Chapter 8: Reunion

Qin Xi casually opened a pot of wine, raised her head and poured it, saying that this wine was strong, she couldn't taste anything other than the spicy throat burned by fire, wine could dispel her sorrows, why did her sorrows become more and more, weaving into a net, tied tightly, and entangled her so that she couldn't get rid of it?

In the confusion, she hallucinated, and actually heard the joyful beating of gongs and drums around the Qin Mansion. In the entire Qinzhou, except for the Murong family to hold a happy event today, who else is not interested in daring to steal the limelight with Murong Ying? Oh, yes, Murong Ying's unmarried husband died, she didn't get married, and she was thinking about it behind closed doors.

This is strange, most of Qinzhou knows that the happy event of the Murong family has become a funeral, who has the audacity to pick a marriage on the same day, and is not happy for Murong Ying? If it weren't for her bad mood, she really wanted to take a look, who was so deviant and provoked Murong Ying.

In the blue sky and white day, she felt that the lively sound was very harsh, so she simply opened the door of the house, and glanced at it casually, Qi Ao and Dugu Hao were still in the pavilion and did not leave, and the two of them saw her come out, their expressions were quite solemn, and they all looked like they wanted to speak and stopped. She retracted her gaze and called the maidservant: "Go and see who is making noise outside, and ask people to drive them away, just say that Miss Ben is noisy and ask them to go another way." ”

When she was in a bad mood, she couldn't see anyone happy, and if she wanted to marry her, she could take a detour, but she passed by the road where her mansion was located, which was really hateful, and she didn't let the family rush out to fight, she already took care of the face of the city lord.

"You don't have to go." Qi Ao walked over and was very tactful: "That person is not an ordinary person. ”

She sneered: "Are there still people in Qinzhou that I can't afford to mess with?" ”

She just drank more wine, so she didn't lose her mind, Qi Ao paused: "The person who came is Li Xuan." ”

Three days ago, he and Dugu Hao received a message from Li Xuan's order at the same time, on this day, the tenth day of the fourth month, Li Xuan would come to Qinzhou to marry Qin Xi, and whoever stopped him from entering the city at that time would be killed. They sent several waves of people to stop her, but they didn't get a bargain, and they carried back as many corpses as they went, and Li Xuan was determined to take her away.

"No wonder Chu Hong picked this day to warn me that the war between the two countries seems to be coming to an end."

Her reaction was really abnormal, and Qi Ao listened to her again: "Go and call twenty or thirty sturdy guards, copy the guys, and coax me to go somewhere else, don't disturb my purity." ”

A cup of tea can not be done, the next person came to report, the other party is not many but all have martial arts, although it does not hurt their lives, but take a step, she immediately sneered, what Li Xuan wants to do, there must be ten percent preparation: "That's it, let them stay for a few days, and they will leave." ”

So she did what she had to do, day and night passed as usual, if she wanted to go out of the house, she could go to the backyard of the wrong door, Li Xuan would not let people intercept her, she knew him too well, he was such a proud person, he couldn't do this kind of thing.

She can stay in the house and not go out, but Qi Ao and Dugu Hao can't, compared to Qi Ao's calmness, Dugu Hao was so angry that he almost jumped to his feet: "You still say that I am cheeky, Li Xuan's cheekiness is the thick city wall." How old is he, and he is still standing in the rain in a big red wedding robe, and a sedan chair carried by eight people falls outside the door of your Qin Mansion, and it will not become a laughing stock in the whole world? It's a shame that he did it. ”

She hid in the mansion behind closed doors, thanks to his big mouth, she knew everything about Li Xuan. She looked at the drizzle that had fallen in the pond, and it had been raining incessantly since three days ago, and the weather was getting colder.

"He doesn't know that your woman's heart is made of stone, so hard that he can't chisel it, you see you heard him stand sleepless in the rain for three days and three nights, without even raising his eyelids, Qin Xi, I'm afraid that you will forgive him if your heart is soft."

Qin Xi looked at him and said so much, and added him a cup of tea: "I never knew that you had a talent for gossip." ”

He talked about it this day, more tortuous than the drama in the teahouse, and he stared at her face seriously: "At least you didn't drive me away, and you are still willing to see me, it is enough to see that I am heavier than Li Xuan in your heart, if you dare to eat back grass, I-"

He was only halfway through his speech, Qi Ao came with an umbrella, Qin Xi only glanced at him, and then lowered his head to drink tea. Qi Ao knew that she didn't like to see him, and when she didn't like a person, she didn't even bother to cover it up, but he still had to say something: "You go and see him, it's time to break off, he is standing in the rain like this, and the people outside have a lot of discussions, which is not good for you." ”

Of course, he knew that Li Xuan was to blame for his fate today, but for some reason, he couldn't help but feel a sense of being connected to his fate when he saw Li Xuan being rejected by her.

