It was three months later that I heard the news of Zhou Wen
again. I had escaped from the border and settled down in the small town of Tubo. In the teahouse, I heard people say that the emperor of the Central Plains had a serious illness these days. After he recovered from his illness, he began to expand his harem.
After hearing the news, I had a little comfort in my heart. Perhaps Zhou Wen, a born politician, should have lived ruthlessly, and love for him was the delay.
Gu Taifu is obviously consistent with my understanding on this point.
I even had some doubts that I could escape from the border so smoothly with his help.
Soon, my suspicions were confirmed, and after settling down in the border town, someone sent me a false household registration identity. This kind of thing, if not Gu Lianchen such rank, is very difficult to do.
With this household registration status, I can not only settle down in a different place, but also have less future trouble in the future.
I am not a pretentious person, and I should accept it on the downhill donkey, but when I saw the name of the household registration, I hesitated.
“Gu Siyou.”
Gu home to my generation, is thinking of the word generation, Gu Lianchen gave me such a name, is to tell me that no matter where he goes, he always recognizes me. In
those days, my mother went to Chang’an with her belly out, so humble to beg him, he did not recognize me, now, he is old, life is complete, to sell me a favor, let me rely on more.
But why should I accept his favor? Let him make up for the debt of his youth?
At the beginning, I did not borrow his name, alone into the palace, now naturally can be alone in Jianghu, I have never relied on any blood identity, not to mention anyone’s shelter.
I only have myself.
Thinking of this, I put the household registration identity back in place and attached a note. There were only a few words on it: “I had nothing to do with Gu Taifu in the past, and I will have nothing to do with him in the future.”
I think Gu Lianchen will understand.
Three days later, the note and household registration identity were presented to Gu Taifu’s desk. Gu Taifu sighed deeply and got up. After
leaving the court, Zhou Wen left Gu Taifu for questioning. Gu Taifu took out the note in his hand and handed it to Zhou Wen with both hands. When
Zhou Wen saw the note, he was not too surprised, but nodded.
“I know. Take back the men you left there.” He turned his head and remembered something. “You said a few days ago that you would choose some concubines to enter the palace to balance the forces. You can discuss this with your mother. I have no opinion.”
“Your Majesty..” Gu Taifu hesitated to speak. “The old minister has a sentence that he has to say today.”
Chou Wen raised his eyes to look at him, but his tone was light: “Taifu, please speak.”
Gu Taifu took a deep breath, knelt down respectfully in front of Zhou Wen, and made a big gift: Since the death of the first prince, the old minister has become your majesty’s teacher. Over the years, the old minister has watched you from a half-grown child, fighting the emperor’s uncle, killing the eight kings, to sitting on the throne. Every step is accompanied by the old minister. When the wind and rain come, the old minister is a courtier to your majesty. He is a teacher and a comrade-in-arms. Now that the world has been settled, there are still many ups and downs to go in the future. The old minister will accompany your majesty every step in the future as before. Please pay attention to your majesty’s feet. Don’t make a mistake because a small stone falls down.
Hearing what he said, Chou Wen actually smiled and said, “Taifu is right. Every step I have taken since I was a child has been like this. At the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry contest banquet, I took a fancy to the Jade Kirin prepared by Grandpa Huang. You don’t allow me to win the first prize. You are afraid that other uncles will be afraid, and you are also afraid that Grandpa Huang will think I am competitive. Later, the third uncle won the first prize.” Taifu also taught me to use tricks, so that the third uncle voluntarily gave me the first prize. At that time, you taught me that this was the art of controlling people, and I kept it in mind.
He sighed, “Now that I think about it, it is these so-called techniques of controlling people that have ruined my life.” When
Gu Taifu heard him say this, he was shocked and tried to dissuade him: “Your Majesty!”
But Chou Wen stopped him with a smile. “Taifu probably thinks I’m the best student under your seat,” he continued in a relaxed tone. “Well, I’m lucky to meet you frankly today. Let you see the true face of the student you’ve been proud of for many years!”
Zhou Wen pulled open the cabinet behind him, which placed a volume of documents, Zhou Wen randomly pulled out a volume, which turned out to be a secret talk between Gu Taifu and his mother, discussing the matter of the emperor’s children.
When Gu Taifu saw every word that had been transcribed by the palace people, he was shocked: “Your Majesty has sent someone to watch over his mother?”
Chou Wen smiled bleakly: “Ordinary people do things in a narrow way, and often the corners they trust most and are most likely to ignore are the ones they neglect. This is what Gu Taifu taught me.”
