CHAPTER XV

The bright moon is like a mirror, hanging high for half a day.

The lights in Yanjing City are like day, and the pedestrians and shops on the street are like dense blankets, covering the entire Yanjing, leaving no gaps.

The girl's exclamation split a path from the crowd, and several young people laughed unscrupulously and squeezed out, and the girl at the head turned her head and asked, "How is it, I'll just say it's beautiful here!" ”

The lights on the street, the cheers in the middle of the night, the girl's reddish smile, the two boys were stunned for a while, and after a while, one of them coughed twice and said, "That's it, Yingdu is better-looking." ”

"Where's Ah Yu?" The girl didn't pay attention to his words, and her little face turned to the other boy and asked.

"Good...... It's good-looking, there is no such place in Yunhuang, there are no lights in the sky, there is no lively street all night long, and there is no ......"

"There is no this, there is no that, of course, Yunhuang is a small place after all." The girl looked up proudly, spread her legs and ran away with a smile.

The skinny little boy behind her silently clenched his fists. Yunhuang is a very small place, a city full of acquaintances, except for the wood, stone and bricks, which is a green grassland without bounds, he is powerless to refute. But his heart suddenly throbbed, and in the fire tree and silver flowers, the figure of the girl was getting farther and farther away from him.

"Mother-in-law?" Ying Yue cautiously opened the door and poked out half of her head to ask.

No one answered, and dust was wafting in the palace. He asked softly again, and the room was still silent.

"Why did you remember me at such a late hour?" The gentle voice full of vicissitudes suddenly sounded, startling Yingyue, and as soon as he turned around, the familiar rickety figure slowly appeared in the darkness.

"What?" The figure sat down in a chair.

"Didn't my mother-in-law call me? And he asked me what was the matter? Ying Yue was puzzled.

"I'm confused," the mother-in-law patted her head, "and do you know what I called you?" ”

"Mother-in-law is lonely and wants to talk to someone?"

The mother-in-law smiled softly: "No." ”

"That'...... Mother-in-law wants to tell me about my mother? ”

"It's close, guess again."

“....... Can't guess. Ying Yue hung her head.

Mother-in-law: "Then we won't guess, let's talk about you first." ”

"Me?"

"Something, isn't it?" Mother-in-law's cane is far away.

There...... Who did it hurt for? For what bleeding and when will it heal?

Ying Yue shook her head vigorously: "No, no, I don't have any worries." ”

"What about this thing, it haunts you for a lifetime, crying and laughing, it is all related to it. If you can't stand it, if you can't afford it, it's a common thing. But if you don't say it, no one knows what it is, and no one can understand you, and the pain is all your own. The mother-in-law said slowly, "So, whether you say it or not, it's up to you." ”

After she finished speaking, she walked away slowly with a cane, and after walking a few steps, the boy behind her suddenly whispered, "Mother-in-law, have you ever been young?" ”

The mother-in-law didn't speak, and her expression seemed to soften under the hideous iron mask on her face, "Of course, no one is born old." That's sad. ”

"Was it beautiful when you were young?"

"Young me......" The scarlet lips under the iron mask hooked, and they were cold for a moment, "She is the most beautiful woman in Yanjing." ”

"That'...... Do you take the boys to see the lanterns and visit the night market? The boy seemed a little cramped, and he rubbed his hands together and asked.

The mother-in-law looked at him suspiciously, her delicate little face was full of anticipation and resistance, and he desperately needed someone to affirm something. The mother-in-law knows it.

"Not only that, but we will get into trouble together, escape from those old-fashioned gentlemen's classes together, and ...... together Climb to the top of the Wangxi Pavilion to look at the stars, and look at it all night. ”

This seemed to be a familiar picture to the boy, and he asked eagerly, "Does the mother-in-law like that boy?" ”

After he finished speaking, his face turned red again, and he stood dumbfounded, bewildered.

"Like? What do you think 'likes'? ”

This time it was the boy's turn to be speechless, and he blushed and thought about it for a long time, but finally sighed and waved his hand, indicating that he didn't understand at all.

"Yes......"

"It's the throbbing of the heart!" The boy suddenly rushed to say.

He suddenly thought of that night when the stars were bright, the small building on the Wangxi Pavilion that had just finished crying, the goose-yellow shirt and moonlight were spread on it, the beautiful eyes were red and swollen, and a shoe was still in his arms.

At that moment, his heart suddenly emptied, as if his whole soul was sucked by the girl in front of him, and a strange impulse welled up in his heart...... I want to go up and hug the girl tightly, wipe her tears, and tell her not to cry, everything and me, I will use my life to protect you......

The throbbing, the first throbbing, is it like?

"Throbbing...... Unfortunately not. The mother-in-law's words smashed what he thought in his heart, "Throbbing for a moment, if that is like it, how can there be so many infatuated lovers in the world?" ”

"Then the mother-in-law said, what do you like?" Ying Yue leaned closer and asked.

"What, you have someone you like?" The mother-in-law touched Yingyue's head with a smile, and her warm palm seemed to soothe her soul through her hair.

She raised her head, the moonlight cast a glimmer of light from the window lattice, the silver flowed on the iron surface, and the faint voice seemed to come from the distant valley, "I like it...... It takes a lifetime to remember a person. ”

"What does Your Majesty mean?" In the simple living room, Liu Xuan was sitting precariously and asked.

Opposite sat an old man with a white beard, dressed in a coarse cloth riding and archery suit, with large knobred hands like eagle claws, thin but full of explosive strength, and scars on his bronze skin, all of which showed the bravery and fierceness of his youth. After listening to Liu Xuan's words, he slowly took a sip of tea and said, "Let the princes each send a team of young men into Yanjing to study with their sons." ”

"This ......" Liu Xuan didn't seem to suppress it, he was about to lose his temper, but he realized that this place was not very hidden, so he blushed and said viciously, "This is tantamount to digging your own grave!" ”

His stubby fingers poked the table, and there was a "bang" sound, "Your Majesty really doesn't know?" In the current world, Dayan is meat, and the princes are wolves! Now this is letting the wolf into Beijing! ”

"Also, Your Majesty has appointed you to teach." The old man didn't seem to care, just drank tea and explained the facts.

"I won't do it!" Liu Xuan flicked his sleeves angrily.

"You think you can stop doing it if you don't want to?" The old man's eyes finally widened, and there was a gleam in his eyes, "Liu Xuan! You are the courtier of Dayan, not the emperor of Dayan! ”

"General Ding! I really don't understand, Your Majesty he ......"

"What's wrong with Your Majesty?" Ding Rongyi shouted, "This is the ancestral system, the ancestral system!" ”

Liu Xuan was stunned for a moment, defeated in front of that sword-sharp eye, and fell to the ground with a dejected butt, his hair crown was scattered, and his eyes were dim.

"After so many years, where has your Qi cultivation gone?" Ding Rongyi said, "Why is it still that hairy boy?" ”

Forty years ago, he accepted Liu Xuan as an apprentice, it was on the battlefield, he taught this little pawn a trick and a style, and agreed that if he did not die, he would see him in the court in Japan, but he didn't expect to become a colleague in the DPRK and China decades later, and the two never talked about the past on weekdays, so that most of the ministers of the DPRK and China did not know.

"Fox Yan...... ......"He played with the two names between his old lips and teeth, and suddenly a cool breeze blew in from outside the window, and a leaf turned leisurely in the wind.