Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 59

[Chapter 58]

Wei Yu rushed to Dai County, and that night, three more out of the city, waiting alone in the deserted suburbs, looking at the distant mountains rising in the deep blue night sky of a round of bright moon, the figure was motionless.

In a few moments, in the direction behind him, two fast horses gradually came. When they got closer, one of them got off his horse first, and came quickly toward Wei Yu, and when he got closer, he bowed to him. It was Hu Yanlie, the Xiongnu Thousand Horsemen who had been let go by Wei Yu before.

Wei Yu said angrily, “You are so bold, you actually took people and horses on a cruise around the border!” At the moment when the soldiers intersect, do you think I will be merciful to your men?

Hu Yanlie prostrated, “The young master is angry.” There is no intention of causing trouble. It was actually several times before to write to the young master, but there was no reply, forced by helplessness, which made me think of using this to meet with the young master. Unbeknownst to the young master, Wang was assassinated at the time of the slaughter and festival last month, and was hit by a quenched arrow in the chest, fortunately, he wore armor at that time, which was lucky enough to escape the disaster, but he was also not lightly injured, and he has not yet healed. King Zuo Xian advanced step by step, wanting to put the king to death, the four famous clans of the Xiongnu, except for the Huyan family, were loyal to the king, the Lan clan swayed, and the Xu Bu clan and the He clan all obeyed the orders of the Zuo Xian king. The king urgently needs the less master to go back and help! “Say prostrate.

Wei Yu was silent for a moment and said coldly, “He is not without the help of children, so why should he force me to pass?”

Hu Yanlie looked back behind him. Wei Yu turned his face with his gaze, and in the moonlight, he saw the man on the other horse turn over and walk towards him. Walking closer, gradually see clearly, the other party is dressed in black and boots, the figure is slightly emaciated, although people are middle-aged, but the facial contour is still quite beautiful, and when they are young, they should be more handsome.

This person is naturally also a Xiongnu, but if you change into a Han robe, the wind and yi must also be superior.

Hu Yanlie got up and took a step back, then knelt down to the middle-aged man and shouted, “My king.”

Wei Yu was stunned. I didn’t expect that this middle-aged man who was traveling with Hu Yanlie was actually Wu Zhuqu, the king of the Day. Seeing him stop in front of him, he looked at him and gradually stiffened.

Under the moonlight, Wu Zhuqu’s face was slightly pale, he stared at Wei Yu, his eyes did not blink, his expression seemed excited, suddenly leaned towards him, called Wei Yu a “my son”, reached out to him, as if he wanted to hold his palm.

Wei Yu took a step back and said lightly, “I don’t have a Xiongnu father.” My father died before I was born twenty-eight years ago. Wu Zhuqu’s hand that was

parked in the air slowly let go, and after a moment of silence, he said, “I know that you will have a hard time accepting me for a while.” I didn’t venture across the border to forcibly recognize you. It was true that your mother was forcibly taken captive by me to the Huns. I spent three years with her, and the third year, she finally got pregnant with you. When she was five months pregnant, when the Ōtsuki clan rebelled, I went to suppress the rebellion, and I could only leave her in the Eastern King’s Court. When I returned four months later, I learned that Wei had attacked the Eastern King’s Court and taken her back. I tried twice to take her back, but Wei obstructed me, and I went to ask for peace, but he ignored it and killed my messenger. I thought that she was about to die at that time, and I had no choice but to pause for the time being, thinking that when she had given birth, I would find an opportunity to pick her up with the child in the future. I don’t want to get the news that she died in childbirth…”

Uzu paused, and there were tears faintly flashing in his eyes.

“When I met her, I was only eighteen years old. Your mother is so beautiful that I was impressed by her at first sight. She was my first wife. Five years after her death, I obeyed my father’s orders and married another woman from the Huyan family and gave birth to two other sons. You can hate me, but your mother, I know she must have had feelings for me. Otherwise, after she is brought back by Wei Jing, she does not have to give birth to you. But she gave birth to you and lost her life! “In

the past twenty-eight years, I have not forgotten you for a moment!” I’ve long wanted to get you back. However, the Han Xiongnu were opposed, and I was also constrained, and I had more than enough and insufficient strength. Now, as I get older, I want you to come back more and more, not only to help me, but also to hope that the son born to me and my beloved woman will return to me. My son, when your mother first conceived you, I named you. Your name is Hu Tu Kun! It means a goshawk flying in the sky. You’re not Han Chinese! Your father is me, and you are also the goshawk flying in the sky of our Xiongnu…”

Wu Zhuqu said, his expression was excited, and suddenly he looked pained, raised his hand to cover one side of his chest, coughed violently, and slowly hung a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth.

