True Phoenix and Virtual Phoenix

"Ruoxuan, please don't be rude. Uncle An Guo heard that you were sick, so he kindly came to visit you. How can you drive people away as soon as you wake up?"

Liu Jin, who was also dressed in purple, walked in with a plate of steaming dishes, saw the baby barking at An Lunan, and gave an annoyed look.

"I, how can I be sick?"

The baby raised his chin and puffed, and before it was too long, he suddenly felt dizzy and sat back on the bed with his head supported. Only then did the baby know that he was really sick.

"Look, you still don't believe it when you say you're sick. You burned up when you came back from Wan'an Palace, and you talked nonsense all morning, and you didn't stop from the beginning to the end."

Liu Jin put down the plate in his hand, walked to the side of the bed, padded the pillows up, let the baby lie back on the bed, felt the temperature of the baby's forehead with slightly cool hands, and the cold baby shivered.

"I'm talking nonsense! Didn't I say any nonsense?"

Some cold sweat broke out on the baby's forehead, he was afraid that he would say something that he shouldn't have said, knowing that An Lunan was by his side all the time just now, it's better that he didn't know about some things.

"What can I say, why don't you keep yelling 'I won't leave, I won't leave, don't leave me', I didn't expect you little guy to be heartless and dependent on others!" Liu Jin smiled Touching the baby's hair, he said softly: "You still have some residual heat, don't get up and jump around, take medicine."

"I don't want to drink this, I don't even want to die!!"

Seeing the bowl of medicine that Liu Jin brought over, the baby immediately jumped up from the bed, and fled in a panic.

When Gu Baobao was still alive, his family often gave him medicine alternately between Chinese and Western medicines, so Baobao was more acceptable to the brown decoction that exudes a strong stench.

But ever since he drank the Mengpo soup made by that old guy Zhong Xu, the baby's stomach began to automatically reject things of this color and smell, not to mention drinking it, just sniffing it a few times would make him vomit Turned upside down.

Liu Jin and Gu Baobao lived together in the Jinghua Palace for five years, how can they not know that Baobao has always been virtuous in drinking medicine, anyway, no matter how coaxed to please him, it will not work, the best way is to overwhelm him and drink it directly.

"Uncle An Guo, can I trouble you to do me a favor?"

"Ok?"

An Lunan looked at Liu Jin who was smiling apologetically at him in surprise, and the two had a friendly exchange in front of Gu Baobao who was huddled in the corner, and Gu Baobao was like a chicken in the next moment The one called An Lunan was caught in his arms.

"Your grandpa, I told you not to take medicine! Just let me sleep a little longer and I'll be fine, really!"

The baby was carried back to the bed by An Lunan Xuankong, kicking and beating all the way, Lu Nan frowned and sat down on the side of the bed, suppressing the restless baby in his arms, motioning for Liu Jin to come and feed the medicine.

Liu Jin cautiously approached with the medicine bowl, when the baby saw the thing approaching him, he immediately resisted fiercely, kicked Liu Jin with his foot, Liu Jin hurriedly dodged, almost smashing the medicine bowl .

In the past, Nanny Yan had to do it herself, but now that Nanny Yan is not around, Liu Jin doesn't know what to do when he stands there.

Seeing that the baby retched just now, he must have felt sick again after seeing the medicine, and he couldn't force it, but the disease would not get better if he didn't take the medicine, what should I do?

An Lunan saw that Liu Jin was in trouble with the medicine, and also saw the baby's reaction. He put the baby back on the bed and asked, "Didn't he drink medicine before I came here? How did he feed it?"

"This..." Liu Jin couldn't open his mouth for a long time with his face down, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "I poured it secretly while he was asleep. Now that he's awake, it's better to knock him unconscious again!"

Everyone knows that the answer given after thinking for so long must be false. The baby lay on the bed and gave Liu Jin a strange look, then stretched out his small tongue and licked his lips, which seemed to smell like medicine, but Not disgusting, why is that?

Lu Nan knew that there must be her own reasons why Liu Jin didn't say anything, so she smiled knowingly and didn't ask any more questions, only asking what should I do now?

Seeing the two of them looking at him at the same time, the baby felt bad, turned over and wanted to escape, this time An Lunan was well prepared, and stretched out his hand to pull the baby back with his clothes and others.

