Chapter 20: Drunken madness
In February, spring is thick and the peach blossoms are in full bloom.
The garden in the palace of Nanyue is also full of spring at this moment.
Yue Yunge sat alone in the long pavilion in the garden, quietly looking at the pairs of butterflies on the flowers and the pairs of mandarin ducks in the lake, full of sadness for a while.
The breeze is light, and the spring light brings warmth, which makes people sleepy.
"Yunge. Someone shouted from behind her.
Yun Ge raised his head and looked behind him, but he didn't see anyone.
"Who?" Yun Ge stood up and looked around, but there was no one in sight.
"It's me, I'm Qingzhou, don't you remember me?" the clear voice seemed to be beside her.
When Yun Ge heard the word "light boat", the uneasiness in his heart eased a little.
How could she not remember the light boat, that was the name she gave him, last night the wind and rain blew the light boat, and the flower moon floated and sunk without anyone left.
"Qingzhou, why can't I see you, where are you?" Yun Ge said urgently.
"I'm right in front of you, what's the matter, you can't see me?" In Yun Ge's ears, the young man's voice sounded, and from this voice, it seemed that he was indeed beside Yun Ge.
"But I really can't see you, don't make trouble, come out quickly, you don't know how much I miss you, you don't know how boring I am alone!" Yun Ge complained with a crying voice.
If Qingzhou really appeared in front of her at this moment, she would definitely scold her, beat him, and ask him why he left her alone in the first place, where he has been all these years, who he has met, and whether he has suffered a lot, she has many questions to ask him.
But what she wants to ask most is, do you remember me?
A yellow bird's cry woke Yun Ge up from his dream.
The moment she woke up, she realized that after so many years, she still lived in the heart of the little boy she was back then, although she didn't know if he was still alive.
If he lived, why didn't he come to himself, and if he lived, did he forget about himself?
"Maybe I've forgotten!" Yun Ge said to herself in her heart, she wanted to comfort herself, but she made herself even more sad.
Like a person is like this, always torture yourself all over the body, so that you know what heartache is, so that you can despair sooner. But it's not easy to dig out a person who has already lived in the heart.
"Yun Ge?" A man's voice sounded not far away, Yun Ge thought it was still a dream, so he didn't look back in the direction where the voice came from. She lifted her forehead and sighed lightly, feeling that she was becoming more and more unshapely, and she had such a dream in the blue sky and daylight, thinking of this, Yun Ge's face couldn't help but turn red.
I don't know when, a person has quietly walked to Yun Ge's side, Yun Ge inadvertently raised his head, but saw the cold young man he saw yesterday, he stood straight by Yun Ge's side, his eyes were full of indescribable joy.
"Why are you here?" Yun Ge was in a trance, she was about to lose the difference between reality and dreams now, quite like Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly.
"I saw you leave yesterday, and I felt more and more that you were Yun Ge, so I quietly followed you, and when I saw you enter this Nanyue Palace, and saw that everyone in the palace called you princess, I knew that you were Yue Yunge, the daughter of Yue Wei, the king of Nanyue. Qingzhou said excitedly.
Yun Ge still didn't quite understand what the young man was talking about, she glanced at the young man carefully, his eyebrows were a little familiar, but who was he? Could it be the light boat that she had in mind? Impossible, the light boat was so thin, and the young man who was standing next to Yun Ge now was heroic, slender and strong.
"You, who are you?" Yun Ge asked tentatively.
"I'm Qingzhou, don't you know me? It's no wonder, after so many years, I didn't recognize you when I saw you for the first time, I just felt a little familiar......"
Before Qingzhou finished speaking, Yun Ge's tears fell down like beads with broken threads.
"What are you crying about?" Qingzhou saw Yun Ge crying suddenly, a little overwhelmed, he didn't know if he had said something wrong, or if he had said something wrong, which made Yun Ge sad and angry.
"Do you know, how long have I been waiting for you, I thought you were dead, I would dream of you every day, you asked me in your dreams, asked me if I still remember you, of course I remember you, but why did you come now, why did you come now?" Yun Ge cried sadly, she gently slapped Qingzhou's arm with her hand, and complained to Qingzhou in a resentful cry.
At that moment, it seemed that everything had become unimportant, and Qingzhou desperately held Yun Ge in his arms, hugged her tightly, and let her blame her in his arms.
"I'm back now, I'm back, we're never separated again!" Qingzhou hugged Yunge and comforted him affectionately.
Yun Ge was awakened by this sentence, and she cried even more sadly and desperately.
"It's impossible, it's impossible!" Yun Ge said sadly.
"What can't be?" Qingzhou was a little surprised when he heard Yun Ge's words, he helped Yun Ge up from his arms, stared at Yun Ge with a pair of bright eyes, and asked.
"We can't be together!" Yun Ge looked at Qingzhou, although she couldn't bear it, she still said this sentence clearly, because she didn't want to deceive Qingzhou, she didn't want him to be immersed in a sweet dream like herself, and then she was suddenly woken up, and that kind of torture was worse than death.
