just a couple of sad people
Naturally, the cold tablet can't give any guidance to Nangong Jingnv, and Nangong Jingnv's heart is like a mirror. But she still made a special trip to make this trip, because some things were too heavy in her heart and needed a vent.
She is the king of a country, the empress of thousands of people, what else can't be done
"Release Qi Yan", this thought would echo in Nangong Jingnv's mind every day.
But it is precisely because she is the king of a country that the invisible shackles are set on her body. It is something more terrible than the law. If you do something wrong, I don't know how serious the consequences will be...
Moreover, between them... there is a more serious problem: the revenge of killing the father!
If you let Qi Yan out, how can you be worthy of your father? !
Even if... I forcefully release Qi Yan, how will the people in the world poke the spine of this empress
It's not easy for a woman to get into the basics, and now she doesn't even care about her father's murder, and she stays with her own father's murderer... Can this world still be peaceful
Every decision made by the emperor is heavy. If the people are provoked, I don’t know how much blood will be shed, and how many people will suffer. Can I really be selfish and sit back and watch the blood flow into rivers for my own selfish desires
Throughout the ages, there have been many faint kings who only love beauty but not the country, but this person must not be himself.
He had promised his father and emperor that the country of Wei would never die in two lifetimes.
Nangong Jingnu cried for a long time, tidy up her appearance and left the temple.
It's just... She seems to have forgotten something very important.
The blood feud between her and Qi Yan is mutual, even if Nangong Jingnv did not personally participate, she also carried the original sin in the same line.
On the same issue, Qi Yan's choice seems to be completely different from Nangong Jingnu's.
It was this hesitation and shackles that made Nangong Jingnu regret many years later...
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On the other hand, Qi Yan's high fever persisted, and Gu Ruolan tried her best to restrain Qi Yan's condition. Moreover, Gu Ruolan found that due to Qi Yan's weakness, the water disease in her body had the tendency to develop.
Gu Ruolan had not closed her eyes for two days and two nights. She had just given Qi Yan acupuncture and rubbed her limbs with shochu to reduce the temperature. She was so tired that she slumped on the edge of Qi Yan's bed. A medical book was published.
This was left to her by Gu Ruolan's grandfather, because it recorded some serious remedies and legendary remedies, which were not used in daily medical practice, and Gu Ruolan never read it.
Now the idea of saving Qi Yan is extremely urgent, Gu Ruolan has tried all the methods she can use but with little success, she can only pin her last hope on this medical book.
Her hard work paid off, and just when Gu Ruolan was disappointed, she found a way to restrain "water disease" in the last chapter of the medical book "Odd Diseases".
But there is no exact prescription on it, only a legend is recorded: According to legend, in the land of extreme flames, there is a kind of fiery red toad that is not afraid of heat, and it is called the fire toad. This toad is highly poisonous, and healthy people who take it will be infected with fire poison and die from sores.
But if people suffering from water sickness eat it, all water sickness in the body can be eliminated.
Gu Ruolan jumped up excitedly, but the last line of words seemed to pour cold water on her head.
Fire toads only exist in legends, and the land of extreme fire is even more inaccessible to ordinary people. Regrettably, I have not seen it in decades of practicing medicine.
Gu Ruolan looked back at Qi Yan, who was lying unconscious on the bed. Based on her medical skills, she deduced that the reason for Qi Yan's persistent high fever was probably a water disease.
She squatted beside the bed and touched Qi Yan's forehead again, there was still some warmth...
Since early this morning, Qi Yan has stopped babbling at all. From the very beginning, she called "Your Majesty", then she began to call "Mother" and finally said something she didn't understand, and now she is only sleeping. Gu Ruolan knows this. Not a good thing.
She looked at the contents of the medical book again, suppressing the fear in her heart, holding the medical book and running towards the gate of the cold palace...
Since Qi Yan moved in, new guards have been added to the entrance of the Leng Palace, and commoners like Gu Ruolan are a little afraid of these people.
