[52] I'd rather be burdened
I was stunned, that day, outside Luoyang City, I was forced by the man in black to shout out, I didn't think he would always remember it.
"You have a good eye." Seeing me raising my head and looking at him stupidly, Cao Cao smiled.
I'm still stunned.
"Why don't I send you off half of the country?" Raising an eyebrow, he looked at me with a bit of ambiguity.
I came back to my senses and smiled faintly: "The little woman's dignity is not worthy of half of your country. ”
"Let's go, there is no half of the country, I will take you to the back mountain." Laughing, he grabbed my wrist and left.
I was dragged away by him, and I shouted, "What are you doing in the back mountain?" ”
"Take a bath, there is a clear spring in the mountain behind here, and it is still warm in winter, which is very peculiar." Pulling me all the way out of the yard, Cao Cao smiled.
"Take a bath?" I'm a little tickled, he shouldn't be talking about hot springs, right? The rotten smell of the dirt in the grave lingered on me, and even after changing my clothes, I still couldn't tell how uncomfortable it was.
After passing through a small forest, you will reach the back mountain. The spring water is murmuring, the mist is shrouded, and the sky is getting colder, but the unknown trees are still verdant. What a paradise! Even though the outside world has long been soaked in blood, here, there is no smell of blood, only quiet and gratifying.
"Not bad." When he said this, Cao Cao was quite complacent.
"Well, that's good." I nodded, then squinted at him.
He looked at me too, and we looked at each other for a long time.
"Not leaving?" I finally couldn't hold my breath anymore.
"Why?" He asked blankly.
"You brought me to the bath, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Men and women don't kiss, do they?"
"Yes."
"Then you're not leaving?" I raised an eyebrow and spoke.
"Let's go? Aren't you afraid that I will secretly turn back again, where to hide and peep? Raising his lips, he smiled ambiguously.
If you think about it, yes, if he wasn't in front of me, maybe he would be hiding somewhere to peek.
"You're right here, turn around." After thinking about it, I decided on a perfect plan.
Slightly stunned, he laughed and turned away.
I glared at his broad back for a long time, and finally I couldn't resist the temptation of the hot spring, so I took off my clothes lightly and got into the spring.
Unlike the freezing cold water of the moat that day, the water was so warm that I felt like I had returned to the hot spring club in that different time and space. With a soft snort, I felt the pores of my whole body open up, and the strange smell from the grave was washed away.
"Have you washed it?" In the middle of the night, his voice rang out.
"It's still early." I replied casually, and I was too lazy to soak in the hot springs.
He sat down cross-legged boredly: "Will you go back to Luoyang?" He asked.
"Of course." Without thinking, I replied casually.
"That'...... Do you think I'm going to let you go? He chuckled, and there was a hint of danger in his words.
I sat comfortably in the hot spring, closed my eyes, and did not answer him. I don't want to be an identity, I don't care about my position, I don't want to spoil the beauty of this paradise.
"Come out quickly, after noon, there will be snakes in the pool." His voice rang out coldly.
I froze slightly...... Snake? For the first time, I remembered the white eyebrows. Suddenly, it was as if my arm had touched something cold, slippery, greasy, and the touch of silk creeped through me. It's not so godly, right?
Cao ...... ......" stiffened, and I squeezed a hoarse cry for help out of my broken voice.
Cao Cao didn't move, his arm was raised, and a thin branch swept across the water, picking the disgusting object away from the hot spring and nailing it straight into the root of the tree on the opposite shore.
"It's okay." Without turning, his voice came steadily.
I'm still a little undecided.
He didn't turn his head the whole time. Gentleman, is it used to describe such a man? Although his words and deeds usually do not match the term "gentleman" at all.
"It's fine." After steasing my mind, I replied to him, and then I was suspicious, "Do you know that there are snakes here?" ”
"Hmm."
"Knew it early in the morning?"
"Hmm."
I grinded my teeth, and the green tendons on my forehead burst out: "Then why didn't you say it before?" ”
"These snakes are non-venomous." With his back to me, Cao Cao took it for granted.
But I heard it with a big belly, he did it on purpose!
"Come out quickly and get dressed if it's all right, this spring is good, but there are always some snake caves around, and once it's past noon, these strange snakes will come out." After a pause, he added, his back trembling suspiciously.
