slave like jade

180 The Last Night

Waking up in the darkness where she couldn't see her fingers, Yu Ruyan opened her eyes and looked in front of her for a long time. She forgot the cruel fact that her eyes had been stabbed blind by Mu Lingzhi himself. The pain brought her memory back...

Recalling everything that happened on the execution platform, Yu Ruyan's whole body was icy cold, thinking of Mu Lingzhi's icy sword, her heart was sore with grief, her eyes felt hot, and in the next second, something cold fell from the corner of her eyes...

This sudden feeling was so strange that she was stunned!

His hands touched his cheeks hesitantly, and after touching the cool wetness, his hands froze...

The next moment, she couldn't believe it and took her wet hand to her mouth and licked it lightly. It wasn't until the slightly salty taste came from the tip of her tongue that she realized that her eyes would shed tears after being blind. !
I couldn't help laughing sarcastically in my heart, she really was a 'blessing in disguise'.

Once upon a time, she envied other people to shed tears, because she often heard people say that women are made of water.Therefore, when a woman has grievances in her heart and sheds tears, the appearance of pear blossoms with rain is very heartbreaking and affectionate.

Just like when she was a child, she obviously didn't break her father's favorite luminous cup, but when she was called in front of her father, as long as the eyes of Yu Mingzhu who broke the cup turned red and shed tears, her father would never pursue it again. The truth of the matter is that she was the one who broke the cup, and she was the one who was punished in the end...

Since then, she has been thinking that it would be great if her eyes could cry and shed tears like Yu Mingzhu. In this way, the father might love her more and not add so much to her. Innocent charges, let alone hate her so much...

Her previous wish came true, but she suddenly felt that she who would cry would only become more cowardly and annoying!
Vigorously wiped away the tears on her face, she used to look forward to the feeling that her eyes would shed tears, but now she felt an inexplicable disgust in her heart——

Her life has come to the end of misery, all the tears in her heart have been shed, and she doesn't want to cry anymore...

The heart is dead, the tears are dry...

The next moment, there was a 'squeak' sound of the door opening, and then there were footsteps coming towards her. She tensed up, and suddenly thought, where is she now?
Her hand was suddenly held by someone, her whole body trembled, she couldn't help but struggle, a familiar voice rang in her ears, it was Chunhua, she called out in surprise: "Doctor Wu, master wakes up, come and help her see Look!"

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan's heart froze, did he actually bring herself back to the other garden?

Thinking of the cruel words that Mu Lingzhi said to her while stabbing her eyes, her heart felt cold——

He already believed that she had betrayed him and remarried Xiaodao to be the princess, and he even believed that he was the murderer who killed his mother's queen, and then brutally blinded her eyes. Why?Why are you still bringing her back?

Yu Ruyan's eyes were pitch black, and her heart was filled with grief, her eyes became hot, and warm liquid rolled down from the corners of her eyes...

She had just warned herself not to be weak and not to shed tears easily, but when she thought of Mu Lingzhi and the matter of the execution platform, she still couldn't control the grief in her heart...

"The princess's eyes have just been bandaged, so don't be too sad. Before the eyes are completely healed, the princess must not shed too many tears. This...is not good for the eyes..."

Doctor Wu's voice sounded, and Yu Ruyan was slightly taken aback when she heard his words. The next second, she opened her invisible eyes wide and stared at the direction where Doctor Wu's voice came from. After a moment of hesitation, she finally hoarse Asked: "Dare to ask the doctor, my eyes...can my eyes recover?"

She hadn't heard Dr. Wu's voice for a long time, she understood something in her heart, she couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said: "I made things difficult for the doctor, since I'm already blind, how can I ever see again!"

A heavy sigh sounded next to his ear, and Dr. Wu's tone was filled with deep guilt, and he said helplessly, "Please forgive my sin, my concubine, it's because I'm not good at medicine, I can't let her see the light again..."

"Don't call me Wangfei anymore!" Yu Ruyan smiled bleakly, and said slowly: "I have no relationship with the Third Highness, I really can't bear the role of Wangfei."

