Chapter Twenty-Eight: Rouge Blood Sprinkled with Acacia Beans (1)
The purple-red sunset is like a magnificent lingering wine that gradually intoxicates the sunset, and the sunken light pours on people with a slight taste. The hazy sleepiness of the pen and the fun and the www.biquge.info pavilion hit, and the people endured their tired bodies, and under the body of the drum, they returned home like ants returning to their nests.
The dry smoke from the firecrackers followed like inexhaustible tears and sadness in the Qingming sacrifice basin, if you ignore the red flower balls on the musical instrument, to Chu Yunxi's ears, this celebratory wedding gong and drum is no different from the suona horn of the funeral. It was a pity that the people on the side of the street could not see the mournful face of the person who rode at the head of the procession hidden under the gauze hat, but was only excited and joyed by the joy and color of the procession, and the laughter that came from watching the lively onlookers only increased the sadness and indignation in her heart.
From the most remote south of the city to the most prosperous Suzaku Street, it takes several hours to detour. As soon as the curfew passed, the streets fell silent. The patrol soldiers who met them would not be as fierce as if they had seen ordinary people, but bowed down and congratulated them with a kind face. The curious citizens who lived on the side of the street could only stand in the courtyard and listen to the sound of the hooves of the horses marching through the wedding caravan, and envy the wedding gifts that only the nobles in Chang'an City could enjoy.
Chu Yunxi has been fugue, and his body can't help but shake gently with the rhythm of the horse's progress. In the silent march, her head went from being blank at the beginning of the heavy blow to gradually recovering, to simple thinking, until thinking deepened. She has been thinking, thinking about Qingxu, thinking about Gu Chaomin, thinking about the relationship between them.
At first she was helpless, then she forged, and finally she thought she could be relieved, but found that it was pure self-deception. Because from the bottom of her heart, she can't agree with this blind and stupid feeling!
As a result, the emotions that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time poured out uncontrollably: Can loving someone really go to this point? Whether it's right or wrong, whether it's good or bad, as long as you fall in love with each other, you're ruined, and you have to be with him. No, this kind of love without self-esteem and selling one's soul is simply ridiculous. Feelings cannot be a noble excuse for the destruction of morality, for the sake of feelings, it is reasonable to compromise and accommodate the other party, but we must not destroy ourselves and others because of this!
She realized that this was the source of her anger. Not because of Qingxu's betrayal or compromise, but because of her "infatuation"! Knowing that she was running to the cliff blindly, she was powerless to be angry!
After thinking for a long time, she suddenly felt a cold wind enter her body, and her back was cold, and when she turned around, she found that the chariot and horse team had been left far behind her. She was a little surprised that she had broken away from the group in a trance and walked so far, and she turned her horse's head and stopped where she was, trying to wait for the group to catch up. But she gradually noticed something unusual.
The carriages and horses were getting slower and slower, and although the distance was far, for these usually well-trained Gu Mansion guards, the journey of a few miles would not be so sleepy and lacking.
She hurried her horse to catch up, and suddenly saw the driver sitting in front of the float fall to the ground with a whip in his hand, his body tilted, and he fell from the seat to the ground with a plop of his head. Then, as if the epidemic was contagious, the rest of the crowd fell from their horses one by one like drunken men.
If it is common to say that one or two people in the carriage and horse team fall to the ground due to excessive fatigue, but this team of dozens of people fell to the ground one after another, which is indeed extremely strange. She was startled and grabbed the reins and stopped.
After a short scream at the end of the group, Biyin ran out of the team in a panic with Lu Yan.
Chu Yunxi saw that they were scurrying in fear, lest they would be frightened and injured by mistake, so he hurriedly shouted to them to calm down and find a safe place to stand still.
She calmly observed her surroundings, keenly listening to movements. Both nervous and cautious, he reined in his horse and moved forward.
The people in the chariot and horse team have completely fallen to the ground! Some of the horses flicked their tails leisurely because they were free from the shackles of man, and some restless horses were turning around in the unconscious crowd, their hooves rubbing against the guards, as if performing thrilling stunts, and she was terrified to watch.
She used a whistle and a whip to disperse the horses to prevent them from trampling on the guards. She wanted to shout loudly for the help of the patrol soldiers, but she did not dare to act rashly, and she did not even dare to jump off her horse to verify the life and death of the guards on the ground.
The thought that crossed her mind was that they had been ambushed, and that their opponents were silent like ghosts. She quickly ruled out Gu Chaomin's suspicion, and then her thinking stopped.
