Chapter 33: The Way
The night was dark, and the heralds galloped all the way.
"Camp where you are! Set up camp! ”
With this order, the march stopped and began to camp, and the tent was quickly erected, the bonfire burned fiercely, and the wasteland under the winter night sky became lively.
A soldier carries a basin of hot water into a tent where a young man is unbuttoning his shirt and exposing his back.
"You get out! What else to watch? He turned his head to Xie Roujia, who was standing aside, and said.
Xie Roujia was looking at the large burning wound on his back and frowned.
This is the wound that fell from the explosion of the mechanism that night.
"If there's anything you can't see, you should change the dressing and don't move." She said, reaching out and holding his head to turn him around, turning herself in front of him.
Shao Mingqing made a chest-hugging motion and glared.
"Don't move." Xie Roujia said with a glare.
The doctor behind him had already pounced on Shao Mingqing's back.
Shao Mingqing's whole body froze, hissing a few times, and Xie Roujia hurriedly grabbed his hand.
"It doesn't matter if it's a bear or a hero, the pain is the same." Shao Mingqing smiled, and looked at Xie Roujia's neck again, "How are you here?" Has the medicine been changed? ”
Xie Roujia was injured on her neck and ears, she turned her head to let Shao Mingqing see, and she couldn't see the size of the wound wrapped in a cloth.
"It's okay, my hearing is not affected." She said, "When the doctor talks about the capital, the scar is healed. ”
The doctor put on Shao Mingqing's clothes behind him.
"Okay, Master Shao." He said, "The decoction will be delivered after it has been boiled for a while." ”
"Mine is here too." Xie Roujia said hurriedly.
Shao Mingqing glared and coughed lightly.
"It's not too early, you can go back to Your Highness quickly." He said.
"Your Highness is busy." Xie Roujia said. "I'll go back after taking the medicine from your cousin, so as not to smoke His Highness."
She accentuated her tone on the word cousin.
Shao Mingqing glared at her and didn't speak again, and the doctor Shi Li retreated.
Xie Roujia sat on the thick cushion and stretched.
"Isn't it too slow?" Shao Mingqing said, "You go and tell him that our injuries are fine, don't rest without moving." ”
Xie Roujia smiled.
"Rest, rest, are you afraid that the night will be long and dreamy, and the people of the king of Zhenbei will come to rob you?" She asked.
Shao Mingqing stood up and tied his clothes and snorted.
"You look down on your husband like this?" He said, "People are not caught by him, and they can't even be escorted into Kyoto?" What else is he doing here? ”
Xie Roujia laughed.
"I'm actually worried about going back to the capital." Shao Mingqing sat down beside her. Said with a frown.
Xie Roujia stretched out her hand. His hands were also wrapped in a wounded cloth, which was cut by a dagger and bleeding.
"Look, just a little bit of blood." "Don't worry," she said. When the time comes, I will give the emperor a few delicious meals and make up for it. ”
Shao Mingqing looked at her hand. He glanced at her again. Suddenly I felt a little sad.
This body is already covered in bruises, jumping into the mine, and the mountain has collapsed. Cutting blood and breaking the formation, the old wounds have not healed and the new wounds are added, and every time it is easy to resolve the crisis, but then the greater crisis comes, endlessly, there is not even a time to breathe, and I don't know when it will be the end.
Xie Roujia saw him looking at him, so she grinned at him.
The stupid girl was still laughing.
Shao Mingqing smiled, and unconsciously remembered what Zhou Chengzhen heard in the sandwich wall to ask the king of Dongping County.
"Jiajia, are you resentful?" He asked.
Xie Roujia seemed a little puzzled.
"Resentment what?" She said.
"I hate you for being so unlucky." Shao Mingqing said.
Xie Roujia laughed, laughed for a moment and pursed her lips.
"It's useless to be resentful." She said, "Since this is already the case, what's the use of resentment, let's live well, live well, those resentful things are actually nothing." ”
Shao Mingqing smiled.
