Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other Chapter 55: (complete)

As soon as I arrived at the Qingzhou Yamen, I heard that Zhao Shoufu's daughter was injured when the officers and soldiers captured the traitor. Fortunately, Master Song rescued him in time, and there was no danger of his life. When I asked how she was injured, the prefect of Qingzhou hesitated and did not know how to answer, only that Zhao Qianjin had settled in his mansion to rest and sent someone to take care of her, and there would be no serious problem.

It's already the second watch. Song Langsheng and his party are still resting in the barracks. After a little thought, I decided to visit Zhao Yanran first. If she's okay, I don't have to. Do more.

As soon as anyone wanted to enter the mansion, there was a great commotion. The maids in the mansion looked flustered, and the doctors hurried to the inner courtyard.

It turns out that Zhao Yanran committed suicide.

Maybe it can't be said that she is making trouble. The doctor said that the strength of her wrist cutting was unequivocal. It took a lot of effort to stop the bleeding.

The prefect was so frightened that his face turned ashen, except for scolding the servant girl who was serving him, he could only beg my pardon in a trembling manner.

I don't think he can be blamed for this, since I'm also a very experienced person in suicide. If a person really wants to die, he can die by burying his head in the bed and biting his tongue. How can others stop him?

Fortunately, Zhao Yanran didn't deserve to die. After stopping the bleeding and pouring medicine, she fell into a deep sleep. She probably won't have the strength to bite her tongue in the short term.

I asked those little maids who were too scared to find the north to retreat, and went into the room alone to sit with Zhao Yanran.

On the bed, Zhao Yanran's face was bloodless, and her body trembled unconsciously. The thick bandage between her left wrist was still oozing blood, and there was also a thin sword on her neck.

I closed my eyes, as if I could imagine the scene when Zhao Yanran asked Nie Ran to hold her with a long sword.

The blood on her neck was very shallow, probably the result of Nie Ran's timely movement of the sword.

I sighed. I don't know how to convince Yanran to let go of this obsession. Even I don't want to hit the wall, so how can my words be convincing.

I made the bedding for her and was about to get up and leave when I saw her slowly opening her eyes. I didn't expect her to wake up so quickly. She didn't think about what to say for a while, but she sat up with gritted teeth, looked at me quietly and said, "Princess...why are you here?"

"I...was entrusted by Ling Zun to take you back...Yanran, this is the end, why bother..."

Zhao Yanran narrowed her brows when she heard the words, and she asked in a low voice, "Is brother Ran... can't escape death?"

I didn't want to deceive her, so I was silent for a moment and nodded.

A look of pain appeared on her silent face, and she couldn't help grabbing my sleeve, "Can you save him?"

I shook my head slightly.

"But you clearly promised me..."

"This moment, that moment," I interrupted her, "Nie Ran is the heir of the previous dynasty, and he has the intention of rebelling. The incident is imminent, and no one can save him."

Zhao Yanran trembled slightly, "If my brother dies, I can't live alone..."

I couldn't bear to say: "This matter is related to the safety of the country and the peace of the people. Even your father can't change it. How can you make these children's love be shaken? If you commit suicide, you can only let you Father, the white-haired man gives the black-haired man a grudge, how can you bear it?"

"The safety of the country...the peace of the people..." Zhao Yanran knelt on the bed and curled her lips, but her eyes were full of tears, "I heard that your concubine was also accused of being a treasonous former emperor. Si, but you would rather die to save him and lead him to escape, why didn't you think about the safety of the country and the peace of the people at that time?"

"Because I believe the concubine would not do such a thing..."

"Then why don't you want to believe Brother Ran!" Zhao Yanran complained in a hoarse voice, "You have already sentenced him to death in your heart, but never gave him a chance!"

I said: "The facts are in front of me, all his actions are..."

"What did he do? What did you see? He did so much for you, did you see it?" Zhao Yanran cut me off, "For whom did he get sacked? And for who would rather be in danger without taking the antidote? Oh, you still don't know how he was caught, right? It was your good concubine who released the news that you were murdered by traitors in the capital, He was clearly about to meet with Xia Yanghou, but he couldn't take it easy. He said that he wanted to look back to confirm your safety. Who would have known that he was trapped in layers of arrows! I wanted him to take me as a hostage and take me away, but he pushed it away. I don't want to do any more resistance, you say that he is all about treason, but what I see is that he regards you as more important than his great cause of restoring the country!"

I stood up suddenly, "You don't need to say anymore..."