The horses dispersed, and her eyes fell on the float parked in the middle of the road.
She wants to go over, and there are Lu Yan, Bi Yin, and Qing Ulva on the other side!
"Ulva green?" She shouted outside the curtain.
Something unexpected happened, the two of them were sitting in the car, nominally to accompany Qing Chun, but in fact to monitor her, the dowry girl fell out of the car and fell to the ground.
Chu Yunxi's heart was cold, and he reached out to pull the car curtain.
The golden corolla smashed out of the crack in the curtain she had pulled open, rolling aside. The disheveled hair poked her head out of the car unharmed and hurriedly called her into the car.
She got off the horse in confusion, and Qing Chun squatted down to bury her head in the big burden around her, completely ignoring her puzzled gaze.
She held a neatly stacked snowy red plum pattern cross-collared skirt in front of Chu Yunxi and urged her to change it.
Chu Yunxi took off the veil hat on his head, and took the dress while untying the neckline. Watching Qing Chun calmly help her change her clothes, her confusion instantly turned into awakening. "You're trying to help us escape?" She asked, slightly gleefully.
"Yes! I asked the guards to drink the medicine and wine in advance, and it took some effort to coax the two girls to smoke the drug, and the dosage was calculated according to the method taught by the Yueyuan girl before, and it was really a halfway attack. Chun replied firmly.
She stopped helping Chu Yunxi tidy up her dress, looked up at her, her bright and feminine look flashed in her eyes, as if the moon that had been shattered by Hou Yi's bow fell into the deep pool under her eyes, and the splash of water overflowed the corners of her eyes, like pearls crowding her eyes.
Chu Yunxi was overjoyed, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but arouse a smile. The resentment and depression immediately rained down, and in the end, Qing Chun still broke through the word of love.
Biyin's shouting voice sounded outside the car: "Master, they are not dead, they are really stunned." Biyin boldly probed the breath of a guard lying on the ground with her back on her back, and immediately reported the situation to her in the car.
Anxiously worried, Lu Yan had touched the side of the car and wanted to lift her skirt and get into the car. Chu Yunxi's calm voice came from the car at the right time: "You guys get on the horse first and guard outside, and wait for us to escape from the city together!" ”
At first, Lu Yan thought she had misheard, and looked back at Biyin in astonishment.
Biyin clapped her hands and cheered, happily pulling her to pick up the horses, and chattered with joy: "I can finally leave this ghost place and go back to Shunan for a peaceful birthday." The master finally opened the toilet, and these people stood up on the ground, and if they didn't run away at this time, when would they wait, haha. ”
Lu Yan was nervous and scared, but after listening to her words, she covered her stomach and laughed: "The toilet is open, haha, the toilet is open, it's obviously open." You lazy, you don't read more books with your master, and you're embarrassed. ”
When Biyin heard this, her stubbornness came up, and she straightened her head and talked to her. The two of them were unscrupulously noisy on the curfew street under the boundless darkness of the night. It seems to be a small contempt for the unknown danger ahead and the danger lurking in the darkness.
After Chu Yunxi changed into her dress, she put on the hat that Qing Chun had prepared for her. Qing Chun repacked the baggage, put it on her back, and took out a stack of notarized documents and documents hidden in advance from her sleeve and stuffed them on her: "This official inspection was taken from my uncle before, and the official documents he forged have many female identities, but fortunately, I brought a few more spare ones this time." The following two are used by Biyin and Luyan, and the above one is yours, I have changed them in advance, so you can use them with confidence. We have all our silver taels in the baggage, and I hope we can last until you return to Shunan. ”
As she spoke, she hurriedly shoved a pill into her mouth. Chu Yunxi thought that she had also inhaled some ecstasy in order to charm the two girls guarding beside her, but she hurriedly swallowed the antidote at this moment and didn't care.
When he heard the last sentence, Chu Yunxi grabbed the strange thing that had been hanging in the air: "You guys? What about you? She grabbed Qing Chun's wrist with her backhand and asked.
Qing Chun smiled sadly, shaking her head and staring at her steadily.
Chu Yunxi's face turned white: "What?" Are you still going to look for him? ”
Qing Chun closed her eyes and suppressed the tears that were about to gush out: "I'm sorry, master. ”
Chu Yunxi turned his head hatefully and sighed: "You have already told me too much that you are sorry, but you are not sorry for me." You just love the wrong person and he doesn't deserve it. ”
When she opened her eyes again, Qing Chun's face was already distorted, her red lips opened with difficulty, and she twitched out a vague sentence: "I know, but I have no choice." With that, her body hung down weakly like a broken beaded curtain.