Gu Taifu nodded: “After all, she is your mother, and the matter of children is..” Before he could finish,
Gu Taifu was interrupted by Chou Wen: So she brought her relatives into the house to be my concubine, for my sake? Other people’s mothers are not like this, rather than caring about the interests of the family, the mother should be more concerned about the future daughter-in-law’s son’s mind. Gu Taifu, in this position, I have not been treated as a son for a long time. I have no childhood, no mother, no lover, only the throne.
Gu Taifu looked at Zhou Wen as if he were joking, and calmly spat out this sentence, with a lump in his throat: “Your Majesty..”
Chou Wen, however, smiled unconsciously. “Everyone sees me as a tool to gain power and realize my ambition. These people include you, Gu Taifu.”
“I never felt safe all the way to the throne. It seemed that if I took a wrong step, you would abandon me at any time and find another master. I was treated so rudely by you, so I also regarded other people as my tools. If I hadn’t met the bell, maybe I would have lived in such a muddle.”
He looked up at the household registration form with the words “Gu Siyou” written on it, and his face showed a faint tenderness. In the battle
of Xiaoqueling, I was most happy not because I won the Eight Kings, but because I found that my heart could beat so violently for a girl. When I saw her unconscious, I could not leave her bed like ten thousand arrows. It turned out that I could be a man of flesh and blood in front of the bell. From that moment on, I have greed, do not want to live like a cold abacus. But sadly, the only way I can keep her is to set her up.
Gu Taifu had been silent for a long time before he finally said, “Your Majesty has ten thousand ways to deal with the Shen family. Your Majesty chose to let Shen Yao assassinate him. In fact, he wanted to use the wound to give Ling Dang a good reputation for saving her life, so that she could raise her status.”
Chou Wen smiled faintly and looked at the ferocious knife wound on his palm. “I’ve drawn up all the decrees for commendation, but I didn’t expect..”
Gu Taifu bowed deeply to Zhou Wen: “Your Majesty has opened his heart to the old minister today. The old minister is very grateful, but Ling Dang is by no means the person who can accompany Your Majesty to the end of his life in the palace. Your Majesty must know this, so he will order the old minister to give her the household registration. In that case..”
Chou Wen smiled, “In that case, you can let me stand up by myself.”
Gu Taifu was stunned. Chou Wen was calm and calm. “If I can hold out and forget her, I’ll be the monster I used to be. I’ll accompany you on this throne. If I can’t hold out..” “What if I can’t stand it?” Asked
Ku Tai-fu.
Chou Wen sighed, “If you can’t stand it..” Then you and your mother will take care of yourself.
Gu Taifu may know that Zhou Wen can say such words, has reached the limit. A few days later, when the Tubo envoys came to see him, Zhou Wen pointed out on the spot that they were not paying enough tribute and had the intention of not being a minister.
Tubo grew stronger and stronger, and really had to guard against it. For this reason, the court had many warmongers, but Gu Taifu was worried that Zhou Wen would take this opportunity to launch an attack on Tubo, and had other intentions, so he carried Zhou Wen to the border town to find me.
Over the past few months, I have become familiar with the caravans of the Central Plains and the Tubo. I often help them guard their goods and earn some money for running errands. In an inn frequented by caravans, a shopkeeper nicknamed “Parrot” took a fancy to my kung fu and asked me if I would like to guard the inn for him. When the
price was agreed, I promised him.
The parrot was a familiar fellow who liked to gossip about everyone he met. One day after dinner, he left me a message: “Girl, tell me the truth, you’re making a living alone on the border. Did you commit a crime there?”
He asked casually, and I answered casually, “Yes, I stabbed the emperor.”. And then ran away. “I’m not joking with you. I’m seriously asking you,” said
the parrot.
In fact, I didn’t joke with him, but I figured he wouldn’t believe me, so I wrapped up the truth: “a high official wanted to take me as a concubine, but I didn’t like it, so I ran away.”
The parrot nodded approvingly. “You’ve got a backbone,” he said. “We look like this. We have to build a big house anyway, don’t we?”
I raised my eyebrows and looked at him, not wanting to talk to him. “In the deal, we only talked about guarding the shop, not chatting with him. You have to pay more to chat with him.”
The parrot smiled. “What a silly girl. I’m the most valuable person in this shop. Why are you guarding the shop? Just guard me.” I have been traveling
on the border for a few months, and I know that the people here are civilized, and many men and women mix together, but they do not insist on status.
I probably guessed what he meant: “That …” No way
The parrot gave me a contemptuous look. “Which one?”? Look at your mind. I’m too bored alone. Can’t I hire someone to talk with me? Furthermore, if I hadn’t stopped you, do you think you could protect the caravan to Tubo? The merchant from Huizhou had set out three days ago, and now he must have turned to white bones.
