box of hearts

Chapter 67
Qi She was meditating on Qingtian like this, and re-stacked the overturned cards on the table one by one.Suddenly, Zhou Dun appeared in front of the door. After a hasty salute, he came forward to whisper a few words and brought a letter.

The charcoal in the brazier by the table crackled, and the stars came into Qi She's eyes.His eyes were lit up suddenly, and the whole audience looked around, "You guys avoid it for a while, I have something here."

Seeing that his expression became serious, all the concubines didn't dare to joke any more, and they all retreated to the outer room with Mrs. Zhan.

7.
Qi She opened the letter, and the letter paper was filled with tortuous foreign characters.These words are changing, turbulent, emitting a twilight, and finally turned into a slanting sun, reflecting Tengger Changtian.

The boundless prairie under the sky is stained with blood.

With a swing of the knife, it pierced the enemy's chest beautifully, and the cry of victory has not yet been uttered, but has become a howl of misery.The dazzling reflection of the iron was swept away, the head flew up, and the headless corpse was still being driven forward by the mount under it.At the very moment, Gao erected his shield to block the attack, but the horse's belly was cut open, and his four hooves were entangled by his own intestines during the gallop, and he fell to the ground together with the knight on his back, and thousands of iron hooves screamed and trampled from above. But after that, the meat became mud.Horns, drums, roars, wailing... deafening, resounding all over the field.

The Tartars and the Oirats—two of the most warlike tribes of the Mongols—are fighting bloody battles for feud and honor.

Sukhbaru, the leader of the Tatars, took the lead, flattening his sword, and his whole body turned into a set of teeth, leaving only bones and meat scraps wherever he went.He opened his mouth and let out a long whistle with a strange tone.Immediately, the cavalry under their seats rode their horses one after another, making an arc towards the east with their backs facing the setting sun, and at the same time, the fighting became more heroic, exciting, and bloody.The [-] light cavalry have not only forced the [-] Wala army to flee, but will eventually swallow it mercilessly, because their leader has found a pair of sharper teeth on the earth.

It was originally a lake, but the continuous drought in winter caused the lake to recede into the center of the lake, and the exposed bottom of the lake became a muddy pond.Oala's thousands of horses were driven by the Tatar pursuers, and they rushed to the trap one after another, becoming food for death.The black mud in the mire was bubbling excitedly, sucking and swallowing.Some Oirat soldiers wanted to turn back to survive, but they were squeezed to death by their own people in the upstream. Occasionally, a few successfully turned their horses' heads, but then they were slashed and killed by the Tatars outside.For a while, people in the Oala team howled and horses screamed, except for mud and blood, it was terrible.

But for Sukhbaru, the leader of the Tatars, this scene was the most beautiful scenery in the world.He has been waiting for several years for the day when the main force of Wala will be wiped out.Therefore, when it was too late to wait for the planned West Route Army to block the gap in the encirclement, his former composure disappeared, and he frequently roared in Mongolian, "Where's the big brother?"

No one can answer him, except the fast horse that is ten feet apart.Ma Zhi, the messenger's helmet on it was lifted, and sweat was pouring down his head.

"Second Prince, something is wrong! The Great Khan passed away five days ago, the Eldest Prince suppressed the news and rushed back with someone to succeed him!"

All the Oirats found the gap and fled on a large scale, and the voice of gaining vitality overwhelmed everything.However, Sukhbaru, the second prince of the Tatars, could not hear anything, only a humming sound remained in his ears.

When Sukhbaru's hearing recovered, the first sentence he heard was: "It won't work."

"Why doesn't it work?!" He sat upright in the large tent of the Chinese army and slapped the table, almost shaking.

Lieutenant General Mo Zhigen was not afraid of the prince's angry questions, and said methodically: "The eldest prince travels day and night, and he has an advantage over us. He will never catch up anyway. And when he arrives in the country, he must first open the treasury and transfer the gold and silver. The property is distributed to the princes and ministers in exchange for their allegiance. If the second prince now leaves the station without permission to snatch the Khan position with only the strength in his hands, it will not only hit the stone with a pebble, but also allow the Oirats to take advantage of it."

"Is there no hope left?"

"Have."

"Where is the hope?"

"Beijing."

Beijing is the other side of the Great Wall, a bustling city, a deep mansion, a man with a city mansion in his heart, and this letter in his hand.

Qi She folded the letter paper again and pondered for a moment.Afterwards, he stooped and dropped the letter into the charcoal basin under the card table.

Accompanied by an extremely weak "嗤", the tribal rivalry and brotherly rivalry in the letter turned into black, flying paper ashes.

8.
The first spring rain fell two days later. After the rain, the sky became cloudy and cold again, as if it had returned to winter overnight.