Outside the threshold, a lonely figure stood there quietly, trying to lift his foot to enter the house several times, but finally stopped timidly.

Chunhua came outside the house, saluted him and happily said: "Your Highness, the master is awake, please go in and have a look."

Mu Lingzhi's expression was full of pain, he rolled his throat with difficulty, and said in a lonely voice: "You take good care of her. If she asks me, just say...just say that I am in mourning in the palace..."

After all, he dragged his heavy steps and left slowly...

Sure enough, after Dr. Wu left, Yu Ruyan asked Chunhua and Qiuyue if Mu Lingzhi was in the other garden, and she wanted to see him!
Chunhua told her according to Mu Lingzhi's instructions, Yu Ruyan's heart sank, and the next moment, she sat up and groped to get out of bed.

Seeing this, Chunhua and Qiuyue were startled, and quickly asked: "What's wrong, master? But what's wrong?"

"I want to leave here!" Yu Ruyan sat on the edge of the bed, she couldn't see where the two maidservants were, but she just said to them according to the direction of the voice: "I'm blind now, and I really can't leave people by my side for a while. , if you are willing to continue to follow me, you can go with me, I am grateful. If you don’t want to, I will never force you, just ask you to send me out of the house, and just call me a carriage!"

After all, he stood up firmly, and based on the memory of the room before, he groped and walked out.

Chunhua and Qiuyue were stunned when they heard the words, Yu Ruyan became what she is now, they are heartbroken and willing to leave her, but...

Chunhua quietly winked at Qiuyue, telling her to ask Mu Lingzhi for instructions, and at the same time hurriedly stepped forward to support Yu Ruyan, for fear that she would be hit by tables, chairs, doors and windows.

Helping her to sit down at the table, Chunhua persuaded her earnestly: "Master, this servant and Qiuyue will be by your side to serve you all their lives, but now your eyes are not healed, and the fever on your body has just subsided. , the body is very weak, and now, the wind and snow outside are really heavy, it is getting dark, and the master has no relatives in Daliang, why don't you stay and take care of yourself before leaving!"

Hearing Chunhua's anxious words, Yu Ruyan said slowly: "Did the Third Highness issue an order not to let me leave the other garden?"

Chunhua didn't know how to answer her for a moment, so she could only say: "His Royal Highness has been in the palace for mourning since he sent the master back, and is not in the mansion now. His Highness just told the servants to take good care of the master, and the rest... The other servants really don’t know either.”

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan smiled lightly, and said coldly: "Since there was no order to imprison me, I must still be free."

After finishing speaking, he stood up again, with a firm tone, and said to Chunhua without hesitation: "Let's go!"

Chunhua had been waiting for Qiuyue to invite Mu Lingzhi to come over, so she deliberately delayed the time and said, "Master, wait a moment, please allow this servant to pack up and leave!"

"No need!" Although she couldn't see the expression on her face, Yu Ruyan still understood what was going on in her heart, she smiled bitterly and said, "I know you are doing it for my own good, and I also know that Qiuyue went to invite His Highness the Third Highness. He may be in the other garden right now. But don't worry, I have my own place to go, and everything in this other garden is not mine in the first place, so I don't need to clean it up. Just go!"

After finishing speaking, he lifted his feet and walked out, but at the next moment, he bumped into the person's arms and heard a muffled groan.

Shocked, Yu Ruyan backed away quickly. She thought that the person she hit was Mu Lingzhi, but unexpectedly, when the voice rang out, it was the sound of a knife. He worriedly said, "Sister, your eyes...you have to go where?"

After that, he hurriedly stepped forward to help her sit down by the table again.

Yu Ruyan didn't expect Xiao Dao to be the person who came in. She thought, Xiao Dao had been under house arrest by King Liang in the East Palace. She was afraid that King Liang would be even more angry with him after the incident of robbing the dharma field. He goes out of the palace casually! ?
Thinking of what happened on the execution ground before, she suddenly thought that Xiao Dao had suffered many injuries, and she couldn't help but think of his muffled groan just now, she must have bumped into his wound.

