In the spring
of the second
year, my grief and indignation reached its peak when I
learned that my father and brother had been killed and their bodies were still hanging in front of the enemy’s gate tower. In front of the
three armed forces, the soldiers shouted to me:
“Even if I die, I will bring back the bodies of the general and the young general!”
Yes! Now I’m ready to go! Let’s go and kill those bastards!
“Kill!”
1.
The cry like a huge wave seems to swallow me up. After the
passionate voice stopped, all the soldiers looked at me, waiting for me to give the order.
I said calmly, “This is to lead us forward. Don’t be impulsive.”
Everyone was surprised that I, who had always been impulsive, was so calm and whispered to each other. “My father and brother would not want me to take you to your death,”
I said slowly.
In a word, the crowd was silent.
2.
My father and brother would not want me to take the soldiers to die, but I can go alone.
In the middle of the night, I mounted my horse and headed for the enemy.
I don’t want them to be humiliated for one more minute. In the chilly early
spring night, the father and brother on the gate tower were tied up by ropes and swayed like duckweed with the night wind. Under the cover of
darkness, I took advantage of the shelter of vegetation, with the help of the rampart of the city defense, jumped high and cut the rope with a knife.
Ziwu caught my father, and I caught my brother. The
sound alarmed the soldiers on the gate tower, who had discovered my existence and were sounding a warning!
I quickly put my brothers on a horse and fixed them with ropes. Then I said to Ziwu, “Good Ziwu, take my father and brother back. I must take them back. My good Ziwu.”
Ziwu seemed to understand what I was going to do, and after a lament, he galloped away.
The gates burst open and the enemy soldiers came towards me.
3.
“Suqing, hold on!”
“You have to hold on, Suyu is still alive!” In my
coma, I heard someone whispering in my ear.
“Your brother, Suyou, is still alive. When Ziwu brought him back, he still had a faint breath.”
I opened my eyes slightly and found that I had been rescued back to the barracks.
I cried with joy, as if the wound had stopped hurting: “That’s good..”
Are you awake? Great, I just need to change your dressing.
I suddenly froze.
In front of me is my brother’s best friend, Meng Yi. He had the cloth in his hand and was ready to undress me.
I quickly dodged: “Let Hsi Meng come!”
“Who is Hsi Meng?”
Lieutenant Chang Ning replied, “It’s a female doctor. Every time the little general has a minor illness or injury, Miss Xi Meng heals it for him.”
He frowned. “What’s wrong with you that you have to have a woman to heal you when you’re dying?”
“If you go, one minute later, I’m one minute closer to death.” The military doctor
he had brought with him knelt down and said, “General, you’ve already lost a lot of blood. Don’t delay any longer. If you delay any longer, you’ll die!”
The rest of the lieutenants knelt down and said, “Little general, please cure me quickly.”
I refused: “Go to Xi Meng!” Among
the lieutenants, Chang Ning knew my temper best. He got up and walked out. “Hold on, little general, I’ll go and come back quickly!”
Meng Yi looked at me as if he were looking at an old goat who was dying and had to be served by a woman.
Suddenly, I vomited a mouthful of blood.
Everyone was surprised for a moment.
Meng Yi’s eyebrows tightened: “I can’t wait for your dream!”
With that, he waved his hand and motioned for others to hold me down, and he could not help saying that he was going to strip me.
“Meng Yi!” I turned pale with fright and tried to resist, “Meng Yi!”! Stop it! “Human life is at stake,”
he said with increasing force! You are still so capricious! When you’re ready, you’ll have plenty of time to spend time with your Miss Hsi Meng! Then
he tore open the clothes on my chest.
It’s over..
Then he was stunned, everyone was stunned, and the surroundings were so quiet that the needle could be heard.
I looked at Meng Yi’s eyes, which reflected the red of my bellyband.
My daughter’s body.. It was finally discovered.
5.
He reacted, quickly tidied up my clothes, and then shouted at everyone: “Get out of here!” All of
a sudden, everyone ran away, and he turned his back. It was
a long time before he said faintly, “The little general of the Sujia family, who has frightened the enemy, is actually a daughter..”
I was silent for a long time and said, “Yes.”
“Little General, Miss Hsi Meng is here!”
Zhang Ning led Xi Meng in and retreated, and Meng Yi followed him out. Before
going out, he looked back at me with deep meaning in his eyes.
Hsi Meng took care of the wound for me: “Su Ching, Su Ching, you are really capable. Your clothes are all ragged like this. Do you really think you can defeat a hundred with one?”
I pursed my lips and did not speak. She glared at me. “If you do this again, I will not save you!”! Then you will die. As she
spoke, her tears were like broken pearls: “I promised Suyou that I would take good care of you.”
Don’t be sad, brother.. Not dead.. Stunned,
she said, “Suyou..” Still alive?
“Mmm.”
6.
I fell into a coma again, and when I woke up, it was late one night three days later.
I was thinking about my father and brother, so I got up and put on my clothes to see my father and brother.
“I didn’t think the little general was really a woman.” When I
got to the hillside, I heard two soldiers talking and couldn’t help stopping.
“No wonder she never bathes with us or goes to the toilet with us. She doesn’t even let anyone into her tent. So that’s why.”