For some people, it takes only one day to go through the whole year's cycle of cold and warm.Every morning when Qingtian opened his eyes, he felt that he was in the cold winter, and he didn't even have the courage to get out of bed.At noon and afternoon, I feel that spring and summer have come, and there is vitality and hope again.Before going to bed, it becomes a bleak autumn, with misty clouds and dark clouds.After falling asleep and waking up again, I lay in the bitter cold of winter again.Heartache and despair are the winds of the four seasons, ups and downs.When the wind blows, she is swept up like a dead leaf, unable to breathe; when the wind subsides, she sits dryly with dust on her face, examining the remains of the past all over the ground.But amidst such a struggle, there is still comfort.Qingtian remembered that from May to September last year, she did not have a single moment of happiness during the four months.Then in September and October, every ten or so days, she would have a moment of peace.Then in November and December, within three to five days, she will get peace of mind once.At the beginning of the new year, she would have some small joys every day, such as when she copied the scriptures until her heart was empty, she was happy, or this night, when she saw him again.

Qi She looked radiant, and when he entered the door, he opened his mouth and asked, "I haven't seen you for almost two months, do you miss me a little bit?"

Qingtian smiled and boiled water and tea for him with his own hands.She thought of him, often, but it wasn't a miss.She understands the taste of missing, once sweet as honey, but today it is as bitter as poison - a reflection suddenly appeared on the teacup in her hand, Qingtian shook his hand, and vigorously smashed the water with bamboo pods.

Qi She was sitting by the small stove, the white cat curled up into a ball and arched in his arms, its posture was as delicate and carefree as a little woman who was cared for.And he caressed tenderly, smiled purely, and looked like a good man in the world. "I wanted to come to see you a long time ago, but it was either inconvenient or I had no time to spare. It was easy to catch a free time today, but it was late and cold, and it was inconvenient to go anywhere, so I came directly to the door. Don't bother you clean."

"Where does the third master talk?" Qingtian served tea with both hands, and looked at Qi She with a smile, "Long time no see, the third master has lost weight."

"You are fatter, and your complexion is much better." He took the tea, took a sip, and sighed deeply.Sigh was just taken off the simmer, hot and ironed. "Have you eaten the lily cake I ordered from someone two days ago? Does it suit your taste?"

Men and women eating and drinking, sitting quietly and talking at night, chatting and chatting have been exhausted and more disabled.The door was knocked twice, and Zhou Dun called out: "Master, it's the third watch." Qi She laughed softly, "Yo, it's so late." Then he let go of the cat in his hand and got up to say goodbye.

Qingtian glanced at the cotton window paper with the watermark on the parrot holding grass, hesitated for a moment, "Third Master, it's been frost these few days, it's not fun if you slip on a horseshoe and fall down. I have another bed in the west room , It’s clean, it’s never been used by anyone. If you don’t dislike it, just borrow a dry bed from me for one night.”

A bright smile floated in Qi She's eyes, and without answering, she turned around and walked to the inner bedroom, walked to the small mahogany tortoiseshell bed in Qingtian, stretched out her feet and kicked the side of the bed twice.

Qingtian stared blankly at first, and then smiled "puchi", "You man, people have good intentions for you, but you are hurting people by turning around."

Qi She turned her face away and raised her eyebrows, "You, you can hear people hurting you around corners?"

Legend has it that in the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Huizong of the Taoist Dynasty often went out of the palace to have a tryst with the famous courtesan Li Shishi. Once, it happened that Li Shishi's old lover, the poet Zhou Bangyan, was also lingering in the boudoir.In desperation, Zhou Bangyan had no choice but to hide under the bed, and listened to the wine, candles, and midnight lingering love.At night when Song Huizong drove, Li Shishi pretended to stay with him, which made Zhou Bangyan under the bed jealous.Afterwards, he wrote a song "Youth Tour", which fully recorded Li Shishi's words left by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty at that time, saying: "The horse is slippery and frosty, it is better to stop [17].

What the two of them were referring to was precisely this affair.But seeing Qing Tian with mixed smiles, he pointed forward, "Go get someone under the bed quickly, if you can't find Zhou Bangyan, I will never end with you."

Qi She smiled and waved his hands again and again, "Forget it, you are Li Shishi, I am not Song Huizong. If you are interested, let alone the dry shop, I have borrowed a lot of 'wet shop'. With your thoughtful words That's enough. If I don't leave now, I'm afraid I won't be able to approve the papers at dawn."

Qingtian's smile froze for a moment, "You—?"

"Isn't it?" Qi She pulled her coat from the hanger and stretched her arms into the sleeves, "Every time I stay with you for half a day, I have to work all night, sometimes there are too many things to do, and I can't even sleep. I can't sleep either. How about it, did you feel moved after listening to it? Well, let alone you, I can't help being deeply moved."

Qing Tian couldn't stop laughing again, "I haven't seen someone like you again, begging for nothing to be moved." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and clasped the jade belt hook around Qi She's waist.

Qi She looked down at her—her drooping, slender eyebrows, and deep eyes, "I'm really not afraid of begging for nothing, as long as you smile often." After a pause, the smiling face was consistent. The specious, "Is this sentence still not moving?"

Qingtian smiled and pushed him, "If you want to go, go quickly, and you can sleep for a while."

(End of this chapter)