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Xu Zhiwan’s last wish? Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
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words, she stopped talking, her closed eyes trembled slightly, and a tear appeared under her long eyelashes. There is a prospect that the next second will be gone with the wind.
Seeing her like this, I felt a slight movement in my heart, and suddenly I felt a burst of guilt.
I said, “Actually..”
She coughed a few more times, got up and leaned down beside the bed, choking out a few mouthfuls of ash. I quickly reached out and patted her on the back. She picked up the veil beside the bed and wiped the corners of her mouth. Pale face squeezed out a smile:
“Thank you …” Your Highness, if you want to comfort me, forget it. It doesn’t matter if I die. It’s just that I feel a little wronged when I die like this.
She went back to the cushion on the bed, and her eyelashes trembled slightly. “This fire, it shouldn’t be an accident.” I
didn’t expect that Hsu Chih-wan would suddenly say this, and I thought of some of the doubts I had been thinking about when I was sitting here quietly. I couldn’t help but grab her hand and say, “What’s going on?”
She moved her eyes to the hand I held her in. Slowly, she opened her mouth and said, “Wei Ling and I were going to the wing to bathe and change clothes.”
“But the bartender said the tub was broken, and he took me to the wing at the east end. I, as you know, have always had a deep understanding of righteousness and an easy way to talk, so I agreed. But when I got to the east wing and waited for the bartender to bring hot water, the door suddenly opened and the fairy sister came in.”
“Then she saw me, like she saw a ghost, and asked me why I was here. I said I came here to take a shower, and she came over to me. I asked her what she wanted to do, and she reached out and cut my neck with a knife..”
She paused again, closed her eyes, and continued. It turned out that I was too strong, and it didn’t matter if I cut me. I asked her why she hit me, but she didn’t say anything. Then she looked around, picked up a vase, and hit me on the head again.
And then. I fainted. I don’t know how long I fainted. When I woke up, I found that I was not in that room. The house was on fire again. I didn’t have the strength to walk. I barely walked to the door, choked on two puffs of smoke, and fainted again. After
saying this, she coughed on the bed again and looked at me faintly with a wry smile on her face. She said,
“When I was a child, a fortune teller came to my house and told me that I was a lonely star.” I thought it was just that no one liked me, but I didn’t expect to hate me enough to kill me the first time we met.
And he said, “Just now I thought I was dead, but no one was sad. I didn’t expect that people would be so happy to hear it. Sure enough, there are many things in the world that I can’t imagine.”
I watched her close her eyelids again, with a look of life and death, and said, “Actually..”
She opened her eyes and looked at me. “Your Highness, if I have some last wishes, will you fulfill them for me?”
Laughing again, “But I have nothing to repay you. Well, if I become an immortal in heaven, I will certainly help you in heaven. How about that?”
I looked at her. She didn’t look at me, she just looked at her hands in a trance.
Last wish. I don’t know what kind of last wish Xu Zhi had at the party?
I paused and said, “Yes, I promise.”
Her eyes rested on my face. She smiled gratefully at me and coughed twice. Then she picked up the teacup beside the bed and took a sip. Then she looked up and asked,
“Oh, yes.” What on earth am I dying for? Smashed on the head? Or were you hurt by the smoke?
I turned my head away, tried to hold back a smile from the corners of my mouth, and made a slightly sad look. I turned around and frowned and said,
“Yes, you were hit on the head, and you choked on the smoke, and choked on your brain.”. The doctor says that your brain will gradually go back to your childhood, until you are three years old, and then you will go to the West. “So that’s the way to die,”
she said with a look of deep sorrow. After hearing his death,
Xu Zhiwan sat on the bed for a long time without speaking.
After a while, let me bring a pen and paper. Leaning on the bed table, I wrote a long list and asked me to go to the market to buy things according to the list.
I unfolded the list and saw that what she had written were all ordinary things, besides grapes and some sundries, there were even paper paintings, needles, threads, silks and satins and so on.
I closed the list and asked her, “What are you …” Do you want to learn needlework again?
Perhaps feeling that he was dying, Xu Zhiwan did not bicker with me as usual. Instead, he looked out of the window with an inscrutable look on his face and said in a deep voice, “You will know when the time comes.” So
I told the waiter to take good care of the room, let the kitchen decoct the medicine, put the tea and cakes in front of her, and went out to buy them. The things
she asked for were not difficult to buy, and the inn we lived in was located in a busy market with all the shops around it. Within a moment, everything I had bought was almost complete. Three Drun
Ken Grapes …
I stopped in front of the Zuilixiang Shop and said to the waiter, “Please give me two taels of grapes.” Suddenly I put a hand on my
left shoulder. I looked back. Tsao Hsi-liang’s dark face stretched out from his right: “Your Highness.” “I haven’t seen you for a few days,” I
said. “Have you learned to pretend to be a ghost?”
