(4) Smiling birthday
Lying in Dong Zhuo's warm arms, I only felt that the cold of the sky was far away from me, and unconsciously, I fell asleep with my eyes closed.
By the time I woke up, I was lying on a wooden couch at home, covered with a thick quilt.
Rubbing my eyes, I got up and looked around, but I didn't see Dong Zhuo. I took the small cotton coat with N patches at the head of the bed and put it on, lowered my head to tie the belt, I touched the overlapping small patches on my body, and I couldn't help but feel a little trance. These patches are all Mr. Dong's masterpieces, and if I have the chance to go back one day, maybe they will be antiques.
I couldn't help but laugh at the sight of him clumsily mending my clothes in the candlelight with his needle and thread, and after laughing, I felt my heart swell, and there was an inexplicable sweetness and sourness. I sat on the bed for a long time, but Dong Zhuo didn't return for a long time, and I gradually became a little anxious, he offended Taishou for me, will it ......
Thinking of Dong Zhuo's almost humble appearance that I saw before, I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. In fact, for Dong Zhuo, I am just an orphan girl who was picked up casually, the people are warm and cold, the world is hot and cold, in this era when even supporting himself is a problem, why is he so good to me?
At this time, the door suddenly opened, and Dong Zhuo pushed the door in, carrying a few things in his hand.
A gust of cold wind rushed into the house with him, carrying a few snowflakes, and I looked up, only to find that it was already dark outside the door.
"Awake?" Seeing me sitting on the bed in a daze, Dong Zhuo casually put the things in his hand on the table beside him, and didn't care about patting the snow off his head and shoulders, so he stepped forward with a smile, took out a paper bag from his arms, and put it in front of me.
"For Xiaoxiao." He looked at me and smiled.
I was a little surprised to reach out and pick up the paper bag and look up at Dong Zhuo.
"Take it apart and take a look." Seeing my surprise, he urged a little impatiently.
Gifts? Seeing Dong Zhuo's mysterious appearance, I was busy pretending to be a little girl when she got the gift, bowed her head and eagerly opened the paper bag, the paper bag was very thick, just looking at the package felt that it would not be cheap, when I opened it, it was a moon-white long jacket, with dense stitches, very delicate and beautiful. I looked up in surprise, where did he get the money to buy this long jacket for me?
"Put it on and try it on." He smiled and reached out to take off the small jacket with N patches for me, threw it aside, and put the new long jacket on me, then looked up and down, nodded and smiled with satisfaction, "Xiaoxiao is really a goddess."
I was stunned.
He smiled and reached out and scratched my nose: "It's as beautiful as a goddess." ”
"Uh-huh." I came to my senses, sighed slightly in my heart, but there was a smug expression on my face, and I held my head high and looked like I couldn't find the north, which made Dong Zhuo laugh.
The laughter temporarily dispelled the gloom of the day, and I curled my lips and laughed as I looked at him.
Stopping laughing, Dong Zhuo touched my head: "Are you hungry?" ”
"Hmm." I nodded, and glanced at what he had placed on the table, a small half-sack of rice, a bunch of pigs in the water, a bunch of winter flowers, and even a few pieces of dried meat.
"I'm going to cook, and I'll be able to eat in a while." As he spoke, he turned to light a fire and cook.
I squatted aside and watched him wash the dried meat and steam it with the rice, and then neatly clean the pig and put it in the pot to make soup.
By the time the pig went into the pot, the mouth-watering aroma of the dried meat had already wafted through the room, and I obediently sat down at the table and waited for the meal to start. Although I have never been hungry, I can't eat a "big meal" like this one all the time.
"Wait a minute, you'll be ready to eat in no time." Seeing that I looked greedy, Dong Zhuo said with a smile while putting the cleaned winter sunflower into the soup pot.
I couldn't help but feel that my old face was a little red, and I was wearing the skin of a child, and my behavior was really getting more and more childish......
But this thought was immediately thrown out of the clouds when I saw the food on the table, and I drank a mouthful of fragrant soup, accompanied by a mouthful of rice with the fragrance of dried meat, I was so beautiful that I narrowed my eyes, after more than two years of practice, Dong Zhuo's craftsmanship can be called a master.
