Chapter 41: Affection is Always Ruthless and Bitter (5)
In the previous life, thirteen years of auspicious charms.
Chu Zhixia's letter of request for help was stamped with the golden seal of the king of Zhenbei, carried it in the arms of the sinking boat, passed through the ice and snow and surrounded by layers, and was sent to the table of Qingzhou Thorn History.
Qingzhou is the first line of defense after the snow pass, and the Qingzhou Thorn History is Chu Mingyan's subordinates. At present, the new emperor sharpens his sword Huo Huo to the Chu family, and the Manchu Dynasty is watching from the wall, and Qingzhou Thorn Shi is the only person who is likely to risk the world's disapproval to send troops to support Xueguan for reinforcements.
However, when Shen Zhou handed over the letter, this Lin Thorn Shi showed a painful look, and pressed the letter for help under the paperweight with his backhand.
"Come on, Xuanben assassinates Shi Ling!" After Lin Shushi hid his face and wept, he shouted to his subordinates to enter the house, "The Beidi people will break through the Yongxue Pass in the near future, and the whole army will be on guard from today onwards, and the people entering and leaving the city will be strictly searched, and they must not be neglected." ”
Shen Zhou suddenly drew his sword out of its sheath, and it only took a finger to cut Lin Tingshi under the sword, "Why don't you send troops to embrace Xueguan?" ”
A room full of military generals and literati were shocked, and their swords were suddenly unsheathed, and they all brushed at the sinking boat.
"Speak!" Shen Zhou's voice was fierce, "Do you want to abandon the snow too?" ”
As long as Lin Shushi said yes, Shen Zhou would be able to kill him immediately, snatch the talisman and send troops to support Xueguan.
"Master Shen Zhou, you haven't read the letter from the eldest lady, have you?" Lin Shushi picked up the page, it was clear that it was only as light as a feather, but it seemed to be as heavy as a thousand pounds, and he wanted to break his wrist, "Your Majesty cut off the title of the king of the north of the Chu clan and took back the military power, and the eldest lady is already a rebellious move to sit in the snow pass - but the old prince is kind to me, and the Chu clan in the clouds is also kind to me." As long as the eldest lady says a word, Lin will gamble on his future, head and net worth, and he will also send troops to support Xueguan. ”
Lin Tingshi's face was painful, and he couldn't suppress two lines of old tears: "But the eldest lady is ......."
Shen Zhou read the "letter for help" that he thought was true word by word, as if he had been hit in the head by a boulder, and his brain was full of noisy buzzers, stormy waves, gongs and drums, and the only clear thought was that Chu Zhixia was going to die.
The girl who looked up at him in the snow, covered his ears for him on a thunderstorm night, and thought he would be scared, was going to die alone.
Shen Zhou threw down the letter and rushed out the door.
The letter paper fell eloquently, and in the eyes of everyone, it looked like a helpless leaf.
"Qingzhou Lin Thorn Shi Qinqi:
There are suspicions today, and the traitors in the DPRK and China are each pregnant with ghosts. The Chu family suffered from the disaster of cutting the knighthood and the difficulty of asking for guilt, and it was Mo Xue's fault that they failed to keep the foundation of their father and brother.
Mo Xue's three-foot life, it is difficult to resist the millions of Li people after the snow pass. Wanglin Assassin Shi held a secret letter and strictly ordered his colleagues not to send troops to support Xueguan, otherwise he would be angry today and dismiss the old department of the Chu family, which would implicate you in prison at least, and at worst the emperor would have no available soldiers, and the lives would be ruined.
Supporting Xueguan is united, willing to fight to the death with Beidi, and buy time for the four states of Yanbei.
Mo Xue was alone and died without regrets. However, the person who sent the letter, Mo Xue was ashamed and remembered it. This person is my unmarried husband, and he is also the one who will sweep the grave for my Chu family in the next few decades. Wangshu Shi took care of his life, and he had a porridge and a meal, and he lived his life safely.
Under the Nine Springs, Mo Xue was blind to death.
