Spring comes and snows home

The magnolia magnolia was crumbling on the branches, water droplets were falling on the emerald green branches and leaves, and the water mist was filling the ground. The white flower clusters that fell on the ground had already rotted and turned yellow, scattered outside the abandoned courtyard gate.

A violent cough came from the courtyard, Qin Yi's heart tightened, he quickly clenched the rope in his hand, and stepped inside.

"It's so hot, I'm sick, I seem to be talking to a baby, I forgot to go back to my room to sleep, I'm cold, I've got a cold, I need to drink medicine, just take medicine."

Ruan Yang huddled into a ball, squatting next to the earthen jar, shaking the cattail fan with his white and smooth arms, fanning the flames rising in the center of the bricks and stones.Hearing the sound of footsteps not far away, he immediately got up and said in surprise, "Brother Yan! Is it you?!"

"Little brother, I'm Qin Yi."

"Oh, brother is here." Ruan Yang lost his expression, squatting back to his original position, looking at the floor, "brother is here, brother, have you brought a gift for my youngest son?"

"Ah."

"Do they like it?" Ruan Yang asked nervously, facing forward.

"Of course I like it." Qin Yi couldn't bear to tell him that the rough clothes were still placed in the cabinet in the room.

"Just like it." Ruan Yang laughed and fanned the wind vigorously.

Qin Yi squatted beside him, held Ruan Yang's wrist, and shifted the direction the cattail fan deviated from to the correct position in front of the flame.However, Ruan Yang exclaimed as if being hit by a heavy object, pushed Qin Yi away, covered his wrist and put it in his arms, muttering with his head buried in his head: "It hurts. It's so hot. I can't be sick. It's like burning when I'm sick."

"What's wrong with you?" Almost instantly, a circle of red marks appeared on Ruan Yang's wrist.

"It's so hot. I'm sorry, brother, are you hurt?" Ruan Yang held his breath, his eyes were full of water, accompanied by the occasional cough, and said softly, "Whenever I get sick, my skin hurts. It's been many years. It's better now. Brother, are you hurt?"

"No." Qin Yi thought, this is probably the sequelae of poisoning. His skin was scorching hot in summer and freezing cold in winter. Seeing it with his own eyes, he still couldn't bear it.Six years ago, Ruan Yang was also a little overlord immersed in empty dreams. Now he looks at his black eyelashes like fans, caring towards the void in front of him, unable to distinguish the direction of the speaker, and is actually indescribably melancholy .

"It's fine if you don't have one. I'm also afraid that I'm not serious. In the past, Brother Yan said that I was strong. He said that I like to pinch people. I don't remember. I remember that I didn't pinch, but he said I did. It’s not good, it’s not good to pinch people.” Ruan Yang immediately relaxed a lot, and then muttered to himself as if no one was there, holding the cattail fan that fell to the ground with both hands.

When swinging back and forth to fan the wind, the flames trembled with the wind, and a pot of water boiled in silence between the two of them.

"Herbs, the herbs are outside, oops, I forgot to bring them in first, but the last time I brought them in, they were accidentally burned, and I was scalded to death. I smashed them out with a brick, but luckily they didn't burn me, um, the nurse said I am blessed, I am a blessed person." Ruan Yang stood up talking to himself, "The herbs are on the shelf outside...one piece...two pieces..."

"Little brother, I'll get it for you." Qin Yi didn't dare to touch him, and stopped him from going out with a loud voice.

Ruan Yang stood in place, leaning on the wall, suddenly looked up, and asked doubtfully, "Is my brother here? Did my brother talk to me just now? Brother?"

"Little brother, I'm here." Qin Yi walked to his side to make his voice clearer.

"Oh, you're really here." Ruan Yang smiled and pointed to his ear, "When I'm sick, I can't hear clearly. Brother, thank you for helping me deliver a gift to my youngest son. Is it dark? Go back quickly, don't lose your way. If you can't find your way, it will delay a lot of things. "

"It's not dark yet, brother-in-law, I'll get the herbs for you." Qin Yi hurried a few steps and told him that he had already gone to get them, "Which shelf is it on?"

"In the third dustpan from the right on the second floor."

