box of hearts

Chapter 68
Having reached the door, Qi She turned her head and patted her forehead, "I was so happy when I saw you that I forgot everything. I have something serious to discuss with you today."

"Huh?" Qing Tian stood tall, brushing a tip of hair from his temples behind his ears.

"In a few days, I plan to take a trip outside the pass to hunt. It will take more than a month to go back and forth. You can come with me."

"Customs?"

"At this time, everything in Saibei is recovering and the scenery is pleasant. Instead of staying here and touching things, you might as well go out with me to relax."

Standing under the window is a five-column lamp with mandarin ducks playing with lotus, reflecting the brocade curtains and snow walls all around, and also reflecting the faces of the people in it into a pink mist.Qing Tianjiang warmed his cheeks and feet with one hand, bowed his head and meditated.

Qi She knew what she was worried about, and after a while, she spread her hands, "I have been Liu Xiahui in front of you for so long. How can a gentleman be broken by a villain? Guaranteed, treat the girl with courtesy along the way. .”

Qingtian still pondered for a moment, then Fang raised his eyes and smiled charmingly, "The ceremony of Duke Zhou [18] can't be counted."

Seeing that she agreed, Qi She liked it, but he said with a smile: "You have to stick your hair on, you are smarter than a monkey."

The bright lights cross the shadows, and the room is full of spring.

In the spring outside, it blows to the north, towards the green grass of Liaoyuan.

9.
In just two days, it's time to leave.This time, the person who came to pick me up was a two-horse carriage. The carriage was very spacious, almost the same size as a small room. Qing Tian and Mu Yun sat together in it without feeling uncomfortable, so even though the journey was endless, Not very hard work.Qi She was still riding a horse in casual clothes, and there were about fifty knights with round shoulders and wide waists, all of them were dressed as servants, and they looked like rich sons and their families traveling in the spring together.

The shredded tobacco is drunk and soft, and the language of swallows is like scissors.The sky is red and rainy.

It was night, the official post moved in, and Qingtian's room was next door to Qi She's. Anyway, these days it was either next door or opposite door, and he would always come over to talk to her for a while at night, buy a pot of wine, and have a few drinks with her happily. Go back to bed.That night, because she wanted to wash her hair and take a bath, he didn't come to the door anymore, but ordered someone to send some raw chicken eggs, soap, toilet water and other things.In a room full of mist, Mu Yun helped Qingtian into the fragrant soup, first washed her hair with saponins, then applied egg white to the hair strands, massaged for a while, washed it off, then washed her body with fragrant soap, sprinkled it on Flower Lu, waited on and changed into plain silk pajamas, and finally put on a green cloth shawl to dry her hair.

The place where I live is close to the border of the country, very remote, and I don't hear a single sound of people, only the sound of insects and beasts can be heard.Mu Yun just opened the window a crack, and there was a knock on the door.She went to answer the door, and after a while, she brought in a pick red box, "The third master asked Zhou Gonggong to send it. He said that there is a small bug in this land that is so thin that it can get into the tent and bite people. Light this incense." That's all right." While opening the box to collect incense, he asked with a smile: "Everyone is like this, what's the girl going to do?"

The scorching wax light coated the figure in the mirror with a layer of halo, and his hands were still carefully applying layer by layer from left to right, like a god who gave himself gold.The cream is steamed with almonds, light powder, and talc, and blended with borneol, musk, mussel powder, pearl powder, and motherwort, making it moist and soft.Qingtian put his fingertips at the end of his eyes, and looked sideways, "This doesn't make sense, what about others, what about me?"

Mu Yun scooped two spoonfuls of incense crumbs into the enamel incense burner where the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, sniffed her nose, and said, "I don't even touch the girl's hair until now. If you are happy, you can coax a few words. Shake face. Didn't I say that you were more attentive and careful to those guests before, how often have you been so arrogant and self-willed?"

Qingtian dug some more cream and spread it evenly in the palm of his hand, rubbing his cheek leisurely, "Let me ask you, if people come from the next door and ask me to take off my clothes and go to bed, don't say that I am a kiln girl, even if I am the prime minister's daughter , can you say 'no'? How can he use his back and forth? Where can I be arrogant and willful? You haven't heard how many concubines are raised in the Prince Regent's mansion, and they are still entangled with me like greedy cats. What? When you think about it, you will understand that women are always chasing him and chasing him everywhere. The delicacies of mountains and seas are easy to come by, and if you get tired of eating them, you might as well try the taste of catching up by yourself. Looking at the bowl, looking at the pot, what I want is this one. I can see that I can’t eat it. It’s just another way of whoring. I’m not a baby. If I’m tricked by this , is it not for nothing to mess around in Taohuamen Lane?"

