Chapter 81: Breaking the Cocoon into a Butterfly

My surname is Lu, my name is Die, and my father and mother like to call me Cocoon.

I asked why? My father and my mother told me that beautiful butterflies come out of cocoons, and both my father and mother like to call me Cocoon because they want me to be as beautiful as a butterfly in the future, and because I am still young, they call me Cocoon.

Actually, I'm not young, and in nine months, I'll be fourteen.

Chun Yu Tiying, I also saved my father when I was fourteen years old, and I will be fourteen years old soon, you can't treat me as a child anymore.

I like to be with my father, I don't like to fight, because I don't like to see blood and corpses, but my father is the most powerful military general in the world, and the most things I see with my father are blood and corpses. I'm afraid, I'm afraid that one day, blood will also flow from Daddy's body, just like the body of the enemy pierced by Daddy's Fang Tianhua halberd, it will also shed salty blood, gradually lose consciousness, and eventually die.

Every time I think about this image, I feel pain in my heart that drills out, pierces my heart, and spreads to every inch of my body, and I am so afraid.

Because I was afraid, I said to my father and mother more than once, "Daddy, mother, let's go back to Jiuyuan, whether it's herding sheep or milking, I'll feed you, we don't want to fight anymore, Cocoon wants to go home." ”

The mother said: "Silly child, the place where my father and mother are is your home, and you still need to go home?" ”

Daddy smiled and said: "Silly daughter, what's so good about Jiuyuan, the wind and snow are big and the sand is big, except for the grassland, it is sand, that is comparable to the prosperity of the Central Plains?" When Daddy laid down the Central Plains, Daddy built a big and beautiful palace for Cocoon, let Cocoon live in it, and give Cocoon Er a home. ”

I said that I was not convinced that my father and mother took me home, so I had to follow my father's side, from Jiuyuan to Hexi, from Hexi to the Central Plains, seeing countless blood, seeing countless deaths, I also woke up from nightmares again and again, looking at the cowhide tent above my head and crying until dawn.

If I didn't really can't avoid it, in fact, I was very reluctant to accompany my father on the expedition, because I was always afraid of seeing blood and corpses, until I turned thirteen years old, Erniang Diao Chan told me the story of Ti Ying's rescue of my father, and I made up my mind to accompany my father on the expedition every time, because I also hope to save my father's life when my father is in danger, like Ti Ying.

Daddy is going to war again, this time Daddy's enemy is called Tao Ying, Daddy scolds him for being a child, and he shouldn't be too old. My uncle Chen Gong opposed Daddy fighting this battle, because Uncle Chen thought that this young man named Tao Ying was not simple, and Daddy's enemies were already too many, and he couldn't add this dangerous enemy. Daddy was furious, rejected Uncle Chen's proposal, and insisted on starting a war with this young man named Tao Ying, and Uncle Chen had no choice but to agree.

I overheard the conversation between my father and Uncle Chen, but I didn't persuade my father not to fight with this young man named Tao Ying, because my father could agree to any of my requests, but he didn't listen to me in the aspect of fighting, so I excused myself that I was too bored in Changyi City, and insisted on going out with my father, and my father loved me and agreed to my request.

I'm not bored in Changyi City, and I don't want to see blood and corpses anymore, I just know that Uncle Chen never lied to my father, he said that this young man named Tao Ying is very dangerous, and this enemy named Tao Ying must be very terrible, I am worried about my father's safety, so I insist on going out with my father, if possible, I can also rescue my father like Chun Yu Tiying.

On a morning with a bleak north wind, I accompanied my father to set off from Changyi to the south, my father rode a red rabbit horse in front, I sat in the carriage and followed behind, my father's back was wide and thick, when I climbed on my father's back before, I always felt very safe, but this time, I always had a bad feeling, I hope I feel wrong.

That young man named Tao Ying is an abominable liar, he sent someone to pretend to be my father's messenger, ruined my father's reputation, deceived Xiao Pei's city gate, and also deceived Xiao Pei's grain that should have belonged to my father, this liar is so hateful, doesn't he know how many people have starved to death in Yanzhou because of lack of food? How many people in my father's army were eating bark and grass roots? This hateful liar, I hate him.