Qin Xi put down the teacup and said coldly: "When have I been afraid of people's words?" ”

"He was seriously injured on the battlefield, and he held on all the way to Qinzhou, and his vitality was greatly injured, you just take a look, don't leave regrets." As soon as he finished speaking, someone came to him, saying that the people outside had not asked to see her.

She was already unhappy and stood up: "What does his life and death have to do with me?" ”

Without speculation, she went back to the house, not even for lunch.

The rain became heavier and heavier, as if it had smashed on people's hearts, Qin Xi still couldn't hide her irritability when she closed the doors and windows of the house, she couldn't drink the wine in the house, and her mind was full of Li Xuan's shadow. Dugu Hao once said that Li Xuan was assassinated by a woman who looked quite similar to her, and was injured an inch from the centrifugal mouth; Qi Ao also said that Li Xuan's journey to Qinzhou was bumpy, and he stood in the rain for a long time, which hurt his roots.

She's conflicted. The last time I heard the news of his death, she was no different on the surface, but in fact, her heart was dead, she thought, people can't be resurrected after death, the dead are the greatest, it doesn't matter what he did to hurt her, now he is standing outside the Qin Mansion in a good manner, she feels that the dead heart is alive again, she can go to see him, but she can't forgive him. She didn't understand why he was so stubborn and insisted on persecuting her?

Qin Xi held up a paper umbrella, dressed in white and standing coldly in the torrential rain, as if he was separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, looking at Li Xuan on the other end of the rain curtain from afar. The first time he saw her, he smiled like a child who ate candy, and his voice was terrifying: "Xi'er, you are finally willing to come to see me." ”

When the group of people standing behind him saw her, they all knelt on one knee and said respectfully in unison: "I've seen Princess Xuan." ”

Hearing the words "Princess Xuan", she suddenly wanted to cry, she had never seen him so haggard and so down, he was so thin, although the robe was slim and decent, but he was extraordinarily thin, he was such a gorgeous and peerless person who had no desires, why did he end up like this?

She could no longer suppress the surging sadness, abandoned the umbrella in her hand, rushed into the rain, slammed into his arms, crying uncontrollably, tears mixed with the rain flowed down her face, melted into his wedding robe, burned his heart, he once said, he didn't want her to shed a tear again, but he made her cry again and again, more and more sad and sad each time.

"Xi'er, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."

This apology, he said it so late, she was so pure and beautiful, he hurt her like that.

She cried breathlessly, and her grievances turned into a poignant question: "Why?" Why did we become like this? Why you? Why are you doing this? ”

He hugged her tighter and tighter, as if to let her melt into his blood, his tears flowed down her collar, with a cold chill, and he pleaded in his ear again and again: "It's me who is bad, it's all me who is bad." ”

"Xi'er, you give me a chance to explain, I didn't mean to kill Qin Cheng, I didn't mean to hurt you, you listen to my explanation."

"In Qinzhou that year, you said that you were only willing to marry me, I don't think our wedding in Daqi will be counted, we will get married in Qinzhou, and we will get married in the place where you grew up, okay?"

"I promised you, the eight-person sedan chair and I will walk all over the streets and alleys of Qinzhou, and come to marry you cleanly, I am here, do you still count what you said?"

"Xi'er, don't want me, don't abandon me, I'm scared without you, I'm really afraid."

"You don't like Daqi, we will settle in Qinzhou, you can continue to live in Qinfu, continue to guard Qinzhou, and when you get tired of it, we will go to the mountains and rivers, I will take you to the places I have been, don't you say that you envy me for many places? I'll take you one by one, Xi'er, I miss you, don't leave me. Whatever you want in the future, I will listen to you. ”

Why did he say this to her when she was determined to abandon him? She cried harder and worse, whimpering out of tune.

She remembered that he had said that he would triumph in a year and never leave her again. She remembered him saying that spring was a good time for them to get married, and God would bless them when the peach blossoms were in full bloom. She remembered that he said that he wished to win the heart of one person, and the white head would not be separated. She remembered that he had said so much, and every word he had said was still in her ears. But they could never go back, never again.

