The huge room was empty, and her lonely figure was stretched thin by the dim skylight.

"Rong Zhaozhao..."

Gu Changjin murmured, stepped forward quickly, took out a pill from his waist, raised his hand to wipe away the blood on her face, and squeezed open the pill with trembling hands.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." He fed the crushed medicine into the girl's mouth and urged urgently: "Swallow it, swallow it quickly."

The girl seemed not to hear it, and more and more blood flowed from her. Her jaw dropped, and suddenly she made a "wow" sound, and a large ball of black blood gushes out of her mouth. She spat out the medicine she had put into her mouth intact.

Gu Changjin took out another pill.

"It's okay, there's one more, don't be afraid, you can't chew it, I'll feed you."

He pinched open the sealing wax and stuffed the medicine into his mouth, but his throat was too dry and he couldn't secrete any saliva.

Without hesitation, he slit his wrist with the dagger at his waist, chewed the medicine through the blood, then opened Rong Shu's jaw and fed the medicine mixed with blood into it.

The smell of medicine and blood mixed together, filling the mouth and nose.

Gu Changjin put the tip of his tongue against the base of her tongue, pinched her jaw with both hands, and spoke with a hint of anxious prayer in his deep voice.

"Swallow it, Rong Zhaozhao, swallow it quickly!"

The girl in her arms half-closed her eyes, her body twitched slightly, and the medicine mixed with bright red blood escaped from her lips, "ticking" and "ticking" into the skirt of her clothes.

She couldn't swallow.

This is the "third watch day", and it is the "third watch day" that even the old doctor is helpless.

Gu Changjin's rough fingertips kept wiping the blood from the corners of her lips, and tears gradually blurred his vision.

"No." He shook his head, "Rong Zhaozhao, you can't do this."

In the hazy vision, her lips moved slowly, and Gu Changjin put his ear to her lips.

"Mom, Zhao Zhao hurts so much."

One sentence made him feel pain in his heart, like being cut into pieces by a thousand knives.

Gu Changjin pressed her face tightly, tears falling from the corners of his eyes.

What should I do, Gu Changjin, she is crying out in pain.

In a daze, he seemed to see Ah Zhui again.

It was given medicine and lay on the ground twitching slightly, foaming at the mouth, and its eyes were straight.

It looked at him, its eyes that had always been proud and unruly looked like pleading for the first time.

This mastiff, which had been growing up with him since he was born and had never shown weakness even in the face of the alpha wolf, was begging him pitifully to kill it and free it.

When the dagger pierced its heart, it let out a soft whimper, and a tear rolled out of its clear eyes.

This is Ah Zhui saying goodbye to him.

And now, she was crying out in pain.

She was crying out for pain, Gu Changjin.

Gu Changjin closed his eyes tightly, and uncontrollable sobs escaped from his tense teeth.

He raised his cold fingers and stroked her hair with his bloody lips. He then gently pressed the weak pulse under her ear and said slowly in her ear: "We are Zhaozhao. It doesn't hurt anymore.

" The girl slowly closed her eyes.

Gu Changjin let go of his hand and buried his head in her neck.

——"Gu Yunzhi, if I am a big tail sweeper, you, you are a big tail wolf."

——"There are orders at all times, Gu Ynzhi, I want you to never escape from me for the rest of your life." ——

"You . Do you know that a person's love has a time limit? Gu Yunzhi, I will not like you one day, and I will no longer like you."

- "Gu Changjin, don't you have anything to say to me?"

He liked her so much, so much.

But those unspeakable feelings, those deep-seated loves that were hard to express, would never have a chance to be told to her again.

Gu Changjin held Rong Shu motionlessly, like a statue.

Thunder rolled past, the wooden door was open, and rainwater poured in from the corridor.

Zhuiyun crossed the threshold and stood quietly behind Gu Changjin. For a long time, he said hoarsely: "Master, Chang Ji is dead."

...

The rain stopped, the clouds dispersed, and the sun shone from the east.

Gu Changjin opened his eyes in severe pain.