"Give it to me, I'll feed it!"

With all his might, Lu Nan clamped the baby's two legs tightly between his own, and closed the baby's arms together, twisted a twist and grabbed the front of the prison with one hand, and took the bowl from Liu Jin's hand steadily, Facing the baby's mouth will be poured.

The baby couldn't move his hands and feet, but his head was still free. When he smelled the stronger and stronger smell of the medicine, he couldn't bear it anymore, and he turned his head and retched violently.

"Uncle Guo, I think it's better to forget it! Drinking medicine is originally for curing diseases. If this feeding method makes the baby's condition worse, it will be bad. I think let him sleep more, and I will stay by the side for him. Just apply a cold compress."

Seeing the baby's distress, An Lunan also knew that it would be impossible to force him, so he listened to Liu Jin's words and let him go.

As soon as the baby was released, he immediately hid in the bed, his stomach was still nauseated, Lu Nan waited on the side of the bed for a while, seeing that the baby was not moving in the bed, he guessed that he was asleep, he sighed lightly and stood up Standing up, he whispered to Liu Jin: "Ruoxuan is asleep now, how did you feed him the medicine before, try again now! This is Bao Yihuang, add some to the soup next time, to nourish Qi and maintain health Yes, there is no harm in eating. Lu Nan has to go to church in the afternoon, so I will take my leave first."

Lu Nan left a paper bag on the table, looked back at a small cloth bag bulging on the bed, smiled a little bit bitterly, bowed politely to Liu Jin, turned around and left.

Liu Jin blushed slightly, returned the salute with lowered eyebrows, and watched An Lunan's figure disappear into the bamboo forest in a daze. The little cloth bag was lifted, and he said angrily to Gu Baobao who was curled up in a ball: "Have you hid enough? You are already hot, and you will be suffocated to death if you are so blindfolded!"

"There is no such easy death!"

The baby got up from the bed muttering that he was about to die, his face was obviously much redder than before because of the quilt, Liu Jin saw that something was wrong with him, reached out to touch him, and yelled that it was not good.

"What's the matter, what a fuss, I'm a little thirsty, pour me a glass of water—"

"Drink the water and take the medicine quickly. You only receded a little before the fever, and now it's getting serious again."

"I don't drink medicine!"

The baby gulped down the cool white tea that Liu Jin handed over in one gulp, and said decisively without even thinking about it.

Liu Jin didn't argue with the baby any more, and didn't force him to sing medicine anymore, just gave him a complicated look, helped him to lie down, filled a small bowl of porridge and fed him to finish.

The baby felt dizzy and dizzy before his eyes, and fell asleep again not long after eating.

After falling asleep, he had a dream. He dreamed that he was sleeping in the clouds, and there was a Jingya fairy in a milky white gauze, with windless hairbands fluttering, looking at him tenderly, with a faint smile on his lips.

The baby rubbed his eyes and told the fairy that he was sick, and the fairy frowned pitifully, and gently rubbed his slender and slightly cool palm on his cheeks, and the baby felt comfortable as soon as he touched it Quite a lot.

The fairy said to the baby: "I have holy water here that can cure all diseases. Do you want to drink it? Just take a sip and the disease will be cured soon."

The baby glanced at the holy water held in the fairy's hand, it was a faint pink color, and it smelled of a very special fragrance, which seemed to be the faint scent of roses.

"Is it okay to just take a sip?"

The baby looked at the fairy suspiciously, took the bowl of pink holy water hesitantly, sniffed it a little closer with the tip of his nose, felt that the soup seemed to have some magical power, and seemed to be tempting the baby to sing it down quickly.

"Well, it will be fine, drink it quickly!"

The fairy's beautiful hand rested lightly on the edge of the bowl, and pushed towards Gu Baobao's mouth. He smiled beautifully, but Gu Baobao felt a little weird for some reason.

The baby pursed his lips and looked at the immortal, hesitantly raised the bowl to his mouth, and was about to drink, but suddenly heard a voice saying: "Baby, open your mouth and take a sip."

That, it's not the voice of a fairy, that voice is very nice, very nice, it's the voice of the emperor's father!

The baby stood up from the cloud and looked around. This cloud is really a big cloud, surrounded by endless blue sky, but there is no shadow of the emperor's father in such a vast space. The baby firmly believes that he did not I heard it right, so I searched around the cloud again.

