Chapter 44 Chapter Forty-four

When Li Chu came back from the Marshal's Mansion just after the first day of the new year, he entered the door and said, "It's sweltering hot today, and there must be a heavy rain." Shen Zhenzhu thought that if there was a heavy rain tonight, Changsun E and Murong Linzhi would be on their way tomorrow, and said, "It's raining." It's cool after the day, and Mr. Changsun is on his way comfortably, very good." As if to confirm Li Chu's conjecture, just as he finished speaking, spring thunder rumbled in the midair, and a gust of wind blew up suddenly. All the indoor and outdoor doors and windows rang loudly, and the maids in the palace yelled to close the doors and windows.The heavy rain poured down instantly, and the lightning was like a sharp blade in the sky, glowing with lavender light, penetrating through the clouds and the partition of the window lattice, and there was a "cracking" thunderbolt, and a cold light flashed across Shen Zhenzhu's body.Shen Zhenzhu couldn't help trembling, over there, Li Shi's cries could be faintly heard.

The husband and wife walked in a hurry, they were waiting to take care of their son, the sound of boots outside, and the thin figure of Feng Shengyi flashed at the door.Li Chu raised his eyebrows slightly, knowing that Feng Shengyi was working in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, so he was never allowed to enter the palace, but Li Chu privately gave him a waist card in case something happened, and told him not to use it unless it was urgent. Feng Shengyi's expression was extremely anxious, he took a step forward and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, please go and rescue King Jianning quickly." Another thunderclap struck the air, piercing through gold and cracking stones, Shen Zhenzhu's mind was as confused as dizzy.

"What's going on?" Li Chu was asking. "My subordinates don't know. I only know that His Majesty has given poisoned wine, and Director Li will personally go to the Marshal's Mansion to issue the decree to King Jianning. At this time, I am afraid that he is approaching the Marshal's Mansion." Shen Zhenzhu saw that Li Chu's face turned pale immediately, and a wisp of cold sweat slowly seeped out from the hairline. She had never seen Li Chu so flustered, and she was frightened for a while.Li Chu's hands sank and he leaned heavily on the door, as if he was trying to calm down the sudden panic, then he gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Quick, let's go." behind.

At this moment, the rain became more and more ecstatic, pouring down like a raging river, Shen Zhenzhu immediately recovered her senses, and shouted loudly: "Take the umbrella!" A few smarter maids had already prepared umbrellas by the side, and handed them over immediately after listening to her words.She snatched it away and hurriedly chased after Li Chu, Yan Ming immediately followed her closely. Shen Zhenzhu lifted the hem of her skirt, stepped deeply and shallowly through many courtyards, and ran out of the gate in one breath, Li Chu's figure had long since disappeared, the rain was like a weaving curtain, arousing smoke and dust, and the distance and nearness were blurred everywhere.Yan Ming persuaded: "Wangfei should go back, His Highness will deal with it properly, the rain is strong and the wind is strong, you must not make any mistakes."

Shen Zhenzhu ignored him, and only asked: "Which way is the Marshal's Mansion going?" Yan Ming was startled, and did not answer at first.Shen Zhenzhu sneered and said: "If you don't tell me, this concubine will search one by one, are you afraid that you won't find it?" Yan Ming was helpless, sighed and said: "Someone is leading the way for the princess." Can an oil umbrella cover the wind and rain? Shen Zhenzhu's concern lies in the deep brotherhood between Li Chu and Li Tan, if something happens to Li Tan, how can Li Chu's love be borne?For a long time, Li Chu has been enduring setbacks and frustrations, losing everything he had originally. From Chang'an Foundation to Jincheng County, how much more can he lose?Li Tan has always been aloof from the world, so why did he bring about a catastrophe?Suzong is so cruel, why did he want to kill his parents and children?

If something unfortunate happens, I only hope that at that moment, she can be by his side. Although she can't share the pain, she can also share weal and woe.Countless times, it was him who, with his own body, shared the pain and sorrow for her.As a wife, how much responsibility can she fulfill? At such a critical juncture, she could no longer be borne by him alone. The mud was all over the long skirt, strands of hair were hanging down in the water, the whole body was heavy, and the clothes were soaked through layers. Her appearance is already very embarrassing. The guards of the Marshal's Mansion wanted to stop her, so Yan Ming yelled: "Bold, come down to see the princess!" The guards hurriedly knelt down.

Shen Zhenzhu waved her hands casually, and was rushing in, when the figure in front of her was swaying, several inner dragon envoys and servants held up umbrellas in twos and threes, surrounded one person and walked towards her.Taking a closer look, it was Li Fuguo. When Li Fuguo saw Shen Zhenzhu, he sang respectfully, bowed his head, and the rain poured down the umbrella on his head, covering his face so that he couldn't see his expression clearly. His tone was originally In a tactful manner, he said: "The concubine is here too? Our family is also acting according to the order. Our family knelt in front of His Majesty and begged for half a day, begging His Majesty to forgive King Jianning; but King Jianning's criminals formed a clique for self-reliance, and His Majesty should be Longyan is really furious, immediately issued a decree to give a glass of poisoned wine, our family can't do anything about it. Wangfei and His Royal Highness Jianning's uncle and sister-in-law, hurry up and take a look, at least you are still breathing!"

