Chapter 4: Worship

The grass grows and the warbler flies on Changming Mountain, and the color of twilight (spring chūn) is fully revealed, this place is isolated from the world, and it is the land of Qinzhou (forbidden jìn).

Qin Xi knelt in front of Qin Cheng's tomb, a (body shēn) white, lonely and desolate, she didn't sleep all night, drank a few jars of wine and opened her eyes until dawn, and at dawn, she rode a horse to the foot of Changming Mountain, and walked up the mountain all the way, both calm and sad. Dad slept alone here for four years, and it was the first time she came to see him, which was really unfilial.

Murong Ying said that Li Xuan died on the battlefield, so she dared to come to her father's grave, these days (day) She has been thinking about how good it would have been if she hadn't gotten drunk with Dugu Hao, hadn't jumped on the roof, hadn't recognized the jade pendant on Li Xuan's waist at a glance in the crowd, didn't have the mind of messing around, and didn't have a heart for Li Xuan, then now, my father is still alive, Li Xuan is still alive, and they are all alive in this world, how good it would be.

She took another sip of the wine in the jar, rested her head on Qin Cheng's tombstone, and didn't breathe for a while, she thought to herself that her father had chosen such a good place for himself after his death, why did he never tell her? There is a blue sky and green water here, and the only bad thing is that there is no mother. Daddy, why don't you want to be buried with her?

Speaking of which, Qin Cheng never told her where her mother was buried. Every year on her mother's taboo (日rì) and birthday, Qin Cheng either locked herself in the study for a whole (日rì), or hid in a place she didn't know, and got drunk before returning home. She didn't dare to ask Qin Cheng why he never wanted her to worship her mother. Drinking hurt (body shēn), even more sad, she was afraid that she would lose her mother and lose her father.

At this age, she began to understand why Qin Cheng was good at drinking, drinking alcohol could relieve her worries and sorrows, her body was still in the world, but her soul was already far away, and the pain was not so heavy when she was drunk and sleepy.

"Dad, do you blame me? Do you blame me for forgetting you all these years? ”

"I'm sorry, Dad, I don't know, I don't know he's Long Xiao's person."

"Dad, I really (love) him, really (love) him, if he was just an ordinary hermit, how good would it be?"

"Daddy, you know what? When he was alive, all I could think about was the scene where he killed you with his sword, and at that time, how did you guess that I was hiding outside the secret room? What are you trying to say to me? You're going to die, and you're going to leave me not a word. Now that he's dead, I remember how good he was to me. For my sake, he did not hesitate to raise the strength of a country to go to war, and went to ask the royal family of the southern country for a flower to relieve worries. ”

"The day before yesterday, Dr. Gu came to Qin Mansion to find me, saying that Dad, your heart was damaged back then, and he already knew that his limit was approaching, and asked me not to blame yourself for your death. Dad, how can you be so selfish and don't tell me when you're about to die, do you know that I'm sad when you die? ”

"Dad, you and Li Xuan are dead, Qi Ao, Dugu Hao, and Murong Ying have betrayed me one after another, and I am the only one left in this world, I really don't know what to do. Tell me, Dad, what should I do? ”

"Dad, do you think your daughter is very noisy and annoying? Otherwise, why would you ignore me? ”

"Dad, when you go to heaven, have you found my mother? Did you tell her that I miss her? If you find her, don't lose her again, and take good care of her. ”

Qin Xi drank a few jars of wine that she carried up the mountain, leaned on the tombstone and fell asleep, she didn't sleep all night, (body shēn) body has reached the limit of support, this will be the strength of the wine, before she fell asleep. Qi Ao came out from behind the tree, put the cloak in her hand on her (body shēn), Changming Mountain was damp, she slept a little, but she was afraid that she would catch a cold again, now her (body shēn) Zigu one (日 rì) is not as good as one (日 rì), she is very thin, and she can't withstand the toss of the wind and cold.

Qi Ao knelt on the ground, offered incense to Qin Cheng, bowed again, and then carried Qin Xi down Changming Mountain. He carefully grasped her weak (body shēn) son in his arms, and rode the horse fast and steadily. She ran over alone in a rage, he couldn't be relieved, he couldn't help but alarm her, only followed her horse far away, and she muttered to herself in front of Qin Cheng's tomb He heard all those words.

He thought that she would cry to the fullest, venting the grievances suppressed in his heart, and he listened to her cry about his betrayal, and his tone was sour, yes, all of them had a most innocent woman ((forced bī) bī) to be cornered for their own high-sounding reasons.

He is the one with the least qualifications to defend himself, the favor he received from Qin Cheng has been repaid in his life, and he can only take care of her for the rest of his life, he thinks that is what Qin Cheng wants.

Qin Xi was extremely tired, and slept for two nights before he woke up, rubbed the sun (acupuncture xué), and called the maidservant to pour (hot) tea for her: "Who sent me home?" ”

"Miss Hui, it's Gongzi Qi."

"Prepare a bath for me."

