box of hearts

Chapter 278 Looking at My Hometown (22)
Xihe was noncommittal, and only raised two long and sharp gold leaf armors under her eyelids, "Aside from public enmity, the third master should be very clear that you and I have personal grievances. This person—" She shook her head Without turning back, he flipped his wrist lightly, pointing to Qiao Yunze behind him, "He hates you because you eunuched him so that he can't be a man. I hate you because I could have been the best I am already the woman I am, but this woman is being killed bit by bit, day by day, in a years-long Ling Chi, the executioner is you."

Qi She spit out bloody foam on the ground with a "bah", the corner of her mouth turned to rub against her shoulder, and she looked at Qiao Yun in disdain, "I don't need to eunuch him, he is not a man, never has been. As for the Queen Mother, I I can only say that Qi She has a clear conscience towards you."

"So, the third master doesn't intend to apologize?"

"If an apology had served Her Majesty, Her Majesty and I would not be sitting here."

"The third master is wrong. If you are willing to apologize, I will be happy to forgive you."

"Queen Mother!" Qiao Yun gritted his teeth, but frightened by the stern look in the hostess' eyes, he froze on the ground.

Xi He turned to Qi She again and looked at Qi She for a while, until he was sure that he had indeed ignited a ray of hope, and then said calmly: "The person who untied the bell must tie it. The chief culprit between you and me, I believe the third master is very serious." Know who it is. As long as you nod, I will immediately send a visit from the man behind me. This man has asked me repeatedly, and he said that he will pluck out that "violent bitch's heart" with his own hands-you are Is that how you say it?" Xi He glanced sideways at Qiao Yun, then returned her mocking smile to Qi She's face, "Wait until that woman's bloody and warm heart is sent into this tent." For a moment, the third master will not have to die, not once. You will return to the capital with me and return to the emperor. I promise, there will be no such thing as sending to the clan's house or confinement. On the contrary, apart from power, the third master will Whatever, I will give it to you, and you will spend the rest of your life in glory with the most honorable gift of a prince ever."

Qi She listened without saying a word, coughed twice, and spat blood on the ground again, "Or?"

"Or—" Xi He changed her face, revealing all her sinisterness, "When the people walking on the mountain wake up tomorrow, the news that you were drunk and burned to death in Lanze Palace will spread. And long before that, the third master had already died in this tent. The prince regent who ruled the world for the first time, will be chopped into pieces by a group of little people who don't even know who you are, and dump the corpse in the wilderness. Then I was dug out from the ground by the dirt dogs, and there was not even a bone left. And I promise that I will never touch your woman in my lifetime," she glanced back, and added, "I will not allow anyone else to touch her. She, she can live in peace and be your widow. That is to say, you two will never be together, but you can choose, the one who dies is her or you. "

"That's it?"

"That's it."

"How do I know that the queen mother will keep her promise?"

Xi He stood up from the stool, and Qi She noticed that she was actually wearing a colorful dress with nine dragons and four phoenixes, as if she had come to participate in a big sacrifice.Facing the sky, she raised her middle three fingers, and said in a golden tone: "I, the current Holy Mother Empress Dowager Zhan Shixihe swears to the emperor, the empress, the ancestors, and the ancestors that I just made a promise to my uncle and the regent. Act carefully, if there is even a slight breach of the oath, the world will not tolerate it, and the ancestors will not be blessed." After a pause, she added a sentence, "My son Qi Hong, the country will not be protected, and the country will perish."

There was a slight, strange noise in the air, like the sound of weights balancing a balance; like a bridge stretching straight to the other shore.

Xi He stared into Qi She's eyes, put one hand on his knee, and knelt down in front of him with one leg.The gorgeous skirt spreads out on the ground, and giant flowers bloom.

"Now, it's your choice."

silent.

An extremely long silence.

Like an old monk in meditation, Qi She's blood-stained cheeks showed no superfluous expression, and he just gently closed his eyes.

