Chapter 204
Winter is extremely cold with ice and snow.
Yu Ying was from the south and had stayed in Lingnan for a long time. Even after spending a winter in Yuzhang, she was still frightened by the winter in Pengcheng.
It was not yet the era of floor heating, and there were no light down jackets, so people could only rely on stoves and braziers to keep warm.
She had to go out to attend classes at the medical school on such a cold day. She regretted agreeing to be the dean of such a crappy medical school by King Pengcheng.
It took me two months to do it.
During the two months in Pengcheng, I sent two letters each from Fu Wei and my home in Yuzhang.
Every time she received their letters, Yu Ying looked at the empty house. The silence made her feel empty inside.
She knew that this empty feeling was called loneliness.
Every time at this time, she would hold in her arms the clothes that Fu Wei had put on her when they separated.
The aura of Fu Wei is long gone, but I can still get some comfort from it.
It was cold in the north, and most of the wandering troops that had not been cleared out were from the south. Unable to endure the harsh winter, they headed south. Therefore, there was almost no news of invasions by wandering troops in the north.
Yu Ying thought that even if the cleanup was almost complete, Fu Wei would not come with the mountain blocked by such heavy snow. Besides, she didn't want him to come in the snow.
I didn't expect him to come, but he still came.
Zhou Ling invited her to go out and see the plum blossoms, saying that the plum blossoms in Pengcheng were so gorgeous and beautiful, so Yu Ying went with her.
But she didn't expect that Mei wanted to go out of the city to see him, especially during the heavy snow. Moreover, King Pengcheng seemed to not allow her and Zhou Ling to leave the city, but today he strangely agreed.
Yu Ying had a vague guess.
Sure enough, the carriage stopped only half a mile out of the city, with the city gate still behind them.
She lifted the heavy curtain and looked ahead, vaguely seeing a black spot in the distance in the wind and snow heading towards Pengcheng.
Yu Ying turned and looked at Zhou Ling behind her.
Zhou Ling smiled and nodded at her.
Yu Ying couldn't help but laugh. She put on the fox fur hood on her cloak and got off the carriage. She walked forward on the snow. The maid behind her could hardly keep up with her with an umbrella.
This was the first time Zhou Ling saw such an unstable gentleman.
Obviously, the teacher was only four years older than her. But in front of them, the teacher was always more mature than her age, making people trust and believe in him inexplicably.
The person who can make Mr. unstable is Mr. Fu.
It turns out that Mr. Fu is looking forward to this.
A messenger came last night, and she happened to be with Heng Ji, so he told her the news that Fu Wei was coming to pick someone up.
She was both sad and happy.
I am worried about my husband leaving, but I am also happy for him.
During the time that the gentleman was in Pengcheng, although he still had a smile on his face, the smile was different from when he was in Yuzhang. It always felt like something was missing.
Sometimes, looking at her husband sitting in the yard in a daze, his lonely back was like when she first arrived in Yuzhang, lonely, missing home, her aunt, and her younger brother.
She knew her husband was expecting her, so she held back and kept it as a surprise.
The person in front was riding a horse in the heavy snow, and came faster than Yu Ying.
From a distance, Yu Ying saw the man on horseback, wearing a cloak and a hat, leading the way.
Even though I couldn't see his face clearly, I knew he was Fu Wei.
Their eyes met through the wind and snow.
The troops stopped on the snow.
Fu Wei dismounted and walked step by step towards his wife whom he missed day and night.
As he approached, he pulled off the scarf that was shielding his face from the wind and snow and smiled at her: "I'm here to pick you up."
Yu Ying's eyes were red: "Why did you come just now..."
Fu Wei raised his hand and gently brushed away the falling snow on her shoulders: "I'm sorry, it's too late."
Her reproach was nothing more than the complaints between lovers caused by longing for each other, but there was no blame involved.
Another carriage came out from Pengcheng.
The carriage stopped beside a nearby carriage. Heng Ji came up from above and saw the couple reunited, but he did not approach. He walked to the carriage beside, lifted the curtain and got on. Then he asked the driver to go back first, leaving a carriage for the couple to return to the city.
Fu Wei and Yu Ying had always been restrained, and only hugged each other after getting on the carriage.
She whispered that she missed him, and he listened and responded.
He said that he wanted to too, very much.
