Autumn is beginning, and the wind at night is a bit cool.
Qin Zheng hugged Chu Yu tightly and stood in front of the Duke's mansion, motionless. But Li Xun stubbornly stood in the front and refused to back down.
The two were at a stalemate, and the smell of gunpowder was strong.
"Hmm..." A low voice broke the deadlock.
Qin Zheng felt a tightness in his chest. It turned out that Chu Yu's hand had suddenly grabbed his skirt tightly, and buried his face in front of him so that no one could see him.
"Qing Ci!" Qin Zheng sensed that something was wrong, and the person in his arms suddenly trembled uncontrollably, his heavy breathing rose and fell, and he looked very uncomfortable.
Li Xun was startled, and stepped forward to look at Chu Yu in two steps. Just as he touched his forehead, his palm was scorched hot: "Sir, it's hot!"
Chu Yu was weak in nature, but the strong medicine hurt her body very much. She was sweating all over. She was put on the horse by Qin Zheng and hugged by the wind all the way.
"Please invite the doctor from the mansion." Qin Zheng was also anxious, and ran to the Duke's mansion with Chu Yu in his arms.
Li Xi didn't want Qin Zheng to break into his husband's house like this, but he was afraid of delaying his illness, so he stomped his feet angrily, and ordered his servants to invite the doctor while running to follow Qin Zheng.
If Li Xi didn't want to go back to Chu Yu, he had no choice but to show Qin Zheng the way to Chu Yu's room with a sullen face.
Qin Zheng put Chu Yu on the bed and covered him with the quilt, but saw that he was still shivering from the cold. Touching the palm of his hand, it was covered with cold sweat, and his forehead was terribly hot.
"Sir, are you really drunk?" Seeing that Chu Yu's face was flushed and her lips were pale, Li Zi couldn't help but question Qin Zheng coldly.
Qin Zheng frowned, ignored Li Xi's questioning, saw the servant girl brought hot soup, then got up, picked up the handkerchief beside him, washed and wrung the water for Chu Yu to wipe his forehead.
Li Xi covered Chu Yu under the quilt, and tightly tucked the corners of the quilt. Seeing Qin Zheng's easy going, he was furious: "It's extremely impolite for General Qin to come without invitation. Sir, you have your own home." The servants will take care of you without the general intervening."
Qin Zheng glanced at Li Xun coolly, pulled down the quilt, and untied Chu Yu's cloak...
The long hair drenched in cold sweat was still wrapped around his neck. Even so, through the bright candlelight, Li Xun still saw the red marks on Chu Yu's neck at a glance, as if he had been scratched, mottled and glowing. The red color is especially shocking in the slender neck like jade.
Li Xi was stunned, recalled it for a while, blood rushed to his brain, and stood up quickly: "You—"
As soon as the conversation started, it was interrupted by footsteps, the bead curtain was brushed aside, and Qiuyue pulled the doctor in, interrupting the war that was about to break out.
"Old Liang, let's see what's wrong with the second master." Qiuyue dragged Dr. Liang in. This is an old man from the Duke's mansion. Brother's half-elder.
Liang Lao Quan pretended not to see the blushing faces of the two people in the room, sat down firmly in front of the bed, raised his hands to cover Chu Yu again, and criticized: "He is burning, lift his quilt What are you doing?"
Qin Zheng lowered his head in shame and remained silent.
The good old man put Chu Yu's hand on the jade wrist pillow, and carefully felt his pulse. After half a cup of tea, his brows frowned, his eyes wandered around the faces of Qin Zheng and Li Xun, and finally fell on Qin Zheng. .
"Old Liang, what's the matter, sir?" Li Xun couldn't help asking after seeing him trembling.
Qin Zheng was also a little nervous, fearing that something would happen to Chu Yu, he fixed his eyes on Doctor Liang and asked questions.
Liang Lao sighed after a long time, glanced at Qin Zheng and said, "He is already weak and weak, why bother to torment him like this."
"I..." Qin Zheng was dumb, and swallowed back the words, facing Li Xi's cannibalistic eyes, he lowered his head and said: "I was careless..."
Liang Lao shook his head and sighed: "Yu'er has always had his own ideas, and he has his own way of doing things. It's not easy for us old people to talk too much. It's just the parents of doctors. Let's rely on the old to sell the old, this time Yu'er is really hurt. For the body, indulging in sexual desires is a big taboo, I don't know how long it will take to make up, and it must not be like this in the future."
Every word fell into Li Wei's ears like thunder, and he looked at Qin Zheng in disbelief. Unexpectedly, Qin Zheng had just returned to Shangjing, and his movements were so unimaginably fast, he was like a beast.
