Just as Tao Qing expected, the master and Lan Zhengying started to practice Tai Chi, delaying each other's time. I was restless, but I also remembered my promise to Qiao Yu—never act alone and take care of myself.
But Liu Che's body obviously collapsed, as if he had to expend a lot of energy even to breathe, his face became paler and paler, and when he coughed a little, his face turned red as if it was about to bleed. The old military doctor had to go to the Chinese military tent several times a day, and finally he simply stayed in the Chinese military tent, always ready.
I watched Liu Che's decline day by day with concern. He was still twenty years old, but he seemed to have aged a lot overnight. He leaned against his chest like a thread, and if he wasn't very close, he would have stopped. Normal breathing.
"Ache, Ache..." I leaned down and called him softly, "It's time to take medicine."
After a while, his slender eyelashes trembled, he slowly opened his eyes, looked around absentmindedly, and finally found me.
"Yingyu." He called me, I helped him sit up, leaned against the bed, and then handed the medicine bowl to his hand, but he didn't take it, just looked at me straight, smiling like a baby Said: "You feed me."
I was speechless for a while, and looked at him silently for a moment, only picked up the spoon, scooped up a spoonful of cooling air, brought it to his lips, and muttered: "It's not like you can't move your hands..."
He swallowed a mouthful of the concoction with a smile, and then he couldn't laugh anymore, his brows were so wrinkled that he could kill a fly, and I gave him another spoonful, but he tightly closed his lips and refused to drink.
I frowned, desperately wanting to pry his mouth open, his teeth were locked shut, the thick black concoction slid down his light-colored lips, slid over the sharp and pale chin, and it was about to slip down to his neck, I quickly withdrew the spoon Medicine bowl, took a handkerchief to help him wipe it.
Only then did he loosen his teeth, and sighed: "I'm going to die, and I still have to suffer this, it's so painful that my heart hurts..."
I said helplessly: "I'm not a child anymore, I can't bear such a little bit of suffering! You can't die, how can you get better if you don't take medicine!"
"It's not a disease, it's life, and life has no cure." He smiled as if he didn't care, and suddenly grabbed my hand, "Yingyu, do you know that everything is life..."
I looked into the depths of his eyes, and the sadness burst into a bitter taste on the tip of my tongue like thick black medicine, as he said—bitter enough to hurt my heart...
I patted his head, turned my face away and said with a dry smile: "Don't say such negative things, it's up to people." After a pause, my voice lowered, and said softly: "Wait a little longer, when Yanli comes back, maybe he There will be a way."
"No."
"What?" I froze for a moment and looked back at him.
Liu Che smiled wryly and said, "He's seen it, there's nothing he can do about it."
"When!" I was shocked, "When did he come back?"
"Not recently, it was when I was in the imperial capital." Liu Che coughed twice, took the handkerchief from my hand, and wiped the corners of his mouth. He lowered his head and didn't look back at me, muttering to himself like a memory : "Back then, I hurt you and almost killed you. They should have avenged you and killed me, but they didn't. Why..."
"Partly, it's because you sacrificed your life to save me, and the other half is because..." Liu Che asked and answered himself, laughing at himself, "Because they know that even if they don't do anything, I might not live long."
"At first, I thought it would be three years or five years, but I didn't expect that moment to come so soon. I just found you... Maybe I shouldn't be greedy. I thought, as long as you are still alive, I am willing to give up my life, and it has come. It's time for the oath to be fulfilled. You are still alive, willing to see me, forgive me, even if it's just that, I should be satisfied... "
I moved my lips and whispered: "Don't say that, I never blamed you..."
That's right, he tricked me out of Tao Qing's hands, into entering the palace, tricking me into taking Xiong Gong San, and putting me under house arrest in a gorgeous palace. Deliberately piercing.
"You ruined all your martial arts to save me." Liu Che looked at me sadly, and a bitter smile slowly formed on the corner of his mouth, "I will always remember you when you were in the Imperial College, arrogant and domineering, so cute, free Free and unrestrained, I remember you said that if you want to be a sea dongqing, I will destroy you... "
"Ah Che, stop talking." I frowned and stopped him.
He ignored me and continued talking to himself. Those people and things that I don't want to recall, just like this, are replayed in my mind again with blood dripping.
To be honest, Ah Che didn't really hurt me, but sometimes he used the wrong means. He put me under house arrest in the Forbidden Palace, and never did anything indecent to me. He just came to eat and talk with me every night. I ignored him, and he said to himself, always saying: "It doesn't matter if you don't accept me now." , we have a lifetime."
But in fact, it is really hard to say how long a lifetime is. Sometimes it is a hundred years, and sometimes it may be just a dazzling.
Ah Che was very kind to me, and gave me everything I wanted. Apart from freedom, the most intimate thing he ever did to me was just touching hands. He wanted to kiss, but I always avoided him vigilantly. At that time, he Then she would touch her nose innocently and injured, and said aggrievedly: "Yingyu, let me taste your taste..."
I kicked him away, bared my teeth and said angrily, "Get out!"
The meddling manager drugged me. He wanted to curry favor with Ah Che, but unexpectedly, Yan Li, who came to save others at the expense of others, contributed to the good things between me and Yan Li...
Ah Che also knew about this matter. Later, when Yan Li and I were caught, he asked me: "At that time, no matter who it is? What if it's me?"
In order to be responsible to him, I thought about it seriously and answered him: "Then I probably would rather take a cold shower."
He laughed sadly. "You don't even want to lie to me..."
How does this make me feel good...
