Chapter 254: Drawing lots

An Xin saw Gao Ciyi go out in the camp tent for a while and didn't come back, and couldn't help but go out to look for him, and after looking for it for a short time, she saw Gao Ciyi sitting on the ground like a lost soul, and there were two soldiers with torches standing behind him in a daze.

An Xin hurriedly stepped forward, helped Gao Ciyi up from the cold ground with both hands, and said angrily to the two soldiers behind him: "You two pestles are here, just let him sit on the ground like this?" ”

The two soldiers didn't know Gao Ciyi, but they knew this uncle's sister, and An Xin, who was annoyed, looked aggrieved, and didn't dare to answer, and when he saw An Xin planning to take Gao Ciyi away, one of them took a step forward and stopped him: "That...... That Ann girl, this ...... The person is what our General Liao wants to keep an eye on here, and you took him away like this, so we can't explain it. ”

An Xin was originally unhappy with these two "eyeless" soldiers, but seeing that they took the initiative to stop her, she didn't have a good color, and reprimanded with her eyebrows upside down: "Get out of the way!" A good living person is not a prisoner, and you still want to keep an eye on it? General Liao wants to explain, let him go to my brother! ”

As he spoke, he helped Gao Ciyi to bypass the two soldiers.

How dare these two big-headed soldiers stop it again? I can only let this little aunt and grandmother go over, and then run to Liao Ying to report it.

An Xin was going to help Gao Ciyi back to the camp and then help him get rid of the poison, but when he was halfway there, Gao Ciyi seemed to suddenly come back to his senses, grabbed the slender hand on his arm with his big hand, let out a faint breath, and said softly: "Xin'er, I don't want to go back, can you accompany me for a walk?" ”

An Xin originally wanted to insist on taking him back to heal his injuries, but seeing Gao Ciyi's sad face, he could only agree lightly, "Okay, then I'll accompany you for a while, and then you have to go back with me to heal your injuries." ”

Gao Ciyi reluctantly bent out a smile, "Okay, promise you." ”

After hearing this, An Xin also obediently took Gao Ciyi's arm, saying that it was the first time she had pulled the arm of a man other than An Zhiyuan and An Yi, and the little bird followed him, and the little couple walked slowly in the camp as if they were suddenly outside the smoke of the war.

"Xin'er, my dad is gone."

For Gao Ciyi's title, An Xin still sounded a little awkward, and couldn't help asking, "That'...... Shouldn't you be called Father? ”

"But he is also my father, my mother's husband," Gao Ciyi seemed to be competing with herself,

An Xin also wanted to make Gao Ciyi feel better, at least talk about some good memories, so she deliberately asked him: "Is your father good to you?" ”

Gao Ciyi paused and asked her, "I...... Growing up in the palace since I was a child, I have only one father and only one mother, and I have only seen one father and one mother, so I don't know what the concept of 'good' you mean by 'good'. Why don't I ask you, is your father good to you? ”

An Xin smiled slightly, and without thinking about it, Gao Ciyi said: "Of course it's good, when my father was young, he often went to run a business with Uncle Jin far away from home, and at that time, he would tell me every place he went to and ask me what I wanted." I would always tell him what I saw in the book and what I heard on the street, and ask him to buy it for me. ”

"That'...... Will your dad buy it for you in the end? ”

An Xin nodded, pursed her lips, and seemed to enjoy it when she recalled: "That's right, I only learned when my mother told me later, and many of the places I mentioned, sometimes he didn't pass by, and he went around a long distance to buy them for me, so my Uncle Jin complained to him a lot." ”

Gao Ciyi didn't know if he was infected by the expression on An Xin's face, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, but he quickly calmed down, he sighed softly, and said with some loss:

"I sound like I feel that kind of happiness, so I said, the definition of 'good' has to be compared, originally I thought I was living a very happy life, but compared with what you said, it's not easy to mention again."

