Dry Dream

With the scar on his face, he lowered his head in embarrassment.King Xiaoling patted my back comfortingly, helped me into the water pavilion, and lay on the big soft pillow.

Dinner was eaten at the waterside pavilion, and Xiangqin music was added to the fun.I still have no appetite, although this time I have the veal ribs I ate when I came to ask for medicine last year.Besides, it is not easy to eat when lying on the stomach. After drinking some porridge and eating a few mouthfuls of light vegetarian dishes, I can't eat anymore.King Xiaoling was not very happy that I always ate so little, saying that I should pay more attention to maintaining my body now that I was recuperating from my injuries, and forced me to eat something more.

Seeing that plate of veal ribs, I suddenly remembered that the name of this dish is "Hongyu Piaoxiang".I remember Chengyuan said that the courtyard where I lived was just built, and the name was "Hongyuxuan". Could it be that the courtyard was named after this dish?

King Xiaoling's hobbies are really strange.

The lord is the lord, and it really is extraordinary.It took me almost a month to recover from the injury at home, and I was able to support someone to walk, but after only a few days of recovery in the palace, I can move freely. It can be seen that the medicines given to me by King Xiaoling are all high-quality treasures .I even had a nosebleed once, wondering if the medicine was too good.

A few days later, the doctor checked my pulse again, and told King Xiaoling that there is no need to use such strong medicine anymore, because at my current age, taking too much of that kind of medicine will damage my body.I still can’t lie on my front when I go to sleep at night, but I can sleep on my side, which is really a blessing to me who has been lying on my stomach for a month.

The wounds on the buttocks were all scarred, and it was itchy all day long.Chengyuan followed me like a tail and stared at me every day, even when he was sleeping, he also guarded me, preventing me from scratching my butt.After a few days of tossing around, I gained weight, but Cheng Yuan lost a lot of weight and had a pair of dark circles under his eyes.

In fact, I am very grateful to Chengyuan. He is only two years older than me, but he is much more sensible than me.He took care of me not only because of King Xiaoling's order, but also because he served me sincerely.

Since King Xiaoling came to put medicine on my face, he never came to me at any other time except for showing up when he changed the medicine on my butt early in the morning.It's just that I'm not used to hearing whimpers and blushing murmurs from the yard where he lives from time to time at night.

The young master Xia Yan who is very similar to me has never been here again, and the other three young masters always hide in the distance and peep in my yard, and I just pretend not to see them.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and I was able to lie down and sleep, and my butt didn't itch so badly.I didn't take a bath for more than a month, and my body started to itch, so Chengyuan prepared a bathtub for me to take a bath.During the bath, more than half of the scar on the buttocks fell off, revealing pink and tender new flesh, I thought it was good, so I went to resign in the afternoon when King Xiaoling was enjoying the cool water in the water pavilion.

King Xiaoling only said one thing: No matter how well you take care of her, don't rush to leave.Sent me away.

He doesn't want to let me go, does he?

I lay in bed apprehensive.

It has been so many days, and there is no letter from the family, and I don't know what happened to Yaojun.Brother, brother, why don't you come and see me?Or is it that you have already been here, but was blocked by King Xiaoling?

Mother, did you also forget about my little son?Dad sent me to the palace, didn't you stop me?

After staying in the palace for a few more days, the scars on my buttocks have all fallen off, and I can sit and lie down without getting in the way, so I started to get anxious and angry.Will King Xiaoling let me go?

"Mr. Qi, Mr. Qi, what a happy event!" I was sitting at the table worrying, when I saw Chengyuan running in from outside the courtyard cheerfully and said.

"What happy event?" I asked listlessly.

"Third Master, your elder brother Yan Shengye, Uncle Ye is here to see you!" Cheng Yuan said happily.

"What!" I stood up suddenly in surprise, and asked loudly, "Where is the person?"

"I just had a conversation with the lord, and this meeting is going this way!" Cheng Yuan replied, "It's still the third master Qi who has a lot of face, if it were someone else, the lord would never allow outsiders to visit the inner courtyard of!"

I ignored Cheng Yuan's words, and hurried out of the courtyard door to look ahead.Seeing an old eunuch leading his elder brother to this side, he happily greeted him.

"Brother! Why did you come to see me!" I ran up and grabbed my brother's shoulder and said.

"Hey, Third Master Qi, pay attention to etiquette." The old eunuch pulled me aside with a grim expression and said.

My face sank, and I thought to myself that I'm not King Xiaoling's male favourite, so be careful!

"Hehe, Eunuch Qian, the third master Qi just came here, and he still doesn't understand the rules of the palace. Eunuch, you are troubled, so it's fine for me to take care of the little ones here." Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Cheng Yuan hurriedly stepped forward to stand in front of me and bowed and smiled. As he spoke, he took out a string of jade beads and stuffed them into the old eunuch's hand.

The old eunuch looked at the jade beads in his hand with his mouth curled up, weighed them, then turned and left.

