Jian An Kee

The early summer of this year is destined to be eventful.

I was holding the thin piece of letter paper, and my eyes were blackened. There were only a few lines of words on it, and the handwriting was the most familiar to me, but no matter how hard I tried to open my eyes, I couldn't understand what it meant.

The guard who delivered the letter had a solemn expression: "Miss nephew, look—if it's convenient, it's time to leave."

I raised my head high, forced back the tears in my eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Okay, let's go now."

Why is the whole world spinning?The melting light dazzled my eyes, all the colors were fading away quickly, and a kind of coolness penetrated into the bone marrow.

Ten days ago, Xiao Qiao received a letter from the army and hurried to Baqiu.But today, trembling and cowering, I received the sad news that I least wanted to hear: Da Du Du was critically ill.

What are those people gathered around the city gate doing?Don't they know that Zhou Yu is at the juncture of life and death?Without hesitation, I shook the rein of the horse and shouted sharply: "Get out! Get out of here!"

I don't know who ran forward and grabbed my rein, but my mount dragged him a long way without any effort, but he kept refusing to let go.

I was stunned, I didn't want someone to be so desperate, so I had to rein in my horse and stop.At this time, several people surrounded me from the city gate and saluted me one after another: "The minister and others are ordered by General Sun to escort Miss Zhou, and bring five doctors for use."

I stared at him blankly: "OK."

Day and night, horses and people don't stop. With such a crazy speed, I reached Baqiu in two days.The huge military camp was extremely quiet, I ignored those astonished eyes, and ran staggeringly through the seemingly endless corridor.

A slender arm brushed open the door curtain, and Xiao Qiao, who was wearing a long plain dress, came out slowly. A smile could barely be squeezed out on her pale face, and I couldn't help but pull up her sleeve gown, crying silently .

"Good boy, you came so fast." She stroked my hair, her frail body half leaning on my shoulder.

What kind of despair must it be for such a beautiful woman who is so overwhelmed by the country to lose all her color within ten days.

Although I began to really realize that I would lose the most important person in my life here, seeing her like this, I knew that I should not be confused at this time, but calm down.

"Ma'am." I squeezed her palm vigorously: "Don't worry, I have brought many doctors, they are all the most famous ones, they were sent by General Sun himself, please..."

Before I finished speaking, she let go of her hand, and her whole body went limp.

The maid beside me quickly came up to help her, but I was stunned and let them take her away until the group of people turned into the inner hall, and I suddenly came back to my senses and yelled at the attendant beside me: "Where is the doctor? They came in!"

I entered Mrs. Xiao Qiao’s sleeping tent, feeling in a trance that the lights were on and off, and people were coming and going. Someone beside me invited me out. I shook my body and supported the visitor’s shoulders, and took the face towel he handed me. Gently wiped his face and hands.

"Is it better?" The man whispered close to my ear, his voice was like a spring breeze.

I was shocked, turned my face away in disbelief, and called out in a low voice, "Sir..."

It was in the evening when Zhou Yu woke up. At that time, I had already changed into a clean attire and sat quietly beside his bed.Warm medicine and delicate snacks were placed on the low table. I peeled an apple. When I heard the movement on the bed, my hands trembled slightly, but I finally put the apple firmly on the tray and turned my head away.

Through a thin layer of gauze, I didn't even have the courage to open it until he asked hesitantly and vaguely, "Yi'er?"

I was breathless, and then slowly said: "Uncle, it's me."

He coughed and asked, "What time is it?"

I finally mustered up the courage to close the gauze curtain and hang up the curtain rod.The light sprinkled softly on his cheeks, because of the reddish warm yellow, I don't think his face is so gray, but he has completely changed, with high cheekbones and more eye sockets. When it sinks down, only the long and narrow and beautiful Danfeng eyes are still mesmerizing in a blink of an eye.

"The sun is going down, it must be six o'clock." I slowly approached him.

He stretched out his bony left hand and tightly grasped my fingertips, looking for me with dull eyes: "Guanglan?"

"It's me." I replied, finally weeping when I saw him like this.

He was seriously injured in the past, but at that time, he could still smile and make me happy, even if I stuck the tip of a knife into his shoulder socket and pulled out the bullet, he miraculously recovered within a week.

There was a voice in my heart shouting frantically: Take him back!Back to the world where he was invincible!Only there can he be rescued.

Although his reaction to the outside world has become very sluggish, he, who knows me so well, can detect my emotional fluctuations at the first time with my trembling hands.

"Fool, you're thinking about something, cough, cough, what's not going to happen?" He looked up at the top of the gauze tent, with a blurred, beautiful and incredible smile on the corner of his mouth.

I picked up his hand and kissed him softly: "I'm sorry, I have some crazy ideas."

He slowly turned his eyes, took a deep look at me, and recited a line I was very familiar with like a poem: "Everyone has a fate that he must accept."

I solemnly accepted his words: "For the sake of the trajectory of this destiny, we correct the unknowns in history, ensure its impartiality, and prevent those unknowns from destroying this beautiful world."

After reading this sentence slowly, I didn't know what to say anymore. I supported him to lean on the soft pillow and fed him a little water with a small spoon—he couldn't swallow anything anymore, so he just relied on his previous foundation to hold on. That's all.

"Ahem, what a beautiful sunset—" He squinted his eyes contentedly, looking out the window.

"Uncle, I have something to tell you."

"Well——" he lazily turned his head, his whole body was bathed in the golden light, no amount of sickness could conceal his godlike light, "I know, you have been contaminated with a certain breath."

I hang my head in silence.

"It's time to settle down. For example, Chun Hua Qiu Shi, the dead are like this, so...but I didn't expect you to choose the lord."