Seeing that I was in a daze, the parrot laughed jokingly and said, “As soon as they entered this area, they were targeted.”
In this way, on the contrary, it was this fellow who saved me. Ever since I experienced Chou Wen, I have been very wary of kindness for no reason, so I wanted to return the favor on the spot: “Since you saved me, I won’t ask you to save me in vain, but I don’t have much money on me now.”. You can tell me the number, and I’ll write it down for you.
The parrot gave me a narrow look and said, “Oh, I’m angry. Then you can write it. You owe me a million yuan.” The first time
I met such a shameless man, I was about to retort when the parrot said, “What’s the matter?”? You don’t think you’re worth it? Don’t look down on yourself easily. Come on, brother, flatter you. As soon as I was choked by
him, I braced myself to write, but the million words could not go down. Seeing this, the parrot chuckled.
It’s just easy to break. That’s people like you. Who on earth gave you this bad habit of refusing to bow your head? How can you come out here to hang out?
He gave me a push. “Won’t you call me a good brother and beg me?” If I
don’t ask for it, I’ll owe you a hundred yuan. Do you want it. Don’t forget it. I tried to take the note away, but the parrot, seeing that I was in a hurry, snatched the note and said with a cheeky smile, “No matter how small the sparrow is, at least it’s meat.”
Gu Taifu did not know how long he looked outside the inn, and when I noticed him, I found that there was a lot of dew on his collar. I
didn’t know how to introduce him, so I said to the parrot, “This old man probably asks for directions.”
Gu Taifu was silent for a moment and finally opened his mouth, saying that he was looking for relatives and wanted to talk to me alone. After
entering the room, I came straight to the point: “a few days ago I returned the household registration form to the Taifu, and now the Taifu has come in a hurry. Are you coming to arrest me?” With a wry smile,
Gu Taifu looked at me seriously. “Perhaps you don’t think I’m qualified to say such a thing, but now, from my father’s point of view, I ask you, if Your Majesty is willing to promote you to be the queen, spoil you alone, and let the Gu family be your backing, would you like to go back with me?” When
this question came out, I felt that Gu Taifu was probably crazy: “Did Chou Wen lose his memory?”? Didn’t you tell everyone that I poisoned him and hurt him?
Gu Taifu raised his forehead and felt a terrible headache. “Your Majesty, you didn’t say anything to the outside world.”. I have also come this day behind his back.
I don’t quite understand why things have turned out like this, but fortunately, my vigilance against Zhou Wen has always been online.
Now that I have escaped, I will never go back. As for the relationship with Taifu, I have written very clearly in the note.
Gu Taifu nodded: “Since you don’t want to go back, promise me another thing.”
“You say.”.
“If you run into Your Majesty in the future, don’t give him any thoughts.”
I thought that my knife was cruel enough, but since Gu Taifu said so, I nodded and agreed to him. After
Gu Taifu left, I found a pair of jade bracelets and a note in the place where he sat, saying that I would get married in the future, which was a little token of his appreciation. Without thinking about it,
I threw the pair of jade bracelets out. Unexpectedly, the parrot caught them at once. With a big smile on his face, he said, “Is that the old man who wants to accept you?”.
「…… No.
No, no. Although he’s in casual clothes, he’s wearing official boots. An official with jade on the soles of his shoes is at least of the second grade. Isn’t that what you call a high official?
I found that the parrot was very noisy, so I simply reached out to cover his mouth. After a moment, the parrot licked my palm, and I drew my hand back like an electric shock.
He looked at me sharply. “Do you want to do something special with me?” Embarrassed,
I said, “You want to sleep with a woman that much?”? Why don’t I look for it on the street for you? When
the parrot heard this, he hit me hard on the head. “What are you thinking about all day? I mean, do you want to do something special with me?” Only
then did I know that the parrot’s inn was a stronghold, and on weekdays he also resold intelligence between the two countries, specializing in stealing things.
After Zhou Wen launched an attack on the Tubo envoys, the relationship between the two sides became somewhat tense. Zhou Wen obviously wanted to raise the annual tribute, plus some additional agreements, forcing the Tubo to a dead end. If the Tubo had followed, they would have followed, and if they had not followed, they would have had a reason to send their troops.
The Tubo side, on the other hand, hoped to talk about conditions and ease relations with relatives, but how to talk about this condition and who to match with relatives was very delicate. If one was wrong, it might be rejected by Zhou Wen and had to go to war.