Qin Zheng bit the bullet to accept Liang Lao's earnest criticism and Li Xun's slashing eyes, and said sullenly: "I remember, I won't do it in the future..."
Liang Lao raised his hand and wrote the prescription, and said: "Let's recuperate slowly, such a serious illness, I'm afraid it will be worse now. First, wipe his body with hot water to eliminate the sweat."
Qin Zheng and Li Wei quickly grabbed the handkerchief at the same time when they heard the words, their eyes couldn't help but burst into flames.
Seeing that something was wrong with this situation, Mr. Liang had no choice but to say: "You half-grown bastards are all slovenly, what can you grab. Yue girl, go and clean up for your second master carefully."
"Hey." Qiuyue responded, and pulled out the pitiful scarf that was pulled in half by Qin Zheng and Li Xun. She is Chu Yu's personal maid, who has served him since childhood, and is also a duty servant, there is nothing to avoid.
Qin Zheng and Li Xun were not able to personally wipe Chu Yu's body. Although they were a little reconciled, fortunately, the other party didn't get any advantage, so they endured it.
Qiuyue lowered the curtain to cover the bed, wiped the master's sweat briskly, put on clean underwear again, then hung up the curtain and went down with the basin.
Xu Shi's body became more comfortable, and Chu Yu's originally frowning eyebrows relaxed a little, and she fell asleep quietly and unconsciously among the soft quilts. The quilt was made of high-quality silk and satin, embroidered with dark red rattan patterns, which made Chu Yu's white face look like faded petals, which was inexplicably pitiful.
Qin Zheng's heart trembled, and he stretched out his hand involuntarily to caress the side of Chu Yu's face...
Day and night, year after year, all thoughts and thoughts are all about this person. Si once married him, Xiang once faced him day and night, Qian once raised eyebrows with him, and Nian once made peace with him like a piano. It's ridiculous to think about it, such days can be counted on the fingers of one's fingers. In addition to that is the endless look at each other, endless misunderstanding and estrangement.
The more I read it day and night, the more distressed I am. After crushing and tearing apart the past days, it took more than four years to re-live it little by little, only then did I realize how deep the love hidden in the ravine is.
It's too heavy to bear.
Thinking of the occasional joke, Qin Zheng accidentally opened Chu Yu's letter, which was inscribed: The wind and flowers will grow old, and the wedding is still elusive; Few strokes, lonely for no reason.
Thinking about it later, he only remembered that Chu Yu was a very high-spirited person, but he didn't remember how many faces Chu Yu had broken for him. He only remembered that Chu Yu was too sharp, but he didn't remember how many times this sharpness had defended the Qin family. Those things I didn't remember, now I remember them all. It's like grinding meat with a blunt knife. After so many years of grinding, I finally understand. It turned out that I had let down the most precious thing in this world.
Every time before going to the battlefield, he thought, if he could come back alive...
These thousands of thoughts made Qin Zheng what he is today, and Chu Yu is right in front of him right now.
It's just that the fingertip just touched it for a moment before being pulled away. Qin Zheng's thoughts were interrupted, and he glanced at Li Xun who was furious.
"Don't touch Mister." Li Zi said in a deep voice.
Qin Zheng raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
Li Zi clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turning white, he held back his anger and said, "Didn't you say that Mister is just drunk? Then what did Cai Liang mean by what he said just now!"
Qin Zheng smiled wryly, feeling wronged by this blame.
Seeing that Qin Zheng had been silent all this time, Li Zi took it as his acquiescence, his teeth were grinding for a while, and he punched Qin Zheng uncontrollably.
Qin Zheng snorted, and easily grabbed Li Xun's wrist with his backhand. Li Xun was furious, and he swung his fist so hard that his whole body bumped towards Qin Zheng. In response to this punch full of throwing arms and hugs, Qin Zheng punched and countered with ease, grabbed Li Xun's wrist, and pressed him heavily against a wall...
"Qin Zheng!" Li Zun couldn't bear to read his name in a low voice.
Qin Zheng sneered when he heard this, and looked down at him, relying on being a head taller than Li Xun: "You keep calling him Mr., and now he is in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs, presumably he is a student of Qingci?"
Li Xi was restrained and unable to move, so he could only stare at him fiercely: "Yes."
Qin Zheng understood and nodded: "A disciple is a teacher, and he respects his father the same. Then Qingci must treat you as close as a parent and son. No wonder you are so nervous about him."
Li Xi was downgraded by Qin Zheng, but the world looked like this, thinking about his own feelings, he was ashamed and annoyed, so choked that he couldn't say a word, his face was blushing.
