box of hearts

Chapter 70
Qingtian felt that her cheeks were burning hot from the fire, she turned her gaze from the hunter to the prey, "Can I eat it?"

Qi She smiled in relief, cut a thin piece of meat and handed it over.She picked it up, took a sip carefully, and felt her index finger move a lot, so she put it in her mouth and sucked it, "More."

He cut a layer of cooked meat, sprinkled a layer of salt, and cut the rest of the raw meat, and everything was done.Qingtian was also eating non-stop at the side, getting tired of fresh oil in his hands.

In the blink of an eye, only two white bones were left of the two rabbits, and the coolness in the wind had penetrated the bones. Except for a small bonfire, the ten sides were gloomy and empty.Qi Shekong looked at the fire, and Yongran squinted his eyes, "To be honest, if I can't go out and die here with you, I don't have any regrets. I don't know what else is there in the girl's heart?"

The words fell, but the wind picked up, and suddenly picked up the gray star of the fire.Qingtian was stretching out his hand to warm himself up by the fire, when he flinched, he caught a glimpse of a face beside him: the eyebrows are handsome, the nose is straight, and the shadow cast by him is extraordinarily sharp.Whether they are too close, or there are some similarities among the good-looking men in the world, in short, it is a narrow encounter with a certain virtual image in memory.The tears from the vicissitudes of life are evoked, floating up and sinking.

Qi She, who was on the sidelines, took in all the ups and downs of the whole scene, and he sneered heavily.

Qingtian looked down at the tip of his shoe. "The third master laughed at me for being so spineless, right?"

Qi She turned away, picked up a branch at his feet and poked the fire.The flames were almost licking the back of his hand, but he didn't notice it at all, and just flipped through the ashes at the bottom, "I laughed at myself. I didn't hide it from the beginning, but I treat you the same, even if Just looking at you gives birth to thousands of joys. I only hope that I will treat you bit by bit, so that you will become a tower of sand and make you love me for a long time. In the end, you still fetch water from a bamboo basket, and your sweetheart is always the number one scholar.”

Qingtian was cold and disdainful, and said the name bluntly, "Qiao Yunze, he is not my sweetheart. From the day he confessed to poisoning me, I have made a clean break with him, whether he is prosperous or poor. , has nothing to do with me, and now Qiao Yun is just a stranger to me."

She choked abruptly, put her chin on her knees, and seemed to have gone through a lot of struggles before saying each word: "Just, just, third master, there is another Qiao Yunze, the former Qiao Yunze. I Remember, when he was still an apprentice, he once went back to deliver the finished clothes to a wife. The wife saw that he was very pleasing and gave him a huge reward. He was so happy that he came to look for him with it Me. At that time, I hadn’t made my debut yet, and the best food I had was to occasionally eat leftovers from those famous people. Once I recited that the dishes in Suzhe Winery were really delicious, like the taste of my hometown food when I was a child. Just remember, if you get the money, you must invite me to the restaurant. We made an appointment for a day, we all put on the clothes we usually don’t want to wear, and we went together happily. As a result, we met a busker on the way, a woman I took my five or six-year-old son to practice the martial arts there, and there were quite a lot of people watching. When the performance was over, when the kid came up to collect the money with a wicker tray, the crowd was gone. The mother and son hugged their heads and cried. It looked like he had no means of livelihood. We were not far away, so he turned his head and looked at me helplessly. I knew what he meant, and I said: 'Give them the money, and we will meet again later. Going to the restaurant." He went up and gave them the money. The mother was very grateful, but he dragged me and ran away in embarrassment. He said he still had some money left, and he could order at least three big dishes. It’s not too shabby either. When we arrived at the Suzhe Winery, I picked three dishes that were so fragrant that I almost swallowed them on my tongue. After eating, it’s time to settle the bill. He said he saw a guest and wanted to greet him, and told me to go first Waiting for him at the street corner. He came out after a long time, with a bruised nose and a swollen face, which scared me half to death. But he told me with a smile that in fact he gave all the money to the mother and son, and he didn’t want me to hope for nothing. Just thinking that the Jiangsu and Zhejiang wine shop is a big restaurant, and he wouldn't screw him into the Yamen for three dishes, so he would just act like an idiot, trying his best to beat up the guys and let me have a full meal. You say Is this person stupid? I can count a lot of things like this. It’s just these stupid boys in the shadows of the past, who always stay in my heart and refuse to leave. I open and close my eyes, it’s all him .He just won't let me go, he is still killing me, thousands of times every day. I can't figure out why my silly boy became this wolf today..."

She cried, crying so weak and helpless in front of him for the first time.Tears fell in clusters, burning in the firelight with a sad and beautiful color, like the pearls of sharks in the deep sea.