He turned his face away with a flat mouth. “Pretending to be a ghost?”? That’s not as scary as you. What’s the matter with you? Just now Joy came to our door to report that you were going to ask me to tell a lie. You and Wei Ling are staying at my house tonight. “Yes,”
I said with a wry smile, “please do me this favor.”
He said, “You can help me if you want. You have to tell me what you are doing.”
I said, “Today I came to the Drunken Spring Building with Hsu Chih-wan and Wei Ling. Suddenly there was a fire. Hsu Chih-wan was hit by smoke and needed to rest.”. Wei Ling was carried away by the eldest son of the Chao Mansion, and his feet were injured.
So I thought I’d take a night off outside the palace in your name. Otherwise, I’m afraid there will be no peace if I go straight back with these wounds.
Cao Xiliang gave a cry and said, “I do have some friendship with Mr. Zhao. I’ll let someone go to his house later. You don’t have to worry about Wei Ling.”
I threw my hand gratefully at him, and he frowned and said, “It’s really strange that the Zuichun Building suddenly caught fire.” Looking
around, he approached me and said, “I’ve heard that the prince often goes in and out of the Drunken Spring Building. Is it difficult..”
I frowned and said, “I’ve had my doubts, too. It’s just that the prince has been busy choosing his concubines these days, and he hasn’t had time to come to the Drunken Spring Building. If he had set fire to them, the thieves would have gone too far to frighten the snake.”
“Besides, there was a woman in there who belonged to him, and he almost killed her too.”
Tsao Hsi-liang gave a tut and said, “It’s a Machiavellian trick to protect him. In order to kill you, he would rather have that woman..”
I stopped him by shaking my hand. He said, “If the prince ordered someone to set the fire, why didn’t the fire come directly at me, but get up from Wei Ling and Xu Zhiwan’s room?”
Moreover, although Qi Ding is aloof and arrogant by nature, he is slightly cool. But as a child, I don’t believe that he is the kind of person who kills his loved ones.
Tsao Hsi-liang said coolly in his ear, “People can change..” Seeing me staring at him in silence, I raised my hands and said, “All right, all right. If you don’t want to believe me, I won’t waste my breath.”
When I didn’t speak, he laughed awkwardly and began to look for a topic: “Eh?”? Why are you carrying this silk, paper, and pen in your hand? Did you suddenly realize that you didn’t want to be a man, but a woman?
I slowly turned my eyes to his face. Under the heavy pressure, Tsao Hsi-liang began to talk nonsense. “Well, don’t mention it. I have a lot of this kind of silks and satins at home. Why don’t you go to my house?”? No, it’s nothing. When I was a kid and I was dying of a serious illness, I thought it would be nice to be a bird or something, and I could fly.
“So..” So you don’t.. don’t be shy, man, uh.. No, that what, can not be a brother, but also can be a sister … Be brother and sister.
I looked at him coldly, and Cao Xiliang laughed in a cold sweat: “Ha ha, ha, ha …” I was wrong. I won’t speak. You’d better take me to your inn. “Let’s go,” I said as I
took the three drunk grapes that the waiter had courteously handed me.
Since entering the room, Cao Xiliang’s mouth has not been closed. Stunned,
he walked to the bedside and shook his hand in front of Xu Zhiwan’s eyes. Then he looked back at me with his mouth open and said, “I’m not dreaming, am I?” As soon as
I put the thing in my hand on his feet, Tsao Hsi-liang jumped up, covered his feet with tears, and said, “Is it true?”? Hsu Chih-wan, how did you become such a ghost? Xu Zhiwan, who had
turned into a ghost, was drawing on the bed table with a pen in his hand and looked up at him.
I said, “Why are you suddenly painting?”
Hsu Chih-wan put his pen aside and said, “Just now I had nothing to do, so the slave family thought that if they could paint some orchids to cure their sentiments, it would be an elegant thing to do.”
Cao Xiliang had a layer of goose bumps on his body: “Slave …” Home?
Hsu Chih-wan paid no attention to him. I went over and leaned over the bed to look at her painting. Hsu Chih-wan said faintly, “Your Highness, look at the slave family. How is the painting?”
… On the clean drawing paper, there are several orchids whose leaves are fatter than loofah.
I smiled and said, “It’s great to be alive and strong.”
