Yan Cigui

Chapter 3 Just a dream

In Lin Yunyan’s memory, Xu Jian had a long, terrible scar on her right leg.

That was cut down by Xiliang's saber. It was Xu Jian's military exploits, and it also cut off Xu Jian's way of continuing to join the army.

 At the time of the injury, Xu Jian was only sixteen years old, which should have been the age when a good man's sword would be unsheathed.

He and his comrades killed hundreds of Xiliang soldiers. When they returned to the camp, the military doctor was helpless about his **** right leg.

 The leg was saved, but it was also damaged.

 Since then, in Xu Jian’s words, this leg has become a “decoration”.

It's a long time to put on a show, so as not to leave the trousers empty, and to say that it has no use, it's really useless.

 Have to be taken care of, making medicines, injecting needles, pressing, beating every day...

Even so, it is still shrinking month by month, losing vitality, and with the snake-like scar, it looks more and more scary.

The left leg was somehow involved. I could still stand on one leg and walk for a while with the help of a cane. Later, the cane became unusable and it was completely tied to the wheelchair.

Lin Yunyan set her sights on Concubine Wen again.

The concubine carefully talked to the empress dowager about how she saw the clue that day.

The more Lin Yunyan listened, the more confused she became. She had seen Xu Jian's leg with her own eyes and saw the scar. It was obviously such a serious injury. Why could Xu Jian still walk like a normal person now?

Could it be that after encountering Hua Tuo and Bian Que, the master has rejuvenated his life?

Hearing the regret in the concubine's words, Lin Yunyan was filled with joy.

 Compared to being in a wheelchair and never being able to stand up again, just a slight lameness doesn’t mean you’re fine?

Of course, she still has doubts.

Downcasting her eyes, Lin Yunyan pretended to sigh: "How could the Duke of Guo be hurt so badly?"

"Yes," Princess Wen sighed, "that skill could have been like that of his grandfather, but... speaking of it, that injury is also..."

Lin Yunyan listened carefully and heard that the concubine suddenly paused. When she spoke again, she only sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity."

Such a twist was not considered blunt, but Lin Yunyan could hear it.

Concubine Wen must have thought of something and swallowed the "reason why Xu Jian was injured" that was on her lips. Even at that moment, her eyes moved slightly towards the Empress Dowager and then looked back.

why?

 Lin Yunyan was puzzled.

 Xu Jian was injured because of attacking the Xiliang people. It was a military achievement and it was fair and honorable. What can't be mentioned?

“I was just talking and forgot to deal with the cards,” Mrs. Wen put her hands on the horse and said, “Come on, come on, I want to win back the city.”

 The card table became lively again.

 The coral was placed on the shelf, and the cicadas were chirping outside. Cards were touched and played on the table, and some playful words were said from time to time. No one mentioned the person who gave the coral.

 After playing three rounds, Wen Taifei looked tired, and then the game ended.

 Wen Taifei stood up and left.

Lin Yunyan sent him out and left the main hall. She wanted to ask Xu Jian about it again, but after thinking about it for a while, she gave up.

 Concubine Wen liked to talk about family matters, but she also knew the appropriateness of the topic. She was also very obedient to the Empress Dowager. Since she had swallowed her words back before, she would not say anything no matter how she asked.

Sent all the way outside Cining Palace, Lin Yunyan turned around and returned to the side hall.

The card table has been put away, and the Empress Dowager moved to sit on the Arhat bed by the window, leaning on the bed and looking at one place.

Lin Yunyan looked along and saw the pot of coral given by Xu Jian.

Did the empress happen to be looking there, or was she thinking about Xu Jian?

Lin Yunyan was not sure for a while.

Sensing her return, the Empress Dowager withdrew her gaze and waved to her: "Come and sit here at Ai's house for a while."

Lin Yunyan agreed and sat down on the other side of the bed.

"Are you worried?" the Queen Mother asked, and without waiting for Lin Yunyan to reply, she added, "No need to deny it, the Ai family can see that you are more tense today than usual."

Being exposed in this way, Lin Yunyan was of course unable to speak out.   She was really nervous.

