sinovels Chapter 36
Chapter 36
191. The fourth brother lowered his eyes and patted my head helplessly.
"If you're tired, go to bed and sleep."
I shook my head, stubbornly took my fourth brother's arm, put my head on his shoulder, and watched his slender fingers review the memorial with a red pen in the light of the candle.He smiled, put down the pen in his hand and turned around, I let go of my hand, put my arms around his neck, put my head on his chest, and found a comfortable position to nest in his arms.
The fourth brother raised his hand and pinned the hair on my cheeks to my ears. He carefully looked at my eyebrows, his cold fingertips scratched from the forehead to the brow bone, and finally landed on the corner of my eyes.
He stared blankly at the red mole that appeared on my eyelids, and said with a faint smile, "Obviously I want to protect you."
"How could you make you cry like that?"
I raised my head and rubbed the tip of my nose against his chin. Even though the fourth brother concealed it very well, I still caught the bitterness in his eyes.The arms around his neck tightened, I thought for a while, and said, "Did the queen mother treat you well when fourth brother was young?"
The mottled candlelight between his brows lit up, and the fourth brother's eyelashes were covered with golden light. He blinked and bowed his head.
192. "She has never been partial to me and the prince. I have everything the prince has." The fourth brother didn't look at me, and ran his fingers through my black hair, saying quietly: "But she never looks at me."
"She is willing to hug me and hold my hand."
"When I was young, I was depressed because of this matter. One day, I saw her touching the crown prince's head, smiling and praising him for his good homework." The fourth brother laughed lowly, as if thinking of himself who was stubborn and innocent when he was young.
"I am the first in all my homework, and she is finally willing to take a look at me."
It was a snowy day, and the burning charcoal in the house made crackling noises. Xiao Yu raised his head and put his hands behind his back respectfully.The woman's sharp fingertips brushed the end of his eyes, and finally stopped at his neck.
"You really can do anything..."
193. At that time, he didn't hear the deep meaning in the woman's words, until the hunting day, when he collapsed in the valley with his body bent, a steel fork from nowhere pierced his knee.He wanted to yell loudly, but he couldn't embarrass his concubine mother and let others see the joke.
Several imperial doctors ran down almost scrambling, and the sudden rush of people made him unable to breathe. His mind had long been unclear, but he was still looking for his mother and concubine with hazy eyes.
He didn't find the concubine mother, but saw a woman with stretched facial features and a smile on her lips.From then on, he knew that he would never have a concubine mother again.
I didn't say a word, I just wrapped my arms around him harder, trying to melt the coldness of his brows with the little warmth I had left.As if aware of my emotions, he lowered his head and raised his brows with a smile, leaned close to my neck, and dropped a kiss on my earlobe.
"Has this tragic life experience made Yue'er feel more pity for me?" He raised his voice at the end, with indescribable passion/desire in this quiet night, I followed his example and stretched my neck to look for him earlobe, but in the end it was impossible to reach it.
Seeing my dejected appearance, the fourth brother bent down while smiling, and brought his earlobe to my lips.I leaned over to hold it in my mouth, and said vaguely: "Yes."
194. The smile in his eyes was bigger, as if the stars would fall all over the ground with a flick, he picked up my chin and kissed me, the cold tip of his tongue carefully traced the shape of my lips, and his lips and teeth met.I was out of breath but greedy and unwilling to let go, he pulled my hand to his chest and pressed his forehead against mine, he smiled lightly and blinked.
"In the days to come, I will trouble the emperor."
I sniffed, wrapped my arms around his waist, and muttered while shaking my head: "No trouble."
195. The Empress Dowager’s funeral was suspended for three days, and a large number of pedestrians went up to the Huiguo Temple on the top of the mountain to pray for blessings and chant scriptures. I copied a whole Buddhist scriptures by hand, which made me dizzy.The fourth brother sat beside me in plain clothes and read the memorial, but his hands were not idle, and he kept feeding me food.According to the law, one should not be allowed to eat for a day, but the fourth brother propped his chin, raised his eyebrows and said, "Fourth brother allows you to eat."
