The nine princesses of the East Palace

When Shi En went out, Li Chengyin and I were left in the hall, I stood still, Li Chengyin quickly shouted: "It hurts to death, come quickly and rub the medicine on me."

"You deserve it, the imperial doctor told you not to touch the water." I didn't sympathize with him at all, he was just messing around.

When I walked over, he wrinkled his face and said, "Let me lie here covered in blood and dirty for several days? I was smoked to death before dying of pain."

I said, "You don't need to soak it in the water. Just wipe it off and it will be fine? If you mess around like this, you will suffer if there is a problem."

"Don't be crowed, I'm going to die of pain." He started to cry again, but he didn't utter a word when he just took a bath.

I handed him the medicine and said, "You wipe your face and hands yourself, and call me if you can't wipe it off."

"I can't wipe it off." He said immediately.He gave me the ointment again.

"You didn't move, how do you know you can't wipe it off?" I was not so easy to fool, and handed him the ointment again.

He opened his black eyes and looked at me: "My hand hurts so much that I can't move it. Naturally, I can't wipe it off."

"Who are you lying to? Didn't you wipe the pigs on yourself just now?" Besides, he almost broke my hand before, why is it so painful that I can't move?

Li Chengyin opened his mouth and said: "It's just that it's too much effort for me to wipe the pigs, I can't do it right now."

"Then lie on your back and don't move around." I let go.

"I promise not to move around." He said, and after he finished speaking, he took off his pajamas and lay down obediently on the couch, revealing his red and swollen back full of scars.

I had just glanced briefly at his wounds at first, but now that I look closely, they are far more serious than I imagined. There are not only whip wounds but also other wounds.I was at a loss as to what to do.

"What's the matter? I'm hurting and cold, you have to hurry up." Li Cheng Yin tilted his head to look at me, "Why are your eyes red? I'm fine, so don't cry."

I looked away: "Who is crying? I'm sleepy, my eyes hurt from sleepiness."

It took him a long time to say: "Then you wipe it quickly, and lie down after wiping."

"I don't want to lie down with you!"

He said, "You can lie on the ground if you want."

I pinched his relatively lightly injured wrist directly, and he yelled and looked at me wrongedly: "It hurts, it hurts to death."

"I didn't use any strength, why are you hurting?" I snorted.

His face turned red, and he immediately yelled at me: "My body hurts, please apply medicine to me."

I opened the ointment and applied it to him little by little. He flinched at first, but there was no movement behind him, as if he had fallen asleep.I knew he was not asleep, the ointment was applied to his body, and there was a tingling sensation at first, so it was impossible for him to fall asleep.

"Your Majesty can beat you like this with a whip, isn't he exhausted?"

Li Cheng Yin sneered: "Maybe, he was tired from beating himself, and asked someone to give me a full twenty sticks."

It turned out to be a cane punishment. I heard that the cane punishment in the Central Plains is to be beaten shirtless, but it can be light or severe. The severe one can kill people, but the light ones can leave them intact. He has been in a coma for so long, and the cane punishment he received is quite severe. of.

I said: "You should confess your mistake to His Majesty, so that he will not beat you. I did this when I was a child. Whenever my father wanted to punish me, I would give in and show weakness. He quickly calmed down. Punish me again."

Li Chengyin disagrees: "You think too simply. If I admit my mistake, it means that I have done something wrong, and I have to make up for it. My father may assign me some difficult task. Maybe I will leave Shangjing , I won’t be able to come back for a year or so, how can I marry you?”

"Why can you involve me in everything?" The things that were originally irrelevant, but he said it like this, have something to do with me again.

He said lightly, "Because I only have you."

There was a pause in the movement of my hand, his voice was very small, almost inaudible, but I stood close, but I heard it clearly.

I don't understand why he said that, it sounds very sad, obviously he still has the emperor and empress, the empress dowager, Yongning Luoxi, his eldest brother Li Chengji and other relatives, as well as capable subordinates like Pei Zhao.

I pretended not to hear, and just said: "The back is wiped, give me your hand."

He stretched out his hand, and I quickly helped him apply the ointment, wrapped him in his pajamas, and tied his belt, so as to save him from making trouble later.

He pointed to his face and said: "My face hasn't been wiped yet, don't forget it, or it will be disfigured."

I was amused by his appearance, "You are out of shape now."

He seemed to be very concerned about his face, so he didn't complain that his hands were hurting. He took the ointment from my hand and rubbed it on his face.He didn't have a bronze mirror in his hand, and he couldn't see it. Some places were rubbed thickly, and some places were not wiped at all.

I said with some disgust: "Let me do it, you wiped all over your face, it's so ugly."

Hearing what I said, he quickly stopped moving, moved his face closer, and waited for me to wipe it off for him.I reached out and stroked his face gently, and he opened his eyes, looking at me without blinking.

I was a little embarrassed by his look, so I pushed his face away angrily, and he stretched it out again, "It hasn't been wiped evenly yet, please wipe it off more."

"You can't see it, so how do you know if it's even? I said it will be even if it's even. Don't try to deceive me." I pushed his face aside again.

His mouth moved and he didn't speak for a while.

It's already dark outside, and I don't know what's going on in Yufu Palace. Seeing that I haven't returned to the palace, Fang Shangyi will talk about me again.

Li Chengyin suddenly said at this time: "It's time for dinner, what do you want to eat? I asked Shi En to arrange it for you."

I didn't have any appetite right now, so I said, "I don't want to eat, I have to go back."

"No, you have to eat with me first."

"Why should I have dinner with you?" I asked.

He thought for a while and said, "My hands hurt, I can't use my strength, I can't hold chopsticks, and I can't eat."

"Shien will find a way for you." I said.

"He's very stupid, what can he do?" Li Chengyin said, "It's been a while, when you get back to Yufu Palace, it's past dinner time, why don't you eat something here, in case you You are so hungry that you can’t walk halfway, but no one will carry you back.”

"You can't move."

"I can't walk." Li Chengyin said, "I'll just live here, it doesn't matter if I can't walk, or you don't want to leave, just stay here tonight?"

I shook my head: "I don't want to stop, otherwise, Yong Niang will definitely be nagging me to death tomorrow."

Li Chengyin thought for a while, and said: "If you don't stay, don't stay here. You eat here first, and I will send someone to take you back later."

When I thought about it, it seemed that I didn't know the way back to Yufu Palace. It was night, and I didn't know how to get there. I'd better wait for him to ask someone to take me off, otherwise I might not be able to find my way until tomorrow.

"Then you are not allowed to go back on your word later. Be sure to send me back." I said.

"Understood." Li Chengyin said, "Now can you tell me what you want to eat?"

I thought for a while and said, "I want to eat mandarin duck, lamb chops, and big crabs. Do you have them here?"

"Of course there is." Li Chengyin called Shi En, "Dinner includes broiled mandarin ducks, grilled lamb chops, and a steamed crab. Ninth Princess likes to eat it."