I told you that our little general had a beautiful face and looked like a woman. At that time, you said that he looked like a man and a woman. How about that? I know people quite well.
“But why did she pretend to be a man and March with us at the risk of deceiving the king?”
“I don’t know.”
Why?
Parents have a daughter in middle age. On the eve of my
mother’s birth, my second sister was framed because of a trick in the palace, and my father was also implicated and almost lost his life.
The mother was frightened into premature labor and died of dystocia. Before she
died, she asked her father, “Xi’er has already entered the palace to suffer, so don’t let her enter that strange place again!”
Therefore, my father violated the rule of no women in the army and left me in Cangzhou, where he was stationed.
For as long as I can remember, my father said to me, “Ching’er, if you want to stay with me and your brother, you must always remember that in this camp, you can only be a man.”
I knew that if I were a woman, I would have to enter the draft.
As the daughter of general Zhenyuan, I will enter the mansion of princes and nobles even if I don’t enter the palace.
Then I will be trapped in the deep courtyard from now on, following the rigid rules and experiencing the treacherous deception. Although
the second elder sister’s family was rich, she was not happy.
She does not calculate others, others also want to calculate her, finally she has to learn this deep palace calculation.
And the emperor’s love, can be affectionate or heartless, he can spoil you, can also waste you. When I went back to Beijing with my father
that year, my sister told me that she was tired of this kind of life, and she envied my freedom.
She said, “Ching’er, it’s a little hard to follow your father and elder brother, but you have priceless freedom.”
I wear my crown and armor every day, and I practice with the soldiers.
I am gifted and intelligent, and I work hard and encourage myself. I am not inferior to the enemy in battle. Now I am seventeen years old, and I have great military exploits.
My father never said that everyone thought I was a man and called me a little general.
Absence, the two soldiers accidentally turned around and found me.
“Little..” Little General!
The two men knelt down with a splash and said in unison, “My subordinates have made a slip of the tongue. Please forgive me, little general!”
I raised my hand. “Take me to my brother’s camp.” The
elder brother was still in a coma, but Hsi Meng stood by. When she saw me coming, she was surprised and held me up. “You’re awake!”
“Well, how is my big brother?”
Her eyes suddenly darkened. “Not so good …” If there is no sign of awakening tomorrow, it may never happen again.
Looking at the high-spirited elder brother into this appearance, I am extremely uncomfortable.
I went to the camp where my father’s coffin was placed and stayed by my father’s side until the sky was bright. I talked to him a lot
that night. He
said that because I was competitive, I chased the enemy into the enemy’s territory by mistake and was beaten up by him after he found it. He
said that he took me to ride a horse on the vast grassland in Cangzhou. About
him singing nursery rhymes to put me to sleep. He
said a lot of things about his father and mother.
Because of his and his brother’s protection, I am carefree and free.
But now, one of my protectors is dead and the other is unconscious.
I couldn’t help bowing my head and choking.
“Su Qing.” Outside the
camp, Meng Yi’s voice said, “I know you’re sad. Take care of yourself.”
I didn’t answer. Then he said, “I was reckless that day. I’m sorry.”
I still did not answer, and after a long time, it was the rustle of his footsteps.
8.
At noon, I went out of the camp to see Ziwu.
Along the way, although the soldiers are still respectful to me, but look at my eyes different from the past.
Zhang Ning also came to tell me that the emperor had sent a flying pigeon to send his father’s body back to Kyoto as soon as possible and buried it in the General’s Tomb. When he
looked at me, his eyes were evasive and his words were not sharp.
I knew why, but I played dumb and said, “What’s wrong with you today?”
He gave me a hasty look and said, “No, nothing..”
The next day, I said goodbye to Meng Yi and sent my father back to Beijing.
“Cangzhou and my elder brother have asked General Meng.”
Seeing that I kept looking at him, he looked away as if he felt guilty. “You’re still hurt. Be more careful along the way.”
I nodded. “Meng Teng is a cunning and treacherous man. General Meng needs to be more careful.”
“Thank you.” As
I turned to leave, he suddenly stopped me. Then he came to me and said in a low voice, “In the book of the flying pigeon, the emperor has known that you are a daughter. I have already ordered everyone to keep silent. I think this army is not very clean.”
I suddenly remembered what Monten had said to me. My father was betrayed.
“You have to figure out how to speak to the emperor.”
“To tell you the truth, if I can’t go back to the barracks, I’ll come to pick up my elder brother. If I want to apologize for my death, I’ll intercede for my elder brother and my second sister. When the time comes, my elder brother will have his sister-in-law to take care of him, and the emperor will take care of him and spare my second sister’s life.”
He was stunned. “Don’t you think about yourself?”
“Now that my father has passed away, my elder brother and my second sister are my considerations. Without them, how could I have Suqing today?”. Then
I folded my fists at him and said, “Thank you.”
He looked at me for a moment and nodded. “Take care.”
Nine or
five days later, we arrived in Kyoto.
The emperor posthumously conferred upon his father the title of Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, and buried him with a generous gift.
The elder brother inherited the name of his father, general Zhenyuan, and was rewarded. After the
funeral, I had no time to see my second sister, so I was summoned by the emperor alone.
