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Is there a novel so sweet that the corners of your mouth turn up?

When you get older, you have to eat more sugar.

By xiaohuPublished 2 years ago 15 min read
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"I don't want to marry him." My unexpected words let A Kite, who is grinding ink hard, froze for a while. "Then I'll kill him for you." A Kite without a second word, put down the ink block, carrying the sword will go out. "Hey!" I quickly grabbed him and said, "Can you think of anything else besides killing people?" "You said I was an idle assassin," he said, turning to me. "I'm going to do it." ..................... One spring after another, this is my fourth spring in Zhuangzi. In the spring, I like to sit in the arbor in the courtyard, holding my hand - burner, all day long. The dew fell on the fresh green leaves, the east wind touched the flowers, the birds on the branches and the frogs on the side of the pool, and I was in the resurrection of everything, as if I too would be full of life. "Miss, it's a windy night, and it may rain again later. You'd better go inside and take a rest." I was sickly since childhood, and no matter how much medicine I drank, I could not get better. Four years ago, my father told me about a marriage, but because of my worsening condition, the marriage had to be put on hold, and I was placed in Zhuangzi outside the city to rest. "Young LADY, let the servant help you into the house, if you fall ill again, the master will blame me for not taking care of." "Well, then you help me pick the petals. I want to make flower cakes tomorrow." I pointed to the path in the flower bed. When I was ill, there was always something to do to pass the time, and cooking became one of my few pleasures. "Miss, leave me alone." "Cui said with a bitter face. What was fun for me was a disaster for them. Because I am a patient, I can't eat anything without the doctor's permission, so all the "delicious food" I make can only be tasted by Xiaocui and the nurses in Zhuangzi. "Let the nurses try it this time." "They are afraid that they will not be able to protect the yard." It is said that the food I make is very bad. "Tracy, you should be kind to the patients, and I think my cooking might be improving." "Good GOOD, YOU PROGRESS, YOU QUICK REST, OTHERWISE TOMORROW HAVE NO ENERGY TO DO FLOWER CAKE." "You don't need to help me, I can go back to my room by myself, you hurry to help me pick flowers." I walked slowly to my bedroom. I opened the door, and before I had lit the lamp, I saw a silver beam of moonlight through the wide open window and burst into my bed. The last time I slept with the window wide open, I got a high fever, and my father beat Cui ten times for "not taking good care of her". I dare not do it again, or I will lose a fierce soldier in the army of food testing. As I approached the window, I was about to put my hand over the window when I felt a chill in my neck. 'Call anyone and I'll kill you! A cold sound sounded behind me, as cold was the sword at my neck. Only then, in the moonlight, did I see the blood on the window sill. "You..." I looked back and saw a very tall man in black, his hand on his chest, blood gurgling from his fingers, in the pale light of the moon, visibly, "Wounded." He ignored me. I reached for the bedside table next to me, and the sword at my neck tightened. 'What for! "There's medicine in the cupboard for your wound." They say a long illness makes a doctor, and I'm no exception. Learn medicine ALSO IS one of the FUN THAT I USE to KILL time, WHEN Lang Zhong will give ME a diagnosis, I can ask HIM for advice some time, ask this medicinal material how to use, how that injury is treated, as time passes I also calculate half Lang Zhong, those who ate what I do "delicious food" and the person of vomiting and diarrhea, take the medicine that a pair of I open, good the next day. "If you leave it, you'll bleed to death." He was silent for a moment. "Don't try any tricks!" Then he let me reach into the cabinet to get the medicine. "Can you light the lamp?" 'I asked quietly.' It's too dark for me to see. ' He said nothing, and I took it as acquiescence, and reached for the tinkerbox on the table to light the candle. "Will you sit on the bed?" He took a silent half-step back and sat down on the bed and finally crooned a little, but only once, and his sword never left my neck. The thick blood and long hours of pressure had glued his clothes to his flesh, and when I began to undress his clothes, there were streaks of blood that hurt to look at. There was a deep, long, and terrifying gash in his chest. Although THE DOCTOR HAD TAUGHT ME TO DEAL WITH THE METHOD OF THE WOUND, BUT I HAVE NOT been practiced, this is my FIRST time for others to deal with THE wound. "It may hurt a little, but you can bear with it." The whole time he was being debrideed, drugged, and stitched, he didn't say a word, didn't move, and if I didn't look up and see him staring at me with the fierce, watchful eyes of a Wolf, I would have thought he'd be dead. As I wrapped the bandage round and round him, there was a knock at the door. Then CAME CUI'S VOICE: "MISS, A GROUP OF MEN CAME FROM OUTSIDE ZHUANGZI. They SAID THEY WERE HUNTING FOR AN ASSASSIN nearby AND asked IF they COULD SEARCH ZHUANGZI." I could feel the sword in my neck tighten a little. "Are they not officers and men? I asked Cui. "No," CUI SAID. "THEY LOOKED like guards FOR A big FAMILY." "Then send them on their way." After saying this, the sword around his neck loosened slightly. "Good, young lady, you also early rest." The small green figure showing the door and window disappeared. "Are you really an assassin?? "I asked cautiously. He dropped his hand feebly and his sword clanged to the ground. "Don't you dare tell anyone... I will..." "Just kill me." I answered his words with a smile and helped him to lie down. "OK, OK, I know." He held on for so long that at last he fainted. The bed was occupied by him, but there was a chaise longue in the room, and I spent the night in the chaise longue wrapped in a thick cloak, but I was not accustomed to sleep, so I woke up early, just before dawn. The man was still unconscious. I approached the bed, half tempted to lift his shawl and see his face, but my curiosity stopped. ..................... "Miss, you are up so early." Cui asked, slightly surprised, when she came into the kitchen and saw me. "To make flower cakes." I pointed to the dough behind me. "Cui, help me mix the dough, I'm not strong enough." "Oh." Cui NODDED. As she passed me, she saw the CAULdron on the stove and asked, "What are you cooking, MISS?" "Would you like to try my new medicine?" "I asked, smiling. She hurriedly shake her head to shake hands: "CALCULATE calculate!" It's not a new drug, it's just something to stop bleeding and help wound healing. After a busy morning, the flower cake was finally finished. "Cui, this is the biggest flower cake for you, and then the small basket to the guards in Zhuangzi." "Many THANKS YOUNG LADY LOVE," SMALL CUI WANTS TO CRY TEARLESS WAY, "BUT MAIDSERVANT FEEL YOUNG LADY OR RAIN AND DEW TOUCH BETTER." "Well..." I pretended to think about it for a while and then joked, "I see that Chen Zhuang, the head of our home guard, cares so much about you. How about giving him the biggest flower cake?" "Miss you, you... Hum!" With a basket of flower cakes in hand, Cui ran out of the kitchen, BLUShing. The largest piece of flower cake lay pitifully on the table. At this moment, the soup in the medicine pot boiled, and the steaming steam banged the lid of the pot. Ah - I know who to give that flower pie to. ..................... "Oh! You're awake." When I came back into the room, the man was sitting up on the edge of the bed, and as soon as he saw me, he unconsciously reached for something, I guess for his sword, but I hung his sword on the screen a little way away from him. "I've made you some medicine. Drink it while it's hot." I sat down on the bed. "This medicine is bitter, so I made you some sweet flower cakes to counteract it." He squinted at me and said nothing. "If you are afraid I shall see your face, you may turn up the veil over the upper half of your face, and leave the lower half open to drink the medicine." I pictured the picture and laughed out loud. "......" He gave me a roll of the eye and reached straight into the towel. He was not intimidating, but rather handsome, with regular features, sharp and angular, and a sharp and cold quality that one could not help thinking of a cold sword. "I have seen your face. Will I be killed?" Ignoring me, he took the potion and gulped it down. Then he grabbed the flower cake and took a bite. He drank the bitter potion without frowning, but he took only one bite of the flower cake, and his features were united in an instant, and the coolness vanished, giving way to something comical and pleasant. "Salty! He glared at me. Oh! Maybe I confused sugar and salt again. "I don't say, salty (fresh) flower cake, as the name implies, of course is salty ah." "You said it was sweet! "Did I say that? No, you must have been too weak to hear." "......" "Ha, ha, ha, let me get you some water." The room had run out of water last night when I cleaned his wound, and I had to go to the kitchen to get it. When I came back to my room, the Windows were wide open, and the two Windows were blowing ee-ee-ee-ing from the east wind, and the bed was empty. I thought he took off. I didn't think we'd see each other again. A few days later he reappeared unnoticed in my room with a new wound, but not as bad as the last one. I patched him up, and he went out of the window. After that, he showed up every now and then, sometimes wounded, sometimes not, but always covered in blood, either his or someone else's. At first he would hold the sword against my neck, but then, either because his hand was sore from lifting it, or because I was so unthreatening, he didn't bother to draw it when he saw me. I could tell he was using my place to avoid capture. After all, this Zhuangzi is the second daughter of the emperor Taifu and the betrothed of the Ministry of war, and the general people dare not trade rashly to break in. "Shouldn't I charge you some protection money for staying out of my way?" Every time he came, I would tease him. He usually ignored me, but this