Tsao Hsi-liang whispered to me, “When you two are fumigated by the fire, is it something wrong with your brains or your eyes?”
Hsu Chih-wan smiled at me and said, “In that case, the slave family will embroider it, won’t they?”
Tsao Hsi-liang blurted out, “My darling, can you still do needlework?”
I glanced lightly at Tsao Hsi-liang, but Hsu Chih-wan uncharacteristically didn’t mind. He squinted and smiled: “I learned some of it when I was a kid, and it made everyone laugh.”
Tsao Hsi-liang said in a low voice, “I know myself. I know we’re going to laugh at each other.”
I looked back at Cao Xiliang coldly. Cao Xiliang shrank his neck. I was wrong.
I said, “There are still some things outside that haven’t been moved in. Go and move things with me.”
Cao Xiliang and I walked to the door of the inn. I stopped and turned to look at him. “I lied to her that she was dying,” I said.
Cao Xiliang looked at me with an expressionless face and slowly raised his neck. “Your Highness, are you kidding me?” I
said, “I’m not joking with you. I just wanted to know her wishes, but I didn’t expect to be like this now. You’ve always been wandering in the world. Do you know why?”
Tsao Hsi-liang shook his hand like a convulsion and said, “No, no, no, no. Your Highness, I can probably guess what the average woman is thinking.”. But this is certainly not an ordinary woman. Carefully, he looked back across the room and said, “Or …” She’s not a woman at all..
I said coldly, “I’ll forgive you this time. Next time you dare to talk nonsense, you should be careful.”
Tsao Hsi-liang answered with a mournful look. I paused and then asked, “If it’s an ordinary woman who suddenly becomes uncharacteristically gentle and elegant, but why?”
Tsao Hsi-liang says, “Your Highness, I’m not lying to you. The women around me are usually gentle and tender. There is no such thing as’the opposite. ‘”
He looked at my thoughtful face and said, “…” However, there are times when they are not in their usual way, when their tenderness changes from being like water to being particularly forceful, bold, and restless. “Why?”
I asked.
Tsao Hsi-liang thought for a moment and then said with a serious expression,
“It’s time for another month.” When
I put the medicine in, Xu Zhiwan was already leaning against the bed and began to embroidery.
Her embroidery also looks very lack of kungfu, always pricking her hands, resulting in red spots on the embroidery surface.
Cao Xiliang watched and clucked his teeth.
I put the medicine on the bed table, frowned and said, “Why don’t you take a break?”
Hsu Chih-wan took out the needle, but did not speak. I sighed to myself and said in a low voice, “Drink the medicine first.”
She put down the embroidery shed, opened her eyes wide and said, “Medicine?”? Do you want to drink medicine when you’re dying?
I coughed and said, “This is what the doctor ordered. I still have to drink the medicine. Why?” It is to alleviate the deterioration of brain age.
Hsu Chih-wan said, “Oh,” and sat back slowly. “Thank you, Your Highness.”
I watched her pick up the medicine, cool it with a spoon, and then drink it slowly with the spoon. I couldn’t help saying, “This medicine is a little bitter. If you drink it all at once, you will suffer less.”
Hsu Chih-wan put down his spoon and said slowly, “Thank you, Your Highness. It’s just that that’s very indecent. It’s all right for the slave family to drink slowly.”
My mind couldn’t help but come up with the way she had been in my palace before, holding a bowl of gurgling soup. Cao Xiliang slowly turned his head to me and whispered, “…” Are you sure you told her she was dying and not that she was castrated?
I quietly clenched my five fingers into fists at the bottom, and Cao Xiliang left me like flying.
Xu Zhiwan scooped up another spoonful of medicine, put it to his mouth, and swallowed it slowly. The door suddenly creaked open.
Wei Ling led a man and jumped in happily: “It’s too late!”! Third brother! Are you all right?
Cao Xiliang said, “They’re fine. I’m going crazy.”
Wei Ling looked at him curiously. He limped and jumped to Xu Zhiwan’s bedside. He sat down and grabbed Xu Zhiwan’s hand and said, “Zhiwan, are you all right?”? Are there any injuries? What are you drinking? Slowly putting down his bowl
, Hsu Chih-wan smiled at Wei Ling and said, “The slaves are drinking the medicine.”
Wei Ling said in a daze, “Slave …” Home..? Smiling
, Hsu Chih-wan nodded at her and looked her up and down. “Wei Ling, where did you get hurt?”
Wei Ling said stupidly, “Feet.”
Hsu Chih-wan leaned over slightly to look, showing an expression of heartache: “How could this happen?”? Don’t jump any more. I’ll embroider a handkerchief for you later and wrap it for you. How about that?