Qin Yi rummaged on the shelf, and in the so-called dustpan, there were only a few dried grasses, rootless, shriveled, fragile and easy to break, not the appearance of medicinal materials at all.

"Is this it? That's all." Qin Yi put some hay in his hands and let him touch it himself.

"Yes, thank you brother, brother is so smart, I found it as soon as I looked for it, and I have been looking for it for a long time." Ruan Yang pinched it with his fingertips, and walked back and forth on the gap between the bluestone slabs, "Is that all there? So fast It’s gone, it’s okay, I’ll just pick it up and dry it in the sun, it’s best not to get sick, it’s uncomfortable.”

"You picked this?" Qin Yi asked suspiciously.

"Yeah!" Ruan Yang felt the heat with his palm above, and a circle of water droplets quickly emerged from his palm. He found the right heat position, put his fingertips lightly, and the hay was drawn into the churning water, "I picked it."

Qin Yi couldn't find any soil for planting herbs in the courtyard, so he asked, "Where did you pick them?"

"I picked it from the corner of the wall. It's very hard to find. I searched for a long time before I found some. I found it and dried it in the sun, cough cough cough." Ruan Yang kept coughing, answered intermittently, and his voice was hoarse. Qin Yi found a cup-shaped one. Clean the moss on the small crock, fill a glass of water from the well, and put it in his hand.

Ruan Yang took it with both hands and drank it, thanking him between coughs.

"But it's not medicine." It's just grass.

"The nurse told me that if you are sick, you can find this to dry and boil water, and it will be fine soon. I was like this when I was a child, and I also cooked it for my baby..." Ruan Yang's face was stiff, and he stopped what he hadn't finished in time. He lowered his head and quickly changed the subject, "I'll get better soon, I get better soon every time, and this time it will be the same."

Qin Yi thought for a while and said, "My brother asked me to take care of you. When you get sick in the future, you tell me and I'll take you out to see a doctor. It's not that the herbs you dried are unusable, but the doctor prescribed them The prescription will be better, what do you think?"

Ruan Yang said happily: "Okay, then can you take me to see Brother Yan first?"

"Okay, I'll take you there." Qin Yi also expected that Ruan Yang's three words would never leave Qin Yan's temperament, so he responded gently.

"Thank you, brother! But I can't let my parents find out," Ruan Yang blinked, stuck out his tongue, added a bit of playfulness, and said with a smile, "My parents don't like me very much."

Qin Yi choked for a moment.

So he knew.

A scent of fragrance wafted from the earthen pot, and the rising mist blurred the vision in front of him. Ruan Yang on the opposite side seemed to be smudged with a layer of light ink, as moist as water, his cheeks were stained with watery pink when he coughed continuously, and his ears were pointed There is a ring of light powder on the eyelashes, and the long eyelashes are covered with small drops of water that are about to fall.

"I want to drink the medicine with a spoon, on the small platform behind, be careful..."

"I'll get it."

"Oh, I almost forgot my brother is here again." He whispered something, looked up and smiled, "Okay, thank you brother."

Ruan Yang's smile was like catkins blown by the spring breeze, unknowingly, it touched the bottom of his heart, making it unpredictable.Qin Yi smiled, found a spoon on the small stage, filled a bowl, Ruan Yang held it in his palm and blew air, the mist blown up covered his exquisite and watery eyes, and a few black hairs hanging down his cheeks were slightly blown in the breeze. Young.

"Little brother, on your ear..." Ruan Yang turned his head, Qin Yi saw the red and slightly swollen wound on his ear bone, and wanted to say that he would bring some ointment next time.Unexpectedly, Ruan Yang touched his swollen ear bones, coughed twice, impatiently took a sip of green grass water, and patiently explained: "Your brother is not married yet, I don't know. piercings on the earbones, otherwise you won't be able to wear earrings."

"Hey, let me tell you, the earrings are so heavy, I thought my ears were going to fall off."

Ruan Yang naturally didn't know that Qin Yi had seen Ruan Yang when he was taken as a concubine.

In the middle of the back room, in Meng Chen's portrait, Ruan Yangduan was sitting at the back, Qin Yan was sitting at the front, and there was still a vacant seat for his wife beside him.Ruan Yang was dressed in a vermilion wedding dress without patterns, with flying eyebrows and a smiling face, with complicated earrings on both ears, and the golden tassels on the earrings were as agile as water.

