Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Stranger is Like Jade

When An Yi returned to the entrance of Songling Village with grain and grass, it was getting late. He dismounted and thanked the grain officer sent by Zhao Lingfeng, and then found someone to inform Lin Muzhi to transport the grain back to the camp.

Soon, Lin Muzhi and Jin Mingyin took a few people and rode over from not far away. Seeing the carts of grain and grass brought by An Yi, Jin Mingyin hurriedly said excitedly: "Brother Yi, you really have the ability, you can get so much grain and grass." ”

When An Yi heard him say this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's just a noble person on the road, let's pull these big cars back first." ”

The two hurriedly led people to transport these carts of grain and grass to the camp. An Yi stepped forward, patted Jin Mingyin's shoulder from behind, and said mysteriously: "Mingyin, I'll give you a big gift tomorrow!" ”

Jin Mingyin didn't understand what An Yi meant, and asked him, "Big gift?" What a gift? ”

An Yi smiled, didn't tell him, and said, "You'll know tomorrow." ”

Jin Mingyin's eyes rolled, and he also changed to a playful expression and said to An Yi: "Since this is the case, then I will also give Brother Yi a big gift." ”

Now it's time to change to comfort and surprise, big gift? What kind of gift can this kid give me, he is a little unimpressed.

"Come with me." As he spoke, he rode in the direction of the camp with An Yiyi.

Originally, this dilapidated camp had been gesticulated, and many large and small tents had been erected. Presumably it was the result of Lin Muzhi and Jin Mingyin's hard work for a day, and one of the original wooden houses in the camp was lit up. Jin Mingyin took An Yi to turn over and dismount in front of the door of this room, and made a silent gesture to An Yi softly, and then approached the door a little bit.

Jin Mingyin glanced inside a few times along the crack in the door, and then beckoned to An Yi with a puzzled face in front of the door, motioned for him to stand in front of the door, and then knocked lightly on the door with his hand.

"Who?"

A crisp female voice came out of the room, this voice couldn't be more familiar, it was An Xin's voice. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Jin Mingyin, who was smiling on the side, and asked him meaningfully, the gift you gave me was my sister?

An Xin opened the door and saw An Yi with a surprised expression.

"Brother? You're back? ”

An Yi's surprised expression was of course not at An Xin, but at the delicate beauty in a long aqua blue dress sitting on the wooden chair in the room.

"Shadow! Why are you here! ”

Gao Yingshu raised his head, gave An Yi a sweet smile, and responded, "What?" Can't I come to your barracks? The regimental training makes the adult. ”

An Yi's surprised face just now was already full of smiles, and he turned to Jin Mingyin and An Xin and said, "You two, why didn't you tell me earlier." ”

After hearing this, Jin Mingyin spread his hands towards An Xin with a helpless face, didn't I tell you the first time?

An Xin didn't answer, she smiled lightly with her red lips, gently pulled Jin Mingyin's sleeve, and made an outward gesture at him. So the two of them walked out of the house very tacitly and vacated the small space in the house for this pair of mandarin ducks.

An Yi sat on the wooden chair opposite Gao Yingshu, and said to Gao Yingshu in front of him with a smile: "When did you come?" Why don't you send someone to tell me in advance, I'll pick you up. ”

Gao Yingshu listened to An Yi's words, and a trace of sweetness appeared in his heart, "I came in the afternoon, and I met Lin Muzhi in front of the door, saying that you went to raise military rations and was not in the camp, so I had to wait here for you to come back, and I waited until it was dark." But fortunately, it is only three or five miles away from Chengdu, and I am here, so I still need someone to pick it up. ”

Thinking about it, it seems that Gao Yingshu is waiting for him every time, thinking of this, An Yi couldn't help but feel a little apologetic: "It didn't go as smoothly as I originally expected, so I came back late." ”

"Can you raise food and grass?"

An Yi briefly told Gao Yingshu about the food extraction in the afternoon, and then said: "Fortunately, I met Zhao Lingfeng and solved my urgent need, otherwise the two hundred food and drink would have become a problem." ”

Gao Yingshu also frowned when he heard this, and said with some dissatisfaction: "I really didn't expect these people to be so blatant, and even the food and salary have to make a stumbling block." When I go back to the house, I will definitely find my father to participate in them in front of the emperor. ”

An Yi shook his head after hearing this, he knew that the King of Shu would be the same as Gao Yingshu, and he would be very angry after hearing this, but even if he really stabbed the matter in front of the emperor, I am afraid it would not cause any waves.

"Shadowy, do you remember Taketori in Huayang County? Isn't perverting the law for bribes, stealing and selling official food, fornicating with the enemy, murdering colleagues, and inciting civil strife a major crime of exterminating the family? In the end, it was not over, although it was a little pedantic, but it was also a matter of keeping its own Lin County, but it became an accomplice of Taketori. The decay of this Great Xia officialdom is no longer something that can be changed by one person or one book. ”

Gao Yingshu listened to what An Yi said, although he was not very comfortable in his heart, but it was indeed the truth. Just because she is from a royal family, compared to comfort, no matter how unbearable the Great Xia Dynasty is, after all, it is also the blood of the Great Xia Dynasty that flows in her body, and this innate emotion also makes her still have a lot of feelings in the middle.

An Yi didn't want to talk too much about these things to Gao Yingshu, because it would be good to make herself feel bad about these things, and there was no need to take her with her. So he said to Gao Yingshu: "Yingshu, I'll take you to an elegant place." ”

Gao Yingshu chuckled and nodded, and followed An Yi out of the door. An Yi turned over on the horse, stretched out his hand and pulled Gao Yingshu under the horse to sit firmly in front of the horse, and then rode towards the back mountain.

