168. How do you choose
Take the border city and capture Mingqiang.
The Great Jin won a big victory.
It felt bad to be captured, but Ming Jiang still gave her a decent treatment.
The shoulder was pierced, and the pain at the moment when he pulled out the spear head is not very recallable, Ming Qiang only remembers that he is not dizzy, and the tenacity of nerves at this time is not a good thing.
It was a well-known old doctor in the border city who came to stop her bleeding.
Because of his age and being in front of the enemy, his hands trembled so much that he tossed for half a day before it was over.
Minghua handled the proportions very well, neither hurt the vital point, nor did she really abolish her hand, but this hardship was great, and returning to Dajin has become an established fact.
Mingqiang was in a trance, and she remembered the way the old doctor looked at her.
Frightened, chaotic, or something else, but her wounds kept hurting, and she couldn't concentrate on it.
After struggling for a while, Ming Qiang simply let herself go and didn't think about anything.
The powerlessness she felt most of the time over the years, she spent it emptying herself like this, her temperament was sharpened to an unusually cold one, and she didn't look like herself a long time ago.
A thorough inventory began in the border city, and it was about to become the first base and jumping platform for the Great Jin Dynasty to attack Dongshu, and when Ming Qiang saw Ming Jiang again, it was already five days after he was captured.
Every day, someone will come to bring her food, body nourishment, blood nourishment, she takes all the orders, and eats all the ones who are not picky eaters.
Ming Jiang knew that she had a concern in her heart, and she wanted to live, so she didn't worry about whether Ming Qiang would die at all.
The two sisters really haven't seen each other for a long time.
Seeing each other again, it seems that there is only one thing left to hurt each other, where to fill the gap over the years, Ming Jiang doesn't know, and Ming Qiang won't know.
In the past five days, Ming Qiang was very tired, and the deployment of the defense of the border city was the most important, the news came back to the Nine Immortals, all she had to do now was to wait, wait for the emperor's instructions for their next step, if Ming Qiang was escorted back to the Nine Immortals, she would have to run in person.
I came here today because I happened to be free.
Ming Yuechen reported to her about the supervision and defense matters on the walls of the various city gates, and Ming Jiang simply asked him to serve the soup he had made today, and said as he walked.
Most of the trivial things fell on Ming Yuechen.
He has a cold temperament and can endure annoyance, Jiang Tingye waved his hand and led people around the border city to look for any lone Dongshu army, Qi Dao was extremely angry, and no one dared to bother him easily, so in the end, most of the things still relied on Ming Yuechen to maneuver around.
Ming Yuechen felt that it was nothing, and Ming Jiang also felt that it was nothing, just do it well, and there was no need to be too clear.
Mingqiang lives in a small earthen tile house, which is temporarily cleaned up, and behind it is the place where the prisoners are held, which is very clean and comfortable in comparison.
Minghua didn't blatantly give her too much preferential treatment, for fear that the opposition in the army would be too loud, so it was better to live in this kind of place from the beginning.
When she pushed the door open and entered, Mingqiang's mind was still wandering outside the nine heavens.
The sound of movement made her eyelashes flutter slightly, and then her eyes fell on the two men who entered the door.
She sat on the bed and didn't move.
When Ming Yuechen, who was walking towards the light, arrived and put down the soup cup not far in front of him, Ming Qiang twitched the corner of his eyes, his eyes were glued to him, and he couldn't move away.
Ming Yi seemed to expect her to react like this, she moved two stools and asked Ming Yuechen to sit down as well, and the two were facing Ming Qiang, like a negotiation.
"Let's talk." Mingyi tried to make her tone sound softer.
But the tone of the voice that came out of his mouth was still very dry, and Ming Jiang sighed and immediately gave up this thought.
Ming Qiang's gaze paused on Ming Yuechen's face, and after a long time, she seemed to come back to her senses and looked at Ming Xuan.
"I said it. I don't have much to say about those days. Mingqiang's attitude is still very resolute, although her temperament has become cold, but she is still the same as before, and she will never say anything that she is unwilling to speak.
