【Chapter 17】The Old Days

Back in front of the small tent, it was already ugly.

When I was young, every time I was young, I would always sit high on the stone steps in the palace and watch the fleeting meteors fixedly. I often wonder why so many people waste so many people on meaningless wars when life is so short. How nice it is to be with your beloved and live happily.

Just as the emperor doesn't care about her thoughts, she can't understand the emperor's heart at all. Perhaps, the joy brought by the power that ascended to the world is much more than the ordinary and simple life.

"You haven't slept yet?" The grass behind him came the sound of a man's soft footsteps.

"Aren't you the same?" Mo Wei seemed to know who it was, and he didn't look back.

"Today's incident, I heard that you went to help again?" There was a hint of concern in his tone.

"When you lead your troops into battle, innocent soldiers will be wounded. It is my duty to bandage their wounds. Mo Wei said lightly, and the calm jade face did not have any expression.

It seemed that no one had ever dared to speak to him like this, and the face of the person who came changed and anger flashed. When I saw Mo Wei's pale face, he suddenly disappeared without a trace. The person who had always been known as the king of cold faces in front of his subordinates didn't know where to throw his cold mask, and his handsome face was full of care that he had never had.

The bright yellow clothes sat down quietly beside her, "Have you ever complained about me in your heart?" ”

Mo Wei's expression remained unchanged: "Mo Wei doesn't dare, Mo Wei is just an ordinary person with a humble status, how dare he complain about His Royal Highness the Prince?" ”

Shizi smiled bitterly: "There are thorns in your words - I can hear it." ”

"The past will always pass, and once it is gone, it will never come back, only an empty shell covered with dust in the heart."

A headless sentence, but Shizi understands what she is referring to.

On that autumn afternoon, I was tired of the restraints of the palace people. The ten-year-old boy sneaked up to the hunting grounds, ready to play for a while. His father had forgotten to tell him that there were a lot of beasts in the autumn hunting grounds, ready to hunt and have fun with the generals when the army triumphed. A devouring white wolf takes his uninvited guest as his next prey. A dangerous game of hunters against being hunted begins. A knife is a good knife, and a horse is a good horse. It's just that teenagers are inexperienced. Abandoned by the horse when he was frightened, he only had time to raise his knife and plunge into the wolf's belly, but he was bitten by a large mouth full of sharp teeth, and he could not move. Just when he was desperate in his heart, a girl in Tsing Yi suddenly rushed out, lifted a stone and smashed it down.

The stone was too small, the strength was too small, and the blow almost didn't work, and even the teenager who fell to the ground felt that she was really weak. It's just that this weak girl would have the courage to save him, which really surprised him. The wolf became angry and pounced on the panicked girl next to him who didn't know what to do, and at this moment, the young man under him moved. The knife slashed diagonally through the wolf's soft throat. The wolf, who was still struggling to the ground, gradually stopped moving.

The girl suddenly exclaimed, "You are injured! The boy looked at his arm, and there was still a thin stream of blood from the wolf's bite. It's really troublesome, I thought to myself, in the eyes of the Huiren, the scars on the body and the killing of the enemy on the battlefield are also the honor of the warriors. pouted indifferently, and tore off a piece of clothing hastily and prepared to wrap it. The girl snatched the dusty brocade and took out a mahogany box from the bamboo basket she was carrying behind her. Before he could speak, he bent to the ground. The wound was cool.

"You..." Before she finished speaking, she glared at her beautiful eyes: "Don't move." "Even the angry look is very attractive.

Even in front of his mother, he had never been so well-behaved. The state of mind at that time has long been forgotten, but the soft trace of coolness is quietly planted in my heart through the hot wound. Even when it was later sterilized with soju, he didn't snort.

"His Royal Highness!" Thousands of cavalry roared from afar. The dust has not fallen, it is already in front of you. Everyone knelt down sweaty, their faces were unconcealed joy, I am afraid that everyone is thinking about how much reward they can get. No one noticed that the emerald clothes had quietly disappeared into the forest.

His eyes widened, trying to find the figure that had been by his side a few moments ago. Ignoring the surprise in everyone's eyes, he turned over a war horse and ran towards the forest in the distance.

I was about to call her, but I woke up and didn't even ask her name.

"Hey, where are you ······"

That's all he said when they first met.

was unwilling to be taken back by his father, and his mother was already waiting anxiously at the palace gate, and when she saw him, she burst into tears. The father is not like his mother, although he has a straight face, but he has been boasting to his ministers since then. It was immediately believed that God was helping, and people looked at the ten-year-old child with more respect. Only he scoffed at it, the so-called god is not as young as a girl a few years younger than him.

Staying outside the hunting ground, countless palace people under his command were sent out. Find a girl in green clothes anywhere you can think of. No sleep all night.

The next day, there was finally news that there was a person in the house of the two old men and women who were helping the cook in the stove room and there was a person who was very similar to the description. He chased after him with red eyes.