I got up and dressed, and noticed a beehive on the opposite tree, and the unlucky snake nailed to the root by a branch of Cao Cao was hanging on its stomach.
Wearing only my underwear, I bent down and picked up a lump of mud very gracefully, raised my hand, took aim, and the mud flew straight out in a parabola.
"Buzz ......" hits the target.
The hive hit the ground at the sound, and the angry swarm of bees flew out at once, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and my goosebumps stood up, and I quickly held my breath, and plunged into the water.
"Ahh With an exclamation, the guy who had always been thunderous jumped up.
I hid in the water and spent all my time trying to watch him get stung by a bee. Women's revenge psychology is very terrifying, wait until you are stung into a pig's head, I will tell you, "Bees are non-toxic ......"
Just as I was thinking about beauty, I felt the current around me suddenly fluctuate, and I turned my head to meet a pair of narrow eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
"You ......" I was shocked, as soon as I opened my mouth, I leaked a breath, and the water poured into my mouth at once.
Look, here I am.
I covered my mouth and nose and tried to breathe on the water, but the bees were still hovering on the water. Forget it, it's better to have a pig's head than to suffocate in the water...... Just as I was plucking up the courage to receive the kiss of the bee, I suddenly felt my hand tighten slightly, and it was ripped off at once according to the buoyancy of the water.
As I was in a daze, my lips softened, and my eyes widened in disbelief at the magnified face in front of me...... The smell of his mouth crossed into my mouth, and I could only stare at him, with a smile in his eyes.
Damn, he's laughing at me, laughing at me for being self-defeating and unpleasant for retribution......
I don't know how long it took for me to finally be dragged ashore, and the buzzing of the bees had long since ended.
"Still intoxicated?" A smiling voice rang in my ears.
I reflexively stood up all of a sudden, looked at the seemingly gentle and elegant fox face in front of me, and gritted my teeth with a "clattering" sound.
Why does the heroine travel through time and space, it is all artificial respiration to save others! Since then, it has become a sensation and has spread far and wide...... And I, why did I actually ask a guy who had already been in the past to rescue him with artificial respiration?!
He looked wet, like a chicken in soup, and a bright purple robe was attached to his body, which was actually a little embarrassed.
"Make a fire, it'll catch a cold." He stepped forward and suggested with a smile.
I glanced down at myself, and then my heart was frustrated to the extreme. My underwear was completely wrapped around my body because it was wet with water, and my figure was clearly outlined......
Turning around with a strong composure, I put on the dry clothes that I had put aside, and watched Cao Cao pick up the dead branches and make a fire.
Shirtless, Cao Cao sat across from me, looking at me with a smile. There was a fire burning on the side, and his clothes were set aside to bake.
Looking at his sturdy body, I raised my eyebrows.
"Your clothes should be baked, too." Seeing me staring at him, Cao Cao smiled.
"Thanks for the reminder, my clothes are dry." I said angrily.
Although the weather is close to early winter, there is no feeling of cold in this mountain.
"Skin that snake and wash it." Staring at the snake nailed to the tree opposite, my stomach was flustered with hunger, and finally, I spoke.
Cao Cao looked at me in surprise, as if I were a monster.
Also, it is indeed a little strange for such words to come out of a woman's mouth.
But he really got up, went to the opposite side and plucked the branch that was nailed to the tree, and carried the limp dead snake in his hand.
I also stood up and followed, picked up the hive that I had just smashed to the ground, and scooped some honey with my fingers and put it in my mouth.
It's delicious, I squinted my eyes slightly, and the resentment I had just had been thrown out of the clouds.
The people take food as the sky, this is a wise saying.
So, in order to satisfy my appetite, I put aside my old suspicions, and let him wash the snake and roast it on the fire, and smeared a thick layer of honey on the snake, and my saliva was almost overflowing just by smelling it.
"Okay, okay, it's ready to eat." I couldn't wait to tear off a piece of meat and throw it in my mouth, then shook my hand and screamed.
After a few chews, I immediately quieted down.
"What's wrong?" Cao Cao raised his eyebrows and looked at me, as if he was smiling.
"It's delicious." I nodded and continued to chew.
"Really?" He was skeptical.
I shook my eyebrows, I was so clever.
"Really, I don't believe you'll taste it." I smiled at him.
He gave me a serious look, reached out and took the snake meat, and took a bite.
"How?" I asked with a smile.