Wei Ling nodded stupidly: “How are you?”
Xu Zhiwan smiled at her with relief, put down the medicine, picked up one side of the embroidery shed and began to fly up and down, Wei Ling was stunned beside her to see her embroidery, stay into a sculpture.
I grabbed Wei Ling’s hand, and she was dragged out of the door by me. I said, Wei Ling? Are you all right?
She turned her head to look at me in a daze, and in an instant there was a layer of fog in her eyes. Third brother, what’s wrong with her? How did it become like this?
I held my forehead and said, “It’s the third brother’s fault. He lied to her that she was dying. I don’t know what happened to her, but she became like this.” With a river in his eyes,
Wei Ling said, “It’s true.” Ture? In the old days, there were people in the Imperial College who couldn’t recite books, and the Master always said that their brains were squeezed by the door. Third Brother, did you know that the door also squeezed them, so that they lost their original temperament?
Tsao Hsi-liang came up and said, “I think what the princess said is reasonable, just because of you.”? Tell a lie? Can you make Xu Zhiwan change his personality? I think it’s more convincing to say that I was squeezed by the door.
I turned my head and looked coldly at Tsao Hsi-liang. Tsao Hsi-liang covered his mouth and quickly jumped back a few steps. Yen and I said to Wei Ling, “It’s true that she had a head injury, but when she first woke up, everything was normal. She wasn’t like this.”
Wei Ling’s tears pattered down: “The Master often says that studying is like curing a disease. At first it doesn’t seem to have any effect, but after a long time you can see the effect. I see that it’s the same when you get sick. Third Brother, you just saw it. I know that I usually have to twist my eyebrows for a long time when I eat sour grapes, but now I have to drink a bowl of medicine spoonful by spoonful.” Would she have been able to stand it if she had known it before? I sighed in my
heart, Wei Ling, I didn’t expect that you didn’t remember much about the contents of the books of sages and sages in class on weekdays, but you remembered all the nonsense that the Master said.
But think about it carefully, what she said is not unreasonable, is it difficult for Xu Zhiwan to change his temper and have nothing to do with my lying, but really because his head was hit by a vase? Before
I had finished thinking about it, a slightly indifferent voice suddenly came to my ear.
The voice was not directed at me, but at Wei Ling. The voice said, “I haven’t been diagnosed yet, and I’m just guessing, and I’m crying like this. Are your tear ducts connected to the sea?”
This tone is really not polite at all.
I frowned and looked at the source of the sound. A man in black with hair was leaning against the door frame, holding his elbows in his hands and looking at Wei Ling lazily.
Wei Ling picked up his handkerchief, wiped away his tears, and said, “I, I, I’m just worried about knowing too late.”
The man sneered, “You worry so much that the patient can hear you, not to mention recovery. Even if you’re not sick, you’ll scare me to death.”
Wei Ling hung his head even lower, drooping and looking very depressed. I stretched out my hand to protect Wei Ling behind me and asked the man in a deep voice, “Are you?”
The man cast his eyes on us, and Tsao Hsi-liang hurriedly stepped between us and said, “Ha ha ha, your Highness, this is the man I just mentioned to you, Mr. Chao.” Then he turned his head and winked at the man. “Mr. Chao, this is your Highness.”
The man lazily threw his hand at me and said, “I’ve heard so much about you, Your Highness.” “So it’s you,”
I said. “You saved my sister just now. Thank you very much.” With an indifferent look on his face, the
man fixed his eyes on my face and said, “You’re welcome. If it hadn’t been on the road today, the Third Royal Highness would have dragged me over to the Fifth Princess, and I wouldn’t have cared.”
The tone is indifferent. Under the fine taste, as if there is a faint complaint.
Wei Ling stood behind me with his head even lower. Cao Xiliang coughed and said, “Since we all know each other today, I’ll be the host. Let’s get together downstairs. Let’s all make friends. Let’s make friends. Ha ha, ha ha.” Half of
his words were stuck in his throat, and before he had finished, Mr. Chao threw his hand at us and said, “Brother Cao’s good intentions should not have been refused, but Zhao really has something important to do today, and he can’t get away from it. He will come to make amends tomorrow.” Then he threw his hand at me again and said, “Your Highness won’t mind, will you?”
I said, “Since Master Zhao has something important to do, I won’t force him to stay. I’ll come back to thank him when Master Zhao is free.”
He nodded to me, then hurriedly handed me his hand, and the black clothes simply disappeared at the corner of the stairs.
The pace is in a hurry, and it seems that there is something urgent.