What goes around comes around. The emperor and I were the only two people in the huge Hall of
Supreme Harmony. He stared at me for a long time.
“Su Ching, are you guilty?”
I bowed heavily and said, “Suqing knows his sin.”
“Why deceive your superiors and deceive your subordinates?” After a moment’s
silence, I breathed a sigh of relief and told the truth. After
saying that, I bowed again and said, “Su Qing knows his crime. If he wants to be killed or cut to pieces, Su Qing is willing to bear it. I only hope that the emperor will spare my elder brother and second sister.”
He did not speak, but beat the throne with a dull sound.
“Your father once asked for a gold medal to avoid death for you in a reward. I think that’s probably what he planned for you.”
I was stunned, and tears were already in my eyes. My father had thought about me for so long. The voice of the
emperor came again: “Since you are a daughter, don’t go back to the battlefield.”
I looked up at him and asked, “Your Majesty, can I leave Cangzhou after avenging my father?”
He gazed deeply at me: “Your father has a feeling of support for me. I will order Meng Yi to personally send Meng Teng’s head back to Beijing.”
The emperor is already knocking me, but I don’t want to give up: “Is there anyone else besides Meng Teng?”? My father was betrayed.
His eyes went cold. “What?”
I asked him, “Why did you know I was a daughter?”
He was silent for a moment. “My men are in the army.”
I know, will be outside, you guard against.
However, my father was loyal all his life, but unexpectedly, he was still suspected by the emperor.
I took a deep breath and said, “Then there is someone else. Your Majesty, please let me go back to the barracks to find out the truth and avenge myself.”
I kowtowed heavily and said, “Please remember that you have been stationed in Cangzhou for many years, and you are sincere.”
Finally, the emperor agreed, but he only gave me one month.
Out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, I couldn’t wait to visit my sister in the harem.
On the way, I met Li Fei.
Without waiting for me to salute, she began to gloat: “Isn’t General Suxiao a daughter?”? Why are you still dressed in men’s clothes to see the imperial concubine Xun?
My eyes were like a sharp knife to her, her face turned white in an instant, and she took a step back subconsciously.
You’re going to.. What will you do?
I sneered, “Idiot.”
She couldn’t believe it. “What?!”
Ignoring her, I turned and left.
When I arrived at Zhongxiu Palace, I saw my sister sitting under the magnolia in the palace and weeping silently.
I called her softly, “Sister.”
She turned around and threw herself into my arms. Her tears burst out: “Ching’er!” Don’t cry,
Second Sister. I will kill my enemy and avenge my father.
She nodded and shook her head. “I don’t want anything to happen to you.”
“Sister, I have no scruples. The emperor knows that I am a daughter.”
“What?!” Her face was full of shock.
I looked at her solemnly and asked, “You didn’t know about my daughter’s leak, did you?”
“I don’t know.”
“But Li Fei knows.”
She was stunned, then her eyes sank, and her face gradually revealed the fire of hatred: “What a beautiful princess!”
“This fool, before I even looked into it, she already gave me the answer. The daughter of a grand minister turned out to be an embroidered pillow.” “I’ll get to the bottom of it!” Said the
elder sister.
11.
Not long after I left Zhongxiu Palace, someone suddenly stopped me.
“Su Qing!”
When I looked back, it was the six princesses, Fanghua, running towards me with their skirts.
I saluted, “Join the six princesses.”
She picked me up in a hurry and said, “Don’t be too polite. I know you’re back in Beijing, so I came to see you.”
“Thank you for your concern.” “Don’t be too sad, Su Ching,”
she said softly. “General Su died for his country. It’s a great honor. Your brother will be better, too.”
Unfortunately, it was the victim of a traitor.
I smiled at her. “Mmm.”
Her face suddenly turned red, and she hurriedly handed me a jade pendant: “This is a card for nothing. I went to the temple to ask for it to keep me safe.”
I know her mind, from the year I returned to Beijing to report on my work, I saved her beloved kitten for her.
Although I have refused her many times, she never seems to give up.
I stepped back and bowed to her. “Princess, this is too valuable. I can’t accept it. I’ll retire.”
She frowned and asked me, “Su Ching, do you really not know how I feel about you?”
“Princess, we can never be together.”
She couldn’t believe it. “Why?!”
I thought about it, pulled back the armor, took her hand, and in her panic and puzzlement, I put her hand on my chest.
She suddenly sensed the shock in her eyes, and I said slowly, “Su Qing, it’s a daughter.”
Always gentle, she pushed me away: “Bastard!”! You are such an asshole!
Then he ran away crying, and the card of nothing fell to pieces. On the day
I returned to Cangzhou, my elder brother had already woken up.
However, his legs were so badly injured that he could no longer stand and gallop on the battlefield.
Looking at my elder brother who was in a daze in the distance, my tears overflowed my eyes.
But I heard him say to me, “Ching-er, don’t cry. My brother can stand it.”
He was smiling, the corners of his mouth were curved, and his eyes were curved, but I saw that he was so broken that I dared not even step forward.
My nephew Suyu ran up and hugged my leg. “Don’t cry, little uncle.”
I touched his head and comforted his sister-in-law with a look in my eyes: “I will certainly avenge my brother.” Just then
, I saw my sister-in-law’s expression suddenly change and I followed her eyes.
