So far away without words
Seeing that Nangong Jingnu's gaze seemed to be elsewhere, Qi Yan suddenly realized that there was a doctor woman beside him.
Qi Yan: "Ruolan, go out first."
Gu Ruolan took good care of Qi Yan for so many days, talking to herself "chatting with her" in front of her every day, but their communication still stayed at Qi Yan's sentence: "Who are you?"
Unexpectedly, the second sentence she had been waiting so hard for actually told her to go away...
Gu Ruolan put down the medicine bowl and left silently.
Hearing the word "Ruolan", Nangong Jingnu squinted her eyes and glanced at Gu Ruolan's expression calmly. Naturally, she saw the undisguised loss on the other side's face, and a strange feeling filled her heart.
But it didn't last long. After Gu Ruolan left, the atmosphere between Nangong Jingnv and Qi Yan became a little more subtle.
Nangong Jingnv held the wooden box and stood there without moving, Qi Yan also noticed the wooden box, sighed in her heart, lifted the quilt and slowly got out of bed, before Nangong Jingnv could speak, she knelt down: "Cao Min Qi Yan, see Your Majesty."
Nangong Jingnv's fingertips turned white, and she grabbed the wooden box forcefully, trying to find some kind of strength to support her not to escape. She was ashamed to face it, and she didn't know how to face Qiyan.
Huainan's disaster relief funds moved her, and the piggy wood carving also moved Nangong Jingnu's face, but all of this was their personal relationship.
What Qi Yan did to her could not erase the fact that Qi Yan killed her father by herself, and it was precisely because of this that Nangong Jingnu suffered.
Nangong Jingnu was still silent. When she came, she had a thousand words in her heart, but when she saw Qi Yan, she couldn't say a word.
Fortunately, Qi Yan was not as dogmatic as before, she had to kneel until Nangong Jingnu spoke up.
Qi Yan sat back on the bed again, her hands with distinct joints and blood vessels pressed against her knees, the surprise and heat in her eyes had disappeared, and her eyes wandered.
Seeing Qi Yan like this, Nangong Jingnu's heart was extremely complicated: they... finally became like this.
Nangong Jingnu moved her mouth and only squeezed out one word: "You..."
Qi Yan snapped and said: "I'm much better! ... Much better, all is well." The voice became quieter as he went to the back, and after saying this, Qi Yan twitched the corners of his mouth and said nothing.
There was another long silence, Qi Yan lowered her head, and Nangong Jingnu had a chance to take a good look at this person.
In a trance: She actually felt that the Qi Yan in front of her was a little strange, and it was difficult to match the appearance in her memory. If you elaborate on what the difference is, Nangong Jingnu can't tell... Apart from being a little thin and despondent, the facial features and outlines seem to be different. Nothing has changed.
Nangong Jingnu sighed softly, moved a round stool and sat in front of Qi Yan's bed, put the wooden box on her knees and opened it in Qi Yan's direction: "The palace people found this in Chengchao Palace..."
Qi Yan: "Oh... I carved it when I had nothing to do, to pass the time..."
Nangong Jingnu: "...why didn't you give it to me earlier?"
Qi Yan: "Thinking about the future..."
The next answer stuck in her throat, her hand on her knee clenched the fabric and loosened it, Qi Yan pursed her lips and turned her head away, and then tried her best to calmly say, "Forget it."
Nangong Jingnu reached out and touched the wooden carvings in the wooden box. This was the first time she touched them. The hand is smooth and does not feel any burr. This is definitely not something that can be achieved by a skilled carver. It must have been played through countless times...
Nangong Jingnu: "Thank you."
Qi Yan: "Yeah."
…
The two were once again at a loss for words, and it was obvious that they had something to say not long ago.
…
Nangong Jingnu sat for a while longer, closed the wooden box and thought about it, still holding it in her arms: "It's time for you to drink the medicine, I... go back first."