Although she was worried about the injuries on his body, she thought that he can still walk on his own now, and the wounds on his body must not be fatal. Moreover, she really didn't want to mention the incident of the execution ground that day, so she just said indifferently: "You are not in the palace. In mourning, why are you here?"

"I heard that my sister was in a coma for two days. I was worried, and the day after tomorrow...so I went out of the palace to take a look. Now that my sister has woken up, I feel relieved."

Although he rested for two days, Xiaodao lost too much blood two days ago, his face was pale, and his voice was a little weak.

Thinking of the three-day agreement that Mu Lingzhi promised his father, after tomorrow, his sister would be taken to the execution ground and beheaded again, he felt so sad and helpless that he panicked.

The light in the room was gradually dimming.In the dim light, Xiaodao didn't feel that Yu Ruyan's eyes were any different from before, so she always thought that her eyes were the same as before, and her eyes were good, but after Chunhua lit the lights in the room, she was in the bright eyes. Under the illumination of the lights, when he saw clearly that Yu Ruyan's brightest eyes were empty and dead, and there was no light, his whole body shook violently, his heart ached until he suffocated!

In Xiaodao's eyes, Yu Ruyan's eyes are the most beautiful and touching in the world, and they are also the eyes that make him feel warm the most.

I still remember the first time I saw her, he was like a hedgehog with sharp thorns all over his body, full of deep hostility towards those who approached him, unwilling to trust anyone, and would not let anyone approach him - only her !

With just one glance, Xiao Dao, who was full of hatred and always on guard, was attracted by her pair of water eyes that were as clear as spring water and as bright and warm as the sun.Her eyes were gentle and full of kindness, so that he put away his whole body's defenses without realizing it, and couldn't help calling her 'sister', and he was never willing to leave her...

He gritted his teeth and raised his gauze-wrapped right hand, hesitating for a moment in mid-air, Xiaodao finally couldn't help touching her eyes with heartache, and said in a choked voice: "Sister, do you hurt...don't hate Brother Huang, everything ...Everything is my fault, if it weren't for my selfishness and recklessness, the matter would not have happened to this place, and Brother Huang would not have suffered... and I would not blind your eyes, if my sister's eyes were healed It’s not good, just gouged out my eyes and apologized to my sister..."

Seeing her pitiful blindness, Xiaodao's heart ached like a twist.But Yu Ruyan smiled slightly when she heard what he said, and wanted to tell him with her own smile that she didn't blame him.

She obviously wanted to comfort Xiaodao not to be sad for herself, but now there was an indelible bitterness in her calm smile, which made Xiaodao feel even more uncomfortable.

She opened her big empty eyes blankly and couldn't see where the knife was, so she could only say in the direction of his voice: "Silly boy, sister doesn't hate anyone, and I don't blame anyone. All of this is just my fate." That's all..."

"...From the moment I put on my wedding dress and was used by my father as a peace pawn, and from the moment the Third Highness shot an arrow at my sedan chair, I should have understood that people like me cannot be happy... never get..."

"...everything is just my wish..."

The tears were about to burst again, but she gritted her teeth to hold back.

Since her world changed from colorful to endless night, she began to deliberately forget all the memories of colors in her mind. The most obsessed smile, she will not feel her heart hurt so much, she can grit her teeth and live...

"Knife."

She suddenly called out to the young man in front of her who was so sad that she collapsed, her voice was as soft as before, "My sister never blames you, my sister only hopes that you can be your prince well, and you will be a wise king in the future, and you must also be good!" Cherish Xiaoru, she is a good girl, with her by your side, sister is very relieved..."

Hearing this, Xiaodao's expression froze suddenly, his pale face turned red—

After he bloodbathed the execution ground that day, he himself was seriously injured and lost too much blood and passed out. When he woke up, he was already lying in the bedroom of the East Palace. Xiao Ru stood by his side, crying until his eyes were swollen like peaches. .

Thinking of the death order issued by his father before he fainted, he jumped up and was about to go out, regardless of the freshly bandaged wound on his body, but was held back by Xiaoru.