But she didn't say, how to redeem the merit for the crime? How to confess and be lenient? Mingqiang was so angry that her heart hurt, but she couldn't show it on her face, so she just stared at Mingqiang and clenched her fingers: "Mingqiang, we can help you." ”
Help you fight for opportunities in front of the emperor.
Mingqiang chuckled: "I'm a rebel, treason, I don't have a chance." ”
She knows better than anyone.
There is no second way to choose this matter, Qi Ying and Jiang Wan, the two children, she also watched grow up, the military order is like a mountain, Jiang Wan's pass, how can it be impossible to cross it.
Confession can be exchanged for a relief at most, and less torture.
But she insisted that if she didn't say anything, she would still have a valuable life.
She still has people to meet.
Mingjiao's fingertips turned white: "Mingqiang! ”
The room was quiet again.
Ming Qiang didn't look at Ming Hua again, she stared at Ming Yuechen, as if she wanted to remember who this person in front of her was from her memory seven years ago.
He is really similar to Song Zhuoao.
When she first met Song Zhuoao, he was also so handsome.
No.. It's older and more mature than the one in front of me.
But the heroism between the eyebrows is very similar.
Ming Qiang thought for a long time, she suddenly smiled weirdly, and shouted directly: "Is it you, Ming Yuechen?" ”
She remembered the scrawny boy she remembered who had been rescued by Ming Jiang from the wolf's mouth on the banks of the Huai River.
The boy had very bright eyes, and an unusually tough look.
I learned things very quickly, I didn't talk a lot, and then I grew up and became a lot more beautiful, but it wasn't much like it was now.
Judging from the reactions of the two people opposite, Ming Qiang knew that she had guessed right.
She laughed, I don't know what she thought, she laughed so much that she couldn't care about the pain of the wound, and laughed for a moment, and her voice sounded like a whimper and crying.
Mingyi's heart hurt even more.
It's definitely fake to say that it's not to blame Mingqiang.,But.。。 After all, it was her own sister, who hadn't seen her for seven years, and when they met again, her sister had become a stranger to her.
Ming Jiang didn't know why she was laughing, she didn't know why she was crying, what she had experienced in the past seven years, and the blankness and powerlessness brought by every question would deepen Ming Jiang's heartache.
She doesn't seem to be the person Ming Qiang relies on wholeheartedly, everything draws an insurmountable chasm in the sky, Ming Qiang can't get by, she can't get over it.
Enough of laughing, Mingqiang raised her hand and wiped her cheeks, she raised her face again and sat down, returning to her expressionless appearance.
But she still stared at Ming Yuechen, as if she wanted to stare him out of a hole.
Ming Yuechen didn't dodge Ming Qiang's gaze, he just sat very calmly, looking at the person in front of him who was not unfamiliar to him, but he was not familiar with it.
Seven years is enough time to blur too many memories.
Mingjiao couldn't stand such a silent and weird atmosphere, she took a deep breath, got up and went to the table next to her to bring the soup cup to Mingqiang: "Drink first." ”
If it's cool, it won't taste good.
She didn't say the rest of the words, Ming Qiang didn't take the bowl of broth today, she blinked, and spoke with a smile: "Do you know who he is?" ”
Ming's back stiffened.
When she attacked the city gate and saw Song Zhuoao, Ming Jiang already knew that she had picked up the child. It seems that he is carrying an overly heavy burden.
Jiang Tingye also saw it, he seemed to have asked Ming Yuechen in private if he remembered anything, whether he had any impression of this border city, Ming Yuechen just shook his head and said nothing.
He himself saw Song Tuoao's.
That night, Song Zhuoao was on the bright city tower, he may not have seen Ming Yuechen's face clearly, but Ming Yuechen must have seen him very clearly.
Song Zhuoao looks like he should be in his early thirties.
There was no vitality that a young man should have, but he was surrounded by a cold aura, which made his face look a little hideous.
He does not have the calmness of Ming Yuechen, although he is the prince of Dongshu, he is full of a kind of selfish and frivolous conceit, and what is hidden under his conceit is his inferiority complex and cowardice.
How did he get on the throne?
