Seventy-fourth bowl of soup (2)
"Your Highness..." Ah Chou was stupid and couldn't comfort others. "Let's run away first, you, what can you do?"
"Whatever you follow me, you will die." The prince said flatly, "Go, there is still time to go."
Ah Chou lowered her head and bit her lips. She didn't dare to argue with the prince, and she didn't want to say something to show her sincerity. She just went in front of him, carried him on her back, and moved out step by step. The prince felt bad after being teased by her: "You, what are you doing?!"
"Your Highness must not die." You must not lose the will to live. I will always be with you. In this case, Ah Chou can’t say it. She feels that she is not qualified to say it, but she just feels that he cannot die. One day, he can always get back what belongs to him, but she won’t say it. He can't express it either, so he can only do his best to save him in order to have a better chance in the future.
She doesn't understand anything, not even a big character, but that's what she thinks.
How could the crown prince be able to rely on a woman to carry him on his back? However, his legs were numb, and it seemed that his tendons had been severed. Although he had taken medicine to stop the bleeding, it was of no use. Thinking of this, bursts of despair, grief and indignation welled up in my heart, and I asked myself when I was kind to others in my life, when did I ever owe half a cent, and why did I end up in such a situation? It would be better to die than to live like this.
Ah Chou felt the person on his back trembling: "Put me down."
She shook her head stubbornly: "No."
"Gu said, let Gu down!"
A Chou still shook his head.
"Why, don't you regard Gu as the prince now?!"
He was angry, but was it her? Anyone who is betrayed, framed, and hurt by a brother who treats each other sincerely will suffer so much, right? Ah Chou can understand, she was also so sad when she learned that her parents were going to sell her. "Your Highness."
Her voice was a little hoarse due to excessive lack of water, and she only remembered to moisten his lips, but she forgot. But the voice was hoarse and soft, but with indescribable firmness, "I believe Your Highness, Your Highness must live well, and everything will be fine."
She doesn't say uplifting words, repeats them back and forth, and doesn't just say "it's going to be all right."
The prince lay on her shoulders, and Ah Chou felt his neck a little wet. But she didn't look back, and she didn't speak, she just walked forward firmly with his back on her back.
After a long time, the prince finally said: "...he expected that I would not go out of the city. Now the gate of the city must be heavily guarded. It is useless to go there. I can't get out." But if I can't go out, I will be found sooner or later if I stay in the capital. Can not die.
Ah Chou's eyes lit up: "No, I can go out, just to wrong His Highness."
Wronged? He is already like this, so why talk about being wronged or not
After half a stick of incense, the prince almost wanted to choose death. He watched helplessly as Ah Chou hid him in the bucket of rancid water. The bucket smelled extremely bad. This kind of menial work was done at night, and the soldiers guarding the city would not strictly interrogate him. People get sick from the smell. Ah Chou hid herself in, her eyes were astonishingly bright in the dark, the ox cart was slow, she hugged her tightly in the bucket, and the prince's face was buried tightly in her chest, where it was warm and soft, with a faint Simple soap locust fragrance.
The crown prince is eighteen years old, not yet married, and has never been so close to a woman.
Sure enough, although the Ninth Prince gave the order, the soldiers just knocked on the search bucket to make sure that it was filled with rancid water, and they didn’t even open it—just kidding, who wants to look at this kind of thing, the lid is so tightly closed It's all so stinky, it's okay to open it. Besides, who knows that His Highness the Crown Prince loves cleanliness by nature, how could he be here.
The bullock cart didn’t know how far it went until it stopped. Ah Chou heard the uncle driving the cart complaining that he shouldn’t have eaten too much melons and fruits and caused diarrhea. Pulling it out, regardless of the rotten smell of dripping on his body, he hurriedly hid in the grass without him, and dared not come out until the uncle drove the ox cart away.
At this time, no one can be trusted.
The prince lay on her back silently, and Ah Chou looked around, and unexpectedly found that he recognized this place. When she was a child, her younger brother was sick and had a fever, and there was no extra money at home, so her parents asked her to climb the mountain with a basket to collect herbs. Later, she learned a lot from the kitchen and learned a lot, so she just hid in the mountains!
The prince could also feel that she had suddenly gained strength. Although he escaped, his heart was full of gloom and despair. How could a cripple with a broken leg get better, and what future could he have
He will have nothing.
A Chou didn't know what the prince was thinking, so she just walked hard into the mountains. In the early years, she still remembered that there was an abandoned wooden house here. It was said that a couple used to live there. The wife had leprosy. She soaked the pig cage, and the husband carried the disabled wife to an inaccessible mountain and built this small wooden house.