Hu Yanlie, who was beside him, hurriedly supported him, turned his face to Wei Yu and said, “Young master! The king was not healed, and ventured across the border to come here, just to see you, and the young master had an iron heart to this point? Wei Yu

looked tense, the whole person was like a stiff stone, staring at Wu Zhuqu, suddenly turned on the horse, the horse galloped away, under the moonlight, the figure quickly shrunk into a black dot and disappeared into sight.

Uzuku’s cough gradually stopped, and he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

“King! The young master was so tough, why didn’t wang spread the news of the young master’s true identity in Yuyang? Instead, it took so much trouble that you even ventured across the border yourself? As long as everyone knew that the young master was not a Han Chinese, the Wei family naturally could not stay any longer, and then there would be no other way for the young master to go except to defect to the king!

Hu Yanlie’s expression was anxious and helpless.

Wu Zhu looked in the direction of Wei Yu’s departure and slowly shook his head, “What I want is a son.” Not an enemy who hates me. Hu

Yanlie was silent.

Wu Zhu was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly asked, “What is the news from the daughter of the Lan family who was sent to serve my son three years ago?” ”

……

At this time of year, as long as there is no war, the Luli Assembly will be held as scheduled at Lulitai outside Yuyang City.

It’s not just about becoming famous in World War I and then going on. After all, there are still a few people who have the courage to stand up and take the stage. For most middle- and lower-level officers and non-commissioned officers, the Deer Li Conference is more like a grand army-wide entertainment event that everyone looks forward to. What was even more unfortunate was that at this time the year before, Wei Shao’s army was fighting in Jizhou, and at this time last year, he and Chen Xiang were fighting for land. It has been two consecutive years of failure, and this year has finally met a good time. Last month, Luoyang Xingxun and Qingzhou Yuan Zhao had a fight, and now they were fighting in a mess, Wei Shao was recuperating behind closed doors, his illness was not good, he couldn’t go out, so he naturally put his energy into the Luli Conference, which was a major event of entertainment for the whole army.

There are still three days to go before the conference. Starting from today, not only Yuyang, but also the athletes selected from the military camps in Fanyang, Zhuojun, Gaoyang, Xindu and other places have also arrived one after another, the streets are more lively, and the most talked about by the people in the city is also the meeting in a few days.

They were interested in watching military competitions, as well as the female relatives of the prince’s family.

At every conference, Mrs. Xu must personally attend and cheer for the athletes of the competition.

This year the prince married a new wife. The whole city knows that the female monarch is beautiful and heavenly. It is rare to have the opportunity to see you on weekdays, and i think the lady will show up that day.

How can you miss a good opportunity to meet your eyes up close?

……

Wei Shao has been busy lately.

Ever since he knew what it was like to sleep with her, his mind was full of it.

The soul-destroying satisfaction that sleeping with her brought to him was even a little bit about to catch up with the sense of accomplishment after taking a city.

Honestly, lately, he really didn’t have time to think about how he used to hate her and how he hated Joe’s family.

Even if he accidentally remembered it, he could quickly get the thought out of his mind.

He had only been busy thinking lately about how he could make more time to lie in bed and sleep with her in various positions.

However, Youzhou was already very large, plus the Jizhou that came down later, and the newly acquired hezhou a few months ago, so many cities, even if there were no major events in various places, one or two things that he needed to decide every day, there were always some, sent to Yuyang together, to his hands is a lot.

It turned out that he was fighting outside, and the official documents in the Youzhou Office were handled by Wei Yu.

If Wei Yu was not there, there were Gongsun Yang and Chang Shi Weiquan.

Unfortunately, Wei Quan was sent to Jinyang. Gongsun Yang recently made the old problem of coughing again. Listening to him sitting there, coughing as if he was about to spit out his lungs, Wei Shao’s face was thick, and he was not embarrassed to force him to report to the Office sooner or later. It is not appropriate to give it to someone else. He can only handle it on his own.

Hating long during the day and hating short at night was Wei Shao’s recent profound experience.

So this evening, when he finally got out of the case and walked out of the gate of the office, he walked like a fly.

Before going out in the morning, he and Little Joe said that he would come back early in the evening to have dinner with her. Just now he was slightly delayed by something, and he got up later than expected.

Wei Shao took a few steps down the big stone steps at the gate of the Ya Bureau, and when he took the reins of the horse to get on the horse, he saw a very beautiful young woman walking across from him.

He had seen this woman, a favorite of his cousin Wei Yu. It seems like three or two years with him. I just don’t know what the name is. Seeing that she stopped in front of her, she guessed that she had come to ask Wei Yu, and said directly, “My brother should return in these two days.” “Finish talking about getting on the horse.