My brother is incontinent! The urine dribbled out of the wheelchair.
I was so shocked that my sister-in-law, holding back her tears, immediately took off her coat and covered her brother’s legs. Only then did the
elder brother react. He was stunned at first, and then suddenly laughed.
He laughed and wept, his voice trembling: “Ching’er, go back first.”
“Ah You, don’t be afraid. I’m here.”
The elder brother buried his head in his sister-in-law’s arms, hugged her tightly and sobbed in a low voice. At the moment,
he was bent and trembling, laughing and crying.
Tears welled up in my eyes and I turned and ran out.
My elder brother, who is as fresh as the breeze and as wild as the wild, who once fought a hundred enemies with one, ended up with such a fate that life was worse than death because of conspiracy and trickery.
Meng Teng and the man who betrayed my father and brother, I have to be cut to pieces to get rid of my anger! When I
got to the door, I bumped into Meng Yi. He held me up and said, “What’s wrong?”
When I didn’t answer, he looked at my clenched hands and said in a gentle voice, “Su Qing, there will be a chance.”
I looked up at him, but he was stupefied. “Are you crying?”? But what happened to Suyou? I’ll go and see.
I grabbed him and said, “Don’t go.”
Moments later, he held me in his arms and said, “Cry if you want to.”
I am in his arms, tears like rain, this moment, nothing to do with love, just want a place to vent.
13.
From that day on, I forgot to eat and sleep and wanted revenge.
For three days, I didn’t sleep. As soon as I closed my eyes, I would think of my father’s tragic death and my brother’s painful appearance.
“Su Ching, it’s time for you to rest.”
Meng Yi suddenly said to me.
I glanced at him, and the worry in his eyes went up to his eyebrows.
I shook my head. “No, you know, I can’t sleep at night.”
He got up, pressed my hand, and snapped, “Su Qing!”! Calm down! You’re still wounded!
My hands suddenly clenched into fists and I threw him away, but his voice was still calm: “How can you calm me? Meng Yi, you don’t know how important my father and brother are to me.”
“Are you sure you won’t listen to me?”
“Yes.” As soon as
the voice fell, my eyes darkened, and then I didn’t know anything.
This night, I had many dreams, dreamed that I rode horses with my father and brother, dreamed that we fought bloody battles together, dreamed that my father died tragically, dreamed that my brother was beaten severely.
I wanted to save them, but like an outsider, I couldn’t get in, and I could only cry in despair.
Then a man who couldn’t see his face clearly hugged me and told me, “I’m here.”
I suddenly felt relieved and hugged him tightly.
The next day, I woke up leisurely, only to find that I was held in Meng Yi’s arms, while he was still sleeping soundly at the moment. Startled,
I pushed him away and he almost fell out of bed.
His sleepy eyes suddenly brightened, and he got up quickly. “Sorry, I was too tired to watch you last night.”
I pursed my lips and did not speak. These days, I did not sleep, so he did not sleep.
“Your wound is inflamed and bleeding, and it has been bandaged again.” When I heard this, I looked up
again, and he had already left the camp.
Last night, that embrace, is Meng Yi’s Gardenia fragrance.
14、
Slept, I relaxed a lot, Meng Yi also returned to the camp at noon, accompanied me to comb all this carefully.
Father and brother in the ambush that day, they are to go around the Qishui River area to the rear of Mengteng, and I come to a pincer attack.
We discuss the war strategy, will only consult with the lieutenant level, the soldiers only know that there will be a war tomorrow, so that the spy is in the lieutenant.
From noon to late at night, the candle flickered with the wind. He looked at me meditating and dared not disturb me. He just kept adding a cup of hot tea for me.
The sky will be bright, and I have a plan with him.
Next, Meng Yi and I played a play together.
Four lieutenants, I summon two, he summon two.
I told the two lieutenants that I would take them across the Qishui River again tomorrow. Meng Teng thought I would not go again, but I had to take them by surprise.
Meng Yi told the other two lieutenants that he would take them around Oolong Mountain tomorrow and attack them again.
We all told them that they could not tell the other lieutenants that this was a covert operation to prevent the leakage of military information.
And Yin, I have and Meng Yi alone, respectively, ambushed in these two highlands, at this time I in addition to him, who do not believe. Within half an hour of
my ambush, Monten’s army had arrived near the Qishui River and quickly prepared for the ambush.
I sneer, find out who, is my side of the people, is the lieutenant Yu Wei!
Last night, there was a lieutenant between him and Meng Yi.
At the riverside, they also said jokingly that they would urinate in the river and let Mengteng drink downstream.
14.
When I returned to the barracks, Meng Yi came back one step ahead of me and explained the reason to the lieutenants-catching spies.
He looked at me with a smile. He knew I had the answer.
And Yu Wei, at the moment I looked at him, dodged his eyes.
I walked towards him step by step, and he began to panic. Under my pressure, he had no way out.
“Little General..”
“You’d better tell the truth. I can still give you a good time. Otherwise, I’ll give you the punishment of Ling Chi. Every day, I’ll send someone to send your meat to Kyoto for your parents to taste.”
Hearing this, the people present gasped, and Meng Yi pursed his mouth.
