Chapter Twenty-Four: Yellow Sorghum is Unstained
Lord Qi squinted and sniffed deeply, and unceremoniously patted Gui Ning's right shoulder. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Turtle son, your pig hasn't been cooked yet, why do you say I didn't catch up?" Lord Qi glanced at Gui Ning, and saw that Gui Ning's right shoulder was slowly dyed blood, and his face sank. "What's going on?"
Gui Ning hurriedly covered the wound again, glanced at the people behind Master Qi, and said with a hippie smile: "Dad, this time it's a wild boar that is slaughtered, my little butcher can't get a knife, wait for you, the old butcher, to pass on some skills!" ”
Lord Qi shook his head slightly, and said behind him: "Xue Ping, go settle the people, if you don't understand, go to the stable to find the old ...... Sui. Before that, no one is allowed to disturb me and Lord Gui to catch up. ”
Gui Ning pursed his lips after hearing this, and thought to himself: Cross-examination is interrogation, who believes that he is in his twenties and you, an old man who is almost over 100 years old, have something to talk about.
The dusty procession gradually dissolved in the huge post house, and the chaotic sound of horses' hooves slowly dissipated. Gui Ning secretly suspected in his heart that he hadn't returned to Chengtian Pavilion for a long time, and he couldn't even recognize more than half of the team.
"Let's go, go to my medicine." Lord Qi walked leisurely towards the cloister with his hands behind his back. "How can I see that this pig-killing knife is missing? I don't know who swore and promised me to inherit the prestige of the four generals of the Heavenly Pavilion. ”
"He didn't find the sword, and he lost the person, and he didn't have the face to see you, so ask me to compensate you." Gui Ning said sincerely, seeing that Lord Qi's face gradually changed, he hurriedly changed his tone, "Dad, the eldest brother has done so many things for you openly and secretly over the years, can't he get back a little trust from you?" ”
"The feathers have grown, and so have the guts."
Lord Qi turned his head, and his falcon-like transparent eyes swept over Gui Ning's eyes, as if he was looking at a pool of clear water. From childhood to adulthood, the water in the pond has always been crystal clear, and occasional thoughts have crossed it, and it is difficult to escape the bottom of the eye like a swimming fish. This time, the eagle eye caught a clump of intertwined aquatic plants hidden in the clear water, and beneath this hard-to-detect aquatic weed already harbored even more indiscernible thoughts.
Gui Ning hurriedly looked away, but saw the corners of Lord Qi's mouth move slightly in the afterglow, and his heart suddenly panicked. The secrets he carefully hid still can't escape this old man, and he has never been able to escape. "Big brother didn't do anything wrong."
Lord Qi didn't respond, but squatted down, uprooted a red-petaled wildflower on the ground, and smelled a slightly fishy smell, a unique smell that he never liked.
"Since ancient times, the martyrs' shrine has only been left for future generations to pay respects. Becoming a marquis is the last reward that the emperor can give. contented, one generation of fighting is enough to shade the glory of a race for generations; Those who are not satisfied can't even leave the false name of a loyal general. Du's loyal name should also be exhausted. ”
The red silk flap crushed between the withered fingers and seeped into the cracked wound. "In ancient times, loyal generals and loyal people often won admiration after three dynasties; Those who are loyal to the Lord, if they are loyal to the Lord, although they are enough to be respected, they will inevitably be the tongue of the Hereafter; If you are loyal to the master, you are just a villain and a stupid person, and you will be stinky for a long time. I said this when I was still young. Time is like flowing water, and now it's time to talk to you. Two of the four of you I have brought out have chosen their own paths, right or wrong. With your knowledge, don't take the wrong path again. ”
Speechless for a while, Gui Ning stopped and stared at Lord Qi. Since he was a child, the father who was idle and lazy to ask about national politics suddenly said such a thing?
"Daddy, which one do you want your child to choose?" Guining asked tentatively.
Lord Qi patted the flower juice in his hand, and his slowly straightened waist was faintly old. He spent half his life teaching these four children how to become adults, which was the deepest revenge on those old stubborns, but he didn't want to, and to this day, these children he "carefully" brought out are all very much like himself.
"I always don't accept the old, and I always remember that you are still a bunch of naughty boys. You're an adult in a blink of an eye, and I don't care about your business. Lord Qi said with a smile.