"Am I wrong?" I asked in a low voice, watching the person in front of me nervously, for fear that he would ask the thorny question of when Sun Quan would marry me.

The sun set in this second, and the sleeping tent, which had returned to plain color in an instant, made his complexion as white as paper.He replied with some helplessness: "I don't have any right to judge you right or wrong."

Although I knew it was a taboo, I still shed tears, and I couldn't help crying after a while: "Nonsense. You...are you trying to...frighten...frighten me, uh...just, I will stop paying attention to him. You ...Quick uh... get well. I mean really, really."

"Fool," he sighed slightly, "You don't know that my ending like this is bound to happen."

"Yes."

"Compared to ordinary people, I have seen flowers bloom and snow fall too many times. My parents and brothers have become memories, and my living wife and children are like strangers to me. Why do I live like this? What about you? Please forgive me."

"I'm sorry, I'm too selfish... Woo, I really can't bear to..."

He tried hard to raise his arm to wipe away my tears, I went to help him: "Don't move, I will help you if you want to do anything."

"Alan, I really want to take a bath now."

"What?" I looked up suspiciously, tears were hanging in my eyes before I could wipe them off, "Take a bath?"

"Yeah, you don't even know how long it's been since I took a shower. Cough cough, cough cough" he said with another burst of heart-piercing cough, which made my whole heart throb, and he breathed heavily for a long time , then reluctantly went on, saying: "Those quack doctors say nothing and won't let me take a bath. Cough, they don't want to understand the patient's mind at all, and they don't know how to keep clean."

His movements were very slight, but he still managed to blink his eyes and smile badly.I pretended not to see his mouth slightly opened because of the pain, and said nonsense like him: "What a wild idea, people are obviously afraid that your moving will not be good for the disease, okay?"

"Silly girl, don't you cry again?" He smiled softly, and tapped the back of my hand feebly with his fingers, "I'm about to get married, and I can't calm down so much, how can you make me feel at ease."

My heart sank, and I quickly interrupted him, "I brought you a present."

"What precious things did you bring here? Don't make me... get too excited, my old man's bones can't stand the toss." He said half-jokingly, motioning for me to raise the pillow for him.

I bit my lip, hesitated for his words, and didn't even hesitate to stop the action at hand, "I brought someone over."

His eyes widened instantly.

It's been a long time.

"You messed around, and he also messed around?" His tone was obviously raised, and he was definitely angry.

"I'm sorry, but... sir is the best surgeon and you need him."

"Don't prevaricate me with such an excuse! It's as if you don't know the inside story! How dangerous it is for him to come here, half of my generals have seen him." His breath became unsteady because of excitement.

I knelt down in front of the couch: "I can't watch you suffer, I can't care about anything else!"

"Stand up, what do you look like." He closed his eyes.

I stood up abruptly and retreated outside, and said to the gentleman standing by the screen, "I've talked to him."

"Okay." After two days and two nights of rushing, the husband's expression was not good, "you will go in in another quarter of an hour."

I nodded in agreement, but my heart was full of feelings: the time they could give each other was actually only a quarter of an hour.

I stood outside the military tent and felt dizzy at this moment. I barely grabbed the maid beside me to resist the urge to squat down and vomit.I know that I need a break very much at this time, but I dare not walk away, for fear that as soon as I leave, someone irrelevant will break into the tent.

Time is gradually passing by, I look back at those layers of curtains from time to time, and I can't help but think, once he is gone, whether I am still qualified to stay here.

Yes, if it wasn't for his handwritten letter prepared in advance, I wouldn't even see him for the last time.

A quarter of an hour later, I lifted the curtain and re-entered.Mr. Mo had already treated his uncle, and there were tiny blood splatters on the plain tent, and there was a little blood in the air, and I started to feel nauseous when I saw it.

When they saw me coming in, they both stared at me.

"What's the matter?" I squeezed out a smile, and slowly turned to them while holding the screen.Miraculously (of course, with Mr. present, it’s not so miraculous what happened), Zhou Yu had already sat up, and on the low table in front of the two of them, the snacks that had been placed before were removed and replaced by a bowl of clear water , shining brightly there.

I sat down on the desk and took a peek at Zhou Yu. As expected, Zhou Yu's complexion improved a lot, but Mr. Zhou's complexion was even worse than when I saw him before.

"Guanglan stretched out her hand."

I nodded: "No." I held out my hand to him.

He rested his three fingers on my veins, and lifted his eyelids slightly, "Have you not been feeling well recently?"

I was confused, so I told the truth: "There are a lot of things recently, so I must be a little tired."

He nodded and said, "Gongjin, my part will be temporarily put on hold, how about you?"

Zhou Yu coughed a few times and said, "My original plan, let's not change."

I stare down at the floor.I could never get my mouth in the conversation between the two of them.

They discussed a few more words, and the husband turned his head and said gently: "Guanglan, you are not in good condition recently, just drink this bowl of medicine."

"No." I replied respectfully, took the water and drank it down.

There was a hint of hesitation in Zhou Yu's eyes, but he didn't say it in the end.

I took out the veil and wiped the corners of my mouth, and said, "Uncle, all the doctors will come to check on your condition tonight as usual, and you probably need to take some measures."

Zhou Yu raised his head and laughed, "There's nothing else to investigate, it's just that the medicine doesn't work."

Hearing this, I can't help but have a sore nose.

He waved his hand and said indifferently: "Just ask them to come in for a while."

Seeing that their conversation was over, I immediately took out the defense map that I carried with me and gave it to Mr.: "What you want."

He took the silk scroll and unfolded it for a while, then tucked it into his sleeve pocket, and said to me: "This time it was done very well."