Chapter 75 Chapter Seventy-Four

The two lay quietly hugging each other, and after a long while, he said in a daze, "I'll sleep first, call me when you're hungry!" Lying in his arms, I suddenly felt an unprecedented happiness. Deep down in my heart, maybe I had been looking forward to it for a long time, just the two of us, belonging to each other.The past has long passed, and the future is still far away from me at this moment. We only live in this moment, so we don't have to worry about the future. Less than an hour later, Yinzhen woke up suddenly and shouted: "Ruoxi!" The strength of my arms suddenly increased, and I was almost out of breath, "Everything is over, Brother Thirteen and you are by my side!" I also hugged him tightly and said, "We are all by your side!"

Yinzhen asked: "Zhen... How long have I been asleep?" I said: "About an hour." He hurriedly turned over and sat up, "You must be hungry." I sat up with him, "Just a little hungry." He put on his overshoes and shouted: "Gao Wuyong!" A voice outside the room responded immediately: "The servant is here!" Only then did I realize that someone was guarding outside the room. "Pass some light side dishes and porridge!" "Cha!" "I...I still have things to do, you can eat by yourself!" I nodded.He shook my hand quietly, let go, and got up to leave.I shouted: "Fourth Lord!" I quickly changed my words again, "Your Majesty!" He turned and looked at me, "I want to see Yu Tan, we have been together for all these years in the palace, like sisters. It's me After arriving at the Huanyi Bureau, she has been taking care of her as much as possible." He pondered for a while, then said softly: "Okay!" I hesitated and said: "I still want to see my sister." He said: "It's not convenient now, the palace Everything is being straightened out, and I will let her come to see you when everything settles down in a few days." I was overjoyed and said, "Thank you!"

He leaned over and caressed my face and said, "I want you to smile like this every day from now on!" I felt warm in my heart, held his hand, and kissed it lightly on my lips. Leaning down, I hurriedly pushed him and said, "Don't you have something to do?" He was slightly stunned, got up and cursed with a smile: "It's really annoying!" After speaking, he turned and left.As soon as he left, Mei Xiang entered the door to say hello to me, and lit the lamp. Mei Xiang served the meal, and the night was already dark.Ju Yun said outside the house: "Auntie! Aunt Yutan is here." I rushed out to greet her, and the haggard Yutan greeted me.I picked her up and dragged her into the house.Mei Xiang bowed to me, closed the door and left.

I pulled Yutan to sit on the chair and asked, "Are you okay?" She was stunned for a while, her face changed for no reason, then she knelt down and hugged my leg and started to cry.I quickly knelt down, hugged her and whispered in my ear, "Tell me if you have any grievances." She wiped her tears and said: "I don't want to leave the palace." I wiped away her tears with a silk cloth, "I beg the emperor to give you a generous gift, and you will not suffer after you leave the palace." She said: "Although the rewards I have received all these years It is far from being comparable to my elder sister, but the pension is enough." I was silent and asked: "Do you have someone you like? May I ask the emperor to point out a good marriage for you? Although you are not old enough to be a married couple now, you can The emperor personally bestowed the marriage, and no one would dare to underestimate you."

Yutan's tears fell like broken pearls in an instant, shaking her head and crying: "Sister, I don't want to marry. I have given up this idea since I entered the palace. All I want is the safety of my family. My younger brothers have already started their own families. I have never met my brothers and sisters, so what's the point of going back now? It's better to be in the palace. When they mention that my sister is serving the imperial court, others will give me some face. , I am willing to stay with my sister.” I sighed softly and murmured: “Those who want to get out can’t get out, but those who can get out are unwilling.” Yutan whispered and begged: “My good sister, just let me stay. Get off! I'll be my sister's companion."

I nodded and said: "Privately, I wish you could accompany me! Who else can I talk to in this palace? But I can't decide this matter, I can only ask the emperor." Yu Tan burst into tears And smiled, "Since my sister has agreed, the emperor will definitely not refute my sister's face." I pulled her to stand up, "You are full of confidence in things that I am not sure of myself." She smiled without saying a word. "Where do you live now?" "Still living in the old courtyard?" "Where's Li Wenda?" "I haven't seen it, but I heard that you're going to be released from the palace for the elderly." When he was a child, Yutan hurriedly got up and left.I smiled and sent her out of the house.

