Chapter 18: The Guanning Incident
"My father is just an ordinary soldier. ”
The girl let away her excess emotions and slowly spoke expressionlessly: "Because of the good welfare in the army, Yulu can support his family, so he has been staying in the army." They had a man they admired, and that person was the commander of the entire legion. ”
The girl said, subconsciously pinching the iron piece and rubbing the word "Ning".
"As Jian Feng pointed out, my father and they attacked the city and plundered the village, and they were invincible. ”
"He can't come back often, but every time he comes back, he will put his arms around me and say that following the general is the most correct choice in his life. ”
"I asked who the general was, and he always looked fascinated and said with a smile that he was a very powerful person. ”
"There are many wars in the north, and my father rarely comes home once. ”
Listening to the girl's words, an ordinary and fanatical middle-aged soldier had already appeared in Ning Qingru's mind, Guan Ningjun, it was precisely because of people like him that he would be invincible.
"The last time I met my dad was half a year ago. Two months ago, someone came to the door and sent back a letter from home, which was my father's suicide note, as well as this piece of iron that had been rubbed to shine. ”
The girl sneered, pinched the iron piece with two fingers, and the hatred in her heart was undisguised.
"He died for his faith, he died to protect the people of the Northern Regions of Dayan, I have nothing else to say. Even if I haven't seen him a few times since I was born, even if the face of him has long been blurred in my mind, I don't blame him. I only hate his great general, and do not save him, I only hate his comrades, and abandon him...... ”
"!" Ning Qingru suddenly interrupted her words with a cold expression, he didn't believe her words at all!
Guan Ningjun has never abandoned a comrade, even if he dies in battle, as for the general, he knows better, and knows that that person will never fail to save his subordinates, because that person is his father!
After being interrupted by him, the girl sneered and did not continue. Originally, it was Ning Qingru who asked her to talk about her father, and she said that these were already bloody scars in her heart.
It's better to be called, and she doesn't have to touch the resentment she has suppressed in her heart for years.
Ning Qingru saw that she didn't speak, and was silent for a long time before she slowly spoke, and said: "You go on, it's my subjective assumption, tell me about what happened after your father's death, of course, if you know the inside story of your father's death, you can also tell me about it." ”
"Heh, what's the use of telling you? People are gone, don't you like to use other people's pain for fun?" The girl stabbed Ning Qingru mercilessly.
Although she asked for him, it didn't mean that he could use her scars for fun at will, and it was impossible for his family to become the object of ridicule from others.
Ning Qingru took a deep breath, knowing that her previous words were too impulsive, and if her father really died because of the Ning family, he didn't mind her venting her anger on himself.
After being silent for a long time, Ning Qingru opened his mouth and said, "It's me who is abrupt, I apologize to you." Please continue, I want to know something, because the Guan Ningjun in my memory is a little different from what you described, and I also want to know why you and your mother are also widows of martyrs, why they are outcasts and poor. ”
"Exiled? My mother and I are not exiled, we are forced. The girl sneered: "What bullshit Guan Ningjun, if it was a few years earlier, I would definitely let my father choose to disarm and return to the field instead of becoming a military commander." ”
Ning Qingru listened silently and did not interject.
Over the years, he has not paid too much attention to the affairs of the army, and all his understanding of Guan Ningjun has stayed at a young age.
It is composed of foot soldiers, archers, shieldmen, etc., and the real core, the cavalry.
Guanning Iron Cavalry Armor World, this is a saying that has spread far away.
Ning Qingru always thought that Guan Ningjun was the best, until he met the girl in front of him today. She obviously has a very strong resentment towards Guan Ningjun, and she is quite disdainful of it.
"Squeak~"
The courtyard door was pushed open, it was Chi Dongyu, she was holding a few sets of clothes in her hands, and saw Ning Qingru and the girl standing in the courtyard, with a serious expression, she didn't disturb them, closed the courtyard door and was about to go to the inner room.
The appearance of Chi Dongyu made the inexplicable tense atmosphere between Ning Qingru and the girl disappear, and both of them looked at her.
Ning Qingru thought for a while, stopped her, and said, "Dongyu, you take her to wash her body and change her clothes." ”
The girl frowned and said, "No." ”
"Are you always like this? Your father will feel comfortable when he sees it?!" Ning Qingru didn't expect this girl to be in opposition to herself, so she couldn't help but be a little angry and said angrily.
"What do I like about you, what do you have to mention my father?" the girl heard this, her eyes widened angrily, and she said hatefully.
"Just because Lao Tzu's surname is Ning!How about it??!" Ning Qingru regretted it as soon as she spoke, with the girl's resentment towards the Ning family, she was afraid that she didn't know what she would do.
"Ning family?" The girl's eyes slowly crawled with bloodshots, trembling all over, staring at Ning Qingru as if she wanted to devour him alive. But in the end, for some reason, her momentum suddenly collapsed, her expression was sad, and she turned around to leave.
