Chapter 25: Unraveling
After the meal, Qiluo wanted to say goodbye, but Taijun stood up and walked on his crutches, "Accompany me to the city wall, Hongyi, you go and get busy!" ”
Gu Ren also saw that Taijun had something to say to Qiluo alone, and if he followed him, they would have to spend a day. However, Taijun suddenly called himself the shopkeeper Gu, but Hongyi, which is a bit surprising. However, he gave up with them and withdrew.
What can Qiluo do, she can only follow behind Taijun, walk a few steps, and suddenly find that once upon a time, how many years ago, she followed her like this.
The General's Mansion is actually very close to the city gate, and the generals do a good job of guarding the gate. Walking slowly through the street, when going up the castle tower, Kira still reached out to help Taijun. Taijun glanced back at her.
Qiluo silently helped her up, and slowly walked on the top of the city tower, the handsome flag of the Cheng family fluttering in the wind. Kira and Taijun stood at the same time, looking at the flag together.
"In your dream, what's wrong with Cheng An?" Taijun finally asked.
"Dead." Kira pursed her lips for a moment before she spoke.
"Actually, it's not dead, so you let us look for it last time? You don't care about her at all, just because you know that he won't die just like in your dreams? ”
"It's over." Kira didn't want to say, but raised his eyes and looked out of the city.
"Do you have children?" Taijun thought about it and asked, she has been in the Cheng family for many years, she should have children, otherwise she would never let a childless widow live at home.
"Nope!" Kira smiled bitterly, what would happen if she had a child?
"I'm not going to let you be widowed. How many years have you been in the Cheng family? Taijun shook his head, completely unable to believe it.
"Three days after getting married, he followed his husband. Cheng Ping set out together. Then the father and son went, and no one returned. Since then, the Cheng family has been a lonely widow. My sister-in-law and I have been in the Cheng family for a lifetime. Kira turned to look at Taijun.
"The Autumn Battle of that year?" Taijun was stunned, and the father and son set out together, but none of them came back! So Qiluo is a newlywed widow, "How many years have you been in the Cheng family?" ”
"Eighteen years! It's not bad, the tablet has entered the ancestral hall of the Cheng family. 'Chengmen Duan'. For a lifetime, I changed these four words. Kira let out a long breath.
"Still resentful! Why don't you leave, I won't let you be so widowed. Why not go back and start over? The old lady frowned deeply, she still didn't believe why she left Qiluo. Lu may have been suffering from physical and family problems. But what about Kira? Because of love? But it's only been three days since they got married, and it's also when love is at its deepest, and they're separated, so it's unforgettable?
"You persuaded me for five years, and in the sixth year, I proposed to use poison to help the third child fight. And then more than ten years later, we destroyed Saddle Ran together. Just like now, Saddle is in chaos. Everyone is at risk. The last Saddle Man is Silver Mirror and your grandson and granddaughter. I'm dead. How nice it is to be reunited with your family! Kira smiled bitterly.
The old lady looked at Qiluo fixedly, this is all, so Gu Ren will say, did he sacrifice Qiluo for the sake of the Great Dao? When he found out the usefulness of Kira, he stopped letting Kira go.
"Do I know An'er isn't dead?"
"I don't know, but I'm sure you'll have to send someone to clean up the battlefield, right?" Kira chuckled and looked at Taejun. They are all old battlefields, and there are some things that everyone is not a layman.
"Yes, I must clean up the battlefield, no matter what, it is impossible to find the corpse. I must have known before you that Cheng An was not actually dead. Because you're useful, I'm reluctant to let you go. So you hate me? ”
Taijun understood people and immediately understood what Kira meant. Is this the avenue that Gu Ren said? For the sake of the pass, for the honor of the Cheng family, she trapped Qiluo for a lifetime. I never told Qiluo that Cheng An was not actually dead.
"Forget it, unless you tell me that Cheng An is not dead, and has a wife and children. Otherwise, I wouldn't have left the Cheng family. But how can you say that? Having said that, the Cheng family is also a big crime. Besides, what do you say? I believe that I am definitely more important than the silver mirror in your heart. You know that I love Cheng An deeply, and I may not be able to accept the fact that he is empathetic and not in love. Kira smiled, and sure enough, after thinking about it, it didn't seem so difficult to accept.
Taijun looked at Kira deeply, and as her gaze looked at the wilderness outside, there were battlefields, and she liked to watch them too. When I look at it often, it seems that when I see an empty battlefield, my heart will be filled with peace.
"Hate, huh? If it were me, I would hate it. It's the Cheng family who has lost you. Taijun sighed lightly, she didn't ask Cheng An why he defected to the enemy, there is nothing to ask about this, the result is the most important. As a result, Kira guarded for eighteen years, but it turned out to be a failure. And what is even more painful for her is that she has never told her the truth when she is dependent on her relatives like relatives.
"Taijun, have you ever had the powerlessness that I didn't kill Beren, and Beren died because of me?" Kira didn't want to talk about the past anymore, and it didn't matter now. Maybe at this time, the only person she can ask is Taijun.
Taijun was stunned for a moment, thought about it and shook his head.
"I have been with Taigong Rongma all my life, and my hands have been stained with countless blood. I can't say that everyone I've killed deserves to die, but I've never regretted it. Because if I don't kill them, they will kill me. ”
"What if the other party is a civilian?" Kira stared blankly into the distance.