"Miss, you have no conscience. You actually speak so unreasonably of the third master."

"I'm really not talking about the third master, I'm talking about myself. In terms of sex and art, I'm not unique in the world; , It’s not even close at all. Virtuous words and merits, which one should I take? People don’t prostitute me, can’t they really love me? Even if Xi Shi is in the eye of the beholder, this master now sees that I have Xue Tao and Su Xiao’s Qing Cai, Fan Su, Xiaoman's Feng Tiao, once you get your hands, you will get bored after sleeping for three days and two nights. Have I seen these things too often? How can there be a safe and bald head among those good people? In the eyes of those princes and nobles, people like us are just playthings. When they are good, they are held in their arms and placed on their knees. When they are good, they are treasured. If they are bad, they are given away, sold, or driven out. , or even sent back to the hospital directly, there are plenty of ways."

"Girl, you have really changed. Every word you say makes people feel cold. If the third master knows, he must be very sad. I have seen many people in my eyes. I think the third master treats the girl well. a piece of sincerity."

"Whether the third master is fake or sincere, I don't care at all. To put it bluntly, the background of 'that person' in the past is just the same as mine. I have raised him for so many years and treated him with all my heart. He still thinks I am worthy of it." Without him, how can I be worthy of a man like the third master? Self-knowledge is the most important thing in a man. I, Duan Qingtian, have a humble status, but I never think about who I want to win. I just wait for the day when the third master is so obsessed I'm tired of shoulders, I'll pay my debts by serving him for a few nights to the best of my ability in the brothel."

Mu Yun came to the back and took a comb to comb Qing Tian's hair, "Girl, you really don't mean anything to the third master? I see that you really like staying with him."

"Yes, the only thing you can do is that when you stay with him, you don't have to stay with some things in your heart. You can't pull out your front foot and sink your back foot in." Qingtian looked at the reflection in the mirror, Turning his hands around his shoulders, he held Mu Yun's hand between his wet long hair, "You don't have to worry about me. You know where the ladders I've saved privately all these years have gone, Although there is not much left, it is more than enough to make a decent dowry for you, so that you and Xiao Zhao from the gold shop can get married in the end."

"Girl!" She half-covered her cheeks and shoved gently.

Qing Tian smiled, pulled Mu Yun to his side, and gently stroked her hair on the temples, "You have been in this circle for so many years, and when you marry and become a woman, you must not miss this glamor anymore. There is someone who respects and loves you sincerely." People, living a clean life together is better than anything else. Mu Yun, your life is better than mine, I envy you from the bottom of my heart."

Mu Yun raised her head and half-kneeled, her eyes turned slightly red, "Don't worry, girl, a person like you will never suffer this half of your life in vain. In the future, there will be someone sent by God to give the girl the rest of her life." happiness."

"Happiness is beyond what I can ask for, and now I just want to be cool and quiet." Qingtian smiled tenderly, held Mu Yun's hand, and pulled out the jade comb, "I will do it myself, and you grind the ink for me."

"Copying scriptures at such a late hour?" Mu Yun asked after taking the ink ingots, adding water, and transporting snow wrists.

In the flickering candlelight, Qingtian was calm and concentrated, dipped in a concave ink, and the rhyme of the pen was pleasant and clear: the world courts love, licks honey with a knife, tastes it for the first time, and is about to cut his tongue. Obtaining love is like entering a house on fire. Troubles arise by themselves, the coolness is no longer there, the steps are firm, and it is difficult to retreat...My husband and wife are like birds, perched in tall trees at dusk, staying together for a while, and getting up tomorrow morning, separately. Fly away, walk and ask for food; if there is a karma, you will be together, if there is no karma, you will be separated... A person who loves and desires is like a torch. Salt water can never quench your thirst... All kindness and love will be impermanent and hard to come by for a long time, life is full of fear, life is at stake in the morning dew... From love comes sorrow, from love comes fear, if you are away from the lover, there is no worry fearless...

The horizontal and vertical strokes are all the curves of the whip, but Qingtian turned a deaf ear to the angry howl of the heart made of his own flesh and blood, which had already been scarred, and continued to beat it stroke by stroke.She knew that the only way to tame the most untamable beast in the world was cruelty.

The smoke is exhausted, and the dream returns to the warbler, and the years are full of chaos.

(End of this chapter)