[56] True and false smiles

When I returned to the pastry shop, it was already full of stars. It was pitch black all around, and the whole street was silent, and on such a cold winter night, even a dog barking was rarely heard in the streets and alleys.

In the distance, there is a lamp that is warmly lit, such a small light, but it makes people feel very warm. There was a man standing in the doorway, draped in a thick robe, who also lowered his head and coughed lightly from time to time, his somewhat pale face reflected in the dim halo.

"Xiaoxiao, why did you come back so late?" Standing at the door, his eyes that had been a little dazed brightened, and he stepped forward, with a slight cough in his voice.

"Stinky scholar, come on, help me support this blind fellow." I jumped off my horse and found myself in a tendency to develop into a little poisonous tongue.

Guo Jia laughed and stepped forward to help Lu Bu. led the red rabbit horse to the stable, and I helped Lu Bu into the house with Guo Jia.

As soon as I entered, I saw a few pastries on the table, and a bowl of hot soup, and I reached out and patted my cheeks, which were a little wooden, and sat down to take a big sip.

Licking my lips, I sat down on the chair next to me, a little lazy and drowsy, and sure enough, I was still eating happily at my own house...... If I was in that Situ Mansion, even if there were delicacies from the mountains and seas, I could only taste the same as chewing wax.

Guo Jia helped Lu Bu sit down, stood aside and watched me drink soup with a smile.

"Drink it, I'll make it." He began to offer treasures.

I drank the soup and nodded: "Reluctantly, barely......"

Guo Jia also nodded and said, "Books are really good things......

Hearing this, I suddenly recalled a certain unbearable day, the corners of my mouth twitched slightly, and I began to tremble: "What kind of soup is this?" ”

"Assorted Eight Treasures Qi Soup." He's a little smug.

"Assorted ...... Babel...... Qi soup? Looking at the black patch in the jar, I began to sweat, "Which eight treasures?" ”

"Snakes, toads, bats......" he reported, shaking his head.

"Stop!" My stomach began to churn, and I raised my hand to cover my mouth.

"Hmm." He nodded, looking very happy, "I read the medical book last night, and according to the above recipe, your throat will recover after drinking this soup." ”

Apparently, I was once again being treated like a guinea pig, gritting my teeth and about to attack, but when his cuffs were slightly raised, I noticed bruises on his arms: "Where did you get these things?" Raising an eyebrow, I asked.

"Huh?" He looked up at me in some surprise, then lowered his hands with a complacent expression, put his hands behind his back, tugged at the wide sleeves of his coat, and replied, "I bought it at the pharmacy." ”

I raised my eyebrows, what should I say about him? Clever? That famous strategist of history, how can he not even tell a lie?

"Why don't you drink it? Doesn't taste good? He looked at me a little nervously.

Looking at him, gritting my teeth, I let go, raised my head and drank it all in a few clicks.

"Delicious!" I was so proud that I almost gave a thumbs up to show how good it was.

"Really?" Guo Jia looked at me with sparkling eyes.

I looked at him with some headaches: "It's enough to drink something delicious, just this once, not the next one." "In a blink of an eye, I glanced at Lu Bu, who was a little sluggish and obviously still in a drunken state, I pressed my forehead and got up to get the multi-purpose antidote pill, "There is still ...... Your body knows for itself, and if you accidentally hurt yourself again, I can't afford to pay for it. ”

Then I saw Guo Jia slightly stunned in place.

After drinking the soup, my throat began to itch hotly, and I frowned slightly, don't be soft-hearted and take the wrong medicine, right? But...... To catch those messy "eight treasures", it is estimated that he also tossed enough, no wonder I didn't see others when I woke up in the morning, and when I thought of the bruises and purple scars on his arms, I unconsciously began to frown.

After going back to the house and taking out the all-purpose antidote pill, Lu Bu also sobered up a lot, frowning and sitting on the stool.

Smiling at him, he will never have that kind of expression, I smiled bitterly, such Lu Bu is really a little strange.

"Ahem...... Eaten. I took out the pill and handed it to his lips, and I opened my mouth, my throat itching.

"What is it?" Lu Bu frowned tightly and tilted his head.

"Poison won't kill you." I grinded my teeth and said something viciously.

Hearing this, he actually stood up vigilantly and clenched the Fang Tian Painting Halberd in his hand, as if I was really going to poison him.

"Alas, it's for your eyes, eat it quickly, it's okay." Sighing and lowering my voice, I said.

He was stunned for a long time, and actually opened his mouth to swallow the pill that was placed on his lips.

"So believe me? Aren't you afraid that I will really poison you? I laughed, and said in a hoarse voice.

His lips pursed tightly into a straight line, and he didn't answer me.

I smiled and raised my hand to brush the messy hair on his forehead, and found that he was slightly startled.