Cao Xiliang laughed behind me: “Your Highness, hey, he, he was not like this before …”
I waved my hand to show that I didn’t care. I turned to Wei Ling and asked, “Wei Ling, is your foot injury serious?”
Wei Ling’s lost eyes chased after the corner of the stairs, listening to my question. Then she turned around and said, “Oh, oh, third brother, I’m all right.”
I slowed down my voice. “Are you sure?”? You’d better send for a doctor to look at it. “No, no,” said
Wei Ling in a low voice. “I’ve just seen it in the Zhao Mansion. It’s very well bandaged. There are two bottles of Jinchuang medicine, which are the exclusive secret of their house. Mr. Zhao also gave it to me.”
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, just look at the Zhao Childe cold and indifferent appearance, thought Wei Ling was not well treated, did not expect to be a careful person, Wei Ling is still meticulous.
His sleeve was gently pulled. Wei Ling approached me with a red face and asked in a low voice, “Third Brother, will Mr. Zhao meet you again?”
I smiled and said, “He saved your life. Of course I have to come to thank him. It’s natural to meet him.”
Wei Ling blushed and said oh. “Now that you’ve come back,”
I said, “I’ll let Cao Xiliang take you back to the palace. It doesn’t matter if I don’t come back all night. If you don’t come back to the palace, I’m afraid my father will turn the whole capital upside down.”
Wei Ling said anxiously, “No, I know it’s too late. If I go back like this, I’m sure I won’t be at ease. I’ll stay, too.”
Tsao Hsi-liang patted her on the shoulder and said with a serious look on his face, “Princess Wu, if you don’t stay, according to your mother’s temper, Hsu Chih-wan may just be mentally ill. If you stay, she will probably be buried in peace.”
Wei Ling shivered silently.
I nodded to Cao Xiliang with satisfaction.
Wei Ling finally walked back step by step. Before she left, she went to the bedroom to see Xu Zhiwan again. Xu Zhiwan knew she was leaving. There was not much emotional fluctuation on her face, but her eyes were a little red all of a sudden. Holding Wei Ling’s hand, she ordered to go to the toilet to eat from food, clothing, shelter and transportation. She said that Wei Ling, who was shivering, was in tears all of a sudden. Holding Xu Zhiwan in his arms, he refused to let go. Finally, Cao Xiliang, beside her, read all the thirty-six death sentences of Dacheng, and then clung to the door frame and left. Before he left,
Cao Xiliang said to me, “Your Highness, I don’t think I’m going to send Wei Ling back to the palace. I’m the soldier of the day. I’m going to break up the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid. You’re the Queen Mother..”
I threw a cup of tea out, and he screamed and staggered out of the door. After Wei Ling left,
Xu Zhiwan became quiet again and embroidered silently in front of the bed. I went downstairs and ordered the waiter to send up some clear porridge and side dishes. I’m just eating slowly.
The reserve of chopsticks and the gentleness of chewing.
As if eating is not rice, but grass.
I put down my chopsticks and said, “The taste of this inn is not as good as that of the palace. You can make do with it. Tomorrow I’ll have someone go to the Wanxiang Building on the street and invite two cooks over.”
Hsu Chih-wan whispered to me, “Thank you for taking care of me, Your Highness.”. The meal was very agreeable and there was no need to bother.
I sighed and said, “Hsu Chih-wan, you used to be very unkind when it came to eating.”
Hsu Chih-wan smiled at me, and I leaned back in my chair and said, I’ve heard that the cooks here at Wanxiang House are very good, especially at a roast suckling pig. As soon as the pigs are born, they are fed with Huadiao wine, and when they are only a month old, they are used to cook. The wood used to roast the pigs is fir wood, and the smoke makes the pork have its own fragrance of the mountains and forests. When the pork is roasted, the skin is crisp and the meat is tender. Then pour a cup of Huadiao, and when the skin is crisp, taste it in your mouth and rub it..
Gudu.
Hsu Chih-wan swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at me longingly. “Then what?”
I smiled at her, too. And then? Then it’s gone. Eat your porridge.
She looked at me pitifully with a flat mouth. Seeing that I had no reaction at all, she began to poke the porridge with a flat mouth. She endured for a long time, but still did not speak. She drank the porridge one mouthful at a time.
roast suckling pig was her favorite dish in my palace before, and from her description just now, it was clear that she was as greedy as before.
It seems that Xu Zhiwan is not as Wei Ling said, the brain was broken by the door. It’s not really a big change in temperament.
Then why does she deliberately become like this now?
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I made a dream
for you. Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
for a long time
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