Chapter 51 Is it like in the poem?
In the corridor, He Zhilin looked at Jiang Xue's uneasy look and said:
"Why don't you go shopping today? Take the medicine I prescribed for you first, and come out after a few days when you feel better."
Jiang Xue nodded.
He Zhilin said to Fu Dong, "You go up first to find your cousin. I will help His Highness down and wait for you to go together."
Fu Dong agreed and was about to go up when Jiang Xue stopped her and asked, "How much money do you have on you?"
Fu Dong was stunned for a moment, and was about to take out the banknote from his sleeve to take a look, when Jiang Xue said again:
"Give it all to Madam Su Yu, and have her tell Na Ji Yan that no matter what that man buys, I will pay for it."
"If it's not enough, let Madam Su Yu tell Brother He, and I'll make up for it later."
Fu Dong nodded and ran upstairs in small steps.
He Zhilin helped Jiang Xue up and asked, "Can you walk by yourself?"
Jiang Xue was a little amused and said, "I didn't really fall, and I didn't hurt my hands or feet, so why can't I walk?"
He Zhilin's hand that was holding her arm stiffened for a moment, and then he slowly let go.
"Then I will walk ahead, Your Highness, please walk slowly."
After saying that, he walked in front of Jiang Xue, and the two of them walked down the stairs in silence.
Jiang Xue didn't know why she thought of Xiao Qi because of a back view.
Even though she knew that person would never be Xiao Qi, she was still a little dazed at the moment.
Her mind began to unconsciously recall scenes from many years ago.
I don’t know if it’s because I was too remorseful and sad after learning that Xiao Qi killed my eldest brother three years ago, but my memory of Xiao Qi has become increasingly vague since the moment I heard the news of his death.
Over the years, she hasn't taken the initiative to think about the little details of her time with Xiao Qi for a long time.
When she was a child, she walked very unsteadily and often fell on flat ground. The second prince would laugh at her and even dislike her for delaying everyone's attempts to sneak out of the palace to play.
Xiao Qi from Gan State is usually taciturn, but when she falls, he will gently carry her on his back and keep up with Jiang Yu and the others.
She was only five or six years old at that time. Xiao Qi was three years older than her. The little boy carried the child Jiang Xue on his back.
Little Jiang Xue lay on his back and called him "Aqi" just like Jiang Yu did.
Xiao Qi, who is usually dull, turned around and smiled faintly.
Although Xiao Qi was a hostage from another country, the three children of the Jiang family treated him very well. Jiang Chen was the eldest brother and took good care of him on weekdays. He took him and Jiang Yu to the prince's school together. Jiang Yu felt that he had a liking for Xiao Qi, and they treated each other as brother from the first time they met. Whether they were climbing trees to take bird eggs or going into the water to catch carp, he would ask Xiao Qi to go with them.
When Xiao Qi first arrived in Jijing, Jiang Xue was still very young, and the queen did not bring her to see Xiao Qi. Instead, little Jiang Yu secretly took Xiao Qi to Yi'an Palace at night, picked up the toddler Jiang Xue, and said to him proudly: "This is my sister, isn't she cute?"
Xiao Qi walked closer to look at her. Jiang Xue was still babbling at that time, and her words were unclear. She stretched out her little hand and touched his face.
Little Jiangyu taught her to call him brother.
"elder brother--"
Little Jiang Xue yelled, "Uh-uh-"
Xiao Qi just thought that the baby in front of him was so adorable that he wanted to snatch it from Jiang Yu and hold it in his arms.
When she was a little older and could run and play, Jiang Yu took her out of Yi'an Palace and hid her in the school. After class, he took her around the palace to have fun.
Little Jiang Xue had an inexplicable sense of closeness to Xiao Qi. She liked playing with Jiang Yu, but she liked playing with Xiao Qi even more.
When Xiao Qi was reading, she sat next to him, holding her chubby cheeks and looking at him in a daze.
When they went out of the palace to play, she would follow Xiao Qi wherever he went.
Xiao Qi climbed over the wall, and she pulled his clothes and begged him to help lift her up.
Xiao Qi often sat looking at the sky in a depressed mood, and she would sit beside him and watch with him.
Jiang Xue liked Xiao Qi. At first everyone thought it was just a child being close to her brother. Later, when Jiang Xue was older, she read a poem in a book.
The man comes riding on a bamboo horse and plays with green plums around the bed.
Living together in Changganli, the two young people have no suspicion of each other.
She went to Xiao Qi holding the book, pointed at the poem, and asked him, "Ah Qi, is this what the poem says about us?"
The boy took the book and glanced at a few sentences. A blush quickly crept from behind his ears to his cheeks.
For a long time, the loneliness in his eyes overshadowed the joy.
Xiao Qi said softly: "Your Highness, the sentiment in this poem is different from ours."
Jiang Xue didn't understand, she just felt that they were childhood sweethearts, and it was obviously a relationship that they had grown up together.
