Chapter 140: Going North to Jinyang (2)
The night was deep, and the singing and noise on the other side had long since calmed down. I craved the warmth of the unshirted arms and was reluctant to leave. He hugged my body tightly, as if as soon as I let go, we would be separated forever.
"Tell me your story, where were you when the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan attacked the Zhao clan fifteen years ago?" I asked.
"I don't want to say it." He leaned me against him with his eyes closed.
"You tell me, and I'll tell you about when I was a child."
"All of them?"
"Well, all you want to know."
"When the Fan clan and the Zhongxing clan attacked the Zhao family's private city, I was locked up in the firewood room and starved and punished."
"Why?"
"Because I accidentally fed the horse poisonous weeds and killed a newborn foal."
"But you're the prime minister's son?"
"Father Qing didn't know that there was such a son as me at that time, or maybe he knew, but everyone in the house only regarded me as a cheap son of a slave girl. On the night of the siege, the ladies and servants in the backyard all ran away, and no one remembered that there was still a person in the firewood room. ”
"And then?" I put my hand over the back of his, trying to warm him.
"Later, I lit a fire with flint and burned the wooden bars on the windows and escaped on my own."
"Madman, if you set the firewood on fire, won't you burn yourself to death?" Even though I knew that this was his past, I was still shocked to hear it.
"Staying in it is death, it's better to go out and earn a way to live for yourself." Wuxian half-squinted his eyes and looked at Fenshui under the moonlight, "After I crawled out of the window, my head was burned and my clothes were burned, and I endured the pain and chased for twenty miles before I caught up with the Zhao family's team." ”
"Luckily, we were able to catch up." I couldn't help but sigh.
"But as soon as I arrived, I heard that my father had ordered all the guards and servants over the age of forty and under the age of fifteen to be left behind to delay the pursuers."
"Delaying the pursuers? This is clearly for you to die! ”
"Yes, fortunately, my brother saw me in the crowd and saved me."
"He knows you're his brother?"
"Silly girl, he is the son of the world, what is my identity? He only thought of me as a boy who led the horses and fed the horses. At that time, he had just been established as a son, and his father asked him to learn to ride a horse, but he was too timid to ride, so he asked me to lead the horse for him and circle around the garden. It wasn't until about half a year later that they found out that I was also my father's son. ”
"And after that? Are you having a better time? ”
"There are fewer beatings and starvations, and my brother takes me with him everywhere, so my father allowed me to be his bodyguard. Later, I was sent to Qi to learn swords, and after completing my studies, I was sent to Qin to serve as an official for two years. ”
"But didn't you say that Zhang Mengtan was the official for you?"
"Well, I traveled all over the world in the past two years, visited sword sects in various countries, and studied swordsmanship."
"Hongyun'er ......" I looked into his eyes and couldn't help but sigh that there was such an unbearable past behind his self-confidence and ease.
"What, think I'm pitiful?"
I nodded slightly, and he smiled and rubbed his face against my mouth: "Then comfort me!" ”
I held my breath and gently imprinted a kiss on his lips.
His body froze the moment I kissed him, and I reached out to touch his face, which was hot.
"You're blushing, aren't you?" In the night, I teased.
He nodded and laughed: "Girl, you must have been born to torture me." ”
I smiled and put my arms around his waist, nestled in his arms and whispered, "Hongyun'er, I sometimes feel that you are me, and I am you." Our two cheap bones can still survive in this troubled world, and we are still living quite freely. ”
Wuxian rested his chin on the top of my head and sighed, "I am jealous of Wu Feng and don't like him, but I still thank God for allowing him to save you." ”
"You asked me about my mother before, in fact, I always feel that I was actually born in the Jin Kingdom......" My eyelids were a little fighting, and my speech became more and more slow. Wuxian touched my head and hugged me horizontally: "I'm not in a hurry, I still have a lifetime to listen to you slowly." It's about to dawn, so I'll send you back to bed. ”
By the time Wuxian sent me back to the camp, the east was already showing the whiteness of the fish's belly. It was getting brighter and brighter outside, and when Si'er got up, he fetched a jug of water for me to the river, and I washed up and got into the carriage. On this day, the old man rode my little white to blow the wind outside, and I hid in the carriage with Si'er's legs to sleep.
From Xinjiang to Jinyang, we trekked through mountains and rivers, got up early in the dark, and although it was hard, it was quite smooth. Because of the Zhao family's black-armored warriors opening the way, ordinary bandits did not dare to attack the convoy. After walking for more than half a month, I only encountered a group of deadly robbers when I passed by Huo Taishan on the bank of the Fenshui River. But before I could get out of the carriage, the thirty or so bandits had already been dealt with as if they were chopping melons and vegetables. No matter how fast the innocent Rao was, he only got three, and he complained in my ear for days afterwards.
Spring in the north came more than a month later than Xinjiang, and the continuous spring rain came unexpectedly when we arrived in Taigu, and it rained for five days at once. Wuxian decided to let the convoy reorganize in Taigu City for a while, and then set off for Jinyang when the weather was fine.