"If Your Royal Highness has no guilt in her heart, what would you not dare to listen to?" Zhao Yanran looked at me and smiled sadly, "Anyway, at this point of the day, what should be said and what should not be said, so why not say it? Haven't you always wanted to know what happened to him when he lost his memory of you overnight a year ago?"

My heart shuddered and I stared at her blankly.

"Or... I should start talking about it two years ago..." She said, "Princess, have you ever thought about who gave Brother Ran the forgetfulness and let him live in the folklore? ?"

"It's the current emperor, your father emperor." She said word by word: "He ordered my father to inflict this strange poison on the prince of Xia Yanghou. My father couldn't find a chance, so he faked his hand on me, and he put his hand on me for my sake. Brother Ran was drugged in the cakes made, do you know? Brother Ran's poison... I fed it myself..."

Zhao Yanran saw me with a shocked face, but instead smiled, "These are what my father told me just a few days ago. He said that the emperor wanted Xia Yanghou to run around for this purpose and did not intend to increase troops. My father even sent a killer. He secretly forced Brother Ran into a desperate situation, and in the end the killers were killed, but Brother Ran was nowhere to be seen, and since then, there has been no news, and his life and death are unknown..."

I opened my lips slightly, and the voice was so soft that I could barely hear myself, "Father..."

Zhao Yanran's eyes gradually lost focus, she raised her hand and wiped her tears, "While all of us were trying to find him, Brother Ran was left in a small village, he had no memory, he became A little fisherman who lives and rests at sunrise until he saves a girl from a natural disaster..."

I looked at Zhao Yanran in disbelief, "You...how are you..."

She didn't answer my words, but said quietly: "The girl had a serious leg injury. In order to save her life, he and Qing Gu reached an agreement to test the medicine. But the girl was leaving, and before she left, she gave him a name, Xu Fang."

"After the girl left, Xu Fang sat on the seaside for a day, until the sky lanterns came up at night, and he saw a rainbow-colored lamp in the distance. For no reason, he followed the sky. I ran all the way in the direction of the lamp, but saw the girl and her sweetheart hugging and crying..."

"He knew that the girl was actually the princess of today, and that graceful man was her concubine."

"It didn't take long for Xia Yanghou to find him and told him all about his life experience. I hope he can go back with him and take care of his body slowly. Quietly rushed to the capital, jumped off the cliff with the princess, and led the princess to escape far away."

A certain boulder in my heart was heavy, and I opened my eyes wide, unable to believe what I was hearing for a long time, "These...why do you know these things?"

"Why would I know?" She smiled suddenly, tears rolling down her cheeks as she raised her eyes again, "Can you answer me a question before I answer your question?"

I froze all over, and before I could react, I heard her voice fall, "At that time, you liked Xu Fang so much, if he hadn't changed back, hadn't forgotten you and left you, in the end you would have recovered everything. Will you leave him?"

I have been asked this question over and over again, but I never want to think about it. Every time I think about it, I just feel like something is blocking my chest, but today Zhao Yanran said a few words, but I don't know why As if revealing the answer that had been buried in my heart, I closed my eyes, "What exactly do you want to say?"

"You dare not answer because you are afraid that you will not be able to face your concubine if you answer," Zhao Yanran said, "But I know that if Xu Fang never leaves you, you will definitely go with him. of..."

"Yan Ran!"

"Princess... Do you know that at that time Xu Fang, no, was Xu Fang who had already remembered all the memories of Nie Ran, and how hard he tried to be with you... For you, he could Abandon all of him..." Zhao Yanran's eyes were flushed, "The night you arrived in Suiyang, at Nie's house, everyone knelt down to him, even the old marquis kowtowed and begged him..."

All the people of the Nie family, all the elders, clansmen, and loyal servants who supported him and protected him since childhood, are using their lives to beg him to stay.

It was a responsibility and kindness that was as heavy as Mount Tai, but at that moment he was devastated.

"Even so, he still has to leave—for you, you have no idea what he gave up for you!" Zhao Yanran's face paled, "Did you know... Qing Gu has already removed the most deadly wounds from him. Poison, even if you don't take the antidote, you won't have life worries for the time being, if it wasn't for the sudden antidote, you wouldn't have been separated!"

Hearing this, I finally couldn't hold back the shock in my heart, and unconsciously took two steps back, "An antidote?"

"Yes, the antidote, in order to win the trust of Marquis Xiayang, your good concubine ordered someone to send the antidote to the poison given by the emperor," Zhao Yanran sneered: "It was the antidote that rekindled Nie The hope of the family, they asked countless guards to block the way, and they forced Brother Ran to restrain him and give him the antidote..."

