Thin Mei·Love Fragrance Quilt

Chapter 183

He was trembling all over and couldn't stop.

When the front boat was approaching the lotus, the water suddenly broke.

There was a "crash", although it was far away, it was heard clearly.

A figure floated up on the surface of the water, broke through the remnants of lotus and leaves, and swam towards the boat quickly.

Tang Tianxiao stood up abruptly and ran to the water's edge again.

Under the moonlit night, I couldn't see who that person was, but judging from the swimming posture, it didn't look like a woman.

At this time, someone from Xiaozhou was already shouting to the shore: "I found it, I found it! Guard Zhuo found Concubine Shu!"

Zhuo Rui!

When everyone's attention was on Tang Tianxiao, and even the last boat had returned, no one expected that there would be Zhuo Rui staying in the lotus patch, persistently chasing Ke Qianmei's whereabouts!

Tang Tianxiao's voice was straight, and he faintly watched the thin body being sent to the boat, and said in a low voice: "When I came here, there seemed to be no boat on this shore."

The palace man replied: "Guard Zhuo ordered to paddle quietly from the other side. When we arrived, we saw something happened on the emperor's side."

"Zhuo Rui..."

He murmured and repeated Zhuo Rui's name, he didn't know whether it was hatred or anger, his eyes were only condensed on the small boat carrying Ke Qianmei.

The small boat was paddling quickly towards the shore, and it could be seen that the people on board were trying to save her.

Finally, the small boat rushed to the shore, and Zhuo Rui, who was soaked all over, picked up the woman who seemed to be frozen from the boat, and quickly stepped ashore. No, just said a word without thinking.

He said: "She entangled herself in the lotus root...with a whip."

Suddenly, Tang Tianxiao's eyes were like a whip, and he lashed towards him coldly.

But he didn't realize it, he hugged the woman in his arms tightly, and rushed into the pavilion with a face full of panic.

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Several experienced old maids had been invited from a nearby palace, and they were rushing to help rescue them at this time, but they brought a large bench over, covered it with soft pillows, and then folded quilts. The gray-faced and dripping woman took off her coat, wrapped it in a clean thin blanket, placed it horizontally on the quilt, and then hung one of the stool legs in the air, shaking it slowly, trying to control the water; Zhuo Rui didn't give up either. , knelt beside her and anxiously checked the movement.

But Qian Mei just lay on it quietly, letting others manipulate her, without moving.

After a while, the imperial doctor came over, and after only feeling the pulse, he turned pale and replied: "This... Concubine Shu has no pulse!"

Xiang'er and the others were already sobbing while standing aside; while the old palace maid was wiping her sweat, she gradually backed away, only dared to say in a very low voice: "It's useless...it's useless... ..."

Tang Tianxiao was numb, stood up reluctantly, took a step forward, swayed his body, and sat down on the cold ground, looking at the woman lying on her back stiffly on the ground, he didn't even have the courage to stretch out his fingers to touch her .

Zhuo Rui still knelt beside Ke Qianmei and stared blankly, then turned around and saluted Tang Tianxiao: "Your Majesty, I have learned first aid methods from overseas famous doctors, but I'm afraid it would be disrespectful to offend Concubine Shu." crime."

Tang Tianxiao seemed to be numb even the tip of his tongue, unable to speak for a long time, he just nodded slightly.

Zhuo Rui leaned down from the side, lifted her chin, pinched her nose, took a deep breath, and then... slowly blew into her lips...

Tang Tianxiao's eyes suddenly became sharp, and they swept across Zhuo Rui's face coldly.

Zhuo Rui didn't care to raise his head anymore, let go of her nose, but pressed his hands to her chest, waited for her chest to stabilize, then pinched her nose again and blew air towards her lips.

After repeating this dozens of times, Tang Tianxiao couldn't bear it any longer, and finally shouted hoarsely: "Enough...enough!"

Zhuo Rui sat down on the ground slumped, looking at the still silent woman, he slowly clenched his fists, and there was a low choking sound in his breath.

Tang Tianxiao finally walked over, approached the woman who had been hugging her tenderly for a moment, and gently hugged her.

The thin blanket slid off, revealing the clearly protruding collarbone due to thinness, and the bright red birthmarks were impressively visible.

It is said that if there is an afterlife, such moles will grow in the same place, as a mark of the old person's reunion.

Could it be that we really have to wait for the afterlife?
She was so light, and her wet black hair was so cold in his hands.

But her body was still soft, so soft that she stretched her hands and feet lazily like a cat at any time, then smiled mischievously, hooked his neck and kissed him.

Her smile is always bright, like a rose in the warm sunshine.

The tears that were full of tears could no longer be stopped, and rolled down drop by drop, falling on the pale face with all the rouge faded.

And she seemed to be scalded by the tears, her pale pale lips moved slightly, and a teardrop slowly dripped from the corner of her eyes.

Tang Tianxiao couldn't believe it, and his trembling fingertips slowly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

A slight warmth is slowly spreading from the fingertips.

He suddenly shouted: "Qianmei!"

I couldn't tell whether it was the ecstasy of getting a treasure, or the heart-wrenching sadness.

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The two were hurriedly sent back to Yiqing Palace.

Tang Tianxiao just fell into the water and was frightened. After changing his clothes, drinking the decoction to dispel the cold, and resting for a while, he almost recovered.

But even though Qian Mei woke up, her vitality was seriously injured.

The stove was already lit in the room, and the gradually warming body was shivering under the quilt because it could not adapt to the sudden warmth.

Tang Tianxiao looked at the servants in the palace.

Xiang'er hurriedly stepped forward and whispered back: "I have changed my clothes, but I couldn't drink the boiled medicine and vomited it all up. Also... my throat seems to be choking, so I haven't said a word until now."