"It's unpalatable." Slowly, he swallowed the snake meat in his mouth, and he told me very bluntly.
A combination of snake meat and honey? Well, although I've never seen it, it's still an innovation, although, the effect needs to be strengthened......
"It's the first time this girl cooks, it's your honor to be able to eat it!" The more I talked, the more I felt weak, and the louder I spoke.
"The first time, no wonder." He nodded thoughtfully.
I was slightly stunned as he gnawed down the snake's meat, which looked very tempting, but actually tasted terrible.
"If I eat something so unpalatable, you will have a bad conscience?" Looking up at me with a dumbfounded expression, he laughed.
"You know it's unpalatable, but you still eat it?" I rolled my eyes indecently.
"I'm hungry." He threw out two words and threw down a pile of snake bones.
After eating snake meat, his clothes were almost dry, and it was almost dark at this time, so he thought that Uncle Lu should have already bought a horse and came back.
Some of them are reluctant, we leave the back mountain, or I am the only one who is reluctant. Because sometimes, when a person has experienced too much, he always wants to return to peace, and this mountain behind him is so quiet that I can't refuse.
When I returned to Lu's house, there was no one in the courtyard.
"Strange, haven't come back yet?" I muttered.
A clear sound of sharpening knives came from inside the room.
My arms tightened slightly, and I was dragged into the darkness in the corner with my mouth covered. subconsciously looked back at Cao Cao, but saw a chill flashing in his narrow eyes, which was similar to when he was in the back mountain in the afternoon. My heart twitched slightly, and I remembered a certain allusion. Did Cao Cao misunderstand that Lu Boyu wanted to kill him, so he killed him?
"Don't move." In a hurry, I pulled down his hand covering my mouth and said softly, "Don't act rashly, see it clearly." ”
Without saying a word, he grabbed me into his arms and put his hand on my mouth again, so tight that I was almost suffocated, and no matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't pull it off. He didn't hear my words, and his hand was pressed against the hilt of the knife at his waist.
I grinded my teeth with hatred.
"Mother, Dad hasn't come back yet?" In the room, a faint male voice came, it was the man I had seen during the day.
"Well, you can prepare dinner first." The old woman's voice.
"What about Abu and that girl?"
"I probably went to the back mountain, a lonely man and a widow, and I don't know how to avoid suspicion." The old woman was babbling.
"When I was in the city today, I saw a portrait of Apu, which was pasted all over the city, and a reward of 10,000 taels of gold was offered."
"Ten thousand taels of gold?" The old woman's voice rose slightly.
I could almost imagine the old woman's eyes shining.
"While your father hasn't come back, you hurry into the city, and I'll kill a goose, prepare some vegetables, and leave him." After a while, the old woman's voice lowered a little, and she continued.
I sighed inwardly, knowing that it was futile, and gave up struggling.
"Apo grew up with me, it's not good, and my father knows about it......" The man hesitated.
"What do you know, that kid must have done something wrong to be rewarded, we just provided clues, what's wrong?" The old woman said.
Do you really value money as your life?
The man whispered something that I didn't hear.
There was a slight knock on the door, and someone pushed it and walked out.
Cao Cao pushed me aside, and with a gloomy face, he strode forward, the edge of the knife unsheathed, and the cold light flashed, and before the man could come to his senses, blood gushed out like a spring.
I screamed, my eyes widened, and I subconsciously raised my hand to cover my mouth.
"Ah...... ......The man looked frightened, the blood on his neck was not stopping, he reached out to cover the wound, but the blood could not be stopped, and it still gushed out from between his fingers.
Cao Cao pursed his lips and watched him fall to the ground and twitch, his long narrow eyes cold.
A bloodstained hand grabbed the hem of Cao Cao's robe tightly, and the man's mouth was wide open, and blood foamed from his mouth: "I didn't ...... No whistleblowers......"
As soon as the last word came out, he tilted his head and fell to the side, only the blood on the side of his neck was still slowly flowing out, staining his body red.
Behind him, a blood-colored meander......
In the morning, he greeted Cao Cao with a smile.
"My son!" The door was opened again, and the old woman's voice burst into anguish, breaking the silence of the night.
Cao Cao tightened his grip on the hilt of his knife and looked up at the old woman, a chill in his eyes.
"You damn thing!" The old woman looked at Cao Cao, her eyes full of disgust and hatred, "My son is so kind to you, but you killed him!" She screamed, trembling with rage.