After being silent for a long time, he suddenly frowned, his face turned pale, and cold sweat slipped down his forehead, he held Fang Tian's halberd tightly, and stood up with some difficulty holding the corner of the table.

I was startled and hurriedly helped him: "What's wrong?" ”

"I want to go back to the Taishi's Mansion." He shook off my hand, his voice trembling, as if he were enduring great pain.

"It's so late, it's not too late to go back early tomorrow morning." I frowned in confusion.

"I want to go back to the Taishi's Mansion." He gritted his teeth and insisted, his empty eyes faintly revealing murderous intent.

With a tight hand, I turned around and saw Guo Jia pulling me away from Lu Bu.

"Be careful." Guo Jia's expression was full of vigilance.

"It's getting late, your eyes haven't regained sight, it's dangerous to go out alone......" I raised my voice, my throat itched, and I coughed again.

"There are as many people in the world who want to kill Lu Bu as a carp crossing the river, not the two of you, and now Lu Bu is planted in your hands without complaint." Lu Bu's face became more and more pale, he held Fang Tian's halberd tightly, his face was a little panicked, "It's just...... I have people I have to see...... Even if it's dead...... Even if you die, you can't see her...... I want to die by her side too......" Before he finished speaking, his chest shook, and black blood suddenly gushed out of his mouth. Then he fell to the ground at once.

Isn't it an antidote pill? How so?

I was shocked and hurried forward.

"Lu Bu! Lu Bu ......, "I pushed him, but he shouldn't, I started to panic."

"It's okay, the effect of the antidote pill should be to fight poison with poison, so the process is more painful." Guo Jia stepped forward and calmly took the pulse and spoke lightly.

"Really?" I looked up at Guo Jia and wondered if I wanted to answer in the affirmative.

"Hmm." Guo Jia nodded, and said, "That's what is written in the book." ”

I couldn't laugh or cry, but I surprisingly believed this seemingly unreliable man.

"You go back and rest, I'll help him to my room, get some sleep, and tomorrow will be fine." Guo Jialuo's slightly cool hand stroked my forehead, smiled, and said.

"You go to sleep, I watch him." I shook my head and insisted.

"No, I ......"

"I said you go to sleep!" With my hands on my hips, I stood up, "Look at your own bones, what if you faint?" If you faint, I'm going to buy you medicine, I'm going to decoct medicine, I'm going to wait for you, I'm going to bully Xiaomao, how can I be busy? Tell you, if you faint, I'll just throw you and Xiao Mao out! After saying it in one breath, my throat itched again, and I couldn't help coughing a few more times.

"Uh......" Guo Jia was stunned for a long time, and then turned around obediently and went to the room to rest with some dejected heads.

Looking at his head hanging and depressed, I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I heard him mutter, "If only I had a better body......"

Hehe, silly boy.

Turning around and helping Lu Bu to the bed with some difficulty, I poured warm water and gently wiped the dark blood stains on the corner of his mouth with a cloth towel.

"There are as many people in the world who want to kill Lu Bu as a carp crossing the river, not the two of you, and now Lu Bu has no complaints when he is planted in your hands. It's just that...... I have people I have to see...... Even if it's dead...... Even if you die, you can't see her...... I want to die by her side too......"

His words rang in my ears, and as I watched him fall asleep with a frown, I reached out and gently brushed away a few strands of black hair covering his cheeks. Who was the person he was going to see when he died, the person who wanted to be by her side even if he couldn't see it?

The next morning, when I woke up wiping my saliva, I realized that I had fallen asleep unconsciously, and when I looked back at the bed, there was no one.

Lu Bu, where did you go? Reaching out and touching the bed, it was still a little warm, I stood up with some haste, turned around and pushed the door and ran out. As soon as he left the door, he saw Lu Bu in the courtyard, holding Fang Tian's halberd in his hand, which was shining in the sun.

He is practicing martial arts, under the sun, one move and one style, tiger and tiger. His eyes have really regained their sight?

I leaned sideways against the door, squinting slightly, finally reassured. Looking at the man wielding Fang Tian's halberd, he still looked like a teenager. How long has it been since I've seen him so happy? It's been a long time, it's been a long time since I've seen him in the sun.

When he turned back to me, he took his halberd and walked towards me.

"Your face ......" He was slightly stunned as he approached me a meter away.

I grinned and didn't reply to him, just raised my hand and waved it in front of his eyes. Did he really regain his sight? I'm still a little skeptical.

He reached out and grabbed my hand, frowned, and said, "What for?" ”

Sure enough, he regained his sight?

"Now you know who I am?" I spoke a little proudly, and then I was slightly stunned, my voice actually recovered?

What kind of assorted eight-treasure soup from that stinky scholar actually works?

Lu Bu frowned slightly, with puzzles and doubts in his expression.