Xiao Ru hugged his leg tightly and refused to let go, crying sadly: "Your Highness, you are almost dying, and the imperial doctor ordered you to lie down on the bed, so you are not allowed to go there, and I will not let you go." Go, I don't want you to die..."

He wanted to get rid of her, but his whole body was in pain, his body was weak, and his mind was dizzy. He gritted his teeth and said, "Quickly let go, if my sister loses her life because of your delay, I will definitely kill you." !"

After hearing his words, Xiaoru not only did not let go, but hugged him even tighter, and said with red eyes, "I won't let you go, even if you die. If you want to die for Sister Yu, I will die for you." , but you will die in the end, I will not let you go!"

After all, Xiaoru not only hugged his waist with both hands, but also wrapped her feet around his legs, making him unable to walk.

"You...shameless!" Xiaodao was furious, but his arm was seriously injured. He was bound up with gauze and couldn't move. go outside.

While moving with difficulty, he cursed fiercely: "Okay, how dare you disobey the will of this palace, and when this palace is recovered, I will definitely hang you up and beat you. What about Xiao Fushou, where did you die? Come and kill me!" She pulls away..."

Hearing his threat, Xiao Ru didn't react at all, she tightly pursed her mouth and hung him tightly.

Xiaoru, who usually looked thin and weak, was hanging like a golden pendant, making him unable to walk half a step.

Not only was he unable to take half a step, but he leaned over and fell on Xiaoru's body with a 'plop' sound...

It was a coincidence that he fell on Xiaoru's body, and... his mouth was so coincidental that it couldn't be more coincidental...

Although the two are married, they haven't even held hands, and Xiao Dao has never had such intimate contact with a woman. Suddenly, he only felt a numbness in his mouth, and his whole body was numb, pale and pale. The bloody face turned red in a 'shua'...

In the end...in the end it was Xiaoru who hugged him to the bed...

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Suddenly hearing Yu Ruyan mention Xiaoru, Xiaodao panicked like a deer, Mingming Yu Ruyan couldn't see his shyness at the moment, but he was inexplicably flustered, and quickly changed the subject: "Sister, how do I feel about you? ...It feels like you are giving me the last order, do you really want to leave Daliang and leave Brother Huang?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he suddenly thought that the day after tomorrow, the emperor brother would eventually hand over his sister, but judging from her description, he didn't know it at all.

That's right, Brother Huang must have been trying hard to hide it from his sister, and he also knew that even if his father killed Brother Huang, Brother Huang would never be willing to hand over his sister.

Thinking of this, Xiaodao had an inexplicable bad feeling in his heart, he always felt that Brother Huang was hiding something from him.

Yu Ruyan really didn't know about the three-day agreement between Mu Lingzhi and King Liang. Now, she only wanted to leave Bieyuan, Daliang, and everything here...

Thinking of this, she firmly said to Xiaodao: "Sister, I beg you to do one last thing, I hope you will promise me!"

Her description was extremely firm and unquestionable. Seeing this, Xiaodao's heart skipped a beat, he looked at her fixedly, and asked hesitantly, "What did my sister ask me to help you?"

"Go help me and beg your brother, let him—let me go!"

Hearing this, Xiaodao froze all over, unable to speak...

After a long time, he swallowed his throat with difficulty, and gently complied...

After Xiaodao left, Yu Ruyan didn't eat dinner, and went to bed again to lie down.

After Xiaodao came out of her room, she was going to look for Mu Lingzhi in the study, but saw him standing quietly outside the door with sunken eyes and a haggard face!

The two walked outside in a tacit understanding, and Xiaodao anxiously asked him what his plans were?
But no matter how anxious he asked him, Mu Lingzhi just quietly looked at the snow-covered flowerbed in front of him, never saying a word.

I saw that after several consecutive heavy snowfalls, the flower garden he specially opened up for Yu Ruyan was completely buried in the snow, except for some dead branches that were exposed outside, and the original lush flowers had disappeared...

