Qianli's hot eyes at all, Zi Ning smiled and squatted down close to him, ignoring the smell of medicine all over his body, tilted his head, leaned towards his face, and asked curiously: "Let me ask you, what is Lu Gongzi's name and why are you injured?" She had seen Lu Gongzi twice, but she felt that he was mysterious and secret, and she didn't know what his identity was.

Qianli thought about it, lowered his head and replied: "Lu Jixian." The Dan furnace exploded. ”

Zi Ning suddenly realized, clapped his hands, nodded and said to himself: "It turns out that Lu Gongzi's name is Lu Jixian." Staring at Qianli and said: "Has Lu Gongzi always lived in the palace? I know that guy, he always likes to wear blue satin clothes, he looks like a painting, and his eyes don't move when he looks at people. ”

Qianli's eyes showed warmth, and he seemed to be holding back his desire to laugh and nodding vigorously.

Zi Ning let out an "oh", his eyes drifted from Qian Li's body, and he said to himself: "That Lu Gongzi is quite big, and he likes to make crooked poems to ridicule others. ”

Then he frowned, remembered one thing, stared at Qian Li and said: "It turned out that the Dan furnace was blown up, so it was similar to a bomb, no wonder you look like a mummy!"

Qian left his throat tightly, whimpered for a long time, and said in a low voice: "Mu ...... What is Ny......" When Zi Ning heard this, she hurriedly raised her hand to stop it and said, "Your throat is bad, don't speak." Seeing the puzzle in his eyes, he grinned and said, "Mummies are a kind of wood, and you can't understand it!"

Qianli wanted to ask again, Zi Ning hurriedly diverted the topic, glanced at the empty vegetable plate, and asked with a smile: "Qianli, I want to ask you, do you like the dishes I make?"

Qianli was slightly stunned, then a smile appeared in his eyes, and he nodded seriously. Zi Ning was secretly happy, and said to herself proudly: "It turns out that the tastes of men in the Great Jin Kingdom are similar to those of the twenty-first century. Suddenly, he slipped out of his mouth, and hurriedly covered it up: "I mean, I...... I used to have two friends in the big dining room, one named Twenty-One and the other named Shi Ji, and they both liked my food and said that my food was delicious. ”