An Xin also heard Gao Yingshu mention her childhood, as well as the so-called princes and princesses in the palace when she was a child, but hearing is always false, she still asked with some curiosity: "Isn't your father the emperor?" So if you want something, he can't just say it? ”

Gao Ciyi shook her head, "When my mother was still alive when I was young, I could indeed see my father from time to time, and I could often see my mother, but I am not like you, my grandmother has taught me since I was a child, what to say and what not to say." But at that time, I was very young, and I couldn't remember what my grandmother said, so I simply didn't say anything when I saw my father, so that my father and my uncle thought I was a very introverted child, but in fact, they didn't know, I was just afraid of making mistakes. ”

"Listen to my brother that your mother left when you were very young?"

Gao Ciyi said "um" lightly, then nodded at her, and continued: "After the death of my mother concubine, my situation has become worse, I stay in the Chufang Palace all day long, constantly taking classes and learning things from my husband, my second brother and fourth brother can also go to see their mother concubine from time to time, while my third brother and I can't get out half a step, let alone my father, sometimes I almost forget what he looks like." I sometimes even feel that my father doesn't remember that he has a prince like me, and he doesn't remember that he has the concubine he loved so much before. ”

An Xin didn't expect that the prince who looked noble inside the high walls of the deep palace sounded so lonely, and originally planned to let him recall some good things to alleviate his sadness, but he didn't expect that what he picked up from the sea of memories were all these angular stones, and he said with some comfort: "You don't have to think about these pessimistic things all the time, anyway, didn't your father still give you the title of King Huai when he was crowned king?" That means that your father still remembers you and your mother. ”

Gao Ciyi nodded reluctantly in agreement, "Yes, compared to my third brother, I'm really lucky." Do you know? Before we were together in the palace of the Fangfang, the queen always sent us some food snacks, before I have always been naïve to think that every prince is the flesh and blood of the father, and they will enjoy these delicious pastries, but when I one day, while my grandma didn't care, I went to my third brother with my plate of phoenix tail cakes, I actually saw him and Liu Niangniang's mother and son hugging their heads and crying, the most incredible thing is that the two eunuchs on the side actually poured hot tea on the heads of the two of them......”

Speaking of this, Gao Ciyi seemed to feel a little uncomfortable in her heart, and choked up a little before she continued: "Really, I never thought that there would be such a ridiculous thing in this palace where there are so many rules and so much importance to the royal face and dignity. ”

An Xin only heard surprise in her ears, but she couldn't personally experience the shock and subversion that Gao Ciyi felt when she saw it with her own eyes, so she didn't interject, just gently stroked Gao Ciyi's clenched hands, which was regarded as a sign of comfort,

Gao Ciyi also felt the tenderness brought by the somewhat cool slender hand, the clenched fist in her hand loosened, turned over and held the pair of cold and light palms in her palm, so that this pair of soft hands and her master felt the concern and warmth she sent together, but she didn't stop and continued: "Later, when I was sealed and opened the mansion, even my third brother took it out together, and I never let him suffer the cold eyebrows of those subordinates. I was always thinking about when I would go to my father to plead his case, and ask him to open Chrysostom to give my third brother a title, even if it was just a lieutenant of Fengguo, it would be better than such a common man's cloth. It's just that I didn't expect that before I could speak, my father took the first step. ”

An Xin's head turned, and he said: "As you said, the definition of 'good' has to be compared, compared with your third brother, then your father should also be counted as 'good' for you, right?" ”

Gao Ciyi was stunned by what she said, and only after a while did she smile slightly, turn her head and say, "That's true, you can really comfort people." ”

An Xin'e raised her head very proudly, "Isn't it?" ”

Maybe Gao Ciyi had never said these words to other people, so he poured out a lot of depression in his heart to An Xin, and the depression in his heart was relieved a lot.

Seeing that Gao Ciyi's face softened a lot, An Xin turned to him and continued to lenien: "I think you're much luckier than your third brother, at least you still have me, my brother, Sister Siyi, Sister Yingshu, our relatives, and your third brother, you may be left alone." But after all, people can't be resurrected after death, and now, I think you should turn your grief and anger into strength, and think about it, you should be a good emperor. ”

Gao Ciyi smiled softly when he talked about this, but An Xin still saw a trace of loss from his snort,

"However, I heard from those two soldiers just now that my father's will has been announced to the world, so that my fourth brother will inherit the throne."

