Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 23

Jiangnan, a forest garden.

The four sides of the forest garden are all built with tall new walls, and the gates are guarded by heavy soldiers. People who come and go are strictly screened. Almost only the eyes and ears are exposed from the whole body.

All the people living in this forest were infected with the plague. Before Xia Shengqing got sick, he had sent people to renovate the forest. As long as he was found to be infected with the plague, he would be sent to the forest for isolation.

Some lucky patients may still be able to go out. Most of the unlucky people enter this forest garden, but they are just waiting to die.

Xia Shengqing is currently living in this forest garden. He is an envoy for water control, so his residence is more spacious, occupying a small courtyard for one person, and most of the patients next to him live in a room for each person. The doors and windows are locked to prevent patients from coming out. Run out of the forest garden.It is also strictly forbidden to live together to prevent cross-infection of the plague.

Xia Shengqing was lying on the bed, his eyes were already covered with a layer of gray mist, and everything he saw was gray.There was a stabbing pain in his chest, he leaned on the edge of the bed with his elbows propped up, and reached for the spittoon half a meter away with his trembling hand, but before he could reach it, the stabbing pain in his chest had already surged up Throat.

As soon as his throat was sweet, he spit out big mouthfuls of black blood with a wow, and the floor was soon polluted by the black blood. He stroked his chest and breathed, and it took him a while to slowly recover, exhausted Collapsed on the bed.

Xia Shengqing stared blankly at the ceiling. It has been almost half a month since he contracted the disease. At first, he was able to cheer up and write letters to the princess, but later, he couldn't even stand up. None, lying on the bed every day like a disabled person waiting to die.

"Cough cough cough..."

The residual blood in his throat made him cough and vomit like this several times a day, and he even suspected that he would close his eyes the next moment and never wake up again.

Xia Shengqing rested for a while before feeling a little strength in his hands. Gritting his teeth, he raised his hand and pulled the rope tied to the edge of the bed. The rope was connected to the wind chimes outside the house. When he pulled the rope inside, the guards outside could hear the movement. Come in.

With a creak, the heavily armed guards opened the door and entered the isolation room. He saw Xia Shengqing lying weakly and pointing to the ground, then he understood. He took cotton cloth and clean water, and carefully cleaned the sick blood on the ground.The blood of the plague patient is the source of the disease, if it is accidentally contaminated into a small wound on the skin, it will undoubtedly be infected.

"Today... today... when is it?" Xia Shengqing covered her mouth and coughed, the skin on her lips was pale and chapped.

"Return to the envoy, today is the twentieth of late December, and tomorrow is the winter solstice." The guard carefully covered the blood-stained cotton cloth with a bag, and it will be taken to the incinerator to be burned in a while.

Xia Shengqing lay down and blinked her dry eyes. It has been nearly three months since he left Shangjing. I don't know if the princess is okay?
The guard closed the door and left the house. He carried the bag and went all the way to the cremation site. Just after he left the yard, he saw a few people coming towards him. The leader was a tall and slender woman, but her eyes under the veil were particularly agile.

"Girl, this is the isolation hospital for Ambassador Xia, no one else is allowed to enter."

"Bold, this is Princess Pearl!"

The guard hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed in salute.

When Xia Zijin heard Xia Shengqing's name, she knew that this was the right place, and she didn't have time to pay attention to the guards. She carried her skirt and stepped forward, taking two steps out of three, and couldn't wait to see Xia Shengqing.

When he opened the door and entered, what Xia Zijin saw was such a Xia Shengqing. He was dressed in white, but his face was even scarier than his clothes.He was lying on the bed weakly, his eyes were empty and lifeless, just like every patient who knew he was dying, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

Xia Zijin's tears fell down all at once.She staggered to the bed, and Xia Shengqing's face became more real. Such a tall and straight person would be like a bird with its wings broken, without a trace of life.

"Shengqing..."

Xia Zijin held his hand and put it next to her face, and the big tears rolled down like broken thread. She didn't even dare to think about what would happen to Xia Shengqing's body if she came a little later.

Xia Shengqing heard someone calling him in a trance, and his hand seemed to be held by something warm. He turned his head with difficulty, but met a pair of tearful eyes. Those eyes were lively and distracted, similar to the one in the dream. The princess who has dreamed thousands of times is exactly the same.

He thought that he was ill and confused, and the princess was far away in Shangjing, so how could she come to the south of the Yangtze River, which is a place of wrongdoing.

But at the next moment, the reality of Xia Zijin throwing himself into his arms and sobbing lightly reminded him that this was not Zhu Xian's dream.

"……Princess?"

Xia Shengqing's eyes widened, she looked at everything in disbelief, and suddenly remembered something, she hurriedly pushed Xia Zijin away with all her strength, and moved into the bed by herself.