For this reason, they especially need to spy on the news of the Central Plains people to help. I don’t know how
the parrot was doing, but his publicity was really good. After the rumor came out, the prince of Tubo came to him personally and wanted the parrot to find the official in charge of diplomacy to find out.
Have to say, the parrot after all still have some ability, he took the relationship to find a Honglu temple Shaoqing, willing to deal with, but talk about things can’t come to the border, he wants us to go to Changan. I don’t want to go to
Chang’an again in my life. But the parrot took this to launch an attack, every day to see me is nagging, at the beginning he somehow saved my life, now just go to Changan to help a small favor, but I am reluctant, is really a white-eyed wolf.
I was bored by his reading, so I promised him.
After all, Honglu Temple Shaoqing is only an official from the fifth grade, and Zhou Wen is a million miles away, should not be so unlucky to be met by him.
Although the possibility of meeting is not high, I am as careful as possible. In front of the mirror, I repeatedly glue the fake beard around my face until I can’t recognize the original face at all, and then I breathe sigh of relief. When
the parrot saw that I was too nervous, he thought it was very funny. “Girl, I saw that you didn’t tell me the truth. Seriously, did you kill someone over there?”
I didn’t want to pick up his words, but this fellow kept asking questions all the way. I really didn’t want to talk to him, so I goaded him: “You speak with a Youzhou accent, but now you’re selling information in Tubo alone. If you dare to tell me your name and how you came here, I’ll tell you my story.”
The parrot smiled and said, “My brother’s real name. I only tell you my brother’s lover. Are you sure you want to know?”
I waved my hand and said, “I’m not interested in you, so don’t bother me.”
The parrot smiled shyly. “I don’t think that’s the case. Aren’t you pretending to be a man just to sleep in the same room with me at night?”
I was provoked and almost bit my tongue. “What are you talking about?”
The parrot spread out his hands innocently and said, “Well, if you dress up as my cousin, or if you don’t dress up as my mother, can I think of this?”
I choked on him and said helplessly, “Don’t think too much. The people I’ve offended are very poisonous. I can’t pretend to be a woman.”
Hearing this, the parrot grinned and said, “That’s reassuring. When the lights are turned off at night, I’ll treat you like a man.”
I glanced at him, stopped talking, and in the evening, I took the bedding and spread it in the outer room of the inn.
The parrot raised its eyebrows and looked at me. “Oh, is this for my brother?”
I lay down on the ground and closed my eyes. “Don’t forget to put out the light.”
The parrot smiled curiously. “My brother has run inns on the border for so many years, and he’s seen a lot of girls. There are very few like you.” The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and he squatted on the edge of my floor. The man first made his bed in a high profile, saying that he wanted to sleep on the floor, and then he shivered with cold. At this time, the woman could not bear it, and immediately said that the bed was quite big, so why not lie down together? Then he gave me a wink and a smile. “Brother, I thought we’d have to do something like this tonight.”
I looked up at him and said, “Do you want to sleep on the ground?”
The parrot probably didn’t expect that I would ask him so bluntly. He choked and spoke a little unquickly: “I..” You can ask to sleep on the ground, and you have to.. Without waiting for him to finish,
I threw the quilt into his arms and said, “Since you have asked for it, you can sleep on the ground. Hurry up. Don’t talk. It’s annoying.”
The parrot’s face was red and white. It was very beautiful. I ignored him and went straight to the bedside to sleep. In the middle of the night, I heard the parrot sighing. I couldn’t help laughing. This is probably the first time I have smiled from my heart after the blockade
of Xiaoqueling.
The next day, the parrot was clearly not sleeping well, and his black eyes were showing. He complained to me: “The ground is too wet. My brother’s waist is almost broken. Tonight we have to fight to decide who will sleep on the ground.”
I smiled at him? Isn’t it always the case that men take the initiative to give in to women?
“Bah, those people are either really stupid or have no good intentions. My brother is neither. If you’re not interested in me, I won’t bother you any more. It’s not sweet to twist.”
The parrot was unperturbed, and I nodded. “Then we’re two of a kind.”
The parrot took one look at me and suddenly smiled: “Then when you are interested in your brother, remember to tell him.” He coughed. “That way, I can take you into consideration and sift through them.”
I smiled and did not reply, but the parrot suddenly began to argue: “Who is it? Someone is talking to you. At least give me an answer.”
“Okay, I got it.”
Hearing this, he finally waved his whip and headed for Yanshou Square.