Ning Qingru frowned, stepped forward, slashed at the back of her neck with a palm knife, looked at the girl who fell to the ground softly, he said bluntly: "Dongyu, help her clean her body, it's inconvenient for me." ”
This is the first time these days that Chi Dongyu has seen him in such a turbulent and troubled mood, and nodded slightly.
Ning Qingru picked up the girl and sent her to the bathroom, and handed over the rest to Chi Dongyu, and then, he changed his clothes and stood in the courtyard, staring at the sky with a cold expression.
The girl came to her senses when Chi Dongyu was halfway through the light cleaning, rubbed the back of her neck that was faintly painful, and when she saw Chi Dongyu's beautiful face, she was stunned at first, and then reacted that she had been stripped naked.
Without waiting for her to say anything in anger, Chi Dongyu's soft and glutinous voice had already sounded: "Don't move, I took off my clothes, no one else is there, after washing your body, I will communicate with Qingru, he is also good for you." Even if you have a grudge, you have to hate it, right?"
The girl wanted to get up and leave directly, but after hearing Chi Dongyu's words, she didn't move again, but her body was still stiff.
"I'll wash it myself, I've been poor since I was a child, and I'm used to washing it myself, unlike you noble lords, who still have someone to help you with bathing. The girl hesitated, but said it anyway.
When Chi Dongyu heard this, he didn't have to bathe her, wiped the water on his hands, and then said, "Wait for you." ”
She turned away.
In the bathroom, the girl was the only one left, and she stared blankly at the small blinds, and after a long time, she suddenly burst into tears.
By the time the girl finished bathing and changing her clothes, it had been a long time.
Chi Dongyu was sitting in the back room, and Ning Qingru was standing in the courtyard, he had been standing alone for a long time. Chi Dongyu originally wanted to ask him to sit for a while, but he heard him say softly, don't worry about him.
She never forced him to do anything, and when she saw that he was resolute, she didn't say anything more.
It's just that I'm a little worried.
Hearing Suosuo's voice, Ning Qingru withdrew his gaze from afar, he turned around and walked into the inner room.
The girl who had taken a bath looked much refreshed, her face was fairer, and her wet hair hung down obediently to her ears, which was shoulder-length.
With hostility in her eyes, she looked at Ning Qingru.
Ning Qingru sat aside and motioned for her to sit down too, the girl was not stubborn this time and sat down.
"My surname is Ning, my name is Qingru, and the general in your mouth is my father. As soon as the girl sat down, Ning Qingru spoke indifferently.
A hint of surprise flashed in the girl's eyes, and then she looked at Ning Qingru's eyes full of contempt.
I think she has also heard of Ning Qingru's name.
The contempt in the girl's eyes easily angered Chi Dongyu, and when she was about to say something, she was stopped by Ning Qingru waving her hand.
He stared at the familiar and undisguised contempt in the girl's eyes, and there was some nostalgia in his heart.
"It's true that I'm in the Ning family, and I've always been in a very awkward position, but no matter what I say, I'm the first heir to the Ning family. Ning Qingru slowly opened his mouth and said: "Guan Ningjun has always had clear rewards and punishments, and the widow of a martyr like your father who died on the battlefield will inevitably be treated preferentially, but there is obviously a problem with your family's situation, so I want to ask for details." ”
"You have such a high status, why don't you ask your father directly, the general?" the girl sneered, disapproving.
Ning Qingru's eyes dimmed a little when he heard this, and he sighed: "If I can ask, I won't stay in this Changxin City." ”
The girl looked at him suspiciously, and then as if she remembered something, her expression changed slightly, and she didn't say anything more about this topic.
"Heh, your father, General Ning, won't know that my father, a very inconspicuous foot soldier in the Guanning army, is not a core army. The girl said.
"Hmm. Ning Qingru nodded seriously.
The girl paused for a while before she said: "My father's suicide note mentioned that they were going to fight against the cavalry of the Liang Dynasty, and at that time I felt strange that the Guanning Army, as an iron army with skilled cooperation in the battle formation, would there be infantry against the cavalry, and then I heard that the high-level officials of the Guanning Army deliberately did this. ”
As she spoke, the girl sneered, "I heard that it is to exclude dissidents? ”
Ning Qingru frowned.
He didn't care if the girl was hearsay or not, but it was already a big problem that Guan Ningjun, who had always been twisted into a rope, could be rumored to be such a rumor.
He held back the questions that kept popping up in his heart, and looked at the girl, wanting to hear what else she could say.
"When the news of my father's death reached the house, my mother passed out on the spot, and I signed my name on the errand with tears in my eyes. The girl's eyes were cold, and the corners of her mouth gradually lifted a touch of sarcasm: "At that time, it was said that my father was a martyr, and our family could receive a lot of pensions after the procedure, but after a month, there was no news, and more than 20 days ago, someone came to the door to confiscate the 'evidence of collaboration with the enemy', and finally drove us out of the house." ”
"This is Guan Ningjun?"
The girl's rhetorical question made Ning Qingru clench his fists tightly, he didn't know what was going on in the far north, but it was definitely not a good thing.