I had so many things I wanted to say to her, I wanted to write them down on paper, but I also wanted to say them to her in person.
The carriage moved slowly and it took half an hour to return to the Pengcheng Palace.
The steward came to greet him and said, "Your Highness knows that Mr. Fu has been exhausted from the journey. Let him rest for the night first. We will discuss matters tomorrow."
After that, he continued, "I have arranged for hot water and food. I will live in the same courtyard as Madam Yu."
Fu Wei thanked him and held his wife's hand tightly.
After the man left, the steward tutted, "Mr. Fu is quite clingy."
After entering the house, Fu Wei was covered in frost and took a bath first.
Yu Ying washed his hair, and the hair passed through her fingertips as she played with it in her hands.
She said: "In my time, few men would grow their hair this long. Most would only grow it an inch."
She would tell him about some of the products of her time, but husband and wife were always apart more often than together, and the atmosphere on the battlefield was extremely solemn. They had not talked about such topics for a long time.
Fu Wei: "Then wouldn't someone like me be considered unusual in your dynasty?"
Yu Ying thought about it and shook her head: "No, you are good-looking, with a good appearance, so most people think it is reasonable. Beauty is justice."
Fu Wei: "Such a concept is very dangerous. If that murderous and bloodthirsty person also has a good appearance, wouldn't it be very dangerous?"
"That's not the case. Everyone's awareness of vigilance is still very strong. But it is true that if someone is extremely good-looking, it can really make people lower their awareness."
Fu Wei: "Where is that woman?"
"As for women, some have short hair like men, while others have hair that reaches their ears, shoulders, or waist."
It has been said since ancient times that one's body and hair are inherited from one's parents, which means one is subject to the dangers of life. Whenever I hear her talk about things in her era, I am full of surprise.
"What about you? Tell me about your story."
Yu Ying rarely mentioned her appearance, so since Fu Wei mentioned it, she said, "My hair was longer than my shoulders, which was difficult to manage. My height was about the same as it is now. Sometimes I look at it, and it does look a bit like what I look like now."
At this point, she suddenly became interested. She let go of his hair, walked up to him, and leaned on the edge of the bathtub to look him in the eye. "If I were an ugly woman in that world, would you despise me?"
Fu Wei suddenly smiled: "As long as it's not a man." But after he finished speaking, he looked at her in silence and said, "If that man is you, I would still be willing."
Yu Ying, however, was disgusted. "What are you talking about? If I were a man, I would definitely want a wife. What do I need a man like you for?"
Fu Wei said seriously, "No, I will snatch you away."
Yu Ying: ...
Her husband has quite open-minded ideas.
No longer teasing him, Yu Ying said truthfully: "I wasn't as beautiful as I am now. They always say I look quiet and good-tempered."
Fu Wei looked into her eyes, as if he wanted to see her former appearance and the depths of her soul from those eyes.
But to no avail.
"In my eyes, no matter what you look like now or in another way, you are still you."
Yu Ying couldn't help but smile, and then she stood up with satisfaction to continue washing his hair.
Although tired from the journey, Fu Wei still whispered to his wife twice, and then rested for three hours before waking up.
It was still dark when I woke up, but the person next to me had already woken up.
He sleepily retracted his bare arms and held the person in his arms. The two empty bodies were pressed tightly together. Even though it was winter outside, it was still warm here.
"Why are you awake?" His voice was a little hoarse.
Maybe he caught a cold because he was in a hurry to travel, but it wasn't serious, just a mild one.
Yu Ying: "I woke up suddenly, and seeing you beside me, I lost all desire to sleep."
It was cold outside, so Fu Wei stretched out his arm and touched the clothes on the spring stool, brought them in, saw that they were hers, and then put them into the quilt.
Let it warm up for a while, then put it on her again.
After a moment's rest, he regained consciousness. He gently stroked the top of her head with his chin and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "I heard the snow will get heavier. We may have to stay in Pengcheng for a few more days."
Windy and snowy days are also good days to keep guests.
If you stay for a few more days, King Pengcheng will naturally not mind.
After a while, Yu Ying asked, "What's the situation in the Imperial City now?"
Fu Wei: "It has stabilized. This imperial city has changed emperors one after another. The people are probably numb to it. There are not many people who resist."
In the past two years, there have been four emperors.
"As for Huo Shanrong, when I came here, I heard that he committed suicide in prison."
