Volume 2: Ten Years of Life and Death [38] Death
That night, Su He and Chu Changting had a secret conversation in the inner hall of the Su Mansion.
The night breeze outside the window is blowing, and the flowers are wrinkled and fallen without a trace. The cold moonlight sprinkled on the frosty stone pavement, dyed with warm fluorescence, reflecting the cold sky.
The lights in the window fell, the candle shadows swayed, Chu Changting's face was hidden in the dark, and her face was silently blooming with unspeakable loneliness in the gloomy world.
"I have already sent someone to investigate, Miss Chu don't need to worry, let Brother and ...... Plum makeup will definitely be safe and sound. Su He gently persuaded him, his eyes fell on Chu Changting's lonely face, a little misty, as if he was looking at another person through her.
"Su Gongzi is such a great favor, Changting is really, and there is no way to repay it." The yellow candlelight sprinkled on the rounded edges and corners of Chu Changting's chin, showing that her face had a bit of fortitude that did not belong to a woman. Her voice trembled, and although she tried her best to suppress it, there were still tears in the corners of her eyes.
Su He smiled faintly, and thought with some sadness, how could there be no retribution, you have a royal face, and you will definitely make earth-shattering waves in the future.
"Miss Chu is polite." Su He smiled gently, "The girl can temporarily live in Su Mansion, and after finding Brother Ling and Mei Makeup, it doesn't hurt to go south to find Liangchen." ”
"Trouble son. Changting is wearing a guilty body at the moment, and it is inevitable to cause trouble when he lives in Su Mansion, if he leads to Su Mansion being convicted, then I am really ......"
"Did the girl forget? Chu Changting had already died in the fire. ”
Su He's soft and gentle voice was like a sharp blade, and it cut Chu Changting's heart word by word. She laughed to herself, her eyes looked out the window at the world under the cold moonlight, but she found that as far as her eyes could see, it was only a corner of the deep courtyard.
"yes. In the eyes of the world, Chu Changting has long been a dry bone. Chu Changting hooked the corners of her mouth slightly, the more she smiled lightly, the more the sadness in her eyes carried a murderous glimmer.
"Miss Chu, if you first live in Su Mansion under a pseudonym like before, you will be regarded as a random girl who I redeemed from the Qinglou." Su He looked at Chu Changting with a deep gaze, "Trust me, I will definitely protect you." ”
Such a gentle and determined tone, with a family-like eagerness, made Chu Changting in a trance. There are strings in my heart that are slightly stirred, and there is a shallow song that flows slowly. In an instant, it seems that the moon breeze passes, as if the drizzle moistens the fields, as if the spring branches are smart pink, and as if the paper kite stretches in the sky in March. After returning to spring, the hand of fate was unintentionally inserted into the willow, Chu Changting's eyes flashed, and he felt that the man in front of him was kind and considerate like a brother, as if he had seen his shadow in the aftertaste of Meng Po soup.
"In Su Mansion, you must show people with a veil, and don't get close to the Splendid Pavilion." Su He suddenly remembered something, and admonished again.
I think that someone in Sufu must have seen his appearance, so it is also appropriate to show people with a veil. But not being allowed to get close to the Splendid Pavilion made Chu Changting unclear. She thought of the fourth miss of the Su family, who might be very similar to her, and she was suspicious again, but under the fence, she couldn't ask more, so she had to bow slightly and say, "I understand." ”
"Thank you...... Son. Ten thousand words suppressed his heart, and Chu Changting got up and went to his room.
In Qinghui Xuan, Han Miaoxi sat quietly on the bed in a daze. She couldn't imagine that she was being called as a maid at home a few days ago, and now she was redeemed by the Su family, the largest family in Liangnan, and it was Su He, the head of the Su family, who redeemed herself......
It's really a wealthy family who doesn't blink an eye. Han Miaoxi thought, lowered her head to look at her slightly calloused hand, and a sense of inferiority that she had never felt before rose from the bottom of her heart.