No matter how much you choke on the water, you won't become dumb from choking.Not speaking and unwilling to speak are two different things.

Tang Tianxiao walked over and pulled back the quilt covering her head, revealing that familiar face.

Like the wind passing by, the cold rain penetrated, and the eyes were full of desolation and desolation.

Suddenly being hit by the light in the room, her eyelashes trembled and slowly opened.

The black pupils turned, and the deep and deep gaze slid across his face, a slight brilliance flashed past, and soon fell silent.

Tang Tianxiao stared at her and said in a low voice, "Tell me the reason."

But Qianmei didn't answer, she just rolled her eyes weakly, her expression extremely tired.

Tang Tianxiao's voice became softer: "You naturally understand how I treat you. If there is something wrong with me, you should tell me anyway. We are a husband and wife, and we are loving and harmonious with each other. Even if I die, I need to be a sensible ghost, right?"

But Qian Mei coughed hoarsely twice, and finally spoke, like tearing apart soaked rice paper, blunt, dull and depressing.

She said: "Both Li Mingyuan and Kanati once told me that I am from Southern Chu, and my parents and relatives died tragically at your hands. You also ordered the slaughter of that city. I don't believe it. You are protecting yourself and keeping Da Zhou Jiangshan may use all means, but it will never kill innocent people indiscriminately."

Thinking of Ke Qianmei's change of attitude towards him before and after her private escape, Tang Tianxiao's palms turned cold, and he immediately said: "Since you know me well, you won't believe their words, let alone be used by them repeatedly."

But Qian Mei smiled lightly, but it seemed more uncomfortable than crying.

She sighed: "I don't believe it. I don't want to believe it either. I often have such nightmares. I just hope that those nightmares will always be just dreams, and I will never think about them."

She stared blankly at the bat and pomegranate embroidery pattern that had been replaced on the ceiling of the tent, and said with a bleak smile: "But you insisted on forcing me to remember, forcing me to remember... I am not the princess of Kezhubu , I am the daughter of Zhang Youchong, the garrison of Jinzhou in Southern Chu. There is no food and grass in Jinzhou, and there is no reinforcements outside. After eight months of hard work, His Majesty the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty came personally, and finally broke through the city and ordered the massacre of the city for three days..."

"Zhang...Zhang Youchong?"

Tang Tianxiao's complexion that had just recovered suddenly faded away, and even his body took a step back, staring at Ke Qianmei in disbelief.

"you remember?"

But Qianmei was short of breath, and her dark eyes suddenly turned red, as if the dense flames from hell were burning, scorching her heart and biting her bones.

Tang Tianxiao stood by the bed, the bright apricot-yellow brocade clothes made his face even whiter, his phoenix eyes were clouded with mist, and every word seemed cold: "You... are Zhang Youchong's daughter?"

Seeing his expression, Qian Mei became more and more discouraged, but she smiled and said: "Yes, you should remember! Massacre the city for three days... You should only have issued such an imperial decree once, right? My father's head was cut off by you." , hung on the top of the city and dried into black skeletons; my uncles were also killed, and their heads were lined up behind my father's head..."

"I was so scared, I felt like I was having a nightmare from which I couldn't wake up... I went back to find my mother and sister who had fled the city, only to find... a large group of big men were ruining them, such a waste... To death! My mother is the most beautiful woman in the city of Jinju, and my elder sister is only thirteen or fourteen years old. She is clean and intelligent, like a little fairy... I want to save them, we just want to guard our home! Men's What does war have to do with us? We have already agreed that the whole family will celebrate the New Year together and watch my Yu Linglong bloom in the sun... But the flowers haven't bloomed yet..."

But Qianmei's tears finally fell, one by one, but they couldn't reflect the appearance of Yulinglong flowers blooming in her imagination.

"I chopped down those Zhou people like crazy, one after another, but these beasts were still very happy... They found out that I was a girl, although I was a little younger... My mother is really crazy, she wants to drive me away. I'm leaving, she doesn't want me to save her... She stabbed the knife in her stomach... But I just want to watch the flowers bloom as a family... I don't want to be alone, it's dark and cold, there's fire everywhere, Men like jackals grabbed me, neither let me die nor let me live. I cried and called my parents, but they couldn't hear them. Their bodies were trampled underfoot like dogs and turned into flesh Cake...their hearts were crushed into meat paste...I cried and called to God, but God couldn't hear..."

She stared at Tang Tianxiao trembling all over, her dark eyes were strangely red and bright by the cold flames from hell, "If God could hear... I should die then... Why am I still alive?" Why should I still be alive? I am ashamed to be alive! I am alive to give myself to the enemy for pleasure and enjoyment, and even dream about my enemy and do stupid things that are ungrateful and inferior to pigs and dogs! Why am I still alive!"

She covered her face with the quilt, pointed her slender snow-white fingers into the loose hair, and pulled it vigorously, "I've become a joke... Tang Tianxiao, I hate you! Damn you! Damn it! Die a thousand times, die ten thousand times! There are countless innocent souls in Jinzhou City, waiting underground to pull your tendons and peel your skin!"

She was shaking like chaff, and the cursing she sobbed was vague, and the low and hoarse ending dragged the gloom and despair approaching the abyss.

Tang Tianxiao violently dragged away the quilt covering her head, like peeling off the hard shell that a snail used to hide in the end, forcing it to expose all its softness and helplessness to the light.

She was trying to curl her body tightly into a small ball, her arms covered most of her cheeks, but she didn't block the wetness of her face.A lot of hair was picked up by her, and it was scattered on the pillow in black crows.

But around her neck, there was still that pouch, with the dampness of the lake.

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