Although she is the Empress Dowager, there will be a mountain of memorials if she does not go to court in one day, and the original three days have been shortened to two days in the end.Because the queen mother died in prison, the clan and royal family went to the prison to pay homage.It was only a few days, but the prison guards and guards had changed for a round, and the events of that day seemed to be like pebbles sinking into the bottom of the lake without any ripples.
It was the fourth brother who took care of the aftermath for me. At that time, my heart had already been completely burned by the anger burning in my chest, and I didn't have any scruples about the fact that there were still many people in the prison.He seemed to see the concern in my eyes, "They're still alive."
Looking into the eyes of the fourth brother, he said softly: "I used to not be afraid of retribution, and I believed that life and death are definite, but now I am a little afraid."
"I just want to be with you a little longer, a little longer."
I suddenly thought of something, I leaned down / held my fourth brother's face with both hands, and said seriously: "The poison on that fourth brother..."
"Qizhi gave me the antidote."
Hearing this name, I just felt that my heart suddenly missed a beat, and the sound of every beating was scary.Recalling that at that time I had only Xizhi by my side, and he always looked confident, I went to the doctor in a hurry.How did he get the antidote... It's only been a few years, I've been busy suppressing it, I dare not think about it.
196. Eunuch Wu followed behind me and didn't dare to show his air. The old man who was nagging and flattering suddenly became silent in a blink of an eye, thinking that the fourth brother was going to scare people again.I saw his preoccupied face and thought it was funny, so I said as I walked, "I think Eunuch Wu was always by the late emperor's side at that time."
When Eunuch Wu saw that I spoke suddenly, he nodded hurriedly, and kept looking at me from the corner of his eyes: "The old slave is lucky, the former emperor and the emperor didn't dislike the stupidity of the slave."
Thinking about flattering words again, I felt that there was no meaning in my heart so I stopped opening my mouth. Eunuch Wu had a look of panic on his furrowed face. He smiled and said, "When the late emperor was young, he still liked painting more than government affairs."
"At that time, stacks of drawing papers filled the entire study."
When I get older, I always smile when I recall the past.Thinking about it, Eunuch Wu is not much younger than his father, so I paused, turned my head and said, "Let's go to the old study."
197. Because I was not favored when I was a child, I haven't seen my father's pen and ink very much. What good calligraphy he wrote and what good pictures he drew, he was the first to show it to the fourth brother, and then he showed it to the prince first.I stood in the corner, I was not tall, and I couldn't see it even if I stretched my neck.
In the end, he would be scolded by his father for his poor manners.
What Eunuch Wu said is right, my father really likes to draw, and he left behind more treasures than I imagined.I flipped through the pages one by one, and Eunuch Wu might have thought I was interested, so he leaned over and explained to me: "This was painted by the late emperor in the lotus pond. It rained heavily that day just after finishing the painting..."
Not as good as the fourth brother, I thought so in my heart.
I flipped through several pages, most of which were landscape paintings, so I handed them to Eunuch Wu when I was not interested.The older man was not very agile either. He stood on tiptoe trying to put it back on the upper floor, but his elbow knocked off the painting scroll on the side.
The ribbon that tied it was unraveled, and I bent down to pick it up, intending to close it again, but I couldn't take my eyes off the painting.
198. "Ah, this kid, I still remember it." Eunuch Wu came up to him, and he smiled and looked at the boy with clean eyebrows and eyes.
"The late emperor doted on him very much, you have to take him with you wherever you go."
"It was late at night, and the late emperor was afraid that he would not sleep well at night, so he would go to see him, and sometimes he would stay all night."
"But then I couldn't see him for some reason..." Eunuch Wu was immersed in the memories of that time, and he said with a smile: "It's just a lucky child."
The person in the painting looks young, with clean facial features, and the small mole on the tip of his nose makes him agile and extraordinary.It's just that he clearly had a smile on his lips, but there was a slight alienation between his brows and eyes.
I covered up the creases on the paper due to too much force with my fingers, and rolled up the scroll bit by bit.The numbness went all the way up the fingertips, and finally stopped at the heart. The unhealed hole was torn open again, sticking to the flesh, and the bones were visible at a glance.
It would be great if he was really lucky.