After dawn, Doctor Yu came to check Xie Tingzhou's pulse.
Xie Tingzhou's condition has not improved much. This is a serious illness that cannot be cured in a day or two.
Xie Tingzhou took the medicine and fell asleep again. Shen Yu followed Doctor Yu out and closed the door.
The two of them walked to the other side of the eaves, and Shen Yu finally said, "Thank you for your hard work, Doctor Yu."
Doctor Yu was flattered and hurriedly handed over his hand, "I don't dare. I will seek my position in this position. The prince's body is my task."
Shen Yu said: "I still have to thank him. I'm not with him, so Doctor Yu has done a lot of work to take care of me."
Shen Yu cried for a long time in the middle of the night, and her eyes were still red and swollen. Doctor Yu just thought she was worried about Xie Tingzhou's health. After taking one look at her, he didn't dare to offend her again and lowered his head to reply.
"Your Majesty, you need to take your time to recover from your illness. Don't rush it. Princess, please relax and do your best."
Shen Yu looked at the snow under the dead trees, "I should come back early."
Doctor Yu could tell from her tone that she was blaming herself, and hurriedly advised her: "Princess, please don't blame yourself. The prince has been holding on all the way. When he heard the news of the princess's disappearance, it was just that he could no longer hold on, not the princess. 's fault."
Shen Yu frowned, "If there's anything that needs attention, Doctor Yu will tell me first, so I can pay more attention."
There were servants at home, and the guards were used to taking care of them. There was no shortage of manpower, but Shen Yu felt more at ease knowing that she knew about it.
Doctor Yu briefly explained what needed to be paid attention to and then left. Carrying the medicine box and walking out of the courtyard, a man suddenly appeared from the corridor next to him and stopped in front of him.
Doctor Yu patted his chest, "I was shocked. Is General Shen looking for the princess?"
"No." Shen Zhao said solemnly, "I'll just look for you."
……
This year seems to have been extremely long.
Xie Tingzhou was in poor health and was not suitable for traveling around and working hard. Besides, there was nothing urgent at the moment and he had been shut down in recent years, so he simply settled down in Ganzhou.
Xie Tingzhou has been able to get out of bed these days.
Qingyunwei's best military craftsman made a deck chair and placed it by the window with a thick mattress on it. Sometimes Xie Tingzhou could lie on it and bask in the warm winter sun.
Xie Tingzhou was free, and Shen Yu still had post-war military affairs to deal with every day.
The maid stood at the door holding the clothes and did not dare to go in without permission. She handed the clothes to Xi Feng, and Xi Feng took the things in again.
Xie Tingzhou was reading on the recliner when he saw Xifeng coming in. He looked at the thing in his hand and asked, "Is it the princess's armor?"
"Yes." Xifeng responded: "The maid washed it and brought it to you."
"give it to me."
Xie Tingzhou put down the book, picked up Shen Yu's armor and put it on his knees, and began to check it bit by bit.
A long time ago, before they got married, he used her clothes to see if she was injured in the same way, and now he can also see the traces of battle from her armor.
There were some knife marks on the armor, and the back armor was dented by cuts, but fortunately it was not broken, thanks to the old prince using the best materials and the best military craftsmen to create the armor.
Xie Tingzhou couldn't help but feel distressed and put his armor on his knees to calm down.
After Shen Yu came back from handling military affairs, she stepped into the room and saw such a scene, and her heart suddenly thumped.
Damn it, she forgot something very important.
"It's just the armor, there's nothing to see." Shen Yu walked over, picked up the armor and was about to stuff it into the box.
Xie Tingzhou looked at her back, "It's just me, what's going on?"
Shen Yu closed the box and turned around and said, "Aren't you afraid that you will feel sorry for me?"
Xie Tingzhou glanced at her sideways, "Do you still know that I feel sorry for you?"
Shen Yu walked closer and squatted beside him, tapping her finger on his chest, "I'll return this sentence to you intact."