Qi She's eyes blinked frequently, but she just sat there and stared at Qingtian crying bitterly. After she had cried enough, she slowly continued: "I said it again, I said it again: it will pass. , No matter how strong it is, it will definitely pass.”

Qingtian sobbed and tilted the corner of his mouth, his expression was full of sarcasm, "When?"

"One day." He paused slightly, his eyes focused and clear, "Let's take myself as an example. You are familiar with the unlucky things in the first half of my life, and the most difficult one was not disabled overnight. , it was not a seven-year pledge, but was imprisoned for life by the decree of the first emperor. At that time, I could not step out of the house, and my daily food was delivered under the threshold of a small corner door, not only stained with filth and dust. I don’t even know who leftovers. In the cold winter months, I don’t even have a cotton coat to keep out the cold. I don’t even provide paper and pens to prevent me from communicating with the outside world. No matter how sad you are At that time, I was still able to take care of my food and clothing, and copied a volume of scriptures by the side of the smoking cage. But I was hungry, squatting on the ground in the northwest wind with a sand table to practice calligraphy, and I couldn't bear the cold, so I surrounded the base of the high wall and dragged This lame leg ran round and round. Once, I tried every means to sneak in an iron bow. I pulled the bowstring empty in the freezing three-foot sky, and my fingers were almost cut off. At night, I could only huddle with my kitten. One piece to keep warm. The group of eunuchs around me blatantly taunted me, the deposed king, saying that if they were me, they would rather lie in bed and be frozen to death than run, because the way I ran—— They said - 'like a limping macaque monkey'."

Qingtian knew that Qi She had been imprisoned for a long time, but he never understood that this experience implied so much pain and humiliation.She looked at him in shock, but only saw the reflection of the flame in his eyes, golden and warm.

"I don't know why I didn't lie on the bed in that dilapidated house and freeze to death. Since it seems that there is no need for me to live. Every night I hug my cat, and there are only four words in my head: Confinement for life , imprisoned for life. But every morning when I wake up, I still practice calligraphy, run, and bow... Let a bunch of servants humiliate and make fun of. Then suddenly one day, everything changed." Qi She threw away the branch in his hand, and Avoiding the smoke with a straight face, "Four years, I waited for four years, only myself, no one around me to forgive me and enlighten me. Now, at least you still have me."

Qingtian almost didn't dare to stare at the pair of eyes that were burning with golden flames, she turned her eyes quickly, and stared at the raging fire for a long time, "Third Lord——"

"Ok?"

"What do you think about when you are most desperate?"

"Think about two things."

"Which two?"

Qi She's gaze passed through the sparseness among the branches and leaves, and pointed straight to the sky, "the stars above the head," then he pointed his eyes that had touched the fire and stars to her, the deepest part of her body, "and the heart in our chest."

In the vast forest, every tree is deeply rooted in the ground, but stretches upward with all its strength, hoping to touch the sky that will never be touched.Its posture is clearly a metaphor.So, surrounded by infinite metaphors, men and women look up at the starry sky and sit guarding a pulsating flame.

Little by little the fire dimmed, and another gust of cold wind hit.Qingtian wiped away the hot tears on his face with both hands, and shuddered at the same time.

Qi She threw the rest of the rabbit meat on the ground, "Let's go."

Qingtian was stunned, "Where are you going?"

"Go back to the post house."

"Aren't you lost?"

Qi She lowered his eyes, but raised his hand to his ear and pointed upwards, "Ziweixing, the Hanging Index is due north." He glanced at her, indifference or loneliness intertwined, "People feel that they are closer to death." When you are young, it is easy to show your true feelings. You are usually moody, or you just make jokes with me. I just want to find out what is in your heart. Knowing that you still think about your "stupid, little, son", I also understand what to do How do you do it, or you will inevitably rush forward. To put it bluntly, I just took the opportunity to scam you."

At the moment, Qingtian felt a rush of blood rushing to his head, his face flushed red, he stood up from the ground one by one, his hands clenched into fists by his sides, "You—"

Qi She twisted his head impatiently, pulled out the horsewhip around his waist, and pointed forward, "Do you know what people in the world look like when they get cheap? It's just like you now! Eat the rabbit I beat, to my heart He stabbed him with a knife, and put on an expression that others owe you." He kicked away the underground fire with a few kicks, and stomped out the sporadic fire.In the darkness, neither of them could see or look at each other, and each of them climbed on the back of the horse.

It was heavy fog at night, and two horses walked through the forest one after the other.Gradually, a little bit of fire began to appear, and then more and more voices came: "My lord, my lord! My lord is here! Eunuch Zhou, my lord is back!"

(End of this chapter)