Cao Cao didn't blink, and with a knife, the old woman's voice stopped abruptly, and she immediately fell to the spot.
She stared at Cao Cao with her cloudy eyes wide open, and her unfocused eyes made people shudder.
In just a few moments, I watched him lose two lives, and I couldn't stop chilling. This is the real him.
"Ah Gou, our father and son are going to have a drink today." was in a daze, the sound of horses' hooves sounded behind him, is Uncle Lu back?
I watched in horror as Cao Cao's hand holding the knife tightened again, and I hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Run!" ”
Uncle Lu looked at me and was slightly startled, and then saw his wife and children who had fallen in a pool of blood.
"You!" Holding his chest with one hand, Uncle Lu was shocked, he would never have thought that he would lead the wolf into the house and ruin his family in just one day.
His long and narrow eyes were full of chill, and Cao Cao slowly turned around and looked at Lu Renxuan.
"You!" Uncle Lu was so angry that he trembled.
Cao Cao stepped forward with his knife, and there was still a trace of blood on the blade.
"Why don't you even ...... with me" Old Uncle Lu burst into tears, and before he finished speaking, his eyes widened in disbelief and fell to the ground.
The jar of wine he was carrying in his hand fell to the ground with his body, making a "bang" sound and shattering.
Wine and blood flowed all over the ground, exuding a rich fragrance.
With a little blood on his fair face, thin lips pursed into a line, Cao Cao stood in place, from beginning to end, he didn't even say a word.
"Why kill them? We could have quietly left! They didn't really want to snitch! In the air, the smell of wine and the smell of blood blended together, and after a while, I finally couldn't hold my breath and screamed.
"Brother Lu's mistake is hesitation, my assassination is in the name of the outside, and the big thing has not been accomplished, so I can't take risks." He looked at me in a very low voice.
"What about Uncle Lu? He's been so good to you, what did he do wrong again?! "I can't take it anymore.
"I killed his wife and children, if I don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, there will be endless troubles." He spoke, his voice was still faint, as if he was just talking under the moon, "I'd rather be responsible for the world than teach the world to bear me." ”
I looked at him stained with blood in a daze, this is Cao Cao, the one who rose to prominence during the Yellow Turban Uprising, raised troops to Chen Liu, fought against Dong Zhuo, killed Lu Bu, descended Zhang Xiu, expeditioned to Wuheng, pacified Liangzhou, single-handedly established the Wei State, exterminated Jiangdong Sun Quan, unified the world, and the generation of heroes of the Jiuhe princes......
"Sometimes, some people have to die." Looking at me, Cao Cao's eyes were a little cold, "A woman's kindness will only do bad things." He slowly stepped forward and approached me, "Lu Boyu is not dead, and living alone is also painful for him, you don't always look like a compassionate person, like that...... It makes me sick......"
I looked at him in amazement, the blood on his face that made him look a little hideous.
"You are not a god, don't always be sympathetic to people who think that you can save the world, but in the end you can't do anything, it will only add to the chaos, isn't it because Dong Zhuo became an unfaithful and unrighteous person?
"Lu Bu killed his father-in-law and switched to Dong Zhuo, isn't it because of you?
"Who is not pitiful in this world? You're not God, and you can't help anyone.
"You want to change everything, but at the end of the day, you can't change anything...... What should happen, will happen, or worse.
"I will only say, how strong I think I am, but in fact, my heart is softer than anyone else, and I don't even dare to clean up a snake, look at your appearance, listen to your voice, you made yourself into the way you are today, and you are not enlightened?"
Step by step, he approached me, his voice cold as ice.
I stepped backwards, not knowing what the expression on my face was at this moment, but I couldn't even say a word of rebuttal.
Without coming any closer, he turned over and took his farming tools from the wall and began to dig.
I leaned limply against the door, as if all my strength had been drained.
Under the moonlight, he was digging a pit, and the dirt gradually piled up, and the pit became deeper and deeper, and even his figure was gradually hidden. After a long time, he jumped out of the pit and carefully put the bodies of Lu Bohao's family of three into the pit, with a somewhat solemn expression.
I sat by the wall, staring in amazement at him burying his cold corpse alone, my mind was blank, I couldn't think of anything, I only felt that the bright purple was so cold in the moonlight that there was no trace of temperature.