Qi Yan opened her mouth and nodded again. It wasn't until Nangong Jingnu turned around that Qi Yan's eyes fell openly on her back. Within ten steps, Nangong Jingnv came to the door, stopped to look back, four eyes. relatively.
Qi Yan: "Your Majesty..."
Nangong Jingnu: "Yes."
Qi Yan: "When will you come again?"
It was only at this moment that Nangong Jingnu suddenly felt the difference. The natural arrogance of Qi Yan... disappeared.
She shouldn't be like this, what did she do to her
Nangong Jingnu: "You..." You shouldn't have come back. "Recover well."
As for the day to come, it has not been set.
…
Nangong Jingnv left the dormitory, and Qi Yan sat on the bed again and looked at the window. Through the thin window paper, she could see Nangong Jingnv's figure walking farther and farther, until she disappeared.
Qi Yan picked up the medicine bowl by the bed and drank it, then lay down, pulled the quilt over her body, and turned around.
With a "squeak", Gu Ruolan returned to the bedroom, saw the empty bowl on the small table and Qi Yan's back, took the bowl and left silently.
Seventeen or eighteen-year-old daughter's family is a sensitive and fragile age. Gu Ruolan has never been so "cold" by a patient for many years in her practice of medicine, so she just brought the medicine and food to Qi Yan at night, without any supervision.
Unexpectedly, when I came over the next morning to see that the medicine bowl and rice bowl had not been touched, Qi Yan also curled up with her back to her, as if she had never moved.
Gu Ruolan frowned, put the tray in her hand on the table, and called, "Hey, take the medicine."
Even after calling Qi Yan several times, she didn't answer, but unexpectedly, Qi Yan didn't even move. The doctor's intuition made Gu Ruolan's heart alarm bells, she pushed Qi Yan: "Hello!"
Qi Yan's eyes were tightly closed, Gu Ruolan took a breath, and her breathing was normal. He raised his hand and touched Qi Yan's forehead again, it was hot...
Gu Ruolan: "Damn!"
After speaking, he ran out quickly, and rushed back with the medicine box on his back...
He twisted a damp cloth and put it on Qi Yan's forehead, poured a little medicinal wine in his palm, lifted Qi Yan's arm and started rubbing it to cool down.
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Princess Zhuohua's fief.
Nangong Shunv has not slept all day and night. Yesterday, Princess Zhuohua's mansion also received the imperial decree to dismiss the emperor's husband. Xiaodie cried for an afternoon after hearing it, and had a fever at night.
Nangong Shunv asked a doctor for acupuncture, but the fever of the medicine was still uncontrollable. Xiaodie kept talking nonsense while in a coma, mostly related to Qi Yan.
Nangong Shunv was worried that the doctor would hear any flaws. She asked the doctor to go back and take care of Xiaodie all night. When the sky was just dawn, Xiaodie woke up once and held Nangong Shunv's hand with her red eyes. , he kept repeating a sentence like a demon: "Take me back to the capital, my brother is in danger."
Nangong Shunv was very distressed, tears flowed uncontrollably, hugged Xiaodie's hot body, kissed her forehead, eyebrows, cheeks, and comforted her gently and distressedly: "When your fever subsides, we will immediately Go, Qi Yuanjun will be fine, don't be afraid..."
Concubine Rong was a little worried when she saw that her daughter didn't come to greet her at night, and she didn't have a job. She couldn't sleep well when she was old, and woke up at dawn.
I learned from the maid that Nangong Shunv invited a doctor to the house, thinking that her daughter was ill, so she hurriedly dressed and came to visit, but found that her daughter was not in the bedroom, but the lamp in the side hall was dimly lit, she remembered that she lived here A girl... The origins of her identity are all mysterious, and she was brought out from the capital by her own daughter.
Concubine Rong didn't like Xiaodie very much. She felt that Xiaodie was vulgar. Not only did she not recognize a few words, but she also had no rules at all. She heard Xiaodie not calling her daughter "His Royal Highness" several times, but calling her directly. Name, if his daughter insisted on keeping her, he would have sent Xiaodie long ago.