"Diao Chan." Determined, he spoke.

I'm down, and his eyes have really regained their sight? Again, I doubted.

"Laughing and saying that my destined person is Diao Chan, it turns out that this is what it means." He frowned at me.

I started to have a headache, he didn't think that I meant this in Liangzhou because Diao Chan looked like me.

"The grace of the Diao Chan girl, I will remember it first." He suddenly spoke lightly, and his expression was very cold.

I frowned slightly, but I couldn't hold back and didn't refute, because whatever I said to him now was equivalent to playing the piano to a cow. He was originally stubborn like a cow, and once he recognized something, he would never change, otherwise, how could he be full of courage because of a joke in his childhood; Otherwise, how could he chase after Hedong more than ten years later for the sake of that "daughter-in-law" who had no chance?

"Don't take it to heart, I have something to ask the general for help, so it's better to just repay my favor." Sighing, I said it with some reason.

"Miss Diao Chan, please have something to say." Lu Bu nodded with a straight face.

"I want to see Zhong...... I want to see Mrs. Dong. I changed my tune and said.

"Father-in-law? Why? Looking at me, Lu Bu looked surprised.

"I've admired Taishi for a long time, and I've always been unlucky with him, can I ask the general to introduce me?" I said it in a nutshell.

Before the crossing, I never dreamed that I would have an intersection with that historical figure, but after crossing over, I never thought that it would be so difficult to see Dong Zhuo......

"No need, my father-in-law has already married a wife, and the husband and wife are very harmonious." Lu Bu's face stiffened slightly, and then his face turned cold.

Harmony between husband and wife? I smiled lightly, in such a situation, how can it seem that I have become a shameless third party? Looking at Lu Bu's expression, he was very protective of Mrs. Dong.

That Mrs. Dong, who is sacred?

"The general misunderstood, I just want to see how heroic the master is, besides...... My face is ruined, how can I be fortunate to be Master Taishi? ”

Lu Bu's face stiffened slightly, and he looked at me for a long time with a frown, and just when I thought he was going to refuse, he actually nodded in agreement.

"General Xie is complete, I'll go back to the room and prepare first." My heart was slightly astringent, and I pulled out a smile.

"Okay." Lu Bu nodded, and suddenly closed his eyes again for some reason.

When I returned to the room, sat in front of the bronze mirror, and looked at the dilapidated face in the mirror, I finally realized what it means to be "a woman who pleases herself", but it's a pity...... I'm ruined.

Finally...... Can you meet him? In such a roundabout way?

Dong Zhuo is already married, perhaps, I just want to find an answer.

I just want to know, why would such a man who was willing to protect me with his life marry another woman? When my life and death were uncertain, when I was struggling on the brink of life and death in the grave, he ...... Why did you marry someone else?

"I said that Dong Zhuo would die." Guo Jia didn't know when he lifted the curtain and walked into the room, looking at me in the bronze mirror, his voice was cold.

"I said it, I know." I continued to comb my hair, lightly.

"Then why are you ......" Guo Jia was puzzled.

"Not everything has a reason, and if I could, I would like to know." I looked up at Guo Jia and smiled a little weakly.

"Well, let's have breakfast and go again." Guo Jia nodded and didn't say anything more.

"Thank you for the Eight Treasure Soup." I spoke softly.

Guo Jia was slightly stunned, and smiled at me randomly: "I'll get you a drink next time......"

"Huh...... No need ......"

It was quiet at breakfast, as if everyone had their own mind.

Lu Bu was still with his eyes closed, groping for food, looking very strange.

"Wrap me some rouge cake, I'm going to take it." After breakfast, Lu Bu suddenly spoke, but his eyes were still closed.

I was curious, remembering that day when he was assassinated at the door of the pastry shop, he also came to buy rouge cakes, do you remember?

After wrapping some rouge cakes, I led the horse and went to the Taishi Mansion with Lu Bu. Of course, the rouge cake is calculated as money, and even his own brothers have to settle the accounts, not to mention that this stinky boy is now not recognized by his six relatives. I don't even recognize who I am, and I'm sorry for myself if I don't kill him.

Guo Jia said that he wanted to wash the dishes and asked me to go early and return early.

It was quiet all the way, and Lu Bu rode the red rabbit horse with his head held high, and he didn't look back from beginning to end.

Naturally, he wouldn't look at me when he looked back, because his eyes were closed the whole time.

I didn't want to put my hot face on his cold ass, so I rode quietly behind him.

Suddenly, a boy ran over with a rattle in his hand: "Sister, sister, buy a rattle, only three dollars!" ”

I turned around, and the boy saw my appearance and took a slight step back. I chuckled a little self-deprecatingly, thinking that this dignity was enough to stop a child from crying at night.

"Give me one." I pulled out three five-baht coins.