Gu Ruolan rushed to the door and was stopped by the guards: "Gu Langzhong, just instruct us to do whatever we need, and people in the palace are not allowed to go out without His Majesty's will."
Gu Ruolan grabbed the guard's arm: "Qi Yuanjun is ill, very ill, I need to see your majesty!"
Guard: "This..."
Gu Ruolan: "As far as I know, His Majesty only ordered people to be locked up, not to let her die, right? Her current situation is very bad, and I'm afraid it will be too late!"
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As soon as Nangong Jingnv came back from the Taimiao Temple, she saw a fresh-eyed guard kneeling thirty paces away from the imperial study, so she sent the servant to inquire. "Go back to your majesty, it's the doctor in the cold palace who said... Qi Yuanjun is in critical condition and asked to see your majesty."
Nangong Jingnu's mind went blank for a moment: "You said she... What happened to her?"
Servant: "The guard didn't report it clearly. Judging by the servant... It should be sick."
Nangong Jingnu: "Place in the cold palace."
The muscles on the waiter's face twitched, he did his duty and persuaded: "Your Majesty, you just visited... the place in the cold palace..."
Nangong Jingnu: "Get up!"
Chamberlain: "...Yes."
The sedan chair carried by the sixteen people rushed to the Leng Palace. On the way, Nangong Jingnv sent the maid to the imperial hospital to announce that the imperial doctor came with him.
This time, a group of people poured into the cold palace. Nangong Jingnv ordered someone to directly carry the sedan chair outside Qi Yan's bedroom. Before the maid's announcement was finished, Nangong Jingnv pushed the door and rushed in.
Nangong Jingnu: "How is she?"
Gu Ruolan: "It has been burning for two days and two nights. I tried my best to control it, and I couldn't make her wake up."
There was a trace of anger in Nangong Jingnu's eyes, and she was even more dissatisfied: Could it be that this doctor girl is not as smart as the spies reported
Nangong Jingnu: "When I came last time, wasn't the person okay? What happened?"
Gu Ruolan shook her head: "I don't know."
Nangong Jingnu came to the bedside, looked at Qi Yan on the bed, and the tip of her nose was sore.
She just lay there quietly, white and pale, motionless. A dead aura lingers all over his body, only his chest rises and falls slightly.
Nangong Jingnu looked at Qi Yan blankly, she had never seen Qi Yan like this...
There was not a trace of pain or struggle on her face, but it was a little more deadly than when she fell asleep. After returning to God, Nangong Jingnv was extremely flustered. Since the last time she saw Qiyan Nangong Jingnv's heart There was a feeling that something was missing from Qi Yan's body.
It's just that the matter of Qi Yan has become a secret wound in Nangong Jingnv's heart. Avoiding harm is everyone's instinct, so everything about Qi Yan... Nangong Jingnv doesn't want to think deeply.
Today, I cried bitterly at the Taimiao Temple, and Nangong Jingnu was relieved to a certain extent from the depression in her heart. When I looked at Qi Yan again, I realized that... Maybe I really did too much, and it seemed that I had taken something very important from Qi Yan. , what is it... Nangong Jingnu didn't have time to think about it.
Nangong Jingnu sat beside the bed, took off the clean cloth and touched Qi Yan's forehead, but the temperature was still abnormal.
Nangong Jingnu: "How long did she burn?"
Gu Ruolan: "Two days and two nights..."
Nangong Jingnu felt another pain in her heart. Isn't this just not long after she left
Nangong Jingnu: "Someone."
Chamberlain: "See Your Majesty."
Nangong Jingnu: "Where's the imperial doctor?"
Chamberlain: "We're already on our way, and we'll be there in a moment."
Nangong Jingnu: "Go and urge again."
Gu Ruolan frowned, feeling a little uncomfortable in her heart, she mustered up her courage and said, "My medical skills are no worse than those of the imperial physicians in the palace, her disease is caused by water disease, to completely restrain water disease, it is necessary to have a fire toad. Row!"
Nangong Jingnu looked at Qi Yan intently: "What is that?"