Daddy was angry with the hateful liar, refused Uncle Chen's persuasion, and insisted on leading the army to hunt down the team of the hateful liar, the hateful liar's army has a very noble name called the Junzi Army, I heard that he also likes to go to the battlefield under the banner of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and gentleness, courtesy, and frugality, but Uncle Liu Bei told me that the name of the hateful liar's army is missing one word, in fact, it should be called the hypocrite army, and the hateful liar likes to play those two flags, and it should also be pronounced as yin damage, cruelty, viciousness, and cheating.

I also don't like Uncle Liu Bei, my mother told me that he and his two brothers once fought a battle with Daddy in the Tiger Prison Pass, so that the invincible Daddy suffered a defeat for the first time, I don't understand why Daddy became friends with him again, and I don't understand why Daddy joined forces with him to attack the hateful liar, but I still don't like him, if it wasn't for his instigation and instigation, Daddy wouldn't have started a war with the hateful liar, and he wouldn't have left me alone to hunt down the hateful liar.

My ominous premonition came true, and at dawn, General Zhang Liao fled back with a tired defeated army, and as soon as he saw Uncle Chen and me, he immediately cried, saying that when my father was chasing and killing the hateful liar, he accidentally fell into the mud on the shore of Daze Lake, and even the people and horses were captured alive by the hateful liar. General Zhang Liao led his troops to save his father, but he couldn't defeat Xu Chu, the fat accomplice of the hateful liar, and was defeated by the hateful liar, so General Zhang Liao had to flee back and ask Uncle Chen for help.

When I heard the news, I cried on the spot, Uncle Chen was completely stunned, and Uncle Liu Bei also shouted angrily, saying that he was going to lead soldiers to save my father, but I always felt that Uncle Liu Bei's anger seemed to be pretending, because when he turned his head, I found that his eyes seemed to be full of joy and a little schadenfreude.

Uncle Chen refused Uncle Liu Bei's request to send troops, and did not allow other generals to send troops to save my father, and ordered to retreat ten miles to the village, and decided to send Uncle Xu Yan to find the hateful liar, and asked the hateful liar to release my father. Uncle Liu was very angry, and several of his father's loyal subordinates made a big noise, accusing Uncle Chen of not saving my father because he had evil intentions, wanted to kill my father and betrayed the lord for glory, and forced Uncle Chen to send an army to him and let him save my father.

I don't understand why Uncle Chen did this, is it just like Uncle Liu whispered to me, Uncle Chen may have planned to betray Daddy, and is ready to give me to the hateful liar for credit? Uncle Liu also asked me to go with him, so that Uncle Chen would not be unfavorable to me, but I did not agree, because although I did not understand what Uncle Chen was going to do, I felt that Uncle Chen would not lie to me, and this Uncle Liu was not as good as the legend of the world - if it wasn't for him to force Daddy to go to war with the hateful liar, how could Daddy be in danger?

Uncle Chen, who has always been calm and gentle, was angered by Uncle Liu, and in turn accused Uncle Liu of being ill-intentioned, wanting to take the opportunity to annex my father's army, and also wanted to force the hateful liar to kill my father, and said that the best way now is to immediately stop the war with the hateful liar and get something to exchange my father from the hateful liar, so Uncle Chen asked Daddy's subordinates to calm down and not give Uncle Liu the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

During the quarrel, Uncle Chen also scolded Uncle Liu for being a hypocrite, a despicable villain, a hundred times worse than a hateful liar, Uncle Liu scolded Uncle Chen for being a traitor, and colluding with the hateful liar, and Daddy's subordinates were also divided into two factions, one faction supported Uncle Chen, and the other faction supported Uncle Liu.

I don't know which of them is right and who is wrong, I just know that I want to save my daddy, and I want to save my daddy from the hateful liar like Ti Ying. So I took advantage of the time when they were making a lot of noise, quietly out of the military tent, rode a horse out of the barracks, and now the barracks is also in chaos, no one pays attention to me, after I left the barracks, I immediately ran up the river that General Zhang Liao said, all the way to find the hateful liar and my father. I was born in a cocoon on the prairie and was born to ride a horse.

