Chapter 5: Prelude to the Great War
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June 208 BC
Yesterday was the beginning of summer, and the cooking soldiers in the camp brought me and Ah Rui a few bowls of "five-color rice" and "Lixia eggs".
As soon as the beginning of summer arrives, the weather is getting hotter, the temperature is rising significantly, the hot summer is coming, and the summer thunderstorms are about to increase.
As soon as the weather is hot, I am tired all over, I have no strength and no spirit. Today, except for going out to wash a few clothes for Chang Xihuan, I am bored in the tent and napping and reading books for Chang Xihuan. Chang Xi has no time to accompany me.
When Yu Ji came to look for me in the tent, I was ready to rest, and when I saw her come in, I hurriedly got up and wanted to get dressed, but she said, "No, I'm here to rest with you today."
"Hey, my sister wants to rest with me." I was shocked." The young master's ......"
"There's an urgent military report, I'm afraid those people are going to discuss it all night." She sighed helplessly, lifted the quilt and lay down beside me, and said with a light smile: "They men talk about things, and it's always inconvenient for me to be a woman next to me, so I came over to bother you.
"How could I blame you." I helped her put the quilt on her, and then she lay down too, and said quietly, "I don't know how much I miss this night of sleeping with my sisters, and I miss the days when we huddled up in the quilt and talked together."
Yu Ji looked at me, held my cold hand in the quilt, and said softly, "That's a coincidence, so am I."
Her hand was soft and slender, wrapping my cool fingers and sending a trace of warmth into my heart.
When I woke up the next day, Yu Ji had already gone out, and Ari was packing up his things, and when he saw me waking up, he hurriedly said, "Snow girl, get up quickly, and we're going to set camp."
"Pull out the camp." I rubbed my sleepy eyes, which were still a little worried, and said strangely: "Every time I went out on an expedition before, this place was used as a big rear.
"Because the battlefield has changed." Changxi lifted the curtain and walked in.Seeing that I was still confused.He shook his head helplessly.He took the handkerchief from Ari's hand to wipe my face.
"This time it's going to be attacked." I asked him.
"Wu Xinjun defeated the Qin army in Dong'e and Taoqiu, and we will take advantage of this momentum to attack Chengyang and inflict a heavy defeat on the Qin army." He squeezed my cheek and said, "Hurry up and clean up, you're the only one left in the camp."
As soon as he said this, I suddenly came to my senses, hurriedly dressed and packed my luggage, and looked like I was in a hurry.
When I finally packed up, the camp was empty, and Changxi took my luggage, and then bent down naturally to carry me into the carriage.
I looked away from his hand and whispered, "I'll just go up myself."
"It's me who is abrupt." He smiled and rubbed my hair, boarded the carriage, and then bent down and laughed, "It's always okay for me to pick you up like this."
I glared at them with some annoyance, and then took the long hand and was pulled into the carriage.
Sitting down in the carriage, Changxi pushed a bowl of tea in front of me and said, "Don't be angry, your cheeks bulge like frogs."
"Why, you don't like it." I raised my eyebrows.
"How dare I dislike it." He hugged me into his arms and smiled heartily: "Please don't dislike me."
He had always been quiet, and it was rare to laugh out loud like this. I looked at the curvature of the corners of his mouth, and there was no anger in my heart.
"Snow Maiden."
I pulled back the curtain and poked my head out, and she was trotting over, holding a small cloth wrap in her arms.
"There is no doubt that Gongzi entrusted me to give it to you." She whispered, and looked at Changxi, who was sitting next to me, and saw that he didn't have any expression, and thought that he hadn't heard, so she relaxed.
I took the package, and I felt that it weighed a thousand pounds in my hand.
"Let's open it and take a look." Changxi's voice was faint, there was no emotion, although I couldn't see that there was any displeasure, but the smile just now was gone.
I sighed and opened the package, only to see that inside the package was a delicate folding fan and a handkerchief with words written on it.
"Folding fan." Changxi raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "It's a token of love."
I was a little annoyed, I glanced at him, he saw that I was not happy, and I said helplessly, "That's it, when I didn't say it."
I opened the handkerchief on which I had written, and the clean and beautiful font came into my eyes.
"Cher:
See the letter as I am.
But I remember that three months ago you wanted to leave the army and go to the battlefield, and although I brought you back at that time, I also cared about the situation on the battlefield, so I took time out to go back to inquire alone while you were asleep.
When I arrived at the battlefield, the battle between the two armies was over, I searched back and forth on the battlefield, I didn't see the corpse of a general, but I saw this folding fan, this folding fan is made of satin and jade, and at first glance, it is the thing that the prince likes to play with.
I wanted to give it to you earlier, but now that you have a special status, it will be inconvenient to find you, and I don't want you to be misunderstood by others, so I put this thing away.
When I left camp today, I remembered that this thing was still with me, and after thinking about it for a while, I felt that I should return this thing to you, so I asked Ari for help.
The weather is getting hot, you have always been afraid of the heat, remember to take good rest, take care of yourself.
Don't doubt the word brother."
"This folding fan looks familiar." Changxi picked up the folding fan and looked at it, and said with his eyebrows: "This kind of satin jade bone fan is the favorite of those sons and brothers in Xianyang City.
I was a little excited in my heart, I didn't dare to stretch out my hand when I looked at the fan, I didn't have an impression of this fan, it was fake, I was familiar with the delicate moire on the jade bone, but I didn't want to believe it, I didn't want to believe that I had passed by him, and I didn't want to believe that he was living in dire straits.
"Oh, the pattern on this fan is really good." Changxi handed the fan to me and said, "Look, Xue'er, this plum blossom painting has a bit of a fairy wind and bones."
I looked at the satin-faced red plum, my breath was suffocating, and my face turned pale for a moment.
"I promise you, if it succeeds, I will send you back to him, the gentleman has no jokes, this is my promise."
He threw me this folding fan that day, and he said it was his promise, but I forgot about it in the Star Garden, and I forgot about his kindness to me, and I forgot his promise.
"I'm such a heartless woman......" I laughed, tears dripping on satin, ticking.