Shen Dingzhu felt a headache, which was severe.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw the warm sunshine shining in the gorgeous palace. She was a little stunned. Just as she was about to sit up, she hissed in pain.
She stretched out her hand and touched her head gently, only to touch a white bandage tangled in black hair, with a strong medicinal fragrance.
"Your Majesty is awake!" A voice of surprise came from the door. Shen Bi took the medicine and hurried to the bed with a look of joy on her face.
As her voice fell, many people from the palace crowded in at the door.
"Great, it's a near miss!" Xiucui patted her chest with emotion.
With so many people around, Shen Dingzhu's beautiful eyes looked confused: "Why are you all here?"
Chunxi was worried: "My dear, you don't know that you fell into the lake and hit your head on the white stone, leaving a long gash. You have been unconscious for three days!"
"Yes, your Majesty," Xiucui said, "The emperor stayed up for several nights to keep an eye on you. It was only now that the ministers came to persuade him that he went to the side hall to lie down for a while."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Langyan's voice came from the door: "The Queen is awake, right? Go and tell Gui Guzi and Doctor Cen to come over immediately."
In order to save Shen Dingzhu's life, even Gui Guzi was invited into the palace.
Shen Dingzhu's black hair was draped over her shoulders, and her face was as big as a palm. When she saw Xiao Langyan's figure, she turned pale, and her eyes were filled with dark trembling.
Xiao Langyan's tall figure walked to the couch and sat down. He held her hand out of habit.
Shen Dingzhu quickly flinched, and Xiao Langyan and the palace officials present were stunned.
They looked at the surprise, confusion, and confusion on Shen Dingzhu's face.
"Concubine...concubine is not dead?"
Looking at her twinkling beautiful eyes, Xiao Langyan calmed down and said, "No, you just broke your head. The imperial doctor said you need to stay in bed to recuperate. Don't worry, Che'er will be fine too."
Shen Dingzhu stared at him blankly, her pale lips opening and closing: "What is the emperor talking about? Isn't this concubine poisoned and almost dead? Who is Che'er...?"
The people present took a deep breath.
Xiao Langyan looked at her with thin eyes, trying to see any flaw in her porcelain face. However, all he saw was her uneasiness and unfamiliar eyes.
He frowned, just as Dr. Cen and the ghost doctor arrived, Xiao Langyan immediately stepped aside: "Come and show the queen, she doesn't remember anyone!"
Dr. Cen and the ghost doctor took turns taking pulses. Xiao Langyan's face was as serious as a cloud, and Shen Dingzhu looked at him uneasily. It took a while to react.
Did he just call her queen?
When did she become the queen...
Why is she here...
Shen Dingzhu tried to remember something, but felt that his mind was blank, and all he remembered were incomplete memories.
"My head hurts." She closed her eyes in pain.
The ghost doctor took back his hand and nodded towards Dr. Cen, who looked solemn.
"Your Majesty, I have just discussed with the ghost doctor that there may be blood stasis in the Queen's brain, which may affect the meridians, so she has forgotten some things in the past."
The ghost doctor said more straightforwardly: "It's just amnesia."
Xiao Langyan's heart suddenly sank.
"Is there any way to cure it?"
The ghost doctor nodded: "It needs acupuncture treatment to remove the blood stasis, but when it will be cured... it depends on luck."
Shen Dingzhu also heard their conversation. She opened her beautiful eyes and felt terrified about the lost memory.
She seems to have forgotten a lot of things.
Xiao Langyan's back was deep, like a silent mountain. After a while, he said: "You all step back, Dr. Cen and Dr. Ghost will prescribe medicine and acupuncture as normal, and they will inform me of the treatment strategy later."
"Yes." Everyone left one after another.
After the palace door closed, Shen Dingzhu looked at Xiao Langyan, with only uneasiness and confusion in his eyes.
Xiao Langyan took a step closer, and she backed away slightly until she shrank to a corner of the bed.
"Shen Dingzhu..." Xiao Langyan sat on the corner of the bed, his thin eyes sinking in pain, and his voice was hoarse and low, "Have you forgotten all the good things I have done to you?"
Shen Dingzhu had never seen Xiao Langyan like this before. In her impression, the emperor always had a cold face and occasionally smiled, but the smile was always indifferent.