His face was pale, but he hesitated.
Meng Yi silently handed me his knife, and I took it and looked at him coldly.
“I can start right now. Not only your flesh, but also your eyeballs, your ears, and your internal organs, I will send them all back.” The moment the
knife was unsheathed, he collapsed on the ground and closed his eyes in despair. “I said..” When
the others heard him admit it, they were furious. First, Zhang Ning knocked him down with one punch: “You really hurt the old general and the young general!”! You beast! Others
also rushed to teach him a lesson, but Meng Yi stopped them: “Keep his life, it’s still useful.”
I motioned to Chang Ning and took him to the camp to interrogate him. “Who are you under orders from?” I asked.
Prime Minister. Gao Changshi.
“Why would he let you do that?”
“In order to pave the way for his daughter, Sujiashu lost power, and the imperial concubine was unable to compete with him for the throne.”
“Then how do you send a message to Monten, using the river to flow down?”
He was stupefied and smiled bitterly. “The little general is clever.”
15.
The next day, my sister sent me a letter from Flying Pigeon, telling me what she had found in the palace. On the surface,
Li Fei is a person who competes with her sister, but in fact, she is just a chess piece for the imperial concubine. She was in the imperial concubine’s palace
that day, and when she came out, she met me. She was so proud that she spilled the beans inadvertently.
In fact, Li Fei is a straw bag, the real person behind the scenes, is always flaunting the end of the imperial concubine.
Just because the ministers remonstrated with him, they hoped that the emperor would set up the imperial concubine as the queen, but the emperor preferred the elder sister.
So, she wants to bring down the family.
I killed Yu Wei, sent someone to speed up, and hung his body at the gate of the prime minister’s mansion in the middle of the night.
And left a note: “Kao family spies, return to the prime minister.”
The host family and the high family formally tore their faces. Early
the next morning, there was an uproar in the capital. The emperor was furious. He not only reprimanded the prime minister, but also suspended him for introspection.
Then the emperor sent me a secret letter, reprimanding me for misbehaving and asking me to take care of my sister.
I smiled. “Sister?”? The sons and daughters of the host family come down in one continuous line, and the imperial concubines will not live long.
Meng Yi stared at me without saying a word.
“Do you feel that the people who live at home are always vindictive?”
He shook his head. “Too strong.”
I was stunned, but he stepped forward and stroked my loose hair. “Su Qing, I will do everything I can to help you.”
16.
In a battle ten days later, Meng Yi was brave and skillful in fighting. He led the soldiers to defeat Meng Teng and finally abandoned the city.
Meng Teng, under the escort of the crowd, fled to the Qishui River. Once in a
blue moon! If I miss it this time, I will kill Meng Teng, and it will be far away.
I immediately drove Ziwu to chase, this time, I must cut him into pieces!
“Su Qing!”
Meng Yi can only watch me go away.
Meng Teng noticed that I was chasing him, and his expression was angry and hateful, so he asked the escort to block me.
However, the fire of hatred is burning, my hand up and down, they have no time to react to become the dead under my knife.
When Monten was left alone, he ran to the edge of the cliff in a panic.
He looked at the cliff behind him, knowing that there was no way out. “Come on, Su Ching!” He shouted. Without hesitation,
I drew my knife towards him, and he was scarred.
I pressed forward, and he had no defense. At the last moment, the tip of my knife pierced his chest. With a wave of his hand, my hair crown fell to the ground. His eyes
were full of shock, and he struggled to enunciate, “You actually …” Is it a woman?
I did not answer, as acquiescence, he suddenly sneered: “Qiguo only left …” Woman. Did the women go to war?!
“Just a small country in the northern desert, women are strong enough to resist.” As soon as the
voice fell, I pushed the tip of the knife fiercely, and he died in unwillingness and humiliation.
Then I drew a knife and cut off his head.
I finally! I avenged my father and brother!
17.
On that day, I returned to the battlefield with my hair disheveled and covered with blood, carrying Meng Teng’s head.
First Meng Teng’s men found me carrying Meng Teng’s head, and all of them suddenly stopped fighting and looked at me at the same time.
They stood apart and watched me coming step by step.
I raised Monten’s head and shouted, “The Lord is dead!”! Don’t surrender yet!
Moments later, one, two, three.. Meng Teng’s men all lost their weapons and surrendered to Daqi.
Meng Yi ran towards me: “Are you hurt?”
I smiled and wept: “Meng Yi, I did it..”
“Well, I know, Su Qing, you did it.”
On the same day, the evidence of the prime minister’s fornication with Beimo and his attempt to usurp the throne was submitted to the emperor.
I knew it was Meng Yi who did it for me, and I sincerely thanked him: “Thank you.” But
he told me, “Thanks to the help of the six princesses and the imperial concubines.”
But the prime minister Gao Changshi killed the founding loyal general, and also fornicated with the enemy. The emperor was furious, implicating his nine clans and bringing disaster to his henchmen.
The elder sister personally fed the imperial concubine to drink arsenic, not at one time, but drop by drop, so that she lived in pain and despair every minute and every second.
But Li Fei, is caught by the elder sister to look aside, is frightened delirious, at this point is crazy.
18.