He stared at the beams on the roof, gasping for air. Suddenly, his throat felt sweet, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and words fell from the corner of his lips.

The charcoal in the campfire crackled, and there was no one else in the wooden house except him.

Gu Changjin's whole body was hot and his head was dizzy. The memory of her dying in his arms was mixed with the memory of her healing him, and his temples were pounding.

After a while, the man slowly turned his head and looked at the wooden door. Enduring the pain in his back, he stood up and sat down.

At this moment, the door creaked open.

The girl was covered in morning dew and walked in carrying a rough wooden basin with a chipped opening.

The young lady's satin-like black hair is spread around her shoulders, and her white jade-like little face still has round drops of water, like a newly awakened mountain spirit. She stands tall in the morning light, with a snow-skinned face, looking forward to the flight of God. .

Seeing him waking up, she raised her eyebrows in surprise, and was about to ask "Are you feeling better?" when she suddenly heard the man in front of her call softly: "Rong Zhaozhao."

His voice was extremely hoarse, and his eyes were red. The eye sockets seemed to have a layer of red rust.

Rong Shu was stunned by his call.

Catching a glimpse of his pale face, red eyes and blood stains on the corners of his lips, she became even more confused and said hesitantly: "Chang Gu..."

"I went to Four Seasons Garden."

Rong Shu was startled.

Gu Changjin stared at her, his throat was bitter and his heart seemed to be tightly grasped.

"You're crying out for pain, I heard it."

Rong Shu squeezed the wooden basin in his hand.

"After sending you to Sishiyuan, I went to Yangzhou. When you had an accident, I was in Wanping County. On September 8, the 23rd year of Jiayou, I did not receive a letter from Chang Ji, so I rushed to Sishi Yuanshi, you have been fed the 'Midnight'."

Gu Changjin looked at her and said word by word: "I was late, I didn't protect you."

He was talking about Sishiyuan. It's September 8th, the 23rd year of Jiayou's reign.

Rong Shu's fingers holding the wooden basin trembled slightly, "Gu Changjin, do you know what you are talking about?"

"Yes." Gu Changjin's bloodless lips slowly raised, "I often dream about you. , I never separated from you in the dream, and you lived in Songsi Yuan until the seventh day of July in the 23rd year of Jiayou, when I sent you to Sishiyuan. I thought it was a dream at first, but then. The dream was so real, so real that I thought it was the memory of another Gu Changjin. But now, I know that it was not the memory of another Gu Changjin, but

all the memories I had with her . Or painful memories, they are all his.

"You like to eat pine nut candies, like to pick up fallen flowers for painting, and also like to eat sweet wine. When you are drunk, you like to call me Gu Yunzhi. I originally thought that when I went to pick you up in Sishiyuan, I would personally make another bowl of longevity for you. Face."

Gu Changjin looked at Rong Shu with unconcealable persistence in his eyes. He walked towards her step by step with his bare feet.

"Rong Zhaozhao, have you ever dreamed about our past? Did you also dream about it? That's why you desperately wanted to reconcile with me and leave Songsiyuan? It was precisely because you had dreamed about it that you You will come to Yangzhou to investigate your uncle, and you will be so sure that the Cheng'an Marquis Mansion is guilty."

With a "clang", the wooden basin in Rong Shu's hand fell, and the water spilled all over the floor.

She hurriedly knelt down and tried to pick up the wooden basin, but his wrist was gently held by him.

"Rong Shu——"

"I haven't dreamed about it." Rong Shu raised his eyelashes, faced his burning gaze, and said decisively: "Gu Changjin, there is no past life between you and me, they are all dreams. ."

Gu Changjin looked at her intently, leaning a little. He lowered his eyes, held her gently trembling hand, held her in his arms, sniffed her hair, and drank in her breath almost greedily. .

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter whether it's a dream or not. It doesn't matter whether you have dreamed it or not. Rong Zhaozhao, let's start over." The man's slender, calloused fingers stroked her hair, and his thin lips lightly brushed against her ear. , said in a low voice: "This time, I will protect you and never let anyone hurt you again."