Li Xuan hurried day and night, he had exhausted his physical strength to the limit, and he had stood in the rain for three days, no matter how good his foundation was, he couldn't hold on, in order to see Qin Xi, he had been enduring the pain on his body, and the bloodshot in his eyes made her heart ache, she took advantage of his unpreparedness, and slashed down with a hand knife, he looked at her for the last time in disbelief, and his body softened.

Qin Xi ordered his subordinates to carry him into the sedan chair, fed him the heart pill to take, she finally brushed his face with her hand, exited the sedan chair, and said to his guards: "If you still care about his life, take him out of Qinzhou immediately, go anywhere, don't look back, I have given him and the book, I can no longer be the identity of Princess Xuan, if he wants to blame after he wakes up, you will tell the truth." ”

She has made up her mind, no one can persuade her, Bai Yi stood up from the group of guards, her face was solemn, but she still said respectfully: "Princess, you think about it, go goodbye, you and the prince will never see each other again, the Southern Emperor has sent troops south, the prince is not by your side at this time, if the city is broken and people die, you and the prince will regret it for life." ”

What Bai Yi wants to say is that the prince rushed to Qinzhou as soon as the war stabilized for her, and there was no stop on the road, they obviously loved each other deeply, why did she refuse to let go of the past and rebuild the old friendship with the prince?

"I've made up my mind."

Bai Yi no longer persuaded her, said goodbye to her, and led everyone away. They walked a long way, looking from where Qin Xi was standing, and gradually they couldn't even see the shadows of the group clearly, she stood in the rain in a daze, and there was nothing on her body that was dry, how could she not know what Bai Yi said? Li Xuan stood in the heavy rain and stared at the scene of her, her heart had softened, but there was no room for sand in her eyes, Li Xuan's deception and betrayal had become an untiring knot in her heart, and she couldn't find a reason to convince herself to forgive him.

Their fate as husband and wife has long been broken. She was ready to die early in the morning, facing Chu Hong alone, the city was in her, and the city was dead. She was born for this city, and it was her destiny alone. He shouldn't have stayed with her to die.

She stood in the rain for a long, long time, the sky became gloomy, she was already numb with cold for only half a day, how did Li Xuan survive in the rain for three days and nights? How can she be virtuous, worthy of him to give up his life for her?

Approaching dinner time, Qi Ao couldn't wait for Qin Xi for a long time, and sent someone to invite, only to know that she went out of the house to see Li Xuan, he walked out of the house quickly, and sure enough, he saw her standing stupidly in the rain, he was heartbroken, and as soon as he grabbed her shoulder, her body was so cold that there was no temperature, and he roared: "You are sad to be like this when he leaves, so why don't you leave with him?" ”

She didn't seem to hear it, but two lines of tears flowed silently, he couldn't help her, and lamented: "You've been through so much, and you still can't see it?" As far as Master is concerned, the most important thing is for you to live happily, and if you really follow him, I will defend this city for you desperately. ”

Her expression was sluggish, and her voice was so broken that she couldn't see it: "It's not that I can't see it, it's that I don't know how to see it." ”

Standing in the rain like this again, she didn't know how much her body would hurt, he picked her up horizontally, walked quickly into her house, and hurriedly ordered the maidservant to bathe her, and let people fry a pair of decoction and medicine, and saw that she drank it obediently, and then he stopped.

"You know your body, and alcohol hurts your body." In the past few days, he has always had a bad premonition, it seems that if he is not optimistic about her, something will happen to her, it may be that the situation is tense, and he is too worried.

Qin Xi drank the soothing soup spoonful after spoonful, and recently he has become more and more verbose, either telling her this or telling her that, it really doesn't look like him.

"Chu Hong has already made a move, presumably there are many southerners who have mixed into Qinzhou, the Qin family army is under your command, I am not worried, but Murong Ying is there, but are you ready?"

She's got her daytime mood in her hands, and that's good. He told her truthfully: "Weapons and grain and grass have been prepared, and according to your command, I have ordered the people of the city to be moved further south, given plenty of silver, and temporarily built thatched huts in the south to house them. ”

Hearing this, she nodded: "If you don't have enough money on hand, even if you take the Qin family's silver and put it in, I won't need the money left by my father." ”

"You can rest early, with me and Ah Hao here, to ensure that Qinzhou will never break the city."

No one could have imagined that Chu Hong, the Southern Emperor who had suffered defeat on the battlefield, had quietly arrived in Qinzhou at this time, and he would not enter the tiger's den to get the tiger's son, so he personally went to danger this time, in order to take away an important person, after all, this person is related to the overall situation.