Gu Jiao took back the Huo Zhezi and slowly came to Huangfuxian's side.
Huangfuxian seemed to be sitting here safely at this time, but he did not know that he had undergone a thrilling rescue before that. His stump was already injured, and he was soaked in river water, and the wound showed a large area of festering.
Jingkong said that he slept for two days, and that was because he only saw the two days he slept since he moved here. Before that, it took three days to rescue him in the hospital and wait for him to pass the dangerous period.
"Does it still hurt?" Gu Jiao asked, "Your wound."
Huangfuxian paused, wanting to say that it didn't hurt, but after hesitating, he said truthfully, "A little bit."
There is a slightly choked nasal sound.
Gu Jiao pretended not to hear it: "I'll take a look."
It was getting dark now, and there was no lamp in the room, so she couldn't see anything.
Huangfuxian did not refuse.
Gu Jiao lifted his trouser legs.
Huangfuxian was not used to it, but he still tried his best to hold back.
Can't see anyway.
He thought so.
Unexpectedly, Gu Jiao took out a small flashlight that came with a small medicine box from her pocket, and pressed it on with a bang.
Huangfuxian's expression changed: "Didn't you say you are not allowed to hold the lamp?"
Gu Jiao said, "It's not an oil lamp, it's a flashlight. I call it - turn on the flashlight."
Huangfuxian: "..."
Huangfuxian wanted to say that you were cheating, and then he was attracted by that little thing that would glow.
"Where is the night pearl?"
The things that Huangfuxian has seen that will glow are the night pearls except for fire, but they are not so bright.
"Want to know?" Gu Jiao asked.
"I don't want to." Huangfuxian turned his face stubbornly.
Gu Jiao bent her lips, squatted down on one knee, flashed a flashlight with one hand, and untied his gauze with the other.
Huangfuxian suddenly grabbed her hand, held his breath and said, "It's ugly!"
Gu Jiao raised her eyes and looked fixedly into his eyes. Her eyes were the same as Xiao Jingkong's, pure, clean, and without a trace of disgust.
It's just that compared to Xiao Jingkong's innocence, there is a convincing calmness in her eyes.
Huangfu Xian's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he slowly released his hand.
Gu Jiao untied the gauze wrapped layer by layer, revealing the wound she had sewed up.
"It healed well, and there was no postoperative infection, but you still need to take medicine on time." After Gu Jiao said, she went back to the east room to get a small medicine box and changed the medicine for him carefully, "You don't feel bad, just take the medicine on time." No more painkillers for you."
"Yeah." Huangfuxian replied dully.
After Gu Jiao finished dressing him, she began to clean up the medical consumables.
"How's that little fat guy?"
Huangfuxian suddenly spoke.
Gu Jiao said, "You mean Qin Chuyu? He has returned to the palace, and Lian'er is also in the palace. The queen has something to ask her, so she won't embarrass her."
What happened that night was dangerous and dangerous. After she and Huangfuxian fell into the water, she plunged the dagger into a stone in the middle of the river.
Long Yi made a few moves to kill the men in black, and flew down to bring her and Huangfu Xian up.
Afterwards, they returned to the capital together.
Huangfuxian turned his head, his eyes fell on her chin, she was squatting just now, he didn't see it, and now she stood up, and the stitch wound was exposed in Huangfuxian's sight.
Huangfuxian was stunned: "Your chin..."
Gu Jiao said indifferently, "I scratched it."
The wound is on the inner side of the chin, which is very obscure. Huangfuxian has sharp eyes, otherwise he would not be able to see it.
Huangfuxian lowered his eyes and pinched his trouser legs with his fingertips: "Did you knock it underwater?"
Gu Jiao replied lightly, "Yes."
The splash of water in the big night could not be seen clearly, but Gu Jiao only knew that there was a stone after being scratched on her chin.
Huangfu Xian said: "For someone like me, it's not worth it."
Gu Jiao didn't speak, and continued to do the work at hand.
The room was very quiet, but the sound of human fireworks could be heard from the next door and the front yard from time to time. Xiao Ba was nibbling on Gu Yan's shoes again, Xiao Jiu was with it, and the other seven chickens obediently returned to their cages.
Next door, Uncle Zhao was scolding his younger son, Aunt Liu was driving geese in the alley, and Granny Zhou's house was frying the smelly mandarin fish again, and the stench came here.