Yanshou Square is located in the west of the Imperial City, near the bustling West City. When I was in the Imperial Zhangsun Mansion, Zhou Wen would occasionally take me to the West City to eat Suo Cake. After eating, I would take a walk to the ancient pool of Yanshou Square to enjoy the water and chat about something. Looking
back at the old scenery, I inevitably remembered some bad memories. I put down the curtain of the carriage early and dozed off by the window. Unexpectedly, a moment later, the carriage was stopped.
The man was dressed as a soldier and had a bad attitude.
“Hurry down, the road is closed, and there is no traffic ahead.” Undeterred,
the parrot climbed up the pole and said, “Master Jun, isn’t it the Lantern Festival today? Why are you here on business?” “Don’t mention it,” the
soldier seemed upset. “Don’t ask about the orders from above. Hurry up and go.” Seeing this,
the parrot called me, “Uncle, come down. We have to walk.”
I looked at his serious face, almost did not catch his play, after a moment to react to come over, hurriedly pretend to be inconvenient legs and feet, help him down to walk. Not far
from Yenshoufang’s ancient pond, I saw a familiar figure. I panicked and nearly fell down. The parrot held my waist firmly, smiled, and whispered, “If you want to eat my brother’s tofu, just say so. Don’t do this.”
I did not listen to the parrot’s words, only looking at the back of a jade crown green shirt in front of me, some can not slow down. After
Zhou Wen became emperor, he seldom went out of the palace in disguise. What are you doing here now? I stopped looking at him and just wanted to get out of here.
Unexpectedly, Chou Wen’s bodyguard blocked our way: “This road is impassable.”
Chou Wen went out on a tour of inspection in disguise, and the guards were only dressed in ordinary clothes. The parrot seemed to have never seen anyone so rude, and pushed back on the spot: “If you don’t make sense, it doesn’t make sense. When my brother has two eyes for breathing, someone just walked over!”.
The bodyguard was stunned and went to see Chou Wen’s eyes, but the parrot was very impatient: “Hurry up, brother is in a hurry.”
Zhou Wen was obviously immersed in his emotions and did not realize what was happening outside. He gently crossed the poem on the stone tablet beside the ancient pool with his fingertips. When
the rain is light, the ploughing calves go away, and when the sun is slanting, the fishermen return. Prosperity has been the same since ancient times, and the golden valley is a pile of barren earth.
I still remember that I didn’t know how to read poetry at the beginning. When I first read it, I praised the poem, especially the last sentence, which was very crisp, but Zhou Wen was sentimental about the desolation and desolation, and looked down on it very much.
At that time, I didn’t know how to continue chatting with him. I could only smile awkwardly and say frankly that I didn’t understand poetry. Chou Wen
now stands at the edge of this poem, which he doesn’t like, and runs his finger across the words, sighing softly: “It’s really a good poem.”
Moments later, he raised his hand and said, “Smash this place.” As soon as
the voice fell, the bodyguard greeted a group of people and changed the stone tablet and the ancient pool beyond recognition. When
the parrot saw that Chou Wen was so confident, he suddenly lost three points in his momentum, but he refused to admit defeat. He said to me, “Uncle, unfortunately, I met a dandy today who’burned the harp, burned the book, and cooked the crane. ‘Let’s make a detour.”
I nodded and walked past Zhou Wen with my head down, the soles of my feet trembling and my heart beating like thunder.
Fortunately, Zhou Wen was in a trance and did not find me.
When I arrived outside the Gold Pavilion of Yanshou Square, I was sure that no one was following me, and then I breathed a sigh of relief.
The parrot saw that I turned pale and said nothing. “Old acquaintance?” He asked. He held out his hand. “You just pulled me and sweated a lot.”
I nodded and said, “I killed his own father.”
The parrot was dumb and obviously surprised. “Look at him. His family background is not low. You are really taking a risk to accompany me back to Chang’an.”. Girl, why didn’t you say so earlier? I
didn’t want to argue with him any more. I just told him, “I’m short of money, and I really owe you. I don’t like to owe people things. If you feel guilty, give me more money to run errands.”
The parrot looked at me in disgust: “Miser, I’ll give you money.” Moments later, he seems to have gone back on his word. “Are you sure you want money, not sex?”
This stingy, I am too lazy to talk to him, all the way into the Gold Pavilion, Honglu Temple Shaoqing Wei Dongli has been waiting for us for a long time, a little impatient.
He glanced at a piece of gold on the counter, glanced at us and left.
I am a little stupefied, look to parrot, parrot seems very familiar appearance, pointed to the gold that Wei Dongli has seen, spend money to buy.
I was a little puzzled: “You want to give a gift?”? Why didn’t you just give it to him? After
the parrot went out, he broke the skin of the gold ware in no one’s place, only to find that it was a fake. “This is a profiteer. Let’s get even with him!” I said.