She opened her lips: "I don't know..."
Xiao Langyan stretched out his hand, and Shen Dingzhu hesitated for a moment before placing her slender palm in his palm.
"How could you not remember that we finally put aside our past grudges and opened our hearts to each other? How could you forget at this time?"
Xiao Langyan's voice was full of grief. He held Shen Dingzhu's fingertips, but felt that her hands were extremely cold.
When he took her out of the water, she was also so cold.
During the days when she was in coma, Xiao Langyan had been begging her to be okay, but now that she was awake, she had cut the two of them into pieces and couldn't remember the difficulties they had experienced along the way.
Shen Dingzhu asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, who is the Cheer you just mentioned...?"
Why did she have the urge to cry when she mentioned this name?
Xiao Langyan gave a bitter smile: "It's our son. In order to save him, you fell into the water and hurt your head."
Shen Dingzhu's beautiful eyes suddenly widened, looking very surprised.
"Didn't I, my concubine, have a miscarriage?"
At this point, Xiao Langyan finally understood that Shen Dingzhu had confused what happened in her dream with what she had actually experienced.
Like two intersecting lines, she only remembered that she had a miscarriage.
"No, you gave birth to a son and a daughter for me. The daughter is already over five years old."
Shen Dingzhu seemed to remember something, and she murmured: "Cheng... Xincheng?"
Xiao Langyan's thin eyes lit up: "It's her, my daughter Chengcheng, you still remember, it turns out that you have not completely forgotten."
When Shen Dingzhu thought about it more deeply, she felt a headache as if it was torn apart. She frowned with a painful look on her face.
Xiao Langyan quickly asked her to lie down: "You should have a good rest first. Don't be anxious about amnesia. Take your time. I will be watching over you."
Seeing his gentle and delicate appearance, with the lingering sadness in his thin eyes, Shen Dingzhu was in a daze.
Why did I instinctively want to hug him when I saw his eyes red?
But how had she and Xiao Langyan ever been so close?
After Shen Dingzhu fell asleep, Xiao Langyan went to see Dr. Cen and the ghost doctor.
Based on Shen Dingzhu's situation, the two imperial doctors suggested to Xiao Langyan: "If the empress has a deep memory of the child, start with the child and mention more about what happened before. Maybe it can help her recover her memory."
So in the next few days, Xiao Langyan had a pair of children sent to Fengyi Palace to accompany Shen Dingzhu.
"Mother, do you really not remember Chengcheng?" Xiao Xincheng tugged on Shen Dingzhu's sleeves and looked at her pitifully.
Shen Dingzhu touched her soft little face, and a word suddenly came to her mind, and she read it out: "Nanzhou?"
Xiao Langyan, who was holding Xiao Xingche at the side, suddenly raised his eyebrows and said in surprise: "Yes, you are Chengcheng who was born in Nanzhou."
This method suggested by Dr. Cen and Dr. Ghost is very effective.
Shen Dingzhu remembered things about the two children bit by bit.
After that, Xiao Langyan invited Shen's father, Shen's mother, and Shen Dingzhu's brother and sister-in-law to the palace to accompany her.
Seeing her family, Shen Dingzhu burst into tears. She kept muttering: "I thought you were dead."
Mother Shen held her hand tightly, with tears in her eyes: "Daughter, what nonsense are you talking about? We were picked up by the emperor from Mobei a long time ago. Have you forgotten?"
A month later, the white bandage on Shen Dingzhu's head could be removed. With the ghost doctor's acupuncture, she also recalled many fragmented memories.
For example, how she and her daughter depended on each other in Nanzhou, how she gave birth to her son in danger, and how she struggled to make a living in Beiliang.
She remembered things about her family and children, but forgot many details about getting along with Xiao Langyan.
Because every time she thinks of some sweet past, a strange memory will flood into her mind.
In those memories, there always seemed to be an insurmountable chasm between the two of them. They were entangled and hurt each other, and in the end they always broke up on bad terms.
When Shen Dingzhu woke up occasionally, she would see Xiao Langyan, his eyes as cold as water and as deep as the sea of sorrow, sitting quietly beside her bed.
"It seems that I really hurt you deeply in your dream. It turns out that fate is fair. The mistakes I made in the past have caused today's karma. Making you forget me is the cruelest retribution."