There is a winding river in the back mountain under the remaining veins of Jiulong Mountain in Songling Village, which is naturally the Qingshui River that flows from the front of Jiangjia Village. The originally spacious river channel has gradually been divided into a trickle by the rising pebbles, and the sound of gurgling water lingers in the somewhat sparse mountain forest on the bank, and the aftermath is endless.

By the bright moonlight, Anyi pulled Gao Yingshu to sit on a low stone pier on the bank, under the starlight of the sky, the river water is like a glittering brocade, still sparkling in the dark night.

"How? Is it beautiful? ”

An Yi slowly turned his head, looked at Gao Yingshu, who was sitting next to him and leaning on his shoulder, and asked softly.

"Hmm~"

Gao Ying closed his eyes, quiet like a little kitten, quietly listening to the symphony that lingered in the mountains and forests.

An Yi looked at the quiet Gao Yingshu on his shoulder, and asked quietly: "Yingshu, you are here, does your father know?" ”

Gao Yingshu opened his eyes, raised his head and looked at An Yi, the corners of his mouth gently pulled up a crescent moon, and asked An Yi rhetorically: "Then do you want my father to know or not?" ”

"Of course I hope that the King of Shu will know, otherwise, I can't afford to be charged with abducting the daughter of the palace."

Hearing An Yi say this, Gao Yingshu raised his head high, pretended to get up and said, "That's fine, since you are afraid of being charged, then I will go back to the house." ”

How could An Yi just let her leave, his left arm stretched slightly, grabbed Gao Yingshu, who was about to get up, pressed tightly on his shoulder, and said in a seemingly helpless tone: "If the King of Shu wants to blame, then I will bear it, alas, only women and villains are difficult to raise." ”

Gao Yingshu pursed his lips at him, and said disapprerovingly: "I learned this sentence when I was a child when I was studying the Analects from my husband, and I think that 'woman' represents wife, and 'villain' represents child. How did it get into the mouths of your men, and it became such a sentence, which makes people uncomfortable to listen to, as if men are born to suffer much more than women. ”

Hearing Gao Yingshu's words, An Yi couldn't help laughing loudly, and couldn't help but be interested, and argued with her: "It's not just Old Master Confucius who said this, don't you hear that the poet has a cloud of 'a gentleman is unparalleled in the world, and a stranger is like a jade'?" ”

"How can this sentence be related to our woman?"

An Yi stared at Gao Yingshu's delicate and warm face, which seemed to be like snow that could be broken by blowing, and said with a smile: "There are women who are already born like jade, but many men have not been unparalleled gentlemen in their lives. ”

Gao Ying knew that An Yi was praising her, and a smile appeared on her face, but she retorted unforgivingly: "The Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom, although she is a mortal enemy of my dynasty, but aside from the feelings of her family and country, she is a woman who is unparalleled in the world." ”

"Speaking of the border gates, the nine towns are in a hurry, but they are all because of her, if it is not like this, I really want to have the opportunity to meet her, what kind of person is it, among the women of the Han family, it should be the age of the boudoir to be married, but she can have such skill and courage."

Speaking of Empress Dowager Xiao, Gao Yingshu's eyes were filled with a blurry light, and she seemed to appreciate this strange woman very much.

For Gao Ying's point, An Yi does not deny it, and in the previous conversation with Jiang Ruyue, I also mentioned that the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State has rectified the dynasty with an iron fist and subdued the Quartet. It was precisely because of the leadership of this strange woman that the Liao State became strong day by day, so that it began to compete with Great Xia.

As soon as he thought of this, An Yi groaned a little: "I'm afraid that this unparalleled strange woman is a curse or a blessing for the Great Xia Dynasty." ”

Gao Yingshu understood that he was referring to the border troubles, and whenever he talked about it, his father was also a little sad like An Yi, "My father has completed the assembly of soldiers and horses, and he will probably go to the front line after the scientific examination in the next two days." ”

An Yi nodded, now the only way to pray that the soldiers and horses of the King of Shu can work together with the army that has already been on the border of Chen Bing to turn the tide of the war, although Jiang Ruyue is not optimistic about the army that has been conquered by the emperor, but in any case, only by winning can he ensure the peace of himself and his homeland.

From this incident, he also felt more and more powerless and insignificant, and more deeply realized the fear and uneasiness brought to him by pinning his fate on others. That's right, between heaven and earth, only by making yourself stronger and stronger is the strongest spear to dispel this haze, and the strongest shield to protect those you love and love you deeply.

Thinking of this, he hugged Gao Yingshu's arm and couldn't help but tighten. After all, An Yi is a man, and he is familiar with some martial arts, and the strength in his hands is not small. His hug made the slender Gao Yingshu feel a force slowly tightening on her shoulder for no reason, and she said softly: "Light, you hugged me painfully." ”

An Yi realized that his hands were a little heavy, and he smiled and unloaded the strength on his shoulders, looking at Gao Yingshu, who was sneering at him on the side. From his vantage point, he could just see the graceful lines and clearly visible collarbones of Gao Ying's pink neck, as well as a pair of rounded creams under the translucent yellow brocade wrapped around his chest. Seeing him, he couldn't help but feel a little appelate, and a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Gao Yingshu looked at An Yi's treacherous expression, and knew that the face he came over must have bad intentions, she slowly leaned back slightly, intending to keep a little distance from An Yi's burning gaze,

"You.... How do you want to.... This...... Hmm~~~"

An Yi gently kissed her delicate lips, and in this quietly swaying moonlight, there was no passion, only the throbbing heartbeat between each other.