19 Chapter 19 The Search for Wei Qi
The greenery stretches for thousands of miles, the warbler flies and the grass grows but there is no half of the human population, we galloped for a day and a night, and then took a boat to the north after a little rest in Jiangxia, and ran for several days in a row, so that I was a little overwhelmed, but the wound on the leg healed well, and I could already walk slowly.
"Look, this horse is really fate with you!"
As soon as I got off the boat, the "kicking cloud" came up and stopped beside me, and actually lowered its front hooves slightly, as if it was urging me to get on the horse.
"What a sensible horse!" I smiled at Wei Jue, and he reached out and helped me onto the horse.
Back to Hedong, all the way, I saw one after another ruins and broken walls, as well as the white bones that countless weeds could not hide, obviously this place is no longer the same as before. The invasion of the Hu people in the south is like locusts crossing the border, and it is not surprising that all the people who will not be able to take them away in the future will be taken away and wantonly β‘β‘killed.
According to the Han people who fled back from the north, the Hu people would kill Han women for food when they were short of food and grass, and they were called "two-legged sheep", and they ate more than 50,000 people in one winter, and the north had already suffered from misery. Wei Jue said and looked at the pile of white bones.
I couldn't help but feel a deep chill, and scolded angrily: "These beasts, I must kill all these Hu people!" β
Wei Jue turned over his horse, grabbed my waist, and said softly: "The Hu people have no way, they have their own harvest, now the Wuhu occupy the Central Plains, they can no longer work together with each other, all ethnic groups are attacking endlessly, as long as the court works hard, the recovery of the homeland is just around the corner!" β
"The Imperial Court?" I said in a contemptuous tone: "You mean Wang Yan and them?" They can only talk emptyly, they have long been frightened by the Hu people, drunk and dreaming of death in Jiangnan, and still count on them? β
Wei Jue looked down at me: "There are always sober people like you and me in this world, if no one dares to cross the river, when I rescue my eldest brother, I will ask my father-in-law and General Wang Dun to help, and raise a volunteer army in Jiangxia to kill back to Hedong!" β
Listening to his words, I suddenly came to my senses: "Is this true? β
"Although I, Wei Jue, am only a scholar, I understand that if I lose my home, I will also lose the love of my life, and I will not be able to die well at the mercy of others, dance, I can't lose you!" Wei Jue was serious, his words were sincere, but he was a little choked up at the end.
I turned my head and pressed his lips: "You won't lose mine!" β
Wei Jue lightly pressed my fingers: "I have experienced the tragedy of the Hu people coming south and the family being ruined, and now with you, I can no longer let you be hurt in any way, if I don't fight for the common people, just for you alone, I will die without spinning!" β
After that, Wei Jue pulled the stiff rope, the horse neighed, and we walked through the layers of green waves like arrows.
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Qinghe is a gathering place for the noble families, there are naturally a lot of gold and silver treasures, and there are also many guards and guards, but it is also the most tragic place for the bloody slaughter of the Hu people.
The old mansion of the Wei family has not escaped the disaster of swords, and the original splendid home is now full of mottled eyes, the attic is dilapidated, the ground is full of dust and mud, and the house has long been looted.
"A lot of people died!" After getting off the horse, I followed behind Wei Jue, feeling very uneasy.
Wei Jue didn't speak, I couldn't see the expression on his face, his silence made me feel more and more terrible, he pushed open one broken door after another, every hall had traces of slashing with knives and axes, and the corpses were all mutilated, Wei Jue slowly clenched his fists.
I stepped forward and said to him, "I have checked all the corpses, none of them belong to Brother Wei Qi, he must still be alive, and the Hu people may not have killed him!" β
Wei Jue glanced at me, there was something hidden in his eyes, he calmly stretched out his hand to wipe off the blood stains attached to the wall, but it was the traces of blood splashing, as the time deepened, it had already penetrated into the wall, how could it be easily erased by him.
"Can you say something? I'm scared of you! As I spoke, I hurriedly stretched out my hand and held his hands: "We will go to the nearby county town tomorrow to inquire about the news, if the Hu people want to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, it is impossible to destroy such a big city, and we will definitely find the news of Brother Wei Qi there." β
"Wuxi, are you afraid?" Wei Jue asked suddenly.
"Afraid?" I looked into his eyes and replied, "I'm naturally afraid of you like this!" If you are asking about anything else, then I can also tell you that I have also been on the battlefield, and I have killed countless Hu people with my own hands, so why should I be afraid? β
Wei Jue's hand shook a little when he clenched me, and then hugged me tightly in his arms: "Wuxi, your optimism and strength have been infecting me, you are different from other women, you will never succumb to fate, it's me who is not good, I haven't been by your side!" β
"What the hell are you trying to say? Wei Jue, we should all forget about the past, I know that you have a deep guilt for the daughter of Le Guang, but she is dead, you can't say that these are all your faults, you can only say that fate is doing it, you ......"