Gu Ruolan: "It's a legendary creature left in my grandfather's handbook. A toad living in a land of extreme flames is fiery red and can restrain some water diseases in the world."
Gu Ruolan felt that Nangong Jingnu didn't even give her a glimpse of the corner of the eye, and she felt a little drum in her heart. After all, this is just a legend...
Just when I was thinking about how to fight for it, I heard Nangong Jingnu softly ask, "Do you have any plans?"
Gu Ruolan thought she had heard it wrong, and was stunned...
Nangong Jingnu still focused all her attention on Qi Yan, and felt Qi Yan's hand beside the bed holding it in the palm of her hand...
Gu Ruolan: "Your Majesty is talking to me... Caomin?"
Nangong Jingnu took Qi Yan's hand and put it on her cheek, then she turned to look at Gu Ruolan and asked, "I ask you, do you have a picture of a fire toad?"
The moment Nangong Jingnu turned her head, Gu Ruolan saw her red eyes and dark blue eyes.
Nangong Jingnu's expression was very calm, and even her voice was flat without sadness or joy, but somehow... Gu Ruolan read the sadness in the eyes of the empress. She didn't cry, and her eyes were only slightly red. won't notice...
But Gu Ruolan felt: The emperor's mood in front of him was extremely sad, even sadder than tears.
Gu Ruolan was stunned for a few breaths, shook her head, and whispered back, "This is just a legend recorded in my grandfather's handbook."
Nangong Jingnu: "Lusheng."
The inner attendant trotted all the way to the outside and knelt down to Nangong Jingnv's feet: "Your Majesty."
Nangong Jingnu: "Send someone to bring the 'Kuzhou Universe Map' over."
Servant: "Yes."
After half an hour, the imperial physicians arrived. A total of four came. Before the imperial physicians entered the hall, Nangong Jingnu got up first and stood by the bed.
Royal Doctor Wang: "See Your Majesty."
Nangong Jingnv: "She is ill and has a high fever. You can ask this doctor about the specific condition. I want her to live."
Doctor Wang: "Yes."
After Nangong Jingnv left the bedroom and came to the outside world, Gu Ruolan glanced at Nangong Jingnv's back and began to describe Qi Yan's pulse condition to several imperial doctors.
After another half an hour, the situation was almost explained. The four imperial doctors took over Gu Ruolan's work, and the servant walked up to Gu Ruolan and whispered, "Miss, Your Majesty ordered you to come over."
Gu Ruolan followed the inner servant to the outside, and saw Nangong Jingnu standing in front of a huge map.
Gu Ruolan: "Your Majesty."
Nangong Jingnv: "This is the most comprehensive map in the whole world. Take a look at it carefully and recall whether your grandfather told you about the fire toad. There is a pen and paper next to you, and write all you think there may be fire toads. place and give it to me."
Before Gu Ruolan felt that Nangong Jingnv looked down on her medical skills, but now this thought is gone.
Instead, he explained again with some guilt: "Your Majesty... That's just a legend. The grass people don't know if there are fire toads in this world."
Nangong Jingnu: "I know. Dasinong will send a few officials familiar with the climate in various places to assist you."
After speaking, Nangong Jingnu left the bedroom directly, and a moment later, the sound of the sedan chair being carried away came from outside the palace.
Royal Doctor Wang frowned. He also diagnosed Qi Yan once, and his condition was exactly as described by Gu Ruolan. Royal Doctor Wang was amazed that Gu Ruolan was so skilled in medicine at such a young age, but also felt a little tricky...
How long has it been? Qi Yan's body actually deteriorated to such a point.
However, in Wang Yuyi's opinion, it is not helpless. This is not because Gu Ruolan's medical skills are not good, but because she is from the folk, so most of the prescriptions prescribed are common medicinal materials in the folk, which have certain limitations.
Wang Yuyi is supported by the entire Baicao Garden and the treasures of heaven and earth in the Treasure Pavilion. There are more natural choices and bolder medication.
Royal Doctor Wang came to the table to prepare a prescription, Gu Ruolan walked over curiously...
