Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 10

[Chapter 10: The Blind King]

Wei Shao’s sword-wielding hand slowly lowered, the sword pointed to the ground, but the person still maintained its original posture, and his gaze was always fixed on Xiao Qiao’s face.

The two pupils in his eyes seemed to freeze and did not move. Maybe it was just waking up, or because of the red candle on the side, it became a russet with some faint transparent enamel, like the color of amber.

Being stared at by such a pair of eyeballs, Xiao Qiao’s whole body was tense, and he did not dare to move, and a pair of eyes subconsciously rolled round, passively looking at him.

A hint of wind, I don’t know from which corner of the gap to drill in, the candle flame flickered slightly, Xiao Qiao’s face cast the side of the candle shadow also shook slightly.

Wei Shao seemed to have suddenly returned to God, his shoulders moved slightly, and he did not look down, the sword “clicked” and inserted the sword sheath back, after putting it on the bed, he sat down on the edge of the bed, bent down and put on his boots, then grabbed the sword, got up and strode out.

Little Joe looked at his back and breathed a sigh of relief.

Wei Shao walked to the edge of the screen, suddenly stopped again, and turned his head.

Little Qiao’s breath, which was not yet relieved, was suddenly held in his chest again.

“It’s not suitable for you to stay here, tomorrow I will send you back to Yuyang.”

He said lightly. Turning around and finally leaving. The figure turned over the screen, the door “ah” opened, and then the footsteps gradually faded away, and finally disappeared completely in the ears.

Xiao Qiao finally relieved his breath, and finally touched the edge of the bed, and when he sat down slowly, he found that his hands were slightly trembling, and his back was also in a cold sweat, and his underwear was tightly attached to the skin, cold and fluttering, making people extremely uncomfortable.

……

Wei Shao went to the study, and when he was about to arrive, he stopped and looked around.

During the day, the Letter Palace, because there are not many people, often has a sense of emptiness, not to mention that it is only four days at this moment, it is the deepest moment of the night, all four are silent, and the servants in the letter residence are still immersed in sleep.

His gaze fell on the sandalwood behind him, which was clearly outlined by the night.

A moment later, he climbed this tall building built on a high rammed earth platform, and with the railing, he faced the night wind with a bit of bone-piercing cold, overlooking the city wall under the heavy night and the wilderness outside the city wall, and when he was out of his mind, he heard a small footstep behind him, turned his head, and by the starlight overhead, he identified that it was the marching Sima Gongsun Yang.

“The main cave house flower candle, how can you rely on the column alone here?”

Gongsun Yang greeted Wei Shao with a salute and smiled as he approached.

……

Gongsun Yang, Zi Bao’en, Taishan Zhangqiu Ren clan, year forty. In the early years of Wei Shao’s father Wei Jing, because of his humble origins, Wei Jing’s subordinates were able to help, he was also unknown, after Wei Jing’s death, Youzhou was once in a dilemma of being attacked on all sides, he was outstanding in eloquence, and had a good performance in the turn of the vertical and horizontal circles, several times to make Youzhou turn the crisis into safety, and gradually reused by Lady Xu, after Wei Shao ruled the army, he accompanied Wei Shao on the eastern expedition to the west, the official worshiped Sima on the march, and was Wei Shao’s confidant, and Wei Shao was quite dependent on him. This time, the Yanzhou Qiao family took the initiative to show goodwill with marriage, when the emissary came, Wei Shao happened to be absent, and came back to hear that his grandmother Lady Xu had arranged the marriage on his behalf, and he was still unwilling, because the emissary had just left, and he planned to send someone to chase him up and intercept it, Gongsun Yang advised him, and Wei Shao finally accepted his advice and responded to this family affair.

……

“Sir, if you don’t sleep high, why are you blowing the wind here?”

Wei Shao asked rhetorically.

“Ben was drunk last night, and when he woke up, he was no longer sleepy, and he saw that the galaxy was brilliant, so he simply went to this night to look at the stars.” Didn’t want to meet the protagonist.
After
Gongsun Yang finished speaking, he smiled, walked over to Wei Shao’s side, and said, “I once heard that there was a proverb in Yanzhou, ‘Luo Shui is very divine, and Shuang Qiao accounts for eight points’, originally I didn’t believe it, the Tao was exaggerated.” Tonight’s wedding saw, Qiao Nu really deserved such praise. I watched her demeanor, and under all eyes, there was no hint of timidity, and the lady fell. The Lord is beautiful and congratulatory! Wei Shao’s

eyes appeared just now, who was obviously greatly frightened, her eyes were wide open, he could even clearly see her eyelashes trembling slightly, but he still tried to make a calm little face in front of him, silent for a moment, and said lightly: “It is just an expedient act of listening to Mr. Persuasion and pushing the boat along the water, how can it be so-called gratifying.” Tomorrow I will tell her to go back to Yuyang.