Huangfuxian looked at Gu Jiao's busy little figure again, and for some reason, a strange emotion suddenly surged in his heart.
"She was kind to me when I was a kid."
When Gu Jiao was all packed up, Huangfuxian spoke again, "Always take me out to play, she will give me good food, she will also carry me when she goes to provide relief to the victims, the most thing I have done in my memory is lying on the ground. On her back, cook porridge and herd sheep with her."
"Is your life in the frontier so hard?" Gu Jiao has been to the frontier, and she naturally knows that the people in the frontier are suffering. She also heard that Princess Ning'an has no royal burden and suffers with the people.
But isn't this Ning'an's true face exposed? Can't help but suspect that those so-called hardships are just showing off.
"I don't feel bitter." Huangfuxian said.
"Yes." Gu Jiao said.
When the country was so poor, Jing Kong never disliked the suffering of his family.
Sometimes what children want is actually quite simple.
Huangfuxian looked at the obscure night: "But then everything changed."
Gu Jiao looked at him.
Huangfuxian's eyes were fixed on the brightest star in the night sky, as if remembering some distant memory: "Since my leg was broken, she seems to have changed a person, she has become afraid Get close to me again, no longer like to carry me, hold me like before, and no longer let me sleep with her. She said that she was afraid of pressing my wound."
"I was only five years old at the time, I didn't understand, and when I grew up later, I realized that she was not afraid, she was disgusting, she was disgusting with my broken body, she was disgusting that I could no longer be a normal child, she didn't even want to Stay with me."
"Every time I grind my bones, I hope she can stay by my side. She doesn't need to hold me, just hold my hand."
"But she didn't."
Not once.
Gu Jiao seemed to understand that Huangfuxian's rejection of herself was largely due to the rejection of his parents, especially Princess Ning'an. It destroyed all his self-esteem and self-confidence. Rather than taking away his legs, he would be better off. Ann's various violence is what really caused him a devastating blow.
Why doesn't his mother hurt him
Just because he has no legs
Then what is the meaning of his life
Gu Jiao looked at him and said, "She treats you like this, are you still sorry for her?"
Huangfuxian was silent for a long time before he said in a low voice, "...she is my mother."
…
In the dark prison, Empress Dowager Zhuang stood in the aisle with a light expression, not taking a step closer.
Eunuch Qin had already taken the yamen to other places, leaving only a few confidants to guard.
Empress Dowager Zhuang said, "Tell me, when did you become Ning An?"
Most people in the world can't tear their face or pierce that layer of window paper, but Empress Dowager Zhuang is not like that.
She didn't have the slightest indecision.
If she wants to say it, she will say it sharply.
Ning An lay on the ground, raised his head, and looked at Empress Zhuang with a half-smile: "I am Ning An, Empress Mother!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang said coldly: "It's about time, you still don't admit it!"
Ning An said with a look of surprise: "What do I have to admit? I am Ning An! Ning An is me! Is the mother old and confused? Can't even remember the daughter she raised? The mother changed her mind and said it straight, it doesn't hurt. When Ning An is over, just say it straight, why use this method to humiliate Ning An!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang was not provoked by her, but just looked at her condescendingly, as if watching the last struggle of an ant.
Under the gaze of Empress Zhuang, Ning An laughed sullenly, her shoulders shaking with laughter: "Empress Mother, your ability to frame people has not changed at all! That's how you framed my concubine at the beginning, and now you are here again. Frame me!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't argue with her, she just let her laugh and talk to herself.
Every punch of Ning An seemed to hit the cotton. She grabbed the board of the cell and squeezed her cheeks tightly between the gaps of the board, "The queen mother said that I am not Ning An, is there any evidence? The queen mother looked at my face. , isn't it Ning An's face?"
Snapped!
Empress Dowager Zhuang threw a stack of letters on the aisle in front of Ning An.
Ning An lowered his gaze, slowly reached out his hand, took the letter from the gap in the cell door, and read it carefully by the dim light of the fire in the aisle.
Every time she looked at a page, her face changed, and when she saw half of it, she tore up the letter like crazy!
"Bullshit! Nonsense! It's all bullshit!"
"I'm Ning An!"
"I am Ning An!"
She was so emotional that the veins on her forehead burst out.
Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced at her, and said calmly, "Well, why don't Aijia tell you a story. Where do you start? Let's start with the experience of a daughter of a noble family. Smart, courageous, and good-looking, but her biological mother was not favored, and even her family was repeatedly run on by concubines and sisters. Once on the way to the temple to offer incense, she ran into an expert. The two became close friends after seeing each other several times. After a year of contact, the master managed to persuade his close friend to join a non-governmental organization called the Red Lotus Society."
"The Red Lotus Society is actually another identity of the remnants of the previous dynasty, and this daughter was not unexpectedly a dead man of the remnants of the previous dynasty. She was ordered to draft into the palace to approach the emperor, and her original purpose should be to become the queen or the most holy. The beloved concubine of the heart gave birth to a dragon son for the emperor, supported him as a prince, and then took the emperor's life, so that the country is in the hands of the remnants of the previous dynasty."
"Unfortunately, things backfired. She could neither become the queen nor the favorite concubine, and even the emperor didn't want to see her. She could only hug the queen's thigh, and the queen lost a daughter. It was also a coincidence that she was pregnant. The month is only one month later than the queen, so she had a plan, secretly prepared an induction medicine, so that the child was born prematurely and was born on the same day as the queen's child."
"But what no one knows is that there is another child in her womb. It's only an hour apart, but she was born two days before and after."
"Two children will never cry together. When the elder sister cried, the younger sister cried, and the younger sister cried after the elder sister cried. To outsiders, it sounds like only one child is crying."
"The midwife who delivered her is her confidant, to be exact, the confidant arranged for her by the master. The fate of these two children is doomed from the moment they are born, one stays in the palace and the other is carried out."
"They will be two perfect pieces, even more perfect than her as a concubine. But who will stay in the palace to be a princess, and who will take them out of the palace to be a dead man?"
"The imperial concubine left behind her older sister, because the child was already lying in her arms and ate her first milk, so she couldn't let go of the child. She didn't even look at the other, so she let the child go. People took it out."
Ning An covered his ears: "Don't say it... don't say it... "
"Everyone has rumored that the queen loves the little princess because she was born on the same day as her daughter, just like her own daughter was reborn. But in fact, the queen loves her only because she is indeed a beautiful and lovely child. The so-called birthday doesn't matter at all."
"That child is lively and active. She doesn't seem to be afraid of the sky and the earth, but in fact, she is also afraid of that. She is simply a paper tiger. She is afraid of the dark, especially afraid."
"But sometimes, she doesn't seem to be afraid. She likes to eat chestnuts, but sometimes she hates them. The queen only thinks that she is a child, and doesn't take it to heart. Of course, the queen loves the child, but you know where the queen came from. Shiqi really decided not to let this child down for the rest of his life?"
Ning An subconsciously pricked up his ears.
Empress Dowager Zhuang said: "It was one night when the queen was put into the cold palace. The queen fell ill, and no imperial doctor dared to come to heal her. That night, there was lightning and thunder, and the queen lay alone on the bed of the cold palace. She felt that she might be sick. To die like this. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a thin figure climbed over the courtyard wall of the cold palace and entered."
"She pushed open the door, thunder and lightning chased behind her, her small figure could be knocked down by the strong wind at any time, but she was not afraid, she rushed into the house, threw herself into the queen's arms, and said to the queen, 'Mother, I'll come Look at you', "Don't be afraid of your mother, Ning An will accompany you."
Ning An's body suddenly stopped.
Empress Dowager Zhuang's eyes flashed memories: "It was at that time, the child who ran for her in the thunder and lightning, the child who jumped over the wall and got his hands pierced, the one who fell a lot on the road and fell and his knees were bloody. Child... The queen said to herself, she will love her for the rest of her life!"
Ning An's eyes widened in disbelief.
"That child...even if it's just once...just once...tell the queen...she's not Ning'an...she's Ning'an's younger sister..." Empress Dowager Zhuang choked up and squeezed her fingers under her wide sleeves.
Ning An's eyes gradually filled with tears, and she stared blankly at Empress Dowager Zhuang.
Empress Dowager Zhuang took a deep breath, raised her head, turned around, and looked at the dim aisle: "The Queen will save her and love her. She never needs to live under Ning'an's shadow."
"Empress Mother!" Ning An burst into tears and reached out to grab the corner of Empress Dowager Zhuang's clothes.
Mrs. Zhuang walked towards the exit expressionlessly.
A hot tear fell, and she never looked back.
(End of this chapter)