Royal Doctor Wang cherished her talents, but she did not let Gu Ruolan evade, so she wrote thirty-two herbs on the prescription, some of which Gu Ruolan had never even heard of, and half of which Gu Ruolan had only heard of and had never seen before. Pass.
But she still has the vision of a doctor. After reading the contents of the prescription, Gu Ruolan was speechless, and murmured, "How much money does this cost?"
Not to mention Ginseng Ganoderma lucidum, a medicinal herb that even smells extravagant, it is said that this "deer antler blood" is something that is hard to find in the folk.
The process of bloodletting is very complicated, and the medicine must be used before the blood coagulates, otherwise the medicine will lose its efficacy.
Wang Yuyi explained with a smile: "This... Master, used to be the master of soup and medicine, and every recipe he has ever drank is much more expensive than this pair of gold, and now he is weak and can't make up for it... So I chose Medication is conservative."
Gu Ruolan took the prescription handed over by Royal Doctor Wang with both hands and held it carefully, as if she was not holding a piece of paper, but a priceless treasure.
Gu Ruolan: "How much money does this... get?"
Wang Yuyi: "Silver?" Pointing to the blind medicine "Tan Petal" on it, he asked, "Is this something that can be bought with silver?"
Gu Ruolan swallowed and shook her head.
It's short-lived, and it's only a fleeting moment of accumulation in ten years... How can it be measured by gold and silver
Wang Yuyi explained again: "But all the medicinal materials used on him go to His Majesty's private treasury, without taking a cent from the state treasury, you are not allowed to talk nonsense after you go out."
Gu Ruolan: "I know."
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After Qi Yan took the medicine, the temperature dropped a little after two hours, and Nangong Jingnu came again at night.
Gu Ruolan did not expect His Majesty to leave and return so soon. After Nangong Jingnu came in, she first asked the Royal Doctor Wang about Qi Yan's condition, then sat in the bedroom for a while, and then came to the outside and asked Gu Ruolan: "Where the fire toad may appear, Is it marked?"
Gu Ruolan nodded and handed a piece of paper to Nangong Jingnu: "A total of a dozen locations have been screened, and the closest one to the capital is also several hundred miles away."
Nangong Jingnu put away the paper and turned to leave.
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After Qi Yan's condition stabilized a little, Royal Doctor Wang left behind a few prescriptions and a medicine boy, and left with the doctors.
For the next three days, Nangong Jingnu would appear by Qi Yan's bed on time every day after noon, stay for an hour, and then leave.
Occasionally at night, but this time I won't stay for too long. I simply ask Gu Ruolan a few words and then leave. It is obvious that Nangong Jingnu will never let others do things that can be done by the servant.
On the evening of the third day, Gu Ruolan happily said to Nangong Jingnu: "Your Majesty, Caomin thinks she will wake up tomorrow, but... If she wants to completely recover, she has to cure the water disease in her body. ."
Nangong Jingnu's body froze, and she replied lightly, "Understood, you go out first. I want to be alone for a while."
Gu Ruolan withdrew, and there were only two people left in Qi Yan's bedroom.
Nangong Jingnu rubbed Qi Yan's hand, it was a very skinny hand with distinct blood vessels...
Nangong Jingnu turned Qi Yan's palm over and held it against her face, as if Qi Yan was stroking her cheek.
A drop of clear tears silently overflowed his eyes, smeared across his thin face, and finally hidden in Qi Yan's fingertips.
Nangong Jingnu pressed the back of Qi Yan's hand with one hand to keep it from sliding down, and the other hand touched Qi Yan's face with the same gesture, her thumb slowly sliding.
Nangong Jingnu said in a barely audible voice, "If I wasn't the princess of Wei State and you weren't the prince of Jing State, would we be different?"
Nangong Jingnu: "But if it weren't for this... Would you and I still meet?"
Bei's teeth crossed his lower lip, leaving two white marks: "You appeared in my life because of national hatred and family hatred for nearly ten years. It took you more than ten years to let go of your hatred, but what about me? You ...Why are you so cruel to me? Not even giving me a little time? I am willing to let you go on the charge of dishonesty and filial piety... Why do you want to come back?"