Seeing that the bedroom was still pitch-black, I looked at the brightly lit Dongnuang Pavilion and asked: "Is the emperor staying up so late these days?" I rested casually there, and never slept in the bedroom." After taking a nap in the afternoon, I thought about him again, and listened carefully to the movement outside. I didn't sleep all night, but until the five o'clock drum sounded, it was time for morning, and no one came back. As soon as she got dressed, Mei Xiang came in with a basin and washing utensils. "Has the emperor already gone to court?" Mei Xiang rolled up my sleeves for me and replied, "Already gone."

By the time he came down to court, half of the Tang poems in my hand had been rough-read.I stood in the Xinuang Pavilion and looked through the window. The eighth master, the thirteenth master, and Zhang Tingyu followed Yinzhen into the main hall.I haven't seen Eighth Prince for seven years. When I first saw him, I couldn't describe how I felt. The years are passing, and everyone is a little haggard, but he is a miracle, like a maple leaf in late autumn, and the wind and frost of the years only make him more perfect.The clarity of youth is missing, but the dignity of middle age is more.The demeanor is impeccable, and the bearing is graceful.But why is everyone so thin and thin?

Until dinner time, Mei Xiang said: "The emperor summoned my aunt to serve the dinner." I put down the book and went with her, and asked casually, "Is the emperor's meeting finished?" Mei Xiang replied: "I don't know! The eighth prince and Zhang Your Excellency has left, but the Thirteenth Prince is still there." When I came to say hello, Yinzhen and Shisan were cleaning their hands, Ju Yun was holding a water basin, Gao Wuyong was helping Yinzhen roll up his sleeves, he motioned for Gao Wuyong to step back, and looked at me with a slight smile.I pursed the corners of my mouth lightly, stepped forward to help him roll up his sleeves, and helped him wipe his face and wash his hands.After I finished my work here, Shisan had also washed up.

The eunuch's meal was ready, and Yinzhen sat down and said, "Thirteenth Brother, sit down!" After Thirteenth saluted and thanked him, he sat down.Yinzhen ordered: "Leave Gao Wuyong to serve, and everyone else will step down." After the person retreated, he ordered Gao Wuyong: "Add another stool." Gao Wuyong hurriedly moved the stool over and put it beside him.Yinzhen looked at me standing sideways behind me, and motioned for me to sit down. He smiled at me, then at Thirteen, and sighed: "Finally we can eat together." Thirteen smiled slightly and said, "Thank you for your kindness, brother." I looked at Thirteen with a slight frown.But he didn't realize it, and sat down with his head bowed after he finished speaking.