Halfway through my words, Wei Jue shook his head, his voice was very soft but very hard: "I'm not talking about her now, I feel guilty about her, I'm glad that it wasn't you who married me at that time!" Dancing ......"
"I understand! Don't say any more! "Wei Jue's feelings for me are already very deep, if I still care that he let another woman be hurt because he saved me, and even the last trace of self-blame and guilt will be deprived, then I don't love him, I just love myself.
As the sun sets, our silhouettes get longer and longer, and for a long time, we embrace each other like this, until the shadows slowly fade, and finally we are bathed in the starlight.
Although the Wei family's old house is desolate, it has become the home of Wei Jue and me, a home that only belongs to the two of us.
The next day, the sky was clear, Wei Jue and I briefly freshened up and rode to Qinghe County.
The city was still full of people, but there were many more Hu people wearing beards in the crowd. They walked through the streets without the slightest sense of strangeness, and the shops on both sides of the street were also open as usual, and they didn't seem to have changed because of the killings outside the county, but I could see the fear and disgust for the Hu people in the casual eyes and movements of those shopkeepers and passers-by, and the hatred engraved in the bones could not be erased no matter how much they concealed it.
In addition to men, there are also many Hu women who also visit the market, wearing all kinds of fur clothes, frolicking and chasing from one end to the other, and stopping in front of the dazzling jewelry stores and ready-to-wear stores, loving these beautiful things as much as the Han women.
However, I soon discovered the difference between them and the Han women: when Wei Jue entered the city, he had only walked a few hundred steps, and many Hu girls gathered around him after seeing his appearance, each took out a flower of different colors from the skin pouch around his waist, raised his hand and threw it on Wei Jue's body, and then looked at Wei Jue with burning eyes.
"Look, that Han man is so beautiful! When he takes my flowers, he will be my man! β
All the way we went, we had these lovely voices in our ears. Wei Jue didn't care about the actions of these women, just gently brushed his sleeves away, brushed those flowers off his body, and then tightened my hand, still walking straight towards the city.
Seeing that he didn't pick up the flowers, those Hu girls showed disappointed expressions on their faces, but they still refused to leave, and followed me and Wei Wei from a distance.
"Hu Nu is arrogant, when she sees the man she likes, she will throw flowers to the man's side, and if the man picks it up, the two of them will immediately become a good thing!" Wei Jue saw that I was a little depressed, so he explained sideways.
"Oh!" I replied softly: "I didn't expect them to be interested in you too, who called you so good-looking." β
After speaking, I turned around and glared at those bearded girls, but I did not scare them away, gradually, there were also girls in the houses on both sides of the market who kept opening the windows, throwing down all kinds of flowers and silk scarves, and Wei Jue and I walked all the way, as if we were rushing in the rain of flowers, and our hair and clothes were full of flowers.
We see that the market is coming to the end, but we still have nothing. The Han people in the market hid in fear all day after the Hu people came, and knew nothing about what was going on outside the city.
"Wei Jue, I think there are also Hu people in the Qinglou, maybe we can find out some news, or we will go there!"
I stopped abruptly and gently tugged at Wei Jue, because there were several green buildings in front of me, and the women in those green buildings were already in front of the building to solicit customers, and Wei Jue's appearance had already attracted their attention, so it was better, the green building was a place where men went, and those Hu women should not follow again.
"Smack!"
Just as Wei Jue hesitated, I was suddenly hit the shoulder, and I took advantage of the situation and grabbed the object that hurt me in my hand. It turned out to be a ball of flowers, which had been tied with silk thread.
"Wuxi, are you okay?" Wei Jue worriedly pulled me aside.
"I'm fine!" As I spoke, I angrily wanted to throw away the flower ball, but just as I was about to take it off, I suddenly saw a small silk silk with a few Chinese characters vaguely written on it.
"Wei Jue, that's not right! Look, what's written on this? I handed the flower ball to Wei Jue.
Wei Jue glanced at it, and then read: "If you want to know Wei Qi's whereabouts, gather at Shili Pavilion in the south of the city at noon!" β
After Wei Jue finished reading, he looked up to search for the person who threw the flower ball, but found nothing, and his gaze returned to my face: "Wuxi, let's get out of here!" When he had finished speaking, he tucked the cloth into his cuffs, took me by the hand, and hurried towards the south of the city.