When Shen Zhenzhu saw Li Fuguo, she knew that something was wrong, and at this moment, she even disliked him, so she said "um" and walked straight inside.Yan Ming rushed forward, and said to Shen Zhenzhu: "The backyard where King Jianning handles military affairs is, Wangfei please come with me." This Marshal's Mansion is the expropriation of the private residences of the local gentry in Fengxiang. Although its scale is a little smaller than that of Xingyuan, there are ten courtyards, large and small.Shen Zhenzhu's heart is like a road under one's feet, with ups and downs and twists and turns, like catkins floating in the wind, lights flickering everywhere in the mansion, one doesn't know where Li Chu is lonely...

Yan Ming finally stopped, pointed to the open door in front of him, and said with difficulty: "It's right here." The bright candle was held high, the light was as bright as the day, Shen Zhenzhu raised her eyes and met Li Chu's eyes. There is a trace of pain, rippling from my heart, spreading out layer by layer.Her two crescent eyebrows couldn't help being deeply locked together, and her whole body felt cold. In his eyes, is it sadness, anger, worry, anger? Even if he misunderstood her that day, was furious and regretted later, she had never seen such a look in his eyes...

Life is originally life and death. Repeatedly rehearsing the loop will make people's hearts numb and painless, and say goodbye to sorrow and sorrow.But there is always something that cannot be given up... She stepped forward slowly, and Li Tan sat on the couch, eyes closed, there was a smear of black ink between her brows, like a good emblem, and a little bit of ink bloomed in the drag.Li Chu stood in front of the couch, as if standing still.Walking to Li Chu's side, almost at the same time, she and he stretched out their hands and held each other tightly. Li Tan snorted, and called out dreamily: "Lin Zhi—" He had already drank the poisoned wine, but he still had breath, and he did not die.