Yinzhen was under the table, lightly squeezed my hand and said, "It's all your favorite dishes, feel free." As he said that, he picked up a chopsticks dish for Shisan and put it on the small plate in front of him, Shisan hurriedly stood up. Thank you. Depressed in my heart, I picked up my favorite food with chopsticks and buried my head in eating.Ten years apart, it is not the sound of talking and laughing as imagined after a long absence.Yinzhen deliberately got close, and the thirteen etiquette was thorough, and the atmosphere was slightly awkward. After finishing his meal in boredom, Thirteen resigned.I still sat on the stool without moving, Yinzhen took my hand, dragged me up, walked to the couch and sat down.Gao Wuyong came in with tea, and waited for Yinzhen to rinse his mouth.After Yinzhen finished using it, he handed me the remaining half cup of tea. After I rinsed my mouth, Gao Wuyong bowed his head and quietly retreated. Yinzhen asked with a smile: "Aren't you happy?" "How could this be?" I asked sullenly.He sighed: "Since I saw me, I have always been like this. I am full of courtesy and respect." I feel uncomfortable, will that thirteenth brother who is laughing and unruly never come back?He embraced me and leaned on his shoulder and said, "I want other people to respect me, respect me, and even be afraid of me, but I don't want him alone. I just want to be his fourth brother, not the emperor, not me." I was silent for a while, and sighed: "Take it easy! The Thirteenth Lord has been imprisoned for ten years, suffered so much, and faced so many changes when he came out, I'm afraid he won't be able to slow down for a while." He said: "I think so too. No matter what he looks like on the outside, he is still the only person I can trust in this court." The two leaned against each other and sat quietly.Outside the curtain, Gao Wuyong replied: "Your Majesty, Imperial Physician He has arrived and is waiting in the Xinuang Pavilion." I was startled, and hurriedly stood up and asked, "Are you feeling unwell?" He stood up and said, "Yes. Look at you." I followed him out, "I'm fine, what's there to see?" Saying that the two of them had already left the curtain, I stopped talking and followed him into my room.Yinzhen walked behind the screen and said: "I'm just here to listen, you go and let him in." Gao Wuyong hurriedly moved a chair for him and helped him to sit, then turned and hurried out. Yinzhen laughed behind the screen and said, "This man's medical skills are extremely good. When I went to Jiangnan, he was already well-known among the people. But he is a bit dull and has a quick temper. He has been in the imperial hospital for three or four years, but he has not been reused." I said: "There are many things that can only be endured by ignorance. I'm afraid that if you don't be a nerd, your medical skills will not be so good. Fortunately, he has met Bole now." Yinzhen tapped the screen and said nothing. Gao Wuyong led Imperial Physician He in, hesitated to take the stool, I stood up and bowed my body and said, "Please sit down, Imperial Physician!" Then Gao Wuyong took the stool and put it beside the couch. The imperial doctor concentrated on taking the pulse, changing his left hand for his right hand, and his right hand for his left hand, while asking if he felt any discomfort in daily life, after a long while, just about to open his mouth, I hurriedly said: "Don't tell me about yin and yang essence, speak as I can understand. He pondered for a while and said: "Judging from the pulse condition, it is an old disease, and now it has accumulated a lot." There were a few slight sounds behind the screen. Gao Wuyong hurriedly asked: "How do you say this?" Imperial physician He said: "I have been worrying all the year round, and the qi is stuck in the heart, and the five internal organs are not accessible, and even the five internal organs are damaged. There is more cold and poisonous air in the body." I said: " Doctor Li said many years ago that it is indeed an old disease as you said. But how do you say this last sentence?" The doctor said: "Look at your hands, they should be soaked in cold water all year round, and the place where you live is also wet. Excessive qi, internal weakness, insufficient qi and blood, and damage to the five internal organs, after years and months, the natural cold poison invades the body." I smiled and said, "It's not that weak. I don't feel uncomfortable." He said, "Is it possible that menstruation has been inaccurate in the past two or three years? Either it won't come for many months, and once it comes, it will be unclean for a long time." Seeing Yinzhen's presence, I felt a little embarrassed and nodded slightly.He sighed: "Why didn't you ask someone to treat you as soon as possible?" In the Huanyi Bureau, if it wasn't too serious to be bedridden, how could it be possible to hire a doctor? Gao Wuyong hurriedly asked: "How to treat now?" Imperial Physician He pondered for a while, and said after a long while: "In those days, Imperial Physician Li was the best in the Imperial Hospital, and the late student came so late that he didn't have a chance to ask for advice. Since Imperial Physician Li has diagnosed the pulse, I don't know if there is a prescription? Let me read it, so I can know the cause and prescribe the medicine." I got up and took out the long list made by Taiyi Li back then from the box. As if he had found a treasure, he hurriedly took it for a closer look, nodded while looking at it, and finally sighed: "For so many years, if you could follow the doctor's advice, you would have been cured long ago! No matter how good a doctor is, when you meet a patient who refuses to listen , and can’t prescribe medicine.” As he spoke, he actually wanted to pack up his things and leave. Gao Wuyong hurriedly stopped him and said: "How can you not even prescribe the prescription after seeing the doctor?" Doctor He said: "Prescribing it is equal to not prescribing it, why bother?" .With Gao Wuyong's current status, there are people who argue with him face to face. Yinzhen came out from behind the screen and said, "I guarantee that she will obey the doctor's orders this time." Imperial physician He was stunned for a moment, then knelt down to pay his respects. Imperial Physician He took the pulse for me again, picked up a pen and wrote the prescription, and said: "The list listed by Imperial Physician Li back then is still the same, I can just add a little more. I am weak and can't take heavy medicines. The