The parrot pulled me and told me to stop. As soon as he said it, I realized that this gold cabinet was run by Wei Dongli’s relatives. More than half of the gold wares sold in it were fake. If someone wanted to do something for Wei Dongli, he would buy a fake at the actual price according to his instructions. The sale was a deposit.
I can not help but stunned, such an operation, even if found out, can only catch relatives selling fake, can not control the source of being an official. Are corrupt officials so watertight now?
The parrot glanced at me and said, “Look at this man who has never seen the world. Come on, I’ll take you to have fun.”
Pingkang Square has the largest brothel in Chang’an. I thought he would take me there, but as soon as he turned the car around, he took me to Liquan Square on the west side of the city. There
are many merchants from the Western Regions here, and even the restaurants are mostly exotic.
The parrot sat at the edge of the wine shop, drinking a mouthful of highland barley wine and roasting lamb chops. He felt very comfortable all over. I looked at him in disgust and said, “That’s all I like at the border. I still eat it. Isn’t it boring?”.
He glanced at me. “Don’t you like Chang’an?”
I sat next to him and had a drink with him. “I don’t like it either.” When I
was clinking glasses, I heard the people at the next table talking about the interesting things in the city recently. It was said that there was a dandy in Chang’an recently. I don’t know whose son he was. He was extremely rude.
First, he ordered a time-honored cake shop in Xishi to relocate, and then smashed the ancient pool of Yanshou Square and converted it into a garden. It is also said that a polo field outside the mansion of the emperor’s eldest grandson, where the eldest grandson often went, has also been ordered to be rebuilt. After listening,
I was stunned and immediately understood what Zhou Wen was doing.
I’ve known him for so long, and most of what Zhou Wen does has a complicated purpose. This is probably the only time he does it willfully with his own will.
He’s going to destroy all the places where we have memories.
That’s good. If he can put these things down, he can let me go.
Probably before long, I will be able to boldly return to my Jiangnan, and I will no longer have to be so nervous.
Thinking of this, I couldn’t help but be happy and had a few more drinks with the parrot.
Perhaps as the old saying goes, extreme joy begets sorrow, there is a reason for it. I did not expect that Zhou Wen did not return to the palace in the middle of the night. Unexpectedly, Zhou Wen, who always liked Songhua wine, would come to Liquanfang and order a jar of highland barley wine, which was abundant in Tubo.
I saw him coming from a distance, and the hand holding the glass suddenly trembled a little.
The parrot sensed that I was in a bad state and clasped my hand under the table. “I thought people like you wouldn’t be scared like this.”
Yes, I’ve done a lot of dangerous things in the past, but I’ve never been so afraid at any moment as I am now. What am I afraid of now? Are you
just afraid of being caught?
I didn’t have time to think about it, but Chou Wen came straight over and sat down next to me. “Are you two from the border?”
I grasped the dagger in my pocket, ready to fight him at any time, but unexpectedly, the parrot smiled at him and said, “Brother, how can you see that?”
Chou Wen smiles: “Our border with North Korea is located on a high plateau, and the sunlight is strong. People who have lived there for a long time naturally have a different complexion from the locals.”
“Oh, you mean we both look black and plateau red?”
I have been scared to pee, parrot this fellow actually still have the mood to discuss with him what color is not color.
Chou Wen glanced up at the parrot and smiled. “Don’t get me wrong. No offense. I’ve never been to the border. I want to know what it’s like there.”
The parrot smiled and told Zhou Wen seriously about the four seasons and cultural scenery of the border town. I was on pins and needles, hoping this guy would finish quickly.
Fortunately, after listening for a long time, Chou Wen finally stopped asking new questions. He left a piece of barefoot gold on the table and politely said, “Thank you.” And left. If
I get amnesty, that night then discuss the parrot to leave Changan, before he promised me to run errands, I also don’t want.
The parrot smiled and said, “Girl, you lied to me again.”. You didn’t kill his father at all, did you?
Seeing that I did not speak, he touched my forehead. “Do you like him?”
I was stunned and firmly denied that I could tell whether I liked a person or not. Seeing this,
the parrot smiled and concluded, “Then you are afraid that you will fall in love with him.” I was eager to deny it, but the parrot interrupted me. “I’ve seen you guard the caravan, and you’ve never been afraid of the danger of death. How could you be so frightened by a man?”? Admit it. Admit your heart. It’s not shameful.