"Princess, the person who made Xu Fang disappear into this world is none other than Song Langsheng." She took a long breath, "This is what my father said, if you don't believe it, you can ask your Concubine, if he hadn't delivered the antidote, would there still be Nie Ran in the world who intends to rebel?!"

I involuntarily grabbed the front of my clothes and felt my whole body trembling slightly, "My concubine... he doesn't know the inside story.

"Fortune tricks people?" Zhao Yanran raised her head, and she was at a loss for a moment, "Could it be that one sentence of fortune tricks people can easily ruin a person's life?!"

I shook my head and clenched the fists buried in my sleeves tightly, "But Xu Fang has disappeared, no matter what the reason is, the current Nie Ran steals military talismans, recruits old troops, disrupts the capital, and so on. They are all actions that endanger the leadership of the dynasty and shake the country! What he does is what he does, and it is not that you can change the current facts by telling me something inside..."

"No..." Zhao Yanran bit her lower lip, tears flashing, "You thought he disappeared, but he didn't, he didn't..."

I was shocked, "You, what did you say?"

Her eyes fell silently on a burden at the end of the bed, "This is the end, why should I continue to hide it?" After speaking, she turned around, spread the burden, and pressed it on the bottom layer. He took out the same thing wrapped in silk cloth and opened it, revealing a thick envelope, "This is... a letter from Xu Fang to Nie Ran, and I have always kept it for me..."

She handed the letter to me slowly, "I think, the one who really needs to read this letter...is Princess you..."

It turns out that Zhao Yanran never burned the letter.

I hesitated for a moment and took it slowly, but I felt that the letter was so hot that I didn't even have the courage to unpack it for a while.

Zhao Yanran said solemnly: "On that day, after taking the antidote, he was trapped in the Nie Mansion. The guards were heavily guarded, and he was unable to escape from the inn to find you. The medicine made him sleepy and unbearable. He knew that as soon as he fell asleep, he would forget all the memories of Xu Fang... So, he took a dagger and stabbed a hole in his leg whenever he was too sleepy to support him, forcing himself to stay awake, and then... Writing this thick stack of letters..."

I pulled out the letter with trembling hands. When the familiar handwriting came into view, my vision suddenly became hazy, and tears poured out, drowning everything.

Zhao Yanran's voice was like cotton wool, "He was lying in front of the desk, suffering from the pain in his heart, so he wrote a letter for a whole day, and all the bits and pieces of being with you, It's all written on paper... He doesn't know what else he can do, but he doesn't want to forget you, no matter what happened in the past or what happens in the future, his only wish... just wants to remember you, that's all... …”

The sound of the wind blew like weeping, the clouds covered the full moon, and everything around me was mottled and dim.

The little bit of ink that can be touched by the fingertips is so clear.

I used to think, what was Xu Fang doing before he changed back to Nie Ran, what was he thinking about, would he miss me?

The answer was on the stationery in front of me. I looked at it and tears suddenly fell.

He said: Hefeng is still waiting for me at the inn, I can't go back, will she come to me, but I'm gone, where can she go to find me.

He said: I thought she would be a new beginning to end my wasted time, but I didn't wake up until I recovered all my memories. Those short days were a dream out of Nie Ran's reach. , everything is gone.

He said: I have been responsible since I was a child, and everyone around me has high expectations for me. Someone always tells me where I come from, how many people have exchanged my life for blood and flesh and blood, and they expect me Don't forget national hatred, I want to keep it in my heart day and night, but no one has ever asked me if I want to live in hatred. Later, when I became Xu Fang, I realized that if Nie Ran grew up in an ordinary family and didn't have to shoulder the responsibility of restoring the country, he would be such a person, a completely different person from Nie Ran.

He said: Nie Ran, I know that when you read this letter, you may be dismissive and take it as your own amnesia, but what I want to tell you is that in the vast world, there are so many living beings , only she can redeem you.

He said: I miss her, but after today, I can't even miss her. Not willing, really not willing to forget her, Nie Ran, can you remember her for me, can you keep her for me, can you promise me that you will never do anything to hurt her.

My heart felt like something was suddenly grabbed by something. The pain was so painful that I could barely breathe. This stack of letters was heavy in my hand, and I couldn't hold it. , slid along the wall and fell to the ground, but the words that Xu Fang asked me in the past echoed in my mind——

"Hefeng, in case, I mean in case...one day I do something bad, will you ignore me?"

I wonder, "What's wrong?"

He looked up to the sky, "Probably those bad things that harm the country and the people..."

I couldn't help laughing out loud, "It's just you? It's harming the country and the people? What harm? Use a fishing net or a fishing rod, hahaha..."

"...This is not an analogy... The person who answers the question should respect this if..."

