Chapter Thirty-Six: Her Choice
Haotian Shu day, Lingjing Yao Shenzhou.
In the Purple Palace, Feiyu is like a cloud.
In the high gate of E'e, all are princes.
Since he is not a dragon climber, what is a trip.
was browned out of the room, and chased Xu by high steps.
Zhenyi thousands of gangs, full of thousands of miles.
Cuigu was half-lying on the floor, tossing and turning, reciting this "Song History" back and forth, which was my favorite poem when my father was there.
In her memory, her father always sat under the shade of his own tree, drinking wine on the peanuts and edamame made by his mother, and when he was happy, he would recite poems and play a few kung fu, Cui Gu sat aside, watching the bright light wander freely between her father's hands, up and down, like a butterfly flying in the forest, and she also ran around with the light excitedly, and her innocent and romantic childlike nature often made her father laugh.
The sake is also home-brewed coarse, and my mother's craft of making wine is average, and the wine is always cloudy and green. My father liked it very much, saying that it was a home-brewed "turbid wine" that had a special taste.
Father is a slightly successful achiever, although living in seclusion in the deep mountains and old forests all the year round, but a hand of Taoism is superb, in the local is also a little famous, many admiring students squeezed through the threshold of his home, but the father is not very happy about this, all refused.
"Those people admire Daddy's Taoism and want to worship under Daddy's door, why don't they want to?" When she was a child, Aunt Cui didn't quite understand her father's intentions and asked.
"Because, I don't want to be famous, and I don't want to make a career. I just want to live my own life ordinarily, just eat and drink enough. The father patted Cuigu's head and said with a smile, "Once I accept these people as disciples, I don't know how many mundane things will come out to annoy me." ”
Cui Gu seemed to understand whether she understood or not, and when she thought of those beautiful lights, she always couldn't help but yearn for it, "Then can I be my father's disciple?" ”。
The father was stunned for a moment, and then said, "A girl's family, she knows some poetry and songs, takes care of housework, and then it would be good to marry a good family." These things that fight and kill, if you learn them, they will only add to your troubles. ”
Cui Gu didn't understand at the time, she just felt that her father was stingy and didn't want to teach her own magic of divine energy, so she ran aside without looking back.
It wasn't until a group of soldiers broke into her home indiscriminately, with cold blades on her and her mother's necks, that she vaguely understood her father's helplessness.
People are often involuntarily, and the troubled times are like a huge devouring vortex, involving everyone, even the father who is far away from the world.
"I heard that you are a Daoist person, but you can be a tenth, you are a rare talent, work with us for Daqi!" The leading soldier said.
"I'm just a little bit of a spell to coax children to play, but I won't go into battle to kill!"
"Kill people, as long as you have one experience, you will naturally do it." Saying this, the soldiers' eyes were full of blood, like a beast thirsting for blood, "Do you want to try your wife and children, or go with us to the battlefield to try your hand." Take your pick! ”
Her father reluctantly followed the soldiers away, and no one ever showed her magical spells. She often asked her mother when her father would come back.
Mother still brews green coarse wine every day, pointing to the big wine vat on the side and smiling, "When my mother fills a vat of wine, my father will come back, he loves to drink my mother's wine, and he will definitely come back." ”
When the wine in the jar is full, it is poured out, and after a while it is full again, and so on and so forth. My father still didn't come home.
Only an edict and three hundred taels of silver were sent home, saying that her father had died in the king's affairs.
The mother wailed and cried on the ground, and kept pulling the person who came to ask for the bones of his father, and the man only left a sentence, "The bones are not found." And he left in a hurry.
Thinking about this, Cui Gu couldn't stop crying, she turned over, and took out a bright paper-pressing knife from under the pillow, which was given to her by her mother one night before she died. She was eighteen years old, and everything was as real as yesterday. The mother trembled and handed the paper knife to her beloved daughter, and said with tears in her eyes: "Son, your father was taken hostage to the battlefield and lost his life in the end. Thinking about our family, we have never done anything hurtful to the heavens and reason, but we have to suffer such a catastrophe, it is all the fault of the Qi country, and this revenge cannot be avenged! This knife is left to you, and you will take revenge for it in the future! ”
Later, Cui Gu wandered around, and with the help of that adult, she became the kabuki of Ji Yilou under Shen Lian, and waited for the opportunity forbearantly.
When she saw Guo Zhang for the first time, she was jealous.
Frozen half to death but miraculously surviving, it is the glory of the family in his hometown, and there are still uncles and cousins to take refuge in the capital city of Nuoda.
Obviously, he has suffered misfortunes in troubled times, but he escaped by luck, and his family was ruined and lost everything.
Fate is always unfair and wonderful.
Guo Zhang, who is completely different from her, Guo Zhang, who had nothing to do with her life, actually fell in love with her.
Expressed his love for her directly, didn't care about her Kabuki status, and recklessly took her to meet the elders of the family.
"Marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous wife, in Zhang'er's opinion, Cuigu is my virtuous wife." Faced with Guo Zhaozhi's loud questioning, he replied calmly. "I'm going to marry her."
is not only Guo Zhaozhi, but also the people in the family. They all felt that Guo Zhang was crazy and was confused. However, Guo Zhang turned a deaf ear, sold his jade pendant and sword, borrowed silver from others, secretly bought a small mansion, picked an auspicious day of the zodiac, pulled three feet of red cloth and two red candles, and worshipped heaven and earth with her.
"I'll be nice to you, and I'll do what I say." No one knows, and no one celebrates. The two became intimate.