Dong Zhuo saw that I was happy to eat, and added me another bowl of soup: "Eat slowly, there is more." ”
"Hmm." I nodded, and obediently sandwiched a piece of dried meat for him, "You can eat it too." ”
Dong Zhuo smiled and ate.
I continued to bow my head and cook with peace of mind.
Dong Zhuo looked at me, and suddenly said with a smile: "In the future, as long as it snows, it will be Xiaoxiao's birthday." ”
I was stunned for a moment and looked up. Through the firelight, I looked at the young man with long unkempt hair in front of me in a daze, and I forgot to swallow the fragrant dried meat in my mouth.
As long as it snows, it's the birthday of a smile...... When I was two years old, this man kept his promises, and he kept them for a long, long time.
"Don't be stunned, eat quickly." His generous hands rubbed my head and wiped the oil from the corners of my mouth, and he smiled, "What other children have, my family will have smiles and smiles, and there are more than theirs, all of them are good." ”
"Hmm." My nose suddenly became slightly sour, and I nodded vigorously, and smiled with bent eyebrows, smiled with bent eyes, and smiled with bent lips.
"Xiaoxiao is two years old this year." As I passed by the house, he said this when he saw me looking at the woman steadfastly. But it turned out that he thought I was envious of the child named Fugui, and envied that he could receive a gift on his birthday.
As long as it snows, is it my birthday? Because I was picked up by him on a snowy day.
I'll get more than any other kid, all better.
Because, I'm his smile.
Dong Zhuo's smile.
I lowered my head, the heat of the soup came to my face, I felt a mist in front of me, for the first time, I was not so indignant about crossing into this troubled world.
The feeling of being pampered is really not bad.
Early the next morning, Dong Zhuo went out again, yesterday because of my sudden appearance, he beat the fat Taishou, and the Taishou Mansion naturally couldn't go back. I don't know where he went, but I knew he must have gone elsewhere to find work.
It's just that since ancient times, the people didn't fight with the officials, and they offended the fat Taishou, but I was afraid that there would be endless troubles......
Picking up the broth that Dong Zhuo had put on the stove to warm up, I didn't dare to go far, so I just sat at the door and drank it slowly without taking a sip.
"The Three Kingdoms are like a dream of chaos in the world, free to fly flowers and water, a wisp of incense and soul passes away with the wind, Liangzhou Iron rode into Kyoto ......" suddenly, a very clear voice sounded, I looked up a little surprised, and saw a boy in Tsing Yi leading a donkey, is "tuk" towards me.
He led the donkey and stood still in front of me, and then stared at the broth in my hand, salivating.
"What poem did you just chant?" Thinking that the poem he had just read in his mouth seemed to mean something, I asked subconsciously.
He didn't answer, still staring at the half bowl of broth in my hand.
Seeing his salivating appearance, I raised my eyebrows a little wickedly, and as soon as I looked up, I swallowed the only half bowl of broth left in the bowl.
The boy stared at the empty bowl in my hand as if he was about to cry.
Putting down the empty bowl in my hand, I picked up half a piece of dried meat on the side, shook it in front of him, and said temptingly: "Who are you?" ”
The eyes of the boy in Tsing Yi swirled around with the meat in my hand, and finally swallowed his saliva and opened his mouth: "Guo Jia." ”
Guo Jia?! I stared at the boy in Tsing Yi in front of me, whose eyes were green with hungry eyes and a pale face, could he be the big thinker of Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms?!
Dong Zhuo...... Guo Jia......
If Dong Zhuo's name is just a coincidence, is even Guo Jia so coincidental that he just has the same name and surname? A terrible thought crossed my mind, and I ...... I shouldn't really fall into the Eastern Han Dynasty, right?!
If the Guo Jia in front of him is the famous thinker in history, will Dong Zhuo also ......
Seeing him staring at the piece of dried meat in my hand, I suddenly lost interest in amusing him, and handed the dried meat to him with some trepidation.
Guo Jia took the half of the dried meat, and he didn't dislike the saliva on it, so he devoured it.
"Guo Fengxiao?" I tilted my head and whispered tentatively. Guo Jia may have a duplicate name, but the surname Guo Mingjia, the person who is filial piety, is unique, and it must be the big brain.