"Oh..." I stuck out my tongue and thought for a while, "If...if this happens...then I'll definitely ignore you..."

He sighed, "Well, I thought you would say things like 'Even if you are against the world, I will be on your side'... so disappointed..."

I glanced at him sideways, "Am I such a right and wrong person?" Seeing that he didn't turn his head back, I couldn't help but smile, "However, as long as I'm here, I won't let you in by mistake. If you go astray, no matter what you become in the future, even if you make a mistake, I will definitely pull you back!

He turned his head, his eyes were like the warm sun in winter, gentle and smart, "Really?"

"That's of course, with the wind, it's hard to catch up with eight horses!"

"Quickly pull the hook..."

“…”

Xu Fang, Xu Fang.

In the end, it was me who failed to keep the promise.

The trembling sensation rose from the soles of my feet. I closed my eyes and let the tears flow down my cheeks. After a long time, I heard my hoarse voice: "These letters... Did Nie Ran read them?"

Zhao Yanran shook her head gently, "No... Maybe he felt something in his heart and was afraid that this letter would shake his determination... When I thought that he who forgot you would not be tempted to you again, I also I had selfishly thought of burying it all and making it a permanent past... but..."

She choked, raised her fingers to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and stared at me, "On that day, we were ambushed in the woods and fell off a cliff. When you were swept away by the flood, then brother, he Immediately let me grab the vines, the next moment, he jumped into the water without thinking, and was swept away by the river in your direction..."

I looked up suddenly, and for a split second, I almost thought I was hallucinating.

Zhao Yanran said slowly: "Later, Brother Ran tried his best to rescue you, but your arrow wound was too heavy, and the ordinary doctor was helpless. He didn't dare to disturb Xia Yanghou and asked Zhou Wen to come to Zhou Wen with a thousand gold. Yu treated you...the two days when you were in a coma, he stayed by your side every step of the way. I asked him why he would save you regardless of his life. When you disappeared in front of him, his only thought was to never let anything happen to you..."

All this, after all, why?

She raised her lips slightly, and her eyes filled with tears again, "After he rescued you from the gate of hell, he warned himself that he couldn't sink deeper, so he asked Zhou Wenyu to take you away, and he fabricated it just to rescue you by accident. Lie... But he was still worried, so... he followed you quietly all the way. When you were cold, he asked the proprietress of the inn to pretend to be a kind person to take you in; if you were hungry, he would give money to the street vendors and let them feed you food; Seeing that someone is going to plot against you, he will take the lead and clean up those people..."

Zhao Yanran saw my face in disbelief, and she asked: "Do you really think that you can return to the capital from Suiyang without incident because of a weak woman with no money?"

I didn't understand, and murmured to her: "Why? Why did he do this?"

"You still don't understand at this moment?" Zhao Yanran's eyes were bright and dim, she pointed to the position of her heart with her hand, and said word by word: "Even if his memory is gone, the memory of You have forgotten your past, but in his heart, he still remembers that he loves you! Xu Fang has never disappeared, he has always lived in Nie Ran's heart! Xu Fang has been waiting for you to find him back! It's you... ...you gave him up..."

This answer, like a thunderbolt, smashed me straight, and I froze there, speechless for a long time.

Zhao Yanran raised her foggy eyes and said slowly: "Xu Fang once told me that what was written in this letter was to make Nie Ran change back to him, I couldn't hold back my curiosity and read it quietly, I didn't know until the end... what does that sentence mean..."

Finally?

I lowered my eyelashes and looked at the letters scattered all over the floor. I slowly stretched out my hand and searched one by one until I finally found the last page of the letter.

At the entrance, the handwriting has been distorted——

When Nie Ran falls in love with Hefeng, he will be the one who protects Hefeng.

Zhifeng, Xu Fang will definitely see you again. I firmly believe.

——(End of this chapter)

The author has something to say: I finally clarified the doubts in the first two chapters in 40w words~~~

In the process of writing articles, people often ask me why Nie Ran and Xu Fang are so different, and why memory can change people's temperament.

I haven't answered you guys because I want to wait until this chapter to give you an answer.

Because Xu Fang is Nie Ran's purest form, but the world is impermanent, and the unsatisfactory things in life are the top ten.

Regarding that answer, if Xu Fang hadn't changed back to Nie Ran, would the princess leave him?

The princess's inner answer was: she would not leave, because she belonged to Xu Fang at that time. Even if the memory of the concubine was restored, it was only a memory that made people feel regretful - just like this moment, she would not because Xu Fang's truth shakes his heart with his concubine.

The next chapter will release the concubine~~~

Good night~~~