After a long time, he murmured to himself with sadness: "I once planted this sea of ​​flowers for Yanyan, and all the flowers in it are her favorite roses and jasmines, which are the most common mountain flowers that she likes very much. I I remember, when I met her in the military palace, she always had a bitter face, she was very afraid and cautious, she was very afraid of me, and she was very afraid of making me unhappy by doing wrong things... and she was asked to go to the military camp every day Washing clothes by the stream next to her seems to be the happiest thing for her... Every time she comes back from the stream, she will pick some mountain flowers to decorate the solemn and dull military camp. But what she doesn't know is that since she had her When she appeared, I no longer felt that marching was dull and arduous, because she was a light in my camp that I could not ignore..."

"...Bringing her back to Daliang, I was looking forward to how happy she would be when she saw the sea of ​​flowers, but when I brought her back, the flowering period had already passed. We made an appointment to stay in Bieyuan together during the flowering period next year. , I watched the flowers with her, and she played chess with me, but now, I stabbed her blind, and without her eyes, how can I watch the flowers and play chess..."

Mu Lingzhi's face seemed to melt into the endless whiteness, Xiaodao's heart was also grieving, and he said softly with a trembling voice: "Brother, don't blame yourself, the sword you stabbed sister was also to save her life. At that time, the emperor personally came to supervise the beheading, how could the elder brother resist? What's more, the imperial father threatened the whole of Daqi. I'm afraid that after my sister knows the truth, she won't forgive Brother Huang even more, because my sister has always cared about Da Qi, otherwise she wouldn't have agreed to get married for the sake of Da Qi's peace..."

Hearing this, Mu Lingzhi smiled vaguely, and said slowly: "A year ago, I owed her a cold arrow, and a year later, I owed her a pair of eyes, and I also owed her a wedding and a name." If I don't do anything for her, I'm afraid...I'm afraid that she won't recognize me in the next life, and won't be with me again..."

"The day after tomorrow, I will go to the execution ground on time. When the city gate is loose, you can help me send her out of the city. Let her go as far as possible..."

Hearing Mu Lingzhi's last instructions, Xiaodao shuddered in his heart. He stared blankly at the elder brother he admired the most. Suddenly, a bad thought flashed in his mind.

Seeing Mu Lingzhi's resolute look, the next moment, Xiaodao made a decision in his heart. He stopped trying to stop Mu Lingzhi, turned around and hurriedly walked towards the palace...

The next day, when Yu Ruyan heard that the wind and snow outside had stopped, she got up and left the house with Chunhua and Qiuyue, but before she reached the gate of the yard, she was stopped by someone sent by Mu Lingzhi. Everyone said in unison, His Highness strictly ordered her to take half a step out of the courtyard!

In order to get out of the other garden, in order to leave this place, Yu Ruyan finally asked Chunhua to invite Mu Lingzhi to make a final farewell.

Chunhua got her order to invite Mu Lingzhi, but when she returned, she told Yu Ruyan that Mu Lingzhi was waiting for her in the dining room!
At that time, it was already evening, Yu Ruyan supported Chunhua's hand, and walked towards the dining room fumblingly. All the way out, she seemed to have returned to the scene when she was brought back to the other garden by Mu Lingzhi for the first time. At that time, she and An Ge smelled the tempting aroma of hot pot and found the dining room together...

But in just a few months, everything has changed. Brother An is gone, and the man who cooked for her in the past also no longer exists...

Kankan walked halfway, when the familiar ambergris suddenly came from her nose, her whole body froze, it was him!

The next moment, Yu Ruyan suddenly raised her hand to cover her eyes in a panic. For some reason, she dared not let him see her as blind even though he had stabbed her blind...

But at the next moment, her body fell into a familiar embrace, Yu Ruyan panicked, couldn't help struggling desperately, and lost her voice: "Put me down, don't touch me!"

The hand holding his body froze for a moment, and in the next second, Mu Lingzhi's deep and charming voice came from beside his ear——

"Accompany me for the last night, I will let you go!"

(End of this chapter)