time, for the first time, he spoke. "How much?" "How much will you give?" Usually when he doesn't talk, I take it as a yes. I was not short of money, and I was only joking with him, but he looked so serious, I could not live up to it. "But I don't want any money..." I thought for a moment and then said, "Now is the peach blossom is in full bloom, I have no chance to go out to see, why don't you pick some peach blossoms for me?" "Good." And with that he climbed over the window again, making it smaller as he went, for I had told him before that I was apt to get sick when I got cold from the wind. The NEXT MORNING, WHEN CUI CAME TO CLEAN ME UP, I SAW THAT THE WINDOW HAD BEEN BLOWN COMPLETELY SHUT, SO I ASKED CUI TO OPEN THE WINDOW TO LET THE AIR OUT. "Wow!" Cui went to open the window and let out a cry of surprise. I approached the window side to follow the small Cui's eyes to look out, Fangfei peach moment reflected in the eyes. Uprooted peach trees were placed across the window, like a little beauty lying on its side, in the kind of praise. "Why is there a peach tree? !!!!!!!!" Cui was surprised. "I WISH to SEE the PEACH blossom to THE BodhisATTva IN the dream last night, the Bodhisattva is kind, afraid I can't see enough, THIS is not to send me a whole tree to come." "I laughed. Cui looked at me in disbelief and then at the peach blossom trees outside the window. "Well, let the nursemaid come and plant the peach trees in the garden." ..................... Since the last time he gave me "protection money", he has not come, but even if he came, I would not care for him, because spring and summer change, I fell ill again, fever repeated, cough endless. "Ahem... Cough cough cough......" At night, I coughed a lot. I wanted to drink water, but I was so tired and weak that I called out in a hoarse voice, "Water... Cough cough cough... Water......" After calling for a moment, I thought I heard a hasty opening of the door, then felt someone lift me up by the scruff of my neck, then felt the cold China pressed against my lips, and the warm water slowly flowing down my long-dried throat. But the bottom of the glass was a little high, and some water leaked and dripped down my neck, so I grabbed his wrist and pushed his hand down. After drinking a glass of water, my cough calmed down a lot. "Tracy, stay here with me tonight." Tracy didn't say yes, he didn't say no, just like that guy. Or maybe Cui answered, but I didn't hear her in my stupor. "Tracy, your skin is getting rough." I rubbed small Cui's wrist, "It seems that there is a big circle." It is very powerful to hold and makes people feel very secure. I took hold of this wrist and slept peacefully. The next day I woke up in the sun. I was much better. I was no longer weak and I could lift myself out of bed. "Tusya... Water......" But CUI WASN'T IN THE ROOM, AND JUST AS I WONDERED IF SHE HAD GONE TO HER ROOM TO CATCH UP ON HER SLEEP, THERE WAS A KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND THEN A FEMALE VOICE. "Do you want some water, Miss?" "Be." I know the person who pushed the door and came in. She is a servant girl called Bi Yun. "What are you doing here? I asked Biyun. Bi YUN IN ORDER TO POUR A CUP OF WATER: "YESTERDAY EVENING SMALL EMERALD GREEN ELDER SISTER HOME EMERGENCY, THEN TO THE FAMILY LEAVE, MASTER SENT ME TO TAKE OVER SMALL EMERALD GREEN ELDER SISTER TO TAKE CARE OF YOUNG LADY YOU." Gone by nightfall... I looked at Biyun's slim, smooth wrist. "When did you get to Zhuangzi?" "Back TO THE WORDS OF THE YOUNG LADY, BECAUSE RECENT PERIOD OF TIME THERE IS a WANDERING BANDIT, AFTER NIGHT THE GATE IS NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER AND EXIT, SO THE MAIDSERVANT IS IN THE MORNING." Bi Yun added, "The master was worried about the safety of the young lady, and specially sent a group of escorts to come with the maids." "Well, let them keep guard in the outer court, not in the inner one." "Be." A FEW DAYS LATER, MY condition basically stabilized BACK to the previous situation, no longer repeated fever and cough, and XiaoCUI also finished her housework and returned to ZhuangzI-LI. "Cui, you go to the pond to pick some lotus for me." "What are you going to do, miss?" "Of course, to celebrate your return and the arrival of the new nurses, to make lotus soup for you." "Miss, you have just recovered from a serious illness, don't work so hard!" "The doctor said I appropriate activity beneficial to the body." However, CUI refused to PICK THE lotus seed for me. She also secretly urged the old and new nursing homes not to help me pick the lotus seed, which caused me to stagnate on the road of improving my cooking skills. But things took a turn the next morning. "Who did this, who did this? !" "Cui cried in surprise as she pushed the door open. I got up from the bed, along the small green eyes, see the window sill was filled with green lotus. "Bodhisattva," I said with a smile, "the Bodhisattva's eyes look six ways and listen to all directions, knowing that I want lotus seed, he was very merciful and picked it for me." "This......" Cui peered up and down the window. "What a magical window!"

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