"After I go back, that First Emperor Ding will definitely be fine, what I'm worried about is" he looked at Xie Roujia and paused, "If you still can't practice the Dan, will the emperor have other thoughts, such as the cadre Mo Ye, Mo Ye will eventually become a famous sword." ”
If the crazy emperor never got the pill, would he also throw the young lady of the Xie family into the pill furnace.
Xie Roujia was silent for a moment.
The pill should not be successful, it didn't work out in the last life, and it almost took the emperor's life, although the emperor didn't throw the young lady of the Xie family into the furnace, but he took the lives of all the clansmen of the Xie family.
However, in that life, it was because Shao Mingqing tied the Xie family together for alchemy, so this time the Xie family would be fine if they didn't participate in alchemy anyway, right?
Shao Mingqing saw that she was silent, just thinking that this matter was really difficult to handle.
"Don't worry, neither Master nor I will let Your Majesty do this kind of thing that exterminates humanity, Master often tells Your Majesty that learning is the Great Dao, the Heavenly Way and the Humane Way, and that human sacrifice is fundamentally against the Heavenly Dao and humanity, and if you really do this, you will never be able to become the Great Dao." He hurriedly said, "I'm just saying that you won't be involved in this matter after you go back, and you and the king of the county have become married, become other women, and you are no longer the witch of the Xie family." ”
Xie Roujia smiled and nodded.
"I know." She said, "Don't worry too much, haven't we all come through the difficulties step by step." ”
Shao Mingqing smiled and didn't speak again, the doctor personally sent the decoction over, and the two drank the medicine, so Shao Mingqing urged Xie Roujia to go back.
"You're not tired, I'm tired, I'm going to sleep." He said.
Xie Roujia left with a smile.
The camp was still lively, with laughter and the aroma of food mixed together, but the guards were also very tight, and the patrolling horses walked about almost non-stop.
In addition to the camp tent of the king of Dongping County in the center, which is the camp of the ancestors and grandsons of the king of Zhenbei, Xie Rouhui's is also placed here, and the rest of the entourage of the king of Zhenbei is escorted in the prison car.
Xie Roujia thought about it, but walked over there first, standing outside a tent.
The cry of a girl could be heard from the tent.
"I don't want to eat these things, I beg you to tell Your Highness that I want to see him."
There was no answer from the tent.
“… I want to see Xie Roujia. You go and call Xie Roujia..."
“… I have something to tell her, you go and tell her, and she will come to see me..."
There was a bang, as if something had been shattered.
Xie Roujia lifted the curtain of the camp tent slightly and looked in, and saw that several cases in front of Xie Rouhui had been overturned by her, and people also got up and rushed out.
The two girls in the tent held her down neatly.
"Mrs. Xie, if you do this again, we can only tie you up." They said with straight faces.
Xie Rouhui had already changed into clean clothes, and her wounds were bandaged, and her expression was frightened and unspeakably jealous.
"Don't call me Mrs. Xie, I'm Miss Xie." She shouted. As soon as the words came out, he hurriedly shook his head. "No, no, I'm not the eldest miss, I'm the second miss. It was a mistake at the beginning. ”
Xie Roujia was angry and funny. Laugh and can't laugh. The taste is complicated, and the curtain is lowered.
Xie Rouhui is not yet fifteen years old, you say she is a child, but what child at such an age would kill so many people one after another. The heart is cold-blooded so much.
Let's say that she is bold, she grovels to those who are better than herself.
Xie Roujia stood silently outside the tent for a moment, the room was quiet, and the noise of Shicai disappeared.
The people arranged by the king of Dongping County can naturally take Xie Rouhui well.
She raised her feet and took a step, and only after a few steps, there was a sound of breaking the air in her ears, Xie Roujia suddenly dodged sideways, and saw that it was a bone that I didn't know what kind of animal it was rolling to the ground.
She raised her head and looked at a camp tent, and under the light of the torches inserted outside the camp, Zhou Chengzhen smiled at her from a torn hole.
"Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, come." He said with a smile.
Xie Roujia turned around and left.
"Xie Roujia! Come over to me! Zhou Chengzhen shouted behind, "Why are you so ignorant of good people's hearts, I'm all for you." ”
Xie Roujia took a few steps, then stopped, turned around and strode over.