"Yes."

No wonder that (日rì) went up the mountain, she faintly felt that someone was following behind, and the person deliberately kept a distance from her, and there was no malice, she went. She didn't have time to think about whether Qi Ao stayed by her side out of guilt, that was his business, not her. There is him on the left and right, and she is going to decide this Qinzhou.

After taking a bath, she went to sit in the pavilion by the lake, and a maidservant girl was feeding into the lake, and a pool of carp rushed up to her, grabbing food carefree. She watched from the sidelines, thinking that it would be very good to be reincarnated as a carp in the next life, so easy to be satisfied.

Dugu Hao walked into the pavilion and sat down, picked up the teacup in front of her to drink, Qin Xi flew over with a cold eye, he put away his hand and poured a new cup: "I went to the study to look for you, found that you were not there, and asked the next person, only to know that you are here." ”

She didn't hide her dislike for him at all: "If you don't have anything serious to do with me, you don't have to come back in the future." ”

This is not the first time Dugu Hao has touched a soft nail with her: "You don't want to see me so much? It's good that you and I grew up together since childhood, and we have childhood sweethearts. ”

"From the moment you gave me (set tào) and killed me, you and I are no longer friends, if it weren't for Qinzhou, you would have been like Murong Ying, and I would have issued a (ban) order. Can you go straight in and sit in this pavilion and talk to me so much? ”

Dugu Hao is very good at cover-up, she lost her memory and entered Qinzhou to reunite with him at the beginning of Wenxiang Pavilion, he played her like a cat and mouse, and people who have not seen it clearly for more than ten years do not need to see it clearly. The past is written off, and the remaining simple interest relationship between them is good for everyone.

Dugu Hao smiled: "I came to talk to you about Li Xuan." ”

It's really weird, she has been in Qinzhou for more than half a year, and they didn't say a word to Li Xuan one by one, and when she recovered her memory, she held on to it, which play did she make?

"When people die, what can we say? If you leave, I will be tired and will not have the energy to deal with you. ”

She unceremoniously gave an eviction order, and only woke up for a while, it was the time when she had a lot of energy, and she stayed with Dugu Hao for a while, but she felt that (body shēn) was uncomfortable anywhere, she leaned closer, and a pear blossom fragrance came from her nose, and she frowned and said: "You are a big man, (body shēn) bring less things from your daughter's house, and it makes me have a headache." ”

Dugu Hao raised his eyebrows and smiled, as charming as a goblin: "It's Murong Ying's embroidered purse, in order to envelop her, the superficial work that should be done must be done." ”

What if he has been devoted to him for many years, women are not the same, they have been more greedy than the other for a long time, but (bed chuáng) Zhu Huan has been good several times, Murong Ying has to pester him and ask him to carry the objects she embroidered with him, if he hadn't been indispensable for her help at that time, and he hadn't lost patience with her, he would have been too lazy to take care of her.

Qin Xi smiled and said nothing, thinking that he had helped Murong Ying send him a small portrait of his mother, which made him angry, and he hated to strangle her to break off his friendship with her, but he was willing to accept Murong Ying's embroidery at this time, and he really became very fast.

Murong Ying (爱ài) is such a heartless person, and she is to blame for seeking skin with the tiger.

"Li Xuan is not dead."

These words were like thunder on the ground, Qin Xi's heart jumped, and he lost his voice: "What did you say?!" ”

Before she could come back to her senses, a tear had instinctively burst out of her eyes and slipped down. She hurriedly raised her sleeves to wipe it away to hide her gaffe, she shouldn't cry for anyone anymore, especially Li Xuan.

Dugu Hao was shocked by her reaction, and laughed at himself: "After so many years, even if he does everything that hurts you, the person in your heart is still him." In vain, I have been jealous of Qi Ao for so long, and in the end, I and Qi Ao are the same. ”

"I know you don't want to hear anything related to Daqi and Li Xuan, but even if you hide in Qinzhou and hide in Qinfu, as long as you are still the lord of a city, this change in the world of Kyushu is not something you can avoid if you want to. The war between Daqi and the southern country has been anxious for a year, and the cities around the battlefield have all been implicated, the people have been displaced, and many refugees who have left their homes have poured into Qinzhou. ”

"Li Xuan is a general, and he even made a strange move, killed several generals in the south, and knocked the soldiers from the south so that there was no way to retreat, which made Chu Hong hate him to the bone. You have fought with Chu Hong, he is a narrow-minded person, he can't bargain with Li Xuan, and sooner or later he will come at you. ”

"Chu Hong'an's spy entered the camp to assassinate, that assassin is from the harem of the southern country, and he looks like you. I received news that Li Xuan was injured three inches from the centrifugal port, and he almost returned to heaven. It was because you were brought to Qinzhou by Qi Ao for half a year, and he didn't show up (body shēn) to take you back, with his ability, if he didn't get rid of (body shēn), how could he order Bai Yi and others to take you away? ”