"Princess, please stay away from me... This plague will be contagious... I don't want anything to happen to you..."

Xia Zijin's nose was sour, and at such a juncture, he was still thinking about himself, it was really going to drive her to death!
"This princess is a noble body, with the blessing of the gods, naturally nothing will happen. If you say more, this princess will punish you!"

Xia Shengqing moved her lips, but was unable to speak for a long time. The figure who was thinking about it was in front of her, as if separated by thousands of mountains and rivers. If he hadn't contracted this plague, he might still have the extravagant hope of being with the princess for the rest of his life. It's just that now, it really can't.

"Princess, why bother? I'm running out of time. If I implicate the princess, I deserve death."

His eyes were gloomy. In the early stage of the plague, he also had expectations. It is not that no one recovered from the plague. He hoped that he would be lucky enough to survive this winter and return to the familiar Shangjing. Drink pear blossom wine with the princess in Mosheng garden.

Only later, he really felt a little bit of physical decay and nerve destruction, he couldn't hold a pen, he couldn't write a letter, and even had trouble reading. Lying down, counting the hours and days on your fingers, even being so sick that you can't even remember the days.

Time is a grinding thing, and the plague is also a grinding thing. It has worn away Xia Shengqing's full of expectations. Now that he can see the princess before he dies, who can say that he is not very lucky?

Xia Zijin looked at his half-dead and dejected appearance, and was so angry that he wanted to pick him up from the bed and beat him up.

"Who said that your time is short, this princess said that you live a long life, so you will live a long life!"

Xia Zijin turned her head and told Xiaokui who was behind her, "Go and boil the medicine for a while according to the prescription, and remember to slow down the fire so that all the herbs can seep into the soup."

Xiaokui agreed, and hurriedly went down to do it.

Xia Zijin took Xia Shengqing's hand, even though he struggled and did not let go, his eyes were wider and firmer than the ice river in winter.

"Shengqing, don't worry, I will definitely save you."

Xia Shengqing stared blankly at Xia Zijin like this, his expression seemed to be far away, he saw Xia Zijin pointing at him at the palace banquet and said to marry him, then marry him, he saw Xia Zijin in front of the fourth princess Holding him, he saw the starry face leaning on his shoulder that autumn night, and then drifting to this moment, all those figures overlapped on Xia Zijin in front of him.

He grinned, tears flowed from the corner of his eyes, and after that, there was darkness in front of his eyes.

Who is he and where is he?

Xia Shengqing only felt that she was in a pitch-black dark river, her body was slowly falling, drifting, and floating, with piercing roars beside her ears, the heavy river water was pressing on her body, and the air in her lungs was about to disappear.

He was floating, ups and downs, and he couldn't see the sun in the dark river of death.

Suddenly a warm white light shot down from the surface of the river, illuminating the dark river. He opened his eyes, but there was a person slowly swimming towards him, as bright as a sea of ​​Mayflowers, a speck in this dead silence bright.

Xia Shengqing reached out to reach the man, but he couldn't move in the river. The man swam close to him and kissed his lips, which were warm and soft. When he opened his eyes, he saw Xia Zijin's smiling face.

With a buzzing sound, Xia Shengqing woke up from the coma. He slowly opened his eyes. The oil lamp was already lit in the room, and it was pitch black outside the window.

It turned out to be a dream.

He pursed his lips a little timidly, thinking back to the dream just now, a part of his heart was actually throbbing.

"Shengqing, you're awake!"

Xia Zijin was writing prescriptions stroke by stroke at the table, preparing to write hundreds of copies, and distribute them to the prescription physicians in the forest garden and various places in the south of the Yangtze River tomorrow, but he caught a glimpse of Xia Shengqing on the bed, raised a smile, and put down his pen and walked into him.

Xia Shengqing nodded and looked at her steadfastly, but her eyes couldn't help looking at Xia Zijin's lips, recalling the dream just now, suddenly a touch of red crept up to the base of her ears, his face was so sickly pale, this blush It was even more obvious.

"Why is your face so red? Could it be that you have a high fever again?" Xia Zijin frowned, and reached out to probe Xia Shengqing's forehead. He was relieved when he found no abnormal temperature.

Xia Shengqing coughed a few times unnaturally, he naturally couldn't let the princess know that he was blaspheming her in his dream.

"Princess...it's not good in this room, you'd better go to a more comfortable room, I can't hurt the princess."

"Why are you so stubborn, isn't this princess all right?"

Xia Zijin smiled and shook her head. When Xia Shengqing was unconscious, she poured some of the boiled medicine into him. Seeing that Xia Shengqing seemed to have enough strength to speak, she knew that the soup had worked, and she couldn't help but feel a little happy. point.

"Shengqing, how do you feel?" She blinked and asked quite expectantly.

(End of this chapter)