Perhaps, parrot outsiders can see clearly, I am really because of this kind of thing, afraid to return to Changan, more afraid to see Zhou Wen again. When I
realized this, I became very depressed. “Maybe you’re right, I really can’t allow myself to be shaken by him.”. It would be really silly to fall into the same pit a second time.
The parrot’s eyes sparkled slyly. “If I were you, I’d try to like someone else.”. For example, ah, I mean, for example, if I have someone I absolutely can’t be attracted to anymore, I will try to like someone around me, like you.
“Get out!” I gave him a kick. As soon as
the bunk was placed on the floor, the parrot fell on top of it, ready to go to sleep. I was very surprised. “Didn’t you say in the morning that if you slept here, your waist would be broken, and you would guess where to sleep?”.
The parrot smiled and said, “Have you ever heard the saying that a beautiful person doesn’t need a knife to kill a person? A woman’s waist is also very important. If you change your mind and follow your brother later, I will hurt myself. I don’t want to suffer this.” As soon as
the words fell, my dagger flew past.
The parrot caught the dagger easily, threw it back, and put out the candle. From the darkness came his low smile: “I won’t make trouble with you. Go to sleep.”
The next day, the parrot was waiting for a message at the inn, but I was thinking about what the parrot had said to me last night. After
understanding what I was afraid of, many details became thought-provoking. When hunting in the Western Hills, Zhou Wen cried helplessly and begged me. I did not hesitate to give him a knife. In fact, if I just want to run, there is no need to do so, come to think of it, at the beginning, so vicious, perhaps, because Zhou Wen at that time looked too much like the eldest grandson I fell in love with.
If I destroy him, I will destroy the thoughts in my heart.
In this way, my heart was even more restless, almost counting the days to get things done quickly and return to the border as soon as possible.
Fortunately, although Wei Dongli was insatiably greedy, he was very efficient. It wasn’t long before he passed the word to us. He inquired through the people in the palace. Recently, Your Majesty sent someone to Tubo to check a woman.
His Majesty had detailed records of the woman’s numerous visits to the border, sending letters to the palace every three days, but he had not read the records he had painstakingly obtained.
Wei Dongli analysis, your majesty should be interested in the woman, and to a very extent, otherwise will not care about this, but dare not look.
Based on this information, Wei Dongli gave the parrot a trick, let the Tubo royal family to find the woman, no matter what means, turn her into a princess of Tubo, and send her to marry.
Wei Dongli is convinced that to do so, at least 60% sure that your majesty can not refuse such conditions, in addition, in the annual tribute to this year’s debt, next year to pay 10% more. This thing is basically in the bag.
With that, Wei Tung-li handed the woman’s portrait to the parrot. The parrot was very satisfied and looked at me with a little more pride in his eyes: “How’s it going?”? Did your brother do a good job? We can go back tomorrow.
I glanced at the portrait and felt a little sour in my heart. “I’m afraid I can’t go back with you.”
The parrot is stupefied: “Why?”
In fact, I also want to ask why, I have tried very hard to escape Zhou Wen’s calculation, to the border he has never been to in his life, however, once again fell into such a situation.
If I hadn’t gone with the parrot, the prince of Tubo would still send someone to look for me at the border if he got such information. I would be alone, and I would probably become the princess of Tubo for no reason and be sent back to Zhou Wen.
In view of my understanding of Zhou Wen, can not help but suspect that this time is his means, but the idea has just been born, it was rejected, if Zhou Wen wants to catch me, why so much trouble? Just send his eyes to do it.
I find that I can’t understand Zhou Wen more and more.
But anyway, if the parrot gets this information, I can’t go back to the border. I did not tell the parrot thoroughly, but said that I remembered an unfinished thing and wanted to go back to Jiangnan to have a look.
The parrot was unhappy for a few days. Before he left, he looked at the portrait and suddenly thought of something. He dragged me to my room with a strange expression on his face. He thought for a long time before he asked, “Girl, I remember the first time I asked you if you had done something in the Central Plains at the inn. You told me that you had stabbed the emperor..” He took a deep breath and looked at me as relaxed as he could. “That can’t be true, can it?”
I forced a smile and answered him in a relaxed tone, “How could that be possible?”
He stared at me for a few seconds and then suddenly smiled. “Liar!”
According to the parrot’s greed for money, if he knew that I was the woman, would he sell me? As soon as I thought so, I clenched the dagger in my sleeve.
Unexpectedly, the parrot anticipated my action early, grabbed the dagger in my hand first, and pressed me on the wall in the next second.
I am restrained by him, indignant unceasingly, in a hurry, can only shout abuse: “parrot your uncle!”! Black-hearted thing, if I had known what you were like, I should have left without saying goodbye!