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Nangong Jingnv: "Qi Yan... Agula, you know what? I don't want you to die, I want you to live... Even if you are my father's enemy, I have even made a plan not to enter the emperor's mausoleum after death. Prepare, with the plan to face the ancestors shamelessly, will you order them to send you away... Why are you, why are you still struggling?"
Nangong Jingnu: "What do you want me to do? Can you stop being so cruel to me, for the sake of our past, don't die at my hands? Nangong Zhenzhen can't ask for help, but Nangong Zhenzhen can't beg for help. Jing Nu, please, don't die..."
Nangong Jingnu was lying beside Qi Yan's bed and cried. After crying for a while, Qi Yan said in a strong nasal voice, "I've been married to you for almost ten years. From the very beginning, I was not your opponent, you You're brilliant, and there's no end to it. I'm chasing after you like a fool, desperately trying to be on par with you, but you're always one step ahead of me, even this time. I know you're coming back The one who died, you took revenge and placed Xiaodie, and you have nothing to worry about, you don't want to owe me anything, so give me your life back, right?"
Nangong Jingnu slammed Qi Yan with a punch: "What about me? You have no last resort, why did you miss me? If you die by my hands, how will I spend the rest of my life?"
Nangong Jingnu: "You are so cruel? I would rather you and I never see each other again. As long as I know that you are still alive somewhere, I can support me to go on, do you understand?"
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It was late at night, and the voice of the servant came from outside the palace: "Your Majesty, the palace ban is coming, it is time for you to return to the palace."
Nangong Jingnu took a breath and forced herself to calm down: "Got it."
Nangong Jingnu got up, pulled the quilt for Qi Yan, and straightened the broken hair between her foreheads. Her fingertips couldn't help but trace the outline of Qi Yan's eyebrows: "From tomorrow onwards, I will not come again."
Nangong Jingnu came to the outside world and saw Gu Ruolan dozing off. Although she couldn't bear it, she still woke her up. Gu Ruolan rubbed her eyes and said, "Well, what's wrong?"
After seeing that it was Nangong Jingnu, she suddenly woke up and stood up: "Your Majesty!"
Nangong Jingnv looked away, unwilling to let others see her ugliness: "Don't tell her I've been here."
Before Gu Ruolan understood, Nangong Jingnu had already turned and left.
Gu Ruolan chased to the door and asked inexplicably, "Why?"
Nangong Jingnu finished her meal and said lightly, "This is the imperial decree."
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The first ray of sunlight in the morning shone into the cold palace, and Qi Yan slowly opened her eyes.
Gu Ruolan, who was standing beside the bed, looked surprised for a while, and said in surprise, "Are you awake?!"
Qi Yan was hazy for a moment, then looked away from Gu Ruolan's face and looked around...
After going through the events of the past few days, Gu Ruolan's mood changed a lot. She saw that Nangong Jing's daughter Qi Yan attached great importance to her. Although the person in front of her never said anything, she engraved everything in her heart. Some stubborn behavior or eyes show.
For example, Qi Yan's eyes at this time are obviously looking for someone's figure. Also, she stubbornly stood by the window at noon every day, and Her Majesty the Empress came to the Cold Palace at that time for the past few days.
What Qi Yan is waiting for, looking forward to, and looking forward to every day is all Her Majesty the Empress...
But…
One doesn't tell, the other hides.
The person in front of her is clearly a woman, although she has an indistinguishable face, she is a real woman.
two women...
Qi Yan didn't see the figure in the dream, so she couldn't hide her loss. She was a little unwilling to give up, or she couldn't believe it. She didn't believe that Nangong Jingnu really hadn't come back since the last time...
Qi Yan: "How long have I slept?"
Qi Yan talked to herself? Gu Ruolan was surprised again, and replied truthfully: "You are ill, the water disease recurred and continued to have fever, and you slept for three days and three nights."
Qi Yan: "... Has anyone been here?"