As soon as he said this, Rong Shu's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously raised his hand to push him. He was currently weak, and she used her strength to push him away in just one move.

Rong Shu picked up the wooden basin on the ground, stood up, and lowered his eyelashes to look at Gu Changjin.

She had never seen him like this.

Even that day, in the cellar of the wine shop, he had never been like this.

Rong Shu's heart was beating "thumping" and "thumping".

"Your Excellency is suffering from a high fever and is probably a little confused. What you just said, I just take it as nonsense words made by you because you are so feverish." She paused and then said, "I will bring you some more water." Come on, you only slept for an hour, so you should go back to bed and rest."

After saying this, she walked out of the room without waiting for Gu Changjin's reply.

The cool breeze from the mountains blew slowly through the branches and leaves, and the chirping of birds echoed in the valley.

Rong Shu rubbed his arms and regretted not taking out the linoleum cloth from the wooden house.

Everything was ready in the wooden house, except for water. After Gu Changjin passed out, she noticed that he had a high fever and wanted to feed him some water, but she searched all over the house and couldn't find even a drop of water.

Since the owner of the wooden house did not prepare water, she guessed that there must be a water source nearby. He dug out a notched wooden basin and went out to look for water at dawn. After walking for less than a cup of tea, she found a small stream.

This small stream is only two people wide and winds down from the mountain. The water is gurgling and as clear as a mirror.

At this time, Rong Shu looked at the hibiscus face reflected in the water, and remembered the burning eyes of Gu Changjin looking at her just now, and her heart, which had just calmed down, started pounding again.

I felt confused for a moment.

He said he went to the Four Seasons Garden, but that meant that the "swallow it" that she once thought was a hallucination was not a hallucination at all, but that he had arrived.

On the night when she was poisoned in Yilanzhu, he had fed her a pill, and at that time he also said "swallow it" to her.

Did he feed her medicine in his previous life?

But by the time he arrived, the poison had already entered her heart, and she ignored the medicine and died in his arms.

Rong Shu picked up a handful of water and washed his face again.

The cold stream water in the early morning gradually cooled down her panicked heart, and the slightly dazed peach blossom eyes reflected in the water gradually returned to calm.

She already has a clue about the case between the Shen family and the Rong family. As long as everything goes well, she and her mother will be able to leave for Beijing in a few months. By then, whether you go to Datong or to other places, it will be a different world with high sky and vast sea.

She subconsciously said she didn't dream just now because she didn't want to get involved in Gu Changjin's matter anymore.

She had already let go of her past with him in her previous life.

Just like she said to him in the cellar, it doesn't matter whether he likes her or not.

Rong Shu got the water and was about to walk back. After walking a few steps, her steps suddenly stopped.

Gu Changjin just now said that he first went to Yangzhou to check on his uncle, and then went to Wanping County. On September 8, when she drank the poisonous wine in Sishiyuan, Gu Changjin was in Wanping County.

Wanping County is under the jurisdiction of Shuntian Prefecture, and is only a two-hour drive from Shangjing. Zhuangzi, a member of the Cheng'an Marquis Mansion, is located in Wanping County.

Rong Shu's eyelids twitched, and he suddenly thought of a possibility.

The pace under her feet suddenly quickened. As she approached the wooden house, she raised her eyes and caught a glimpse of the figure leaning against the door, but her steps stopped again.

In the thick shadow of the trees, he saw a tall and erect man standing there. His brows and eyes seemed to have regained their former composure, and he became the familiar Gu Changjin who was familiar with Rong Shu.

Rong Shu felt relieved for some reason.

She walked quickly towards him and said, "Mr. Gu, you went to Wanping County in your dream. Do you remember where in Wanping County you went?"

When she left, she said that was where he started. She had heard Gao Re's confused words, but now she was asking clearly because she knew that his dream was never just a dream.

Gu Changjin looked at her quietly, and after a long while, he said warmly: "It's a village in Wanping County. That village is under your aunt's name."