cold poison in my body can only be cured. Slowly guide the dredging. Go back and make up the pills and take them every day." Yinzhen asked: "If everything is as instructed, may the disease be cured?" Imperial Physician He hesitated to say anything, Yinzhen said: "Just like I was behind the screen just now, telling the truth." Imperial Physician He bowed his head and said: "It is indeed as I said before, it is hard to get back. Now it can only be carefully adjusted. It is serious. If everything is in accordance with the minister's list, the minister will be safe for ten years." Yinzhen asked coldly, "What about the future?" Imperial Physician He lowered his head and said after a while, "It's too early to speculate ten years from now, it depends on the treatment and conditioning in these ten years." Yinzhen was silent, and Imperial Physician He and Gao Wuyong didn't dare to breathe, and stood stiffly with their heads down.I reached out to hold his hand, and he grabbed my hand tightly and said, "You all go down!" The two quickly and quietly exited. He got up and put me in his arms, hugged me tightly, and said in a low voice after a long time: "It's all my fault." I shook my head and said, "You can't take everything on yourself, everything is wrong now. Well, just worry about ten years later, will I still live in that day?" After the two hugged each other for a while, he let go of me and asked, "Are you tired? Do you want to rest first?" I asked, "What about you? When will you rest?" He said, "I still have business to deal with." I Said: "I don't want to sleep, I want to be with you." He nodded, held my hand and walked towards Dongnuange.It was already dark, and Gao Wuyong saw us coming out, so he lit up a lantern and walked ahead. Yinzhen was sitting at the desk looking through documents, I picked up a book casually, and leaned on the recliner to flip through it.In the quiet room, there are only the sound of him and I flipping through the papers, and the smoke from the stove rises, and the faint fragrance, I can't help but twitch the corners of my mouth and smile, thinking this is happiness.We are each other's company, each other's support. Looking sideways at him, he braced his head and stared at the document in front of him with a frown.I stared at him for a long time, he was still in this posture, wondering in my heart, I got up gently, walked to his side, and looked over. Yinzhen moved aside, and I squeezed to sit beside him.He rubbed his eyes and said: "My eyes are blurred, but it's still a muddled account." I flipped through it and said, "Do you want to take a closer look at such a detailed account book?" He leaned on the back of the chair and sighed. Said: "Too poor! There is no way! If you don't look carefully, how do you know where to save the money? Get back what was taken away? There are not many clean ones. If I don't know clearly , can only be fooled by them!" I said, "Where is Master Thirteen? Why don't you leave it to him?" Yinzhen shook his head and said, "He will have more to see than me, and he must have a headache under the lamp now!" After speaking, he looked down again . I took an account book from the side and looked at it carefully. At this time, there is no double-entry bookkeeping method, and they are all single-entry bookkeeping methods. After reading for a long time, I can roughly understand the ins and outs of an income and expenditure, and there is no good report format. , cannot effectively aggregate and classify and analyze, making people dizzy and unable to grasp the key points.Can't help sighing: "What a mess!" He said: "Not everyone can understand the account books. It took me some time to learn it." I stared at the account books on the table and asked, "Can I read these?" He asked in surprise: "What are you doing looking at these?" I laughed and said, "Let me see if I can understand." He shook his head slightly and said: "If you want to see it, just watch it! But don't miss it, some of them don't have duplicates." I nodded, and asked again: "Is that all?" He said: "There are many! Move these out." Hearing the third watch knocking outside, I said: "Rest first! The fifth watch is about to go to court!" He said: "Why is it so late all of a sudden? You go to sleep first! I'll watch it later Just go to sleep." As he spoke, he looked down. I put my hand on the account book and said: "Since you moved into the Hall of Mental Cultivation, have you ever really slept? Don't read it today!" He frowned and looked at me, and I said softly: "I will also worry about your health Yes! The imperial physician just said it today, don’t worry me.” He frowned, closed the account book, and led me up, while Gao Wuyong, who was guarding outside the curtain, hurriedly raised the curtain.The maid on duty in the Xinuang Pavilion listened to the sound and hurriedly prepared the toiletries. He tilted his head and said, "You don't have to wait on me, go wash up by yourself!" I nodded and wanted to leave, but he grabbed me again and said in a low voice, "Come here quietly after cleaning up." The dragon bed behind him suddenly became sore, shook his head, pulled out his hand, and walked out quickly. I was just about to close the door and turn off the lights when Yinzhen pushed the door open and entered in a tunic and a tunic.I froze all over and stood still.He approached, stroked my face and said, "Don't be nervous! I just want to lie down with you." I stood still, and he pulled me to the bed and said, "How much time have we wasted? It has been ten years since I promised to marry you, and now I just want to be together as much as possible, I'm afraid..." He helped me to sit on the bed, stroked my hair and said, "How many more decades can we have? What?" My eyes were sore, I quickly held back my tears and nodded.He put away his robe casually, got up and blew out the lamp. The two were lying face to face, and he smiled and said, "What are you afraid of? I have more energy than I can do now! I'm so tired that I can't do anything. Don't worry!" I couldn't help laughing.He smiled on my forehead and said: "Listen to the music now, I'm afraid I will blame me for it in the future." I pinched him angrily and said: "You are so beautiful!" He smiled and said nothing. The two were silent for a while, and I begged: "Don't send Yutan out of the palace, please? Leave it to me as a companion." He gave an 'hmm' and fell asleep in a blink of an eye.I raised my head to look at him, couldn't help sighing, kissed him lightly on the lips, and lay down to sleep.