He treats me sincerely, Cui Gu knows in her heart. Thinking of this, Cui Gu was already full of tears. She looked at the paper knife, remembered her father's tragic death and her mother's dying entrustment, and remembered the brilliance of her father's magical spells in the past, and sparks burst out in her eyes. But when I thought of Guo Zhang, my heart was tight.
The love for Guo Zhang is real, and the hatred for Qi Guo from the bottom of his heart is also real.
But where is this person who was the best for me now?
Will it be like my father, gone forever?
On the night of Xiao Zhi and Cao Ze's conversation, Guo Zhang was released from the general's mansion, and when he heard that Jiyi Building had burned down, the first thing he thought about was to rush home to see if Cuigu was safe.
Guo Zhang staggered home, it was late at night, he entered the inner room, and saw Cuigu lying on the soft couch, a pair of apricot eyes open, staring blankly at the roof and not knowing what to think. couldn't help but let go of a sigh of relief, and hurriedly ran forward to hug her, "Aunt Cui, I'm back, are you okay?" ”
Cuigu's brain was blank, she only touched Guo Zhang's face indiscriminately, and stared at it for a long time, only a few days, Guo Zhang was tortured to the point that he was broken, covered with wounds, and couldn't cry anymore, and said, "I'm fine, you.... If only you could come back alive. ”
"Somehow, they let me out." Guo Zhang also felt strange.
"You know what? The previous Qi Er is the current king, and he is the one who rescued you. Cui Gu said while crying, "I only knew about it by chance when I escaped and met his car. ”
"What?" Guo Zhang was taken aback, thinking about it carefully, the previous things were all connected, "I thought Qi Er was very special before, looking at his grand posture and the people around him, I knew that he was not an ordinary person, but I had never heard of this person, but I didn't expect it to be the king. ”
Cui Gu was also silent at this time, her heart was already in chaos. Her childhood experience made her hate Qi Guo to the core, and she couldn't wait to get rid of it quickly. With the help of that adult, she was quite proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and had a good appearance, so she finally sneaked into the Qi country, but she never thought of encountering such a thing.
The first time she saw Xiao Zhen, she just thought that he was just an idle rich boy, laughing and scolding, playing and having fun, but she was even more enthusiastic, and there was nothing special about it. But after contact, I gradually found that Xiao Zhi is sensitive, mechanical, and open-minded and seems to be above others. On weekdays, he is unruly and free, but he is never ambiguous when it comes to important matters. Even Shen Lian respected him a lot, and Guo Zhang even regarded him as his own brother, and saw that Xiao Zhi was not as mediocre and incompetent as he seemed.
"And what are you going to do?" Cui Gu thought for a moment and asked.
"I didn't think about it either." Guo Zhang was silent, "The king has a life-saving grace for me, and I will definitely repay him." It's just that now the situation is unclear, and Jiyi Building has been burned again, so I really can't help much. ”
"But..... But if it weren't for the king, because you were so close to him, how could you have been arrested? Cui Gu asked unwillingly.
"To tell you the truth, I never thought he was king." Guo Zhang remembered the past, "Every time I talk to him, I feel very happy. I got drunk and scolded the traitorous ministers, and when the monarch was incompetent, he accepted it with a smile. On weekdays, the two of us drank and wrote poems, and had a lot of fun. Such a man turned out to be a king! I wrote such a great rebellion, and he covered it up for me. If he hadn't personally helped this time, I'm afraid I would have died a long time ago. Guo Zhang lifted up his shabby clothes, which were full of blood-red torn gaps, some of which had not yet scabbed, and the blood that slowly flowed out was mixed with the dirt on his body, which was shocking.
"I only stayed there for a few days and was tortured like this." Guo Zhang smiled bitterly, "I should thank him well." “
"Now that the king is in a very difficult situation, do you really want to be on his side?" Cui Gu asked again.
"Death to a man who is a confidant. I have long regarded him as a confidant, and I will serve him until I die. Guo Zhang is sure, "I think he will be a good king." “
Speaking of this, Guo Zhang's expression became more and more serious, and he didn't even care about the pain on his body, only holding Cuigu's hand and thinking about the time he and Xiao Zhen Shen Lian had been together before.
Yes, it was such a firm look, exactly the same as the look in his eyes when he promised to marry her. Guo Zhang has always been a person who does what he says, he did to her back then, and he will treat Xiao Zhi the same in the future.
Cui Gu didn't speak, only looked at Guo Zhang gently, listened to him carefully, and after a while. "Since you want to contribute to the king, why don't you go to your cousin?" He's a royal guard, so he's sure to be able to speak. ”
"That's it." Guo Zhang clapped his hands excitedly, "I'm going to see him too, so that he knows that I'm out of danger." ”
"I'll come when I go, you have to rest well, don't worry too much." Guo Zhang looked at her, "I haven't seen you for a few days, and you have lost weight again." Now that I'm back safely, don't worry about it, it'll be okay in the future. ”
As if she hadn't heard his comfort, Cui Gu only hugged him tightly and didn't let go, and he quickly persuaded, "I'm covered in blood, don't stain your clothes." ”
"I'm not afraid, I just want to hug like this for a while." Cui Gu muttered, hugging her tighter.
"I'll be back in a minute." Guo Zhang comforted and gently broke free from her embrace, "You can sleep for a while." ”
"No matter what happens, you must work hard to fulfill your ambition and assist the king well." Cui Gu said inexplicably, and her hands couldn't stop stroking his cheeks.
"Of course, I will work hard, and for our family." Guo Zhang only thought that she was worried about her safety.
After a while, Cui Gu reluctantly put down her hand, turned around, and said, "Go quickly, go early and come back early." ”