Zhou Chengzhen smiled even more, but the guards standing outside the tent didn't see anything like wooden people.
"Zhou Chengzhen, don't say anything like this for me in the future." Xie Roujia looked at him and said.
Zhou Chengzhen nodded with a smile.
"Okay, I'll listen to whatever you say." He said.
"I think you're pitiful, you don't even dare to say what you really think in your life." Xie Roujia continued.
The smile on Zhou Chengzhen's face dispersed, and she laughed.
"Why wouldn't I dare? I'm just good to you, don't you dare to say it? He said.
"I know you're good to me, but you're better to yourself." Xie Roujia said, "Your kindness to me is to put me in trouble, and then let me see your goodness." ”
Zhou Chengzhen's face froze slightly.
"I arranged Fang Ziyuan's incident in the palace that time, and I didn't want to be good to you at that time." "I just want you to see how good I am." ”
"You are now, too." Xie Roujia said.
"I'm not right now." Zhou Chengzhen said, "Then, think about it, I was beaten by a woman like you, I can't be convinced, besides, I was also present at the time, I definitely won't let Fang Ziyuan succeed, but Zhou Yan took the lead." ”
He exhaled at this.
"I apologize to you, but I haven't framed you since."
Xie Roujia smiled and stretched out her hand.
"This." She pointed to her hand, "I was cut by you with a knife in the Zhenbei Palace." ”
"Hey, that time was a last resort, acting, you have to deceive others, how can you care about bloodshed, you woman is not that kind of person." Zhou Chengzhen said.
Xie Roujia ignored him, and stretched out her hand and pointed to her shoulders and her back.
"These are the injuries that were sustained when Yusan collapsed." She continued.
Zhou Chengzhen was silent again.
"It's also my fault with this matter, I didn't know that digging up the prayer stone would have such a result." He said, "But you believe that I really want to take this opportunity to let you sit in front of people and confirm the identity of the divine mandate of heaven. ”
"I believe it." Xie Roujia said, looking at him, "You really want to be good to me." ”
A smile appeared on Zhou Chengzhen's face.
"It's like when you instigated Fang Ziyuan to bully me in the palace, and then you will eventually jump out and protect me like a god." Xie Roujia continued.
Zhou Chengzhen's smile condensed on her face again.
"Your kindness to me is to knock me down in the mud. Put me in a difficult situation, then you reach out and hold me, and then let me see how good you are to me. Xie Roujia said, "I know that you will not hurt me, you will even hurt yourself, and then let me see how good you are to me, or make me ashamed, look, how good this person is to me, she should really be happy or ashamed of it." ”
She shook her head.
"Nope. Zhou Chengzhen. I won't, I'm not happy about it, I'm not ashamed of it, I'm going to tell you this now. I don't want your good. I don't care if you're good. Absolutely not in this life. ”
Zhou Chengzhen looked at her and smiled.
"Okay, I got it." "I know what I'm doing wrong." I won't be in the future. ”
He smiled again.
"Xie Roujia." He shouted, "How good it is that we talk like this." ”
Xie Roujia glanced at him and turned around.
"Oops." Zhou Chengzhen hurriedly shouted, because his hands were tied, he hurriedly squeezed half of his shoulders out of the tent.
The guards standing on either side still didn't seem to see anything.
"Don't go, we haven't seen each other for a long time." He said, "Xie Roujia, I miss you, what about you? Do you want to kill me again? ”
Laughing as he spoke.
"If you don't have a day, then you must think I'm dead after learning about me, right?"
Xie Roujia raised her feet and walked away.
"Xie Roujia, Xie Roujia."
Behind him, Zhou Chengzhen's shouts continued one after another.
"Xie Roujia, I'm so happy to see you!"
"Xie Roujia, come and see me tomorrow!"
"Xie Roujia, we'll talk again tomorrow!"
It was only when I entered the tent that the shouting in my ears disappeared.
Xie Roujia sighed, and the king of Dongping County, who was sitting in front of a few cases, put down the map and stationery in his hand and looked at it.