Yu Ying was silent for a moment. She didn't remember Huo Shanrong's ending in the book, so she thought of many of his endings, but she never thought that he was drugged and went crazy, let alone committed suicide.
Yu Ying, who was lying on his warm chest, raised her head and looked at him: "Who drugged me?"
Fu Wei stroked the bracelet on her wrist, and Yu Ying suddenly realized: "That Aunt Xue?"
Aunt Xue is the Madam Ru who took care of Fu Wei.
Fu Wei sighed softly and nodded: "It was her. She got the drug from Ming Cong."
Upon hearing this, Yu Ying sat up wrapped in the quilt, but seeing that he was naked, she lay down on the side again, gave him half of the quilt, and asked, "Why?" while lying beside him.
Fu Wei: "Please wait a moment."
He stood up, not afraid of the cold, put on his clothes outside the tent, put on his cloak, and took out a letter.
He hung the curtains, sat on the edge of the bed, and gave her the letter.
"Xue knew Huo Shanrong would use her to threaten me, so she took medicine and committed suicide while she was sick. Then, with Ming Cong's help, the maidservant who served her escaped from the palace and was then escorted out of the imperial city by Ming Cong. Before Yuzhang attacked the imperial city, she gave me the things that Xue left behind."
"So when Huo Shanrong invited me to meet her in the name of Aunt Xue, I didn't go and wasn't affected by her."
Fu Wei was very calm when he said these words.
Yu Ying sat up wrapped in the quilt and took the letter. It was a thick letter.
Fu Wei said, "From the age of four to nine, it was Aunt Xue who took care of me. Aunt Xue treated me very well. Later, when she remarried, I was raised with the main wife. Because Huo Shanrong treated me with care, I didn't suffer much. Aunt Xue also begged Huo Shangrong to adopt a three-year-old girl from outside, who was the maid who delivered the letter."
"Every time I couldn't help wanting to see her, she would avoid me and drive me away with cruel words. For the next ten years, she hardly left that yard, and I never saw her again."
"When I saw the girl that Concubine Xue kept by her side and heard her say that Concubine Xue had committed suicide by drinking poison and that she was worried about me, even though I didn't read the letter, it was as if I understood everything."
Yu Ying glanced at the letter in her hand and asked, "Have you read it?"
Fu Wei shook his head: "No, I didn't see it. I wanted to see it with you. I only want you to see my vulnerability."
Fu Wei knew that reading this letter would inevitably affect his emotions.
You will feel even sadder and may even cry uncontrollably.
He is also a person with flesh and blood, with seven emotions and six desires. His blood was once red hot, but then it was frozen three feet deep. It was slowly warmed up again, becoming even hotter than before.
Yu Ying thought for a moment, then put on her warm clothes in bed, leaned against the headboard, covered her legs, and patted her side: "Let's watch it together."
Fu Wei returned to the bed and leaned against her shoulder to shoulder.
Yu Ying covered his legs with a quilt and said softly, "Your legs have been in bed, so keep them warm. Don't take it lightly, or you'll get cold legs when you get old."
Fu Wei responded softly: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Yu Ying picked up the letter and looked at him: "Then should I open it?"
Fu Wei nodded.
Yu Ying waited for his consent again, then slowly opened the letter.
There are many tear marks on this letter paper.
There are many words of missing him, and many words of wishing him peace and safety.
There is an explanation for why she wanted to distance herself from him, explaining that she was not looking for someone to replace him, she was just too lonely and wanted someone to talk to and have someone to accompany her for three meals a day.
There were greetings to his biological mother, every member of his family, and his wife.
Not every word is filled with longing, but longing is everywhere between the lines, and there are traces of tears on every piece of paper.
Yu Ying's eyes became sore as she watched, and tears rolled down her cheeks unconsciously. The person next to her closed his eyes, lowered his head, and buried his head in the crook of her neck.
Yu Ying felt a little wet, but didn't say anything, just patted his back lightly.
To outsiders, he is a powerful being who is able to plan and strategize in times of crisis, has everything under control, and can turn danger into safety.
But he also has a vulnerable side.
He is actually a very emotional person.
She also felt sorry for him and felt bad.
She wanted a child because she knew that if anything happened to her that day, he would go with her, leaving the child behind to serve as a bond to him.
No matter what happens in the end, no matter who it is, there will be a reason to keep the other person in this world.
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