When I brought Meng Teng’s head to my elder brother, he didn’t even look at it. He only asked me, “Qing’er, are the peach blossoms blooming in Kyoto?”
I crouched down in front of him, smiled and said, “Yes, it’s beautiful.”
He smiled at me. “Bring me one when you come back.”
“Don’t you want to go back?”
He shook his head: “I want to go back, but I’m not allowed now. Take your sister-in-law and Yu’er back to see Tao Hua and Xi’er. By the time they come back, I’ll probably have been cured by Xi Meng’s acupuncture.”
He smiled, from the bottom of his heart, as if he had really figured it out, and he was much more energetic.
My elder brother seemed to turn into a handsome young man who looked back at me on the horse and smiled like a spring breeze.
“Well, brother, take good care of yourself and we’ll go back together next year.”
He touched my head and said, “Su Qing of our family has grown up.”
“Yes, I can take care of you.”
“Take good care of your sister-in-law when you get back.”
“Well, you have to get better soon, too.”
He was silent for a moment. “Good.”
Suddenly, the sound of water drops came, I looked down subconsciously, and my face suddenly changed.
Brother, incontinent again.
He smiled frankly and gently pressed the blanket on his lap. “It’s going to be all right.” With tears in my
eyes, I hugged him and gave him silent comfort.
“Ching-er, don’t forget to bring me a peach blossom.”
“Good.”
“Kyoto is full of makeup. It’s really beautiful.”
“Yes, when you’re ready, we’ll go to see it together.”
At this point, the elder brother was silent.
19.
After the great revenge, the emperor took back the Sujiabingfu and ordered me to return to Beijing as soon as possible. On the day I
left for Beijing, my sister-in-law refused to go with me.
She smiled gently and said, “I can’t give up your elder brother. I’m not in a hurry. Yu’er will ask you.”
I no longer importune, this day, I put on women’s clothes, sister-in-law also combed an ordinary woman’s hair bun for me. I feel strange in the mirror when I
lightly apply makeup and lightly sweep my eyebrows.
Everyone looked at me as if they had never known me.
A young man grabbed his head shyly and said, “Little general, it’s like, like a fairy.”
The crowd burst into laughter.
Meng Yi’s eyes became indistinct: “Su Qing, will you come back?”
I smiled and said, “Maybe in the future they will come to visit the mountains and rivers, and the Sujiajun will be the Mengjiajun in the future. I hope you will forgive them a lot.”
Then Zhang Ning said, “See the little general off!”
Once Sujiajun, everyone had tears in their eyes and knelt down to bid farewell to me.
I also knelt down to them and said, “Thank you all for your devotion to the Su family over the years. I believe General Meng will be a good general. You have something to return to, and Su Qing will live up to his father’s soul in heaven!” With
that, I kowtowed heavily, and they bowed deeply to me. Meng Yi took my hand in the gentle
breeze and said, “I’ll take you somewhere.”
His hand was so warm that it melted the coldness of my palm.
I let him hold it and walked with him to a mountain haze behind the camp.
Spring is getting stronger, and the mountain flowers are already in full bloom here.
He took my face in his hands and said, “Su Qing, I found that I like you.”
His eyes were so affectionate that I suddenly blushed, and then nervously I tried to take his hand away. But
he stepped forward and kissed my lips gently in the bright red of the mountain.
I did not refuse and closed my eyes gently.
20.
Soon after we returned to Beijing, my sister was conferred the title of empress, and I was conferred the title of head of Qingping County and given a residence. When
I became a daughter, the government and the public were shocked, but I was suppressed by the emperor.
And the six princesses have been married, is a young and promising general. When I saw her
that day, she smiled at me and turned away.
I ran after him. “I’m sorry, Fanghua. I didn’t mean to lie to you. Thank you for your help in the matter of the prime minister.”
She turned around and smiled softly. “Su Qing, this is the first time you’ve called my name. I already know your difficulties. I don’t blame you.”
I felt relieved for a moment. Then I took out the card and gave it to her: “This is the card I found for you again. I wish you a happy and safe life in the future.”
She took it and ran a tear across her cheek. “Thank you very much.”
I was silent with her. Finally, she smiled and said, “Su Qing, he looks like you.” Before
I knew it, she had turned and left.
21.
Ten days later, Meng Yi and Xi Meng came to Kyoto together and brought me the news of the death of my brother and sister-in-law.
On April 6, the elder brother cut his wrists and died, and his wife, Wang Shi, took arsenic and died for love.
On that day, it was the day we returned to Beijing, but because of the heavy rain in Cangzhou for several days, they were delayed. The
elder brother and sister-in-law were buried in Cangzhou by Meng Yi according to the elder brother’s wishes.
Knowing the bad news, I was stunned in the yard for a long time as if I had been struck by lightning. Under the rain of
tears, I found that he seemed to have looked down on that day, but in fact he was ready to die.
No wonder on the day of departure, he said he was not feeling well and did not come to see him off. He had already left alone.
His words are all the words of an orphan. “Your brother’s incontinence is getting worse,”
Xi Meng told me in tears. “I’ve been lying to him that he’ll get better. He seems to believe it, and he’s getting more and more energetic. Unexpectedly, he knows everything!”.
