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With the passage of time and mottled remains, his mother's face has become increasingly blurred in Helan Chu's impression, and the bits and pieces of past relationship have gradually disappeared, leaving only a handsome figure and a gentle and loving call deep in his memory. Now, with her mother in front of her, the fault line of those twenty years of memory can be replenished by the lifting of this veil, even if her face is as ugly as she herself said, it must be the most worthy of his expectation and the most tireless to look at for him.

After Aunt He paused, she nodded heavily, and slowly reached out to untie the scarf wrapped around her sideburns...... As the whole face appeared in front of Helan Chu, the scar on her face that extended diagonally from her cheekbones to her chin was like a sharp blade, stinging Helan Chu's heart in an instant.

Although he knew that it was already an old wound, for Helan Chu, it was like a fresh wound on his body, so that he could still feel the pain of cutting his skin.

He stretched out his hand and held his mother's face in pity, "Mother, tell the child who did this." The child must avenge his mother. ”

Aunt He shook her head sadly, as if the wound was also fresh for her, or that she had a deeper wound in her heart than this one on the surface, which made her feel pain from time to time.

"Chu'er, this scar was cut by my mother herself with a dagger." Aunt He said bitterly: "Back then, in order to maintain her innocence and avoid being insulted by thieves, my mother cut her face with her own hands, so she left this unsightly scar. For many years, my mother only dared to show her face with a gauze scarf. ”

"Mother suffered...... Helan Chu was shocked by his mother's chastity at the same time. I felt an indescribable sadness again.

In the Battle of Yuling Pass twenty years ago, the two sides of Zhou and Liang were originally evenly matched, but because of the addition of the Turkic army allied with Liang at that time, the tide of the war was reversed. Although the Great Zhou soldiers who attacked Yuling Pass were only 3,000 people. But all of them were elite troops, and after they were heavily defeated, the combined forces of the Liang State and the Turks were flattened. The Yugu camp that smashed the Great Zhou. In that battle, the Great Zhou army suffered heavy casualties, and many passes were lost one after another. Helan Chu's mother, He Suji, was separated from the chaotic army at that time. A few days after his mother's disappearance, Helan Chu's father was also injured by a stray arrow and finally died. This is the reason why Helan Chu has always hated the Turks.

But now, when he reunites with his mother, whom he hasn't seen for many years, the most important thing in his heart is no longer hatred. Instead, it is to make up for the protection and filial piety that should have been paid to my mother in the lost twenty years, so that she will not suffer a trace of suffering, and no longer let her be hurt by anyone.

"Mother, let's go to the palace, and the child will ask His Majesty to correct his mother's name."

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"You Da Zhou people are really strange." Ashina Wuji, who was walking on the tree-lined path, said while looking left and right: "You actually keep food in such a beautiful place. ”

From this tree-lined path, you can see that there are lush flowers and trees all around, and there is a lake in the distance, which sets off the water pavilion by the lake and the hills in the distance, making people feel indescribably comfortable and comfortable. Even Ashina Wuji, who has always only admired the magnificent beauty of the grassland, began to praise such a scenery that conformed to the aesthetic interests of the Han people. There are often antelopes, elk, cranes and other animals between the grass and trees, next to the mountains and rocks, and these animals are not very afraid of people, and sometimes they will walk in front of you. It's as if you're watching them and they're watching you. It's just that the same humans aren't very interesting to them.

"Your Highness, they're not food ......," Scarlet Feather next to him clarified a little nervously. He always felt that if he had a pair of bows and arrows in his hand now, Ashina would definitely draw a bow and arrows and shoot one or two.

"What's not food?" Ashina turned his head to look at Scarlet Feather indefinitely, and actually showed an expression of humility seeking advice. "Even if you Da Zhou people are light and small, you can't ride antelopes and elks to travel, right?"

"No, they're not mounts either......" Scarlet Feather clarified. But as for what it was, he always found it difficult to explain clearly to this Turk. He knew that raising rare birds and beasts in the palace was just to watch and please the ears and eyes of the emperor and the concubines of the palace, but for him, it didn't seem to be like that.

Zuo Ying, who was listening to the conversation between the two in the middle, couldn't help laughing.

She smiled and said, "Imperial Husband, this 'Shanhai Garden' is a place where our Great Zhou Palace specializes in raising rare animals. We Da Zhou people live in the city, and it is rare to get close to the wilderness, unlike you who live in the grassland, where you can deal with different animals every day and understand their life and habits. The reason why we keep these animals here is to let the people who live in the deep palace know that we live in a world where not only we humans, but also many other animals share with us. They are beautiful, they are smart, they are as innocent and innocent as human children, but they are also as weak as human children and need to be understood and protected, which reminds us that no matter what decisions are made, from the rulers to the people, it is not necessarily about themselves, but also about them who share this world with us. ”

Zuo Ying's time-traveling insights on modern people's understanding of man and nature completely expressed the thoughts that Scarlet Feather wanted to say but didn't know how to express, making his eyes suddenly full of gratitude.