Concubine Rong: "Help Ben Gong to take a look over there."
Shochiku: "Yes."
There was not even a maid at the door in the dead of night. Naturally, no one reported it. The door of the palace was open again, and a mud stove was raised at the door. In the middle, what are you doing in the side hall
So with the help of the maid, I went straight through the compartment and entered the bedroom...
Hearing her daughter's voice faintly, Rong Taifei breathed a sigh of relief. She walked around the screen and saw that her daughter was actually holding that servant, in...
Concubine Rong: "What are you doing?!"
Nangong Shunv turned her head sharply, and Xiaodie's tears were still on her lips before she could wipe it away, and Xiaodie was also frightened by the sudden voice.
Nangong Shunv quickly suppressed the panic in her eyes, and did not forget to pat Xiaodie to comfort her not to be afraid: "Mother, why are you here so late?"
Concubine Rong's face was a little ugly, because there was still a maid who didn't have an attack on the spot, even though she didn't see Nangong Shunv kissing Xiaodie from her point of view, but from the etiquette she had received, the two women hugged in the middle of the night. Together... It's been a disgrace.
Concubine Rong: "It's already morning. You didn't come for dinner last night. When you woke up in the morning, the maid said that you had invited a doctor to the residence. I thought you were sick, but I didn't expect you to be here."
After speaking, she did not forget to give Xiaodie a fierce look, her eyes were full of warnings and dissatisfaction, her daughter didn't even change her clothes, and she didn't sleep all night.
However, Xiaodie was so confused that she didn't respond or express anything at all. Seeing this, Concubine Rong became more and more dissatisfied: she really is an uneducated wild girl!
When Xiaodie's sobbing came, Nangong Shunv's heart tightened. She was afraid that Xiaodie would call out Qi Yan's name, so she quickly helped Taifei Rong and said with a smile, "Lao's mother walked by herself early in the morning, my daughter is really guilty. What mother wants to eat for breakfast today, I will let the small kitchen do it."
Concubine Rong was helped out of the bedroom by the concubine Nangong, and replied in a slightly reproachful tone: "Since you came to the fief, your mind has become more and more wild, and you go out every ten days and a half months without saying anything, and now you can even ask for peace. Save it."
Nangong Shunv: "My mother taught me that my daughter must accompany her mother more in the future. How about eating wolfberry lotus seed lily porridge and mother's favorite pickled bamboo shoots for breakfast today?"
Concubine Rong: "Songzhu, let the kitchen do it, and then make a soup that calms the nerves and nourishes qi..."
Shochiku: "Yes."
Concubine Rong: "You didn't sleep last night, did you? Have a good night's sleep after drinking the soup."
Nangong Shunv: "Thank you mother."
Concubine Rong: "Don't be too kind. You are different from her master and servant. Even if... you are half a friend, is it still separated by blood? She is sick and asks two maids to serve her. Why? Can you afford to watch the night yourself?"
Nangong Shunv: "My mother taught me... but, in fact... Xiaodie is the one entrusted by His Majesty to take care of me. In the future, my daughter will report to her mother."
This was beyond Concubine Rong's expectations, and asked suspiciously, "Really?"
Nangong Shunv: "How dare a daughter deceive her mother..."
After speaking, Nangong Shu Nu sighed silently in her heart. She knows her mother's temperament best. Thanks to not seeing it just now, the consequences would be unimaginable...
Even so, from the mother's point of view, it is inappropriate to embrace Xiaodie...
Regarding herself and Xiaodie, she can deal with the courage to face the world, but she can't pass the mother's test alone. In order to dispel her mother's doubts, and to make Xiaodie's life easier in the future, Nangong Shunv decided to make Xiaodie a Tell her mother about Princess Yanyang's birth mother...
Although it's somewhat inappropriate to do this without Kocho's permission...
But as long as the mother knows that this layer of relationship exists, she will not suspect her relationship with Xiaodie for the time being, and she can take care of Xiaodie more, and His Majesty's mother will definitely see it.