Qin Yan's hand was secretly stretched back, Ruan Yang held it with a satisfied face, and looked at the back of Qin Yan's head with a little grievance.The artist just painted this scene.After seeing Aunt Li a few days ago, when I saw this painting again, I felt different moods.

The watery eyes are not touched, but the torment after being poisoned, the pain of bereavement, and the grievance of being a concubine from the wife.

Qin Yan almost lost his life in the political party dispute back then. Qin Qi and Han Ximing heard the news and rushed from Qingcheng to Sixiang, where they tortured the prisoner Ruan Yang risked his life overnight to find out the truth.

Coincidentally, the prisoner was sent by Ruan Wuci's previous disciples. Qin Qi immediately wrote a memorial overnight and reported it to His Majesty, and His Majesty punished him for his felony.Qin Qi pushed the boat along with the current, His Majesty uprooted the remnants of Ruan Wuci's party, and the dragon chair finally sat firmly.

Han Ximing and the rest of the staff guarded Qin Yan who was seriously injured day and night. Ruan Yang, who had just had a miscarriage, seemed to have been forgotten by everyone. Except for the doctor who pressed his abdomen every day, only Aunt Yu Li stayed by.After he was poisoned, the doctor tried his best all his life, but he couldn't get rid of the residual poison.

The symptoms after poisoning were scorching hot in summer and cold in winter. It was summer at that time and no one else could touch him. When drinking water, he took a big sip, and the water seemed to be boiling immediately, which would scald his mouth, esophagus, and stomach in turn, often as if he was trapped in a fire cage and couldn't move, giving birth to some fears that God was going to burn him alive.

So no one dared to touch him.

As long as he touches him, the scorching will burn from the ground touched by that person to the head that is constantly burning.

Without the help of others, he could only sit up and move his body every day. The unhealed wound was bleeding after the miscarriage, and Aunt Li wiped the trailing blood for him.When he was leaning against the wall, a thin layer of sweat had already passed out on his body, he took the decoction that Aunt Li brought over, sipped it slowly one by one, and then changed his already soaked clothes by himself.Later, the doctor would come in and press on his stomach through a cloth wrapped in ice to push the remaining blood out of his body.

Every time I pressed on the abdomen, my body twitched endlessly, the pain was so painful that I couldn't make a sound, and I couldn't fall asleep all night.

At that time, he was in so much pain that he couldn't cry.Looking at Ruan Yang's smiling eyes at the moment, Qin Yi suddenly remembered what Aunt Li said.

Aunt Li said that the doctor did not avoid him at that time, and not long after the miscarriage, he told him that he would never be pregnant again in this life and that he would be blind in the future.After Ruan Yang found out, he grabbed Aunt Li, looked cautiously, and asked over and over again, would Brother Yan still come to see me?

Aunt Li couldn't answer.

Qin Yan had many scratches on his arms. When he woke up from a coma, he told Qin Qi that he wanted to formally marry Ruan Yang, but Qin didn't want to. At that time, His Majesty was punishing Ruan Wu to resign from the party. Qin Yan married Ruan Yang at this time. Wouldn't it be telling the world about the relationship between the Qin family and the Ruan family?But Ruan Yang was responsible for this matter after all. With Qin Qi's suggestion, Han Ximing finally came to visit Ruan Yang on the 16th day after Ruan Yang's delivery.

Before Han Ximing entered the wing room, Ruan Yang lay down beside the bed, vomited a large puddle of blood into the spittoon, picked up the prepared white handkerchief by himself, and wiped the endless vermilion dripping from his mouth, which made Han Ximing stop in his tracks. Hesitating whether to avoid the filth and go in later.

Ruan Yang had sharp eyes, saw Han Ximing who was still hesitating outside the wing room, and said softly, Qin... Mrs. Qin...

Han Ximing couldn't get off the tiger, passed by Aunt Li who was holding a spittoon, Aunt Li was short and said hello, Han Ximing put a handkerchief under her nose, hurriedly responded, stood in front of the bed, and asked, are you feeling better?

Ruan Yang nodded feebly, and said aggrievedly, um, Mrs. Qin...Yan...Brother Yan...

