A Piece of Li Song Changting Twilight

After all, Zhao Pingzhen was still merciful.After he left, Qin Xiaolou was completely cleansed, and from a sinner to a hero of the prosecution, Zhao Nanke took advantage of this opportunity to give him an official promotion.

Three months after Zhao Pingzhen left Beijing, Qin Chengxue was really dying.Originally, Zhu Liming believed that he had a year or two to live, but after Qin Xiaolou was arrested by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Qin Chengxue was stimulated, fell down and never got up again.

The history is so similar, Zhao Nanke went to the Ministry of Households by accident, and found out that Qin Xiaolou did not come for leave. He heard that he had gangrene, so he asked the Ministry of Officials for more than ten days of leave.Zhao Nanke thought about the relationship between Zhao Pingzhen and Qin Xiaolou, and thought that if Qin Xiaolou was really sick, maybe it would be better to go and have a look, so he went to the Qin residence with Weifu, the imperial doctor in the palace.

Just like back then, Qin Xiaolou was not sick at all, but he bribed the doctor to make such a diagnosis for himself just to take care of his seriously ill younger brother.

The emperor personally visited the door, which was beyond Qin Xiaolou's expectation.He didn't dare to stop him even if he was given 1 guts. Zhao Nanke came in a hurry again, and he didn't have the time to prepare a lie. He could only admit to Zhao Nanke and explain the whole story.

Zhao Nanke didn't blame Qin Xiaolou, he just said that since he came, he stopped by to check on Qin Aiqing's younger brother's illness.Of course, Qin Xiaolou couldn't refuse him, so he had to lead Zhao Nanke into Qin Chengxue's room.

Qin Chengxue developed a high fever two days ago, and the fever has not subsided these days. As soon as Zhao Nanke entered the room, he frowned because of the strong smell of medicine.

Qin Chengxue's pale face was reddened by the heat, and she was also confused. She lay there unconsciously, uttering nonsense from time to time.Qin Xiaolou led Zhao Pingzhen into the house, and saw Qin Chengxue twisting his body sadly there, kicking off the quilt on the bed, not caring about the emperor at the moment, and hurried forward to tuck the quilt for him, feeling distressed Di wiped the sweat off his forehead with a silk scarf: "Cheng Xue, Cheng Xue, what's wrong with you?"

Zhao Nanke stepped forward, only to see that Qin Chengxue had been tortured by the illness and had lost her human form, thinned into a paper figure. She was only in her 20s, and the flesh on her cheeks was deeply sunken, almost like a pale skeleton.He has become like this, although he is still beautiful, it is embarrassing.

Because of Zhao Pingzhen's relationship, Zhao Nanke has been paying close attention to the Qin family brothers these years, so he has heard about Qin Chengxue's life.He knew that Qin Chengxue seldom stayed at home in the past, spending half of his life waiting.The only person he was waiting for was his elder brother Qin Xiaolou. When Qin Xiaolou went to court, he waited for him to go home; when Qin Chengxue went to the battlefield, he waited for him to return home.Now that Zhao Nanke saw Qin Chengxue, he felt sorry that such a beautiful young man wasted his time for nothing.In the end, I don't know if his waiting is meaningful.

Qin Chengxue woke up suddenly, groaned sadly, opened his eyes, and looked at the scene in front of him blankly.

Qin Xiaolou took his hand and pressed it to his face: "Cheng Xue, the emperor saw you coming."

Qin Chengxue didn't know whether she understood or not, her distracted eyes moved slowly, and finally stopped on Zhao Nanke's face.His expression was puzzled at first, but suddenly became frightened, and he shouted mournfully, "Your Highness Fifth!"

Both Qin Xiaolou and Zhao Nanke were taken aback by his sudden outburst.These days Qin Chengxue was so ill that he couldn't even speak, his voice was always hoarse, Qin Xiaolou never expected that he could make such a sharp cry.

Qin Chengxue struggled violently, crawled towards where Zhao Nanke was, and stretched out her hand as thin as a bone.Zhao Nanke was startled, and took three steps back. His bodyguards immediately stepped forward to block him, holding sabers and staring at Qin Chengxue.Seeing the emperor's guards moving, Qin Xiaolou hurriedly hugged Qin Chengxue, and used his body to separate him from those fierce warriors.

Qin Chengxue was still struggling, crying and reaching out to Zhao Nanke, as if begging for something: "Your Highness Fifth, Your Highness Fifth..."

Qin Xiaolou said: "Cheng Xue, you are sick and confused, he is not King Rui, but the emperor."

Qin Chengxue almost died from crying, sobbing intermittently: "Your Highness, I beg you, please return me the longevity noodles. I want to eat my brother's longevity noodles, and I want him to live... for a long time... "

Both Qin Xiaolou and Zhao Nanke were stunned.