It was snowing again, the heavens and the earth were silvery white everywhere, my body was covered with snowflakes, the tears in the corners of my eyes were frozen, my face was frozen, my hands were frozen, hard as wood, I don't know how long I walked, I didn't know where I was now, I just knew to follow the upper reaches of the river to find it. On the way, I saw a lot of frozen corpses, I was afraid of the corpses, but I looked at each one carefully, because I was more afraid that Daddy was among them, I cried, I shouted, I called Daddy, but no one answered me.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, my body has frozen to the point that I don't feel anything, my hands are just stiffly holding the reins of the horse, and what flashes in front of me is all the voices and smiles of my father and mother, as well as the grasslands and deserts of Jiuyuan, I want to say to my father again, "Daddy, you don't want to fight, take me home, whether it's herding sheep or milking, I'll feed you and my mother, and the cocoon wants to go home." ”

I may never have this opportunity again, I got lost, the snowflakes on my body have turned me into a snowman, like a white cocoon, I suddenly remembered one thing, when I was in Chang'an City before, my mother once took me into a temple, and the old monk in the temple said such a verse, "For example, a moth sees the fire, and competes to enter with love." I don't know the power of the flames, and I am willing to kill the fire [***]. ”

I didn't understand this sentence before, but now I suddenly understand, maybe I'm not a cocoon butterfly, maybe I'm a cocoon butterfly's sister cocoon moth, I grew up and broke out of the cocoon, not into a beautiful butterfly, but into a moth, knowing that the flame was a trap for my death, but I still flew into the flame and turned myself into ashes.

I finally couldn't do it anymore, I fell off my horse, the white cocoon shell cracked, revealing my pink clothes, I fell on the snow like a butterfly that broke out of its cocoon, but I knew that I was not a butterfly, just a moth on fire.

Just as I was about to lose consciousness, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves and commotion in the distance, and I shouted with the last of my strength, and then I passed out.

When I awoke again, I found myself riding on my horse again, wrapped in thick fur, and a nice young man took me in his arms, warmed me with his body heat, and carried me alongside the horse. Seeing me wake up, the good-looking young man said a little shyly: "Girl, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to be cheap to you, I was in a hurry to march, and I couldn't make a fire for you to keep warm, so I had to do this." ”

My face was a little hot from the cold, since I was a child, except for my father, I have never been so close to a man, I thanked weakly, and raised my head to look at the snowy sky, but to my surprise, on my head, there was a military flag with black characters on a white background, and when the military flag shook off the snowflakes, the two big characters of gentleman were faintly revealed.

"...... you guys, are you gentlemen?" I was so excited that my voice trembled, and I grabbed the clothes of the good-looking young man with my cold hand, and asked nervously, "Are you from the Gentleman's Army?" ”

"Huh?" The good-looking young man was even more surprised than me, and he bowed his head and asked me, "Girl, do you also know the Gentleman's Army?" ”

"Big brother, are you a gentleman?" I asked again.

The good-looking young man nodded, I was so surprised that I didn't know how to speak, I just grabbed the good-looking young man's clothes and begged in my loudest voice, "Big brother, you take me to see Tao Yinggongzi, I beg you, take me to Tao Yinggongzi, to meet that hateful liar." ”

"Hateful liar?" The good-looking young man was a little dumbfounded, and a younger face immediately came over next to him, and said with a wicked smile: "Second brother, no wonder you insist on warming up the little girl in person, it turns out that it is a little girl who was deceived by you, yes, although she is a little smaller, but when she grows up, she is definitely not worse than that Lin girl." ”

"Big brother, I beg you, take me to your Tao Ying Gongzi." I cried, tugging at the clothes of the good-looking young man, pleading in pain.

"Huh?" Another young man was also surprised and asked me, "Girl, my second brother is already holding you, why do you still beg my second brother to take you to him?" ”

"You ......, you are Tao Yinggongzi?" I can't believe it, and I can't believe that this good-looking young man who saved me with kindness is actually that hateful liar Tao Ying?