Qin Xi listened calmly, and then said: "You should go and tell Murong Ying these words, if her Murong family can build elite weapons on time, my Qin family army will definitely work with the soldiers of the Murong family to protect the stability of Qinzhou to the death." ”

Murong Ying already knew that the situation was serious, so she took precautions in advance, and after all the orders were delivered a month ago, she only concentrated on building weapons for the defense of Qinzhou. In the past few months, the soldiers of the Murong family and the Qin family army have been trained by Qi Ao ((Cao cāo)cāo), in case the southern kingdom turns to war against Qinzhou, we can also respond to the enemy. ”

She looked at Dugu Hao coldly, and her heart fell inch by inch: "Is it because you came to me that you want to move me back to Li Xuan (身shēn), so as not to affect Qinzhou, Dugu and Murong families?" ”

Dugu Hao knew that she was on guard, so he only sneered: "In the end, it is related to the survival of Qinzhou, I am not afraid to defend Qinzhou, and I will defend Qinzhou by pushing out a woman, if you are still willing to be the city lord of Qinzhou, I will help you defend the city together." ”

"In any case, you should make a decision between Qinzhou and Li Xuan, if there is a war, the people of Qinzhou will learn that their city lord is the wife of the king of Great Qi Xuan, which will cause the disaster of war, which will be very detrimental to you and the stability of Qinzhou. A despicable person like Chu Hong can do anything, you and I must take precautions as soon as possible. ”

Listening to Dugu Hao say that Chu Hong was despicable, Qin Xi wanted to laugh, the two of them were all the way, one was a fox and the other was a jackal, fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter.

"When you murdered me with Chu Hong before, didn't you see through his (Yin yīn) danger?"

Dugu Hao said hatefully: "In my deal with him, I didn't think about taking your life, I just wanted him to imprison you and let you leave Qinzhou, but I didn't count that Qi Aoken even gave up the throne for you." Chu Hong's thoughts about you, even he doesn't admit it, I went to the southern royal family once, and the women in his harem can more or less find out your shadow, it's really perverted! ”

Qin Xi can think of the intersection with Chu Hong, it is nothing more than that she has met once at the banquet in the Great Qi Palace, and once on the street, and the encounter with Pingshui has led to the disaster of killing (body shēn), she is really wronged. She stood up (身shēn) and said to Dugu Hao, "You come with me." ”

She led him all the way into the study, she walked in front, the lotus step gently moved the corners of her skirt, Dugu Hao followed, she felt that her back was more and more beautiful, and silently carved her appearance into her heart.

The human heart is a very strange thing, so many women surround him like butterflies, and he doesn't have any heartbeats, but Qin Xi doesn't take him seriously, and he is willing to put down the shelf and come to her again and again. It's just that he used both soft and hard, and used all the tricks he could use, but he still failed to impress her, but made her farther and farther away.

In the study, Qin Xi laid out a piece of paper and skillfully studied the ink, she had no distractions, and it was particularly beautiful in Dugu Hao's eyes. He praised from the bottom of his heart: "I have known you for so many years, and for the first time, I think that the way you polish and write is very beautiful." ”

The corners of her eyes were not raised, her heart was grinding without distraction, she lifted the pen and poured the ink, ready to put down the pen. Suddenly remembering something, he abandoned the pen again, and instead *bitten* broke his index finger, and the blood beads dripped on the paper and quickly seeped in.

Dugu Hao's face changed: "What are you doing?!" ”

Qin Xi frowned and wrote a few words on the paper, he walked over and grabbed her hand, her *bite* was very heavy, the blood kept oozing out, and (flesh ròu) blurred together, turned to look, and the words "(love qíng) are extinguished" were printed on the paper.

She broke away from his hand, folded the paper in half, stuffed it into an envelope, and handed it to Dugu Hao: "You ask someone to take this book of separation to the Daqi camp tent and hand it to Li Xuan, and he will understand it at a glance." ”

She hates Li Xuan (love ài), she has no mental strength to tell the difference, she only wants to block Youyou's mouth, she should draw a line with Li Xuan and Daqi.

Dugu Hao suddenly felt that the letter in his hand was very heavy.

"One more thing." She called out to him.

He hooked the corners of his mouth and barely squeezed out a smile: "What, I haven't stepped out of this door yet, and you already regret it?" ”

"You go find a few people, covertly spread what happened to me in the past few years, remember to tell me as bad as possible, be quick, and it is best to get ahead of the people of the Southland."

Dugu Hao suspected that her brain was burned out: "You-don't want your reputation anymore?" ”

"I understand what you're trying to say." Her voice was clear, but firm: "It may be difficult to accept at first, and it will be uncomfortable to walk on the street and listen to people's discussions, but this is what really happens." Rather than being disseminated by people with ulterior motives, it is up to me to decide the content. ”

"Only in this way will the people of Qinzhou not listen to Chu Hong's one (set tào) and believe in my loyalty to Qinzhou. We need to protect not only our homes, but also our people. ”

"What is my reputation for alone?"