Taigu is the granary of Jinyang City, and when he was competing with Luan Tao in Taishi Mansion to try the arithmetic technique, Shi Mo came up with a problem of transporting grain from Taigu to Jinyang. Grain and grass are always the most important materials for raising troops to fight, so the garrison of Taigu City is more rigorous than other cities of the same size.
Yin Qili of Taigu was a tall man with a long beard and a drooping chest, and when our convoy first arrived in Taigu City, he was patrolling the granary with a few personal guards, so that he missed the time to go out of the city to greet him. After Wuxian found out, he didn't blame him for being late and rude, but praised him a few words and asked him to take us around Taigu City.
Qi Li was in front of him to introduce the layout of the granary in the city, the number of guards outside the granary and the way of rotation, and I followed behind, staring at a bell on Qi Li's waist and wondering.
"This time the earth dragon surged, and Jinyang City suffered a disaster for hundreds of miles. After the disaster, it is easy to produce mobs, and the granary of Taigu City must be guarded for the next few months. Tomorrow I will make a list for you, and you will send people to carry the relief grain to various places according to the number on the list. "Wuxian explained the disaster relief to Qi Li in every detail, Qi Li listened carefully, and from time to time he would put forward a few of his own opinions, so Wuxian was in a good mood." Zidian, what do you think of the guards in the granary? He asked me with a smile.
"The granary treasury is guarded by soldiers from the inside to the outside, from high to low, and Cheng Yin is very well arranged, but it would be better to stagger the rotation time of the soldiers in these four places." I stopped and bowed my head back.
"The sorcerers have the same idea as me, the centralized rotation is easy for bandits to take advantage of the situation, and the city Yin might as well stagger the rotation times of the inside, outside, high and low soldiers to ensure that there are guards at all times."
"No!" Qi Li replied solemnly.
"Cheng Yin, Xiao Wu is a little curious, why did you wear a bell that won't ring on your body?" The bell hanging on Qi Li's body was the size of a palm, and a burlap was stuffed into the bell, so the bell would not make a sound when he walked.
"This is the alarm bell of Taigu City, and the soldiers in charge of patrolling the granary that day must bring this, and when there is a situation, they will tear off the cloth strips and rattle the bell to warn."
Wuxian and I looked at each other and smiled after listening, this Taigu Chengyin is neither humble nor arrogant, he is clearly organized, and he is indeed a gentleman who can be trusted.
Seeing that everything was in order in Taigu City, Wuxian really put his mind at ease and rested for a few days.
The spring rain was pouring down, and an ancient cypress tree in front of the house was washed green and shiny by the rain. Under the tall canopy of the cypress hides a little finch with a round head and a round head, its beautiful emerald feathers wet by the rain, and a handful of them clinging to its body. The little bird Xu is frustrated, Xu is annoyed that the lingering spring rain has wet its beauty, and is constantly combing the feathers on its body with its red beak.
"You see, this little guy really loves beauty." I sat under the eaves against the mottled wooden pillars and watched the rain.
Wuxian carried a jug of wine and lay on his side beside me, muttering, "I have never seen a woman who is not as beautiful as you, and runs around in a man's robe all day long." ”
"It's so comfortable." I reached out and grabbed his flask, tilted my neck and poured it into my mouth.
"In the future, when it's just the two of us, you might as well change back into women's clothes!" Shirtless put his hand on his head and looked at my face carefully, "Why have I never seen you use fat powder?" I thought every woman would like it. ”
"It turns out that Hongyun'er likes women who are full of fat powder! Since then, I have been drawing my eyebrows, painting my lips every day, wearing a tulle skirt, and playing the piano and singing and dancing for you. I put my head in front of him and said in my sweetest voice.
He looked at my face, was silent for a long time, and said with a smile: "I was wrong, how can I make you such a woman." You are the most beautiful woman in the world. ”
"Humph! A duplicitous man. I snorted coldly and turned my head away.
"Let's go, come with me somewhere!" Shirtless pinched my chin with his hand and gently pecked the tip of my nose.
"Don't go!"
"Ah Shi......" his voice became sweeter and sweeter.
"Where to go?"
"Yesterday, I heard Qi Li say that there is a valley in the north of Taigu City, and there is a thousand-year-old sacred tree in the valley, and if a lover carves his name on it, he will never be separated again."
"I'm not going." I brushed his hand away and bowed my head.
"Why?"
"I will be tied to you for a lifetime, so if I meet the handsome man I like in the future, won't I regret it?"
"You don't want to stay with me for the rest of your life? Do you still want to go? Wuxian looked at me in a daze, frowning.
I leaned into his ear and whispered, "Stupid, I lied to you." ”
"You ......" Wuxian came back to his senses and wanted to arrest me, I had already turned over and jumped into the yard: "Why are you only allowed to play with me, but not for me to play with you?" I looked at him with a smile in the rain.
Shirtless stepped into the rain, gently pulled me into his arms, and a long sigh sounded above my head: "Whatever you do to play with me now, I only hope that you will not be ruthless in the future......
"Shirtless, I was just playing tricks on you." I looked up and whispered.
"yes, I know." He put his hand on my head, and there was a deep sadness and uneasiness in his voice.
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