The people in the city said that it was because of his mother, the concubine of the year, who is now the successor of the middle palace, that he was appointed as the crown prince.
No wonder he was so show-off, and so careful that he was afraid of losing it.
Ming Jiang looked down on him, and even more disliked his face similar to Ming Yuechen, no matter what kind of bonds and stories should be between them, Ming Jiang felt that these things had nothing to do with Ming Yuechen.
He has a new name, a new identity, he should have a new life, he survived nine deaths and a lifetime, why should he know, to remember those past that may make him painful?
So Ming Yan was only stunned for a moment, and then immediately replied resolutely: "He is my son, and he is the heir of the future Lord of Volunteers." ”
Mingqiang burst out laughing.
Then he raised his hand and pointed at the Yuechen: "Why do you deceive yourself? After speaking, she looked at Ming Yuechen with a pair of eyes, "Do you want to know?" If you want to know, I'll tell you a story. ”
It seemed that as long as Ming Yuechen nodded, she was going to tell him some big secret.
Ming Qiang's smile was sly, at this moment, she seemed to have changed back into the noisy self, she used such words, half joking and half serious to look at Ming Yuechen, even she didn't know, whether she was looking forward to Ming Yuechen nodding or shaking her head.
But Ming Yuechen's reaction still disappointed her.
He didn't seem to be interested in this matter at all, Ming Qiang's words were so guided, and he didn't have any attraction in front of Ming Yuechen.
Mingqiang pouted: "Was it so boring before?" Boring. ”
Her memory is a little vague, she only remembers that Ming Yuechen doesn't talk much, but boys should always be a little curious, right? Seeing that he is not very old now, how can he be like seeing through the red dust? It's a piece of wood.
Ming Jiang saw that she was a little crazy, frowned and stuffed the soup cup in her hand to her: "You don't say anything when I ask you, what are you doing with these now?!" ”
Mingqiang took a sip, lowered her eyes, and said vaguely: "You can't be vague for a lifetime, right?" ”
Ming Jiang choked.
"He has to walk the road of life by himself, whether he knows it or not, and he has to choose it himself, am I not asking him?" Mingqiang drank very quickly, the soup tasted very light these days, there was almost no salt, there was no need to taste it carefully, it was like drinking medicine, and she poured it down in one breath, and she was full for a long time.
That's right.
If you want to know these things, it should be Ming Yuechen's own choice, Ming Yan stood for a while, and waited until Ming Qiang drank the soup and took the soup cup before making up his mind.
She turned around and patted Ming Yuechen on the shoulder, this child followed her at the age of six, although it was not biological, but Ming Yan had already had a relationship with him, at this time, she said this from the perspective of a mother: "I'm waiting for you outside." ”
This is what belongs to him, something that has been forgotten in his memory.
If you want to know that he decides for himself, and whether to tell her in the future, it is up to him to decide.
Ming Jiang gave him absolute trust and freedom.
After she went out, only Ming Qiang and Ming Yuechen were left in the room.
Ming Qiang knew that she couldn't calm down as Ming Yuechen, her wound hurt a little, and after finding a more comfortable position, she looked up at him again.
"If you don't leave, I'll listen to you." Mingqiang talked to herself, and the atmosphere was less tense and awkward.
She didn't expect Ming Yuechen to give her any response.
Unexpectedly, after she said this, Ming Yuechen actually moved her body, found a more comfortable position to sit down, and then said, "Okay." ”
It's a response.
Mingqiang felt a little inspired, this secret was buried in her heart, and she never thought that she would be able to tell it one day.
In Dongshu for so many years, she has collected the most secrets in the royal palace, these women torture themselves and others without stopping, Mingqiang feels like a bystander and passerby, and also like a sinner watching the excitement.
No one dared to provoke her.
Because whoever comes to provoke her will be beaten.
Mingqiang is never soft, and those women are afraid of her.
It is precisely because he has established his own majesty from the beginning that everything around him has gradually become very different.
The days when no one came to provoke were very boring, and there were many things she didn't even want to know, and there was no way she didn't know.
The bull ghosts and snake gods coming and going around Song Zhuoao made Ming Qiang feel bored.