Guo Jia was stunned for a moment, then coughed desperately, choking with a red face: "How do you know?" ”
It turned out to be really him......
I grimaced and said weakly, "Forget it." "Anyway, it's already a god stick, let's go to the end, anyway, this excuse is also very useful, no need to bother to find a reason.
"You are the little goddess of Lintao County, Longxi County, Liangzhou?" Guo Jia looked at me, and he couldn't care about gnawing on the dried meat, and said in surprise.
I didn't deny it, and remembering the poem he sang when he came just now, I subconsciously asked, "What poem did you just read?" ”
The Three Kingdoms are like a dream of chaos in the world, free to fly flowers and water, a wisp of incense and soul pass away with the wind, and Liangzhou Iron rides into Kyoto. I bowed my head and muttered and repeated: "Liangzhou Iron Cavalry into Kyoto......" Liangzhou Iron Cavalry into Kyoto, doesn't it mean that Dong Zhuo led troops to Luoyang in history, abolished the young emperor, and established a new monarch?
But even if this is really the Eastern Han Dynasty, these things should be things that have not happened at the moment, how can anyone know?
"Two years ago, on a snowy night, a vision fell from the sky, and my master made a divination on a starry night, and I got this poem." Guo Jia shook his head and said.
Two years ago, the snowy night ...... A vision from above? I couldn't help twitching the corners of my mouth a few times, could that "vision from heaven" just mean that I am the "goddess".
As I spoke, I suddenly felt a shadow cover me, and I looked up and saw the tall figure standing in front of me with the light on its back.
Dong Zhuo......
Dong Zhuo strode forward, scooped me up, held me in his arms, and looked down at Guo Jia, who was standing on the snow with a little donkey, with an unkind face.
Guo Jia didn't care, he still tilted his head, looked at me who was held in Dong Zhuo's arms stupidly, and muttered: "Goddess, really a goddess, two years ago, the master passed away after taking this hexagram, and before he died, he told me to find the goddess and tell her a word." ”
"What?" Curious about what advice his master, who seemed to be able to predict the prophet, I subconsciously asked.
"Master said......" Guo Jia said.
Dong Zhuo didn't wait for him to finish, he turned around and walked into the house with me, and closed the door with a "bang".
Seeing his gloomy face, I pulled his sleeve: "What's wrong?" ”
"It's nothing, there are many bad people in this world, don't talk to strangers casually." Dong Zhuo put me on the wooden couch and admonished me with a serious face.
Villain?
If he is really that Dong Zhuo, then he should be the biggest bad guy.
I looked at him in a daze, and didn't speak.
"Smiling?" He frowned, "Why are you looking at me like this?" ”
"Zhong Ying......" I moved my lips and spit out two words, and my voice was very soft.
But Dong Zhuo had obviously heard it, because his face changed suddenly.
Seeing his expression, my heart was half cold, and sure enough...... Is it?
The Dong Zhuo in history, the word Zhongying.
He lowered his head and was silent for a long time before stroking his face and chuckling: "Long time...... No one calls me that...... Since the death of his mother. ”
He was laughing, but I felt like he was crying silently. I suddenly remembered what I heard at the breakfast stall when I went out to look for him yesterday.
Relatives and friends, six relatives have no chance, and they are destined to die alone; Bearing the name of the Heavenly Evil Lone Star, he is hated and feared by the whole village......
I stretched out my hand and hugged him, but my heart was in chaos.
Will he really be the last Taishi Dong in history who died unhappily? I really can't associate this bright boy who always dotes on me with the vicious Dong Taishi in history......
Have you ever tried to be nice to you with a person who, without any reason, without asking for anything in return? At least, in that era, I didn't meet anything other than my parents.
If I had, I wouldn't have been alone until I was twenty-nine.
"Oh no, no...... The Qianghu have come to loot again......"
At this moment, through the thin door panel, there was a sudden chaos outside the door, and all kinds of noises, noises, and screams were intertwined, which sounded panicked.
Dong Zhuo wiped his face, picked me up and put me on the couch, and instructed in a low voice: "Xiaoxiao, don't go out, wait for me to come back." Then he took a bow and arrows from the wall and went out of the door.