Qin Zheng took the upper hand without hesitation, felt a little relieved, hooked the corners of his lips, and wanted to strike the iron while the iron was hot and then irritate the child with a few words, so that he could quickly strangle this terrible sign. Teased a lot, said quietly: "A teacher for a day, a father for a lifetime..."
Li Zi's head buzzed, his face was blushing to the point of bleeding, and he forced himself to say: "No, you don't need to remind me... Sir is kind to me, I, I treat him with respect..."
Qin Zheng wanted to fan the flames, but just as he was about to speak, the door was pushed open from the outside.
Qiuyue came over with the freshly brewed medicine, and as soon as Fang opened the bead curtain, he saw an incredible scene. I saw Qin Hou Ye pressing Master Xiao Li against the wall, with one hand resting on the side of his face, while the other hand was still tightly holding his wrist, and he was about to bow his head to do something. As for Mr. Li, his face was flushed with shame and resentment at what had happened to him.
The medicine urn in her hand trembled, nearly knocking it over, Qiuyue's eyes turned red, thinking that this person is really not a thing.
Qin Zheng turned his head and saw that Qiuyue's eyes were wrong, and realized that he had been misunderstood. He quickly let go of his hand and said awkwardly, "That, it's not..."
Qiuyue didn't want to see Qin Zheng at all, so she gouged out his eyes and walked over, poured the medicine into a cup, cooled it down with cold water, and after it was moderate, she took it to feed Chu Yu.
Chu Yu had a severe fever and completely lost consciousness. The medicine couldn't get into her mouth, but flowed out from the corner of her lips, making her unable to swallow at all.
Qiuyue wiped off the residual medicine from the corners of Chu Yu's lips with a handkerchief, and locked her eyebrows tightly to find a brocade box from under the bedside cabinet, opened it and inside was a hose, made of unknown material, about three or four inches long , a section with a wide mouth.
Qin Zheng's eyelids twitched. Although he didn't know what it was for, he felt a chill.
Qiuyue put Chu Yu's head on the pillow, pinched his chin lightly and called out to him a few times. Chu Yu couldn't wake up, she didn't feel it at all. Qiuyue had no choice but to pinch his tightly closed mouth with her hands, and continued the long soft tube down her throat with one hand. This process was extremely uncomfortable, even if Chu Yu was in a coma, she couldn't stop retching, her face turned paler every inch she continued, and by the time she finished the recitation, her head was covered in cold sweat and her face was like gold paper.
Qin Zheng's heart was tightened, and just as he was about to step forward, Li Xun grabbed him.
Li Xi glanced at Qin Zheng, and said, "If it wasn't for this, I'm afraid I won't be able to take the soup. Mister, when he fell into a coma, he would take medicine and food like this."
Qin Zheng's palms were drenched with cold sweat, and his eyes were full of red threads, looking a little frightening from a distance. After a while, he seemed to find his own voice, and said softly: "The body of Qingci these few years..."
Qiuyue poured the medicine in little by little, and said in a low voice, "Master Hou should know why my second master is like this. There are some things that the maid should not say too much. If the second master is awake, I'm afraid it won't be allowed. Just say something with me. Not to mention, Master Hou should have an understanding..."
The warm medicine was poured into the esophagus along the hose, and it was very uncomfortable. Chu Yu suddenly choked a few times, trembling and lifted unconsciously, his chest heaved violently, and he let out a few suppressed groans from his nose. Qiuyue quickly removed the medicine, and smoothed Chu Yu's chest familiarly, and continued to take the medicine tube after he calmed down a little.
Qin Zheng walked over slowly, shortened his stature, and knelt down on the bed, holding Chu Yu's convulsive hands in his palms, and said in a choked voice, "I don't know...he suffered so much..."
Qiuyue held back her tears and said, "Master Hou doesn't know much."
Qin Zheng's eyes reflected Chu Yu's shadow, this paleness was like a brand mark, it was so hot in his heart, the pain was unprepared. Looking at it like this, I suddenly remembered that many years ago, Chu Yu was thick and Li Yanjue was young, and his gestures were full of arrogance, making people itch with hatred, but he was so dazzling that he couldn't move his eyes.
After feeding a cup of medicine and pumping the hose, Chu Yu looked even more angry. Qiuyue packed up the medicine bowl and retreated to the outside to watch the night. If there were any changes inside, it would be good to have someone to take care of her.
In the middle of the night, Chu Yu's fever subsided, and it was because of this that he was sweating again. Qiuyue came in, wiped his body and changed his clothes again. Qin Zheng and Li Xi were like two sculptures, guarding the side motionless.
When dawn was approaching, Chu Yu was stunned. She had been sleeping soundly, but suddenly she trembled, curled up in a ball, and babbled nonsense intermittently. Qin Zheng called his name over and over again, holding his hand tightly.