The two old men were already on their knees, begging to let the homeless girl go. The gorgeously dressed teenager smiled, how could he hurt her? After asking carefully, I realized that she was bitten by a poisonous snake when she was collecting medicine last night; It turned out that she was found by the old man at dawn when she was unconscious; It turned out that she was born to a female prisoner of the Han family, and she was a sister she never knew.

His expression at that time must have been terrifying, and he was full of murderous anger to vent his anger with a few palace people under him. It was she who shook her head slightly, and before she could speak, a huge tear slipped down her cheek. The hand that often held the hilt of the sword was a little rough and gently wiped it from his face, and kicked out the palace man who was trembling: "Call the imperial doctor!" ”

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Since then, he has been with her every day in the hunting grounds, helping her collect medicine and carrying baskets for her. However, she wanted her father to give her an identity, but she was always refused. The queen mother has always refused to ask her to help her on the grounds of improper blood. After hearing this, she didn't show any disappointment, but smiled faintly and said, "That's good." At least now, I have an older brother. ”

Got her name. Don't worry, people are like their names, and people are better than their names.

As a ** who believes in iron blood, what flows in his body is the blood of such a wild surname. However, no matter how bloodthirsty her heart is, by her side, she is just a clumsy brother.

Only by joining the army can we establish authority, and only by joining the army can we establish a career. The children of the Hui people would rather be lions who live for a day than sheep that live for a thousand years. At a young age, he had to go out with the army, and he didn't treat other soldiers differently because he was a royal family. Every time he broke the enemy, he would rush to the front, spilling the blood of the enemy's chest on the tattered armor in front of him, as if he was a tireless beast, roaring and dancing out of the heavy iron sword, every time the enemy in front of the battle was extremely embarrassed to blow the horn of the army, thousands of soldiers who followed him would cheer for him, crazy for the warrior in their hearts. The association and the soldiers under its command drank and celebrated, but for some reason, they would always quietly leave the noisy camp and stand quietly under the cold moonlight and look into the distance. Even if he was fighting bloody, there was always a figure in his mind who chuckled and said to him, "You want to come back, brother." "When I slept on my pillow in the middle of the night, the scene of pulling the hook before the expedition always lingered in front of me.

When he walked out, he carried unbroken wishes, and when he returned, he brought back a scar all over his body.

Naturally, the doctors in the army would not treat his wounds as carefully as she did, and most of the wounds did not heal by the time he returned.

With tears in her eyes, she gently complained while cleaning carefully.

One day he finally couldn't help it: "Don't worry, you come with me, I'm injured, you can help me bandage my wounds." ”

Remember, she nodded so happily.

In fact, what I wanted her to see was the pride and flamboyance when she rode on a horse and stained her clothes.

But he was wrong, she stared at the bloody field with a dull expression, and did not say a word for a long time. The pale face is a kind of sadness that goes deep into the bone marrow.

He returned victorious, and before he could disarm, he walked towards her.

Her eyes were so strange, as if she had never known him as a person. Perhaps, he has become too strange, even if he is always together, he doesn't want to recognize each other now.

He stumbled and pushed him away, and went crazy into the battlefield where the sound of swords was heard from time to time. The cyan dress was stained with brown blood.

When the white cloth was not enough, he tore his clothes to shreds. Not only Hui people, but even injured enemies, she will carefully bandage them, completely ignoring the malice and ferocity in the eyes of the other party.

An undead foe gasped to his feet, a steel knife in his hand. Walked up to her and stabbed down slowly.

She even smiled at him and said, "Wait a minute." ”

The hard bow on his back was removed at some point, and a single arrow knocked that enemy to the ground.

She was stunned, and hurriedly covered the wound that was still spurting blood, and asked loudly, "Why did you kill him?" ”

He was also stunned: "He's going to kill you!" ”

She smiled coldly: "If he kills me, he can let these thousands of unjust souls rest in peace, I would rather he kill me." ”

Then he said miserably in a low voice: "Parents have worked hard to raise a person, how much effort does it take, and how much gray hair does it take." How much effort does a healer have to put in to save a dying person, and how much painstaking effort he has to burn. To kill a person, you only need to swing a sword. Saving a person, sometimes what is left behind, is a lifetime of regret..."

She couldn't go on, and the violent vomiting made her unable to stand up. He walked up to her and grabbed her, but she pushed her away.

Looking at the military camp that had sunk in the twilight, there was still a graceful figure busy. Looking at it from afar, he knew that the originally perfect piece of the world had finally begun to crack. He and she will never be able to return to the good memories of the past.

Since then, he has been vaguely avoiding her. On the contrary, she has always been going to go with him on the expedition to heal the innocent wounded. There was a little more indifference in his tone. She didn't call him brother anymore. Brother, Your Highness, the meaning is the same, the essence, but it is a world of difference. One warm, the other indifferent.