No one has lived in it for many years, and the furniture has long been covered with dust, but for Ah Chou, this place is simply paradise, and the Ninth Prince will never be able to find him. If she hadn't lost her way back then, she wouldn't have turned here.
What did you say to ask her to pick herbs? Her parents probably wanted her to die in a mountain full of wild beasts. She didn't know those at all, so why pick them? After losing her direction, she came to this wooden house, and the couple inside had already turned into bones, which shocked her. Later, she buried them together and kowtowed a few times before leaving. When she left, she took some dried herbs and sold them for some money when she returned, so that her parents avoided beating her a few times.
How could the child know anything, she just looked at the pair of dead bones embracing each other, feeling sad and sad, so she dug a hole on the spot to bury them, and put a bunch of flowers she picked, wishing them to still be able to love each other in the next life Keep it for a hundred years.
She put the prince down first, and then said to him: "Your Highness is resting here, I'm going to boil some water for His Highness to bathe."
She's been here before, so she's no stranger to it. First went to kowtow in front of the grave, picked a bouquet of flowers, and then entered the kitchen.
The wooden house is built by the water, and there is also a vegetable garden. It is also very convenient and safe to surround it with a fence. It's just that the pot has not been used for many years, and it has accumulated a lot of dust. It took a long time for Ah Chou to clean it. It's still too cold to take a bath in the stream at this day, and His Highness is seriously injured, so you have to be careful when you breathe.
When she finished boiling the water, the prince looked at her, the room was very dark, only one lamp was lit, her body was dirty and smelly, and she couldn't see her original appearance. So he let her take off his shoes for him, but there was no bathtub or anything, so he had to wipe himself.
It's not that Ah Chou doesn't want to serve, but she doesn't dare. She has a humble status and does lowly jobs. How can she be qualified to serve His Highness? However, the prince didn't like maids to serve him, and he basically did it himself on weekdays. Seeing that he was fine, Ah Chou went out by himself—she also had to wash.
Naturally, the clothes could no longer be worn, so he took out the couple's clothes. A Chou was worried that His Highness would not feel comfortable wearing such rough fabrics, but at the same time was glad that he could stay by his side.
Is this love? Ah Chou didn't know that these two words didn't exist in her consciousness. She just wanted to repay him and give everything for his kindness, even if it was her life.
Like someone from a long, long, long time ago.
The food has long been inedible, the rice has been eaten away, and the vegetable field is even more barren, but fortunately there are fish and shrimps in the stream, A Chou caught some by the moonlight, and then quickly processed them in the kitchen and served them on the table .
The prince ate very little, and Ah Chou was very worried, but she ate all the rest, because she was so hungry.
Who would have thought that a little girl like her could carry the prince on her back for so long and so far, as if she had inexhaustible strength in her body
She also tidied up the bed, patted the quilt and covered the prince, the prince's legs need to find a way, naturally there will be no doctors in the deep mountains and old forests, but when she was in the mansion before, Master Zhang in the kitchen accidentally fell and broke After losing his leg, A Chou was sent to take care of him. She remembered and recognized all the medicinal materials.
The most indispensable thing in the mountains is treasures. The old saying goes that people who rely on mountains eat mountains, and this is the truth.
It was already late at night, and the prince woke up from the nightmare, only to realize that the room was filled with dim light. He subconsciously looked towards the light, and saw Ah Chou sitting in front of the table, worrying about the pile of herbs on the table, with a small stone mortar and a round stick in his hand.
Although she remembered, it was all memorized by hand. After all, her mind was not bright, and she could occasionally be very wise and stupid, but most of the time she was still stupid. Therefore, although the herbs are found, they can't remember how many they counted, and how to distribute and mash them according to the proportion.
The prince coughed lightly, only to realize that the whole room was completely different from what he had before going to bed. Not only was it clean and tidy, but it also exuded the scent of flowers and plants. When I turned my head, I found a handful of flowers beside the pillow. That's how the scent came from.
Ah Chou was also very happy to see that he woke up. She first poured a bowl of water and took it over respectfully. There was no exquisite blue and white porcelain tea bowl here, and even the drinking bowl was missing a corner. She felt that His Highness had been greatly wronged. It's useless, and it's really sad. "Your Highness, you are awake."
The prince took two sips from the water bowl: "What are you doing?"
"This is the herb that I just found, it can cure legs." She said seriously. "But the slave girl is not very smart. When counting the weight, she always counts this and forgets that..."
The prince inexplicably smiled, "You tell me, and I will count."
"How can this be..."
"Why not?" The prince smiled at her, "Isn't it all for me."