The fairy's face turned gloomy, staring at the 'holy water' that hadn't been drunk in the baby's hand, fluttering and rattling.

As soon as the baby turned his head, he saw that the smile on the fairy's face was no longer there. He stretched out his hand towards himself, but the originally slender and beautiful hand looked like a ghost's claw at the moment. My mind was spinning again.

There was a warm touch in the mouth, as if something soft was attached to his lips, the baby sighed lightly, raised his head slightly, and followed the object that was about to leave. past.

There was liquid flowing into the mouth from the soft joint, and the baby coughed and swallowed all the things with a frown.

There is no longer darkness in front of the eyes. Even though the eyes are closed, the baby can still feel some light. Someone's breath is close to the ear. The feeling of being hugged makes the baby open his eyes with difficulty, and instantly meets a pair of long hair. Dark eyes under the lashes.

"Awake? You've been in a coma all day."

Li Shun raised his face naturally, and put the baby back on the bed, as if he didn't feel the slightest embarrassment about the mouth-to-mouth feeding just now, but the baby flushed with embarrassment after reacting, and licked the corner of his mouth thirsty.

Li Shun's gaze sank a bit, lowered his eyes, lifted the edge of the quilt to tuck the baby tightly, stood up and said, "Since you're awake, I'll go first. From now on, I'll take good medicine by myself. If you don’t want to eat any more, you should rest!”

"Are you leaving?"

Baobao didn't expect that the emperor's father would leave as soon as he woke up, so he quickly reached out and grabbed Li Shun's sleeve, Li Shun turned around and looked at Gu Baobao indifferently, and said: "I still have a lot of memorials to review, you should rest! "

The baby stared blankly at the emperor's father pulling his pomelo, and walked out the door without looking back. Suddenly, he felt that something had changed, something he was trying very hard to hold on to, seemed to be flying away slowly at this moment .

The corners of my eyes are a little wet, why?Could it be because of the Leng Mo who exposed the crazy father's words, in fact, I didn't know him very well, after all, this is only the third meeting, so there is nothing to be sad about.

The baby sniffled and wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand and sat up from the bed. The empty medicine bowl was placed beside the bed. Since he was willing to feed the medicine himself, why did he pretend to be indifferent on purpose? The emperor's temper is really awkward!

"Ruoxuan, you're awake! You little brat, you scared me to death. Why did I go to Wan'an Palace and you became unconscious in such a short time, brat, just sleep forever and don't wake up. Bah, bah, that's what you said Unlucky, childish words, childish words..."

Liu Jin said something imprudent, quickly patted the nonsense mouth with the palm of his hand a few times, happily picked up the baby's flushed face, and said with a smile: "You stinky girl always refuses to take medicine. The imperial physician also said that it was impossible, so he inserted a big funnel into your mouth to force it down, it is terrible to think about it, but fortunately you ate and drank the medicine given by the emperor, otherwise you really don't know what to do."

"I've been in a coma all day?"

"Well, it's been a whole day since I took a nap at noon yesterday. Uncle An Guo stopped the prince when he wanted to see you. You know that we are slaves. It's unreasonable for a dignified prince to come to visit. Even the emperor I took the time to turn around to see the prince, so don't complain that he can't stay for a long time."

Liu Jin said softly, and fondled the baby's hair, and suddenly thought of something, and then said with a smile: "I made delicious food for you, I haven't eaten for a day, are you hungry! It's you and me As for the dumpling mentioned above, it took me a lot of effort to roll out the dumpling skin, and my hands were almost calloused."

The baby reached out and touched the palm of Liu Jin's hand, and there was indeed a thin layer of calluses. This girl's life is not good, such a beautiful face, such rough hands, how could it be because of rolling out a few thin dumpling wrappers? , It is clearly the result of so many years of hard work and rough work.

I don't know if it's because the baby is sick, but Liu Jin looked very gentle today, with a smile full of maternal brilliance, and he handed over a large white dumpling with thin skin and big stuffing, the baby was just caught by it. The steaming hot air almost brought tears to my face.

Suddenly, I remembered that many, many years ago, when I was still alive, my mother loved to make dumplings during the holidays. My five sisters and myself were lazy and wished to go out for a meal without doing it ourselves, but my mother said that it was outside. Even eating abalone, ginseng, wing, belly, mountain and sea delicacies is not as enjoyable as a family gathering in a circle to make a pot of dumplings. After cooking, you can eat them one by one.