　One moment there was a huge fire, and the next moment she was in Cining Palace. For her, it was the Cining Palace a few years ago. It was so earth-shaking that even if she had guessed her situation, she could not immediately deal with it calmly.

 Xu Jian's leg injury was different from what she remembered, so how much had other people and things changed?

 A single hair move affects the whole body.

 She needs some time to calm down and think about it carefully and figure out the current situation.

 Xu Jian said before that there are prerequisites for the mind to be calm and calm.

 Only when everything is under control can one truly be calm, relaxed and strategizing.

 Otherwise, pretending to be fake and deceiving unfamiliar people may still be effective, but in the eyes of discerning people, it is just a paper tiger.

And the Empress Dowager, who has seen countless people, is also very familiar with Lin Yunyan.

The situation at this moment obviously did not give her time to slowly collect her thoughts, and Gu Li's method would only be counterproductive to the Empress Dowager. Lin Yunyan lowered her eyes, and after the silence of "he hesitated to speak", she finally He spoke in a low voice: "When I was resting in the side hall, I had a nightmare."

When the Queen Mother heard this, she laughed: "You are not a five or six-year-old child. Why is your dream so scary?"

"The fire," Lin Yunyan said, "the house is on fire, the smoke is billowing, I am trapped inside, I can't escape at all..."

With just a few words, the Empress Dowager's eyebrows suddenly twisted, and the smile disappeared from the corner of her mouth.

She reached out and hugged Lin Yunyan into her arms, supporting her back: "Good boy, it's just a dream, it's just a dream."

 When Grandma Wang saw this, she quickly winked at the others.

The maids and chambermaids filed out quietly. Grandma Wang glanced at the two people again, then withdrew, stood outside the curtain, clasped her hands and recited "Amitabha" secretly.

 She also saw that the princess was absent-minded at the card table.

　　It wasn’t that the princess showed all her emotions on her face, but the empress dowager looked at the princess several times.

Grandma Wang has been serving the Empress Dowager personally for many years. Of course, she will never miss a look or a look in her eyes. It is this thoughtfulness and caution that allows her to pick up clues from the Empress Dowager.

Yuan thought that maybe something unpleasant happened to the girl's family, but she didn't expect it to be such a nightmare.

It's no wonder that the princess was absent-minded, no wonder that the Queen Mother hesitated to speak when asked about it, and no wonder that the Queen Mother felt so heartbroken after hearing this.

That year, the late emperor was seriously ill, and the emperor, who was still a prince, took the prince's concubine, the young highness, and several ministers and ministers to the temple to pray for blessings. Late at night, there were flames blazing down the mountain, and there were screams for help. The Holy Spirit insisted on leading the guards to rescue. Unexpectedly, a fire also broke out in the temple, and the princess, the young highness, and the princess' mother were trapped in the temple. After rescuing the young highness, she went to save the princess again...

 When the bad news came, Grandma Wang remembered it very clearly, and the empress was heartbroken.

To the empress, she was more than just a niece from her mother's family. She had been serving the empress in the palace since she was eight years old, and later became a reading companion for the princess. She was no different from her own daughter.

 After that, the murderous conspiracy under the mountain was torn apart, and the government and the public were in shock. It was not until the Holy Emperor ascended the throne that things gradually stabilized.

The fire on the mountain was an accident, and it was just the people trapped in the fire, because the Holy One took away the guards and monks and was unable to rescue them, but they could never come back.

 The prince’s concubine, the princess’s mother…

 The total number of people killed was nine.

The princess was not involved in that disaster. Xu was close to her mother and daughter. When she was a child, she had several dreams of fires when she lived in Cining Palace. She cried incessantly in the middle of the night and was hugged by the Empress Dowager to coax her to sleep. I asked about the residence of the uncle, and he said that he would have nightmares two or three times in a month.

 Fortunately, as I grow older, my nightmares have become less frequent, especially in recent years, and I have never had any nightmares in return for the princess.

The Empress Dowager is still the same as before. She can't hear words like "fire" and "flood", and she feels uncomfortable for a long time after hearing them.

Thinking of this, Grandma Wang quietly took a look inside.

The way the Queen Mother comforted the princess was still the same as before.

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