She knew that Song Zhuoao couldn't be the prince in the first place.
The concubine was still very young when she gave birth to him, the age when she had just entered the palace.
He was not the emperor's first son.
But when he was born, the identity of his biological mother was the most precious.
Because the former queen in the middle palace has not yet given birth.
Song Zhuoao grew up beside the concubine, and the words he heard the most were that the concubine said that he wanted him to be the prince.
Therefore, since he was a child, Song Zhuoao should have thought that the position of the crown prince must be his.
Afterward.. There is an exit in the middle palace.
is not Princess Song Yujiao, but another child who is now avoided by the Dongshu royal family.
A child who was born with a great drought and flood, and had a strange birthmark.
Dongshu believes that this is ominous.
So the concubine asked for her life and asked Emperor Dongshu to kill this child for the sake of Jiangshan Sheji.
The first queen noticed this early and asked the family to flee Dongshu with their children overnight, and since then, the emperor and queen have not been harmonious.
The child fled from place to place in Dongshu, from a baby to a young boy.
In the past six years, he has never stopped fleeing from Dongshu.
But the first queen and the first emperor were separated, and the power of the court was naturally not as good as before, and the longer the escape, the more powerless it became.
Hunt down and strangle this child together, as well as the family power of the concubine.
The death of the concubine in the middle palace was the first step for them to seize the back position and support Song Zhuoao to sit on the throne of the East Palace.
When he fled to a small village outside the border city, the prince was already five years old.
It was there that he spent the last peaceful period of his life.
Then suddenly one day, the Iron Rider stepped into the village and slaughtered all over the place, and no one was spared.
The nurse took the six-year-old child to the bank of the Huai River, a light boat, carrying the last expectation.
The nurse said, "Your Highness, don't be afraid, have you seen the fire on the other side?" Go to the place where there is light, and the slave and maid will be very fast. I came to pick up His Highness. ”
She smiled and pushed the child in front of her, the direction of her finger was the hope of the child to live.
Then, she resolutely returned, and that village became the cemetery where the guards who escorted the prince and the killers who chased him died.
The nurse did not come back to him.
The little boy who had wandered in the forest for a long time held the knife given to him by the nurse in his hand.
But that thing didn't work.
After holding it for a while, I couldn't take it.
When he was targeted by a hungry wolf, he didn't have the strength to resist at all.
A spear pierced the wolf's throat, blood dripping from his feet, and he didn't react much.
Then, the line of sight mixed with the sun, a beautiful and heroic face appeared.
"What a poor boy, frightened, aren't you?"
"Why are you here? What about the family? ”
"Come, come back with me first, it's too dangerous here."
He was picked up and walked in the other direction.
At the end of the gaze, there is the sparkling Huai River.
But he doesn't remember what he's waiting for, as if someone told him something, he doesn't remember.
He only remembered that such a warm embrace seemed to have been there not long ago, so he closed his eyes in peace of mind and reached out to grasp the fabric on his shoulder.
This time, he never left.
Mingqiang picked what she knew, what she could say, and her meaning was very simple, no matter her age and appearance, Mingyuechen was very much like the prince who was hunted down and killed because of the ominous mentioned in Dongshu's secret Xin.
The first queen was separated from the Dongshu Emperor because of this, and the two hated each other.
Now the successor was able to take power because of this, and finally replaced the position of the first queen, and even the princess Song Yujiao never let go and sent her to her relatives.
Everyone died back then, and it is natural for the future association to think that it is normal for the prince to not survive as a child.
What would happen if they saw Ming Yuechen?
Mingqiang hooked the corners of her mouth: "Do you remember your birthmark?" ”
Ming Yuechen frowned.
He did have one, which grew on the inner thighs, and it was not a good place for a man.
But this story didn't remind Ming Yuechen of anything.
Ming Qiang still looked at him like this, and she leaned down slightly, as if she must get some answer from Ming Yuechen.
"You know who you are now." Ming Qiang's voice was very soft, with a short rapid breathing sound, "If the emperor also knew, what would they think?" Can Dajin still tolerate you? So.. How do you choose? ”