Gui Ning bit his lip slightly, and asked in a hurry, "If the eldest brother never comes back, will you let him go?" ”
Lord Qi walked a few steps away, as if behind his ears. Gui Ning followed a few steps closely, and saw that the flower juice that was still bright red just now had turned into a clear green after dripping from Lord Qi's palm, and it meandered along the ground of the cloister towards the south. Lord Qi looked at the ground in a daze, and muttered something that Gui Ning didn't understand.
"The Kuzen Mountain people arrived early in the morning, but he was so calm that he hadn't even killed the Tianshan Mountain. But I was rude, and I didn't come to see him for a long time. Lord Qi flicked his sleeves and turned to Gui Ning, "He's a guest, don't lose the face of Chengtian Pavilion." ”
Gui Ning was stunned, "The people of Kuzen Mountain did not go with the child, the child has ordered people to go down, and his whereabouts have not been discovered......"
Lord Qi said coldly: "Are you telling me that he has been out of our control for nearly two months, and I don't know anything about it?" ”
"It's the child's carelessness, I saw the girl and the eldest brother ...... together"
Lord Qi frowned, and said to himself: "Kuchan goes south through the Qinling Mountains, south to Jiangling, and then west to Shu, and Du Yuan goes west to Kuizhou and then south. If that disciple walked with Kuzen, how could he be with Du Yuan? If Kuzen did not go south, but went west, what would he seek? ”
"What else are you hiding from me?" Caught off guard, Lord Qi put his hand on Gui Ning's right shoulder, and used his strength until Gui Ning bit his lip and knelt on the ground, and his right shoulder became a ball of cotton soaked in blood. "Turtle son, without your eldest brother's two hits, you are still pretending to be a dead duck for me here!"
Gui Ning supported the ground with his left hand, his lower lip was bitten and blue, and a naughty smile appeared on his sweaty face. "I ...... I don't know...... Where is the Kuzen Mountain people, he ...... of apprentices...... It's in the East ...... Rooms. Gui Ning accepted the pain and squeezed out word by word from between his teeth. Lord Qi was silent, his hands did not waver at all, but increased his strength.
The two of them froze on the corridor, and Gui Ning knew that he would never let go if he didn't say what Lord Qi wanted to hear.
All that remained on his right shoulder was the sharp pain and the bursting of blood, and Gui Ning secretly mourned, his father was really old, and he was so old that he could only force himself to submit by this most disdainful means. Once upon a time, he would use hundreds of cruel means to dig out everything he wanted to know, and those who didn't open their mouths but were still alive were only the eldest brother Du Yuan in Gui Ning's memory.
"Kill Qi Yu." Gui Ning squeezed out the last four words, Lord Qi let go of his hand, looked at Gui Ning with a complicated expression for a long time, and a forced smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Gui Ning patted the soil, wiped the sweat off his head, leaned against the cloister pillar, and felt dizzy when he watched Lord Qi walk away leisurely. "You're finally getting old." Gui Ning smiled bitterly.
Lord Qi slowly walked along the corridor to the south, and saw the plum branches stretching into the south gate from a distance, and burst into tears.
"Lao Sui, it's been a long time with me, and you won't come out to say hello?" Lord Qi looked up at Mei Zhi and said with his back hand. "I've fulfilled my contract, are you satisfied with this son?" Lord Qi turned around slowly, there was no half a figure behind him, only the sound of crutches knocking on the ground and drifting away.
"Stubborn donkey, don't even say a word of thanks." Lord Qi muttered, his beard trembling slightly. A few flying pigeons crossed the eaves, and the snow-white wings shook into the amber eyes of Lord Qi, who hesitated outside the south gate for a long time, and did not step into the south gate for half a step. Before leaving, Lord Qi broke off a few blood plums from outside the wall, and by the way, he used his sleeve to wipe off the blood stains on the small catalpa door in the south.
"Who is on the high-rise? Long remember the autumn sunshine. The past is empty, and it is still like a dream. Lord Qi unintentionally chanted two lines of poetry, and suddenly felt very ominous. The lines on the small door are still the same, but the person who knocked on this small door has changed several times. Lord Qi recalled the scene when this door was knocked open for the first time, far away when the old country existed, far away when Sangzi was still in its prime, and far away when the green silk was still there.