When everyone was playing together, she was small and short-legged, and couldn't jump as fast as Lu Qiongshuang. She was always the one lagging behind in the group, and Xiao Qi would silently slow down and walk behind her;
She loved to fall down when she walked, and the second brother liked to laugh at her and tease her until she burst into tears. Xiao Qi would carry her on his back without saying a word, and when they got there, he would rub her ankles;
Because of Empress Lu's teachings, Jiang Yu treated Xiao Qi very well. He would buy Xiao Qi things from outside the palace, such as candied haws, clay figurines, and bamboo dragonflies. Jiang Xue would watch with envy. Xiao Qi would keep them and secretly give them to Jiang Xue in private.
Apart from attending school, Xiao Qi usually stayed in Qianning Residence, where the hostage lived. Yi'an Palace, where little Jiang Xue lived, was the Queen's palace, and he never dared to step in. Only when Jiang Xue was ten years old and had a high fever and was seriously ill, he secretly ran to Yi'an Palace to find her and stuffed the protective jade talisman given to him by his mother into her hand.
At that time, Jiang Xue thought that this was just like what was written in the poem: the two young people living together in Changganli without any suspicion of each other.
"Your Highness, Your Highness?"
Seeing Jiang Xue's absent-minded look as if she was thinking about something, He Zhilin couldn't help but call out in a low voice.
"Huh?" Jiang Xue came back to her senses.
"We're here." He Zhilin reminded.
Jiang Xue nodded blankly.
Seeing her expression, He Zhilin recalled what she had just said upstairs, and immediately understood everything.
He lowered his head, feeling a little lost.
When he heard the news of Xiao Qi's death that day, although he was sad about his grandfather's death, in fact -
In fact, he was secretly delighted.
Such despicable thoughts made him look down on himself.
He Zhilin knew Xiao Qi, but was unwilling to get close to him.
That day he had just started studying with the prince. When he reported to the palace school on the first day, he arrived too early and Jiang Chen and Jiang Yu had not arrived yet. He could only walk around and look around in boredom.
When he reached the corner gate, he saw Xiao Qi and a palace maid.
The palace servant said to Xiao Qi, "Prince An, this is a letter from the Kingdom of Gan. His Majesty ordered me to present it to you."
Xiao Qi took the letter out of gratitude, but after the palace servant left, he tore the letter into pieces without even looking at it, and then threw it into the pond.
When Xiao Qi walked past him, he had no expression on his face and just nodded to him lightly.
He was a little surprised.
Later, he learned about Xiao Qi's identity through Jiang Yu's introduction, and he despised this person even more.
Seeing the autumn wind in Luoyang city, I want to write a letter with a thousand thoughts.
Xiao Qi also had parents and relatives who lived thousands of miles away. It was not easy for him to send letters home from Prime Minister Gan, but he treated the letters full of love as trash.
He Zhilin's mother died young and his father was seriously ill, so he was raised by his grandfather. His family meant more than a thousand gold to him.
Therefore, Xiao Qi's behavior automatically classified him as an ungrateful, disobedient and unfilial person in his mind.
But Jiang Xue liked him very much.
Whenever Jiang Yu took Jiang Xue and escaped from the palace to play with him, Xiao Qi would always be by their side.
When Jiang Xue fell, he wanted to go over to help her, but saw Xiao Qi had already carried her on his back.
He had seen Xiao Qi stuffing candied haws into Jiang Xue's mouth in private, so he also secretly bought some candied haws and brought them to the palace to give them to her, but Jiang Xue just kept chasing after Xiao Qi and sticking to him - he didn't even have a chance to see her off.
Jiang Xue occasionally talked to him. When she couldn't find Xiao Qi at the school, she would ask him:
"Brother, do you know where Aqi went?"
He admitted that he was jealous of Xiao Qi.
Later, his grandfather ordered him to take his father back to Jiaodong. He left, leaving behind the small umbrella.
When his grandfather retired and returned home, he asked about the news in the capital. His grandfather just sighed and told him that Xiao Qi had returned to the country of Gan and would never come back.
He was secretly happy, wondering if Jiang Xue would think of the umbrella when she was lonely, and whether she would discover the secret in the umbrella.
No.
Even if Xiao Qi was not there, Jiang Xue did not think of him.
When he first returned to Beijing and saw Jiang Xue, who was already a married woman, she said to him:
"Looking at you, you seem to have a certain deity-like appearance, and you don't look like a medical practitioner."
She didn't recognize him.
Even after Jiang Yu recognized him, she only felt guilty about what happened to her grandfather.
And Xiao Qi.
Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi.
She would have such a big reaction even when she just saw someone with a similar back to him.
He Zhilin said to Jiang Xue with a self-deprecating look, "Your Highness, thinking too much is not conducive to recovery."
Jiang Xue nodded weakly.
There was a noise on the stairs.
The two looked up and saw that Lu Qiongshuang had come downstairs with Yu Fudong.
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