The good-looking young man smiled bitterly and nodded, and it was only at this time that I realized that the horse I was riding with him turned out to be my father's favorite Chitu BMW! Under the surprise, I didn't know what to say, I just pulled the clothes of the hateful liar and pleaded with tears, "Childe, don't kill my father, don't kill my father, as long as you let my father go, I am willing to be a slave for you for a lifetime like Sister Tiying." ”

The hateful liar was completely confused, and quickly asked who my father was, and after I said my father's name and my own name, the hateful liar first stayed for a long time, and then laughed, and even said how can there be such a coincidence in the world? I burst into tears again, and I pulled him and begged him to spare my father, to let me see him, and I was willing to pay any price for it.

The hateful liar's heart was not so bad that he asked me why I came to save my father alone, and then he readily agreed to my request, and brought me to the middle of the army of gentlemen, and I finally saw my father again, my invincible father, who did not know how many ropes were tied all over his body, and his body and face were covered with black mud, and he was placed on a war horse like a sack, which made me feel distressed and pitiful, and made my heart bleed.

"Daddy." I choked up and shouted.

Daddy raised his head with difficulty, and when he saw me being held in his arms by the hateful liar, his messy hair suddenly straightened up, and he yelled and scolded, "Tao Yingxiaoer, what did you do to my daughter?" Let go of her, you let her go for me! ”

"Wen Hou, don't you want a dog to bite Lu Dongbin, you don't know the hearts of good people." The hateful liar said something I didn't understand, and said with a smile: "If I hadn't happened to run into your daughter, Ling Qianjin would have frozen to death in the snow." ”

So saying, the wicked liar put me off my horse, and let his accomplices put my father off his horse as well, and asked me to explain the reason to him. When I cried and told my father about what happened in the camp and what I had come to him, he struggled to yell at me, "Cocoon, how can you be so stupid? You stupid boy, you can save your father alone, you come to save your father alone, what is it that you don't die for nothing? ”

"Daddy, Cocoon is willing to die for you." I cried and turned around, knelt down on my knees to the hateful liar, and begged: "Childe, Cocoon, please let my father go, Cocoon is willing to be a slave for the rest of her life like Sister Tiying, and change my father's surname." ”

"Silly boy, don't say stupid things." Daddy struggled and shouted, "Tao Yingxiao'er, if you are still a man, let my daughter go, if you want to fight or kill all of you, come at me, and if you frown, I won't call Lu Bu Lu Fengxian!" Let my daughter go, let her go! ”

"Daddy, I don't want you to die." I cried, took two steps on my knees and hugged the abominable liar's thigh, choked up and pleaded, "Childe, please, let my father go, Cocoon is willing to die for his father." ”

No matter how much I pleaded, no matter how my father yelled, the hateful liar never spoke, the two eyeballs in the good-looking eyes just rolled around, and after a long time, the hateful liar picked me up, smiled and said to me: "Your name is Lu Die, and your nickname is Cocoon, right?" ”

I nodded, but the hateful liar smiled again, and then said: "Cocoon, it's not impossible for me to release your father, but I have one condition, if you agree, I will release your father." ”

I quickly nodded again and replied, "Childe, please say, no matter what the conditions, Cocoon will promise you." ”

"Good." The hateful liar smiled strangely, and the smile reminded me of the scene when the hungry wolf on the steppe saw the lamb, and then the hateful liar lifted my chin with his hand, and said with a smile, "Cocoon, if you marry me and be my wife, I will let you go." ”

The accomplices of the hateful liar next to me all laughed, and my face was hot again, and I quietly glanced at the hateful liar, and saw that the expression on his good-looking face seemed to be very serious, not as if he was joking with me, when I was hesitating, my father behind me roared angrily, "Tao Yingxiaoer, you don't dream here in vain, I will never marry my daughter to a despicable villain like you!" ”

"Wenhou, why are you doing this?" The hateful liar smiled and said to his father: "You marry your daughter to me, the two Taolu families are married, they depend on each other, share honor and disgrace, and it will benefit you and do no harm, so why should you refuse?" I'm very serious, there are three unfilial pieties, no queen is the greatest, my father is old and sick, I should also marry a wife and go back to give him an explanation, your daughter married me, and she will only be a wife, not a side room, not a grievance against her, right? ”

"Shut up!" Daddy was furious and shouted angrily: "Who am I, Lu Bu? By sacrificing my daughter to survive and spread out, what face do I have to live between heaven and earth? Cocoon, if you still treat me as your father, you are not allowed to agree to the conditions of this despicable villain, otherwise, even if I die, I will not recognize you as a daughter! ”

I didn't know what to do, so I could only turn my pleading gaze to the hateful liar, tears constantly rolling in my eyes, trying to beg the hateful liar to change a condition, but I couldn't open my mouth.