Back then, Zhao Pingzhen ate Qin Chengxue's bowl of long-lived noodles because of a moment of loyalty, and his followers searched all the noodles in Qin's mansion.Afterwards, he even ordered people to intimidate all the nearby noodle stalls and common people not to give a single noodle to the people of the Qin family.It was the first time that Qin Chengxue didn't eat Qin Xiaolou's longevity noodles.Later, when Qin Xiaolou left Beijing to go north, Qin Chengxue missed several of his birthdays, but calculated the time every year to send Qin Xiaolou a painting of longevity noodles.However, thanks to Zhao Pingzhen's blessing, Qin Xiaolou never received it once.

Qin Chengxue was still crying: "Your Highness Fifth, I was wrong, I dare not rush you again, I just beg you not to take my brother away...you give me back the longevity noodles..."

Zhao Nanke heaved a long sigh, ordered the guards to retreat, stepped forward and held Qin Chengxue's hand: "He has already returned your brother to you."

Finally, when Zhao Nanke left the room, he stepped over the threshold, sighed three times, and then walked away.

One morning a few days later, Qin Chengxue, who had been seriously ill, suddenly became more energetic, and her fever subsided a lot, and she was even able to get out of bed and walk around.Qin Xiaolou helped him sit in the wheelchair, pushed him around the yard, and then sat with him under the eaves to enjoy the peach blossoms in late summer.

Qin Chengxue suddenly said: "Brother, go to the study for me and get the pen and paper, I want to draw."

Qin Xiaolou couldn't bear to leave Qin Chengxue for a moment, and ordered several servants to arrange the small table and the four treasures of the study properly, and the two brothers sat side by side to admire the flowers and paint.

Qin Chengxue drew out the peach tree in the courtyard with a few strokes, adjusted the peach-colored ink with the brush, and soaked the tip of the pen until it was neither dry nor wet, and sprinkled lightly, a scene of flying peach petals appeared on the paper. .However, the painting was not finished here, he changed the brush and ink, carefully sketched under the tree stroke by stroke, and it took a long time for a human figure to appear.

Qin Xiaolou smiled and said, "Shall I stand under the tree for you to draw?"

Qin Chengxue shook her head, just about to speak, but coughed involuntarily.His cough was far less severe than the previous few days, but Qin Xiaolou saw a drop of blood splattered on the drawing paper, just staining a pale peach blossom red.Looking at Qin Chengxue again, I felt that his previously white lips suddenly became blood-colored, it was really pale face and vermilion lips, and he was still the same beauty as before.

After Qin Chengxue finished coughing, she said softly, "No need. A real painter is blind, but he can draw what he thinks in his heart."

Qin Xiaolou's nasal cavity was sore, and he kept saying silently in his heart: "When facing a seriously ill person, don't mourn, don't cry, don't tell your own feelings, so as not to make the patient feel sad and hurt the body." After saying this silently three times, he smiled softly Standing up, she leaned over and put her arms around Qin Chengxue's shoulders, pressing against his forehead.

Qin Chengxue put down her pen and took a few breaths slowly: "I can't draw anymore."

Qin Xiaolou looked at the half-drawn characters on the table, and kept circling the phrase "don't be sad" in his mind, and said with a smile, "then draw again tomorrow."

The two brothers sat under the eaves of the corridor, neither of them spoke, they just watched the clump of peach blossoms quietly.Qin Xiaolou held Qin Chengxue's hand, only to realize that his hand was as cold as the snow in the twelfth lunar month in the August sky.He began to rub Qin Chengxue's hand, wanting to pass his own temperature to him.

"Cheng Xue."

"Ah."

"Cheng Xue."

"Ah."

"Cheng Xue..."

"Brother, I'm here."

Qin Xiaolou swallowed back the hot tears in his eyes, and read out the words word by word: "Don't be sad, don't cry, don't tell your own feelings..."

Qin Chengxue smiled, and gently stroked Qin Xiaolou's tiger's mouth with her fingertips.

Qin Xiaolou said: "Cheng Xue, wait for me for another two years. After two years, I will take you away. Only the two of us..."

Qin Chengxue smiled happily.He leaned his head on Qin Xiaolou's shoulder, slowly closed his eyes, and said softly, "Brother, I will wait for you forever..."

The sun sets, and the sunset glow in the sky turns the whole world red like a peach blossom; the moon rises, and the crooked crescent moon looks like Qin Chengxue's smiling eyes; the morning sun shows its head on the horizon, and the sky and the earth are blue Yes, only that bouquet of peach blossoms is still so beautiful.

The tears on Qin Xiaolou's face had long since dried up. He stared at the northern sky bewilderedly, and kept murmuring: "Cheng Xue, wait for me for another two years...wait for me for another two years..."

But this time, the person leaning on his shoulder could no longer answer him.