I closed my eyes and listened to the wind, and my mind was full of my brother’s high-spirited appearance.
There is also a picture of sister-in-law’s deep love for her elder brother and the harmony between them.
Sister-in-law looks gentle and delicate, but she once said firmly when her brother went to war, “If you are killed, I will be with you.”. With tears in my eyes and a wry smile,
I said, “Hsi Meng, I still haven’t saved my brother’s heart. His heart died on the bank of the Qishui River.”
“Su Qing..”
Xi Meng hugged me: “That year, I fell in love with Su You at first sight, but he told me that he already had a wife, and he only loved his wife. I never refused until your brother had an accident this time. I didn’t realize how worthy your sister-in-law was. She swallowed poison and told me when she was dying that she didn’t want your brother to go alone.”
Finally, she took out a posthumous letter written by her brother: “Your brother left this to you.” After
reading the letter, I burst into tears and couldn’t help myself.
Meng Yi did not say a word, but hugged me tightly.
22,
Qing’er, see the word as before.
Sorry, brother, I still can’t hold on. I won’t have a chance to see the peach blossoms in Kyoto.
You and your sister-in-law, Yu’er, have already arrived in Kyoto.
You have to take care of them for me, and they will be handed over to you and Xi’er.
I am ashamed of your sister-in-law. She has been married to me for so many years, and she is on tenterhooks every day.
If you find a good family for her again, don’t be a military general like me who is uncertain about life and death.
Remember to tell the man that your sister-in-law gave birth to Yuer and hurt herself. If you can’t
eat cold food, you will have abdominal pain for a few days, and you have to drink warm water on weekdays. As soon as her
month comes, she must eat brown sugar water and put on thick clothes. If she can, rub her abdomen to relieve it.
Over the years, you have suffered with my father and me in Cangzhou. It is not a bad thing to reveal your daughter this time.
Meng Yi is a person worthy of trust, and he will take good care of you. After
I die, bury me in Cangzhou, far away from Kyoto, so that your sister-in-law can hardly see me, so forget me.
The elder brother, then the first step, if there is an afterlife, we are still brother and sister. Farewell
here, hope to treasure yourself.
23.
I don’t want to go back to Cangzhou, where I lost four close relatives.
Mother, father, elder brother, sister-in-law..
I asked Meng Yi to take my place to bring a peach blossom for my brother and plant it in front of their grave. When
the emperor heard this, he was deeply moved and allowed his sister to take Suyu to the palace for education.
From then on, I had a serious illness, and then I trapped myself in self-reproach, trapped in this house, all day long.
I blamed myself for not fighting for my father, for not taking good care of my brother, for failing my brother’s trust, for not bringing my sister-in-law back to Kyoto, and for living in the world.
Meng Yi heard that I was depressed and often ran back and forth between Kyoto and Cangzhou. Bring
me different mountain flowers in every season.
My sister often comes to see me, says some comforting words, and sometimes even wants to wake me up.
Finally, one day, after learning that I had heart depression and vomited blood, she beat me severely, and she was very sad.
Su Ching, did you also die in Cangzhou?! If you insist on blaming yourself, then the most damned person is me! Because of me, the Kao family would kill their father and brother. I’m the one who should blame myself. If I can bring you back to life, I’ll die now!
“Brother, what a proud man! To live in this world is to humiliate him. How can you let him live?!”
My sister’s words woke me up. I looked up at her with tears streaming down my face. “Sister, my elder brother is free, isn’t he?”
She hugged me: “Yes!”! You still have me, Meng Yi, and Yu’er.
Although I often feel pain, I’m getting better.
Later, the military situation in Cangzhou was severe, and Meng Yi could no longer go back and forth frequently. No matter how busy
he is, he never forgets to fly pigeons every day to ask me about my recent situation. In
those days of revenge for my father and brother, he silently accompanied me to do everything I wanted to do.
During my sleepless nights, he would bring me a bowl of tranquilizing soup every night.
When he knew that my heart was cast on the battlefield for revenge, he silently joined the six princesses and sisters to help me in the court.
He doesn’t talk much, but he always knows what he should do for me.
In a letter, he asked me, “Su Qing, when will you come to see me?”
I suddenly thought of my loved ones, a sharp pain in my heart, and the smell of blood spread again.
“Just wait.” In the spring of the following
year, when the Northern Desert was completely destroyed by the Great Enlightenment, Meng Yi sent a peach blossom with a pedicle: “It has blossomed, with a peach blossom with a pedicle.” With tears in
my eyes, this flower looks like my elder brother and sister-in-law, as well as Meng Yi and me.
A breeze blew, and the man standing at the door was Meng Yi.
He smiled at me and said, “The border has been decided. You didn’t come, so I came to look for you.”
At that moment, through his smile, I seemed to see his mother, father, brother and sister-in-law behind him.
They came laughing together.
Then there was a noise outside the door, and I got up to look. The
birds rise one after another, and the drums and bells ring one after another.
I looked down at the peach blossom in my hand and laughed.
I admit that the moment I tore off Suqing’s clothes, I was completely occupied.
I would never have thought that the cheerful and lively younger brother who followed Suyou was actually a daughter.