The parrot also scolded me, “Who on earth is the black heart?”? I thought we’d developed an unusual bond along the way. It’s all right for you to leave. Let me go back to Tubo alone and follow your portrait like a fool. Is it interesting to play with me?
The parrot bicker with me several times, but never fight with me. I can see that he is really angry.
I tried to calm down and said, “Well, how much money can you make if you make this business?”? Let’s have a good talk about terms.
The parrot raised her eyebrows and smiled. “There’s a lot of money. Besides that, they want to give me an official position.”
If it’s just money, maybe we can find a way to pay him back, but if it’s related to power, we can’t talk to him at all.
I resigned and sighed. “Forget it. Do what you have to do.”
The parrot was surprised that I gave up so easily. “Don’t you beg me anymore?” When he had finished, he regretted it and gave a sarcastic smile. “I almost forgot that you don’t know how to beg for mercy.”
That night, I was tied up by the parrot and fed by him one mouthful at a time.
I didn’t want to cooperate, so I kept my mouth tightly shut, and the parrot became more and more annoyed with me. He pinched my face and forced me to say, “Eat!”
I was forced into a mouthful of rice and coughed violently.
When I finished coughing, I suddenly found that the parrot had been sprayed with rice grains all over his face. He wiped the rice on his face with a black face and became more angry. In this way, neither of us spoke, and
we were angry for half a wick of incense.
The parrot’s talkative nature finally made him unable to hold back. He gave me a hard look and said, “Apologize to me.” When I heard
this, I laughed angrily. This man is simply sick.
“First, I didn’t let you tie me up, and second, I didn’t let you feed me, but now it’s my fault.”
The parrot’s face darkened even more. “That’s not what I’m talking about!”! At least I saved your life, but you want to play me and apologize to me!
He usually speaks out of tune, and now he is even more out of tune. When I heard him say this, I was angry: “What do you mean by playing with you?”? Not to mention, I’ve already tried to pay you back for the friendship you saved me. Just say we met by chance, and we don’t even know each other’s true identities. Why should I believe you won’t sell me to the Tubo prince for money?
He stared at me for a long time and seemed to think that what I said was reasonable. After a moment, he took out my hand and wrote two words in my palm.
I looked down and saw that it was “Lu Hsuan.” The parrot’s face did not change, and he looked at me quietly: “The youngest son of the chief of Youzhou. His name is Lu Hsuan, and his name is Yiting. He is 27 years old. He was engaged, but before he could go through the door, his house was confiscated.”
Youzhou chief life clean and honest, but because involved in the political struggle, was the first emperor, according to reason, Lu Xuan, should be a dead man.
I was shocked that he would even mention this to me, but the parrot’s mouth curled slightly: “Now you know.”
I was shocked for a moment and didn’t know what to say to him. The parrot looked at me in surprise and said jokingly, “Don’t just look at my brother with good eyes. It’s your turn.”
I was dumb for a moment, but finally I told him, “My name is Ling Dang, and my mother is the queen of flowers in Yuhang. It doesn’t matter if my father doesn’t mention it. When I went to the palace to avenge my mother, I had a bad relationship with Chou Wen, and now I’ve escaped.”
The parrot smiled and frowned at me. “What else?” Seeing that I was at a loss, he glared at me and said, “Don’t play dumb. How old are you? Do you have any pending engagement?”
“Twenty-two. I’ve committed myself to two people, but I haven’t committed myself to anyone since I came out.” When
I finished, he smiled faintly and said, “What a fool.”
“Why do you curse?”
“I didn’t scold you. I just think you have a talkative personality and are quite cute.” He finished, and without waiting for my reaction, he carried me directly to the bed and covered me with the quilt.
“All right, take a rest. My brother will think of another way to deal with the information.” Then
he wanted to go. I struggled to get my hands and feet tied. I couldn’t help calling him, “Parrot, what do you mean?”
The parrot raised the corners of his mouth at me. “What do you think I mean?”? If you don’t understand, think about it.
The voice fell, I heard the sound of him closing the door, the sky darkened a little bit, and my heart became heavy.
Growing up, I have never been seriously cherished. At that time, I misunderstood Zhou Wen to cherish me. As a result, I fought for my life, in exchange for a scar that could no longer be erased.
Now, I do not want to encounter the same thing, perhaps I am such a person, originally should not expect others to cherish, I cherish myself, enough.
Thinking of this, I made up my mind to go.
Finally, I managed to cut the rope that the parrot had tied me to and left a few words on the snow-white letter paper.
“I’m very grateful to you for giving me a green eye. I hope you will take good care of me when I say goodbye today.”