Thinking of his son's injury, Han Ximing's eyes turned red, and he turned his back to wipe away his tears.Ruan Yang's body was in severe pain, but he also remembered the injury on Qin Yan's arm, and said anxiously, he...was seriously injured, right?I'm going to find him...

Clinging to the edge of the bed and dragging a few steps out to get out of bed, his fingers were burning, he paused, and moved a few more steps forcefully.Han Ximing stopped his movements, covered his tears lightly, said, he woke up, and was punished by the master to kneel in the ancestral hall when he woke up, at this point, the white handkerchief covered the tears again, and his words became more choked up, said, his body Still empty, just kneeling in the ancestral hall.

Ruan Yang stroked his swollen and painful belly, bent his legs, and said weakly, then I will accompany him.

Han Ximing sat on the bed in time, held his hand, and said, do you know why he knelt in the ancestral hall?

Ruan Yang couldn't eat any food for many days in a row, and only used soup and medicine to maintain a small amount of demand. This series of actions has exhausted too much energy. Hearing her question, he shook his head lightly in a daze.

Han Ximing said, he told the master that he would marry you as his wife.

Ruan Yang clenched his fists, and it took him a long time to understand the meaning of this sentence. He said happily, really?

Han Ximing said, but the master didn't agree, so he knelt inside, unwilling to give in no matter what.He is still injured and kneeling in the ancestral hall, what should he do if he suffers from the wind and cold?

Ruan Yang's abdominal pain persisted, and he scratched his head drowsily. He seemed to have thought for a long time before he understood what it meant. He could probably guess that Han Ximing wanted to ask him to give up the marriage contract, but the marriage contract was a gift from his father.

Seeing that he was silent, Han Ximing said again, the Qin family is only a legitimate son, and marrying a regular wife in the future is to be able to spread the branches and leaves for the Qin family.

Ruan Yang whispered, Mrs. Qin, what do you mean, I... I don't want to guess.

Han Ximing sighed and said, if you don't want to let go of your marriage contract with Qin Yan, if you are willing, you can be his concubine.

Ruan Yang whispered, I don't want to.

Han Ximing thought he didn't hear clearly, so he asked, what?

Ruan Yang eased through the darkness, blinked his eyes, and said weakly, if he wants to kneel, I will kneel with him.

Han Ximing saw that he refused to accept his softness, and said, Ruan Yang, you kneel, in what capacity do you kneel with him.

Ruan Yang almost slipped on the ground, Han Ximing helped his shoulder, but couldn't get up, he felt pain, struggled and shouted a few times to break free from her arm, lying on the ground unable to move.

Han Ximing couldn't help feeling distressed when he saw him like this, and said angrily, let me tell you the truth, when you first came to my mansion, your father Fang beheaded his father and made a public display, and you came here on the cusp of the storm, you are not afraid of causing trouble to the Qin family.Your father fought for power and position, forcing the Qin family to retreat again and again. Regardless of the past, we have secretly raised you in the house for so many years, and we are not worthy of that marriage contract. Now you can't have children, so you insist on fighting for the wife The location, that is something you don't even think about, if you don't agree to dissolve the marriage contract, we will find a way to resolve it.

Seeing that his body lying on the ground was trembling, Han Ximing couldn't help but soften his voice, and said, "Now take a step back, if you break the marriage contract and accept you as a concubine, you can still be with Yan'er, if you can't, You stay in Sixiang, don't go back.

Ruan Yang pressed his painful belly, not daring to get up, sobbing, I'll think again.

Aunt Li said that after Madam left, Ruan Yang lay in the room and called Brother Yan all night. It hurt, but he didn't say where it hurt, just covered his chest.The next day, he personally signed the letter of dissolution of the marriage contract, and the master immediately ordered someone to send it to the household department. After receiving the documents from the household department, the master announced the good news to the major families.

Since that day, Ruan Yang's eyes have often been unable to see objects clearly, and he often mistook people for Qin Yan.Qin Yan was hurt to visit Ruan Yang, Ruan Yang heard his voice, endured the burning pain and held him in his arms, Qin Yan said distressedly, Yuan An, I'm sorry.