The little general, who had been fascinated by the six princesses when he returned to Beijing with the old general, turned out to be a daughter. The man who
made Meng Teng hate so much that he ordered the reward to take his head turned out to be a daughter. She is different
from all the women I have ever seen. She is firm and brave, calm and fearless.
On that day, she cried in front of the coffin of the old general.
I stayed with her quietly for a long time, and she was just a woman.
Later, when she returned to Beijing to face the emperor, I was very worried that the emperor would kill her.
Cangzhou territory can not be without a general, I can not get away, so I have to ask a close friend in Beijing to pay more attention to her situation for me.
Fortunately, she was all right and returned to Cangzhou.
I know why she’s here, so I will support her in everything she does.
Ever since she came back, she seemed to have trouble sleeping every night and always had nightmares.
Especially after seeing Suyou and crying in my arms, she was like a walking corpse, sleepless, staying in the camp every day, not daring to waste a minute.
Seeing her like this, I was worried. I was afraid that she would collapse before the day of revenge. I
had no choice but to knock her out, and I also found that her wound was inflamed and overflowed with blood.
I was so frightened that I summoned the military doctor to treat her wound. She seemed to be in pain and frowned all the time.
This night, I have been watching her, but she slept more restless than ever, the nightmare is more severe.
She sat up suddenly with her eyes closed, crying and reaching for the air in front of her.
I hugged her and said, “Su Qing, I’m here.”
She gradually calmed down in my arms, but she hugged her so tightly that I had to sleep with her.
She cuddled in my arms like an insecure kitten.
One day, the military doctor told me that a kind of herbal medicine on Oolong Mountain was especially soothing and healing. Without saying
a word, I took the military doctor to Oolong Mountain.
It’s true. She did sleep a lot. On the day I
caught the spy, I was shocked by her cruel words. It seems that
she is no longer the impulsive and fearless Suqing who used to follow Suyou.
She became steady and strange. She ran after Meng Teng
that day, and when she came back, her hair was disheveled and covered with blood.
I thought she was hurt, but unexpectedly, she took the head of Meng Teng without any injury.
If she were a man, she would be braver than I am.
At that moment, the light in her eyes came back, and she really thought she could comfort her brother.
But she forgot how proud Suyou was. He would rather die than be like this. After General
Su Lao and Su You were captured, they were subjected to inhuman beatings, while Su You was injured in the lower body.
After Suyou died, she seemed to die with him. What
she said to me most often was, “Meng Yi, it was because I saw my brother incontinent that he decided to die, right?”
I said no.
She just kept crying and crying.
I am not good at words, do not know how to comfort, so I try to pacify Cangzhou territory, try to beat back the north desert.
At that time, I will return to her side, accompany her every day, and let her gradually cheer up.
The emperor also hinted to me that when I pacified the territory of Cangzhou, he would marry me and Suqing.
After a few days, is the last battle, the north desert retreat, has no defense.
I suddenly missed her, remembered her amazing appearance in women’s clothes, remembered her closed eyes and trembling eyelashes when I kissed her, remembered her leaning in my arms and smelling the mountain flowers.
The empress said that she was much better. She no longer read Suyou’s posthumous letter every day, and no longer locked herself up.
Now she is talking and laughing, and I am very happy to hear her words.
So I asked her when she would come to see me, but she said she would wait.
I know, she has not put down, a step on the territory of Cangzhou, pain and self-reproach will sweep her. When the
battle began, we went to the north desert as we expected, losing ground, but with the humiliation of the last surrender, this time, they vowed not to surrender.
An arrow hit me in the same place as Suqing. The
difference is that this time the North Desert people decided to perish with us, and this arrow was stained with the Mantuo poison of the North Desert, which is a poison that can not be cured.
At that moment, I wasn’t afraid, I blamed myself.
He blamed himself for not being more careful and could no longer rely on Suqing. On
her deathbed, I asked Xi Meng to send her a peach blossom and a letter.
I told her that Meng Yi would arrive later.
My Suqing, the territory of Cangzhou, which your father and brother have guarded for half a lifetime, has now been settled, and the North Desert has been destroyed.
But I can only look at you in the distance.
I’m sorry to let Cangzhou, a place like your hometown, draw a scar on your heart again.
Sorry, what I can do for you is still too little.
Su Qing, I’m sorry.
Su Qing, I really like you. In the spring of the 20th year
of Daqi Tianhua, the governor of Qingping County was depressed and died in the mansion at the age of 18.
“You and I are the only ones staying at home, Yu’er. We must live well for them.”
“Auntie, Yu’er knows.”
Fanghua, take care of yourself.
“Chang Chu, that day she laughed and said she wanted to learn embroidery from me and embroider it for Meng Yi.” In the fortieth year
of Tianqi, the emperor died, the crown prince ascended the throne, and the empress was honored as the queen mother.
Suyu also became a general guarding one side. As the sun
set, she immediately looked back, and the queen mother Suxi suddenly burst into tears.
Yu’er, like his elder brother and Qing’er. In the end,
I live up to my trust.
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Author: Hu Er
Record No.: YXX1jKKJBRdixxxRKMOC9ldw Return from
Spring Banquet The passing away of beauty: Remembering the time when
the love is thick and the thrush is thick, the cat is waiting for
the cat