I sat on the couch in a daze and watched him close the door. I remember that there is an introduction in the script that Liangzhou is located in the northwest border, just at the junction with nomads, and is often harassed by nomads. Seeing Dong Zhuo's appearance in such a hurry, it must be those nomads who crossed the border to Liangzhou to loot their property again.
The noise outside the door grew quieter, and just as I was breathing softly, the door was suddenly kicked open.
I raised my head in some surprise, and saw that the fat Tai Shouzheng who I saw yesterday rushed into the room with a group of guards, and I couldn't help frowning at the moment, obviously saying that it was the Qianghu people who were attacking, and they didn't want to resist the culprits who made the people of Liangzhou lack food and clothing, but they came here......
"My lord, it's her, the goddess raised by Dong Zhuo's evil star." A guard stepped forward and pointed at me with a flattering face.
The guard's eyebrows are quite handsome, and he really responds to the saying that people can't look good, obviously he has a good face, but he has a black heart, and I slandered viciously.
Fat Tai looked down at me proudly for a long time, probably not finding anything special in me, and couldn't help but have a hint of suspicion on her face: "Is she really a goddess?" ”
The look in his eyes, which seemed to be measuring the goods, made me feel the urge to punch him.
"Yes, my lord, I have already asked in this village, two years ago, someone saw her fall from the sky!" The guard nodded hurriedly, and then suggested with a loyal face, "My lord, it's rare to lure Dong Zhuo's evil star away, if you don't take the goddess away at this time, how long will you stay?" ”
Fat Taishou squinted his puffy eyes and nodded, and as soon as he gave the order, those guards rushed straight over and wanted to pick me up, I hurriedly subconsciously took a step back, and the alarm bell sounded in my head, did they deliberately lure Dong Zhuo away? Is it just to take away my "goddess"? In this way, why are the Qianghu people completely nothing? Is it all just a ploy to divert the tiger from the mountain?
"Who dares to touch me!" My face was cold, and my eyes burned.
Such a cold expression appeared on the face of a two-year-old child, indescribably strange, and the guard, who was about to pick me up first to ask for a reward, was stunned for a moment, and did not dare to step forward.
Fat Taishou raised his eyebrows, and looked at me in surprise, to my surprise, he was not afraid, and even had a happy face: "It's really extraordinary, and he has a bearing." He nodded and admired, "Fan Chou, you go and hold the little goddess." ”
The handsome guard stepped forward and picked me up.
It turned out that his name was Fan Chou.
Fan Chou......? I frowned, I vaguely remembered that there was such a number one person in the script, who had been Dong Zhuo's general, could it be him?
"Aren't you afraid of death?" I struggled for a moment, then gave up, the disparity in strength was too great.
Fan Chou glanced at me and said softly: "It's really not what I want to do to offend the goddess, but I just obey people's orders, and ask the goddess to forgive my sins." Although he said this, his eyes were calm, and there was no fear, which showed that the unwarranted name of the goddess did not have the slightest deterrent effect on him.
To put it simply, he didn't believe it at all.
"Hold it, be respectful, this official still has to rely on the promotion of the goddess to make a fortune." At that time, Fat Taishou twisted his mustache and instructed with some unease.
Get promoted and get rich? I was slightly stunned, how did I not know that I had this function?
"As long as you dedicate the goddess to the Hou Ye, hehe......" Fat Taishou said this, and laughed very proudly, as if he saw that he had been promoted and made a fortune.
"Master Hou? Which Hou Ye? I asked subconsciously.
"Of course it's Marquis Wuyuan." The fat Taishou was in a good mood and replied triumphantly.
Wuyuan Hou Xu Huang...... The one of the five eunuchs who was named the Five Marquis because he killed Liang Ji, a relative who was in power for Emperor Huan.
"Alright, let's go." The fat Taishou waved his hand, and then turned and took the lead in leaving the broken grass house that made him frown.
I don't want to follow that eunuch who doesn't want to die well! Seeing that the name of the goddess didn't work, I became a little anxious, but the heavy oil and salt didn't enter, and I really couldn't do anything about him.
"Stop, put her down!" Just as I was struggling desperately, a voice suddenly sounded high.