Although she was born in a poor family, Han Yaoxi's heart is higher than the sky, even though she has been crushed to the dust, she just forbears it in her heart, thinking that one day she will take revenge, thinking that one day she will live on others.
However, when she saw the slender figure floating here, when the slender fingers shook the Taishou token, and when she casually took a thousand taels of silver to redeem herself, she felt inferiority inexplicably.
In this world, it makes sense that one thing descends from one thing.
She buried her face in her knees, and there was hot and moist liquid sticking to her delicate face.
In the early morning of the end of February, the morning light is faint, and the light of the sun pierces through the light veil-like mist, which breaks through the clouds, pours on the pillars and eaves, and the light is golden, painting brilliant poetry and paintings.
The sparse shadows of the colorful flowers and branches sprinkled obliquely on the dresser in Chu Changting's house, flowing like ink hair. In the faint light, she woke up slightly, she couldn't sleep all night last night, and only fell asleep when the day was about to break. In the dream, the flowers fell, and her body was floating and sinking, and the ups and downs were like drowning, which made her wake up and feel as tired as falling apart. The eyes were dark and blue, and his face was pale and frightening.
At this time, the face was terrible, and Su He, who got up early in the morning and was busy in the study, and Su Miao, who rushed to report the news.
Su Miao went out to buy wine in the early morning, and the streets and alleys were already full of the tragedy of the First World War. The news was blocked for nearly ten days, but it finally spread. Shen Liangchen died on the battlefield, only 30,000 of the 50,000 soldiers were left, and they ran out of ammunition and food, but it was Feng Zhao who rushed to help relieve them from being besieged.
And what is enough to write into the drama is that Nan Yaoyue did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but retreated. It is rumored that the happy event of the princess of Nan Yaoyue is approaching, and the happy event of the royal family of Yaoyue must not be bloody, so Nan Yaoyue returned to her land happily with the plundered materials and captives.
This is the first time that Nan Yaoyue has defeated Bei Tianzhuo. Although the Jinjia Army was so brave that Nan Yaoyue did not return to the city, the general Shen Liangchen's body was gone, and the heavy casualties were the most since Yi Lunhuan ascended the throne.
Presumably, the cold emperor in the palace of Feng Zhao, the wrath of thunder has spread all over the court.
In mid-January, Chu Minghong, the head of the civil ministers, was executed for rebellion, and Shen Liangchen, the head of the military ministers, was killed on the battlefield. The Beitianzhuo court lost its troops and lost its generals, and the government and the opposition were in turmoil for a while.
Outside the window, a hundred tongues screamed like a sharp blade tearing the thin blue sky, and the purple hair in Su He's hand snapped in response, and his delicate face instantly turned white and colorless.
"You say...... On a good day, he ...... "The red lips of the past like vines and periwinkles faded in an instant, and the mourning was abnormal and withered." Su He's brows were tightly furrowed, and the light in his eyes as he watched Su Miao gradually dissipate, losing the brightness of the past, leaving only the grief and silence of the stagnant water raged by the wind.
Anger, incomprehension, disappointment, sorrow. For the first time in his life, Su He's shallow eyes burst out of scorching fire, and he couldn't say a word, so he had to sit on the mahogany chair that Shen Liangchen specially brought for him from the barren swamp land of the Southern Barbarians two years ago, hot blood spurted out of his heart, rampage through his cold body, and finally dried up at the end of the veins, and it was difficult to have a home.
is the most ambitious age, but he has lost a close friend, a brother, and a confidant. How sad and desolate it must be.
What is the geometry of life, so far away?
Jun buried the mud under the spring, and I sent the world full of snow. Su Hewu laughed to himself, laughing with madness, two lines of tears slipped down and soaked his clothes. The morning glow hit his black hair like crow feathers, stained with a layer of silver-white color, like pear blossoms all over his head, like frost and snow falling all over the place, the three thousand crow feathers were eclipsed in an instant, and there were few white hairs mixed in it.