Ruan Yang's lips were pale. Seeing him, he was overjoyed and exhausted all his strength, and fell unconscious on his shoulders.Qin Yan stayed by his side until evening, when Ruan Yang woke up and blinked several times before he could see Qin Yan's appearance clearly. Ruan Yang said softly, Brother Yan, will I not be able to see you anymore.

Qin Yan leaned closer on purpose, with the tip of his nose against the tip of his nose, pampering him, and said, then Brother Yan will let Yuan An see clearly, and Brother Yan approach you so that you can see clearly.

The eye sockets that had been dry for a long time became moist in an instant, Ruan Yang said aggrievedly, Brother Yan, can you marry me while I can still see?

Qin Yan tightened his embrace, pressed his chin against his wet hair, choked up and said, yes, yes, brother Yan will go to prepare now.

Satisfied, Ruan Yang buried himself on his shoulder and fell asleep.

Half a month later, the doctor said that some toxins had been removed, and the skin symptoms were not as severe as before. Qin Yan has also prepared according to the concubine's gift, which is lower than that of a regular wife.It was also at that time that it was discovered that Ruan Yang's ear bones had not yet been pierced.

Because the main wife does not need to wear heavy earrings when she marries into the mansion, but wears a gold hat and crown. Ruan Yang always thought that she would be the main wife in the future, so there is no piercing on the smooth ear bones.

Aunt Li personally pierced three temporary holes in his ear bones.The slender silver needle pierces through the cartilage and repeats the same action at the same position. Every time the needle penetrates the cartilage, the thin needle is like a matchstick with flames. The joy of being accepted as a concubine can't be quenched by the dripping water.

At least I can get together with Brother Yan in a legitimate way, my father's gift is not lost, it is still there.Aunt Li listened to Ruan Yang comforting herself like this.

Ruan Yang finished dressing and sat in front of the mirror. The scarlet wedding dress was prepared by Brother Yan. The candlelight reflected his blood loss and paleness. Aunt Li put heavy earrings on him. nice.

He smiled, and when he shook his head slightly, the golden tassels swayed, and the water in his eyes swayed accordingly. Aunt Li laughed at his mischievous appearance, she smacked his mouth red, and said, your face is blue, Aunt Li put some red on your lips.

Ruan Yang smiled, thank you Aunt Li.

There is a small sedan chair outside the gate of the mansion, and there is a red hydrangea on the door of the small sedan chair. Ruan Yang smiled, and got into the narrow sedan chair.

The watchman knocked on the clapper to remind him that it was the third watch, there were no lights everywhere, and everything was silent. The bearer walked around the Qin mansion quietly, and when he got off the sedan chair, Aunt Li led him to turn around Qiwai. On the twisty road, Qin Yan was already waiting for him at the courtyard gate with a smile on his face.

Light half a dragon and phoenix candle, and the candlelight sways in the breeze.The two of them did not pray to heaven and earth, nor to the high hall, but they worshiped each other in the flickering candlelight. In this way, the concubine ceremony was completed, and Ruan Yang officially abandoned the gift from his father and committed himself to be a concubine.

That night, Qin Yan made an appointment with a well-known painter in Qingcheng to paint this lively and vivid portrait, and then the two signed their names at the signing place, clasped their hands, looked at each other with a smile, and hung it in the center.

"Brother, brother, are you still there?" Ruan Yang breathed out, finished drinking a bowl of soup, and muttered to himself, "Is he gone? My brother makes no sound when he walks, and I can't even hear you. You should go sooner." Go back, go back early, so you won’t get lost. If you can’t find your way, you will get lost. Is it dark? When it’s dark, you need to sleep.”

"I didn't leave," Qin Yi came back to his senses when he heard Ruan Yang talking to himself, and smiled, "Did you forget? I'm going to take you to see Big Brother."

"Really?!" Ruan Yang immediately put down the bowl, ignoring the burning pain, and held Qin Yi's wrist tightly, "Then let's go quickly."

"Well, don't worry, I will definitely take you out." Qin Yi smiled, grabbed the oilcloth bag connected by the rope, shook it in front of him, and said with a smile, "Well, my brother brought braised pork today. Do you want to eat some?"

Ruan Yang's eyes lit up, his tongue smelled like meat, and he said eagerly, "Yes!"

"Okay, my brother won't rob you." Qin Yi looked at him with a smile, "It's all yours."