Gongsun Yang looked at him slightly, saw that he looked indifferent, and smiled: “Or, Henan (south of the Yellow River) should be Xu Tuzhi, don’t be too hasty.” Now that the marriage is complete, the female monarch has gone to Yuyang to serve the elders, to perform filial piety on behalf of the lord, and the lord’s public security is trying to achieve great things, which is also a beautiful thing.

Wei Shao didn’t answer the phone, just smiled.

“Watching the stars in the afterglow, in the Ziwei Wall, the imperial star is hidden, the white gas is scattered, and I am afraid that the world will soon be in chaos, and the people will suffer from charcoal.”

Gongsun Yang looked up at the starry sky and suddenly sighed.

Wei Shao glanced up in the direction he was pointing, saw the stars hanging in the air, a little bright, and could not see anything famous, so he said, “Sir God, I have always admired.” Gongsun

Yang shook his head, “The Lord is falsely praised, I am just a good tongue-in-cheek person.” If we talk about god and man, there is really one in the world, and I have the grace of a half-teacher. The surname Wang, Jin, who calls himself the Old Man of Baishi, is a disciple of the Mo family for twenty generations, who not only knows the art of vertical and horizontal transformation, but also has the wisdom of the heavens, and is also good at Qi Huang medical skills, and is well-versed in learning, compared with Yu, such as the flow of fireflies in the stars and moons, can not be mentioned.

Wei Shao raised his eyebrows, “Where is such a god-man now?”

Gongsun Yang said, “When I was young, I searched around, I wanted to worship the Momen, Huang Tian did not fail, and finally got to see the old man, unfortunately, the qualifications were inferior, and I was not included under the door, but I was also fortunate to have the old man’s guidance for three months and be used for a lifetime.” Ten years ago, I had the privilege of meeting the old man again on the side of the road, and only then did I realize that his heart was close to the world, and he once again entered the world and traveled around the world to save people with Qi Huang Ji. Now ten years later, I don’t know where he is. If Ann is there, it is also rare. A

cold wind blew, and Gongsun Yang suddenly coughed.

He was accidentally injured in his early years with the army, and later recovered from his injuries, but he was left with the root of the disease, coughing often, and his body was broken.

“It’s freezing cold, my husband is weak, I send him back to his room.”

Wei Shao said immediately.

Gongsun Yang even said that he did not dare, saying that he could go back. Wei Shao did not reluctantly, only took off his cloak and draped it on Gongsun Yang’s shoulder, watching his back go downstairs.

After Gongsun Yang left, Wei Shao stood alone in the fence and subconsciously looked at the constellation that Gongsun Yang had just pointed out to him.

Qin lost his deer, and the whole world chased them away.

In Wei Shao’s wild heart, he had slowly sketched out an increasingly clear picture of the future.

The Yellow River divides north and south, the hinterland of the Central Plains of the South River, and the Zhao Wei Land of the Northern Ancient Yan. Ten years ago, when his father was still alive, there were no less than ten warlords in the north, and today, most of them have been encroached upon and annexed, and the rest is not worrying, but they are born of the strong, and now the vast northern land is only left with Chen Xiang, who can still compete with himself.

His first goal now is to annex the prefecture, seize this territory known as the granary of Longxi, unify the north, and then map the land of Henan, so that he will finally move west and achieve great things.

The terrain of Yanzhou is a convenient way for him to go south in the future. The marriage of the two families, today with the Wei family’s strength to protect the qiao family’s position in Yanzhou, is actually like the Yu Qiao family guarding this southbound road for themselves. His grandmother, Madame Xu, had a far-sighted vision and should have realized this, so she accepted the Qiao family’s overtures for him. Of course, this is also the only reason why although he was extremely reluctant, he finally listened to the advice of Gongsun Yang and acquiesced to the marriage.

From the age of ten, he sat on horseback and followed his father, who was the assassin of Youzhou, to fight against the Xiongnu who crossed the border, reaching as far as Yunzhong and Shuofang beyond the Great Wall. In his mind, his father was like a man of God. Ten years ago, the Qiao family betrayed their faith, causing him to lose his loving father and elder brother. He never believed the Joes’ so-called explanation that the messenger was intercepted in the middle of the road. A person who is inferior to a pig and a dog, like Li Su of Chen County, will one day be destroyed and then quickly. Now to marry a joe’s daughter is only to treat her body in the way of a human being. Aside from the psychological disgust that this marriage had brought him, he didn’t think there was anything wrong with it.