Ashina looked at the beasts walking far and near and the birds hovering in the low sky, revealing a sunny smile, "You're not right, they live much better than us." They can run on the grassland at will, and they can fly freely in the sky, which is really enviable, and we need to be nosy. We people are just hungry and poorly clothed, so we ask them to borrow some meat and fur to use. ”

Zuo Ying thinks about it, too, in ancient times, especially in the culture of nomads, this is indeed the case. Human activities do not go beyond the level of ecological destruction, and humans are at best predators who do not enter the food chain.

"You've lived in this dying-dead labyrinth since you were a child, and you can't even tell what these animals are called." Ashina turned around indefinitely and smiled proudly, reached out and grabbed Zuo Ying's little hand and walked to the grass, "Let me take you to recognize it." ”

Zuo Ying thought to herself, you are right, the "labyrinth" I lived in in my previous life is even more "big to death" and more "not seeing the light of day"; However, I still watched "Animal World" and "...... However, she didn't even have a chance to defend herself, and she was pulled out dozens of meters away.

Ashina was just a whim, following the habit of getting along with his brothers and sisters, with a sense of superiority of "well-informed", pulling this little girl who had "never seen the world" to go out, but he unexpectedly felt that the little hand in his hand was surprisingly smooth and delicate, although it was actually a little cold on such a hot day, but people couldn't help but want to warm it with the temperature of their palms.

This strange feeling that he had never felt before, somehow suddenly flashed in his mind the amazing scene he saw on the night of the wedding, when he tore the little girl's clothes - the delicate and delicate skin presented on the mattress like red agate, as soft and white as Hetian white jade, and he still can't help but feel a feeling of rapid heartbeat and dry throat when he thinks about it.

"Your Highness! Be careful—" Scarlet Feather hurried after him. Seeing him use such a reckless action to grab the empress's delicate little hand, Scarlet Feather couldn't help but feel a faint pain in her heart. Even if the person who "kidnapped" the empress was the imperial husband, he couldn't help but have the urge to rescue him immediately.

"Why are you so nervous, your empress is not made of paper!" - Not only is it not paper-tied, but it is also scheming, thorny, and poisonous! I don't know if it's because of Scarlet Feather's protest, or if I'm worried that the weird feeling just now will continue to hit my heart, Ashina let go of Zuo Ying's hand indefinitely.

At this time, five or six flocks of antelope were approaching them, and when they passed by them, they actually walked straight towards Scarlet Feather, lingering around him, and chirping in a low voice. The bright colors of their bodies, which are between orange and earthy, their large eyes that are beautiful and dark and shivering, their round ears that turn in all directions from time to time and shake slightly, and the graceful curved horns on their heads, are so beautiful that they can be seen at such a close distance.

"Blood-ischemic boys, do they know you?" Ashina approached curiously.

Scarlet Feather smiled softly, reached out and touched the chin of the nearest antelope, and the antelope obediently came closer, and lowered his head to rub Scarlet Feather's shoulder, looking very affectionate. When the other antelopes saw this, they also gathered around, flashing their round eyes and gently tapping the ground with their small hooves.

"Your Majesty," Scarlet Feather's voice was full of happiness, "these are the antelopes that contracted the plague a few days ago and were almost sent out of the palace to fend for themselves. Thanks to His Majesty's reward and instructions, the palace people took care of them more seriously, and they were able to recover and now live here in good health. ”

"Oh?" When Zuo Ying heard Scarlet Feather say this, she also stepped forward and tentatively reached out to touch the body of an antelope.

Although these antelopes are not as affectionate to Zuo Ying as they are to Scarlet Feathers, when her palm touches the antelope's oily and smooth and sunny short hair, there is really an indescribable delicate and subtle sense of happiness, which swells from the palm to the heart. She didn't expect that there would be such a pleasant and satisfying feeling of being in direct contact with this animal, which was similar to living in a natural state, not through the railing of the cage, and she seemed to be able to share the feeling that Scarlet Feather liked here.

At that moment, an attendant hurried over from a distance and scattered the antelope.

He knelt on the ground and panted and pouted: "The villain should be damned, the villain has no choice but to disturb His Majesty and the Imperial Husband Yaxing." The Grand Master is asking to see him outside the Imperial Study. ”

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