63. News from home

"Master Qi, Master Ye, this is not a place to talk, come in quickly." Seeing the old eunuch walking away, Cheng Yuan turned around and whispered, letting us into Hongyuxuan.

Sitting down in the room, Cheng Yuan went down to make tea, only to find that my elder brother looked very bad, so I asked, "Elder brother, what happened?"

"Second brother is ill." Eldest brother bowed his head guiltily, "Two of the maids in the second brother's room died of illness, and that Qiaowan also died."

"Ah..." I opened my mouth in shock.

"Mr. Meng Zi can only save the second brother's life now, and the second brother is already lying on the bed and can't move." The eldest brother said: "The other girls in the second brother's room and a servant who served him are also infected. It’s just that it was discovered early and was cured by Mr. Meng Zi. But they were all sold out by my father, so I dare not stay in the mansion any longer.”

"Why so fast?" I asked in surprise, "Is the disease so severe?"

The eldest brother nodded, and was about to say something, but when Cheng Yuan came in with tea, he shut his mouth again.

Chengyuan put the tea on the table, bowed and then left, standing far away.I know that although my elder brother is sitting next to me, it is inconvenient to close the door to avoid gossip.

Seeing that Chengyuan was standing far away and turning around without looking at us, the eldest brother said in a low voice: "I didn't expect the disease to be so severe. The husband said that the onset is different because of the different constitutions of individuals. Besides. The second brother has just recovered from a serious injury, and his body is still a little weak, so it is very difficult to treat this disease."

"Is that okay?" I asked softly.

"It should be cured well, sir, he didn't explain very clearly." After the elder brother said, he picked up the tea bowl and poured a bowl of tea.

I lowered my head in a bit of discomfort. At the beginning, I felt that the elder brother's idea was not good, but I didn't stop it too much because I had hatred in my heart.Now not only is the second brother seriously ill in bed, but several lives have been implicated. What a crime this is.

Mother's illness has only been cured for half a year, but the second brother became seriously ill again and died. The culprit is our two brothers. If Dad knows the truth, it will be strange if he doesn't get angry and vomit blood.

"Since father sent you to the palace without telling the family, mother and father had a quarrel. Originally, mother wanted to go back to her mother's house, but because her second brother fell ill and someone died in the family, mother didn't leave."

"So you haven't come to see me these days?" I asked with a chill in my heart.

"Yeah." The elder brother responded, and the little ghost completely froze in surprise.

"The family has become a mess, and the court is not peaceful. I heard that some officials have committed ten crimes against my father. The emperor accepted the book, but because of King Xiaoling's advice, he suppressed it. He has not ordered anyone to thoroughly investigate my father."

"Ten crimes?" I was surprised again, "Did our family do so many bad things?"

The eldest brother shook his head with a heavy face and did not speak.

"What about Mr. Yao? How is he doing now?" I hurriedly asked again.

"He..." The eldest brother's expression changed, he lowered his head and dared not look at me.

"What's wrong with Mr. Yao?" I stood up in a hurry, and my elder brother hurriedly stretched out his finger in front of his lips to signal me to keep my voice down.I saw that Chengyuan in the yard didn't respond, and then I sat down slowly again, looking eagerly at my elder brother and waiting for him to speak.

The eldest brother looked into the yard, leaned over and whispered, "I told you, don't worry, after the second brother fell ill, father sent Lord Yao to the Hexing Palace in Xingzhou."

"What?" I was dumbfounded.

It's not worth giving away your own son, but you're also giving away someone else's apprentice?

"Third brother, third brother, come here, drink some water and catch your breath, don't suffocate yourself." The eldest brother brought a tea bowl to my mouth and said anxiously.

I suddenly came back to my senses, took a few breaths, grabbed the tea bowl and drank it down.I almost suffocated myself to death.

"Daddy!" I put down the teacup with a bang and said loudly, my elder brother bared his teeth in anxiety.I hurriedly turned my head to look at Chengyuan, but he just turned his head and glanced at us, then turned back when he saw nothing happened, and walked a few steps further away.

"Father, how could he give away his apprentice casually!" I said bitterly in a low voice.

"Hey, third brother, daddy can give your own son to King Xiaoling as a talisman, what else can't he do?" The eldest brother sighed, "You have been very straightforward since you were a child, and you have been very honest with those intrigues. I don't know anything. Everything in our family is father and second brother having sex, even I was excluded. Why do you think father protects second brother so much, it is because of this. You and second brother have so much trouble because of Ning Yaojun Father has long wanted to deal with Ning Yaojun."

"Then Mr. Meng Zi..."

The eldest brother interrupted me before I finished speaking, "Mr. Meng Zi is just our family's doctor. What else should father value besides good medical skills? No matter how much father respects him, it is only superficial. Now Ning Yao Mr. Meng Zi has nothing to say when you send someone away."

The elder brother's words made me lose my mind. I stared at the empty tea bowl in front of me and couldn't speak.