An Xin stared at Gao Ciyi very seriously when she heard this, and said seriously: "There is nothing that my brother promised me since I was a child and can't do it, and it will be the same for you, I believe in my brother, he said that if you can be the emperor, you will definitely be able to!" But ......"

An Xin glanced at Gao Ciyi again from the corner of her eyes, "But it sounds like you don't like you very much, the fourth brother?" When you talk about him, you don't have the kind of intimacy you had when you were the third brother. ”

Gao Ciyi thought for a while and replied to her, "Actually...... I may be more jealous of him, I told you before, I have a sister Wan'er, and she is also a sibling with me, but I don't know why, she and I have never had that kind of brother and sister relationship with your brother, but the relationship with the fourth brother who is not related by blood is very good. ”

"Jealous?"

Gao Ciyi sighed softly, and then smiled self-deprecatingly, "Maybe I don't have the consciousness of being a brother like your brother." ”

"Enlightenment? Haha, it's the first time I've heard that being an older brother is still going to be enlightened, so should I, as a younger sister, also be enlightened? In this way, isn't your Wan'er sister also very unconscious of being a sister? ”

Sometimes Gao Ciyi really feels that An Xin is like a master who is good at sophistry, and can always point the contradiction elsewhere easily, but to be honest, after chatting with her, her mood is like opening a window after the rain, much brighter.

This pair of little lovers was here chatting with me one by one, when they were suddenly interrupted by a voice behind them,

"So you're here."

Gao Ciyi and An Xin looked back, it was Lin Muzhi, the two were still very familiar with Lin Muzhi, and after hearing his words, they stood up and asked, "What's the matter, General Lin, are you looking for me or Xin'er?" ”

"Looking for you, I'm looking for you for something, come on!"

Lin Muzhi looked very mysterious and dragged Gao Ciyi over, as if he had something secret to say, deliberately avoiding An Xin.

"Brother, I heard you can do tricks, right?"

Gao Ciyi thought that Lin Muzhi was looking for him because he was looking for him comfortably, but he suddenly asked about this, and nodded a little inexplicably: "Yes, it will be a little bit, General Lin asked this...... It's not going to be for me to show you a trick, is it? ”

Thinking of this, he looked at the long scar on Lin Muzhi's neck, and the ruffian beard on his face, thinking that he was lying in front of him with his delicate little face with both hands like An Xin, and said crisply: "I don't care, you teach me~", for no reason, there was a chill in his heart.

Lin Muzhi looked at the unpredictable expression on his face, and hurriedly explained: "Oh, where do you want to go, it's like this, the uncle over there in the big tent of the Chinese army gathered a few of us to talk about the distribution of grain and grass to prepare for evacuation." But the grain and grass of the soldiers and horses in Shaanxi are far away from us, but the grain and grass in it is indeed quite considerable, so the uncle decided to catch lots, and whoever caught the paper with a red hook will take the soldiers and horses to the granary in Shaanxi to get grain. ”

"Is that okay?"

Gao Ciyi listened to what he said, and always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't figure out what was wrong.

"That'...... What does General Lin mean? Do you want to go and get food and let me do it for you? ”

Lin Muzhi nodded at him violently, but seeing Gao Ciyi's suspicious face, he went on to explain: "Oh, you don't understand what Uncle means, in fact, it seems dangerous to go to get food, but in fact, our familiarity with Lanzhou City is much greater than that of the Liao people, so most of them are in danger." Uncle thinks that as long as we hold these grains and grass in our hands, isn't it equivalent to holding the entire Shaanxi soldiers and horses in our hands? ”

After speaking, he also picked his eyes at Gao Ciyi,

"Did you say no?"

Gao Ciyi seemed to be logical and convenient when he heard him say this, but it still felt weird, but it sounded like a comfortable idea, so he nodded and agreed, "Okay, where are you now, I'll go over." ”

Lin Muzhi saw that he agreed, his face was full of joy, and he pulled his sleeve, "Let's go, come with me, and after you go in, you will say that we met in the thatched house." ”

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