Chu's ink and snow"
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In this life, auspicious four summers.
There was a mess in the Autumn Leaf Mountain House, and when Deng Mian hurriedly arrived with the doctor, he saw several little maids hugging each other and exiting from the bedroom in horror. Deng Mian was so frightened that he rushed in three steps and one step, dragging the old doctor to stumble.
This room is Chu Zhixia's bedroom, sitting north and facing south, warm in winter and cool in summer, the room is hung with a green yarn as thin as cicada wings, rippling with the wind and like surging blue waves. The lights flickered in a panic, disturbing the shadows of the flowers in a room.
One end of the thin iron chain was chiseled into the wall, and the other end was pulled by Chu Zhixia and wrapped around Shen Zhou's wrist. Shen Zhou's eyes were chaotic, not like he was seriously ill, but like he had lost his mind and gone crazy, and was hugged from behind by Chu Zhixia irresistibly.
"Get out!" Chu Zhixia shouted loudly.
Smelling the smell of strangers, Shen Zhou, who was already restless, was like a hungry wolf smelling blood, struggling to pounce out of Chu Shixia's arms. Deng Mian was startled, withdrew in two steps, and closed the door with a "dang".
There was a loud noise in the room, a moan at the end of the chain, a low roar from the throat like a beast from a sinking boat, and the sound of a damaged vase shattering bones.
Chu Zhixia, the only normal living creature, didn't make a sound at all.
Deng Mian didn't know whether he should enter or not, so he was so anxious that he paced back and forth outside the door.
After a while, a figure rushed over - it was Cheng Yuan. Cheng Yuan carried a gourd, kicked open the door, and threw the gourd in.
The flying and broken green yarn slowly fell, like a blue cloud, enveloping the two people embracing each other.
Chu Zhixia threw away the gourd filled with sweat medicine mixed with water, let out a long sigh of relief, and said, "Invite the doctor in." ”
Only then did the three of them see the situation clearly.
Most of the decoration in the bedroom was destroyed, the sour branch wood beauty couch was broken at the waist, the gold hairpin and silver hairpin beads were sprinkled all over the ground, and even the green yarn hanging in the room was not spared, and it was torn to the point that only a few strands remained, drifting in the wind.
Chu Zhixia knelt on the ground, Shen Zhou's hands were tied, and he curled up in her arms like a child and slept peacefully. His snow-white teeth were holding Chu Zhixia's plain wrist, and a faint blood color oozed from his lower head.
Chu Zhixia held the back of Shen Zhou's neck with his other hand, which was to soothe and prevent the power of the sweat medicine from dissipating, and he woke up suddenly. Her expression was calm and sad, and the movement of stroking the hair on the back of Shen Zhou's head was extremely gentle.
It is like a jade statue on a shrine, shining brightly.
Deng Mian was shocked.
He received a message from Chu Zhixia, asking him to find a doctor who is good at treating strange poisons.
But Deng Mian has never seen anyone poisoned like this.
"Miss, your hand?" Cheng Yuan said worriedly.
"I cut it myself," Chu Zhixia felt a little tired, "otherwise there is no way to pour the sweat medicine on him." ”
The last shred of Shen Zhou's sanity was extinguished by his insane thirst for blood.
"This, this poisonous decay can't be solved!" The doctor's knees weakened, and he was about to flee in a panic, "You should be smart!" ”
Deng Mian was furious, and pulled the person back, "You didn't even look at it, you know that you can't solve this poison?" ”
"He's telling the truth." Chu Shixia was surprisingly calm and stopped Deng Mian.
The doctor sighed and said, "This poison is called 'Burning Heart', if you don't take the antidote on time, it will make people lose their five senses, and eventually become a mad and bloodthirsty beast, and the blood of the whole body will be black and coagulated. Once the poison is issued, it will be difficult to save even Da Luo Jinxian! ”
Deng Mian was completely stunned, he had never heard of such insidious and vicious poison.