Gui Ning held his right arm, and a cluster of black shadows shook in front of him. "If it weren't for Daddy sealing a few veins from you, your blood would have dried up long ago. Tell my brother that you don't hurt your eyes like this! My brother found someone to do them for you. ”
The phantoms in front of Gui Ning's eyes gathered together, and the outline of a person appeared, Gui Ning looked at his eyes, recognized the person in front of him, gritted his teeth and said, "It's not so easy to divide the soup in my territory. Third brother, it's rare to see your true face, and my brother is about to forget you. ”
"When I was a child, I remember that you spoke the most, why did you become a rectum after being with your eldest brother for a long time?"
"I still have something to do, and I don't have time to talk to you. If you are in a panic, it is better to check the whereabouts of the second brother. Gui Ning glared angrily at the dwarf in front of him, Huang Bin.
"If the important thing you are talking about is the monk in the East Pavilion, I'm afraid you don't have to bother." Huang Bi smiled and went to help Gui Ning, but was thrown away.
Gui Ning said coldly: "When you were a child, you were like a god, and when you grew up, it was nothing more than that. Third brother, you smashed the sign this time. ”
Huang Bin smiled silently and took out two secret letters from his arms. Gui Ning took the first secret letter, tore open the seal with his teeth, poured out the letter, and unfolded it with one hand, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide in surprise after reading it. "Ghosts." Gui Ning stared at Huang Bin viciously.
"Don't worry, the next letter will be more interesting."
The second letter was just an ordinary letter asking for peace, but the wording was straightforward, not like the handwriting of a literati, but like the tone of a military general like Du Yuan. Gui Ning read it briefly, and strung the beginning and end of each sentence again, but he didn't find any clues. Huang Bin saw Gui Ning's face full of doubts, and gently pointed to a word on the letter.
Gui Ning stared at the written word on the payment for a long time, rubbing the dry ink marks, but he couldn't even use the strength to scold Huang Bin. "It's my father's handwriting." Gui Ning's voice was low to painful. "Third Brother Xie found his father's last manuscript."
"General Gui annoyed the saint because of his sloppy handwriting, and was punished for copying 10,000 times and posted outside the wall of the general's mansion. This word is the first word of the fold, even if you are young, you must have an impression. I don't have the heart to find old things, and this letter has not been on my father's desk for more than half a year. I don't need to go into the details of why. ”
Gui Ning pinched Shang Xin's letterhead, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. "The third brother bothered, it's better to bother to find an old man, it's better to make it unrecognizable, and then lead it to me, and coax me to call Daddy will be more interesting. A piece of broken paper has no evidence, whether the third brother insults me like a child or insults himself like a madman. With that, Gui Ning tore up the two letters in his hand and threw them into the wind.
Huang Bin shrugged his shoulders and was about to say more, when he suddenly saw an old man walking slowly in the corridor, and the conversation stopped abruptly. "Old Sui, find a low halter and put him on me and put it in the stable." Gui Ning raised his hand at the old man. Huang Bin looked at Gui Ning with a strange face, didn't say a word, and only nodded when Lao Sui approached. Lao Sui glanced at Huang Bin, and his expression immediately dimmed. After more than ten years, even if he has changed to a young skin, this pair of eyebrows and eyes is still the same.
"Huang Mi came from afar, forgive the villain for not taking good care of him. If there is anything you are not used to, give instructions to the villain. Lao Sui lowered his head and said respectfully.
"Junior......" Huang Bin wanted to give up his hand in return, only to find that his two salutes were too heavy, and he was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he hurriedly straightened up and said: "You are a groom, and you are not the head of the post house, and my orders cannot fall on you." You stand down first, and feed my brother's horses and mine. ”
"Yes."
Huang Xian watched Lao Sui go away, and came back to his senses to find that Gui Ning was gone. A confetti was swept into the sky by the north wind, and Huang Bi couldn't help but rub his hands and sigh.
"It's windy, it's going to snow. In the first game, Ruixue was stained with fishy smell and created evil! Huang Bin learned Lord Qi's posture and tone, raised his hands behind his back, and suddenly saw Lord Qi turning from the side door alone.
"My lord, the centaurs have been settled. As for Guining, it should be that the time is in a hurry, leaving a lot of mistakes, does it need to be cleaned up? Huang Bin hurriedly put down his hand, straightened up and asked.
"You don't have to interfere." Lord Qi glanced at Huang Bin, "Bring the apprentices of the Kuzen Mountain people." ”