Chu Yu's face was pale, and she couldn't help trembling and whispering. Cold sweat drenched the soft pillow of the bedding, and her body became colder and colder.
"Qingci, wake up... wake up..." Qin Zheng bit his tongue several times nervously, trembling with distress, he took off the Guanyin jade hanging from the red rope around his neck, and hung it in front of Chu Yu.
All these years on the battlefield, always accompanied by this jade, that touch of compassion may be tainted with the evil spirit of blood that suppresses Wan Qi. Not long after putting on the jade pendant, Chu Yu became miraculously quiet.
After tossing and tossing for nearly a night, Chu Yu was extremely tired, and finally fell into a deep sleep. The dream was pitch black, and a small thing stayed in the heart, round and warm. All the uneasiness and pain gradually dissipated like floating fluff, and the warm current spread from the chest to the limbs, making my heart feel relieved. The originally boundless darkness seemed to have become thinner, and a ray of light came in, scattering all over the ground. finely crushed sand…
"Hmm..." Chu Yu struggled to open his eyelids, and there was a burning pain in his throat. This familiar feeling made him understand that he might have been drugged again last night. His whole body was sore, and his fingertips were too soft to lift.
"Clear words!"
"gentlemen!"
The voice that sounded almost at the same time exploded in his ears, Chu Yu frowned a little too much, and raised his eyes to see a strange yet familiar face...
He was lying down, and looking at him like this, he first saw the man's gracefully curved jaw, and then a pair of peach blossom eyes that hooked forward and raised backward, without the pale and coquettish look of the past, it was like recasting all the beauty into fortitude , Clearly familiar yet so strange.
All kinds of things from last night came to mind, the lights on the riverside, the heavy gauze of the painted boat, those grievances soaked in tears, those gestures of humiliation, all clearly appeared in front of Chu Yu's eyes, making him sit up suddenly, and because of It was too fast, causing a burst of dizziness.
"Qingci is careful." Qin Zheng supported Chu Yu carefully with his agility, and carefully wrapped him in his arms.
Chu Yu raised his hand to block Qin Zheng's movement, but because of his weakness, his refusing hand felt as if he wanted to refuse and greet him. It was clear that he was pushing Qin Zheng away, and in the eyes of others, he took the initiative to put his hand on him. Chest-like.
"Qing Yu...cough cough, cough..." Chu Yu's voice was hoarse, and he was really exhausted, so he could only ask Li Xun for help.
Li Wei was wronged by Qin Zheng's words all night, now seeing his husband in such a state, he felt distressed and sullen at the same time, and pushed forward with all his strength.
Qin Zheng was afraid that Chu Yu would be angry, so he didn't dare to force him, so he could only back away, watching Li Xun take Chu Yu away and put him back on the couch.
"Qing Yu, see off the guests." Chu Yu didn't want to think about what happened last night.
Qin Zheng knew that Chu Yu would definitely not want to see him: "Qingci, I have something to say to you."
Chu Yu closed his eyes, squeezed the space between his brows, and said in a hoarse voice, "I've already finished talking to you four years ago. It's useless to talk more. You can go."
"Give me a cup of tea when you say goodbye, and I'll leave after I finish speaking." Qin Zheng begged in a low voice.
Chu Yu opened his eyes, and said coldly: "Last night, Suu Yu owed Master Hou a favor, but if Master Hou is so aggressive, don't blame Yu for asking his family to send Master Hou out of the house."
"Qingci..." Qin Zheng felt bitter, but Chu Yu was cold and refused to listen.
The door was pushed open, the bead curtain shook, and no one came, so I heard his voice first.
"Daddy!"
A touch of apricot yellow goes around the screen, satin boots, butterfly hairpins, bones made of jade, and the color of snowdrifts. There is a young girl, like apricot blossoms on the branches, pretty and charming, elegant and pleasant. The apricot-yellow satin skirt was embroidered with willow leaf patterns, walking like a breeze blowing willows, showing the posture of a girl, making people feel soft. At first glance, it seems that it is a little fairy from some apricot forest, just running around like this...
Qin Zheng's eyes burned, and he stopped breathing, leaving only this stumbling apricot yellow in his eyes.
Seriously.
Seeing Zhen'er coming in, Chu Yu's face changed, and she threw off the bed with strength from nowhere, and hugged Zhen'er in her arms. With trembling hands, he pressed her little head against his chest...
The child in his arms was fluttering around like a butterfly just now, but now he froze like a small wood carving without spirit, huddled in Chu Yu's arms, motionless.
Although Chu Yu moved quickly, she still saw...
He clearly saw the person in the room.
"Big Daddy..."