The boy quickly drew a rattle and handed it to me, took the money, and happily walked to the side to continue bidding.

I sat on my horse and gently shook the rattle and made a "thump" sound.

Lu Bu's back, who had been walking in front, suddenly stiffened, and when he turned around, he squinted his eyes slightly and looked at me for a long time, seeing that my heart was furious, but he turned his head again.

When I arrived at the Taishi's Mansion, the guards at the gate were a little surprised to see me.

They should also be surprised, an ugly girl who shouted to see Dong Zhuo, but worked for Wang Situ to find it in person, and now he came to the Taishi Mansion with General Lu, of course they should be surprised.

Follow Lu Bu, all the way unimpeded.

What does it mean that the scenery is still the same, and the personnel are all different? I know it now. The servants walked past me with expressionless faces, and I suddenly realized that I was really just a guest. This is no longer my "home".

Lu Bu groped forward, called out to a servant, and said a few words.

"The stepfather is not here." He walked up to me and said apologetically.

I was slightly stunned and began to smile wryly.

finally came into the Taishi's Mansion, but he wasn't there? Even if you don't have a chance, you don't have to be so obvious......

"Bong-first is back?" A familiar female voice suddenly sounded.

I was shocked.

Lu Bu slowly turned around, opened his eyes, and looked at the woman.

He looked at the woman and looked it really seriously, as if he wanted to embed the woman's appearance deep into the depths of his soul.

Looking at the woman's smiling face, I stood still, unable to move.

At that moment, I vaguely figured out something, but I didn't dare to think about it, so I had to stand there in a daze. I'm sure I must have looked silly, dumbfounded, like a clown......

"Why didn't you come home all night last night?" The woman raised her hand and straightened Lu Bu's slightly messy black hair, laughing and complaining.

"Xiaoxiao, do you think I'm any different?" Lu Bu's dark pupils were bright, and looking at the woman, he said.

He called her...... Laughing? As if poured down by a basin of cold water, I suddenly understood why it was so familiar, not only her appearance, her expression, her movements, her voice...... It's all a laughing and smiling......

Then I'...... And who? Can anyone tell me who I am?

Lu Bu looked at the woman, his eyes didn't move for a minute.

"Where?" The woman turned her head to look at me, a little absent-minded.

Lu Bu took a step back and let go of his hand: "My eyes, I can see the smile again." He looked at the woman, his bright eyes narrowed slightly, "I can protect Xiaoxiao like before, and I will never let you get hurt again......"

finally understood why Lu Bu kept his eyes closed, and the first person he wanted to see was ...... Let's laugh at this.

"Really?" The woman was overjoyed, holding Lu Bu's face and looking at it for a long time.

"Here's the rouge cake you're going to eat." Lu Bu raised his hand and shook a small packet of finger cakes in his hand, handed it to the woman, but did not smile.

The woman took it with a smile, and took a piece and put it in her mouth with a greedy face, and her expression was very similar to mine.

Is the rouge cake she named to eat? He asked Lu Bu to buy it because she knew I was there? I froze in place, my mind in a mess.

"Who is this?" The woman pretended to have just noticed me.

"Diao Chan, Wang Situ's righteous daughter." Lu Bu glanced at me, then turned back to look at the woman cautiously, "She said that she wanted to see her father-in-law, although it was not good, but she cured my eyes...... I ......"

"Ah, Zhong Ying has gone to the palace." The woman frowned, then smiled again, "I'm just in a panic, why don't you let her talk to me." ”

"But......" Lu Bu looked back at me, a little hesitant.

"Don't worry, I won't eat her." The woman laughed, as if the flowers in the garden were blooming. However, it is now winter.

I'm cold.

"Okay, I'll talk to her." I nodded to Lu Bu. Some want to laugh, but they can't. Looking at Lu Bu's expression, it seemed that he was afraid that the woman would quarrel with me for Dong Zhuo's jealousy. Is he worried about me?

Lu Bu frowned and glanced at us, then turned away with some hesitation.

The woman looked at me and turned back to her room, where I followed her silently.

Standing at the door, I was suffocated for a moment. I saw two double happiness red on the door, and the red like blood stung my eyes.

"He cut it by hand, saying it was a surprise for me." The woman looked at me and said lightly, "Although I don't understand why this is worth the surprise, I want to ...... You should know. ”

I looked at the double happiness steadily, and I knew, of course I knew.

On that day, the wedding in Liangzhou, I cut the red double happiness by hand, but in the end it ended up bloodstained......

The woman reached out and took me by the hand and walked into the door, where everything was brand new.

"Madame, you want a snack." On the side, a maidservant girl stepped forward with a snack.

"Put it down, you go out first." The woman raised her hand lightly, her expression a little cold.

Although I already understood a little, the sound of "Madam" still made me feel like falling into an ice cave in an instant.