What she clearly wanted to know was whether Her Majesty the Empress had ever been here, but she concealed her refusal to say... This stubbornness and humility made Gu Ruolan complicated.
Gu Ruolan: "I went to the door and called the guards to invite the imperial doctor."
Qi Yan was silent for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Anything else?"
Gu Ruolan: "...No more."
As soon as the words fell, Gu Ruolan's amber eyes read a trace of stunned, and then there was a familiar sadness...
This feeling is so familiar...
Yes! Not long ago, I had read the same deep emotions in the eyes of Her Majesty the Empress, which were exactly the same as those hidden in Qi Yan's eyes.
Qi Yan closed her eyes, hiding the fragility in her eyes, pulling the corners of her mouth, and instantly disappeared the arc.
This time, Gu Ruolan didn't bother Qi Yan again, but she didn't understand: If Her Majesty the Empress and Qi Yuanjun had the same reason for being sad, why couldn't they tell each other their feelings
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Hearing the door closing, Qi Yan opened her eyes and felt a little sore all over her body for three days, but the pain was less than one tenth of what she felt in her heart.
Qi Yan raised her hand and clasped it in her heart, but to no avail.
In Qi Yan's memory: during the years with Nangong Jingnu, unless I was not in the capital, not where she could come... Every time I got sick or injured, whether it was deliberate or real, I opened my eyes every time. She can be seen.
This time... but it was different, she didn't come...
Maybe it won't come again in the future.
Perhaps, this cold palace will become a cage imprisoning him for life, and he must die.
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The first to arrive in the capital were Zhuohua Princess Nangong Shunv and Xiaodie.
The amazing thing is that Xiaodie miraculously recovered a few days before entering the capital, and she no longer had a fever and stopped talking nonsense. Nangong Shunv breathed a sigh of relief and felt that Xiaodie's illness was a bit unusual. After all, the doctor saw Afterwards, I don't know the cause of Xiaodie. If she was only stimulated, it would not be enough to make her sick so seriously, and after taking a lot of medicines, the effect was not good. When everyone was at a loss, Xiaodie was miraculously healed.
After returning to Princess Zhuohua's mansion, she persuaded Xiaodie to wait in the mansion, and put on her palace clothes and entered the palace.
Nangong Shunv returned to Beijing without notice in advance, and the vassal kings who were enfeoffed according to the law could not return to Beijing without authorization, but Nangong Jingnu issued an imperial decree at the beginning of her ascension to the throne and exempted the two sisters from this etiquette. Presumptive.
Nangong Jingnv was a little surprised, she instantly understood the purpose of her second sister, and sighed silently in her heart.
She didn't want her sister to know the truth. After all, Xiaodie was Qi Yan's younger sister. If the second sister knew that Qi Yan was their father's enemy, she might ruin a good marriage.
I have already experienced the bitterness of the feud, and it is better to undertake some things independently.
Nangong Jingnv: "You all go down, I'll talk to the second sister."
Nangong Shunv came to Nangong Jingnv and bowed each and every time: "I entered Beijing without reporting it, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."
Nangong Jingnu: "Second sister, sit down, what are you and my sister doing when you say these distant words?"
Nangong Shunv thanked her and sat down, looked at Nangong Jingnv for a moment, and sighed faintly: "Your Majesty is relieved."
Nangong Jingnu smiled slightly: "How are you second sister?"
Nangong Shunv: "I'm fine, but what about you?"
Nangong Jingnu was silent for a long time, then whispered: "Second sister, there are some things... don't mention it."
Nangong Shunv: "I think Your Majesty should also know why I returned to Beijing in a hurry. What's the trouble with you?"
Nangong Jingnu shook her head and refused to go on.
Nangong Shunv sighed again: "Now that you have grown up, and the identity of a monarch and minister is separated between you and me, but I still want to ask you as a sister, whether you are doing this is an expedient measure, or... ?"
Nangong Jingnu: "Second sister, don't ask."
Nangong Shunv: "...you, is it true?"
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Nangong Jingnu took a deep breath and replied tremblingly, "Yes, it's true."