Taijun stood against the wall, she was old, and she couldn't stand standing like this. However, now she knew that the plague was caused by the Kira couple. Now Kira has been tied up, and she has to face such a situation. However, for her, eighteen years with herself, she should be able to cope with this kind of thing, right?
"Aren't you supposed to get used to it?" Taijun thought about it and shook his head, eighteen years, the sixth year began to experiment, she should have experienced a lot in the middle, why is she in pain in this life?
"So, Taijun, thank you. I wouldn't be like this without you. I'm only in charge of pharmaceuticals, and you've taken care of everything else. So at this point, I really have to take responsibility for what I did. Taijun, I really killed a lot of people in my last life. Women and children, I will kill them. And this time I went even further, I also killed a lot of Yongan people. This time the plague. A lot of people really died. ”
Taijun smiled, found a place to sit down, and gently slapped his swollen legs.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let you stand for so long to send you back. Qiluo squatted down and lightly tapped Taijun's Zusanli acupoint.
The old lady gently touched her sideburns, as if touching her own daughter.
"Don't blame Taijun, if you really do it again, I still won't tell you. It's not for the Cheng family, and it's not for you to help. It's because. A lot of things are like that. Can't say, can't ask. "Taijun actually doesn't know what he will choose? But that's all she can say at this point. He patted her face lightly and sighed softly.
"You're doing a great job. It's really good. I don't know if I told you, 'Those who transgress my realm will be punished even if they are far away.'" You have been guarding the border with me for eighteen years, and we are guarding. We didn't go out and hurt people, grass and trees. They didn't eat or drink. Then they came and beat our people as if they were grass valleys. Why? When they beat the grass valley, when their women and children drink the blood and tears of our people, will they be so entangled like you? ”
"The people of Yong'an, so many people have died. If it hadn't happened to be me tied up this time, it would have been a disaster. Kira bit her lip.
"Did I tell you the story of me and my prince going to quell the rebellion?"
"Yes, a lot." Kira smiled.
"I must not have told you that on our way to counterinsurgency, we encountered a group of victims. They fled on their way. They were all women and children, and the children were crying with hunger. I had just given birth to Le'er, and when I saw the crying children, I really wanted to get some food, at least some rice soup, for the children to eat. In the end, I didn't. You know why? ”
"If you give it to one person, everyone embraces it, it will provoke a popular uprising, and more people may die." Kira also had such an experience.
"It's the same this time." Taejun patted her.
"You know it's different."
"It seems to me the same. You've been at peace with the border people for at least ten years, you know? Ten years, whether property or human life, that is innumerable. A momentary sacrifice is nothing. ”
"But this can be avoided, I should have thought more completely. Back then, you didn't let a single Yongan citizen get infected. ”
"How do you know no? Maybe it's just that I don't tell you? Taijun smiled, patted her gently, and let out a long breath, "I won't report this kind of thing to the court." So I can't really ask you to make preventive medicine and give it to the people. Do you understand? This is the choice of the soldiers. ”
"So how do you face your heart?"
"Don't have to face it, for you, do you have to face it?" Taijun turned his gaze back to the wilderness, "You are going to face smiling faces, not corpses that may die in that wilderness, maybe with all limbs in them." ”
Qiluo raised his head and looked at the wilderness over there, "In the last life, they said that Cheng An died there. I told the third child that if I died, I would scatter my ashes there. I can be a companion with him anyway. I come every year, and every year I'm here looking at that wilderness. I was very envious of the tablets in the ancestral hall, but one day, when I really went in, I realized how ridiculous this was. ”
"How did you die?" Taijun sighed lightly.
"In a fit of rage, I can't think of it, so I use my own poison. At that time, I felt that my eighteen years were a joke, and I died not because of hatred, but because I couldn't face it. I'm letting go now, I'm happy now, let's live separately. Qiluo smiled at Taijun, "I don't hate Yinjing, I don't hate it in my last life, and I don't hate it in this life." By the way, in the last life, Cheng An lived in good health until sixteen years later. ”
"What a stupidity!" Taijun's face changed, he didn't expect that Kira would commit suicide.
But think about it, after three days of marriage, what I was waiting for was the death of my husband. For the sake of her husband, she has been in her in-law's house for eighteen years, she should work very hard to live in her mother-in-law's house, otherwise she won't teach her so many things, and she won't be so good to the Lu family and her daughter, they should always depend on each other, right? A house of women, she also helped the third child guard the side and avenge her husband, but the result was that her husband did not die, had a new wife, and gave birth to children. Kira must have collapsed all of her beliefs at the time, right? Gently rubbing her little face.
"It's stupid, really stupid. Actually, it's really nothing, my life in the Cheng family is good, you are very good to me. You also saw it, you taught me well. Until now, I am grateful to you. Kira looked at Taijun squarely. Let all the grievances pass. (To be continued......)
PS: Continuing from the plagiarism incident yesterday, my friend decided to find the editor to see if there was any solution. Then the editor said, let her do the grading by herself, then complain, and then ...... Well, it's right to ask for proof, it's just that everything is done by yourself, it's really depressing, if you meet a lazy person like me, don't you forget it, and then those plagiarists are proud. With the cost of crime so low, what are we people to do?