The door to reality is closed, he no longer has to face the people and things in this tent, he can face anything he wants: the boundless midsummer grassland, the body falls down, and there is a soft, shaggy body under the head. Wave after wave of grass catches you, and when you turn your head, you see your lover lying beside you. Your eyes are also golden and shining from the sun, as if you have never been here before. The world has seen any ugliness and injury.She gradually learned how to swing the whip loudly and beautifully, while singing very sad idylls in an orderly manner, while giving you a heartless smile with her white teeth from afar.Your older child has grown to your knees, you squat behind him, hold his pair of young palms in your hands, aim at the most sturdy eagle in the sky, and help him pull the first pair of boys away bow.The girl, babbling and sitting in her mother's arms, touched her mother's long eyebrows and eyelashes one by one enviously, not knowing that after a youthful effort, she would grow exactly the same hair, calling everyone who passed through her house The young man in front of him was so upside down that he couldn't sleep.In a few years, you will be in a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, enjoying the rain outside the window and the half-remained food and wine on the table, savoring the beauty of algae, and jokingly talking about a little lamb that was lost in autumn pasture that year.You have gone through spring, summer, autumn and winter, east, west, north, south, famous mountains and rivers, important towns and small villages.One day when you are tired, you piece together your memories and choose the most beautiful water town as your hometown.Stable days are day-to-day life and trivialities.You wake up early in the morning and start to dislike each other, and you throw pots and bowls for nothing, you bicker and fight like two crazy cats, you fight with ugly faces, and then make up at night, at the end of the bed.You are getting older and older, and the old wounds from your youth will flare up badly when it is cloudy. She kindly gave you a cane, but you threw it away in a fit of anger.But you really can't even cross the threshold, she just leans there and eats melon seeds, while watching your jokes, while repeating the first joke she told you, when you gritted your teeth in embarrassment, She handed over the damn cane again.This time, you accepted it honestly.But it's not fair that when she throws a tantrum over her hard-to-cover gray hair, you can't make a sarcasm, you have to swear to her in the most solemn manner, she's younger than the 12-year-old she just bought at home The little girl looks young and juicy, really, so tender that water can be squeezed out.After a few more years, you will never want to change places again, and you will appear to strangers as an old squire who has never left the town in his life, walking along the same roads at the same time after supper.On one side, is the whitened crutches, on the other side, is her with whitened black hair.As for her nagging in your ears, you don't have to take it seriously at all, just "um" every once in a while.Many, many years have passed, your children and grandchildren celebrated your birthday, and you were so old that you fell asleep while eating wine.In the dream, you are still young, majestic and heroic, sitting on the highest point of the Huangji Terrace in the Forbidden City, only half a step away from the empty dragon chair beside it.Then you chin up and wake up.You saw the mature and vicissitudes of each child’s face, and remembered how each of them was toddling in the hands of you and your wife. You saw your wife, an old lady left behind by the years, smiling slightly. stares at you, and you smile.There is a word in your heart that you want to tell her, but you can't be disrespectful in front of the children, so you try your best to remember, your memory is so bad now.But this sentence, you will definitely remember to tell her, this is a very sweet sentence.She would laugh, smiling like a wrinkled walnut.But there won't be a single wrinkle in her pupils, they are still as smooth and radiant as 20 years old, the decline and glory, sorrow and joy of a lifetime slowly overflowing from there, like a stunning woman waiting under the window lover, let go of her rich long hair.

Qi She stared at Qing Tian's smile, and moved the corner of her mouth slightly.He was so close to her, to all of this, so close that he only needed to take a step and stretch out his hand to reach it, but—he opened his eyes—he had shackles on his feet, shackles on his hands.Qi She felt that it was unfair, extremely unfair; it was only a little bit short.

He took a deep breath, and his blurred vision gradually became clear, revealing Xihe in front of him and her increasingly piercing gaze, which was filled with all kinds of love and hatred, like a gust of wind and a raging sea.Qi She looked directly at her and smiled meaningfully, "You promised me, I know you will do it. But I promised my wife, I can't do it again. Please give her something for me .”

Next, he gestured.

14.
Yecong is endless, like a pot of old wine, after drinking it, a sword of bitterness will go straight through the viscera.It seems that the morning light is only drunk, and the morning light has arrived.In the long sky before dawn, the wild geese flying south, flew over the vast quilt of Cangshan Mountain, lingered several times on a solitary house in the mountain, and honked several times before leaving.

After the geese blew, there was a knock on the door. The sound was very soft, light and short, but the door almost opened wide in response.Appearing behind the door was Zhou Dun, and behind him was the ecstatic Qing Tian. She supported Ying Zhi to stand up, and stopped her feet hesitantly before she could move.She saw Zhou Dun's back staggering backwards, and suddenly knelt down, "Slave, slave, slave see——, slave see the Queen Mother..."

Afterwards, Qingtian couldn't hear anymore, her ears began to scream blood, and as far as her eyes could see, there was a red maple plant outside the door, so red that it blinded people.

(End of this chapter)