Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 721 The Golden Bell Broken

The servants all retreated, and the room returned to silence.

A solitary lamp on the table was emitting a faint light. Zhao Xiwei folded his arms and sat silently facing the lamp.

"Pa la" the lantern suddenly exploded, very light and short, but it made her temples throb.

Even having nightmares, she is still cuddling with him...

If it goes on like this, when will it be completely forgotten?

Zhao Xiwei stared blankly at the lanterns, the scenes in her dream were vivid in her mind, his hug and kiss, so real and so cold, lingering in her mind.

He stroked his side face with his fingers, and the pain seemed to still be on the skin.

She smiled silently, with a hint of mockery on her lips.

In the dream, she was at a loss, only clutching at the hem of his clothes, begging him to find out the truth.

But when she woke up, she recognized a fact: no matter what, it was true that Shen Yuqing made the queen take the medicine that would kill her. As for whether it was misused or intentional, who can say for sure?
Everyone knew that the relationship between Shen Yuqing and the queen broke down, and after a private banquet, the queen unexpectedly fell ill.

Both of them have the same illness, and both have the same taboo.

To say she didn't do it, you have to come up with favorable evidence.

It is easy to prove a person guilty, but extremely difficult to prove a person innocent.

If it can't be proved in the end, she, the Zhao family, and even all the palace people, officials, and common people related to this incident will be involved in the uproar.

Such consequences are the last thing she wants to see...

If sacrificing her alone, everyone can live in peace, even if they break up with him in the future, what's the point?

Originally, her plan was to leave him as well.

She curled up her calves, stretched her palms towards her ankles again, and landed on the string of golden bells.

"Ding..." The crisp sound sounded again.

She retracted her fingertips suddenly, and the golden bell fell with a "click".

The little bell that he had expected for a lifetime was torn off just like that.

In the dream, he said: "Hate is only hate, I actually thought about it, I want to be a couple with you for the rest of my life."

A couple for a lifetime, after all, it's just a phantom that can be broken with a poke.

She was sitting under the quilt, holding half of a gold chain in her hand, looking at the bells and precious stones scattered and falling on the bed, her heart was pulled away from the panic in the dream, and slowly returned to calmness.

So be it!

That's how it ends, for everyone's benefit.

Enmity ends here, love and hate end here, and entanglement ends here.

The dream was too real, her body was still cold, and the warm embrace in the dream had nothing to do with her anymore!

No longer possible.

She hugged herself tightly with her arms, and pulled the quilt to wrap her body tightly, but she still felt cold.

Her body was already weak, and she was tired all day these days. Under exhaustion, she felt shaky even when she was sitting.

A burst of dizziness rushed straight to the top of his head, and his eyes were inexplicably black.

"Miss!"

The bead curtains rattled, and someone swooped in, stretching out a pair of arms.

"Miss, wake up! Wake up!!" The repeated calls made her have a splitting headache. She struggled to open her eyelids, and saw several maidservants surrounding her, with anxiety written all over their faces. .

"Doctor! Go get the doctor! Go get Doctor Liu!" someone hurriedly ordered.

"Miss, wake up! Wake up, don't sleep... open your eyes quickly..." Someone was crying.

"I'm fine..." She opened her mouth, and only spit out these three words weakly, but she felt her brain "buzzing" loudly, and a flash of gold star flashed in front of her eyes. When she was about to fall into darkness, she suddenly smiled: "It's all over..."

"What?" The maids were puzzled, "What's over?"

Shaking her head, she couldn't let go of her palm, and the half of the broken gold chain fell down.

"Miss!" The servant girl yelled.

……

The room was soon filled with people, serving tea, pouring water, asking questions, crying, all in a mess.

The disease came suddenly and fiercely, with fever, cough, and vomiting, all the symptoms that should be present.

Zhao Xiwei lay in bed in a daze for several days, and when he woke up again, March was drawing to a close.

Qingming Festival in April and Dragon Boat Festival in May.

While the mansion is busy preparing to worship the ancestors, it is also busy preparing to pray for blessings.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to be busy preparing to welcome the third master Zhao Zijing who has won the battle and is about to triumph.

The day when the army's squadron returned to the court was set on the tenth day of April.

Zhao Xiwei was very calm about this. She used the excuse of recovering from illness to have the whole garden sealed off, leaving only a small door for daily access, and she almost lived a life isolated from the world.

After taking the medicine that day, she felt a little refreshed. She leaned on the soft pillow and listened to the servant girl report all the affairs of the mansion in the past few days.

The first thing is that Xu Yunjiao is about to give birth.

Jinxiu said: "The old madam asked the Taoist to do the calculations, and the old Taoist also said that this child must be a young son. The old madam is very happy, this is the grandson of the eldest son."

Zhao Xiwei closed the account book, dropped the desk, and asked: "Then you are going to prepare a banquet?" Frowning, he thought, and said, "Now I am sick, and the second room is not convenient, why don't I leave it to the third lady to take care of it?" good."

"I think so too." Jinxiu nodded, "Doctor Liu said that your body is weak and needs to be recuperated slowly. It is best to lie down for a month." He asked again, "But as the eldest daughter of the house, you are You also have the right to be in charge of the house, so it's not good if you don't care about anything. Right now, all the ladies and ladies in the mansion are preparing gifts, and according to the wishes of the servants, you should also prepare the same..."

Regarding Xu Yunjiao's matter, Zhao Xiwei didn't want to interfere, so he said casually: "Look, if there is anything suitable, just pick an auspicious day and send it there."

Jin Xiu smiled and said: "That's all right, the servant made a small set of clothes a while ago, the sewing materials are all very good, and it's decent to take it out..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Xiwei shook his head and denied it: "No."

"Ah?" Jinxiu was taken aback for a moment: "Miss, do you think it's wrong?"

"Yeah." Zhao Xi touched her belly slightly. She has never been very concerned about needlework, and she is not very good at making delicate clothes. Since Jinxiu has already made it secretly, this thing should naturally be done. Save it for her children.

Of course, this is not the main reason, the most important thing is——

"She has always regarded me as a thorn in the flesh, and she can't wait to get it out quickly. If you send me a set of close-fitting clothes at this time, she will really accept this kindness? If someone else uses this clothes to do something, it's a child. The things you are wearing will be different at that time, and you and I will not be able to tell when we are covered in mouths." Zhao Xi slightly nodded her forehead, "You are so careful, but you can't even see through this point. !"

Jinxiu let out an "ouch", rubbed her forehead and laughed: "Miss, you have taught me a lesson, it's the slave who is not thinking carefully... Then Miss Yi, what should I give?"

(End of this chapter)