"Lu Wenhou is Lu Wenhou in the end, and he really stands up to the sky." The hateful liar praised Daddy, and then smiled at me again: "Cocoon, since your Daddy insists on not allowing you to agree, then I won't force you, I'll change one condition, if you call me a big brother like just now, I will immediately release you and your Daddy." ”

"Really?" I asked in surprise.

The hateful liar smiled and did not answer, but nodded, and I was so overjoyed that when I opened my mouth to call, my face burned hot, and it took a lot of effort for me to cry out in a voice like a mosquito, "Big brother." ”

"Hey." The hateful liar agreed loudly, and then the hateful liar turned around and rode the red rabbit horse again, and ordered his accomplice: "Release Lu Wenhou and Miss Lu, leave them a horse, and return Fang Tian's halberd to Lu Wenhou." ”

"Second brother! It's easy to bind the tiger and it's hard to release the tiger, and we can't have that kind of luck in the future! "The brother of the hateful liar screamed - and I later learned that he was only the cousin of the hateful liar.

I nervously looked at the hateful liar, and the hateful liar also glanced at me, and said with a smile: "The gentleman has made a promise, since I have promised Miss Lu, I naturally have to keep my promise, I have made up my mind, and I have to persuade again." ”

The hateful liar's even more hateful brother had no choice but to agree in frustration, and personally brought my father's favorite Fang Tian painting halberd and handed it to me, I couldn't believe that these were all true, I just stared at the hateful liar blankly, until the hateful liar set off with his accomplice, I came back to my senses, and quickly called again, "Big brother, wait." ”

"How?" The hateful liar came back.

"Big ......." My face burned again, and I hesitated for a long time before I whispered, "Big brother, the red rabbit horse, my father's favorite red rabbit horse ......." ”

The hateful liar hesitated for a moment, but soon changed horses, handed me the reins of the red rabbit horse with his own hands, and put his fur on me, and said with a smile, "Good man to the end, I will pay you back, Sister Cocoon, we will meet later." ”

Wrapped in a fur with the body temperature of the hateful liar, my neck was hot, and I wanted to thank but couldn't open my mouth, until the hateful liar led his accomplice away, and I whispered to his back, "Well, there will be a date later." ”

After the hateful liar completely disappeared into the depths of the wind and snow, I used the halberd to cut the rope on my father's body, and my father carried me to the red rabbit horse without saying a word, and then lifted the Fang Tian halberd and rode behind me, and then shouted, "Cocoon, let's go, let's go home and find the big-eared thief to settle accounts!" ”

I nodded, but I kept thinking about that good-looking hateful liar, and my face kept burning.

Later, when my father and I returned to the camp, Uncle Liu, who had already taken the army and Uncle Chen, ran away immediately, and ran to the northeast with his second and third brothers.

Later, Uncle Chen heard about the story of how I rescued my father, and he complained to my father very much, complaining that my father should not miss this opportunity to make an alliance with the hateful liar, but the father still said the same thing, saying that if he exchanged me for his life, he would not have the face to see the world again, but I can hear that my father no longer hates that hateful liar.

Finally, when I returned to Shanyang to meet my mother, my mother asked me if the hateful liar sent someone to send someone to hire me and asked me if I would like to marry the hateful liar? I shook my head with a hot face, and even said I didn't want to, and my mother asked me why I didn't want to, and my face was even hotter, so I simply closed my mouth, and my mother didn't ask anymore, but she laughed as badly as a hateful liar.

Damn liar, I don't want to marry you, your smile is so nasty.

(To be continued)