After that, he still called her sister as always;

After that, she still called him His Highness as always.

"His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is a noble person, I am just a subordinate, how dare I bother His Highness..." These were the first words she said when she opened her eyes after she fainted from exhaustion.

"Don't worry..."

"His Royal Highness, Mo Wei's cheap name may stain His Highness Chrysostom..."

"You're my sister."

"I don't have a brother."

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It became her nightmare every night to wake up outside the tent and talk to him standardly.

The bitterness in my heart has not been reduced by half a point with the passage of time, but there is a faint expectation. All the time, I wish I could call him brother again, no, not just brother.

"Someday, I'll tell you a secret, and then, we'll be together for the rest of our lives."

He said word by word to the person in his arms, don't worry, he has fallen asleep.

"What are you doing in the stove room so late?" The prince has nothing to say, and being by her side will make him feel a warm peace of mind, which has not been given to him for many years.

A trace of panic flashed on Mo Wei's face, his expression became unnatural, and his words were a little slurred, "No..." It's nothing, the old man in the stove room is sick and called me to take a look. ”

Shizi looked at her and sighed: "You don't have to lie to me - you don't lie like I am when you are young - say, what is the matter, see if I can help." ”

I wanted to refuse, but a pale girl's face appeared in front of me.

"I'd like to go to the Imperial Pharmacy to buy some medicines." Mo worried's face pleaded. Ginseng is precious, which can be bought for a few taels of silver, and the reason why I say that is because I can't bear to hurt the old man's kind heart.

"Go to the Imperial Pharmacy to buy medicine?" Shizi smiled, "How much silver do you have?" ”

A faint sadness appeared on her face, and a look of disappointment flashed. Sure enough, he was no longer the same person he used to be. There is really an insurmountable gap between humble and noble status. When she was a child, no one looked at her squarely, even if her father returned to the king. Hui people believe that their blood is noble, how can they afford to look at the children of a Han girl. 's lowly status made her the object of everyone's teasing. In the cynicism of others, only he will give her the slightest warmth, only he will endure her teasing, her mischievousness, her crystal-like and fragile self-esteem; Only he would embrace her melancholy, her sorrow, her starry eyes. Although she would speak coldly to him every day, in her heart, she couldn't really forget the person who treated her like a brother.

Mo looked at him in a daze, he never cared that he would say such a thing to her because of his low status.

Looking at her somewhat disheveled bun, Shizi said softly, "Where is the hosta on your head?"

She turned away in disgust, not wanting to look at him.

A crystal clear hosta was handed to her, as if sighing and saying a word, "Don't save her." ”

Mo Yan looked incredulous: "How did you find that girl?" Where did you take her? What about the two old people? Where did you keep them? ”

Hui Shizi looked serious: "Definitely don't have anything to do with that assassin - not at all!" When my father wakes up, he will definitely investigate this matter strictly. All those involved in it have to die - I don't want anything to happen to you. ”

"Where did you keep that girl? And the old man, you should know that they are innocent," Mo Wei stared at the person in front of him, "If you are still the same person before." ”

Shizi lowered his head: "You know, my father will definitely kill someone..."

Mo Xuan stood up: "You can tie me up, but you can't let the two old men be harmed." ”

Shizi then stood up, "I can't help you with this." ”

After taking a few steps, he heard the sound of low footsteps behind him, and without the slightest hesitation, Mo Wei knelt on the ground: "You let them go, no matter what you ask me to do in the future, I am willing." ”

Shizi stopped: "What if I let you call me brother again?" ”

Mo Wei's voice trembled slightly, but he replied without hesitation: "A thousand or ten thousand sounds are fine!" ”

In your heart, am I not even as good as an assassin and a bad old woman? The heart is like a knife, but the son of the world never looks back.

waved his hand silently, and secretly walked out of a group of people, led by a henchman who nodded on one knee: "Your Highness? ”

"Send them all away, send them to the Guannai, and settle them. Others, you should know how to do it. ”

"Yes." The henchman replied expressionlessly, and Lulun drove past a carriage, and sitting on it were the old man and the girl, as well as the sleepy maid Fuliu.

"Wait a minute," Shizi threw a burden to her, "take this with you, and use it on the road." ”

Until she was put into the carriage, Mo Wei didn't believe that it was true, the person in front of her was going to let her go.

Seeing the carriage go away, the prince was weak for a while. She is finally gone, and now, she can wait for an unknown fate. After his father woke up, how he would react was something that no one dared to imagine. I'm afraid that this time, even the identity of the prince can't save him. Love dearly? Jokes, the father just admires him like a falcon trained by his own hands. If it's love, then it's okay. Now, those younger brothers should be very happy.

Suddenly laughed out loud, I was afraid that I would not be able to imagine that I didn't need his persuasion, but for a brother with a soft voice left in his heart by a cyan figure. Now, it's time to ask the military advisor for a cup of tea. With a certain mind, the prince strode towards the middle tent.