But even though I told the truth and rejected him time and time again, he still didn't use force against me, but against others, his methods were far less gentle. In fact, his mind is very small, and he holds grudges very much. Those who have offended him, especially those who have hurt his mother and concubine, will all die badly. It is his most frequent will to implicate the nine clans. The boy is a Shura in the hall. Before his eyes, he turned into a harmless and pure lamb.
I know that Wang's lineage is likely to die well, but there is only one person, so I was worried and asked him for mercy.
"Ah Che, the prince treats you kindly, let him go, he is your elder brother after all."
"Brother?" He snorted coldly, "He doesn't regard me as a younger brother. What's more..." There was a haze in his eyes, "He still has other plans for you."
"But he didn't do anything after all." He also tried to help me, and I'm still grateful to him anyway.
"Yingyu, don't embarrass me." He said helplessly, "He is the former prince. How can he let others snore by the side of the couch? His status is too dangerous, I can't keep him."
I begged in every possible way, but he always smiled and said: "Okay, don't think too much, I will take care of this matter."
What he said is to deal with it well, probably just to deal with the "corpse".
I also knew that what I asked was a little unrealistic, so in the end I could only make one request, let me see the prince for the last time, he readily agreed, completely unexpected, the purpose of my meeting with the prince was to save him, and to save myself.
I used an excuse to drink farewell wine with the prince, and got a jar of wine and a wine bowl. I smashed the wine bowl, grabbed the prince's hand and clasped the fragment of the wine bowl to my throat, and whispered: "Take me away!"
At that moment, all the archers, pistols, spearmen, and swordsmen surrounded me, and I secretly handed over the Pocket Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needle that Tang Si gave me to the prince, thinking that if I couldn't escape, he could use this needle to defend himself , and found shelter at Tang Si.
But the so-called tacit understanding is probably something that the prince and I don't have.
He rejected my kindness, maybe he just didn't want to use me to leave, he didn't think that I wanted to use him to leave too, if he knew, maybe things would be different, unfortunately history can't assume, the end is that he pushed me away, will Rainstorm's pear blossom pointed at Liu Che, and at the same moment, Liu Che drew out his knife and pointed it at him...
At that moment, my world slowed down, but it was so fast that I had no time to think. I think if everyone has three seconds to think before doing something, and think clearly about the pros and cons, then there might not be so many people in this world. A good person who sacrifices himself for others and dies heroically is a good thing.
At least if I could do it all over again, I wouldn't pounce on Ah Che, shield him from the rainstorm pear blossom needle, and get stabbed in the chest by him. His eyes at that time-shock, fear, helplessness... This is The last thing I saw, and the last thing I heard, was Tao Qing and Tang Si's roars and calls—they came so just in time, just in time to watch Lao Tzu burp. I didn't say a carful of words when I was dying like in the story. I tried my best and only said one word——
"Depend on… "
More than half a year later, when I had almost recovered, Yanli talked to me about this matter. That person never showed mercy. I was tortured to death, but he still said sarcastic remarks. "You are a thick-skinned and thick-skinned person. You are as good as a normal person after taking a bucket of rainstorm pear blossom needles, and you still have the strength to swear at others. I really don't know where the pain is for you, a heartless, shameless and skinless person."
Sigh, how can I be "nothing human", I'm just pretending, death is miserable enough, and I have to see myself off with snot and tears, isn't it too embarrassing to die
How much anger, unwillingness and reluctance are there in that "rely"...
After that stabbing, dreams came one after another in a coma, and I didn’t know whose name was called in the dream. It’s just that the painful dream of the 18th floor of hell tormented every inch of my nerves, and the pain in my body was like ice cones burning. Desperate to live and die.
Many things, I finally choose to forget, forget well, forget that Master doesn’t want me, forget that Ah Che wants me, pretend that I have five men who love me and I love, there are not so many tricks to count, everyone is happy...
But in the end, God can't bear the sight of me deceiving myself and others, and I have created so many moths to abuse others and myself.
Thinking of this, I sighed and lowered my head.
Liu Che stretched out his hand and put it on the back of my hand tentatively. Seeing that I didn't resist, he gently held it.
"Ah Che, what did Yan Li say about your illness?" I asked him, pulling myself together.
"There is no cure." Liu Che simply said four words, and all hope was lost. I heard despair at first, but after tasting it again, I felt something strange. I frowned and looked up at him, and asked suspiciously, "Are you hiding it from me?" What?"
Liu Che stared into my eyes for a long while, and finally smiled, "I really can't hide from your keen intuition."
I grabbed his hand with my backhand, squeezed it hard, and whispered: "Honestly speaking!"
Liu Che lowered his eyelids and remained silent, as if he was thinking about how to answer. After a long time, he finally opened his mouth slowly and said in a low voice: "I used to think that as long as I changed my heart, I would have a chance to survive. The imperial doctor said that it is extremely difficult to find a matching heart. , but there happens to be one in the palace.”
I was startled, and tremblingly said: "It's the prince!"
The corners of Liu Che's mouth curled up, and he said with a bitter smile, "I want to live, so he must die." He raised his head to look at me, "But in the end he died, and I couldn't survive either."
Liu Che said: "He knew all of this. He thought he killed you, so he chose to commit suicide. Your dagger pierced his own heart in the end, and ended all my hopes. He asked me to go down with him. hell."
Prince. elder brother.
Archer. younger brother.
I know that he committed suicide after me, but I don't know the reason.
If I knew at the beginning that only one of the two could survive, who would I choose
In fact, I have no choice, and none of us have a choice.
There is a choice called: no matter what you choose, it is wrong.