I turned my head gratefully, the rescuers finally came, and the eternal legend of heroes saving beauty finally happened again...... Just looked at it, my heart immediately cooled half, the hero in front of me who wanted to save the beauty was not the boy in Tsing Yi who was holding a little donkey, Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao?
"Where did the yellow-mouthed child come from?" The guard, who was blocked in the way, shouted loudly.
"In Xia Guojia, Yingchuan Yangzhai people." Guo Jia introduced himself seriously, and his voice was quite clear.
"Who cares where you're from!" The corner of the guard's mouth twitched.
"Hmph." The fat Taishou frowned, and gently emitted a monosyllable from his nose rather impatiently, and the guard didn't dare to talk nonsense, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab him.
"Wait." Guo Jia opened his mouth lightly, his expression was inexplicably calm and calm, a child who was only ten years old could have such courage, and he really deserved to be Cao Cao's most relied on strategist in the future, "I advise the adults to put down the goddess, if not, ......"
"How else?" The Taishou raised his head disdainfully, eager to show people with his nostrils.
"Otherwise, not only will you not be able to get promoted and make a fortune, but you will also die." Guo Jia smiled.
The fat Taishou was slightly stunned, and then exaggeratedly looked up to the sky and laughed three times: "You kid, full of nonsense, if this official has to take away this goddess today, will it be possible that she will be thundered by the sky?" ”
Although he laughed loudly, but I looked at it coldly, but it was quite a bit of a bad taste, probably remembering the fate of that Uncle Cao, since he believed the rumor that I was a goddess, I don't believe that he didn't find out what happened at that time, but obviously compared to the fear of divine punishment, the temptation to get promoted and make a fortune is greater for him.
He is different from Fan Chou, Fan Chou doesn't believe it at all, but this Taishou Lord clearly believes it, but he has fat courage because the temptation is too great.
"Heaven will not split you, and adults will die without a whole body." Guo Jia shook his head and said something amazing, and when he said it, his tone was very calm and affirmative, as if he was prophecing.
I lay in the arms of the guard named Fan Chou, and looked at Guo Jia with a thin back and clear eyebrows.
I suddenly remembered a wild history, talking about the famous battle of Guandu in history. At that time, Cao Cao was confronting Yuan Shao's army, and suddenly news came to Cao Ying, saying that Sun Ce in Jiangdong was preparing to send troops to attack Cao Cao's base in Xudu. At that time, Cao Cao was obviously at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Yuan Shao, and he could no longer draw troops to defend Xudu, and once Xu Du was lost, Cao Cao's camp would collapse.
At this moment, Guo Jia made an unbelievable suggestion, saying that the lord did not need to spare his troops to defend Xu Du, because with his knowledge of Sun Ce, he could assert that Sun Ce would definitely die at the hands of the Assassins on the way. There is no basis, just because he understands what a ridiculous thing this seems to be at the time, but later, Sun Ce was indeed assassinated during the march and died at the hands of the assassins of the Xu Gong family.
It's not so much a prophecy as I would rather believe that it is Guo Jia's insight into human nature and human hearts, but just such a terrible insight...... It is truly unique and unparalleled in the world.
The fat Taishou was stunned by what he said.
"If you don't believe it, you won't be reluctant." Guo Jia said very politely, then led the donkey and stepped aside, "My lord, please." ”
That Taishou came back to his senses, maybe it was Guo Jia's words that pierced the secret fear in his heart, and he yelled at the moment: "Abominable things, take them away together" After speaking, he angrily brushed his sleeves forward.
"Yes." Several guards hurriedly said loudly, and as they spoke, they effortlessly caught Guo Jia, who was weak.
The little donkey in Guo Jia's hand was frightened, broke free of the reins, and ran away "tuk tuk".
"Little Mao...... Xiao Mao ......" Guo Jia saw that the donkey had run away, and immediately screamed and struggled, "Woo...... Woo...... Xiao Mao, don't go......" Seeing that he couldn't catch up with the donkey, he actually cried his nose.
I was stunned to look at the boy in Tsing Yi who was crying with snot and tears in his eyes, and couldn't help grinning, hehe, insight into people's hearts or something...... Sure enough, I was thinking too much......