Where there is no hope, there is no disappointment.
Qingzhou's face, which was originally full of happiness, gradually stiffened and froze, and in the end only loss and sadness remained. He held Yun Ge's hand and slowly let go, he sneered and glanced at Yun Ge, wanting to say something but not knowing how to speak. He was a man of few words, and he was afraid that as soon as he opened his mouth, he would be angry and resentful, and he would break the heart of the woman in front of him. He turned his face away, to see the flowers blooming and falling in the courtyard, to see the clouds in the sky, but he no longer looked at Yun Ge, no longer looked at her eyes, and didn't even ask why.
There is only one reason for one person to stay, and a thousand reasons for one to leave.
Qingzhou stood quietly, Yun Ge was crying behind him, and the two of them were silent and no longer spoken, which made Qingzhou very distressed in his heart, and asked him to go, not to go.
"So, that's what we ended up with? So you say you dream of me every day just to see me and tell me we can't be together?"
Qingzhou still said the resentful words in his heart to Yun Ge, and he was about to leave after he finished speaking, but Yun Ge took his hand behind him,
Yun Ge cried sadly, and she said softly to Qingzhou, "Don't hate me, I have a last resort." ”
"I don't hate you, I only hate myself!" Qingzhou closed his eyes, a tear slipped down his face, and at that moment he felt like his heart was dead.
After that, Qingzhou broke free of Yun Ge's hand, and then left angrily, just like when he fled from the Valley of Hundred Flowers, his back in a hurry looked extremely embarrassed.
Yun Ge watched the light boat leave, crying for a while, heartbroken.
How did she not want to be willful, follow her own heart, accompany the person she likes, walk through the four seasons in the wind and rain, go to see the mountains, rivers and seas, see the flowers in full bloom, go to see the fallen trees Xiao Xiao, and see the winter snow. But everyone in this world doesn't live just for themselves, everyone has too many last resorts, and in the end, they give up and sacrifice themselves.
At sunset, the flowers are still blooming, and the once lively and lovely girl is gone.
For the rest of my life, I may regret and regret today's sad and ruthless farewell, but since I have chosen the way to go, how can I look back?
Qingzhou came to the tavern at the north gate of Nanyue City again, still sitting in his position yesterday, still drinking the wine he drank yesterday, still watching the people coming and going in the street lamps downstairs, but everything is no longer the same as yesterday.
Things are people, and they don't have to do anything, and tears flow first.
In a daze, Qingzhou heard the sound of the shopkeeper and the guy scolding and scolding, and Qingzhou looked there drunkenly, and saw that the shopkeeper and the guy were driving away an old beggar with a hunched back, and his words were full of contempt and slander, which made Qingzhou's mood even more unhappy.
Qingzhou was immediately furious, smashed a wine bottle at the feet of the shopkeeper and the man, and scolded angrily and drunkly, "Dogs look at people's low things!"
The shopkeeper thought that Qingzhou was drunk and crazy, so he could only laugh with him.
Qingzhou stood up, but he didn't give up on the shopkeeper and his buddy, and scolded, "All men are created equal, why can't beggars drink here?"
The shopkeeper was still smiling, clasping his fists at Qingzhou, and explained, "Shaoxia, it's not that I don't let him drink here, but you see that he is in tatters and smells terrible, if he is here, who would dare to go upstairs to drink? ”
Qingzhou held the wine bottle in one hand, staggered as if he couldn't stand anymore, pointed to the store with one hand and said, "You all have hardships, you all have hardships, so can you abandon others with peace of mind?"
The shopkeeper was confused by Qingzhou's sudden words, he shook his head, and only when the man was drunk and drunk, he no longer reasoned with Qingzhou. He took out a few grains of silver from his bosom, handed them to the old beggar, and said to the old beggar in kind words, "Old man, it's not that I won't let you drink here, it's that you are too ....... In this way, if you take the money and go to the street to buy alcohol and drink, it will be regarded as if I have paid you compensation. ”
Of course the old beggar was pleased, and that was the purpose of his visit, and he took the money merrily, and went downstairs.
But Qingzhou was not happy, he rushed to the old beggar and stopped him, and said drunkly, "You can't go, you must drink here today." ”
When the shopkeeper heard this, he shook his head helplessly and sighed, what kind of person he hadn't seen in this tavern.
The old beggar looked disdainful, and sneered at the drunken young man who liked to mess around, "I said little brother, my old beggar is not related to you, why do I have to listen to you? ”
When Qingzhou heard this, he became even more angry, grabbed the old beggar by the collar, and yelled at him, "Even you don't accept my affection, and even you want to abandon me?"
When the old beggar heard Qingzhou's words, he felt inexplicable, pushed the drunkard away, and staggered downstairs.
Qingzhou was thrown by the old beggar, and the man fell to the ground like boneless mud, and the frustrated and down-and-out appearance made people disgusted and heartbroken.