Xie Tingzhou smiled lightly, "Sharp teeth and sharp mouth."
"The Chinese New Year will be here in a few days." Shen Yu suddenly said, "There is no New Year flavor here at all."
"It's the same as the palace in Shengjing." Xie Tingzhou looked out the window.
Last year during the Chinese New Year, the palace in Shengjing was also deserted. They had two bowls of noodles cooked by Shen Yu at the palace in Shengjing. At that time, no one thought that they would become an inseparable part of each other.
"Chang Liu likes to make things difficult." Shen Yu stood up and said, "I asked him and Xi Xi to arrange the arrangements. He was determined to be happy."
Xie Tingzhou watched Shen Yu run out, lifted the blanket, stood up, and took out the armor from the box.
Shen Yu made arrangements in a short while. Changliu and Xixi were still children, and they took the money and ran very fast.
Xi Feng brought the medicine over again, and Shen Yu took the medicine into the house. When she entered the door, she glanced at Xie Tingzhou and saw that he had the armor on his lap again.
"Why did you turn it over again?"
Shen Yu put the medicine tray on the table, picked up the bowl and tested the temperature. It was still a little hot.
Xie Tingzhou didn't answer her. The room was so quiet that Shen Yu finally noticed something strange.
She turned her head and saw Xie Tingzhou's eyes half closed, and the light coming in from the window made his face pale.
Shen Yu swallowed, walked over guiltily, picked up the armor, and put it back into the box.
When she turned around, she saw Xie Tingzhou getting up and walking towards her, holding a thin piece of paper in his lowered hand.
Shen Yu's heart suddenly tightened, but she still let him see it.
Xie Tingzhou approached her, "And this."
Shen Yu looked at what he handed over and didn't dare to reach out to take it.
Xie Tingzhou just stared at her face without saying a word. When she slowly raised her hand, his fingertips loosened, and the piece of paper filled with words on the front and back passed her fingers and fell.
"Shen Yu." Xie Tingzhou said, "You are so cruel."
The curtain of the bedroom was raised and lowered, but Shen Yu was still standing there.
She picked up the letter on the ground and hated herself for thinking so carefully in the first place.
She is not invincible, so she has thought about the possibility of losing this battle beforehand.
Shen Yu was afraid that she would be defeated and could not leave him a message, so she wrote a suicide note. She was also afraid that the suicide note would be damaged, so she imitated Qichang's bandits and carefully sealed the suicide note with wax in the interlayer of her armor.
After coming back, Shen Yu completely forgot about it. She only remembered when she saw Xie Tingzhou checking the armor before he arrived, so she quickly put it away in the box without him noticing.
But it still couldn't escape his eyes.
Xie Tingzhou just called her by her full name, he was really angry and hurt.
Nothing is more uncomfortable than seeing your lover's last words. Shen Yu put herself in his shoes and thought about it. If she were to see Xie Tingzhou's last words, she would definitely not be able to bear it.
The medicine on the table has not been drunk yet, and it will become cold if it is left on.
Shen Yu brought the medicine in, sat beside the bed and whispered, "Drink the medicine first, okay?"
Xie Tingzhou lay on his side on the couch, with his back to her, without speaking or moving.
Shen Yu waited for a while with the medicine in hand. Seeing that he had made up his mind to ignore her, she took the medicine and went out to the kitchen to heat it up. She took advantage of this time to think about how to coax him later.
Xie Tingzhou heard the sound of the door closing and slowly opened his eyes, his eyes filled with scarlet red.
Soldiers would leave messages for their families before going off to war. She thought that she might die in battle, so she left him a suicide note.
She must have pretended to be strong in every place where the sun shone, and refused to show any timidity in front of the soldiers, but she was truly afraid in the deserted night.
Therefore, the handwriting on the letter paper varied in weight. She must have thought of something and added it again, fearing that she would not be able to finish what she said to him.
Xie Tingzhou's heart ached severely.