"The old man has never encountered such a poison, and he has only heard of it in miscellaneous books." The doctor's eyes were full of fear and incomprehension when he looked at Chu Zhixia, "The burning heart is difficult to refine, it has been extinct for many years, and it is only used to control the assassins and dead soldiers who are raised......"
The burning heart cannot be unraveled, and can only be temporarily curbed with the so-called "antidote". Assassins and dead men are meant to die, and who would go to great lengths to develop an incurable poison to save the already deserving dead?
"You want to say that it was my eldest lady who made people half-dead with her burning heart, and asked you to save her life?" Cheng Yuan coldly pierced the doctor's words, and the long knife came out of its sheath and rested on his neck, "You are so bold." ”
The doctor knelt on the ground with a "clang" and said forgiveness: "The little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare!" ”
"Alright." Chu Zhixia stopped this farce, but he didn't even have the strength to stand up. She looked at the trembling doctor tiredly, Cheng Yuan with fierce eyes as if he was about to eat people, and Deng Mian with worried eyes, and felt a deep powerlessness.
If my brother or master were here, would it still be like this?
If I hadn't insisted on replacing my second brother in the imperial capital, would Shen Zhou be as safe and sound as in my previous life?
Is it my fault, Chu Zhixia was dazed and desperate, it was me...... Did you kill the sunken boat?
Deng Mian took the soft doctor away, and Cheng Yuan stood silently in place for a long time, and finally turned around and went out as if he couldn't bear it anymore.
"Where are you going?" Chu Zhixia asked behind him.
"Go find the Blood Lotus," Cheng Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "The imperial capital is sold out, I don't believe that other places are also sold out." The world is so big, can't you still find a blood lotus? Miss, I will definitely save the sinking boat! ”
"It's useless."
The blood stains on Chu Zhixia's wrist had dried up, like a red scar, and was kissed by Shen Zhou's lips.
"Even if you can retrieve the Blood Lotus, Shen Zhou can't wait." Chu Zhixia's fingers between Shen Zhou's hair trembled slightly, as if he could not bear the weight of Shen Zhou's life and death, "Poisonous hair is bloodthirsty, and after three days, the patient's blood is as black as ink, and there is a dead end." ”
Chu Zhixia's eyelashes lowered, and two pearl-like tears rolled out from under the crow-like thick eyelashes.
She had heard and seen many people die, but it was still difficult for her to remain indifferent to life and death. Chu Zhixia laughed softly, laughing at his cowardice and incompetence - who can I save?
"Xiao Changle, why don't you come out to greet Master?"
Chu Zhixia raised his head suddenly, he couldn't believe his ears, and he was in a trance as if he was in a dream. But Cheng Yuan also looked out of the door in horror, obviously hearing this voice as well.
The moonlight was like a flower, and the man in the green shirt was carrying a wine gourd in one hand and a sword wrapped with red silk thread in the other, strolling leisurely.
It is difficult for men to distinguish age, and it is believed that it is more than forty, but it is not abrupt to say that it is in early twenties. He had a layer of green stubble on his chin, and his contours were hard, but he had a pair of pure and innocent eyes.
Most of the guards that Chu Zhixia brought to the imperial capital were people in the army, and they were not familiar with this "eldest lady's master" who could not see the end of the dragon. The man suddenly broke into the Akiba Mountain Residence, and the guards were easily defeated by him.
The man walked slowly in the snowy blade jungle, as if walking on the moon and singing.
From beginning to end, the man did not draw his sword.
"Master?" Chu Zhixia looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.
"How did you make such a mess?" The man sighed and joked, "It's good that I didn't marry Shen Zhou to you back then, otherwise you would have been widowed at a young age, and your brother wouldn't have scolded me to death?" ”
Chu Zhixia didn't appreciate his joke at all, and cried helplessly.
"Master, it's me who is not good at learning, it's me who ...... Didn't protect him. ”
The man wiped her tears and sighed, "Don't cry, don't you have a breath?" Even if a person goes to Huangquan Road, Master can snatch people back. ”
How arrogant.
This is the famous sword master.
This is, Li Qingbai.