"I'm tired, let's rest." He said.
Xie Roujia didn't say anything and sat down.
"Have you taken any medicine?" King Dongping asked again.
"Didn't eat it." Xie Roujia said with a tense face.
The little girl is angry again?
King Dongping smiled.
"Does the wound hurt?" He asked, "The pain proves that it will be fine, and I don't feel it..."
"I'm not blaming you." Xie Roujia glared at him, "Are you stupid or not, why do you promise someone to go and win the ding?" If it weren't for the rush to stop you, how could we be hurt! ”
The king of Dongping County is silent.
"Yes, I took the plunge." He said.
Xie Roujia looked embarrassed.
"Why are you so nice to me? You've already repaid the grace of saving your life, and you've said it's clear. She said.
King Dongping smiled.
"I didn't know at first, I thought I really needed to hurt you before you could use this First Emperor Ding, I don't think it's a good thing, using the method of human sacrifice, it's not a great way, it's an evil art, then the First Emperor Ding is an evil thing, since it's an evil thing, it shouldn't be used by the emperor, otherwise it will become a fire." He said kindly, "So according to what Zhou Chengzhen said, taking it away is also a good thing for the king, the country and the people." ”
Xie Roujia was stunned.
"So, you agreed to take the dragon from the emperor for the sake of the emperor and for the sake of the people?" She said.
King Dongping nodded.
"Yes." He said calmly.
Xie Roujia looked at him and laughed out loud.
"What nonsense." She said, "I know you're trying to comfort me and keep me from feeling like you're a burden for my good. ”
"It's not," said King Dongping, picking up his tea.
Xie Roujia had already stood up.
"I was in a hurry, I was really scared to death by you at that time, you are going, so what can you do, I am also worried about you, so I get angry when I think about it." She said, "I'm angry that you don't care about yourself at all, I'm not angry that you're treating me well." ”
The king of Dongping held the teacup, and he had always been able to answer any question fluently, but suddenly seemed to not know how to answer.
There was silence in the tent for a while, and the atmosphere was a little eeriely awkward.
It's such an inexplicable tantrum to myself.
Xie Roujia sneered.
"I'll go to sleep first." She hurriedly said, turning and going behind the screen.
There was a small bed for her.
King Dongping put down the teacup and touched his ears, wanting to laugh, but he felt that he shouldn't laugh, so he picked up the letter again and looked at the lamp with bright eyes.
On the other side, Zhou Chengzhen was pushed into the camp by the guards.
"Lord Shizi, don't take it as an example." They said with wooden faces.
Zhou Chengzhen snorted at them.
"Why didn't you speak while she's here?" He said, "Any master and any dog will pretend to be a good person." ”
The guards were silent with wooden faces.
Anyway, I saw her tonight as I wished, and after saying a few words, I didn't quarrel.
A smile appeared on Zhou Chengzhen's lips, and she turned around and took a step, but she forgot that her legs and feet were still tied, and she stumbled and fell to the ground.
He didn't get up at all, and rolled on his back on the spot, and as soon as he was on his back, someone pounced on him and opened his mouth to bite off his neck.
My day!
Zhou Chengzhen scolded, bowed his knees and hit the man's shoulder fiercely, kicking the man out.
Zhou Chengzhen jumped up and looked at the eldest prince of Zhenbei who rolled to the side.
"Grandfather, what are you doing?" He said angrily.
"You, you son of a! You're hurting me! Decades of hard work of our father and son have been ruined by you! The dry voice of the eldest prince of Zhenbei screamed, "You brute! Confess the thief as a father! ”
Zhou Chengzhen sneered, a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes.
"Father." He jumped three times and two times to the side of the eldest prince of Zhenbei, snapped the rope on his feet, knelt down on one knee, and lowered his voice, "How did this ruin your decades of hard work?" It's clear that your decades of hard work are finally coming to fruition. ”
Bear fruit?
The eldest prince of Zhenbei looked at Zhou Chengzhen in a daze.
Can it still blossom and bear fruit like this? (To be continued......)