Standing beside Li Chu, Li Mi said in a low voice: "I just gave him a plant of century-old ginseng, which may allow him to live for another three or two hours. The red crest of the crane is extremely poisonous in the world, and no one can cure it..." This sentence reminded Shen Zhenzhu, she immediately turned around and said to Yan Ming: "Hurry up, go and invite Mr. Changsun as a mentor!" .Yan Ming agreed and rushed away. Li Tan coughed, with a trace of black blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, panting, "Yes... before I die, I only hope... can... goodbye, goodbye... Lin Zhi." Li Chu lifted his head, put it on his shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "You will never die, Mr. Changsun will definitely save you...don't worry, Father is just too angry to think about it. I will go to kneel and beg tonight Father, he will definitely forgive you. As long as you don't die...everything can be changed." Li Tan shook his head with a smile, spat out a mouthful of black blood, and said: "A person like me, I will die, I will die... I, I... I can no longer... I can't help you... Big, big brother... You, definitely Do more, take more precautions..." This is the first time Li Tan called him "big brother" after he became an adult. Compatriots of the same mother, close relatives and flesh and blood, few lost their mothers, and share the same spirit.In his youth, every step, sorrow and joy, love and sorrow, was always closely related to him.Cutting off an arm and cutting a foot will not cause such pain. Li Chu's voice was choked with sobs: "Why didn't you delay for a while, knowing that I would definitely come when I heard the news—why did you just drink the poisoned wine without even thinking about it?" Li Tan stretched out one hand, tightly grasped the sleeve of Li Chu's robe, and said intermittently: "Well... To be honest, I don't want to live anymore... In this world, life is meaningless..." As he spoke, his eyes drifted Lazily and slowly. Li Chu was in a hurry, shook his body again and again, and shouted: "Lin Zhi will be here soon, she will definitely save you, you have to hold on—" Li Tan's grip on the sleeve of Li Chu's robe gradually became loose, and when he heard the word "Lin Zhi", he seemed to gain strength again, and he still held onto it tightly. How hard it is to wait like this. The ink color penetrated, and Li Tan's face was a little gray, and he gasped and sighed lightly: "Lin Zhi...she,...won't come?" Shen Zhenzhu looked at Li Tan silently for a while, then Fang said in a positive tone: "No, she will definitely come! No matter whether she remembers you or not, no matter whether she still hates you or not, she will come..." A surprise flashed across Li Tan's face, "Really?..." He tried his best to open his eyes, looked in the direction of the door, and slowly sat upright... Murong Linzhi's white clothes are better than snow, and it's raining like pouring outside, her clothes don't seem to be wet at all, her plain sleeves are lightly raised, her bun is high and her hair is like water, she walks gracefully... Li Tan stretched out his hand towards her, and the eyes of Ruomingtan lit up with some hope, and he called softly: "Lin Zhi——" Murong Linzhi stopped indifferently, his eyelids could not waver, as the wind and clouds brushed over Li Tan's face, he said lightly to his elder grandson E behind him: "He has the poison of the top grade crane crest red." He did not move forward. Li Chu jumped up and said to Changsun E: "Sir, you have a way to detoxify, don't you?" Murong Linzhi turned around, walked out the door as usual.Li Tan let out a long breath, his hand weighed a thousand catties, and he lowered his hands one by one, his eyes were gray, and he fell back in a "pass". Li Chu rushed forward and helped Li Tan up, seeing that his face was dark and his eyes were closed.Changsun E's hand rested on Li Tan's pulse, and after a while, Li Chu asked anxiously: "How is it, how is it?" Changsun E said: "The poison has entered the liver and organs, and now I have passed out. It won't last for a while." Li Chu's heart was cold: "Is there nothing you can do, sir?" Changsun E sighed and said, "I have no choice. In this world, only Lin Zhi can save him." Seeing Li Chu's face beaming, he continued, "It's just that she definitely doesn't want to save him, otherwise she wouldn't turn around and leave. Walk." Shen Zhenzhu hastily interjected: "Is there any way Lin Zhi can save Tan?" Changsun E said: "Lin Zhi has been intensively studying pharmacology for the past two years, and she is improving day by day. Last year, she used a hundred kinds of poisonous herbs as medicine, combined with the extremely poisonous venomous saliva of Huihe Xueyu, to make a unique poison in the world. Hedinghong is poisonous and counteracts each other, using poison to fight poison to achieve the curative effect of detoxification." His gaze slowly moved to the door, and Murong Lin's figure was faintly visible, "After all, she can't forgive Li Tan and refuses to save him." Shen Zhenzhu was shocked: "Sir, you mean, Lin Zhi has recovered his memory!" "She collected the venomous saliva of the belly snake and was almost bitten by the poisonous snake. The scene was extremely dangerous. On that day, she suddenly regained her memory." Extreme pain, extreme danger, this kind of collision finally allowed Murong Lin to retrieve his lost past. Murong Linzhi walked in the rain.The rain splashed her skirt, and the skirt swayed gently in the wind, showing her thin and fragile back. "Lin Zhi—" Shen Zhenzhu called her in a low voice. Murong Linzhi didn't look back, and chuckled as if talking to himself, stopped and let the rain soak every inch of his skin. "You know, the night when I was rescued by my senior brother in the north of the Xiliang country, it was also such a heavy rain..." She seemed to be crying and laughing, looking up at the gray sky, and said slowly. Shen Zhenzhu shed tears, stopped and listened to her. "Senior Brother rescued me. When I saw Senior Brother, I seemed to escape from a nightmare... I didn't know what to do or where to go. Every step under my feet was a hurdle, so long... so long, I seemed to be Running forward desperately, the rain hit my face madly, but I didn't care. There was a mess of things in my head buzzing outwards, everything was black, and after that, I didn't know anything... " "When I returned to Chang'an, I still had extravagant hopes...Who would have thought, Tan, he didn't want me anymore, he was so cruel...and kicked me out of the house..." Every part of Murong Linzhi's body was trembling with uncontrollable grief. Shen Zhenzhu stepped forward and hugged her tightly from the back.Murong Linzhi burst into tears. How long has she been hiding this bone-chilling grief?Or she even concealed it from herself, thinking that she could let go of it, that she could use other things to fill her forgetfulness, but it turned out she couldn't.For women, what could be more heart-wrenching than such pain! While crying bitterly, Murong Linzhi said resolutely, "I will never save him!" After returning this time, her frowns and smiles, her indifference, and her words "Lin Zhi is polite", all of them bear a heavy burden.However, after all, she is a delicate woman. She has both sorrow and hatred, and when she meets Li Tan again, her feelings are hard to appease, and her love is hard to separate.The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields. Why are the creatures in the sky so cruel and tyrannical? Countless women and men in the world, who suffer the most suffering in the world, are like ants in this vastness. "You must save him!" Shen Zhenzhu persuaded weakly, "Otherwise, you will regret it for the rest of your life." "No!" Murong Linzhi burst into tears, broke away from Shen Zhenzhu's embrace, stumbled forward a few steps, turned around and cried, "I hate him, I hate him, since I hate him, why do I have to be hypocritical, my medicine can save my life." Anyone in the world—except him!" While speaking, he took out a jade bottle of suet the size of a thumb from his bosom. "Lin Zhi, no!" In Shen Zhenzhu's loud and urgent call, Murong Lin smiled miserably, raised his hand, and threw the vial to the sky. Shen Zhenzhu closed her eyes, she couldn't bear to see the broken jade. But he could hear the sound of clothes breaking through the sky, the sound of rain piercing through, Li Chu opened his eyes, Li Chu's figure was like a swallow flying through the sky, he flew up and down, and landed erratically, only between the electric light and flint, he caught the fat jade vial.