Therefore, every festival, the baby would make dumplings with his parents and five older sisters in a circle. The wrapped monsters were all bathed in the end, but she still insisted on wrapping the baby together.

She always lamented that there are more and more broken families now. Those children either have no father or no mother. There are fewer and fewer families who can always be as complete and happy as our family. This is God's gift to the Gu family. Half of her body has already been buried in the soil, so she wants to greedily enjoy the love of her husband and children for a few more years while she can still enjoy it.

But then I became a vegetable, my parents and sisters must be very sad!

My family is missing, and during the holidays, when they sit around making dumplings again, will they still think of Baby Gu who is lying in the hospital and can't walk, talk, smile, blink or think?

Wouldn't they be happier knowing that they took the last 18 years of their lives and started over without them?

"Ruoxuan, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing the tears in the baby's eyes suddenly falling like broken beads, Liu Jin thought that the baby was not feeling well again, so he quickly put the plate in his hand aside, put the baby in his arms and covered the baby's head with one hand, I didn't feel relieved until I was sure that the baby didn't have a fever again.

"Liukin, I'm so sad! Can you give me a hug?"

"What's the matter? Don't be sad, dear, Sister Jinzi is always with you."

With sour eyes, Liu Jin gently pulled the baby's body over and hugged her tightly, patted the baby's back rhythmically, and murmured, "Sister will be with you, don't be sad."

When Liu Jin is not showing off his power, he looks like his mother. The baby is rubbing against Liu Jin's arms, thinking wildly, and his little hand is holding Liu Jin's slender waist. Even though he is such a thin body, he can grab endless belongings from Liu Jin sense and security.

These years, a person has lived alone without relatives and no reason. Baobao thought that it was fine to be alone, and it didn't matter if he couldn't be a man in an upright manner, and he couldn't die without the support of relatives. It turned out that the real situation was not like this.

The self-paralysis in extreme situations leads to a more deep-seated and greedy desire for family affection after the recovery of perception. The baby longs for relatives, longs for someone to cherish and love, and longs for being able to be himself in a fair and honest manner.

"Liu Jin, if no one wants me in the future, will you want me?" The baby murmured while leaning against Liu Jin's arms with half-closed eyes. Too much, in fact, as long as you open your eyes wide, you will find that there are people around you who love you sincerely, but me, a lowly court lady who is loved by no one, if no one wants me in the future, will you marry me? ?”

"Okay, if I can be myself one day, and you happen to be unwanted, I will marry you."

The baby knew that Liu Jin looked like he was joking, but he actually asked very seriously.

Liu Jin's heart is hard to warm up. After all these years in Jinghua Palace, she has always been a low-level slave with no support. She has gained some prestige and status among the slaves only by her own efforts and fierceness. And a trace of innocence shows that what she wins may be respected and feared, but there will be no love.

How far can this self-improving little girl go with only relying on the meager friendship between herself and Little Pants?

Since Liu Jin's question was serious, Gu Baobao's answer was also serious. If there was such a day, he would marry Liu Jin, because this girl was worth it.

After listening to the baby's answer, Liu Jin let out a chuckle, and pretended to be angry, pointing the baby's forehead with a smile and cursing: "You little bastard, you have a good idea, and the man who wants to marry me must be handsome and handsome, just you." Bastard, don’t miss a million miles.”

Tears fell and dripped on the baby's cheeks. The baby looked up at Liu Jin's face, grabbed his sleeves and raised his little hands to help Liu Jin wipe away the tears, and joked: "Don't worry, I will definitely be handsome when I grow up." Makes your mouth water when you see it."

"I'm not that color!" Liu Jin bit his lip, wiped his face with his arm, picked up the plate that was put aside just now and said happily: "Eat good food while it's hot, and it's a waste of my food when it's cold." It took a lot of pains."

"Ah."

The baby nodded, grabbed one with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth. It didn't taste like homemade dumplings, but it was okay.Grabbing another one and handing it to Liu Jin, Liu Jin raised his eyebrows and glanced at the baby's unwashed hands, finally grinned, and swallowed the dumplings that the baby had brought up in one gulp.