After Old Yu took out the needle and left, Gu Yanxi waited anxiously for Azhi's reaction. Even if Azhi could just lift her eyelids or move her fingers, he was so scared that his hands were shaking.
But no, there was no reaction at all, it was still burning, its breath was still hot, there was no change.
Gu Yanxi's heart sank to the bottom.
"Add water."
Baoxia panicked and hurriedly did as she was told, adding more water until it covered the young lady's chest. Yingchun continued to wring out the handkerchief to wipe the young lady's neck, armpits and arms. They forced their brains to stop thinking and only remember what they had to do at the moment.
But the lady's hands were already wrinkled. She had been soaking for almost half an hour and more...
Gu Yanxi suddenly stood up while holding the person in her arms, "Ask the kitchen to continue boiling water and change the water."
"I'll go, I'll go." Zhu, who didn't know what to do nearby and could only hand Yingchun a handkerchief, stood up quickly and walked out. The two maids cooperated with her to get the water out of the wooden barrel. She glanced at the couch next to her and saw the Regent putting the young lady on him, covered tightly with a quilt. The two naked people did not look indecent at all, but instead made people feel sad.
It's not easy for these two people.
From day to night, I would soak in the water for half an hour, then come out to relax for a quarter of an hour, and then continue soaking. This cycle was repeated several times, and by the early morning the temperature had finally dropped a little.
Gu Yanxi fed some ginseng soup into her mouth, and slept with the person in his arms for less than two hours before being awakened by the hot body in his arms. After a panic, he continued to take a medicinal bath. After two days of this, some parts of Hua Zhi's body were wrinkled, and she had visibly lost weight. Even someone as strong as Gu Yanxi had lost weight significantly.
This time the fever finally subsided for a longer time. After checking her pulse, Doctor Yu changed the prescription again. "If the body temperature is not as high as before, there is no need to take a medicinal bath. Boil some rice soup and feed her more."
After that, his fever did not reach the point of being hot to the touch, but it still continued to run intermittently for three days before it completely subsided. In just a few days, he became extremely thin, lying in a hunched-over ball under the quilt. Whenever Gu Yanxi wanted to do something, she would control the strength very carefully, for fear that she would accidentally use too much force and crush him.
It has been seven days. Azhi has not opened his eyes for seven days. Gu Yanxi, with a stubbled beard, knelt beside the bed and wiped Azhi's hands gently, one finger at a time, with great seriousness and skill.
Old Yu's mood became more and more serious day by day, and more and more people came to visit him, but Gu Yanxi ignored them. He naturally acted as the master of the yard and did not allow anyone else to come in. Ahzhi liked quietness and did not like to be disturbed when she was sleeping.
"I will go to the palace and serve you carefully."
Several maids who had also lost a lot of weight responded in unison. They had seen clearly in the past few days whether the Regent was sincere to the young lady and how much he cared about her. No, it was clear to everyone in the capital. In their hearts, they had already regarded the Regent as their brother-in-law, so when the young lady was inconvenienced, they would naturally listen to him.
Gu Yanxi rode into the palace and exercised his privileges to the fullest for the first time.
He did not go to see the Emperor, but went straight to the Empress Dowager, knelt down with a crisp sound, and said, "Grandson, please marry me, grandmother."
The Empress Dowager leaned forward, holding her chest. "Grandmaster...how is she?"
"She's still not awake." Gu Yanxi said hoarsely, "Before my grandson went to the battlefield, Ah Zhi once said that she would marry me if I was disabled, if I was crippled, or if I was just a pile of bones and a piece of flesh. Now my grandson is willing to respond to her with the same feelings. If she lives for three days, I will marry her. If she lives for one day, I will marry her. Even if she just sleeps and never wakes up, I will marry her. In this life, I will only marry her and no one else!"
The Grand Empress Dowager did not want to agree. Neither she nor she wanted to agree as the Grand Empress Dowager of Daqing nor as Yan Xi's grandmother. Once she agreed, her grandson, the Regent of Daqing, might have to live his long life alone. But she could not refuse.
This was Yan Xi's true feelings and his sincere request. Also, because of the girl, she couldn't say a word of opposition. Except for being mean to her enemies and herself, she was kind to everyone and did her best to everyone, even to this old thing who had never treated her well.
"What do you want Grandma to do?"
Gu Yanxi's lips trembled, and he bowed down and lay on the ground for a long time without moving. He had no choice. He could not think of anything else except marrying Azhi. He did not care about the country, the new emperor and the old policies. He just wanted to marry Azhi, marry the living Azhi, and then wait for her to wake up, or leave together.
Live together and die together, in the name of husband and wife.
The Empress Dowager sighed, stood up and helped the man up herself, "Grandma will give you whatever you want, and will agree to do whatever you want, but you have to promise me not to do anything stupid."
Gu Yanxi looked down at her grandmother with gray hair on her temples and her nose felt sore. She had seen her husband and son go away, and she had experienced all the sorrows in the world, but now he...
"It is my unfilial grandson who makes you sad."
"You are the most filial, no one is more filial than you." The Empress Dowager raised her hand with tears in her eyes and touched the scar on his face. How could he be unfilial? Wasn't it his filial piety that the late emperor calculated? Wasn't she the same
"Your Ah Zhi will definitely wake up. She can't bear to leave you, the entire Hua family that she fought so hard to protect, and the young emperor. She will definitely get over this hurdle."
Gu Yanxi smiled with red eyes, "Yes, she will."
Patting his arm, the Queen Mother said in a trembling voice, "Go, get ready, and let your grandmother marry you."
Gu Yanxi kowtowed again, but did not leave the palace immediately after leaving. Instead, he went to the Fengxian Hall and knelt in front of the ancestors of the Gu family and pleaded in a deep voice: "If the ancestors have spirits, please protect Ah Zhi to survive this disaster. She has made contributions to the country and the society. She is a great contributor to our Gu family. Please protect her with dragon energy. Gu Yanxi, a descendant of the Gu family, bows his head."
After leaving the palace and instructing people to make preparations, he immediately went to Dazhuo Temple and made a promise in front of the majestic Buddha statue, "I, Gu Yanxi, swear in front of the Buddha that I am willing to sacrifice ten years of my life in exchange for Hua Zhi's survival."
Afterwards, he went to the famous Sanqing Temple in the capital and made the same promise. He was like a person who did not burn incense at ordinary times, but when the time came, he went everywhere to worship Buddha's feet, even to Taoist temples. He even threw coins and released animals, not giving up even the slightest hope.
At this time, Gu Yanxi is no longer the majestic leader of the Seven Stars, no longer the crown prince personally appointed by the emperor, no longer the powerful regent, but just an ordinary person who is afraid of losing his loved ones, and doing ordinary things.