It is said that the government and the opposition are in turmoil, but how could that emperor make his country uneasy? Behind the seemingly turbulent turmoil, I don't know how many people with ill intentions have fallen because of this. Chu Minghong took the throne, and there was already a loyal young talent who was loyal to Yi Lunhuan, and he was a friend of Yi Lunhuan in his early years, but now as soon as he changes, more than half of the forces of the government and the opposition will be unstoppably inclined to Yi Lunhuan like mountains and rivers; Shen Liangchen died on the battlefield, and I don't know how many generals and lieutenants promoted by Yi Lunhuan are waiting to show their ambitions, even if Shen Liangchen still has remnants of forces in the court, they are all dependent on Yi Lunhuan and exist, and Yi Lunhuan must kill Shen Liangchen...... Although Su He doesn't know it now, but that day Chun'er said a word, and he woke up a person in a dream. He guessed that it must be related to the hundred-faced fan surnamed Shen.
There must be a reason why a woman with a hundred faces is so domineering on the rivers and lakes, and the government is afraid of three points. However, this is going around and around, I am afraid that it will involve the past of the previous dynasty, which is deeply rooted, and even Yi Lunhuan is difficult to decide for a while.
"Brother. Don't be too sad. Seeing his brother's withering tired face, Su Miao couldn't help but feel moved in his heart. He stepped forward to hold Su He's arm and comforted him in a low voice, "Life and death are fateful, there is still a long way to go, look ahead." ”
Look ahead, to put it lightly.
Su He's lips trembled, trying his best to control his face so as not to be too out of shape, gritting his teeth and saying word by word: "The good day has gone to this matter...... Don't tell Chu Changting. ”
With a snap, the crisp sound of porcelain breaking came from the door, and the two brothers looked up together, and saw Chu Changting standing in place like a wood, a pair of apricot eyes on the veil were full of astonishment, and his thin shoulders couldn't stop trembling, and he was dressed in white like a plain man, and the soles of his feet were broken cups and steaming tea, reflecting a cold and sharp edge in the sunlight.
"Childe, you said that he is a good day...... What's wrong? With the last trace of luck in his heart, Chu Changting asked tremblingly, his tactful voice like a yellow warbler in the past was like being entangled by sharp steel wires at this time, and it was carefully mixed with hoarse tiredness, which could not be concealed.
She looked at Su He, who was full of tears, and her eyes were pleading bitterly-
Please, please. Tell me I heard it wrong, don't tell me the ending I don't want to hear, don't tell me......
"Girl......" Su He looked at Chu Changting, who was also about to be grief-stricken, and couldn't bear to turn his head away, closing his eyes and not being able to bear to look at such a pair of Chu Chu moving but full of mournful eyes.
"Condolences." Seeing his brother's hesitation that was difficult to speak, Su Miao opened his mouth one step ahead of Su He, Su He hurriedly called his name, but was forced back by Su Miao who turned around and coldly. Although Su Miao had a sad expression on his face, his voice was still hoarse and cold, and he said loudly: "She heard it all, is it useful to hide it from her!" Brother, don't be merciful! It's useless to run away, it will only make her more miserable in the future! ”
"You liar! Deceitful! No, it won't! My good day is brave and good at fighting, how can he die! How could he die!! The voice was hoarse like the last battle of the trapped beast, but to no avail, blood splattered on the south wall.
Chu Changting collapsed on the ground all of a sudden, and the cold wind in the early morning mixed with the cold blow of Xiao Suo in February, like an ice pick hitting Chu Changting's back.
This time the grief came so violently that she instantly felt the suffocation of her liver and intestines, and her body was drained of all her strength at once, and she just sat there paralyzed, letting her tears slide down, letting her heart be sluggish and breathing hard.