Lan Yun bowed to Wei Shao and said, “Thank you very much for telling you.” My name is Lan Yun. I’m not here to ask About Wei Jun’s return date. His return date has nothing to do with me. Before he went to Dai County this time, he had already sent me away and didn’t want me.

Wei Shao glanced at her.

The women around Wei Yu often changed, and Wei Shao also knew it. This woman who called herself Lan Yun stayed the longest, so he had an impression.

Hearing her say this, Wei Shao bowed his head slightly and said, “If you have something to do, wait for him to come back and look for him.” “After saying that the horse is going to go.”

Lan Yun said, “The Prince doesn’t know anything, I came to look for the Prince to tell the Prince something.” Your eldest brother Wei Junjun, he has some disrespect for your wife. Wei Shao

froze slightly, sat on the horse, stared down at her, his brow immediately wrinkled, and his voice became cold.

“Do you know what is the crime of talking nonsense?”

Lan Yun said, “What I said is true.” Wei Jun disregarded human morality, and Xiao thought of a woman he should have called ‘brother and sister’! Wei Shao’s

eyes glowed with a strange cold color, stared at Lan Yun for a moment, and said word by word: “I see that you are looking for death, and you dare to provoke it like this!”

Lan Yun knelt down, “If the prince doesn’t believe me, he can go with me.” When the prince saw something, he knew that what I said was true or false! Wei Shao

looked gloomy, ignored Lan Yun, and walked around her and rode away.

He had already galloped out a few inches away, but suddenly stopped his horse and slowly turned his head.

Lan Yun hurriedly got up from the ground and chased after him.

“If there is even the slightest untruth, I will tell you that you cannot survive, and you cannot die!”

Wei Shao’s cold voice rang in Lan Yun’s ears.

……

Wei Yu went to Dai County and dismissed the concubines in the family. Now only Zhu Quan and a few subordinates remain.

There was no master in the house, and the next few days people went out for private reasons, leaving only Zhu Quan alone. Only then did someone come and ask Zhu Quan to eat wine. Zhu Quan pushed but locked the gate and left.

It was getting dark. Lan Yun opened the door lock with the key, and Wei Shao didn’t say a word and strode inside. Straight to the door of Wei Yu’s bedroom.

Before Wei Yu went out, the bedroom door was also locked. An iron general guarded the door.

He coldly watched Lan Yun find another key, smoothly opened the lock, and gently pushed the door open.

Wei Shao strode inside, and finally stopped in front of a wall.

Above the walls, a long strip of landscape is hung. The pen is free and ethereal.

Lan Yun lit a candle, held it in his hand, and walked over to illuminate it.

Wei Shao stared at the landscape for a moment, and finally slowly raised his hand and stretched out toward the hanging painting.

His look was extremely solemn, his hand seemed to weigh more than a thousand jun, and he stopped in the air for a moment, and suddenly opened the landscape painting frame.

The muscles on his face immediately stiffened. The gaze was fixed on the wall, and the figure seemed to freeze. Lan Yun’s voice beside him sounded softly, “Wei Jun has been very different lately than usual. Calling me to bed with less. Often when he comes back, he can’t go out of the room by himself, and sometimes he drinks alone. He wasn’t like that before. I suspect that he has a crush on other women, so I usually pay more attention to his actions…”

She said, and a trace of resentment appeared in her expression.

“That night, Wei Jun returned home, first drinking alone in the courtyard, not asking us to accompany him, and then suddenly returning to the room alone and closing the door, but he forgot to close the window tightly, I had doubts in my heart, quietly sneaked under the window, and peeped into him painting this beautiful picture on the wall…”

“Once upon a time, I happened to see the lady in the distance on the street. It was truly magnificent, and I never forgot it at first sight. Wei Jun’s brush was exquisite, and I recognized it as soon as I saw it. I was afraid that he would be aware of it, and when he was about to leave, he actually saw Wei Jun…”

Lan Yun paused, “I saw Wei Jun pick up the hem of his clothes, face the wall and get out by himself… At that time, he was so intoxicated…”

Wei Shao turned around violently and raised his hand to sweep away the candlestick in Lan Yun’s hand.

The candlestick fell to the ground and, with a slight eerie noise, rolled into the corner.

At that time, the twilight outside the window was thick, but it was still possible to recognize human faces.

Lan Yun saw that Wei Shao’s eyes were cold, but he seemed to have an angry flash, his face was vicious, and his look was terrible.

Although that was what she had hoped for. But in the face of such a scene, Lan Yun still felt frightened, his legs were weak, and he couldn’t help but kneel down, looking down and not daring to look at him.

Wei Shao froze in place, in the dead silence of the room, only to hear his heavy breathing.

[End of This Chapter]