As for the daughter of Joe’s family…

He turned his gaze and looked down in the direction of the new house he had just stepped out of a moment earlier.

In the distance, the window still revealed a red candlelight, which was very conspicuous against the dark surroundings.

She could only blame her own fate, Wei Shao thought like this, and in her mind, she couldn’t help but think of the scene when she first saw her being led by someone at the wedding and walking towards her step by step.

Raw inverts barely make it into the eye; The flesh on the body is added up, and presumably it can’t be more than two or two.

He subconsciously pulled the corners of his mouth.

……

After Wei Shao left, Xiao Qiao didn’t want to sleep anymore, and sat in the room wrapped up until dawn.

He didn’t show his face again. When Chunniang came in to serve her and wash herself, news came from the letter mansion that the bride should not be pleased by the prince, and that the cave house would be sent away from her side for Yuyang the next day.

Yuyang is the place where the Wei family’s foundation is located, and Wei Shao’s grandmother Lady Xu and widowed mother Zhu Shi are now there.

Originally, the daughter-in-law who went to her hometown to serve the elders for her husband was also a humane person. However, the day after the new marriage, they will be sent away in a hurry…

That’s a shame!

At first, Chunniang forcibly made a look of nothing in front of Xiao Qiao, but later she couldn’t bear it, sent the maid out, shook Xiao Qiao’s hand, and said with tears: “Lady Jun, the maid heard early in the morning that when a servant got up at night, she saw Wei Hou from afar.” How did he get out of the room so early? Could it be that you forgot your concubine’s previous instructions and angered him, so he sent you to Yuyang today? Chun Niang’s

meaning, to put it bluntly, is that now the people in the letter mansion are all spreading that last night’s room was not in tune, and Wei Hou was not satisfied with the bride, so today he was going to send her back to his hometown.

The kind of grievances and depression in Xiao Qiao’s heart could not be said.

She always had a hard time telling ChunNiang that the groom official Wei Shao came back drunk, and she slept on her own without even looking at her, she stayed up until the second half of the night and was frozen awake, but she wanted to take a quilt for warmth, and she almost died as an assassin by him, right?

How many bad things has this person done in his daily life, so that he will even be alert in his sleep?

“I didn’t offend him, and he didn’t touch me last night. He just didn’t like me. The uncle and the Wei family were married, and they had their own plans. I am willing to marry, and I am prepared in my heart. It doesn’t hurt to go to Yuyang, sooner or later you have to go, why bother with sooner or later? As for what others say, it is up to people to say it, I don’t care, and you are not sad. A

situation like this will never be the last. Something similar will happen in the future. She didn’t want Chunniang to be disappointed again and again with empty hope. I simply took this opportunity to explain to her.

“Chunniang, your name is, and I regard you as a half-mother.” When I married into the Wei family, you were the only one around who I could fully trust. I hope that you can also strengthen your heart, and you can help me in the future.

Chunniang was in a daze and looked at Xiao Qiao fixedly.

The morning sun was shining through the east window and casting on the side of the dresser, and the golden sunlight threw a warm tone on her young skin, and even the tiny furs on her earlobes could be seen. She looked at herself smiling, her eyes shining brightly, as if there were jewels flowing in them.

Such a lady is both familiar to her and strange. But I don’t know why, let Chunniang slowly grow out of her heart, and her body seems to have strength, and a desire to protect her at all costs arises spontaneously.

“The lady taught me! , write it down! This will dress up your hair properly.

Chunniang quickly wiped away her tears, climbed up and stood behind Xiao Qiao, and began to comb her hair.

She has a pair of skillful hands that can comb people’s hair and dress up, and her talent is combined with slow groping later. In the past, when Little Joe’s mother was still alive, she often praised her clever hands, saying that she could turn a woman’s five-point appearance into eight points.

Last night, she was still worried that Wei Hou didn’t know the importance and would make the female jun suffer. I didn’t expect that he didn’t even touch the lady.

The disobedience and depression in her heart are also indescribable. Just like the jewels that you hid in a precious box, you usually hide deep and do not want to show people, and now they are sent to you, and you are still disgusted with looking at them?

She originally had a great reverence for Wei Shao, but when she came down such a morning, she was already dissatisfied.

How blind did this Wei Hou have to be before he could turn a blind eye to his precious little Qiao and not see such a point? Or even humiliate her by sending her away the day after their wedding?

Last night’s kind of heavy makeup suitable for big wedding occasions, although graceful and gorgeous, actually covered up the most moving charm of Little Joe. Today she must dress up for the lady again.

Even if you go, you must go beautifully, and you must not leave a laughing stock for these people in the letter house!

[End of This Chapter]