Chu Yunxi hugged her body in shock, her head fell on her shoulder, and bright red blood spread over the rouge on her lips like a rising tide. Blood is indeed the most gorgeous red and cruel beauty in the world, red than the bride's wedding dress, and more beautiful than the needle-embroidered red plum.
The pearls under her eyes fell, and the moonlight gathered in her eyes suddenly dissipated, indicating that her broken soul was pulling away from her body.
Chu Yunxi was like an electric shock, staring at the blood stained on the right hand holding her head. The stiff gaze shifted a few points downward, and then landed on the faint blue and blue flowers that appeared between her fingers.
She violently broke her hand as if she had regained consciousness, and a blue and white porcelain vase lay quietly in the palm of her hand.
"Peacock gall, extremely poisonous, see blood to seal the throat!" Lin Yueyuan's words sounded loudly in her head.
It was the poison that Lin Yueyuan had prepared in order to deal with the scourge of beasts in the mountain village. She secretly kept a bottle and took it with her, which was the peacock gall she used to commit suicide!
Chu Yunxi knelt on the ground and hugged her head, and shouted incoherently: "I'll take you to the doctor, to find the best doctor in the city!" You're going to hold on, you're going to hold on....."
She knew that there was no cure for the peacock's gall, so she kept saying it repeatedly, not knowing whether to comfort Qing Ulva or to paralyze herself, but the blood in Qing Ulva's mouth continued to gush out like a flood that opened the floodgates, and soon ruthlessly devoured the red patterns on half of her sleeves. She's out of the blue!
Chu Yunxi's reason completely collapsed, and in the face of the approaching death, he disarmed and surrendered, crying in grief.
Biyin and Luyan in the distance heard the sad cry in the car, glanced at each other, dismounted tacitly, ran close to the carriage and lifted the curtain to take a look, covered their mouths and screamed, and cried bitterly.
Qing Chun tugged at Chu Yunxi's arm in front of her, raised her hand and winked at them with a playful smile, then made a silent movement, and said softly and almost lips: "I have something to whisper to my master, don't eavesdrop!" ”
The two understood that Qing Chun had a last word to tell Chu Yunxi alone before the end of his life, so they lowered the curtain of the carriage, turned their backs to the carriage and hugged their heads and cried in a low voice.
Qing Chun was lying in Chu Yunxi's arms, as if Bai Qiao was in her arms three years ago, looking at her, her eyes were full of relieved smiles: "I only ate half of the peacock gall, because I want to tell you a secret before I die." ”
The corners of Chu Yunxi's mouth twitched and wanted to answer, but she shook her head and said, "Master, listen to me, there is almost no time." ”
Tears dripped into the blood like rain, blending bitterness into the blood. Chu Yunxi lifted her up slightly, and instead hugged her shoulders, and the two of them were like two desperate white rabbits snuggling together to keep each other warm on a winter night.
Qing Chun rubbed her head and told her grief in a lazy voice that was about to fall asleep: "Master, do you remember the first time you saved me on the street? I escaped from the Qinglou at that time, my father bought me into the Qinglou to pay off my gambling debts, and I was raped by the age of eight. ”
Chu Yunxi mourned in his heart, and said sadly: "Why don't you say it, you have so much pain hidden in your heart, why don't you tell me." ”
Qing Chun whispered in a dream: "I'm afraid that you will dislike me, I just want to find a place to live, I have followed you and my wife all these years, and I have lived happily and freely." I thought I could forget, but it was like a nightmare, always in my life. ”
Chu Yunxi lamented: "How could it be? It is precisely because you have suffered so much misfortune that I can have pity on you. ”
The sharp pain of the poison spread rapidly throughout her body, and she only felt as if someone was dismembering her body with a knife, but the pain did not leave her with a single weak tear.
However, when she heard Chu Yunxi's words, the tears surging in her eyes gushed out like finding an outlet: "Today I finally saw my sincerity. In the end, it will live up to my blood and heart. If a person gives sincerity, he may not be able to get the sincerity of others. People's hearts are changeable, so it shows that the love between you and me is precious. In order to protect my heart, I can only pay with my life. Master, from now on, I will entrust my heart to you, and you must live well with it. ”
She murmured softly, as light as a bird in the woods, "Thank you, thank you for giving me a home and giving me more than ten years of happiness." ”
As if the tears had flowed out, Chu Yunxi slowly accepted the fact that she was about to leave in her heart, and asked angrily like sending a close friend on a long journey: "Follow me to let you wander and suffer, do you still feel happy?" ”
"Yes, because my heart is warm, I don't feel bitter." Qing Chun smiled, and a golden sunshine suddenly flashed in front of her, the sun was bright and warm. She looked down at the golden goldfish she had just bought on the street, as if the quiet sunlight was being held in the palm of her hand. She smiled warmly and contentedly, and almost bumped into the person in front of her by accident, she nodded her head and continued to bow her head forward, but she didn't want the person to reach out and hold her sleeve, and she turned around and pulled out the sins of this life.
Blood and tears have dried up, fate has passed, love has been repaid, sins have been redeemed, this life has ended, and the red face is gone.
I am also a pedestrian again, and I have forgotten that I have ever passed this door. Last year, the lovesickness was in the body, and that spring, except for the flowers, it was not true.
The season of falling flowers is not in time, and the empty twist and empty branches are leaning on the door. There are faint marks between the empty eyebrows, and in the spring of that year, I remember the word Ah Chun.
Waiting for the idle smoke and rain to send dusk, who is the old owner of Feihong? Also melodious Mo on the dust, that spring, I was wrong with the spring breeze. (1)
The autumn wind swept up the fallen leaves of the sycamores on the side of the street, and the dead leaves were thin and fluttering, helpless, although they hugged each other tightly in the wind, resisting the invasion of the wind, but they were still pushed and pulled. The wind is blowing more and more fiercely, flying sand and rocks, black clouds are ambushed on all sides, and the lonely moon is embattled on all sides.
Biyin and Lu Yan, who hugged and cried each other, were blinded by the wind and sand, raised their hands to cover their faces, and looked up at the sky, but saw that the wind was rising, and the dark clouds covered the moon.
Biyin, who was unable to gain a foothold in the stronger and stronger wind, wanted to open her mouth to scream into the carriage, but she poured a breath of cool breeze and choked on tears.
The curtain of the car rolled up, and Chu Yunxi, who was half bloodstained, jumped off the car with Qing Chun, who had passed away. The two of them saw the death of Qing Chun, and their grief was like a burst of water, which could not be contained.
Her half-red and half-white dress fluttered in the sad wind, like an upside-down blood lotus, her black hair was tangled and messy, and her eyes were as cold as winter stars.
She resolutely stepped on her steps, and each step fell like a thousand pounds, firm and resolute. Like a completely unconscious piece of wood, she moved upright, not in the slightest confusion from the wind.
Lu Yan watched her walk between the two in a daze, and remembered that she was also so stimulated when Bai Qiao died, and she was afraid that she would be stupid and sluggish, so she hurriedly chased after her and pulled her and yelled.
Chu Yunxi turned around and glanced at her calmly, then turned around and said quietly: "Let's go, there is a document in the baggage on the car, the clothes are entangled, and you can ride a fast horse out of the city and go back to Shunan." Her voice was low and without a trace of emotion, scattered in the wind, fluttering like a ghost's voice.
"And where are you going?" Biyin shouted.
"I am the one who gives the marriage, and I should send the bride to my husband's house to get married." After that, she suddenly exerted her strength, grabbed the body of Qing Chun and jumped up, turned over and jumped on a black horse with a stirrup on her toes, holding the whip in one hand, and the low shout of "driving" still echoed in the ears of the two of them, but the person had disappeared a few feet away.
The two shouted and chased, but Chu Yunxi had long since disappeared. Biyin gasped and propped her legs, turned her head and asked Lu Yan, "What should I do?" ”
Lu Yan turned around and led the horse and said, "Let's go, my master and I share life and death, I want to go to Gufu!" ”
Biyin also turned around and led the horse and said: "If you are all gone, what's the fun of me living alone, I don't want to be the kind of villain who is greedy for life and afraid of death." ”
She patted her chest and said angrily: "You only say that I am used to being lazy and lazy, and I don't know that the blood I have left here is also hot." The one surnamed Gu killed Qing Chun, he couldn't be cheapened for nothing, if the master wanted to take revenge, I could still help him. It's amazing, let's die and die, and we will all die together. ”
After saying some enthusiastic words, she also learned from Lin Yueyuan's heroic smile, and felt that she was broad-minded, full of pride in swallowing the sun and the moon, and even if there was a gallows of torture in front of her, she was not afraid. She stooped down and whipped up the guard's sword scattered on the ground, tied one around her waist, and threw it to Midori.
Lu Yan also laughed at her, accompanied by her best friends, sailing ladder mountains, risking danger, and being willing to die!